skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
definitely the other way around, SPACs require up-front capital and a lot more connections!
The Year of 1000 Tomatoes
Oh, you’re absolutely right. Oxford dictionary says:

> 1960s: from Yiddish kvetsh (noun), kvetshn (verb), from Middle High German quetschen, literally ‘crush’.
Try telling it your workflow and ask what might save you time, since half of its answer was that everyone's workflow is different. You might be surprised at what it knows or can suggest for you.
I’m wholeheartedly against facial recognition in legal systems. The fact is that they don’t work well, and they specifically have a bad tendency to identify the wrong black person much more often than they misidentify white people. From [3] below:

> Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men, depending on the particular algorithm and type of search. Native Americans had the highest false-positive rate of all ethnicities, according to the study, which found that systems varied widely in their accuracy.

One. Hundred. Times. The camera may say it recorded John Smith breaking into a house, but it’s incredibly likely that it was actually Ron Jones. Who’s the jury going to believe, though: John Smith who was at home with his girlfriend at the time, or the hugely expensive video system that the city just bought?

Facial recognition doesn’t work. It’s bullshit tech, and we should stop using it until we make it deliver on its promises AND decide how to deal with its ramifications.

[1] https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...
> But how about not building the complicated system in the first place?

"For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Parent is using chatgpt as a tutor though, not as a google search.

I’d expect a tutor to give the right answer, but I wouldn’t expect google to. Chatgpt is often wrong. It’s a problem if you’re trying to learn something and using it as your tutor/truth.
I used ODBC [1] out of the big list of options [2] which gets a bad rep but worked for my use-cases.

The commercial devart plugin [3] looks pretty neat too but I haven't used it yet

I've also tried the JDBC connectivity option too [4], but with some different use-cases in mind for Postgres (not about Excel)

[1] https://datacornering.com/how-to-connect-to-postgresql-datab...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/2-drivers-and-i...

[3] https://www.devart.com/excel-addins/postgresql/

[4] https://jdbc.postgresql.org/
I have a high school friend who is the same way. It's beyond traumatizing for his friends and family. Many of them live in fear. Same story, neither confining him nor forcibly medicating him are options, so he roams around, unable to hold jobs, randomly threatening various people.

I worry that one day he'll end up being shot by police or something. It's awful.
So glad I'm not the only one to see this connection. 1984 was not meant to be a guidebook.
The unabridged Count of Monte Cristo is substantially longer than the more popular abridged version.
A description of how SPACs work can be found here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp
I don't think those are fundamentally equivalent categories.

Assisted suicide is (to my knowledge) aimed at end of life patients with terminal outlooks. People who have little chance of improving their outcome.

Self inflicted suicide is a much broader category including bullied high schoolers and unlucky stock traders. People who's current situation might look grim but who could potentially change that situation.

I won't comment on the morality of either, but there's more at play than just bureaucracy.
There are dimensions of power.

A corn farmer is ruled by the government, the market, the seed corporations, the fossil fuel industry, the different machinery manufacturers (vendor lock-in), the banks, etc.
What does the bar have to say about facial recognition for all its members being easily available to anyone with money, apparently? Where does the data come from?
Twitter Quietly Aided The Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign
My two cents, if you have to think hard about how to set aside time for reading, you have another problem
> but obsidian is a key app at work for me. Up to this point at least, it's been free

That's against their license. You're essentially pirating it.

https://obsidian.md/eula
Whats most impressive for me is that making completely safe, effortlessly mutable and flexible linked list in Rust (or any other similar structure) can be as simple as:

struct LinkedListNode {
data: i32,
next: Pointer<LinkedListNode>
}

You still need to care about memory leaks through structs linking to each other though because Rc means "reference counted".
I think a lot more interesting things are going on with the "tech recession" than meets the eye.

Unlike the crash in '08 and '01, the economy now has a hard dependency on tech. There is no "going back" to the world of the past. Smartphones aren't going to be "un-invented". People aren't going to give up online shopping. Businesses aren't going to give up targeted advertising and start buying ads on AM Radio or something. If you look at the big picture, and barring any wild developments like general intelligence AI, the demand for skilled tech workers is only going to increase.

I don't think tech workers are invincible but I think tech is now a requirement for economic growth, which poses a problem: Business leaders and investors have been really ticked off by the tech labor shortage. They tried to fix it with H1B, they tried with all these "learn to code" programs. They tried boot camps. They keep trying, and failing, because being a software engineer requires a degree of intelligence and critical thinking and there will always be a limited supply of that kind of labor.

My pet theory is that some portion of the layoffs are being engineered to undermine the remote work revolution, scare people into accepting lower wages, and get back to "how things were". But the economic need for tech is so large and the supply of labor is so limited I don't see much changing.
> The ability create a relational database in Excel with vlookups and hlookups,

Do yourself a favour and ditch vlookup and hlookup in favour of the recently introduced xlookup, which even obsoletes index/match !

I try to keep my exploratory joins out of Excel, but I admit that I often don't resist the immediacy of Excel's poor man's joins located right where I need them.
Rocket sled testing of Russian nuclear warheads
There haven't been many photos out there of Russian warheads, especially Schlieren shots. Look at that turbulent boundary layer (the layer of air immediately near the warhead surface).
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all
> I feel so much cognitive dissonance realizing that there are hard working people literally losing their home and shelter wrongly while I might be sitting across from them at any time, expecting them to behave within normal social boundaries.

It makes one realize that if you were put in such a disastrous position in life, the theoretical concept of an armed marxist uprising is not the most absurd thing ever conceived. And what root causes might possibly motivate groups of people towards such a thing.

The other poster replying to the same thread here says:

> " The fact that people experience this and then somehow don't say "burn it all down" is miraculous. "
While I generally agree with this sentiment, I don't know if this is a good example.

This doesn't really seem like an impossible problem to me so much as a really complicated one. Something that could likely be solved algorithmically without even the use of AI.

Perhaps it could take information like the size and/or population of different countries to make best guesses on how large to make different parts of it. Even if it produces a best guess that you can then clean up in Inkscape it'd be a tremendous contribution to this task
Pay transparency: how salary secrecy is being challenged
Ruby delights built into the language
What about the rest of us that have to endure them shouting at us in the streets?

Yes - it is humane for them AND for us.
Aside from iPad Air being better than iPad and iPad Mini, it all makes sense?
Water-pump pliers are adjustable and don't suffer from splay.
Unless? What?

am I only allowed to have sex if I'm married in a church you approve of?
I don't defer to pg as the creator of HN any more than I defer to my dad as my own creator. So, I would maintain we are right. :)
Anecdotally, chatgpt seems much worse to me than Google for getting correct answers. Like orders of magnitude worse. Tells me the wrong timezone for a city kind of bad. No doubt it will be much better in the future, and they've definitely found PMF with the interface, but I would not trust it right now with anything even slightly important to me.
Use official forum, it has tone of good examples.

Here is something I did long time ago: https://github.com/majkinetor/mm-autohotkey
I agree it's really aesthetic (I love the circle arrangements with indicator lights occurring in several in them, I assume it's something reactor related). Are such control rooms still made today, or is it all digital screens?
It's known that tech recruiting has its most active months in spring/summer. Its more in line with the school year[1] than the calendar year.

[1]: probably because parents don't like big changes while their kids are on a schedule and because new grads, and possibly (on a more evolutionary-biological level) because people are more active after winter as they begin foraging/farming/building, venturing out, etc.
I don't have any answers here, but I want to provide some context for the drugs in question.

I'm on antipsychotics. They are nasty drugs. Absolutely brutal. The worst of the side-effects for me are the sexual side-effects and motor-control issues. If I get dehydrated or my blood sugar gets low, I can lose the ability to walk.

Within the first hour of taking my meds, I can't stand without losing my balance. I lose both my inner ear and kinesthetic senses. I don't know where my feet or hands are. I can only walk by having my eyes open to see if I'm level and feeling where the pressure is on my feet.

During the day, I have medication that helps this but I still trip on uneven surfaces or drop things.

The sexual side effects, I can't orgasm. Combined with the hypersexuality a manic episode creates, it is unbearable. Fortunately, I'm on yet another drug that makes this less of an issue.

The only reason I can tolerate this is the alternative of going crazy is so terrifying, I'll do anything to prevent that from happening. If anyone wonders why people don't stay on their meds... this is a big reason.
Working with some SCADA control unit in a factory right now. It’s all digital and keeps changing configuration. Wish there were physical buttons.
>Unlike a month ago, my LinkedIn is EMPTY in terms of recruiter messages.

A lot of in-house recruiters may have been laid off during that time, so might not directly correlate with new job postings volume/quality (obviously still related though).

On the upside, wherever you land, they are more likely to be investing thoughtfully rather than tacking on headcount.
I fully agree that this is a genuinely difficult, multi-factor problem with no easy answers.

I also think that there are a lot of 'low-hanging fruit' level of options available, that seem to be disregarded in today's all-or-nothing environment. Specific example: During my short, ~10-block drive to the 101, I pass a good half-dozen regulars who are either screaming at the aether, wandering erratically through traffic, flinging things at passing people/cars, or in one case literally rolling around on the onramp between cars. This is not an exaggeration, or hyperbole.

These people need to be in an institution. Maybe with treatment, they can recover. Maybe they will be there for the rest of their lives. Maybe some form of halfway-house works best. But I can't think of any good-faith argument that leads to the status quo being the best choice for either them or society at large. Surely we can come to a societal agreement about what to do for this level of dysfunction?
A Low-Latency Garbage Collector for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (2020) [pdf]
Yup, feel like there's a "strong attractor" to a non-biological super intelligent end-game for any civilization and this happens relatively quickly once their species enters an external-to-biology recursive self-improvement state (e.g. humans discovering, externalizing, and transmitting technology over multiple generations leads to recursive self improvement of technology).

Just as there's probable chemical gradients in the laws of physics that lead to the self-assembly of self-replicating objects (e.g. life), the path of technological self improvement to begat super intelligences could be a "natural" gradient in the way our universe works.

Sci-fi time:

Pet theory is that there are a whole stack of civilizations out there that have recursively self improved to bring into existence super intelligences that can then self improve themselves. Very quickly they find some "jailbreak" understanding of our universes laws of physics which quickly results in that civilization's "matter" blinking out due to not-yet-understood physical phenomenon.

Perhaps you "win" at the universe by hitting this state and then "porting out" your solar system's matter to some ring -1 universe, leaving some kind of shadow, or remnants that's dark matter.
>so I don't have to worry about migrating everything when I move to a new country.

Not sure what you mean. It's not significantly more difficult that it would be (and maybe easier) to be constantly transferring blockchain assets to local currencies/equities etc. ACATS makes the process pretty straightforward and handles most common financial instruments like stocks, cash, bonds, ETF's, and more. Then you're done, your entire portfolio transferred in a few days. Just choose a good brokerage firm in the first place: ACATS participation should be a prime criteria if you might move country at any point, ever.

Similarly, USDC/Ehtereum/Solana only seem superior to a wire transfer until you have to use them in a local economy. Then converting them to something compatible with the local economy isn't significantly better.

If you're imagining a future where local economies accept these things directly then I think that future is, at best, possible but mostly theoretical at this point. Crypto is not a major threat to sovereign-dictated monetary policy at the moment, and I suspect that the second it appears it might be then there will be rapid action to cut off that potential.

I don't see a way that crypto can bootstrap fast enough around such things when a government can, pretty much overnight, make every business own and retail cashier who accepts a crypto payment into a criminal if they so choose. Gray and black markets might still prosper, but it would make any vision of mainstream use, much less institutional use for things like inter-country investment portfolio transfers completely impossible.
> Incidentally, I read Moby Dick this year and found it a mixed experience, but more on a pleasure side.

Same here! Enjoyed more than not, but not at all what I was expecting. Much funnier than I had thought it would be. I did get a chuckle at how quickly things wrapped up at the end and how I had completely forgot the narrator was actually a character on the ship.
Interesting prespective on forced treatment for the mentally ill here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-p...
JWST gets first glimpse of 7-planet system with potentially habitable worlds
If you want to use it for work, you need a commercial license. That's $50/month, yes.

https://obsidian.md/eula
You have to invest the money you don’t intend to spend now.
Also I would argue that you can rather simply write a parser for the basic markdown syntax and convert it to e.g. HTML or plain text if necessary by getting rid of markdown specific syntax.
Sam could do all that since the 80s. So ~40 years.
> "Protected class" isn't very protected, as it leaves burden of proof to the victim

Surely though, you understand and agree that having this law is better than the alternative, where employers ARE allowed to fire someone simply for being a member of a protected class, and are even welcome to brag about doing so.
If they can make Qualcomm competitive with the Apple SoC's that would be great for everyone that isn't Apple, and by extension, the market as a whole. Here's hoping.
No one said it was illegal, people are just pointing out the cognitive dissonance cause by "twitter will be a public square" and the fact that now he's added what is essentially poll tax for landed-white-males only(metaphorical of course)
While not perfect, `terraform plan` is a massive time saver. A lot of IaC tools still don't have good (or any) support for "dry runs" and provisioning a bunch of infrastructure to see if your thing works is really slow
He said he used similar services to Patreon.
* If you can find funding or self-fund.
Exactly. Anyone who has worked with Copilot seriously knows that generating whole algorithms is not what you actually use it for. The things Copilot generate and autocomplete for me are unique and tailored to what I'm trying to do, completely based on the context of the code.

Sure, you can bait it into reproducing stuff but why bother? Considering how convoluted it is to trick it you might just as well copypaste the algorithm straight from the repo. I almost find the discussion irrelevant because of how detached from reality it is.
I can share here:

A few years back I was working full-time (on prem) and wanted to make some extra income, so I decided to try Toptal. It took me a few tries to get in, but shortly after joining I landed a 5hr/week gig at a decent starting rate! Woohoo! I was able to use this extra money to relocate, go fully remote, and also get better part-time gigs through Toptal.

There's gigs from 5-10 hrs/week, but also 20-30 hrs/week jobs. That's honestly kind of the sweet spot, because you could theoretically just get paid better to work less hours...
You can check the IRS website and retrieve the form 990 and 990-EZ for the charities you're curious about.
The SBF/FTX cause from the get-go was a grift enterprise, the dude knew what he was doing as per his countless messages, relationships with politicians, and his parents/families involvement in his cause.
Remind me of Homer Simpson working at the Springfield nuclear site
I’m sure they are accepting recruits. Why not volunteer and encourage your closest family members and friends to join you?

Or would you rather sit back in the comforts of your home far away from any affects and lob other people’s money their way, letting the Ukrainian and Russian people kill each other?
Interesting... you made this comment only 4 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068318

> The advancements in AI are as incredible as they are overstated. AI is nowhere near making human coders obsolete.

Already grayed out. No replies. Bottom of all comments at the moment.

Abrassive? Rude? Unwarranted? Let me know what was wrong with that one. Or did multiple people disagree with you? Does it make you want to continue offering your comment on a topic? Seems like people can downvote for any reason they like. Well.. they can if HN bestows that honor on them.

This is how echo chambers form.

Surely you disagree with this comment as well, so feel free to take away more of my internet points.
No, but neither is allowing the mentally ill to remain ill. There's no win to pontificating over this issue. The only way to win is to get lucky when treating someone's mental illness and they happen to respond to it.
I didn't know that actually, I will re-evaluate my usage
Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Data Replication in Diffusion Models
The variation in the random variable relative to the value of the random variable goes away for large sums.
Tangentially related: ACX "in partial, grudging defense of the Hearing Voices movement": https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/in-partial-grudging-de...

AIUI, the blog author points out that if you really want to comprehensively replace institutionalized, forced treatment, some sort of self-organized peer support is the best reasonable alternative - one that, arguably, has barely been tried. Related: Prison and mental illness https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-p... - My Brother Ron https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/31/book-review-my-brother...
Maybe that's true (I don't know one way or the other), but my personal opinion as someone who left Apple is that the majority of the best/most positively influential engineers were not staff+ and didn't have amazing comp.
> The estimates seem a bit high, or perhaps unbalanced from book to book. The Count of Monte Cristo is slated for 208 days at twenty minutes per day!

I've started reading Monte Cristo one day. I finished the 1800 pages of it in one long 48 hours sitting, hardly sleeping or doing anything else. That's how you read this book. It was a feuilleton, one page a day in the newspaper, and there is a cliffhanger at the last line of every frigging page. You just can't stop. It was certainly a big selling point for the journal publishing it back then :D
Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece
> If you agree to something, you are not a victim, you are a participant.

If you cannot give informed or willing consent, you are not a participant, you are a victim. Impenetrable, hard to read terms are not informed consent, particularly when the terms are in a contract of adhesion.

> Don’t like the mortgage process? Don’t get a mortgage. Pay cash, or rent.

Couple of points here. First, I take it you've never read a modern leasing contract. In most jurisdictions, especially where the large corporate landlords have almost entirely conquered the market, they are just as opaque. Landlord associations promulgate so-called "standard leases" that contain myriad difficult to comprehend terms.

> The world doesn’t owe you the exact terms you want. That’s not the fault of capitalism

Perhaps it does not, but yes, it is the fault of capitalism. When all of the participants in a market operate in virtually identical ways because the optimal path, under capitalism, is to legalese first and ask questions later, that is absolutely a failure caused by the capitalistic system. It all stems from the idea that, under capitalism, an individual or group's highest and best course of outcome is to feverishly grab for every single available resource to hoard it against use by others. Along the way, some of those resources are (often temporarily) lent out at an inflated rate to ensure that more resources are grabbed.

This works fine when it comes to a mobile phone device or a book or a toy. Those are optional, often called "luxury", goods that we can leave or take as we desire. Housing, water, food, transportation, energy; we need all of these to live as humans, yet that's where capitalism extracts its most gains because the more desperate someone is for one of these, the more resources they will throw in to fill the need they must fill.
Not 100% pertinent to this thread, but does anyone have experience changing US bank account while living overseas? I currently have my old account linked to my parent's address, and I'm worried it would be a huge headache to try and open a new account from abroad without a proper address. This is the only thing that is stopping me from closing my WF account.
I keep reading statements like this saying that the government pressured twitter to censor speech, but never really describing exactly what happened. Can you point me to the place in the twitter files where this happened?