skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is tether considered a cryptocurrency here? It's centrally minted and controlled.
Powell has repeatedly, and explicitly stated that softening the labor market is required for fighting inflation and that, while this is not good, it is preferable to the consequences of not fighting it.
I'll rephrase: the First Amendment generally prohibits the government from dictating what you can or cannot serve from your webserver, does it not?
Mood
It is impressive how much space you can save, with minimum CPU cost (It is there, but modern CPUs are so fast, well.. its okay)

I run NixOS, and on /nix/store itself, i get 2.32x compressratio :D
The biggest advantage of real estate investing is the easy access to cheap, reliable leverage. This is absolutely not a good time to get into a business that requires debt 4x higher than equity to make money.
The Fed isn't allowed to buy bonds from the Treasury [1] … directly.

You forgot the word “directly”.

Feds can buy back in “open-market”.
I was saying we don't disagree on the first paragraph you posted not the rest of the post.
He definitely lied without question. Like I said, he admitted it outright, and has done so more than once. There's an article here about it that provides all the links needed to verify this, written by an epidemiologist:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-...

As the article states, there was no change in available data. That is yet another lie. If there was, he'd have pointed to the new study and everyone would have been looking at it, because it would be extremely famous as the study that upended mask science. No such study exists. One day "the science" changed, except it hadn't really changed, simple as that. He did the same with vaccine herd immunity:

"When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, “I can nudge this up a bit,” so I went to 80, 85."

The man is a liar. He makes claims about scientific issues that he makes up on the spot to generate policy compliance. He ran most of the US COVID response, therefore nothing he said can be trusted, nor can anything said by anyone who reported to him. That makes him by far the biggest source of COVID misinformation out there, by his own admission!

"it's not on the same level as what the Daily Sceptic is publishing"

That's right! The Daily Sceptic was created specifically to combat the sort of COVID misinformation government officials like Fauci, Ferguson and SAGE were spreading. I don't read it much anymore but I read it throughout COVID and its writers never lied, or at least I never caught it if they did. And they reply to people trying to "fact check" them, they don't ignore criticism. Every day, they downloaded the data, downloaded the papers, checked them against the claims being made and documented when they didn't match. They showed that "the science" was being made up on the fly and frequently built on bullshit. They are by far the best COVID fact checkers out there, which is why establishment authoritarians inside PayPal can't stand them.

"Here in the UK it certainly felt like the government was basically playing catch-up and giving out advice only if they thought it had a high chance of being followed."

The UK enforced its decisions via police power and fines, it wasn't voluntary. But regardless, the UK health authorities also routinely spread misinformation. As just one example SAGE claimed there was no data on Omicron severity so they'd assume it was as severe as delta, even though from the moment Omicron was discovered it was accompanied by data showing it was far less severe. They just ignored all of it, in an attempt to keep lockdowns going as long as possible. And they lied to the government about the contents of their own meetings (Sunak talked about this).

Fundamentally, if you want to crack down on COVID misinformation, government agencies have to be the first to go. Nobody else comes close to their impact.
> a number of e-bike suppliers sell parts that are explicitly described as not road-legal.

That's fair play. The user knows exactly that he is breaking the law, and he can be punished. Google advertises Analytics for online-shops, websites etc. Cases in which the product can't be used legally and the user doesn't know it.
This is absolute garbage python as I am neither a python developer, nor a good developer. I was trying to play around with real time transcriptions. However, it does work!

> * recording
* done recording
Recording saved to file.wav
Press enter to transcribe

/Users/laptop/Development/Personal/Public/pythonProject1/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/whisper/transcribe.py:70: UserWarning: FP16 is not supported on CPU; using FP32 instead
warnings.warn("FP16 is not supported on CPU; using FP32 instead")
Detected language: english
Goodbye, I need to go pick up my wife.
Press enter to start recording

Any improvements welcome here.

```
# This is a sample Python script.

# Press ⌃R to execute it or replace it with your code.
# Press Double ⇧ to search everywhere for classes, files, tool windows, actions, and settings.

def print_hi(name):
# Use a breakpoint in the code line below to debug your script.
print(f'Hi, {name}') # Press ⌘F8 to toggle the breakpoint.

def record_microphone(seconds):
import pyaudio
import wave

CHUNK = 1024
FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
CHANNELS = 1
RATE = 44100
RECORD_SECONDS = seconds
WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "file.wav"

p = pyaudio.PyAudio()

stream = p.open(format=FORMAT,
channels=CHANNELS,
rate=RATE,
input=True,
frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)

print("* recording")

frames = []

for i in range(0, int(RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
data = stream.read(CHUNK)
frames.append(data)

print("* done recording")

stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()

wf = wave.open(WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
wf.setnchannels(CHANNELS)
wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(FORMAT))
wf.setframerate(RATE)
wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
wf.close()

return WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME

if __name__ == '__main__':
seconds = 5
while True:
print("Press enter to start recording")
input()
filename = record_microphone(seconds)
print("Recording saved to " + filename)
print("Press enter to transcribe")
input()
import whisper
model = whisper.load_model("base")

result = model.transcribe(filename)
print(result["text"])

```
Yeah but it does not look like the war is going away anytime soon. In case you missed it, russia partly mobilised today.

So parent seems right refuting this claim:

> since it seems it's been absorbed perfectly by the global economy.
Utter nonsense.

Sincerely,

A person who grew up in apartheid South Africa
Tangential, but I always wondered why people don't have a separate class/struct/whatever that's actually used to send out. Might be overkill, but having a separate model to represent incoming request, out going requests, and the actual domain model makes me feel a bit more secure as to what's being sent out. It requires more work to update (adding fields to the outgoing models), but gives a bit of piece of mind.
I have passed every language and history test, my income is significantly above average for the country. But the fine print of the immigration system is what fucked me up.

For example in UK your passport application will be rejected if you were not in the country 5 years ago from the exact date the application is recieved by the Home Office. You could pay all fees, taxes, pass all tests, live in country for 20 years, but if you left for one day on Sept 1 2015 and post delivered your application on Sept 1 2020, your application will be denied.

If you spend 4.9 years on a dependand visa, but then your partner gets a permanent residency, you have to switch to a family visa, and your period of 5 years starts all over again.

Student visas don't count to the 5 year period, being outside the country for too long resets the period, for example if you had to help out aging parent after surgery.

The rules change all the time and there isn't an 'immigrant newletter - what will fuck you up at the next step'. Its usually when you try and apply for the next step, you find out you've wasted 5 years.

Also the amount of money I've spent on various immigration and lawyer fees is probably about 40 grand.

There was some bad luck and one poor decisions made, but the bottomn line is, it's easy to fall through the cracks and end up with nothing no matter how resourcefull you are.
There was a recent HN thread where I pontificated that a twin JW telescope could have been built and launched at 10% of the cost of #1. One of the (vehement) arguments against this was there weren't enough things to look at.

I just have to shake my head in amazement.
Greed seems to explain it easily enough.

The macro-economy is solely for the wealthy and when they need a billion or more to see a return on a billion or more, shrinkflation and price increases go up; hard to make a billion back on long time scales at 2010 prices.

I’m not saying they intentionally operate on that philosophy. I’m saying reliance on data trends means they prioritize responding to data regardless of the externalities to the masses.

Only the rich can afford assets so assets are priced for the rich.
Research, think, and come up with concrete proposals to solve specific problems for them, and pitch them.

Networking without being useful is useless. Be useful.
svn had forges (sourceforge, rubyforge, etc.) that fulfilled many of the same things that GitHub does.
Unfortunately debt is a part of our society. How would any business that requires a large capital investment start if not for debt? Taking on smart debt and making money off it is a way to better one's own situation. Without the ability to take on debt our social classes would stratify into the haves and have nots even greater than it is today.

I don't like debt, and it has truly gotten crazy, but I don't know a way around debt.
Wiley is such trash. In college in engineering the prof would assign us workbook problems from the book. I did all of them to stay practiced (and did well in the classes!). Lots of people expressed interest in my answers so they could use them to study. I gave them away, then started selling the answers only, which weren’t provided in the course books, online.

Wiley threatened to sue me for copyright infringement. As a college student the threat of a lawsuit really rattled me, so I paid them a bunch of money to settle it.

How are you as a giant company going to threaten to sue a college student for copyright infringement for something derivative of your books?? To this day I have a strong, visceral negative reaction to Wiley and at least twice in my professional life have dissuaded orgs I’ve worked for from having anything to do with Wiley, so hopefully cost them at least as much as they cost me monetarily.
It's more like `apt build-dep`, but you don't install all the development libraries and headers to your system in a global, persistent way. Instead you just make them available for that shell session.

It's likely a lot smaller than a Docker container that contains a whole Ubuntu runtime, and it'll automatically share a cache of deoendencies with any Guix packaged you may have installed locally. It also has normal/native access to your filesystem (and thus your dotfiles and your homedir), since it doesn't live in a container.
> Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs

is this the new way to say "fired"?
Productizing Large Language Models
Have you tried using SponsorBlock? It skips over the sponsorships and other unwanted sections of YouTube videos and I don't believe it deprives the creator of their sponsorship income either.
Well, it's a mix. Russia is far weaker than previously thought, but also perhaps more dangerous and unpredictable. That's why NATO membership will expand.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32929029 re accuracy, I'm working on a wider comparison. My models are generally more robust than open-source models such as Vosk and Silero, but I'm definitely interested in how my stuff compares to Whisper on difficult held-out data.

> Brute forcing the model with just traditional CPU instructions is fine, but… obviously going to be pretty slow.

It's not that simple. Many of the mobile ML accelerators are more targeted for conv net image workloads, and current-gen Intel and Apple CPUs have dedicated hardware to accelerate matrix math (which helps quite a bit here, and these instructions were in use in my tests).

Also, not sure which model they were using at 17x realtime on the 3090. (If it's one of the smaller models, that bodes even worse for non-3090 performance.) The 3090 is one of the fastest ML inference chips in the world, so it doesn't necessarily set realistic expectations.

There are also plenty of optimizations that aren't applied to the code we're testing, but I think it's fairly safe to say the Large model is likely to be slow on anything but a desktop-gpu-class accelerator just due to the sheer parameter size.
Thats what a PIP is for. Layoffs are for firing a lot of people at once. Doesn’t have to be due to performance.
As far as I know, you can satisfy your fiduciary requirements by treating employees well simply by claiming that it attracts better employees and avoids costs associated with searching for new ones.
Odd that you recognize a freedom for yourself that you don't extend to others.
Honestly, junior resumes are hard. There's a lot of them and there isn't a ton to me that jumps out. Prior experience (catch 22, I know) is always a big plus, but a few concentrated projects you're proud of is nice.

I personally don't care about projects that are listed as class projects, but something that someone went of of their way to explore.
Yeah they do. Actually they get turned into cash after each coupon payment and at maturity. But it takes time (as long as 30 years for some bonds) to turn the bonds back into cash. So this has the effect of taking liquidity out of the economy, while not making anyone any poorer.

When you take out liquidity, people's money are now locked in bonds and they can't buy anything else with that money unless they sell the bond. So this has the effect of reducing demand for other financial assets like stocks, real estates, cryptocurrency, etc in the short term.

The hope is that in the long run, the economy will grow enough to be able to support the eventual increase in the money as the bonds mature.
advise another engineer gave me, when i was younger, was: "be confident and expect you are 100% the candidate they are searching for" e.g. don't say something i would like to hear back or whatever, say something like: "i am happy to tell you more in phonecall or face to face" expecting that the person on the other end wants to meet you, or even more so has no other choice than to pick you after reading your resume.

ps. looking at your resume i would also restructure, not leading with awards and what is "Wrote Software for Upwork " supposed to mean? also a lot of your github repos lack proper readme's. And i don't know what you put in your cover letter but i cannot see what you want to do or learn or what you are burning for.
> Xi Jing Ping to declare himself emperor in October

what does this mean?
It'd [UNINTELLIGIBLE score="92%" alternatives="pro-rabble; pourable"]probably[/UNINTELLIGIBLE] be useful to make a markup-based output... though you'd probably find it gave you more info than you wanted.
It's already here. (Web3 will exacerbate it).

Seriously, in terms of a 'segregated' network, we already see giant walled gardens and their pseudo-kin everywhere, and web3's sole focus seems on monetization of anything online, which won't help that one iota.
> For example, a purchase loan in California is non-recourse, but a refinance is not.

That's not the case for refinances after Jan 1, 2013.
I think the only thing we can conclude from that is that they're not willing to risk their own lives for it. It says nothing about their overall sentiment about the invasion itself.
You can only make "associations" between the subnets, I think, see: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet#adding-associations-bet...
Having a strong currency isn't necessarily a good thing. It makes it much harder to export goods and services.
That's not so obviously clear cut. Can the model produce identical output from the same simple prompt?
A inflation linked government bond is pretty much by definition risk free.
Except that you only live once. If I can buy a house with a mortgage and live in my own place for years of my finite existence versus trying to save money while paying for someone else's mortgage and living in a basement, what seems more rational? You only have a few dozen years left.

It's no utopia, but it works well enough.
Markets are forward looking. FB's growth numbers don't look great, and if you don't buy into their bet on the Metaverse you might be less inclined to see a bright future for that company.
This is indeed a great explanation, and all the better for being both clear and concise.
People are sleeping on how awesome Chrome OS is. It really is awesome. The 2020 equivalent of 2005 OS X vs. Windows. From there, Linux container. It's mind-boggling to me because I switched _off_ Apple the last 5 years after realizing how powerful it is to be able to pick up a well-made powerful laptop for $600 instead of $2400. It's so much better to have something thats an iPad and a laptop. Ugh. Anyways. Underrated. Really really underrated. (disclaimer: I work on Android at Google)
Class diagrams are way too fine grained to bother with and most IDEs have good enough tools for exploring large code bases. Service architecture diagrams and message sequence charts are super helpful. Especially for communicating with other teams and for making design proposals. I wouldn't be able to get traction on a new project without them, people really need pictures to see how something that doesn't exist yet will fit together with existing components.
$6T of QE is about 1/10th the size of the US bond market and 1/20th the size of the US stock market.
>As I see it, facts come from a shared culture.

This is part of the mindset I'm referring too. For example, 2+2 = 4. This mathematical statement has been self-evident and uncontroversial for thousands of years, across an almost infinite array of societies. The idea that this simple, self-evident mathematical statement is disputed by anyone, let alone "serious" academics in some of our most prestigious universities (the ones churning out our next generation of "leaders") is a new phenomenon, and one that should be very concerning.
> "meets most" likely doesn't sound too bad to non-Metamates. Internally it's a pretty bad mark on your record.

The kind of newspeak I've heard from multiple friends and former coworkers that ended up at FB/Meta at some point. Well, the ones that didn't fall into the cult of Mark.

It might be because I'm getting older but this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to puke. The co-optation of language to exude an aura of friendliness is absolutely disgusting.
I enjoy their shape and simplicity.

I find awe in the way they interact and accomplish tasks as a whole colony that would be impossible for any single individual. And how some species have developed complex, specialized behaviours from the various Acromyrmex species that farm fungi or the genus of Solenopsis that build bridges over water. And they're fascinating to watch!

The idea that a single individual may not have the neurological framework to manage these complex behaviours that enable colonies to remember and optimize paths to sources of food over time is fascinating.

Formica Rufus! They have a caste system of workers. They farm aphids and plants, they have hunters, and they have builders. They build huge mounts out of deciduous and coniferous plant material around fallen trees. And yet rigid seeming as they are there have been observations where individuals within a caste that prefer certain kinds of tasks over others.

I really like spiders too but ants were my first fascination and I still really enjoy them. My kids and I love to catch and identify queens of various species in our area during nuptial flights. It's a lot of fun... sort of like real-like Pokemon.
Agreed on the US Navy, the French and Italians are right up there with the UK so. The former has a full nuclear triad, a nuclear carrier, nuclear subs. The latter has two active aircraft carriers.

Sure, might be challenging to project that power to the straight of Taiwan, but by no means impossible as part of a coalition force. And especially the French have some vested interesst in the Pacific with their overseas territories.
> In early 2021 it seemed like things were going to be ok

People have been increasingly concerned about the impacts of quantitate easing long before 2020. The only people that thought things looked okay in 2021 are people who didn't want to pay attention to the Everything bubble [0] we were (and still very much are) in because they were too busy making money.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_bubble
Oh but they did! Meta leadership has always anticipated this risk. The problem is that they have not been able to fully mitigate it.

Facebook Phone (rebranded HTC) was released in 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First but had poor sales.

The metaverse is their next play to build a world where they are a bit more shielded from Apple/Google/Microsoft's hardware influence. Pivoting a large business is really hard.
I totally missed the word 'intern' in your post. I don't know much about applying for internships to be honest. In my company (not big tech, not USA) we normally take people through organised agreements with colleges
Are periods of low inflation thus caused by elites being less greedy?
Nit: the literal witch hunts were mostly after the end of the middle ages
EVGA are quitting graphics cards after splitting with Nvidia
I am baffled at the Fed messaging. A year ago Powell's keynote said the inflation is a supply side problem due to "transitory" issues. How does raising interest rates with "demand destruction" help supply side inflation due to war and chip shortages?
Experts in drilling oil wells agree with 95% certainty that oil wells are beneficial and we should have more of them. There's a consensus of specialists, so you have to accept this is true and adopt their position, right?

"[consensus means] the specialists of the subject overwhelmingly agree ... Science is just knowledge + logic"

So is science what specialists say it is, or is it just knowledge+logic? If the latter then what specialists say doesn't matter, because anyone can obtain knowledge and apply logic.
It's an "eventual consistency" transaction scheme for SQLite: reads happen locally and immediately with the nearest edge copy available, it's only writes that need to be forwarded to a (potentially far away) primary DB over the network somewhere, and transactions will then take some amount of network time to fan back out to edges, so eventually the edges will read the latest transactions, but during that fan out will read the previous transaction state.
It's one model and in a non-strategic area where there are existing open source projects (Kaldi, DeepSpeech, ...).

For a company that raised $1B, that's not exactly living up to their name and original mission.
It appears he's following the typical dictator's path over and over: bringing his nation to collapse while pursuing a utopian goal, or be "promoted to different duties" by his peers before it's too late.
I wasn't making a reference to American election fraud, but rather the notion that even in nominally democratic countries you are often voting for different sides of the same political structure with little fundamental change