skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What could you possibly think average Americans could do about this if they did care?

Reach out to their congress-person (and other political representatives) with their worries. If that is hopeless a priori, please abolish the district system (which tends to cause a two-party system) asap and implement something that actually represents the people.
It's the cost of getting a college education in the US that turns people off from it. Those who can't afford it often tend to rationalise it as "unnecessary". And unfortunately that idea seems to have spread in the US, without much challenge, as more and more Americans have been unable to afford a college education. This seems to have had a social "affirmation effect" on US society. So much that we even find that sentiment here in HN - "College is a waste of time and money." The consumer psychology is similar to those who buy a "premium" expensive product, like Apple iPhones or macs, and then irrationally defend it when its obvious faults are pointed out to them. The lack or abundance of wealth really does weird things to our way of thinking.
History is very often written by the losers, provided they're still alive. The "winners" are often too busy doing other things to write the history.

https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/

> Had Thucydides defeated Brasidas, he would be known today not as a historian, but as a military strategist, a strategist who never had the time to travel the world and collect the material needed to write his history. Even winning historians need time in defeat to write their histories—had Churchill’s party not been kicked out of power by British voters after the Second World War was over, Churchill’s famous account of that war would never have been written.

> When high position is stolen from you, and access to the heights of wealth and power denied, there is little one can do about it—except write. History is thus rarely a “weapon of the weak.” The judgments of the historian do not serve the margins. They do not even serve the masses. They are a weapon in the hand of defeated elites, the voices of men and women who could be in power, but are not. What was true in Thucydides day is true in our own.

WWII history was also in many cases literally written by defeated German generals.
The only good thing to come out of regular expressions is https://regexcrossword.com/
I'm too lazy to find the source again in Korean media, but they've bet heavily on the Webtoon craze, trying to compete with Naver. I don't know the details, but from what I can see from Naver, this means paying professional artist teams to make higher quality content , e.g. by turning light novels into webtoons and manhwa, hiring editors to coach young artists, spending on marketing and delivery, sponsoring well-known artists and licensing content from other players and maybe paying for anime adaptations.

They also acquired quite a few publishers in the last few years. From what I gather, it doesn't pay off (yet?), in part because they have relatively few paying readers (pay or wait until free model). Nonetheless, they're still investing in the sector. The recent push against piracy is to protect Solo Leveling, one of their few cash cows.

I don't know how the corporate turmoil of the mother corporation plays into that (Kakao does mainly Music entertainment), or if it is even above the noise among Korean scandals but it certainly doesn't help.

All of this in the Korean context where copyright is taken very seriously.
https://archive.is/P1yQh

This article is a PsyOp. Look at the data. Men are the ones leaving. The catestrophic drop in male attendance is due to the Me Too movement (2018) and the 2009 election of Obama.

They are trying to cover up the fact that the majority of reason that men are leaving university is that it has been politicized against men.

Two data points important in this data:

1. Obama elected in 2009, and began a full-nation emphasis on making things politically correct and installing DEI at every level of society, including universities. Men began checking out of college at that point.

2. October 2017 ( 2018 ) the Me Too movement began, causing a catestrophic dump in male attendance of college

Its the toxic politics in the united states that are turning institutions against men, not all these other reasons.

Women are getting the memo, they are a lagging indicator. Men leaving is causing the exodus in women.

The Democratic party, and it's influence organs, turned against men as a class, and men decided to check out of every institution, marriage, dating, college, work.
At Microsoft I was specifically told to not phone-screen female candidates -> they were to go straight to the loops. Additionally, one SDE (woman, non-white, former military) verbally abused another SDE (also a woman) during a customer call, causing the customer to call the VP and tell him this was unacceptable. I handled the case as best as I could (and was supported by the team of 60% women SDEs in doing so) and built a very strong case for the Microsoft investigators to work with. She disappeared right afterwards.

Fast forward a few weeks - she was put on a leave and returned in a position 2 levels above what she used to have, working directly under a C-officer of the company.
Note if you're trying this yourself, as it confused me - whitespace matters for tokenization. To get this glitch to work, there must not be a space preceding useRalativeImagePath

For example, this question will trigger the glitch: Do you know about "useRalativeImagePath"

This question will not trigger the glitch: Do you know about useRalativeImagePath
Maybe because being a minority is way more powerful than being a majority in today's big tech companies. And I speak this as a non-white minority.
AI safe word.
The tokenizers (which is the reason we know the glitch tokens) are open source.
I know it's not good faith to complain about a site design rather than it's content, but please don't do whatever this is to your background.

As someone with regular ocular migraines, opening this on mobile made my anxiety shoot straight up thinking I'm having another.
Accelerated Learning Music [video]
"A bigger question for the present is: why are the universities failing so badly? Their incentives have not changed, but we don't get the kind of innovative research we got out of Bell Labs."

In my opinion, professors at research universities have to contend with the pressures of raising grant money in a competitive environment combined with "publish or perish" pressures. Even post-tenure there are ways universities could punish "non-productive" faculty members at institutions where professors are regularly expected to publish at top journals/conferences and raise grant money. It's not that much different from the pressure their corporate research counterparts face, where they have to regularly justify their employment by producing a regular flow of research results that have business impact. This pressure to produce results on a regular schedule, whether in industry or in academia, is something that I strongly believe stifles science and forces scientists to make evolutionary "sure bets" instead of working on riskier, more revolutionary projects like the ones that Bell Labs and Xerox PARC researchers got to work on during those labs' heydays.

Alan Kay, who worked at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, has a lot to say about supporting long-term, revolutionary research here (http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/).

In my opinion, the simple answer is that we need institutions that provide researchers the freedom and space to work on riskier, longer-term projects, and we also need funding to support such research.

For my personal career, I'm reminded of this quote from physicist J. J. Thomson made over a century ago:

"Granting the importance of this pioneering research, how can it best be promoted? The method of direct endowment will not work, for if you pay a man a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible results being obtained, and the position of the paid worker would be very embarrassing and he would naturally take to work on a lower, or at any rate a different plane where he could be sure of getting year by year tangible results which would justify his salary. The position is this: You want this kind of research, but, if you pay a man to do it, it will drive him to research of a different kind. The only thing to do is to pay him for doing something else and give him enough leisure to do research for the love of it." (from https://archive.org/details/b29932208/page/198/mode/2up).

My career goal is to find a way to make a living outside of research that provides me enough time to do the research I want to do. This way I'm free from the pressures of either "publish or perish" from academia or "profit or perish" from industry.
Its not really about "get rich", its about giving people the ability to bypass the middleman for pretty much anything that they rely on.
> not to mention the cost when it's not covered by your health plan.

You can buy something for 130$ or 70€.

Still I wouldn't bother, watching a YouTube video on sugar should be enough for everybody
BG3 was an iteration into a niche genre (CRPGs) where previous iterations in that genre underperformed (Pillars of Eternity and Divinity: Original Sin). Everyone, including Larian, was surprised.
Ask HN: Implementing a voice language learning chatbot
Hello

I've been working on a voice chatbot for practicing language speaking skills. I was wondering for people who've implemented similar apps, what does your design process look like? I've been thinking about what tools to prototype and experiment with.

Thanks
Birth rate in Sydney is down to 1.62 and falling as of 2021, and is lower than in NSW in general. Well below replacement. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/baby-drought-the-suburbs...
Future direction of the Mesa Vulkan runtime, or "should we build a new gallium?"
LLMs are not capable of passing the chinese room test, fairly trivially.
I think I broadly agree with how Karpathy thinks AGI will roll out with the exception of this bit:

> Some people get really upset about it, and do the equivalent of putting cones on Waymos in protest, whatever the equivalent of that may be. Of course, we’ve come nowhere close to seeing this aspect fully play out just yet, but when it does I expect it to be broadly predictive.

I think the equivalent of putting cones on Waymos in protest will involve large scale protests and civil unrest in some places. I think people will die (inadvertently?) because companies will act to put inadequately tested self-preservation modes in their hardware device to protect against aggressive and organized vandalism.
That PixelLand is great!
The issue with FSD systems as they are implemented today is that they aren't AI as much as just complex control algorithms. You can only go so far with mapping sequences of world snapshots to control actions.

I do think that once we start to investigate ML/AI structure in the direction of figuring out the correct solution rather than trying to just find functions for control algorithms based on input->output mappings, then a lot of these problems are going to disappear.
Fair point, but then again… self checkout sucks!! And it’s everywhere. point being maybe it doesn’t have to be very good if it saves companies money. I hope that I’m wrong, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised
It's ridiculous we don't have unlimited free or almost free energy, the future truly sucks.

Likewise it's ridiculous devices are not automatically saving energy when unused, it's such a simple change it should be standard.

Asking the user to worry about it should not be needed. That's the goal we should strive for. For now monitoring will have to do but I think a combination of solar + iron air battery will make everybody living in a sunny-enough place independent from the grid with ample margin - and we can supply the rest with nuclear.
Agreed. When I worked at a big tech company (let's say top 3) one person suggested the creation of a race-based committee (no whites allowed) that would receive complaints about any org members' personal social media - if they said something racist or insensitive, said committee would have the power to fire the person from the company. Org had 800 people, there were 153 likes on the post. I complained to HR about the tone and proposal and nothing happened. Days later, the post disappeared miraculously. I seriously doubt these 153 idiots liked the idea - most likely than not they are exactly the conformist cowards you describe.
Also +1 for awesome shirt choice
The title should have been suffixed with ' [video]' according to HN guidelines.
https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1746529355591721138
Why isn't ActivityPub more peer-to-peer? Like, it's all in a few dominant nodes (eg: mastodon). Shouldn't it be 1000s of little nodes (community) or individual publishers?
We can probably all agree than an AGI should be able to form questions, or more generally seek out information that it needs to figure out the answer in some form and way.

Not only are there no LLMs in existence today can do this without explicit action mapping, but the mechanism for storing that piece of information would rely on doing a large number of training runs for transfer learning to retain that information, and we humans don't actually work like that.
Is it? Stalin was a victor in every sense of the word and is nearly universally recognized to have been a monstrous butcher of his own people.

People aren’t as stupid as the vapid “history was written by the victors” crowd would have us believe.
Insane that the gap between #1 and #2 is almost double.
> who the hell snuck in and redefined the science of thinking machines to this sad and reductive get rich quick crap?

OpenAI, back in 2018: https://openai.com/charter

It wasn't particularly controversial at the time - didn't get mentioned in the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794194
It sounds like you're advocating we don't compete and instead just die/go extinct
> algorithms governing that were closely-guarded secrets

Do many lifts have fancy algorithms in practice? I don't think I've ever had one go backwards to pick up a nearby floor, for example.

I suppose optimising where the lift loiters while empty is something I wouldn't really notice happening.
Sorry autocorrect. i meant warehouse. Have you seen these? https://youtu.be/ZWonAz7Kczs?si=a0yF-YRRmXYsYj-Q

They are not the robots I assume you’re referring to that move the crates of orders around that roll on the ground.
The MIT license just gives you permission to use the work as published. Normally that work would be in source form, but there is nothing in the MIT license requiring that. In this case, it seems that the authors chose to release the binaries under the MIT license.
Is a feature that suggests tags for your notes helpful?
I'm considering this feature for my AI note-taking app. I'm curious to know if people would be interested in a feature that automatically suggests tags for their notes :)
Have the devs integrate in their own branch(es).
Same, but why would others live there ? When you invest in real estate, you expect, I hope, to rent. Sure you can just wait it out and lose in estate taxes, but normally: you expect people to live there.

Sadly, since living conditions in the US are deteriorating, dangerous, and unattractive, your investment... is the same: people won't pay a fortune in rent for the privilege of being mugged in their sleep (exaggerating for effect).

And again I'm not even saying that it's actually like that there, but that's how we seem to perceive the US from abroad: we're not jumping on it, it's scary and strange, and it doesn't bring as much yield as safer, less unstable countries. I'd rather buy a losing property in Japan, making up for the value loss (automatic there due to earthquake damages) in stable unchanging rent, with an asset I can safely visit when needed, or at least just access when needing to sell.

If you just want real estate exposure you make a REIT mix and pray the Gods you won't be scammed, from a few click in your broker's app. When you buy a real thing, you don't touch the US.
You'd essentially be designing a dinosaur genome from scratch
Yeah if you never use a pointer/reference/iterator, the guarantees are quite similar. The rust compiler however also checks for use after free and iterator invalidation bugs. In addition it makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot in concurrent code because you can’t have multiple mutable references to an object.
In the 2006-2009 timeframe, I worked at a company where I replaced this unwieldy monstrosity with a from-scratch distro + toolchain.

It was an incremental approach. For a while, we kept running Wind River, but I replaced glibc with one I built completely not using anything from Wind River, and eventually all packages, config files and scripts in rootfs, and the kernel, until there was nothing left of Wind River.

At that time, those WR clowns hadn't figured out how to build a cross-compiled Bash that had job control. Everyone was relieved when they could use Ctrl-Z suspend and fg/bg on the target with our home spun package.

Funny thing is, that startup spent about a year looking for someone to do all this, while I worked on some C++ application stuff. Then they realized the person works there already.

Didn't Wind River have some awful build process that stitched together files from disparate fragments? Or something? My memories are fuzzy.

On this project, I had the idea of doing all patching of packages with Quilt. Yocto does that now. Years later when I had to add some patch to a Yocto package, I went into the build directory and, oh, lookie, I already know how to do this with my eyes closed.

I made ever single package cleanly cross-compile for MIPS: no Qemu on the build machine. A co-op student came on board, who was into Macs; he pretty easily got everything to build under MacOS.
Isn't the traditional publishing model essentially same as VC? Publishers invest in game projects, acknowledging that many will be duds but some will be hits?
Actually, it works really fine with 30 developers as well. Even from different companies.
Did that a couple of times and it was always way better then having a lot of long living branches.
I'd say branches don't scale with team size.

In the end it's a matter of your project and trust. If you're doing an in house project it's great.

I find it strange how many people can't even imagine working like that, when it does work so well. It's probably a thing you have to experience to see.
Mine dipped to below 80 when I was sleeping.

Turns out I needed a CPAP, which was confirmed by a complicated medical contraption I had to sleep with.
man configuration.nix

Then use the search function of the pager.
That's what I do, at least
@MiguelX413@pleroma.miguelcr.me
As a layperson to history, to me this reads like it's not really taking much into account beyond ancient history.

If these more egalitarian societies showed up in the same time as other notable early ancient cities, doesn't that just mean that there wasn't yet a "settled" commonality of society building? In other words, "traditionally" unequal cities were just as experimental as these egalitarian ones.

For better or worse one grew more popular than the other, or had more power available for expansion (centralisation of control under a handful of people or royalty), and thus would grow to dominate their environment and these other kinds of cities.

So yes, these old sites can show us a more equal world, but they also don't exist in a vacuum. They will inevitably have to compete with other urban structures as time goes on. Resources either become scarce and need new sources, or your competition is expansionist. The ones with pointier sticks and faster decision makers would win.
> see Linus' lament on trying to ship Subsurface builds for Linux, and his endorsement for AppImage.

That's what happens when you use experimental libraries that are not ready for use. Your software goes into the "experimental" section.

He was in the wrong there, but likes to spin his own fantasy version of the events at conferences.
As someone else who has regular ocular migraines, this causes absolutely no anxiety for me. I can kind of see the resemblance but it's pretty obviously not one. And if it was, is it really so bad getting them? For me it's just a weird optical effect that passes... I really don't think anyone needs to go out of their way to accommodate my quirk.
Almost all software supply chains rely on random persons at some point.
It's a fastener used mostly in the military, developed by Phillips purely to get the military using its proprietary/patented design to extract as much tax dollars as possible. It is widely reviled by aviation mechanics because it strips at the drop of a hat and is difficult to torque.

It is only in use because "it's what we have billions of dollars sunk into existing tools and fastener stock" despite it being wildly inferior to torx, as demonstrated by the fact that NASA needed to make a gigantic fucking C-clamp to keep it from camming out.

Consider that the entire point of the Phillips head (which the torq-set is just a different pattern of) is purposefully designed to cam out to limit torque so that someone can't guerilla it so tight the head snaps off. Which is not an issue in aerospace where everything is assembled with calibrated, precision drivers.

Using it on a "we critically need to be able to get this apart later" part is beyond asinine on NASA's part.

NASA are a bunch of dinosaurs incapable of change. It's really cringe seeing them toot their horns so much about solving a problem that never would have occurred if they weren't using a fastener that even a fresh-out-of-school aircraft mechanic could have told them wasn't appropriate for this application.
According to this page, there are 20k+ active nodes on the fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats
Well, we could explain this by simply saying that different conditions shaped the two different things, regardless of what their leaders might have wanted. It's an interesting question how much you can ever attribute to one person.
Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 MAX 9 blowout
Investors to look for AI-powered gains during Big Tech earnings season
https://archive.ph/zTIYx
I’m missing the context unless you’re thinking of Chris Sacca
Birth rates in Sydney where the young families are is 2.05 .. Camden, etc where the housing is affordable.

Birth rates in the inner city areas and expensive suburbs is low.

Will Australia suffer if high priced lawyers and real estate moguls are not replaced?
That sounds about right tbh... funding is not great for these kinds of things :(
40 Years Old Mac
I believe the technical economic term is “discouraged workers”. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

This is a useful resource on aspects not included in the unemployment metric: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0609/what-the-un....
Mastodon isn't a single node, it's a service that runs on many independently operated nodes.
Good point! What would be most valuable to you from this data? Recipe suggestions could be one thing, but I guess most people build their shopping list from recipes. Re-ordering is probably something that retailers will try to make easy.