skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying there are good options available at this point. The primary mistake was the illusion that we could close the economy for months just to reopen without any problems, but then we followed that with the second mistake of not raising rates in 2021.

The economic consequences which would result from the COVID lockdowns, monetary stimulus and fiscal stimulus was something I warned about repeatedly during 2020-2021. We're screwed whatever we do now and I agree recession is unavoidable at this point. Many people are about to lose everything and many will die as a result of fuel poverty whatever the BoE do. All they can really do now is try to limit the pain.

On whether rate rises are needed, you're assumption is that persistant inflation is a concern, and I don't agree with this. The inflationary pressures we face are mostly a result of fuel prices which aggressively increasing rates will do nothing to solve. For you to be right you have to explain both why you think increase rates will control inflation we're seeing (it won't) and why you think inflation expectations will remain high in a recessionary environment (unlikely). In addition to this you also have to explain why further rate rises on top of the 5 prior raises is required. We know it takes time for rate rises to take effect so aggressively raising rates like this presents huge risks if economic data deteriorate in the coming months.

If the BoE is concerned about inflation expectations, then the question to ask is why this wasn't a concern in 2021. Now recession is imminent inflation expectations shouldn't be as much of a concern.
There is no possible way for humans to ever extract enough geothermal energy in any of our lifetimes, expanded out to 100,000 lifetimes, to ever affect the geothermal reserves of the earth. You are making things up to fit you argument that solar is better.
Fake it until you make it. If anyone catches you, tell them you're building a career model.
I recently made the leap in the opposite direction: after being asked to pay 59€ to continue using the app I downloaded Tower 2. So far I'm not missing anything they introduced since then. I'm actually happy about the old app icon.

When the warning that the license is running out popped up some time ago I expected the app to still work. Just that I won't get any new updates (like Sketch). But no: it just stops working and demands more money. Pew....
Now, let's be critical of possible reasons for this. It's important to remember two things: 1) Any NN has zero experience with the world beyond its training data. Things that seem obvious to us from our experience are not obvious to a system that has never experienced those things. And 2) DALL-E 2 was trained on image-caption pairs scraped from the internet, basically.

So it's quite possible the reason it doesn't understand things like "X under Y" very well is that its training set doesn't have a lot of captions describing positional information like that, as opposed to any failure in the architecture to even potentially understand these things.
From the perspective of any galaxy, most other galaxies are moving away from it, "outward". But some galaxies are close enough to form clusters that are gravitationally bound, which can cause them to orbit each other or merge.

We can say the visible universe is expanding outwards, because we see light from more and more distant things as the universe ages. But the actual (not just visible) universe may be infinitely large, we don't know what's beyond the range we can see (limited by the speed of light, unless we discover something radically new about physics we can never see farther). So if you look at the universe from a holistic point of view, not just from our perspective which makes us the center of the universe, expansion may not really be the best way to think about it. It's more like the size of the empty parts is increasing relative to the size of the not-empty parts.
I've wondered as well about the effect of pumping all of that heat - energy - out of the core and into (effectively) space.

Best case, our use falls in the .003% mentioned in another thread of heat that contributes to warming the Earth's crust, and the surface is that .003% cooler.

The worst case, though, is we start slowing (maybe even stopping) the flows of molten rock as it's cooled down. I don't even have the beginnings of a background to comment - does anybody?
Sure, have an explanation and a link to my (currently missing one or two newer bugs) spreadsheet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342900
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How I learned strategic thinking as an engineer
If I write an article about the benefits of X drug and have expressed publicly by other channels my support for the company that produces such drug, I think is relevant for the discussion of the article I just wrote. That's why I said that may be it is not the case here, as I my self don't see any relationship between the linked tweets and the article. But I don't think is to crazy to think that two related opinions can be analyzed together regardless of the channels of distribution.
That is fair. I recently watched "We Were Apollo" and was struck by how incredibly audacious a manned moon landing really was in 1960. That sort of positive thinking is what we really need for fixing the climate crisis and elevating humanity beyond constant resource conflicts.
One upside of banning private jets is that it would make the security theatre at the airport non-optional (from a legal perspective), and could more easily result in its abolition via the courts

Hanging on by a thread
The lisp machine access is certainly something new. I haven't seen that mentioned at all. Would definitely like to fiddle with it.
That could very well be, yes.

Could also be like deforestation. Trees do die just like that, without our intervention. This benefits the forest. A couple of humans can chop wood in said forest and it will not affect it too much. But if whole cities and countries suddenly have to get their wood from this forest, it will disappear very fast.

So maybe geothermal energy is not a risk when a couple of plants exist. But if humanity starts to rely on it too much and starts building geothermal plants like crazy, the damage could show. Maybe the damage only appears locally in the vicinity of these plants, which would still be worrying.

I just want to disclose again that I am just spit-balling here.
There are people who want to wield science of this nature like a weapon against ideas that have sustained society for thousands of years, out of "compassion."

These people are incredibly dangerous. They introduce bias. They stifle thought. They derail progress. All in the name of personal identity.
Is "alt text" a colloquialism understood by laymen? I typically use the term "text alternatives" when speaking with clients. It's a specific attribute, it might be supplanted by `aria-label`, etc

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/conformance#text...
This is huge - get away from the tech industry and you'll find various amounts of problems to be solved, and if you can generalize it enough, you can get something successful.

Here's one I thought of and haven't found a solution for yet - a cheap "vendor portal" where vendors can submit invoices. Everything that exists apparently is enterprise and tens of thousands of dollars; which is out of reach of individuals and small businesses.
Slight side tangent but reading this article it hit me how much this generation of work may be reinforcing English as the global language for generations to come. It seems like we are headed towards a phase of technology where learning how to feed well-crafted prompts into the AI system will be a highly valuable productivity skill. And since the major AI systems seem to be built around English, that would make English fluency even more valuable than it already is. I’m sure that’s obvious to non-native speakers who have worked hard to master English, I just hadn’t thought of it before.

Less likely but still interesting, I wonder if the way we’re building these models will at some point begin to layer on top of each other such that English as it is used now becomes something deeply embedded in AI, and whether that will evolve with the spoken language or not. It’s funny to imagine a future where people would need to master an archaic flavor of English to get the best results working with their AI helpers.
Once again, bad news about Intel which leave the crown of best CPU maker to Apple and gives even more room for AMD to catch up and eat their lunch. The bad news never stop with Intel these days.
There are now battery-electric trains.
I need a microscope to read that webpage.
Shrugs I think it's cool and a great step forward in biomedical engineering.
A lot of these things tildeverse.org does for free.
I think we're talking about two different aspects to the problem. The methods and approaches taken in regards to treating addiction is not the same thing as teaching people about the harm of drugs. I'm not saying we shouldn't have drug / substance abuse education, but rather, its not the cure-all people think it will be.
While correct, the headline is a bit disingenuous and the content is kind of obvious. No systems language will ever be 100% safe, and Rust is not the exception, as Safe is a spectrum, as Andrew Kelley points out [1].

However, Kelly also points out that Rust tends toward safety. Different languages tend toward safety at different rates, and Rust tends toward safety at a high rate for many reasons. In my experience Rust is the safest language that still allows me to accomplish the professional development tasks I do.

[1] https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1554933549999894528
No, only those they dislike, and only when they dislike them. They don't object to classifications when it comes to measuring oppression, for example.
Voids are a description of an area that has relatively less matter density than the average of the universe, not objects themselves, so I'm not sure what you mean by a void "moving".

>Separately, is the void inside the universe the same as the void outside the universe, or is it fundamentally different somehow?

By definition they are different. Voids, as I said, are areas within the universe that have relatively less matter density. Key thing being that they are part of the universe, whereas 'outside the universe' is, well, not part of this universe.
>that all energy available to us is derived from gravity in one way or another.

How so? Our major energy source is oil, where the energy comes from sunlight. And light's energy is from the electromagnetic fundamental force, not gravity.
Getting any kind of performance and efficiency out of an electric motor requires a sophisticated controller, which is why development of EVs stalled for so long. Semiconductor tech has only recently progressed to a point that makes this viable. This says nothing of battery tech, which has also seriously lagged.

Even now, EVs barely compete on practically any metric with ICE cars (except tailpipe emissions) - in my opinion, the main drivers of market demand for EVs is marketing for the new shiny, and government regulation (at least here in the EU/UK. It will be illegal to manufacture an ICE, quite soon).
Despite its drawbacks, robotic-assisted surgery is on the rise
This is why big rigs have so many gears. It lets them maintain maximum power in a wider range of situations. That way they can actually reach the level of power that gets them up to speed (and more efficient RPMs) in situations like that.
The good thing about ads is that it's a cancer that nobody wants so even anticompetitive actions such as pushing all the other players out of business is beneficial as it just leaves one adtech company to block as opposed to dozens/hundreds.
We must have very different HR depts. Mine actively singles out the perceived broken ones and gives them that final nudge to get them to quit.

I've never had any other experience with HR at commercial employers.

HR is for the company, not the employees.
> I have a very crappy blog

Drop the link mate
BT is pausing its Digital Voice plans for Consumers
The carbon taxes haven't worked so well until now. There is no reason to believe they will in the future.

And again, you need all the countries in the world to behave. The USA, China, India, Russia...
by reading
Similar. People actually reading and discussing your work is highly motivating to keep doing it.

I'm in the middle of a security and antifraud series now, motivated entirely by Brian Krebs [1] retweeting me after the Experian breach. The articles have gotten essentially zero traction on HN, but I'm having fun writing them and seeing them get attention on other avenues.

I've been writing off an on for years now, thanks largely to the motivation that getting on the HN front page [2] gave me back in 2014.

At some point, I think I would like to attempt to monetize my writing but I get enough enjoyment from doing it that I haven't ever bothered.

[1] https://www.brightball.com/articles/automatically-reversing-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249
Take the money aspect out and yes, I would. I learned a lot from people far off into the trenches than I. I get to interact with big "famous" people in our world.

And honestly, it's awesome to be apart of a community that spawns some of the biggest tech people in the world.

It's insane to be able to tell people outside of my world about things in my world and the ridiculous stuff that happens and be able to say "I was there", for example the infamous HN comment to Drew Houston when he Show HN'd Dropbox.

HN is a unique and special community that most industries don't get to experience.
I believe that one reason for this is that FIRE, passive income, entrepreneurship, etc. attracts people who are looking for shortcuts.

This means that they are optimizing for the short term, which is counterproductive to success in any area of life.

Back in the 2010s we saw this with niche sites, ebooks, info products, etc.

It worked for some but it's probably safe to say that learning to code and getting a tech job would have had better ROI for most people who went down that route.

At the moment we are seeing this in the crypto space, where you have all these guys in their 20s who are "investing in crypto" (gambling) because they want a Lamborghini ASAP.

They would likely be better off learning to code and getting a tech job, but they can’t see it at the moment because they don’t have the perspective that comes with time.
It's not like "wasibutt123" was very secure to start with.
What makes it a great vehicle for you?

I’m in the market for a non-Tesla EV and found this to just be a mediocre car from price and features.

Best value EV is probably the Volkswagen ID.4 (or even the Bolt if you want smaller car).

Curious who these people are sinking tons of cash into over-priced, non-Tesla EVs.

Even with a $7500 fed tax credit AND some get up to $2500 for state, a complete rip-off vehicle for price.

This doesn’t even include the dealer shenanigans, more expensive trims (with some almost essential features), and “market adjustments” markups.

I guess it looks cheap compared to Tesla — but it’s not at all.
nonsense. as soon as i have an address and a name, they are not a stranger anymore. i know exactly where my kids are, and no social services can tell me who i am allowed to trust and associate with.
> Sources within Apple, a company notoriously shy of making public statements, have briefed media outlets with news of more advertising opportunities for those eager to promote their wares in the App Store.

> The planned ad placements include two additional slots in the App Store with a promotional placement on its “Today” tab where the paid-for slots will feature alongside editorialized content. The other planned ad placement will feature on app product pages where ads will be served under a tab that reads “You Might Also Like.”

We'll see if Apple's ad efforts extend beyond the App Store but even so, the incentives here are all fucked up. Why bother making App Store search better and cleaning up spam/scam apps when these problems enable a new revenue stream in the form of paid placements?

Incidentally, is the App Store yet another venue where you need to buy ad placement for your own product's name lest it be taken over by your competitors?
Probably true. I think my point is more if you are good at your job, you won't become a single point of failure. It is part of being good at your job to avoid that.
My intuition is that DALL-E is more a demonstration of how hard image synthesis is for humans, than how intelligent the algorithm is. The image generation models have orders of magnitude fewer parameters than the large language models.
There was a post on here recently on how someone designed their logo by asking DALL-E a load of questions. The rationale could be that it might not remove that job, but it would certainly be a powerful tool for a logo designer to take on way more clients, thus driving down the cost of logo design.
We have some actually legitimate ghost kitchens where I live that are good. We also have some shared kitchen spaces where you can pickup or order delivery from a bunch of different restaurants with a single order. It's just hard to find them in the delivery apps since those are flooded with the corporate fake ghost kitchens.
Because "intersex" isn't a sex, it isn't a new gamete.

And even so, in (most) case of malformations, some malformation classes only affect male individuals and others female individuals.

But I agree that a good compromise would be, and only for this class of people born with a visible congenital ambiguity, to allow them to decide what sex they want to live as.
If there is a law to for example has to regard something sex specific like pregnancy, people have to make peace with the term woman. Even those that think of them not being women for one reason or another. It is assumed to still apply.

A significantly more pressing problem of our legislation is its accessibility. Nobody on this planet needs lawyers defining sex. But they would do it and everyone will have to pay for their time.

Additionally the laws that differentiate sex should be under scrutiny for discrimination. That includes tax discrimination for people within or outside of any partnerships.
Here is the republished article without a paywall https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/the-women-callin...
I find talking about "knowing" is too much anthropomorphizing to my taste. A more accurate description would be that it can synthesize an endless amount of pictures that the viewer will recognize as giraffes (or as anything else the viewer wants). And I agree, it's pretty amazing. But my point is that talking like this skips over the entire useless "what is knowledge" debate.
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"Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists" by H.J. Tichy is the best book I have seen on the subject.

Publisher: ‎ Wiley-Interscience, 1988

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780471807087

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471807087
I can't imagine what sort of hell a person would have to be going through to see this as something they would be willing to pay for.
But the same work is also removing the language barriers at the same time with really good translation tools. I rather guess being fluent in English will be not as important as it is now.

Edit: the same work = transformer based language models
Creating separate bathrooms for different "categories" of people isn't something history has a kind view on, and I think less segregation as opposed to more is a good direction for us to go.
I've used this technique to value growth stocks. It's mildly useful as a framework, but it has gotten me into some bad stocks.
Here's an example post: http://blog.bombcar.com/2009/02/diablo-ii-on-vista.html

Man it's been 12 years since I bothered posting, I probably should follow my own advice lol
Google search seems to have this issue for most of the regions near me on the VPN I use (Private Internet Access)

Sometimes I just turn it on if I have to fire off a few searches because it'll make me complete a long, tedious captcha for EVERY search
I love twisted and I have used it in some created ways, but I don't think I'd ever do async-by-default. Just too many headaches.
Interview with Maryna Viazovska, second woman to win the Fields Medal
VPNs tend to be smaller offenders in terms of clients-per-IP than say educational institutions or offices.
This was one of the top reasons IIRC that made Jonathan Ive left the company. Before Tim Cook was the leader of the company, they were not only technically innovative, but innovative in a more global and universal way.
Adolescents can take hormones. Near adolescents can take puberty blockers. Not small children.

You wrote teenagers later.

> That's the case until now, since only a few years ago there were 4000% less instances.

Did you mean the claimed 4000% increase in a survey of American college students between 2006 and 2021? The category changed from transgendered to transgender or gender non conforming.[1][2] Gender non conforming and trans are different. Trans and willing to say trans in 2006 are different. Students at self selected colleges don't represent the population.

Did you mean the claimed 4000% increase in under 18s referred to the NHS gender service between 2009 and 2017? The articles saying it was 4000% or more said the numbers were 97 and 2,510. 2,510 isn't 4000% of 97. The official adjusted numbers were 77 and 2,444.[3] 2,444 was between 0.30% and 0.37% of their birth years.[4] Near the low end of estimates for trans people. What is the right number? How do you know?

> If only 10% of the 4000% end up regretting their decision or god forbid even committing suicide the non-regrets will be a minority.

10% regret is 90% non regret.

> just go on Youtube and watch the doctors speaking out now. Or any other source. There is no real oversight any more, and they cannot voice their medical opinion freely. Suggesting that it would be indicated to wait and assess other psychological factors first apparently directly leads to them being terrorized and publicly shamed as transphobic.

Did you check those claims more carefully than 4000%?

> I have a hard time seeing how any of this helps anyone. It doesn't even help transgender folks.

Any of what? Transitioning younger?[5]

[1] https://www.acha.org/documents/ncha/ACHA-NCHA_Reference_Grou...

[2] https://www.acha.org/documents/ncha/NCHA-III_FALL_2021_REFER...

[3] https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/news/stories/ref...

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/281981/live-births-in-th...

[5] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
A honest question: what is then intelligence? Or are you just trying to avoid being caught into a debate...
Thank you for saying this, I work in the web space and there is just zero excuse for how poorly it works, none. I don't believe any amount of tracking or anything else would cause things to be as slow as they are. I have often thought that it would actually be a little difficult to make something so slow without intentionally throwing in a few second delay.
Sharing about my [iOS book series][0] resulted in about $5k in sales. Honestly, it was largely unexpected and I was even a little self conscious that the headline was too click bait-ish. But it seemed people were interested.

If you look at my submission history, you’ll see that none of my submissions have really broke a few upvotes, so yeah - wasn’t expecting it all but it was fun talking shop with everyone in the comments. That’s what is neat about this site, you can be a star for a day and people are happy and genuinely interested about why you are.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31534988
On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class
Banning private jets is a bit silly and seems difficult tbh. Tax jet fuel enough first (pick any high cost European country for a good reference on what CO2 taxes should be per gallon or liter). Today it’s a tragedy that air travels enjoy very low fuel taxes while better forms of transportation has higher taxes.