skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that scenario also creates winners and losers, because a loan with an interest rate lower than inflation is wealth transfer from the creditor to the debtor. The privileged, who can access these loans get richer, while others lose access to the housing market due to ever increasing prices caused by these loans.

This wouldn't be a huge problem if it was a mistake by freely operating private creditors, who theoretically, would realise their error and try not to issue long term loans fixed at a rate lower than inflation. One could see this as a "bet" by the creditors that the inflation rate will decrease in the future and they'd make a profit. The problem is when state-backed creditors are forced to issue low-rate loans as a government policy of homeownership. There, a country's tax base ends up funding people who can access these loans, while everyone else ends up further from owning a home. This is what happened in Turkey in 2020.
Lead Poisoning, Crime and Suburbanization [pdf]
This links to a pre-print, but it has recently been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics [1]

[1] https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/res...
Utilities are in the business of spending capital so that they can charge rate payers. Any subsidy that does not also include alignment of incentives around outcomes is money wasted.
Teams is hot garbage, it feels like it was designed to be terrible at everything it does. Everything feels laggy in it compared to Slack/Zoom.
Harmonic on Android is pretty good
Question: how do you see downvotes (or any votes) on a comment? I use news.ycombinator.com but all I see is when the downvotes are large enough to gray out the comment. I often see people talking about upvotes and downvotes as though they can see a number. I’m just wondering if I may be “doing it wrong”.
Nothing that can be done about it now, but for the future you might want to look into getting a smart phone keyboard. I presume that tabbing through the links would work even on a smart phone browser.
Technologically, what do we have that stops famines from happening?

Like, are we really immune from some mega drought occuring somewhere that mostly depends on rainfall? Or is that just extremely unlikely to happen, especially at a large scale?
That's software, not hardware. And operating systems have long dealt with things like variable sector sizes. You want the abstraction layer. What you don't want is for it to be a black box, and what you shouldn't care about is whether the silicon that runs the code is soldered to the flash chips or not.
They won't go away, they'll just be open source.

(Before you object, my assertion without evidence is just as good as your assertion without evidence).
Multidecadal dynamics project slow 21st-C economic growth and income convergence
> All the necessary static type analysis will be happening automatically in your brain.

That's exactly the point: nobody wants to do this in their head, and humans are far worse and less consistent about these kinds of computations than machines. Plus, as the size of a codebase grows, the chance that you have it all in your head approaches 0%.

Also, I'm not sure what "linter wars" have to do with TS?
> Why would something that has no consciousness make up that it has consciousness?

You can make a computer program `printf("I have consciousness\n");`

But I actually also didn't follow the rest of the argument. How does whether other people say they have consciousness or not, tell anything about whether it's physics based or not? If it's physics based, people could say they have consciousness. If it's not physics based, they could also say that?
I would recommend taking a look for yourself. If I search the App Store for “Hacker News” I see no less than a dozen options. Shouldn’t take more than a minute to look at them and evaluate which one would be best for your needs.
They're encouraging you to think like a hacker and fix it yourself with either a user stylesheet or an app.
Debt holder refers to the creditor.
I'm using Harmonic for Android. Not sure if it's available for iOS. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
Botanical Sexism
Freud, the Antique Collector
Hacki is the most featureful HN browsing app I've ever used, it's open source too. It really enhances the HN mobile experience.
Depends on the definition of easier. If easier is "it won't work with my particular flavour of framework or mocking" then yes, it's a bad idea.

If it's inherently untestable for any setup, that's already a smell and needs some sort of attention. If the smell is accompanied by potential to cause catastrophic error or such, I'd rather lean in to changing the code to be more testable even if it feels like an anti-pattern.
I play popular songs on my keyboard on youtube. I've never gotten a strike, but I have had some ContentID hits. I always enjoy that because it means I got pretty close.
The cost for the manuals seems high--at least if you're willing to have some flexibility on paper choice. I'd think that one volume print on demand from Amazon would be more like $10 although it's admittedly been a while since I looked at pricing.
E2EE is only truly reliable if you control the endpoints fully, and verify keys. Short of that is is mostly security theater and marketing.

I have an e2ee chat where everyone in it is a security researcher that exclusively accesses it from a dedicated QubesOS VM, and everyone has cross verified each others keys.

I have other e2ee chats where almost everyone but me is using iPhones, Android phones, windows, macos and no one verify keys, and thus I just operate as though anything said in those chat will be made public at any moment.
Glider on Android is okay.
But they wouldn't be safe from certain bookkeeping errors or internal theft because SIPC insurance also isn't very high.
You are not doing anything wrong, you can't see points for comments that are not your own.
Efficiency for whom? This works great for me. You'd make my experience awful by making things bigger, reducing information density.
I agree with your description that this is a throat-clearing but I don't see why it hurts the clarity of writing. Dense texts packed with information can often benefit from such breaks. In general I find text which uses artefacts from spoken language more readable. There are limits to this of course but if we remove all redundancy we end up with dry text which sometimes is expected but I am unsure if it is the most readable or clear way to write.
One side note is that it might be culture dependent. English speaking countries and Poland, where I am from, expect and teach much different writing style than France or Germany.
Maybe parent was hinting at the astronomical numbers and the relative futility of spending this amount on this vs that.
Regulations and compliance is not what is being proposed here.
Just to be pedantic, an individual animal (or person) "trampling" something, would require that the top of the rise of their foot when walking, rises above the center-of-gravity of the victim, such that their foot or leg would impact the victim above their center-of-gravity and so knock them over, allowing the animal to then walk across the prone body of the victim.

Some extremely tall humans could manage to do this to a toddler, if they were kick-stepping, but most people could not. And nobody kick-steps their way around a park, anyway. People normally pick their feet up by only a couple of inches as they walk.

If you bump into a toddler when walking normally, the toddler's whole body will collide with your whole leg, and the toddler will falter backwards, maybe falling onto their ass, but not falling prone. And, crucially, the faster you collide with the toddler at speed, the further back they'd go — i.e. if you jogged into them, you'd end up punting them a good few feet away from yourself. While this would hurt, it'd be a distributed impact across their whole body, so it wouldn't cause huge damage. And it would give you the added reaction time to realize you just punted a child five feet and stop jogging.

"Trampling" by an individual animal is only really a big-animal thing. Elephants, giraffes, etc. These animals can trample a toddler without noticing, like you could trample a frog without noticing. But there are very few such animals. Even a draft horse would have to be galloping to manage to trample a toddler. Soldiers only get trampled in medieval battle by a single-rank charge of cavalry when they've been struck and are laying prone on the ground. Angry horses and cows only manage to trample people in their pens, if the person mistakenly thinks they should protect themselves from further kicks by getting low to the ground.

(I emphasize "individual animal" or "individual rank", as trampling works differently with herds of animals — you don't need to be kicked over, you just need to be knocked back; while this may stop the individual animal that collided with you, the animal is forced forward at speed by the rest of the herd, who all didn't experience the collision themselves, and so don't know to react to it; and so the herd will then flood over your knocked-back body, tumbling you each time until you do, by random chance, end up prone; at which point you'll be trampled.)

Being "ridden onto" by a tyre — whether a car tyre or a bicycle tyre — is very different, because the bottom of the tyre is pulling on the surface it's coming into contact with to propel itself forward. If a bicycle overmounts a toddler's foot at speed, the toddler will be pulled downward foot-first into the path of the tyre. Picture being caught by the roller barrel of a steam roller — with less weight, yes, but faster, grippier, and applied across a more narrow surface area.
I don't equate consciousness with ethics in any way. I measure consciousness as the ability to accurately understand ones environment. Each level of accurate understanding is distinct.

Ethics is a whole other department.
> Every human action is with an intent.

Not true, see sleepwalkers.
I expected it to be better planned and coordinated. This sounds to me like a vanilla power struggle. “Sign here”, “fuck off”, “sign or die”, “try it”
This can all be settled with a phone call.
“What do you want?”
“Respect, autonomy, support”
“Done”
“Turning around now”
if you're on android materialistic is p good.
You are right, the "all violate" and "all do violate" options both give 2/7 = 29% for the first 7, which is the majority opinion (car and ambulance violate, the others do not).
Is that because the inflation is high, or is it because it deviates from the Fed target too far?
Or, "the packet is sent from the client to the server, and it ...." I see this a lot in technical writing where the writer is explaining a flow of code or data, and is very well aware of the antecedent of it - but the reader now has to guess, read ahead, perhaps discover they were wrong, revert their mental model, and make a different guess. JRY - Just repeat yourself. Be unambiguous. Use whatever word would have been the antecedent of the pronoun, and let clarity shine thru.
This is very helpful (for someone who has never worked on Darwin)! The algorithm uses two FIFO lists with a "visited" bit (lazy promotion), and is a great idea! There are two differences between what is described and our algorithm, 1. the two FIFO lists are not fix-sized, which cannot guarantee quick demotion; 2. new data (hard fault) are inserted into the active list (I assume it is large than the inactive list), which is different from the quick demotion.
It could be considered risk taking. But there is a line between risk taking and stupidity. And true without more context it’s hard to decide here.

However risk taking on housing has historically turned out bad for individuals and the economy
What happened was Google beat itself at its own game, if you will. Google PaLM-1 is beaten so often simply because Google Chinchilla scaling is so much better. (Note that PaLM-2 is not benchmarked in OP.)

PaLM-1 is hobbled by the fact that it was probably the largest (because the last) LLM to be trained with the Kaplan scaling laws rather than the Chinchilla. As soon as Chinchilla came out, no one would train like PaLM-1 again, because it was giving up so much performance compared to if one had instead trained a much smaller Chinchilla-optimal model. (This had the interesting consequence that PaLM-1 would thereby remain the largest, by parameter-count, dense LLM trained for probably years to come - because why would you train one inefficiently as that, while a larger-than-PaLM-1 Chinchilla-optimal model would require staggering levels of compute+data.)

The PaLM-1 paper came out within days of the Chinchilla paper, and many people noted that this pointed to extraordinary levels of dysfunctionality within Google - that DeepMind would not tell Google Brain that they were wasting literally millions of dollars of compute by training a model in what DeepMind was busy showing was a very suboptimal way.
Bajorans are not Israelis, though they are in part inspired by the Jewish experience.

Keep in mind there was no major Exodus, the vast majority of bajorans remained on Bajor and never left. The fee who did were either escaping the cardis or were taken for slavery offworld.

They're actually more aptly described as amalgam of Pre WWII Jews (more specifically Zionist terrorists like the Irgun aka Likud), the Irish during and after the Troubles, and the Current Palestinians....

If we're going to focus on the source people's at all maybe it behooves us to focus on the ones actually facing the horrors depicted, rather than those who used long past atrocities as excuse for their own misdeeds.
[ Law & Order DUN DUN noise ]

MR BIG PLAN: I'd like to introduce into evidence this recording of the conversation in question.

OPPOSING COUNSEL: Move to exclude, this is a two-party consent state.

MBP: Ah hah! But this device only captures my voice, so the other person wasn't recorded! And I have a block-

OP: Irrelevant, it is a recording of the conversation, which is the subject matter of the statute in question. The fact that it's incomplete and of poor fidelity is not relevant to its admissibility.

JUDGE: Agreed, motion to exclude granted.

MBP [sputtering]: But I have a block chain...

JUDGE: A what? Is that some sort of weapon? Bailiff, search the defendant immediately.
I don't know. I was over 40 when I purchased my first touchscreen device, a 10" tablet, and I was definitely worried that it would be as the OP described, and I would barely be able to control the thing with my fat greasy fingers. But it worked like a dream, and I was amazed at how accurate and sensitive it was.

I would definitely not enjoy working on a very small screen. I did have some feature phones with screens about 2x3", but those were not touch-enabled.

I currently have a phablet of sorts, a Moto g Play phone, and so it's got a relatively large screen. I have no problems navigating HN on the phone, which I do every day, usually while I eat.

I have learned that touchscreen operation does take a delicate touch, of course. The slightest feather brush of the tip of my finger is enough to activate any link, and no more is used, lest the tap mash three other links nearby.

And I agree with the poster upthread who recommends zooming. Phones have tons of accessibility tools; use 'em!
It does matter. Because if it came from a lab, it means the restrictions and regulations surrounding that lab were completely insufficient to contain the leak. It means that we are all under a constant threat that other, worse leaks, will happen, and that millions have died and a good percentage of the GDP of the entire world was lost due to gain of function experiments done without enough precaution. It deeply matters, and if we are adults we need to handle this with investigations and preventative action plans and a global regulatory framework.
Visit a website with ChatGPT and have your company's source code stolen
I use Octal on iOS/iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...
> It is not so easy to carve up a human brain, cell, or metabolic process so that one can study this thing hidden to the human eye.

It's basically impossible when studying biological systems. Can you imagine trying to understand human digestion in isolation from the gut microbiome? Even if you had perfect information about what the digestive system does, you'd still be completely missing half of the big picture.
There is a lot of politics on HN. It is one of the most common topics.
Yup, building an interactive website in Flash and then being told to do it with "HTML5/CSS3" is like going from a laser rifle to a musket and gunpowder.
Is there ever a use case for wanting to compare NON-normalized vectors using dot products or cosine similarity? It seems like all use cases always involve first normalizing the values, which makes sense, but wondering when/why you wouldn't want to do that.
UB meaning "undefined behaviour", appropriately enough! (I had to look it up)
I don’t like the Amazon example in this article. It’s not a good analog to social media where I’ve more often see people use the term enshittification. Amazon charges money in exchange for goods and/or services. Obviously they ran for a long time at a loss but they were able to turn some dials to change the “You give me money, I give you stuff” equation from red to black without fundamentally changing their product too much.

Social media on the other hand has a completely different problem to solve. How do I turn this _free_ service into a money maker? Obviously the users joined in the first place because venture capital funded the online utopia but now they want returns. Now I need ads, and ads make things _worse_. And I need to find ways of increasing engagement to serve more ads. And I need to get all those 3rd party client users somewhere I can serve _them_ ads so they can stop costing me so much money.

I’m sure Amazon did some stuff you could reasonably put in the enshittification bucket but as an end consumer it doesnt seem nearly as radical as what Reddit or Twitter or Instagram have had to do.
Do you know why they left Google’s PaLM 0-shot and 1-shot results blank in the TriviaQA benchmarks? It’s not because Google didn’t release this data; they did in the same table as other data.

It’s because PaLM significantly outperforms them in both these cases and they can’t make their entire line bold to flaunt that it’s good.

I’m not trusting any of these benchmarks. A day or two of using the model I’d know if it’s better than GPT4 or not.
`ps` is a way of introspecting about a computer "brain". Is that consciousness?
<<Kasparov is clear on this: "The fall of Putin is inevitable. He has lost his aura of invincibility and as a supreme leader."

I don't know about that. Let's see. You would have thought Biden lost respect as our President with all the gaffes, poor decisions, scandals, and obvious cognitive deficiency, yet primary debates are being stifled, Hunter is getting off with a slap on the wrist, Biden hasn't released the COVID origins documents, and yet there he is. This is America. Imagine if you're in third-world Russia and you have Putin with his finger on the nukes. I wouldn't count him out given the Russian populace's conditioning to give in and not resist the oppression happenong in their own local government and police.
I didn't state anything requiring evidence. I merely continued the logic proposed by the OP. You are fully capable of verifying or refuting the continuation without extra information.
You can get root, but you cannot take root away from Qualcomm and Google, so they are in every conversation.
I trust people here more than I trust the App Store algos though.
I would recommend Hacki: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiaqifeng....

It's the most featureful FOSS Android app for HN, it's UI is a breeze to navigate too (if you enable swipe gestures from the tiny settings!).
To be fair, it has already improved a lot. They are doing something whether they see your comment or not.
This is a great improvement, but all the new AI tools are obviously still in their infancy.I can't wait to see how it will look a couple of years from now!
Is there any evidence that discourse here would be improved by encouraging mobile users to slam out mobile-sized comments?
> You also wouldn't see them giving their code to people learning to code to read and learn from,

Actually, we do see them do exactly that. Microsoft is ahppy to have a shared-source licence that gives away much of the Windows source code to universities.

The fact that they don't want to train their models on it says a lot.

If, as they claim, learning from existing materials does nto devalue those materials in any way, they'd chuck the entirety of the Windows source code at the LLM for training purposes.
Your point doesn't negate the parent's point. It still stands.
React-like declarative components for the whole family
I've wondered if in the next 20 years they will learn to extend life 10 years, and in those 10 years learn to extend life 10 more years, and so on. We could be on the brink of human immortality and not even know it. It probably has to happen that way, some sort of exponential function pushes us into a singularity for life expectancy
When I commented the comment was grayed out. That was the only indication I had that there were downvotes.
Rewriting history, that sounds a lot like Florida, and Texas, and...

Of course the idea that any geographic area has some kind of ideology is a complete self-justifying myth.
Oh, you're right, I change my mind. It would be hilarious after all.

What point are you even trying to make here?
I mean they are inextricably linked cofactors, but given that the observed increase volatility is measured as the absolute value (can be in either direction, i.e. ±) I would venture to say that at least some of it is regardless of Fed (re)action.

However, I would also posit that it just doesn't matter since the feds will continue (as they've said and shown) to take action so long as the inflation rate isn't at their target rate, so cofactor A automatically implies cofactor B and we just have to deal with that fallout.
Barter economies also make it next to impossible to save for the the future. Most goods produced by common are perishable and therefore one cannot be “saved” in any meaningful way. This keeps people at sustenance level and working until they die.
I am sure I am already on plenty of them for supporting privacy and security and anti-corpo sentiment. What is one more?
I get the point you're trying to make, but it is possible
> A spammer sends you text that has attached a license

You have not chosen to receive that text, and therefore you are not bound by that license. It may mathematically seem to not make a difference, but legally it does.
That's a strange way to frame a lack of post war progress. In most countries the experience of anyone born before the war who was starting their own family in 1960 was at a speed that is hard to imagine. China is remarkable for its continuity.
Software company managers want assembly-line-like predictability out of a process that is more like artwork: Good programming output requires discipline and process, but it also relies on creativity, inspiration, luck, the ability to explore and dabble, following roads down dead ends, and so on.

If you ask most high-ups in your software company whether they would rather a 100% guaranteed release date of Sept. 1, 2023 or a 75% confidence sometime between July and October, if they are honest with themselves, they will admit they would rather have the 100% date. So much other stuff needs to happen on fixed dates. Marketing campaigns need to ramp up, sales teams need to get started, maybe your project is part of a bigger product which has a known release date, maybe your project gets flashed onto hardware that goes on a boat on some fixed date.

It would be so much easier for software companies if making software was like making a bolt or a screw: Raw material go in -> machines do their machining -> product come out a known time later, at a known rate, with a known yield.