skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One fact many people don't realize is that in order to achieve broad-based wage growth, we will have to face GDP losses. This is because there are many businesses that depend on cheap labor to exist. As wages rise, these businesses will start to fail, reducing GDP.

> We should see this scenario (wage growth with stagnant or decreasing GDP) as a healthy adaptation. The danger is that politicians will react to the bad GDP numbers with dumb new economic interventions.

As a European who loves work culture in America, I'm afraid that America is copying the worst aspects of European culture.

Europe is awesome, and I'd love to see America copy us more, but these kind of incentives are the wrong thing to be copying.

To expand - training and educating yourself is hard work. Why are we rewarding people whose training is being able to drive a van? It's not about it being "honest work" (of course it is) or "hard work" (of course it is), or "these are important jobs, we need someone to do it" (of course) it's about - do we want to incentivize that young people aspire to this? This is not a recipe for a winning country.
Yup. Few people talk about fair wage rebalancing as a driver of inflation, but it's inevitable if the bulk of wage growth goes disproportionately to low earners who produce widely consumed goods/services, whose prices were deflated due to low wages.

As an extreme example, suppose all farmers were unpaid slaves. Slavery gets outlawed, and farmers now get paid. Food prices rise dramatically, resulting in massive inflation overall (and thus a fall in real wages for everyone except farmers).
I do think that's a bit of a stretch. Regardless of your opinions on the ethics of AI companies training on scraped data, how is scraping publicly available artistic works a privacy issue?

Me, personally, I might call it unethical and undesirable, but I wouldn't call it an issue of "privacy" on its face.
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Wtf am I doing in software?
> really all you need is bytecode that calls an ABI, and a widget toolkit that talks to a rendering API

Browsers have a 2D renderer (canvas) and you can write your GUI code in C++, Rust, or whatever and compile it to WASM. Some widget toolkits for this even exist already. If this were a superior model it would have taken over by now? I guess you are after deeper integration with the desktop environment?
Local stores also use UPS for their shipping. This hurts them too.
It's a bit dated but perhaps you should check out Structured Computer Organization by Andrew Tanenbaum.
I agree with your take. It also reminds me of those comments on youtube videos of classic rock songs (or any music older than 5 years at this point) that go along the lines of "I'm X years old, and I like this REAL music".

It always seems like the intent is for internet strangers to pat you on the back and tell you how special/precocious you are.
It's so tempting to implement in bash. I made the mistake _again_ this week! It's so seductive to be able to start subprocesses with no ceremony, use output redirection, use jq, etc.

If you have even the slightest hesitation regarding whether the task in front of you would be better done in a real programming language, the answer is do it in a real programming language.
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Wonder if PyPI will ever get reproducible builds.

https://reproducible-builds.org/
> Cholera and Polio were much more severe illnesses than Covid

> During 1951-1954, an average of 16,316 paralytic polio cases and 1879 deaths from polio were reported each year

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm

> An estimated 1.3 to 4 million people around the world get cholera each year and 21,000 to 143,000 people die.

https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/index.html

> COVID-19 was associated with approximately 244,000 deaths in the United States during January–December 2022.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a4.htm

So no, not really.
I would hope they are looking well pat the top 500, top 5,000 or 50,000 perhaps but then the bottom of larger lists also vary more.

I think we can all agree the most likely explanation isn’t so flattering here, but it’s possible they really are trying to model the real world accurately in their test environment.
I'm definitely the author. I'm too exited for the world to discover the treebu extension and its unlimited possibilities that I didn't know if it would be taken as advertising or too elogious..
There are some youtube videos that cover the pros and cons. Norway citizens have additional medical benefits there. They have some odd rules like you can't actually own any land there. You may not die there, meaning there have to be arrangements to move your body elsewhere. There are a lot of bears. It is a nice place though, I could see living there if the internet latency wasn't too bad.
Sure I agree. I was abit hyberbolic, but not much, if you account for all the bad processes.
They basically have no "real" legitimate reason to exist, but they don't run afoul of any laws, so they only appear when there are scams to be done.
Archaeology’s a surprisingly common one. Rhodesia on Great Zimbabwe is another example of this; the nature of Great Zimbabwe was uncontroversial outside Rhodesia, but the conventional view could get you in trouble _in_ Rhodesia.

Even in democratic countries, you sometimes get a degree of weirdness around archaeology and to some extent geology; during the Bush II era, some pressure was put on US national parks to push creationist stuff, say (doesn’t early-noughties right-wing behaviour seem quaint, now?)
That isn't a success; it indicates a sick society. One that is profitable for Y combinator though.
Sorry, I missunderstood your comment. I was reffering to russian russians but like you said, they are able to buy the game anyway.
This assumes that you use your computer and browser regularly.

There's nobody to yell at you if you don't use your computer... (which my older relatives don't, they just use it once every few months for some gov sites and such, as for me, I don't use Chrome except when a website says "sorry works only on Chrome" which doesn't happen that often thankfully).

And herewith lies the core of the issue, the browser just refuses to auto update if not updated in a while and tells you to re-install it.
That is because features might be feature complete and usable, but not consider stable yet and thus not part of stable builds. This because rust takes backwards compatibility seriously, it isn't an example of it breaking it.
The AI generation code with all prompts is available on github as well: https://github.com/riesvile/meoweler-content
> Space rocks smaller than about 25 meters (about 82 feet) will most likely burn up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere and cause little or no damage.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfa...
Try pasting a piece of code you don't understand and ask LLM to explain it to you.

Then try the same and find a human to explain it to you.

Then compare the price (including money and time) and performance of both.

I won't believe you made an objective assessment if your conclusion is that either party is the best solution all the time. The point is right now the number of occasions that AI has better price performance is large enough for it to be generally useful.
RealCalc free version from Quartic on Android is not bad. Not comparing it to Qalculate.

And it has a really cool
physical-world electronic calculator look, hence the name.
It kinda sounds like increasing from AES-128 to AES-256 as a mitigation when the actual threat is social engineering.

So people need to provide retinal scans now - and how does that prevent thugs from robbing/coercing them shortly after?
The SPAC pioneers were actually good investors, e.g., Bill Ackman and Martin Franklin. The shysters came in 2020 and ruined it for everyone.
There is no meissner effect, so it is not superconductive. I worked in this field, the paper as described is pretty damning. I think your reasoning is motivated.
Steve Jobs on the Future of the Web (1996) [video]
Also covered by another Australian journalist here:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/09/mushr...
It means that you can keep your eyeline focussed on the middle of the viewport (or the top, or wherever's natural for you) as you scroll new content into view. On a regular page, once your scrollbar reaches the bottom you have to start reading down the viewport because there's no more space to scroll. I don't know how much practical difference it would actually make to readability - would be interesting to measure - but I thought it was neat
The cost of a well-specced business laptop would be between 1% and 5% total pre-tax yearly compensation for engineers (variable depending on skills, location, seniority and the fact that I need to fudge the data a bit to avoid disclosing actual salaries which I obviously cannot do ;) ).

It doesn’t feel tiny-tiny to me.
Value delivered is meaningless, otherwise garbage collectors would be paid millions.

What matters is scarcity of resources, be it commodities, or human skill!
I don't think it's any worse that appealing to authority ("patio11 said that ....") or referencing that you were in YC. In those cases as well, quality should stand on its own. Even so, I think context helps, and it's not always the same as having lower standards.
Also check out USPS, they're hiring like crazy and have good benefits. It won't be as cushy or well-paying as our tech jobs, but I'm thinking about it, too. I'm so tired of tech.
That doesn't excuse breaking the HN guidelines and trying to turn this place into your personal activism platform.
As a user, I suppose it is disappointing there aren't bindings for _everything_ offered on the native platforms. However, there are a ton of packages provided by the community, especially since the "slim core" initiative from Facebook is pretty much done. They removed almost everything not essential from the core or React Native to make it much more focused and I suppose easy to maintain.
First American City to Tame Inflation Owes Its Success to Affordable Housing
After they disabled port forwarding, I moved to ProtonVPN. They seem like the next best thing, and they continue to state that they have no intention of removing port forwarding (for now, I assume).
Revolutionary AI mixing app creates mind-blowing musical mashups
It’s easy enough to slap a top 500 list as your benchmark but their size is why they should be aiming higher than that.
Adding to the list, some things are greater than just standalone projects. In this case, the Wikimedia community does a lot more than just Wikipedia, which is also greatly beneficial for everyone, same with the Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation and more.
As an engineer, I usually can just pop my expression into Siri/Spotlight or Cortana with a hotkey and get the result just fine. What kinds of calculations are people needing more for?
The fact that a large number of people care about a small number of ML models right now means that AMD has an opportunity to port just a few things and take market share.
It’s definitely a feature! Just one that’s often not understood. If you include a file in a C program, that codes just sitting there until you call it (more or less, yada yada #define, etc.). If you import a Python module, it executes the code in it. That code is typically a set of statements that defines functions and classes, but it could be anything.
I'm still holding out from the days when basically everyone on the internet understood you shouldn't post intimate details about your life online (the age before social ~~cancer~~ media).

I long for a return to common sense. Maybe AI will do the trick, but I doubt it. Plenty of people are happy with behavioral prediction if it means convenience without caring about the implications.
I think an underappreciated value of growing up in that era, was that the entire machine, top to bottom, was simple enough that a single person could understand it. Without even making it their life's work. There's simply nothing today like that.

So the older machines are an important conceptual building block. And they're not academic exercises taught in theoretical simulation but never experienced, they're real physical machines that did useful things for people who are still around and can walk you through doing the same things on the very same machines.

The other magical thing about home computers of that era, was that they were ROM-based, with very explicit operations to commit data to nonvolatile storage. You couldn't accidentally delete a system file and render the machine unbootable, and that encouraged experimentation in a way that subsequent PCs harshly punished.

Also, while 8-bit home computers weren't really toys, they were _almost_ toys, in that very few folks were running a business on their C64. (And again, even if they did, all they had to do was lock the business disks in a cabinet at the end of the day.) So the consequences of even a major screwup were limited, again in a way that the next generation of PCs dramatiaclly reversed. I knew kids "grounded for life" (actually a few months) in the 90s because they hosed up the family PC that mom or dad was doing the taxes on or whatever. That simply wasn't a thing in the 80s.

All of learning is making mistakes. One hundred percent. And modern machines don't allow it in the same way. We were privileged to learn in a real-but-nearly-consequence-free environment, which today's kids will simply never experience.
Nice one. You'll go far. Especially if you ignore the cranky resentful people on here
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Let's not forget the duds. Tranz Am... Pssst... Technically great but the gameplay was lacking.

But yeah - Jet Pac, Sabrewulf, Knightlore were in a different league to their competition.
Was the submitter intending to submit a URL with the bookmark, as below? The linked URL does not contain that and just takes the reader to the top of the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric#Censorship
When you scroll to the bottom while reading text you always only need to look in the middle of the screen when it's padded. Otherwise at the end of the page you would need to look at the bottom of the screen
I meant, use a dedicated Firefox profile that you only use for a small handful of websites where you don't want Resist Fingerprinting enabled, and your regular profile for the 99.99% of other sites. You can run both at once even.
Unraveling the Digital Markets Act
Could we wrap the planet in some kind of space safety blanket? Like say an thicker atmosphere full of CO2 or methane?
Keeping the data offline, on device. That's the big difference. I don't consent to using such online. No, not for captchas or payment either. Because 2FA/MFA and passport copy is suffice for opening bank account and authenticating with it. For payment, IBAN transfer is also suffice.

Altman is banking on the hype of those who are cynical on AI/ML hype dystopia.
If you think the goal of investing in these companies it to be ultimately profitable and make huge earnings, investing in successful con men doesn’t make any sense. If you think the goal is to cash out by dumping the company on a bigger sucker (or even better, retail investors) then obviously you’re going to seek out the biggest huckster. Look at what investment funds do, not what they say.
Yes, but pretty much in the same sad state as they were a few years ago. We're running a few in production and next time we touch it we're replacing them with Windows Server Core EC2 instances built from baked images.

Note on Linux containers:

Running Linux containers on Windows requires the use of LinuxKit or WSL. Docker Desktop for Windows requires you switch modes between Linux container mode and Windows container mode as you can't run both simultaneously. A workaround is to install an additional Docker daemon inside the WSL environment. Most people are going to install Docker Desktop and use WSL in Linux mode. It's fine. Hopefully my facts are up-to-date.
So then why would these ones cause tremendous damage, I’m given how small they are?
Yes, those sizes would very likely burn up completely before impact. 10-20m required to reach ground.
When I was working in the banking sector a lot of employees were provided with mobile phones to conduct business. If nowadays there is a requirement to record everything, how are voice calls are saved? In general for mobiles and in case of IPhones specifically.
Strange how many in this thread don't get revenue vs profit.
What's the criteria for that?

It's complicated. Depends on the cross-sectional area and the materials the boulders are made of. Ice, for example, burns up (melts) on reentry much more readily than iron!

Also depends on the angle of attack. Heading straight down (perpendicular to the ground beneath it) passes through much less atmosphere than a glancing blow, so has a lot less time to burn up.
Compared to GM and the like they have a very low level and very little debt.
The problem being solved here is a single person taking an aid package several times for reselling. You can't solve everything, I guess?
It'll be fascinating to learn whatever grey/black ops details come out after the war hopefully ends.

The naval drone question is especially fascinating.

IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel.

Ukraine doesn't have submarines, and Russia has 6(?) Kilo's in the Black Sea, so traditional submarines would be insane in that environment anyway.

And whatever transport method would need to be stealthy with respect to Russia's sensing methods: acoustic, radar, to a lesser degree visual.

Given Ukraine's technical capabilities and traditional shipbuilding expertise, I'd hazard there's a somewhat-stealthy drone carrier boat (probably also unmanned).

They could also be hiding/launching the drones directly from commercial shipping, but that's an awfully big risk for the flag country/ship owner with respect to Russia boarding and searching, or even back tracing launch points.
If all you read is propaganda by one empire or another, it's no wonder you immediately associate a term with propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_%28international_rela...

Interesting quote:

> In April 2023, the Australian government released their 2023 national review where it is outright stated that the age of American unipolarity and primacy in the Indo- Pacific is effectively over, paving way to great power competition and a more fractious world order.

It's new to me that Australia is known to spread Russo-Chinese propaganda either.
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I have used this tool in the past, though free tier only. It was easy to get up and running and easy to plug into a CICD pipeline. The problem we had with it in practice was that we largely preferred serverless technologies in AWS where the cost depended mostly or even completely on actual usage - things like Lambda invocations, SQS operations, or autoscaling ECS services, for example. In this case the estimates we got from Infracost were not very useful. Providing a meaningful cost estimate requires projecting usage, which is something that our development teams were very bad at, if they could be bothered to care at all.

I like the idea of implementing tagging enforcement in the pipeline. In a perfect world you would use cloud policies to do this, but in practice this is a big loser in AWS where a staggering number of resources are created by one API call and then tagged as a followup API call, meaning an SCP to prevent launch of untagged resources won't ever work.
I've known of the risk of blowing an asteroid up into a swarm that's potentially more dangerous already for years, how is this unexpected according to the article?
Long Covid is linked to a gene in new research
Having now looked up what the word priapism means, I'm now trying to imagine what moral priapism would be, and I can't think of a definition that makes sense. What is it? Is there a simpler word you can use?
Yes, obviously it's a reference to Orwell. However, I see no hate. Criticism of fascist invasions and their perpetrators is not hate.
> Germany, which a lot of Europeans don't have a positive opinion on (to put it mildly)

Do you have a source for that, because that's not the impression I, as a non German European, have.
> we're living in a world where it is completely standard now

No it isn't. Ew. If an employer asked to fingerprint me I'd tell them where to stick their scanner.

You know what is "completely standard" now? Governments and corporations leaking terabytes of private information, with barely a shred of accountability.

We need to be pulling this in the exact opposite direction, not normalizing it; and not adding retina scans to the list of insecure biometric data.

Sam Altman needs a swift reality slap.
The fear of being wrong is a crippling one that haunts ineffective people. Effective people don’t care, because they know they can update their beliefs when new information is introduced.

You’re talking about pride. Prideful people are not effective.
When many people read an article on the web, they keep their eyes in one small vertical area on the page and scroll to shift the text (rather than reading the whole visible area and then scrolling to the next "page"). However, when you reach the end of the scroll area, you're suddenly forced to move your eyeline down the page. Adding a bunch of space adds means you can keep scrolling the text to be underneath your eye-area. (sorry for the crufty explanation lol, it's kinda hard to visualize)
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