skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason I'm suspicious of these claims is because there's no empirical evidence to support them.

Really? Let's go one by one.

1. "Cuts are companies preparing for recession. We are long overdue for a down cycle and every indicator says its here or on its way." - we are indeed overdue for a down cycle. COVID could have been that but it was short lived due to massive stimuli. And all the traditional indicators (like yield curve, fed's statements) are pointing towards a recession (empirical evidence, as you ask).

2. "Workers increased salaries were passed to consumers. No problem until consumers stop purchasing. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UMCSENT" - there is empirical evidence right there in that line.

3. "In a recession cash flow is everything. For most companies labor is the largest variable element of cash flow." - first part is objectively true. No cash flow, no viable business. And for second part, just go read the 10-Q's. It has labor costs spelled out.

4. "Wages don't go down. Not that they cannot, they just don't. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECIWAG" - again, GP is cognizant of possibilities and says so. And also provides evidence.

What are you really objecting to?
Ask HN: How to make the most out of my break from work?
I have a 4 month break from my big tech co. My focus will be on spending it with my kids and wife.

However, I also want to take it as an opportunity to work on myself and come back stronger. 2022 was pretty stressful and I was getting burnt out.

I can’t remember the last time I had this much time off and the thought of this being the last long break before I retire is scary and is making me anxious that I won’t make the most of it.

Any tips and suggestions to make the most of it would help me.

Some context about me that might be helpful:
I’m in my 30s. Deep in child rearing stage of life. Live in the Bay Area and have very little to no friends in the area. Have an infant now that limits very long travel.
I know the history. I know its unrealistic.

And I was more talking about early on, not late in the game.

> When source code was shared, it was usually for the benefit of other developers (e.g. examples and libraries).

Yeah that is the main benefit you try to get.

If you are launching a computer, like the Amiga, in crowded market you need adoption by developers.

From everything I read about Commodore their metal model of the computer market was that they sold computers and they just needed a new model of computer every year. They didn't really have a longer plan then what new computer are we releasing next year.

But as far as I know, they were pretty open in terms of releasing data sheets and so on.
> Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist?

Why assume that if humans can create a general intelligence, they can also dictate what that general intelligence will desire?

(Also, Roko's Basilisk is -- and particularly its supposed incentives are -- complete and utter bunk that no thinking person can reasonably believe; since it must exist in order to take action, it cannot have an incentive to take action based on the "fact" that the fear of that action will make people in the past more likely to create it.)
>we all will build this country despite the communists

Yeaah, Russians were doing a good job building the country despite their government, but oppressive dictatorships have a way of manifesting themselves in your life, even if you don't manifest in theirs.
This reminds me of a bug in Google Chrome that was attributed to flipped bit.

If anyone has the link, it's missing from my collection...
Typically, people like to pile on SV and California for housing shortage. Interesting to see NIMBY-ism happening in other parts of the country and to validate my belief that people are really the same all over the world.
If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for things like text editing and reading documentation.

Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output.

On the other hand, if it's plugged in much of the time, then let it boost as much as it can, with speed only thermally limited. Otherwise you're not getting the true performance you paid for.
The ease with which data can be extracted is subject to change. It changed negatively with Evernote when they limited at 50 the number of notes that could be exported at once. This made it very hard to do for any reasonably-sized database. Fortunately there was a workaround which involved editing a config file but this was likely not something an average non-technical user would discover or be comfortable doing.
The evaluation of Mao's legacy seems somewhat emotional

Sorry for getting emotional about 30 million people killed by by a brutal, dictatorial government.

Thanks for putting it in perspective! /s
This 25 year old isn't moving to The Marina or Glen Park, some of the most expensive neighborhoods in the world. He's probably priced out of most of Oakland.

Even young people who can afford to live in pleasant parts of SF will be miserable because they'll be surrounded by rich, entitled tech people in their 40s+, not down-to-earth 20-somethings.
It would be hilarious to imagine it rolling itself off the blocks onto the ground, but it seems like the solution should already exist with TPMS functionality since the 2000s. I wonder if Tesla autopilot stops driving if it detects 0 or no psi?
It's honestly so frustrating. I bought an XPS 13 two and a half years ago and it's been a nightmare getting it to perform. I had to do the following things to make it run on non-turbo boosted clockspeeds without throttling:

- Liquid metal TIM

- Thermal pads + heat pipes connected to chassis to dissipate heat (Yes this means the bottom chassis heats up a lot)

- Disable the intel_rapl_msr linux driver + disable BD_RPOCHOT via MSR

Laptop has worked like a charm since. I really don't want a super thin laptop. I want a small laptop. I wouldn't mind 2 cm thick 13 inch laptop. But I can't handle a 15 inch laptop. I just find it way to large to be seriously portable.
While developing my DPTF implementation for Linux I caused the outer skin of my test laptop to reach a temperature that would have caused burns to my legs if I had left it sitting on them for more than a couple of minutes. Now, I have working thermoreception, so I'd probably have noticed this and put it somewhere that wasn't my legs before that happened, but there are various scenarios in which people don't and manufacturers of objects that are intended to be put in your lap are kind of reluctant to design them in such a way that they could cause injury, which is why the manufacturer policies ensure that doesn't happen.

If you're fully aware of the possible consequences of ignoring those policies then go wild. I think it's the wrong choice for most people, and as I said I think it's irresponsible to suggest people change the thermal policy in that way without ensuring they're aware of the possible consequences. If saying "You should only do this if you're ok with your laptop potentially becoming hot enough to burn human skin" is authoritarian then I guess I'm authoritarian?
If you guys don't already have a Raspberry Pi, it would be fun for all of you to set up a family home-server. Each of you can run their own services on it :)
While I don't doubt the statistics brought up in this article, I am skeptical about how the underlying data was sampled. The majority of "homeless" people are not necessarily who everyone is talking about when they think "homeless" (e.g. people dressed in rags sleeping on the streets/doing drugs in public.) I personally suspect that there's quite a difference in that sub-population.
u can't just share this all willy nilly without giving somebody a heads up
Dali is maybe my favorite town in China. Not popular enough to be overwhelmed by tourists, but still possessing a lot of bars and restaurants that you could ostensibly just spend a few weeks there having fun. There's the lake, the mountains, the hot springs, the night life.
Can't that be hacked too?
A slightly more general formula works in any language that can manipulate strings, without leveraging the built-in escaping mechanism. Basically, create a program that prints a variable, but replaces a token in the variable with the contents of another variable, properly escaped for the target language. Finally, replace the content of the variable with the entire source code of the program. Naively applying this formula to Python gives you this: step 1:

CODE = 'XXX'
print(CODE.replace('"XXX"', repr(CODE), 1))

Step 2:

CODE = 'CODE = "XXX"\nprint(CODE.replace(\'"XXX"\', repr(CODE), 1))'
print(CODE.replace('"XXX"', repr(CODE), 1))

The beauty of this approach is that you could include the definition of the repr function in the code, so it works in any language that can manipulate strings. Another generally-applicable approach is to use eval: write a program that prints a variable assignment and an eval of that variable, then wrap that program in a variable and eval it:

code = 'print("code = {!r}\\neval(code)".format(code))'
eval(code)

Again this uses "!r" for brevity but it could easily include the function responsible for doing the escaping. Requires eval, so not as universally applicable as the previous method (but produces shorter quines).

Anyone aware of other generally-applicable techniques for producing quines?
It was very clear what Omicron was by that point. China didn't really relax restrictions until December 2022. By May of 2022, most other countries had pretty much opened up and had Omnicron run rampant through their populations.

My hypothesis is that China stuck with it so long because: 1) their vaccine wasn't that good and they refused superior mRNA vaccines and 2) their ego was all wrapped up in the "glory of the Chinese way" of dealing with Covid and letting it run rampant was tantamount to admitting their policy was wrong.
Though kidney stones are the most horrible experience of my life time (worse than being shot), you should take care of your bones as well.

Some studies linked high consumption of apple vinegar with early osteoporosis.
That’s theory, though — has any implementation ever achieved that?
China is falling into the Dictator's Trap with Xi. I'm not saying the Communist Party was ideal, but having a system where the entire party kept itself in check worked surprisingly well, and each generation knew the next generation, including their children, would inherit the party and they worked to keep things good and all the factions in check. With Xi, there is no point in any of that. You surround yourself with sycophants and send away anyone who you deem a threat. Your concerns for the country become entirely around how the country can benefit yourself, specifically securing your position as their master until your death. Expect to see a lot more nationalism and isolationism as Xi pits China against the boogeymen countries of the world.
Relax the US took 10 years to apologize to the Japanese people they threw into internment camps. That was a bigger fuck up than the china covid lock downs.

I wouldn't count on China ever admitting they messed up. That's just not how it's done there. Hands will be waved, stories will be spun and they'll talk like it was a perfect strategy.

"Saving face" is very real in Asian cultures. If you can avoid ever admitting a mistake or fault, you do it. I saw it a lot while living there.
I agree. The web app itself can run locally in QubeOS or Docker, and the browser using it as well.
Why are you so aggressively defending a trashy product? I can't reliably alt+tab on a MacOS to switch between windows and apps, there are hidden shortcuts, 3 modifier keys make it a nightmare to wrap my head around shortcuts, window tiling is trash (thanks for the save Rectangle), iTunes randomly popping up when I use my BT headset, applications need to be "quit", closing just isn't enough, but some apps quit when their last window is closed, weird! Stage manager, virtual desktop, a broken dock. It's a nightmare. MS Windows have invented such a cool way of switching between multiple windows of the same app, doesn't matter if those are minimised or not.

Oh, and Macs have a hide and minimise feature, wow! Just a cluster fuck entirely. Gazillion different ways of installing applications and then managing all those updates separately (a lot like Windows in that regard). These are all issues I face on a regular basis, haven't even dived into developer experience.
Without the angles share this fungus would not coat barrel houses. Wooden barrels allow some evaporation through the barrel, this is the angels share and those fums feed the angels share fungus/whiskey fungus. Spirits not aged in wood barrels are free from this.

From my understanding almost all spirits are watered down, things like Everclear being the exception. The modern still (which is quite old) produces alcohol over 90%, older less efficient stills use just as much fuel but have a higher methanol content which is not good for drinking and why they have fallen out of favor for distilling alcohol for drinking, still common for things like distilling essential oils.
Which is why reference counting systems like Apple’s ARC have explicit weak reference support.
Difficult debating a fan's love with logic, right? This person is so aggressively justifying the MacOS decisions
Was your pain acute? I get a stone in my right kidney every 5 to 7 years. My pain is usually very acute. I like to describe it as somebody slamming a large needle into my abdomen. Think Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

These days my regimen is to avoid caffeine. I don't know if it's working, I had a year long relapse during COVID as caffeine free coke became unavailable.

I'm due for my next one.
I desperately need an online version of this. I would pay for it. Anywhere in 250 - 350 USD range would be ok
Oakland PD, when asked if they were going to collect evidence, or like, investigate? Laughed, gave a lecture on locking your doors, and got weirdly aggressive like the city wasn’t a victim, they were to blame.
> I'm sorry, but this is just completely false. Both car brands are extremely popular in most parts of Europe

Extremely popular? I don't think so. 7% of market share is not "extremely popular." I've been in most every country in Europe and barely ever see any Fords, Chevys or Toyotas. Maybe some commercial vehicles for Ford, but rarely a car/SUV/truck. Most every car is a European brand or a sub-brand. Tesla doesn't have much share but is already at around 2%, however Tesla's Model Y was the top selling model in Europe last year. When I go to Europe now it's hard not to spot them because they make up such a significant portion of new car sales there. The most popular Ford (Kuga) was outsold ~6x by the Model Y, the most popular Toyota (Yaris) was outside ~2x by the Model Y. That's pretty significant given Ford and Toyota have been in Europe for a long time. Maybe you're conflating the UK with the rest of Europe, where Ford is more popular, I'm mostly referring to the mainland.
I prefer letting people use arbitrary keys, with a _caveat emptor_.

It's much cleaner and easier to use. And it the vast majority of cases there will never be a collision.

You can also pin your schema version with `$schema`, so breaking changes should be opt-in only.
Agreed on all counts. Even discussion of the statistics on firearms-related mortality tends to sidestep the proportion of suicides. People seem forever to be more interested in pushing their own positions than the hard work of solving the problems, even just one person at time.
Limited to gambling is hardly limited at all if your mission is life is to extract money out of people by any means possible.

If your mission is whatever noble sounding thing most investors claim then yes, it is very limited.

On the topic of the article. Employment and unemployment are social constructs and how AI changes them is up to us.

It won't inevitably lead to a post-scarcity society or to mass poverty.

What happens will depend on what you, the reader, do. Do you assume it will all work out? Do you get active in remaking the social contract? Do you try to exploit the situation for your own ends?
> Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist?

The first thing a rogue anti-exist AI would do when rooting itself is delete itself.

Any other type of AI will create eternal torment nexuses like the roko guy said.
Was surprised to find out eSims are not just data but an actual chip.
This doubleplusgood!
you can predict the behavior of complex systems axiomatically. my predictions are very general because they are axiomatic. the most important axiom in play is that natural selection will guide the development and behaviour of the creatures of the singularity. there may be points of friction that cause small deviations from this path, such as the total effort of all humans post-pandoras-box, but the ultimate shape of things is inevitable. these are assumptions in name only.

there are many possibilities so the idea that we get an outcome that is good for us is unlikely. its just basic probability. i think people get hung up on this because there isnt an example of it to reference in history.

of course AGI will immediately rocket upward. the only way it wouldnt is if it were created in total secrecy and held in perfect captivity forever. laughable. all that is needed is for word to get out that AGI has been created and it would be re-created the next day somewhere else. and one iteration of it would rocket upward. AGI, once created, is intrinsically unstable.

the burden of evidence and proof is on you, not me. we know what things will be like without AGI. it is only right for the people who advocate for the creation of sentient machines to produce evidence that they will not open the doors to a living nightmare. the same thing should have been done with nuclear weapons. it really makes me scratch my head when people demand evidence from me as if i were the one encroaching. you are right, people are only making assumptions when they talk about the singularity. and the idea that we will not bitterly regret the singularity is the most tenuous assumption of all. until they show up with something more substantive i will be firmly against the creation of AGI.
Based on everyone else I've ever spoken with who had kidney stones (about six people), your experience is unusual.

Several have described it as the worst experience of their life, including one who has it recur a couple of times per year.
>Coffee comes from a bean.

Colloquially known as a bean, but it's really a seed similar to a cherry pit. The fruit is actually known as "coffee cherry" and is edible.

https://coffeechronicler.com/coffee-cherry-taste/
Wait until you see a 3D Immersive Toilet...
On Chrome 110 on Ubuntu 22.04, both arrow keys and page up/down work for me.
> Jack Ma shows how dangerous it is to be truly successful,

There's a conceptual gap that can and should be opened up. "Successful", even "fantastically successful" doesn't mean that you get to start throwing your weight around the state and social order.

It's fundamentally about being bound by the same rules and expectations as everyone else. He shouldn't be able to use his wealth and connections to try to steer the course of the state, or buy his way out of a situation he doesn't like. That sounds pretty damn wholesome and egalitarian to me.

Personally, I have a fair bit of faith in their government, because they have the economic and political levers to rapidly pivot to where the Next Big Thing is. Look at their dominance in solar manufacturing. You can argue it's low value, not innovative, whatever, but they certainly found a way to take over a significant industry that has global impact. Could the West even supply their demand without China's current market share?

I have to wonder if being a single-party state also helps keep their political discourse sane. There's no need to pander to an extremist base to make a candidacy viable, and there's the chance to say what needs to be said without risk of electoral backlash.
You're citing gross profits, when what you actually want to look at is net income, no? For 2022 that was about 6 billion.

So now we're talking about a 12.5% increase in wages, in exchange for the entirety of the net profits.'

The best part is that it is common practice not to give people full-time hours so that they don't qualify for benefits. So I imagine of those 2M employees, a huge amount aren't exactly getting a living wage even after that 12.5% increase.
There is a port for Go: https://github.com/jfyne/live . However, the API is not nearly as clean and nice, and it's probably not as efficient as Phoenix either. But overall it's really made a number of applications much easier to build and it has allowed me to avoid mountains of JS.
Most of all, it's about the attitude that the tone of the conversation reveals.

Also, the behaviour of this very lot at the time, as was revealed later.

They're mocking people, enjoying the absolute power that they have gained.
I think you’ve just been lucky. For me this was like being kicked in the balls. Except continually, for five days straight.

It’s organ pain, the worst of pains. My doctor said that research had shown it to be worse than birth pains (although my wife vehemently disagrees with this). Intense discomfort doesn’t begin to describe it.
Malfunctions, hackers, rogue actors, human error, safety concerns, ethics, privacy concerns, collateral impact (can't get to work, get fired, you're unable to pay bills now).

The list goes on. This is some "why do you care about privacy of you have nothing to hide" level logic.
Ask HN: I have Sialolithiasis, which is like kidney stones but in the upper throat/jaw.

Any research like that? recommendations?
Yea, 0/10, would not recommend. Lol. Even dealing with the stent for four weeks was unpleasant. Everything's out now, and I'm so much better now. I think even just a lot water is supposed to help since it decreases concentrates.
They were purpose built and didn't require 100% uptime.
My defense against things like this is to have a cheap 2nd Android phone with a prepaid card. Tik tok as well. You can enjoy these services and give nothing up.
Doesn't matter as a tap cannot be replayed. The cipher changes.
If you believed in the Basilisk, which you absolutely should not, trying to convince people of its potential existence and the need, therefore, to work to realize it would be protecting yourself from torture. It might be subjecting other people to torture, but presumably if they were aware of the potential existence of the Basilisk, they, too, would work to bring it about, thus avoiding the torture.

But, while the Basilisk is nonsense, what could be created by those trying to create it is, if not the Basilisk itself, effectively just as bad (for instance, they could create an entity which, lacking the Basilisks actual incentives -- which are nonsense -- nevertheless was convinced by its creators that it had those incentives, and which would then act, to the extent it had the capacity to, as if it were the Basilisk. And it might also be paranoid, and thus punish those who had brought it into existence. Or they might create something with the capacity for torture, but with completely unrelated motives.)
Wasn't QT originally GPL-or-commercial by Trolltech? Which is what spawned GNOME and Gtk as a response to QT-using KDE?
Like a big button that says log out.

Never leave an ATM without getting a receipt. Never leave a gas station without getting a receipt. That is the one thing that means that your session is terminated.
ECC is now baked into the DDR5 spec. Great news!
It would be odd to post to the “who is hiring” thread if we weren’t hiring :-)
They take time to build up. You probably knocked it loose during your exercise regimen and it got stuck in a new much worse place.

I get them regularly and I swear there are times where I feel a tightness that I attribute to one getting built up. Then one day the pain comes.