skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I started out buying stuff. The DRM eventually inevitably fucks up and steals the item from me.

Fuck it, they've failed to uphold their end of the bargain -- now I pirate, unless there is DRM-free content available for purchase.
According to a study by McKinsey & Company, companies that prioritise design outperform their peers by a significant margin. Specifically, design-driven companies in the top quartile of McKinsey's Design Index, which measures the design practices of hundreds of companies, had 32% higher revenue growth and 56% higher returns to shareholders than those in the bottom quartile. This highlights the importance of user-centred design approaches like Design Thinking and Lean UX in today's competitive market.
Okay then figure out another term to explain why bumping Katy Freeway up to 28 lanes is not going to fix Houston's traffic problem.

The real explanation is more subtle which is that sure, you can just keep adding freeway until there's no traffic, but it's actually bad to have monster 30+ lane highways running through the middle of your cities.
> Hasn't Jerome Powell been quoted verbaitm on saying "we need to get wages down", implying that they have gotten too high and are unsustainable for most small/medium businesses to pay?

He has suggested that wage decreases are potentially one of the paths between rate increases and reduced inflation which is just an observation of basic facts of economics.

Do you want him to pretend he doesn’t understand how the main monetary policy lever available to the Fed impacts the things that the Fed is responsible for targetting?
I wonder, to what degree are the drivers of inflation tied to Main Street trends (jobs numbers, consumption spending, etc) vs Wall St trends (asset bubbles, money supply, expectations, etc)?

I recall in 2008 discussing this divide a lot. Finance recovered, but normal people never did. Whereas both sides used to be codependent, the stock market rose in ‘09 when folks still didn’t have jobs.

I wonder if we’re bringing things back in line now. Inflation IS declining, the last MoM report notwithstanding, even as we’re adding net jobs.

Perhaps I’m a bit optimistic. But could we finally be actually recovering from ‘08?
> Western humanism which I find equally dangerous because the two are philosophical siblings from the same immoral thinking.

Do you mind elaborating on your issues with Western Humanism? I've never heard anyone critique it from a non-biblical angle, so I'm curious to hear what the gripes are.
I mean, you can write tests in any language, you don’t need a framework
The bazaar won in the developer space and the cathedral won in the consumer and end user space.

So what you've really got is cathedrals that source from the bazaar.
> My best guess is that the embedding represents the meaning of the natural language string it was generated from, such that strings with "similar" embeddings have similar meaning. But that's just speculation.

Yeah, you've got it. A mapping from words to vectors such that semantic similarity between words is reflected in mathematical similarity between vectors.

An idea of how you might train this thing: lets say the words "king" and "queen" are being embedded. In your training data there are lots of examples where "king" and "queen" are interchangeable, for example in the sentence "The ___ is dead, long live the ____", either word is appropriate in either slot, so each time we see an example like this we nudge "king" and "queen" a little closer together in some sense. However you also find phrases where they are not interchangeable, such as "The first born male will one day be ____". So when you see those examples you nudge "king" a little closer in some sense to other words which appropriately complete the sentence (which does not include "queen" in this case).

In this way, repeated over a giant training set with thousands of words, concepts like "male/female" and "royalty", "person/object" and tons of others end up getting reflected in the relationships between the vectors.

These vectors are then useful representations of words to ML models.
How generative AI is building better antibodies
I'm not aware of any other products, but I think the Bing Custom Search API might be able to solve your problem.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-custom-search...
I think you misunderstood the word crap in your original comment. It has several meanings including stuff.
People who left the labor force are simply those who no longer need work. FIRE people, women who got successfully married/successfully divorced, etc.
krans
It's hardly a shining example of livability, but the former Kowloon Walled City purportedly had a population density of over 1.9 million/km2. [0]

More realistically, we can see examples of nice residential neighborhoods in Washington DC ranging from 30,000-100,000+/km2. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

[1] https://ggwash.org/view/42469/what-do-80000-people-in-a-squa...
Effectively ending all minimum wages could actually be a big factor in making unemployment so low.

Is anyone looking into that idea?

Also how weird that we de facto ended minimum wage with no discussions. Just let it happen. Strange things happen when laws don’t account for inflation.
A nice dynamic DNS provider is afraid.org
What a content-free article. You used an AI to write this, right?
I do tailscale. wireguard and having to host an entrypoint is too much trouble
I also did something similar, plus all my home automation which is 98% local-first|only. My trip was just 3 weeks but on the first day leaving, between one plane and another, my power company had a 4hours extraordinary maintenance cut, my UPS didn't last enough and with that blackout the RPi SD card died, and I was locked out my LAN for all the trip.

Lesson learned: configure the UPS to communicate with the servers and shut them down in a controlled manner when batteries are dying.
I’m pretty sure that was a joke (but maybe yours is too?).
> What kind of nonsense statistic is an unemployment rate that doesn't count this fraction?

Retirees left the labor force and should not be counted as unemployed.

Immigrants on a visa that had to return to their countries after being fired left the labor force and should not be counted as unemployed.

Someone that was arrested left the labor force and should not be counted as unemployed.

Just a few examples.
> it is a realistic scenario that the small amount of legit pain is worth the incredibly reduced risk footprint.

Well, I guess it depends on the type of attacks one experiences, but hackers and spammers who target US-based businesses are not idiots, they know how to use vpns and tor and proxies. So on a technical level you get close to nothing security-wise. You reduce a number of bots and worms randomly accessing your servers, can stop some script kiddies who don't know better and make life a bit harder to web scrapers (but not much) - and that's it.
Python was released earlier than Ruby (1991 vs 1993/1995), and Matz was familiar with it. But Ruby is clearly an attempt at an object-oriented Perl rather than a Python mimic:

> I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language---OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language manic and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for, but couldn't find one.

https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html
most are food service and retail -jobs that work you like a rented mule. pay minimum wage,have no benefits and only give you 31 hours a week with a schedule that changes constantly.
Tech did the most over hiring over the past few years.
> What kind of nonsense statistic is an unemployment rate that doesn't count this fraction? It's not like those people still don't need a place to live and food to eat even if they can't find a job after six months of looking.

"leave the labor force for good" can be legitimate - think someone on a longer sabbatical, going FIRE (financially independent / retire early), going to an extended stay in prison or becoming a permanent stay-at-home parent.
Not true. Sometimes you come out ahead by having no income because income disqualifies you for various social services. This is a well known problem.
Colorado land-use bill is headed for a House-Senate showdown
Flutter Web will be used mostly to develop web applications and not web sites. So I think their approach "can" work as long as they can provide first class accessibility support and make sure that their custom rendering doesn't drain battery.

Though at our company we have adopted Flutter for mobile in a big way, I am still waiting it out for at least 2 years to see where Flutter web goes.
It's not objectively good for wages to increase.

As an extreme example, if the minimum wage went to $100/hr, inflation would skyrocket because demand for goods would skyrocket which would send prices for just about everything to the moon.

A metric that matters a lot more is purchasing power. It's better to make $10/hr if a dozen eggs cost $2 (20% of your hourly wage), compared to making $20/hr with a dozen eggs costing $6 (30% of your hourly wage).
Excellent point.

PYNQ transformed my experience on these boards.

I had a ZCU-104 on my desk for a year circa 2021. It took a while to wrap my head around given I have no background in embedded engineering, FPGA, or hardware eng. But that board was transformative to what I've seen over twenty years working around mobile, edge, and IoT products, particularly given the availability of the PYNQ stack and the fact that someone like me could take the same old Linux/GCC skills and port, run, and profile code there from x86 while getting wormhole effects from a few compiler switches that opened pathways to things none of us had ever seen before, at least not optimized the way they are there.
I edited my comment before I saw yours, sorry.
The simple right thing is hard to do. Go for it.
Ask HN: Those who respect/follow/enthusiastic about Buddhism, why do you do so?
Namo Buddhaya! Today is a special day(5th of May) for all Buddhist all around the world.

As person born in Buddhist country and as a Buddhist practitioner I have immense respect for Buddhism, because it explains certain things even science cannot explain and it is amazing to know about tremendous good deeds of Lord Buddha. And there are lot of other things to be said which will take lot of time, so I'll stop.

As I observed on HN there considerable number of Buddhist enthusiasts / practitioners since posts about Buddhism get considerable attention.

So my question to those people, why do you respect / follow / enthusiastic about Buddhism? And as an additional question what drew you in to Buddhism in the first place?

Note: This post, does not mean I do not respect other religions.
Omnipresent reminder that nobody knows how to do any of this securely and every 3rd-party text you add to an LLM's prompt (email, company slack, calendar, code) has the capability to reprogram your LLM to both execute malicious instructions and to exfiltrate data. And again, no one in the industry has any really demonstrable solutions

The next decade is going to be a security disaster, and nobody in the industry knows how to fix it, and the AI-agent proponents are basically sticking their heads in the sand over this because "there might be a fundamental security flaw in LLMs that makes this impossible to do" is just not a "fun" conversation to have.

Downstream of the parent comment we immediately have someone saying, "human oversight of this will of course be temporary until the AI gets smart enough." There's such a lack of perspective in the current computing industry of the risks involved here.

I'm starting to feel like the only way this narrative is going to change is for a company to actually get bitten by it, badly, and to have a bunch of internal secrets exfiltrated by a malicious email in a very public way. And even then, maybe the hype is too much, I don't know.
Trying to identify spoofing in GitHub? May the 4th (or 5th) be with you
Correlation truly does not imply causation. There's nothing "smartass" about it.
Have you tried investigating the config it produces and comparing that to what you ended up with on your failed attempts? Way back when I first started using OpenVPN installing a quick-setup in a VM was how I found a glaring mistake I'd been making (with routing, it turned out, not the OpenVPN config itself).

Not that it massively matters if you are happy with PiVPN of course, but understanding more may help you diagnose issues should PiVPN ever fail.
(define-solver yak-solver ()
(wax-car (car-needs-waxing have-hose)
(car-waxed)
(car-needs-waxing))
(get-new-hose (have-ez-pass)
(have-hose))
(borrow-ez-pass (return-mooshi-pillow)
(have-ez-pass))
(fix-mooshi-pillow (have-yak)
(return-mooshi-pillow))
(visit-zoo ()
(have-yak)))

(multiple-value-bind (ok? actions)
(yak-solver '(car-needs-waxing) '(car-waxed))
(assert ok?)
(assert (equal actions
'(VISIT-ZOO
FIX-MOOSHI-PILLOW
BORROW-EZ-PASS
GET-NEW-HOSE
WAX-CAR)))))
WireGuard/Tailscale are fine if you don't need to deal with state-wide censorship. They might be blocked quite easily.

Outline/Shadowsocks has better chances to keep working (though it is not a true vpn, more like a private proxy) https://getoutline.org/
I'm bullish on pgvector as well. Now that RDS supports it as well as plenty of other cloud providers it seems like a no-brainer to be able to stick with your existing stack (assuming it's postgres). Andrew Kane is such a prolific open-source maintainer as well.
Anything owned by Meta has a whole internal platform for serving government requests for many countries based on select criteria
It even says so in the paper, lol.
Yes they are. They’re very clear about this. They are trying to raise unemployment as a lever to reduce inflation. That is not to say they want unemployment to rise indefinitely, but they do want it to rise.
Visualizing 200 Years of Gold Mining Around the World
What does this have to do with Element - the reference client for the Matrix protocol, but still one amongst many - Briar - a peer-to-peer messaging app - or Mediafire, one of the oldest file hosting websites?
The Unbundling Fallacy
As opwieurposiu said, embeddings are high-dimensional vectors. Often, they're created by classic math techniques (e.g. principal component analysis), or they are extracted from a model that proved useful for something else.

For example, a neural net model accepts a massive number of input values that directly map to the input. So those initial values don't add any info. But a layer further inside the model, with fewer values and probably close to the end, is smaller and should reflect what the model's learned. Like a lot of deep learning, three values work but don't give much insight.

If I'm wrong, I hope somebody more knowledge corrects me. I got my understanding from basic into tutorials and Wolfram's essay on ChatGPT: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
I learned my lesson with AngularJS (v1) not to use Google’s frameworks for web dev ever again.
> The amount of ink spilled over parsing and parser generators is phenomenal when you consider how trivial parsing is compared to the other compilation phases.

Trying to find good resources for implementing type checking was a pain when I was doing my MSc project. Maybe it's partly due to how few projects get to serious stages like type checking or optimization passes.
Not everyone's search needs are the same. I gladly pay for Kagi every month, despite how at least 80% of people would never consider paying for whatever The Google already gives them. If you're fine with ads and limited control over your search results, then use The Google.

Also, there's more to providing a service than just server time.
https://layoffs.fyi/

Based on this, almost 200K tech workers out in 2023 alone with additional 160K gone in 2022. That is a lot of jobs. I'll caveat with saying these are not all in the US and that as a % of the total workforce, tech is not that large so impact on this unemployment number is low. Just pointing out the tech sector is by the numbers/facts available definitely cooling.
But slowing down means every vehicle is on road longer, so even more vehicles in peak traffic.

I think problem is that many of high speed roads are also very "interfering"; highway circling a city is not really a problem and can be decently isolated, but high speed road full of streets flowing into it just makes for many more chances for accidents.
Apple is a member of lots of groups. They were part of the Blu-ray consortium but never ever shipped a Blu-ray drive or blu-ray authoring support
By default, Grasp uses the HackerNews network, which is built from the top sites from HackerNews.

Here is a page about how it works: https://usegrasp.com/how
ZeroTier kept having random disconnects, long wait times until connection is established/settled, and desktop app weirdness/inconsistencies. Have these problems been fixed? (Last used it years ago).
> * Amazon and Kobo have both clawed back ebook purchases because I don't have a US credit card. This is a frequent conversation point amongst English and French speakers living here.

Kobo has an option to pay via PayPal, don't they? What you can do is change the Billing Information on your account so that your city/state/zipcode is somewhere in the United States, then save it--you don't actually have to give them credit card info. But Kobo will think you're in the US. Then try to make a purchase, and at the checkout screen, pay via PayPal. I don't think Kobo validates the origin of the PayPal payment (at least not according to other members of the MobileRead forums that have used this method). It should go through and purchase the book.

The other option is to get some friends to purchase Kobo gift cards on your behalf and add them to your account so that you have a balance. You can then use the billing info trick I mentioned above to change to whatever country you want, and buy your books. I use the gift card method quite frequently to buy books from Kobo UK store when they're not available in the US.
My schools (all of them) had open seating and free-for-alls in their open areas; at my high school, they didn’t even bother trying to keep us inside the grounds (which meant that we could, and did, go socialize with the neighborhood.) This is in a school system that contains roughly a million students, and (AFAIK) didn’t impose significant differences between individual schools.

I can’t imagine assigned seating working very well, except for at a very small school in a small district. Yours might not be a representative case.
> FIRE

Or just expand to any retirees not just those who do it early.
Big oil helped shape Stanford’s latest climate-research focus
Best bet is probably to have them own the house and step up in basis when they move on, if you're really worried about taxes.
> You can't just pipe wasm to the client to get the same effect.

I know what SSR is and you can do it[1] in Rust, where you write type-safe, compiled Rust code and send HTML/CSS/WASM to the browser. SSR was originally developed in things like Perl and PHP -- there's nothing language-specific about it.

> Besides being less efficient than JS at manipulating the DOM

Some applications manipulate DOM a lot (and WASM isn't slow enough for a well-written app to be noticeably slower to a user) and some applications do a lot of processing before changing the client. WASM will be dramatically faster at the latter.

1. https://wasmedge.org/book/en/write_wasm/rust/ssr.html
I'd say, maybe buy the physical book and pirate the Ebooks. I haven't been the best at this... I just buy the ebooks and strip them... But I suppose I could buy a physical book locally and have a loaner for a friend, or give it to charity
Until bankruptcies.

The Fed rate doesn't directly affect employment - at best it may encourage some larger businesses to postpone hiring, but most companies (outside tech, which a.) has some very good macroeconomists b.) intends to survive and c.) is unusually sensitive to cost of capital) aren't going to lay off people until their bottom line takes a hit that puts their survival in question. Smaller profitable companies aren't directly exposed to the cost of capital at all, because they fund operations out of cash flow.

The way interest hikes combat inflation is that they make certain lines of business unprofitable, which makes companies either voluntarily shutter them or go out of business for being unprofitable, which frees up the workers involved in those businesses to compete for core, need-to-have industries like food and logistics, which holds down wages. This is happening in tech, but it hasn't filtered down into the broader economy. And it needs to - even if you lay off everyone who "learned to code" in the last 10 years and force them back to working retail, there are still way more job openings than workers.

We'll see unemployment go up when we see major Fortune 500 companies go bankrupt, and we'll see inflation drop sustainably when people are on bread lines.
Shhhh don’t tell the people from California. I like my cheap housing prices coupled with a west coast salary.
You are not wrong. Books have been written about how the whole capitalist system is just masked exploitation—including a very famous one by one Karl Marx in 1867. But you must see the scale at play here. When bosses are getting millions upon millions of dollars, hundreds of millions even, and shareholders are in the billions, this is capitalism turned to eleven (and don’t get me wrong capitalism turned to 1 is still bad for workers).

> What benefit does a board of directors have over helping out the CEO (an employee as well) vs customers and employees?

Note I say workers. Even though a CEO is technically “employed” by the company, they are still very much a boss, a part of the owning class, and part of the problem. When the pitchforks come up, they will very much be directed at CEOs. This is why CEOs help out their fellow bosses and shareholders. Class solidarity is very much a reality for the owning and ruling classes.
Urbanists don't view the fact that more people are choosing to travel as good, because of the destructive effects of that travel (noise, pollution, parking, etc.)
Sounds interesting. It‘s cool they found an OK way to approximate the assembly index given that it sounds like something uncomputable (will have to read the paper but it sounds like computing something like Kolmogorov complexity in some model of computation).
I don't see e-fuel as a mass market thing, I see it mainly as something for motorsport, sportscars, and airplanes. Toys and energy density sensitive applications. If some rally or F1 cars use ICE with e-fuel and the audience get there with battery electric cars and buses I don't think that's an issue, quite the opposite. Sound is a big part of motorsport. Same thing with sportscars, even though I'll never afford one I like that there are Lamborghini and Ferrari V12 around.

I've tried watching Formula E, it's very boring.
Not finding a job while being told my background is impressive yet not quite the right fit. As though it will never be the right fit for anything.
If Youtube isn’t paying them enough, perhaps they should consider sponsorships!
Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down (2018)
I take an almost opposite view. I think there is actually an issue of trying to use a document model as a basis for an interactive user interface. In that sense flutter is actually an improvement over things like React. The whole idea of representing UI interactions by changes to a document model is absurd. We have had decades of experience building UI toolkits that target interactive interfaces. Then it all went in the garbage because it all had to go "on the web".