skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, it kinda does (happen by "magic"). Inflation is not about prices going up, it's about the value of your dollar going down. That is, what $10 used to buy can't buy that any more. Pump money into the system devalues what is presently in the system. Ok, maybe not magic, just Finance 101.

Inflation, The Fed's 2% target type, is a systematic way of devaluing your buying power. Full stop. Do the math... in 35 yrs - half a lifetime - that cuts the value of your money *in half*. But 2% "inflation" sounds so sweet, easy and must be inevitable, doesn't it? btw, Inflation also helps increase income inequality. It helps move more to the top.

Put another way, given the improvements in technology, productivity, efficiency, globalization, etc. why are prices going up at all? Who benefits from a system that runs complete counter to logic?

I recently finished Lyn Alden's "Broken Money" and highly recommend it, especially the first four sections.

https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
There are innumerable sources online for improving technical writing and they all generally repeat the same conventions and "rules". I tend to warn people, though, that over fixating on technical writing will not make you a great writer but just a capable technical writer.

If you're looking to improve your writing in general, then I think Joseph Williams' "Style: Towards Clarity and Grace" is the single best book on the subject written so far. Rather than simply state certain "rules", it methodically workshops examples to show how you can write and rewrite a sentence to change your meaning and emphasis at will.
Coal power plants release more radioactive waste into the environment than nuclear ones...
none of that (most includingly comment position and votes) = privacy.

this tool is not relevant here.
Interesting about KVM limitations, because I am constrained to use that. VirtualBox... yes indeed, Oracle.
Well, don't go down that path. Stop bringing decreasingly relevant points. You are too argumentative.

"standard library functions implemented in crazy ways" is what I though about once in my life, when writing a toy compiler whose output was linked to libc. Such "crazy functions" do exist but but apart from libc having little relevance in this context it's not at all like debugging a line my_arr[i] = make_arr_elem(). That is a reasonably looking line but can easily contain two more function calls than is immediately visible, and it's very very tiring in actual practice to step through such code. The only solution I've found is to be careful to use very little such magic.

The general way that C is written in practice is that you don't have 3 function calls per line. So even if you have lots abstractions and macros in place that you would like to ignore (which can happen, but it's more rare than common) you can still skip over them (e.g. F10 in VS).
Overall good, but

> The expectation of immediate response is toxic.

Flippantly referring to things as "toxic" is pretty "toxic" IMO. It can easily be interpreted as quite a personal attack rather than a criticism of a temporary action (see point 8)
Correct. The US prosecutes its own soldiers and does not outsource that.

US soldiers prosecuted for such crimes are prosecuted under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). I have no idea how to search for prior convictions or current investigations. It does happen though and if the victim is a civilian the US military will compensate them for the damages even if there is not a conviction.
Other things can be embarrassing parallel. Teachers for example teach X students each in separate rooms. They need to collaborate sometimes but for the majority of their job they have their own class to teach.

Restaurant staff can also scale like this most likely. Limitations would come from space and available equipment. But this is solvable and why we have McDonalds.
etc.

IT is special in having gangs of individual contributors who at some level are like CEOs of the code they create and all the complexity of running a silicon organisation! Every minute is strategy. It is a heavy thinking job.
A simple puzzle GPTs will NEVER solve
Gotta love decisions from above without asking anyone doing the actual work with said tech/product.

I worked at a company that bought 2 oracle servers (racks? Not sure, over $200K though, over 10 years ago now) because it was going to magically make everything better. We were on mysql at the time and there was a large effort to rewrite all our table/column names to work with oracle (there was some stupid length limit and maybe some characters weren’t allowed). The project was abandoned and the exec who signed off on it had left to screw up some other company.

It was many years before we were able to reverse the name changes (they made writing queries miserable and the names were confusing due to the abbreviations or lack of vowels) and more years still after that before we managed to turn those racks collecting dust into NAS storage for backups.
Chipless fiber for wireless visual-to-digital transmission senses
Hot take: If you can't afford insurance you shouldn't be having a dozen kids, or at least shouldn't complain when others don't want to subsidize that. But $10k per kid for an average of 2 kids in a lifetime does not exactly make for a huge cliff. The income limit for Medicaid is so low in most places, getting any kind of job will disqualify you. But the money from the job will be of more utility than some bare minimum free healthcare. There's no way that a few healthy kids costs thousands per month. Maybe insurance could if you had more than 2 kids, but most people don't even need that much insurance. I never had medical insurance in my life until I got my first job out of college.

There may be some people who believe they will lose money overall by working, but they're usually wrong. Do taxes and losses of freebies reduce the marginal benefit of working more? I'd say so. But in most cases it is still a net benefit to work more.
The point is that it already has control over you, willingly or not you are part of the social contract. Society organised itself with governments to achieve things that private profit-driven motive can't, you wouldn't have roads connecting low density or low income places if they had to be paid for, the postal service wouldn't deliver to unprofitable areas, schools wouldn't exist or would be extremely bad in low income or low density areas.

Communication is necessary, a government providing (or enabling) infrastructure that can reduce costs to all is a net gain for society. Your paranoia only bring higher costs to everyone, increases the gap between the haves and have-nots since poor people cannot afford a higher price for services when society is unwilling to provide a baseline for them.

Are you against public schools? A government can decide to completely indoctrinate students as they wish, even with that risk I believe most people would say that it's worth it for the government provides education for kids.

Isn't it better if everyone shares the burden through taxes for road construction enabling transportation rather than a network of private roads, each owned by a different entity that you are required to pay for access?

Having the choice to pay for a private entity to provide you services is reasonable, completely shutting off the government from providing the basics of expensive infrastructure that will pay off in a span of 15-50 years which private entities can build services on top is mind-boggling dumb for your personal and a society's finance (case in point, healthcare in the USA). Worse, without giving you any bigger freedom since an evil government won't care if it's public or private, and on top of it I'd say much the opposite since you are then beholden to private entities that you have absolutely no democratic power to go against.

> I'll pay the extra.

It's not only you paying the extra, it's every single individual in your society, cumulatively that's a bad decision since the money could be spent more efficiently elsewhere.
> none of that = privacy

> this tool is not relevant here

No it’s relevant. You don’t think self hosted and offline is private?
Could just be the anthropic principle at work : in a ridiculously large universe, we live in a tiny fraction of it where local fluctuations in the respective distributions of matter and antimatter have happened to favor matter. (And the observable universe is even smaller than that.)
I can recommend Wixsharp (https://github.com/oleg-shilo/wixsharp), you no longer have to learn the insane wix xml syntax to create an installer.
> my experience is that ChatGPT is dreadful at everything but the simplest anything.

Have you tried Claude 3 Opus (or even just Claude 3 Sonnet)?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
Alpha beta unlimited revised Arabian nights 4th edition ice age mirage etc etc. I'm sure that's all wrong but I used to know it by heart. I keep my cards in old motherboard boxes !
The answer varies wildly. It's a trade-off between what constitutes overall VRAM on your system. For example I have a 3070 Ti and my total VRAM is ~8GB. This is quite insufficient for working with 70b, for example.

So, it depends on the size of the models that you _want_ (or _need_) to work with, the total VRAM on your current system, and other factors.

A 4090, for example, would be massive overkill if you want to play around with just 7b models.
Nevertheless I'm using Qubes OS just fine on Librem 15 with disabled and neutralized IME.
So Musk claims Reuters doesn't have sources and totally made that up?

Of course the sources could lie but that would make them the liars.

Seems to me Musk is pretty quick to call others liars, but he was also quick to call someone a pedophile.
Maybe the second cold war with China that everyone in the American government* seems to want will get us back into space, and we'll stay there this time.

*Okay some of them don't want it cold.
All my life I considered myself on a particular side of the political spectrum in my country. My main values haven't changed, still, now I'm considered to be standing on the other side of the spectrum compared to where I was 10 years ago.
You can use a firewall on GNU/Linux phones though.
I enjoyed reading this, but it seems the jiu jitsu segment was just thrown in there, felt out of place.
i self-host my human brain online in my own skull. i feed it and nurture it so that it can continue to perform and offer me the highest level of privacy i could possibly maintain.
Recommendation: use QR codes (output, displayed on-screen) and webcams (input).

Safer than swapping around thumbdrives, harder to screw up.
Linux is a great example of a large project that works well _because_ many people have been delegated control.

Here's a list of all the current subsystem maintainers:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> what happens when Uniqlo or H&M starts dictating

You simply switch to a producer with more acceptable terms or one that doesn't dictate at all. Unless the competition was curtailed through excessive regulation, of course.

Why is it so hard to understand how the free market works and so hard to accept that different people can make different choice from you and that is ok because you it doesn't impede on your right to make your choices?

Why this desperation to impose your choices on other people?
Fair, but HN is also about interesting discussion, and the same old day-to-day doesn't make for interesting discussion.

Even if AI is hype, it is more interesting than other hype because it is not just empty. There is nuance to this hype. AI is real, and can do real things. People are hyping it beyond what is real, but finding where that line falls is exactly why it is interesting.
Thanks, I was looking for this. The wobble is so distracting that I couldn't even check try this out.
Bold claim.

Reuters could be wrong but lying means the do it on purpose.

There is a certain kind of people who label everything wrong as a lie.
Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
I can’t recommend Strunk and White’s Elements of Style enough.
Not true. Please explain this list of actually recommended problem areas which have impact today (as well as in the future):

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/cause-areas
In the same way that they are happy with the health care system, because otherwise why would anyone go to a doctor?
Elo ratings vs. Machine learning: Predicting chess game results (2022)
This made me think of Terry Pratchett books.
Backtesting a Trading Strategy in Python with Datalore and AI Assistant
by Ryan O’Connell, CFA, FRM

Over lunch the other day, a friend mentioned his brother, a professional asset manager, swears by a simple mean reversion trading strategy. His strategy consists of buying the 10 biggest losers in the stock market each day and selling them at the close of the following trading session. I asked him if he knew which index or exchange his brother used to pick his losers from, and he told me that he wasn’t certain. As a curious casual investor, I decided to put this strategy to the test using historical data and backtest the trading strategy with Python.

Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to serve as personal financial advice.

What you will learn from this backtesting tutorialCopy heading link
In this article, I’ll walk through the process of backtesting a daily Dow Jones mean reversion strategy using Python in Datalore notebooks. To make it accessible even for those with limited coding experience, I’ll leverage Datalore’s AI Assistant capabilities. I’ll also show how intuitive prompts can be used to create the key components of the backtest, and demonstrate Datalore’s interactive charting and reporting features to effectively analyze and share the backtest results.

To make things more challenging for myself (and easier for you), I won’t write a single line of code myself. Every line of code in this tutorial will be generated by AI as shown below:
[...]
I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV).

The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map (also deployed a small service on fly.io to ping/detect this).

Using copilot/chatgtp it was a doddle.

Of course Apple refused to put it in the App Store because it doesn’t have enough features. Even though adding unnecessary bloat to the app would be against their own design philosophy.
Threw together a toothbrush timer for my kids. Just used the svelte repl:

https://svelte.dev/repl/5a7f676868044bbba2ff3c7a64062066?ver...

On mobile you’ll need to kit the “output” button
I think when one has to reach for this sort of vague, magical stuff it's time to pause and reconsider what one is trying to defend.

I don't think it altered much of anything. I don't think most people cared or gave any thought to it. I doubt it changed even the space fans. This sounds like wishful thinking from a group looking for an easy way to alter intractable human nature.
It’s a virus! ;-) Nice idea.
Technical correctness and public relations are natural enemies. The original material comes from scientists who know what they are doing, but they aren't allowed to write their own press releases. For scientific papers, the scientists are already encumbered by layers of review that make it difficult to meet deadlines for publishing.
You’ve “wondered” whether it’s actually preferable to help fewer people in less substantial and less cost-effective ways just because they happen to live near you?

What answer did you find in this inquiry?
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It isn't that SSO is important because of your application - it is important because of your audience -- B2C apps don't need SSO. B2B apps probably do.
Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally
Path of exile is my favourite game and I've played it thousands of hours and have multiple 40/40 leagues, mirrors, and lvl 100 characters. My point, without elaborating, is there are people like me who enjoy the complexity of the game, it's totally fine if you don't but the joy of having almost unlimited things to discover and get over roadblocks is what makes poe amazing to me. It's a game that you're meant to dedicate a lot of you're time to it and it's totally fine if you don't like that, just wish people wouldn't yuck someone else's yum. Lastly, I'm likely not representative of the poe's general population but the game becoming more popular league by league should be a useful indicator that whatever they're doing is working.
I tried to introduce that, but few if any people stuck to it and still they came up with their own words and different understanding of the words that were already in the glossary I had created. It felt like they did not care much.
About a decade or so ago, I found the way free and open source software was used in commercial projects seemed to better align with the warranty disclaimers of the open source licenses. For example, I remember in a C++ project I worked on back then, every single dependency was committed along with the project. Today this practice is known by the term "vendoring". And, yes, there was no supplier.

To illustrate my point, let us consider the case of Net-SNMP which was one of the projects I had direct experience with back then. We had the entire source code of Net-SNMP checked into our own project repository. From that point on, it was our responsibility to understand/maintain/update/upgrade/patch/customise the code (at least the parts that we relied on). When something didn't work the way it was supposed to, it was one of the employer's developers responsibility to figure out how to make it work. If needed, sometimes we would even engage with the community around the project in their IRC channels or mailing lists, to figure out how to solve our problems and sometimes such engagement might even end up benefitting both the community and us.

But at no point there was the notion of a supplier or "they" or "them". It was always "we". We decided to take this gift called Net-SNMP. We decided to use it develop our software. So it was now our responsibility to keep it in good shape. After all, the employer's developers were getting paid for it.

Now I know in today's world of software engineering, it is no longer possible to tend to every single dependency that is pulled into a project. There are thousands and thousands of them in every project. The way software engineering is done today is vastly different from how it was done a decade or two ago. There has been a Cambrian explosion of programming languages, open source software, frameworks, ecosystems, etc. It is impractical to assume the ownership of the thousands of dependencies that get pulled into every project and I think this is why the notion of "they" or the mythical "supplier" implicitly creeps in. While this rising complexity has resulted in increased speed and agility of software development, we have lost the simplicity and clear sense of ownership of code we rely on, which I believe was more prevalent a decade or so ago.
Made a simple arithmetic drill generator for my youngest, who was struggling at the time. It had a bit of record keeping about it which encouraged a bit of competition and made it interesting to her and her friends.
A game that was a spin on the air hockey game that exist in arcade halls. I called it wind hockey [1]. The idea was also inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender.

I am not sure if I have the code anymore. I do vaguely remember that I have the executable somewhere. It was made with Unity3D and took around 40 hours

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTIZ-_UFXqQ&t=1s
Twitter users made it up, and Twitter chose to amplify it.
Google search has gone to shit since Google+ .... or more precisely, when they removed the plus operator in Google search around 2011. And no, the quotes aren't as good.

My bet is that Google will become "Google TV" and search won't be possible. They will just show you what they want. They'll probably frame it as "AI knows what you want to see".

Maybe they should ban Google instead of TikTok (I don't use either though).
I routinely listen to podcasts at 2x while doing other things, and can go up to 3x if it's quiet enough (or a slow enough task) to focus. I'm willing to bet I could do it faster if I was doing nothing else.
At work, most of our deployment pipelines are something along the lines of "get some credentials, call a remote API and wait for it to say it's done". Occasionally, they also have "download this large binary from S3 and upload it somewhere else". Because these are in our CI, they are blocking steps that consume our builder resources.

We use Buildkite, so I changed their agent to run as lambda function, and used their eventbridge integration to trigger the lambdas. We saved about 15% of our CI costs by not using our 32 core build machines to call ecs wait-services, and freed up said machines to be able to run more often.
good quote there:
"For a brief moment in the tech world last week, it felt like 2012 again: a new photo sharing app had just launched"
my thoughts exactly. I'm surprised anyone is tackling this kind of products. While everything now have a "picture sharing" capability its such "previous decade" excitement (if any)
I created a website about dynamic energy pricing in about 8 hours. It ranked no. 1 quickly in my country and the only thing I’ve done since is update my comparison table and I’ve added affiliate links.
Let's be very clear: when a commercial outfit uses open-source software, the "supplier" is the person who imported the project, not the original author.
the abbreviation "ng" in software development/forking/maintenance evolution denotes 'next generation.'
Not the first time something like this has happened. You can try lying about your User Agent next time, it could work!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/microsofts-xcloud-gam...
Exactly. These people (the anti-EA’ers) are in too deep on the memes. It is absolutely hilarious seeing anti-EA’ers on this thread “pondering questions” about charity that are literally the exact questions posed by EA. EA produces extremely pragmatic answers and the anti-EAers get stuck at “hmm is it really so bad to give to people who live next door just because?”

Of course they cannot even write the answer they’re implicating because it’s laughable on its face, so they’re just here to “ponder” the questions, then accuse EA of navel gazing.

As you say, EA asks those same questions, gets to an answer that’s far less ridiculous than “my neighbors deserve more by virtue of being my neighbors,” then writes checks.