skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of the collaterals of the loans in all functioning currencies is much greater than the value of the physical cash.

Thus if you hold the cash, you can attempt a corner in order to obtain a large fraction of the collateral: you hold the cash so that people can't get it and default on their loans. Thus you obtain a large fraction of the collateral, something of enormous value.

What central banks do when you try to do this is that they start printing money, thus this scheme can be stopped. If there's no central bank to do this, the self-interested cash holders could potentially coordinate something like this.

I think the cause of yield curve inversion can be something of this sort, because it can mean that people expect a crash and want cash on hand to buy assets once it has happened, so they don't want to lock their money up for six months, even if the yield is quite high.
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For many people, UFO's*, believing in them, and talking about that belief satisfy a number of very basic human emotional needs.

Similar to telling happy believers in $Deity that they are gullible/delusional/wrong, telling UFO believers otherwise is pretty unlikely to improve things.

*In the SciFi/aliens sense. If you're reaching for your Audubon Field Guide To North American Mammals, then what you see is probably a bat or flying squirrel.
I think the code monkeys have a decent grasp on microecon. However, their (and my) understanding of monetary policy is poor.
I think the hacker specifically targeted two players with largest audiences who were both live streaming for maximum lulz.

I also think that he specifically did it in a way that would minimize the risk of those players being accused of cheating cause he respects them and doesn't want to ruin their careers.
The concern about chargers being 'good' or 'bad' for your battery is mostly an issue with 90s and 00s technologies where chargers directly interfaced with batteries. The way modern PD devices work, however the battery charges is entirely up to the onboard charge controller in your device. They always charge in accordance with how your device was designed to charge. We call them 'chargers' but really they're just power supplies.
Whole lotta comments here about how much better this is for the hiring org, and sure, I guess, but we can’t get candidates to do a 2hr take-home assignment at their own pace to knock half a day off the interview process, I don’t know how the hell you expect someone to commit to working at your shop for 3 months. Re: “call it a contract” - sure, and I should just take COBRA during your evaluation period?

Absolutely if you’re hiring new grads, go nuts with whatever this is, but if you’re looking for people with existing careers and responsibilities, this ain’t gonna work.
Yep, techs obsession with remote work is myopic in my opinion.
I'm the same age as Larry and started working in machine learning in the early 90s, and to me, it seemed pretty obvious at the time that AGI would ultimately need a large corpus of text (and video) to be useful. What's kind of funny is the models I worked with at the time- hidden markov models of (biological) text anticipated the validity of this approach, although by design, they don't work with long contexts.
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(While I agree with the former, we do often make about the same as doctors in our own market once you subtract their liability insurance. Then factor in more opportunity cost and college bills at the beginning of their careers…)
I can't find a reference, but I'm pretty sure that someone on the Australian Financial Review's rich list, got rich from Taxi medallions. When Melbourne was to host the olympics, the licence authority decided there would not be enough taxis. They invited people to apply for free licences, and lots of people did apply for a licence. One person applied for a shedfull - something like 200?, and received them all.
Certainly in my own circle, people who were fortunate enough to work at FAANG during the right window of time became comfortably rich. Many of my own investors just worked as engineers at Microsoft for the right decade and are worth tens of millions. They worked really hard and sacrificed a lot, but they got paid every step of the way.

Predicting which big tech company will do well enough in future to give you that big stock reward over time is a big gamble, but certainly a smaller gamble than doing a startup.

I know plenty of people who have joined half a dozen startups, none of which yielded any gain. And many entrepreneurs who worked super hard many times and have nothing to show for it but scar tissue.

Whatever you do, the best advice is to ensure you are enjoying the journey. Don’t waste your life just to be rich. That path nearly always yields a Pyrrhic victory.
Who are you saying that for?

> The Macbook charger is an impressive piece of engineering, even if it's not as reliable as you'd hope. On the other hand, cheap no-name chargers cut corners and often have safety issues, making them risky, both to you and your computer.

Given the above quote from the conclusion section, after a lengthy Why you shouldn't get a cheap charger section, my takeaway is that the author still endorses the Macbook charger.
It's autocomplete. Take it outside the region of validity, and all it's got to work with is whatever extrapolation algorithm happens to have emerged from the weights of the model. (https://xkcd.com/2048/ panel 'House of Cards' comes to mind.) To distinguish between humans and LLMs, we don't even have to take advantage of that: we just have to take the context into the region where a naïve extrapolation of written human output diverges strongly from how humans actually respond. (There are ways to defeat this technique, not that anyone uses them.)

From a technical perspective, the fact an LLM does sometimes (appear to) follow instructions is more of a coincidence that then fact it sometimes doesn't.
On the other hand, ultra-low-power charging might effectively cause alternating between charging and discharging (e.g. when the Macbook wakes up to do things via "power nap" in the background, which on Apple Silicon devices can't be prevented and which might use more than 5W).
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The point isn’t that the average investor in a given year will perform at the market average (this is what I think you are referring to by the tautological claim). The point is that over time the correlation between winners (retail or professional) one time period to the next is essentially zero.
Yes, that was Spolsky's point. This is a good way to diversify the talent pool by bringing new people into the industry.
In my comment I wrote just three sentences. The middle sentence starts off "Even the original M1 MacBook Air..." Then the link I provided is to an investigation on charging speeds of the MacBook Air.
“Never work again” money is crazy-high for younger folks (like, not already close to qualifying for Medicare) in the US, on account of the costs and financial risks of our healthcare system.

Most of the FIRE bloggers who bother to account for this—like MMM—have a (perhaps implicit) fallback plan of returning to work somewhere with decent health insurance if they or a family member becomes very sick, but that’s quite a gamble.

(Never mind that a bunch of those sorts have jobs and couldn’t remain comfortably “retired” without them—god I really hate that part of the blogosphere, “look it’s so easy you dumb idiot” but then you start reading between the lines and realize how much of it’s just a bit)
It's not necessary to have the ground and there probably isn't enough cost savings to remove it. They've used the same design for years and just disconnecting the ground wouldn't make any sense because then the grounded cable would be pointless.
It's not the GaN, it's the higher wattage that's possible. Fast charging can increase device/battery temperature which, for fan-less designs like iPhones or MacBook Air, can lead to slightly higher degradation.
shapez.io is fun (and GPLv3 <https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io>), Shapez 2 is tons and tons more fun, IMHO, although currently only out in Demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/2162800/shapez_2/
> a policy where either the schedule for monetary creation was publicised several years in advance

This is like mandating a city’s thermostat ratings—in degrees on the dial, not temperature—be set months in advance. The source of the variation isn’t the thermostat. It’s the weather.

> idea that it is proper to adjust the rate of monetary creation based on the market is suspect

It’s possibly the most empirically supported finding in macroeconomics. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of populists or anarchy providing counterexamples.

> the system is designed to penalise anyone who tries to preserve wealth in actual cash

Yes, we separated the transactional (deposits) and store-of-value (Treasuries) functions of the U.S. dollar decades ago. Storing value in cash is literally using money wrong.
That's not the only worst-case scenario: You could also die from an electric shock. This actually happens every once in a while with cheap chargers.
Only for a relatively small portion of the batteries charging curve. The real advantage is when charging while turned on.
String theory had great marketing and so was able to convince politicians they would get answers in ten years if they just got money, which in turn meant those marketers had jobs. I call it marketing because regardless of the truth, a lot of money went into it for years with no useful results. Maybe a few more years of string theory research will discover it is right and makes some useful predictions - but so far it hasn't and most people outside have given up on it. (and it appears most in physics today expect it will never amount to anything - but since I'm not deep into physics that might be wrong)
As does every desktop Linux user ever.
My att@ address is also in the data set. I've used AT&T wireless, landline, and u-verse/fiber, all in California, but didn't think to use different addresses for them [1]. Additionally, in May 2023, someone attempted to open a Bank of America account using my att@ email address and presumably other details from the data. So that was fun.

[1] maybe the wireless was with cingular@ though, I think I signed on before AT&T reassembled, like the T-1000.
Because you can get a cable that does have a ground and attach it to the charger by removing the "duck head".
This feels like a strange collaboration. In my view, GOG is all about owning the things you purchase. Amazon on the other hand, has a reputation of randomly banning people when you trigger any of their algorithms (such as the shipping company losing your package at their terminal). You lose all your purchased digital content as well as any existing balance.

I get that in this case you'll still have your GOG content at GOG (hopefully) but Luna still seems to require an Amazon account. I would go out of my way to avoid having any dependency on Amazon.

I guess it's neat until it isn't though.
In conjunction with Borg, look at InterServer[1] for a VPS.

They provide some of the best cost-per-GiB storage. I've been using them for 3 years, and I prepay a year in advance. I've been super happy. They're cheap; maybe they'll suffer data loss, but I practice the 3-2-1 backup strategy[2]; if they lose data, I have a local backup; if by some weird chance both InterServer goes down and my house burns down at the same time, I've got another backup drive at my parents' house.

If you're more risk-averse, there's rsync.net[3], but it is substantially more expensive. However, it has really good data backup practices on its side.

[1] https://www.interserver.net/storage/

[2] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

[3] https://rsync.net/
Ah nice, definitely sounds like something Causal can handle for you :)
I'm also curious as well. How long would you make the internship? Are you finding that more tenured engineers are rejecting the internship offer?
> that it creates an incentive to hoard real estate for the purpose of wealth preservation

It creates an incentive to create and hoarde value. Western real estate as a market being broken is orthogonal to the system. (Case in point: Japan.)
Recent (this generation) Indian immigrants to the US use the term in my experience. I've never heard anyone else say it.
kebab-case might be feeling left out of the party.
The ambiguity of this legislation is one of the biggest problems with it.

This ambiguity leads to companies implementing cookie warning popups based on a risk-averse interpretation of the law
10 hours/week is really just a compensated job interview.
No one is ever free to work on whatever they want unless they can support themselves with their own funds. Researchers, even theoretical ones, apply for grants to pay for labor and resources to conduct research. Grants have specific scopes and objectives.
How do you clone via CCC? I’ve an identical setup with TM and Backblaze but haven’t setup a sync to my Synology yet. As I use iCloud, I’d like an additional sync to the NAS.

Do you just run a periodic task to sync to the SMB folder?
Huh, my MacBook bought directly from Apple did come with a 3-prong cord, but I've seen plenty that didn't. I specifically remember having one, replacing it with a random 2-prong cord to fit into cramped outlets in high school, and my cautious friend saying "that's jank."

Ungrounded connection sometimes causes tingling, a common enough problem that this Amazon 3-prong head even mentions it in the title: https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Duckhead-Apple-Mac-Adapter/d...
Restic is nice because it has Windows support too.
Has anyone here worked outside of tech? Hiring isn't any better. Engineers tend to be really hard on themselves and others if something isn't perfect. But you can't hire perfectly. You will hire good people and crap people. People will come and go. Training your forces and marshalling them to victory is much more important than hiring the best recruits. People in IT seem to think training is some kind of punishment, but it's a force multiplier (along with morale), and absolutely necessary for the best work. Ask anyone who studies business efficiency, or warfare.

StackOverflow is a good idea, but in the few times I've tried to use it, I have always been slapped down by obscure rules and tyrannical mods. The rules (which can vary by tag, specialty, and are often subjective) are not clear at all to new or casual users. SO needs to refocus on user stories and pain points.
I’ve had that happen a few times. Generally there may be a signing fee paid to the contractor.

Though in one case I got the job first and the contracting house second. BigCo had approved vendors but was having trouble finding people with the skill sets they needed.
We know how neural networks work.

What's tricky is to understand the model a particular network has come up with during training so indeed how they "learn".
Outside of pure interest - how these LLMs are working, the utility/impact of understanding them would be to be able to control them - how to remove capabilities you don't want them to have (safety), or perhaps even add capabilities, or just steer their behavior in some desirable way.

Pretty much everything about NNs is engineering - it's basically an empirical technology, not one that we have much theoretical understanding of outside of the very basics.
I would take that response as a sign that I'm talking to a bot. That's not a way that people respond to that request.
See also the lawsuit against the Internet Archive, as some other comment already pointed out. What this also primarily is, is a direct attack by the publishers on the first sale doctrine, a crucial balancing part of copyright law.

Time-limited and self-destructing book copies, as for any (digital) media, is nothing short of a cultural atrocity that only philistines could have come up with. The word "scam" is more than apt for this latest effort by the publishing industry to milk the maximum amount of profit out of something without putting in any additional work or providing any additional value in return. Asking money for doing literally nothing -- I don't think that calling that a scam goes too far. This from an industry who, like many others, keeps claiming that they are acting in the name of protecting the creatives, while having a long and flowery history of fleecing and bleeding dry those very artists.
Even the heroes eventually capitulate to complexity in C++, compromising performance.

It is usually dead simple. Reserve memory in a vector, put data in, loop through it linearly. Modern C++ is very simple most of the time. Where are you getting this idea?

It is virtually impossible to write a realistically complex zero-copy RPC server in C++ because the lifetime issues are too daunting.

This is not only untrue, it doesn't even make sense. What is it that you think can be done in java and what are these lifetime issues you think are in the way? You didn't give any actual technical examples, so feel free to show something real and back up this claim.

Even Go can beat C++ in this use case, for the same reasons

Prove it, let's see where these ideas are coming from, because I don't think they are coming from experience with C++.

The safety of the language in such cases is of no interest.

This is also overblown in modern C++. It is easy to boil things down to value semantics and let simple lifetimes manage resources with scope. When it isn't something you can do with scope and you have to manage resources yourself, the language won't help you anyway since you are writing it yourself.
They use the same power adapter in other countries where ground is required.

They also do sell a US 3-prong extension cord.
this showed up today <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757496> and seems relevant to this thread https://marianoguerra.org/posts/playing-with-code-programmin...
Actually I haven't tried Spacedrive yet, I'm waiting for them to implement syncing.

It probably needs to scan all the files before becoming functional.

IMHO Spacedrive is not really a file manager, it is a user-friendly version of git-annex. But how else do you market something like this?
Not the whole thing: a lot of the Windows org chart is still under Rajesh Jha in Experiences + Devices, or scattered around Azure with Scott Guthrie. But they've already been pushing Windows Copilot and Bing Ads and widgets, so I imagine the plan is more of the same.
Microsoft is poised to do well, sure, but they're currently beholden to Nvidia for hardware and OpenAI for models, and their main surface area for products is Office, Azure, and to a lesser extent, Outlook.

Comparatively, Google controls their hardware, Google builds their models, and Google has Search, Workspace, Gmail, Android, Cloud, and YouTube, all of which could have significant AI investments.

I'm not saying Satya isn't doing a great job, he really is, and I have many criticisms of Google's approach, but I do think Google is at least equally well positioned, and possibly better positioned.
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> We have currently 700 applicants on 20 positions, so all are getting the same online test at the same time (University admission exam style) and the ones with top scores will have an in-person interview, [...]

Seems like a great way to winnow down 700 people... to 20 people who are fresh out of college and either desperate enough to put up with a potential employer's arrogance and negging, or who don't know any better, and who probably think a software engineering job is mostly about the Leetcode test to get in.
The problem with this is that attempting a startup takes 2-10 years, while a poker hand takes a few minutes. Poker would be a lot more luck based if you only played 20 hands and then stopped.
A lot of places have a promote-or-fire culture. Although that's often linked to abusive work practices.

You would get into a job with a small salary, and the expectation you'll have a larger one in an year or so.
> Still be a market for Software Developers in the foreseeable future, though the nature of work will change

Back 25 years ago when I graduated, everyone kept saying there wouldn't be a need for software developers. Either the work was going to get sent overseas to the cheapest bidder or it was all going to get automated away anyway. I even recall CEOs making outrageous claims like "we didn't need any new software" as if all the software to run the world had already been built and would magically continue to run without maintenance.

We heard the same thing once upon a time about manufacturing too, but now we see a shift back on shore for manufacturing that we once thought was gone, either to robotics or offshore. It's different than before, but still manufacturing.

Software developers are still here, their compensation has overall increased dramatically, but of course the nature and the demands of the work continue to shift. Will it be different in 20 years? Of course, but it will still be software development.
mark it as spam, it hurts their spam score a lot when users do so, and if it gets bad enough services (like gmail) will stop delivering it to inboxes
> no doubt the Apple ones are the size they are for a reason.

That reason might well be "because it's slightly cheaper to build a larger charger and most people wouldn't be willing to pay more for a device that comes with a compact one in the box".
>That is not my argument against LLMs. Please don't put words in my mouth.

That was the most people could read thought from your previous comments, now that I make you notice that, you wrote some actual arguments, even though I do not share your doomerish vision of the future.
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> But according to Mark a ~5-year window defines who you are for the rest of your life...

He sounds like someone who peaked in high school.
> Gresham’s law doesn’t apply to bitcoin because it isn’t legal tender

Gresham’s law applies to anything used as money. Which I would still argue does not apply to Bitcoin, as it’s transitioned into a store of value versus functional currency.
Yeah, it seems really weird to me as well. But as long as this is a side effort and doesn't affect GOG's existing model, I don't care because I can completely ignore that the cloud gaming aspect exists.
I always bring just a ~5 year old 65W Dell USB-C charger. It can charge my Pixel from 0 to 100 in 90 minutes, and can take my M1 Pro from 40% to 80% in 60 minutes. It is rugged, and significantly smaller than the Apple power brick that came with the M1 Pro.

Don't think I've travelled with more than one charger since phones switched away from micro-USB.
I’m curious - what is it about this that’s causing downvotes? It was meant to be helpful.
> I wonder what Microsoft's plans are for Windows now that the whole thing reports to Copilot and Ads.

oh, jeez.
Is it really outrageous to ask for some of the crumbling infrastructure around us to be updated or better maintained? Granted the OP comment said _first_ when it's not really an either/or situation. It's not like we need billions in R&D to apply what's been solved in dozens of other metros across the world.
Maybe someone try training an LLM to do just that.
The point is that any response by any current LLM to those instructions will be obviously distinct from the way a human will respond.
That's a great point, and one that most people are unaware of. The calories on the back of the food should come with a +/- uncertainty. People think they are accurate but they are allowed to be inaccurate without certain limits.

For most people, getting a rough idea is sufficient I think and much better than not tracking at all.
Are you talking about this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954113

> We don't know yet how the current AI wave is going to play out on HN but for the time being the community is super sensitive about not letting generated content permeate the threads and I think it's the right call for now.