skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably better to compare the growth slowdown in China today to the Asian Financial Crisis in the 1990s.

Most countries impacted during that time period (South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Russia, Mexico) were on the preceipice of becoming upper income countries (similar to China today in 2023).

All those countries saw growth stagnate and stall. South Korea and Taiwan only became "developed" in the 2000s and advanced economics in the late 2000s/early 2010s, while Mexico and Russia became developed economies around the 2010s before regressing due to the commodities collapse, and Malaysia and Thailand only recently became "developed" in the 2020s.

All these countries had a 20-30 year slog after hypergrowth (Russia excluded) in the 70s-90s. Some decided to invest heavily in human capital (eg. Taiwan, SK), others lagged in the 90s but ended up making it a national priority in the 2000s (eg. Malaysia, Thailand, Russia), and others were unable to prioritize human capital development (eg. Mexico).
Humans are born with millions of years of evolutionary training embedded in their dna and brain. We are not born with nothing.
It really is good and you can actually have multiple large files loaded into it. Not sure how it manages that but very very good.

Just to give you some info, I just opened a csv that's 3.5 GB and has about 1.6 million rows. It took about 30-40 seconds to load nad it's only using 215 MB of ram. I have managed to crash it a few times but I think it's understandable considering the huge amount of data it's dealing with.
> and forget that copyright also applies to software code (something they don’t want eliminated or shortened).

We don't forget at all. That's, like, half the shit we argue about.

Get rid of it. It'll make the world a better place, and those of us that write code will be able to get so much more done without having to worry about this stuff.
The compiler doesn't know how to reduce three database round trips into one database round trip.

Modern compilers are awesome, but they still can't read your mind to understand your intent and suggest changes that would objectively change the program, but do what your intent is in a much better way.

Perhaps someday artificial intelligence could, but I think that is a long ways off.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. It is completely unsubstantiated nonsense. Just because some sites seemingly have had a 5 second delay when opening doesn't prove anything. Yes, some of the sites it was happening to Elon might not like. But you have no idea how many sites it was happening on. It could have been affecting more sites Elon likes than he dislikes. But no one can prove otherwise, so it is by definition unsubstantiated.

Even using the word throttle is not an overly apt description. You can still open as many links as you like, there was just some delay. (semantics I know)

Down vote me too, but there is zero proof this was nefariously enacted.

As techies, we should know systems fail often in bizarre ways.
> To what extent were you impeding the normal flow of traffic?

Well, as I said, I was in the left lane for about a block; it was a 4-lane 35mph road, so everyone had a clear right-hand lane to pass me. Traffic was, I suppose, medium. The lanes were completely clear as I moved over to the left; it's not like I weaved through a clump of vehicles to get there. The road feeds a freeway, so it was a common thoroughfare for college students and townies alike to GTFO.

> In no way was the guys reaction justified, but that does sounds like an antagonizing response.

Shrug. I was in a happy-go-lucky mood and I was already smiling and ringing the bell. What else could I do? Scowl and lean on my horn instead? Pull over and illegally ride on the sidewalk like he wanted? Argue with him, Facebook-comment-style, about who knows the law better? It didn't occur to me that there are people who may be antagonized by a bike bell.
> Bonds yield higher returns now than the S&P500. Claiming that there is no alternative is financial illiteracy.

For the record, I don't think I claimed there is no alternative.

While bond yield might be higher right this instant (or for the last 6 months, say), does not automatically mean your risk-adjusted return over 20 years is likely to be higher (historically shares have outpaced bonds by a fair margin).

Which makes me wonder where you are putting your money and consequently whether:

(a) you would advise putting one's investment money into bonds

and

(b) at what point would you advise to switch

and

(c) do you think there's something that would be even higher yield than either
Direct link to the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter...

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136858
I think it’s a great name. Keep it. Even if it confuses some people at first, it’s the sort of confusion which will inspire many people — especially those who deal with text files all day and get pedantic about this stuff — to satisfy their incredulity and thus be exposed to your program.

This is perfect for a tool which most people, including those who would derive the most benefit from it, won’t even hypothesise the existence of.
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Istanbul aka Byzantium

Baghdad would be in an entirely different country.
The problem isn't so much requiring atomic changes at all, but what kind of changes are required to be atomic, and which changes are not atomic. The POSIX tradeoffs are just horrible here.

As an example of how to do better, squint a bit and have a look at git interpreted as (part of) a distributed data store.

Git doesn't pretend that you can make a change in one location, and have it atomically show up in all locations. On the other hand, Git does allow you to make changes to multiple files, and only have them show up together or not at all.

Git also has explicit mechanisms for resolving conflicts when multiple people tried to make changes to the same files.

Git doesn't get around the CAP theorem; it just has much better trade-offs than POSIX, because Git was designed explicitly for distributed use.

POSIX also doesn't allow you to have different trade-offs for read-only and read-write data.
Spoiler: it's Parquet.
Sorry I signed an NDA with my time travel provider. Just wait six months, you'll figure it out.
No, we actually do hate jira. Having to open a browser load a heavyweight page and then fill out various fields on multiple forms on just to enter some text is stupid.

It would actually make it less annoying to use if it was some kind of CLI/TUI. Like in the old days of mainframes when you’d talk to a receptionist to schedule an appointment or register for classes and they’d be typing away on a colorful/neon terminals.

It doesn’t need to be vim like. But it definitely shouldn’t be what it is today —which is a tool for geriatrics and designed by literal clowns.
I used to forage pawpaws and sell them at a farmers market. When I started to learn of the potential health risks I stopped. Even if the chance was slim, I didn’t want to be the cause of someone’s health issue.
You can prove it, if you pick some assumptions.
Didn't know about the potential toxicity of the fruit, thanks for posting. They grow native back home and are often eaten raw.
He never said "cryptobro" anywhere in his post, though. Maybe you don't understand what the word "literally" means[1] either.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Agreed, but I’m not just talking about engineers. From conversations I’ve had, I think it’s more a question of what will be possible with generative AI over the next year, and whether that uncertainty makes it prudent to hold headcount steady or let it decline. The uncertainty includes the possible impact of the tools on automation, and also how much the tools might solve problems that entire companies now exist to solve, negatively affecting sales.
For Copilot specifically, if it enables developers to be even 25% more productive, and you’re planning headcount, do you reduce your targets by 25%, or raise your ambitions?
(2016)?
AI can do good art but not perfect (subjectively) art which requires that human touch of listening to the client and understanding emotional impact desired.

I would guess graphic artists would have to be part prompt engineers who spend most their time talking to clients and correcting ML output. I mean, if you are barely surviving and doing deviantart stuff you're screwed but if I am paying tens of thousands for a project you're fine, even if you finish it all with one prompt, you get paid for the responsibility and result not for working tirelessly on it. Yes, anyone can write a prompt but can anyone edit graphics and perfect it or recognize flaws and do a manual touch up? Reputation is what gets top tier folks get paid not artistic excellence.
Eh, I’ve thought a few times that if the internet were slower I might be on it less and if I were on it less I might be happier. Not only that but people wouldn’t expect instant replies 24/7, less anxiety about going out without a connected phone, less advertisements, less tracking. I could go on.

Fast broad band everywhere = eternal instant gratification and over connection.

There. Now you’ve seen everything.
Says you. I'd prefer to take advantage of the resources available there. Your silly moralism is easy to ignore
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What's new since --- lots

including it becoming diagrams.net and not being open source anymore?

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513337
From the examples:

> 𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖾+2:𝖨𝗇𝗍 means “𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖾+2 has type 𝖨𝗇𝗍”, which makes even less sense, as the expression 𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖾+2 is nonsense and does not have any type at all.

Well, Python called where `True + 2` is actually an int and is equal to 3. :) This doesn't say anything about whether this should be the case or not, just whether it is.
I will miss the ease of use of Google Domains. I fear the new Squarespace domain management site will be rife with confounding settings and lit up with various upsells. They must have paid a handsome price for this.
Thanks for the info.

I love 3d content, its a hobby that I get into every year for a few weeks. This one turned out the best but i need to reprint with the cameras closer, and also looking into de-fisheye the photos. I also used to have a script Anaglyph both red blue and green magenta but i gotta go into my old archives to find it. I normally just do SBS as I am one of the 12 people on earth that still has a 3d tv.

My Fridge:

https://s3.awaymsg.io/a/a5/17/a5171197-b679-4146-a1ec-ad35e0...

Artist note: Its all mixers and eggs

Edit: This one also works well center frame, but need to again move the camera closers. And the solar lens artifacts might have killed some camera cells.

Balcony Limb Test:

https://s3.awaymsg.io/a/33/f8/33f8a88d-2d68-4457-9d46-d2b63d...
I'd like to see more about you on your page.

My first question was "Is this from Airbnb? People who used to work on Lottie/Airbnb branching out? An independent startup?"

I can see from your HN profile that you're in Serbia and don't have any obvious connections to Lottie/Airbnb. If I hadn't found that, I would still be wondering.

Since it looks like this is a SaaS play, it's particularly nice to know about who's making it/how likely it is to survive. It's also nice to know where your data is going/how secure it is likely to be.
How does Rama differ from Flink and timely-/differential-dataflow/Materialize?

I see “microbatching” in the diagram and, maybe this isn’t a fair take, but it feels more 2013 than 2023.
Looks at my return rates of ~8-9% on S&P 500

Excuse me, what bonds are returning that?
>They don't talk about quality. Ultimately it's extremely hard to create a quality show or movie.

There's no quality problem that I can see. There are a good number of excellent TV shows lately. Yes, it's extremely hard to create quality show or movie, but this is nothing new. It's always been that way.

>90%+ of what these services produce is not worth watching.

Right; how is this new? It's always been this way, ever since the dawn of television or movies. 90% is generous; the normal law is that 95% of everything is crap.

>It's too hard to sort out the gems.

No, it's not. It's easier than ever before. Now instead of having to ask your coworkers what to watch in the evening, you can read about it on the internet, and you can watch it whenever's convenient for you, instead of 7PM on Wednesdays.

The problem with streaming is that it's become too fragmented. Now, if there's 3 shows you really want to watch, they're all spread across 3 different streaming services, so you need 3 subscriptions, just to watch one show on each. And each show only lasts for 10 episodes for a year. Back in the old days, you just tuned your TV (or later, set your DVR) for channel 13 at the correct time-slot, and you got one episode per week, for 26 weeks. (Then the other 26 weeks, you could watch reruns.)
I liken Jira to a fire hydrant and each and every PM and every level of (mostly completely useless) management to a small dog that is congenitally compelled to "lift its leg on [Jira]" by "customizing" it in some way, sometimes on a nearly continuous basis. What results is a nasty smelly mess that only gets worse over time.
Although, sadly, figma is about to be owned by adobe.
That is, notably, not a question, but a statement of empathy.
The most amazing thing is when you understand that circuit diagram elements like resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors are merely simplified versions of what those parts actually look like.
Oh God I thought you were writing, "Modern CVS" and I thought: Noooo just let it die!

Good luck on your project!
So tired of him. So tired.
America, take note: New Zealand's simple way to bring down home prices
Such a headline-writer would have laid a foundation to strut about, although that bearing could lead to being decked by piers.
That's your opinion, and it's ok, but my employer bought the business version (4.5 whataburgers), and it bought multiple licenses (about 20 or 25 whataburgers, where's the tipping point?), plus I personally spent a lot of time (based on my compensation, likely 50+ whataburgers) vouching for a new vendor and then all the corporate b.s. like establishing purchase orders, creating new budget line items, etc, as well as justifying the purchase to IT dept which believes that Excel handles CSV files just fine.

Doesn't have to be flawless but a full year delay is a little much. I'm not even with that employer anymore.
I was just wondering what stops me from reading and writing to a cloud bucket like an infinite tape?

https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/storag...
I love sites like this. Really takes me back to the days of the old internet.
Lots of ways to hurt yourself working on a car too.

Many of the things we teach people in primary school really only serves the purpose of making them familar with the subject so that they can be more savvy consumers of expert help in the future. The loss of exposure to things like shop class seems to be resulting in waves of people that think it's okay to outlaw repair because they don't understand it themselves.
> every state regulates the practice of engineering to ensure public safety by granting only Professional Engineers (PEs) the authority to sign and seal engineering plans and offer their services to the public.

There's a big difference between the typical so-called "software engineers" and actual Professional Engineers that are qualified to put the P.Eng. designation next to their name.
It *is* protected where this fellow practised. It's also a 5yo story. You can't be an engineer in Canada without being held to the same values (it's a regulated title[0]). Much to the chagrin of boot-camps, and US employers.

[0]: https://engineerscanada.ca/publications/public-guideline-on-...
Thank you. That helped. But gawd, talk about a label that's misleading. What is used to measure actual fertility? That is, the ability to reproduce given the desire to do so? For example, somewhat similarly, sperm count rates are falling. That, I presume effects the ability to reproduce. What's the similar for females?
Jira isn’t the problem. The problem is software estimation, managers who require a date, probability, and ever letting process people touch agile.

Software estimation is basically a useless craft. Rather than focusing on when things are being delivered I think it’s much more important to focus on are things being done most efficiently right now and making sure past obstacles don’t come back. Management often requires a date of delivery for broader strategic planning - which is understandable. However they confuse precision for accuracy. The reality is, unlike building a building, often the software being built has a ton of unknowable elements that are due to the software being bespoke in many crucial ways. The joint probability of a bunch of very positively skewed distributions “and”’ed together yields a random date skewed way too early. To solve this process people were brought in to “fix” agile but creating bullshit like story points and points poker and burn down charts and pigs and chickens. Then they graft all this into Jira to improve automation, structuring, and reporting.

Agile used to not be like this. Not every project of every org was well adapted to agile, and it required management that gets once you embark on a software effort there’s a lot of indeterminacy involved. Pressure to stay lean and agile should be focused on the present, that efficiency is high and decisions are made quickly, regret is addressed to ensure it doesn’t come back, etc. The future takes care of itself if you take care of the present.

I also like to describe the an uncertainty principle of software development. The more you try to measure it and predict delivery the slower it is, with worse outcomes, less reliably forecasting, with more attrition and burnout.
I never bothered learning Figma.

I know Adobe well, and I don't use design tools often enough to have value in using Figma.

That said, I hope they don't fuck it up like they did Flash.
The Demonisation of BlackRock’s Larry Fink
Is that an inflation-adjusted return? Just curious, same thing applies whether you're comparing nominal return or real return, I just know there are "inflation-protected" bonds.
Can you give me one example of government wealth creation?
Brain recordings capture musicality of speech – with help from Pink Floyd
This represents a poor understanding of "indentured servitude", or a deliberate broadening of its meaning to encompass other things.

The term refers to situations such as "An employer pays for transit of one or more people on condition that work of the employer's choosing is performed until the cost of transit, and any accompanying expenses, are repaid to the employer." Generally, these include specified wages, but employers commonly arranged that expenses and wages combined guarantee that the workers will be unable to pay off the contract within any specified timeframe. This often resulted in lifelong service, and could at times extend to workers' heirs (whether debyst inheritance be legal or not, as such workers were often at severe disadvantage to risk challenging the employer on any matter). Effectively, indentured servitude was usually indistingushable from slavery.

To address your "will eventually starve if he doesn't _eventually_ clock in", this seems to be the default case for all forms of employment (even if you employ yourself, in the wilderness, entirely on your own). The exception being that some places have sufficient social or legal safeguards to prevent a "clocked out" person from meeting this fate.
Probably the top OSINT source on Twitter. Interesting to hear he just doesn't feel like it any more.
The most succinct or abstract is like a normal form, in that many different problems are reduced to one, combining the insights from those different problems, and combining all those researchers to create a larger community.

One effect is like how Latin used to be the language of professionals, so you'd better learn Latin if you want to access the knowledge base.
>especially if they send the more ruthless debt collectors.

Is this how it really works? I was under the impression that the debt collectors by the debt at pennies on the dollar, and then attempt to collect as much of the full amount as possible. These are the ruthless bastards. I do not believe the bank is sending them as the bank is done with you as soon as they sell that debt.
Everyone said the same thing about ML/AI 5+ years ago. Hard things take time.
This is a keen observation and 100% true. A lot of people (both engineers and managers) willingly align behind this regime because the system gives them ostensible clarity on what they need to do, and a paper trail to show how hard they've been working as air cover if anything goes wrong. They are optimizing for comfort and covering their own asses.

Unfortunately, this puts a very low ceiling on the type of problems that can be solved. In fact, it works against creative problem solving because it obfuscates the big picture by drowning out the strategic summaries and narratives needed at different zoom levels for different stakeholders. The devil is in the details, and the only way to get the details right is to have real expertise and collaboration based on higher level understanding. Ideally every individual involved has the highest level goal they are capable of executing on, and is empowered to work out the details collaboratively with whoever needs to be involved. This is easier said than done, because most people—even experts in specific domains and skillsets—are not experts in collaboration and understanding other people's mental models. Management's job, if they are doing it correctly, is to understand these dynamics (hopefully rooted in deep hands-on expertise) and to set up the structure that facilitates the necessary collaboration.

Useful tooling for this problem is context specific, but less is usually more nuanced messaging or vision doesn't travel or align well across large groups of people. Jira does nothing to help with this; it's just not built for strategic planning or collaboration. It shines for tracking a huge influx of unrelated tasks that have to be passed around between silo'ed teams without dropping any balls. This allows project managers and operations folks to monitor things mechanically where the problem and process is already well understood. It offers very little to support higher-level problem solving.
Here come the Free Market Fundamentalists...

I don't know, roads?
Bit of an unfair comparison when humans also have a bunch of senses that LLMs don't have. They might be trained on orders of magnitude more words, but more data? Doubtful.
Another person in a different thread[1] mentioned his city where businesses are tacking "living wage surcharges" onto their bills! So now the customer is paying your payroll?

I'm convinced this is the inevitable end-state of American business: Advertise $0 for all products, and then opaquely "pass through" everything as fees when the customer goes to check out.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141091
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There's a setting to automatically fit the column widths based on the contents and it's turned on by default. You can turn it off and manually change the sizes, but they'll be lost once you close the program. If you change the file name externally, it'll assume the current file has been deleted. You can change the file name within the program with the Rename File command.
This is fascinating, and I'm glad to have come across it. And your story is inspiring. Thank you!

One question, why Google Groups rather than something like Discord? Not sure I would trust Google Groups to be around long.
His old book did just that: https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspe...