skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These numbers have very little to do with a small sample of people looking for a job. Something like ~5-10 million people are looking for work at any given time, this is changes that by about 0.07 million per month.

What matters to your social circle isn’t overall jobs but how well each sector is doing. LLM’s for example probably have negligible impact on 99% of the economy but that 1% has seen real disruption.
From reading about this and Ozempic it appears the main functionality is reducing appetite / blood sugar spikes which results in weight loss. I am curious for those who are using it who have traditionally had a relatively poor diet (refined carbs, sugars, etc), has it changed what foods are desirable or does it simply reduce the amount eaten? In addition, when using these products and switching to a healthy diet such as high protein, which already typically affects satiety, does it cause the inability to eat an adequate amount of calories to function properly?
Their insurance isn’t going to bring you back to life after they hit you.
haven't noticed anything like that.

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> like cast iron doesn’t have fantastic high-performance material qualities

Cast iron is a material, not a process. It's an unfortunate legacy term for very high carbon steel (>2% by weight, or <11 iron atoms per carbon atom). For reference "standard" steel is ~.08-.18% carbon, and high-carbon steel is ~.8% carbon.

The >1% carbon precipitates out into graphite within the steel, causing it to behave totally differently. Less rusting, but weaker and much more brittle when solid. Less viscous when liquid, so you can cast long and thin parts.

> Are there different, higher quality casting processes, and I’ve only seen the bargain bin results?

There are, but it mostly is independent of the material. Some turbine blades are cast as single crystals for heat stability; you can't really cut a single crystal without introducing cracks and issues. There's also vacuum casting and spin casting (using a centrifuge to force liquid into the mold), which lets you cast metals that react with air or cool too quickly for normal methods.

Most of the variation in process is about the final form you cast into, though. Engine blocks are sometimes cast into a one-off ceramic shell that is sprayed onto a sand form. It's an expensive process but it lets you do the whole thing in one step.

> is it all very complicated and material specific?

It is very material specific. Fundamentally its all about shaping the grains. In many steels you can physically alter grains. In others, like precipitation grains (aluminum alloys, some steels) the structure is determined by the cooling and you can't physically shape them. In that case you may often get a better structure by casting since you can choose how to cool parts down, while a billet will have a homogenous structure that is usually worse towards the center.
Yes when you have duplicated data and data inconsistencies/integrity issues you might get duplicate data and data inconsistencies/integrity issues in your output.

This is a problem of form, not method. JOINs are a fantastic, well-defined method to aggregate data. If the form of your data is messed up, then naturally the result may be too.

> no I’m not interested in helping you troubleshoot your 7-page SQL query that’s stacked on top of multiple layers of nested SQL views that’s giving you too many rows

People say this type of thing but SQL is an incredibly high-level language.

Yes debugging a big SQL query can suck. Debugging the equivalent of it is almost always much worse. I'd rather debug a 30-line query than a 400 line perl script that does the same thing. Because that's actually the alternative.

I have manually aggregated data, messy data, in awk, perl, python... it is much, much worse.
> people use random sites to test cards to see if they can get away with using stolen CC details

I already addressed this. By forcing people to use the product before allowing them to purchase you make drive-by fraud impossible. We use stripe and we have 0 fraud to deal with.
20 years ago (or more like 30-40), software actually did something for the user and wasn't just a ZIRP hack to make billions courtesy of Google and friends. Once the money became the entire point, once line go up, you just need to be able to fog a mirror long enough to get acquired. The number of supposedly senior developers who send me screenshots of stack traces they haven't even read makes me want to day drink heavily. I'm thinking of starting a bakery.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that.
Not just that, but why would Mozilla pick the winner here? Everyone complains about the side effects of default search engines, let's not do it again with ad-blockers!

And anyway, their Google contract certainly prevents them from doing shipping ad-blocking by default.
I tend to agree that it's a pointless race to the bottom with too many jobs per household, but that's really a game theoretic outcome. If your neighbors want to "get ahead" by having two employed adults, or several jobs each, then it basically forces you to earn equivalently or you'll be priced out.

However, the most interesting thing to note is the discourse. You and the sibling commenter have advanced incompatible and opposite narratives.
what about React Native projects?
Direct Preference Optimization with Synthetic Data on Anyscale
Looks pretty neat. Could you use this to watch a list of websites for sales or new products?
Spending some time to learn technical writing (if you want to bootstrap a saas) is worth its weight in gold (same with marketing, business admin, accounting).
>This seems to work very similar to Ozempic?

Yes, both drugs are Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLP-1_receptor_agonist
Less cynical is they were crossing their fingers things would go back up. Kind of like a day trader in the red, keep on betting because eventually things will go up --maybe just not in time... this time.
Since my current solution works very well for me, I'm not really a part of the demographic that a product like this addresses. I doubt that my advice would be of any real use to you.

You should be getting advice from those who have needs that this sort of product solves.
The way its used in the article at least, to me means having a view of the world that feels true and important but is bleak and disempowering.

Like the sibling comment said, 'red pill' is seeing the truth of the world (or, what the community that uses the term red pill thinks is the truth at least. often this refers to the truth as decided by internet mysoginiats). Black pill is this truth + its unchangeable and hopeless and pointless and why do anything and oh god I wish I could go back to not knowing.

If its used by somebody reasonable, blackpill is a pejorative with the implication that the ideology is more cynical and hopeless than it really should be and has the connotation that their ideology is a little too internety.
I hate marketing so I made this tool to do it for me
All developers hate marketing so why don't I build a tool that handles marketing for people like me?

This is exactly what I did!

I've been working on this tool for a while and now I opened the pre-order to validate it.
JSON fields are horrible though, as they aren't validated so you now have backwards compatibility problems in your SCHEMA. PER ROW. Like in Mongo.
> Really unbelievable.

It's actually not. It's only unbelievable if you don't realize this happens literally all the time.

FTA: The revisions, which are preliminary, are part of an annual process

Annual process. It happens around this time every year.

> I can't see any reason for a revision this big as anything other than purposeful deception.

Your ignorance doesn't make it deception. The argument you are making here is that someone wanted to hide these figures until less than 100 days out from the election?

If you want to go down the road of conspiracy theories: Who would benefit from that, I wonder?

The reality is this is normal, and the only people raising a fuss about this are people who don't know this happens routinely and this is not abnormal, or people who have an agenda they are pushing through deception.
I imagine that more people applying to MIT than they can accept have maxed out all of the opportunities they've been given.
Aren’t there fancy hashing algos that are resistant to that? I feel like I remember PhotoDNA still being able to match even after a surprising array of modifications. I want to say cropping and reversing could still match, but I don’t really recall and would strongly prefer to not have “how to beat PhotoDNA” in my search history.
Trying to summarize:

Maximize diversity subject to academic excellence is the problem the dean would like to solve, but no longer can due to the supreme court ruling.

The dual problem is Maximize academic excellence subject to diversity, which is what the opponents of the original legislation proposed was happening. And (being sympathetic here - this is not necessarily my belief) could be interpreted as achieving lower excellence just mathematically speaking.

Maybe it's not actually clear anyone was doing that, maybe it is clear everyone was doing that. I'm not sure.

The difference is easy to say, but probably harder to grok.
I don't think it's incompatible, I think you are having trouble reconciling the data (which is totally fair, we are discussing a very complex system with a lot of inherent data blindness). Labor force participation rate is high because higher price levels have brought people back into the labor force (which fuzzes the unemployment rate, because people newly looking for a job are considered unemployed while searching), along with folks having to work multiple jobs and households that require dual incomes just to get by.

If labor force participation rate is at all time highs, unemployment is historically low but ticking up, the consumer is not confident, the number of folks searching for new jobs is at all time highs, it is taking folks 3, 6, 9, 12 months to get a job (even with "low" unemployment), and credit card and auto loan defaults are hitting a decade high, what does this tell us?

Everyone employed is meaningless if they're living hand to mouth, their job can evaporate at any time, they're filling the wage expense gap with credit (that there is evidence they're no longer able to service), and if you get knocked out of your job, it could take months or a year+ to get into a new one. I argue the economy can handle "labor shortages" (or rather, having to pay people a living wage) vs the current macro, by lowering the federal funds rate. If the Fed waits until there is a labor market crises, they're already too late.

https://www.kitco.com/news/off-the-wire/2024-08-20/fed-offic...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/28-americans-are-no...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/oxfam-report-low-wage-worker...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/29/us-workers-are-less-satisfie...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-consumers-increasingly-tap...

https://www.bai.org/banking-strategies/credit-card-and-auto-...

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/08/20/for-most-u-s-househol...
Indian tourists are conquering the world
They also talk about forging. Forging can produce higher quality parts because metal has a grain structure. Just like wood, it's easier to break between grains than across the grain. Forging is deforming the metal without melting it. If the temperature isn't too high, it will deform the grain structure along with it. The grain can be aligned to make the metal stronger along the axis where it needs to resist the most force.

Wikipedia has a image of an connecting rod that has been etched to show the grain:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/ForgedCo...

You can see the grain has been stretched along the length of the narrow parts. Wrenches are another example of something that's commonly forged for this reason.
Your first paragraph is exactly what I already said in my comment.
As I said above "for stories to make sense, you must be a good storyteller", and this author is definitely one of them.

A must read for everyone.
The wonder here is effective brain manipulation rather than fat melting.

These drugs are chemically induced intermittent fasting.

I’m okay with people saying “these drugs force people into healthy eating habits” but the weight loss itself is merely a symptom of the healthy eating habits that would be healthier on the body when done with discipline rather than chemically altering your digestion.
> For example, I have seen very senior people leave suddenly (like no notice period) and the business does not even skip a beat.

Maybe that senior was great at training their replacement?
Elevated errors impacting logins to ChatGPT and the API Platform
This is, quite frankly, bullshit. SQL fundamentals transcend a given RDBMS. And when they don't, boo hoo, learn the syntax of your particular database flavor. We need not be so precious.
Would maybe be a neat idea for someone to create a site that's a repository of instructions like these but for as many makes/models of cars as possible. So you can just put in your car's info and get instructions on how to physically disable as much tracking / collection as possible.
This article lists international money transfers as a non-useful application of blockchains. USDT on Tron alone is now settling 1.25T$ (1/3 of Visa’s annual settlement volume).

Clearly some people do find them useful.
Seems reasonable to me. I was thinking more of closures, which capture their environment, but those are of course a distinct type in Rust.
Replying to awooooo who was flagged dead:

> They want it, but it's not a necessity.

What a person "needs" is complex and individual. Unless you are their doctor or are paying for it, your opinion of what medications a person needs is irrelevant- it is absolutely none of your business.

This nit-picking is in no way central to my point as it was a general statement about hacker culture ethos not any particular person or medication, so why did you post it? With only two comments so far - It appears you joined HN just to share anti-trans bigotry? That isn't okay. This is not a "hate forum" - accepting people that are different is a fundamental aspect of hacker and HN culture.
The Year of the A.I. Election That Wasn't
Technology isn't inherently unnatural, and I wouldn't necessarily detach it from evolution. It's a continuum of adaptations, both genetic and otherwise, that creates a species's legacy through time, combining mutations with environmental and cultural factors.

We've outpaced genetics alone long ago, using our brains and dexterity to hunt, make fire, create clothing for most of the world's biomes, sail across the seas, etc. It's a sort of cultural evolution that continued where genetic selection slowed down. You can see lighter versions of that in animals, like chimp tribal cultures, raven sub groups (and language "dialects"), learned tool use passed down across generations in otters, etc.

But semantics aside, if our population grows faster than we can adapt, well, either we catch up (with better medicine, food, shelter, economics, agriculture, distribution, climate mitigations, etc.) or people start dying. Usually the poorer people in developing countries.

It's incredibly difficult to model human population collapse because there's so many more unknowns with us than other, more predictable species. If a supervolcano goes off and we suddenly face a global crop failure and massive food shortages, maybe the remaining countries will all try to work together to work out a new production and distribution system like we did with COVID. Or maybe the rich countries will start hogging all the resources, like we also did with COVID. If Putin nukes Europe tomorrow, that would change things, or if some high schooler gets fusion to net positive energy in her friend's garage, a lot of things would get easier. If ChatGPT goes Skynet on us next year, maybe we'll be all killed, or eaten, or saved. Who knows.

In the meantime, most countries don't have population control programs (the way China did a few decades ago) so people keep popping them out, especially in areas with either high poverty (needing child labor) or high infant mortality (gotta make a bunch in case a few die young). On the other hand birth rates are slowing down, or already negative, in many developed economies because a lot of people have trouble affording kids (in time or money), for example, or don't want to bring them into this world. I guess there's some hopelessly slim chance of a Star Trek style "fully automated luxury space communism" future, but more likely you'll have a few rich powerful people and everyone else working for pittances, with people dying left and right but enough getting made to replace them in the commodity labor market. We already have most of that system in place today.

And nature? An afterthought, until it isn't, at which point the survivors will adapt anew and we'll go through similar boom and bust cycles again and again... yay, the circle of life and all that.
I’m not making any claims about the quality or types of jobs added, just that they were. You can read the BLS publication for that kind of information.
> Yes - because it's stable and powerful. So grateful they care about quality and are not becoming bloatware / chasing random features.

Yes, but this is only good for the satisfied users. Users who wait for certain "promised" features, might slowly become unhappy over time. Other will simply not find what they need.

I guess a bit of the problem is that Obsidian exploded in interests far beyond what the devs imaged, and now they are left with multiple different groups which are all not maintained equal well.

> As for the plugin ecosystem, it was always inevitable that a significant portion of them wouldn't be well-maintained and wld become obsolete.

Then remove them. It's not good if you offer the users add-ons which are not even working anymore.
MIT admits presumably ~1000 students as freshmen each year (divide ~4k by 4 [1])

A baseline of 25% means 250 students. Are you going to make the claim that there aren't 250 students who identified as Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander that can't get either a perfect score or a score higher than somebody outside their group but admitted to MIT?

[1]: https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/enrollment-statistic...
Doing something stupid for a long time doesn't make it a good idea.
That isn't the reason. The reason is that people who don't want to live that way have specifically chosen to live in an area developed in a different way. Why should that be destroyed or vilified?

I see the appeal of both kinds of lifestyle. Some of my best friends live in nice Chicago neighborhoods where they don't need cars. They are not rich or even significantly "well-off" by most standards, and their homes did not and do not cost as much as a house in a suburban area.

The "rules" prevent profiteers from destroying the standard of living for people who moved AWAY from density. Why should such people be herded around the country, hounded out of their homes for someone else's (increasingly a corporation's) profit? That's akin to black people being herded out of their neighborhoods for the construction of a highway.
Fun hack. I bet Alex Graves never in a million years anticipated that his PhD thesis work would be encapsulated in a novelty font.
Hi there, Ege from Permify here.

Here are the major differences,

- Better Performance: Observed guess, not necessarily a fact: Many folks have come to us from OpenFGA due to latency and performance issues. We’re implementing various levels of caching mechanisms to meet the required performance. We have also documented the differences in caching between us and OpenFGA in the following document: https://permify.notion.site/Cache-Differences-Between-Permif....

- Schema Management: We're taking an approach that help engineering teams to ease and streamline the management and collaboration of their authorization logic. We have features like:

- Schema Staging: Handle authorization model (schema) changes at different stages and deploy schemas with our GitOps workflow, specifically designed to approve, merge, and monitor schema changes.
- Partial Schema Update: Gives you the ability to update a schema partially without needing to change the entire schema.
- Data Bundles: Handle multiple data creation and deletion actions in your applications.
> If Target's website is down for an hour, I'll just wait.

>> sit out front and wait for them to open, or are you going to another store?

You were asked if the physical store was closed - because that's the analog you are deliberately overlooking.

> Thanks for the lesson, I learned how smart you like sounding.

Some people unwilling to learn. Even worse, some people insist they understand an entire industry, having spent exactly zero time in that industry. The hubris on display is amazing.
Even LLMs can do many of what I mention. Categorizing, grouping, assigning prios etc. maybe not as good as dedicated AI trained for this purpose only (I guess many could be "simple" bayesian filters even) but good enough and readily available.
I don't think that 'everyone an entrepreneur' would increase economic output and productivity, and the fact is that some people just want a paycheck because they don't really care about making more money than the paycheck gives them, and the work is fine.
I'm seeing a Cloudflare error page logging in, seems auth0.openai.com is having issues
Your friend told me he lied to you to make you look the fool because you happily repeat anything you hear.
How is this k8s alternative when the homepage is focusing about running LLM models and AI content in containers rather than being for all workloads?

Maybe it’s k8s alternative for AI/LLM!
It replaces cams with electronic actuators
There are still people alive today making good money writing COBOL. There are still professional blacksmiths alive today. I don’t always think the free market solves everything, but in this case specifically I think it will. When there’s a dearth of programmers, and a clear need for those programmers, wages will go up. And there will be people to fill those roles? particularly because I think it will continue to be a hobby for a long time.
If someone has the ability to swap songs out from underneath you, or remove them, or block your access to them, then you don't have a library at all. You have a list of pointers into someone else's library.
Humans are biochemical machines. Hormones (chemicals) regulate many systems in humans. So, you want people to eat less and work out more, when hormones, or biochemical subsystems, are messed up?
There are significant differences in difficulty, but I do agree with the sentiment. Grepping for “like button” in a transcript is much easier and cheaper than training an LLM to check whether a lottery is legal or not.

It also helps that there’s no counterparty risk with the like button. I don’t think anyone is trying to “trick” that feature, and it wouldn’t matter if they did.
My little 20 ton shop press brake can bend 5/8" plate. Incredible to imagine what this behemoth can do...
But also, don't over optimize. For example, if your routine or schedule is mostly working but you feel like you need some less structured time, don't schedule it, just go out and do that. Don't work it in for the purpose of being more "productive" later.

I've been feeling like the software industry is over optimizing engineering output just a smidge beyond what is morally acceptable. Not enough to raise red flags about cruel and unusual, but just over the line of "it's ok to be human". Maybe that's just me and I'm someone who doesn't need a Pomodoro timer or multiple "just for an update" meetings to get work done. But maybe it's also upper management trying to turn business school theory into something real. You're not a number or a widget or for God sakes a brand. You're a person. Remember that.
Probably slight a fire sale

- Blameless raised ~$50M
- Firehydrant raised ~$30M

seems like Blameless was out of runway.