skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true. Only around 60% of Americans reside in the state they were born in.

Whereas the median foreign born population in the EU in total is around 10-15%, and an even smaller percentage of that is internal EU migration.

In both cases it's going to be migration from say New York to New Jersey, or The Netherlands to Belgium. So in terms of tearing up your roots it's not much of a move.

But Americans routinely move from say Miami to Seattle or whatever for a job. Distance-wise that's like Ireland to Greece or Turkey.

We Europeans simply don't do that at the same rate, although it's gradually on the increase.
Yud on one hand believes that AI is an actual *VERY LITERAL* existential humanity of which it is completely 100% paramount to get the rest of humanity on board with preventing our own destruction.

And yet he doesn't think it is worth the effort to take off his trilby hat in order to come across as marginally more respectable to the average person? When the way he is choosing to present himself is undermining his own message then yes, it is worth bringing up.
Yes. In the context of the article, a brain tuning device is not going to help around those handicaps.
Elimination of venue-based reviews is an interesting proposition. I’ll have to think on that.

The contrast between ML and physics is equally interesting, and seems to corroborate the experience of another poster, who expresses doubt about removing peer-review from long-haul studies in biological sciences. I’m still struggling to put a finger on why exactly this difference might exist, though.

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts :)
I've sent faxes in America within the last 2 years; they're still a thing here too.
The Hanford site is one of the most polluted places in the country, due to the plutonium production reactors and processing facilities which dumped open waste years before environmental concerns were on the table. They also ran production reactor water straight out into the river and contaminated areas downstream.

The authoritative book on Hanford[0] is published by the DOE. Another excellent book on Hanford and its "sister city" in Russia is Plutopia[1].

[0] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc737111/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutopia
The Fed can create and destroy any amount of US dollars with a simple database transaction.
Don't autoimmune disorders get WORSE in "cleaner" environments?
Host a kernel.org or Debian or gentoo or some other mirror for awhile. Talk to the maintainers first so they realize it'll be a "short term" mirror which they may not want to hassle with.
Privacy matters when it's privacy from predators, and their number is only growing. You don't want a group of opportunistic burglars to know when you aren't home and what you keep inside. Similarly you want to keep bigger predators blind: adtech, three letter agencies and so on. The utopia you're describing will come true when there are no more predators, and mankind is far from that stage.
I think you're talking about reverse of QE. This will reduce bank's reserves at the fed, but doesn't affect money supply or retail deposits. When a private investor buys a bond the cash goes to the seller, it doesn't disappear.
I think this again points to the difference between management and leadership. The emotional side of it -- the people side of it -- is leadership. It's coaching. It's understanding that everyone is an individual and has their own needs, as well as their own trauma and baggage. Leadership is knowing how to get everyone to work together towards a common cause. It requires empathy and compassion, as well as a strong understanding of the business.

I'm not saying AI could never do that, but the current generation of AI is nowhere near this capability. It'll take innovation beyond LLMs to get there.
Right. The point is that capitalism is the economic system built to optimally remove money from you and redistribute it to owners. So sure the idea wouldn't work because it would be making the game explicit (as you say, "too on the nose"), rather than hiding it behind mythology. Another point of the article is that the AI hype is also all about playing this game (disciplining workers so that their labor can be more effectively exploited), and not anything about the actual labor that people do.
Mathematical Writing, by Don Knuth, Tracy Larrabee and Paul Roberts [1987, PDF]
> No, I understood your intent

Seems to me you did not.

> I don't really agree that it makes sense to individualize risk like this so that one person gets completely ruined by freak occurrences.

An earthquake in California is not a freak occurrence. A fire in a fire prone area is not a freak occurrence. A hurricane in Florida is not a freak occurrence. A sink hole in Florida is not a freak occurrence. People not living in those areas should not be forced to subsidize those that do. It's not like people are being dropped in large numbers yet or that State Farm was the only insurer.

> Maybe if we're talking about particularly high-risk zones, but the entire state of California, inhabited by 44mn people and spanning more than half the West Coast, should be left out to dry?

Maybe California makes it too hard to refuse service to only certain people and this is the only way to handle it? Do you honestly believe they would leave money on the table if they didn't have to? There are other insurers there.
So, I think you understand computers really well. I think you probably have a good enough understanding of investing, economics.

What I think you're missing the understanding of what money is, and the history of money. This is why gold gets brought up.

In the last some thousand years gold evolved as a world standard for trade. Why? It had some good properties; physically tough and lasting, common enough for people to find / rare enough to be difficult to debase (holds value), you can melt it and shape it (divisible), etc. Gold permeated all societies because it was the "winner" of precious metal monies, and good technology tends to spread, giving it network effects.

Your US dollars were originally just paper notes promising redemption for gold at your bank. We traded those notes around because we had enough trust in a system now for it to be convenient for us.

At some point, governments decided it wanted to they wanted more control over money/economy, and essentially forced a fiat standard on the population. This is the great monetary experiment we are living now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

If you can contextualize what money is, the history of money dating back thousands of years, then you can start to see how crypto has a lot of advantages over metal money, as well as fiat money.
Good point, an important part of the resilience of the grid is the fact that there are hardly any significant points of failure.
I doubt that it is the main feature. RBE is difficult to deploy and consequently rarely used. On the other hand of you assume that 99% of bazel invocations are done by google, then weighted that way RBE is nearly universal.
Third party Reddit apps should just start letting users bring their own API credentials as each user gets access to a free tier of API access of 100 queries a minute which is plenty.
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You're thinking of adaptive cruise control. Automatic breaking only activates when you're about to crash.
Ah, for a world where the Apple III was one of the best business machines around.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_applelisasarketingCata...

For those who don't know, Jobs got to the Apple III design before anyone could stop him:

https://www.cultofmac.com/541415/apple-iii-overheating-mothe...

> Steve Jobs insisted that the computer not feature a cooling fan. He also dictated the Apple III’s size and shape, without concern for what this would mean for electrical engineers. This resulted in the overheating motherboard, and Apple’s “just drop your computer” workaround.

https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/

> One such flaw was overheating, which could cause some of the system’s integrated chips to move or dislodge as they expanded. An obvious solution would be the addition of fans and adequate ventilation, but Jobs hated the relatively loud fans found on many computers of the day, and didn’t want to mar the Apple III’s design with ugly vents. So the Apple III shipped without any fans or vents, relying instead on a design that utilized a massive aluminum heat sink that formed the base of the computer.

> Without proper heat dissipation, computer magazine BYTE reported in 1982, the Apple III’s “integrated circuits tended to wander out of their sockets.” Owners of affected systems would begin to see garbled data on the screen, or notice that disks inserted into the system would come out warped or even “melted.”

> These problems affected Apple’s own employees, too, with one of the company’s early engineers, Daniel Kottke, picking up his Apple III and slamming it down on the desk out of frustration. To his surprise, the computer “jumped back to life.”

> Apple’s support engineers offered Apple III customers a similar solution:

> Apple recommended users facing problems with the Apple III lift the computer two inches and drop it, as this would set the circuits back in place.
This almost got me into a serious accident, twice. Definitely would not recommend and I switched cars because of it. The last thing I need is buggy software with the capability of instantly changing the trajectory of my vehicle (slippery surfaces, cornering). A brand car as well (MB) so really, really disappointed, what should have been a safety feature actually was the opposite. Dealer said everything was fine so that was the end of that car, if 'fine' means that you have a couple of close calls in the first few thousand km on account of a feature that can't even be properly disabled without sabotaging the electronics then that's just too bad.

Now I drive a 27 year old car that has none of these 'features'. It does what I tell it to and when I tell it to, it doesn't phone home, and has no touch screen, but old fashioned buttons.

If the government wants to immediately improve car safety they should outlaw touchscreens instead.
While this is a single headline picked out from multiple pages of detail information, the economy (both US and worldwide) has certainly seen better times.

For the last few months, especially the smaller, regional banks in the US felt the effects of fear the recent collapses have caused. That said, with the general slow-down and the risky game the SVB and others were playing, this had to happen eventually.
If you're going to refuse to use common definitions and usages for words, even when used within appropriate context, I don't really know what to do with a completely different reality

Lets go with dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lost

> no longer possessed or retained:

Now lets substitute that into the editorialized title

"US banks no longer possessed or retained $472B in deposits in the Q1 2023"

Wow, it still makes sense.

Lets go to the FDIC now.
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/crisis/chap6.pdf

> On the other hand, the bank’s franchise value (if any)
is lost

> For example, some assets might have lost value because asset management

> In addition to the fees, loan
servicing transfers may impose indirect costs, such as lost information or delays or miscommunications in
addressing delinquencies.

> A senior tranche is the least risky tranche in a securitization and takes losses only when all the other tranches
have lost their full value.

It doesn't seem like the FDIC has any issue with using the word "lost" in the context of "numbers went down"
Will Rust keep growing? Yes, I think so.

Will it turn into a C++-like monster? I don't know. Maybe, but when it comes to C++ it always feels like its "monster" status is largely a result of previous mistakes or early design decisions piling up, and causing trouble (eg. C-style arrays, exceptions, implicit conversions, fiddly sum types rather than first class support, no pattern matching etc.).

Rust will grow large, and probably complicated, but the real issue with C++ are all these past mistakes and a shaky foundation, and Rust is doing much, much better in that regard. Time will tell if we'll eventually look back some of Rust's design decisions as bad or unwieldy (probably).
Generally in agreement with the article. This bit was confusing to me, though.

> Moving with the arrow keys, erasing text by holding backspace for an eternity feels slow, but it is predictable and reliable. Vim or Emacs-style editing, where you fly through the buffer with keybindings, feels faster, but a single wrong keypress puts your editor in some unpredictable state it can be hard to recover from.

I've been using neovim for about a year now. I don't think I've ever entered a state from a mis-click that is hard to recover from yet. The worst case scenarios tend to result in something taking comparable time to if a mouse was used.
Apple says the App Store is a $1.1T business
This isn’t true (that your hypothesis is mainstream), there is no evidence the virus itself was more severe or resulted in more severe illnesses than expected to support the impaired immune system theory[0].

There is endless literature on this but the majority of “mainstream medicine” subscribes to the “every kid got sick at once for the first time” theory[0-2].

Anecdotally, I was working at a pediatric hospital for parts of the RSV wave and my conversations with PICU/ER colleagues was condordant with literature in this space.

[0] https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/149/2/e20210...

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147330992...
Yes, because the automatic braking 'feature' can cause you to crash.
We do, just not on every tool and widget.

I think you make a lot of insulting assumptions about other people. I'm sure there are many who are more frugal than me for their personal reasons, but it's not some personal failure not to be persuaded to rent a particular product.
I guess what really would make that lift off is if that system would be considerably better at that than the average CEO. It wouldn't even matter if it was cheaper then.
I’m pretty gutted they wound up. Such a unique studio
The thing that's espcially nice about that interop is that Zig includes its own C compiler. That eliminates the pain of having a build script locate an installed C compiler and figure out what options should be passed to it.
Introducing Meta Quest 3
That is going to be a factor in getting people to migrate. Convenience matters more than outrage. Lemmy's decentralization makes it a bother for most people. If they can't get instant gratification, they'll just go back to reddit.
The cognitive dissonance of being a company that makes all its money spying on users, has a profit motivation to prevent others from spying on users, and needing to pretend to take the moral high ground for PR reasons at the same time.
https://seegull.org/

You can read our “Constitution” / Articles in the link

We’re “fundraising” now which is basically just issuing debt based on a negotiated interest rate and due date, so if you know anyone with 5k or more to spare that would be great. Obviously regular capitalist investors want nothing to do with us, which just makes it harder/slower and that’s ok.
That is the same point made in the post you are replying to.
I wonder if there is a way to "export changes to git", such that you can download some sort of script (or apply some cherry-picked git changes) from an external source?

In this case, you would press "export changes to git" and then somehow apply them to your local repo, and bam, all the changes transferred without having to actually change any files.

One problem with this is that the changes in the browser are done on the distribution (bundled) files. Maybe using source-maps it could still be possible.
A whole lot of people discovered their banks would manage spreading it around to keep it under $250k after the SVB collapse. I wonder if that's related.
The problem is not a single subscription. The problem is that today everything is a subscription. So you end up paying 600 euros per month from 20 subscriptions of "just 30 euros" and if you don't pay attention, you can even pay more.
"Several fires involving large amounts of unsellable hand sanitizer have broken out across the country in the past year, from Dallas to downtown Los Angeles. "

I know of a State University near me that has an old moldy warehouse full of this stuff right next to a printing warehouse, gas warehouse, & a mechanic shop with gasoline/diesel/nat. gas. pumps... Well really hope it doesn't catch fire.
Yes. GitHub used to (still has?) a one free account per person limit. I like to keep my personal account and my work account separate, especially with different SSH keys and access tokens, so I pay for a Pro account.

The idea that some weekend, hobby, side project uses the same GitHub credentials as my day job is enough for me to justify the cost. I probably could use two free accounts on the sly, but for a service I use professionally (freelance contractor) it's easy to justify and not worth the ban (however unlikely).

My usage doesn't exceed the free tier on either account, so I could combine to a free account if I wanted.
I'm nearly certain that your's is the only field that does anything like re-experimentation then. I'm in biotechy fields and it's a totally different beast out here man.
Your examples are not inherent rights that copyright law explictly grants to rights holders. They are clever side effect of how the holder licenses out their monopoly on reproduction.

Holders rarely grant unrestricted reproduction rights to anyone. Reproduction rights licenses always come with a bunch of explicit restrictions, for example: "You may reproduce this novel, in print, unmodified, only for retail sale, in North America, on this quality of paper, for the next 5 years" and so on.

The party has the license to reproduce the song as a standalone audio recording, but attaching it to a video and reproducing the combined work isn't covered and the party must enter into negotiations with the rights holder for a new license. Such licenses often only grant the rights to reproduce it with that exact video and not a different one later, which allows the rights holder to gain control over which videos their song is attached to.

Same thing with holding morality over political events. The rights holder was careful to add a bunch of restrictions to that public performance license they sell. Sure, the politician might have bought a licence, but they forgot to check the small print that blocks their type of event from actually using it.

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Machine learning is kind of like compression, yes... It can be a useful analogy at times.

But it is absolutely nothing like lossy video compression. It's not compressing a single file or object. The only way you could train it on a 4k video and get a 420p video out is if that model was extremely over-fitted. The resulting model would likely be bigger than a 420p h264 video file and useless for anything else.

The way that machine learning is like a compression is that it find common patterns across it's entire training set and merges them in very lossy ways.

And it's actually very much like how a human brain works. Your brain doesn't start from scratch for every single human face you recognise. Instead, your brain has built up a generic understanding of the average human face, grouping by clusters of features. Then to remember a given human face it just remembers which cluster of features it's close to and then how it differs... Which is a form of lossy compression.

> No person can produce a 420p video just by consuming a 4k video

But many people do remember entire songs, complete with lyrics and music. And people with musical skills can (and often do) reproduce that song from memory as a cover... Which is copyright infringement if preformed publicly or otherwise distributed.

> nor can any machine learning model gain the emotional constructs and social contexts that human brains get from learning.

There are many things which large LLMs like chatgpt are absolutely incapable of doing. People do over hype their capabilities.

But in my experiments, chatgpt is actually quite good at tasks that require interpreting emotions and social contexts. Does it actually understand these emotions and social contexts? shrug. But if it doesn't actually understand that just proves that true understanding isn't actually needed to preform useful tasks in those areas.
Money is just debits and credits, not paper bills.

A $1 dollar bill is a legal document that gives the holder a credit of $1 with the US Treasury.
IMO using GPU's for gaming has been the single largest waste of computational progress over the past two decades. Literally facilitating someone to waste time toiling away at a fake challenge with pretty 3d visuals.
You could go the other way and use a proper assembler with some macros and equates for the basic tokens to generate a valid basic file. They're all just bytes.
> The decline was primarily from uninsured funds, as insured deposits actually rose $255.1 billion, or 2.5%

This seems like good news, and what we would want to happen.
Personally I think merges and acquisitions should require a marriage between the CEOs and thereafter, they must sleep together just like it worked with kingdoms.

If you acquire multiple companies well then, fun times for you.
> One undesirable effect is a longer time spent traveling. Because people's time is valuable and could otherwise be spent working, studying or with family and friends, the cost of traveling what the French government considers to be short distances will rise.

I guess we aren't accounting for how long it takes to wait for a plane vs. a train, or the fact that it's easier to do other things on a train.
I too have a Subaru, my emergency brake has only engaged when trying to parallel park a bit too aggressively. I must be a very good driver! But perhaps it has saved my bumper a few dents
Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
Thanks! See my reply above, I don’t want to repost cause it looks spammy.
Microsoft will change the default version of Teams on Windows this year
Yes, it feels wrong. I guess that Altium is paying him to do the work which is a cool gig, anyway. Hopefully the design files can be converted or manually ported for use with FOSS.
Why you place your side projects above your friends?
You can drastically undervolt AMD laptops and get very close. Their default power profiles are very aggressive and power thirsty.
Until recently the Treasury was draining TGA, which was equivalent to doing QE. In other words, it was spending money which it got earlier from Fed by selling it treasuries. Now Fed does not buy treasuries anymore, so the Treasury has to refill TGA by attracting liquidity from the open market. It's equivalent to QT, which will be added to tightening performed by the Fed. Yes, it will lower money supply, but not without serious risks for the economy.
Lesson learned. I don't think this is worth more thought other than reflection, hopefully by someone close to this decision, hopefully by someone who can put in some recourse to minimize the chance of this happening again.

This is hilarious and inevitable.
It would be funnier if the domain was bought by a drivers ed school..
I can see how it might be chosen as the "standard" license plate for 2012 - it is the anniversary of The War of 1812, after all.
It is insulting, but sometimes the shoe fits. Developer tools is notoriously difficult because engineers (and their managers, and the teams) are very cheap.