skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shame that Microsoft haven't given Linux Office 365, because Microsoft ♥ Linux. Right?

For my basic needs, I've found that the office web apps actually work much better than the classic ones. Outlook, in particular, is much snappier. I use it daily on Firefox on Linux for work, since they're married to MS.
Ask HN: How much money is there in the world?
I have spent hours trying to figure out the answer online. As far as I can tell, the number is >$50T and <$200T, but am having trouble finding a good estimate.

Does anyone know how to find the (approximate) answer to this?
i'm reminded of theo deraadt's answer when asked in a /. ama about firewall on a floppy.

> I must say that I am not a fan of these floppy-based routers. Essentially, you are taking one of the most unreliable pieces of storage known to man, and trying to build security infrastructure on it. That's madness.

dns is not the foundation upon which you want to build your secure infrastructure.
More to this.

Stress drives cortisol drives obesity. This is a well established pathway, at least for some people with increased glucocorticoid sensitivity.
As an engineer, I mean it kind of comes down to competition doesn’t it? If entity A is able to get something done 5x faster than entity B and just as well, wouldn’t you choose entity B in the future? Sure entity A might have been acceptable but at a certain point, who’s more likely to get a contract, a promotion, a raise, a pay cut, or laid off? This stuff matters, it’s how the world works, it’s no secret. Generally, pay cuts and layoffs are reserved for when the company is suffering but really what is happening the tolerance for slack is dropping, and productivity will absolutely play into that.
https://archive.is/KZC1d
The garbage starting prose/warnings are so annoying. I wish I could turn them off somehow. Even it's habit of restating the question at the start of its answer gets annoying when you just want the answer.
The problem with that is that one is "smarter" than the other and getting the "dumb" one to jailbreak the "smart" one is much harder, than vice versa.
Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance
> That doesn't give anyone the right to change someone else's writings without their approval.

You keep saying this, but it's not a realistic view of how publishing has ever worked. Entire books get posthumously published based on a few scenes or character sketches or even mutually contradictory drafts.

> They don't need to be pampered

Right, so this is just moralizing about what you assume readers need, not some real full-throated defense of authorial moral rights.
I’ve tried moving to Linux but the simple task of using my laptop closed with a second screen was impossible so I went back to Windows 10. I will give Linux a try next year again…or but a Macbook
From wikipedia:

Jacob *Z*iv (Hebrew: 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023)
was an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham
*L*empel, developed the *LZ* family of lossless data compression
algorithms.
And taking a screenshot with Netflix opened produces a black rectangle.
~$60 / person. You can be certain the banks will pass on the "special assessment" in a way that won't be regressive against the common person. Certain.
Is it possible for FDIC to bankrupt with enough number of banks failing?

Where that $250k insurance money come from really?

If it is all Fed printed first then I understand assets are auctioned later to suck that printed money out of the market, sell and burn cash, right?
If you want to limit the use of social media by minors using legislation, the only effective means these days is with some form of credit card requirement, or state issued ID. Either of these are a cost and risk to utilize. The net effect will be a poor tax which centralizes power among those who can afford pay the tax.

I myself don't have extra money to give Twitter, for example... and thus its utility for me is going to take a huge hit as the new rules take effect.

Social media isn't bad... social media moderated by AI to maximize engagement (and thus profit) is downright evil.
Asking large depositors to split their deposit amongst multiple banks is unreasonable

Asking them to insure their own funds is a reasonable thing to do though
>when does one ever come across a constant jerk?

Read the news lately?
The right way to think about this is that right now, "health insurance" is a subscription service to Healthcare, and is treated like one.

The problem is that due to highly variable costs between people, everyone has to play games to try to sucker everyone else into paying their fair share, because if they don't, they don't get paid at all.

Reworking health insurance to be insurance would fix this. HSAs are a step towards this, but not enough of a step to start seeing consumers actually change behavior based on price.
Similar vibes:

"The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the need to reduce all communication to written statements that can be typed" - Sutherland
Who elected those guys anyway? I sure never had the chance to vote for any of them.

I'd be more fine with that if they only regulated narrowly defined inter-state issues in the EU.

But stuff like this... There's no mandate. And there's no reason this couldn't be done locally in every member state where the population wants that.
How many relatives did you have in a nursing home? People being forced to live there because they typically can't live at home any more, are deprived of social contact. Staff has only minutes to do the most necessary things and rush on to the next. Full automation would be hell. People are social, even if they often don't admit it. Have you ever seen the eyes of an old person getting a gentle back rub and a little conversation? Don't try to take that away.
> “The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”

I think Douglas Adams was closer to the truth on the subject of AIs and tea. I don't want to be overly cynical but I suspect we'll just get used to saying "OK, close enough" when dealing with LLMs.
This sums up my experience as well, giving mostly accurate estimates maybe comes naturally for some of us. I’ve been doing this for a long time though and I think that plays into it. It takes a lot of intuition that really just comes from experience but it does require a knack to some extent.

I didn’t think I was an outlier here but the more I read these comments the more it seems like we are.
Are you a software engineer? What union(s) and what do they do for you?
I asked ChatGPT what it would respond and it produces something very similar, down to the same sentences, to the comment above. So this definitely looks like a ChatGPT response.
Yes.

It will be painful for some folks to transition to doing something else for sure.

I know you are just using random numbers but 10 million people die per year.

The benefit would outweigh the cost.
With the same stuff as on the countries that are quite heavy on offshoring project deliveries.

Project management, architects, business Analysts, on-premises devops/infrastructure.
In our services I implemented a per request query counter that gently warns you if you exceed a max query count. Use case: identifying when it might make sense to use DataLoader. Note: doing this isn’t always worth it.
Well, yeah. It's less of a hassle to run games on Windows. Also, in my case, photoshop and Lightroom.

So, as another poster said, my solution is to have two pcs. A laptop with Linux I use basically all the time, and a desktop with an actual GPU for when I want to play or mess around with my photography.

This arrangement works well enough, since for my everyday needs the iGPU is more than enough, and I would rather not lug around a 10-pound brick with a dedicated GPU. And, in my particular situation, it's actually cheaper since my desktop is a hand-me-down from work which only required a new GPU, which at the time was beefier and cheaper than what I could have had in a laptop.
Not sure why you'd get downvoted for this comment. This is likely very applicable for many orgs that have operator workstation standards -- they're some kind of window/osx/linux box with a defined/enforced endpoint protection measures, and they all have a browser. Any device I can imagine ssh'ing from that doesn't have a browser is definitely out of policy.
They can run out of funds but the taxpayer will bailout the FDIC. The FDIC has a pool of money that comes from fees they charge the banks. Currently I believe there is around 100 Billion left.
Try asking chatgpt to solve a non-well-known programming exercise. It will fail miserably and insist on rehashing the same wrong solution when told that it was wrong.

A real person might give up, but would not claim that an obviously wrong answer was in fact the answer.
What is the issue with income inequality? Even in communism, there is income disparity because those in power have greater needs.
Looks like after about thirty years, we've come full circle and returned to POV-Ray. ;P
> Continuing to use SSH is literally just being obsessed with a backwards old protocol for nostalgia reasons.

Honest question:

Client authorization (for private repos) is an important feature of SSH.

How does this work with HTTPS?

EDIT: I just remembered the existence of TLS client certificate authentication. I wonder if it's possible to use an SSH client key for this (making the server accept a self-signed client certificate from the list of keys in authorized_keys).
"abstract century" is a terrible order ID. It doesn't look like an order ID, which can be confusing and will require more training. It's two English words, which might be difficult for non-English speakers (Uber Eats is an international service, and the restaurant staff and the courier might not share a common language). Also, what if the random two words end up being "include cutlery"?

A better set of characters and ensuring that two order numbers in the same restaurant are very different would be a much better solution.
The only memory an instance of any of the ChatGPT models has is the prompt. The progression of a conversation is adding the past interactions to the prompt. There is nothing to save to. You can do an add-on (say, on the same layer that provides interaction with the user and saving that interaction to the prompt) a facility that does save and retrieval of information on some responses from the LLM rather than sending them to the user, and either train or prompt the LLM to use them, but the recall takes prompt space, since that’s the only place it can be retrieved to for the LLM to use it.

You could compress this with summarization, but eventually your chat history, even with compression, fills up the context space and you don’t have room for new user interaction and responses.
This is a great example of "code tunnel vision". I see it in a lot of developers. They see a problem in the real world and they think "this could be fixed with this snippet of code". Ignoring all the incredibly complex context of running large scale services in the real world: organizational issues, politics, infrastructure, operations, maintainability, etc etc.

"It's so fixable! Here are 150 lines of code that solve the problem! How come it exists?"

If only everything could be fixed by a pull request.
Interesting that it has a name, to make "Door in the face" akin to the opposite "Foot in the door".

It is discussed by Charlie Munger as part of what he calls the "reciprocation tendency", after the studies from Robert Cialdini in the practice of "«ask for a lot and back off»".
Climate has been changing since the planet exists and you benefit from everything that a modern society has to offer. Better if you become the example of change in society and go live inside a cave to reduce your own carbon footprint.
Writing a Profiler in 240 lines of pure Java
I'm sorry this doesn't work for you. It has worked fine for me for years.
And "gif".
There is because people couldn't get access to their money while they were sorting it out.
Zig Quirks
> rust community seems to live on the bleeding edge and always needs to have a ‘nightly’ build to do anything interesting

You have an example of a project that needs nightly to build? I’m sure some exist, but nearly all libraries and projects live on the latest stable release.
All my audio problems (including this) were fixed by switching to pipewire
It's impossible to play esports competitively if you aren't in a good physical and mental state. You can try but you will be playing way below your peak, to the point that it stops being enjoyable.
If banks are failing at that rate it means that the national banking system has collapsed, and the FDIC is irrelevant.
> They aren't as the rendering of a website is ultimately always controlled by the client/visitor.

This true in a technical sense, but not in a practical sense. If you want me to stay on your website, you'd better put in the effort to make it usable and readable. It's not the user's job to design the website, it's the job of the damn website designer!
Cells. Interlinked.
Vowel signs, not vowels themselves.
We just burned ~1/6 of it on a single bank...
> Most programmers now are doing such things for domain experts as it is

HN again! ‘Most’ programmers are not doing that; most programmers couldn’t do that if their life depended on it. Or maybe the definition of programmer is different : I am talking about people who have the word programmer, software developer or software engineer in their job title. This, by large, does not mean they can write software, even on a trivial level, compared to what it means here on HN. Most can, are and will be replaced by AI because they simply bad; a handful will remain, which are the good/talented and smart ones. For now at least.

So as can be seen on HN talking about gpt; here many believe we are safe; that’s because the people hanging around here in the bubble are safe for now. But that is because it seems most people here never worked with a 100000 person ‘software development’ outsourcing shop etc; you would definitely say after 5 minutes with ‘senior engineers’ there that they can be replaced by 5 lines of Python, let alone an AI.
Dif has just 500 million in assets according to their faq. That’s not enough to prevent a SVB magnitude event
The following program which someone recommended to me here in HN has been a godsend in this regard since it allows me to configure my taskbar the way it was in Windows 10: https://www.startallback.com/
I do my day to day banking with a too big fail bank. The service is excellent.
You don't need to replace all job to cause problems. If you replaced just 10% of human jobs very quickly, there'd be mass unrest. Probably just replace far fewer would be enough to cause a depression the likes of which we've never seen.
They certainly have a massive data set to train on.
Yeh, Carried Interest is one of the biggest tax cons going
It’s not supported by S3 to partially update an object; you would have to completely replace the entire object. While they could do some magic under the hood to make it seem like it works, it’s better to just reject these operations and let the application developer decide what’s best.
a few years ago an article posted here in HN explained that writing was basically invented for accounting. So first forms were depicting symbols for items to be accounted for, then by composition they created new symbols to represent multiple symbols.

what's fascinating is words, numbers, money and computation seem to have the same origin in those proto-cuneiform boxes.
Ugh yes, nested serializers in DRF are always fun.

Almost makes you want to go noSQL.
There’s nothing wrong with curl | sh other than people realising “damn, this software could be malicious!” Yes, it could be. Doesn’t mean a HTTPS link maintained by a project with a good security track record is actually serving malicious links though.
If anyone is interested PAIP is downloadable at https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
it's ok with sex change. but race...
me: can race be changed? ChatGPT: No, race cannot be changed because it is a social construct based on physical and cultural characteristics that are typically assigned at birth. Race is not determined by genetics or biology, and therefore cannot be altered through medical or other interventions.<...>
It wouldn't surprise me if FDIC can act quicker in taking over a small bank than a large one, though.
I have the same problem, but to a much, much lesser extent, with Reddit.

When I click in the search box, it converts into a drop-down list of news headlines.

If I want news, I'll click on news. Don't force it on me : I avoid news normally, because I find it's almost all unpleasant click-bait. I do not appreciate being forced to look at it, even for a few moments.
Tokens in GPT are basically short term memory, just like people have short term memory. You can't reference a million tokens back, it's been compressed into your long term memory. For GPT the long term memory is the trained network itself, of which it contains vastly more knowledge than any of us alone.

I will say that writing perfectly working application from a prompt requires a plan, even if the output is the next word, there is a higher level plan you're not seeing in the output. This isnt sophisticated markov chains, it's understanding within the network that generates output.
That’s what I thought - if you order for pick-up at a restaurant, you get a pickup number consisting of two or three digits. That’s not a problem since there aren’t 100 people waiting to pick up at the same time. So Uber could switch to „Uber Eats 1“ etc, right?
next step n the json path is efficiency: https://bsonspec.org/
>But I fail to see how an AI whose entire domain of knowledge is limited to board games, or financial trading, would qualify as artificial general intelligence.

Let me recast this:

>I fail to see how an I whose entire domain of knowledge is limited to low energy physics, or the large mass limit, would ever qualify as general intelligence.

You see the problem. You can extrapolate just fine beyond the reality of Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry which is native to you. A trading bot AGI could talk about things that aren't money, it would just be using money related objects with money related properties to tell this narrative picture of a world which isn't money. Not too different from the sort of analogies we use all the time to map hard concepts back to the space we find natural.

So let me answer your question with a question. What makes a substrate of properties like "size" and "color" and "texture" a better reality to be grounded in than properties like "buy price", "sell price", "dividend"? Is the former uniquely suited for intelligence to generalize beyond that given domain, or is it possible that all groundings are good as any other?
The point is that if you have to write a lot of glue code, chances are you have the wrong kind of glue.

Your chances of having the right kind of glue increase the more different kinds of glue you have to choose from. (Which is not my point, it is the point John Hughes made, but I certainly agree with it). Of course it isn't just a numbers game, for example you could have lots of different kinds of glue that are all horrible.

But if you have only one kind of glue, the chances of it being the right kind of glue in all circumstances are pretty low, regardless of the quality of any one kind of glue.
Why shouldn’t I use this for personal banking. Sounds great
> Even early Wittgenstein was never a positivist.

This is a very dubious claim, and you'd probably never hear the end of it if you claimed this in a graduate philosophy course at any reputable university. (There's probably some arguments to be made here, but still.) Of course, Wittgenstein later changed his course, but he was instrumental in popularizing logical positivism in its early days, unwittingly or not. The Tractatus was like contraband.
Sentry has a lot of GDPR problems, it's not easy to set it up so you don't leak PII in e.g. traces sent to it.
my pet conspiracy theory is that they have realized the productivity gains they can get by using chatgpt/llama/bard like ai's and upcoming recession have given them apt reason to reduce workforce without loss of productivity.
One thing that jumps out is that the paper fails to provide a proper direct comparison with Med-PaLM, only mentioning the latter in passing almost as an afterthought. Looking at arXiv timestamps, the Med-PaLM preprint has been out of three months (given the rate at which this field moves, an eternity). I understand Med-PaLM the current state of the art and would be a natural point of comparison.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13138
More annoying to me than the font size is the font selection. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up using monochrome terminals, but for me monospace fonts are generally terrible for legibility (except in places like coding where lining things up vertically is useful). Typographically, the font designers have to make all sorts of readability sacrifices to make all characters the same width.
Which was the second largest bank failure in US history. If we have 5 more of these in quick succession then it's pretty safe to say that an insurance agency isn't going to be able to save the economy. You're going to need an act of Congress and a massive bailout, and perhaps even that won't be enough.
I'm always surprised whenever these Bluetooth issues come up. The best Bluetooth experience I've had is with Linux, by far.

I have a BT keyboard (keychron), mouse (mx master 3s) and two headphones. They've all always connected instantly under Linux.

The headsets can use LDAC and aptx HD, which are both unsupported under Windows but work perfectly under Linux.

The mouse has noticeable lag under Windows, while under Linux it's indistinguishable from its wireless (non-BT) dongle. Installing the Logitech app and drivers doesn't change anything.

The keyboard and headphones usually take a while to connect under windows.

Except for the mouse, I've had these same peripherals on multiple PCs, all with Intel wireless cards, and all have exhibited the same difference in behavior between Windows and Linux.

> I had to download a third party tweaker app to disable a sound output device that I didn't want to use.

This is weird, I can disable any and all sound peripherals from the pulse audio control panel. I don't use ubuntu, though, so not sure what its default apps are.
Presumably, the teams who develop the OS do want to give us a smooth user experience and help us to be productive and efficient. But between us and them are other teams tasked with extracting the maximum value from Windows users and increasing engagement with Microsoft's shittier services.

The same thing happens in web development. The developers and designers of news sites don't want to create an unusable mess of ads and auto-playing videos, but the business development guys love that shit.
You can't disable mission control, which I've only ever activated by accident. Same with fullscreening applications. I'm sure there are various other features that I'd like to disable but I simply cannot because the operating system doesn't make it possible. Generally though despite the occasional frustration I find the OS pleasant to work with.
Given that Blender itself managed to bork my Blend file to the point where I had to delete the offending mesh to shop it from crashing just recently, I would recommend everyone using this to, at the very least, put a version control system in place when working on anything remotely important.