skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people work for minimum wage? Austria or Netherlands.

If minimum wage goes up 20%, because of government regulation or union negociations, doesn't mean every other wage also goes up 20%. People on minimum wage are usually subsidized in most of Europe.
A forager friend of mine has just completed participating in a gut biome study (in conjunction with the UK Zoe project), where he and other foragers have been only eating wild foraged food for 3 months. A pretty good achievement for him (although he lost about 20kg over the 3 months). He blogged daily photos of what he ate on insta: https://www.instagram.com/rural_courses/
I tried Vivaldi's mail client. It's not fleshed out enough. I use catch all email with Migadu whereby I can give each site a different address. No client I have found supports the mailbox thing very well, least of which Vivaldi.

Same with their calendar feature. Doesn't support calendars shared with me via Google. Just not fleshed out enough.
I think on long weekends in Australia there is just considerably more driving, and for longer distances. My uneducated guess is that "accident per driver" or "accident per hour driven" is probably relatively flat, but there's just so many more people on the roads during long weekends in aus.
Having a display in the sound booth is mandatory in France. Because the sound booth is usually in the middle of the stage, it is usually visible to the public too.

The maximum level is 102dB over 15 minutes. When I look at the screen in a loud venue (EDM, rock concert, ...), it is usually around 100dB, which more than justifies earplugs.

Free foam earplugs are common too, and they also sell better sounding earplugs in larger events. Personally, I bought custom molded earplugs, the type used by musicians. Expensive (~$200) but in my case 100% worth it: the others I tried tend to fall off, seal poorly, or be uncomfortable, and in the case of the cheapest ones (like the ones you get for free), completely muddle the sound.
Maybe "crave" is not the right word, I'm not able to understand how you can desire something that you find vomit worthy.
> If computer does bad, you just pull the plug.

See https://youtu.be/ld-AKg9-xpM?t=30 for a counterpoint.
Older generations always critize younger, that has little to do with inflation and price sensitivity.

The boomer doesn't like avocado toast, so they don't understand how someone would pay money for it. But it's likely they are also buying stuff milenials have no interest in.
> In practice it's just a lot of geometry clipping into and out of view

I tink 4D toys allows you to view 4D and 3D objects on a 2D plane. It makes me wonder how much we can really perceive a 4D world in a 3D world on a 2D surface (screen). A 3D hammer could be appreciated in 2D, but could a 3D philips screwdriver? I am not so sure.
And what would happen if the government passed a law saying that housing benefit could no longer be paid to private landlords? Looking over the instant wide spread homelessness, you would get a sharp spike in landlords either selling their houses or going bankrupt because their business model is no longer viable. Without that government money, they can’t pay their buy to let mortgages and the whole thing collapses - so they’re essentially getting property for free, paid for by the government, all because they managed to have enough capital to get in on the racket at the ground floor. Not to mention all the other less indirect ways the government passes laws to benefit landlords and property owners at the expense of renters.
Don't take me too literally. I'm not saying Dan keeps a list of banned topics, and checks posts one by one before approval.

However, there are groups who monitor this site for keywords, and flag posts that the community would otherwise be interested in discussing. They have a number of ways to do this, ranging from subtle to heavy handed. It's not hard to accomplish, technically speaking. You've seen what LLMs can do; and those tools have been available for years to some people. The benefits of doing so far outweigh the negligible risk for the groups involved.

The meta discussion around those topics is closed. Even posts asking for a discussion around them get removed, despite their immediate relevance to the tech and entrepreneur fields.
in canada drivers are usually respectful/good but theres still an attitude that drivers own the road and pedestrians are an afterthought. Theyll pull into intersections blocking the cross walk, or begin a left turn very early or blindly while people are crossing. stuff like that reminds you that the city was built for cars and not pedestrians, and i think thats the systemic thing that should change to prevent deaths
I'm an outlier too then. I want to keep email away from everything as much as possible.

I also want a web browser to be a web browser, not something that "contains" other apps. For mail I want to open my mail client, not web browser.

Having an integrated email client into a browser is really like a cheap Windows computer prebundled with crapware and malware.
"The Long Earth" series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter plays with this scenario, by giving humanity access to essentially limitless parallel worlds mostly untouched by humans. You can "step" into a parellel world, and thus eventually hunter gatherer lifestyles come back, since you can just step over once or a couple times to hunt there, and give resources time to recover. The series is quite a good read.
> Either you were not a key person or you badly picked the company you worked for.

This is a really uninformed and insulting reply. You speculate without having any knowledge or details about the situation.

First of all, I didn't join the company with the intention of staying 8 years or rising to management; I joined because they offered a big pay raise from my previous job. So no, I didn't badly pick the company I worked for.

Second, I personally wasn't looking for equity, I was looking for power, the ability to make independent decisions.

Third, a more general point: BigCo engineers get equity in the company, but they're still just cogs in the machine.
Biden kept Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. US small business pay the price
Yeah this made me wistful. I’d fly back to DC now for a few hours in the bar at the Hyatt. The lady there knew how to pour a measure of Scotch.

There’s something about appreciating a space for what it just is that you recognise as you get older. Not for appreciating the trendy, or the popular, but just for noticing a place, the characters, the shape. A good hotel bar has that in spades.
Already discussed to death literally yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480122

Am I living in groundhog day?
If you want to make it work for all sites, you need to turn on allowGenericProceduralFilters in the advanced settings.
> You can request that data be deleted

Requesting is easy... but trusting the whole "Yeah, we definitely deleted that data you asked us about" is where things can be tricky. :/
Email is a text medium. If someone can't be arsed to communicate properly in a medium, then they're just poor communicators. If I can't read the text of an email, it's just spam and goes directly in the trash. I already have a full inbox; the decision is easy.
Smartphones could soon have 24GB of RAM, because reasons
It might be that the moat for large LLM providers will be their ability to pay good developers to write good code solely for the purpose of feeding the training corpus of the Coding-LLM-as-a-Service.
Seems to have a confusing lack of "getting started" documentation. On the plus side, I now know what the world's smallest octopus is, so the important stuff is covered!
No idea personally.
Cue every Big Tech Company.
Sunrise and sunset are bad times for car crashes especially in cities where streets line up with the sun.

In my town there is one street that in winter with a wet salty road is like a mirror. The sun at a certain time during a certain time of year plus the "salt mirror" makes it practically impossible to see.
People might start not wanting to be tracked if they start paying for it.
I do not understand this aversion toward creating environment in which people have to or are motivated to drive the good way and preferring ranking up punishments as the only supposed solution for everything.

And making everything punishable as much as possible does not work all that much either. It just make people feel good that someone was punished.
... quite, which is positively tepid compared to the corona ...
Might it?
S4: Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
I think I'm going to start calling a gin and tonic a "fizzbuzz".
> The fact that containers are such a simple technology

But they're really not. This is a common misconception because of the user friendliness of Docker, but underneath all that there are many moving parts that the Linux kernel exposes, which are tricky to manage manually, and additional features of Docker itself (Dockerfile, layered images, distribution, etc.). Sure, you can write a shell script that does a tiny fraction of what container tools do, but then you'd have a half-baked solution that reinvents the wheel because... it's lighterweight?

What TFA is doing is fine if you want to learn how containers work and impress your colleagues, but for real world usage, stick to the established tooling.

Like others mentioned, there are ways to do what you propose, and you can always create your own container tool based on that shell script that automates this :). Though you might be interested in unikernels, which is an extreme version of that approach using VMs.
might even be people being worse at driving because of post-covid brain fog
Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro.

Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4

Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1].

[1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-wolfi-the-f... (last section)
> That's a really weird equivalency, which frankly, I'm not even sure is true.

A mind that's a black box to us, that we can predict to a degree based only on observing it at work, that's also a general-purpose intelligence we're trying to employ for limited set of tasks. It's not a bad analogy. Like animals, LLMs too have the capacity to "think outside the box", where the box is what you'd consider the scope of the task.
Jenga enjoyment doesn’t really have much to do with cerebral cortex functioning imo. It’s a simple game with simple rules, some minor stakes, and no capacity for completely bullshit strategies where a smug asshole can ruin the game for everyone else. This makes it broadly appealing, allows people to jump in and out as needed, and gives a conversation to be had around while not hoarding up the conversation with the game itself. This reads like someone who is justifying their personal choices by putting down the choices of others. If you don’t drink, don’t drink, but also there’s no reason to go out and build straw man arguments about drinkers.
Audio engineers wear earplugs for the soundcheck. If you want to listen to a gig the way it was engineered to sound, you should wear a pair too.
Taste it! Especially if as you say you 'love olive oil', I don't understand - if you can't tell if it's adulterated with a 'flavourless' vegetable oil from taste, then what is it you love about olive over vegetable oil (or what are you worried about missing when it tastes good)? Its higher price, or its lower smoke point?
Linus Torvalds on SHA1 collision risk (2005)
Do people in Poland still drive at the very right side so others can overtake even if there is oncomin traffic? I could not believe it when I saw that (maybe twenty years ago).
Yes, many actually.
There is a super interesting interview with Jeff Leach, a guy who actually went to live with hunter-gatherers, studying how they live and how it influences their microbiome:

https://chrisryan.substack.com/p/307-jeff-leach-microbiome-e...

Sounds like a large part of the reason for their gut diversity seem to be from not just what they eat, but how they eat it (taking in lots of dirt along with their food).
Next thing you know, akin to biking, people will be recommending you walk with a helmet
>>I guess it's best to pay over the odds and assume it's not worth the supplier's time and money to adulterate a product already commanding a high price.

Or it's the opposite - if you can put £1 worth of oil in a bottle selling for £10, you've made a huge amount of profit. On the other hand how much can you really save on a bottle selling for £2? Yeah economies of scale and all that, but at the end of the day it's probably worth targetting the more expensive product(there's a reason why watch fakers make fake Omegas and Rolexes, and not fake casios(although I'm sure those exist too)).
Why is this a surprise? There is a trip function in the app.
They see it as a service to sync it with a cloud solution perhaps.
Nobody is exploiting you. Get that toxic mindset out of your head and you'll be happier and better off.

Quit your job today and start providing a service for other people if that's what you will.

Another thing, 3 hours a day spent on walking alone seems like a waste of time to me. Walking is a terrible form of exercise, it's meant to save energy. You could run for 20 minutes a day and do strength training for another 30 minutes to an hour and never be in bad shape in your life.
That's...actually terrible. A bit of a search around seems to say that the only way to actually wipe it properly is the do a full device reset, which is obviously completely unacceptable.

Yeesh :/
Don't threaten me with a good time...
My life is infinitely more enjoyable waking up early to watch the sun rise while gardening instead of waking up hungover at 11 am to wonder what I did or said last night I don't remember.

Modernity sucks.
Are the memory semantics programmer-friendly on all (or most) platforms when using aliasing mappings like this? Eg if two CPUs concurrnetly update the memory through different VM address aliases, is the observed semantics identical vs accessing through only one address or not?
‘I don’t want to become San Francisco’: Urban woes spur state action on housing
Stirling's approximation carried out to more terms gives:

b = n/e + ln(2πn)/2e + (3(ln(2πn))^2 + 2)/(24en) + o(1/n)

which becomes a good approximation for large n: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17cC8YUqKjEBLsNJkJ4I...
Thanks for clarifying! I bought it at a time I was getting into outdoor rec 7-8 years ago, and I am just getting around to understanding the nuances.
Yes. The actual output is all the tokens and a probability for each. You can pick the highest or take one randomly using those probabilities. Depends how creative or deterministic you want it to be.
I have a low end phone with 4 Gigs of ram and it was working fine until i upgraded to the latest android version and now i can only pretty much run 1 application a time. I can switch between apps but they loose state and reload on switch. I swear to god when i get a new phone, i'll never run rom updates...
Could beings that are naturally able to perceive 4D be tricked into thinking they could only see 3D?

I remember reading something along the lines that human perception is extremely biased by the architecture we live within. Our edge detection gets much worse when it doesn’t follow similar lines of a room. Suggesting other cultures that live outside could perceive certain “illusions” that aren’t illusions at all. If that makes sense…
Well, the chance of something falling on your head is low but never 0.
Yes, I think hardware2win has it backwards. Old vehicles are very reliable, so there are lots of them on the road that are missing safety features like automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection.
Pedestrians are making a dent in Tesla.
Sorry, the article and subsequent discussion failed to persuade me that the combination is "worth it".

Any potential advantage is offset by disadvantages --- a big one being added lockin to make switching browsers more difficult and complex.

For simple needs, mail is already available in most any browser --- it's called "webmail".
This is completely anecdotal but from my experience bad and inconsiderate drivers also gravitate towards big vehicles.
It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that a it's a Linux distro without the Linux kernel, so it's really an "unLinux distro", or an (un)distro for short.
First Human Trials Begin for AI-Designed Drug
When trying to choose between the two, it struck me how unacceptable the behaviour of people on the pfsense project are on platforms like reddit; this was enough to tip the scales permanently. Toxicity and arrogance were prevalent, along with actively trying to squash discussions about non-Netgate hardware (the pfsense brand), while touting the project as open source.
I've used this to get to a browser that almost does full screen videos in a borrowed Tesla, from the YouTube app.

Then navigated to some dodgy adware infested streaming site and it was working okay until changing to another video, when it froze the whole Tesla computer and the car needed a hard reboot
Docker came about when lxc was the container interface on Linux. It's hardly user friendly. Doing everything yourself is possible, but again is really only user friendly for very simple operations. For instance, most users would probably find network name spacing or even uid/gid mapping pretty confusing. These days the images produced are quite different in that Docker now produces OCI compatible images, which makes them run anywhere. lxc on the other hand will produce images that run only on Linux. lxd eventually came around which is a lot more analogous to Docker as an application and outputs OCI compatible images.
Yeah to be honest the presence of this article on the Best section of HN makes it look a lot more interesting than it really is. It's just a WebView...
I like the idea that a small model could
fine tune itself for each task more affordably, so that could be an advantage.
I like the humility
The last section in the link helped, but I have to say, the circle analogy made very little sense to me. Thank you for clarifying nonetheless.
Damus will be removed from App Store because of tipping feature
In base 12, the multiplication tables are (likely) easier to learn because of the increase in factors (e.g. 3 would be "3,6,9,10,13..." and 4 would be "4,8,10,14..." 8 would be "8,14,20,28..." and 9 would be "9,16,23,30,39...").
I'm thankful that the important stuff is covered , there is helpful documentation over here btw https://edu.chainguard.dev/open-source/wolfi/overview/
> That's called beam search.

There are other decoding approaches, other than beam search:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00666

> Other than that, things like gpt can't go back and edit what they've outputted

Actually, they can, they may emit a backspace token [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425375
I think this is a known phenomenon which is why Aussie police give double demerits for driving tickets on long weekends.
There might be an additional optimization in having the writer also cache it's write index on the cache line together with the read index cache. This way the writer would only do writes to the write index cache line. The hardware might be able to optimize this. I wonder how it interacts with UMWAIT on the latest cores.
I would assume that the guy posting is a little confused. Possibly claiming that only some subset of their frontend are "web developers" and classifying everything else as 'ops', or something? Most of a company like Twitter's engineers couldn't reasonably be classified as "web developers".

The tweet is prime HN-bait; a hot take, self-evidently not based on reality, but uttered with complete self-confidence.
Maybe AMD should just contract Valve to manage writing drivers for them?
So that you cannot sit around the table talking with friends after finishing the pizza and they can serve more customers with the same number of tables. Next question?
It's not really ideological but practical. If you don't want accrual of resources into small pockets of people, it needs to be mixed around.

The "entitlement" the government has is their transitory monopoly on violence. And in a functioning democracy that monopoly is exercised according to how society at large believes it will benefit them.

It's important to remember money arises naturally but the dynamics of how its used and its value is partly a top-down decision. It's really a tool of persuasion not some universal marker of value. The stock market wouldn't fluctuate wildly around meme stocks etc if that were true. Argentinians can tell you that the underlying economy might not always reflect the market value of money itself.

I'm not villifying big capital , it's just prudent to be wary of it as a phenomenon. Big capital allowed for huge distributed tech/infrastructure creation like computers (with a nudge from the gov). All the actors within those organisations are just acting 'rationally' within the contraints that have been set for them. But these current constraints might not be what's best for society in the long term.

The reason you would need it back is to preserve the system (for those who are being taxed also)- as money accrues, the ability to rent-seek rises which raises costs for all of society and reduces productivity and more importantly the well-being of the population. Past a point workers won't feel invested in working, elites will start infighting to get a foot in the shrinking doorway.
Except for security culture. We distrust humans but allow apps to have keys to the kingdom DB connections and so on.
Allowing an LLM an outbound internet connection is dangerous. Maybe a firewalled one might be OK.
I believe that books continue to hold immense importance in the realm of internet knowledge. While the internet offers a vast array of information, books provide depth, rigor, and expert insights that are often lacking online. They are the repositories of specialized knowledge, offering in-depth exploration of complex subjects. Books provide a tangible, reliable, and authoritative source that withstands the transient nature of the internet. They remain invaluable resources, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of subjects beyond what can be found online.In addition to the significance of books, it is important to acknowledge the value of the internet in knowledge acquisition. The internet provides unparalleled access to a vast amount of information from diverse sources. It enables rapid dissemination of knowledge, facilitates global collaboration, and offers interactive platforms for learning. The internet also offers convenience, allowing individuals to access information anytime, anywhere. Its dynamic nature allows for the dissemination of up-to-date research findings and fosters the exchange of ideas across disciplines. The internet complements books by expanding the accessibility and availability of knowledge in an unprecedented manner.
> not a criticism of Minecraft by the way, it's better to be popular and inefficient than not exist

I'm glad you said that, it's a very wise statement. It's the origin story of so many working-but-inefficient projects. We just don't see the graveyard of perfect-but-never-finished projects on the other side of the scale.
Maybe more appropriate for the vodka soda which is literally nothing but fizz and buzz.