skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of interesting opinions here - I thought this the no hard set “Engineering Time” was interesting, especially given some of the challenges around quantifying some of this work and the impact.

"Too often, tech leaders wield the “tech debt” card to justify unstructured engineering time. While the intention is noble, the execution is usually flawed. Most of the things we treat as “tech debt” aren’t.

Instead, whatever you have on your backlog should be treated like any other task: Make it visible, quantify its impact, and collaborate with Product to weigh its ROI against new features. When tech debt is treated as part of the roadmap, it forces discipline and ensures alignment on what truly matters."
I have ADHD and have this very problem. I barely get to the build it phase. Mostly I get a high from just the sketch it out, type up ideas, attempt some actual build time, then think it's stupid/too niche/no one will use it/etc and move on to the next addictive idea.

Still trying to figure out a way to get dopamine from doing the work and accomplishing stuff. Even if I do discipline myself and get something working, it has almost no effect on me emotionally leaving me wondering why I even bothered and it seems like a waste of time making me feel guilty. When I was younger I had so much more motivation and energy while getting more done.
It's all about FOMO.
Sorry, I owe the author an apology for saying that they "cast shade" on the idea of returning the value of the static variable. Actually they, quite correctly, cast shade on the idea of returning the address of the static variable. I'd edit the original message, but I am (far) too late. I just noticed my mistake. All I can do is add this apology, for the record.
just like Bell Labs UNIX gave way to BSD UNIX which gave way to SunOS/Solaris which gave way to Linux... this is a tale as old as time. The question is will this end the same way?
speed 2x to the rescue!
I just looked up your app out of curiosity, and realized I had just watched your video about react's inverted-reactivity model just a few hours ago! Small world!
Yes. That is what "...unless the base rate is set externally somehow" means.

It is different initially, when only one company is offering the "discount" and they have not yet adjusted their base price upward. In fact, the people who want the discount will presumably flock to their service, which may even mean they won't raise the base price all the way up if it makes their costs lower. But if that works, the other companies will follow suit.

In short: there's a period of time when there's a difference, and you have a real choice. If the difference is real, it will get locked in to the entire industry. It's a positive economic profit, and those go away.

cf https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-l...
It is a weird twist on the fairy tale. What if you had a medical condition that compelled you to cry “Wolf” all the time? Obviously the townsfolk can’t spend all their time responding to false wolf sightings, but there is no lessoned to be learned when The Boy actually believes he sees a wolf every day.
I don't know the game, but wouldn't this make sense as a game balancing aspect? In real life some vehicles might be "strictly better" than others but doesn't make for very interesting gameplay
It's so great for writing DSLs. This magic might turn some people off but the result of this meta-programming makes for some very expressive and concise code.
> we will not be sharing full details at this time in order to give users time to re-establish trust on their confidential-compute workloads.

What a load of shit! Confidence is earned, it does not grow back like a weed you stepped on!
I think any attempt to distil hard earned experience and domain awareness will eventually devolve into misplaced generalisms.

This isn't to say that the article isn't good. It's well written and the teachings are valuable.

This comment is for the inexperienced dev that arrives at theses posts looking for ideological prescriptions: don't.

Give yourself time. Let yourself fail and learn from your mistakes. Keep reading the masters work like Clean Code, SICP, Working effectively with legacy code, software architecture the hard parts, mythical man month etc... but don't let anyone prescribe to you how to do your job.

Developing is ultimately managing an unmanageable and ever evolving complexity and making it work. Developing is art and experience. Developing requires great peace of mind.
That's a non-sequitor though. OP's claim is that Tesla would be doing better without Musk as Tesla would be selling 25k cars; however, if every other US car company is not doing 25k cars there is no support to an argument that an alternative CEO for Tesla would do 25k cars.

But to your actual question, the thing that matters is customers * margin. If each car comes with say 15k of overhead then even if you can double your units sold by dropping the price from 40k to 25k you are behind 20% in total profit.
It also tramples on the idea that Resources on the internet have Unique Identifiers that don't change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI#:~:text=A%20cool%20URI...
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Moderator review is a counter-action, especially when we turn off the flags on a story. The problem is that we don't (and can't) do that often enough to satisfy everyone.
> Somehow, though, I suspect that insinuating I need extra rest after giving my emotional labor to "plan a night out with the guys" wouldn't go over so well with my wife.

Why not? That's perfectly reasonable thing to do.
For a second I thought this was the Marvel game that got briefly banned along with TikTok, but that's marvel Snap.

It would have been a tiny bit funny if it had been the same company that was just briefly banned that was allowing a remote exploit.
https://archive.is/q03Ja
and vice versa the later seems inauthentic, off-putting and weird to the former
really cool! i wonder what happens when you teach it to use tools inside the reasoning as well. could be even better!
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It's apples and oranges. Subjective Theory of Value is the only reliable economic model here.
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Kernighan's Law - Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
> CPU uses an insecure hash function in the signature validation

Do we know what this "insecure hash function" is/was?
This article is one of the dumbest takes I have ever seen. The author claims that OpenAI is out of ideas because they are only improving what they already have since GPT3.

That's like saying, getting a new computer is pointless, because it only has a better CPU, more memory and a better GPU, but is still the same parts, so it's pointless and they are out of ideas for making new computers.
This guy makes the exact same mistake as all his nuclear bros: using baseline costs outside America. You cannot build fission power stations in America with South Korea costs because you do not enjoy South Korean society and civics. You live in a society that spent $40 billion on Vogtle and $9 billion on a hole in the ground in South Carolina.
Make sure you always have some energy left when taking care of him. Don't burn yourself out. Like they say to new parents - regularly get a babysitter no matter what.

My pops died from Lewy body dementia about 2 months ago. It gets much rougher toward the end. The more carers you have the better, it's almost impossible by yourself. You'll never forget the period you're going through now. Make sure you have no regrets when it's all over.
Very importantly here they provide a ways of decoding the encoded thought tokens, so you're not really losing explanatory power or debuggability. As much as OpenAI want to present hidden chain of thought as some sort of long term advantage or safety feature, it's horrible when you want to understand how a model came to some insane conclusion.
How much if the "kin work" is self imposed torture ?

I have seen multiple instances where the stress degraded everyone's experience, and/or simply wasn't appreciated or valued by the intended recipients because they would have been just as satisfied by making their own sandwich. And sometimes, I've seen people dread the experience because of the required hours at the dinner table when they would rather be doing something less stifling.

That is, I wonder how much of this can work is actually an example of the Abilene paradox

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Guaranteed that others have thought of this. Execution is where you succeed or fail.
haha i thought so? but then was like "maybe there is some method of using arachnid fossils to establish dates" or something crazy like that
> > napkin math

> Very few power plants work like that

And most "napkin math" refers to a simplified calculation with rough guesses made in an impromptu or amateur fashion, like using a pen to write with no options nearby except a disposable paper napkin.

> > canceling out the year

> If Ivanpah could kill a bird, once, to produce 65 kW forever

The context is to get ratios between (A) scope/benefit as indicated by wattage and (B) birds-deaths, and (C) coal-used. If you double the activity of each plant, you can expect one to double the fried-birds, and the other to double the coal-needed.

It feels like I'm comparing dollars-costs of running electric versus gasoline engines of the same "horsepower", and you're unsatisfied because "a gallon of gasoline can't burn forever."
Yeah, it takes a while to figure out that the narrator is unreliable... oh, don't want to spoiler it.

I hope Sam Esmail is working on something else for us.
My advisor was into that stuff, and some of my original efforts were to tie those together

The field I researched in was Symbolic Regression / Genetic Programming. My research was able to recover differential equations and systems of equations from data. We worked with GLEON to help scientists better understand lake dynamics through such systems

https://verdverm.com/projects/pge if you want to learn more

I'm no longer in academia, I'm working on ATProto things lately
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What I learned from spending a year as a solo machine learning researcher (2019)
Exactly! This was my first thought.
And one where if someone is rude to you, you can hang up.
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You described my journey with the book exactly! glad to know i wasn't the only one
Their's a really good argument for having a "gaming" os, Windows, and a serious OS , Linux on the same computer.

If League of Legends needs super admin mode, it's no longer my computer. I'm sharing it with Tencent. I can't trust them ( specifically a disgruntled employee) to not install key loggers and other really nasty things.
I can understand that I'm not alone. It's reasonable to think so.

I cannot find support anywhere, though. Which makes me feel isolated. I have nobody to share my struggles with. No place to vent. No space to process it.

Only thing that has helped is therapy. After so many years I'm craving a group, though.
Cool tech, but quite the stretch to say it's AI related.
yup, we have 2 roles open
That's quite interesting. This is way outside of my wheelhouse - has this kind of approach been tried in other security contexts before? What would you even call that, virtualization?
This is way out of line. Where on earth did GP deny it's realness? Read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Alzheimer's is likely not a single disease but likely multiple diseases which are currently being lumped into the one label

Back at uni 25 years ago they told me the same about schizophrenia and I'm sure it's still valid.
Worse, the statistically frequent fibonacci-type problems are attractors in the latest space. If you ever get near them then snap, they'll degrade whatever answer you get that's not actually related, and it'll start throwing in fibonacci concepts into your non-fibonacci code.
A plea to junior developers using GenAI coding assistants
It looks like, from the article, his motive was "to escape responsibility from crimes he was accused of when he was young." It's utterly bonkers that running afoul of the law as a child can and still does affect people's lives decades later. The Criminal Justice System needs a graceful way to leave the past in the past and let minor crimes done long in someone's past age out of relevance.
I'm behind on reading but don't all models use continuous embeddings to represent reasoning?
TD Bank has signed a data sharing agreement with Plaid: https://stories.td.com/ca/en/news/2023-12-14-td-bank-group-a...
I suspect the privacy part (even Clio) isn't going to satisfy anyone who actually cares about their privacy, which is probably everyone who uses therapy.
Well even the NYT didn't state the names of the prosecutor and judge that got this so egregiously and unforgivably wrong. Name and shame would be a start.
haha! actually yes, like musical greeting cards! would be a nice experiment to try it out
The entire PC and Windows ecosystem is based on that the purchaser is not the user. Corporate will keep purchasing sub-par hardware with a sub-par operating system and sub-par software, because they're looking at a primitive spec sheet and feature list, without taking anything else into account.

Developers (for corporate customers) will keep making their software as cheaply as possible and the user experience will continue to decline while Windows and PC sales increase to corporate customers. These platforms will continue to decline in relevance for consumer use.

That's my prediction.
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Call me a grinch— but I can’t stand gifts, giving or receiving! I don’t feel comfortable telling my friends and family this fact however…
The contrapositive of which is just because you’re right does not mean you are not crazy.
This is how divorce goes now based on my experience. The legal system is not setup to handle these sorts of problems well and leaves the innocent to deal with the fall out of bad actors and lawyers who empower them.

This won’t be corrected until there are penalties for political, legal, and administrative professionals who don’t do their due diligence.
I assumed you meant behavioral interviews where companies try to "match" you with personality types through word association and other questions. Pseudo-science that I've seen used in multiple supposed tech companies.

When I did hiring, the questions you're referring to were normal interview questions. I had never categorized them as behavioral, but I might be ignorant to the slang.

Answering those kind of questions with AI sounds... absurd? Heh, I guess I'm not sure how you gain anything from AI answering those. Maybe time if you're automating everything? Still, I'd ask those questions in a video call not through email as they're a great opportunity to learn about the person in front of you.
"as much as possible" nobody said anything about entirely stopping.
Are you kidding me? who owns the site you posted this on?
I wasn't just referring to income tax, but things like capital gains and so forth. The state Supreme Court ruled an excise tax on capital gains was not an income tax, and though the limit is like $250K currently, that could change. And the party that runs Washington is the one that's currently on the warpath about "rich tech bros."
Small world, indeed! Hope that video was useful/interesting!
Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020)
The people organising the Christmas events etc do so because they really value that. The people who don't put effort into that kind of thing.. those are the ones who don't really care about it as much.

People have different interests and values, and it's not a strict gender role thing either. It's just revealed preference.
> It’s like if the US south had a language common there: what icon would you use?

Having grown up in the South, the Stars and Bars would be a depressingly popular choice.
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I don't think it's obvious to everyone.
Where's the "obvious misogyny"?
I found the image at the bottom very surprising and enlightening. I wonder where it is from. It's really a new thought for me.
Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril
They can force you to pay when you don't consent to treatment?
I wouldn't say I've done this for my mental health, but more because my eyes are two garbanzo beans that badly need a break: I leave my phone on the charger after 5pm and I don't pick it up until the next morning. This is the only thing that's been effective for me in reducing screen time. Apps and Apple's Screentime were just bandaids that I'd eventually peel off after a week and dozens of "just a quick peek while I'm waiting for XYZ."
Why do humans have earlobes?
I don't know if that is right.

https://onnalomd.com/blog/fish-mercury-pcb-levels

Mussels PCBs is 0.8-7 ng/g and albacore tuna is 100. Mercury looks similar. I do notice that sardines seem higher in PCBs than I would have expected but their mercury is low.
The engineering culture behind AAA video games is rotten to the core with regards to security. Everyone thinks they're making Doom 3 and they're really making Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.
I've seen that with some videos (and understand it to be the case with the algorithm).

There are a number of channels that I have put in the "don't recommend from these channels" because it's two minutes of content five times over (I'd rather watch a 2 minute short form on the mater). It's content that I'm potentially interested in... but that particular format irks me.
SoftBank, OpenAI agree to set up joint venture for AI services
Fifty employees is about eight million dollars per year, fully loaded costing. ChatGPT does not know how to budget for labor.
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