skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it interesting that the biggest mitigating tool is "loosening the labour market", which is thinly veiled code for "make people unemployed so we can pay them less", despite the fact that corporate profiteering and not wages are behind most of the recent inflation:

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...

Maybe claw back the money supply from corporations instead of the labour market. If instead of having only one tool, they also had this complementary tool, maybe we'd see better policies.
Yeah, should have re-checked, I mean trustful. Now it's too late.

I meant exactly what you said, society itself requires a high degree of trust. The digital world will require it as well
Is it? I’d say a lot of stuff around a century or two ago was far worse than what we’re going through.
Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone as planned
See this is exactly what I'm talking about.

- "I want affordable housing!"

- "Hm, ok, how about we build new houses in the places people want to live, increasing supply to meet demand"

- "NOT LIKE THAT"

It's just like the "no take only throw" dog meme.

If you don't want to live next to other people, buy the land around you. If you can't afford the land around you, move further away. There's no reason your tastes should dictate what I can do with my property. I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
I'd recommend the books by Galbraith -- Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, The Great Crash 1929, and A Short History of Financial Euphoria.

That is some pretty timeless background.
For what it's worth, large providers will always need datacenters. But perhaps datacenters run by public cloud providers today will be sold off to larger businesses running their own infrastructure someday at a discount. Most of the infrastructure itself all will age out in five or ten years, and would've been replaced either way.

Heck, datacenters in Virginia are likely to end up being sold directly to the federal government.
> Shell scripts make starting processes trivial, but it's almost unthinkable that, say, bash, would integrate functionality for starting containers, so that every process is started in a container.

Doooooooo it
In an ideal world but this one isn’t and even if it were the purpose of life is living not keeping up with a endless rat race of employability in a world that doesn’t know when to slow down.

Leaving people behind is problematic because not everyone can keep up or has the time and means to do so. Should a single mother be expected to put in hours every week learning some crap on top of working and raising kids or can that person just breathe and deal with their other problems? Full time house parent that loses a spouse and has to start working. Someone in a low income house that can’t afford professional courses/books or even has access to a computer.

You ever see those commercials about kids that can’t focus on school because they’re hungry? Yeah it’s not just them. When people are deprived of life essentials or dealing with personal problems studying is the last thing on their minds.

Here we have people in tech burning themselves out and we want to export that mentality to everywhere else instead of seeing it as a problem.
This is indeed a vastly underappreciated point.

One issue here is the resulting fragility of the economy. If crucial nodes of competence were to be wiped out by disaster, domino effects could have system-level implications as recovery might take too long.

On a more personal level, people more and more lack the competence to understand non-local connections of the world they live in. Resulting in them not being able to judge consequences and making according mistakes.
Then you do a road-trip in Italy and get served what would be a Michelin-starred Italian meal back in the US, at some random dingy truck stop, complete with wait staff and white tablecloths.

I haven't road-tripped in other parts of Europe, but Italy easily trounces the Americans in this department...
Imagine if there was one. In the scenario where there was a bank run on anybody, this hypothetical bank would be more reliable than the government itself and would end up storing all the money available and bankrupts literally everybody else.

Such an outcome is undesirable, so this type of bank isn't allowed.

If you meant a bank that is guarenteed to recover money up to a certain amount, standard FDIC protections have you covered.
Weather is an entire category of apps on the App Store. You can develop any weather app you like.
>> Sure it does. It tells you exactly how its not done on the other!

I agree. We sure have learned a lot about how our mind doesn't work, with recent AI results. But that's a very long way to get to how it does work.

Still, I do think it's interesting how every once in a while we figure out that it doesn't quite take a human mind to do X, but then we also learn that human minds do something else than X, after all. So we do learn something.

I once commented to Ivan Bratko, great dean of Prolog programming for AI, that maybe humans are not that good at chess, after all, seeing how a dumb machine can beat us. He's done plenty of work on computer chess and is an inveterate chess player, so he really didn't like my comment.

>> True, but lets not imply that we are true all-domain generalists (...)

Yan Lecun has said something like that. I don't remember where I saw this, it might have been a Lex Fridman podcast. Anyway he pointed out hat if you could somehow take out someone's visual system, like all their neurons involved in vision, cut it up and stitched it back up in some random new way, there's no way that person would still be able to understand what they were looking at.

I don't disagree, but then, we don't just look at the world with our vision, or our senses in general. One absolutely mad thing we do is that we come up with formal systems that abstract the model concepts we can't directly experience, like, say, multi-dimensional spaces. Or, really, all of maths. Those formal systems become interpretations that our mind can then access, and manipulate. So we are not restricted in generality to "this world with Newtonian physics". We may have an "ad hoc hodge podge of specialised algorithms", because that sounds useful and efficient; but it seems to me we have something else, beyond that, and that's what lets us hope we can one day rebuild our mind up from scratch, on a different substrate, in the first place. Because if a bunch of heuristics were all we really are, I don't think we could hope to ever create artificial-us. Because were would the heuristic for that come from? Not evolution, surely.

>> alright you mostly circled back to things I agree with. It sure was a circuitous garden path.

Yeah, like when the horse raced passed the barn fell. I sure do like to go on :P
Seems logical enough to me.

It has, at least in my part of the country, been the most mild winter in my memory. We hit the 70s the majority of the days in February, with overnight lows in the 50s. I'm in North Carolina, not Florida! We're supposed to have mild winters, but this year, other than that one weekend where much of the south saw negative temperatures... it's like we skipped right from fall to spring. I've barely even worn long pants.

Nice weather leads to more travel, outdoor activity, more shopping, more going to restaurants. If it's cold and rainy, you stay home more.
Since .NET Fx 4.7 or 4.8 libraries consumed via NuGet are "assumed" .NET Standard 2.0 unless proven otherwise for maximal compatibility with old code.
> [...] what if one simply does not want to see these graphics? CS:GO doesn't even have an setting to disable them [...]

Yes it does.

1. Open up your console by pressing the ` key

2. Type in the following command: `cl_blood 1`

3. Press enter
It pains me that even on hacker news (a more sophisticated discussion destination than most) most people who are replying didn't read the body of the message and just saw "are there banks/crypto cos immune to bank run" and just blurted out their usual response "no central bank to bail anyone out" or "banks earn money by investing / crypto has no FDIC".

OP is explicitly asking what if banks (tradfi) or crypto cos held assets 1:1 and charged fees as operations rather than invest funds. The question isn't so much around tradfi vs crypto but inclusive of both, that can a bank business sustain this way or not.

I don't have answers but I have a feeling a bank/crypto bank like this would attract far fewer regular customers to be able to sustain running it, like a couple of replies said.
Ask HN: YouTube History Broken?
I can never find a video I just saw in the history. The problem becomes worse when viewing videos on one device and then checking the history on another device. Has anyone else noticed this?
Which market? The stock market? No. The bond market? To a degree.

Markets are still digesting the news that there will be no rate cuts this year barring a catastrophe.

Stocks remain highly overvalued. Equity risk premium is in the gutter(https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/equity-risk-premium-low-...). There is little upside to stocks vs bonds right now. Stock valuations still aren't reflecting earnings revisions likely later this year as the economy cools. We've been riding on the savings built up during covid but that's starting to run dry. Personally, I'm almost 100% in T-bills with some long dated puts on the major indexes to hedge my unvested stock based compensation.
Yea, I doubt they're moving prices much, but if people are using "offers recieved" as a metric...
damn. the genius of Buffet show again. he dumped all his money into the one company not buying the "open"ai meme.
Interesting take this is something to think about thank you.
Two wrong systems can help determine if your answer is wrong if they don’t agree. That’s pretty useful, even if neither is actually correct.
When it comes to tokenization, yeah, it does differentiate. But its training set is certain to have many examples of different capitalizations and misspellings, so it can understand them, too. Which is usually what you want...

GPT-4 really takes this to eleven. For example, it can correctly parse and process this request: "Tll m shrt str bt ncrns; 10 sntncs. Wrt t l vwls prprl."
It's more ruthless than the industrial revolution? Are you surfing HN from a workhouse?
Pixel Chat – ChatGPT for Image Editing
Mono is almost entirely merged in .NET 8. Very few parts of "mono" exist now as a separate runtime.
Ask HN: What's the best TTS engine you've heard?
I'm tinkering with a podcast in my spare time, Odyssey's Place, and am generating every episode with ChatGPT4, ElevenLabs for TTS and Midjourney4 for artwork. I'm pleased with all models but am wondering if you've heard TTS engines better than ElevenLabs? Google's Tacotron sounds amazing but isn't readily available as an API. Any kind of input would be helpful. For reference here are some audio samples: https://odysseysplace.com

Thanks in advance!
Predictable? An index fund does not give predictable returns.
Ministers delay plan to lift UK state pension age to 68 as life expectancy falls
There used to be a low violence mode where players didn't die, they surrendered.
> MMT says that taxes should rise when inflation is up

Keynes said that. In theory, fiscal policy alone can keep an economy balanced. In practice, you need an independent central bank.

MMT's novel assertion is that government debt is a monetary, not fiscal, exertion. (It also asserts raising rates is stimulative, et cetera.) It's broadly criticized and empirically unsubstantiated.
While impressive, I'm not too blown away by this. I expect it to solve basic CompSci questions with relative ease since there is a lot of training material for it.

However, this has the potential to change exams drastically as we have seen in other stories with GPT4 as well (I believe it passed the bar exam).
> People can claim otherwise and it may be true for a small percentage of people but if you have less than 3 years of real professional experience, 100% remote is a bad idea.

So, if I have 15 years of experience can I work from home? Hum. All the juniors in the office, all the seniors at home. That's it? Or just because some engineers do not know how to work remotely, then I too should be dragged to the office?

Nonsense.
> Soon it's going to get real, and we'll end up in Cube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(1997_film)). No one was having fun in that cyberpunk future.

I disagree. We always see cyberpunk dystopia stories from the lowly peasant consumer side, but I bet the people actively building the technology behind the dystopia are having fun. I know I would.
Exactly. Fed was boxed in. 0bps and it would have sent a signal that things were more serious than currently accepted. 50bps and the market would have panicked. 25bps was widely anticipated and doesn't rock the boat, even if it fails to seriously combat inflation.
The entire point is that this is the UPPER limit of someone who is not in the capital class - I've seen people with 10M consume it all because their greed takes over and they never make it to the promised land of "generational wealth" again just more example.

"The Rich" aka "petit-bougeoise" aka the "wannabe capital class" aka the "fuck-you-money" is precisely what I'm describing as the problem

You're simply telling me that you want to be in that class
You guessed.. poorly. I buy shit - piracy represents a service problem most typically, and in many cases does not in any way represent a lost sale.

The obvious conclusion is that I'm not tricked into thinking that some one is somehow deprived just because you bought into the 'piracy' propaganda. Side note to consider; why is it called piracy? Would many of the arguments offered by people trying to maintain their dragons horde of IP and the monies from that IP be weakened if we called it what it was - downloading a copy?

Most people are like this - they will gladly buy the things they enjoy when they can afford to. The scale gets tipped when the cracked version works better than the official version, or when some one lacks the disposable income. Its just really hard to demonstrate harm here because there is no harm.
I managed to attend a few book-signings of great authors (Salman Rushdie, Richard Dawkins, and, long ago, Beverly Cleary), but would kill for this Yourdon-Constantine one, as well as the story behind it.

I actually worked for a CASE vendor that started by building tools to apply Yourdon et al.'s Structured Analysis and Structured Design to important systems, in mil/aerospace/datacom. (I was lucky to be the teen mascot on our full-lifecycle evolution of those tools, in the Portland division, and then on an R&D team at HQ for next-gen OO CASE.)

Yourdon also collaborated with Peter Coad on a pair of books for OO development.

To this day, I still find Yourdon et al.'s DFDs (from Structured Analysis) to be one of the first and most powerful tools for eliciting process/system understanding, from business people and techies alike, even if they've never seen it. Put loosely, it seems half of all business/org problems lately could be solved by leading people through a DFD exercise.
I thought it was a "combinatorial explosion?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion#Commun...
Ally might wind up being in trouble like SVB, they're underwater significantly on mark-to-market as well:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-banks-that-are-sitting-...
Transitioning Away from Google Services
It was prosperous because of (IMHO):

* Political stability: As we are re-learning, that is necessary for everything.

* Economic stability

* Large productivity improvements due to the IT revolution

The bubble was only one small part of it for one sector of the economy, afaik. When it popped, we didn't reset to 1992; most or even all of the gains remained (was there even a quarter of negative GDP?).
The challenge is not people's inability to learn new skills but employers unwillingness to accept the risk of hiring mid-life new-learners.
Why do you believe the difference is due to quantization rather than all the fine-tuning that they did? Given the difference between GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 - pretty much all of which is fine-tuning and RLHF - I find it much easier to believe in the latter.
Site is unreadable on mobile
Still most of the time, the suggestions are not helpful, and it takes time to look at the suggestion and dismiss it. So I'm usually torn between is this useful or distracting. Curiosity keeps it around, but I keep getting closer to dropping it as the novelty wears.
I’d be interested in proof of me fishing for sympathy here. Does stating a situation count as fishing? I’ve made no requests for help beyond info around the situation. Sometimes people are human and need to ask more experienced people how they handled things

Instead, I get spam from a throwaway with an equally abusive comment history.
As of .NET 8 most of what "mono" was has merged directly into one cross-platform .NET runtime. There's very little "mono" left, and most of it is on the path to disappearing/further merging, including the parts of mono that Unity uses.
You can read pins (well one) with sub-microsecond latency using the Fast Interrupt Request, but I have not tried this myself. I think a PI would be more than capable of matching most microcontrollers just due to its very fast clock speed. Add multiple cores with the PI4 and you get a crazy amount of compute between each pulse as well.

There are a bunch of clocks that run plenty fast to enable high resolution timing as well.
> in the most true general sense wage-earners are earning less of a % than before

Yes. The fraction of GDP paid out to labour has fallen. This is a problem. But it's a problem of dividing gains, not of anyone being materially worse off than they were before.

> what’s the story with purchasing power which seems to be way down

It's not. It's flat to slightly up over the last half century. That's what real wage measures: the real purchasing power of the median earner's wage.
I don't even use the word Rich in my post. That is precisely the point.

"The Rich" is not a fixed amount of wealth, it's simply the class striving to NOT BE LABOR

"have enough money to quit working" is the desire to be a landlord, making money with no work input. That's the class I am describing as the problem.
"It pains me that even on hacker news (a more sophisticated discussion destination than most)"

Sophisticated is a weird way to spell pompous.
C&T wasn't really performance-oriented either; and as far as I know, they were 2D-only. The i740's non-3D parts have a lot of similarity to C&T's latest accelerators.
If its any consolation, I was having a beer with my law professor buddy the other night, and it seems that universities and lawyers are freaking out about chatGPT much more than us programmers.
Check the Microsoft tts voices. They have them as an api service.
There are certainly plenty of people with learning disabilities, etc. Yes, most of us will have to adapt throughout our life, but not everyone is as fortunate (possibly not the right word).
You don't need mmt understand why taxes should rise.
You're just describing supply and demand. You've provided two hypotheticals that I've never seen borne out in reality.

Rich people generally want to pay the least amount of money for lawn service like everyone else. Can you point to actual real life examples where something like lawn care became unaffordable due to rich transplants?

There are 'rich' boutique services everywhere. You haven't established how selling a $15 sandwich somehow makes running a cheap burger joint untenable.
Would love to see a more in-depth article on BVH construction itself! I'm decently familiar with the main concepts but have no clue what the current SOTA looks like (is that even public info?).

BVH construction is my favorite question to ask in interviews because there's no single best solution and it mostly relies on mathy heuristics to get a decent tree. You can also always devote more time to making a more optimal tree but there's a tradeoff where it'll eventually take more time than it saves in raytracing.
With that attitude, we'll never get rids of humans!
Hi there - the data never moves if you train a model using federated learning. It stays on user devices or in organizational silos. After the training, you have the model parameters of the model on the server, without the server having ever seen a single data example.

After the training, you can deploy the model in different ways. If you want to use it on device (or in one of the organizational silos), you can send the final model parameters there and deploy it locally. Or you just deploy the model on the server behind an API. It all depends on the use case.

Hope that helps, I'm happy to provide more details.
Overwatch also has sub-frame/tick aiming that's based on your mouse's polling rate [1].

[1] https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/new-feature-%E...
The 1972 tour is widely known, but if you worked at Xerox in the early days you should know that they are good at taking credit and minimizing the work of others who came before them. It goes with the egos which were too large to fit in hyperspace. P.S. who are you? we should talk.
What is the longest possible game of chess?
First, it's self-evident that no one controls inflation, so I'll assume you're talking about the rest.

Rate rises are being justified to "loosen the labour market" aka drive unemployment higher, and to suppress wages. Except labour costs are NOT the main driver of recent inflation:

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...

So if employment and high wages aren't driving inflation, then suppressing them will only eventually, indirectly drive down demand to the point where corporations can no longer justify their profiteering.
Exactly, you could write formulas like that in Python but you would need to spell out the exact execution order, which is "one more thing you have to worry about" that divides professional programmers from everyone else.

At an introductory level it doesn't seem like much but there is a certain point in complexity where it becomes a major burden, particularly when it comes to composing complex systems out of multiple parts.

That's how frameworks like Guava and Spring banished the Factory, FactoryFactory, FactoryFactoryFactory, FactoryFactoryFactoryFactory, ... pattern in Java by creating a MetaFactory that sees the relationships between all the parts as a whole and resolves all of the things that would seem circular if you didn't carefully tease them apart manually. Things of this type, however, have a remarkable ability of "slipping people's minds" and you still hear people complaining about the Factoryⁿ problem in Java which is so 1998.
Pretty happy with merrysky.net.
I have to act on opportunity indeed.
It makes a kind of intuitive sense. If a certain % of human interactions are crime, and you create circumstances where there are more interactions (packed night club, large convention, dense city, etc), you could expect more of all kinds of interactions including crime. Whether that's how it works in reality is another question.
I agree that MS is executing well, but why would Google be afraid?

There's no AI moat keeping anyone from replicating what MS is doing. They can train on everything on GitHub just like MS can.

If anything, this is where they should both be afraid because an upstart with a browser extension could replace them.
> You can consider that not everyone has the same preferences as you. Many people are more productive and happier working from an office and meeting their colleauges in person.

You mean, that to each their own right? I agree, but RTO is the opposite. RTO forces everyone to work from the office.

If you prefer to work from the office, go ahead be my guest. I prefer to work from home. It's a win-win, right?
No. Just because you like to work from the office, I too must go to the office so that you are happy.
I don't force you to work from the office or your home or wherever you want.