skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually not because there are too many doses right now, because most people can mot afford to move to a house of a comparable size.

There were way too many dollars when mortgage rates were at 2-3%, not at current mortgage rates there are very few dollars for buying homes.

This is less a monetary inflation of prices and more structural and supply related. Whoever said that "inflation is always a monetary phenomenon" was a religious nut, IMHO.
Have you actually been disabled with significant health needs on Medicaid? It sucks super, super hard.
My advice? Focus on solutions, not tools. For the past forty years I've watched people search again and again for the perfect development tool. Always looking. Not saying it's not a good idea to look at different tools from time-to-time (like every 3-5 years take a look what's available now), but the way you get to the point of doing this work for forty years is delivering solutions.
Finnish broadcaster Yle to broadcast only in high-definition from 2025
Eh, not quite. There are lots of market forces on that number, mainly not wanting to pay higher taxes and higher insurance and having the ability to appeal/contest it and get different appraisers.
That's what you get from an electoral system that reduces to a binary choice. Bad or worse, pick one.
Intelligence Chief Raises Alarm over China's Volt Typhoon in US Critical Infra
> Annex K is optional and the only compiler I'm aware of implementing it is MSVC (and only Microsoft wanted that in the standard),

And to rub salt into the wound, the Annex K functions supplied with MSVC are non-conforming to the standards Annex K functions, which were also pushed hard by Microsoft, which make them kinda doubly pointless: you use them and make code that is neither portable to another compiler nor conforming to the standard :-/
Counter-argument: my father generally votes right, but he claimed the best economic times of his life occurred during the Clinton presidency.
I've not heard of this: why is that? What else is it an attempt to reflect?
Exactly, take for example this graph.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

The economy suddenly was awesome once a Republican was back in office, according to Republicans. Just turned on a dime.
Google Announces Bug Bounty Program and Other Initiatives to Secure AI
Pretty cool project, love the support for open source. Good luck and all the best!
Lack of local support does make them a niche player, but everything starts from a niche and those who believe they don't start from a niche disperse their efforts. So, with the hypothesis that Oxyde is smart, the question therefore is: what niche is Oxyde focusing on ?
Yes in places with a genuine broadening of views. The US would bot be nearly as well off if it weren’t for diverse immigrants given that even today they start 60% of your successful startups.
I said numbers, not headlines. What are the data that show the economy is otherwise bad?

EDIT: I don't necessarily disagree, but it's important to not let general sentiment get in the way. Sentiment is often a lagging indicator.
That seems like a political belief, and not one based on any numbers... GDP growth was expected to be high. There are plenty of economists that can explain all the current phenomenon, they just get called "heterodox"
You'll like https://admin.pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/01de then.
Government debt is completely irrelevant as long as the debt the government has is in its own currency that it can print more of. US government can print however much money it wants.

It will never default because it can just create the credit. That’s what the Federal Reserve did with its zero interest rate policy. It distorts the economy, and the economy can shrink and be torn apart, but the government can always pay its debt by simply printing the money.

The real problem lies with private debt, and that's what's actually leading to a default. When people default on their debt, they end up forfeiting property to the creditors. What we’re seeing now is a large scale transfer of property such houses and cars that people had bought, and so on, that they can no longer keep making payments on. this results in a transfer of income from the 90% to the 10%.

The wealth transfer means that the working majority is pushed ever further to the margins. US is already in a situation where around half the population has no meaningful savings.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/americans-are-saving-less-in...

Having no savings puts people in a position where they're not able to absorb further unexpected expenses. This is what's making the economy so fragile.
I wonder how much the premium is over traditional server hardware with the same capabilities. You save some integration work and need less know-how, but it’d be interesting to compare.
The Wikipedia page has a quote about brainstorming name ideas that has this snippet, "...I wrote down the Great Gatsby curve because of Gatsby’s trouble trying to jump social classes in spite of his money."
Simple and easy!
Can? Yes. Do? Not really, not often.

Abuse is possible! It’s just not common, not in the sense of “servitude” being slavery or some other kind of abominable condition. Maybe you get the shit work, maybe you work more hours, but let’s not pretend these are the salt mines.
My understanding -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- is that you typically need either wealth, higher education (masters+), or an in-demand trade in order to emigrate to another country on a skilled visa or similar. I have only a B.S., negative net worth, and no special skills except web dev (which is increasingly worthless these days). Are there other avenues to emigration that I'm missing?

Also, my partner is American and has family here. I keep trying to convince her to give foreign living a try, and she's traveled with me a bunch now, but it's still a lot to ask of someone who's only ever lived in their home country. Me, I've spent a lot of time traveling to different countries and have a pretty broad perspective to draw from. It's harder for someone who's never really done that. Still, I hope to coax her into it over time!
The community is working hard to bring this to .....the community!
You’re writing like the status quo is a law of nature. At best it’s been that way for a decade or two

How many times has computing hardware changed in response to the economics of the parts and the economics of the businesses buying hardware?

There are downsides to new models, but money solves a lot of problems

So I don’t know about Oxide in particular, but it seems short sighted to bet on stagnation

Also Oxide is doing what Google did 20 years ago, and Facebook open sourced ~10 years ago, so it’s not exactly unproven
Having used Obsidian in long nighttime flights to Europe, I have made very similar modifications in the past, but this seems more polished. I just wish I had an OLED MacBook!
Yeah, a cyclotron-fed X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) is a brighter source than what ASML EUV machines use. But XFELs are big (often hundred-meter scale undulators, not to mention the size of the synchrotron) and very expensive. Less of an issue for a highly centralized production system, but not something you can ship to customers around the world.
> That just means the rich get richer, leaving everyone else even further behind

Why does it necessarily mean that?
Roovice Takes Old Homes to a Brand New Level
The idea of noodling around in the Fairlight UI is pretty fun. Always nice to get an insight on how various limitations or structures of older instruments led to the music they created.
Proposed Colorado Mountain Lion Hunting Ban Shows Rural-Urban Divide
They would need an entire ad ecosystem to monetize that search, to make the $18 billion back.

That's a lot of work, likely far more work than building decent search in the first place. They'd rather let Google get their hands dirty, claim the moral hight ground, and take the rent.
Again, from the standpoint of economics, what difference do their feelings make? Should we adjust economic data to how people feel in any given day? Maybe we could do that for businesses too. “The CEO FEELS great about the company so we’re going to use Leader Adjusted EBITDA to say profits were 20% higher than what the CFO says they are.”
Perhaps "ad company" is reductive, as there are different ways to make money for offering visibility.

Arguably the same definition of "advertising company" as Walmart, by charging those selling products in its store for placement, display ads, inclusion in promotional materials, etc.

Arguably not the same definition as ClearChannel, who will take money from anyone to make every drive in America less scenic by plastering them with billboards. (And who combine data from third parties to understand who is seeing which billboards when.)

Apple is a first party supermarket that lets sellers self-promote, Google is operator of third party billboards at scale that reaches and watches all the traffic.

That said, I agree with the thread above that Apple taking great pains to anonymize things like maps trips, while selling user searching priority wholesale to Google, is hypocritical.

TL;DR: I don't understand why Apple doesn't acquire Kagi, put Kagi basic in iCloud and Kagi Ultimate into Apple One, and go from there.
> Many of natural born citizens I grew up with either aren't aware of this reality or are misinformed about it.

The natural born citizens dissatisfied with the US are generally not comparing the US to a developing country or a country with an ongoing war on their soil, which is where most immigrants come from.

Instead, they are comparing it to other developed countries and focused on specific conditions that matter to them, like housing, transportation, environment, violence, etc.

> Yes there are problems in America, but how many of those problems are the result of an apathetic, nihilistic American population and not the foundational systems America is built on?

The criticism of these problems is far from apathetic, and it's an important part of how we begin to remedy them. For example, we aren't going to wish away gun violence by ignoring it.

The biggest current threat to the US isn't this criticism, but rather the attack on its democratic foundations happening now. However even that is not coming from apathy, though its goals are very nihilistic in the short term and oligarchic and theocratic in the long term.
AI's Impact on Customer Service [video]
Companies don’t make decisions, people do.
In my experience, follow up questions are when things break down. Edit your original prompt, tweak as needed and re-submit.

If you want to follow up, you can also edit that follow-up however many times and see all the answers it gives.

Sometimes no-edit regenerate can be useful too.
The area was heavily urbanised before Rome was around, it stands to reason that it remained relevant throughout the Roman Empire (to the point of being the Roman Empire after the slow collapse of the Western administration).
Pretty much! Right now it only supports md, pdf, txt, and html, but supporting additional formats is trivial: https://github.com/clarkmcc/chitchat/blob/main/src-tauri/src....
My impression is rather different. The automatic conversion tools and compatibility libraries were only provided several years and versions into the v3 transition because the community was demanding it so hard and most users refused to do anything with v3 without it. Most of it probably wouldn't have been necessary at all, or would have been there on day 1, if they had made backwards compatibility the priority instead of going hard on the everyone rewrite everything to the new v3 style right away. I'm sure they didn't want to support Python 2 for 12 years but were instead basically forced to because the transition was so difficult for so many major projects.
If you spend 8% and the GDP is boosted by 4% once, and then grows at the normal rate afterwards, then the GDP will stay 4% larger indefinitely.

That 8% debt would generate 4% more economic output this year, next year, the year after, the year after that, etc...

If your 8% debt only generates 0.5% of extra growth once, and then we get back to a baseline 3.5% growth, the additional economic output will equal the debt in 16 years and continue generating economic output afterwards.

But it's also completely unclear why, as a government, you should care about the ratio of debt to growth. The two numbers are of an entirely different nature. That economic output corresponds to things produced by the economy. The 8% debt corresponds only to who has control of which money pile (in particular, it includes the promise that the government will redirect a large chunk of money to the lenders in the future, which you might or might not find problematic). It doesn't take anything away from the total sum. So by shuffling money around, you have created real economic output. That's great!
It gives them more flexibility and reduces competition. It’s quite common in B2B, for products/services in that pricing range.
Maybe these metrics are what's crap? GDP doesn't mean much for people day to day. Neither does how high a score the stock market happened to hit in its arbitrary magic points system.

People care about the job market, the cost of living, direction effects of inflation on buying goods and services. When people say they economy sucks they mean they can't buy a car right now because the bank will only give them an ass interest rate even with great credit and the price of groceries has skyrocketed.

I've believed for awhile now the stock market has been a poor measure of the economy because its become decoupled from the "real" economy, ie: the things I listed above.
I bet it sucks to hear things are going well for others and not them, but that’s not what economic growth is supposed to measure.

Also it isn’t largely accurate, so the fact that they feel it is disconnected from reality, which is kind of my point anyway. For some it’s probably true, nothing is ever 100% good, but for the vast majority of people who feel that way they’re a) not helpless but indeed complicit based on their voting (or lack thereof) and purchasing choices and b) their lives are indeed improving even if they refuse to accept that.
The readme from the linked repo? I think you'll really need to go to the source: OpenAI's CLIP: https://openai.com/research/clip
Ask HN: What are people's experiences using Digital Ocean versus AWS?
I recently got acquainted with AWS through work, and DigitalOcean (DO) through a side project. These are a few miscellaneous thoughts. I'm curious if my instinct is right, or people have experiences that say otherwise:

- DigitalOcean (DO) is less "bloated" than AWS. I see about 10 total services that can be managed on the left hand side. I only need about 3 or 4 to run my small website, and a side project I'm developing. On the other hand, AWS has what appears to be hundreds of services, each with similar-sounding names. RDS, ECS, EC2, IAM - I know relevant acronyms now, but boy is it confusing when someone just tosses a new one in during a meeting and it's a scramble to decode what they're saying. Also, the project in AWS at work uses about 10 of those services, much more than my scrappy side project.

- AWS is far more configurable than DO. My concern with using DO is that the abstraction layer may be too opaque, obfuscating core utilities in an attempt to induce "vendor-lock". I still think this is true, but perhaps this is ok for a small project (web application) versus a highly-specific client project.

- It's less painful for your pocket to prototype with DO. So far, for about two weeks of screwing around in DO, activating services I don't need, running droplets (servers) way too inefficiently, the price has been...7 dollars and 26 cents. My suspicion is that my bill would have been much higher in AWS.

Does any of this track so far?
> companies have been behaving the same way forever (trying to maximize profits), yet inflation has been low for a decade

This isn't true. Companies only started to maximize profits under shareholder value recently. Corporations originally were thought to have a responsibility to society at large, thus with things like pensions being provided to their employees.

Additionally, the small handouts to the poor are much more dwarfed by handouts to the employers at the time. Which made it baffling that large employers then raised prices anyways, when they already got the vast majority of covid relief money. No, it is pure greed.
AWS Outposts is the solution. I like Oxide but people seem to be blind to the actual competition when they focus on Dell as the competitor. AWS has been shipping Outposts racks for years. All prices are public on their website and you can order it today. Nearly every configuration is sub-$500k. Fully managed and AWS supports the entire stack; no buck-passing among vendors, same as Oxide.
> So instead of complaining the world isn't perfect its better to try to make it better.

Well, that's part of the problem. Right-to-repair bills that don't address serialized components or hardware DRM won't make it better. Apple is backing this bill because it aligns with their definition of "repair" and further reinforces the idea that the first party is the only one allowed to authorize maintenance.

This is less about letting perfect be the enemy of good, and more about struggling to identify the core problem in the first place. If Apple is a required party for me to replace my screen or reinstall a USB connector, then you aren't advocating for a "right" to repair at all. In fact, you're actually coming back around to the 'Repairs-as-a-Service' model that third-parties protested against in the first place.
They literally had CTOs of F100 companies that want to buy this gear as part of VCs pitch. Because as you can imagine your question was the first question VC's asked.
> Comcast cable is like $60-90/mo, including Internet+TV service.

That must be an introductory rate or in an area with a lot of competition.

I’m paying $100/month for internet alone.

Everyone I know the price they pay for internet and came (a handful of households, mostly family) are well over $100.
> What would a perfect machine look like for generating the next Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT5?

A recent Microsoft paper proposed that the "perfect" inference machine is a ton of large-ish, modestly clocked, SRAM heavy chips piped together on a motherboard.

There is no RAM. The model weights are split up between the chips, and operations are pipelined like they already are in llms that are split into "layers". And there is no expensive interposer, or crazy interconnect like Cerebras. The chips are just wired together on a cheap motherboard, as the bandwidth between layers is relatively modest.

...It seems like this would work for training too. But what do I know? If it doesn't, the next "ideal" architecture is probably Cerebras's wafer-scale machines. And I am thinking they make use of TSMC's TSV tech (like AMD's X3D chips) to cram more SRAM onto a single wafer.

Theres also some fuss asserting that doing a bunch of matrix multiplication is an inefficient way to emulate physical neural networks, so maybe future architectures will be radically different?
What about generating methane and oxygen from Mars' atmosphere? I'm aware it would take a long time and a vast area of solar panels but say we set up a base there, would it be feasible?

edit: this is assuming we're not allowed to set up nuclear reactors there
While communication between APs (and forwarding of the data to clients) helps, it's not strictly needed because clients will do background scans, especially when reception is getting worse.
We need a rover.com for mushrooms.
Yes! I hate websites that put useful content in a thin column in the center.

What's worse, formerly normal websites start degrading. Typically, when a new manager is hired and decides to "reimagine" the product with the "mobile-first" vision. The recent Patreon is a good example.

And of course, in some cases normal websites go away entirely, and are replaced with crapps: Venmo, Amazon Alexa, Chamberlain, etc.
What did Home+Lab have that CE didn't? I've been using CE for years now and it seems like it's got all the enterprise bells and whistles except support...
Cheap helium on Earth is running out. We can always transmute more.
How often do people even use that? I remember having it on all my phones, but I'm so used to searching via the browser (where I now have Kagi as default) that I never even think to use the search bar widget.
One difference for natural born citizens is the number of debt traps along the way.
Demand for dollars will remain strong as long as they are the least onerous way to conduct international trade for essential goods. The US makes very few of these goods domestically. Eventually the mountains of sanctions, central bank asset seizures, endless debt and money printing, and policy of foreign meddling will tip the scales.
The ads aren't to maximize their own revenue; that's marketing expense, not ad revenue.

The ads that drive their ad revenue are product placement within their store, like Walmart charging for a higher place on a shelf, or featuring a product in a sign at the end of an aisle, or offering it for free at a tasting booth.

Walmart doesn't make meaningfully more money when you buy product A or B (not counting their store brand), both are on the shelf, so their motivations are different.
Claude is a large language model, which is a different thing from an embedding model.
According to their LinkedIn[0], 28 of their 52 listed employees live in SF Bay Area, so their salaries wouldn't be that high for that area.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxidecomputer/people/
Very cool. I've used CLIP and VQGAN in a grad school project ~2years ago, when StyleGAN, StyleCLIP and similar projects were emerging for controlled image manipulations.
Cogmind (https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/) has those sorts of animations
For a long time the UK had a rule whereby turning traffic only had to yield to parallel pedestrians already crossing the street. Only relatively recently did the rule change to turning road traffic having to yield to all pedestrians walking alongside, even if they're only about to start crossing.

Coming from Germany, that difference in rules was always noticeable when going on a vacation to the UK.
Fun Fact: he created (or is the first documented user of) the word "Twitter"

https://twitter.com/OED/status/261451658784030720
If you are going to impose impossibly high standards on these people BEFORE they are gainfully employed, you're the problem.
They don't need to integrate nor learn the language to do a variety of jobs. Give them a job and a reason to exist and believe they are advancing in life. Then demand that they learn the language. Don't put them in bureaucratic limbo for years, because they aren't "integrated enough". No wonder you end up with problems then.
Yea. Tax those corporate profits and tax those wealthy C-suites. Then the taxes help those on the bottom rung; and the circle continues. Accumulation at the top blocks the flow.
> "worse even than ISS, where the entire station (6 people) does something like 35 hours/week of science."

You may have seen China launching their youngest ever crew to their space station this week, and I noticed the quotes from the three crew members:

"I'm solely focused on the mission, on how to accomplish the mission successfully. I have to get prepared every minute, every second, and this was my aspiration when I joined the Air Force, and that aspiration has never changed," said Tang Hongbo, Commander.

"I feel that I am fully prepared physically, mentally and technically. I am confident to complete this upcoming flight mission. In fact, to be honest, I can't wait to carry out the mission now." - Tang Shengjie, Operator.

"Talking about the roles and responsibilities, I will try my best to complete the routine maintenance of the space station" - Jiang Xinlin, Operator.

One of those sounds less exciting than the others.

[1] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-10-25/China-unveils-Shenzhou...
It's also ignoring interest.