skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because despite all high paying jobs being in STEM or economics fields, the enrollment is actually dropping in those directions. And yes this is very confused by recovery from COVID, but the reality is that there was a dropping trend that started long before COVID, and today CS (or Math, or Physics, or economics for that matter) enrollment hasn't even recovered to the point it would have been at had the drop continued without COVID happening.

But yes last year we saw an increase, for obvious reasons, and the speed at which enrollment is currently dropping is lower than it was before COVID, but there's still less STEM graduates every year. Not just in the US, essentially everywhere.

On top of that young people are still running away from STEM degrees to liberal arts degrees of various kinds (but that doesn't work as well as you'd think because there's other problems there). Not even to all of liberal arts, just a few core directions.
But the health authorities in the West did not update their knowledge in view of that evidence. I am familiar with the case of Spain: when the COVID-19 pandemic started, the public healthcare guidelines in Spain still classified coronaviruses as mild viruses, not more severe than the flu.
Honestly, it's a shame that the appropriate lower bits aren't automatically masked off by the CPU before the atual load/store.
>macOS is good

You can't be possibly more wrong here, mate. macOS is an absolute garbage. Always was.

And Windows 11 tries to mimic that but fortunately fails at that too.

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I really appreciated this post.

Bram was a hero for his long term dedication to such a great piece of software, and for the great design he put into it that made so many people’s lives better.

Justin and the other Neovim developers are heroes for making a great piece of software even greater. Despite all the drama that people like to confect, the Neovim devs always show the proper respect to Vim and Bram.
The process behind Webb’s telescope full-color images
Even their blog has such dead links. I just happened to notice that other URLs included the year, so I tracked that one down to see if that’s all what was needed.

Of course, forgetting about that little backwards compatibility is easy, especially considering it’s a personal blog and they likely have other personal things to worry about. I was just amused by the irony in context. I otherwise appreciated the read. :)
Zuckerberg seems sincere and does jiu-jitsu on his own as a hobby. I believe he wouldn't agree to a staged fight. There may be rules/stipulations in place to make Musk actually agree that would make it a mockery of MMA though. I don't think Musk's actually interested, he seems utterly insincere about fighting but loves attention so he'll keep teasing it.

But really, who knows?
If you need to index over data inside JSON, why not pull out the pieces that need to be indexed into normal relational columns?

When I've used Postgres JSON fields in the past, I've used it for unstructured data that doesn't need to be indexed, as if there's anything that does need to be indexed, then it's important enough to extract out to a field for efficiency.
Not at all, I was just interested to see what chat gpt would do compared to a knowledgeable person. That prompted me to think why would I trust a random stranger over chat gpt.
> you’re not going to be able to pay them 35% more in two years because of HR policies

Seems like you just identified the issue. You're right, of course, that the "invest in employees" approach doesn't work at companies that have a corporate policy to not invest in employees.

Investing in employees is a top-down strategy, not a bottom-up one. If there isn't support for it at the top, then you're right, it won't work.
Do I understand that right that with a minimum wage for grad students of $40,000 they would still be eligible for food stamps in many cases? I don't have a good grasp of the living costs here, but it seems to me that this income is likely too high to qualify for SNAP based on a quick and rough search.
As someone who's trying to bridge macOS's native APIs with Java for a future project, this is useful for me.
That's not true about the nothing of value, It helps keep my flagging finger strong and nimble through lots of use....
Actually GPT-4 is at least marginally capable at almost all languages, and I expect LLMs being as nascent as they are, will become more proficient at more and more languages. The thing is that training a LLM is fundamentally simpler to train than prior NLP translation models. For example, I can carry on a reasonably good conversation with ChatGPT in the ancient dead language of Pali and have it translated into cuneiform, then Chinese, then Esperanto, and to English in a new session and the translation is almost flawless from the original. (I have in fact done this)

If it weren’t for this I would have agreed with you last year. But I see fairly clearly the way to preserve native tongues is to take a base LLM like Llama 2 and fine tune it with your native language. As people are invested in their native language this doesn’t seem unreasonable. As things develop and sharing LLM LoRa becomes easier, I think we will find that universal translator for all spoken languages forthcoming.

But I challenge the notion that not having a translation device assures native languages survive. The same pressures exist. You simply can’t tell the regionally powerful speakers to learn the minority languages and expect them to actually do it. And you can’t expect it to not be a stigma. Humans just don’t work that way, and never have. “When in Rome” applied in Roman times, in our time, and in all times. The only way to eliminate that is to make it not an issue.
Yeah, that argument was taking data that says essentially "global trade driven by western rule of law regimes lifts all boats" and tries to say "western rule of law is bad because the other boats were lifted".

The ideological bent on HN threads really has gotten a little out of control in recent years. We're literally in a topic where the bulk of the posting volume is from the "money laundering is good, actually" camp.
The shrinking American home: As demand rises, builders go smaller
That is interesting, do you have more info on this, or is it anecdotal?
That may have been a hot take on my part, but what makes Debian worthwhile over Ubuntu aside from ideology?

The average person switching from Windows to Linux wants something that works. My general impression is:

- Anything other than Ubuntu and Mint requires involvement with 3rd-party repos for comparable multimedia playback

- Ubuntu has the largest userbase, and thus the largest access to easy tech support; a beginner isn't going to bust out Terminal and go straight to Arch wiki

- Because Ubuntu has the largest userbase, software is more tested on it; check the requirements for most games on Steam and most of them mention Ubuntu, or SteamOS; nothing else

- I remember years ago Debian having some confusion with different images and firmware. I don't exactly remember the problem (maybe missing firmware for netinstall?), but this wasn't an issue with Ubuntu that includes most of the stuff on-disc.

Debian feels like one of those barely-heard of distros. When I think mainstream distros for desktop, it's Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE. For server, it's Ubuntu, RHEL, or SUSE. Arch Linux, Gentoo, Rhino, Cachy (or whatever it's called), Clear Linux, and Debian are distros to use if you have a known reason that they benefit your use case, after trying it from mainstream distros.

I wouldn't recommend Windows users to switch to any of those because of the lower user-base, and that because those distros are more technical there's also that air of harsh discussions and entitlement (Arch forums is terrible with this; RTFM). I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want my recommendation to be for anti-social entitled pricks who think they know better with their obscure distro :p If people want to go that way on their own, go for it!
I'm actually British but I was appealing to the er, status quo in this case!
Energica does not have a connected app. Also, the service manual is simple to come by (Facebook group).
Use TypeScript instead? (semi-joking)

The way I've been approaching this lately is TypeScript on the frontend, then a thing TypeScript layer on the backend (via Deno), with those two pieces connected with tRPC. The real backend guts are in Rust (or whatever), and the backend tRPC layer talks to the Rust stuff with gRPC.

So something like this:

[(TS web client) <--tRPC--> (TS thin backend)] <--gRPC--> (Rust service)

This is a bit awkward, but honestly worth it for what you get with tRPC. One thing that took some getting used to is with tRPC the line between "client" and "server" gets blurry, which makes me uncomfortable for all sorts of reasons but in practice works well enough to make it not worth worrying about for now.
It’s my favorite git client altogether.
Video: “This Simple File Management System Changed My Life ” [video]
Currently working on reorganizing my files and folders in Nextcloud and stumbled over this video on YT.

While not everything is directly transferrable to me, I find some ideas worthwhile.

For example, I've not been into using subfolders that much, just dumped lots of stuff into the root directory and time will sort it out. Turns out: Time didn't do that, it just cluttered up.

Now I've got a "marked for deletion" folder with stuff from years ago that I really don't need anymore. Wonder why I'm still saving that...
Harvard is a hedge fund which has an interest in education.
The fact that Microsoft can’t get their story together for their most popular product is comical. A new UI at every release and no cohesive experience.

macOS on the other hand has stayed virtually unchanged for 22 years. If you look at the desktop and Finder of macOS 10.1 you’ll find little has changed. This is especially since 10.5 in 2007, when the UI essentially fossilized (for better or for worse)
It is really funny to me that you included London.
> refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin

omg, don't give them ideas! Oh wait, someone just patented this and is seeking VC funding.
Cool tool! I had to double check because I thought Vim was much older. Indeed, Vim goes back to 1991 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)). This is a great view of the last 20 years of Vim.
Include a spouse and a child and it easily falls over the poverty line.
>I've never seen in my entire career things as absurd as someone working 7 other jobs while pretending to work for us.

I'm sure I don't understand. You were paying someone for 40 hours a week and getting ~5. Why was this not apparent to their management? Or, if it was, why was nothing done about it?

The problem that your organization pays someone for 8x the output they're getting is definitely a problem, but if your management's only solution to this problem is to force the entire workforce to commute to an office, I think the bigger problem that should be addressed is that your management sucks.
The AI Nanny in Your Baby’s Future
Mongo costs more than the “slowness” of Postgres’ JSON.
Prestige over Influence: Choosing a More Impactful Online Presence
I don’t live in the same country and the country I live in is not english language. So everything has to be translated and notarised. Like proof of address for all shareholders etc. It’s a pain and definitely not 2 minutes.
This presumes you’re smart enough to make good policy choices absent honest debate and that you can enact policies effectively without public buy-in through authoritarian means.

Both assumptions are untrue — and we’re only beginning to see the consequences of the institutional failures. Eg, why does excess death remain high in Western Europe but not Eastern Europe? — why is only Eastern Europe showing the decline in mortality we’d normally see after a pandemic?

Policy choices — based on lies, manipulation, and force.
Not sure I’ve heard of a raids on a newspaper quite like this in the US.
Just holding down the spacebar to scroll that page made me never want to use Flutter to parse JSON
It also means that more and more of completely legit businesses are just using grey platforms to avoid AML just because it's too much pain to deal with it.
Its not a normal jobs, they're students.
I'm sure he's excited to not have to pay them. (UFC is famous for paying their fighters really poorly and Dana is squeezing them as much as he can get away with.)
Seems like:

- 1 isn't necessarily true if certain techniques are used, and those techniques are indeed used (there's a bunch)

- 2 feels overblown by the other users here, to the point that I believe many who are opposed to AML efforts here are acting in bad faith and have other intentions

- 3 seems doubtful given modern Chinese and Russian money laundering efforts in the west

- 4 is a bigger discussion to be had, and in my opinion, can be justified given the societal consequences of not acting against money laundering. We've already seen a big consequence of it with real estate prices
In addition, this "tax" just ended up within another department of organized crime.
Yeah ok; everyone using it in business and multimedia must just like making their life harder; I forgot Linux was the greatest even though it's not notable outside of servers :p
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-su...
What a great idea, I'm going to do that too!
with fighters like these, dana probably wants them to pay him.
Somewhere along the line they changed the Xbox UI to sell more widgets. I hate that—let me see all my apps first and foremost, not apps that I don’t want. If I’m in a shopping mood I’ll open the store… and they brought that same pattern to Win11. Stop selling us shit we don’t want please MSFT.

Customer first vs corporation first.

The truth is, if they don’t see lots of returns on software they force it down customers throat. If that doesn’t generate enough revenue they just kill it on the spot.

Microsoft had some great products but it’s hard to want to buy anything from them now because it’ll be EOL in one or two years… feel bad for folks who bought surface duos, to name a more recent one.
Garph is like tRPC but for GraphQL: https://garph.dev

For REST APIs there's ts-rest (https://ts-rest.com), zodios (https://www.zodios.org) and Hono (https://hono.dev)

If your team uses multiple languages, there's Fern: https://www.buildwithfern.com
> The cost of moving these €300,000 packages to Colombia adds up very quickly. First, the coordinator had to absorb a 3% fee to convert the trafficker's original low denomination euro banknotes to the very compact 500 euro note. To that, add a 2-3% fee to pay the individual courier and 0.5% on airline tickets, as well as additional administrative costs like modifying luggage and bringing couriers to and from the airport.

Thus, money laundering sounds like a market that is ripe for disruption by some startup ... ;-)
Shorter RIAA: "We stole these recordings with bullshit contracts decades ago, who are YOU to interfere with that????!!!!"

You can see their point, though: obviously Frank Sinatra wouldn't have even bothered recording in the 1950s if he knew that a quarter-century after his death his record company might not make every available cent in profit. /s
It isn't just Harvard. I think you are saying this person could be working anywhere, so why is this Harvard's problem?

But other companies are also doing this, Walmart being biggest example.

If there is entire group of people that is subsidized labor, then yes all the companies are benefiting. Harvard just seems like extra disgusting because they are a rich institution of learning, and should do better. While for Walmart, we kind of expect them to use slave labor, it is expected.
That is my understanding also. I would very much like an expert answer on this one !
I work for a company that's fully distributed, and do ~2k miles a year, almost exclusively to visit family.

Your halfway-house "build your life around your career" mentality appealed to me in my early 20s when I was on starter salaries and was unmarried and childless. That is no longer the case and you couldn't - as I've had the pleasure of telling several interviewers - pay me to return to it.
Hi there! I'm running every post through several filters with GPT for every category. Like:

1. is it remote?
2. is it remote within some location?
3. tech stack?
etc.

and then trying to coalesce some tags together. I'll probably open source the script once it's mature after a couple of months posts :)
That's a good point. My assumption, not that I ever stated it, was that the list would be one you'd typed out yourself, or was one that was just there in code already, and you could verify by eye that it's just string literals.

Using Python's eval with empty globals and locals dicts (consult the docs) could make this safer, though I've only ever had to use that for defending against accidents rather than malice. And now this quick thing is becoming increasingly complicated, and maybe you'd be better off engineering it properly.
I've worked at a number of financial institutions including two banks.

No idea what you are talking about with AML creating a massive honeypot of data for hackers. If a bank's internal systems were to be widely compromised then stealing a few graph datasets would be the least of their worries. You would have dozens of attack vectors to steal significant amounts of money without the bank finding out quickly.

And compliance issues by HSBC et al is a direct result of a lack of proper AML/KYC systems and processes. So you're making the case that we should roll them out.
Heya! Creator of tRPC here, just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all the love ♥
Yep. Australian here. We successfully brought our case numbers down a number of times through expensive, city wide lockdowns. Each time we succeeded and then opened back up, the virus unfortunately found a new route in the country and case numbers went up again.

If the whole world had adopted this strategy, covid would have been eliminated from the planet entirely.

Lots of lives were still saved by our strategy because almost everyone had a chance to get vaccinated before getting covid.

Even with the benefit of hindsight, its still controversial whether the lockdowns were worth it overall. But they were definitely effective at containing covid.
I think one point is what you eat instead of the meals.
>If you can’t pay your people a living wage, you deserve to go out of business.

I agree, which is why I'm not sympathetic if "AI" ends up driving most of the creative occupations (stereotypical destitute artist, replacable office drone, etc.) to extinction.
Thanks! I just added a hopefully-clarifying comment before the chart based on your comment.

> This chart shows the last 20 years of development as seen in the Vim git repository.
If you are ahead and then everyone else catches up, what does that say about your running performance? It says achieving average speed, but recent performance was a bit sedentary.

And it isn't KYC/AML laws doing that in isolation because it is too big a trend and too much happens over a century. But "Western capitalism was going gangbusters through the whole period in the 20th century where cash flow tracking was being introduced." - no it wasn't. Western capitalism has been slowly mean-reverting to fall in line with all the authoritarian states and tinpot dictatorships. The economic strategy that the west has been using does not seem to be creating vast amounts of wealth in the west. Most of the wealth is being created in Asia.

And big investments take 20-30 years to pay off, so we're probably seeing the results of policies from 1940 through to around 2000 in that chart.
Very cool!
Could you add in the readme how to install llama 2 on the same machine ?
This is were the US Gov needs to do something. Especially for businesses doing the same, yes they exist and I am sure we all know one specific business.

I do not know how graduate students work, do they pay tuition or does Harvard pay them for their work ? Also is it for only certain majors. For example do STEM/Law/Business majors get better pay if Harvard pays them ?

In anycase, if Harvard pays these students, then yes they should get a livable wage or at least free housing.
There can be big benefits to being white in Asia for these kinds of jobs. They want to employ a foreign/"exotic" businessman to give them credibility. If you were raised bilingual, odds are you're Chinese and just fit in there.
1500 sq ft can work fine for a family of four if laid out appropriately. I'm actually a bit surprised that 1500-2000 sq ft is considered 'small'. It feels like the average sized house around here.
You're comparing two different things: prevented cases and side-effects. The rate of those very same serious side-effects is far higher from CoVID itself than from the vaccine. You're literally increasing their frequency by refusing to vaccinate.
Interestingly there are lots of 'unusual' flight modes that actually stay aloft, especially if you are able to throttle up/down and move actuators very fast (ie. 10 Hz). I could totally imagine some existing planes being able to do some.

Quadcopter and drone hobbyists demo them sometimes. Eg. https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/your-quadcopter-has-three-pr...
Publish where? The article says twitter which is designed for short not in depth discussion. (And some questionable politics)
The answer is right there in the quote you decided to cut short for some reason.

Culturally, Swedes trust their government a lot more than people do in other countries.
The usb c tangent is kind of weird. It feels like an anti regulation stand for the sake of it.
Ironically, ideal is the same in English as it is in Spanish. And German for that matter. And Turkish. Seems like the ideal word for the concept.
I find your example surreal as well... I get the surreal feel from these kinds of technological liminal spaces where hard and fast rules break down into seemingly black magic.

"You might be able to get cell service by holding your phone differently. Try waving it randomly around the room, one corner might work better than others."

"The USB stick enters on the third try."

"An iterative semi-deterministic bag of matrix multiplications can convincingly communicate. Undefined behavior appears schizophrenic."

On an intellectual level, I get it, but it's still fuckin' weird.
There’s also the condition that graduate students can’t simply leave to find better work. This is very shitty behavior from the school.
How do people not understand selection? Regardless think of all the world’s warmongers. Almost none were engineers. All the colonizers were humanities guys. Hitler and his top guys were art and humanities guys. Every president who bombs the innocent has been a history or poli sci major.
> Seemingly the president (a weird title, but okay)

That's what the title is all across the US.
I guess someone had this as a bucket item?
We definitely want more NATO military on our soil. It's the only thing that prevents a Russian invasion. NATO is more popular than ever. Nobody is saying that NATO is braindead now.
Does this make any difference to the new "Settings" UI which infuriatingly replaced about 50% of the old Control Panel in Windows 10?

In W10 I'm never sure if I should open the control panel or the Settings "app", the latter being ludicrously bad and a monumental step backwards in UX.

I seem to remember W10 destroying the WiFi networks control pane as well and replacing it with a rage-inducing full-height sidebar which would permanently auto-close as soon as you clicked away from it (e.g. to copy a WiFi password from your password manager).
And it’s not just smaller companies - my experience of n=1 at BigTech companies is that to get ahead, it’s best to “boomerang”.

Besides even at BigTech, it’s much easier to get a higher level position at another comparable company than go through the promotion process.
I'm guessing the profits would go to charity in order for Musk/Zuckerberg to agree and this would be effectively just a massive advertisement for UFC/MMA.