skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also pledged to end a long-running practice
of the bank issuing more money to finance
government spending.

Is there any country in the world with a government which manages to withstand the temptation to print money?

Do people in Zimbabwe have smartphones?

Could they use a cryptocurrency?
WARN act definition of mass layoff is for 50 or more jobs in a thirty day period. Six hundred lay-offs qualifies dozen-fold.
Now that’s a believable first hand commie-block experience. I wonder if mine had asbestos that I just didn’t know about.
> Prompt engineering doesn't feel like an activity that creates sustainable AI advancement.

Chatgpt was created from gpt via prompt engineering? An inverse chatgpt where user answers questions instead of the other way around also has applications.
I experienced a 3.8 (I think) in Dallas some years ago, 30 stories up. It was likely caused by oil drilling action in the area, as Texas is not an earthquake zone if I remember correctly. It was not fun, no dampers in that building.
It's fairly easy to get into the top 30% of something. Just showing up, paying attention, and putting in a little effort will often put you in the top third.

Getting into the top 10% requires a lot more effort and will likely require you to sacrifice other things so that you can focus on that one thing.

Unless the subject is something obscure where few people have interest; getting into the top 1% often requires complete dedication. Your life revolves around that one thing and you need superior talent.

Competition drives us to be better, but often those who find themselves in that 1% are questioning if it was really worth it. You can be completely happy further down the ladder.
c# shines for webserver stuff so it's no wonders, I like it less and less tho
Kyoo also uses python/golang for some of it's components (and typescript for the frontend)
But you have to double-check those 130 lines and think through all possible cases (edge cases, error cases) for each statement. I don’t see how you save all that much time. And your example output doesn’t even contain error handling, logging, and so on. There’s also no way to roundtrip any changes you want to add to the output code, while still making changes to the high-level description. (This is one reason why model-driven programming largely failed.)
I guess it was an accurately titled article for once
The Useful Village (2017)
Navigating the world comfortably involves a balance of contemplation and action.

As I tried to allude in my comment, most people here, myself included, are already heavily biased towards the former. We train ourselves to think deliberately and rationally, breaking down challenges into components, using and inventing abstract symbols and operations to get from where we are to where we need to be. It's our profession in many cases, and often we were called to that profession because we've got some natural inclination to approach the world that way.

And it's valuable! I don't know that I could work on hard problems or take sound actions on some of the biggest and most impactful matters in my life without that. I value that I'm good at it, and practiced in it, and (like the author) think there's value in sharing the fruit of that work with others.

I did exactly that in my original comment and I'm doing it again here.

What I'm expressing is not a general critique against intellectualizing. It's cautionary advice that -- for many of the people here -- they (specifically) may experience more benefit resisting the urge to intellectualize rather than indulging in it.

It's not anti-intellectual, nor is it especially novel.

You can find comparable encouragement in both "Eastern" and "Western" traditions and from countless modern synthesizers of these traditions (Alan Watts, Werner Erhard, etc), who encourage brainy "bogged" intellectuals to just "bonk" themselves and stop expecting more thought and analysis to be the road away from their problems.

In many cases, it's the intellectualizing itself that invents/perpetuates problems that simply cease to be if one can practice simply acting.

Some people need the opposite advice, but few of them are going to be reading these comments in the first place and generally have different complaints than being stuck in s "bog".
Swift would be the one ring to rule them all, from assembly builtin's to ORM's, running from 32-bit controllers and secure enclave to automatic differentiation on internet-scale fp16 models... if it weren't for Xcode...
Slovakia, Kosice.
As Yuval Harari suggests the AI economy will move away from money and man power. What will be important are control over resources and their distribution. These big companies won't care about a number in some database. They won't care about selling stuff to you, maybe in the midterm but not in the long run.
> I think they're just speculating.

Speculating with motivation (company profits) and "decision making" privileges means they will most likely attempt/be at the cutting edge of implementation (trying to cut whatever applicable jobs they can and replace with AI with good results)
Mostly because we allow easy loans for students who don't read the paperwork.

We need to stop giving out easy loans to anyone who asks. The schools will lower prices if people can't afford it via a loan.
It’s a good hypothesis. Anecdotally though, I know a bunch of people who have experience playing both, and say that the old instruments can be difficult to play, though sound amazing when played well.
That's kind of typical, though, isn't it? When a company falls off, it's almost always not just technical.
Was it a Bruce Springsteen concert?

Also, do we know if Bruce Springsteen is okay?
4. The difference between the "haves" vs the "have nots" will blow up exponentially, augmented by AI computing power used unilaterally. A new gilded age will form where the "have-nots" once again become domestic servants, like serfs serving their techno-feudal lords.
Looks very pretty and the demo is nice. Congratulations on the launch. I'm a happy Plex user, via Plexamp for audio and the Plex app for Apple TV for video, and I'm not interested in switching. That said,

> It started as a "sandbox" project where I could learn about tech I was interested in, and slowly became more than that.

This is a fantastic reason to build something. Looks like a wonderful project.
subsidized student loans don't make education cheaper, it increase the ability to pay (adjusting for demand elasticity).

The same goes for the housing market. Govt interventions has only made home prices more expensive vis a vis other items we may consume.
Not yet, I plan on having that available in the next 6 months since it's pretty important, but I want to have most client features finished before that
I was the PM for a bunch of the minicomputers from the mid-80s on. Then I was PM for the initial Unix AViiONs and later the NUMA servers including being one of the main liaisons with CLARiiON.
I don't know where you're getting that from. dang has very clearly explained how it works in that post.
I lived with friends throughout the last year of HS because my BPD mother kept kicking me out. I still took AP classes...
> Pivoting is pretty much asking a company to commit seppuku

This is conventional wisdom (and thus, usually correct).

However, it's always interesting to look at counterexamples: Beretta, for example (in business for 500 years).

https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight

or the IBM PC, which cannibalized IBM's business, at least in IBM's mind. Thus, they screwed it up and let Wintel make the real billions. So it worked, until they took your advice and decided that had to stop.
I think vacuum energy is best described as a product of the mathematical model used to describe reality with an accuracy of 10 decimal places. From that perspective it seems a very reasonable deduction.

Wave functions can be seen as the sum of polynomial terms.

So a wave function of: x^3+3x^2+4x could be expressed as its coefficients [1,3,4].

Now if any of those coefficients are allowed to be zero, then you’d have, say, [0,3,4] for your polynomial which simplifies to an identical polynomial [3,4].

This just reduced the dimension of the problem by 1, but a wave function in n dimensions is fundamentally different than one with n-1 or n+1.

If you could reduce the dimension of a problem by zeroing a coefficient and still get accurate calculations then then “curse of dimensionality” would be moot because you could just keep reducing the dimension until the problem was tractable and then reverse the process to build back up to the original problem.

Unfortunately, the pigeon hole problem creeps up when the additional states of the higher dimension lack a direct analogue to its lower dimension.

Think of a binary tree. At each element draw two new elements branching from it on a line below. Allowing any leaf to be 0 effectively removes it and all of its parents and children from the model. So in order to retain the full tree all values at each leaf must be greater than 0.
They're also the industries whose providers know you can't really go without.

US healthcare and education is abberantly expensive compared to the rest of the OECD, most of which regulate them more.
Federal student loans broke the market. People became price-inelastic.
Here are some counter-examples that refute the claims of the paper:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4893125/verify-a-re...
same. after using golang there is no going back for me.
the new added features to c++ just make it more unappealing for me. less is more.
Infleqtion Names Matthew Kinsella as CEO
I don't think market prices usually work this way. Am I missing a reason that this is an exception?
On one side is Reuters with "three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters" and the other side is the CEO with a penchant for outright lies. Neither is a particularly reliable source but I don't see any problem with Tech Crunch's framing given Musk's history of outright lying about what's happening in Tesla.
Under Attila's Gaze
They kind of do.

If you work at a company where the CTO says "your performance bonus will be partially based on what a code analysis tool like SonarQube says about your code", then your future and the future of other similar people in your organization will be created following that path.

They dictate which direction projects/milestones get prioritized + what fashion they get implemented in.
Guide to bourbon
I'd classify Prolog and Datalog as L(ogic) languages.

Lisp not sure, maybe H for homoiconic.
Yeah, makes sense.

I’m also in a phase where I get to start a lot of new low-stakes web projects, so I’ve made a point of adopting at least one new-to-me tool for each. I love typescript, and am generally happy with modern front-end tooling, but the node back-end ecosystem drives me bonkers — too many paper-cuts from too many tools along the lines you’ve documented here — and has me regularly retreating back to Python or Ruby land.
That's on top of every other expense like books, scantrons (not sure if those are even used anymore), and whatever else. Everything adds up for students.
So silly to call it engineering.
By...?
There have been reasons for folks to be motivated to attack personally the leads of the various American spy agencies over the last century, there really hasn’t been a significant amount of time where we weren’t in some kind of military conflict, very many of them with questionable to explicit human rights violations.
What is your price elasticity for your childrens' future?
Sources : SEC Filings, Transformed Company fundamentals, Price / Volume Data, Crypto, OPRA 15min delayed Options data, Realtime News and our internal quants
lapse in defense*
It still has that cachet with, well a bit older generation. I have an Indy and Indigo2 (purple - max impact one) and when someone visit and sees the machines it's like you sprawled a vintage ferrari in (our) eyes. I don't think there's anything comparable today when we have it all.

I demonstrated IRIX to younger colleagues and it was - ok, so it's alright I guess, like anything else we have today? Yep.. but contemporary world was NOT like that.

I had an Octane as well, heavy and loud beast. All in storage now waiting for move. In late 90s I worked a lot on SGI machines (vfx).
Sun had the perfect opportunity with Utility Computing around the mid-2000s but when cloud took off we had Oracle buying SUNW. They killed Sun Cloud which had the opportunity to be big, vast, and powered by JAVA hardware.

Sun Microsystems was a company like no other. The last of a dying breed of "family" technology companies.
That's Lorentzian geometry and Minkowski space from the 1900's and created for Relativity.

This is Euclidian geometry, much older and more 'accepted'.
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths
Correct. The Jewish people think of the Gospel as "that which the masses blindly accept as true but we know internally to be false" which is apt given what they have intended to use it for.
> On the earth the speed of light as is good as instantaneous.

Frustrated network architects would disagree!
I have no issue with the sandbox technique. My critique is that the sandbox escapes just have to find an assumption violation in C++ that leads to a memory violation, meaning that sandbox escapes are easier in V8 due to being written in C++. Having the sandbox & security-relevant runtime pieces written in Rust would do a lot to prevent huge swathes of sandbox escapes more robustly than trying to ensure that all C++ today & that will be written remains hardened.
If that's your take, I'm sort of curious why you'd dislike containerization, whose primary selling point is to standardize and improve the developer experience for, literally exactly, configuration, deployment and program initialization...
0.1 plus 0.2 not equal 0.3
Open chrome dev tools, write:
0.1 + 0.2

Explain the result in as much detail as you can, and may the best woman/man win, go :)
There is a series tracking (which can be autosynced to simkl if you want) but you need to login to use it. Since the demo allow you to access everything as a guest without account you probably missed it.

The screenshots are pushed on a secondary branch, so I can remove them completely without rewriting the git history. Thanks for worrying <3
> it's hard to come up with situations where it is not the way to go

One mistake is buying excessive amounts of house (and not renting it).

Ownership is no-brainer inasmuch as it also replaces your rent (or provides income).

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EDIT: Another situation is short-term (< 12-18 month) rental.
I spent countless hours playing the DF2 demo that came on one of the computer magazine CDs in India (PC Quest I think). My favourite FPS by a long shot :)

Here's a steam guide to upgrade to a fan made engine and really improve the graphics:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=17787...

Think it should work on the GOG version too.
I love "Soul of New Machine" too. It was a blast to read. It even made me ponder the possibility to start over at 40+ and do something hardware-wise (or very low-level software). Of course I then found myself drown by 2 mortgages and dropped the thought.
> What is your price elasticity for your childrens' future?

This is a silly question.

Silly answer: I would want my kid to be able to retire happily. If college debt prevents that, let's ditch it.
It's hard to speculate on the circumstances of their deaths given there is no reliable independent reporting on it, but I'll give it a go as you asked.

Certainly starving civilians are being killed by the IDF. I'd be shocked if some of the deaths aren't related to self-defence. Given there look to be credible reports of the IDF operating kill zones, and allowing on the ground soldiers to set their own rules of engagement, as well as making it generally clear it's little issue in collateral deaths it's difficult to have much empathy with those numbers.

A number will be attributable to friendly fire and accident too. It wouldn't surprise me if that's a significant proportion, potentially the majority given the level of sniping, significant munitions and general anarchy.

Finally, I'm sure some are as a direct result of actual engagement with Hamas.

Any reporting by the IDF is obviously security checked propoganda, filtered through multiple levels of approvals and inspection.
I have no idea how developers for the apple ecosystem get anything done. If Xcode doesn't crash it's because it is too busy glitching out instead.
"People became price-inelastic."

Isn't it the opposite? The tutution became increasingly inelastic. Consumers would technically be more elastic given the higher credit available.
Price discrimination in the form of scholarships and the "show us exactly how much money is in your wallet" scam they call "need-based-aid" allowing universities have essentially perfect price discrimination and to gobble up the entire consumer surplus is definitely a big part of it.

Imagine any other service where they demanded your bank statements before they told you what they would charge you, and the impact that would have on sticker price.
Does numpy have a cuda backend without numba?
Angular and Wiz are better together
Because not everything in life should be driven by optimizing profit?
This looks great, but it makes me very sad and annoyed through no fault of its own.

I started building a Plex/Jellyfin clone in 2019 (around the same time it looks like!), got pretty far into it as well, using a pretty similar messaging system and everything (using ZeroMQ instead of Rabbit).

I was working for Apple at the time, and I wanted to open source it, so I had to talk to a bunch of management, eventually someone just two levels below Tim Cook, who told me that it was a "competitive" product, because it served video, and Apple sold video. He also informed me that if it's found out I open sourced it, I would be promptly terminated and would potentially face legal action as it would be in direct violation of my non-compete, and moreover since I was working for Apple they legally owned it anyway. He then explained that there's no such thing as "my own time", as Apple really wants me to be focused on Apple, and nothing else

I genuinely had to hold back tears in that managers office, because it really felt like a punch in the gut. I went in optimistic that I'd be able to open source my passion project, and I instead was threatened with termination and a lawsuit. I was so upset that I just left the office at 2pm and drove back to my hotel (I live in NYC but was visiting the California office).

Anyway, </rant>, this is cool and I will be playing with it tonight.

ETA:

I have no doubt that some people might be able to figure out the specific individual in this story, and that's fine, but I humbly ask that you do not post that person's name publicly here. I wasn't fired from Apple and I didn't have to sign a non-disparagement clause as far as I am aware, but I still don't want any extra drama from the company.
Your comment highlights what I personally think is some of the reason for the extreme tuition increases: too many people believe that college is the singular best path for their children's future.
I know you only implied it but be careful with causation here. We know that there are situations where the free-market does not lead to ideal outcomes. Does it not seem likely for government to involve itself more in areas where the free market is most likely to fail?
This happens in the USA. The regulation is pushed by private companies to increase cost of market entry ( I.e. decrease competition) Japan has none of the crazy inflation in these categories. The other key variable is these are core essential needs hence people will continue to pay.
Only in that the very initial version was GPT + prompt. ChatGPT is heavily fine-tuned using both handwritten examples and later on rated examples from its own output. The prompt is still relevant but the fine-tuning is the biggest thing that makes it work like a chatbot.
Ivan Sutherland described the reason [1] why PCs won a long time ago. Basically a custom tool may do a thing "better" than a general purpose tool for a while, but eventually, because more resources are spent improving the general tool, the generalized tool will be able to do the same thing as the specialty tool, but more flexibly and economically.

[1] http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html
> > OpenBSD has no Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system like AppArmor or SELinux which prevents you from fully locking down user space.

Would this have mattered/stopped/mitigated the `xz` problem if systemd spawns opensshd and transiently loads infected .so shared objects?
Every single film you mentioned came out after Star Wars. The closest, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, came out only 6 months later, so hard to argue that its derivative. Even so, its inarguable that Star Wars was the first of its kind to reach the kind of mass appeal that it did.

Likewise (to the parent), references to D&D or Kurosawa are red herrings, because those were sort of niche at that point. Flash Gordon is/was debatably niche, but even then, Flash Gordon wasn't made into a movie until 1980 (after Lucas gave up on pursuing the rights, and instead made Star Wars).

I'm not here to defend Star Wars as great art, but I am here to say that its place in the cultural canon is 100% earned, and trying to dismiss it as cliche, formulaic, or derivative is to wildly misunderstand the cultural impact of its forebears, and anachronistically criticize it for its similarities to the things it inspired.
I'd never met Rick Belluzzo, but having known SGI insiders of his era I gathered that he'd driven the company strongly towards NT on x86 at the cost/risk of losing their corporate and personal UNIX competencies, causing some internal outrage. When his time was up at SGI he quickly popped up at Microsoft running MSN in what I saw as a synecure meant as a pat on the back for a job well done. Am I right on this?
Not with Chase Ink cards. There are people who do one a quarter
That's not how it works. There's no authority over the production of the shilling - anyone can make them, and they therefore trade at the cost of production.

Which means that regardless of the number you print on the notes, if buying something took a brick of them at the old denomination, it will take a brick of them at the new one too.
We love PartyKit as a real time sync connector for Fireproof. This lets us offer CouchDB or Firebase-like experience with only a browser and less than 100 lines of JavaScript on the backend. Here is what our PartyKit server looks like for the curious: https://github.com/fireproof-storage/fireproof/blob/main/pac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
To be clear. I have no issue with the sandboxing as a technique. It's perfectly valid and a good idea. My issue is that sandbox escapes are significantly easier than they should be due to the C++ runtime. Rust 100% would help mitigate sandbox escapes more effectively even as the codebase evolves. We know through lots of practical experience that "standard mitigation techniques" for C++ don't actually work all that well (there's at least about an order of magnitude difference in number of exploits possible between that & Rust).
I'm not sure about that "better" part.

We'd have more community, be more grounded, respect the land more, and have less bullshit jobs and products, if a much larger percentage of people still worked in agriculture.
There was a brief reference to it:

> They might also want to check out the game’s expansion pack, which caters more to the FPS hardcore by eliminating the community-theater cut scenes and making everything in general a little bit harder. I didn’t bother, having gotten everything I was looking for out of the base game.

I spent a lot more time playing Jedi Knight (honestly, it was probably the best time I ever had playing a video game), but Mysteries of the Sith was still fun, and I liked having a purple lightsaber. :-)