skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cosign though seeming teleports off the rails in the 3rd para. Never understood peoples obsession with that video
https://archive.ph/PWs88
> The centrepiece of this article is basically "people's feelings are wrong, the government's numbers are right".

True, but such patronizing statements are pretty much what mainstream media has consisted of since at least 2016. There is a vast movement across most media outlets to push the narrative that 'the people' cannot be trusted and need oversight and control. It's probably the most significant anti-democratic wave in several generations, and ironically the perpetrators are mostly those who constantly accuse others of anti-democratic tendencies.
Coming from a culture that embraces extended family I'll tell you that divorces within the family fracture the family worse than anything. On its own marriage extends your family because two extended families become one. Divorce ruins the whole thing. It's even worse the more relatives you have. More people are affected.

Extended families are stable because the social pressure to remain married is impossible to overcome for most people.

Most Americans have no idea how oppressive a full extended family can feel and simply think it's all unicorns and rainbows. It's not.
The actual answer is that you just take people's property without compensation or with well below market compensation. (And throw out any requirements for Environmental Impact Statements.) That's where the cost savings would be. I don't actually favor that to be clear.

Building the actual structures has cost but it's probably not where the bulk of the costs are.
Good point. Leakage current is the main issue these days, but that problem is only indirectly linked to power density.

I've explained it your way in the past, but I saw the Wikipedia article for Dennard scaling [1] says that power density for a transistor remains constant with time, which is true given that the underlying transistor technology has constant resistive losses. My understanding is that transistors using GaN have higher power density than "traditional" transistors, which mean Dennard scaling certainly breaks down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
Do you have statistics to support that fathers leave due to "toxic masculinity"? Only statistics I'm aware of is that divorce rates are up and the #1 divorce rate are due to financial issues.regardless, "someone who X is Y" is not a statistic, it's a stereotype (which may or may not have statistical support).

I don't know of much literature that looks into single mother's and why they are single.
Did you get the idea they were maximalists, the article seemed to restrict itself to talking about political speech which I understand is supposed to have the highest levels of constitutional protections because it seems obviously important to democracy

They are asking for gov to abide by UDHR which is limited to politically motivated censorship
Acela between NY and Boston is great. Taken it several times.

However, if you do the math, Acela averages about 85 mph.
I mean this thing really put the Osborne 1 computer to shame, which weighed 24lbs. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
Speed isn't the issue, you need to make the cities convenient to those without cars. Long-distance trains have a huge natural benefit in running directly from city centre to city centre, but that's basically negated if people can't get around those city centres without hiring a car or expensive cabs. Pedestrianise your city centres, build decent commuter transit networks, and long distance trains will follow.
crime was increasing in some places like Chicago[1][2]. Homicides and car jackings started trending upward roughly about a decade ago. note that a trend doesn't need for there to be an annual increase.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

[2]: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Chicago-carjack...

So I think you have to be specific about where but people in Chicago had a valid claim about the perception of crime increasing. These are major crimes so it's also possible reported major crimes have decreased across the country but are increasing in some areas.
That's awesome you still have the files! I made a point to go and collect some of my favorite old flash games and keep them in a folder along with Ruffle - makes it super easy to spin them up again, especially as the hosts slowly go away.

Some examples: Age of War, Bloons, Bowman, Charlie the Unicorn, Frog Blender, Impossible Quiz, Interactive Buddy, Line Rider, Madness Interactive, N+, Pandemic 2, Dinorun, Ratmaze, Portal, Red., Snowcraft, Fancy Pants Adventure
> I have never seen an HOA that does any of that.

Let me tell you about mine. Apart from snow removal and mowing the common lands, we handle curbside trash collection, repairs to water mains, flushing hydrants, maintaining streetlights (and paying for the electricity to light them), capital projects to manage stormwater, paving, sewer maintenance, installing fiber, forest management, etc. We also negotiate group rates for utilities like gas and electricity. A recent major project is replacing the pumps in our sewer lift station to the tune of $17k (an expense we budgeted for, thankfully). So yeah, apart from things like education and emergency services, we are basically a 19 house municipality.
Really, really, really bad. I'm a full stack engineer. I took part of the last 4 years "off" due to having savings and finally settling down to pursue my own SaaS attempt.

I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but that only lasted about a month.

I mostly get just rejections. I have over 15 years of experience. I literally know how to build out every part of a normal web/api stack.

I even have an active ongoing project I've run for 13 years and have scaled to support a couple million requests a day.

Nothing seems to matter.

I have maybe managed to get one actual call a week for the last year where I actually speak to someone from the company. And even then, it's been one "thanks for playing" response email after another.

I honestly don't know what to do. I've never had a problem at least getting interviews to the point where I'm at least in the consideration process.

I need help.

I revised my resume a few times and that hasn't helped. I've gotten more involved with LinkedIn and I get more noise but still low results.

I'm basically getting very desperate.
No, it’s the bike shedding that people do. They can’t actually answer the question so they digress and discuss something else.

I guess you wanna talk about property rights?
There are high delta societies where almost everyone is destitute too like Democratic Republic of the Congo.
You're delusional if you think that the rise of Generative AI hasn't been a factor in the relative difficulty of finding a job today.
Pretty good, actually, although I've just been using LinkedIn recruiters. It's important to optimize your profile such that you get recruiters to contact you. I usually have 5-10 recruiter messages per day asking me to work for some company or another. A lot of them are startups though, which is risky in this climate, as I've heard many that got fired or laid off from their startup job this year.
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Maybe around 2.0 where rial USA is?

We know largely who is committing murder, we know who they are murdering, we know basically down to the blocks where it is happening, and we know why…

These things are all ignored because no one actually wants to do anything about it or they don’t like the ideas.

Who is out there advocating for the national guard to deploy in Riverdale, Englewood, Pullman… or Monroe,
Opelousas… or Newark by itself?

No one. Definitely not the repeatedly elected governments there.

It’s a poverty and drug problem and we know we don’t solve those.
There are academic articles on karens, shrews and bitches? You're claiming that the worst used in 4chan, reddit, and popular magazines carry the same societal weight as academic articles in policy and sociology journals. They don't.
A lot of US cities still had pretty bad violent (and property) crime rates going into the 1990s--and were still losing population. It's great that things are better than 1991 but the general consensus is that things were often pretty bad then.
> after seeing what has become of western cities(from San Diego to Seattle

What would you say has become of Seattle?
_perception_ is exactly the problem, because news love reporting about crimes and if there is any crime which feels (emotionally) bad they love to go one and one about it for weeks, similar any short term crime increase trends, but if there is a short term huge decrease or a long term decrease it's at most a footnote in the 3rd page

e.g. in Germany you are saver now, then 30 years ago

but perception, especially in certain groups, is that crime got way worse

(I'm intentionally using a 30 year comparison to avoid any short term up-down's around covid.)
I was going to say the same!! Such a great game. <3
The resume canary is a great idea - thanks
> Most studies agree that bipolar disorder is not evenly distributed across the sexes.

I don’t think that actually impacts the statistics here the way you think it would.

Suppose 2% of the population had X. If 1% of women had X, ~3% of men would have X and therefore ~4% of couples would.

Nailing down the differences in divorce rates, age of onset, differences in rates of relationship formation, etc are all worth considering. But my point was simply it’s significant not that I had calculated some exact number.
Heh, username checks out
Listening to Americans discussing trains is painful. China built 25,000 miles of high-speed rail in the time the United States has built zero.

Yes, I understand that it’ll never work in America. Now, can you just answer my question: what would it take to reduce the cost of maglevs trains?

The use case is for China to build its next 25,000 miles of HSR with maglevs
Not enough members, broken equipment, too expensive
> but not that newsworthy.

It may be expected, but I disagree that it's not newsworthy. If a sharp-rise is newsworthy, then it's also important to inform people of the sharp-drop. Even if it makes sense to expect a sharp-drop after an anomalous sharp-rise, if you only report the sharp-rise then you leave people misinformed about the current situation.

I think it's fine to complain about the framing of the article, but I think the fact itself is newsworthy.
That's an interesting take!
Well, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human..., which is to say, it's complicated. Notice USSR did not vote against the proposed universal declaration, implying they were willing to go along with whatever everyone else decided.

So, the person quoted in the article has at least some grounds for arguing about human rights, although you might consider the grounds fairly weak. I furthermore claim that the only compassionate response is to agree even if the person isn't on the strongest ground in a formal legal sense where someone might actually be able to do something about it.
You’ve got some stats for this? People are still getting married. The divorce rates are not 100%.

Your post seems a bit out of touch with reality imo. It’s a very “internet” opinion, which according to statistics is not true.
I think the finances of hackerspaces were always very brittle and Covid killed a lot of them.

https://hackerdojo.org/

https://makernexus.org/

https://sudoroom.org/

https://noisebridge.net/
Our drug economy alone is larger than a lot of “more civilized” countries. But we can’t talk about that. Only look at murder as some naturally occurring phenomenon.
That's like putting up a dummy fire extinghuisher to make people feel safe. It works. But if one day there is a crisis, that's when you will want the real thing.
Deontology is the typical endorsed philosophy of most Christian ethics. I only point this out because by citing confucianism you make it seem as if this philosophy has no place in the west. But it does.
That's actually only sorta true.

A genius of the US Constitution is that it states unequivocally that citizens grant rights to their government, not the other way around.
We had every equal societies in the world in a lot of places, they didn't have many hierarchies like a lot of tribes in America before they got slaughtered by white invaders. Ignoring a lot of anthropology with your ignorant comment.
I am employed and looking to relocate to the Bay area. I’ve been applying for a few weeks and am going into a third round interview this upcoming week. I am getting responses from established startups, nada from big tech. I’m looking at leadership roles for the first time so I’m not sure what to expect. A decade ago when I took my current job, I was looking at 4 offers after 6 weeks of applying.

There seem to be a lot of open positions, but I suspect not compared to the number of folks on the market. Big tech just dumped a bunch of folks. “Regular tech” seems to be doing fine.
You seem unreasonably sore. lol
If you asked me if I would prefer a decrease in violent crime and major property theft if it came with an increase in non-violent light property crime, then I'd say "yes, sounds great".
Mistral LLM is only open license, not open-source. The source is paid
Unironically, because of rust.

Rust's type system encodes more information than most languages, and so you can offload more work to it. That becomes more and more valuable as the project grows.

Rust also attracts good developers in general, moreso than the average language certainly.
> If you don’t expect the police to do anything about it, why file a formal report?

Because your insurance demands a formal report (because if you lie to the police it's a marginally more serious crime than if you lie to your insurance agent).
No. Perception tracks publicity of incidents - I know some people still warning others off a neighborhood they were mugged in 20 years ago, but they don’t mention how long ago it was when they say it’s dangerous. So for instance when a group of well off people move into a depressed neighborhood, there might be the same number of muggings, but 10 times as much talk about it because these people go to the police and write to the paper about it.
The west used to be much more collectivist. Christianity as it's been practiced for most of history is a collective religion. The rise of individualism corresponds to the rise of atheism and agnosticism and 'nones' in the west.
On the flip side I’m trying to convince my CTO to fire half our engineering team - a group of jokers he hired during the run-up who are now wildly overpaid and massively under-delivering. With all the tech talent out there I’m convinced we’d replace them all within a week.
New Code Assistant Plugin
Hey everyone, I just released a code assistant plugin I've been working on. It is only available for Jetbrains IDEs as of right now, but I am currently working on an integration with VS Code to expand coverage. It has features such as:
* Unlimited access to all Llama 2 models
* Bring your own Open AI API key to use any GPT model available to your account
* Context of the files you have open. Optionally refined to just portions of files with a custom highlighter tool I made

It is simple to setup and goes by a freemium model, so trying it out should take minimal commitment. Would very much appreciate it to anyone willing to try it out. TIA!
I feel ya. Glad you have a stable house at least.
> I asked Mistral for a little extra info on their processes and plans. CEO Arthur Mensch said that not all future models will be released under Apache 2.0, though “some will.” Larger models will be available through an API (presumably paid) rather than a DIY approach. And he declined to offer more detail on the training and dataset assembly processes, saying they were proprietary “so far.”

I'll stick to Llama 2 for now...
Vehicle fatalities for people inside the car but not for those outside. We’ve made the average vehicle much more dangerous for anyone not in another large vehicle.
The Shinkansens drive at around 300km/h. It's fast enough to get you from east to west-coast in 15 hours. It's a 6-7 hour flight + 2-3 hours airport shenanigans.

The problem is that there is no capability to build such infrastructure anymore. Neither in the US, nor in Europe. It requires both political will and construction companies that build public infrastructure without being political party operatives.

EDIT: sorry I meant to write km/h, that's why the calculation is correct at 15 hours => 4668/300.
But you don't love it unlike some more devoted people?
Which is great de jure, if de facto, unfortunately.
I believe it's taking jobs/gigs from creatives, and that we've unfortunately only seen the start of it. But I don't believe it will affect software engineers nearly the same way.
The crap north americans put up with is amazing. In all of Central / South America the only country comes close to the level of day to day restrictions is Nicaragua.

Not even El Salvador which is apparently a right-wing dictatorship where no one has rights has anything close to resembling North American rules.
I just think angering the people who are supposed to be caring for me is a great way to receive subpar care, I don't care how moral and "above it all" healthcare workers are supposed to be, at the end of the day they're human and if you tell them you don't value their hard work, they may just put in a little less effort than you'd like. (just like you might do the same for a boss who belittles you and refuses to give the raise you feel deserve).

As an example, in many countries where they have socialized healthcare, nurses and doctors do often go on strike, which has always resulted in worse care during those times...
They never make insurance claims because … they’ve given up on the police?
The vast majority of homicides happen between people who already know each other, so actually homicide rates say nothing about crime within geographic boundaries so much as crime within existing social groups.

Then it stands to reason that reporting on crimes in this or that city is mostly nonsense reporting, it doesn't convey any information that's useful to anyone.
Working hard to ensure you don’t repeat the mistakes of your parents already makes you a good parent - one who cares and strives.

I worry too, especially about the weaknesses I share with one of my parents. Occasionally though, I find that my inward focus on my concern about a mistake I might make causes me to focus less on my kid or his concerns in an important moment. Since I learned this, I try to be present enough to react to life while it’s happening, instead of ricocheting painful memories while life is happening!

The good news is that loving parents who strive to continuously do better serve as a good example for their kids, even when they fail. Life is hard and full of failures. Even when you fail, and even if you fail frequently, showing your kid that you’ll keep striving to do better - now that may be the most valuable lesson of them all.
It was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996953
Because then you have microplastics in the most remote reaches of the earth, and still no political will to do anything about it.

Imagine if we were restrictive in the first place... The luddites could teach us a thing or two.
To be fair, some mid-30s have 20 years of web dev experience. Others have a “lot” of experience because of the quality of the experience gained over a shorter period of time. Some have even fall into both camps.
> Very few Americans blame crime on the president.

???

That just doesn't come _close_ to matching the reality I live in.
> China built 25,000 miles of high-speed rail in the time the United States has built zero.

And note that despite operating the most successful maglev in the world since 2004, they decided not to build any more. While building more maglevs would probably bring the cost down some, it's fundamentally expensive technology that delivers very marginal benefit compared to "conventional" wheel-on-rail HSR, which can achieve almost the same speed with much less infrastructure.
Oh, no way! The Palace was awesome. I spent many hours on there, so many years ago. Very stoked to hear about this!!
Precisely. Matt Bruenig wrote a pretty compelling analysis of why the statistics in the book are either misleadingly presented or so banal as to be useless: https://mattbruenig.com/2023/09/20/doing-the-marriage-thing-...
Don't drop one!
Given encryption's increasingly critical role in taking control away from users, I've become more skeptical of such proclamations in the past few years.

Governments are against encryption, because it takes power away from them.

Yet on the other side, there's Big Tech who will use encryption for things like Secure Boot and continued locking-down of "devices" (they don't even want you to think it's a general-purpose computer) against users, ostensibly for "security". Thus I believe their reasons to oppose the government's opposition to encryption are not truly in the interests of the users, but because it gives them the power instead.

Encryption is classified as a munition, because that's what it fundmentally is; everyone would probably agree that it's better to have a gun yourself, instead of one pointed at you.

I don't know of a simple solution to this problem. I'm just offering a critical alternative viewpoint to the "encryption = good" and "encryption = bad" sides.
For me as a developer it does not bother so much that some tasks like compilation or rendering or AI-training can take a long time. What bothers me is that I am doing multiple things at the same time like say committing to git or rebasing and trying to read my code at the same time, taking backups simultaneously. So this would seem like an ideal, if not overkill processor for me.
The fact that you reverted to the norm *is* important and newsworthy. It's how you know that, in fact, 2024 was an *anomalous* increase, and not an important change in the base rate.
"Historic" has been a pretty popular adjective these days used to overstate the significance of a statistic or fact.

From the FBI's own data[1], which is used as the main citation of this post, these were the homicide rates per 100k for the past eleven years:

2012: 4.7

2013: 4.5 (-0.2)

2014: 4.4 (-0.1)

2015: 4.9 (+0.5)

2016: 5.4 (+0.5)

2017: 5.3 (-0.1)

2018: 5.0 (-0.3)

2019: 5.1 (+0.1)

2020: 6.5 (+1.4)

2021: 6.8 (+0.3)

2022: 6.3 (-0.5)

Using this data, the same headline could have been run in 2018. This number is +1.2 pre-pandemic.

[1]: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...
Fat Cat Fab Lab in NYC is great and still has classing going: https://fatcatfablab.org/classes

I do wish there was more of them though.
Alright, post the data then.
Extremely rough, getting little-to-no interest on the market with 10+ years of experience. Currently employed but the threat of another massive layoff within my company, and/or the possible elimination of the entire engineering dept. as we know it looms heavy.
Americans are never going to have significant transit upgrades - metro, long distance or short haul.

NYC is "building" err...painting new bus lanes to LGA (less than 3 miles) for 500million and will probably take like 10 years since 5 is the planned duration [1]!

Forget China, other countries in Asia and Western Europe plan and build whole new metros in that time for that cost.

Americans cannot build new things. Period. Maybe we should give up and focus on fixing/replacing existing infra. Like your cousin who cannot graduate high school...maybe he should just take up a trade??

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjvvw/bus-lanes-to-laguardi...
I didn't see anything I wanted on my computer. It's all gimmicks. There was nothing there that empowered me to do new substantial productive things. It looks like a bunch of programmers showing me how "clever" they are. "Clever" is for amateurs.