skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so bad when adjusted for inflation but not great: https://usafacts.org/articles/the-state-of-household-debt-in...

I'm not sure what it looks like if you adjust for population growth.

Debt to GDP is looking good, but with wealth inequality as bad as it is(thanks Jerome!) I'm not sure that matters as much.
In principle it could be straight up targeted propaganda "making" the bosses do that.

I have no idea if the reality is more that, or more the banal "nobody is organising anything like this and suggestions to the contrary are just conspiracy theories, the bosses genuinely believe what they're saying".

I currently have a boss who appears to sincerely want people back in the office; he doesn't want to be the CEO of a 100% remote company.
Which deps they pull in is still determined by system because their interpreters are in the dependency closure and what arch Perl is built for affects that Perl package's hash, etc.
Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash
I don't know where that number comes from but I'm assuming it's a contribution to GDP over a lifetime or something. Seems high, but whatever.

The people dying of aortic stenosis have already completed a large percent of their lifetime contributions and may even be into the net negative territory (when you're retired and society has to take care of you).
TL;DR?

This should've been a video imo.
Even the pretext was boring, so I just didn't read it.

With a title like this, I don't want to read the author's life story. Typical internet trash writing, expand the number of words so you can place ads.
You're just giving excuses to account for your bias. First up I got laid. Second the cover letter is usually a screen for companies that consider it if it's not good you don't even make it to the interview.

I don't understand why meaningless makefiles and regular expressions discount all the things gpt gets right. It's obvious the tool is flawed but it's also obvious it gets shit right many many times.

If you haven't worked with an LLM to do creative stuff it's like working with a partner. You can bounce ideas off of it, tell it to make things better. It's not as good as a human obviously but it's good enough that can be used as a literal intelligent writing assistant.

There's this huge biased desire from certain people to dismiss LLMs completely. I don't really understand it and the irony is they call everyone else biases.

Look nobody is saying LLMs are human level sentient beings. It's obvious to everyone that these things are imperfect. The furthest people go in supporting LLMs is saying that it sometimes produces remarkable output and it sometimes produces bad output. That's a balanced view and not biased.

But there's a huge contingent of people saying LLMs are completely useless and produce nothing but garbage. All output is bad and that is unquestionable. This group is real and is extremely biased and you seem to be a member, no offense.
Another interesting aspect of this question is if you approach it from a human evolutionary perspective. The technical aspects of music are certainly interesting as well, but why have our brains been hard wired to respond to it?
It’s weird seeing the same posting I got rejected for 6 months later. Surely work needs to start sometime?
Hugos documentation ia hard to penetrate when learning how it works. I probably had 6 or 7 fals starts before i 'got' it. Which is a shame, because Hugo is really not that hard and it is very nimble and powerful.

There has been several rounds of discussions on how to improve the docs for newcomers, but as far as I know, it has not been finished.
I think you misunderstand what IQ represents.
The politics of entitlement plays large in cities.

The LIRR thinks that commuters exist to fund the LIRR, not that they exist to serve commuters. (Sometimes that seems true about public transit everywhere. Similar changing the psychology of this could be transformational.)

I remember a state assemblywomen from Queens who thought that, to protect jobs, NY state should subsidize off track betting, not even the racetrack!

Some people in urban areas who are paying $90 a month for 10x the bandwidth speed I pay $240 a month for think they are paying too much. In principle their "last mile" might be 20 feet as opposed to my 2000 feet. The trouble is that 20 feet will cost as much to cover because of all the palms they have to grease to cover it (landlords, unions, community groups, etc.) Contrast that to a rural area where people will grease the skids for you.

(Try to shoot a movie outdoors in Los Angeles and you'll need to get permits to file your permits. Try to do it in Alamaba and your neighbors will bake cookies for you!)

In an environment like this it is like getting off the BART in San Francisco. You just walk straight ahead, keep moving, don't make eye contact with anybody. One of the few things people can agree upon in the entitlement economy is that don't way to pay any taxes they can possibly avoid.
Complete erasure of the role of indigenous peoples in the California ecosystem? He was a racist fuck who wanted First Nations people off their lands to protect it. Lands that were substantially improved by stewardship by those people.

The California ecosystems may be some of the most intensively agrarian lands by putatively nomadic peoples in the world (or at least, the ones we have any documentation on before Europeans destroyed them utterly)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/sierra-club-calls-out-fo...

Fuck John Muir. [edit to add] At absolute best he was a pastoralist, which is now a dirty word. At worst he is everything people are claiming and more. He should sit at the same table we've put H P Lovecraft at.
https://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs/ doesn't have anything right now but they used to have a bunch of sysadmin/sre positions ("do you know ethernet cabling and python" kind of thing - they used to recruit at pycon US.) So there are definitely opportunities...
Libertarians aren't actually that great at looking at the big picture.
For blogs, I agree. And this is the solution I arrived at, just write markdown files, and have Caddy serve them as HTML without any setup.

But I mainly write presentation webpages for apps, people, events etc. and that's what all this article was about. A templating language is a godsend for that.
Traditionally, pointers to functions were an exception. But I haven't red the new standards. I just assume pointers aren't all the same size, and don't try to rely on their size.
This.

I haven't bothered with non-word-of-mouth jobs for over ten years. If the job's not recommended to me by someone I already know, I'm not interested. It saves sooo much time.
In a sleep state there is no kernel running, it’s a hardware feature that stops CPU execution and possibly more depending on the sleep state.
I think it may be a lot of pension funds, where the choice was made by the fund managers, not the asset owners.
The cost of everything has risen tremendously the last few years. Profits are soaring. Do not accept a job that doesn't pay you more than you made at your last job. Investors are making a killing right now.
How is this possible? Surely at this point you would have a network to lean on that wouldn’t leave you applying for jobs online? I’m hesitant to believe you don’t have a network and more willing to believe you don’t realize you have that network and maybe even not sure how to use it. I truly don’t mean this to be critical and instead curious: Why would you spend that much time applying for jobs with that type of success rate?
The site is great, by the way
Jekyll has a fork called Bridgetown which is, granted, a little more complicated. If you like Ruby but want a more fully-featured site generator there's Middleman which I highly recommend.
Which products? Like Windows which collects data about you to inject ads throughout the system and resets settings that turns it off with every auto-update that you can’t permanently turn off? How noble of them to also charge people for that privilege.
I am a freelance software developer. While most of my work is from repeat customers or referrals, I actively look into the HN 'Seeking Freelancer' thread for interesting opportunities.
Presumably, this chart is using revised data, and it does not show any material upward movement in even the most expansive definition of unemployed for almost a year:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
There you go.

But schemas for what?
I'll gladly pay a % of what I pay to download yt-dl
Curious if anyone has done a side-by-side analysis of this offering vs just running LLaMA?

I'm currently running a side-by-side comparison/evaluation of MSFT GPT via Cognitive Services vs LLaMA[7B/13B/70B] and intrigued by the possibility of a truly air-gapped offering not limited by external computer power (nor by metered fees racking up.)

Any reads on comparisons would be nice to see.

(yes, I realize we'll eventually run into the same scaling issues w/r/t GPUs)
I don't think you're reading me properly. I think the statement is bs, not the feeling. Of course the individual matters! That's my entire point about the statement being bs.

And to the other half, of course the conditions are incredibly nuanced and context dependent and probably unknowable to boot. It's not some sort of "three strikes and you're out" situation.
Yeah right for the three letter agencies to have a backdoor, hard pass on something that cannot be deterministic with a seed
Book Recommendation: The Hungry Brain
> I am not suggesting making them feel like losers when they fail. What should happen is you tell them: "You failed and it's all your fault, but so long as you learn from your failure and keep trying to succeed, you are on the right path."

Something as simple as undoing the participation trophy culture we've created would go a long way. There is a lot of utility in developing a healthy attitude toward failure. The problem is the pendulum swung way too hard from "win or come back on your shield" to "everyone is a winner in their own special way". Reinforcing either of these will lead to developmental problems. Though, IMO, at least the first one partially reinforces perseverance even in the face of failure.

> Praising a child is making them associate a good emotion with the thing they are praised for. Don't let that thing be failure. Even worse, don't let them believe they are fundamentally flawed and handicapped when that isn't true. When they see other kids work hard and succeed, the conclusion is effort is enough because they are incapable anyways.

I can add some more here: you can try very hard and fail. Failing is important because it builds grit. Grit builds the necessary framework to succeed even against odds stacked against you. If you simply make things easier, or reward someone for trying, it releases the happy chemicals that make it acceptable to not try harder. Part of the benefit of programs like ROTC, some sports, etc is that it can take someone who is an amorphous blob of suck and turn them into something they can be proud of. There's a lot to be said about that. Maybe there's some sort of relationship between the reduction in PE programs and the increase in this sort of "accepting failure" behavior.

You do not need to shark attack your child when they do poorly. However, you also should not praise them for being mediocre. Reinforce perseverance, as you suggest. It's your job to give your child the necessary framework to persist through struggle. Otherwise, as we have seen with many "adults", you end up with members of society who are fundamentally incapable of doing anything without constant praise. Casualties of the helicopter parenting generation.
When you move mass around - the spacetime curvature responds with light-speed delay. I thought gravitational waves are just that - delayed change of curvature of space-time in response to the mass distribution changing in one place?
Windows 11 has become an ad platform that's worse than ChromeOS.
Every year for the past 5 years I’ve gotten a “merit raise” which hasn’t met inflation, so I’m effectively making less than I was when I started at my job despite having 5 years more experience. My organization puts a negative value on experience, and the only way I can get an actual raise is to jump ship. The story of my generation.

Meanwhile they complain about a hiring and retention problem. Gee, I wonder why?
According to Ms Beard the most basic cause for the Roman republic downfall was the establishment of private armies.

Julius Caesar amassed an enormous military power with his private army on his military campaigns on Gaul and used it to just grab the power in Rome.

Truth, it was his nephew Octavian/Augustus that finished and buried the Republic, but he wouldn't be able to do so unless Caesar hadn't given the mortal blow before.

No wonder Putin tried to put a leash on Prigozhyn before it would be too late.

Also, Imran Khan must understand very well what happens when the military isn't under the government control.
If you are looking for them to tell you what the use case is, that isn't a great sign of need or commitment, and they likely aren't going to take you very seriously.
This is a DMCA concept that is presumably recongised by various international treaties … but is it widely implemented and enforced?
Disagree; stay true to yourself. Try to be nice to everyone regardless, but also don't hold back on honest criticism for fear of reprisals. Doesn't matter how high the other person gets in the chain, you can't hide what you are (neither them, nor you).
>> What has Microsoft done to deserve being labeled as evil? <<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
I feel like often article-writers miss the fact of people like your boss: some people just legitimately like being in an office and there's no conspiracy to speak of.

As someone who likes being in an office, I personally feel that everyone becoming permanent WFH basement gremlins is a bad thing overall. Human contact is a good thing, and my observations of people who are 100% WFH is that they almost never interact with anyone outside of their household.
Here are some images of the meadow: https://files.networkprofile.org/s/86FzBHYfNwHyXTY

Its not quite as green as that right now, since we have a pretty bad drought here in Houston, but it will come back.

I had to make the small fence as it just kept trying to spread out. The fence is made from scrap 2x4's ripped down the middle to make 2x2's, and the rails are old scrap cedar pickets pressure washed and ripped down

This is the seed mix: https://www.dkseeds.com/shop/flkbee-website-king-s-feed-the-...

I'll have to take some pictures of the bat house, maybe I should just make a post on all this, maybe that will please them
Is there similar derivatives exposure on those commercial real estate loans as there was to residential mortgages in 2007/8? I've been thinking that there will be a a blackmail/chicken play, where the banks with the exposure to the loans say to government, "here are what we say the consequences are if these loans go upside down. Your choice is between another bank bailout on these loans with real domestic unrest risk from consequent currency debasement and the ability to import food and other staple goods, or effectively legislating most people back into offices."

I lived in commercial warehouse spaces in the 90s, and not only were they cheap, huge, and awesome, but they created a condo boom for all those pretend "lofts," that cashed in on the cachet of that lifestyle our generation inspired. If the bulk of your personal net worth comes from flipping some 600sq' shoebox for almost a million dollars, you're welcome. The middle ground may be that landlords will turn a blind eye to live-ins again, and it will create some affordable housing for young people again, and with their influx, the downtowns can be revitalized from the globalized airport mall dead zones they have become. I think there's room for optimism.
> my stock income

My investment portfolio profits (or RSU vests or bonuses) never make their way to my checking account.

Are people really dipping into their investment accounts to cover living costs? Maybe for home or car purchases?
The 15” MBA not getting a Pro variant like Mac mini is a bummer. I hope they do that at some point because I agree, a 1-monitor limit makes it a toy.

The base M1/M2 only getting 1 display does make sense from apples perspective though. M1 is fundamentally a tablet chip, just a fast enough one that it crosses the line to ultraportable laptop as well (and it’s quite fast for a tablet chip as a result). Tablets don’t need 2-3 external displays. Nor does the average user of a MacBook air. Remember this is a product that’s essentially coming from a netbook heritage, 1 display is fine in that segment.

What doesn’t make sense is not offering a M2 Pro option especially on the 15” Air which could obviously handle it. Because other people do need it, and the MacBook Pro isn’t the same product, it’s got fans and a different display and chassis etc. There is a segment who is just using the MBA as a fanless ultrabook and the Pro cpu is necessary to support the needs of this segment. I really hope 15” MBA gets an M3 Pro option at some point.

And please for the love of god put the 13” touchbar model out of its misery. It looks like it’s getting refreshed again with the M3 line. The new chassis on the 14” and the 16” is just lightyears better.
There is a _LOT_ of debt being added, household debt is up to something like 17 trillion dollars from like under 10 trillion pre pandemic.

IMHO vehicles are huge drivers of debt. There are almost no cars under $30k now, and the average sale price of new cars is pushing up near $50k. This is for bog standard stuff like Hondas and Fords, not luxury cars. Used cars are incredibly expensive too. People are financing cars for well over 5 years now--I've heard of people on 6 and 7 year loans now just to make monthly payments possible. It's nuts.
One plus I will give to Microsoft is their moves in the direction to Right To Repair. Most recently they've made spare parts for an xbox joystick available to order [0], having done something similar for Surface laptops a while back. OTOH, Google pushes planned obsolescence hard the way they limit OS updates for Android devices and (to a lesser extent) Chromebooks.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/99615-you-can-now-repair-xbox-...
Sure, that happens. But if you think that's actually a significant problem (significant enough to abandon all the benefits of allowing workers to work from home), you're gonna need more than an n=1 anecdote to support that take.

And regardless, that sort of thing happens even when employees work in an office. People can certainly get a part time side gig and do that work from their main job's office. Maybe a little more likely to get caught, but it's far from impossible.
> I wish there was something like nix-darwin for non-nixos linux distros

It's in early stages, but it exists now: https://github.com/numtide/system-manager
> a friend who teaches CS for a major university explained that they're going to teach Python as first language for Computer Science undergraduates starting 2024.

This is extremely widespread. My institution does it, as do many others I know of. I would not be surprised to find that Python is the most common initial programming language right now.
Have your engineers set this up internally https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/llama-2-7...
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

Never underestimate hobby usage ;)
Here is the entire interview. It's in French, so....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcey1PPiIM
> The fact that Feynman was working through some "naive" positivist worldview and yet achieved such success just rubs it in more that a talented scientist needs philosophers about as much as a bird needs ornithologists to know how to build its nest.

How's that global warming thing coming along?

Let me guess: it isn't relevant?
If you use ChatGPT through the app or website they can use the data for training, unless you turn it off. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...
Start emphasizing problem solving and applications and creative thinking over rote regurgitation of data.

My favorite engineering professor was all over this decades in advance. You could bring any reference material you wanted to take one of his tests.

We couldn't find the solutions to his test problems in a search engine. If you can nowadays, maybe student and professor both need to reconsider your career path because you may not have one for very long.
> I see lots of employers who are not picky. Hotels, grocery stores, hospitals, warehouses, construction crews, transportation businesses, etc.

Jobs aren't getting filled because they're in places people can't afford to live. Right now that's most places - including places that had been affordable for generations but aren't any more.

This all should be easily understood but it often isn't.
No

Edit: yes
What I don't understand is this 2% price target. Prices could go up 10% one year, and well call it a success if next year we "tame inflation" by only having our prices go up 2%. Why can't we target to get prices back down? For those on a fixed income, this is money we lost forever. We expect (and see) some prices go down every year (mainly electronics) and it works fine. But god forbid the price of milk goes down a bit after rising 20% in two years.
Have you ever attempted to play an instrument, deliver a speech, or perform a task, while someone out in your audience is coughing? And sometimes synchronized to what you're doing?

Oh man, there is a reason that symphony players are professionals.
Anyone who thinks that, say, Denmark is not a mixed economy with a strong bit of capitalism as well as a strong social safety net has never dealt with a kid who wants to buy lots of Lego.
Finally! I hate having to regularly clear my browser data or navigating those horrible consent UIs when I don't have cookieautodelete.
All startups are leveraged bets on a trend line -- one goal being you see the trend line better and sooner than anyone else. Sometime the fundamentals don't make sense (I don't understand how WeWork planned on software style profits or any significant moat around them) and often you get out executed, but getting the timing wrong is a real threat too:

- Self driving cars could come too late to save Uber

- Some companies have too high a burn rate for this interest environment -- but some cautious companies went under because their competitor out-raised & out spent them

- Lots of Dotcom bubble companies failed, only to have similar business models work in 2023 (Pets.com/Chewy, Streaming audio, even Cuecat style QR codes are everywhere)

In 2020 many people thought a vaccine was 5+ years away (wrong) and Covid was a permanent shift in how we worked (partially true!) and interest rates will have to be low for years because of the impending recession. If that's your worldview, what would you invest in to hedge that risk?
I want a machine learning enhanced analog loop. I want to be able to point a device at a screen and have the machine learning clean everything up and restore high quality sound and video.

Training data would be easy. Take a bunch of videos, play them on a screen, record the screen. You now have the input and the output, x and y. It's just supervised learning from there.

I know there are better options currently, but in the end we have this, unless they take away general purpose computing (but that would a huge blow to our economy).
*that you know of