skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to be missing a hugely important fact here:

The level of grift seen in American society today is not normal.

It's worse than what I've seen in other Western countries by a lot.

Do I have hard data to support this? No. But anecdotally, everyone - everyone - I know who visits America has noticed this.

"The people over there are like wolves". "They're shameless". "They're all so focused on money". "That whole culture is just scams on scams on scams". "Christ, they're all so fake!" - All actual quotes, with emphatic expletives removed.

I know it's not a common topic of conversation for Americans, but the world hates us now. We're the number one threat to peace and stability since 2003, and only getting worse. Yes, I am ashamed of us. We had so much potential.

Presidents are grifters now. The military industrial complex is a grift. College is a grift. Healthcare is a grift - to an absurd and horrifying level. Banking is a grift that hurts the poorest the most, far worse than in other countries. The news is a grift. The legal system is stuffed to the brim with grift right up to the Supreme Court and right down to the police on the street.

It's been normalized to an extreme degree, at every level of American society. "I'm a hustler". "Don't hate the player". "Looking out for number one", etc. These are not normal phrases in other countries! This is seen as the sign of a very sick culture, one where to survive you need to fuck over other people; one where fucking people over to "get your bag" is seen as a necessity rather than as an abhorrence.

Again - this isn't normal in other countries. We've always had caveat emptor, but the idea that it's fine and normal to get 8 spam phone calls a day would be absurd in any other wealthy country.

This is, imo, fallout from the relentless attacks on anything that could be construed as socialist or taking care of people - itself a massive grift.

The war on terror was a grift - one that has resulted in trillions of wasted dollars - and it resulted in absolutely no consequences for anyone except the whistleblowers who exposed atrocities, war crimes, and global surveillance.
I've been trying to buy a toaster for the last two months.

People seem to either get the cheapest models, or some get "the Smeg" or another expensive name brand that has the same designer product in a zillion colours.

There are a few mid-price models (like Bosch) that still seem to be manufactured "locally", but for some reason they are hard to find at the moment.

You can't compete with the stream of cheap crap from China (I'm not implying that all of those are bad; just brand labels slapped on random products). The question is if you can become "the Smeg" and have people pay extra for your name. That sort of brand recognition will take a lot of time and effort, and need to be aimed at a certain kind of customer that has both money and cares beyond the appliance's function.
As a younger person who in theory is interested in model railways, the sad truth is that the drawbacks simply outweigh the benefits.

Model trains are physically large, so building a layout in my apartment is pretty much impossible. They are extremely expensive, and if you want to get something which can do more than literally run around in a circle you're looking at a $X000 setup cost. The "sexy" part (digitally controlling the trains) seems to be pretty much stuck with poorly-designed protocols from the 80s.

I like trains. I like DIY electronics. I like 3D printing. But given the barrier to entry, I'll just stick with OpenTTD or some kind of Euro Train Simulator game.

My friends are into Warhammer and DIY racing drones. If those hobbies have no trouble attracting younger people, the problem here really isn't young people's interest.
> while people who think LLMs "think" will misuse LLMs and get predictably worse results.

I've found that now that I see LLM's less as thinking and more as stochiastic parrot I get a lot less use from them because I give 3-5 turns at most versus 10 turns.
cycles were always there, just now it seems like the intervals are getting shorter and shorter...
The abstract at that page seems incomplete.
Which is why cars are heavily regulated - there are tons of rules about who gets to drive one, how that license can be revoked, a full table of punishments if you break those rules, requirements to buy insurance etc. So you are also in favor of heavy regulation of drugs then?
In this specific case, it's the other one which is a duplicate of this one, it just so happens the other one got the upvotes and commentary -- it happens, who knows why

I also will never cease to wonder why there isn't the most cursory check for duplicate urls or keywords, but I guess it's the same answer it always is: it's just not important to them, for all values of "them"
Yes, the implementation matters, I just found it jarring that two trivially disproved claims from recent history start the article.
“ But LEGO trains are not model trains (my goodness), they're toy trains - a completely and unrespectable thing.”

I love this condescending sounding distinction, it’s actually very accurate! When I was 12 or 13 I had an uncle that was into model railroading and I thought it looked so fun and cool! Then I started looking into it more and it’s not really (at least to me at that age) because it’s not a toy you take out of the box and play with a 100 different ways. You build a very static and detailed landscape, put your rails down, start the train up, and just sit back and look at it. Where’s the fun in that?

I just got a Lego train set for me and my kids and we’ve already built several different ways, crashed the train and rebuilt parts of multiple tiles, discovered you can program it with the new PoweredUp system, put mini figures on the roof of the cars, etc.
It's not shared, but they have a list of most blocked etc. domains: https://kagi.com/stats
The Story of Lemmings and GTA [audio]
Have been using it for over 2 years now, for a team of nearly 80 people. Love it - both self-hosted and as a service. Very quick to respond to issues on github, and the tool keeps evolving.
> But then you get hired for a trench-digging job, and told that you have to use the car, because reasons.

That's not a problem caused by the car. That's a problem caused by someone looking at a worksheet, see "dig a trench" in it, and promptly say "this looks like a job for my trusty car.".
Once.com is going to be a series of products, so their first product will be this I guess?
No, eBay no longer owns PayPal.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/ebay-paypal-split/
The board should say 'no' and counter with stock options.
Overall,Tesla would be much better off using that 12% stake to lure and retain engineering talent.

Musk starting work on AI at Tesla (which is already the case) and then intentionally forming a competitor elsewhere would be a huge conflict of interest and violation of his responsibility to Tesla. The one possibility where this may not apply is if he built out the AI group at SpaceX. But he'd still be in a situation where he is not acting in Tesla's best interest and , in fact, competing against Tesla.

Tesla's board could get rid of him, and sue, and win (and possibly claw back a lot of Musk's existing stake in the suit). That would be risky but also possibly a good course of action. At a minimum, it is a realistic threat that the board can use in deliberations.

The reality is that Musk probably has pretty good control of the board and will get something good out this... probably not 12%, but definitely not nothing.
Makes sense. And, TF Lite is excellent for on-device models and inference.
You're almost there, soon you'll realize digital assets in general are important for aligning incentives.
Many of the decisions for Pascal seem aimed for a teaching language as opposed to a production language.

Because it was. The fact it could be extended in so many ways to be a production language shows it had 'good bones', but many practical issues, like I/O, were left as an 'excercise to for the student'.

There seems to have been a lot of revisionist history around Wirths passing with people using Pascals limitations as an indictment of his PLT creds, virtually all of which ignore he was an academic working in academic environment on topics that interested him at the virtual beginning of programming on very, very limited machines. It's like calling Watt a hack because he didn't also add a supercharger and emissions control to the steam engine.
Filecoin, the thing funding IPFS, certainly does :)
> playing the contrarian

I don't "play" contrarian. If my views happen to be contrary to yours, or to the majority's, that's just how it is, how I am, and how I've always been from a very young age. Nonetheless, there are plenty of subjects on which I'm in agreement with the majority.

> hate for the rich

Well, my view is that our economic system tends to select for people who are unethical and ruthless, so if there's any hate, I would argue that it's a rational hate rather than an irrational hate. In general, though, my issue is with the system, and defenders of the system, rather than with the beneficiaries of the system.

> To me, it is just an axiom that working harder is correlated with more wealth.

To me, it's not an axiom. I don't consider it to be self-evident or even true. If you don't want to argue over your axiom and defend it from criticism, you're free to walk away, but you shouldn't be surprised when someone doesn't accept your beliefs as evidently true.

> It boggles my mind that anyone can think of Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI as unimpressive.

The word "impressive" means "evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill". The question is, why should I have admiration for something I don't care about, or even something I dislike? If a person that I vehemently oppose gets elected POTUS, am I supposed to "admire the accomplishment"? Only 45 people have ever been President, so in that sense it's an accomplishment, yet "admiration" is not really the appropriate attitude in these case; more like "horror". I understand that if you admire Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI, then you might admire Musk too, but I personally don't give a crap about any of them and even consider aspects of them to be a negative for society.

Just to evoke Godwin's law, are we supposed to be "impressed" by the "accomplishments" of Hitler? He did have a major impact, changing the world forever, doing some unprecedented things, and greatly affecting tens of millions of people. (I'm reminded of the sarcastic conversation that Paul had with Stilgar and Korba in Dune Messiah.)

Back to the more mundane subject of wealth accumulation, from my perspective, gluttony and insatiable greed are not an accomplishment, they're a personality flaw, a pathology.

> There is such a visceral hate for "rich people" that there is no room for any positives. This is looking to me more like a cult.

I was happy to ignore Musk as much as possible until recently, and to me his followers seemed very much like a cult. Unfortunately, Musk acquired Twitter, which was my social network of choice, and then proceeded to wreck it in many ways, which is mainly why I hate him in particular. Again, it's not some weird "irrational" hate but rather a direct reaction to his actions.
Yeah I'm not saying anything about the truth of that, just that the title doesn't match the content
Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. – Joan Westenberg
> Again, who said banks would go bankrupt?

This is the first time in the thread that "banks going bankrupt" has been mentioned by anyone.
Look for anywhere with an oceanic climate. Ironically, much of Europe will do fairly well, climate wise, you just have a much higher population density to contend with.
If you want to get really nuts: consider that high temperature superconductors are a good match for hydrogen cryogen coolant. Hight temperature superconductors work with liquid nitrogen, but work best with liquid helium and there just isn't that much helium in the world compared to how much superconducting magnets we could use.
Why Your RAG Application Needs ETL
Building enterprise level RAG solutions take more than building the application but also building the data platform and infrastructure that the application has to depend upon
Work on your social skills. Past a certain technical competence threshold, social skills are 60-75% of the job. Companies no longer want good programmers; they want redundant arrays of average programmers, which means that if you are an average engineer who is oriented toward collaboration and communication you are on the fast track to success in this field.
Don't forget glass. They moved all the glassmakers to a closed island next to the main island and viciously protected their intellectual property to maintain a monopoly on high quality glasses for a long time.

I really start to wonder about island nations/seafaring countries, shipping/maritime industry, and their extraordinary success.
If the author is reading this, sorry but I spaced out when you started going into the history of passwords.

When you say passwordless in this day and age my thoughts go straight to hw keys.

And speaking of hw keys I started using one alongside my gpg password for my personal password manager a year ago.

After 1 year I removed the hw key from the list of keys.

My experience is that it's more of a hassle to reach for a hw key every time I need to view a password, than it is to just enter a very long passphrase.

I'm of course special to be able to remember multiple very long passphrases, but as long as I do it's much more convenient.

Then it also got me thinking, what if I had gone 100% hw key and lost the key? Then my passwords are lost forever. It's much harder to lose the passphrase in my head.
You have to balance being good with maximizing profit. If you aren't good, your userbase will go elsewhere.
Are they? I have taken two full-year sabbaticals over the course of my thirty-year career, and this has yet to pose a problem when looking for a new job.

People rarely ask; when they do, I have some good stories to share, and I think the experiences make me more, not less, interesting.
The default kubernetes implementation owned by github[1] assumes ephemeral runners by default. You can also specify what policies they should have using regular network policies provided by kubernetes. So, if you have a kubernetes cluster, that's the way to go.

[1]: https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller
the NSA has always liked somewhat weak encryption. specifically, they would really like if encryption could be broken in very roughly 1 week to 1 year on a super computer.
I stopped logging in into GitHub since then. My customers are using Bitbucket right now so the only reasons to log into GitHub would be to search the code of some project or opening an issue to one. Luckily I can search issues without being logged in and about opening issues, I feel a little bad but I don't open them anymore. It was my way to contribute to open source, it's gone because of too much friction.
This is a negative sum game - to stand out, I embellish my resume, so now you have to do the same and we're back on square 1 but the efforts are spent.

Do we want to turn job seeking into a contest of resume designers? Do we have a feedback from the employers who are supposedly interested in best employees, not the best to pass interviews?
Sadly they are not available in Belgium (Europe) :(
Notably missing is HUNK, AmigaOS's object file format.
I had a similar reaction. It's not rust that makes this faster. It's the algorithm chosen. The rust part is an attention grabbing headline.

However I could see an argument that rust or another higher level language makes it easier for someone to experiment with a new algorithm and iterate faster on those ideas.
> We find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do. [...] We further observe an
inverse relationship between affiliate marketing use and content complexity, and that all search engines fall victim to large-scale affiliate link spam
campaigns.

I think this is an excellent methodology for testing the quality of search results. I would love to see a standard search engine test and scoring system based on this, maybe similar to some of the LLM scoring systems.
> so an Ephraimites soldier was literally incapable of pronouncing the word "correctly".

And, importantly, they would not even have realized that they were saying it wrong, because they would have been unable to hear the difference.

As a modern example: I have an acquaintance from Tonga. At some point she got very frustrated with the people around her who didn't understand what she meant by the "rittel bin". She finally pointed at the trash can.

"Oh, the litter bin!"

"That's what I said, the rittel bin!"

In Tongan, l and r are the same phoneme, and native speakers cannot distinguish them without practice.
Part of me feels like this is simply the result of it being an aged hobby. When most of the people involved in the hobby are of retirement age with plenty of money to spare, why would anyone try to compete on price?
Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold
There's just so much journalism with it's hand out...
At the same time modeling of "real things", except maybe RC airplanes, seems to be in a decline. For instance there don't seem to be many people into building models of ships/etc. The fantasy stuff goes a lot stronger. Kind of makes me wonder if declining social conditions have young people running to escapist fantasy stuff. Or maybe it's because the fantasy stuff is more profitable for corps thanks to trademark/copyright, so consumers follow the advertising?
RoR was cool way back when, but these days I'm much happier using nodejs with a framework like Adonis
Visitor was more of a reference to: https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-visitor-pattern

I assumed the AI would outright tell me the pattern was not a good choice.
>an economic crash that corrects this kind of stuff

This is exactly how Bernie Madoff was caught.
Everybody loves the message alert sound, right?
I hope you were a good netizen and posted the solution somewhere indexable.
The author’s sequel to their 2016 essay on the Verge, “Welcome to Airspace”

https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-...
Sending money is free in europe (internet banks like revolut, iban payments, etc).
Grenfell revealed loads of failings.

Some were deregulation, but some were outright deliberate fraud, like when Kingspan and Celotex scammed the test process and produced misleading safety documents to get their flammable insulation used where it wasn't legal.

And local authorities don't come out of it well either - the building was owned and maintained by a local authority, they hired the architects, the design-and-build contractor, and the guy whose job it was to carry out fire risk assessments. And they chose a bidding process that drove the price so low the bidders who wanted to use non-flammable cladding all dropped out.

Definitely need to stricter regulation though - the idea we could trust the construction industry to use flammable cladding safely has proven false. Flammable cladding should be banned on tall buildings all together.
The vast majority of wealthy people who are commonly accused of not "paying their fair share" and of dodging taxes are simply structuring their financial lives in ways that allow them to reduce their tax obligations. Very few are engaged in actual tax evasion and all the rest pay all the taxes they owe.
I loved these books as a kid and had a great time rereading them with my then-seven-year-old. One of my favorite bits was the description of the difference between the club's two smartest members: One was adept at figuring out ways to get out of trouble, and the other was really good at thinking up fun ways to get into trouble.
Yes, but it is bolted on an existing desktop application.

I feel it always lags. I also tried to use their API once to e.g. upload data to a sheet but it was really messy.

In google sheets all this worked just fine.
What an ambiguous mess.

> Change License: Apache License, Version 2.0

> 1. To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later version

So which is it?

> Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly
available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this
License

That text was was added in a commit on March 27, 2020. That commit also lists a change date of "2023-03-01". So when was the "first publicly available distribution"?

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Can we please just stop wasting each other's time with this nonsense? Clearly none of us is enjoying the exercise.
I love the hydrogen ladder to visualize this concept. To decarbonize fertilizer hydrogen is unavoidable, for personal transports it has been uncompetitive the past decade.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
A gross income of 250,000 isn't a small farm, it's a hobby farm. The average margin for farms is 15%, and smaller farms are worse than large farms. A $250,000 gross likely means a <$20K net, and you can't support a family on that in America even if you grow your own food.

Worse than the small margin is the variability. A good year can have a 50% margin and a bad year a -25% one.
Yes, I am looking for an argument that justifies governments banning LLM development, which implies existential risk is likely. Many things are possible; it is possible Christianity is real and everyone who doesn't accept Jesus will be tormented for eternity, and if you multiply that small chance by the enormity of torment etc etc. Definitely looking for arguments that this is likely, not for arguments that ask the interlocutor to disprove "x is possible."

The nitter link didn't appear to provide much along those lines. There were a few arguments that it was possible, which the Nitter OP admits is "very weak;" other than that, there's a link to a wiki page making claims like "Finding goals that aren’t extinction-level bad and are relatively useful appears to be hard" when in observable reality asking ChatGPT to maximize paperclip production does not in fact lead to ChatGPT attempting to turn all life on Earth into paperclips (nor does asking the open source LLMs result in that behavior out of the box either), and instead leads to the LLMs making fairly reasonable proposals that understand the context of the goal ("maximize paperclips to make money, but don't kill everyone," where the latter doesn't actually need to be said for the LLM to understand the goal).
1. When people actually wanted invites, they couldn’t get one. Timing matters.

2. People may be interested, but they’re people that are outside of the existing niche that is on Bluesky. But clearly BlueSky only wants people that are part of that existing niche. The monoculture.
I always figure the major difference between software engineering and engineering physical things, is that software is virtual and fluid.

Once a physical thing is built or being manufactured, the cost of change is exponentially higher than with software.

So software engineers can experiment more frequently and can get away with low quality, as it can always be fixed later.

Of course, this same mentality can carry into industries where the stakes are life and death, which is where accountability is very much lacking.
I thought that, remapped it, and it turned out to be incredibly easy to swap over. I think it's because it's so much nicer to use.
Likewise. I've even given up table top games like Flames of War for lack of space to place a 4ft x 6ft game board. No chance to fit a static model railroad. My dad fit one in our townhouse growing up by building it around his and mum's bed. She hated the thing. Every few months it would encroach further.
Considering this article is written by someone with the last name Marx , I feel a grain of salt is in order.
Except when the higher interest rates result in a "soft landing".

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-did-the-us-achieve-a-soft-...

And yes, higher interest rates do reduce inflation.