skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have an interesting definition of "middle class" if you think middle class people can take on an extra 25 thousand dollar yearly expense.

Petit bourgeois people very often can.

If by “middle class” you mean “around median income”, which is mostly people firmly in the working class (a use of “middle class” invented to beutralize working class solidarity rather than reflecting any real class distinction), then, well, no, they probably can't.
Russia tricks US actors into appearing in propaganda videos
If their experience was like mine someone from the ISP showed up unannounced and just started putting a hole in their house. They then called the ISP to ask if this was legit, and the response was "we can't answer that for you, maybe you should call the cops".

In this case, yeah, it would be unprofessional and they'd be pissed :)
If anyone else is going to read Nona, I strongly recommend you read it immediately after Harrow and immediately before Alecto. And keep a Pynchon-style notebook. Neither I nor a friend could make heads or tails of what was going on without drawing a diagram.

Gideon is amazing. Harrow is amazing. Both are good casual reads. Nona is far more demanding of the reader.
That's all fine, and I wouldn't dispute any of that. I'm just surprised at the anger here over a situation where we have essentially no information other than that some guys ate sushi without the rice. If they had the restaurant's permission, then that's between them and the restaurant.
Absolutely! We're working on it
Unlike the wildly successful US model, where everything is made elsewhere and the majority of the population is one major illness away from bankruptcy. Sorry junior, no tertiary education for you.
I don't like it very much, but every single small-to-medium non-IT company I have seen runs on Windows. Sometimes they require Windows specifically because of third-party software (SCADA/industrial automation for example), more often it's just that Windows is the "default" that people know and use, due to network effects.
Play Store has a no questions asked refund window, but it is very small.
You're the one who opened with "it may initially cost, like, trillions of dollars to do this in the lab the first couple of times" for the bonkers lithium nuclear synthesis idea, before moving the goalposts all the way to "If there's a working Lithium-from-seawater extraction facility fully operating and producing Lithium at scale as of the current date -- then I have yet to see it."

The bench process is https://electrek.co/2021/06/04/scientists-have-cost-effectiv...

>> First you make it work -- then you make it cheap.

^ We are at step 1.

Some nuclear fusion people are proposing using lithium as an input. Guess where they're saying they'll get it from. https://news.newenergytimes.net/2022/01/08/lithium-lithium-e...
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of PR
Hermès Created Europe's Biggest Family Fortune After Spurning LVMH
This is really one of the core 'hidden' costs. Apartments are almost universally owned by some large real estate developer like Greystar and they all share the same pricing scheme. When I lived in Austin during COVID my rent spiked by around 40%, despite nothing else changing. The area wasn't being built up, it was nowhere near the core of Austin. So apartment prices are way above what they actually should be, and companies will gladly hold onto empty apartments in order to artificially raise prices according to their internal pricing algorithm.

This in turn has massive downstream effects for how close people can live to work, how much money is spent on gas or maintenance and general earnings.

There's also the rising cost of food, the gutting and destruction of local businesses (see: Bartell's Drugs) and so forth.
Regular homebuyers would not pay extra thousands dollar for proper network project.

Unfortunately if you want a decent network - then do it yourself.
It's a very odd definition in the world of software though, even games. Hope they're not holding their breath for World of Warcraft or Factorio to be finished. God forbid they need an operating system. I guess OS/2 would make the cut :-)
Has BRT in SF increased ridership?
tl;dr one user asks GrokAI for the draft tweets of another user and it happily complies. Author of drafts confirms they are real.

Maybe Elon has an even more liberal take on free speech than we thought, in that your private writings ought to be free for others to read

In all seriousness, this is quite the security or access control lapse.
we know that, the people who make those boxes know that. However the people installing network in most houses don't know that: they see a box in a useful location for having switches and think "I'll just put everything in there" even though that box is in a bad location for wifi and is metal.
Oooh, now that's fascinating. What you say is known because of update logs wasn't in the article that I recall. Could you kindly provide a reference to where you learned this part of the story? Thanks!
Office 365 + Azure AD/Entra + onprem sync + Intune
It's not a problem where I live (Poland). If you're worried about it, you can show the content of your bag to security as you enter the store, and also carry receipt from the previous store.
you are right and wrong. in the long term, a stone at the bottom of sea was considered wealth. the only thing that changed was to whose name the stone was attached in the village records.
There's absolutely no reason at all for anyone to possess more than a couple of million bucks. Anything over that should be taxed at 95%.
Why should government investigate whether their employees practice pseudo-biological bullshit?
For anyone looking for a "dark mode" solution: https://www.jetpens.com/Etranger-di-Costarica-Blanc-de-Noirs...
> Can't we have a language that is more verbose and explicit, not less?

What's wrong with the old verbose languages?
Maybe it just takes longer for the market to react. Selling farming equipment has a local component to it: you need local dealers and a robust service network. Countries also tend have protectionist policies about the market, since farming is of strategic importance. All of this slows down the expansion of competitors. Add to that that the average lifetime of farming equipment is very high.

The ~10 years that John Deere has shown this behavior might just be too little for the market to adjust.
https://archive.ph/IOgH9

interesting quote:

“We don’t look too much at the competition because we might be influenced."
"The group I belong to is obviously right and the other group is obviously wrong"

Forcibly hiding away the nature of the call shifts the priorities from easy concurrency especially when there are multiple calls in-flight to only logically sequential code being convenient to write with all other options requiring significantly more boilerplate (which is the case for both Go and Java).

It is a tradeoff, and I think it is a bad one for the domain that both Java and Go are usually applied to. Java had to retrofit a GT approach because async/await would be unfeasible at this point. It was a good choice in the context, but maybe not so if one were to reinvent it from the ground up.

On the other hand, Go took a similar route but for completely different reasons - it was specifically tailor made to first and foremost solve Google issues with internal dev culture and scaling of the organization (e.g. syntax styling being the function visibility modifier) and strictly prioritized being as quick to on-board as possible.

It resulted in Go being a language that is, as someone neatly put it here on HN, "Newbie friendly but professional unfriendly". This is further evidenced by the amount of surrounding code generation tooling and code written in DSL required to maintain an average complex project written in Golang (remember the HN post on a multi-million dollar project in dev hours to just work around Go's issues with nils?), something that is often a sign of inherent language limitations or its overall inadequacy (e.g. the criticism regarding C#'s source generators/interceptors or Java Lombok is valid because they exist for the same reason).
Pleasantly surprised by this. Finally some real investment in high speed rail. The LA to Las Vegas high speed line seems like an obvious mistake, though. Definitely excited about the northeast corridor improvements. They say the Downeaster line is going to be improved, but no details. I wish the Downeaster went further up the coast of Maine.

edit: Looks like the Downeaster could get extended to Rockland. Neat! https://www.wabi.tv/2023/12/08/downeaster-could-extend-furth...
Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image
Attention is shared. It's ~30% of params here. So ~2B params are shared between experts and ~5B params are unique to each expert.
Seems pretty typical. 2000-2008 clocked in at ~1.8% real wage growth according to your source.
Are executable methods really that bad? I mean, they're bad in some abstract sense but that seems more like an objection if we were talking about a "safe" language like Rust than talking about shell scripting. For a shell executable methods seem fine. If you don't make the method executable people are just going to use eval() anyway, might as well do the more predictable thing.
(I) see no advantages for using Clojure instead of Java on the JVM

To be blunt, I think that says more about you than it says about Clojure. A good engineer should always see the tradeoffs.
Would you still have a viable product if GitHub decides to performance-optimize their action runners?

I get that performance is important, and if MS puts their weight behind it I can see them fixing their stuff and basically removing the market for 3rd party solutions.

Or is this maybe a “hey MS buy us?” thing?
> wealth measured in fiat money, which is worthless in long term

It’s measured in fiat money *at a given point in history.
> Zero Covid was a pipe dream all along

More recently, "Zero COVID" has come to mean something completely different from the original notion of "strict lockdowns" -

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/11jvg19...

It's an individual choice that people can make to put their health above the demands of capital and other pressures.
> It's not perfect though. ls had support, but it was removed for reasons

In specific:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=32810...

> libxo imposes a large burden on system utilities. In the case of ls, that burden is difficult to justify -- any language that can interact with json output can use readdir(3) and stat(2).

Which rather misses the point of being able to use JSON in shell scripts.
It doesn't have to be perfect. If you had an opening by the baseboard on major walls, you could run through conduit to get to the right room, and then tack a cord along the baseboard and up corners of walls until you got to the right place, the same way most people wire their TV/media room right now. The main issue is running cords through doorways, which keeps them from closing and is a tripping hazard. People can live with cable ties as long as you get most of the run hidden.
Yes, companies constantly fire their American customers due to their nationality, or refuse to take Americans as new customers. (Banking and finance, in particular). Now, that's not a moral stance about American wars, it's just the natural outcome of the regulatory environment.

The original message from Hetzner suggests that this is also some kind of compliance issue rather than being driven by some kind of individual opposition to the war.
Just getting freight railroad operators to follow existing law that gives passenger trains priority would improve things significantly. We could also upgrade existing track and trains to get top speeds of 125 and we would see large benefits for many regions.
Paul Graham:

Well, well, well. That felt coordinated. Turns out it was.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1733146138226614465?ref_src...
Considering that the situation this was named after had _very_ specific timing, state and sensor values coded in a defeat device, I'd say that having the mapped the gps coordinates of your competitors im the firmware of your product is pretty damning.

Nevermind the poorly executed "if day => 21, month => 11, year => 2021", which was conveniently setting a failure which wasn't actually present.

It'a probably not that simple, but it's not that complicated either. If you make something engineered to fail without there being a failure present, that's clear malice.

Imagine buying a car, you own it until the warranty runs out and the the manufacturer's workshop moves (say there was a fire/flood/sinkhole/industrial disaster, and they had to) and the car would refuse to move since it's not being serviced at the official location anymore.
There are companies making faucets as bad as that. Places like WalMart sell them for cheap ($30). However no builder or professional plumber will touch them - they know that spending $200 on a good faucet is worth it.
> think the worst part is the lack of incentive to actually learn about the OS, or how to use it, let alone holistic best practices for system administration.

I have been out of Windows systems engineering for a while, but this was certainly not the case say 20 years ago.

The operating systems and best practices were well documented (via official Microsoft Press books) and back then MCSE certification actually let you learn some in depth stuff (if you wanted to).
There are different kinds of homelessness.

Sleeping rough is what you seem to be most sensitive to, but a lot of homelessness is crashing on friends’ couches and sleeping in cars.
Smurf tubes!

https://www.lowes.com/pl/Electrical-non-metallic-tubing-ent-...

You don't even need wire pulls, you can just push cat5 through 3/4 ENT tubes and expect it to pop out the other side.
Speaking about the US only (w/o actual data to back it up, just a feeling over the last year) is that lower-wage jobs have been on the rise out of the sheer necessity for businesses to attract warm bodies. Folks in the middle (low-middle -> high-middle( have had their wages depressed and lowered while the wealthiest individuals have had no impact or have seen their wages increased at or beyond inflation. The combination of very wealthy folks doing better and the lower income earners having higher wages has created dissonance around the reporting in the overall health of the economy IME.
See section 5.2, "Can’t people transfer the bacterium among themselves without paying Lantern?"
Yeah, I've been a software engineer for almost 20 years and I've never had an 'IPO-style windfall' (and don't see how that's going to happen in the next ten years either, unless I join a unicorn startup). Closest I've ever gotten to that is a $10k bonus one year. That definitely doesn't count.

I've been an early employee at two startups also, they just didn't pan out.

If I don't get that in one of the more well-paid professions, then I don't see how a teacher, or a janitor, or a waitress, etc, would ever get one.
We’re talking about wealth, not money. If you buy a house $1M and a few years later it’s worth $1.4M, your wealth went up by $400k but it’s hardly taxeable unless you sell the house.
All I want is conduit for my Ethernet. When they're spraying up every cubic centimeter of the walls with insulation and fire proofing it gets super hard to maintain or run/re-run any cable
Perhaps, but the scientists involved went from "whale songs are like groans" to "whale songs are like talking". The 'breakthrough' they were describing is that visibility into a complex, and repeatable, substructure to the songs shows that those songs could contain more complex "words." If you have ever tried to communicate by groaning only (which an acquaintance of mine was forced to do while recovering in the ICU once) there are very limited things you can say, and it often reduces to you asking questions and them producing a "yes" groan, or a "no" groan. They can't 'tell' you a whole lot.

As a result of their research they are getting closer to the underlying structure (which others will look for in other species of whales) and with that they may be able create situations where they could start testing the concepts that might be in that structure. That sounds kind of breakthroughish to me :-)
thank you, I always wondered why the word used for that stuff was just its actual name in Japanese. I've never heard it referred to as kani-kamaboko, despite being quite familiar with kamaboko (i guess, just the generic term for that pink tinted rubbery roll of fish) itself. This makes a lot of sense.

However, aren't some types of imitation crab not kamaboko at all but a kind of fish fillet processed with crab juice to give it that flavor?

I actually dislike the taste of crab so I am not all that familiar with the options.
> Also racism is very well convoluted in Europe. American race hierarchies don't help.

Then use European race dynamics. Or even better, use local national race dynamics. But you can't do that if you don't collect data or make any effort to understand national race dynamics.

It absolutely does not follow that "Because American race dynamics =/= European race dynamics", therefore "there's no point in considering race dynamics in police action."

Worst case scenario, you spend tax money proving that people don't practice racism in France. That'd be a hell of a discussion point.
I can't imagine browsing sites without an adblocker.
I wish data was published by decile instead of just mean or median averages.

Another thing that confounds people is that they are comparing themselves to a certain socioeconomic class not well represented in the data.

For example, if you are on this forum, you are probably in the socioeconomic class that works for well funded businesses, and own equity in the public markets, and even more so, equity in the most profitable portions of the public equity markets.

That means if you are competing for goods and services (including land) with people who have those characteristics, then your perceived rate of inflation is going to be very different than someone who is competing with people in different socioeconomic classes.

For example, a lifestyle that involves eating avocados regularly, flying at least a few times per year, and most importantly, buying land in a region where other people in the top 10% or 20% are also competing to buy land.
One thing I battled with in iA Writer is its objection to adverbs and adjectives. Eventually I came to appreciate its position, realizing that they add little value to text.
Strong points. In addition to being better for the real paying customers, it also has anti-abuse protection baked in. Seems like a no-brainer to me to go with a 24 hour return period
Sometimes things are not as simple as they seem
Good thing this would have no impact on home values. Hedge funds getting involved is a symptom, not a cause. Hedge funds buy properties *because* home values go up due to limited supply. The only thing that can lower housing prices is a dramatic increase in supply.
What about it? That line started running at 110mph a few months ago.

The Chicago region only got about 15% of what it asked for, and notably they didn't include funding for a few smaller projects that would have combined to shave 20-30 minutes off of almost half of all long-distance Amtrak trains.

They literally refused to fund a project to double-track a 1-mile section of track on the south side of Chicago (on a 4-track wide right of way) that causes delays to every single Amtrak route between Chicago and the east coast.

There's a 13(?) mile long section of single track in Michigan (that Amtrak owns!), and is the largest source of delay for all Chicago-Detroit trains. And they refused add a second track, which the right of way already has room for.
Yeah it seems like a cultural thing whereas some people want to shop a little bit every day and driving is a hassle, others (like me) want to shop once a week or two and be done with it. Driving is not an issue, as I work and exercise from home.
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This is it, there are many ways to get there. The 48-volt architecture is achievable with four 12-volt lead acid batteries in series, or thirteen lithium-ion cells in series at their nominal 3.7-volts, or fifteen LiFePo4 cells in series at their nominal 3.2 volts. You can ask for any of these to manufacture a 48-volt vehicle.
For what it's worth, I was born and raised in the Bay Area (in the 90s), and we called it ro-sham-bo growing up. Although it's incredibly strange to see that word in writing, I would always call it rock paper scissors if I were to write it.
Interesting. One thing i noticed is that Mistral has a `max_position_embeddings` of ~32k while these have it at 4096.

Any thoughts on that?
By default, headscale doesn't have a web interface/login as such and all configuration is done via the CLI on the server running headscale. So, your login is effectively PAM. You use authkeys etc to add machines.
I believe they’ll get there eventually, but why demo something that so clearly doesn’t exist yet? I feel this will only serve to set false expectations on features & timelines. I just don’t see the upside. Perverse internal incentives? Straight up temp stock manipulation?
AI and the New Iron Curtain: Europe's Technology Challenge Beyond Cookie-Banners
The European Union Parliament's strict stance on artificial intelligence (AI) raises concerns about its impact on Europeans, particularly our youth immersed in digital technologies. Europe's historical lag in digital innovation and absence of major tech companies means most apps and platforms are made by non-EU firms increasingly using AI. This integration of AI might result in these apps becoming inaccessible in the EU, posing a significant risk to the region's digital landscape.
Memory pressure is even worse on GPUs. I did some work to generalize Blelloch to 2D parallel prefix sums for integral image computation back in 2008 [1], and the number of memory accesses really dominates. On a GPU, for sufficiently small problems the number of passes matters more, and it is worth using a simpler, non-work-efficient algorithm to reduce setup overheads.

[1] https://people.xiph.org/~tterribe/pubs/gpusurf.pdf Section III.A
I am looking for PCB designers with RF experience. If this is what you're good at, please reach out
Sentiment is not rational in this way.

Ownership of a house is one of the major milestones of life. If many people are being prevented from achieving it, they are going to say things are bad.
> people who don't know how to program OR write parsers

there are plenty of programmers who do not know how to write lexers, parsers, and grammars
You are lucky, my first network was RG58 (coax), and my second was cat-3 cable (10baseT). They didn't age well. I switch to cat-5 as soon as it was an option and luckily that has aged better.
Here is a bad dramatization, er "extrapolation", starring Meryl Streep, of where this could lead if we ever do gain real understanding of whalespeak.

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/2046-whale-fall/umc.cmc.2gda...
IMO corporate ownership isn't bad as corporations rent housing to individuals who can't afford mortgages. Let's say corporations are 100% banned from the housing market. 85% of Americans cannot qualify for a mortgage, where would they live?
Aren't LLM benchmarks at best irrelevant, at worst lying, at this point?