skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a false dichotomy, it's actually what happens because the newly rich are often earning their new riches in a way that is not easily hidden away in any of the myriad of legal structures that can hide income permanently from the high tax countries. The new guys will get their wealth eaten by your proposed policies but the old wealth will not, calcifying the system.

It is the wrong question about Jim Walton because it only matters if walmart is still the obvious oligopoly abuser it is. There is a huge difference between someone who managed to get big enough to abuse market power in one space and collected monopoly rents to amass a large fortune (The waltons, bill gates, etc.) and the guys who appear to be excellent managers and have grown massively society improving businesses in disparate industries (currently only Elon comes to mind, I am sure there are other but they are rare enough and/or have stuck to a single business that they grew large enough to extract excess profits that I can't think of any other semi proven names). The good managers you want to be as rich as possible because they are deploying that cash well, the other guys not so much. This translates into much more concern about the children of the super rich (which is correct) but to which you are trying to solve with an inheritance tax, which will just make things worse and slow growth. It's far better to break up the monopolies/oligopolies/regulate away the most obvious abusive contracting and let time do it's thing to get the junk offspring back to normal wealth levels.

You don't get it. Reporting requirements are quite invasive now and they aren't working. The level they will have to get to to actually make an inheritance tax work is a place that is far too much power for the government to have and won't end well (because that level of power has never ended well in the hands of the government). You are trying to solve a questionable problem (billionaires) by feeding an obvious, terrible, and literally deadly problem with massive historical precedent (government power).
A good starting point would be Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations. He was a German Jewish emigre to the United States, and it was with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation that his book was used to create International Relations departments within universities across the United States in the immediate post-WWII period. Prior to Morgenthau and the Rockefellers, international relations was not its own discipline distinct from history, philosophy, law, jurism, etc. Morgenthau's book was the standard textbook for international relations for several decades, and in it he tries to outline European realpolitik for his liberal American audience. His is still probably the most literate, sophisticated, and nuanced international relations introduction.

On the topic of a systemic drive to increase ones power at the expense of others, leading to escalatory and conflictual international dynamics, your go-to book is John Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. He is also in the realist school of thought like Morgenthau, although you'll find that his style of writing is much punchier and pugilistic than Morgenthau's.

On the attempt to build systemically de-escalatory effects at the international level, I would pick up a copy of G John Ikenberry's After Victory. He describes how victorious countries following major wars would create a new set of rules for the international system, and how at least some of those post-war regimes attempted to reduce the returns to power in order to increase the stability of the system and reduce perceptions of threat and insecurity by weaker states. Note that he worked in the State Department during Bush Sr administration and has that direct experience of attempting to ensure order and stability following the end of the Cold War.

If you want to read case studies in escalation toward a war that no single actor actually wanted, I recommend Stephen Van Evera's Causes of War with a focus on his study of WWI. It goes well paired with Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August.
I currently have a 16" M1 Max and thinking about picking up a 15" M3 Air. My understanding is the M3 is faster in single core performance but the M1 Max is faster in multi-core because of obviously more cores. Am I really going to see a performance difference switching from M1 Max to M3 or should I splurge and go for M3 Pro or M3 Max?
Also a common trope on Car Talk, RIP Tom Magliozzi.
Hi! Author here. This was actually my second article on wages and inflation (the first one can be found on my site - Dec 4, 2022 - Wages and Inflation). The main theoretical work behind this actually work done by Oliver Blanchard (1985). From that post:
"Another influential paper was Blanchard (1985). In this paper, Blanchard argued that in a setting where an increase in overall demand reduces unemployment, firms will have to compete for workers by offering higher wages, which will force them to increase their desired mark-up, pushing up prices of goods. With higher prices of goods, real wages of workers (i.e. the actual amount of goods workers can buy) fall, thus pushing them to demand higher wages. In a staggered negotiation situation, where these negotiations happen repeatedly (i.e. month-to-month) rather than in a world where wages and prices adjust immediately, inflation can persist for a long time.

Due to the simplicity and logical appeal of this theory, it has been heavily tested empirically. Most empirical studies to date suggest, however, that wages do not cause1 inflation. Schwerzer and Hess (2000) from the Cleveland Federal Reserve did an overview of the economic research at the time and found very little evidence supporting the idea that wages cause inflation. Only one study showed a causal impact2, while three others, and Schwerzer’s and Hess’ own work were not able to find this causality. The reason for the ambiguity in results is because inflation and wages move so closely together that attempting to separate and isolate which one causes which is not straightforward to do. Their own work focused solely on establishing the direction of causality, using what is called in economics and statistics “Granger causality”, which is a test whether the future values of one time series3 (inflation in our case) can be predicted by past values of another time series (nominal wage growth) and vice-versa. The review and analysis conducted by Schwerzer and Hess suggests that increasing wages do not cause inflation. On the contrary, evidence likely points to inflation driving increased wages."

So I would say so far the preponderance of evidence suggests there is unlikely to be causality of wage growth on inflation. Multiple methods have shown the causal link is unlikely.

However, it is true that if wages didn't rise (that is workers would take real pay cuts) then inflation would fall, which is the main channel central bank interest rate hikes work to reduce inflation.

What is more important in the current inflationary surge, is that the behavior of wages is entirely consistent with previous similar historic inflationary episodes. If anything, they're actually a bit lower than in the past. The focus on wage growth as a concern is not warranted at these levels.
What is the logic behind giving sonnet free, which is not very good, and saying hey try this for free and then pay us to use our actual good model. Like trust us, it’s really good. Uh no thanks. We need better benchmarks, this is a joke, it started w google Gemini and extend to Anthropocene. How
Much money and compute wasted on this. It is a shame
The BT SIG moves kind of slow and there's a really long tail of devices. Until there's a chip with native Opus support (that's as cheap as ones with AAC etc) you wouldn't get Opus support even if it was in the spec.

Realistically for most headphones people actually buy AAC (LC and HE) is more than good enough encoding quality for the audio the headphones can produce. Even if Opus was in the spec and Opus-supporting chips were common there would still be a hojillion Bluetooth devices in the wild that wouldn't support it.

It would be cool to have Opus in A2DP but it would take a BT SIG member that was really in love with it to get it in the profile.
I had forgotten to look up what that was; I see what you mean now. Yes, I suppose I could, that is pretty compact.

I'm not sure this is making a solid case for office work.
When it's 110F outside, being able to turn on your AC 10 minutes before you need to go outside is hugely beneficial!
Basically lack of expertise among maintainers, f77 codebase, and neverending packaging/distribution problems.
> Charan makes a rather controversial assertion in the introduction to this section: if your company isn’t growing, then it is dying. The argument goes something like this: in a world that grows every day, a company that is standing still or doing ‘just fine’ is falling behind. A company that is overtaken by a competitor eventually gets boxed in. It loses many of its advantages over time. Charan’s conclusion: growth is imperative to business

Counter proposal: how about we don't destroy our own planet.
Graphviz has its own foundation graph library, that's not used by any other project. It has its good and bad points.

Based on that experience, we had our very own second-system-syndrome experience.

We decided our graph library should be modular, type safe, and efficient. (These properties came up in the comments here, too.) This is probably just a variation of "good, fast, cheap - pick any two."

By modular, want to write collections of graph algorithm libraries that are developed and even compiled independently.

By type safe, we mean we want to detect programming errors during compilation, or link time at the latest. We don't want programs to throw runtime errors like "your node does not have a color attribute".

By efficient, we mean that accessing an attribute of a graph is as cheap as a field in a C struct. (So, we don't want to carry around external hash table, or do a lot of string conversions, for instance.)

You can argue about whether these things are worth the price or even make sense, but that's what we wanted. We had some famous C++ creators in our lab, so we figured we could get help, and we were willing to give C++ another chance.

Gordon Woodhull, who had been an intern and kept working for us, is a brilliant programmer, and wrote an implementation of this kind of graph library working in templated C++. It's even published at https://www.dynagraph.org/ via sourceforge. The rest of us were not really sure we could ever understand how the code worked, so we had a code review with said famous C++ inventors. There were a lot of screens of code, and chinstroking, and greybeards pronounced "That would probably work." We knew we might have gone over the complexity cliff. (Let's not even talk about compile-time template errors, where one error fills an entire screen with details that only a... C++ inventor could love.) It was our fault, not anyone else's, and Gordon kept plugging away and even made all the dynamic graph layout stuff work, in Microsoft OLE, too. In hindsight it was probably our own Project Xanadu. While we got lost in this, a lot of things like Gephi (Java) and NetworkX and NetworKit (python) happened.

Also, John Ellson, a very talented software engineer who had written parts of Graphviz, revitalized the main effort.
M3 MacBook Pro will gain multi-display support in software update
SchemaStore is a collection of JSON schema files. It's been down for about 9 hours now. You may lose autocomplete on json files in some editors because of this.
Newer macOS is actually really good about running with less RAM. The only problem is then your SSD will suddenly fill up. If either was upgradable, this would be no problem.
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support
Really? I tried the sonnet and it just was not very good.
Did you... not even read the entire line that you decided to just quote part of?

> But, emulating a current console is not about preservation. It just isn't. You can try to say it is, but no. Maybe, maybe you could argue that you are putting in the work now so it's ready when it's needed. But then be careful about putting it out there.
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This is a super naive take. but I would consider the pointer the be the native graph type. What is wanted is not a graph type but the tooling to traverse graphs.
We don't surf the internet anymore. We now scroll social media.
Can Marriage Be Saved?
I was first in line to buy ToTK on release day, but also enjoyed playing ToTK in Yuzu. It's a shame that won't be an option anymore.

What becomes of Ryujinx?
> we are used that everything around us have some kind of hierarchy

I think the problem is more that we are used to the illusion/delusion that everything is hierarchical. The problem that we then encouter is with graph drawing is that it has to try and reconcile the fact that things in practice are rarely really hierarchical, and it's hard to draw those lines of where the hierarchies are with mathematical rigor. And that problem gets worse and worse the less properties you are allowed to assume about the underlying graph structure (connectedness, cyclic/acyclic, sparse/dense).

In practice when you want build a UI that interacts with graphs it's often feasible to determine/impose one or two levels of meta-hierarchy with which you can do clustering (allows for reducing layout destroying impact of hairball nodes + improves rendering performance by reducing node count) and layout with fCOSE (Cytoscape.js has an implementation of that).
Translating machine code between architectures is a dubious proposal in the first place. Taking compiled cuda shaders, disassembling them and recreating shaders for some other architecture from the pieces really should be more effort than compiling the source directly to that other architecture.
Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday
I think the second effect is quite small compared to the first because CRTs are generally good at the first but don't suffer much from the second, as far as I'm aware.
Sounds like parent was using async to mean that JS has single-threaded concurrent functions by default.

Disclaimer: I'm just the messenger here so you might hate what follows, the community is choosing the words.

Concurrency as a keyword is increasingly being used to differentiate single-threaded event handling from parallel processing (threads). As long as event handling is quick enough, it can give the illusion of parallel processing. And in some cases it can outperform parallel processing because the cost of context switching between events can be lower than context switching between threads. See https://medium.com/@caophuc799/nginx-architecture-and-why-ca...

The async keyword, in practice, simplifies the callback boilerplate required to handle the event model. When used in communication, async is increasingly being used as a word to describe "Single-threaded Concurrent Functions Built On Hidden Event Handling", because there is no succinct way of saying STCFBOHEH in English.

So: JS has async/STCFBOHEH/context-switching on its functions by default whereas Java's functions are (by default) executed in order without async/STCFBOHEH/context-switching.
Deferring the discussion over a supposed lack of evidence is disingenuous. There is plenty of evidence in the article, though the Economist article provides very little.

Given economics is not a hard science, there will never be enough evidence in the world for conclusive "laws" as in physical science, so we have to make do with what we have, and there is a lot in the article to analyze.

Your point was "we need more evidence to justify these claims." I feel like the increase of people dying from homelessness is rather strong evidence real wages are not keeping up with inflation. Claiming wage growth causes inflation because companies "might" pass costs is also rather specious.

Humility also includes "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize," from the HN guidelines. You avoid discussing the topic entirely, and focus on... an ad hominem? [1]

Talking about money is also good, because that's how I pay my bills.

[1] https://www.wordnik.com/words/ad%20hominem
They're not there to protect the user, they're they're to protect the brand of the provider. A bot that spits out evil shit easily screenshotted with the company's brand right there, isn't really great for growth or the company's brand both.
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Fun podcast!
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Is there any underlying reason for the high traffic incident rate from the insurance company? Glendale seemed relatively safe when I was driving there.
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Did you compare it with Gemini Pro 1.5 with 1 million context window? (Ideal for 43 pg pdfs)

I have access to it and I can test it against Pro 1.5
Check it once and type cast it before passing it down the call stack. If you need a polymorphic type all the way down then model it using structs and interfaces so that the required operations are always available as methods.
It’s the same as other languages which lack optionals/narrowing: C/C++, Java, etc.
Sponsorships seem to counter that point
>The sad workaround is simply SSD's having faster boot times and setting a computer to hibernate instead of sleep when closed (and not on battery). It gets "close enough" for many.

That is not a workaround since, as far as I know, only MacBooks have a sufficiently good reputation that when you close the lid, it won’t still be on in your bag.

I assume if this hibernate option was viable, then people would be slamming their Windows laptop shut and stuffing it in their bag at a moment’s notice.
> The point being... ?

> Architectural choices can certainly encourage certain cultures, but ultimately they do not determine culture, leadership does.
Dolphin also existed when Wii was current. Switch is also pretty old by now, you have to start at some point.
I get it. It'd be nice if all these major companies used both in and cm. Americans have to go back and forth with metric a lot and it would be useful to think of every day items in terms of both inches and cm.
Hikvision Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in Security Management System
The 16S rRNA sequencing you are referring to is now quite cheap and efficient. [1]

Viome is one of many companies offering this as a service. Viome isn't so good at giving you the underlying data, some of the others may be better; look at their example reports or ask their support. Ombre, BIOHM, Tiny Health, Floré, etc.

In terms of whether the add-on services they offer are valuable (tailored prebiotics / probiotics / diet advice based on their reading of the literature) I think only time and randomized controlled trials will tell. Not that any of these services have any incentive to run trials! But it may be a useful time-saver for a self-experimenter who would have been digging through the literature to try to come to the same conclusions on things to test.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13036-1
Repo URL is now dead.
The LaserWriter was released in 1985, and was one of the first laser printers on the market (after the HP LaserJet a year earlier). It was a pretty big deal at the time.
In a broader context, though, this happens all the time. You’d be surprised what people mishear in noisy conditions. (Or if they’re hard of hearing.) The only thing for it is to ask them to repeat back what they heard, when it matters.

It might be an interesting test to compare what people mishear with and without this kind of compensation.
Gemma for AI Solutions with Fine-Tuning and Multi-Model Collaboration
Gemma is an open-source large language model (LLM) toolkit that allows you to customize pre-trained models for specific tasks. Use intellinode python module to fine tune the model and integrate with stable diffusion.
Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China's annual political meeting
> Initially announced in February 2022 during Intel's Investor Meeting, Intel is splitting its server roadmap into solutions featuring only performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores. We already know that Sierra Forest's new chips feature a full E-core architecture designed for maximum efficiency in scale-out, cloud-native, and contained environments.

When they say splitting like that, do they mean there won’t be chips that feature both?

Xeons with homogeneous big cores and Xeons with homogeneous little cores… why not call it Knights Forest?
Opus (and all prior Claude models) still do not correctly answer the Sally question, unfortunately:

Q: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

A: Okay, let's organize the information we have:

Sally is a girl.
Sally has 3 brothers.
Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters.
Now, let's think about this step by step:

We know that Sally is a girl, so she is a sister to her brothers.
Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. One of these sisters is Sally, but who is the other sister?
Since Sally has only brothers and no other sisters are mentioned, we can conclude that the other sister for each brother is also Sally.

Therefore, Sally has no sisters other than herself.
So, the answer is that Sally has 0 sisters.

https://imgur.com/a/EawcbeL
I’ve worked there. It’s pretty awful. Their hiring process is seemingly designed to acquire candidates that outright lie in the interview process. These people never get reprimanded, simply “moved around”. Lots of people in management positions without any engineering experience because they promote to tech from other parts of the organization. They have disdain for overly “academic” hires and opt for those coming from technical schools and boot camps. That on its own isn’t a problem, but when paired with the proclivity to hire fraudsters - it means they don’t hire people who have an eye to detect such things.
Comparing the M3 MacBook Air to the M2 MacBook Air
This feels like a "so what" issue to me. Maybe the early release guys who sold their copies should be in trouble for breaking a contract, but the Yuzu guys should be in the clear.
How did you find out that Orange had actually modified the code?
You'll know they're maybe thinking about it when iPadOS gets multiple accounts.

Until then, it's hard to define the right thing for such a device to do when it's logged in to a second account on macOS and you un-dock it.

You'd also take a pretty big hit in disk use for such a dual-OS device, until they do a ton more work to unify a lot of their software (I'm thinking not just of the OS, but their office suite and other programs).
Hi! Author here. Yes - this is a stereotype and it is unfortunate it exists (to some extent I think the blame should be placed on the profession that doesn't speak up). Good economics, whether theoretical or empirical models, should allow for multiple outcomes. Then when it is tested with data, conclusions can be drawn on what is likely or not. Many economics questions have these conclusions - it's just a lot of theories are mentioned over again, without actually referencing the fact that a lot of research has already been done and demonstrated a theory is no longer appropriate.