skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I theorize it's the wage gap. Why bust your ass for a company that makes millions or more, when the wage you get as an employee will not even allow you to buy a roof over your head?

Real estate is bought in bulk by the same people that rake in the big bucks in those companies as well. And rented out to people that can't afford to buy a house for premium profit.

The same is happening online: companies are using the collective intelligence of everyone to train models to sell back to those same people for profit.

We're getting screwed at both ends

For the first time in a long while a generation is worse off than their parents.
Food, housing, health, clean air and water. Every basic need from the bottom of Maslow's pyramid is currently under scrutiny.
< Nothing wrong with making models that behave how you want them to behave. It's yours and that's your right.

This is the issue. You as the creator have the right to apply behavior as you see fit. The problem starts when you want your behavior to be the only acceptable behavior. Personally, I fear the future where format command is bound to respond 'I don't think I can let you do that Dave'. I can't say I don't fear people who are so quick to impose their values upon others with such glee and fervor. It is scary. Much more scary than LLMs protecting me from wrongthink and bad words.
Each round carves out 10+% for employee options, on top of 10-30+% to investors (Seed can be anywhere from 10-30%, Series A is typically 20% to just the lead, Series B 10%+).

Equity ownership and voting control are also different things. After the B you commonly have 2 investors and an independent director on the board, alongside 1-2 founders.
Why would you feel guilty for a company who can cut your position at any time?
> this time around "the West" is a de-industrialized society

American manufacturing is at an all-time high [1]. Are you conflating manufacturing employment with power?

> if China stops selling tiny electric motors the drone warfare will be lost as the west can't produce this stuff

Uh, I’m fairly deep into drone manufacturing in America. This is multi-level nonsense.

One: you’re confusing quadcopters with military drones, whose motors aren’t tiny and often aren’t motors but turbofans.

Two: we produce lots of electric motors and turbofans. In the case of the former, not at China’s scale, though far more autonomously (and thus easier to scale up if needed). In the case of the latter, far better and similarly quickly after adjusting for effective yield.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO/
this has very little impact on the strength of the dollar. if anything, it's a better signal of Russia's economic weakness (in the face of sanctions) than a power shift in favor of the Yuan.

forgoing foreign bases and limiting the US military presence to domestic only is such a ludicrous take that I'm willing to bet would have you laughed out of any room discussing defense.
True but they are far from running out of this stuff(soldiers of any kind with any equipment) before the west. Russians have criminal level of tolerance for lost lives.
> do remember it being pretty hard to install then.

It has always been easier than windows, which has never stopped the millions of people who used to format their drive and reinstall every few years after suffering from slowdowns.
How are you getting around Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3 license restrictions? If I recall, it explicitly forbids providing access to the model through your own service / API. [1]

> You may not use the Software Products or Derivative Works to enable third parties to use the Software Products or Derivative Works as part of your hosted service or via your APIs

This is something we think about a lot on the open-sourced AI Horde distributed network -- we can't host this model due to these restrictions. [2]

[1] https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-medium...

[2] https://aihorde.net/
Oops, I fat-fingered a URL for serotonin and ended up with a sleeping pill instead:

https://pillser.com/supplements/merotonin

I am surprised that more websites do not implement this!
I hope you are not involved in anything at all, as you look to be a fairly toxic person to be around who will put others down at all costs.

Also, like I said, you have no idea of the emphasis I place on safety when the situation and funding merit it.
Well, Judge Brown was certainly in a fine mood that day.

It appears as if the plaintiff did examine other ice cream brands and concluded that they do contain pistachios, so consumers have a right to expect that. That at least lets the suit go forward, though it's not clear if it's winnable.

There is standard language around this, though, at least when you sell something in packages. If it's only "flavored" you'd have to say "pistachio flavored", or even "pistachio flavored with other natural flavors". Cold Stone really should have a compliance officer who knows that. I don't know how it applies to a restaurant menu, though.
Because majority of Russian exports are gas, oil and raw materials and they sell them for USD and EUR. Also because huge percent of Russia income in 2022 and 2023 come from EU buying russian gas and raw materials.

Also because Russia already had $50 billion stuck in Indian Rupee they cannot use. So they now use CNY of course, but even now a lot of exports still gonna be sold for USD.
>High iron levels are almost never caused by exogenous excess iron

One of the exceptions is using steel cookware:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_iron_overload

Iron absorption is tightly regulated, but can't be totally stopped, and the body has no way to excrete excess iron outside of the rather slow cycle of blood formation and destruction
As I understand it, the Intel 386 had it and would run Windows NT. Making Windows 95 (which required a 386 or better) a separate product was a business decision, not a technical one.

Without doing a bunch of research, it looks like things were more split on the Mac side; some Mac models had fancy MMUs while others didn't until the switch to PowerPC. Classic Mac OS didn't support memory protection, and Apple's quest for a replacement operating system cumulating in the acquisition of NeXT is well known.
"Again?" The author's claim that Kurzweil has been "right" the first time--or is about to be proven right any year now--seems pretty shaky.

> In the age of generative AI, [human-level general intelligence by 2029] seems conventional, if not conservative.

The author thinks I'm hyper-conservative? Counter-proposal: The author is caught up in an industry hype-train which is profitable for journalists covering tech.

The current exuberance over LLMs is interesting in many ways, but that does not fulfill those grandiose predictions of a new cybernetic species.

It's easy for anybody to make a package of interesting and proven predictions... Where the proven predictions are not interesting, and the interesting predictions are not proven.
85% of nuclear reactors are built in under 10 years[1].

It also seems to me that if there were sufficient political willpower that improvements could be made here. It’s a bit like how anti-solar folks complain about the massive cost while ignoring that it is possible to improve costs.

1: http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...
I got a mac app called Graphic off the app store a few years ago and it does everything I need in a vector graphics tool. Illustrator can go get fucked.

I really wish I could get behind inkscape but the UI has never improved enough for me to tolerate it. Graphic just feels much better.

Use Pixelmator Pro for photoshop stuff. I don't do a lot of work in it anymore but it's great for making youtube thumbs and other basic stuff. The photo retouching stuff is nice, stills from my gopro are kinda dark and it does a great job making them look better for web use.
Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
> when it comes to scheduled foreign terrorists, there is no (legal) excuse

Okay, how - as a human being - will you reconcile that with the fact that your employees will be tortured to death if you don't pay?

You could stay legally compliant, or you could save your employees' lives. Most moral people would do the latter.

> If you're operating in Colombia without K&R (or, apparently, basic OpSec), that's on you.

Hindsight is 20/20. You are correct, but this statement is fundamentally unhelpful when the AUC is already at your doorstep.
I don't think anything is going to help here; it's just a message board fixity that companies like Microsoft are unserious about security.
I don't know how you stop it but the reserve currency status of the dollar is doing the US no good. It encourages the worst non-productive kind of behavior and the fact of it will be it's own undoing.
> Russian banks went down en masse

Huh? In what world?

> the Russian narrative

Dont say such things after saying stuff like you just did above. You people live in such a delusional false reality propagated by your establishment that its worse than 2003. Ukraine is 'winning' despite losing, Russia is sinking despite becoming the 4th largest economy and having major increase in real wages, US economy is 'doing fine' even as the number and size of the sunken US banks eclipse 2008.
No, but when people say “Covid causes brain damage“ it’s incorrect. Because of Covid caused brain damage than everyone who caught Covid would have brain damage and they know that’s not the case. So it’s not just Covid that causes brain damage. It’s Covid and something that was wrong with the person who caught Covid.

Personally, and this is my own humble opinion, I think what was wrong with the person was they had low ATP and GTP. If you wanna know more about the science behind it, I’ll be glad to explain it.

This is important because this is how you cure diseases by making these distinctions.
I think an engaging workplace is hard to cultivate. You have to be working on hard stuff and the people working toward it need real stakes in the game. That's not easy to find these days. If you do want this I think you'd be able to find it in AI companies that are _actually_ pushing the envelope (not most of them).

But honestly, I think it's better to find meaning outside of work. Work on something hard outside of work, or just find a few hobbies that make you happy. I'm not even 30 and I already personally feel the "grind mindset" leaving me as I find the things I thought were most important a decade ago don't matter so much any more e.g. lots of money and climbing the corporate ladder.
> when the wage you get as an employee will not even allow you to buy a roof over your head?

is this actually an issue for tech workers? I don't know a single person in tech that can't afford a home within 30min of the city center.
> Regardless. Nuclear is dead.

Whenever I hear nuclear is dead "clean/green energy shill" is the word that comes to mind.

If the world mostly the US and other developed countries had committed to nuclear the way the French did after the oil shock of the 70s would we be facing that much "global warming" today?

You have the Western countries complaining that it takes 15-30 years for a nuclear power station to come online when the Koreans and the Japanese have it down to 5 years. Why the difference?
When there is no hope, operating model follows. There are various costs to convince someone to care (economic, org culture, etc). People have stopped caring for good reason: value prop decline.

No one is going to hustle for a meh deal, unless they’re naive or unsophisticated.
No as the page's URL is still not the real login URL. The shown address bar is just a fake with styled website content if I understood it correctly. Really smart!
I've done the same with https://github.com/42wim/ssh-agentx/
Originally used to sign git commits with pgp in the sshagent, before ssh git commit signing was a thing.

Nowadays, I'm using it for signing code remotely on a server with a yubikey on the local laptop. (needs a patched relic - https://github.com/42wim/relic/tree/sshtoken)

Also works with windows as it uses https://github.com/buptczq/WinCryptSSHAgent that did the hard work to get it to talk with almost everything that exists in windows/wsl/putty etc.
This has already been happening.

See the Zhenbao island dispute, a Chinese land grab with changes up to 2008: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
With WFH, you get social reward from people who aren’t forced to be there with you, from the sources parent comment mentioned. Conversely, many don’t find that forced socialization you advocate for remotely rewarding and have to suffer through it for the minority that do like it.

Again - a majorly depressing blind spot for the RTO crowd, or the RTO crowd devalues/dislikes their families and communities I guess?

Edit - touched the usual nerve, but it’s the truth and I’ll leave it at this: Work involves people, but not forced friendships and community, in the same way leadership involves people but not friendship. People who expand past that at work tend to get burned and used by management, and have the blindspots I note, IME. People who instead expand into their families and communities don’t. And yes, you can build these community social bonds without slacking at work either. Such a false equivalency.
> How isn't "the West" shooting themselves in the feet with these sanctions when Russia is able to get the war stuff through Turkey/Kyrgyzstan etc when not able to buy and sell civilians stuff?

what damage do you really think this does to "the West"? the lack of access to cheap Russian energy is the only thing I can think of, and that's a dependency better resolved now than punted to the future. had Europe never grown dependent on it, we might have entirely prevented the current situation to transpire
I have always felt uneasy about that too. I think it’s because the next (and final) panel looks exactly like the first. It’s the implication that you’ll have to do something so over the top as getting up, raising your arms, and shouting a brand name, then resuming what you were doing as it that were completely normal.
In a lot of US cities, freeways/state highways are where a lot of commercial, retail, and entertainment destinations exist. The first homes usually aren't that far away either, and a lot of apartment complexes are built directly on state highways.
Supreme Court rules California man can't trademark 'Trump too small'
To the other great nominations, I would add:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
They raised 100m, spent it all, and gave away their product for free with no monetization plan. They're also hated by most "creative" workers, are being sued by a myriad of parties, and are under government scrutiny in a number of jurisdictions for enabling political deep fakes and non-consentual pornography. There's a reason why they're trying to save face lol.
For me it’s not only the internet. Add climate change and the world wide shift to the right. It feels like everything is going to shit and nothing changes…
this. if we had mostly benevolent employers, we would not need unions.
> Probably not much to worry about

You will find whole history books about that.
> I consistently wear one in shops, especially shopping centres.

...I don't know how I feel about this, honestly. I respect everyone's right to be as cautious how they want in their life and dress how they choose but after 4+ years I think those who haven't returned to not wearing masks 24/7 outside the home are being a little, uh -- I guess a word for it would be over-dramatic.
It’s important because in these distinctions, we find what causes disease. For example schizophrenics are less likely to get lung cancer, even though they smoke much more than the average population.

Smoking does not cause lung cancer. Smoking raises the risk of lung cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951592/#:~:tex...).
The comment about context is spot on; linguists call the mentioned phenomenon "associative meaning" after Leech (1981: 18).

The OP uses the Italian fascism symbol. Hitler's appropriation of the symbol for the sun - taken from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism (and apparently in some places in Africa, too) - can also be used to explain it: it has forever changed the _associative meaning_ of it - and now the symbol (legally banned in Germany outside of historic educational/research context) evokes images not of sun workship, but of the worst evils committed by mankind: gas chambers with scratch marks of human fingernail, human skin turned into lamp shades and piles of starved bodies, tens of millions dead one way or another (holocaust and WWII).
That history leaves a sad, repulsive, shocking and painful memory imprinted on one's brain (assuming one has some empathy and conscience), and seeing the symbol in the 19th century would be quite difference in comparison; this memory association cannot be "un-thought" (and as moral obligation, shouldn't!).

On a related note, looking at the European elections, it is shameful and beyond believe that some want to turn back the clock (actual fascists) or to protest-vote like the folks did in the 1930s (coward followers).

Leech, Geoffrey N. (1981) _Semantics: The Study of Meaning_ (2nd ed.), London: Penguin).
> There’s an argument to be made that Hollywood is the best propaganda machine in the world at fostering putative or aspirational American ideals if not the reality on the ground

Indeed. The circulation of video tapes in the early to late 80s USSR, US movies et al, seem to have created a major false perception: People thought that Americans lived like how the rich in Manhattan live. Even in the late 2000s, there were Russian journalists (local) who did not believe that there were homeless in New York, for example.
Possible. But more than likely they will meet in the middle and ARM will get something and QCOM will get something. But no where near what either is asking. But qcom does have a stronger position.
> https://pillser.com/engineering/yeah%20right

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My theory is that the Great Resignation (which was moreso the "Great Job Hop") and the layoffs that followed moved a lot of people from roles that they enjoyed working in to roles that they don't enjoy, and the average happiness across the tech industry has dipped sharply as a result.

I changed companies twice between 2020 and 2024 and I've noticed this at both places. Not only is the average tenure of current employees everywhere much shorter (most of the people in the big tech where I work joined in the last 3 years), everyone works like they're only planning to stay for a short while.
I think I take a stricter definition of "private groups" than simply being "invite-only." Invites are a necessary condition, but not sufficient. To me, private groups are limited to people who already have an established connection offline, or otherwise might just be separated by one mutual connection. You need to actually know someone in the group to join, and required shared social understanding greatly reduces the risk of shenanigans otherwise common in the public internet.
Inertia with group chats is surprisingly strong. Following some iOS bug that was causing an MMS group chat to break down, I ran a poll to figure out which platform to move the conversation to. Even though Discord won, no one was using it. Turns out that the iOS users had instead spun up an iMessage chat and were just using that :(

And yes, iMessage was an option in the poll (it came in fourth out of six).
I once spent 25 minutes having coffee with the CIA director (just the two of us) and once Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird slapped me on the back after I gave a presentation, giving me effectively an ‘atta-boy’. I was just a computer programmer, but I did OK.

My friend, times change, and we need to re-evaluate the world situation, and what is in our best interests. Someone in this thread mentioned England’s reach of power. I am not an expert on history but I think England did a fairly good job of disengaging from being the world’s hegemony. It seems like we need to calculate our own exit strategy sometime, and hopefully several years from now.
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Rotting is a lot easier to spot than structural failures and cracks slowly building inside concrete walls. Wood beams can be repaired more easily and individually than concrete if they do rot. Finally, modern woods are less prone to rotting due to treatment.
Geothermal is not sexy. It's incredibly boring.

I personally also think we should put a lot more effort into geothermal. Yet I've watched two orders of magnitude more videos on nuclear fission and fusions on YouTube. "Just drill deep and do it fast and cheap" is not as interesting as "if we can just melt and contain molten salts and diffuse the nuclear fuel into that salt we can do fission really efficiently and safely and here's a 100 interesting engineering challenges related to that".
They shouldn’t be managers if they are unable to manage for these reasons. Either they are not suited to management, not properly trained, or the organization is not set up to support management. They should not have a manager title if they aren’t prepared to sometimes have uncomfortable conversions with people.
EBV is liked to many other diseases. To quote wikipedia:

"EBV has also been implicated in several other diseases, including Burkitt's lymphoma,[58] hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis,[59] Hodgkin's lymphoma,[60] stomach cancer,[12][61] nasopharyngeal carcinoma,[62] multiple sclerosis,[15][16][63][17] and lymphomatoid granulomatosis.[64]"

Burkitt's lymphoma is an oddball cancer in which growth is so fast treatment should begin almost immediately.
The idea that AI isn't magic works if you define "magic" as meaning "unlimited in ability and no-one understands how it works".

I wrote a bit about this a while back: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/5/spell-casting/#harmful-...
It’s a joke, the author’s account is essentially a string of ideas like this. Most are more ridiculous than this.
And you think that a driver commands their Tesla to run into an object when they enable autopilot or FSD?
Crying shame, I would have liked to have known you in another life
I had similar experience on Telegram where groups that grew in size plummeted in quality.

I just came up with the following concept reading your comment: a slowmode, so that people can write once every x minutes, but others who are mostly read-only can give 'points' to those writing messages in the moment to bypass slowmode, basically they are voting for quality discussions to continue.
Yes. Also OKRs existed long before Google and Facebook ever existed.

Just because Google and Facebook didn't use them correctly doesn't mean they don't work. :-)

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results
Everyone who said, "Yeah, I like computers and stuff," took a Python bootcamp and expected a $500k total compensation package after just three months. The quality of people in tech has become absolutely terrible. Many lack domain knowledge, and those who have it are frustrated, stuck fixing problems without getting recognition or finding any enjoyment like they used to. Every resume seems to belong to someone who just wants to be in tech, regardless of what they did before. It’s all about getting into tech by any means necessary. We now have project managers who can’t even turn on a computer without it catching fire, yet they are managing highly technical projects everywhere.