skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is still their fault - Amazon is the entity which is capable of changing this policy. It may also be wise for the customer to stop paying, but Amazon is clearly responsible here.
Stupid spending. (Or at least "unrestrained spending".)

These are not people I know, but some of what's in this article "rhymes with" things I see high-income, high-spending associates doing: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/budget-breakdown-of-a-couple...

From that article: "As Dogen puts it, they’re effectively “scraping by,” in part because they’re still living “paycheck-to-paycheck,” despite their generous salaries."

That's right: they're each making $250K/yr, and living paycheck-to-paycheck as they describe it.
Actually I think this could be distilled to a simpler metric. The economy is doing well when the net wealth (not including tax advantaged accounts) of individuals and families is positive and growing in real dollars.

Because if you are able put money into savings or investments then you probably have the other stuff you listed.
The surprise (kind of) is that Oracle wants to fight it.
I never said it was walkable per se, in the sense that is commonly used to mean everything you need in life is a few blocks away :) I'm not sure the large appeal with that anyways.

I work from home so no commute, but my wife does drive to work. However the grocery stores are less than a mile away and her work is a 5 minute drive (the nice thing about small cities / towns is that if you have to drive, it usually isn't very far).

That said, we do indeed walk or bike almost every day for exercise and to get outside. Myself I only use the car once or twice a week really when we go to stores or out to eat. But even if I lived in a "walkable" city I'd probably do that anyways because we'd want to try something new.
The sum doesn’t even have to be 1000, just create a grid of random numbers, create a random path and find the sum. It’s an equivalent problem.
Do you ask a lawnmower why it chewed your hand off after sticking it in there?
>I love ACA, but I hate Obamacare

To be fair, ACA passed, and here we are. Healthcare companies are making more than they ever did. Have you considered that powerful propaganda machine works both ways?

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/08/insurer-profits-health-care...
Have you considered a tablet with pen to not cut down so many trees (transflective is the new cool kid on the block i hear, ipad works pretty well ime)? By now i actually prefer its better searchability with ocr and miss pinch to zoom on real paper ;) Or do you think that the paper being wobbly is important? I mean i get missing the indentability. My experience as a student is its more important to move your hands and have an intuitive sense for location on a sheet of paper (more intuitive/faster navigable than with a typed word processor) to easily form deep memories with what you are dealing with (+spaced repetition!!). So in total tablet works great (for me) once you get used to it. :)

Please indulge me on your short tangent on Austins public library, how can they improve? Same budget?
Is there any tutorial like this for 'sed'?
VectorChord: Store 400k Vectors for $1 in PostgreSQL
Hey everyone! We’ve developed a new PostgreSQL extension that supports 400k vectors for just $1. Check it out!
Meta (we) process many billions of messages per second. Finding enough randomness is a thing at scale.
The average true cost to acquire a single customer is in the hundreds of dollars, to pay for sales & marketing labor, advertising etc. So $5/month is nearly equivalent to "free" from a business perspective.

https://firstpagesage.com/marketing/average-cac-for-saas-bus...
Also, morphisms from A to B form a set.
“europe” is not awesome. case in point - whatever shithole your parents lived at forced to leave and come to US of all places :)

but many _parts_ of europe are really, really nice :)
This seems like Deno poked the bear, and now the bear feels forced to defend itself.
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I've written my own 2D and 3D game engines as well as worked in Unreal. I'm currently working on a controllable diffusion engine using Bevy.

I strongly disagree that you need to cater to existing workflows. There's so much fertile ground in taking a departure. Just look at what's happening with animation and video. People won't be shooting on Arri Alexas and $300,000 glass for much longer.
Small discussion (8 points, 7 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320506
>We've decided that our collective quality of life and the benefits conferred us by allowing private transportation far outweigh the harms

Speak for yourself. At least in cities, cars and car-centric cities have absolutely destroyed our economies. People drive for trip less than a mile because walking is miserable, and walking is miserable because the city is built around driving and without regard for pedestrians needing to constantly cross major intersections.

To be fair, cars aren't the root problem here - the root problem is the hypertrophic cities craze that started in the 1780s that made streets so cavernous and muddy (with incredibly wide streets, the middle was often left unpaved to save money, since there was plenty of room on the side to walk) and miserable that cars were a genuine improvement.

( A Traditional City Primer: https://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php )

That link doesn't cover the history of hypertrophic cities, but it demonstrates quite well how terrible modern streets are.
the living "paycheck to paycheck" claim isn't quite true, this article does a good job breaking it down: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...
Humane wants to put the AI Pin's software inside your phone, car, and speaker
That’s pretty damning if life expectancy after retirement is another 15-20 years.
minimal effort can be fun. you cam always think of people as specialized tools with needs. if you get a good idea about both and refresh it periodically you are done. If you document enough you will be able to satisfy some needs, sometimes with very little effort. They will remember they owe you and love to elaborate about what else they need. Listen and move on. fill up the rolodex
New Linux Patches Cleanup Code for Running x86 32-Bit Kernels on x86_64 CPUs
If you want to read more about cryptographic key wear out, Soatok wrote an excellent explainer on this a few years ago https://soatok.blog/2020/12/24/cryptographic-wear-out-for-sy...
> Then why did the median household just decide an election largely based on economic anxiety?

Because the median voter is largely uninformed and irrational.

> Is it because all the fear mongering about $5 eggs (They are $3 at my grocery, btw) was overblown?

It is overblown in that most Americans can comfortably afford essentials and more compared to their peers and most of history. That doesn't mean they aren't any less annoyed about the current economy, which is what drives votes.
HN's very own WalterBright?! I had no idea he'd inspired Sid Meier's Civilization. There's more to thank him for than I realised.
small teams and individuals have failed to make enough money selling technical tooling products since forever; enthusiastic engineers keep building them. source: the 1990s
The lasagna that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And that lasagna has burned so very, very brightly.
Amazon sued over slower deliveries to low-income neighborhoods
Tech demo, doesn't generalise.
A "trusted team" pushing unreviewed code to prod is breathtakingly reckless. I don't trust anyone to do that. Not even myself. Please review my code, because our customers matter and so does oncall's peace and quiet.

On svn we reviewed finished feature branches and merged them to the next release branch every few days, though svn routinely crapped itself on spurious conflicts like renames. Git just enables this reliably.
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Try listening to early 2010s Skrillex!
No: remote safety drivers; not DeepMind.
Don't forget ScummVM!
On the subject of Ensoniq, here's a great article written about them and the huge impact they had on the music industry: https://reverb.com/news/history-of-ensoniq-samplers-mirage-e...
Thanks for the link, I've got a bunch of hacky code for running Immich's compose under Nix that this might be able to replace.
They didn't catch their misspelling of "appearance" on page 2 of this filing? It's only 2 pages long and they missed this, really?
I didn't downvote anything, and I didn't re-post data because I assumed you already had it as a participant in this discussion.

A 2% annualized increase in real wages is excellent? Compare it to real wage increases elsewhere and you'll see that "only" is not the correct modifier to use.
True of the Great Financial Crisis too
It's not that great, no, but look at how much people can save in other countries: The idea of saving a million dollars outside of your home in Spain is basically fantasy. Much higher taxes, much lower salaries, and no savings vehicles that allow for strong deferred taxation: The max for the 401k equivalent is 1000 a year! So the vast majority of workers are saving basically nothing that isn't their home, and will rely on social security. Not that they would be happy to save... the wealth tax in large parts of Spain starts after $500k, and you pay yearly. 1 to 2% of wealth starting that early makes retiring early basically impossible: 4% is not a safe withdrawal rate anymore.

So it's not a matter of everyone in the US having it easy, but how hard a road most people have now elsewhere.
Ah! I just checked with Claude and it says:

> In the United States, the general rule is known as the "American Rule" - each party typically pays their own attorney's fees and court costs, regardless of who wins the case. This is different from many other countries that follow the "English Rule" where the losing party pays the winner's legal fees.
It's a reference to Pico-8.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
One good indicator could be how much worse it’s doing in a year after the likely trade war.
Dwarf fortress is kindof an infinite story generator
There’s sort of no point in discussing this article since the full text is paywalled. The Gizmodo summary seems to suggest that it’s mostly just a meta review plus some extrapolation: they averaged some studies to find the typical effect on mental health and then multiplied it by all the lead exposure in the country.

I’ll suggest an interesting article to read instead. I don’t have the expertise to evaluate if it’s true but it is a good depiction of where p-hacking and correlation-causation mixups could lead.
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/who-gets-exposed-to-lead
I can’t immediately say what I dislike about the dbeaver UI, but I fully agree with your statement.
I think the OP meant it metaphorically. "Basically" seems to signal this. Since metaphors are not the thing itself, there are necessarily aspects that do not fit. However, metaphors may be bad metaphors. So you may or may not have a point here. But this point should be made explicit to move the discussion forward.

Also, I suspect that the OP is not a native English speaker, because there seems to be a subtle difference between a narrow standard metaphorical use of "slave labo(u)r" in English along the lines of "work that is done by enslaved people or by people who are treated as though they are enslaved"[1] and a wider use for example in German were "Sklavenarbeit" means something like hard work under degrading conditions.[2]

[1] As Merrriam-Webster defines it at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20labor

[2] Cf. for example the lemma "sklavenarbeit" in Grimms' dictionary: "sklavenarbeit, f. arbeit, die ein sklave thun musz, die einem sklaven ziemt, harte arbeit. Campe, schlavenarbeit, lavoro, fatica da schiavo. Kramer deutsch-it. dict. 2 (1702), 562a: schlavenarbeit thun müssen, dover faticare da schiavo. ebenda; was ists für mühe und sklavenarbeit der ackerbau. Herder bei Campe." https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemid=S30002
Arianespace Vega C rocket set to return to flight
He also could have not been using a Nielsen device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_booster#Modern
Science could solve some of biggest problems. Why aren't governments using it?
For those who don't know: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2315
Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent
I’ve lived my entire life in America (over 40 years) and I’ve never seen any food item “locked up”. I think that would be an indication that you are in a shitty area. Similar to the pictures I’ve seen of Burger King employees working behind bulletproof glass.
As you said in an ideal world we (globally) would be forgoing all unnecessary consumption and redirect all activity until the problem is under control. In reality...

The EU "forcing approach" of making GHG emissions expensive is getting people increasingly angry because it drives up prices and makes you seem like a slouch to financial markets. It could work but people need to be understanding of what's going on and adapt their consumption and profession and I don't see that happening at the required speed without it falling apart.

The US "ship all dirty production elsewhere approach" looks good in the books but is fake and it also makes people angry because of lost jobs. But it does get you great innovative power to the point of hoping magic AGI fixing everything.

Then there's the "don't care approach" of e.g. Russia and the "can't care approach" of the global south.

China however may have realised it's a losing game anyway and it has all the materials, manufacturing and authoritarian clout to push ahead and be the last one standing.

Meanwhile everyone has to navigate geopolitical power games in a WMD era. It's troubling...
If this belief is strong enough, they would act on it. The fact that they act means the economy starts rolling, and produce the type of thriving that they come to believe! Ala, a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Therefore, it's important to find out why people believe things, despite being contrary to empirical evidence.
Classic Oracle, filing some bureaucratic paperwork letting the court know they have representation in this case?
Biden was more "new dealy" and won. Harris had nothing of the sort to sell and lost. I'm not saying Obama's skin color isn't a factor in our politics since 2008 but it's not the Rosetta Stone.
I didn't expect CLOG to be mentioned in this thread at all :D

Can you share some more about your use of it?
Thanks for this quite succint summary.
Sample of n=1, but my partner always thinks everything is over-seasoned, but otherwise has 0 "taste" when cooking or can't detect when something is stinky.
It should become clear to everyone that reads his work that "management theorist" Stafford Beer
can best be characterized without any doubt whatsoever as a charlatan.

Cybernetics came out of the Macy conferences [0] and this is where one needs to go, in order to establish context. I also highly recommend Norbert Wiener's biography "Dark Hero of the Information Age" [1] as a good introduction to one of the greatest geniuses of this age, easily eclipsing Shannon and von Neumann.

Principia Cybernetica [2] is another good resource.

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics...

[2] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/
All of the online banks pay pretty close to 4 week T-bill rates, maybe 1% off. Chase/etc are only worth keeping a small amount in, everything else should be transferred to Ally/Marcus/Fidelity Cash Management/Vanguard/etc.
>Here’s [1] the wage graph from BLS during that time period, same source as the author. See that incredible, record setting spike at precisely the month in question, never seen before or after? Gee, what do you suppose did that?

Given how arrogant you are, it is ironic that you're the one that interpreted the graph incorrectly. They didn't reference the spike "precisely the month in question". The figure they referenced at the start of the graph was Q4 2020. The spike in the FRED graph was in Q2. Perhaps you should think before you type next time, so you don't paint yourself the fool you claim others to be.

If they had referenced the spike in Q2, the decrease would have been >5%. If you want to start casting stones, you better be sure you're right.
Seems .law (lawyers are wimps) is more fitting
The debate around "fixing" hallucinations reminds me of the debate around schizophrenia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnklxGAmak

It's not a single thing, a specific defect, but rather a failure mode, an absence of cohesive intelligence.

Any attempt to fix a non-specific ailment (schizophrenia, death, old age, hallucinations) will run into useless panaceas.
It's because people look back in time with rose tinted glasses.

They imagine the amount of money they have today, but at yester-decade's interest rate.
My only regret is not making it even more explicit!
Ask HN: What's next for AI after LLM?
LLMs are cool and you can make them work for specific subject area, minimize hallucinations with RAG. But, I think we have hit local optima (and perhaps global optima) as far as LLM as technology goes. You can only add more data sources, make it perform certain operations (agents) such as parsing data, understanding context, q&a.

My question to all smart people here is, what comes after LLM? Where is AI headed? Agents are cool but are overhyped for their capability.

What is next frontier that we can see with AI?
ASCII is text in all the ways that matter to a programmer.
just make jokes? what did the weather do to you?
That'd require giving Oracle unwarranted attention.

The Sagan bit was funny because Apple engineers transitioned from loving him to resenting him :)
You're really grasping at straws now.

I know what happened, and your link agrees with what I said.

From your link:

In Biden’s case, special counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by Trump, concluded in a report released Thursday that the president should not face criminal charges, despite finding evidence that Biden willfully retained classified information.

They didn't charge him because his diminished mental state would have made it difficult to convince a jury that his actions were "willful". That's very different from them concluding that his actions were not willful.

> I do not care about what Jon Stewart says either

It was an example of how it's actually possible (but rare) to hate Trump and still have the capacity to see the world without blinders on. But good for you for not caring.
Because many of the folks here are probably high-earning engineers w/o grounding to the everyday experience. I grew up poor and have many friends who barely scrape by. My friends' anecdotal experience is no different than the anecdotal experience posted by GP about "BMWs" -- BMWs arent that common in real america.
There's one thing to not like it, completely different to go on vandalizing or sending birds to drivers.

Regardless, it's a truck - a utilitarian vehicle. It's not event meant to be a statement.
Ah, I see. This sounds more similar to how I've seen docker used with Rust in other places. It's interesting that it never occurred to me to think of the word "isolation" as referring to anything beyond security, but it definitely makes sense to me now that you point it out.
Any possibility of in future they can?
See von neumanns work on reliable machines from unreliable processes.

I wouldn't doubt that if each layer of an LLM added some additional check for an unreliable process that eventually you can make something reliable from the unreliable.
I think you completely missed my original point to begin with.

People can still afford cost of living, the American economy just chuggling along despite criticism is proof of that. The question is whether people are happy about spending the money they need to spend, the answer to which is a resounding NO as evidenced by the chief motivator behind Trump's victory.

Cost of living is still affordable (there is no "affordability crisis"), but it's too high for anyone to be happy with (there is an "unhappiness crisis").

Also, the people complained loudly and clearly that price of gas and eggs are their chief concerns. Housing is also expensive, but housing is usually a one-time lump and/or a fixed ongoing expense compared to food and gas which are ongoing small and variable expenses that quickly add up.
The Weaponization of Things: A Litmus Test for Technologists
I disagree with this take, Stallman has expressed it recently by linking some "scientific article".

While I get that LLMs generate text in some way that does not guarantee correctness. There is a correlation between generated text and correctness, which is why millions of people use it...

You can judge the correctness of a sentence generated by an LLM. In the same way you can judge the correctness of a human generated sentence.

Now whether the truthness or correlation with reality of an LLM sentence can be judged on its own or whether it requires a human to interpret it is not very relevant, as sentences produced by the LLM are still correct most of the time. Just because it is not perfect doesn't make the correctness in the other cases useless, albeit perhaps less useful of course.

This is nothing surprising of a statistical model, it tends to produce true results.
No. They could not even get fiber rolled out to the US. They started well but it requires immense power in local and federal level that takes decades (yes, decades) to accommodate.

Starlink would have then their focus out of search and AI which they clearly understand better and dominate.

Also, there is nothing innovative from Musk itself as far as starlink goes. More than half of research and implementation is funded by USG and Tax Payer funded rebates and concessions.
> I was into pokemon as a kid and wanted to make a "fan site", which is what got me learning (just to date how far back this was)!

This cannot be used to date you. Kids these days (and presumably anywhere in between) are still into pokemon. Just today it’s Koraidon and Miraidon.
Sure, sometimes I got a bunch of automod diffs. Sometimes it was: fix this now. It's impossible to know everything that every infra team is cooking up.