skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article waffles on without providing any real insight or solutions.

The key solution is technology that empowers men.

- Self-driving cars should be an option for drivers to flick on and off at will.

- Mechanized looms should be custom built to enhance the craft.

- Computers should submit to their user's will and design.

None of that is guarenteed to continue.

Corporatized technology devours resources, and subverts human authority - with dark patterns and authoritarian policy.

Automation homogenizes the input and output, making products the same.

When every resource is under computer control, there won't be any need to have a capitalist own the profits. There won't be a need for employees to buy the output.

The concept of new startups will be flattened out by centralized resource control.

The technological revolution eats it's own future.

Why bother being a luddite?

The prognosis for technology is already terminal. Let's accelerate the decline.
It seems to me like the movement of worker cooperatives is growing and they seem to be on average much better workplaces than the normal workplaces.
The US has what, 10%, according to that.
The GSM Association, the industry group of (originally European) mobile phone makers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMA
There's one huge advantage to the "indirect manipulation" of the Vision Pro - you aren't limited to the space around you that you can reach with your hands.

The Vision Pro allows you to manipulate things that are too far away to reach. I don't know if this will "feel" good or not, I won't know until I get one in two days, but it will either feel like a superpower - or be annoying.

Or possibly first one, then the other.
My first employment did this. All the business logic was in stored procedures. These procedures quickly grew bigger and bigger and were nightmare to understand and test.
Most other parts of the world have them too, since that's where most of their sales go.
You know he's like a Staff Engineer at Amazon right now right?
If you "just" want bounds checking, then you don't need a pointer to array. GCC is able to detect the out-of-bound even in this case:

int get(int n, char buf[n])
{
return buf[10];
}

It's if you want to use sizeof that you need a pointer to array. But if you have n, why would you need to query the size of your array?
Realistically, ASML is controlled by the US Army. I am not saying this lightly. NATO's top priority in Europe is ASML, and NATO is mostly a US extension.
How can you tell? Or to avoid proving a negative, how would you measure if reasoning was involved?
>I really liked the beginning but personally am firmly convinced that autism is a serious biological problem/phenomenon that can only be understood by hard-science.

Autism is a sociopolitical concept which transcends science where anybody considered sufficiently impaired is deemed "Autistic" regardless of the underlying scientific cause of that impairment. Consequently, Autism is really multiple independent medical issues with overlapping symptoms all hiding in a big trench coat. It is hopelessly entangled with a ton of societal baggage and is not and most likely will never be a hard science concept.

>Frankly if we're seriously concerned about understanding whether autism is growing, we should develop software-administered questionnaires and take annual samples, you'd only need 2,000 people a year to have a very significant sample.

We have plenty of sampling to test autism incidence.
Just curious, why do you think your evaluation is the opposite of what is shown in this evaluation? https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html
Harry probably shouldn't feel so bad about the bug in the published listing.

I typed in plenty of games from computer mags in the 80s and they almost never worked first time. The problems were sometimes my errors (have you ever tried retyping 100s of lines of small-primt code?) and sometimes present in the published listings.

Whichever, the errors meant that reasonable debugging skills were necessary to get any of them working. It was good training.
> "Hey, does anyone know why the web has become so boring and useless???"

Yes, I know. Some companies have abused the social contracts of the web which were in place since its inception, and told that they are doing something amazing so they need no permission to do what they're doing.

So the web has responded the way it should.
Why password share when you can download everything for free.
> psychedelics are, at best, only a modest improvement over the current state-of-the-art.

Is this measured in terms of efficacy alone, or are you also counting both literal $$ cost, and "cost" in things like side effects? Genuine question - apologies if the tone comes across as harsh at all - you seem like you know this stuff pretty well, and AFAIK those are the other major claims that psychedelics make against pharmaceuticals.
A little closer to finding what became Moses Schönfinkel (2021)
I use a non-rss solution. Obsidian note taking app with a plugin called ReadItLater. I use it to clip pages I want to read later. Obsidian has really good fuzzy search capabilities and everything is saved in Markdown format with YAML headers.
Which parts seemed "inside baseball" to you?
Politicians setting unrealistic goals? Well I never….
The active duty military vote is not actually a solid republican voting block, contrary to popular belief: in 2020, they swung +8 for Biden [1]. It’s the veterans who are solidly (2/3) conservative, currently, but even that’s lessening [2].

Unfortunately I don’t think a majority of either party wants to reign in military spending, considering every admin including Obama and Biden has increased it since Carter, even though likely granting such a blank check is financially irresponsible (i.e. trillions unaccounted for in budget audits [3]). Both parties just want to please that bloc of votes, because it also has ripple effects on the rest of the nation’s votes to be seen as “good on military”.

I personally think our military could be just as effective if we tightened the wallet, but I don’t think either party actually wants to.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/10/14/military-... and https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1245542

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/118684/military-veterans-ages-t... (2009, but the trend has only gotten deeper)

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-...
microSD cards can contain millions of miles in a very small space...
Where would you recommend that someone goes to look to learn how the BeOS scheduler works?
When I'm retired, sitting on the beach with my beer and a good book,
please don't come bothing me that your smartphone banking and GPT
arse-wiping assistant has gone berserk.

You're on your own matey.

But hey, you'll have Google.
They also need to just sell a 'license for a "personal private viewing copy"' of a work and provide non-DRM files that users can self archive and maintain.

No, DRM is not necessary, it's already proven that someone, among the 8 billion monkeys (with some really smart ones) hammering away _will_ figure out a way of liberating the data from the shackles. The whole premise is fundamentally broken in that the viewers are distrusted from seeing the data in the clear. It just adds cost, friction, and failure points.

Convenience (EASE OF USE!!!), a fair price, and content that doesn't go away are how alternative distribution methods die. Just low how bootleg booze largely doesn't exist outside of prohibition since the market functions.
>I'm under the impression people who have autism take issue with pathologizing it and calling it a "problem" or "illness," and want to be accepted as people who are simply different.

If you're talking on Hacker news, this is correct, don't pathologize autism or you are condescending to and infantilising your peers. It is obvious autism played into the success of many in this field, treating autistics as if they simply have an illness is unfair.

This is CONTEXT DEPEDENT though. If you're talking to a mother of an 8 year old who is having problems with their child damaging their brain by smashing their head on the wall repeatedly to self-stimulate, and they say to you "I wish we could cure this disease of autism", that's when you go with the flow.
I can't wait for people to start rendering their CVs with this trick >:)
Agilefall
This can become very realistic by 2025 even. Just poach the brains at ASML, shower them with money (you know those fucking 50 millions bonuses that shitty CEO's enjoy nowadays), give them free hand for all decisions (both tech creativity and management) and voila! - goal achieved. Doubt will happen since this "goal" smells more like another "it's electoral year, let's make some noise in the press" rather than an actual objective.
All the big blocks: EU, US, South Korea, Taiwan, and China assume that their subsidy policies will expand their market share.

Obviously they cannot all be right.

The only that I think is given that will expand its global market share is China. Paradoxically because of the US sanctions and the fact that it relies so much on imports presently.
You know I have been hearing this and its many incarnation debt related doom scenario for atleast 20+ years, when I first started following it. Probably longer. Every few years, when debt related doomed future story pops, I feel lile no one really knows what is going on, or even worse what they are talking about.
They had a single provider. They purposefully moved away from that model to make more money, and it's working.
"openly calling for genocide in Gaza, asking to "finish them", "More! No mercy!" including civilians"

Can you share a quote, where he literally does that? I only read, that he is talking about Hamas. And explicitely not about civilians.
Struggling to see what’s so wrong about it. I can imagine a future where AR goggles are worn by most everyone regardless of the activity.
He must not be very good at it because he left most of the value behind

There are now happy Tesla owners everywhere, and it’s perfectly placed to benefit from the AI wave he knew was coming, enough to found OpenAI
You needed the magic word "basic", and confidence in your right to the account.

The banks presumably make a loss on these accounts, at least in the short term, and seem to hope you'd give up and try with a different bank.

A Bulgarian guy in a flat share was keeping his money under the bed as he had been turned away by the banks. I printed the "Basic" account information and with that in hand he had an account the next day.

(This might all be 10-15 years out of date.)
> The goal of the EU’s $43 billion Chips Act of achieving a 20% world market share for European producers by 2030

The only feasible solution I could think of is let Taiwan joined the EU.
Thanks, some good tips on how to write ChatGPT prompts for me!
As a knowledge worker who immigrated to the Netherlands in 2022 and also lives in Eindhoven, these insights and discussions are super interesting to me. Unlike most of my nearby expat peers, I didn't move here to work at ASML or Philips, but now that I'm here, it's undeniable; the appeal of working for such companies is huge.

Obviously, companies want to make money, but the goals of the government have somewhat been at odds with funding growth and innovation in this sector because of some resentment on the ground from citizens. Tax legislation is all over the place and it's becoming more and more expensive to hire experts from around the world. I understand the sentiment to start hiring at home, but at a certain point, you have to take stock of what is available and get to work with what tools you have. Invest in education for your local population (lots of cuts in the past two decades) but don't punish individuals and companies trying to get work done and benefit your economy.

The infrastructure is basically all in place for Europe to foster its own Silicon Valley, with homegrown production to boot!, but it will come down to politics to make it a reality. These goals are good baby steps, but they need to ramp up quick if the EU is serious about becoming a global competitor.
Why compare debt against GDP? For a person, debt to income ratio is important, but I think debt to assets is a better indicator of how likely the debt is likely to be paid off (vs being defaulted.) For the US, if you divide debt ($33T) by assets ($270T), that ratio is just 12%. This ratio will grow into a big problem only in a massively deflationary scenario when the value of all assets goes down a lot while debt stays constant. In an inflationary scenario, 12% is not a problem.

I like Taleb's writings and agree with him on most things, but seems to me that the sky is not falling.

(Obtained the debt and asset values from Google Bard)
"Hey honey, I called Verizon and they have the 1G service for $79.99"

"I called up T-mobile home internet, and they can give us the 5G for $50"

"Looks like Xfinity has the 10G for $79.95"

The vast majority of people buying internet service are non-technical, misunderstandings about the details are common, and Comcast picked a name that is perfect for confusing with all of their competitors. People don't always know what these measurements really mean, but they know that a bigger one should mean faster internet.
Knowing the structure of an http request and CORS is a check for a common technical vocabulary, but I would strike a blank when asked directly. It feels a bit a like, “I had to learn it” even though it’s just googleable labels for simple topics. I heard of interviewees being dropped for not knowing the difference between 402 and 401.
Zeihan is informed and generally right, better than 95% of sources. However, there are certain things he will get wrong imo, such as details and a certain siding of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and portraying Navalny as far more militarily hawkish than he is.
It's news to me that NATO's top priority is a company created 35 years after its own.
Having the largest internal market which is still on the rise probably also helps, but China has enough problems that it may all come to nothing in the end.
There is e.g. https://pgtap.org/ as a testing library for Postgres.
I know it's all LLM randomness, but some of these are pretty fun/quirky. E.g. sheep + murder gave me "silence" which puzzled me for a while until I thought of silence of the lambs.
That's pretty insane an assumption. If the US wanted ASML so badly they'd piecemeal buy the most important bits, not waste trillions on NATO.

Also of all things the only real European adversary could target, some fragile equipment and ephemeral IP isn't not one.
I think that's a bit overblown. The US debt-to-GDP isn't that high.

Though, I have to say, running 6,5% deficits in fiscal years with no immediate crisis or direct war seems a bit extravagant. If that becomes the norm it could spiral out of control.
Spotted another math mistake:
> The default unit size is 1/72 inch, so the page is 300 × 72 = 4.17 inches.
I do have an MS in DS/ML, but thanks for the advice.

Now, if I were to look for ML engineering positions after that hiatus, would that change the answer? I already have some experience in that.

(I should have been clearer that I’m not expecting a research scientist job right away, I’d like to upskill and then take a job I’m qualified for, and try the PhD route later.)
> [T]he process of writing the inner part of the table test seems to nudge you to think about all the permutations and combinations of what you're testing can be. It leads to good tests and helps you reason about your inputs.

I think this is not inherent. If you need to test all permutations and combinations, do the exhaustive property testing instead. Table tests (ideally) represent a pruned tree of possibilities that make intuitive sense to humans, but that pruning itself doesn't always neatly fit into tables. But otherwise I generally agree.

When I write a specific set of tests I first start with representative positive cases, and I think you would call them as a storybook test (because it serves both as a test and an example). Then I map out edge and negative cases, but with a knowledge of some internal working in order to prune them. For example if some function `f(x, y)` requires both `x` and `y` to be a square number, I can reasonably expect that such check happens before anything else so we can only feed square numbers when we are confident enough that checks are correct. And then I optionally write more expensive tests to fill any remaining gaps---exhaustive testing, randomized testing, property testing and so on.

Note that these tests are essentially sequential because each test relies on assumptions that are thought to be verified by earlier tests. Some of them can make use of tables, but the entire test should look like a gradient of increasing complexity and assurance in my opinion. Table tests are only a good fit for some portion of that gradient. And I don't like per-case subtests suggested in the OP---it just feels like a workaround over Go's inability to provide more contexts on panic.
That also means that a mistake in configuration leaves the server's management port open to the internet.
I agree. Speaking of old school, they scanned their first (1960) issue: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/read-first-ever-elect...
Pornstar + Money = Politician

Gold
>Obviously they cannot all be right.

Sure they can, just ban imports. Each country/trade bloc ends up with their own chip.
How is that crazy? I doubt that national elections usually have voting margins of a single vote.
Handling Large Graph Datasets
That it is news to you doesn't mean it isn't true. ASML is strategic enough that NL actually adapted some rules that wouldn't fly for any other Dutch company. ASML has to go to Washington to ask for export permits for items that it would be free to export under Dutch/EU law. That doesn't happen without a very good reason.
Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage
This kind of happened under trump with the WHO. https://news.yahoo.com/amid-plans-quit-u-not-214130290.html?...

Very little if anything was affected.
As usually, Gophers might have some good ideas here and there, but they are stuck in their own world..

The obvious-in-hindsight next step up from table driven tests is property based testing. That's where you ask the computer to generate the tables for you, and also to automatically shrink any counterexamples it finds to be as simple as possible.

See https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/property-based-test... for an introduction.

(One big benefit you get from property based testing is that the computer only needs to be taught once to always remember to also test edge cases like empty strings and zero length arrays, and NaN and infinity for your floats etc. Instead of a human having to remember for every test that zero is also a number.

Of course, property-based-testing libraries also allow you to exclude those values, when they are not applicable. Eg not everything that consumes floats needs to handle NaNs.

And explicitly filtering NaNs and infinities from your test case generation serves as good documentation for those kinds of assumptions.)
Not sure what you mean. I wrote that there was never any proof required. Even the page you linked states that what is needed is only

> Date of birth (in the YYYY/MM/DD format)

> Country of birth

> NOTE: If “France” is selected in the Country of birth field, the registrants should also provide the city of birth and zip/postal code:

I was born on 1970-01-01 in 75001 Paris, France. There you are, an .fr registered.
The opposite is what really happened. ASMLs EUV wouldn't have happened without strategically acquiring US entities.
Amyone know what wpm units are?

Wafers per month?
This! 2 weeks ago my internet started dropping for 1-2 minutes at a time, 3-5 times per day. The modem status page tells the tale, millions of uncorrectable errors, SNR below spec on several channels, and the event log shows all the disconnects. Neither their chatbot, nor the first level human support however will entertain any possibility except it being an issue with "the website you are using" or "your TV" or "your computer". Took maybe 30 minutes of BS until they offer to send a tech, but I have to pay if the tech concludes the issue is on my end. I eventually lost my temper and just told them AT&T is going round my neighborhood right now running fiber offering to buy everyone out of their Comcast contracts and that they have 2 choices, either they come out to fix the issue or they come out to disconnect and clean up my cable drop - their call. Suddenly a tech was available, the next day, guaranteed free of charge. The tech arrives, plugs in his test modem, says "yeah...that's not related to your equipment" after 5 seconds, shows me a huge signal drop in several frequency ranges and is actually surprised that the internet is even usable at all. Unfortunately the issue is further upstream than "our" utility pole, but he ran a new cable drop just in case and cleaned up on the pole before filing that ticket.

It makes you wonder how many people are limping along with half-broken internet just because they don't know how to debug this and force their way through Comcast's support wall and there not being a competitor they can threaten to switch to.
CCS Redux: Carbon Capture Is Expensive Because Physics
Carbon capture and sequestration is expensive because it has three components, each with its own expensive challenges: capture, distribution, and sequestration. The mass of CO2 produced is 2-3 times the mass of coal or methane* burned and is more challenging per unit to ship than coal, so the cost of capture, distribution and sequestration is typically a multiple of the cost of doing the same with the coal or methane.
That's actually quite funny, especially because Germany almost has portrait DIN format.
Go for it. They're cutting edge and a good employer too.
Ive been using matrix private instance for group of nontechnical users for almost a decade now. First with Synapse and now Conduit.

Imho its OK. There are issues with e2ee and well it took most of that decade for Synapse 1.0 stable release…

But if you want private Slack/Discord alternative and run your instance Matrix is still your best choice. Running Conduit with sqlite is pretty easy it. Conduit doesnt yet have all the features but i hope its gonna get there. Element and other clients are pretty good. I am not sure there is better alternative that has threads, image uploads, markdown… all the little stuff people nowdays expect.
MMT works well, if exporters want to swap their real assets (commodities, food, chips, metals, labor) with US dollars (nominal). No one wants to export their real stuff to Venezuela unless the latter pays in US dollars.
Have you not seen the Godfather?
Government spending is an investment in civil society, which is repaid thru taxation.

If everyone paid their fair share of taxes, there would be no problem.
Did the tech industry break the world?
Money doesn't motivate people for highly technical work, in that way. I suppose if by "shower them with money" you mean provide them with best in class tools then yeah, sure, but then best in class tools have to be built by dedicated and caring engineers. If you gave the average staff engineer an $xmillion bonus that wouldn't appreciably increase their work quality.
mud + rainbow = pig ? I’m not sure I am seeing the point.
Oh, right! That's just a bit of fun - a random pattern (picked to be vaguely visually pleasing), which is laid out on the Hilbert curve, and then offset by a calculated amount depending on the mouseover. So I'm just shifting the same pattern forwards and backwards in a ring buffer, basically.
Solar Cell Breakthrough Korean Researchers Set New Perovskite Efficiency Records
Moiré synaptic transistor with room-temperature neuromorphic functionality
Vader: "Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them. The Emperor does
not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation."
If malls know this, parking reqs should be eliminated so that every business decides for itself how much parking they need
Well for LLaVa-1.6 we know it was trained only on English multi-modal data.