skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has long since been cleaned up, but the history of Lucene's Levenshtein automatons are a fascinating mix of pragmatism, hackery, grit, and engineering. Using a Python library to generate crazy-looking Java code, which you can't (yet) understand, but whose tests pass and benchmarks look amazing.

- https://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/03/lucenes-fuzzyquery-i...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbcvHKX8Ow

(Levenshtein distances are used as a measure between fuzzy/misspelled matches, and was ironically misspelled initially - https://lucene.apache.org/core/7_4_0/suggest/org/apache/luce...)
obligatory //what the fuck?
I was surprised to learn that, in the US, health care is part of GDP. How messed up is that? Health care costs are not a productive output of an economy and to include them in GDP is ludicrous.
Visual explanation of Google's income statement
This investment newsletter called "App Economy Insights" displays each company's income statement as a graphical diagram. I've seen such flow diagrams before, in fact I have generated them myself in Javascript. But this is a useful application, I thought. This example shows Alphabet's Q3 FY2022 income statement.
>It's already usable today, so I don't see why you'd need to wait for a decade.

No, it's not usable for me.

I still can't share my screen in Slack or Teams making calls with Windows and Mac colleagues an embarrassing mess.

Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 has Wayland disabled by default (why though, if Wayland is so usable?)

No scroll acceleration settings.

Currently, Wayland is one step forward, one step back. Especially that many highly used apps still haven't made the switch and that Wayland has not yet feature parity to what X11 offered.
I don't know about "ultimate", but it sure is a good example of one.

In fairness though, if a politician stands at a stump and says, "see, I'm doing great with GDP", but it's because they've been serving the metric rather than the underlying principles, they're likely not going to be well received.
p50 standard of living seems like the obvious one to me.
>The whole "GNH" concept was created by McKinsey, contracted by Bhutan - I know the leads on that project.

source? I searched around couldn't find anything resembling that. The closest I found was one source[1] which stated the king of Bhutan used the phrase "Gross National Happiness" in a 1971 speech, and that the country paid McKinsey $9M for a report in 2009[2].

[1] https://publicism.info/economics/invention/10.html

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhutan/modernizing-bhutan...
I have worked as the first employee in 2 different startups, and as an early employee in 2 more. Some of the reasons for joining, assuming low salary and low equity (non-cofounder) role: I would want to work on your idea for free as my side project; I would really like you and believe you will succeed; I really like working for you and learning from you; I believe the company will grow really fast and I will grow with it; I believe what you want to do is really cool, and it's a great opportunity for me to learn it (e.g. new technology, a killer application no one has thought about yet, etc).

Having said that, the above reasons work for junior people only. By now I have gained enough experience to be a cofounder, so I'm not likely to work with no pay and no equity - by no equity I mean anything less than 10%, and no pay = anything less than 150k.
or bring a starlink modem with you next time you go in rv mode
Vanilla OS is a brilliant take on the Linux desktop
As an aside, I still can't beleive we're using 'shit-hole' in this way because that man said it once. I myself am guilty, even referring to my own home country at time as such without realizing it.

But back to the topic, I think you're right about GNH and it's implications, especially when compared to Aotearoa and their efforts in establishing a more genuine level (rather than measure) of a literal 'national happiness'.

As a last touch, your comment (both words used, and in what it discusses) is comically ironic in that McKinsey is currently under investigation in my country for advising in a project that ended up landing us a few million dollars poorer and without a functioning public transport system that we could genuinely really benefit from right at the moment.
Really struggling to see what their differentiation from the existing portals is.
Unemployment would be less misleading if it was just "total people working" / "total people in the country".
Basically yes, to the Bastiat point.
Here in the UK, the previous prime minister Liz Truss introduced a raft of policies based on stimulating economic growth. I don't know what this means, if not boosting GDP, but perhaps someone can show me otherwise. It even got to the point that less right-wing parties were labelled as the "anti-growth coalition".
> After engineers, some of Twitter’s highest-paid employees work in sales, where several earn more than $300,000, according to documents viewed by The Post.
This is just factually incorrect. Volunteering at a homeless shelter does not contribute to US GDP.
Do you deny that adversary nation-states are using social media and our culture of anonymous, unfettered "speech" to promote known lies and divisions in this country?

You either deny that, or think that absolutely nothing should be done about it by social media sites or our union of the people, known as government.
You said that’s not what happened in reply to me, and I cited that it did happen. I’m just backing up my own assertions, nothing to do with you.

And they certainly banned plenty of conservatives for their views. It was just first framed as “misinformation” and then banned. Examples include Covid skepticism, Hunters laptop, and honestly a litany more.
My guess is Musk wants to punish them for making him go through with the deal _he agreed to_. He doesn't want to own Twitter and he's making them feel it.
Ha, I completely overlooked that they’re marsupials, too.

Now I suppose neither of us are prepared to accept it.
It’s an online portal for the UK property market - a market that’s not boomin at the moment
"You're honor, the so called victim agreed to be murdered by me"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_agreement
Aw you're so lucky

I worked in IT as soon as I graduated from engineering, so I never had the opportunity to go to conferences.
Switch to viewing HN on the libera IRC network in ##hntop!
Then you can write IRC scripts to filter/process the posts in any way you want...
Here in Seattle, the zoo sells it as "zoo doo".
Agreed, just following data can be a dangerous path. You have to build things because they’re the right thing to build. You need a cohesive vision not scattershot A-B tests. Unless you only care about short term profit, of course.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That’s why the Facebooks die and the Apples and Googles last.
I have the original handheld console Pocket Chip[1] which came with PICO-8. My son is now enjoying it as a learning tool for game development, but it's quite slow to boot up and there are no more software updates Next Thing Co. is no longer around.

Clockwork Pi (who make the DevTerm) is creating a sort of spiritual successor, the uConsole[2] and they've just started taking preorders. I don't know if it comes with PICO-8, but you could always load the FOSS TIC-80[3] instead. I like that they've included key caps to the buttons as the typing experience on the Pocket Chip was terrible.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer)
2. https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole
3. http://tic80.com/
By that token why not exclude entertainment spending as useless. In reality people devote surplus to things they want rather than pure needs.
Bad Apple But On My Own 16-bit CPU [video]
The problem is that we have too many such formats. Html, rtf, md, and a variety of others would claim to fill that role. Each of them is workable on their on, but fail to be universal due to all the others.
I also use 1PW and agree it is a good choice. I would be cautious with saving too much information and files (documents, keyfiles etc) in it. With their latest update to v8 they removed the ability to print as PDF or save an attachment, so you will have a very hard time getting it out. Only way seems to be screenshot (too bad if the text is longer than a screen) or sharing via mail (you get the draft and from there copy the attachment). Am not sure if they try to hold your data hostage (VC "capture value" play) or greatly overshot on security.
Indeed, the value of volunteering is not counted in US GDP.
It's obviously the inspiration for TikTok. It's insane that Twitter couldn't turn Vine into a success. Its users mourned for it years after it was shut down. I've almost never seen a more beloved app.
It does, you can't tell a non-binary person that they're a man or a woman, if your tweet is reported it will be deleted. If you can find any examples of this they simply haven't been reported or reviewed yet.
GDP means income. That's it. There is no secret, no grand conspiracy.
I assume you are not talking about the minority fee that goes to the validators for their services, but the majority fee that is burned in ETH after EIP1559.

When a limited supply token is burned, the total supply is reduced, and assuming that does not decrease the demand, then the value will diffuse to all token holders. If 75% of all PayPal or Wise fees were burned such that all users of PayPal had their account slightly appreciate in value whenever there is significant transactional volume in the network, a lot of users would be pretty into that.

Besides, this is just one way. Bitcoin does not burn fees, so it’s much more like the PayPal and Wise approach, no money leaving circulation.
How did he encourage a coup?
I wonder if a hacky solution may be to have some kind of intermediate model to serialize the text (whether from an image of it or the raw PDF data) into LaTeX? I imagine the LM has seen enough formulas in TeX to understand it, but in most PDFs formulas are just jumbles of letters.
This is genuinely neat. I may need to start playing with GPT. I am clearly missing on a lot of fun.

Original fragment:

<<The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles, by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.8 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.

>> summary:

The text is explaining the Transformer, a new type of AI language model. The Transformer is based solely on attention mechanisms, and is superior to existing models in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring less time to train.

<< input: Does it say why it is superior?

>> response:

Yes, the paper says that the Transformer model is superior because it is more parallelizable and requires less time to train.
I admit I haven't used it (I have used IDE autocomplete features and don't like them)

For me, same as writing actually, the thinking of what I want to do is everything, and the doing it is nearly trivial. I don't picture having copilot write nontrivial code for me and then reviewing it would be different than writing it, even if I didn't know the exact syntax and had to look it up. So I agree, it feels like a solution to a problem I don't have, like is solves something that I don't spend time on.

Cynically, like GPT-3 probably help write content farm stuff, copilot probably helps write some junk code for something, but there are probably domain specific low code tools that do that better as well
I hope you realize that Apple is creating its own ad exchange business. Their messaging of caring about user privacy is a sham though I have to admit, masterfully executed.

If you read the leaked email of wanting to take a cut from FB business should tell you that their first and foremost intention is to take a cut from the ads and their latest jab at Meta was for the cut in boosting post ads. This is monopoly 101.
Good question, I do not know the answer.
> [...] they type in some random 3 letter code and a screen would pop up. Then they would memorize how many tabs each field was apart from each other. Without a mouse, people could just hum along imputing data a blazing speed once some muscle memory was in place. Everyone had little cheat sheets printed out for the less frequently used commands/codes.

This comports with my most recent experience using SAP in 2018. I know, I know, SAP has GUIs and such now. This well known and profitable corporation under the Blackstone umbrella, though? Nope. It was exactly as you describe.

Those who had the time-in-service or the mentality to accept it excelled at their job, but uniformly skewed older (late 40s and up) or younger (under 25). At the time, almost everyone aged in between was entirely befuddled by it all.

Context: supply chain, procurement, purchasing, logistics, maintenance, work orders, inventory
For the more adventurous, you might be able to combine a Raspberry Pi with a USB 3G/4G Modem dongle or even a specialised Hat for it.

It should be a case of inserting the SIM card, and use AT commands over serial to send/receive SMS.

Combine it with a watchdog timer and a remote-controlled power-plug and you can even power it off/on again remotely if it crashes.
Could this enable me to programmatically activate my Yubikey?

That'd be useful for automating many a thing in BigCo Land.
Similarly: https://grep.app/ has been my #1 tool while learning Erlang.
This is a funny example because I'm probably the only person in this thread who went to medical school (MD programme in Canada, but did not complete or obtain my degree), and I think this is a bad example.

The meritocracy trap obviously does not imply that competence/merit does not matter: it implies only that we should be much more careful and critical about whether we measure competence/merit fairly and properly, especially a posteriori.

I would say that your example illustrates a very shortsighted conception of competence/merit.
> But also I believe the description of the law is slightly wrong: jobs in nyc need postings, so positions in Houston wouldn't have them, but positions in NYC would.

Ah, I reread the article and you're definitely right!

Remote work still makes this complicated though.
> From an user point of view, I often try to not change too much default settings, but there are some really nice feature I enjoy. kde connect is particularly nice for the media player integration with my phone). Yakuake is a nice dropdown terminal. The wayland port is really smooth, there is a lot of features everywhere and I often make use of a big percentage.

The overwhelming majority of the people I know who use KDE also try to not change too much from the default settings, but the settings we change are all different.

It's similar with the bells and whistles in Plasma; I probably use a single-digit percentage of them, but they are probably different set from what other users use. I am grateful for those who maintain these features, because I'm sure both that developing would be easier with fewer features and there is probably nobody who uses all of them.
Interesting to read (see my other comment in the thread). It sounds like I should try it
>What GDP gives us is a way to frame policy.

>Policy-makers will say "our research shows lowering taxes will do X and increase GDP", or "our research shows raising taxes will do Y and increase GDP". That happens now. I don't think we usually actually manage to tie an actual law or policy, as implemented, back to a change in GDP pretty much ever. It's not really the scientific method.

Strong disagree on this. Policies aren't just framed on "GDP goes up, we should do it", they're framed on "GDP goes up by $x at the cost of $y, so we should do it". A policy that claims to increase GDP, but where $x is smaller than $y is going to get shot down even if it sounds good.

With GDP there's at least some way of checking your estimates. You can fudge your estimates up or down by changing your assumptions, but in the end you're still trying to pin down how much economic activity will occur and that can be cross-checked with tax records or government statistics. How are you going to do the same with GNP?
All I'm saying is that it's not a coincidence that Adobe Acrobat and Dropbox are the top-billed apps for Meta Quest Pro
F# has this too (maybe had it first? I don't know) and it's wonderful. So does Elm.
He’s lucky he didn’t get his arse blueshelled. Probably why he didn’t go all the way to first.
Given the established link between energy consumption and human welfare and happiness...why not use BTU consumed per capita? Or even Barrels of oil equivalent.
It's grossly misleading to suggest that economists use GDP as a measure of national success
McMurdo used to have a greenhouse too - it was small and homey and lovely, in one of the cargo yards. It didn't produce nearly enough food to be useful for the summer population (except maybe fresh herbs), and from memory got torn down sometime around 2010.

I wintered at Pole, and in that rather fractious winter, I think one of the worst points was when it was decided that the whole crop in the greenhouse needed to be purged. The head of maintenance had broken the Rodwell (water supply), so there was a reasonable desire to reduce water consumption. But, somehow, that morphed in to "shut down the greenhouse", despite it being a closed-loop system... That winter, we had a very comfortable reserve of fuel, and of course South Pole Station sits on a whole lot of ice.

Hi John!
Every CEO I've seen oversee layoffs has maintained that no layoffs were planned until the very millisecond they're announced. I think of CEOs like I think of the WH press secretary - paid to propagandize.
I've thought about this a lot. In my old smart house I had a couple of dead man mechanisms that would trigger escalating alerts and finally an outcome. The highest order of which was to alert someone that my dog needed help because I was incapacitated or at worst dead. The house could take care of my dog on its own for at least a week, so I had built in some buffer time.

I then read about how Feynman's notes were, somewhat recklessly, given to his estate and then auctioned off. I found the thought of that very violating, especially how certain people react to his own personal dilemmas and thoughts.

Now my will makes pretty clear what will be released, how it will be released, and to whom. It also includes penalties should those things not be followed and gives people the option to take them, with the consequences, or not at all.

All that to say, I would never hand over the keys to my own kingdom. It dies when I die, unless our society somehow transforms between now and then.
In 1992 VAX/VMS from Digital Equipment Corporation was beginning to feel the hurt from various Unix systems that were becoming popular. In 1993, I worked at a US Army contract that still had MS-DOS and we had to do some creative accounting things to get them some systems that could run Windows 3.11.

There were still a bunch of proprietary systems like Apollo that had were used in a lot of engineering places. Unix came in two flavors, BSD System V and Berkeley. Linux hadn't happened yet but open source had made its presence known by all the utilities that ran under Unix with familiar names prefixed by a g- like gawk, gcc, gtar, etc. Before the GNU project, each vendor had their own C compiler that came with their version of Unix. The GNU utilities slowly made those obsolete as gcc became the standard C compiler.
That is usually the opposite. If a contract contain illegal clauses, those clauses are nil.
One for the history books alongside Zanardi's "The Pass" (banned right after it happened).
A little further down on that page is a link to a post listing the leadership team including short biographies:

https://ciq.co/linux-and-open-source-veterans-sign-on-to-for...
A version that should confuse people not familiar with Haskell even more:

primes = 2 : filter isPrime [3..]
isPrime x = all (\p -> x `mod` p /= 0) $ takeWhile (\p -> p * p <= x) primes

primes is a list of prime numbers. It is defined as number 2 and numbers 3,4,5... for which isPrime is True.

isPrime is a function that checks that x is a prime number by taking numbers whose squares don't exceed x from... primes list... and then making sure they all divide x with a reminder.

It only works because isPrime never touches an unevaluated element of primes list. Otherwise, the program would loop.
Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak
I find that big-O is exactly the performance problem that remains after you've tuned your IO, picked sensible timeouts, and eliminated deadlocks (which are straight-up bugs).

The things you list are the low-hanging fruit, after which most engineering teams throw their arms up and say "I guess we've gone as far as we can on this!"
Just thinking aloud here - would you need to disable all automated updates on iOS before doing this, lest the device do a reboot for a system security update, and end up on the lock screen?

There's probably some interesting failure modes when trying to get a modern device to stay connected for months on end, without deciding to reboot for a security patch or similar, or taking an automated app update.
yep, I'm currently taking a systems/signals course and it was incredibly illuminating how a lot of common image and sound filters -- edge detection, low and high pass filtering, equalization, etc -- boil down to the convolution of the signal with the impulse response of the filter.
Reminds me of this classic post: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
> > if the ad doesn't specify salary...just don't apply.

> So all job postings before these laws have been put into effect? Looks like someone doesn't understand how the world really works.

I think it does actually work like this a lot of the time. Either the candidate doesn't bother to apply, or they apply because they got a salary estimate from another source.

A relatively unknown company that isn't posting salary info is kind of a red flag.
So at current rates, that is close to a zero interest loan.
From your other posts I surmise you know this, but the WARN act means that a company of Twitter's size can't lie about that, at least without then paying out a full notice period to all affected workers.