skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of comment is why normal people mock HN as being a place for out of touch, far-right techbros. This is very obviously anti-immigrant propaganda, and it's voted to the top of the replies.

America, for example, only keeps its population at stasis due to immigration. It's also what drives a lot of its economic output. Immigration is a proper answer to this problem.

That isn't to say that Japan doesn't need to fix it's cultural issues, especially around work-life-balance and women's rights, but for the love of god touch some grass.
LLuffman: LLM-Based Steganography
Tipping should be illegal but short of that it should NOT be a component of wages factored into minimum wage like this. The proliferation of square and other POS systems has normalized tipping in new sectors and significantly increased the percentage with presets like 18.5, 20 and 25 as default.

If Waffle House can't hire employees at a price point the market demands then it shouldnt operate. The restaurant model makes no sense when customers subsidize the wages of employees directly.
It depends what you mean by "intelligence". For any given definition so far, when the AI can do that, we have changed our minds about if that counts.

So, when I was a kid, "intelligence" meant being good at chess and maths, having a good memory, knowing a lot of trivia, and being able to speak a second language.

On all of these things except language, a raspberry pi and a cheap memory card beats essentially all humans.

For language, even a dictionary lookup — where "hydraulic ram" might become "water sheep" — will beat many, but I'm not sure it would be a majority.

But that's ok, we've changed what we meant by "intelligent" since then.
If it turns out that actual pathogens are necessary, and we can't use the kinds of harmless bacteria that get sold as "probiotics", it would still be better to identify pathogens with optimal risk:benefit ratio and determine the optimal dose. Exposure to wild pathogens varies widely, so very few people will be lucky enough to have the best exposure.
"Years of experience" is age discrimination in a single phrase.

Sure, ask about competency and capability, but not years of experience.

By asking about age you started programming, you may be discriminating against parental income levels, family situation, schooling, gender and all sorts of other things.
DeepSpeed Distributed Training and Inference
She doesn't mention what shifts she's working. Waffle House is open 24/7 in many locations. Given this is a "side gig" for her, there's a good chance she's working slow shifts.
If bitcoin is only a long term store of value it really needs to be paired with a separate currency for daily transactions. What should we consider using as a checking account if bitcoin is mainly savings?
Fair point, it's also effective against a wider range of parasites, head lice, eyelash mites, and skin conditions.

In the case of COVID in populations sans those conditions .. not so much.
Thats kinda my point..

Yes, all of the costs are just baked into rent. They're not baked into a Mortgage, and people dont get that so they end up buying as much house as their rent was, and then get over their skis when they suddenly need to cough up 15k for a new roof?

If you're in the position where even paying the rent consistently is a marginally difficult problem, even if lending standards are relaxed sufficiently, how is this person going to pay for a new roof unless the price of that loan is subsidized to the point that it either has a zero or negative interest rate?

Not everyone can buy - either because of the work required, or because of the financial outlays needed. Also to be honest, not everyone wants that responsibility.
Overcrowding is the best thing that could happen, we need more public transport users as quickly as possible.

Then, of course, the guy in charge who doesn't know how road signs work would have to take care of spending further investments, which is probably going to accidentally land in car infrastructure.
Between Social Media, Cambridge Analytica, the Climate Crisis, Pandemic and (mostly) Russian disinfo, etc, it is already the case that most people have a really hard time knowing what is true.

I don't claim to have much foresight, but an online world where truly and obviously nothing can be trusted might be a good thing. Because when AI generated content looks and feels the same as real content, nothing is to be trusted anymore by anyone. This makes misinfo and disinfo authored by humans even less impactful, because they are parasitic upon true and reliable information.

We will need new devices of trust, which are robust enough to protect against widespread use of generative AI, and as a byproduct disinfo won't have such an easy time to grift on our naivety.
https://archive.ph/61X6e
I think this comment is missing a key bit of context in that regionals/smaller banks were exempted from some of the regulations of Dodd-Frank.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/613390275...

So it's not that we assume bigger banks can better manage risk, we are simply, currently regulating them to manage risk better.
The thing is that these companies have so many SKUs because they're trying to address so many market segments and so newer is not always automatically better. Then technology (and competition) advances at an uneven pace so you end up with some generations (2 -> 3, 6 -> 7, 10 -> 11) where the generational difference is "who cares", and some generations (9 -> 10, 11 -> 12) where basically the entire old generation is obsolete.

Apple is tackling an easier problem since they're focusing on subdivisions of the high margin premium consumer segment. But there's a world of difference between the €1400 base model m1 macbook air and the €550 windows machines the standard consumer here buys. A lot of Apple's target market looks at the €1400 MBA doing quite well against comparably priced windows machines (well as long as you aren't gaming, running legacy business applications, or actually in need of more than 8gb of RAM), and sees the €950 price difference to what people actually buy as irrelevant, but for e.g. my parents that pays for their next laptop in a decade too.

Once you're into that price sensitive market, you end up needing from a business imperative that smattering of SKUs, since the person selling a €600 laptop wants something they can point to as better than the €550 laptop and at that market, people are not buying €50 for lighter or more aesthetically appealing laptops. Then a sort of mirror happens at the high end since it's users buying CPUs directly and therefore more informed so it's not as easy to just make some tiers and extract maximum consumer surplus for the higher tiers.
As a counterpoint to the article, I use loki, grafana, and promtail to manage logs for 5 hosts running a number of different services. I have had absolutely no issues for the last year. I haven't run into any of the issues the OP did. I suppose it's possible that he's running at a scale where certain problems happen that I won't see with my setup.

But honestly I sort of assumed that if you are going to manage hundreds of machines you should probably look at the more scalable configurations anyway. But if you are just doing a handful of machines it's more than capable in the local store only version.
The average person never knew, it heard. In this new world people have to learn to get out of their apartments
Archimedes Live – run early ARM software in the browser
Archimedes Live is a project by Paul Stone which allows anyone to try out an emulated Acorn Archimedes computer in their web browser. The Archimedes, first released in 1987, was Acorn's 32-bit successor to the BBC Micro. Acorn also created the ARM2 processor at the heart of the Archimedes - the ancestor of the ARM chips that power billions of smartphones, computers and other devices around the world today.

The emulator itself is a WebAssembly port of Sarah Walker's excellent Arculator Archimedes emulator.
Noise, but I’ve gotten so accustomed to them helping me sleep better that even if it’s silent outside I find them comforting to put on.
Microsoft would sooner opt out of selling in the UK then they would China.
That’s the whole point: the cost of commuting to the job plus taxes plus mandatory meal credit makes the entire job barely profitable. On top of that you’re always just one car breakdown away, or one illness away, or one gas price increase away from going broke.
At the end of the day, staffing shortages (outside of professions requiring unique scarce skills) are always about pay. But I know I'm not--and I assume most people won't be--paying arbitrarily large amounts for the privilege of eating out, especially at some local waffle house. Which is fine. There are lots of services I would like that I'm not willing to routinely pay what it would cost me to get.
The fact that the only part of everything they said you have any response for is the term they used to describe the medication, and then used it to dismiss anything else - that doesn't make you seem especially free of irrational thinking yourself.
Limited Liability Corporations aren't citizens. Satya Natella is welcome to take MS private as a sole proprietorship.
But can someone who got banned by Microsoft still join your server?
This. "Incurable chronic disease" could mean something like celiac or IBS (which most employers aren't really going to care about) or something like MS or ALS (which are way more of a minefield).
The Jones Act needs to be abolished, or limited to only apply to the contiguous US.
The undeservedly little-known Planet Explorers¹ has a rather nice voxel engine and is using it well. Mine anything, dig tunnels in any shape, modify terrain, etc.

Without the cuboid look.

¹ https://store.steampowered.com/app/237870/Planet_Explorers/
To final number helps explain why there is a labor shortage in that field.

I'm not from that country and the total number helped me to understand the situations better.
Since ycombinator failed to parse the URL correctly, here it is in all its glory; https://archi.medes.live/
Is that what made it so easy for Trudeau to freeze banks accounts of protrsters at the trucker rallies?
I don't see how the headline is misleading at all. Tips are not part of your pay, and only in America is it seen that way.
Wait. Either you’ll get alot of support or some sort of awful corporate reaction. Either way, that sort of stuff is visceral and wears off after the initial news breaks. If they are going to be supportive, you’ll need it more later.

Someone close to me has a serious diagnosis, so this is real fresh to me. Once you understand what’s real, what isn’t and what the plan is, that’s when you tell people. If you’re going to need leave, file the FMLA stuff to give yourself aircover.

Don’t avoid counsel of your friends and family though. Dealing with something like this is hard on the soul, and you can’t bottle it up. People will want to help; take the help.

Good luck whatever you do!
https://archive.ph/mdTHC
TL;DR;

The overall sentiment of the post is skeptical and critical of the promises made by new technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs). The author recounts their experiences with various technologies that began with optimistic potential, such as GeoCities, social media platforms, and cryptocurrencies, but eventually resulted in the exploitation of user data, privacy breaches, and negative consequences. The author expresses concern that LLMs will follow the same trajectory, using people's data for corporate gains, and potentially leading to negative outcomes such as misinformation, spam, and phishing. They argue that the proposed benefits of these models are not worth the risks and potential drawbacks that come with giving up control over one's data and content.
Hackers leak images to taunt Western Digital's cyberattack response
That's the precise essence of why quackery is dangerous. People are searching for "every possible way that can help" and quackery can easily exploit that natural tendency. (I am not qualified to render any opinion on whether this specific protocol is quackery.)
Steve Jobs in Make Something Wonderful:

> I got to know this man, whose name was Larry Lang, and he taught me a lot of electronics. He was great. He used to build Heathkits. Heathkits were really great. Heathkits were these products that you would buy in kit form. You actually paid more money for them than if you just went and bought the finished product, if it was available. These Heathkits would come with these detailed manuals about how to put this thing together, and all the parts would be laid out in a certain way and color coded. You’d actually build this thing yourself.

> I would say that gave one several things. It gave one an understanding of what was inside a finished product and how it worked, because it would include a theory of operation. But maybe even more importantly, it gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore. I mean, you looked at a television set, and you would think, “I haven’t built one of those—but I could. There’s one of those in the Heathkit catalog, and I’ve built two other Heathkits, so I could build a television set.” Things became much more clear that they were the results of human creation, not these magical things that just appeared in one’s environment that one had no knowledge of their interiors. It gave a tremendous degree of self-confidence that, through exploration and learning, one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way.

— https://stevejobsarchive.com/book
Banks and natural disaster insurance companies have super fat risk tail.

In the worst case everyone comes asking for their money right now, and we know this is impossible to be satisfied.
I really don't understand tipping culture in America. Are you required to tip? Why do restaurants not pay their staff enough to live?
In Japan, it is common to see CO₂ monitor displays outside contained meeting spaces, such as theaters.

My wife purchased an Aronet CO₂ monitor, and I took it with me on a business trip last week. The CO₂ while on the flight was in the 3000's range. The CO₂ at my client's office was in the mid 2000's range, as well as the hotel. Opening the hotel window the allowed 2 inches reduces CO₂ to the 600 range in 10 minutes, but the client's office windows do not open, and of course neither do the airplane windows.

I've also noticed when working indoors or when driving, if the CO₂ is above 1500 I get drowsy, so the degree it is no longer responsible driving a car.

Air safety: are we going to fight a moronic battle over this too?
Why is in something so new (WASM), a such bad random generator?
"No it isn't. It is labour."

Is it? Farming is (historically) an optimized form of gathering that's transformed alongside crop consolidation and other efficiency gains.

Without land, farming cannot occur. Without laborers or equipment, farming can occur, but in a less efficient form.

Also, all monetizable "things" represent assets because they hold/produce value.
Finally, an interesting article on Insider that doesn't feel like a hit piece.
Docker has a long history of issues with the daemon causing containers to freeze when dependencies go away of have issues. It's one of the reasons I prefer other container runtimes.
https://archive.ph/zNT5T
> Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app

Why not? Third part apps can be registered to open reddit.com links, so any mobile search would end up there.
I use mostly chairs and pillows to prevent doors from slamming. What challenges did you meet at your place?
Do you think this is a good analogy? You think we should have the same process for an individual painting their house and a multi-trillion dollar corporation attempting to dominate markets? Do you see any differences in the two situations?
I known it’s old, but that’s a remarkably balanced essay (politically).
FRC having a market cap of X has nothing to do with the monetary supply. That is the value of a single transaction of a portion of the bank’s ownership between a buyer and seller at a certain price, divided by the number of shares, multiplied by all existing shares. During that transaction, the actual money was transferred from buyer to seller and was the same across both sides before, during, and after the tx and FRB going bankrupt - the monetary supply was the same the entire time.

The only way the monetary supply changes is when a bank loan begins or ends, or when the Fed buys or sells something, because those are the only cases in which a transaction occurs with more or less money across all parties after it completes. In all other transactions money is just moving from one account to another (but the Fed issues money, so their account is special in that it can create or destroy any quantity).

Reality is a bit more complicated than this, but when a bank gets a deposit for $100 that becomes both a bank asset ($100) and liability (they need to be able to pay out $100 on short notice). Loaning the money out to another account in the bank, you’ll notice that the bank now has $200 in liabilities, $100 in cash assets, and a loan for $100 paying some interest and principle over time. Those loans can be valued at some price between starting and ending based on risk, duration, and rates.

When the Fed raised rates, those previously issued loans at lower rates become less valuable. Now the bank has the same amount of liabilities but less valuable assets. Banks can lend from each other to make up for short term liquidity problems, but if the situation gets bad enough, nobody will lend to the bank anymore and they can only look at their balance sheet in terms of their current asset prices (which may have fallen a lot compared to the full value they were using for accounting) and liabilities. Shortly thereafter they become unable to meet liabilities and are considered to have failed and enter receivership (basically bankruptcy).

The monetary supply then changes in one of two ways: it decreases by any amount that depositors lose due to the bank not having it (they end up with an account with less dollars) or it increases by any new money loaned/printed to shore up the failed bank’s balance sheet so it can be sold off to other banks (since in aggregate it has negative value, it can’t completely sell off as-is). I don’t know exactly what financial trickery backs FDIC insurance but I suspect it’s not new-money. What is monetary supply inflation is when the failed bank exercises the new Fed backstop to cover losses past FDIC, because this lets them sell some debt-based-instruments at coupon value (amount ultimately due) rather than fair-market-value (amount if you tried to sell it right now) to the Fed (remember, them buying stuff means more money gets created). And that is why these bank failures are causing everybody with cash to be effectively bailing out depositors: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/feds-new-banking-ba...
Brands Deceive Consumers Online: What I learned after asking 500 people
Hey everyone! My team and I recently surveyed 536 folks about digital deception, and I wanted to share the main takeaways with you.

The complete research (with images) is here: https://www.bluelabellabs.com/blog/deceptive-dark-patterns-stats/

1) 24.4% have come across deceptive patterns in digital product design.

2) People found Delta Airlines and CNN the sneakiest among examples we provided.

3) 39.4% wouldn't hesitate to ditch a brand if they felt deceived by a product.

4) Top 5 deceptive companies mentioned: Amazon, Ryanair, YouTube, Verizon, and "Everywhere."

5) Millennials are the most "certain" when spotting deceptive patterns, but accuracy is similar across generations.

## Some Interesting Points:

- Deceptive patterns can be tough to pin down and depend on personal perceptions.
- About a quarter of our respondents felt misled by marketing or design used by well-known brands.
- Deceptive patterns seem to pop up in almost every industry.

## Notable Sneaky Brands:

Delta Airlines: They use a sly "modular pricing model" that adds unnecessary services and junk fees.
CNN: Tricky UI elements that fool users into agreeing to their ToS.

## Partial or Slight Deceptions:

TurboTax: Their designs are a bit unclear, but they don't seem to have bad intentions.
Dotloop: They have slightly deceptive pop-ups after signing documents.
Spotify: Their downgrade/cancellation process is lengthy, but mostly straightforward.

In conclusion we should always remember that perception is everything. Businesses should be aware of how users interpret their designs to avoid driving them away.
Mermaidsjs Wrapper for Google Docs
Most restaurants do not offer sleeping accommodations.
World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines: Probiotics and Prebiotics [pdf]
So it seems like successfully handling the situation hinges on how much the pilots have abstracted the training vs applying it by rote. This abstract vs rote distinction is a common theme in Westerners looking down on other cultures, so I guess it lines up with the “third world” comments on the situation.
Nice. I think we have to choose our battles, and even in our own property I think we may end up having to take a Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest approach.
I live and work in Germany for almost two years now.

I witnessed at least two panic attacks caused by the implementation of your suggestion to "encourage them to start thinking themselves instead of blindly executing top-down commands".
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Not required but there is social pressures.

They don't have to pay, so they don't. There is a nearly endless supply of folk willing to take the job.
> With the new system, you just buy one monthly ticket, and you can ride on local transit anywhere in Germany. There's no more worrying about different ticketing systems, if city X is in transit region Y, and so on.

There were some exceptions mentioned in https://youtu.be/hzuAohOSLi4, but perhaps those were only for inter-city transport.
Tips are also effectively less valuable than they were when they were mostly cash. It was VERY common to not report them (or under-report them) as income back then. Credit card tips, though, flow through to your paycheck reported income automatically.
I have seen the proliferation of these POSs, but I never assumed they meant total tips have gone up. How do you know that total tips have gone up across the board?
The fear is from people who can extrapolate. Who can remember state of AI 20/10/5 years ago. And compare it to 2023.

Whether that extrapolation makes sense, nobody knows. But fear is understandable.
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