skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real purchasing power of the average German worker has been on a steady decline for the past 20-30 years with sharper declines in 2008 and 2022 while the US has only been surging up. When is this mythical recovery coming? Any day now?

That is not the only measurement of prosperity. It's just a data point you picked to push for a certain agenda.

> Burring your head in the sand to slow decline is not fine. It's just ignoring the problems hoping they go away but that's not how it works.

Neither is pretending that trickle down economics will do anything for the common man.
210d after Nintendo server shutdown last player signs off after console crashes
I'd argue that it will, this introduces incentives for parties that were previously disinvolved.
It’s just business. Everything is subject to change all the time. Unfair, rude, etc, but unjust is a bridge too far.

Unjust might be society not offering a sufficient safety net to ride out income volatility.
Hmm, imo it's definitely better than directly spinlocking to have many spinlocks running cooperatively, but you're right that it may not be ideal. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll see if I can find a better way to coordinate the polling/waking of lock acquisition futures.
> premise of neverending growth economies.

Maybe that is the issue.
Anyone know if you can get sprouts from Pando to start your own mini version?
> 10^25 floating point operations (FLOPs)

Is there a reason this number was chosen?
If anything, lead pipes are a sign of a country that has been developed enough to provide mass water services to the population for a very long time (decades).

Lead hasnt been used for new pipes in years, but old pipes still exist. Paris, France for example has a similar issue: lead pipes used up to 1970, finally banned in 1995, but still needs testing:

https://www.ac-environnement-paris.com/old_concentration-plo...
Oh this is really good to know, thank you!
Folks that downvoted — where is the evidence?
> There's not much evidence that indigenous Californians were doing any kind of fire management in the California coniferous forests

My impression from the book was that there was. They specifically mention burning in around Yosemite and for the harvesting and health of pines whose nuts were used for food.

Also "Eh" seems somewhat dismissive of a really thorough and well researched book. I'm curious if you've read it.
self-reported data is basically crap as it regards actual sleep patterns, but it could (hypothetically) be a rock solid predictor of brain shrinkage
Wouldn't that affect their for-profit company arm, not the non-profit Mozilla Foundation?

Or does the for-profit arm fund the non-profit?
Scala, Kotlin and even modern Java.
His work now boils down to prepping Intel for an acquisition.
Apple asks Foxconn to produce servers in Taiwan in AI push
This is an interesting idea. I am gonna try this out - especially with dashmap, I think that could perform very well.
I am sure AMD has been delivering more value for even longer. I bet the currently deployed AMD Exaflops are significantly higher than Intel. It was a huge consideration for me when shopping between the two. As big as 50% more compute per dollar.
yeah plants tend to be polyploid which helps with robustness to radiation damage.
I would guess that all of these companies that are moving back are throwing in the towel on their cloud migration/modernization plans under the guise of "repatriation" when it's really poor execution without any responsibility.
It looks like noise with hardly any permanence. Seems like a electricity -heavy way of solving "gameplay", if you can call it that.
I guess I never noticed that they release around once a year.

https://devguide.python.org/versions/
> there is only a single buyer for the mud

Monopsony!
Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company
> You don't have the right to remote work.

What I have a "right" to is ultimately a matter of personal judgment. Isn't it?
I’d still like a decent first fpga. Guys? I’m still here guys! Please make me some FPGAs!
I have heard people say this many times, but it is always wrong. Always. Absolutely everything can be measured in some way. The measures that shake out are not always the most accurate gauges of success criteria, and might even be misleading, but to make the blanket statement that things are beyond measure is like anything else is equally impossible.

Some measures are better than no measures, but if you don't trust the measures always gather additional evidence to disqualify them.
> It would be nice if you updated your original remark. I rarely see such a combination of total confidence and complete incorrectness, and you're giving advice on a health matter.

You said "Brita filter". Not "Brita Elite filter", which is a different brand and not what is included in most "Brita" brand filter jugs. Despite you only saying "Brita filter", not all Brita-brand filters are the same.

It would be nice if you updated your original remark to say Brita Elite. :)

I rarely see such a combination of total smugness and incorrectness, and you're making us all stupider for it.
I don't know that 37Signals counts as a "major enterprise". Their Cloud exodus can't have been more than a few dozen servers, right?

Meanwhile AWS is growing at 20%/year, Azure at 33% and GCP at 35%. That doesn't seem compatible with any kind of major cloud repatriation trend.
What does a overseas intern entail?
> Then what was the point?

Resume chasing and trying to paper over the fact that you don't understand architecture, plus bad tooling that e.g. doesn't properly support incremental compilation and so makes monoliths painful.
>that poor people don't get the tax but rich people do

Because poor people can't spend money (since they don't have it), hence they pay much less (or even no tax). The curve of a power law formula can be modified to whatever is socially acceptable. Otherwise, rich people who are hoarding assets will get taxed via land value taxes utilizing the same framework.

>you've still got problems of hiding how much I'm spending through various legal entities.

Same with income tax. Completely stamping out tax evasion is not a realistic goal with any system. Also, various legal entities are all tied to beneficial owners with taxpayer ID numbers. Databases would make quick work of sorting this kind of stuff out.

>It also has a macro economic problem, at least how the consumer economy is structured, that could slow down the gears of business until society realigns (if it does) because people will be incentivized to consume less.

Yes, that is why it is a pipe dream. But it would actually accomplish environmental goals as opposed to just pay lip service and pretend.

>You've got alternative models where you go after specific products and tax more for conspicuous consumption like yachts but that feels like it has all the inefficiencies of central planning a market.

Completely unnecessary to complicate things which also opens up avenues for corruption. A yacht is super expensive, it's obviously going to be hit with a ton of tax. Just come up with a tax curve (like we already do with the various income tax deductions/brackets) that provides the tax revenue and still allows people to spend enough money to provide for their basic needs.
Also because of the limitations of this model to achieve something in AI Minecraft is completely different than the standard game, for example to go to the Nether is easier to find the red mushroom texture and use it to confuse the AI into thinking it's netherrack, same think for the end by using sand blocks or similar color blocks.
> I was in DC in July and it was miserably hot.

That's the regional climate I'm afraid. You get used to it. Doesnt help that downtown is built on a low lying swamp, theres a giant river as a moisture source, and concrete everywhere. Dont let it put you off!

Aug is recess season which matters more than campaign season in terms of emptiness. It also means the entire class of lobbyists, analysts, journos and hangers on evaporate too. Its a good time of year for us locals not in that space.
Experiments show exact delivery of nanoparticles to lung via caveolae pumping
If you have one team per service, yes. In many companies, you may have one team and 10 services though. I wish I was making this up.
Here was his statement:

https://youtu.be/hzwQXL77VVA?t=64
Sorry, you can have a cheap-ish FPGA that came out 10 years ago, or a new FPGA that costs more than your car and requires a $3000 software license to even program. Those are the only options allowed.
Aren't you afraid that US insurance companies will go bankrupt?
It's not illegal for US people to view it and use it as a poll. Afaik polymarket doesn't currently charge fees, so they are trying to become a well known/respected alternative to official polls, economists etc on debatable topics.

Seems ok to me that they want to build their brand in the US and assume US people will bet on other topics and take interest in viewing the election results.

I mean I also think it's an open secret that most or at least many of their users are probably US using VPNs. But I don't think this necessarily changes anything about their official goals
This is key, it will push more people toward this, not away, because betting is available across all income brackets unlike say, hiring a lobbyist, of which lobbying has rules and regulations that at least in theory are suppose prevent these sorts of things
> with billions or trillions on the line

This has always been the case, and is why the mega wealthy go one step ahead by influencing the politicians [1], to limit the harm a vote can do, thanks to the democracy destroying Citizens United [2], and the like, that makes it possible.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/a-decade-under-citi...
Federal revenue as a percent of GDP:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

Basically flat since the end of WWII, significantly lower before the war. At the height of the New Deal, less than half of what it is now. And that's in the face of significant growth in real GDP per capita. Probably not a dissimilar story in most other Western countries.

The problem isn't in the amount of taxes being collected, it's in where the money is going.
"Unjust" is really just a matter of personal taste. Your claim that it's just has no more validity than a claim that it's unjust.

Saying "it's just business" is just a canned phrase for minimizing a general dismissive attitude toward the welfare of workers.
Study shows bats have acoustic cognitive maps
Is it still okay to say "pirated movies" or is that not negative enough since movies are okay? Should we call it "intellectual property theft material"?
Most of our tools that adjust files work really well offline. systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, systemctl and so on all support --root= and --image=.

I really don't know what the problem is suppoaed to be.

Lennart
"Major organizations like 37signals and GEICO". Sorry, what? Citing two companies? And how does a $37bn company compare to 37signals?

Such an odd pair of companies to choose. Is DHH friends with the author?

I'd be more interested in statistics about total cloud vs onprem spend across all companies, over time, to support assertion that "companies are ditching the cloud"

A very poor article
Kalshi is hiring influencers as well: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kalshi/jobs/k3eFjQK-in...

I don’t see the issue?
They used fire for much more than just promoting plant growth for baskets, I don't think OP did a very good job of explaining that.

Fire was used to promote plant growth to encourage game, keep meadows open and clear to aide hunting, select for fire tolerant plants which native preferred, and even harvesting of grasshoppers.

I'm sure the natives had some idea that frequent fires helped prevent more catastrophic burns, they would regularly schedule burns from every year to every few years depending on the landscape. But I doubt they could have predicted the kinds of catastrophic fires we've seen after decades and decades of severe fire suppression.
I’m sure all the money the US government put into Fisker was already gone by then. A decade later and even more reminders of what a terrible “investment” that was.
So worst of both worlds?
I absolutely hate the election betting markets. They seem so un-American. It was only made legal in the USA last month, so all of the results so far have been foreign entities.

Hate it.
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Updating pricing data.
Pricing token capture and compute now much more accurate.
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Uses Playwright / Selenium to bypass most simple bot checks.
Uses AI to extract data from a page and save it various formats such as CSV, XLSX, JSON, Markdown.
Has rich console output to display data right in your terminal.
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Only 50% of Americans have Passports. 80% in Europe.

We understand it, because we travel there on, our paid, vacations.

My last time in America I went to San Francisco, lots of money, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life.

Americans don't understand the quality of life other places have.
The password/PIN decrypts the data on iOS/macOS needed for touch or face ID to work. Too many failed attempts, a reboot, or too much time between attempts requires the data to be decrypted again, which requires your PIN or password.

Why Windows doesn't require this generally, I don't know. One reason might be that the underlying hardware (equivalent to Apple's Secure Enclave) isn't on every device Windows runs on. Another might be that MS is just that much less concerned with security or the appearance of being secure.
If Mozilla cares about their pocketbook, they could reevaluate how much they are spending on their CEO and AI companies. The victims of their monetary incompetence are always their own employees. I'd say Mozilla is just another company now, but even the average for-profit will lower the CEO salary if the company underperforms.
How much of that is what technologists would consider "cloud" (IAAS, PAAS) versus what someone on the business side of things would consider "cloud" - office365, google gsuite, etc?
ML analysis tracks the evolution of 16th-century European astronomical thought
It will be interesting to see how we feel about the prediction markets after today. They are making a clear bet on the winner, and if they are wrong, it will be a pretty big hit on their value.
There's best principles and then there's over engineering. Business domains can't be properly abstracted when the business itself is in the process of being defined, so if you're the kind of software dev that craves building to a spec that won't ever change, one possibility is that a fast-moving 12-person startup just might not be your cup of tea. Nothing wrong with that, just different.
(IANAL)

Model weights could be treated the same way phone books, encyclopedias, and other collections of data are treated. The copyright is over the collection itself, even if the individual items are not copyrightable.
Apple to Face First EU Fine Under Bloc's Digital Markets Act
> ChatGPT is not private and someone will link what you say to your advertising profile

Great comment, but you misidentify the threat.

Confessing stuff like affairs to the priest or therapist always carried personal risk of blackmail. Admitting pedophilic interest to your therapist will get you arrested. This is nothing new.

It's conversations mined in aggregate that are the threat here. You're paying to provide market research that will be used to further exploit you and others like you, by monitoring your most private thoughts. This sort of feedback is invaluable to tuning mass social engineering efforts. The data gets mined for "outreach," and serves only to observe you like a lab rat (and sell you additional iatrogenic solutions).

Even outside of therapy, don't spitball business ideas with ChatGPT. You know someone is mining data for that sort of intelligence too, and will bring your own idea to market before you do, then sue you to protect "their" interests. It's already happening to everyone trying to commercialize custom GPTs...the concept gets absorbed by the backend host so the revenue flows to them instead.

Zuckerberg might as well be the messiah of the internet age: "They trust me, the dumb fucks" is a mantra to live or die by these days.
It's "just business" to the company, it's very personal to anyone affected by it.

I find "it's just business" and "it's not personal" to be some of the most insulting and gaslighting phrases in the English language, by how they dehumanize the person at the receiving end of them.
In some colleges it's the bar, e.g. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/conferences/dining-at-st-e...
Almost any story about cloud repatriation is a story about a failure of the market to act competitively rather than someone actually able to do it for less money than the cloud providers can.
The big providers margins are crazy, like over 50% which is normal for a software / service business but they are essentially hardware businesses.
> The CFTC argues that allowing betting on political events could "commoditize and degrade the integrity of the uniquely American experience of participating in the democratic electoral process."

I’m wondering why voting is considered a uniquely American experience.

I also read somewhere, and I’m too lazy to link it, that books on the American election process have existed since the late 1800s. It’s been wrong 3 times in reference to the presidential winner. Once was recently.

Edit: typos
Imagine losing your job and then hearing that a NK spy stole millions, resulting in your job loss.

Hiring in IT is a joke, there is an obsession with gamifying everything resulting in only people willing to play the game actually getting hired.
> Performance per watt was better for Intel

No, not its not even close. AMD is miles ahead.

This is a Phoronix review for Turin (current generation): https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9965-9755-benchmark...

You can similarly search for phoronix reviews for the Genoa, Bergamo, and Milan generations (the last two generations).
Musk to spend election night with Trump
>phone books, encyclopedias, and other collections of data are treated

Encyclopedias are copyrightable. Phone books are not.
With all the anger over illegal immigrants taking US jobs, as a European it surprises me that nobody in the US seems to even mention the idea of punishing the employer for employing illegal workers.

If I want to hire someone (local or remote) as an employer here, I better make sure the worker has a valid working permit. Fines for non-compliance towards the employer are huge, even for a single day of work. All paperwork has to be complete before any work is done. Even when hiring through intermediary companies who guarantee it's all legal, liability and fines remain in place for the ultimate employer if it turns out to be not so.
This seems to mirror the situation where US financial regulations (FATCA) are seen as such a hassle to deal with for foreign financial institutions that they'd prefer to just not accept US citizens as customers.
Will it crack when all the water etc gets pulled out of it?
Talk to your local county health department, most have water test kits or laboratories they can put you in touch with.
It's just statistics. Even if it's 60/40 you could be wrong 4 out of 10 times.
Meta to let US national security agencies and defense contractors use Llama AI
Intel has come back recently with a new series of "Lunar Lake" CPUs for laptops. They are actually very good. For now, Intel has regained the crown for Windows laptops.

Maybe Pat has lit the much needed fire under them.
* Time to execute

* Time to build/compile

* Resource cost at execution time

* Clock time to deliver from requirements gathering to feature completion

* Developer time to complete an effort in money

* Defect quantity

* Defect severity

* Training/learning time to ramp up a new technology or feature

* Cost to produce documentation. Industry expects are amazed that the $84 million cost to produce the Air Force One documentation is actually so astonishingly low

The bottom line is that measures are a form of evidence, which is defense against arguments from bullshit. Developers typically measure absolutely nothing, so it comes to software performance developers tend to invent bullshit assumptions on the spot. They are wrong about 80% of the time and most of the time they are wrong they are wrong by several orders of magnitude.
Vacations have a completely different context from weekend breaks. It's one thing to have an organization planning around a down time once in the year than a constant weekly reset of schedules, employee requests, etc.
Holy crap that’s an interesting interview. Genuinely hilarious comment from that CIO as well. I knew nothing about this case before. Thanks for sharing.
I'm all for WFH but a right implies someone else has an obligation
He should go start a competitor. I have a company name suggestion for him, maybe he can call it "Courage", it's a very cool hipster name for a browser startup.
Observation tower functions like a massive sundial
Given that AWS is doing $100B in annual revenue and still growing at 17% YoY ... and they do NOT have a collaboration suite (office/gsuite) - it'd say at least for AWS it's nearly all IaaS/PaaS.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/amazon_q1_2024/
not the same thing. in that case they are bringing India to the US, with trillion-dollar companies claiming "we just can't find enough qualified applicants!", meanwhile I'm working for the same salary I earned in 2012.
Judgement? Sure. Personal? I sure hope not. I can declare myself the rightful recipient of all cash, but so what? Rights need some buy-in from society.
Same crap, different flavor.
If these were just ABI changes, packagers would simply re-package under a new ABI. Instead they specify ranges of versions in which "it works". The upper end often doesn't include the last python version and may be specified as "up to 3.x.y" even.

Sure I'm not that knowledgeable in this topic (in python). But you're telling me they go to the lengths of supporting e.g. 3.9-3.11.2, but out of lazyness won't just compile it to 3.12?

I can only hypothesize that 3.9-3.xxx had the same ABI and they don't support multiple ABIs out of principle, but that sounds like a very strange idea.
Fisker continues to widen my eyes. Unfortunately.
Not from the outside
> punishing the employer for employing an illegal worker

It's already the law.

This is why employers mandate I-9 forms as part of employment.

This is part of the larger indictment against Christine Chapman by the DoJ, who found she was falsifying employment verification documents and giving access to North Koreans in return for a portion of the embezzled sums.

Stories like this are also why there has been a major push for RTO.