skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard so many people say "life is short, why wait?" in the last 18 months, maybe before that - I've seen people quit jobs, relocate, buy houses - do all sorts of things they wanted to do that made them feel more fulfilled, or just happier. I've even made choices of my own with a very big eye on mortality.

We might have been waiting before, but as I said elsewhere in thread, I've experienced three once in a lifetime type events since a turned 18 - why should I wait? I want to live the life I want to live. Pandemic for me tamped down any FOMO I might have, but did not tamp down the YOLO - because of that, why wait?, do the things you want now, while you can, bring joy and warmth into your life, experience new things - because you never know when the bottom might fall out again.
My theory is the two underlying causes are:

1. Inflation benefits spending now. What you want is only getting more expensive. Also, any debt you have is having its real value reduced without you having to do anything so why pay it off? and

2. Despair. For a lot of people, they're struggling to make ends meet. There is no concept of saving for the future or even being able to retire. For an increasing number of people the stability of home ownership is increasingly out of reach. The retirement plan for these people is simply to die in debt. Plus people think about their mortality when you go through a pandemic where over a million Americans died and there was massive disruption to people's lives. The real spending power of people has also been eaten away by the rising cost of necessities (which the article mentions).
> The constitutional prohibitions should be applied to all government actions no matter where they are in the world

I don't disagree with you, but what is the philosophical reason why? I know the reason, but I'd really like people such as yourself and the GP to voice it. Because it doesn't form a consistent philosophy in the same way that the current realization of U.S. law is not consistent, simply precisely the opposite of what you (and GP) are saying it should be.

If you disagree, the at least answer this question, why is it the way it is today which is the de facto way it works?
It’s not a great way of disposing of trash, if you don’t want to inhale nasty fumes, but it has a long and widespread history.
you can assign a mountpoint to specific devices on linux too. that's not a new feature.

giving sensible defaults to automatic mounts is the issue here.
Optical turntables exist.
> economists when people aren’t rational economic actors

This is more "economist selectively chosen by media that is trying to sell a downturn narrative when people don't act like there is an economic downturn when aggregate economic measures also don't show a downturn [...]"

Heck, even the article linked to support "people have drawn down their savings" in this article says notes of the reduced savings rate trend, "When the economy is good — like now, with the unemployment rate seemingly pinned below 4%, or back in the mid-2000s — people are more willing to operate with low levels of savings, because they're confident they're going to keep receiving a paycheck."

People aren't acting like there is a downturn because there isn't a downturn and media that is trying to sell a narrative about there being a downturn and the economists they select to respond are acting shocked that no one is acting like it is a downturn and using that to somehow sell the narrative that its even worse than if it was a downturn where people were acting normally for a downturn.
Relatively good AI summary:
https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU

Click on see more, to see 5 minute wise summaries.
Trying to use Linux for gaming, expecting all one's expensive hardware to work well, etc., seems really risky to me. :e
As someone producing in linux land I wish CLAP was more widespread as well
Aves: Android gallery and metadata explorer app
While this isn't strictly landing a job, it was Minecraft that got me into Linux (so I could host my own instances on a VPS), and then from there I got into a small home server and stuff I learned from all that helped in my work.

The home server started off as an ubuntu machine that had everything installed manually. During this it taught me about port-opening and reverse-proxy setups. After I had it go down I then learnt about re-setting it all up with Docker.

Several times in my professional career I have used knowledge I gained directly from the setup and maintenance of my home server in my job. It's pretty cool seeing as my homeserver was used mainly for... umm... hosting a large number of linux isos...
"...we find that recession startups experience better long-term outcomes in terms of employment and sales growth (both driven by lower mortality) and future inventiveness. While funding conditions cannot explain differences in outcomes, a labor market channel can: recession startups are better able to retain their founding inventors and build productive R&D teams around them."

There is also a selection bias in the companies that do get funded, and the fact that they're coming out the door without a growth-at-all-costs culture.
I appreciate your perspective, but I'd like to provide an alternative viewpoint. I think only a minority of Americans were really effected by the pandemic in the way you're describing. Many Americans did not believe a pandemic was happening, or had ever happened. Many believed the pandemic was real, but worked through it anyway because they had no choice. Only a minority of Americans believed the pandemic was real, and could afford to rearrange their whole life accordingly.

I think there's a lot of reasons for runaway spending, from feeling overly optimistic about the economy, to feeling overly pessimistic about the economy, like the extravagant spending of Russian nobility on the eve of the February Revolution of 1917. It can even be the case that multiple groups are spending a ton for different reasons.
GTA 6 Leaks May Have Come from Rockstar Employee's Kid: Report
Show HN: Data Caterer – Data testing tool for any data source
Hi everyone, I'm Peter. A Software Engineer who has been around the data space for the majority of my career. Data Catering is a tool I've been itching to try and implement as I've spent lots of time debugging data issues, generating manual data to test jobs/services or replicating production-like data flows.
The usual way to solve this problem is to stream/load a subset of production data, mask it and store it in a pre-prod environment. This is okay but can increase the risk of personal data leaking as pre-prod environments may not have the same security measures in place (Optus data leak as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Optus_data_breach), having network connections between prod and non-prod being opened, and it may not cover all data scenarios (different permutations/combinations of values, unknown unknowns).
Another approach is to generate data yourself. There are a number of existing tools that can aid with data generation but lack the ability to clean up the generated data, generate both batch and event data, define relationships between datasets (for example, an account can have multiple transactions associated with it, or foreach account create event,
the same account should exist in a CSV file), or validating data.

With this in mind and following along the ideas of having a tool that can be run anywhere, ability to automatically discover, is metadata driven, generate and validate data, and giving users the ability to customise how it is run, Data Caterer was created.

Main features include:

- Metadata discovery

- Batch or event data generation

- Maintain referential integrity across any dataset

- Create custom data generation scenarios

- Clean up generated data

- Validate data

- Suggest data validations

In terms of technical details, it is a Spark based application where users can use the Scala/Java API or YAML files to interface with it. It is a single docker image that can be run following the quick start found here (https://data.catering/get-started/docker/). If you want to find out more details, check out the main website here (https://data.catering/).

I believe there is room for improvement in the data testing area as we should look to be more proactive in detecting and resolving bugs related to data quality or system integration.

Any feedback is appreciated.
Your arguments have all already been comprehensively addressed, in detail, in the peer-reviewed literature, which you may read at your leisure. Your suggestions are there demonstrated as untenable.
Is this satire? Leaving aside your sloppy reading, this is one of the the most exaggerated examples of a stereotypical "technical person utterly bereft of human perspective" takes I have ever seen on this website. Which is really saying something, because there are a lot of blinkered people here.

I feel profound sadness and pity for anyone with such an impoverished worldview. I hope someday you can experience some literature, art, nature, or human connection that can pierce though it and help you reconnect with your innate capacities for empathy and wonder.
Why destroy yourself? Work on getting that 50-60 hr/wk down or at least re-point it at something you want to learn on the job.
I think this will no longer be necessary in Svelte 5. We’ll see.
> Federation IMO solves problems on the developer side:

I couldn't disagree more.

First, nobody cares about this. This has no value proposition to users. It shouldn't even be a topic of conversation.

Second, IMHO it's not even true. It's a bit like how you split a monolithic into microservices. Now you've created a bunch of versioning and orchestration problems where you have to deal with network issues. Federation means talking to third-parties, dealing with them being unreachable or behaving badly. It's a whole new class of problems.

> f Twitter were federated with other services, basically you'd have a way to reach select Twitter users from a saner place.

There's a ton of hand-waving that goes along with this statement. It's like if you tried to cut out talking to Verizon on your POTS exchange. Well, technically you can do that but then you can't talk to the customers on that service and they can't talk to you.
I'm using it only for iPhone & iPad.
Automate parts of your job. Programming is a tool, not a profession. Use that tool in ways that benefits you.
Arguably, the more people, the better you can model aggregates. Just as with the gas equation - it works because there are so many molecules that individual idiosyncrasies are smoothed out.

And, so, yes, there have been regularities observed (that make theoretical sense, also); and when those break down, that is worthy of note and investigation. You can't just point to "oh, it's people", rather you should try to figure out what's systematically different this time.
Back when I used GMail, Google would sometimes mark correspondence e-mails from Google staff as spam. Heck, I even had instances of responses to e-mails I had sent to Google staff marked as spam. Spam filtering is complex and clearly Google has (and continue) to tread a very fine line here.
Paper vs. devices: Brain activation differences during memory retrieval (2021)
Laptops Powered by AA Batteries
Doesn't work on iOS, the left menu is overcome by the right div.
America had a boom then, and arguably so did europe in culture at least certainly.

That said, much of europes economic generation, was the flower of whole nations youths being stolen by flanders fields - either literally in death or psychologically. Nevermind the social and political upheavals seen in around half of europe from WWI - Britain which escaped more unfazed than most of europe from physical damage, still had a mix of cataclysmic change and steady social progress (unwinding of the values and cultural norms of the victorian/edwardian era) - and also suffered vast amounts of deaths.

National identities were formed too, Australia, Canada and New Zealand all or in part formed their national identities out of the cataclysm of WW I. This doesn't even account for the new nations formed all over Europe, The Middle East, and Africa because of The Great War.
All the responses to this post have been an amusing read. Apparently this forum is too young to remember all the Guyana phone sex scam numbers from the 80s and 90s…
CUDA is their main moat, so presumably they don't want to risk having open source drivers provide outsiders an insight to how their hardware works...
I recommend you to watch it, it's really good.

But as I mentioned in another comment, here is a relatively good AI summary:

https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU

Click on see more, to see 5 minute wise summaries.

(Not affiliated with this site, I just use it from time to time)
"No, how you pay for it doesn't change UBI's effect on pricing."

I'd disagree as I think it obviously does. I doubt any economist would agree with this statement.

You're saying I'm "incoherent", but from my perspective all you've done in this conversation is confidently assert your conclusions. You're clearly very certain of your beliefs, but that's not going to convince anyone (if you care about that at all). I'm willing to reconsider my views if someone makes a compelling argument, but I haven't found yours to be convincing fwiw.
The best engineer that I know worked a long time for IBM. Until he couldn't bear with it anymore.
Partially yes, longer support waits. But there's a threshold where the agents either need to be available or the reviews / opinions about a telco go too low, so it can't be just ignored.

I just don't have sympathy though - ideally people would DoS all the telco and local government lines until the issue is fixed. It's just stupid how many years this exists without obvious solutions.
Everyone was affected by the pandemic. Red state, blue state, service worker or constant zoom meetings, everyone was impacted. Local government, personal political views, socioeconomic status and everything else had an impact on how people experienced the pandemic and for how long (in some places things went back to more-or-less normal sooner), but there's no question that the entire world felt the impact intensely.
AW is right that it will take decades and trillions of dollars, but the rewards are large enough to drive such investment. RR is acknowledging the long-term nature of the market and pivoting to shorter-term profit, probably correctly. You will not fly in LH2 aircraft, but your grandchildren will.
That’s the point of the study ?

Social media is a near zero cost good. Seeing the ratio of preferences indicates something about what buyer behaviors are driven by.

The iPhone example is likely a reference or contrast point.

Finally - marketing is industrialized poking your nose in someone’s business is, and selling them things.
I recently did this because none of them are exactly what I wanted. I really like the idea of reactive proxies and pushing changes. Things get trickier when you try to address mutable arrays and other scenarios.

The one I made is https://mutraction.dev/ The name is a portmanteau of mutation tracking.
Only for a month, could believe it's about making sure it's polished.

More generally though, the fact that matching GPT-4 is the marketing blurb as opposed to a GPT-3 -> GPT-4 level transition has me wondering: are we seeing the limits of current "just scale the data" approaches to ML? Like, we've basically scraped everything worth scraping off the web, and when you do that with any of our current techniques, it lands you somewhere around GPT-4?

I don't have the link anymore, but i saw a quote from a LinkedIn connection recently at one of the FAANG's about how data matters so much more than architecture for ML today. To paraphrase, it went something like "it turns out that when your data is large enough, architecture doesn't matter. GANs converge to about the same thing as diffusion models. Convnets converge to about the same thing as ViTs. Data size and quality matter a lot more".
For a moment I was confused at the headline about what AI has to do with the Gemini protocol.
lol. They will do absolutely nothing.
> in possession of a mystical lever, a single number that they can change to steer the behavior

Federal Reserve has more than one lever. They set bank reserve ratios. They engage in outright buying of underwater (mispriced) paper through quantitative easing. They created a new program this year to swap SVB's mispriced bond holdings at par.
It's time to reel in Federal Reserve and reel in government deficit spending.
Besides React, are any of the popular frameworks not on the signals type-train?
The massive generational redistribution of wealth means that naturally the interest-rate consumer spending link has changed. Before higher interest rates meant boomers had less to spend after their mortgage, now it means they have more to spend from returns on their investments.
The use of direct, indirect, double indirect, etc. pointers to data blocks shows how antiquated some file system designs are. When files that can be fragmented regularly reach sizes in the gigabytes, using extents is the best way to track their data blocks in an efficient manner.
This is seamless, nice one!

For anyone else:

news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/{phrase1}|{phrase2}/):xpath(.. | ../following-sibling::tr[1] | ../following-sibling::tr[2])
Let's say you are company A and you want to get a loan against your property from Bank B. You bought it last year for $500M. Today you tell the bank it's worth 900B. The bank has every right to say.. uh, we need an independent audit from one of these firms before we will accept that much price appreciation and do business at that valuation.

All businesses can do that whenever they want. If they don't require an independent audit, they are taking on a bit more risk, because you are trusting the customer(company A here) to not lie to you.

But it's mostly not practical because independent audits can take a lot of time, and there are only so many auditors out there. Sure if there was more demand prices would go up and more auditors would enter the business, eventually, but it takes time to onboard.
Honestly?

I would lean in to some of the ideas coming out of Japan. Like a business dying old clothes black, to give them a new look [1]. There are also ways of patching holes with decorative fabric / elaborate darning that have their own aesthetic (and there are plenty of sewing/CNC embroidery/quilting machines that let you do this at medium scale)

[1] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/zerowaste/20230714/209...
I'm not really sure what "succumbed to modernity" means in this context. World life expectancy went from 46 years in 1950 to 72.63 in 2020 to 73.16 in 2023. Is that the right metric to look at? If it is, succumbing to modernity doesn't sound too terrible.
I wonder if AGI can easily see the levers.

“If you want to slow down the economy by 15% then raise interest rates by n basis points, have these 4 people from your senior admin do a press tour, leak the following information ‘accidentally’ on YouTube, and wait 8 to 10 weeks for results”.
This doesn't have much to do with your being self-taught, IMO, it's probably a feature of your personality. I have such analysis paralysis sometimes, though not as much as you, I think.

The real answer is probably that you should pursue whichever subject of CS/programing/tech interests you. If you want a fast, reasonable answer, why not just go the curriculum route? It should serve as a foundation for anything else you may learn.
> If you’re getting £1000 extra a month and I say your rent is now £1000 extra a month

Two people, each making an extra 1000 a month become roommates and collectively they have an extra 500 a month. If landlords try to exploit this, make it illegal for them to ask about extra roommates (within reason).

Another positive market wide force that isn't accounted for is the added safety net will enable more businesses to start and enter the market and ensure that companies are competing. When markets become small and filled with old companies, those companies can form a nefarious "trust" where they collude and stop competing. It's like the Christmas Truce of WW1; opposing forces gradually lessened hostilities for mutual benefit, trust was built, and eventually both sides went into no-mans-land, exchanged food and prisoners, and even played games. This doesn't happen if there's a fresh flow of new soldiers through the trenches, a trust can never form and actions for mutual benefit never happen. It's good when soldiers in WW1 achieve trust and use it for peace, it's bad when a few companies in a stagnant market achieve trust and use it to cease competition (aka, collusion).
People have been developing “safer” C/C++ extensions for literally decades. Very few of them have caught on, and those that did are usually in niche applications. Rust is the best shot at a safe C/C++ replacement language.

Buffer overflows should be relatively easy to avoid in modern code, but some C programmers insist on doing handrolled calculations for buffer sizes that wind up being wrong (the WebP vuln was a great example of this), and not having buffer length checks because they assume their calculations are right (it’s faster!).

But buffer overflows are a small part of the vulnerability space. For instance, memory allocation bugs, like double free/use-after-free are much more insidious with large codebases, and harder to detect due to problems like unclear or undocumented ownership. C doesn’t provide any mechanism for communicating ownership or lifetime information for all but the simplest objects, leaving this up to the programmer to manage.
Even so, it's still a Tesla. You guys are missing the point Porsche built its brand and following around (I don't care either way, I'm not target for either brand). There are ridiculous tuned and overpowered Golfs out there with same claims (speed, handling, whatever), yet at the end of the day it's still a Golf. There are Porsche classics for a reason, there are no Tesla classics for a reason.
I feel you are seeing it wrong. You are feeling anger where it wasn't meant to be.

The way I read these types of comments is trying to reframe typical human actions in an "impartial " light. Everybody knows kids should go yk school, if someone dared to say otherwise people would jump to "cancel" them because "think of the children". So trying to put the argument in a different light to avoid the knee-jerk reactions helps drive conversation.

I hate that English is not my first language, so my argument here surely reads somewhat funky.
By this logic we shouldn't be allowed to drive them either, considering that enables a user to commit murder if not mass murder

...although I expect that to actually be a law once self driving is figured out and widespread
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