skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not teach students how to work with their .zshrc file and become better computer users? I've never understood the aversion in academia to teaching people how computers work. This could be "fixed" with a simple sed line or `vim/emacs/nano ~.zshrc` rather than a multi step process of dragging files around and futzing around in the UI. I see this all the time in higher ed, so much wasted time and effort coming up with long complicated procedures that appeal to people unwilling to learn the basics of computers rather than just teaching effective computing usage. Especially now in an era where computers are a tool almost everyone needs to know how to use to succeed in the workforce, it just doesn't make sense. Learning how to be effective in Unix should be a required 100 level class for almost every major by now.
OpenAI recently announced a Batch API [1] which allows you to prepare all prompts and then run them as a batch. This reduces costs as its just 50% the price. Used it a lot with GPT-4o mini in the past and was able to prompt 3000 Items in less than 5min. Could be great for non-realtime applications.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/batch
I recommend reading the sources I listed in my initial comment (they are written by senior leadership and advisors at the BoJ from that era).

Furthermore, these are all texts that are expected reading in any upper level Asian Economics class.

> leading to a brief period of cheap and easy money that completely destroyed the remarkably solid and sustainable economy Japan had built post-war

The biggest cause was bad loan issues caused by lack of auditing and due dilligence. [0]

In that era, the BoJ would set a quota on loan origination (called a window guidance) that Japanese banks needed to meet (p.s. China used to do the same thing til 2015 which is a major reason for China's current real estate crisis)

The Plaza Accord would not have had as severe an impact if Japan's Window Guidance policy didn't incentivize business loans with minimal due diligence.

> Post-war ... purging them from their companies

And they completely reconstituted themselves in the 1950s by adopting the Keiretsu corporate structure where a single asset management firm controls all the broken off assets of the initial zaibatsu.

This is what Mitsui, Sumimito, Mitsubishi, Fuyo, etc did.

Take a look at NYT reporting about this from 1954 [1]

Japan also does not have a wealth tax.

> This left much of Japan's industry essentially controlled by the government

Japan always had a high amount of government intervention in it's economy.

MITI was the driver of Japanese industrial policy.

I recommend reading "MITI and the Japanese Miracle" (1982) by Chalmers Johnson to dig deeper into the history of interventionism in the Japanese model [2]

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While the Plaza Accord did have a significant impact on the Japanese economy, the recent politically driven "pop econ" Plaza Accord view needs to die [3]

Like anything else that's pop-anything, it's so broadstrokes that it's bordering on misinformation.

[0] - https://www.imes.boj.or.jp/research/papers/english/me19-s1-1...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/17/archives/japan-again-plan...

[2] - https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2791

[3] - https://www.imf.org/-/media/Websites/IMF/imported-flagship-i...
I share this doc with the most promising people I get to work with.

When I worked at Lookout, Jeff Hodges shared this essay as a presentation, and ended it with a corollary: don't pretend that engineering isn't political. People that think that the code speaks for itself are missing out on important aspects of how to influence the way things are built and how to truly get results.

Ten years later, and there are few people who still so concisely understand the intersection of engineering leadership and those table-stakes capabilities we normally associate with SRE / DevOps.
Socializing among children is crucial for development and cannot be substituted (at least entirely) with adult interaction. It's one of the main problems for homeschooled children.

Not to mention their parents were most likely working from home and not free to play with their kids most of the time.
I’m not seeing how you are getting there from that quote. Seems like one of the least controversial sentences in the article. Maybe it would be better to say “should” instead of “need?” In any event the overall point is pretty sound.

Even with dogs, if they are not well socialized when younger, they end up having problems interacting well/appropriately with new dogs and people.
Look up ionizing radiation, that’s what you need short of sheer directed power. Obviously radio/microwave frequency waves can affect the flesh in concentrated enough power. However the symptoms from “Havana syndrome” are all over the place. We’re all just slabs of meat to some potential real version of this, and it should have been fairly similar symptoms across the board.
well, "was selected-for over trillions of iterations", they said, "... by algorithms which were themselves selected-for"

"randomly" makes it sounds like some kind of miracle!
With regard to ArangoDB, the Community Edition is for personal or internal business projects (non-prod, up to 100GB). There is also a managed version and self-manage Enterprise version that companies use with their apps.

Comparison - https://arangodb.com/subscriptions/
Sometimes piercing a tumor can spread cancer cells
I’m guessing you are saying it is hard to believe that evolution creates incrementally greater complexity over billions of years?

Reminder that our best estimates of spacetime curvature Omega puts it very close to 1.0: the universe is very close to flat, so if the universe is indeed not spatially infinite (possible) it is at least 100s of times larger in radius than the observable universe, which contains about 10^21 stars. [1]

If the universe is spatially infinite, then all possible quantum states exist in infinite copies. So yeah, “it happened randomly” is not absurd. In fact, I find it a bit strange that any educated person would think otherwise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe
In fact, the lowcode/nocode platforms produce very well structured code behind the scene and they can train LLMs to build apps following their well defined structure, which means their apps can still take advantage of the LLMs but will have less bugs than just letting the LLMs produce a stand-alone app. Of course, the LLMs can produce more versatile apps than lowcode/nocode platforms but I don't see the LLMs as the competitors.
SyncLite looks great for companies that are starting to build from scratch. Ingest data in an embedded database and via CDC move the data into a centralized database. I'm also trying out a similar idea but only it's a bit reverse approach, from Cloud Warehouse -> Embedded DuckDB to reduce the compute cost for BI and embedded analytics use-cases. The combination of cloud and embedded databases is the future IMO.

For the project I'm working on, the tech such as Apache Iceberg and embedded DuckDB enables querying Snowflake + BigQuery tables directly from your BI tool, without any compute cost: https://github.com/buremba/universql
People don't care if customer support is AI if the problem gets solved sooner/more easily. Similarly, some people are more receptive to AI therapists than human therapists - anyone who doesn't feel comfortable sharing details with a person who might judge them, but would still value the intelligent analysis of their situation.

Not sure it logically follows that automated or low-effort messages inherently have no value. In some cases, receiving a message where little to no effort into communicating was placed may be better - for quick responses if nothing else.
Ah, the "we're out of ideas and have nothing, time to squeeze until the company dies, to chase stock price" phase of a business.

Like your cable company!
Having no bacteria in the gut leads to worse development ... I mean ... duh ... what is the discovery here?

It is well known that bacteria are necessary to digest food.
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Yes but in practice this is not a problem because the bits that are impossible are so narrow that turning at-least-once into exactly-once is so easy it's a service offered by cloud vendors https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/exactly-once-delivery
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I was sure this was a fake, but no he actually does.
Anecdotally, this affected everyone, all the way up through college (though the "damage" of the college students is less permanent since it didn't affect brain development as much).
Not me. I use Waterfox. If you want to use chrome i suggest you look u Vivaldi.
Telus, Bell and Rogers are ingrained in the minds of Canadians as the only options.

Almost all attempts to change that over the years have failed or have not been able to get sufficent market penetration to become self funding for rapid growth.

Canadian investment funds would rather go and buy U.S. ISPs from failing ventures like Frontier (creating Ziply Fiber) than investing in Canada because they know how bad the situation is. Getting sub-30% market penetration when offering, better, less expensive fiber internet makes the Canadian market uneconomical for deeper investment by insurgent ISPs.

The Canadian consumer is easily swayed by Bell/Telus/Rogers propoganda like https://web.archive.org/web/20140402040045/http://fairforcan...
Personally I find it's better for archiving as most sites that don't provide a convenient way to save their content directly. Occasionally, I do it just to make a better interface over the data.
Computer chips don't have any brain waves. Even some theoretical computer chip able to run a "Perfect in Every Way" simulation of a brain including even simulating the physics of the actual brain waves...still has no brain waves. Nothing but 1s and 0s turning on and off, and not even turning on and off in anything resembling a wave pattern at all.

This is why people who believe the "Consciousness is a Computation" view never want to discuss brain waves, despite the overwhelming evidence that brain waves is precisely the thing out of which consciousness is composed.
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That would be a poor excuse for just a few cars driving scattered across 6 lanes to make sure to block the whole thing. It's not always about driving much faster.
A lot of people smoke it straight so they don’t really have the option of “vaping this precise amount”. Also the edibles are probably up 5x as powerful as when I was in college just a while ago before legalization became a nationwide thing. We really do have “our best men” on advancing weed potency these days. It’s not Moonflower and Ditchweed growing a plot in upstate Oregon any longer
I won a Microsoft AI Competition. Is this validation to launch a SaaS?
I won this competition with my app and then decided to ship it as a SaaS.
This is my first launch, so I don't have any experience on how to check if my idea is valid and if I have product-market fit.

After more than 10 years as a Senior Dev, I am feeling stagnated. I have a decent salary, but I want more for my family.

Because of that, I decided to try something different, so I entered this competition.
I won, and I am really happy about it, but this doesn't change my life in a material way. So I decided to give it a shot and launch it as a SaaS.

I've been studying how to be a SaaS Founder, but it's just too much to do alone. I am good at building software, but the marketing, sales, customer support, etc... Man... it is too much for one person.

So I am looking for tips on the best way to validate my idea. I am trying to market it, but I don't think I am doing it right.

Maybe I need to accept the sad truth that my first launches are not going to make any money, and that is okay.
But at the same time, I have a wife and 2 kids, so I am anxious about optimizing my learnings to start making some money to justify the time I am investing in this and make it worth it for them.

Please help me with some advice on how to move forward.

Thank you!
> and an even higher chance of getting kicked out of banking

So you can never have them as a customer again for life. This is a fine strategy as long as the very small number of people who end up here do so intentionally and after much effort. Thus proving that they will always be more trouble than they're worth.

If it's a penalty for making a single mistake that you were enabled to make then this is not going to end anywhere good for any involved party.

> In a high trust society

This gets bandied about so often it's nearly meaningless now; however, on a basic level, I do not trust my bank. I'm guessing most of their current customers don't either. So they reap what they sow.

> This isn't being asleep at the wheel either; it's prioritizing availability over accuracy

Which made since in the 1970s. We're a bit past that now, and for a multi billion dollar institution to blithely allow this happen today is absurd.
Fair enough. But if you're going to send money you don't have through Venmo, do you need to deposit a fake check first?

I've not used Venmo, but Paypal doesn't know how much I have in my checking account, so why should Venmo?
You're absolutely right and it's a trollish question to make people think they have a novel definition to something everyone already knows.

People really hate someone pointing out that they have been manipulated by clickbait and cheap marketing though.
Didn’t the creator of stripe have it written in like, a few months? Iirc, he spent years dealing with regulations, not tech issues.
If it was designed by a creator then who or what created that creator? Something has to begin out of nothing!
Those only work because they have retries built in at a layer that runs inside your service. You should understand this because it can have implications for the performance of your system during failures.
No idea, I’m just guessing. But I don’t think the number of people who want children after learning about the details is zero, right? There’s still a healthy contingent of the population who see all that and say “yeah but I still want children”.

And I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to assume that desire is driven by genetics… especially because childrearing is so costly and difficult, there’s gotta be some explanation for why people keep doing it, and I don’t think it’s because every woman in history has just had it forced on her non-consensually.

Another way of thinking about: the desire to reproduce (and ensure your offspring survive enough to reproduce) is one of the most basic and important things a genome can code for, and we have billions of years of evolution ensuring that we keep wanting to do it. I don’t think it’s as simple as people just wanting to have sex… the desire for childrearing is a lot more robust than any one thing, or anything you can thwart by just showing someone a video of childbirth. Sure, there are some women who would see the negative sides and decide it’s not for them, but they’re selecting themselves out of future gene pools by doing this, so the system will rapidly reach equilibrium again.
And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary.

... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
For some reason we think of corporations and governments as different things. but an incorporation is a government, and a government is an incorporation. that is the whole point, that is why a cooperation is formed.

A group of people want to run their enterprise under rule of law and this requires a government. this legal entity we call a corporation. it may be a for profit endeavor. it might be a public good physical area monopoly(a town, county, state, country). It might be a for profit physical area monopoly(these were some of the first licensed corporations, but you don't see it much now days). anyway there are many types of corporations.

Usually to achieve the desired legal protection a license is acquired from a parent corporation that lets you form the government needed to run the corporation. it's corporations all the way down. At the top level they are peers(nominally) and must guarantee their protection the hard way(armed force). Organized crime is an example of an unlicensed cooperation, there is still a government, but the endeavor is run unlicensed, in rebellion to whatever larger entity claims jurisdiction over the area.
Isn't ollama an answer to this? Or is there something inherent to OpenAI that makes it significantly better for web scraping?
Crypto is going no where, as an end user payment option, until consumers can do chargebacks.

There are ways to solve this, but they involve gatekeeping, which of course puts us back at step one.
Americans wouldn't even understand the meaning of "discipline". "Lane discipline" for example - paying attention to what lane you are in and for what reason. Minimizing your use of left-more lanes for whoever might want to drive past you; paying attention to who has the right of way in the right-most lane, while not blocking people from entering or exiting.

But for a specific example, many Americans are let loose with a driver's license but scared of entering or exiting a freeway. When it's just about impossible to drive in the US without using freeways. (They are scared for good reason considering their lack of practice and understanding of how that works.)
It was T&L that pushed PR to call it a GPU, but afaik both 256 and GF2 had some shader capabilities. Nvidia Shading Rasterizer (NSR)https://www.anandtech.com/show/537/4 https://www.evga.com/articles/archive/91.asp
I think as someone else pointed out your probably best option is vaping it these days, that way if the first time it hits you too hard you can cut it by 1/2 or more to cut back on the negative experiences.
We moved states and transitioned our old from a nanny to day care. Literally, all of her developmental milestones exploded once she was around other kids.

There’s absolutely no substitute for kids seeing kids their age do things.
I think the main bottleneck in most macOS virtualization solutions winds up being I/O related. Docker Desktop and OrbStack both have custom solutions for bidirectional filesystem bridging and network integration, but for me OrbStack is much faster. OrbStack also can choose between using Apple Rosetta and qemu usermode for running Intel software on Apple Silicon.
Turns out you won't be able to uninstall Windows 11's Recall feature after all
"Redelivery versus duplicate" is doing quite a lot of work in there. This is an "at least once" delivery system providing building blocks that you can use to cope with the fact that it's physically impossible to prevent redelivery under some circumstances, which are not actually that rare because some of those circumstances are your fault, not Google's, etc.
It's particularly dangerous with biology.

A biology professor of mine put it this way: pretend you are reverse engineering alien technology. The stuff you are trying to understand was not designed by human minds. It was designed by evolution over billions of years, literally an alien intelligence that doesn't "think" anything like you do.

A big difference between biology and human engineering is that humans like one-part-one-function and linear chains of cause and effect. Biology isn't like that at all. It's an analog causal matrix where everything affects everything else to varying degrees and most parts have multiple simultaneous functions.
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I had the pleasure to briefly work with the author of this post within the last few years. Jeff was one of the most enlightening and positive people I've ever learned from. He was refreshingly honest about what challenges he was having, and delightfully accessible for mentorship and advice.
> out on NT defragment happened in real mode so there isn’t a lot of memory to buffer copied blocks

NT cannot run anything in real mode after ntldr. (And even boot time defragmenters run way after ntldr).
Here's a few interesting encounters.

Once I went for a dip in the spa and when I finished, decided to stretch out on the bare ground for a bit to relax (chaise lounges were removed during pandemic)

A neighbor lady immediately began shouting at me and started to call 911. I had to prove I wasn't dead!

Another time I sort of freaked out at a bus stop and laid face down on the sidewalk. Drew a huge crowd and while I refused to move, the ambulance rolled up. There was nothing physically wrong with me but I was transported anyway, just to peel me off the public right of way.

I visited a little pharmacy-based clinic for blood-pressure monitoring and they took two cuff measurements. The charge nurse said it's alarmingly high and she's required to call 911. So I found myself fending off a cadre of EMTs who insisted I needed to go; they put me on the phone with the ER doc who read me the entire risk profile before the ambulance could be dismissed. I calmly informed them that their presence was extremely distressing to me and the sooner they went away, the sooner my diastolic would readjust.

I've walked into Urgent Care and ER 3 times with cardiovascular concerns and each time the outcome was like, "yeah, keep an eye on that for us."

They can bill the patient for hijinks too. Perhaps the general public has hypochondria and enjoys transforming minor annoyances into state-sponsored crises.

If you're conscious and stable, an EMT visit will culminate with the $64,000 Question: "Do You Want to Go to the Hospital?" Well you're the pros; is it necessary or not? Call my insurance or something.
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