skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just bought the latest and most expensive Intel x86 CPU in 2013 and built myself a new rig. My wife walked into the office, "You're not working, I can tell that, but I'm not sure what you're doing?" she said looking at the graphs on my screen.

"I'm calculating to see when my PC would have been the fastest on Earth. It looks like in 1992 it would be able to out-compute the latest Dept of Defense $90m supercomputer that filled an entire room, would you believe?"

"That's lovely. How will that help us pay our credit bills?"

Jesting aside. There is a bunch of data for this, like this set here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

And if you extrapolate backwards or find older data, like I did, I came to the conclusion that if I took my PC back to 1981 it would actually be faster than every computer on Earth combined, or some insane statistic like that.
Spanish has lots of funky history in its second person pronouns that vary regionally. After Argentina's recent election I've been consuming lots of content from there, and it sometimes surprises me how frequently they use vos in things that would seem to call for politeness. Vos itself was formal address in Spain in the time of Cervantes IIRC, it is also the origin of vuestro merced (usted)
"Run a diagnostic on you" is a fair summary of what primary care doctors do. It's hard because the human body is complicated, often unintuitive, and most of us need coaching to explain even our own experiences with the required precision. (My PCP saved me from a misdiagnosis once because I incorrectly told her I'd been waking up "wheezing" - apparently that term refers to a specific whistling sound and not general breathing problems.)
Credit Card Arbitrage – The Logical Extreme of the Points Hustle
A podcast episode about taking the points and miles game beyond sign-up bonuses. The guest talks about advanced strategies and says his Amex accounts are worth $1m to him.
Oh, I'm sorry for forgetting the Netherlands, among others.
ballpark is $10k - $100k. Nothing too crazy but still nice to walk away from the project with something
Third party service!
“Poland will be wealthier than Britain by 2030”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/07/poland-europ...
GM tried to sell the Hummer brand during the bankruptcy but ended up just discontinuing it. They recently relaunched Hummer to make EV trucks.

Pontiac had no brand equity at the time due to many years of mismanagement and it was unknown outside North America. I can't imagine that any other company would have paid much for it.
Very dubious list. Russia and Brazil in the top ten? Highly unlikely. I wouldn’t trust any of these projections in the slightest.
To what extent/how much value should we value your personal blog?
How much value should we give to our personal blog? Is he serious as a boss? Or is it Twitter serious?
Thank-you. Looks like it's been submitted again, this time as the Github repo¹:

> Buy the AI Employee License

https://github.com/vignshwarar/AI-Employe#ai-employe

(Emphasis mine.)

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758592
> The LAPD adopted the motto “To protect and to serve”, and it was subsequently widely copied across the U.S. Besides a general mandate to protect the public at large, police are responsible for the wellbeing of anyone in their custody.

That is a PR slogan. That's like trying to say Google can't be evil because their motto is "Don't be evil."

The Supreme Court has explicitly ruled that police do not have a duty to protect citizens, and that ruling has been reinforced consistently at lower courts throughout the country.
Thing is, it's not like the semantics and tone of formal speaking or speaking with deference is missing in English. It just doesn't take the form of special pronouns or conjugations, etc.

Native speakers at least are capable of picking up on all sorts of nuance in word choice and tone

Give it a couple hundred years, all the subtle or not-so-subtle nuances will standardize and settle into grammar constructs.
Texas exists at the crossroads of both the Midwestern Wind Belt (actually, it gets SE coastal wind too) and the Sun Belt. Also, it has large open areas that are sparsely inhabited, pretty much ideal for building large renewable power plants. The only challenge is paying for transmission.

There's a huge oil & gas industry too, but that energy is more easily exportable (see e.g. Freeport LNG), which can put a floor on prices.
I love this post.

It’s okay to have nostalgia for those times and still appreciate what we have now.

It’s a great point how we would have swapped that for this at that point of time.
Medical schools do not prepare students for a lot of shit.

I have a rather rare metabolic disorder, a subtle one with a lot of complications. I had to fight to get the correct tests done, I had to fight people who got constellations of symptoms wrong, older people with MDs who didn't want to listen to some kid. The tests came back: they were wrong. (This was all prior to all of this information being available on the Intarwebz; I had to learn everything from books)

I still have to check the meds I am prescribed. I have to deal with doctors whose pupils visibly twitch when scanning my chart -- they mysteriously excuse themselves for a bit and return, "I see it says here you have ..." Others simply pass the buck on treatment. I had a hematologist client-dump me on the answering machine.

It's hard enough to treat the bulk of the boring patients. If you're on the edge, well, they simply don't have experience. Most doctors won't ever see someone like me. If doctors were some other species who lived to be a few hundred years old, they would have the experience. I'm reminded of that recent Slate Star Codex parable about the alchemists and the dying prince. It's just too much to ask from mere mortals.

The flip side of this is me recognizing doctors as mere mortals and not just going with everything like a lamb.
The predictions of a 'soft landing' being required have turned out to be false, as the USA economy has shown remarkable strength. Compared to the rest of the world the USA economy is booming, with high GDP growth, high employment and low inflation.
And with inflation falling, the Fed now has room to start cutting rates. In an environment of falling interest rates with a strong economy it seems highly unlikely the USA will into fall into recession next year, as that would require something of an economic catastrophe.
But for the price of the Cray, even without adjusting for inflation, you could buy a useful number of chairs. And just think of the electricity cost savings!
Greatful that I do not work for our current iteration of corporate America, that I provide services directly to the best customers I could ever have.

Grateful that I have a wife that loves me and I love what I do in this life.
Media codecs are a microcosm of routines that want more care and attention than compilers are yet able to give. Some of RAD's decompression kernels are written in assembly, for instance, and a particular unicode transcoding routine was 20% faster in assembly than in c with intrinsics. An anecdote I heard: it was appreciably faster to run the linux version of postgresql in a translation layer under solaris than to run the native version, because the linux c library's strings functions were written in assembly. A particular binary search routine I rewrote in assembly (from c) was about 4x faster; I would estimate that about half of that was from an improved algorithm, and the other half was from the choice of language. (Of course, somebody else later made a c implementation that was a bit faster, owing to an algorithmic improvement...)
M'lady
I went to school in the 90's with a wonderful person who grew up Lancaster Quaker and regularly had to suppress speaking to Professors with Thou and Thine. Lost the habit really quickly, but it was charming and very real.
Hello! syncabook is awesome, and indeed Storyteller does take "the opposite" approach when it comes to forced alignment.

Others have linked to the docs, where I go into detail about the syncing algorithm, but at a high level:

Storyteller uses Whisper to transcribe the audio to text (this is the most computationally expensive part of the process)

Then we use a Levenshtein-distance-based fuzzy search algorithm to find each chapter in the text (this is attempting to account for the difference between audio and text versions, as you said!)

Then for each chapter, we find the start and end timestamp of each sentence, again using a fuzzy search across the transcription.

In general, Storyteller does a pretty good job; it treats the ebook as the source of truth, which means that at the moment it sometimes misses introductory and ending pieces of the audiobook, though it's on the roadmap to have some support for explicitly triggering those when that happens.
I'm grateful that my energy levels are improving in fits and starts after months of fatigue. Also for peaceful family time, a new engagement, and so much more I suppose (housing, delicious food, a warm bed, clothing, a mind relatively free of madness...).

And you guys. You guys are pretty darn excellent.
Pure Wisdom!
> ... such a heart-sheath could be used as a (de)fibrillator

It would be only a matter of time before ransomware became a topic very near and dear to our hearts, quite literally.
"RNNSearch is all you need" probably wouldn't catch on and we'd still be ChatGPT-less.
> is diametrically opposed to the values it had when created

And that's likely the reason it still exists. I don't think WIRED really survived the dot-com bubble popping.
"You" being Musk, right?
Police don't have a mandate to protect the public. This has gone before the supreme court, multiple times. Even if they are present while you're being attacked, they can just stand and watch if they think it's not safe for them to engage. (And practically speaking, they can't do it anyways, they're not omnipresent - if you live in a big city your response time for being murdered is probably over 5 minutes (where I am, it's 7+ minutes). Lot can go wrong in 5 minutes)

They do have a responsibility to protect people in their custody.
I didn't mean to imply that medicine should be as easy as car maintenance, just that I'm typically satisfied with my mechanic, but not with my doctors. There is a disparity in customer satisfaction.
Once in a while, the tech companies might figure out a way to block the ad-blockers, but it just won't last: the hackers will figure it out before long.

If the tech companies stopped using regular HTTPS to serve webpages and set up a walled garden like Netflix, they really could stop the ad-blocking. They'd have to make their own browsers/clients to support their proprietary protocol, and use encryption, so for instance you'd have to download and install a new app just to watch YouTube videos, but it could be done. But this isn't going to go over well with users I think.
One of the main benefits is that you can have multiple versions of something installed in the store, with individual environments pulling in the specific version that they require. Makes it really easy (or at least possible) to keep old software running, or to keep multiple environments running on the same computer even though the people who use them don't cooperate.
The relative power of German speakers (Germany) dropped massively after WW2 compared to English speakers (USA).
wow took me a bit to remember your username (time flies) but great to see you here too! :)
Quite a few LatAm countries had leading GDP (GNPs back then) a century or so ago, but mismanagement, endemic corruption, poor education, and a different attitude toward time management led them down a different path. It didn’t have to be that way.

They can pull themselves up like Salvador is doing, or they can be eternal victims like Cuba and have the Yankees as a convenient scapegoat (that’s not saying US meddling didn’t stunt growth), but Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore all prove that a government and a people who focus and stop blaming others for their state of affairs can achieve wild dreams. Finding blame, even when there is lots to go around isn’t productive for an individual or a people.

This is a lesson for Ukraine too. One day when the war is over, they’ll have to make a choice, blame Russia for their ills or get over it and begin a new era.
From the perspective of the learner, the actual cognitive work to get to mastery is of a similar order of magnitude and similar nature. The feature crossover is probably 80-90% depending on how you choose to enumerate them.

The question was about that, specifically, not about the history, not about the nuanced details of who created it, but about how hard it was to pick up.

Specifically "Any recommendations on how to learn it"

It's not in the class of R, FORTH, assembly or Haskell. It's not like Erlang. It's as conceptually approachable as Basic and historically was taught after Basic to tens of millions of people over the course of two decades, in that order.
Amazon now has the text (books), and the audio (audible), and it’s absurd that there’s not some sort of sync feature. It would actually encourage people to cross-purchase books. There are so many times that I’m reading an ebook and I want to continue while driving and wish there was some sort of obvious and seamless “handoff” to continue with the audio version.
> I've started listening to audiobooks on my commute, but I read at night.

This is basically exactly why I started down this road over two years ago. I really wanted to be able to switch back and forth between my audiobooks and their text representations!

Thanks for mentioning Storyteller in that discussion, I'll have to hop in there!
New York City Guide
Print I assume you mean
I keep reading this "When these things go wrong" - which is necessarily very intermittent. What is it that goes wrong with these?
They have a mandate to protect the public that doesn’t extend to a given individual person.
It's on the list! https://gitlab.com/smoores/storyteller/-/issues/9
I have a box of commodore magazines from ~1985 that I'm hanging on to because throwing them out seems wrong.

My wife disagrees.

Is she right?
> there needs to be a short-term solution

What is the long-term one then? Keep importing people and hope for the best?
I'm grateful for the incredibly intricate and staggeringly complex systems that are completely invisible to me but provide me with everything I need to survive day in day out
Yeah it’s also not a problem anymore
What they meant was a given citizen.
Getting IDF gas masks is not a sign he really knows what he's doing, why not MSA or Avon Rubber?
How does this work without `trap` or `PROMPT_COMMAND`?

(I think PROMPT_COMMAND will take an array of functions in later versions of Bash)
> This felt to me like one of the reasons why English became the dominant language for business over time.

I don't think that has much to do with it. I think it has more to do with the dominant political and economic position of the United States. French served a similar role in the past despite having all the features you describe.
It reminds me of a mouse I once hit on my bike (not in Tokyo, it was a rural place). The mouse darted into the road, so I tried to go around him. But then he changed direction to avoid me, and so I ran over him. I ended up having to crush his skull to put him out of his misery. If he had just continued in a predictable, straight line, he would have survived.

You should rent one of the Docomo red rental bikes and ride it around some, and then you can see what it's like being one of the cyclists. The last thing you want as a cyclist is pedestrians who make unpredictable movements as you're passing. Also remember, pedestrians here have the absolute right-of-way, and cyclists are pretty much always at fault if there's a collision.
Usable non musky version:

https://nitter.net/ssgrn/status/1738256456250470853
Are these gonna be like Soviet doctors who didn’t know how to read EKGs?
There are some differences though

1. That revision was done by Moore himself

2. It is the version of the law everyone understands as Moore's Law today and the one Intel is referring to here

3. They are not revising an error like Moore did

Otherwise, I'd agree. If this redefining of Moore's Law held over the next 30 years, became the commonly understood definition, and then they extended it from 3 to 4 years, I'd say the same thing again.
> mass displacement of people towards Europe

I have read no serious analysis suggesting that such was created by anything but the NATO war against Libya.
Thanks, I'm so glad folks seem to like it! Agreed, I remain astonished how limited support is for synced narration (forget non-DRM; really only Amazon even provides this feature!). It's totally changed how I consume books. Hopefully EPUB's Media Overlay spec (which Storyteller uses) will become more widespread!
I have this cynical recurring fantasy that when the Unix epoch rolls over and every legacy system is broken, they’re not going to have anyone left in the workforce who knows the difference between the stack and the heap, and who can debug through disassembly when the binary has no symbols; so they’ll hire us graybeards out of retirement to save the day. Then I wake up and admit that what’s more likely to happen is the 25 yr old Directors of Engineering would rather rewrite all the software in JavaScript rather than admit they need us.
I wonder if it in part has to do with English's overall status as a "second class" or even "lower class" language even in its own native land during the years after the Norman invasion. Up until a certain point the aristocracy spoke mostly Norman French, and even after they switched to English they did so with a form heavily filled with French loans and written with French-derived orthography.

What I mean to say is, if the language is on the whole not the language of the nobility, even the formal pronouns would not be perceived as elevated, really. If you really wanted to impress, you'd switch to French (or even Latin, etc.)
Using polite/formal grammar form is just something that comes completely naturally to native speakers, who practiced it their whole lives, in particular the entire childhood while speaking to adults. It does not put you in a position of inferiority or submission, people will still have nasty arguments or explicitly insult each other while maintaining formal grammar form.
Yeah, it can be chaotic at times, and bicyclists shouldn't be riding in heavy crowds like that, but unfortunately there are a few jerks who do.
Me too. I’ve made some small Mac apps back in the day that solve some real problems, and I’ve probably only made a thousand dollars or so off of them. (The vast majority from donations for an open source utility, actually.)
It's not even just FAANG anymore. Plenty of places pay over 350k for a senior.

And Seattle is probably a much better place with respect to taxes and cost of living. Most other cities where FAANG will employ are fine. Don't have to be #1 to win.

Still a lottery winner with respect to the global employment market. But if you graduated with a US software engineering degree, you can make this happen.
Until recently an apple II magazine called Juiced.GS was still in print. I can't actually tell if it still is since their website is broken.
Plan to Make Roads Greener Works
Is this the most energy-efficient way to build homes?
Your interpretation of my comment is spot on. I am concerned there won't be an america to improve upon. Once america is desrabilized you can't stabilize again. A world of russian, chinese and middle eastern dominance with a destabilized US is not good either for the civil rights concerns/improvements the person you replied to brought up.
NFTs died a slow, painful death in 2023 as most are now worthless
I keep forgetting to do this! Here's a link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/storyteller-reader/id647446772... and I'll push up a change to the docs right now that includes that.
Depends on how close "concrete ink" made from random torn down buildings comes to the performance characteristics of concrete from well known sources that is cast in place. Even that has a super wide range of performance characteristics. Chances are the printed blocks are much weaker, perhaps like particle board vs proper wood.
Facial or other recognition in animals is widespread. Sheep, cows recognise friends and enemys. Crows, even fish have been demonstrated to have longterm recall.
Scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
To quote Taggart from Blazing Saddles: "ditto!"
I'm new here, but nice one! Thanks for sharing the experience. Huge fan of Legowelkt. I've got to play alongside some '70s CTI records or something next time!
Those are largely simd but not vector.
I'm grateful for my friends and family (most especially my wife, and my parents who brought me up right), and that I'm fortunate enough to have interests + skills that happen to be very lucrative. Most of all, I'm thankful that God continues to be good to me, and has never given up on me even at my lowest moments.
The Dutch and Portuguese outcompeted the British, until they didn't.

In the 19th and early 20th century the British owned the seas, a post 1945 another English speaking country has - the United States.
I’m grateful I’m employed. None of my job applications since September resulted in even a nibble, so I’m very glad my employer has kept me around.
Our blobs end up quite a bit smaller than that, and I can see using S3 for many build cache problems. In our case in-memory worked better with overflow to disk for large or infrequently used objects.

R2 is S3 to me, btw, or at least it’s the same API. Object storage as a model is really what I’m asking about. I’m genuinely glad to hear S3 was enough to be impactful.
I wonder why it doesn't offer any kind of higher level controls. Surely it gets old to have to click all the tiles repeatedly to collect the army
It has been an awesome and humbling experience to witness the last 40 years of computing. I wrote my first programs in Fortran on punched cards. Trying to live a healthy lifestyle so that I can witness the next 40 years.
In Our entire system of economy practically does.

Like, it’s distasteful and I hate it and it’s one of the reasons I hate capitalism.

Your worth is your labor. Nothing more.
> If I go more heavyweight, and write large specs with use cases, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, gherkin BDD scenarios, we tend to get much better software.

This is how it should work. I don't see how having a few PMs do this is top down heavy?
I'm ignorant, and feel like I have something to learn. Is this related to waḥdat al-wujūd and waḥdat ash-shuhūd?
A Tradition That Keeps Christmas Trees Alive
Is it intuitive to navigate the file hierarchy? I don't mind something new but I don't want my files abstracted in any way.
If you brush for only 2 minutes, I strongly suggest to make an appointment with a respected dental hygienist as soon as possible as you are almost guaranteed to have an insufficient dental hygiene. Best case with a good electric toothbrush and interdental brushes it probably takes 4-6 minutes for the electric toothbrush and a minute or two for the interdental brushes assuming almost ideal teeth.

More info in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758871
Thanks! I think you're probably right. In the meantime, there are some screenshots on the App Store page for the reader app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/storyteller-reader/id647446772...
Dense papers are a way to hide the ugliness of the ideas presented. Beautiful ideas always have an intuitive and clear explanation. The burden is on the author(s) to explain the idea in a reader-friendly way. If they don't, it's either due to the journal/literature pressure, or because the author(s) stole the idea from someone else without fully understanding it.