skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demography is in some sense the primary driving factor behind an economy. The ratio of working people to the unproductive cannot stray too low, otherwise you run into the double whammy of economic problems where fewer workers sustain the pensions of more elderly and political problems where the elderly, who wield more political influence, vote to increase their own pensions (or just never decrease, which effectively raises taxes on the working as fewer of them support more elderly) at the expense of the working. The key indicator here is the "age dependency ratio".

> First off, if we want to bring the birth rate back up, we would probably do well to implement social policies that makes having kids less of a nightmare for everyone but the very rich or very poor: generous paternal leave, some kind of childcare (a creche-like system), better tax credits, good public schools, etc. I understand that well-paid developers might be less attuned to this kind of thing, but as a non-dev professional in a HCOL city with a young baby, I promise you that economic factors are the major reason we will not have another child.

Oh boy, tell that to all the developed asian economies. What you're describing is known as pro-natalist policies, and many east asian countries have tried (and failed) to raise fertility by implementing them. South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, all have varying degrees of pro-natalist policies, none of which have been met with much success. I think there's a case to be made that their demographic problems would be worse if they didn't implement these policies though.

> Second, while I understand that the economy is organized around ever-growing populations, it seems like at some point, we'll have to figure out how to deal with declining or flat birthrates. We can't just grow forever, can we? Could the planet really sustain triple or quadruple the current population?

Quite trivially. America alone throws a huge portion of its perfectly good food into making biofuels and feeding livestock; the primary constraint on food is not that we can't grow more, it's that it gets more expensive on the margin. When farmland runs out, you move to hydroponics, then to aeroponics, and those can grow 10x the food in the same amount of space. Water from the oceans is effectively limitless, desalination is just more expensive. Not everybody can have cars, but that's why you build public transit. And on and on it goes. Resources are not finite, it's not a video game where earth has 1000 units of iron and that's it. They just get more expensive on the margin, which then shifts consumption patterns to establish a new equilibrium. Recycling starts becoming profitable, some metals get too expensive and are only used in high-end applications, etc.
> after spending a few years watching severely mentally ill people take over neighborhoods, rob, break in, and assault the people living there.

I've been thinking lately that the modern zombie genre might be influenced by this. Sort of a metaphor for what's happening in a lot of cities.
Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism
Everybody in the chip business was a spin-off from Fairchild. This is pretty common when a huge, new tech comes along.
MaxMind has a free utility called GeoIpLite that has an explicit field which tells you if an IP address should be considered part of the EU.
I mean I have moderately high certainty that I'm escaping casual surveillance. It's not perfect but it doesn't need to be perfect to be good enough.
Evolutionary Trap
i have worked full-time at 6 different companies in engineering and management roles (admittedly none larger than ~300-500 people) and this wasn't the case for anyone at any of them, and have also never heard anecdotes from people in my life in general about this happening to them.

i don't not-believe you, but I would be super surprised if the 80% figure is accurate

the more common thing i've seen time and again is someone giving two week notice and then being told to not bother with the last two weeks (and not getting paid for it either). after one of my employers did this to a coworker i liked who was relying on that final paycheck for rent, i quit a couple months later with 0 notice "because it seems like you guys don't do 2 week notice here". I got threatened with a baseless lawsuit for that cheeky stunt and they abused DMCA claims on my consulting website to try to get it taken down
Treat yourself like your own mega Corp. Don’t give notice until you’ve already basically started at your new job (nowadays easier than ever), passed your background check. You don’t owe anyone anything, you have to look out for yourself, just like mega Corp is looking out for themselves. You can still be polite about it, but put yourself first always. Even if you sign and are employed at a Corp for one day and you find something better, never think twice about taking the better opportunity. Remember you are labor being exploited to provide the mega Corp with their multiples
The funny thing about Mad is that it was incredibly literate, especially in the 50s and 60s. Those were some smart guys writing "Snappy Comebacks to Stupid Questions", etc.

In fact Al Jaffee just passed away at the amazing age of 102. Hacker News had a link to a piece about him in the NYT.
Canadian Governement Websites Attacked by Pro-Russia Group
I agree with most of this except the last paragraph - "you won’t be unwittingly paying for blood minerals." Sure it's a problem, but it's being actively addressed. Petroleum's extremely rich and complex history has many dark sides too. Also, I don't own an EV so I may be wrong, but I don't believe ICE cars "terrifically convenient" when you can charge at home the vast majority of the time and not worry about oil changes.
While its more token costly, the tokenization of numbers gets weird.

Taking "123" it becomes [123]. "1234" becomes [12][34]. "12345" becomes [123][45].

Consider using spaces between each digit to force them to be distinct tokens.

"1 2 3 4 5" is tokenized as [1][ 2][ 3][ 4][ 5]

It may then be possible to work with the digits more easily because they're not getting tokenized in potentially odd ways that are harder to manipulate.
For distributed training, one important feature is to be able to do GPU-to-GPU communication, such as allreduce, allgather, and all2all. Those are not supported at the moment but they are in our roadmap. At this level, however, it seems the language runtime itself plays a reduced role, so I don't expect the experience to be much different to, say, Python/JAX.

For the second question, my understanding is that all big tech models rely on distributed training, so distributed training is a requisite for competing really.
Supabase Auth is very similar to Firebase Auth. Both are easy to setup with just a couple lines of code. The advantage, imo, is that Supabase just stores your user data in a regular Postgres database so you can then set up relations with other tables.

I haven't used Flutter, but it looks like Supabase has a flutter library and documentation on how to use it: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/tutorials/w...

I used Firebase for a long time, and Supabase more recently. I have no desire to go back to Firebase. No longer having to obsess over read/write count (like you do with Firestore), and being able to leverage full SQL when needed, is a game changer.
Fit for what purpose?

I have a couple things up on GitHub that are fit for my purpose but you probably don’t want to be using if your threat model is higher than “huh, that doesn’t work”.

I have no expectations that anyone will ever read the code much less use it but it costs exactly nothing to put it out there on the off chance it may be useful to somebody.

So, yeah, I should be responsible if someone hacks some crypto kitty clone and makes off with a billion dollars?
Cheap Thought
I'm not a Beatles scholar, but trying to point the finger at a specific person seems really silly. They broke up for the same reason most bands break up: they grew up. They got together when they were young, and after 10 years, their artistic and personal lives were no longer compatible.
The underlying motivation to my thoughts and comments is investigating if a decentralized but periodically coordinated algorithm for training LLMs exists. We have millions of GPUs distributed across the world which if they could somehow be put to work on training without extreme requirements on data transfer between them could enable training of large LLMs in an open source way even if that training is technically energy suboptimal.
It's also because the companies are backed by VCs. VCs get their money from limited partners like pension funds who don't want their money invested in porn.
That has never been the case at any company I have ever worked for. My impression is that two weeks notice with continued access is pretty standard so long as you're leaving on good terms.
That's just a quirk of ice, that it's lower density than water. Liquid water still does what most (all?) liquids do wrt temperature changes.
I hope you didn't get paid for -10 days of work too!
Why do you need all of these tools?

It’s really a cost/time to market comparison between the SaaS and you just using SharePoint or managing some substitute. If you’re proposing to drop $80 u/m for Airtable, there better be a tight business case.
US deposits are moving to money market funds
Ford is the only major automaker that didn't need (or get) a bailout.
After 15+ years on the industry and being on all sides of the table (hiring, firing, being hired, being fired, interviewing, prospecting candidates, etc...) I haven't found a situation where HR makes things better. What's the point of HR? Can't we do without them? Really.

Edit: This tweet[0] which is pretty much a rant in disguise has a point. What if AI has a much better success rate on this? Recruiters are clueless wrt. to tech anyway.

0: https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1645450069326598145
There are undoubtedly some who enjoy killing, but where do bragging rights come from without challenge?
It isn't all that complicated. Some early hummers came with inflate-on-the-move tech.

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/self-inflating-tire2.htm
Tracking repos and resources for running LLMs locally here:

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-decentralized-llm
Grid or scroll? Choosing the card layout
"In this work, we used real-time error correction to real- ize a fully stabilized logical qubit whose lifetime is more than doubled compared to the best passive qubit encod- ing in the system, marking the transition of QEC from proof-of-principle studies to a practical tool for enhancing quantum memories."
Google is profitable. They are not losing money, and they are in no danger of becoming unprofitable because of payroll. If we lived in world where folks measured things in a normal light, Google would not have frozen hiring, rescinded offers, and laid-off thousands. We live in the upside down world. We have to stop accepting the crazy, upside-down values of the modern world. The world would be better if Google just wanted to be an awesome search engine that made money by being great, instead of trying to grow quarter after quarter (unsustainable in the long run).
They aren’t too big to become GE.
> > Hammering on about “GNU/Linux” nomenclature

> Linux is just a kernel, not an OS. It was bundled with the GNU system, which was missing a kernel. See explanation here

In the business, we call this “missing the point”.
Gould is right that the people he discuss were racist. But you shouldn't use his book as an argument against modern psychometrics since it doesn't deal with that much at al. In actuality Jensen's reputation has improved while Gould's has declined.
It's just an effort to enforce social conformity. A specific case of this type of browbeating may not be helpful, but on the whole it's often positive for the group to be mostly uniform. It's also often negative! More a value-neutral standard human tribal grouping behavior than anything.
Anywhere within an hour drive of SF is extremely expensive, and without a car, extremely difficult to eke out a living outside of a major metro area even if they wanted to.
So, this article contains a serious issue.

What is the prefetch value for RabbitMQ mean?
> The value defines the max number of unacknowledged deliveries that are permitted on a channel.

From the Article:
> Turns out each RabbitMQ consumer was prefetching the next message (job) when it picked up the current one.

that's a prefetch count of 2.

The first message is unacknowledged, and if you have a prefetch count of 1, you'll only get 1 message because you've set the maximum number of unacknowledged messages to 1.

So, I'm curious what the actual issue is. I'm sure someone checked things, and I'm sure they saw something, but this isn't right.

tl;dr: prefetch count of 1 only gets one message, it doesn't get one message, and then a second.

Note: I didn't test this, so there could be some weird issue, or the documentation is wrong, but I've never seen this as an issue in all the years I've used RabbitMQ.
I think they are pretty used to stale information due the batch nature of these things. That is, employment status showing "current" probably wouldn't raise any eyebrows.
Your fallacy is assuming that the e-bike is a "good" solution for me. I'm not even suggesting perfect, it's so far outside of realistic that it isn't a viable solution. According to Google Maps, each way of my commute is 47 minutes in car vs 4.5 hours on a bike.
DyLoRA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514228 is what you meant
You people and governments want high birth rate but do not want to pay for it.
You still havent provided a use-case. As far as I can tell what you're describing is business services connected by web APIs -- ie., the internet + microservices.

Ie., "enterprise blockchain" is just SoA.

That's status quo.

I still don't see where the need for a peer-to-peer consensus model comes from. One party to the system is the authority: they create the data about the relevant things. Or if there is a genuine multi-party authority problem, why would an algorithmic consensus model work?

If the UK and EU disagree, that isnt solvable by a p2p technical consensus protocol.

In what case are multiple peers in receipt of distributed transactions whose "integrity" can be resolved by a technological consensus process? (Subject to networked incentives, etc.)

The single use case here is clear: adversarial economic transactions.

The problem with this use case is also clear: fraud doesnt occur because the transactions themsevles are in disagreement; it occurs becuase people are falible. So we need reversability in the system. etc. etc.
In order to run large language models, we should all be buying a fully loaded Mac Studio (128GB of ram, 20 CPU cores, a lot of GPU and Neural cores.) and putting Linux on it to remove the artificial restrictions.

Yes, we will be running them soon in low end hardware, but we need to get at least to GPT-3.5-turbo level of inference speed and quality before we try to make it small.

I already started.

$ neofetch
-` x@decpti
.o+` -------
`ooo/ OS: Arch Linux ARM aarch64
`+oooo: Host: Apple Mac Studio (M1 Ultra, 2022)
`+oooooo: Kernel: 6.1.0-rc6-asahi-4-1-ARCH
-+oooooo+: Uptime: 4 hours, 23 mins
`/:-:++oooo+: Packages: 177 (pacman)
`/++++/+++++++: Shell: bash 5.1.16
`/++++++++++++++: Resolution: 1920x1080
`/+++ooooooooooooo/` Terminal: /dev/pts/0
./ooosssso++osssssso+` CPU: (20) @ 2.064GHz
.oossssso-````/ossssss+` Memory: 717MiB / 129540MiB
-osssssso. :ssssssso.
:osssssss/ osssso+++.
/ossssssss/ +ssssooo/-
There are those Google accelerators that plug into an M.2 slot. You could plausibly do this today, although I am not sure what sort of memory constraints those accelerators have.
They might try, but it is hard to know which instructions will damage something. The machine might not not what the shape of the work piece inside of it is supposed to be, and if it doesn't know that, it might not know when one operation fails in a way that would now cause a later operation to incorrectly collide part of the machine with the work piece.

On stupider machines that are only 10s of thousands of dollars/euros/etc, you also have to be certain that what the machine expects for tool geometry matches reality (meaning that the correct tool was in the correct tool location, that the tool is mounted in the holder at just the right length, that the tool itself hasn't deformed, etc.

That said, I wouldn't bet against AI stuff potentially being good at generating tool paths in the future.

Sometimes I think that existing CNC stuff might be too dumb. Where is the lathe equivalent of auto-probing a 3d printer bed or using machine vision to monitor the print? Where is the mill equivalent of visual examining each part like a pick and place machine does? Why can't I put a piece of metal in a vise and just tell the mill to square of the ends? It could be that what I'm picturing is only stuff that casual users would be interested in, and thus there isn't sufficient money to develop it.
I have no way of knowing why Google rescinded this guys job offer. But they did, in fact, halt at least briefly some Russian hiring in April 2022 because of the war.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-reinstates-job-offers...
This is misinformation. Maybe you've had this situation/contract, but that is very much not the norm.
That doesn't check out, your timeline is not quite correct. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, not 2023. That's before OP even started the application.
Three months is fairly common in Sweden, and longer than that isn't all that rare (often depends on how long you've worked at the company).
Twitter Hires Skadden Lawyer as Musk Tackles Litigation
Thanks for mentioning this. There are a lot of people who are homeless solely for economic reasons and are mostly unnoticed.
>we still rely on private payment processors, credit card companies, which extract fees for a service that doesn't have any technical necessity anymore

The technical necessity is there; for your chase-backed visa card to pull money from chase and deposit it into your shop's citibank, there needs to be some infrastructure. Whether a private company or the government provides this infrastructure is another story.

(Although if the government provided you could argue that there would likely be even more political headaches that prevent what goes across the wire).
would be nice if you could pay in your own token.
Much more than the cash to handle potentially thousands of applicants who were in a similar position?

(Don't get me wrong, I do think large companies should be held to higher ethical standards, but we don't seem to be there yet.)
thanks for being a beta user! Where do you find yourself using Oasis most -- at your desk, on the go, etc? What subjects to you mainly use it for?
Do you have a repo you can share? I'd be very interested in running my own local copy
> To make all of this run smoothly, we enqueue and dequeue thousands of jobs every day.

The scale isn't large enough for this to at all be a worry. The biggest worry here I imagine is ensuring that a job isn't processed by multiple workers, which they solve with features built into Postgres.

Usually I caution against using a database as a queue, but in this case it removes a piece of the architecture that they have to manage and they're clearly more comfortable with SQL than RabbitMQ so it sounds like a good call.
>
We just endured a pandemic in which we (100% of Americans) were compelled to comply with public health directives.

Nonsense. Absolute, utter nonsense. I'm not sure why we are all of a sudden rewriting history.

100% of Americans were asked to comply with a range of public health directives. Actual enforcement and compulsion of the public ranged from non-existent (In most of the country) to symbolic (In a few coastal cities).

A significant fraction[1] loudly, and very prominently refused to comply. They got their way.

An even bigger fraction complied in an incredibly half-assed manner. As of today, a mere 16% of the US population has had an updated booster vaccine. Only 70% of the population has completed the first vaccination series (But hey, 81% got their first shot, so at least that's something...)

[1] Much of that same fraction, of course, has no issue with inflicting involuntary mental health treatment - because it's directed at other people.
I won't be surprised if one day I saw "Open source is fueling the future of nuclear bomb" on HN.
Portugal was advanced at being the geographically westernmost mainland European country, and at fighting with the Moors for long enough to adopt lateen sails.
Water density is almost fully inelastic w/rt temperature. At 60°F the density is 0.99907 g/cm^3, at 100°F the density is 0.99318 g/cm^3. I think that's something like a .5-1% change in density. Pipes bursting is purely because of the drastic density change from ice crystallization.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
Complete strangers, but yes, I can confirm that it seems heavily culture related.
I ran across the concept of evolutionary traps and couldn't help but draw parallels to many of the issues we're facing today, from climate change to our headlong plunge into the AI unknown.

I thought it was interesting to frame those problems from the perspective of evolutionary traps as a way to disarm some of the polar for/against style arguments about the impacts of various human achievements.

It seems we need some way to have the necessary conversations while fundamentally changing how we frame them. Curious if others see the same parallels.
<del>Willingly was your idea.</del> As for other ideas, some are in the comment.

What about the 10,000 who might be willing if society offered them treatment options even a sane person would accept?

EDIT: because sibling comments are willfully ignoring my point

EDIT2: public disturbances are frequently halted with police arrest, not whatever willingness could be brought about ahead of time with better systems in place
It's hard to answer this question if we don't have any examples of what you think of as conservative "nice places to live." The affordability bar varies wildly even in red states, and you also have red state/blue city stuff going on a lot.

So I'll turn the question back like this: what do you think are nice places to live that have demonstrated effective solutions to affordability and mental health problems at scale in a relatively dense city with high property prices from high demand?

In my experience, the way this is "fixed" in a city like Phoenix is a combination of: "be able to sprawl outward further and further without yet getting completely blocked by geography so there's always somewhere to put new construction to keep costs down" and "have inclement weather that pushes the homeless out so we don't have to be the bad guys ourselves as much" - but these are basically the opposite of the most common proposed "if only the government could get it together" fixes for SF: denser construction and confinement. Those tools are likely necessary for a city like SF, but it's not like there are Republican cities showing how to get it done.
Show HN: Doogie Typer
The Doogie Howser, M.D. journal experience. Definitely inspired by hackertyper.net

Built with three.js, three-troika-text, gsap, preact+htm, vite.

I made it work on phones, but best on desktop.
You're not alone. Substack is also where former journalists publish when those pesky editors decide to fact check them and find them wanting.
Yeah, the sea must be "level" in some sense across the planet.

Don't know if local variations in gravity may have a measurable impact?
That is no longer true, it is source available, becoming open source after a 3 year embargo period: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/23.3.1/LICENSE#L19
> it's being actively addressed

Color me skeptical that anything real will be done about it. We haven't even managed to solve the same issue when it comes to things like IC manufacturing, clothing manufacturing, food production, etc., and they have been around a whole lot longer.