skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some background:
- Samsung Galaxy phones have "Routines", background tasks that can fire based on a number of conditionals, including time, geofencing, messages received, etc.
- I have a good friend who I regularly grab dinner with at Texas Roadhouse. In fact, for over a year, we went twice a week or more after we each bought $1200 worth of gift cards for $900 during a promo that was intended for businesses (we both have LLCs we were able to use).
- Our Texas Roadhouse has crazy long wait times during peak hours. Like 45 to 90 minutes. This was especially frustrating given my friend was about 10-15 minutes from that location, with traffic.
- Texas Roadhouse offers an online reservation system. You fill out the form, and they will send you a text with the estimated wait, to which you must respond to confirm your reservation.
- Once you are texted again to be notified your table is ready, you have 20 minutes or you lose your reservation.

As VIP customers (the entire restaurant knew us both on a first name basis, we always tipped generously [e.g. $20 on $40 of food], we often received preferential service from staff. One of our waiters was actually a young man with a budding tech interest, who, after considerable encouragement, mentorship, and a quality boot camp some of my former coworkers enjoyed, is now a software engineer making several times more income than he made as a waiter.

We were very pleased with this arrangement in all but one way: while we could talk to several of our waiter friends who were staff members of the restaurant to get a table without a reservation even when it was 1 table short of being packed, it often was packed, or our waiter friends were not working that night, and we did not like waiting in a noisy, crowded lobby.

I picked apart the reservation website and found a very simple, wide-open API. I quickly hacked together a script to make a reservation with a single GET request to my own site, with reservation options in URL parameters, then created Samsung Routines such that when I arrived within 100 feet of my friend's house between 3pm and 9pm, it would automatically send a properly formatted GET request to my website, which in turn made a properly formatted POST to the API, and then it would also immediately respond to the incoming text confirming the reservation. Before I'd even made it to his front door, we'd have an ETA, so we could decide on whether to start a movie, play some split screen diablo, etc. I'd then get a text a short time later, and we'd leave for TRH. Upon arrival, we'd walk up to the counter, mention our reservation was called up, and proceed to be seated immediately regardless of how busy it was, or whether any of our waiter friends were working that night.

DIY VIP Reservation system :)
This reminds me a bit of Renfield (or Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters) waiting for Dracula/Gozer to come. A little over the top, and not something you'd normally see about anything that wasn't a massive hype wave (not that I'd want to be around when The Traveler arrives)
Indeed -- all that's required is a single example.

> USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar.

Nothing is denominated in USDC, it isnt a currency (indeed, no cryptocurrency is a currency, since none are a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_account ).

The USD is the currency here.

So the mechanism here is that people in Venezuela have a route to obtaining USD without having to use the banking system because they can sell their USDC electronically.

What in this process requires (or even benefits from) blockchain exactly, or cryptocurrency?

Venezuela already has extensive digital payment systems, and there's lots of ways of getting money directly to people today. This USDC project was just a lobbied-for newspaper story.

The story above, as all of them, is a result of intense lobbying by shysters who use these throwaway-projects to pump the value of their assets. Stories like this come out all the time, usually within 5 years there's an embarrassing write up of all those involved.

I have no doubt a huge amount of money was wasted using the UDSC "option", enriching many of those involved. Articles like the above do not tell you about the alternatives, they're written to hype crypto.

This is what i mean about the "ideas market" in crypto being as fake as the prices market: it's all manipulated. All these stories are written and released by people profoundly invested in lying to you.
But note that 300M is far beyond the population of Russia.
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Yeah thats just plainly false. You can't pay below market for H1B.

https://redbus2us.com/h1b-minimum-wage-or-lca-prevailing-wag...
They also push systemd…
That's disingenuous. You could still map the general opinion and value system of the forum majority and hold them to what they purport to care about. As someone who's just beginning to form their judgement of the forum populace, your tone immediately comes across as defensive and deflecting.
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Perhaps my contributions are also made in good faith with full awareness that they are subject to the licenses?

We did OSS for decades without CLAs and most projects still do not require CLAs.
> You can buy an M1 8/256 Air at $800 right now. I'd expect to get 5 years out of it minimum

Some people simply do not care about tech to a point where almmost any price is too high. I just had to persuade a relative to spend $250 to replace a 16+ years old Intel Core Duo with an HDD. It takes 2 minutes to open a browser window on that thing and she didn't even consider that a problem. The replacement will probably last until it refuses to boot.
A college degree from an accredited institution shows that you can see through a task that takes 4+ years to complete.

There are many other ways to show that, and it's silly to limit anything to only people with college degrees, but that's why people do it.
When I was a bit younger I had a TI-84+ that I adored and learned TI-BASIC on. I wanted to create a small little RPG which I proceeded to do. My favorite little piece of tech I made was the hex-mapper for the map builder. Years later, a careless me allowed the memory in that calc to go. RIP.
You can make 250k a year, eat out every day, buy a starbucks coffee every morning, regularly have new clothes, etc. This is all expensive.

Consider the cost different with cooking your own meals and eating out for every meal. Lifestyle choices make a big difference in living paycheck to paycheck for many (not all).
Work experience. Even the federal government mostly recognizes enough years of work experience as equivalent to an undergraduate degree, although the paygrade specs tend to want a 2-1 ratio (i.e. 8 years of work experience is considered equivalent to an undergraduate degree). It's hard to articulate many position-relevant benefits of an undergraduate education that people won't also gain from sufficient years working in the field.
"that is, TupleSpace won't work on the Internet, precisely because of its underlying "distributed shared memory" idea". anyone know why?
But accidents happen in traffic all the time
> my goal is specific - to understand why we can or can't have a polynomial algorithm

This is the entire question of P vs NP. I'd love to point you to a reference, but the question remains unresolved. Good hunting.
If it’s just a survey, I would answer “yes” to living paycheck to paycheck.

But that’s only because I’m automatically investing 70% of my paycheck so I never have more than a few weeks of expenses in cash.

I can imagine getting very biased results depending on how to survey is worded.

In my case, an unexpected expense just means I take a short term margin loan against my portfolio (at an insane interest rate) until my next paycheck.
I strongly suspect the issues you're referring to are much more an issue with attitude and mindset, rather than directly with education. I think there are probably much more efficient ways to adjust attitude and mindset than broad-based college education.

I'm glad I got a broad-based education. It was definitely the right thing for me, but I think it's a hammer being applied to too many problems that aren't roughly nail-shaped.
Thinking a bit more:

A-If a program is a thing that produces a result for a given input, these programs are the same.

B-You can’t generally know if two programs are the same without solving halting problems, reducing polynomial algos to linear time or having infinite time and space computing resources, etc.

C-The best you can do is ask if two compilers produce the same output, or a linting/refactoring/canonicalization/formatting operation results in same source.

D-If a program is a thing that interactive debuggers use to create explorations next to source code while computing, these programs are different.

I agree with your approach of starting with these programs as being different, and allowing custom scraps to become a higher layer hash resolver. The reason is that compilers change over time, and it is only under the lens of a compiler(or linter, etc) that comparisons can be made. To bake a holy compiler in today would be arbitrary and quickly outdated.
I have often wondered if Chad is the actual source of dark matter:

1. Never made it as a poor man

2. Never made it as a blind man stealing

3. This is how I remind you, that I’m really MOND.

Sometimes the answer is just staring you in the face. A Canadian face, that should have been from San Antonio, TX.
No one has to live paycheck to paycheck on 250k. Many do, but only because they choose to. I guarantee they are living amongst people making 20% as much who are doing fine.
I was referring to George Santos, who has lied extensively about his entire history yet still serves as a sitting representative.
This question is totally baffling to me. Have you used these tools? The capabilities are astounding and dreamlike (and also a nightmare).

I was born in the early 80s. There are only 2 other techno-socio moments in my life that have hit as hard: (1) the web around 1994, and (2) the smartphone. The appearance of the current iteration of generative AI for public consumption in the last few months dwarfs both.

My own daily working patterns, expectations for my future, for my children's desirable skillsets have been entirely shifted. The entire value of generating information has been totally upended. If it can be created by AI -- and it's looking like most information-based things can/will be soon -- then humans now have a very different position in the world. Why I need to list any specifics at this point is beyond me.

This is going to spread through the world like a fire.
That doesn't make sense to me. 125k salary with no rent. or maybe ~80k after tax with no rent sounds like you should still be doing just fine.
Even in a state with high state income taxes, you're taking home north of $12k a month with a $250k/year salary. There's maybe one city in the country where a young adult (someone with no dependents) is paying half of that, $6k/month, in rent.

No single person making that much money is living paycheck-to-paycheck unless they're doing something really wrong in terms of personal finances.
That doesn't mean much unless you're their customer. "Works well enough and we have people that know it" is perfectly fine way to pick a tool, even if it is not technically the best one.
Even Europe isn't car-free; sure, if you're a tourist and you visit Rome you can go all vacation without a car or even setting foot in one, but the people who live and work there often have (or want) a car. And there are things you just can't do in Rome without a car or car-adjacent (Uber, taxi, etc) such as some activity in the suburbs in the morning, cross town in the afternoon, and central in the evening.

It's all about working with what you have available, not dreaming what could be available - would it be nice if there was a train stop half a block from my house that just happened to go exactly where I wanted? Sure! Is that going to happen? Unlikely, unless I change other things in my life to make it so.

Vehicles/cars per capita:

Europe: .56

Japan: .49

USA: .83

Gibraltar: 1.44
interesting hypothesis, but my subjective rebuttal is that nearly all of my friends would readily admit that they'd be perfectly content with building a life similar to that of their parents. most kids just don't think it's possible.

i asked in the parent comment if this is a normal thing? my parents were immigrants, so they don't have the experience of growing up here. it's always been an uphill battle. perhaps i've inherited that mentality but i wonder if americans of previous generations were also 23 and cynical, never thinking it possible to afford building a comfortable life?
250k in NYC or SF Bay Area is really 150k after taxes. After insurance and other usual expenses, 10k/month. Rents in these cities can be expensive and if you have dependents then 10k suddenly is not a lot of money. Its not paycheck to paycheck always, but can totally be.
this would be more concerning to me vs young people living paycheck to paycheck
>“We’re here because we want this to be a normal state, you understand?” she said, “just like the United States or France or Germany. We don’t want this country to be taken over by those fanatics with their beards and their religion.”

I think its important to point out that Israel has never (and may never) be considered a normal state since it has been practicing apartheid against the Arabs [1].

It started with the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Native Arabs from over 530 villages and towns. These expelled, exiled, and stateless human beings are still living in refugee camps.

That's not a democracy and it's not normal.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/19/israeli-apartheid-thresh...
https://www.btselem.org/apartheid
...
etc.
How does using private APIs violate copyright?
I never really thought of this seriously (or why) until reading that "Some Things I Think" post[0] was on here yesterday and a few were along the lines of that. Three that resonated with me about money:

“People like you more when you are working towards something, not when you have it.” - Drake

Net worth goes from $0 to $1 million: Ecstasy. Net worth goes from $10 million to $1 million: Despondency. Can we agree that all wealth is relative?

A lot of people like making money more than they enjoy having money. The change, not the accumulated amount, is the thrill.

The last one is the biggest mindfuck to me because I can relate to it so much. Every single online MMO I play I'm happy making tiny amounts of money and watching the balance go up. I don't care much for upgrading to bigger and better things or end-game content. I played this game called Tibia pretty seriously for a period of time and then got bored and was going to stop. There were a few months where the only thing I would do is log in, do about 6 daily quests I enjoyed doing that were dead easy, collect my 1000gp or however much it was and walk around town for a bit debating if I want to level up before quitting.

[0] https://collabfund.com/blog/thoughts/
Not to be confused with gpt4all https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all which is a "free" GPT LLM.

It seems this gpt4free was basically hijacking 3rd parties services that use GPT-4, bypassing the official OpenAI APIs in order to avoid paying for inference. Of course, that means that the hijacked 3rd parties are the ones footing the bill...

I'm not surprised they have been issued a takedown notice.
If you use Loki as the default logging driver with Docker and the Loki container shuts down, the rest of your containers will freeze up. This has been an issue for almost 3 years.

https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/2361
>>> willingness to work for shitty companies

Don't agree with that part. When the market is tough, anyone is willing to work for shitty companies.

You missed out the main point that people on h1b have hard time leaving companies generally because not everyone sponsors h1bs, and the general process around applying for PERM and GC forces candidates to stick around for >1 year at least.It is a resource-protection mechanism for employers.

Adding to that the general incompetence by USCIS in handling h1b applications - where they take even 6 months to approve a h1b transfer.
> Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries

but that hurts Intel too...their profit margins are in their high-end CPUs

people keep talking about the cost of Macs but they're cheaper than most Windows laptops...

go look at the HP, Lenovo sites...they're not steering people toward $400 laptops
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Just think of it as more powerful JSON :)

You can send things around without converting everything into strings and objects that don't quite fit your use-case. Plus you have the added benefit of strong typing AND the ability to send those types to other systems.

Most of the other features exist to make it nicer to use as a full programming language.
Yes, but that's why we have immigration laws.

It's a very fine balance to walk.

2 people, same age, but one from USA and one from a country without student dept...

And this person from another country WANTS to come to the USA. They will be able to live on a lower wage. And even if they're done with the low wage, the process or changing jobs is arduous. So you're stuck. This gets exacerbated by the fact that it's really hard to gauge the cost of living from abroad.
The problem is tories and their voters, not disenfranchised youth. Disenfranchised youth is but a symptom
Ideas aren’t getting harder to find
> We did fine for a century without any of that.

Did we? I think there's an overly-romanticized view of late 19th and early 20th century immigration to the US. Go to Ellis Island and look at the receiving facilities there where prospective immigrants were evaluated for physical health, mental health, criminal backgrounds, and employment prospects before being admitted into the US. Regardless of how fair or unfair the policies may have been, admittance was not simply open to anyone who showed up on a boat.
oh how naive you are
Maybe not interesting, but a slideshow application that is much faster and more memory efficient than anything I could find.

Image viewers I tried all beachballed constantly, were slow to respond if they even did, had many bugs, and required many interactions and pixel hunting to interact with.

It emphasizes instant response even when working with 10s if thousands of very large photos, and a UI that eliminates or reduces required interactions, and integrates with finder smartly.

It defaults to opening folders or images fullscreen and round robins windows across displays. The UI is a 3x3 button grid overlay that auto hides, the window name is the the last three parts of the file path. There is gesture support, but I don’t use it because focus is a pain to deal with.

JPEG decoding is memory intensive so there is a shared rendering process so the parallelism can be managed and memory uses isn’t duplicated.

A shared cache process contains bitmaps of images scaled to screen size that are stored on disk. This kind of assumes you are on a fast flash drive like an MBP where flash is basically as fast as memory.

The cache is a 100 element LRU in front of Caffeine (W-Tiny LFU) and all the cache state is persistent including Caffeine so it can remember the LRU and adaptive cache state across restarts.

Prefetching scales the previous and next five images in parallel so you can click forward/next and it is instant every time.

When you turn shuffle off it plays forward from the image you were on. You can click a button and it will loop all files on a directory.

You can open multiple files or directories from finder and it will play all nested files in order.

The order is a natural order that parses numbers so if the numbers aren’t padded you still get the correct order.

Ended up using JavaFX which works surprisingly well. Fast JPEG decoding, working HiDPI, window resizing and movement renders very nicely.
> Deciding to give Intel massive subsidies would require congress to agree and enact legislation, and that isn't happening with it being a politically fractured senate and house.

Eh, sure congress has apparently only passed 1 bill so far this year [1] but you can go look up other split years (i.e. 2013 [2]) as a reference. They actually pass a lot of bills despite what people say and the first 4 months of the session are always slow.

Ohio is a R state so republicans won't bring up deficit issues (not that they actually care about them). Democrats (obviously) voted yes on the CHIPs act last year so its not like they're going to change their mind now. The remaining parties aren't a large enough coalition to matter.

> It also isn't exactly sustainable to just keep funneling truckloads of money into Intel to be competitive

Unless you're going to argue the USG is going to become insolvent prior to Intel finishing the fab in Ohio this is an irrelevant argument. The USG will be around longer than it takes to build a fab and as I brought up in my previous comment; plenty of companies are not competitive on a global scale but they still turn a healthy profit because the USG backstops them.

> In the end subsidies just contribute to rising inflation (it's printing money)

Well, you can subsidize something without printing money. I think printing money causing inflation has been trivial disproven though by the 2019 pandemic where governments printed money like mad and no inflation occurred until years after the fact. Unless of course you want to argue the free markets are so inefficient they took 2-3 years to correct for that money printing?

[1]: https://legiscan.com/US/legislation/2023?type=bill&status=pa...
[2]: https://legiscan.com/US/legislation/2013?sort=asc&order=Last...
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He's talking about residency, and you're talking about citizenship.
While I agree that the current rendition is unfortunate, it's a bit amusing hearing someone say that the literal inventor of the wiki is a twisted ego that should be completely ignored.
You could have gained Swiss citizenship in less than that (12 years realistically, that includes waiting for 2 years to get interview, could be less). Sure, you have to learn new language to cca decent level (B1), but that's a minuscule effort compared to big picture.

Much more free time for ie visits back home (basically everybody has 25 days of paid leave + various public holidays, and I can be off sick for a long time without any any effect on paycheck), you have top notch medical and school system for free, retirement savings are forever yours and yours only and accessible from anywhere. CHF is stronger than ever, country is historically most stable in the world for past 800 years, extremely low criminality compared to US.

Being treated with respect regardless where you come from or how you look like and bureaucracy working well are additional features. More real freedom than you could ever dream of having in US (maybe unless you are a proper gun nut) is just a cherry on the top of the cake.
Seems a lot of people are taking this as some kind of slight against AI. My read was just that the tech has (obviously) a lot of time wasting potential as people play with it and that that's likely to make it more lasting than something purely utilitarian. This checks out to me. The obvious reason current "AI" is so popular is because everyone can play with it and get results they understand. It was a lot less fun doing MNIST classifier tutorials.
Something needs to buffer in case of network errors. Although you're right that having that as separate element is not very useful.

Queue is useful if you want to write those logs into multiple places at once