skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left:

> I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me

And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing?

That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.
That is very accurate, whenever I was dethroned from a position (legitimately) I was happy for that person and challenged me to find a better way to complete the run.

Although the games I've done are very niche and have small moderation teams.
Um, no. The limiting factors are all still economic. If you want to try to rely on mineral weathering to reduce atmospheric CO2 any reasonable amount you now have to finance the quarrying, crushing to fine power, transport, and distribution of gigatons of stone or engineer a suitable replacement which replaces quarry and processing costs with input stock acquisition and synthesis leaving transportation and distribution untouched.
And therein lies the rub. Any goods / materials from outside the VAT zone will have VAT charged on the import. Vis—a-vis a tariff.

Example
I manufacture and sell teak wood tables in Portugal.
I buy the wood from Asia, which does not have a VAT and is outside the EU. When I import said wood, I get assessed a value to pay VAT on. This is a tariff.
I buy the stain and finish from Germany, which is inside the EU and has a VAT, through a complex paperwork system, I also pay VAT when the finish gets imported to me, but eventually I can claim that VAT paid back and it “nets out”. So I get this back. How do I get it back? I can subtract VAT paid from the VAT collected when I sell the goods.

Yes, VAT is a tariff, by a different name.
Search is a mostly solved problem? It seems more like the opposite is true.

Search lost the battle to spam and is approaching death.
A pet theory of mine is that women will be better at using AI for all but the most analytical/symbolic work (even this may not hold but I'd imagine the crossover is around there)

I have no mechanism but it feels true.
> Most anti-AI arguments can be dispensed with by recasting them in terms of the broken-window fallacy. This is certainly one of them.

Could you explain how and what fits the broken-window fallacy here? Is it the AI abolitionists? (I know at least one person who violently hates AI and anything relating to AI and firmly believes that there is absolutely no place for AI or LLMs anywhere in the world and that any usage at all for any reason whatsoever is utterly deplorable. I don't talk to this person since they tend to flame at others for using or talking about AI for any reason.)
Yeah, but you basically are using self-replicating solar-powered machinery (aka "plants") to capture it.
> For the study, published in Particle and Fibre Toxicology, researchers grew human lung cells in a lab and exposed them to dust from car brakes and from diesel tailpipes, finding that brake dust caused greater injury to the cells.

That seems like an overly narrow way of defining harm.

E.g. what if brake dust is bad for your lungs but your lungs can repair the damage, but diesel fumes are harmful to your brain and the damage is permanent?

I'm not saying that's the case (I have no idea), just that studying lung cells in a lab doesn't tell you anything about the full-body harmful effects.
He is the odd
I earned over 200k base in Canada and it didn’t make that meaningful of a difference. I gave up chasing money and went to work for an NGO I care about, earning slightly more than half as much as before, and… I love it. I wouldn’t trade incomes if it meant trading the work.

I thought the money would help, but with family, something will always suck it up. A trip, furniture, house, extracurricular, etc. I wasn’t getting much closer to any semblance of independent wealth, but I was burning myself out.

I’m glad for anyone who can pull it off, but I haven’t met them personally. I have met people who ground themselves down trying, though. It’s a risky endeavour.

You don’t have to go FAANG to earn over 200k here, either. But people will expect you to work for every cent of it, every working hour… and then some. It’s gruelling.
They are better.

Edit: This is a bit tongue in cheek, but I imagine there's a limited demand for american vehicles in Europe just due to the market fundamentals. Raising tariffs on European vehicles disproportionately harms american consumers. Tesla has a significant production capacity in Europe, probably because it was in demand in Europe.
Can this shell do this (in some form):

(lisp expression) | <unix command> | (lisp expression)
In Linux terms, it’s GPL and it “infects” everything it touches :)
> The rule about recursion is likely also to ensure a statically known bound on needed stack space

It's definitely that. Static stack size analysis in the embedded world is a long-standing paradigm and recursion and function pointer indirection defeat that.

If the point of rule was that NASA was arguing that recursive constructions are always harder to reason about than iterative ones, then obviously NASA is wrong.
At BigCos, software engineering is also spending 70% of your day in meetings or handling housekeeping chores in JIRA / Monday / Airtable / Notion / GDocs. I’d love to send an AI agent to meet with PMs to give status updates and take notes if any of their needs change if it could actually do those things efficiently and reliably. Right now, it’d be about the equivalent of having a PM call a phone tree system and leave a voicemail that might get transcribed 85% correctly.
Thanks. The images look fine on mobile, but perhaps it's not so neat on desktop.
> All loops must have a fixed upper-bound

Things like spinlocks or CAS (Compare-And-Swap) are elegant and safe solutions for concurrency, and AFAIK you can’t really limit their upper bound. Others in the thread have pointed out that those are more guidelines than rules - still, not sure about this one.
The receipts still aren't there, even though they had said they'd be up there before Valentine's Day (now they just say "coming over the weekend", I wonder if they'll make that deadline or have to update the text again...).

Transparency would have been most important before they started randomly cancelling contracts, but it seems they didn't bother.
> Pickleball makes way more sense than tennis as a tax-funded public good.

To some who live nearby, it's a public nuisance rather than a public good, but in any case nobody is saying build more tennis courts. They already exist from past investment. The problem is when the existing tennis courts are cannibalized. If pickleball is worth public investment, they can build new courts. We shouldn't have to sacrifice one for the other.
Personal anecdote but I don't debug hallucinated code blocks. I only use LLM to speed up what I would've already written myself. I'm autistic enough to where it's not easy for it to introduce subtle bugs because I still have all the constraints in my head. Rather than having it solve any problem for me I approach it from the angle of just save me some typing of what I already know I want to write.
it's based on crazy amounts of evidence
The flagging on these posts is getting out of control.

If you don't agree with the information provided - counter it with what you believe to be more accurate information.

Otherwise? Stop trying to censor shit.
Arguably this leads to less thoughtful discussion as participants are under the gun to quickly post their thoughts before the story is flagged. I have been guilty of this.
> You get a tumor, a surgeon removes it.

That is not the same thing for traders and you know it.

> The economy gets a shock, a trader helps the market absorb it.

And in the process the trader "absorbs" and enrich themselves with more profits?

The whole point of my argument is about morals, a trader doesn't have to do what you just said, and why should they? It's all about money in the end without caring for the millions of people in society, traders can bet against the markets and win big, at the expense of the economy without helping anything or giving back to society.

In almost all cases, the traders win in the end, employees of other industries that are affected by the economy always lose, (jobs, income, taxes, etc.)

There is a reason why bankers, traders in Wall St in New York or 'The City' in London are disliked.
Huh...it's just a financial penalty imposed on the manufacturer that goes to the govt. Whatever labels/reasons you want to assign it is completely irrelevant.
There are a couple goals here. They would like to tank US economy so oligarchs can buy it for pennies on the dollar. Oligarchs like Elon and Thiel want to own their own cities called Network States. You can find more details about that here https://www.thenerdreich.com/

Trump is owned by Russia and China so turning America away from Europe weakens them. Like Zelenskyy says, Russia is likely going to attack NATO within the next couple years so breaking them away from America takes away a very powerful ally. Europe likes to twiddle their thumbs so he is betting that they won't get their shit together and odds are he is right. The EU moves slowly and is very nonsensical.

The real play that not even Trump sees coming is putting JD Vance behind the desk. Elon and the rest of the billionaire class are just using Trump to set the table for Vance. Once that happens we are all truly fucked.
> But that will never happen.

Yes, it will. However it will take depressed viewership to realize.
When EU manufacturers sell products to other EU countries, they get their domestic VAT rebated, pay no tariffs, and then charge the destination country's VAT. When US manufacturers sell to EU countries, we have no VAT to get rebated, must pay significant tariffs (often 10%), and then charge the destination country's VAT. The end result is US products face a significantly higher total tax burden in EU markets compared to EU-made products, while EU products entering the US face much lower tariffs (often just 2.5%). You can explain the technical mechanics of VAT all day long, but it doesn't change this basic mathematical disadvantage for US exporters. Telling us we "just don't understand how VAT works" is condescending and deflects from addressing this real competitive imbalance.
Edit: I see this was asked already - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062169

So sauna/Turkish bath/hot-springs users have reduced incidence of Alzheimer's?
If only there were a way to influence the behavior of other humans...

I've never had any major frustrations with 'lots of conflicts'. There's something peculiar about what you are doing.

I would sit down and write down what the 'features/benefits' are of your current git workflow. Then you can brainstorm about things you can change about what you are doing to get those benefits without the frustrations (like maybe you don't need to rebase as much or at all, or you can avoid rebasing work branches and just squash the final commit on top of main, I don't know what you are doing but my point is there are endless variations of how to collaborate on git and lots of them don't cause 'lots of conflicts'), and then work with your team to get them. When you are successful they will thank you for making their lives less frustrating. Or you can be secure in the belief that there's nothing you can do, either way.
"selling" a product for $0 is an insane twisting of english and common sense.

And something now that only idiots do. And the reason no physical world analogies apply in the slightest is even if you give away (not sell) a car or some other physical possession, you don't sell a million copies and incur liability across a million users. For that same $0 cost. While that free download incurs effectively unbounded liability.
why just take money from the user when you can also take from advertisers? you're asking the ai questions because you don't know any better yourself, as long as the answer it gives is reasonably plausible, you'll accept it.
The bloat :)
Low quality garbage comment.
There's a lot. But you don't need it all. Just choose well and keep it simple.

These days I find it very easy to recommend Astro for instance. It is batteries included enough you really don't need anything else.

Bun, deno and Hono are other projects that simplify a lot of the tooling by including most of what you need out of the box.

I'd argue that if you choose any of the options above web dev is easier than ever.
Mass transit is fine in the tiny fraction of areas where there's sufficient population density to make it viable. The total area of major metro areas in the US is something like 110,000 sq mi, or slightly larger than Colorado. What are your proposals for the rest of the country?
Oh gosh yes, that sure would be dangerous to lock everything into Github. I've never worked on a team that did so, though. To be honest, I've never used Github's issue tracker at all. Seeing as PRs are also commits when they merge, PR-level tracking migrates just fine to any other system you'd like.
My impression is that he’s sincere, but that his writing is lighthearted and does “overplay” things for humorous effect. That said, I do think he’s opposed to seed oil. Not having looked into it much, I can’t judge whether he’s crazy or not. But even if he’s wrong, who among us _doesn’t_ have some conspiracy-ish views? I’ll go first: I think fruit juice and milk are not “health foods”, and more comparable to soda. We’ve been duped by Big Milk.
I don't think the question is AI can think like humans. The question is whether AI can perform task like humans. We don't even know how humans think. Even asking the question whether AI can think like humans at this point is pretty non-sensical.
There‘s also a weird relation with the oral microbiome. Probably not that surprising, seeing how much translocation is actually happening between our microbiomes.

Just an n=1 ofc, but someone in my family got all their remaining teeth pulled and replaced with implants, and afterwards, within 3 years went from asymptomatic to dead from AD. The progression was mind boggling. I‘ve wondered for a long time whether the oral work was related to this - the surgery caused so much damage that it certainly exceeded capacity to heal, opening the doors wide for any pathogens.
VAT is paid by consumers. If I buy locally I am charged the VAT, as we are sensible place it is included in to the price. So I don't have to do mental math every time what is 25.5% on top of 13.37€...

But if I import something myself I need to pay the VAT (and possible tariffs) on the price I paid and shipping. And the handling that posti here charges... So in the end I am paying it.

Ofc, making your customs to handle each package separately each time is sub-optimal so with large enough entities there is more automation and rules. But still I am one that pays for it as consumer.
> But these are still worse plans than just building a green grid.

This is still the best option, but even after having spent over 20 years in environmentalism in various aspects we have to admit that carbon-free is simply unattainable panacea for a myriad of reasons that go far beyond the scope of this post; but it is this form of absolutism that is the biggest hindrance from my POV--outside of the stalemates and endless impasse created by tribal/identity politics, but they often benefit from the status quo.

The truth is that methane is and remains the the biggest threat in terms of 'carbon chains,' and with a focus on market based solutions to capture and re-purpose these leaks/vents to ancillary purposes (Bitcoin mining proved the concept) and a continued expansion in plant/tree cultivation of a myriad of cultivars we would be better suited than ANYTHING that has been offered to date.

The perpetual need to try to go headlong for a one-size-fits-all approach is what has allowed us to have all the technology we need to start to reverse these systemic issues to our biosphere but be left at a constant dead-end while we wait for corporate elites and their political class cohorts to delay progress.

Sidenote: Bio-char is very useful, I worked with Biodyanimc farmers with BSc in hand on this topic in EU who were traveling to Africa to promote the use of bio-char and it's benefits to help subsistence farmers to be able to support and eventually scale their farms; while at the same time the Bitcoin community via Bit-pesa was helping with micro/small loans to said farmers that allowed for (gradual) progress.

And it is this type of seemingly diametrically opposed communities need to be bridged in order for things to actual work.
First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell
My ex-boss completed his PhD thesis with author of this doc as his advisor. So some of the ideas seem relevant since they popped up in few of the work related conversations with my boss.
> now does it make sense?

no.

speculation and trading are practically the same to me, the end result is an unhealthy amount of money and immoral profit extraction from virtually doing nothing at all.
My take is the accounting economics has shifted to solar and wind. As a result panicked fossil fuel companies and petrostates are spewing a lot of agitprop to gaslight schmucks into continuing to use fossil fuels. But that's not going to slow down the accountants.
Microsoft 365 for business is $15 per seat to $25 per seat per month. Is that really a place you need to worry about?

GSuite for business is about the same price. For people who don’t mind using web apps only for desktop computers, it’s fine.
Honest question when it comes to 2FA like MS Authenticator: why don't they ask for the 2nd factor first, and password second? Sounds like it would make it much harder to spoof.

Currently it's very easy to make a fake MS login prompt, even to customize it with your company name and logo. If you fall for that, they have your PW, which probably at least works without 2FA on some random corpo websites like your time tracking or travel expenses or whatnot.
I already explained why the VAT makes the foreign product less attractive. It's because the foreign product already paid taxes in the country where it was made. So it gets taxed twice, whereas the domestic product is taxed once.

And before you comment, I do understand that the EU allows VAT tax collected in one member country on a product to reduce the amount of VAT tax collected in another member country. There's no such arrangement in place for the US, which is what makes it discriminatory.

Please respond to my actual argument rather than insulting me.
it doesn't seem that long ago that the Telegraph was a proper newspaper.
> The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area.

I think it's kinda strange that you're saying up to age 19 is "the very limited tutorial area", as if it doesn't count. Up to age 3 or 4, before you have stable memory, perhaps I could understand, but I'm well, well into middle age and I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my life, etc.
By the same argument US states sales taxes are also tariffs since most of them are supposed to be paid on imported goods as well.
One reason to believe OpenAI here is that R1 will occasionally claim to be made by OpenAI, which in e.g. LLaMA finetunes is indicative of using synthetic data generated by ChatGPT.

Note that this isn't necessarily o1. While o1 is specifically trained to do CoT, you can also make 4o etc produce it with the appropriate prompts, and then train on that output.
> This offence banned disinformation that could cause “non-trivial psychological or physical harm”. .. “The problem with trying to criminalise ‘disinformation’ is that it empowers the state to decide what is and isn’t true.”

The other problem is how slanted the law is, even as written. "We didn't come to Britain - Britain came to us", "Diversity built Britain" and "Britain has always been diverse" [1], and other such phrases crafted to delegitimize British nationhood are never "hate", nor do they cause "harm".

But "Britons Built Britain", "It's OK to be white", and "We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066" are cited as "hate" [2].

If you argue for immigration, you can be as loose with your facts and as fiery with your rhetoric as you like. But argue against it, and you better not make a single error [3], and keep your phrasing as dry as possible, or you'll end up behind bars.

[1] Or the more insidious portrayal of historical Britain as ahistorically diverse behind the shield of fiction, even when that element of an otherwise fictional story is clearly intended to portray a real place: "Piers Wenger [BBC head of drama] said failing to update the classics with diverse characters would be a dereliction of duty" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/24/bbc-drama-boss-d...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51zn2l33r9o

[3] Even if that "error" is extremely reasonable and plausible inference, such as claiming a terrorist found with an Al Qaeda manual is Muslim: https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbings-suspect-faces...
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