skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But living in Orlando Florida means I can accept a remote job that pays less. I would have to get a remote job that pays 5x more and I don’t pay state income taxes.

Remote jobs on average pay less because you are competing with people who live in the MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska.

Even formerly “field by design” roles that were permanently remote at AWS
(where I use to work) paid less than in office jobs. Now those jobs are also in office jobs at both Amazon and Google (GCP).
It's on the /lists page that's linked in every HN footer: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.
Media (and now social media) awareness and understanding (I was lucky enough to take a course in this, back in... 1989/90)
This makes sense given that even American citizens have been detained at the border until they divulged passwords for their laptops or phones.
> Did Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson not tell us that meme coins are 'icky'?

Guy who got rich selling kids on gambling, illegal sweepstakes, charity washing, candy, and some minor rug pulls draws the line at launching his own pump-and-dump coin? Not exactly a trustworthy source.
The point is that smelting the aluminium takes tons of electricity, so doing it in Iceland where that's produced via geothermal is effectively exporting that electricity.
Unfortunately, I haven't read Programming Rust. The list includes just the books I used to learn Rust. But will definitely give Blandy's book a read. Thanks for the recommendation!
How would city-states work in the age of nukes? It will lead to nothing but predation (see Mortal Engines for a YA take, what I'd give to watch the City of New York pursuing Roanoke or Asheville across the plains from atop the Chrysler building)

I don't see how these "tech titans" who understand economies of scale think scaling governments down is an improvement, so I suspect there is (self?) deception at play, and what they are optimizing for is minimizing oversight over their activities, and I suppose they see themselves as taking control of the cities and picking off the neighboring later... In this magical-thinking-land, Canada, Mexico, Russia and China will leave weakened city-states unmolested out of respect of the billionaires? The reasoning is juvenile and/or dishonest.
Tariffs are just taxes on poor people. Everything becomes more expensive. You want to spend $3 on a plastic spatula at Target? Well now that costs $7.
Maybe stop giving tax cuts to rich people instead of downgrading the USA to a regional power?
Cultural, if I’ll be honest. Until kids are taught and indoctrinated in school that public cleanliness is net good for everyone, hard to see it change.
Biden 2020 was supposed to be civility prez, I don't think anybody thinks Trump is civil? Zelenskyy personality cult did need a dressing down but I also think it was a piece of a performance art, in all likelihood.
I've read from Hoftadter "I am a strange loop" that should go around those ideas too. The point of how you define consciousness (he does it in a more or less computable way, a sort of self-referential loop), so it may be within the reach of what we are doing with AIs.

But in any case, it is about definitions, not having very strict ones for consciousness, intelligence and so on, and human perception and subjectivity (the Turing Test is not so much about "real" consciousness but if an observer can decide if is talking with a computer or a human).
Or. You use technology. Even places like Saudi Arabia have water for everyone. We cannot after hundreds of years predict human behavior with much accuracy but we can fix water problems.
I would just add `git rebase -i` to the mix. Very useful to clean up a work branch before submitting it for others. Sometimes you just need a bunch of "wip" commits, e.g. testing CI scripts, deploying a optimization on the side for further testing, etc. and rebase is a must if you care about the commit log.
Literally every language is inscrutable to most humans on Earth. But they all work fairly well for those in the club that know them!
I use ChatGPT to generate code a lot, and it's certainly useful, but it has given me issues that are not obvious.

For example, I had it generate some C code to be used with ZeroMQ a few months ago. The code looked absolutely fine, and it mostly worked fine, but it made a mistake with its memory allocation stuff that caused it to segfault sometimes, and corrupt memory other times.

Fortunately, this was such a small project and I already know how to write code, so it wasn't too hard for me to find and fix, though I am slightly concerned that some people are copypasting large swaths of code from ChatGPT that looks mostly fine but hides subtle bugs.
There's not even a privacy notice on the website, is that legal?
Understand the Joule Thief Circuit
It sounds like Sergey is going to cause another exodus of talented employees to their own AI startups. Why anyone with talent would work at Google these days is beyond me.
See my answer to the sibling comment, it's not meant as an ill'will comment, otherwise I would add, if people completely abandoned Firefox due to a lack of safeguards and trust, then yes, that would be even worse than establishing said safeguards.
A CIA informant stopped Taiwan from developing nuclear weapons
And even on the other end of the political spectrum you'll find individuals and groups using loopholes or trying to use tactics/interpretations that suit their goals. This isn't something new. Pretty much any of these EOs have similar past ones that are either forgotten or were largely ignored because they happened one at a time. The scope and rate of change is just much higher now than in any memorable past (eg wouldn't count internment camps etc as they are too far past).
Raise taxes on rich people, rich people leave the country or invest offshore; or put it into advertising to make sure not one involved politician wins an election ever again.

What is $1 billion to destroy a political career over $10 billion in taxes?
I looked at the frontpage time of those 50 threads and it adds up to almost exactly 300 hours on the front page. That's a lot of hours.

But it was over a total time span of 900 hours, so still pretty easy to miss all 50 threads. This is the way the HN frontpage works: no one sees everything that makes the front page (not even us), and it's entirely possible to miss the largest threads and most-discussed topics.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 is by now the second-largest thread in HN's history and spent 16 hours on the front page, but there are still going to be thousands of regular HN readers who never saw it, and some of those will probably feel angry about that and say that it has been "silenced" and "censored" and so on. That's the way this works.

Ultimately, it works that way because of fundamentals, meaning there's not much we can do about it. The solution is not to have 100 threads with 80k comments on the frontpage for 600 hours, instead of 50 threads with 40k comments for 300 hours, even though that's probably what most people who feel frustrated probably think they want. Rather the solution is to articulate the principles by which HN operates, and keep sticking to those principles over time.

I've been posting a ton about that in recent weeks, although (by the same dynamic I just described!) many readers won't yet have seen any of those posts. Here are two entry points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011
It won’t. Especially when you use private relay on an iPhone, it won’t use local DNS (except if the requested domain isn’t found, it can probably still route local domain names?).
I'm one of those people who is happier when spending some time in the office each week and have said that when surveyed.

Don't assume survey results that run counter to your anecdotal experience have been fabricated.
> To ensure that we continue to thrive in an even more complex future, we must commit, across every part of our institution, to a sustainable budget today.

Are they implicitly admitting they have been living on an unsustainable budget so far?

Seeing other comments bringing up the numbers of staff vs students+faculty would suggest that’s the case…
The script author however didn't. CORS is more about the remote giving consent to exfiltrate the data than it is about preventing injecting the data into it. You can always reject the data coming in
Depends on the source of that carbon
I'm struggling to understand the point you're trying to make there. Is there any content at all in your comment?
Social scientists researching the likely social effects of climate change.

They seem more qualified for that specific question than climate scientists, honestly.
You are right about it not being a beginner friendly book. Hence why I placed it lower in the order of books to study.

Yeah Rust atomics and locks is essential if you truly want to understand low-level concurrency. But you might have to also refer to the C++ std::atomics reference [1] to get a complete idea. It took me a while to grasp those concepts.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic
> I’ll finish this rant with a related observation: I keep seeing people say “if I have to review every line of code an LLM writes, it would have been faster to write it myself!”

> Those people are loudly declaring that they have under-invested in the crucial skills of reading, understanding and reviewing code written by other people. I suggest getting some more practice in. Reviewing code written for you by LLMs is a great way to do that.

Not only is this a massive bundle of assumptions but it's also just wrong on multiple angles. Maybe if you're only doing basic CRUDware you can spend five seconds and give a thumbs up but in any complex system you should be spending time deeply reading code. Which is naturally going to take longer than using what knowledge you already have to throw out a solution.
Sure, and that speaks at least partially to the incorrectness of the classic theory of the state in those branches of Marxism.

(I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater though. There are theoreticians who have added a lot more nuance here, especially Poulantzas)
True, I did not see that. My bad, sorry!
A lot of the research seems really useful. I don't understand why we wouldn't prioritize understanding how to prevent drug cartel recruitment (one of the examples cited in the article).
There were a lot of different algorithms in use back then. I don't know if there is a winner used in modern chips.
Thanks for the reply. I read a lot, and I've never encountered this term before. Seems like "in defense of" would be every bit as good, and universally understood.
Unilad is a terrible source and market cap is a terrible measure
With the vastness of the political spectrum and volume of voters, one can find "millions" of voters that support cuts to almost any program.
I always thought the heat was the driver. There has historically been more crime in the summer than in the winter, for example. Heat makes you do crazy things, as some noir novel probably said.
Guess where the internet came from.
Yeah. DOGE might make sense if you're trying to cut the deficit. Tax cuts make no sense in that context.
The rich are... rich.

They can move at any time, anywhere.

There will always be a country that will receive them with open arms.

Income redistribution will never happen.
Yeah they spend money on space launches meanwhile UK taxpayers pay for aid to help starvation in areas in India.
The heat pump works by pumping the heat out of the ground. And the soil is a pretty good insulator, so you'll eventually just freeze the water in the soil around the pipes.

It looks like this: one day in winter, the temperature of the coolant in the loop outlet falls below 0C. And after that, it starts dropping down by about 1C a day, until the pump becomes a resistive heater. If you sized your loop correctly, it hopefully happens towards the end of the heating season.
In fundamental science terms, it also proves once and for all that more model doesn't mean more better. Any forces within OpenAI pushing to move past just growing the model for gains now have a strong argument for going all-in on new processes.
You could cut all of it and it wouldn’t solve the problems you listed. It would just create new ones by closing off a major valve to the country’s R&D pipeline.
Assuming you believe R&D is a worthwhile investment, what non-government alternatives would you propose for funding it?
netbird is more interesting as it's able to rely on kernel-mode wireguard when peers can see each other directly, and fall back to the userspace implementation.
> Computers are symbol manipulating machines and moreover are restricted to a finite set of symbols (states) and a finite set of rules for their transformation (programs).

> [...] there will be truths that the computer can simply never reach.

It's true that if you give a computer a list of consistent axioms and restrict it to only output what their logic rules can produce, then there will be truths it will never write -- that's what Godel's Incompleteness Theorem proves.

But those are not the only kinds of programs you can run on a computer. Computers can (and routinely do!) output falsehoods. And they can be inconsistent -- and so Godel's Theorem doesn't apply to them.

Note that nobody is saying that it's definitely the case that computers and humans have the same capabilities -- it MIGHT STILL be the case that humans can "see" truths that computers will never be able to. But this argument involving Godel's theorem simply doesn't work to show that.
I've found this on par with 4.5 in tone, but not as nuanced in connecting super wide ideas in systems, 4.5 still does that best: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/thinking

(also: the person you are responding to is doing exactly what you're saying you don't want done, take something unrelated to the original text (Taylorism) but could sound good, and jam it in)
It tripped me up too initially, but they added a nice workaround to it so one doesn't need to disable the deleting cookies completely.

On the pages where you want to stay logged in like in HN, click the lock icon left of the URL and toggle "LibreWolf: Always store cookies/data for this site" and that's it.

There's certainly something refreshing about knowing exactly for which sites I'm storing cookies (so far kagi, HN, gmail, YT...)
Understanding how changes affect other cultures/regions can be useful in a globally connected world and world conflict.
Its all pop pseudoscience.
Things exist.
Anything that exists has an identity.
Physics exists and other things (simulations, computing, etc.) that exist are subject to those physics.
To say that it happens the other way around is poor logic and/or lacks falsifiability.
It is great you can quickly judge the value of a 5 year research project.
Tough crowd!

Curious what you found incomprehensible about it. I know I've taken a pretty novel approach here. The tutorial doesn't work for everyone, but it's been generally quite well-received (e.g. [1] [2] and many other people, both on social media and privately to me) and has helped a lot of people really understand the implications of monadic behavior for the first time. I'm happy to listen to feedback and see how I can improve on my writing in the future.

[1] https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/the-best-monad-tutorial/

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/deobald.bsky.social/post/3liqqxrltq...
Something tells me wheel survive with a smaller budget for social science studies.
Maybe it has a lot to do with Trump's tax cut to the rich. Unsurprisingly, they didn't work as expected, reports the Financial Times:

https://youtu.be/AdwFchjz2e8?si=6fjZv6NWe6Q-VItN
This data is stored on your computer, not on anyone elses. (or if the website owner decides, it's stored there, but this would be indepdent of the browser used)
Working with the most charitable interpretation of your view, is the idea that Peter Higgs would have patentented the Higgs boson, CERN would have paid him royalties to attempt to produce it, and CERN and Higgs together would have sold the rights to a trust that was able to collect royalties on all products whose invention required the use of electroweak theory? It would have to be a patent term that lasted about 100 years, otherwise Maxwell wouldn't have been able to fund Maxwell's laws.
I'm a bit confused, why are tariffs better?
>Sorry to be blunt, but if you created this site by asking a model to do everything, what should we be impressed by?

I know someone, a systems engineer, who has been enjoying creating some software and scripts using ChatGPT. It's great that they're empowered in this way, but I could not be less interested in the code that they share with me multiple times a week. It's like showing a Temu 90c watch to a watchmaker. One could certainly argue that the tech behind LLMs is interesting, but I just cannot find anything interesting about the code produced. Yet users of LLMs really do love showing off whatever it spits out.
> Something in there must be running fast, right?

Nah. It just needs to be really wide. This is a very fuzzy comparison, but a human brain has ~100 trillion synaptic connections, which are the closest match we have to "parameters" in AI models. The largest such models currently have on the order of ~2 trillion parameters. (edit to add: and this is a low end estimate of the differences between them. There might be more stuff in neurons that effectively acts as parameters, and should be counted as such in a comparison.)

So AI models are still at least two orders of magnitude off from humans in pure width. In contrast, they run much, much faster.
Fascist prez didn't really ring well with USA voters during Kamala loss so I expect "you" people to just kind of burn out on the whole strategy. Simply the most likely scenario. The majority of the US voted for a fascist? Just reeks of midwit thinking to most people.
Apple might not release a 'modernized' Siri until 2027
https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/

> The problems with Git are many, though. Most of all, its infamously terrible command line interface results in a terrible user experience. In my experience, very few working developers have a good mental model for Git. Instead, they have a handful of commands they have learned over the years: enough to get by, and little more. The common rejoinder is that developers ought to learn how Git works internally — that everything will make more sense that way.

This is nonsense. Git’s internals are interesting on an implementation level, but frankly add up to an incoherent mess in terms of a user mental model. This is a classic mistake for software developers, and one I have fallen prey to myself any number of times. I do not blame the Git developers for it, exactly. No one should have to understand the internals of the system to use it well, though; that is a simple failure of software design. Moreover, even those internals do not particularly cohere. The index, the number of things labeled “-ish” in the glossary, the way that a “detached HEAD” interacts with branches, the distinction between tags and branches, the important distinctions between commits, refs, and objects… It is not that any one of those things is bad in isolation, but as a set they do not amount to a mental model I can describe charitably. Put in programming language terms: One of the reasons the “surface syntax” of Git is so hard is that its semantics are a bit confused, and that inevitably shows up in the interface to users.
On what timescale? Over even just a few second timescale you are cooling rock, but digging deeper gives higher starting temperatures and more volume to remove heat. So, dig far enough and you can get an above some temperature an arbitrary long period say 100 years.

Given your geothermal power plant operates for 100 years and pulls from say 1w/m2. Then you move to a new location for 100 years, and then come back you’re limited to 1w/m2 + 1w/m2 = 2w/m2. Have not 2 locations but many and eventually you’re fully recharged.
"Other canceled projects investigated whether climate change could lead to armed conflicts over access to fish stocks and how it affects societies in the Sahel."

It's about understanding how a society can change due to climate change, not understanding the actual mechanics of climate change. Do you think that understanding whether or not conflicts stemming from climate change are not useful?
They aren’t the first. Obama: I’ve got a phone, and I’ve got a pen.

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/20/263766043/wielding-a-pen-and-...
Quite a conspiracy theory you have there. Wake up sheeple!
In some respects, I agree. But they aren’t touching much that voters do care about and that’s where the overwhelming majority of spending comes from. Every valid path to actually reducing debt pisses off most of the electorate. It’s “chasing” a noble goal with political theater. What’s happening now is a path to privatization of large swaths of current govt.
Many of the countries they might want to move to have higher tax rates than the US. And, until recently, the US probably had the most significant global clout to back their business ventures with.
Piggy backing on this: memory scaling was slowter than compute scaling, at least since 45nm in the example. For 4nm the difference is larger.
Vortex Assembly
Finland tried a project, drilling two 6km deep holes. The temperature at 6km depth is 120C. The idea was to pump water down one hole, and get heated water up from the second hole. But the rock wasn't porous enough, they could not get enough water to flow from the bottom of one hole to the other hole. So in the end, they couldn't extract enough heat out of the setup.

https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/drilling-finlands-deepest-wel...

https://yle.fi/a/3-12414600
The point likely was that even though both are "geothermal" they aren't really in the same category, so facts about one may not apply to the other.
Good point about releasing co2 from the reservoir, thanks for the correction.

I did not maintain that the aluminum was carbon free.
You could connect airplay to snapcast[0] then use an embedded snapcast player, like mine[1], I do this on an ESP32 with 320KiB of SRAM

[0]: https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

[1]: https://github.com/davidventura/esp-snapcast
I remember wearing ties but tucking it into the shirt (in between the buttons) and also wearing an apron. Incredibly unsafe to just have a tie on normally around machinery so imagine that is just for the photo op.
I'm sorry, but these are further ignorant takes.

You'd rather have nuclear proliferation and US trying to defend itself from any country that can have the capacity to wipe out the US?

Or the US, a country that had terrorist attacks like 9/11, being deprived of intelligence, and support from allies that allowed the US to extend their reach and logistics?

As for the scientific research, are you talking about the mRNA vaccines developed in Germany, to which the US had a privileged access too?

Like how much ignorance will you continue to display in this thread, and to what objective? Please get some help from a LLM or something like that, I won't even ask you to do a Google search.

It's like all your opinions on the matter are acquired from podcasts like Joe Rogan who were pushing Trump and Russian propaganda - it's called podcast knowledge.
Careful with following these instructions, because the profile contains the user settings file. You are effectively nullifying librewolfs changes to the standard settings which are there to disable firefox's tracking/suggestion/analytics features.

Just make sure to diff them at least or migrate the parts you want to keep.
As has been shown by what the US has done repeatedly to other countries — and what has now been done to them — you don't need much to derail a country's progress and have them spiral into regressive regimes...
Not quite.

The original comment (by @animats) specified shallow (viable) versus deep (unviable).

> nobody seems to have a profitable deep geothermal power operation.

That nuance got lost.