skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I wonder if using medians is valid though. Incomes and prices are so localized that they may not represent what an actual human in an actual place could expect to be faced with.

There's a whole lot of anecdata over the last few years that's not accounted for by a 4% increase.
Yeah and there's that adage that you want to hire lazy people because they will find an easy way to solve something.

The right question as alluded to in this article being "where are you happiest working?" is equally dumb. Of course people are happier in their preferred environment.

This whole discussion is just a distraction and the points don't even matter as to who wins the argument.
It will be interesting to see if the revival of the printed Rock & Roll magazine Creem https://www.creem.com will find enough Boomer nostalgia to succeed. If so, then maybe PopSci too. Not holding my breath, however.
Quick learners absolutely exist, or everyone would learn at the same rate in school.

I was regularly hamstrung by curriculae because I learned quickly. Schools chose to throw a bunch of busywork at me instead of deepening or questioning my understanding. "Your peers aren't on that yet." I don't care what my peers are doing. They made their decision about me years ago. If school can't be intellectually challenging then what's the damn point.
An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.
As someone who lives near a beach in a warm climate... I've never seen anyone wear one of these nor have I seen them for sale in stores.

I can't imagine when I'd wear one either - if I want protection from the sun I'll wear a hat or sunscreen - not a hood.
Scientific American is still in print. I guess I don’t know for how long, but I love it.
My wife manages my time for me. She regulates.

The obvious solution is to do everything at the same time and to connect whatever possible sequential vs parallel execution. If you're go to workout in a gym, so buy things after and in the meantime make your things like readings and call whomever needed. I can't even imagine, but wife says I have to learn.
As is Brave, Opera and DDG (based on edge). I have said before that I suspect the minor chromium forks such as these will end up having to fork when google does commit fully to manifest v3, as they'll have no way to remain privacy focused if they try to keep using the mainline codebase; if they all work together on a manifest v2 chromium fork for them each to base their browsers on then it probably won't be that hard for them.
Well React is also a proven and popular technology, so there must be a reason why those using it chose it instead of using MVC.
I mean, I’m not half, and I never went further than +/- 200 km from my hometown until I was 23 years old, but we did go on vacation somewhere every year.

I _still_ remember all that travel too. It was different enough to make a lasting impression.

99% of our life is spent in the same 2 sqkm area, so it’s not super surprising that everything else is different.
Everything is something. Question is what this nomenclature gymnastics buys you? Unless you answer that this is no different than claiming neural networks are a projection of my soul
You're probably just being tongue in cheek here, but I still wanted to add that we humans do actually "want". Desires, intentions, these are real things. You can try to represent them as loss functions or rewards in some mathematical model but that isn't the original thing. Consider this excerpt from https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7094#comment-1947377

> Most animals are goal-directed, intentional, sensory-motor agents who grow interior representations of their environments during their lifetime which enables them to successfully navigate their environments. They are responsive to reasons their environments affords for action, because they can reason from their desires and beliefs towards actions.

In addition, animals like people, have complex representational abilities where we can reify the sensory-motor “concepts” which we develop as “abstract concepts” and give them symbolic representations which can then be communicated. We communicate because we have the capacity to form such representations, translate them symbolically, and use those symbols “on the right occasions” when we have the relevant mental states.

(Discrete mathematicians seem to have imparted a magical property to these symbols that *in them* is everything… no, when I use words its to represent my interior states… the words are symptoms, their patterns are coincidental and useful, but not where anything important lies).

In other words, we say “I like ice-cream” because: we are able to like things (desire, preference), we have tasted ice-cream, we have reflected on our preferences (via a capacity for self-modelling and self-directed emotional awareness), and so on. And when we say, “I like ice-cream” it’s *because* all of those things come together in radically complex ways to actually put us in a position to speak truthfully about ourselves. We really do like ice-cream.
Ok, what I really meant was "are phonemes required for reading?" given that was what was implied by the above thread.

Deaf people learn how to read (in every language), so clearly they are not required.
It's only gaudy if the jet is bright non-standard colours and you have a pink limo meet you. If the jet is anonymous, and you have a quiet take off and welcome experience its not gaudy, its just luxe.

My experience of HNW individuals is they are rarely gaudy if its old money, and are sometimes gaudy if its very new money, but that gaudy and discrete lies across the spectrum.
I'm curious what this looks like if adjusted for the % of the home that the "owner" actually owns, as opposed to the bank.
I've always heard if it doesn't exist in 3 places it doesn't exist at all
Yeah it works pretty well for the price - just need to be comfortable with running code and putting data on random peoples' computers (which I am for certain things). Someone on HN posted a script or snippet of output on mass-testing vast.ai servers for connectivity and configuration, and auto-labeling them using their API. Wish I could find it now... maybe with the search?
Thank you for making this!

I have a 1.5yo that’s obsessed with pointing out planes in the sky.

Now we can go plane watching together!
I think a similar analysis could be made of The Simpsons, which (as the post mentions) started around the same time. While later retconned, it used to be the case that Homer could afford a house and sustain a family as the sole breadwinner and without a college degree.

Edit 1 hour later: looks like the fine folks at /r/askhistorians have answered that too: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1uv6/the_s...
Why is it immoral to fire employees that the owner thinks are not needed?
This makes me wonder how the child with terminal brain cancer that dies in a vehicle collision would get recorded.
yes, unions in sweden lean heavily towards one particular political party
I haven't been great about keeping up with advances in the field, but to my understanding most if not all architectures in effect merely enforce symmetries upon the network. That is, they can be represented by a fully connected network but in that representation not all weights are free, in that some are fixed (0 or 1) or some are dependent (A(1,1) will also be equal to C(1,1)).
Context windows used to be tiny e.g. 768 or 1024. That meant sliding windows of limited context if you had any reasonably sized input. If your context window is 32k or even 100k, a lot of inputs will fit into the context window entirely.

The reason huge context windows weren't possible in the past is that memory requirements were quadratic with input length. Long LoRA lets us use less memory for our context windows, or use the same memory footprint for larger context windows.
Federation is definitely here to stay. Its a good idea.

Implementation details do matter however. I could see something like Kbin.social winning out as PHP-developers could be more popular / available than Rust developers, for example.

Hard for me to look into the future. Weird decisions ripple out over time. People are definitely "onto something here". So I'm trying to keep an open mind to the different possibilities.
Generative AI Policy for California
I'm under the impression that there were test and debug ROMs for each console that stretch capabilities and can reveal non-ideal behavior. They now work as unit tests for emulators.
This is the definition of anthropomorphism: “Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.” By definition the point you’re making doesn’t make sense.
They steal designs from independent fashion designers (because designing their own clothes would cost too much I guess). It's also the volume with Shein. They produce so much crap at such low prices and it's all just dumped into an already struggling environment. Shein is far from the only one, but it's the most obvious and well known example.
ByteDance to cut 1,000 gaming jobs in strategic shift
That wasn't clear to me because having internal state doesn't mean that any process is running.
That's the difference between memory and CPU.
I guess someone was "triggered" by the name being "Downloader".
You missed the part where I was talking about that being in the future, as the tech matures.
Yes, this is correct, was on the phone earlier and had to make it short.
this website is an advertisement _for_ blue yeti

marketing is weird
I agree, it doesn't make sense. Home prices just about everywhere in the US (including a lot of rural areas) went up way more than 4% between ~2020 and 2022, and that's with annual CPI inflation at <3%. Maybe some of that was eaten by the 2022-2023 inflation period, but I don't think either the increases in home prices or consumer prices were reflected in wages. I'm sure this can all be found in the right FRED time series; if someone has the motivation to dig for it, I'm happy to be proven wrong (but happier to be proven right).
Given that they had an excess of rubble, I'd guess that they sufferred bombings and had to be rebuilt, so, bricks steel and oil I suspect.
Really interesting - as another person who's used telegram for several long-standing group chats, I imagine a tool to simplify this would be well-received.

I've wondered since fine-tuning started being a thing how long it'd be before somebody makes a utility where you can dump a giant chat export into it and an API key and then it fine tunes a Telegram bot that can imitate any of your friends - would be fun to play with and even create a group chat with multiple friend-bots talking to each other to see how long until it goes off the rails.
I'm at a FAANG, and have ~17 YoE.

I made considerably less at smaller companies. But there's good money to be made at F500 companies that are non FAANG as well, if you're willing to climb the IC (or management) ladder.
H&M (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/business/xinjiang-china-c...) and Zara (https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Uniqlo-Zara-owners-f...) have been accused of the same. Forever 21 has a direct parnership with Shein (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/shein-strikes-deal-with-fast...).

If you're buying a t-shirt for under $20, forced labor is probably somewhere in the supply chain.
If you want to make money, don’t make game, don’t even play game, but to sell game. The author itself is try to persuade people who are not interested in the goal that he assumed.
If you like Ruby, there's a bunch of nice shirts (and more) at https://popruby.com
Eben Upton Hints at RP2040 Successor, Compute Module 5 in 2024
Wanting it to be that way doesn't make it true
I can't imagine it would. I assume you're talking about rental properties? The number of homes owned for sale by investors at any given time is probably small, given that flipping a house is pretty fast (several months?), and houses in major metro areas tend to go from listing to under-agreement in a matter of days. Or is there some phenomenon of investors buying properties and holding on to them for sale, rather than for rent?
This is standard procedure for Broadcom and acquisitions. Not necessarily a symptom of industry conditions.
>What a shit bag

I'm torn on this one. On one hand, actually selling conference tickets is incredibly shitty and fraud-y. But sloppily reposting your own tech influencer crap posing as some beautiful AI-generated girl and gaining orders of magnitude more attention is brilliant, and probably not even a TOS violation as social media seems to accept avatars.
If you thing Von Neumann probes are cool, you might enjoy the sci-fi series Bobiverse:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
200 billion trillion stars in the universe.

13.7 billion years old, with a window of detection of about 1,000,000 years (evolution to self-extermination).

Maybe I'm just a dumb human, but I really don't see why a supergenius race would invest the resources in scouring the universe. Unless it was their manifest destiny. In my head a narrative to address this crosses from sci-fi into fantasy.
If you say "well ha ha, you could put a function in that represents more than 64 bits!", then you may as well just say it contains a pointer to the biggest number ever.

It's sort of a word game, being smart.
> democratically designed collective agreement
there is no such thing
Just wait a year when tons of people start to lose their property. They are already losing their cars and cards are maxed out.

People are worse off now, it just doesn't appear that way yet.
Ah, I didn't notice the URL (https://sizovs.net)! So yeah, classic sockpuppeting indeed.
If Broadcom lets the VMware employees decide to leave on their own, they will be losing the top performers and those with highest prospects of getting a job elsewhere quickly. They end up left with the less good employees.

But if instead Broadcom proactively sheds the underperformers, then the desired employees are reminded to be scared of unemployment by the carnage. And at the same time the market is flooded with a bunch of people looking for the same jobs a high performing employee would have, so now it's harder to jump ship.

All this is disastrous for morale, but no worries, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
> Pretty soon (in the scheme of things) they’ll stop printing books and paper money too.

That seems unlikely to me. E-books have really terrible UX. Paper books aren't going anywhere until that is fixed.
It doesn’t need blockchain. I mean if Facebook had just provided ubiquitous apis that people could use, that would be fine and public enough.

The key is that there’s some public store of identities, and some level of social graph or complaints that lets you know if it’s a real person or not.

I think it’s better if it’s not blockchain and tied to some natural identity that people use- like Facebook- so there’s a virtuous incentive to keep it active. A blockchain wouldn’t really be self-sustaining as no one really uses identity as part of random stuff and it would need some way to pay for itself.
> A low Earth orbit with a separation of approximately 0.1 km may be suitable for experimental purposes.

Wouldn't that also suit an Earth surveillance array with unprecedented resolution?
That first article cites more behavioral psych research, which has the absolute worst track record of data analysis. After so many retractions and scandals, I find it difficult to know what to believe anymore.
It’s sad because you know they were internally fighting that change but just had no choice, financially.
I owned this PC and I loved it! It was a gift from my father. I played to Monkey Island and other adventures in it :)
Ideally, yes you should be able to understand and recall all of the basic commands:

- DDL: create, drop, alter, truncate

- DML: insert, update, delete, call, explain, lock

- TCL: commit, savepoint, rollback

- DQL: select

- DCL: grant, revoke

If you've used them before, you'll have a good enough intuition to understand what each does and when to bring them out of the toolbox. Some database engines have extended versions of these or other ways to achieve the same result, but the underlying concepts are the same.

From there, you should be able to create a basic SELECT statement, and understand the basic flags:

- FROM

- WHERE

- GROUP BY

- HAVING

- ORDER BY

- LIMIT

Then understand joins and how this is all just relational calculus/algebra with sets.

Honestly, I couldn't list these off the top of my head, but I know what each one does when I see them, and I'll instinctively reach for them when I'm writing SQL. But once you know all of this, you know 80% of the SQL you will ever need, and won't have to reach for an ORM. It only takes one weekend to grok SQL, but it will serve you for the rest of your career.
If anything, the more popular the site, the more bots and astroturfing it would attract.
I'd love to see that if you can find it.
>None of these neurons "want" to do anything. They respond to specific input.

Yes well, your neurons don't "want" to do anything either.

>Maybe humans are the same, but in the case of artificial neural networks we at least know it's a simple mathematical function

So what, magic ? a soul ? If the brain is computing then the substrate is entirely irrelevant. Silicon, biology, pulleys and gears. all can be arranged to make the same or similar computations. If you genuinely believe the latter, it's fine. The point is that "simple" mathematical function is kind of irrelevant. Either the brain computes and any substrate is fine or it doesn't.

>Also, an artificial neuron is nothing like a biological neuron.

They're not the same but "nothing like" is pushing it a lot. They're inspired by biological neurons and the only reason modern NNs aren't closer to their biological counterparts is because they genuinely suffer for it, not because we can't.

>Biological neurons fire because of their internal state, state which is modified by biological signaling chemicals

Brains aren't breaking break causality. The fire because of input.
Homeownership rate is very locally variable, so national averages miss a lot of nuance in the housing discussion. For example over the last 10 years its decreased in the Bay Area, and in S.F. county its only about 38%.
Yes. Books might go the same way the horse has gone. No longer dominant, but still occupying niches.
>The lawsuit doesn't allege that Media Matters lied.

Incorrect. For example, from the complaint[0]:

> As extensively explained above, these statements made by Defendant Media
Matters were false.

Though to be fair, the lawsuit never bothers to explain how they're false or offer any actual evidence to that effect. It doesn't even attempt to cite the legal elements of any of the claims that are listed, nor does it establish any facts that one could even tangentially connect to the claims asserted.

I have a law degree (though I don't currently practice law). I doubt this lawsuit will survive a motion for summary judgment. I would even go so far as to expect that Elon/Twitter will probably be paying for Media Matters' attorney's fees for the utterly frivolous nature of the complaint.

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.38...
Don’t get the significance, anyone one of those guys images could have been prompted the first time
Do you have some bad extensions, maybe? It hasn't crashed on me in a long, long time. I can remember it crashing maybe like 2 or 3 times in the last five years, across several different Macs, both work and personal, Intel and Apple Silicon.

Some external device (special webcam? mic? bluetooth?) that maybe doesn't play well with the browser access requests?

Maybe you can dig through the crash logs...

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en
PostNord isn't refusing to do anything. Its employees are refusing to cross a picket line, and PostNord is unable to compel them to do so.
Trailers are also often parked for a while so could be a viable recharge scenario for the trailer batteries.
This can be worked around with

setInterval(() => {$(".btn-success").click()}, 120000)
Also, "Wired" has been filling that slot
I know you're not wrong, but it stings a little to see L6 referred to as junior.
Pretty much, the DE0 which most of the retro fpga computers rely on, was cheap, but it is almost impossible to find at decent prices anymore, even the non-mainstream FPGA boards (WaveShare, etc) have jumped in price massively, even though they're really pretty useless for retro computing use unless you're willing to reinvent the entire universe to bake an apple pie.
Scientific American publishes nonsense in the guise of science. They are not a reliably publication anymore.

https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-go...

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-shameful-decline...
I’m quite familiar with that story. Google doesn’t disclose to candidates why they were rejected. I didn’t interview him so have no insights, but ability to get along with others still matters. But even if he was rejected for the reasons he thinks he was, one story does not reveal how the tens of thousands of interviews Google conducts each year actually go and how hiring decisions are made.

I have been a part of hundreds of hiring decisions at Google, and there is much to hate about the process. But leetcode over qualifications is not one of them.
I'm happy to see some convergence here :)
It shows the sad state of the public train system in the US. For comparison, here is a similar map for the UK:

https://www.map.signalbox.io/
This gets at the fundamental issue I have with AI: We're trying to get machines to think, but we only have the barest understanding of how we, as humans, think. The concept of a "neuron" that can activate other neurons comes straight from real neurology, but given how complex the human brain is, it's no surprise that we can only create something that is fundamentally "lesser."

However, I think that real neurology and machine-learning can be mutually reinforcing fields: structures discovered in the one could be applied to the other, and vice versa. But thinking we can create "AGI" without first increasing our understanding of "wet" neural nets is the height of hubris.
Floating format 1:1:0:1's 8 possible values:

000: +0
001: +1 ( denormal: (-1)^0 * 0.5 * 2^(-0+1) )
010: +inf
011: +qnan
100: -0
101: -1 ( denormal: (-1)^1 * 0.5 * 2^(-0+1) )
110: -inf
111: -qnan

=== Floating point crib sheet ===

--- Format ---

Sign:exponent:stored explicit mantissa leading bit:mantissa fraction:

binary16 = 1:5:0:10
bfloat16 = 1:8:0:7
TensorFloat = 1:8:0:10
fp24 = 1:7:0:16
binary32 = 1:8:0:23
binary64 = 1:11:0:52
8087 = 1:11:1:67
binary128 = 1:15:0:112

--- Interpretation ---

leading bit = (exponent != 0) ? 1 : 0 when implicit (not stored)

bias = 2^(exponent bits - 1) - 1

value = (-1)^sign * 0 when zero

value = (-1)^sign * {{leading bit}}.{{mantissa fraction}}b * 2^(exponent - bias) when normal

value = (-1)^sign * 0.{{mantissa fraction}}b * 2^(-bias+1) when denormal

--- Classification ---

zero = exponent == 0 && mantissa fraction == 0

denormal = exponent == 0 && mantissa fraction != 0

normal = exponent != 0 && exponent != ~0

inf = exponent == ~0 && mantissa fraction == 0

nan = exponent == ~0 && mantissa fraction != 0

snan = nan && msb(mantissa fraction) == 0

qnan = nan && msb(mantissa fraction) == 1

PS: It often takes fewer gates to implement a simpler microcoded microarchitecture than to implement a single hardwired macroarchitecture. Microcoded architectures are theoretically slower than hardwired but this is often not the case in reality because of the costs of gate fanout and extra gates for clock distribution that ameliorate gains of fully specified and decoded in hardware.
Are you sure that isn't just a meme narrative peddled by the media?

And social media amplifying the complaints and rage postings of its younger users and the lower class?

What does the data say?
oh we all feel it