skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you proud your sports team isn’t on the bottom of the ladder? Or would it actually be productive and improve things if you compared up?

It seems like it would be productive to be grounded in reality and actually know where you sit on the ladder.

You can still look at the top teams and want to be better, but lying and telling the team you are at the bottom isn't helpful.
At this point in market concentration, any sufficiently brave or delusional soul that ventures into even the most rudimentary web browser development is a hero to me !
> The starting point is always bad before a revolution. Otherwise nobody would revolt.

Well, it's a spectrum. The OP refers to the American revolution: "We're quite the anomaly." But obviously the starting point here was a lot better than in Russia, Cuba, or Iran.

> Revolutions almost never turn out well from what I can see.

What would you say about America? Or England?

Democracy has to be created and established somehow.
I'm comparing countries to countries. France, Germany, Spain, ... haven't stopped being countries with entirely separate populations, legal systems, cultures, histories, industries and so on... just because we formed an economic union. Every decade we include more states yet that doesn't mean the living standards and economic output of those rich countries magically average out lower than they were. When Estonia joined in 2004, for example, the lives of Spanish citizens didn't magically worsen compared to the U.S, even though the median European salary instantly lowered through the addition of a lower-wealth country to the Union.

Your thesis is that there is a gigantic gulf between the U.S and the next closest country and that no one else on earth comes even close, I can give you entire countries which are of similar levels of wealth, and many countries with less inequality and higher median wealth (20 in fact).

I've lived and worked all over Europe and in the states, for years, it never struck me that life in the U.S was any more luxurious than in a lot of other European countries.
Not true. Most RxDB users use the dexie.js storage which is for free: https://rxdb.info/rx-storage-dexie.html
Also you should compare it to the alternatives like firestore or AWS datastore which are not even open source partially and cannot even be used with a self-hosted server.
Such is the way in an unorganized labor market.
Probably around the water cooler with their new coworkers.
Diseconomy of scale is a thing.
I think this is more of the case. I used to live around the described neighborhood. It was an area with a notorious reputation as 'ghetto' where certain ethnic of immigrants live.

I personally have no problem other than the casual nuisance and I have positive experience overall during my stay over there for a couple of years.

The founder of the supermarket/umbrella foundation seems to have the similar background as the people live in the area. Thus, I think he has insight on what the community needs and how to help them.
to be fair, the american government also have a bigger budget to play with. It's more of a priority issue than a scale issue.
A 96C gaming CPU doesn't make any sense. Stuff like the 7900X3D is realistically the most expensive thing you could cook up.

On the GPU side, HBM GPUs like the server chips dont really make sense either due to supply constraints. And monitor prices are indeed completely bonkers, with some displays costing more than equivalent TVs 4x their size.

I think the article is spot on. It almost feels like Nvidia and AMD are colluding (though I know they probably aren't).
I was an ace searcher until Google went to hell around '08 or '09.

It's not that they got so good the skill became irrelevant, but that they changed so none of that works anymore. All the other major search engines followed suit. Now when there's something I could have found that way, that's not coming up with a naïve search, I just... can't. :-/
So like it’s always been in the job market?
> The cognitive dissonance is wild to me

I guess writing for class has always been about the process and not the result. Nobody has ever wanted to read an essay written by a student. But, the process of writing the essay is useful; collect sources, read them, distill down the important points, join the points with sentences. ChatGPT is all about the end result. Assignments are about the process.
Can you be more specific? Do you mean like doing a DD on the product and sales strategy of the company that is being acquired?
http client, UI interactions logic, domain models, utilities like tree operations, browser domain logic

and all of that inside single go file?

I think you'd make your life 10 times easier by splitting it better
There’s a whole genre of PETSCII games. For example, a PETSCII version of Lemmings: https://c64online.com/c64-games/petscii-lemmings/

A couple of games with more impressive PETSCII graphics, and some background info about PETSCII, in this video: https://youtu.be/3Sv_TM4WwC0
Well yes and there's also countless other options that are not wordpress that require very little maintenance.

And you can also simply ask someone every year or so to perform some basic maintenance on your site like we already do for countless other things in our lives.

> you'll be pestering them to update it for you.

Am I pestering my mechanic to perform maintenance on my car every year? No it's called work. It's his job.
What products would companies/individuals pay for?
Don’t get pushed to the brink.

Just be clear to ‘leadership’ that things take time or money. Clearly communicate much longer timelines, and don’t stress yourself out too much.
I wonder how much more powerful that Pi is compared to the Dreamcast ? XD
That depends entirely on the page. Does it require javascript execution so that the contents are there? Then it's not. If you can open the file and read the text and see the URLs, yes. But if the page was generated by a script without it ever being a file on the webserver's disk, no.
Excellent article.

I was helping my son with his homework. He had to write an essay about why the gender of the protagonist might be female (although this is never mentioned in the short story). Fortunately for him, ChatGPT knew the story and was happy to write an essay with arguments. [Btw, according to him pretty much everyone in class routinely has the AI do their essays]

He was about to send this essay in. But as we were admiring the prose of the computer (which is much better than either of can), we found out that some of the arguments actually didn't make much sense. So we went to through a rewrite exercise like in the article, improving the essay and our understanding of the issues.

Next time I see her, I'll urge the teacher to adopt a similar approach as in the article.
Models answer the questions What? and How? They do not answer the question Why?

The simplest model explaining all observed behavior, and even better, making new predictions that are then confirmed, is the model we tend to call "reality." But it's just a model. When you step back to think about it - everything is a model: colors, sounds, the table you're sitting at, the chair you're sitting on. We've just become so accustomed to these models we think of them as "reality" and it's super convenient to do so. I think that's a big point the Buddha was trying to get across.
This might ignite a fight in the comments, but it’s a genuine question.

(As an American) when I think of places that fight crime primarily with welfare (aka the idea better policing doesn’t work, equality will fix it), I think of San Francisco and Seattle which have crazy homeless and crime problems.

However, it seems to me like in Europe, plenty of places seem to do this and see positive results.

What’s the difference? Why is the welfare city of San Francisco terrible but the welfare city of Amsterdam/Stockholm/etc seem to be fine?
Zanzibar is an authorization system Google built and describes in a paper [1], which uses relationships to make authorization decisions (aka ReBAC): if there exists a path of such relationships between a resource's permission and, say, a user, then the user is considered to have that permission on the resource. This structural approach to permission checking allows for high levels of scaling and low latency on checks.

Disclaimer: I am the cofounder of AuthZed, where we are building an open source version of Zanzibar known as SpiceDB [2]

[1] https://zanzibar.tech
[2] https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
Other people laid off are looking and might find something for you. They are looking for companies actively hiring.

People who have a job 1. don't have time during the day and 2. only know about their company since they aren't looking.

I would guess that even if someone had my exact skillset, I would be better off teaming up with them in the search than avoiding them. We could identify more jobs and there is a good chance one of those is looking for more than one person.
China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology–Its Courts
>“It is puzzling that so many cases went wrong at the same time,” said Vectis Chief Executive Giustino de Sanctis. He said the experience prompted his company to moderate its once-strong expectations for the Chinese market. “We will be more cautious,” he said

Doesn't seem puzzling to me

No paywall link: https://archive.is/tzpg4
100% is content marketing for chrome
Inchwormrf – a Python package for finding roots of 1-d functions
Nah, this is not a universal truth.
I must be grand fathered in. I pay $20 flat per month.
Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences
Going by this article and the rest of your writings it's hard for me to think that this 'one specific area that we shouldn't give them control over' isn't really 'whatever area polote happens to be in right now.'
Actually... Oh what's the point.
UK ‘barking up wrong tree’ trying to get over-50s back to work
You could easily solve that by having social/redistributions measure on a municipality/state level... The Netherlands is also part of the EU, very little social welfare measures are effectuated through the EU, most of that happens on a state level.
True but that is a vacuous statement as the Netherlands does not have tens of millions of citizens.
Nice work! I made a much worse variant of this years ago, with a “mosaic” mode[1]: whatever YouTube was doing for compression at the time handled multiple QRs tiled next to each other much better than it did a single large one.

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw-hackathons/where-tube
For reference, GPT-NeoX is a 20B parameter model, and it runs on 45 GB of VRAM. On an 80 GB A100 you could probably run a 35B parameter model. Maybe 8 A100 cards to do inference on ChatGPT?

Or 32 3090 cards, which would run you under $40k total.
LLMs are not going to pose an existential risk to anyone. Also, making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer.

I am willing to bet all this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest to keep AI development out of reach from the general public.
What is next then? are migrating birds illegal aliens? monarch butterflies? plankton? furbies? tamagotchi? meteorites?

It never ends.
I was astounded by the popularity of the term ADHD on HN. There are 48,000 posts and over a million comments. If you want to verify this, use ADHD not adhd in your search.
Virtual reality, psychedelics are being trialed in therapy. Are they effective?
Yes, but it does not stop various hype sellers on LinkedIn selling 100 websites to do X, where X is just a custom prompt. I will admit it is tempting to ride the same wave ( I actually have a useful common issue for my industry ).
> The cognitive dissonance is wild to me, and I think approaching AI as a tool to be embraced is much healthier.

It's both healthy and realistic. Let's be real - it's not going away. It seems like it's mostly/somewhat useful now. It's only going to get better. People undoubtedly will find a way to leverage the tool to make themselves more productive. If that's the case, we should (1) continue to teach the skills exhibited by the machine learning models and (2) help students gain mastery over the tools so they can be productive when they start to work in a world where their peers are already using them.
This is a serious problem for us in my business as our business banking software we are forced to use by our bank in mainland China still only works with IE. I spent an hour last night ultimately inputting shady commands into my registry, to try to force IE to open instead of being hijacked by edge. When an entire industry in a country refuses to upgrade what the hell? Of course I’m pissed the bank hadn’t upgraded but it’s infuriating that Microsoft breaks my processes without my permission.
One thing I appreciate about our industry is people tend to be generally helpful or atleast give you parting advice with no strings attached.
Paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
If you are referring to fastest in terms of wall & CPU time running. Without spending a lot of time optimizing your code yourself, I suspect SBCL would take the crown for vast majority of cases. If you do hyper optimize, the gap with scheme largely closes (sometime scheme wins, sometimes SBCL). So I'd go with SBCL if all else is the same feature wise to you. That said, the last serious benchmark I did of lisps was ~2010 so optimization may have changed since then and of course they were not very rigorus benchmarks (just my compute-bound workload at the time, that primarily boiled down to mostly integer ops). Debian language benchmarks game has some benchmarks written for sbcl and racket that may be good for comparing implementations yourself if interested. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Pretty cool, but if you like a gui, I'd highly recommend https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui, lightweight and super easy to use
I fully acknowledge that Plan9 had a cool vision, maybe a superior one to the world we’ve got. But is it practical as an operating system for day to day use, particularly when working with other people using conventional Linux/Mac/Windows?
How Ecommerce Work
It's not so much the size of the group, but the size of their problems and conflicts. USA is a very diversified country, with many different groups, cultures, interests and conflicts. Probably more than any other country in the world.
OK - but flying an actual intercept mission and firing a warshot at an atypical target is a pretty good way to improve or maintain readiness.
Yeah the difficulty isn't even thinking of a good idea, it's reconstructing the enormous legal barriers, government contracts, and relationships with private capital that the existing tech companies have cemented over decades.
$100/mo for absolutely unlimited is still an incredible bargain. $20/mo is in the neighborhood of almost free.
Twitter’s two-factor authentication change “doesn’t make sense”
People have networks. It’s important to leverage different networks and get help.
It'd be cool to add a FUSE wrapper around this. At one point I had a POC for a few of these sorts of things going (not as cool as this project, just data stored to X free cloud store/metadata) and creating a redundant transparent FUSE wrapper was probably the next step. With multiple sources, you could even treat mux data between slow/unreliable sources (content hosts in eg russia or asia) to 'stripe' the data. And then, you could make these modular so that new sources could be onboarded easily...

Yeah, I really like this stuff. Awesome project.
Words like "individual responsibility", "free Societies", "prosperous societies" are big words, big in the sense that they're fuzzy. I understand they're popular terms since Modernity. However, for the sake of communication in thread. I have a theory that finding some connection, even if on just emotional level, with the people responding here may be easier if you spoke "around" these words.

Consider for a moment that you are a social animal. For the purpose of this thought experiment, let's say that just means you're an animal that can't function long without being a part of N others like yourself. Also, let's add that there is some variance in behavior in all of these animals.

Also consider that the environment of these groups is not the same and the environment of the group has an effect on the group.

Okay run this experiment for T time based off those assumptions.

Some simple questions to ask:
- If you took an individual from one group and plopped them over to another group with a different environment would you expect a difference in their behavior?
- If you took an individual from some T and plopped them over to another some other T* (T* >> T) would you expect them to make different choices?

Okay this point you may feel that this is all condescending and what I'm doing here is a strawman of your original points with some nonsense assumptions.

You may feel like this whole speaking around words like "freedom" is dumb because you believe, as I believe, there is a thing called freedom and humans possess this thing. But that's our religion, we made a leap of faith to this freedom concept. Why force this model on others? It's not binary, there's a lot variations on this idea of freedom.

The thing is, I would argue as the others in this thread have implied that, we are not just born into this world, we are also born out of it.

If you follow this thought it gets really hard to buy this discourse as "veering into the fantastical". Because you have to ask what is a free society? To what extent can a society be free?
As in you don't know what to write about? Or you don't like your writing?
Right. My method for discriminating between core values and rational deliberation is to walk myself through their decision tree. Usually I come up with questions to ask that make people uncomfortable and the Convo ends.
Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
Laid off 6 months ago. Was on an H1-B visa. Moved to spouse’s dependent visa. I have just around year left on my H1-B and my previous employer was mid way through the PERM process when they laid me off.

Most companies don’t want to hire me because of the delays in the processing of PERM these days since I have just a year left. And I just recently switched careers from construction to data.

Feeling really hopeless and alone. My spouse has a good job, but this stress of not getting any work has been devastating to me. It took me around 8 months of job searching to find a role as a career switcher and now I’m back to square one in a bad market. I don’t have anybody I can talk to and just want to talk about my problems.

I’m parked outside a Burger King parking lot in the car by myself and don’t have a clue on what I should do.

Feeling hopeless.
Does anyone feel like the style of searching they learned from that era are actively being punished nowadays? I used to get pretty good results just by just listing out keywords with quotes where needed. Nowadays I feel like google gives better results if I use natural language, which is a lot more verbose to type out.
> Free, off-street parking mandated in building codes

> Exempting pickup trucks and SUVs from emissions laws

> Lack of vehicle safety laws to protect pedestrians and cyclists

> A mortgage interest deduction drives suburban sprawl

> Pedestrians have limited ability to sue drivers

> Pedestrians can’t sue car makers for defects

> Hit and runs are rarely prosecuted

> Out-of-pocket car expenses don’t cover the cost of roads

> That’s right: Registration fees, rising gas prices, insurance, and toll booths don’t come close to covering the cost of roadways. The federal gas tax hasn’t gone up since 1993, under-pacing inflation along with state gas taxes. The difference is recouped with universal taxes that pay no attention to how often a person drives.

-- https://stacker.com/society/how-driving-subsidized-america

Also: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/02/09/study-car-ownership-c... , https://medium.com/radical-urbanist/cars-gets-billions-in-hi... , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...
type safety in legislation would probably be a big win, actually
Is the goal of policy profit, or to fix a problem?

I am in Canada, so we have a blend of American, and European society, and it seems that when people want to extract money from the community, the problem isn't resolved. I see this in the homeless/drug space from activist organizations who are extracting lots of money from government, but are not doing a good job of solving problems, as that would end the flood of money.
It does sound like a horrible class.

I think the issue with AI is that the average person doesn't understand how it works, and the problem is when somebody in a position of power becomes infatuated with it. I don't fear AI, but I fear bad-AI, or misused-AI.

Those who understand how it works know that its mostly Garbage In-Garbage Out
Boundary Layer Technologies appears to have dropped their plans for a cargo ship and pivoted into jet skis. There's just not much market demand for slightly faster ocean transport.

The basic technology of a small hydrofoil cargo ship probably would have worked, but the construction, maintenance, and fuel costs would have been huge. Plus hydrofoils don't do well in heavy sea states. And if it collided with a floating hazard like a lost shipping container or a big tree trunk while foiling then the results could be unpleasant.
Just to be clear: Due to email forwarding, having an SPF record isn't enough for domain authentication; you also need DKIM and DMARC. Mailbox providers want to deliver emails that people actually want to get, so not relying only on SPF records is a reasonable policy. But yes, thanks to domain authentication, we should be able to move away from IP reputation to domain reputation – at least in theory.
Aside from referrals channel, Blind is terribly neurotic and toxic.
Will be interesting to see where the needle lands on the Crutch <-> Tool scale for AI.
You could also, you know, for fairness sakes - could mention that China’s investment in Africa exceeds US by 4B “only”, and still lags far behind the West’s combined investment (stats for the last 10 years.)
> What do they mean by a "SIMD", is it a independent core with its own instruction pointer(s) etc?

It's a CPU arch term. Single instruction, multiple data. So essentially, 1 instruction pointer that operates on >1 independent pieces of data each cycle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple...

Useful to increase performance at lower hardware cost when you're doing the same thing at the same time over a large number of items (i.e. graphics).

> I wonder what else BVH speedups could be used for in eg GPGPU applications. DB queries that have 3 dimensions eg timespan, attribute set, value span?

There was some cool DB acceleration stuff at GTC ~5 years ago(?) doing this with the then-current hardware accelerators.

Unfortunately, it gets into the specialization vs more general hardware tradeoff: it's usually cheaper to keep software the same and throw more hardware at a problem vs specializing software and hardware.
Take edge with it, please and thank you
"Happiness" is an overloaded word in English, much like "love". In this context I think a better word for what parent probably means is "satisfaction".

Are these people more satisfied with their lives? Do they feel their life is meaningful and worthwhile?

Victor Frankl might argue that meaning and purpose are more important and entirely orthogonal to "success".
I just had a flashback to the Nintendo e-Reader I had as a kid.

Black and white dots in a strip on a card. Swipe the cards to load the games.