skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposedly "state officials" shot down bumpers on cost. They made a bet and it turns out that they've won: Biden has committed to paying the entire cost of replacement[1]. Instead of investing in bridge defense to protect a 50 year old bridge and its ever increasing maintenance costs they get a brand new bridge for free!

[1] "It is my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort"
NY isn't really smog filled. It is pretty windy and the straight broad streets ensure the wind flows. It's something that actually surprised me when I lived there. Trains, taxis and busses are also major contributors to the noise, along emergency services.
There are two explanations here:

1. We got richer and thus got better medical care, better food, cleaner conditions. Education got better and longer. Thus, brains grew slightly bigger.

2. Some other phenomena (?) occurred that caused a one-generation selective pressure event that culled the lower end of the brain size distribution from the population, or increased the number of high brain size individuals.

I know which of these theories seems plausible and grounded in observable facts, and which one sounds like a just-so story designed to justify eugenics.
In the original dot comm bubble, there were about 700k US devs. Now there is nearly 5M. In the dot comm bubble, we lost 5-10% of developers. So far in the current environment, we've lost about 250k jobs, which is right around 5% also.

There was a big difference between now and then too: then, so many companies were nothing burgers with no real product and no real revenue.

I graduated in 2005. I chose to go into public education as a teacher because it paid more than software development (35k for a dev, 40k for a teacher).

Yeah, shit's hard right now. I still think it was worse back then. Nobody would consider it a better choice to be a teacher today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs
No worries and whoops, I seem to have glommed the bullet point in the job description together:

"Our own web console, CLI, and SDK consumers (e.g., oxide.rs, oxide.go)"
Something that people don’t understand is that even if a law doesn’t work 100%, it can still be effective.

In this case, make it self reported with random audits. Problem solved.
This is what happens with insufficient Arctic sea ice unable to maintain itself through all seasons. The greatest climatic danger is when a weak polar vortex stabilizes into an unconventional, malformed, fixed series of stable Rossby wave nodes that are unable to change themselves leading to severe, enduring flooding or droughts to the south.

https://paulbeckwith.net/2018/12/18/jet-streams-getting-stuc...

https://paulbeckwith.net/2021/02/19/review-arctic-temperatur...
Just because you get away with it, doesn't make it legal. As many speeders find out. "I was just going with the flow of traffic!"

As a person who has to constantly walk around parked cars on the sidewalk I hope they ticket these people every single day. I see people in wheelchairs stuck on the street dodging traffic because they can't even use the sidewalks with cars parked all over them.
This sounds pretty cool but they are going about the marketing in a very weird way. Eg for example the quote about the influencer saying they are seeing Elden Ring playing at 30fps and showing BG3 at 24fps. It's great they can play BG3 but those are very different things and anyone who doesn't know the difference shouldn't be opining on this.

I'd want to have someone credible like digital foundry have a look https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry
Infinite Mac: Turning to the dark side
This should not be required by law because many people specifically don't want it. I'm content to keep my own redundant copies of a recovery key and suffer the consequences of my own actions, rather than allowing someone to steal my account just because they made a convincing fake ID or hacked some government system. In general centralized identity systems are a single point of failure and hooking more things into them is a bad thing.

> Your data and account ownership interest doesn’t disappear because of failure to possess the right sequence of bytes or a string.

Somehow you have to establish that you are the owner of the account, in a way that nobody else can do it. This is very much not a trivial problem, and government IDs don't provide any kind of solution to it.

If you need a driver's license, how do you get a driver's license? With a birth certificate? Okay, how do you get a copy of your birth certificate when you don't have a driver's license?

If there is a path to go from your house burning down and you having zero documents to you having a valid ID again without proving you've memorized or otherwise backed up any kind of secrets, an attacker can do the same thing and get an ID in your name. This is why identity theft is a thing in every system that relies on government ID. Requiring all systems to accept government ID is requiring all systems to be subject to identity theft.
For-hire cars aren't going to add $15 to your fare. Details on that are in the article.
The approval on the base model is not feeling very open. Plenty of people still waiting on a chance to download it, where as the instruct model was an instant approval. The base model is more interesting to me for finetuning.
>Changing people's habits in favor of public transit

If that is what this is about then why dont they spend money making the public transit options better? There are dozens of unbuilt subway lines, areas with poor or no public transit and large amounts of crime all of which making a car a far superior choice. Taxing the car until people put up with an inferior transit service is not an improvement.
Agreed. Western musicians have a sort of indoctrination/familiarity towards ET, leaving the untrained folks better equipped to recognize Just intoned harmony.

Also agreed re: pleasant intervals. My favourite example (which I have posted before) is this Mozart piece in 6th comma meantone. The back and forth between dissonance and pure harmonic resolution with great 3rds tuning is extraordinary. Anyone, give it one listen, you will be convinced.

https://youtu.be/lzsEdK48CDY?si=rtBE-M0cCRQsDHNx&t=700

(Note the last, cheerful section was added after mozart's death.)
> Management believes they can replace most of these employees with LLM-based automation

I don't think this is materially true, it's just a nice narrative. (And a way to entice investors, which, remember, is the CEO's job.)

> Most websites are buggy, inaccessible, and broken

It's been like this since at least 2010, so imo this isn't really anything new. We're just buggy in different ways. Switched from one footgun (jQuery) to another (React).

> That’s an entire industry removed from the web developer job market.

I'm not exactly sure what the "web media" sector is. Re-read that section like twice and I'm still confused. Programmatic advertising is dipping because things like FB/Google are losing out to TikTok and Instagram (& more tailor-made advertising). As someone that used to work in ad-tech, I don't really think those jobs are going away, just evolving in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. This has been in the works long before the LLM craze.

> Here we come to the reason why I did this research and wrote this analysis. I keep asking myself: what should I do?

The answer is always the same: start a company. I'm not sure why so many developers are terrified by the prospect.

> Sometimes all the news you have to tell is bad.

I dunno, I don't really see the doomerism here. I tend to be more optimistic than most, but even so, even if you can't get a job as a "web developer" (which really hasn't been a job title for about a decade now anyway), pivoting into data engineering, backend work, LLM work, infrastructure, etc. is not really that big of a leap.
Embarrassed because science worked as expected?
One of my main poles is “how much do I give a shit about this business and the people running it”, but I never see that mentioned when people discuss employee motivation.

I’ve never worked with people whose happiness depended on productivity. It’s always been assumed that it worked the other way around.
>public transit is good.

Is that with or without a concealed carry weapon?
This looks really similar (in concept, your design is way better and you have more features) to something I built with my lawyer/legaltech business partner a few years ago. We even applied to YC and didn’t get in.

I’m curious, though, how accurate is your llm for things like trying to “pull subtle context from an attorney’s browser activity to associate that work with a client”? I suspect this needs to be damn near bullet proof, otherwise attorneys will tear it apart. We stuck purely to file tracking, comparing diffs and syncing activity in real time on a an app with GitHub like heatmap that could also flag suspicious time entries. It worked great but we had a hard time getting adoption because people did not want to force their attorneys to use it. Interesting to see the times change dynamics, good luck!
No need for a nested array. You can simply lay them end to end in decreasing size and perform in-place merges. The structure is implicit in the size of the set.
I have no idea where JFK or Heathrow airports are. Next time please include a location in your message too. ;)
Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools
Noam Chomsky criticizes the US press in the book for being a mouth piece for government propaganda. e.g. Judith Miller, New York Times on the WMDs in Iraq. etc etc.

Why does his views on Dictatorship make his critique of the press invalid? Isn't that like saying every criticism of Israel by a non-Jewish person is anti-semitic, no?
so they sell the husk of VMware back to Dell when they're done.
For pete sake, don't break up the flow and over-complicate your very first sentence with irrelevant asides like this:

> A friend and I were talking about our families today when I realized that my grandmother (this grandmother) became a grandma (not my grandma) at 45.

I got confused and distracted trying to solve the riddle of why his "grandmother" was not his "grandma" [0] when it had nothing to do with the point he was trying to make. And the "this grandmother" parenthetical could have just been a subtle inline link.

> A friend and I were talking about our families today when I realized that _my_grandmother_ became a grandma at 45.

Much clearer!

0: I think he meant that his grandmother's first grandchild, who born when she was 45, was someone other than the author, so technically she wasn't /his/ grandma at that moment because he didn't actually exist yet.
https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...

>Another oft-repeated truism is that x86 has a significant ‘decode tax’ handicap. ARM uses fixed length instructions, while x86’s instructions vary in length. Because you have to determine the length of one instruction before knowing where the next begins, decoding x86 instructions in parallel is more difficult. This is a disadvantage for x86, yet it doesn’t really matter for high performance CPUs because in Jim Keller’s words:

>For a while we thought variable-length instructions were really hard to decode. But we keep figuring out how to do that. … So fixed-length instructions seem really nice when you’re building little baby computers, but if you’re building a really big computer, to predict or to figure out where all the instructions are, it isn’t dominating the die. So it doesn’t matter that much.

>...

>Researchers agree too. In 2016, a study supported by the Helsinki Institute of Physics[2] looked at Intel’s Haswell microarchitecture. There, Hiriki et al. estimated that Haswell’s decoder consumed 3-10% of package power. The study concluded that “the x86-64 instruction set is not a major hindrance in producing an energy-efficient processor architecture.”
They might have a case to keep the car!

There are laws around sending people packages and then demanding payment.

I think it was to stop trolls from mailing you garbage and demanding payment afterwards…

I’m not a lawyer, them having a purchase agreement in place probably changes things, but a clever lawyer might be able to make a case, but I’m just spitballing
That applies to a number of cities but that's the caveat. Especially if you're a bit older, it's common for friends to live outside the city, many jobs aren't in the city, there are activities you might like to do outside the city etc. Yes, there are rental cars but that's the type of thing I was getting at with my comment about cultural expectations.

Everyone in my circle who lives in Boston/Cambridge owns a car.
Like asking people for their W-2 in the Holland tunnel? And who do you ask – the driver, the car's owner, the entity paying for the lease, the passenger, or all of them?

I agree, but I think this one would create incredible administrative overhead and still not even get close to 100%.
Those skylights? Just pop em out to exit in a hurry.
Gates Foundation switches to supporting preprints over fee-based open access
The woman who posted the review faces jail; she is not actually jailed yet. Not sure why HN changed the original title, which in my view is more accurate.
Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019)
Quite, and this has been known for years - any good ethnomusicology textbook addresses it chapter 1. Equal temperament and 'western harmony' are not all that.
>Ride the bus, take the train.

I hear they deployed the national guard in the NYC subway. Should commuters also be forced to take mandatory self defense classes?
> guide the ship on a course where even a loss of power would have the ship drift between the supports.

If one of the failure modes is a stuck rudder, how’s that supposed to work in a narrow space where it could be drifting in either direction?
22% of households in Manhattan own a car. There are about half a million households below 60th St. So there are about 100,000 cars in lower Manhattan that belong to residents. Of those, about 25,000 are used to get to work each day. The rest sit in garages.

So no, residents will not mostly be the ones paying the costs.

But suppose they were. So what? Sounds fair to me. We don't make the subway free for residents. Why should it be free to drive and store your vehicle just because you're a resident?
God I miss when comments like this that succinctly draw deep parallels to history, pose hard questions for the readership, and do so via a literacy that is too often snubbed as elitist were always the top comment.

If there’s anything wrong with this comment it’s that there should have been a link, so I’ll fill in the one and only gap: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study
Yaml is beloved when it's maybe two pages of little indented config.

It becomes a nightmare once people try to emulate a DSL with it.
> encouraging more use at off hours

NYC is "the city that never sleeps". Deliveries have been happening overnight for decades already, due to the traffic congestion.
Google probably doesn't need that many people.

The economy generally needs more than we have.

What's going on now is more like a capital strike. Businesses aren't behaving very competitively, offering the same products and services as a few years ago just with higher prices. That won't last forever eventually this automated future will need to actually be implemented and many developers will be needed.
> but my feeling is that making Afghanistan into a functional western style democracy with western style human rights is more like a 50-100 year project.

Easily a 50+ year project, because progress effectively happens one death at a time. A large percentage of the old guard harboring outdated ideas will simply never change. The only hope is changing the minds of the new generations.
Thanks, absolutely, you’re right, I will work on making it more production ready
Internet Archive down (SSL cert expired)
> You can get by without a car in Boston as I do as well, if you work and live in the city.

FWIW, I lived in the city and worked in a suburb, and also was able to live car-free without issue. This was in the days before ride-hailing apps, so I imagine it'd be even easier now. (Not technically car-free, I know)
Are you reading the second half of the sentence I posted? Sorry but I'm not understanding where you are coming from - Krebbs lays out clearly in the first paragraph how the attack works and you seem to be deliberately ignoring that.
I’m a designer who likes to code things for fun and would make a terrible programmer.

For me llms are fantastic as they enable me to build things I never could have without.

I imagine they wouldn’t be as useful for a skilled programmer as they can do it all already.

Can’t remember the source, but I read a paper a while back that looked at how much ChatGPT actually helped people in their work. For above average workers it didn’t make much difference, but it made a big improvement for below average workers, bringing them up to the level of their more experienced peers.
This is a lot of words to say you've never traded a commodity market. Blaming the liquidity providers while the fundamentals point to an exact reason cocoa is going nuts. Maybe do a little more than "clicking on random graphs" to find a spurious justification. Cocoa will go limit up until the situation in Africa improves. The "traders" don't move nearly the volume the large chocolate providers do. Are they also "manipulating" the market?
Plus occasionally the sun will shine straight into someone's head.
So does that mean now that the Lincoln and Holland Tunnel will be +$15? That'd cost like $35 to enter Manhattan from Jersey City.
Looks like the author himself deleted it: "AGI will not be designed by humans. It will be evolved through relentless evolutionary computational processes designed by humans" (https://web.archive.org/web/20231209033410/https://abstruseg...)
Thank you! That was actually close to my first idea for this installation. I wrote some code to re-imagine a raster image as a vector, but I couldn't find a way to keep the detail while also keeping the drawing time below 10-15 minutes. That's how I arrived at the MIDI idea.
see also Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969)

It's not as obvious (but is still visible) in the US, but cities stay in the same place (and organise mostly similar hinterlands) over time, while national and super-national boundaries vary on sometimes very short timescales.

Consider Moscow (XIV-) compared to the USSR (XX-XX). Or watch Poland move back and forth over its history. Today's Kaliningrad (Russian Federation) was Euler's Königsberg (Kingdom of Prussia), etc.
There is also cargo vendor (which turns dependencies into path dependencies).

Sometimes if you do security sensitive stuff it can be a good option to either:

1. pin dependencies and give each dependency a review for suspicious code

2. vendor them in some cases (e.g. applying patches, or if pinning seems to not be good enough for whatever reason likely related to offline building)

If you are not a very security sensitive project but still worry about the supply chain then it may also be an option to pin/vendor some dependencies but e.g. trust `tokio`, `regex` or similar.

E.g. not pin some more trusted dependencies but then pin some small utility crate from a random person which you don't want to write yourself and is trivial/self contained enough so that you likely might not care about any updates to it (still include it into security scans check why it was updated etc.).
What are you talking about? The roads in my city are paid for my taxes remitted to the city. I guess you could call that a subsidy but that's also just known as being paid for by taxes. And if you're in an area where everyone needs a car to get around then there's no argument that drivers are mooching off the tax revenue of non-drivers. I swear people are so salty about roads when they don't drive but nobody complains about public schools when they went to private.

Owning a car isn't enormously expensive except in online discussions where people quote the MSRP of $year+1 models and act like folks making minimum wage are actually paying that. My primary car is a 2012 Honda Fit that was $6000 when I bought it at 30k miles and is now pushing 120k. I bought it in cash, but the monthly payment with insurance would have been 15% of my rent.
"Imperfect" tunings are pretty common even in western musical instruments.

Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, for example, which are staples of pop and jazz, usually use what's called Stretch Tuning, wherein notes an octave apart are just slightly higher than 2:1 frequency ratios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning
I'm 60 and wanna live to 100. Is my years of drinking and inactivity a problem?
The primary mode of transportation is rail, but even ignoring taxis and Ubers (which we all use sometimes) we depend on things delivered by cars. They don't bring groceries or Amazon deliveries on the subway.

This stuff adds up, and is a big reason why it's expensive to live here.
At the same time, it's rather myopic to disrupt what reciprocal incentives there might be in an information sharing environment and somehow expect that the sharing will continue indefinitely.
> This is despite the arrival of a boom in funding due to the generative model bubble.

Does the boom in funding for AI companies make up for the overall drop in funding from late 10s-early 20s heights? That would not be my guess offhand, which makes playing up the contrast between “plenty of funding” (for one specific thing) and “job cuts” feel a little overstated.

It does complicate predictions, though.
> So unless your core is able to ingest over one icache line per cycle (intel cores currently are NOT), you are thus limited.

Do Intel cores no longer have a μop cache in front of the L1i cache?
You don't need a car in San Francisco. It's a tiny city that's easily traversable by bike, metro and bus - or just walking. I haven't had a car in the city in over 10 years and it's really never impacted me - except for saving me boatloads of money, I guess, probably well over $100K.
Maybe the important qualifier here is in “web developer” in the title.

That job title might simply become obsolete. When I entered the workforce around the turn of the millennium, there were people with titles like “webmaster” and “rich media designer”. Those don’t exist anymore. It’s not that the work has disappeared, but it’s been restructured and refined.

Developers and designers will always be needed, but the vaguely generic category of a web developer may be replaced.
The Citi Bike Strategy Guide
Double-Time Seabird
With nanotechnology.
Free parking and no sales tax on clothing.

There's a reason the big NYC area malls are in Paramus and Elizabeth.
Time tracking sucks and I applaud efforts to free people from having to do it manually, so best wishes.

I'm also concerned that automated time tracking is extremely close to automated surveillance and not only "productivity monitoring", but also "productivity judging". What do you think about this?