skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite, employment participation declined since 2008 but working age population kept increasing until it stagnated near ~2017 according to "Working Age Population: 15-64" statisctis ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTUSM647S ) and stable since ~2006 according to "Working Age Population: 25-64" statistics ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA25TTUSM647S )
One contributing factor is human beings self-selecting for passivity. We lock violent people away, and that dramatically reduces their chances of procreation. Over time, the population is likely to become more passive.

Also, comfort. Life in North America, even for the poor, is more comfortable than life elsewhere on the planet.

Finally, the average human in modern societies is far more cerebral now, because society requires complex interactions to get even simple things done. Thinking about the number of steps required to obtain temporary shelter now (book a hotel or AirBnB) vs 10000 years in the past.

Just speculation in all cases, no hard data to back any of it up.
Yeah I saw the headline and (cuz I’m an adult nerd now?) the copyright issue was first thing to come to my mind. I also grew up playing AD&D 2nd Ed., loved it, glad others are keeping the fun alive. But I’m aware of a few niche hobbyist publications that are relatively rare and will be lost to time unless someone steps forward to sacrifice their own and digitize them. The copyright is not expired but the holders are not easily identifiable after bankruptcies, deaths, etc. This might be a good avenue, but I’m skeptical that they’re as resilient to claims if a quilt work of state-level status recognitions are the only defense.
As someone who isn't buying armor, it in no way hurts me that it's expensive and heavy, but every dollar they spend on armor or weapons to specifically fight people wearing armor instead of a dollar spent on weapons meant to kill people like me is an improvement. I won't say it's smart to buy body armor, it isn't, but it's still in my best interest to encourage the whack jobs to waste their money.
> your investment in your character is so great it's customer abuse to write them out of the story

This is the biggest issue I've run into with some individuals/groups, and one thing DCC really helped with (for them). Character creation in DCC take about 5 minutes, if that. 6x3d6, assign to stats in order, roll on a few more tables, spend your starting coin, ok let's go. It got several people over their hatred/fear of PC death even in our non-DCC games. I'm starting up a Call of Cthulhu game (which is very rough on PC health, both physical and mental) and there's more effort needed to create characters and much more invested in each character, but now that their fear is gone the game should be more enjoyable. Even with the possibility of characters disappearing in the night or losing their minds and becoming useless.
> And that's just recreation...poorer people have less time for that than rich people do.

At least in the US, the poor have significantly more leisure time than the rich.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-fre...
I am amazed and appreciative at how quickly real, informative news hits the internet. Even if nothing comes from added aerial surveillance, the world knows it is happening.
More seriously -- I can't really talk about this in great detail. What I will say is the obvious: Google engineers have been hired in the past at Fitbit and vice versa. Leveling systems aren't perfect, and there's no perfect translation, but there is a rough mapping that can be derived by existing data. One special person even worked at Fitbit, went to Google, later came back to Fitbit, and is now at Google again. We didn't need to interview everyone to build a mapping.
this is where you get into the conversation about chicken and egg.
my hypothesis was geoclimate could have led to increased level of testosterone in Men, not other way around.
What you asked will lead us to ask the the first origin of increased T
Or, they're using ints instead, at least for market data.
Many are in use, often with operations leased out. This produces some modicum of revenue to cover the farm designation. The real upside is the ownership and associated capital appreciation w/o as large an annual carry given reduced property taxes.

On the east coast you often see alpacas; their fur get harvested periodically.

Unfortunately these tricks are common in many states, especially in high tax states with wealthy residents trying to dodge taxes.
It's possible to write a C program that doesn't use either the standard library or POSIX functions.
Keep an eye on the helicopter colors. Are the unmarked helicopters circling the area black? Probably World Government. Not a good area for play that day.

Are they blue? That’s the Sheriff’s Secret Police. They’ll keep a good eye on your kids, and hardly ever take one.

Are they painted with complex murals depicting birds of prey diving? No one knows what those helicopters are, or what they want. Do not play in the area. Return to your home and lock the doors until a Sheriff’s Secret Policeman leaves a carnation on your porch to indicate that the danger has passed. Cover your ears to blot out the screams.

http://www.nightvalepresents.com/welcome-to-night-vale-trans...
> It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world.

Disgusted sure, I am with you on that.

But "can still exist?" With the number of stories just on HN about social media dark patterns and recommendation engine rabbit-holes?

It's difficult to understand that as anything other than puffery.
"But the team found it was also much easier for people with more money to take extra safety measures.

"Higher-income individuals were more likely to report being able to work from home and more likely to have transitioned to telework instead of losing their job. The researchers found the ability to telework emerged as a huge predictor of whether someone would social distance. Compared to somebody who continued to work, people able to telework were 24% more likely to social distance.

"“The whole messaging of this pandemic is you’re stuck at home teleworking, that must be really tough so here are some recipes for sourdough starter, and here’s what you should catch up on Netflix,” Papageorge said. “But what about the people who aren’t teleworking? What are they going to do?”

"The team found lower-income respondents faced increased chances of job and income losses due to the pandemic and limited access to remote work. They were also more likely to live in homes with no access to the outdoors – access to outdoor space was a very strong predictor of social distancing, the researchers found. People with access to open air at home were 20% more likely to social distance.

"All of these burdens ensured those earning the least would have a harder time adopting social-distancing behaviors, which could have prolonged the pandemic, the team found. Social distancing was simply more practical, comfortable and feasible for people with more income."
There is also the issue that people with higher disposable incomes can afford to not work, while people with low or zero disposable income need every hour of work they can scrounge up, so they don’t have the choice to not work.
In retrospect this was a pretty poorly framed point of mine. The point about addition being harder than stated because BPEs break at arbitrary points doesn't make much sense given the previous comment of mine pointed out that GPT-3 can only do addition with comma separators, that mostly (if not quite entirely) defeat that problem. GPT-3 does have to still know the various constructions and additions of 3-digit spans, but that's within its capabilities.
news to me, and welcome news to hear at that since I'm more in the data plumbing and packaging business, not algo publications.

my personal data points are from folks on buyside. trading margins have been downward trending for years
Why is it hard to make programs in lisp? Especially in something like Common Lisp?
Oh absolutely. We'll build completely the wrong thing, but build it well (which just makes it all the harder to throw it away).
Twitter did NOTHING as Trump basically spend the last 4 year inciting a mob on their platform, threatening people, and committing HUNDREDS of violations that would get you and I kicked off.

THEN ... when there is a literal armed insurrection against the capital where TWO police officers died and 5 people total, and they had pipe bombs and hand cuffs to kidnap people, they waited until FRIDAY after the markets closed to ban Trump from the platform.

Twitter's behavior in this entire thing is beyond unacceptable and borders on treasonous.

I really think everyone needs to be calling for @jack to resign.
weights definitely does acutely .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoP6NCGb3oM
My 2 cents is we are much more socialised with the internet. Kids spend less time outside more time knowing what the latest social pressure is. One slip up and you will be cancelled.

Similar to taking a dog to doggy day care they are socialise not to be aggressive, from a young age around other dogs and small children.
theres a terrifying amount of acc/horticulture/anprim edgy twitterposters that follow nick land @outsideness that have a large overlap (if not a circle) with neo nazi twitter
Historical European Martial Arts
I don't think the parent meant any disparagement to actual primitive tribes. Why did you assume that?
This is a point worth emphasizing. So many proposed "AI" use cases insist on trying to make some kind of end-to-end prediction, rather than let ML do something it is well positioned to do (e.g.) search more effectively, and let a person make the judgement for the things that aren't so readily predicted.

My analogy is a weather forecast. Regular forecasts give you the temperature and precipitation, and let you decide what to do based on this. If meteorologists instead black boxed the weather and just tried to tell people what kind of clothes to wear every day, I suspect people would start ignoring the forecast. But this is how so many ML use cases are set up.

I'm happy to see an application that respects ML for what it can do and not try and shoehorn it into the "prediction machines" paradigm.
CMake is what made me realize that makefiles are too hard for humans to type. To this day, in my professional work, I've never seen a make based build system that didn't require the occasional "make clean" to generate a reliable build. The CMake generated makefiles showed me that this mythical text was possible, and the amount of time it saved was really appreciated.
One issue I find as I do a similar thing to the author with small notes/points of knowledge, in form of wiki (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge). Is that it makes sharing things harder as it feels wasteful to share small notes on twitter/hn/..

But besides that, it's strictly superior format as it evolves with time compared to big well researched articles that are more worthy to share.
Fixed precision types technically. Internally they are an int under the hood, so yah basically that.
Do you have a link to the Android thing? I'd be curious to learn more. I always thought early Android had transparency (showing what an app uses) but no control over changing it.
As a transgender person, I also feel that this practice will be (or at least should be) common in the future.

My estrogen levels were too low for a while and this caused me all kinds of side effects. My endocrinologist simply increased my dose. Then we noticed that my testosterone levels were too low, so we reduced the dose and got rid of the testosterone blockers.

After a while we noticed that my levels fluctuated too much during the day. So we switched from pills to injections (which create curves that last a week instead of 24 hours).

This solved my brain fog problems, made it easier for me to fall asleep at night, brought me back to the energy levels I had in my early twenties, etc.

It made me realize how dependent we are on stable hormone levels. I think many people would benefit from hormone therapy or at least annual lab checks.
I mean in the sense that using ML for a problem often requires just trying a dozen different modeling techniques, then a bunch of a hyper-parameter searching, then a bunch of stochastic tuning…
I was wondering, did you do the UI/UX yourself? Or you hired someone?
Since switching to DDG, I haven't used Google Search once nor !g. I've had a better experience with DDG: no sponsored results, less skewed rankings, less censoring (Google removes many results from DMCA requests), and of course no tracking. Google's lazy-loaded useless suggestion boxes, added a few years ago, that push the content down, often when clicking on a link, were my final annoyance before switching. For the first bit after switching, I missed seeing the daily Google doodles, but I'm now more cynical towards Google and no longer care.
The next time they tell you that, ask if you can visit and film their factory farms.
I did not mentionned political affiliations. I don't understand why everyone seems to focus on politics recently. Yes, there have been troubling events, but the world did not stop revolving
If they work e.g. in a hedge fund / trading firm, then - yea. And you see lots of PhDs from unrelated fields working as quants there.
This is not a discussion of protocols, it's a discussion of being associated with known bad actors.

Suppose that I have a history of doing semi-illegal things and that my wallet is publicly associated with real personhood.

Example. gretch = id 1234; buys drugs which are legal in country x and highly illegal elsewhere

Now one day I come to your completely legal business and make a completely legal transaction

Example. I come to your bakery and get my wedding catered

Now you just received a lot of money from an account which is on several bad actor lists and you have to explain what happened. Okay, you can try to explain that the services rendered were completely legitimate; hopefully the investigators will believe you because that's what all money launderers try to do.

Alternatively, you as the caterer need to research the actor behind incoming transaction for your innocuous service.
I think it’s insane Bill waited a whole decade to jump in EV bandwagon.
Ask HN: Dear tech managers, how to make you open my email?
We're building a data product [1] for the alternative data market.

I want to interview as many CTOs, CDOs, VP of Data, Head of Data, PMs from many different industries to find those for whom we resolve a must-have problem.

Tech managers are much more difficult to get in contact, in my opinion.

Could you share some great examples of emails that you wanted to open and reply. Important: not those personal type of emails where sender read all you blog posts, please.

Thx!

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
can we not link to toxic websites like Reddit?
Growing customer success at scale-UPS
Probably too many pricing options.

And they could do with more explanation about what the options contain.

And the last 'tab' of the pricing options reveals the $10k and upwards cost of 'unlocking'. Maybe be a bit more upfront about that.
What Apple does with the iPhone 'closed ecosystem' seems very relevant for owners of Samsung handsets...

Decisions made in their 'closed'ecosystems leak in the rest of the world.
Here is a pretty neat tcl->Llvm compiler
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclquadcode/dir

There is a talk on youtube about it I know
Just like with data science, don't we expect data engineering to get to a point where they codify best practices into a tool, so 1x data engineers can be closer to be as effective as 10x data engineers? The amount of data engineering work won't change, but the number of people needed to do it will reduce, reducing the open headcounts.
We could probably quibble on the precise definition of “revolution”[0], but it sure wouldn’t be the first time one part of a government has riled up a mob to attack another part of the government. The results are usually what you’d enthusiastically call “not a good time”. Seeing the executive attack the legislature with a mob is unusual though, as usually the executive leverages their control of the military in these sorts of self-coups.

0 - While I would argue that installing trump for a second term would constitute a revolution, it’s an interesting question whether or not the rioters saw themselves as revolutionary. Calling 1/6 the new 1776 certainly implies yes, but a lot of them seem to think that they were actually a pro-constitution group there to undo a coup done by “the deep state”. Long story short, it’s complicated.
But that’s the thing. I work for a bank. If I had unlimited access to all transaction data without needing to request elevated access and jumping some more hoops, it would greatly speed up my daily work.

But...it would also greatly increase the damage any hacker could do.

Same applies to Google. It’s super convenient to have everything “on Google”. Until the day Google is exposed/hacked/turns evil. Then it’s a disaster.

Hoping the above won’t happen is not a strategy but a gamble.
There are packages on Hex that haven't been updated in a long time but still work perfectly (Canada, for example: https://github.com/jarednorman/canada). Elixir itself doesn't change much... in fact there's no plans for a 2.0 on the horizon, so the fact that packages don't change often isn't a big deal if they still do what they say they do and aren't hurting for more features.
I think all that will be left in Bay-Area are FAANG type companies, and the 0.1% type people.

The remaining companies that are pre-IPO or pre-exit will be "go big or go home" types.

SF and Bay-Area at that point is basically a status indicator.
I don't want to just silently remove the image. I'm not in the habit of editing myself to suit the passersby. I do think the image should be provided with context. It is not the only thing associated with 9front that people have targeted for removal.

I am not 'ignoring this.' I am addressing it right here, and on Mastodon. I enjoy it when Internet people make throwaway accounts to accuse me of cowardice, but I'm confused about which 'guts' I'm lacking. Is it the one where I did something, took responsibility for it, explained my actions, and then engaged in conversation with people who were concerned about my motives?
Your professor didn't start doing that at your university. I knew who you were talking about before even visiting your link, although the home directory sealed it: Brian Stuart. Very useful to study (and modify) a small OS.
> I can't put my finger on why I dislike 5e, other just having a "corporate polish". Maybe the rules are too articulated, over-specified, or maybe it's just too clean and modern.

IMO 5e isn't engaging in the right ways -- characters, and combat, become the primary context everything revolves around, and the dungeon itself falls to the wayside. Both because it's fairly easy, and encourages the DM to not kill you (even subtly, like the absurdly time-consuming character generation), so there's little reason to see the dungeon itself as a threat, and a tool. Skills get so minutely defined that even if you have a novel strategy, your character background strongly defines whether you can execute it (to the point that it's much easier to fall into standard patterns, and the dungeon is so nonthreatening that you can continue to do so indefinitely).

There's simply too little freedom and leeway in how you approach things, defining so many rules and contexts its not worth the trouble to continuously do novel things, but at the same time so expansive that it takes ages to get anything done. And the rules largely slow down the most uninteresting parts of the game -- standard combat, basic activities (leaping caverns and such), standard communication with NPCs, etc.

I mean its slow. The ruleset is fundamentally and ridiculously slow.
Quant research work isn't data science work which is probably where the mix up is.

On the quant side bonuses are distributed to the team.
And the whole "lets use this couple digit number that cannot be changed as authorization/authentication/proof of identity". Why can someone use the SSN to supplant identities?
Do you even know where the barricades were and where this photo was? He said that photo was on the lawn. If this guy was guilty he would have already been arrested by the FBI. Guy is in a suit and a public personality. He's even still got his Twitter account, despite the Purge. The rest of the article goes on to imply that the addresses who received Bitcoin were also involved in the riot but provides absolutely no evidence to that claim. The donor's motivations do not mention some sort of secret plan to attack the Capitol.
Google Brain’s Switch Transformer Language Model Packs 1.6T Parameters
> more than half of HN wouldn't know that quote

The donor here is not comparable to typical HN users. They've gone out of their way to make a large donation to known white supremacists.

Also, if you read the donor's suicide note (in the article), there is a reference to the Weimar Republic and there is a holocaust denier code phrase. (I won't encourage its spread by copying it here, but it's in one of the highlighted sections.)
> the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States

Emphasis on "early stages".

When there was no data available and before the issue was politicised, of course it made sense for people who could afford it to preventively self-isolate.

Poor people simply didn't have an option (as in many other things).
This is eyebrow raising but hardly the news to lose any sleep over. If for example Google were to unilaterally purge sci-hub from its search results (for “greater good”, not as a result of however questionable but legal-at-this-point takedown request) that would be a serious escalation.
The point was that this is how he chooses to spend his money. For whatever reason I guess it makes him feel good. Which his cool but he has vastly more autonomy over his money than regular mortals - as do many other HNW individuals, they’re not all as kind hearted as Bill though.
If you want to find a bug in your software, make a live demonstration.
> sleep deprivation/disruption

Add to that an extremely unhealthy work trend. 50 years ago, an ordinary factory employee could feed on a regular full time wage a wife that could stay home, two kids, have a simple house, health insurance and go on a vacation once a year.

Today? Two jobs (and/or extreme overtime) for both people to make rent, home ownership rates dropped because even simple homes run up for well over a million dollars, 2008ff/corona have caused an immense wage depression, and people regularly go to gofundme for medical issues or go bankrupt.

Add to that: highly processed, unhealthy food is way cheaper than fresh, selfmade food, and people living paycheck to paycheck can't afford bulk purchases or Whole Foods. The effect of food on health is more than sufficiently documented.

That is an immense mental toll, and not just in the US but worldwide.
I looked around for a roadmap, but I haven't found one. I imagine that indexing large portions of the web is a huge investment, hopefully they can do more as time goes on and money comes in.
libimobiledevice can do it too.
I agree it's not the only thing contributing, but this would be a great place to experiment with those kinds of changes.
Have you read The Mom Test? https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/... Also, Rob Fitzpatrick did a youtube series focused on remote interviewing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWqxq2fJgY&t=1s
Great to see new rendering stacks being used.