skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, there's a hope, cool

Just for the reference, what I have to face with:
"Sizinde Sular kokuyormu çok kötü koku var baneda mutfakta"

NLLB gives: "You smell like water. It smells bad in the kitchen."

The right translation is "Do your waters also smell? There is a very bad odor in my kitchen too."

"Bu bina elektronik bir sistem var dış kapı -otomatik- uydu -asansör elektrik yoksa hiç biri çalışmaz yanlış sigorta kapatılıp açılırsa böyle sıkıntı olur"

NLLB: "This building has an electronic system. An external door. An automatic satellite. An electric elevator. If none of them are working, it's a problem."

Should look like "This building has an electronic system with an automatic exterior door, satellite, and elevator. If there is no electricity, none of them work. If the wrong fuse is turned off and on, such problems occur."

They have regular punctuation marks like dots, commas, questions, and exclamations, but, for some reason, they don't use these in chats. I don't know why, but it hardens translations a lot.

I bookmarked/starred the repo to track the updates :) Just to clarify - no pressure, obligations, expectations, etc. Just my feedback with couple of samples, hope that helps.
In Chile in the 1950s they had a 48-hour work (and school) week: Monday through Saturday. However, it was common for people to just not show up for work on Mondays, jocularly referred to as "celebrating Saint Monday's Day", even though they forfeited one day's pay. In 1959 the government implemented a new program: if you worked the full 6 days you were paid for 7 days. If you worked less than 6 days, you were only paid for the days you actually worked; that meant that taking Monday off now cost you two days pay. The "Saint Monday's Day" practice quickly died away.
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In practice I’ve had limited success with that flag. It still seems to enable optimizations that make debugging difficult.
This still doesn't help me understand, because we don't know what non-DC electricity usage will be in 2030. That could vary wildly depending on the adoption of electric cars, HVAC systems, water heaters, clothes dryers, et cetera.
Though that still doesn’t mean that zero light isn’t better. That’s why we base our epistemology on experimentation.
I've noticed any project that involves AWS requires a huge amount of "programming the machine" versus "writing the application".

What I mean by "programming the machine" is doing technical tasks that relates to making the cloud work in the way you want.

I've worked on projects in which tha vast majority of the work seems to be endless "programming the machine".
Im 2 paragraphs in and already started my comment, this is how bad this article is.

... 5 paragraphs, its getting much worse. Just ponder this marvel:

> Social evolution and genetic evolution go hand in hand. But the former is much faster than the latter.

Self contradiction right away.

Or this one:

> In complex societies, myths and grand narratives are utterly important. They are what makes people agree to cooperate on a larger scale. Without bombastic ideas like Islam, the Welfare state, free speech or the superiority of the Aryans, complex societies wouldn't be possible.

Id counter that bs with basic needs. Any society, no matter their complexity revolves around the fullfillment of basic needs. Food, shelter, medical care, security, etc.

The article is not entirely bs but way too social darwinistic:

> Cultural evolution happened when societies confronted each other.

Evolution just needs mutation and selection. No other culture required.

One last nitpick:

> Strangely enough, I know of no comprehensive attempt to catalog basic human social structure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_human_nat...

Try Marx as a start of your catalog of basic social structure.
> The amount of work to be done is not finite.

That's only true because expectations rise. It's the old economics problem definition of finite supply and infinite demand, which may be true for a lot of people but not all.

It is easier to provide for "basic", however that is defined, needs such as food and clothing than ever before, and there are a lot of NEETs who live minimal lives without working because of this.

There are two sectors which have an inelasticity problem, healthcare and housing. Healthcare demand is inelastic, and housing supply is inelastic. (Housing demand is inelastic to a point where everyone is housed, and healthcare supply is inelastic because of the lag of training newer professionals, but these have less of an effect than the converse.) These are two of the sectors seeing the most price increases even as consumer staples fall in price. Housing is already correcting itself through reduced birthrates. Healthcare is the tougher problem to solve.

Theoretically the amount of work to be done is infinite, but practically people can trade work for free time, and accept the lower earnings, and still survive. Many people already do this to varying degrees.
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As far as I know Bitcoin does this too, yes (or at least it could; I've seen some conflicting information). It's a property of ECDSA signatures, not anything blockchain specific.
> but if a company can't find "high-quality," they must make do.

At some point it isn't economical to "make do", because paying for in-training employees eats into margins. Especially if "training" means you have to teach to read and write properly and teach how to do more arithmetic than counting on your fingers. No Greek business is going to squirm at investing a few months of training, but the reality is that many people are lacking years.

Greece has been ranking near last in the EU on some important education metrics (specifically those that affect composition of their workforce, like early leavers and those who never went to school at all) until they recently got their stuff together and did a complete 180, but for now they're still stuck with a workforce whose education isn't a strong match for the kind of work that is available now.

There's very little work for people with tertiary education in Greece, and at the same time there's a large number of people who simply hadn't had any formal education at all or dropped out early. The middle ground is extremely under served.
2040 is basically tomorrow, as far as I'm concerned.
> A country-wide collusion between employers to fix wages. That doesn't seem possible.

Why? I would rather guess that this is very common. Obviously, they cannot fix wages directly, but they might outsource the job of estimating wages to some agencies providing the market wages for relevant positions. If every employer asks the same agencies, they all arrive at the same wages, with minor variations.
> By definition, if you don't crash, your speed was OK.

Definition of what? By this logic SBF shouldn't be jailed but rather given an award for making FTX users whole with modest interest.

The law must scale to all of society. There cannot be different rules based on whether you are lucky, "skilled", or not. Most people overestimate the their competence, as evidenced by fatalities involving motor vehicles. (A professional truck driver I knew died, killing his wife, and harming his nephew just driving back home.)
I came back here wondering the same thing.

The first paragraph ends with “in return for more free time” which makes zero sense if they are working 2 more hours for each day. I was expecting something later like it’s banked and you work a 4 day week or something. But nothing on that.

And then yeah one place it says unpaid and another place (to me) said 140% pay rate for that time.

Screams AI written or bad translation.
Sounds like a labor version of Jevon's Paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox where increases in efficiency cause a resource to be consumed more, not less.
Tesla supercomputing center aiming for 130MW power
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a Management Decision." (1979)
Much of the improvement in working conditions, general welfare and home ownership came from western elites' fear of communism.

As that fear recedes, elites feel more comfortable squeezing us.
Not relying on licenced IP? 96% in-house? That's my guess but I'm just a dude on HN.

Also, this is kinda like SpaceX getting a Falcon 9 to orbit the first time but in fusion land.
Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak
Despite tech layoffs, unemployment fell across Bay Area, California
People not working at all, or working significantly less, is not acceptable by any political system of the western countries. The proof here, is the exponential rate in which debt goes up. That debt is directly funding the anti-automation each political system imposes. In other words, automation has to be stopped, and it's gonna take as much money as it needs.

This anti-automation process, created the biggest bubbles in history, equity bubble, real estate bubble, government bond bubble, pharma bubble, cryptocurrency bubble, currency bubble in short TEB(The Everything Bubble).

That's gonna end of course, and soon. It has just started yesterday actually with some triple A derivatives blowing up again like in 2007. By the end of the summer, the first bubbles will start popping off. It's gonna be fun.

[EDIT] There are more bubbles, I just put some in there.
[EDIT] The triple A blowing up is not correct.
Greece biggest economy is tourism, so it is seasonal. They need most workers in the summer.
That chinese -> english machine translation still has some way to go.
It's a whole bunch of toxic factors working synergistically.

The Greek economy is dominated by low-wage tourist-oriented businesses, a whopping 20-30% of employed people are directly involved in them.

And they have to compete against Turkey, Egypt, and other low-income countries. These businesses simply cannot pay high salaries, there's no profit margin for it. So people don't want to work in these miserable conditions, and business owners have problems attracting labor.
I think we so have upcoming energy crunches between data center buildouts, EVs, heat pumps etc. I am not sure why the current news cycle is about AI. But I guess I don’t fully understand the amount of disdain AI gets as seen in the comments here.

In my opinion forcing the grid to modernize is a good thing.
"Humans approximating human taste preferences perform worse on the validation set".

It's a sort of lazy argument that one can imagine a homo economicus which might might better decisions on a proxy variable, less lazily, bemoaning that they don't optimize the authors' preferred measurables.

It shows self-awareness at times

> It is worth noting, however, that the algorithm in the study was designed to optimize system-wide utilization rather than individual driver income.
> The algorithm’s design weakens any conclusion about algorithm aversion, for individual drivers may have been better off optimizing
> for themselves rather than the system.

It has the air of a future cudgel. The title works as a punchline, and as for the strength of the argument, well it's published (posted at all) online, isn't it.
A good, HBCI capable software that can list transactions and make transfers from and to multiple banks. Think Quicken or MoneyMoney.

The browser will only ever log in to one bank per tab, and with different UI per bank. If you have more than one bank, it becomes a hassle quite quickly.
And here is another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40756960
Maybe it's just a Greece thing. I notice that other EU countries are doing a lot better than them economically; not sure why Greece in particular seems to be struggling.
> How come specifically American, and how'd you reach that conclusion from glancing at the site?

It's a very popular publication in the United States and is a US company.

> A huge number of people speak English as a second language.

Yes, and if they're reading native articles, they're most certainly from the context of a small group of countries. It's not those nations' responsibility to make their articles accessible to every other nation simply because English is the most common second-language in the world.

> Usually the notation follows the number, so it's kind of lazy to just say it's written for americans specifically

I'm in France at this moment and haven't lived in the US for over half a decade. I've never once seen a Celsius-based nation put "15c", nor any non-english publication do so. They write for their audiences, the same as American, British, Canadian, etc publications do.

> moreso as a counter to someone saying it's Farenheit instead of Celcius since I also clicked immediately thinking how is that possible.

Correct. The publication is written for Americans and is done so from that context. The scientific paper it is discussing is much more specific, as it should be.
How does this compare to Fly.io which AFAIK wakes on requests in a very similar way with containers made into Firecracker VM's (unless using GPU, I think)?
I suppose Fly typically doesn't need to scale per request so has a typical cheaper max cost? I guess you'd just set the concurrency but how well that scales, I don't know.
As the other commenter said, nobody is saying to make your application completely immutable. You still patch it, add features, etc. But now you only have to patch one container image rather than two (or more).
It's not exactly what you're looking for but one of the big three contenders in the AI space (after OpenAI and Anthropic) is Mistral, based in France.
They are only separate in the strict dictionary sense. You can't have an efficient general robot if it is not handled by a general-ish AI.
Probably the next US president was just talking about this 2 days ago at the 18:00 mark:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxHblFYiaMkxzLEg9jCMffFAH2rMIrn6t...
It’s not like anything with a comparable price had memory protection - windows at the time was equally unstable and lacking protection, and it didn’t even have preemptive multitasking.

The later Amigas (3000 for sure, don’t remember about 2000) did have the memory protection, used e.g. by Enforcer.
Typical techbro solution: Invent fusion. Thing is, you can take advantage of fusion power today with PV panels you can buy at Home Depot.

I realize it's not quite that simple. You need land, you need sunny skies, you need storage, etc. But all these problems are solvable with today's technology, while fusion reactors are most assuredly not.
Eh, I suspect it is way lower and much of it is just welfare/tax fraud.

When I was there, they gave huge cash discounts for everything.
And anxiety over affording those necessities leads to drops in productivity.
I use Pinboard. It works quite well but there is definitely room for improvement.

Raindrop is an interesting alternative, but I have yet to try it.
> (4) ignorance about why algorithms perform well;

Au contraire. It is the correct understanding, born out of deep expertise, that algorithms, outside very structured artificial environements, often do not work well at all.

Even provably correct algorithms fail if there is even the slightest mistmatch between the assumptions and reality, imprefect data, noisy sensors, or a myriad other problems. Not to mention that the implementations of these provably correct algorithms are often buggy.

When of algorithms are based on user input, users learn very quickly how to manipulate the algorithm to produce the results they actually want.
Europe can force Apple to support competition
...and so they make it mandatory to work 6 days a week ??
It's irritating to be accused of not engaging, when you've twice ignored my main point that expectation of tips lowers the posted price and makes life harder for all of the drivers/servers. Making life harder is not a benefit. I tried to probe for what is not coming through to you this third time, with another case where the legibility of a cost is shifted to no benefit.

Not going to continue here.
First 128TB SSDs will launch in the coming months
> change the basis of logic to get rid of the strangeness

Short answer is yes.

Long answer is that the accepted framework of the "basis of logic", i.e. ZF set theory, is a direct result of Cantor's program -- Cantor was not working from an axiomatic basis, he was creating the formalism for set theory. Where things went wrong were not so much that he was an idiot or anything; clearly he is a tremendous genius and saw implications of his programme that led to incredibly strange and counterintuitive spaces. But instead of revisiting the basis, he found himself drawn to this verdant landscape.

Intuitionists (and its various offshoots and cousins) don't reject the notion of infinity per se; even finitists, the most extreme class, still accept that there is an infinity in the form of a repeated process -- that the positive integers are "infinite" in the sense that you can always produce a larger one than any proposed maximum. Integration and differentiation still exist, but are much easier to formalize, because, essentially, the behavior of any constructible function is completely defined by its behavior on rational numbers (or any other constructive version of dense number systems, like binary or decimal expansions).

In re: "different infinities", this is the big red herring of Cantor's work. This requires that you accept that a 1:1 correspondence of infinite sets yields a class of sets that you can group by into "cardinality", and those cardinality classes have an interesting meaning. But this defies the operational use of infinity -- there are more natural numbers than even numbers if we're thinking about strict subsets, but when we're summing series, they are effectively the same size. So it's not necessary to choose some definition of the "size" of an infinite set; you can just choose what operational characteristic you are looking at in the context you're working in.
I like making coffee.

Cleaning my bathroom seems like a better benchmark.
It's kind of sad systems research pretty much stopped at this point. I really was hoping that by 2024 I'd be running a distributed operating system where processes could be be freely migrated between my phone, desktop, laptop and NAS without too much of a hitch.
That’s a choice, like using Kubernetes or being a micro service fundamentalist. A decade ago, you had people building in-house Hadoop clusters for tiny amounts of data instead of doing their jobs analyzing that data, and before that you had the J2EE types building elaborate multi server systems for what could have been simple apps.

This repeats constantly because the underlying problem is a broken social environment where people aren’t aligned with what their users really need and that’s rewarded.
Um, it’s definitely useful for productivity if you can grok the means to pull out useful information strands.
That means when they inevitably appear on sanction list of US government, they won't have to close the shop.

It's a Chinese project.
I'm reading the docs and it's very unclear if this project is for Lua or Luau (the Roblox derivative).
I know people who own 9 square miles of land. They are very far from being billionaires. 9 square miles is fairly large for a farm, but fairly small for a ranch.
I would guess that it means that 96% of the components come from within China. Self-sufficiency is important in China right now, and it's doubtful that 'localization' refers to just the company itself.
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Author says what I'm repeating since day one when GDPR and these so-called banner with "preferences" were introduced: this should be handled by the browsers.

The idea was good but the interpretation and implementation of this law failed - the banners, cookies aren't as permanent and universal as browser sending the header.
I don't disagree with you, but on the other hand, it was really a hard problem in js (partly because functions having outside context and mainly because how mutable modules are (were, with commonjs)), so it became a huge race for optimization. Now it's really mostly dead code elimination because how much saner es modules are yet the name stays. But hey, we also don't call televisions "bigger monitors with built in spying OSS", names have a tendency to stick :)
Thank you very much! Yeah I don't have the choice, I'm dumb to have waited that much, I should have got a job earlier but yeah I need to!!

Finding a software job is difficult, I understand that there is ton of applicant, that the overall level is low and that my profile is not easy but I was so close with three interviews .. and nope. haha

Thank you very much.
> On Windows I copy a binary and run it w/o giving a crap about the OS updates.

You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still care about it being updated through windows.

> Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (and dealing with conflicts yourself).

That's not right. You don't need to use dependencies from the system. If you're compiling yourself, you can either make them static, or use your custom location. In either case, there are no conflicts to deal with.

If you're using whole app packages, then you don't care about system deps at all. Flatpak apps ship their whole environment. AppImage apps do too, just without full isolation. (https://appimage.github.io/apps/ entries are all "download-and-run")
In English, speakers are forced to make the same light/dark distinction between pink/red and orange/brown as well. I don’t think most native speakers of English think of orange as the same as light brown.
But you can have AGI in advance of (or without) Robotics.
or maybe economics is the study of spherical cows trading fungible goods and services in an efficient market with perfect information, and the real world is none of those things.
One reason AI gets extra criticism might be that all the things you mention displace usage of fossil fuels. EVs may be powered partially by natural gas, for example, but that is still better than inefficiently burning gasoline. Heat pumps displace natural gas heaters or fuel oil heaters.
Lots of anti nuclear movements, managed to reduce investment into the nuclear power, and increase cost.
We have not opened a plant in 25 years.
Research plants have been closed down by anti nuclear activists.

Some of this movement is funded by Germany Governement.
This and all other articles misrepresent current energy consumption, then wildly predict the future from that baseline. The overwhelming trend is towards efficiency as comically inefficient corporate facilities are shut down in favor of cloud computing. Furthermore, half of current "data center power usage" is actually due to cellular radio networks, and that isn't growing due to AI.
> And it seems that this has happened for a select few

It's happened for anyone that owns housing without a mortgage in a wealthy country.

Everyone else has to work full-time to pay their landlord or bank. Given the housing stock is kept artificially low, all remaining money in the average paycheck will necessarily be eaten up by housing. It doesn't really matter how productive the economy is. If shelter is kept scarce, the cost of housing will keep rising to eat up the rest of the average paycheck.
> But yes, the author is likely taking for granted that non-US residents would read the article.

Why should they need to? Should French journalists account for French-speaking Americans? What about German, Nigerian and Chinese ones?

The only reason this argument ever comes up is because English is the most common second-language spoken. American, British, Aussie, etc journalists have no more moral or reasonable responsibility to account for non-native/foreign audiences than any other nationalities do.

If you want to read a foreign publication, it's on you to deal with their local norms.