skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't. "Digital" is considered an anglicism when used in that sense. "Numérique" or "virtuel" is what's typically used instead.
Probably PEBCAK, but even the best mirrors according to

https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status

still seem unsynced on my arch systems.
Creating “value” for shareholders, “value” for your clients… I started to really dislike the use of value without a descriptor. It often feels like it implies the work of nurses, teachers, first-responders isn't as valuable as the work of software development or finance. Just because some jobs have a higher monetary value, doesn't mean its societal value is also high.
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but really, society has an extraordinary array of often incoherent desires

we're trapped in an excruciating process of experiencing these desires assert and resolve themselves
You are allowed to include more than once sentence in a paragraph here. It would substantially improve your comment.
Two favorite books of mine I've seldom seen mentioned but I think are gems: The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Time out of joint, both by Philip K. Dick. The first plays with several layers of reality along the book. One time I found myself re-reading some passages because there were so many layers it was hard to follow, but it's worth it. The second is (if I recall correctly) the inspiration for a 90s pop movie starring Jim Carrey. I won't mention the name because it might give away some plot points.
Yes my experience is with public librarians, not the academic side.

I agree with your post and I'm not clear what our disagreement is. My point is that people are choosing these jobs because they are ok with the tradeoffs. They are being compensated, even if it's not with money. You describe benefits of being a librarian.

For example:

> They're still doing valuable, dangerous work and are literally in charge of keeping people alive

Yes and somehow people still sign up, so it looks like the wages + intangible benefits package is working.

> my program none of my peers ever mentioned that being why they were here

These kinds of life tradeoffs are rarely articulated. In fact I would argue that the savior/sacrificial narrative you describe is likely a polite screen to hide motivations like "I'm afraid of jobs where I can lose my spot if I perform poorly".
I agree entirely with your reasoning. But just watching what has happened to numerous Google products in the last decade (perhaps starting with Google reader?), it has become clear to me that Google's ad revenue is what wags the dog, so to speak, regardless of long-term considerations.
ChatGPT makes junior devs and 1st tier support almost obsolete.
Could NASA resurrect the Spitzer space telescope?
Indeed, but I'm not claiming it's always faster to check than to produce. Simply that when it is the case, using GPT-4 can be worth it. It is to me - I use it daily.
I've recently been enjoying "The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells.
"a lot of those buildings have large loans against them that may well become greater than the value of the buildings"

You can drop the "may well". They are, right now, full stop. Massively underwater.

The so-called "Harvard Business School types" always advocate for businesses to take on a lot of debt to get that sweet sweet leverage, and a lot of real estate has been mortgaged for a long time. That's not really new.

But prolonged zero-percent interest rates made it both extremely appealing by making it seem like there was no downside: Don't get enough rents? It's OK, you can always roll over your debt for virtually free and try again later. 0% interest is deceptively close to real money if you get too far into "Harvard Business School" analysis and detach from reality too much... but it isn't real money. Enough people made this analysis that prices pushed up in the commercial space just like residential; in theory, at super low interest rates the value of the buildings would converge on the rents being able to cover only the interest, because someone would bid them higher until they reach that point. Don't have to worry about principal, can always roll that over.

But they don't get fixed-rate 30-year-mortgages in that space. Honestly, nobody does except homeowners in the United States. When the interest rates finally go up, you can't even come close to covering the interest on those rents. The cascade of all of that happening to the entire market at once is pretty severe.

So in this scenario, the businesses owning these buildings go bankrupt pretty quickly once rent has to come down at all. But that's not the real problem. Those businesses dissolve, but somebody else acquires the assets generally. The problem is that when they dissolve, they take their mortgage payments with them. Now the mortgage the bank is holding is worthless. They get to repossess a building in a rapidly deflating market. They are not particularly excited about this. As a result, the bonds for this sort of asset get marked down even more.

Fortunately, the American banking system is strong, sound, resilient, and well-capitalized, I am reliably assured. So it's not a problem that the $2.9 trillion in commercial real estate loans the banking system holds as of May 10th [1] are looking at pretty significant haircuts and massive loss of collateral. (Not necessarily as bad as SF, being the biggest bubble it'll see some of the biggest drops, but definitely large double-digit percentage drops are going to be the norm across the board.) The banks are doing strongly and soundly in all their other metrics so they'll be able to handle this just fine.

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h8/current/ , Table 2, line 15, last column.
You can have both, it just requires so much open zoning and building that you can satisfy international and local demand.

International real estate can be a boom, if someone in China owns an apartment in Vancouver, everyone else is free riding on their property taxes. They are paying for busses they never use, park maintenance on parks they never visit, fire/police/medical emergency services he never calls. This would be great if Vancouver built enough to let everyone who wants to be there be there
I really enjoyed the Bobiverse books, but could understand why folks who favor authoritarian theocracies as a government structure might feel that the novels don’t convey zealots that start planet-destroying conflicts optimistically.
It's a classic Apple move to leak rumors of extremely high prices and then announcing only medium high prices that make people feel like it's cheap.

The original iPad was rumored to cost $1500 to $1800. So when they finally announced it "only" cost $500 people couldn't believe how cheap it was in comparison.
> Having all these easily accessible on the outside of the building (instead of having to open up walls or floors)

Don’t buildings like these usually have access panels for maintenance? Plus a lot of “fake” paneling, especially on ceilings, that’s easy to remove to access all the piping it hides?

But when these things are outside, now you need a crane instead of just ladders.

Even without access panels, opening and replacing some segments of drywall sounds pretty easy compared to working on a building’s facade.
There are SSDs on the market that use all of their TLC flash as SLC cache, so you can almost use them as SLC drives if you partition them to leave 2/3 empty.

Eg the ADATA XPG SX8200. Look for whole drive fill speed benchmarks, if they use the whole drive as cache, the first third is fast (usually the SLC area is much smaller).
This is genius!

But I couldn't find the thumb up and thumb down emojis. How am i supposed to make it guess Gladiator?
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Of course I'm willing to change my mind, but so far no one has ever given a compelling argument. I just follow Occam's razor.

> The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics appears to directly contradict your claims of hard determinism being the only valid explanation of reality

OK, fundamental physics might not follow hard determinism (or not in a way that we currently understand), but please, indeterminism says nothing about free will, human thoughts, or anything related to that. If you want to say the human brain follows the same physics rules as everything else in the universe, and that this implies some indeterminism, sure. That's almost certainly correct. But where do thoughts arise from that?

If you sprinkle randomness on the process, I'll agree with you; but nothing in physics even suggests ANY link between indeterminism, superposition, etc. and thought. So my point still stands: free will as we usually envision it has no reason to exist. The fact that particles can be in two states at once does NOT contradict this.
I like Ivan Efremov’s works, if you can find those in English.

Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo is now steaming on AppleTV).
digical sounds better
Them: I have nothing to hide.

Me: Ok, what is your salary?

Them: uhh... let's change the subject
> I honestly doubt that these make your life easier. Please explain if you have one of these what drew you to this?

Moving to a custom 34 key layout fixed my RSI, which has been an amazing benefit for me.

Of course, the tradeoff is that my layout is far more complex than a standard layout, and it has required a lot of time to tweak it to where it is now.

For me, it's been one of the best decisions of my programming career (together with learning Vim).
SF is particularly tough for this - they've built up so much structural inertia in their government that even if you get someone who's incredibly competent, they're still wildly unlikely to get anything done. I actually think pretty Breed is a pretty good choice for the job, but I have no faith whatsoever in her ability to create meaningful change because of the system she's working in.
I heartily second Ted Chiang. He is an expert at the craft of the short story despite it being his first whole compilation that was published.

Short stories have historically been the way science fiction was popularized starting in the early 1900s. Novels and series would develop out of those successful shorts or if an author becomes successful enough.
I liked The Prefect and its sequel, which are also in there Revelation Space universe but take place during its heyday rather than in the post apocalypse.

Chasm City is also a pretty incredible whodunnit/thriller. I liked that the Reynolds books tie together but also kind of stand alone, so you're not stuck reading them in order.
GPT has poor quality in many professional fields, such as IT, biology, and finance, whether for native or non native writers
It has already been closed for works for more than 2 years from 1997 to 2000, at a large cost of 88 millions €.
I doubt Apple discusses pricing with the people it gives demos too or even partners creating content. The only people who know the price are finance, marketing, and C-level.
Par for the course, looks like: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

The big difference being that Android is an Open Source project, so you can build an Android phone with all of the OEM spyware removed. The same cannot be said for, say, iOS. You just have to be happy with it, backdoors and all.
A lot of people with a lot of power make a lot of money from those costs.
To all of the armchair experts on HN who want to criticize this project and its maintenance costs: you better make sure you understand the (very French) politics that made this an utter pain for everyone involved, along with the constraints of the time at which this was designed and built.

The engineering work done by Arup to make this project work was utterly amazing. I suggest this as a small bit of weekend reading that might kick off further exploration:

https://www.arup.com/perspectives/would-the-pompidou-get-bui...
You folks need to break your very bad habit of using acronyms without expansion. First you must spell it out; then you may use the acronym.

Not that it would be a valid excuse, but the article never even explains what "DEI" is. In fact, the word "equity", which may be the "E" in DEI, only appears once in the article, and never as an expansion of the acronym.

The only thing in the article that could be construed to be an explanation of the acronym is the phrase, “diversity, fairness and inclusion”, which could presumably be abbreviated "DFI", not "DEI".

I don't know why unexplained acronyms have crept into daily usage, but the only way it improves communication is by telegraphing "I'm too cool for words". This tells me a lot more about the writer than the subject.

Ad maiorem DEI gloriam, please expand your acronyms the first time you use them!
I heard Brother is following the same dark pattern.

Is the company aware of why they’re so loved/respected these days?
Track Mining in the Rainforest
This isn't particularly surprising if true, as I've seen several demos of similar on Two Minute Papers, and even before them considered a 3D video chat system which just sent depth info from the depth sensor along with the normal RGB info.

I even made a proof-of-concept of my own at some point in… I think 2018?… which was just recording locally and playing back with Apple's own AR libraries.

Honestly, it was so easy I'm surprised it isn't already standard the same way custom backgrounds and 3D overlays (hats, face-paint, etc.) already are.
The same is true on Android today. You are asked for permissions the first time the app needs them, not at installation time. And various things require various permissions, you don't get asked in bulk.
Android also reaps permissions that haven't been used recently. In the case of location, Android prompts for renewal even if it has been used recently.
Great project!

Nit: Personally would prefer rounded corners.
My only hope is that because leases aren't all going to come due at once, there won't be a total collapse because everyone's simultaneously selling at fire-sale prices.
Stopped reading at ‘Nintendo isn’t petty enough.’

I guess you’re not involved with the fan gaming or fan content communities, whatsoever? :3

Nintendo is the textbook definition of petty with their copyright. It’s honestly brutal and disappointing. I much prefer SEGA’s strategy, even if they’re not perfect, either.
With the recent advancements in LLM/AI, I've been thinking more and more about Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" (also titled "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer").

One of the major plot points is the development of a sophisticated interactive book that patiently individually educates and entertains one of the characters; greatly positively impacting her life.

We're much closer to being able to build that now than we were 6 months ago.
Structural downturn in commercial real-estate in SF and other big cities. Interest rates made it worse but it isn't primarily cyclical.

Too much crime, poor quality of life, and remote work.

No one wants to live there except sycophants.
Yeah I read everything written in the Revelation Space Universe. Also Chasm City is really good.
Asimov wrote too widely to recommend “all of him”.

For an entrance into Asimov and his incredible Sci-Fi voice, check out “I, Robot” and the Robot detective series. He was really the originator of the term and popular idea “robot” and “robotics.” He would eventually turn to writing popular science to mixed results.
It depends on the subject matter.

For many subjects you can record metrics that can be analyzed over time and then use statistical techniques to predict future values for those metrics.

The question then becomes inferring what may / will happen if the metrics hit their predicted values.

Then you have second and third order effects that come from the predicted first order effects. That is, if metric X hits the predicted value and Y occurs as a result, what will party A do as a result? or how will Z be impacted?

>> Do you have any ideas on how to train this kind of thinking so that it becomes second nature?

Practice. You must track and analyze the metrics data and practice making predictions and doing analysis.

It is very subject-dependant. Predicting the weather is quite different from predicting stock markets which is quite different from predicting geo-politics.
I got accused of cheating once in a college intro class because my paper was ‘too good’. They had no actual evidence, it’s just that I spent a lot of time on it. It really pissed me off and was one of the reasons I took only the bare minimum of non-math/engineering classes. In math no one ever accused me of cheating if I came up with a clever proof so it felt a lot more respectful.
Always surprised as to how expensive those bills are.

Anyway, of all the Parisian museums it was the one I enjoyed far the least.
Le Mur in Fermont, Quebec.

It’s a massive building in the north of Quebec that contains essentially everything you’d need to avoid going out in the cold Canadian winter: apartments, stores, a school, even a strip club and a prison. It also serves as a wind block for the rest of the town that grew up around it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/02/fermonts-inhabitable-w...
They mentioned vaultwarden, which is a self-hosted backend for Bitwarden
Software development is hard, just this is a forum full of people who are good at it
There is even a law proposal for "economic coercion" in the EU:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...

I tried to read it, but it was either too vague or beyond my reach.

For the background, particularly Lithuania has been a subject of China's aggressive coercion:

https://www.cfr.org/blog/analysis-chinas-economic-coercion-a...
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It feels more relevant now than ever and there is now a direct Polish->English translation.
Definitely the right solution in my book, but conversions are going to take a lot of time both from the side of government regulation changing to allow it and just in terms of the physical construction work needed.
All custom keyboards should support something like QMK or ZMK, making them completely programmable, so you can have any messed-up layout you want :)
It’s particularly underhanded to start by talking about a book in the 90s, conflating it with books today, lauding the book from the 90s and then concluding everyone who has any criticism of what their children is being taught at all is a bigot. “Heather has two mommies” is not germane to what is happening currently.

Yes, lots and lots of idiots have banned perfectly good books. No, we shouldn’t hide sex education from children. But should 5 year olds be told that if they’re not feeling normal, they might not a boy or a girl, but something else?

I don’t have an answer to that question - but I have to say as a parent I had to stop reading when parent rights were put in scare-quotes. As if participating in your own children’s education is backwards.

Obviously this is all a million shades of grey, I’m not making any blanket accusations, and I’m not trying to ban any book. But parents should be involved in their children’s educations, full stop.
Should the viewing of a murder be illegal or the murder itself or both?

Should the reason we view change what should be viewed? If someone is viewing for pleasure is that a crime, if someone is viewing for healing does that change how we treat them?

Is someone's dead a privacy issue? Should deaths be personal and viewing such an act break privacy laws?

What about fake murder and rape pictures? What about newsworthy pictures/video?

Should we shield society from its negative elements or normalize them?
Is Redis safe? I make a SET request and before the data is written to disk, if Redis crashes, my data is gone for good, right?

edit: Redis supports fsync at every query in AOF mode

https://redis.io/docs/management/persistence/#ok-so-what-sho...
That's not an ethics argument. As could be inferred by the fact that it is in favor of paying a lesser amount tangible property due to the arguable benefit of an intangible concept that no one owns.

However, meaningfullness can't be accounted for given any individual teacher. Some hate their job, just as in every other profession.

Instead, it's a justification for offering less property for work.

It is not dissimilar, and may be ethically worse, to the hypothetical justification to lessen funding for homeless people: "well, at least they are getting fresh air".
At least it has a concrete definition unlike vaguely defined words like "transpile".
The Bobiverse series is amazing. Yes, there is a faction of religious extremists, but honestly it came off as pretty realistic to me, lol.
With simple guidance, you wouldn't believe how good Chat-GPT is at drafting motions, writing complaints, writing responses to complaints, writing patent applications, sorting through documents in discovery, etc. That's 90% of the legal profession, right there.

The "written" component of lawyering, which is effectively everything that cannot be done face to face, is right in Chat-GPT's wheelhouse.

It's not perfect. It lacks in research capabilities, so it needs its hand held from time to time. And it isn't great at thinking up "creative" strategies -- but this is arguably a feature, not a bug. Creative lawyering, like creative accounting, tends to be a net societal harm.
Gene Wolfe - "The Shadow of the Torturer" - 4 books series called The Book of the New Sun
Not just Unix like. For example macOS is fully unix certified:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm
Suppliers are motivated by demand. Consumption of CP causes child exploitation.
There are multiple angle to this.

1) ARM on Windows, That is basically Snapdragon or Samsung Exynos and MediaTek. Nvidia will either have to go alone at the cut throat competitive SoC market, or partner with somebody. All the contender are basing their design on Flagship Mobile Phones, while Nvidia's Tegra are aiming at high margin market with a much lower volume. So it make sense to explore potential partnership with Mediatek if they want that market. And any IP sold to Mediatek targeting ARM on Windows doesn't hurt any of their current revenue source anyway.

2) Not seen mentioned anywhere on the net is Nintendo. The next generation of Switch will, or should be compatible with the current Switch. The problem is Nvidia doesn't have any solution. Nor do I believe Nvidia will work with Nintendo like AMD did with PS5 and Xbox on Custom solution. Tegra on Nintendo was merely because Nvidia needed to offload volume for the SOC. But Tegra is no longer in that category with Nvidia is focusing on HPC and AV. It does make sense for Nvidia to license their IP to Mediatek just so that Nintendo could have a new chip. Mediatek are also happy to work with tight margin products. Getting Mediatek on Nintendo should have some other marketing advantage for Mediatek as well.

3) ARM is finally hiking price on their GPU IP. Which make sense considering previously it was more like a cheap, subsidise or even freemium model that comes with ARM's CPU. But now ARM need to do another IPO. So things are changing, pricing model are changing. This could just be some PR news Mediatek use in negotiation tactics.
In Defense of Pure 16-Bit Floating-Point Neural Networks
"...Reducing the number of bits needed to encode the weights and activations of neural networks is highly desirable as it speeds up their training and inference time while reducing memory consumption...Our findings demonstrate that pure 16-bit floating-point neural networks can achieve similar or even better performance than their mixed-precision and 32-bit counterparts. We believe the results presented in this paper will have significant implications for machine learning practitioners, offering an opportunity to reconsider using pure 16-bit networks in various applications..."
I am wondering when Apple will start putting a second camera onto iPhones with proper pupil distance, so people can start taking 3D photos and videos in landscape format. That would be a real "whole family" use case...

Some years ago I made 3D photos of a wedding with a physical dual camera setup. That was quite a pain to get exposure etc. synchronized and postprocessed. Still the pictures look amazing on a quest. Nowadays this could all be super easy.