skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember the details but it seems to me: active polling (interviews) is involved, and we never see it because they use an amazingly small sample. So that, yes, it can be counted.
FireFox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Chrome: https://www.google.com/chrome/dr/download/?brand=JSBI&ds_kid...

Safari: https://www.apple.com/safari/

And now we come to...

NetSurf: https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

It's a joke about perception.
The government does random polling.
“Asking a friend” actually does explicitly qualify as looking for work.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed
Folks have been Pointing out issues with US economic metrics for some time. Core inflation only works if you don’t buy food or pay market rate housing. On its face, the Fed logic makes sense - most people do not pay market rates for housing in the short term.

In the long term, everyone pays market rate.
Do social media ads (as in Google and Facebook ads, not management as in posts) for some niches, like car detailers for example.
Polling / interviews? Same as the rest?
Nope! The first link I clicked on had an outbound link:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/business/taylor-swift-new-yor...

Second one as well:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/weather/winter-storms-snow-no...

First one on MSNBC, too:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ahead-se...

Love your confidence though!
> I'd pay for the Italian tax agency

is that not what you'd pay an accountant for?
That poster is right, although I think their take is overly simplistic. There are a lot of reasons, and a lot more nuance. But it really was one of those perfect moment in time type things. It couldn't have happened exactly that way any earlier, nor later.
Thanks for the feedback! What's the job interview process been like for you?
Or they just have a off-label prescription.
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Astrophysicists and absinthe! Another data point toward the "if only I had pursued my undergraduate degree further" timeline.

I can see how the weight limits would move the social needle: you would want the maximum bang for your buck, the most dram (of alcohol) to the gram, so reasonably people would go for the high-proof stuff, then find ways to cut it down with more innocuous items available on base, leading to various cocktails, and from there, a bar.
> the UAF-ish bugs are still bugs, and code poking at a GC-preserved object that the rest of the code doesn't really expect to still be alive might itself be pretty fraugh

For the LayoutObject heirarchy - the team doing that conversion added a NOT_DESTROYED() macro for this reason. It's gross, but was the least worst option.

As an aside - the performance of oilpan is broadly net positive now if you avoid some of the pitfalls. (The largest being a write into a Member<> requires a write-barrier). E.g. Things become trivially destructible, and no ref incrementing/decrementing, etc.
MIX is awful! MMIX is better. But if you use those you are forever stuck on emulators. There is no real hardware that runs those ISAs.

If you use RISC-V you can run your programs on real hardware ranging from:

- $0.10 48 MHz 32 bit microcontrollers, to do real world stuff (CH32V003)

- $9 1 GHz 64 MB 64 bit board that runs Linux (Milk-V Duo).

- $40 to $100 quad core 1.5 GHz Linux boards (VisionFive 2, Star64, Milk-V Mars)

- $2500 64 core 2 GHz 128 GB RAM Linux mATX board in a box, w/ power supply, video card etc (Milk-V Pioneer, first mass production units received by customers this week)

... and a ton of other price vs capability points between.
If using python, I’ll also recommend polars sql context manager to run queries on csv.

https://docs.pola.rs/py-polars/html/reference/api/polars.SQL...
This is exactly how I operate too, clone then iterate. Just make a clone with the basic features as your competitor and then naturally you'll have thoughts like, "hey, this could be better this way." You only learn once you start, not before.
> The first successful iteration of Windows was not Win 95. It was Win 3.1.

I would say Windows 3.0 -- because that was the version Microsoft started leaning on OEMS to preinstall. Before it came preinstalled, Windows was an expensive, memory-hungry runtime nobody wanted; people got by just fine with Lotus and WordPerfect for DOS. After it came preinstalled, and every reasonable IBM-compatible computer you could buy could be expected to have it, it suddenly very obviously was the future and the Year of the Windows Desktop was upon us.
You worked on the port of Metal Gear Solid?! OH MY GOD THIS IS SO COOL!

Edit: Looking it up you might have worked on a larger amount of games than I thought. Very awesome nonetheless. https://www.mobygames.com/game/company:99/from:1998/platform...
Amen to that. Had friends work on the AP1000.
> If your unable to compile your own kernel, you don't pass in my books, it's a rite of passage.

Pulling the PKGBUILD (or similar for other distros) and throwing in a couple of patches before `makepkg`-ing it is the easy part. Of course you could do it manually, but then what's even the point besides bragging rights. Very few people have a reason build a completely custom system LFS style, and those that do will.
Hardly; they are outnumbered 2:1 by Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Alpha is coming out of HS, slamming into the same reality as their elder siblings.

GenX had cushy youths and young adult lives, the “start a family” time, the opportunity to afford a house or 3 by now.

GenX is the cohort leading the decline in allegiance to church and American civic life pageantry. The original “eh capitalism is just old guys selling high minded memes about human future just like religion” generation. The let’s forget “stuff” for experience.

They did not have the same pressure to sell widgets Boomers raised by a Silent Generation of post world war shellshocked Cold War paranoids huffing leaded gas fumes.

The only way I see them “shining” is by laying low like they do and let the next generation get started living a life decoupled from the olds demands we serve their vacuous decrees.
Just one thing to add…

The “IRS will functionally increase taxes” argument is a distraction and I doubt anyone here takes it seriously.

But the argument matters because it has given Congress political cover to let Intuit keep leeching off the system, so a response is in order.

Congress should require the IRS to give every person an auditable receipt of every tax they paid in a standard format.

Then, truly public-minded services can use the receipt to help people understand if their filings were correct.

There’s no good reason automated IRS filing would result in tax increases for anyone, it’s a fixable problem, and good grief I’m ready to stop paying TurboTax $180/year.
Was it a competitor? I thought it was obsoleted by PCIE?
It’s really interesting seeing the HN crowd aging out and considering their plight unique. I wonder how much empathy their 20-something selves would have for them.
Question: what's the difference between "community supported drivers" and exploitation of the valuable time of highly expert computer programmers?

Nvidia keeps its drivers actively supported for what feels like a very long time.

Nvidia is doing the work, the QA, dedicating the full time resources to this expensive, extremely time consuming, highly skilled, complex, mission critical, professional level, important task.

I can easily see how AMD might just happily drop driver support quickly now and say "Oh that's the communities job".

I remember for a long time after Amazon Web Services was launched it provided official drivers only for Java and kept praising and thanking its dedicated community members for implementing AWS features into open source libraries for Python 2 or PHP or whatever. It was an absolutely shithouse outcome. AWS would constantly launch new features and there was no way to use them because they were not implemented in your library because the guy who did it out of hours was away at a picnic or whatever. In the case of Python it took years and years and years before Amazon actually started taking responsibility for its own drivers, writing them, documenting them, QAing them and updating them with new features when the cloud launched new features - an absolutely massive task.

AMD should not rely on the community and should compete with Nvidia in duration and quality and feature of its drivers.

Dare I say it, open source support for AMD might actually be a bad thing for this reason - it will make AMD lazy.
Aaaaaand...it's gone.
> "I'm highly gifted and unusual" is much stronger than "I'm a good technical writer."

Did you stop to think that maybe that was his point?

> s before, but even worse. Usain Bolt is the fastest sprinter in the world. He's quite literally one in eight billion. You are not.

Or that he didn't mean that literally he is the best in the world?

> I have taught myself advanced skills and switched careers multiple times without the required degrees

This is legitimately impressive and obviously requires intelligence in the top 1% at minimum. Does it really not occur to you that smart people know they are smart just like people who are good at anything else know they are good at it, and not just trying to make themselves sound smarter than they are?
That sounds plausible; thanks.
No desire today != no desire tomorrow. A lower participation rate might indicate untapped potential or barriers to employment, such as lack of childcare or training opportunities.
It makes you exploitable for foreign intelligence, a la Hunter Biden.

If Elon even denies it (because lets be honest, everything in this story has multiple verification, is repeated from different sources and is consistent with Musk’s own behavior), it creates opportunity for blackmail or worse.
Not always. And "information" is an aggrandizement of TikTok content.

Facebook doesn't even occur to me anymore, and the only videos I see on Reddit are hosted on YouTube.
Let's say the economy is your Github repo. And unemployment is open issues. But there are too many open issues so you set up a bot to automatically close stale issues. So if you ignore something long enough, it goes away. Nice.

U3 (the official unemployment rate) excludes people who have been unemployed too long, that is "stale" or "discouraged workers".
This sounds like mutually assured destruction, I think they would have to come to an agreement when both were opened to not do that.
>Here is the other reality: If you are very talented and gifted, NO ONE WILL NOTICE AND TELL YOU.

I haven't had this experience. In any group dynamic that lasts long enough, there's usually at least a few folks making self-deprecating jokes about their intelligence in comparison, or someone explicitly asking for advice "from the big brain" or something similar.

Humor is usually involved, but I'm assuming that's just a way to make a potentially socially risky observation in a more acceptable manner.

Recruiters / management are sometimes more comfortable making blunt assessments of intelligence / talent than peers. To an extent, that's part of their job, so never having gotten that feedback professionally would seem odd.
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You don't call them. They call you (but very few people really - so most likely not you).
> I'm just tired of the apologists who apparently live in a bubble or are outright lying for other reasons

I'm tired of the crowd that for whatever reason needs to downplay and attack any positive fact or stat about the US.

From your own sources:

> overall employee contributions continued to hold steady for the first half of the year, and a greater share of participants upped their contribution rate than decreased it.

> “The data from our report tells two stories — one of balance growth, optimism from younger employees and maintaining contributions, contrasted with a trend of increased plan withdrawals,”
It depends. In some applications, the business users are SQL power users who live and work in the schema, and every bad design choice hurts them every day. But in others, the schema is fully hidden behind UIs and canned output (reports, dashboards, ETLs). It never sees sunlight, so many bodies can be buried.

Even custom, tailored software often gets deployed as SaaS these days.
The Parquet We Could Have
I’ve noticed that there are a lot of new vaccines, and that they are using mRNA tech. In the US, vaccines are exempt from liability lawsuits. Are all of these new vaccines also going to be exempt in the same way that old vaccines are?

Before the pandemic these treatments would have been labeled as gene therapy, but now with their new label as vaccines it seems like there’s a huge incentive to create gene therapies and call them vaccines to get the valuable liability immunity.

Someone please correct me if that is wrong, I don’t want to spread misinformation.
I dont think it was ever a competitor. At least that was not how I remembered it because every one knew PCI-E will take over, especially when Intel is behind both technology.
It is quieter for folks on the ground too. And it doesn’t get grounded when the temperature is too high nearly as much as the 737.

If people realized you could get widebody comfort in a regional jet they’d quit flying on legacy airlines.
This is a hardcore CS book. It's not for beginners. It's not even really a good fit for an American-style CS undergrad course on operating systems.

That's before getting into all the errata for the places where what was written in the book diverges from the actual system implementation.
Not as objective as unemployment definitions though. I am sure lots of people think they could be more productively used than actually could be.

Nevertheless, BLS does have a half decent measure.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/number-of-people-employed-...

Edit: up to date graph

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12032194
The reasons for resistance are reasonably understandable - most science withstands the scrutiny. Think of the alternative, where a barrage of complaints can get almost anything retracted and require the original authors to jump through hoops again and again. In a world where there's huge political value in criticising science generally, and dismantling particular areas specifically, is this what we really want?
I know it’s meant as a dig but I’ll take it as a compliment. I created my first user interface 13 years ago. Since then I went on to get a masters’s degree in visual communication and built up a decade of experience in the industry doing UI/UX and front end development. I don’t care if it’s back handed, if you tell me my work looks great I appreciate it.
Intercom announcements like "flight attendants check-in" are a matter of routine.
Even more with RISCOS which, amazingly, still sees development. I think it was the original platform for NetSurf too.
> The US had one of these scandals too

In 1850, we were in the buildup to the civil war and hadn’t even ended slavery, the political and legal environment were drastically different. I’m not suggesting there aren’t lessons to learn but the comparison is ridiculous.
Thank ya, imma do dat
How healthy would the economy be if 100% had no desire to work? That depends on why those people don't want to work and the overall situation, but until all of our needs are served by robots in reality likely not so healthy.
> At his last school, the philosophy teacher had become irritated. Deciding Georgios was a show-off, he shouted at this meek boy. After that, Georgios never raised his hand again.

> Several teachers told me, “I don’t know how you do it!” By which they meant tolerating Georgios’ odd behaviour. The truth though is that I didn’t always do it. Much of the time, Georgios' clinginess was as irritating to me as it was to them.

As it happens, just before I read this article I had an exchange with GPT-4 about combinatorial mathematics [1]. I wanted to see how feasible it would be to learn about the subject by interacting with it. While I haven’t double-checked everything it told me, I was struck once again by its infinite patience with my questions. It is an amazing resource for students of all kinds—not just gifted ones.

Addendum: Some conversations I had with it about philosophy—the area of interest of the student in the linked article—are at [2]. Again, GPT-4 showed no irritation whatsoever with my questions.

[1] https://gally.net/temp/20240107combinatorialmathematics/inde...

[2] https://youtube.com/@Tom_Gally_UTokyo?si=qDZzPkPcFAC4Tvfc
So what, the Russians told(the classic speil) to him that he's within nuke range. A bowl a day isn't going to keep that away.
And not even MS itself. They just invested in OpenAI to jump ahead.
There's got to be a probability cut-off, though. LLMs don't infinitely connect every token with every other token, some aren't connected at all, even if some association is taught, right?
Neither transport company is in the business of offering free rides. Said "leaders" are actually employees who work for him: they'd better be worried - if they continue to court the media with guy-not-the-game hit pieces, they'll be unemployed. Any senior manager would be in their rights to fire people undermining corporate value and senior management authority.
I ported this to a treemap visualization[1]: https://vrp-treemap.surge.sh/

The treemap library was authored by evmar, chrome OG who's also in this thread.
There is actually another project called NeoSurf (https://github.com/CobaltBSD/neosurf/) which is a fork of NetSurf with the stated goals of "various privacy-focused improvements and additions, and a revamped build system." as well as other improvements.
The fact that Canada criminalizes speech is sweeping authoritarianism, especially since it aggressively enforces anti-speech codes when the speech pertains to criticism of government policy.

Even the CBC article posted above states that the burden is on the persecuted individual "to prove to immigration officials here [in Canada] that it isn't a crime in Canada to criticize the Russian army."

This is not the only example.
I think your reading is uncharitable.

Luxembourg has a 6% unemployment rate, the US has a 3.7% unemployment rate, and
North Korea has a 0% unemployment rate.

Those unemployment numbers are objective realities in terms of being a reflection of a set of collection methods and definitions. But those are not merely a poor proxy for the population's overall wellbeing, they are actively _misleading_.

Prices for food, housing, medical care, education, and used cars going up in the US by 20-50% in a 3 year period while corporate profit margin percentages are at historical highs does not inspire confidence in the future.

Throw in an ongoing decline in life expectancy that puts the US firmly in the category of developing countries while paying 250-400% more GDP for medical care than other industrialized countries, two costly proxy wars which threaten to continue growing in scope, outright state and regulatory capture...

...and worst of all, a political, economic, judicial, and cultural elite with a fairly bipartisan mainstream consensus which doesn't appear to be willing or able to seriously address these issues with policy favored by suparmajorities of the voting public but not by the largest donors.

When the people in charge have been pissing on your leg for decades and tell you that it's just raining when you never see them get wet, you can't expect the abuse to stop in the future, not even if you elect the alternative from one of the two oligarch-backed choices.
My comment from Karri's initial LinkedIn post:

At minimum, this is confidential information. At worst, they may be leveraging privileged information that only they and your Board have.

Either way, it's ugly. Even with a good explanation and tight controls in place, it needs to be opt in for shareholders.
Number of people dependent on EBT/SNAP benefits seems like a reasonable proxy, though even that won't capture the folks who can't/won't navigate access or reside in states more aggressively disqualifying them...
The report you seem to be citing is this one, which summarizes the data on General Aviation flights. Those are small private planes. Commercial air transport is not part of General Aviation.

https://www.aopa.org/-/media/files/aopa/home/training-and-sa...

The last passenger death in a US Commercial Air Carrier was in 2019:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_in...

Even assuming your 24-million flight hour number, that would mean 1 death over 100-million flight hours from 2020-2023.
How exactly do you blackmail the one of richest men in the world for drug usage? Isn’t frequent and somewhat cavalier drug usage basically a staple of Silicon Valley culture? Not sure how this is blackmail worthy. His behavior is separate, although they may be related.
The biggest thing I hate about the marketing is that they call everything CoPilot.

It's extremely confusing to users. Users get free windows CoPilot and wonder why they can't use it to generate PowerPoint presentations because the cool marketing doesn't clarify that that's a $30 a month separate license.

For this reason we actually turn windows CoPilot off. It doesn't really do much for business (it's just chatgpt really which we already offer using a custom integration) and it only causes confusion.

And these aren't the only ones. There's GitHub CoPilot, sales CoPilot (which can talk to Salesforce) and many more. Lots of which have features that won't work with the other iterations.

Another example, CoPilot studio allows you to make custom chat bots similar to the celebrity-tuned bots developed by meta. But no, these don't work in the Microsoft 365 CoPilot. It's such a mess.
11 months early for the 10 year anniversary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538

Edit: and coming up on 40 times on HN!
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'm not saying your comment is without merit, but regardless of how talented or analytical one is, language use is something of a subconscious process and it takes mental effort to consciously tailor it. Maybe not to the same degree as fixing bad handwriting, but it's the same idea.

It also takes emotional regulation to refrain from correcting someone's factual errors. While someone with higher intelligence may be better at understanding and analysing emotions theoretically, this doesn't always translate into practical emotional management skills.
He who controls the data controls the learner. - @pmddomingos

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
We're also trying to preserve the utility of older cards by getting at least portions of the drivers working on alternate platforms (like arm64), so they can be repurposed for Plex/Jellyfin transcoding, retro gaming, GPU compute, etc.: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...
CV as Code
Rewrote my resume/cv using Typst a bit ago, finally got around to publishing the PDF onto GitHub pages using actions.
Well, yes, but I also see their point (even if I'm not sure I agree with it): by being forced to meet IRL, you're also forced to make real contact and seem more likely to form strong relations, and it is off-the-record by default so you can share more things

Of course, the (massive) counterpoint is that you get to talk to way fewer people, particularly if they're more than half an hour traveling away. Quantity versus quality, but by having a lot of quantity through more diverse online interactions, you can find the conversations that have a lot of quality for you (overlapping fields of work, hobbies, or just a personality match).

Which is better? Probably something in the middle, where you hang out in chat rooms but are also conscious of the advantages of arranging to meet up. I do find it inspirational (too strong a word, but you get the idea) to hear of other times or cultures where things are done differently
2008 was quite the thing!

In theory there is quite a bit of subtlety in the data collected. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm (Must say, I have no idea where gig work fits. There is some easy to find data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/918285/gig-economy-numbe... )