skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That shouldn't really be surprising at all. And in some cases I'm not even sure it's a bad thing.

Not sure what level of management/responsibility this guy was at, but if we wasn't executive level, he probably stands to personally benefit more from engaging in these sorts of shenanigans than if he were to do the thing that's best for the company.

And really, in that situation, why should anyone feel ethically bound to be efficient and do what's best for the company? It's not like the company cares about you. If it's "efficient and best for the company" to kick you to the curb, the company will do that. Why should the rank-and-file show loyalty?

The company executives almost certainly have it in their power to set incentives so doing the most efficient, best-for-the-company thing is what's going to give each employee the biggest reward. If they're not doing that, that's their problem.

But on a higher level, where we have a big societal problem that needs to be fixed, I would agree that optimizing for your own profit, at the expense of solving that problem, is selfish and immoral. I just don't think it's worth any hand-wringing at a low-level company-inefficiency level.
thanks for the suggestions everyone. just played the LoTR through MUDlet for a bit.
Trained professionals get things wrong.

However Trained professionals get it less wrong than the alternatives.

Wouldn’t the efficacy of real doctors be against the efficacy of alternatives, and similarly for LLMs?

How much better are both, LLMs and Doctors to the average joe, I think that would be a great metric to see.
Bcachefs Disk Accounting Rewrite
Yes we are based on FoundationDB. We pivoted from OLTP database to a lower level product as we found that it makes more sense to innovate at the storage infra layer. There is lot of innovation already happening at the higher level database layer.

And we don’t charge for egress to internet.

If you are looking for an active-active multi-region read-anywhere write-anywhere object storage service then you would choose Tigris over R2 :)
That seems obvious - they were generated. Here’s an example with text:

Prompt:

Write a short story that is comprised of a boy reading poems he wrote to his deceased loved mom, include snippets of several of the poems.

Response:

In the soft glow of the evening, with the sun dipping below the horizon, casting long shadows over the quiet cemetery, a young boy named Eli walked slowly between the rows of tombstones. He carried a small, worn notebook clutched against his chest, filled with scribbles and verses that only his heart could decipher. Today marked a year since his mother had passed away, and in his solitude, he had found refuge in writing poems that he wished he could share with her.

Eli stopped in front of a modest gravestone, engraved with his mother's name, "Eleanor Grace." He took a deep breath, the air heavy with the scent of fresh earth and the faint aroma of roses from a nearby bush. Opening his notebook, he began to read aloud, his voice barely above a whisper, as if he feared disturbing the peace of those resting around him.

"The world spins on, a dizzy blur,
But here I stand, thoughts of you stir.
Your laughter, a melody in my mind,
Leaves traces of joy you've left behind."

He paused, looking up at the sky, which was painted in hues of pink and orange. Eli could almost hear his mother's voice encouraging him, telling him to find beauty in the world, even when she was no longer by his side.

Turning the page, he continued:

"In dreams, I roam vast fields of green,
Your hand in mine, a tranquil scene.
Yet, as dawn breaks, and I awake,
I face the world, my heartache to take."

Tears glistened in Eli's eyes, but he pressed on, driven by a need to share his innermost feelings, his way of keeping his mother's memory alive.

"Among the stars, I search for you,
In every sparkle, your essence I view.
A guiding light in the darkest night,
Leading me home, making everything right."

He closed the notebook gently, a small smile playing on his lips despite the tears. Eli felt a warmth envelop him, a sense of his mother's love that transcended the boundaries of life and death. He whispered a thank you to the evening breeze, imagining it carrying his words to wherever she might be.

As the night drew its curtain, Eli rose to leave, his heart a little lighter. He knew he would return, again and again, to share his poems, his fears, and his dreams with his mother. In this sacred space, amidst verses of longing and love, he found a connection to her that time could not erase.

Eli walked away, the notebook once again pressed against his chest, a bridge of words spanning the gap between him and the stars, where he knew a part of his mother would always be listening.
Duh. Of course I should want a bigger population: more market for my business, more chances for me to mate, and more people I can talk to and learn from.

It's a no brainer, no ?
As I mentioned in comments to this post on twitter, you can beat this with a pretty regular $6000 2x4090 system on compute (but with less total VRAM).
Broadcom nears $3.8B sale of remote access unit to KKR
Yes. It’s GPT-4.
I'm taking about when using a LLM, which doesn't involve training and thus no overfitting.
Defecting by Accident – A Flaw Common to Analytical People (2010)
The fault here lies with the SF electorate, who collectively wants their housing investment to be protected and homelessness to be fixed.

Actually, I would argue that this isn't even a conflict, because SF homeowners probably do not want a durable solution to the homelessness crisis. That would require bulldozing the suburbs. They instead want SF to sweep the homeless under some proverbial rug so that their presence does not tarnish the value of their homes. House them, but house them somewhere else. This isn't even an instance of the Shirky principle, it's just people using words in confusing ways.
Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

Regular intuition: switching doors doesn't matter, you have a 50/50 shot either way.

Counter-intuition: probably just check out the wikipedia article, there's a few different approaches.
"Racing the beam" — omg I know exactly what you mean. We used to set the beam to different color at the beginning and the end of our vsync'd routine to figure out how many scan lines worth of CPU time per frame we could afford to use. I remember the address $dff180 for this purpose (color palette 0, which would always show on the edges of the screen outside of the bitmapped area). We didn't have the Internet to teach us that trick either, all word of mouth! Didn't know there were people still trying to squeeze more out of that chipset nowadays.
Respawn Studio Reportedly Developing FPS Bounty Hunting Mandolorian Game
What you described is still human centric. Nature has survived several extinction level events and I’m sure it will survive more.

If humanity changes the current environment enough, then it will no longer be the once ideal environment to that continues to sustain humanity indefinitely.

Going on a tangent, a lot of environmentalists have a marketing problem.
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
Permeable paver tiles can look nice. I like the ones with gaps that let grass grow through.
Consider how the reasoning proceeds if we do not take solving a problem as a Boolean. Also let's measure not just by whether the problem exists or not (or to what degree) but also by how much overheads or missed opportunity the society is having with the institutions even just existing.

In the scenario A, knowingly or unknowingly, they would tend to solve the problem partially. The others around would see their contributions so far and foresee their value for the future. If others discover or perceive that the institution is not holding any promise for the future, the institution could struggle to survive.

In the scenario B, the institution existing is entirely a lost opportunity for the society.

Hence the scenario A is typically better (for making progress with given amount of resources).
Nihilism doesn't help those of us who rather enjoy living and would very much like our future generations to thrive.
That will never change. Not here
And what was the rest of your response? How could you get effective change based on this understanding?
The company in question could set incentives so the two-week-one-person solution is rewarded much more than the nine-month-fifty-person solution. If they are incapable of doing so, then perhaps the best outcome for the economy is for that company to collapse under the weight of its own inefficiencies and incompetence, and be replaced with companies that can do the job better.
Or worse, The Worst Toilet in Scotland, but Covered in Bullet Ants.
I read a book titled "Rats" once, which was a journalist embedding with the rats of New York, Walden-style, and watching their habits over a year, talking to rat catchers and so on. My general impression is that populations are controlled by available food for rats, and nothing else. Also, rats aren't so bad.
Properties are dependant on you being able to defend it, which, if you aren't a state, you delegate to the state where you posess thing. This include your body, your mind, and your life.
Seems to be fixated on the idea that only Human Resources matter at the expense of all other resources.

Our current population is being propped up by all number of finite resources, most significantly oil, for which we have no certainty of finding more supply of in the future. With a higher population, we're depleting those resources faster.

It may in fact be better to get to a lower level of population which is long-term stable. We are aggressively burning through our natural resources and while humanity won't go extinct our population is doomed to absolutely plummet during an age of poverty.
In exponentially growing companies average tenure will always be low even if the average person stays a long time, so those numbers only works for companies that doesn't grow or shrink.

In the years I was at Google I only saw a few people leave in my and adjacent teams, if average was to leave after 1.5 years I should have churned through several generations but the people I worked with early were mostly there when I left but there were several times more people overall.
Show HN: stream-zip – Now with async support
The thread contains multiple tweets about how hard it was to remove the password prompt, so I'm guessing "yes."
I think that's a little harsh. What the guy did was create a lot of value for himself and the team of 50 under him. That was all at the expense of the company, but so what? It's just a company. Companies don't matter, people do.

I think the real issue is why did that company's culture and reward structure allow this to happen? It should be more "profitable" for an employee to come up with the most efficient solution. The fact that it wasn't is the company's failing.
> These guardrails are guiding you towards something, but it is very optimistic to assume that they guide you towards the best solution.

"Best solution" is a fantasy. Any solution must be expressed in a language with concrete semantics, but there is no best language for all possible problems. This was the lesson of Kolmogorov complexity.

Therefore, we will always necessarily be using a suboptimal language, and we should let go of any wish for ill-defined optimality. We should instead use a language that guides towards engineering good solutions to problems with desirable properties. Sometimes that might mean strict control over resources (as with Rust), sometimes that isn't necessary (so OCaml,F#, etc. would do).

An empirical fact of engineering is that most mistakes people make are trivial, eg. typos, one off errors, forgetfulness to change code in all relevant places during refactoring, etc. Good abstractions enforced by static types solve all of these problems, allowing you to focus on the core problem without being bothered that you might have missed some silly details. Yes the compiler bothers you to correct these details, but this is typically simple mechanistic work that nevertheless can't be automated by any other language without sacrificing other desirable properties.

I'm not going to argue that any static type system is better than no static types, because it's easy to invent a bad type system. We've had pretty damn good type systems since the 70s though, they just didn't see much use until recently.
think the trolley problem. but now there is the same number of people on both tracks. is changing the course of the trolley worse than doing nothing at all? why or why not?
i think that's a nice one to think about...
Web content was created to be enticing to humans. Most of it is just like flowers waiting for bees to come over.
protest is completely impotent in the modern age. it's useless virtue signalling that identifies you to the surveilling authorities.

politics is compromised too. Only direct action works.
This type of analysis quickly starts to wade into “intelligence” in the CIA sense of the word. It’s possible to do some of this digging on your own, but for the most part this type of information ends up requiring a lot of inference and synthesis across different sources and collection mechanisms to build a coherent story.

If there’s one thing I learned from working in this space, it’s how there’s just massive amounts of “history” playing out every day that will never be written down or acknowledged. In particular, cyber/electronic warfare is a very active space, and quite a few nation states regularly commit what many of us would imagine would be considered acts of war against each other, without a word said to the public.
What? OP can create new projects... If alive and not homeless.
Not so. Sure, everything degrades eventually, but HDPE, PC and acrylic are notably UV resistant, and even polypropylene, which is normally weak in UV, is used in outdoor furniture. Thickness and color matter, but inexpensive UV stabilizers can be added to most plastics as well, and you can get a guaranteed 7-10 years of outdoor life, let alone the sheltered life of a Vision Pro. Source: I make plastic products (sorry, world, that’s why I care about making them well).

Anyway, additives or coating, we agree one can get good outdoor performance with plastics. But forget glass, I’m waiting for the sapphire Vision Edition.
adastra22 means that given the relatively unimportant nature of the industry (video game streaming), you'd expect regulations to be light.
Tenement Farming and Cloud HSMs
I read his Lockstep and really liked his "workaround" for speed of light. Fascinating, compatible with physics and not completely unrealistic.
> Historically, as we run out of a resource (whale oil, elephant tusks, seabird guano), we transition to a new technology based on a more abundant resource—and there are basically no major examples of catastrophic resource shortages in the industrial age.

I think the OP would say oil is "basically not a catastrophic resource shortage." This seems like a typical misinterpretation of exponential growth as linear growth. There's literally fixed mass on the planet. Growth cannot continue forever no matter how many geniuses it might produce.
I've been using FreshRSS for several years, and like it quite a lot.
The March of Dimes was founded to try to eradicate polio. When it effectively did so, it changed its mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes#Change_of_missi...
I don't wholly disagree with you, but I think it's more nuanced than that.

A dollar returned to investors and re-invested in a new technology that ends up saving everyone two dollars seems like a pretty effective use of that dollar, much more than putting that dollar in an employee's pocket who intentionally didn't do the most efficient thing.

Now, I'm not sure of the odds of that outcome. Maybe most of the time that dollar ends up getting wasted on funding Theranos or buying Twitter.

Regardless, I wouldn't fault an employee for doing something that's maximizes their own interest over the company's. Just means the company is bad at setting incentives properly. Not saying it's easy to do that, but none of us should value a company's welfare over our own. Sometimes the company's welfare aligns with ours, but not always.
Very interesting approach, thanks for taking the time to write it! I'll be evaluating my own projects with these guidelines- I think I've structured some of them like this without thinking about WHY
And given the (relatively) small amount of the fine, they'll probably pay it to avoid any risks.
The point of an anecdote is to provide some measure of substantiation for a claim - that the claim is possible/not possible.

If the anecdote is non-existent, then it would be a sign that the concept failed such a meager bar. Worse, the anecdote leverages the brand strength of Time magazine to make its point, using its credibility to back up the claim.

Are we in a phase where accuracy is irrelevant and style is all?
Not a carpenter, but what would be the problem?

Granted it might be still cheaper for humans to do the labor for some time, but eventually we will have most houses manufactured (home printing) or done as a prefab and assembled. For luxury some could be custom made by AI powered robots, based on user prompt.
Would this be useful for learning new languages as an adult? I have wondered if intelligence agencies used methods for heightening neuroplasticity in order to allow adult agents-in-training to be able to achieve near-native fluency in new languages. Of course, there are probably some behavioral changes they would seek to make while their trainees were especially neuroplastic...
It's crazy to me how it keeps getting better when stockfish was already destroying the best players in the world with version 1.
Seems like they should just drop the pretense and send them a bill labeled "because we want it"
Say AI used the the 3 laws today. You can still have cloned people online, faked calls stealing money from companies...

Google recently pulled their AI image generator, it wouldn't have solved that issue either.

They don't really solve the issue.
My experience is the opposite: while the Big Exodus didn't seem to happen, anecdotally the people in my online chat circles post fewer Twitter links than before.

I'm actually curious about HN posts: has the frequency of Twitter submissions changed since Musk's acquisition? Or, probably more usefully, has the average number of points per Twitter submission (or maybe number that make the front page) changed?
Ideological Bayesians
I agree with you power game view. The cooperation can even extend beyond the current job. That is, when managers move to another company, they attract some key people from their team to the new place. (There are other incentives for managers to do so: e.g. to show they are effective at recruiting.)
Hate the user more than the tool. I know the audience is
there and you want impressions but Twitter was never meant for long form content like this.
It’s a blog post tweeted in chunks. Probably it would reach far less people if it was posted on a niche personal blog so I can understand people
doing it but I think it’s not a Twitter problem
per se.
We went to school in the before times. Lots of people believe various versions of that view now: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/2/8884885/american-revolution-mis... https://nyupress.org/9781479893409/the-counter-revolution-of... https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/1776-counter-revolution-u...

I suspect in a couple of decades it will become the accepted view. It’s similar to how by 1990 (when I was in school) we had erased Christianity from the national origin story by projecting Thomas Jefferson’s deism onto all the founders.
I'm confused; what stock are you referring to? Twitter doesn't publicly trade anymore, and has no stock price.
And if Twitch don't comply, Korea is going to...suspend them...oh wait.
The advanced economies you so cherish require government oversight to get to where they are, otherwise you would have a country suffering from the tragedy of the commons a few orders of magnitude worse than anything seen today.
Even the concept that there are shithole countries is extremely dumb.

I think you’ll find in those other shit hole countries people are (strangely enough) just as patriotic to their fabulous country.

That should tell you something about patriotism and living in a shithole country.
Your edits have certainly improved both comments.

Population decline doesn’t guarantee human liberty.

Factory farms reflect the hierarchies we see in society. Not the other way around.

I can see unfree (in a non-trivial sense) human labour becoming more valuable in a world with less human labour and no suitable substitutes.

Global population is not quite orthogonal to many of our social problems.
Their problems have crossed that line a long time ago.
This project has outstanding taste.

So few people appreciate why Bittorrent (Mainline) and DNS have been world-conquering successes while everything else (cough IPFS cough) struggles. Be stateless, be sessionless -- send only packets, allocate no state. Nothing else in the computing world scales the way the Mainline bootstrap nodes and DNS root servers do. Until recently the DNS root servers were just a handful of decent workstations at universities; Mainline's bootstrap nodes still are. None of the heavyweight cloudtech can match that kind of efficiency.

You should publish a spec for Pkarr -- the layer below did-dht -- first. Right now Pkarr is a software program/library, not a specification. I think this will help you simplify and articulate your work more clearly to people who aren't immersed in it. I think it will also be extremely useful to people who don't need the incredible complexity of w3c DIDs.

The choice to sign an entire DNS packet seems very strange and probably hasn't been through through properly.

Why use DNS packets? Presumably because you want to leverage the existing infrastrucure of recursive DNS resolvers. However these resolvers do not preserve packets!. If I send a query to my recursive resolver, and it makes a query to the authoritative server, it can (and almost always does) modify the resulting packet from the authoritative before returning a reply to me. The upshot here is: if you're signing packets, almost all recursive resolvers will destroy your signatures. This is why DNSSEC signs individual resource records instead of packets. I think that's what you want to be doing: sign an RR, not a packet. If you absolutely need to sign multiple RRs, you'll need to specify a canonical way to assemble the RRs (i.e. sort them).

I really think you want to sign an RR (which might include the hash of other RRs), not an entire DNS packet.

Lastly, please take this issue more seriously: https://github.com/TBD54566975/did-dht-method/issues/80#issu... the only response given was that "the DHT-DID [spec] uses Pkarr [a piece of software]" which makes no sense... specs depend on specs, not implementations. Then the issue derailed (as unthreaded discussions always do; github is why we can't have nice things) into some side tangent about KRPC and CBOR instead of answering the issue's question "why DNS?". Pretty sure the answer is "to leverage existing recursive resolver infrastructure" but you should state that clearly -- and then think through the consequences.
How are you measuring “evil”?
That’s because restaurants are, believe it or not, also a regulated industry.
What a hellspawn shitty era. Such a vast human potential, using absurd national laws of property to try to gobble up & dominate something vast.

There should be reasons to try for the moon & ideally further. But theres something sick & detestable about the land rush of control going on. These flag planting exercises in no way justify such large scale dominion. This is pathetic & revilesome.