skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add, gasoline tax Germany is $2.76/gallon and the EU requires a minimum of $1.55 per gallon. https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/gas-taxes-in-europe-20...
As you just pointed out the tax alone is still about 100% of the base cost. Not many goods are the US are taxed like that. It works because it's a universal good.
Did the USD or EURO gain +7000% in the last decade? Didn't think so.
I'm struck by seeing headlines like these and the layoffs but then hearing anecdotally of people graduating with CS degrees making 6 figures out of the gate. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 25% growth 2022-2032 for software engineers, compared to 10% for Mechanical Engineers, and a current $30K higher median pay. I look at Indeed and for software engineer and there are 65K jobs while for mechanical engineering there are 18K.

Is the market really bad? I haven't accounted for relative populations but it just seems like despite the all the headlines it's still a good place to be.
I guess it would make sense if they were all jammed, though I'm not sure the fact that your phone didn't pick those up really proves this was the case? I have no idea how these work but I could totally imagine phones interpreting jammed signals differently from weak/nonexistent ones. Plus, I've had at least one that nominally supported all of those but in practice didn't really feel that way. You're probably right, just not sure you can deduce it from your phone in particular.
Reminds me of the beginning to A Deepness In The Sky, where the astronomers detect weird oscillations in a foreign body and decide to send a mission to investigate…
Do you have any evidence to refute what they're saying, or are ad hominem attacks all you got?

Given the much higher potency of a lot of the pot you find in the US these days, the more-relaxed culture around it, and people's tendency to overuse illegal things that have been recently legalized, this result is hardly surprising. THC is a psychoactive compound... what do we think it's gonna do if consumed in large concentrations?

I think it's fine and good that pot is legal in many places in the US now (and hope that only expands), but I don't think education is up to par. People seem to think "oh it's safer than tobacco/alcohol/whatever" and don't really think too much about their consumption levels or frequency. I've known people who consume so much pot, that if it were alcohol, we'd be super worried about them and want them to go to AA or something. And yet, with pot, it doesn't trigger any warning bells for most people.
Very cool. Turned my brain off. High pitch is a bit too sharp fir me.
They probably tried to move as many as possible to Bard or to backfill Ads / Android etc but some of these are people who wouldn’t / couldn’t move. It mainly signals that upper management is not up to task and made bad bets. Fitbit was a great product and for Google to axe the founders says “we care about monetizing users not serving them.”
The web version has worked since at least 2020.
Yes. Those things are illegal because they tear up the land unnecessarily.

The roads are maintained, they're packed, they're graded, they're specially designated places for us to travel so we don't tear up the whole earth. We pay taxes to do so. I'm not asking to drive on a road I don't pay for. We've all banded together in soceity to build this infrastructure for our shared use.

It's like the path in your yard. Wouldn't you expect people to walk on the sidewalk to your front porch and not walk all over the yard?

Why is this a foreign concept?
Sorry if my comment came across as condescending.

However the point remains that it’s simply impossible.

My original analogy of 1.3cm versus 200km was wrong according to another commenter in fact it’s more like 1.3cm versus 1,300km - so vastly impossibly far out of the range of anything that could be conceivably be done under any plausible scenario.
USD and Euro are great assets to hold if you have the ability to access banking services that support them, which isn't universal.

Are you questioning the data?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202468/global-cryptocur...
Does this ban work in Canada as well. right
epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)
I'm not sure this is necessarily the case, especially considering techniques like RLHF that can improve a model's performance.
A company that plans ahead a little can also relocate top talent BEFORE the layoff rounds start, and even relocate people they want to get rid of TO the part of the or where layoffs are coming.

I'm sure some orgs stealthily start planning this months if not years ahead of such events, especially if they identify that they have unproductive people on board that are difficult to fire the regular way (like European employees, where regulations makes it harder to fire people than in the US).
Maybe not gold but as the old British saying goes "there's brass in muck"
> Confident people end up laid off all the same

Indeed, and I am under no such illusions. But it's silly to live in fear of. Hubris would be thinking that your organization or relationship is special.

7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine.
Not if they move fast and build that moat to maintain their castle as the only provider of highest-quality models' services.
Can't speak for him, but I would guess that the answer is most working artists pay the rent churning out a stream of unfulfilling, uncreative, derivative works (so they can buy themselves time to do actual artist things) requested by the sort of customer who has no idea what their real motivations are for requesting an artist who can create, when what they actually want, is a craftsman who can make.

Most buyers of "creative work" are perfectly happy to pay a premium for something that looks remarkably like something -else- that impressed them, even though this is orthogonal to the purpose of working with an artist.

I don't blame (actual) creative artists for dumping this craftwork drudgery onto AI, but it's hard to say what long-term consequences of tapping an ever-dwindling reserve of unexploited prior creative art will be.

Maybe the world will end up like one of these ancient cultures whose creative inventory crystallized a century or two into their development and remained the same for the next 500 years until they collapsed.
I rent individual movies for $3-4 apiece, and that turns out to be a big win over Netflix because I typically only watch 1-2 movies per month, and the rental service has a bigger library.

But I think that I'm a very unusual consumer in that respect. If I liked to watch TV series more then I'd be bingeing those, and that's where I think Netflix really attracts consumers, not movies. I don't think there's an economical way to do a la carte viewing of TV series on a regular basis.
Can confirm. Core Developer is impacted, with what appears to be roughly an 8-10% layoff.
This "spells" is such a great way to explain how it feels to me to use these assistants. I'll play with one if I'm at a friend's house, but honestly can't see the appeal. Telling Google to change the color of the lighting or brightness just seems like something that is mostly a gimmick unless you're maybe disabled and then it may be a big quality of life improvement. The other stuff doubly so.

With ChatGPT I can see the appeal for certain tasks like having it create a custom text adventure for you, but I can't see it being too useful in my day to day life yet.
For the curious, OP's blog: https://blog.quastor.org
> And more generally, determining the optimal level of the money supply to match the needs of a dynamic economy is not trivial

No, we don't need some grand wizards in an ivory tower to finely tune the amount of money in the economy, that idea is absurd. The economy has worked fine for thousands of years before they started doing that. In fact, since they started doing it we've seen ever growing boom and bust cycles.
Last time i checked it's still gonna suffer from 51% attack? Or its ECDSA implementation might have NSA backdoor?

There is no stats how many people were robbed, how many accounts where hijacked, how many keys were guessed (due to crap implementations) etc. I think there was no other technology in the world that lost so much of people's cash with no responsibility of any kind.

Yeah, just like gold - if you lived in 860 AC and thought copper was gold too - then it's a valid comparison!
So which North American Airlines are forced to ground their 737 max planes?
It is a tool, those who learn to use the tool will benefit more. average people will be average in using it, smart people have the potential to use it smartly.
You can type shit here. It's ok, we all know what you meant anyway.
They still haven't gotten their hardware shit together. As a consumer I can't buy a PCIe card that slots into my system with more than 24GB of VRAM, whether it's from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel. Nvidia's prices will continue to be high while there is literally no competition.

I guess before datacenter class cards can trickle down to the consumer, they do have to get their software shit together first.
> This group is no more affiliated with Israel than Alex Jones is affiliated with the U.S.

Who gives a damn about affiliation? What matters is the material effect on the world, and it's hard to find a more notorious propaganda movement in the world than hasbara
Arrested for what? The system gave them permissions, they didn't exfil data, and they disclosed it to the company. He did those companies a favor by showing them how vulnerable they are by outsourcing every operation and process in pursuit of profits.
I just append #alias for my most used commands and use reverse search
I'm sure Pixel Watch as a project predates the acquisition. Garden variety corporate turf war.
GitHub Repository Custom Properties Beta
It would be rather silly to assume all bears have the same last name "bear"! It's not as if people all walk around saying "Oh hi I'm Timothy Human" "Nice to meet you, I'm Rachel Human, are we related?"

Which, come to think of it, is kind of a funny notion, and a nice reminder that despite our differences we really are all related!
Not the entire answer but apparently Pixel watch massively outperformed Fitbit as of late: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/pixel-watch-sales-po...
It looks like lots of quick calls to numpy. The python ffi is really slow and is eating all the gains. A large matmul works fine, but not thousands of small ones. Hpy numpy port might fix this.
There is no evidence of these "good reasons".

In fact, there are many new articles bemoaning cost overruns, delays, poor performance, and more.

From what I've experienced first-hand with government tender processes, engineering considerations are a distant third on the priority list at best.

That's how you end up with the SLS using rocket engines from the Shuttle that cost more than an entire Falcon 9 rocket. Except that the the SLS uses 5 of these single-use engines, but the Falcon 9 is reusable dozens of times.

There really are situations that are this absurd, and the military industrial complex is notorious for them.

I would argue that the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate why F-35 jets are using hardware 100-1,000x worse in ever metric. Also please demonstrate why it uses bizarre non-standard CPUs instead of CotS hardware as seen in civilian avionics, SpaceX rockets, automotive ECUs, or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.
Old news. The report came out early on when the protocol was implemented. Nobody cared just like many other unscientific measures like ok to play college and pro sportsball but not any level below collegiate. Ok to have live TV skits with no masks like SNL but not ok to walk on a wide open beach with no mask....meh.
"It's not TV, it's _Apple tv+_"
I would wager a fair amount that Google took that lens and very likely "saved" much of the talent that they had previously identified as top tier (in some cases months or quarters before this round of layoffs; in others during the layoff prep).
Is there any plan to slow the probes or would they inspect Proxima Centauri very quickly?
Blur Radius Comparison
This is the OPPOSITE of the truth. Boom and bust cycles were much worst in the pre-central bank world.
maybe they need some sort of profit center to keep themselves funded to reach their goals
Made ~$85k/year at the DOE lab I mentioned as a sysadmin, was offered ~$175k/year for a US Digital Service role with ~15 years of infra/sysadmin/generalist experience. YMMV. Imho you’ll top out ~$190k-$200k. Not FAANG money, but also not homeless.
Experience can be shackles too. Most "senior" guys I know are just too stuck in their old ways to adapt well going forward.
I wonder how much the one-time costs were for this project, compared to the cost of the batteries themselves:

- land acquisition

- earthworks

- civil construction

- grid hookup
> Fitbit was a great product and for Google to axe the founders says “we care about monetizing users not serving them.”

Is this really a surprise to anyone at this point?
Also Amazon Prime Video.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-lay-off-employees-...
The Un-Brie-Lievable History of Tyromancy
Mega launches high-speed VPN for Android devices
Carbon emission is a poor and (purposefully) misleading idea of pollution. Lithium batteries may produce less carbon emissions over their lifetimes, but mining that lithium and producing the batteries is still incredibly ecologically damaging.[0]

Companies, in particular, adore the carbon-centric pollution angle because it allows them to ignore the physical pollution they cause every day, while profiting off of ESG. Microsoft alone will have caused an estimated 240,000,000 PCs to have been junked.[1]

[0] - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-env...
[1] - https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-dra...
UBI. Stoners sitting in their apartments watching Netflix and ordering in pizza are good for the economy and good for the environment, compared to being starving and out stealing.
Regulators Approve New Type of Bitcoin Fund, in Boon for Crypto Industry
Start at the top.
I wonder if in 2034, we'll be able to run GTA V in the browser for free with some cool open source project
MFA today is both 'simple' and non-trivial work
If the Alexa/Echo-category of devices are meant to be some widely flexible and pervasively useful device from Star Trek, they're a failure.

If they're meant to be a usable $30 kitchen timer and music player, they're pretty great.
Inauthentic (bot) behavior on Twitter has gotten insane, nearly any political or social issue is like watching ants fight another colony and pick at each other.
I looked at Apple a long while ago - and whilst they certainly have teams doing interesting work - relocating to California will always be a hard no for me… They have positions elsewhere but much less varied.
Whew, that's a big validation for myself.

I've never touched marijuana (or any illegal drug) because I've been perpetually paranoid about the possibility of it being spiked with something horrible. Even as a teenager, when all my friends were smoking weed all the time, I never even tried it because I, as a rule, don't eat or drink anything if I cannot potentially sue the person who gave it to me.

I've had my share of alcohol [1], so it's not like I'm moralizing or anything, and I do wish weed would be legalized just so we could properly research potential side effects, because what really annoys me is how much of an over-correction people have made with weed. The logic appears to be "the claims about weed's harm were really exaggerated, so therefore there's no downsides to it ever at any point". I've known people who put THC in their vape and just puff on that all day, and when I've very lightly mentioned that it might a tiny bit unhealthy to need to consume a drug all day, they give me a lecture about all the positive features of weed.

I'm at least a little glad now that I never experimented with it when I was a teenager; I got enough mental issues as it is.

[1] Not in quite awhile, and I'm a full teetotaler now since I have sleep apnea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd came out in 1978, if we're keeping score.
your client wants an "app" along with the website and you crank it out and put it up on the app store just to shut them up.
At the time, many games were linear and didn't have anywhere to get lost. The first time I played SM64 I remember not knowing exactly what to do. I spent the first bit of time banging on doors, grates, or other inactive features trying to figure out how to work them. The interactions let me know I was going in the right direction.
This is speculation based on how stupid-looking decisions typically happen at big companies: Internal politics.

Probably there was an internal team outside the Fitbit group that wanted to build a watch. Their leader(s) had enough political clout to get the okay for a parallel effort, and apparently enough to eventually kill the Fitbit group entirely.

Again this is pure speculation, but once a company exceeds a certain size it's amazing how much waste can occur because of infighting.
GPT 6 bakported to the past to combat GPT 4 generated spam and GPT 5 guided scam.
Also if you want to attribute the decline of Rome to any monetary policy, deflation is much more likely. Periods of deflation in the 4th and 5th centuries led to hoarding and burying of coins rather than productive use of wealth, leading to declines and further deflation. Rome never escaped from this deflationary trap and many of these coin hoards were never dug up.

Ironically bitcoin attempts to replicate this failed monetary policy.
Perhaps a good metric for how much this should be worth would be to ask whether buying this book for a junior developer with your own money would save you that amount in the long term. Based on the article only, and the amount of times I've personally had to have similar discussions, I'd say it's worth that amount at least (and likely more).
Wait you mean that https://instalopter.com didn't give you accurate information on modern DOM parsing?
> The particular problem is they made up a whole bunch of shit and when the sciences in general came around, people when "wow, religion is a bunch of controlling bullshit".

I think you have your history a bit backwards.

Galileo is considered the father of modern science, and he was one of the people that believed those goat herders. He argued that his views were in accordance with the Bible, not that the Bible was a bunch of random shit that was made up. Here’s his words on the matter:

>> Holy Scripture and nature both equally derive from the divine Word, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit, the latter as the most obedient executrix of God’s commands.[0]

The reading the rest of that letter also seems to indicate that he was pretty heavily invested in his beliefs of religion and science being supportive of one another. The father of modern science believing and arguing for religion kind of makes your whole argument a moot point.

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~jsabol/certainty/readings/Galileo-...
think there’s a misunderstanding. in my jurisdiction we use the word offence to refer to criminal actions. If the penalty is only civil, then this bolsters the case for being bold toward omens treatment of orphan works
Associating an independent politically motivated group with an ethnic state as a whole is a common means of disseminating racist views. Israel is no more involved in act.il than the U.S. is involved with Alex Jones, and it's worth pointing that out because otherwise people might think that this operation has some kind of official endorsement by the Israeli government.
...is there any reason to doubt these figures? Is there any reason to suspect that Hamas is any less trustworthy than the Israeli government is?
I lived in capitalism for 50 years. I’ve seen hyper capitalism reduce or remove education, devalue income and Labor, force people to work two or three jobs to survive barely. That’s in a western society where capitalism is supposed to work.

If anyone thinks the good it did is anything but an accident I expect some people will be really surprised when it turns out how bad things are.

At this point it’s ignorant to not see how much damage it has done. But okay. Keep riding the dead horse.
I could say the same about privacy or encryption. It's probably why the average person doesn't care about either of those things when pressed.

Ideologically I'm not opposed to Bitcoin or the idea of it existing for the base it serves. It's too volatile to suggest for serious investment though, and it's reached an uncomfortable echelon of "nerd joke gone too far" for my taste. Real people do not need to waste life-hours learning about this when their local government invests in a clear and immediately fungible form of currency for them already. Investors should not be wasting life-hours learning about a perpetually-irrational investment when other industries are both safer investments and arguably more innovative.

> Your same logic would apply to dollars in that case as well.

It would, mostly. Most people who oppose the online adoption of crypto probably object to the same level of microtransaction in any currency.
I’m sure there are a handful of domain experts that Google would prefer to keep on staff even if they are working on pet projects, but Google is certainly not hiring thousands of extra engineers to keep them away from Microsoft and Meta.
Market power just means having a negotiating position that allows you to determine prices, regardless of how that negotiating position is obtained. It can either come from illicit means (say cartels for example), or from true innovation and investing into the right things.

I think that both the customers of Nvidia as well as the competition are keen on replacing it (given the scale that many of the big customers work at, I'm sure they can afford the engineers to migrate the LLM models to ROCm if it were a viable alternative), but it seems that they cannot manage to make replacements fast enough.

> The most interesting detail is that Nvidia managed to double sales without incurring additional costs
I don't understand how this could go on for so long.

Was there not one case where they stepped back and thought maybe this is a totally stand up person and there is something wrong with the software?
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224
Section-174[1]
maybe?

[1]: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
> Please trust me when I say that I do not give a damn about the price of bitcoin. What I care about is stopping runaway energy consumption, and from that perspective proof-of-work is the biggest existential threat to humanity since the atom bomb.

Mate, this is ridiculous.

Global energy usage was 179000 Twh (terawatt hours) in 2022. (https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption)

Bitcoin energy usage was at its highest in 2022 at 200 Twh.
(https://www.statista.com/statistics/881472/worldwide-bitcoin...)

So 200/179000 * 100 = 0.11%

Bitcoin energy usage accounted for 0.11% of global energy usage and you think it is the biggest threat to humanity since the A-Bomb? Bitcoin is entirely irrelevant to the grand scheme of things re climate emissions.

So you are wrong on this point:

> bitcoin is a nontrivial component of that and it threatens to grow at an exponential pace

Bitcoin IS a trivial component of overall emissions and even with an insane ramp up would not be close to being the biggest issue re emissions.