skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like the shininess of diamonds, they're really hard to beat on the "pretty" front. Diamonds have a crazy internal refractive index, which, once exemplified by an appropriate cut, gives them a pretty unique shininess. The only gems that come close are substantially softer, meaning they lose they lose the precise cuts that give them the extra shimmer relatively quickly.

Don't enrich Russia by buying mined diamonds, but there's definitely a compelling argument for lab-grown ones.
It's big bucks coming in and even bigger bucks coming out.
I'm sure there's a real effect here, but it's hard to determine the magnitude of the effect when they fail to distinguish between diagnosis vs. actuality. How many people reporting excellent mental health really are OK? How many are just suppressing their problems, or aren't even the most affected by those problems (e.g. dark-triad folks who will never seek therapy on their own)? On the flip side, how many are catastrophizing, treating every-day things as problems requiring professional help and/or medication? How many then, and how many now? Without knowing those answers, we can't really tell how big the problem is.

This has definitely been a problem with autism and ADHD diagnoses over the years. There's no reason to suppose it isn't also true e.g. with depression diagnoses.
junior devs are junior devs in part because they do not yet know that there is no guarantee that anyone else has been keeping track of their victories come review time.

solutions are only invisible due to a lack of sufficient documentation and communication.

boring solutions are part of the job. they can be fun if the goal is shifted from implementing to automating.

none of this to say you are wrong, but a junior dev that succeeds at such peacocking efforts is signaling the poor health of their surrounding team as much as their eagerness to impress. where was the manager or senior dev to say “great! have you considered a boolean?”
Large, good quality diamonds are rare, smaller ones not so much (certain colors aside).
I ask this all the time: how can real estate costs in particular be so high with these wages?

SF gets all the press for having loony real estate costs but vs wages it’s actually not the worst. The craziest places are those with $1-2M starter homes and low pay.

How can a market even exist?
> Are you saying it wouldn't be advantageous to claim an easily recoverable loss which both makes your shareholders happy and reduces your tax burdens not only for the current year but future years (because you can defer losses)?

What is a “recoverable loss”?

>Hollywood accounting is orthogonal to the concept of a 10-k. The numbers are "real" but they are also VERY easy to manipulate (IE, doing a stock buyback).

Orthogonal means unrelated. It seems like you are using orthogonal to mean “similar”, but I am not sure, since that does not make sense. Either way, how does a stock buyback manipulate anything?

> I'd suggest considering the case study of sears. Where somehow a public company went bankrupt yet the owner ended up with billions of dollars and... the company.. again.. somehow. [1]

Because the owner was not Lampert, but a company with limited liability that happened to own many of the shares. And Lampert has done very poorly with his Sears investment, he has most likely lost wealth over the last 15 years when a riskless SP500 investment would have gained a ton.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...
If this happens it is a failure of society. It isn't as if people just up and decide one day "I guess I just want to be poor and miserable."
Dimma: Semi-Supervised Low Light Image Enhancement with Adaptive Dimming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%E2%80%93ask_spread
Not necessarily. You could understand that a cracked PC game means its copy-protection has been removed by someone illegally but not have a detailed enough understanding of the process to understand the tweet. Personally I'm not familiar with Razor1911 so I wouldn't have understood the significance of that string in the hexdump if it weren't for the context provided by other comments here.
Given UK age demographics that is going to happen over the next few decades anyway, putting all efforts into increasing supply could lead to the opposite problem in the not too far future.
they are cheaper to begin with. 10% inflation on expensive countries has more impact, considering that wages remain static everywhere
> I don't believe there is any evidence for any of these claims.

Your belief is incorrect. To give one isolated example (out of many): https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bowed-to-white-house-p...
It was "the free market" that gave us peaches travelling twice across the Pacific to get to a grocery store.

Massively lower labor costs in two countries, and lack of the infrastructure in one of them: the typical scenario for capital to seek out these energetically absurd but (temporarily) profitable arrangements.
Legit, I'm the OP of the first email. AMA.

No, they didn't leak the email list, but they did leak their internal email list and showed that the incompetently set up an exchange DL and allowed anyone to email it instead of a restricted set of users. They also didn't take the time to close it down, they instead deleted it.

If I wasn't the OP, I wouldn't know that John Hammond is making a video of this right now. Check back in a few hours when this comment ages like fine wine.
Whatever you're doing now is not a good way to socially engage anyway.
Well if they have nothing to hide then what's the issue, officer?
Having kids is no guarantee of getting help when you are old. Quite a few people I know refuse to have any contact with their parents.
> Most small businesses would simply go under if they had to do that for 50-100 people.

If you can't pay your employees market wage, why do you deserve to stay in business? Do restaurants ever expect to underpay their tomato suppliers using the same logic?
our costs for these things are insane, $2000 monthly.v netherlands is richer than UK but their childcare costs half as much. In germany it's free. Same story for housing, I have friends around europe and people with twice as much floor space pay much less rent
Trucking is so under competitive pressure that it is essentially a race to the bottom. You only get into trucking when you don't have a whole lot of options left. The hours suck, you make peanuts and your body goes to shit. It should cost a lot more than it does.
> That’s according to Bloomberg Economics, which now forecasts it will take until the mid-2040s for China’s gross domestic product to exceed that of the US — and even then, it will happen by “only a small margin” before “falling back behind.” Before the pandemic, they expected China to take and hold pole position as early as the start of next decade.

Reading this and the wildly varying track record of economists, I can only think that taking it seriously is like going all in on a weather forecast. It also assumes the US economy is stable during that whole time.

The Huawei mobile chip story also on the front page shows how lack of information repeatedly leads to underestimation.
That's not building hardware. It's connecting up and interfacing existing hardware components.

Which probably makes more sense than designing hardware components for most applications.

But it's not the same as designing circuits etc. and the title is a bit misleading as far as that goes.
GM is discontinuing the Bolt. Although "they" say they will bring it back later.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/chevrolet-announces-bolt-ev-will-r...
If you are on 33K doing cyber then you must be in an area where houses are cheaper than normal. If you are in London, then as you acknowledged you are doing it real wrong and you should be upping your job search game.

Your main point stands though - tech jobs pay much worse than they do in the states. The only two competitive uk tech jobs I seen are DeepMind and hedge fund (not even investnent banks are competitive)
Again, the current stage of climate change we are in is analogous to stage 4 cancer.

Don't pretend climate change isn't real. It is already impacting humanity today.
The shrinking number of primary care physicians is reaching a tipping point
One could of course question whether such compensation schemes are moral at all.

My answer won't fit in the margin of HN's CSS controlled layout.
Boy, this brings up a lot of complicated feelings for me.

Not only has my family had some of this, I know of many, many others.
Thanks! That was fun. I hadn't seen it. There's the problem of bootstrapping METAL, but perhaps left for a different lecture! ;-)
news.com.au; unfortunately out of habit and ease of access. it's really not a good source for anything meaningful, and alot of the "stories" are tiktok copy paste bs, but i havent the musclememory to type in abc.net.au instead.

edit: discovered redirect[0] for chrome; problem solved.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_temperature_and_pre...
Funnily, my alternative comes from the same "authority" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9341318/ though to be specific it does not in any way disagree with your citation, as yours deals with sexual organs. The NIH is clear that "Sex" and "Gender" are two different things.

Though my actual alternative is: Why should I care about specific definitions of "Man" and "woman"? I prefer duck typing for human stuff, because we are messy and every "line" is more like a fuzzy spectrum, and each and every time we have tried to place an arbitrary line, it's been wrong. I'm especially keen to this as a programmer, who is well aware that things people tend to think are "clear", like names, gender, time, etc, rarely are.
I think what I really want is turn-key fine tuning for existing foundational models. But honestly, even that is probably 2 years away before it is really a viable business. We lack sufficiently vetted commercial license foundational models. We lack sufficiently available and moderated diverse datasets for fine-tuning. We probably lack sufficient businesses to take the early adopter risk.

I'm planning an all-in strategy with AI but I believe the next 2 years will be lean. Hopefully by then the price for fine-tuning will have come down enough for medium sized businesses outside of the early adopter niche to give it a try. We'll have a couple of rounds of failures and successes so most people will have a decent roadmap to building successful products (and avoiding complete failures). We should also have a significant ecosystem of options in both OSS and commercial variations.

I feel like this is equivalent to the Internet in 1998. We're looking at the Yahoo's, the AOLs, and the Pets.com crop of businesses. But things won't really heat up for a while. Still plenty of time to grow into this space.
I guess, maybe I misinterpreted what “tipped by algorithmic interference” means. Regardless, I just don’t think the world’s going to end if somebody’s uncle in Florida reads dozens of false headlines. A small number of people consume a lot of misinformation. I agree with Yann on LLMs, and I don’t think his work on Facebook invalidates that.
They do repeatedly, by taking no action to change it.
Dozens of alternative news sites outside the influence of western mainstream media, to certainly include the insulting and brain-dead browser/BigTech news feeds. Anywhere BUT the MSM.
It seems likely the houses are overvalued, on the basis that ratio of house price to income has increased dramatically, and also that a significant fraction of the pension provision in the country is investment in property. I'm not sure what the housing market collapsing would mean for the UK but am doubtful it would fix more problems than it spawns.

For what it's worth, the tax system is aggressively punitive towards companies that want to buy real estate. Landlords with mortgages can't offset the interest against profit any more so a bunch of those are no longer viable concerns and sold up.

Some conquence to vacant property might be good, beyond the already punitive stamp duty when you go beyond the first one. I think you get hit for capital gains when selling non-primary residence as well.
"This milk contains no <insert illegal additive>!"
I have a Spanish uncle who did this in the 70s. Just walked out and disappeared. Eventually declared dead by his wife and my grand parents. Fate unknown but theory is he left for South America.
> this document was handed back to the court system, and Maryland has now exonerated not one but two individuals from wrongful accusation … These men did time in jail, their permanent records impacted.

Writing tip: this should be the first or second sentence in the article to draw people in. Instead, it’s at the end.
the war has made construction hugely more expensive in many countries

The globalization of the real estate market has always been a setup for a scam and everybody knows it, yet keeps doing it, and the whole west is now stuck in this catch-22.
Too bad for the folks that work there and the massive amounts of GDP that will now go to China.
i find that revealing, it seems direct enduser engagement has really stung you, is there something other than people being people, or are there onerous requirements that are not worth it?
As an ADHD person I abhor open offices. I do appreciate the ability to socialize and bounce ideas, but it never allows me to get into the zone. Someone walking by my desk or talking near me will disrupt me. Like my text editor, it helps when I can adapt my work environment to me. If you want me to succeed in the office, give me an actual office with a door and a window to the outside. Don't cheap out on the walls and make them thin, optimize long term outcomes not micro actions. A door let's me communicate to others that I'm in the zone and to not come in unless there's a level of importance. This isn't something I can get through slack or an open office. Slack won't let me say "only send me notifications if a user has been told I'm busy and asked if it can wait" (or not ping me until I turn off my focus mode).

The problem really comes down to trying to fit everyone into a neat little box. But we're humans, not automata. Our variance is our strength, not a weakness. To each his own I guess.
> - A lot of blast damage can be contained if home devices use local / MDNS based service discovery as opposed to Internet based services. Many services could then either choose to reply locally or sometimes relay to the Internet if users policies allow. Unless people want other people unlocking their doors through the Internet, and they explicitly say it, Internet connection can not be mandated.

Networking ignoramus here. Are you suggesting the device could be prohibited from accessing the internet directly, and would be required to relay through a separate device (presumably with better security assurances)? Because that sounds like a good idea.

Are there off-the-shelf firewall (or whatever) products that do this already? Quarantine the IoT devices and limit them to whitelisted, curated endpoints?
PSA don't sharpen or strop in your kitchen- it's a dirty business. You will have invisible metal shavings (chromium, nickel) that make it into your food and strop compound is made of aluminum oxide and chromium oxide.
yeah, I'll post it on my linkedin. If you gave me your email, I'll send a copy of the linkedin post after I post it, along with the survey stats.

Here's the preliminary data of those who've responded so far:

https://i.imgur.com/5dMMHyp.png
London is still the best in the EU for tech salaries. They’re just flat and have been so for the last year.

33k is pretty low for cyber security but there is this: https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/30/hm-treasury-listed-head-of-cy...
Somewhat ironically, I was chastised by my manager at a FAANG for delegating architectural responsibility to my tech lead.
This is the danger of living somewhere with low salaries but justifying it by low cost of living and robust government welfare.

Once the rug is pulled and cost of living goes up or the government sucks you’re screwed. If you had a high salary you could just pay your way out of this mess yourself.
Lucid CEO’s $379M pay draws criticism from Elon Musk
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I can't speak to your circumstances but even graduate engineers in the East/south-east of England wouldn't get out of bed for <£50k. Maybe you need to move.
None of those things would be nearly as effective as what seems to be the unthinkable: building more housing.
Naturally made, yes. the specific process called "grown" would better apply if there was, say, a plastic bottle-fruiting plant, but whether that plant was designed by humans or simply found by them in the environment does not change whether it is natural.

There is no such thing as natural versus unnatural, this dichotomy is a holdover from the time when we believed there was another plane of reality outside or distinct from the "natural" universe, which was somehow tainted by flaws unique to humans, being creatures with one foot in both realities.

I realize it sounds like a technically correct Internet argument of the nitpick variety, but I think that the norm of asseting an unchallenged bias toward "natural," and against "artificial," could use a general reassessment as it is constantly exploited by people using this ultimately baseless distinction as a way to bias opinion uncritically toward one kind of behavior or another.
How about don't add a random tag to the url so you don't submit a dupe of the one from earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392515
To me, the two have served a similar but non-overlapping function. There’s stuff I’ve find a lot easier to bring up in therapy, or bring up in therapy and then talk to friends about when I feel more comfortable.
Not a few bucks, but for 10 percent of the valuation/retail price:

https://www.konkurser.dk/search/?s=diamant

It is in Danish, but it is bankruptcy auctions, the high price is the valuation (typically the retail price before bankruptcy), the low price is the final highest bid, all in DKK.
> Good news for the rest of us is that most people don't take such a simplistic view

Oh yes because they’ve proven this time and again.

I dont like the tories, i think they are corrupt and incompetent. But they are likely to lower taxes because they have no other selling point.

Labour on the other hand…has no competence in generating growth. Their only plan is that of anyone without a plan: raise taxes. They say they wont but how else can they finance all they promise?

And given the lack of competence on both sides the most complex choice is voting for someone that lets me decide what i want to do with my money. Many folks are afraid of this level of freedom.

The simplistic notion that the government knows better wont fly with this over burdened tax payer.

Oh and those business rates. Guess you expect the government will hire you because that will be the only option if they keep raising them at this rate. Hopefully the NHS gets privatised so we get a relief soon.
the game shown is 20 years old. (midnight club 2.)

the real question is whether this was done to get the game or to get around the cd key requirement. don’t need those on steam. someone at rockstar did the needful.
One is best not to make any decisions on how something will be in the future. This goes for pre ordering games, to buying software licenses, to opensource contributions.

People contributed to the software as it was licensed then, and this software is still available under the open source license and can’t be taken away. Unfortunately that gives no guarantees about future versions or versions that never got made.
If tests are very low quality it is the same as no tests. (so recursion here).

If tests are low quality, they somehow managed to pass the code review. So, I would have more wider questions to the project, knowing this.

Adjusting tests require 10% during refactor? Yes, it is fine (getting some uncovered rare regression bug in prod is not fine).

Manual testing after refactor? No, it is not fine (and manual testing should be automated before the refactor. With end-to-end/integration testing. In the ideal world).

Sadly, it all depends on managers, many projects are just "Just doo it", so nobody cares about keeping the tests sane.

Oh yea, flaky, weird, non-documented tests would increase load by 40% to the new devs and that is true evil.
You have to wait for the deals that occur regularly. At least here in Costco Mexico so I assume these also happen in the US.

My wife got an M1 Air for less than $700 some months ago.
iPhone and iPad apps will be available in the Vision Pro App Store by default
"By default" means the app owner does not need to give permission or do any work for an iOS or iPadOS app to appear in the Vision Pro's App Store.

How much of an advantage does this give the Vision Pro over competing products / ecosystems?
The hard part is stopping the self-defense at armed individuals. And not escalating from armed individuals to armed gangs. From armed gangs to criminal organizations capable of challenging the state. From criminal organizations to regional warlords replacing the state. And from regional warlords to conquerors establishing a new state.
My local paper still does a good job of covering a variety of topics fairly and non-partisanly. Albeit it a day late and with paper-thin coverage. However, their staff has been cut so razor thin that most of the articles are from syndication.

I read Money Stuff from Matt Levine everyday, if for no other reason than it's a good read.

And if you want random, Peter Zeihan has been posting videos daily where he goes into depth on a geopolitical news topic a day. SUPER fraught, but highly informative.

News in general is usually very low-quality across the board these days. There are very few local beat reporters anymore, and nearly every major paper ditched their foreign bureau. Everything has been replaced with shared wire services so there is no corroboration of stories. If there is even a story - for the most part, all we are getting is official government press releases, press conferences, and random collections of anecdotes.
I’m in the USA but if I don’t put my house into trust for my kid then he has to go through probate and spend tens of thousands to get it when I die. I agree corporations and investors shouldn’t own houses just for investment purposes, but you also need some amount of rentals allowed because not everyone wants to buy a home. I’m not sure where it is, but there’s a fine line separating the moral investment into houses from immoral rent seeking.
Landlords and foreign investors.
Development of flapping wing robot and vision-based obstacle avoidance strategy
We also have changing legal frameworks for the free movement of capital, the repatriation of profit and the free movement of labor. Fairly sure that if you fully explained the actual repercussions of these, folks in a democracy would not vote for them either. But we got them anyway.
My theory is the change in cultural demographics. European/North American parents find it weird to help their kids buy housing. In Chinese culture, that is very much the norm. My Indian friend will get his down payment from his parents.

So people don't need to buy housing with their own resources in many cases. It can also include the resource of two more people, or even 6 more people (grandparents chip in).
Not generally bought by salaries. Family money, investments…
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...
Anthony actually has a sense of responsibility, which is commendable.
Do advanced civilizations know we're here?