skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite problem: I have a US passport (only), and wish I could emigrate to a developed country that isn't so dysfunctional, militaristic, and capitalistic. (I grew up in another country, but never got a passport there because I had a US one from birth. I also spent several weeks in a few other countries -- enough to get a very basic feel for their society and services.)

The US is great if you want to "get ahead" (and manage to do so), but if you just want a peaceful, boring life, this is not the place to be. We treat our society like a zero-sum game. Between our terrible healthcare, education, school safety, infrastructure, public transportation, politics, insane housing costs, corrupt judges, stances on drugs and abortion, it really feels like a hellhole where either you're rich or you're worthless. I'd much rather prefer somewhere in Europe, especially Scandinavia, or maybe Canada or East Asia. But it's not easy to emigrate.

Even this framing is itself pretty terrible: Our GDP outpaced expectations, so that must be good, right? Hardly. That just means the rich get richer, leaving everyone else even further behind.

Life actually seemed way better for millions of working class folks during COVID, when the economy was tanking and government simply propped it up, and suddenly workers everywhere had a lot more respect and negotiation power, and unions grew for the first time in decades. It was the first time in my life I saw our society come together to work together, instead of trying to massively exploit the poor. Then a couple years after COVID and that all goes away, whether it's WFH or mass layoffs.

I would say the US only makes sense IF you are strongly competitive/entrepreneurial and libertarian, not if you are community-minded and just want to live a normal life under a functioning democratic society. "Pro-business" usually means "anti-democratic" in our society, by disproportionately empowering capital ownership rather than democratic participation and process.
Both of your examples presume the sentiment is justified, but that isn’t a given. How do you account for a generally poor outlook that externally influences sentiment despite a well functioning economy?

Maybe everyone is miserable because they’re newly aware of the violence and injustice in the world generally. How is that useful when trying to understand the state of the economy specifically? It’s important to understand how people feel as a society, but this isn’t supposed to be that. How do you filter out the “noise”?

We can’t really use “vibes” to determine if interest rates should go back down, for example. That would be disastrous.
Is the brain the source or is it just a relay? Hard to tell.

Occam suggests the prior. But by that logic there are little people living inside my tv.
if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

It's been 20 years since the movie and 40 years since the comic. Things don't seem to have changed for the better in that time.
TSMC Makes the Best of a Tough Chip Situation
> After 25 years, declassification review is automatic with nine narrow exceptions that allow information to remain as classified. At 50 years, there are two exceptions, and classifications beyond 75 years require special permission.[0]

The nine exemptions can be found at the Justice Department's website[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declassification
[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/open/declassification/decla...
"In fact, one thing you can count on in the United States is how few people are ever going to willingly read a book of poetry and find out what’s in there." uh yep.
we live in the age where victimhood (the umbrella over inequality) is harvested for social capital. The data doesn't matter anymore, it's just who can make their cause du-jour into the biggest tragedy. This is why it will never stop, they will never be satisfied, only move on to some other tragedy after they use their harvested capital for political gain.
I don’t really see what a person with a shovel could accomplish that a robot can’t, other than consuming the vast majority of the project budget on life support systems.
I have been playing with MetaCLIP this afternoon and made https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill-metaclip as a pip installable version. The Facebook repository has some guidance but you have to pull the weights yourself, save them, etc.

My inference function (model.predict("image.png")) return an sv.Classifications object that you can load into supervision for processing (i.e. get top k) [1].

The paper [2] notes the following in terms of performance:

> In Table 4, we observe that MetaCLIP outperforms OpenAI CLIP on ImageNet and average accuracy across 26 tasks, for 3 model scales. With 400 million training data points on ViT-B/32, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +2.1% on ImageNet and by +1.6% on average. On ViT-B/16, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +2.5% on ImageNet and by +1.5% on average. On ViT-L/14, MetaCLIP outperforms CLIP by +0.7% on ImageNet and by +1.4% on average across the 26 tasks.

[1] https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill-metaclip
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16671.pdf
Just magically qualify huh?
> Wouldn't it be great to power down an idle server, knowing that it can be switched on seconds before you actually need it?

considering you would still need to boot the VMs then, once the Oxide system is up, I’m not sure if this is such a big win.

And at a certain scale you’d probably have something like multiple systems and VMware vMotion or alternatives anyway. So if the ESXi host (for example) takes a while to boot, I wouldn’t care too much.

And, economics of elasticity - you’d still have to buy the Oxide server, even if it’s idle.
The Sun Remains Active Despite Low Solar Activity Levels
They're not nervous enough. Things are getting worse and worse for the non-rich every month due to housing costs/rents and medical expenses growing faster than inflation which is already not great (3.7%, officially).

They shouldn't be worried about losing some % of net worth in the stock market and/or increased union activity. They should be worried about civil unrest.

There's no free bread and the commoners are getting fed up with the circus.
I believe that the issue is a "rush to print" desire by media publications, made possible for better or for worse, by the internet. There seems to be a decrease in the ability to research and accurately report a story in favor of being first to press. Has the internet caused this?
Making Chat (Ro)Bots – Boston Dynamics [video]
Easy for those who already know how to train an LLM, I mean.
The answer is that GDP simply includes the government spending in itself, by definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Compone...

I have "opinions", but if you are interested in this topic, rather than me dumping it here, it can be worth reading up a bit on GDP, then googling around for GDP criticisms. I think there's a sense in which it measures something useful, but it isn't measuring what people think it is and what the media sort of pushes it as meaning; it is correlated to the health of an economy but it is by no means a measure of the health of the economy, and the fact government expenditures are simply straight-up added to the GDP has such an obvious way for the government to manipulate the numbers that I can't hardly even call it an exploit. Whether they are doing that, I'll leave that to the reader to decide.

Another relatively obvious issue is that the GDP number waved around in the popular press is generally not adjusted for inflation. That's not just the US GDP in 2023, it's any GDP the press will talk about, anywhere and anytime, so I'm not trying to make any stealth political point here. It's something to be aware of in any context a "GDP" comes up, look to see if it's inflation-adjusted or not. Such measures exist and more serious economists definitely use them. The wikipedia page I linked to above has a wide variety of other interesting definitions and that's still a Wikipedia overview itself, of course, not the fullness of econometrics.
"...for many companies this is a good idea. But just because something is a good idea for companies to do does not mean that it should be mandated by law."
I still don't get why they can't put a price on the website.
I disagree. If stolen iPhone becomes brick, then the price thieves can earn will be considerably less and it will disincentive them to steal phones.

What apple can do is unlock the parts only on owner's consent. Then it will be win win on both sides.
Then why did we feel the need to clear the land of them? cough genocide cough
The push for human on Mars is misguided in that we aren't taking enough risks.

We are one bad cosmic event from total known life annihilation. That would be a bad day
I say the same of the UK. Maybe not the #1 best possible place to be born, but definitely in the top 10. I'm extremely lucky and privileged to have been born in the United Kingdom.

Will that still be true for people born here fifty years from now? I have my doubts.
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Eyes.
The statement being "but if I had to choose a country to get ahead in life with the most opportunities possible as an immigrant, US is still the country to be at".

I don't think your rebuttal addresses the data I linked at all or supports the parent point at all

Upward mobility is definitely down and the USA is no longer the world leader by some measurements. I get that won't persuade everyone but I'm happy to debate on that data instead of an unrelated discussion point even if it is interesting.
I am sorry but I don't buy it.

If you don't integrate and don't learn the language and never have any contacts outside your community, how are are you supposed to survive, find a job, find spouse and eventually move out from those neighborhoods?

So you either live on welfare or you turn to criminal activities. What else is there?
It's one thing to discourage or eliminate aspects of a culture. It's entirely another to eliminate the whole culture.

The lens I generally use is "does this part of a culture hurt others?" If so, then yes, it should be phased out. If not, I don't see the harm in leaving it alone.
Depends on how you became unemployed. There is a long wait for Medicare if you "voluntarily" left your last position, even if you were forced out by cowards who wanted to keep their record clean and be able to say they never fire anyone.
I’ve never heard anyone say “ops doesn’t matter”
> I left a $1m+/yr job because the stress was too much. Experiences with tech is a wide gamut but my experience is one of it being a shit show. I have friends who get paid well and have good hours and a great work environment but I’ve never been in that side of being happy at my jobs. I keep joining shitty employers/teams - somewhat out of bad luck tbh.

You just made my point for me killer. The median salary in the US is like $57k/yr, and, obviously, for a lot of people it's much less The federal minimum wage is 7.25/hr, which is $15k annually, and people will be often working multiple shit jobs in the middle of nowhere just to make rent and not have the power/heat/water turned off.

Meanwhile this guy is getting $1M and boohoo sooooo stressful. Guess I'll have to go home to my fancy SV apartment and enjoy all of these amenities along with the pay bennies; not living in shit-tier parts of Indiana or NM, or MI, etc.

People would literally kill for half of that salary; often get killed for far less. The average bank robbery is like $6k.

> Same for other odd jobs I picked up.

odd jobs. one offs. this wasn't your life for the next 20 years, and you had options, clearly. how many kids did you have to feed on that money?
We're seeing the same in the US. I wonder the where this rise in authoritarianism will lead, especially in the current timeframe where it's so easy to push out misinformation to win narratives and robotic armies you can control with a small team are right around the corner.

Pretty soon revolutions will be impossible and the masses will be slaves to whatever conditions the rulers desire.

Dark times are nigh.
Zig has `comptime` where you effectively generate Zig code at compile time by writing Zig code, no special generics syntax/semantics needed. It is very nice and powerful concept that covers lots of ground that in Rust would belong to the land of procedural macros.
> Google needs to fire their leadership. They will be the next IBM if they dont.

Which is still a pretty good position... endless amounts of money coming in from legacy services.
They're probably exempted under:

>25X7 – reveal information that would impair the current ability of U.S. government officials to protect the President, Vice President, and other protectees for whom protection services, in the interest of national security, are authorized;
Any culture which puts their own citizens under a subhuman second class one should be ultimately fined and sanctioned, of course. Romanticism sucks. You maybe as an American idolize old cultures and traits; as an European, I laugh on that supposed tradition praising the idiocy and being a backwards hick over a progressive reality.

Keep your tradition to Holidays, music and dance lores and the rest of inocuous folklore, that's fine. But don't ever try to bring these old values back, no one with proper sanity would ever want to go back to the XIX century.
That's what some of us are saying, it's not crystal clear what they sell.

You use words like: it seems, I think, presumably, I believe...
This is what we're arguing. A company that has raised $44 million Series A for sure can afford to clearly write what they offer.

I understand, you can't have all the people happy and no matter what you do there will always be "weirdos" that don't like your page/design/wording, but hey at least recognize it :-)
It would really suck if, in the next 100 years, we see some extinction-level comet or asteroid crash into the Earth when we might have done the "not all our eggs in one basket".

Some kinds of caution aren't very careful at all.
I just posted a comment :D

I work for a computer vision company. I use CLIP almost every day. Example use cases for which I have used CLIP:

- Image classification
- Automated labeling for classification models
- Image clustering
- Gathering images for model training that are sufficiently dissimilar from existing samples
- Content moderation

CLIP is also being used widely in new research. SAM-CLIP, shared with me by my manager today, is using CLIP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15308) and knowledge distillation for training a new model. I have seen references to CLIP throughout multimodal LLM papers, too, although my knowledge of multimodal model architectures is nascent.
Again, an individual “feeling” like the economy doing well shouldn’t be used as a measure for how an economy is actually doing. Like when they interview people on the streets to see how they “feel” the economy is doing.

God I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone.
Fall in Love with the Questions
> I wish I could emigrate

What's stopping you?
Ah I think you misunderstand. I think employees in the west being pissed that someone in a third world country makes the same salary as them is crab mentality.

I totally understand why companies want to pay less though. It's massive cost savings and it makes sense for them to hire for less money.
I took a Cruise for the first time a month ago. It arrived and it sat there for almost ten minutes. It kept telling me that my ride was getting ready. Someone from the operations center also called into the car and asked if I was ok and reassured me the ride would start soon.

This was at night with zero traffic. I have no idea why it took so long.

When the CPUC was set to vote on expanding Cruise’s operations several months ago, SF first responders and other residents spoke out against expanding operations. CPUC ignored all the feedback and concerns and voted to expand. I believe the press pointed out the CPUC people that voted to expand Cruise operations would benefit off the expansion (can’t recall if they were former employees or tied to the driverless industry). But despite emergency responders giving numerous examples of how dangerous the cars were in emergency situations, they were ignored.
Has Apple ever released a product using HBM (outside of some FirePro GPUs in some Mac Pros)? M1/2 Pro/Max use LPDDR5.

Though apparently Apple applied for a patent for a hybrid DDR/HBM system, so maybe in M3/4/5? https://patents.google.com/patent/US10573368B2/
No, the wastage is due to because I'm not accessing data in a "linear" fashion if I lay out the matrices naively (actually pulling n by n square submatrices from the big matrix), and prefetcher brings in data with its baked in locality rules, but its assumptions doesn't fit my access pattern. So 20 percent of the data is thrown away.

If I change how I fill and lay my matrices out, I can align my data with how prefetcher assumes, and way less data will be trashed during the process.

I didn't do that because it needed a codebase-wide refactorization, and my code was already 30x faster than reference implementation with better accuracy, so we didn't pursue that avenue.
The relevant bit:

“this study demonstrates that an academic Great Gatsby Curve exists as well, in the form of a positive correlation between academic impact inequality and the persistence of impact across academic generations. We also provide a detailed breakdown of academic persistence, showing that the correlation between the impact of mentors and that of their mentees has increased over time, indicating an overall decrease in academic intergenerational mobility”
I remember at university reading that some local governments avoided creating housing for those on benefits, instead setting aside a percentage of housing blocks for those persons, so that they are integrated with persons who were not on benefits. IIRC the thinking was that concentration of poverty and those in poverty leads to more poverty, but integration showed improved results.
Intro to Flow Fields
The Oxide has everything you need to stand up your own private cloud, and everything works together down to the software. It's a great alternative to buying and managing servers, switches, storage, power management, KVMs, all of the software in between, and the tens of professional services contracts required to glue it all together.

It's the iPhone of hyperconverged infrastructure.

(Sorry; three sentences.)
Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing"
Well as someone not already familiar with it, I've no idea what it is for, github readme didn't help?
Mortgage costs.

Most people now have super low mortgage rates, and could not afford to switch to a comparable home, because sticker prices have barely budged. This leads to a very tiny inventory of homes.

However, part do the reason that prices are staying high is that we are still under supplied on homes, and interest rates being high also means that construction starts will be way down, keeping those sticker prices higher for longer.
Why wouldn't they? Do you think folk would just sit on ass after getting the handout? Would you? Some, perhaps - but they sit on ass now - and have no social safety net or anything, they outdoors.

The human condition is to endeavour. Even with free money the majority of folk will work, or do something to improve their situation.
I don’t follow Star Trek. What does it mean in real life?
I've built a startup on AWS, and same. Since we started about a year ago, I've gotten two "action required" messages from AWS.

One involved migrating our Go-based lambdas from the "Go 1.x Runtime" to a more generic one that AWS wants to use for compiled binaries across languages. They provided a very helpful guide, including the Cloudformation template changes. I implemented them, and they worked perfectly just as promised.

The other message I got was rather urgent and telling me I need to upgrade the SSL cert on my RDS. The due date on that action is August 22, 2024.

There are a few areas of AWS I've found to be pretty abandoned. (Don't try to send push notifications using the AWS Platform Application + SNS approach, woof.) But overall, I've been very happy with AWS as a developer.
fyi: apparently that's only a welcome (e.g., first-time user) offer. As soon as I logged in, it changed the price to ~11usd per piece.
With massive inequality, those in the lower classes fall ever behind the top quintile or so. Do you think they enjoy hearing about how much better the economy does as they see their and especially their childrens' standard of living fall?
The journal article is much more interesting than the Guardian article, IMO. Thank you for sharing the link.
I don't think this is accurate. In the US, the onus of abuse reporting is on the employee. You can abuse your employee knowing that if they report you, you'll know they reported you, and can carefully torpedo their career knowing the employee has a very high bar to legally prove retaliation in court.
You can create a keyboard shortcut on Obsidian that pulls your daily note page (I use cmd+D). You can then create a KM workflow that opens Obsidian and hits that hotkey for you.
At least for the HEDT variant, I actually believe we are a point where we can potentially see one or more (less likely) refreshes considering the main problem with prev gen was I/O (releasing a new platform at the end of PCIE 4.0/DDR4 was not extremely wise of AMD). Obviously this is under the assumption that we’ll get a launch per year (same cycle as consumer variants).
Hydraulic analog computer simulating Keynesian economic model
And VR is from the 60s if we are doing it like that.
Government is just a large group of people

Financing and even currency issuance depends on trust.

I can get a 0% from family and friends if i needed for far more my net worth. With connections I could also get counterfeit and
pass it around.

It comes down to the fraud triangle: opportunity, incentive, rationalization.

The government may have more leeway to commit fraud than an individual. But the comparison is still apt, the fraud is the same, whether its a house being paid with CC or GPD with govt bonds. Ignore that at your own peril
Personal Discipline: What Is It and How to Create One
I don't get what point you're attempting to make. Your comment suggests you think inflation came from from pandemic (a loss in productivity?), the the link is about corporations sopping up the extra cash that was floating around via raising prices.

The latter would fall into the bucket of government handouts to the bottom cause inflation, would it not?

If you're skipping the monetary interaction and saying "it's not the handout, it's the greed", then I'd like to point out that companies have been behaving the same way forever (trying to maximize profits), yet inflation has been low for a decade.

That corporations would take advantage of poor people having more money to spend is intended behavior, and something that needs to be accounted for in functional monetary policy.
Because the things that can't be changed are good. Namely, lots of empty land to expand into, near the coast for shipping, good geo-position, temperate weather, sparsely populated but still close to a city and airport. We can expand the road and the state/fed gov will sell SpaceX the wetlands to cover them with concrete if necessary.
0x1de would be great branding for some kind of integrated hex editor (hence IDE)
I would guess that the embedded summary is better, but for many tasks where you use embeddings (like document search), summarizing every document with an LLM is too expensive and slow.