skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe just rational behavior: very few people in the USA have experienced the kind of long-term calamitous change in fortune since the Great Depression. While many today may believe (with good reason) that it's harder to build wealth, our government also steps much with many more stopgaps to prevent the kinds of losses that can really put someone out on the streets. Perhaps they just would rather enjoy consumption with money while they have it if they won't really sink or rise in any tangible way by saving and investing (or for lack of doing it).
The government has certainly set a fine example for everyone.
Maybe I'm being thick, but security in what sense? That someone could rip up pavers?
Every day is Paris-Roubaix. Sounds fun... for a week.
Not just borrowing against the value, the Personal Income metric "does not include realized or unrealized capital gains or losses." So even if you sell stocks or a house or something and make money on it, that income isn't part of your Personal Income. If you're retired and pulling money out of your 401k that has been growing in value for 30 years, I think that also wouldn't be part of Personal Income and spending that money would be "dissaving" from the perspective of this post.
Related, men mass opting out of academia is going to erode it's privileged independently of the other factors listed - https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-...
Based on the name I assumed this was gonna be about a torrent site I hadnt heard of.
There are actually people who think to themselves, "Oh, no. Distant future me might feel bad, because future me brought beings into existence that were so delightful, that DFM felt spending those extra hours chasing dollars instead of spending those extra hours playing with them was a bad move in retrospect. Maybe I should rethink my plans to have them in the first place." As stupid at it sounds when you put it into those terms, stripped of the fancy talk about "human connection" and whatever. As if no connection at all is preferable to a slightly dissatisfactory one.

I don't give a shit what some old man version of me might end up regretting on this front. My kids deserve to be born because life for them is probably going to be great and filled with joy and adventure, with or without me.
People are already selling their Worldcoin identities. It has already failed.
To what extent did your past income (IPOs, executive…) provide the necessary capital to do this profitably? I wonder if there are some economies of scale required outside of numismatics know-how - ie get positive expected value/profit if you can front to buy $100k worth of coins for the 1 coin that is worth it at $101k.
> Undergraduate GPA predicts lifetime earnings[1]

That is...an extremely narrow study to use to make that broad an assertion. GPA of two classes from 2010 at a single business school in China, their starting salary, and then their salary in 2018?
Your popularity goes down if too many of your classes are taught by PhD students and post docs. Overhead is brutal, and research grants are limited, so hiring more faculty is tough. If they just hire enough professors to satisfy demand, they would be on the hook for paying most of their salaries since they are unlikely to get funding. Hiring a bunch of pure teaching faculty is a no go since that turns the flag ship into a less popular non-research university.
Thanks for the mention of f-droid basic - looks like what I need to have sane updates - without switching to neo store:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.basic/

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient
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I already have that on my Boox Note Air 3C and it is pretty handy. I can watch for hours without straining my eyes.
Auto-incrementing integers mean you're always dependent on a central server. UUIDs break that dependency, so you can scale writes up to multiple databases in parallel.

If you're using MySQL maybe integer ids make sense, because it scales differently than PostgreSQL.
If I was unaware of a world outside American borders, I would not have explicitly excluded it.

I make no claims regarding the safety of airlines operating in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. I don't think the safety records of those airlines are particularly relevant to the majority of those on HN nor to the manufacturers of the airplanes they operate (and which are frequently barely maintained).
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“Dissaving” is more practical:

- succinct

- also applied to governments
It's been driving me crazy how much I see in media this narrative being pushed that the economy is really doing great and that it's only smelly conservatives that think times are bad.

I keep seeing supply chain shocks in poultry and dairy still, food and fuel prices aren't coming back down, every company I know anyone working for is in the middle of a sales & hiring slowdown and scores of my friends in tech have been out of work six months or more.
Yeah no. You know it's bullshit when they lead with the classic "Appian Way" comparison. Even more hilarious, comparing it with an area that gets snow!

Sure, the Appian Way has lasted thousands of years, but that's because it's in a moderate climate, that never freezes, on stable ground, and with (very) light traffic.

Author has no civil engineering background.

But if all they wanted was to ragebait, success!
Yeah, it's an idiosyncrasy of vulnerability research and "zero day" status. Things will get discussed with the media in advance of the conference, but if you blog your whole talk before the review board sees the submission, that'll get used to shoot down accepting. Which sort of makes sense, because even if it's good, your submission will be competing with 5 more really good talks on the same track.

I'm a longtime reviewer for Black Hat, and I've reviewed (shadow) for ACM and (publicly) for Usenix (I was a PC for WOOT a few years ago). It's a different vibe. Nobody's WOOT submission got dinged for having been disclosed in advance, but Black Hat submissions will get dinged for having been presented at regional conferences prior to BH.

Again though: the single easiest way to make sure a talk has no chance at BH is to make it vendor-y. Reviewers will LinkedIn-stalk the names on the presentation to make sure nobody's connected to marketing or sales. If you're submitting something that's even tangential to your product (smart toaster firewalls), even if it's good research (elite-level zero-day vulnerabilities in smart toasters), you have to go way out of your way to assure reviewers you won't pitch on stage.

Black Hat is pretty sensitive to making sure the talks themselves aren't commercial, even though the conference trappings are extremely commercial. "This would make a better RSA talk" is an extremely common epithet.
Being pro-every single medical treatment is epitome of anti-science. Science is following evidence-based medicine and the evidence shows that there are cases where chemotherapy is ineffective, like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15330... and https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20191213/adj... . Putting everybody with cancer on chemotherapy is anti-science.
This type of imbalance is necessary provided that wealth is unevenly distributed. Either interest rates fall to zero/go negative - or individuals must borrow progressively more capital.
It's an artificial limit that keeps up the quality. It's the reason nightclubs have bouncers.
Welp. Time to switch CNI on that k8s cluster...

This is why whenever there is a choice between a grassroots open source project, and a corporate source project, I choose grassroots. When the corporation gets bored of the project (or just dies), the project dies too. Grassroots doesn't die as long as one person is still willing to merge PRs and make releases, and grassroots is much more likely to be forked and maintained in perpetuity. Community makes or breaks open source.
> And Asians have higher SAT scores than everyone else.

And that might be the biggest reason to prefer "holistic review" over SAT scores. Originally invented to limit the number of Jews [1], "holistic reviews" is now being used to limit the number of Asians in top universities.

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit...
They were exciting when they first started, (8 years ago?) before k8s - they had some interesting networking capabilities including the ability to use zeroconf. A lot of Java clustering stuff builds off that which made them special in the age of Docker.
My understanding is that test prep and practice has been shown to have quite modest benefits (on the order of ~60 points). You can't radically change your SAT bucket with practice and it's not a simple socio-economic check, as its critics would contend.

https://www.manhattanreview.com/sat-retaking/
Correct, working on enabling training on next iterations
> it does not matter that much, either you're America first or you agree with their foreign policy anyway on Ukraine

It does matter because you basically said "if you really cared about maintaining American unipolarity no matter the cost, you would be all in on Ukraine" - and I don't care about maintaining American unipolarity no matter the cost. A multipolar world is an inevitability.

> you advocate surrender to the same people who wish to destroy you. Weak.

Somehow I suspect that I am not the jingoistic nationalist here.
> the problem only affects undelivered fuselages

The problem has only been observed on undelivered fuselages, because those are the ones that Spirit has on-hand to check. They are not confident the problem is absent in delivered aircraft.

You could also say, "the problem affects all of the delivered aircraft that have been checked for the problem".

From another article:

> As of Friday, the "non-conformance" or quality defect had been found in 22 fuselages out of 47 inspected up to that point, spread between Boeing and Spirit, and may exist in some 737s in service, the sources said.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-boeing-delays-73...
So we agree that AI is not "coding-level AGI" (otherwise the autonomous car software would be part of it).

On the other side of the spectrum, AI can certainly produce very trivial code that just needs to appear to work and no tests. One question I would have there is: if you know what you are doing, are you really faster prompting the AI to generate code for you than writing the code directly? I would argue that for something completely trivial, I can completely imagine that I have written the code in vim before the IDE integrating the AI has even loaded.

The remaining part is something that is not "too hard" (autonomous car) and not "too easy", where the AI helps the developer get something that appears to work faster. What about correctness? If you let the AI write tests for you, you need to review them, right? Reviewing is tricky, because it's super easy to overlook something. As a maintainer of open source projects, many times it takes me longer to review a PR than to actually write it myself from scratch. How can AI help with that?

And my final question is: when you have a bug in the codebase, does the AI find it for you? Because if you have to debug it yourself, it may not be fun to have to dig into AI-generated code.

All that to say that I am not convinced that AI makes development fundamentally faster, but at some point it makes it very annoying: I am not a tester because I like coding more than testing without ever seeing the code. AI has the potential to make me hate my job, and it's not even clear if it will be doing it better.

> Think about how many startups are just basically building a CRM right now.

Sure, and with AI they will be replaced by the same amount of startups building a CRM with AI.
I take it that you were not raised in Japan? Do you agree that someone raised in Japan would have a harder time questioning their boss?

I'm no expert, I've never been to the land of the rising sun. This is what people have told me of their time there. Your input is very much appreciated.
Is AI the biggest threat when our world is guided more by human stupidity?
> is blatantly you generalising from your own experience

It's not. "Generalising" means taking an individual observation, and drawing conclusions about all cases (or a large class of cases). I think you're saying that "I'm not unusual" is a canonical example of generalization, i.e. claiming that my case applies to a large class. But I didn't make that claim.

It's possible that my observation was wrong - that I am unusual. But that would mean that the majority of my recent colleagues were also unusual, because I don't think more than a tiny fraction of them had Github accounts.

Given a specimen case, and absent evidence to the contrary, it's a mistake to suppose that specimen case is unique or unusual. It's much more likely to be common. And if you discover similar cases, then it's definitely not unique, and unlikely to be unusual.

But I think this is litigious point-scoring; I say that having a Github account is not a good discriminator for "software developer". If you disagree, please explain why, instead of claiming that I contradicted myself by saying I wasn't generalising in a post that contained a "blatant generalisation".

[Note: I'm a brit, trying to transition gracefully from "-ise" to "-ize"; I'm having trouble internali[zs]ing the rules.]
Concrete is a more realistic replacement, although it has some of the same disadvantages.

Pavers are not practical on anything but low-traffic, pedestrian, historical, or vanity roads.
but state schools are already massive? They are certainly already going with that approach.
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Cool use of technology. Sounded like it scared the shit out of him.
As you say, its a pretty old term used, since the printout paper itself resembles a classic blue and white striped pajamas.
Pretty much disappeared in Swedish use since the advent of computer monitors.
But I recall my grandpa, who worked at a big Swedish bank during the same time period, using the term in reference to any striped paper.
> We need to stop planning project primarily by spreadsheets, where the dominating inputs are costs you can measure easily. There are factors that are not reflected in those calculations that not only affect the quality of the place you're creating, but also the financial burden that the community will have to bear for decades down the line.

Completely agree. Building a rocket? Plan by spreadsheet. Building a computer system for a data center? Definitely plan by spreadsheet. You know what those two things have in common: no one has to see them.

Things that are in public, like streets, bridges, and facades, ought to not just be cost effective. They ought to be beautiful.
In a world of cheap money, nobody wants anyone's savings.
A Harvard, Princeton, and Yale alumni survey found three-quarters live in zip codes that rank in the top 20 percent by income and education. Half live in the top 5 percent of zip codes.

So their efforts didn't work.
Just to be clear I’m not fretting in the least; I think it’ll be great. Retirees have time to grind for raid gear, haha.
Nothing is perfect, and OSS certainly isn't an exception to that. But, personally, I've had much more trouble and strife on the whole with proprietary software than OSS.
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I was using TeamViewer on Linux fairly extensively over a decade ago, and I don't really recall having issues with it. I haven't used it much recently.
Yes, Grayskull is Tenstorrent's entry-level devkit for inference only. Future generation of chips to feature training.
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by Oakland filmmakers. It reads more like a teaser for the documentary but found this of interest since I, too, learned to improve my typing with this game in my formative years.
>it is actually referring to the bottom 80% strictly in terms of (apparent) savings.

This makes sense. It’s not about how much you make, it’s about how much you keep. Someone making $5m/year can still spend more than that.

If drawing down on investments counts, I suppose the baby boomers are going to skew this number for years to come as they shift from saving for retirement to spending in retirement.
Can you explain this to me in even a rough estimate?

My family of 4 spends $900 a month, and we do NOT price shop. I live in the metroplitan area of a major city, do NOT shop at discount stores, and even have higher meat bills due to religious reasons. We waste very little, I should add, and buy almost all name brand goods.
I can't retain information unless I write it by hand. It's a superstition created by my own mind, but it feels like knowledge can leak out of my brain unless I write it out.

That said, I use a stylus and digital tablet to take handwritten notes, which allows for sooo much flexibility, editability, and creativity.
From my past experience Apple replaces the faulty board with another (previously) faulty board they attempted to repair and which passed their initial stress test, only giving up ghost within 2 years. Happened to me twice before. If I had a guarantee they put in a new board, that would be different.
I also use dark theme for everything, and I also have a browser extension for that, but I keep disabling/enabling it because sometimes things bug on dark mode.

How is to be 14 inches from the screen? I wouldn't feel good being this near to the screen.
Any service that is only using "submit a photo of your ID" deserves to be compromised.

It really doesn't take much to get to the "take a picture holding the ID" step, which can still be fooled but is much more difficult than this (especially for AIs when it comes to finger count lol). But "turn your head left and right" is also pretty easy to incorporate.

If you're not making even a basic effort to confirm the person submitting the ID actually exists, your customers are already screwed. They just don't know it yet.
Inside cities? 50kph (30mph) would be the highest speed limit within city limits where I am. 30kph (20 mph) is typical.
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I think we're missing each other. Propensity to study may be a different attribute than IQ, which is a predictor for both standardized test scores and academic success. Normalizing for socioeconomic factors does not in itself disambiguate these possibilities. Someone with low motivation to study is not necessarily 'neglected'.

I've seen years ago a highly cited paper showing relatively high correlations between SAT scores and IQs, but critically its data was from the late 1970s, when norms around test prep, and access to prep resources, were meaningfully different.
Cool! why is it crucial to keep old versions of code, and what are the risks of running outdated code?
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Tesla driver pulled over after wearing new Apple vision headset on highway
Looks really useful! As a hardware designer I've had plenty of copy pasting bits of schematics to duplicate common functionality. Seems like this could be really helpful in preventing mistakes and increasing quality once used to it.

Have you got any plans for defined interfaces/modularity so devices using SPI, I²C, etc. can be chained together without manually defining pin connections? Also, will there be support for importing schematics from other formats?
Asphalt is the cheapest we have. Even amortized over centuries it still turns out cheapest for many roads. While it doesn't last as long as alternatives, replaces it is very fast/cheap with modern machine and so replacing it every 15 years is cheaper than something that would last for 100 years.

Of course this depends on what the road is used for. Most streets don't get a lot of traffic though, and so the cost curves work out to favor asphalt over time. Roads with a lot of traffic (particularly truck traffic) should be concrete as the cost curves work out better.

Modular pavers that this article recommends are the most expensive. They don't lend to easy/cheap automation to replace and so there is a high maintenance cost.
As a motorcyclist, cobblestones can be deadly. It's basically impossible to make a road out of cobblestones safe if you intend traffic to move above 15-20mph.

The absolute audacity of the article to ask "Where would you rather take your wedding photos?" I don't know, not on infrastructure built for moving large numbers of people? Go find a meadow or something!
Everyone, even experienced engineers can make mistakes. Calling that 'bottom of the barrel' isn't helpful.

Especially in a larger team you can't expect everyone to know fine details of every other part of the system. If you look up UUIDs you will (correctly) get the impression that they're mostly random, except some types aren't.

I would not expect every engineer to know to inspect the UUID and figure out its type and to know that this could have real consequences for guessability by external actors.

If your team is small enough that everyone can hold the entire system in their head at once, that's great, but that excludes many real world projects.
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I suspect this inflation reflects inflated transportation costs more than inflated food production. Of course, food production reflects transportation costs for feed and fertilizer too. It's transportation costs all the way down. The switch to renewable energy sources only exacerbates the cost.
I get what you’re saying but this feels like a premature optimization that only becomes necessary at scale.

It reminds me a bit of the microservices trend. People tried to mimic big tech companies but the community slowly realized that it’s not necessary for most companies and adds a lot of complexity.

I’ve worked at a variety of companies from small to medium-large and I can’t remember a single instance where we wish we used integer ids. It’s always been the opposite where we have to work around conflicts and auto incrementing.
My money is on "overpaid execs will use this to get wrong information, and get mad at their subordinates for correcting them."
> The company was turning over double digit revenue and had more than doubled the number of new product logos in 2023.

From the LinkedIn post. Does this mean $100 MRR / ARR ?
worse than that - in 2008 or so there was a serious spike in identity theft among people in west USA. A theory is that it was the ex-employees of banks and credit related biz that knew how to effectively use a stolen ID for credit. similar comment about credit card fraud in the 1990s
The Boring Company is still very much alive.
I believe you are confusing formalities with realities.