skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link. Interesting that in the same report they have this snippet on the next page:

...the 2022 SHED included a new question asking what is the largest emergency expense people could handle using only savings. Sixty-eight percent of adults said they could pay an expense of at least $500 using only their current savings (table 12). This is a somewhat larger share than the 63 percent of adults who said they would pay an unexpected $400 expense with cash or the equivalent, suggesting that some people do choose to pay with other methods, even if they have cash savings available to them.
I'm very very broadly against the death penalty even in the worst of cases, but even entertaining what you suggest, I certainly think that a million is pretty low to be executed for.

I'm not even sure how you'd fully quantify that; suppose I had a flash drive with a crypto wallet worth two million bucks in my backpack, and then when I get up to go to the bathroom someone steals my backpack.

Now, technically this person stole "more than a million dollars", but I don't think you'd suggest we dust off the gallows just for snatching a backpack would you?
Let me guess, that was long before smartphones. It doesn't work the same way now.
What? I just got a pixel fold and during the setup it asks to connect my old device (pixel 5). After a few minutes I have a carbon copy of my old device save a few apps I sideloaded.
While clever as a timesaving tool to look up syntax, it seems kind of dangerous to rely on AI for this without checking and verifying its suggestions. CLIs are very powerful. You can make big changes to complex systems with one random one-liner with the right flags.

Now the problem is that state of the art AI can seem incredibly smart in a large portion of cases, but it might act jaw-droppingly stupid in that 1% of cases. You can get used to trusting it too much and accidentally make a bad command. If you're trusting that the machine's suggestions are right and aren't careful, you can easily blow up your system.

Do you trust AI to not royally screw up your system that 1% of the time it makes a goofy suggestion?
I mean nothing social has a completely deterministic behavior. There are lots of higher-order effects that act differently on different types of crime. Nevertheless it's not hard to find studies documenting the very strong link between poverty and (certain types of) crime [0]. For sure few people in poverty are committing insider trading, but when it comes to property or violent crimes the stress and desperation of poverty are clearly huge motivators.

[0] Here's one example: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/crime-ra...
> How important is it that nobody else's fingerprints are on the case of your brand new DVD?

How important should it be? Zero.

How important is it to your sales, when your competitors product on the shelf has zero fingerprints and yours does? Critical.
> Is a spreadsheet even necessary on the go?

Necessary, no, not by any means. But it is certainly a very-nice-to-have. Something far simpler than Excel would do but as it runs on my phone and I have a licence, why not?¹

> just have a calculator and store values in a text file?

That would be something new to learn and/or a manual process.

I use spreadsheets for little repetitive calcs, or even non-repetitive ones that I want to remember after I've lost the bit of paper from my pocket that they'd otherwise be on. This doesn't happen on-the-go often, but when it does it is handy to have something that lets me go back and edit the calcs easily, and automatically keeps the results rather than me copying them from calculator to notepad. The middle ground that is a logging calculator app could deal with some of these use cases, of course, as long as it has the range of functions a reasonable spreadsheet has (usually I'm just totting up money, but sometimes time-base calculations are useful, or unit conversions (though 1.609 sticks in my mind better than I remember what Excel's CONVERT() function calls miles so usually those are done from memory not with a built-in function), and so on).

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[1] other than the fact it seems to have sync problems, so I never trust it to edit workbooks created elsewhere
Maybe the back-end is nice?

Lol I’m definitely swiping this next time I throw shade on a website XD
I think they use the word "graph" to mean a different thing to what I use the word for.
Software noises don't really impress me when there are mechanical keyboards with solenoids that slam into the casing for every keystroke
You'll be pleased to know that isn't an exclusively or even particularly American trait
NeRF-Enhanced Outpainting for Faithful Field-of-View Extrapolation
I kind of wish capitalists would just be honest for once. This is bad for their specific business. Just come out and say that instead of making stuff up.
Dennett... I don't think that guy can be called a real philosopher, but at least he's not just random "Journalist" like Sam harris is :)

Again, my direct experience of free will is much stronger than any of the half ass explanations these guys have to offer (and they're obviously much more flawed, you can clearly notice the ideological motives they have in relation to these topics).

My problem with this "explanation" (you feel that you have free will but you don't, it's just a story) is that it just pushes the issue one step further, I mean just think about it, who feels this exactly? They're assuming there is another "agent" within me that have the consciousness and it's being told stories and it accepts them, and this agent can understand that and it feel it can decide another choices, so it can decide? so it means it have some type of free will or the ability to understand different choices? even if in reality it can't execute them? (similar to paralyzed people?).

Anyway, if we want to open the can of worms of telling other people you're just delusional, then maybe the real world doesn't exist? and maybe logic is not real? and scientific method is not scientific? When I was much younger, I used to imagine that I live in a huge magical theater and that everything is being rendered for me, so maybe after all I'm the only real person in existence?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

We use this process to make some of the harder more nebulous decisions that require a bit of research and investigation from the entire team. While it does suffer a little from "decision by committee" we haven't ran into it as a problem in practice.

It's a great way to give people a chance to try and introduce new technology, processes, or paradigms. If they're committed they'll get the entire team excited and involved. If the team isn't interested it doesn't make it to the end of the process - and that's ok!
Request for comment. Internal proposals on development processes
I assume career page quality is related to how important immigrant visas are to staffing, where "unable to find qualified local labor" is a criteria. No idea how to quantify that though.
They are there on mac too, use option-Ä to get the Æ or the other way around. What's more, it has worked like that since system 7.x times or so, it's just a good idea.
on any layout operated by a human, who may at times type the wrong word entirely
Oh, and I tried to keep the dependencies very light. The heaviest dependency is HTMX which is like 14k, and you could even rip it out if you don’t need it.
It doesn't appear that they revoked their license in this case, so it seems that there is still zero meaningful consequence for this company who left their trash where it doesn't belong in orbit.

I'm not suggesting that the FCC should bankrupt an entire industry just for sport, but it'd sure be nice if they imposed an actual penalty against companies who violate their license and pollute the space around our planet forcing everyone else to dodge their trash and risking collisions.

This pathetic slap on the wrist isn't going to cause Dish to think twice about not cleaning up after themselves in the future.
This has already happened.

The supply is lower now. The demand is the same. The prices must go up from the people competing for the smaller number of rooms.
This is also why it caused rents to rise.
I don't mind pinning, but back in the day I was having issues using IPFS to transfer small files between devices. I admit I haven't investigated to see if the problems were ever resolved.

I've been watching https://github.com/ipfs/helia which is going to replace https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and hoping they can get an IPFS node working in the browser.
I'm shocked that the CEO of Airbnb would go out and try to get consumers angry about a policy which negatively impacts his business.
>If it was good at predicting crime I highly doubt only 2/38 departments would have cooperated.

That's certainly low, but I suspect (absent some legal framework like FOIA) the default position of police departments is to share less information, not more. So it's still what I would expect even if it was reasonably good.

I wish the article would have provided more details about why the PDs chose not to use it. Was it because it was bad at predictions? Cumbersome to use? Glitchy?

It reminds me of a project I was involved with that used a "real-time" computational fluid dynamics model to optimize datacenter air-conditioning. Management was big on the hype, but if you paid attention, the system was routinely unplugged from the actual control system because the facility engineers just found it too difficult to work with.
Second button down on the right side of the screen, generally.
One of the biggest issues I've had, and I don't know how workday looks from their end, when it comes to entering in education and specifically degree. My degree says "Software Engineering," which I never see given in a list. So I usually just pick whatever is closest like "Computer Science," and I always wonder if there is a system that does some correlation between what it put in the box and on the resume.
Glass breaks very easily. Locks don’t matter.
How long does it take to get an object from S3?
That's the speed most ebikes go to. My claim is that the risk for ebikes is higher than regular bikes because the average speed of ebike riders is higher.

Also, completely aside, 20mph on a regular bike is totally doable, just exhausting. Like running 10mph, most active people can do it pretty easily, but only in short spurts.
It isn't the use of automation that is the problem. It's that in the automated applications we're receiving, there is very obviously fraudulent information in there. The applicants are LYING about their experience, in order to match the job specification.

ChatGPT just consumes each of the job requirements, and then makes a story about how the applicant has had significant experience in all of those areas. I would prefer not to hire people who lie about their experience to get a job.
I’m not convinced that it does go without saying. As a victim, I don’t think I would care whether the entity that hurt me is now in prison or short of a few dollars knowing that the probability of it happening again is the same.

Self driving cars will reduce the rate of accidents which is the important part.
There are software transactional memories for nearly all programming languages. A project I worked on, shipping since the mid 2000s, uses an in memory STM for nearly all operations.
> Because the training data is itself the result of this type of bad policing, the resulting model can only further engrain these practices, it can't offer truly novel solutions.

I think the sad part is: that's the point.

Departments were coming under fire for bad policing and needed to offload the blame. So they pay millions to some vendor to launder their bad policing through an algorithm and give them a scapegoat when they need it.
Looks like you can get books3 and other stuff here:

https://www.thenose.cc/wiki/Overview
I think the better question is, what the hell is a vector in the context of normal business logic? Sure, a word embedding vector makes sense because it's all an abstraction anyways, but if I have an "Employee" table with name, address, position, etc columns, how does that translate into a vector?
In general it's hard for the prosecution to bring up evidence of prior, unrelated convictions or wrongdoing. If you take the stand they are allowed to bring it up to impune your credibility as a witness though. Doesn't really apply to SBF, but it's an additional reason to those others have stated for anybody with a criminal past.
Yeah, good luck campaigning on that. Mysteriously, all your political opponents (who were at one another's throats 3 seconds ago) will consolidate, and their campaign coffers will suddenly swell with donations from the "National Endowment for Democracy" and friends. If you are really "lucky", you may even get strangely well-trained and well-armed militias opposing you!
>Nothing is sacred anymore.

If it can be specified, it can be automated.
I'm seeing stats that say hotel occupancy in NYC averaged 87% percent last year.

I'm also seeing there are 123,000 hotel rooms and there were 40,000 airbnb listing in NYC.

This seems to suggest that supply of airbnb will materially change total hotel listings.
I think society ends up judging new technology by the worst-case failures, and as far as that goes this isn't too good.

I think that's just how our brains work for the most part, black and white, at least in areas that the general public is not overly familiar with yet.
I love this article and its ideas, but let's talk about where it falls short in reality.

1. CRDTs are a pain, especially rich text. Schema migrations are a pain. And eventually when you have a very successful product, you'll have issues with vector clocks that grow linearly and unbounded with every user who pops by to collaborate. If you're successful enough to have a 2000 person workspace, you won't be able to / want to sync an entire workspace of data in realtime to everyone's local machine, so the whole system devolves into a glorified local cache (nothing wrong with that, but it's not a CRDT and arguably isn't local-first).

2. Freemium SaaS has proven to be the most lucrative business strategy. Users get stuff for free which widens the top of the funnel. Students go into the industry and bring their tools with them, and then you charge enterprises for collaborative workspaces per-seat (I call this the Slack playbook). Given the challenges of CRDTs outlined above, you're making this job really hard.

3. If you're making all of your money on enterprises, they would prefer that a rogue employee can't save all of the company information offline when they leave. That's why you can't export your company Gmail or Notion workspace. Employees will pretty much always be online so local-first isn't really necessary for them, although everyone does want the performance of local-first.

4. There are large swathes of problems that are not suited for local-first -- basically any application that requires transactional writes. You can't enforce simple invariants like "every use must have a unique username". Almost every application has requirements like this unless you specifically design around them. Sometimes, they can't be designed around at all.

At the end of the day, I like to think of choosing local-first through the lens of the "technology budget". If you want to build something local-first, then that's your entire technology budget and then some. Do you want to bet your entire business on that? Or do you want to use tried-and-true tools and spend that technology budget on something else that moves the needle?

Developers love to know how something is built, but users really don't care so long as it works great! Example: Obsidian.md is awesome, and local-first. But it's mostly developers who use it -- everyone else just uses Notion.

I still love Local-First, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a developer honeytrap.
Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.
> Which means you'd expect alot less people to use airbnb over a hotel in New York.

This analysis doesn't make any sense given that New York was a huge part of AirBnB's overall inventory, being their biggest market worldwide for a long time.
Borland did not die because they ignored the Mac, they died because they tried to transform from being a sub $100 consumer/mass-market product company to an enterprise offering and failed at doing so. The Mac wasn't a factor.

They still would have died when Linux/open source took off though. They didn't own a platform.
./lifts eyebrows suggestively
My kids also wanted to have a laptop because they saw me working on one and wanted to do the same thing. So we made some out of cardboard, drew a keyboard and screen on it, and they played with it.

I get that isn't what you are asking, and I'd have a different answer for you if they were a couple years older. But it is worth considering if they really want a laptop, or just a laptop-like object to play with.
Ah. I use RealESRGAN (or one of its descendants, rather) as a first pass upscaler before high-resolution diffusion. If you skip the diffusion step, of course it'll be faster.
HMD is building Nokia phones in Europe as customers demand more security
The stories I have read over the years had kept me from trying Airbnb. Maybe I am too risk averse, but if I spend money and time on vacation, leaving all that up to some unknown shady host to mess up and then having to fight with Airbnb support sounds not enjoyable at all. I'd rather be surprised by fun and enjoyable things.

> Hyatt announced a new vacation rental platform, Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt, the same day Chesky was speaking.

That's one good thing is that it keeps hotels on their toes and forced them to play in that market as well.

> Further, IHG is even offering 10,000 IHG One Rewards points to travelers who can prove their New York City Airbnb reservation was canceled in light of the new city policy.

That sounds like an interesting approach. Just the ad itself is enough to turn heads. 10k points is not a huge amount but might still get a number of customers. When a competitor mistreats a customer, and you're the one helping them solve their issue, they'll remember that forever.
I that understand that context. But even so.

POWER and SPARC were continue to be developed. And its hard to argue that either of them should have given up on their architecture. POWER is still developed. It probably made sense for Sun to stop working on SPARC eventually but not when Itanium was announced. Sun problem was just that they spend quite a bit of money, they were just never actually very good at designing processors.

SGI was the most aggressive on telling everybody that Itanium would be the future. And they paid for that. They massively delayed MIPS upgrades (only to then start it again once they realized it would take a while for Itanium to come to the market). For a while after this they still made their money on MIPS and all their attempts to push Itanium pretty much fell flat. So arguable it was smart for them to plan to eventually dump MIPS but now how and when they tried to do it (Also I don't disagree that MIPS was a deadend).

The deal HP got would have been fantastic if Intel had adopted PA-RISC 64-bit instead of Itanium. Given what happened HP wasn't really competitive with Sun 64-bit SMP servers and Sun made a killing on those things before the bubble. Once they bought Compaq and for a while were selling SMP servers based on Alpha.

HP really should have continued to push Alpha after the bought Compaq. The already had VMS ported to Alpha and a large captured base willing to pay a little extra. They aggressively ported VMS to Itanium and thanks to the insane deal they made Intel had to manufacture them processors for a decade+.

They are a large enough company and Alpha next few version had the chance to be really great, with things advanced vector extension and they had basically had the best processor team in the world.

So yes, it was correct that all these companies wanted to drop their development cost, but doing so before you know really about Itanium and how good it was, that's questionable and messed up all the strategies. There was just an assumption that Itanium was gone be amazing. Granted, VLIW processors were all the hype. Sun also waste a bunch of money on VLIW processor technology in the 90s and unlike HP, they didn't it on Intel.

Gordan Bell tried to hook up Alpha with Intel and make Alpha the 64-bit architecture that Intel went with. That would have been quite a different history. But for various reasons this didn't happen, and instead Intel went with HP and their next generation VLIW idea.

P.S: It would have been pretty smart of Sun went in on Alpha in 1992, then they could have saved on development threw out the 90s. DEC had built up a huge fabs to handle Alpha but almost nobody bought it. They were really looking for a high value costumer and couldn't find one.

Edit:
> (Unfortunately for everyone involved, it did not pan out.)

Well it wasn't unfortunate for everybody. Sun made quite a bit of money for a few more years with SPARC. And so did IBM with Power. I think those two companies were happy with the Itanium failure.
I bet IPFS could have gotten by with mirroring system. Sites publishes list of files that they want mirrored, and supporters could copy and host the files. I think IPFS could be more useful for software, and mirroring or caches would work well.

Also, IPFS was supposed to have clients host the file like Bittorrent does. My impression is that most users don't host, they just download. It is quite possible that adding money to system reduces people's desire to contribute. I also got the impression that flaws in client make it harder to host.
Dupe: (#5 on front page 4 hours ago, this one is at #13 1 hour ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750859
Meta wants to charge EU users $14/month if they don't agree to personalized ads
One should be mindful to, in general, not touch anything with a public IP that leads back to them.
With nonviolent crimes, such as drug abuse and financial crimes, I think the utility of incarceration depends on the degree to which the criminal might still be hurting society in nonviolent ways which would be prevented by incarceration. Maybe drug abuse is itself a victimless crime (I think there's room to disagree fwiw), in which case incapacitation via incarceration wouldn't be useful.

But I think you can't make that claim about financial criminals like Bankman-Fried or Bernie Madoff; these were not victimless crimes. They victimized many people, therefore putting them in prison for the rest of their lives is a fairly straight forward way of making sure they'll never get the opportunity to do it again.

> Not to mention any collateral damage such as the offender's family who may now also suffer and be drawn more towards conditions that would breed crime.

Particularly in the case of these two men, the damage to the offenders family is completely irrelevant; their families are wealthy and are probably beneficiaries of the crimes anyway, so screw their feelings. And it's not like Bankman-Fried has a young son that will grow up to be a criminal because his daddy is in prison. Elizabeth Holmes has some kids but I'm confident they'll be fine with their mother in prison; their father's family has plenty of resources to raise them properly. And what of the children of the victims of white collar crime, who will grow up poorer because their parents were scammed? This 'family impact' angle of objection to imprisonment for white collar crimes isn't very persuasive.