skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've added the Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees. Out of 38 countries that puts Iceland and Finland in 9th and 10th. And Denmark, Sweden and Norway at 16th, 17th and 19th. So primarily Finland redeems itself. (Iceland maybe not so relevant as it is tiny). The rest are still slightly above the middle. Considering these are among wealthy countries it maybe isn't bad. But for being smaller countries with decent resource and high taxes that are also deindustrializing I wouldn't say it is great.
> It's one of the larger instances but the top heaviest constitute the majority by far and they all enshrine these policies.

So can you provide any evidence? Name this instance?

> both sides of the political aisle have become hives of extremism

It's laughable. Look at the people in power. What progressive is in any major office: Look at the President, the Minority Leader of the House, the Majority Leader of the Senate, Democratic Governors, etc. etc. All are mainstream Dems, hardly a progressive to be seen. Meanwhile, a majority of the GOP in Washington voted to overturn democracy and as sided with the rioters who attempted a coup.

> the left, particularly, has become the thing it once hated, an instrument of control in the service of the few

What has the left controlled? The right wing has used governmet power to ban books, educational topics, political freedom for teachers, criminalized gender choices, protests, etc. etc. Even in colleges, the right has shut down dissent, including among faculty (e.g., at UNC, in Florida, Harvard, Yale, etc.). The right is trying to eliminate tenure and academic freedom.

The left is trying to break the control of a few. Whether you like their tactics or not, they are trying to give power to minorities and other vulnerable people.
The French benefit is very good but I’m talking about a radically, massive benefit. For example in a family of 5 where they have $120k income, they would get like an $80k deduction leaving them with $40k of adjusted income. Taxes on that would be very small (a few thousand very likely, $5k-$10k) leaving them with the lions share to properly raise their kids.

This is directed at middle and upper middle class people that are the ones we want having kids in the first place. Let’s pay them to spread their genes.
Many of the people I’ve met who cannot drive are actually some of the most traveled people I know. In fact spending short periods in lots of different countries makes it a whole lot harder to learn to drive.

I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my 30s and used to spend my 20s travelling the length and breadth of the U.K. and Europe. I even had a long distance relationship at the time too. A long distance relationship that worked because we are now married.

Sometimes I might have to plan a journey in advance (to figure out the route) but there were plenty of times I just went where the wind took me (proverbially speaking). And frankly even after learning to drive, smart phones weren’t invented yet and satnavs were luxuries, so you’d often still need to plan ahead even if you could drive.

So no, driving needn’t be an essential life skill for everyone. And that doesn’t mean they have a limited perspective either. On the contrary, if you cannot imagine life without driving then it is your perspective which is limited.
If the Ample Reserve Regime worked as intended, then why did SVB (and apparently close to 400 other banks) choose to buy US Treasuries instead of keeping these funds at the Fed?

Clearly the Ample Reserve Regime didn't help in this case since these banks have taken 100% of user deposits and used them for speculation (likely leveraged).

I'll admit that I am not an expert on banking regulations. However since the 2008 Great Financial Crisis revealed the enormous amount of fraud perpetrated by the banks, I've grown skeptical of the Fractional Reserve Banking system and the Federal Reserve and have done my best to educate myself on the topic.

I don't need a theory of why banking with zero reserves is risky for depositors. I can simply point to the evidence of the recent bank failures under the Ample Reserves Regime where the banks clearly did not have ample reserves.

I don't think your condescending tone is warranted, especially given the track record of the banking industry. We are all trying to learn here and could do without the snark.
IANAL but the issues seem depressingly similar to this (maybe an actual lawyer can enlighten me):

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...

Once in Google Legal, I found a snippet of a book that looked promising for patent-busting. I really had to read the book to know if it was worth buying a legal copy of it. Out of 100 possibilities you run across in searching, maybe one is actually worth it. You can't tell until you read it. The same is true of scholarly articles, btw.

Of course, the old Books project had it on disk, like they have almost every book ever published. They told me I could come over to the actual cubicle of one of the engineers and read it there; they could not even send me an URL. That's how tightly access was controlled.

I don't remember why I didn't. Maybe the case changed, or I didn't need it after all.
Feels good to see them land on the same technical decisions my team and I have made. Some crazy progress from clickhouse!
> Strongest causation factors are urbanization and female education/employment.

There's a general trend, yes, but the details are important. The total fertility rate for native-born American women was near replacement as recently as 2008.
Robot can collect 21,000 plastic bottles in a day
Below a certain amount of wealth, you need kids to take care of you when you are older. Within a certain range (and better safety nets for elderly than for children), you can take care of yourself but not kids. Above that range, you can have kids aplenty.
Swiss Government Forces UBS to Merge with Credit Suisse, Shareholders Have 0%
Ohhhh. Interesting.
There had been a huge deficit of qualified worker due to SV/FANG/.. sponging them up.

So we likely won't go to a oversupply situation.

But as under-supply decreases and in turn saleries should fall.

But then salaries had been in some contexts so high that most startups couldn't afford paying it, so just by accepting this salaries without them falling the average would fall.

So I don't expect the salaries for mid to high qualified IT workers to fall too much outside of SV, and especially outside of the US. Like it still will be a pretty well paying job, just not necessary through the moon high salaries.

Through it might get a bit harder for low qualified IT workers, much harder if they are unlucky wrt. current AI development.
Right-wing U.S. Twitter influencers, Chinese followers, and Guo Wengui
Amazing. Love PMs who can dive into details and clarify edge cases.

That’s half the battle of writing code.

At our startup, the philosophy is to “first write code without writing code”.

This gives clarity of problem and proposed solution to weed out edge cases, before going too deep into implementation phase.
Good point. Maybe we should stop doing capitalism and do something that's going to be sustainable for the long run.
I think we agree that you're doomed once you jump off the building, right? It might take a while to fall, but your future is set in stone...or concrete. There are people who argue that from a climate perspective, we are doomed. So what's the choice now? Be less doomed if we cut emissions? Be extra doomed if we don't? Are there meaningful levels of doomed?
I wonder how close we are before someone comes up with a peer to peer malware using similar concept to train their model. Kind of like how trojan crypto miners were found in public package repos and apps just couple of years. (Probably still an issue)
It doesn’t feel similar to me, so far it seems like it’s a known problem and everything has been working ok-ish to prevent it from getting worse - last time it seemed like only very few people were ringing alarm bells and no one cared to listen
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/3/6/ways-to-thi...
Maybe (s)he should make a new one to combat this issue. In all seriousness though the amount of nextjs dependencies on this practically static site is probably part of the joke.
Please, bring the temperature down. No one is snarking at anyone.

We are, however, talking through each other.

I'm directly addressing the stance that you have repeatedly taken. I quote:

> When someone is aware of the damage they cause, and then they still continue, what would you call that behavior? Because the word "studiously" implies that they are aware of what they are doing. You yourself said that tech workers, or "tech bros" as you so nicely put it, are perceived and portrayed as uncaringly and knowingly destroying peoples life. If you think that that is a fair assessment of most tech workers motivations, then you are constructing a caricature.

I don't know how to read 'If you think that this is a fair assessment of most tech workers motivations" as anything other than a claim that I think you think you mean that I think that this is a fair assessment of most tech workers motivations. You seem to be chasing a 'gotcha' moment, where I have to either admit that tech workers know full-well that they are doing something wrong (and are evil, because they keep doing it) or did some bad things, but didn't really know better (those folks in developing countries that we could get to know better but don't.) This seems to miss, on purpose, the possibility of knowing something at one level, and denying it at the other, a basic feature of human psychology that (I took) us to all have understood as a possibility when we started talking.

One can be judged for what one refuses to understand. For the understandings that one systemically avoids.

> Tech workers - like most people - are unaware of the extent of suffering that they don't directly perceive. You and I know that there are people suffering in third-world countries - but knowing is not understanding or awareness, and if we had to spend some time in the company of these people, our perspective would shift enormously and we would feel a much stronger urge to actually remedy these injustices.

First, 'third world' is not a phrase you should be using in 2023. It implies rank ordering, and no sociologist would have touched it in the past forty years. Please tweak your language.

> Secondly,
Tech workers know that they are displacing workers, but again, knowing is not understanding.

Avoiding understanding is precisely what we're talking about.

> Hurling insults and making sly accusations is not going to convince anyone that they may lack perspective on this issue. I mean, take a look around this thread, take a look around other discussions - I don't see many people trying to convey their experience without painting the tech crowd as money hungry assholes.

No one is hurling anything. I am calmly answering the points you raise as I take you to have raised them. If I have mischaracterized your position, I am genuinely sorry, and it was not intentional.

But it sure sounds to me like you want to absolve some folks that I don't think qualify for absolution. We may simply disagree as to what falls within one's personal moral ambit. This is a conversation we can have at length. I'm here for it. <3
best comment on HN today (through due to satire will probably down voted into oblivion).
There is tons of thermodynamic inefficiency everywhere, like (for isntance) people running freezers and AC while simultaneously heating water.
I loved reading this. A nice short but true mystery solving story.

But the epilogue about how being an electronics engineer gave them a bit of a unique edge feels like a self-serving stretch. The techniques in the story seem accessible to any reasonably well-learned individual if they’re motivated enough to sleuth. All the advanced work was done by other people. And there’s a tinge of the classic, “the established discipline is living in the past but us engineers can do it better…”
> Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment, and user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations. In order to run our business sustainably, we’ve made the very difficult decision to shrink the size of our workforce.

Let's just take a moment to admire this paragraph.

> "our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment"

There's that passive, vague non-word again: "impacted". Such a milquetoast way to say "something happened" but without that pesky specificity.

> "user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations"

So, they are growing, but not growing faster than some [arbitrary] goal?

> "In order to run our business sustainably"

Wait, I thought revenue was growing! How is that not sustainable? If you just leave costs where they are and let revenue grow, you are by definition sustaining/growing the bottom line.

> "we’ve made the very difficult decision to shrink the size of our workforce"

This is what I don't get about all of these layoff letters. It's always the same thing: We're growing, our revenue is growing, and [usually unsaid] our costs are growing. So why not just arrest the cost growth? Stop the bleeding, don't start amputating limbs. I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss, not when it's growing.
No, I remember 2007-2008 pretty clearly. That felt much more precarious. Right now it seems pretty clear that if your bank fails you're going to get your money.

That's not to say that this isn't the start of some kind of a financial crisis. But it could be very different from 2008. In this case I think the risk is more towards high inflation - for example, if enough banks were to fail (hypothetically - I doubt this will happen) and bunch of money essentially has to be printed up to make everyone whole, that's going to devalue money hence more inflation.
The problems will start when you use those cursors on a website or in a commercial product.

Just displaying them (like screenshots) should be fine.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Are people disagreeing that manual memory management adds overhead compared to GC'd languages for prototyping?

I'm expecting my own comment to be downvoted as well, so I'll give a huge disclaimer that I lack experience with Rust, but I always find myself playing type tetris and having to think hard about memory management whereas Clojure, JavaScript, and Python all have interactive solutions that let one quickly hack together some web server and endpoints.
I’m not biased by where I live, cycling is riskier statistically than driving pretty much anywhere, including bike-friendly Netherlands:

something like 70% of total distance traveled is by car (https://www.statista.com/statistics/449436/netherlands-modal...) and yet there are fewer annual motorist fatalities than bicycle fatalities (207 cyclist fatalities versus 175 motorist fatalities in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/523310/netherlands-numbe...).

EDIT: cycling in the netherlands is about 685% more dangerous than driving per https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/31/decline-in-road-fatali.... Of course, this isn’t a like-for-like comparison since the distance traveled by car skews more toward the more dangerous highway miles while cycling skews heavily toward the much safer local/city streets—if you account for that, the difference becomes even more pronounced.
Its big news because folks like gold bugs have been sounding the alarm that there's a lot of fake metal circulating keeping metals artificially low (implying the West is far more broke than it seems)

Take it however you want, but the LME selling fake metal is a pretty big deal
Plenty of existing tools only support a subset of SWF, mainly the vector graphics and animation parts. It's used for UIs in games and various other applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameswf
Well, I wasn't worried until I saw your comment ;)
> I have a tic disorder (not Tourette's, because my tics are all nonverbal).

That's still Tourette's. Tourette's is described as an involuntary movement /or/ sound.
Flat out they shouldn't have owned these if they wanted a safe investment. US Treasuries and similar would have been a better choice.
Very fast progress and great article with lots of useful information. I found myself nodding a lot in agreement having recently seen GitLab Dedicated https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/subscriptions/gitlab_dedicated/ being developed that had many similar challenges. I wonder what other people think of Kops https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/
These are valid differences, but none of them seem particularly challenging to an AI, assuming some equivalence between image and text recognition. To a human, sure because it is more difficult to formally specify. Arguably an AI could benefit from the fuzziness because the set of acceptable outputs is larger.

And I’d also say that the argument is a bit straw man-y because it considers (some of) the complexities of frontend, with a fairly ideal view of the backend. Once you bring concurrency, scale and state, backend can become fairly Lovecraftian as well.
> This is a perfect illustration of conceptual bankruptcy of the autoconf approach. Using compile/link tests and basing a decision on whether they succeeded or failed without distinguishing the reasons for failure will inevitably lead to silent false negatives.

The tests are actually fine as an idea, it is much better to perform tests to see if something is there instead of trying to guess based on other means, like OS name or whatever.

The problem isn't the idea of testing for the features you need (like checking if a header file or function is there), it is that the code generated for some of the tests was pre-C89. This was accepted by pretty much all C compilers from the 80s to today, until Clang 16 decided not to accept it anymore.

Technically they could have taken a different approach like checking the libraries themselves directly (for the case of libraries), but that'd require knowledge about the library formats and availability and i'm almost certain that the current approach gives the largest portability while requiring the least knowledge about that system.

Even now it is Clang 16 specifically that has the issue and it was already been fixed upstream last year.
This sort of works, but is finnicky to set up in each environment and introduces the risk that you forget to update it and your queries are broken.
The vibes are similar to early 2008. But the financial structure is different. Banks are not overleveraged. Housing is not all adjustable rate.

That being said, easy to see weakness. Commercial real estate is a big one. I'm somewhat concerned about non-bank Financials. Some large foreign banks (CS(dead)
, DB, HSBC) I'm skeptical of.

And a recession feels imminent (felt to me this way even before SVB).

To sum up, I don't think this is over. There's no telling how bad it might get - we might get off fairly easily, might be bad.

One thing that concerns me is that there is much less room for fiscal/monetary action given where inflation is.
Is there ever internal discussion about the name?
And I am not convinced it is a good deal for UBS.

Credit Suisse went from ~$4 billion minor problem in August to we need ~$54 billion to "Switzerland is offering UBS $100 billion "safety" loan and gives it to you for free and regardless if you want it you are getting it this weekend."
One exercise I loved in teaching programming was the string inverter function.

I always gave “aibofobia” (I taught in Portuguese) as the first of the examples list.

Of course, I was not teaching how to reverse strings. I was teaching how to debug.
Anything open will need training and attention to be an openai competitor, tho I'm happy to see the function of this one:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/OpenChatKit
Bookmarked, for a developer who doesn't know how to design like me. These kinds of resource is really matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Metallic Cesium reacts too fast with Oxygen. They are using a salt with Cesium.

For obvious reasons it's easier to find videos with metallic Sodium instead of metallic Cesium. Both are chemically similar and react with Oxygen very fast and must be stored protected from Oxygen, and water, and many other things. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20yy-CycGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmcfsEEogxs

It's very difficult to store metallic Sodium, but it's quite easy to store Sodium salts.

The relevant paragraph in Wikipedia is

> Also the higher specific activity caesium sources tend to be made from very soluble caesium chloride (CsCl), as a result if a radiography source was damaged it would increase the spread of the contamination. It is possible to make water insoluble caesium sources (with various ferrocyanide compounds such as Ni
2Fe(CN)
6, and ammonium ferric hexacyano ferrate (AFCF), Giese salt, ferric ammonium ferrocyanide) but their specific activity will be much lower.
This might be different based on model. On a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with macOS 12.6.3, the cursor initializes in the top-left at bootup.

I think this started with Monterey, because on Big Sur and earlier, it always initialized in the center.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe NeXTSTEP also initialized the cursor close to the top-left corner. So this might either be an homage to NeXTSTEP (similar to how the Clarus dogcow has reappeared in macOS Ventura), or a bug. My bet is on the latter.
It absolutely amazes me that places like Amsterdam, London, etc build so much safe bike infrastructure when the weather is so dreary. And despite the weather, of course people will use it because it feels great and is so fast!

And yet, here we have California (especially LA) with the best cycling weather but barely any safe cycling routes. LA is laughably bad with tons of "bike routes" that are just the rightmost car lane shared with bicycles.
odd how "AI Face Recognition" sounds so authoritative, yet "machine learning Face Recognition" is also accurate but does not hide the inherent uncertainty, guesswork, noise and error in the process
I don't think they're plagiarizing, per se, just spending too much time with similar people doing similar things, too often.
I actually laughed out loud when I clicked the article and saw the bike. It's like you crossed an old iPhone with a razer scooter and tried to build a bike from a description over the phone.
Lol - is this comment written by a bot?
4 month semesters is about 17 weeks, which only accounts for a little over two and a half hours per week. That's less than the time in lectures in my college, and doesn't account for any homework or lab time.
In almost all cases very quickly. A LLM doesn’t have the ability to perform calculations but instead it feeds text tokens from the prompt into a model which predicts what the next tokens should be.

It can’t do basic maths but based on everything it’s been trained on it can give the impression it can.

Recursive feedback isn’t likely to improve the prompt unless there is some testing and feedback provided in the Python script.

You could play a game of chess and while the LLM knows the rules of chess it isn’t actually playing chess, it is calling upon patterns it has learned to predict text tokens that are appropriate for the given prompt. So opening moves will be sound, but it would quickly go off the rails and start hallucinating…

Given how they work, it is amazing they give the appearance of knowing anything. Even asking “how did you do that?” gives generally compelling answers.
Which is so bizarre to me. Metal isn’t cross platform and 3d is very much a cross platform technology. So then why footgun your OS for 3d?