skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree in spirit but I think the magnitude (and meaning) of that can only be done on the job, not academically. And of course herein is the problem.

It's company by company but what we built at my last one is built a hybrid role that allowed people to "try" being a manager without negatively affecting their own career timeline, or others. We defined the role as one where you were effectively a manager, but had clear oversight from your manager (who had to agree to this to start). You can figure out all of those definitions easily enough, the big one was in the promotion/leveling guides it didn't penalize you for going down this road and switching back to being an IC.

I think that's actually one of the biggest gotcha's is that it is perceived as either an ego or career hit (or worse both) to flip back that no one does and people try to grit it out. And no one wins. It has to be company specific implemented but I think we should all be advocating for "interim" types of this role for 1st time managers.
True, looks like 'reimagining history'.

In my opinion, a lot of these 'migration' were done primarily to expand own territory even if current territory was sufficient to fulfil needs of the population. It is human extinct to go to war with neighbours for petty reasons.

Recent Eg., Spanish invasion of america, british/dutch colonies. Also future expansion to Moon, Mars.
They really ought to coordinate with users in circumstances like these. What if you'd already begun to fix it - would your efforts have been rolled back? Or if you just happened to use the opportunity to undertake a big cleanup / organizational overhaul on your folder structure?
> CDNs are about content distribution, not load balancing.

For you, maybe, but many people use a CDN and related services as a form of protection from web server overload.

> We are doomed to use 443 for eternity.

Do you write your applications for Win32? There have been many such proclamations made in the past, and they have all, slowly but surely, mostly gone away. Just try to browse the web using a really old browser or operating system. You can’t do anything, since most web sites require TLS1.0 or later.

> We could just change the DNS spec to stop the apex madness.

We did. This is the RFC which did it.
I think it's fun thought to play with from technical perspective. How would you make an ethical simulation with limited processing power in 1000 years?

- Dark energy would make it less compute-intensive towards the end of the simulation. If you knew where your observers are you could simulate less and less over time, while also reaching an ethical endpoint for the simulation

- and with Double-slit experiment, we kinda know that universe knows when things are observed

- Cosmic Microwave Background would hide a lot of signals further away, giving a possibility of aggregating or dropping signals further away from observers

- Diffraction Limit would limit the resolution of observations we can make from further away, limiting the resolution of the needed simulation.

- Quantum uncertainty principle would be easy way to make the simulation non-deterministic by just adding some jitter / variance.

I might have written some things that are wrong. Also it doesn't really answer your questions as this doesn't really lead me to believe we surely live in a simulation, it's just something I like to think about sometimes.
> That means the more relevant thing to ask is if a quantity of information is more likely to exist in the base reality or the simulated one.

Well, what quantity of information? It seems relatively unlikely that one would bother simulating an entire universe for billions of years at this level of fidelity; what's the point? On the other hand, the quantity of information needed to simulate your current experiences, including the experience of having memories, is probably in the megabytes; human bandwidth just isn't that high.

The same logic suggests that, even if you discount simulation for reasons of faith or whatever, Boltzmann brains are worth considering. The idea that the experience you're having right now of reading my precious prose is worth keeping a universe running, or even a large-scale simulation, is a bit self-centered of you, isn't it?
We also have a desert almost the size of North America.

The population centres crystallized around gold mining and other non-urban activities back in a day, you can't just will another Melbourne into existence.
Property taxes, for one.
I consider myself firmly Christian, but I’m more likely to be perceived as agnostic in my conversations around religion - especially here.

My faith is based on subjective experience, not objective ones. It wouldn’t make any sense at all from my perspective to expect anyone else to believe based solely on my word.
> As an aside, I am curious the motivation for customers to staff huge company support forums

My guess is it's the same motivation for those who volunteer to help others in any other support forum. Human nature does not change based on the market cap of the company (if any) behind the product. What difference do you expect between this, and Stack Overflow contributors for Microsoft SQL Server or Blender? I wouldn't expect there to be a difference in motivation: some people simply enjoy helping others (even if it's in return of made-up internet points).
That's useful. I'll check into that.
If folks are looking for free deep learning resources, here are a few more that I’ve personally vetted: https://phaseai.com/resources/free-resources-ai-ml-2024

FWIW, my recommendation with this sort of stuff is to build something alongside of the reading you are doing.

One of the things I’m exploring is building an OpenAI Gym-like project where we build neural nets to play various games. If that’s of interest to anyone, please post below!
>And I've always wondered whether it isn't a bit of a scam, really.

Karl Marx showed us exactly how the scam works over 150 years ago and his analysis on the accumulation of capital has never been disputed.
Well, a brick and mortar home isn't as well insulated. You've also got major appliances that weren't common place a century ago (fridges, washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc), waaaay more lighting, HVAC systems, etc. Basically rising standards for what people want out of a home, rising land costs, + rising labor costs.

Another not insignificant problem that people are aware of is that all the zoning/permitting also adds significant hidden cost to the process because builders have a lot of downtime waiting for that. There's also the hidden cost of improved safety standards & the compliance checks that come with it - 100 years ago you probably didn't have to have someone from the city come out & certify all the work was done to code. Sure the cost of the inspector is a direct cost, but the need for the inspector in the first place adds random delays for the contractor work & they then need to budget cost into their estimate because the person paying is paying a roughly fixed cost for the work to get done.

What's the policy you want to write that would fix things?
What's more insane is that these houses have tiny rooms, poor build quality and lack basic fittings like pull out kitchen storage. You get a giant cardboard box for half a million.
> This is true in the US but it's not true in other Anglophone nations with high real estate prices such as the UK or Australia

It was definitely true until very recently. Interest rates of 1-2% weren't unheard of. Many of my friends had to really tighten up their finances when their interest rate from 1.2% to 5%.
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Or even just passed thru from the base world.
Same here, especially since most of the time it's an unhelpful answer that dodges the actual problem or generic advice that doesn't apply, then they mark it as solved.

Which then furthers the question, why? I could understand the odd person just trying to be helpful because they had the same problem, found the post with no solution, figured it out, then answered with theirs, but for the ones who seem to spend countless hours ranking up, either by gaming it, or the few actually being helpful, does it lead to a chance of being hired or something?

Creating a system like that almost feels like it should be illegal, almost like the companies that give extensive case studies for interviews and take the work with no intention of hiring the interviewees, or unpaid internships where they don't even bother teaching and just give grunt work.
I live in Melbourne and I remember when I was working at a web agency, one of our clients was some kind of building supplier. They were originally from Ireland, and one of the things they were complaining about was how Australian tradies are inherently lazy.

Like, if you ask them if you can do X by Y they'll often push back and say it can't be done, even though it can be done but it's just a lot of work to do and they see that as a genuine obstacle to doing it. So they were saying you often have to push and be persistent to convince them to do stuff in the first place.

But yeah, the housing situation here is genuinely scary.
> Why is the night sky dark if there is an infinity of stars, covering every part of the celestial sphere?

Because of stellar dust? I'm not sure what makes this a paradox. There's a well-known explanation.
It depends on what flags you call it with - it can do either.
Sorry, but the literal Married with Children house is $584k on Zillow, the same prices as the other houses in the neighborhood so not an artifact of being on the TV show https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/641-Castlewood-Ln-Deerfie...
Construction labor productivity in the US has been _decreasing_ since the 60s (in contrast to pretty much every other sector)[0]; it's crazy and the subject of much conversation. Freakonomics Radio recently did an episode on the subject: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-it-so-hard-and-expen... .

[0] - https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/the-strang...
Sort of. True that throughout history, if you were born to the top very small % of ruling/landed class then you had it easy.
This is a much larger chunk of society though, perhaps ~50% that will be permanently generationally better off than the other 50%
Short of payslip fraud, that's something of the past.

It boils down to how sure people feel they can keep paying the huge loan over the next 30 years.
Conveniently the goal of most, if not all, video games of course — to simulate reality precisely as we commonly experience it.
I think if you added a third argument of how many people don't actually care...the numbers would be surprisingly high!
That being said, whoever did build this simulation did pretty well :D
I understand that, but it means that labour cost has increased faster than we have improved our process of building homes, even though the finished product uses cheaper materials and has worse outcomes. I would like to look into timeframes of home start to completion to know if we are faster at building now, my gut feeling from friends and family is that getting a home built takes as long if not longer, but I can't back that up. Regardless, still a major societal problem to fix. Are wages needing to be higher because housing is more expensive? If we had a cooler housing market, would people be happy being paid less as they could afford the same standard of living with less?
Banner photo looks more like a helicopter you'd see on M*A*S*H
> his analysis on the accumulation of capital has never been disputed

Within a Malthusian, i.e. zero or close to zero real growth, economy. And assuming no wealth transfers, e.g. welfare and taxation. Or bankruptcies and recessions, i.e. where accumulated "fake" capital is destroyed. Or limits to economies of scale, i.e. where "the larger capitals beat the smaller" [1], e.g. diminishing marginal returns or even antitrust.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation#Marxist_c...
You mean give away your money to the locals? Who do you think those costs go to?
Or when you move somewhere cheaper. Or when the equity increases and becomes a financial instrument to borrow against for lower interest rates than personal loans.
Do you use hearing aid? From what I’ve seen hearing aids have undergone huge changes and are quite high-tech now a days
> I'd expect pretty swift adoption in platforms/browsers

I am hopeful but sceptical. No browser implements it fully yet, AFAIK.
How is this even remotely related to inclusive hiring policies? It just sounds like you're bitter and have a bone to gnaw.
Just to clarify, because this advise might be misleading. These LambdaLabs prices are pretty much meaningless, because there are no available instances currently, and haven't been for months. The last time I saw an available _hourly_ A6000 instance was more than 6 months ago. Forget about H100. You might be able to get a reserved instance if you're willing to commit a significant enough amount, but even that is probably impossible right now for H100 instances.
What Do I Hear?
Papers:
- Generating Sounds for Visuals with ChatGPT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.05609.pdf
- Soundify: Matching Sound Effects to Video: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09726.pdf
Don't forget the land, you get the land and a spot to live close to everything around it. This is often the true source of increased imbalance between wages and housing costs: increases in land values.
> At the end of your life, your children get to use your housing wealth for their own housing

would that this were true. In the UK at least, that wealth is often needed to pay for end-of-life care. The government will only pay for care once your own wealth including property wealth has been spent.
There's a difference between a simulation and a computer simulation. If our world is contained in a vastly more advanced world that we don't know about, I doubt they'd use something as primitive as computers.
Problem is that apartment quality in Australia is beyond bad. We have quite a lot of apartments, but no one wants to live in them for that reason.

But yeah, if they were better quality I imagine people would move into them.
That was the argument against SRV records. But SVCB/HTTPS records can have extra information in them which can shortcut the HTTP/3 handshake, which will save time.
You could use a combination of tools to make the whole process easier. I recommend tools like SciSpace and Litmaps for literature review and segregation of relevant papers. Try DAGitty online for organizing papers/studies in DAG.
Here's another GPT chat-bot tailored for researchers: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-NgAcklHd8-researchgpt-official
The author addresses cause and possible solutions in their longer essay.

The fundamental cause is taxation policy changes around 2000.

The solution is further policy changes, but the wicked problem is that the democratic majority do not want these changes; or can be easily persuaded these changes are likely harmful for them.

So Australia socially and economically exists in a death spiral; where wealth channeled into real estate is not consistent with its productive utility.
Check out rclone if you haven't yet. Im also a fan of duplicity.

I'd recommend combining it with something like rmlint for your daily cron jobs.
1. Construction is “cheap”
2. It is semi unskilled labor.
3. There is land scarcity
4. There is great arbitrage between purchasing a lot, building and selling.

If you can accomplish a few deals, wind and dine local (and I mean local local) investors and banks - money flows and you have a name for yourself.
The worst are the Apple forums where some ding a ling will chastise the person with the question for some supposed failure to follow whatever Apple wants you to do.
maybe it could happen 4 or so times times in 30 years.
Marx's analysis biggest weakness is actually housing, and it shows. He uses a two-factor model of production, land and capital, and completely ignores land as a factor of production with characteristics quite dissimilar from capital. (At least on the broad economic sense, land is quite different, even if in accounting it is pretty much capital.)

His later parts of Capital Part 3 on the class of landowners was good, but he never finished it. The first directive of the Communicst Manifesto, confiscating and redistributing land rents, was something that would have actually helped capitalism quite a bit to be more productive and improve everyone's life.
Our kid show(s/ed) an aptitude for letters and numbers with a strong memory when she was around that age and we just ignored it. I just want my kid to have a "normal" upbringing. You are likely to get several differing opinions but here is a vote for "do nothing" and see what comes.
Next Jeopardy finalist!
For what it’s worth, I fully agree with the author that the trends we see in housing availability and affordability are driven largely by perverse economic factors, and that the result is destructive.

However, “creating new wealth” is kind of a weird way to judge the validity of investments - many companies we invest in are not profitable due to wealth creation, they’re vehicles for growing wealth because of speculation, and for a lack of better options.

A lot of this boils down to inflation and the need to keep debt prices low to fuel growth. Countries can’t really unwind the ball of noodles that neoliberalism has cooked up, the transition from a moderate growth economy to a high growth, low risk environment necessitated low interest rates and low inflation, and the rest of the market has followed suit.

In light of all of that, it’s still true that unless the world’s government change course to disincentivize real estate speculation, owning your own house will create wealth by the basic fact that they allow you to lock in a fixed cost essentially forever while everything else gets more expensive. I will pay the same amount on my mortgage for many years while salaries gradually increase, to the point where 40 years from now my $2000/mo payment will look to us like the $200/month payment of 1980. In the past few years, I’ve seen several friends go from paying $700/month for rent to well over $1000, with some renting smaller places for prices that massively exceed my mortgage. At some point, something will have to change - whether that means new development in smaller communities, rent regulation, negative speculation incentives, or something else. As a homeowner, I personally don’t care, because I bought my house to live in, and trust that whatever happens, it will first need to affect flippers and speculators over people who actually utilize their real estate.
Yep:" casual and dial up the puns" It is funny though ;)
Are we sure there is an actual data loss event, now? Has anyone here experienced the loss directly from Google Drive?
I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful.

As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats).

Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/pandoc_resume

I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX, because it’s a pretty steep commitment for someone who isn’t a professional writer.
Well, if no-one wants to live in them then no-one will pay much for them and they won't be economical to build.
Are you having a stroke?
Crow, jackdaw, from the same family. I am surprised I remember that much :)
I think people fetishize learning and discount the role of memorization. The two go hand in hand - memorization means you can quickly recall something. Quickly recalling relevant things / making it more autonomic means it's easier to learn things built on that.

That being said, the problem is actually usually the parents and not the kids. The reason is that you need to be an excellent child educator:

* Super patient. Kids have naturally short attention spans, can get overwhelmed & frustrated. Detecting that & knowing how to navigate that (i.e. do they need a rest & try again later or do they need to practice working through it).

* Meeting kids where they are. Kids normally are super curious naturally, but they have to be put in a position to succeed. You have to distinguish "this is hard" from "I don't really have any interest in this". The former requires carefully helping them through the problem. The latter is can be "ok - then you don't have to do it", but that's only once they have enough independence. When they're super young, there's a certain amount of external "no you have to do this" you have to teach them. When they're stubborn, you still have to be patient & find ways of working through it.

* Kids that young have to be engaged with daily for many hours. That can be challenging when you have two parents working full time.

Basically, the kids in the article have a huge advantage not only because the technique outlined is super effective, but also because the parents are super effective child educators: https://youtu.be/8U-Lza__Kko. Things to note in that video: the child goes off on tangents regularly & the mom lets it go because the kid is excited / happy & gently redirects attention back once some time has passed.
The Baumol Effect may be at play. If over time the average worker has become twice as productive (farm combines, computers, factory robots) but construction workers have only become one-and-a-half times as productive, then construction grows more expensive relative to other goods and services.

It's very counter-intuitive, but in essence labor is reallocated to its most productive applications, so if a certain type of labor does not get more productive while others do, labor is moved to other applications (unless you are willing to pay more for less)
On their release date, the best games in the franchise would be between Civ 3 and Civ 4.

Civ 5 and 6 are so different that it is difficult to call them successor games anymore. It's Civ meets Settlers of Catan or something, no longer a true Civ game.

The movement limitations in Civ 5 and 6 don't make sense. The biggest battles in history have been what Civ 5+ players dismiss as "death stacks".

Think of the Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Stalingrad, Siege of Baghdad (1258), Fall of Tenochtitlan... all concentrations of multiple units on one area.
Seems like the main reason to let apps know the absolute positions of their windows is for running Windows apps in WINE, and legacy proprietary Linux apps that were meant to work on X11. Wayland devs want a perfect, elegant solution, but they're just sticking their heads in the sand and hoping that reality will go away.
What? What does Malthus have to do with Marx? What are you smoking?
I just noticed that the project started from 2017: https://github.com/yairm210?tab=overview&from=2017-12-01&to=...
Having just completed a first year university philosophy subject on the matter I feel I am an expert and will share the answer.

The people who think they are living in a simulation because they can't argue their way out of it should tell the people who accuse them of it to prove it.

(I think I passed the subject. Waiting for the results.)

/ please appreciate the humour in that I know nothing more than I knew last year
The somewhat obvious typo of "analysis" repeating in the article?