skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of the world's growth is squeezed by these kinds of inefficiencies.

Property speculation keeps prices high, and people paying off mortgages in dead-end jobs. Education costs force parents into difficult decisions to move out of HCOL areas where they likely have higher-value jobs. Energy and Water costs spike while providing no societal benefit.

The West is obsessed with keeping these in place, the rising East seems better placed to change economic inefficiencies. Not sure how it'll play out but I feel like Western society is being pillaged by the PE crowd who can take advantage of the above.
The problem gets deeper: This may sound insane, but I would argue that the productivity is way too high.
There is too much stuff, which is too cheap, which makes it too hard to make money by actually producing anything. This it turn splits the economy into two groups:
One that doesn't have money, live scrapping the bottom, and typically in debt.
The other that does have money, with no good opportunities to invest, which causes bubbles.
Banks have counterparty risk in the way that robot vacuum companies don't. Letting the banks go bankrupt would have destroyed a lot of perfectly viable businesses among their customers.

The cloud companies will count as TBTF too for the same reason. Although it's harder to see how Amazon might get into a "we'll have to switch the datacenters off tomorrow unless we get bailed out" financial position", since it's easier for them to trade as a going concern, if there was a risk of that happening they would definitely get a bailout.

Also, remember that the bailouts were in almost all cases loans.
The brain likes keto, no question. I'm not sure it is a good to do it for longer periods of time, it supposedly stresses the body [0]. I did it for a year and continually lost weight, and it wasn't for lack of calories.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qcAStYJwpg
Not that I was trying to make any of those claims but just trying to correlate the domain with what appears to be a common problem in it.
I like AnotherGoodName's advise, a lot. But as you say, it will hit a nerve only with people who already have some confidence in their abilities so if they hit a wall, instead of giving up, they say to themselves that "oh, I guess I just need to learn even more things" and then do. A person with low confidence in their abilities will probably say "oh, I'm not smart enough".

When it comes to this and most other trades, I'm with Gordon Ramsey. Anyone can become a good programmer. "Smartness" and "intelligence", they are such ill-defined concepts. I'm not sure I believe they are real things.
my father, a cardiologist, had a very specific example of spurious correlation he taught to his students: "brushing your teeth correlates with heart disease". I think he would find it hilarious that this kind of correlation appears to be more than a funny example
Yeah... I have major concerns about how significantly this would impact their ostensible goals.

What guarantee is there that the newly publicly listed company won't be pressured by stockholders to improve the profit margins by driving up prices and reducing product quality on both the hardware and software fronts.
The article seems to focus on A.I in relation to big artists and pop music (and that one rich CEO) but the first casualties will be the "stock" music market, and then TV shows & movies composers / producers / artists.

It's not totally there yet but it's improving.

Is it already happening in the stock photos world?

> the music industry (....) now appears to be more profitable than ever.

Tell that to the music professionals actually producing that music.
Germany just raised its taxes on vegetable glycerin, the base ingredient in refillable vape juice, causing every vape store here to stop carrying it, essentially.

It meant you could no longer go to a trusted seller and instead must now go online to shady vape sites, often coming from China, to get the stuff.

Meanwhile, disposables are getting cheaper (though still very expensive).

Nobody is really sure of why the tax hike occurred, as cigs and disposables were untouched. It had the obvious effect of pretty much everyone here switching to disposables or cigarettes though.

Anecdotally, in a bar last night, a very pushy Russian lady told us we weren't allowed to vape while there. The bar allows and encourages smoking, we were in our own corner not being obnoxious with it, blowing under the table, quite infrequently. Meanwhile the whole bar is filled with cigarette smoke, almost to the point it was too much for us (and my friend smokes cigarettes himself). Her reason was that the vape juice gave her headaches, apparently. It's not like she had a headache and sought out the culprit. She just saw the thing and decided to get stern with us. She also got upset when we brought our glasses up to the bar. I guarantee you she doesn't get headaches from vape clouds that dissipate almost immediately. We obliged, of course, as we're not trying to be jerks. Still made us leave earlier than we would have liked.

There's some weird culture thing against vaping whereas cigarettes are almost encouraged here in Berlin (and to some extent, Germany). Not sure why the government here is pushing for the two worse alternatives to refillables but they're doing a good job of it.
I had no idea this was even on the cards. Do they really need to IPO? Why do they need to chance infinite stock market growth?
Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light
Hosting your own mail server.
According to ChatGPT, my 34" widescreen monitor is equivalent to a 340" TV at 10ft away.

So, yes(?), however I certainly don't like watching movies at my desk. I may or may not feel the same way about the Vision Pro. Time will tell!

Now it would be great if I could sit in a "theatre" with others, let's say my family, thousands of miles away. We could shadow cast, Rocky Horror style, in real-time.
Thirteenth Amendment Section 1. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,* shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

"except as a punishment for crime"
> Yeah, I've seen the term "sociotechnical" used to describe this relationship between software and process.

Maybe "cybernetic", although that has largely been taken over by sci-fi connotations.
And dont fuss, just use any old kitchen oil. It’s just a simple lock!
As a person of normal weight, I tried a keto diet a couple of times but just couldn't get it working under vegetarian/vegan dietary restrictions for a daily work + workout schedule.

I got either underfed to the point of fainting, had to rely on expensive restaurant meals and questionable supplements, or had to spent an enormous amount of time on meal preparation.

So either I approached this in a completely wrong way or keto just isn't for "normal" folks like myself with busy schedules.
Does picolisp scratch that itch for you?
Depends on the structure - Public OpCo controlled by non-profit worked out well for Novo Nordisk. Get the resources needed from the public markets, but still maintain the mission-driven control and focus on diabetes.
Yeah this paragraph stands out as a bit strange

"I ran the benchmark on a heterogeneous set of hosts, i.e. different kernels, operating systems and configurations"

In the fine print: the "different OS:es" were two Linux Distributions which are (if I understand correctly) not even that far apart tech wise? (RHEL and Fedora).
Automotive software should be mandated to be open-source.
from memory there are three parts of what we think as Pi

1) the foundation, that does all the outreach, education and magazines

2) The commercial part (the actually makes the pis)

3) R&D

but it might be only two.

Either way I assume only the commercial part will float, leaving the foundation as the majority shareholder. It has the advantage of giving the foundation a couple of hundred million, which should allow it to continue to do great things. (if you think about computer/electronics education, its basically pi and scratch. Arduino has kinda dropped the ball.)
And given how much the licenses cost, I'd love a new player to show up and bring them down to a reasonable level.
What have years and years of criticising and pointing-at brought us, other than a couple of burnt-out devs?

And is there anywhere where we can see that this elite leadership suddenly changed their minds on allowing this, rather than a developer seeing an opportunity when a bunch of things got deprecated, which had been postponed for a long time because it creates a lot of work for downstreams [0]?

Or is the fact that they didn't want to haphazardly break those downstreams the poor leadership you speak of?

[0] https://blog.gtk.org/2022/12/15/a-grid-for-the-file-chooser/
Rent is income that the government enforces your right to collect. A distinction between 'rent-seeking' and government is meaningless.
I’m about to get up, but DNA testing has demonstrated that a lot of people claiming to be innocent, had indeed not being present on the crime scene or that, indeed, a third person was also here.
To clarify, this is Raspberry Pi Ltd (formerly Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd), a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (the charity).

I'm curious how this will affect the foundation's mission, but I guess they are already affected by the outside investments from previous fundraising rounds.
Call your mom.
And now the company will serve the interest of the shareholders above all else. The number gotta go up each quarter.
They have already taken outside investments in previous rounds. This is the Raspberry Pi Ltd (formerly Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd). The Raspberry Pi Foundation is still a charity.
>I can't help but think "finally" and "told ya so" regarding this news.

I don't want to dismiss your personal experiences, but I think that's the wrong conclusion to draw.

Common mental illnesses - particularly depression and anxiety - have incredibly high placebo response rates. Everything looks like a promising treatment for depression in an uncontrolled trial. You can pick practically any intervention - including literal sugar pills - and get ~40% remission rates in an open-label pilot study. Many thousands of potential treatments supported by plausible theories, anecdotal accounts, case reports and small uncontrolled trials have fallen flat as soon as they were tested rigorously. The base rate suggests that the chance of a keto diet (or any other intervention with this level of evidence) being an effective treatment for depression is on the order of 0.1%.

If keto works for you then you should stick with it. The problem is that it's overwhelmingly likely to be no more effective for other people than a low-fat diet or a low-GI diet or sugar pills or faith healing. Articles like this one do a huge disservice to patients, because they completely neglect the base rate and perpetuate a cycle of hype and disappointment that can ultimately lead to distrust and despair.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7945737/
So I can't apply without signing up?
Same thing going on in Finland [1].

1. https://fi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_...
>I personally think a big part of the issue is actually scope, these systems are expected to do everything

If I were to guess, the goals of admin and workers might not match because the primary goal of the admins deciding and implementing the EHR is to avoid liability for the organization in the event of an error, but errors are inevitable. And if liability for individual errors are so costly (as they are in the US for healthcare stuff), then the primary goal for the workers also becomes avoiding liability.

In this situation, I can envision something like a crew of people working in the hospital that do good, quick, but undocumented work 99% of the time, are now being slowed down by documentation or other cover their ass needs. Obviously, it is possible that the new documentation needs are also uncovering malpractice that went unnoticed before. The question is are the tradeoffs worth it, which does not have a simple, objective answer.
It’s been pretty well documented at this point that the crack epidemic was not fought by the CIA , but rather welcome. ( see “contra trafficking” )
I think it's a bit of a strange interpretation to read that as a mandate that slavery as a punishment for a crime must exist within the united states. The spirit of the law seems more to be that its not part of what the amendment prohibits.
Warning though - finding the IPO shares/stock to buy will be nearly impossible.
Ah, this may explain their abandonment of the 'hacker' community and weird hostility towards them over the last few years.

They've gone from a fun project and education focused company who was mostly operating under their non-profit arm to better education, to a B2B enterprise supplier with a heavy handed and sometimes outright hatred to their original user base.

For a proof of concept, pop onto their forums, create an account and make a post asking how to do something fairly basic, see how quickly you get yelled at and banned for life.
Your 6135 results are ignoring that there are two different usages.

I said “run time” relates to algorithmic complexity. That’s one definition.

The other definition is also valid in research, as it relates to environments. Like Java.

The first result in your query is an example of the second definition. It is not an example showing these are interchangeable.
Sounds to me like the author has the “expectations problem”. I’m not a huge fan of type hints (though they are useful especially with modern IDEs) but it seems a stretch to say a thing is inherently flawed simply because it doesn’t work the way I expect it to…
> Months after China Evergrande ran out of cash and defaulted in 2021, investors around the world scooped up the property developer’s discounted I.O.U.’s, betting that the Chinese government would eventually step in to bail it out.

One thing investors should always be clear about with the CCP - as a foreigner you will always be screwed over if it benefits the CCP. The CCP is extremely hostile, even having strained relations with other Communist Countries [1].

> After two years in limbo, and with over $300 billion in debt, Evergrande was ordered by a judge in Hong Kong to liquidate, a move that will set off a race by lawyers to try to find and grab anything belonging to Evergrande that can be sold.

This will not pay out foreign holders of I.O.U.'s, because of this:

> There isn’t a lot left in Evergrande’s sprawling empire that still has value. And any assets that are valuable may be off limits because property in China has become intertwined with politics.

I hope this is a lesson to investors.

I ultimately feel sorry for the people who invested into housing and who are now stuck with mortgages they must continue to pay despite having no property. T

> Financial markets in mainland China and Hong Kong — a city that has for years been an entry point for foreign investment — have received such a blow that officials are scrambling to find policy measures like a stock market rescue fund to shore up confidence. On Sunday, they moved to stop short selling, a practice that allows investors to bet against a stock.

The CCP over-stepped and took Hong Kong, which should still be under partial UK control and therefore an attractive entry for foreign investment. The CCP caused foreign investment in Hong Kong to be withdrawn and got this ball rolling.

This is just the beginning. Almost all provinces in China are now broke and the economy has taken a very significant down-turn. Property is one of their largest investments and I am not aware of a financially good developer operating in China. There appears to already be talk of restrictions on bank withdrawals to prevent a run on the banks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_relations
The "appripriate" foods fill you up. It's all a psychological trick.
Ketosis nominally is associated with a state of hunger, which in turn contorts this innocent typo into something darker.
I’ve seen my fair share of email delivery issues, but all being this globally shit-canned says to me is “we’re operating in some very-abused IP space and operators aren’t lining up to let us in”.

This is all assuming that the mail is otherwise ticking all the boxes. One too many times I’ve seen someone get on their HN soapbox because their $5 DigitalOcean mail server keeps getting shit-canned, only to find after some polite prodding that they just flat-out weren’t aware of the modern-day complexities of sending email.

Not to say that this is what’s happening here, of course.
> How can newcomers get the most out of learning Lisp?

Make your own lisp. I chose that route even though I had never written lisp code before. Finally understood its elegance.
Keeping the HN tradition of "pedantry at all costs" alive, I applaud you
The non-profit arm is a tiny insignificant part of their business now. They stopped being education and charity focused during covid and are only really interested in their B2B customers these days.
Apple sold nearly 200k Vision Pro headsets
The original paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14605.pdf) that the linked article reports on is a theoretical algorithms paper, and does not contain any references to actual solvers or implementations.

For practical cases it is not that important what the worst-case complexity is, but rather what the expected complexity is of solving problems that occur in practice.
Ye the competition is too high in the base and the profit taken by middle men.

However, I think covid changed that, where producers collectivly realized that if they just raise prices the middle men need to pay up.

Being stuck in a sector that operates "efficiently" sucks. You want guilds, like lawyers and doctors, or inefficiency, like the financial sector.
Nice implementation! It should serve as a great reference for a minimal Tabby's backend API. Thank you for sharing it!

Yeah - ultimately, it won't be as performant or feature-rich compared to https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby, but it's still perfect for educational purposes!
https://archive.is/vto2d
Vegan is decidedly not "normal" if we define normal in the sense that it is common. Only 0.5% of the American adult population is vegan (only 2% vegeterian).[1]

Not that there's anything wrong with being vegan! But it definitely a minority position.

1: https://veganbits.com/vegan-demographics/
2 and 3 are often intertwined. A lack of proper reward sometimes is exactly what lack of organization means or results in.

I've worked at many different jobs, the really dysfunctional ones tend to punish rather than reward good work.

Also, be careful with the overtime. A really well organized company is able to pay its employees for every hour that they work. They also don't need overtime to make up for dysfunctional planning. Overtime is, after all, a lack of reward by definition. That is, I'm assuming unpaid overtime of course.

Its not always like this, though in my experience the really messy organizations put a lot of value on overtime, either because there was a crisis all the time or it was the 'look me being busy (with my career)' kind of politicised org.
Yeah Keto when you can't have dairy or eggs (food sensitivities) is really, really difficult to do. I'm in that boat too and my weight got dangerously low when I was trying to keto.
If they weren't doing this work, what would they be doing? I would think they would rather get out of their confined areas and do something physical.

The pay they receive is typically minuscule so I don't know the advantage there. I'm not sure why they are paid at all. Perhaps some other benefit should be given such as more free time or better inside job.

These people are in these types of jails because they did awful things to normal, decent people. They cannot always be believed when they complain about beatings. I have no way of knowing if that's always true or true at all. If it were true, why would the prison allow them to speak to reporters?

This doesn't all make sense to me to have sympathy for dangerous criminals.
idk what you mean by socialist countries but at least in france/germany medical procedures are 100% covered, only aesthetic procedures aren't covered, for example they'll patch you up with an ugly metal teeth and not the new top of the line realistic looking tooth replica.

You also get yearly or bi yearly checkups and yearly cleaning covered. For most people it's more than enough
> which had a tight loop to detect when a process was forked.

This sounds so mad it needs more context. You don't need to detect when a process is forked, it's an action issued from inside the process?
I heard the podcast from Huberman and Dr. Chris Palmer and they talk about ketosis and mental illness. It was really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI
Since on hn, it is common courtesy to give others the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume your comment is made out of ignorance, not malice.

In that spirit, you might profit from the following quote:

“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
What if I told you GrapheneOS supports this same functionality on Pixel 8?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110468
(author of the blog post) I would have loved to take into account each comic's age and compute some kind of normalization/weight but never got around to doing that. It's hard to do this kind of normalization correctly since HN's population size isn't a constant over time.
For an example of the long-term effects on mission, you can study Kellogg’s (the cereal company) which has been a for-profit public company (Kellogg Company), with a trust as the majority shareholder (W.K Kellogg Foundation Trust), and sending profits to to a non-profit charitable organization (W.K. Kellogg Foundation) since 1934.
I frequently wonder if there is an opportunity to start a company/nonprofit by using prison labor in a more ethical way, providing better conditions, reasonable pay, personal development —- the things these companies are claiming but then failing to do.

Why aren’t there such programs? Has this been tried? It seems these companies aren’t presently trying to improve the conditions, but maybe at first they were?
Any other gems of stupidity from 1865 we should abide by?

A report published by the American Civil Liberties Union in June 2022 found about 800,000 prisoners out of the 1.2 million in state and federal prisons are forced to work, generating a conservative estimate of $11bn annually in goods and services while average wages range from 13 cents to 52 cents per hour.

Five states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas – force prisoners to work without pay.

The report concluded that the labor conditions of US prisoners violate fundamental human rights to life and dignity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loop...

Clearly not everybody is in line with holdovers from the cotton fields of central north america.

https://harvardpolitics.com/prison-labor-is-a-human-rights-a...
And then you have rising rates of eating disorders due to all the messaging being all about restricting calories which creates fear of food which puts people in a real acute danger.
Can you explain the reference to Gordon Ramsey? (and a link would be great if possible)