skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's definitely less common in Europe, but I did want to mention that there are European FIRE communities.

See this one for Spain: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpainFIRE/ or Bogleheads Spain: https://bogleheads.es

The wealth tax also makes FIRE harder, but there are exemptions that make it more manageable.

Here is information about the wealth tax in Valencia: https://atv.gva.es/es/ipatrimoni

Let's use a married couple in Valencia with 2M euro in index funds as an example.

They get 500K allowance each to subtract from their taxable base. Subtracting the 1M total exemption for the couple, their taxable base would be 1M euro for the purposes of the wealth tax. On the remaining 1M, they'd pay 10,595.71 for the first 668,499.75, and 1.12% on the remaining 331,500.25, for an additional 3,712.80. This puts their total yearly wealth tax at 14,308.51, or about 0.7% of their total 2M portfolio.

Generally, 4% is seen as a safe withdrawal rate for a properly managed portfolio for a 30 year retirement. Subtracting 0.7%, that'd give them a 3.3% safe withdrawal rate on their 2M portfolio, which gives them after-wealth-tax money of 66K to play with. Let's say half of what you're pulling each year is taxable for capital gains. With a 20% capital gains tax, that ends up being about 60K. This is a pretty good income for Valencia.

Estimated cost of living for a family of 4 there is about 28K: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Valencia

That gives them another 32K after tax for travel, luxuries, etc. Not to mention, you also get an exemption of 300K (individual) for your primary residence. There are also some other limits on the tax like it not being able to exceed 60% of your total income.

In the US, with a withdrawal rate of 4% on the 2M and no wealth tax, you'd get 80K. After 15% capital gains on half of what you're pulling each year, 74K. Subtract $1400/month or ~$16K for good health insurance for a family of 4 and it's a basic tie, not accounting if you have to actually hit a deductible. In Spain you will just get free public healthcare if you're a citizen.

It's definitely harder to build that level of wealth because of salaries there, but I don't think it's fair to say that it's completely impossible to FIRE there.
They're expecting web server loads to be much lighter during the first stage of civilizational collapse.
Clearly? I searched for maildir and mbox, my browser can't find either on that page. What does cloud storage have to do with the MDA?
Unless you believe that 90% of the excess deaths were not directly related to COVID, your implied point falls flat.

Edit: There were 1.1 million COVID deaths in the USA alone.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
> Yes, there are features you can defer implementing until later, but their absence infects everything until you do. I still see cases where people have to drop down into ADO.Net code for C#, and the fact that you still see DBNull.Value instead of just a simple null value, much less a proper Option type is infuriating.

This DBNull.Value may be a problem for C#, but idiomatic Go has largely been untouched by the introduction of generics.
Are you implying that we should only be reading articles by Liberal/Progressive think tanks?
Sure. But you can't just see any economic theory that has the word 'market' in it and automatically say they are equal and good. Which is the current 'ideology'.

I'd also question a 'century' of 'proving it is great' since 100 years is 1923, so any proof at that point was just leading into Depression.

And, YES, in the modern American dialog, 'Free Market' is definitely an ideology. People believe in it without any knowledge about what it means, similarly to the bible.
Seems stable now
I would argue that it is remotely open source.
This is pretty much my take, too. Go as a compilation target?
free != open source
The USA is currently obsessed with race, and this influences all discussions.

I agree that this topic could be more accurately and inclusively framed as how to improve outcomes for low income students, or children with absentee/incarcerated parents, or children of addicts.

Unfortunately, some people care much more about racial outcomes than they do about any of those I mentioned.

The point of the racial framing IS to polarize, divide, and mobilize a political base, not to solve an underlying problem.

Talking about helping poor children doesn't get people as riled up, and has the risk of actually leading to agreement and a solution.

American politics has no hindsight and is a zero sum game. If you fix a problem in American politics, you don't get credit for it later. You only get credit for promising to fix problems in the future.

If parties agree and implement a solution, neither party comes out ahead, and even worse, you just made the opposition look more reasonable. It is a prisoners dilemma where cooperation is punished
it was a boomer "ball and chain" joke
In just one week, Threads' worldwide daily active users number drops over 50%
The whole article seems confusing, and as if it's written by a bot. Not really what I'd call quality journalism.
You should not veer that far off your OKRs, otherwise you spend more time on the process than you get back in alignment. You describe a company with no resolve. The leadership has to want alignment for OKRs to work.

I think it is a good practice in any case to set yourself goals, and demand the same of your team or as wide a circle as you can influence. It's just shared planning.
I'm not saying OKRs are perfect, I'm saying "just don't measure performance at all" is a 100%-losing play for a manager, whereas if you try to manage performance, you have a chance of doing at least an adequate job at it.
you're missing the fact that here in the US race is an extremely large factor in how students succeed, partly from correlation with socioeconomic and cultural factors, but also because it determines what sort of treatment kids get in school, from the teachers and from the administration.

anecdotally, I have a friend who, when she was looking for a school for her kid, had to drill down into the data for which schools had significantly worse results for black students, because that spoke to systemic factors in the school environment, and so even if the school looked good in its overall statistics she knew her kid would not likely get a good education there.
Would you say you are exploiting your employer by taking a salary?
> ...but also poorly made.

This.

Linked video [0] is entirely CGI generated in real time, and it looks better than the CGI in most modern Hollywood blockbuster movies, which can spend 10 minutes rendering each frame if they need to.

I'm not a gamer but people familiar with modern video games probably already know this.

There's no excuse for the lack of quality in modern movie CGI other than "we refuse to pay what good CGI artists are worth."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
It's usually not that. It's usually the car repair shop pouring left-over chrome containing colors and derusting solutions into the ground.
Apple only has to slightly open their wallet to become a DL superpower.
New UN AI agency in the face of ‘potentially catastrophic and existential risks’
Great guide. One thing that seems to be missing is something I see in a lot of README's: a list of the core tech stack being used in the repo. Good examples here https://github.com/undb-xyz/undb#-tech-stack and here https://github.com/steven-tey/novel#tech-stack. Did you already consider adding this as part of the guide and decide against it, or was it just not something you thought to add?
The real answer: the actual cost to manufacturer vs the value perceived by consumers is skewed.

Would you pay $1000 less for a Tesla that is otherwise equal, but has a crummy old school infotainment screen? Even if you would, I guarantee 99.9% of people wouldn't.

By giving you fancy infotainment features, most consumers perceive the value as much higher than the marginal cost to the OEM, so they're more likely to buy it vs some barebones device that just has a battery, motor, and basic radio.
I don't disagree with anything here except the idea that (for most cities, at least) cheap housing creates growth. Especially after reading Alain Bertaud (who I would strongly recommend on this topic).

On the other side of the scale you have cities like Detroit. There is no shortage of cheap housing and culture. But without enough career prospects, the city struggles for opposite reasons. If anything, homelessness is actually worse because the city services are stretched so thin across such a large geographic area with so much poverty.

Most cities in the US are somewhere in the middle. SF is uniquely bad in how terribly they let basic livability get for even their highest income earners.
> I think lockdowns did incalculable social harm to society.

I don't know about society, but this was the straw the broke the camels back for me. I have not been the same since, I don't think I ever will be. The first lockdown in my province was when things really started to go wrong for me mental health wise in a major way and it only got worse as they continued.

What's really been maddening is that people get angry when I mention the affects it all had on me, they assume I'm taking a political stance first and foremost, they tell me it wasn't that bad, and they try to tell me I didn't experience what I experienced or do what I did.

I used to think things could get better, but I really don't see a happy ending for myself anymore.
Heavily discounted software expert – The Software Philosopher
I now keep a live reference collection. I'll make an effort to update it soon with your request :) https://omershapira.com/blog/2022/11/reference-collection/
Source on the 173B parameters?
We already have plenty of non-AI autogenerated spam which is apparently good enough to please Google, LLMs just make that slightly better.

So the scale already exists, and we're really just talking about quality.
That word has gotten a bad wrap by people on social media using it without substantiating it, or hiding behind an excuse of "Google it"; meaning 'I know but you don't so go educate yourself because I'm subtextually declaring your opinion invalid by way of your ignorance'.

We are seemingly in a fifth generation war amongst ourselves for the prizes of attention and public acceptance. Or more succinctly, "being right on the internet".

What may in fact be the next great filter. :)
> Plus it did most of the fighting in WWII for the US and UK to defeat Germany (of course nowadays the US and UK flipped it to Germany against Russia).

That's quite a spin on history. The USSR (already an imperialist power) and germany secretly divvied up eastern europe between themselves before Germany started the war, and it was only Germany's betrayal of that deal which led to the USSR actually joining the fight against Germany, with the US and UK finding it a convenient way to wear down a shared foe to provide them with some of their industrial capacity. You make it sound like this was some kind of puppet mastery by the US and UK (which to be clear, are not saints either, but decidedly on the right side in WWII) as opposed to two imperialist powers seeking to conquer others by force fighting amongst themselves.
Google says that swimming is "the sport or activity of propelling oneself through water using the limbs".

It doesn't constrain the propulsion to only be between the limbs and the water. Seems like pushing against the ground to move through the water fits the definition
Does anyone know what's permitted commercially by the license? I saw the part indicating that if your user count is "greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta."

Does that imply it can be used commercially other wise? This is different than Llama's license, I believe, where they permitted only research use.
The benefit of vertical tabs is (IMO) more about organization than having tons of tabs open. It's particularly useful to have a tree of tabs when browsing API documentation, to allow for quickly navigating to different doc pages in the hierarchy without having to wait for page loads.
Because strlcpy exists in bsd since 1999: https://man.netbsd.org/strlcpy.3
I've spent a lot of time writing library-level C++, a reasonable amount of time writing application-level C++, and a reasonable amount of time writing both library and application-level golang.

> But most people aren’t coding language features

It's definitely a tough lever, but supporting generics for the people who are means that the people who aren't can write cleaner code. I think go got it right, eventually.
We use this product at pyq and I have to say, the speedup in our build times is amazing. Especially when HuggingFace is slow/backed up
LangSmith – debugging, testing, evaluating, and monitoring for LLM applications
This still isn’t clicking for me - it feels like you’re equating daily/weekly billing with per-project billing, and hourly billing with metering.
Microsoft is training the average office worker NN replacement? It would be incredibly ironic if the house of excel and word, created the machines to do away with them forever, for a price.
Made by the design agency Söderhavet in Stockholm. More info here https://soderhavet.com/work/sweden/
Our team has been looking at Highlight recently and getting feedback from our team -- and they love it. Super solid product that will replace a lot of what we use now for logging and session recording, and the Highlight team is insanely responsive and has been great to work with.

Congrats on the launch!!
Writing and reading repetitive code leads to unintentional defects. This is why for loop syntax that directly iterates through a collection is less error prone than the equivalent loop built on indexed look-ups. "Clever" code, at least when it is shorter, is often clearer than "simple" code.
I really like that the Chrome profiler shows you the profile right there. Firefox insists on opening the profile in a browser tab. This is fine, but is an unnecessary context switch for me.
Sadly no, perhaps on a high end GPU in the year 2027(?)
The US government estimated that the asian flu pandemic had a CFR (case fatality rate) in the American population of 0.1 %. [1] The US government estimated that Covid-19 had a CFR in the american population of 1%. [2]

So Covid was only ten times deadlier. But certainly we should have had the same response. Those "libertarian" organizations are getting less and less veiled about their hatred of humanity. Sometimes I wonder if they are some extra-terrestrial cockroaches in human shells out of Philip K. Dick story out to wipe out all humans.

Note that the above is understating things because the 1% Covid CFR number is dilluted by a lot of later covid cases when people were vaccinated and the later less potent virus strains were out. In the beginning with the original strain and the deadly delta strain and no vaccines Covid was much deadlier than that 1% number.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pa...
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451339/
Originally built on Java
Token creators can buy back tokens...
> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof). [0]

Interesting

[0] https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
That's concerning. I didn't see anything like this in the terms.

Source?
> In what way did it suck?

>> The standard shift moved from 06:00-16:30 to 02:30-

2:30 in this case means 2:30 am so you are a completely off of a normal schedule to your family, and the number of hours you are getting is presumably lessened and irregular.
Undergrad researchers are typically shielded from all of the bullshit that goes on behind the scenes because they aren’t in lab 40+ hours a week. I know, personally, of 5 separate 16-18 year old kids that have been a part of academic labs.

They have all been professors kids or friends of professors kids

Quick edit: I’ll also add that PIs project one face to prospective students and “outreach” students, like a high schooler is. Additionally, adding a high schooler to your lab gets you points for scientific outreach, which can help with certain grant submissions.
Now you’ve got me curious. I’d like to type inference in go. Can you tell me what languages do it better?
What do you think Go is missing?
Microsoft stock up, announces $30 per month A.I. subscription for Microsoft 365
I said TODO lists have too much in them because you put too much in them, and "it sounds victim-blamey but it's not books' fault that you bought them.". You replied quoting that part of what I said and saying I'm putting the responsibility in the wrong place, which suggests you think the responsibility for "having too many things to do" or "having too many books" lies with the system a person is using, not with the person?

If you don't think that, we are talking at cross purposes. But if you do think that, talking about calmness, clarity, feeling organised, doesn't support that position. And on those parts I agree that TODO lists can overpromise and underdeliver (or can't deliver at all, ever).

I was mostly interested in the idea that when keeping todo items in your head you will naturally spend more time thinking about the ones you find important and interesting, and there will be a natural forgetting of the ones you don't find important or interesting without you having to choose to reject any of them - and putting them in any kind of system forces you to face how many there are and now you can't naturally forget and the system will not forget them. I only put the victim blaming part in to avoid people ignoring the main point and replying "sounds like victim blaming" "you're holding it wrong".
General consensus if you ask about it is that it's not considered swimming though. I think you'd be looking for locomotion through water without frequent touch downs. This is an example: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/hip...

GPT-4 had a much better answer last I checked.

Edit: Updated with another non-paywall link.
>It shouldn’t surprise anyone that good schools have better admission rates to good universities.

The actual answer is probably "it's complicated." MIT also doesn't want to filled with Stuyvesant and Bronx School of Science grads. (Though last time I saw the numbers they did admit a fair number anyway.) 5% of my small high school graduating class ended up at MIT but that was a long time ago and I assume that wouldn't happen today.
We still have excess deaths in year 2023. Birth rates are 15% lower. New diabetes 30% higher...
No it doesn't?
This just isn't super relevant to the discussion. Tether is a scam, ok, I think everyone agrees about that.

So don't use it.
Yeah and look how they extended and extinguished that!
Many people are poor and don't consume the energy they idealy would in order to live a good life.
AI is going to upend everything about education.

I can't imagine colleges doing much beyond lots of AI interviews in the near future. That's if there is even a point in getting 95% of degrees anymore anyway.
Thank you both!

I'll have a better look at the docs tomorrow and try it out.
I always wondered about the elasticity of Uber prices. When I’m traveling for business, I don’t care it’s someone else’s money. When I’m on vacation, I expect to spend money. When I’m going out for drinks or just didn’t want to deal with downtown Atlanta traffic and parking when living in the burbs, I also didn’t care.

Are price conscious people using Uber?
> Llama 2, to run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024

Are they expecting for Llama 2 to still be relevant in 2024? Shouldn't it have been LLM or Llama (without the version).
"Fabricate" has the same problem as "lie" and "hallucinate". All of those terms imply a cognition that isn't actually happening.

I think the best way to refer to these things is the more accurate "error". The LLM isn't lying, it's in error.
I do find the built-in browser history is sufficient for _my_ needs, in that I mostly want a super-fadt autocomplete of certain hot items. Everything else that I know I want to revisit and find again I've bookmarked, but I don't bookmark that many things, maybe ~1 new bookmark a month.

Mostly though I realize I have focused heavily on not having clutter vs. being able to recall quickly everything I've ever found necessary or useful. It's a trade off I like, but it may not be for everyone.
Your "entry level" dev finished a non-trivial Go app in about an hour without knowing anything about Go? Literally how?

Also he learned enough Clojure to mess around in, again with 0 knowledge about it. Again impressive. Or is this industry standard competency in some fields?
My point is that vouchers distort demand elasticity, just like unchecked student loans, employer-provided health insurance, low mortgage rates, etc distort their respective markets. The fact that costs (not even prices) may be low at present is not an indicator that prices will not balloon in the wake of a voucher system. The private education profiteers are counting on it.
That's always true of OSS too and just like OSS you can always use the version you have under the terms you got it.

See: macOS using an ancient version of bash to avoid GPLv3, the Elastic to OpenSearch fiasco.
Does putting marginal students in advanced classes actually help them?
> I've worked on large golang code bases that had to build on bazel, and I had the same experience fighting it. It has nothing to do with the language.

So you deliberately added complexity instead of using Go's own build system and it didn't work out well and that's somehow a proof that Go's cross-compilation story isn't as great as people say?
Start at 10am, go till 4pm?
Isn’t the reason rather that management will say: Is this absolutely necessary and will it increase sales?

And often the answer is no unless you can demonstrate the time gain and emotion of your customer. When the margins are super thight anything that won’t help margings is left away and home delivery /online shopping will be prioritised for the tech team/budget.
I've been noodling about this for years now, without really coming up with such a concise thesis.

A notable example from my prior job:

There was a developer who during the early phase of cloud adoption, wrote some wrappers in powershell for the Azure Powershell cmdlets. They did some quality of life of stuff, and he checked into source control dozens of these wrappers. I recall it being about 80. He got talked about as the azure guy.

Some time goes by. I need to do some Azure automation, so I look into those wrappers. They don't do anything useful for most use cases; I write my own automation from scratch. I go on to have many interactions with this dev; he doesn't really know Azure particularly well, but still has the reputation of being the azure guy. I am pretty sure nobody calling him the azure guy actually ever used any of those scripts, and I'm similarly confident those scripts never got used for anything even by him.

Don't get me wrong - was a smart and nice guy, and a good dev and great at his job. But - the mythos he had built with those ~80 files checked into source control allowed him to find opportunities to work with Azure and get to know it better. I eventually left the company. Who knows, maybe he really is an Azure guru now?
Counterpoint, there were no lockdowns.

There was like the initial 6 weeks to stop the spread.

I still went to the grocery store, not locked down, i still went to the park, not locked down.

What lockdowns? please be specific.

When people say lockdown, they mean:

"I was forced to wear a mask when i went to the grocery store and i felt like a loser"

Thats the whole issue.