skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying 'sleeping too much is the source of depression'. Viewing too much porn is a result of a different problem. Happy and healthy people aren't accidentally becoming addicted to porn.
Gold was great, except the difficulty storing, transporting, and conducting commerce in it meant centralized institutions (the Bank of England) monopolized its storage out of convenience for international trade. Seizures, debasement, and so on until the gold standard ended. Biggest mistake ever made, but luckily bitcoin exists now.
Aren't the best self driving cars causing traffic jams in SF because they can't handle everyday tasks? And can any self driving car handle suboptimal environments like snow? Or just unmarked roads? Or... left turns in traffic?
>They can also generate music and that’s so good that shakes the entire music industry

LOL. Someone is drinking the KoolAid. To claim it "shakes the entire music industry" just goes to show you're living in an alternate reality. It didn't generate music at all. It emulated Drake/The Weeknd's voices, which is trivial. A human produced the music itself. It's shaping up to be a grifting/marketing campaign.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23688141/ai-drake-song-gh...

>It (Midjourney v5) can generate realistic images that humans can’t tell if they are really not not

Ever heard of Photoshop? It came out 33 years ago.
This is a rather skewed perspective that ignores the fact that if you have FDIC insurance for depositors then that can be gamed unless you have strict regulation of the banks:

> "The roots of the S&L crisis lay in excessive lending, speculation, and risk-taking driven by the moral hazard created by deregulation and taxpayer bailout guarantees."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sl-crisis.asp

This is why a lot of people worry that Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic, etc. might be the tip of an iceberg. If they've all leveraged themselves on risky speculation bets in the hopes that they'll get bailouts if it all goes sour (even though depositors greatly exceeded FDIC insurance limits) then you could have a domino situation.

Note also that it's a perfectly good way to run a bank as long as you don't get greedy and go for big risky bets, but the only way to ensure bank managers don't get the Las Vegas bug is to enforce the banking regulations in a fairly strict manner.
None of which matters to people who hear "analysis of the electoral race" on some media.
You didn't read a word, really? This has nothing to do with lack of exercise being a problem.

Your crusade to inform me about exercise is wasted; my own before & after pics from extreme weight loss and advanced fitness are easily found online, lmao.

It's pretty clear so far that I could lecture you on aspects of exercise that are well beyond your experience level.

Exercise _can be a problem that people need to cope with_, can you admit that?

If not, then you are too obsessive and not experienced enough for the topic.

BTW I noticed every last detail that you sidestepped, too. So, naturally this makes you a BS artist who is getting called out as well, by your logic.
Sadly. We're using an i currently. It has sort of locked us in because all of the programs that touch the money are written in ancient RPG. You can't just change a table (which IBM calls files...) when you want to add a field, oh no. You have to change the table AND update EVERY program in RPG that uses that table, because RPG has to know about every field in every file it touches. We are slowly working on migrating out to PHP.
We are a public company with an audit and risk committee, multiple in-house lawyers, and external counsel. This was heavily discussed.

Perhaps a court would limit the fine, but liquidated damages are a commonly used concept, and I don't think most people will tempt fate.

Aggressive stalkers will buy dedicated GPS devices - this is a real roadblock.
I’d love for there to be sections, such as science, business, politics, etc.
That is actually a really interesting find. Some of the verbiage is parallel to the hype we have around AGI right now too "fusion by 1990 instead of 2000..." does that not sound exactly like AGI in X year up from Y year that we read now?
Firefox on Android does this and it drives me nuts. It also means that all of the search entries are now useless as it auto-populates something and excludes what would've been reasonable hits. I'm constantly deleting that content so I can select something else.
So, between three years and two years ago I got a pre tax total of $2200 (some states had them as taxable income).

How is that amount still causing inflation?

You say "While I'm sure companies are taking advantage of the fact" - that's a present continuous tense... I used the past tense for when I last got a stimulus check.

So why present continuous? Why not say "while I'm sure companies took advantage of the fact?"

Lets try another take on it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/business/procter-gamble-3...

> Another round of price increases on household products like Gillette razors, Dawn dish soap and Swiffer dusters bolstered Procter & Gamble’s bottom line last quarter, the company said on Friday, a sign that stubborn inflation may linger as companies defend their profit margins.

> Procter & Gamble, a consumer goods bellwether, said its profit grew in the first three months of the year after it raised prices 10 percent across its brands. That rise was the company’s second consecutive quarter of double-digit increases. Its profit margin expanded in the quarter, with price increases more than offsetting the rise in what it paid for raw materials.

> Revenue rose 4 percent last quarter from a year earlier, even as sales volumes — the number of rolls of Charmin toilet paper and boxes of Tide detergent — fell 3 percent as consumers traded down to less expensive alternatives or bought less. In other words, Procter & Gamble made more money even though it sold fewer products. Sales volumes at the company have declined in the past four quarters.

So, can you explain why my $2000 two years ago is still contributing to the increase of dish soap today, and why the prices are going up, and why the company is making even more?
It’s not that they were wrong, they weren’t useful for what people want. What people expect and what is possible is out of sync and I think people misunderstood FiveThirtyEight for many years and thought it was an oracle. It’s not.
Very cool!

Animation is missing this classic from Aha:
https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif
> You don't get less environmental impact by having every person take up more land. Urban living is much more environmentally friendly because the alternative is paving over more of the environment.

It's not about how much land a person uses, it's how that land is being used. Nobody sitting on a 5 or 6 acre lot in the middle of hickville is going to build one house and pave the rest with asphalt. Urban living is "paving over more of the environment" and you can see that with just minutes spent with Google maps looking at satellite views of urban vs rural areas. Rural areas are filled with grasslands and trees (and farms) while urban areas are vast expanses of concrete and asphalt with tiny islands of grass and trees.

People in rural areas take up more land while at the same time using (and abusing) far less of it. Having largely unspoiled nature around you is a big part of the appeal to rural living, or so I'm told, I actually prefer living in cities.
I really like the simplicity all the way around. Really great job!
Credit Unions are better also because they are literally libertarian socialism. Imagine Uber with no shareholder class - as a cooperative, and so on. No one to extract rents from the two sides of the marketplace, the people themselves own the network.

So are housing cooperatives. They have low rent because there is no landlord class. Look at the Mitchell-Lama program in NYC, 30 years later they the most desirable and awesome apartments for the price, all around the city. Meanwhile next door the capitalist landlord-owned buildings are 3x as much for worse amenities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Lama_Housing_...

The democratically-run city tries to fix this with rent control, but it's only some housing, and just a few mins ago we learned this:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-rgb-preliminary-vote...

Plus the government is notoriously bad at getting even the simplest stuff done:

https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-july-2022/that-emp...

So yeah, I'm a libertarian socialist. People in the US hear socialism and they think of a big, oppressive government, but actually government is just as much if not more on the side of the capitalist, the industrialist... bailing out large banks and injecting trillions into corporate equity to prop up markets. In the 19th century they actually violently put down strikers, evicted people, operated debtor's prisons etc. which is why most libertarians back then were socialist. It was cool. Today that lefty libertarian stuff is mostly in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialis...

There are very few famous lefty libertarians today, people like George Carlin and Russel Brand maybe.
Presumably because it's funny, whimsical, and imaginative.
On a philosophical level everything is an intermediate solution. Casks designed to last 50-100 years are much longer in duration than our solutions for most other things.
I think it's pretty hard to argue that the undefeatable dedicated Bixby button was a good idea, or that Galaxy Folds are awesome. They release basically the same thing constantly to give people FOMO on upgrades because the new Galaxy+ S MegaUltraGigaSuper GigaProPixel 97 with 18 cameras is out. They fake detail on the moon to impress the non-tech-savvy who don't understand how it's just a trick. They're also run by a family that is above the law in Korea and has a large influence on the government because they're such a large part of the economy. Their appliances are also trash quality and not made to be repaired, there have been class action lawsuits about this.
I always use captive.apple.com
Generally speaking, it turns into free assets. The people involved usually don't acquire the assets/associated debt without some kind of guarantee.

OneWest Bank for example after 2008 had a guarantee where if the assets defaulted above a certain amount they would receive full value of the loans in a payout from the government. They were actively foreclosing on people to justify catastrophic losses to get the bailout. Not sure how that ended up since I was only marginally aware of the start of that and everything went silent once the news got wind of the perverse incentives.

In terms of trends, the bailout game has been played consistently since the the dollar went off the gold standard (1971 iirc).

The ponzi is starting to unwind now that inflationary pressures are out of control. I expect concentration to eventually lead to nationalization followed by a new currency which will fail because they lost all credibility from their mismanagement as a private entity.

That's what's happened historically with every country that debases its store of value above the point macro effects become noticable which are around 3:1 ratio).
Heh I don't even know that myself - I'm just focussed on playing with Mojo. But note that Modular also has an inference engine which looks pretty amazing and seems likely to bring in big $$$ AFAICT.
I didn’t claim that it’s impossible to imagine ways that this could be done. I was pointing out that no such methods are actually in common use, which means that when people think about validating their age online, they are concerned about their privacy.
For this dataset, yes. It's only got deposit banks (afaict)
The Shocking Truth Behind Arnold Nordsieck’s Differential Analyzer (2017)
Why not both? The modern dismantling of antitrust regulation and enforcement is a significant driver of both. It's gotten way worse now than ever, to the point where private equity firms like Vanguard and Blackrock can be the biggest shareholders in direct duopoly competitors (KO and PEP are an example), or where investors and producers are permitted to fully horizontally and vertically integrate (AMZN is an example). And media (among many other industries) has been permitted to consolidate to ridiculous levels that would have been unimaginable to the architects of early-mid 20th century antitrust laws even on a practical level -- an Amazon-level entity would have been literally impossible to envision in the early 20th century because companies just practically couldn't get that big with manual technologies.

The largest US company in 1929 had revenues of about $1.5bn - roughly $30bn in 2023 dollars, which wouldn't even put it in the Fortune 100 today. Walmart today has revenues of about $600bn, which is roughly equivalent to 6x the top 50 companies in the US in 1929 combined!

It's mind-blowing to me that economics is still using these ridiculously old, flawed models whose assumptions are less true than ever. To me, econ 101 should be teaching how irrational consumers and lawmakers are, what state capture is, monopoly-seeking behaviours as the primary modern driver of profit growth, etc...
The primary use case for these things requires other participants in the network. It doesn't look like this is a good product for you, yeah.
It seems to me that software developers are all too eager to attribute properties such as “intelligence,” to LLM’s which lead to strange, reductive conclusions that this is all humans are: token matching algorithms.

There is much to intelligence that those who’ve been studying it in areas such as biology and ecology still do not understand. The role of emotions and how they work have a strong influence on our cognitive abilities and consciousness as a whole. This is rarely ever considered a part of intelligence in the AI space.

And I think that’s rather the interesting part of all of this: we skip the artificial part and leap straight into deus ex machina. It is artificial and limited to what we choose to implement.

Even unsupervised learning isn’t technically that marvellous under the hood. In the sense that it is unknowable and seemingly magical.

I don’t agree that we’re a few years away from Data (a character from Star Trek : The Next Generation and an artificial life form) and we have no idea if we’d ever be able to implement Lore (a related character from the same show that has the benefits of being able to simulate emotions).
Would be cool to compare the dollar-of-fail as % of GDP at the time. Finance is all about ratio after all.
>Is it like heroin? Or is it more like alcohol, where many people consume it without becoming addicted, but a few people ruin their lives over it?

It's more like a TV addiction or a video game addiction where the over consumption is a coping mechanism for other things that are wrong in your life.

Hence 'porn addiction' not really existing.
I just bought my first Mac in ~30 years, having been all Windows or Linux in that period. I've been blown away by now nice it is - both the hardware and MacOS. Sure, there are some annoyances for a "power user" where something like showing hidden files requires an obscure key combo, but for the most part it has been a refreshing change.

It's also just blazingly fast compared to the similarly priced ~3yo Dell that it replaced.
Things went banana I guess!
There's no such thing as "phonetically correct alphabet for English", because the diversity of English dialects (even if you only look at major ones) is such that an alphabet that correctly reflects a phonemic distinction in one is redundant for another. Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%E2%80%93bother_merger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%E2%80%93bath_split

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%E2%80%93cloth_split

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Englis...

That aside, it would make more sense to take the Latin alphabet as a base, and only add enough new letters to cover what's missing. And if you use diacritics to derive new letters, it's possible to come up with something that can reflect pronunciation accurately in different dialects (using different diacritics where the same words are pronounced differently) while remaining broadly readable across those dialects if diacritics are simply ignored.
Yep I had this happen on a multisite domain that was identical to about 100 others with the exception of logo & contact details.

I'm not sure what triggered it but on search ad campaigns google can be quite sensitive to particular words in the ad or website and largely your best changing the site than dealing with support, though in the example above google support did fix that flag.
North Korea Tech Dot Org??
Turkish is especially interesting because it has a solid 80-90 million speakers to sh and fi's 5 million.
I don't think that's a reasonable Axiom because thieves rarely steal a single item over a lifetime. There's also the deterrent effect which is very important. If you didn't catch at least some car thieves, you couldn't have a society with cars.
How is that different from a veteran Linux programmers/sysadmin skilled in $whatever shell and language of choice?

Our staff can run our ERP on a browser on a phone at the airport. I imagine it's hard to get 5250 on an iPhone. =D
> Canada has like 40 banks and strong regulation has kept them out of crises like in 2008

Canada secretly bailed out their banks to the tune of $114 billion CAD in 2008. If you compare Canada's secret bank bailout to the US equivalent on a per capita basis it looks even worse. [0]

The reason we didn't hear about it at the time is that the big 5 Canadian Banks have so much power over the government and the media that they were better able to control the narrative.

Concentrating power in the hands of a few banks is a bad idea.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/banks-got-114b-from-governm...
Define "ground truth facts".
Ask HN: Is there an advantage in becoming a Masonic member?
Tempo: Low latency, cross-platform, end-to-end typesafe APIs
The off-brand ones lack a sufficiently large network to be used for tracking. They're only good for finding stuff in range of your own phone.
This is revisionist.

Mozilla's mistake was not in firing Brendan Eich (and Brendan Eich was not fired).

Mozilla's mistake was in promoting Brendan Eich to CEO.

Mozilla employees said ~"we were not totally comfortable with Brendan as a leader in the Technology role, but we recognized his long history with the Org and his Technical excellence, so we kept mostly quiet. But we strongly object to his promotion to CEO and primary representative of Mozilla to the world, because we do not feel that he represents the Org's values and do not believe he will be an effective leader of us."

Brendan probably could have returned to his CTO role with little fuss. But he may have had larger aspirations, he may have been sick of working under existing leadership, and he may have been personally disappointed by the Org's vote of no confidence in him. All are 100% reasonable! So he resigned. He was not fired. Yes the board might have "recommended" that he resign, but he would have been crazy (and display poor leadership abilities!) to try to stay in the CEO role after that drama.

> and he apologized afterwards

Has he? Not really. At least not contemporaneously with the events at Mozilla, and likely not since then. To be clear -- I don't think he should feel the need to apologize for personally-held beliefs. But I don't think it's possible to be a leader of people in any Org while simultaneously holding beliefs that are so offensive to the same people.

...

We do agree that Brendan's resignation was a net loss for Mozilla. But he might have not been able to succeed in the Mozilla Org anyway. Even as CEO, he'd have the board to contend with. As CTO, he had the CEO and the board to contend with. If there are effective people in that group, they are not making themselves known.
Yeah, but it's because I don't know them, not because I'll only use a particular chat app.
Curious if others are familiar with the “dollar milkshake theory” - this seems to be the first sign of it being a miscalculation. Alternatively, this rate of dedollarization may have been calculated by the fed ahead of time. I’d love to know how far off prediction this 10x acceleration is.
Nah, there's no traffic enforcement in NYC if you do one of the following:

1. NYPD-affiliated material on your car

2. Plate cover

3. Plate holder with strategically placed leaves attached

If you pay for parking in NYC you're a sucker.
The relevant number here is 15W.

In principle USB C goes up to 240W now, but that isn't relevant here.

USB-C power is negotiated, with a full blown two way negotiation if you want more than 5 volts (or to draw more than 3 amps). Framework laptop ports don't support outputting more than 5V or 3A and so will max out at 15W.

That is, this isn't a "struggle" -- because USB-C has negotiated power in general, just because it is possible to build USB-C ports that support 240W doesn't mean that a random port on a battery powered laptop has to support anything close to that.
Maybe UBI? I mean, hard to say it's been tested enough, but that feels like an answer to this question.
Reasoning and hallucinating are terms that are more shallow that are oftentimes used in discussions of this topic, but ultimately don't cover where and how the model is fitting the underlying manifold of the data -- which is in fact described by information theory rather well. That's why I referenced Shannon entropy, which is important as an interpretive framework. It provides mathematical guarantees and ties nicely into the other information compressive measures which do I feel answer some of the queries you're noting seem more ambiguous to you.

That is the trouble with mixing inductive reasoning sometimes with a problem that has mathematical roots. There are degrees where it's intractable to easily measure how much something is happening, but we have a clean mathematical framework that answers these questions well, so using it can be helpful.

The easiest example of yours that I can tie back to the math is the arithmetic in the structure of language. You can use information theory to show this pretty easily, you might appreciate looking into Kolmogorov complexity as a fun side topic. I'm still learning it (heck, any of these topics goes a mile deep), but it's been useful.

Reasoning on the other hand I find to be a much harder topic, in terms of measuring it. It can be learned, like any other piece of information.

If I could recommend any piece of literature for this, I feel like you would appreciate this most to start diving into some of the meat of this. It's a crazy cool field of study, and this paper in particular is quite accessible and friendly to most backgrounds: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12482
That framing fails to describe the case where the model is confident in a response (at the token-level), and is wrong, which I think is still considered hallucinating.
There's argument to be made that approximately any cost to keep the system from collapsing is a trade-off worth making if the alternative is the system collapsing.
> Was economy of 1950's USA ruinous?

Are you volunteering to get off your computer and get back into factory work? Bolting some cars together on an assembly line 50 hours a week?

US knowledge work exists because we outsourced manufacturing and physical labor. You can't work a cushy software job and then whine that the economy hasn't improved since the 1950s.
>> no system administrator relies solely on web interfaces to get work done

Increasingly, they do. And prefer to, because if it's in a browser, it's probably someone else's cloud system that they don't have to administer.