skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mostly run in circles that are of not-tech-people, and while the jobs may suck, I get the feeling that finding them is not the hard part right now.

I moved out of tech a few years back. I'm responding to ads that claim to be desperate to hire people, yet I'm not getting replies.
It is much easier to write complex multithreaded code (not just data-parallel) in Rust than in any other language. And data-parallel code is also easier.
While a lot of people are landlords, most properties on free AirBnB markets are hosted by professional, multi-property landlords, and I don’t personally think that creating a new class of feudal landlords is a great idea.

My local area simply put in the restriction that only one property can be listed on AirBnB by one person, and that the property must be the person’s primary tax residence, and so now the local market has nearly entirely dried up even though that was allegedly the original purpose of AirBnB.
Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway
Security checkpoints weren’t crowded before 9/11 because it didn’t take 15 minutes to get through security. I guess this is becoming lost ancient history. There was no ID check. There wasn’t even a boarding pass check — you routinely accompanied departing friends to their gate to see them off. There was none of this shoes off, no liquids, laptop out of the bag, just an x-ray and a metal detector.

The threat model before 9/11 was hijacking, not suicide bombers.
It's a term to represent that in the real-world, the quality of a model can't be measured objectively so the most common way to evaluate models personally is to see whether you like the output, with all the selection, anchoring, and recency biases that entails.
Bootstrapping Cognitive Agents with a Large Language Model
Are you seriously still comparing crypto to tulips (sic)?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
Montreal is a fully developed Island. Your arguement doesn't make sense.Montreal has become unaffordable for the workers who support the tourism and blue collar industries.
But dolphins and giraffes are cute. Sharks and cattle aren’t.
Good comment.

I'll add that one solution is to simply not fly through TSA airports.

I flew JSX last weekend and security was a swab for explosives and a metal detector. It took 30 seconds. Ticket says to arrive to the airport 15 minutes before departure. I'm not sure how scalable flying out of regional airports is, but the extra $200 was worth the price for a) not burning an hour arriving and b) having a large enough seat to work while airborne.

And the other option is of course to invest in HSR where possible.
The difference being that the TSA is the government, and the government collects that rent whether or not the TSA exist.

It's not that rent collectors must continue to be able to collect rent, it's that "it'll put people out of a job", no matter whether those jobs ever made any sort of sense, and actively make people's lives worse. Jobs are near-religiously sacred to the US mindset.
"Canadian healthcare wait times" are mostly a myth invented by the American healthcare lobby [1]. Canadian cities are dotted with walk-in clinics you can go to and see a doctor same day. Or worst case scenario you would go to a hospital ER. Neither of these options will cost you any money and you will get same-day treatment and care. If you made an appointment with a GP then yeah you would wait, since those visits are typically for non-medical emergencies. :)

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/06/health-ins...
while it could be, that doesn't ring true to me.

I'd go for more of a Freudian "people who are somewhat obsessed with self control (therefore mindful of it) are people who struggle with it," coupled with salience bias. People who don't struggle with self control never think about it.
Time will take care of it. :D
You only have to disclose what you have definitively discovered, not what you have definitively ruled out.

Think how your customers would react if they were hacked and harmed. It is paramount that you err on the side of caution otherwise your bank account might be negatively impacted if your customers exercise due caution and react appropriately to the news.

Just remember the slogan: “My money is more important than your safety.”
No matter what, some hardware in that mainframe is making mutexes or some other kind of locking work, and that is a single point of failure. You can't have two of those be authoritative for the same thing, that's the two generals problem.
In Ontario where I live its municipal housing that's the problem. In Kitchner/Waterloo where I live local government is hung up on affordable housing in projects like apartment building construction. Ironically because of all the stalling and inaction no housing is afordable for anyone much less the so called poor and disadvantaged they think they are fighting for.
Even further back, before the hijacking spree of the 70s, when I was a kid I remember our local airport had no division between ground side and air side. You just got out of your car, walked to the gate, and they checked your boarding pass. This would be in the late 1970s, it was a remote city, so probably the transition to a "secure boarding area" was later than in the big cities.
I don’t get it. This country gives me the right to bare arms and yet asks me to show me feet?
Once AIs can reliably use computers, the AIs can also check directions about using computers to learn the credibility of various posters. It will lead to their being very good at correcting and authoring help documents.

AIs will soon know who is who across many forums and user names. They will learn each user's strengths and weaknesses. This will lead to them being even better at filtering training data.
> I wonder if charging for these messages will make doctors more likely to respond.

Why would it do that? If they get money for messages sent (rather than messages sent by doctors) then some flunky can send a message and you can still be billed. Given how this sounds like a profit center, and doctors are cost centers (imagine if they needed to send more messages... now they have to pay more doctors!), I figure physicians will be kept far away from any such system.

If we plot out perverse incentives as a space, I believe that our fate will be to trek through every possible point in that landscape such that we eventually see every single one. This means you will eventually get universal healthcare, most likely as the very last of those perverse incentives.
question: is there another country now doing airport security better?

I did a bunch of international travel a few years ago and found the process to be fairly standard. Didn’t feel as if other countries are quite so obsessed with removing shoes, but they seemed a bit more obsessed with additional carryon screening.
The benchmarks are so easy to game it's not meaningful unless you see a major difference and even then it can be questionable. For example, did anyone read the Gemini paper[0]?

The team details the slight modification they made to the metric which is basically a tweak on maj@32 that worked in their favor. They choose to do the majority vote of 32 samples unless the probability of the highest sample was too low and then they chose greedy, they also had to learn what "too low" was. Sound convoluted and a bit contrived? They even show plots that clearly demonstrate they settled on the metric because it's the one where GPT-4 results remain they same, but Gemini wins.

Don't get me wrong, LLM evaluation is essential. But in order to do this you need to be very consistent between comparisons and even then the results can be misleading.

0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11805.pdf
https://youtu.be/GEaCuk1EhH4?si=BY5L6HKYXXGQ9Tg7&t=401
These exist. They're community colleges or correspondence courses. The problem is that a university education is a luxury good: costing less makes it worth less, because more people have access to it. So all the students who are either gifted or well-connected go to the top tier universities, the slightly less so the second tier, allll the way down, until you reach your budget options. Since the value of the institution is largely dictated by the quality of the students it can attract, they end up offering a much worse value prospect than those more expensive institutions.
> It's the same mentality underpinning the approach to GMO foods & insects

Genetically-modified foods are fine: the main problem is when GM plants are wind-pollinated. And even that's largely due to patent law[0]: the harms of wind-pollination from monoculture is there regardless of where the genes come from.

Genetic modifications to insects are only to wipe out populations, as far as I can tell – it doesn't hugely matter what the long-term side-effects are, in that case, because there won't be any organisms around to experience them. There was a lot of research done into the effects of anti-mosquito gene drives before the (very recent) releases into the wild, because we have learned from the Four Pests campaign.

[0]: https://www.iatp.org/news/monsanto-the-seeds-of-dispute
Germany has socialized healthcare and you can just go to your doctor without an appointment in acute cases like yours. Saying that ~60 USD is not that expensive comes from a privileged position where 60 USD doesn't hurt you.
If that results in a net decrease in wellbeing, then no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MYxAlA5wuk
Because a hour-long security line is something that happened after? IIRC there actually was a terrorist attack on a TSA line in the early 2000s.
Visitors' coins in Rome's Trevi Fountain provide practical help to Italians
> My only complaint is I wish there was a cheaper paid license. I would love to give back to them for what I'm getting, but > $100/yr/cpu is just too much for what amounts to hobbyist usage.

I don't use proxmox anymore at home (1) but as an user I would have loved to pay, say, $5/month and just get access to the updates repository (the stable ones) or maybe something similar. $100/year/cpu was just too much for me as an hobbyist.

[1]: not because I don't like it, for life reasons I had to downsize that hobby a bit and I don't need proxmox anymore.
Unless something has chnaged since this talk[0][1], I don't think that is accurate.

>Best candidate for C++ is likely similar to Rust’s borrow checker

It is stated clearly in the talk that this is true for Carbon as well

[0] https://chandlerc.blog/slides/2023-cppnow-carbon-strategy/in...

[1] relevant timestamps:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTJ9omXOQ0&t=1h31m34s

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTJ9omXOQ0&t=1h9m49s
Tangent: Is this something actually serious or is it more of saber-rattling manifesto because good lord it's terrifying.
Depends on what kind of site. Durable.ai is excellent for small biz, zipwp.com for Wordpress sites and web hosts like wix.com now have pretty usable AI builders baked in.
Yeah, what exactly is Lego? Painting? Playing music? Model railroad? Ham radio?

It’s a place to learn while playing pretend. LARPing enterprise IT if you like. Why wonder what the point is?
Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
I mean I'm not sure that you shouldn't be charged ER prices for taking an over-the-counter-treatable injury to the ER. You probably shouldn't be charged 4000 for going to the ER, but just because you didn't actually need to go to the ER doesn't mean you didn't consume ER resources (the 24/7 staffing, the intake logistics, the trauma expertise, etc).

Probably the biggest surprise there is that a doctor saw you at all instead of you being filtered out by a triage nurse and sent to urgent care.
And they need a tab event to do that? Or could it just be done with a button on the toolbar.

One doesn't need broad security permissions.
Right, if absolutely everything in the mainframe were redundant, that'd be two mainframes connected by a network, so P.
Ronny Chieng's bit on The Daily Show was good. "So now it includes a Zoom meeting?"
Ask HN: How did you find your significant other?
I believe we (I and others) are suffering from a loneliness epidemic. It's getting increasingly hopeless. The apps are useless for non-chads, standard advice of do more IRL activities to meet people doesn't apply when many techies have very male dominant hobbies.

if you have an SO, what did you do that might help others find theirs?
When trains or buses crash, the majority of the passengers survive in most cases.

When commercial airliners crash, usually everyone on board dies.
Should be titled "what the author speculates made Tolkien hate Dune", because Tolkien never elaborated on his reasons.
Its valid critics, but the point is that vast majority of NATO strength depends on current ruler in US who may not necessary decide to protect NATO coutries.
The problem isn't the machine, it's the economic system that allows some dude to capture and hoard the surplus produced by replacing the human with the machine.
EU trust watchdog is less trusting than FTC.

While Mr Perry prefers to parry words before a material blow lands, Mr Cook naturally avoids cooking an antitrust case.
That's not necessarily true. There is something to be said for hand crafted goods. A machine can make me a TV dinner, but it's not the same as what mom used to make. Besides food, furniture, art, leather goods, hand blown glass, and custom made suits also come to mind as things that are possible to be made by machines, but are nicer when humans make them.

We are also at the point where autonomous AI-powered drones can conduct warfare. I'm not quite sure that completely removing humans from war is a good thing either.
A key part of that statement (from the article) is "in comparison to your peers."

By whom do you want to be considered powerful?

And how can I maximize the real/perceived performance delta between myself and other participants in that target group?

And how do I do so in a way that doesn't appear threatening to the decision-makers (group "leaders") in that target group?
Oh please.

If you have money, you buy Pre+Clear+Global Entry. The "screening process" is nil (three simplistic questions for Global Entry).

That leaves the bag inspections - and I can tell you that at least for the Pre checkins, they're not exactly enforcing e.g. the weird liquid rules. (And there are plenty of articles showing they're not super-great at finding guns, easier)

And yet, it seems air traffic is mostly threatened by carriers & Boeing implementing cost savings to enrich execs.

Also, we did just fine pre-2001, and it's highly doubtful the TSA would've prevented 9/11. So, what exactly does it buy us, outside of an employment program that mostly enriches folks supplying TSA equipment?
The problem for me living on the east coast is the interesting part of the trip would be in the west. If I ever do a long distance Amtrak it would probably be Denver or Chicago to the west coast.
It turns out, the rust community is made up of individuals. No one made the claim that there's some single entity called the rust community that's doing this. It's the individuals w/i that community doing it.

so yes, you pointed out the moniker of the individual doing this. It doesn't obviate the point.
> Geez, this could make corporate PR people blush.

Yeah, it’s embarrassing. I am not “thrilled” to talk to a doctor directly. I pay for it, and when I do it’s because I have a reason to, which kind of limits the thrilling aspect. I expect it, and I need it, sure. But it’s not being able to talk to my doctor that elicits an emotional response, and it tends to be anger.
Makes sense to grow those in California or Mexico for the Canadian market as they often do.
Capital punishment is not in the constitution, and it is regularly challenged legally. Many states are continuing to abolish it.
Yep, exactly - Gabe has also been thinking about providing per-user signed URLs to task executions so clients can subscribe more easily without a long-lived token. So basically, you would start the workflow from your API, and pass back the signed URL to the client, where we would then provide a React hook to get task updates automatically. We need this ourselves once we open our cloud instance up to self-serve, since we want to provision separate queues per user, with a Hatchet workflow of course.
again, what use is counting downloads when you know a large percentage is people moving to a new device. downloads do not equal number of users
I'm glad I had the chance to invest in Calm, thanks to the crowdfunding round.

I'm big believer in both the vision and what Tyler and team have been getting done. I've heard nothing but good things from bootstrappers who decided to and were then able to raise from them.
It seems most airports have stopped asking for devices and toiletries to be removed from your bag. That’s been a nice upgrade.
They are not (even remotely) making it “as cheap / useful as possible”. The cheapest possible is free; they could just let everyone download the models, but they don't. The most useful would be open source so that people can work on it, collaborate, innovate, etc. They're not doing any of that, just to make money.
None of that stuff would be possible without government. It's a statism run amok.

It's the same story every time. Something works relatively OK (US health care before 20 century big-gov), huge changes to incentive structure and overheads are introduced by statists ignoring higher order effects, everything goes downhill, statists blame capitalism.

Let me legally not have insurance, pay anyone in cash for my health care (no licensens and government enforced monopolies), and buy any medicine I'd like and opt out of this madness completely and let's compare with real capitalism.
Humans that want to do something impractical / useless can still do it. People do that all the time. See, boats in bottles, digging tunnels, etc.
I'm not too familiar with the causes of the rising cost of housing.

Is it right to assume that lack of supply is the main factor? If so, what should US/CA be doing to address this? What are they currently doing now that makes the problem worse?

Looking for a better source than the article above which feels a bit fluffy.
Without an idea of how many cases were not dropped, it's hard to understand how valid what I feel you are implying is. There will always be false positives, so the existence of false positives is not surprising. It's upsetting and those people are owed reparations, but it wouldn't be unexpected.

Without any context it implies that the US is going on nationality motivated witch hunts, which might be true, particularly in the Trump era, but I also would be astonished if China did not have significant penetration into academia and American companies.

We know based on China's cyber operations that they are particularly interested in industrial secrets.

Given the existence of Chinese police operating on US soil, I doubt the characterization of witch hunts. I've read more than one compelling case of Chinese operatives courting IP theft too, including hearing one on NPR, which isn't exactly a conservative mouthpiece. China openly used organized crime to attempt to put down protests in Hong Kong in 2019. China has a history of arbitrarily arresting foreigners.

> We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China. -- FBI director Christopher Wray, July 2020
actually, the problem is that Congress continues to LOWER physician reimbursement, but RAISE hospital reimbursement. When I became a surgeon in 2002, medicare paid $600 for me to take out a gallbladder. I had to pay my overhead (50%) so my take-home was $300. Today, in 2024, after price reductions, medicare pays $600.

That is why I have to be employed. I guarantee that after 22 years, office expenditures (rent, salaries, supplies, health insurance) would eat up the remaining $300. So taking care of Medicare patients would be charity. Medicare is 60% of my practice. Private insurance is 25%. Medicaid is 10% and unfunded is 5%.
From a parent post: they were fairly successful at staving off automation of their professions

From your post: The Luddites were not anti-technology

Both of these statements can't be true. Which one (if either) is correct?
I find it amusing when Apple says they vet their developers and block those they don’t trust when you can’t even trust for them to not go through your public comments and bring it up against you.
I think we should severely tax air travel because of the climate change contribution and of the tourist temporary hipster gentrification causing permanent damage.
You think people weren't screened pre 9/11? Are you under 24 years old by any chance?
The thing obstructing all progress is the wanton deployment of generalizations that hold no obligation other than to reflect the reality of their distributor
Tourism is a major industry in Montreal, probably as much as venice and Kyoto with year long festivals and the fact that it is an Island is also an issue.
> when your government is in the business of guaranteeing house prices go up

This is why people blame airbnb and PE. It makes them uncomfortable to blame the government, and by extension their parents, for creating this situation. It's much easier to blame a faceless other.
Put an SLA on the latency, and it becomes availability.
Speaking of irritating airport protocols: If you are a US citizen or permanent resident and you're coming into the US from abroad, download the CBP MPC app. You add family members to it with a passport scan, then up to 4 hours before passing through customs, submit your arrival location, take a photo of yourself, and then use the "Mobile Passport Control" lane.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-contr...

Used it last month coming through SFO and almost no one is in the MPC line compared to 1000+ in the standard lines.
Yes I am aware of this fact
last week i accidentally flew SAN -> DEN with not one, but TWO new full-sized tubes of toothpaste without incident. we were so lucky to have avoided catastrophe.
No, that could certainly be your takeaway, but that would tell us that you didn't actually pay attention while reviewing history and learned nothing from it.
It turns out being a kid that gets things for free is pretty nice.

Now compare the money your parents paid for your little vacations back then to a flight nowadays.
This is bullshit. It's a ploy to further under-staff the screening area and even further discourage people from exercising their right to a manual screening procedure that does not involve a full-body scan.

I insist on a manual opt-out every time I fly, and I've noticed particularly in LAS that TSA seems intentionally to delay that screening process as an extrajudicial punishment and disincentive. It's outrageous and this intentional crippling of manual processes to which passengers are entitled needs to be checked, not expanded.

What TSA needs is proper oversight, better KPIs, and a cultural overhaul to stop treating passengers so terribly. TSA ought to provide an SLA commitment, consistently and openly report on their actual service level, reward managers who improve it, and fire/demote those managers who degrade it.
Thanks for the suggestions! I will check them out.
Well, that's only going to work if there's enough underground space for railways to turn 45° before entering the station. Judging from what I've seen, most "important" transfer stations are in an urban district where railroads follow existing roads, so curving them would send the lines underneath existing buildings, making it more expensive and also slower (trains don't like to turn, after all).
That'll just come back to bite them in the ass during round 2

World's most stupendous & drawn out Yak shave, if one thinks about it
Nope! I would much rather be in an office and have complete separation of home and work. (I travel heavily throughout the year currently.)