skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their tight-knit social democracies are not compatible with immigration. But without immigration they don’t have enough workers.

People keep saying both of these things, and it's not clear that either of them is true? I mean, the whole "race riot because a cop murdered a nonwhite person" phenomenon is also pretty American, and it's not exactly a tight-knit social democracy?

The racism is definitely a problem, but you have to remember that quite a lot of the younger generation of nonwhite people are French; i.e. born in France holders of French nationality, considered to be "French" by the French census, educated in French schools, and occasionally shot at by French gendarmes.

If France did not want to be full of Algerians it should not have tried to make Algeria French, at the cost of a huge number of lives, but there is no time machine for that.
If you're gonna do that, might as well use sync_file_range on Linux https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0904.0/01076...
Labor is not fungible. A janitor can't take a week training course and become a surgeon.
Yes, and unlike a sign up for a random site, you are actually stating the info and signing the form, it is as "official" a document as a non-notarized/non-certified one can be, there could be (improbable anyway in practice) legal consequences if you sign something with fake or non-existing data, it is a false declaration.

And when you (if asked/needed by the procedure) provide a copy of your ID, you are actually giving them other data points, like your birth date, often nationality, and in some cases even the address of residence.
Boston Brahmin including Delano Family (FDR ancestor) were involved as well.
> 1. Make telemetry non-optional

But then users who care about this issue will just block the application's ability to phone home, or use a different one that doesn't spy (my definition of spying is any time data about me or my machines is collected without my informed consent).
> Can an electrician focus on his work when a young child is with him?

Yes, of course. This doesn't mean a 4 year old is coming along on a traditional 8 hour US electrician's shift. It doesn't mean the 10 year old is coming along to the dangerous industrial jobs. When kids get put into reasonable contexts they adapt, it's kind of what we excel at as a species.

However, I was absolutely learning how to do basic home wiring (at a semi-useful level for some tasks) and electrical theory before I was in my double digits in years. By the time I was 10 or 11 (hard to recall precisely) I was wiring up my own circuits (alarm on my door to not be caught reading at night) at home and doing dangerous things with line current. I certainly knew enough to be dangerous, but also did understand the basics of how AC and DC circuits worked.

To this day I can still do basic electrical work such as bending conduit, wiring in work boxes - essentially everything past the demarc. These were all skills I learned before I was a teenager by helping out on job sites.

> How can he teach the child the theory of electrophysics that is necessary to understand if one is to become an electrician? Do others at the site watch the children and explain the theory? Would you then not end up with teachers again?

How many working electricians understand things to such a deep level? While I certainly understand more these days than I did at age 12, I can't really say any of it would be useful on a typical residential job site. The safety aspect is pretty well handled by a few standard rules of thumb that don't require much deep theory-level knowledge.

I'm very much not anti-school, but anyone who thinks our current system remotely challenges most individuals seems to have an incredible lack of imagination to me. Yes, this requires far more effort from far more adults across the entire spectrum of society.

Edit: All I do know is that sequestering kids away from 'real life' is damaging, and I'm unsure anything can convince me otherwise at this point in my life. We can never go back in time and give someone those experiences later in life (brains stop making neural connections as quickly) so I do often ponder what is truly being lost forever.
If you have a low mortgage rate, borrowing against the increased value of your home to invest is free money
This is the real threat of "AI". Companies are going to use it to make things that already suck even worse in an attempt to reduce costs.
I'm not for unbridled capitalism, but if you have ever tried to start a business in even a slightly regulated field (medical, construction, chimney cleaning, a restaurant, general contracting, just being a handyman), the amount of regulation is incredible and overwhelming. Software development doesn't count - it's probably the least regulated field in the country. Even being a hairdresser requires licensing and venue requirements in most states - minorities have been sued for just trying to do hairdressing in their own homes for a few bucks.

Is it fair to call the US a capitalist country? Honestly, I don't think so. It's a weird disastrous mishmash of socialism, capitalism, and English bureaucracy. It's just "more capitalist" than other countries who at least have the intellectual honesty to more fully commit to a system.
Yes! I remember your post here on HN about this project, super well done.
1) There are.

2) They aren't so visible (here) because the VCs don't have a bikeshed moment where they think they know how to do things in that market and thus aren't tossing money at it. There are far more unicorn possibilities in other (bikesheddable) markets, so that's where the startup funding flows.

3) Inertia. You're dealing with entire industries and governments and etc that are entrenched, more or less conservative/bureaucratic/regulated, whole lot of nepotism and similar effects, where you really can't just make it up as you go and PR your way through it. Disruptors are killed or acquired/disappeared pretty quickly.
The amount of money being spent on ML compute is pretty high. If it stays high, cost will be a relevant axis that others can compete on.

GPUs are also not super available atm. We'll see if this is a temporary issue or one that persists for years. If you can't get A100s, you'll try the AMD/TPU competitors.
I've been in this position and got some good advice from a friend:

"My (current|previous) position was no longer a good fit for me" is not a lie and is about as tactful as you can be and I would leave it at that. When probed simply explain that the environment had changed and was no longer what it was when you started. It's okay to just say "it was time to move on". Anything probing beyond that I would be as professional as you can but tell the truth.
I'm not going to sign up but like...has he seen Linkedin recently?
New Twitter rules restrict US weather service, raising safety fears
debank all protestors
It's not stupidity, it's an economic feedback loop, like auctioning a dollar bill. Once you enter the trap, you are trapped.
The Atlanta metro area doesn't have any zoning regulation? That's the first I've heard of it. Cool.

So, what would housing prices be if Atlanta did have restrictions? The research says higher. But, it's hard to show that with any rigor since what would you compare Atlanta with? Every city is different and it's a challenge to get a good comparison.
Offset parent and stacking context: positioning elements in all three dimensions
They're not modeling video games.

If anything, they're modeling the BLM protests and riots in the United States. Mirrored circumstances, mirrored activities.

And good on them. The comfortable should be uncomfortable in a society where the police can just shoot an unarmed young man in the face without consequence.
Which country would grow exponentially in the coming years?
Which country according to you would grow exponentially in the coming years and why do you think it will grow at that pace?
And how would you invest into that opportunity?

Economics wise - per capita income growth is talked here.
Strong disagree. The way I see it, any successful customer service operation needs to have three things in place:

1. Properly defined and articulated customer service policies and procedures

2. A training program that adequately prepares agents to know, understand and apply those policies and procedures

3. Sufficient inherent capability and disposition of the customer service agents to apply that training

My take is that the (relevant) inherent capabilities of LLMs at even at this early stage are as strong or stronger than what I see in the human customer service agents I typically deal with. And the disposition of an LLM can be arbitrarily good through fine-tuning and prompt engineering.

As such, any company that gets 1. and 2. right has a high chance of providing a better support experience by replacing human agents with LLMs.
There are many ways attackers & hackers 'verify' black-box systems regularly. For example: Cause effect Graphing – This technique establishes a relationship between logical input called causes with corresponding actions called the effect. The causes and effects are represented using Boolean graphs. In fact it is precisely due to the desired side effects that allow attackers the ability to detect, and reverse engineer the system. This is not easy, but it is not at all undetectable, or irreversible.
You shall not pass! But I'm a demon and I'm taking my commit with me to the depths of hell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
Removal of coal? Show me any reliable, scalable, affordable method.
> But arguably the advantages of intelligence are diminishing, otherwise we would have much smarter people in more powerful positions.

Smart people get what they want more often than less smart people. This can include positions of power, but not always — leadership decisions come with the cost of being responsible for things going wrong, so people who have a sense of responsibility (or empathy for those who suffer from their inevitable mistakes) can feel it's not for them.

This is despite the fact that successful power-seeking enables one to get more stuff done. (My impression of Musk is he's one who seeks arbitrary large power to get as much as possible done; I'm very confused about if he feels empathy towards those under him or not, as I see a very different personality between everything Twitter and everything SpaceX).

And even really dumb leaders (of today, not inbred monarchies) are generally above average intelligence.
I don't understand how most of Europe hasn't been more hair-on-fire emergency over the past decade about this.
I live in one of the more rapidly growing American metros, in what I would consider a construction boom. I'm not sure what you're characterizing as a startup, but if you simply mean a new business without a lot of history attempting to enter the market and compete, as far as I can tell, there are a lot of these. My own home was built by a small builder, single-owner, who had been in business less than a decade. Three separate adjacent lots were purchased and at least started to be developed by first-time homebuilders. In two cases, they failed and sold the project before even completing it, but someone out there was at least trying to be a homebuilding startup.

You may be thinking of new businesses attempting to grow fast and capture market share using equity investors to subsidize low initial prices charged to consumers. I'm not sure that makes sense as a business model in the residential construction sector. Your revenue just comes from selling houses. Pricing is a fairly strict matter of supply and demand you have little to no control over. There is no alternative revenue model. People buy the house and tend to stay there a while. They're not going to buy a subscription service, or accept a discount in return for you collecting data from their home and selling ads or something. Companies that want to do that are selling smart home devices, not the homes themselves.

As others have mentioned, there isn't a ton you can do to push costs down. The unskilled labor is already cheap. The skilled labor is scarce and unionized. Material costs are set by global commodities markets. Timelines are heavily determined by external factors. It's easiest to build in the middle of nowhere, but then there is lower demand for the houses. Denser places where more people want to live tend to have most lots already developed, so now you're looking at convincing people to sell, possibly trying to get existing properties condemned, possibly rezoning, lot division, possibly needing new utilities hookups but instead of doing it in some brand-new exurb where nothing exists, you need to dig and shut down roads and sidewalks in places where people already live and work. You need permits, easements. You're disrupting things and people who don't want their lives disrupted slow you down. The skilled tradesmen who represent the major bottleneck in your workforce largely don't want to do this kind of work because it takes longer and payment is less reliable. So even in a place with relatively lax zoning where no one explicitly tries to stop you from building, you still may not be able to do it in any timely manner because you're competing for a tiny pool of laborers who can do the electrical and plumbing work and they can only be in one place at a time.
You’re vastly underestimating the complexity, variety, and idiosyncrasy of tools and formats used by publishers.
Inflation hurts speculative assets the most. In the last 2 years, BTC is down 50% despite inflation being at the highest level seen since the 1980s.
I don’t think this is the right way of looking at the result. Imagine you have cardiovascular disease. If you take vitamin D, the study suggests that you will on average a 9% reduction in risk. There is a ~97% chance that it provides you some improvement, but there is a ~3% chance that your risk actually increases. This seems like an easy decision to me if you are a high risk individual.

Looked at another way, imagine the authors used a 94% confidence interval instead of 95%. Suddenly, the risk reduction from vitamin D becomes “statistically significant”. There is nothing magical about 95%, and use of p values to assess boolean effective/ineffective should have been done away with a long time ago.

Related:

The Earth is Round (p < 0.05) [1994]: https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/misc/Cohen1994.pdf

Sadly, the Earth is Still Round (p < 0.05) [2012]: https://cmapspublic2.ihmc.us/rid=1P501PBWQ-1S6L809-28MX/Zhu_...
1. Getting a job directly in western/developed countries is much harder than people think.

2. Forget about getting sponsorship for visa, even if you get a job (in some cases employer does it but you have to be the one exceptional case)

3. If I were you, I would go for further study in western/developed countries and then path to permanent visa via employment.

4. Every major city in western/developed countries has good public transportation.

5. Canada: All cities of Greater Toronto area has reliable pub. trans. same case with other provinces (I live here)

5. Driving car in Canada is not hard compare to Nepal or India (trust me I have driven in all these three countries), most of cars are automatic here, and driving is straight forward if you follow the rules.

6. If you're looking for good weather then, Australia and South Part of USA is better options while most southern part of Canada is colder than Nepal in winter.

7. Immigration in USA is very very difficult even via student visa and sponsorship and don't mention how expensive it is to study in USA.

8. Canadian immigration is straight forward and easy, details can be found on https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.ht...

9. Don't get in spam trap or immigration fraud, NEVER TRUST ANY IMMIGRATION AGENT SPECIALLY IN NEPAL AND/OR INDIA, read while/before apply https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.ht...
The problem is that it just moves the issue around. If you expel a 5th grader, they will be at SOME school for at least several more years, since that is the law. All you're doing is making life more miserable for their parents as they have to arrange transportation to increasingly far flung school districts, and for the child as they are ripped away from all their friends every year when they are sent to a new school.

I don't know what the answer is, but "all children are owed a public education and in fact we'll arrest their parents if they drop out" and "public schools can kick children out" are self-evidently not compatible policies.
> I am concerned that AI models can easily de-anonymize and guess end point users when being fed with "telemetry data" of hundreds of thousands clients.

You don't need AI for this. This is done by real humans right now, using data points correlated from multiple sources.
It is also a stereotype that doesn't fit most of the US, just like most stereotypes Americans have of Russia and Romania are wildly inaccurate.
A study about this from researchers based in Netherlands was recently linked to on HN. They found a correlation between a drop in juvenile crimes following a GTA release.
>the wake of the whole Titan submersible thing.

The Titan submersible didn't violate "regulations", though, it violated industry standards. Standards that are updated more often than regulations. In so doing, it it was denied a certification. Since it operated in international waters only, there were no applicable regulations to evade.

Regulatory bodies which are poorly funded may write overly restrictive rules because they don't have the resources to do a more comprehensive assessment. In particular, many HUD rules are split into "single-family houses" and "everything else", with little consideration for small apartment buildings, townhouses and other "missing middle". The requirements for houses are much less strict than for apartments, and construction costs per square foot are correspondingly lower for detached single-family homes.

If you live in a detached SFH built after 1970, it's arguable that you already live in a structure where the builders took an "innovative" approach to dealing with regulations, because it was built to the lower house standards and not the stricter apartment standards. And if it was built before the 1970s, the regulations were probably very lax.

Nonetheless, I think the solution must be to reexamine the regulations, rather than evade them. But this "written in blood" is a thought-terminating cliche that prevents progress.
Its not a bad idea, but its like phone trees: abused by so many places the only thing I can do is try to get a human.
Doesn't seem to be an argument so much as guffawing over twitter's terrible July 4 weekend.
I mean bullying is a thing worldwide to some extent, but I think America needs to fix it's high school culture. If not it's entire, aggressive culture.
The tiny house they have a gallery of is aggressively ugly, with lots of bizarre curved walls seemingly just to demo their method. And the shelves and fixtures look precarious and unsafe, straight out of Arrested Development. Given the build quality, I'd be afraid the roof would come down on me if I sneezed.
Taps the sign:

> This level of scrutiny is really excellent. Now we need to apply it to other companies working in the same space.

Facebook is and should be held in the same esteem as those lot. I was talking about threads specifically.

Sure, facebook the app is all up in your junk. But the apple label about "it stealing your health data" is nonsense[1]. Why isn't there a permissions dialogue asking me to share my health data, like fitness apps? Does apple specifically allow Facebook apps to get at my health data unannounced? what about apple pay, is that leaking to facebook as well?

None of the FAANG companies are reliable narrators. Regardless of how good their PR is.

Sure facebook will rat you out to the police, They don't spend anywhere near enough time or money doing actual proper moderation. They also totally suck at making new products (threads is the first new product with any success since messenger, and that sucks donkeycocks.) are they "nobel heros" fuck no. They are just trendy whipping sticks.

[1] https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/threads-twitter-rival-warning-...
Also much better panopticon and much broader police powers to suppress protest in advance. As well as the fall of Communism (most of the 68-ish generation of actually violent Left was explicitly Red)
There are also Solør Line and Rørøs Line.
Solør Line transports mostly wood.
Rørøs Line is also used for wood and it is alternative route to Trondheim from Oslo (technically from Hamar).

But I think that there was/is plan to electrify them as well.
Are there any regulations associated with material impact?
I really wish we'd make a word that distinguishes the difference without adding the word 'science' at all.

Saying social 'science', gives the credibility of science.

Heck, I'd really like a scale that can measure the credibility. P values are a bandaid.

For instance, chemistry is pretty solid science right? Well, if you make polyurethane in a box, the 'same way' each time, you are going to have bubbles in seemingly random locations, with maybe some correlation. Whatever the case, its not perfectly repeatable due to macro scale complexities.

I don't think this would do too much for the scientific community, because most are aware. But I do think it would help teenagers understand the difference.

I cringe whenever I hear things like "But it was peer reviewed and in this fancy journal". Yeah give me replication and I'll take a look.
Rollercoaster Tycoon has an excellent version of RC2 for tablets (and I suppose phones). There are also plenty of other games on the Play Store that are decent ports from desktop games or even purely mobile.

I've bought a copy of Super Hexagon for Android at some point, and that's still an excellent game. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to play that on desktop as well now that Windows has native Android support.

Then there are games like PUBG mobile that will easily run on cheap laptops with integrated graphics, unlike the full games. Those types of games even come with full controller support.

Sure, the Play Store home pages likes to peddle the stalkerware scamfest that is microtransaction based minigames, but there are actually decent games on the platform.

When it comes to Android apps and games, you get what you pay for. The situation isn't very different on iOS, except that people are more willing to pay for their apps. You don't see a lot of $10 Android games (which are perfectly fine games) featured on the front page because people WANT the free crapware.

If anything, Microsoft preinstalling Candy Crush on Windows should be a signal that the market wants these types of money wasters on their computers, no matter how much techies and "gamers" despise those types of predatory games.
Why isn't there enough supply in Atlanta?
I was doing sightseeing in Pokhara (Nepal) with my friend some years ago, and on a boat trip across the Phewa Lake, I left my camera behind in the boat and thought I had lost it. They actually came back to find me and give it back to me. I had already settled on the idea that I will never get it back.
I will root for AI a lot more readily when we have a good alternative (UBI?) for people whos jobs are being displaced faster than they can retrain

Y'all cheerleaders are going to create an underclass the likes of which you've never seen before. I hope they take up torches and pitchforks