skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We live in a big cold warehouse, heated by an old furnace. This guy "JPow" controls it.

The lucky ones, they've staked out places for themselves next to the heat vent, surrounded by broken glass and fences made of twisted rebar. Other squatters shiver way over in the corner by the windows. They regularly lose toes to frostbite.

When the squatters really start dying -- mothers wake up to find their babies have turned into frozen meat in the middle of the night -- then "JPow" gives in a little and cranks up the thermostat. The temperature in that far corner of the warehouse might even get above freezing.

But for the heat-lords who've got the good turf, man, it's like a day in the tropics. Shorts, flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts, margaritas. Party on!

Which is why, of course, it's always good news that plebs are starting to die of hypothermia. Because it means "JPow" has to keep 'em warm, and party time continues.

This little parable is, of course, a description of the Cantillon Effect.

NASDAQ is particularly sensitive to interest rates. People say it's because Tech is more future-looking, and when rates are high you want profits now. Or maybe it's sensitive just because that's what everyone believes. Either way, when rates go down, NASDAQ goes up.

It's weird that people celebrate news that the car is slow, because that means the driver is going to hit the gas. But that's how it be.
I think most other companies do that with the expectation that you will get addicted to the product during the trial period and uncancel the subscription. I have no idea why apple does that. But I hv always felt that they are losing out on eventual subscribers.
IMO the difference is eventually it's going to be a lot more difficult to spot. There's a gulf of difference between someone doing a deep-fake of Elon Musk and fooling some people (but not everyone, and certainly not any rigorous analysis) and being able to accurately fake your children or co-workers based on a minimal data-set. I think that's the world we're headed towards.
Why do you think that ham radio is that way? Is it that a large number of the hobbyists are trying to be outside the system?
Have you seen the vast majority of the USA? It’s suburbia and parking lots. You try meeting people there.
I don't think going to college can be easily summed up (and dismissed) with a numbered list of items. Sort of like saying marriage is just to have kids, get a tax benefit, and save on rent.
I did coroutines under Turbo Pascal wayyyyy back in the 1980s[1]. It's really just a matter of copying the stack and some book-keeping.

Free Pascal has threads.

[1] https://www.pcorner.com/list/PASCAL/TASKER4.ZIP/TASKER.PAS/
You're a champion. Well done getting your degree while yoked that hard.
A couple years ago, when I was on a pizza kick, the thing that worked best for me was to start cooking the dough on the stovetop on a very hot cast iron skillet. I would cook it long enough for the dough to start to change color and bubble a bit (45-60 seconds), and then make sure it was releasing from the pan. Then, I would sprinkle on oil, tomato sauce and toppings and move it from the skillet to the preheated stone, and leave it under the broiler for another couple minutes.

The initial cook on the pan got the crust going, and so the oven time was mostly focused on the toppings.
From developer.mozilla.org [0]

> WebCodecs API

> The WebCodecs API gives web developers low-level access to the individual frames of a video stream and chunks of audio. It is useful for web applications that require full control over the way media is processed. For example, video or audio editors, and video conferencing.

And from w3c [1]:

> The WebCodecs API allows web applications to encode and decode audio and video

All this looks really promising, I wouldn't have thought that we could use browsers directly to render videos. Maybe Puppeteer could then stream the content of the page it is rendering, for example a three.js animation.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_A...

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs
Now we have LLMs which can name concepts by description!

Your colleague can dump their thoughts into such a system and quickly get back the shibboleths and the foundational papers. Now is the best time to be a self-taught genius.
I develop in react and follow KISS and I don't have any problems whatsoever.

Some libraries can be a pain in React Native however, but React web has been smooth sailling for me (following KISS and MVVC).
Microsoft does not force you to use Edge. There are some places where it will launch Edge instead of the default browser, like the start menu search or widgets, but they are quite pointless anyway. For all your other web browsing, you can just switch to Firefox and forget Edge is a thing.
Perhaps, but we'll never know for sure considering that the DNC leadership manipulated the process to tilt the scales in favor of their preferred candidate.
I think it's weird that they said "nearly 200" instead of just saying 186. It's like they're trying to make it sound worse than it is.

Likewise, their definition of "same fate" is they could fail "if half of their depositors quickly withdraw their funds." That's a ridiculously harsh criterion. But even then, as of six days ago, SVB-like banks can now convert their long-term bonds into cash loans, at face value. It doesn't look like the study is factoring in that new landscape. It's just counting up the banks that hold long-term bonds....
I think you're describing money market funds, they take your cash and put it into very short-term commercial paper and t-bills. Google says they're managing something like $3 trillion these days. Places like Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab offer them and you can write checks against them.

And many banks make lots of money on fees and various services. It's problematic because no one likes ATM fees and minimum balance fees, and the politicians get involved.
Do you think there's a happy middle ground to be found then between the extensibility of the expansion cards and internal space for stuff like speakers and battery then.

I think I'd be very happy with 2 expansion card slots and 3 hardwired USB C ports that can be upgraded with mainboard revisions to support newer USB standards.
In case anybody is interested, it looks like they refactored the mode translation code to reuse another function, and the behaviour of that function was different from the original.

There were no unit tests written for the original implementation, but they did update the tests for the refactored function [1], and the tests clearly show different behaviour from the original implementation [2].

My best guess would be that the code wasn't reviewed.

[1] https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks...

[2] https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks...
Right, but that'll still leave some vectors open. Like how do I know my co-workers didn't just send all their deepfakebots to this meeting instead of actually attending? How do I know it's my children facetiming me in the nursing home and not just sending their bots to entertain me? There are some very morbid possibilities even if you require strong auth/signing/identity.
I was a very good artist, and when I was 18 I genuinely believed that college would turn me into a professional artist. I'm not saying this to brag, but I did have a level of talent that I could have turned into a career. So it wasn't a crazy idea at the time.

What I found, however, was that the education I received wasn't what I wanted or needed. In my senior year we were still being taught things that I had known since I was a teenager. But by the time I realized how much of a mistake it was, I felt it wouldn't have made sense to quit, because having a degree with 80K in debt is better than having no degree with 60K in debt.
I sent a couple of emails
Ric AT nosql
I've been saying this for almost 15 years now. Industries like Software Development need to abandon college and return to the guild system. Start as an apprentice, move to journeyman, become a master, and eventually an artisan. All the time training your juniors. I'm not saying there is no place for college but it needs to relegated to the jobs that need it, doctors, lawyers, etc.
Then I don’t think where you went to school did a very good job of educating, or I’d suggest you didn’t pick up on what was being put down. For it to not provide critical thinking and/or depth of knowledge in a subject is a failed mission.
Interesting that CRA isn’t mentioned anymore.

Someone opened an issue to discuss this:

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13072
A news website run by a VC firm that is also a startup accelerator? "Countercultural"?
So.... when they stop being ACTuAL lawyers
No, as an actual IT guy myself, our job is to support and improve business technical operations. Most of us want _less_ work. If we wanted to be intermediaries, we'd be middle managers.

I don't know how much time you've spent supporting spreadsheet users, but I work with them daily and I see first-hand the amount of energy being wasted. Stuff that takes them all day, they could do in a single SQL query. Probably wouldn't take them more than a day to learn how.

It's not about democracy, it's about doing things in a sensible way. I'd be happy if they used another "democratic" tool like Microsoft PowerBI and a fully-managed database.
Compared to what? Civilization spends on a lot of speculative stuff. Venture capital is the art of investing in failures 999 times out of 1000. And personally I'd rather have tens of billions spent on speculative theory research than on, say, Meta's VR boondoggle.
I'd distinguish between monetary system and economic system. An amazing page is wtf happened in 1971. [1] The event it's alluding to is the end of the Bretton Woods System [2]. 1971 is effectively the day that the USD became completely unbacked by anything whatsoever, enabling unrestrained "printing" of money.

It's quite difficult for a free market of any sort to function when you have a government that becomes capable of arbitrarily distributing effectively unlimited funds at their discretion. This is even more true when that "discretion" is often whimsical and self destructive. So you look at the various graphs seeing things like skyrocketing wealth inequality, inflation, government debt, and more - and all one can think is, "Gee, who'd of thunk?"

In any case, it's important to appreciate that our current monetary system only began about 50 years ago.

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Its going to be fascinating how the preference for WFH affects the job market. I'd imagine on-location jobs to get paid more as supply dries up and everyone wants to work from home. Teachers/nurses/chefs were underpaid before, little wonder there is a shortage now, I expect they need much higher wages.
and yet another one (thanks to Erik):
https://github.com/tlk/go-wat/blob/41cc21294a953dc7ad07a9b40...
I’ve heard it called the Hotel California pattern.
Tell HN: Fake websites are gaming Google's system
We know Google search has been going downhill for some time. While LLMs may or may not ultimately be the cause of Google's demise, I was quite surprised to see how easy it is for a fake website to be ranked well on Google.

Recently I Googled "chatgpt" and the second link[1] caught my attention. It points to a website named "chat-gpt[.]org" containing some generic SEO fluff and a button button to try the faux ChatGPT. Ironically, said filler also appears to be written by ChatGPT itself, given the excessive moralizing about "as an AI language model..."

Given that websites masquerading as the real ChatGPT only to deliver malware are common[2][3], I did not explore the website further. However, I was curious about how they managed to get ranked as the 2nd result on Google, and I looked at Ahrefs backlink database and they spammed a bunch of websites and forums[4][5] with links.

So there you have it. While Google claims they've moved on from PageRank and that they penalize spamming rings and inorganic backlinks, I'm seeing an easily game-able system so long as you can spam links on many websites and piggyback off of a popular term. In fact, there are tools that help you spam tons of websites (I'm not sure if I can mention them here so I'll just leave them out) and maybe that strategy has always worked.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/JpOSrjU.png

[2] https://therecord.media/chatgpt-phishing-fake-websites-hackers-malware

[3] https://blog.cyble.com/2023/02/22/the-growing-threat-of-chatgpt-based-phishing-attacks/

[4] https://i.imgur.com/TRZmSpj.png

[5] https://i.imgur.com/aSVnop6.png
If it can't be taught, then the same must be true of many other professions. You need to have a drive for it, sure. And in some sense, quality is more subjective than in other fields. But just because it's more subjective doesn't mean it's entirely subjective - there's a baseline level of knowledge that you really need to know, and that can be taught.
For prosperity:

https://github.com/lawkwok101/weigh-my-luggage-js
> Did you even read your own citation?

-1, violates hn discussion guidelines.

I did. AWS is being anti-competitive, this isn't a board game with narrow definitions.

EU Monopolist or Chicago School Monopolist?

I won't respond.
You’re right. It’s not a guarantee. But it’s a situation where it’s served to you on a platter. If you’re not capable of receiving it on a platter, it’s doubtful you’ll get it on your own.

Not everyone is capable of getting it in either scenario - as such as I said I’m glad more vocational opportunities are becoming in vogue again. Let’s just hope these vocations last another 20-30 years.
What worries me is that I know there's some VP at Microsoft right now trying to figure out how to convey the Windows/Edge crapware/adshit/tracking bloat experience to Github. One day it will happen.
I feel like many of the same principles from V8 (the engine for Chrome/Node.js) hidden classes would apply here. It's not just that you're interning keys; you're actually creating a set of optimized data classes that are transitioned to when you encounter a key that wasn't seen before. In such a mode, you're not even storing the keys, just a pointer to the type information tree. Only when you have a sub-object whose keys are truly unpredictable do you go into "dictionary mode (aka 'slow mode')" - which I think says it all!

https://v8.dev/docs/hidden-classes
Since this is presented as a YouTube video, AKA the least-efficient mode of conveying information that human beings have ever devised, here is the TL;DR so others don’t have to read:

A massive coronal mass ejection left the sun a couple of days ago, but the majority of the ejection went in the opposite direction from where the Earth is now. It crossed Earth’s orbit about 20 hours after it left the sun. A small fraction of it reached us anyway, and has been causing auroras for a few days. I would like to tell you more about what would have happened to us if it had hit square-on but I can’t be bothered to read deeper into that awful transcript.
I can tell you that many monitoring wells are rarely tested before they're "operational".

Typically they're just installed according to a site model and assumed to function like that.

Happened to koch along the Mississippi where they assured regulators for a decade that you'd never see their contamination. Eventually someone was sampling along the Mississippi and there it was.
Use of Chinese ammunition by Russia confirmed in Ukraine
It'd be cool to have a system like chatgpt (maybe converted to audio) that you could use to practice conversations in a different language.
You're just gatekeeping. You have tautologically defined "sensible" to be the same as your personal preferences.
I don't think any of the code that Apple ships with macOS is GPL though? That's the reason why they stopped shipping bash, if I'm not wrong?

edit: ah it seems that they support GPLv2 but not GPLv3, that's what happened. And they still ship bash, just the old GPLv2 version.
I know a bunch of kids in high school so are killing themselves trying to get into the top seletive colleges. Its nuts - the worst thing is if you get in those schools are now filled with the same people who spent their childhood jumping through college admission hoops. Where do smart normal kids go now? My employer used to hire from Ivy League schools exclusively but thanks to zoom we can cast a much wider net.
Talk about a low effort post, many of the numbers used to support the narrative didn’t keep up with inflation.

I can’t tell if this post was by the mathematically innumerate or just crafted for the innumerate. For example: “$238 billion, according to a recent Oxfam report, and their wealth increased by $8.8 billion between 2020 and 2022” 208 Billion in 2020 is worth ~238 billion in 2022, so they effectively down ~20 billion. Exact numbers depend on when in 2020 and 2022 their wealth was calculated, but it’s very clear they lost wealth.

Some of these numbers do support their argument but many directly contradict it.
Everyone says that it teaches you how to think but I’ve never heard of a good reason why. I remember difficult classes but I don’t remember any special sauce that made me think differently than I did in high school. I’m not saying that I don’t believe that it teaches you this, I just have never heard more reasoning than the surface statement. Does anyone have any examples or theories of this?
Silicon Valley Bank was warned by BlackRock that risk controls were weak
> Everything you sort of imagine Apple would be to work at was true on that team, and has never actually been the case at Apple.

I'm glad to hear your Microsoft experience was amazing. But as someone who worked at Apple during that time, this assertion is untrue and seems unnecessarily mean-spirited.
Subtropolis: The Underground Industrial Park in Kansas City's Caves (2014)
Post inspired by the great comments about St. Louis MO's underground cave system on this thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164819
When I first moved Chicago, I found it weird to run into natives that considered tavern style pizza as also Chicago’s style. In Iowa we just generally consider that the Midwest style pizza but that’s definitely the style preferred by locals for many decades.

Chicago is the Big Apple of the Midwest so I guess they think everything originated from there. But I’m pretty sure tavern style either came from back east, or where I’m from along the Mississippi River.
> Midwestern emigrants (who didn't think they were good enough for NY, and didn't think they were good looking enough for California, so ended up in the second city.)

Or because it's close to home and way more affordable? Also, while winter sucks, I'll take a Chicago summer over both those places every single year.

I grew up here as well. No one thinks deep dish immediately when talking about getting pizza. It feels more like a once or twice a year delicacy than anyone's go-to pizza.
It seems to me that pretty much anything has better ROI then 10-20 minutes of pure rote memorization a day. Plus, keeping in 10-20 minutes a day requires separate skill on itself. Anki has a way of taking over and expanding the time it requires.
This pessimistic view doesn’t seem that well supported by the data. In the US, we’re pushing nearly 40% of bachelor’s degree attainment, which is far broader a population than you suggest. There’s also the problem that degree holders earn an average of 2x more than non-degree holders. I was very surprised by this! The St. Louis Fed published this statistic in an article arguing that the wealth advantage of college was waning, but it kinda backfired on me when I looked at their absolute numbers. The fact that many many many good jobs require a degree and that earnings are statistically higher for people with degrees, I speculate, is driving college rates far more than all three reasons you proposed, combined… from a students’ perspective.
> A lot of what the general public gets isn't deep thought. It's being told what to think. A lot of the what to think is ideas based on assumptions and beliefs. Are people better off for learning them?

Yes because what it would be replaced with is even worse and likely instantly falls apart under a modicum of critical thinking.
The article cites lots of specific numbers that are well in excess of the 10% inflation we've seen. It also cites increasing margins.
<< But I wouldn’t dismiss its value in being taught how to think.

I agree.

I had my best critical thinking class in community college. If I was innately smart, I probably would not have needed it as badly, but that one class gave me a lot of foundation and some credence to 'education' being useful. In other words, I am not smart, but I am educated. Overall, I think society benefits from that.

But that was 2 year community college after which I transferred ( and later got an MBA ).
I'm trying to find a way to say this that isn't too negative, but do you really think you're that much smarter than everyone that's been involved in SETI over the decades? That everyone that's worked on it was incapable of doing the "simple envelope estimation" that you've done? You have such a level of hubris that you can just write off the whole idea, assuming that everyone involved with it have no idea what they're doing?
We used to cornmeal lightly but then discovered parchment paper. It's super easy to slide off with a spatula underneath.

When you par-bake, how long does it take you to then add the ingredients? Do you have to rush? Or is it better to take a few minutes, so the oven can re-heat itself?
I think the real concern is that the fed has backed itself into a corner. Banks will face liquidity crunch due to rise in interest rates which will require fed to step in to guarantee depositors, which it basically can only do by printing money (or some flavor of printing money). At the same time the fed won’t back down from continuing to raise rates to stem the tide from growing inflation (can’t cut the stimulus checks without them being cashed), which will only put further pressure on banks. The fed may have to pull some other lever (say reserve ratios to enforce banks to maintain liquidity). However this will wipe out bank valuations and raise the cost of debt which may end up putting further deflationary pressure on economy. I mean again it may be more complex (not in finance) but the situation looks dire.
Once upon a time if you wanted to study you went to the library. All the smart people were hanging out around libraries and Universities started to appear. Universities had classes and libraries.

Now we have the internet. How does this affect the value of a University education?
GCP doesn’t run knative on top of k8s. They implemented the API on top of their own multi-tenant virtualization software.
I made a lot of great memories, but I also would have made a lot of great memories in a different environment that didn't saddle me with a ton of debt. I do believe that having an extended period of time away from the "real world", where you can learn and figure things out, is useful. But (a) I don't think it's only applicable to young people, and (b) with just a little ingenuity you could replicate those same conditions for faarrrr cheaper.
I did find one good reason to buy a Windows computer: A few years ago a Dell XPS with Windows was cheaper at Costco than buying direct from Dell with Linux preinstalled.

I wiped the disk and installed Ubuntu.
I use the oven method with a pizza steel exclusively but the recent spike in natural gas costs in SoCal had me cut back considerably on making pizzas. I was looking into alternatives like the Ooni and the Breville countertop pizza oven, but the reviews on the Breville aren’t inspiring. Kenji’s multi-day method for making his thin crusts seems absurd but after testing same-day and “cured” crusts, it’s worth it.
Is tungsten really brittle, or are you actually referring to tungsten carbide? I often see people mixing those up.
you may wish to visit Noisebridge someday