skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest not putting a UTC+8 timezone graph as header image, when the conclusion is he's likely from Eastern Europe (not saying you should put one showing EET timezone instead).

I understand that people should read the full article instead of drawing any conclusion from a mere image, but lots of people don't (hence why clickbait works). I also think it's a little tasteless, if not misleading.

Disclaimer: I'm a Chinese.
Who knows how many alter egos the individual behind that online personality has, and what other projects they poisoned through those.
The media also reported these:

https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/abc-2024-constr...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/11/06/worker-short...

https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/t...

I don't vouch for any of these articles, am just saying labor shortage has been a persistent narrative, so not sure what your point is?
Labor can be forced through many different mechanisms. What matters ultimately is just how much flexibility one has to not work or how many necessary things needed for surviving depends on actively working. Everything else are just levels of choice of flexibility within working, but you still for all functional purposes need to work. There’s a whole lot of illusion of choice we like to give people anymore.
I'd much rather this than needing to agree to hundreds of commercial entities eating my data and spreading it to [deity] knows how many more, or clicking hundreds of "legitimate interest in our position as a stalker" checkboxes to opt out, which is required for taking stuff using many other publishing options.

Requiring JS to read a simple article is undoubtedly wasteful, of course, but there are far worse insults you can make to you readership.
This was the lead story on 60 Minutes tonight, right after the final Elite Eight game of March Madness. Increased visibility, at least.
> They are natural, and easy but that doesn't mean they are the right way.

> Often I find with a little thinking that there is a enum key under it all that I can hard code - and the enum key is also type safe so that the compiler can prove my code is correct against some class of bugs in a way a string as key cannot.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding here, I think. By dictionaries I mean language dictionaries, e.g. English -> French. You won't find an underlying "enum key" here. Nor am I sure how an enum would ever get large.

> This article is about systems programming. In systems programming you rarely have such a large dictionary in that format.

First, the article is, but the subthread that started this discussion was more general than that.

Second, even in systems programming, you will commonly have arrays or other collections. Caches are a very common thing in systems programming, after all.

> That is one option, there are more.

It is trivially true that there are alternative options, but all these are workarounds around the problem, i.e. you have to complicate your design or make silent assumptions that may not hold in the future (e.g. when disposing of memory at process exit does no longer work because you now need the code as a library).
Your Google skills suck, or you're lying on purpose:

1. First 2 articles are from 2019 and 2020. Obviously pre and early pandemic economy was totally different.

2. Third article is about a totally different topic, but even goes against your point. It's about people the government says should be working, but can't because of illness.

3. You think a Quora link of a random person asking "Why do young people not find work?" is proof of anything?

4. Again, a random reddit post is not evidence of anything

5. Your last link, again, is about a totally different topic: "Good jobs are out of reach for many 20-somethings in the U.S." This whole article is about children working.

But please, tell me how to Google again...
I think its debatable whether the cropped image is pornagraphic.

The original situation when the image was scanned was certainly inapropriate.

But i think its a jump to describe the cropped version as pornagraphic.

Whether something is pornagraphic depends on context. Cropped and removed from the original context i fail to see how it is still porn.

It seems like the argument is because its origin is porn, everything associated with it is porn. This seems like a very dangerous argument and a very slippery slope.
“Free lunch isn't actually free”, more news at 11
You're right, but semantics aside, the examples you gave seemed to be leaning towards production of goods whereas housing is more of a financial system and regulatory issue.
Looks like YouTube revanced has been blocked as well (at least mine doesn't work anymore). all videos have been replaced with a video playing "not available on this app" over black background.
It would then follow that a stop-the-world collector is A-OK for single-threaded programs, because that doesn't count as pausing?
why is that a hole?
2024 and we are still divided on this issue ? It must be like , "We got 99 problems but this ain't one"
Git bisect is really useful to see who messed up
Plan ahea

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Planing seems to be a lost art. The word "capacity" is something on one uses in an agile/cloud based workflow.
Rough math, $1,000 for the raw stone, $5,000 of travel and time to source... $80k sale price with 250 hours of cutting work, $300/hour for master gemcutter, seems very fair.
> tough for me to stomach a $100+ per person bill at even a reasonable (i.e. not super fancy) restaurant

food has gotten more expensive but it's not that expensive. $25 entrees is unaffordable for most people, how are you getting to $100/head at reasonable restaurants? Does everyone order the ribeye?
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This is a pretty uncharitable and patently ridiculous view of conservatives in the American south. Where is the evidence that these GOP people need all the youth to be uneducated and pregnant? A lot if these people probably understand the real world a lot better than. This is the typical leftist elitist condescension that is unhelpful and belies the reality of what happens when the left actually gets the policies they vote for.
Sure, but why go to the effort to exclude others? Did they think it would help avoid detection on systems that they didn't care to backdoor?
"Not fitting in is not a mental illness. "

It causes mental illness like depression and also stunts social development.
> Could be pretty dangerous if they're easy to produce

Perhaps why this has been suppressed for as long as it has
Maybe someone else sent 5000 mails to Gmail users using your unauthenticated domain.
I'm from the Midwest. Poor folks ship their kids off to clean the pork plants and slaughterhouses on the night shift. Cargill and JBS were some of the worst. It was easy to tell in school, they were dead tired and stunk of bleach.

> The situation in the US now is very different from the dawn of the industrial age.

Different for many, and different for you, but not for all.
> The situation in the US now is very different from the dawn of the industrial age. You really parents are going to have to ship their kids off to coal mines and Soviet style factories?

Genuine question: why do you think they wouldn't?

These days of course they are called Amazon warehouses or non-union car factories or industrial slaughterhouses but the point is still the same.
Just ONE price sounds good but in reality, shipping is very complicated and the true cost varies greatly depending on your location, quantity of items, and mix of items in the order.

Baking free shipping into the price of every individual SKU most likely means that a retailer will either set a price higher than Amazon or earn negative profit on many orders. In both scenarios, the long-term consequence leads to far fewer small or independent retailers and your only remaining choice being Amazon and perhaps a few other megacorps.
We absolute should provide that, and government absolutely shouldn't be involved in that. Whatever society can do itself, government should never be involved in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/us/politics/havana-syndro....

"New Studies Find No Evidence of Brain Injury in Havana Syndrome Cases"

This story is from two weeks ago. So which is it?
There’s caching but only so much can be cached when small changes in the input can lead to an entirely different space of outputs. Furthermore, even with caching LLM inference can take anywhere from 1-15s using GPT4-Turbo via the API. As was mentioned, the more characters you prefix in the context - the longer this takes. Similarly you have a variable length output from model (up to a fixed context length) and so the time it takes to calculate the “answer” can also take awhile. In particular with CoT you are basically forcing the model to use more characters than it otherwise would (in its answer) by asking it to explain itself in a verbose step by step manner.
Probably; but ask Ross Ulbricht how easy it is to screw that up.

The thing is you only need to make a mistake once.
What? This isn’t remotely true. Do you have any data to back this up?
I expect it'll go how it always goes for "partners" in crime. No prison time.
You should be able to use BFGS to search for the optimal vector [r, g, b] [1]. BFGS estimates the hessian, and then takes a step in the right direction, so you don’t need any derivatives (the score should be enough).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broyden%E2%80%93Fletcher%E2%80...
Social drinking is endemic the world over. Pray tell where opiates are as ubiquitous?
> But this ignores the fact that if wages rise too much, the product or service the company sells may become uneconomic

It doesn’t ignore it, it welcomes it.

If the business requires underpaid or poverty level wage workers to survive, it is not a sustainable business. It is a transfer from the poor to the better off. Corporate profits can always come down if the business wants to attempt to survive, and failing that, it can close up shop.

We’ve been living on aggregate suffering of a underclass to deliver consumer excess, broadly speaking. Like I said, structural demographics is breaking capitalism. The total fertility rate will continue to decline, locking in further future working age labor participation compression.

Fast food is first, but it’ll work its way up the value chain as other low wage but high value jobs hit the wall (CNAs, home health aids, etc).

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/global-fertilit...

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/27/labor-shortages-air-traffic...
> given that Australia does daylight savings time

DST varies by state in Australia. Western Australia (UTC+8) does not observe DST.
> Depending on your time frames, there is a Meow Wolf in Grapevine

I’ve only been to the one in Denver, but man, if you haven’t been to a Meow Wolf, find the time. I’m not gonna say it’s a spectacle on the level of the eclipse, but by way of man-made ones, it’s pretty far up there.
I mean, the owner also gets the upside. I'm sure they could sell it to a gem cutter who would then assume the risk - but also the profit.
It's also interesting how much higher the male suicide rate is.
Sell as is with repair discount, but the smart buyer would know the discount would need to include the risk as well
Where are the sweatshops? Are you all delusional? Have you all not heard of the fact that teenagers have worked jobs for decades? This is unbelievable.
Or maybe they just believe in teaching their kids the value of hard work and discipline and don't want them on their phones all day.
Yeah, the funding streams are bonkers at the moment. We need to be able to get the funding to kids, the money exists, we've just made the logistics insane.

11.6 million kids in poverty in the us. The naive approach: just give each kid 1k/mo would cost 12B/mo or 144B/yr, so 3.2% of the 2023 4.5T annual budget. That's entirely doable given the political will.
Yeah, with a 2-3 year wait to know whether you succeeded or not, I doubt you'd put all your eggs in one basket.
Git bisect is really useful for knowing what messed things up, and who would have context about why things were done that way.
But the US government can force them to do this without paying them lmao.

The same way that they can restrict the export of certain technologies to certain countries.

This is really just the typical international racket of the rich getting richer.
Every tool you need to work with PDFs in one place
Yeah, but there are modern equivalents of that period's parental negligence and collective failure. We have contemporary versions of the exploitation of mines and factories.

If mines and factories were what we recognize (from today's perspective) as abuse in that industrial economy, what do you suspect are the current places that might need protection in the today's economy?
Surely there must be some other reason why red states have the highest rates of teen pregnancies. It can't possibly be the conservative policies.
Are you arguing in bad faith or are you just ignorant?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-lab...
Hey thanks for posting Cleft! Happy to answer any questions about it for the community. (just saw this link in our website referrers)
Sorry it feels that way. I promise you I'm real, and the newsletter takes me time to write. I'll take that as a compliment :)
Just means they failed to find evidence with the information they had access to (which sounds like not a lot)

> Dr. David Relman, a prominent scientist who has had access to the classified files involving the cases and representatives of people suffering from Havana syndrome, said the new studies were flawed. Many brain injuries are difficult to detect with scans or blood markers, he said.
Sorry, but this is just nonsense. You have to intentionally use Nix in a way that no one does, in a way that is highly discouraged in every corner of the community, in order to get unreproducable behavior. Furthermore, that mis-usage does not apply to any way that Nix is actually shared amongst peers (a nix-shell or flake).

The only way this is true is if you're sending around a list of pacakges, telling users to install them manually, not pinning nixpkgs, not using a flake. Aka, a situation I've literally never seen or heard of. Ever. Worst case a user comes and asks how to make `nix-env -i` portable and the community collectively gasps and discourages the behavior.

I'm not advocating anything. I acknowledged Nix has a learning curve. I have countless issues opened for UX nags. I'm combating outright FUD and ... I don't want to say... at this point.

>As for your insistence that it's bit for bit guaranteed: you do really think that anyone in the world who is just looking for a box gives a crap? It doesn't matter how deterministic it is, or how nix does it better than anything else, because the entire factor of determinism doesn't matter in this case.

Move those goalposts and ignore the other benefits that spoke to the desire use-case, again, sure!

EDIT: Oh brother, a niv user. Never mind, ignore my post, you probably already know it and don't care. Not worth the time for either of us. Implying that using niv is harder, or somehow not superior to using Docker is really a hot take. I am sad I ever entered this thread.

EDIT2: I'll leave this here and stand by it 110% and I'll insist it proves my point:

>If you can do this, with flakes, or in pure-eval mode, it's a stop-everything bug in Nix.
It wouldn't be surprising if the CIA knows or suspects as much but they are protecting some other, possible long held, classified tech. That is usually the priority and given it was gov workers/families then it may have been deemed worth keeping it quiet.

Otherwise there's little incentive to not find another reason to go after Russia.

Hell, Russia just brutally killed a traitor in Spain and did the opposite of trying to hide who did it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/world/europe/russian-defe...

I'm curious what Spain will take any real consequences or it will just be some marginal outrage like in Canada w/ the Indian gov hit job, then just kind of falling out of the news cycle and everyone forgets.
> The unifying aspect of new languages such as Rust, Nim, and Gleam is that they were designed from the beginning to be beyond paradigms.

I really don’t think this is correct at all. Rather, Rust/Nim/Gleam are first and foremost imperative languages. They may have some functional and Lispy features thrown in, but that doesn’t change the fact that programs in those languages involve writing statements to be executed one after another — the defining aspect of imperative languages.

If you really wanted to, I guess you could define this particular combination of ‘imperative+functional+macros’ as its own new paradigm. These languages are consistent enough with their design that that might actually make sense. But it’s certainly not ‘post-paradigm‘ in any meaningful way.
This site al.com has some articles about events down south that might be of interest.
Amazing. I have Aphantasia, and I also happen to have a STEM college degree, have no autobiographical memory, and not remember people well. Oh and I also have an autism diagnosis.

In my opinion it's quite logical that someone who's not able to visualize things instead uses numbers and logical/mathematical constructs to describe them. It's one way to describe items by their core properties and attributes when image isn't available.
Love seeing Vint Cerf reduced to a “Google executive”
> You define that with respect to the demographic of the country/place we are talking about. Tech workers in the US are minority among population, it doesn't matter that they probably not a minority in Silicon Valley

Ok, if that is your definition of a minority, please elaborate how you are making the leap to call Muslims in India a minority?
Not all countries have chipped passports. But those passports are just as valid as any other.
....uh...I'm an anarchist but...the world isn't perfect. We can do a lot to reduce power structures but we still need to designate someone to take money from billionaires and move it to poor people, otherwise the billionaires will just spend the money on private security to fend off the starving hordes.
I don't think he was from Eastern Europe, but if you want to look at UTC+0200/+0300, in Europe this only includes Finland, Baltics, Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia, and Greece. But notably if you look a bit down it also includes a good chunk of the Middle East, including Israel.
> [W]hile colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power. A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself

- Michel Foucault
For years I've had `gc` in my terminal mapped to `TZ=UTC0 git commit` for exactly this reason. No need to change system times or git settings. (though perhaps a better way in global config?)

It's not even for nefarious reasons. I travel a lot, and don't like leaking my travel itinerary on public repos.
$100 a person at reasonable restaurants? lol. I guess one way to win arguments is to just make things up. Send links to the online menus please.
Want to ask, are you looking for a cheap printer, or really asking about why there isn't a low end printer brand? A lot of replies (including mine) are responding to the former question, not the latter.
Havana Syndrome. So what is it exactly? Nobody really knows, nor do we know what causes it.

So called "anomolous health incidents"

Are they caused by pesticides, toxins, ultrasound, microwave weapons? Are the Russians behind this?

Or maybe it's psychogenic in nature?

>in 2022, psychogenic explanations became predominant, for several reasons: no known weapons that could cause only the reported symptoms, no evidence of hostile attacks, the spread to numerous unrelated locations, and absence of damage to brain or body.[20][4][21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
Looks like someone is working on this for the UV-K5: https://github.com/nicsure/QuanshengDock

There is some work involved but looks pretty fun.
Sure, but for companies that fail their code ceases to be run by them. If their code is used by other groups then they will have to deal with maintenance themselves, if that's even possible.

This risk is somewhat mitigated by demanding only open source software be used. At least then if a software's supplier goes bankrupt then updated versions can still be produced. That's not the case with closed source software.
While I'll agree that a lot of their aims are definitely nefarious, I think the childhood innocence thing is a modern invention. Good intentions, but maybe misguided.

Kids need chores, responsibilities, struggles etc. Coddling kids until they are 18 and then throwing them into the world with 0 life experience is just setting them up for failure. I had a paper route for a couple years when I was 12 and got a job at McDonalds when I was 14.

A lot of this can be learned in extracurricular sports as well, but that's obviously not for everyone. Two a day football practices in summer were harder than any job I've ever had but no one says sports are bad for kids. I don't really see the difference, plus, you don't get paid for sports.

Of course I'm not suggesting kids should be working in the coal mines, but I don't see anything wrong with summer or weekend jobs, working on the family farm, etc. It's good for them and a part of learning how to be an independent adult. Kids shouldn't be infantalized and sheltered through college.
e.g. Gait analysis.
Thanks for sharing! Will need to dig into this
For similar work, but 8-10 mins long, and cutting gems into D20s (and then etching the numbers on the faces), check out Hedron Rockworks:

https://www.youtube.com/@hedronrockworks/videos

(Not affiliated, just found the channel one day, and enjoy the content)
Governments employ armies of hackers who just may work usual working days and hours. I'm sure some of them don't, but some of them probably do.
Bold to comment raw conservative propaganda.

https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1541...
Maybe red states could afford nice things if they'd stop screwing up their economies?
I mean our application consists almost entirely of filling out this relatively long questionnaire, and we take it very seriously. This is the software engineer one. They vary slightly by role.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xtofg-fMQfZoq8Y3oSAKjEgD...
For longer lived, bigger projects, absolutely.
For smaller stuff, not as much. I use it everyday for $work, but rarely/if at all for any small personal stuff.

I and others wrote a number of things on a thread a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39594164
AutoGPT and the like are essentially what OP was referring to. Basically “Siri, but it works and can actually do most of what you ask because the underlying language model is robust rather than a rules engine” (and friends).
But Sir The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House!
Obviously it would help avoiding detection since the backdoor has the side effect of slowing down things. So you only target the ones you really want.

And to me it's less that they don't care, more that their script probably only works or only has been tested on the ones using .rpm/.deb.
Will tariffs work if BYD does final assembly of vehicles in Mexico?
Bruv. Government is a construct of society.
Necessity trumps any sort of "but parents care too much about their kids". Parents all over the globe care about their kids, but many of them put their kids to work because it's what's necessary to keep the family fed and housed. It's no different in the US, especially with how the labor market and prices look with recent inflation.
> who regularly works in the early morning?

Me

> For a hacker, it is much more plausible to work in the afternoon and late at night

c/hacker/younger person