skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True wealth has a lot of non-financial measures.

Non-financial goals are way way harder to achieve than FIRE: the biggest issue is selecting your non-financial goals. Money is a simple goal and it isn't impossible to achieve - then what?

Deciding that money should be your primary focus overoptimises for financial wealth against non-financial wealth.

For example, life satisfaction: do you know people doing jobs they love? People that would continue their calling even if it didn't pay them? Try to understand their wealth even if they don't have the financial freedom a successful business can give you. The main problem is most of those jobs are not in businesses and it is hard to understand things we haven't experienced. Jobs are a very poor example but you get the idea.

I've retired early: for me personally, financial wealth is not enough.

One limited resource that we are approximately all given the same amount of is time - you get fifty years between 20 and 70 to use the best you can. I think most people don't use their limited resource very well (even those that optimise their time well seem to use it poorly on bad meta-goals).
> "here is a logical argument for believing in the Christian god"

That is definitely not the point of the trilemma. It simply argues that Christ must be placed into one of three categories, which do not include "generally nice and completely harmless moral teacher". He was clearly claiming to be God, which obviously leads to the trilemma of choices between Liar, Lunatic and Lord.

That doesn't say which one of those three to pick. Just ruling out the other possibilities by considering the claims he made about himself.
Pretty cool that Firefox OS lives on somewhere
"Grass" means "report to the authorities." Seems to originate in Britain as rhyming slang between copper and grasshopper, though I looked up the etymology for this post.
Valid point, but let's tease that apart: We're talking about seashells and coral, not the sort of bones you'd find in a mammal, but still the skeletal structures of animals. So maybe "skeletons" not "bones". Same difference.
Yeah lol I love all things that deliver more information to my eyes like higher resolution and framerate so I dislike it when people complain about high frame rate.
Grass is British slang for informing on someone
Too late, FIRE'd at 30, never enjoyed work
How to Spot Real Expertise
That is fascinating, I have found myself learning more about these as I dive through the background works on Ace Combat contents.

While by no means a proper simulator, it certainly makes a fun arcade and sci-fi shooter experience.
The /r/Netherlands subreddit has been taken over by hostile expats years ago. They ban any discussion in Dutch, forcing everyone to speak English, and will delete everything that doesn't have "international appeal"
No one found him guilty of anything at this point. How can they when deciding in which court he should be judged? That happens before the trail. You're talking complete bollocks utterly disconnected from anything to do with this case.
My point is a large group of people have been feeling "dissatisfaction and worsening conditions" for thousands of years. It's what growing up and getting older feels like. You yearn for how things were in the past.

It's easy to take for granted the things which got better before you knew about them and to overemphasize things which are getting worse now. There is always something, there always has been something, always will be. And always there have been people insisting that the modern problems are the real serious ones compared to the past.

Doom sells. Lots of people buy it.
Money provides opportunity, better education, early networking with other wealthy people, the ability to try and fail. If your family was in the most common tax bracket growing up, then maybe you could be considered self-made. Otherwise, you had opportunities the majority will never have.
Jesus, I didn't know that was his music. That's why his music sounded so familiar when I first heard it!
I use RES and haven't had any problems opening images or videos... actually, I've noticed they load really slowly, often times I can watch the image loading like it was 56k days. I wonder if that's because I'm using old reddit+RES.
Use resend or postmark
Ok, I waited to be downvoted :) now let me repeat: this is uneducated post, almost if not all statements here are incorrect, it's a personal opinion, but not facts. Literally everything could and should be disregarded here - "with the exception of 'thank you'" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1).
Effort to crack down on TikTok gains momentum in US Congress
Airships were so cool... and unfortunately, so flammable.
My objection is:

> Your typical color TV effectively created "pixels" by their use of shadow masks and three separate beams.

It's true that almost all colour TVs are pixelated and have shadow masks and three separate beams, but it's got the cause and consequence the wrong way around.

The pixels are created by the phosphor dots, not the mask/tube design. It's possible to use this design without three tubes or the screen, strictly, but a consequence of this design suggests the optional addition of a shadow mask and additional tubes as a natural, later progression for improved performance.
I remember in the 90s playing a whole lot of educational software at home and school. This has since disappeared. Edmark Zap!, Math Quest, Mental Math, Carmen Sandiego, Pajama Sam. The latter two being slightly less educational. You can find them on the web and can be run in WASM emulators from the browser.

Most games I see today are aimed at teens/adults for console/pc. And the others are ad serving platforms disguised as games on mobile. Although Netflix subscribers have access to many mobile games sans ads.
Was it a ban, or did they just run out of witches?
That’s pretty cool. Your son has a better relationship to technology than a lot of adults. Probably reflects some good parenting, nice work.
I am not a physicist, my sense though as a layman is that GR explains the motions with which it is concerned more effectively than QM or QFT do. As in, with Schrodinger's cat, what causes the poison's release? And why does that happen? The "shut up and calculate" thing I'd assumed referred to quantum theory.
> median_rent

I am wondering if it is low because people simply downsizing..
One of the photos shows it does, woohoo
I didn't say it was unprecedented. What a strange way to respond.
About a third of infections were completely asymptomatic, so that's not unlikely at all.
I'm not sure why you keep trying to talk about 1300s Spain when the expulsion of the Jews from Spain happened in 1492, which is in the 15th century and very nearly in the 16th. Jews were clearly a thing in Spain in the 15th century, and Spain was a part of Europe.

And they weren't just in Spain; there were large Jewish communities in the Holy Roman Empire throughout most of the period you're claiming they weren't a thing in Europe — in fact, Yiddish is famously a fusion of Hebrew and High German — and Louis XIV issued letters of patent to the Jewish community in Alsace in the 1600s. Many of the Jews expelled from Spain were initially welcomed by the Papal States, who already had existing Jewish populations — until they were expelled from the Papal States by Pius V in the 16th century. Venice oppressed their Jewish population brutally and confined them to ghettoes, but of course, they existed — otherwise there would be no ghettoes. Not to mention the massive Jewish presence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was one of the largest European states in the 1500s, although given your backtracking to "Western Europe" perhaps you don't consider the Grand Duchy to be "civilizational European." And in the 1600s, Denmark began explicitly encouraging Jewish immigration from the rest of Europe, due to the Danish fiscal crisis from the Thirty Years War, with hundreds of thousands of Jews moving.

You are simply wrong.

Honestly, given the level of Israel/Palestine conspiracy takes on Jews never having existed in the Middle East, or having no presence there until the 20th century (also wrong), I'm somehow shocked to find someone with a theory that Jews didn't exist in Europe prior to the 19th century.
Heh -- my explanation isn't the clearest I realize, but yes, it is BoW.

Eg fix your vocab of 50k words (or whatever) and enumerate it.

Then to make an embedding for some piece of text

1. initialize an all zero vector of size 50k
2. for each word in the text, add one to the index of the corresponding word (per our enumeration). If the word isn't in the 50k words in your vocabulary, then discard it
3. (optionally), normalize the embedding to 1 (though you don't really need this and can leave it off for the toy example).
initialize an embedding (for a single text) as an all zero vector of size 50k
The reddit front page has been an absolute dumpster fire of repetitive, ai-generated (or at least content farm generated) rage bait posts since the mod revolt a while back. I wish there were a way to quantify it, but basically all the "generation" subreddits, personal finance subreddits and "am i the asshole"-type subreddits absolutely dominate the front page and /r/popular with rage bait posts.
This is the boot camp school formerly known as Lambda School, that came under a lot of fire in the past for these types of practices, and other issues.

Previous trouble they've been in:

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2021/04/26/lambda-school-reaches-settlem...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/13/lambda-school-lawsuits/
CPI doesn’t properly account for these factors that I mentioned.
You might want to actually read my comment. He was arrested pending trial. They have to decide where to put him, pending trial.

If the judge expects to try him as an adult for the reasons I listed, then they're going to put him in an adult jail.

If the judge expects to try him as a juvenile for the reasons I listed, then they're going to put him in a juvenile jail.

Either way, someone does have to make the call. And there are circumstances where the call that was made is appropriate.

Since it's 'detention pending trial', if he gets acquitted or charges dropped then per the system he 'suffered no penalty'. Same as anyone else arrested and put on trial. We know that isn't true though, since anyone in jail is still in jail and jail sucks. If he is found guilty, then he gets transferred.

Clearly it was a bad call on the Judge's part doing what they did, which is why it got reversed - eventually.

But as anyone who has dealt with the courts is well aware, everything is glacial - unless it's going to make your life a pain in the ass. That usually happens quickly.

But like everyone else, one you're in the system, you're going to have a bad time regardless.

What else do you propose is going to happen though?
$100k absolutely can cut it in most of the US- even in expensive cities. The median income in New York City is $76k [1].

The article uses a wild definition of "American Dream" where 50% of income has to be able to be spent on non-essential things. I really don't think most people will actually spend like that.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
I would love if I could blacklist quora from search results. I have no idea why it's ranked so highly. It's a garbage site with worthless answers.
Yeah they really should be using Stripe to authorise the card payment and then capture it when the app is successfully installed
it seems plausible that all new things are brought into existence unintentionally. that is, you tried to create something you imagined, but what you actually created was something else. certainly there are many examples of thinking about renewable energy that were completely wrong because they were based on presumptions that no longer hold, or in some cases were already wrong but in a nonobvious way

as my wife points out, we can't even imagine any of the things that do actually exist, only drastic simplifications thereof
> why the developer would bother with their own store if the App Store now allows emulators

The keyword is now allows emulators. They didn't allow it 3 weeks ago. Or a year ago. Or 10 years ago.

Only now, with alternative stores launching and offering this, Apple has finally allowed emulators.

Perhaps the developer doesn't want to be beholden to Apple's whims? Especially after investing a lot of effort into setting up an alternative store?
Interesting article, thanks.

> Perhaps their time will come again.

That's pretty sure, as soon as the hype about LLMs has calmed down. I hope that Cyc's data will then still be available, ideally open-source.

> https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/87/article/853382/pdf

Unfortunately paywalled; does anyone have a downloadable copy?
CryoEM structures reveal how bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction
Hmmm... Many parts of the old Paris have been entirely destroyed to make way for gigantic streets / boulevards of Hausmann.

I went to Paris quite some times and although there are places with narrow streets, Paris doesn't strike me as a city made of tiny streets where you can easily get lost.

It's not as cookie cutter as N.Y. or L.A. but Paris is an artificial city too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
I constantly see the argument "no country has ever been powered by solar and wind", implying that it therefore can't be done, and that one should use nuclear instead (never mind the same is true of nuclear; not even France is fully nuclear powered).
Coinbase Will Liquidate Assets, Denies Withdrawal Access
I find myself in a dire situation that I never imagined possible with Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite my relentless efforts, I'm trapped in a nightmarish scenario where my assets are on the verge of being liquidated, and I've been rendered helpless in withdrawing them.

The issue stemmed from Coinbase's sudden imposition of new terms and conditions, which I was unable to accept due to a persistent technical glitch. Despite exhaustive attempts across various browsers and devices, I've been met with an impenetrable wall preventing me from accessing my account.

Compounding my frustration is the fact that I'm not based in the US or EU, leading me to suspect that my geographical location might be a contributing factor to this ordeal.

Months of attempting to contact Coinbase have yielded no resolution. I've meticulously followed every instruction they've provided, resubmitted identity verification documents countless times, and even created a new account at their insistence, only to find myself still locked out of my assets.

Now, to add insult to injury, I've received a chilling notice that my assets will be seized if I fail to withdraw them immediately. It's a desperate situation, and I'm at my wits' end.

I'm reaching out to the community in the hopes of finding a solution or gaining some insight into navigating this Kafkaesque nightmare. If anyone has faced a similar predicament or has any suggestions on how to proceed, your input would be invaluable.

Time is of the essence, and any assistance in resolving this crisis would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for standing in solidarity during this challenging time.
It seems like the truth though.

I have a friend who can only bear to work at places that provide meaningful work and aren't toxic environments. He finds "bullshit jobs" psychological corrosive and he will quicky become depressed if he finds himself at one. He will go six months to a year between jobs, and will leave a job quickly if it turns out it doesn't meet his criteria.

On the flip side when he finds something he likes he works 60+ weeks and never less than everything he can to the job. He burns bright and generally leaves after two years, repeating the process.

Most people aren't like this. They will work just enough at a job that is just good enough. It's not about being better, it's about taking a different approach to finding and retaining a job.
The US is all over this concept today, Only with bombers/transports and drones/UAV's

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/here-...

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/09/13/us-drone-swarms-ta...

I suspect that in light of the war in Ukraine were going to see a lot of development on this front.
I thought about this quite a lot and feel like it's super important as well. Often, having the proper infrastructure/tools/resources to automate performance testing is hard. I created codspeed.io to try and fix that.
Haha yes :) Publish it, Kacper!

The project is a nerdsnipe for math geeks, because there are multiple small things that beg to be proven / described by math there. For example - what's the tradeoff between the number of bits we loose when embedding position vs the bits of information that we gain by knowing which bucket a weight belongs to?

In other words - is it possible that when storing weights in the bucketed form we can actually end up having a higher precision than using a regular form? For Q8 we get just 4 bits to store the weight (and 1 bit for sign, and 3 bits for location), but these 4 bits need to express numbers from a smaller range than before.
As well, the impacts of fructose and HFC.
Those are shockingly bad.

I am sure someone will tell me there is a reason why I am wrong and these aren't that bad.

Midjourney has never needed an explanation though with words. The proof is in the output. Everything else is nonsense.
So you agree with his statement? A larger proportion of the average person's income is taken by taxes.
Very interesting. I had a chance to go in the Central Station before they really started fixing it. I remember seeing a mirror placed on the floor so you could see the ceiling (and the nets that were there to catch any falling ceiling pieces).

As far as the war on talent goes, that's going to be a lot harder than restoring a train station. Getting people to move to Michigan is hard enough, getting them to stay is even harder. I also think that Ford is still remote first, but perhaps they can use this as a lure when making a talent pitch.
I love this website. I bought the hardcover book when it came out. Highly recommended.
karma_pharmer cannot do that because others will
Have you forgotten...brexit? We no longer get to enjoy the benefits of the EU.
Helium airships were not flammable.
The form of this message pattern-matches perfectly to spam, by the way, especially from an account whose only activity is to make essentially this same post three times; if you are in fact human, you might want to do something about that (such as being precise about which comment you mean, and why it's relevant).
Zed v0.131
Actually, I had a pretty good experience with Pinecone.
Yes.

Although if you really wanted to, and normalized your data like a good little Edgar F. Codd devotee, you could write something like this:

SELECT SUM(v.dot) / (SQRT(SUM(v.v1)) * SQRT(SUM(v.v2))) FROM (SELECT v1.dimension as dim, v1.value as v1, v2.value as v2, v1.value * v2.value as dot FROM vectors as v1 INNER JOIN vectors as v2 ON v1.dimension = v2.dimension WHERE v1.vector_id = "?" AND v2.vector_id = "?") as v;

This assumes one table called "vectors" with columns vector_id, dimension, and value; vector_id and dimension being primary. The inner query grabs two vectors as separate columns with some self-join trickery, computes the product of each component, and then the outer query computes aggregate functions on the inner query to do the actual cosine similarity.

No I have not tested this on an actual database engine, I probably screwed up the SQL somehow. And obviously it's easier to just have a database (or Postgres extension) that recognizes vector data as a distinct data type and gives you a dedicated cosine-similarity function.
Hey, my bad - there were a considerable amount of traffic, and reached my rate limit. It should be fine in the days to come tho!
Ok then why do we still have recruiters and HR? If their job is impossible why do we pay them to pretend otherwise? If people aren’t fungible why do we force them into fungible roles?

If the reality is that people are fungible and leadership is just out of touch and made bad decisions then they’re the ones that should be canned.

Hiring people is expensive. Firing people is expensive. Reorganizing people requires competent leadership.
Sorry, you've lost me here. Which part of my argument are referring to?

I'm not criticizing a group, btw. I'm criticizing ideas. Ideas have specific consequences. Some ideas inspire good actions. Some inspire bad actions that outweigh the good.

When an idea claims to have big consequences in the distant future, we can look at its consequences in the present day to help us guess the likely nature of those future consequences.

Oxford deals in ideas, and gets to decide which ones to host and fund. Sometimes they get it wrong, mistaking bad ideas for good ones. That's unfortunate, but it's nice when they come around to the right assessment eventually.
Sounds like something the FAA and/or Boeing's accountants would shoot down the minute you think about it.

Building airplanes is expensive as hell
I'll play. My favorite software, in order:

1. Linux

2. Emacs (with org-mode, org-roam, and other plugins)

3. Nushell
today, far more likely to have a mothership drone that shoots drones out.
Ah yes, forgot to make the repo public. Thanks a ton for pointing it out and writing the comment - I'd miss it if you didn't point it out on HN.
> For its critics, the whole enterprise is a misguided sham.

I'm a critic, but I don't think it's a sham. I do think it's very misguided and I very strongly suspect it has evolved into a cult, but it's not a sham.
More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the industry.

Also according to Wikipedia PAL is also backronymed as Pay for Additional Luxury, Peace At Last, Perfection At Last or Pictures Always Lovely, all positive but none that I've heard before.

Is there any indication that the store's name is really a reference to the TV standard?
My interpretation includes going abroad and becoming rich there without knowing anyone ( even while that makes it easier).

Consider it a ladder with 5 steps representing dirt poor to super rich and you can at most go up or down 2 steps in 1 generation.

If you grew up poor, chances to get rich and stay there is almost non existent.

It's not related to hierarchy like in the middle ages, although I'm presenting it like that.

It's about multiple factors at once.

The hierarchy of the middle ages may be gone, but personal interpretations of life are still influenced by how you grew up. That still matters a lot.
My favorite pager moment: Was part of a large consulting effort - lots of people. One of the execs was doing a demo of the system and they were playing DNS games with dev/test/stage/prod. They did a quick restart - which is when we all found out stage and prod apparently used the same credentials. About 30 seconds or so after the restart kicked off, about 50 pagers went off.
Your examples are exceptions and are certainly not a justification. Drugs are destroying lives of a lot of people who otherwise could have good lifes.
"Users don't know what they want" is absolutely pervasive in the tech world.
I had the same thought process in the 90s, and it is the reason why I still don't have a smartphone :)
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is not.

If removing weights improves some metrics, that may be a clue that the model is not optimal in some sense.
Err…OpenCyc?
Yes, only more sophisticated embeddings can capture that and it's over 300+ dimensions.