skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's certainly selection bias at play.

If you look at 2-year degrees vs no degree, the lifetime payoff is still hundreds of thousands.
> Is it typical for "thought leaders" to be paid to dishonestly push certain ideas?

Null hypothesis would imply we should treat them no different than other influencers. Unless you've evidence otherwise?
Parallel Lives
I agree this one is terrible, but I don't think it's because this one is racketeering.

If we think this tax is a racket, we should equally think that all taxes are a racket. That's because your "Try not paying it" argument applies to all taxes.

If we think this tax is uniquely bad, there should be another reason that it's bad. Which is my point.
Namespaces as Security Domains (2023) [pdf]
It depends on what you mean by society. If you mean the entire world, then of course I agree with you. But cultures and societies do go extinct, quite regularly. The Roman Empire, most notably, also had a fertility collapse in their final years. And by the end Rome itself had just become a facsimile of what was once the greatest city of the greatest empire in the world.

So, for instance, many people don't realize that right now is still the good times for Japan. Here [1] is their population pyramid. It currently still looks kinda-sorta pyramidish. But in ~20 years, their population pyramid will be completely and wholly upside down. And their population, economy, and everything else will fall into complete collapse. They'll be losing about half of their population each 20 years at that point. No culture can survive this. This will be made even more true by the fact that it will likely trigger a vicious cycle where the massively skewed age ratios, collapsing economy, and other issues will further reduce fertility.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...
The uninsured. The underinsured. People on the "wrong" insurance plan. People without the budget slack for $100s or $1000s per month for the medication they need. Poor people who don't bother going to the doctor to get needed prescriptions because they can't afford the initial visit. Rich people whose doctors fail to mention the drug that costs $250k because no past patients cleared for it could afford it. People going to the doctor who gets financial kickbacks from the inferior drug's drugmaker. People prescribed drugs that kill them.

If your question was actually serious, this is a non-exhaustive list.
But why would Swift (or other artists for that matter) want to start their own ticket processing companies? They're not, they're going to want to contract that out. And if you're going to contract out the ticket processing from the get-go, they're the ones literally collecting the money from people buying tickets in the first place.

And I really don't get your example with credit card fees. You're suggesting the credit card processor not collect the fee at the point of sale and instead send all the money straight to Swift's bank account and then expect her to turn around later and cut a check? How is that more efficient than just having them collect their fee at the point of sale? It is just shuffling money and complicating it unnecessarily.

And once again, would most artists really even want to personally get involved in handling all the mechanics of who pays who when and how? I doubt it, they'll once again probably just contract that part out as well. They have a lot of work they need to do as the performer to get ready for the show. So once again it'll still just be some middleman they hire to do all this financial plumbing.

I agree, it looks like there's a certain level of monopoly with TM/LN in this space, and it sounds like artists pretty much need to take the whole package or none of if the artist wants to play at major venues. Maybe allowing these things to split up and be a bit more competitive will reduce prices, make things better for the artists, or whatever. Maybe forcing these people to separate just creates more friction and it gets harder to put on a big show or ends up more expensive overall.

In the end, these middlemen will continue to exist in some form because they do provide value, especially at the scale of putting on a show for many tens of thousands of people.
Big Tech companies are increasingly hiring more hardware engineers over software
Unfortunately, Swift is slower and has worse tooling, especially on Linux. I like it a lot as a language but it is hard to justify its usage outside of macOS when C# exists.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045524
Formlabs launches Form 4 SLA 3D printer [video]
It says it at the top of the post:

> We are hiring across multiple engineering, product, and design roles right now, so we wanted to post this publicly to give a sense of what it’s like to work here. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.
Well, I would have said that the base criteria for a democracy is that the government is an extension of the will of the people (hence the name). But we can agree that Power separation and Representativity are reasonable proxies. But the US isn't well set up for representativity at all. Without going into the finer issues like gerrymandering or the more controversial things like the electoral college, the core issue is that a first-past-the-post system means there can only be two meaningful parties. So you can only really have two sides, when real issues often are far more nuanced than that.
I think this is blocked in the UK. Anyone have a proxy/archive?
Best of both worlds: standardize on issuing one system (probably Mac) that is authorized for sensitive company things like coding, email, VPN, and essentially all actions that change official state; and then also give a budget for test devices that get absolutely no more access or authorization than a device bought at any retailer for consumer use (phones, tablets, computers, VR headsets, etc.). Anyone using the latter for unauthorized purposes (more than just testing with the same methods that any user of the product could do) would be equally insubordinate as if they used their own personal funds to acquire the device, since they're equivalently unmanaged.

Testing is more thorough, and endpoint management remains focused on just the one authorized system.
No question, just pointing out this trend was observable ~30 years ago. It's not a new problem, just getting progressively worse.
Oh the horrors! Please use "it", not "him"! These machines are creepy enough w/o being anthropomorphized more than they already are! 8-)
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins Nvidia
Was that the takeaway? The message I got from reading it is that you're not going to be famous no matter how hard you try, so just enjoy yourself.
The game is actually playable in the browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dune_2_-_The_Building_of_a...

(I happen to have shown it to my 13yo son a few days ago. He wasn't impressed.)
No, the main problem it faces is outside the highly security conscious/paranoid crowd, nobody cares so it'll never gain critical mass and be useful.
The ultimate goal is to produce general-purpose robots. If we want robots that can do everything a human can, then legs are definitely useful.

One simple example: getting in and out of a car. Another thing to consider is that a legged robot can tilt itself for balance while carrying heavy objects. To carry a similar weight with a wheeled robot you'll need a much wider wheel base.

And then of course, if you want to build robots that can be useful inside a house, then they need to be able to cope with stairs. There's also construction... At some point, you don't have elevators... Or just circulating between buildings out on the street where the pavement isn't great.
I love the Humane AI pin as a prop in a sci-fi movie. Not so much for actual, everyday use.
> They also posted a farewell to the previous robot yesterday

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EM5_VFlt8

I wasn't expecting to see a robot bleed, several times.
I somewhat agree that it's __somewhat__ clickbaity, but the other important part of something being clickbait is "being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading". [0]

I'm sure there are some definitions of clickbait that don't require that, but at least colloquially with people I talk to, it's assumed that clickbait necessarily engages in deceptive behavior where the content is not aligned with the title / thumbnail.

In this case, it's certainly designed to draw attention and get a viewer to click, but it's also the thesis of the video. He literally considers it to be the worst product he's ever reviewed, and thinks that they may iterate on it to improve the functionality in the future.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
Agreed. It seems to go hand-in-hand with people wanting to demonstrate humanoid robots doing domestic chores like shirt folding.

I'd go out on a limb and say that we will NEVER have humanoid robots at home folding laundry, walking upstairs to put it away, or putting away the dishes in the kitchen. This is a 1960's sci-fi vision of the future, similar to that of flying cars. Any robot capable of fully navigating the human world will always be too expensive and unreliable as a home helper.

In a factory a stable wheeled robot is way more practical than a bipedal one. It doesn't need a humanoid head either - but I guess that makes for nice PR photos.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence....
I stupidly gave myself a hernia by trying to lift one of the big CRT widescreen TVs in the late 90s. It was a really nice picture though, PAL was decent resolution for back in the day.

The hidef 1080p CRTs used by Sony Broadcast R&D in the 90s were absolute beasts. Gorgeous displays, I remember so many people really were blown away at the hidef content, and it wasn't even close to 4K! (I haven't yet seen any 8K content on an 8K screen, I prefer high refresh rates for 4K, at least 120Hz, rather than more pixels)
Weird way to analyze this. If you look at Faraday's biology he was poor but he had an apprenticeship in his youth, so he clearly had at least adults looking out for him and giving him room to study. I would say it's way more likely that his success can be attributed to him having supportive adults in his life, as opposed to his testosterone(??).
Depends really .. if the source quarry is pulling blocks and thin slicing them for tiles | counter tops then it's relatively easy (in the world of industrial mining) to photographically scan the top and bottom of every slice of stone after it's been cut to tile thickness.

A number of quarries already automate the slicing and "inspect" surfaces for defects via computer vision.

The trick is pattern recognition to catch things of interest so that if required the raw slices can be retrieved before they're shipped.

It's destructive tomography .. with an option to digitally reconstruct a solid, or even to physically rejoin slices.
Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
The reverse of "only macs" is not "only dells" but "not only ... but a mixture of".
Did you mean serverless?
Basically nothing.

They get 1% of VAT which is mostly spent on poor regions (cohesion funding) and agricultural subsidies (Common Agricultural Policy).
David Weber "Honor Harrington" space battles go into some details like that, some few other authors try to think about the practicalities of technological limits, too. Often it strongly resembles sailboats in space.

"Gratuitous Space Battles" may be a better representation of the situation you describe. The actual encounter is a formality, the strategic choices made hours or days beforehand will determine outcomes.
1A is hot garbage. The lady always interrupts guests if they stray beyond the 2-minute soundbite.
While this is down, check out https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE which is (I think) and early example of a complete decompilation / recreation.
Ask HN: How will I make Windows 10 collect less telemetry?
I have been running linux and want to use windows 10 in virtualbox.I need some tips to make it less bloat, avoiding telemetry and tracking.
> Freedom of association is an essential part of freedom of speech because, in many cases, and as the US Supreme Court has stated, people can engage in effective speech only when they join with others.

Freedom of association like... an exclusivity clause?
Show HN: This Chrome Extension shows real numbers in Google Trends
That depends on whether the reality distortion field can still mask the fact that Tesla is still the highest valued car maker. Absurdly, valued about 50% higher than Toyota, and equally absurdly 7 times BMW, which sells 30% more cars. TSLA has a lot of room to decline and still be generously valued.
I strongly disagree.

One of my pet peeves is the idea of asking the world to accommodate a situation rather than build solutions that adapt to the world.

Big example: the best we have for mobility nowadays is a wheelchair of some sort. That requires building special ramps and elevators everywhere.

If we had a four legged chair that could climb stairs, etc, like what BD is doing, it could transport people ANYWHERE. you could literally go for a stroll in the woods with it. People that are injured for 6 weeks in their home could go up and down steps, etc. The elderly could go for walks in a park.

So I for one fully support more research into smarter mobility that doesn’t require the world to accommodate it, but instead adjusts to its surroundings.
Glad to hear it. I feel the library could be improved, and if your server runs on something other than Node.js, you'll have to put together some straightforward crypto code, so feel free to file an issue on the repo[1] if you have any questions or requests. The point of it is not at all to compete with Google, but it could serve as a reasonable stopgap that's easy to implement (no new endpoints, no roundtrips) and should protect against all of today's cookie stealers, which would have to become a lot more sophisticated to beat it. I created a discussion on DBSC's spec repo yesterday that has a more direct comparison vs. Google's proposal[2] that you can check out.

[1]https://github.com/zainazeem/session-lock
[2]https://github.com/WICG/dbsc/discussions
Can you hand me your phone? I want to go through your texts and photos.
My response was to the comment that going to college as a young adult is "rather ignorant".

Slicing and dicing the data and making informed policies choices needs to be done, but a blanket statement that college is dumb is, well, dumb.
imo shitty parents is an external event, a series of them
The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant
Tesla's market cap is crazy high: 81B revenue, 480B market cap, 36 P/E.

For comparison, General Motors: 172B revenue, 50B market cap 6 P/E.

The article also compares Tesla to Meta and Google... well that's the crux of the issue. It has been considered a tech company when it really is a car manufacturer. Reality is catching up and China is only a trigger.
The X thread says even service providers who come into your house can be forced to steal data from your computer, e.g. plumbers. So storing your data locally won't be sufficient, it also needs to be tamperproof against physical attackers.
My work happens to require my primary computer to be a Windows machine, and there are many functions Windows provides that the Mac equivalent cannot compete with, when it comes to the work I need to do. Does that mean I "prefer" Windows? I don't think so.
Yeah, I think another way to think about this is "don't get distracted with cultivating and maintaining your brand", rather than "don't find any particular way that you enjoy doing the thing."

One of those is performative and creates pressure and expectation, often at the expense of personal enjoyment and rest. The other is just finding the bit that's interesting to you.
> First of all, they are not violating any license or terms in any form.

IANAL but from what I understand likely debatable at least. You'll notice I said "sleazy" and didn't touch on license, potential legal issues, etc.

I'm pointing out that other projects that are substantially based/dependent on other pieces of software to do the "heavy lifting" nearly always acknowledge it. An example being faster-whisper which is a good corollary and actually has "with CTranslate2" right in the heading[0] with direct links to whisper.cpp and CTranslate2 immediately following.

Ollama is the diametric opposite of this - unless you go spelunking through commits, etc you'd have no idea that Ollama doesn't do much in terms of the underlying LLM. Take a look at llama.cpp to see just how much "Ollama functionality" it provides.

Then look at /r/LocalLLaMA, HN, etc to see just how many Ollama users (most) have no idea that llama.cpp even exists.

I don't know how this could be anything other than an attempt to mislead people into thinking Ollama is uniquely and directly implementing all of the magic. It's pretty glaring and has been pointed out repeatedly. It's not some casual oversight.

> They add value and enable thousands of people to use local LLMs, that would not be able to do that so easy otherwise.

The very first thing I said going so far as to mention commits, model zoo, etc while specifically acknowledging the level of effort and added value.

> Maybe llama.cpp should mention that Ollama takes care of easy workable access to their functionality…

Are you actually suggesting that enabling software should mention, track, or even be aware of the likely countless projects that are built on it?

[0] - https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
I'm pretty sure human's role, in the grand scheme of things, is to generate the next step in evolution. We should do the best job we can for the universe.
Yeah, most people's lives are complicated enough as is. This "suggestion" is asking you to go well out of your way to get buried in some tedious paperwork and investigations. Only those who are into fossils might give a care.

Also notice how smoothly they equate a potential fossil with "human remains". Yeah, technically right.
I don't know enough about robotics to judge BD's technology or innovations. What I can be sure of is that they have an incredible marketing function.
Because young people cannot afford a home to raise their families in. Because enormous amounts of wealth from the productive sectors of the economy are being siphoned to the class of the landed gentry in exchange for no benefits to society at large.

People love hating modern tech billionaires or old time industrialists, but this class at least create something and hire people.
Funny, just after the all electric Optimus.

For sure they have been working on this for a long time.

I predict that they will also move toward neural nets for all the vision, control and understanding of the world (like Tesla)
> Health care and higher education have moved hard the other direction.

How so? I have no option to get public health care that I'm aware of; it's actually hard to imagine getting health care without being forced to pay a premium to a private company.
Product looks like absolute garbage.

PEACE
So it begins. John, where are you?
> because the people of wealth (who are almost always older) now don't want to pay for it.

Well, no, of course not. Us older people with wealth have strongly advocated for decades that they not take on the debt. Of those who thought they knew better, why would we want to pay for their stupidity?

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.

~60% of the population (in the USA) have not attended college. Why not let them reap the rewards of their choices?
A value (Top 1% in a field) times availability of jobs in field (just about 0) technically does equal a positive float, but the stark mathematic reality is that you might as well just take the 160k and blow it on lottery tickets for a roughly equal probability of making your money back.

And if it's just for "an degree", the reality is most HR departments in the US could give two shits about you having anything but an degree.
> decriminalized / legalized app drugs including heroin

let's put this in numbers

- Each year in Europe, every person aged 15 and over consumes, on average, 9.5 litres of pure alcohol, which is equivalent to around 190 litres of beer, 80 litres of wine or 24 litres of spirits.

- In 2019, 8.4 per cent of the EU adult population (15 years or older) consumed alcohol every day, 28.8 per cent drank weekly, and 22.8 per cent monthly, while 26.2 per said they never consumed alcoholic drinks or hadn’t consumed any in the last 12 months

- Between EU countries, there are large differences in estimated alcohol consumption, but one trend remains prevalent: men drink more than women: 13.0 per cent of men vs. 4.1 per cent of women drink alcohol every day; 36.4 per cent of men vs. 21.7 per cent of women drink every week.

Translate that into heroine or cocaine consumption and only after that we can compare the results.

Even though in some countries drugs have been decriminalized or legalized, the social stigma attached to various substances is still enormously different.

But is alcohol more dangerous than marijuana? Yes.

> they start out prescribed legal painkillers

Yes, correct.

That's why those substances are vastly more dangerous than alcohol and you need a medical prescription to buy them from an authorized dealer who needs to be a Doctor of Pharmacy who also had to pass an exam before applying for the license.

There's a reason why selling alcohol is much easier.

You can't get hooked on alcohol by drinking it milligrams at time, like opioids.

> As to cost, you can easily spend $100 for a night of drinking or more

In a bar or a restaurant, with friends or your partner. You're not paying for the alcohol, you're paying for the service.

Beer is ~1.5 euros for a 66cl a bottle in Italy at the local supermarket. You can find Vodka for 5-7 euros. People will think you're having a party, now try asking for cocaine or heroine...

If you were buying the substance on the streets at the black market, it would cost you pennies.

It would be so cheap that the dealer would actually make no money.

It's about easy of access and social acceptance.
Correct. Yet you can easily inform the end user, to get informed consent.

"NOTICE: The user appears to be in XXX, Nigeria. Beware of scams or impersonations by people hijacking your friend's accounts"

But Social media companies would never do this because it would destroy their so called "brand-trust"
> an easy to deploy, self-hosted, p2p encrypted platform allowing limited sharing of files

They have: Freenet, I2P, Tor... none have ever really taken off, _because_ they can be used to circumvent government monitoring. At the end of the day, we'll submit to panopticon censorship because most of us _want_ panopticon censorship.
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