skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, mass timber is just already cheaper than steel and concrete for some buildings so it seems like an interesting avenue for greening up some construction on the cheap.
I'll have to check out Bellman's work, thanks!
So, coming from a country with roughly 5% inflation for like 30 years or more, let me take a moment to throw some oil on troubled waters.

Sure inflation means prices go up. Equally it means wages go up. Ideally in sync, but naturally sometimes a bit less, occasionally a bit more.

Future-income streams like pensions are (mostly) always inflation linked (in direct or indirect ways.) no-one with half a brain would consider a "fixed income" approach to retirement.

The number on the sticker is just a number. It generally flows upward. Sure its bigger now than it used to be, but then again so is my wage.

(as an aside, lowering the number is deflation, and that's really bad for an economy because it encourages people to not-spend, as it'll be cheaper tomorrow. And our word "economy" can loosely be translated as "amount of spending".)

So, as long as your income is inflation adjusted you're fine. If it isn't, well, take a minute today to teach your children why they should always work for/save for/invest for inflation adjusted returns.
Yeah, that's more or less a bug. The reason for it is that outgoing requests from Workers pass through a lot of the same proxy logic as incoming requests. This made Workers a lot easier to build initially (six months from inception to beta!) but there are a lot of quirks as a result.

Outgoing requests from Workers destined for external servers (i.e. not other sites on Cloudflare) really have no reason to be buffered and thus no reason to impose these limits. We should fix that. I also suspect most Workers-based apps don't really need incoming buffering either.
The headline will always be technically true but it's not interesting. The state has dramatically, both at a state level and at a county level, put into place better plans for infiltration, reuse, agricultural groundwater recharge, and more. Of course there's more to be done, but it's not nothing. (This is NYT going for a clickbait-y headline that isn't technically untrue, IMHO.)

If you're interested in California weather, read weatherwest.com

Edit to add: "During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way." (East of Eden)
>financially compensated just as well

Actually better [1]: "Additionally, the average cooperative wage paid at all reporting worker cooperatives is $19.67 per hour, more than $7 higher than the minimum wage in the 13 states with the most worker co-ops."

Oh, I'm sorry. You were probably talking about the infinitely small minority of software workers that make the top of the top salaries + non-controlling equity that is just more salary really. So long as you don't get laid off right?

Should all labor be structured around some pipe-dream that everyone can be a billionaire as long as nobody shares or cares about those around them?

The problem is that it's an apples to oranges comparison friend

On average most people make more than people on average in corporations it's just that the lottery ticket like chance of getting so rich that you can move into the capital class and leave all the peasants back on earth is not only unlikely, it's explicitly an anti-goal.

[2] https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/worker-co-op-employees-now-earn-...
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I've had basketballs fail. Suddenly your ball has a lump. Happens after a hard hit sometimes.

On the 3D printed one, I'd assume the opposite problem. A hard hit causes a dead spot or actual indent.

Both make it hard to play with.
Pretty sure that in some cases, AI researchers in some companies are like:
"sorry we don't give training set nor source-code (detailed instructions how to reproduce the experiment) but it works perfectly and is revolutionary, now give me my PhD / funding to our company"
I don't think it goes that far but a while ago the Twitter app was somehow polling for registered request handlers and discovering what other apps were installed. Not their data, but their presence, to profile their own users.
Well said.

Also, for more sales/ops-heavy companies, their sales teams are likely getting killed on reups, revenue/unit projections are cut, meaning that both their sales/ops teams are overbuilt purely because the customer base themselves is cutting costs.

This is how disinflation works really, and is what the Fed is trying to make us all do. The rate cuts increase a company's cost of capital (effectively the interest rate, fundraising environment, etc.) which then increases their "hurdle rate" - ie the ROI a project needs to have in order to be justified, and (in an explicit / implicit sense) the marginally low ROI projects, people, etc. are then not justified.
Not sure how accurate this is, but I heard the initial "no need for masks" advice was given to the public so masks could be prioritized for hospitals and medical staff. At least in a setting where you're around large quantities of virus containing aerosols, it would be intuitive for a mask to make a difference. Like radiation, the amount of viral material has some correlation to outcomes, I believe.
Take it one step further. Don’t count the money until you’ve used it to purchase something.

Until then whatever value it has or whether it even exists at all is theoretical.
1. Most large US companies have developers outside US too.

2. Inflation is high the world over and central banks have hiked rates everywhere.

3. An individual company has a negligible impact on unemployment figures. If you're thesis was actually true, it makes no rational sense for a company to layoff workers.
<< When the smart money with as insider knowledge as it gets radically hedges the success and growth of their customers

I want to agree, but is that insider knowledge even appropriately distributed to make that kind of determination. I want to believe that senior management reads the reports generated by their underlings, but part of me just assumes they merely skim TLDR section with very few taking the information in reports seriously.
That was my first thought, and without seeing the paper all I can do is guess. My guess is when they say the horseflies like big dark objects they mean big and/or dark, with big being the top priority. So a big white blob would still be more appealing than several small white and dark blobs.

That, or the shade mean even white is sometimes a big grey blob.
AI Models
Does anybody know where to find a really good AI which can make loads of realistic pictures of 1 model? OF takeover :)
I think both of these are aggregated by https://fallingfruit.org/

FallingFruit also has crowd-sourced info on stuff like the best dumpsters for dumpster diving
Lunch can in fact be free if you skip it. I feel market forces will almost always prefer a centralized (I.e., marginally cheaper) solution so long as it is robust enough. I would have to imagine an entire economic and cultural shift to imagine S3 being usurped by a decentralized solution.

Sometimes centralization is a benefit because it gives you someone to invoice/sue if it breaks.
The USA problem (one of) is that your second point: wage go up -- isn't happening.
Fun fact: unlike linear motion, rotation is absolute. Accepting that the Earth does not rotate would require us to accept that distant galaxies circle it at tangential speeds many times greater than c. It can be logically consistent, but we would have to come up with an explanation for why the entire universe rotates around a particular object, and for why the speed of light has an exemption for this particular type of motion and none other.
What impact does an individual company have on unemployment figures? If the only point of layoffs was increasing unemployment, what incentive does an individual company have for laying off employees?
I'm not trying to target this critique at LFS specifically and absolve Git. It might be that LFS is a bad product because of Git's limited extension points, it remains a bad product.
Not even sure the US layoffs are really impacting US developers. The US unemployment rate keeps going down month to month despite big tech layoffs. The devs getting laid off are being snagged by other companies almost right away.
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Those are mature industries with more developed legislation and case law. Those precise rules that those companies should follow those companies are more defined and people who work in those industries, and their lawyers, can then be mindful of exactly what they can get away with (for good or ill), leaving less opportunity for their actions to go to court or political debate.

Law suits like this are part of an industry maturing. They clarify open questions through court judgments, and sometimes prompt legislation that makes rules more explicit.

It’s just how laws work.
I love how the answer is "by eliminating labor altogether"

I couldn't have explained worker alienation better had I tried
How did the top 50 ICOs of 2022 fare?
What do you call McKinsey laying off 2000 people? A good start.
Going from 5 work days to 4 is a 20% cut in work/pay and a 50% increase in weekends (2 to 3).

4 to 3 is a 25% cut and a 33% increase in weekends (3 to 4).

3 to 2 is a 33% cut and a 25% increase in weekends (4 to 5).

Thus we see, 3 work days a week is mathematically optimal.
I feel like California is very litigious in comparison to other places I’ve lived. While I like many of the benefits of this, it sometimes also feels like the weight of process is overkill. Still, water rights in the entire Southwest US need to be shaken up a bit. If we don’t, we are going to have people die from precedent.
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Everyone's pointing out other cities that also have this info. Falling Fruit is a cool project that aggregates all this data, along with user-sourced data, to make a really neat map

https://fallingfruit.org/

As an avid forager I really appreciate their inclusion of trees not typically considered foodstuffs. Here in socal, the landscapers love to use a lot of trees that they don't realize are extremely valuable food sources to Aboriginal Australians and I love being able to harvest the landscaping

They also include dumpster diving spots if you're into that
It mostly stops around 32nds to at most 64ths at best in woodworking where it gets hard to measure accurately using a tape and the Mark 1 Human Eye. Then in machining there's usually digital or dial readouts for things so it's easier to work in a round number like 1000s.
Controlling the browser is about users getting control of the machine they bought. Controlling whether a server may respond with speech that sells Pepsi is about controlling someone else's machine.

Again, what kind of brightline are you asking for here?
Yeah, but the question at hand is why layer it over TCP.

SunRPC over UDP is close, but then you push reliability and congestion management into every application.
It's worth checking, but the current MBPs have better cooling than previous generations and the Mini probably has more constrained cooling than a non-Mac desktop, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're comparable

In any case I've never heard my M1 MacBook Pro's fans except when I was running stable diffusion on it. The Airs can definitely throttle though
OH, but if employees competence is a large bottleneck for them to maintain that cartel/monopoly position. If they keep messing up with their people, not even buying all the correct startups will suffice.

We may be just witnessing the beginning of their end.
The ad blockers this affects are popular because they do more than declarative black lists. It may make them safe by design, but it also makes them something completely different and less capable than what they are today. There's some room to be suspicious about that.
And, Walmart had, historically, decimated some small town "downtowns" so now all that's left is Walmart.
"instead of our engineers and machinists thinking in eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of an inch, it is desirable that they should think and speak in tenths, hundredths, and thousandths"
Is it appropriate to blame non-"technical users" for "user error" in such a case?
It is largely capitalist in nature but I don't think it's fair to say that it is solely capitalist. There still exists property in socialism however it exists in collective ownership instead of singular ownership and theft or abuse of that property would still be a thing with socialism.

Trademarks would also continue to exist as they generally serve a practical purpose of preventing impersonation of companies, goods, and services. Ownership would be collective among workers as all other property would be and scope requirements for trademark enforcement would likely be limited.

Additionally, the subset of copyright that is copyleft fits in very cleanly with socialism. It guarantees the users and the users' users some degree of rights (as well as enforcing attribution which costs nothing). So you could imagine a socialist view of copyright where copyleft is preserved more or less in perpetuity while traditional copyright continues to exist in a limited, reduced form with a shorter lifespan (i.e. 5-10 years instead of death+70/95/120 years).

As for patents, it's kind of fuzzy. They don't fit well into any socialist understanding of intellectual property and of all the types of IP that exist, they are the only type that constrains knowledge/inventions/craft/skill as property (vs trademark -> identity and copyright -> specific works/creations). You can argue for ownership of the specific products of your labors and you can argue for ownership your identity but it's near impossible to argue within a socialist framework for ownership of ideas/knowledge in of itself or for ownership of the ability to apply that knowledge.

If one was to insist on patents in a socialist society, they'd have to be limited to short lifetimes (i.e. less than 5 years w/ no extension) and copyleft intangibles(ex: software) or products with copyleft manufacturing & design documents would need to be exempt from any exclusivity the patents may grant.
To make this claim about the US is to overlook that basically all western countries have 40 hour work weeks.

Are they all failing democracies too?

Its a shame how many Americans are too busy hating America to look outside the border and see how good they have it, but also how most of their “uniquely American” problems are not unique at all.

(My perspective is as an Australian living in America. And my comment doesn’t apply to guns.)
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Because Amazon actually assumes a 15% growth in stock price every year. So even if the stock stays flat, you make 15% less. I used to be a manager there.
Destinations can be described in the packet headers. That is how the current systems work.
Also Bain and BCG .
“The courts” don’t have rules which apply globally for this sort of thing. My understanding is that even if the models were made illegal to host in America, there’s no shortage of other countries much looser copyright laws where one could hypothetically host such a thing.

There are clearnet sites which host entire movies and games and there have been since the dawn of the internet, wouldn’t you expect those would be bigger targets to go after if the powers were there? All that to say, I’m not bullish on the future global leverage of American copyright law, especially when it comes to AI models.
We're already harvesting less than we can or should, essentially for political reasons. faster-growing varieties on the loose seem like a way to make the PNW even more flammable.
> the specified thickness is only on the finger pad area of the glove

TIL. Thanks for sharing that, this is handy to know.
But the more people you hire, the more bugs there are to address!
They made a huge difference in my programming workloads. The Max chip vs the Pro is mainly about GPU, but apple silicon is about everything
So people with better communication skills would get rewarded more than people contributing more on the actual delivery side?
> And just like every profession there are idea people and people who think they are idea people.

This line makes your argument unfalsifiable, as if I bring any example of bad idea people, you could just state that they're not actually idea people but just people who think they are.

> Idea people are left to hitting a home run, succeeding and making a name for themselves. No one is going to hire a first timer into Chief Idea Officer.

Well yeah, I wouldn't hire a developer who hasn't developed anything either.
I had always heard the stripes were camouflage not to blend in with the environment, but to blend in with the herd - to make it hard for a predator to single one out
Yeah I wish more people would just say "I'm working on the same thing I was yesterday, no blockers, just need a few more days" and legitimize that if that's what's actually happening
Toronto as well: http://www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fruit-trees-of-toronto
It's also possible to be too early to market.

I'd say Google has played it just right. They clearly have a better idea of the readiness of the tech than Microsoft, who hastily released Bing's LLM to muted ridicule.

In terms of UI, ChatGPT is a glorified text box. The hard part is the basic research, which Google can grind away on in the background until the moment is right.

The problem with current LLMs is that they are inaccurate and untrustworthy. If LLMs were search engines then ChatGPT is the Altavista or Ask Jeeves. Google wants to be the, well, Google - come in later with tech that actually works.
Singapore here: lots of layoff. My current company is effected. Layoff over 90%.

Most of my friends are okay in their current jobs. When I apply for new jobs, mostly crypto companies are replying.

Most companies stop hiring.
I generally agree. We see that with the real wage charts over the past 50 years. However, I will say that it seem the lower paid end of the wage spectrum has seen some pretty significant growth in the past 3 years. At least at my local Walmart and Lowes it went from about $10-12/hr starting to $13-15.
Or they're aware that that costs exists, but think the benefits outweigh it.
Yeah, it's a bit of weird disjoint. Almost a tacit admission, in fact.

I've heard that in some crazy parts of the world - say 95% of the planet - it's base-10 all the way down.

Makes you wonder if they're on to something with that kind of whacky scheme. Hopefully it works out for them.
This is so strange. You have been in HN long enough to know that this forum used to be very pro-crypto/coin. After a decade or more of failed promises, failed currencies, scam after scam, and billions of dollars in value squandered, HN is only just in the last year starting to take a more critical stance.
>The case before the court, Gonzalez v. Google, asks specifically whether Google should be held liable for allegedly violating federal law that prohibits aiding and abetting a terrorist organization by making targeted recommendations that promoted ISIS videos to YouTube users. If the court decides that Section 230 immunity does not apply, that single decision could impact how all online platforms recommend and organize content, Google and many others have argued.

So the author did not care to explore the impact of Section 230 immunity applying in this case, and that tells you a lot about what their opinion is about the status quo.
Multi year breaches and general incompetence are kind of Godaddy’s MO. I remember doing notifications of suspicious activity to them and they never bothered even trying to fix it.

I would be shocked if they weren’t running afoul of GDPR required notifications by intentionally putting their heads in the sand and pretending no PII was stolen.
Right but the difference is that those contractors need to be W-2 employees of some other company. You can't hire them as 1099 independent contractors. That used to be common practice among tech companies but federal and state income tax authorities have cracked down hard on it.
I hear what you’re saying but since this is hacker news we’re mostly white collar and we’re not talking about all human history, we’re talking about 2023+.

I spend my entire weekend with my kids for one thing. Don’t you miss out on things? And yes I play video games or do literally anything other than work before bed. If you’re including side projects you actually want to build in your 60 hours, that’s totally different of course. And I also don’t mean to judge, as the people working those 2-3 jobs NEED to do it. Nobody wants to.
If price is not a concern I might recommend sticking to the laptop route. There is no noticeable performance gap on the Pro line with the fan (wife has an M2 Air and I definitely notice throttling in stuff like Lightroom)

I use a 14" M1 Max as my daily driver with an external monitor. I absolutely love the versatility. I run small video transcode jobs in Premiere/AME or render out things in After Effects daily and I never hear the fan or have any performance/heat issues of any kind. I am comparing this to my Win10 5950x/RTX 3080 desktop also at my desk and while that is definitely faster, I do not feel like my MBP is too far behind.

If cost is a factor I think the Mac Mini is the best bang for your buck. Especially if you still have access to a .edu (or just say you are in college) and knock an additional $100 off.
He didn’t give me details, and even if it were, it would be highly situational. There is nothing concrete here. If you understand the underlying principles, you would be able to broadly and deeply apply it in many contexts.

It is better to draw examples from your own experience in adversarial games, even perfect information games with fixed turns like Chess or Go. Take the game you are most skilled at, and see if you remember playing against someone who was so unskilled, that you can see their moves and mistake a long way coming. And if you weren’t teaching them, you can close off avenues long before they are even aware of it. If you pay attention, you might even know the minute they realize something, only it is far too late. There is a sense as if you are inside their head, knowing what they are going to do — must do — before they are even aware of it themselves.

It’s like that, only perhaps with a peer adversary.
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There are several below the fold that I’d consider more dangerous than “show notifications”, but I suppose that one is enough of a nuisance to most people that it gets sorted up. Either way, having this kind of design is an opportunity for it to be gamed. Probably a better design would be more annoying over time (prompting for permissions as needed), but I’m the oddball who’d prefer that annoyance over this kind of approve-and-forget scheme.
If you want to make the case that workers have no power, and they’re always a replaceable cog, then certainly the only course of action is for them to pursue obtaining power under the protection of the federal government and the NLRB.
They are all competent. It’s just that they work for their principal in the company and are always selling.

If you think something these guys are doing is awful or dumb, follow the money. The guy signing the checks is calling the shots.

McKinsey’s lack of ethics and self-preservation is notable. But they weren’t hoodwinking innocents into preying on the weak. Perdue and the medical providers writing those oxycodone scripts to make money.

The other stuff is a byproduct of modern corporate management. Most companies don’t have departments that do administrative or organizational analysis. They run lean and hire the capability.
I'm not sure to congratulate or be scared for them but Clem, Julien, Thomas and team are the nicest and most helpful org in AI and should be given whatever they need to succeed!
8xH100 machine is ~300k I’ve heard.
The world runs on old Thinkpads.