skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, unions in the US function very differently than unions in Germany/Europe.

In Germany, the unions function more as partners of the business owners and collaborate together on finding the general compromise that won't disturb company profits or the way the business operates, while in the US it seems like unions must treat the business like antagonists even at the sake of company profits because "all business owners are evil so fuck them".

So even if the US has fewer unions than in Europe, they're generally a lot more powerful, which is why many were infiltrated by the mob.

If my memory serves me correctly the earliest unions in Germany were very similar to the unions in the US, as in they were started from clashes with the business owners, and they were in charge of handling stuff like healthcare and pensions pots of the workers, similar to the unions in north america today.

But the Kaiser saw the growing unions and their pensions pots getting bigger along with their nation wide influence over the working class, as threats to the state's own influence and control over the workers, so he dismantled them and introduced them under the new state pension plan, so the modern state social pension in Germany stems form the Kaiser's fear of the workers' unions. :)
I think a lot of people get into a mindset that a 25 year mortgage is meant to be paid off in 25 years, so that mindset guides their entire frame of reference for how large a lifestyle to adopt. I’m not saying to rush through a mortgage. Do whatever you want. But consider not getting into a situation where you’re somehow struggling even though you’re one of the lucky few who can afford to even own a home.

When times get tough they’re no more secure than those who make less.

I’ve seen this with many peers who have Teslas and 1.5M homes who are now struggling despite such an income.
personally I can do about 2x-4x of the work remotely compared to working in office
I feel like astronaut is only a good idea if you really enjoy long airplane rides.
Found this in the thread about GPT-10...

kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now?
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existentialDev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

Well, that's my existential crisis for the day. Thanks a lot, kernelKommando.
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Now this is "me"...What if we are all just existences spawned by GPT-1000 for the fleeting amusement of some beings...
I'm mostly use NAPS2 scanner app on Windows. It can scan optimize , split, join PDF.
Snowdrifts
It is my understanding that the US has been able to control the inflation rate relatively well. Our fiscal policy has brought it down relatively quickly as compared to other nations. Is that not correct?
We are doing something fundamentally wrong with sediment management in dams. Practical Engineering talks about how dams cause erosion downstream because the suspension capacity of the water is not occupied with material from upstream, and nature abhors a vacuum.

We need some way to continuously siphon sediment and expel it with the exhaust from the hydro and overflow pipes.
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/29/killing-your-1000...
Will it make Amazon nervous? Then I kind of like it...

Also, is wish.com the same thing as temu, or basically the same thing? I mean, there's some tungsten ring for 50 cents on it that like another poster I might buy that and 20$ of other things just to see what actually arrives.
It is paranoid of me to envision conversations planning this, a conspiracy amongst corporations? I don't remember ever seeing prices rise so steadily, so quickly (and I am old).
DNC wouldn't let us.
Inflation’s bad but it hasn’t gotten _that bad_ yet. If you’re spending $1300 per month for groceries for _one_ person you’re surely getting high end, organic everything.
Then why use a browser-based tool?
And now you need to patch the containers, too!
There is always an exchange of good and bad deeds between employees and employers. If you are a dick you should be treated as such. If you are a saint you should be too! You never just go to war with your employer or your employees.

I had one employer who would sometimes get stuck in a loop thanking me for what I've done, how embarrassed he was he couldn't pay me more and that he could never do what I did for such little money. I would mock him by listing the instances of terrible things that would have happened if I wasn't there. If he called me right now, years later, I would do what I could to keep his ship afloat just because the idea of having to fire people haunts him in his sleep.

My previous manager asked me to do an extra shift one time. I told him I understand why he asked it but that this must never happen again. Before that I told him that he couldn't just schedule an extra shift but that he should ask me first. If the place burned down around me I would use it to light my cigar after casually tossing my coat over my arm.
This is actually correct, since recording a song from the radio by itself generally doesn't fall under fair use. The purpose of the copy is what makes it fair use, for example, as a sample played in a classroom, or for reference for readers/viewers as part of a critical work.
Yes, to get Nixpkgs it's much faster to use `fetchTarball`.

You're right that `builtins.fetchTarball` is faster than `builtins.fetchGit` (due to the ridiculous amount of commits in the Nixpkgs repo). I like to keep such definitions in a single, company-wide/project-agnostic git repo (what the Nix Pills series calls the "repository pattern"), and have individual projects import them via `builtins.fetchGit`.

Many years ago we didn't have `builtins.fetchGit`, so had to use the 'fetchgit' function from Nixpkgs instead. That created a chicken-and-egg situation if we wanted to take the Nixpkgs version from some other git repo; hence needing to "bootstrap" via `(import <nixpkgs> { config = {}; }).fetchgit`, and cross our fingers that `NIX_PATH` wasn't set to some crazy value (which, of course, I would inevitably do... https://github.com/Warbo/haskell-te/blob/24475a229908caa3447... )

Note that we need `config = {};` when importing Nixpkgs to avoid an impurity which tries to read files in $HOME. More recent versions of Nixpkgs also need `overlays = [];` to avoid another impurity (looks like this changed at Nixpkgs 17.03, according to https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nixpkgs.nix )
Keep up with inflation until I need to draw the money down during retirement?

Dividend investing underperforms the market, and pulling that money into your spending budget typically underperforms inflation.
The same thing happened when calculators came out, when the Internet mainstreamed, mobile phones came out, and now AI...

It's the education system that needs to adapt, not the students. Change is hard, but eras of computing drive societal change and professors and colleges need to adapt to stay relevant and not the other way around.
I feel like these anecdotes make more sense with numbers. What is your combined household income? > $250k?
I mean, if this is where people are feeling pinched I agree I have no idea how the middle class is surviving
> 13% risk is a number controlling out other factors

So is the other figure, so the comparison is valid. Maybe wood dust is more dangerous that you assume?

BTW, the asbestos in baby powder had nothing to do with industrial use of asbestos. It was in the talc because asbestos and talc are frequently coincident in the ground.
No better than the API.
Yeah I found the same regarding repetition. I avoided that by seeding it with new data from NYTimes API each day.
I did one. I took a few dozen prompts from my ChatGPT history and ran them through a few LLMs.

GPT-4, Bard and Claude 2 came out on top.

Llama 2 70b chat scored similarly to GPT-3.5, though GPT-3.5 still seemed to perform a bit better overall.

My personal takeaway is I’m going to continue using GPT-4 for everything where the cost and response time are workable.

Related: A belief I have is that LLM benchmarks are all too research oriented. That made sense when LLMs were in the lab. It doesn't make sense now that LLMs have tens of millions of DAUs — i.e. ChatGPT. The biggest use cases for LLMs so far are chat assistants and programming assistants. We need benchmarks that are based on the way people use LLMs in chatbots and the type of questions that real users use LLM products, not hypothetical benchmarks and random academic tests.
Presolar grains and primordial organics preserved in clasts in asteroid Ryugu
Debt slaves.
Low wage workers have actually seen the most wage growth recently.

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2022/
The PC You've Never Heard of [video]
That's moving the goalposts, because the original claim was that "There are almost no cars under $30k now".
Really looking forward to the next OS update, we should see the AI/ML form detection features for filling out forms more precisely.
Not an actual Henry Ford quote fwiw.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18247/did-henry...
401K early withdrawals are up almost 40% YoY and credit card debt is also up massively. If interest rate increases do lead to eventual job losses things will get ugly fast

real estate is the thing to watch, if even a small number job losses happen people will have no choice but to sell even if they want to keep their low interest rate(home prices have stayed relatively flat because everybody is staying put, so low inventory on paper). Interest rate increases have resulted in significantly lower buying power, so home prices will have to drop. Forced sales will cause others to rush for the exit and cause even further price drops
Everyone is talking about the economics but ignoring the possibility that the goal of Temu is not strictly revenue and profit.
If you succeed you will fail
I'm curious to know if this is a real phenomenon that has been observed. Would you be able to point me in the direction of resources to learn more about this?

The reason for my skepticism is that even without deflation, a dollar tomorrow is usually worth more than a dollar today, yet tons of people* don't save or invest much/any of their money, even if they're able to.

* I'm speaking from the perspective of an American FWIW.
My paycheck is quite small due to the massive tax withholding I need to pay the taxes on my RSUs. I don't currently spend more than a fraction of my shares but I certainly use some of the proceeds to pay monthly expenses. I also sell company stock as soon as I get it and diversify(currently just buying T-Bills) because keeping all your eggs in one basket(i.e. keeping your wealth in the stock of the company that pays your salary) is bad risk management.
Idiom recognition. Some compilers had idiom recognition before C existed, because in some of the early languages the literal interpretation of the common idioms is incredibly expensive to perform, but a compiler can recognise that actually it can take massive shortcuts.

For example, sort this list of numbers into ascending order, then, take that sorted list, get the last number from it. With idiom recognition the compiler can say oh, I'll walk the list once, tracking the maximum as I go, that's much faster. In C this seems like, well, if I meant that I'd write that but I think APL is an example where the list expression is idiomatic and so that's what programmers will write but they want the fast thing.
> I get frustrated when I hear all these missives about how easy it is for any good developer to learn a new language "in a couple days". I

It is, maybe you aren't a good developer (yet). The more you do it, the easier it gets. It took me a good time to change from PHP to Python, but from there to Java, JavaScript, C#, Clojure and some 10 more, it only got easier. Toolchain frameworks, idiosyncrasies, foot guns, best practices also follow patterns and gets easier to learn.
>Knowledge workers can seize things to a certain extent.

Of course they can. Let's say workers group together and take the website down which tanks the business completely rendering the business owner broke and the workers unemployed. Then what? Who's gonna hire you as part of that grop of revolutionaries who took down a business?

You want unionization per sector with the blessing of legal authorities, and collective protest per industry, not per company.
I am not a native French (?) speaker, so am I allowed to use YouTube translate to understand what was being said?
It's not difficult but it misses the point. SIOV supports 1k's of VF's because that's what you need if you want a sandboxed app-per-VM security model. When statically compiled VM's are just as performant as containers but more secure.
Converting offices to condos is for practical purposes illegal due to the very different regulations.

You can tear the buildings down and build new ones, but that will take a decade to get permitted, if you're in a construction permissive city.
Credit card debt in the U.S. alone hit 1 Trillion https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/credit-cards/credit-ca...
I think the concept of cost of living areas is out the window. Mortgage and rent may be relatively COL dependent (kinda, but everyone is incentived to even it out nationwide), but for everything else I actually think the competition within big cities/"HCOL areas" drives down prices. In my "LCOL" flyover area I'm seeing $30+ pizza and $18 burgers, along with $10 beers at bars. It's insane.
OenAI IS Microsoft. Don't get tangled in the web of creating different entities when they are all part of the same pyramid. Also GitHub IS Microsoft too!!
My father had an undiagnosed bicuspid aortic valve. He collapsed while swimming when he was in his early 60’s, thankfully in the shallow end of the pool. He was pulled out unresponsive by lifeguards, brought to a hospital, and thank God woke up. A few weeks later and at a better hospital than our local one, he has a porcine valve installed. That lasted about 20 years. Thanks to his preference to avoid doctors during COVID, a few medical issues occurred simultaneously and the worst ended up happening - endocarditis, or an infection of the heart around this replaced valve. He almost died a second time last year from this, but he survived emergency open heart surgery that replaced the valve and cut away a section of infected aorta.

Until this year he would always swears that he was the unluckiest person. Now he’s 82 and still alive after all this and he feels lucky.

Go to your doctors regularly, get screened, and don’t put off procedures until they’re an emergency.
This is accurate. Once the unit price is calculated with the temporarily higher input price, they are not going to reduce the unit price for as long as possible, even if input prices go down.

And what's worse? The FED does not want negative CPI. They want slowly rising CPI. A negative CPI is deflation, something they want to absolutely avoid. They don't want prices to go down. They only want them to rise up slower.

Which leads to us humans always stuck on the hedonic treadmill. If one is relying on wages, one is absolutely fcuked in this system. The only way to keep up is to keep switching jobs to a higher pay.
I've got total respect for the scholarship of Mary Beard.

She got into a recent online argument with one of my other intellectual heroes Nassim Taleb about the genetic makeup of Roman Britain.
I get a kick out of our local A&W that's had the usual "please be patient we don't have enough workers" sign up for at least a year, with another sign under it saying they're hiring starting at $10 an hour.

I wonder why they don't have enough workers when almost every other retail business around pays 50% or more than that, and it's not like their employees would have to go through a grueling tech hiring process to jump ship.
Microsoft sells you a product.

With Google, you're the product to be sold.

But Google pretends you're a customer, so you don't resist being sold.

Google's business model is inherently more dishonest.
Happened in Redmond too
OO does not come from Smalltalk. Simula was the inspiration for OO in C++.
I’m wondering: is there a good list of data privacy failure consequences?

There are good lists of breaches but few describing what happened to the people afterwards. Credit card theft resulting in a loss being the most obvious one.

Such concrete (real) examples would help me to argue with people who say: all this non-sense about data privacy. What would anyone want to do with your data anyways?
Why not just use a time tracking app like Toggl instead of a spreadsheet?

I guess the spreadsheet isn't so bad if you work in long, 2-4+ hour chunks. I often work in 30-minute bursts so just being able to click the start and stop buttons in my browser is less tedious than entering the time manually
Show HN: PitchPower – AI powered proposal generation for consultants
Hey HN!

I'm an indie hacker who builds SAAS products in my free time.

I've got a friend who runs a small consulting firm and said this would be a useful tool for them so i thought why not release it as a standalone online tool for everyone.

Basically the premise is, you enter some information about your services (or we just scrape your website and figure it out). Then you enter a description of the client brief, tweak the outline, and out comes a unique tailored proposal that you can tweak with AI.

That's pretty much it! Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you.
Quite often, the bosses don’t. Their social circle is the company and that’s partly why they so desperately want back in the office.
I don't think you understand how new cars are sold in the US. You can't click buttons and order the car from the website, you have to work with a dealer and convince them it's worth their time to order a car for you.

I got some bad news, there is no dealership that thinks a $22k Corolla is worth their time when dozens of other buyers are willing to spend $30-40k or more for other models. The higher the price out the door generally the more money the dealership is making.
I have been using LibreOffice Draw to fill out forms, not interactive ones but those they expect you to print and pen in.
"lower side of income" means they are roughly linked to minimum wage. For instance, when I worked at a gas station as a kid, I explicitly got a wage $1 more per hour than minimum wage. Even if it's not so explicitly linked, the implicit link is there on all low end hourly jobs. If a wage goes from significantly above minimum wage to just barely above minimum wage due to a minimum wage change and the employer doesn't raise to match, they are going to have retention and recruitment troubles.
Today we just call it wage garnishment. We seem to often gain rights by just moving around the specific parties involve through the transitive property, rather than actually seeing significant change from the status quo.
There's actually a potential line of attack that rose due to two SCOTUS decisions a few years ago. The Eldred and Golan cases essentially established that fair use is constitutionally necessary in order for copyright to coexist with the 1st amendment.

If the DMCA is found to hinder the effective exercise of a fair use right, it could be struck down (either facially or in an as-applied challenge)
Prenups Aren’t Just for Rich People Anymore: Sparing Your Spouse from Your Debts
It’s not silly. If you know prices are only going down you might hold off on buying that house or car until later because you know you’ll just get it cheaper.
I'm very happy with Consent-O-Matic for auto accepting cookie popups with privacy preserving choices done for me. Prior to that I used "i don't care about cookies".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
Based on released govt and market data, the early career white collar market has bottomed out.

Approximately 25% of 16-24 yr old jobseekers are college graduates (this is probably overstated as China recently began treating both Vocational Institutes and 4 year programs as colleges in statistics), but only around 15-18% of college graduates end up signing an offer by graduation, and most industries have seen around 50%-66% of companies reduce NCG hiring. [0]

By most standards this is absolutely a skilled jobs or white collar recession.

Manufacturing downsizing has happened, but that was done by Chinese companies either moving factories abroad to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, India, etc or begin automating manufacturing [1]

Note: treat college in above as any post-secondary program (eg. Vocational school, 4 year degrees, graduate degrees) as all 3 types of programs are merged as a single bracket in Chinese govt statistics.

[0] - https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H301_AP202305151586638633_1.pdf

[1] - https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Trade-General/Trade-stats-an...
You can’t really replace ChatGPT 4 with llama2 7B.
GitHub was acquired by Microsoft, and they are no longer legally separate entities.

Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI, but does not own it, and they are legally separate companies. OpenAI is not Microsoft and it is factually incorrect to claim that OpenAI is Microsoft.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...
Most of the other responses are missing the point of your question. You really asking why central banks don't engage in targeting the price level, rather than price changes (=inflation). In price level targeting, they'd aim for higher (lower) inflation next year if they under-(over-)shot their target this year.

Academics and have studies the pros and cons. I don't have time to post summaries, but maybe someone else can step in:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/-/media/project/frbstl/stlouisfed...

https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb2002_3.pdf
Your link says it's a paraphrase rather than an exact quote. It still represents his sentiment accurately.

But quoting Henry Ford, particularly his views on nefarious bankers, is a pretty questionable choice considering what he had to say about Jews.
Can we agree that at least an acre of federally owned land is neither in the desert nor "50 miles from anywhere" and may be desirable for commercial or residential use?
You’d need http:// or something to be a URL. Yeah you could put a domain name into a browser and it’ll transform it into a URL but no guarantee there’s a website there of course.
> Not to be morbid, but every time a patient dies before this surgery, the NHS saves £50-100,000.

Your looking at this too narrowly. There is a point when the NHS saves money by having patients die - this is true in every other health system too. But having a young tax payer die loses them money in terms of future tax take. One can do the equation and it would be something like healthcare cost versus tax take multiplied by years of life left paying tax.

https://www.myhsn.co.uk/top-tip/how-much-does-the-nhs-cost
Gene associated with Alzheimer's also associated with higher fertility
That's not the complexity of SSGs, that's the complexity of Hugo. It's just not well designed, and is too complex for what it does.

I think that people eventually get the Stockholm syndrome of "I understand how it works after N hours, so it must be ok", but the problem is that N is larger than with other SSGs.

Either way, it's nothing wrong with it, and it's a good SSG if you know how to use it, it just takes longer to learn compared to eg Zola (which still is a bit underdocumented, but much easier to grasp).
The base models don't exist except for fleet sales right now. A regular consumer literally cannot buy one.
"for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine"

IMO that context deserves to be in the title, as it was in the original headline. I don't quite understand why it was left off when posted here.
America should elect someone who acknowledge the scientific reality of the law of supply and demand.
That sounds like a you problem. I spend $400/month and that would be a lot lower without an obsessive cycling habit which necessitates eating about double the calories of a more sedentary individual my size.

Like please share a receipt that shows how you spent $325 for one week's groceries. $43/day?? Maybe you're eating fresh fish every meal?