skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the deflation is caused by continuous improvement in productivity, as was the case for semiconductors? It seems like in that scenario, the continual decline in prices is more than counterbalanced by a continuous increase in production volumes, resulting in profits for manufacturers despite precipitous decline in the price of the products they sell. Moore's law didn't cause investment in semiconductor fabs to dry up; just the opposite. What if that happened to all sectors at once?
How can the value of work ever approach zero? Human work is value.

The value of anything simply derives from the quantity and quality (demand/supply) of the human work that goes into producing it.

In the current inflationary system, people are working for something that the banking system produces for almost nothing i.e. in the eyes of the banks/government, they are working for almost free.
> massively increased everyone wages due to increased efficiency

a computer won't increase the wage of someone whose work is unrelated to the procurement of the computer/system (even if their work was made more efficient).

For example, a checkout clerk now dont need to compute, because of the efficient Point-of-Sale system (when previously they'd need to recall prices). So even if the output of the clerk is now higher, they could be less skilled and so the supply increases, leading to lower wages.

The people whose job is to procure the computer systems _do_ get increased wages. That's why so many software engineers are rich.
I’m practicality shaking my head in disbelief at all the red flags this guy has and people are still defending him. Stability and its work are great. We should support an open community and ethos. And Emad can still be a shady narcissist con man. These are all compatible views.
If valued $2bn then even a 0.1% is $2m. Not bad.
They wouldn't, but they might have a chance for exclusive knowledge transfer giving them an enormous boost in science and technology.
Surely you are not contending that Blackstone was of the position that no innocent person should be investigated, however briefly, unless it results in at least 10 convictions.

I very much agree that (some, probably minimal) harm is being done to these people. Pretending that they "suffer" in the sense Blackstone was using the word is disingenuous.
Like “here is a rug” let me pull it for you!
panic! unsafe!
> Which ones will live a day less of their lives?

The ones who, having had their political inclinations revealed to adversarial law enforcement, then become subject to harassment for those views which should have been private.

> If I'm on surveillance footage near a crime scene, police have the right to look for me and question me.

The question is whether they should have the right to seize the surveillance footage by force if the proprietors would rather protect the privacy of their users. The third party doctrine is wrongful.

And given that it exists, so is keeping records like this that can then be seized using it.

> The burden of proof will still be on the investigators and prosecution to find out and show beyond a shadow of a doubt who performed the swatting.

This is assuming they're trying to prosecute a particular crime rather than using a crime as a pretext to get a list of names.

And it's about the principle, not the particular case. Suppose a protester commits a crime and now they want a list of all the protesters. Any possibility for harm there?
>The vast majority of users couldn't be bothered to take the steps necessary to get it running locally so I don't even think the open sourcing philosophy would have been a serious hurdle to wider commercial adoption.

The more I think about the AI space the more I realize that open sourcing large models is pointless now.

Until you can reasonably buy a rig to run the model there is simply no point in doing this. It's no like you will be edified by setting the weights either.

I think an ethical business model for these business is to release whatever model can fit into a $10,000 machine and keeping the rest closed source until above machine is able to run them.
I just don't understand why a more advanced species would want to, or allow themselves to be involved in human geopolitics.
Recent Firefox doesn't, but good old Opera 9 lets you select the text just fine. (On the other hand, no animation nor background, but maybe that's a reasonable tradeoff.)

Browser bug? Seems like it's debatable although the spec leans in the direction of generated content being selectable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24385171/is-it-possible-...
Sounds like a fairly precarious position they’re in though. This isn’t some new magic tech anymore.
One possible tls change that isn't mentioned here:

Initially just send a hash of the intermediate signature. The client would keep a cache of intermediate certificates, and if it didn't already have the cert in its cache, then request the full signed intermediate cert.

The downside for that is that you have to maintain a cache, which would be difficult for some non-browser applications.
Mail yourself a pack of blades at the hotel, or source something local (harder when you have a specific need like Feathers, Astra's or my now discontinued Pol silvers) while traveling.
McIBM ...
I don’t know much about him. Was he into cryptocurrency before AI?
There Is a Microsoft Excel World Championship [video]
At this point, anything is meh!
Her work is mind blowing. The dusting zone is my new favorite game

https://thedusting.zone/
There are
almost no programmers today (you need to do malloc and low level sys calls in C to be considered a programmer).
Yeah me too, I live an hour's drive from my nearest airport and that's more than close enough - mainly because that airport is London Heathrow, meaning I can catch a flight to basically anywhere in the world from it.

Living close to a small, poorly-connected airport would be far less convenient than living further away from a major airport.
I know the 1970s were the malaise decade for a lot of places, but the situation in the UK always seemed... malaisier than anywhere else. What was going on then? I see clips of children's shows from 1970s UK and a lot of them are just creepy and not age-appropriate.
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> But your comment implies that people are getting poorer over time, and it flies in the face of reality, doesn't it? Society has become significantly wealthier, despite the absurdities of inflation and interest rates.

I think you are confusing two entirely different things. You can have a society that's getting wealthier and still people getting poorer. In fact, you have just that in the real world. It's as simple as seeing how the median salary and average salary compare and evolve. It's as simple as comparing how minimum wages evolved with inflation.

It's no coincidence that even in the US, humanity's apex in economic development and wealth, the average Joe cannot afford a house while a few decades back it could.
I knew it would be a demonstration of the CSS "generated content" feature.
Ah - I see, the DRAM is literally BGA'd right next to the die. So that $200 upcharge is mostly profit... Thank you!
I think it simply boils down to the requirements of interactive editors vs. batch tools.

I have no doubt that interactive editors like Atom/Zed can really make use of incremental parsing, and also lenient parsing.

Syntax highlighting and parsing isn't the only thing they do -- they still need the CPU for other things.

But yeah the problem is incremental is very different than batch, and lenient is very different than strict, so basically every language needs at least 2 separate parsers. That's kind of an unsolved problem, and I'm not sure it can be solved even in principle ...
Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)
I have an old Probak, it shaves ok but not amazing from what I remember.

https://stephentanner.com/probak-oc-review.html
>and the main reason we don’t think so is successful PR by old aerospace primes.

It's partly that, and also partly that making engines successful is a different business. For capital intensive industries, it's natural that they separate and consolidate into specialties, which is why you see things work they way they do today. SpaceX is probably the exception that prove the rule, at least for space access. It would be nice to see Boom become that same exception for passenger jet aircraft. For obvious reasons, given the ongoings with Boeing.
Advanced GPU Memory Technology: High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
The discussion on High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) covered its current market trends, competitive landscape, applications in AI, automotive, AR/VR, and consumer electronics, as well as its projected future growth fueled by technological advancements and increasing demand for high-performance memory solutions.
His shares still have majority vote and full board control.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933213/boston-dynamics...
They don’t want a quarter inch hole, they want a lazy sunday afternoon bbqing with their family and showing off their beautiful new outdoor decking to their friends.
I would contend that Blackstone was of the position that no innocent person who was not of sufficient suspicion of committing a crime should be investigated.

These are innocent bystanders. There is nothing suspicious about their activities other than they did something that a suspected criminal did. A perfectly legal activity? To take this to the ridiculous side, are we going to investigate everyone who took a poop at a specific time because a criminal did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
The government is literally asking for that data though? It doesn't really matter why Google wants it, the effect is the same. We should be concerned and we should resist giving them as much data as possible, because when the government comes knocking they'll ask for everything they have. And who and what the government wants can change quicker than you might imagine (see how the Texas government is going after women having miscarriages, for example)
I suffered for years from massive razor burns and ingrown hairs from Gillette.

Then I went to DE, full on badger hair brush for lather, the works. Life was better but not perfect.

On one vacation I had forgotten to bring any shaving gear, and locally the only thing sold was Schick razors.

Turns out, no irritation and a great shave from their multi-blade disposable.

People should try all the products on the market and see what works best for them!
> today are much more valuable

not to mention new materials and insulations/energy efficiency, fireproofing etc. All of these things are improvements - it's just "invisible" because people who claim the opposite just don't see it as an improvement (aka, they take it for granted).

It is the same with a lot of other "wealth" increases - it's invisible because that wealth is available to everybody. They only see it as wealth when said wealth is made only available for themselves (or wealth that someone else has that they themselves don't have).
That's an argument about Windows being production ready though, not Postgres...
>But after a few years of missing deadlines and goals (because they were unrealistic) and eating up money, the "in theory" could work turns into "in practice" did not. I work in the area so maybe it's just more galling to me hence my snarky response.

What are the technical reasons they are behind schedule? Is the physics problem just too difficult, and the problem they've set out to solve just too hard without, idk, government backing?
That sounds like you need to have fetched the whole zip before you can unzip it - which is not what one wants when making "virtual tarfiles" which only exist in a pipe. (i.e. you're packing files in at one end of the pipe and unpacking them at the other)
Structured Programming with go to Statements (PDF, Knuth, 1974)
ok let me fix the original quote then - it's not protectionism when you're defending something from fraud.
Enabling or keeping productivity going is also important. That is what people watching line and fixing minor things are paid for. Alternative is that someone would be pinged from home and they would drive to line each time. While during time productivity of line was lost.
Is this question a coherent concept when it doesn't change anything when you substitute any other term like "full path" or "as much path as exists" or "any path"?
Being investigated is a red herring. The problem is from the other end. Your premise is that a person being investigated when they're innocent of the original crime is basically harmless because the investigation will come to naught. The actual issue is that if they can find a pretext to get a list of all of the people who viewed some content they don't approve of, now they have a list of targets with which to play "bring me the man and I'll find you the crime" and that is a harm in need of preventing.
Early employees may have gotten 2-3% and are completely undiluted.
Then you cannot transfer through a pipe something that's too big to fit in memory.
That's still inflation. It doesn't matter why the prices went up, it matters that they did.
This is your choice obviously, you get to choose how much data you give to them. You can also choose not to give any data at all if you wish.
I remember a case too. They were 100% certain a hard drive contained CP but could not get the password. I'm pretty sure he was jailed for contempt until it was given out. Definitely inside the USA.
> Annual wages are about 15% higher today compared to 1971 in real terms.

Since 1971, the cumulative inflation rate was around 700%, with an average annual inflation being well over 3%.

So while wages increased 15%, the price of everything else around us increased over 700%.
They also mention depending on https://github.com/SCLOrganization, which appears to have single similarly anonymous maintainer.

In fact, SCL has exactly two libraries, SQLite and Zstandard, so presumably it's the same developer https://github.com/SCLOrganization/Libraries
A few years ago it was all about democratized AI
I remember a case too. They were 100% certain a hard drive contained CSAM but could not get the password. I'm pretty sure he was jailed for contempt until it was given out. Definitely inside the USA.

This might be it, I might be misremember the finer details:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36159146
Pretty much what happened with Speech Recognition for 30 years. That last 10% had to be handled manually. Even if you get 90% right, it still means ever second sentence has issues. And as things scale up the costs of all that manual behind the scenes hacking scale up too. We underestimated how many issues involved Ambiguity - where N people see the same thing and have N different interpretations. So you see a whole bunch of Speech Rec companies rising and falling over time.

Now things are pretty mature, but it took decades to get there but there is still a whole bunch of hacks upon hacks behind the scenes. Same story will repeat with each new problem domain.
It's for this specific reason I'm working on a Vale grammar for non-native English speakers. Hopefully, I'll get it out in open this May.
What is interchangeable, your lie about "it's trivial to shut down" and your bs about "oh but that's too difficult"? Those are two different things, even though both of them are not true.
And sure, you missed my point about motivation, probably on purpose. If (for example) for your mother using these tools was the only way to contact her close relatives I'm sure she would have found the way. Mine would.
For reasons that are probably out of scope for CSS, I would really like to be able to do more with the CSS content property.

It's one broad class of problem really: many frameworks make changing the HTML they generate difficult or impossible. Inevitably you end up needing to inject a button or a hyperlinked image or something in a particular position, and you have to resort to Javascript to do something that isn't interactive and isn't a program, which feels like the wrong tool.

You could argue that both Javascript and CSS are the wrong tool for this use case, but CSS would be the more convenient wrong tool.
Perhaps that was that lead poisoning from gasoline.

I wonder if anybody researched its effect on non-criminally inclined population.
I favor betting on proper orders of magnitude more rounds of reliable and proven constructions optimizing for a minimum mem/cpu/gpu/fpga- & asic-hard cost factors for a particular use-case than entirely new and unproven constructions (recall SIDH) and from untrustworthy intermediaries like NIST (recall P curves, Dual_EC_DRBG).

PS: We'll sure be in relative trouble if we find faster &| cheaper ways to do prime factorization or invert matrixes.
Amazon was ruthless at making money from day 0.

Amazon was famous for not taking profit, and instead putting profit back into the company, but revenue? Amazon was generating gobs and gobs and gobs of revenue from day 0.
This sounds scary, and yet I seem to be unharmed.
"We've been complaining for years that Microsoft ships new operating systems with the same boring old default applets"

Who us "we"? Change for the sake of change is, I suspect, not something most people appreciate. Currently, MS is mucking with Notepad, which is just utterly unnecessary.
> Privacy has been dead for a long time. The worst part is people don’t care.

I would argue “people don’t care” because… there isn’t a high enough number of people who suffer negative consequences from “their privacy being invaded”.
Which really underscores that all of the MFA stuff is actually about security. Because of course it is.
Emad is such an obvious grifter it’s honestly mad that he attracted so much VC money.

He couldn’t even get his own story straight regarding his education and qualifications which should be a pretty clear disqualifying red flag from the outset.

The Forbes article from last year was dismissed on here as a hit piece but the steady flow of talent out was the clear sign, capped by the original SD authors leaving last week (probably after some vesting event or external funding coming through).
what sort of work does this client involve doing for 2.5k/month?
Accenture : $1.1 billion GenAI projects!
it's not unlimited. There's a regulated amount for which they're not allowed to go over (reserve requirement - which has since 2020 been set to zero), and they are required to have enough equity/capital (called capital requirements outlined here: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.fede... )

If it is indeed true that a bank could just print unlimited loan notes, then why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse? Wouldn't it be possible to just print themselves out of their troubles?
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I haven't seen any yet. Closest thing to that that I've seen would be something like one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Natural-Language-Process...

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Language-Processing-Transform...

https://www.amazon.com/Generative-Deep-Learning-Teaching-Mac...

I wish I could give you a detailed review of all of those, but sadly while I have all three, I've been too slammed with other stuff to make much progress on any of them. :-(

And while it's not a book, there's that video series by Andrej Karpathy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...
ZIRP is an artificial intervention in the market: Whenever it costs money to borrow money, the government will print some and give it for free to whoever is looking to borrow it.
Site - https://www.querywisehq.com/
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The airliner as described won't have windows for the pilot, it will be rendered on a screen.
> This was viewed as insane in the pre-ChatGPT era, and only paid off massively in retrospect.

Paid off how?
People are having an open adult conversation; I don't think it's fair to classify that as whining.

The way the professor put thing was less than ideal, to put it mildly. That was lacking in nuance and unprofessional. But "Stop thinking about life in terms of looking for a girlfriend, and start meeting new people and forming relationships with them, some of which may turn romantic" is excessively politically correct. That is: avoiding an unpleasant truth and coming up with platitudes instead to avoid it.

I've never been to the US, much less the bay area, so I can't vouch for the correctness of his views, but I have lived in different places in Europe, and there's definitely a difference in dating difficulty level between places. I don't entirely know why, there it definitely exists.

People want to have a loved one in their life. They want to have sex. They want to have that "special person" to laugh with. Your platitude sounds nice on the face of it, but it sounds a lot less nice if you've been without any of that for years, have dealt with uncountable rejections, and just feel lonely. "Friends" can only fill so much of that void. And not everyone is so extroverted they want to have lots of friends in the first place. And while some people may be fine without a partner for years, others really do have a need for it – different things work for different people.

I think it's reasonable to talk about all of this, and "dating is kind of hard here" is fair advice to give.

> The advice to focus on meeting people and making friendships first is what _I_ got, and it's worked out pretty well for me.

Yes, but you're a woman. This is significantly harder as a man. Women, especially, but also men, tend to treat you as hostile-by-default in the public sphere.

I've had plenty of girlfriends over the years, but by and large meeting one is work. "Just hang out and have the craic and end up with a girlfriend" can work, but is rare. Maybe if you're one of those very charismatic people, but most of us aren't. And again: not everyone wants to be doing this all the time in the first place.

People talk about "male privilege", but I like to call it "experience blindness": being blind for experiences of people outside of your own. This emphasises that it exists in both directions.

Related previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473719 (not just the comment I linked to, also my reply to the top comment). While there are also ugly comments there, in general I found that to be an interesting discussion).
Then you can read the countercriticism.

https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/p/jared-diamond-a-reply-to-hi...
Skimming an Atlas Obscura article the day before yesterday and ordering the books 'Discovering Scarfolk' and 'The Scarfolk Annual' especially for the surveillance themed humor, I'm not surprised to find a post about Scarfolk on HN today ...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digging-through-the-ar...

I especially like the BBC 1 initiative, 'We watch you watching us.'

I really need to dig out my old copy of the Paranoia RPG and reactivate the old team.