skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this a problem as long as those at the bottom experience the maximum amount of growth possible?

For instance, if I could press a button that would double my net worth while at the same time 5x-ing the net worth of my least favorite billionaire, I'd smash that button a million times a day.
> Russia and China cannot deliver more firepower per USD. Any such impression is because Russia/China only fights near-shore wars, rather than the expeditionary wars of the US.

Maybe once - the shambolic internal politics playing out with the funding for Ukraine (a lot of which stays in the US anyway) doesn’t indicate American power. Quite the opposite.
I'll definitely be looking more deeply into this. Thank you for your feedback!
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453
Modern app-ads.txt validator based on CodeMirror
I don't have household servants, but if I moved to India that would be normal. I would like to save the several hours a day I spend cleaning my kitchen costs me, cleaning the other rooms, cooking, doing laundry (my family divides the work, but it is still hours spent every day - and we don't even have the neatest house). However the minimum wage here means I can't afford such servants so I do it myself. It is likely that even if there was no minimum wage I couldn't afford the pay servants would demand to do this - India has a very different economic situation with a lot of people who can't do anything else and so household servant is the best they could get.

Humans cleaning the roads/sidewalks every day would keep things a lot cleaner than the machine that only comes every few months. However again we can't pay someone an affordable wage to do that work so we compromise - the machine lets one human do the work of around 2000 humans with a broom, even at $1/day (which would be a good wage in India where they do hire humans to do this work) a modern machine is paid for by labor savings after half a year of operation, but it will run for 5 years or more. (the machine also needs fuel and maintenance which I didn't calculate.)
Hungary and Czechoslovakia have been invaded once more by Russia decades after the WW2 invasion (1956 & 1968), even if you do not count the Caucasian countries as European.

Before that, there were threats to invade Tito's Yugoslavia, but those have been not accomplished.
Right, it's a clever auction system!

There's a lot of long-tail value/margin to be captured by VPPs right now, especially as wind and solar penetration increases.

(The Enron people abused this with too much market share by taking power plants offline at times of high demand and doing shenanigans with transmission congestion.)
"let go" is a corporate euphemism for fired.
I can guarantee that somewhere in the terms and conditions there's a buried line that says that they are not obligated to operate the AI features for free forever.
It’s fitting he’s now at Microsoft. That’s the MS way.
it was front and center in every US non-FAANG employee handbook and sexual harassment training I went to.
> The problem also: major cities have simply stopped reporting crime at all.

I promise you, no major city has ceased to report and respond to homicides, where we continue to statistically enjoy one of the safest couple of decades in American history.
Related:

Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206063

I Witnessed the Future of AI, and It's a Broken Toy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205666
You probably don't need a new car. A lightly used connected car with a 3g modem is no longer a connected car. I've got two now; one of which had a 3g modem added as a factory recall because 2g was shutdown and the connected features stopped working.
Are you sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
I remember as a kid seeing a neighbor showing off his LaserDisc and at the time thinking "This is really cool, but we just got rid of records.... surely this can be done better and soon."

Soon wasn't very soon, but it was certainly one of those very capable, very cool, and yet tangibly not exactly what it could be type of technologies.

It's interesting how sometimes there's tech that absolutely is very cool and yet seems to just not quite be there just yet.
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Implementing soon ;)
I see it as having a 100 for performance on desktop and 80 on mobile. Is that bad?
Thank you for sharing this! I read this a long time ago and promptly lost the link, despite me coming back to the principles often.
If they really used money towards that goal, wouldn't they cease to be HNWIs? The fact that they still holding large wealth kind of contradicts what they're saying.
Forever recaptcha, again.
I don’t think I have this all figured out either, and I would not want to be in charge of this. It’s a very complicated, dynamic issue with dire consequences for mistakes. Hats off to anyone making a genuine attempt at progress.

> But still, it doesn't have to be that way, if there are more judges, better pay, a lower barrier of entry, and a lot of automation.

I believe if you want more judges, the first issue would be creating more courts. I don’t think there are vacant courts for us to hire more judges into. Someone would have to do some napkin math on how many new courts are local, circuit, appellate, etc. Not a huge deal, just saying the current constraint there is courts rather than judges.

I’m also not a fan of lowering the barrier to entry of being a judge. Remember that any judge can create binding precedent (our whole legal system would need an overhaul to get rid of that). That can be overruled, but it makes court cases a mess and erodes confidence in the court system when it’s impossible to predict what precedent will be applied.

Also, I think there are virtually no barriers to entry. There are no binding requirements to become a judge short of being nominated (no law requires a judge to have been a lawyer or even to have been in a courtroom before). I believe the same is common for county judges. I’ve been to a few rural counties where the former sheriff was running for judge or something (God help us all).

I don’t disagree that we can get better, but I just don’t think we can sustain this level of continued addition of regulations.

Even beyond the costs, the lack of enforcement is teaching an awful lot of people that they don’t _really_ have to follow laws. The umpteenth time someone commits a felony and hasn’t been caught, they start to realize the laws are mostly a facade which emboldens them.

People are buying full auto switches for Glocks off Wish. Nothing says “our justice system isn’t working” quite like people being willing to tie their purchase of an item that carries a decade prison sentence to their PayPal account. It’s not even a clever scheme or well hidden; people are just that confident that our justice system is too dysfunctional to be able to find out about it and file a warrant with PayPal. And they’re largely correct.
Additionally, on my mobile the page was almost unusable. Here is a key bit:

> The company's ability to deannex from the city comes after Senate Bill 2038 passed last year.
I thought this was a US/EU comparison?
There is also the effect of decriminalization and depolicing which I did not see well addressed in the article. There are parts of the US where local government has the social leaning or at least their key donors have the social leaning to take a permissive attitude towards activity that was previously criminal. Effectively this makes activity like buying and selling drugs and shoplifting legal and, thereby, meaningless to report.

If anything the article may more likely be an indicator of the delta between crime as-is and as-reported or a cautionary tale of decision-driven-data
I don't like most of TE's output but the OP-1 is definitely innovative.
It's the cars themselves that are dangerous. Whether people or robots are driving them. We used to have sensible regulation to ensure safety, which was unfortunately repealed, resulting in millions of avoidable deaths:

"...this restricted the speed (of horse-less vehicles) to 2mph in towns & 4mph in the country. The Act also required three drivers for each vehicle – two to travel in the vehicle and one to walk ahead carrying the infamous red flag."

https://law-school.open.ac.uk/blog/red-flag-act
A consequence of being an auto regressive model is not being able to plan token output. I think the author’s example is one of the many corollaries.

You could prompt the LLM differently , for example to write a Python program that does the random part, and then act on its output.
I should have said "the tri-state area." :)
Now's the time to lobby for Google's unfair cross-screen lock-in to end.

Google shouldn't be the default search engine on Android or Chrome. It's incredibly monopolistic. All users should get the right to choose before defaults are forced upon them.

Their payment of blood money to Apple and Mozilla are also unfair given the fact that they already own all of the other real estate.
Git v2.45.0
"If MongoDB were GPL-licensed, the exact same scenario could have played out. Licenses for licensees do not apply to the licensor"

Actually MongoDB was AGPL before, so it was a terrible example for the point about permissive licenses and excellently illustrates your point.

"Linux never required a CLA;"

And so neither did Redis and it still went the same route as MongoDB. The BSD license facilitated it.

"thousands of people own the code. If, instead, copyright were assigned to Linus Torvalds or The Linux Foundation, it would be entirely possible and feasible."

True, but it isn't and it would not have to be to go the same route as Redis if it had a permissive license.

The moral of the story is: If you value your freedoms don't contribute to permissively licensed projects and never ever assign your right, title or interest in any copyright you have.
Take your race baiting elsewhere, this isn’t the forum for that
Too many styles "in Scala," specifically. The point is that some people (not me) prefer to use something restrictive because it keeps everyone on the team from getting too clever with code and making it unreadable. The little bit of extra typing is worth the easier time reading because that's most of what you'll be doing as a coder.

As opposed to an expressive language with powerful macros. Another person could hop on the team and write something that only makes sense to them, and now you have to understand their half-baked DSL.

The burden is on you, in an expressive language, to have a style guide for your team or enforce a style through code reviews. Whereas Golang just has that built-in and obviously is more than capable for writing production software.\

This is a criticism often levied against Scala because you can do pretty much any paradigm in it, and there's lots of disagreements over when to do what paradigm.
There is nothing particularly ironic about that - it's in the Chinese government's interest to control its own citizens and subvert its adversaries' control over theirs, and vice versa. See also Russia granting asylum to Snowden, and the myriads of Chinese, Russian, Middle Eastern etc. dissidents sheltered by the Western bloc. I imagine we would see more of the converse were it not for the language barrier, too.

If anything, we should be grateful for this situation; in a worse world all these governments would abide by gentlemen's agreements to not act against each other when it comes to controlling their subjects, notwithstanding their differences.
The fact that the general category of "violent crime victimization" appears to be equal for all 3 groups probably just means that there are huge differences in what gets reported.

The article is very clear that they're focusing on what gets reported, and not what actually happened.
Hello - OP of tweet here.

It's hard to keep track of the convo on Twitter so I'll comment here.

I think there's something wrong with the data.

The full chart shows a sudden drop of about 9% market share for Google from March going into April 2024. Meanwhile there are significant gains for Bing and Yahoo.

statcounter says they track referrals from search engines (vs. queries directly on the search engine). This suggests to me that there was some change that stopped tracking a significant number of Google referrals, though I don't know enough to know why.

On AI: they do not count moments when a chatbot response references a page, only if you click into the page itself. I think the reactions about ChatGPT/Perplexity eating Google are not entirely correct, considering this + the magnitude of the drop.
They actually continuously deployed that wiper breaking update. My car in 2019 had wipers that worked.

That and the phone key never working, especially when it was raining and I was holding a child and groceries… that was it for me. Traded it in for a gas car. I’m not pumped about oil changes but at least the company won’t be able to remotely deploy bugs to my working car features
The American south is known for gardens. They have pretty good food quality if they want it. Many of them do not cook very good food, but they have plenty of ability to get it if they want. Which is to say for some reason more in the South do not value food quality, but for those who do they get it.
If I may ask, what prompted you to move on from that?
Do they make any dummy boards that can stop the light?

I've noticed my smart TV has a separate wifi module on a card that I've been meaning to yank.
Technology Connections has a decent five video series on the history of LaserDisc. It's some of his earlier work so the production quality isn't quite where his newer videos are today but it's still worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFUoByWSHHoS...

He also has a newer series on the far more obsucre CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) from RCA that's really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVP0SGNlBiB...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, and the Future of Corporations (2013) [video]
Including DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing, market share is now 14.7%.

Assuming the OP's stats are accurate.
Are you attempting to use a single video as proof that FSD is 100% reliable in all driving situations globally?

That video creates more questions than it answers.
A quick check confirms this...

"sample a uniform distribution with mu = 0 and sigma = 1", prompt giving a single float repeated 500 times

https://strangeloop.nl/IMG_7388.png

I wonder if it converges better if you ask it once, in one go, for 500 samples. Chain-of-thought stochastic convergence.
Analog circuits have the same computational power. Piecewise linear functions have the same computational universality.
Thank you for your support! All feedback is welcome, especially as we iterate and improve.
> Concern about rampant retail theft forcing major store closures has risen over the past two years.

That's what they told investors to explain losses, at least. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/walgreens-may-have-overstate...

"A top Walgreens executive on Thursday acknowledged the company may have overblown concerns about thefts in their stores after shrinkage stabilized over the last year... 'Maybe we cried too much last year,' Kehoe said. 'We’re stabilized,' he added, saying the company is 'quite happy with where we are.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...

"The San Francisco Police Department’s data on shoplifting did not support Walgreen’s explanation for the store closings, according to an October 2021 analysis by The San Francisco Chronicle. The analysis said that while not all shoplifting incidents were reported to the police, one of the stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018."
> Port Gibson is where the state’s only nuclear plant is

Oh, that makes sense!

> Vicksburg also has waterways, but you don’t get many tech job centers

The Army Corp of Engineer's primary R&D center is in Vicksburg, so most devs are DoD employees (good gig tbh).

> Clinton was hotter before Worldcom imploded

Ah that makes sense. I didn't realize they were HQed there - they probably could have done wonders like Centurylink did for a lot of Louisiana.
A simpler solution is to simply not give direct access to the database to anyone who doesn't own a large stake in the project. Expose it via a more restrictive CRUD interface with access control in the application layer.
> It's incredibly monopolistic.

It takes less than 30 seconds to change and Chrome is a product _they own_. Take some personal agency. The government doesn't need to hand hold you to change your search engine.
Talos Goes Sonic
The original Iridium fleet was deorbited once the NEXT one became operational.

And Iridium is in a very different market segment than OneWeb, Starlink (currently anyway), O3B etc. – they're in the L-band, which allows handheld terminals or very small (i.e. low drag), non-steered/beamformed (i.e. cheap) vehicle antennas, but also severely limits bandwidth.

Starlink might shake up that space a bit with their direct-to-cell plans, but they don't have the global spectrum, nor the international landing rights or safety-of-life certifications required to be a viable competitor to somebody like Iridium or even Inmarsat in that space.
Interesting. Hafnium oxide is my go-to film coating when I want something impervious to etching. That stuff is bomb proof.

31 year half-life gamma emitter is just one more reason to love it!
The character design is. The image, however, is clearly Disney flavoured if not traced directly.

His version, for example, does not have the distinctive bow. The art style is also completely different.
The ones marked “non potable water”. You know like you those next to gas station pumps.
> One person’s maintaining is another person’s building

IMHO, if you have a shitty harassing manager, you can switch from maintaining to being anti-work in a few months. And having a good manager can lift you from being a maintainer to being a tech lead at any company. This is a simple psychological trick that most companies have not figured out yet and it's very sad.
I think a lot of crime Statistics are twisted and misreported to meet political agendas. One side doesn't want to give the other side any ammunition.
What do these devices use for an antenna? Do they have their own or do they reuse the radio antenna?
Why don't we do this for elections?
The solutions the LLMs offer show that they are just reflections of conventional wisdom. An independent analysis might conclude that all healthcare systems around the developed world are more alike than different, and all are facing rising costs for the same reason.

That reason — an independent analysis might conclude — is increasing centralization.

See the biggest shift in the US healthcare system over the last 50 years for example:

There was a 3,200 percent increase in the number of healthcare administrators between 1975 and 2010, compared to a 150% increase in physicians, due to an increasing number of regulations:

https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...

>Supporters say the growing number of administrators is needed to keep pace with the drastic changes in healthcare delivery during that timeframe, particularly change driven by technology and by ever-more-complex regulations. (To cite just a few industry-disrupting regulations, consider the Prospective Payment System of 1983 [1]; the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 [2]; and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act of 2009.) [3]

An LLM wouldn't provide this answer because an LLM trusts that conventional wisdom, which this answer goes against, is true. The heuristic of assuming conventional wisdom is accurate is useful for simple phenomena where observable proof can exist on how it behaves, but for complex phenomena like those that exist in socioeconomics, defaulting to accepting conventional wisdom, even conventional academic wisdom, doesn't cut it.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/prospective-payment-sys...

[2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

[3] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/h...
2018: My next car is a Tesla. 2024: There is no way I'd buy a Tesla.
Cybertrucks are the 2024 version of "The Emperor's New Clothes."
For those who don't want to watch a video, the term to google is "ablaut reduplication"
Is there a list somewhere of what year the tech was implemented, on a model by model basis [a.k.a. snitch-free rides]? Because regardless of what the manufacturers say, it seems like the data's going to inevitably leak out by some means, intentional or otherwise.
It's pretty clear that "the most highly sought-after people in the world" in AI aren't fresh college grads or junior engineers.

If someone with a PhD and decades worth of research and practical experience in cutting-edge ML/AI/semiconductor tech wants to immigrate to the US, it's idiotic to put them in the same lottery as a $50K/yr "IT consultant" from Infosys. This is exactly why the US completely lost its edge in hi-tech manufacturing and is now losing ground in software/apps as well.

You want your junior engineers to have jobs and gain skills? Maybe don't say no to the best talent from across the world who can mentor them.
Show HN: I made a recipe manager, import recipes by URL and get rid of the ads
Dealing with hundreds of recipe bookmarks was becoming impossible, needed a way to save them and organize them.

So I made a recipe manager, with the main goal of being simple to use and navigate. And it should look good on any device I happen to be using in the kitchen: phone, tablet.

Regarding pricing, I see it being free for most basic features, and having a Premium plan for more advanced features (like importing recipes from pictures or videos). Which means Premium would always be completely optional, not forced. Hopefully just £2.90 per month. But until there are more features, it's totally free.
Yes, it was a thing.

And I feel like there are several headwinds:

1) Globalization. Many countries have better talent for lower-cost than the US now. Our school system sucks. This is not a bad thing, since it improves lives for hundreds of millions of people, just not here.

2) Automation. GenAI isn't taking over roles, but it is allowing them to be fulfilled with fewer people.

3) Inelastic supply curve. If demand falls, wages plummet. If demand rises, wages skyrocket. This means that something like a 10% layoff can have a disproportionate effect on both job availability and salary.

4) As relevant to HN, K-12 schools are making coding increasingly mandatory, so that skillset is less and less exclusive.

There's an open question about how much of this is a cycle. The Communist Manifesto was published in 1850, and has a nice discussion about how highly-skilled, respected artisan jobs were wiped out by industrialization, where a master blacksmith and unskilled labor had the same salary as factory labourers, which is worth a reread, and seeing which parts turned out wrong, and which parts turned out right.

A lot of what we might be seeing might be macroeconomic trends, rather than a cyclical.
I switched off Google simply because they make me fill out 60 seconds of captchas on any search just because a vpn is on. Kind of ridiculous.

Default iOS search now Bing, fuck it.
Implementing soon! Thank you for your feedback.
It's basically the trolley problem.
Does that include the start menu search or cortana or whatever it's called these days?
CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239
Not my fantasy.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
Autonomous Quantum Error Correction of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States