skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with others about it being unclear what this means: it's not like these companies are relocating their entire workforces to Texas and Tennessee, much less that their workforces want to be relocated to those states.

FTA, it sounds like AllianceBernstein in particular planned this move in 2018, and plans to relocate around 1000 jobs to TN. So that's around 1/4th of their workforce, assuming people go along. AB themselves however are primarily owned by Equitable, which continues to be headquartered in the city. So it's hard to get a clear picture of what any of this actually entails, either for employment figures or local tax take-ins.
Readers may prefer the original post by the programmer behind the rewrite: https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout
I mean, sure, but we gotta start somewhere.
If you want my opinion on big, society-wide changes, "What needs to happen is that the average salary can provide a citizen with a comfortable and simple life (housing/shelter, food, clothing, etc)" isn't enough. The capitalist system needs to be destroyed, and we need a new arrangement of society where workers own the means of production and the value is shared with everyone, not a few arbitrary billionaires. Restructure society to benefit everyone (or at least work towards that goal), rather than a society that unequally benefits the capitalist class.

But until that movement is ready to happen, I think it's fine to acknowledge that the "real" cost of living has risen over the past few decades, while most people's "real" wages have remained stagnant. If it's not salaries, then I think the next thing to look at is the exorbitant housing and rent prices.
This is such a strange headline.

> Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter

Because... they're not supposed to?

To me, this sounds like "Why pen doesn't make us smarter" or "Why lamp doesn't make us smarter". Why was the author expecting it to make us smarter anyway? Where did they get that expectation?
Look at the quality of food you can afford and not afford. Cheaper foods tend to be fattier geared up for manual workers. You'll have a shorter lifespan.

Tap water is just pus, then you have the high levels of chemicals in them. The best water you can drink is deionised water, the stuff used for vehicle batteries and steam irons, and then add in the best chemicals to top up your mineral content.

Chlorides are better than other forms like gluconate or sulphates which become sulfuric acid when exposed to the hydrochloric acid in the gastric juices, which then destroys tissues in the body oh so slowly.

Iron chloride for example generates the least amount of reactive oxygen species, and is also the most labile, able to switch between state more easily than other iron supplements. Its the best form of iron you can get, show me a supplement that uses it!

Chlorides also work better in the most acidic parts of the body.

I really do question the medical experts, legislators and food industry.

So if you know what chemicals will do what in the body, through the diet, you can alter the personality's and health of the population. One way to do that is through food legislation. Global manufacturers can also play their part as well.
I've got a whole hypothesis around this, but without getting too political... your statement "a way for people to feel like they have some sense of control over their future in a world they are disillusioned with" fits really well with the people I've met via real estate who are looking for these types of properties. At the root, they are scared and this kind of lifestyle is a way for them to channel that fear.

Ironically though, every cabin in the woods / prepper camp that I've seen as a real estate agent, wouldn't even last someone through a winter. Still way too many reliances on the modern world. Oh you've got a giant water tank and a well, but the pump (or your generator) runs on gas? Yeah good luck with that. Ok you've got a year's supply of freeze-dried meals, but no greenhouse, no setup for animals, no access to hunting, so... how are you going to produce more food? So you've got woodpile, but no more trees on your property and your only source of heat is a wood stove, so...

It's good to be prepared - earthquakes, tornadoes, and certainly fires are going to continue to be a thing. But I feel a kind of sadness for a lot of these folks who have survivalist fantasies that are a manifestation of their fears.
> I never tried Obsidian because the recurring price was too steep for me

Obsidian is completely free, you only need to pay for Sync, and if you don't want to, you can use something like Syncthing to synchronize your files
> If you use the internet, or an app, you must protect yourself.

As in "choose a strong password"?

As in "never accept a terms of service agreement you disagree with"?

As in "read all code before running it"?

What thoughts were going through your head when you typed that?
A billion here, a billion there pretty soon you're talking about real money.
How does a self-signed certificate that hasn't been added to the browser as trusted, or signed by a trusted CA, guarantee anything? Save for additional network security measures anyone could intercept the connection and present you with their certificate to intercept traffic, just like with plain old HTTP.

The average user shouldn't be asked to trust a certificate either because they are incapable of making that decision. Technical people should know better and can be asked to add the certificate to their browser.
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I really like this game but the colors are hell on my eyes. I'd like to play more but I have such a hard time trying to figure out sometimes what is connecting where. I wish this had some nice bright colors and I would for sure play much more.
Would it just be something that benefitted big tech even if it did pass?
I was on the ground floor at George Floyd protests in Seattle and someone mysteriously left a large pile of neatly stacked bricks in the location where police kettled us.
Sounds to me a little like being on the negative end of capital flight, and they are trying to do the capital controls that seem internationally unpopular for developing nations to enact.
This may change at some point.
Installing kernel in Ubuntu is simply, given that you already have a kernel deb, a single line "apt-get install". You can create your own package apt repo or use the one provided by the author https://github.com/zabbly/linux#installation

Be aware that upgrading kernel usually mess with graphics driver, especially for Nvidia. In the best case you'll have to unload and reload the Nvidia driver, in the worst case your driver just stops working.
All of this reminds me of the the old fake infomercial "live forever as you are now" https://youtu.be/xg29TuWo0Yo?si=yvFa-vFIEqD-Swx4
> At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use.

You are confusing "service fees" with taxes. There are various tax regimes. Very few of them are proportional to the services you use.
Machine learning people use "tensor" to just mean an N-dimensional array of numbers. The term is divorced from its meaning in Physics and Mathematics, which caused me some confusion when I started looked at machine learning papers coming from physics.
And also, while this happens, other companies move to NY and California from other states.
I'm not surprised. Men, and humans in general, have far less utility and purpose than ever. Why discuss current affairs with your neighbor when you can browse the news online? Why talk to strangers when you can reach out via a phone app?
Recommend watching the documentary "Into Eternity":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLxB9fV2y4
The worst thing about(for me) it is that I literally cannot find anyone, even in tech circles, who cares about this. The general apathy towards it is shocking. Even people who go on about how google/facebook are evil and how you need to take steps to protect your data from them, do not care about these proposed changes, as if they are going to take place on the moon not here. Even when I bring up the fact that your internet history is already saved by all ISPs for a year and 17 different government departments(including department of agriculture!) can inspect it warrant free, no one seems to really care, it's a collective "meh" nothing more. So maybe it's no wonder that this isn't really making much noise in the news. There are still some public privacy advocates in the UK but it feels so.....powerless.
Well what's your reason for running? To lose weight? To be healthier? To sleep better? Can you run longer distances? Can you run faster times? Can you compete in races?

I mean if you have run for 5 months and haven't progressed towards any of your goals ... then it seems like your routine needs to be improved. Or maybe you want a different activity that would help you reach your goals.

For most people, if you don't enjoy running just to run, the reward would be the progress towards your goals.
Thanks for the recommendation. I bought the book.

And FWIW the book you recommended is for undergrads and is a much more accessible read, according to the authors. I saw "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and got confused.
I seriously doubt those expenses would result in a permanent (or even a single year's) loss under that scenario.
I held the position that enforces these rules while in college, so I've gotten some familiarity with them. I do not recommend them for work, they are too strict and are designed to prevent anyone from speaking up, which is typically the opposite of what you want in most small groups at work.

They are great for keeping a bunch of people from talking over each other. Like any formal education, it is great to have learned the methodologies and be able to apply parts of it in the situations that require it, like when there's one coworker that cuts people off too often.
Some past posts/discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293686 (interactive composer UI)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984944 (great article + lots of links to other resources)
Just a check box and a all bolded paragraph with some scary lawyer text
Entertaining one's self is not the end-all, be-all.
> At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use.

No-one has ever seriously claimed that. It's self-evident that billionaires do not use a level of government service proportional to the amount of tax they pay, nor has that ever been expected or intended.
Factorio devs are exceptional. This game is so polished, well thought-out, optimized and unique. I remember I read some dev blog about belt optimization and got an idea how passionate the devs are about their game.

Still regular patches that just make the game better. Much love.
Define "disrupting". All movements generally start off small, and if you wish to effect change you need to bring over more and more people over to the cause.

Pissing people off (too much) seems to be counter-productive and can prevent people with sympathizing/empathizing/joining you:

> For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10056014-why-civil-resis...
Ask HN: What's the closest city to San Francisco outside of the US?
I like to think about parallels to US cities when I travel internationally. São Paulo is the NYC of Brazil, Abu Dhabi is the Washington DC of the UAE, etc etc.

I'm curious what people think, is there a city outside of the US that you've been to that feels more like SF than any other city?
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I use spreadsheets for all kinds of bookkeeping, and very often there's some data you need to fetch once when a new entry is created, be it stock prices from a webpage or calendar entries from Outlook. LibreOffice's python scripts are great for those cases, because the tooling is just plain better than VB. Alas, VB is still necessary for formulae.
Here's hoping other HashiCorp products go the same way, creating an excellent new suite of truly OSS cloud tools. HashiCorp shot themselves in the foot, but they may have accidentally benefitted the FOSS community greatly.
Many places allow for dual meters: one water meter that is used for irrigation and another for water that ultimately goes for waste treatment. In places with abundant water, e.g. places where this drilling technique would work, the water is typically practically free and the “water bill” is mostly a sewer bill.
All the media that never tracked its users, yes.
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If the most intelligent machines ever observed in the universe do not count as "intelligent," then we have a semantic, and not a substantive difference of opinion.
They're not special if they affect everyone
Probably, but that's exactly the kind of research and juggling that I'm trying to avoid. The Ubuntu installer has just has a checkbox that says "please give me proprietary drivers".

Also, to be clear, my asterisk is that Nvidia drivers seem to be no easier on Ubuntu than on Debian (you have to seek them out), and for me they've often caused problems once installed.
I’m curious how much coffee you drank, and others who drank coffee, quit, and had similar results.

I drink one 10oz cup a day. Occasionally more but rarely. I do love it.

Knowing that everyone’s physiology is different, I wonder if I would generally see notable gains in quitting 1 cup a day.

I find that the people who say quitting made a difference were often drinking a pot a day. But maybe that is not true for you?
eu already affects the housing market with green regulations and housing standards, energy standards, policy on residence visas etc.

and communications was not among its mandates either
FTR: NYC's income tax ranges between 3.078% and 3.876%.
The issue is that if your language doesn’t NPM-ize your packages, developer write you off as not modern enough.

The simple fact is that this seems to be what most developers want, AND this is not limited to JavaScript developers.
The performance doesn't have to scale with the training cost. It's ok if we have diminishing returns. The only question is if we can keep getting improvements. If we could get a 10x improvement over GPT-4 (while maintaining safety/alignment), the potential benefits to productivity across the entire world economy are so great that it justifies nearly unlimited investment.
Wipeout was great, but I always preferred playing Extreme-G on the N64. I know the source for the third game in the series was leaked, but I'm still waiting for the original!
That’s a fair point particularly on the classes of answers that it solves. I’m not so much interested in the “how” because we’ll always find a way of there is a “why”.

There are many applications of computational geometry today (which is not in data science but more engineering). If we can we can work with topological objects I can see we might be able to find areas where we can derive value.

NN is a little different because it has always had a very strong why (it’s a very flexible, highly parameterized nonlinear regression model — a fitting function for everything) but was hampered by the how for many years.

Topology’s whys are a bit less universal but I can see some very useful future applications.
High taxes and heavy regulations. People and companies are voting with their feet.
Sure. But how many companies are arriving? I'll admit I have no clue but if you're taking negative signals, ignoring positive and then wildly extrapolating future expectations... well, don't do that.
Sure, but not necessarily the terrible sort of advertising being addressed.
Do you mean in comparison to regular BDXL Blurays?
Nothing in the article suggests the $2T moves. At most it suggests at least some of the jobs managing it will, but that's not the same thing.
Doesn’t really matter, you never know when flying when you’ll need to react to an emergency situation, which you very much need eyesight for. If you lost vision during an engine out in a helicopter you’d surely die
If you spend weeks drilling flash cards on copyrighted code, then produced pages of near-verbatim copies with copyright stripped, any court would find you to have violated the copyright. A lot of people right now are banking on "it's not illegal when AI does it", and part of that strategy is to make "AI" out to be something more than it is. That strategy has many parallels to cryptocurrency hyping.
I agree. I've had the unfortunate experience of moving from more expressive languages and interesting problems to less expressive languages and boring problems as the size of my TC and company go up. :')

But you can only do what your tools allow you to do.
Are you saying Gleam has failed?
I’m no fan of the power of big tech, well, except when it involves standing fast against the blatant political corruption of a government devising a bizarre and nonsensical law to funnel money to their corporate buddies (according to PBO analysis the most money goes to bell, rogers and Shaw).

Yes, Canada should develop strong privacy and competition laws, but I’ve lost hope that they wouldn’t just be whatever serves the interests of our local oligopolies.
Ideally signing and enrolling in the UEFI the key to a signed Unified Kernel Image (UKI) makes more sense: only having SecureBoot verifying the kernel is okay'ish (and it does work: I tried modifying a single bit from my kernel and the UEFI refused to boot it) but it's not that great if the attacker can still modify the initrd etc.
Someone that's worried about radioactivity is talking about the atoms. And so is the webmd article.

Zero mismatch.
GiTS creator Masamune Shirow's earlier works also feature androids or other sorts of synthetic life. Particularly Buaku's gang and Crolis in Dominion, and the military androids in Black Magic M-66.
Individualized tax incentives are usually bad for everyone else, but having lower taxes across the board encourages governments to be more efficient with their resources and directly benefits the citizenry.
I don’t know I have a side in this, but it does seem strange to take the side that “we should talk about people not getting health care” and “self diagnosis is going to kill them too.” So, passive death is better than active death? No one specifically being at fault is somehow morally superior to some LLM being at fault?

Talking about something with no expectation of it being fixed is doing nothing, and people are still dying. If some people die due to bad advice from a machine, but some people survive, is that better then everyone dying due to inaction of any sort?

We won’t get getting universal health care in the US. Maybe there’s something to a democratization of subpar, but at least available, medical advice and care?
I'm not buying anything apple since I know repairability is zero.

Now the laptops have soldered ram and ssd, and the screens are paired to the motherboard. Actually I started using linux for a few years, since macos started spying and sending telemetry about every move you make in the OS.
> Who prioritize work over work-life balance.

I do believe that this should rather refer to the theater where work merely appears to happen.
Ukrainians hacked cameras with sound in Russia for Ukraine Independence Day
The individual was not peaceful. The protest was
In a classic Linux distro, various OS components are much less tightly coupled than in Windows. You can easily update the linux kernel, without updating all the system libraries, daemons, configs, tools, applications, much less your user configs and data. This is done every time "apt-get upgrade" installs an upgraded kernel package, which can be more often than monthly, depending on linux distro. And all the other components can be updated separately, like openssl libraries, init system binaries, tools like git, etc. You can swap in your own alternative for any component, if you know how. The linux kernel is one of the easiest components to swap because the linux syscall ABI is very backwards compatible. (Linux compatibility challenges are about user-land libraries which are all separate and up to the development policy of those library authors, modulated by the update policy of the distro.)

I find modern Windows and macOS updates to be frustratingly opaque and slow. Linux distro updates, on the popular/common distros like debian and arch, are one of my favorite parts of using the system. It'll just install updates for like 200 separate packages (libraries, tools, etc) bang, bang, bang, less than a minute, done. And with the absurdly high speed of todays CPUs and storage, why should it take longer? What are Windows and macOS even doing? I will accept linux has some drawbacks and disadvantages, but the system package managers have been fantastic, for about 2 decades now.
..a good idea from the perspective of an authoritarian government. Not saying it's good for airplanes to do this.
So your assertion is that there would be no online media in the absence of behavioral advertising?

I rather suspect that's incorrect, for two reasons. We had plenty of online media before online advertising existed at all, and there are many ways of doing advertising without it being behavioral.
> I get the sentiment, but is he aware of how every other military capability is provided in the US? The problem of the military industrial complex isn’t limited to SpaceX, or even the executive branch—pork-barrel loving lawmakers helped create the conditions for SpaceX’s rivals to wallow in the trough

The author and the Pentagon official see different problems here.

The author sees the problem as privatization. The Pentagon official probably doesn't object to privatization, but rather the immense level of control of one individual in this particular case. Raytheon and US government, particularly military, interests are nearly perfectly aligned. Raytheon is not some rich guy's personal playground. SpaceX is not aligned with the Pentagon and is a rich guy's personal playground.
Proc macros can do anything, but this is not meaningfully different from mechanisms in most packaging ecosystems: Python runs arbitrary code (via `setup.py` or a potential in-tree build system) when you install a source distribution, Ruby evaluates the Gemspec's source code, etc.

Even Rust has plenty of avenues for arbitrary install-time code execution: `build.rs` runs as arbitrary Rust code without a sandbox, regardless of any proc macros.

(This is not to say that any of this is good! But it's worth having a full picture of the status quo.)