skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several things to note here:

Amazon as a corporate investor - Of course a lot of this is a futures contract on cloud compute. This indicates how much the leadership here thinks the compute will be problem. Money comes way cheaper outside of the big cloud providers (they also know the importance of compute and pull their leverage). This is not a sure bet. While true AGI is probably sitting behind a huge amount of compute, the “products” that are catching on right now are very much on lower end of the spectrum for required model performance. Small models are cheaper and can run on commodity compute. It’s not entirely clear to me that this is a financially sound bet..

Timing - This is an interesting time to do so. That indicates that the company feels that it’s shown some of its best work and right now is the time to bank and on that (so as to make the leap to the next big breakthrough). Openai did so on the heels of ChatGPT. This is somewhat discouraging, because outside of the context length hackery, Anthropic doesn’t have much to show as a differentiator. At best they’re a me-too startup set on the path to be acqui-hired by Amazon when the VC money subsidizing the compute drains up.

Structure/Size - there was a lot of information about the structure of the openai deal. We’re not so clear on what’s happening here. One of the big questions is valuation. Making a similar promise to openai (ie 50% of profit until 100b) would put the valuation of the company in to 10s of billions. Note that this is a very different proposition than a year ago. In navigating the “product maze” we’ve realized that there aren’t that many killer products. Most enterprises are throwing spend in this direction because the board requires you to have an “ai strategy”. At best, we’re talking about capturing all the VC money that’s going into companies with a new angle on knowledge management/search. As I mentioned above, that’s something that’s getting severely commoditized at the bottom of the market. The prospects here are pretty grim .
Thank you for pointing this out.

Houses can be cheap, or they can be a good investment. Not both.

I think I read that here on hacker news a few years ago, and it has stuck with me.
> Unless you are talking mass subsidization there is an absolute floor for providing housing

Sure. We are nowhere close to that floor. Voters who reject supply and demand pay the consequence for their ignorance.
Aside from being able to read the article, I've worked with the kind of crypto used by the USAF. Maybe not the f-35 specifically, but protections like this are both blatantly obvious to anyone who thinks about it for a moment, and generally requiredd.
I agree with you:

but I can get set up with redis, SQS, any of the
'scalable' solutions within a few hours of copy-pasting
commands and code and configuration from a reputable
source

[...] and that makes the engineer's choice to follow faang
look a lot more reasonable.

I also agree with the linked article's overall point, but I think the specific "job queue" example from the article is actually a bad example because:

- "rolling your own" job queue is not rocket science but is nontrivial and easy to get wrong w.r.t. locking etc.

- the argument against taking additional dependencies is that now you have one more tool to master, understand, and manage. but my experience is that job queues like Sidekiq are not a significant overhead in terms of developer burden.
“She shouldn’t have been wearing those kinds of clothes if she didn’t want that to happen.”
It's powered by a USB plug... is there a way to convert PoE to USB power?

And the connectivity is through Wifi. (And Bluetooth during Setup)
Is that the case? Because from what I read:

"Given its strength, titanium is remarkably light. When compared to steel in a strength-to-weight ratio, titanium is far superior. The metal is as strong as steel but remains 45% lighter. In fact, titanium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of all known metals".

And if you see the test, the titanium skeleton doesn't break at all on the bending test, it's the glass part that breaks only.
Learning to socialize with people in general is a useful skill. You are missing out on that opportunity.
There's about 10 million "second homes" in the USA by some estimates, but that doesn't necessary say how they're actually used - some are vacation homes that are empty when not used (and are in locations that are effectively "worthless" except for vacationing) whereas others will be a technically owned second home but actually inhabited by a child or relative of the owner.

The mortgage interest lack-of-deduction for most (because of the increase in the standard deduction) also affects things. What we likely should be doing is making it easier to build second homes and "dump" them on the market even for a bit of a profit, so as to increase supply.
Ironically, with 4K on a good OLED TV, I actually find HDR to be a bigger deal than the res. The res works both ways...stuff that was shot well is gorgeous...but stuff that wasn't filmed so well - you're going to see tons of grain, any dirt on the print, etc.

Black and white films in HDR are gorgeous.. and filmic in a way they've never looked before on home media.

Usually on 4K discs they've been rescanned and restored, but not always, and sometimes even a good restoration job leaves a lot behind.
Let’s take a less conspiratorial view and realize that when everyone showed they could work from home and clamored so vociferously for it to stay after the pandemic, that companies suddenly realized that meant you could pay someone across the world a lot cheaper for the same output, in their mind.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/companies/google-microsoft...

I remember thinking “be careful what you are wishing for my dudes” when tech workers were loudly proclaiming how much work they could get done at home and never coming into the office. That office was your moat and now it’s gone.
The drive to cut staff was to push for a recession, and that was always clear. This same argument is being used to say wages or COVID relief are driving inflation.

The argument about what is causing our current inflation is a battleground for class warfare. But we don't talk about things in that context in this country, because the war (and almost every single battle) is being won by the rich.
Ah yes, apathy my old friend.

We can recognize the various problems that got us here, but when it comes to resolving them, well that’s simply a bridge too far.

Take note: we absolutely have the resources to defeat homelessness and hunger, it’s just not a profitable model.
Viable ROP-free roadmap for i386/armv8/riscv64/alpha/sparc64
I'm not sure I follow. That doesn't seem to be a special property of `main`!
Isn't that the description of that the world did to Yugoslavia since the last decade of the last century? It is purely tragic, I've been to Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia to confirm.

Life imitates art.
Thanks! I'd like to believe that those decisions were incredibly thoughtful, but they're largely Bob Rossian happy accidents.
This isn't worsening living conditions though.

50 years ago, in most places in the US, people shit into pits in the ground covered by a shed with a crescent carved into the door. They had lots of land, and they lived in drafty wooden shacks with, at best, a wood stove to keep them warm. 100 years ago in cities like new York most new immigrants lived in rickety stick buildings and took a shit in shared privies. The fact that it is considered the norm today for every individual to have their own toilet and closet full of clothes is a borderline miracle. A sanitary bed to sleep in, air conditioned, and a living area, that's not good enough for a single person because the bunk isn't queen sized and the living area is shared? I'm not convinced that this is some travesty.
This thing looks like a lot of fun, however it looks like the device is "tethered" to some kind of back-end service you provide, rather than just being a standalone device on the network. Can you explain how communication with the device works?
You can read the full tweet thread sans paywall here:

https://nitter.net/TeamBlind/status/1706266044871086271
It's one thing to be curious as to why they couldn't have housed their mother, but it's possible to ask with empathy and compassion rather than assumptions and judgment.
it is not clear from the article whether it is real or hypothetical, which marks this down as atrocious reporting
Ask HN: Is 36 too old to (re)start a career in tech?
Have been reading a lot of PG’s and Sam Altman’s writings and following the YC classes, and I can’t help but feel as if they’d see someone at my age as not worth an investment, someone who didn’t necessarily have the right launchpad or resources or educational / professional prestige to set their career off on the right trajectory.

Throughout the startup world, there is very little in the way of
advice for middle-aged / mid-career folks who are looking for a fresh start, or even successful
examples of people doing so. If you’re not young or haven’t proven yourself in any notable way by a certain age, the message seems to be that you’re damaged goods.

Maybe I’m deluded. Perhaps 36 really is too old and that’s the harsh truth that no one has the heart to express?

Does anyone else feel this way?
Tough af problem because capitalism is so powerful which a country needs to thrive but can cause great inequality
I think you answered your own question there, they would be arrested and tried for murder.
If you’re renting an apartment, you would likely need permission from the landlord to add a new tenant, or possibly risk having the lease terminated and both ending up homeless. Additionally, if you’re renting with roommates, just bring someone another person in may not be an option.

Don’t you think if having their mother move in with them was a possibility, they’d have done it?
_if_ it is better at making advances then us then everything in human nature points to us letting it make all future advances.
So apartments shouldn't exist? Or...?

I understand your perspective; there's a reason the term "rent-seeking" has a negative connotation. But I don't really see an alternative that wouldn't be worse. Different tax rates for primary residences sounds like a potentially okay compromise (though it would make renting more expensive, by design).
Given how much Singapore relies on foreign labor, this makes housing those foreigners tricky. The non-migrant worker foreigners who aren’t put in dorms face a very expensive housing market, Singapore companies have to pay larger salaries to compensate (and if you are American, you have to lean heavily on your housing exemption to avoid double taxation because Singapore taxes are also low).
Cosmic radiation hates electronics.
Vacuum is inexorable.
There have been questions and jokes for years wondering what all the people are doing at big tech firms - and then they hired like crazy during the pandemic. Eventually shareholders would start wondering the same thing, and push for cuts. Does Google need to employ people to make another chat app that they'll soon kill?
Class warfare against those making $400k/year...
It's a chicken and egg argument, we don't have access to the internal metrics to really know which came first, sliding users or diversion of resources to quietly kill the project.
Any cool or valuable finds? How did you get into this? I live in the Canadian Rockies and there seem to be people that pan for gold in rivers but I’ve never met anyone who does it as a hobby or knows of anyone that’s actually found anything. Seemed to me that fishing in the same rivers would be as enjoyable/calming and a greater yield.
Unfortunately, as Netflix grew, it was largely inevitable that the big networks / studios were going to think that licensing their content to Netflix was a worse option than spinning up their own streaming services, they want to, at the end of the day, own as much of the relationship and the pipeline to the customer as possible, and they weren't going to get that with Netflix.

Netflix ended up in a race to acquire content defensively against the dwindling prospects of major licensing renewals, for example, Disney pulled out of Netflix almost completely.

The honeymoon period of just about everything being on Netflix was either dead or near dead by 2020.
But your prompt is merely a suggestion to the AI model. You aren't the one making the image.
Like how Doonesbury is influenced by Marmaduke.
I don't agree with your second point, but lets say you are right: the benefits of having a "salary ceiling" to me still outweigh any down-sides. I would argue that in many roles it gives a betters sense of what is on the table and allows folks to aim for higher than they might have.

No legislation is perfect, but this a vast improvement over the current situation.
The TTS is better than Eleven Labs. It has a lot more of the narrative oomph (compare the intonation of the story and poem) even the best other models seem to lack.

I really really hope this is available in more languages than English.

Also Google, Where's Gemini ?
Perhaps I went into this series with unrealistic expectations but I found it pretty disappointing. Same for Rothfuss. There is a huge volume of older fantasy novels that are a much better investment of time, IMO.
Blind is all toxic. My former company had some good parts and bad parts, but the conversation on Blind was 100% negative. If I were trying to get a sense of what working at a company was really like, Blind would not be a great place to go.

It was a great place to vent, though.
Streaming raw video to VR headset is probably only situation when it makes sense for consumers. For near every single other thing it's a massive overkill
And say nothing of value about them, but sound smart while they do it ;)
What a take. How is she exactly to blame for the way this turned out? She set the stage for SOMETHING to happen, wether good or bad things happened was completely up to the audience. To see this and say "this is sickness" and "she invited people to harm here" is baffling. You seem extremely judgemental.
Amusingly I managed to get shingles when I was in my 20s in college. I was about to lose (and did eventually) lose my scholarship and was basically not sleeping. Stressed to the max.

I'm surprised Amazon isn't a shingles factory.
> places like the bay area with a housing crisis and limited space to expand

This is the most Californian response to the problem I’ve seen. Limited space? Even San Francisco has 190 acres of vacant land [1].

You want to emulate Singapore? Consider its relative lack of single-story structures. The Bay Area’s housing crisis is a political choice made by its voters.

[1] https://escholarship.org/content/qt5gc6w0vd/qt5gc6w0vd.pdf?t...
In this case, you want Italian laws, as it happened in Naples. But I'm not familiar at all with it.

Performance art seems to regularly skirt laws, for better or worse. For example, if you participated in Seedbed by Vito Acconci (when Acconci is crawling around in the roof-space, masturbating while talking to you), could you claim sexual assault?

No idea, but I could probably think of at least 5 performance art cases that are borderline illegal but nothing ever happened as it's part of "art" or whatever.
No, they are too. If you build, blackrock, or evergrand will buy it for a lot more than most can afford. The goal being to limit stock and push the prices of their asset up.
> the pandemic gave too much power to white collar wage workers

It's quite interesting to look at job listings right now. Go have a look at some tech companies, and compare job types which currently allow remote work. You'll find that there are plenty of places offering remote work for most roles... but not for engineering.

How interesting. I'm sure it's not an concerted effort to get us back under control.
Will be kind of stupid to cut kids off from ChatGPT and pretend to them that they should go off to school, meanwhile Silicon Valley is doing it's best to make every job possible obsolete? Kind of invalidates the whole exercise of the current approach to schooling right?

What are you going to school for, to learn how to write essays? Well, we have an app for that ?

It sounds like the future of work will be prompting, and if and when that is obsolete...who knows what...
Its funny that the UI looks like HAL 9000
> The reason rent could go up that much is because supply is so artificially constrained.

Or naturally constrained, it doesn't have to be artificially constrained.

I am open-minded on rent control. I agree with your sentiment here, but it seems like the trade off for not having rent control then becomes as a society we have to be willing to accept people becoming homeless because of changes in rent prices like this.
> At the same time, those people who do not own a house are wising up to the scheme and so they increasingly refuse to work or provide value to society.

I was with you right up to this comment.

No, most of us who do not own homes do not descend into some weird shadow economy. We just keep showing up to work and giving all of our money to landlords and imagine what it would be like to have retirement savings.
> I think we have a situation where part of the population is literally voting to appropriate wealth from another part of the population. Voting for more immigration which drives up demand for houses and voting for more regulations which constrain the supply of housing.

Yes, sure.

> At the same time, those people who do not own a house are wising up to the scheme and so they increasingly refuse to work or provide value to society.

This seems more like a fringe conspiracy theory. I don't think it's true in an anecdotal or statistically measurable sense.
The employer is much more likely to post a higher, unrealistic, salary ceiling that they have no intention of actually paying in order to attract more/better candidates.
You can use `block_on` from the futures-lite crate (or from other crates) to synchronously call async functions.

Not using async or async crates is not recommended since most new or updated high quality crates now use async.
Yoko Ono did it in 1964

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/yoko-ono-cut-piece-...
Yes, it needs a backend service. It is just a dumb screen that pools from a backend URL.

The upside of this is that you can easily configure it remotely, because all settings after the initial setup are stored server-side...

... and it makes the whole development flow easier when you can build, iterate and deploy on a server.
> Big if, not everyone is using .NET latest on VS, with latest version of every library using async/await.

The analyzers are part of the build, they work everywhere (command line, VS code). Either way, I am glad we finally agree that async await "works fine" for modern .NET.

> so I don't know, maybe I actually already read them?

I did, I even responded to your links with the official conclusion from the NET team on those issues. Now maybe your turn to read?
I think pretty much all wifi devices lie about the speed they can obtain. A lot that claim gigabit combine the speeds of 2.4GHz & 5GHz to get to 1 Gbps. Few devices out there legitimately offered the speed they advertise. At least that's what I saw when I looked a couple years ago.
Says every single person I've ever worked with.

My coworkers are the busiest people on the planet.
I don't think so, but the mode change can't be some obscure thing slightly changing in the status bar.
If artists choose to participate in the marketplace, then while doing so they are, to a not inconsiderable sense, choosing to be "song and dance men". And even when not, they have no justification for demanding or even expecting that others will agree to their personal estimation of their own works.
It's frequently visible in the background on Zoom calls, and I get both compliments and inquiries; hopefully a few folks followed through!
I downvoted because I disagree. Simple as that, and a totally just reason to downvote. From pg himself:

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.
| - do away with modules
| - all functions have unique distinct names
| - all functions have (lots of) meta data
| - all functions go into a global (searchable) Key-value database

So like MP3 tags for functions, and then you get to import by theme/genre/whatever. The system can automatically generate any dependency information not fully made explicit in the give metadata.

It's... tempting. I could see this for jq.
> People could have just… not been violent

In Naples...?

https://www-ilmattino-it.translate.goog/napoli/cronaca/spara...

https://www-napolivillage-com.translate.goog/cronaca/allaren...
> Recent advances in computer science since 2010?

Finding creative ways to exfiltrate and sell user data. And this in the name of "security" and "think about the children".
I don't think anyone really cares, but from the wording in the license faq, it sounds like you can host the server as FOSS -only?

> ... api includes... Commercial Core which is under the Bitwarden License, however this can be disabled by using /p:DefineConstants="OSS" as an argument to dotnet while building the module.
Relativity isn't even about clocks, and is practically difficult to verify with any but the absolute best... its most common applications are related to radiation physics. The only conflict science has with philosophers is its role as a stumbling block for people with high verbal abilities and a belief that they don't have to know anything about the subject they're writing about. If they had the same attitude towards glassblowing or archeology they would have the same results.
That bike example seemed a mix of underwhelming (for being the demo video) and even confusing.

1. It's not smart enough to recognize from the initial image this is a bolt style seat lock (which a human can).

2. The manual is not shown to the viewer, so I can't infer how the model knows this is a 4mm bolt (or if it is just guessing given that's the most likely one).

3. I don't understand how it can know the toolbox is using metric allen wrenches.

Additionally is this just the same vision model that exists in bing chat?
I don’t see what the difference is between this performance and one of the earlier experiments in social psychology by Milgrom and Zimbardo. There’s no way she didn’t get the idea from them. So, to me, this is neither original nor interesting.

In general, I don’t see the point of conceptual art, as it presupposes that the artist has some privileged perspective on the world that they can enlighten us all with. For me, this is a problem much better suited to the scientific method. And anyway, if the only point of your art is some abstract theory, why not write it out clearly on a single sheet of paper? I know it won’t win you the Turner prize, but it will save us all a lot of time.
If the policy goal is to have more homeowners, which I think it should be, you have to do something about private equity buying up all the home stock. Blackrock and its ilk of private equity firms buying up single family homes to turn them into rentals stands in direct opposition to the goal of more people owning homes.
That is only the case if you wanted to stream uncompressed data (which for drones is defeinitely not needed), so VR/AR maybe, anything else it would be a waste.
That is only the case if you wanted to stream uncompressed data (which for drones is definitely not needed), so VR/AR maybe, anything else it would be a waste.