skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe so? i'm not sure microsoft underestimated it; i think google and apple just beat them is all
>Sure, but are they marked up to "return on investment" prices, or "make all of the executives so enormously wealthy that it's actually disgusting" prices?

The healthcare sector's 5 year profit margins is 10.0%. That puts it in the middle of the pack when it comes to the other sectors.

https://insight.factset.com/hs-fs/hubfs/1)Insight/2024/04.20...
This is an influential group in Silicon Valley. It’s had a mixed record in Washington. Particularly when it includes anyone other than Thiel acting alone.
It is generally be considered a foux pas to maintain a dating profile after committing to a romantic partner.
Well it's a great thing those punishments reduce recidivism rates, right? Right??

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/
This isn't a Show HN, as the users here can't play with it:

>Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

>On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

>Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Irrelevant and snarky analogy
Hey, great work! You could easily add the Bootstrap Icons library to this. And then perhaps the Noun Project.

https://icons.getbootstrap.com/

https://thenounproject.com/
And they were told then not to negotiate for peace because they didn't have to

This is a rather condescending attitude which assumes the Ukrainians have no agency over their situation, and are just doing what their Western puppet masters tell them to do.

I was looking to move to Ukraine in 2020 because I think it's a lovely country and Lviv is a lovely city. Very cheap where I could exist cheaply and spend my time reading books. BTW it'd be an even nicer city if it were governed by Poland.

Please don't, as you plainly don't respect the country or the people living there.

If you'd prefer to live under Polish administration, try Wrocław.
Amazing episode - highly recommend it.
While the article is not particular in depth, it is mostly accurate and provides a mostly well intentioned introduction to the concept and how that could relate to emergent property of LLMs. I am curious why you think it was "utterly banal".

Additionally, abiogenesis is well accepted in academia as a prime example of emergence.
And when the law demands you turn in runaway slaves? Legality is not a yardstick for morality.
Thanks for the response, I would add that Canada has found that not planning for housing for mass migration has affected their housing market (which increases wealth of the elderly and decreases wealth of the youth):

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7080376
coldtea there is generally considered to be incorrect; as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin#Lydian_and_Ionian_electru... says, 'The earliest coins are mostly associated with Iron Age Anatolia of the late 7th century BC, and especially with the kingdom of Lydia,' which is what this article is about

there's the very curious fact that somehow china had exactly the same innovation within a few decades, so it's possible they were actually first
Pocketbase: Open-source realtime back end in 1 file
I'm grateful for the non-Android mobile OSS ecosystem.
Android is increasingly user hostile, notably the apps and features that block you when you obtain root access on your own device you paid for.

I'm about to quit Android, and I'm looking forward using and contributing to true open platforms.
There's is, and will be, many very simple responses (ex. you're right, nothing, just a middleman, etc.)

I agree with the overall premise.

But I had to wrestle with this more because I owned a point of sale company in 2010s...so, let's frame this to: if they are a vampire, how in the world are they still such a vampire 15 years later? As you put it more politely: what stops a big bank from doing whatever it is they do?

TL;Dr because they're middleman as in Switzerland, not middleman as in "pure dead weight"

No one has an incentive to cooperate with another big bank, and vice versa: they'd use rates competitively. Idk the proper game theory terminology for it anymore, but what comes to mind is "unstable equilibrium"

In this structure, all the incentives are aligned. Banks neatly separate out deposit customers from customers receiving credit, so you don't get pissed off at them if you get behind. The middleman wants to charge as much as possible, below the price where the bank is happy to take on reputation risk.

I also cannot 100% confirm this, but I think the case you're presenting is too simplistic. Ex. doesn't ring true to me there's no credit extended. Maybe they securitize it, but ex. AmEx is the one giving me up to $CREDIT_LINE to spend, unless, I've been missing it all along and the credit cards are opaquely funded by other institutions. (Wouldn't surprise me, older I get, the more I see things I've managed to miss for 36+ years)
> Of the jail’s 9,000 inmates, 21 have endured the Nutraloaf program since it began in June. One begged—No! Anything but Nutraloaf!—and another went on a hunger strike. Both men, and virtually every other Nutraloafer, straightened up enough to get back to the usual diet of oatmeal and processed bologna.

If it's a punishment specifically targeted at changing behavior, it may be successful by that measure.
I guess dude, but that isn't a very useful definition and its not what philosophers are talking about.
Genuinely amazing that people can see grown adults in the custody of the state and compare them to their own kids.

I don’t know if that’s talking about how folks treat their kids vs how they see prisoners.
This is the entire problem with the game industry.

Nothing shown in this article is even vaguely trivial. The author is very obviously a 100x'er by comparison to almost every human on Earth (with GPU shader rendering specifically). The "straightforward approach"? "Straight forward..."?

Out of 8,000,000,000 humans, what percent of them can implement even the "hello world" steps necessary to start this article? Hey y'all, how many even know what a shader is? There's such a huge amount of OpenGL jobs... ("what's OpenGL, we only use Unity")

How about online gamers? What percent of the 1,021,282 players current online for Counter Strike 2 (7/28/2024, 1:22 PM EST) [1] can even implement the first steps of the shaders necessary for the game they're playing?

What percent even know how to compile a simple command line c++ program or write an even more simplistic Javascript script in a browser? Note, this is vaguely a trick question, as most humans can barely operate email.

[1] https://steamdb.info/app/730/charts/
Is this… parody? It reads like it but is done so straight that I can’t tell for sure.
Is that even physically possible? Usually you want to minimize your emissions because if you’re emitting anything, it’s a massive beacon to everyone.
Kind of wish they had kept the Morse code requirement for the radio license. Felt like more of a connection to the old ham requirements and history
This seems like a bit of a reach. Vance was among a few other choices where the main deciding factor was how to retain Congress if and when Trump wins, along with likely appeasing the GOP establishment, not the tech establishment.

Trump has more power over the machinery of the GOP than he did in 16 or 20, but certain donors on the GOP side would rather Kamala win, and Trump disappear. Vance, like Pence, is a bridge between Trump's populism and whatever the GOP stood for when McCain and Romney were their nominees (losing?).

I am in the orbit of two of the potential picks. The choice for VP this year was highly, highly strategic. Though Trump has momentum on his side, the Democrats are still the Democrats and they would have a good chance getting a ham sandwich elected with their machinery.
> flat Notes directory and create .md files

This is exactly what Obsidian provides out of the box. All the other stuff like backlinks, tags, Mermaid diagrams, canvas whiteboards and knowledge graph etc are completely optional.

I use Obsidian as a CMS for my website for example. The filetree shows me a list of Markdown files, I add YAML as needed for things like title, date, etc, and that's it.
The Secret Russians at the Paris Olympics
How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date
As far as I know, VSCode/Monaco does use viewport virtualization

> Canvas rendering may be the last resort when nothing worked

For the minimap, yes. But AFAIK, for text rendering, it's not really a goto solution. Text wouldn't look crisp enough, apart from the fact that text layout is a science in itself.

Basically you can get away with a debounced and cached canvas version of the full rendered DOM for that minimap, but you cannot use a huge DOM representing the full source for the actual editor.

Docs afaik implements an expensive custom text rendering engine, similar to Flutter.

Monaco doesn't.

Take it with a huge grain of salt, I haven't researched this really and generally am not very familiar with the Monaco or VsCode source. I'm on mobile, so not inspecting a Monaco instance either.

The Monaco repository seems to contain some files only in minified form, and refers to the VsCode repo.

Skimming through the interfaces there, it definitely seems to have hints for viewport virtualization.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/2c46cf10d6773e690cb...

Apart from that, WebWorkers seem to be used heavily to move the language server logic out of the main thread (completely different topic).

What I wanted to say is that "surgical DOM updates" might be good, but DOM _size_ is the main issue for rendering.

Sure, heavy-handed DOM updates have an effect too (it's the same as rendering a new large DOM tree).

But keeping DOM elements consistent instead of replacing large subtrees is without alternative anyway, regardless how optimized browser rendering and parsing will ever be, because of focus states for example.

Also worth noting that querying layout via JS is similarly expensive (not related to Svelte either).

Back to your comment:

React might be less performant than Svelte, but a React "render" is not as expensive as a browser rendering the changed DOM.

And Svelte's main differentiation is that it doesn't need a runtime in the browser and instead directly produces DOM-API code.

The difference is not on the number of updates (React, Vue etc are "surgical" there too). It's how the required DOM API calls are computed.
Employers are polyamorous.
Oh you're right, I was thinking of integrated graphics! Thanks for setting me straight, haha.
Isn't this just a wrapper around other APIs?
Managarm has gained a bunch since then, like the ability to run a modern web browser
Visa and mastercard have been flexing their muscles in Japan recently deciding what people can and can not purchase.

They've done it in the US before with Porn.

They should at least be relegated to a dumb pipe, if you don't (or can't) accept mastercard and visa you might as well not exist at all in today's age.
This is the beginning of the end of science.
Yeah so job boards are as fake and gamed as the rest of the popular internet. Big surprise.

I wonder what the other side looks like. Do people using Indeed and other services to find employees get real applicants? Or is it mostly auto-generated garbage?

I'm imagining a world where nobody human actually uses these sites, it's all bots applying to scraped and auto-posted jobs.
It would all be hunky dory because for Germany to export as much as it has done to Greece it would have to hoard Drachma, the drain of which the Greeks could then simply accommodate via a fixed wage Job Guarantee - ending unemployment permanently.

As it stands the ECB refuses to do the necessary reflection of the German Target2 hoard into the Greek economy and the result is excessive unemployment and reduced production in Greece due to lack of monetary circulation.

All to service a belief about the medium of exchange that isn’t actually the case - that people won’t hold it without monetary incentive (aka an interest payment).

We need to chuck out this damaging interest-obsessed monetary religion. The price anchor and stabilisation policy needs to be in the market for labour, not the market for money.
Congrats on the job
Alzheimer's blood test catches 90% of early dementia cases, study finds
I figured this was a religious thing. I have spoke to a lot of Christians who were big on health and abstained from all kinds of things, but insisted that alcohol was healthy in small amounts, specifically a bit of red wine every other day or something. Took me longer than it should have to realise this was due to not wanting to acknowledge thst something cultural or promoted by Jesus/the church could be objectively bad.
I was involved in an organization that helped inmates. It was an eye-opening experience. A lot of the younger blacks are there because they want to be there: it's where all the cool people are. So they deliberately try to get into prison. The current system is working just fine for them. Not for all blacks of course, but that seemed to be the trend. This was a medium-security state prison. The story for whites was almost universally a variant of "I don't care if the law is fair, once I'm out of here I'm going to do everything to stay out of here."
The statement "you won't get far" appears meant to discourage people from using the most effective negotiating tool available to them and as a threat to the ones who do, which is a pretty standard body shop recruiter hustle.

If the talent you are buying can decide between your job and a consulting gig, you have no separate markets. What absolutely aren't the same things are the negotiating techniques of high value talent vs. low skilled labor.

Employers don't "set" pay either, they are in a market, and if a candidate knows what that company pays for a related service, they can anchor their bid to it. The exception is the minority of collectively bargained jobs.

Sure, if the company is a commodity talent shop or an institution that buys talent by the pound, then there's a race to the bottom to be the most liquid asset you can be for a mature company with limited growth in front of it. If you're actually good at anything and deliver value, consulting rates are one of many leverage data points.

Be extra suspicious of anyone who tells you to take less risk, as it's cheap and not high quality advice.
Most of their top engineering talent goes towards risk determination (if a transaction is legitimate or fraudulent) done on behalf of banks/merchants they have contracts with. They have a massive push for using ML to enhance that, and they have extremely strict latency requirements on processing time. All this high performance costs a lot of engineering money.
I see prisoners as people who haven’t yet learned how to act appropriately in the world, what ways are ok to treat others versus what isn’t ok. That’s the similarity I was trying to draw with children.

“You can’t hit people even if you’re frustrated” is a lesson in common, for example.
Do you have any benchmark comparisons to e.g. the CellTypist corpus?
What exactly do you do? The very first thing I read is:

> We work alongside every step of the way to help you to push your SaaS to new levels.

The second thing is.

> By taking a growth-focused approach, we target your potential customers and acquire new revenue.

That's a lot of words that don't tell me anything about the service you provide. I'm already growth-focused, trying to maximize ROI, and pushing my SaaS to new levels. What exactly do you do?

Consider: "We offer a set of services tailored to the SaaS industry" sounds like marketing speak. How about "We know SaaS inside and out, from years (decades?) of experience at [SaaS company], [SaaS company], and working with dozens (?) of clients."

After I scroll a third of the way down, I finally see that you're marketing consultants. The bullet points under "About us" are the most interesting thing about the page, and you should lead with them. I know next to nothing about marketing, but "we will help optimize (increase? triple?) your conversion rates through a highly-personalized pricing and content strategy" reads a lot better than "grow your business, maximize ROI".

Finally, and I don't mean to sound harsh, but if you're doing marketing consulting, your own marketing page currently doesn't inspire much confidence.
Interesting, thanks for the info. Though I wish it could be broken down based on income brackets but I can't find that.
What makes you say that?

The tech they reference is quite real. The setup is somewhat unique but I see it as one of the superpowers of a Linux mobile device - one can do whatever one wants without a big corp dictating the rules or locking down the experience.
I thought that prison is there to train them to get better at committing crimes, given that society doesn’t allow them to get a straight job after they are released. Then when they get caught again they can be used for cheap labor.
I think the prompt should be changed to commit to the joke a bit more. It keeps reminding me that it's ridiculous satire.
There is only a slight correlation between being a grown adult and not being a child.
Runes in Go
The Forgetting of College Academics: At "Ebbinghaus Speed"? [pdf]
Looks like generations are failing. Didn't plan for 60+ people to be generating concurrently.
What about giving misbehaving kids Nutraloaf?

And:

> prisoners as people who haven’t yet learned how to act appropriately in the world

People selling and using drugs (non violent, for example) are people who haven’t learned how to act appropriately?

People in prison for dodging military service and drafts?

People in prison for having to steal for feeding their family?

These are the vast majority of people in prisons around the world. These first category being the majority of prisoners in America.
By whom? What new institution that doesn't work today would work then?
Is it really amazing? I mean, it’s the definition of custody.
> But I don’t think this is something groundbreaking isn’t it?

The vast majority of employment-related issues do not occur to elites and policymakers. These issues are completely invisible to them. Articles like this make real issues legible to the important people who are in a position to do something about it.
Not to pile on, but what exactly did you"build"? This is a vague landing page.
> Vance was among a few other choices where the main deciding factor was how to retain Congress if and when Trump wins

My impression was Vance doesn’t have a great reputation among the Senate GOP. He’s new and weird and has no track record for deal making, on the Senate floor or off it.

> appeasing the GOP establishment

Vance is not an establishment pick. The hawks hate him. The Chamber of Commerce folks hate him. Vance-ism is almost across the board a repudiation of Reaganism.

> in the orbit of two of the potential picks. The choice for VP this year was highly, highly strategic

What is the strategy? What votes does Vance pick up that Trump didn’t have already? Ohio isn’t a swing state.

Vance is a donor candidate, guaranteed to attract hundreds of millions from certain right-wing Silicon Valley personalities.

I’m open to being convinced of some hidden brilliance. But I’m simply not seeing it. Vance was a loyalty play smuggled in when Trump had a decisive lead. There is a decent chance he costs the GOP the Presidency.
Nice to see something from my home area on HN! I think it's a bit of a stretch to say it heads diagonally though. It meanders rather a lot.
One of the strangest moments of my last year was watching Peter Thiel talk for an hour straight and never once make a recognizable point… he literally said nothing cogent, he just tried to string together some anecdotes of his writing and his career with some alt-right shibboleths, while all the white men wearing expensive but poorly tailored suits in the “reserved” seats nodded and nodded like those water drinking birds.

I’m pretty sure everyone there came out a few dozen IQ points stupider.
I don't quite understand your point here?

What is the "problem" you speak of in the first sentence? I don't see it explained in the rest of your post.

Are you just pointing out that this is a very specialized field that requires having studied/learned a lot of complex inter-related topics and that most of us have not done so?
There's 1 paragraph talking about unemployment rates... In a 2 to 3 pages long article.

It doesn't blame unemployment into AI at all.
There is some info on Honnibal's Twitter (https://x.com/honnibal/status/1813650728222880157):

Delip Rao: Curious how do you go back from VC funded to bootstrapped? Did you return money to investors? And were they okay with just that? Regardless, I am happy you are doing more lib dev. You have very good taste.

Matthew Honnibal: There's no change in ownership, it's just that we don't have any more VC money to spend --- so the operating reality is like it was before. We think it's helpful to explain this.

Delip Rao: So if you consult and do other stuff as Explosion to bring money in, you have to pay distribution of the profits to the shareholders on your cap table?

Matthew Honnibal: If we ever pay a dividend, all shareholders will get some, (and the VCs have liquidation preferences that mean they'd take a larger share than their ownership until the money is paid back). But we're some distance away from dividends -- we'd pay ourselves a salary from consulting

Delip Rao: That's right. I am surprised your VCs were okay with this arrangement. Usually, they nudge the company towards an acquihire in such situations.
Look at it this way: life on Earth is composed primarily of C, H, O, N , and a number of trace atoms.

If life evolved here on Earth, then somehow, CHON+trace all self-organized into all of Earth life today, including us, and all we humans have done and will do in the future.

Now: say we could go back just before life evolved. Even with very very good data, and with whatever talent (AI, science, anything) and technology from today, would we be able to truly describe the emergence paths for those CHON+trace atoms?

Impossible. This would be far beyond our level of science and technology. We can't even do this for much simpler systems and shorter time horizons. You'd have to predict the emergence of life, the full properties and behavior of all forms of life in the last 4 billion years, and last but not least, humans and all that humans have done and thought since then.

Yet clearly nature emerged all this from perhaps small amounts of 11 elements or so. Complexity is one of the greatest unknowns in our present civilization.
The United States government didn't even issue concurrency until the Federal Reserve. It's well within the general U.S. philosophy of letting markets do its thing. There is a very rich history of people wanting to avoid federal government control of money as much as possible.
Where I come from, there are detention centers, and rehabilitation centers.

In a detention center, you get a spoon to eat with, rehabilitation, a knife and fork. Other living conditions are inline with that.

You seem to think all humans are the same, well adjusted, able to readily and happily change to live with others, and so on.

The truth is, many people in jail are indeed stabbing others in jail for "no reason", as in "no reason most would consider valid".

There are indeed issues with the US prison system, or so I've read, but I assure you that inmates in prisons are known, world wide, to get stabby without cause. Here's a primary example...You know you can punch someone in the head instead of stabbing, yes?

This continues down to "talking instead of physical violence", but by saying stabbing is the result of poor conditions, you're saying stabbing is the sensible result of any lack of joy.
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