skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very true. I worked in healthcare and the US system is a bizarre mix of government regulations and half-measures that actually make the system worse.

A great example is the 340B law. It forces drug makers to give hospitals that have a high proportion of indigents (low income patients) massive discounts.

So what happened? Hospitals saw a cash cow and bought up a ton of small oncology clinics and brought them in house. The cost of providing oncology care in a hospital system is more expensive.

Basically the law did nothing for passing savings to patients and actualy drove up healthcare costs.

It one example of many in the US system.
Confidential Consortium Framework: Secure Multiparty Applications
Source code: https://github.com/microsoft/CCF
Why did origin get made then?
Playing around with 96x avx512 sounds fun
I guess that depends on how memory bound the test is.
what's the annual global expenditure on cancer treatments, these days; and what percentage of oncologists would subject themselves to cancer treatment?
> Literacy rates in the US are pretty high I think, compared to where we were before k-12 schooling became standard.

'Post hoc ergo propter hoc.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

By and large, kids from well-off parents were always more literate, and they still are. And the US is a lot richer now than it used to be.
A much younger version of myself put that screensaver on my workstation at work.

A week or so later, one the IT folks passes me at lunch -- "Hey, your computer is on the fritz, it keeps rebooting and going to a blue screen ..." :)
Or the gender neutral, invariant noun: “widowen”

BTW, shouldn’t “widower” be the person who died and the survivor be called “widowee”?
How useful are books about building an optical 100x+ microscope from scratch to people who have survived a global catastrophic event? Relearning how to make blue lasers is probably extremely low on the list of priorities compared to, say, farming or desalinization. You'd be relying on a fairly niche group of apocalypse survivors to actively preserve the knowledge of microscope production so that someday in the not-very-near future someone might want to learn about quarks or sixteenth century music.

It makes a lot of sense to make the most useful information for apocalypse survivors the most accessible information. Just make books about that information and keep them maintained. Then there's at least incentive to keep the books protected and maintained.

Edit: it sounds like you'd probably need a 1000x to 10000x microscope to really read the nanofiche described in this article. So a potter's wheel is probably not sufficient. Plus, you'd need the materials and tools for working with glass, which might not even be feasible in an apocalypse.
I still want my computer to remain responsive even when I'm rendering in the background.
I think it was intended to be sardonic or sarcastic.
Google Gemini Leaked Along with Stubbs App Builder
Threadripper is as the name implies, purely MT focused.

I run simulations that are inherently completely single-threaded and I lean on Geekbench which tend to be a good predictor for me. As far as I can tell, Intel still holds the crown in absolute ST perf, granted at horrific efficiencies: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks/
(be sure to ignore the "Top Single-Core Results" which AFAICT is full of BS numbers). Intel's latest 14900K isn't there yet, but should be a smidgen faster: https://www.techspot.com/news/100034-intel-core-i9-14900k-to...
On that topic here's an interesting article about the Ambler Mining District in Alaska - massive mineral deposits that would require a road through pristine wilderness to access:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-27/ambler-ac...

and

https://archive.ph/WP14Q
> All i'm seeing is the confirmation that independently parallalizable tasks finish twice as fast on a cpu with twice the cores. cool, amdahl's law is proven.

Yes, but if you can squeeze more cores in the same space (and/or power) envelope, and not suffer a performance per core penalty, you're winning.
Quarter way through Forever War - thank you so much, these are tremendous!
These chips have 8 channel ram, so you need at least 8 sticks to get full ram bandwidth.
Basic scripting abilities would be beneficial years later for the subset of the kids who become office drones.

I would agree with your assessment about 'immediately beneficial in daily life', if you were talking about a course offered to adults who are already working a white collar job.
Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US
See https://archive.ph/V3zr0
Docutron Toolkit: detection analysis for legal data extraction over documents
Docutron is a tool designed to facilitate the extraction of relevant information from legal documents, enabling professionals to create datasets for fine-tuning language models (LLM) for specific legal domains.

Legal professionals often deal with vast amounts of text data in various formats, including legal documents, contracts, regulations, and case law. Extracting structured information from these documents is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Docutron simplifies this process by using state-of-the-art computer vision and natural language processing techniques to automate the extraction of key information from legal documents.
There's no government system that has been proposed that can not be captured. The only option that has proven to work so far, is to limit the government, so that regulatory capture doesn't matter that much.
That analysis is horrible. Like failing statistics 101 horrible.

It completely ignores survivorship bias. You can't just look at the profit margin of the biggest public companies. You're basically just selecting for the winners. And the entire business model of biotech is 90% are losers and of the 10% that win, they win big to make up for all the losers.

You'd need to do an analysis that looks at profitability of the entire industry. Look at all the VC backed biotechs that get $500M in funding then go belly up. Look up the multiple acquisitions in the past decade that were just written off.
I imagine that having a launch site on far away location isn't ideal for R&D. Location is a US' advantage that's hard to catch up. Not having any lands for east is great.
Microsoft Excel (or cloud-based spreadsheets) will always be allowed. Even if they remove scripting abilities, a clever person can remove a lot of office busy work with just basic Excel functionalities like pivot tables.
Honestly, just makes me happy your posting that you at least take it seriously. Nobody's perfect, but in my opinion things get out of hand when people don't take responsibility when mistakes happen. Good work, I know it's not your fault, need more people like you out here fixing.
I suspect this is a result of the tax system in the US which is structured in a way that strongly incentivises parents into marriage.

Europe generally taxes incomes individually and offers parental leave to help when one of the parents is out of the workforce with a baby. In the US there's just the pooling of tax allowances.

For dual income households in very high cost of living areas though you need to balance the benefits of pooling tax allowances while only one of you is working with the reduction in mortgage interest tax deduction (which has the same maximum for both a married couple or unmarried single filers.)
I doubt 2.5ghz vs 4.2ghz is going to make any real difference to "responsiveness". The more pressing concern would be making sure the kernel actually schedules foreground workloads promptly.
Well, it's a naive question. And it shows laziness given the answer can be found at google or chatgpt (https://chat.openai.com/share/a1655efa-05e1-4ad0-97ca-62439d...).

Most people are aware of such things and can't quite figure how to explain it to someone who isn't, or can't figure out Google. Hence the stare.
Great site, but also kind of depressing as a reminder that thanks to the rocket equation we aren’t going anywhere fast…
Because it’s not about the jobs, it’s about what salary people will settle for.

If a family had to make X to live comfortable before, now you can do so with each of you making half that as long as it adds up to X. People shouldn’t settle for less, but they do even if only a few percent… where before people didn’t to the same degree because it had more immediate impact.

This in turn is one of the several market forces that has contributed to deflated wages.
Email as a concept can evolve. We can break backward compatiblity. Call it email v2 and include some killer features. If enough major players and users get involved then it'll happen.

My hope is it'll be something like Dark Mail, yet with a carve out for enterprise recipients to inject their controls and anti-malware before end-user delivery. (To combat spam and malware.)
With or without that I expect governments to say "thank you for your
unrealistic statement, we'll now ignore it and implement whatever we
feel like.

The standard of debate and progress of the UK Online Safety Bill
offered ample evidence of an era in which complex, reasonable and
nuanced debate, and appeal to the reasonability of governments, is
over.

Which is what this is all about really.

Post classical democracy it's all about power, and who shouts the
loudest. The voices in this impressive list of academics extolling the
noble fight for Truth through free-speech seem like "the wind in dry
grass".

they, and yourself, are appealing to modes of argument and disputation
the enemy no longer recognises.

Already "censorship" seems too narrow a take of what's happening. It's
about shaping the narrative, about shutting up your voice, and
making sure the "right" ones get heard. The digital technological
landscape is the battleground for this new epistemology.

Truth, if it has a future, will either have to find a way outside the
digital realm, or learn to celebrate its illegitimacy within it.
I believe it is just 8
I think the examples in the handbook are excellent, as an engineer I started on the pipeline example [1]. In terms of testing hypothesis, the design of experiments section is useful [2].

[1] https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmd/section6/pmd62....
[2] https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmd/section3/pmd31.....
This nonsense attitude of "the good result is always in the middle of the two arguments" is one the worst failings of modern political attitudes.
A good percentage of drivers simply do not pay attention to what they're doing or bother to look where they are going. This morning I was out helping my crew put up 4 spans of drop fibre along a busy highway. For each span we would block the driveways to prevent cars from entering and getting tangled up in the cable while it was being installed. Not even 2 minutes into getting the first drop ready did a driver perform a left turn into a fully blocked entrance that had a bunch of traffic cones and myself in hi-vis gear. The driver admitted that he did not even look at where he was going before completing a turn that he couldn't complete without hitting me. Being involved in telecom construction has taught me just how many drivers on the road are unsafe, and the number is not small. This is exactly why we scheduled this job for early on a Sunday morning: so that we could do the work safely while minimizing number of drivers around in an attempt to reduce the "stupid" factor. No amount of signs and flashing lights will help when idiots don't look where they're going. <sigh>
Perhaps it was. Poe's law is tough.
"!unfinished article warning!"

I guess then the author is intellectually lazy? The only reason to put out this disclaimer is to say oh this was just a draft and I am going to fix that up when someone complains...
> are extremely easy to get lost

Notably and tragically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lis...

(though this was at the other end of Panama)
Both Mormons and Asians socialize children into “do what you’re obliged to do, not what you want to do.”

Wow, that's incredibly reductive. Asia has approx 4.7 billion people!
I found this when looking to contrast with how some think of others as non-player characters (NPCs in gaming vernacular).

Sonder (uncountable)
(neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

This is insightful as it brings a sense of introspection and humanizes the "other" unknown people around us as deserving the same level of respect we expect from others, while the NPC concept when applied to daily life does the opposite.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/NPC
This study uses Cruise “estimates” and the comparable driving environment is the one Cruise currently operates in, which is pretty easy (barren streets after nine p.m.).

Further, the raw data at https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/human-ridehail-crash-ra... shows a much higher crash rate for the autonomous vehicles. It was only after massaging the data that the AVs were decided to be safer.
Arguably you are totally correct in that assertion of relative value to society.
It may actually be the case too, on average, in the US.
Note a quick google search says theres 1M doctors in the US and the average salary is somewhere in the $250-400K range depending on source.

Meanwhile Google also returns me "The average salary for a Software Engineer is $117654 per year in United States." - Indeed. Allegedly there's 4M of us weirdos here too.

When we get out of the staff engineer FAANG & Wall St tech bubble the $250k/500k/1M TC numbers don't really exist. And there's only so many seats within the bubble making those numbers anyway, what maybe 50-100K total out of a country of 4M SWEs.

Plenty of SWEs on Wall St never make more than $250k before "getting retired" (in the Bladerunner sense).

Likewise most SWEs working in Fortune 500 companies are clearly barely entering the six figure TC range.
Well, there's always porn. They are always on the forefront of technology.
There's a somewhat similar sort of thing in New Jersey for development/training (not recruiting afaik), basically a warehouse with the superstructure of a cruiser/destroyer sitting on top of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rancocas
> I'm two years in and yet to see a senior software engineer in real life in Germany.

Is it because of remote work? What about seeing your University friends (or did you take not a SE or CS related field)?
Capacity/velocity tied to commitment delivery and their time windows are some of the things I most closely track. Velocity is still considered a top metric for engineering performance. If you are starting out I suggest looking through your tickets or any type of docs/info you can gather on previous work, points, estimates, delivery, etc. to determine where the performance _could_ be. Few thoughts below! Have a lot more but hope this helps.

Define an estimate system. We try to keep time out of our estimates when it comes to per story or sub-epics. What's important is getting the team aligned and speaking to the same definitions. Where the variance is the complexity based on the dev's abilities. Juniors you should see a trend of higher estimates typically, seniors more consistent and deliver on it, and the ones who are growing where they can estimate accurately w/ less info or more complex work. (Potential signal they can provide mentoring or might be ready for a promotion.)

Capture the data. If you have Jira or something similar its not to hard to generate reports but it means you have to be getting data points like the above down so you can generate things like capacity/velocity over time. Simple spreadsheets are more than fine. You don't have to turn it into rocket science. We initially did a spreadsheet since we couldnt report out of Jira yet until the process caught up with the performance improvements. If no data to start - you take a best guess baseline w/ your team. One of the teams I took on in the past was doing poorly and we didn't have anything. We looked at some previous work/estimates, threw out where we missed deadlines, and said "Ok everyone were going to say we can do 30pts a sprint across the 5 of us. It's slightly lower in general than what we've done but we need a baseline and we'll adjust as we go."

- Use the data. You're trying to figure out predictability. It took us about 4 sprints to narrow on what we could complete as a team. We went from about 50-65% hitting our commitments up to 85-95% after adjusting to our new per sprint numbers. Within all these things, the levers and knobs under the hood is looking at actual work more in-depth and how we perceive it and what a good estimate would look like. More accurate estimates stems from growing your business, domain, and technical knowledge. A lot of teams don't actually take the dive into that and just mess around with the number of points. You can't take a passive approach to this as a team and hope it will get better.

I just got back from LeadDev eng manager conference and it was HUGE what you're asking about. A few companies there were very focused on this problem space. Swarmia and LinearB were a couple of them. This is going to be a big deal for awhile based on the current economic waves. And it will last long after its over. Great skill to grow in as hard as it can be.
> In that context you only give the shills more sway.

This is a really good point that I overlooked.

I'm in an industry where sophisticated participants can see the blatant scams, but laypeople have no chance at spotting them. Your claim makes a lot of sense.
YouTube Autogenerating Music Videos Advocating Expulsion of Muslims from India
That’s the point about interoperability. If we’re going to make “email v2” (not a terrible idea!), then the considerations that will go into securing it will ensure that it’s entirely incompatible with the thing we currently call email.

In other words: without sufficient clarity, email v2 just confuses people like my parents. Who would be better served by Signal anyways.
Who would have thought that supporting an organization that torture citizens before executing them will be a mistake?

Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the only place in the world where western adults can look at: beheaded baby video, removing eye balls before execution, cutting limbs, 15 years old girl rape, burning dozens of people alive, beheading foreign citizes (100% thai citizen, not double citizenship) that happens to work in the area, killing 12 Nepales students that happen to be in the are, Pareding civilian hostages in the streets of Gaza. All that in 6 hours. And still so many cry out loud: "But we need to understand what led them to do it".

mmmm.. no we don't! Israel opressing you? Act like an opressed, kill soldiers and policemen and fight diplomatically.
This is beautiful, thank you so much for sharing it.
The mindset is super on the right track, going from working on something polished to "trashy" before validation. It's just not far enough in the not doing work until the idea has some validation axis. Yes, making an android app is probably a bad idea, but how do you even know before you talk to one potential user, if you have no one that has told you they would use it, why build anything?
In their survey question they mentioned "fido2 and passkeys", so it's not clear how many are pro passkeys and how many had yubikeys in their mind. And the question isn't asked directly. They ask if passwords are here to stay and the answer options aren't about what the surveyed person would like to see in the future but more about what will happen in the future. e.g. "they [passkeys and fido2] will replace passwords" instead of "i want them [passkeys and fido2] to replace passwords"
Aren't there 16GB DDR5 sticks?

With smaller sticks, they could populate all the channels while keeping total memory capacity the same as other setups. I don't see why they had to splurge all the way up to 512GB.
It just seems so incredibly sloppy to not have that be consistent. Do they expect all of their readers to then audit the code of the benchmarking that they are doing to ensure that it cannot possibly be bound by this?
It is largely a product of Americo-centric modes of reasoning about politics, especially since an overwhelming part of Americans' engagement with political issues is predicated on how the Ds and Rs act and react to each other.
I think my perception is always a bit skewed by the fact that when I see people in the immediate time after surgery, they’re at the peak of suffering.
If the benchmark has any cache misses at all then you also want to make sure everything about the memory configuration is the same, too, for a fair CPU benchmark, right? Number of channels, latency, etc.

No, the actual amount of RAM isn't directly relevant, but it seems like a possible brown m&m to me.

(https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/)
There has been some progress in that area over the last 30 years; the percent of stay-at-home dads has ~doubled, and now 18% of stay-at-home parents are dads, up from 11% 30 years ago[0]. There are certainly people pushing to normalize SAHDs in addition to calling for gender parity with paternity leave.

That said, women are still almost 2x likely to prefer homemaking[1] even with the social engineering, and I suspect women's preferences are stronger than men's (e.g. I think it would be nice to be a SAHD, and I'd prefer it over outside work, but we probably wouldn't be together if my wife weren't the SAHM). So as a man you have to be prepared to accept that that's how the world is. Someone has to bring in money, and it'll probably be you.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/03/almost-1-...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/267737/record-high-women-prefer...
> This talk of a "worthwhile investment" is abhorrent.

Would appeasing an aggressive dictator be better “investment”? That worked out so well in the past…
Overall five year survival rates for cancer have risen from about 50% in 1975 to about 75% currently. That includes several extremely difficult subtypes of cancer, which means that many types of cancer have improved much more than the overall trend.

Together this constitutes millions of years of extended life for millions of people. Millions of families given a reprieve from the worst outcome, millions more memories that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

Societally, that’s worth a tremendous amount of money, not to mention the other positive effects that we get from spending lots of money on research.

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/after/survival
> I decided to use my free time to develop a few junk apps. ...

> Conclusion.. I released five "throwaway" Android apps, essentially to test various ideas ... resulted in a net loss.... I've come to realize that this path is a dead-end. ... The chances of creating something of value are slim...

Junk apps don't add value to anyone. Cool, good to know.

I think "making junk / throw away apps" is the wrong idea, or the wrong way to look at it. The goal shouldn't be "to make junk" as junk is worthless, but instead, the most bare-bones version of your core idea, so you can test to see if there's someone out there who values that idea.

In addition to that, i think a certain amount of polish is needed for those ideas to be accepted. If one really wants to go down this route, then it's perhaps better to look at making apps as "practice runs" - each one bettering and perfecting the skills for the next..

This article is probably good information to counter the "how i made $50,000 easily making a simple app" clickbait.
> People expect comments to not be a personal take?

Some comments are factual; corrections, links, additional information, etc.

But people do expect HN to be polite, and "that's your personal take" is the polite way to say "you're a loony ideologue who sees everything through bi-color (BW) lens".