skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so.

True, but we are not talking about the last 50 years, we are talking about the future, for example, the next 5 years. People don't commit suicide if they think their future will be OK.

> Same goes for access to drinkable water, food, decent shelter, gender equality, freedoms, technology, etc.

- Item 2 and 3 ignore recent rises in food prices and housing prices.

- For the U.S., item 4 and 5 have been reduced in many places by various recent laws and judicial decisions (unless you are super rich), and this will probably continue for the near future.

- The last item - 6 - technology. I think for a non-tech-person standpoint, it really appears like technology primarily has ...

A) ... stagnated. Phones--the tech most people use daily--haven't done anything new and exciting for some time. The Internet hasn't given the non-tech public-at-large the next big thing after social media, either.

B) ... primarily become interested in putting monthy fees, ads and tracking on everything one does, and

C) ... a mission replace most jobs with A.I.
Ironically, suicide rates are typically fairly low among people dealing with actual existential problems. Depression is not very prevalent until all basic needs are taken care of.
It's also because the big reputable third party CDNs are more reliable hosts with better uptime and SLAs than many of the sites that use them.
How long do you reckon before someone publishes a tortured explanation about how the eccentricity of the circles gives the first 4 digits of the square root of Euler's number if you measure it in ancient Egyptian cubits or something and therefore aliens?
What a bunch of cowards
US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Could Fuel Global Arms Race
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There’s only one thing he needed to do to make this plan work flawlessly: he should have asked the gate agent if the flight was full.
So many possible answers are being proposed in this thread that don't seem to take into consideration that the interesting phenomena to explain here is why the increase is specifically high in America.

So far some of the proposals include: the world is teetering on the edge, men are not listened to and social media usage.

I don't see why any of these three things impact Americans disproportionately compared to say to places like Saudi Arabia, Germany and China where suicide in the young is much less than the US.

Given that suicide tends to impact 2x to 3x times more the unemployed than the employed [1], what is truly interesting here in my opinion is that America has an even higher young suicide rate than places with very high youth unemployment such as South Europe or Middle East. My guess it is something to do with culture, family ties and the stigma of not being in work or "productive".

[1] https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/8/594
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9298506/
The parent is intentionally conflating the last 2 years with the prior 5 decades. Right now there is a war going on, of a magnitude not seen since WW1 and WW2.
Maybe it's location based.

Looking at other HN stories today, maybe we swap all the Software Developer H1B visas into teaching :-)
> Your name by itself and not connected to anything else...

It's in your database. That's inherently a connection to something else.
Fair is an odd word here, the system should work for the greatest benefit for Americans.

I think a wage threshold and weighting would be best, but others think a controlled random mixing of labour markets is better for the overall economy.
I agree. I think the language gets blamed when it's a docs problem, and the docs get blamed because nix scratches the itch for so many different sorts of people. If you're a dev trying to replace poetry you're in a different world than a sysadmin trying to replace ansible, but documenting nix means addressing the needs of both parties. That's hard.

The language is fine, especially compared with its alternatives (e.g. templated yaml, yuck).
Apple isn't the richest company on earth because they pay for flights like chumps.
Very good advice. Additionally, I'd add:

- What sort of testing can be achieved given limited time and resources?

...because nearly all organizations, no matter how quality-oriented they claim to be, will prioritize non-test code delivery over test code, leaving scarce time for test creation before shipment deadlines.
A lot of the bases are covered. It would need a bit more to be fully compliant. The trade-off between simplicity and comprehensiveness is hotly debated in privacy circles.
And... when the bots come and "engage", what will you do?
Amazing article on Hong Kong/Shenzhen CT2 system in Wired by NEAL STEPHENSON

In the Kingdom of Mao Bell FEB 1, 1994 12:00 PM

https://www.wired.com/1994/02/mao-bell/
This is a great argument against the kind of blog where you just drop your stream of consciousness into a publicly available document, which may be archived and searchable. Uptake on a site like HN may seem like a win now, but it also means there will be no hiding from it.

This is the kind of thing that comes up when you're trying to form new relationships (whether personal or career/business) so you may not want to put your worst side forward.

(I have no opinion on Kagi, BTW, since I know virtually nothing about it.)
See what BirAdam said - he is correct. Armenia / Azer is a direct cause of Russia being drawn into Ukraine, insofar that Russia "guaranteed" peace and had a contingent of "peacekeepers" in Armenia. What you see is an acceleration on conflicts in areas that were held back by global stability before. Now that Russia couldn't react, Azer backed by Turkey (and arguably other powers in the West) pushed Armenia out of Nagorny Karabakh. If Russia wasn't in Ukraine, this would likely look like Georgia in 2008 where Russia would use this as an excuse to take some land. Instead they did nothing, because they are busy.

Africa is too much to summarize - basically look into what Wagner and US PMCs were doing there. It's just more proxy conflict.
Very cool idea. I wonder how it would work to first turn every file you want to store into a stream of symbol files using a fountain code like RaptorQ, and then trying to compress all of the symbol files together using something like Z-standard with a big dictionary. It would probably be too slow to use for many file system applications, but I would think it would be pretty good at exploiting redundancy across files and getting good compression ratios.
It’s the civil aviation equivalent of “WONTFIX; working as intended”. :D

But it must be a wild surprise.
Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure
The title of the original article is a little misleading. It's _website_ visitor tracking and it looks like it's really just advertising analytics... That's maybe bad but it's also the same as like... 98% of all other websites.
The original work isn’t used. It’s satirized in the form of training data that a model will understand.
> why does it need to be its own device?

For AI to augment the lives of to the extend the iPhone did it's essential for it to be always on listening and able to act effortlessly.

Only Apple, Google and major android makers can deliver this experience.

There is however a window of opportunity for a team with the right talent to get there first if they're able to build their own device in time.

Apple are too privacy conscious to send all the data up to the server so we need to wait till they can build chips to do that locally or figure out a way to bend their own rules enough that makes it seem privacy focused, they also have a much weaker ML team so there is extra runway there while they choose who to acquire to fix that.

Google while extremely strong ML team its too academia brained to productize AI currently so need to wait for them to solve that, they also just suck at shipping products in general. They'll get there in the end but it's safe to say they'll only get there once someone else has shown how it should be done then they'll just clone it.

You have about 3 years before Apple solves this, so if you get yours to market and succeed in that time you capture a segment of the market before that happens.
Rumbelows went bankrupt in 1995 apparently. I was a kids and it sticks in my mind as I used to get my mum to take me into the electrical shops after school as a treat and they had a proper fire sale with everything being sold off cheap.

I find those liquidation sales quite depressing now but at the time it stuck out as being really exciting and we got a stereo quite cheap.
They mostly attack small kids, so sadly no.
of course not - only visited pages, time spent on them, stuff like that.
I think the regional NZ airports are incredibly charming. Most cities probably have much bigger bus terminals.
The founder, Brandon Eich, made donations in favour of banning same-sex marriage.

I also refuse to use anything from Brave for this reason.
That's definitely a fair point! DwarFS actually works perfectly fine on 64-bit ARM and would likely work fine on a smartphone as well. Still (and I might be completely wrong about this), I think the primary goal of EROFS is to consume as little resources as possible when the file system is accessed and to be able to run on much less capable hardware, including 32-bit systems. DwarFS primarily cares about maximizing compression as long as it doesn't negatively impact performance (access times and throughput). This involves a certain amount of caching / pre-fetching and assumes there's plenty of memory available. This can be configured to a certain extent, but my pessimistic assumption is that DwarFS would use significantly more memory than EROFS. Might be worth actually backing this by numbers! :)
It's only a counter argument if you make an assumption that H1-B program is designed to bring, specifically, healthcare or pharma workers.

Unless you can point to a reason why law of supply and demand was breached, high salaries reflect high demand vs. low supply and low salaries reflect low demand vs. high supply.

My understanding is that healthcare and pharma are not exactly poor industries so if they don't pay their highly skilled workers a lot of money, the most likely explanation is that there's abundance of those workers.

What follows from that is that we don't need to import them from abroad.

And that logic generalizes to all industries hence it really is that simple as letting in those who can score the highest salaries.

It aligns the interests of U.S. in general (highly paid workers put way more into taxes than they get back in benefits) with the interests of the companies.

It's hard to game, simple to apply and trivial to verify (once you issue SSN you check with IRS once a year if they are really paid what the company said it will pay). And if companies try some fraud they are now in the business of tax fraud.

It boggles the mind that this is not a rule applied by all governments in the world. Unless, of course, you understand that government is not exactly pre-occupied with doing the best thing for the country but with doing the best thing for themselves. All those speeches you can give, on both sides, about immigration!
The flight plan formally calls for a stop in Antwerp just to refuel. If that happened the plane would land at Antwerp and top up the tanks with the passengers on board before continuing to Amsterdam so from the passengers perspective they're always getting to their destination but sometimes the arrival is delayed for a fuel stop.

I personally would be annoyed if I booked a non-stop that was expected to have s top by default but I guess if it works out a high enough portion of the time it doesn't really matter
Kevin McAllister?
India – AI handling customer support for a two sided marketplace on WhatsApp
Yes, but many places don't have a healthy work environment, and developers are generally younger, less confrontational, and less experienced at negotiating than management and sales.
Across how many repos? My team owns a dozen.
Yeah, the country location is a requirement to show the opening hours. The library (https://github.com/opening-hours/opening_hours.js) is aware of holidays in many countries, but for that it needs to know what country a POI is in.

The country awareness source code is here: https://github.com/pietervdvn/latlon2country

The idea: I've taken all the country boundaries from OSM (via nominatim); I slice them in four parts. If the resulting geojson is too big, I slice this again until I have small geojsons, suitable to download. If you know the zoomlevel and location, one can use the standard slippy-tile-index to fetch the correct tile. (Alternatively, if the entire tile is within a country, it'll just return the country code)

However, the client also needs to know what zoomlevel there is. For that, I built a search tree.

It's been a while though, so I've forgotten some of the details ;)
When I was in my teaching Masters program, we talked a lot about intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is when you want to do something for yourself, e.g. you enjoy the satisfaction of solving a problem. Extrinsic motivation is when your reason for doing it comes from outside yourself, e.g. your parents tell you they'll give you $20 for every A you get on your report card. The district I worked in experimented with extrinsic motivators to get students to attend school and perform well on the test with rewards like food, gift cards, and electronics. That was enough to get some students to try to do better, but usually only the students who already had some intrinsic motivation. The students that they were really trying to motivate were the ones with no intrinsic motivation, and they largely ignored the rewards offered.
TFA does seem to draw an arrow loneliness->psychosis, but as the headline only stated 'linked' I had initially thought of the obvious connection in the other direction: "being the weird kid"->loneliness.

(Donald Knuth, a man known for deep —and sometimes obscure— interests, spoke of "finding his tribe" upon encountering CS in the 1960s. Did God create the discipline for Don?)
If you’re on NixOS (the distro), the only way to run multiple services of the same type (eg, Nginx) is using containers. These can either be NixOS containers or standard Docker/Podman containers [1]. If you want to run a Compose project, I maintain a tool that help simplify this [2].

[1] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

[2] https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix
Perhaps I’ve been in tech for too long but isn’t $75M peanuts in the scheme of things?
What should they do to be taken seriously? Just hit the Washington D.C once?

On the other hand, do you really think any nuclear power, be it Russia, USA, China, would allow being defeated in an existential war and just dissolve without bringing down the whole world?
Great experience reading through this, the multi-media collage is really nicely put together!
> The lizard brain

https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/its-time-to-correct-neuros...
What if I told you, that I have no interest in addressing the needs of today? Because I feel the whole smartphone revolution was a mistake, and we'd be better off chucking ours all into a river and calling it a day.

I get wanting mobility, I don't get wanting to scale things down to the point where it fits in a single hand, especially because, the smartphone manufactures seem to not want to allow the same kind of freedom and flexibility available on the PC to their smartphones. The "Smart" part of a "Smartphone" makes them in fact mini tablet personal computers, and that they don't offer the kind of control only a PC does to their end user, is unforgivable. It's a shame, the world favors convenience over freedom.
Kagi founder here. I am probably 'guilty' of reading and responding to every comment on discord, our feedback forum and I still respond to support tickets.

This does invite trouble but interacting with users of the product I am building is also the only way I know how to do it and is keeping me sane. Not to mention it helps build a great product, as users probably 'built' half of it with feedback.

I never thought that talking too much with the customers can be bad but it also may be true that full openness approach becomes a burden at some point and that it would be healthier to separate from it a bit.
96% of… all websites.
Studies on software engineering are all low reliability ones full of confusing factors.

(What's the matter with SE as a discipline?)
Flakes = combine explicit refs to deps as well as a build description for anything you're making (which can be a lib, app, or entire machine). IMO if you're starting now, use this.

Channel = group of named deps. 'Traditional' nix tracks a channel so when you update it, anything pointed to it also updates.

Home Manager = NixOS lite. Good option to define your preferred environment deterministically if you like another OS.
Just installed heat pump systems (daikin) this december.

The exterior unit is basically silent even when there was a cold snap (below freezing but not northern alaska cold).

I suspect an interior air source heat pump hot water heater, being smaller, will be noisier, and likely less efficient.

I'd love to switch my 240v/30a water heater to use a 120v/20a service, but will wait a bit longer for the technology to mature. Ideally it'd have the heat collection part outside.
That's really pretty much everything, google knows you may think you have breast cancer -- email, gender, age, visit pages, etc. Certain sites and information classes/types are not just like the rest of 98%.
It seems like you’re vaguely alluding to global averages when most commenters are lamenting the state of their own countries, communities, daily lives - a categorical error.
Scale & locality can’t be hand-waved away.
> instead of a salary ranking/salary threshold

Because in spite of what the law actually says, the entire purpose of the H1B visa program is and always has been a way to get mostly adequate people who'll work cheap.
Amazon's Just Walk Out tech relies on workers in India watching you shop
Oh, you're flattering me! First time someone called it 'light and fast', it can be an underperforming, buggy piece of software at times!

And I spent quite some time getting it somewhat fast - not to mention that my caching server is currently down.
Part of it is just because it's easier. There's a bootstrap theme I've used that relies on a Google font. Rather than package the font, which would require extra work on the webdev's part to serve locally, they just stuck a CDN URL in the css.
A lot of this seems to be "I do not like Vlad".

The only issue that has been brought up here that concerns me is privacy, and the important thing there is that whether search history data is stored and can be linked to and account. Some things like personalisation features require it, but what about the rest? It does concern me that I have to take their word for it.
Interesting, it appears I've encountered an impossible combination of numbers: [2, 5, 1, 3]

The only possible move is to add 1 and 3. Can't ever split a 2 as that would result in [1, 1], can't split the 5 because that would be [4, 1] or [3, 2], can't split the 3, as that would be [2, 1] or [1, 2], can't add the 5 to anything as that would be larger than 5.
Is this a trend that's going up? It seems like the norm for the past several years (at least) is for a good chunk of Americans to live paycheck-to-paycheck [1] and not have much of a financial cushion [2]. There's just a lot of precarity out there, whether by choice or by circumstance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/941292021/paycheck-to-paychec...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-em...
Don't worry, Oakland is renaming its airport to avoid confusion.
This article indicates that data migrations could be done by or assisted by AI. Having done a number of them I am skeptical as most of the time I end up working with crufty stuff that is out of support. Sometimes, by the time the client is ready to migrate, the infrastructure team will tell you "We don't turn that server off as we're not sure it will boot again". I'm not even going into the custom code written by too-clever people who were short on time. That kind of code is difficult to parse for intent and can take some time and intermediate steps to solve.
Taxes, conscription and even pedestrian traffic rules make sense at least to some degree. Restricting "AI" because of what some uninformed politician imagines it to be is in a whole different league.
What does it mean for a human to "know" something?

I have some representation in my mind; as someone who doesn't have aphantasia, this representation comes with a mental image. Tower? Tall, linear, and in my case a skyscraper by default. Eiffel Tower? Paying attention to the extra context, the first word transforms the second into the eponymous structure. Model Eiffel Tower? Now the context makes it a tchotchke, probably 10cm tall. Lego model Eiffel Tower? The 1-ish meter tall one on display in the Lego shop.

Is my "knowledge" the abstract representation that is in my case connected to a mental image? The attention process can reasonably be considered as developing a vector in a very high dimensional concept space, and the next token comes from what would best suit the current location in that high dimensional space. It's entirely possible that the concept of "ignorance" is linearly separable within that space (much as gender is, see the word2vec trick with "king" - "queen" ~= "man" - "woman"), and the corresponding "ignorance" vector can be associated with the sequence of words "I don't know".
I think it would take actual research into the internal vector space to answer that, and while I'd like to do that research, I have some higher priorities right now.

Is "knowledge" any belief? Any true belief? Any justified true belief? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem

I take the position that there is no such thing as knowledge, and instead the best we can have is belief.

But then, what is "belief", and can the information within an LLM said to meet whichever definition you give?
Search quality requires maintenance and continual tuning. It's not a one and done "add more functionality" kind of product.