skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't earn the same as you all can because I don't live in the US, but if I did I would grind all the leetcode (as insulting as I find them) for one single reason: I don't want to work forever.

I work from home for a mid-sized company for <=40 hours a week. I turn off my computer at 5pm and don't think about work until 9am the next morning. I work with people I like and we get stuff done. And in spite of all that, we're hardly impoverished—my current forecast is I can retire 10 years early at this rate. Tech salaries are good everywhere in the US, they're just not as insane as they are in Silicon Valley.

I could probably retire even earlier if I were willing to enter the rat race, but I'd rather be there for my kids' childhoods than resurface from the grind just in time to send them off to college.

In other words, it's absolutely possible to choose to avoid it, and it doesn't even require much sacrifice.
I'm unsure why you've quoted "not a choice", as I never said any such thing. I said it's difficult for many to decide to change their lifestyle to afford a less lucrative but more enjoyable job.

You've also got the cause and effect backward. You do the work you can be employed to do with the promise of (in your opinion, and relative to your skill and responsibility) competitive compensation. Years go by, you get used to living with that salary (plus yearly raises), and then you realize your job sucks. Now what do you do? Soldier on at BigCo1, switch companies to an effectively isomorphic position at BigCo2, or spend low 5 figures moving to and outfitting a new house for a 20% pay cut and a job you love? All three are choices, but #3 has the highest barrier to decision.
“This food is terrible, and such small portions!”
I gave up halfway through MoR, but to me it read as a self-insert nerd power fantasy.

All non main-characters always end up agreeing with the all knowing MC even though there are obvious gaps in the reasoning.
Maybe you’re more likely to live near other houses that do use theirs.
Perhaps non existence was Quora's peak. After that, it was founded and everything went downhill from there :-)
I was as well, especially the yellow highlight/underline; I interpreted those as links at first.
They actually used to, and it was AngularDart that saved Dart from being completely shutdown, as AdWords migrated from GWT to Angular shortly before Chrome team dropped from DartiumVM.

Unless it has changed, I think GCP uses it, as do many internal dashboards.
There are BTC lighting payments and the podcasting 2.0 movement to compete with Patreon. Mostly for podcasts and music atm but that will change.
CEX fees tend to be very low, much lower than payment processor fees that most Patreon users are paying right now. Coinbase and Kraken have no USDC withdrawal fees with ACH in the US, and nominal bank fees in many other countries. There is no fee exchanging USDC to USD on Coinbase, and Kraken’s trading fees are something like 0.26%.
I can just run Llama locally for that, no VC required (and indeed there are plugins which do exactly this already). Llama and other local LLMs are being optimized to run on the CPU on less than 1 GB of RAM so it's not as if only those with beefy GPUs can do so.
> For example, if the customer runs a legal firm, they should buy a CRM with functionality targeted towards legal firms

Even those won't be specialized enough, a legal firm that handles corporate megers and acquisitions has very different processes from one that does class action litigation or criminal defense. Successful CRMs are not opinionated, but are customizable - requiring an army of consultants to deploy and an internal role to support. Small companies may be coerced to using opinionated processes (quickbooks + whatever process the part-time bookkeeper wants), but every medium-sized enterprise or larger is a snowflake
Not all of us are lucky enough to have an year round sunlight supply.
> There is no relation between amount of petroleum used and amount of electricity generated in the data provided by you.

There is.

> All you can say is we need the equivalent amount of 7% extra of total energy used today.

No.

We know how many BTU equivalent are used for electricity generation vs gasoline for transportation. And how much BTU equivalent is needed to power electric cars.

> TLDR: your math is wrong.

It probably is. Looks like transportation is 36% not 27% - that comes out to ~9% instead of ~7%.

The point still stands.
Just like what Meta is doing currently whether with Whatsapp channels and trying to add similar features to all its apps.
I got a couple of Lenovo i5s with 8Gb for 99 Euros each on Amazon a few months ago. They even came with a 500Gb SSD and Windows 8 installed (or was it Windows 7? I can't remember, they are running Ubuntu at the moment). They are much better than a Pi and cheaper given the sourcing dificulties.
I've got a zero 2 sat next to me that's got uncomfortably warm because I've been pushing too much at it.

What I've been trying to do is get it to chew through whisper.cpp at anything like a reasonable rate. It can so nearly do it with the right sized model, the latency isn't good enough yet, but the reason I'm doing this on a pi zero 2 is because of the USB-OTG port. I can take the whisper.cpp output, and have the pi pretend to be a USB keyboard, typing what it hears into a second machine over USB. This gives you dictation capabilities in environments where upgrading the PC it's plugged into isn't an option.

Like I say, it's not quite there yet in terms of usability, but it's close enough that I think the problem is just a matter of software (and arguably model) optimisation.
Oil is still a global market and dictators turning off the tap will massively raise gas prices in the US. Currently gas prices in the US are rising because OPEC+ has reduced production quotas.
I know someone who uses this phrase as his preferred "Hello world" string when doing some simple test.
I can remember when both Quora and Stackoverflow (Stackexchange) were first on the scene, and it was interesting to see that battle unfold.

For me, it was the first time I noticed a cultural division between capital and labor. If you spoke to builders, Quora was a non-entity or seen as a joke; whereas Stackoverflow was a productivity supertool. However, when talking to VCs, influencers, and people "up the food chain" they saw far more potential in Quora. They didn't look down on Stackoverflow, but they just saw it as another tool, like a screwdriver: very useful, but it was nothing more than a better mousetrap.

I suppose ultimately the Quora crowd was both right and wrong. Right in recognizing Stackexchange's influence ceiling but wrong in recognizing Quora's reach and impact. And I think, in part, it's because Quora needed something that Stackoverflow had in spades: Quality content and a less hostile interface. Quora truly inherited the crown of Yahoo Answers, but unfortunately took all of its warts (low quality content) with it.
> The market is composed of companies, each of these companies are composed of people trying to better their own lives by working hard.

They are composed of people doing that, people rigidly protecting their incomes and/or status, people cheating others, and especially these days, people trying to squeeze every drop of blood out of every other stakeholder (investors, customers, employees).
Really cool, the parallax background scrolling feature:

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/background....
> Communism as applied in practice, specifically the former soviet union, very much had a hierarchy.

I'm not convinced you realize that the definition of communism is not "a hierarchical organization".

I don't see the point of continuing this discussion. Even your basic assumptions are fundamentally wrong.
and the 7% is skewed towards a small % of companies that have averaged up the S&P 500, usually big tech companies. If you look at the distribution and median return its actually far less.
BMW in particular deserves to have its lunch entirely eaten for building compliance-car EVs long after the point where it was obvious that Tesla was going to compete directly with their ICE lineup. They did, at least, dump their CEO over it [0].

[0] https://apnews.com/general-news-cdae456e8c1948e5b7f01c602eda...
It's typical of LessWrong'er drivel.

Lots of words to say something either trivial or wrong, or both.

Bayes must be mentioned, because it's their religion.
Also head to the Elm subreddit or the Elm discourse forum and sort by "top all time"
>Person on the internet likes something. Time to shit on it!

Another safe bet on the internet: unnecessarily caustic comments.
A lot of the lowest-quality questions came from a period when they were paying people to ask questions. People of course flooded it with questions designed to attract that kind answer, which is precisely what Quora wanted because it drives engagement.

They replaced it with a bot which actually does a better job, in my opinion, despite also having a ton of howlers.
Hmm, I can barely visualize an apple. Like, I see the shape on a 2d plane in pieces. I noticed when I read your comment and tried to visualize the apple, instead, in my mind, I get an inner monologue telling me what an apple is. The color, the shape, the size. But I don't really get a visual.

Now, ask me to think about a song, and I can create the entire auditory experience of the song. Various instruments, in time. I can manipulate the songs key, slow it down, etc. But there are no visuals accompanying this.

I have honestly never really even thought about this. Can people really visualize faces and complex items in life like color and resolution?
No? Applied maths is maths, so applying maths does not stop maths from being maths.

Of course, computing is closer to pure math than applied maths. Computing is applied pure maths, perhaps.
Yikes, not sure I've seen a front page HN that was this blatantly wrong.

The second half of this article is complete nonsense because on one hand, he's seeming to arguing that extreme evidence is "easy to get", but it obviously can't be that easy when it's in a competitive environment where the number of people who could get that info is absolutely limited to something like only 1 percent of people.

Taking this quote:

> One implication of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is that is it difficult to make money on the stock market. Generously, maybe only the top 1% of traders will be profitable. How difficult is it to get into the top 1% of traders? To be 50% sure you’re in the top 1%, you only need 200:1 evidence. This seemingly large odds ratio might be easy to get.

As other commenters pointed out, that is absolutely not what the EMH says - it doesn't say it's difficult to be profitable (it actually says the exact opposite, especially when taken together with modern portfolio theory), it says it's difficult (or, rather, impossible) to outperform the market.

But the more important point is that the author is implying that it's easy to get enough evidence to put you in the top 1%, as opposed to getting enough evidence to conclude that someone is in the top 1%, or to conclude that they're in any particular percentage actually. In other words, if you take his argument at face value, it may be possible to gather evidence to determine who is in the top 1% of traders, but that's very different from getting enough data to put yourself in that top 1%.
Vaccine may save endangered California condors from succumbing to bird flu
Techniques like distilling show that you can in fact get similar performance with 60% fewer parameters. Yes it depends on making the large model first, but that only implies that somehow the large model is perhaps more useful in initial learning. And if that's the case, then it would be rather surprising if we couldn't identify why and create new training techniques that go directly to the smaller equivalent model.

So in this way you've already lost your bet, as we already know that it's possible to create vastly smaller models with similar performance.
> We know how many BTU equivalent are used for electricity generation vs gasoline for transportation. And how much BTU equivalent is needed to power electric cars.

Show us the data.

> There is.

There is literally no relation.

"Cars use 27% of total energy in US. And 25% of 27% is equal to 7% of electricity generated." HOW??
Yes, if you’re lucky enough to guess correctly. (So it’s a No for me!)
> Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks I went ahead and got a 8GB Pi 4.

You heard wrong, then.

"For normal usage of your Raspberry Pi, adding cooling is entirely optional. The idle performance of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5 is about the same, and under typical loads Raspberry Pi 5 will run cooler than a similarly loaded Raspberry Pi 4."

"even when fully throttled, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still going to run faster than a Raspberry Pi 4!"

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heating-and-cooling-raspber...

A Pi 5 has a higher performance ceiling than the Pi 4 when passively cooled, and an even higher one with active cooling. The Pi 5 does not need cooling for most tasks.
Never mind SETI and NASA, if your Ring somehow snaps ET Amazon might give $1M
"People ought to be able to retire" ... I assume that you mean the idea that people who have worked most of their lives should be able to stop working something in the age range of 60-70, and then enjoy at least a moderately comfortable life until death.

If that assumption is correct, this is a relatively new idea, at least in the sense that government has any active responsibility for it.

I can absolutely guarantee you that there are currently elected members of the US Republican Party, and similar political parties in other countries, who do not agree with the concept that government has any role to play in this. Don't work hard enough during your life? Your problem. Don't save/invest appropriately ? Your problem.

100 or 150 years ago, the idea that there would ever be a US government that would take notable steps to try to ensure a moderately comfortable life during retirement would have seemed like a pipe dream. It remains something upon that some political ideologies do not agree with.
Sponsored questions are really spammy.
List of Unusual Deaths (Wikipedia)
I must formally disagree: 500 lines is about how you can read and comprehend a program. 500 lines fits in a single file in virtually any programming language (yes, you can put multiple classes in a single *.java file). And if you make use of libraries which allow to write 500 lines of high order instructions steering a vastly complex machinery, even better! This allows the 500 lines to be very expressive. I really like the idea because it puts emphasis onto a well written documentation which explains concepts while the code is very breve. Shorter code can increase the probability that bugs are found because it is probably more frequently read by other people.
ÖBB night trains vary greatly in quality. I had the displeasure of taking the Zürich Budapest night train and back. It was absolutely terrible. Broken cars from the 90s, beds so short you can’t fully lie in them, defective toilets, blinds that don’t close, rattling doors all night, arrived 4h late… not something I’d do again.
How about π=5?

https://www.reddit.com/r/physicsmemes/comments/dxlrw3/using_...
Infinite issues with overlay networking once you scale past 30 nodes in a swarm. Weave aside, network drivers for anything not CNI are basically deprecated/dead.
Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why
I'm not sure that those numbers are comparable - the energy used by ICE cars doesn't come from the grid. You need to compare directly the energy used by transport by the amount of grid usage that an electric car nation would have.

(Disclaimer, in full support of electric cars, just want accurate numbers)
You'll have trouble finding many people to study.

From the evidence I've seen, intensity of smoke exposure is much more problematic than volume. Light smokers still have 5-10x the chance of developing lung cancer than a non-smoker.

That might be a good first estimate for smokers who only smoke one month out of the year.
They do, Visual C++ and COM are loved to exhaustion by Office and WinDev business units.

.NET nowadays seems to be mostly used in the backend (at Microsoft).

Notice how much of the .NET Core development seems to be driven by ASP.NET architects.

Besides the GUI chaos, they hardly do any feature comparison with other GUI frameworks, like they happen to do with every single cloud ecosystem out there.
There must be bubbles at play. Like some folks just don’t closely know enough people in enough parts of the economy to see what the other bubble sees, so assumes they’re wrong or exaggerating just to have a laugh or something.

There are definitely bullshit jobs, and jobs that are mostly bullshit.
With the excessive debt (which is not slowing down) the government is planting the seeds for high inflation in the long term. This historically has been very bad for equities (in real terms).
Prescott may have hidden 64-bit functionality (2003)
Downsides are it can't express a bunch of stuff cuda or openmp can plus the nvidia opencl implementation is worse than their cuda one. So opencl is great if you want a lower performance way of writing a subset of the programs you want to write.
Those are all from the same person, or a small cadre using the same pattern. They brag about it to each other on a subreddit. Such questions get a huge amount of attention, and Quora's algorithm mistakes that for users wanting to see more of it.

There is nobody curating it. It's all automated.
Why Moog Died (as we know it) [video]
Better being in the 90s than using snappacks or whatever.
I'm not arguing for Twitter's viability, just against the idea that Threads is promising. If there were repeated exoduses from Twitter to Threads, we'd expect to see Threads' activity go up, not decay smoothly downward.
Tbf, Reddit is pretty hostile in general.
For a guy that keeps saying he wants to "get into the data" and talk about the statistics, I see:

1) They present multiple "scary looking" graphs with a line going upwards where they set arbitrary scales and present no unit or axis labels so you have no idea what the data they're presenting actually is or what it represents

2) Graphs presented that shows an increasing number of incidents, but fails to correct in any way for increasing population. If an an area goes from, say, 1million to 10million people living there, there will be an increase in accidents, even if the accident rate stays the same. Number getting bigger alone doesn't mean that safety is getting worse.

3) No statistics that provide more context. For example, is the odds you're hit by a car 1 in 100? 1 in a billion? The context matters when deciding how much of an issue something is.

Going to stop watching at this point, it's obvious that the point of the video is narrative pushing social propaganda rather than any kind of actual analysis
Well it's not an ÖBB Night Train, it's a train operated by MAV-Start (Hungarian State Railways).
It also says when booking that it's a partner train.
Maybe do your research before complaining about the wrong company
Because real diversity comes from people who look different.
I agree with you regarding the means of living but that's not what I said.

Accepting that you will have to work until you die is lowering your standard of living.
So is accepting that any emergency can bankrupt you or that you will never be able to travel, and so on.

For some reason people are conflating standards of living with irresponsible spending.
I think tipping is the wrong framing. Patreon works on a recurring basis so it fosters a stronger relationsip between creator and consumer, and provides a more stable revenue stream for creators.

Whatever comes after Patreon should be creator-owned like Nebula is to increase the level of accountability it has to its users on both sides.
I just switched to Debian this year after ~13 years of Ubuntu, and I really appreciate it

It grew on me after a long time. I always thought it was not the most "technically sound" way of doing things

i.e. I don't really like the packaging model of global updates where you don't know what's going on, and sometimes there are version conflicts

But I have come to appreciate the stability and good intentions of the Debian project

Sometimes it's not technical excellence that matters the most, but the purpose and goals of the project
Used Quora long back. Their feed is very hard to navigate.
True, but I think parent still has a point.

It would work if your tiny team could attract an incredibly huge number of creators who somewhat create a minimum volume of transactions every months.

Otherwise you'd on the hook paying monthly fees for your platform's hosting costs, and you can't properly negociate processing fees as you have no idea of how much volume you'll be processing montb to month (it's not even based on some supply/demand cycle, you're stuck with when creators feel like creating)

I've seen it from the otherside following a Youtube creator on a pay per video plan, and there would be months going by with no videos happening but messaging back and forth to keep the community alive.
There is a particular flavor of writing common to those whose identity is bound up with the so-called “effective altruist” community and their various online forums.

It usually combines a reference to Bayes Theorem, a deep hubris, and a significantly misunderstood concept from mathematics or technology.

Here, for example, it is clear the author does not grok EMH which applies across the population of trades not traders.

Usually this is done to provide the author or community with some claim to an inherent and unearned extraordinary nature, which justifies greater personal power. (You only need 200:1 evidence you’re extraordinary being the takeaway here.)

It is unclear why certain SV cliques continue to grant these people power.

Their intellectual insularity means
that whatever value they once added in bringing logical rigor to conversations is now far outweighed by the train of collective bad logic powering their groupthink.

It is increasingly dangerous to have such people steer important societal debates.

These debates include crypto regulation where EAs famously associated with SBF, to “AI safety”, a field that appears to be invented out of whole cloth to allow LessWrongers to LARP as ML ethics and fairness experts.
>I think you are overestimating the number of people who will fully go off grid.

They are for sure... At the end of the day the state is not going to let the grid collapse as a matter of national security. Grid connections will be demanded for a certificate of occupancy, and anyone that refuses will learn about all the military equipment our police forces have been gifted.
Because it's unprofitable.
We need to either accept that we need to subsidise these kind of services for climate protection or ban flights inside the European Union
No, I have been mostly using the same Java and. NET stuff like forever, even despite some heavy changes on those ecosystems.
For those who don't read past the 4th paragraph: it's a gripe-post about systemd (from 2014).

Amen to that.
I suspect there was a sneaky edit between the time of my reply and the time you read it.
Is there a functional difference between that approach and using tags on existing resources? I know Terraform doesn't use tags for this because not everything supports them, but in K8s, scenario 2 is handled by just saying "make everything using this tag look exactly like this". If there's extra resources not in the YAML with that tag, they'll get cleaned up.

In general, I like that approach better, because it just uses the state that already exists. It would be kind of nice if Terraform had a mode where it avoided creating extra state where possible.
The connection doesn't appear to be generally accepted: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=lxwp2...