skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the focus here isn't necessarily on compute cost. When companies hire data scientists or analysts, they're niche-skilled and expensive. If those people spend 50-60% of their time courting ad-hoc questions from various people in the org, the cost of that employee's time (and the money spent on them doing menial tasks that are a waste of their skillset) is the biggest factor.
Terraform doesn't make me want to use EaaS though.
Lumafield scanned a 1960s flip flop module for me, to help reverse engineer some vintage NASA hardware. The module contained a bunch of resistors, transistors, capacitors, and diodes, encased in a 13-pin plastic package. These modules had various functions and were used like integrated circuits, but made from discrete components in the pre-IC time. With the Lumafield scans, I could reverse-engineer the circuitry.

My writeup: https://www.righto.com/2022/08/lumafield-flip-flop.html
It depends on the topic or place. Cynical views on family or children are generally met with negativity for example.
I’m pretty sure FedNow launched with RFP support.
This is nothing at all like self driving cars; firstly the risks are not even in the same ballpark, and secondly every piece of advice given includes, “check the response independently.” It says nothing about a tool like this if people choose to misuse it.

At some point, using LLMs like ChatGPT recklessly is on the user, not the tool.
> The same institutional investors you cite are also buying up construction capacity with the express purpose of building rentals vs. homes to purchase.

That still increases the housing supply and ultimately lowers prices.

> Perpetually siphoning off the wealth of workers is being turned into a highly-financialized, internationalized asset.

Which is exactly the mistake they're making, because the laws that prop up the value of those "assets" are local laws which hold because they're supported by local voters who are homeowners. Make the local voters tenants and the property owners non-constituents and what do the local politicians do?

> I would also say your assessment of how politicians respond to people with money vs. those without is fairly naive.

Politicians respond to things that get them reelected. That's often donors because money lets them buy advertising and get more votes.

But that mainly applies to two kinds of issues. The kind that affect most people only a trivial amount but the donors a lot, in which case it won't change many votes. And the kind that affect a small number of people a lot, but they don't have many votes to change. In each of these cases the donor's money buys them more votes through advertising than they lose through screwing people.

Housing is an issue that affects most people by a significant amount.

And the structure of how it got the way it is isn't amenable to the way they exercise power. Supply is limited because local jurisdictions all have a similar incentive structure. The people who can vote there already live there, so when the people who live there are homeowners, they vote to raise local housing prices. The same obtains everywhere so housing prices go up everywhere.

But a single locality can reduce regional housing prices by enabling a large amount of construction, because people will move there from any place within an hour's drive if it will save them a quarter of a million dollars on housing. The status quo is only enabled by nearly every locality having the same incentives. It only takes a small fraction where a majority of local residents want housing prices to go down.

The normal way monied interests prevent this kind of local diversity breaking their monopoly is by capturing the regional or national government. But the only reason the local government could be captured in this way is that you had to be a local resident (and so, historically, already be a local homeowner) before you get a vote there. So they didn't have to overcome the interests of all the prospective buyers who are in some nearby but different jurisdiction. Which is what they would have to do to get a law passed at the state or national level -- which is why the bills proposed at the state and national level on this issue are trending to disrupt rather than uphold the status quo here.
> Having a law that literally forbids worker compensation

The law doesn’t forbid overtime for people making over the listed amount, it means that employers aren’t federally mandated to pay overtime (and certain other things) for employees making above a certain base-pay threshold.

Not only is it allowed to pay overtime to people making over the federal threshold, there are states where it is mandatory – just as with minimum wage, there are states that have exemption pay thresholds (and other exemption requirements) that make many federally-exempt jobs not exempt under state law, such that overtime pay is still required.
If you're not using the latest, best tools available to teach your students - and if you're not teaching them about those tools - then you are a bad teacher. Period.

Language models should be introduced in classrooms because they're a part of society now, and they're here to stay. Kids should learn about them - how they work, where they came from, how to use them - just like they should learn how to type or send an email.

It does remind me of my experience as a middle schooler in 2002, when our class took a trip to the library, and the librarian gave us a lesson on "how to use search engines properly." In retrospect, the societal worry at the time was about search engines replacing librarians, so it was perhaps notable that this librarian had the humility to teach us how to use her "replacement." Surely the same applies to teachers and ChatGPT: a good teacher will not be worried about whatever impact ChatGPT might have on them personally, but will instead take the opportunity to teach their students about the new horizons opened up by this technology.

(The funny part of that seminar in the library was that the lesson emphasized the need to construct efficient, keyword-based queries, rather than asking natural language questions to the search engine directly - but twenty years later we've come full circle and now you actually can just ask your question to the language models.)
I use Usenet with Eternal September, and a NNTP client software I wrote by myself. I also have my own NNTP server for discussions of my own projects, although currently nobody else uses it than myself. (Both my own server software and client software support 63-bit article numbers.)

I think that NNTP is better than much of the newer too complicated and messy protocols. I also think is better than using mailing lists, too. NNTP also you can (like mailing lists, but unlike web forums) compose drafts on your computer and read messages that have already been downloaded, even if the internet connection (or the NNTP server) is currently not working, and then you can send/receive once it does work.
One metaphor that I have seen ubiquitous in Nature is Consensus Reality. Fiat currency, quantum systems agreeing on each other's value, social contract, etc. It's everywhere and now social concept of proof.

Here is Daniel Dennett talking it. https://youtu.be/32u12zjgJww

I like the no miracles argument in favour of science. If our scientific theories don't track reality, how are they successful in prediction the future.

Similarly the social aspect of mathematical proofs can be replaced with requirements like being in congruence with established facts (i.e explanatory power), predictive power, and efficient representation (i.e. elegant compression) which means faster programs / less computational steps required.
Good to hear, I bought a house here as well. You can find my contact info through the website on my profile, let's get lunch sometime.
I have a theory that uber's business viability (if you can call it that) rests on people misunderstanding the cost of their personal car. With robots that goes away, and uber has to find another way to pay for gas an depreciation, even if they don't have to pay for wages. I don't know if it would end up working our better for them.
You argument just boils down to bad programmers writing bad code. It has nothing to do with abstraction or not. You'd be just as unhappy with an entire project that's just one grant 20,000 line file.

That's why I think the whole rant about abstraction is pointing fingers in the wrong place. Everyone either wants to find the silver bullet that will produce code perfectly the first time or find some concept to blame when it isn't. If you have experience, use abstraction to accelerate your development.

> Work in any scaled software organization and you'll see that combining logic too early is full of hazard.

Don't combine logic and you need twice as many programmers to do the work. That front-end guy to do the JavaScript for the validation, the backend guy to do the server validation, the project manager to ensure they're both always the same. I started this rant by saying if you don't abstract, you'll always be slow. And I stand by that; many projects with dozens of programmers are just manually performing work that could be abstracted away at the start.
Yeah, people forget just how expensive both bandwidth and storage were in the late 1990s.

YouTube appeared in 2005 and was losing VAST amounts of money before Google bought them out. So, even in 2005, Usenet probably was still too expensive.
This took forever to find, I came across this many years ago when I was still playing and I found it fascinating because you spend quite a bit of time as a beginner memorizing the pretty bizarre key sequences required to produce the notes on the chromatic scale. Apparently I wasn't the only person with that gripe, someone designed a sax with a linear key pattern:

https://jsengineering.net/saxes-with-linear-fingering-system...
Any insights into what went wrong?
Mobile devices, for one.

The amount of websites that don’t support control+click indicate to me that most people don’t use the method.

Edit: but regardless it’s not okay to hijack the back button.
> Australians insist it's the best country in the world to live in, when most have barely traveled anywhere.

Australian here. A couple of international trips ago I visited Berlin and went on one of those free walking tours. I was the only Australian in the tour from what I could tell.

The tour took in the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament). The guide proudly pointed out its glass roof as to demonstration the Germany's post Nazi commitment to a transparent democracy. He said that a staircase spirals up the roof. He then joked that in practice, this means when the federal parliamentarians look up, what they see is a bunch of Australian's gazing down on them.

I thought it was funny. It had a eery ring of truth to it as no matter where you go, you meet fellow Australians. To put this in perspective, Australia has 0.3% of the worlds population and most of us, as you say, are home. So it's downright weird to keep hearing Australian accents no matter where you go.

BTW, have you travelled anywhere, or is this "most have never travelled anywhere" just something you've heard?
Also wealth management is more focused on wealth preservation than generating high returns, that is more the focus of asset management (e.g. hedge funds, private equity etc.).

This is a bit simplistic. It’s more focused on setting a target return and cash flows consistent with your current life plans. Whether this is a defensive or more aggressive position is really up to you and your goals. But Wealth managers are about putting an investment strategy in place to achieve that. They also help actively manage your portfolio to address macroeconomic trends.
Most academic PDFs are typeset and consequently look better than typical web sites. There are notable exceptions such as distill.pub
> Why is there an income ceiling on overtime in the US?

There isn’t.

There is a pay (and other conditions) floor on employers being exempt from the general federal requirement to pay overtime at a specified rate. (State law may impose similar requirements even where federal exemptions apply, and even where both federal and state exemptions apply, employers may offer terms that involve overtime pay.)
Looks about how wolfenstein 3d ran on my 286 Tandy 1000 rlx. Luckily you could reduce the graphics window size and dramatically improve performance
That perspective - is why we can say that we live in a very busy world right now. So much human life going on at the same time in this moment. A lot more than compared with 100k, 10k, 1k and 100 years ago.
On the MUD I spent most time on, when the feature of making haircuts (and later tattoos) landed it was a Big Deal. There were very few designs, you had to go to a remote location (through dangerous areas) and pay a lot (in the in-game currency) to get it done. All the effort for literally one short line of text added to the description of your character... It might seem strange, but that's kind of the point of MUDs (for many people).

Cash shop? Possible and imaginable. There were always people willing to pay others to level their character, for example. Should it be actually (and officially) implemented, though? I have some doubts here...
Same with Mongo. $in is usually much faster than many $or, especially combined with sorting, which warrants it's own article :)
Yes, and common synonyms like `length` can hose you when you convert from a string to a list of strings. They shouldn’t really have the same name, especially in a Unicode world where there are several different lengths for a string.
This wasn't for a US customer. Americans hold a lot of power when wielding chargebacks.
I'm too cynical to take seriously social studies research. Most of it doesn't replicate.
Chinese. It’s the first hobby besides programming that is remotely as captivating. I can spend hours every day reading, writing, communicating with people, listening to music.
I argue that calculators are overtly harmful to arithmetic prowess. In summary, they atrophy mental arithmetic ability and discourage practice of basic skills.

It pains me (though that's my problem) to see people pull out a calculator (worse, a phone) to solve e.g., a multiplication of two single digit numbers.
> How so? 2030-07-01T18:00:00+01:00 is a well-defined point in time, is it not? It may or may not be local time in London, but it's unambiguous.

It's a redundant way of writing 2030-07-01T17:00:00Z which only serves to cause confusion (it misleadingly looks like a local time, but it isn't). TAI or equivalent are useful; symbolic timezones are useful; numeric time offsets are useless and there's no benefit from having them be part of the standard.

> Thus proving that what you want does not exist and cannot exist.

Of course it does; 2030-07-01T18:00 Africa/Casablanca is a real time that humans will have no trouble attending a meeting at, and nor will computers as long as they've been keeping their zone file up to date. All we need is a standard for storing and interchanging it on computers.
If such schools have scholarships, then it would be pretty close - the whole point of a grammar school was/is that it's largely private, with 10-25% of the students non-paying, and chosen from the highest scoring state school students.
Can you give an indication of the amount of precision required for the initial conditions to be able to perform such a simulation? Fascinating stuff this, thank you for your comment.
Adding EMS support is on the issue list.
https://github.com/FrenkelS/Doom8088/issues/1
> Sometimes you need to check under your shoe.

Indeed.
Yeah, the whole "We need Google" schtick is not aging well. I wish they would partner with, I dunno, like Brave or even start their own search engine and follow a similar model, they're already partnered with Mullvad for the VPN so their getting the idea somewhat.
> Is a Non-SaaS software business still a viable model, or has the world moved on?

Yes. SaaS is losing its advantage as the browser is becoming a better environment with better processing, soon it will not make sense to pay for many things hosted because of open source alternatives that are very easy to run nowadays - meanwhile saas/subscriptions fatigue is only growing.
I've been experimenting with working in a gcp VM for a few months and like it quite a bit. Between ssh+tmux+nvim and vscode-remote I have a remote and local dev exp that is basically identical.

Syncthing is my key to keeping my ~/git tree in sync between the two environments. Just have to be careful not to try to flip back and forth quickly between local/remote as syncthing delays can be ~10s.
Fully ad-hoc polymorphic languages like Smalltalk have this property, but many prefer having the compiler catch more errors.
Nvidia A100, H100 banned in 'some' Middle Eastern countries
Yes. The number of breeding pairs present at one time could have coincided with a large population of human-like creatures that went extinct.

The key point in your phrasing is: "There were many different hominid species alive at that time, and humans were in competition with them."

If humpback whales eventually become extinct and blue whales eventually dominate global ecosystems we aren't going to say that means blue whales didn't experience a near extinction because "hey! plenty of whale-critters".

A minimal number of breeding pairs is the definition of near-extinction. To imply otherwise is misleading.

Homo-sapiens is not the same as Homo-neanderthalensis.
Places do not necessarily have a single agreed timezone - see Xinjiang (or indeed Crimea).
"1280 people" is just a misleading simplification early in the linked article. Both the news article and the original paper speak of 1280 breeding individuals.

Also, the way population dynamics work, lineages tend to die out quickly or not at all. Isolated populations can die out gradually, but it takes exceptional circumstances for a population to survive in the long term while remaining isolated.
twic's eyeball twitches as he tries to decide whether he should upvote this comment or not
Not to make a big thing about it, but you’re wrong. Try read it again, slowly.

Edit: hint: focus on “if that’s true” and “merely”.
Plants pass down genetic memories
I'm a bit younger than you, but I have had a similar realization. I love programming, but sitting around all day at a desk does not seem fun for the next several decades, and really doesn't do my social/mental health much good, despite the amount of money.

So, I'm working to become a pilot instead. It's expensive, time consuming, competitive, and probably won't see six figures for half a decade or more. But, it's a heck of a lot more meaningful than sitting at my desk all day.

Just thought I'd share my situation and solution since it's relatively similar. All the best.
Hey guys just want to say the link is https://squabblr.co, not squabblr.com. I made the classic mistake on my own website!
I don't know why a photo wouldn't be evidence. The delivery person stealing doesn't make it not theft.
Funny that I make this mistake on my own website lol.
> incompetent people ... without the insulation and support structures that foster education

I haven't read the study yet, but - does it make the link between education and competence, or is that a cultural assumption?

I won't deny that education increases competence in specific ways. But I also think there is plenty of disparaged competence even in the uneducated.
They also completely broken the search functionality. If I look for a topic I get 10 videos the algorithm decides are relevant and after that I only get random stuff.

So many times I remember to have seen a video about something and I just can't find it even with the right keywords. If I'm lucky I find it on...bing search filtered by videos.
I can never see these archive links. Caught in captcha loop always. Usually on mobile too so I have no idea what my dns is.
IMHO you're only partially correct. The population of our ancestors was larger before and after the bottleneck. And it's a very important event, no doubt modern human genetics and behavior is influenced by it.
1000% agree with, "Compliment in public, correct in private." But I still ask a person if it's okay if I compliment them in front of large groups to make sure they are comfortable with it. I've embarrassed people before when I haven't asked. Different people have different reactions to compliments in groups.
If you're issuing a statement that includes an 'IN' statement with thousands of values, where are those values coming from, how are you getting them? In a relational database, a so large list of values generally indicates that they aren't arbitrary but would come from some table (perhaps with some condition), so the selection would be implemented with a table join - if you're fetching a huge list of IDs from the database and then passing them back as part of a query, that doesn't seem right.

In the grandparent comment, "Suppose you are loading thousands, if not millions of objects, and you wish to preload all of their children, your ORM might simply do this by running two SELECTs ..." - well if your ORM is doing something stupid, then you either fix the ORM or work around the ORM to get a reasonable query that will not uselessly send these millions of object IDs back to the database - what a waste of IO.
Fair to say most of humankind’s time then has been spent staring at small digital screens.
Yes it's in the same category of "we know better now, hopefully?" as people overloading the + operator for string concatenation.

Refining for clarity of categories is hard. I'm not sure 'type polymorphism' is the problem here as much as it is false conceptual polymorphism.
Nah, we're good, but thanks anyway
Likely rent seekers will soak up their gains. We need to build for density and transportation to match.
The owner himself is against transitioning, so it only seems right to deadname his company.
(We've replaced the article title with its subtitle, which is more specific.)
Certainly. However, I am still highly doubtful that there were only 1280 people alive at that time. I'm not sure that this is what the article is claiming; however, it is written in a way that makes it very easy to come away with that message (as evidenced in this comment section).

What are the chances that every person alive today, for example, will still have living descendants in 400,000 years? If people 400,000 years in the future do a genetic study on themselves to determine how many of their ancestors were alive in the year 2023, what percentage of the 2023 population will they be able to account for? My guess is a fair bit lower than 100%.
Clouds vs. Cryptominers
Recaptcha loop :-(
Isn't that modern in the sense of the modern movement in design, and not modern as contemporary?
> Syncthing is my key to keeping my ~/git tree in sync between the two environments.

Why don't you use git directly for that?
Cities are suing car manufacturers over auto theft
This bottleneck occurred before the split between "us" and neanderthals - so if this small population didn't survive there wouldn't be not only modern humans, but neanderthals as well.
> I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls

It’s a commercial product, so you won’t get much feedback as not many HN readers will need/buy this.

Have you considered open-sourcing it?
> There is no dollar value expressed in conducting such a simple attack.

"Cost" encompasses things like effort, loss, and sacrifice too.
The number is also referring to effective population size vs the true population size which is larger. For reference the effective population size today is estimated to be between 10,000-20,000 individuals.

https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=0&id...
I agree we need to build more cheap housing. But one could also ask: why don't we already build more cheap housing? Probably the answer is that nobody's able to pay for it. Making people able to afford cheap housing creates a market for cheap housing makes builders build cheap housing.

But sure, cut out the middle man and let the public sector build good cheap housing.