skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know nothing about ham radio but I’ve been looking to join this global community for the past few years. This thread and post did entice me to start my journey but you’re wrong on a few details:

- the exam is cheap and easy as long as you study for a week (high-schoolers did it in the past)

- in some countries, you don’t need to pay yearly fee to keep your ID thing (which is also cheap)

- the effort doesn’t seem very hard

Last but not least and it’s the most important for me: you can talk around the whole world without needing a phone maker or an ISP or any other kind of company filtering what and how you can talk as long as you respect global human rules. It’s like the last freedom that we have here since the newsgroups of the 80s/90s. You can send a global message without having to rely on a weird protocol sent through a black box (phone) relayed by an ISP. It’s the rawest form of global messaging out there.
Yeah, some of us are kind of tired of politicians, though.

>if it gets the vote [...] whatevs

Precisely, because of this.

Edit: I was replying to your comment about "feelings don't matter" or some nonsense, but you backpedaled and deleted it, enough said I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Personally I'm digging a hole through the center of the earth to send data via pulsing laser to the far side. But other people can choose to waste their money on multi region relocation, sure.
My school still exists: founded in 15xx. Fags still fagging in '24.
> Either the lockdown policy before March 2022 was correct or the
> sudden "back to normal" after March 2022 was correct.
> The virus was still there and does not care about presidential edicts
> and speeches.

It is tempting to conclude from this that you are saying immunization, through vaccines and post infection, played no role and that the situation before and after the lockdown was essentially the same in terms of risk of poor health outcomes if exposed to covid?

> Given the the world still exists,

Yes, the world where there were vaccines and lockdown. Not the alternative version where these things didn't happen.

> I think the pre-2022 policies were a
> gross overreach and the cancellations of the likes of Malone are an
> eternal shame for the U.S. that is comparable to what happened in
> the Soviet Union.

Two questions:

1) what precisely are you referring to when you say "comparable to what happened in the soviet union"?

2) In the face of an outbreak of a contagious disease, would you be comfortable with government not implementing any restrictions that might slow or stop the spread of disease?

Would your answer to question #2 change if the disease in question was Marburg or Ebola? If yes, why?
Current McKinsey here. I don’t think anyone expects the current difficulties to last indefinitely. Its fairly well established that consulting struggles during times of economic uncertainty (but does fine when things are outright bad or good).
So, we have one of those uncommon cases where wealth (here in the form access to culture) actually can trickle down, and our government (among other parties) is actively preventing it.

Though that’s not surprising from neo-liberal government who thinks pretty much everything should be privatised. They are after all quite explicitly about favouring the rich, and cutting off mass access to those bits of culture is but a small part of their plan to maintain and expand inequality.
It’s probably worth asking if the deal was good for the union leadership’s personal finances and/or political ambitions.

If you look at the University of California contract negotiations (different union), you’re likely to conclude that the campus and most employees are on one side, and union leadership is on the other side.
Too early to say if there’s no harm from smoking pot. There are a ton of studies on alcohol and very few on Mary Jane.

https://archive.is/RUYvR
Contrary to Occam's Razor, the Simplest Explanation Is Often Not the Best One
> What is the current Swatch Internet Time?

> Could not convert time.

:(
McKinsey isn’t in the auditing business at all. And those that do play both went the other way, transitioning from auditing into consulting.

There’s a ton of competition in consulting in general.
Based on your first sentence, it seems that by "returns" you mean increases in stock price. Given that, I don't think there's a clear dividing line, since investors are always forward-looking.

I could see only long-term earnings being available but that's something quite different. Shareholders are often willing to put up with that situation, as long as they believe the long-term story (and see that other investors believe it).

A situation that could make short-term share price increases unlikely is if the stock is just way overvalued for its likely earnings in any reasonable timeframe, in which case shareholders will happily take profits rather than try to make the company change anything.
The Truth About Thesis.com (2021)
Should be able to trivially extend that logic to Mersenne Primes then, 'presumably'
Its not that shareholders dont care, its that ownership isnt concentrated enough in a shareholder that both cares and is competent. I wrote my undergrad econometrics paper on this, it was actually pretty interesting. You inevitably end up with board capture and short term focus unless there is an elon or group of elons with enough shareholder votes to threaten management because uninvolved shareholders tend to listen to the managent and management wants to capture the board so they can vote themselves higher comp which relies on short term performance for the payout, which is much larger for the ceo than longterm returns on existing comp holdings. It has likey gotten much worse since passive blackrock et al etfs gained such large market share because they vote the shares in ways that benefits them which is only loosely correlated with beneffitting the ultimate share owner.
Let me propose an alternate theory: fines and enforcement have become too small, so-as to become just a cost of doing business.

Many of these employees are so-incentivized by fiscal profit that they fail to see the immorality, just seeing opportunity. Maybe if our regulators weren't in bed with so many of the major funds...

"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." —George Carlin (Conan O'brien interview)
Tabs already allow split view
The same Private Equity big heads then go on podcasts and dinners where they talk a great deal about "how we should make healthcare work for everybody".

It's usually testing the waters for running for office as governor or senator .

And people applaud them because the notion that greed is good is deeply entrenched in our brains it's ridiculous.
Are you saying that the measures would have seemed more warranted if the phasing out of restrictions had been more gradual?
Is a primary care physician what we would call a family doctor or general practitioner (GP) in the UK? In Norway an employed adult will pay about 240 NOK (about 22 USD) to visit their family doctor (allmennlege). I'm not sure what the rules are for the unemployed but I'm sure they pay less, children (under 18s), full time students, and pregnant women pay nothing. Median income is about 55 kNOK/month.

I don't normally have to wait unless I turn up at the surgery without an appointment. If the previous appointments run over I sometimes have to wait but rarely ore than half an hour.
> It isn't even really a "system" in any meaningful way, in the sense of being a unified entity working towards a common goal.

Well said. That this could be equally applied to the US as a whole likely explains subsidiary disfunctions.
The conclusion in Apple's paper rings true – LLMs don't reason, they only match very adeptly the knowledge of their training data. The less commonly a given wrinkle in a prompt appears in their training, the less likely they can accurately handle it.

Will it ever be possible for an LLM to solve a truly novel problem, that doesn't appear in their training data, using deductive reasoning? It doesn't seem like it.
Just when I thought I covered every edge case!

Let me see if I can add it as an Easter egg
The Mystery of the Cave Cats
Over here in Europe I loved going on holiday to Spain as I could pick up [French] Majorette-brand toy cars, which I remember having much smoother wheels, so they would coast faster and longer than either Matchbox or Hot Wheels.
I read 'The Secret War' by Brian Johnson which was based on a 1970s BBC series. I think it's an earlier version of the same thing.

Another great (although very dry) book is 'Between Human and Machine - Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics' by David A. Mindell. This goes into the fire control stuff that I mentioned, and describes how one effect of the war was to force together the different groups that were working on analogue computation.
I don’t tag my bookmarks. But playing around with them, renaming them, creating folders, moving them around etc is simple with Chrome/Chromium, and a pain in the neck with all the other browsers I tried.
Those links are from 2023 and 2020, respectively. Not sure what point you’re trying to convey or if you grabbed the wrong article
How old are his, ehm, potential collections when they made the deal?

I can't imagine him making a deal with some 20-somethings and waiting 60 years to reap the fruit.

Or maybe he "accelerated" the process?
Higher comp is not a win if it comes with enough strings attached.

For instance, they could tie pay / layoffs to seniority (all your coworkers are unfireable incompetent union “good old boys” that don’t bother pretending to work any more, creating a hostile workplace and tanking company revenue), or the contract could make it unprofitable or infeasible to continue ramping up production in the union controlled facilities.

Since Boeing managed to remove the clause saying they’ll keep making planes in Washington, I’m guessing the latter happened with this deal.
The start of the thread was "The difference is every line of C can do something wrong while very few lines of Rust can." but this is an exaggeration of this kind.
https://archive.ph/jxvqt
Similar to a Phase 3 clinical trial (and for similar reasons).
Looks like we haven’t quite recovered from Napoleon…
AI should have no rights at all. equivocating between programs and beings is not empathetic, it just shows profound contempt for actual beings. imo the main reason some people fear AI is they see their own spiritual void reflected by it.

these arguments are not really about AI. the whole discourse of rights is freighted with a presumption about who gets to define and enforce those rights. tl;dr, shocker, it's the people advocating to manage rights on someone's behalf.

human dignity was a precursor movement to human rights that is still a going concern in some catholic circles and it is much a more sincere and humane principle. if AI-dignity sounds strange, AI-rights should seem more clearly absurd, and consider who benefits from us believing absurd things.

the solution is likely a committee of global experts whose advice is taken and implemented by authorites whose job it is to do what the science tells them. the experts won't hold risk because they're providing knowledge. some eggs may need cracking to make the omlette, but those results are just statistical. it wasn't the committee it was the forces of history, surely.

it's important because the change implied by the tech is being hyperbolized as another excuse to say 'this changes everything' and it's time to renege on our social contracts and the equillibrium of our cultures and just put us in charge. it's their solution to everything. don't get taken in by this stuff. AI-safety is just managerialistic anxiety.
> they got too enmeshed with the auditing business.

McKinsey does not have an auditing business.
> It is impossible, here, outside of ultra-contrived circumstances, to pay over a 52% effective tax rate.

It depends on what you include though. You could look at someone earning 100k, having it taxed, paying all the things that are not taxes but obligatory just the same (social security, depending on the country), and then spending the rest on rent, travel, food & entertainment (and paying sales tax and various other specific taxes). How much of their total income has gone to the state?

If you want to extend that comparison, look at someone running a company. The value they create with their company will be taxed as well, then they receive dividends from their company which also will be taxed at different rates.

Of course, you'd need to either compare to individual US states, or make some choices about how to average their very different tax levels.
Yes, because there's a good chance that the Senate will become Republican this round, and the marihuana legislation will get stuck there. The Democrats will say "but we tried", the Republicans will score points with their clientele, and everything will go on just as before because Biden-Harris run on a platform of keeping the status quo.
My first link illustrates that the electorate continues to tilt left/progressive as 1.8M voters over the age of 55 die every year, 5k per day (per the CDC); those voters lean very far to the right. 4M voters turn 18 every year, they lean very far to the left (including women [1]). The data should not be evaluated as a snapshot in time, but instead viewed as a sliding window, as a demographic system. This is not politics, importantly; this is demographics, with political outcomes being the resulting output of the system.

My second link was the wrong link, thank you! I have updated that link to a 2024 election cycle link.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522705 (citations)
I thought "nanny state" was a derogatory description of welfare policies?
You read the spam in my inbox today?

You got the initial product invite from the GP?
>Presumably they lost one month of pay.

A new grade 4 hourly worker at Boeing made $19 an hour before the strike. $3,040 a month before taxes. https://www.iam751.org/docs/2024/FRONTMar24.pdf

There's a reason they went on strike. $36,480 a year doesn't go far when you have to pay Seattle area rent.
How do you explain the relative success of Internet Archive, Wikipedia and previously, public libraries?

Obviously not compared to profitable businesses, but instead to our appetite to support them and use them.
I'm really happy to see Firefox-based web browsers. I don't have the manpower nor the resources myself to create my own, but this is definitely what the community needs in terms for backing down Chromium-based browsers.

I'd also be cool to have an embeddable Gecko to create web views in desktop apps, one that is not WebView2 or Electron. I bet that'd drive more the adoption.
God's Number: A Mini Documentary [video]
Take a look at this thing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html about titles - random arxiv papers you found interesting along with commentary on why you thought it was interesting are fine things to post, you just can't put the commentary in your post's title.
I believe that they can already solve novel problems. I can’t find a link but I’ve seen something where ai-skeptical researchers were surprised by chatgpt’s ability to solve certain problems that absolutely wouldn’t be in its dataset.

But of course LLMs can’t handle basic math
This is a really good approach I wish more technical docs had. My mind is always questioning why things are done a certain way, which leads me to side quests that slow me down.
> too enmeshed with the auditing business

that's not the issue; consulting pays much more than auditing, which is why the Big4 would probably be fine spinning off their auditing businesses
I love my Airpods Pro so much, even though I don't have an iPhone. I previously had Bose and Sony noise-canceling over-the-ear headphones, but they were so heavy and uncomfortable to use for any extended amount of time. The ear pads would always get sweaty and gross, and one of the aftermarket replacement pads caused an allergic reaction on my ears (which I never experienced before). I also tried Pixel Buds and a few wired ones. Nothing came close, comfort-wise.

The Airpods Pro sound just as good to me as any of the other ones, and are dramatically more comfortable – I forget they're even there, and wear them for walking, running, cycling, working out, gaming, calls, etc.

They have some spatial features (like faking the position of a sound in space), but I turn all of that off and just use basic noise canceling and it works great.

The one downside is that the mic kinda sucks and picks up all sorts of ambient noise (typing, people walking or chatting nearby, etc.) on a call. I use a separate external mic and sometimes Krisp.ai to help filter out the noise.
Would there be any advantage for anyone to state they feel the opposite to your view publicly? Seems like a career limiting move.
Hate Noisy Restaurants? Stick This in Your Ear
Can you really define a phone by the way it transmits data?
Being offered the next airplane is a bit of a red herring since the non union South Carolina plant has a track record of bad deliveries and some sales contracts forbid aircraft being delivered that are built there amongst larger quality issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_South_Carolina

So yes this is a win for them. Being paid properly for your time is likely an issue everyone here agrees with when it’s their pay on the line.

Boeing has huge contracts and is the go to for the US Military Industrial Complex. They have plenty of contracts on hand to bring in revenue as they figure themselves out. Their ability to create problems has been clearly shown to be a tone at the top problem combined with bad management decisions that has lead to poor product delivery, regulatory missteps, and the design shortcuts that lead to accidents that brought on their most recent cycle of pain.

A lathe operator has no impact on those decisions whether she is paid $20 or $27 per hour.
Yeah, so, basically, for a long time, you haven't been able to use async features in traits (fixed in Rust 1.75, the precursor/enabler of that, Generic Associated Types, landing in 1.65).

The final enabler of async in traits, "impl Trait in traits" is likely to land during Q1 of 2025. (impl Trait is a way to hide an anonymous type behind an interface and give it a name, which turns out to be important because much of the Futures used in async code are auto-generated by the compiler, and thus anonymous.)

As traits are a core means of abstraction in Rust, this has seriously hamstrung the usability of async. Also, because of this, the standard library hasn't been able to provide a standard set of traits that would unify the async ecosystem. That's why the ecosystem is in an balkanized state at the moment, Tokio being the largest faction.

There are other usability problems too: first being the inflexibility of the current trait system, preventing writing code that is generic over single-threaded and multi-threaded async runtimes. This is going to be fixed by "function return type notation in where clauses", also likely to land during Q1 of 2025.

These fixes are already going to be a huge boon to the async ecosystem.

Finally, we are maybe going to see ergonomic improvements in the Pinned references/pointers. Of what kind, and when, is still very much an open question, but there is an active discussion around that. But if you are not writing low-level async building blocks but "just" plumbing using existing libraries and frameworks, Pin isn't going to kill you, so this is more for improving ergonomics of the advanced use-cases.

All in all, I think that one year from now on, the situation around async will be a whole lot better than now.
I wouldn't say "just", as I expect that those are important parts of what makes for better reasoning.

But beyond that they're keeping secret.
One month of pay vs years of stagnant wages, concessions in regards to health care, as well as pensions getting axed. https://fortune.com/2024/09/13/boeing-machinists-vote-strike...

Hmmm. I wonder if you have a bias here.

> Also those tired of the union work culture in Everett may continue to leave

Yeah, they won't leave for not getting salary increases in line with inflation (at the very least) in 16 years, but they will leave because the union is fighting for their benefit.

What are you on? It's appalling how people will justify poor treatment of workers and argue against workers fighting for better treatment and pay.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873165
I remember calculating that the 0.08 btc that I was mining per day on my desktop wasn't worth the electricity.
Since investors are forward-looking, I don't think there are many situations where a change that's good for the long-term value of the company will necessarily drive down the share price in the short term.

You might drive down the share price if earnings go down, but that's not necessarily the case if the long-term value is clear. An example would be any company reinvesting earnings in a new factory.
You're gonna have to connect some dots to legal fines, etc.
Yea, and it's what ChatGPT does sometimes even if you don't ask it for multiple options. It shows two options and asks you to select the best one. Essentially using customers to help with training.
Many things convinced me to leave medical school, fifteen years ago, but a major professional consideration occurred during my emergency medicine rotation: I got into an ongoing, public, verbal dispute with the dean of our public US school (over a kickback he was receiving, at student expense).

(To lend credibility to my jaded recollection/POV, that semester we both left that medical school)

This experience with then-Dean, JD, opened my eyes to the cutthroat nature of a (even back then) massively-privatizing healthcare system... which I decided I couldn't morally/fiscally afford to become a part of. So thank you Dr. B... you helped me realize there are soooo many other ways to make money (honestly) helping people.
Sadly I expect the vast majority of shareholders would individually trade the future health and profits of the company for their own immediate benefit as well, were they in a position to make the same choice. You're right that since they collectively don't benefit from such short-sighted focus, they wouldn't make the same choice.

It's outside my bailiwick and I'm not quite sure how it happened, but it seems to me that over the course of a few decades (70s to 00s?) we went from a model of corporate management where the various mechanisms of "cripple the company for the short-term benefit of upper management (plus a few well connected others)" were neither sophisticated nor, well, thinkable, or at least not acceptable, to one where both the ability and the practice of doing so are near-ubiquitous.
Have you seen LLM testing tools like promptfoo?
> To them it may not matter what the future of Boeing is past their retirement.

of course they don't, and why should they? Boeing doesn't give a f*k about its employees

> probably view the union as a bad actor

based on what? rather they seen the benefits of unionizing as otherwise you get nothing (and get laid off); this sounds like FUD
Among a certain people, the executive class is nearly worshipped as the good guys. God for forbid they get held accountable for anything not related to shareholders
Ask HN: What can you do with a photo of someone's ID, worst case?
When travelling in some countries, hotels require you let them photo your ID to stay (while in other countries this is illegal to do, and in others it's legal but never done).

I wonder what the real risk is. What can actually be done with a photo of someone's passport or driver's license, if the photos were sold to a cartel or hacked, since these cell phones they use to do this must contain hundreds or thousands of IDs?
The call quality is gonna sound like shit and be super laggy.