skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: actually, re-reading the parent post after posting this, I'm now not sure if I'm agreeing with him in arguing with the GP or disagreeing with him. But either way, I'll leave my comment here to try to explain the thinking behind $1m being insignificant to a company.

The point isn't whether $1m is significant to an individual employee. It would make a massive difference to almost any employee on a personal level (except maybe for C level in massive companies), but in a company with 8000 employees, $1m is a rounding error. Even looking at the example you quoted for the average UK income (currently £33400), for 8000 employees that's £267m or $323m just in salaries. When you consider all the other costs of running a business on top of that like buildings, light, heating, expenses (generally accepted wisdom is that a salary is about 50% of the overall cost for each employee), then factor in the material costs for whatever the company is doing, that $1m really is insignificant in the grand scheme of things from the company's perspective.

Average US salaries are higher than the UK at around $59k, and tech salaries are obviously higher, and in the US even more disproportionately so, making this $1m saving even less significant to the company.

The middle section of your post "If, in the lifetime of the specialist team like the kernel team, a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity" seems to be arguing a different point. It's not about whether saving the company $1m a year is worth bothering with or not, it's whether paying for a team that might cost $500k per year and can produce $1m per year in savings and/or revenue is worthwhile. Obviously, it is worth keeping the team as the ROI on their work is 100%. However the decision on whether to create that team in the first place is harder to justify because there is probably a more lucrative opportunity for the company to find - if the company is currently making e.g. 7% profit doing what it's doing, it probably makes far more sense to expand production capacity to increase total revenue as that will be be more significant to the bottom line than a small project that saves $1m.
> In theory, an attacker could scrape the social graph of every user in the entire fediverse and build a list of who you follow from that. I don't think that's a realistic threat.

In practice, multiple entities across the proficiency-spectrum are already doing this. An average motivated CS undergrad or two could certainly pull it off. Up to you if you find that a threat, as with anything.
> Wait, does this mean daydreaming is people actually seeing things?

Yes, they are usually seeing similarly to seeing in a dream. Seeing with the minds eye as they say. You don't usually lose awareness of your surroundings, what you are seeing in reality just becomes more of a background process while you visualise a daydream.
The film has been digitized by us (Národní filmový archiv) to make screening DCP for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, where the film will be unveiled.

The raw scans were also provided to our counterparts in Cinemateca Brasiliera who are now in charge to decide about the film's fate.
I surely hope they will make it accessible under a non-permissible license.
I have the same thing and never knew until HN's discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718999

The article mentions Image Streaming, which I've been practising since. Interestingly, it seems to work! I've have been seeing vivid dreams, and have been able to randomly visualize shapes. Nothing to prove it "cures" aphantasia, but we'll see :)
Model 'anthropic.claude-v2' seems to be working for me on the us-east-1 region. I am a small-time customer.

All other supposedly supported regions are returning "AccessDeniedException: An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the InvokeModel operation: Your account is not authorized to invoke this API operation." I can ListFoundationModels on all supported regions, and I get a different error if I don't allow InvokeModel, so I think they are limiting availability.
> all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute

All the money the rich make by selling their robot products to who? Each other? Certainly not to the destitute workers, those don't have money.

I agree that there is a risk that a minority will hoard the new resources for themselves, only it's not this simple.
Imagine knowing this, and still using the imperial system
Ah, that's good to know, thank you!
Chess Puzzles on Inky Impression e-ink display
Hello! I am excited to share my very first open-source project - ChessPuzzlesOnInky.

It displays chess puzzles on a 7.3" ePaper with move highlighting, QR code encoding, and more. The chess puzzles are downloaded from Lichess.org's puzzle database when the program starts.

The project sprouted from my passion for chess. I hope you find it interesting!
Another Unicode article that mentions Swift, but not Raku :(

Raku's Str type has a `.chars` method that counts graphemes. It has a separate `.codes` method to count codepoints. It also can do O(1) string indexing at the grapheme level.

That Zalgo "word" example is counted as 4 chars, and the different comparisons of "Å" are all True in Raku.

You can argue about the merits of it's approach (indeed several commenters here disagree that graphemes are the "one true way" to count characters), but it feels lacking to not at least _mention_ Raku when talking about how different programming languages handle Unicode.
The serious compromise every other language had is no great way to send Objective-C messages. You can monkey around with objc_msgSend in pretty much any language, but that’s not exactly ergonomic for developers. You would struggle to convince developers that is an improvement over simply using Objective-C.

Is there something about Go that improves on that problem?
It reminds me of https://xkcd.com/601/
The pronoun ritual: how has it taken over society?
CarbonGPT: Ask questions about carbon emissions
I made this chatbot which has access to up-to-date emissions data through the Carbon Interface API.

Access to accurate emissions data is useful but comparative research often involves sifting through disparate sources. Combining the chatbot with the Carbon Interface API gives a quick and easy overview of CO2 emissions from a number of activities.

There are still a number of limitations. Like any LLM, it can make factual errors and mistakes when calling the API.
How is Ethereum (an open source network) ultra centralized and without democracy compared to PayPal or VISA which currently account for a large portion of Patreon payments?
I’d rather see a study where September and November are chosen for gold bullion, and other months for equities. I’ve heard this coincides with the wedding season in India —- maybe someone can confirm.
You're right, that's a bit ambiguous.

Instead of "all different manifolds" I should have written "all different ways to define a manifold". Also, now that I think about it, it may not necessarily be all of them.

The important thing here is that, however you define them and their transition maps, you'll find they're very much alike. As if there was some sort of general structure that is highly preferred over others ...
So you wrote a toy script 20 years ago and somehow think you were doing just the same thing as OpenAI now? And you thought writing this down was a good flex?

Reminds me of the old dudes in the gym who come to you to tell you how they used to bench four plates when they were young. In their mind, they are badasses. In their mind only.
BTW the platform teia.art you linked is a good example of the anti-decentralization that any kind of "cryptocoin platform" performs. Just another middleman that tries to get between seller/ buyer with zero benefit for both sides, but profit for the middleman.

Of course still lying into the face of potential users about "decentralzing things" while trapping them into the platform - what a joke!
Quake 3 being exclusively multiplayer could also be down to id software loosing their best creative designers, as Quake 2's story was also considered sub-medicore, so they most likely just said "fuck it, we're going without a single player story this time".
They don't? They regulate "time, place, and manner" of speech.
Manipulation of people's emotions is basically how politics at the highest level usually work. Or marketing. This is not even sarcasic, I mean it quite literally.
> where more than half of the capital in the market on a given day is controlled by somewhat sophisticated investors.

It's worse than that! The average estimation performs on the level of superforecasters, thanks to the wisdom of the crowd.

The priced-in evaluation beats even most sophisticated investors! ("How is that mathematically possible?" About half of the investors are on the lucky side, but not consistently.)
In my opinion it also has something to do with actually having a haptic feeling when dealing with music. Put something in, select, press play.

This is especially true for MD as they were a rad less flimsy than CDs. I had a Sanyo portable MD and it was a rock-solid device.
No USB device was ever plugged into the device.

There were days that you need to enter developer mode to turn on pin unlock, and Bluetooth devices came later on. I remember that pain of needing to enter my very long password in each boot. Horrible UX.

I interacted with a recent (a couple of months) Chrome OS Flex device (a regular old PC laptop of a senior that I know and helped to establish a basic computer for him), and it didn’t work on the first boot. It was a huge problem for him to enter the password, especially a strong one. I set up a pin with his birthday, which never worked. It worked only if you logged off the account (but didn’t turned off the computer). But if you start fresh, then you won’t be able to use the pin. I ended up setting his Google password to his birthday with dots and some letters, e.g. Qw25.12.1935, which Google allowed and which worked for him. He enters his password letter by letter and for him it’s a worse UX than before, when he had Windows XP that just boots and has Chrome (outdated with no option to upgrade) installed. But I convinced him this new way of things is better. At least it loads momentarily, which he likes.

And on top of that, built in Bluetooth adapter doesn’t work on that very laptop to connect his Android smartphone. The Bluetooth module works, but it doesn’t with the software for some reason. Brief googling showed me it’s easier to buy usb Bluetooth module and try with it. Which I did, but haven’t checked that yet, as he lives quite far away from me. As of now he uses the laptop somehow.
Artificial organic marketing is going to be big!
Australia, absolutely.

In 2019-2020 37.4% of mortgagees and 58% of renters in lower-income households spent more than 30% income on housing [1]. Since then rental pricing has detached from reality (or at least CPI) [2] and house prices have continued to climb. There also appears to be entry of large investment firms starting to buy up assets which is mildly terrifying.

The housing rocket ship has been great for anyone on it, but horrendous for the future of society. We're currently hardlining towards neo-feudalism within a generation or two.

[1]: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/housing-a...

[2]: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/jun/new-in...
Do you mean in the sense it’s hierarchical? Or am I missing the point entirely
Whether a defendant can be held liable for false speech is a different question from whether the government can prohibit the speech in the first place.

My prior comment was a bit tangential and sort of off-topic, but I'll leave it there for context.
For a potential cure:

Search for 'aphantasia image streaming' on Youtube. I'm in a hurry now, maybe I will provide a link later.
Tetrataenite
Be that as it may be, plenty of people use Google products and may learn something.

the Google nest hub has a radar for sleep tracking, which I find really innovative. I don’t think they’re the first, but it’s a pretty common product and it works well. You point the screen at your bed, and the radar is sensitive enough to see if you’re laying down or moving a lot on your side of the bed. No wearing any watch, no expensive single-use device (eg a bed pad) and it can tell how restful the night was. I have no idea how accurate it is, but anecdata says it works well enough for casual use.
Why is Debian the way it is?
You can't blame algorithms, you can blame those writing and using them.

Humans at Amazon decided to add such a feature to Alexa, somebody else implemented it and somebody decided to use crap data, so you can blame somebody.
Nope, it’s so when you send them a sysdiagnose it doesn’t obviously contain your email and your entire browsing history
A catchy blog post on this subject;

Even God Couldn’t Beat Dollar-Cost Averaging

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
uh iPhones aren't just made by well dressed Stanford educated designers and engineers in California, you know. The number of people needed to mine the metal/silicon for them, to make the circuits (and to build the factories which make the circuits), and to actually assemble them (for example [0]), the global supply chain of container ships and port personnel and police forces to fight piracy... it's a lot of people. I think they outnumber the bullshit KPR middle managers that get demonized here.

Now just to be clear, I'm not saying that bullshit jobs don't exist - they do. And maybe a world with universal basic income would reduce these bullshit jobs and generally make everything nicer.

But the iPhone needs *a lot* of really non-bullshit, totally serious hard work by thousands if not millions of people to exist, many of them getting paid ridiculously low wages and working under what I would consider inhuman conditions (12 hour days, etc... I should mention that I'm French, so perhaps used to slightly cushier worker protections than most people). And I think there are more underpaid, overworked Chinese factory workers than there are are "VPs of corporate happiness".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Mainland_China
> I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years

For what reason do you do that ?
Those things become inevitable when a 3rd layer of management appears (for a total of 4 layers).

I'm not sure how far you can push a 3-layered organization, but it's absolutely something that exists on some scale, without a phantom organization appearing.
Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths
Yes, it is the same, you are right. That´s the point - no inch more "power to the poeple" via cryptocoins.
There are surely ways to make those show up as well.
putting aside current "hostilities" in Israel and wave of arab-on-arab violence in Israel, it's much safer environment. Gun shootings the way they happen in US do not exist in Israel.
Thank you for sharing... today feels like having a 'life altering' view. I think this will also help me relate to and work with people around me when presenting, remembering, etc. in terms of expectations.
JAMF I believe.
Firefox is the only thing that makes money. The problem is that the money made by Firefox was not invested back into Firefox. As a result market share fell. Less market share leads to less money from search deal.
Having recently read Romero’s “Doom Guy” autobiography, I certainly got a sense of that. Seems that Carmack became kind of almost a bully knowing all the other stakeholders depended solely upon him, and he could not be replaced. Used the threat of his departure as a bargaining chip to get exactly what he wanted.

Romero however seems almost apologetic for Carmacks actions. My guess is to spare Carmacks feelings, if he has those.
List of the books I've read since college
Yes. I think that is silly as they should encourage freedom to move. You should just get taxed on the “profit” you make if you find somewhere cheaper to rent than what you get. The workaround is buy to rent out a property you never live in then just rent and move around as
normal. But then you lose out on the primary residence capital gains exemption. A work around to that is to never sell and use the death trust to pass that on to your kids. All this stuff takes a lot of planning and thinking about.

Another weird thing: transfer your house to your spouse and pay stamp duty! Stamp duty itself is regressive and should be replaced by a smaller annual property tax or just another form of tax (but given that property ownership tends to create wealth inequality probably good to tax ownership rather than add more income tax)
I'm personally a big fan of his books, but I've read on various internet sources that some people will accuse him of not being academically rigorous enough. I honestly don't have enough expertise or energy to really judge.
This completely misses the context in which online discussion occurs: social media platforms. Platforms whose business model depends on capturing eyeballs, and who know that outrage and sensation maximise that. It is attempting to treat a symptom, not the cause. A case of "oh, dear: our utopian technology has turned out to have bad consequences, so let's layer more utopian tech on top to fix it".
I can't imagine any new development not being prohibitively expensive.
Oh no. I just ordered a pixel 8 for someone in a different country.

Wasn’t aware of this geo lock BS
To quantify “insanely”,

$1 in the 1900 stock market would be $52000 today. In the 1900 T-bill market, $58. If you knew how to perfectly rebalance every Jan 1, $22.3m.
No job is on that alone. You need to be someone they can trust, be hard working, be smart, be in for the long haul ... I could go on.
And on it goes, the continual churn of front end development.
yep.

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
The idea that he follows the litmus test is of questionable factuality given that the author’s own Objective-J language would have failed it.

It is likely that the litmus test came from his experience creating Objective-J. However, the Swift project began in the same timeframe, so even if we understand these things now, Objective-J shows that we didn’t back then.
I like this a way for a client to share an anonymized and obstufucated version of their db for dummy data dev work especially if you have multiple clients.
I think I have something like that. When I'm sleepy, I like to close my eyes and "take a ride" picturing myself looking out the window of a bus driving on a country road, I'd see in mind's eye high definition images of the scenery I pass by, individual flowers, a resting deer, a snowy mountain in the distance, a pretty girl riding on a bicycle, sometimes the scenery will suddenly change from one season to a different one, or one type of landscape (e.g. wheat fields) to a different one (e.g. river bank), like those AI generated "predict next frame" videos ... it's a super relaxing experience. What I find interesting is that I do not feel like I'm in any way "directing" this movie, I continue to be curious to see what will arrive next in my "field of vision" and I have no expectations one way or the other (to be clear, if I do form a volition to see, say, a panda running by the bus, I will succeed; the point is that volition is not needed for new unanticipated images to arrive on their own)
> I think his musical output has fallen off a lot as "running a system of money pipes" took over his life

Does not appear to be the case? Jack is pumping out music at an insane rate.

If you mean quality wise, that is a lot harder to judge objectively. Subjectively I like his new stuff, and his new band the Scary Pockets is doing well popularity wise.
I've heard that Pixel phone have good security. With that said, there seems to be a lot of issues cropping up lately (like the 911 fiasco) which make me a bit skeptical of the value proposition.
Thermodynamic AI and the Fluctuation Frontier
Just read your sibling comment, talking about gulags or it is not communism...
Blazor isn't made for public front-ends like the Microsoft Store. It's more appropriate for LOB or other logged-in apps.
maybe I've read too many Taleb books, but can you put yourself in a position to bet against the stupidity? For example, take a short position on WarnerMedia/Amazon stock?
I think when it comes to online discourse one also needs to be reminded that there are deliberate external factors stirring the pot. A lot of disharmony in society is beginning online.

Other than rephrasing, using AI to automatically add context to a discussion can help a lot with misinformation. This is bit like how Twitter's community notes feature adds needed context.

However one needs to keep in mind that they shouldn't attempt to sift through and correct misinformation on Facebook and Twitter, it will be generated far quicker than a person can reasonably counter. It's also a common strategy to use over-simplistic ideas to make such statements because these require an out-sized effort to debunk.

Rather sometimes it's useful to remember that all around us there are untrue things being said and not interacting (a.k.a. "engagement") with them is often a solution in itself. Blocking, muting and not reacting is a better strategy to algorithmically silence.

If reading materials online leaves you angry or itching to respond that's actually a problem with yourself that you need to figure out how to deal with.
> I don’t think I’m physically capable of remaining healthy and being an employee software engineer anymore

I'm sorry to hear that, and that makes me worry about my future in this industry.

However

> If you can’t do that (I can’t), pick another occupation and keep the programming as a side gig thing because it’ll drive you insane and shave years off your life.

Won't this just apply to any career? Or do you think there's something unique about software that leads to this?

> Exploring other avenues such as bizdev

I don't think I fully understand what this entails, can you elaborate?
European marginal tax rates that high kick in at a way lower income, resulting in a far higher tax burden on the middle class.

France is 41% at 78k EUR. UK is 40% at 37k GBP, Netherlands is 50% at 73k EUR.

Then add on top the VAT which is high teens.

You’d need to earn over $200,000 to get to a >40% marginal rate in CA, with the standard deduction and SALT it’s probably closer to $300,000.

Europe taxes the middle class at those higher rates to raise enough income for all those social programs. You couldn’t fund those sort of social programs in CA relying solely on taxes the top 5%