skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two issues:

1. Human desires increase over time, so virtually nobody is going to accept the lifestyle of a few decades ago as acceptable for their retirement. A few decades ago, people whining that they can no longer afford an international vacation would have been resoundingly mocked. Now people unironically say society is in decline because they cannot afford to travel internationally or cannot afford vacation property (when neither were ever the norm, but have become relatively so). People will get sympathy at the high cost of going to restaurants and bars. My grandparents view complaining about that as ridiculous, as to them, those things are luxury goods, but to our generation, they are just day to day life. Frankly, you will expect a much higher standard of living in retirement than what you have today.

2. Some of our most expensive goods and services really aren't enhanced by technology, at least not in a consume the same for less kind of way. Most notably, housing and healthcare. For these, we want to consume ever more and so much so that the cheaper options tend to simply disappear from the market. Consider that my father as an upper middle class person grew up in a 1200 sqft house. That is what dual income professionals bought back in the day. But you can't really easily buy a 1200 sqft house today (you can in a condo, but that is a very different lifestyle). That house had one bathroom. You would be hard pressed to find a house without a bathroom a person unless it was very old (and those are getting torn down). It used to be that low wage people lived simply in quasi boarding houses/permanent motels. But you cannot build those today or at least virtually nobody does. So rather than having a cheaper 1200 sqft house with one bathroom, we went with 2500 sqft houses with 5 bathrooms, with an increase in the price.

So yes, the future is definitely more prosperous, as 2500 sqft is more than 1200, but it isn't an option to take the 1200 sqft for cheaper unless you go and live in old housing stock in a rural area where it has not been torn down. You can't live simply in a hotel style cheap apartment anymore as those aren't legal in many places and even if they were, people do not tolerate them nearby.

With healthcare, we don't pay less for the same outcomes, but are increasingly paying multiples more for better ones and you get the standard of care, not what was around 20 years ago.
The infrastructure/training libraries already exists. I'm sure you can get people who worked at scale that can figure out how to glue things together.

Reddit, twitter, etc.. raising prices is going to make it more expensive.
Discrete GPUs can go into old desktop PCs. That's my guess.

And it's not clear what % of them were used for gaming vs crypto mining.
They're admitting that the Linux that enterprise people want is RHEL (or RHEL-based) and not SLES.

Also, if CIQ follows them and SUSE bases this on CentOS Stream (at least for RHEL9; CentOS Stream 8 is admittedly a bit messy), this is exactly what Red Hat was hoping to achieve.
The 'rich white people' shorthand typical serves as an obvious stand in for 'those who have the political autonomy and systemic support to fight against harmful government and corporate actions'.

The vast majority of readers can quickly make the connection between 'politically powerful' and 'rich white people' assuming they live in America. It's not on random HN commenters to be egalitarian humanities writers who deconstruct every concept
In the realm of AI, where jobs in prompt engineering command remarkable salaries ranging from $175,000 to an astonishing $300,000 and beyond, the allure of this field is undeniable. However, venturing into the waters of AI prompt engineering requires more than a knack for clever interrogations. To truly flourish in this domain, a confluence of skills in AI, programming, language mastery, problem-solving prowess, and even artistic ingenuity is paramount. Embarking on this career path demands a comprehensive fusion of these disciplines, ensuring a vibrant and thriving professional journey.
Because the plan is to never have excess or idle workers. I used taxis as the example, I could’ve used elderly care where things are run similar to what you suggest. Well, 80% of its is run by public nurses while the other 20% is run by private companies. The issue is sort of similar, the small companies go bankrupt and then the public side needs to cover for them, but you don’t have staff to just scale up and run another 3% without using subs, which are often 3-10x expensive than on staff nurses.

You and I can agree that it’s sort of silly. The data will certainly show the net benefit of having idle workers, but you’re not going to win an election by wanting to have “too many” workers, even if the data shows that it is in fact not “too many”.
A simple web crawler? All the hyperlinks are interconnected, should be easy
MS not owning OpenAI outright is a technicality. "It would suck to be an MS shareholder" due to things done to subsidiaries of MS constitutes dereliction of duty by MS officers. MS is not Silicon Valley. They're based in Seattle and predate 95% of SV. Besides this is just one of my points. Even if everything you claimed were to be true, OpenAI still is, as I pointed out, part of the American Corporate establishment and despite their PR posturing, they won't provide us with technology to disrupt said establishment.

They are clearly trying to angle for maximizing the profitability of that establishment.
Profit is the gain made by the enterprise. Shareholder returns are monies paid out to shareholders.

When the board is more like a group of Huns than a Shepard, you find that after you pay out the shareholders, the enterprise is toast. In some cases, like most recently in big box retail, the private equity investors are running an obvious and odious, but legal, fraud.

With utilities, the business is all about capitalization and cash flow. They should be stable and boring businesses. When they are exciting, the management is burning the candle at both ends.
a lack of security functionality by default is categorically a vulnerability. you are mincing words.

having a redis exposed to the internet is a vulnerability, even though theoretically you could use lua scripting yourself to do some kind of authentication for every request. same stretch of logic applies there...
I don't think you want to point at English football clubs if we're talking about sensible compensation, not least since one of the issues highlighted in the article are the debt load of these English and Welsh water companies.
It can come from a claim on future profits which aren't realized, which is the case here.

When does profits don't materialize, the company goes bankrupt, the government rescues it (can't just cutoff power and water!) and everyone is happy! Well everyone but the majority of taxpayers who aren't also shareholders of the utilities...
Article like this seems weird from Economist. Isn't it the free market magazine?
It would seem that yes inflation makes things expensive, but also yes they are raising prices because of "increased demand". And possibly illegally price fixing because it's a monopoly.

We really need to get back into antitrust busting

https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-lawsuits-sysco-corp-...
There is relentless anti-China media in the mainstream. So it's not a surprise that most Americans say this about TikTok.

In addition, Meta has been doing covert anti-TikTok public relations.[0] Zuckerberg wants TikTok banned more than anyone else.

[0]https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/meta-facebook-tiktok-p...
What a nothing-burger article, a real waste of bandwidth. Basically it says

<deepdive>There was a bug, that was fixed. We don't know what the actual bug was. But it was fixed.</deepdive>
So even encryption encourages planned obsolescence!
Right, so the “parent” posts a profit, and it comes (either tomorrow or next year) from revenue earned by the “child” that borrowed, trading revenue tomorrow (going to lenders) in exchange for cash today (going to “parents’” owners).

Without getting into the weeds, my point was that in order for owners to end up with cash in their pocket, the business has to earn a profit, at some point. And that profit must come from revenue (higher prices for customers) minus expenses (lower quantity/quality for customers).

You can insert a lender in there to shift when those cash flow changes happen, but the money must come from customers, eventually.

Barring any research and development that results in technology that will allow for lower expenses and/or increased production, but I do not think that is the case here.
Could have been named Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Bio-Entomo Robot, or MEMBER
The more things change... I've seen mostly identical (in spirit, not in technical details) discussions about the "Year of Linux on Desktop" in 2013, which was 10 years ago. I am quite sure I can safely bet the discussions 20 years ago, in 2003, were also pretty much the same.
That would be actually a nice policy: only allow buybacks using taxed profits. Unfortunately, it's not there yet
Ars does seem to have far more "fluffy-ish fan articles" on a fair number of subjects in recent years. Maybe I'm old. Or maybe Condé Nast (their owner) is more interested in profits than in hard core tech nerd cred.
The eigenvalues of a filter are exactly the poles.
Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 is now generally available
Nobody said it wasn't important. It's just a different kind of problem. I personally run disabled and neutralized Intel ME to be a bit safer.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678795.
> OpenAI still is, as I pointed out, part of the American Corporate establishment and despite their PR posturing, they won't provide us with technology to disrupt said establishment

They're not acting like they're part of the American corporate establishment, and I don't understand why you think they are.

Rather than quote my other comment comparing against 3M, I'll link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36677182
Do you mean socialism or democratic socialism? They're very different and people tend to use the terms interchangeably. Socialism is an authoritarian system of social control which requires that the means of production, distribution, and exchange be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Democratic socialism is, in effect, restrictions on free markets and democratic control over tax redistribution. Most Western nations (arguably all of them), including the U.S., are democratic socialist nations.

Socialist nations have a long and sordid history of failing at managing public infrastructure, so I assume you're not referring to socialism, but democratic socialism. If so, the distinction doesn't help us here. We still need to figure out the right balance of control and independence.
The irony here is that the massive water price hikes must surely have contributed in less waste of water resources.
What specifically do you dislike about Docker? Have you considered Podman?
The written testimony didn't say "ban", but it did stress fairly complex regulation.

"First, it is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most
powerful models–adhere to an appropriate set of safety requirements, including internal
and external testing prior to release and publication of evaluation results. To
ensure this, the U.S. government should consider a combination of licensing or
registration requirements for development and release of AI models above a crucial
threshold of capabilities, alongside incentives for full compliance with these
requirement"

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-05-16%20...
It also doesn't work for any product with inelastic demand.

People that need insulin need it regardless of price, so a 'free' market has the property that the price increases until the 'customer' is broke and then dead. It creates corporate structures that are based more around a 'leech' model. There is no incentive to create better or more efficient products.
That explains the default, not their inability to change the behavior.
The thing is, by the time you have made the regulation strict enough to avoid any and all tricks Goldman-Sachs and friends can come up with, you've basically nationalized the companies.
"I can spoof any email address" leads to an open relay elevated to mailgun's exit ips, presumably with authentication headers added by mailgun's dkim-enabled servers. because it is possible (and likely) that many users will have an inbound email trigger some form of outbound email.

Essentially, vulnerability reporter is saying "hey, you've created a landmine field of open relays, which hackers only have to discover to abuse" and mailgun is saying "no we haven't, our USERS have created those"

that is why this is different from 'literally anything that accepts email.'
This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. https://immich.app/
1999 was the first year of Linux on the desktop if I remember correctly.
the most ironic part is that it's the US itself which is going to monitor compliance.

The entire problem for me is basically what Snowden revealed. In most democratic western countries a certain level of privacy is actually enshrined into law due to it's propensity for abuse. -- the US spying on Swedens behalf means that technically Sweden is not spying on Swedes.

The US having data on me by itself isn't a huge deal; there's no fucking way I will ever want to live there and factually: nobody is going to go sniffing into my life like in the movie "Enemy of the State" (though I suppose they could). However, the US sharing that information with Sweden can affect my life, because it's intentionally bypassing a protection that I am supposed to have in order to live in a free democratic system.

Failure to respect privacy lends itself to authoritarianism as people will self-censor if they feel they are not able to express themselves. Maybe I'm overstating this but it's a real concern of mine.
The article lost me at the continued suggestion we forgive debt. If the gov wants to wholesale forgive debt, send everybody a check. Otherwise it isn’t fair to those who have no degree, couldn’t afford one or get loans, or already paid theirs off or paid cash.
My brother Laser printer still works great after 5 years or more, I think MacOS got a lot worse at printing to it though in the last major version... I have to remove the printer, reboot and re-add it most times. Or I just print from my phone which always works.
Somewhere, Tony Blair smiles.
GPS Disciplined Stratum 1 NTP Server Using a Raspberry Pi
OEMs could ship their own security patches. (They are already running frankenkernels. They have some in-house expertise for patching the kernel, making the image, etc.) They don't, because they don't want to spend money on it. (And probably a smaller factor is that they don't want to cannibalize the sales of their newer devices.)

As far as I understand price sensitive users will stop using apps that don't support their device instead of upgrading. (Or will try to roll back the update of said apps.) Providing base security updates wouldn't change this logic.
Agreed. I think the point here is that what % of Mailgun users will be doing this additional processing? I suspect it's basically 0%.

Why? It's not outlined in their specs, their sales copy implies they are handling it, and sensible headers are sometimes there which is extra misleading.
It's opensource and AGPL, as long as you do not redistribute it I believe you can fork it and rebuild it.
Came here to post the same thing ;)
Or maybe the clickthrough shows that their audience really is interested in this subject.
A rocket is a lot easier to design for (in a weird way) -- after all, it only has to deal with zero to one atmosphere, instead of 150 atmospheres.
Is it your opinion that some people simply shouldn’t get their mail, or that people who live in rural areas should pay exponentially more to get their mail delivered? Why is either of those things desirable?

USPS is not a business, and it’s a fundamental mistake to pretend it is, solely for the sake of slandering it.
As you were asked before where are the unions paid $233bn?

If the RMT had that amount of money I’ve no doubt Mick Lynch would be using it to buy the railways
Unless the EU law is optimal you could always argue it could be better at a national level. So none?
I was a real engineer for a decade before switching to programming.

I cannot use the word software engineer, since its nothing like real engineering.

Real engineering was def harder, more math intense, and the stakes were sooo much higher. While many software problems can cause you to lose money, engineering problems can cause you to lose time. Yes it sucks your CAD designer had everything on a 0.05 degree angle and it costs 1M to redo the tool, but it also costs 16 weeks to redo the tool. We'd even offer to pay absurd money, prevent future business, etc... to get the tool done in 8 weeks, but its impossible to get it done faster. Now everything in the company is 8 weeks behind schedule.

Anyway, real engineering was harder, but programming pays soooo much more money. Its a demand thing, not a difficulty thing.
I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?
> Is the problem that they don't do the verifications for SPF/DKIM/DMARC for inbound emails?

Yes - the result of the checks aren't passed through for inbound emails (when sent to webhooks).
This piece directly references Howard's article (complete with link) and debunks it.

The case for privatisation rested on two claims, reiterated by Michael Howard, writing recently for The Economist. First, the bracing force of competition would improve utility management and hence overall outcomes. Second, it would unlock access to private capital to fund much-needed investment that would otherwise be held back by short-termism and scarcity—supposedly endemic to public ownership.

Neither claim stands up to scrutiny. Private management and weak regulation have delivered a crisis-ridden sector and chronic underinvestment. Water companies have made clear that investment will be funded mainly by increased bills, undermining the idea that private capital is essential for investment.
Technically, CentOS Stream is versioned. The difference being it is versioned at the major release, hence CentOS Stream 8, 9, and 10.

It is true there are no minor releases of CentOS Stream, but that's due to how it fits in the overall RHEL pipeline. A minor release of RHEL is just an internal fork of Stream at a point in time before release where it essentially becomes "patch only", while Stream will continue on with its developments.
So do you think anyone should be imprisoned unless they are a danger to society?
I'm not sure I agree. Mass production scales exponentially, sure, but that doesn't mean one producing two Falcon 9 Upper Stages per week isn't experiencing exponentially more efficiencies than one producing a competing rocket at a rate of one per month. No matter how you cut it, more production is typically better for cost efficiencies.
> The written testimony didn't say "ban", but it did stress fairly complex regulation

You feel that quotation justifies the adjective "complex"?
Sparse architectures are a way to theoritcally utilize only a small portion of a general models parameters at any given time. All "experts" are trained on the exact same data. They're not experts in the way you seem to think they are and they're certainly not wholly different models. The "experts" work at the token level. An expert for one token could be different from the expert chosen for the very next.

GPT-4 isn't "nothing like AGI" any more than its dense equivalent would be.
I have missed the part of the discussion that contains an imperative for folks to debate the resolution of whether JS is a "well designed language"—and not about JS's equality comparisons per se and whether it's still usable or not despite that. These:

> JavaScript equals is an abomination, which to me seems like a larger issue, and people use it just fine.

... are your own words...
Better let Oracle know!
Interesting article!

Regarding the low core-count, you might actually lose performance when having less CGUs, since your absolute estimation error is larger.

For example if a CGU can take 3 times as long to compile as another with the same estimate, we might end up with a 0.75:0.25 split if we have 2 CGUs, ending up with a 50% increase in compilation time, but with 16 CGUs the worst case (one CGU taking a 1/6 of the time and 15 CGUs taking 1/18 of the time) will only result in ~11% increase in compilation time, due to the automatic balancing that job scheduling gives us.
Finally. I thought I was crazy having to read through so many comments on here before someone mentioned just a simple SFTP to a backup server. FolderSync is the way to go.
It's not just binary compatible - it uses the SLES binaries directly
"Paid to unions"? Do you mean paid to staff who might be members of unions? And if so why you are comparing money paid to a specific company to money paid to union members across the entire public sector?
Mass production techniques can still apply to low production volumes. Controlling production, vertical integration, driving down cost of manufacturing.

Sure if you look at the whole rocket you can say "only 2 per week" but zoom in a little bit, Falcon 9s have 9 engines, Starship has what 33? It's still not car volume levels of course, but SpaceX are dreaming of a day where there are 1000 starships making a mars trip at once. 33,000+ raptor engines for a single transfer window. I know this is pie in the sky at this point, but it kind of makes sense.
> The money to buy back shares has to come from profits.

There's this thing called a "leveraged buyback" where a company borrows money from lenders and uses that money to buy back shares.
yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-sub

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> inside your head is one of the greatest computers in the universe which is surprising because I've seen your b-

I.e. one can also quickly verify if it is for the wrong target.
I had this :)
Leaving it to the market is a moral stance
Is the queen broken or am I misunderstanding? I can't get it to "destroy" anything.
TFA gets its own figures wrong.

ChromeOS is a Linux. Therefore its numbers should be included.

3.08 + 4.15 = 7.23%

Still not all that impressive, but better than twice as good as claimed, a solid 3rd place after macOS, and still climbing.
Tell your credit card company to reverse the charge?
I am extremely happy with my photoprism setup. I tried to degoogle my life and found their docker setup to be great.

I use FolderSync on my android phone to copy any pictures I take to my photoprism WebDAV
This was a lifesaver over and over in my graduate studies... what was that formula again? Just need a hint at how to derive this equation? Dang how do I do that again? Oh yeah, its at that gsu.edu site...

Funny, I think I recall finding the hyperphysics using altavista.
> The reason student loans aren’t dischargeable in bankruptcy is because it’s basically literally impossible to collect on them, you can’t repo a college education

You can revoke the degree. Given that most people out of school don’t remember most of school anyways this should be enough for most.
Planned-obsolescence-as-a-sport
I'm afraid I haven't checked this - are you a Mailgun user and want to report back on this? Alternatively, hopefully Mailgun themselves will spot this and can respond directly.
I do feel you are using your own experience very anecdotally, I can tell you that a lot of the routes in wales are just one operator.

And also, your commute may be fine, but believe me, many cities in the UK are not... Edinburgh’s 41 per cent congestion level means a 30-minute journey will take 41 per cent longer than usual and I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of cities in the west-country are over capacity.