skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loyalty is absolutely dead in the employer => employee direction. The second it becomes financially advantageous to have layoffs or to fire one person in particular, it will happen. Your direct manager, maybe even your skip, might fight for you to stay. But if someone 6 levels above you decides your time has come, that's the end of it. The test for whether loyalty exists in this direction is the answer to "you can keep this person at the cost of a negative financial impact for your organization - you will not make this money up in the medium term." What does your manager say? Your skip? The CEO?

There is absolutely still some loyalty in the other direction. Lots of people here would say it's misplaced. When it works out for you (cachet in the org, seniority, whatever) it can pay off, but for lots of people it only gets them burned when they get laid off with outdated skills in outdated tech because they were a "company man" for the last decade.
I still remember confidently explaining to our teacher that the grammatical choice was always the one that sounded right, and being taken aback when she said other kids grew up where that rule of thumb wouldn't work.
Nuclear needs the same compensation. The high fixed cost low variable cost model lends nuclear power to only run at 100%.

Take the California grid, peak energy usage is 2x minimum. Nuclear plants are insanely costly when ran at 100%. Imagine running at much lower capacity factors. Say the peaking plants run at 50%, that means the cost for consumers would be ¢2.4-4/kWh. [1]

Logically this entails that if we can solve a nuclear grid then we can solve a renewable grid since they impose the very similar constraints on the grid operators.

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost...
Okay then by that measure comments with details about input and output are also a type system, an even easier one since there's generally only one syntax rule!
Dang! I just realized github no longer works on my old macbook running firefox 78.15.0esr (64-bit).

BigTech wants me to buy a new macbook or switch to chrome.

Edit: it's actually no laughing matter. I'm pretty devastated. :-(
As a non-native speaker, I've used it a couple of times at a bakery to make sure I don't get too much of what I'm asking for.

Doesn't help when I _do_ want three of something though...
“The beautifully bright and still weather may have been a welcome reason to hold off reaching for our winter coats, but the lack of wind can be a serious issue when we consider where our electricity might be coming from.”

Ie: Lots of solar when the wind isn’t blowing
Going through it again I now remember how much of my humor is derived from there.
Even the event where they demonstrated the battery swap was so fake, I guess people weren't as aware of how brazen he was to not question it at the time. Couldn't set up a camera to show your own demo at a staged event? But it got them some taxpayer dollars so mission accomplished https://youtu.be/H5V0vL3nnHY
Air Traffic Controller Argues "I Googled It" with Experienced Pilot [video]
> Purchasing power has collapsed

There is no evidence for this in the USA except among the poorest, for whom support is being withdrawn by the federal and many state governments.

Pay packets are rising faster than costs have been (and costs are dropping). Now those are statistical measures, but the actual data show that consumers are spending as if the are doing better.

It is true that a secular increase in pricing is quite visible — I suffer from this myself even though I can afford it: a bag of groceries simply costs 30% more than it did a few years ago and that bugs me at the check out. It costs me a smaller percentage of my paycheck, but that feels more abstract.

This is like the perennial crime issue: “Crime is out of control — not where I live, but in all those other places.” Today’s NYT interviewed a bunch of caucus voters for whom they support and why. One guy literally said, “the economy is a disaster. I’m doing fine, but I understand it’s actually terrible.”
The backup capacity can eventually burn e-fuels, not fossil fuels, so that counterargument fails.
I strongly disagree. I've been answering immigration questions online for a long time. People frequently comment on threads from years ago, or ask about them in private. In other words, public content helps a lot of other people over time.

On the other hand, the stuff in private Facebook groups has a shelf life of a few days at best.

If your goal is to share useful knowledge with the broadest possible audience, Discord groups are a significant regression.
Couldn't you grab an old distro image (or livecd), install/run it in a VM, and use that? Archive.org even has an iso of redhat 6.2. :)
+1 for Logseq. I have tried so many note taking and organization apps. Logseq had a little bit of a learning curve, but it works better than anything else for my ADHD brain.

With other apps, I would still spend so much time thinking about where to put my notes when it's already difficult for me to take notes and organize things in the first place. I would end up with what was essentially a digital junk drawer. It was all there, but it was a scavenger hunt when I needed to find something and nothing was ever connected.

With Logseq, I started using the journal, tagging and linking as needed as I write. I don't ever think about where to put anything. Although I occasionally create separate pages, I'm mostly in the journal. The tags I add to individual notes become their own pages that are sort of a hub containing every reference. Sometimes I go into those hub pages and add more substantive documentation than the journal references. After several days, I saw this network of information starting to come together. It's like being able to make a contemporary recording of my brain and then reference it later.
Most of tech was a ZIRP (zero interest rate phenomenon). And yes, that includes people that were higher up as well. Money was basically free for 15 years. It is not free anymore.

It will take some time for people to internalize this.

Of course it all changes if money becomes free again.
Why isn't more software just... made good?

Because you can make almost as much money making it badly as you can making it properly. Especially in 1998. And especially with huge government contracts.

In fact with huge government contracts in the 1990s you could make more money doing it badly than you could doing it properly. Because if you quoted the price it would have taken to do it properly, the government would buy it from your competitor who was quoting the price to do it badly.

Eventually crap project goes live once government has paid 4x the original estimate for it (because its better for everyone involved to pretend its not crap) and the company goes on to use that 'success' to bid for their next project.
HTMX doesn't replace any templates, that is not its purpose. And trends are usually a great indicator of what not to do.
Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled
This site is a bunch of ex-Gawker, ex-Vox and ex-Vice people submitting articles en masse to places like Reddit and HN. Why would it have anything of substance?
I think most people misunderstand that the search engines are not content.

Internet was always full of spam. Google was able to work around that. Since for some years Internet became dead because Google is not able to keep up.

Internet was dogshit. Now it is just AI dogshit. Google was quite good, but now it is not.

In a few years we will not use Google search, we will ask chatbots for answers. There will be no "link archive", or nobody will be interested at all in looking at them.

Chatbots will be worshiped. Why going to BBC, if chatbot will always 'know better'.

Google will not invest into Google search, as this "program" will die. Killed of.

Journalists will remain. BBC will continue writing stories, which will be created only to feed chat bot monsters.
Unicorns exist but in the job search it’s a crap shoot to find one. Nearly impossible to identify in an interview setting and likely only through world of mouth.
My source is picking up a physical encyclopedia and realizing that it's far less biased and far more comprehensive than Wikipedia. And the experience of knowing much about a topic and reading a Wikipedia article that's obviously biased and written from a particular contemporary 21st century viewpoint.

Wikipedia's obsession with "respected sources" is a part of its problem. Instead of evaluating claims independently, it offloads that responsibility to organizations that are known to have made mistakes. This is basic epistemological problem and one that Wikipedia doesn't seem to care about solving. It's honestly laughable to me that people can look at this list and call some of these reliable sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

Beyond that, I have never seen any of these studies explicitly analyze omission as the key differentiator. As I said above, this is really the fundamental problem with Wikipedia. It doesn't aim to be comprehensive and cover all potential aspects and opinions on an issue, it aims to push a certain worldview and dismiss or ignore other ones.

This is perhaps not surprising, as every source of information is going to be biased, but I have to push back on the frequent insistence that Wikipedia is somehow neutral or beyond these criticisms.
They are buying everything for cheap, nobody wanted to buy Evernote or Meetup. It's more like they are gravekeepers.
TINA stands for There Is No Alternative? That's a new one for me.
https://archive.is/g2Pjm
The more I think of it the more I realize how enormous an impact this could have
There are so many reasons why this is happening and I personally think it's only tangentially related to AI. The internet has now become the home of "hustle culture" and is no longer serving the purpose of why it was first created.

Covid only accelerated this trend as people began to look for other ways to generate income online. Just look at the Gamestop and AMC amateur stock trading craze or the explosion of flipping sneakers or Pokemon cards for income.

A huge percentage of the internet consists solely of people looking to make a quick buck and/or establish some channel of passive income. The internet itself has been redefined as this weird vehicle for capitalism because we're careening towards a weird transitionary period in history as the rise of AI takes hold.

The only thing that can solve this is UBI or some kind of shared equity system where huge megacorps primarily operated by AI generate trillions and trillions of dollars in wealth that needs to be distributed to the populace somehow.

Godspeed as we enter this new age.
I use Logseq for all my note taking and documentation.

I will often mark pages as 'public' and commit the modified files to my Github repo - which triggers a website update workflow to my docs.mypersonaldomain.com.

If I want to document further and for whatever reason it is not something that looks great on Logseq, then I pull the data out and use whatever. Usually Github, as I typically want as much content I've worked on to be visible to the world.
I'm open to genre. Mostly I'd like to spend a couple hours watching something that is either an impressive work of some kind (but not one that requires a film degree to appreciate), or has something mutilayered and interesting to say about people or the world. The latter seemed to be where GP was going, and I was curious to learn what films meet that criteria for them.

I reliably enjoy films from Miranda July and Greta Gerwig. I think I'd enjoy Wes Anderson more if he was a bit less campy (but I get it, that's a big part of the point, so I guess I appreciate the other things he's good at).

Thank you for the suggestions -- I have never heard of any of them. They are far afield from my known preferences, but sound like the better versions of the options that Netflix wants me to watch, which is great! I will check them out.
Same xp
Tongue in cheek: is public key cryptography the solution to verifying content authorship on the internet? Should all major OSes establish and bundle proof of authenticity for every phrase and image created in them using an input device attached to them?
The most important part in all this is that, from what I can tell, LLM detectors are just complete scams.
I want to believe the "d" in inverted being right next to the "b?" is what set the lights off right away.
"I pry apart that battleship you call your ass" xD - what a tremendous loss!
CGI is definitely not the problem. That is such a ridiculous claim.
Hunter2 holds such a special place in our hearts, let's keep politics out of this!
Sure it's not the tool if you completely ignore 80% of the story. It's cheaper to ban a tool than "hire people who can critically think", as if I ever believed people could intentionally detect that.
Quality from India is awful. Both from functionality and just… caring. They don’t really care as much it’s always just good enough. They are generally very difficult to work with.
> I'm a bit surprised Typescript never added them

TypeScript's pretty insistent on not adding features to the language that can't be "compiled" just by stripping types away. There was a little bit of slack around this early on (enums, most notably) but these days something like named parameters would probably be a non-starter until/unless JS implemented them first.
The PO are still expensive for the hardware they have and the UX leaves a lot to be desired...
Fortunately with modern serverless architecture, it's possible to make this performant! Just split up each comment into words and dispatch each word to a queue where AWS Lambda workers can check the words against the user's password hash. It might cost $20 to process each comment, but at least it'll autoscale to handle any comment volume you throw at it!
Thanks for checking!

Btw, many economist argue that CPI overstates inflation. Mostly because CPI has a relatively fixed basked, but people adjust what they are buying if relative prices shift. (Eg if bread becomes relatively more expensive than pasta, people buy less bread and more pasta. The CPI basket does not reflect that.)

A modern alternative is to use the GDP deflator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP_deflator Basically, it means to use everything that got produced / consumed as the basket for your inflation measurement.
I've had a draft blog post on my todo list for awhile titled "Chauffeur Knowledge and the Impending AI Crack-Up." While humorous today, the eggs melting and sinus inflammation are perfect examples of where I think AI will cause the most destruction. I'm of the mind that any societal collapse generated by AI will be one of stupidity and over-reliance on AI's "intelligence" as infallible, not some Terminator scenario or elimination of too many jobs.

Eventually, people will not know the difference between an AI "hallucination" and factual information. This becomes a serious problem when you consider that there's already an existing cohort of people who blindly trust Google over experienced humans. Case in point: I just saw a video [1] this morning where an air traffic controller argues with an experienced pilot about their approach method, citing "I Googled it" as their authoritative information source.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BxbF638gCYQ
Stuxnet was a more-or-less unprecedented operation against an extremely high value target, and while there have been other attacks against OT since then they've been a lot less sophisticated. It seems reasonable to rate the likelihood of mass exploitation here as unlikely, in fact that seems like an overstatement to me.
I think the entertainment industry hit a bubble of sorts tbh, a lot of writers given free reign to do whatever with no oversight. You can write for a show that is largely panned and still get a second season. There's something else going on that I can't quite explain. But it seems producing things that audiences actually want to watch, or follows basic good writing standards, seems secondary to other concerns.
I feel like this is an assumption made by folks outside the US that possibility of crime factors into every decision we make. Perhaps in some areas (SF Bay Area, Chicago, LA, NYC) it’s more top of mind, but I never think about it and frankly the only crime against me I have ever encountered was when I traveled outside the US.
How does the coup theory explain the audio tapes of Nixon implicating himself?

I'd explain his resignation differently: Back then, there was more of an expectation that politicians would obey the law, or at least get punished if caught.
You think that spammers dont use AI to write on reddit now?
Don't GIMP, Paint.net, and Photopea all open Photoshop files? Lock-in sucks, but Photoshop is much easier to give up than something like Salesforce.
What a crazily negative way to segue into an advertisement.
Nice, I'm looking forward to that! You guys have some pretty outstanding AI chops going. I've been really impressed!
I'm not the denigrator, you're probably mistaking me for the other commenter, "shrimp_emoji"
"Eg their figure 2 is that infamous misleading graph that I commented on in"

If it's so infamous, do you care to point to something explaining what is wrong with it?

"They also seem to imply that minimum wage legislation is good for poor people."

I wasn't discussing this point, but agree that it's mixed.

"Figure 9 seems to forget that correlation ain't causation."

Figure 9 is just data. Sure, the explaination that goes with figure 9 talks of it as causative. I haven't read the journal article that data comes from, so I can't objectively say if there is a causative mechanism in that study that supports the text or not (can you?). That figure isn't really part of what I was discusing, although it does demonstrate the increase in top earners (not as well as charts comparing it to the changes for other labor groups).
You conveniently left out the rest of their sentence.
I did over 400 interviews working there, and many hundreds more serving on hiring committees. I never gave a leetcode interview, and saw only a modest amount of them in committee.

“It’s all leetcode BS” makes a great offhand d complaint but was not the actual truth.
And trusted brands.

People buy brands because they don't want to figure out what's good or bad. Brands tend to gain a reputation by being good.

The same is true for websites. People will trust specific websites when they seek information, and those websites will get passed around.
Desktop Environment is already taken by systems like Gnome and KDE. This is more like a mockup. The “concept car” of desktop environments. It is quite neat.
There was a lab I hung out in back in college. The nature of the room and the devices that we had in there, there was 10bT, 10b2, and 10b5. Twisted pair, coax, and thick.

The someone had what was termed "the connector of evil". Apparently coax and thick had the same signal... just thick was more rigid about where you connected into it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap ). The connector of evil looked like a 10b5 terminator on one side and 10b2 on the other... and passed the signal between them.

When adding another computer onto the 10b2 segment, we would invariably disrupt the wave in the wire and some devices would drop off.

The trick was to have each machine ping -f one of the systems on 10bT and redirect its output to /dev/audio. If the machine was making noise, it was good. And so then we'd fiddle with different lengths of coax between the T connectors until everything was buzzing away.
I don’t think so. Here are some differences:

1. OpenAI is building in a brand new space. Mobile phones are well established. LLMs as a product for consumers are brand new. While it’s true Rabbit are trying to merge LLMs with mobile, the elephant in the room is the mobile incumbency. The existing players just have to add LLMs to their existing dominant platforms and Rabbit is done for. OpenAI, on the other hand, was unopposed launching ChatGPT. They had a genuine technical edge and consumers were hungry for it. Is everyone hungry for Rabbit’s concept? Give me a break.

2. OpenAI raised an order of magnitude more capital. Rabbit’s $30M isn’t going to get them much farther than a prototype device. My impression is the founder here managed to convince some VCs to give him money during the boom times and leveraged the generative AI hype train more recently. But where is he getting his next round? The one that he will need to actually make phones at scale. That will cost billions ultimately, and the incumbents own the supply chain he needs to access. His effort is all but doomed.

3. OpenAI’s formula was easier for a startup to master. All they needed was money for the best AI engineers and scientists and money for GPUs, and they could create a blockbuster product. Rabbit needs the top engineers as well as extensive capital for manufacturing and distribution. There is a reason that hardware favors massive scale and a reason why hardware startups tend to focus on pinpoint innovations. The energy barrier is extreme.

These are three reasons why Rabbit is in an entirely different situation than OpenAI was circa 2022.
It's weird, I'm not sure where I first heard about it but I was well aware of the issue. The problem I had was that I just lumped it with Therac-25 and Araine Flight V88, cautionary tales from the past. I had no idea that postmasters were still awaiting justice.
Yeah, there's this weird stigma about making typos, but in the end writing online is about communication and making yourself understandable. Typos here and there don't make a difference and thinking otherwise seems like some needless "intellectual" superiority competition. Growing up people associate it with intelligence so many times, it's hard to not feel ashamed when making typos.
Also while people talk about partisan divide, that was the tail end of 15 years of domestic assasinations, bombings, and political kidnapping (e.g. the SLA).

My kids talk about how this is the worst the US has ever been, but I point out that there was a whole civil war and things were abysmal before that (overt genocide and slavery, child labor, political violence). And when the Baby Boomers were the “gen z” of the time, it was pretty selfish and shitty.
It just got a lot cheaper to generate convincing dogshit
> It will come up with nonsense, and if you tell it it's nonsense it will immediately apologise and explain why the nonsense was nonsense.

This only makes sense if you believe LLMs are something more than they are. As someone who knows how LLMs work pretty well I don't. The presumption here is that the following advice is 100% better or correct and I also don't believe that.
That would indicate "you are next" was being used as a substitute for either/both of "line up and wait" and "cleared for take-off."

While that's certainly possible, it would be surprising.

Typical ATC commands at a busy commercial airport would be something like:
"Taxi via XYZ, hold at ABC" (where ABC is close to, but a safe distance from, the runway surface)

"Line up and wait" (enter the runway, but hold while existing traffic clears the runway)

"Clear for takeoff" (runway is clear, you may depart)

In this incident, I don't think either of those last two commands were given.
You are overlooking a massive point that invalidates your concerns from a homebrew developer's POV: it is _easier_ on the mind to make apps using low-code graphical interfaces than with full-code.