skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's notification management is better than what I remember from my last Android phone (years ago, a Pixel, latest version at the time, I think in 2017 or 2018). Apple's app management is definitely mixed, but I find it quite easy to use as-is, certainly not deficient enough to be a deal-breaker. And most people--by far--don't care much about either item.
Has anyone done the math on when we will have too much housing? With the boomers dying off and the much smaller following generations, I presume at some point in the next 50-100 years we will have way more houses than people to fill them. Surely some statistician has done the math.
feel free to post any corrections

podtext.ai --this post
www.listennotes.com --focused a lot more than transcripts, but probably the most complete of all here.
steno.ai --most professional seeming and possibly second most complete
podscription.app --good search, very limited inventory
podscript.ai --pretty but a little buggy, doesn't show timestamps or transcripts in search results
podsearch.page --only generates for specific podcasts. can't search across podcasts
He should be done with Musk forever.
Lots of screens are getting squarer again. Macs are 16:10+, my framework and MS surface are 3:2. And a few portrait folks.
Are they they much more capable now that they’re enormous than 15-20 years ago when they were normal sized? I do not remember a pickup truck having a grille above the head of the average pedestrian when I was a kid, and I have a hard time believing that this is somehow important to any of other functions other than intimidating (or actually harming) other road users.
You're right that having the capacity to program isn't about having special knowledge, but it's not about tolerance to frustration. It's about the ability to think in abstract terms and being able to mentally process an abstract mental model consistently.

Even a person with far below average intelligence can do many things in physical space with enough training. They can be shown how to set a table for a fancy banquet, can physically understand what a knife/fork/spoon/plate/napkin/cup are, their relationship in physical space, and eventually learn to set a table as instructed with enough training and practice.

But there's no amount of training that works to help a dumb person understand abstract problems in programming. Things like understanding a variable represents something, you have many variables to keep track of that all represent different things, and working through the logic of even a simple function in a program that changes those variables are beyond dumb people. I wish this wasn't the case, but it's reality.

giraffe_lady is being too humble if she's a decent coder and genuinely thinks she's dumb. There is no such thing as a dumb coder: it's a complete contradiction. In reality, I'd bet that almost everybody on HN who seriously uses this site to discuss ideas is at least in the top 15% of IQ for their population group.
looks at all the crypto and then LLM hype

Nah.
Laserdisc was the bomb. And I miss mine.
I am not sure what this is exactly but it is nice and calming.
Also lambdaprompt https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt
The person you're responding to is correct in very specific cases like the GRFP; certain fellowships function differently.

You're correct in the case of 90+% of grad students.
Regular expressions can be written verbosely and with comments; you don't need to write them like line noise, any more than you need to do so with normal code. Regular expressions also have the significant advantages of being both pure and guaranteed to terminate. There's even libraries (like re2) that guarantee termination in linear time.

It's insane to write code to text search when a regular expression could be reasonably used instead. This article is objectively bad advice and should not be followed.
That episode was a bunch of work—glad to hear that it was beneficial! And, yes, YouTube is just convenient for posting recordings. We added the podcast in early 2022. There’s usually a delay between YouTube and the podcast in the hope that we get some show notes submissions (and to shake out the occasional audio screw up).
Still worth not being stuck in traffic between 5 to 10 hours every week.
A lot of sites these days have infinite scrolling, so scrollbar doesn't work as it expands to show ads and other content from the site
> He has passed the zenith of his life and all that is left is the long slow march to obscurity.

It may not be all that slow.
That is exactly right, and nothing has changed— the CIA still has plenty of influence over WaPo, NYT, etc. I would say it’s perhaps slightly less direct now, but even worse because they have such a large network of think tanks and cutouts to shape the narrative.
Remember when CBS news had that 60 Minutes piece last year about how most US arms and supplies were not actually getting to the front in Ukraine? How long did it take for them to “partially” retract it for some embarrassingly bogus reason?
PS: if you haven’t read “The Devil’s Chessboard” by David Talbot, highly recommend.
Extreme earners are not smart
Unable to get encryption working with self-hosted docker versions.
We need (and fortunately have) vastly more variety in housing than in cars. A car is much more practical to have multiple of, where a house is less so. Some people will want theater rooms, workshops, a studio space, 4+ garage spots, extra sound-proofing, an office (or multiple), a yard, master and laundry on the first floor, an in-law or nanny apartment, and the list goes on and on. Some of those are simple preferences; others are practical necessities for some.

If your daily driver doesn’t do something you need weekly, buy a second one. If your house doesn’t do something you need weekly, you’re far more likely really stuck.
Slash should partner with Posthog to form the Startups Whose Names Have An Unfortunate Extra Meaning Association :P
I’ve been pricing out a truck+trailer combo to work remote and see North America.

I’m starting to get serious about it and it’s really exciting.

Remote offers so many possibilities for a more enriching life. I’d for sure take a 20 or even 30% pay cut (to <$100k)to enable this, easy!
There are no fundamental rights in the UK, just privileges contingent on the blessings of His Majesty's government.

This is why America fought a war of independence against them.
Surprised to see how many other small projects doing this same thing there are. Kinda seems like a solved problem with ListenNotes. Not affiliated, but I use the service a lot and they have a lot more features than just transcripts including publicly accessible APIs (some of which could probably be utilized by some of the projects posted here)
My only idea is that glass-topped tables seem to be too slippery for a moving train. Imagine when you spill the liquor on the table.
do you have imap idle/push enabled on server/client ? i use kmail for past 20 years or so, and it's been just fine.
thunderbird that my wife uses feels much slower in comparison to kmail
Nah, a superhuman AI would be smart enough to not need Rust.
I mean why would they? Their compensation is already heavily influenced by the performance of the company.
it's the most voted comment in the thread. might be a you thing.
The defensive changes are a bit over-stated in my opinion. Sure there is no hand checking, arm barring or really hard fouls (that are not flagrant) but there is zone defense. So when you get by your defender, there can easily be 2-3 guys already waiting for you. Whereas before, there were 2-3 guys rotating over to try to meet you at the rim. Schematically it seems that scoring is as easy/hard as it ever was even if the tactics have evolved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_oracle

Test oracles are great for porting software.
Here’s the deal though: the “pissed off” ire should be directed at the employer.

Making employees both pissed at each other and at the same time too scared to talk about salary means the employer gets it all the more easier to pay employees less.

Employees are of the same class - and therefore should be open and honest about salary and benefits in an effort to ensure all members of the employee class are compensated appropriately and the employer is aware they need to compensate accordingly.
Forums have their own problems. Most turn into echo chambers where one particular opinion is dominant pretty quickly. There's plenty of topics where one subreddit will be broadly positive about a subject, and another subreddit will be broadly negative about the same subject.

I'm not sure there's currently _any_ good way to get unbiased feedback from users. Ideally you should probably cross check a few different methods, but that's hard
When you’re young maybe, but after ten or fifteen years of “deep social connections”, working remote can be quite peaceful and satisfying. Personally I’ve always been more productive working at home.
Developer Portals Can Abstract Away K8s Complexity
Looks interesting, can you show us more use cases on the landing page? The stock price example is okay, but I want to see what I can use this for that I can't currently do easily. What problems does this solve?
A trading shop can afford to give bigger bonuses to a smaller set of staff, not everyone who is still cutting teeth.
Preach. Walking through any new subdivision in the burbs or more rural areas is so depressing. Cheap, cookie cutter houses squeezed on top of each other as far as the eye can see. At least there's a big push to make most of these mid-rise developments mixed use, making the area more dense and walkable. The benefits out weigh the cons.
Something like this would be interesting to me, many podcasts I listen to are not here or on some of the other links shared by others. Sometimes I can jump around and find roughly the right space for the segment to share but often I can't. It doesn't feel helpful to share a 2 hour podcast for a minute of discussion.
Hollywood Can’t Give Up on the Old Until the New Starts Making Real Money
A properly united rank of employees will ensure the salaries are appropriate - who says they have to be cut? That’s just a scare tactic - why not scare the employer?

Cuts both ways.
kmail imap support was somewhat rough around 10 years ago, but it been totally stable for me ever since. i have push/idle enabled on server/client, it been working just fine.
the only problem that i have it's when letsencrypt certificate rotated at night and at morning i get few hundreds popups asking to approve new certificate
> For clarity, this is ONLY the forward pass of the model. There's no training code, batching, kv cache for efficiency, GPU support, etc ...

Neat, but please add one-line comments/docstrings where these missing bits would go.
On my Ryzen 7 4800H (8 core) 16GB laptop running Linux Mint, Thunderbird Mail is using 290MB-360MB of RAM. Mostly no registered CPU usage, but when I clicked around a few folders, it went up to about 3% very briefly.
A Reddit user fact-checked and found that the Bing bot was still hallucinating
If anyone is interested, there's a podcast app called Snipd that integrates transcription. They also use AI to create chapters and snippets. It then creates a feed of snippets, like Instagram reels. Pretty neat.

(Not my app; just a happy user.)
At that point I might just take the first 2^32 numbers, the last 2^32 numbers, and some range in between, and feel good about it.
Good autocomplete
PTSD is an all encompassing phrase that includes childhood sexual trauma, being beaten, disturbing visual experiences, survivors guilt and violent explosions. It is like calling it a human experience. The phrase is without reservation a piece of shit.

You shouldn't treat these things the same, yet they're grouped the same and often treated the same. You say firefighters and soldiers get it, have you spoken to them about agency or why they are troubled? I knew a marine and his sleeplessness was partially due to cradling his friend who was hit with an IUD and feeling helpless to save him and only watching him die.

I'd avoid academic literature on this since they group every bad traumatic situation and listen to why people have their issues or how they fixed them. This is deeply personal, and I'm not telling anyone any advice from my experience, it is just an story.
Wow, it seems like a fully frightening idea to have an ml/dl system with no clue if its right or wrong about anything (as it knows literally nothing, including that fact) to have any kind of role in autonomous agency.
It’s going to be difficult to bring machine learning to bear on this since there is no training set.
I'm surprised to read this — while the examples could be more cleanly presented, I felt like the title for this post and the initial gif on landing show what this does reasonably clearly. I do see what you mean about the PRO part.
not a terrible idea, has some good points, but gui apps don't cd in a way that can be hooked, and usually i get around to popping a terminal window after i'm working on a project rather than before. (also, cd isn't so easy to script, I'd have to use a bash function, but i'd probs have to make a up new name to get used to, cdproj or something, otherwise any "headless" scripts would be do it too

And I frequently jump from desktop to desktop for multiple projects, and my terminal on that desktop is likely to already be where I want to be. Do gui apps reliably reload xdg all the time, or only at startup?

anyway, keeping it in mind, it might just be worth the trouble to click a scripted icon on each desktop :)
For that matter, what is the benefit of TBD for managers? It’s a development technique—specifically, a rebranding of continuous integration, because that name was coopted by tool vendors.
I'm going to try this. Looks easy enough to implement. I'm leaving the PC on all night tonight.

Genuinely curious if this will result in a successful block, a failed block....or a BSOD ? I'll report back.

Crossing fingers - Thanks you!
> Tyrannical governments seem to be the default because it's the easiest way for the powerful to control the powerless, which is the fundamental purpose of most governments throughout history.

Okay, but that's the whole nature of OP's question: Why does tyranny arise again and again, as if it were a natural equilibrium state of some kind?

I don't see why government should be treated differently from other institutions in analyzing this question. Deebo and Lord Farquad were both tyrants; was the nature of their tyranny any different, just because one happened to represent "government" and the other didn't?

My proposition is that it requires constant effort and vigilance to prevent the rise of tyranny, because the forces that lead to tyranny are ever-present. So any society that exists temporarily in a non-tyrannical state is still subject to power grabs and takeover attempts by would-be tyrants.

Maybe you're implying that the existence of a state or government is what facilitates such tyranny; I've heard that one many times. I contend that if the state did not exist, then other people and institutions would fill the same role; that the nonexistence of a state would not represent an impediment to tyranny; and that the existence of a state is not itself a strong indicator of the presence of tyranny.
Indeed; sorry, sorry. I was pretty groggy when I asked that - hope you're doing alright.
Out of interest I plotted my salary history from when I immigrated to the US from the UK in 1980 to 2018 when I retired. Data is from the SSA website (click the link for the chart). While I knew the numbers all along seeing it in graph form I am shocked how much of a roller coaster ride it was. The chart has several interesting features. Initially there is slow steady salary growth as a contract employee at a large tech in the midwest. In 1990 I moved to Silicon Valley and salary growth sped up, partly as I switched jobs more and partly this was the gogo 1990s with a banner spike year in 1998 when I got a large performance bonus that essentially doubled my salary. This was also the time in the valley when your house made more than you did so times were good, money was plentiful and I could afford to lose a little attempting to day trade the dot com stocks. Then the dot com bust hit in 2000-2001 and the startup I worked for failed to IPO and I started a lean patch where I was self-employed trying to run my own business and create my own startup. I tried to do it purely with credit cards and did not try for any venture capital. It didn't work out although I do have some small passive income to show for some websites I created. I went back to full time employment in 2007 and stayed with that albeit plateaued in my career until retirement in 2018 when I was laid off. The final salary spike is a termination bonus.

https://ibb.co/TDXBgS8
"Definitely would have more."
In the US it's almost all immigration dependent now.

So the answer could be anywhere from "1-2 generations" to "never", depending on our immigration policies & relative desirability for people to come here.
> The boss can fire the employee but not the other way around.

What. Employees can quit, which is synonymous to firing the boss.

Maybe the bit about software design was correct, but the first two sections incorrectly explaining game theory don’t give me much confidence.
HR is not capable of “liking” or “disliking” - those are human emotions.

They are only capable of following policy and law - which, in my country (US) means it’s perfectly fine to discuss salary.

Note: “HR” (Human Resources) describes the resource pool in relation to the corporation, not a collection of “resources” available to a human. As a department, HR only ever exists to serve the corporation. Even if you walk into the dept to fix a pay stub (a legal concern) or get a mental health referral (it’s expensive to hire new emps after burning them out…)
Well I'm 35. You can decide if that's young or old. Some people are just more social than others of course.
Compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)

Now imagine an AGI actually understanding the message when it gets developed some time later, and, well, doing the required something which the message apparently explains how to do.
Boxxy and Laina? Might need to get that framed.
I had no idea my podcast client (overcast) could do chapter artwork. Chapters are still somewhat cutting-edge, let alone per-chapter metadata. That episode felt like you went nought to sixty real sharpish. Credit is well deserved.
You can set the XDG environment variables in Direnv maybe?
Ask HN: Does a JIT typically use machine learning to boost performance?
I was reading about Dotnet Core's Tiered Compilation model and the two requirements to go from Tier 0 to Tier 1 caught my eye.

> The method needs to be called at least 30 times, as measured by the call counter, and this gives us a rough notion that the method is 'hot'. The number 30 was derived with a small amount of early empirical testing but there hasn't been a large amount of effort applied in checking if the number is optimal. We assumed that both the policy and the sample benchmarks we were measuring would be in a state of flux for a while to come so there wasn't much reason to spend a lot of time finding the exact maximum of a shifting curve. As best we can tell there is also not a steep response between changes in this value and changes in the performance of many scenarios. An order of magnitude should produce a notable difference but +-5 can vanish into the noise.

> At startup a timer is initiated with a 100ms timeout. If any Tier0 jitting occurs while the timer is running then it is reset. If the timer completes without any Tier0 jitting then, and only then, is call counting allowed to commence. This means a method could be called 1000 times in the first 100ms, but the timer will still need to expire and have the method called 30 more times before it is eligible for Tier1. The reason for the timer is to measure whether or not Tier0 jitting is still occurring, which is a heuristic to measure whether or not the application is still in its startup phase. Before adding the timer we observed that both the call counter and background threads compiling Tier1 code versions were slowing down the foreground threads trying to complete startup, and this could result in losing all the startup performance wins from Tier0 jitting. By delaying until after 'startup' the Tier0 code is left running longer, but that was nearly always a better performing outcome than trying to replace it with Tier1 code too eagerly.

I understand that a JIT can optimize a running program to produce even more performant code, but in this case the two parameters weren't optimized much once a good set of values were found. This makes sense from the perspective of the programmer, but it seems to me that this could be dynamically tuned on a per CPU basis depending on factors like, how good a users cooling solution is, and whether or not they won the silicon lottery.

So in this case it does not appear like any machine learning was used to tune these parameters, but a "optimizing ML entity" that had access to these knobs, could potentially use these, and other parameters to tune a given program for your computer in a much more intimate way than currently possible. Is that something that is done with JITS in general? Or is the performance tuning more rudimentary than that?
Anyway, I lol'd hard at "written by the devil." Thanks for the article.
Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection
“Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?”

Neither of those are a concern to me. I prefer functioning software, I don't care that much how it looks. And I don't care about the rate of change.
If you would like to reject scientific materialism (and the empiricism and the dispassionate utilitarianism that go with it), go ahead.

Just don't try to frame your conclusions as objective truth, or known scientific results like the GP.
Given the poorer efficiency, wouldn't it be better use of limited money and resources to put regular tiles on houses and normal solar panels somewhere else?

(Honest question. I've always wondered why residential rooftop solar, especially since it's usually government subsidized, makes sense anywhere in the world.)
They did take a pay cut. The stock price went down and most executive comp is stock.
Tip to Thunderbird: dont block the UI thread when doing net requests. I’ll waive the consulting fee for that one.