skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maximising profits might come at the expense of the worker, but it benefits the economy as a whole. The reason maximising profits is such an excellent goal is because it indirectly leads to maximising profit per worker (especially in lean times, when there's less cash to go around and you focus more on efficiency as opposed to revenue). The highest net benefit to society comes from having the highest possible productivity per person. Layoffs suck, but they also improve business efficiency since in general the less productive workers are laid off. It's a bit harsh to say, but those freed-up workers eventually end up somewhere else, where hopefully they fit in better, be more productive etc.

A big reason other systems fail is because they don't focus on that metric. There's no feedback loop from per-person productivity, resulting in either stagnancy or even degradation in living standards.
You Probably Need a Robot
Fruit Machine (Homosexuality Test)
Yeah, it's like a trade off. You can't have your cake and eat it too. With CSR, you distribute the load of rendering to your clients, which reduces your cost, which in turn allows you to provide better service.
Organize Software Documentations by 5W1H
You can safely ignore what he said just by the amount of emojis he used in his tweet.

That being said, it's impressive enough that GPT-4 can have a basic "understanding" of Wordle with such short prompt.
> What are those "declarations of doom" specifically? What are you actually talking about?

Well just look at the kind of debates that were going on even back in the 90's, so much talk about total melting of ice caps, sea levels rising to catastrophic levels, unrelentingly sweltering summers. A veritable apocalypse on the horizon, basically.

> From my point of view, climate development went pretty much as predicted >40 years ago-- there is absolutely ZERO reason to assume that the greenhouse effect is somehow a collective hallucination or much weaker than we think.

Maybe an over-reaction would be a more succinct way to describe it. Huge political decisions, past, present, and future are being influenced by the hysteria surrounding this "climate change crisis".

> Consider e.g. Hansen et al in Science (1981): https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1981/1981_Hansen_ha04600x.pd...

> And compare e.g. with https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/global-left-...

> If you look at their predictions, made >40 years ago, then these match the actual development pretty well, and these first papers also said basically the very same stuff that climate scientist are saying right now (but with less detail).

> So again, what are these goalposts that have been moved?

I do concede that the work of Hansen et al is rather compelling. The CO2 predictions were indeed spot on.

The goalposts I was referring to are the claims being made to push certain agendas. When temperature changes turned out to be arguably much milder than expected, the political discussion turned from "global warming" to "climate change". (Soon it will be "climate variability"?)

> So your point is that both greenhouse effect and human CO2 emissions happen as described, but ALL of mainstream science is completely wrong about the effect size? What gives you ANY confidence in this?

> IF your theory is "climate change is a collective hallucination, all data supporting it is fudged" then this would give some easily falsifiable predictions:

> - There should be no change in longer term median temperatures: This is simply not the case-- the trend is in most places ALREADY obvious enough that you can see it by simply taking an arbitrary city and looking at the annual mean temperature.

Again, I am not arguing that humans have had no effect on the environment whatsoever. But I do think that the whole thing has been overblown somewhat.
They're paid so presumably safer at least
I have a Pixel 2 XL and LineageOS with MicroG on Android 13. If you're not interested in degoogling LineageOS plus gapps also works.
Flex: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
For jobs for which your appearance has no bearing on your value, I don't think anyone should care.
I have 10 years of reading history and 1 year of reviews for you to browse! Please let me know if you have any questions about specific books, authors, or genres.

[1] https://taylor.town/books

I’ve had a lot of luck picking up books “considered the greatest”. I maintain a list of lists on this page:

[2] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new
> Although, I'm guilty of thinking doordash is stupid. I'm am still surprised there aren't more clones.

I mean, does DoorDash make money yet? A year ago, Forbes had an article "How Will DoorDash Eventually Make Money?". Why would you clone a failing business? ;P

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2022/02/25/ho...

To me the biggest lessons from some of these startup companies are "success is relative" and "sometimes the real business model is the friends we made along the way".

(Note that I am writing this comment soon after eating a meal I ordered from a local restaurant and had delivered to me using DoorDash. I might order dessert!...)
what is a high-pass filter?
Hmm to be honest I just reused the most restrictive license of the tools that compose the app.

I guess I should rephrase to something like "The rights of the images are transferred to the user who purchased the service" or hire a lawyer to have it rephrased properly.
Watching TV/movies on the airplane screens is better than your phone/ipad because the screens are sometimes bigger, the content may be different (sometimes newly released movies show up earlier than netflix), and the screen is positioned in a more comfortable place for viewing while leaning back into your seat.

Playing games on those screens sucks: the controls are bad, the input latency is bad, the screens are usually pretty low fps (30 in the best case), and the hardware running the games is underpowered.

Playing games on your phone is better than the screen, watching stuff is better on the screen, so while this may be a cost cutting measure I'm fine with it for the most part.
I cannot tell if this is serious or troll?
I'd love a version of this tool that alters my face enough to avoid it being useful for facial recognition. I don't really want to publish my face on linked in and other sites as I'm not keen on it getting indexed in some future facial recognition tool.
What’s the purported bad assumption during the current wave? That interest rates would never rise?
how is America denying the problem exists? even if they were, they're no longer the problem, US emissions have been flat to falling for over two and a half decades now.
I buy “windows” hardware to run Linux.

I would buy an iDevice if I could take it home, boot it up to make sure it works then install Fedora with everything working.

Even my current laptop failed that since I wanted to play with GPU programming and I had to hunt down drivers for the the AMD APU — which I never got working 100% correctly but that was probably my buggy code, GPU programming is hard.
We have been building relatively big enterprise cloud applications with a high level of compliance over the last decade and a half, and our next blueprint is all Rust on the backend (web server, web services, and job/micro services). For our approach, Rust is a transformative language for those parts of our systems.
NYT's own WordleBot uses LEAST.
> do prebuilt binaries rerouted to be installed in a predefined path they were built in or is it also flexible?

Prebuilt binaries don't have to go in a fixed prefix -- we'll relocate RPATHs, shebangs, strings in text files, and (as long as you build in a longer path than you install to -- see `padded_length` at https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config_yaml.html) strings in binaries.

There is not currently a way to see before you install if an install will be from binary or from source, but that is something we are working on.
I did not get the sense that was what they were saying at all. Only that there are certainly sacred cows we are not allowed to speak of; I may add that several of them are extremely rapid and recent additions.
> They absolutely wrecked their credibility, and may take the entire concept of CDL down with it.

Ah yes, the "it's your own fault we want to end libraries" approach. If they had their way, the only "fair use" left will be through time-restricted DRM after paying a licensing fee.
>you get typechecking and all the rest of the editing experience

This is true for a number of languages that can also be run without AOT compilation (Go, Rust, etc). This feels like some really weird, incoherent astroturf take for Bun promotion.
Fed hates that and fights this tooth and nail. See, for example:

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/09/fed-nixes-narrow-...
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-ban...
> Yet, there are still quibbles around this as many European cities were rebuilt many times.

Thats not correct. Some noticeable percentage of German cities and some cities of the war-affected regions were rebuilt. And most partially. The re-architecting of Paris does not have any relevance to cars since it happened in 19th century.

> Beyond the above, the more extended exerts below I believe make the same point I made

They actually invalidate your argument - including the earlier excerpts: Modernist architects adopting car-centric ideas and high rises does not mean that they got to implement what they wanted to do in Europe. There is no such case of large-scale reconstruction of any European city around cars except the war-affected ones (and most partially), and all your excerpts just confirm that. They talk about how (the part of) a generation of European architects adopted modernist car-centric ideas - not them actually getting around to implement them. Its Le Corbusier proposing to demolish part of Paris in a furtive attempt, or him planning a high rise somewhere and whatnot.

Aside from that the excerpts explicitly demonstrate that car-centric cities were a US phenomenon. Not European.

Normally so. Because even the mere act of buying any zone in an average European city to demolish it would cost !enormous! amounts of money that nobody would be willing to spend. Leave aside the reconstruction. This is why the 19th century reconstruction of parts of Paris is the sole incident of this.

All of this, before the fact that most European cities do not have space - nobody can imagine demolishing an entire city to rebuild it with less density so that more cars could be used in sparse urbanization. Europe does not have that much space.
The thing I don’t understand, is we (my team) were doing with Watson (Bluemix / Alchemy, not Watson Assistant) 6 years ago, what ChatGPT is doing now.

The difference is we had to “build” (Watson let’s you pick sources) a corpus of data, and tune it, but it worked pretty dang well. It did “generative ai” pretty well but we had to be specific, and it was a pain in the ass to configure, but super accurate.

For example Watson gave us a paper about how and why adding an after school van would increase student test scores for a failing school. Something the boards missed entirely.

Banks use it, a lot of corporations use Watson AI internally.

I’m wondering what Watson is doing while all this is going down. It gets real time feeds from all known sources, you can tell it “only give me info from scholarly articles” etc

It is stupid expensive however, I’m just wondering if they’re hiding something. It’s definitely not user friendly, but I imagine they have something hardcore hiding
I believe that's pretty close to what https://bittensor.com/ does.
Super cool results.

This is what my startup is getting into. So I'm very interested.

These aren't "game ready" - the sculpts are pretty gross. But we're clearly getting somewhere. It's only going to keep getting better.

I expect we'll be building all new kinds of game engines, render pipelines, and 3D animation tools shortly.
> How does this address my question about alternative vaccines?

There is not enough of them. Even the local license doesn't mean china can suddenly manufacture 1 billion doses every 12 weeks.

> And were any of these actions even remotely like what we saw in the PRC?

Which country has remotely the kind of population and living density of china? India? Good example of what happens if you don't do what china did: Everyone gets sick, and hospitals fall over.

> No, I do not believe that the set of tools.

It was a question. What other tools do you think there were/are? Where did a country reduce burden on hospitals without either limiting human movement (lockdowns) or vaccinating the population (vaccines)?
Are there any models that take an image to SVG?
Isn't ChatGPT heavily censored?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRn-WDhFO0
Ask HN: What would you change about Lighthouse?
Willis suggests turning off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) to protect against baseband remote code execution, if you're using a vulnerable device powered by Samsung's silicon.

The problem is that that's a very sterile way to say "turn off all voice calling features on affected devices" unless I'm misunderstanding how modern cell networks function. Without VoLTE in pretty sure devices need to fall back to 3G (effectively off in most of the world) or 2G (not much better, though it's still around on one carrier in a lot of places for longer distance coverage as I understand it).

Maybe my understanding is completely off, but this seems like writing an article about terrible flaws in automotive wheel bearings and closing with "we recommend that everyone avoid doing things that require use of wheel bearings."
Pocket Casts is not only good, it's better
The connection between monetary policy and inflation is weak. But the connection between how the monetary system is structured and an ever increasing money supply is clear and factual.

Some MMT theorists suspect rising rates is at least not price deflationary as is assumed by Keynesian monetary theory. And the basis is simple: An increase in debt interest has to be serviced by money creation. So the tool used to reduce bank lending creates money, and increasing bank lending creates money. Both roads lead to the money printer.

The following points are taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/mmt_economics/comments/wchq55/raisi...

1. When central banks raise interest rates, this means governments spend more on their interest payments. This translates into increased income for bondholders. Higher incomes lead to more consumer demand, pushing up prices. Similarly, banks benefit from higher interest payments from the Federal Reserve. In other words, the interest from the higher interest rates goes to someone in the economy, and their demand increases rather than decreasing.

2. Interest rates are a cost for businesses. When central banks raise interest rates, businesses pass this new cost on to consumers in the form of higher prices, which is inflation by definition.

3. Higher interest rates make it harder to start a business and harder to hold inventory. This reduces supply, leading to higher prices aka inflation.

4. Finally, MMT economists point to the fact that there is no empirical research at all showing that higher interest rates decrease inflation. In fact, the correlation runs in the opposite direction.
Right, who was a good example? Before you fall for the trap, know that if you pick someone that used lockdowns... you're strengthening my point.
As the shebang (`#!`), I imagine you mean?
Looks free with attribution to me... And that attribution can be just a comment in the source code, even for commercial use.
Ask HN: VSOP Solar System model tutorial?
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for implementing a VSOP(1) solar system model?

1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSOP_model
One additional benefit of unions is coordinating strikes for the purposes of change, which is why we have many of the benefits taken for granted today as well as showing the importance of undervalued roles in society. And protesting retirement age hikes in France.
Some of those industries being heavily regulated for very good reasons.
> It’s counter-intuitive but both lowering and raising interest rates are inflationary.

Counterintuitive, sure, but less counterintuitively, it is also false.

> A rise in rates means more bond coupon and more bonds sold (new money)

No, it doesn’t mean more bonds sold.

(Purchasing bonds is lending; the idea that lending increases with both rate increases and rate decreases is…wrong. Borrowing, whether via banks or via bonds, is more common when it is cheaper because of low rates, and less common when it is expensive because of high rates.)

And exchange of equity instead of interest for money follows the same patterns, because those with capital will trade it for less valuable (in expected future value) equity when they’d make less money in its alternate use (lending), and demand more valuable equity for it when they’d make more lending. So, equity financing (which, despite the structural difference, also gets the money moving in the economy) is also more active with lower rates and less with higher rates.
Wifi-calling is basically required for rural, semi-rural, hilly, or mountainous areas around here. Huge chunks of the western United States has terrible cellular coverage. I regularly travel to a region with a population density of 0.25 people per sq km, no one is going to erect new towers out there.
AFAIK, the current normal is for banking systems to ensure all of the deposits, the US is an exception. And this policy hasn't caused any disaster anywhere yet.

But yes, the US has more singular things that can interact badly with no limits on insurance. As a start, the insuring entity has much shallower pockets than most places I know about.
It wasn't good back then either, had to switch to a paid app, so not that strange
If you have to ask, you don’t have any idea what actual censorship is.
Ultimately, I couldn't use Watson to do everyday stuff. But I can with ChatGPT. Watson didn't have the unit economics down.
Space launch 'commoditization', JWST, AI/NLP advancements (regardless the current hype), mRNA vaccines are real examples of "truly a tremendous feat of engineering".

Running a database on Kubernetes backed by an object based storage? Not even close.

Don't get me wrong, Clickhouse folks are great and their DB is fantastic, but your scale may need some adjustments.
As soon as he wrote about worries regarding retirement I knew he was European. I assume Austria is having the same issues and debates as UK and France?
Can you explain what people mean by an "embedding" or "embedding space"? It seems like something really abstract and...supernatural?
Castro is more useful once you subscribe to enough feeds, and also looks and feels nice, but it costs twice as much per year.
That.. and someone or team needs to justify their existence by constantly making changes to the app, whether it needs it or not.

A podcast app... once you perfect it, doesn't need drastic change in its core ux, much like kitchen appliances.
> CLI
Well, not nicely certainly, but:

https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl

> portable

Neither is python - it just relies on universal availability. Over time…

> Multiple dispatch, it's system of abstract inheritance and lack of static analysis and tooling makes it very difficult to write correct code. It's even hard to read Julia code due to dispatch labyrinths, macros that obfuscate IDEs, and lack of good IDE tooling.

There is support for solving some of this but it’s obscure and needs more attention.

Overall I think the growth will continue, specific fields having best of any language software packages (DifferentialEquations.jl,…) written in Julia starts to create somewhat of a network effect.

And imo the packages being written in Julia are quite specialized, unlike much of the famed “Python ecosystem”, half of which is wrapper to C++ functions and another big chunk being HTTP calls to external APIs..
Where is your target audience? US based? Do note that Cloudflare non business / enterprise plans get deprioritized and also get re-routed to certain major ISPs e.g. in Taiwan, Australia, Argentina, etc.

https://www.cdnperf.com there's also this for a point of reference.
> with Nix you would probably need to check out different commits of the nixpkgs repo and maybe do some hacking on nix derivations to get the same thing. Spack is fundamentally designed to help with combinatorics.

Typically you'd use the overlay mechanism combined with package overrides for this, so you would have to write some Nix code, but you can do it out-of-tree (the most common location of choice would be inline in your configuration repo).

One of the usability issues with this is that the APIs for overriding dependencies and flags in Nix packages are sometimes a bit language ecosystem-specific. The uniformity of Spack's approach strikes me as an even bigger win over Nixpkgs here than the fact that you can append those tweaks directly to CLI invocations without saving any code to a file. :)

> Spack installation hashes are what Nix would call full configuration hashes -- they're configuration metadata hashes, not content hashes of the installation. So you could say we're not quite as committed to exact binary reproducibility, but you could also say that this allows us to support relocatable binaries (which Nix does not).

Nix supports content-addressed store paths but it's still not very widely used yet, and it's opt-in. A normal system with the feature enabled will have a mix of configuration-addressed and content-addressed paths.

Spack looks really, really cool. Thank you for advancing the state of the art. :D

I hope Spack's package collection is seeing and will continue to see exponential growth like Nixpkgs and Guix are! It seems like the stronger design fundamentals in these newer package management ecosystems can really enable that.
Altman and OpenAI have been stoking AI safety fears and using it as a selling point for narrow control and regulation since the same time they stopped pretending the “Open” in their name was meaningful. It’s clearly central to their business strategy. The best way to keep a head start is to use the government to put up roadblocks for your competitors.
Exactly. Cell reception at our house is terrible even though we're in the suburbs. When making a call I get next to the AP.
No, my original point included Melbourne as well. Singapore and Taiwan both did lockdowns as well. Not as long as China true, so your point really is the semantics of length?

No, I'm not from China, but that has little to do with any point I've made. Vaccines were never an option for Chinese, they had a locally made one that didn't work well enough, and they could have never secured the number required of mRNA. If it refused them, then how did HK get them?

Which statement that I've made is false?
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds great. What a madwoman on the piano!
The video points out cities which aren't bankrupt, do you think the people in them are starving and the farms near them are gone?

The video says that Canada has laws which stop cities paying more than 25% of revenue on debt payments, so they are much less bakrupt than USA cities. Do you think all Canadian cities have starving people with nothing to buy, and failed farms?

What about European cities which aren't suburban car dependent sprawl and still have food?

What about the explanations in the video (and the related ones on the channel) on why the suburbs are so expensive - you can't handwave away thirty six billion dollars of due road maintenance in a single city with "rural farms need it", even if true it's unsustainable.

> "all cities do is services, they don't produce goods."

All that needs is one counterexample: London has the largest diesel engine manufacturing site in the world - [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_London#Manufacturin...

Yes, fintech nonsense has eaten London, and services are its most profitable sectors these days, but that's not /because it's a city/, it was a major manufacturing center and a city.