skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like priests and counselors in the courts of ancient kings, modern economists are masters of telling those with power and wealth what they want to hear. And beautifully wrapped, in the trappings of moral legitimacy and learned wisdom.

Sure, economists actually know some basics - just as the ancient priest knew that a cartload of grain burned as an offering to his god would not be available to feed the poor. But it ain't enough that you'd want to trust anything they say.

(Vs. - ask any competent engineer about the sort of control inputs which are needed to maintain smooth-ish operation of a half-decent system (be it an airplane in flight, sewage treatment plant, blast furnace, whatever) which is actually understood. And compare to (say) the Federal Reserve's handling of the economy in recent decades.)
your comment is just unfounded Whataboutism
And a ton of professional audio tools. From the top of my head: Avid/Pro Tools, Waves, iZotope, Eventide, Lexicon, Softube, and I'm sure a lot of others.
Large language models could be used to configure abstract syntax trees for desired behaviour, since much of devops and software architecture is slotting configuration together.

Kubernetes, linkerd, envoy, istio, cloudformation, terraform, cdk.

We're just configuring schedules and binpacking computation and data movement into a calendar.

The semantic space of understanding behaviour is different to understanding syntax.
https://ollama.com/
Yes, especially on East coast to north-western parts of Europe
Not the case for gaming, single core performsnce is still king for the average game.
The bias is obvious. However I can see through that far enough to conclude it is them not us. Again I'm not claiming the us is all good, only that our action are at fault only in that we are opposing things bad for the people of nigeria.
It's impossible to foresee everything, including the amount of malicious compliance.

In the end we are better off with this legislation and its future iterations and additions than we are without it. The extent to which people's data is misused is simply ridiculous.
Interesting, most sources I could find say vitamin C should make you less sleepy.
> Efficiency is important, but we valorize it over other ends. Many subscribe ... to the stronger version that says that economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators. But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution ... our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder.

I would say: the others do not only fail to materialize, they often point back at economists. If a politician wants to raise taxes, wellfare, or nurses' salaries, the opposing arguments are more often than not economic in nature, and rely on the invisible hand.

It does not follow that economists should take the place of politicians, though. Instead, they should be much more honest, open and direct about their claims, and also point out alternatives. They should, so to speak, grow a conscience.
Dumb take. “Just run your business with 10% of the revenue? What’s the problem?”

Edit: to those downvoting, yea, it’s agreed that tracking is bad but the tone of the article completely ignores that a lot of the web’s content depends on this model so if it “just didn’t track” a large swath would no longer exist.
The original source from the University of Ottowa would probably be a better link: https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/media/news/new-research-sugg...
The 18% is at those marked up prices.
saw the same thing mentioned on reddit too and this is not mentioned in lot of articles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1bhaug2/comment...

I wonder what other things boeing skipped on to keep the same type certificate. (other than MCAS)

Also FAA needs to limit the time of a type certificate to fix this loop hole.
The low frequency sounds she's triggered by have a tendency to cut through. But can't hurt to try again.
Also notable: some dogs do get asthma, and cats have asthma commonly

https://www.webmd.com/pets/cats/asthma-symptoms-cats
Though this was 100% predictable
>companies are having a hard time meeting their goals

What are their goals exactly?
Boeing was doing fine in Seattle. With 737 legacy and 737 NG being reliable jets. Then the “ivy” MBAs decided to put their little finger prints all over the company. The term for it at the time was “Global
supply chain” Wings from here, wheels from there. This is the point where “integrated manufacturing” so critical for industries like aviation was farmed out to hundreds of suppliers they have no safety and quality control over. The “ivy” MBAs who made these decisions have probably moved on “fixing” other companies.
He said “best” not barely adequate at the best of times.
It either indicates Apple isn't sure it can catch up or that they simultaneously realize they need to provide these AI features but don't think AI as a marketing component will have the staying power to make the investment worth it.

I can't say I disagree very much, as the AI hype is quite overblown.
So perhaps that suggests caution be taken in meddling…
The author never mentions the straw that broke the camels back. They talk a little bit about AI but not enough to make it seem like that’s what changed their mind. They talk some about immigration, free trade, social justice but not really at length. I wonder what changed their mind.
Pete is also known for running https://www.mythic-beasts.com/
Banning alloca() would make more sense than re-enabling frame pointers.
I hope you find a path that is better for you.

I'm also doing some soul-searching trying to find something that I can sustain long-term. I've been all-over the place, because of indecision. I do enjoy programming, I just found it hard to pick something to get really good at. Or probably I don't yet know how to show what I'm good at. For example, I've used more than 10 programming languages, so I'm good at picking up new tech, but maybe I don't convey that well enough.
Not treating it like an existential threat is unfortunately, making it more likely it will become just that.
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If your business cant survive without selling visitors data to Facebook it shouldnt exist.
If your business is "doing sketchy shit with people's data", and the regulatory hammer just came down on you... well, yeah.
No, people cannot escape responsibility by saying "the law made me be belligerent toward my users". It is intentional choice to use cookies and to make it unpleasant for people.
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> it will eventually catch up with you

No it will catch up with the company, you will have already cashed your bonus check.
same here. was trying to set start and end date to see some visual display, couldn't get it right
Repeat the positive ones, and they will eventually get louder than the negative ones. This is the thought behind daily affirmations: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me."

I had a childhood where I was brought up to believe I was worthless. One tactic I used to overwrite those schema that imprinted in my personality from early life is to repeat what I believe about myself, like I'm a good person, etc. Eventually those pathways of believing I'm good were more comfortable than those of believing I'm worthless.
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And just like the foundation knowledge of priests is made up, economist theories have turned out to be non-reproducible many times...
Shame it didn't take this 'additional ' year prior to all the problems.
You mean the EU should have foreseen that people in tech have no conscience and sensitivity for right or wrong?
In this case, it is just showing that most companies are collecting more data than they need.

You don’t need a banner for the data that is necessary for the service to work at minimum level. There is no role for the consent since the site won’t work otherwise.
If a business cannot survive without it essentially stealing my property (read: my data), it should not survive.
You can share a video or some screenshots may be- to understand it quickly
Why does your business deserve to exist if you can't do so without stealing from your customers?
In my experience they are rarely used, unless you are stopping over in Ireland or Iceland.
totally agree. who cares that we are selling our users data to the highest bidder, gotta get that money right?
This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
> ..Economists, who have prospered mightily over the past half century, might fairly be accused of having a vested interest in capitalism as it currently operates.

> Without an analysis of power, it is hard to understand inequality or much else in modern capitalism.

> After economists on the left bought into the Chicago School’s deference to markets—“we are all Friedmanites now”—social justice became subservient to markets

> ..We have largely stopped thinking about ethics and about what constitutes human well-being. We often equate well-being with money or consumption

> currently approved methods, randomized controlled trials, differences in differences, or regression discontinuity designs, have the effect of focusing attention on local effects, and away from potentially important but slow-acting mechanisms that operate with long and variable lags

> today large corporations have too much power over working conditions, wages, and decisions in Washington, where unions currently have little say compared with corporate lobbyists.

> Economists’ enthusiasm for technical change as the instrument of universal enrichment is no longer tenable (if it ever was).

> [I] am even skeptical of the claim..that globalization was responsible for the vast reduction in global poverty.. I also no longer defend the idea that the harm done to working Americans by globalization was a reasonable price to pay for global poverty reduction
I’ve been practicing a version of this for years. I describe it as being on the lookout for stories you tell yourself about yourself - things like ‘I can’t draw’ and ‘kids don’t like me’ and ‘I’m bad with money.’

As this article points out, phrasing those statements in the present tense, as though they were immutable absolutes that must persist into the future, is a static mindset. It takes only a small shift - ‘up to now I haven’t been able to draw but I’m going to learn’ - to re-frame your idea of yourself as dynamic and malleable. This opens the door to actively shaping your future self, and it’s hard to overstate how different that is from a static perspective.
You pick and choose from other people's lists. No one list will resonate with you. Or you just make up your own list.
Culture fix is a long term thing, right? I hope they can survive on just the 777/etc. Over the weekend I finished watching the building of the 777 documentary on Youtube and it was a good watch.

Different industry but where I am we are having a huge doctor shortfall. The culture and mindset required to change it is nowhere/not yet in sight. We need more MD training schools/spots and trainers to get those numbers up, and even then the solution is at best a decade away.
Better or cheaper, e.g. AV1?
“is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”

- Upton Sinclair?

Specially evident during the Euro Crisis and the Austerity debacle.
Indeed. Politicians point back at economists, and economists usually answer "oh, it's fine, just deregulate everything and manna will trickle down from the heavens eventually". It would do them good to be a bit less full of themselves.
How to start your Open Source journey
Open source is a great way to learn new skills, build your portfolio, and give back to the tech community.

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The internet is full of blogs and resources on how to get started with open source, and let's be honest, they can all start to sound the same after a while.

Here's my take on what beginners should focus on:

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This is crucial. Don't just jump into the biggest project you can find. Look for something that aligns with your interests and skill set.

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There are tons of ways to contribute to an open-source project, even if you don't have a ton of coding experience. You can help with documentation, testing, or even just reporting bugs.

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The open-source community is one of the most supportive and welcoming communities in tech. Don't be afraid to ask questions and get help when you need it.
Why are you trying to make this about profit? Discipline is hard and tasty food makes people happy. Companies responding to what people want isn’t evil
The point of the legislations is to protect the citizens, not corporate income.
Quoting from the link [1]:

Milton Friedman's Thermostat

If a house has a good thermostat, we should observe a strong negative correlation between the amount of oil burned in the furnace (M), and the outside temperature (V). But we should observe no correlation between the amount of oil burned in the furnace (M) and the inside temperature (P). And we should observe no correlation between the outside temperature (V) and the inside temperature (P).

An econometrician, observing the data, concludes that the amount of oil burned had no effect on the inside temperature. Neither did the outside temperature. The only effect of burning oil seemed to be that it reduced the outside temperature. An increase in M will cause a decline in V, and have no effect on P.

A second econometrician, observing the same data, concludes that causality runs in the opposite direction. The only effect of an increase in outside temperature is to reduce the amount of oil burned. An increase in V will cause a decline in M, and have no effect on P.

But both agree that M and V are irrelevant for P. They switch off the furnace, and stop wasting their money on oil.

[1]https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/201...
It goes both ways. I see people with ultra-bloated applications trying to add even more bloat and force it on the rest of us too. Like the guy saying that DWARF unwinding is impractical when you have 1Gbyte code cache.

I don't see the people writing hyperfast low-level code asking for this.

My experience with profiling is anyway that you don't need that fine-grained profiling. It's main use is finding stuff like "we spend 90% of our time reallocating a string over and over to add characters one at a time". After a few of those it's just "it's a little bit slow everywhere".
Ideally, with a substantial dataset of obfuscated JavaScript and corresponding raw code, a language model could potentially make good predictions. The first key difficulty, however, is collecting a large-scale dataset and setting up a system for automatic compilation and segment out the binary-source pairs.
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company's Hopes–and Fears
One of the most egregious abusers of this recently got told off for it, I want to say it's IAB, but they're all as bad. Trust arc or whatever they're called deliberately made it as annoying and deceptive as possible. You can't blame the EU at all for a deliberate misinterpretation of the law.
Imagine a market in which companies charge a lot of hidden fees behind their customers' back, and users are not happy when they realize after the fact. The law is updated to say you are not allowed to charge the user a fee unless you tell him in advance.

Companies with tons of hidden fees decide to keep them but force you to read all the fees on every page of the menu before you can see the rest of the text, in the most annoying way possible, and promote the idea that the issue is not the extravagant fees, nor the fact that the companies hide them before and had to be forced by law to warn you about them, no the problem is a law that force them to tell you what you're getting into before it's too late !

That's, essentially, what's happening. And we have people complain that companies need to display their fees.

On this issue in the group that complain about the cookie law there are some people who are very wrong on purpose because it's in their interest, and some people who are very wrong because they genuinely don't understand the position they're defending, complaining about being made aware of the fee, instead of the fees themselves or the fact that the companies hide them if not forced by law.

To each their own belief about which category PG fits into.
TSMC considering advanced chip packaging capacity in Japan, sources say
For sure. And I can pick at a few of them — or perhaps worse, a few of them are outright trite. And I can gripe too that there are 32 of them (not just 10 or 5) and so I am unlikely to be able to commit them to memory.

But I am nonetheless happy to see a reminder like this from time to time, a reminder to put things in life in perspective. And for sure there are some gems here. And in the comments too.

Perhaps the two that struck me for some reason (perhaps because they seem to speak to truisms about living with other people):

It’s usually better to be nice than right.

Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die.

And from the comments:

People will forget what you said or what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Come on, this is such a ridiculous take. Adding google adsense to a website needs a cookie bar.

That’t not "doing sketchy shit with people's data"

I can’t believe how many people have bought into this EU regulation hook line and sinker. It’s ridiculous, imagine the man hours that have been wasted in the last 7 years just clicking cookie bars. And as OP says, it’s completely unrealistic to not have them.
Note that this isn't a cookie law, it's also the EU's main anti-malware law. The principle is that no piece of third-party controlled software should write information to your computer/phone, or read info from it, over the Internet, without your prior informed consent (with narrow exceptions for storage/reads that are needed to provide a service you've asked for, or equally narrow functions like load balancing). This isn't just about browser cookies, but also your webcam, your mic, and the contents of your Documents folder.

The principle seems sound, but the EU is deadlocked over reforms to create some extra exemptions, e.g. for security scans/mandatory updates, or privacy-respecting audience metrics. EU regulators are already sort of turning a blind eye to those, so it's fair to say the EU isn't great at regulating - it's not fixing what society mostly seems to see as bugs/overreach in the original (now decades-old) law.
On the one hand when murders go up because you make using a gun in a crime an automatic 5 year prison term you should have foreseen that possible situation, on the other hand the real bad guy is the one shooting the witnesses.
> Kenzians believe that they can accomplish anything with enough knob twiddling.

Too many people seem to think that some separate party knows more than the person running the business day-to-day.

Ultimately, it's a different level of granularity that doesn't take into account the various nuances.
Most of it seems pretty good, but I'm not sure what to make of this one:

"It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been able to hire the European migrants they preferred."

In context, this is more than just an observation of potential cause and effect; the whole paragraph is about revising his previously-advocated policy positions: he used to think immigration was good, but he now sees a correlation between equality and low immigration. So what policy did he advocate re racist hiring policies at factories before, and what has it been changed to? Is he saying he used to be opposed to letting Detroit factory owners hire only whites, but now he thinks they should have been allowed to, because the Great Migration was a bad thing? Or is he saying he used to support letting Detroit factory owners hire only whites, but now he opposes it because the Great Migration was a good thing?

EDIT: OK, I think he was actually saying something else: the Great Migration happened in part because factories needed black workers; they wouldn't have hired black workers if immigration from Europe had been as open as it had been previously. So the Great Migration was good, and that good was partially caused by a clamp-down on migration.
Part of what it means to be "good at regulation" is to anticipate the likely consequences of regulations. So a regulation that says that "businesses must now give away their products for free, unless they honk each customer's nose" will result in a lot of sore noses.

Which is basically the case here. Almost all websites make money through ads, or at least keep logs of user activity to help them optimize their website, and that's not going to change, so the EU's boneheaded regulations make the customers suffer a little extra.
Sorry but have you been living under a rock for the past 100 years of neoliberal governing?
Yeah, IIRC I think noyb was looking into "Trust arc"
I see that the support for Oracle is mentioned and clearly present
in the source code, is that also at present the only supported database?
Any hope for transactSql (Microsoft Sql. Server)
This is written from the standpoint that you want to deny consent. But I just want to give consent and get on with my day. I see it as sort of paying for the content.

Honestly I think most people see it this way, even if it’s an unpopular stance in some tech circles.
To be fair, completely foreseeable.
Royalty costs are often the other.
>Just like priests and counselors in the courts of ancient kings, modern economists are masters of telling those with power and wealth what they want to hear.

Which those with power and wealth channel via, among other things, think tanks like the AEI and donations to universities: https://publicintegrity.org/politics/koch-foundation-proposa...

There's a reason economists get paid more than all of the other social sciences.

If you want to piss off an economist, suggest that they might be a rational utility maximizing agent in a market where there is a high demand for misleading information.
I use Alacritty in Windows with WSL2/Ubuntu. Works without troubles.
Probably because for most people the important issues/choices in their life do not revolve around the choice of their OS, browser, streaming service, car brand, FOSS apps, etc. but around career, family, friends, kids, partying, traveling, having fun, etc. none of which depend on the choices of the former.

You might call this "sleepwalking through life", while other people will call it "just living life" and not worrying about the unimportant pieces.

Only HN tries to be an elitist stickler for these things which do not matter to 99% of people.
That would be very difficult to say since we've never really been in an Austrian economic system. Austrians will point out that the knob twiddling done by Keynesians is a method of postponing or spreading out the pain of a recession over a large number of years. You can only do that so often before this creates a self-reinforcing mother-of-all-recessions where the accumulated debt and unhealthy investment comes crashing down.

We have pushed our debt forward to our grandchildren since 1971. This is morally repugnant and hardly humane.
Meddling in what way?

'Meddling' causing citizens to lose visibility and corporations to gain more power over data?
HN readers might be interested in this URL:

https://github.com/xai-org/grok
`transqlate` is such a good name - I am very jealous, well done!
I was recently downvoted for describing this exact situation, and yet, here we are. This is effectively gauaranteed to happen every single macOS release.
Depends on whether Apple’s own browser engine requires JIT. I think the point is to ensure fair competition.