skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Us older people with wealth have strongly advocated for decades that they not take on the debt

This is a lie, and I feel that you know it is. I graduated high school in 2009. There was tremendous pressure on students to be ready for a college degree. You were told it was absolutely necessary to compete in the new globalized economy. AP classes were offered so that you could transfer credits on entry-level coursework. SAT and ACT prep were offered by the school district. There were college spirit days and college fairs. There were signing days for athletic scholarships.

You'll find most Millennials will recall much of the same if they came from a middle-class-or-above area. Of course, being middle class doesn't mean you can pay for college without debt. That's why they took it on.

The idea of entering the trades was an afterthought to the point where there was a vocational center 20 miles away that serviced an entire suburban county's worth of high school students.

Since it was right after the financial crisis, if you weren't going to college or going into a vocational program, you were going into the military. I'd say more people out of my high school class went into the military than vocational programs. They were trained, given a job for six months, and discharged because there was a massive pool of people, nationally, who wanted to join the military since they had no place else to go.

> Of those who thought they knew better, why would we want to pay for their stupidity?

See above.

> But if we agree that we should pay for stupidity because that's the nice thing to do, why stop at college? What about the dumb kid who bought a Ferrari he can't afford? Are we going to pay for that too? Logically we should. There is no difference.

This is comically obtuse. No one ever centered a state's high school curriculum around the idea of convincing a kid to buy a Ferrari. No one ever told the kid he'd be a nobody with no future earnings potential if he didn't buy a Ferrari. That's exactly what Millennials were told between 1995 and 2010. The Ferrari doesn't get exempted from bankruptcy because "you kept the skills you learned" from owning it. I'd much rather be in debt from owning a Ferrari than with a student loan.

> ~60% of the population (in the USA) have not attended college. Why not let them reap the rewards of their choices?

There are no rewards to having a large chunk of your population so indebted that they don't engage in the life milestones that allow the economy to grow for the next 20 years. That guy who was so smart as to avoid that liberal arts degree by going to trade school to learn how to be an electrician? He needs new housing and commercial buildings to work on if he'd like to earn a living and create more economic value than he consumes. If no one's building houses to start a family, and no one's building new businesses because the population isn't there to support it, he's just as screwed as everyone else.

You're angry at the wrong people.
Ha! You don’t need to turn when you can just go over any obstacle.
Good luck leaning a bike in motion without turning the front wheel.
You may discover this if you go to the Apress site, but there is a second edition [1] out.

[1] https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/the-optimizat...
Individual identities transcend binary party classification, especially over issues as complex as international engagement.

In the Democratic party, there's the group advocating for involvement on the basis of individual rights and one on the basis of supporting the post-WWII rule of law world order.

In the Republican party, there's still the group advocating for American exceptionalism. However, given that Republican presidents initiated the last two major wars (Afghanistan and Iraq), general party support for military interventionalism is at a low ebb. Give it a few more years for memories to reset (~2028).
Has your 8 yr old really known this for years? He may behave in a conformist way, instinctively, without being able to describe it or understand the phenomenon... both of which are, in my opinion, required to know it.

And who's figuring out whose communication? He basically has to draw a picture in crayon of what he means, just so all the rest of you don't misconstrue his meaning. Your "human communication" is much too defective to be so proud of it.
I think you’ve constructing a strawman, arguing for general software libraries. We're talking specifically about math libraries.

Regardless of the strawman, the person(s) that authored the code don’t owe you anything. They don’t have to step down, make an announcement, or merge your changes just because you can’t read or comprehend the license text that says very clearly in all capital letters the software is warrantied for no purpose once so ever, implied or otherwise.

If one had a patch and was eager to see it upstreamed quickly, it seems like you’re arguing the maintenance status actually doesn’t matter. Since "[t]hose interested will fork the library and carry the torch" if the patch isn’t merged expediently.

But if you're confident the interested will fork and carry the torch, why do you think you're entitled to force the author(s) giving software warrantied for no purpose should step down. That's genuinely deranged, and my insults appear to be accurate descriptions rather than ad hominem attacks since no coherent explanation has been provided as to why the four reasons given somehow supersede the authors chosen license.
An assertion without rationale is noise or worse.

"That's racist; cancel them!" falls in the latter category. It's the mindless baying of the rabble. You don't engage with the rabble, as there's no fixing stupid. You just hope they shut up, so that you and the other adults can think, and you hope that the rabble burns down someone else's house.

Analogously, there's not much to be gained from engaging with someone shouting "Allahu Akbar; death to infidels!" That's drone purview.

I hope that helps.
> 1/4-in. magnetic tape

Tape shown in the video demonstration of Etak was ordinary 1/8 Philips 4 x 2 1/2 x 1/2.

>another source <https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2332/dot_2332_DS1.pdf>

Dimensions are for a Tape Drive so that matches Philips cassette. Speed is 40x normal, but reading https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/08/30/50_years_of_the...

"The actual production of Musicassettes was done on machines running 32 times faster than normal playback. Cassette tape would be reeled over four heads recording what would be both sides at once at 60 IPS. The master tape that was source of the original music had been recorded at 7.5 IPS and this would also run 32 times faster, clocking up a playback speed of 240 IPS for duplication purposes."

"This super-fast tape transport also required the circuitry to follow suit. So instead of the bias frequency being around 80kHz, it was now 2.4MHz; the amplifiers also needed to work over a frequency range of 200kHz to 500kHz."

Commodore 64 with best tape Turbo is able to store slightly above 1MB per cassette. Japan already had floppy drives capable of storing over 1MB in 1983, but it looks like Etak needed more, with this 40 times faster tape drive delivering:

"local map data base stored on a 3.5-MByte tape cassette."

I would love to learn more details about this drive. Modulation used? Number of tracks? Format? Magnetic flux dump of one of the cassettes would be a lovely puzzle to decode.
Reddit is taking over Google
Ah well, but we could always get as much more of it as we want with an exciting enough mining project!

And if that fails, just sit tight and it'll be most of the universe for a few quadrillion years, somewhere between "cold, dark and quiet" and "very cold and very dark and very quiet"
Looking at the public data. China has shed >50% of their stock market since covid started.

Essentially China is in a great depression.

Chinese labour is now as expensive as France's. Which is really bad for them.

Their property is in tremendous crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis...

They have a tremendous amount of shadow banking, fake numbers, no law enforcement against these white collar crimes, and so you can only fairly assume these public numbers are far better then reality. Estimates have china's debt probably closer to 300-400% amortized against export numbers which arent possible anymore.

During the previous economic crisis they gave their pension funds full access to this stock market: https://www.reuters.com/article/china-stocks-pensions-idUSL4...

So basically all their pensioners are headed back to work now. Should help with labour costs?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/moodys-cuts-china-credit-out...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/capital-flig...

China's future looks very bad. 3/4 of that capital flight is their own people leaving China asap.

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/currency/786094...

And worse these record numbers of chinese citizens leaving are largely speaking restricted. Without these capital controls, the numbers would be far worse.

Then you have the reality that china and covid relationship. You have China protecting Russia in their offensive war against ukraine. You have China starting a war with India. You have threats against Taiwan. There's some sort of "genocide" of muslims in their west; though im unsure if that's true or moreso war propaganda.

China seems to have picked these fights and I'm not sure why they have done so.
There's no generic solution to database problems.

They all depend on the specifics of the data and the specifics of access and the specifics of the use.

Then you make engineering tradeoffs per the CAP theorem.

Is the application launch-the-missiles critical?

Is it newest-lol-cat-pictures critical?

What's the network latency?

What is the CDN strategy?

How frequently does the data change?

How much data changes per second/minute/hour/day/week/month?

How much cache can you use?

Etc.

Good luck.
> Segway worked exactly as advertised

No.

Their PR and marketing was AWFUL to build the level of hype they did around the product they released.

If you're releasing a scooter for mall cops and tourists you don't go on Good Morning America to advertise it as a world-changing technology.

They advertised the release of a world-changing technology and released nothing like that.
omg fax is alive and well in health care. You can't email stuff but you can fax!
Why not two trackpoints - one for cursor, one for scrolling ?
They have been serving those on airlines for a while now. A solid choice. Hopefully a 'BuyItForLife' kind of choice for the airlines.

Wonderful on planes and wonderful at home. Also great when dunked in milk. Make sure you let a small bit (or one whole) 'accidentally' fall off into the milk and rescue it later. Hmmm....
Yeah agree, I have worked with tons of smart people, talented people, people whose parents had them coding in elementary school, but only one person I would consider brilliant.

It was jarring how he instantly understood any line of reasoning I was going down. There was no need for context or lengthy background explanations, he would just see what you were doing. That was in most areas also, politics, programming, philosophy, etc.

It was refreshing because conveying information to him was effortless, he needed like 20% of the info that is usually required when explaining something to another person. I don't know how one could achieve that other than just being gifted at absorbing and processing information.
"Whataboutism". Brushing away hypocrisy is way to easy nowadays. It would be way better for morale if they just said that offices are a benefit then pretending to defend something they don't believe in.
For someone who played outside growing up, ray tracing is a nice addition, the baked lighting always drove me crazy in my games. I put it up there when I noticed Physics engines stopped feeling like I was floating through a game.
As much as I dislike politics, honestly, it sounds like he was out-maneuvered by someone who works less hard. Think Frank Grimes.
Thank you for writing "CGI" and not "AI."
My ex worked at a company where their head grant writer was making as much or more than the CEO because all their revenue came from grants and they were terrified he was going to leave. They just kept throwing money at him.
Yeah, and then it turns out your chat group was all about breaking into all cars in neighborhood Z, or spearfishing all elderly in e-mail domain D, and you're all like "why didn't the police stop this?"

Well, guess what, the police is the government, and they need some intel to go on... (And, yeah, they also need to be restrained. But that's not what this particular submission, nor your reply, makes a strong point for)
I agree: It's not 75%. But you're suddenly substituting the word "brilliant" for "pragmatic" and that's kinda questionable. It might be that you define brilliant differently than some others, so that IQ is much less significant than pragmatism itself in your equation of brilliance; but if you think IQ -> pragmatic, I disagree. I think they're orthogonal.
Thank you for the introduction. I finally have proof that all those "videos from the future" are fake.
I knew they were, just didn't know what planar tracking was.

On another note: the Humane AI is released. Maybe the scam is that it's damn slow?
A more realistic example is parking. If a company in a high demand downtown area offers discounted parking for all their employees, that can be seen as a benefit worth equivalent to what it would cost to park next door. Even for those that don’t drive to work.

The benefit can be constrained to individuals, but then you usually get into fairness arguments and most people rather take the equivalent salary increase instead if given the option.

Either way, it is not going to be fair.

For this reason, most companies simply rather not offer free parking.
This. I used to buy old cellphones on eBay to test with to prove that stuff worked OK on really shitty hardware.

p.s. please everyone: factory reset your phones before you sell them :)
Seems that Perplexity Labs already offers a free demo of it.

https://labs.perplexity.ai/
Microsoft Publisher is mine. Think it, put it on the page, now you're a desktop publisher. I preferred it to Word for the longest time, for even the most banal documents, because I had pure control over layout.

I wish it was ported to Mac.
I don't think that's how a bike works.

You pivot the front wheel to turn, the leaning is secondary. It's to counter centrifugal force so you don't fall over.

Edit: I'm mistaken and didn't account for camber thrust which happens when "a point on the outer surface of a leaned and rotating tire, that would normally follow a path that is elliptical when projected onto the ground, is forced to follow a straight path while coming in contact with the ground, due to friction. This deviation towards the direction of the lean causes a deformation in the tire tread and carcass that is transmitted to the vehicle as a force in the direction of the lean." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camber_thrust
Many Jewish people do believe that, yes. JVP is not a mainstream group. They tread pretty close to the line on things like the Blood Libel in their rhetoric, and, in particular, in a long-term campaign they've run linking police violence in the US to Israel (a risible claim, for what it's worth).

I'm not saying they're antisemitic. I'm not qualified to render that kind of judgement. You can easily argue that the ADL isn't either --- the ADL has problemicized itself in a bunch of ways too in the last few years. But you probably shouldn't be shocked when people make that claim; it's a common one.
Programmatically Interacting with LLMs
Our SMS-to-Internet microblogging app startup is hiring full stack developers.
You're essentially mixing units. "2 out of 20" does not match with "first try". I would have liked to see you run all of them for 20 and added comments in addition like "this got it right on the first try", which could also have been luck. I mean if it got 1 out of 20 but happened to get it right the first try, is that better or worse than 2 out of 20?
Perhaps, but the playbook has always been lobbying and deception to prop up oil. Manufacturing hydrogen isn't enough; they'll have to build out the infrastructure (I have no idea how easily gas pumps/stations can be retrofitted)
As I recall, the headline on Slashdot that day was, "This is IT?"
Looks awesome. I hope you could find a way to make LLDB usable with Rust.
I haven't checked but I bet a significant part of that is just increased image sizes. Icons and everything are going to be uncompressed in memory and if they're now 256x256 where they used to be 32x32 or whatever, it probably adds up.

There's probably also things like unicode data (ICU is like 20MB), more daemons (WiFi, rendezvous, Bluetooth, etc.), and I think C compilers have generally optimised for speed at the cost of code size over time.
It's slower but maybe the target audience is different? Armadillo prioritizes MATLAB like syntax. I use armadillo as a stepping stone between MATLAB prototypes and a hand rolled C++ solution, and in many scenarios it can get you a long ways down the road.
So do you have a problem with the elected officials who push for the policies you're against? Or the idea of a bureaucracy?

Your comment was a bit all over the place in attributing the world's ills.
There is DWARF 5 support, it's doesn't yet support .debug_names sections but for the rest it works.
If you aren't happy, or want to be happier, just put on some Django Reinhardt and sit back for a second.

The Joe Pass tribute album is also absolutely incredible.

Truly truly some amazing music.
But the greatest of these things is Control.
> It's been a while, but when I worked in the education sector we had systems for students to upload their work, get graded, feedback, reports etc. Yeah, you could upload .pngs and .jpgs but it's hardly 'the next contact in the list' or 'maybe they had the same first or last name' in those scenarios, you upload the work for specific classes/courses. Obviously that's a single system, I don't know the full scope of what schools use these days.

As you (unintentionally) point out, there's money to be made/data to be acquired in Education. A few years ago, before Covid, one of my siblings had to use a cloud offering because of school. I forgot which, Microsoft Team for Education maybe, or Facebook Education Groups. I just remember being disapointed. People are use to their interface, and they have the money to lobby and ads, easier to sell something "free" with easy onboarding to schools administrators.
20-40 mins an hour here chief.
Who heads the executive branch?
A co-op only attenuates to employees. There are better options. Example: FairShares Commons
My read is that some former fans strongly disagree with, and are thus disappointed by, Tegmark's recent enthusiasm for "AI will kill us all" arguments, & advocacy of strong/intrusive policies against AI progress.
Yeah that's the next step probably.
It initially had it's own debugger implementation but the scope for that was too great.
Tesla to display average speed in speed zones to driver
I think people are being a bit cynical with that take, although it's not completely unfounded. There are other factors like new technologies that are overall better, and also restructuring of teams due to people leaving and/or layoffs. What you end up with is a codebase or parts of the codebase that accumulate "damage" (or increase in entropy), and sometimes the easiest thing to do is to start something from scratch again.

So yeah sometimes the path of least resistance is building something new.
Is there any plan to distribute Delta via the App Store in the US now that emulators are officially allowed?

Or is Delta being used mainly as the incentive to use AltStore?
>Why does he think black people have a lower IQ?

Because of every study that's ever been done on this topic? Pointing this out isn't racist.

>Nigerian immigrants to the US are some of the most successful immigrants.

Typically those immigrants come from among the smartest few %.
> This is an appealing narrative without evidence.

I had the same thought, but I’m grateful to the author for putting their opinions out for us to see.

It is an interesting quandary - getting “more” from someone, pragmatic or otherwise, raises questions. Is the premise that they aren’t providing value on a level with salary? Or, is it that the business has a right/obligation to extract more? The latter is offensive, fundamentally because “value” may be arbitrarily (perhaps capriciously) determined.

On the other hand, I find the folks suggesting that doing an hours work a day is fine. It’s not. That’s equally offensive.
I doubt it. Finding faster deterministic min-cut algorithms has been an interesting problem for a long time. Programming puzzles have no practical impact on theoretical research.
Douglas Engelbart - inspired by LSD to invent computer mouse

Steve Jobs stated LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I ever did in my life”

Francis Crick saw the double helix of DNA on LSD

Kary Banks
Mullis, the biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his improvements to the polymerase chain reaction technique: “It [LSD] was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took.”

Ralph Abraham claimed the insights he had while on psychedelics such as LSD profoundly influenced the development of his mathematical theories.

And there's more and I am not even mentioning that most artists are using something.

So yeah, if you can get Nobel prize you can definitely get PhD. You do you, I don't know what you have achieved but don't claim you posses some universal truth.
In most applications of carbon capture you don’t need complex molecules like that.

For instance, the Navy would like to use electricity from a nuclear aircraft carrier to make hydrogen and capture CO2 and build up molecules like kerosene which could be mostly hydrocarbons where the average carbon binds to two other carbons, so you don’t have the situation they are talking about where one carbon is bound to four others.
Raytracing is currently not universally supported and slow, so it's used to supplement existing pipelines. It's more work, not less.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/albums/72157631470798...
I would actually argue it's strictly worse, because we have gotten terribly effective weapons in the last century.

No one in the ME was killing each other as effectively as they are now. That's a way things are demonstrably worse than "there was war a millenia ago."

I also don't think it's fair to say that the ME has been in a "perpetual war for millenia." Was the ME at war during the crusades? Or was Europe conducting Sieges on them.
> if you have a clear exit plan outside scaling the so-called ladder

Exit plan is FIRE. Everything else is circus and performance art. Others can play status games, I prefer wealth games: wealth is options and options are freedom.

Pragmatic, smart, skilled people are extracted from unless lucky and in a position to see outsized returns from their effort. Better to know what enough is, collect enough freedom coins, and enjoy the one go you get at life.

(n=1, ymmv, "show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome")
I feel like I missed the point the author was trying to make in the article? At first I thought they agreed that there is a problem with STEM schools not having many of the humanities classes (and non tech classes).

But then they said they reject that idea.

So what am I missing about the article?

Regarding Stem school not having the non tech classes. Personally I think that's a good thing. We went through Elementary, Middle, and High School for a general education, to learn how to learn, and to hopefully find what we are interested in. So being forced to take even less "useless" classes in college is likely a good thing to me.