skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pop is one of my favorite founding stories. Slack acquihires a multi-cursor product, kills it, never builds the feature. Noncompete expires, original acquihire founders use their acquihire money to buy a $1.5M vanity domain, bootstrap a replica of their old acquihired product, feature freeze, and just provide a stable and reliable product - one that we use every day. Pop is amazing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223522
>The UK should consider making housing and children affordable.

This seems like a good idea regardless, but I wonder if making children affordable actually influences people to have more children. Despite being intuitively obvious, it seems like wealth has the opposite effect on procreation. People who have lots of children seem to be motivated mostly by non-economic factors.

Poverty of meaning seems more relevant to this issue. If you don't have an intergenerational identity that you derive deep meaning from, and believe that the future after you die matters more than the present (and near future) where you're alive, then having kids is just brutal suffering for nothing.

It's like trying to convince anarcho-communists to join the military by offering really good salaries. Okay, do that. But also wonder - why don't people believe in your society? Why don't they want to fight for it? None of this is to say we shouldn't pay soldiers well, you see? Because in the past, parents and soldiers lived significantly less secure, comfortable lives, and yet...

Anomie
Large LLMs like gpt-3 and gpt-4 need very serious hardware. They have hundreds of billions of parameters (or more) which need to be loaded in memory all at once.
Yes absolutely. Often to understand the context of a topic it requires more than just the specific paragraph it is discussed and the LLMs are actually perfectly capable of understanding fairly complex concepts if provide the raw material properly.
We need to unionize and get residuals. 0.0001 cent each time a line of our code execute might be a good start.
One thing the article doesn't mention is a misconception about the efficiency of the Byzantine military. Their generals actually had a TON of issues coming to a consensus on whether to mount an attack or not.
> Presumably any other language that can run on a virtual machine, like WASM, is also to be included! Exciting days ahead :)

C can be compiled to WASM, and it's not a memory safe language, so this can't be true...
Where does the link between population growth and GDP per capita growth come from? If growth of GDP per capita is caused by growth of population then why is India so much poorer than Switzerland? Uganda and Afghanistan both have very high growth rates too, yet they're both very poor.

I doubt that increasing immigration that much would actually cause any increase in GDP per capita at all - the more you increase immigration, the lower standards you have, and if you want to have 700 million more people by the end of the century you'll get 10 million a year, a lot of whom are unskilled non-English speakers since there aren't enough highly skilled potential immigrants to fit the demand. What, exactly, would they be doing that would be increasing the GDP by that much? I think it's much more likely that technological improvements are the main cause of increasing GDP per capita, and the increasing population is a side effect.
There are a lot of people that are now 100% content with streaming services and doom scrolling and don't want to have kids. In the more distant past, it was either a necessity, enforced through social constructs, or was probably seen as a lot more interesting back when entertainment wasn't so all encompassing.

During holidays I'll go visit a massive family (my wife's) and she has a bazillion cousins and brothers and almost nobody is getting married. The few that are have no interest in children and it isn't a housing or money problem. They'd just rather live a different lifestyle. I get it for sure, but it's also a bit shocking to see a forecast of how quickly the birthrate is going to drop.
Why is it always surge pricing for consumers, but not employee compensation? (in a non-exploitative manner like the gig companies employee) Yes, there have been cash-flow improvements like daily payments, and maybe other improvements to scheduling apps-- why not a solution for surge pricing for employees? E.g., Wendy's is busy for the Tuesday afternoon shift, wages +30% for workers who want to come in for X hours (if order throughput is +300% from 11am-1pm, why wouldn't they want extra hands, even if the marginal cost is much higher, albeit more transient). Or Amazon/DHL/UPS sees an increase over a weekend and offers $X bonus per shift for standby/off shift employees, increasing the amount until enough people volunteer.

Given that labor is viewed as fungible by most employers, why not enable more promiscuity by employees to help with wages and/or security? Things like background checks seem fairly transitive. Maybe do some sort of skill set certifications like food handling, warehousing, basic labor, etc.?
Maybe that’s a good thing
https://archive.is/YE5fJ
Is there any possible redemption for a publicly traded company that is on their back foot like this?

Seems like this would have been a stellar business without the hassle of going public. How did they fuck this up? All they had to do was keep customers happy and collect money.
If folks were higher to fix the problems, what are they supposed to be doing once they’re fixed though? Be paid indefinitely for the work done X years ago?
That was the entry price of legit Compaq Deskpro 386 on first release.

Within six months hobbyist computer enthusiasts were paying half that (or less, IIRC) for PC clones direct from asia.

Source: That's about what I paid for a Doom capable PC at the time.

A pair of second-generation T800 transputer chips and a 4-chip array board to fix them to cost way more at about the same time.
This is because people with greater means expect to be able to provide more/better for their children, which entails much higher costs and puts parents in a considerably more perilous position financially despite aforementioned greater means. Quality food, clothing, daycare, education, medical care, etc is not cheap and only couples sitting on the higher end of the working class salary band can consistently afford all these things while also maintaining financial padding substantial enough to keep the boat righted and afloat should disaster strike.

The above is a big reason why you often see higher-comp working class wait until the last minute (biologically) to have kids. It’s the only way to accumulate anywhere near enough surplus resources to be able to afford a well-cared-for family without risk of a badly timed flurry of bills putting them out on the street.

By contrast, if you’re poor having children doesn’t change a whole lot financially. You’re living on the edge and struggling either way, regardless of your desires.

This is why if it’s a goal of governments to boost birth rates it should be by making raising a family with a high quality of life less burdensome, not by making the population more poor.
I’ve had some colleagues take this flight from HOU to DAL or vice versa, and they love it. The flights show up these days in SAP Concur, but in my experience have always been just out of reach of “policy” which creates exceptions and alerts in our corp t&e bureaucracy. I travel quite a bit and would jump at the chance if the fares were only $30 less.

Combined with the devaluation of flyer miles and loyalty programs, JSX is in a great position to bridge the gap until we get a train
Because it's the correct and documented method of restarting a daemon?

Indiscriminately kill -9'ing processes is generally ill-advised, and the fact that this particular service restarts itself is only because it happens to have its KeepAlive key configured. Another service might not, and would not react well to being killed.
This method seems to work pretty well: https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gr...

Unique in that it seems statistically verified. Here’s an up-to-date version of the projection: https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/
Good point - I don't see why they're subsidized by the federal gvt at all, rather than the resident, the hospital, the AMA, etc.
Here are the implications of this:

The biggest beneficiaries of open source software are massive corporations such as Google, Facebook, etc.

By being worth more that what pay for it, open source is the largest transfer of value from the working class (software programmers) to the capital class (the owners of these corporations ).
Looks like good stuff if you are into that, but his blogging platform looks like an interesting source for new posts not seen elsewhere...

bearblog dot dev/discover/
What is content aware chunking?
It is not "particularly easy" to build housing in the UK.

The governing party (Conservative Party) lost a seat it had held for decades (since it was created) in a by-election because Boris Johnson (then PM) wanted to change planning regulations to allow more housing to be built. The government then had to reverse those plans.

This is also the case at the local council level. People will turn out to argue against new housing but people do not turn up to planning meetings to support it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5747203...

https://www.cityam.com/planning-reforms-govt-u-turns-over-in...
It's only visible to Apple employees, and even among that group, not sure who can actually view them. You can still reference the FB# in your own submission via Feedback Assistant.
Speaking of decoupling entitlements, this article is a classic on that theme: https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
> Evaluation: Out of 28 tested applications, 26 are vulnerable to at least one attack. (2021)
If you asked me 25 years ago which country would slide down the toilet to becoming authoritarian fastest, I never would have guessed it would have been Canada.

>The bill, introduced by Justice Minister Arif Virani, would also raise penalties for hate-propaganda offences from five years to life imprisonment for advocating genocide.

One need only look at the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine to see how ridiculous this new law is. Supporters of both sides accuse the other of "advocating genocide" by offering any sort of rhetorical support at all. You should have absolutely no doubt that opposing whatever war or military conflict Canada or NATO is involved with at the moment will be interpreted by the authoritarian Canadian regime as, "advocating genocide", no matter what actual verbiage is used. Nobody who believes in the semblance of a free society can support such a draconian law.
Gonna need a recipe, friend. Gotta try it. I’ve made fermented hot sauce before and it was okay, but I think I overcomplicated it.
Knowledge work by its nature seems to be winner-take-all and not generate well paying jobs for people who aren’t cognitive elites. California and New York are good examples of this—the finance and tech bros with sky-high salaries drive up the price of everything, to a degree that outstrips the modestly higher salaries those industries pay to ordinary workers.

Contrast that with something like oil and gas, or sophisticated manufacturing which needs large numbers of moderately skilled workers. In absolute terms these industries generate less wealth. California’s GSP per capita is more than 25% higher than Texas’s. But middle class people are moving from California to Texas (and Georgia and Tennessee)—not the other way around. Or instead of Texas, consider Germany. I’d posit that it’s better for Germans that the country excels in manufacturing rather than finance or tech.
Hey! Those were the last two times I invested in the market, saw my investment diminish and stopped paying attention. For what it's worth, I am putting money in again, so let's see.. lol.

Edit. Oh .. I also invested just before the dot com crash. I looked at the historical charts and can't believe my timing.
Interesting result, horrible article.

> At this rate, the last 55 genes will be gone in 11 million years.

> The imminent – evolutionarily speaking – disappearance of the human Y chromosome has elicited speculation about our future.

The human-gorila split was 8-10 millions years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla%E2%80%93human_last_com... human-chimp was more recent. 11 millions is a lot of time, probably enough for 10 or 20 species. If "we" survive, "we" will be very different.

Also, useful genes don't just dissapear magicaly. Genes escape from the X-Y crhomosomes because it's a problem to have one copy in half of the population and two in the other half. The important genes will be preserved and "we" will survive. Perhaps the relevant gene will migrate to other chomosome, but it will not be deleted and extint all of us.

The most relevant gene in the Y cromosome is the SRY. It doen't have the information to buil a penis or something similar, but it activates other genesthat activate other genes and afer a few steps, they build a penis and all other male parts.

The interesting part is that they found two species that lost the SRY, but got a special version of the gene activated by the SRY, so the cascade starts in the second step insted of the first one. No magical deletion. I guess the SRY was deleted after the other gene assumed the control and the SRY was no longer relevant.
In this case the same airlines are killing efforts for high speed rail between the major Texas metros. AA and SWA would lose out if an efficient rail alternative existed.
They seem to completely miss the why of Uber surge pricing. It gets some customers to delay their ride, and gets some drivers to start their shift early. What does it do at Wendys, convince some more frozen hamburger patties to leave the freezer?
As the M*A*S*H quote notes, war doesn't only involve combatants, but noncombatants, civilians, neutral parties, children, and future generations.

For the last, consider unexploded WWII ordnance routinely uncovered in Germany and the UK (an example of the latter only this week); mines in Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, among many other theatres; Agent Orange and other chemicals utilised in various locations (including a sunken trove of mustard gas munitions aboard a US Liberty ship, the John Harvey, lost at Bari, Italy, during WWII); depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan, amongst others; and the political disruptions of national borders drawn either ignorant of or to deliberately exploit local rivalries across the Middle East (Sykes-Picot), Africa, and the Indian subcontinent.

Even barring that, and allowing that there are long-term employment conditions (shipping, remote development, expeditions) which might be difficult to quit on a moment's notice, military service at the least has legal proscriptions on arbitrary quitting not found in civilian service.
Part 1: Building a 'Mini' 100TB NAS
FWIW, I have a desktop with an RTX 2070 and a handheld (GPD Win Mini) with a 7840U, which is essentially the same chip as the Z1 Extreme. I do nearly all of my gaming on the handheld these days. The desktop is way more powerful, but the handheld is powerful enough, and way more convenient.
Google's AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse
Which money printing are you referring to?
Making fast food drive thru customers angry with unprotected flat screen TV’s a few feet away…can’t wait to see how this all ends.
I expect it was flying on such razor thin margins of lift thanks to the sparse atmosphere that it needs all 4 to have a hope of liftoff.
I agree that there are plenty of seasonal roles, but you'd hope they'd leverage contract positions for that.
I mean what is supposed to happen here. They may now have gotten handle on previous architecture astronautery after spending ton of money of tech resources. Should they just jump on some CloudNative Microservice NextGen 2.0 or whatever to keep people who have no work employed?
I would say that anybody in Canada should look at getting out, but the way the global internet operates these days, and how it has facilitated a kind of extraterritoriality, I wonder what our options are for avoiding the effects of this kind of thing happening in other nations, now and into the future.
don't stop just raise the margin slightly and limit the number available of the higher end chip using the proceeds to self fund building their own datacneter

do runs of cards for themselves with higher core counts and clock speed that they dont release to others.
One way to have skin in the game is to pay a considerable sum of money to join medical school. This reminds me of the Commitment and Consistency chapter in Cialdini's book Influence. In part it says we stick with things more after we exert effort and especially so after public effort. With free tuition we take away some of the skin in the game, but students will still have to expend considerable effort to achieve high enough grades. That probably fosters commitment (and might explain why people with scholarships still tend to value school). In any case, we already have doctors whose parents paid for school, so even when free schooling does reduce commitment (and it probably will sometimes), at least this evens the playing field.
That's directly in the source I quoted, to be fair: "(This rule would not have influenced the crew in this accident, as both pilots held ATP certificates and had more than 1,500 hours of experience.)". This requirement was added after the Colgan crash, as a direct result of it, though.

This isn't about new regulation, it is about a company attempting to avoid existing regulation. I am sure you'd agree removal of regulations should go through the same sort of cost benefit analysis, and that regulations should be applied fairly to all parties.
Fun! Thanks for the thought exercise. I ran into trouble with Firefox on Android. It wouldn't let me type more than a letter before my keyboard closed. I don't know if that's a bug in the game or my keyboard misunderstanding what I'm doing, but thought I'd share.
I was writing out a similar reply but you covered more or less all of it.

Anecdote: I know a few couples where their financial situation improved when one of the spouses stopped working and started taking care of the kids. The cost of having someone else watching the kids, such as daycare, was more than one of the spouses was bringing in. So they had a choice of being in a more precarious financial situation until the kids could be more independent with both spouses working, or having one spouse give up a long chunk of their career and potentially end up worse off later because they missed on years of advancement.

And of course, if both spouses work a lot, you end up with latchkey kids, which ain't the best situation either.
No government wants a recession on their watch so printing goes on and markets keep going up
I'll most likely pick FreeBASIC or Python for teaching kids simple graphics programming.
FreeBASIC has a QB-compatiblity mode, so using old QB tutorials shouldn't be a problem.

Or Python for 3D stuffs.
> I'd rather live in a world with 100 million humans, and computers helping to run this world.

Easy to say when you've positioned yourself as one of the 100m that gets to live - and with 7 billion people's worth of man-made resources to be shared round.

I think the journey towards it would be catastrophic under capitalism (and any transition away from capitalism could also be catastrophic, at least in the short term).
What can they do? Bombing them for years hasn't worked
M1 and the Fed's balance sheet are down since 2022, though. What "money printing" do you mean?
Housing can not simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.

So the politicians either keep housing as a good investment (un-affordable) and piss off the younger people who can't afford to buy, or they make housing affordable (bad investment) and piss off the older people who already have houses.

They can't win either way.

I personally think housing should never have been made an "investment", and we should start taking steps to move it away from that. It's a basic human nessessity, and like water or food, everyone should have access, and it shouldn't be something that people make wild profit from.

Go make wild profit from commercial real estate or cars or golf clubs. Not houses people need to live in.

We need to take these steps:

Step 1: Only humans can own houses (no corporations, no business, no hedge funds or whatever else)

Step 2: Limit the number of houses any one human can own, until it's eventually only one per person (a rich couple could still have one each, but not more)

These steps may take 10 years to phase in, but they will make a big difference and be worthwhile.
Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's Bluetooth speakers
Find your true self.
So many people seem to forget that we live under capitalism. Why is it always for customers and rarely employee compensation? The latter costs money and the former increases already obscene profits. It's capitalism. That's why.
Marriage is also a luxury good in the current macro.
"Investing", assuming you are regularly employed, shouldn't be a thing you only do at certain rare times. You should put a part of every paycheck into whatever investments match with your risk tolerance. They way you eliminate the risk that you put a big lump sum into the market right before a crash.
Yeah I think this logic only holds true for individual peppers within one species (or batches of peppers, or even regional variants of peppers). The hotter ones also have more flavor.

If you're comparing two different species of plant though I think all bets are off. If a correlation exists here it's very loose.
MCM/70 an Early Portable PC (1973)
Yep that's it, I remember this line too:

> He also strayed from convention by omitting the system clock, thereby stripping the chip of its ability to synchronize its digital resources in the traditional way.
https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/payload/

Perhaps it’s not that different than other solutions have but my impression was their payload system was more flexible and extensible than competing options, especially with the speed that Qdrant delivers, so for example pg_vector can leverage all of postgres capabilities but I don’t believe it can compete with Qdrant on vector specific problems.
There's a sense in which the roman empire in the eastern mediterranean was only ever a thin layer of administration over the broader hellenistic culture that remained from Alexander's conquests.
I think the US printed a couple of TRILLION dollars during COVID. The money hasn’t gone anywhere so if you’re American and don’t have the $80000 per person someone else has your cash.

Edit: not sure why you’re downvoting! It was actually $3.3tn in 2020 alone which is wild.
Crunchyroll used to offer a guided reading experience for some of their manga.

You could probably build a tool that tags each panel and attempts to figure out the order, and then have a human editor do a validation pass. If you have enough people reading a series you can probably crowdsource the panel sequence.