skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What makes you think that the dress code is what made them behave...

Well, for me, it's a lifetime (nearly) of observing how people who dress up for an occasion behave as opposed to those who don't. Churches would make for an interesting exploration in regards to this topic, some still dress, many don't. I don't think your points your other three points are invalid, though.

I didn't know that the Castle had become so expensive. I was a member for about three years in the 80's. At the time, as a blue-collar stiff, I found it quite affordable -- of course, I paid no cover charge.

While some hoped to see celebrities there, a not infrequent occurrence, I was thrilled to meet close-up magic icons like John Carney, Derek Dingle, and Dai Vernon, and to watch many other notables such as Daryl, Bruce Cervon, Eugene Burger, Paul Harris, and Earl Nelson.

One day, a couple of blocks over, at Hollywood Magic (a magic retailer) I watched Harry Anderson of Night Court fame, throwing three-card monte on the customer side of the counter while holding his three-year-old daughter in one arm as he did it -- perhaps he just stood her on the counter with his arm around her as he threw? Not sure, it's been many years. Despite, being very familiar with the sleight, I could not follow the movement of the queen any better than any mark would/could. He was about as humble as they come, and I couldn't have cared much less about his celebrity, but I sure was impressed with his technique.
Roth IRA is the most important thing. Max that contribution as much as possible and go with mutual funds based on your risk profile. I bonds are hot right now. If you do stocks, go for some stable dividend paying companies.
I think that depends on if someone believes we should be expanding, or that the human race provides some value that's worth preserving.
You really know you are dealing with a serious bike enthusiast when you see a DIY Sheffield stand installation in the front garden. Many such cases in Oxford and Bristol ofc...
Totally agree, it was different in 2001 and 2008/2009 as inflation wasn't a major factor, now inflation is essentially acting like an additional tax. So if people lose 8-10% for a couple of years and salaries stagnate I think we will see much different market condition especially for employment.
For some people, yes, but various cultures throughout time gave people, that we'd diagnose with some form of schizophrenia-related conditions today, somewhat revered or respected positions as prophets, medicine men, etc for the very real mental experiences they had. That is to say that some people may have been in it for power, but there are some that were earnest in their experiences, having really experienced something spiritual, even if it was just in their heads.
I use Xournal regularly for solving puzzles -- what's the motivation for the rewrite / fork? Why use the name? I tried looking on the website but didn't see any obvious answer
> Programmer pay will decrease compared to other industries.

It is supply and demand for smart people. So far, demand for smart people increased throughout times. If earth will make more smart people or if they will be replaced/augmented with A(G)I, then pay will subside.
As a third party in this conversation, and someone who uses emacs daily - I/O hangs seem to be something that is a pretty frequent issue for users.

My emacs likes to crash sometimes, usually a few times a week. Hopefully I’ll be able to take some time to bisect my config and see what’s going on. Looks like a memory leak.
> All projects in C++ will remain C++ forever.

Anybody who believes this ought to think it an excellent reason to stay away from C++. For actual software projects I mean. Obviously if you want a career writing books (like the one reviewed) or on the conference circuit, or training, or several other prospects, this is great news. C++ is a good language it which to charge somebody $1000 per day plus expenses to tell them what they already knew.

But if you actually write software, or worse, if you need software but that isn't really what you actually wanted to do just a necessity like farmers need to know how to drive a tractor, then this ought to put you off. C++ doesn't want to be your best choice, according to ncmncm anyway, it wants to be a trap you fall into and can't get out of. Run away!
Agriculture and municipal uses much more water than industry in AZ. Shockingly even with the population growth total state water use hasn’t increased due to conservation efforts.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme...
cryptocoin miners using stolen cards
The buildings in the path of Killdozer[1] didn't stand up. The machine penetrated them with ease. Are the engineers who designed them in jail now, or what? Or was it understood that designing a building to not give way to the fate of a rogue bulldozer was not a necessary feature of the original design because at some point you have to accept that a determined enough human will find a way in no matter what? Even if you do design it to withstand a bulldozer, the determined human will just bring in something more powerful. The determined human is clever and unpredictable, which doesn't realistically fit the engineering model of working within known constraints.

I would offer that there is good reason why building security (e.g. police) is its own profession, not a traditional engineering discipline.

[1] https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/this-man-barely-escaped-kil...
The book reviewed is essentially backward-looking. It treats C++11 and newer features as inherently suspect. Its suspicions of newer features are based on superstition. You should not buy or pay attention to recommendations in this book unless obliged by employment at Bloomberg, and often not then.

The book covers only up to C++14 because that is the latest Standard that Bloomberg has managed to field. They got to use C++11 only a couple of years back. Code written at Bloomberg is not, as a rule, good code. The BDE library much (but not all) Bloomberg code relies on is, while nominally open source, not used outside Bloomberg, for reasons. (When BDE group were directed to start reviewing outside pull requests, all discussion was of how to find time to reject whatever might come up. They need not have worried.)

This is not a good book unless what you need is a doorstop.
40% of insect species are declining and 1/3 are endangered. In terms of biomass, we're losing 2.5% of all insects every year at the current rate. Insects are essential contributors to the biosphere, both as pollinators and as food sources.

If that's not a "threat to all life on earth," I don't know what is. And that's just what I could find with 5 seconds of googling.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...
The ads are notifications. They aren’t injected into the page.

You clearly have never used Brave.
> Something like 5 million people die every year,

Then why do we mount anything at all, death count of all terrorist attacks and shooting combined is insignificant
Google is not taking over the world

https://www.saasgenius.com/blog/why-office-365-is-overtaking...
"I think DALL-E assumes that anybody in the vicinity of a raven must be a Goth, and anybody in a library must be at least sort of Hermione Granger (I bet its corpus included a lot of Harry Potter fan art)"

You get what you pay for.
Wonderful. Love Doctorow, and this piece makes good points, even if it does veer into Black Mirror "contrived circumstances to maximize cruelty potential of new tech" territory. The key aspect of this story is that poor people are forced to use bad tech to secure housing. Doctorow captures the pathos of it, the resentful landlords getting back at "the poors" any way they can - this rings true. But at least in my world, it really is a matter of choosing a Brother laser printer instead of a shitty Epson color laserjet - and it's a $100 mistake if you pick wrong. Which is low stakes in my world. (of course one of the key elements of this story is "when worlds collide" and $100 is life-changing stakes for some)
If anyone's curious, the discussion from 2019 got
1,343 points and 601 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
I personally feel that the word that most accurately describe the windows 95,98 and XP startup sounds is "cathartic". Specially the slowed down versions.

The closest way to describe my experience of hearing these startup music is like Tom Haverford from parks and rec saying,"A piece of art caused me to have an emotional reaction. Is that normal?"
It wouldn’t be a lower cost office once you count support costs and retraining
They assumed he was a engineer being social, not a social engineer.
NYC runs shelters rather than housing first. NYC has a larger homeless population than LA.

In LA 3 times more homeless people died than in NYC.

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/three-times-more...
> I’m suggesting Reddits origin story leads to a website like Reddit

I'm referencing an example of a broader principle and you're interpreting it as a specific recommendation. Stack overflow overcame the empty website problem by having two founders each with widely followed blogs. That brought enough users on day 1 to generate content. In some way, the problem must be dealt with because an empty website doesn't go anywhere.

> The niche of a site like this is to not be going for growth at the expense of intellectual discussion.

This as much depends on the founder's goals as any growth tactic. Not all podcasts are intellectual.
That's awesome. How long did it take/how many festivals before you started to feel they were real friends you can count on in day-to-day life rather than just being 'festival friends'?
Lightbulb cartel, I agree. But that's ancient history now.

Any current "cartel" would no doubt also have a Wikipedia page write-up. Maybe I should have said I am unaware of any current planned-obsolescence directive.

I was, to be sure, putting some of the blame on the consumer, there are other reasons though — like the always moving technology wavefront that makes composite-video "obsolete", SCSI "obsolete", etc.

Your printer example is the first I had heard about a printer designed to stop after 'n' prints. That sounds ripe for a class-action lawsuit.
IIRC Eno was really into the Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer around the time he did the Windows 95 sound, it was almost certainly created using that hardware and then later someone mastered it to a wav file (perhaps using a pirated copy of soundforge).
This reminds me of credit card fraud and how companies (like VISA) dont seem to care either. As long as they are not held liable for the losses (or it does not cause a drop in users) why would they?

Is there a class-action lawsuit possibility in both cases?
Elon Musk does not come out positive.
That is a factor. One of many. It was important in understanding the origins and how it originally spread. Especially since originally it was considered only a gay disease and knowing that it was spread originally by women to straight sailors is important to know. The promiscuous part was important because it was many partners that allowed HIV to spread. If people were monogamous then it wouldn’t have spread as much.

This is not assigning blame specifically. It’s discussing the origin of a disease.

The disease very likely would have spread in different ways as it’s hard to know what would have happened. But this vector occurred.

Would you rather it not be known and discussed?
So should they replace every single system they use with open source software - even if it’s worse?
JL Collins has some good advice. Unbiased and simple to follow rules for long term investment: https://jlcollinsnh.com/

Good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71ibcZAX3I
We generated images from text. We generate videos from text. What's next? We generate a bug free video games or business application source code from text?

What would happen if we can translate videos into holograms that can be projected into the living room. In fact hologram virtual objects that can be felt even.

Everything is converging to the ultimate use case: porn and virtual sex.

A solution against population decline or population explosion might be to conjure up holographic sex objects. It will cost nothing to the participant, only their sperm or eggs submitted to a government affiliated contractor.

To increase population, the freemium user donates their sperm or eggs fulfilment center. To decrease population, the user notices nothing the fertile fulfillment center is tasked with rejecting or accepting constant stream of sperm and eggs.

Babies born out of this state system would literally own nothing and be happy. Their foster parents have access to all well being and health resources provided by the state. Divorce is at an all time low due to the fact that people marry solely for the purpose, as nobody needs to work for a roof or gas anymore. Every need, every high (state regulated ofc), every material need (permanent hologram tactile objects that looks indistinguishable from the real thing but fixed to a specific room or ultrasound speaker lined walls).

Humanity is chained to this Matrix like system where humans are harvested and where the participant only provides seed and in return receive everything from the state. Food, shelter, entertainment, simulation of meaningful work (euro truck simulator 2223), all is provided and you will own nothing and be happy.
Dave Ramsey has studied how common millionaires got their wealth.

https://www.ramseysolutions.com/retirement/the-national-stud...

"But they didn’t risk their money on single-stock investments or “an opportunity they couldn’t pass up.” In fact, no millionaire in the study said single-stock investing was a big factor in their financial success. Single stocks didn’t even make the top three list of factors for reaching their net worth.

Three out of four millionaires (75%) said that regular, consistent investing over a long period of time is the reason for their success. So, the story about the young computer genius who developed an app that earned millions overnight is the exception, not the rule."
As an ML researcher, simple back of the envelope math shows you that the scaling hypothesis is totally wrong. We will never reach human-level AI by simply scaling what we have today.

GPT-3 has 10^11 parameters and needs 10^14 bytes of training data. Averaged performance on a bunch of benchmarks is 40-50% depending on what kind of prompts you provide: https://res.cloudinary.com/dyd911kmh/image/upload/f_auto,q_a... 10x fewer parameters drops your performance by about 10%.

If you just linearly extrapolate that graph, and ML doesn't generally scale linearly, models tend to peter out eventually, you're talking about needing models that are 10^6 or more larger with a similar increase in training data. This is.. starting to be impractical.

That's 10^17 or more parameters and 10^20 or more data. And that's assuming the models actually continue to learn.

This is also extrapolating with an average. Datasets in machine learning are not difficulty calibrated at all. We have no idea how to measure difficulty. So this extrapolation is being driven by the easier datasets, and it won't saturate the hard ones. For example, GPT-3 makes a lot of systematic errors and there are plenty of benchmarks where it just isn't very good regardless of how many parameters it has.

Our understanding of what intelligence is in the first place is the biggest hurdle here. This is why we can't benchmark systems. Why we can't come up with a benchmark, where performance on that benchmark means we're x% of the way toward an intelligent system. As systems get better, our benchmarks and datasets get better to keep up with them. So just saying we're going to saturate performance on today's benchmarks with some model that has 10^17 parameters just doesn't mean much at all.

We have no guarantee and no reason to expect that doing well on today's benchmarks, even if we invested trillions of dollars would matter in the grand scheme of things.

Doesn't mean these models can't be useful. But there's plenty more to do before we can just say "take what we have and invest $1T to scale it up and we'll be good to go".
Sure but there are plenty of OLAP solutions like Greenplum, and extension-based offerings like Citus and Timescale, that can all partition and scale across nodes to massive datasets with column-oriented storage.

AWS Redshift is also built on Postgres (although a much older and customized version).
I had seen an interesting video about this on YouTube lately but I can’t find the link… but searching yielded this which seems just as good: How Music Composers Are Replacing The Sound Of Engines In Cars https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JEvecS_fI
The Final Frontier: US Has Its First Exascale Supercomputer
Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of Recent FTC Developments (2021)
this sounds like such a pain in the ass just to do my finances when other tools do it all for me…
It was common to use Phusion Passenger at the time and it had a similar deployment story.
Unless you already start with the assumption that all mental processing is language, I don't think "rotating gears in your head" qualifies as a language. I mean, you can have discussions about what constitutes "language", but there are a number of expected attributes, and visually rotating shapes in your mind doesn't possess any of them.
Look for courses/certifications that don't need to be renewed but are still highly recognized, like stuff from Offensive Security (though they don't have anything mobile specific).
Brian didnt use a PC though, so its possible it was someone downstream that used the cracked soundforge. That version of SoundForge was what I used in college very heavily. I should look at my old sample folder and see how many have the watermark...
You're right. It's funny you mention law because my brother-in-law is a partner at a large law firm. He took family time: 3 hours away from work on a Sunday evening for an extended family dinner. The guy works crazy hard.

The odd thing is how John Maynard Keynes predicted that we'd have a 15 hour work week. If you translated everyone's salary at the dinner table from a 60 hour work week to a 15 hour work week, they'd be just fine (except for me, I'd need a 20 hour work week). But where are those jobs? It seems like you've got to work crazy hours for a crazy large amount of money.
Or if inflation exceeds growth. Either way, if the implicit assumption exists that economy is a zero-sum or negative sum game, ...
Newtons, at least the 2000/2100, and possibly the 130 IIRC, supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards, including both WaveLAN IEEE (first gen 802.11 DSSS) and Proxim RangeLAN (first gen 802.11 FHSS) wireless LAN cards.

But the NewtonOS user experience was very much based around an occasionally-connected model, with syncing between the PDA and a "master" device or beaming between PDAs, and built-in support for inbox and outbox stores that would accumulate items to be dealt with once connectivity was lost or regained.

So although there ended up being a bunch of TCP/IP-based Internet stuff for Newtons, it was very much "bolted on the side", even more so than MacOS and Win95 around the same time, because the interaction model was hard-wired against constant connectivity.

Newtons also supported an infra-red version of AppleTalk, using an adapter connected to the built-in AppleTalk connector. This supported the usual AppleTalk network services -- wireless printing was the most useful.

Unfortunately, I think Apple lost a lot of the institutional knowledge from the Newton project before the iPhone was developed, or perhaps it was never that widespread even inside Apple. But perhaps most crucially, Jobs hated the stylus, and thus we got multi-touch gestural input, which is perhaps the major differentiating feature that the iPhone popularized.
Ignorance does not make an authority.

Little of what "tialaramex" writes is correct, and none of substance.
Suck up those taxes! Suck them up! Just pay them! Subordinate yourself to the authority of the State that governs the place you do business, it's the least you can do.

Don't cheat the orphanage! Push through the friction!

The State of California gave me a huge break that I would have never gotten on my own. I did the math and the taxes I pay turn into that help at a 1/1000000 (one millionth) efficiency rate. That's awesome, that may be a high hurdle for everyone else but for me it's a great deal, because I can get speedups as great or greater, with just that help they gave me. So in fact a 1000000000x (one billion times) speedup was possible directly due to this break they gave me, so the ROI is already 1000x (a thousand times). And once they unlock that, hey that's just the beginning, sky's the limit! That 1Bx speedup (1 billion times) is actually an undersell, I could have kept going and gotten a 1000000000000x speedup (trillion times) and kept going and going beyond that, literally ad nauseam (numbers that would sicken you by looking at them, literally that). It's just a trillion-x speedup is too big, people get dizzy, there's no metaphors, people distrust the problem you're solving if you get that speedup, it's better to say a billion. There's metaphors for that (difference between wheelbarrow of dirt and a mountain, two seconds and the human lifetime, jumping a foot off the ground and going to the Moon). It's the biggest number that really fits in people's heads.

But they're both still big speedups that vastly overcome the meaningless 1000000x hurdle that taxation and redistribution impose.

Advice: value the taxes you pay at more than 0%. Fine, not 100% or more, but not 0% or less. Say 20%, to start with. Start by reducing what you deduct from your taxes, limit that to the things the State really doesn't want you paying taxes for. But on business lunches! Dude cough it up completely!

And in the process get rid of the tax lawyers and accountants who tell you to do contortions for tax reasons. Then you'll see your business with clarity.
Don't worry, like most forum applications post-1995 HN has basic privacy controls, like editing posts or at least deleting old ones.

Jk it's impossible after a short time.
Tried the easter egg in the Einstein emulator?

https://eeggs.com/items/538.html
They are called DBAs.
It's not creative in the sense that it's clearly an automaton and has no awareness of culture, history, or context.

It seems to operate like a huge multidimensional map of an image space with some verbal tags stuck into it rather randomly, and with style transfer applied as an operator to merge different features in the results.

What it needs is an equivalent map for the concepts behind the signposts, and also a mapping between concepts and images.

The concept map would be very hard to train because a concept space that includes all of culture and history would be huge and messy.

A large concept map with a huge set of associations is one of the features of educated humans. But the concept mesh is grounded in subjective experience, so it would need an equivalent layer for that.
IONIQ 5 has more of the original DeLorean vibe than this.
There is plenty that Rust has not got.
We spent several hours a week dealing with, worrying about, and developing mitigation strategies for losing out keys, quite possibly even shortening our lives with stress.

If you aren't one of those people that can just walk by something and passively remember it's location, IoT is great.

Tile doesn't completely replace constant vigilance and planning, and carefully thinking about every step, but it does help.
> it correlates stronger with income than anything else

If it were only income, we wouldn't see reductions in deaths from mild gun-control law (like banning high-capacity, automatic "assault-style" weapons) within the same state.

We also wouldn't have seen the large increase in gun deaths after such laws were invalidated, and we have seen that[1].

So income is certainly some component of it, but access to untracked, powerful firearms is a big component of it.

1. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/studies-...