skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Outcomes in unregulated banking (early 20th century US+Europe, crypto more recently)

- De-regulation of banks prior to 2008

- Austerity vs stimulus in EU vs US post 2008

- Austerity post COVID in UK

- Healthspan outcomes in places with lax environmental safety regulations (us early 20th century, China more recently)

- Fishery collapse throughout oceans due to lack of government intervention

- Hunted animal population collapses (prior to intervention) and rebounding (after intervention)

The list could go on much much more…

Tragedy of commons just occurs everywhere all the time
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 32GB RAM coming in the mail on Wednesday. Going to install another distro immediately upon receiving it, but I was happy to support a Linux laptop product.
This was something that blew my mind when I visited out there. Visited every space I could, and the startup/commercial culture was just incredibly pervasive. Couldn't talk about a cool idea for more than a minute or two without some tech bro trying to monetize it.

Maybe that's someone's jam, but I just wanted to hang out with some nerds that reminded me of back home. Everywhere else I've traveled, I could visit the local hackerspace and get my fix, but the bay area was..... different.
We, as a society, do not reward leaders who follow this. We are our own worst enemy, like petulant children we demand our candies even as our teeth rot out of our heads.

There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times.

We are firmly in the weak men period.
We don’t have the data to make much more than directional claims re: macro trends in insect biodiversity. Ecological monitoring is tedious and labor-intensive; insects are simply too minute, too diverse, and too numerous to be surveilled at scale. Scale is necessary to make multi-decadal claims across millions of taxa; this is probably why some of the most rigorous studies^1 have produced findings that complicate the idea of an insect armageddon.

I’m working on a tool to make insect (focused esp. on pollinators) monitoring 10,000x cheaper. We do not currently understand the scale of insect declines, much less are we able to design targeted interventions. In the past decades, mammalian and avian declines were largely reversed, mostly thanks to ambitious multiyear monitoring efforts that enabled limited conservation resources to be allocated efficiently.

We should replicate this model with insects. I plan to make this possible by radically reducing the cost of data.

I’ve been toying with this idea for a few years, but I finally made the leap to building my startup^2 full-time a few months back (coming from entomology/ecology). Hoping for an alpha release & demo study this summer.

I'm happy to chat with anyone interested. Especially interested to meet those working and funding in this space.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4
2. https://polli.ai Note: This site is austere (I blame CUDA troubles for stealing my time this month). Expect something more representative by April.
Old searches keep showing up below my [Google Chrome] search bar?
I owned one, a great car. Spacious and great visibility. Classic clean Ital design. Had Bosch fuel injection so it met air pollution rules and ran beautifully.
One of my earliest memories of a computer was around 1979, when a kind teacher took me to see a PLATO terminal at my elementary school. I remember being shown I could play the game Concentration with another person somewhere else in the world, the magic of networking. It made a huge impression on me.
What kinds of things are useful to learn in this rote way? Except maybe foreign language vocabulary?
The last president who initiated a controlled burn quickly got voted out of office and is widely remembered as a bad president, while his successor got to take credit for the regrowth. Any politician who hears your proposal would agree in principle, but in the back of their head they would be thinking "do I want to end up like Carter?"
They're not smothering capitalism. They are doubling down on the corporate welfare, cronyism and centralization that's been on full throttle since 2008. That bailout and the acceptance of "too big to fail" banks was when they smothered capitalism
I have found out that I was bad at card making when reviewing the first cards I made after a lapse of time of not using Anki. My then self got frustrated and irritated by how vague and non-specific the cards I made myself were. I certainly learned something about my memory and cognition. The article is long, but it has some insights that resonated with me. I think the quality of the cards one makes is as important, if not more so, than spaced repetition.
Yeah it wasn’t until I heard that the banks weren’t allowed to hedge HTM bonds that I truly appreciated the “make it up as we go along” nature of our monetary system.

There could be a bank run on Chase tomorrow and they wouldn’t be able to hold. The only thing keeping everything together is folks not panicking.
It sounds like category theory likely has no direct impact on your life. So you can move on.

But please do not let this bleed into a criticism of category theory as used in mathematics. Category theory from the very beginning was developed to help manage the complexity of modern mathematical fields like algebraic topology. It was then famously used by Grothendieck in algebraic geometry where some of the basic notions (schemes) were defined in terms of category theoretic concepts (functors). It's been applied to many other fields, since, including yes computer science, and mainly for the same purpose: giving precise terminology to common patterns (monads functors etc) and giving us the right concepts to design new functional programming languages. As someone who is an expert on these topics I find some of the popular sentiments about programmers using category theory to be a bit silly, but I'll admit it's overall probably good for my field because it cultivates a lot of interest in students. It probably plays a similar role to pop science/math in other fields: not very deep but fun and can be a gateway to "the real thing".

The popular perception of category theory is a bit bizarre to me though. It is a beautiful theory with many useful results. But you don't see the same excitement or resentment towards fields like order theory or abstract algebra, which are very closely related to, and just as abstract as, category theory and are used in similar ways.
I'd break college programs down into undergraduate and graduate divisions, and divide schools up based on admission price tag. Some issues:

1. The more expensive the school, the more likely it is to be something like a British public school for the inherited wealth class. Interestingly graduate programs are often somewhat neglected at such institutions, and they're not generally great research centers. Basically it's about hobnobbing so you can get a job at your pal's parent's hedge fund or whatever. (#2 on your list)

2. The cutting-edge research universities have inverted that model. Undergraduates are packed into huge auditoriums and taught by adjunct professors with the help of overworked grad students whose professors can't afford to pay them as a lab tech / research assistant. Here it's all about getting the big grant and publishing new research. Students who can negotiate this system successfully can get excellent technical education and experience at the upper-level undergrad / grad student level in fields like CS, biotech, engineering etc.(BS/MS). That's #1 on your list.

3. There's another category of student that benefits from the cheaper state schools, and that's due to high schools in the USA being woefully poor at providing a basic education. These schools - community colleges and state schools - generally have a two-year progam that does little more than revisit material that high schools failed to teach, like reading and algebra and introductory calculus and programming. The fact this is needed just reflects the poor quality of K-12 in so many places.

The little secret that the big research universities don't want people to realize is that you can often get a better quality of instruction at most community colleges, due to small class sizes etc., then for the first two years at a big famous school. Hence it's wiser to do that and, assuming good grades, transfer in at the upper undergrad level for the courses and research lab access that small schools lack.

I don't really know of any apprenticeship program that could give one the same level of experience with cutting-edge technology as something like an MS program in a quality university research program could. And for that you're going to need a college degree first, ideally avoiding massive debt along the way.

As far as the struggle for professorships in the corporatized academic system, that's a complete political-bureaucratic game of chairs that doesn't really reward brilliance so much as it does Machiavellian capabilities. Trofim Lysenko would have fit right in to today's system. Try to avoid ending up in the Lysenko lab, whatever you do.
Oh, interesting. It's the & type in the CLI (I.12.1.1.2 in ECMA-335).

It makes Java's GCs quite Java-specific in practice because there aren't that languages that even moderately widely used which are both statically typed (to the degree that it's possible to tell pointers apart before generating code) and restrict pointers to point to the start of the object.
I mean, pedantry aside this is such an easy question that even Google can find a result. [1]

According to that link: The Darby Free Library in Darby, Pennsylvania, is “America’s oldest public library, in continuous service since 1743.”

But really, without going too off topic, why would you even bother to try to correct a statement that is used for effect? Are you trying to suggest that 150 years vs "centuries" is a relevant distinction for a point made about college-aged knowledge seekers? Are you interested in showing you have the trivial fact on hand for when the first Carnegie library was formed?

I'm open to being corrected but sometimes I just have to shake my head. Not only was your attempt to correct irrelevant, it is factually off base.

1. https://www.sturgislibrary.org/oldest-library/
One thing these articles usually fail to mention is the fact that college/university is also a huge social experience.

I'm a young person who took an apprenticeship instead of going to university - only one of my high school friends did the same as me, literally everybody else went onto university. I'm from a small town, there's not much going on and apart from when all my friends come back at Christmas and those few weeks in the summer I'm not doing much of anything other than work and sitting on my computer. I imagine if I grew up in a city this would be completely different but there's not much opportunity to make friends of my age around here and I really really really wish I had gone to university just so I wouldn't be so damn lonely, even if learning on the job works better for me.

(oh and the fact that most companies don't recognise the qualification I do have, makes it pretty much useless)
Yeah, but even here you have people parroting this line about "responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits" which is blatantly untrue. You're free to be a sociopathic monster within the limits of the law, but you aren't REQUIRED to.
Maybe some day. But I tried it just now on a database design I‘ve been working on for two months and it spits out something superficially close immediately from a two sentence prompt. On one hand that’s impressive, it‘s interesting and somewhat correct but all the interesting parts are missing or wrong and it never get‘s beyond that, not even with my help. No sane person would answer so confidently yet superficially useless.

A sane approach would be to start understanding the requirements and work from there, trying to figure out where the challenges are.

GPT can‘t do this currently.
> those employees suffer because of something they essentially knew nothing about

Just like the tens of thousands of layoffs before and since? Employees at those companies were really at no more risk than employees at even the most profitable of companies (a’la Google).
Picked up a Starlabs StarLite a few years ago and I love it. Really one of the only 11 inch laptops left that has (fairly) decent specs and linux.
https://archive.is/oEbEW
It’s funny to think there was a time when using JS vs JQuery was the biggest division among devs. Now just using JS is considered the baseline and React is the new framework that people jump to when it isn’t always necessary.
Larger places tend to have blanket requirements in part to protect themselves from hiring lawsuits, discrimination, etc.

I look at education when I hire but I’m more interested in experience and I never use a degree as a requirement. I am probably more likely to have the recruiter put the candidate into the pipeline if they have a CS degree but don’t have much experience or experience that doesn’t seem 100% relevant. But that’s not super common.
Thank you for memepool.
You wrote “sometimes, I have to update the docker-compose.yml on the unit, or add a library, or change something outside of the unit.”

and “I am looking for something as simple as alembic, but obviously to run scripts not DB migrations.”

I don’t see how having to run scripts follows from the first. Can’t you put the stuff that lives outside docker images in a git repo and pull changes from that?

Initial install would be a git clone and updates a git pull (maybe with a reboot to make sure nothing is running that’s using outdated stuff)
So it's useless shit, add it too the pile, and let's move the on...

Thxs for the PoC.
Are those with capital served by the governments propping up the banks? Then it is capitalism.
Before parent gets downvoted: that's how this youtuber starts his videos.
Because bad news is good news.

The markets have been high on ZIRP and QE for a decade now, and so when interest rates/inflation increase, the Fed takes action, reducing the price of assets.

Good news (more jobs!) means that the Fed will increase rates more (bad news!).

Hilariously enough, the actions of the government(s) to bail out various banks are regarded as bad news by the markets which mean good news for asset prices.

Yes, it's entirely insane. Welcome to modern capitalism, I suppose.
If you fully believe this, why are you even using a cloud provider? Why not buy your own hardware and set up your own server racks?

Of course it's because you agree on some level that DIY and "knowing how to use your tools and instead asking cloud providers to know how to do things for you" is simply not worth it. Companies who use these premium managed services are just setting the bar 1 level higher than you do.

Even if these premium services end up costing $200K/year more than doing it yourself on commodity VMs, that's not even the salary of 1 FTE engineer at many companies. It's simply not worth the time and opportunity cost to care about those things if it's distracting engineers from working on the core product.
I agree that Anki is likely less developer friendly but its popularity does make up for that I feel, with ostensibly state of the art SRS algorithms being published with Anki implementations (https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki) out of the box.
Though as someone that's solely used Anki for language learning, I do value the ability to remember more words in less time more than ease of development so it's not unlikely Memoet is a better choice for other usecases.
The rewards are socialized, because the small players would not have existed in the first place if not for the big players. All these small companies that were impacted by SVB only existed in the first place because VCs invested in them. The same story plays out in many other industries.

The losses aren't really socialized either -- not this time, and not in 2008. In 2008 the government made money on the bailouts, effectively getting an investment return on taxpayer money. So far in the rescue of SVB no taxpayer money has been spent either.
Pretty much anything. I use it to learn foreign alphabets and languages, historical people and events, philosophical terms, computer networking concepts, outdoor survival tips, and a bunch of other things. The best sources of information are encyclopedias (traditional ones, not Wikipedia) and dictionaries, as they are written to summarize a concept in a few hundred words.
Selection suitability and criticality are different metrics. The former is what Homebrew uses, as a way to lessen maintainer load and prevent inclusion in Homebrew becoming its own quality signal. The latter is what I’ve seen supply chain companies provide: an implication that a project is somehow critical or essential to the overall ecosystem because it has so-and-so many stars.

That first use is not unreasonable, in my opinion. The second one is questionable, at best.
Can you elaborate? Personally I feel like everything else is a dead end compared to Nix
It's typically people whose incentives in no way align with lowering long term costs for their organization. When you are building something new, the incentives are often on speed of delivery, plus whatever you can learn for yourself. Evaluating whether you'd be saving a lot of money 3 years from now is something that't rarely going to lead to raises or bonuses. You might not even be working at the same place by the time the problem is visible. And even if you do, it's often far better for yourself to build something that will catch fire and then put it out than to build something better in the first place.

This happens in basically every organization out there, even in the best ones. I've saved millions a month in AWS costs that came from decisions of people that are major tech leaders today. The original architect is now a CEO in a company you know, and I looked great for my efforts: Everyone won, other than the largest shareholders, who weren't looking into the decisions at all, as they had bigger fish to fry.

If incentives are such that the extra effort to be more cloud portable are useless to the person spending the effort, of course they are going to be "lazy". I've never worked at a place where I couldn't massively cut hardware or cloud costs by trying a little bit. It's just rarely been something that was anywhere near the top of the priority list.
Oo this is relevant to my world (professional coin & currency dealer here)!

A scourge, but relevant. To address a few different things people have said in sibling comments:

* Theft/security at coin shows is actually a real issue. I know the instinct may be to laugh when they say "Tungsten gold plated bar is the best choice if you are a gold dealer and attend some trade fair or put your gold products in the showcase..." but that almost kinnnnnnnda makes sense. But only kinda. The security issue these days isn't so much about the physical bars being stolen as it is being followed AFTER the show and someone just does an old fashioned smash-and-grab through a window of your car. The advice lately is DO NOT STOP after leaving a show, make sure you're not being followed, etc. Insane but reality.

* Counterfeiting is, unfortunately, also a real issue, and companies like this don't help. The gold standard (ha ha ha) for detection right now is an XRF gun, but the problem is twofold: One, those guns cost $15,000-$20,000, and two, people trust them, so when a good fake can pass an XRF test, the chances are it's going to defraud someone.

* Someone else asked about why people want gold/silver bars/coins. The die-hards (who are remarkably similar to crypto die-hards) will say some familiar stuff -- fiat is worthless, when it all goes to hell you'll still have "real money", they don't trust banks, etc. The more common thinking is just asset diversification/investment. You may not understand a T-Bill or Muni Bond or GOOG cashflow statement, but it's pretty easy to make a bet on gold/silver and buy a few actual pieces of gold silver.

The coins come in several flavors -- there's the modern stuff (American Eagles/Buffalos, Canadian Maple Leafs, South African Kruggerands, etc.) which is valued because, ironically, it's backed and produced by a government so considered to be more real/trustworthy. There's also what's known as "constitutional" silver (actual US coins from pre-1964, which are made of 90% silver) and "pre-33" gold, which are actual US coins from pre-1933, which are made of 90% gold. For similar reasons, they are valued because they WERE money, with known purity etc.

Fun stuff -- feel free to ping me if anyone wants more info!
What model of computer is this?

What I know for sure is that Reduced Security mode turns off the online "phone home" check you described in the OP, but I don't actually know what issue you're encountering.
Search and Recommendations with Embeddings – Engineering Challenges
An in depth explainer on what embeddings are, and how to use them to solve search and recommendation problems.
What is the point of such philosophy? It's not "search of truth" because it doesn't care about the reality, it only cares about categorizing things into arbitrary structures.

It's like arguing whether a particular cloud resembles a dog more than a cat. It's neither, and it doesn't matter.
You're entirely right about the hostage scenario.

Ultimately the VCs that guided their portfolio companies to use SVB and neglect obvious cash management are responsible for the anxiety. I suspect they would have stepped up to fill any gaps, which would have been less serious than claimed; making payroll was never seriously threatened.

But before then they were happy to let some useful idiots clamor for a depositor bailout that would absolve them of that responsibility.
Positions are defined, but they're different in every coordinate system, which makes "the center of the universe," by itself, undefined.
Well if prisoners are digging holes, you can calculate how much it would cost to pay them minimum wage but it doesn’t mean that the owners of the system benefit from the holes.

The relevant question is how much money is made from the output of the prisoner labor. And then, is that amount enough to plausibly provide an incentive to, say, apply political pressure to get more prison labor, as opposed to just being a grift on top of the prison population that would exist anyway without the presence of the grift.
This is a pretty good vignette of how Go is designed. "Users don't need this feature (immutability, polymorphism, etc.), let's not include it. Ah crap, turns out we actually need it for a core language feature. Is there a lesson we can take away here? Nah, just make an ad-hoc implementation of the functionality in this one place."
The Conscience of a Hacker, The Mentor
Is that something we should be proud about?
Funny. The government seems to only want to help with collective action for certain participants in capitalism. The rest of us get whatever those chosen participants allow us to get.
I really like using line-delimited JSON [0] for stuff like this. If you're looking at a multi-GB JSON file, it's often made of a large number of individual objects (e.g. semi-structured JSON log data or transaction records).

If you can get to a point where each line is a reasonably-sized JSON file, a lot of things gets way easier. jq will be streaming by default. You can use traditional Unixy tools (grep, sed, etc.) in the normal way because it's just lines of text. And you can jump to any point in the file, skip forward to the next line boundary, and know that you're not in the middle of a record.

The company I work for added line-delimited JSON output to lots of our internal tools, and working with anything else feels painful now. It scales up really well -- I've been able to do things like process full days of OPRA reporting data in a bash script.

[0]: https://jsonlines.org/
Yeah, that was a mistake.