skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will point out that this example of inflation seems to be mostly just price gouging by the big brands.

I've seen a similar price increase in the branded cereals, so I am not disagreeing with you in that sense.

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However, the store brand cereals, which are cheaper, haven't really gone up at all. At this point the branded product is more than double the unit cost of the store/no-name brand version in my local stores.

This suggests to me that it's not an actual increase in the cost of producing the product. If it was driven by commodity/input/manufacturing cost prices we should be seeing price pressures coming through in the cheapest cereals.
And for this reason I think that LEGO actually kind of sucks now compared to when I was a kid. I think it's far more difficult for my kids to just start building something because all the bricks that they get from the LEGO sets are special. At one point we sat down and separated out all the "standard" bricks from the special ones and put them in a separate container and that has made them more interested in starting creative builds on their own.

I think LEGO's financial crisis in the late 90's and early 00's ended when they started making more themed bricks, especially licensed themes such as Star Wars. And this is the problem: In order for LEGO to be profitable they need to keep producing novelty sets rather than sets with standard bricks, and that is fundamentally at odds with being sustainable
I want to repurpose an older Kobo as a multipurpose boardgame accessory (e.g. with dice, a bunch of custom card decks, etc.)

Do you have any pointers on where to start?
+1

I use BW for my personal use with my SO and 1P at work. I hit some errors in 1P that were crypting, stuff like "Failed to add this record" with no details, no help button, I had to fire up the chrome console for the extension to find out it was a 401 to our 1P portal. Very poor experience, probably related to our SSO setup but still.

Never had any weird issue like this with BW and I love the autofill shortcut and the absence of a popup when I access a password field like 1P.

So yea, YMMV as usual but definitely not miles ahead.
Like most AI nowadays, they are attempting to substitute data and pattern matching for reasoning and intelligence --- because this is what binary logic is good at.

And it often just does not work. A human doesn't need a stored pattern of every possible scenario in order to make judgments in real time. And they don't "freeze" or hit the brakes whenever they see something they don't have a pattern for.

Most accidents with current self driving cars are rear end collisions --- typically blamed (erroneously) on the other human driver involved. In reality, these accidents are precipitated by the self driving car hitting it's brakes for no reason that the surrounding human drivers can see, understand or anticipate.

Interpreted more reasonably (i.e. by someone other a self driving manufacturer), the available statistics show that self driving cars aren't nearly as safe as human drivers.
If I was a kid today, I'd be pissed about those things yes, but I'd be more pissed that we're destabilizing the global climate system. I'm not so surprised about the fertility collapse; I'm more surprised that anyone still has children at all.
It's more that streaming services, even Netflix, stutter. The hardware doesn't have decoders built-in, or they only have Windows drivers, or the resolution is too much to handle. So the owners go back to EOL Windows versions or throw it in the trash and buy new, disposably priced machines.
I agree. I worry my culture is truly losing sight of what’s good in life. I don’t mean that as in “I know what’s best and everyone’s doing it wrong”, because I fully acknowledge that I can’t know what’s best for others. Yet I watch my friends and family work hard at things they don’t claim to value, I watch them lose life to scrolling and tv and movies they don’t actually enjoy, and I watch them lament that they don’t see their friends as much as they’d like, they don’t have enough time at home, kids are so much work, etc.

We have major priority issues from what I can see. If we want to live our lives more but put an AI to work doing something we tend to claim we place very high in our value hierarchy, we’re effectively inviting death into life. We’re forfeiting something we love. That’s incredibly sad to me.
Or they can simply plan to let you go long before the options vest. Now, you may or may not have a legal case, but the difficulty in that is extreme.
When I wrote my own background task queue I looked at Postgres, because it was already in use in the stack. Postgres would work for a simple queue, but supporting queue priorities, delayed/eta tasks, and broadcast tasks was too complicated. I decided on Redis, and it's scaled very well over the last year:

https://github.com/wakatime/wakaq

We currently process ~20 million tasks per day, and I don't have to worry about running VACUUM on my queue ;)
> We should have an official runtime, officially managed, and guided by the same thoughts that guide the rest of the language.

Agreed, it feels like we're in a worst-of-both-worlds situation. On one hand, tokio is relied upon by thousands of crates, and is very opinionated, meaning it's hard to innovate in the async space. On the other hand, tokio isn't a real standard, so we still get ecosystem fragmentation.
Did they make the sound robotic on purpose? Sounds more "autotuned" than elevenlabs.
Rust for Mission Critical Applications
When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, in the US, we learned both systems. Rulers had inches and centimeters. All packaging had both units. All highways signs had both units.

I don't know why we "regressed," other than to say that when you live with both units, you realize that some metric units are silly, and some metric units make a lot more sense. More specifically, requiring that all units be merely powers of 10 of each other makes it very hard to use the most appropriate unit for the scale you need. (Don't believe me? Why do we have 24 hours in a day? 7 days in a week? 356.25 days in a year?)

IE, it's a lot easier to estimate short distances using feet or millimeters; but kilometers makes a lot of sense for long distances. Understanding "the weather" makes more sense in Fahrenheit, but general science makes more sense in Celsius.
XMPP for end-user chat systems. While loving XMPP, other systems reduce the headaches I swore weren't as bad as they really were.
In this video we learn the solution of how to query the user for all the inputs for all the operations and how to execute the operations and display the results to the user. You will also continue to practice and learn the techniques of how to debug your code, identify, find bugs and fix them.

Always consider if your code is getting very logically demanding. Causes high cognitive complexity. Also called the cone of shame or pyramid of doom. Refactor very deep code into smaller, simpler functions.

Data conversions and limits of data types.
Windows kernel uses UTF-16, so reencoding happens anyway, even if you don't know about it.
Yeah, I’m definitely keeping an eye on it because I like the way it manages wireguard clients more, but it’s still pretty rough.
Is that why Japan's elderly are all homeless?
Or "levels" are a low-granularity schema that can't box in how people actually work in their jobs.

The reality is that every person working in a position brings different things to the table. While larger businesses create defined level boxes and paths, they're really very rough and imprecise ways to describe people and often do a disservice to people who work hard but not in the way that the boxes "expect."

So there are definitely cases when we see people's compensation out of sync with their level (in either direction) and it's sometimes a product of the company recognizing the value of an employee but having levels and tiers that don't match the employee exactly.

Some companies, for example, tie higher pay to a management/leadership ladder. But you can be a solid-contributing or 10x or whatever software developer without going down the leadership road.
It increasingly feels to me like building any kind of general-use AI tool or app is a bad choice. I see two viable AI business models:

1. Domain-specific AI - Training an AI model on highly technical and specific topics that general-purpose AI models don't excel at.

2. Integration - If you're going to build on an existing AI model, don't focus on adding more capabilities. Instead, focus on integrating it into companies' and users' existing workflows. Use it to automate internal processes and connect systems in ways that weren't previously possible. This adds a lot of value and isn't something that companies developing AI models are liable to do themselves.

The two will often go hand-in-hand.
They're focused on scaling to meet the current (overwhelming) demand. Given the 'if you build it, they will come' dynamic they're experiencing, any focus on marketing would be a waste of resources.
Typically the highest paid labourers are all people with relatively transparent salaries.
- CEOs
- Athletes

Also things with salary transparency (i.e. Unions / Guilds) results in hirer wages for their members compared to similar workers without the things.

It's also in line between with the basic principals of capitalism. The basic supply-demand graph assumes perfect information which is obviously not true when a job-seeker doesn't know the salary of a job they're seeking so you'll end up with mismatches in the job-supply and job-demand.
Yeah I remember watching that and thinking oh I know a cool app idea. What if you just take a video of what food is in your kitchen and Chat GPT will create a recipe for you. I go to the docs and that was literally the example they gave.

I think the only place where plugins will make sense are for realtime things like booking travel or searching for sports/stock market/etc type information.
You can get an external blu ray drive powered off the USB connection for not much, maybe $50 but I haven't checked recently. I was recently in a vacation rental and easily plugged my laptop via HDMI cable to the large screen TV, worked great for watching disc-based movies.
Yeah, I'm assuming that's either some sort of city sponsored safe parking program or the cops get rid of them every now and then.

I want a more upscale van life experience where it's working people and nice facilities.
Looking at figure 20 of the blog, my feeling is that the response surface produced the decision tree is too jagged and overfit. Maybe I overestimate the importance of smoothness in the function fit?
The Strategy of Dating Short Men
I don't know Next.js, but was that feature introduced later than 2021? I think both GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 largely share their datasets, and it has the data cutoff at roughly September 2021 (with a small amount of newer knowledge). This is their biggest drawback as of now to, say, Claude, which has a much newer dataset of early 2023.
Coming back to answer my own question

We left nothing on Bennu but a 26ft crater and a cloud of debris that was gravitationally bound to Bennu.

No part of the lander was left behind
Are rental prices falling?

If not, I suggest that the root problem is still not enough houses.
Agreed. After using ChatGPT at all Siri is absolutely frustrating.

Example from a couple days ago:

Me, in the shower so not able to type: "Hey Siri, add 1.5 inch brad nails to my latest shopping list note."

Siri: "Sorry, I can't help with that."

... Really, Siri? You can't do something as simple as add a line to a note in the first-party Apple Notes app?
I have heard that the failure rate of police action (that results in a fatality) is similar to that of the likelihood of an aircraft accident/crash.

If this were true, how should society deal with messaging by the media that analogously paints pilots as potential killers?
Remote work / flexible schedules has changed how people use their homes. Older homes are not what people want to buy these days. People want a home that they can both live and work in. One in which both partners can possibly work from home at the same time. One that makes caring for kids easier while they work from home.

They also want to have media rooms as fewer people go to theaters and more people stream movies from home. Also private pools are still a popular choice, but more so after covid made public pool use off limits.

So of course new construction is expensive now. Because new floor plans are in demand.
Yes you are! You’ve let IP rights holders rot your brain.

Are you aware that there are publicly funded buildings in most towns in the US that permit you to rent one or multiple books without a monthly subscription fee? And that the late fees charged by those institutions do not share any of those revenues with the author? And that this model has been around for hundreds of years?
Because a small group of wealthy individuals own pretty much everything and charge everybody else as much rent as possible.

That was always the plan. That's the name of the game.

I think it's called "late stage capitalism".
a) Housing is only a viable investment because of a shortage. If housing supply met housing demand, housing would be a depreciating asset.

b) Investors turn around and rent/sell those houses, so they aren't actually eating into housing supply. What they are reducing the supply of is the bottom level of the rent seeking pyramid. Property ownership is simply so profitable that the average person now can't afford to buy in.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble
Annnnd... already rolled back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66909729
>One of those intrigued was Igor Adameyko, a developmental neurobiologist at the Medical University of Vienna. (A fellow enthusiast of marine biology, he spotted the pictures on Instagram, where he has his own account dedicated to marine zooplankton.)

A definite scientist advanced in marine biology, just employed in a different laboratory profession so technically not an "actual marine biology professional".

>in his lab, Adameyko would like to learn more

>“These are our night science projects, because we want to have fun in the lab,” he says. “The idea is that there are no limits. And if you want to do something cool, you can.”

Careful, having an attitude like that can impart an unfair advantage so strong that it can draw some blowback from many so-called "serious professional" environments.
Percent of 12th Graders Who Have a License, Have Tried Alcohol, Who Go on Dates
When we talk about people abusing ChatGPT in a school context, it’s always for kids in high school or greater education levels. These are individuals that know right from wrong and also have the motor skills and access to use such a tool. These are individuals who are problem-solving for their specific need, which is to get this homework or essay out of the way so that they can do XYZ. Presumably XYZ does not leverage chatgpt. So make that what they spend their time on. At some point they’ll have to back-solve for skills they need to learn and need educational guidance and structure.

This is obviously not easy or going to happen without time and resources, but that is how adaptation goes.
I'm saying someone would behave the exact same way if they did have subjective experience versus if they didn't have a subjective experience. The brain obeys physical laws just like everything else and I claim that all you need is those physical laws to explain everything a human does. I could be wrong there could be some magic fairy dust inside the human brain that performs some impossible computations but I doubt it.
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Which part of the tech industry would want to do so? Every VC/tech exec wants a monopoly like Google.
> The question would be if vaccine followed by covid infection produced more or less spike proteins (and overall health impact) than no vaccine followed by covid infection.

The answer is "most likely more" given the IgG4 class switch. ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798 )

This is a "stand down" class for allergens, so your body doesn't overreact.
I presume it does, but would only need charging once every couple of months. If it's going to be in a fixed position, e.g., on a desk, then it could just be left plugged in.
ChatGPT Can Now Speak and See
I should have mentioned, for those who don't know it. This is a WebKit based browser that uses vim keybindings.
10ms is one hundred requests per second. Get ten users using your site at the same time and you are in trouble, because a single link does more than load just one request.
I'm responding to OP's comment on eminent domain.

Eminent Domain in the US is a de facto nonstarter based on past recent litigation.

The HDB programs in both SG and HK were able to succeed thanks to strong eminent domain laws by governments not immediately beholden to public sentiment.

It was the right call, but one that can't be done in the US circa 2023.

Also, Coldstone was after the Malayan Emergency and after SG was kicked out of the Malaysia, though this was also the era of Konfrontasi.
In my experience, for at least the first year, there is no replacing women as the de facto parent responsible for childcare due to breastfeeding, and the child’s emotional needs.

Well into the post breastfeeding toddler years, no one but my wife would have been able to satisfy the needs of my kids, and I feel like that is probably nature more than nurture. Mothers should be given at least a year of bonding leave, and fathers too just so the market does not reward men over women.
My performance is way better than most hedge funds
I think the citrus hops give enough of a bitter aftertaste to mask the absence of alcohol. I can't imagine a red or golden ale doing the same, the malt would make it taste like Horlicks.
Japan has an over-abundance of housing.
Emailing users when a new feature is enabled for their account isn't even the kind of thing that would distract an existing very busy developer.

You could literally hire an entirely new guy, give him instructions to build such an email system, and let him put the right triggers on the user account permissions database to send out the right emails at the right time.

And then, when it's built, you can start adding more features like sending the emails only when demand is low and/or at times of day when you get the best click through rate. And then next you can start measuring the increase in revenue from sending those emails.

Before long, you have a whole marketing and comms team. Which you probably want as a big company anyway.
Production has definitely increased, but wages (and therefore things like income taxes to fund welfare for the elderly) haven't scaled with the increase in production. Pages like these (https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/) have a whole bunch of numbers and graphs detailing the difference.

Increasing productivity doesn't fix the loss of workers per retiree if the profits of that productivity only flow to the top. This can be fixed, but I don't expect a massive increase in wages at the cost of shareholder returns happening any time soon. I think it's more likely that those who haven't saved and invested enough to compensate for the shifting economic landscape (or those who made bad investments) will just end up with a lower standard of living than the previous generations of retirees.
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Thanks! It turns out "gamut mapping" was the special keyword I needed to be searching for. Immediately I was able to find the coloraide library which does everything I need it to: convert colors from CMYK to CAM16-UCS, adjust the CAM16-UCS value by some perceptual attribute, map the new CAM16-UCS value back to CMYK and adjust it again if the new value does not fit in the CMYK gamut.

https://facelessuser.github.io/coloraide
Docker can be used to provide a plug and play Development environment, even if the result isn't deployed into production as a container.

C++ projects I expect would benefit even more than most from such configurations, reducing the barrier for entry of new contributors by eliminating the environment bootstrap headaches
I had to click on the article to find out who the "Metro police" were. I was wondering if they were an part of PSNI or Police Scotland I'd not heard of.

No-one calls the Metropolitan Police that, they're the Met police (or just "the Met"), or the Metropolitan Police.
You can see the difference if you know where to poke. For instance, if you start making spatial abstractions ChatGPT will often make mistakes, you can point it out, they can explain why it's a mistake, but it has no internalized model of what these words mean, so it keeps making the same mistakes (see here for a better idea of what I'm talking about[1]). The fact that you are interacting with it through text means that a lot of the missing abstractions are often hidden.

[1] https://twitter.com/LowellSolorzano/status/16444387969250385...
California governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks
The positives of easy translation seem outweighed by the negatives of giving biolabs easy protein hacking.
If you’re not up for DIY, I’ve been using a unit from https://www.invisible-computers.com/ for years and I love it. Not affiliated; just a happy customer.
100%.
When the alternate to remote is a return to hodge hodge seating in an open floor plan - or worse, hoteling in an open floor plan.. its all theatre.

Seating staff level engineers next to the desktop support row, or C-suite admin row, and other loud areas with no virtuous "informal learning" overlap was the norm at my last company.

You also get to sit near idiots who want to debate politics all day or talk about the latest TV shows and sportsball. A day in the office without top of the line noise cancelling headphones is essentially a negative productivity day.

CEOs want to treat many of us like cattle into pens.
I think the reason marketing and journalists use "boomers" is that they can then spend a paragraph explaining what a boomer is. Born in the 40s, born in the 50s, born in the 60s, born in the 70s would have saves us so much ink for the last 80 years, but I think _not_ saving ink was rather the point.
Building any housing is building affordable housing.

Adding one home at the top of the price range, increases the number of affordable homes for someone, somewhere, by at least one.
We would have to change the law to allow the kind of ‘inspiration’ you are talking about, which is why there are multiple lawsuits here. That’s what OpenAI is asking for - redefinition of ‘fair use’. NNs aren’t copying ideas, they train on what copyright calls ‘fixation’ - they deal with text, audio, and pixels, not ideas. We keep hoping and looking for understanding in the NNs, but we have ample evidence that they don’t actually understand much, if anything, they are just really good at copying in a way that make understanding seem plausible to the layperson.
No individual is "most people". Most of the time I spend talking to people in real life is with people whose professional expertise, hobbies, and other sources of knowledge I know at least roughly. I have an idea how good they are at evaluating what they know and how honest they and whether they are prone to wishful thinking.
Yes, platform staff are mostly TSSA, drivers are mostly ASLEF and RMT.

While most of the train strikes over the last year have been RMT primarily, ASLEF and TSSA did vote to strike in support of RMT during the winter. They're both part of the TUC after all.

https://www.cityam.com/newest-strike-wave-to-hit-uk-as-platf...
> it's also a bit weird to create a profile for a new site instead of saving entered data

Doesn't always work reliably with Bitwarden ;)
indeed

at least in the UK employers can't make unilateral contract changes

and things like working from home for 3 years (for everyone) are likely to become implied contract terms even if they're not written down

if you did want to resign as a result it seems like an easy constructive dismissal case