skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the browser says English, chances are pretty good that's because the user didn't configure it.

... that's the explanation I've heard, but I agree that it's obnoxious.
> And Apple agreed on the $1,000 price tag for a model that sold to the public for $2,495.

Talk about a savvy deal. And a year before the Mac was released to the public!
>...we found that because people have increasingly been marrying someone more like themselves, that can account for approximately half of the increase in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020. The most important factors contributing to household income inequality are selection on education (35%) and skills (30%), with selection on income (15%) and age (15%) trailing significantly; selection by race (5%) plays a relatively inconsequential role.

>The collective influence of partner selection on household income inequality is substantial, leading to a 14-point increase in the coefficient of variation, or a 3-point increase in the Gini coefficient.
Does o1 need some method to allow it to generate lengthy chains of thought, or does it just do it normally after being trained to do so?

If so, I imagine o1 clones could just be fine tunes of llamas initially.
> But also my larger meta-point is that there's a now near ubiquitous "sour grapes" attitude that's pervaded HN

I’ve recently noticed it everywhere. Not just on HN.
I really enjoyed the book "The Smartest Guys in the Room" about the Enron scandal for two reasons. The first and more obvious was that it was a deeper look into the systemic issues that led to the failures, which meant it was less "they did a fraud" and more about the way culture evolves at a company to the point that they did it.

Perhaps more importantly though, was my takeaway that it mostly wasn't fraud, it was truly innovative accounting that with hindsight was the wrong idea, but if the world worked out just a bit differently, could have led to them winning the market and taking the financial world in a new direction. It's not obvious to me that the fraud timeline is the only one or even the most likely one, we'll never know.

"History is written by the victors" is what comes to mind here. Or in another way, it's survivorship bias. I haven't read the Mr Beast document yet but I can imagine what's in it because my previous company had similar material (although likely far less controversial), and I'd bet many commenters here have similar culture documents, handbooks, mission statements, and so on, which when read out of context or through the lens of a future scandal could appear far more incriminating than otherwise.

We need to get better at distilling what it is in material like this that is a contributor to the success/failure/scandal, and what... just is... doesn't have an impact, or could have been another way. We need to be better at actually learning from these things in a nuanced way.
I'd argue it's more than "that it's free", it's that it's tuned to push our buttons. Specifically, it's designed to engage (e.g. generate enragement, outragement, or some similarly powerful emotional response). And the only barrier to getting a hit of this emotional stimulant is a mere click.
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It was! I've, however, gotten way more use out of saddling whoever is most senior with the role of making sure the team as a whole is on track. This way, it's a little more familiar with the way Western management hierarchy operates without turning it too much on its head. It's something of a leadership billet without removing the ability to be technical, which is important for a lot of folks.

It tends to work pretty well in an environment that both lacks a bug tracker (so that individual people aren't assigned things) and has a culture of pairing or mobbing.
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What does it have to do with lynching?
IBM didn't have it's first round of major layoffs until the 1990s, Google and Microsoft didn't have their first major layoffs until 2008-2009, Facebook/Meta didn't have its first major layoffs until 2022, etc. Even then, only a fraction of their employees were affected. People can last quite a long time at such places with a little luck.
I salute you for taking this approach. At least I know your kids are going to grow up well-rounded.
Maybe looking at the average is the wrong thing to do. People who die from cancer can be robbed of a lot of years. A couple of other recent cancer deaths I saw on HN:

Walter Ehmer died at 58 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41490388

Jake Seliger was also known on HN died around 40: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41201555
I've found that so few of my accounts support ofxget that it's not worth the trouble of dealing with it. I just occasionally download year-to-date statements from all my accounts and then run scripts to convert them to ledger format and append only the things after a given cutoff date (things like the credit card script are pretty interactive so I don't want to overwrite the old data). To know which accounts are in most dire need of a check, I have a script that shows the last transaction on each statement-generating account.

This basically works for me and catching up doesn't really take long. There are some accounts that I update very infrequently, but I've gotten over my OCD about this and it doesn't really matter. My wife doesn't appreciate being hassled for the statement from her work HSA every month -- nor does it really matter how much is in there at any given moment, unless we have a big medical expense -- so we just occasionally sit down and catch everything up, maybe twice a year.

Overall I find the automation means it's vastly less work than when I used gnucash, and the flexibility in expense structures and ease of assigning things mean I have much better budget data than when I used mint.com.
Reminder: you need to escape the * otherwise you end up with emphasis (italics here).
FWIW, I have social accounts on X/BSky/Mastodon/Threads and post to all of them. I have noticed most of my engagement this month originating from Mastodon.
Founders aren’t here, but all the workers are, and they’re overestimating HN’s prominence? Or are you overvaluing the position of founder. Like you’re on some Randian philosophy shit, or something.
ACE 5, though I think this is inaccurate because the quiz seemed to focus on issues with adults, whereas I had at least two instances of major trauma involving peers (and one shortly after starting college), as well as several low-grade, long-running stressors related to my race, stature, sexuality, etc.

As for my gifted bona fides, 9x%th percentile IQ and SAT scores, gifted/competitive STEM track through high school, my bachelor's degree cost me $5,000, total (tuition was $30k/yr; I wanted the nicer dorm). I often feel stupid, but apparently I'm not.

Currently unemployed (since the beginning of the pandemic). Living at home. Money is tight. Whatever's wrong with me, I really can't afford to get it treated. I wouldn't mind if I was making progress on things that are meaningful to me, but I have a hard time keeping focused, and being confident in my plans, goals, and abilities. I can definitely feel myself falling behind. No, that's incorrect. I've long fallen behind.

What I think separates me from some of the other boys I know who grew up similarly and who ultimately had more success: a more consistently positive social experience. (It probably helped that they were large for their age. Why? Enhanced benefit-of-the-doubt in matters of athletics, romance, and maturity, even if you're being weird or hyper or spazzy or moody, leading to fewer derails of your attempts to build relationships. Greater confidence, greater stability, greater shelter from the things about yourself and your past that you can't escape.)

I might also be a bit of an asshole.
no its a lot more than RLHF, I think they figured out a way to have the LLM actually actively plot out scenario trajectories via context window manipulation and then use some kind of adhoc reward shaping mechanism to get it to select the best path based on the user's profile in a way that gets the most likely to be "liked" scenario (context window state change up to some N number of tokens (seems like they've been looking at 50k total range as "best area" minus the 20k tokens for the reasoning tokens)

also I think they deliberate give you bad answers sometimes / a lot over the last year to build up advanced chains where the user is not getting what they want so you have to explain why. I started building up like 10 or so of these conversations where after like 100 messages it gets the right answer and it was like hmm, I wonder if they are using this.

just my rambles
People lie to the police all the time though. People invent false accusations all the time. The police has to know it. It's just that they have exactly zero incentive not to do it - because nobody is going to give them any pushback for arresting an innocent citizen, taking him into handcuffs and harassing him for an hour because they got some email. There's no cost to it and that's why they do it. Maybe this should change.
I think the advice is based on "peace time" management, during more comfortable profitable times, leaning towards more centralised control. There's no appetite for the risk of moving faster by removing approval bottlenecks or changing processes.

The advice here is to challenge what actually needs to be centralised.

Identify things that could be safely delegated. For example, why does a list of managers and an exec need to approve a $10 per month subscription that saves a bunch of engineering time by managing cascading PR merges?

And identify safe ways to delegate. For example, if we move container image vuln scanning into CI/CD pipelines, the dev team can update dependencies themselves without a security team being involved to do it for them and approve.

These might seem like silly examples to someone working at a half decent start up or tech first org. But these kinds of centralised control structures are the norm for most large organisations until they are very strongly challenged.
what additional useful information about running a youtube production company would you have learned from the document if it had better grammar?
> It's Mozilla's documentation site.

I kind of want to emphasize "Mozilla's" too. It's not firefox documentation, it's web documentation.

> I'm speaking about browsers in general.

But you're specifically including firefox because of this page, right? That's a hell of extrapolation to make from them "helping" chrome by writing/hosting an article.
Well instead of posting what you wrote you posted this complaint, which just contributes to this vibe. You have the right to vent of course.

If you post something interesting people will read it! Sour grapes comments are kinda boring, and complaints about sour grape comments are also kinda boring.

If you don’t want certain kinds of conversations in a community, one of the best things to do is to “crowd that out” by just offering positive alternatives, with interesting posts.

I have a lot of social complaints about finance, but still love reading about it. Cuz it’s interesting in the abstract!
Turns out the computer may become a wheelchair for the mind after all.
I was going to write a more indirect response by way of analogy, but it got too unwieldy. TL;DR: I was predisposed to taking the position you are advocating for, but this argument is incredibly weak while demonstrating the problem, to the point it made me wonder about my own priors. Shape-shifts from "this was totally fine and normal" to "but totally couldn't do it today" to "and guess what the ppl who didn't want to rollback went to 0" to "boring story" to "crypto tribalism", whatever that has to do with anything in this context.
What concepts did you feel were new here that aren't beaten to death in standard entrepreneur/hustle porn?
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I can tell everyone here has something in mind that they're all talking about, but don't want to say specifically what it is. I definitely agree that if you make any sort of substantial post, you're going to get a million low effort replies nitpicking small details. If you try to respond to all of them, you'll either run out of posts or lose your mind. Most of the time people just pick one small detail, post something completely incorrect or unrelated, and move onto the next headline post to respond to.
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Statistics about when people drop off, or what thumbnail or content is appealing, is studying human viewer behavior. There's no algorithm telling the users to find it interesting and keep watching.
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Checkout https://github.com/OP-Engineering/op-sqlite if you haven't already, it supports a variety of extensions for use with sqlite in react-native.
> I guess the proof will be in the pudding when we develop superhumanly intelligent AI.

I'm not sure that's the case. The universe itself is already capable of superhuman intelligence. There's nobody alive that can predict how wind will flow over an airfoil better than a wind tunnel.

The actual proof will be in the pudding if we develop superhumanly creative AI.
> can't deny the success

I don’t disagree that there is some value in this knowledge. But success has different definitions.

I do not consider Jimmy successful. In relation to classical virtues, he hasn’t truly lived up to many. That would be success to me.

He is popular and his business is rich. Some people consider that success, but not all. Not even in business and start-up circles.

Edit: some people below (quite remarkably) miss the point despite me having spelled it out — “success has different definitions”. Somehow they have convinced themselves I said that Jimmy has my definition of success, or that he is not successful by his own definition. I think everyone who wants to understand what I am saying does. If not, I repeat one more time — there is more than one way to measure success. Which is correct or not correct — I do not prescribe. That is all :)
That could suggest why longevity in humans (or primates ) was under active selection, as they put a lot of effort into raising the children so you'd expect that cancer in younger people would result in the death of their children, so evolution selects for robust anti-cancer systems (like the human immune system, which is relatively good at detecting and eliminating cancer cells as well as pathogenic bacteria, etc.).

These explanations are however always a bit hand-wavy, eg why do galapagos tortoises live to 150 when they don't seem to do much parental investment?
but good writing isn't worth good money because you can get ok copy free from people who do it for the attention. the magazine business was cool but what made it cool was it was powerful. It isn't now.

business wise, the closest analogy today is podcasts, not because of writing, but they're the curators of the discourse. now Fridman and Rogan are each a one man Atlantic or Harper's, providing the platform for ideas and selling attention and wielding influence on it. we don't need journalists to tell us stories when the people doing the things can just tell their story themselves.

we've lost some of the insight that came from writing as a craft and those insights formed the previous culture and identity, but we get these direct now.

maybe writing polarizes, where only writers who can do fiction well can add any value or insight into anything real.
If Google doesn't want to maintain their own cache why would they pay to maintain someone else's cache?
"Gifted" is of course a spectrum. You'd know if you were smarter than the average bear if you got put up a class, put into "the smart kids class", or got selected for various leadership programs etc.

Of course not everywhere would have such programs, but there will likely be other tell-tale signs as well.
If it's not typical, it should be seen more skeptical, not less. If I say my neighbors are witches who worship the devil, and are going to summon legions of Hell to earth this evening, then the police shouldn't start with burning their house down, with them inside, just in case. They should first try some other means of verifying this highly unusual claim, before acting on it as if it were true. I am reasonably sure the prior of that email being true, based on all previous emails they've received in that police department, is less than 1%. And yet, after that, and after already finding out there's no murder happening on the scene and no emergency at all, they still behaved as if the victim is the criminal. And I am sure they didn't even get politely reprimanded by that - probably they were praised by their peers and their managament for quick and decisive action.
The format exists - OFX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange

But even banks that use it make massive mistakes and break the basic assumptions. Unique ID repeating in the same day for example. Or using the minutes in place of the month...
For a time I threw together a bunch of python scripts which did billing for me based on YAML files which struck a nice balance of readability vs programmability (since YAML turns into lines quite well and has less special character noise).
Does this have any substance behind it or is this one of the social media accounts that worship the military and project their fan-theories on substance-less posts?
I realize this is semantics but he’s not a fraud, because he delivers on the things he says. If he didn’t spend 48 hours (or however long) underground that would make him a fraud, but he did. The content might be of dubious quality, but it’s not fraudulent
Since I started to notice the value of my online presence, I’ve been spending a bit more time going down rabbit holes, and frankly I’m not sure we’ve truly lost the magic of the internet/bbs of decades ago.
The flavor of the cotent is a bit different, but all media is like that. Look at a horror film, or romance novel. It's very clear what human urges/interests are being targetted.

Part of his strategy is copying TV. He famously made a Squid Game episode.
I thought the removal of 3rd party cookies was also reversed.
Ack. AMD gpus broke left and right with this version. Lot of issues reported : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues

Even the latest Linux kernel 6.11 still have same issues (atleast for me)
This article is really lacking for such an interesting product. I am curious to get some insights from actual users from this to see how they feel about it. I guess one more thing to remember to charge can be annoying.
Some loon just tried to shoot Donald Trump AGAIN...

I can imagine that the police in the US are going to be very twitchy
They run a gateway. They have a Jabber server, you send messages to it or make calls through it, they forward the texts and calls to their upstream provider.
Adding some relevant links

* https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/pull/91

* https://blog.notesnook.com/getting-started-react-native-jsi/
Luckily the concern isn’t simply whether they could make a mistake and cause a crash by easing around in the kernel, it’s whether they’re likely to, and I’d argue that CrowdStrike is particularly likely to do so given their testing and rollout processes, and the culture that encompasses those failures
> I think you grossly overestimate HN's prominence in the tech industry. It was where all the founders hung out 15 years ago. It's now just a place where IT workers talk.

You either missed the point of the GP comment, or you think that it's entirely pointless to discuss important issues unless it's with people of prominence. Depressing if it's the latter, but given how you started your post, I'm leaning toward that interpretation. That's some kind of fucked up elitism right there.
The default phone OS software won't allow that. You either need a system app (like openeuicc) or a sim that has an app whitelisted so the OS will allow access (like this product uses)
> does anyone have a reason to think this isn’t a real concern?

I suppose it is, but it's possible for someone to DOS a $5/month server too (touch wood they don't).

AWS could get expensive but it will always be up, so there's a trade-off there. You could use AWS WAF to mitigate someone running up your bill, but I'm not sure how well it works/how easy it is to configure/how cost-effective it is.
That’s there, but the parts about taking responsibility for your work, keeping people you delegate work to accountable and negotiating with vendors and being persistent is stuff you usually get informally.

I also find those signs that it’s a more honest document. Most things publicly available are so neutered there’s not much useful grey info
Die yield can depend on redundancy and sensitivity to process variation.

Column/row redundancy for SRAM arrays is common and multicore designs provide core redundancy. Theoretically even out-of-order scheduler entries and functional units could be disabled. SIMD width variability could provide another means of tolerating defects and/or variation while providing a sellable result.

If a usable/sellable die only needs to reach half of the best frequency or half the best case energy efficiency, yield can be higher than if nothing less than 95% of best is worthwhile. If better dies can be sold at higher profit, the economics change. Durability is also a variable that can be tuned (e.g., "The BubbleWrap many-core: Popping cores for sequential acceleration" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=13412927692517066... ).

Yield does not seem to be simply a matter of defects per square centimeter. At least so it appears to this computer architecture enthusiast.
Totally fine to do. I have solutions for all sorts of stuff—doesn’t mean they’re good ones. Lets folks talk about stuff they’re stoked on.
The art of having enough slack in your life that you can spend hours and hours being concerned with the tiniest details.
There is no artificial limit, it's just down to how big the profiles are and the storage space.

With most profiles, it'll be more than 5
Sometimes there is nothing deeper to an accurate cut than an accurate cut. Combine many accurate cuts and you may have art, Ikea, a film or a railway line.
You’re not engaging with the linked content either, you just picked this thread to pose a general complaint about conversations on HN.

Be the change you want to see! Post your thoughts on the Mr Beast doc as a reply to your first comment and see how it goes.
yes, in California, City of Albany, Target store near San Francisco, refused to take cash at the checkout not long ago.
Probably constant generation of reactive oxidizing chemicals from the higher metabolism needed to maintain body temperature.
I thought the F-22 initially used the i960, not the 386, but then switched to PowerPC.

[0] http://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i...
That's the protocol used to communicate between your device and the gateway to the phone network. Taking the place of eg SIP as a more mobile friendly solution.