skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered what is the source of the population growth. This is what I found.

> Temporary immigration is the leading contributor to Canada's growth
> The estimated gains in non-permanent residents recorded for 2022 are the highest for a single calendar year for which comparable data are available. Furthermore, it is the first time these gains are superior to those from immigrants over the same period.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230322/dq230...
The classic NES and SNES are just linux boxes with emulators. We know this because you can hack them and change the emulator. Those devices wouldn't exist without the emulation community.
It suddenly switched from German to French in my transcription, and then the teacher switched too. A bug to look into I guess https://gliglish.com/convo/b4104729-35c2-4c97-a887-9bae730ca...
I don't consider "learn something" is anti-pattern. It depends on quality of the library itself to know if it's worth learning.

Setting something up is similar. It depends on complexity of toolings.

Performance is also dependant on the quality of the generated native query.

It abstracts the DB, which i consider a good thing in long term, and of course, some ORM gives you enough escape hatches in a good way.

Overall, i love working with a "good" ORM rather than working directly with SQL (for example).

But the real world libraries is not good enough for the ORM ecosystem to have good faith on DX side.
“ thought of research less as a way to determine the truth, but just as a method to influence policy and public opinion. If we thought something was 80% likely to be true, there was pressure to "close ranks" and pretend as though it was 100% true, and to avoid publishing anything that contradicted it. ”

That seems to be the general spirit of this time. People feel the need to take sides and then make sure their side wins. Same happens in journalism. Most journalism these days seems to be about supporting a viewpoint and less about conveying neutral or complete information.

Sad that scientists also feel that they should be activists.
Ricardo's Difficult Idea (1995)
FYI ChatGPTs experimental “Code Interpreter” model does this and it’s awesome. LLMs orchestrating other modes of thinking and formal tools seems very promising. We don’t need the LLM to zero-shot everything.
A nearby municipality's mayor is requesting a 6 month pause on development.

We're so out of sync and lacking a sense of urgency on this matter, I fully expect the province of BC to make sweeping changes to regulation that will be a serious shock to everyone.

If we don't keep up with demand and dramatically change our perspective and priorities, the social impacts will be dire. I think we've been too comfortable for too long to see it, but... We're on the precipice of a real crisis. The societal impacts of not having housing while people are losing social mobility are very, very severe and likely unprecedented in the lifetimes of most British Columbians.

I really hope we can get it together. The mayor asking for a pause on development is concerned (rightfully) about ensuring infrastructure meets housing demands. While I fully appreciate the need for that to happen, it seems to me that 1) we should have been addressing that a decade ago, and 2) his job is to address that now in a manner that doesn't neglect to address the more pressing issue that we don't have enough housing.

We need to clean up as we go; we don't have the luxury of planning. We lost that convenience a long, long time ago, and we have to do this "scared" as they say.

I don't mean to sound like a doomer here, but I have the distinct sense that many Canadians (likely especially true among those who aren't facing lack of food, housing, or income) are dangerously unaware of the hill we're currently sliding down. We're still near the top, but there's a long way to slide down and it's very slippery. We don't have our hiking boots on, and it's going to be a struggle to scramble back up. In order to get there, we're going to need to just do something. No 6 month pauses. No perfect community planning.

Pardon my Canadian here, but we really fucked the dog on this one.
If it's open source, that's fine.

What you have to ask, however, is who is buying your product? How much are they paying? What additional needs would be needed for them to pay you?
I started making this C64 game in 1984. It's time to finish it
I think this could bridge the gap for many people stuck at A level and trying to cross to actual communication, which requires lots of interaction so that the words and sentences start popping up.
I work for an IT provider - I don't think I've spoken to a single web developer who actually understands DNS and doesn't need their hand holding to get us the correct records to update. Most of them just ask us/the client to change the NS to wordpress.com or w/e, breaking their e-mail and a load of other stuff
Still happens quite a lot here in Nigeria and many parts of Africa
"Only Apple cars are compatible with this road"

/s
It's not "just time". It's the nature of copyright in its current form as well as a certain set of cultural values embraced by those overly empowered by excessive copyright protection. And these things can be changed by society, if we will it. They're not universal constants.
Spatial computing will be the dominant paradigm for the vast, vast majority of all history once it is nailed down. The mouse/keyboard/monitor paradigm will be a small footnote in the early history of HCI once it is obliviated. Apple, as always, is showing the rest of the industry the way forward here.
> Humans too, at least once.

Maybe the mother's guy who you are speaking about shares a common ancestor with this crocodile. It would make a lot of sense.
> would have thought that this was an opportune moment for some of the top companies to poach some top talent.

In fact, availability of talent cuts both ways. If you are unhappy and quit, you can be easily replaced in this environment because there are 50 other desperate candidates willing to take your job. CEOs are very smart and know this.

> My strongest suspicion is that there is some sort of market failure in the employment market.

Some alternative possibilities (not mutually exclusive): 1) WFH is not as popular and necessary as some of the loudest voices on HN would have you believe. 2) there is a genuine value in in-person setups and CEOs see that whereas you don't. 3) CEOs are actually smart, rational people who can think 2-3 steps ahead (contrary to the comments I see here about them being dumb sociopaths following a herd mentality)
> Is a ball coming from behind a car in a school-zone likely to be chased by a child.

Yeah, that kind of agent prediction is a biggie. Agent prediction is something journalists don't talk about much, but is a huge research topic for AV practitioners.

And since you make note of expected behavior of objects... my all-time favorite bug report out of Waymo (that made the public news) is a classic classifier/predictor/planner corner case leading to deadlock. Classifier identified a cyclist and labeled as "stopped" if cyclist has foot on the ground, and "moving" if both feet on pedals. Predictor would plot a trajectory for moving cyclist, planner decides action based on predicted agent behavior. So... Waymo vehicle and cyclist on two corners of 4-way stop. Cyclist is stopped, doing a perfectly balanced track stand with both feet clipped in. Feet on pedals so cyclist is labeled as moving agent... planner yields right-of-way to cyclist according to rules-of-the-road. Deadlock -- nobody moves.
Who cares, just check back in a year and see how its going.
Yep, and if that does work for you, then you might be able to get closer to the form factor you want using a CM4. That said you'd have to learn how to design your own board for it and potentially handle the pcie lane. But that would be a much smaller starting footprint with it at least.
This is great. Would love to see one for Germany. There has been much recent talk in German media about Canada’s comparative success in attracting immigrants, but major barriers remain. Real time data on the numbers (any numbers) isn’t imaginable here.
The author of the article is Bert Hubert, starred frequently on HN [1] and has expertise in many fields, including the world of intelligence agencies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=berthub.eu
I switched to Colemak a little over 10 years ago and I've never looked back. I used to struggle a lot with hand pain when typing for more than a few hours, Colemak completely fixed that.

It took me about three weeks to become proficient enough that typing stopped being frustrating. Those three weeks really sucked, that was the hardest part.

It took a couple years, but I'm solidly "bilingual" now and can switch between Colemak and Qwerty with no effort.

There is zero overlap in my brain with thumb typing on the phone and touch typing on a keyboard. I've kept qwerty on my pixel and it's never bothered or confused me once.

It's not really a win for me in terms of productivity, but being able to type 120wpm is fun :)
There definitely is – when there is. See the new paper on what exactly Transformer reasoning entails.

https://twitter.com/bohang_zhang/status/1664695084875501579
Did you mean lower prices to increase their market share?

It's a great question. Usually that competition is what I would expect, but I wonder if there are really the proper incentives in place for competing corporations to compete. I've speculated about this a few times in the past, but corporations ultimately are accountable to their shareholders. And it's increasingly common for their shareholders to also own shares of all their competitors, which is the whole idea of buying an index.
This is what keeps the internet as useful as it was in the 90s and early 00s. The internet without an ad blocker is brutal.
Have you looked at how, for example US population has grown in the late 19th century?

The rates have been extraordinarily greater than today.
Shingles jab might cut dementia risk
https://basicpitch.spotify.com/
Which orifice did you pull the 50% strawman out of?

If you're going to ignore the obvious problems with massive consolidation in areas like supermarket chains and virtually everything sold in those chains or the massive problems with consolidated telecomm/ISP companies and the de facto regional monopolies they carve up then I don't think you are arguing in good faith.
What is the answer supposed to be? Doesn't seem like a simple IQ question to me.

print(f'{0x110c8531d0952d8:066b}')

EDIT: A browser extension hid most of the number from my view, so this answer is incorrect.
That's a different context entirely.

Obviously the intelligence services would love to be able to tap phones the way they were able to in the past as well as to read all of your mail.

But in practice the network analysis is as much or even more efficient than reading the mail itself in the investigation phase of a case.
The Twitter Files absolutely did not show that. They DID show how many of Elon’s sycophants are really damn gullible however.

The Twitter Files showed zero of note, they were themselves an orchestrated propaganda exercise that suckered exactly who it was aimed at, but was widely—and deservedly—mocked in every other circle as completely unserious.

Hell, they destroyed what little reputation Matt Taibbi had left. Even he had to backtrack somewhat after the fact (in the most milquetoast, admit no actual fault, fashion tho I might add).

At most they revealed that the Twitter safety team did much more than they were credited for publicly, and revealed that most people have no idea what Trust & Safety involves.

As for “various definitions of proven” in this case the definition is “actually happened in reality and we have the receipts”, as in “proven fact”. Hell, people went to jail over it.
Almost nobody wants higher taxes to fix roads. Technical problems are easy compared to political problems. I think we are stuck with what we have.
Wait aren't we all paid to be here?
Bard can be an AI product that includes an LLM among other things and that is fine and good.
We live in an age so devoid of sacrifice that it's hard for us to wrap our heads around why this was so common and so important. This act would add a layer of irrefutable legitimacy to the groups religious beliefs, and as such would make those beliefs into a unbreakable social bond. Grief is a powerful social glue, and when you use it so intentionally and solemnly it becomes a core part of the social fabric that held these groups together for hundreds of years in an ultra-hostile environment.
This is the killer app for me with AI. A way to get a non-copyrighted code for any program you already have binary code for.
> Many bad studies require a lot of domain knowledge to understand why they're bad.

I went to grad school after some years practicing in the discipline. During those earlier years I neglected to introduce a Kozak sequence the first time constructing a protein expression cassette. These sequences, which are on the 5 prime region immediately adjacent to the protein open reading frame, are almost always required for decent translation of mRNA to protein in eukaryotes. And minor modifications to the Kozak sequence can have varying impact on protein expression. Since then this has always been top of my mind when doing such design.

So in grad school in a class we had various papers assigned to read and answer questions on. One peer-reviewed paper split a 5 prime untranslated region (an mRNA regulatory element) into two parts to determine which parts were most necessary for regulating expression of the protein. They placed these two parts directly adjacent to the protein open reading frame. And unfortunately, for the first half of the untranslated region, they neglected to keep the native Kozak sequence. Not unexpectedly, there was almost no protein expression from this. They concluded that the first half of the untranslated region was both necessary and sufficient for down regulation of expression.

I pointed out their fatal flaw and seriously impressed my professor who had only done a cursory reading of the paper before assigning it. I don't understand how this passed peer-review, but it did. I guess the reviewers didn't look at the mRNA sequence in detail. If they had, they would have noticed the altered Kozak site and would have required a further experiment with the native Kozak sequence.

The study was actually fine in basic design, the author just made an easy mistake, and no one caught it.
The "more complex task in mind" was, of course, to generate the "shortest" program. GPT-4, by asking for a "certain pattern" is attempting to have you do the intellectual heavy lifting for it -- although in this case the intellectual lifting is quite light.
One of the big reasons I support off world colonization is because that's probably the only way people will believe that the atmosphere is a thing. Similar to how people really didn't believe there was an "environment"[1] until "Earthrise" in 1968.

If they see "atmosphere" killing other people, all the time, on TV, because someone goofed the gas balance in the Muskdome, then they'll maybe crank up their critical thinking skills.

Also, voting for Space Umbrella. And whoever terraforms the Earth gets to charge rent - financial people need to think about that one.

[1] Like, "closed system" environment, not Walden Pond "environment"
Planes can experience shocking accelerations in the sky. People have died from head injuries sustained while being thrown around during extreme turbulence miles away from the nearest solid object.
Personally, I have learnt I do not have a moral compass strong enough to outweigh the consequences that come with being a whistleblower. I'm very grateful such people exist, though.
Life before air conditioning: Curly hair kept early humans cool
Can you elaborate on the product line evolution you are envisioning?
Eh I disagree. It's not perfect, but that's just about expectation management. Users don't expect voice-to-text to be perfect - in fact, the past 10 years shitty experiences have been the norm. I think it depends on the level of mistakes the transcribing makes, but that's only going to improve with time with advances in AI and as the product evolves (using the context of the conversation like you say would be a great start).

Even in its current state this is an awesome product. There are so so many people in the world learning a language, and one of the hardest parts is practicing after you stop learning (like you leaving Spain). People like that will really love something like this

In future especially to be able to cater to people who are still learning, it should be feasible to use a similar product to train and correct people's pronounciation.
Before Covid (when he starting accepting payments through RentCafe.com) my landlord accepted only checks and money orders.

(Checks are better because a money order basically required a trip to the store for each one.)
Possibly true; I think it would also be reasonable to pick some part of this if it interests you and reply to just that, nothing wrong with that.
Row, Row, Row Your Coat (2018)
Something else that's confusing is why these links don't just redirect to the registry landing page.

A simple redirect from https://docker.io/mailserver/docker-mailserver to https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver would make so much sense.
Software doesn't create value by itself, people using software creates value. With open source software anyone is free to use software to create value for themselves.

Of course Pikettys r>g still applies insomuch it applies to anything, but that is not really related to software anymore.
1) She didn’t argue contracting monetary policy was ineffective.
2) You’re going to talk about the European grain market (not in the article) but skip the European natural gas market (which was in the article)?
Maybe there's a middle ground somewhere where performance doesn't have to be 100% for all work.
a recent conversation about this generally.. in the market, as a product, the style is to speak unambiguously to promote your brand, for sale. In the military services, the style is to command, and speak as if in command. Meanwhile, in science, it is the responsibility of the scientist to show error bars, and usually acknowledge the counter-indications. This style for a trained scientist, often comes off as confusing to the inattentive listener, or weak to the marketing or military in the crowd.

In public statements of science, there is a tension and that tension is on display here. Another angle more directly related, is that world records for known catastrophic forest fire are being set every year now. This is deeply concerning. Authorities have an interest in showing command of the situation, for real reasons. However, they are not in command of the situation. Catastrophic forest fires are increasing, and this is not in itself directly predictable, hence the comment.
Why is a carrot grown on May 1 not different from a carrot grown on May 2?
The reality is that all sufficiently large land area countries are facing similar issues. It's the same in China, in Brazil, in Australia, etc. Technology has accelerated the economic gravity of large metros, at a pace not seen since the industrial revolution, and the profit margins associated with providing digital services are so out of whack compared to almost all physical services, this has dramatically expanded the economic disparity between rural & urban.

People gravitate toward cities because edu/$/oppy, but can't afford to live there comfortably until they're established in a career that would allow it ... and not all careers are on that kind of pay scale, so service workers get pushed into suburbs, then exurbs, then satellite cities. We haven't gotten beyond that stage yet, but suffice to say everyone is recognizing that it's unsustainable to allow cities to be comfortable only for the wealthy.
People still want to live in cities for the culture and benefits you can only get when a lot of people are in the same place.

And those cultural institutions still need service workers. And people working from home in cities still need service workers too. And the restaurants.

There will still be plenty of jobs for folks at the lower end of the spectrum, even if all the offices become housing. Arguably even more, since there would be more cultural institutions open at night.
But that is not such an issue in other places with migration patterns. Russia builds massive amount of housing in large cities where it is needed. Having said that it is not pretty (25 storey buildings anyone?) but at least you can own some sq m.
I have a plus subscription but still don't have access to code interpreter. Just Browse with Bing and Plugins.
Are there any disadvantages to providing all seats with a comfort level close to business class and charging a flat rate of, say, $1k to everyone?
Think how wide the web is now and what it was 30 years ago. The scope of work of those young people will get wider, maybe only a fraction of what happened to the web, and they'll know the overall picture because they grew with it. Younger people will know only a very specific subject and will be frowned upon.
I generally get in that benefit from the time I spent on here to learn about new things that are pertinent to my work.

Whether or not I want to keep going back and re-testing a product that failed me on the first use is a completely different issue.

Also, it’s a good thing I run my own company. My boss is incredibly supportive of the time I spend learning about new things on hacker news in between client engagement.
Looks like it still exists, they just never ported it to the ARM chips, presumably because nobody wants ARM Windows.

In any case that's really irrelevant to the main point which is that Apple appears to have no objection to other OSes running on their laptops.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if they don't go out of their way to help and make it de facto impossible through secure boot systems.
with ford migrating to tesla chargers I hope others do too (speaking as a EV6 owner with CCS type 1 charger). They're very, very similar just sell me an adapter, transition will be slightly painful for existing cars but lead to better experience for everyone.
I think the argument is that current and future AI advancements could lead to AGI. The people I've seen like Yudkowsky who are concerned about AGI don't claim that Chat-GPT is an AGI AFAIK. BTW, I disagree with Yud, but there's no reason to misconstrue his statements.
I’d love to use Bard but I can’t because my Google account uses a custom domain through Google Workspaces or whatever the hell its called. I love being punished by Google for using their other products.
self lubricating.
Intelligent life might happen on every 10,000th planet or it might only happen in every 10,000th universe.

As long as we know of only one occurrence of intelligent life we have no clue of the probability. And human intuition on what's right doesn't help us here.
There are many other factors that go into the changing cost of a plane ticket over decades. It's not just average passenger weight!
> A nearby municipality's mayor is requesting a 6 month pause on development.

View Royal mayor was going to do that regardless, if you look at his track record this is what he stands for. Provincial Govt will hopefully make an example out of them.

They already had an updated community plan which he purposely kiboshed so that he could institute this pause.
Personally I think this would be very exciting. Currently there are a ton of projects to decompile older games (see the Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time de-compilations and subsequent native PC ports as an example), but those projects are huge and take whole teams years to finish. If you could simply point an AI at a project like that and have usable source code in a reasonable amount of time, it would be huge for those scenes. You would have a sort of defacto-open source moment for just about all software. It feels like the stuff of far off sci-fi.