skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point in the GP post is that someone isn't going to be convinced to stop drinking because drinking is bad for them, they know it's bad for them.

You're taking an extremely niche information set and generalizing it broadly to the public. Have you actually met the public? The average person knows approximately nothing and gets along fine because in practice knowing nothing doesn't significantly affect outcomes.

> "Alcohol gives you cancer, along with a lot of other bad diseases" is a

I bet you most people do not know or believe that alcohol causes cancer or any other disease, especially not when consumed in the amounts that they personally consume. At worst they believe that nonspecific "too much" alcohol will damage your liver in ways they don't understand but that not too much alcohol is fine because your liver heals itself and the amount that is "too much" is abstract and far off in the distance.
I was joking with a friend recently that Uber needs an "Uber black NON-SUV" option in addition to "Uber Black" and "Uber Black SUV".

On NYC streets, the "luxury" Chevy suburbans / escalades / whatever are atrocious and nearly make me car sick.
I guess we can cook up some arguments about language purity and orthogonality. Introducing literals that create composite types might indeed create some difficulties for existing compilers that want to follow the latest standard.
[1] Reminds me of this video where a guy humorously simulates someone coming in to steal his military "Deuce and a half" 6x6. These things have no locks on them because the military doesn't want people to be locked out. But getting one moving is not easy...

1 https://youtu.be/57gBrGfboMM?t=208
Pop music was overproduced in the late 60s too. There are still plenty of bands writing songs about mundane experiences they've had after holing out in a motel or cabin for a while.
Swig is an interesting piece of work. As a project I think it's quite brilliant, I wrote a one-part-of-three-but-never-finished-the-other-two blog post illustrating how nifty I thought it was [1].

In my old age though I've soured on it a little. The original problem I used it for, generating bindings for hundreds of generated pure aggregate data structures (for a serialized data format), is kinda SWIG's best case scenario.

The more complex (or more modern) your code gets, the more involved the types, the more the inherent complexity of the problem will overwhelm even the mighty SWIG and you'll find yourself wishing to use the native C ABI of whatever language you're binding to.

That said, if you're trying to generate bindings for several languages, I think working with SWIG still might be a worthwhile effort.

[1]: https://blog.vito.nyc/posts/swig-part1/
Does the US interstate pay for itself?

> Isn’t this the communist/socialist philosophy

No. This is about changing how something is paid for under capitalism, and is a very normal way of paying for things under this system.

> If a program can’t pay for itself, what incentive does it have to be efficient and operate in the interest of riders?

The main problem with making it profit-based is that skimming off the top is the basic operating principle; you have strong incentives to make it less safe, not do upgrades, abuse inelastic demand &c. One should hope that the people elected (or appointed by someone elected) would have an incentive to work in the public's interest because they won't be re-elected otherwise, though obviously this doesn't always work. But that's _already_ a problem that needs fixing, so why not two birds with one stone rather than switching over to a funding system absolutely filled to the brim with bad incentives that repeatedly fails us?

> Getting rid of turnstiles and other populating recording devices spreads the gap between ridership and funding even further.

I'm not really sure what you're arguing here.

> Everyone loves “free” stuff, but when it’s not really free, and the cost are just hidden in taxes, most people lose.

The costs are not hidden, they're in your taxes. I also strongly disagree that most people lose when you fund things through taxes. That seems completely ignorant of how a ton of infrastructure and much of society is run.

> Being cheaper to fund through taxes now has nothing to do with future costs that no longer correlate to ridership.

The argument was that funding it not through fares is already _better_ because it can be adjusted to those situations.
Tiny helicopters crashing into things and falling from the sky are harmless?
> 1. Stand on a street corner (if you're in a busy area) or make a call if you're not. If you have to make a call, there's a ~20% chance a taxi actually shows up.

option 3 - go to a hotel, and have them call a cab for you, or get one from the stand there. This is my go to for cities I'm unfamiliar with, and it's never let me down. The taxi companies might not have an incentive to show up promptly for _you_, random person calling them, but they do for the hotel in their area.
I guess that algorithm used to get the prime number they want to generate, involves sampling from some kind of distribution such that by Law of large numbers it converges in probability to the same thing (but of course much more advanced than that).
I accept that we all need to move off GitHub generally, I just haven't taken my projects off. (Because of microsoft ownership and general effects of being the hegemonic service, it will only serve its users' interests less and less.)

The network effect is pretty great, so that makes github a good place where lots of stuff is happening for hobby and open source projects.
The issue here is that memorization of any distinguishable part of IP is an incidental aspect - those models aren't memorizing stuff, they're learning it. We don't expect people to keep track of the source of every single piece of information they encounter. It would arguably make learning impossible - as much for humans as for LLMs.

As an intuition pump, when I write "2+2 = " and you mentally complete it with "4", should I chastise you for not completing it with "4, as per ${your elementary class math textbook} and ${that other book you read as a kid}, corroborated by ${your first math teacher} and ${your parent} quoting ${some other work}"?
Sorry, the point I wanted to make was that without competition, companies have little incentive to improve their products. Sure, Linux rules, the Motorola 68000 was nicer than x86, Beta beat VHS, … in a perfect world,…
> you only have a chance of winning

I think the problem here is the definition of "winning".

In a sane and healthy society/economy, an entrepreneur would define "winning" as "being able to make a comfortable living off of what I create".

In Silicon Valley, "winning" is almost always defined as "owning the market, being able to dictate terms to other entrants and to users, and making so much money there's no possible way you could spend it in one lifetime."

This is horribly toxic to the overall culture and economy.
Elon Musk is rich, he can keep this going as long as he wants.

But we all know that Twitter's revenue is down from $5 Billion to maybe $2.5 Billion/year, and they got a $1.3 Billion / year interest payment due every year. It will not be profitable in any reasonable time period.

Whether or not Elon Musk will want to keep it when its in such a sorry state, or whether or not Elon will waste even more money on it in vain hopes of saving his investment is whatever. I don't know the timing of things, but these things can take years (especially if Elon puts more of his money up to raise funds).

But in any case, the money-losing aspect of Twitter is rather solid and publicly admitted. In general, businesses that constantly lose money (and loses $Billions when they only have low-single-digit Billions in revenue) makes the overall picture rather... obvious?

I'm not surprised that many other people agree with me. If that's where you're going with this. Do you have a counterpoint to offer?
Large Language Models
"...In these lectures, written for readers with a background in mathematics or physics, we give a brief history and survey of the state of the art, and describe the underlying transformer architecture in detail. We then explore some current ideas on how LLMs work and how models trained to predict the next word in a text are able to perform other tasks displaying intelligence..."
Honestly, it was much cheaper than I had assumed it would be. A pre-built "performance" version starts at $1,699 (Ryzen 7 7840HS) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Compare that to the entry 16 inch MacBook Pro at $2499.

The "overkill" system with a Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD is $2099. A pseudo comparison to the 16 inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro, 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD is $3099.

Also these systems are cheaper if done DIY and no Windows tax. Framework really might have a winner if this system can live up to their promises.

EDIT: The verge also has a deep dive into the system
https://www.theverge.com/22665800/framework-laptop-16-hands-...
I am not seeing it mentioned anywhere, but for people looking for a good starting point on "low-level" CPU performance debugging, intel's CPU top-down u-architecture method (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/...) is a good systematic way to understand where you CPU is speeding most of it's cycle.

They also have two tools which basically implement this analysis and spit a bunch of very useful metric that are actionable and very easy to understand

- Intel Vtune is a fantastic tool to start with. It's currently free to use, support most OSes and very friendly to use for beginner.

- Intel pmu-tools (https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools) is basically command line version of Vtune.
My junior colleagues are generally assigned straightforward, easy and well defined 2 or 3 point tickets. They can rack up 20 points quickly. I work on fixing or replacing old fucked up chunks of functionality or poorly defined tickets with unknown outcomes. Those can take weeks trying various approaches and no guarantee of results. Deer in the headlights look when I tell them what I’m working on. Point-based progress optics can be misleading. This may not be your case but that has been my experience.
Vox? I would recommend seeking elsewhere for truth.

For example, after parsing through the ad hominem attacks and nonsense in that article, their main point is that the Bangladesh study found masks to be effective.

Except that study is junk and all the reported effects were found to be a result of researcher bias [1].

Vox also misrepresents the Danish study, which is probably the best study to date we have on masking effectiveness.

> Progress isn't a straight line.

Yes, but truth is most likely to be found in whatever facts are orthogonal to vox' narrative.

[1] https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...
LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack
Yes, the numbers quoted by the article's author for that company (or for that role in general) don't make any sense.
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If VC has showed us anything, it’s that you don’t have to be cash flow positive. You just have to present the illusion that you just might be one day long enough to cash out.

The real people being scammed by all this are secondary investors and pension funds.
I switched to Orion[0] as a test, discovered the awesomeness of superbly integrated, native, tree style tabs, and now I'm stuck with this browser where sites I need for work are half broken.
I tried Firefox with Tree Style Tab extension, but it's not nearly as good :(

[0] https://browser.kagi.com
personally I'm a fan of "12345 is a bad password!" and "pls fix"
One thing that I love about Apple Maps apart from getting directions in an Irish accent, is that it gives directions like a normal person.

As an example "go through these lights and at the next set turn left" rather than "in 600m turn left". It is a night and day difference.
Good point. Indeed such impermeable to even water vapor paints peal off/cause the damage to bricks/stones under.
I had a tandem upgraded with a BionX electric motor. About 18 months later, the motor lost its punch and I asked the bike shop for help. But then BionX went bankrupt and the shop couldn't fix the tandem. They removed the electric motor and refunded me.
My rough analysis is there is a hierarchy:

- public markets

- VC

- PE

- Family Office

The smartest money is people you've never heard of buying high quality assets. VC and PE are basically running their own versions of fixing up companies and dumping them on the public, and public markets are where all the dumbest money is.
Do you think it's common?

Yes. I see it more and more these days, especially among recruiters and HR departments.

I believe there's an inverse correlation between the value one places on green squares and their understanding of what it actually takes to build software...

https://eddiots.com/931

https://eddiots.com/447

https://eddiots.com/2461

https://eddiots.com/2390
Thank you so much! I'm reworking app flows this week and I was hesitating about removing this demo. I'm taking this comment as a sign that it's got to stay.
No one actively goes in to enable telemetry. In the tech space, possibly. Dealing with people that don't know what a save icon is? They're not even capable of understanding telemetry let alone provide informed consent.

All the user knows is their button doesn't work, and they're angry.
Exploring Bad Faith in Existentialism and the Path to Authenticity
People have to eat. Not everyone has a passion in the working realm. My passion would be to make music. I don't think I have the commercial instinct or drive to make a living out of it. Also, that might just destroy my passion.

But you're right though, when I am in flow, those 8 hours go by a lot quicker :)
Mozilla fired the dev tools team, so features get in more slowly compared to Chrome.
Gotta say I like how the images on the left change to whatever component you're selecting as you scroll down the configuration, very nice :)
As someone who works in a custom fabrication shop and who has been research job shop scheduling for over a decade as an attempt to get better at it, it's a computationally impossible task. There are huge numbers of "optimal" ways to schedule the shop and all of them require enormous amounts of computation. Genetic algorithms are offering the most promise right now, but the schedule has to be constantly updated because things never take as long as you think they will.

This is primarily because, unlike manufacturing, the basic unit of our system is a person, with all of their chaotic outputs. You start stacking those up and you end up with "long, fat tails" in every analysis you do. Your probabilities are spread almost flat over a broad range of outcomes.

It's fascinating and definitely falls into the category of uncomputable.
Read the next sentence after your quote.
> Under the rules of capitalism, you aren't allowed to use your size to bully competitors out of the market.

That’s not a “rule of capitalism”. What rules? That _was_ a rule of the United States, but if it is still it’s not enforced anymore.
I'm Polish and I had trouble figuring out why would the two countries be put side by side like that, but this:

> If the UK continues with the same rate of growth it has enjoyed over the last decade, then Poland will be richer than Britain in about 12 years’ time.

I find unlikely. I mean, we're doing good economically wise, but not that good. We're going to catch up to Greece and Portugal soon enough - just like the Czech Republic did, but e.g. Italy is out of reach anywhere in the near future.
There’s always someone who trades convenience for $, is ignorant, or doesn’t really care.

I don’t think toothpaste is “corrupt” per se, I think everyone needs toothpaste, and very subtle differences may equate to millions of units of sales.
One of my big concerns is that people will see the lack of communication as normal acceptable behavior and emulate it, the show will either not address it or will explicitly excuse it. They’ll see the negative outcomes as incidental and faults from the other characters.
Do people learn any skills which will provide useful at the races while betting?
I'll add, a family member has celiac which makes it so they can't eat gluten. Becoming certified "Gluten Free" requires a certification process that can be expensive and difficult. However many companies have realized they can label their product "Gluten Friendly" and get around the requirements. It is annoying.
The UK has a student loans system that acts as a graduate tax.

This is a regression though, university used to be free from 1976-1998.
Please for the love of Cthulu remove that awful auto scroll from your homepage. It's practically unusable in a mobile webview.

Great article though!
Bank stocks rise after earnings, tech stocks lag
https://www.paturnpike.com/about-us/investor-relations/act-4...

Between 2007 and 2022 they had to pay $450 million a year to fund non-turnpike things, including transit. Between 2013 and 2022 all of that money went to transit. The obligation has since been reduced to $50 million.
Sounds like they really committed to that austerity plan.
Come on. Compared to a truck?
It's generally permitted to share de-identified patient data. As long as you're not sharing patients names, medical record numbers, birthdays, and a couple of other fields, you should be fine.
As a programmer, it's always a few months of work before the client stops spending on development. At that point, I can go up to 3 months without work, which means high anxiety because if I wasn't able to save much, I have to scurry around trying to find work. Sometimes I get a referral or two but it'd be nice to have about the same stability as being employed.

How do you programmers here manage to land a constant amount of work while freelancing?
> Uber/Lyft did outcompete taxis on merit, and to suggest otherwise is revisionist history

> People talk about how Uber/Lyft dodged taxi regulation, which is true

Taxis sucked (and still do), but Uber/Lyft's not-so-secret sauce was regulatory evasion, claiming that their taxi service wasn't a taxi service and that their employees weren't employees.
Yes, this. The UK has been subsidized for several decades by the dominance of the US and as a result English. Just as Canada and others in the Anglosphere.
> we should be more like these countries either...that we should be friendly to business, that we should limit immigration...strange, isn't it?

I've run a startup in UK and my family has a company in CZ, Britain is so much more friendly to business from my experience.

> there has been no real noticeable impact...even in industries that were going to be "decimated" [by brexit]

What is the basis for your opinion?

I have been unable to get goods from EU because of customs. I cannot post thing back to my family because now you get charged VAT for sending gifts by post to EU. I have never met a person that deals with import or export who was not dismayed by this.
> Does the author hold some resentment for senior engineers or something?

Sounds like it.

I worked at a company where some of my team leads were business persons (and had no coding experience) who just happened to start working on backend (before i started working there) and setup a codebase. It probably was beneficial at the time because they knew what to build and what type of value it could bring...

But of course, when the team started expanding, people realized the database had one of the absolute awful data modeling that was completely unworkable. No one can work on it because of all the complicated SQL queries (we are talking full page SQL queries) required to make any kind of changes.

They wanted a new version of the app, but no one wanted to touch that mess but they were literally stuck because they had valuable data formatted in this conglomerate mess. For example, the app would take like 5 seconds to load, and make 5-10 different api calls for what should be single api calls to the backend. Fortunately it was an internal app so performance wasn't as big an issue, but many people were using it. So there were so many bugs and requests of this app but no one can address them whatsoever, not even the person who built the app. And yes, it was THAT bad.

They wanted us to rebuild that same app, but not rework the backend because of how long it might take, and even 1-2 years later, the app looked better but...the bugs to address are still nearly impossible without a reworked backend. They may have gotten users...but I'm pretty sure they wasted more money on trying to maintain the thing than how much it benefitted the company.

Gotta love business people loving the "anyone can do it!". And code maintenance in the backburner like usual. As long as the app attracts "users", that's all that matters right?
Canada and Denmark (Greenland) would have a word with you.
"Human Eyes will never see the contents of your private repositories"

I think that's pretty clear then.
I’ve been married for 53 years; we share our accounts and have never had any problems.
Listening to existing instead of potential users (market share chasing), not screwing over users and unix design philosophy are what are important to me. What you said can be acheived while sticking to those. If I want windows or macos I can use those.
Lots of strange logic, but first:

> Under the rules of capitalism, you aren't allowed to use your size to bully competitors out of the market.

That is certainly not a rule of capitalism; it might be an interpretation of antitrust, but that is not a rule of capitalism. Also, it isn’t how the US courts and regulators view antitrust at all. You can certainly use your size to bully competitors, you just can’t use your size in SPECIFIC ways (buying too many competitors, dumping, etc)

The article is correct in courts expecting to be shown harm to consumers in order to take antitrust enforcement action, but their argument as to how the companies are doing that makes no sense.

They say these startups subsidize their business at a loss, offering consumers cheaper goods than they normally could, then they sell the company to unsuspecting rubes who don’t realize they will never be able to raise prices and make money.

If this is true… there is no crime. As they pointed out, antitrust has been interpreted to be about harm to consumers, and as described, consumers are not harmed. They get cheap goods for a while, and the company never is able to force price hikes with monopoly power, so consumers are never harmed.

The article argues the harm is actually to investors, but investors are not the ones protected by antitrust laws. As long as the companies are not committing fraud or lying in their statements to the market, investors are on their own to decide if the company is worth investing in or not.
> Learning that people with college degrees in the UK make 25k GBP,

They mostly don't; if you annualize the UK median weekly earnings with a degree from 2016-2017, you get GBP 30,524. (Unfortunately, this isn’t a regularly-published breakdown.)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

> In the US I know people with GEDs working Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, Diesel Mechanics, etc. making $100k-150k in areas where a house in the nice neighborhood cost $200k.

The people you know aren’t a representative sample.
Im sure it turned out just not to be profitable, and thank goodness. Would be absolutely hellish having them buzzing around regularly.
It's problematic because it is explicitly intended to make them a monopoly.

When you run competitors out of business, you...don't have competition. Competition is what keeps a market healthy.
What's with all this fairly overt state sponsored hacking and everyone going "aww shucks" and moving on quietly?
Linux on the desktop is here. Go all-in on KDE. Everything is seamless and just works.