skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Count me as one of those people. I don't know what the hell people mean by inner monologue. Maybe I have one, but I wouldn't know what it is. I feel like it's trying to explain to a blind person what sight is.
I've got the same number of years as this guy, and my biggest career regret is I focused too deeply on the technicals and never learned how to bullshit and self-promote.

The people who graduated with me, but put all their "skill points" into Charisma instead of Technical Mastery, are all Directors, VPs, very high level people right now, running their show. Some switched careers into investment banking or consulting and are now set for life. I'm still sitting here after 25 years and an advanced degree, chugging along as a mid-level individual contributor, no budget, not even a single direct report, let alone a tree of engineers under me. It doesn't seem fair, but it is the way it is. I gambled that "knowing what I'm doing" was enough and lost.

If I had to give advice to a 20 year old getting ready to graduate from university and go into engineering, it would be: Learn how to dress well, how to smile, how to engage with small talk, how to exaggerate in ways that you can plausibly defend later, how to figure out what someone wants to hear and tell it back to them in a way that makes you look good, how to take something you did and explain it in a way that makes you look like a much bigger contributor than you were. These are the actual skills you need in the modern workforce.
I occasionally talk to myself (or to "the powers that be", humoring the idea that we're in kind of a super-advanced-VR classroom sim), but I wouldn't qualify it as an "internal monologue"
Without internal monologue, you can still think about sentences, but no one is talking to you inside your head.
Work from Home Will Have a Bigger Impact on the Economy Than AI
I would start with classifying these costs based on whether they increase as the number of paying customers you have increases, or stay roughly the same. Then focus on the first group and don't worry too much about the latter. So for instance an accounting SaaS may feel like a meaningful expense now but 10x your customer base and it won't, the fees may go up but relatively speaking not by a lot. Whereas fees to OpenAI can potentially be a large enough percentage of your gross margin to make the business nonviable at any scale unless you rethink it.

Assuming what you sell is a SaaS itself, you need to keep in mind that a good SaaS can easily have COGS of only 10-20% of revenue. They can then funnel a big chunk of their profit into marketing, grow, and if they're doing what you're doing, crowd you out of the market.

So you need to get as close as possible to that magic number of being able to provide the service at a cost of only 10-20% of revenue. You can do this by lowering costs or by raising prices (if your market won't tolerate higher prices, try and retool the service for a market than can). Get your COGS down and you will be able to reinvest the surplus cash you're generating into trying different marketing channels, with growth you will grow out of the fixed expenses problems that tend to come along with a micro/hobby business.
> I only had to deal with a small class, so backtracking was doable and I graded the papers in whatever shuffled up order they were turned in, otherwise there would have definitely been a bias.

Grading papers in submission order just introduces a different bias, though.

(For what it's worth, I'm in the same boat and I do the same, because I don't trust my ability to give the papers any true random sorting by hand, so I take the very weak randomization that the submission order gives me.)
Thanks for the reply m8
Yeah, the title really misrepresents the situation. This is someone who doesn't need to live in London, and visits a London few times a year.
AI is a gamechanger. For grifters and con-artists.
Anybody else applying to YC just do something like this for required education?
For those without college degrees...
The Hardware That Powers Financial Trading [video]
OpenAI's Makanju is 'bullish' on government using her company's tech
I think you're right, there's actually a genuinely useful angle here (at least for the situations that aren't too absurd). I was surprised how much actual social stress talking to a voiced NPC can induce!
I have an surname that's alphabetically low.
Even at uni amount time I went to class and came out empty-handed as my teacher didn't score my assignement on time (at my uni 90% we have oral discussion about it) and I have to come next week while others don't are way too high.
Why are they unlikely to selfhost? There are those who do that amongst those groups as well.
As a javascript web developer, you have skills to build a website. Have you tried building a side project? Perhaps it could be for passion, or perhaps it could lead to side or full income.

I faced a similar complete dispassion towards my coding work last year, and decided to embark on a quest to build something of my own. It's hard, but I also feel alive needing to constantly think creatively about creating value for society--infinitely more fulfilling than performing the tasks set out to me by my manager.
Snow Leopard was the pinnacle of Mac OS that was "for the user". After that, macOS was a means to Apple's end. e.g. discontinuation of Front Row with no replacement.
My 10 hour commute is ridiculous. I live in rural Canada where it’s cheap and visit the Boston HQ every few years…
Which one. There’s a few ongoing right now.
Wouldn't a possible outcome here though be that it just randomly reduces grades instead of reducing them in a way that's related to the students? If the issue is the sorting the random candidate numbers would still be sorted. It solves the problem of bias related to the individual but it doesn't solve the problem of bias related to the way that the submissions are sorted.

A random identifier coupled with a random sort order seem like the way to go here.
"A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder."

"Big Oil" has been legally selling products that consumers want. Why not also accuse individuals of murder when their cars consume X gallons of gasoline?
There are all sorts of good ways to avoid these biases. I use the same practice described above for paper exams, and grading order for eg question 2 may be affected by score on question 1, but it won’t be affected by name or ID number.

If you use Canvas or Gradescope with the default settings, it’s almost impossible to avoid this sort of bias.

Worse yet, in Gradescooe you’re strongly steered towards grading with a fixed “rubric” with specific points off for each of N pre-defined errors, allowing grading to be done by TAs with little more knowledge than the students themselves, resulting in scores which have little relationship to the quality of the student answer.
So you’re not satisfied with an interview with a local politician, you also want them to disagree with the activists? That’s not balance, that’s creating disagreement where it doesn’t exist. I bet you’re fun on Twitter
> by the end you're far more systematic, plus a little bit numb to the effect your decision is having

Maybe decision fatigue is supposed to bias humans toward the optimal solution for the fiancee problem [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Such unionization also has significant spill-over effect on non-unionized workers, which improves their outcomes also (https://www.nominalnews.com/p/unions-strike-action-and-the-e...). It's good to see this shift as it also improves outcomes for consumers.
Screw the bow. Get a suppressed bolt action .300 blackout or 8.6 blackout.

The bow will make about as much noise.
First, as a quick meta-response about the tone of your comment, please read HN guidelines[0]:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. [...] Edit out swipes.

And regarding the GP comment, which says:

>So you were growing, but not enough to keep investors happy, who would eventually throttle the product for every bit of return once it had even a smidgen of community momentum around it, and turn it into the same ad-filled mess that are the current alternatives. Where are the not-for-profits in this space?

I'm assuming GP means he's looking for something:

- Not optimizing for ROI after getting community momentum

- Not ad-driven or ad-filled

- Run by a non-profit

In which case, yes, a very large portion of the Fediverse fits all three. I have never seen a single ad-supported instance of Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy, Diaspora, Friendica, Hubzilla, Funkwhale, Misskey or PeerTube.

They might exist, and there are some big servers that have used/forked Mastodon for commercial purposes (eg Gab, Truth Social...) but they are not considered to be part of the Fediverse and are scarcely "federated" with anyone.

Interestingly enough, "ad revenue" is not even listed as one of the revenue drivers for Fediverse/Mastodon communities in their docs. [1]

You might also be interested to know that Mastodon was officially incorporated as a gGmbH (a German form of non-profit LLC) in 2021. [2]

And the largest Fediverse server, mastodon.social, is itself operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit. [3]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1]: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/#monetization

[2]: https://joinmastodon.org/fr/about

[3]: https://mastodon.social/explore
OCaml for its rich builtin types and type system w. pattern matching, mind bending functional patterns, Python for scripting. Will try to learn Rust.
They realize (bring form to, make real) them, but don't realize (understand) them
My internal monologue is much, much faster than verbal or written communication. It's never been a source to give me pause when replying or engaging with others; in effect, I run parallel discussions through my mind while others are speaking, allowing me to anticipate and respond to potential changes in the conversation before they occur.
Brain mechanisms of emotion processing bias in treatment-resistant depression
Any reason to prefer it over acme.sh ? Seems pretty similar. I've been using acme.sh for years, usually in nginx mode, sometimes in DNS mode.
It should be easy to configure, but I don't think that behavior should be the default since it's less general and only works when you press Return from certain types of blocks.

Shift + Return also isn't available on mobile. And it's annoying having a hidden key combo just to get behavior you want. I seem to regularly battle with Reddit's rich editor that does this.

All to save me from having to press Return twice.

Though I can appreciate the niceness of how clean it is to always keep the user inside a <p style="margin-bottom: 2em"> while making them opt (with Shift + Return) into a <br>, I'd yield to UX over cleanliness when it comes to something as finicky as rich text editors.
I’ve been reading that headline in various forms for thirty years now.
Using unvalidated algorithms (including AI) when life is on the line should not be legal.

This is clearly the direct case for medical devices, but there should also be a standard when algorithms are being applied that moderate access to healthcare too - because they have effects exactly like that of doctors making medical decisions.
I heard about this community about a decade ago through the respect being paid to a legendary hacker from the (nineties?) I believe so I guess the forum adopted the culture. It sure is as close as I got to them, reading obituary threads, with folks telling tales of yore.
This sounds like an organisational nightmare to be honest. You'd be going through the pile of exams multiple times (at least twice) and what do you do if there are multiple mistakes that are common in a single exam question?

Also: if you're sorting into "mistakes piles" for single exercises, how can you parallelise marking of separate and independent questions?
Correct and low-latency real-time streaming joins [video]
Cars (whether powered by electricity, gasoline, or whatever) push against the road, and the amount of force (and thus energy) required as speed relative to the road increases.

But in space, we don't have roads. Rockets push against their reaction mass.

What is a hypothetical drive with no reaction mass pushing on?
Replying to you and parent - thanks both for these comments, and it's a really great idea. I could see a product today (maybe even this) being helpful for practice. But I think to make genuine claims about assessment and improvement, off-the-shelf AI isn't there yet, because there's such an incredible amount of information in the way something is said. Basically the entire study of prosody. Then, there's all the body language---which, if you believe anecdotes, conveys a high % of the received information. Long term, it's a great goal.
Nobody uses FP64 for AI. Nobody uses consumer SKUs in the datacenters.
This looks perfect for a nascent guide I wanted to write, thank you for creating and sharing it!
You don't. It helps a lot.
> You know what would really make it hard to siphon money off to a black budget project, or to the business of a politician’s brother-in-law that gets the contract? A deflationary asset where there’s a cryptographically secure immutable ledger of all transactions.

I’m not sure how Bitcoin is simultaneously completely transparent, bringing daylight to big bad government fraud and also a privacy-protecting, regulatory circumvention tool. These things seem at odds.

If scam artists and criminals can obfuscate their transactions sufficiently to avoid being tracked down, I’m confident any half-competent government could do the same for its black budget spending.
Does this apply for other fields too?
> It’s not about stack ranking students against each other.

It's not, but it sort of has that effect, albeit indirectly, and definitely unfairly.
>In the magical, post-capitalist utopia

Every question about that is irrelevant and monumentally disinteresting. People define their utopia as whatever society doesn't have the problems they imagine, arguing against that is like arguing about how magic works in a fantasy novel with the author of said world. All discussion is completely fictional and if you discover anything which doesn't fit it is immediately rectified in the other persons head.

In fact the question you propose are stupid and boring. Who cares about the utopia? It is as boring as a question can possibly be, which is also why talking to "anti-capitalists" is so annoying, you are arguing against their fantasy world. Whatever objection you can have is disregarded. In Utopia problems don't exist, so whatever objection you have against the utopia is invalid by definition. "Anti-capitalists" are the most boring people in the world.

>People make bikes on an amateur basis, but would people addict children on an amateur basis?

In utopia bad things do not happen. So of course all children live protected in infinite joy. That is why you need to support my extremely radical and extremely specific political position, else you support everything bad in the world which is currently caused by anything, since everything is capitalism.
Everyone will become skilled technicians
Plus, he only visits the office every other month. That’s not commuting.
What boot camp brings that isn't taught ad nausea in good online courses? Discipline?

I went through full IT-focused university, and added value from those times to my actual work is nearly 0, most of what I learned that I use I myself forced upon university via semester projects.

Campus life was fun, and probably biggest added value from those wild times. But I've spend maybe 70 USD/month on all university study-related costs together back then (study itself was for free so I mean campus, food, traveling... one of very few benefits of coming from former eastern block in Europe).

Getting into massive debt for studies when you can get everything online (and much more if you really have focus & discipline) ain't smart. It will get you a better CV, in some employer's eyes (nothing SV cares about from what I've heard, unless we talk about at least PhD in related fields). Law or medical degrees are a different beast of course, thats a walled garden and its not changing anytime soon.
Very unique and intelligent approach.
Very small but arguably 10x-100x more numerous, so it's not negligible. Especially once you start accounting for the spread of LED lighting.
Thank you for the kind words, Alex! Stories like these make me wish I could watch more people playing it
horseshoe theory. D+R are not so different. D in US is more right than other countries' left leaning parties
Who gets naming rights in these cases? If I find a fossil, but some other scientist classifies it, do I still get rights to name it? Is there a legal framework around this, or is it just whoever has the biggest ego wins?
Ironically you're just making the point of the post you're replying to.
I agree. The first time you try to make a new type of thing, it takes a lot of trial and error to understand the domain and get things working. But once you’ve done that and understood the domain, you can usually do much much better with a second greenfield attempt, completely from scratch.
Same feelings here. I think we are living in a grifters economy. Grifters and bullshiters are getting everything on a silver platter
What is being discussed here is the 12 note equal temperament which has only been a standard since the 18th century in western countries. To say something is in or out of tune is in reference to that scale which we now consider to be fundamental to all music. It isn't.
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Related write-ups below along with comparison of performance of different approaches. BMI2 instruction set based method seems to be the fastest of the lot.

1. https://www.forceflow.be/2013/10/07/morton-encodingdecoding-...

2. https://www.forceflow.be/2016/01/18/libmorton-a-library-for-...

3. https://github.com/Forceflow/libmorton

I used it to accelerate nearest neighbor detection for collision processing in particle-laden flow for modeling complicated domains in 3d (for biological fluids simulation). I was using it as a locality sensitive hashing to put particles near each other in the same bucket in an hash map. I came across the ideas of BIGMIN (big minimum) and LITMAX (little maximum) for range search in a morton encoded data that I found to be cool.
Because it gives them more power, and nobody cares to organize or do anything about it in terms of voting out said politicians.
Thanks for the feedback! Yea it should definitely not feel like a time consuming chore and more like a tool that makes you more productive. I'll have a think about it.
Everything dies, dying in nature is never free of suffering for these animals.
I just wish I had known that o-chem gets easier if you start first thing in the morning.
BMW south carolina?
These feel like a technology that should be approached like mines, in that a breakdown in military capability or will conceivably leaves untold numbers of these roaming the depths (or sinking and disrupting habitats) without anyone knowing where they are or what they could do if you came into contact with one. It would be a not-good thing to turn the entire ocean into a Zone Rouge.
NT 4.0 was solid and felt fast! The UI was so snappy. You could just leave it running and never reboot -- it almost became a geek humble brag to do so. For those too young to remember, one of Windows 98's marketed features was the ability to use ACPI to turn off your computer without you having to press a physical power button! It was just expected the device would need to be turned off.

Windows 2000 was great too, which PC enthusiasts at the time realized was essentially "NT 5.0 but can play games because it has (official) DirectX". It's amazing how there's so little nostalgia for these two OSes. I watch some retro PC YouTubers and most haven't ever covered them. There's so much nostalgia for Windows XP. But among enthusiasts, the first impressions were that it ran slower than Windows 2000 and looked like a Fisher Price toy. I think a lot of PC enthusiasts hung onto these two OSes, as you point out, until they eventually relented and used Windows XP around the time of Service Pack 2's release.

I ran LiteStep (http://litestep.net) on NT 4.0 at one point in my teens, completely unaware that Apple would eventually make a NeXT-style operating system something I'd use as a daily driver.
I'm not sure exam grades at the university level are really the place to get useful feedback beyond grades.
You forgot to mention (Web)Workers. This is explicit creation, management, and communication with additional threads within JavaScript. What's more, they've been around in JavaScript longer than the V8 engine has even existed!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

https://caniuse.com/?search=webworkers
>Not to trivialise his achievement, but I'd be willing to wager any moderately competent systems programmer, if given 10+ years and no other commitments (work or family) could write a programming language, compiler, and real mode operating system for an x86_64 system.

But could they do it while suffering from severe psychosis and believing that they were being hunted by bioluminescent CIA operatives?
but then is JHWH ok?
They're ultimately the same, the partisanship is mostly a farce as they both know that they're the only realistic options, so as long as neither side goes out of its way to seriously be better than the other, they can both enjoy the perks of being in power eventually, and therefore increased power is always good from their pov as regardless of party, they'll eventually have access to that power too.
From watching playtests, I think it can induce some real social stress. But I think the controlled environment and ability to take breaks helps mitigate it. It may actually be decent practice. Please let me know how it goes if you try it!

My NLP background left me on a hilariously level playing field with everyone else to basically become a prompt engineer for a while ;)
Nobody walked out of Phantom Menace hating it. We have the second movie and then a snarky YouTube video where a man talks funny to blame for that. And people younger than us think they’re all great.
Yes if the people are not there to hold leaders accountable in a democracy, bad things like this will continue to happen
Likewise, our own "western" sense of tuning has changed over the centuries.

I attended a baroque music performance, and the viola da gamba player had double frets on some notes. I asked him what's up with that, and he played some chords in different keys. It had to do with the instruments being tuned in non-equal temperament.
Probably an irrigation pump that needs to move water uphill. Water is heavy.
Cars pretty much all do this now.
I’ve seen it in random things that are expensive but with a random low-tech component thrown in to power some peripheral feature (i.e. appliances). Not in tech stuff where better and cheaper options abound.
I have a hard time agreeing that exceptions (as they exist in kotlin, unchecked) are superior. There is no way to communicate (outside of docs) to callers that a function is possibly unsafe and that they should handle it.

Good callout on the stdlib `Result`, a lot of people aren't aware of the `CancellationException` issue. Another pain point is that the error is constrained to `Throwable`, which is rather obtuse for general business logic (and you're likely generating stack traces needlessly unless you disable `writableStackTrace` on your custom throwables).

I'm a fan of https://github.com/michaelbull/kotlin-result which has a fantastic API and supports monad comprehension which helps avoid the "arrowheads" from not having a built in operator.
Moving home as in moving home, not moving back home
It’s hard for me to understand the arc seconds and degrees. Is there some kind of illustration available that shows the transmission from earth as a megaphone cone expanding out into to space?
You are correct, here is a better statistic: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EVACANTUSQ176N