skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also love an updated edition that includes additional content. The errata is regularly included with updated prints [1][2].

[1] https://man7.org/tlpi/errata/errata_by_print_run.html

[2] http://blog.man7.org/
The tiers are not essential vs non-essential.

The tiers are relative to the labor component.

Goods & services that have gotten more efficient over time as we've introduced technology, automation, (what we do on this site) or been offshored.. have gone up slower than inflation.

Everything that has a fixed, domestic labor component has gone up faster than inflation.

There's really no other magic trick to it.

Food is a great example. Something like 40% of the country lived & worked on farms in 1900. That number is now about 1%. That means 40% of the entire countries labor was required to feed 100%, and now it only requires 1%. So a 2.5:1 to a 100:1 ratio change of food labor consumers to providers.

Other areas like education & healthcare, the lack of efficiency is often a selling point. Look at colleges that advertise student:faculty ratios or K-12 districts that talk about classroom sizes. In my experience we've probably actually gotten less efficient as everyones gotten much more precious about the education their kids receive.
Some libraries perhaps, but what you describe is certainly not universal, and quite unlike the experience I’ve had with my city’s library system.

A system where I can continue to explore ideas of philosophy, science and history. A system where I can explore new ideas through the community maker space they host. A system that allows me to recommend thought provoking books to friends, who in turn can explore the ideas regardless of their financial means. A system that helped me triangulate around some much needed knowledge at a pivotal time of change in my life. The place I vote. The place that hosts community events and classes aimed at improving the community.

The picture you paint is a problematic one, for sure. The picture you paint is not universal or inevitable. I do worry that the belief that this is universal can only hasten the demise of the good parts that remain.
From what I've heard, writer's income looks like a power-law distribution — you get a few lottery winners like Rowling, but most authors, even most of the ones you've heard of, earn so little from the writing that it's a second job.

Even ignoring AI, the maximum possible market for writers is also quite small: If every single person buys a new book every week, even if this money is evenly distributed so that every author gets £12,000 per year (fantastic if you're living where The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is set, not so much when you're living where the series author is based), that's a maximum of about 34,667 authors worldwide, which I think is about the number of agricultural workers in just famously small and not-agricultural Singapore[0].

Personally I am of the opinion that arts should be funded mainly by government grants, though not entirely from them as free markets do at least help align production with demand.

[0] take with a pinch of salt, the stats (page 72) look like they're rounded to 0.1% and I've not read the details: https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/2018humandevelop...
Dunno - they don't break it down any further.

This may have some amount of survivorship bias in that remediated interference won't count toward those failures.
Plenty of brands do it. I assume you’re just unwilling to pay $300 for a t shirt.
The same reason people vandalise bus stops or joy ride cars
I always like the inverse of this, which is that if you calculate that less than 68% is in the first standard deviation, you can guess that the data isn’t normally distributed.

It’s really a heuristic on where to start with analysis, though. Not a result in and of itself.
I assume, given this is associated with Microsoft, an arrangement has been made with Marvel to avoid the same cease & desist received by the previous Jarvis in the AI field (now named Jasper, previously Conversion.ai)
The FCC has visited a friend because some hardware in their house was causing the cable TV signal to leak into the air and it was causing interference on some aircraft-related frequency.
Looks like the people who objected were in the right after all.
Look I found the guy who keeps moving the goalposts!
Try burning it if it catches fire it's synthetic rubber natural rubber doesn't burn but does make up 25% of tires. If the debris doesn't burn either natural rubber or brake dust or a mix. Modern brake pads are ceramic or metal but not asbestos anymore. But any burning of the dust would indicate synthetic rubber is present.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35482222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35490899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496403
Apparently the name stuck because some libraries and websites already adopted the term even if there was no Web3 at all. Lol Jack Dorsey's already working on a Web5 that nobody is interested either.

I think that the real Web3 will be mature and developed enough that there will be no need to create a bunch of apps boasting they're on the Web3 nor libraries abstracting Web3 APIs called "web3.js" before the term is even tangible
Only marginally relevant, but the people who are in this thread and can answer may overlap quite a bit.

I have always been fascinated with why did so many advancements have been made in the last few hundreds of years, centralized mostly in the “Western countries”? Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely not some “superiority-check” on my side, I have just never heard a convincing argument that made this area special. Was it just a “good place at the good time” event, something related to some side effect of religion/society?

One somewhat convincing argument was the constant battles between small countries?
Addresses in Japan have always been perplexing to me as a visitor.
Tokyo has the x-y-z kind of grid system of increasing granularity, but then within the final level of granularity you kind of have to "know", or have a business card with a map on it to find anything. The building number addresses on a given street are more chronological than directional.
There are plenty of quality turnkey sokutions, but the price and legal encumberances make them rare in the pirate space.
Great project! Tangential, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately and have an idea of what I'd like to see attempted next in this area.

Like many have said, the JS framework ecosystem (ok, while kind of a meme much of the time) is a total juggernaut.

I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of.. unholy combination of SSR for JS frameworks with a Rust (or even other language) backend if it was feasible.

JS is still a lot more mature and ergonomic for front-end. Rust is kind of a chore for this kind of work currently. It works, but wasn't designed for it and it feels a bit clumsy. On the flip side, Rust is a safe and super fast server language (Go a great choice as well, or others too).

I suppose I'd like to see some kind of framework that makes it easier to pair the two, instead of insisting that a single language isomorphic approach is best.

This might not be practical - I feel like routing might end up being a nightmare. I'm more just saying it seems harder to pair peanut butter with jelly than it should be and someone smarter than me could probably figure it out :). I'm naively guessing that as long as you had a JS interpreter on the server side, it could be made to work (no problem in Rust for either Node or Deno since embedding those is possible).

We've got thing like Next, SvelteKit, and Fresh. We've also got things like LiveView - there may be a further middleground between the two.
> The IA lawsuit is about the IA using the pandemic as a cudgel to try to force through the idea of unlimited royalty free digital distribution...

I'm generally not in the "information wants to be free" camp, but I don't think "unlimited digital distribution" was what IA and libraries were doing. Instead, they linked the number of digital copies to the number of physical copies they had, effectively giving them another way to loan out books they had already purchased.

Publishers predictably didn't like that, because they wanted to charge libraries again for the privileged of loaning out ebook versions of the books they already had, at much less favorable terms than they had sold the physical books to libraries as far as I understand.

I'm very sympathetic to the idea that authors and publishers should get paid for their work. I'm much less convinced it's a good idea that they be able to repeatedly gouge underfunded public libraries that want to embrace new ways of lending out their books.
That hasn't been my experience. I recently checked out the 2018 David Constantine translation of The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, for instance.

Do you have a particular library system, and some examples of books you have been unable to get?

And can you say more about what you mean about libraries making money by destroying books? I've never heard of this, and am not finding much googling.

But I see a lot of value in providing books that the public wants to read, I am confused by your statement that there's no worth in letting people check out John Grisham from the public library. And it's obviously not like John Grisham's income is being hurt either.

For at least couple generations public libraries have seen it as included in their mission to provide the public with the recreational reading people actually want, so at any rate this thing you're complaining about isn't new.

I agree libraries should also be able to provide more than just the most popular books. Which requires they get enough budget to so. Ironically, if they refused to offer books people actually wanted to read, but only offered books some kind of experts thought were to be recommended on, well, whatever grounds you are suggesting should gatekeep what goes in a library -- they would find it even harder to get budgets. People don't tend to support raising the budget of institutions that refuse to give them what they actually want. But the reason to provide popular books isn't just some kind of manipulation of the public -- it's part of the whole mission of public libraries, providing books people actually want to read. And of course, providing for recreational reading, this has been the mission of public libraries for a long time, nothing new about it.
Yeah, important distinction from a government perspective. It's not the ccp, it's only the hyper nationalist zealots created by the ccp.
I’m not deeply familiar with all these papers, but two things stand out to me

The model architectures are different, and in the very latest paper they scale these not-transformer models to sequence length of 64k, where the paper you linked only considers up to 8k
Trains go best in those few densely populated areas though. That's kind of the catch 22 with trains, they're best in dense areas, but dense areas tend to obviate the ability to build trains.
I’ll broaden the discussion: 70’s minicomputers, Unix. 80’s microcomputers, Bill’s excellent adventures. 90’s SGI and Sun, Linux, Networks and 3D graphics, workstations.

Or, 70’s diverse musical tastes: prog, pop, punk, disco, …. 80’s metal, 90’s alternative rock. Several were reactions to preceding genres, such as guitars as percussion instruments to almost out of the mix.

Or, 70’s Vietnam ends, proxy wars continue, gas crisis and inflation. 80’s Reagan, us hegemony, small wars w/o proxy, greed is good. 90’s the wall came down, europe ascendant, China enters the world economy big time. Throw in bad hair and a whole lot of polyester.
At least for non-fiction, I wonder how long we'll continue to cling to the 250 page minimums that publishers clearly want. Pretty much every other type of non-fiction text (and often other media) I'm involved with has gone on a serious weight loss plan. I can't believe we'll just keep publishing multi-hundred page books on topics that often don't deserve it.
Very Silicon Valley. Time management, goals, mindfulness. Hustle bro culture that results in burnt out hustle bros. Unless someone has evidence supporting this path?

What people need for personal growth is a holistic approach to living.

So, I'd like to throw in another perspective: ignoring whatever your end goal is, personal growth essentially requires trying new things, having a quiet place to process them, and the ability to synthesize responses to your new experiences.

1. First find yourself a quiet place. Think "Thoreau's cabin", where you don't allow yourself to be distracted by Skinner boxes, and you let yourself engage in thought and deep work. This is where you can find new things to try, and process events in your life.

Without this, and the discipline to turn off distractions: you're screwed. No amount of advice or practice will help.

2. Read. There's millennia of wisdom and knowledge hidden in books. Whether it's fiction or not, there should always be at least nuggets of new information or perspective in whatever you read. There's one problem with reading though: you can't really become wise from it; you need to talk to experts about the things you read or risk misinterpreting and making dangerous mistakes.

3. Identify what it means for you to be a fully integrated person. Does that mean helping people? Creating art? Engaging in difficult work? Having strong relationships? Learning? Connecting with nature? Having discipline?

A fully integrated person isn't just one thing, but a balance of many things. Identify what you're missing.

4. Try new things. Find what brings value to your life (fulfilling #3). You have to be a bit brave here because most people don't do that, and they're skeptical of people who try things. So you risk looking like an idiot or weirdo, if for example you decide to try learning interpretive dance.

5. Go back to your cabin and try to find out what you've learned and how you can apply it. See what works for you, and drop what doesn't.
Jeez! The Bloomberg article linked is nuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

Assuming the details are correct, this is the guy who is idolized by millions of people? Yikes. Musk is just petty
Doomerism Marketing is dangerous too
Possibly depends on the location. I'm in Germany, rice, potatoes, pasta, bread haven't really moved, unless you're talking bread made in the local bakery, in which case it has moved because of loans being a larger chunk of the price. Cheese and milk have moved strongly, meat moderately. Of course, Germany has traditionally subsidized food prices, while in the US fuel will be cheaper and taxes are significantly lower. It usually evens out, unless you're in one of the countries where you get shafted on all sides.

But if I was to buy mostly branded food made by Nestle & friends, I'd pay 30+% more easily.
By not moving the environment around you, placing virtual objects in your real environment is still a compelling use case for VR
Definitely not advanced in the sense of, "at the highest level in this topic." Publishers do ask for titles like this, though.

I guess it's advanced in the sense of "not beginner". A typical beginner book might start with ls, cp, and nano and get to hello world around the midpoint.
They could just push an update that sends your local history back. "Security" and "software updates" are dangerously connected.
The article doesn’t say that he abandoned anything, and I’m glad. VR has huge potential but needs big companies like Meta to spend billions on R&D until it hopefully becomes mainstream.
Maybe it's because I don't know the field, but I don't see a he risk yet. I mean does AWS own its own OS? It's a standard OS, what can go wrong?
A repo where I collect great resume bullet points
> From business perspective the auditors are clueless.

Hey! I used to be a young IT grad helping with financial audits.

If it helps, I was young and clueless and frequently I still figured out more about the business processes I was auditing than the client employees taking care of them every day :-p
This! While I agree that passkeys need to be as secure as possible to replace (not so secure) passwords, the part about loosing access to your account needs to be solved.

Account recovery is usually the weakest point of any system (e.g. social engineering calling support to reset account access)

I don't have the answer to this, but a single key locked into one device is definitely a strategy for disaster (or doesn't offer much additional security when still paired with passwords)
Ask HN: Tool to auto-index any file and its content
I recently discovered PhotoPrism[0] which does a great job at indexing photos and videos we throw at it.

My setup is Docker on a Synology NAS.

I would like to find a self-hosted tool to basically throw any kind of files (.txt, .zip, .docx, .pdf), sort it automatically by dates, manages duplicates for me and, ideally, index their content for text-based files.

IndexYourFiles[1] seems to do that, but they distribute desktop app and seem closed source.

Any recommendation?

[0] https://www.photoprism.app/
[1] https://www.indexyourfiles.com/index.html
If they don’t walk fast enough it’s okay to push
That's because all of the political capital is focused on keeping people out
So Picasso painted those prostitutes, he didn't paint paintings of prostitutes.

It would be one thing — and probably more intellectually interesting — if he had credited the original art more openly. For example by including the artist and work in his title ("Untitled, after Private Secretary, Eisman"). But it seems like in many or most cases he didn't even acknowledge that he was copying the work.

I'm not sure what kind of statement he was making by the way he did things. Whatever he intended it's turning into something else.
Does anyone have a link to the trademark database entry (e.g. in https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli... ); I wasn't able to find a trademark for the Rust programming language so far. I also looked at the register in my country (see https://www.swissreg.ch/srclient/faces/jsp/trademark/sr1.jsp), and there is no trademark for the Rust programming language. Did they register the trademark only for the US?
The thing that stuck out to me is the assertion that FFT is poorly supported on modern GPU. That's surprising to me, as there's cuFFT offically supported by Nvidia, and vkFFT that achieves similar performance portably using compute shaders. I believe these are based on f32 math, so perhaps the potential win is using tensor cores to compute FFT at lower precision? It seems surprising to me that decomposing into matrix operations is the win here, it seems you'd do better writing a kernel that makes use of the cooperative matrix (aka WMMA, tensor core, simd_matrix) capabilities of the GPU.
I find Rust and Typescript have a lot of helpful surface similarities that make them an easy pair of languages to switch between.

The fundamentals are very different but it’s a case of convergent evolution - and I’m happy to liberally sprinkle clone’s around my rust code
> After the sun reaches its peak, it begins to set. It’s still rotating in perfect circles around the sky; they’re just getting lower and lower each day.

It would be very cool to have an extremely long exposure/solargraph of this!

http://xyzon.nl/solargraphy/
Modular Errors in Rust
The world is free to use any currency they want for trade, always have been. And yet they choose the USD. No one forces them to. Funny, that.
Canada too has secret Chinese police stations https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-secret-police-stations-a...

I'll go out on a limb and bet there are everywhere.
A funny story went around the internet last year about a guy in Northern Ireland who received a letter that only had his first (common in Ireland) name, the town he grew up in, and a rambling description of his life story:
https://mobile.twitter.com/weefeargal/status/147906907614423...
Developers are the humans (at least for now) that interface with JSON.

And devs don't care about just config files put API requests and responses and any other kind of structured/semi-structured communication and data.
Honorable mention here for Arthur Andersen and their role in the Enron audit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
> How many books would exist if authors were never paid?

Authorship is centuries older than the modern copyright regime we suffer under. You present a false dichotomy.
There's one crucial difference between AI and Bitcoin when it comes to energy usage.

With AI there are strong incentives to make everything more efficient and use less energy. This is already happening: people are finding ways to run AI models on less powerful hardware (see LLaMA etc), and AI providers like OpenAI have managed to run things. Lee efficiently - that's presumably how they could drop the price of an API call by 1/10th for GPT3.5 compared to GPT3.

With Bitcoin efficiencies don't actually help, because the entire system is designed as a competition. The person who burns more energy wins more value. If the tech becomes more efficient the miners just increase their activity, so energy usage doesn't meaningfully decrease.
Because brown people don't come in on boats from Canada probably
Host here. Andrew was a great guest and inspired me to start a patreon, and once I did he immediately sponsored me.

He really believes in crowd funding projects and supporting them.
The head of BaFin and their deputy were forced out over it and the agency is undergoing significant restructuring[1], and a new agency was formed specifically for investigating financial crimes[2].

In terms of actual liability - no, at least not yet. A number of lawsuits by individual investors were thrown out[3] but it's possible there will be public prosecution:

> Criminal prosecutors in Frankfurt are assessing whether BaFin employees obstructed justice by not properly investigating fraud warnings.

In the end, it's a regulator, they have to rely on auditors to some point. If Wirecard lies and EY doesn't catch it, that's on the criminal and the auditor. Still, it's hard to understate just how badly the agency fucked this one up... Hopefully, it'll serve as a true wake-up call.

Certainly seems like it - they have been more aggressive recently with other problem companies like N26, Solaris Bank, Coinbase, Deutsche and others.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/4f948457-678e-485c-92f7-2837064a5...

[2]: https://www.ft.com/content/587b6c52-c93e-4b2c-949a-53f6a1667...

[3]: https://www.ft.com/content/9fab6842-4ee6-4114-a35c-09bf9c62a...
> people plainly stating they simply don’t believe the city’s crime statistics.

The author derides those people. But at least as theft or vandalism goes, I can see how with enough inaction from the government people will stop reporting crimes. If it doesn’t get reported it doesn’t appear on the excel spreadsheet and the trend goes down.
Yeah they have Amazon Linux which is their own fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
That’s wildly outside my experience. Libraries adapt to their local environment, the one closest to me has zero videos and few of the populist novels your talking about outside the “take it for free” table.

But the thing is most libraries accept donations so it’s really cheap for them to just keep the kind of books you’re talking about. However, people rarely donate the classics so that tends to cost them actual money.

So, a librarian who mostly sees people come in to use the public computers is likely going to prioritize their budget to maximize the number of public PC’s they can have. That’s going to mean spending less money stocking the classics and more filler.
I can't believe the superficiality of the conversation presented by some media lately.

There are lots of obvious questions to be answered about how to engage this new tech and also "lets just regulate this" isn't going to work more than "lets prevent some alien ship to enter the solar system".

I hope the general non-specialized public opinion get at some point touched by the real questions - the non-apocaliptic related ones - because there what? dozens of different discussions pending to be held.