skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a 50% rise in vacancy rate, which is literally not nothing.

It has impacted the market for office building construction. Offices are starting to feel like malls: they exist and serve a function, but aren't strictly necessary.
The video game industry is larger than the Film, Music, Book, or TV industries. It's hugely popular with passionate fans, I would say yes.
If it's gravel they are transporting it's obviously their fault, it's the responsibility of the driver to secure the load (with some blame falling on truck companies for providing insufficient equipment).

If it's random gravel from the road it's more understandable. But even then the driver is very much responsible for the mud guards on the truck they are operating, just as the police would write a ticket to the driver for worn down tires or broken lights.
What good is my DNA without a real identity attached to it?
If saving people from malnutrition is your concern, good news; it’s still a problem today.

Perhaps we could all spend less time generating empty rhetoric online and more time engaged in what we claim to be via logic, our real concerns

It feels really disingenuous when all the pearl clutching office workers go home to video games not a soup kitchen. Spend their weekends hiking not nursing the sick, fixing poorer people’s homes.

Modern day infantilized office worker crowd is the most off putting group of people I’ve ever encountered.
> constant malnutrition the norm rather than the exception so

it was not an easy life, for sure. but, "constant malnutrition" is also incorrect.
"While there are many OSS for Loading personal data, they dont do images or videos"

Local models for images are getting pretty good.

LLaVA is an LLM with multi-modal image capabilities that runs pretty well on my laptop: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/

Models like Salesforce BLIP can be used to generate captions for images too - I built a little CLI tool far that here: https://github.com/simonw/blip-caption
Nobody at Apple would want to work on a second-class citizen app. That's why they'd acquire a company to do it and maintain it.
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In this case, it really does look like that's how the author is trying to incorrectly frame hunter gatherer societies. No doubt they had fun, but work was life and death. They had no way to stockpile food, so just getting enough calories for a small group required frequent work where the stakes were whether you starved or not. A lot of the remains we've found of early man portray a complex, meaningful world nonetheless full of hardship (famine, malnutrition) and violence (e.g. bones broken by accident, or crushed/chipped by weapons). Modern hunter gatherer societies are not substantively different: they have populations limited by what their proximate environment can support, not because they want it that way but because that's all that can be practically sustained.
Even if that may be the case - I do believe that the author has written something worth reading. Even if you disagree with the conclusions in the article, having exposure to her perspective is ultimately a positive in that it at least gets us thinking.
> ELI5: Why?

A bit of this is like things being described in unlike manner, a bit is fundamentally different situations (needs and relative scale.) A person needs at least one home, and rarely has more than one. If they shed one because they can't afford the mortgage—whether or not that is a good financial decision—they still need a new one.

A commercial landlord that sheds their Nth property still has N-1, and can continue working as a commercial landlord without a problem.

Also, a homeowner that does a deed in lieu, short sale, been foreclosed on, etc., on a home loan has probably had forgiven or defaulted on a lot greater share of either their income/revenue or total debt than a commercial landlord that sheds the Nth property for similar reasons.

But generally, not dragging out an unmanageable loan and cutting the bleeding via short sale or deed in lieu where practical is considered prudent for individual borrowers with home loans.

Does it hurt your credit? Sure. But that's a temporary thing, and wirth shedding the drag on your finances for in many cases.
Agree with all this. One additional thing for me is I think it's fun to be playing a game while it's hot and part of "the conversation", rather than after everyone has moved on to something else and I'm just playing catchup. Just another point in favor of forgetting the concept of a backlog entirely.
The elephant is the room is that drug addicts are present in large number, they cannot hold onto housing and they cause incredible damage in the cities where they congregate, to themselves and to the community.

For as long as we keep ignoring this, we are stuck in nuances.

These people don't want to get better, so we need to mandate treatment (and give them one of the many available supportive housing units after accepting treatment) or - if they refuse treatment - relocate them where they cause no harm other than themselves. Might as well call it a "government-assisted suicide" campus, because this is what it already is in every major American city nowadays. Today, we are literally letting them die on our streets.

Nobody in modern public discourse is complaining about homeless in the context of a regular Joe bad on his luck, who after a while - with dignity and hard work - goes back to a stable life. We should give our all to him and homeless like him.
Thanks!

What are your thoughts on this model of promoting breakthrough innovation?

How to fund Breakthrough Innovations in Science (Puja Ohlhaver @ DeSci.Berlin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guLDNMAOn24

Puja has a few talks on such things, many very related and worth listening to imho. But most relevant: she's been working on a mechanism design to use quadratic funding in an existing hierarchy to move funding power from funders to on-the-ground researchers who best predict "breakthrough research" areas -- i.e. at which intersections. This idea of "breakthrough innovation" is objectively measured and rewarded as "research that becomes highly cited, and which draws together disparate source citations that have never before appeared together."

So the idea is that in successive funding rounds, funding power slowly accrues in the people who best predict where research innovation will appear. Even if that turns out to be *gasp* grad students.

(I'm particularly interested to see Polis, a "wiki survey" tool I've been using since 2016, be used as one of the signals in such a system. It can help make the landscape of beliefs and feelings that ppl bring to the process more legible, especially at the collective level. Which is important, because high-dimensional "feeling data", when placed out-of-scope in other systems, are often a reason why we get trapped in local minima of innovation that inhibit the recombination of ideas.)
Same for all blatantly obvious scams that I report to Instagram or Facebook, all stay on and they say didn't break any policies... They're nasty
Germans have a ultra-wealthy upper class which own everything and skew net wealth figures massively. The bottom 50% of German residents by net wealth have nearly nothing compared to those in a similar situation in neighboring EU countries.

PDF Page 6

Table A3 Net wealth medians - breakdowns

EUR thousands

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/pdf/research/hfcn/HFCS_Statis...
What about xcp-ng?
Ranked-choice voting, is a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

But Tennessee outlawed this voting method, last legislative cycle. So all they needed to do was redefine "fair elections" and —presto— they've saved their constituency from the nuissance of actual choice... [smell that, Mericuh'... it's the smell of "freedom"].
Have you ever personally known someone addicted to hard drugs? I've known several. They can't continue living in a house or apartment with other non addicted people. They would steal literally everything to sell for drugs. Losing their housing is something that happens to every drug addict. Of course their use escalates from there, but it's an early milestone common to all.
Something I've learned as I've dived a bit into fine-tuning is that it's really hard. I even have what I think is good data, and a lot of it. But, as a non-ML engineer who just wants to use these tools as good APIs (and someone with the ability to ensure I have a coherent data pipeline), I woulnd't know how to proceed if I wasn't already working with an ML engineer who's been doing this sort of stuff for a while.

Specifically, I fine-tuned gpt-3.5 and llama-2-7b on some real-world usage data, and I can't tell a single difference between the quality of these outputs compared to "base" gpt-3.5 with the same requests made to it. Moreover, if I attempt to remove a lot of the "static" sections of a prompt (after all, there's 2k+ lines of data it was fine-tuned on where this is all present), both models just go completely off the rails.

I'd love to get into a world where I can fine-tune a bunch of different models. But it's so, so much harder than just calling OpenAI's API and getting really good results with that and some prompting work. If you're able to help crack that nut then there's a lot of people like me who would pay money to have their problems solved.
on that note Google Meet is also confusing in a similar way

https://i.imgur.com/H66aXTU.png

The "phone down hang up" button means press to get what is pictured

The "crossed out mic" button means press to get the opposite of what is pictured
That it's a proprietary system and Beeper reverse engineered it
I think E3 was on its way out regardless. Nintendo dropped out of E3 years before COVID even happened. I attended a few years and it seemed like the bigger publishers such as Activision kept downsizing their presence at the event. COVID accelerated things for sure, but I imagine the end result would be the same.
It would be great if your tool was available in Homebrew.
I pay 59.99 before tax with "500/500" that is more realistically 140/140 with cox. and that's after negotiating for a 2-year contract. :(
Oh, I understand.

What if you have an idea and you tell the computer to implement it and then thoroughly check the code?

About the self-improvement part, I suppose you don't operate your graphics card yourself, but delegate it to your driver.

The LLM is just another tool.
All: if you're going to comment in this thread, please do not do so in the spirit of battle. The latter is off topic here, and the last thread HN had about this did not do well enough at keeping to the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Instead, ask first whether you can find a place of compassion in yourself before commenting. If you can't, that's understandable, but then please don't post. By compassion I mean something more spacious than angry identification.

I'm not saying that this is the purpose of HN (we're not aiming quite that high) but I do think it's the only way to touch a topic like this without destroying that purpose, which is thoughtful, curious conversation. It may be nearly impossible to relate to such a topic from such a place, but nearly != entirely, and it's part of HN's mandate to try. Consider this an experiment, or perhaps an advanced exercise, in community.
I've always seen it as I/O and thought of it as In and Out - makes sense to me but English is not my native language.
It's usually time. I knew a guy that "worked" at Walmart. His job was collecting the carts. He would clock in, then go on about his day. When it was time to clock out, he would drive back and clock out.

It took 8 months for the store to realize this and fire his butt.
In his case, it was a meeting. It was an All Hands, his timecard showed he was clocked in, but never appeared at the meeting.
The heat shield is not ablative. You are simply wrong.
No mention of Australia?
At the end of the day, the big thing that killed it was that companies realised they didn't need a massive event in the middle of summer to advertise their games, and could run their own events year around. Stuff like Nintendo Directs, State of Plays and Xbox Game Showcases can be held at fairly short notice, are much cheaper than hiring out part of a hall and have less that can go wrong than a stage presentation would.

When the only news sources are magazines and physical media and the internet isn't as big of a deal, something like E3 makes sense. In the modern era of YouTube and Twitch and livestreams? Not so much.

Pre Covid the whole networking and meeting other developers and publishers aspect kept it going, but once everyone was locked in and events were cancelled, well it was basically just a more expensive Direct or something.

So sadly, it's no surprise it's finally died off.
In the stoic tradition, I don't compare myself to others, only compare to who I was yesterday, and if I didn't get better, then it's a hard fail. So my resolution is to continuously improve from the day before.
Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean health insurance companies don't find loopholes, and consider fines when they get caught as the cost of doing business. See this series of articles[1] for some of their criminal shenanigans.

It's more than likely that they would use genetic data to deny insurance, and then settle the cases in court if they happen to get sued, which statistically is probably a rare occurrence.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/series/uncovered
So they've basically done it for you. Primary sensitive information is about is predisposition to hereditary disease. That's the same for you and your siblings.
Harvester has been great for me, except when I wanted to start using a real SAN with it. It's KubeVirt under the hood if I recall correctly, which is also a great project to check out.
Is this true, though? After seeing enough bone-headed management decisions, I wonder if the bosses even know or care about documentation when making decisions to fire someone.

From my point of view, the lack of documentation might be a reason to fire someone.
Also mud flaps
Meanwhile in Switzerland:
here is 25gbit symmetrical for like 75 USD a month
> In capitalism capital is producing value and owners get rewarded.

Define "value".

Capitalist apologists will swear up and down that it's about creating value for customers. That is, creating something that people will want to buy/use.

I think that's incredibly naive and idealistic. The goal is simply to get rich (and for some, being in the top 10 riches in the world isn't enough). Producing something consumers will buy/use is nothing more than a means that must be optimized for maximum profit. Corporations will reduce value to customers when it results in greater profits.

> How is destroying a platform making tons of money capitalism?

Because it creates more profits, and that's all capitalism is. Maximizing profits.

That's really it. It really is that simple. Call me cynical if you'd like.

> The whole thing is caused by "shortermism" & "managerialism".

IMO, those are by-products of capitalism. Create short-term profits at the cost of long-term profits and bail out after you've made your money and let someone else hold the bag.

If anybody cared about long-term profits, then earnings reports would be every 3 years rather than every 3 months.
A Humorous Look into Internet Country Codes
It takes effort to manage a remote team.

It's possible to coast by looking for superficial signs your team is busy when everyone is in the office.

In fact, that same effect goes all the way up: You'll find higher management sometimes look for idiotic signs in their reports, such as whether they see them walking the floor. So then of course a lot of managers will be walking the floors and using looking for signs people are busy as a management technique. One of the few times I've ever gotten dinged in performance reviews was in one of my early roles managing a team when I was told I wasn't being seen being visible enough. There were no issues with productivity or deliverables, or staff retention or anything else - I wasn't seen engaging in the rituals that were expected. So after that I made an effort to walk around the office now and again, and all was well and nothing gained, except my reviews improved.

Once teams of managers who bought into this approach are suddenly remote these people are forced to learn how to actually manage for outcomes, and that is a big step change in difficulty and effort.

In other words, expect the most resistance in organizations where managers have not been used to managing remote staff members and so have never been forced to learn or get used to the skills.
The two big hits for me this year have been Baldur's Gate and Armored Core. Both are by devs with a good track record. But I can definitely see the argument that there is a lot of samey crap. Activision seems to be on an annual release cadence for Call of Duty now. Its already come full circle by remaking the modern warfare trilogy. Starfield was a disappointment, Bethesda seems stuck in 2003. There's the endless stream of sports titles which really should be their own category of entertainment. They are so divorced from the rest of the video game market.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that interference with business operations in general is a crime in Japan. You will sometimes see in their media people asking others to leave a store under the threat that failure to comply would result in being reported to police for interfering with their businesses. It seems quite logical that this would extend to things to interfere with businesses that do AI training.
Flagrant? It doesn't seem that way: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/allegations-pl...

It seems more like Rufo, the NY Post, etc., are trying to stir the pot (which happens to have only very thin gruel).
You know, I always used to think that e.g. Amazon talking about “customer obsession” was stupid. Of course a business is focused on its customers? That’s where the money comes from?

Then I got to see the conversation about subscriptions at VMware. The storyline was always “wouldn’t it be great for us if we switched to subscriptions? Look how good all the math gets!” The customer barely appeared as a background character.

Especially entertaining when it came to things like PWS. After the acquisition VMware shut it down — because it didn’t have any real customers — and then in the push to subscriptions the new folks in charge of TAS were like “Great idea everyone! What if we provided Cloud Foundry… as a Service!” The engineers who had been around long enough to see the whole cycle tried to explain but I don’t think it got through.
I can't speak for Tennessee, but I bet it's like most parts of the country. In my county we have something on the order of 37000 voters. Roughly 6000 voted in the last election. I ran two different campaigns and that meant our win number was just north of 3000. We have a relatively small population under 50 -- and none of them vote. Almost every problem in my county - housing, limited job prospects, etc -- can be traced to the morons that are in office. So, I'm recruiting the heck out of candidates, rebuilding the infrastructure to get them elected, running campaigns, etc. So yeah, the parent poster isn't wrong - you gotta get people out to vote, but you are right to that you've got to be a force for change in the overall system too.

EDIT: Realized I should have noted that while we have 37000 voters, our population is around 62000... so even getting people registered to vote is a major need.
> There's also a question of geography when it comes to places like Montana and Idaho compared to the rest of the country.

Duh. OP wasn't talking about cell service out in the boonies, they were talking about cell service in "big cities." Geography is not a concern in the case of cities in these states. The Bay area's geography is much more extreme than 99% of cities in WY/MT/ID. I've spent time in those states in the last few years (vanlife) and the cell service in cities is atrociously oversubscribed on Verizon. I have all three carriers, and surprisingly T-Mobile has great service (in the cities out there at least.)
Living in Phoenix too, I moved off Cox when they instituted their bandwidth caps to CenturyLink, but I can only get DSL here in Peoria, and will likely never get their fiber with the lazy US telco mentality. Still, even with "only" 140mbps down and I think like 3mbps up, I can live with it vs. Cox sending me hate emails and a bill for bandwidth overages every month.

One of my best friends is an engineer at Cox in town, and still quip at him about their silly bandwidth caps. He says it's a topic at every all-hands meeting that even employees are tired of hearing from their friends and family that they hate their bandwidth caps. Cox was one of the last Cable MSO's to actually implement bandwidth caps, but eventually they realized every other scumbag Cable ISP in the country was doing so, that they were leaving too much money on the table. Everyone else is doing it, so why not them too.

It's cool providers have gig speeds now, but if you use all you bandwidth for a month in 3 days to start getting overage charges every month, it isn't cool for long. It took Google Fiber threatening Cox and CL in Phoenix to actually get them to start rolling out FTTH years ago, so at least Google was good for something.
This resonates very strongly with me.

When I lived in the Yukon working as a Software Engineer I got into moose and bison hunting, I help friends build off-grid log cabin houses, I harvested wild berries, caught a freezer full of salmon every year and tried to live the "homestead" life as much as possible. I packed these adventures into weekends and time off.

These activities are physically demanding, cold and arduous. They were also some of the most enjoyable experiences of my life, and they are extremely strong memories that I often talk about and long for.

There is something about working for my own survival that is way, way more deeply satisfying than simply going to work to earn money to pay for my survival.

I wrote about my first ever moose hunting experience here: http://theroadchoseme.com/yukon-moose-hunting

Salmon fishing always involved grizzlies: http://theroadchoseme.com/salmon-fishing-with-bears-in-haine...
ive accepted that most people will never understand this
I was 24 in 2015 and not in tech or as security minded as I am now when I received the test as a Christmas present. Obviously now I wouldn’t have dared do it, but it’s too late. Lacked the foresight at the time.
It was not the same game as the PC version they initially were making though.
Edge functions: Node and native NPM compatibility
Hmm, out of all languages with GC, C# offers lowest level constructs (pointers, tracked references (refs), pure C structs and low/zero-overhead interop)*, which something all other options either don't offer at all, or offer partially or with higher overhead and worse UX. All of these are very useful for interoperating with graphics APIs directly and managing memory manually for performance sensitive code paths.

I don't think these were the reason behind C#'s rise in gamedev historically, but they do ensure it continues to be its mainstay.

*today you can also add powerful SIMD and BLAS-adjacent abstractions to this list, a good showcase of which would be Bepuphysics2 which is a heavily vectorized physics engine written in pure C# that is as fast as PhysX and faster than Jolt (another SIMD-using physics library written in C++)

https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2
More weird weather because of climate change. Heatwaves aswell as extreme cold snaps, no happy medium.
I mean it does look like a shifter of paradigms that businesses are demanding. What's not to like here.
I would go further and state that many probably owe gaming for their tech career. In the dark ages, installing and running a game could take significant technical effort. Scouring forums and looking for magical configuration or patches that could make it work. That technical knowledge builds upon itself.