skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand this is a Python-centric source, but without having done my homework I'd have thought Python wouldn't be a particularly great language for dealing with these low level concerns. Wouldn't it be much easier in C? In java it's as simple as Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()
A large percentage of the population relies on school for childcare. No childcare = no work = no money. A large percentage of those families didn’t have elderly in the home or visiting. For them, in-person school was critical.
They said each application should have its own theme that it supports, which is exactly what libadwaita is. A theme that apps can bundle and force.
very cool idea! i was also very interested in this problem during grad school ... prototyped an approach by hacking CPython, but the code (python 2.6? from 2010 era) has long bitrotted:
https://pg.ucsd.edu/publications/IncPy-memoization-in-Python...
https://pg.ucsd.edu/publications/IncPy-memoization-in-Python...
Not sure how you drew that conclusion, from the original write-up:

"The median wage of those who left the city in 2022 was $49,000, which was 18% less than those who left in 2021.

Among those who left the city in 2022, 64% were non-White, which was higher than the 58% in 2021 and the 62% in 2019 and 2018."
The obligatory xlcd reference https://xkcd.com/538/.

Always the easiest path, defeat the implementation.
The Learning System (2021)
This is mostly a function of population size for a city. NYC is by far the largest city so it makes sense they would also be among the cities getting the most applicants. You'd have to do a trend or growth rate analysis to see what's happening.
>We’ve worked together with the PipeWire and WirePlumber projects to add support for fully automatic and transparent DSP configuration
I just hope this isn't only for apple silicon
>...the topic of conversation among locals, both locals who knew each other and locals who just met one another, was about where they're living, how much their rent is, what kind of battle they had to go through to get the place ...

New Yorkers have been doing this for decades upon decades. When I moved here in the early 2000s I thought it was weird too, but it's totally normal to ask those sorts of questions of each other here. It's been difficult to "make it" here for as long as New York has been New York. My grandmother once told me towards the end of her life about how she and my grandfather had tried to live in NYC back after WWII and how hard it was, how they didn't last long. I didn't even know they had lived anywhere besides the Boston area until then.
What a way to put someone into a box

Edit: maybe they were but they don't "have" to be
Been dealing with this since my 40s. And good luck hiding it on your resume, most application forms these days require dates and even addresses. I am also discriminated against based on location. Some companies won't even interview you unless you are local, even for remote jobs, even if you're willing to relocate.
I have no problem with sacrificing the elderly for the benefit of the kids. A few months of shutdown was reasonable, but shutting schools down for a couple years is too big of a price to pay.

Also, my kids were in daycare the whole time outside of Mar to May 2020, and they were spreading all sorts of viruses just like they were before COVID. How the government chose to allow the most prolific spreaders to congregate day after day, but prevent less prolific spreaders is very inconsistent logic.
Would have been nice if he actually measured the output to verify. Takes 2 seconds with a multimeter. If the adapter is already out of spec, there's no reason why you should trust what is written on the side of the box.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we even know what "collapse" is. Maybe a better way to say it is that arguments about what is collapse are at the root of distinguishing interpretations
Or maybe our inability to collectively act and sacrifice to save over a million people is damning. It absolutely gutted my faith that we'll successfully tackle climate change.
Life2Vec: Using Sequences of Life-Events to Predict Human Lives
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2975478/v1
Really? Compared to what other metropolises?
The “chip” in question could just as easily be a poorly rendered phallus imo
Some devices do require a NRTL (nationally recognized testing laboratory) mark. That could mean UL or TUV or whatever. NFPA 70 will refer to “listed” or “recognized” devices in such cases.
The lesser known but inspiration for some well known authors [1]: [Jack Vance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance).
I can highly recommend "The Demon Princes", "The Cadwal Chronicles" and "Tschai".

[1] Dan Simmons, George R. R. Martin
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts
Crib sheets (i.e. listing various flavors of encryption algorithms) IMO work reasonably well when people have a decent conceptual mindset to start with.

I strive to assume very little when it comes to the knowledge of I meet. With cryptography, even less so. For example, given some developers you interact with, to what degree do they understand encryption versus digesting? I'm not even talking about the details; I'm talking about the big picture of when each is applicable.

So, even before something like a crib sheet of techniques, some people would benefit from something even simpler: an "IF-THEN" flowchart helping them recognize when they want, say, encryption versus digesting versus something else.
There is a guy on YouTube who studied economics and he became a trader on Wallstreet. His opinion is basically that the most realistic career option of an Economist is to work at a central bank or at an investment firm. The ones who work at the central bank can't criticise their employer. There was this Economist Richard Werner who has shown that the causality is from growth to interest. I.e. higher growth leads to higher interest. The problem is that this is at odds with the theory of the central bank lowering interest rates to stimulate the economy. It means that this policy tool is kind of meaningless. The Fed is just following the market. You can't publish this as an economist since it is basically saying "We are incompetent and we don't know what we are doing."
"Man pays $45 billion for company that is almost able to take in more money than it costs to run it."

Pretty impressive for a pure-software play, where the running costs should be barely more than $0.
You’re conflating different situations. Apple has some reasons for why they don’t want to make an Android iMessage app themselves and other different reasons for why they don’t want someone else making an unauthorised Android iMessage app.

I disagree with the former but agree with the latter. I would prefer if Apple made the app but I can also understand why they won’t just trust a random third-party who keeps insulting them and acting entitled to their platform to not turn nefarious or have security holes Apple has no control over.
> and the service have gotten down too

This is a tangent but mid and post pandemic, restaurant service seems to be significantly worse. Prices going up at least makes sense to me, prices are up everywhere, it is what it is and I can still afford to eat out. However, I find rarely do go out to restaurants now and service is a major part of that. Not to mention tipping percentages seems to have inflated on top of prices and for worse service...

I tend to end up at more casual places where I'm ordering at the counter and my food comes out to me (bistro's I guess? I'm not sure what the term is) where I'm mostly on my own after that, getting my own silverware, drinks, napkins, etc.
I can’t either. That dates back to me being a kid before the dawn of the smartphone. It doesn’t need to be a phone — I’ll play guitar while watching TV or work on a hobby coding project. I just need something to do with my hands.

I learned as an adult I have ADHD. I’m high functioning so I never got tested as a kid, but it’s 100% a condition I always had. It made a lot of aspects of my life since childhood make sense.
I would love to compare the results across many languages to find the language concepts that are truly universal and fundamental to all people.

I suspect they will be the “antiquated” or “child-like” concepts identified here: the things that matter to hunter-gatherer people.
Yeah. Between my girlfriend and I who live together (she's also at a FANG), we just barely clear 7 figures. It's easy for us to afford living here, and my commute is a short ten minute bike ride. I barely even ever take the subway, that's how convenient everything is.

The lack of housing isn't displacing people like us, it's displacing people who make less than us. And frankly our building is not nearly luxurious enough as it should be for how much we're paying for it, which is another symptom of the lack of housing construction over the decades (the average housing stock here is too old).
HN seriously needs more "social" engagement.

There should be an always on, all user "chat" beside every page. This will allow the finer co-ordination of reactions to WrongThink and deviancy. When "VR" comes around again, the chat can be made into a 3d avatar environment.

There needs to be cryptocurrency integration. Make "karma" a coin. People will fear down votes more when the cost is real. Could help fund the site too: sell the opportunity to repeatedly down vote thing you don't like.

The lack of "AI" is shocking: there should be a pre-trained model for every user already. Engagement will go up if we remove the friction of the intimidating blank "reply" box; by having it already filled in with the model's suggestions for your comment on a article.

Maybe a strict "real names" policy, too. anonymity encourages independence, playful hypothetical arguments, and Nikki Halley doesn't like it. If we wanna keep the blind nature we could replace usernames with social security numbers. Opaque enough to ignore if you want, but still encouraging Responsible Commenting.

After all of these changes, HN should be ready to become the only possible destination for discussion on the net; dominating all other media. At that point, it will be possible to fire dang, and begin the "monetization" phase of the plan.

(edit: screaming sarcasm throughout)
Which specific laws are not being enforced and which specific political organizations caused this?
I like pasting code into ChatGPT, then saying "Write unit test(s) that demonstrate the bug(s) in this code". I have pre-instructions that say "Show code only. Be concise" to keep it simple. This has resulted in many learnings for me.
"HIRWAY: ...Just music. It allowed some space for my brain to get bored. Another thing that I learned was how much boredom was, like, an essential part of creativity. Maybe boredom is too strong of a word for it, but it's something like..." mindfulness.

I remember hearing Sam Harris (I think) say something to the effect of 'once you reach some stage/awareness of mindfulness, you can never be truly bored.' Like, if you're bored, you're not paying attention. That's stuck with me.
* Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space Series

* Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos Series

* Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries

* Peter F. Hamilton - Void Trilogy

* Liu Cixin - The Three Body Problem (Starts on Earth but goes Interstellar)

* Frank Herbert - Dune

* Joe Haldeman - The Forever War (Earth-based dystopia)
Drug overdoses killed more than covid in NYC in 2021
cost, expense ?

i can buy locks for the doors in my house, but if thieves can break locks, i need the police too to serve as a deterrent. ie, there needs to be a negative incentive for the thieves too.
it didn't happen to a company at all. it happened to their customers. if the CEO faces criminal or civil penalties, or the company does, then it happens to the company.

what makes it worse is Comcat's quasi-monopoly status as a non-optional public utility with, in many areas, no competitors. your only choice is to give away your secrets to a company which will manage them irresponsibly and then act like victims about it.
I'm working on an another similar tool! https://github.com/bablr-lang

A lot like your project but with more of a focus on supporting data structures for incremental editing of programs. Kind of a DOM for code.
Yeah, this definitely gets at something. There's a sizable (or just noisy?) contingent of devs who prioritize activity above actual quality because quality is hard and not immediately measureable (supposedly). And it feels designed to be overtly anti-intellectual, as if the act of engineering is a mostly social act punctuated by the annoying demands made by the compiler, the runtime, and customers.

I suspect it's championed at some places because you're "leveling everyone up."

Follow the incentives.
You are being downvoted but i also wonder what is the demographics of the people that are moving out.
LindySpace?
It is irrelevant what was the original purpose of HTML, what matters is what problems it can solve now.
I love going to my local YMCA because I enjoy seeing the regulars every day and they have everything I need - dumbells, isolation machines, benches and squat racks.
yeah I guess I could compare the output at 0.0 temperature with same prompt using Modelfile and then after using raw mode with my best guess of how the modelfile is creating the raw data it's passing to Ollama.

I'd push a PR to the repo itself but I have zero experience with Go...
Where do you think I found out about the necessity to install either of those things in the first place?

If Wayland only JustWorks on systemd-based systems that's not exactly making a great case for it, and this thread has plenty of other downstream stuff that it seems to upend as well.
I mean, yeah, some absurd fraction of NYC (25%? 50%?) got it before we knew how to treat it.

But it's less than a tenth of the total population loss, so it's probably not worth trying to figure out either if the actual toll was higher than the official death toll (maybe by a factor of two?), or if some in the first wave would have died by now of other causes.
~1% of the population dies every year.
It's the opposite. Minorities are being pushed out.

> Among those who left the city in 2022, 64% were non-White, which was higher than the 58% in 2021 and the 62% in 2019 and 2018. From April 2020 to June 2022, the population of all major racial and ethnic groups declined after a decade of increases, but did so at varying rates. White and Black populations in the city fell 6.7% and 6.0% respectively — greater than the overall population decline — while the declines in Hispanic (5%) and Asian (2.5%) New Yorkers were smaller.
This might make a good case for supplementing/fortifying magnesium into foods broadly, like we did with iodine in salt.
It's copyrighted and the copyright is enforced - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyan_Cat#Lawsuit
For sure, I was just describing it the way I frame it for myself. I'm not gonna judge people who prefer to do nothing but remote
"Quishing" You a Happy Holiday Season
To be fair, I think there are tens of thousands (or more) people saying these things.

I just posted an anecdote down thread of how it's empowering our senior engineers.
also, while i have your attention here, since you wrote that related post on (not) vector db's ... what would you recommend for a newbie to get started with RAG? let's say i have a large collection of text files on my computer that i want to use for RAG. the options out there seem bewildering. is there something simple akin to Ollama for RAG?
I wonder, when cat will send from other star.
I believe we need creative thinking for a decentralized DNS, though im not of the belief it would be incentive compatible to do so on a blockchain. ENS and similar systems are a neat parlour trick, but as a simple example, whos paying the bill for storing and serving that data to users? How does your client know that the data you are being fed isnt just a DNS injection? You could use POW to validate the authenticity, but then data creation must be throttled to maintain high enough fees. You could use proof of stake, and find DNS more centraluzed than ever.
I mean other than being wrapped in a useless singleton, that's the same as the 'os.cpu_count()' mentioned in the beginning of the article.
Please, by all means! I didn't mean to imply I have data or that you need to accept my comment as a scientific data-backed conclusion. :) I just have the lived experience of ~0 ML models performing better at 0-shot than 5-shot. That would be a good sign of AGI, in fact, now that I think about it...the model being able to workaround good instructions with bad examples.
> The thing that bugs me about this is how he just dismisses Uber as providing nothing.

I think you are misreading him, but it's mostly his fault. He's not talking about if consumers got value out of things during a bubble, but what is left over after it "pops". His argument is basically that uber did not represent a viable business plan initially/currently (true) and will never find a viable plan (arguable), therefore at some point it will collapse when people get tired of subsidizing the rides in various ways. His claim then is when this happens, what is left afterwards is strictly worse than what existed before uber.

Now I'm not going to opine on the argument or the timeline, but nowhere in there does he claim that people getting subsidized rides didn't benefit from them at the time, just that it nets out negative over time.
...doesn't show what the planet looks like to us.
I think there's the same amount of explanatory power if you just point at economic conditions. When the economy is bad, there is more crime, which tends to centralize in cities because the increased density means more anonymity plus a greater target market for thieves.

Also, the 70s and 80s were peak times for young men who grew up with leaded gas poisoning. Previous generations did not have as much car pollution, car usage increased which led to those increases in crime.

Perhaps quality of life is part of the equation but your comment tells us more about your preconceptions than about the reality of the situation.
> The amount of pushback these measures got, when we were literally just trying to save lives and prevent disability through long covid absolutely staggers the mind and erodes my faith in humanity.

Or you could reasonably conclude that the policies enacted during COVID are yet another example of how we prioritize the elderly over children in the United States, arguably because children don't vote and the elderly do.

We sacrificed the educational, emotional, and psychological development of children during the pandemic to help 90 year olds live to 91. Was this the right thing to do? I don't believe there's a clear answer to that - it's a tradeoff and one that many people felt was not worth it. That doesn't make them bad or selfish, they're just on the opposite side of very difficult question with no clear answer.
In my anecdotal experience, there is a sizable chunk of people who stayed within a couple of hours drive of the city but moved farther out to save money. Towns up the Hudson Valley, Westchester, "Greater Woodstock", Long Island, Conn/Mass/NJ.

If the only reason you are paying all that rent money for that tiny apartment is so you can take the subway to work, and you can work from Yonkers over Zoom just as well, why not?
Why would reputable news be free? Would you expect anyone reputable to just give away their product? I have no doubt propaganda will remain free at least.
Yeah, the radiation was partly why I wrote "capable of sending people". You'd probably need quite a few metres of water ice surrounding your livable space if you don't want to get fried.

Which makes me wonder: if a ship was covered in, say, 10 metres of ice, would the top layer get irradiated and thus need to be replaced every so often? I wonder if it was left exposed to space, would the water ice sublimate away? Then "all" you'd need to do is replace the top layer.

Humans safe behind ice while robots do the work isn't quite as romantic as The Expanse but it'll get the job done!
Which processor has 1-cycle latency for integer division? Even Apple Silicon, which has the mostly highly optimized implementation I am aware of appears to have 2-cycle latency. Recent x86 are much worse, though greatly improved. Integer division is much faster than it used to be but not single cycle.

Also, most of those SIMD and encryption instructions can retire one per cycle on modern cores, but that isn't the same as latency.
You really think that the idea of defunding police is a bigger factor than a global pandemic that shut down the city and drove many small businesses out of the city? What an odd take.
On the rare occasion I record an audio message, I hold it in front of my face. To me it feels like talking on a speaker phone in my brain and I hold my phone accordingly.
really wishing HN had a LLM powered 'Sort by humor' feature right now
They did wash their hands before Semmelweis.

The problem was that water and soap wasn't enough. Semmelweis wanted them to wash their hands in a really nasty concoction that was bad for the skin. Lister later came up with a different nasty thing for hand washing and sterilization of equipment.

Another issue is that Semmelweis' data wasn't anywhere near as clean as later hagiographies make them out to be. They were in fact very noisy -- not because he did anything wrong but because of an epidemic that came and went.
> one X11 application can send messages directly to another X11 application.

Sure. I get that. But I don't run malicious applications on X; and I don't pipe the output of curl into bash.

> I don't think many would argue we should go back to shared memory systems.

Me neither. But from my perspective, memory segmentation is necessary to protect me against incompetent programmers, not malicious applications. Breaking X11 security isn't something that happens by accident, it requires actual malice.
TikTok allowing under-13s to keep accounts, evidence suggests
Move away? I mean maybe not everyone can easily do that, but as prices go up, fewer people will want to live there, and units will start going unrented until prices come back down.

But this is just basic economics. Supply and demand. Are you implying that that doesn't set the prices, and that landlords are leaving money on the table out of the kindness of their hearts? That seems unlikely to me.
> I have no problem with sacrificing the elderly for the benefit of the kids.

Read what you just wrote and ponder on it for a bit.
...and hence why we helped those people who were unemployed and had children.
Aka "hands off management", "or absentee boss" or "sink or swim". Love it! Let me float an idea though, I might be dreaming here, but what if there was a better way than just dumping people and resources and hoping for it to work?

How about you encourage the team to actively monitor where onboarding takes time, year by year, learn from that, make onboarding materials which encompass institutional knowledge, and make the process as much self serve as possible?

Or assigning a "buddy/mentor" like persona that is responsible for this specific onboarding, so the rest of the team don't get distracted + the expectations on delivery are lowered for the "buddy"?

> it takes that is in their capacity to move the project forward

It takes quiet and uninterrupted work and focus time, and spending effort on making onboarding as smooth as possible. Just hoping your devs will do all the work of onboarding + their own work, and you doing nothing, that's just...what I expected I guess.
I can kind of imagine it. There’s more “concentration of surface area, per volume” in the sharp corners of a 3-cube than there is in the center of a face.

Surface area is 2-volume.
also:

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/

https://lite.cnn.com/
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