skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If AI levels the playing field so dramatically, the notion of middle class will entirely evaporate since everyone's purchasing power equalizes

We can study this by looking at examples!

Slovenia (where I'm from) has the 3rd lowest gini index in the world[1]. Meaning we are the 3rd most egalitarian country in the world with close to zero income inequality.

You would think this is fantastic, but in practice it means everyone's equally poor-ish. There's a lot of talent drain. Everyone in my millenial generation that's great at their job has either moved out of the country, works remotely for foreign companies, or has built a business that primarily targets foreign markets. They're starting to build a proper middle class, but there's nowhere for their money to go.

There aren't enough higher middle class folk to support all the services they'd want. So the extra money goes to foreign companies or into inflated real estate that has become unaffordable to anyone employed locally.

And there are no rich people to tax or ask for philanthropy to break the status quo. A net worth of ~$20mil puts you on the list of top 100 richest Slovenians as of 2023. Most of them made their money abroad and have also moved their wealth out of the country to avoid high taxation.

The concept of "upwards mobility" is barely worth talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
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Right. Instead of many people in a business (ie, accountants, lawyers, product owners, software engineers). The “workforce” can theoretically be reduced to specialists within a field:

- “prompt engineer - accounting” who has vast history of accounting practices

- “prompt engineer - lawyer”. No more farming out writing up complicated EULAs to Skadden. Have your general counsel do all of this for you with the help of “AI”. Or maybe have an IPO prepared without the help of a middleman such as “JPM” or “Goldman Sachs”. Billable hours drop significantly.

- “prompt engineer - swe”. Instead of multiple teams of engineers. Have “Devin” scaffold out the basic application while you focus on architecting an end to end solution.

All of those “middle class jobs” once held by mid tier specialists have evaporated.
Best of luck allying with white folk anti-dei:

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U.S. Military Spending on AI Surges
> wearing masks

Reasonable at first. Once it was known that the virus is transmitted via aerosols then forcing masks was the wrong thing to do, specially on children. Useless and damaging.

> minimizing in-person interactions

What benefit did it achieve? As a quarantine it was too leaky and it also led to mass psychological distress.

> funding medical research

What medical research? For some reason, the most obvious approach, repurposed drugs, was nowhere in sight. If anything demonizing it was the official policy (ie. the smear campaign against ivermectin).
This seems to be the Egyptian dialect, not standard Arabic.
What is "electronic literacy"?

If it's anything with touch screens, it's designed to be so easy that you don't have to worry about it. They'll pick it up trivially later in life.

If it's how to use a keyboard, mouse, and Linux shell? Have at it. I've met more than a few 8-10 year olds who literally don't know how to use a mouse, because everything they've ever interacted with is touch screen.

But I'll take "a kid who played with legos and outside a lot" over "a kid who was electronically literate" any day.
It’s missing Swift tests, but otherwise it’s a great post.
> Supply

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
> Oh, I totally get that! The "AI style" that's becoming so ubiquitous looks awful to me (and tends to correlate with low quality writing as well).

IMHO, that's in large part because they're made by non-artists relying on the generative model to do all artistic lifting (which seems to me to be the whole point of the models).

> The images from the article are what I had in mind. They're quite pleasing. The JetBrains blog is another example of AI hero images done well:

Most of those only avoid failing in the way I described because they're bland "computer wallpaper"-style or "hotel art"-style. Basically art that's meant to be ignored.
Thank you! I will add a license to the repo when i get back to my pc tomorrow. I think ill go with MIT.
No good deed goes unpunished, what a shame.
"We’re in Pennsylvania. The schools in Pennsylvania she applied to were CMU, U Penn, Swarthmore, Lafayette, and Haverford."

Apply to your in-state flagship (in this case Penn State) early to lock in at least one spot, and to have time to apply to other schools if you are unexpectedly rejected.
It is really hard to take that seriously when the CIA was instrumental in overthrowing Leftist governments in Central and South America throughout the 1970s and 1980s. A CIA that was as deep in Operation Condor or the School of the Americas as they were could not be described as a "small, elite, independent, civilian, and nonpartisan foreign intelligence service". This seemed to change long before 9/11.
> But a good open source forms app would probably change everything

Can you go into that a bit more, I'm interested what you would see changing. Why do you think it hasn't been done already?
What did we tell coal miners and pipeline workers?

Yes, I know that those folks didn't tell their own stories, but ...
Can, doesn't mean it will.

Sorry, I've become very pessimistic these days. If something can be used to permanantly reduce FTEs, it will be done.
I see. So it's not the caliber of people, but the number of people that matters?
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I vaguely recall receiving a less than dollar amount check from some PayPal class action lawsuit. Maybe it was in 2012 or 2015.

So that’s also on the table.
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What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Thanks for the idea. I’ll check it out.

We’re actually still using Subversion for our main codebase and mostly happy with it. Being able to use --ignore-revs-file is a reason we might want to switch some day.
I'm not bragging, I'm just saying if you have one custom, specialized part in your setup that's particularly out of the ordinary and prone to failure, I'm surprised you wouldn't start there.

If you're e.g. running a piece of software with a crazy custom plugin that overhauls major functionality and then an update to the base software breaks everything, it shouldn't be TOO much of a mystery on where to start looking. When you add weird custom parts to a system, it tends to be a point of failure.

Perhaps the author just didn't remember that they had a custom setup like that, but it wasn't framed in the article like "suddenly I remembered...", it was just stated as a given. And the fact that it was giving them particularly high speed home internet access for the time, it'd be a kind hard thing to forget?
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Thanks for this. Listening to an author on a podcast is great hack for getting a good summary of a researcher’s or book author’s views. (Especially business books)
National debt: Report finds U.S. debt higher than thought
Adam Serafini: Speeding Up Python with Zig [video]
Does this seem odd to anyone else?

This adult in their 30s:

(1) Goes on a date with someone he calls a 'girl'

(2) Think the date went well (it likely didn't)

(3) Never reflects on why it didn't go well (at least he doesn't write about it)

(4) He then talk to a self-proclaimed psychopath with the hope of actionable advice for giving no effs in the future

(5) Gets micro-dosing curious (which is a lot of self experimentation)

...and all that instead of maybe changing how he approaches dates? Then he writes about it.

If this isn't gorilla advertising for magic mushrooms, it is a lot of work to avoid a small amount of self-reflection. I know firsthand that being single post 20s isn't anyone's idea of a party, but still.
Where can you go to learn more about these entity / LP / LLP setups that finance orgs use?
This is where the opportunity for creativity comes in. You could allow a chat based refinement to search queries, or provide popup refinement buttons that narrow the search space, and build the search results iteratively rather than the old paradigm of "search" -> "results"
Yeah, it is quite good ..
That Wikipedia page goes into detail on why jet injectors are no longer used, but there is no mention of the scarring. It used to be common to see people with a circular scar on their upper arm where they got the injector shot as a child.
I tend to end up encoding everything as an integer (multiply by 1000, 10000 etc) and then turn it back into a float/decimal on decode. For instance if I am building a system dealing with dollar amounts I will store cent amounts everywhere, communicate cent amounts over the wire, etc. then treat it as a presentation concern to render it as a dollar amount.
> one where you can comfortably afford living, fun, saving, etc I think is most people's interpretations

My understanding is that most people's understanding of "middle class" is "about 20% richer than me", and that this remains true regardless of how rich one is.

Most people, for most of the years since Joseph Marie Jacquard realised he could control a loom with punched cards, the Red Queen race of automation has given us more stuff and experiences per hour of labour — if you wanted to live the 1820s idea of a middle class life, you can retire as soon as you get around €$£ 25-50k of savings (just don't start a family, the rest of society considers this standard to be unacceptable for that, what with no electricity).

If this improvement in living standards is despite, or because of, each business trying to maximise revenue, is basically the entire disagreement between Adam Smith and Karl Marx; though it's worth also noting that neither liked rent-seeking, and if you have a completely efficient market then nobody can extract any profits because competition drives margins to zero… but also since then we've had research show that complex markets aren't and can't be efficient: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
I think most people take "conspiracy theory" to imply falsehood, or at least exaggeration.
While I agree that GPT4 (in the web app) is not as good as it used to be, I don't think it is anywhere near GPT3.5 level. There are many things web app GPT4 can do that GPT3.5 couldn't do at ChatGPT's release (or now afaik).
It's weird that any parser that loses digits is tolerated. A parser that forces strings into uppercase US-ASCII never would be.
I get that this sucks but what's the alternative? It would take legislation that will never pass to eliminate OpenAI's liability for the content that their model spits out and they're already under a microscope by regulators and the public.
I hope that one takeaway from this entire situation is that if you're a maintainer and your users are pushing you outside your levels of comfort, that's a reflection on them, not on you - and that it could be reflective of something far, far worse than just their impatience.

If you, as a maintainer, value stability of not only your software but also your own mental health, it is entirely something you can be proud of to resist calls for new features, scope increases, and rapid team additions.
I use the tab key every day to create tab characters.
Perhaps one day the power of the CDC 6600 will be available to all who need, or merely want, it.

One can dream...
I fail to see how that is not about feelings
I mean, yes and no. If you live in a humid climate where pests like roaches can breed easily, then you either have to live with them, or use pesticides. In which case, say goodbye to bees (and other beneficial insects).
I was replying to a comment about epilepsy, not rice. Not everyone who eats carbs will suffer epilepsy just like not everyone who smokes will get lung cancer. A medication mitigating that effect doesn't invalidate concerns around the trigger.
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are you insinuating that I am casually insulting midwesterners? If so, you misunderstand me
Setup emergency contact and medical information on your phone
GameBoy vehicle diagnostics tool https://www.motor1.com/news/701772/game-boy-diagnostic-cartr...
taxation reform won't be necessary. Its just straight up unobtainable by most countries.
A good time for a reminder that you shouldn't `ldd` untrusted executables. It basically works by executing them with some special flags that the linker picks up which causes it to print the report. If the binary is nefarious it can hijack this and run whatever it wants.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/ldd.bas...
Much more valuable than any such extension would be a way to annotate types and byte lengths of keys and values so that parsers could work more efficiently. I’ve spent a lot of time making a fast JSON parser in Java and the thing that makes it so hard is you don’t know how many bytes anything is, or what type. It’s hard to do better than naive byte-by-byte parsing.
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I have a very large garden area near my patio with plants that flower from Spring through Fall. I bump into the full assortment of bees going for the flowers and wasps for my food, but the main harassers in my yard are male carpenter bees that dive bomb me and the occasional female coming out of nowhere to sting me.
Is it scummy and scammy? I don't see anything wrong with someone selling their notes on a subject, no matter the price. The purchaser can choose if it's worth it to them or if it's not.

I don't see the scummy or the scammy part here. Am I missing something?
Intelligence agencies are very careful about sharing their findings, even with "friends", because the findings will disclose some information about their capabilities and possibly methods.

Let's say agency A has some scanning capability on open source software that detected this backdoor attempt by agency B. If they had gone public, agency B now knows they have this ability. So agency B will adjust their ways the next time and the scanning capability becomes less useful. While if agency A had told Microsoft to "find" this by accident, nobody would know about their scanning capability. And the next attempt by agency B would only try to avoid having the performance impact this first attempt had, probably leaving it visible to agency A.
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That is correct, I should have been more specific
Often the autogenerated things are dependent on the machine they are running on.
Not sure how it would matter, but I'm also not living in the US.

Vaguely related video which I found interesting, about the geography of state secrecies in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf64nBAfujk
Yes it’s possible to eat small amounts of certain fruits (not sure about apples specifically) and not be thrown out of ketosis. When in ketosis I tend to avoid fruit, sometimes I’ll have a small amount of blueberries in a smoothie balanced out with fats from coconut milk, almond butter and chia seeds, plus some fiber (spinach). But I even avoid high-glycemic vegetables, like carrots, when in ketosis.

Generally in calculating their carb/sugar intake people will reduce carbs/sugars by fiber, it’s not exactly scientific but probably works for the most part. I don’t even bother calculating carbs for stuff like spinach, kale, or Broccoli.
New Mercedes Station Offers 400-KW Fast-Charging, More Than EVs Can Even Handle
I do this for piezo buzzers in a ported plastic housing. Tape silences them then you poke a hole with a tapered needle to control the volume to the desired level.
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Are you thinking of smallpox vaccination scars?

https://www.verywellhealth.com/smallpox-vaccine-scar-7096798
I've been involved with the C++ standards committee for 12+ years and my experience is that it is largely political; championing a proposal is more of a demagogic endeavor than anything else. Influential players have been priming contracts (that have been in the works forever) as a core objective this cycle and giving it a lot of momentum for it to happen this time. Of course if people still can't be convinced it's good enough before the deadline, it won't make the cut, but it's on track.

Now regarding undefined behaviour, it's always been the reason why the proposal isn't moving forward. Some people believe religiously undefined behaviour is evil and will oppose anything tied to it. The kind of clause you mentioned is just to appease them and attain a compromise.

But ultimately, contracts and undefined behaviour (depending on the definition you go for) are intimately linked.

Consider lower_bound. The behaviour is undefined if the input is not sorted. That's just the way it is.

You can't magically make a program well-formed if you breach preconditions even if you say optimizers are not allowed to make additional assumptions.
Your comment about Co-Pilot really resonates with me as last week I easily squashed 5 days of "busy work" into 1. Much of my work involves infrastructure development (Terraform/Terragrunt, Python, Gitlab, Jenkins, Azure, etc) and Co-Pilot (in VS Code) really gave a flywheel effect.

After figuring out a few hacks like adding a comment on the same like as an attribute/variable, the AI assistant helped with declaring said variables: name, data type, description, even validation syntax (Terraform).

Truly mind blowing for me!
This is an inherently naive take. I understand why you have it and where it comes from.

It is however, disconnected from reality. Basic fundamentals of human existence since the dawn of time remit one thing above all else in a large civilaztion:

Money and power dictate the actions of those wielding it and use it to continue a very closed cycle of power enticing money and vice versa. Period.

Put any government up against that, any mega-corporation, and nearly all individuals whom are not named that have more money and control over assets (including populations) than you are keen to continue to remain in this cycle.
They still preferred to revert it as it looks very suspicious.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068047

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2101
12:01 AM? These intermittent fasters are really watering down the definition.
Yes, let's hope that AI won't remove the need for drudgery!

I knew a very comfortably well-off lady who made a fine point of how she never used the automatic machines in the supermarket, because she wanted to ensure that those poor cashiers didn't lose their jobs.

How noble!
Great, now I have to issue a burn notice for this account. It's got over 5000 points, goddammit.
Pretty sure CIA is the big brain which essentially controls the world.
> more correctly determined by ancestry proximate to the region of the disease’s origin

Is the better metric just as easy to determine though? In other words, it may be a mere proxy to a "better" metric, but that means it's still correlative, and we can only abandon it if we have no better proxy.
NSO Group

They are an Israel based company, that sell zero-click RCEs for phones and more. Such malicious software was involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Their exploits, developed in-house as well as presumably partially bought on the black market, are some of the most sophisticated exploits found in the wild, e.g. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

> JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That's exactly what this exploit does. Using over 70,000 segment commands defining logical bit operations, they define a small computer architecture with features such as registers and a full 64-bit adder and comparator which they use to search memory and perform arithmetic operations. It's not as fast as Javascript, but it's fundamentally computationally equivalent.