skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an old "ad" (not sure it was ever placed anywhere) questioning a similar tendency [1]:

> For years, economists have defined the economic health of a country by its gross domestic product. Trouble is, every time a forest falls, the GDP goes up. With every oil spill, the GDP goes up. Every time a cancer patient is diagnosed, the GDP goes up. Is this how we measure economic progress? Economists must learn to subtract.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-lEATP-9Y
Seems more like an artifact of Amazon having enabled global logins late into product development than a "feature" to me.

Are you sure it's two accounts? I am using the same login on two different Amazon sites as well, but I'd call that SSO more so than "two accounts on one email address", since all data is separated by country, but the email and password are the same.
Except your conclusion of US inflation being huge doesn't square out in the data:

Eurozone inflation 2008 to today has been 33%

US inflation 2008 to today has been 42%.

This doesn't square with your implication that the US inflation is double the EUs.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPHPTT01EZM661N

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
My mom is in her sixties and doesn't recognize escargot or offal as food and believes sushi and medium rare pork are unacceptably risky.

The further you go back the more reliance you find on preservative techniques other than refrigeration. That means a lot of salt, or smoking, which is a known carcinogen.
Only in the worst case and large N. For practical problems, it’s solvable for tens of thousands of nodes.
Actually, Intel has discontinued Optane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/29/intel_optane_memory_d...
Long Covid treatment: randomized, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
I integrated MLC-AI's Stable Diffusion into my website as a custom background generator. It grabs the model data from Hugging Face.

https://dustinbrett.com/
I could buy that maybe COVID had "some effect on smell" at about the same rate as the common viruses, but it was the intensity which made it more noticeable.
Only correct take imo.
You do realize that setting a budget is by definition controlling behavior? You are controlling the expenditure of the household. I'm not suggesting you are wrong for that, but it is controlling behavior. So your wife observed controlling behavior and then equated it to something in her past.
One difference I noticed is that drivers are basically employees - they sign up for a shift and take all rides assigned to them.

I tried to understand why they are almost profitable and Uber/Lyft not and as best as I can tell it's simply because Uber/Lyft are trying to grow and expand, and this co-op is not.
Hold on, to run your demo does one have to click the "Load Model" button before doing anything? 'cos what I see is a form that is greyed out with the error message still at the top:

> You need latest Chrome with "Experimental WebAssembly" and "Experimental WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI)" flags enabled!

Now I'm wondering whether the top message goes away once the flags are enabled?
Yeah, but he did he get a 1.2 million dollar grant? Yeah, I didn’t think so. This guys kid is gonna have a better story.

(/s)
Why isn’t it a good measure? It costs maybe $0.50 to get a reasonable full meal in India, you’re not going to get anything close to that in the US. In second tier cities in India, people can rent a reasonable studio for $50/month, you’re not getting that anywhere in the US. Why shouldn’t that be a relevant metric?
Do you mean how long is account recovery by the SIM/number owner possible, or how long can the phone thief continue using the WhatsApp account if the owner doesn't recover?
Zip line also works because it’s for rural areas that don’t have a good road network, in the US driving would almost certainly be faster.
It must be snowing in hell right now. :)

It says that they might be added to POSIX.

edit apparently Ulrich Drepper (major glibc contributer & former glibc leader is back at Red Hat [0]

https://research.redhat.com/blog/project_member/ulrich-drepp...
Literal tragedy of the commons. Overexploiting this resource will inevitably diminish it. Lack of human data to sample from will make models worse.
I still don’t understand why base e is the most efficient ideal. There has to be some more info on this.
That is really impressive loaded on my iPhone 12 mini and my phone was not over heating
Zuck is "very optimistic about how the Threads community is coming together. Early growth was off the charts, but more importantly 10s of millions of people now come back daily. That’s way ahead of what we expected."

I wouldn't count it out.
I don't think having "drivers spend as much of their shift as they can driving clients" is the best objective function. It seems like you should want to get customers to their destinations as quickly as possible, not have cars driving around slowly to maximize client drive time.

"You have to leave enough time in-between trips so the driver isn’t late for their next client." also seems bizarre, as you should just be routing the minimal time cost set of vehicles to those awaiting rides. This seems to imply most rides are scheduled pickups?
European people aren't called racists as much as they are called deluded and self-righteous. The European govts were so confident of being in the right that they failed to counter the social changes happening in their own backyards, while lecturing other countries on their policies.

And by Europeans here, I mean the EU, the govt of some individual WE countries and a small minority of vocal activist personalities who haven't got any other purpose in life. Most run of the mill folks I meet are either strongly opposed or negatively indifferent to migrants, in direct opposition of their govts.

Most countries could have just said no to migrants, like Poland, Greece and Switzerland did. But they all wanted to play the self-righteous card.
Signal AI.
https://www.signal-ai.com/

My friend is using this to help with marketing in a company he is working for at the moment.
I can get you like, 10,000 AliExpress links for 1.2 mil, but the paper would probably suck.
in addition to car accidents, in the future , you will have one more way to die prematurely : drone accidents
I tone is even stranger given that the article is really an advertisement for seed funding.
Twitter’s existential crisis is that it’s lost almost half of its advertising revenue since it was bought by Musk, and posts by its most active users continue to decline. When Facebook’s ad machine kicks into gear, Twitter’s troubles will deepen.
Also in the LZ column: trees and power lines. From above, looking down, power lines are almost impossible to spot for human pilots. A CV model steering down from 400 feet would need to avoid such.
I think you meant to reply to me, the person you replied to was just restating the rules.

That being said, I still disagree with your assessment. I don't really have a better way to describe completely dark tinted windows, blacked out windows, blacked out rims, other than militant. How would you describe this? In movies they use this look to describe the bad guy. We now sell those vehicles to match that "vibe".

Once again, I did say it was anecdotal. These individuals tend to drive at a much higher reckless rate in the areas I have lived. If I see someone coming up behind me at 15+ MPH faster than speed of traffic, they'll have windows tinted darker than the majority of others, a majority of the time. They also tend to swerve and run individuals off the road.

Please note, I asked if heat was the issue because I genuinely wanted a shared experience. I haven't seen a good example of the need for these windows. But most of the areas I live only get to 105. Looks like sibling comments of yours have warmer experiences - which is what I needed to know.
Why limit your analysis to wages alone? That’s cherry picking a number.

Look at real total compensation growth over that time.

The idea that the average worker is not better off now versus 1970 is not a reasonable take.
???

> I think this strongly depends on the couple

This is a study of macro level differences not what each individual is going through…
25 years on. Congrats OpenBSD
Those were my first networked gaming experiences along with Risk, which we also played using a physical game board. Those are good days.
Where have you tried so far?
In other countries you can commute easily without a car by using transit and rail.
Percent of people in poverty is much lower now than in 1970.

And that’s with the poverty level being a moving target.
Yep.

A classic video of the most common lab mishap with molten metals gets discussed to death here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjud8VCTYc

It's rare to find anyone who's ever done home casting that hasn't had a similar near miss at least once in their early days.

It's funny to look at .. but all it take to escalate is for molten drops to land on bare skin or flammable rags.
If he lives in the US, it's pretty close. The life expectancy of a male in the US is 73.5 years.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
The total charge in an electrostatic device like SSD/Flash remains about the same, but it's moved around in different microscopic parts inside to represent data. In the "floating gate" at the heart of an SSD/Flash cell the 1 or 0 is indeed represented by presence or absence of some quantity of charge, but it's balanced out by charges elsewhere in the device, nearby.

In a HDD charge isn't obviously involved; the data is represented by magnetic patterns on the surface of each spinning platter. Ultimately those also represent data by movements of charge, though: charge naturally orbiting around atoms creates the magnetic fields, and the data is represented by the orientation of those orbits.

So a drive of either kind full of byte 254 contains about the same charge as one that's zeroed out.

They don't have exactly the same mass though, and therefore have slightly different weight, even if they contain identical charge. That's because mass (and weight) doesn't just come from matter. It also comes from the potential energy of different patterns of charge or their orbits, pushing and pulling on each other. It's counter-intuitive that things merely pushing and pulling on each other create mass just by their configuration, and that the mass changes when their configuration changes. But it's true, assuming the theory of relativity is true (it seems to be). That said, the mass created by the configuration of forces is very small indeed. Your SSD or HDD probably changes mass by a very much larger amount in a short time just by existing, giving off or absorbing minute quantities of gases from the air, acquiring dust, and other natural physical changes as the materials age.
Implementing something new in JS can be done relatively easily using a slow path, where you just write some privileged JS or C++ and then wrap it, without doing any optimizations. Then if it gets popular the vendors can optimize it at their own pace.

Implementing a new feature in WebAssembly is a bit more complex due to its execution model and security constraints. I expect it's also just the case that a lot of these new WASM features are very complex - promise integration is super nontrivial to get right, so are WebAssembly GC and SIMD.
Great idea and like the interface. I am still waiting on google to let Codey work with Colab.
> Increasing the number of bits per cell is an exponential decrease in reliability for a multiplicative increase in capacity. Flash manufacturers have become notoriously secretive about TLC/QLC retention and endurance and hope that you don't notice. Meanwhile SLC is near extinct and sells for much more than the 2x-3x-4x multiples over MLC/TLC/QLC that it should normally cost.

Yes.

> It's none other than planned obsolescence.

What makes you say this?

Even products that are built for a long lifetime of heavy use only sometimes need to drop down to MLC. Most servers and basically any consumer devices are fine with TLC.

Lack of SLC is not making drives die early.

Even on those 4-5 bit devices, the impact on performance tends to be a bigger deal than the impact on endurance. And there's no great push to get people onto those drives. TLC drives get most of the attention.
Obligatory relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1279/
I mean, a lot of things beat it, if your priorities are something other than "drinking the healthiest thing possible."
AFAIK in web TS/JS/Wasm you cannot mark memory regions as in-memory only (mlock on Linux). This means that the secrets in JavaScript can easily be leaked if the kernel decides to page V8 process memory (unencrypted) to disk.

This risk is unsuitable for an application that needs to handle sensitive credentials like an encryption key for all of a person’s passwords — or the vault itself.

Also, this is why I do not trust LastPass — they don’t run a native module, so how do I know that my vault isn’t just being stored on disk?
Some sites can do this by going as far as to say they've sent the activation email, then instead sending an email saying that there seems to be a registration attempt against their existing account.

How useful this sort of hiding is in practice is somewhat debatable. Github, forums, marketplaces and social networks all tend to have profile pages. I'm more likely to promote these as part of my public-facing persona as well.

The problem in this context I believe - if the largest sites on the internet think they need to protect information about valid accounts, most people will have passkey "slots" on a limited-storage key fob taken up by those sites.
Maybe I misunderstood the comment you and parent comment were making. I interpreted it as "they can recover it via SIM, so the lockout method isn't needed".

My point to that is that it is true, but the lockout would prevent a thief from using it until the new SIM is received. Versus a thief having access until the new SIM is received.

I use telegram instead of Whatsapp, but I would hate for anyone to have any time at all on my account. I'd prefer to immediately lock the whole thing down and figure it out once I have everything sorted.
Analysis of inequality ignores government transfers.

Did you know that?
Lovely. I wish this had low-dose ionizing radiation on it as well to cover the radiation hormesis hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
Not knowing your expectations, I can only give my own subjective opinions about Paris and Tokyo.

Paris
- The cultural capital of the EU.
- Despite the amazing metro, the traffic is horrendous. If you drive a car you cannot go anywhere.
- Cost of living is driving many Parisians to leave. That and all the petty theft.
- If you can afford it, Paris is a great city.

Tokyo
- Amazing livable megalopolis. Besides it’s ubiquitous shrines and temples, Japan doesn’t keep many old buildings around and usually rebuilds on top. Their museums while notable cannot compare with Paris
- Amazing metro but the main train station Tokyo Station is a hopeless confusing maze albeit fun clean but god help you if you’re coming from the Narita Express and trying to find the exit for the metro. Not to mention that many old maps/diagrams are oriented not by NESW compass directions but wherever the imperial castle is relative to you.
- Despite being a top tier city, it is affordable. If you don’t mind the concrete jungle , you can raise a family there.
- If you want to fully embrace the Japanese culture and language, Tokyo is a great city.
Yeah I think everything in your comment is pretty understandable and I probably wouldn’t trust someone who claims to have not experienced nearly all of those feelings to some extent.
Middle age is generally not defined as 50% of your life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age
Odd example but the Nintendo 3DS/DS/Wii U are also good examples of string devices built out of plastic because they needed to both be extremely durable and relatively cheap. It’s completely doable if you make it a design goal
And what do those "riches" buy them? Decent healthcare? A reasonable social safety net? Not having to work three slavery-like jobs without paid vacations or maternity leave or…? The ability to stay out of prison given the incredible incarceration rates in the US?
> its incentive on the marketplace of ideas is to reduce the very thing that gives it its power

It's not clear what the effect will be of LLMs consuming more and more of their own output and/or waste products.

One possibility might be a feedback system that leads to superintelligence which eventually becomes incomprehensible to humans.

Another might be a feedback system that leads to increased garbage output that eventually devolves into incomprehensible noise and nonsense.

The two extremes might not be easily distinguishable.
Must watch video for anybody thinking of doing metal casting.

I came this close to setting my garage on fire, some old rags were stored in a box quite a ways off where I was welding something and a tiny bead of molten metal somehow made it in there and set the whole thing off. What still gets me is how fast it happened, and that I wasn't initially aware of what was happening because the fire wasn't emitting enough light to make it through my protective goggles (auto darkening...).

Lots of lessons learned that day, all is well that ends well but I'd rather not repeat that.
> Hold on, to run your demo does one have to click the "Load Model" button before doing anything?

Yes. I thought it won't be good if it would download 3.5gb once you open the page.

>Now I'm wondering whether the top message goes away once the flags are enabled?

No, I haven't added any checks for that (and I'm not sure how the first one can be properly checked), so it's just an info bar. Which is, eventually, misleading.
In this context, midlife describes a time period in human development not the actual midpoint of one's life.

> If there’s any benefit from a midlife crisis you should probably get on it today. Nobody knows the hour and manner of his end.

I completely agree.
https://search.nixos.org/packages only shows packages that are available on the latest stable and unstable releases of Nixpkgs. The means they only have a limited number of versions for a given package available. For example, Python on unstable only has 5 versions to choose from:

- 2.7.18
- 3.9.17
- 3.8.17
- 3.11.4
- 3.12.0b3

If you need something different, you need to find a specific commit of the NixOS/nixpkgs repo that has that version. This information is not indexed or searchable on the official package search. Nixhub.io provides an index of these older released commits, so you can find and install versions that aren't available in the latest Nix releases.

If you visit https://www.nixhub.io/packages/python, you can see we have a lot more versions available. Developers can use the Nix or Devbox references on that page to install the version they need.
That's called withdrawal. Believe me, many humans in the past survived on water and solid food alone.
Thank you! Amazing post that taught me something new on a topic I was casually thinking about for a long time.
The only way 40 is midlife is if you spent your life so far behind a desk.
In Czechia we

Never any seen any Čech actually use that silly term...
National debt

US

2013 16.83 trillion dollars

2023 32.33 trillion dollars

EU

2013 13.19 trillion dollars

2023 14.5 trillion dollars
nixhub has the historical versions of a package, which you cannot get via nixos.org.
> I think smell is way less impactful than sight or sound

I hate to be a downer but smell is incredibly powerful. Vivid memories can rush back from a smell. Food is probably 90% smell and 10% taste.
I think a more reduced and perhaps more broadly applicable version is to never waste pain. It can propel you just like the promise of reward can. They’re opposite sides of the same coin.
Fulfilment doesn’t feed your children or put a roof over their heads. The expectation is that men provide. The wife and kids would prefer a bitter provider over a happy “deadbeat”.
"Every class begins with a babe, in a cafe.”

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
If you shrink a JS file by 50kb or more via minification (some JS libraries are a meg or more, so this is a realistic scenario - if not understating how much a minifier can do) that's a meaningful reduction in the # of bytes being processed. With how optimized and parallelized modern JS runtimes are it's probably only a few ms in total savings, but on older devices it could save more time. Historically it's been proven that small improvements to load time can have a measurable positive impact on a website.

Identifiers are often turned into atoms (which makes table lookup performance not really depend on how long they are) but for cases where identifiers are being looked up in dictionaries as raw strings, making them shorter could also improve runtime performance for your JS. I'm not sure how much this actually matters in practice though - I've seen dictionary key lookups show up in profiles here and there but it's usually not the main bottleneck.
There is literarily a table in the FAQ flr what PPP can be used for and what it cannot be.

PPP cannot be used to measure growth, period.

Nominal GDP increase indicates an increased production, PPP increase indicate absolutely nothing. In fact PPP often increase or maintains its level in times of crisis when income level drops and unemployment rises.

The US is far bigger than NY and SF and even then many EU cities can more than compare… The housing stock is far cheaper in the US and you get far far more for your money.
A lot of people justifiably care because making that information is their livelihood. Your entitlement to the labor of others is gross.
Wikipedia somewhat disagrees with you:

"The Air Commerce Act of May 20, 1926, is the cornerstone of the U.S. federal government's regulation of civil aviation. This landmark legislation was passed at the urging of the aviation industry, whose leaders believed the airplane could not reach its full commercial potential without federal action to improve and maintain safety standards. "

Maybe people were smarter in the '20s, maybe they were hoping for regulatory capture? Not sure, but obviously it's a good thing...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administrat...
> And even better (for the consumer), a higher percentage of people who _see_ the ad are likely to actually be interested in the topic.

Which inadvertently means the consumer is forced to see less ads, since each ad is capable of generating more revenue and therefore there doesn't need to be as many of them.

So, you've sacrificed some privacy, and in exchange you get less ads and better targeted ads. Was this a good trade-off for the consumer? I don't know. It probably doesn't make a big difference to our lives one way or the other.
Everyone knows about the replication crisis, and everyone knows the flaws in the incentive structures around publishing research, but none of that is what you referenced.

What we need are people with level heads making calm decisions, not bombastic polemics demanding the system get blown up.
In Ukraine Russian speakers are hardly the minority.

What's this supposed to mean?

Certainly it's not referring to the portion of native speakers.
That might be a "quarter-life crisis" not a mid-life crisis. Mid-life crises are usually 45-50.
Someone who does not watch ads and does not pay for a subscription is not a customer. They are a freeloader. How many freeloaders is google willing to piss off? All of them by the looks of things.