skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to include them. Believe me, I wanted to! My publisher felt strongly that I should not stretch the definition of tools into metaphor. Beds are tools: they help you sleep better. There's just too many narrow-definition tools I needed to fit in. Otherwise I would have been more than happy to including a dig about how Jupyter Notebooks are a poor imitation of my Mathematica notebook design.
Or, the Simpsons had similar. Again, single worker household paying for 2.5 children and 2 story house

The Simpsons may have taken place in the 90’s and onward but the show is based on Matt Groening’s childhood which took place in the 60’s. The whole household structure in the show is an anachronism because of that.
There's a slide hammer in the book and on the website, just not in the poster. I wanted to include a bit of humor, sorry.
We probably need a better definition of the "American Dream" though, because I think GP is largely right. For a couple decades now there has been a very simple plan to execute that will result in probably 90% of successful adherents ending up with a 6 figure job:
(1) Don't screw up high-school too badly.
(2) Go to a college at least a few people have heard of and study STEM.
(3) Graduate and go into Tech as soon as possible.

That's literally it. Follow this plan and you are now a professional making 6 figures.

Most people wallowing in student debt wondering what happened to the American Dream didn't really consider the marketability of their planned education.

With that said, I think going forward this is all more complicated. I wouldn't really know what to recommend to a current middle schooler, for instance, in a world where most white collar work will probably be done better by ChatGPT 8 in a handful of years.

But for the past few decades before this point in time, this has all been way simpler than people think, provided they were willing to gut out the level of effort required for a STEM degree.
There are some good MMT textbooks out there. You're not going to get a full "explanation" in a HN comment thread.

Note that typical household debt:income ratios are far higher than the national debt:income ratio is right now.

Also note that it is critical to differentiate between "bad" debt and "good debt". When someone takes out a mortgage to buy a house, almost nobody will say that the purchaser is stupid and going into ridiculous debt. When someone takes out a bank loan to spend another weekend at the casino, almost nobody will suggest that there is anything sane about what they are doing. The same applies to national spending also.
You’re welcome — it’s too late for me to edit my wording but hopefully you understood what I meant by “1/3 to 1/4 slower.”

That is ambiguous, instead I should have said that models that fit in memory on both take 3-4 times as long on the M2 as they do on the 4090.
You can cross-compile everything and just run the third stage of the gcc bootstrap (where it compiles itself and checks that the output matches) on native hardware.

Then you only need one native machine instead of an entire buildfarm of them.
I think it's ok if you don't find joy. Personally I had a very involved father and supportive partner. I understand my duty and am fulfilling it with full acceptance and gravity, I just keep this one piece of independence for my sanity-- the right to the validity of my emotion regarding how that duty makes me feel.
So could you explain the process by which you ‘tether a phone’? Is that don’t by plugging the phone in via usb? Is it paired via Bluetooth? Do you wifi the phone to it and spread the internet like that? I think some of us are quite curious about the specifics on that point :)

Sounds great!

P.s. I love (and am horrified) at how easy it is to ‘hijack’ a devices wifi just by making a network with the same name (and no password). I’ve done it myself over the years to make it easier for family or friends while travelling. But I always felt a bit ick about it working.
A little humor wouldn't hurt. HN is getting extremely stiff to the point that people's comments are being reported.
This “western world” chart is showing approximately 5 generations from the “big economic boom” that created the middle class.

India and China are just now seeing the emergence of generation 2 or 3. What will it look like by gen 5? Based on the experience of young adults in China right now, not so great. India? We’ll see.
Why not available in C# :(
Oh absolutely not an absolute, but there are qualities that make or break good humour.

On the footgun side, I dunno. It probably widened and/or deepened. If you read e.g. Effective C++ and turned on all warnings you were much better off than in plain C. OTOH of course it's a more complex language.

A lot of the early criticism of C++ was directed at the OO features, which have fallen well out of favour.
I think that backs up the point. Married with Children and The Simpsons were not mocked, because it was a realistic situation. In the 80s a single income at an average job could afford a middle class lifestyle. Friends however was clearly ridiculous, a coffee shop job couldn't afford a large NYC apartment.
Our national debt goes almost entirely towards paying Americans.

edit: Also, almost all modern money is debt. Printed currency is a tiny amount of the money in circulation. Nobody gets paid without debt.

(at first I said "literally all" instead of "almost all")
This certainly sounds like a major issue, but I’m sure they (Google) have backups… right?
Isilon or Qumulo is a better solution.
> those who do continue multiplying

So we have to stop the ones who can't stop themselves, fine.
He is if you normalize to 70W of power utilization, which is what more than what the brain uses :)
I thought tearing was not a thing on Wayland, and every frame was perfect.
The geo-local community subreddit that I left has been overwhelmed by the local sheriff who likes to post about who they are firing, why won't anyone apply to work there, why criminals have no rights, and why that department's regressive tax plans won't even be noticed by anyone with enough money that matters.

That has turned the flavor of that sub into a simulacrum of Nextdoor.
Any Users of Dropbox Dash? Beginning of Personal LLMs?
I loved, loved Google Desktop when it had launched, but alas it was deprecated. I have even paid for Neeva, a hot flash in the pan to see if it could provide personal search.

Dropbox has gotten progressively worse to no fault of its own. Instead of allowing Dropbox to run on a kernel like the good old days, Apple forces all sync providers (iCloud, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox) to use its macOS File Provider API going forward, which is terrible.

Apple Spotlight now doesn't index my Dropbox files, and I have to revert to using Dropbox.com to search for my files.

I'm a big believer in Personal LLMs, so the more data I have on myself the better.

Glean is the closest Enterprise focused solution of what I am looking for, and a few reddit subredits mention Personal LLMs, but I think we are still at the frontier.
Moderation / admin quality going ever worse.

Recently fought for my alt account and a subreddit that was an automated, arguably better of another popular subreddit with basically the same content but without as much editorialization. Had to appeal like 10 times, and a few days after that, the account got re-banned on a faux "ban evasion" charge. Sigh.
To be fair, the Simpsons poked fun at itself for exactly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHoy0hnQy8
Realistically, it is just housing. Fix housing, fix a lot of problems.

And practically, just bam corporations from owning non-multifamily homes. I just don't understand why investment funds should compete for the same house as average Joe. It's not like the fund management will go homeless if they don't secure a house, but the average Joe will be.

And this is why homelessness is on the rise. Corporate ownership has priced out real people.
Don't worry, they backed it up to Google Drive
I promise you I am not remotely that ambitious.
So, I don't think it's wrong in a way that matters for this discussion.

The data is useless as an absolute measure of activity, sure, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425501. The message at the top of the main subredditstats page says, "...the data collector is not robust, and so the numbers should only be used as a general guide." You can read that. Let's assume I can read that, too.

But it does track as a representative sample of trends. Picking something less noisy than a niche sub, we can ask whether there have been recent newsworthy events that might show up as spikes in this data. And, there is: look again at the posts/day and comments/day graphs on https://subredditstats.com/r/worldnews, and you see clear spikes in activity right around October 7 -- well after Reddit's API changes would have affected subredditstats.

If the data collector has only been able to pick up, say, approximately 20% of the site's activity for each subreddit, then trends are still trends as long as the data collection hasn't changed in a radically new way. And, sure, that could be the case after Reddit's API changes, but as I pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425150 (and as supported in another user's reply using an entirely different source of data), the API changes don't line up precisely with the change in user activity, and Reddit is clearly, observably, less active now in all of its large subs.

Now, for my part, I assumed this would all be pretty obvious stuff. I'm not doing a terribly deep analysis here; I'd expect anyone else to see the same things at a glance. But a few people seem to think that because the numbers aren't a perfect match, the entire point just collapses and clearly Reddit is now busier than ever, and those people are completely missing the point. Using a 12,000-subscriber sub with the noisiest possible data to try to disprove sitewide trends is even more wrong, and then smugly saying, "everyone is wrong sometimes", is not just condescending, but frankly embarrassing.

The diametrically opposing argument here is that Reddit is perfectly healthy and the API changes and blackout protest had no significant impact on the site, and that checks notes 12,000 subscribers in r/thethickofit are sufficient evidence for this. And, like, okay, if that's your argument, cool, carry on, just come out and say so.
Over-reliance on cloud service is a critical mistake. We tend to forget that these technologies are just as prone to errors as your day to day devices. Do not save your sensitive files on the cloud.
Yes, it looks very impressive indeed and it has the potential to be the seminal textbook on the subject.

Fun facts, the infamous Attention paper is closing in to reach the 10K citations, and it should reach this milestone by the end of this year. It's probably the fastest paper ever to reach this significant milestone. Any deep learning book written before the Attention paper should be considered out of date, and needs updating. The situation is not unlike an outdated Physics textbook with Newton's laws but devoid of the infamous Einstein's equation of energy equivalence.
Fair point, but so should the user.

This is a good reminder to everyone: Your cloud data still needs backing up.
The first time I used USB tethering on a generic Android many years ago I was very pleasantly surprised how simple and straightforward it was. IMHO making it effectively become a generic USB Ethernet adapter (RNDIS) was a great idea as drivers for that are widely available.

...but of course the "security" BS has been used as an excuse to try to put an end to that recently.
It is for children of broken family structures, but those with both parents are still flourishing (although this population is collapsing fast).
A lot of 4G modems connected via pcie still are USB interfaces internally. So the usb 2.0 limits on these are still there (though that is not much of a problem in general as 4G speeds are low). With 5G if you connect to a usb3 port for tethering I wonder if the speeds are above the usb2 limits or if this driver is still limited to usb2. Because with 5G modems, most of the devices that use it as a backup likely use pcie speeds. Would be a waste to use usb2 speeds
> SRV could be modified in a different spec instead.

I don't think it could be, at least without breaking things. Unlike SVCB, SRV wasn't designed to be extensible, so adding new functionality can't really be done without breaking anything that currently parses SRV responses.
Solved it several times over IIRC
The heritability of intelligence and other factors is highly variable.

You want people who will care diligently for their children to have them. Not people who will be largely indifferent to them, whether they're smart or dumb.

The Musk 'I'll have ten and scatter them to the wind with bags of money, the odds will take care of the rest' strategy is not really one that works out well in real life.
I use rclone to backup my Google Drive to S3. If you're not doing something similar, I recommend it (rclone will also export google docs to ODF formats).
> while we wait for instructions from our Engieers (sic)

This, combined with the fact that Google has said nothing officially about this, leads me to believe this is a hoax.
It's not about what they can do two years later. The job is a reward for services rendered while in government.
You might be happy to hear that while it was low-key, Neuralink did have some presence at SfN and had a joint poster there with University College London.
EclipseStore – Databaseless Java Persistence for Microservices and Serverless
"desert" comes in all shapes and sizes. The Tibetan plateau is huge, a high altitude arid zone. it encompasses deserts, steppes, it's distinct from the Gobi and it's not death valley, or the sahara. I had to rid myself of barchan dunes marching into the distance and the camels are two humped, and shaggy like ponies.
Is public housing the main driver of lower housing prices in comparable economies?

I would have guessed that the HUD being unable to build more housing isn't helping us, but isn't the main reason that prices are skyrocketing in urban areas.
Operating file systems like this e.g. GlusterFS, Lustre etc require skill and experience.

It's not something you can just throw together if you want something that is stable and performant.

Which means that the cost of that person to operate it is going to be significantly more expensive than if you just use AWS.
Black Friday shoppers spent a record $9.8B in U.S. online sales, up 7.5%
My parents had it rough, being born in 1929, they didn't really have a "good year" until 1946, the first year after the war. Then, there was a small recession caused by the war ending which didn't clear until about 1949.

But, the house they lived in when they first married could be rented for $10 USD (in 1951 I think). The 50s allowed them to get a mortgage and get in a house of their own, and start the savings treadmill...

Minimum wage was $0.75 per hour ; so in terms of hourly work, the house could be rented for 13 hours of labor (excluding taxes). If you figure $1200/month for typical rent (this is low) that means the equivalent of earning $90-100 per hour in wages, or $180k-200K per year. Quite a difference!
Kind of curious how this works. Just doing letters is not going to teach anyone how to read.
LMMS is a lot like FL Studio: https://lmms.io/
Heck, I managed to screw up pretty much all of those things you listed and am making six figures in tech. A little ambition can get you a long way in this field.
Does anyone have recommendations on how to protect against this kind of thing?
It’s a prevention of increases above the existing levels that existed at the time of the Faircloth amendment. Pretty much all agencies are well below these levels in 2023.
It could, because wealth creation is not zero sum. But the likelihood is small. No system has entirely figured this out.
Fun! But honestly there's a place for Perl.

There's far less variance between Perls on different systems than there are for sed/awk/shell. So if you want performant portable code, Perl does better than all of those.

I'd never use Perl for a 'big' program these days but it still beats the crap out of the mess of sed/awk/bash/ksh/zsh.
There is a service called Google Takeout which lets you do a full data dump of Drive and any other google product.
There are enough cases, including one of a Google Workspace administrator, that I don't think it's a hoax - but if it were widespread enough, we would've heard about it as soon as it happened.
Lost temporarily, but there's absolutely no way they lost data permanently (maybe hours worth of data, worst case scenario).
I meant the presenter is discussing ML from a Bayesian point of view, which is interesting, but not something you need if your aim is just to understand deep learning.
Thanks for reminding me to do a dump of my data https://takeout.google.com
Now we solved it with a pill though!!
Nope but natural fabric are still exciting after 1000s of years. Tech deals were awful this year but clothes were still good
he is sometimes faster than engines. Engines are stronger than humans at slow time controls, but there are multiple GMs that can beat Stockfish at ultrabullet due to low depth.
Does anyone have a spare lobste.rs invite?
There's a particular article there being discussed that I'd really like to take part in. Thanks in advance :)
Do you run a daily cron or something? I've been trying to figure out how to backup my photos from google.
not really. it would still just be the experience of one person in one place. not enough to generalize. someone made a guess, and i countered with a different guess. i am however not ready to go on a deeper exploration here until i have had more opportunities to observe other similar places and spend more time to talk to some of these people to get a better understanding of their situation
>the target isn't that tightly constrained

Yes, which is why I highlighted that it is incomplete if you are not limiting yourself to just POSIX. It's important for readers to understand the scope of what is contained in the guide as it would be easy to think this is all the IPC mechanisms Linux offers.

>developing for Linux doesn't guarantee you'll have Binder or D-Bus

This is technically true, but everywhere Linux is used will likely already have one of them: embedded, mobile, desktop, server, etc. For D-Bus you can even have it work in a peer to peer mode where you don't need the daemon.
I've used Studio One for over 3 years now on Windows. Fantastic DAW software and the dev team is very responsive. Can't wait for the full version on Linux.
If anyone’s looking for alternatives, Lemmy is federated and nice to use: http://lemmy.world/

It’s really only lacking the size of Reddit for me, there isn’t a ton of activity in niche subs, but they’re growing.
Public housing is important, mostly because private housing growth contracts during economic slowdowns, and the delay in constructing new ones means an eventual crunch when the economy starts needing housing again. If the public housing pipeline is robust it can generate a more even supply.
The USA seems quite happy to spend freely on anything it (i.e. the current federal government) deems worthy of a few billion dollars. Wars, in particular, are spending goals that come with few, if anym limits.

I see little evidence that interest payments on the debt prevent funding particular programs - that is a political decision that for better or worse exists outside the realities of federal tax revenues.
This is inaccurate. [1] What you're referring to is called intragovernmental debt. And it makes up less than 25% of our debt. The overwhelming majority is publicly held.

[1] - https://www.thebalancemoney.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-de...
These are all over the apple watch in the right lighting. It has to do with how OLEDs are manufactured.
Why Napoleon, Once Larger Than Life, Now Feels So Small
As another user suggested, backing up your cloud storage to another provider is important. with S3-like object lock ideally.

rclone is awesome :)
Lots of posters in that thread are mentioning “DriveFS”, something I think is related to the google drive app (maybe only on windows?). Does this issue potentially affect everyone using Google Drive, even if only through the web interface, or just those who have used the desktop app?
It’s not malware, I promise. Just super annoying :)

Source code: https://github.com/feross/TheAnnoyingSite.
Ah, the Thanos approach to eugenics
Wouldn’t be the first time something like this happened. If I recall correctly, there was also a gmail data loss issue a few years back?

Edit: ok, it was in 2011, which is a bit more than just a few years.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/01/gmail.lost.found/...
How is that not exactly the kind of 'self-own' that I'm talking about? There's nothing technical or geographic that's stopping us here, it's literally just a law we ourselves passed to make the problem worse. The federal government could repeal it at any time but chooses not to.

Also, that's only for federal public housing IIRC, so cities/counties/states could still make their own public housing if they wanted to.
Sometimes the clouds dissipate.
I guess you didn't come across CB_SETITEMDATA / CB_GETITEMDATA ?
That sounds like an interesting place. Can you share the Discord?
That's about what happens every time I tear out a browser tab. It's not perfect, but definitely not the showstopper ImGui seems to regard it as.
They can always ask NSA.
Anki and spaced repetition are the single most impactful “technology” that for some reason, has almost been entirely ignored by professional educators. It’s really a shame, as flashcards (with color, images, etc. to make them appealing to kids) are really perfect for teaching repetitive skills like reading. Especially because of the short “reward loop” that comes from successfully remembering a card.
Yep. Cloud storage gives you too many ways out if you make a mistake (recycle bin, revision history) that it kind of hides the fact that it's not a replacement for backups. Plus, you can always get hacked.

3-2-1 guys!
I'm seeing two completely different ideas in this article. "A stock portfolio for every child in the US" and "funding stock market portfolios for children of employees of Microsoft/Uber/Dell/Zillow". Are we talking about doing both?

It's an interesting idea, but it seems less likely to work and more likely to be a ponzi scheme or other type of scam than something like welfare reform, declaring basic food and housing a human right, then backing that with some reasonable policies. Most people might have to sell theirs to goto college or buy a car to drive to their first job I imagine. It's shivering with "K-shaped recovery" vibes.

At least, I'm confused about what problem it's attempting to solve here. Maybe it's not intended to solve a problem.
This is what's used a lot in motorsport as race cars are insanely loud. Mine was pumping out north of 120db at one point at a 1m static noise test at 4500rpm (went to 7600rpm... and you sit less than 1m from the exhaust..)

I had full impressions done with custom in-ear monitors and I've never been happier. Makes plane flights absolutely tolerable too.

In-ear monitors vs sleeved (like eytomtic slip-ons) are much better practically day to day as the wires exit flush with the bottom of your earlobes (needed for getting helmets on and off) which means beanies, sleeping on a plane etc you can rest the side of your head on something without wires/end of the monitor.

Around $700NZD / $300USD done here in NZ.
The most you can do is backup the files and save them on a physical drive or another online cloud service.
*some Americans
But which subs? You didn't answer...
Might not be data loss. Could be a UI or API issue but the underlying data is still there. Or just a stale file index point to an old directory tree or something. Who knows.
Just a note to point out that groff can use different macro sets such as ms or mom and produces decent PDF/PS output (from my limited testing).