skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What what is the "correct" percent to spend?

Quite an interesting question - theories range from 0% to 100% and everywhere in between. Empirical evidence seems to be that >60% causes a collapse of some sort [3] since nobody serious is doing that. And probably a floor of 20% since Singapore operates at 15% but doesn't really try to field a military and is a micronation. Anywhere at 40%+ seems to have problems with industrial production and innovation. I'd suggest there is a sweet spot at 20-30% spending on uneconomic projects, although obviously if that number can be reduced then more spending on uneconomic things means more stuff for everyone.

If we look at the countries you suggest, we see 44% (Japan), 27% (South Korea), 16% (Taiwan), 26% (Chile). We see that GDP per capita improvement is worst in Japan [1, 2]. There is a bit of a link between high growth and low government spending. Of course, if a country is growing quickly and the government isn't spending much then government expenditure will appear low so we can't be certain it is causal - but we would suspect that fast growth isn't led by government spending.

My personal theory is we see economies grow, then people kill the growth and coast. The high-taxing economies are lovely places to live for a while, but are getting crushed industrially and have generally managed to get themselves into an energy crisis which is starting to have an impact on living standards. Coasting is a bad long term plan.

Until someone comes up with a number, we should at least experiment with zones of as close to 0% taxation and spending as can be managed without compromising the consensus essential services. That is the sort of thing China looked to be doing in Shenzhen and it worked wonders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

[2] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/taiwan/gdp-per-capita

[3] My guess is if we look at return on capital that is around the point where depreciation starts to overtake investment. And the symptoms of wastefulness go from sluggish--or-arrested-growth to now-obviously-shrinking-rapidly.
>Why the middle class, which has mostly been taxed into not existing?

Because that's not how the American middle class died? The American middle class died when upper management sold your solid career to the Chinese for a quick buck, and spent all the windfall on enriching themselves for decades. It's amazing you cite Warren Buffet while saying that, who commonly calls for higher taxes on the wealthy.
>100% increase in operating margin from 22 to 23, not bad
Which stock do you recommend now?! ;-)
Well, why? It just seems risky. Everything you make on your work laptop / during work hours is typically owned by your employer. If your employer is paying you to contribute to OSS, don't use your personal github account. Just don't ever mix personal and company accounts on company hardware.
The Iridium satellites are in what you might call "parallel" orbits, if you stretch the meaning of the word a little bit.

The wikipedia link above explains it well:

"""
Orbital velocity of the satellites is approximately 27,000 km/h (17,000 mph). Satellites communicate with neighboring satellites via Ka band inter-satellite links. Each satellite can have four inter-satellite links: one each to neighbors fore and aft in the same orbital plane, and one each to satellites in neighboring planes to either side. The satellites orbit from pole to same pole with an orbital period of roughly 100 minutes.[8] This design means that there is excellent satellite visibility and service coverage especially at the North and South poles. The over-the-pole orbital design produces "seams" where satellites in counter-rotating planes next to one another are traveling in opposite directions. Cross-seam inter-satellite link hand-offs would have to happen very rapidly and cope with large Doppler shifts; therefore, Iridium supports inter-satellite links only between satellites orbiting in the same direction.
"""

The 'seams' have interesting implications for latency when I was working on Global Data Broadcast.
Instagram is half-images/half-video and Threads is half-images/half-text.

And yeah all of the popular photographers were on Threads from the beginning since photo carousel support was one of the first features that was implemented.
This is why I use a separate Github account for work?

(& then just rotate the credentials on it when you part ways with the employer.)

Some of my co-workers even do a Github account per employment.
> I can't tell if this is engaging with trolls or not, […] that most of us use daily, most of us use `--oneline`

You speculate that someone who uses git log without listing (or complaining about) all their flags are a troll?
Meta has staged probably the biggest corporate comeback ever. $1 trillion of market value created in the past year alone. Threads is a success by targeting high-SES, high-educated demographic (sorta like Pinterest). The opposite of most social networks.
> On my work I make 1-15 commits a day. If I have to spend thought cycles on the commit message, that is time that goes from other productive endeavours.

Do you apply that to everything? Like not answering questions from your colleagues, not writing test, not refactoring, not optimizing, etc?

I personally don't measure my productivity by the number of commits I push. If I did, I could easily make 100 commits a day. And there of course it would be better for me to not care about the commit description, because it would take thought cycles and anyway the commits would make no sense.
Oh. I thought this was posted for its title, reminiscent of the best of grindcore and death metal bands.
API access, which is pay as you go, is much cheaper if you just want to just play around. If I'm not using plugins, I genuinely prefer playground.openai.com to chat.openai.com, because I can modify messages. I've found that any time ChatGPT gets something wrong, that wrongness is stuck it the context, and screws things up.
yeah, puts crypto gains to shame
Idk this seems like a non-issue...Are people really having chats they shouldn't have via a work chat? I thought we knew better than that. I wouldn't trust ANY chat platform managed by my employer with those types of messages.
So trade the stock before the market closes?
Hey TechDirt! What's the point of making a image of text to embed in your site? Its text becomes blurry and hard to read compared to using an actual font. What a horrible decisions for legibility.

But seriously, what's the thought process for a website to do this? Even embedded tweets are not pre-rendered images. Some one in some meeting decided that using a rasterized image would be awesomesauce. What kind of sick people were involved?
Elon won’t be happy…
Outside of Google search or Youtube, Meta's grip on the internet is unrivaled.
If you look at my past comments (and maybe my Username) you could have seen that FreeBSD is my main-system (Server, Laptop and Workstation) since well over 17 years (the servers since that long).

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They had an ETF that did this called SJIM but just announced it's closing: https://www.etf.com/sections/news/inverse-jim-cramer-etf-shu...
I guess they disappear as they approach the horizon because the light is spread/absorbed too much by going through more atmosphere?
>if they are just pursuing it based on a lack of better ideas for what might be "the next thing."

There is probably a lot of truth to this. Cook is not a technologist or product guy, he's a supply chain guy. He is probably terrified of people saying that Apple lost its magic under his leadership and that Apple can't innovate anymore without Steve Jobs. So he's looking for products that appear innovative. VR is the 1980s version of what an innovative product of the future is, so it seems like an obvious choice for someone who is trying to manufacture innovation. I assume this is why Zuckerberg was going after it as well. He got lucky with Facebook, and as it fades, he is grasping at straws for the next big thing.

That might be an overly harsh critique, and assumes quite a bit, but it seems like it's in the realm of reality. Now it seems ChatGPT has captured the world's attention and is taking the top spot on the priority list of most companies.
Somebody made an ETF of that but it doesn't perform that well. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SJIM/
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Not going to write too much but I think this is best reply:

https://xkcd.com/810/
No, the opposite - historic because it's true.
No, I love this data! Thank you.
From Japan to the world: how to translate a game
Well, artists that exclusively draw space horses are safe.
This is a popular conversation topic, but not a great investment strategy.

https://www.crameretfs.com/
> The main issue is that most of the tooling (in Git or GitHub or whatever) generally only shows the first line.

Maybe I do it wrong, but the most basic interface I use to check the git history is `git log`, which shows the whole commit message.

GitHub takes me 18 clicks to find the commits, I don't see why I would even bother using it.
Let's Write a Templating Library
Clickbait = more views and revenue for video creator. Bad investment advice for everyone else.
How is this sort of growth possible after multiple decades…
Years ago, it was just called Google Apps and was for bringing your own domain. It was even advertised as something that would be good for family usage. And in the legacy GSuite migration debacle a couple years back, they acknowledged that there are legacy users that were/are using it for families and that it would continue to be free (after months of uncertainty).

I have considered paying for YouTube Premium for the family, but I can't unless I create dual identities for all my family members and have them use both accounts on all their devices.
>The training and loss function of the foundation models are completely oriented towards next-token accuracy.

This doesn't mean anything.

Loss function and training only concern themselves with the result of the prediction. The in-between, the computation, training does not care except as a means to an end.

It's not Input A > Output B.
It's Input A > Computation > Output B.

That Computation could quite literally be anything. And no, we do not automatically know what this computation might represent or if it even represents anything that would be understandable by us.

If you train a Transformer meticulously on predicting the token that is the result of an addition, you might hope the computation it learns is some algorithm for addition but you wouldn't actually know until you attempted to and successfully probed the model.
So it's MZ?!
The relationship of capitalism to truth is very significant as well, or maybe 'value generation' would be a better term to use here than capitalism.

Or as I usually phrase it, 'money is allergic to lies'.

Say you have an organization that is producing a product/service that provides genuine value for its users, and have a team of talented, hardworking people. Any factors related to the operations of said organization, obscuring those factors from the value producers can only lead to less effective operation overall, as the producers have less/lower quality/false information to work with.

"I don't feel like this is workplace appropriate" does not violate the 'radical honesty' principle.

At least internally, anyway. If your objective is to make as much money as possible, you probably don't want marketing to be radically honest LOL
The parent's view does seem a bit extreme, but there is always some overlap. Whatever HR system you have is going to be in a weird area of personal/employee overlap, as it'll need to have a password that your personal life has access to. (As tax documents, pay stubs, benefits stuff, etc. all impact the "personal" side of one's life. E.g., I need to store — in my personal archives — the years W-2.)

Also, people just do things for convenience. (Although I tend to pipe these passwords over an SSH connection, so that they're not resident on the work laptop. Though there is a good argument to be had about me permitting my work laptop SSH access to my personal laptop. From a technical standpoint, my employer could hack/compromise my personal laptop. From a legal and trust standpoint, I presume they won't.)
Yes, I think we agree that abstraction is great (with or without "scair" quotes.) My point is that CLIs are valued as tools of explication, repeatable explication. I have actually used Window since 3.1. I cherry picked a particularly juicy example that I run into a lot.

> If you're going to make that into a complicated mess, then you absolutely do not get to assume...

As far as tooling goes the GP mentioned IntelliJ so I rewrote code with fleet, I could have easily have picked emacs or vim or bash or zsh or tcsh instead of fish and the complexity of interface would have remained static. I think HN formatting tools are partly to blame for the messiness but if you look at any quality set of docs describing a complicated computer interaction, to achieve the same level of repeatability as text-based, POSIXy interactions you are going to need a lot of screen shots and a few this or thats. WHICH is fine! Remember software engineering is about trade offs!

EDIT: CLI allows for abstractions like $EDITOR and $SHELL
Modtap isn't modkeys, seriously, just google, I know you're confused, and since you keep ignoring what I write or replace my words with your wrong ones, my simple words won't help alleviate your confusion

(also ironic mention of emacs pinky when you're using pinky for one of the most frequent commands)

> Vimium in chromium

So what's your Vimium command to scroll down by two paragraphs and then select the next two sentences?

> The answer is yes

That wasn't a yes or no question

If you like neovim and the terminal so much, just stay there and ignore this GUI topic, who is forcing you to avoid the light of knowledge at the end of the Google tunnel to insist there is no problem just because you can't see it?

> Vim supports mods

So how do you bind left control p to run one command, and right control p to run another? (hint: this limitation is also terminal-related)
I know it says "Facebook daily active users (DAUs)" but I'm not sure why it wouldn't include the "Family of apps", ie Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, etc
sure, but wifi doesn't go over 6ghz for plenty of reasons

edit: forgot about 60ghz wifi
Hive coup? Why queen bees are sometimes killed by workers
Makes a lot of sense to me
an age is a nonnegative duration where one endpoint is constrained to be a birthday. even birthday could be abstracted. couldn't a bottle of wine have an age?

this enables the query you care about ageof(person, onday)

i like to think about types, not as isomorphic to some tuple but as the package of methods they support

interfaces are more important than classes, is the pithy exposition
I actually see them disappear long before they get to the horizon. My guess is just less reflected light on whatever is shiny on the satellite.
Not only is “git log” always up, I can also skim it without opening a hundred browser tabs.
Right. You've given an example of exactly what I said was the only reasonable use case for detailed info in the commit message: someone in the future will need to know the history of that particular piece of code. It seems like the point of your specific example is to say 'in some cases you might want to know the history of a gap'. Fine. That seems like a nitpick to me.

No one in the future will need to know the history of a particular ascii encoded blank space (among a whole file of ASCII encoded blank spaces). Anyone who needs the general info that the file needs to be ascii will be helped by it being somewhere else, as opposed to in a random commit message.
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> they are only presenting performance against GPT3.5 turbo and not against GPT 4

GPT4 is represented in all of the images as the top performer.
Are you blind and using a screen reader that doesn't OCR images, by chance? If so you may need to access the linked PDF where the charts are given as text.
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But how do they beam copies of the space to space links down for wiretapping, as Iridium does?
Perhaps you meant "'XX is female' is a convenient rubric"?
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Sure they fund "some" content production but the end of the day I'd rather just contribute to the creators I care about directly and pay a reasonable price for YouTube. In the mean time I'll stick with the free version.
This is disappointing to hear. I remember reading about that deal and was excited for it to be available to me.

I pay for Apple Music. It annoys me that I pay for two services, but I really didn't like YouTube Music in my brief interaction with it. If I want to get down to 1 music service, I think I'd sooner drop YouTube Premium. I've been thinking about doing that just to stop me from going down so many rabbit holes on that site. I waste way too much time there.
This plugin does a decent job of creating margins, but can only display one text buffer at a time. https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim
Ok, by this definition I believe if you consider set of natural number without say n^2 numbers, then density will be 1, or "almost all", while class we ignored and similar classes are quite large and important.
Yup. Meta's properties have near-dominance of the web, save for Google.

This is why you have to sometimes hold your nose and buy. The rational part of your brain says "it is overextended" . Yes, but a lot of great investments seem that way, like Nvidia or Microsoft.

The Metaverse losses were bad but only temporary, but the media narrative was that it would doom Meta.
I think it's a reasonable way to present it as evidence of what had been available from someone else's server rather than just words that are presented by their own server. From an accessibility perspective, it would be nice if they could ensure that a screen reader will start reading the text when it encounters the image but it otherwise seems to be a good reporting practice.
When you put it like that, honestly, it sounds pretty epic....
It’s almost like it is good business to not openly antagonize half your potential users. Someone understands power law networks (and someone does not…).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39199368
My impression was that you can only see them as they reflect sunlight in your direction. As the angle formed between you, the satellite and the sun changes, you will first not see the satellite, then see, then not see it again.

And of course, if it is 3am, and there is no sunlight at any altitude because the sun is on the other side of the world, no satellites are visible.

I could be wrong.
> Behind the global success of Japanese video games lies a delicate task: appealing to overseas players whose expectations on issues such as sexism are increasingly influencing the content of major titles.

Players, or journalists? E.g. is there any evidence their sales suffered because the women were too undressed? And what is the point of getting works from a different culture, if they are then filtered through the same US-centric sensibilities as everything else? If I get a game from Japan, I expect a Japanese perspective, not that of a Californian localizer or sensitivity reader.

Consumers fled to Japan for a different perspective, only to see it choked and replaced with more of the same.
The usual answer is that it gives time for the market to digest what was released before making knee-jerk trades on it.

Most brokerages (even Robinhood) allow you to trade after-hours. But the volume is lower so it can be more volatile.
i thought it led to muscle loss as well as fat loss, muscle loss being undesirable ?
Likely CapEx spend on GPU for AI training, similar to what all other FAANG companies are doing now (esp Microsoft and Google, along with Meta). Mark did announce a few weeks ago they would be buying 600K worth of H100-equivalent GPUs, that's a few billion in CapEx.
Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago. 256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)
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I don't remember any companies that ended thanks to cloudbleed, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong