skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The layoffs come as fast-food workers in California are set to get a pay bump of close to 30% in April as the minimum wages rises from $16 to $20 an hour.

It's not "close to 30%," it is "exactly 25%." Whoever wrote that needs to be sent back to middle school remedial math.

As if I needed another reason to not eat at pizza hut. This sounds like a cynical ploy to get sub-minimum wage gig economy delivery drivers via third party services that they can then blame when the plan goes pear shaped.
Yes he’ll win the nomination, but he debated Biden and Hillary Clinton and there is no reason to think he would do otherwise in 2024
Last time we had an article about this sort of thing (a few months back?) the difference wasn’t big between generations, at similar ages. Under 5% difference between current 20-somethings and the Boomers, IIRC. Up, but not that much. This could be a different dataset though, I dunno.
It's probably exactly the same?
Am I correct in assuming all the comments misunderstood the question? I thought it was asking "should you share...?", but the other comments seem to be taking it as "share something".

I think you should always make everything public.
The relentless rise of property tax has to do with the unsustainable municipal financials of low density suburbs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I don't think you should be seemingly in the negatives for this comment. :( It's a totally valid question, and the whole industry has introduced so many new words, acronyms and private definitions. It feels unfair to punish someone for not following them all.

AI is "artificial intelligence". That's a pretty intentionally vague term. It doesn't imply any specific technological implementation, but it does imply the device/software makes decisions autonomously that would otherwise need a human to intervene. There's a million holes in that definition, and that's why the adjective "AI" kind of sucks when used on its own. It's also worth noting it's been used in sci-fi for eons. It's also been used to describe non-playable characters in video games for a long time, which obviously didn't have the sort of "AI" we think of now.

LLMs are neural networks that work with "tokens" from text. So a big statistics-based predictive AI. There are more complex implementations that can consume other kinds of content as well, but "LLM" almost always refers to a neural network that consumes small chunks of text called tokens, and outputs more tokens based on that input. The magic we see with LLMs happens because given enough data, language itself builds up a surprisingly good model of "thinking".

There's some really good explanations in the sibling comments! I'm no expert, and I think someone can probably correct me here if I messed up something there.
But microplastic in sea salt is a real thing (and might be a bit worrying, personally I now always go for mountain salt, deposited pre-anthropocene era)
What do you mean "no real progress"? The price used to be $100.
I am a researcher and new technology developer in materials science and those inventions are only protectable for 20 years.
I love the README/Overview on the linked page. It's really clear what this is for, why it's better than other solutions etc.
Some are on roku and prime (raised by the wolves for example)
Might be an unpopular opinion, especially in North America, but I think families living together is a great thing.

I have a wife and child, and we all live with my parents in a largish 6-bedroom house. They are retired and I support them financially. While they bought this house before I entered the workforce, I now pay the mortgage on this house. A few years ago we did a total rebuild of the house, and it's now a great living experience - something that neither my parents nor myself could have individually made possible. In a few years, as their health declines and they need support, it's easier for everyone that they are right here. Right now, they help a lot with childcare.

My wife and I - we just bought a second house that is fully rented out. While that one does not breakeven with its mortgage, it does end up being affordable.

My wife's parents and their son (my wife's brother) also live together. He is a doctor and supports them.

When I mention this to my coworkers or friends, the initial reaction is almost never positive. I've never understood that perspective. I don't mention it any more.
Julia need good a complete database connectivity libraries to do better
they need to have full support for MS SQL and Oracle and other commercial dbs

All my data are in a database, Julia need to become more db oriented , that is it
Not sure what you mean as there is no notion of "cell" in Quarto.

Instead, everything is markdown and you can interleave codeblocks (or inline code statements) anywhere you like to generate plots/tables, etc.

I haven't had a need to generate markdown programmatically, though I imagine there's probably at least a "hard way" to do that. FWIW, quarto is still in its early stages. The quarto devs on github are very nice and responsive to questions if you ever look into again.
Online retailer Zulily is ceasing operations
As previously announced, Zulily, LLC and its parent Zulily Group LLC (collectively, “Zulily”) made the difficult but necessary decision to conduct an orderly wind-down of the business to maximize value for the companies’ creditors.
You forgot "sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids"
Apologies if this question is out of ignorance. But with a stone tool made out of something such as granite, isn't it correct that the only requirement is that the tool is not unduly compressed/crushed for it to survive 10s of thousands to millions of years?

Metal tools need to avoid oxidation as well which doesn't seem tractable over timelines greater than a few thousand years.
Cliff Notes books interpret, analyze, and comment on works which is allowed. Detailed summary alone doesn’t qualify for a fair use exception.

Note how much of the ‘summery’ section isn’t just a listing of what happens but an interpretation of what happens: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/fahrenheit-451/summ...

“At the same time, she also gives the reader the opportunity to see that the government has dramatically changed what its citizens perceive as their history. For example, Montag never knew that firemen used to fight actual fires...”
It's not, it really isnt. Honestly just apply this mentality to one other scenario to test the waters. We should stop publishing yara rules because it flips our hand to the malware makers? It's nonsense to even say.
Would it be far fetched to hope that Apple could introduce a jailbreak mechanism in the Apple Watch for the purpose of providing users the option to enable and use all photodiodes for the pulse oximeter ?
I mean progress from today.
If he gets a slap in the forehead by the side of a truck that he drives into at 80mph, no amount of self insurance will keep him alive.
Not at 18. They're definitely expected to sense remittances when they have a stable job, but depending on the career that may start in the 20s.
Yes, I suppose my assertion is that LLMs may be a step toward our understanding of what is required to create AGI. But, the technology (the algorithms) will not be part of the eventual solution.

Having said that, I do agree that LLMs will be transformative technology. As important perhaps as the transistor or the wheel.

I think LLMs will accelerate our ability as a species to solve problems even more than the calculator, computer or internet has.

I think the boost in human capability provided by LLMs will help us more rapidly discover the true nature of reasoning, intelligence and consciousness.

But, like the wheel, transistor, calculator, computer and internet; I feel strongly that LLMs will prove to be just another tool and not a foundational technology for AGI.
Show HN: sqlite-memory-vfs - Open a SQLite db in Python without hitting disk
>This idea of humans being primitive but also nearly genetically identical to modern man is absurd

Why is that absurd? It seems reasonable to me that after a certain point in evolutionary history, technological sophistication has little to do with genetics and is a lot more about culture and intergenerational transfer of knowledge.

>Pretty clear the ice age wiped away people that were in some ways sophisticated.

The article is talking about humans living ~7000 years ago, which was a few thousand years after the end of the last ice age.
Direct link to all the new features: https://pluto-lang.org/docs/category/new-features
The thing I don't understand is why in 300K+ of human existence agriculture was independently discovered only in the last 20K years?

I think it's one of those things that are possible but not provable - agriculture might have exist 100K years ago. Same thing for writing - it was independently discovered "recently" - could it have been discovered many times in the last 300K years that we don't know about?
its a great thing if all parties want it for the right reasons - if it is done solely out of economic necessity, not-so-much.
But in terms of wealth and power, the boomers dominate.
I initially wanted to disagree with you, but I think you're right.

One unmentioned consideration is why the gov wants people to own their home:

Put simply: homeownership (and home value appreciation) results in better end-of-life outcomes compared to self-managed cash.

People are bad at saving, but they understand if they don't pay their mortgage, they will lose their home. Tapping into that equity isn't as easy as accessing money from a savings account.
"Only 35% slower overall than LuaJIT" as per video from a month ago.

No idea which kind of tests are these "overall" though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSHIpEQRjs

Slides (pg. 31 performance):

https://github.com/brandtbucher/brandtbucher/blob/master/202...
When we're discussing litigation, it certainly matters what is legal.
That depends almost entirely on local ordinances and, if you have one, your HOA. The far side of the spectrum where you actually have significant control over your own property is great, I'm just not sure it's very common.
Is this a local or a national problem? Homes are a lot more affordable outside of the inflated West Coast metros.
There are only two levels of appeal in normal federal court, and the second (SCOTUS) doesn't take many cases.
> OpenAI quickly worked to patch those

So it was a problem, but isn't anymore?
This is really cool! The headline feels ridiculously misleading though. They built a spine via regular means, then assemble floors 9n the ground & lift them:

> Basically they loaded all of the materials on a floor plate. Each floor plate was about a million pounds each, and they basically lifted them up off of two spines... Each floor was assembled at ground level and lifted at a speed of roughly 20 feet per hour. The liftbuild team said their technology is safer, 30% faster, and 10-20% cheaper than average construction.

I can see it being a little faster, because you don't have to lift each bit of material up individually.

The photo is really cool. At the same time though, it's a tiny bit disappointing just how big the core looks versus what's being lifted. It's maybe 20% of the floorplan? I guess that could be much worse but it does look like a huge core.

I wonder if something like this could be useful for increasing sustainability. If you could remodel an old building by taking down all the living space, floor by floor, but leaving the spine intact, I wonder if that structural core could be reused a half dozen times, many hundreds of years. It's going to be wild seeing high rises reaching end of life in some of our lifetime, huge effort to take down and rebuild massive massive buildings; maybe that will help bolster some excitement for practices that can be enduring, and this modular building style certainly feels like it could be a big win.

I wonder if it can scale down effectively at all.
This one is hitting hard for me. He was the male lead in a K-Drama called My Mister. I've watched the entire thing twice. Since I heard this news, I've started my third watching. Few works in TV/movies (or art, really) have effected me as much as My Mister.

It's impossible to understand what really happened with Mr. Lee here, but the possibility that the message of My Mister applied to him in this situation, and that he might have missed that message, feels even more tragic to me.

My takeaway from My Mister...

There might be things in our lives that let us conclude that we do not have value as human beings. But there are often people out there who can see the value in us, even when we can't see it in ourselves. And it's quite possible that their view of us is closer to reality than our own. The reason for that is that they can see the impact we have on them - real, direct evidence of value. When we experience this mismatch between how we view ourselves and how others view us, it's easy to assume that they have some ulterior motive or that they are being overly kind when they tell us of our value. We should do what we can to find who those people are, hear them, and show them the respect of believing they are speaking their own truth about you. It might just save us.

This perspective has had a profound impact on me. I've been lucky enough to find a couple of those other people in my life in the last couple of years. In both cases, they were people I cared so much about that I was judging myself as letting them down because I set my bar of support for them impossibly high. Once I truly heard them, I found out I had profoundly affected their lives for the better - something I had been totally blind to. Accepting that was difficult, as it required accepting that I had been completely wrong for a long time.

I've also been more forceful in the other direction. I tend to be kind. That leads to people easily dismissing praise from me. But I do not give praise lightly. Being aware of this conflict, I've started looking for when people are dismissing my praise. When I see it, I'll say something like, "Please show me the respect of believing that I know what I'm seeing, I like what I'm seeing, and I'm telling you the truth about it." It often results in them tearing up as they internalize praise they normally wouldn't. Seeing those tears is hard because I know the internal conflict they are going through. But it is also good to know that they are seeing that they might me undervaluing themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mister
Life is about choices. Make poor choices, experience potentially poor outcomes.

(130k+ miles driven on Autopilot, no stranger to system limitations)
I don't understand what you mean. They've always been making progress, driving the price up. They can just keep doing what they're doing, and there will be progress from today.
Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide
What does the term "scripting language" mean to you?
It likely does. Lockdown mode stops most ios auto-processing wrt to message attachments and this was delivered via a message attachment.
I'm pretty skeptical of the tipping section. Sure, it might work, but the two examples are a bit suspect. The first example relies on a tweet lacking in context that doesn't actually show the system prompts and outputs. (The author's "reproduction" appears to be something completely different and n=1.) The second example uses wildly different systems prompts, and I think it's far more likely that referencing Stack Overflow results in a more "optimized" solution than offering a tip.
Economics is certainly one of the right reasons
You’re also allowed to order takeout and pick it up yourself if you don’t want to pay Grubhub prices
Our laws for carbon-based brains were designed pretty explicitly for carbon-based brains. Why assume these completely different things should be (legally) equivalent despite only superficial similarities?
I imagine that the premium they pay Grubhub is going to be a lot less than employing full time drivers. And Grubhub drivers live on tips and don't make minimum wage,right? So this will end up being cheaper for consumers than a 25% increase in delivery cost.
Related:

Pizza Hut to lay off California workers after minimum wage increase - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784345 - Dec 27th, 2023 (12 comments)

California Pizza Hut Lays Off Delivery Drivers Amid New Wage Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778657 - Dec 26th, 2023 (79 comments) [flagged]

California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775754 - Dec 26th, 2023 (47 comments)
That makes sense, but it feels to me like the more educated and higher-income young adults are the ones delaying kids / choosing not to have kids. It feels like lower-income young adults are more likely to start families.
All those things stack up though; if you rent a house in an HOA neighborhood you’re still accountable to the local government and the HOA, it’s just that you’re also accountable to your landlord on top of that.
The paper on copy-and-patch compilation [0] may give you a general idea although they didn't apply their technique to CPython.

[0] https://fredrikbk.com/publications/copy-and-patch.pdf
Whether that's fair and livable is a separate issue to consider. If it's not fair and livable, it doesn't mean that setting a lower minimum wage is the answer.
This feels a little short-sighted. Just this year, New York City implemented new minimum payment schedules for "self employed" app delivery drivers, which brings their minimum hourly payment to nearly $30/hr.

I will strongly suspect that the big centres in california will do likewise, or potentially the state as whole.
But that's not what ChatGPT is doing, or is it? ChatGPT watches and records a bunch of movies, then stitches together its own movie using scenes and frames from the movies it recorded. AI will never reach the former case until it learns to operate a camera.
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Asking questions about how this community would like to work with recruiters and how to organize yourself and stand out sounds completely reasonable to me.

But if you just asked and didn't get a response... then that was your response. Asking a reasonable question but not getting any engagement from the community is quite possible, especially with the friction recruiters both receive and cause in our industry. I'd say give it a couple weeks and try again, and if people just aren't responding, then that is what it is.
Europe was like that. Your primary and only real social security was a familly. You had property, but not much savings. Kids were expected to provide for their parents in old age. Secondary was a village.

It was like that in 19century too, I am not talking about some ancient history.
I remember long ago reading an argument that information technology has not actually increased productivity. I really wish I could find a source for this now, but I just can't seem to find it anywhere on the internet. Here it is anyway:

The administration of the Tax Service uses 4% of the total tax revenue it generates. This percentage has stayed relatively fixed over time.

If IT really improved productivity, wouldn't you expect that that number would decrease, since Tax Administration is presumably an area that we should expect to see great gains from computerisation?

We should be able to do the same amount of work more efficiently with IT, thus decreasing the percentage. If instead the efficiency frees up time allowing more work to be done (because there are people dodging taxes and we need to discover that), then you should expect the amount of tax to increase relatively which should also cause the percentage to decrease.

Therefore IT has not increased productivity.

Either it doesn't do so directly, or it does do so directly, but all the efficiency gains are immediately consumed by more useless beurocracy.
I agree entirely very much that it starts very early. It is how children's interests are formed. My older daughter is an electrical engineer, a field in which there are few women. When she was doing A levels (UK exams sat at 18, typically 3 subjects, supposedly APs are the nearest US equivalent, some other countries have similar) she was the only girl doing electronics, but there were a reasonably number doing physics and maths. This was despite the college (meaning British 16 to 18 type) making considerable efforts to encourage girls - but it was far to late. Girls are doing the S and the M of STEM but not the T and the E. I think that has a lot to do with how kids are brought up (e.g. boys helping dad when he is fixing things things but not girls - and it is still usually dad who is fixing things!)

I think what interested my daughter was doing a lot of things I found interesting because she spent a lot of time with me - she was home ed for some formative years (which i also think helped prevent her picking up some stereotype of what women should do), and I worked from home when she was about an year old.

My younger daughter may or may not go into an engineering or tech career, but it is definitely an option that is interesting.
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I'll think about that. Some syntax like

%%[
% ... would work
% for an aside...
%%]

but I wonder if it is too much effort for most people to arrange.

The html formatter prints comments in <aside> blocks, which is possibly incorrect but the closest semantic match.
They probably get plenty of iodine from packaged food since it doesn't all come from the same region any more.
Many border-crossers can't afford to buy houses - probably most of them - but they do put pressure on the lower cost apartments and are competing with low-income citizens, which drives up the price of the lower cost apartments, which has the effect of increases demand and prices all-the-way up the food chain.
I'm gonna be that guy and say cerfications are not very helpful if you are building your own SaaS. This is coming from me, a guy who has a few profitable SaaS and has never done a single certification course. Learning by doing, "just in time" learning, and looking up stuff you need in docs / youtube videos when you get stuck seems to work fine.

However, I can definitely agree with the comments on tools / frameworks though. Don't focus on the "newest thing", just work with what you know you are fastest with.
You want us to believe any culture has a contingent of 18-year-olds out-earning their 40-something parents?
The sad reality is that consumers are ever more spineless. This particular kind of rip-off started years ago when cable companies got away with charging for ad-riddled channels that used to be part of "basic cable."

Amazon will probably get away with this, just as Apple got away with removing the headphone jack from its best-selling music player. Watch apologists fall all over themselves to excuse it, and attack those of us who decry rip-offs like it.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down"

Then WHY WAS THE REPLY BUTTON ENABLED? There is no excuse for this rudeness. Why are we expected to put up with it, year after year after year? Deliberately stealing from users is NOT OK, EVER. Why does HN do it?
Yeah, stopped using delivery for that reason. It got hilariously too expensive.
Reporting is dead. They probably reached out to Pizza Hut PR department for the exact figure and went with what corporate told them. The PR department wants to make the increase looks as unreasonable as possible so gave them the 30% line. The reporter then writes that in the article.

Close to 30% is technically true, but it sounds like a bigger hike to the reader.
No. The problem was that it refused to send to her number and instead kept sending to her iMessage email address in my contact. Even when I tried to specify to send it to her number instead of her email address.
Certainly: their post mentions _solely out of economic necessity_ is not certainly one of the right reasons.
K is one such language.
SSPL has more teeth and less workarounds than the regular GPL/AGPL and forces more dual licensing conversations.
Like dentists who are against fluoride in water, I guess.