skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No massive unemployment? The Great Depression lasted quite a while! And we only got out of it by after a decade of building up the next job sector of things for people to work in (see three sector model in economics)

Compare pictures of farms before and after automation and count the number of farmhands. Before automation, 20% of American jobs were farm-related!

Read Grapes of Wrath and other books by John Steinbeck… you won’t say there was no unemployment after that.

The Great Depression was largely caused by loss of farm jobs. As the farmhands migrated to the cities it took a decade to build up the manufacturing centers to give them all jobs. In the meantime, one third of the banks failed and the money supply they issued. The Fed didn’t bail them out and we got a depression.

Oh, and the hugely increased productivity led farmers to be engaged in a race to the bottom, trying to make up for falling prices with ever-larger harvests. The land became depleted and this led to the Dust Bowl as it simply blew away in dust storms.

Capitalism does this around the world. TODAY, one third of arable farmland has undergone desertification, likely due to similar economic factors.

This is wayyy more pressing than global warming:
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/12/third-of...

> How are the wealthy supposed to get that way and stay that way with no consumers?

The wealthy can get that way without needing to pay much to human PRODUCERS. That’s the point.

If the only way an average person can get money and be a consumer is to sell their labor, then they will get less purchasing power over time. Yes things might get cheaper due to technology, but not everything (eg rent) and also the money supply could be inflated so prices could also rise due to that. The government COULD be giving all that money to people as a UBI but it usually exacerbates inequality by propping up stock markets etc.

Also, if wealthy people control all the resources and infrastructure then they can easily extract rents from all kinds of ecosystems. But even if the people on the ground barely have any money, the wealthy can just pay corporations for their own needs (eg robots doing their work). The owners of the corporations are wealthy and they cover the cost of robots.

We already see this in rising inequality … the wealthy didn’t need the poor to consume their products. Many of them could just have the middle class and wealthy consume them. (Look up Plutocracy.)

Having said that… if the automation could be made accessible to all, then everyone would be increasingly a consumer of products made by robots. Tax the robots, and give the money to the people unconditionally, so they can consume more.
> Which is a core tenant of meditation (service to others)

It always seemed the opposite to me. One meditates for ones self.
I used to write a lot of bash and fish and I find Powershell has a much higher skill ceiling.
> I don't care if the company fails and there's no amount of emotional manipulation that can ever make me care. Only double-digit percentage ownership could make me care.

That's the bottom line, isn't it? If the CEO wants to align employees' behavior and motivation with his own, he needs to structure the employees' compensation to be like his own compensation. If my compensation is just a "competitive" salary and a few token stonks, then I'm going to do a 9-5 job and hit the required 80% of my KPIs before I go home for the day. If my compensation consists of life-changing equity? I'll work days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
The fact that a big chunk of romantic partnerships and friendships start in the workplace among co-workers tells me a quick cynical dismissal of co-workers as a shallow and single dimensional relationship is not very insightful.
Generally have been satisfied with Anker, though that stuff is made in China the chargers and batteries have been good. Monoprice used to be good but I haven't used anything from them in a while
It's possibly the same thing. Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, the type of stress which may cause this protein to become elevated, was induced in mice by exposing them to endotoxin, a type of toxin produced in the gut.

So gut dysbiosis may trigger this very mechanism.
> Meh, you're just moving the position 1 rank down.

Indeed, that is the point. But the PM can be replaced more easily than, and doesn't have the same focus of attention of, the head of state. Best is when the two are muddled, as in the German case.

I've lived in Australia, USA, France and Germany so have some idea of the spectrum of options.
No one seems to know that an VBA IDE is part of Office. It's important to remember when you're working on an extremely locked-down system and you want to do something complicated.
My point is book burning can cause backlash. Therefore so can deletionism.

When the backlash happens, it's often already too late. But people are aware something was gone, that's why there is a backlash.

I know this because it happened in the past with the Cultural Revolution. Not saying it will happen in the same way here.

Maybe the only backlash we'll ever get is against my stupid comments. Lol.
Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in Amazon, ending operations in protected area
"You might want to..." is a recommendation, not a request.
These musing miss the key failing of KPI, Goodhart's Law, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

There are multiple reasons why Goodhart's law tends to be true, but the most obvious one is as soon as people understand X is important, they do or inflate X. If they successful do X, it's often at the cost of other equally or more important but untracked activities, if they inflate it, it's obvious just as bad.
Lol. It's intentionally closed, so network effects can drive usage. Common Apple strategy, straight from Jobs.
> Allocating capital takes a lot of work

That's why most people with a lot of capital hire others to manage it.

Also, there are many cases where capital is just "left to sit" and still grows. If you get lucky enough, even dead people can grow their capital.

Capitalism might help if you want the strongest loggers to cut the most logs. But it doesn't help the smartest scientists do more science. Science just doesn't work that way. That's why we are transitioning from picies (age of mass production) to aquarius (age of resource mangement). Why will our children have to carry their own water?
I have many HDMI TVs, but no CRT (nor the space). I would consider this just for the HDMI connection, since I still have my old collection of games and controllers lying around. Getting my original console connected to HDMI doesn't really work.
Valve often does things because a person employed by Valve wanted to do that thing. And then that person moves on to other things. You don't need any grander explanation for "Valve ported the Steam launcher to OS X and now barely maintains it".
The forestry allegory is so relevant to what we go through in enterprise data. I recommend this book all the time to understand the motivations behind it.
Have you tried Lucid Charts?
They call themselves ziguanas (hence all the iguana imagery in their websites).
> The whole thing is incoherent rambling where he simultaneously considers these grand conspiracies of tech billionaires to be far fetched and completely impossible, and simultaneously inevitable and terrifying.

I found the whole article very bizarre, I couldn't pinpoint why, but you nailed it.

What bothered me the most was that part:

> I don’t think we have to wait for the Singularity to see the moral downside of the transhumanist project: the idea that humans should transcend their current natural state and limitations through the use of technology. This is because whatever problems we currently have with social inequality will be multiplied exponentially by the kinds of biological enhancements Thiel and others are seriously contemplating.

Antibiotics, cancer drugs etc "multiply exponentially" the social inequality: some people may die sooner than others, just by being able to offer the drugs they need.

Should we then ban drugs and medical research?
Yeah, many failure modes would be interesting. If Waymo think they've handled them well, maybe they should let some journalists have at it on a car or two.
Heh, so much so. I'll have gpt make a series of loops and evaluators and then come back and put the my logic in the placeholders.

The other thing I find is by thinking out the process of what I need and communicating to the LLM is I tend to make better scripts that have more functionality since I'm thinking about what I want done, and not thinking about just getting the syntax correct.
Cursor: Competing with VSCode and Copilot with a 5 person team
Theoretically the first amendment forbids to go after this kind of "threat" then, since it would be like forbidding a citizen to read a foreign book.
Six (and a Half) Intuitions for SVD
A battery per household is horrible inefficient though; Especially lithium tech versus liquid batteries.

To prevent residential brownouts, the most important aspect is leveling air conditioner demand; this can be done a few ways

1. Modern Equipment with lower Locked Rotor Amps required to start over a shorter period of time (variable compressors, scroll compressors, start capacitors on reciprocating compressors) (more dc fixed magnet motors than induction motors)

2. Networked smart thermostats (ie Ecobee, Nest) with pre-cooling factors for weather, utility tie ins (time of use, community savings), equipment run time monitoring, 5 minute compressor off timers to reduce non equilibrium starts.

Generally speaking, grid improvements are drastically improved with local substations having load leveling technologies, but (before we get to individuals) more locally at the transformer (~ per block) level.
Database of simple explanations in Computers, Science and more
Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes
I have not used DeleteMe, but I’ve used Optery [0], which does seem to at least reduce my information footprint.

Consumer Reports also provides a free service called Permission Slip [1] that auto-submits opt-out requests for a variety of retailers/services as well as data brokers.

It is difficult to tell how effective these services are, but if nothing else, I’d prefer to minimize my footprint as much as possible. I don’t think this does much to help with the credit bureaus, though.

We desperately need real privacy laws with teeth.

- [0] https://www.optery.com/

- [1] https://www.permissionslipcr.com/
> Sitting on this kind of capital is easy, sprinkle it in enough places during good times and you'll get good results.

It's easy when you're talking about someone's 401k with half a million dollars in it. With one click you can put it in the S&P 500, a 60/40 split, a target date fund, or if you're young and frisky maybe you put it in a mix of crypto, renewable energy companies with an uncertain future, and some pre-trial drug companies, because you can afford to lose it all.

If you're BlackRock with $9T AUM and you know that it's other people's retirement money you're managing, it's a lot harder. That much capital moves markets. You can't go in and out of positions easily, because the very act of you buying or selling alters the price appreciably; that is, you're too big of a player to be an invisible participant in the market.

Hell, even a high net worth individual looking to place $50mm isn't going to have an "easy" job, once you realize that the name of the game is actually preserving the purchasing power of that capital. That takes work. It doesn't come for free.

> What's difficult and takes work is bootstrapping without capital.

This is also true. But if managing capital was that easy, nobody rich would ever not be rich anymore. The Vanderbilt family was at one point estimated to be worth more than 1% of the US GDP; yet by the fourth generation, they sold their famous mansion, The Breakers.
How is their overall hardware support?

If nothing else the vendor-specific crappy toolchains do support the vendor’s HW well, so that’s something they need to do so that devs don’t have to start their projects with implementing the low-level support by themself.
I was hired at a pretty big startup because I came from a small startup where I had delivered close to 100% uptime.

I pretty quickly realized that their outages were due to their KPIs being based on jira and GitHub statistics only.

The hilarious thing was that after 6 months they started to complain about my GitHub stats. And everytime I asked why they are not tracking downtime since that is why they hired me in the first place. And they basically said it was too hard to track.
Wow, very interesting that mesa can now emit an instruction (and use a hardware feature) that even Apple's GPU driver does not support.
Man, I didn't think of _any_ of those obvious examples :P
Correct. You need CUDA, or ROCm, MPS (native to macOS) backends for running deep learning. I found it relatively easy to train some Pytorch model on beefy server with CUDA and running interference on my Macbook Air.
Exactly. I've commented on article about containers.
> does not suggest they were asking for anything other than the ability to ensure TikTok/Byte Dance weren’t doing anything nefarious

The Chinese do not think that they are doing anything nefarious either.
How do you know it's not a real email from paypal? And this entire post is a mess, don't just paste a bunch of junk
YouTube is testing new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to skip
Also, which steals more of your stuff, on average? This Washington Post article's title offers a clue: "Cops took more stuff from people than burglars did last year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

The article is from 2015, but nothing's been done to reverse the trend. I wonder what they've gotten the ratio up to in the last eight years.
Lucid Charts
TLDR: Water is wet. Sky is blue. Grass is green.
That would be an exciting product to literally tens of people.
> Firefox’ built-in profile switcher is far worse than Chrome’s. To open it, you need to start Firefox with the -p parameter.

You can also just go to `about:profiles` in the address bar, without having to launch Firefox with the -p switch. I even have `about:profiles` as my homepage so when I launch Firefox, I then decide which profile I will be using.
You can't go back a page using both Alt (+ Left Arrow) keys on Firefox. Only with the left Alt key, which is super uncomfortable.
Not GP, but this extension seems to only allow switching profiles. Is there something that allows opening a new window using a different profile? People who use Chrome with multiple profiles may have multiple windows open at the same time, with some windows using (or possibly) sharing profiles.
Optimizing pacer formations in front of marathon runners to reduce run times
> How "natural" are we talking about?

After rereading the whole piece, I think the author must be philosophically close to Kazinsky weird philosophical position.
Lol this is straight up conspiracy theory stuff. Yea it’s the reptilians who created streaming services instead of letting us all continue owning our VCR tapes like the goddamn red blooded Americans we were meant to be.

It’s the reptilians who have made people want to live above a grocery store and bike 15 minutes to work instead of driving their Ford F-150 two hours every day from their McMansion and back, and 45 minutes to Wal-Mart.
> why can’t we all go back to office 97?

For one, because people want more than 65,536 rows in their spreadsheets.

But, I'd largely agree that '97 was the pinnacle from a UI perspective. There are changes under the hood that are quite nice, though, especially with the move to xml persistence.
Lead acid battery can only use 50% of rated capacity.

Also, they are heavy. Not a problem in fixed install or vehicle but pain if need to move.
I find architecture diagrams particularly useful for interviews of high-level candidates. I'll structure the first half as an informal conversation where I pick up some technical work they've done and get them to talk about it in depth.

The second half is usually explaining the 10kft and 1kft arhitectural overview of our product. However, I find that pre-prepared architecture diagrams are not that helpful in this case. I just open up an excalidraw tab, screen share, and sketch out the diagram in real-time, explaining things as I go along, and trying to elicit conversation about the design.

I do this because my biggest challenge when tackling new work is not necessarily the code, but the context of it. Where does this live? Where does it receive its inputs from? Where dose its outputs go? How are all of these things organized into the bigger picture? What gets persisted? What's transient?

A good grasp of overall architecture allows you to produce your own heuristic for how to navigate the code, where to look for problems, build internal models of where things might be going wrong, etc.

The sketches get thrown away each time. The process of drawing it out and explaining it is the value.
And how exactly are they not?
Car manufacturers are facing drastically increased costs for pretty much everything, and they've been able to "hide" it by loading cars up with high-margin tech.

When interest rates were low and everyone was getting big raises at work, people were willing to buy those cars. Not anymore.

I don't know how it all shakes out, but it probably won't be fun.
Some examples of incrementally delivering tech debt and communicating it to stakeholders:

"This week we found the root cause of why operation X sometimes fails - it's a slow database query which we plan to fix next week. For those interested, here's a command-line demo of the issue."

"With 60 pull requests being submitted per week, and each one triggering a 12 minute automated test run, we were wasting a quite a bit of developer resources. This week we brought that time down to 4 minutes. For those interested, here's how we parallelised the tests."

"Remember how the last accounting feature broke a lot of different parts of the system and it took 4 extra weeks to fix? This week we migrated 4 out of 18 core accounting functions to a service completely separate from our main code base. Once the remaining 14 are moved over during the next three weeks, accounting features can be built and tested independently without affecting the main system."
The ICANN too can play this game, and ask some outrageous fee every year for your TLD
> On average, 4+ hours of screen time has a negative effect on babies.

That's not what the study showed. It showed that on average, 4+ hours of screen time for babies is correlated with a negative outcome. Would you also say that on average, ice cream sales has a large effect on shark attacks? Then why do you insist on ignoring the actual causal effect between parental neglect and high screen time and poor educational outcomes?

> How do we know they wouldn’t learn how to read anyway with dedicated parents and books? [etc.]

You're holding my anecdotes to a higher standard than the research you're citing. How do we know these neglected children wouldn't be equally impaired had they not been put in front of a screen?

> Can you give any examples of ‘high-quality’ screen time in babies?

I already did under this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222954). Children younger than one can start to learn to read from apps that help them learn letter sounds and associate words with pictures and actually read at age 1.
A rational economic system would eliminate the distinction between education and production so that people are constantly learning/improving while occasionally contributing to massive breakthroughs. We systemically under-develop every single human being on a global basis right now.
You just described what is known as "user testing". They can happen in person, like a focus group, or remotely. Companies reach out to the public for "random" users that fit the given criteria and are paid for their time. You can also use a 3rd party service who will pair you with random testers, for example https://www.usertesting.com/
> American social media companies don’t have CCP members in their senior ranks.

Who added those goalposts? Chinese social media companies don't have FBI, CIA, and NSA members in their senior ranks, either.
But Apple has proved that they will enforce their walled garden if and when they feel like it. Any company building a thriving profitable ecosystem inside Apple's walled garden is at risk of the owner of the garden starting to tax them.

It's a little like licensing Enterprise software from Oracle. You know they'll be looking for reasons to you sue you. You may be able to avoid it, but you know it's in their style.
Your comment makes me think you may enjoy the 1632 series[0], which is sort of 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' in reverse.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series
I've always sort of intuitively done this since I was a kid (https://zchry.org/words/questioning-my-quantum-leap-an-ongoi...). I have zero experience with meditation in the traditional sense but I'm really interested in going down that path next as I try to broaden my scope.
Weaviate 1.21: Support for ImageBind and GPT4all and more
The 1.21 release is here! Here is the TL;DR of the new features:
• ContainsAny and ContainsAll operators added – Convenient, new operators to simplify complex queries.
• Multi-tenancy improvements – Experimental tenant deactivation for efficiency, performance improvements.
• New vectorizer modules:
1. text2vec-gpt4all provides fast transformer inference on CPUs; and
2. multi2vec-bind vectorizes multi-modal data from up to 7 modalities.
• Performance improvements – A suite of improvements to search, indexing and backup performance.
• Hybrid search algorithm refinement - Improved scoring stability for small limits in hybrid search.

Check out the blog post for an in-depth overview of each feature and links to the documentation: https://weaviate.io/blog/weaviate-1-21-release
Can you give some examples of your false beliefs?
Structured logging with slog
>Its the same reason the market kills public technology companies' innovation and they rely on acquisition.

The counter-theory is that as companies mature, they have to devote a disproportionate amount of time to maintenance. From that perspective, it's a risk-based approach to maintain the products and services that already have a market and instead effectively out-source the high risk operations of innovation. New companies don't have comparatively much to maintain, so they can focus on innovation. It's not quite such an either-or, but a balancing act. It's just easier to balance when you can outsource risk.

>Average CEO is 58 years old. Their first jobs were in the late 1980s.

I believe there's some neuroscience theory that may illuminate this. When we're young, our intelligence is more plastic and can more readily innovate. But as we get older it becomes more crystalline. What we may lose some of that novelty generation, we can gain in understanding the greater levels of experience. Experience is necessary for putting
ideas in their appropriate context. I would argue that understanding context is more important at high, strategic-level positions.