skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's vanity only.

What a profoundly ignorant statement. How much would I have to pay you to put on 30 pounds and deal with morning sickness for the next 9 months? Does $0 sound about right?

Oh, so now it's not about vanity and has everything to do with your comfort as an individual. Crazy what a tiny bit of empathy can do - and we haven't even gotten to the messy part yet.

Fucking ingrate. What's next, men don't want to pass kidney stones because it makes them feel emasculate?
I've been there. Some advice.

So you found yourself with some safety net and are contemplating reinventing yourself in some way. Maybe working on a side project, or supplementing your skillset by learning something new.

My first and top advice is to move to a place where just breathing and thinking is cheap. Travel if you can (i.e. you're young, have no kids, no relationships, no obligations). The slow burn will alleviate the stress and the need to precipitate a decision. Nomadlist, Numbeo, and the numerous nomad blogs are your friends. Start working on your projects from there. Come back home when you have some feelers moving.

Second. If your runway is only a year or two, prioritize acquiring a skill that'll make it easy to find work by the end of the run. Take a course on something trendy or valuable. If you choose to work on a project, also consider it the demo you'll eventually present to companies you'll interview at if things don't pan out. If you have 3 or 4 years, consider that you actually only have 1 to get something up and running.

Third. Don't be too ambitious with your first project. Aim to build something that can sustain living in a place where it's cheap to just breathe and think.

Good luck.
Anyone who has to deal with the sad excuse of a communications method that the sum of SMS, MMS, RCS, VoLTE, VoWiFi, et al constitute.

I.e. me most days.

Back in 03 FBI would have probably called all this obvious insecurity, lack of privacy, lack of cryptographic attestation... A feature. Now the chickens come home to roost. And we all suffer in the end. Some more directly than others.
The average European finds supporting Ukraine not only a lost cause nowadays,

So what's an "average European"? You and your friends?

A recent poll from Germany, for example, found solid (>60 percent) support for both sanctions against Russia, and military support for Ukraine:

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1312216/umfra...

They would also prefer a diplomatic solution, but that doesn't mean they think "Ukraine is a lost cause".
I find it hard to sympathize with people that have enough money to pay off their card bills but don’t actually do so because they can’t be bothered to read.
Not sure I understand this. You've basically set up a job board where employers can post listings for free and job seekers have to pay a monthly fee to access them. So what value does one get over visiting Indeed/LinkedIn/Glassdoor etc. which are free for applicants and charge the companies instead?
How do you organize your prompts? Do you use a templating language like jinja? How complex are your prompts? Do you have any open source examples?

I’m genuinely curious since if we can convince someone like you that BAML is amazing we’re on a good track.

We’ve helped people remove really ugly concatenated strings or raw yaml files with json schemas just by using our prompt format (which uses jinja2!)
https://f1-dash.com/
>The level of engagement -> Your job is to support the team - blockers are your problem, not their problem. Fight to remove blockers. That's your job.

The best managers I've ever had saw it as their job to remove barriers and bullshit from my day. It's what I try to do as a leader as well. It serves the purpose of making their jobs easier, and also takes up your time which creates less opportunity for you to micromanage and forces you to delegate.

>Managing perception -> Which leads into, your role, well done, is invisible. Protect them from the bullshit politics that any org has and let them do what they do well.

This is SO important, and where I struggle the most. Your team won't appreciate it, but when they have the time, support, and resources they need, they'll notice.
I agree with you, wholeheartedly. Children should not be guilted into taking care of their elders.

My parents are immigrants from Southeast Asia and the culture is similar, but it's children taking care of their parents (in all facets, including financially). People ask me why I'm not rich despite making a Silicon Valley salary without living in Silicon Valley... Well, I pay two rents (mine and my parents'). Yes, I know they can move in with me to save money, yes I could just say no and leave them in the lurch, yes I could do xyz, but this is the reality.

I do have the sense of duty towards them, because they took care of me and my siblings, and we wanted for nothing, despite not being an affluent family. But the tradition stops with me. I personally would never make my kids take care of me like that, and I would rather be euthanized early than have my family's last memories of me being bedridden, changing my bed pan, etc. And I'm taking all measures necessary to ensure that I leave my family a financial legacy (life insurance, retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, etc).
I'm not on any socials. At this point I'm more ashamed of myself, I'm technical enough to build a homelab, I was just delaying the migration until I had something a bit more solid with k8s and ceph that I could share with a nice UI.

Even a small job that would backup emails and data to S3 and a hdd once a day would have saved me all this embarrassment. Hopefully starting with 2025 will have something to share with HN that is more positive.
Maybe (and I think you're likely right, or at least, that they don't think it was an evil done in the world) - but if they do, they're not saying so and not condoning it.

It can be hard to ascribe values when someone abstains.
> While you dont own a domain name, you have legals means to get it back.

Can you or someone else share more about this? Do these laws work across countries? Can someone in Bhutan exercise their legal right to get back their .com or .org domain name? Must someone in Bhutan always buy a .bt domain name? I'd like to learn more about how the legal framework works and protects the customer from loss of their domain names?
Basically ASLR for DNA?
I'd almost always prefer c99 to shell for anything more than 100 lines of code or so. There is even a project I saw here recently that can bootstrap tcc in pure shell (which can then be used to bootstrap gcc). I'm somewhat skeptical that bash will still be used for anything but legacy scripts in 30 years, despite it's impressive longevity to this point, but I could sadly be proven wrong.
The things you listed aren’t stored procedures, they are all possible to implement as check constraints. They are great, and they are fully compatible with ORMs. A stored procedure is a bit of code, stored in and executed by the database, usually written in a 1960s-era language (like PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL).
> "How often do doctors have to prove they can still recall every obscure medical fact when changing hospitals?"

Doctors go through 5-7 years of residency with long hours, low pay, and a full fledged physician watching them who can fail them. And that's after an undergraduate degree and medical school.

If you want to endure a 5 year miserable grind just to avoid interviews, go for it.
nice reminder that I need to set a reminder to download a full backup of all things google takeout regularly.

In a (maybe, maybe not) similar situation when a friend got a new phone, added sim card - then could not start the phone because google pass was not working.. (and he could not get 2fa of sms auth)

I suggested he go home where is already logged into gmail - and update account settings to allow additional methods of account recovery - bam - fixed.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a long reply. It will take me a while to read it properly, give me 2-3 days.
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Proton.
Wouldn’t the entire planet experience very high winds nearly all the time?
There are other AI models already existing that they could splice on. Bit like they've done with o1. I'm not sure that'll get to AGI but it's hard to say it definitely won't either.
IMO the bigger issue isn't propaganda posts on tiktok created by the CCP but the more subtle influence the recommendation algorithm can have on what gets eyeballs. There have been several studies that showed that content the CCP doesn't like is a lot less prominent than on other, comparable platforms. Here is the first study I could find again while googling: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-Report_-...
For a while my company did aptitude tests that basically are measuring certain types of intelligence. I personally found a very good correlation between somebody doing well on those and them fitting into the team.

For some reason (legal?) we stopped and now we are doing interviews that have a way worse correlation.
No, I understood clearly.
I don't know where you got your first statement from (and without it the rest of your comment is meaningless). I gave you the list of criteria from Wikipedia and you pretended that it only had one item for some reason.
Great job! It seems you have around 200k companies to list. How do you handle scraping at that scale – all websites are different. What if the schema and markup change? interested to hear what the DevOps aspect looks like.
So does this mean after mocking him for two years they are admitting Gary Marcus is right and that LLMs achieving AGI is complete horseshit?
> Both those methods would tend to favor finding close and massive planets without necessarily ruling out smaller/more distant ones.

They also favor ones whose orbit passes between us and their star, which dims the star and lets us see it. If the planet’s orbit doesn’t block the star, we’ll never know it was there using our current toolset.

I read somewhere that only like 2% of all planet’s have orbits that come between us and their star—which seems like a plausible figure to me, it’s a number you can probably derive from some simple math. This means until we find other ways to observe planets, we are only able to see a very small number of them out there.

Incidentally if other intelligent life is out there planet hunting using the same method of observing planets pass between the star and the observer, it means the odds of them finding earth are pretty small. They’d have to be positioned such that the earth comes between our sun and their line of sight.
Who would downvote this perfectly reasonable question?

edit: Nm
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NATS is great because it has pub/sub, streaming (like Kafka), KVS (like Redis). It is possible to do some of these things in Postgres but really, why?

We use ClickHouse for time series data. Postgres was ok up to low billions of points. Despite trying to use timescale for this purpose it did not fit our use case.
I think all the money
It appears that the definition of "AGI" just means "raise more money" until we do. Even if they never reach "AGI".

Looks like a complete scam.
No reason to be embarrassed. You put your faith in one of the largest companies that has ever existed. That is a logical thing to do.
No. Elon is a guy who will himself sleep on the factory floor to get something done. He is the guy who famously said "when you're going through hell, keep going". He is the guy who bet his entire fortune on electric cars and rockets when no one thought that was a bright idea.
Let's not pretend that we understand consciousness. It's like talking about the movement of stars without understanding gravity.
Oh man, 9mm exhaust. Reminds me of the non EPA compliant fuel can spouts that say “for use with water only” and “not drinking water safe.”
If a foreign, hostile country is helping you to win the election I think you ought to report it. I get if you are of the school that all that matters is winning and not how you do it, ethics aside, but setting a precedent that all is allowed is just dangerous. That's why I think it's great that there's new vote. I believe he might as well win again, but this time it's much more transparent what's behind it.

> Are you kidding? In the 2024 election, super PACs spent $4.5 billion on helping one candidate or the other win, and the source of more than 50% of those funds is unknown. I don’t think you can name a single democratic country where this doesn’t happen.

Yes, US the shining beacon of democratic process. But even in that system, there's a money trace—clear evidence who has spent and what amount. But since you are enthusiastic about it, can you analyze the Nordic systems as well?

> It’s kind of funny how people are willing to shut down all critical thinking when they want to believe a particular thing.

To me the funny part is that you can't argue without trying to dismiss my point of view. I think you should evaluate your own critical thinking before critizing others.

Look, I merely wanted to point out that it's good the interference was caught and put on display, probably the people will elect him to 2nd round nonetheless. I think he should be allowed to run of course, if that's why you are getting so worked up about this. It's clear the other parties probably try to out-maneuver him this time, but this might just as well help him.
If he is talking about osf1/tru64 that's the first one heard of it
And flying cars
Not being auto sorted into the "Indeed/LinkedIn/Glassdoor/etc." pile, maybe.
How does that work in practice? I mean I may keep my data at multiple places. But my government, my hospitals, my utility accounts, they all want my email address to send me OTPs, password reset links and such things that are necessary to prove my digital identity.

How do I spread this risk and make it manageable? I have to give them some email address and I fear losing access to my email. And yes, I can lose my email address even if I have my email on my own domain. There are many failure modes for losing domain names. So how do I manage this risk?
I don’t think living on credit is the norm even in countries that use a credit card regularly. The limit on my card is fairly high, but if I don’t pay it off every month my provider gets pissy.
Imagine telling on yourself like this...
How do you actually get it back? Friend of mine has a portfolio website in their name they’ve been maintaining for well over a decade, they missed one payment and some scoundrel bought it up and is demanding thousands of bucks for it.
I’m pretty sure that new telescope being constructed in Chile will be large enough to directly image planets but I could be wrong.
Yep. The current wave of "AI" startups are going to totally burn through the terms "AI" and "AGI", with one of two possible outcomes:

* We enter another "AI Winter" of sorts. People will continue to work on LLMs and other deep learning applications because they're legitimately useful in moderation, but they'll distance themselves from the label "AI" or "AGI" because it will start sounding like "I work on blockchain" does today.

* Both terms will end up completely watered down, with "AI"/"AGI" becoming a catch-all to mean "a computer algorithm of some kind does some magic the user doesn't fully understand"—the new, hipper word for "software". OpenAI will declare victory and we'll have to come up with a new term for an artificial intelligence that can actually do the stuff that AGI was supposed to do.
And who knows what the crowd will do in 2025 given new cabinet etc.? Deductions don't really affect me much going forward. I care but not planning around specific policies going forward.
Given their username, I suspect it may actually be beyond them.
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If the license plate was not readable, then the additional information is false data. You do not know more about the image than you knew before by definition.
Replacing pixels with plausible data does not mean a gain of information.
If anything, I'd argue that a loss of information occurs: The fact that x was hardly readable/unreadable before is lost, and any decision later on can not factor this in as "x" is now clearly defined and not fuzzy anymore.

Would you accept a system that "enhances" images to find the license plate numbers of cars and fine their owners?
If the plate number is unreadable the only acceptable option is to not use it.
Inserting a plausible number and rolling with it even means that instead of a range of suspects, only one culprit can be supposed.
Would you like to find yourself in court for crimes/offenses you never comitted because some black box decided it was a great idea to pretend it knew it was you?

Edit: I think I misunderstood the premise. Nonetheless my comment shall stay.
My home server is awake 24 hours a day.

Is that wasteful? Does that make me a poor Internet citizen?

I'd never considered using RSS feeds from an app and pulling it directly. I have too many devices for that to be a great workflow.

Normally I'd say I was an outlier, but my gut feeling on this is that the people still using RSS and people self-hosting would overlap in a big way.
If you live in the EU, you can send a Subject Access Request to Google.

That will get you back the contents of your account (emails, photos, etc).

You can also try submitting a right to rectification. They hold data about you (your account) but have incorrect data regarding ownership.

If either of those fails, you can escalate to the data protection authority in your jurisdiction.

It is likely to take several weeks though.
Good luck. I lost access to my Facebook account of 18 years a few years ago due to some 2fa bug (it tells me to enter a code from the fb app which doesn’t have that code.) Despite sending copies of my passport, license etc, the automated systems are of no help.
Employers don't post anything, the job listings are scraped directly from company websites. So even if the employer has not paid for an ad on Indeed/LinkedIn/Glassdoor but they leave the listing up on their company website then the scraper will pick it up (which is a large amount of listings). But yea asking the user to pay for the service is certainly different but I think beneficial because now they are the customer (rather than the employer)
Ahrefs.com is quite good, but their pricing is a nightmare. And they change it constantly, not in your favor. Semrush is pretty good too, but not quite as good IMO.
While I agree with your general sentiment, let's not sell LLMs short. These things would be firmly scifi not even 5 years ago and they are significantly more powerful than "mostly good at grammar". They do still make shit up, I give you that.
> that won’t happen because it doesn’t generate revenue.

OpenAI made real progress towards a computational understanding of human language and cognition. I'm sorry they have become a for-profit entity (the paperwork lags behind reality, of course). A fiduciary duty does not serve humanity. The quality and credibility of their communications have fallen dramatically.
In this way he is remarkably similar to his new partner in crime.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334857 - Dec 2024 (1 comment)
Thanks, following :)
The most fucked up part to me is (I’m guessing) the majority of the votes this guy receives were from people that lived under Ceaușescu‘s rule and thought “Yes, let’s bring that era back”. Similar to how domestic abuse victims protect the person abusing them.
I remember many instances in childhood where I began to realize authority figures, parents/teachers/etc., that I had been trusting to teach me the ways of life weren’t all knowing. Moments of “lies” (using your term, really just being incorrect) where the cracks began to show.

I treat ChatGPT like a 90th percentile educator across many problem domains. Is it going to be wrong? Yes. Is to going to be very wrong? Yes. Is it capable of generating tangents of pure and unadulterated bullshit? Yes. But that was true of every teacher, professor, and mentor I’ve ever had.

Just because my 8th grade algebra teacher wasn’t as accurate as an encyclopedia or a published textbook didn’t prevent them from filling the role I rely on ChatGPT to fill now.

Edit: also, peer review isn’t a great example of a system that eliminates bs.
I don't remember them saying "$100 billion models are all you need for AGI." Don't suppose you have a link?
In this case a big part of the problem seems to be that OP has 2fa enabled but set to a phone number they don't have access to anymore. This is a really tricky situation for any provider to handle.
Well you can always find the listing on indeed and then apply directly on the company's website.
I have secondary account recovery for everything and secondary accounts for everything. If email one doesn't work, my phone and second email does. Where OP went wrong was not updating their phone number when it changed. There's not a lot to be done at that point.
For every hype there is the anti-hype, as can be seen in the parent comment. I suppose it's just the way things go, until we've arrived at a more measured place.No, LLMs aren't AGI, not by a long shot. And yes, they are significantly more powerful than Markov chains.
Your experience in general insurance has nearly zero relevance to US health insurance. Their main customers are large self-funded employers and they operate under a completely different legal regime. Most of their business is no longer even "insurance" in the traditional sense.
To be fair, he's also the guy who called a guy a pedophile on Twitter when he disagreed with him, then threatened to buy the company for $54.20 a share because LOL 420, then fought like a wildcat to get out of it, and then, when he couldn't get out of it, told his newly-acquired customers to fuck off.

He is basically a chaos monkey.

A man for his time.
Things aren't going to change. America just let private wealth run rampant over everything that matters and now wants to usher in an administration that (supposedly) wouldn't touch your civil liberties with a 50 foot pole. Trump says he won't even commit to banning abortion (sounds about right for a guy that's probably paid for dozens of 'em).

So... how are things going to "have to change" if you can't threaten childless couples and you can't redistribute the wealth to people that do want kids? Continually fearmonger mandatory birthing policies without actually implementing them just to get a rise out of your citizens? It's nonsense, and if America is given a choice between "fucking over wealthy people" and "having tons of kids to staff McDonalds at minimum wage" I can tell you offhand which one 99% of citizens will pick. We're already halfway there given how far China has surpassed the US in places - today's Americans hate capitalism so much they're content watching their country suffer until businesses get the message.
If you’re not already, consider scraping and building a list of company workday public instances and pulling job postings from there as well. Should be straightforward to find breadcrumbs in search engines with those URLs, or render permutations for testing based on known domain patterns.
> OpenAI really does seem to embody the idea that all contracts are renegotiable

Why aren't they renegotiable? Of course you can attempt to renegotiate basically every contract; the question is whether this will be successful or whether this is a good idea. There is no need to appeal to Machiavellianism.
Try using octal as a hacker news client. I recommend it
What you're saying is true, but I believe there are other factors at play as well.

A significant part of the decrease in fertility rates comes from the sharp decline in teen pregnancy (counted as live births) over the past 30 years.
I'm sure they do. I've seen 3270s in use in a few places in the last few years. I'm not sure what they use for new designs, though - I don't hear much about the mainframe world from my part of the industry.