skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the billionaires pay lots of money to advisers who will arrange their finances for them.

I bet most billionaires couldn't even name half the companies they control, because they're all shell companies for shuffling funds overseas.
Not to my knowledge, but there is a game called A Slower Speed of Light, which probably needs no further clarification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Slower_Speed_of_Light
The underlying approach can improve the performance of anything that requires the set of non-zero probability tokens at each step, and anything that needs to continue matching/parsing from a previous state.
Too many people here (in the US) are just assholes when it comes to this sort of thing. Leave no trace doesn’t apply to them, their trash, their “neat” rock cairns, or their pet’s droppings.
Yes, but we need to change the rules to get that. IMO a wealth tax would be difficult to avoid.
> Strongly Schema'd interfaces makes client development go faster and smoother in general.

What trade-offs exist for strongly typed schemas? It reminds me of indexing database inserts, longer to write and faster to subsequently query. I would argue strong schemas require more design and architectural discipline during constructions and are thus easier to consume down the line.

To quote Bay Area rapper G-eazy "everything costs something bro"
> I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident

Reminds me of another famous quote from Jefferson. I wonder if describing things as "self-evident" was a personal favorite idiom of his or if it was just a common phrase back then. It seems like a fairly common phrase to me now, but it's hard to know if that's only because Jefferson popularized it.
In the (great) scenario that Bezos spends his money to do good, he likely spends his dollars more efficiently than the government does.
If they're skirting the rules, that's just called following the rules. Why should we expect billionaires to file their taxes suboptimally? The rules are what need changing.
Thank you! Much appreciated!

mc has a "list of bookmarked directories", does far supports such a feature, with a shortcut to bring up the dialog to choose an entry from the list? I haven't found such thing... Only to have particular single directory on a shortcut, which means that I would have to remember the number corresponding to each path...
Webdev Community Vibes [video]
> A statistical inevitability is a defense for something

no it isn't, and also being screwed over by the leading search provider isn't a statistical inevitably anyways

> Stop trying to frame something bad just because it isn't perfect. If you manage to stop that, then it would be possible to have a constructive discussion.

stop trying to justify the means with the ends, more specifically trying to justify google actively harming people (sorry to break the news to you, but harming people IS bad), just because they also happened to do a good thing, when they have the non-mutually-exclusive option to harm people less, and instead choose to avoid that option

if you manage to stop that, then it would be possible to have a constructive discussion about how google can harm people less, since currently it seems like you're okay with google actively harming people any amount less than or equal to the amount of "good" they claim to do (with the determination made by you personally, natch), even when they could choose not to
As far as I understand, historically, alcoholic beverages were primarily invented and used as a water disinfectant. Rum was used in British navy to disinfect fresh water in barrels. Wine was used to dilute it in water till the 20th century. Fun fact, in ancient Greece people who drank pure wine (not diluting it in water) were considered alcoholics and could be publicly denounced. Beer was used as a typical beverage accompanying a meal in many populations (a sandwich with a beer was the closest analogy to the "fast food"). It appears that it is only recently that we have started to consume alcohol for pleasure.
Oh, this is sad. I had the pleasure of meeting Stefan a few times. Always a joy, always an interesting, hostorically wellfounded perspective on the issues of the day.
How long have you lived outside the US/Canada/Australia? I’d suggest that your definition of “walkable” is skewed by global standards. I don’t mean sometimes you can leave your car at home, I mean that you have no need for a car and even most people who can afford to choose not to own one and prefer to walk, bike, or take public transportation instead.

The New York subway system is the only mass transit system in the US which could stand up to international comparison with a straight face, and NYC is still quite car focused. Sure there are some bike lanes, a few temporary street closures and 14th is closed to private cars now during the day, but still there is no large dedicated pedestrian area in New York of the kind you find in nearly all European cities.
Sorry, I should have made the sarcasm more obvious. $40/MWh pricing is profitable for 8minute energy, their costs are less than $40/MWh. Anybody saying it costs $160/MWh is using outdated figures.
No one cares about how much ink they have, they care about being able to print what they need to. If the toner expires before you would use it, then it doesn't matter if you're left with a drop or a gallon.
And spelling is also apparently lost: "inane" not the same as "insane."

And your "presumably" is quite wrong: that's your invention. I'd happily stack my life reading list against yours, anytime.

Those other two are "hope to read someday." Tractatus is "unlikely."
Courts seriously need to crack down on these EULAs
I wish English had a separate word for those too!
Meh, it would just go to the military.

At least this way he gets to feel good about it.
I'm here for shower thoughts-driven discourse.

But I missed the point. Stars eventually wind up as black holes. So it stands to reason so would galaxies.

But then why would they be all over the early universe?
Dog-Loving, Central-Bank-Hating Economist Upends Argentine Polls
Rent prices in Florida were skyrocketing long before interest rates started rising. Our last rent increase before we moved was going to be around 25% back when interest rates were still 0. If anything rent increases -- in South Florida at least -- are partly a zero interest rate phenomenon. There are a ton of half full midrise luxury condos that priced lots of people out of previously affordable communities built as the result of access to cheap capitol and money laundering. There was also the massive influx of people moving into the area during covid. All that to say rent prices in Florida are the perfect example of monocausal explanations for complex phenomenon almost always being wildly incorrect.
Yeah, that's another stupid thing he said. Anything that anyone says about anything manifestly renders that thing of which something was said a thing whereof it is possible to speak. So point 7 is a vacuous tautology.

(Or maybe what he meant was not what he said, in which case he probably failed to follow his own rule.)
Because the clear intention of the law is not what the courts are enforcing today. This is common in modern times where by original intent has no bearing to current "modern" interpretation of old laws.

Sadly our founders predicted this would happen in away, Jefferson famously wanted all laws even the constitution to have a sunset of 19 years, requiring them to be debated and passed a new every generation.
Shit on the people that all of society has been collectively shitting on for generations, classy. Those peasants better be thankful for their breadcrumbs!
If Team A requires compatibility with go 1.21, their go.mod will start with "go 1.21". Even if the code is compiled with go 1.22, their code will run unchanged, as the toolchain now treats the go version line as the toolchain to be compatible with. Similarly, if Team B requires compatibility with go 1.22 but their code is being compiled with go 1.21, go will download the 1.22 toolchain and run with that instead. It's sneaky and crazy, but so crazy it just might work.

(As a user of CircleCI convenience images for a few tests suites, I appreciate this feature. When there is some security vulnerability that requires updating to go 1.21.1, I don't have to wait for Circle to build a new convenience image. I can just change go.mod and start using 1.21.1 immediately. This saves a day of telling people to ignore govulncheck.)

The TL;DR is that the compiler version is now something you can declare in your go.mod file like any other dependency.

If you share one go.mod file across all teams or have a One Version Policy, then there will always be work to do. No doubt there are several dedicated (in practice) employees to manage "there is a critical security release for github.com/whatever/frob@1.2.3 but the Team A's tests fail when updating to github.com/whatever/frob@1.2.4", which is inevitable at this scale.
Greenwashing. $400M is about what AMZN spent on the totally-unwanted LOTR reboot.
I left Google around six months ago. I worked in medium and small companies, currently at a startup with ~30 devs.

I would say the vast majority of it works well, some you just don't need until you hit scale (here, scale in the number of developers).

For example, policies work if you have <20 engineers, probably don't really work otherwise.

Blaze/Bazel I miss a lot. Just wrangling the dependencies between shared packages is a mess (though we might just suck at configuring Poetry - at any rate it's not intuitive). Building and deploying is much more involved.

Another thing I miss is code review the Google way. Google asks that you review within 24 hours, reviews by (the equivalent of a) commit and not by PR, and strongly advises to keep commits small; The GitHub PR workflow is terrible in comparison:

1) it nudges you into batching commits into large PRs

2) Is the PR message informative? Is each commit's? What about squash and merge - how many people edit that message? At Google part of the code review is reviewing the commit message. When you squash and merge, that's post approval, so you can't even do that.

3) Hidden conversations? What the actual fudge

4) How many comments have I not addressed yet? For that matter, how many PRs are waiting for my attention and when were they sent?
Why are you so eager to live at the cost of earth's future? Even if food prices were to double (I don't see why it would, unless you measure it only by specific high-impact products such as authentic lamb) to transition away from the destruction of the habitat we depend on (planet A), that seems like a better option than continuing on a path to reversal of what we've achieved in the last century (from 60% in extreme poverty to 10%, despite going from 2 to 8 billion inhabitants)

I understand change is scary, or maybe you've done a lot of environmental harm in the past and don't want to acknowledge that. Either way, I would suggest to look at the options for the future and see that we have good alternatives for most things already. Change doesn't have to be scary and I only care what people do after having had a chance to learn what impact their choices have
CI can totally cost time, especially if it doesn't have a team of good engineers keeping it running sanely and ensuring it tells you useful things on failures.

A CI bot which waits 24 hours then says "no", with a text file that crashes your browser and ultimately only contains the information 'exit code nonzero', which fails for reasons totally unrelated to your code change is dubious as a value add system.

If that bot is also a non-negotiable gate on shipping things you get a bunch of other antipatterns, like massive code patches to decrease how often you have to roll the die and a tendency to hit retry every day or so until the probability that it's actually your patch that's broken gets high enough that you try to debug it locally, at which point you may be unable to reproduce the blocking error anyway.

The real question is whether that pathologically rubbish implementation is still better than shipping without CI, which rather depends on whether your engineers ship code that works without the guide rails, which to a fair approximation they do not.

Thus it might still be a net win for product quality but saving time is harder to see.
> Easy solution though, I simply won't tell my electric company what my income is. Surely the government won't hand over this info, right? Right?

I don't know about PG&E specifically, but Equifax et al. have subsidiaries like The Work Number to get your income from employers and share it with whoever asks. The government isn't handing over anything-- even they go through Equifax when verifying income for food stamp eligibility.

The threat is real.
first world arrogance - global definition of extreme poverty is $1.90/day, around $700 per year, scratching the dirt for food and water rather than going to college and not having a car

https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty
Try these out, they're made in Unreal and compiled to WASM.

Note that the second link (space game) will take a bit longer to load, as there's no loading screen.

https://vehiclegame.tiwsamples.com/

https://play.spacelancers.com/
They aren't skirting anything. If you want to get rid of charitable deductions then advocate for that. People are attacking billionaires because the have unpalatable policy positions.
Man what did Brett Glass do, and is he OK?
I'm actually getting ready to speak on this at a conference coming up soon and am pretty excited about the future of healthcare, specifically in the United States because that's where my research has mostly been focused (and where I live).

One of the first things I'm interested in the future of is more in the near term future, and that's AI's ability to connect patients with doctors more appropriately suited to diagnose and care for patients, especially ones with unique/rare illnesses. One other near term benefit from using AI would be that the computer can take over medical billing for the doctor, allowing them more time to meet & treat patients versus filling out paperwork.

In the long term, I could see AI being leveraged with medical records to diagnose an illness based on symptoms & medical history. Already, some AI models are outperforming doctors in terms of accuracy of diagnosis, but it's not across the board just yet. This will be a double-edged sword though because, although this may expand access to care for many people (ESPECIALLY if it means lower costs being passed onto patients), it will also likely make meeting with a human doctor much more difficult. Will a computer be better at diagnosing across the board and humans only necessary for edge cases, or will humans still be needed to validate AI decisions into the foreseeable future? Empathy is not programmed into these algorithms, so a doctor may make a choice that is better for the patient overall, but incongruous with what the computer would suggest for a care plan.

Another exciting space is the use of visual AI models for early detection of cancer and other illnesses where even a trained human might not notice early indications of illness. Earlier treatment will lead to better patient outcomes, so the sooner a tumor is noticed, the sooner it can be mitigated.

The entire field is rapidly developing and things seem to be changing about as quickly as "AI" in general, so I'm excited to see where things go!
Couldn't that be dealt with by improving the tooling dev teams are using? I'm assuming a migration like the one described here are a huge effort.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. Go to New Zealand and check out how they operate over there. A world of difference. The nature preserves are pristine. Being an island, waste is expensive. Their culture seems to embody self-sufficiency and conservation.
thanks for the link. Is the idea that EV-manufacturing would increase pollution in China, thus increasing pollution in US?
That was not my experience. A long run of good perf scores is clearly not sufficient for a promotion at that level, but it is necessary.
Binary is used often by embedded programming/FPGA dev types. I use binary and hexadecimal every day.
I don’t get Graphql … what does it add, what’s better with graphql?
Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man
ah, should have clarified, meant the Kalifa.
This proposal would work well with solar PV panel-covered parking lots.
Have you ever taken a tax deduction?

Why are you avoiding taxes if so?
Wow, I'm not entirely clear what the grantees are specifically doing from reading this announcement, but I am sure there will be tons of awesome work accomplished.

I do wonder exactly what the theory of change here is - this is a huge amount of money, and I am surprised it's a great way to spend it, especially when the Inflation Reduction Act just authorized so much money for similar goals. I didn't dig into the individual grants, though the ones I peeked at didn't get too specific on what that work is.

Parks, trees, and community gardens are all great. My general expectation in my experience is that poor urban communities are disproportionately often in park-heavy areas (not for justice reasons, for floodplain reasons). I guess they need work to make them better? I like community gardens, but I am just shocked if folks are helping much to solve anything that matters by dedicating dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars to promoting them.

I am extremely skeptical that the climate mitigations cited are very well-accomplished by the green spaces mentioned. It's obligatory to cite climate change in everything, which gets frustrating, especially because we are engaged in so few of the things that would actually help.
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
> The Greening America’s Cities initiative launches with $50 million for urban greening efforts in five cities–Albuquerque, Atlanta...

This is ironic given that Atlanta currently has 85 acres of prime greenspace that the city is spending $90M+ to turn into a police training center:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_City
Wouldn't that be incredibly hard, considering that the players perspective is disconnected from the units?

I observe my base and order a group of units to go to some place on the minimap. I see them moving along on their way, and decide to scroll to them. Only to realize that they already arrived and got massacred by the enemy. I go back to my base only to realize that it was destroyed ages ago (in its frame of reference) and I'm dead. Game over. Thanks for playing SR Red Alert.
Everyone needs a place to live, but how would you begin to figure out who needs to live where? Seems like an impossibly complex challenge to sort out without either private or state ownership of property.
Sort of. He just had a bath and my partner fed him. But we had to bribe him with a grissini to get into the tub.

Can you pay for Discord in grissinis?
Here comes the juice!
They all redirect to discord.com now.
I agree it's a reasonable solution as far as workloads are concerned, but at the same time you still need the infra around it. Most of the time you need to store data outside of Kubernetes, so you'll need to deal with things like S3, RDS, DynamoDB. You will probably want ECR etc. All these things need policies and configuration. And, depending on the size or your org, also security/governance/compliance services, and you end up with a complex setup even if your main focus is k8s.
This analogy falls apart because the spellchecker is separate from the author, and doesn’t know what the author intended.

Here, the LLM is still dictating the token probabilities, so the content will be as correct as the LLM can make it, given the constraints. AIUI, the sampler is just choosing tokens on a combination of probability and syntactic correctness, instead of strictly on probability.

If the LLM is forced to provide a numeric temperature for Seattle, and the input doesn’t contain that data, then obviously the LLM will be forced by the sampler to provide a random answer if the sampler will accept nothing else, much like a human who is forced to mark “true”/“false” on an online form, with no option to reject the question and explain that the question isn’t even a true/false question.

I don’t know about this specific implementation, but it seems important to design systems like this to always “accept” (sample for) an error response from the LLM so that it can hopefully reject invalid requests.

But, yes, all the usual caveats about LLMs apply. It can’t provide correct answers to things it doesn’t know. Forcing it to respond with the answer to the life, the universe, and everything is not going to provide a meaningful response. Even things it “knows”, it can still get wrong sometimes.
Try blocks exist in Rust nightly, but given that an IIFE closure gives nearly the same results, there hasn't been a ton of pressure to stabilize them. I wish the team would though.
I guess we just see different things. I see extended areas of low and no intensity usage. So much so that I would say that the amount of space in the United States that is available for expansion, if needed, is close to unlimited.

Naturally it might not make economic sense to develop there at this time, but that could change with regulatory/legal changes or by virtue of improved technology or increased population.
It's bigger than that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Corporation_of_New_Yo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation

And now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Philanthropy (not significant enough yet to warrant it's own page)

A classic move by exploitative billionaires to launder their legacy. But what's the alternative? NOT doing it? We should support it, and shame the billionaires that DON'T. do this.
I wish this was a feature of Firefox (or Chrome, as if Google would ever), rather than a third-party extension, so that it had enough adoption to compel other browsers to care too. I'd like very much to authorize certain extensions to only make GET requests to specific static URLs without any ability to vary the headers, so that they can get data updates without there being any risk of leaking data. And for others, they don't need network access at all to do their job locally in my browser instance. But that would be circumventable (since anything that can modify page source can add data transmission), so I imagine they aren't doing it because of that. Too bad — better to try than just give up and cede it to a Chrome extension.
That doesn't mean that $400MM is a small amount of money, it means the LOTR reboot was an expensive TV show or whatever it was. It is a large amount of money.
The reply of a true disenchanted believer. Elon Musk, from visionary genius to conman. You must have skin in the game.
I wonder how many of those companies stream their commercially sensitive data through zoom or teams. Would ballpark estimate it as all of them.
IANAL but it seems to me that this "law" already exists.

A TOS is a contract. It literally stands for "Terms of Service." Meaning, you give me money and here are the terms under which I will offer you the service you are paying for. How enforceable that "contract" is depends on a ton of things, differing in various jurisdictions (law is complicated), but it is - at the end of the day - a contract.

So I don't know how actionable it is, but the OP said that the company considered changing their TOS for currently active users. That could, in theory, be breach of contract and the customers might have a claim (again IANAL).

[There could have also been a clause in the TOS saying that they could change the terms at any time for any reason - though I suspect in many if not most jurisdictions, that would make the entire contract unenforceable].

In your case, don't make [potentially] contractually binding promises that you can't or don't want to keep.
Are they not paying their taxes or deferring? Because, whatever billionaires do, you can do too. It's legal.