skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Realistic view: Unemployment is actually at an all time low despite centuries of industrialization, automation, etc.

A key word is "centuries" - previously this industrialisation was not such a rapid process (took centuries indeed) - people had time to reskill and new generations didn't pursue professions of their parents if those jobs got automated.

This time it's more possible that someone who is going to college this year, graduate in 5 years then maybe will work 5 years to find out their professions got completely automated 10 years from now.
I don’t see any smart, competent and nice person elected by the the greedy, dumb and dishonest average Joe.
That data stops in 2018.

If you read the first line of OP's article, it says "The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) *since 2020*" (emphasis mine).

Last time I checked, there was something big happening globally since 2020.

You're not even looking at the right data. This is like if someone posted an article in 1960 about growth of nuclear weapons and you posted a chart showing that there were no nuclear weapons before 1945.
> A lot of org move to cloud based hosting because it enable them to go way further in FinOps / cost control

I think a lot of orgs move to cloud simply because it's popular and gartner told them so.

But taking a step away from that, it's really about self-service. When the alternative is logging a ticket for someone to manually misconfigure a VM and then fail to send you the login credentials, then your delivery is slow.

When you're chasing revenue, going slow means you're leaving money on the table. When you're a big bureaucratic org, it means your middle managers can't claim to have delivered a whole bunch of shit. Nobody likes being held up, but that's what infrastructure teams historically do.
Ah, I was referring to disruptek. I don't know why you two hated each other's guts, mostly due to being less active back then indeed. For what it's worth I didn't think the banning was undeserved: but the interactions you two had always struck me as strangely animus, and not anything like anything I've ever seen between him and anybody else, and certainly not between any other nimskull developers and anyone, ever.

It is perhaps notable that the nimskull project has a Code of Conduct (and a rather good one at that). I think it is indicative of serious intention to make a welcoming community, and I don't think that contributing members having had in the past what really struck me as personal grievances turning into open-air malice undermines that: particularly, such behavior would fall under the Code of Conduct itself. But again, I have not seen such behavior - quite the opposite! - outside of what happened between you two.
This is not a matter of technology. Any new technology will just get coopted by the rich and powerful. That plucky little startup tasked with making the world a better place will get bought, merged, hedged, stripped, and morphed until it is just (part of) another megacorp.

This is a social issue.
> just to remind people how terrible such weaponry really is.

I can just pull up the video of past tests. Will having it in 4K make any difference?
On search in space and time
Hi,

This article is in response to the feedback to my previous one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902250

Mostly it answers the question why unlimited set of sources are important.

Sincerely,
Andrei Kurilov
the claim was that the US has lost its industry compared to China. which is ridiculous when looking at the numbers, but understandable if someone is misinformed (because they only know about the rust belt, let's say)

what I'm trying to point out is that having a first-class industrial base, with enough experts, well running supply-chains, and so on, is different from eclipsing China in straight to trash gadget output.

that said, of course, as the article and the comment section clearly shows there are a lot of high profile cases where the trope of bean counters ran the business into the ground has been very unfortunately true.

productivity of the whole economy is fine, but aggregates hide a gigantic mountain of first- and second-order effects that hurt millions directly and indirectly. (as you mention wealth, income, health and other kinds of inequalities are mostly reinforced by a lot of powerful systems. and, just to emphasize this, US social mobility is on par with Spain's, despite the latter known for generous welfare programs, but almost all developed countries have serious tensions between rural-urban groups, generational wealth transfer due to real estate prices spiraling out of control, and so on.)

there are other countries besides China, and there are other sectors besides pew-pew and let's say nuclear power plants, or train safety systems.

the obvious (well, of course not to everyone) problem is that there's no serious effort for economic integration with US allies. the US still has a lot of protectionism dressed up as national security. from the Jones Act shenanigans (oh think of the shipbuilders, oh only one left basically in a zombie state), and the baby formula oopsie (oh think of the horror of Canadian baby formula or European, but no Abbott knows best), and there's some pork for the textile industry too, and so on.
I think your hunch is correct very unequal distribution of money leads to economic inefficiency since the money is hoarded (or put into financial instruments or luxurious real estate) and does not trickle to the rest of the economy. Even if on average things are fine (they're not really), if the average citizen is getting left behind you're slowly eroding the middle class and democracy.
I'm American. I've been in two economic classes: dirt poor (as in, more or less homeless, when I was a child, for a bit) and now on the low end of rich (net worth in the mid 7 figure range). I've seen both sides of this inequality, in America, personally. And new social circles that have opened up have given me something of a first-hand view of the "truly" rich as well.

I can list numerous ways that it's a problem, if you like. Here's one to start: "as long as people can move geographically" isn't applicable to those on the lower end of the economic scale. Your comment represents something generalizable about the rich, too: they are completely oblivious to just how hard and draining (physically, mentally, and emotionally) it is to be impoverished. I shudder to think what it's like for the poor in poorer countries.
> Paying poor countries to not build coal plants.

So that they can be replaced with cleaner power or just to bribe people into staying poor?

> Blowing up infrastructure.

So that people starve to death?
The problem is that money is power if you want to define power as "the ability to make things happen"

So the only fact of having the ability to do something alters a lot of financial and social interactions and this depends too on the public perception of the person

Think Gates and Musk, I don't think there is a way to quantify that
Why not creation of wealth?
What do you mean, there are systems out there which effectively deal with any and all complaints common folks have against the rich, ie Switzerland and its wealth tax. Not too much to force everybody to avoid it, not too little to not matter when big sums come into play. Now why this well known approach haven't been implemented in your own country is a question for your own politicians and their donors.

Yet rich still come here to live or retire, despite lacking any serious personal tax-haven lure (in some places in some cases taxes are lower than average here, but for real tax havens just within Europe see Channel islands, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Netherland etc plus everything gets reported back to home countries in case of EU or US).
But it doesn't have BitLocker drive encryption.
The wealth finally trickled. The rest is an adverb.
I'll share my trick :)

Lightsail instances can be used to "proxy" data from other AWS resources (eg EC2 instances or S3 buckets). Each Lightsail instance has a certain amount of data transfer included in it's price ($3.5 instance has 1TB, $5 instance has 2TB, $10 instance has 3TB, $20 instance has 4TB, $40 instance has 5TB). The best value (dollar per transferred data) is the $10 instance, which gives you 3TB of traffic.

Using the data provided by the post:

3TB worth of traffic from an EC2 would cost $276.48 (us-east-1).
3TB worth of traffic from a S3 bucket would cost $69.

Note: one downside of using Lightsail instances is that both ingress and egress traffic counts as "traffic".
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvkx4EnFeKg
Glad to see that Microsoft is making Windows more and more similar to Linux by every passing day :)
Great information! I'm looking forward to seeing this mode in action. Do you know when it will be available for general use?
Tropes related to falling and/or landing
when doing backups, managing file permissions, etc, it's really convenient to only have a fixed number of known files to worry about.

Switching to WAL already makes handling Sqlite databases much less convenient, since you now have three files instead of one, and need a filesystem snapshotting mechanism to reliably back them up (so you don't have one state in the database and another in the wal). Making the filenames and number of files less predictable would make that mode not worth it for many use cases
Fair enough! De gustibus non est disputandum after all.

I did say:

>> Don't get me wrong: I liked the film, as a modern SF film

I agree about Dune. If you know the book, it's a very pretty retelling. If you don't, it's a sort of weird summary with no signs of why so many people love it so much.
Thanks for the reply!

I'm definitely guilty of thinking like a dev. Built what the PM wanted, they liked it, I did good, right? D'oh. I guess I should have been keeping notes of those business figures all this time. I'll definitely do that when I find a job again. Of course, even if sales improved while I was there, I'd feel a bit silly claiming it was because of me, but maybe I should anyway. Thank you!

About summarizing those skills, you're probably right. I did it this way because I had a recruiter say it needed to be clear what tech was used in which job, but I guess people are always going to have different expectations. I'll try it the other way for a bit. Cheers!
As daunting as the fix seems, I appreciate them offering any at all; couple years ago when an update broke ReFS arrays for more than a handful of people, we were never given a solution beyond rolling back, until the update eventually became required and uninstallable, necessitating rebuilding the array from scratch
Evaporated straight up to the top.
But they didn't say 'use LLMs... in Rust' :) Points for that.
Engineering is a compromise, for simple tasks (eg motion of particle is smoke trail exhaust), you need a simple yet FAST rng. For cryptography, casino gaming etc, not only do you use a better Rng with at least 32 byte state, you also cycle the engine at random intervals to further prevent predicting the outcome.
As I stand there next to the river, atop a mountain of lifejackets so numerous I need to employ people just to count them - ten thousand lifetimes worth, I see someone floating past in the water struggling and gasping as they thrash trying to stay afloat. They scream for help, although I can't hear them that well because I'm so high up on this pile and the water keeps getting in their mouth.

I am no longer interested in them and look away. As they drift out of earshot I hear them shout at me. How rude! I have done nothing to them.
If people just randomly delete files they don't fully understand on a production system maybe they should be bitten.
How does Midjourney know what a coke can looks like if nobody takes pictures of coke cans anymore?
Someone should introduce an economical concept equivalent to escape velocity in physics.

If you throw an object towards space from Earth, it will always fall back to Earth, unless you throw it with enough speed (IIRC something close to 11km/s), with which it will eventually "escape" Earth's gravity.

I have a feeling that money follow the same rule: If you have some money but below a certain level, and don't do anything, that amount of money will be eaten by you, taxes, and inflation. But if you have enough money, current rates mean that taxes & inflation will erode your capital slower than the interest you'll earn from that capital alone, and so money is inevitably growing on itself.

As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold...
> To play devil’s advocate, suppose we have a hypothetical billionaire that never spends any of their money on luxury or excess but rather devotes most of their time to figuring out how to use their wealth in a way that extracts maximum humanitarian value from it. You could argue that what constitutes “humanitarian value” is totally subjective and that decisions concerning such a large amount of money shouldn’t be left to one person. But on the flip side, would you say that governments actually succeed at representing the average person’s desire for utilizing tax revenue in a way that optimally benefits society? Do they accomplish this efficiently?

This sounds like Bill Gates. He's chosen humanitarian endeavours that he wants to focus on. I believe its good to have someone who can deploy significant capital on multi-decade projects. Bill Gates doesn't seem like the person who will give up eradicating polio just because he didn't get it done in a term.

However, on the flip side you have Elon Musk buying an influential social media platform...
You don't use all them algorithms explicitly. When have you last done a sort?

However if you know them, you have an intuitive understanding of what your libraries do and are less likely to end up on accidentally quadratic.
He seems to get paid for promoting stuff like blood tests and some supplement company. I tend to ignore that stuff as I ignore all adverts but I would be reluctant to assume that he's selling quack medicine this way.

Some people do seem to assume that since he's getting paid to promote supplements, that those supplements are basically another herbalife. I haven't seen anybody give any evidence for this though.
Thomas Picketty
> I can and do!

I’m openly skeptical.

Most examples I’ve seen of this have been frankly rubbish, which has matched my experience closely.

The larger models, like 70B are capable of generating reasonably good structured outputs and some of the smaller ones like codellama are also quite good.

The 7b models are unreliable.

Some trivial tasks (eg. Chatbot) can be done, but most complex tasks (eg. Generating code) require larger models and multiple iterations.

Still, happy to be shown how wrong I am. Post some examples of good stuff you’ve done on /r/localllama

…but so far, beyond porn, the 7B models haven’t impressed me.

Examples that actually do useful things are almost always either a) claimed with no way of verifying or doing it yourself, or b) actually use the openAI API.

That’s been my experience anyway.

I standby what I said: prompt engineering can only take you so far. There’s a quantitative hard limit on what you can do with just a prompt.

Proof: if it was false, you could do what GPT4 does with 10 param model and a good prompt.

You can’t.
> many conservatives don't see wealth inequality as a problem

Conservatives have never been known for sympathy with the poor. It's basically their schtick: away with this democratic nonsense. That only gives power to the rabble. Back to the glory days of (fighting) the empire!

What I don't get is your debt/CC anecdote. If you cover old debts by getting new ones, you're enlarging your debt (I don't think there's ever been a negative interest on personal debt in the period/society you refer to). That doesn't end well, until the system, which usually involves the government, as the market doesn't give a damn, manages to change your fortunes.
Only "one of the" biggest? What are the other contenders?
AI to hit almost 40% of jobs worldwide
> a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)

I always wondered why the recovery environment seemed to let me have SYSTEM privileges to my auto-decrypted system drive... Thats been the case for years, and you can use it to dump the contents of a machine you've lost the login password to for example.

I guess it wasn't supposed to!
> Unless they need the power, which most applications probably don't, ...

Personal anecdote: though all press releases claim the pi5 is roughly 3x faster than the pi4, in the real-world tests i've run (as opposed to benchmarks) my pi5 is closer to 4-5x faster than the pi4. e.g. compiling C code and converting videos from one format to another. i.e. the pi5 is, for most things, way overpowered for what i do with my pi4s (NAS, manage several remote backups, and (until the pi5 arrived) video conversion).
I think this is more commonly referred to as “fuck you money”.
Hey, this feels like a valuable insight. Thank you.

The CV would be a lot shorter with only the 3D graphics stuff, but maybe that's not a problem? I'll try creating a separate graphics developer CV and see what happens.

I've heard the horror stories about games industry conditions so hadn't really pushed in that direction but will definitely start looking for non-gaming 3D jobs.

Thanks again, much appreciated.
You make a good point about it being unamplified. To be fair, I pretty much committed every audio cable sin by running the cheap speaker cables in parallel with powered cables with the excess coiled up plopped on top of coiled power cables. Maybe it would've been fine just not running it parallel to power or not coiling.

But yes on very important for the line side. Connected a long cheap RCA cable to powered speakers, and the moment I pulled it across carpet the speakers started crackling. Then I understood exactly what my buddy meant by "these are garbage" when he gave them to me, so not too sure what the intended purpose of such a long poorly insulated RCA cable was.
Demystifying the use of Parquet for time series
> link color
Sam Bankman Fried? Possibly wasn’t a billionaire at that point yet, but either, it’s the exception that proves the rule.
A new Tyrannosaurus species is identified in New Mexico
Do you struggle to complete projects/ideas?
Sure, unless the "fortune" depends on the "misfortune" of a few thousand employees.
There are also many bare metal and VPS providers that charge radically less for bandwidth or even charge by size of pipe rather than transfer.

Cloud bandwidth pricing is… well the best analogies are very inappropriate for this site.
So it's basically double buffering, but for databases? That makes sense.
Show me 1 single truly good honest person who managed to get through all the crap of local and state politics to get into party and get elected... if you think you know some, you just don't know them well enough.

There are no nice people in politics anywhere near real power, just broken, messed up, sociopaths and so on. Why do you think these folks would do anyhow better than rich when deciding common good? Also, every successful politician has somebody powerful and rich behind them who groomed them into position they have now, its not like they get elected and decide/vote from that point on based on their own moral values, thats not how real life looks like.
https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

> 51.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing or content delivery network (CDN) Services as described in the technical documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account.
How AI Is Disrupting Our Industry, and What We Can Do About It
> banks were literally throwing credit cards at everyone

That sounds dangerous - did anyone get injured?
I don't wish to argue with you that "[y]our job is to make the best judgement call as you see it" but if you are going to avoid the obviously, superficially, relevant Bible verse, it's as conspicuous as if it was written in letters of flame 50 feet tall.

I'm not saying that verse has any particular objective meaning that we must accept. I haven't the least interest in promoting correct theology.

It's just that not mentioning it - given its superficial relevance - makes the whole comment seem like a strange joke.
It’s around $300,000 that’s when you can get your 9% return and have roughly median income in the US. Maybe 500,000 to be safe.
This graph is about "extreme poverty", that is people living with less than $2.15 a day, per UN definition. It's possible to have less "extremely poor" and more "poor" people at the same time.
> triumph of capitalism at the expense of freedom and democracy

As someone who was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, I can assure you capitalism, freedom and democracy came together while we had communism, lack of freedom and dictatorships.
But we do have 10 fingers. And apart from that, base 10 is just about right. Not too small to be hard to comprehend, not too big to force your memory.

Would it be easier for you if you are using base 2 or base 16?
> what is the eventual physical utility of all this stored wealth? As an analogy, if money is like potential energy when kept in the form of financial instruments and real estate, what is its first eventual “kinetic” form after belonging to a billionaire?

Money is just a proxy for power (as are things like title to real estate, equity ownership in a business, board seats, etc).

The utility is just that, the power to do something. Obviously, greatly depends on the one wielding it, but also on the environment (status of civilization, courts, relationships, orderly societies, wars, availability of resources).

Note that all of these abstractions for power mean nothing if other people do not respect them. I take that to mean “wealth”, in a way, is a measure of how orderly a society (or world) is, regardless of how unfairly distributed it is.
Paying for bandwidth is crazy.
kobolD was right there, dammit.
I see you have never used Visual Studio
1. List your skills separately as well in a small box somewhere. I shouldn't have to read your entire CV to find out.

2. You didn't mention your educational background. Please list if possible.
I see you dont know what citations are
Don't hate this world, simply hate central banks. Fiat money is the primary reason the rich get richer and poor get poorer.
Cellular 4G/5G + Laptop. I want to hear the excuses for this combo.
There's no periodicity in visualization. The design space of visualization is much more complex the atomic number.

Also, this "periodic table" does not show the three main branches of visualization: Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, and Geographic Visualization.

For example, this page gives an overview of time-oriented visualization with meta information like the original paper: https://browser.timeviz.net/

It also seems to be maintained by people working in that area.
> ...

ineffective strawperson based on unfounded speculation

hard pass
Humans have developed a thing called violent revolution when they feel injustice is too severe.