skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are conflating a few things. What you have to remember with the gold standard is that the supply (or probably more correct, holdings) of gold determine the money supply when a gold standard is in place, as does the price of gold (the conversion rate). A reduction in the money supply (fear of deflation, leading to bank runs) and a massive withholding of production are generally the two key events cited as causes of the Great Depression. The later being the reason for the massive public works programs of the time were started.

The inflation of the US currency happened much later. Roosevelt banned private holdings of monetary gold and gold certificates, incentivized gold imports and gold production which lead to the inflation. That was nearly 5 years into the depression though.
I see that you're making the same error, equating all contracts in ways that aren't reasonable.

When I buy a stick of gum I'm also entering into a contract (of sale). It would be disingenuous and dishonest of me to claim that the 7-11 clerk is exploiting me in ways similar to indentured servitude (or I, him) simply because both scenarios involve a contract.

The relevant aspect is whether the contract binds someone such that they cannot escape. Uber does not do this, period. To suggest otherwise is absurd.
It really depends on who wrote the book. I don't really care about whether it's on papers or on a screen.

I was once quite confident about my knowledge on PHP (version 5), thought I learned it all. Then I brought a book from O'Reilly for the newbies in the team, flipped a few pages before handover, learned a few new damn things myself.

I would totally recommend to read a book while learning a big topic (such as a language, framework etc). There are so many things that if you know, you'll be a better user.

Yes, so many things change, but, so many things don't. Plus, you can buy another book to learn the new knowledge.

With that said, I want to go back and remind: know the author and read the review before you buy, don't waste your time on bad books.
200 kWh can run my tesla for about 1000KM just to give people a picture of the waste.
> But I'm more amazed it was all built correctly by the lowest bidders on materials, sometimes mafia controlled, by the lowest cost workers sometimes still drunk and hungover from the night before.

Kinda trippy to realize this is true for almost everything in civilization.
What might be needed from NN accelerator designers is not so much perf per watt as fast links between chips, between chips and memory, and between nodes in a cluster, so that a large distributed cluster of chips, each with its own memory, would appear to a user as a single chip with a huge amount of memory. Imagine 10TB/s links everywhere in such a cluster - not only training a large model would be vastly simpler, it would also be a lot more efficient (e.g. no need for data parallel model replication). In theory you could have a truly unified and shared memory space, with little need for synchronization.
Present your alternative, then.
Chicago’s elevated trains have tipped over at least once. It’s not a pretty sight. A wider gauge might have prevented it.
The real question though is can it read emails?
At the stage Flexport is at I’d really expect them to have raised above needing grit.
Wow. Can’t find an article to back up your extraneous claim.
Being able to move all animals in the same circle.

Right now you could only move the upper one.
Yeah it's takes some effort. But Source 2 supports it (DotA 2), Fortnite can be built efficiently so Unity can do it. That's 2 major engines available. Not to mention all the iOS games library that's actually able to run on the M1 pending the release configurations from each dev.
Sorta except at least when x86 vendors said this, they actually dominated the datacenter. ARM isn't even done supplanting x86 yet and they've already got a lower-power, more open competitor breathing down their neck.
You can use memcmp to check whether the pointer has not changed.

void *oldptr = malloc(73);
void *newptr = realloc(oldptr, 42);

if (memcmp(&oldptr, &newptr, sizeof oldptr) == 0) {
// not changed
}

The value of oldptr is indeterminate if it is used as a pointer; it can still be accessed as an array of bytes.
My read of the ad, as a former Flexport employee, was that they're looking for engineers who are determined and unafraid to work outside of their comfort zone. Understanding the complexities of international customs and logistics is as difficult as you might expect. In my (probably typical) experience it is not code for long hours or anything like that. I'm not sure what "gritty" might mean more generally, though.
And he's pushing stuff like the Boring Tunnel that's in Las Vegas which is such a downgrade from trains. They can transport a few thousand people per hour, but also still suffer from traffic congestion, orders of magnitude worse than rail systems overseas, or something like MTA in NYC. No one should be paying attention to his suggestions for public transportation.
I’m a pretty active open source developer, having a couple reasonably popular projects myself and been a team member of an extremely success one. I’d say maybe one in one hundred projects I’m interested in is on gitlab.com. Last year they stopped allowing anonymous search on hosted issue trackers, and it took me the better part of a year to even notice (I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501 when I did notice), and I only noticed it on a project that’s developed on GitHub but uses gitlab.com for issue tracking, a choice made back when GitHub’s issue tracker was a lot more primitive. That is to say, I had to search a gitlab.com issue tracker once in a whole year, while I search plenty of open source issue trackers all the time. That’s how irreverent gitlab.com for open source is at least to me.

Disclosure: I host a GitLab instance at home.
The issue for me is that it's not attacking the root of the problem. Are we just going to keep escalating this solution to keep up with emissions? Any breathing room it creates, like breathing room in almost any budget, is going to be eaten up. And we head towards an ever more complex pile of band-aids that certainly will result in some unforeseen consequences. But, at the same time, maybe that is just the way, maybe there's no going back to letting nature run itself. And it certainly doesn't take away from people working on other solutions any more than anything else.
If the patch that contains the entire fix (minus cleanup) doesn't work, then the entire patchset is unreliable, since the author necessarily doesn't understand it.
You can run Figma as a desktop app with cloud features. It's a wrapper around the same core as the web app of course. I'm fairly sure of that, though I guess I don't technically know that it's true.

"Unique", I don't know. The advantage is that the cost to get people to engage with a design file is so low that it actually happens. It's just a link you click, and you're now looking at the design, or even a clickable prototype of the design. And I'm there, you can see my cursor zipping around, and you can leave a comment, or start a voice chat, and all of a sudden, I'll be damned we're collaborating.

If it's a desktop app, and they have to download it, a lot of people just don't do that.
As an Australian, I agree.
I feel you, if you enjoyed that then I don't want to take it away from you. It's frustrating to me because the best part of that episode was the negotiations they held immediately afterwards. I would have happily traded in the contest scene for the opportunity for the writers to really explore Elrond's relationship with the dwarves. It seemed like the sort of thing a Lord of the Rings adaptation might do, rather than succumbing to spectacle when it fits the pacing of the show best. But I guess everybody is looking for something different, I'll concede that I mostly wanted this to be Game of Thrones with less sex/violence and more interpersonal development & worldbuildiong.
Its somehow comforting that in the age of statistics and AI making a great piece of art still seems to require the effort of a single mind slaving away with all its weird idiosyncracies and obsessions. To use a Tolkien analogy- if Amazon, one of the most powerful companies in the world, were capable of just buying a great show with money that would be like the lords of Gondor just marching into Mordor and fighting their way to Mt. Doom. As we know from the story the quiet effort of small people can have a huge affect on the world.
Okay so, I have to say, at first this was a pretty feel-bad story for me.

I then noticed a tidbit of information in another article about it that somehow made me feel different: Cole Summers didn't know how to swim. He was out on the water in a kayak, with no life jacket, with only an autistic child for company - and didn't know how to swim.

Somehow it stopped feeling like a tragic accident and more like carelessness and stupidity, and I just didn't feel as bad. I'm sorry it happened, and my heart goes out to his family, but this was avoidable.

Somehow among all the crazy stuff he learned and accomplished at such a young age, basic common sense seems to have been dodged.
The bad guy was the father?
Are you suggesting that our legal system should be understandable by the dumbest person? I don't see how that's feasible or desirable.
You can still use the old Reddit UI by the way. If you use an account configure it in your account settings otherwise make sure you visit `old.reddit.com` e.g. `old.reddit.com/r/news`.

The day `old.reddit.com` stops working (and the API prevents a remake) is the day I stop using Reddit.
The problem is that the Wayland fans have a tendency (at least I feel) to significantly misrepresent things in their favor. Statements like "oh that's actually more efficient on Wayland". No, Wayland is incapable of the sorts of optimizations X can do by design. It is only more efficient if the X app is doing things in a specific way that doesn't take advantage of huge parts of the X protocol. Granted, most modern apps do exactly that at this point. That doesn't make such statements any less of a misrepresentation though.

A much more reasonable claim would be that the network transparency afforded by the X protocol adds significant complexity which is no longer utilized by the majority of mainstream apps today. As such there's a reasonable case for dropping all that complexity from the core system and leaving it to peripheral libraries to handle on a case by case basis for the apps that want to make use of it.

And the idea of lossy compression while using an image editing program being a desirable thing (as suggested elsewhere in this comment chain) is laughable. It's already bad enough reading text that's gone through lossy compression. I would never want compression artifacts while manipulating an image.

My impression of Wayland so far is that I like the technicals but absolutely detest the people I encounter pushing it as a solution (it's quite similar to Rust in that regard I suppose). They would probably meet less resistance if they took more care not to misrepresent the overall state of things. I'll leave the link to KDE Wayland "showstoppers" for reference. Certainly that list is far shorter today than it used to be and many (not all) of the items are now solely on KDE's end. Nonetheless, fanboys have been claiming that Wayland is "production ready" the entire time. https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

I'll switch to Wayland once it "just works" out of the box in terms of app integration on stable distributions including things like screen capture, fractional scaling factors, color management, all the stuff that works on X.
> other countries

The grass is always greener effect, and who knows what really is happening in foreign schools without being there. They may be just telling Americans what they want to be true. A more interesting comparison is with local charter schools.

> We have other districts forbid teachers using any resources not provided by the district or the teacher themselves.

Haha, just use them anyway. It's not like they're going to check. Besides, the teacher can reuse what he used last year, or copy one from a fellow teacher. There ought to be quite a surfeit of materials from other 5th grade teachers in the same district. There ought to be lesson plans coming out of their ears if each teacher was redoing them every year.

Most teachers I had just followed the Teacher's Edition of the textbook. I didn't see any evidence of lesson plans.

Perhaps in high school things change from year to year, but they can't be changing that much, and why would 5th grade math change?

Personally, I rarely reuse lectures I give. This is because the technology changes constantly, my old lectures are available online, and when I get invited to speak and the conference is paying the bill I think it's disrespectful to use old material. Also I just get bored with what I did before :-)
What you are expressing is a Sentiment and not an Argument. First see my other relevant comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32893171

Language design is a fine balance; the addition of Abstraction Features has to be balanced against the cognitive load it imposes on the Programmer. These abstractions also need to be tailored to a computation model supported by the language. For example, the Niklaus Wirth school of language design was famous for insisting on minimalist languages; You only added features if they were "needed" to support the model of computation and all extraneous/trivial features were omitted. C++ took the opposite route from the beginning which was ok to a certain extent since it increased the expressive power of the language (eg. multi-paradigm). But over time the balance is being lost and the cost of cognitive load is outstripping the benefit of an added abstraction. This is bad and not welcome. So looked at in this light how many of the features in Modern C++ are essential and how many are extraneous (eg. Concurrency features = Essential, variants/syntactic annotations/etc. = Extraneous)? That is the fundamental issue.
I'll ask here in case anyone knows: I actually needed to move from Wayland to X11 on the new Framework laptop because of problems with the touchpad, which I believe uses libinput in Wayland. It appeared as though small motions of the touchpad weren't registering and seemingly no amount of fiddling with the libinput parameters helped. I moved to X11 and the synaptics driver and have had zero issues. I'm not really looking for tech support, but I am curious if anyone else has had similar experiences. This was the final issue that pushed me off of Wayland and back onto X11.
In this case most likely OP will not be 'employed', they will be self employed and working through a business to business relationship with the US company. In that case they will need to pay their own social security contributions in France, where as if you are employed it is paid by the employer/comes out of your gross salary.

To be 'employed' the US company would need to setup a legal entity in France, and ensure they are compliant with all French labour laws, which doesn't really make sense for them to do for a single person.
Ask HN: How did you learn Strategy?
If you were given a feedback that you need to be more strategic, what resources would you use?
I don't think Gen Z is against SS.

I think Gen Z is against a government riddled with incompetent clowns that mismanage SS. Until all of those idiots are gone, Gen Z doesn't care.
It stops. We can predict when it will stop.
What I've personally noticed is that for people like us ("special snowflakes"), the ads still work but at a subconscious level. When you are evaluating products in your "research" phase, you aren't doing a completely unbiased analysis. You have picked up brand names and products in the background as you browse the internet and when it comes to making that 50/50 call in the end, you will likely go with brands that you subconsciously trust. There's another way where ads work which I call "incessant bombarding". I would not have heard of Vrbo if they didn't have a massive campaign on Youtube where almost every video I watched for 3-4 months in 2022 had a Vrbo ad on it.
Glad to hear it. Thank you for saying so.
I've felt 4 earthquakes in 2 days. The bigger one was when I was in a department store 11th floor in Xinyi, horrible, horrible. One of the reasons I can't live here permanently. Last year there were much more earthquakes.
Others have mentioned it, but I'll say it too:

what you know is an estimate of total network hashrate. that's it.

but! total network hashrate moves around all the time, so it is really just an estimate. it has gotten better over time, but these machines don't operate perfectly 24/7 and older hardware is still in use. power outages happen too. stuff is just coming on and offline all the time.

you don't know efficiency (watts to hash) of the equipment on a global scale. you can extrapolate, but it is impossible to know for sure.

there are other losses, like stale and invalid shares. also impossible to know. you don't know how much is 'wasted' either... every single power supply on the planet is a snowflake. this would actually increase power usage estimates since it is effectively truly wasted energy.

disclaimer: I've PoW mined since 2014. Even I, with many many megawatts of power, have a hard time calculating exactly how much power we use and that's having access to the raw data!
I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but I did too! It was the hardest I had laughed at something unintentionally bad in a while. It's particularly hard-hitting because it's preceded by some really pretty CGI vistas and camera sweeps in full-motion that almost bring you back to the immersion of the Peter Jackson movies. And then the steering wheel veers hard left, mixing in weird slow-mo shots that evokes images of stock footage and Getty Images watermarks.
I was wondering what real-life situations this benchmark matters the most in, then I remembered... A few years ago I was working on a uni research project trying to eek out the most performance possible in an x86 software-defined EPC, basically the gateway that sits between the LTE cell tower intranet and the rest of the Internet. The important part for me to optimize was the control plane, which handles handshakes between end users and the gateway (imagine everyone spam-toggling airplane mode when their LTE drops). Cache coherence latency was a bottleneck. The control plane I developed had diminishing returns in throughput up to like 8 cores on a 12-core CPU in our dual-socket test machine. Beyond that, adding cores actually slowed it down significantly*. Not a single-threaded task but not embarrassingly parallel either. The data plane was more parallel, and it ran on a separate NUMA node. Splitting either across NUMA nodes destroyed the performance.

* which in hindsight sounds like TurboBoost was enabled, but I vaguely remember it being disabled in tests
Took a Second to get the instructions and it was fun, thanks for something new and different
I'm going to address each one of your points since you didn't really bother to provide any corroborating evidence beyond one personal anecdote.

"It's not really the case that memorising those lines have taken up useful brain space. On the contrary from all we know it probably made you better at memorising."

I have heard of no study that indicates that rote memorization is some kind of magically distinct musculature in your brain that lets you memorize more rote information - the few studies that I have seen about improving your ability to memorize talk about that it's more important how you memorize information and the means and effort in which you used to encode it, for example creating highly vivid mnemonics.

I will concede that if you take the time when memorizing information to consciously connect it to other information particularly seemingly disparate unrelated information, that this can help significantly with retention. But most people don't make an effort to do this, they just repeat the information and ad nauseum until it "sticks".

"Similarly being able to write cursive gives you better fine motor control in your writing hand."

One could just as easily apply the same logic to the fact that more kids play video games, and said video games require fine dexterity and control.

"I learnt cursive at school, as well as use of a slide rule and log tables. They were obsolete by many decades when I was learning to use them. But are my arithmetic skills worse than the average zoomer who has a smartphone practically cemented into their hand? No, I'm fact I'm probably more efficient at using the calculator app on their phone."

I don't even know how to respond to this seemingly wild conjecture. Every generation makes these exact same set of arguments (like learning To read and write Latin and Greek, the list goes on and on) and apparently you've fallen into the same trap.

The bottom line is that we have a finite number of hours in which to cram an exponentially increasing amount of information to distill the entirety of the experiences and knowledge of mankind.
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Not all ballot measures receive lots of advertising. In Texas, ballot measures like this with an impenetrable description are not uncommon. My sense is that if people can't figure out what something is actually about (as in this case) then they mostly go "sure, whatever" and vote for it.
Those semicolons can be replaced with periods and negates your point. That's just a string of ideas, not really one logical sentence.
> Just as Tech Inquiry was completing its year of work, our Executive Director received a call from a UNI official informing him that it would be “a political problem” if Microsoft ended up in the headline. Due to the neutrality agreement, Microsoft was now “a friend of the labor movement”. (A later phone call elaborated that CWA is an affiliate of UNI and helps pay UNI salaries. And that any critique of Microsoft could lead to one or more UNI employees being fired.)

Maybe those workers at UNI Global Union should look into, uh, unionizing?

Here's the really cute bit:

> FES’s concerns – as relayed by UNI -- were that Tech Inquiry’s report made reference to billion dollar cloud contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Israel Defense Forces.

[...]

> Note: The Intercept published a leaked copy of our report.

Guess what country is not even alluded to in The Intercept's coverage?
I doubt that is what they are saying. It seems more likely they are saying the text should not be "extremely difficult to read" or "impossible to comprehend".

Though actually what they are saying is "I put the text in these algorithms and got these scores". It is left to others to draw conclusions like I did above.
Is this another diversion/distraction by the fossil fuel industry to allow them to continue business as usual for as long as possible?

Even if it is highly effective, wouldn't they then argue that climate change is "solved" and we can go back to releasing CO2 as much as we want? Further, would they then underwrite astroturfing campaigns to shame people who don't accept that the problem is solved as never-satisfied malcontents who should be ignored?
- "The labor union official offered an apology to Tech Inquiry for pressing for the completion of the investigative project, only to censor it just prior to release. “No one could have predicted Microsoft would become, seek to become a pro-union employer, like that would have been like flying pigs, you know. I never would have predicted that,” the official said."

That's a *revealing* non-apology. "Our conflicts of interest depend on factors beyond our control".

The nonprofit should never have accepted funding from this group. The conflicts of interests cut both ways: if it's unethical to tilt reporting because your funder is friends with the subject, it was also corrupt when the funder had interests adverse to them.
This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gritty