skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Information that come from authoritarian regimes have no value. China is wasting its time on research that has no merit outside China.

This just shows that you do not read recent research papers.

On all the Internet forums, there are a lot of postings from naive Americans who claim that the Chinese are not creative and they only copy the results of research from USA or other countries.

All these people are completely delusional and it is extremely dangerous to underestimate so much a possible enemy.

While there are plenty of Chinese research papers that are just garbage, that is also true for many research papers published by US organizations. However, in the last two-three years, I have seen a far greater number of original and creative research papers coming from China, than from USA.

In general, nowadays the research teams from USA seem much more unwilling to take risks than the Chinese, i.e. to try research directions that seem unlikely to produce successful results, even if a few of those directions may produce far greater advances than the incremental advances of the less risky directions.

For example, it is enough to look at the research papers that I have seen this morning and I see a paper like "A microsized optical spectrometer based on an organic photodetector with an electrically tunable spectral response", published by a Chinese team, which has a very innovative way of making a spectrometer, using a single photodetector whose spectral response can be tuned by a voltage, instead of the much larger kinds of spectrometers that could be made until now, which had to use either a very large number of photodetectors or some big optical components that had to be moved by motors.

I see such examples almost every week. While the US research continues to produce small improvements continuously, at a decent rate, there has passed a very long time since I have last seen any US research result that has impressed me as being something novel and unexpected.
Thanks. I will definitely try that out.
Consider ML appropriating the term tensor...
I really miss long form marketing.
I don't love the game of "someone posted a random article with some numbers that they found from a 5 minute Google search, but now I have to do the much harder & longer work of verifying if it's legitimate or misleading"
Offering jobs in areas with laxer worker protections is arguably exploitative because in most or all of america this sort of work comes with counseling, due to the horrific nature of some of the content to be moderated. I don't know offhand of OpenAI ensured this was available; if not, that's a substantial financial savings at a cost of human suffering, which fits some folks' definition of exploitation.
Well at least it gave many of us the opportunity to practice asking 'in simple terms whats the core value of your proposition?'
I think it is because people consuming social value without adding to it leads to division and fracturing of that society.

More simply, value production is needed because value consumption is occurring.
How does it dilute the value of the content? Dilution occurs when you add more meh-level content to your pool of content. These studios are trying to produce very high-prestige content like Rings of Power (which flopped) or Game of Thrones / House of Dragons, which increases signal.
Also useEffect callback is run after the component mounts. I often use memo when kicking off async processes on component mount.
Even outside the salary negotiations, it’s astounding to me how many companies are calling for RTO just to have people go to the office and sit on zoom meetings — because the company has several offices.

I’m actually ok with RTO, but I’m not going to do it when there are no actual upsides because it’s only some days and the team is spread across the globe.
The poverty line for a family of 4 in San Francisco was $149k in 2023.

I live in a MCOL city with all the modern amenities and on $150k can be a comfortably upper-middle class sole income earner, buy the average house, and send 2 kids to private school if needed.

A 2-3x pay differential is a fairly accurate COL difference for a family moving to NY or SF, maybe even on the low end if comparing to a rural area.
> honest/transparent online travel agents such as Google Flights

Disingenuous at best. Google Flights is not a Ryanair agent.
> so a 19yr old with no accomplishments to his name can raise 50mil for his startup and get 4% stake in stripe for 15k ?

Seems so. That's the story and I haven't seen an alternate explanation, let alone a convincing one.

> All because he is 'good at people' ? Do you find your explanation satisfying, i don't. defies any common sense .

Yes, I stand by what I said. Soft skills make the world go round. Some people are naturally very exceptional with soft skills. What's your explanation?

> Not sure why you think this is 'bad faith'.

Because your negative opinion of Altman is clear in your original question:

- "couldn't find a single tangible accomplishment of his"

- "elevated him into stratosphere with vacuous, and honestly very ridiculous, praises"

- "Whole thing is really bizzare (and creepy) to me"

> i really want to know and gain insight into how these ppl operate.

Then you should approach it with an open mind. You seem to already have drawn conclusions to the very question you are asking. You don't need to have an opinion about everything.
Free tool to review Churn Rate
If the maintainer is reading, having a demo video would be nice.
probably 'a properly implemented one' would be using combinational logic that can calculate popcnt in a single cycle, or maybe a two-cycle pipelined implementation, which is not the same thing as a microcoded popcnt

here's a simple combinational 8-bit popcnt circuit i just simulated, just using ripple carry. unfortunately i think falstad's circuit.js doesn't have a way to simulate propagation delays; i think the point where you start wanting lookahead carry instead of ripple carry is when you're doing a 16-bit popcnt, because a 64-bit ripple-carry popcnt would have three more full adders of propagation delay over this one

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html?ctz=CQAgjCAMB...

if you have a lot of popcnts to do, you can productively bitslice them so they're fast even without hardware support
In the form of Plutonium? Perhaps.

In the form of U-238? Perhaps too, but look near enrichment plants and you will see yards full of steel cylinders filled with depleted Uranium hexafluoride.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2635448,-2.9592278,327m/da...

So the spent fuel does not contain valuable energy. Better off removing the requirement to be able to retrieve it and just get on with disposing of it.
I would also agree that the impact of AI, even in the best case scenario, will play out over years because it will take time to integrate even perfect AI into our processes. A world running on COBOL is not going to spin on a dime and run on AI, and I don't mean that sarcastically at all. That the world still runs on COBOL is an important data point in how quickly we can move things.

In fact I consider this rather obvious and borderline self-evident to a careful thinker.

However, the AI stocks are priced as if they are going to reap all the benefits, if not today, then perhaps even about a month or two ago. They are priced as if the current incumbents are the inevitable inheritors of all the promises, because the AI world is going to move so quickly to reap all this supposed value that there isn't even time for other companies to move in and displace nVidia. They are priced as if that productivity curve has already started to shoot up and it's just the beginning.

If the curve isn't even budging, then the AI world is going to need to be seriously, seriously repriced. If AI is going to change the world, but in five years rather than five months, and gradually rather than all at once, then the time value of money implies that the value to be captured in today-dollars is much, much smaller. In five years, nVidia's AI may be getting stomped by a startup that hasn't even been founded yet; I'd give it low odds, but meaningfully non-zero odds.

Whether I'm an "AI skeptic", I don't know. But I absolutely am an AI bubble skeptic. I haven't seen any evidence that the value creation is emerging at anything like the rate the bubble pricing implies. It'll probably arrive, but a lot more gradually than the market is currently believing.
That was my second point, the political environment does nothing to convey why people should have children
Mixed bag for me. My office is pretty decent but we have a bigger office than we currently need.

My last job, at the office it was so loud (no dedicated conference rooms) that I was better off being at home, but unfortunately they also had zero respect for calendars, so getting in touch with people was... pretty much horrible no matter what way. In-office was less bad.

I had offices with desks so small and shitty I just wished for working from home at a normal desk. I once had a boss that saw my desk and started complaining to HR that it was too big, and if we can split this desk into 2 to save on office space.

TL;DR - works sucks. It sucks more when management can't get their shit together.
I don't think meaningless is the right word. It would be deeply meaningful for a woman to know if a company is inclusive to her needs, for someone of color to know if a company isn't racist, etc.

The information is sensitive and damages companies reputation who are explicitly not on the list. Except maybe, these days, if a company wants to be known for its non-wokeness or such nonsense. Maybe one of Musk companies?

However, I do think this is an opportunity for sites like glassdoor.
1-2% of having permanent pain between my legs sounds like an ENORMOUS amount
> My point being, Murphy predicts that if there is an asteroid strike, it will hit a nuclear waste repository - and render mankind extinct.

Depleted uranium is not explosive: You will not have an explosion like a nuclear bomb.

A nuclear engineer can probably explain this better.

My understanding is that depleted uranium is a highly toxic substance, so we wouldn't want it to leech into soil / groundwater. I also doubt meltdowns are a substantial risk because the fuel pellets would have to fall / land in a way that they are concentrated together.

Funny anecdote: Two years ago I took my family on vacation, and I happened to be near a pumped hydro storage plant that was built to balance an early reactor. I couldn't find it, and when I turned around, I looked out the windshield, and across the river was a bunch of nuclear waste in dry storage: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yankee+Atomic+Electric+Co/...

I wouldn't have even known what it was if I hadn't gone looking for it on Google Maps a few years prior.

Getting back to the point, if an asteroid hit the dry storage that I mapped above, I doubt there would be an explosion. The Deerfield river would probably become very toxic, but I wouldn't call it an extension event.
Yes, many business ideas I see are of the type "That would be a great idea if you could make it work, but given how much easier it is to fool people into thinking you have made it work, than to actually make it work, the odds aren't good".

And if you're a rich investor willing to bet on a lot of such things hoping to make it back on of the few that work, well, you just made that ratio even more lopsided.
I don't find that stimulants in general have enough differences to draw a line, not that I've tried all of them but many. Maybe Ritalin is different? I've seen plenty of people hooked to different kinds of stimulants though.

Look, we're experimenting on children who can't sit still long enough by giving them pretty serious drugs, for profit. We're still waiting on the long term consequences from that game.
His rendition of Beowulf is frankly incredible.
Thanks for posting that. This post had nothing to do with Satya nor did he or anyone aside from myself and a couple other team mates see it before posting.
This is what I call Blind Faith in the Free Market.

First, there's no such thing as a "free" market. Any robust market requires strong regulation and thus a strong government. So for a labor market, you need things like workers rights for the entire thing to work, even for the companies.

Second, companies collude to dilute labor power. Years ago in tech it was the Steve Jobs anti-poaching collusion case [1]. Now, every company is in permanent layoff mode. Notice how pretty much every company decided to start doing that at about the same time? You ever wonder why?

Tech companies have basically adopted the Corporate America model of "up or out" culture. It's incredibly toxic. It even goes against Google's findings that the most important aspect to team productivity is psychological safety [2].

Lastly, it has long been observed that the tendency is for profits to decrease over time [3]. The only way to counter this is by cutting costs, raising prices or growing a market. The last one is incredibly difficult. The first two are incredibly easy, at least in the short term.

It is cheaper to constantly churn 5% of your employees if that suppresses the cost of the other 95%.

[1]: https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/silicon-valley-p...

[2]: https://archive.is/AFU9o

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
PicArrange 3.0: Text based image search for Mac
tldr: their crew tracking system was disrupted which has caused cascading problems, similar to what happened to southwest last year
Several years ago Twilio wasn't so bad. It always had pretty antiquated API practices and felt clunky but it worked.

Nowadays, it's expensive and contains a ton of hoops to jump through for business and a2p verification. They charge you for many things (monthly for a number, for verification, every submission for a2p and re-submission if they reject it for whatever reason). I tried to contact support and they wanted me to upgrade to a support plan to even ask a question.

If I don't find a simpler solution I'll remove transactional SMS messages entirely from my application. I'd rather remove it than deal with Twilio.
> The UBI folks were cursed by the pandemic and inflation. You cannot deal with that confounder.

The study had a control group, who also experienced pandemic & inflation.
The comment I replied to mentioned using the shift key to covertly transmit morse code.
The equipment is sexier than the tablecloth. My favorite item is the Anti-Griddle.

https://sagepolyscience.com/products/anti-griddle-flash-free...
> fish out all emails complaining about, say, slow shipping, even if they don't use that exact phrase.

isn't that just vectorized or "semantic" searching though?
And the lack of housing is entirely self-inflicted by locals in most US cities. There's no shadowy conspiracy; people have just spent decades opposing even the most basic new construction.
> My problem is that I quite like working with other people. It’s really hard to build relationships with other human beings when not in the same physical location- sharing jokes, lunches, walks and just shouting across the room about the weird code change

I am a remote worker, and I quite like working with other people, too, which is why I do it. Walking and shouting don't really factor into it, but we do share plenty of jokes.

That is why I totally understand and agree with all of what you said, except for the part where you're shouting in a room, especially one in which others are trying to work, or worse, speak in an online meeting from their desk with shouting in the background. That seems pretty disruptive and inappropriate when you could just walk over, or better yet, send a message. To me, that behavior is tantamount to asserting that what you have to say is more important than everything everyone else is doing. If there's a fire, maybe it is.

To be sure, my coworkers and I are friends, but I have many more outside of work, and deeper friendships besides. Are you describing your conditions for amicably and effectively working with coworkers, or are you describing your conditions for making coworkers into your friends? Sometimes folks desire deeper work friendships as a substitute for friendships outside of work.
Yeah it's easy for younger people to forget that those that grew up the 70s/80s/90s were largely unsupervised most of the day once they got to grade school. Almost all kids I knew had no child care by grade 2. I was in a after school program until grade 3 and was teased how I was still a baby.

I would be miles away from home doing whatever and nobody would know. Now parents freak out if their kids leave their sight for more than a few seconds.

One thing that is really interesting is that many of the "free range" children don't follow that same parenting technique even though things are as safe or safer than when I was a child. I think this is mostly from the media putting fear into them that their children are going to be abducted.

I really feel for kids now in the US. How they grow up I would not really consider a childhood. It's just preparation to sit in an office all day until they die of old age.
I personally think this will be one of the biggest "what the hell were we thinking" ideas to come out of the still-developing hangover of the 2013-2023 startup space. From my perspective, the once-startups that are now big companies are the ones who focused ONLY on solving a real and immediate problem with happy, motivated employees. Every industry has inefficiencies to improve upon. Most employees want normal hours, a 401K, some benefits, and clear performance reviews. There's still a ton of work to do at cool-but-not-the-absolute-cutting-edge startups.
Macanudos are not bad at all, pretty unique flavor too... But yeah, Cubans are unbeatable... I'm somewhat addicted to Romeo y Julieta Cedros Deluxe n3
Simple scraping is one thing. Scraping to resell in breach of agreed terms is quite another.
In 2048, the fastest human on the planet will be a quadrupedal galloping man

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928019/
>> "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."

He's saying they're of inferior "reasoning" (but equal in memory). That's hardly saying they're not intelligent or recognising them as not intelligent.

I don't think you will find anyone saying what you think someone's saying. "Not intelligent" is indeed a rock or a piece of wood. "Inferior" is a different concept.

"Inferior", "sub-human", "feeble-minded", sure, people keep saying things like that for other humans. But, "not intelligent" in the sense of "can't use language", "can't use tools", "can't tie own shoelaces", that would be very hard to maintain in the face of very easy to make observations. Which, you know, is exactly my point.

Are you using "intelligent" to mean "very smart" or something similar? That's not what I'm saying. I'm really just pointing to the difference between 0 intelligence, like a rock, and undeniable intelligence, like a 5-year old child.
As it pertains to food and drink I don’t agree with or understand repeatedly trying something I don’t like. It’s good that you find that it works for you but it doesn’t for me. Cabbage makes me vomit. I don’t like it and will never again knowingly try it. Once was enough.
Not in my experience, but YMMV
> DOE paying US $10.6 billion to cover utilities’ storage costs.

It is crazy that massive amounts of taxpayer money
is spent on subsidizing nuclear power.

If you are generating waste, you can't get rid of them
then stop producing it.

Will factories soon get huge subsidies if they refuse
to handle toxic and dangerous waste that is expensive
to dispose of?

The federal gourmet should create huge places
to store all toxic and dangerous waste.
Microsoft uses a Windows derived host OS running Hyper-V for the VMs.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...
Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind
> I actively hate startups

Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups?

Also, is it really fair to apply such a strong statement to all startups? Look at your screen and the browser you're using, the user interface concepts, the computer itself. Where do you think those came from?
Cute that you think a person can just move house when they get a new job.
This is a setting, you can change it to any other date format you want.
the number of bad bathroom hygiene at my current workplace makes me very glad to be living right across the street where i can go use the facilities whenever i please in the peace and quiet of my own bathroom.

underrated perk for sure!
> Most startup founders are genuinely trying to build something that has value to the economy, and therefore society.

there is an unlabeled selection bias missing here, and in that bias we find everything
>>> manual reviews, paying for verification and paying for every re-submission is not okay

If you are referring to senderID registration (or 10DLC in the US), then things are getting really complicated thanks to the increase in smishing and the government regulations trying to stop it. In many countries, there is a significant amount of paperwork - and sometime fees - to do to allow your traffic to flow. Along with this, SMS margins have been really tight in the last 4-5 years (think 2%-3%), so these companies need to charge you for this paperwork and many times the rejections are not coming from them, but from the telco regulatory authority in a given country.

source: running a SMS service for the last 20 years.
The best way to do a completely unbiased focus group is to come up with an MVP and try to sell it to them. There's no more honest endorsement than someone handing you money to solve their problem.

If they buy, you're on the right track and are ready to scale up to a larger focus group.

This is called a startup though!
Unfortunately it’s not possible to build roads “with enough capacity” in major cities. Beyond a certain point, the geometry of space does not allow enough capacity to satisfy the needs, because growing the roads by enough to have capacity requires spreading things further apart, which means more traffic must go further, which means more cars on the road, and more lanes means more merging and lane-changing, which slows things down further.
Does it do anything for connective tissue?
Had a friend get forced in to RTO, then was 'let go' less than 6 months later because of 'decline in performance'. He wasn't getting as much done as when he was WFH. All felt very orchestrated to get rid of someone over 50, but.. hey. Yeah, driving 60 miles round trip in rush hour 4 days per week... yeah, you might lose some productivity from a knowledge worker that way. If they were productive before, why rock the boat?

"But everyone needs to collaborate!". In my friend's case, there was no one from his unit in this state - everyone he collaborated with were already 'remote' (mostly CA, and we're in NC, but I think there were some other folks in other states too).
I worked summers in a lab in the 1980s that had Silicon Graphics, Apollo and Sun workstations. The Sun was the easiest to program by far so it got the most use.
What discrimination of men and women?

I think we have to backtrack a bit here, what planet?