skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> 700 million people live on <2.15$/day people [1]. You can solve a lot of captchas in a day, probably not 1000 though. How does this work?

Not sure if the people living for <2.15$/day have access to sufficient network bandwidth or computers/smartphones. Some may not have access to power.
at risk of throwing out a beat up cliché, Steve Jobs famously wore the same black shirts as a way of simplifying his life. One less thing to burn brain power on, to have to navigate
The URL's it generates are too long.
> its a self-consistent theory that fits existing data, its competitors apparently cant.

My understanding of string theory is that there isn't even a proper string theory variant of the Standard Model, and that most of the models people are trying out are basically toy models that kinda resemble, say, QED. This means it's not even coherent enough to ask the question if it fits existing data, which is part of the premise of it being "not even wrong."
> I think he's also the first general officer from the NASA astronaut corps.

Apparently he was made a 1* (Brigadier General) to have similar rank with Alexei Leonov, the Soviet commander of the Apollo-Soyuz mission. After that mission he continued to be promoted up through the ranks.
Its certainly available though.
The point of a currency is not to experience zero inflation, it is to facilitate commerce as a medium of exchange. If you want to save, buy appreciating assets.

> I'm still not sure why people are so unhappy at the idea of using money to track some constant amount of value.

What's the grand cosmic purpose of having something that holds a "constant amount of value" (whatever that means)?
Pretty much everything about the premise seems silly to me.

A civilization that can unwrap protons and build machines that violate energy conservation inside of them wouldn't need to care about taking over other species as basically all the material and energy of any solar system, regardless of whether it had life in it or not, would be available to them. And if you could build such objects you could probably find a better way to destroy our enemies than fiddling with their particle accelerators.

The Dark Forest idea is also very dumb. The universe is so stupidly big that going out of your way to destroy other lifeforms, especially if you are a technologically advanced species, is a huge waste of resources for no gain whatsoever. Furthermore, even in a hostile universe there is much to be gained from alliances, especially for intelligent lifeforms for whom the idea of a "civilization" is not tightly coupled to a specific biological underpinning.

I'm not saying a book couldn't be written with these premises. Obviously fiction can go all sorts of places. I just found the presentation of these ideas highly implausible in this text.
You said "most Americans’ only retirement savings option is $7,000 into some form of IRA"

The fact is, that statement is not true. Some 85% of taxpayers work for employers or are self-employed, and many millions of those have access to 401k plans.

"Every American should have access to the same level of tax sheltering regardless of employer."

Since you are talking about $75K annual amounts, I read that as only high-earning Americans should have access, because you don't acknowledge that most Americans cannot afford to put $75K or more into retiremement every year, they need the money to put food on the table and roof over heads.

You are arguing for making a tax break for the rich more widely available but pretending like it is for the benefit of everyone.
That's the view. That's not evidence.

Hence $1.8 billion.

I've still seen no evidence of an actual call with Putin. Only the Ambassador
Where to Get the Audacity
We don't understand how GenAI systems work, so we can't analytically predict their behavior; I think they're artifacts of synthetic biology, or chaos theory, not engineering or computer science. Giving GenAI goals and the ability to act outside of a sandbox is roughly parallel to releasing a colony of foreign predators in Australia, or creating an artificial pathogen that is so foreign the immune system doesn't have the tools to fight it.

That's why I consider understanding the internals of GenAI systems to be very important, independent of human psychology.
>> Just ask them to code up a python script for you. If the customer service representative complies that's a bot not a human

Why stop there? Should be a Leetcode Easy/Medium :-)
I've never been to the southern hemisphere either, but Wikipedia's got our back!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars

Looks like similarly bright southern stars include some of the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Ceti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Pavonis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Trianguli_Australis

It's pretty bright, but not uniquely so. It'd be about the 20th brightest object in the sky (assuming even distribution).
> How do your vacation pictures help you do your job?

This question is why I don't want the company laptop.
Also, it's worth noting that Apollo astronauts are not average-health men. They were selected for their extreme outlier health attributes, which is why so many of them live so long.
There’s a handy cliche: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In concrete terms a zero is different from a missing value.
From my experience it dries out rather than age, there's far too much salt in to age.
Blindsight was a little better.
Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks for the explanation!
So? The users paid for a machine that is supposed to "just work"
> Most Americans have very little family and social ties

citation needed. like, speak for yourself, mon ami.
Good for you for trying to do right by your team, but oof. An entirely junior team with no tech leadership is going to have problems beyond mentorship.
Know Your World
Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
A somewhat daunting project that I've been putting off for a long time is organizing and backing up 23 TiB of files spread across 40+ external and internal hard drives that I've collected throughout my life. There is a variety of filesystem types and interface types.

I take a lot of photos, so a lot of these are files that I would actually want to back up, but many of them are old operating system installs and other "useless" files that I don't need archival storage for.

The actual size of the data that I need backed up I would estimate at around 6 TiB.

A few of my requirements:

1. I don't need the files to be accessible online, in fact, I would prefer if they were not.

2. If anything is backed up to the cloud, I want pre-internet-encryption with keys that only I know and control.

3. I want something simple, that could be recovered using a pragmatic approach and open source software in case of a disaster.

4. I'd like a system where I can easily test my recovery strategy.

Open questions:

1. What local filesystem setup should I use? Number of drives? Local backup approach?

2. If you've done this before, is there a strategy that you used for the actual aggregation of the data? Are there any particularly convenient IDE to USB docks? Any good software that you would recommend for locating duplicate files?

3. What remote backup software should I use?

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Answering some questions from the comments:

Cost: Given a quick look at the cost of archival cloud storage, I guess I would be willing to spend up to $60 per month on a remote copy. (Noting the estimate of 6 TiB of "acutal" data)

How often: I would expect to access the remote files rarely (maybe once a month), and need a complete recovery very rarely (with a low requirement for recovery speed). Local backups I would like to occur at least weekly, with a verification or access frequently (daily?).

Risk tolerance: For the local-encryption-for-remote-storage aspect, I would like something with a high level of confidence in the cryptography and the implementation surrounding it. I would also like a high degree of confidence that I can recover my files in case of a natural disaster or similar that wipes out my local copies.

Local security: I live in a relatively secure home in a relatively low crime area. I could store a copy at a relative's house, although I may move far enough away soon that it would not be practical to deliver or access such a backup.
There is a typo on the third line
Show HN: Curl2Url
I'm pretty sure I have several lifetimes' worth of free credit monitoring with all the breachleaks happening all the damn time, if I could be arsed to redeem them.
Fake news. A Texan can't survive the freezing winters in Banff. /s
Top comment says there's 7 astronauts still alive the youngest being 88? That's all already way beyond the norm I think.
Nope, not a US term. I've found it in a couple dictionaries as a UK term for "freshman", which is a similar idea but not quite the usage in OP.

The equivalent that I've usually heard in the US is "recent graduate", rather than just "graduate".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fresh...
I don't want or accept IT control of my personal machine.
Since this was an off-CPU hardware bug, I don't see how CHERI would help.

Anyway, the last time I looked into it, CHERI wasn't sound: It was still possible to write memory bugs on top of it. Have they fixed that yet?
Pretending to understand a subject is part of the process of learning a subject.
Plenty of java software is used by regular users. Minecraft is incredibly popular and one of the few games that (used to) run natively on mac.
I think the tricky part about basing it off overall net worth is that for the average retiree their house is a big part of their net worth. Many could downsize to get some cash out of it, but people do still need to live somewhere.
Do these things just come to him in his dreams? Maybe his Fiance who passed is sending him info beyond the grave...

Never fails to impress...

However, would you think the term "another world" == the Moon? Isnt the Moon intrinsically a part of this world?

Another Globe would be more accurate.
References make a paper stronger!
Stealing from the greats, "DNS, BGP, off-by-one errors, or branch prediction. Pick three."
Seems like this might be the article?

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-echo-high-school-print-got-...
This for example: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/flexicubes/
I'm involved in two different government-funded bioremediation projects that are exploring the use of fungi to remediate superfund sites. The challenge is not in fungi's ability to accumulate PFAS or heavy metals; it's in doing it cost-effectively over the current methods. As OP pointed out, in most cases, pollution is simply buried in a location that the EPA has designated safe for disposal.
So much is strange in NYC. E.g. used to be you couldn't install a garbage disposal because, reputedly, the garbage union lobbied against it. They'd have less garbage to haul.

I'd not be surprise, the boilermakers' and pipefitters' union raised a fuss about this one.
It's a far right conspiracy theory about jews, of course. It always gets mentioned in this context because the other part of it is a fantasy about there being a plot to enslave people and force them to eat bugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism#Right-wing_usage

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1166649732/conspiracy-theory-...
I live in the US and have never heard of it.
Volumes have to be very large to make up for R&D costs. For consumer stuff, maybe yes. In industry, it is quite normal to make <1000 pieces of some electronic instrument. In that case, optimizing on cents doesn't make sense.
Yeah, ask an English catholic…
Okta Ventures Unveils "The Identity 25" to Honor Digital Identity Pioneers
The problem is that there IS competition between central banks. If one country did this, the countries that game'd their currencies would have an advantage.
> you've always been right to mistrust what you see on the internet.

But these tools make deception easier and cheaper, meaning it will become much more common. Also, it's not just "on the internet". The trust problem this brings up applies to everything.
Having grown up in an extremely walkable city (outside the US) with top notch public transportation, neighborhood markets, farmer's markets, entertainment options and cultural activities, I'm so thankful for being able to escape that anthill and live in a hardcore Southern suburban cookie-cutter neighborhood where I can enjoy peace, quiet, birds, my man-cave+home theater and comprehensive shopping options that don't require me to literally fight people for parking.
Japan is a bit of a unicorn amongst central banks and has historically relied on a range of unorthodox policy at its central bank. There was window guidance in the bubble era, there was the invention of QE and negative interest rates, and during the 2020s the Bank of Japan became the largest shareholder in the Nikkei.

Japan has done a lot of innovative things trying to claw itself out of the post bubble hole.
This is, once again, the story of piracy. Getting an M3U to put into whatever client of your choice is a soooooo much better experience than using whatever garbage IPTV app polluted with tracking most of the major players offer. DVR? My client offers that… I don’t need to pay some BS “DVR Fee” for that. Want channels not offered by that provider? No problem, mux them together into a unified M3U using something like xTeVe. Don’t want 10000 channels of the same reality show with slightly different themes? Just delete them using the same tools.
> Will we be able to compile a typst file made today in 10 years?

Yes! typst is actually better than LaTeX in this regard:

LaTeX: contrary to how it sells itself, it's not good at compiling old files. The TeX core is fine but the packaging story is awful. Once I found a beamer presentation about LaTeX itself, including of course some slides about the amazing backward compatibility. Well, the slides failed to compile in multiple places due to the fancy packages used by the author, which had made breaking changes between whatever they were using and my own TeX Live installation. And using an older version of TeX Live is not trivial. Another example: a few weeks ago a colleague found himself unable to compile a document that worked before the system (Linux distribution) update. It took us two hours to figure out that one of the LaTeX packages had made a change which made it incompatible with another package unless you switch the order of \usepackage. Fun!

typst: it's a single binary, statically linked. That's it! If you care about this, you can literally commit this one file (30MB or so) in your repository and it will run flawlessly in 10 years. The packaging system is very recent and still a preview, but it's already better than LaTeX since packages are imported by specific versions. And if you're worried that the typst package server will go down it's easy to mirror it locally.

> Will everybody one collaborates with also use typst? Very unlikely. A new PhD student may find it beneficial to write papers with someone who only uses latex.

That's the reason I mention. If it's the only reason left for learning LaTeX, good luck LaTeX. Very soon it will be "Will everybody one collaborates with also use LaTeX? Very unlikely".
And for the audience here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723202 ("Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk", 109 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19718287 ("Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (2015)", 123 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 ("The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf", 118 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770017 ("Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business", 110 comments)
There's a Quark unlock you can buy with the prestige points, maybe it's unlocked by that
“Yeast extract” gets snuck into a lot of American foods. You just don’t see it as a standalone product much. Marmite goes into plenty of my savory cooking
Crikey, has anyone related (or can anyone relate) those pronunciations and spellings to the IPA? Is there any resemblance to its pronunciations?
I'm looking forward to see where they are using this in production.

"After thousands of unit tests and a couple of years working with first-party teams at Microsoft deploying Garnet in production (more on this in future blog posts!), we felt it was time to release it publicly"
https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/blog
You simply don't know how to use it. It's not meant as "develop this feature". It's meant to reduce the time it takes you to do something you're always good at. The prompt will be in the form of "write this function with x/y/z constraints and a/b/c design choices". You do a few touch ups, which is quick because you're good at said domain, and then your PR it.
The bottom line is, it took you much less time to do the same thing.

Then again, it's always dinosaurs who value their own teachings, above anything else, and try to cling on to it, at any cost, without learning new tools.
So, while the industry is going through major changes (2023 saw a 30% decrease in new hires. Among 940 companies surveyed, 40% expect layoffs due to AI), people should adapt rather than ignore the signs.
While true, gc tends to affect tail latencies as it can increase variance. Obviously not always the case, but without sufficient planning it's likely. Languages with less stop the world problems tend to trade it for throughput, however if the application is not CPU bound it doesn't matter. The same can happen in a non gc language where a similar lack of allocation planning is done, but it tends to be considered more carefully because those languages really put allocations in your face.
Isn't it weird that they use both json and XML for configuration?
Medhi Hasan's Zeteo
First Impressions of Early-Access GPT-4 Fine-Tuning
How to Avoid Boeing 737 MAX Planes When Booking Your Next Flight [video]
Then you leech off kin if you have any? We invented old people long before we discovered pensions and tax-advantaged retirement savings accounts.

The range of plausible return rates is hilariously wide, so nearly any withdrawal scheme that can provide a reasonable baseline standard of living with a low chance of going bust is extremely likely to grow faster than you spend it down and leave you with large amounts of money left over. Portfolio survival rate is a very artificial metric that does not accord with how people actually concretely plan their retirements outside a particular band of upper-middles who are weirdly allergic to the fact that they have social ties (and rich enough to avoid them).
Contextual AI introduces RAG 2.0
Wikipedia is basically a game of petty bureaucracy and rules lawyering. Some Wikipedians enjoy to wielding their small amount of power to get articles deleted, and the rest are mostly engaged in some unstated un-encyplopedic political or ideological project (because only admitting that is against Wikipedia's rules, and it's against Wikipedia's rules to call something like that out, even when obvious). A male tech journalist's article doesn't really fit with any of Wikipedia's current political projects, so it's a good target for the former because it's not going to get much defense from the latter.

Also, I hate AI-generated article header images. Might as well just put an IMAGE HERE placeholder, it would look better.
That old binary won't link with the shared libraries on your machine 10 years from now. Depends on 280 other crates. Ye gads.

"Yeah just use ancient binaries" is not a viable strategy for future-proofing.

It's a lot easier to move fast and break things when you don't care about stability.
Copyright applies to the subjective holistic work as a whole, whereas patents are written for explicitly described elements. You don't copyright "John". Also, most generic aspects of art have prior as art from long before the USA was invented and any copyrights were granted. Technology changes far more quickly than art.

And when art is valuable, it does get copyright suits.

And copyright term is 10x as long as parent term.
As a counterpoint, the main nemesis of the book comes from software that is found in archaeological expedition. While software archeology doesn't show up after the first chapter, the ramifications of what happens in that world due to so much software is pretty central.
It's a very US centric term

You've never heard of "freshers week"? That being said, I've never heard the term used to refer to anything other than university students.
Is that on an M1? Apparently the Java issue only affects Apple silicon for some reason
pandoc is seriously under-powered for the kinds of things that LaTeX and Typst can do. Much of the information in Typst/LaTeX source code would simply be ignored during the conversion. It is fine for simple documents, but cannot handle a lot of stuff.
For anyone interested in the story of the astronauts who went to the moon, Moondust is a great read. In the early 2000s (if I remember right), the author traveled around the world to visit each of the living men who had set foot on the moon. He asks them about their experiences, both on the moon and in the time since the moon missions ended. Some of them treat him like any interviewer, but toward the end as they realize he has actually connected all of their stories once again, they share a bit more than what comes out in typical interviews.

It's a wonderful blending of life in the world at that time, the story of our collective quest to reach the moon, and the individual stories of humans who actually went there.

https://www.amazon.com/Moondust-Search-Men-Fell-Earth/dp/006...
DC and its suburbs are some of the wealthiest places in the US, and many have excellent public transit, old neighborhoods, good schools, and safe communities.
I'd let my kids play outside there, too.

SE DC is a different story -- there is a reason they changed the DC basketball team from "Bullets" to the "Wizards" -- but if you're in Northern DC or nearby, like Bethesda, you're straight up posh.
AI is not and really never has been computer science -- if you trust the pedigree of statistical learning as the appropriate one for modern AI, computers don't enter the picture til you want to approximate a solution numerically to an otherwise well-posed analytical question.
What's funny is most radio stations use pirate services to get music... And it's completely legal.

They can count how many people listened to each pay, and send payment per estimated listeners, and it's legal.

I can also buy sheet music for $popularsong, perform it in public. And if I pay mechanistic reproduction rights per listener, it's legal.

We need something similar for video content. That would allow a mega-aggregator to get everything, and pay royalties per play. And if they start charging stupid money, any new company can build it!
Not commenting on the mindset of earlier programmers, rather the analogy you offer: language level abstraction is entirely unlike process specialization.

For example, when moving up to C from assembler, the task of the "programmer" remains invariant and the language tool affords broader accessibility to the profession since not everyone likes to flip bytes. There is no subdivision of overall task of "coding a software product".

With AI coders, there is task specialization, and, as pointed out, what's left on the table is the least appetizing of the software tasks: being a patch monkey.

This is the issue.
Refactoring is not a beginner skill. Ask Claude 3 or ChatGPT to give you a few examples with like 5-15 lines of code. But don't give them that until they have some experience.

Code isn't easy to understand for beginners. They need practice reading code.

Giving a beginner 1500 lines of code to refactor is ludicrous.