skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to some specific study on uneducated subsistence farmers?

> or descendants of historically-recent enslavement, in the African diaspora

I posit that there is a perfect absence of evidence for "historically-recent enslavement" being a casual factor in present differences on tests, or in what they are meant to be predictive of. Controlling for income and parenting doesn't eliminate the gap. Explanations based on lead poisoning in minority environments used to be popular until lead exposure converged – then they got ditched. So it goes. In fact, no proposed mechanism withstands the slightest scrutiny, it's ignorance and/or special pleading all the way down.

> southern India and China, whose cultural milieus have developed for many centuries in highly urbanized, complex societies

How is does this nebulous "cultural mileu" higher classes were exposed to affect the IQ or SAT score of a descendant of an average uneducated malnourished peasant from southern China (and of Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution survivors)? Do you have any concrete mechanism in mind that is as robust to controls as the genetic hypothesis? For example, adoptees of Korean descent in Sweden have significantly higher IQs than non-Korean adoptees and even non-adopted children [1] – how is that explained, social expectations from Asian-looking people? This is just one fact among thousands, and together they require implausible power of racist attitudes to be explained – greater, and bizarrely far more precise, than for any social intervention known. And unchanging in magnitude despite increases in legal and social equality. Cultural milieus, redlining, Pygmalion effect, epigenetic trauma etc. must all act in concert to perfectly imitate the appearance of between-group heritability just working the same way as within-group heritability.

And when another one of those factors fails to replicate, others must pick up the slack.

Crucially, were the Chinese immigrants low-performing, would it confuse you – or would you have been able to spin a just-so story about recent environmental deprivation that's no less convincing than in the case of Africans? Certainly works with Indians, who, as a whole, do not score highly on tests – cultural milieu or not.

...I'd rather we skip this song and dance – no amount of links and arguments is likely to convince you, since you can just suspect the ideology of their authors that much stronger. I am pretty sure that you are not willing to entertain the thought that this complex topic has been studied by smart and unbiased people, with conclusions favoring the genetic determinist side, e.g. [2], and that your ad hoc "reasonableness test" is insufficient to make a call.

What I am more interested in is a sociological question: why do you think it is adequate? Obviously you are aware that you have not inspected the topic in depth.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18307828/

2. https://cremieux.medium.com/resolute-ignorance-on-race-and-i...
The point about interest rates is broadly applicable: we saw the first mortgage bubble pumped up by large investors trying to recover from their dotcom losses, followed by waves of obviously doomed startups and non-solutions like cryptocurrency, all sharing the common desire to find higher returns than have been possible since the turn of the century. Increasing interest rates should encourage better decisions but at least in the United States there are a ton of people who are depending on being able to sell their homes at a hefty profit for retirement, so they won’t be happy to see mortgage rates anywhere near the historic levels.
If you’re genuinely interested , it’s a very long story, but let me sum it up :

- in 2019 a law was passed, scheduled for being in effect starting 2023

- in 2020 they changed the way the evaluation was performed. Instead or relying on energy bills, they decided to create a formula with a tons of parameters.

- in 2021 they realized the shity formula was overestimating consumption waayyy too much, making a lot more housing improper for renting than expected (people saw their mark going from « C » to « F » or even « G »). They adjusted it.

- in 2022, the new formula is still bogus, but nothing changed

As an example, i live in the best insulated appartment i’ve ever lived in Paris (lived there for 40 years). It’s rated G (the worst), simply because it’s on the top floor.

And here we are, in 2023, with the first batch of housing being unauthorized for rental.
> The best software companies have a dedicated team of technical writers and their own chain of command and comparable salaries to coders

Can you provide some examples? I've never seen a technical writer job post on this site as an individual post, and I don't see a single mention of documentation work in the recent Who's Hiring post.
Not necessarily. But if the solution in this case is to start breaking up the monolith into smaller services owned by specific product teams, then you are moving towards microservices.
Unless the training of ChatGPT has a mechanism to excise the influence of now out-of-date training input, it will become increasingly more likely to give an outdated response as time goes by. Does its training have this capability?
Earlier...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34245202
Up to $395. Likely $15.
Well, the president of CWA (the union) also praises them:

> “Mi­crosoft has lived up to its com­mit­ment to its work­ers and let them de­cide for them­selves whether they want a union,” CWA Pres­i­dent Chris Shel­ton said. “Other videogame and tech gi­ants have made a con­scious choice to at­tack, un­der­mine, and de­mor­al­ize their own em­ploy­ees when they join to­gether to form a union.”
Do you have any [pointers to] recommended best practices?
5 months of severance is pretty amazing.
Yes and no. The GP is counting instructions, which is approximately the same between ARM64 and RV64. Others are talking about code density where RISC-V currently has a significant advantage due to compressed instructions.

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For the above code segment, though I selected the compile-to-binary option, and the program failed to compile. So I don't know what's up with that.

On a relatively short chunk of C++ code, you can see the compressed (16-bit) instructions in the binary output:

https://godbolt.org/z/jzjzrrfMP

Some instructions, such as the ones with a larger immediate load, are 32-bit.

Same version of GCC / G++ as the above.

The actual code size of the ARM64 is bigger:

https://godbolt.org/z/Wq7jKz5rY

I'm not sure why all the NOP instructions are in there, but even discounting that, all the generated machine instructions are 32-bit. Is there another option for GCC that will help? Or am I mistaken in thinking there is a Thumb2 equivalent for this target?

Edit: Answer: No. A64 is fixed-length:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/An-Introdu...
IMO this is the big problem with the internet as it exists today - there is no incentive for producing accurate, unbiased information and non-sensationalist opinions. My greatest hope for the future is that somehow we can incentivize people to produce "good" information for AI based assistants and move away from the rage/shock based advertising model that most of the internet currently uses. Personally I would rather pay a few cents for a query that produces valuable results and doesn't put me in a bad mood than pay with my time and attention like we do today. AI systems will absolutely need to be able to identify the training sources with every result (even if it is coming from several sources) and those sources should be compensated. IMO that's the only fair model for both image and text generation that is based on authors and artists work.
https://archive.ph/pODv8
Oh, look, two of my C64 blogs in Hacker News on the same week :)
The Python core team early on was part of the scientific community. GvR worked at CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica), which was a part of the particle accelerator installation that Amsterdam had once upon a time until most such research went to Switzerland and the USA. CWI has, together with NikHef (the Dutch Nuclear Phyiscs Institute) done a lot of ground breaking research over the years and was the cradle of quite a few spin-off projects.
The use case I've read about is where bitcoin acts as a currency to avoid government/bank issues in some countries where the country's currency has wild inflation and/or the government/bank is untrustworthy (freezes accounts, etc.) So crypto can be helpful for people to transfer money or keep it safe (relative to seized accounts or worthless currency) if they are leaving or seeking asylum elsewhere or similar scenarios.

Most affluent people (globally speaking) have many other options (USD cash, venmo/apps, ACH, wire transfers, checks, etc.) to transfer money to others.

I would like the financial elements of blockchain to be set aside and let those knowledgeable explore actual problem domains. A distributed, transparent database of entries might have some uses that can't be seen thru the fog of those that want to get rich. One problem set that seems like a good fit is for actual real estate title/deed information. Having to pay for a "title search" or "title insurance" is bonkers every time a real estate transaction occurs on the same piece of land.
I received 4 new keyboards over the life of my old MacBook and swore I'd never buy a Mac again. Apple wanted to charge me $1000 for a 5th logic board/keyboard. I did end up getting a M1 Max MBP, and I guess the $395 is nice. It'd be nicer if Apple admitted it was a defective design and recalled the product.
I suggest using the non-white space seperator like a -:

spiny-approval-avalanche uncouth-tattoo

If Bitwarden default is not safe, the software should not be used.
I feel much more like ChatGPT is basically the same as Tesla's autopilot. Wonderful and seems like a huge advancement, but as it's actually applied to situations we see how banal and limited it actually is.

But loads of crypto-bro types will make millions selling ChatGPT "modernization consulting", so if you're looking to make a quick buck, highly recommend.
Which were already highly unpopular with websites, but at least have some attribution.
Football players aren’t replaceable. At least not at the level people are willing to pay too dollar to watch.
> Pegasus is spyware developed by the _Israeli_ cyber-arms company NSO Group that can be covertly installed on mobile phones (and other devices) running most versions of iOS and Android.
> If they enforced it 100% (or substantially closer to 100%) it would wind up getting changed to reflect reality

That would be a good outcome.

> that would be counterproductive to the goals of everyone who complains it's not enforced enough.

I don't agree at all. I want transparency, not deal-cutting for special-interests behind closed doors. That's a recipe for corruption.

> people with side gigs and people with business income getting hit most frequently and hardest.

It's not only about enforcement, even auditing the relevant people is not happening. At it is, the IRS doesn't even have the money to audit rich people[0]. Besides; the IRS could still decide to not target anyone making less than 250K.

[0] https://www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich
It's still a good start!
> You can’t patent an idea like “magnetic alignment”, only specific implementations.

Well, I'm frankly surprised you can patent it at all, but you can cover many possible implementations in a single patent.

> Apple has many patents in this space, for instance US 10804748.

That's pretty much worthless as far as magnetic alignment. That patent is specifically geared towards foreign object detection.
I use it for coding every day now. I ask it for examples of such and such implementation, in a way that's impossible to get through documentation or even by reading sample code on the internet. For example, I'll ask:

"How can I code a mock for a boto3 dynamodb client, using unittest.mock, using a patching context manager"

And it will give me a highly relevant example, often right or close enough.

I will occasionally ask to come up with a function based on requirements but I don't find that nearly as useful as using it as super advanced search engine.
The experts aren’t saying potato-shaped stones skip better, but rather that there is an alternative to skipping that can also be satisfying using differently-shaped stones. This alternative involves a single bounce and a vertical launch.

Which, maybe I’m just old, does not sound half as satisfying as getting 6 or 8 skips. Not that it’ll stop me from trying.
This is so true.

Everybody wants to hold the record for net worth or salary, but nobody chases the record for say number of beaches or cities visited, even though a non-monodimensional individual would value these 4 goals as equally important.
Yeah, I learnt touch typing as a teenager with no instruction and as far as I'm aware most of my friends also did. My mum used to type with one finger at that time but I think by now even she would struggle to find a use for this tool
https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/06/08/what-makes-up... says $54/unit for what you find in a Galaxy S20.
That is not correct.

Compressed instructions are available for 32-bit (RV32) and 64-bit (RV64). The compressed instructions differ slightly between the two though. See my other comment in this thread.
I think this is purely a personal preference but I also think there is a bias towards list comprehensions being more difficult to mentally parse.

I do a lot of contract work and chatted with a ton of folks ranging from beginners to veterans. A lot of them (well more than half) avoid list compressions, especially when working with teams because it's such a mixed bag of either being able to instantly understand them or it requires more effort. Personally I don't use them in my code (for both reasons).

Both Ruby solutions are much more clear to me even though I have no functional programming background. I have no preference towards functional styles either, I would say it's the opposite. I struggled with Elixir long enough that I stopped using it.
Heard this has affected engineering too, not just or mostly sales as people were thinking or happened before. (I remember a hiring manager years ago telling me once that there hadn't ever been any layoffs, all I could think was "yet".) For those affected, typical full systems cut-off as well, not very ohana of them to just terminate with no notice...

Still, not unexpected given everything else going on. Glad I'm not competing for tech jobs at the moment.
For me the continuity with Perl was the main attraction.
Stricly for the hosting I meant. Doesn't HN famously run on a single Computer?
As someone who compiles c++20 code using the big three daily, MSVC claims conformance faster but in practice it's full of bugs and takes more time to be usable.

E.g. when they claimed concept support, it was not possible to use requires-expression outside of a concept declaration e.g. no if constexpr (requires { foo; }) was a syntax error ; clang wasn't claiming concepts support but I couldn't find a thing that didn't work at the time.

Same for coroutines, constexpr, my codebase at some point was littered with workarounds just for catering to MSVC's idea of conformance. Even today it's the compiler for which I have the most open bugs I think.

And, to put the nail on the coffin, clang generates consistently faster code in my experience and its of many others, see e.g. this recent thread on r/cpp : https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/100vctp/msvc_vs_clang_...
Thats smaller than I expected for such a prominent company
https://stackoverflow.com/a/70826647
Why are you taking the photo of the Mona Lisa? If it's because you just want a nice picture of a famous painting, then no the photo is not art, but rather nice looking photograph of a piece of art. If however you are doing something transformative with the framing or compostion or context of the photograph and using the values imbued in the Mona Lisa to try to make some sort of artistic statement of your own, then yes that photo is art.
In many (not all) cases it still can be a separate step. It's not something I do a lot but I did some and in some cases I would have been Okay this way. And perhaps that could be a healthier alternative to staring at a bright display for hours.
Parenting and language acquisition: Dinner conversations
Language acquisition includes the ability to acquire skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension in a single or multiple languages. Children are naturally filled with curiosity, so they acquire language skills very naturally in ways that seem effortless.
Look up Lockhart's lament, if you haven't heard of it
Nice! Much more impressive than my little demo.

The tools we have now make coding the C64 much easier.
> This means that the content that is more replicated will be considered more true by the system, regardless of its connection to reality or its coherence with the rest of the knowledge in the system.

I understand the problem, but what better way do we currently have to measure its connection to reality? At least from a practical point of view it seems that LLMs have achieved way better performance than other methods in this regard, so repeatedness doesn't look like that bad a metric. Or rather, it's the best I think we currently have.
Ironically I had a covered device that failed prematurely but not for the recall reason. I was suspicious of the keyboard redesign so I bought and used a keyboard cover from day one, and I never had a problem with any of the keys.

Instead the ribbon connecting the screen failed. I took it to a reputable repair shop, who told me based on their experience the failure rate on these for other display-related reasons was high enough that in their opinion I'd be throwing good money after bad. So I told them to just use mine for parts or recycle it. (It was old enough by then that the latest OS X no longer supported it, thus defeating its purpose for software development. In return I decided to simply no longer support Mac versions of software I write.)
For me personally, the killer was that python is typically pre-installed on linuxen while Ruby isn't, and if those environments are controlled or locked down in any way it can be a ballache to get ruby on there. Hence python is the path of least resistance.
No one has yet mentioned how incredible it is the family survived that plunge!
My favourite: Someone made a theme with white colored text to improve text readability with the dark theme.

https://datalars.com/2023/01/03/qbittorrent-v450-the-hitchhi...

The reply:
It's all going to be fixed in 4.5.1 anyway.
Show HN: Kuberentes Operator for Matomo Written in Kotlin
We made a Kuberenets Operator to automate Matomo hosting on Kubernetes. We currently support AWS and Hetzner (via kube-hetzner) and work on supporting other cloud providers.

We also want to support more tools in the future.
Are you serious? Iphone devices easily live for 8+ years as is, android is unfortunately the platform where your perfectly fine phone can easily be “canceled” 1-2 years down the line on purely software grounds, even Samsung promises only 3, recently 4 years of support!

Oh, and don’t forget the reality of those “open” bootloaders, besides pixels almost all of them come with the huge caveat of wiping proprietary firmware ASAP, bringing your fancy camera’s quality to the dirt for example. So, do your phones really get a new life?
Salesforce to cut staff by 10% in latest tech layoffs
I think there’s a difference here. There are cases I’ve found for minor manual tasks, things like real estate listings with some basic programmatically created prompts containing details of a listing.

Imo the largest holdback is context. I have some problems that would be amazingly well solved if i could hand gpt3 a whole large document and ask it questions about the document.
That was also an exceptional time where the USA was benefiting from a huge one-time windfall, i.e. the end of the Cold War and commensurate reduction of the biggest line item in the US budget (the military).
Apple is raising the price of battery replacements for older iPhones in March
Actually I will. I'm restoring an Amiga 1000 this year, slowly.
Also, there wouldn't be cheap Android phones without Linux kernel, SQLite and other OSS. The empowerment is real.
> Dry cleaning business? Shudder.

A modern dry-cleaning business is typically not just consumer dry cleaning. It's a whole host of B2B "make various dirty textiles not dirty anymore" services.
Amazing just how far Amazon has fallen due to counterfeit products and scammy sellers.

It is unfortunate but understandable if you get scammed buying a pair of "certified" Apple earbuds or lightening cables from a Chinese seller at a price 70% less than you'd pay at Apple, Fair enough and buyer beware.

But if you can't even buy a BOOK that's sold by Amazon itself without getting scammed, then it seems we have a serious problem, and it is not surprising that Amazon stock is down over 50%.
Speaking as person who lives in country next to UA. Yes you can - without problem.

You can even deliver package without any single issue other than a bit higher cost.

I do not understand how bitcoin would be better over bank controlled transaction.
> There should never have been a war, and there should have been a cease fire by now.

>Does that opinion make me anti-Ukraine?

Neither of those facts make you anti-Ukrainian. However, if you think the road to accomplishing that is to have Ukraine surrender, rather than Russian stop invading—that would make you anti-Ukrainian. I do note that you deliberately left out under whose terms a cease-fire should be signed, however.
Well, my solution is not trying to solve humanities problem you know, it's just trying to solve my own problem. And I'm just guessing I'm not the only person who has this problem.

So how to vet people? Well, Paul Graham started a VC company and has seen a lot of startups, so my guess is that he knows a lot about the topic. More so than anyone who hasn't come close to any startup.

On (game) development, I would go for Carmack and the likes.

And of course just like PageRank, if they have vetted for certain people, those also get scored.

Does it lead to your own bubble? Of course! But if you're going to get a religious person to dump his own religion in favor for another, good luck to you. But that's not the kind of problem that I want or need to solve.

I just want reliable information. And I get to decide what "reliable" is. If you're a flat-earther, you can vet any crazy person you wish. I don't care, because it won't affect me at all.
Salesforce to Cut 10% of Jobs, Pare Offices as Sales Slow
Not terribly surprising. Salesforce sells enterprise products — the sales team is basically a necessity; overly cutting salespeople would have a big revenue impact.
GPT is the new search. Adding it in our faces like this will likely lead to further advancements in AI - !
The “End of Programming” will look a lot like programming