skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science is about explaining the data, and "the data" includes our perceptions of the world. In fact, that is all that we have direct access to. So... our perceptions of the world include a constant stream of overwhelming evidence that the world is classical, a 3-D space inhabited by objects that exist in particular places at particular times. So when evidence comes along that this isn't actually true, it can cause some pretty severe cognitive dissonance, and at best it demands an explanation of why the world appears classical even though it isn't. That has nothing to do with science being "about the internal world as well as the external world." Science is about explaining the data. The (hypothetical) existence of internal and external worlds is part of one possible explanation.
Apparently Quino's much loved Mafalda [0] is influenced by and includes explicitly a nod to Periquita [1], a Latinized version of Nancy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda

[1] https://mafalda.fandom.com/es/wiki/Periquita
In Tokyo you can lock your luggage still in various places. And you can get a cheaper and higher standard cubicle type of room superior to these beds, with more valuable free or cheap amenities. I believe there’s a “nomad visa” in the works as well
I disagree that airport security is "security theater".

To support this claim I present data on airline hijackings from 1990 to 2021: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Graph-showing-the-Number...

Those numbers are even more striking when viewed against the tremendous increase in flights over that time period and there is a multitude of reasons why hijackings have decreased, but the ever-so-slightly increased chance of interception at a security checkpoint is assuredly one of them.

And a list of airline bombing incidents 1933-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_a...

There have been no fatalities due to bombs on an American airline since Pan Am 103, and as someone who was flying prior to and immediately after Flight 103, I can assure you that TSA-era post-9/11 security measures are nothing (thanks to advances in screening technology) compared to post-103 security measures.

Except for shoes and belts, most of the security pains people dislike are a result of the Lockerbie Bombing.

And with PreCheck you can keep your shoes on ;-)
> Rent gets raised by $500 because someone else would actually pay that much.

In many cases, rent gets raised by $500 for the unit to be vacant so the landlord can claim to have $500 more in revenue per month (and get loans on that).

In some parts of the country - you have >50% of units in large population centers owned and/or operated by just a few companies.

Like KSA reducing oil supply by 10% to increase prices 5% - sometimes strange things make sense when you have a cartel.

In SF, I had many friends have their rent raised by 10% - move out - the unit sit vacant for 6 months, and then the price reduced back to what it was and still be vacant.

I wouldn't assume any time landlords are raising prices - it's because they had a bidding war on the unit and someone's paying more.
Sorry for Kaku's old age decline, but not gonna waste my time listening to this crank. Has he been officially diagnosed with dementia yet?

edit: you are right, I just flew over the article.
ChatGPT 3.5 or 4? The difference between them is much more massive than "0.5" appears to suggest
Just a bystander with a curious question..

Is it possible to avoid async with Rust when you use most common 3rd party libraries? such as ones to make API requests, database connectors, date/time, logging, deal with special kind of files etc.? or are we talking "the burden is on the user to set feature flags and carefully choose which crates they import into their projects"?

Is it possible to set up the Rust toolchain to not allow async in a project at all?
>But my Wifi router only gets 650 down with the phone using it as a stand.

I cant speak to WiFi, but on the long range wireless stuff I work with the hardware does almost as poorly with signal levels that are too high as signal levels that are too low. Putting your phone literally on top of the WiFi router is likely not going to be a best case test scenario.
Well, what rate do you get through your router over a wired connection?

That is, is the problem with your Wifi connection the Wifi, or your ISP or service plan?
I have done something like this with my kindle. I then got kind of mad at myself for doing something so utilitarian. I wrote a little script to instead generate random wordle playthroughs, display that, be happy with the code... then immediately throw the kindle in my drawer.

Still, "generate a static image from a computer and send it to a display at a certain rate" is an underrated way to do fun things
My heart made a little jump when I saw this, I've been working on this project for years and I do not take it for granted that my users are starting to recommend the product.

I am here to answer any questions anyone might have.

There are some more pictures on the shop page here: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
Because this method of judging inflation by using “equivalent” substitutes completely ignores the change in quality of life.

Real inflation is what happens when my behavior doesn’t change at all, but my costs increase.

If I keep making adjustments to my behaviors then I’m just trying to counteract inflation, it doesn’t mean inflation isn’t happening.
It was just after the insurgency ended but there was definitely a massive pushback on anything even slightly communist/socialist running through both countries that still exists to this day. Singapore was a very new country at the time and despite the split with Malaysia the two were pretty much in lockstep and highly integrated on issues like the emergency/civil war.

Both countries were basically expecting it to break out again for decades after.
No type of art is for everyone, and this will have plenty of "it's not art, it's just a performance" detractors.

I'm not qualified to make these judgements nor I car for them.

But I think too, that's extremely hard to ignore her experimental work in studying the relationship between a performance and the audience.

She's been an absolutely terrific pioneer in the field and her work will certainly outlive her.
Right, are you sure it was unscripted?

I'm just saying I'd be totally aware it's an art exhibit and not do anything stupid because of potential hidden cameras.

Seems the "result" of the experiment is conveniently implying that humans by nature are evil which is just not true.
The peanut gallery could (and does) say this about 1000 little features that 1000 different people claim to be so necessary that OpenAI is incompetent for not having, yet none of those people agree that those other features are priorities.
> I don't know, for me, the link posted here seems to be a tweet thread, and each post in the thread shows a screenshot of some of the post.

I'm not seeing a thread, just the single tweet with a single screenshot.
Thanks! I wasn't sure if it's touch-screen (like e.g. Kindle) or an entirely passive unit; so for example if it's showing this week, can a user scroll on the unit to see what's coming next week? :)
Not useless to a candidate, since they know they will earn at least $100k. This is a very useful signal to the labor market as a whole.
Its hard to find the same compensation, but I absolutely do not regret it.

No commute, less stress, lower tax brackets and cost of living, ditched one of my cars (i.e. no maintenance, no insurance, no car tax), plus way more free time. Not eating out as much and being able to cook at home has saved me a ton of money and had a net health benefit -- less calories, and less booze, too.
Show HN: Rust Jobs
> Reminder that a lot of battery-powered devices really don't like to be connected to power all the time.

Shitty ones don't, yeah. A thing you can do with those is remove the battery fully, so it's not being recharged/used at all.
Curious - which individuals benefit from housing values rising? It seems like if you own a home, and it gets more expensive, you have more money on paper, but how do you benefit from that? If you sell your house and buy another, you wont make more money - your profit theoretically wouldn't change. Same with selling and renting if rents are going up as well.

Is it primarily then people who invest in real estate outside of their primary home?
yeah thats because the building was centrally planned, which is always a worse choice than just allowing the market to work itself out. It doesnt detract from the mind numbingly obvious statement that increasing supply decreases prices.
I've noticed that MERGE in MSSQL can have a performance penalty as opposed to have separate insert and update statements.
Ah, I think I got your question now; you mean to ask; "What makes you think that all that wealth is not rightly earned by the rich people. They are producing value, that's why they are rich."

At least that my interpretation, let me know if I got that wrong.

Sure, let's have a look at

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...

We can assume that industrious, ingenious people with the will to to greatness come from all parts of society equally. If productivity and ingenuity were the driver of wealth, we would conclude that throughout all economic layers of society, we have a constant percentage of people that are getting richer, i.e. that they get to earn more value than their parents.

If we look at the date we see that this was roughly the case for the 1940ies cohort. With each next cohort, people from lower-income households not only have a lower chance of moving up the socioeconomic ladder, but also a reduced share of total wealth.

At the same time you see agglutination of wealth in the upper levels of society.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/top-1-ear...

Go figure.
Something that always bothers me about "Use Postgres as a queue" (something I would suggest, even) is that there are shockingly few people publishing numbers around this. How am I supposed to know what scale I can handle with this solution? I've seen so, so few benchmarks, and maybe no recent benchmarks - a problem since performance has significantly changed across versions.
Blind is a good idea for a site but it is just so much worse than reddit for actually having discussions. Also pretty toxic community.
Depends how sophisticated the attack is. Plenty of attacks aren’t. I could have been clearer in my comment, but what I meant was “can protect” not “guaranteed protection”, I apologise if it was taken that way.

On the topic of phishing and OTPs, storing the OTP in your password manager could actually help with phishing (opposed to storing it in an authenticator), because it will only autofill on the correct domain. This can be the difference between compromising a password or the whole account.
You're right, the solution has been fixed as of this April (which I didn't realize until I went looking - thank you!) But up until then, Lexington had a huge housing shortage and skyrocketing prices, with strictly enforced zoning which basically banned all new housing construction. Teachers in the local schools were looking at a housing situation where prices started at around 30x their annual salaries.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/13/business/with-high-co...
Whoa, I had no idea (obviously). Note, that article is out of date, instead of the G icon, now it's a four-square icon. I don't know why they're not just using a standard hamburger icon, but whatever.
> Adequate food and water and shelter is available to everyone.

How do you square this with things like the huge reductions in childhood food insufficiency we saw with the expanded child tax credit? Presumably if all these food insecure parents were rejecting the wealth of free food for their children because they couldn't use it to buy drugs wouldn't they just use the CTC to buy drugs?

https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/publication/2021/expa...
Weird - maybe they should have voted en masse for the party that is bent on cutting government benefits.
same, maybe because I'm logged out of X.
> I will point out that this example of inflation seems to be mostly just price gouging by the big brands.

I think price gouging is a major part of all inflation we're seeing. Nothing "just" about it; it's the central problem. Corporate profits are at an all-time high, while prices rise and lots of people struggle to get by.

The only reason it's happening is because corporations think they can get away with it. There's not enough players on the market for someone to be willing to compete on price; it's all one giant cartel.
Myself as well, but that information is out there and easily found through payroll subscription services.
AIU the package for Windows Store contains msil, then Windows Store figures out what to do with it.
Bitwarden is not perfect, but calling `pass` "easy" is comical - especially for those of us sharing passwords with far less technical family members - and 1Password has a very opinionated UI that seems to get more in the way than anything. I find Bitwarden to strike a good balance between security, price, and design.

That said, I do share in the concern about the funding and exec changes.
I find py-spy really useful in python, it would be neat if you integrated with that somehow.
> such as ones to make API requests,

instead of reqwest you use ureq crate

> database connectors

can't answer at this time

> date/time

chrono crate has nothing to do with async

> logging

log crate with env_logger crate has nothing to do with async. pushing to something like elasticsearch instead of letting filebeat scrape your stdout is a different story

> deal with special kind of files etc.?

std::fs came first, the async stuff on top that recreate it in an async fashion came later. i'm pretty sure if you are dealing with a big file you can do std::fs with a "stream reader" basically
TFA is presented as an interview. It's not clear to me who is asking the questions, and who is answering.
I might port some of my algorithms to this!
You can no longer see full threads without being logged in. The linked tweet is the first in a thread of 16.
> we're building like crazy all over North America.

No, we really haven't been. It doesn't seem to be well appreciated just how deeply housing construction collapsed at the end of the 2000's and has only recently returned to something approximating the long-term averages. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

However, there's a still a whole lot of deficit from the decade of underproduction to make up for in that sense.

As you sort of get at - housing production "where the jobs are" has been far shakier. Many of the metro areas that did the best with job creation in the previous decade were among the worst with housing creation. SV, Boston, NYC, etc.
His surprise and comment that it was unexpected and done on the first try without much force says a lot more than exact science numbers to me.
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
> No way immigration doesn't help

Traditionally, it has been helping. It's not been helping for a couple of years now.

> strong shifts to an economy like this come with a lot of short term pain. and no one is willing to setdown and deal with 10 years of poor economy so that the future of the country is better.

This is the problem in a nutshell, we need to make changes and we can't stomach it politically.
Supply and demand go together. To talk about one and not the other is simply wrong. If demand was constant or only slightly increasing we wouldn’t have a shortage.

The shortage is more demand driven than people want to acknowledge and so we can’t even begin to solve the problem since it’s not accurately defined. It’s a demand issue, so the solution has become price increases. There will never be enough houses in Malibu to meet the world’s demand and have those houses also be affordable. If we let millions of new demanders into the market each year, prices have to rise because you can’t fit the worlds population in Malibu.
You can filter unwanted topics out. I don't filter many out, but there are a few that I really need to hide to protect my equanimity.

One thing I like on Tildes is that people talk about sports on Tildes but not HN and I'd say sports is a mostly harmless topic.
well said. It might seem like semantics but I think getting people to think of science using the way you defined it would resolve a lot of these debates (plus many other other fashionably nonsensical ideas)
Agreed!

I believe price gouging is behind most of the inflation we’ve encountered the last couple years. Companies reduced the workforce, forced the remaining employees to maintain the same amount of production and increased prices. They then turned around and gushed to shareholders about their record profits.
1Password’s additional secret password to log in is an absolute non-starter for our corporation.

I could barely understand it myself let alone explain it to our lowest understanding employees.
Obviously it was a concerted effort to reduce the power of tech workers across the industry.

Other explanations are disingenuous.
Please note that bitwarden server is floss too - vaultwarden is just a simpler backend to self-host (and without a dependency on Microsoft SQL server):

https://github.com/bitwarden/server

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
this was depicted in 2011:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_On_(House)
People seem to more or less recognize why utilities like electricity and water should be regulated and government-run/non-profit, but why doesn’t that same attitude apply to housing? Housing is at least/more important than access to electricity and potable water yet we rely on companies like KB Home to build housing for this country. They will build as long as it’s good for business, and stop building as long as it’s good for business.
Find an empty building. You and your friends move in. Keep it clean. Plant gardens. Squat like pros. Post regular reports on social media.

Any establishment forces that try to kick you out would look really bad. Court of public opinion would destroy them.

Would this work? Has it been done?
> And then the wedding speech. What are they thinking over there at OpenAI?

They are trying to make their product sound not as terrifying as it actually is.
The Fundamental Forces of Scale
The internet is designed for average people to suck down content, rather than create content. It's why I get 1gbps down but 35mbps up.
I've also identified convenience as a core factor. Another dynamic at play is this:

As convenience in a domain becomes ubiquitous or at least expected among consumers, they quickly readjust their evaluation of "having time for X" around the new expectation of the convenient service, treating all alternatives as positive opportunity cost. This would explain a lot of those folks who are upset when it's suggested that they don't need Amazon, Instacart, etc. in their lives if they are to do something about their contributions to mass labor exploitation.

Of course these conveniences quickly become ubiquitous in large economies with a glut of disposable income, which encourages VCs to dump money into these enterprises so they're first to market, and also to encourage the public to believe that the future is already here and there's no reason to worry about backsliding or sustainability of the business model. Yet in every single case we see prices eventually rise, laborers squeezed, etc. A critical mass of people haven't yet acknowledged this inevitability, in no small part due to this fixation on convenience at the expense of more objective, reasoned understandings (read: post-truth mindset).
You could, but you would implicitly give them titles and have different expectations.

No one is expecting a junior to define the technical roadmap for the next 6 months and coordinate it's implementation across 5 teams* and be the final judge on disagreements.

Edit: typo
That makes sense. So it's okay for companies to advertise to NY citizens, for jobs in other states, without complying with this rule.
Kobo are super easy to hack. There are a lot of examples in the mobileread forum: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_eReader_hacks#Writing_...
It turns out compiled binary libraries take space, go figure.
I saw it as a commentary on how society treats the weak or less powerful. Some, but importantly not all, of us will exercise our power and will over other people, given the opportunity. The motivations for why some might choose to assert dominance over someone with less power could be interesting territory to explore in this piece, or perhaps a different one.
Without a perfect framework for differential diagnosis, this is still educated guessing. In my opinion we're closer to the AI singularity than we are to removing guesswork from the medical field.
There's a clear difference between skepticism and cynicism. I don't think one needs to be a cynic to be skeptical about outlandish or otherwise scientifically unproven claims (i.e. religion). If we are to look at the greek roots/ schools of thought. Cynics were engaged in finding fault in everything whereas Skeptics were thought to doubt claims (even those generally held true) and requiring substantial proof.

I don't know enough about your world view or anything, but you don't sound like a cynic.

Read more here: https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/skepticism-cynicism.php
I can't find the source for where I read this, but I thought a large part of their financial crisis was because they were designing lots of sets with custom bricks that weren't reused in other sets, which inflated manufacturing costs, and now they've gone back to reusing bricks between sets heavily. Maybe you have lots of bricks from that period? Or what exactly do you mean by "standard"? I've seen some pretty clever uses for the same brick in different sets where the brick might not be considered "standard" by you.
The GP I was responding to called for drivers written in managed C#, so .NET Native/AOT/C++ are the thing they want to move away from. The example code Microsoft provides (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...) is all plain and simple C# with XAML UI.

I suppose you could write these tools in VB.NET or F# if you wanted to as well, but the goal seems to be to avoid memory and security risks in the printer framework by forcing everything into the nice and safe managed environment. Of course developers could always introduce vulnerable code into a managed environment if they wanted to, but most people don't intentionally make their programs more insecure, not even printer manufacurers.
But the (geometric) midpoint between 100k and 1MM is $316,227 which might be surprising to some.
>Higher bandwidth should also make connection more robust

Nope. Higher bandwidth could mean two things:

Larger channel size: larger channels have a higher noise floor and are are therefore less robust

Faster throughput: Faster throughput generally means larger channels (as above) or various techniques to get more bits/Hz (such as more complex modulation), both of which are less robust
can't backup to usb?