skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The perception of the economy being bad is really pervasive as demonstrated by the last election, and perception matters, because selective numbers don’t tell the whole story.

Well saying "the economy is good" or "the economy is bad" out of context is simply moronic. Good for whom? Bad for whom? It's no secret our entire society is stacked to favor investors and owners rather than workers. The market certainly treats people extremely differently based on where they are in society. Much of the population never economically recovered from the 2008 crash at all—something that won't be reflected by GDP, stock performance, "jobs created", or how many people are collecting unemployment (which is, confusingly, a wildly different figure from counting people who want jobs but can't find one—as best I can tell, a metric not reported by the federal government at all, but appears to be about twice as large as the "unemployment" metric pimped: https://www.richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/non_em.... And this isn't even touching underemployment). The CPI is a little better, but only by a small amount.

And you'd have to be blind to not notice a minimum wage job is no longer sufficient to afford rent in most major metro areas.
>everything sort of breaks when anything changes

What is “your understanding” based on?
Perl's "layering" is one of its most brilliant features. You start learning Perl in layers; achieve some fluency and effectiveness and understanding of the general principles - and will still have many layers and sets of features that you can dig into as you progress. The set of O'Reilly books was amazing for this. Still is. But the documentation itself was amazing also. Still is. That's one problem with Raku: Can raku ever get to this level?

This is important as a powerful tool for a powerful programmer.

I always contrast this to C++ - where you are dangerous, too dangerous, until you have learned a huge amount "of the language" (and good luck understanding it). Or BASIC, where... there isn't much.
I stopped reading at “life on easy mode”, sorry, just crabs in a bucket bollocks.
I recently found that store-brand peanut M&M's (my favourite) were just as good, half the price, and fair-trade! Win-win!

When I joined my current job, I used M&M's as reward when learning the names and faces of the people there using memory cards. Also worked!

Fortunately I've found that Belegarth fighting is so much fun that I need no extra carrot.
Well you would need to know what the test looks like. If the bar is to understand the passage "The dog runs fast", You don't need to be a genius to comprehend it.
The anecdote doesn't strike me because your friend the pastor said it, but because it's a rule as old as times that every high-schooler was taught.

- The introduction should announce the thesis and its development
- walk your way towards your thesis
- The conclusion should summarize your thesis (and hint at openings towards new grounds)

But somehow, everyone seems to forget it and is in awe whenever someone recaps it.
any good resources for training on this?
This. Even though inflation is just about back to where it was pre-covid, the winning candidate gave his voters the impression that he could lower the prices that had gone up during the earlier inflationary period. The majority of voters don't understand the underlying economic issues: Unless you get a negative inflation rate (deflation) you're not going to see lower prices. And the only way you get deflation is during severe economic downturns - now it could be that his promise will come true and we'll get a severe economic downturn that leads to lower pries, but I don't think the people that voted his way had that in mind.
I don't see how it can be separated from the culture as a whole. After all, what causes such differences, if not differences in cultures?
The political strategy in Ontario was to force amalgamate the cities with the suburbs so that the suburbs could politicaly dominate the cities.

Gross stuff.

You can see at the voting district maps the city of Ottawa for example will 100% vote for a different candidate that all the distant suburbs attached to their municipality and the suburb candidate wins.
Indeed it looks impressive. Thanks for the tip.
strong disagree
>You can go on Twitter

well there's your first mistake. I'd rather go on 4chan and ask them for game design ideas. At least they will be consistently trash. Consistency is key in game design.
Just got back from a run!

By far the most effective thing to motivate me to exercise, and run in particular, is the "VO2 Max" section of the Apple health app. It's a rough indication of your cardiovascular endurance, and the higher, the better. The real key is that, though, is that it basically works like an XP bar in a game: if you "grind" running, it goes up. If you don't, it doesn't. It's incredibly addicting to check the number every time you finish a run and see if it's ticked up slightly. It's also great because in some sense it is "real". If it goes up, I have an easier time on hikes, runs (obviously), playing sports, etc.

The second thing that really got me into running is that I found that the most effective way to get VO2 Max to go up is to run in heart rate zone 4, also tracked on the Apple watch. Zone 4 is 80 - 90% of your maximum heart rate. It's not an all out sprint, but you'll be moving pretty fast.

The reason it's so effective is best illustrated by contrast. In the past, I've tried tracking a number of metrics on my run: total miles, average speed, calories burned, whatever. But I found it psychologically draining to continuously try to top my fastest speed, and I inevitably had off days (or weeks or months) when the score I was measuring wouldn't go up. Obviously as you get faster, this happens more and more, and it gets easy to start wondering if you're even progressing. Heart rate is a much better measure, because in some sense this is compensated for. You don't have to continue to beat yourself every day (or fret that you're not) to get to 80% of your max heart rate, and on days when you're more exhausted, you'll hit a higher heart rate faster, so the effort is roughly the same.

Also, Zone 4 is a great place to be. You're pushing yourself, but it's a sustainable sort of push. I often found that when I ran sprints I wanted to die. They were so psychologically demotivating that I would do anything to avoid them. Zone 4 is not like this. It's very manageable, and I wake up excited to do it!

At this point, I want to run every day - I'm at the point where I have to force myself to stop sometimes because it's healthy to take rest days!

Usual disclaimers apply, BTW. Don't do all your running in Zone 4, don't immediately go from no running to an hour of zone 4 every day, do a reasonable ramp up over a long period of time, etc etc.
Not just visibility in the rain, but diminished or fully obstructed visibility due to ponding and full flooding. Then there are the physical navigational problems associated with that. They probably shouldn't be driving though a foot of sea water.
This is an adult's definition of an adult
Definitely should be a balance between individualism and collectivism. Covid drove us all the way to one extreme, and now some people seem to crave the opposite.
But it is also interesting to see that there seems to be a wide spectrum in office cultures post Covid. Some jobs still feel like they are in the thick of it, while others are back to 5 days (or even more if you work for one of Elon's companies)
Thank you for the information -- those are indeed better examples.
I have some neanderthal DNA, and you extincted my people, so let's start settling up
Why the Classical Argument Against Free Will Is a Failure
Boeing plea deal over fatal 737 MAX crashes rejected by judge
It also expands the market. Currently bus riders can’t afford to take Ubers but would prefer to. People that would rather take Ubers than walk or bike, and people who would rather give up their car and do uber full time.

This will all be possible with low cost autonomous transport
boston driving is so much better than SF+LA driving because at least what the drivers do there makes sense
The weather becomes too dangerous to drive because of mechanical (lost of adherence) problems way sooner than humans have sensorial problems anyway.

So if it's too dangerous for people, it's also too dangerous for computers.
True, I had just responded to another comment with this so I had a chuckle.

> What denial? It is an excellent way to gamble or launder money. That's not changed, but it's not expanded either.
Driving in SF alone means it’s above mid tier in most other places.
> Quantum Computing actually cracking the encryptions which will kill the entire network instantly.

It will not. This issue was talked as far as 2012.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Quantum_computing_and_Bitcoin
Texas Court Blocks Treasury from Enforcing Corporate Transparency Act
Hasn't a language feature failed if even experts disagree on it? How would lay developers ever use it? This is not an algorithmic nicety; it's supposed to be second nature to write and automatic to read.

And it seems weird to omit Swift from this comparison, since Swift seems to have the most user-friendly (but incomplete?) implementation of move-only types.
There is no such thing as an all cash startup.
Thank you for taking the time, this is exactly the sort of discussion I was looking for :)

I had a clear end goal in mind, a smallish database I can query for municipality data easily, but in the middle of a project I started to miss the forest for the trees thinking about every theoretical use case. I think I achieved my goal, but it would've been better to keep my end goal in mind.

The schema diagram is limited, I agree. The tool I was using has no options, so I might switch to another library and do more manual work, or otherwise indicate it in text as you mentioned. The diagram does show primary and foreign key relations, it just might not be clear.
I mean, having firmware that securely wipes your phone in case it's used by an unauthorized party is a reasonable and desirable feature. It's not generally illegal to set that up.

Same with destroying documents. Having a retention period and destroying documents which have PII and could be used for identity fraud is a good practice. It's not generally illegal to do that either.

Where you get into trouble with the courts is when you have a specific obligation to retain or transfer information and you destroy it instead.
ChatGPT but not for the good

It's made me very lazy with my thinking and writing.
In case you weren't already aware, most markdown parsers support actual HTML tags in it, and there's <abbr title="change data capture">CDC</abbr> that allows being visually succinct, is a11y friendly, and in most browsers is visually distinct to prompt the user there's more content hidden in the hover or long-press

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...

I'm also aware of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/df... but I think it has more nuance to it and for sure involves having a lot more supporting structure in the document
For me the pinnacle of boring RDMS are Oracle and SQL Server.
Job of last resort or a hobby. If you have a passion and a good idea you can be moderately successful in the indie scene (and there are always outliers like Notch or Concerned Ape) but I wouldn't quit your day job to pursue that until there's some evidence of market interest in the game you're making.
Nice! Crossing avalanche terrain (eg: backcountry skiing) is a low chance/high consequence activity. It is easy to learn the wrong thing: I did this before and it was fine, therefore it is safe.

You counter that with observations, forecasts and incident reports, but intuition based on personal experience leads you astray.

A game is much better because you can fail and you just have to restart the game. Make an RDR2 mod.

(edit: more intuitive anyway. It might not be easy to accurately show different snow conditions while also being fun to play)
point to point transport is nice. trains are ridiculously expensive nowadays. US governments largely can't do large infra projects anymore
> It's also nice that the moved-from value cannot be used afterwards.

There are a few cases in low-level systems code where being able to defer destruction of the moved-from value is useful. A common example is when there is no way to enforce ownership semantics on the resource at compile-time e.g. direct I/O or similar types of shared address space. Being able to safely move the value immediately does not imply that you can safely destroy the moved-from value immediately as long references not visible from your address space exist.

The non-trivial moves in C++ are convenient for wiring in the necessary mechanics, automagically ensuring the moved-from value lives long enough for the exogenous references to discover it has been moved. You can do this manually without non-trivial moves but the syntactic sugar makes some things that are inherently memory-dangerous much safer.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of options." The data on 4 Day Week trials has been positive in almost all cases [1], across many countries, same with remote work. We should try it if we care, I just don't think we care at a system level.

Like rapidly declining fertility rates, there is enough will to complain, no will to change anything (imho, based on observations and the data). Maybe things need to get worse before they get better, I think we're just arguing over how bad the situation will need to get before change is made (structural demographics, socioeconomics, etc).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39992783 (citations)
>Alan Wake 2 was a critical success

Gaming critics are irrelevant. Their opinions on games is not more relevant than your opinion or my opinion. It's not like they got a PhD from Game Criticism University.

They're just average joes who give each other clout online to practice access journalism and are bought and paid for by the big studios to parrot opinions favorable to drive sales for their games.

Games studios should listen to the gamers who actually buy the games, not to the journalists who don't.
It really depends if you can find a (cryptocurrency) exchange that lets you withdraw to a bank account in Costa Rica. If you can find one, you don't even need stablecoins. The way it will work is

US Bank -> Deposit USD to US cryptocurrency exchange -> Trade USD for Bitcoin (or some other crypto that has cheap transfers, it doesn't really matter) -> Send Bitcoin from US cryptocurrency exchange to Costa Rica cryptocurrency exchange -> Trade Bitcoin for USD (or local currency) on Costa Rica cryptocurrency exchange -> Withdraw to Costa Rica local bank

Theoretically, all of these steps can be done with less than ~$1 in fees. My banks and exchanges let me deposit for free and withdraw any arbitrary amount for 50 cents. Sending any arbitrary amount of cryptocurrency should be cheaper than that. The big question is if an exchange exists that lets you withdraw to Costa Rica banks, and what they charge for that.
Sad but True. Okami also had quite the cult following and tail, but that was way after Capcom shut down Clover Studio. These studios depend a lot on the first month sales to stay afloat.

I imagine Remedy was overall fine (as in payroll) thanks to Epic's bankrolling, but few studios get that privileged.
As someone who lives in the hegemon, I’m doing pretty well and would rather not test hegemonic stability theory the hard way
Waymo doesn't rely on the maps to operate. It just helps with redundancy in case it's unable to see.

And it's just a matter of the cars driving through each of the streets and working with local authorities.
Alternate source: university newspaper, https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-profe...

150 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251656
AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz
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"He said that he would not let himself be a patient to over 85% or 90% of the doctors"

This definitely resonates, for every health condition the final recommendation is always "consult with a doctor", but if you get multiple opinions doctors will usually contradict each other, and most doctors have mixed opinions about their peers. Makes it hard to just do whatever a doctor tells you and feel you are making the right choice.
How about this?

Tesla’s latest FSD beat Waymo by 30 minutes. Same route and same time of day.

https://youtu.be/CfX8Lu9MHa0?si=cOYWNXjPiYP9R6L_
What is it measuring? VO2 max is usually measured with a mask that can measure the flow of gasses while running on a treadmil/stationary bike.
The people who believe DOGE is about deregulation are the same folks who believed buying twitter was about free speech.

Sam is about to learn what he can and can’t do.
How many people in the EU speak English, and how many speak Mandarin??
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Tactical Parenting
Yeah, there was a perception then (in 2016) that the economy was growing too slowly when in fact it was doing pretty well. Yes, the recovery from the '08 Great Recession was very slow, but by 2016 things were pretty good. Then this time around he ran on the economy being supposedly better during his first term when in fact most of that was just inherited from Obama. Towards the end of Trump's first term inflation was already starting to heat up due to the trade wars and tariffs he started. Covid hits and that inflation goes into high gear. Most of it was from covid and supply chain issues - not really Biden's fault, but it was easy for him to pin it on Biden.
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yeah, all of which can be done overnight
I had to dive deep into this to gain an intuition for it. Basically diffusion models work by de-noising a noise sample step by step until the result is something that looks like the training data (like an image of a frog).

To train a diffusion model, you take the image of the frog and add noise to it one step at a time. You then teach a neural network such as a U-Net how to remove noise from any given step to the previous (less noisy) step. With millions of samples, the model eventually learns to do this.

Flow matching is similar, but the key difference is that training involves simply taking an image sample and smoothly interpolating it straight to the noise. You aren’t adding noise “step by step” but rather literally running interpolate(image, noise, step_count) to generate an array of intermediate steps on the way to noise.

The flow matching neural network is then trained to product a vector field that knows precisely how much to nudge each dimension of a sample at any given time step so that it looks like a sample at the previous time step. This much is very similar to DDIM diffusion models.

However what’s being predicted is the vector field rather than the de-noising operation.

Flow matching allows you to perform de-noising using an off the shelf super efficient ordinary differential equation solver, because those things natively work with vector fields. And since the whole process is fully deterministic, you can jam your noise sample in and let the ODE do the rest.

The flow matching approach produces better output because it is approximating a linear interpolation process in reverse, rather than a step by step removal of noise. This means that the network is somewhat more likely to produce output that matches the data distribution, all things being held equal.

Training flow matching networks is apparently harder, though, because vector fields tend to accumulate errors and so you need to make
careful use of regularization to ensure the network doesn’t go too wild.
Does this use the txtar format created for developing the go language?

I actually use txtar with a custom CLI to quickly copy multiple files to my clipboard and paste it into an LLM chat. I try not to get too far from the chat paradigm so I can stay flexible with which LLM provider I use
That is absolutely true, even no matter the government, even a non-capitalist socialist commune must allocate and there's no right answer.
It can become insidious in capitalism. We have organizations like Kaiser who say "we'll run the hospital and focus on preventative care, if we spend $50 today that avoids $50,000 a few years from now" - Kaiser notably does hospitals AND insurance in a vertically integrated manner. That's all reasonable.
Then a United might see "we can spend $5,000 today and patient will be healthier-ish, or $200 yearly for a medically equivalent treatment". And so they do the actuarial math that the patient will die in a few years, they calculate revenue from that patient based on how long they might stay on the plan, and find the solution that maximizes profit. So the mentality isn't Kaiser-like "i.e. we're on the hook for this patient, let's minimize their health problems to save money", it's more like "we will minimize the cost of this patient full stop, if that means they don't get care then they don't get care"
Just to throw in another opinion, one that I think will be guaranteed to annoy the majority of commenters so far: This piece argues that the US isn't doing that well economically in absolute or historical terms, but only looks like that way because the popular point of comparison, Europe, is doing even worse:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/us-economy...
I think less than infinite stories it would be awesome to see infinite paths in a designed setting. Skyrim is fantastic for the many choices and the way they permanently affects the world and trajectory. But there's ultimately a primary overarching story, you just hit it from a variety of perspectives.
Exactly. People forget that we did make systems that were just Markov chains long before LLMs, like the famous Usenet Poster "Mark V. Shaney" (created by Rob Pike of Plan 9 and Golang fame) that was trained on Usenet posts in the 1980s. You didn't need deep learning or any sort of neural nets for that. It could come up with sentences that sometimes made some sort of sense, but that was it. The oversimplified way LLMs are sometimes explained makes it sound like they are no different from Mark V. Shaney, but they obviously are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney