skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This factor is actually lessening over time. The BlackRocks and Vanguards of the world have dozens, even hundreds, of index funds - all with different benchmarks and goals. When a stock is "rebalanced" out of one fund, it ends up being added to some other fund that the same company manages. So the transfer occurs as a notation on the internal books; no actual arbitrage-able trade actually happens. This is even happening in the ESG space - we are starting to see fund "pairs" - one fund tracks the companies that meet the specific rules of that fund, and the other tracks the companies that do not.

Note that this isn't perfect - index fund A has more assets under management than index fund B, etc. But as index investing grows, the actual investor inflows and outflows are what dominate, not rebalancing moves.
> I think this movement will collapse and people will return to traditions/religion. Others part of society that don’t will self extinguish as is already apparent in the birth rate and divorce rate.

That will probably take a long time, as the "part of society that ... will self extinguish" will parasitically attach itself to the parts that don't (e.g. through compulsory education and mass media), dragging everything down in the process.

Luckily, this may be a convenient way to dispose of all the excess labor that capital will no longer will need once it's been made obsolete by AI and automation.
Because the rents are too damn high! Duh.

I recently started a new job, and the boss asked me to buy myself a laptop. I without thinking much asked "what's the budget, about a thousand?" He said gently, "Uh try for 600... Check out Lenovo."

I've now got a kick-ass Lenovo upgraded with lots of RAM and SSD disk for 600.
One of the arcade games is playable...
Coincidentally, I just saw two separate job ads on the subway looking for caregivers. Maybe the next booming sector would be taking care of retired boomers.
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I think this is a case of it not having enough capacity to solve such an involved problem in a single pass, despite having all the necessary pieces of abstraction. This can be seen in the way that it can do it with aplomb if you force it to externalize state into its context by making it "show its work" (which is a bit like using a scratch pad) - see sibling comment with dialogue between Einstein and Feynman. I think this further implies that our current feed-forward LMM networks are extremely inefficient, because many recursive algorithms will have been approximated by hard coding the first few steps, and we should expect some recursive variant to be much smaller.
ed: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

vi: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...
Both are expensive to diagnose. ADHD also has a problem in that a wrong diagnostic can harm people.
I just learned hiragana and katakana in a week using spaced repetition. It's crazy effective.
> need to be full of flashy electronics, connected to a phone

Even Kinder Surprise toys are now just QR-coded pointers to app.
How to get past customs isn’t the problem, however it’s still tax evasion.

You can also buy a house much quicker in Europe if you find a way not to pay 50% of your income in tax… oh and that Porsche now looks quite affordable too..
> Because the shortage chips were not manufactured by TSMC?

Why do you think that? I included a link to an article that discusses it.

Here’s a link to TSMC’s car-chip products:
https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/pla...

And a link to TSMC CEO talking about not meeting car-chip demand:
https://canada.autonews.com/microchips/chip-shortage-thats-h...
If car sales are so bad why are prices so crazy? I’ve been putting off buying a new car for two+ years and everything is completely insane or impossible to buy.
If you are not a fascist, misogynist dick who supports policies harmful to women, women won't avoid you. Demography is in your favor. You have no excuse.

This post is like someone who has a crap product claiming there is a "market failure" preventing sales. Women can smell misogyny, trumpism, etc. a mile away. Your product sucks. That's why nobody is buying.

This is also why Jordan Peterson is no help. He just makes men think they don't have to abandon odious beliefs if they vacuum the floor and get out in sunlight occasionally. Actually, it's the other way around: Women will tolerate a slob if they are nice. Women will tolerate more than you can imagine.
I noticed several references to Russian pop culture in there, post-Soviet included. A fun project for sure.

1990s cartoon:
https://i.imgur.com/wR4vISL.png

Several references to the same comedy show from the 90s:
https://i.imgur.com/a0ACpoo.png
https://i.imgur.com/tyE5l2d.png
https://i.imgur.com/LLatEnI.png

The Caucasian bride (1960s comedy)
https://i.imgur.com/RA3DBKX.png

Russian adaptation of Pinocchio:
https://i.imgur.com/XJHwhhO.png

Tom & Jerry clone from the Soviet era (with a wolf and a rabbit):
https://i.imgur.com/l9STeSD.png

There were a couple I wasn't aware of, but it was obvious from the imagery they were Russian. Like this one (lol):

https://i.imgur.com/VnLyLOq.png

This one also seems Russian, but not sure what it's for (maybe the "cyber Russia" shorts on Youtube):
https://i.imgur.com/yRXrAj5.png

There is also one from Belarus (?) with Gordon Ramsay I never saw before, that one is really obscure:
https://i.imgur.com/dvAVeuu.png

......and that's how you waste your first hour at work >_<
I think the author is referring to this at the end of the article :

https://blog.backslasher.net/1.5GB-string.html
That is funny how people would like their governments/officials do something to tackle issues while at the same time trying to evade at all cost giving any money needed to actually do something.
Most definitely. I've been playing with using ChatGPT to generate proof texts in Isabelle/HOL, since it lets me verify the correctness of the output before code generation.
I sympathize with your view, I genuinely do, but to write out formal methods using natural language expressions results in quite a few problems. For one, it results in incredibly long proofs, like this simple proof written out in natural language would take up pages.

Second, it makes it harder to identify patterns. Writing things out in a formalism lets you identify syntactic patterns and employ techniques like factoring, cancelling, seeing symmetries and other purely syntactic properties. When you write things out in natural language you lose the ability to see these things clearly. Being able to see purely formal syntactic properties helps reinforce your confidence in a proof or can help you identify potential flaws in it. It's like with programming styles and conventions, one thing I tell developers is an important reason for choosing one style over another is if it makes wrong code look wrong visually.

Third, and this is just a personal matter... it results in a type of culture of writing that I find is often pretentious and full of unnecessary baggage. When I read an academic paper I cringe at how bad most writing is and try my best to skip to the formal part of the paper.
Not sure about that, it looks like overall energy consumption still is almost there times as high in the US compared to the UK: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
It may be worth to mention that in the UK, energy consumption seems to be particularly low, below the EU average.
Please, being under economic sanctions for longer than most people on this board have been alive has done more to damage Cuba than any kind of political/economic system could have ever managed. Especially given their main industry was tourism and agriculture. The rich Americans that poured dollars into Havana, were cut off along with the supply of manufactured goods, and being a resource poor island made it hard to build an industrial base.

Compared with their more capitalist neighbors who aren't doing great either, might point you to reasons why a whole region, which includes a resource rich continent have been struggling for the past couple hundred years. I will start you off with the wikipedia page on banana republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
I know. The point was it is easy and useless to write:

>There should be enough housing for everyone that wants to live in a given area, and it should be housing people would want to live in.

The hard part comes in executing, where you have to define “housing people would want to live in (which people?)” and who is in the set of “everyone” whose opinion is gathered about wanting to live in a certain area.
Does it even use a nvidia chip?

Their stuff doesn’t work with my AMD APU and the oppression I feel is oppressive.
The m1's were in line with the rest of the market, if not cheaper.
I recall there being a shortage of cutting edge chips as well[1].
In fact, there have even been a few articles about TSMC seeing the end of the shortage at the start of the year[2].

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tsmc-warns-of-tight-production-...
[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-12/tsmc-chie...
http://www.worldclimate.com/climate/us/massachusetts/framing...

The averages do not illustrate the extremes very well, we see many days where the nighttime temperatures never rise above 0F.
Sam Altman Visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
I don't dispute the economic importance of boomers retiring. However, millennials are the largest generation.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials...
Considering how terrible sleep apnea is for the health, you would think that all healthcare systems and insurance companies would take it seriously. The costs of treating heart problems and stroke are much worse. But in practice it seems like no healthcare system puts in more effort than begrudgingly ordering a sleep test and then maybe a basic cpap after much hesitation. There are stories of people literally begging their doctors to give them a cpap.
I am mostly thinking about personalization (AB tests, i18n, marketing segment, multi-tenancy belongs to this family of use cases), it's often assumed that you can't achieve personalization with static rendering, and that's just not true: a simple (read very fast, very cheap, optimized for this use case, like CDN are supposed to be) URL rewriting server can point to the right statically rendered page at request time. Another approach is modifying the page at the edge, Eleventy does that. All this involve being aware that your static content will be accessed using an HTTP request, taking that into account may lead to a more unified (not squashed though, just unified) SSR/SSG architecture similar to Next 13 one. You can look for Plasmic take on AB tests with Next or my own work on Segmented Rendering or the "megaparam" pattern.
Is the Employer-Employee Social Contact in Tech Now Broken?
> I don’t see any specs on the ssd though so it may be SATA junk.

PC OEMs stopped using SATA SSDs years ago. Entry-level NVMe SSDs are both cheaper and faster than SATA SSDs built around the same quantity and type of flash.
What to Watch in AI
I really think you need to research a bit more about how statistical language models work.

The reason this models are able to learn other languages so quickly is that they're using the majority language to do much of the heavy lifting in defining the overall latent language space.

Once this is established, adding new languages requires much less information since you only have to learn to encode and slightly tweak the latent presentation you learn.

Again the view of statistical NLP, from LSA to GPT-N is that the words we write are generated from transformation of a latent space.

For LSA this transformation is linear and the space is low dimensional, and the model only learn to encode words to the space.

For GPT-N this transformation is non-linear, the latent space is very high dimensional and the model learns both the encoder and a decoder allowing it to generate language from the latent space.

If you have enough language to model this latent space well, then learning additional languages requires very little training data since the space itself is well modeled, you just need to learn the details of the encoder/decoder. That is you've learned the abstract point in high dimensional space that represents the English word "cat", you just need to learn that "猫" points to the same place.

Of course these models aren't just representing words/tokens without context to the latent space (like word vector models had done in the past) but an entire sequence of words.

Interestingly enough even with word vectors you can learn word vectors in language A and also language B and then manually align the latent spaces in order to get simple translation for close to free.

So given the training data size of GPT-3+ 0.02% is a lot of language.
I do the same in my brain dumps when coding.

For me it stops my mind from
wandering and describes to myself why I am writing that function.
I feel the same way about my 16' i7 from 2019... but I also have an 14' M1 Pro for work, and if I didn't already have that, I would have definitely upgraded. It's just a much better machine, if nothing else from a battery life perspective. Twice as better, and that counts a lot for me.
Advanced Packaging Part 1 – Breakdown of Economic Semiconductor Scaling
Miami and New Orleans face greater sea-level threat than already feared
I need to memorize the shapes of seven modes on the guitar. (A mode is kind of like a scale.) The image here shows them starting from F: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk/three-note-per-string-...

Is this a good fit for this technique? I'm not sure how to decompose it further than "G Dorian." I'm also not sure if the time would be better spent just playing them more.
Either way is likely, but I don't think the position of "they have a different position from me, therefore they are not thinking critically" is a good one in general.

Now, I'll probably never get to actually talk to Tyson on simulation theory, so I'll never be able to ply him with any question I have about his position. Or to ask if he considered certain other points of view. Or to question certain gaps that need to be covered in order to make a simulation, etc.

But I'll not assume that he hasn't critically considered the information presented to him. I'll also not accuse him of not approaching it critically, because whether or not he has, he probably believes he has. So it's a non-starter of a conversation.
"The four humours for scholars in the Academy of YouTube" - A fascinating idea

What would they be, what fundamental underlying phisio/physocological characteristics of humanity would they describe, and why?

How would they help categorize human behavior, assist in understanding decision frameworks and better inform forecasts of future group/individual responses to stimulus?

Can we use these tools for improving conditions, or should we simply manipulate others and free them from the burden of spending their money by quietly taking it?
hey hn, supabase ceo here

this one is a long-time coming and it's a continuation of our acquisition of Logflare[0]. Since the acquisition we've be open-source-ing the server, which you can find here: https://github.com/Logflare/logflare

Logflare handles about 1.5 billion log-events everyday on supabase. It's built with Elixir and has no problems with that workload.

This is really just the start of the Logflare updates. All logs are currently ingested into BigQuery, and we are adding support for Clickhouse and other OLAP backends. Over time this will function very much like an open source Sentry alternative, where you can ingest data from various sources.

The team will be around if you have any questions about the technical implementation

[0] acquision: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-logflare
A Modest Proposal for the Non-Existence of Exoplanets
Lest somebody take this seriously, what I really want to know is how, after all the work they put into it, they managed to miss the target release date.
Nobody wants to start because of how easy it is to be taken advantage of, and we live in a world that favors the predators. We watch trust get taken advantage of every day.

> You may be surprised how well people respond, if you just start. Be the person who takes it deep. If you initiate, most people will be happy to follow and soon you’ll be surrounded by deep connections.

My experience is different. They either only want shallow and brief connection (which I can't really blame them for given the above), or the only kind of trust relationship they want is the one where you trust them and they can take advantage of you, or sell you something, or push some ideology on you. Actual connection with people who just want to be human is exceptionally rare from what I can tell.
Any examples of doing that process cost effectively?
You would be surprised how many 'functional' meth and coke users there are.
> cannot be understated

Seeing this a lot recently[1]. I guess you mean the opposite of what this implies ("his impact is less than you could state"), but I'm curious how this has ended up being almost as commonly used as the "correct" form[2]. Is it an in-joke or reference I'm not getting?

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cannot+be+understated%22+...

2: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cannot+be+overstated%22+s...
Thanks for the write up.

Could you share with us how you’re applying this knowledge in your work?
Counting the Countless: Handling Probabilistic Increments in Large-Scale Systems
Looks like it's not emulating x86 at all, just interpreting assembly mnemonics as if they were BASIC.

edit

Here's how to define a 'procedure', which is different from a 'label' and can be called:

def count_up {
INC AX
CALL count_up
}

start:
XOR AX,AX
CALL count_up

Now the 'C'ultists are polluting assembly language with their curly braces! Notice that SP doesn't change while it counts up, the call stack exists only inside the interpreter.

I actually had a calculator as a kid that could be programmed in both BASIC and a similar pretend-assembler.
In this case of soldering I agree, as the tool really does make it easier. Generally for most hobbies I tell people to buy the "cheapest" they can find and if they use it until it breaks then buy the most expensive one you can afford.
Marx said a lot of things and almost all of them were wrong.

Included in Marx's greatest hits are

"The most capitalist countries will be the first to fall to communism" when in reality the only two major countries to fall to communism were theocratic monarchies that it would be a struggle to call capitalist.

"After the dictatorship of the proletariat the organs of the state will naturally fade away." Yet everytime the proletariat gets into power it seems that the organs of the state only strengthen.

"I shouldn't have to work other people should pay for me to continue to live." It turns out Karl never had a job, and spent most of his life mooching off of others, exactly as he accused the capitalists of doing.

In fact everything Marx said that could be evaluated against reality turned out to be wrong, so why should I trust the rest of what he said?
In the old days, Unix rescue boot floppy disk to fix workstations or servers only included minimal text editors such as ed (i think vi was added later). So if you were a Unix admin or power user, you need to know ed to fix the dam system. The 'ed' text editor was available everywhere. These days rescue disks boot from USB or CD/DVD-ROM and may have a full desktops or operating systems running. A little bit of history, I guess. BTW, I prefer https://www.system-rescue.org/ these days to fix Linux bare metals.
Me too. I'll be looking at what gets released this year and decide to buy. I think it's safe to say after 11 years of daily, and rather extensive use, it's time to update! Problem is, it just continues to work so daggone well!
You’ve listed unquantified hypotheticals, all of which are refuted by the data. For example:

> we need to redefine what "unemployment" means, as there are alot of people unemployed that do not count in that metric and conversely some employed people that are counted as unemployed

We have a variety of statistics measuring each of these [1] as well as no single unemployment figure. They’re all not only good, but improving.

> changing types of work (gig economy, etc) need to change how we count things

Part time versus full time has always been measured.

> Decreases in high paying jobs while creating low paying jobs

Real median wages have risen over the last year, are flat to Q4 2019 and at an all-time high exempting Q4 2019 - 2021 [2]. The pain is concentrated in tech, and at big tech at that.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q#
> We talk about inventions like digital social networks as if they're inherently bad designs. Actually the idea of a web-scale address book was and remains great, but the environment it originally grew up in was rotten to the core.

This is the kind of attitude that results in "we'll do it again, but this time we'll Be Nice!!", cue surprised pikachu when the exact same behaviors result because the financial incentives have not changed (see also: crypto vs "Big Bad Banks"). It has nothing to do with a "rotten environment" or mustache-twirling villains.

The problem is that these social networks are extremely expensive to run, and users are largely not willing to pay for them. So they become the product (as the author points out, to their credit), and must be kept engaged at all costs. If the product gets bored, they won't open your app.

The idea of requiring API keys, though, is compelling. Third party services will immediately pop up to provide aggregation services, and their costs will be far less. They can just use your keys. This would also kneecap social media companies because they would no longer be able to serve ads to any API users. I'm not sure this would ever happen in the US, unless they can charge for API use.
The Macbook Air that's out right now is like 13.6 inches. The screen is much better than the 2012 models, so with the resolution it will feel as big probably if not bigger.
> I think the base of the problem is that the heat pumps he has installed are simply inappropriate for his climate.

The question is whether there is such a thing as a heat pump that's appropriate for use in the Northeastern US. It seems unlikely to me that someone with this person's level of engagement would have stupidly chosen to install the wrong kind of heat pump or chosen an installer incapable of recommending the best options.

I live in New York State and the government is nearing the point of banning gas installations in new construction here. I have yet to see any real cost benefit analysis for such a policy in a state with such cold winters.
If you want quality, use Google's Apache-licensed LLM https://huggingface.co/google/ul2
I don't know, as I've never experienced a superintelligent AI. The part I doubt is that we'll see AGI in our lifetime at all, let alone a superintelligent one.
> the decline in early-life sexual activity

But hasn't that been an explicit policy goal of every government since at least 1950? Reducing teen sexual activity and especially teen pregnancy? According to elected officials, this is not just a good thing, this is the target.
Wrong. Saudi Arabia forces countries to buy oil in USD.
I've never seen apex logs before, but from a quick browse of the website it looks pretty close.

Do you know why they shut down?
Cybersecurity dawg. Unless you are running Linux on it, you are at least 10x more at risk of a worm like penetration than something running a up to date OS.
Hobby asynchronous microkernel OS Managarm first to browse the web
The project's GitHub repository is at https://github.com/managarm/managarm
"Happy Path" gets all of the love.