skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The median American in the 45–54 age bracket has merely seven thousand dollars more saved for retirement than you had thrown into crypto.

You should take those headlines with a grain of salt because they grossly misrepresent the studies they are reporting on. Quoting directly from your article:

"The median 401(k) balance is just $35,345."

Most people who have a 401(k) work at more than one company in their career and rarely roll funds over into the new company's 401(k). It's more common to leave it or roll it into an IRA.

All we know is the median 401(k) account balance at Vanguard is $35k. Vanguard doesn't know about these people's other retirement accounts at Fidelity or Schwab or wherever. If their customers hold IRAs at Vanguard, those aren't accounted for. In the case that a person has multiple 401(k) accounts with Vanguard, it wasn't even clear if the account balances are summed together and counted as one account.

tl;dr These reports are always about average and median retirement account balances, which is not at all the same as average and median retirement savings.
One such old example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuJKsUjD_o
people have too much pride for demotion - risk to the company too
I completely agree. However I assume you exclude Israel and you’d like to keep American aid?
And it's something the FDA shouldn't be allowing.

You want to bring a new drug to market, you should be required to demonstrate that it's not strictly inferior to existing options in at least some patients. I'm fine with a head-to-head that comes out a tie (competition is good for the marketplace) and I'm fine with a drug that only works in a subset if that subset can be identified. And I'm fine with a drug that doesn't work as well but is more tolerated. I'm not fine with a drug that loses in all respects in a head-to-head.
Of course, I completely agree that AI should not be forced upon users in any context, whether on-device or cloud-based (urgh).
> In a clocked design the clock signal needs to be routed to every element on the chip which requires a lot of power, the more so the higher the frequency is.

Clock only needs to be distributed to sequential components like flip flops or SRAMs. The number of clock distribution wire-millimeters in typical chip is dwarfed by the number of data wire-millimeters, and if a neural network is well trained and quantized activations should be random, so number of transitions per clock should be 0.5 (as opposed to 1 for clock wires), meaning that power can't be dominated by clock. The flops that prevent clock skew are a small % of area, so I don't think those can tip the scales either. On the other hand, in asynchronous digital logic you need to have valid bit calculation on every single piece of logic, which seems like a pretty huge overhead to me.
Yes that's fair criticism regarding my feelings, but GP feels the same and they had stolen $10K. So the distance from it can't be all there is to it.

I'm also pretty distant from a mugging that might happen today, but I find myself getting angry about it, so that also seems to contradict the theory that it's about distance (though to be clear, I largely agree with you and I suspect distance is going to be a factor for most or maybe the vast majority of people).
The role of population size in folk tune complexity
I think any number examples can show how OSS need not be an on-ramp , a SaaS, or a rug pull and still be a product.

It’s not a bad or dark thing is all I’m saying.
Apparently, if you want to avoid "chart crime" when you chart temperatures, then it's deceptive if you don't start at absolute zero.
If you do want to learn about pipelines, or want a more powerful breadboard computer without 6502 you should check out James Sharman[1] on YouTube. He has VGA and audio output too.
[1] https://youtube.com/@weirdboyjim
Ad hominems have no place here, and rather undermine your point.

Everyone screeches about some variety of end times every cycle, be it guns or abortion.
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> If you spend it on things for yourself, you can't spend that kind of money. But if you use it on other people, it quickly evaporates the more you want to get to do with it.

There's a limit though, right? Gates is spending it pretty fast except he isn't. It can be hard to spend millions in a day because it takes time to spend that money and your money makes money in that time. At a large enough wealth, you can't ignore the compounding factor because it plays a significant role. If it were even the 2 days standard transaction, then that 2 days generates you another $4m right? And that $4m generates you another $200k/yr (or ~$500/day).

I ran a simulation, because it helps for framing. Start with 16bn, 5% yearly interest, 0 employees, and let your employee cost $400k/yr (L5). Each weekday, take daily interest, and pay the employee's daily salary. There are 104 weekend days, so we'll pay a daily rate of ~$3.5k (I used exact). If it is a weekend don't pay the employee.

In a year you have 261 employees and have made $767 million dollars. That's a pretty profitable year! Oh, yeah, your employees probably made you money too.

If you're a billionaire and did this, you would have lost $1.6m over that year. With $2bn, you profit just shy of $50m.

> Wouldn't you rather study that with other people than by yourself? And fund all the various possibilities you think will pan out?

Definitely. I got 261 this year and we've made a nice profit without delivering a product. Next year we'll double in size and make the same.

> General philanthropy

The reason to do that simulation is to try to guesstimate these things. MacKenzie Scott is well known to be a huge philanthropist. She's richer now than when she divorced Bezos. Of course, Amazon has done much better than 5% per year. But at the same time, she is trying to throw money away as fast as possible. Also according to Forbes last year she gave away $2bn and so far has given $16.5bn away...

That's someone who's twice as wealthy as the person we're talking about, has given away "one Andy Bechtolsheim" AND profited! This is since 2019 btw.

I really cannot stress how large these numbers are. And how different money is at these sizes, because if you do not consider compounding interest (a thing we can often ignore in our daily lives, even if we were multi-millionaires), you're not accounting for millions of dollars. I'm sure there's a way, but it is effectively impossible to spend $100bn. It takes a whole country to do that. Remember, at the start of the simulation you are paying out $1.5k/day, but at the end you're paying $400k/day. Your compounded rate of spending just can't catch up to your compounding rate of earning. The $2bn person doesn't start losing money until day 710.
Access to the NPU is done through DirectML which is open to anyone to use. The hard part is making useful AI people will pay for that runs on consumer devices themselves without a race to the bottom on the same few use cases (e.g. local translation). There may eventually be some bundling type concerns with the service being pushed by the OS over time though.
It wasn't FDIC insured, was it? For example, you can buy crypto with Robinhood, but any uninvested cash is stored in partner banks which are FDIC insured. Even if the CEO of Robinhood wanted to commit fraud, would they be able to? How do FDIC protections work exactly? (genuine question here!)

So was part of it a process failure? Like even when SBF wants to commit fraud in his situation, where should regulations have stopped him?
Or, you simply adopt Mastodon or something as your nicotine gum... (That's what I did, though I normally think of it more as Twitter Methadone).
As space threats mount, U.S. lags in protecting GPS services
Speak of the devil. Jamba just hit the front page.
You must be twice as smart as the thing you are trying to test to effectively characterize it. Cobbling something together is easy. Proving it is exactly what it should be under all circumstances is far more difficult than makimg a half ass thing that'll "work on your machine".
There's a lot of good input, but equally or more bad input, on this subject.

I think Jeb Blount's book is one of the good ones: https://jebblount.com/product/sales-eq/

It's definitely coming from a sales perspective, but that shouldn't hurt.
I think Apple has some special relationship with banks, so it's not this simple. But yeah, one way or another you're trusting Apple Pay, which presumably is more trustworthy than a gas station sale terminal.

And if you were signing your own payments, you'd still have to trust your computing device and the bank.
Which makes it a fine cover!
> During two banking crises—the savings and loan crisis and the Global Financial Crisis—the FDIC has expended its entire insurance fund. On these occasions it has met insurance obligations directly from operating cash, or by borrowing through the Federal Financing Bank. Another option, which it has never used, is a direct line of credit with the Treasury on which it can borrow up to $100 billion.

So yes, it ran out of funds & had to borrow. It has not yet experienced a shock bad enough to leverage the Treasury line of credit but that’s a fig leaf IMO. The 2008 crisis saw the government bailing out banks through TARP to shore up failing banks to the tune of 700B. Without that, FDIC would have failed. So from that perspective, yet it was bailed out in 2008 & the funding from members wouldn’t have been anywhere near sufficient. That’s why I don’t understand the political football around TARP - “the full faith and credit of the US government” would have been meaningless if FDIC failed as that would have sent a giant shockwave of trust loss through the broader population as everyday people would have lost huge savings.
Adding transparency and precision in estimating a flight's environmental impact
I've put together a platform dedicated to estimating the carbon footprint of past and future planned flights. The main motivation behind it is to provide users with more detailed measures into the environmental impact of air travel. While I recognize that the most efficient way to reduce your air travel footprint is to avoid it, I believe that, realistically, this is not yet a view that the majority is willing to apply to their travel habits. Hence making the carbon impact more transparent so that users can make informed decisions was my logical next step. You can explore it here: www.meazuring.com

There are other existing tools that provide carbon footprint estimates for flights. I've tried to set this one apart by considering more detailed parameters such as per aircraft fuel efficiency, seat map configurations and observed contrails (for past flights) (still working on sharing the methodology). Also I've thought of the flight comparator aspect with a - carbon impact first - factor, meaning that it's the only sorting factor.

Your feedback - of any type - is valuable to understand where/how this can be improved and how such a tool can be used.
MPL: Automatic Management of Parallelism
Wellcome. Sometimes it may happen that familiar stem cells cross maternal-fetal barrier in placenta, persist somehow and start to function regardless, where stem cells are needed - usually in younger sibling coming from the older, in place of original cells, even in the brain - forming part of it as of another person (more or less) - interconnected but not the same..

The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don't Belong to Us https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-ma... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861497 )
Running a transmitter without an antenna is a great way to ruin it.
(The singulars are ‘maximum’ and ‘minimum’, ‘maxima’ and ‘minima’ are the plurals.)
So it looks like the actual runtime is still closed.
If we want to be pedantic, the corporation is producing the export, coordinating _harvesters_ with transportation and final sale of the good — and paying the harvesters before they’ve made a cent.

Pedantry and calling something “propaganda” out of nowhere does.

If anything, by that line of thinking this “propaganda” enables us to pay the harvesters more money. Right? Hallelujah!
EV Owners Uninformed of Faster Tire Wear, Leading to Lower Satisfaction
In places like in the south of India they’re almost always free. The banana trees grow like weeds and in many cases self propagate and come back on their own every year.
We made cigarettes uncool for kids, can you believe that?! We had legitimately made it into something no kids wanted to do, freed future human society from smoking in general, despite all our best attempts at torpedoing it like stupid politics and DARE being actively counterproductive, yet we totally did it.

Then vaping happened....
Well, yes, but then the sort of weirdo who pays for attention might be less inclined to pay, so if you're committed to this incredibly stupid design decision (the pay-for-attention model, that is) in the first place, you kind of have to go all the way with it.

What you're talking about is kinda how replies on Twitter _used_ to work, back when it was run by vaguely sensible people (at least in the official app and site; third party apps would often display replies in linear time order instead).
This comment is literally everything I dislike about the current AI hype cycle.
SBF’s actions caused more damage than many violent muggings. If /u/kbos87 would support letting dozens of muggers to go free to (say) halve SBF’s sentence, then I take the argument seriously and will rescind my positions here so far.
You are right, I mixed this up. If you take a CPU running at 100 W with 10 billion transistors (not quite realistically assumed to all be wired in parallel) at 1 V, you would get an average of 0.01 microamps. So the factor would reduce to roughly 10^5.
Thanks a lot. I love the whole XAI movement, as it often forced you think of cliff and limits and non-linearity of the methods. Makes you circle back to an engineering process of thinking about specification and qualification of your black box.
I despise that apps are allowed to do this without clear consent or very good reasons.
Working to Build a Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation System by 2050
> which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user

Not exactly, L2s are being abstracted away, end users eventually wont even be aware what chain they are interacting with without tracing the tx
The famous John Ray (emergency CEO) quote from a court filing was

> Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.

which seems likely to be an understatement.
I’m pretty sure computational chemists were combining NNs with Kalman Filters for a while now… I recall the issue it was slow due to the N^2 size of the covariance matrix
Me too. My company isn't that bad – yet?. But in 2022 I remember employees regularly countering on the offer and squeezing out significant %age increases to base. Now the offer is the offer.

Could be worse, I guess. Other managers I've talked to have said that their organizations are actively running the numbers on salary cuts to "normalize" wages after things heated up so much in 21-22.
> Is the insurance business world so scummy that just a couple of billions worth of claims could even remotely be a problem for them?

Welcome to socialism… err… “capitalism”. Privatize profits, socialize losses.
I had to look around to find a datasheet[1] for the BK4819 which is the heart of this rig, but it appears that there are I/Q outputs on receive, and possibly I/Q inputs on transmit internally, so it's an SDR, and not limited to FM only. The low output power will likely restrict it to line of site, but it's an interesting substrate on which to work.

[1] https://touchardinforeseau.servehttp.com/f4kmn/f4kmn/FRANCAI...
But why? Just hide your ssh port. And port knock in. Or put it @ tor/wg/whatever.
Netscape it's rise, fall, and eventual revenge [video]
There's maybe like 10 steps of the intro prompts to get to a place where you can make a choice and if you pick wrong it makes you re-run the ~2min of "simulation".

Possibly a neat concept, but a game needs to lead with the game part.
MPL won distinguished paper award POPL 2024 and ACM SIGPLAN dissertation award 2023.

Contributions include:

1) Provably efficient parallel garbage collection based on disentanglement

2) Provably efficient automatic granularity control
Yes, you said it better than I did :)
So a person stealing their eleventh billion and a person stealing to eat something are the same for you?
Maybe on some level you felt that the risk of this kind of thing was part of the investment decision? Presumably this was high risk, high return sort of stuff. As others say, the mugger is threatening you physically - SBF just cheated (I assume, haven't read the details) at a game, wild west new types of badly regulated investments.
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
"Yes, we have no bananas" went public domain this year so perhaps it was fait accompli.
Unrelated to their point, but if you click on the "view a query" icon in a presentation and then try to get the popover to disappear, it's stuck and doesn't go away.

(Safari)
The IDF openly touts their use of AI, moron.

https://www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%99%D7%97%D7%...
Except we got rid of pensions in favor of 401ks and have basically geared the entire economy to replace any form of social welfare with personal investing.
Damn this app is so fast. It handles 24x War and Peace without sweating a bit. Much faster than Sublime as well. The only thing with equivalent performance (on macOS) is BBEdit. Does anyone know how they are able to load such large files so fast? I guess they lazy load from disk as well?

I'm writing a block editor in Qt C++ (Npp is also written in Qt) and QML[1], so I'm very curious. I load the entire text and then render it using a virtualized list (ListView). My app is currently the fastest block editor that I've tested. But I always want to take it up a notch and even compete in performance with Sublime and BBEdit, and now NotepadNext.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

EDIT: It's REALLY fast and very efficient (consumes low amount of memory). Seems to be faster than BBEdit (unscientific). If anyone has a clue about the architecture or can share a link, it will be appreciated.
> but not enough of one to kill the system.

Oh definitely no, IME piracy was a much better issue on the original PlayStation, very quickly every other friend had a cousin who would chip your console and had access to a CD-R.

Plus didn’t the Dreamcast use some weirdo variant of CD?
Not a personal attack. These posters are smarter than I am, just ribbing them about misusing the terminology.

"Maxima" is plural, "maximum" is singular. So you would say "a local maximum," or "several local maxima." Not "a local maxima" or, the one that really got me, "getting trapped in local maxima's."

As for the rest of it, carry on. Good discussion.
This guy was lying like crazy in the media. He even said it was a ponzi scheme. Maybe he's a dumbass but he's also a criminal who was committing crimes while out there doing PR the whole time. Even during his trial he was lying so let's not act like he was in over his head and made some mistakes. He's never even owned up to it.
We throw people in jail for committing fraud. We don't throw them in jail for making bad investment decisions within the bounds of the law. While I am loathe to defend SVB's management here, your line of argument leads to a world where either (1) everyone commits outright fraud with impunity, or (2) everyone goes to jail. Neither world is any good.
Very cool!

One thing to keep in mind:

DuckDB can directly query parquet files (and many other file types[1]), mysql, postgres[0], and SQLite. So if you're in need of something like this, DuckDB on it's own might work for your use case.

0 - https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/postgres

1 - https://twitter.com/thisritchie/status/1767922982046015840
Because he is a scamming, unethical asshole who would did profound damage to society.
A gentle introduction to ESR's `reposurgeon`
I don't think you get it. I responded here[0] which motivated a simulation where you hire a $400k employee every weekday. You're hugely profitable if you're a multi-billionaire (>$1bn worth). You effectively cannot spend that money faster than you make it. These are amounts where you have to consider compounding interest because if you don't, you're missing daily profits that are on the scale of what we'd consider the net worth of a very wealthy individual.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856271
The intro spun up my fans then crashed Firefox when I tried to resize the window. Switched to Chrome, still spun up the fans and was extremely slow even when just rendering the slowly appearing text. Clicked through a few of the prompts then quit when it seemed like there was no game and it was struggling to just display text, lol.
You probably already know this. VSCode has both autosave and hot exit features.

If you quit the application when hot exit is enabled, it will restore all windows the next time you start it.

I don't see any way to close individual windows without prompting but you can do command+w and then command+d to "Don't Save".
> (think DECT you could roam between base stations with)

DECT does support roaming between base stations. Most DECT base stations are designed as standalone devices, but Yealink, Snom, and other vendors do offer multi-cell solutions scalable to hundreds of base stations and thousands of devices.
Who cases if it’s altruistic or selfish if the outcomes are the same.

The argument is that the company exists to benefit society.

Profit exists as a side effect of having investors.
Are they all the same variety? Or are they hybrid?
He was never a character driven author, just plot driven, which I preferred more. Things happen to people rather than people happen to people; I get enough relationship drama in real life. If you really want a deep dive, go reread the 4 Ringworld books, then read the 5 book Fate of Worlds saga, which takes us back to the Ringworld. Amazing books he cowrote this century.