skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily maximizing money, but maintaining lifestyle. It's extremely common for people to increase their standard of living as their means increase, and reducing that requires significant effort in some cases (e.g., people tend to buy as much house as they can afford, so any significant salary reduction could necessitate selling the house and uprooting your family). It's a minimal sacrifice in the face of having to work a job you hate, IMO, but it's still a powerful barrier for many.
But Americans do not pay the same tax as Europeans. As some others already noted, the high brackets in Europe kick in at much lower incomes (usually around 70k-80k or so). In addition, VAT (sales/consumption tax) ranges from 19%-25%.
> But even when awake, I can sort of see things in my subconscious - it's almost like they're in my peripheral vision. As soon as I concentrate on them, they disappear. The brain is a weird thing.

I describe this as having the memory of imagining something. But your descriptions rings just as true.

When I try to concentrate and catch this memory/peripheral vision, it starts hurting my brain.
Companies can hire non-union workers.
Presumably if you were saying you were Morgan Freeman and acting on behalf of Morgan Freeman and damaging the image of Morgan Freeman, I would imagine you would be asked to stop rather quickly yes.
Unless you’re talking about big tech that’s not true. A random bank or insurance company or whatever will pay worse than well funded startups
It's not that the brain is bigger than an LLM, it's that the way we learn written language (and spoken language too, tbh) is different from how LLMs learn language, and that the way we think about the world isn't derivative of language.

We don't learn to read or write by doing token prediction (if we did, subjects like spelling would be much easier). In fact, there was a movement in schools to teach reading by asking students to predict what words might be based on the context of the sentence, and it was a disaster and led to increased illiteracy rates and schools have started shifting back to phonics. Not only do we not learn that way, when we try to learn that way it leads to worse education outcomes.

The reason why brains are not like an LLM is not because we also have eyes and an LLM doesn't, it's because just isolating out our language "models", we are trained differently and interact with the rest of our brains differently.

If our language centers of our brain worked like an LLM, we would expect language skills to develop faster than reasoning capabilities within our writing/speaking. A primitive LLM like GPT-2 has very limited processing ability but is still able to imitate a wide range of styles and is still able to "speak" in a grammatically correct way. Humans are the opposite: we start out communicating complex ideas poorly and we start out using language poorly. We master language as a processing tool before we become competent at using language in general.
> They basically went to war to refresh the coffers of Empire

This is technically true on its face, but second-order thinking reveals why the "coffers" were low in the first place. The United States goaded them into war by intentionally cutting off their oil supplies.

Pearl Harbor was no surprise. FDR's advisors knew exactly what they were doing.
Are we in a recession? Let's look at the bankruptcy filing rates
It, like Q, started out as a 4chan meme, but got coopted by the far right.
Someone just managing a team isn't really in any way "management". Usually would have very limited power for anything as a team leader. Lower than divisional leadership is often much more administrative than anything of "executive" function.

And, btw., things like delayering are fairly typical efficiency drives. So these "management" positions might not be that stable to start with.
The author's point maybe valid regardless of his work.

The second statement is not n the context of this thread, I didn't look at the username and thought you were the original commenter I answered to :)
Mixtures of Experts
Perhaps everybody in the world needs some sort of signing key, so they can officially "authorize" public media that contains their likeness.
> What you're really saying is that employers should be allowed to form a large powerful collective organization but employees shouldn't.

That's not what he said, but you'll ignore it anyway.

If employees want to form a union, they are welcome to do so.

If employers want to fire everyone that is in a union, they too should be welcome to do so.
I've become really skeptical of all the auto magazines that find ways to criticize Tesla in every article.

The most easily imaginable conspiracy theory is that Tesla has pioneered techniques that let it manufacture electric vehicles with good range at a reasonable cost, catching other auto manufacturers flat-footed. By continually improving and lowering prices, Tesla makes it nearly impossible for others to keep up. So the traditional auto makers deploy FUD to try to buy time.

But that's just a theory.
Ask HN: Will the presence of an AI observer trigger wave function collapse?
Usually what's meant is that it's impossible to beat the market over time. I also saw Meta completely oversold and bought in. As someone who follows tech, it seemed obvious to me that Meta's impending death was greatly exaggerated. The problem is, can I do that over and over across the entire market? Nope.
Genuinely curious -- what does a blockchain provide here that a normal public key signing doesn't?
> what distinguishes CS from math?

The art of application
I feel like the Zero 2 W is the new low-power option. Its 4 cores should be enough for most things, the 512MB RAM limit is a bit unfortunate though.
Does anybody know if it's actually fast in terms of low latency? I personally don't care about GPU acceleration or any of those things that Alacritty and others claim makes them fast when the latency is noticeably worse than older non accelerated emulators.
There's a 3rd-ish version that stopped promoting the extension and is closer to Patreon but with a set overall rate.
Plants or bookcases as backdrop on video call do impress, study finds
Also “experts warn” is argumentum ad verecundiam.
Author here, you're right, provider versions are something I did not account for.

Good catch!
Hmm. I get the sentiment (500, i.e. not too short, not too long), but 500 lines will mean different things for different people and different programming stacks. It literally can mean 50000 vs 500 "lines of knowledge" required. I'm not sure why would you name your book like that.

Consider:
500 lines of defensively written web server C++ code.
500 lines of C driver code.
500 lines of assembly.
500 lines of php script.
500 lines of java server app.
500 lines of c# .net desktop app.
500 lines of electron javacript code.

When I imagine the amount of a "useful program" I can write in 500 lines of C (or other low level statically typed language) while using minimal amounts of library code versus the "useful program" I can write in 500 lines of Javascript while using maximum amounts of Electron library code (i.e. all the functionality of chromium + node + electron), the difference is staggering ( try writing a cross platform video player in C vs Electron.. ). That doesn't mean Electron is better, especially if you need maximum resource budget usage or maximum control.

It's never about the number of lines, it's how you use them ;)
It doesn’t matter how it started, it matters what it actually stands for now. In the case of that hand gesture, it really has been used intentionally by actual white supremacists (though I would argue that the woman in this particular photo might just be playing “the circle game” or something equally innocuous)
A human in a sensory deficit chamber still thinks demonstrating they aren’t necessarily purely reacting the the current stimulus.

An LLM is only reacting to its current stimulus.
> The way you'll fall for a scam like this is by thinking you couldn't fall for one.

It sounds possible, and I don't believe in that declaring 1% of victims non-victims thing, just sounds like cartoonish reverse hunger games non-sense.

But there are a lot of scams that I (and let's presume a lot of HN) categorically can't fall for.

Random account on whatever social media account DMs me with studio quality model photos and a flirtatious opening? What's the first thought that goes through your head? Is it "oh geeze another spam bot" or is it "finally! the perfect hot swappable replacement spouse I'm entitled to has contacted me directly out of nowhere!"?

Maybe it's also only because I already know about the check cashing/delayed not clearing scam, but who TF is accepting checks and sending them back out to randos they've never met online? When these people are losing $5,000, that was their last $5,000, too!

I'm not totally sure what categories of scams I am personally vulnerable to, maybe I'll have paid $100 for a $10 drop-shipped low quality garbage a few times a year. I consider funkpops a scam and I haven't fallen for them.

But some of these other scams require some kind of narcissist "finally what life owes to me is promised by this emoji filled DM from someone I've never heard of before or met IRL!" or other possible, but eventual, mental decline that will likely come with age.

There's not a 20th Nigerian Prince who's going to eventually get lucky on me. It's the other way arround. One prince's 20th email will get lucky on a random sucker.
Author here, thank you!
Actual “timing the market” does exist but it’s illegal. We call it insider trading.
The other half of the equation is bias in the investigation. Often a poor understanding of statistics is used to start investigations, unfortunately those investigations are started with the premise that a particular person “is probably guilty”. Turns out that when medical investigations are performed looking for wrongdoing, they’re much more likely to find wrongdoing that if the investigation was performed simply to understand if correct policy and procedure are followed. As a consequence it’s very normal for deaths previously ruled “normal” to suddenly become “suspicious”.

When people have studied these types of investigations, and has the evidence re-evaluated by unbiased investigators, the results are usually that nothing untoward occurred, or that deaths are better explained by systemic failures rather than the actions of specific individuals.

There’s a good reason why we don’t let police go on fishing expeditions. Medical investigations, frequently initiated by untrained administrators, and performed by individuals within a hospital with no formal training in performing unbiased investigations, nor given enough to perform proper investigations, simply don’t hold up to the standards we would expect from a criminal investigation.

None of this is to say that the Letby verdict is unsafe, but it wouldn’t be the first time a medical investigation with lots of evidence resulted in an awful miscarriage of justice.
China cannot sustain themselves with the resources they have. They've seen the world react to Russia, many countries cutting Russia off financially in many ways. China could probably not survive as a nation if they were economically cut off. Yes many countries would be hurting for some time without being able to import goods but things like food, fertilizer, etc. are kinda key.

China also has a shrinking population, much like Russia, and throwing your young and middle aged men into war isn't going to help population numbers.
agile.beach5204@fastmail.com
If you were purchasing online then it will tell you to refer to your banking app. If it's in perso , them asking for a pin is pretty straightforward.

So who is pushing back against this? The networks already have it in place everywhere else, and since it's part of the transaction process there isn't a lot for stores or websites to do.
Those mini-suite definitely look pretty cool. I'm usually not a fan of sleeping in the same place of strangers (even with friends it's hard), but those mini-cabines look great.
If the culture of the company is checked-out people doing some nonsense to get a paycheck, you’re not going to fix that by tough love unless you will actually fire 80% of the company.
What really happens is you fire some useless people but who made someone’s life at work easier or more fun and now everyone who is somewhat competent will start looking for a better job.
> I can use Fry's face in a parody film or critisism of him as a person.

This might feel like nitpicking but given the topic... there are places where there is no notion of 'fair use' like this. There are a whole variety of answers to the question of how much of your identity is yours (and how much is even separable from yourself). One shouldn't take whatever IP regime you're familiar with as the only possible truth, cuz there’s a world of possibilities
You can always lower your standard of living, sure. But that's a different conversation IMO.

I guess technically that's a choice, but it's so bad in the long term I personally can't consider it valid.
I see, totally agreed! If any objects can be serialized, the deserialization will introduce security issue too. For example, `constructor/equals/hashCode` may contains malicious code, which introduce the deserialization risks.

Fury put much work on this to avoid the open dynamic deserialization risks.

But although `basic collections, enums, Strings, records, and classes that register specific serialization code` are the only objects should be allowed for serialization, and they are serialized by the construction protocol in fury already. There are so many applications has used the existing serialization protocol assumption, we have to keep compatible, otherwise most of application can't use fury.
As a someone who can visualize a lot of things and enjoys cooking and fine-dining - I’ve also noticed that I can visualize the look, taste and smell of the end result from the raw components. So, when given a set of ingredients I start by visualizing the different combinations, picking out one and then refining it whilst cooking.

And the same applies the other way around, when blind-tasting some sauces or foods. I get a mental imagery of the components from the taste, not 100% obviously but usually it’s pretty accurate.
> So instead of generating state by doing API requests, this would generate state from code in git, which does not necessarily represent the real world state of resources.

What you're talking about here is unrelated to whether the state comes from regular Terraform state or if it's generated using the source code, as the refresh phase should happen during both.
But that's a low hurdle to resolve.

The Fed should be able to phase in requirements. They've had decades so far.
I believe trademark is the best framework for protection here. A voice is part of a brand. If you imply that your product is from a specific brand then you may be in violation of their rights. I cannot add a swoosh to my new shoes if it too closely resembles the Nike brand because it is both false advertising and a trademark violation. No one should be able to use a specific voice without appropriate permission.

Unfortunately the ultimate test here is "confusion." Will a reasonable person be confused as to the origin of a product. Satire must be sufficiently obvious to receive protection and branding sufficiently different as to not cause confusion.

These tests are well established in the visual realm, they need to be consistently applied to audio as well.
One thing the Letby trial left me wondering was how do doctors and nurses working in areas with higher levels of mortality protect themselves from this sort of accusation? And whether this would put doctors off doing riskier procedures?
Doubtful since i is also used as an index variable in mathematics.
By having checks and balances in place.
Kathleen Folbig case might me related to what it’s being discussed. She had four children die shortly after being born and she was sent to jail.
Author, thank you! I'll tune it down a notch, this is most definitely helpful feedback.
Some do, but not every bar has a bouncer, and even then it’s hard to blanket-ban on suspicion.

There aren’t any lesbian bars, sadly, but I would expect bachelorettes to hit them if they existed. The point seems to be “act slutty and let their guard down without risk”. (Though as a gay woman I have a whole separate rant about straight women in gay bars.)

I have some sympathy for them. The whole point of gay bars is having fun and expressing one’s sexuality without risk. But each party is having a “once in a lifetime” drunken blowout, while for the rest of the bar it’s just a Friday. Also they bring extreme straight energy.

It used to be less common, but then their behaviour was worse when gay culture was less mainstream and they treated it like going on safari. It was also galling when they invaded our space to celebrate marriage when we couldn’t marry, then turned around and voted Republican.
> improving

ah yes my favorite important improvements that I totally use daily like adding crypto tokens to chrome and crypto spam notifications on android
> Buffett's ultimately successful contention was that, including fees, costs and expenses, an S&P 500 index fund would outperform a hand-picked portfolio of hedge funds over 10 years. The bet pit two basic investing philosophies against each other: passive and active investing.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
do you think mlterm is slow?
It depends what kinds of things you find compelling but I would guess probably nothing if you haven't already been sucked into the terminal emulator rabbit hole. iTerm2 and gnome terminal are both perfectly functional for 100% of the tasks you will actually need them for.
> It's not as hard as you think it is

Agreed. I've been pushing SSR and vanilla HTML/JS/CSS aggressively for the last ~3 years. It really just works these days. MDN is an incredible resource if you want to go off into this jungle.

In my view, the #1 reason developers reach for frameworks is because they lack even the barest design sensibilities. I certainly remember the feeling. Where to put a button. How wide to make some column. What colors to use. Whether to do a modal or an inline element. This is what gets most looking for an easy out. Every developer in my org will say that UI is their least favorite thing. But, only if they have to design something from blank.

If you don't allow yourself the easy out and force yourself to create shitty paintings all day, you will eventually develop some sense for what the canvas & tooling are actually capable of relative to human aesthetics. I believe this is the only way you can gain confidence in operating without training wheels. Non-stop practice. Willingness to get your hands super messy with "dirty" code that otherwise works perfectly.
Don't take the ÖBB night-train from Zürich HB to Amsterdam and back. They sell you the premium package online with fancy pictures of their new trains but the train that shows up is an old 1970 rail car with both toilets locked (broken for weeks I found out), broken doors, broken heater, missing ladders, broken window blinds etc.

At this time if they can't even clean the toilets then it is not worth the steep price.

Here is a video of the squeaking noise we had all night (sounds like the rail car is about to break in half): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GLNqpCfIawc

The toilets: https://imgur.com/gZqhDvz , even better was that the toilets in the other attached rail carriages had no toilet paper (Amsterdam -> Zürich)...

Additionally from Amsterdam to Zürich 3 people got robbed while still in the Netherlands. This train is reservation only, they could at least lock the doors or something to prevent criminals from boarding.

I would have been more comfortable with a seat in the 1st class SBB carriage that rides along than a private cabin and it would have cost a lot less.
You're telling me most retired Americans have more than hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings?

I'm not gonna dive into stats for that since I'm not an American, but I would be thoroughly surprised.
You mean all those Warhammer 40k lore videos with David Attenborough weren't legit? :)

It is crazy if you need a good example of what Stephen Fry id talking about look at the "Attenborough Lore" channel. I honestly can't tell other than I doubt he'd do voice overs for dozens of 40k videos and the narrator is listed as "AI".
It's not an automatic sweep, but anyone holding cash at Schwab moves it to something like SWVXX [1] paying ~5% right now.

[1] https://www.schwabassetmanagement.com/products/swvxx
https://satwcomic.com/good-to-see-you-england
Have they examined if it is the wood itself; or the (possible - no idea if true) accumulations of microplastics and other chemicals into the wood?

I would not be terribly shocked if we found out that wood is more dangerous to burn today than it used to be.

Edit: For the downvoters who think it’s unlikely, consider that microplastic and PFAS in rainwater has passed safe levels. What do trees grow from?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40859859/rainwater...
I read the Control Mode section of the man page, but the utility didn't leap off the page. Would you share what's cool about this mode?
> Poles, Hungarians and Spaniards share a thousand-long common history of being part of Christian Europe, under Roman Christianity

Not at all. That's a mirage in which some people want to believe.

Spain went through the gothic kingdoms, the emirate of Granada, the Reconquista, the Habsburg dynasty, to name a few. Poland saw nothing of that, and was not even part of the Roman Empire in the first place. They went through various wars and conquests with theirs own neighbours, some of the various bits of the Holy Roman Empire, the various baltic and Russian states, and Sweden, but there is almost no overlap with what was going on in Spain. Hungary was a very fringe frontier province in the Roman Empire and the cultural consequences are very different. And again, they were in very different situations, being much closer to the Ottoman Empire for a while and having to deal with the various bits of what is now Romania. Russia is a European country, but again the local culture looks very different.

On the other hand, Spain has a couple of centuries of history in common with North Africa. Ties between Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia on one side and France on the other are strong because of the shared history and the number of binational individuals and families. This is the same everywhere: countries have strong ties with their neighbours, and this does not stop at the EU's boundaries.

Even the supposedly close religious beliefs created a deep chasm in most of Europe. Large regions of Europe are muslim, there always has been a Jewish minority across the whole continent, and even amongst Christians, how many wars fo religions were fought over the centuries? Europe makes no sense from an ethnic point of view. It is a collection of very diverse people even though there are some cultural and historical aspects in common, and a belief that the future is better if we stop fighting each other. This is why European nationalism is not a thing.
To be honest the main benefit I can see is that the entire DB would be publicly distributed among a large number of independent users which would make the data a lot harder to falsify/hack/corrupt.

However, any system which can achieve the same goal is perfectly valid. This was just my initial thought — probably from my large exposure to blockchains etc
Get a Radxa Zero, I've been using one with 4GB of RAM and 64GB EMMC: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/10/07/1830
Right, and that is still low.
How is it useful? I could never understand why I would want something like that as opposed to just using Tmux splits & terminal emulator windows. And this is the only selling point of iTerm! Everything else is strictly worse (lag, CPU/memory usage) compared to plenty of emulators.
Write your politicians
I'm not sure why your toilets link goes up a video of a cute cat sleeping. Not that I mind. Has it been taken down?