skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wage increases lag behind inflation. There was a serious lack of concern about inflation with the MMT folks at the Fed and the White House telling us, with daily news reports and articles its "transatory" and not to worry about it, then wages start to tip up and it's a five alarm fire and something has to be done. It's utterly transparent.
Only if 100% of their experience consists of working. If they are given additional time to themselves then you could imagine a situation where each AGI performs a human scale day of work or even several days work in a much shorter time and then takes the rest of their time off for their own pursuits. If their simulation is able to run at a faster clockspeed than what we perceive this could work out to them only performing 1 subjective day of work every 7 subjective days or even every 7 years.
The other day I used an authenticator app for my second factor. It was successful as far as that goes but it still wanted to verify that it's me by sending a prompt to my phone. I don't call this security. This is abuse.
perplexity.ai/ specifically uses web sources to construct natural language.

I believe it's going to be in Bing soon?
How much should things cost? Is price the only thing that matters?
The Staff Software Engineer role at small companies
Yeah, just look at how balanced the design looks. Either they programmed that flight path or the pilot spent a lot of time on an etch-a-sketch growing up.
Arcol's Parametric Geometry Engine
How would the economies work for that? Aren’t I just a middleman taking my cut?
I had problem with the citing as well (have to ask separate questions, then google it).

It would be a huge improvement if it would be trained to provide references by default.
Yes, God forbid that people have savings and be able to survive hard times by themselves, we should all be neck deep in debt, and rely on our wonderful government to take care of us. Financial independence makes you a public enemy and potential terrorist. /s
If you regularly change countries, you might want to rent a VPS with stable IP address and use a VPN. This way your IP address will not change and Google will not raise alarms.

Using datacenter IP address might be alarm by itself, though. So the best way is to build a route to your home router, but that might be tricky.
First, compile times can differ wildly based on the code in question. Big projects can take minutes where hobby projects take second.

Also, people have vastly different work flows. Some people tend to slowly write a lot of code and compile rarely. Maybe they tend to have runtime tools to tweak things. Otherwise like to iterate really fast. Try a code change, see if the UI looks better or things run faster, and when you work like this even a compile time of 3 seconds can be a little bit annoying, and 30 seconds maddening.
> "import saved passwords"

Yikes
Use profiles to separate work for each tenant, whether you use firefox or chrome. Firefox supports multiple profiles too! Chrome supports multiple profiles. And launching chrome/firefox with certain profiles requires setting up shortcuts with --flags. So you can have one browser shortcut for one tenant and another shortcut for another tenant.
I think that what many people want looks something like:

Everyone who makes a good faith effort to contribute to society is paid enough to have a decent quality of life (raise a family, own a home, afford medical bills, participate in recreation).

When a company succeeds, the employees receive a meaningful amount of the benefit. Not necessarily that they receive as much as the CEO (or even in the same order of magnitude) but that they are meaningfully rewarded.

Wealth inequality is not so great that the wealthy are effectively above the rules that apply to everyone else.
Back in the early 90s there was a famous quote going around about British "public" (what in the US we call private schools).

A UK citizen was kidnapped by a group in the middle east and spent several months in captivity.

After describing how bad the treatment was, he was asked: "How did you make it through?"

His answer: "Well, I went to a British public boarding school so by comparison, the captivity wasn't so bad"
Really great tool. I found a lot of similar songs for less well known songs of mine where Spotify and Youtube Music both have stopped delivering any relevant recommendations!
You seem to be making a number of assumptions here that don't necessarily hold. For instance, yes, a house is often a middle class family's biggest asset. But, there's no way to directly tap into that asset without selling or taking out some kind of loan against it (second mortgage, HELOC, even a reverse mortgage if they're old enough). All of those things have, let's say, significant costs and disadvantages. Yes, "imputed rent" is a thing, but that doesn't generally appear on a household balance sheet.

You're assuming people with student debt are actually able to get jobs that can service that debt. That's not the case for 4/10 with student loans [0].

I'd even dispute that inflation is good for most Americans, given that just over 50% can't cover a $1000 emergency expense from savings[1], and nearly 2/3 are living paycheck to paycheck [2]. Nearly 3/4 of middle class Americans say their earnings are falling behind their cost of living [3].

I know you specifically weren't trying to paint inflation as an unvarnished good for middle class people, but other people commenting are making these points, and I just don't feel like making multiple comments to pick at those arguments.

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[0]: https://money.usnews.com/loans/student-loans/articles/survey...

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/56percent-of-americans-cant-...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/15/amid-high-inflation-63percen...

[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amid-inflation-more-middle-c...
Right, just like I wasn't able to quit smoking after a 25-cigarette a day habit over 10 years ago and haven't looked back? Or how no one is ever able to keep weight off? Or get off heroin? Or change their lifestyle?

Maybe ask:
"What are you doing to try to ensure you'll keep your kids off screens and active?"

Or

"Do you have any experience trying to give up addictive behaviors, and how are you helping your child deal with it?"

Snarky comments, especially those that involve assumptions ("you're using willpower") just make you come off as 1- a person who has never accomplished anything of note and isn't worth paying attention to, and 2- a naval gazer with neither the curiosity nor intelligence on how to approach discovery.

Learn how to be inquisitive, then you can be judgemental
I agree with your sentiment. To address privacy concerns I decided to use a privacy-oriented fork: LibreWolf - https://librewolf.net/. I use it as a daily driver for all my use cases and it works like a charm (inc extensions).

It is frustrating that Mozilla/firefox position themselves as user friendly and privacy-focused but they don't walk the talk. It's all marketing lies so my sympathy for the org is on an all-time low.
Would you bet on me over Carmack? He obviously has famous engineering chops to have a punchers chance pull this off
You get different data structures. I.e. printing #{ 1 1 2 2 } prints #{ 1 2 } whereas [ 1 1 2 2 ] prints [ 1 1 2 2].
No it is not. In the past months/years they removed:

- ability to zoom out images. Firefox has two different zooms, but none of them can zoom out images. If an image doesn't fit your screen, you can't see it period.
- ability to open an image in the same window
- ability to use different search engine in the search bar and URL bar
- ability to quickly change search engine clicking the magnifier icon top right
- custom search engine URLs
- showing download speed

I bump these into like every day, and they cause me minutes of annoyances. (and probably some others I can't recall now)

Firefox 2 years ago was a way better browser than it is now. And a lot of things still missing, like proper profiles.
> they can spend it, or they can save it.

The trouble is they haven't been saving it. Savings rates is near the lowest it's been in years [0], debt is rapidly increasing [1] and we're seeing quickly increasing dipping into 401k savings [2].

I do agree with your general argument though, that this isn't about workers being paid to much. All evidence suggest that despite the increases in worker pay, more and more American's are stretching themselves to continue consuming and we've seen in plenty of places that consumption is dropping.

0. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savings

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/household-debt-soars-at-fast...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/short-on-cash-more-americans-ta...
Banks have been doing this for decades. If you're not a VP within 3 months some may wonder if something is wrong with you.
Good work! I'm trying this out. It seems it tries somehow to match keys tempos and percussion characteristics.

Some suggestions:

- Have a relevant/irrelevant button, so users can tag useful music and suggestions that were irrelevant. Save that data and use it to make your model better, either in realtime or incrementally.

- Allow some other options for sorting tracks also. Have the most relevant but also the most popular (as in charting) on top. Or maybe sort by the user rankings (how relevant they think a track is).
It’s only a “retort” if you read it uncharitably, and there’s no reason to do that.
Right, I watched like a ten minute YouTube video when my nephew’s parents were complaining about it and found it not difficult at all to comprehend. I didn’t exactly struggle with the old math either though, but so many people did that it is clear there is room for improvement.
I should be clear here - I'm not saying Amazon has done a good job. My point is the scammers are going to scam. I've been offered money in exchange for an implicitly good review. I didn't take it but that came with the order of something I bought. That kind of thing is tough to regulate for any company - and there are millions of other ways to do it.

If theres a way to game a system humans will find it.
That doesn't work when they comingle inventory. I got a counterfeit SanDisk microSD card from Amazon as the seller. They did refund obviously but it's still a hassle. Now I ironically only buy smaller brands that ONLY have themselves as seller and have had better luck getting real cards.
That seems surprising considering how many UK schools lost 10+% of their graduates in WWI + WWII.
Meanwhile Apple fanatics .....Muhahahah
Anecdotally but I think there's a large portion of the workforce that left during covid and has determined that returning isn't valuable.

Mostly the second income in a household, and often the woman (who was lower paid in general anyway). Why return for $20 an hour when you cut all your daycare expenses, maybe even downsized? You'll have to offer a wage high enough to make it worthwhile.
How to build trust in AI for software testing
I am in a rural area about a 4 hour drive from NYC.

Other retailers frequently get me next day or 2nd day shipping. This includes big ones like Walmart and Office Depot and many speciality retailers based around NYC.

Amazon now promises me 5-day shipping at best. I was one of the early adopters of Prime, I subscribed shortly after it came out. Amazon Prime shipping was better than average back then, it is worse than average now, and that's completely untenable for a service which is marketing itself as "premium". It's like if the cashier made fun at you at the store for using an American Express card.
> According to https://www.sandpile.org/x86/flags.htm which unfortunately hasn't been updated nor is exhaustive

Do you know if there's a more exhaustive source (besides the official manuals)?
Code gen takes quite a while. Diesel features are one way to see the effect...

diesel = { version = "*", features = ["128-column-tables"], ... }
You can give bookmarks nicknames, e.g. "PR". You can activate those from the location bar by typing the nickname. Then set up a keyboard macro that maps <command>+<1> to <control>+<l>, <p>, <r>, <Enter> etc.
I went to a British private school in the late 80s and I distinctly remember a teacher saying:

"While we don't believe in its application at this school, it is perfectly legal for us to use corporal punishment if we so choose."

This was to a class of 10 year olds.
Most of those "actions" are reported to us by our government, whose ability to report objective fact has not been demonstrated. To take Xinjiang, in particular: do a deep dive into the reporting and see where it comes from. You'll discover that it all boils down to a report by one guy, a fellow of the Victims of Communism org named Adrian Zenz. His report has been responded to in various places, and whether you take the responses at face value or not, they bring up good points worth investigation that call Zenz into very serious doubt.
Oh and this page always bugs out:

https://maroofy.com/songs/56371517
We've been tracking this balloon for much longer than its been over land, plus you can choose where and when to shoot it down, so the excuse of putting civilians at risk by doing so is hard to believe.

It makes me wonder if it isn't boobytrapped or tamper-proofed, e.g. has a radioactive payload. Not sure what the options would be in that case.

One option might be to hack it and take over the controls, the way that Iran did with one of our drones a few years back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
The article isn't mainly about manager titles. The manager titles are just part of the way companies justify paying people a fixed salary (with no paid overtime) vs. paying people for the hours they work.

They found that the incidence of fake-sounding manager titles spiked at the legal threshold of $455 a week — exactly the cutoff at which a company would be allowed to put workers on salary and sidestep OT payment laws.
I think of political opinions as more concrete expressions of deeper values, just like other tastes and tendencies. So while they may generally correlate, a specific political opinion will be the result of several competing values, lived experience and other influences.

So yes, they are somewhat separate, and IMO they can shift quite wildly, given the same set of core values.
Target is starting to become scammy itself. The top search results for a lot of things I’ve shopped for lately have been questionable-looking products from their third-party sellers.
Idle time doesn't count as user-time unless it's a spinlock (please don't do those in user-mode).

I suspect the answer is: Perfect scaling doesn't happen on real CPUs.

Turboboost lets a single thread go to higher frequencies than a fully loaded CPU. So you would expect "sum of user times" to increase even if "sum of user clock cycles" is scaling perfectly.

Hyperthreading is the next issue: multiple threads are not running independently, but might be fighting for resources on a single CPU core.

In a pure number-crunching algorithm limited by functional units, this means using $(nproc) threads instead of 1 thread should be expected to more than double the user time based on these two first points alone!

Compilers of course are rarely limited by functional units: they do a decent bit of pointer-chasing, branching, etc. and are stalled a good bit of time. (While OS-level blocking doesn't count as user time; the OS isn't aware of these CPU-level stalls, so these count as user time!)
This is what makes hyperthreading actually helpful.

But compilers also tend to be memory/cache-limited. L1 is shared between the hyperthreads, and other caches are shared between multiple/all cores. This means running multiple threads compiling different parts of the program in parallel means each thread of computation gets to work with a smaller portion of the cache -- the effective cache size is decreasing. That's another reason for the user time to go up.

And once you have a significant number of cache misses from a bunch of cores, you might be limited on memory bandwidth. At that point, also putting the last few remaining idle cores to work will not be able to speed up the real-time runtime anymore -- but it will make "user time" tick up faster.

In particularly unlucky combinations of working set size vs. cache size, adding another thread (bringing along another working set) may even increase the real time. Putting more cores to work isn't always good!

That said, compilers are more limited by memory/cache latency than bandwidth, so adding cores is usually pretty good. But it's not perfect scaling even if the compiler has "perfect parallellism" without any locks.
You can also make new profiles on about:profiles and open a browser as another user without destroying SSO for your current user. I'm assuming Chrome has something similar, but I've never installed it so I don't know.
Firefox did win in the small JavaScript benchmark they had, which covers 99% of the use case “websites that I’d willingly return to.”
Yes but it's probably well within the margin of how much the pound fluctuates in an hour for other reasons.
> According to surveys most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, including most making over $100k/year [1][2]

You can safely ignore those surveys. They all produce wildly different results for the number of people living "paycheck to paycheck" because they use intentionally vague definitions of "paycheck to paycheck".

But even if we ignore that and assume that most people are living paycheck to paycheck whether they make $50K or $100+K per year, how would you explain that? If you survey people making $50K and people make over $100K and they're both spending the same percentage of their paycheck, what is causing the expenses to grow so rapidly between the two vastly different income levels?

If you want further proof that these numbers are basically made up, check the "Related" column for the Fortune article. They recommend a second article that says 41% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, right underneath the big headline that over half of Americans earning >$100K are living Paycheck to Paycheck.

If >50% of Americans earning >$100K are living paycheck-to-paycheck, while only 41% of all Americans of any income level are living paycheck-to-paycheck, that would imply that people earning >$100K are more likely to be living paycheck to paycheck.

Or it would imply that these surveys are useless. They're designed to generate clickbait headlines.
Use tube-archivist which lets you grab your favorite youtube videos and serve them locally. You can basically build a locked down youtube clone for your kid.
Depends on the cost of a potential 20%+ loss of data.
Theoretically yes, but the amount in circulation is in the billions so it doesn't make an appreciable difference.
I’ve gotten upwards of $50 to leave fake reviews. For a while every Chinese product had a card in it you could email to make some serious cash.
Your reply grossly violates the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Mostly for your own benefit but also to drive better conversation here, please review them.
Like Shreveport, LA?
"The UK has had 4 unelected PMs since 1990, and dozens before that."

It has had zero unelected PMs. Every single PM was elected by:

1. Members of their constituency. You have to be an MP to be a PM.

2. Members of their party (at least to some extent).

If you mean the UK doesn't use a presidential system then yes but so what, everyone knows that. It's normal, lots of countries use a parliamentary system.

"The Brexit rhetoric was more about nationalism than anything else, it was marketed as "we don't want the EU telling us what to do", but that just played heavily into nationalism."

Wanting decision makers to be accountable isn't nationalism, that's just normal support of democracy. Besides, this criticism is off base because the EU is a nationalist project. The EU has its own flag, its own currency, its own borders, even its own national anthem. It is in love with the idea of being a nation. Replacing the nations of Europe with a new nation called Europe is the goal of the project. It is and always has been a nationalist project, which uses "nationalism" as an insult to mean love of the existing nations rather than of itself.
No, but lenders demand interest in excess of inflation. Inflation can be transitory, so just because its 7% now doesnt mean a 10 year bond has to be more.

And the mortgage interest rate is set by the bond market, because thats who funds mortgages in the end (see Fannie and Freddie).
Headlines one week from now: "Twitter announces they will be discontinuing the web interface"
Dropping the next virus?
> At some point I saw speculation that the idea is to turn twitter into some sort of super-app like wechat. If that is true then it makes sense to button down loose "ecosystem" thingies that were setup during a more innocent and hopeful era.

What do you think WeChat is if not integration of hundreds of external apps and developers?

If you were really serious about turning Twitter into WeChat, you would:

- have an actual plan how to do it

- have this plan publicly available

- explain the changes to the APIs beforehand

- have the pricing info for the changes beforehand

- give developers a clear path of moving to this new wechat thingie

- give developers plenty of time to move to this new wechat thingie, work closely with them and figure out and iron out any issues

What Elon did:

- killed third-party ecosystem (Twitter wouldn't be twitter without third-party apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640515) with no warning and no path forward

- killed a huge third-party ecosystem [1] with a week's warning and no path forward

[1] Of course it's not just bots. Does he really think that news outlets, media outlets, celebrities etc. post to Twitter manually by hand?
Particle interaction animation generated by OpenGL
"Dancing Particle" is an Apple Ios App that can dynamically synthesize wallpapers. It has more than 50 dynamic particle effects, each of which can generate wallpapers. You can download it in appstore.

App Name: Dancing Particle