skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since Prompt 3 will inevitably be followed by Prompt 4 which won't be a free upgrade, $100 seems like a lot to pay.

Mind you, if you buy it and it takes them more than 5 years to release Prompt 4 then you'll come out ahead compared to having subscribed. That's even pretty plausible, given that the subscription revenue means that they'll have far less motivation to release a whole new version to get the revenue from new purchases. (In fact, the incentives now cut the other way -- they're motivated to keep improving the existing version in-place, because they'll probably lose subscribers in the process of switching to a new version.)
> I'm sick and tired of people who get emotional and are patriotic. Why can't people be level headed and just talk about facts rather then "defend" their stance or their own country.

I specifically called out false claims you made out as fact. Your claims were not factual and I did not misconstrue them.

The US is at one of the lowest unemployment rates over its entire history. It is at the lowest level over the last 54 years. [1] That's fact. Your claim was false.

Inflation in America is not under any long- or short-term trend of increasing. That is a false claim you have made and continue to shelter behind. Inflation increased because of a global calamity the entire world suffered under. That was an acute crisis, not a trend.

China has an unemployment rate among its youth well over 20 percent. That is not a blip. That is institutional failure caused by decades of mismanaging a population under an authoritarian government.

[1] https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2023/02/news-unemployment...
looks great, most text-to-sql attempts i’ve tried fall short, hoping this is different
Let's hope that it continues to be so, and that there aren't internal changes ongoing to impact this
I myself have had the same question and never got an answer. I _think_ it's so they only have to have one build of Junos and just have to make minor changes to the Hypervisor itself to support the hardware. But who knows? Juniper have really lost their way IMHO, hypervisors on hardware designed to route traffic at scale just seems like a reflection of that fact.
> tell the truth, be true to yourself

Who isn't saying this stuff?
Do you have any examples of this propaganda? I live in Canada and I'm not sure what you are talking about
Point taken. But note the strong Humboldtian vibe in: "to educate students to serve their country and humanity".
Wow, those people who keep their toothbrushes capped and out of the bathroom win another one. Never me, though. I'm a Hygiene Hypothesis Hoplite. Might well be a Semmelweis Simpleton though. Who can tell? Only time.
No so much ego as a few decades of experience. With most situations it depends. But a lot of things come in cycles.
Coping scripts from Dynamic Drive made people think I was some sort of Web God.
Gnome's thumbnails in file picker feature still hasen't been fixed in over 20 years. They recently added the code for thumbnails but it doesn't work without opening Nautilus first. I remember KDE 3.0 from 2002 had functional thumbnails. Gnome has single-handedly ruined the idea of Linux on the desktop for most people as most distros are Gnome based by default.
No, thats not how calculating quantities with tolerances work. Lol.
They could just set up their site as a wordpress install with one of the many mature payment/web shop plugins. Can be customized as needed as well.
>can't trust online reviews

I don't think that's universally true. I may not trust Amazon user reviews a whole lot. I least I need to interpret them. But, in my experience, something like Wirecutter won't lead you that far astray. Probably not Consumer Reports either although I don't subscribe.
I think Bandcamp does a great job bringing artists closer to the audience without any of those things like interviews, curation, IRL presence. Honestly, those things always rubbed me the wrong way since they felt like the kind of marketing that we get through traditional means (e.g., Rolling Stone articles), except with an indie flavor: some music nerd picked a winner and put them forward, and artists who didn't make the cut by the Bandcamp tastemakers take more effort to find.

I think the absence of that sort of "pick-a-winner-and-interview-them" does a lot for making things flat and fair for all. The primary people who get grumpy about getting rid of that are the people whose job it is to be curator/interviewer/etc. I'm not terribly sad if they go away.
Positions and Dispositions
There is also the fact that this incarnation of Sports Illustrated is only about 4 years old. The previous company got gutted in 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/sports-illustrateds-new-operato...

Whatever existed from 2019-2023 was SI in Name Only. The website was absolute trash. I'm guilty of not having picked up the paper magazine in that timeframe.
He's not wrong even if he's under investigation.
>Even if the subsidies that drive increasingly sophisticated models evaporate, we'll still have the existing models we can run on commodity hardware.

Exactly. So much discussion in the media and elsewhere about generative AI assume that AI-as-a-service from big companies like OpenAI is the only way forward, and if they die, so does AI in general. But we already can run quite powerful models locally. For example, I don't think Cory's example of a $10/month service to draw D&D character portraits makes sense now. Surely anyone geeky enough to play D&D could download and install InvokeAI (or other similar open-source program) and create their portraits for free.
Setting low-stakes challenges can help you reach your bigger goals
By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve, if curve means the median opinion. Unless OP is brash or arrogant when sharing ideas with the team/management, there is not much to attribute to having a big ego here. He OP is thoughtful, considerate and understanding of the situation, then having opinions about the direction would suggest OP is a good engineer/developer/leader/whatever.
This is definitely interesting. However, their diagram at the bottom makes me wish they had done another test site to model a sink near a toilet. While the lid-closed position still allows plenty of aerosolized water to emerge from the sides of the closed lid, it's not clear whether the aerosolized particles are then light enough to head upward towards a sink, or if they fall semi-ballistically like their diagram implies.
Assuming you are working in tech, I'd avoid investing in tech. You don't want a situation where tech does badly and you are both out of a job and out of your savings.
I agree. I don't really know enough about biotech to have an opinion on that, but when it comes to software, I think that software patents are not only difficult to support in terms of what patents are supposed to do, but are harmful for the software industry and society all around.
What skill would you suggest he learn?
Support for artists and flac as the other comment already said (as well as clean UX)
With no intention to push back on Emacs being highly optimized, age of an application is not an accurate proxy for level of performance. If it were, grep would be faster than ripgrep. New software can apply optimisations discovered over the previous 40 years, and leverage architectural designs with different assumptions, like the GC limits in Emacs discussed elsewhere in the comments. Older applications can apply those same optimizations, but it's not a given that they will, and changing their architecture can be daunting, for sometimes unknown benefits.
You are not particularly unique, many before you with exactly the same experience. Your work experience makes you above average at least and so you know what needs to happen.

Other people are not so lucky to have your experience and so they make bad decisions. You can fix this, but it means you have to give up 'doing' and become an evangelist for your beliefs.

Also like many before you, that's a personal choice and might not be a good fit for you. Only you can say.
> generate 50-100M new skilled workers in the next 20 years

You're overestimating the impact since

1.) 80% of the top minds will study abroad and stay there, not in China, like they are now. More smart people are realizing if they live in a freedom-less dictatorship, being just a chive to be cut down, they are better to move. When they see their hero Jack Ma was imprisoned and stripped of power. When they hear their hero Ma Huateng of Tencent actively proclaiming one should not attract attention and to lower profile

2.) rote studying + cheating culture + mandatory Xi Jing Ping learning for 3 hours every day for these workers in college make them inferior workers than workers in the West. Chinese colleges are already not as good as Western colleges to start with.

3.) when these skilled workers graduate and can't find jobs, much like now when tsinghua graduates are forced to become didi drivers, they won't be able to learn the actual skills to contribute, since college learnings are just that, college learnings.

4.) US can get skilled immigrations from around the world, and can ramp up whenever they want. They also have skilled partners like Europe, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea to work with

> settle for jobs they think are beneath them, but eventually, like all humans, they will

Yes, these new college grads now are driving for didi and delivering for meituan, which they will continue to do for 20 years. There is no magic bullet to turn an event like Great Depression around

> There's no credible model where PRC population will dip to 600M in 2050

There are many, but first you have to not buy China's word that it has 1.4B to start with. (why would you when they still proclaim 5% GDP growth in 2023) Many guesses are 1.2B, before all the unreported covid related deaths
> DHTML, which absolutely stands for “distributed HTML” because that’s the name and this isn’t obvious bait for the no fun crowd at Hacker News

That was meant as a joke, which you misquoted.

Edit to add: others made the same misquote, so I wonder if the author cheekily edited it recently.
Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant is that an idiomatic Haskell data structure needs to be persistent: an insertion needs to produce a new version of the data structure with the inserted element while keeping the original. So almost all Haskell data structures need to satisfy this requirement otherwise using it is a lot of PITA, even though the ST monad makes mutations fairly easy. However the original submission is not persistent, and so they aren't comparable.
Someone said about software a long time ago: we don't stand on the shoulders of giants, we kick them in the shins.

Or something like that
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Given the ambiguities and degrees of freedom different TLS clients can exercise during chain validation (mentioned in this post), we wrote a paper proposing that validation policies should be expressed as interchangeable Prolog programs: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3548606.3560594
It usually is.

But oh man it's lovely when someone is pedantic and wrong.
CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
The retail price you pay them is unlikely the wholesale price they pay the factory.
They don't really hide that fact. There's a limit to how in depth the knowledge of any history journalist can be on their own, and experts on an issue are going to want payment for their time.

Actual payment costs money, it's much easier to pay them in publicity by discussing a topic they released a book on or area they work at.
And for OPs comment! https://x.com/thorstenball/status/1750489879912349894?s=20
A link there may be, but that can be A causing B, B causing A or both A and B having a common cause.
Yes, pretty much as long as you are in the right batch. The new batch of retirees are more like 45 but on previous batches they retired even at 38 and living the sweet life. 60 year olds in Turkey are usually retired since the beginning of the Millenia.

They receive a normal pension like everybody. Currently the lowest pension is about at %60 of the minimum wedge but 10 years ago it was well above the minimum wedge. The smallest pension is 10K and the minimum wedge is 17K Turkish lira, which is something like 330USD and 560USD respectively after the latest increase of %50. Many choose to work but its complicated from legal standpoint and some companies forced the retired employees out. As Turkey ages, one can expect that ot will get much worse.

The deal is, You must have been working and paying in the social contributions for 20 years straight and be from the right batch(your first contribution must be before the end of 1999 or something like than - not sure about the exact date), so those who started working 20 years ago are all retired in the sense that they receive pension payment and all the other benefits like free healthcare without keep paying in. It's also a common practice to pay a few contributions even if you are still in school so that you can be in an early batch.

Anyway, the system was ridiculous and unsustainable so the first Erdogan government early in the 2000s changed it, only to allow one last batch to retire last year during the elections.

These people were well organised, had lawyers and NGOs and were fiercely protesting since years. They called themselves something like "Stuck at the age towards retirement". More than 2 million of them, people in their 40s and 50s demanding retirement because "they were promised" when they started working in their 20s.

The next batch, that is people who paid their first contribution after 1999, is set to retire 15 years later. Now they are getting organised too, claiming that its not OK to work 15 years just because paid their first contribution one day later.

Turkey might become the first country with Universal Basic Income since everyone wants to retire at their 40s and they are serious about it.
Yeah. You're right. I kind of ran out of steam preparing everything for that blog post.
Unfortunately, it seems their president wasn't aware of the connection either: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-says-inter....
RIIR hits again - nice
This has real world implications to prevent the spread of disease today. For example, the norovirus is a very contagious and nasty bug that quickly spreads to patients and staff. It is not something you want to encounter. This study implies that that PPE on staff in those environments is critical and could help inform their standard disinfecting procedures.
Spreadsheet errors can have disastrous consequences – yet we keep making them
Interesting, I was half joking, but I did fall into the the rabbit hole looking up the 2 airbags you mentioned. The avalanche airbag looks like it's just meant to protect the head from whiplash. I didn't see how it would prevent from being buried or protecting the head when slammed face first.

The dainese airbag site[0] just sent me into "is this a joke" mode with the video included on the page. It just has the feel of a parody. That poor guy doesn't look comfortable at all. The editing makes it have that intentionally bad continuity used when making parody infomercials. The arm is awkwardly posed with hand in pocket, cut to hand waving, cut back to hand in pocket. It's very hard to take seriously.

[0]https://www.dainese.com/us/en/dainese/smart-jacket.html
Is possible
> By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve, if curve means the median opinion.

You’re imagining a continuous distribution that doesn’t exist.
"Before this scandal basically no one knew or cared who the president of Harvard was."

Possibly because Claudine Gay was an academic nobody with no other significant talents?

Plenty of people knew who Lawrence Summers was.

It is a similar story to Mozilla. Many programmers know who Brendan Eich is. How many people know the name of the current Mozilla director without googling? Me neither, the only thing I know about her is that she was chosen because she offended nobody. Hardly a recipe for standing out in a crowd of other gray mice.
Get your submissions from this API

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/ohjeez.json?print...

and then scan the "submitted" articles as described here

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I have a crawler that sucks down all the posts from HN and then I read it into Pandas and write all sorts of queries. (It would be fair to use SQL or some other query language too.) The boggle I have now is that I want to use the same system to (1) make sure YOShInOn never submits duplicate articles, and (2) have accurate vote and comment scores. (1) requires picking up articles as soon as possible, (2) requires waiting two weeks or so until the scores have settled down to what they are going to be. I guess I gotta come back and rescan things in 2 weeks so I have the right scores.
> TOTP

Cannot count the number of times I have fomatted my phone and had to beg support teams for access to my accounts. I like to use custom ROMs and I cannot afford another phone just for TOTPs. I hate TOTPs. so much.
HL2 RTX also has newer textures and other assets
I agree with you about borders and customs. However, I don't find war a laughing matter. Lots of people are dying. War is about supply chain and scale. Higher tech, but lower yield chips would not be good for a war machine. You want simplicity and scale. You don't actually want the latest technology, but robust older, predictable technology. I guess we can laugh that they can't even produce it domestically.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ammunition-manufactur...

The Soviet and now Russian approach to war is logistics, math. They use a lot of modelling in their strategy. Its clear they are not having too many logistic problems despite sanctions if they can produce so much. And that is worrying.

When supply lines were cut in Kherson by Ukraine, Russia pulled back. If Ukraine wants to win, they need to target supply lines and production capacity. They can target supply lines, but production capacity seems so far out of reach.

I guess the fact that neither party has officially declared war on each other means targeting production will remain out of reach. You read that right, neither Ukraine or Russia had officially declared war.
Songtradr leaned heavily on keeping old-timers who were part of the core team with the most knowledge. The union was largely formed by the newest employees. You do the math.
And no mention of the Vref for the analogue which is essential for accurate operation
back in college I was living an a room that I rent from a nice old lady trying to make some extra money. Due to it being a small space and other factors like noise and sun light, my bed end up next to the door to the bathroom. I got pink eye at least three times that year, before I was able to get a better place.

Ever since myth busters my toothbrush almost always have a cap on it and I always close the lid before flushing the toilet.
How many cases have there been of people getting sick from things on their bathroom counter though? Like sure, you're measuring the physical phenomena and then concluding it leads to sickness but how significantly does it lead to sickness?
No, I want to pay for my music. Otherwise why would the author continue such beautiful music?
I presume you're referring to the "Hygiene hypothesis" which links early childhood exposure to microorganisms with fewer allergies and autoimmune disorders.

It's important to note that this has not been demonstrated conclusively, and when medical professionals talk about it they stress that it's not worth exposing yourself to fecal matter intentionally to "build resistance." Personal cleanliness is still one of the more important things you can do for health.

A reasonable compromise seems to be: let your kids play in the dirt, but also teach them to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
It was a weekly magazine. Part of its allure was how topical and quick the turnaround was. Transitioning it to monthly was a billed as a blood letting but really a nail.
Are you familiar with what the SQL for the following PRQL looks like?

from employees
group role (
sort join_date
take 1
)

It's pretty complicated and annoying. There's loads of attempts to reinvent SQL, but PRQL is the only one that's designed for what SQL is actually for, and fixes real problems instead of 'ick' problems.
This is a content-free critique. With minimal effort, anybody can reduce any issue to some binary; the choice of which binary framings we accept is virtually all the intellectual work, and appeals to "acknowledging binaries" are just ways of saying "I'm right because I obviously am" --- a rhetorical gambit ably wielded by any 9 year old.
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One view is that it's related to labor hoarding.

A lot of people exited the labor market (disabled or killed by COVID, pulled the trigger on retiring, etc.). Unemployment was very low and it was very difficult to hire. And companies had opportunities for growth, but taking advantage of those opportunities required workers, which were hard to get.

So companies responded by hiring whenever possible and keeping more employees around than they normally would. If there was less work to do, they'd reduce hours instead of letting employees go. Better to pay more labor costs now than to be stuck unable to get employees later. You pay a cost (larger payrolls) to reduce a risk.

Hoarding can be kind of self-reinforcing because as everybody grabs what is available (job seekers), it becomes more scarce, so people want to grab up even more.

But hoarding tends to stop eventually. Companies don't want to pay more for payroll if they don't have to. Once they feel the risk is gone, they'll aim to adjust things back to normal.

Once layoffs start, they could have a domino effect on labor hoarding. If a bunch of companies do layoffs, then other companies think, "Well, if we did need to hire, we could get some of those laid off workers." And then they reevaluate their own situation.

If this is what's happening, then it will take some time for it to play out. Eventually all the hoarding-related layoffs will have been done.
I had the same reaction to that paragraph. There is simply no convincing me to that such paranoia is rational. Bathrooms are a bit gross when it comes to germs and that’s fine. Focus on the important stuff, and let bygones be bygones.
I, for one, hope that the "product vision" people stay far away from it. It works perfectly for the thing it is: an easy way for listeners to listen to and purchase DRM-free music files.
I think the answer is, it doesn't. It requires coordinating bodies, industrial base, and resources. Not ability to vote or unfettered media. See PRC recently moving up value chains, topping science and innovation indexes in western publications, controlled for quality. That's PRC goign from fraction of high skilled talent in 2010, to near parity in in last few years after boosting tertiary education. If you buy into the innovation+freedom argument and also PRC is less free argument, then innovation is negatively correlated to free thought. Regardless, whatever system PRC has in place, it's been driving innovation in last few years with less talent than west, and soon more talent, with more experience. Absurdly more. Meanwhile everyone else is adopting PRC industrial policy, or rather re-adopting indy policy that PRC copied from Asian Tigers who copied from US. And ultimately even if you presume leading edge innovation requires the "right" culture, PRC is still good at replicating and commercializing. Hence whatever lead an innovation an "innovative" culture produces, PRC can still replicate and commercialize and at scale faster and cheaper and reduce market share / R&D of those companies on global market.
San Francisco's homeless budget is $1.1B