skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic...

An "academic" who did not attend high school or college, and does not work at a university.

> Yudkowsky was once a founding figure in the development of human-made artificial intelligences – AIs.

Nope.

Technology will certainly continue to disrupt the labor market, as it has for centuries. The rate of change increases. Some jobs will evaporate, people will get displaced. Nothing new in the article, just sensationalism.
As I said, if the demo opened Whatsapp and sent a message then their lawyers would harass the OSS developer of the tool with C&Ds and they'd consider it a breach of their ToS and block your account.

This is not hyperbole, that's what they will do based on precedent. And it doesn't matter about the validity of their claims because the calculation as a victim to these legal threats is that this $800bn megacorp is able to ruin your life for what amounts to less than pocket change and these big law firms are incentivized to come after you.

Adversarial interop should be an inalienable digital human right. This way companies will be forced to give API access or risk interoperability being legally scraped against their will.
As I have also said above, +12.5% paid by the manufacturer of DIMM for memory chips may mean +10% in the price of DIMMs when they are not marked up excessively, like the DDR5 modules today.

That +10% may become +5% after adding CPU, cooler, MB, PSU, case and it may become +3% after adding SSDs, a high-quality monitor and other usual peripherals.

While at work I have seen plenty of problems with computers without ECC, for my desktops and servers and even for some laptops, when I could, I have used only ECC memory, for the last few decades.

That has never increased the cost as much as I have saved by choosing wisely other components in the computers that I have built myself.

The main problem has never been the extra cost, but the difficulty to find them exactly when I needed them, because at retail the availability of ECC modules may be sporadic and many distributors appear and disappear, so if I upgrade systems after some years I seldom can find the same source.
You needn't wonder, though it's a little behind the times now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Blame Mckinsey and their ilk: "what can be measured can be managed".

(I refuse to utter the above phrase without accompanying it with tjis: "not everything that counts can be counted")
Manually Migrate Zitadel with PostgreSQL
But with the same "resolution" such that you can't fit any more content on it and with much worse density.

Why would I actually want that? You've been able to do this for decades by hooking a TV up to your laptop and while that certainly has space challenges that limit the number of people that'll try it, it's not like tech bloggers were flocking to hook up 65" TVs to their macs and lovingly wax poetic about the productivity gains, either.
How much your words matter as a senior engineer depend on your management. You’re in a good situation right now, but that can change. I was in a similar situation several years back. My boss liked me and had a lot of connections. He would make sure I was in the loop on everything, make sure I had a seat at the table when decisions were being made, and seek out my opinion on what direction we should go, and told me point blank I could speak for him or any other manager and he’d back it up if needed.

We have a whole new management structure now and they are very top down, have big egos, and aren’t willing to even entertain feedback. Vocal low level managers or engineers have been getting pushed out of the company left and right, so all the autonomy and the voice I had are pretty much gone. Even things that I thought were engineering decisions have been largely removed. I will need X to build what I’m building, so I make it and it worked. Then, months later, I’m told there is a different plan for X, I did it wrong, and I’m told to remove my solution (fully automated and hands off) in favor of a corporate process and manual work by other team, which is often missed, which makes my service less reliable.

I’m glad I’m not a manager who needs to fight with these people, as I’d probably be out of a job by now so they can replace me with one of their friends. That being said, I’ve found the influence of a senior level engineer to be highly variable, even within the same company/team, on a longer timeline.
Weirdly gatekeepy. Why shouldn't he be allowed to update his followers on his life?
Reminds me of this monument in Medellin I just learned about: https://youtu.be/5ZoYy2ZtCCU?t=475
What is the buying process for SME companies for consulting services?
Hi, I'm new to HN, so I'm not fully aware of the etiquette here.

For context I'm an owner of a new consulting agency providing consulting services in the IT. I'm trying to understand what is the buying process for companies below 200 employees when it comes to IT consulting services.

Any insight on this topic would be helpful. Any articles or experts I could reach out to for consulting services would also be much appreciated.

Edit:
Maybe I formulated my question wrong, or I'm going about this the wrong way. If you have any insights about that it would also be appreciated.
> This is unlikely to do anything unless you’re hitting some unusual bug, but it’s worth noting that IPv6 has, in the past, led to all sorts of strange behaviors in different networking contexts.

This makes me sad. I don't doubt that there are scenarios in which having IPv6 connectivity makes things worse, but these days, the opposite is more common, so I don't think "disable IPv6 just in case" is a good blanket recommendation to make anymore.

"If disabling IPv6 fixes your issue consistently, consider disabling it" would achieve the same outcome, without potentially causing problems/inefficiencies down the road.
>when their brain actually fires up when they are 25 or 30

Their brain fires up at about 14, and soon starts to figure out that life is actually a costume party, so they spend the next decade in their cave pondering about it while making up their costume, naturally grunting at you while you annoy them with your mundane down-to-earth already-costumed person considerations. Then at 25 or 30 their costume is ready and they start playing with you childishly again.

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face." (Kafka)

"Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even some who require it) are like those usurers who willingly risk the capital to receive interest." (Kafka)
“Web” as an OS is overbloated, with decades of legacy junk. It was never meant to run applications, and yet it does.

The strong indicator for this is that there are only, what, 3 (two sharing common ancestor, so more like 2.5?) non-dead rendering engines, and it’s practically impossible to implement a new one? (Yes, a toy engine is possible, but anything practical is out of reach.)

My point is, you can’t introduce competition over this platform - it’s the same sort of a walled garden, just with different owners.
What exactly does it mean to invest 3.2B€ in Germany? Does it mean this is actually spend in Germany - as in for goods and services produced in Germany, or does it mean they order an astonishing amount of GPUs at Nvidia and put them into the Frankfurt region because that's just one of the most popular regions latency wise to serve Europe?
> I'm developing a Notion alternative in Qt C++

...which is not native to the platform, so you're in a way proving my point.

Unless I become professional writer, or develop an OCD about typing latency - standard browser and Electron apps (looking at you VSCode and Logseq) are good enough for my use cases.

And don't misunderstand me, there's absolutely a place for native applications - when performance matters. Millions of CRUDs on app store are not one them.
The promises of web 2.0 were stolen from us.

Adversarial interop should be a digital human right.

Put an API layer in front of UFO and all of a sudden we're one step closer to the unshittification of our digital lives.
What is the difference between UDIMM and RDIMM and which one is preferred and why?

It seems RDIMM’s are mostly supported on higher end server boards but I haven’t seen a technical comparison of the two types.
That accounts for 2.7 billion pesos - a good start but hardly a dent in the 200 billion figure.
I've seen people who now struggle with establishing rules with their kids. It seems that at some point they let things slip a bit too far and now it's chaos. I was wondering if you knew how to restore stability :)

thanks again
> because Chromium browser, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, Samsung etc... (and Google Chrome) all use the open source chromium engine

Ah yes. Browsers with near-zero market share (aside from Edge which hovers around 4% market share) that have literally no say in how the engine they are using is developed, and what features go into it.

You know how I know that? Because Google themselves admit it's a problem: https://twitter.com/RickByers/status/1715568535731155100 The largest contributor to Chrome that is not Google is none of those browsers and is barely above 1% of all Google contributions.
Have they not considered extending basic training to give peoples bodies more time to get conditioned?

If you start out reasonably fit it takes less time. If you are heavier you need a longer runway.

Maybe a pre-bootcamp for large people where they introduce basic nutrition and basic exercise. That might actually be a big draw for obese people who want to turn their lives around.
> A ECC DRAM module contains 9 chips rather than 8. I'm not sure how you can claim that's "almost free" unless you have a very loose definition of "almost free".

I do. Let's do the math here. A typical computer has 8GB RAM. That's under $20 at my local retail store. We're talking a $2 price difference. That's with the methods used today. The overhead can go arbitrarily low if we adopt techniques used in nonvolatile storage and work in larger blocks of bits.

$2 is less than the cost of a tiny fraction of a crash.

> Surely you wouldn't want the the computer to have ECC memory, but it decides to reboot for a 2 hour update?

A broader regulatory regime would certainly be good.

> If this is true, why do we need the government to step in? Why aren't businesses doing this themselves out of self interest?

Mostly, because businesses can focus on a finite number of things. A $20 benefit which costs $2 to implement stops making sense if it means your local clinic needs to have someone on-staff who can do an ROI computation on adopting ECC. It's cheaper to buy something sub-optimal.

Again, that's where centralization and regulation helps.

> ECC protects against solar flares and EMP? That's new.

That's literally what they're there for. ECC primarily protects against bit flips, which are the result of random radiation. Mild flares will flip a few bits which ECC will correct. Severe ones will flip a lot of bits, which ECC will detect, and the computer can shut down before destroying more data.

> 1. DRAM modules aren't made in the US, they're made in asian countries with cheap labor. If there's a military crisis, we'd be screwed regardless

I'm not sure what you mean by "modules," but DRAM PCBs are easy to assemble. They can be made in the US overnight. DRAM chips are primarily made in the US (Micron), Korea (Samsung), and Taiwan (TSMC).

https://www.micron.com/manufacturing-expansion

And not all crises are military.

> The only work to retool a line from non-ECC to ECC is to change the PCBs. Thus the supposed benefits is negligible, unless for whatever reason the military needs a massive amount of desktops.

If all you need is memory, that's true. If you also want motherboards and processors which will take those chips, that's harder. If you don't want bit flips in your computation, that's impossible without redesigning all CPUs. Academic CPUs can do error-correcting computation at nominal cost, but there isn't a market incentive to bring that to market.
My Grandma has an iPad. Every time I visit we end up sitting down for hours reviewing how to do things in various apps and switch between them. The system constantly hide navigation control, moves things around in response to scrolling, and requires precise swipes or taps on flat or near-invisible controls to reveal information or get around. Watching her try to use iPadOS is always useful in keeping myself grounded in terms of UI design. Suffice to say that the thing is not at all Grandma-proof.

And sure, at least there aren't tens of sketchy toolbars doing god-knows-what each time she opens Safari, but there are tens of sketchy-looking games and apps installed on the 4th home screen that she doesn't want or use, and opening any immediately throws up full-screen autoplaying ads with audio before letting her into some cheap sudoku implementation. I don't want to hear this "walled garden keeps you safe" nonsense; there are plenty of scams on the App Store.
A lot more details here from page 5: https://dacowits.defense.gov/Portals/48/Documents/General%20...

Note that 44% of people are disqualified for multiple reasons. The big disqualifiers are :

Overweight 35%

Medical/Physical 33%

Drug Abuse 32%

Mental Health 25%
Well one could argue a high school education from Stuyvesant High School is probably on par with the 75-percentile college in the US. It has produced many outstanding alums.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.

There's a reason plenty of people append "reddit" to their google searches.
They were not only gathering food and telling stories.

The men also took weapons and went to the tribes nearby and killed the men there, and ...

This has always been a violent species. (Not saying the other great apes are (were) any better.)

Previously the historians thought the stone age was peaceful, singing songs telling stories etc. And oh so much spare time. They know better nowadays.

Check out the Yanomami, or read about viking raids or Shaka Zulu. Humans don't just sit around and tell stories. They reproduce, become more and more, and ...
Move over, CRISPR: RNA-editing therapies pick up steam
Maybe they just have kids who go to a nicer school than they did. I think this may have happened with me and my mother.

She went to high school in a poor area of the US south during the 1970s, so her school probably wasn't good. She's told me stories of how she was bullied physically (mainly by boys, but girls bullied her physically too), and how she's glad it's not like that "nowadays"/"anymore." Even kids who weren't bullied still got into fistfights. It probably didn't help that corporal punishment was routine at her school.

I went to a magnet high school in a high income county in the US. I graduated in 2021, and I personally didn't see or experience any bullying. Students were generally pretty nice and left you alone if they didn't like you.

From reading this thread, I realize the difference probably comes more from the areas we grew up in, but I had attributed it to bullying being mostly eliminated without thinking much about it.

Many have given anecdotes, but we need statistics in order to get an accurate view of the whole country. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 22% of US students ages 12-18 reported being bullied, while 5% reported specifically being pushed, shoved, tripped, or spit on.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=719
This is the literal same term I use while weight lifting. I channel all pain and rage into the lift. It sounds crazy, but it works since a lot of athletic activity is about training your mind in the first place.

My workout buddy says he can see it on my face when I’m in the cold fury.
It’s effectively the same for the short term. Basically every single sentence was fiction
This sounds bad when you first hear it. I do wonder though if this might counterintuitively lead to a better R&D outcome overall than if they individual company invested much more into R&D. This would render the industry uninteresting to private investors which would mean that we might end to in a scenario where it's all publicly funded. This would likely lead to the reduction in salaries also which addresses the other criticism from the article. We'd look at a much smaller pharmaceutical research industry that cannot afford to attract the best and the brightest.

It's also important for tech people to understand how different it looks to start a pharma startup. Funding requirements are orders of magnitude higher which also means the share of the company founders can retain is really tiny compared to tech and so are the gains from an exit that founders get.

Now one could argue that just making pharma a little bit less profitable would be a win, but even here I wonder. If I can get just 1% higher returns on my investment by cutting out pharma from my portfolio I'd do so immediately.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll look into getting that added
Impossible to service, imagine the cost of Apple Care, my guess would be $300 per month plus the cost of the car which will be $100k?
Story about How Len Kleinrock and Larry Roberts Arbed Silver Quarters in 1968
I thought this was quite a funny story about these two internet pioneers, particularly how they found themselves competing with the US government and dealing with banks and the mafia. HN appears to have stripped off the start time— the story is told at 1:45:30 into the video.
Fair points, but:

Telemetry is cheap in the scheme of broadcast expenses.

If the station is operating on a shoestring budget, you have at least one human who cares that the revenue-generating operations (broadcast signal) are happening.

Similarly that person would notice the change in power expenses.

Even in the lowest-tech, least-compliant of stations, someone would notice an antenna and/or tower loss within a day. This reads like a case of severe neglect, almost certainly intentional, and possibly fraudulent.
> what is this ”new integration architecture” that would make web apps more secure

I think this "new integration architecture" is a very flimsy excuse. To host PWAs, a browser needs the ability to (1) ask iOS for permission to place an icon on the Home Screen, (2) launch certain "tabs" (Home Screen apps) in a separate window. Safari can already do this; they just need let others do the same. Since the PWA is hosted by a specific browser, I suppose you also need a dialog telling the user that XYZ app will also be deleted if they try to delete the browser.

What else am I not thinking of?
Mentioning the American govt once doesn't make 'the goverment' instead the American government. This is specially discussions about such general topics and this particular case THE GOVERMENTs of france and Germany e.g. pay people to make open source.
Maybe. Maybe not. Years and years ago I was getting corrupt file systems even if the system was always shutdown correctly.
Just that compilers and hardware people both build to the isa. It’s a fixed point in the design space that lets them both iterate independently. But as such, it makes it hard to refactor. A couple times recently I’ve seen projects propose exposing microcode, and while that had trade offs I guess, that’s one way to provide for a somewhat easier back and forth. It’s sort of an industry-wide comedy’s law.

In the second point - you can think of registers as edges in a dataflow graph (people do). If we run out of registers (names really) then we start writing to memory and we obscure the producer consumer relationship because of aliasing and we can’t do our register renaming (which is where this paper comes in). Imagine we had a weird instruction encoding that let us specify the graph though direct relations insteadd of the names.

I guess another idea would be to have hierarchical names (register pages). It’s interesting to think about since we’ve been stuck on this point for a while in isa design.

The only reason I brought up register windows is not that I’m a huge fan of stack based evaluation, or that they were a good idea, but it was one identifiable way we did explore about about how to map that state more implicitly and keep a tight encoding.

I guess another potentially fruitful and related area here is to think about how me manage the cache, I think there is a very defensible argument that these should be scratchpads (again moving the isa boundary up into the compiler). This makes the naming of those memory locations more explicit
Probably the best thing for the young chimpanzees is to be out of the house most of the time, be put into a bunch of sports/programs. At that age they start to resent their parents, and they learn a lot more when they're outside doing stuff.
There are scripts that can do this all for you in an instant.
Good time to create a community for artists that doesn't allow AI scraping.
Then you will have selection bias because new army recruits probably are a bad representation of “the youth”
Like the idea, but would love more information about the difference to performing the following steps:

- use a React SSG, obviously without client-side code

- use an existing "print to PDF" engine to render the resulting HTML+CSS

At first glance, this seems to be using JSX only. Ain't it possible to use JSX and fully static components without even using React? Is that what Astro is doing?

I'm a bit underinformed here, but it would be nice if the landing page would outline a bit more clearly what parts of React are used here and how (it also mentions fetching data dynamically to feed the components).

The PDFs hopefully don't contain JS interactivity and the data fetching is done at the top level of the component tree, before rendering the result to HTML (or does this skip HTML+CSS as an intermediate completely?), right?

The landing page looks great, would just love some more thorough explanation on what parts of React this uses and how.

Also, is there a JSX-based SSG that completely excludes client-side JS and is not made by Facebook? Would be interesting.

All that being said, it's truly interesting how much appeal JSX still has as a templating language focusing on JSON-serializable data structures, completely ignoring React's original value proposition of reactivity.
That rules out every parent trying to teach their kids to think critically. I don't think you'll like where that leads us.
>> fitness limitations mentally, physically, emotionally, and intellectually.

Maybe in the air force or army. I was unaware that the navy had intellectual limitations.

As for physical fitness, few in the military are the door-kicking navy seal types. Most jobs are sitting at computers or fixing equipment. The American military focus on physical fitness looks great on posters, but many other countries chuckle a little. The modern battlefield requires deep technical skills more than good abs. US soldiers are also very young, most leaving before even ten years of active service.
> I still don't buy it.

Agreed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqIysr3o_vY is a video of some people exploring the site.

The guy ropes and fallen fences are overgrown, the electricity meter has clearly been missing for months at the very least. There's no evidence like crushed plants indicating the tower having fallen any time recently.

The station's FM license was part of an FCC scheme to improve the economics of struggling AM stations, and because the aim was to strengthen AM not replace it, the license requires them to continue broadcasting on AM.

My guess is they've been broadcasting in violation of that license for years, someone called them on it, and they had to concoct this "stolen tower" story to cover that up.