skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Secondly, before Keynesian economics recessions and depressions occurred much more frequently in the U.S. The data seems to clearly point to at least some level of success of Keynesian economics.

Having some recessions and depressions are healthy. There needs to be a mechanism to punish people who persist in allocating capital in wealth-destroying ways.

The US has real problems with capital allocation. All the manufacturing capital seemed to be invested and created in Asia and there is a retirement crisis because a generation didn't prepare appropriately for old age. There isn't a way to run a counterfactual, but the US has been on the warpath to protect people from having to recognise that they keep giving their money to charlatans. That means it all gets wasted, instead of just some of it being wasted.
Bro woke up on the wrong side of the bed
Agree, especially when developing, I'd assume speed of optimizer matters more than quality of optimization. I wonder though if LLVM spent less time on that "phase ordering" problem, what is the tradeoff between these two factors?
The planet doesn't care one way or the other
Maybe you've felt targeted by Taleb
I didn't give up on privacy, but it is getting increasingly harder to achieve. BTW do you know that your car broadcast unique IDs from each of your car wheels (TPMS), and that it is pretty hard to avoid facial recognition. or that they are installing car tag readers everywhere.

You are ignoring so much of the spying that is going on.

What about your phone? is it connected to cellphone towers? Is WiFi enabled... what about Bluetooth?
You'd probably need different humans for that - societies tend to put some limits and controls in place.
I literally click "allow all" to tracking cookies everywhere. I also get completely inappropriate ads e.g. in languages I don't speak, for services to sell cars (I don't own a car) etc.
> Carrier pigeons

I wonder if the NSA has a trained falcons corps for that...
> - no fines for non-compliance (or malicious compliance)

"The Biggest GDPR Fines of 2023"

1. Meta – €1.2 billion (Ireland)

2. Meta – €390 million (Ireland)

3. TikTok – €345 million (Ireland)

4. Criteo – €40 million (France)

5. TikTok – €14.5 million (UK)

6. Axpo Italia Spa – €10 million (Italy)

7. Tim S.p.A. – €7.6 million (Italy)

8. WhatsApp – €5.5 million (Ireland)

9. EOS Matrix – €5.5 million (Croatia)

10. Clearview AI – €5.2 million (France)

"GDPR fines are designed to make non-compliance around data security a costly mistake and they can be separated into two tiers. Less severe infringements can result in a fine of €10 million or 2% of a firm’s annual revenue from the preceding financial year, depending on which amount is higher. More serious violations can result in a fine of up to €20 million or 4% of a firm’s annual revenue from the preceding year, depending on what is higher."

via https://www.eqs.com/compliance-blog/biggest-gdpr-fines/
Reminder that "life expectancy" is a useless metric if you don't specify the base age. Life expectancy at birth, at 5 years, at 15 years?
Running late for college, and the scooter is stuck in an update
Most of the new automated chains are cashless
Context: I don't know much about Mirzakhani's work, but I'm a PhD student in algebraic geometry and I studied Hodge theory and complex manifolds.

> These smooth surfaces, not obviously connected to algebraic geometry

According to Wikipedia:

> Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014 for "her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".

But Riemann surfaces are the simplest complex manifolds, and the compact ones are algebraic curves. I don't see how the connection to algebraic geometry is "not obvious". Is there something deeper going on? I would like to learn a bit more :)
I call BS. Give me your email password and your browser history and I'll share everything I learn about you with you. I'll also keep it and share it with whomever else I want to, but I'll definitely share it with you, too.
What if they're wrong, and most people know what a "system message" is a year after ChatGPT launch, so they're willing to downvote?

Is there any chance that could be happening, instead of a complex drama play with OP buying tickets to spice that's 100% obviously true?
>>It does have permanent memory, that's what training creates.

This is begging the question. By calling the output of the training "memory" you've proven it has "memory."

I hereby rebut by calling the output of the training "parameters" thereby proving it has no "memory" only "parameters."

>> Whether it has desires, pain or sense of self is completely unknown, unless of course you have some mechanistic model

You probably don't go around saying it's unknown whether your desk chair has "desire, pain or sense of self". The fact tech enthusiasts go around rhetorically demanding "mechanistic models" to rebut their gushing claims about LLMs while not demanding "mechanistic models" while making gushing claims about desk chairs shows a lack of "mechanistic models" is not really the basis of their gushing claims.
That the Nobel Prize in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize is a novel and interesting observation that has never been made in a forum thread. Kudos!
There is no cookie law. There is a law that makes companies ask for consent when they share personal data or store identifiers that make this possible.

If companies wouldn't try to frame the whole thing in technicalities, it could be a simple popup listing the features on the website that need sharing personal info and users could turn that off.
We decided to make a shared blog because we will likely have other projects we will do together, so all of us posting on our personal blogs on the same topic would be counterproductive
The law is not code. Equating hope with the intention of the law is a poor way to think about it. The law is to protect users against opaque companies and to enable them making informed choices.

If companies act maliciously to contort around the law and force users back to making uninformed choices, it is the companies' fault and not the law's. Companies could have followed the interpretation of the law unobstrusively. But they didn't.

Invoking "reality," semanticking a position, do not make Graham's position justified. Neither does it make the blog wrong.
Pretty much every country implemented Austrian economics principles before that became a term.
I regularly profile heavy time-sensitive (as in: if the code takes too long to run it breaks) workloads, and I even do non-sampling memory profiling (meaning: on every memory allocation and deallocation I grab a full backtrace, which is orders of magnitude more data than normal sampling profiling) and it works just fine with minimal slowdown even though I get the unwinding info from vanilla DWARF.

Granted, this is using optimized tooling which uses a bunch of tricks to side-step the problem of DWARF being slow, I only profile native code (and some VMs which do ahead-of-time codegen) and I've never worked with JVM, but in principle I don't see why it wouldn't be practical on JVM too, although it certainly would be harder and might require better tooling (which might not exist currently). If you have the luxury of enabling frame pointers then that certainly would be easier and simpler.

(Somewhat related, but I really wish we would standardize on something better than DWARF for unwinding tables and basic debug info. Having done a lot of work with DWARF and its complexity I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy.)
TL;DR always sell at vest. Take the tax hit, diversify. As long as you’re still working at the company you have plenty of eggs (unvested RSUs and future ESPPs) in that basket.
> we are incrementally improving AI because it is an intellectual amusement

People aren't developping AI because it's a hobby; people are doing it because it's an advancement in technology in the same way we developped electronics, computers, etc.
How do we know whether it's an image with 16 fingers or it just looks like 16 fingers to us?

I looked at the bear example above and I could see how either the AI thought that there was an animal face embedded in the fur or we just see the face in the fur. We see all kinds of faces on toast even though neither the bread slicers nor the toasters intend to create them.
You're also allowed to store IP addresses in your logs, you just have to take care with the data and the reason you're storing them needs to be justified - either because you have a legitimate interest in doing so (e.g. security) or because you have my explicit consent.

If I order something from an online shop, they don't need to have a banner in order to take my name and address to post the item to me - that's fully expected and reasonable. They do need my consent if they want to use that to post adverts to me though.
You can find a lot of guidelines around GDPR or ePrivacy made by the EDPB or a DPA. For instance:

https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

This says that cookies for a shopping cart or user preferences are exempted from consent. The ICO and the CNIL say the same, as expected.
> Given that I've already pointed out that all such stories were made for the market

You made unsubstantiated assertion that lays claim to a millennia of human history. You offered no evidence of any kind.

> I know what it means to create something for the market

Firstly, that that statement itself is debatable. Secondly, one would need extraordinary knowledge of history to make claims about for thousands of stories written across thousands of years.

I cannot help but conclude that you are an ideologue and you believe there is no life outside ‘the market’ and when I write something in my personal blog, or invent a story for my child, that’s ’the market’ too.

I find this level of ideological appropriation repulsive.
I see a lot of comments about how it is some sort of an unforeseen second-order consequence. But it isn't. If you want to have no tracking, you write a law that nans tracking. If you write a law about mandatory notifications, bombardment of notifications is the most direct consequence one can imagine.
60w bulb can literally blind you (temporarily)these days.
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Both ideas are simplistic nonsense.

It's how we wish people worked, but it's not how people work. The area of people that actively care about being tracked is not equal to the area of people, that would say yes if you point blank ask them "do you want to be tracked?" (with all the fears that this question triggers), and it's not equal to the area of people who would actually be happy to give up the affordances that tracking allows for in their every day life, even if they really do not like to say "yes" when asked to be tracked.

All of this is compatible because, hi, this is us. We close our eyes, and pretend they are open. We love to not consider consequences, while thinking of ourselves as considerate. Well, not always. We do make "a few mistakes" every now and then, of course. This makes the whole thing believable, to ourselves and each other.

I understand that it makes for good internet banter to ignore all that but what else it is good for, I do not know.
It feels like this might be sarcastic? But if not

Based on how the US currently rolls out universal programs, UBI probably looks a lot more like the current Section 8 housing program. They’re gonna guarantee something minimally livable, not beachfront property.
You aren’t supposed to socialize at brick and mortar libraries.
Everyone knows that bad actors will continue to behave badly in the face of the law. This isn't the insight you seem to think it is.

Really, PG's tweet has little to do with game theory or anything else. It is a first-world-problem whinge about having to click through cookie banners. Assessing the "actual outcome" of complex regulation and legislation is a task beyond the scope of a single tweet.

It might be useful for Graham to determine what claim he is trying to make in the first place. Is he rebutting a particular EU representative for boasting about how good they are at regulation? Or is the idea that the EU shouldn't have the audacity to attempt to regulate in the first place?
FWIW, Neovim can be configured to the point where mouse+keyboard input behave exactly like a GUI text editor would.

I'm struggling to find it now but I've seen a distro shared here that aims for a more Notepad-like experience within nvim.
We also don't want a healthcare system that focuses on prevention. A significant percentage of what the USA spends on healthcare could be mitigated with prevention. But there's no profit in prevention, and the general population doesn't want to sacrifice comfort and convenience. "What do you mean change my diet and lifestyle??"
"I would like website operators to assume that I consent to being tracked, so I'm annoyed that website operators are not allowed to assume that everybody consents to being tracked."
The controversy is really only present in laymen circles. In scientific circles, DM proponents vastly outnumber MOND proponents.

I agree that science is meant to be challenged, but a worthy challenger must produce a better theory. The consensus is that DM fits the available evidence best. The case about dark energy is way less settled and way less clear due to lack of evidence. The standard model (i.e. a cosmological constant) fits best while having the least number of parameters, but I'd say that most cosmologists agree that it is not the final answer. It is expected that another theory with more free parameters will prevail, but current observations are not precise enough to decide which ones can be ruled out.
What claim is there that it was not Chinese? China claimed it as their own, ableit not a military one.
The funny thing is it's not just corporations. When you open the German state railways' website, somehow you get a GDPR overlay, When you open the German revenue agency's website, you get greeted by a cookie banner on top.

I call upon all German users of this website to write to their MPs! Obviously the German civil service is a bad actor! The German deep state is plotting to discredit our beloved eurocrats and must be shut down! Den Sumpf trockenlegen!
I remember when people used to say similar things about using ASM, and then about the craft of writing things in C instead of managed languages like Java.

At the end of the day most people will only care about how the tool is solving the problem and how cheaply. A cheap, slow, dirty solution today tends to win over a expensive, quick, elegant one next year.

Now there are still some people writing ASM, and a lot of them as a hobby. Maybe in a few years writing code from scratch will be seen in the same way, something very few people have to do in restricted situations, or as a pastime.
I use ff/ublock and the chase site works fine for me.
The phrase "top model" is almost always used to mean a beautiful waif-like woman in high demand in the fashion or advertising industry, so the OA's title and actual topic is jarring clickbait.
Browser based solution not mandated by law but made by the industry wouldn't work, because all 4 major browser vendor makes significant revenues from Ads.

At a time a solution appeared with "do not track", and we ended up with the industry making sure it was as toothless as possible, opt-in, and google pushing hard to control the browser market.
I used to work on some professional software that shipped a macOS version. macOS updates were, and I suspect still are, awful, and it's Apple's fault. Every single update we would beg our users to please, please, please, hold off on updating until we put out an update. Users would always rag on us on the forums because they assumed we were just sloppy and "why doesn't Windows have this problem".

Because Microsoft doesn't subtly change the behavior of half a dozen APIs every release without warning anyone, that's why. Don't get me wrong, I despise MS, but as a developer, at least they've got that going for them.

Yes I know that's not the specific issue here, but I promise you my old company is still dealing with this problem every single release.
From the "Roadmap" section of the README:

> more source dialects : mysql, mssql, sybase, etc.

https://gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate#roadmap
It is said Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

When Powel goes around saying he is “guided by the stars” he’s not really helping to dispel that meme.

Particularly as the stars in question and non-observable and non-measurable
Possible he learned HTML. That’s how we did amazing sites like his in the olden days before stacks.
Is this posted here to demonstrate that Reddit is now dead and that it has become Facebook?
I agree with you, it's true. I guess I should have been more precise in saying that AI takes away a much greater proportion of creative work. But of course, horse driving, handwriting, and other such things still involved a level of creativity in them, which is why in turn I am against most technology, especially when its use is unrestricted and unmoderated.
Possibly, and carwash and charging are value add to the consumer. If you wash your car for 5 minutes after your weekly 30 minute super charge, and before or after every long trip, you're going to have a nice looking car.
It is not about third party or not, but what it is used for. Consent may be required even if there are no cookies at all.
Those numbers are the entire compile time, parsing/typecheck/MIR+MIR optimization/linking

Don't have numbers handy, so hard to say how much faster Cranelift is making the codegen portion, but gets into Amdahl's Law
Are we all such spoiled brats that some cookie banners interrupting our web browsing is all it takes for us to give up and call the malicious companies the winners and the law(s) trying to protect our privacy "bad"?

We're a pathetic lot.
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In a moment of despair, I changed my role to "I don't do shit." which warrants a permanent ban on LinkedIn. I'm currently looking for work, and this is the worst thing that could happen. Is there anyone that can help?
it's getting worse and worse with apple software quality - the latest Xcode is so broken and they haven't fixed it properly since release in september[0] - I have to turn off VPN both on mobile and desktop and turn off wifi on iphone to force deploying debug apps via cable...

[0] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/737875
The PC gaming market is 99% Windows. Ofc Indies and mid sized studios ignore Linux and Mac. You have to convince customers to use Linux first. Chicken/Egg problem. You can't expect Indies to solve it.

If anything, all the proton/deck work Valve did, gives Indies one more reason to not support Linux natively (game works on Linux anyway).
>> if you experienced a serious trauma at a young age, most likely you will remain traumatized forever.

This is exactly what the article is arguing against--letting one's past block the present mind from reaching toward the goals of the future self: "Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished."

A person traumatized at a young age can overcome it. In fact, therapy and healing demand introspection and decision: "Am I going to let this trauma define me?" The dialectic view of oneself is to accept that the past event happened while choosing to overcome it in all ways that are possible.

"Taking ownership of your future self" is an excellent description of the idea and how it can empower people to make better choices and move forward toward their goals and who they want to be.
> The setting would have to be either "I don't want to be tracked by anyone ever" or "I'm ok with being tracked by everyone all the time".

The only alternative to that binary logic is cookie banners. So to be clear, you are advocating for cookie banners.

The reality is that the overwhelming majority of people do legitimately want option 1, which makes cookie banners redundant. The only reason that cookie banners exist is as a high pressure sales tactic to sell users into option 3.
Something that commonly happens is that your brokerage sent you the cost basis for those sales at $0 on your 1099 form. There's typically an adjusted cost basis buried on their website which is what actually needs to be entered into your tax software as the cost basis, not $0.

So say you had $50k in stock vest and you sold $10k to cover the income tax. It's likely that when you import your 1099 that the cost basis is set to $0 on the $10k which if treated as a gain is a $2k-$3k tax bill. But if you find the adjusted cost basis and enter it the taxes drop to essentially $0.

So if you've experienced a huge, unexpected tax bill from RSUs vesting, go back and look at your tax return. If you see a $0 cost basis on the form then you overpaid. It may not be too late to amend your return and get it back.
Which sounds more fair to use in rating insurance:

A. Their credit related data

B. Their age

C. Their marital status

D. Actual data on how they drive

I feel like D, actual data on how they drive is the most fair. I think there needs to be mechanisms to contest driving events and also regulations on types of driving data allowed, but I think overall it’s by far the most fair and directly related

But actually A B and C are used in most but not all states.
> […] "broken" credit card machines (plus 5% surcharge when they do work), drivers refusing destinations (by law they're not allowed to) […]

You have forgotten to mention the cab operators sending complaints, e.g. about overcharging, to /dev/null. There is no feedback loop with the company, either, e.g. being able to report a bad cabbie.

The taxi industry has outlived itself and has to go now.
Not super easy if they have different tokenizers.
> What I've come to the conclusion is this: the best programs and the best tools are the ones that are lovingly (and perhaps with a bit of hate too) crafted by their developers.

I think this is an example of correlation but not causation. Obviously it's true to some extent in the sense that all things being equal more care is good, but I think all you're probably saying here is that good products are built well and products that are built well tend to be built by developers that care enough to make the right design decisions.

I don't think there's any reason AI couldn't make as good (or better) technical decisions than a human developer that's both technically knowledgable and who cares. I think I personally care a lot about the products I work on, but I'm far from infallible. I often look back at decision I've made and realise I could have done better. I could imagine how an AI with knowledge of every product on Github, a large collection of technical architecture documentation and blog posts could make better decisions than me.

I suppose there's also some creativity involved in making the "right" decisions too. Sometimes products have unique challenges which have no proven solutions that are considered more "correct" than any other. Developers in this cases need to come up with their own creative solutions and rank them on their unique metrics. Could an AI do this? Again, I think so. At least LLMs today seem able to come up with solutions to novel problems, even if they're not always great at this moment in time. Perhaps there are limits to the creativity of current LLMs though and for certain problems which require deep creativity humans will always outperform the best models. But even this is probably only true if LLM architecture doesn't advance – assuming creativity is a limitation in the first place, which I'm far from convinced of.
I don’t know. Don’t cows moo constantly?
Breaking Bad made car washes a cultural icon.

Perhaps people want to launder money or be as cool as Heisenberg/Walter White.
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