skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been years since I looked at their data. The blame is not entirely San Frans. It is in majority the California government's policies which are crushing the city. though don't think san fran municipal politicians are angels, they have some serious things to resolve as well.

I look at the politics and California fell into a Coleman Young trap. You as a politician see a problem like homelessness and you want to help but you don't see the big picture of the consequences of certain policies. Which often are counter intuitive, but politicians never actually build 'tests' to verify their decisions are actually helping as opposed to harming.

San Fran is 100% going to end up like Detroit.

To prevent this decline is basically impossible. Looking at California, their next election is in 2026, Gavin Newsom is out but he will be replaced by someone who will never in a million years make the decisions which must be made. They are ideologically opposed to them and therefore the collapse is certain.

Nor does anyone of that ideology want to ever hear what the fixes are, so how do you enact positive improvement? you don't. You watch the city collapse and maybe decades later someone will be able to solve the problems.

What a terrible situation to watch the collapse happen and the humanity consequences. These homeless are your fellow human beings but you just step over them.
If you think that’s all what a manager does, you had bad managers. People managers, I mean.
> Denver's the biggest city around...

... for a really big "around". If you go west, the nearest city the size of Denver is the Bay Area. (If you consider that multiple cities, then Tokyo.) North, you have to go over the pole. Southwest, LA is bigger. Phoenix is in the same ballpark as Denver. Going east, probably Chicago or St. Louis. Southeast, Dallas. All of those are a really long way from Denver - at least a full day's drive, or a medium-to-long plane ride.

Pros: If you find pleasure in both mountains and farmland, you don't have to pick...
Seems that way to me. I remember when Firefox was the market leader in every way by far back when IE was the de facto browser for folks.

Sad to see where they are now… they still haven’t even made containers part of core…
I mean the approval process for packages in Cargo is controlled by vendor.
Again, what you say is true, but irrelevant in the context of this discussion thread. You look like you are searching for reasons to get upset, and you ought to calm down, take a deep breath, and consider that some of your interlocutors here are not your enemies.

You copy/pasted the same text in the reply to me as you did to another user in this thread. Please don’t do this, it is considered poor form on HN.
The battle to stop broadband discrimination has only just begun
I think this is the preprint version https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.20.545619v1....
Is this a copy of a reddit post or is it really the current state of journalism ?
Yeah. For additional context, Apple isn't supporting these two versions either anymore. Last Mojave release was in 2021.
The low level of post doc salaries seems to be a physical constant.
Mozilla considered harmful. A bizarre money redistribution (and storage?) operation. The only thing people at large really want from it, Firefox, is an underfunded afterthought.

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
>That's just the state of our national conversation.

Without signing up for the aggressive stance of parent that you will reliably not hear news on NPR (which I'm unwilling to test)... no, that's the state of conversation in national media, and it doesn't have to be. But the point is moot without a common set of values.
Blinds open btw. I’m picking up what you are gracefully throwing down but not without checks and balances.
Legally, I can destructively analyze your ancestor's genetics, use it to get rich selling you skinny pills instead of an inexpensive one-time therapy, and unknowingly destroy the genetic information that would have unlocked a remedy for a birth defect that runs in your family. The law is very underdeveloped in this area, so ethics stand in for now.
> Machine learning algorithms are learning to identify people just by their walk...

Turns out the UK government was working on privacy-preserving walks decades ago: https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI
I wonder how much of the hiring pause has to do with AI - the expectation that it will be possible that it will be possible to do far more with less? Stock prices do not seem to indicate a significant down turn.

Edit: I found this which seems to indicate that companies anticipate a challenging macro environment. However this doesn't seem to be reflected in any stock price.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/tech-firms-wall-street-le...
Meta, IBM Create Industrywide AI Alliance to Share Technology
You will not find the real answer on Mozilla's website.
US Math Scores Fall on International Test – But Many Other Nations Suffered More
haveibeencloned dot com
Can a person just go upload anything on arxiv or is there a review process around these things?

What I am really asking is "what makes something a paper and not a blogpost"?
Wealth Transfer to Create Nation of Trust Fund Billionaires
I hate it in the best way possible.
summary

7 nm can be done without EUV machines when higher production costs and lower yields are accepted.

SMIC brings experts from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Germany to improve their productivity.

China will eventually run out of some machinery they need after all spares they hoarded run out.

Chinese government has invested $290.8 billion into semiconductor-related sectors in 2021 and 2022.
Some people just love pain it seems
I really wish Mozilla would stay out of politics, especially identity politics. And I've seen some pro-censorship advocacy from them in the name of Internet "safety."
France's debt-to-GDP is lower though.
Would it work on a printer?
It’s one of those weird things we do in America. San Francisco is SF, Los Angeles is LA, San Diego is SD, San Antonio is SA, and Dallas is DFW. You might hear those said in conversation. Austin is ATX, Houston is HOU, and Portland is PDX. Those are more likely to be referenced in written text rather than said out loud.

Not all of those are airport codes. I suppose it’s due to the fact that Portland is just one word, and it doesn’t contract as nicely as the other cities.
> But that doesn't make AI the use-all-do-all, because if everybody starts to test for every little thing, diagnostic probabilities will decrease massively and guidelines would have to adjusted in conséquence. It's a feedback loop. And also, you'd pay 5x the price for healthcare, so not realistic.

It's hard for me to write out all my thoughts on the subject, but I completely agree with this. The paper cherry-picked difficult cases and compared how AI deals with them vs regular clinicians. I think that is something AI will excel at because there is no cost to being "wrong", as long as something it spews out is correct.

In difficult to diagnose cases, that kind of makes sense. Find the answer at "any cost". But you cannot apply that to every case. If you let the AI loose on fairly simple cases, I bet it would over complicate many simple things, because it couldn't handle the nuance of people coming in and just whining about a regular cold. "Patient comes in with a headache, might be brain cancer but might be a cold" ~ type DDx.
"It's not shit code, it's just acronym driven obfuscation!"
-My coworkers, apparently.
you get the certificate from FNMT, it's not related to EU or non EU AFAIK
The introduction of the potato and the invention of the steam engine changed Europe several orders of magnitude more than Napoleon or any other great man.
Title very misleading, since the obvious assumption is Steam will not longer support macOS which would be major news. Vs the real news which is simply Steam: macOS 10.14 and earlier reach end of life. 10.14 was released back in 2018, so far less exciting news which is presumably why The Register wrote the misleading title.
I don’t think that fits with how people on this side of the pond think about immigration.
Kill Sticky bookmarklet[1]. Also works on mobile. Get in the habit of clicking it, you'll start using it a lot to recover that extra inch of vertical space that web devs love to take away from you for some bizarre reason.

[1] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

NoScript[2] often prevents them from showing up in the first place, but it's a bit bigger lift to get used to using.

[2] https://noscript.net/
> On the other hand, the only toxic comments I experienced on Wikipedia were from an editor.

Isn't everyone an editor on Wikipedia? By definition, you need to be an editor in order to leave comments. Who other than editors would leave toxic comments?
I admit it is reductionist but it's also true. Even in your example, not many are preparing a nice meal for themselves from scratch. Even farmers who would have the cows to slaughter and the vegetables to harvest still need to buy their spices, grill, the gas or charcoal for the grill, etc. So even these nice tasks are dependent on the rest of civilization to do their part of the collective work.

Many jobs are a bad experience, but comparing it to nice activities is just focusing on the fruits of this same labor done by someone else. Some people get lucky but even in a perfectly fair system, work is needed, things need to be fixed, cleaned, prepared etc.
Steam on macOS is 64-bit, because macOS supports only 64-bit apps. I think on Windows is still 32-bit.
I have an Aorus 4K Display [Gigabyte], which is technically "not just a TV screen," and in order to defeat the overscan mismatch [having found no method functional either in OS or on TV settings] I plug the HDMI cable into a DVI->HDMI adapter [instead of HDMI direct from TV to HDMI output].

For some reason, this dongle hack, de-necessitates the overscan settings [which never seem to work/hold]. But of course then there is no 4K output [which is fine].
It’s my dream to live there….
completely captured by the professional management class
I’d really like my 23 and Me info, but I assumed it was only a matter of time before they were hacked or sold to an untrustworthy organization willing to sell out users to make a quick buck.

If the test was done, the results were sent, and then my test data/info were destroyed on their end, or if I could do a home test where the data never left my home, then I’d do it.

I struggle to understand why companies hold on to all this data. It is a huge liability. In this case, maybe it is so they can identify familial relationships, but is that feature worth the risk?
AI and Mass Spying
Hegel is a hack and doesn’t deserve to be cited here. Consider that he’s really only famous because his class motivated a bunch of other philosophers (the young Hegelian's, Marx, Stirner, Bruno Bauer et al) to meet in wine bars after class to complain about how terrible/impossible to understand his philosophy is.

Anyone whose even tried to read stuff of his I.e the phenomenology of spirit will tell you that he’s a charlatan and hack, and the people who constantly cite him (I.e Zizek, Lacan, Foucault) are also hacks.
Also, purge technical CEO for political reasons then replace him with MBA trophy politically correct CEO that takes home four times the pay while laying off engineers.
RAG vs. Context-Window in GPT-4: accuracy, cost, & latency
TL;DR: (RAG + GPT-4) delivers superior performance, at 4% of the cost.
Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
This is all good and optimistic but is a little bit in denial of the currently reality.

I don't think it's super surprising news to anyone and most people have done everything you've mentioned and are still struggling to get a job so it seems a little cruel to place the blame on them when the market is gone.
Am I a marathon runner because I'm theoretically capable of it, or do I need to actually run one first?
At least they're trying to get firefox usage back up. I've seen some ads for it on instagram here in europe.
Sorry, I didn't have funding to pay the open access fees. The published version is very similar to the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.20.545619v1 Alternatively, if you want the full version, PNAS gave me some eprints to share so just email me (link on my site in my profile) and I will send you a copy!

Not sure what you mean by "things are stable" in this context, could you elaborate?
If we draw a line and say "everything on this side of the line is permitted", of /course/ Nvidia are going to try to sell the most expensive things that can be sold from the permitted side of the line. They have a duty to, within the bounds of the law, maximise shareholder profits. That's how capitalism works - it's how we've built basically all of western society.

Everything on the permissible side of the line we draw will be done. This is the entire purpose of having a line separating options into permissible and forbidden. So we shouldn't cross our fingers and lie about where we want the line to be drawn; we should make sure we draw the line where we actually want it to be.

If we don't want Nvidia selling anything at all in China, we need to say so already, rather than just shouting at them for doing things we said they were allowed to do.
This plugin handles the Figma -> Lottie direction. Getting the resulting Lottie back into Figma still means using an animated GIF, as there's no native Lottie support. (Fingers crossed, though!)
Sexual selection certainly does. Eggs being expensive and sperm being cheap kind of make winners necessary.
Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time
I feel this has nothing at all to do with LLMs and more to do with academic incentives in general. Focusing on quality over quantity won't advance your career. Publishing lots of new papers will, as long as they meet the minimum threshold to be accepted into whatever journal or conference you are aiming for. Having one good paper won't increase your h-score, three mediocre papers might.

Doubly so when there's a new breakthrough, where one of your low-effort papers might end up being the first saying something obvious that ends up being really important. Because then everyone will end up quoting your paper in perpetuity.
Exciting times! Any physicist here aware of how these two papers would impact the applicability or validity of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)?

background: my lay understanding of MOND is that it modifies the gravitational interaction parameter over cosmological distances. the force exerted on objects due to gravity is currently accepted to scale with distance in a certain manner (ex. 1/distance^2) while MOND postulates a different scaling relation (ex. 1/distance^3). Those are just examples, not actual values. The currently accepted gravitational interaction force scaling is what gives rise for the need for dark matter, and the corresponding lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) theory. Of course, we have not been able to observe dark matter, which is a problem for a theory. That is what has given rise to MOND, amongst other things. There are prominent, esteemed physicists who have recognized many issues with LCDM, some of which are addressed by MOND (https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/kroupa_SciLogs.html)

previous HN posts with interesting discussions / links re: MOND

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37012052

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261981

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23982814
To pay board members bigger bonuses **
No one’s talking about farming, they’re digging up actual graves.
Sounds like it could be translated as "send it!"
The Greatest Bitcoin Explanation of All Time (In Under 10 Minutes)[video]
JWST gazes into 'The Brick,' a dark nebula near the Milky Way's heart
It is a _paper_, but it's not science, since GTP-4 is closed source and thus not reproducible in a lab.

If OpenAI disappears tomorrow, papers are GTP-4 will likely be of little to no value, which is another tell of a non-scientific exploration.

(note: not all explorations are scientific, and that is great! Science is just one of many tools for exploring lived reality.)
I have worked in SW for the automotive industry for 10 years.
The amount of times we where stopped from implementing features or had to roll them back and the number of delays because a test showed a decrease in safety was frustrating but I do feel safe driving my daughter around in the cars I worked on because off it.
With the cybertruck, just the transition to 48V electrical system means ALL electronic components had to re-engineered, and for an established manufacturer this would mean huge costs and time to retest everything.
I don't mind pre-hire tests or assignments: if properly done, it can be a great way of sifting through the sizable chunk of applications from the flat-out incompetent while minimizing the reply time for those who get through the filter.

But I do mind pre-hire assignments that are a) unpaid and b) take more than a couple hours. It's not only disrespectful and lazy on the part of the employer, it's stupid. This approach is going to select for unemployed candidates with a lot of free time and desperation.
A recent term for it is the Celtic genocide
Serverless multi-tenant back end with Postgres and AWS Lambda
In the hopes of someone at Mozilla reading this, I don't like you or anything of what you do, you're simply just more tolerable than google but you are not fun, not great, not good, your browser is ok but as a company you are just annoying and i wish you'd shut up more.
Small town in central NY.

Pros: I feel like I’m deeply connected to the community. All the stores now know me by name. Less racism than major cities (I’m brown). I am living very close to nature and because of it, have a better mental health.

Cons: less choice in everything. Don’t like your dentist? Well, you have only a few more to choose from. Transportation sucks too.
> It's good that Mozilla is still there to provide an alternative to the proprietary browsers and is fighting for open Internet standards

> aggressive political stance

These two statements are at odds with each other. Mozilla whole purpose is inherently political.
Spain invested on a standard infrastructure (client-side certificates) back in the days (early 2000 ?) and I am amazed by how simple, how well it works and how nobody else has thought about doing the same anywhere else (to my knowledge).
Well done Spain, at least on this.
As far as I understand in the aviation world the expectation is that you tell the FAA after any incident, nevermind crash, and presumably wait for their guidance on the wreck.
This is probably perfect for some EU anti-monopoly lawsuit, am I right?
I took this to mean those with special rights, so everything beyond automatically granted standard access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels
I’m pretty sure I previously responded to a comment you wrote about your tv software that inspired me to take the time to set mine up. Thanks for the inspiration!
The majority of companies that ask leetcode style questions aren’t using the word leetcode anywhere.

Leetcode is just a popular repository of the type of interview questions that are designed to prove you understand a subset of the material from an Algorithms or Data Structures class.
Interesting to see that on-prem starts lower than enterprise tier. What's the reason for that, as I'd assume any on prem would be more costly to provide?
Node.js – v21.4.0
I went to look at the staff for All Things Considered, one of their most popular shows. I see zero hyphenated last names (and zero 3 hyphenated names). Perhaps you are biased.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/01/394867832/the-all-things-cons...
The state of Firefox is terrible. The state of Mozilla? I couldn't get it from this terrible website. Which tells a lot about the state of Firefox.
It would also help to not send the high-value information to the client until required. Especially loot drops!
I took a university course in mobile development (Symbian and Java ME). My main takeaway indeed was that I will definitely not become a mobile developer.

In the end I did though, but only after Qt and later Android became the main mobile dev platforms. Such a night and day developer experience compared to native Symbian development.
I’d like the Supreme Court to take up the topic of whether US taxes should be levied on Americans no matter where they live (citizenship based) rather than like every other country in the world (other than Eritrea) - based on residency.
I think I'm still waiting on a single good 'people manager'

I've had plenty I got along with, but not one that has ever made my job easier

Best case, we all suffer together. Probable case: they build a promotion off my back

Note: not the one who received the assertion, but it's true. Bad managers abound

In fairness to them, there's only so much they can do in organizations that refuse to change where it 'counts'
This is awesome.

Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy?

How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations?

A start might be to tell people to use extensions that are adblockers and to disable javascript on websites and even use and setup pi-holes to take back their data and privacy.

There must be more that can be done here but it is a start!
No way this will happen, scanned with what? PC? Mac? iOS? Linux? Give me a break with these articles.
FRAM and MRAM have found a place in embedded markets doing weird things - MRAM is a low-cost alternative to space-grade flash right now, and both FRAM and MRAM are used for small, fast persistent "caching" with good wear-out. Optane was the only one of these products that was really targeted at the server space, and had much better density than FRAM, MRAM, PCM, and all the other weird alternatives.
I just added a new icon, much better. Thanks for the tip!

https://qdorks.com
> What was interesting about Optane was that it was kinda an attempt to get rid of disk and ram distinction.

That might be the promise, but that premise is fundamentally flawed. I mean, what drives the need to classify memory devices is performance characteristics, and even if your starting point is this idealized world where Optane was ubiquitous then all it took was a ephemeral memory technology to significantly outperform Optane to create need support the performance-oriented non-persistent memory type.
>For instance, the level of conflict on discussion pages, as assessed by raters, has been shown to negatively correlate with the quality of the corresponding Wikipedia articles.

An alternative explanation is that "toxic comments" protect wikipedia from low quality content, acting as defense mechanism against bad editors. So without better study which tries to analyze if the critique (regardless of toxicity) is justified, it's absolutely useless to make any conclusions from the article.
Show HN: Ia-get is a Rust app developed (mostly) using "Chatty Jeeps"
Show HN: Dumplink – Intuitive Task Grouping and Risk Visualization
Human intelligence: it's how your brain is wired rather than size that matters
Leaving a comment on Wikipedia involves editing the talk page. So commenting is performing an edit, thus making the commenter also an editor.

Also, anyone who is knowledgeable enough to edit a talk page most likely has edited regular articles in the past as well.
That's not the conclusion at all I took from reading the Levine newsletter. His take seems to come down on the other side
pixel 6a, firefox with ublock origin - no artifacts, no missing content I can find. Maybe its privacy badger?