skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but most of the gains were monopolized into the hands of the few.

Virtually everyone I know my age (from the US) has been to Europe multiple times.

Very few people I know my parents age have been to Europe.

This idea that life only got better for Bill Gates is ridiculous.

Sure, the average person's lives probably haven't improved as much as the .1% - but you're still FAR better off today (on average) than you were in the 1920s, and the 1960s, too.

Home ownership rates (by age) have declined - but nowhere near as much as most people in The California Bubble seem to think.
Again, if the tech is shit, the employee should either speak up and call it out so it gets fixed, or quit. It's a deployed product (FTA: "Musk estimated the number of cars on North American roads with FSD beta installed had reached a cumulative 400,000 vehicles"). I must have missed the articles reporting people getting injured en masse from faulty FSD, can you point them out for me?

Analogizing this to "gang violence" is unhinged. You're suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome.
> were we to abolish monarchy, would not become the private property of the Windsor family.

Today, I expect that's what would happen. But I bet the Windsor family could have kept a lot if they had given up monarchy a while back. Which puts the "rightfully belongs to the people" claim in question, if you believe a king can ever legitimately own anything.
You think the sanctity of your home and peace of mind is worth another man dying, rather than eating, when your bike could have saved him?

... You and I both know that your bike wasn't robbed to prevent starvation, making your example completely beside the point. If it had been robbed to prevent the starvation of a human, you ought to feel happy rather than violated - your small sacrifice saved a whole life!

America has more than enough wealth to feed everyone on the planet, but 10 million kids are hungry in the US right now. Someone is stealing that wealth, and it isn't muggers. Try to gain some perspective, despite the daily news telling you to be scared of the poor.
lol. Yeah it’s amazing the hold Apple has on people.

Look at the last ten years. Microsoft has gone from a closed off backwater to a forward thinking and multi-OS integrated, cloud powerhouse and made some incredibly savvy investments. Crickets.

Meanwhile Apple has made their MacBook Pro into an RSI inducing monster that has no ports and a touchbar that was both useless and caused extra battery drain and heat. The watch is fine, nothing special. And the VR headset is going to be a disaster. They are just making bad decision after bad decision. Trillion dollar valuation.

How both those companies are at the same order of magnitude of valuation looking at things now is boggling to me. One makes sense, one seems like a dinosaur.
Yeah but vertical toolbars are a thing. I love the vertical tabs option in Edge.
Keynes did predict great technological advances: http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
Why specifically venture funding?
I'd love to learn more if you have any benchmarks or takeaways.
Yes you can argue like this and I thought about it when I got a letter.

The issue is that if it's too much they will still raid your place even if the evidence might not be that clear and they might ignore politicians.

Good luck defending this, it will still be annoying as fuck If your PC is gone for month
You're sort of assuming it happened in some sort of explicit clear way. It doesn't and didn't. I've participated in this process and shrugged it off as kind of their fault and not my place. Until it was my turn.

When it's not you, it's just training data on the "wrong thing to do", and it's usually described as "being disagreeable" which accelerates the collapse - this seems perfectly reasonable at the time, they were overly difficult and an outlier.

Without explicit intent or some sudden accident, there's nothing to point at, especially in such a simplistic "what corrupt corporate or government official ignored this? Obviously someone reported it" way
I think I've read somewhere that matter falling into blackhole emits a lot of energy due to processes around it. Significant percentage of the rest mass of the matter falling in is emitted along the way as energy.
> personal data is worth good money

Then let's make the penalties substantially higher with the risk it incurs.
Ask HN: What's the best way to expose random CSV/.xlsx files for future queries
What's the best way to expose random CSV/.xlsx files that I can query in the future? We're house hunting and it would be nice have a local db to keep track of price changes, asking prices, photos, etc.

And look up (local) municipal OpenData for an address and grab the lot size, zoning, etc.

I'm using Airtable and sometimes Excel, but it would be nice to have a home (hobby) setup for storing queryable data. Could be cloud hosted but "affordable".

I'm very comfortable in Excel (Pivot Tables, but don't speak SQL. Reasonably comfortable with PowerBI. But that's about it.
It's just a test ride. FSD is still an optional add-on.
After reading the article (a bit of a slog), it's pretty one sided and sounds like it's from a rabid fan rather than something done with objectivity. :(

Then there's this:

The author of this article had the privilege of flying the MiG-31 BM, Tail
Number 903, on 28 May 1999. The flight was made at the Sokol Aircraft Plant
in Nizhnie Novgorod, 400 km east of Moscow.

Yeah, fanboy article. Not an objective analysis in the slightest. :(
That sounds about right. It wasn't a massive naval deployment that concerned me at the time, it was a naval movement at all in coordination of the troop deployment. Honestly, a huge naval movement would have looked more like sabre rattling as they really shouldn't have needed a massive naval force to do what they wanted to do (assuming that was a blitz on Kiev).

Anyway, I just happened to be right once among the countless times I have been wrong about similar situations. My main surprise is that anyone considered the idea of an invasion impossible once blood was being delivered to the line.
> fiat money is granted value by the assent of all (backed by the monopoly on violence of the government)

But most left economists do not think this. I think the modern idea is that "fiat" currency has been implicitly backed by gold since 1971, whereas before the backing was explicitly. Otherwise, why does the Federal Reserve pay to store tons of gold? Why did Germany repatriate its gold in 2013?

Gold makes a good currency, by there's nothing magical about it as some in the right sometimes think. Silver or another precious metal will do too. Or even slightly less currency friendly commodities.
> Are you assuming that Facebook only read traffic between two mutually-consenting parties? I assume Snapchat did not consent to this. What if you're in a state that requires two-party consent?

I think that just applies to phone calls or conversations, not all internet traffic, unless you think that using wireshark or the chrome developer tools to save network traffic / http requests is a crime?
It's just an example.. sure, but:

int *p = malloc(1);
bar(p);
free(p);

Wouldn't the safe way to write that code be to just allocate the value on the stack so it has automatic lifetime managed for you?

Excepting that, why are you annotating functions, it's the pointer itself that has the use case invariant. Shouldn't the type be annotated to declare these semantics instead?
I can confirm Home Depot accepts tap of physical cards as well as Apple Pay in Canada.
To be fair most of the brain is more like a pretrained model — it isn't being trained at any point after conception to keep your blood pumping or your lungs working, it does that out of the box roughly as soon as you sprout those organs (or the minute you're born, in the case of lungs). The training process was billions of years of evolution. And, well, given fairly persistent cross-cultural cognitive biases, I expect the conscious thought parts are starting from a pretrained model, too, and all we're doing in school is finetuning ;)
Polar ice melt caused by climate change is slowing the Earth's rotation
> This why most attempts to improve on C fail. C is simple and gives the programmer control, and this is why C programmers love and use it.

Most C programmers use C because they are forced to use it, by technical limitations like lack of compiler access or human limitations like lack of funding, curiosity or motivation.

C unfortunately became the API specification language of the most popular operating systems in the world. Both Unix and Windows world defines their low level system API using C types that strongly ties everybody and every program to C language, C standard library and the preferred compiler of the OS. Even Rust cannot escape it now. However Rust may give us hope / motivation and may force people to formally define the interfaces outside C so we can truly get rid of it one day.
Where are the customer's yachts? (2014)
Since this relates to Google Docs, is anyone aware of open source hostable replacements for Google Docs? Rich text editing, inline comments, maybe concurrent editing as features?
Sure, sure, sure, but why are there so many retirees working at groceries/greeters? Are their multiple 401Ks not enough, for some reason?
I think the users a software like NP++ is aimed for are willing to spend more than 1 second to find out about this option. It appears that you're not one of those users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For the first time, I know our (Apache Kvrocks, an alternative to Redis on Flash) committer Binbin Wang committed nearly 25% of the commits to the newer Redis version.

You can find his contributor for both at:

* https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/graphs/contributors

* https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
This seems 100% plausible, though its one I haven't seen anything necessarily to corroborate. It makes total sense though and would be a reason for silence.

Edit: rereading this theory, it does read pretty terribly for any civilians living there. Effectively, in that scenario the government decided to mislead the public in order to purposely keep civilians in harm's way rather than allow them to flee (and get in the way). This matches my cynical views of government, but if true it should still piss off a number of people that actually believe governments are there to serve us above all else.
Hi, open-source is in reference to the travel itineraries. People can post travel itineraries and other people can modify them to make them their own and re-share them.
This is a fun idea, but it doesn't seem to work in any browser I tried. Maybe adblock is breaking it?
I would add

* ability to confirm email validity by logging into my bank and seeing same email in their communication queue with me

My bank sends me emails, and I have no way to confirm that the bank really sent them.
Please never give financial advice to anyone. I thought Dave Ramsey was bad!
> Benevolent monarchs…

The British royal family has veto power over parliament. They use this power to rewrite laws. Lots of this is well documented, but poorly publicised.
Retired, wealthy, that is not pariah means.
> As far as I can tell, the only cryptocurrency that actually delivers on its name (i.e. being used as a currency) is Monero.

In the last two weeks I've paid to people who cleaned my air conditioning, my girlfriend's nails, our lawyer, for delivery of some goods from US, for food delivery, for a sightseeing tour, and for exchange to local currency (delivered to my home) — all in USDT. I've also got USDT from a friend for booking Airbnb for him (he couldn't do it on his own account because of reasons). At this point, most of services in local community are advertised with payment in USDT first: via binance and bybit internal transfer, or just on trc-20.
Sibling comment confirms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858847
Are involuntary manslaughter cases not usually predicated on some sort of negligence or other criminal activity on the part of the manslaughter? I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being punished for being the person in the wrong place when someone else decides to commit suicide by train or vehicle, for example.

If we take the comparison down a step (and into what I think is maybe a more comparable situation), I routinely see warnings in parking lots that they are not liable for stolen property or damage and imagine those are generally probably pretty accurate outside of, again, some negligence on the side of the business.
If the size of memory is dynamic how do you get automatic variables? Iirc VLAs were not recommended for some reason.
Please don't get me started on VScode. That is basically a remote execution environment. Just adding an extension and opening a file has the cheek to ask if what is on your filesystem is trusted immediately after downloading several tens of megabytes of who knows what for language server and parser.

I was using it for LaTeX stuff and programming but I shelved it. I'm on a Mac so it's system provided vim for me and the Apple command line dev tools, mostly for git, llvm and make. It works and I don't need or use any extensions for it or pull anything else onto my computer.
This is indeed interesting.

The historically 'good' open source companies like Sun got bought but the ones that weren't like Oracle. The selling support model alone does not seem evolutionarily fit for the market.

Now we have these VC-backed 'open source' companies that have a playbook wherein they appear open source at first. But when you dig deeper, you find that the heart of the thing is a closed binary.

The investors are going to want to be paid back somehow. And the business model of VC means that one of two things happens:

1. The company finds a way to 100x the return. Which, if you're a customer, might be a scary prospect.

2. The company makes an amount somewhat lower and, while it would be a good business for a non-VC company, they're considered a zombie by their investors. So, they are killed leaving you as a customer in a bad position.

I therefore trust non-VC backed companies substantially more to keep alignment with their customers long-term.

A workable model could be for instead companies that have legally-enforceable promise not to enshitify their closed sourced product. So that the product will always be aligned with the paying customer. The customer cannot be made the product at a future date.
Right, but that's not what "open source" means. Open source refers specifically to the code of the service being licensed under an OSI-approved license.
In principle, no; in practice, a few recent attempts to land on a mild slope have immediately fallen over, so we clearly need some practice.
Lots of that advanced math research finds its way into practical engineering (cryptography, digital media, compression, physics, AI, and so on). The average layperson does not care about mathematics, period.

You may see a similar situation one day: some application might move to settle their economic value on Eth L2 rather than Stripe, eg for more control or lower fees. To the average layperson, they wouldn’t know/care about how the app works under the hood.
Passkeys are a start. They have their issues (I wrote about some here: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/on-webauthn-and-passkeys ) but at least it is widespread, well supported, standardized, (possibly) anonymous public private key cryptography.
I will save you the long read. They paid people (incl teens) through third-parties (so that it's not easily traced to FB) to install kits on their phones to let them MITM Snapchat analytics traffic.
You might be right! it's really just a play on the concept that trips can be shared and other people can modify and redistribute them.
Tldr: an astrologer attempts to integrate Neptune into the theory.

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It's no surprise he needs poverty levels to be worse than in the 1930s to push for Marxism, but the actual reduction in poverty has been ginormous.

"The estimates presented in this chapter show that between 1820 and 2018 the prevalence of extreme poverty across the globe fell from 76% to 10%, the lowest level ever achieved, according to our method... This reduction, however, is not distributed evenly throughout the period.

It took 136 years from 1820 for our global poverty rate to fall under 50%,

then another 45 years to cut this rate in half again by 2001.

In the early 21st century, global poverty reduction accelerated, and in 13 years our global measure of extreme poverty was halved again by 2014. "

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e20f2f1a-en/index.html?i...
Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]
Does it matter to the MBAs? The effect is on long enough terms that they'll be gone by the time everything falls over. They're not there to maximize long-term value, just to get good enough to get promoted and then maybe switch companies.
Is there any kind of legal promise that could be made and not rescinded by the board, not swept away by mergers and acquisitions? I assume not but that’s almost what is needed here more than a software architecture fix which, no matter how well designed, is only as stable as the whims of internal stakeholders.
I do all my simple note-taking with vim. Curious why it does not the fit the criteria for you?
US Air Force wish list asks for spare parts, but no more fighters
I’m less interested in judging most things. Started actively jettisoning that impulse in my 20s.

It’s the “pft, but that’s just morality and like that’s relative and stuff therefore we should disregard it” sort of thing that I increasingly have less patience for. I’m less quick to dismiss terms like “greed”.
This is fun. I have been having trouble with Google capchas recently, so Ii;d be happy if more where like this.
I've been fascinated by a small mention in the 1.58bit quantization article that mentioned 0.68 quantization , which I believe to mean 0,1 instead of 1.58's -1,0,1. When I read https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpa6ol/unoffic... great experiment of making their own unofficial 1.58b quantization, I began to wonder if I could squeeze a vector down to 1 bit. And.. I can! (with some caveats in the discussion)

It was when I realized that XNOR and population count could basically score 32 dimensions at a time.

While this isn't ANYTHING like an actual quantized LLM, I thought it was a really nice proof-of-concept, and could be very useful for smaller machines running RAG applications.

My Code: https://github.com/bigattichouse/bitvector_research

NOTE: I'm not saying 30X faster than GPUs, but CPU implementations could be 30X faster.
> but you're still FAR better off today

That's the point. It is better, just not by the margin Keynes predicted, I'm merely attempting to account for this difference.
I think this is an incredibly kind take for CMake... what about projects that automatically generate bindings (like swig), or attempt to find system-installed header files (like CUDA)? Look at, for example, pytorch (huge amounts of autogenerated code via ATen, at least a few years ago). In my experience C++ projects rarely live in a vacuum and projects build up cruft very easily.
> however with software nobody dies

Well...no actually.

This may be the case for _some_ software.
I happen to work on (software) products where public safety is a concern.
Do you plan to implement WebGPU acceleration to make it production-ready?
Absolutely. And I am sure they do.

But rewards programs might make matching easier (across different credit cards and household members).

They also are owned by the service provider and don't reveal anything to credit card companies.

Again, I'm speculating here.
The memory palace is a hack that works because in an evolutionary sense our brain's purpose is to help us navigate our world and be effective in it. To do that, it has to be really good at remembering locations, to plot paths through and between them, and to translate that into speech or motion.
If working in an office actually meant in-person communication, people might be more okay with it

I'm not coming back to an office just to talk to the rest of my team on the computer anyways because they are distributed in different provinces and countries

That's dumb
> Also: "Buffer overflows/underflows" prevention is not implemented yet.

Rust also statically prevents race conditions in multi-threaded code, via the Send and Sync traits. This blog post describes annotations which make Xr0 a safer dialect of C, but its still far less safe than rust.

This looks like a cool project, but I've gotta agree with other commenters. The blog post title is a false promise. If you think the project is good (and it looks good!), then why lie about its capabilities?
I think a shared, "slow" database could be useful for property deeds. Give the state admin access to override the typical transfer process in case of theft, and then you're left with a 24/7 accessible public database of property deeds, where the current owner and full history of a deed (transfers, liens, easements) can be accessed and verified by any joe with a computer.

It could be useful for professional licenses, too. Everyone could have a verifiable history of someone's professional license - when it was issued, when it was revoked, again mathematically verifiable. You could be sure that someone's record was never changed or deleted without leaving an audit trail.

Though to be fair, the important part of this is the chain of cryptographically signed and timestamped events. It could work without strictly being a blockchain. You could imagine something that behaves more like a git repository with a flat file database in it.
I certainly can't see the part where saying "enterprise" should grant me the right to intercept and analyse someone's traffic.
Incoming layoff notices. Stupid decisions are usually explained by a desire to get voluntary resignations.
>My experience in the UK is that dysfunctional organizations try to hide issues by bullying their own customers.

I noticed this from Royal Mail. I reached out to them multiple times regarding a scam carried out using one of their tracked products from an eBay purchase and they said there was nothing they could do about it. But there was something they could do, and it was already going on completely silently in the background.

I later received a letter from Royal Mail stating that the delivery did in fact not take place, and with that I was able to claim a refund from eBay. However my interactions with Royal Mail were not reasonable:

1. They did not disclose that the matter would be looked into, instead they stated unequivocally that it would not and there was no way to escalate the matter. This meant that my plans were altered on account of assuming that the funds were lost.

2. They were unwilling to provide any official statement to eBay regarding the limited "tracking" available for their own product, and naturally eBay won't accept second-hand statements. If they were slightly flexible this would have resolved the dispute promptly - and I doubt I was the first person to fall victim to this scam, so some communication between eBay and Royal Mail would seem reasonable.

3. They gave no notice that they found in my favour and would be sending me a letter as evidence. I only received that mail by chance as I happened to book the same accomodation in a later visit, and this luckily coincided with that letter's arrival.

The unhelpfulness, stonewalling and opaque investigation seem entirely designed to cover for their own shortcomings. They would have had location data for the signed delivery, and they would have immediately had visibility that this didn't match my address.
Works for me iOS Safari with AdGuard.
Holy shit, that's an amazing demo. Some of the voice responses get a bit clipped in amplitude, and there's some oddity around how it speaks over em-dashes in its output, but damn... this is impressive.
Baltimore Bridge: Force of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch
You have to click on "ON" or "OFF" to start. Unintuitive.
Stress and anxiety are foundational to high performance. Imagining that stressed anxious people are mentally ill is ridiculous.