skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) A trillion dollars, spread over the 1.8 billion people in extreme poverty in 1990 and the 32 years since then, would have been 0.046 USD/person/day.

2) There's also this graph, if you want to see how the other income brackets are changing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Th...
x86 has turned assembly into voodoo while RISC-V is very simple to understand and teach. This is true at the basic level, but is also true for something like vectors vs AVX where one is quite easy to teach while the other is massively complex. More devs who can do this means we get more higher-performance code for cheaper. This will be a very important milestone for software.
ahh, I wish they included speed comparison to numpy.average

I know, thats not the point and average was only picked as a simple example, but still...
Here in India, cashless payments through various proprietary and privacy harming platforms, such as PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm are popular among the city crowds and has become more common due to these elites pushing for it with street vendors. While these platforms use the UPI platform underneath (which is run by a consortium of public, private and foreign banks), most people don’t know about UPI IDs and instead use the linked phone numbers. “Google Pay me” or “Paytm me” is the “Venmo me” (of the U.S.) equivalent here.

There are tons of “fintech” companies backed by VCs, each trying to capture a chunk of the market with heavy competition. They sometimes partner with traditional banks to offer services.

Meanwhile, the linking of the so-called unique number given to residents (not just citizens), called “Aadhaar”, with bank accounts has resulted in more frauds and thefts through biometric scams (gummy fingers). The Aadhaar number as well as fingerprints are obtained from property registration documents, which are publicly exposed.

With UPI, there is a “payment request” mode too. Since digital literacy is extremely low in India, a lot of people have been losing money through various vishing and phishing scams. Getting the money back may also require greasing the palms of law enforcement.

As for me, I encourage people to use cash. I use a combination of cash and online payments. I carry all combinations of currency notes and coins to pay for any amount. I also have a rough idea of how much I’d need.

Whenever more people realize that the government is tracking their spends (including the push for a retail CBDC), they’ll start switching to cash mainly to evade taxes. So far though, most people have neither realized nor understood privacy concerns, give surveillance, etc. (I’m not blaming the poor and vulnerable sections, who already have a lot more to worry about)
> More like Italians from New York were never part of USA (they were).

Please re-read my statement that you quoted. Italians from New York is completely different from Albanians from Albania. Albania is a country where the overwhelming majority is Albanian.

> Never integrated, always closer to Albania.

Whether the Albanian population in ex-Yu showed inclination towards Albania can be argued either way, but I don't see the Albanian population in Macedonia do the same thing (took up arms and fought at the risk of losing their lives for independence).
Considering someone alien makes it much easier to segregate, ostracize, denigrate, punish and abuse them. Ask yourself whether the ex-Yu government would have been able to do the things they did to Kosovo if they have called them our brothers (or even called them citizens of Yugoslavia) or if they called them "those Kosovo aliens that don't want to integrate".
Indeed. In nature we have observed social behavioral traps like the ants circle of death.

On a more complex and longer timescale, I wonder if humans have entered their own such trap.
New York Times tech workers to strike this afternoon
I could be wrong but I believe the original comment that's used as the title here comes from this tweet: https://twitter.com/felix_red_panda/status/17189166315129492...
> In 2017 I had React projects in production for years.

I doubt that. React wasn't stable until 2015, and wasn't mainstream until 2016.

> And it only got worse and the overengineering to make it looks fast in the first load is not worth it as modern JS frameworks are faster than React out-of-the-box.

Again, Next.js != React; the former builds on the latter, it doesn't replace it nor does it claim to be the same thing. I'm not sure why you keep conflating the two.

> That's not what stackoverflow's Insights says[0]. Looks like a free fall for me.

Perhaps you shouldn't bury the lede here. I'm also not entirely sure what your argument is, or why you hold such strong emotions without making your opinions very clear.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cnex...
I would give it a miss, twitters days are done
Even Apple has added job postings for RISC-V devs.
That's awesome. I bet TAing for Strang was a great experience. Now I'm curious if you have any recommendations for "actually calculating something"
Show HN: Open-Sourcing High-Frequency Trading and Market-Making Backtesting Tool
I know that numerous backtesting tools exist. But most of them do not offer comprehensive tick-by-tick backtesting, taking latencies and order queue positions into account. Consequently, I developed a new backtesting tool that concentrates on thorough tick-by-tick backtesting while incorporating latencies, order queue positions, and complete order book reconstruction.

Key features:

- Working in Numba JIT function.

- Complete tick-by-tick simulation with a variable time interval.

- Full order book reconstruction based on L2 feeds(Market-By-Price).

- Backtest accounting for both feed and order latency, using provided models or your own custom model.

- Order fill simulation that takes into account the order queue position, using provided models or your own custom model.

Additional features are planned for implementation, including multi-asset backtesting and Level 3 order book functionality.

Full document: https://hftbacktest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Performance on long contexts just isn't very good right now.

Relevant paper:
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172
Related. Others?

Evolving Lindenmayer Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588039 - Aug 2019 (15 comments)

Lindenmayer systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002532 - Dec 2017 (9 comments)

Four L-system fractals in LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716780 - June 2015 (5 comments)
> Why can you not understand why the US would prefer people to be invested in the future of the US?

I can understand investing in the future of the US. I add an interest in investing in the present of the US, e.g. wages that support the consumption needs of the populace, including but not limited to food, shelter, health care, and education.
For hardware acceleration it's probably easier to use gstreamer, depending on what device you are using to decode. But then you have a whole new problem.
I suspect the downvoting is more because of the tone of your comments rather than the content. From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

A lot of people on HN care deeply about AI and I imagine they're totally interested in discussing deepfakes potentially causing regulation. Just gotta be careful to mute the political sides of the debate, which I know is difficult when talking about regulation.

Also note that I posted a comment 10 days ago with a largely similar meaning without getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956770
Microservices

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-microservices
In Praise of "Boring" Technology (2013)
Where is all this money coming from?
The future is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUVo0xVAqE

The film Idiocracy reviewed:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
The concrete houses reminded me of the George Eastman (founder of Eastman Kodak camera company) [estate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman_Museum) which is now a museum in Rochester.

Built in 1905 of reinforced concrete.

Worth a visit.
What if their depression isn't treatable?
oh ye people, you always need a golden bull to worship. turn your attention inside and listen to the truth that is always there. that's where the revolution starts. otherwise, you're just a consumer of the latest YouTube fad.
People in general do not give a fuck about anything besides price, and behind that, convenience.

However, people spend a lot of time talking about how they care about more than just price. The actual manifestation is tiny though.
Document retention policies are complicated in how they deal with legal issues, but ignoring about a million subtleties and complications, you can delete whatever you want if there is no reason to believe it is associated with a crime, and are not doing it to possibly hide evidence.

In the days when everything was on paper, keeping everything around was expensive. Do you really need that memo from 10 years ago? How would you even archive and store it? Deleting it makes sense, but you need to be sure you aren't hiding criminal activity. Or at least don't have the intent to hide criminal activity.

So companies have rules like "delete everything after a year"--there is no intent to cover up a crime. But as soon as you become involved in legal proceeding, you have to start saving stuff.

It gets complicated fast, but that is the basic rule.
Many RAGs for conversations, docs and PDFs but what about videos and audios?
The right time to extract something into a separate service is when there's a problem that you can't tractably solve without doing so.

Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of organizational discipline, but midsize tech companies _incessantly_ treat it like one. If you're having trouble because your domains lack good boundaries, then extracting services _is not going to go well_.
Do you use encryption and/or compression on the hard drives or cloud? That’s my main concern with disaster recovery - feels so much easier if it’s literally just raw files backed up everywhere instead of needing software.
Pipedrive vs. Salesmate: Which CRM Is Right for Your Busines
In today's fast-paced business world, having the right sales tools is crucial for success.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software has become an essential tool for businesses of all sizes, helping them manage their sales processes, track customer interactions, and improve overall efficiency. Two popular CRM options on the market are Pipedrive and Salesmate.

In this article, we will compare these two platforms and help you determine which one is the right fit for your business. We will delve into their features, pricing, user experience, and customer support, providing a comprehensive comparison to guide your decision-making process.

CRM software is not just a tool; it's a strategic investment that can significantly impact your business's bottom line. By automating routine tasks, providing valuable insights, and facilitating customer communication, CRM software can help businesses increase sales, improve customer satisfaction, and streamline their operations.

Pipedrive and Salesmate are both robust CRM solutions that cater to small and medium-sized businesses. Let's take a closer look at what each platform has to offer.

Pipedrive vs Salesmate: Choose the Perfect CRM for Your Business
What is Pipedrive?
Pipedrive is a cloud-based CRM software designed for small and medium-sized businesses.

It offers a user-friendly interface and a variety of features to help businesses manage their sales processes. Pipedrive is known for its visual pipeline view, which allows users to track deals and progress through different stages of the sales process. This feature provides a clear, visual representation of your sales pipeline, making it easy to see where each deal stands and what steps are needed to move it forward.

Continue Reading here: https://www.cjpath.com/blog/pipedrive-and-salesmate
MetaGPT's AI agents play a Werewolf game
People mention Cloudflare. Google Cloud Armor is another option (we looked into both).

A colleague was DDoS attacked and was able to move the service behind Cloud Armor in a few hours, effectively ending a ridiculous barrage of network requests. I think CA charges a minuscule amount per request, and can be capped with a fix monthly cost which limits the DDoS liability.
Meta introduces ad-free plans for Instagram, Facebook in Europe
Interesting article.

Although one point I'd like to contest is the first "pro" which is you can use a different language for each service. We tried this approach and it failed fantastically. You're right about the cons, it becomes un-maintable.

We had 3 microservices that we maintained on our team, one in Java, one in Ruby and one in Node. We very quickly realized we needed to stick to one, in order to share code, stop the context switching, logging issues, etc.

The communication piece is something that solid monoliths should practice as well (as is it touched on in the article). Calling an 3rd party API without a timeout is not a great idea (to be it lightly), monolith or microservice.

Thought-provoking nevertheless, thank you for sharing.
I've worked on ads quality and I see nothing revelatory here. It's all outdated anyway.
US wages dwarf almost every non-tax haven in the world adjusted for taxes and the cost of living.
Extreme Diet Content Should Not Be Incentivized, Meta Oversight Board Says
Incredible.

Meanwhile big tech thinks the way to reduce costs is to wholesale fire 1/2 their company.
If someone is a free thinker and person of knowledge and eloquence that I respect I'd probably be interested in hearing their position on pretty much any topic, not just their narrow field of professional interest. Take Noam Chomsky for instance, I seriously doubt that that many people online listened to his lectures on linguistics, right?
In a perfect world there would be a special DNS record type for this. The DNS server would store the full token value, but would return the hash when someone queries it. I think this would provide both maximum security and maximum privacy.
> It really seems beyond dispute that there are certain tools so powerful that we have no choice but to tightly control access.

Beyond dispute? Hardly.

But please do illustrate your point with some details and tell us why you think certain tools are too powerful for everyone to have access to.
Still doesn't give you any right. Lobby your politicians if you want better copyright laws. Being a pirate will only strengthen the case for those who believe strong copyright enforcement is necessary.
Maybe it's finally time for me to start using FB?
Some ATMs have absurd fees in Poland. I tried to pull ~~100~~ 50 zlotti from ~~rev~~ Revolut, and paid ~~40~~ 18 zlotti on top.
For those who can't access the full content:

https://archive.ph/l437Q
They aren't facts. The number of millionaires in the U.S. has exploded. Many are benefiting from the markets. It's not luck.

The fact that many would rather spend than save does not change that these opportunities are for everyone. The best selling car in America is the F-150 which is quite expensive...
Programming Books: a Reading List for Software Craftsmanship
What you mention here does not contradict my assumption that there is a finite set of valid characters in every language, unless there is a rule in chinese that lets you assemble an infinite set of meaningful characters/symbols (unicode could still represent only a finite subset of those, though).

Either one or both of the characters you mention are probably part of the script of the users language setting in chinese; if the character is then it should be rendered as unicode and if not as punycode. If the users language has this kind of ambiguity then they are the only ones to judge if the domain name is correct or not, but at least they are familiar with the language and do not see characters they might have never encountered before and/or need to deal with an ambiguity that they shouldn't even have to expect to begin with.

The idea I proposed would still protect someone with a chinese language setting from being tricked by e.g. a cyrillic character in an otherwise ASCII domain name. I don't see how that is euro-centric (apart from ASCII being inherently english-centric), it is an overall improvement over the status quo no matter where you live and what language you speak.
I’m in no hurry.

Tossing a low end graphics card into a new PC unlocks significantly better back catalog every time with the added benefit of having the most patched version at discounted prices.
Language or platform standardization for data science is over-rated. Most often, analysis is performed remotely, and resulting models and other work product are deployed, "frozen" on production platforms. There is seldom need to match the data scientist's tools to match those of the organization.
The article sees to take for granted that your development org is completely broken and out of control. They can't decide what to work on during sprints, they furtively introduce third party libraries and unknown languages, they silently ship incompatible changes to prod, etc. I guess microservices are easier if your developers aren't bozos.
I don't think I said unfalsifiable propositions are not useful! A proven theorem is sacred!

Of course, until the laws of thermodynamics are revised we can provisionally say that all programs actually running in nature will indeed stop at some point, no matter what is proven about idealized Turing machines.

And before I'm misunderstood. There are many ways the laws of thermodynamics can be tested. This prediction, unfortunately, cannot be tested. But it is a predicted consequence of the simplest known theory that explains of all sorts of observations about thermodynamics. Which is the limit of what the natural sciences aim to do here. Provisional truth based on observation vs. proven truth based on stated axioms.

I am explicitly not claiming that one truth is to be valued more than the other. I honestly don't think that. Merely noting, again, that the distinction is there to be made. I may be "discriminating between", but I'm certainly not "discriminating against".

It may or may not be a continuum. Curious researchers on both sides can certainly be informed and inspired by each others work, and can use the same techniques and tools. But even if only as an academic exercise can't we describe these two modes of discovery. And isn't it worth being clear about their respective limits?
FCC Robocall Enforcement a Feckless Mess, Experts Once Again Tell Congress
This seems to assume that development of ISAs is done for free, which is not the case.

When a firm pays Arm a licensing fee for the Arm ISA that fee helps support the development of the Arm ISA.

When someone who works for SiFive or Tenstorrent etc works on the development of the RISC-V ISA, they are being paid and those costs will be recovered through the price paid for the products they sell. Others may use the ISA at zero cost but someone is paying.

Now you could argue that costs will be lower in aggregate because of greater competition, but the cost isn't zero in total.
Use OneDrive. Photo backup works in the most "dumb" possible manner, just by dumping every photo as a file into a big folder. And you can pretty seamlessly use it as file storage in lieu of iCloud. And it's absurdly cheap, you get 1TB (+ more if you're willing to create multiple accounts) with O365, along with Word/Excel.
I wonder how it affects a BogleHead strategy to retirement.

If the Sp500 (VOO, or VTI, VT) is less and less representative of the U.S. market, there is a case to be made that it's becoming disconnected more and more of the "real" economy. This is kind of undermining BogleHead strategy to just buy the full market as the full market is less and less accessible.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a garbage index with components selected arbitrarily. No one in finance takes it seriously.

No one can guarantee stock market returns, but over decades it's a lot safer than depending on pension contributions from a single company. And most 401(k) plans now offer target date mutual funds which automatically reduce stock exposure over time, thus reducing risk of capital loss as you approach retirement.
Most companies have ups and downs. Longterm stable companies tend to be static, short term success can turn into cratering failure in a hurry, and no company can grow forever.

When you're interviewing, every company will swear they are growing rapidly and making oodles of money. How do you tell if they really are?

If I could identify growing companies so easily I wouldn't work at all, just make bank on the stock markets, right?
Demo: https://publish.spext.co/video/Demo_video-mp4_a57b2d78

Sample Highlight Extraction Workflow On Audio: https://publish.spext.co/chat/New-York-Mets-vs-San-Francisco...
It's perfectly okay to stay agnostic on things you don't know about. It's always okay to say "I don't know." If you were forced to take a position on something you don't know about yourself, then looking to relevant authorities may be a decent enough plan, but who's forcing you to take positions on things?
If I'm reading this correctly, this included disengagement prior to surgery but after hormonal treatment. So it could be that some in this group regretted the hormonal treatment so chose not to continue with the surgical intervention?
No - they will be written so that OpenAI, Google, and Facebook can get around it, but you and I cannot.
You can. Thanks for asking.
> They aren't facts. The number of millionaires in the U.S. has exploded. Many are benefiting from the markets. It's not luck.

Are you sure it's not luck?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol... ("The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized")

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-... | Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068 ("Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure")

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-i... ("Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it")

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/when-you-realize-how-much-... ("When you realize how much luck goes into investing, you might change your methods")
ARM CPU JavaScript Instruction
Is interesting to hacker mindset?
> Once the monolith is well matured and growing pains start to rise, then you can start to peel off one microservice at a time from it.

Curious what is considered a growing pain of the monolith vs tech debt that hasn't been tackled. If the issue is the monolith can't scale in performance then a services oriented architecture doesn't necessarily give you that automatically unless you know where the bottleneck of your monolith is.
Is there a formal way to confirm if a practice has been bought out?