skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> birth rates are climbing elsewhere

Where are birth rates climbing? Narnia?
It's also a measure of price level. If I pay $100 for a doctor's visit that's $100 to GDP. If it costs $1000 that's $1000 to GDP.

If it "costs" $1000 but that's just to get $100 from insurers who only pay 10% and I only have to pay 10% too? Still $1000 to GDP - I think.
You could make your own set, mix and matching from various patches available (including the built-in).

There are some patch editors and librarians to help you: https://ctrlr.martintarenskeen.nl/
How is this not a demoscène product? Cause it very much seems to be, though not mentioned as such in the text …?
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Exactly. And I'll brag and be frank at the same time. I couldn't afford to buy my house today in the US. I have no idea how new people afford to move into my neighborhood. But since I bought it at the end of the GFC and refied to 3% at some point, I have that house and now a house in Europe that I paid cash for that I'm in the process of renovating. That one bit of leverage I was able to grab onto in 2011 led to big changes over 10-15 years. I don't see that same opportunity for a lot of young people now, and that's a problem.
Fair question. I've read a couple of critiques of Diátaxis that suggest additional boxes.

FAQs and "Gotchas" need a "home box". So do gists. Maybe a third dimension would be something like "degree of curation" or "need for taxonomy and organisation" ?

FWIW... DITA has concepts, tasks, & references - and AFAICT these map fairly nicely to Diátaxis.
The reason they don't is they have a narrative they want to push. The entire thing is deeply flawed, from sitting vs standing when in fact it's white vs blue collar. There's plenty of sitting blue collar jobs that are brutal. Then not differentiating qualified vs unqualified blue collar work. These days qualified blue collar has similar pay to white collar and arguably more job security. But in the end there's no point digging to deep, it's just another race bait.
I think it is a little of both. I’m not American, but as a bystander it seems quite obvious that race is important in the US because of how important slavery has been in your culture (founding fathers, civil war, the history of your political parties, income distribution today, etc).

But I also have the impression that you have more knowledge of racism than some other countries. I mean the Dutch obviously have a horrific racist history.
Seriously, just looking at the examples of "stagnated and failing economies" like Japan should be a give away that this measure is total BS.

In Germany a life saving brain surgery creates 5K USD of economic activity and the same surgery creates 500K USD of economic activity in the USA.

True story, a YouTuber I'm following recently had her mother operated in Germany and then again in the USA and she made a video about the experience and the numbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-p1nP6hH6U

This obsession with GDP isn't healthy, among other obsessions like the "Number of gigantic companies" which is supposed to show that you are falling back in technology if you don't have extremely large companies by market capitalization metric.

It worries me because it's BS and BS can last just till a point. What happens if at one point in the future people start demanding benefiting from all that riches and success? I'm worried because I don't believe in(goodness of?) revolutions and the situation makes me anxious that the west with the US in particular is headed to some kind of revolution. They had one with the last election I guess but the revolutionaries appear to be pushing for the extreme version of the same thing which eventually might collapse with another revolution with the opposite thing like what UK ended up getting as a Labour landslide after Libertarian landslide.
That was very thoughtfully written. Thanks for explaining the history and the tradeoff in such details. I really appreciate it.
The most boring is how black people tend to cloth, especially now where it gets cold black is the dominant colour on anyone.

It's likely just me but my eyes don't render black clothes people very well.
> I disagree that the sentiment of the general population is not a useful indicator of how good things are going for the general population

I think that there's a factual case that general sentiment is no longer a useful indicator of "how good things are going for the general population".

Sources:

https://www.newsweek.com/economy-strength-politics-yougov-da...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/09/is-e...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-21/consumer-...
As a non writer I found that even without the details there's just one very important and very basic insight here:

You don't have to say everything exactly once.

Until being exposed to this idea I always tied myself in knots trying to write one stream of text that serves as THE DOCS. It's impossible to do this well (once you know, it seems very obvious haha). Just realising that you can write the same info in different ways for different readers is very helpful!
The DAX reached this year a new record of over 20000.
Is Germany doing good right now? On the news reports they even have to mention that it’s how the investors predict the future market, because everybody here know the economy is shit atm.

If I’m not mistaken most of the growth in the capital market comes from the continuing money „printing“ right?
I'm the project lead for both projects. We're still in the process of supporting all the function from pgvecto.rs in VectorChord (int8, more than 2000 dim vec, etc.). We'll provide the migration docs for pgvecto.rs users to VectorChord. User will have better experience with VectorChord due to better integration with postgres storage system.
We will stop supporting pgvecto.rs early next year when everything on VectorChord is ready.
> the people within the US most likely to regard race as an all important immutable inherited characteristic are also largely those least likely to accept self-identity of gender.

I am not convinced. Even Americans who accept gender self-identity AND claim to be anti-racist usually have a problem with regarding race as a superficial characteristic, and rarely seem to accept people self-identifying as a different race to their "real" one.

> The types of US media that routinely dog whistles race issues and stereotype low IQ gun happy criminal types are pretty much the same media streams that mock trans identity, wokeness, and alphabet classification.

My point is that BOTH sides in the US regard race as an immutable fundamental characteristic.
No, it's 35%. Credit card usage is fine if you can pay off the card.
Most countries have ethnic divisions, but they're not the US race categories and not based on skin colour. I am of my ethnicity and this affected how I was treated, whereas the US flattens that to "white" and treats me as such.

(More baffling is how the US is in complete denial of its class system - so much so that anyone who tries to talk about class is immediately told they're talking about race)
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AFAIK the former effect has been found to be much stronger among Republicans, though it exists in both parties. It was something like a 50% swing in approval rating versus 10%.
> Many people prefer that to working.

Hence why I said "virtually", having a few anecdotes from interviews or from someone you knew doesn't cover it. Of course there will be people who choose to live on welfare, the vast majority would rather not. It's a small price to pay to have welfare programs saving countless lives from falling deeper into the hole of abject poverty... We just view this very differently, you prefer the "stick" approach, punish people who you deem unworthy because of their lack of motivation to work; while me on the other hand prefer the "carrot" where I think it's an okay price to pay to have some people choosing to not to work while society can protect people caught in bad times from falling away from the margins.

It's still absurd the straw man you created, please provide me data covering the whole population and we can discuss it, while it's based on these anecdotes you just being guided by your feelings and ideology.
Well, samplers are also musical instruments in their own right.

Nobody said samplers are confined to playing emulations of acoustic instruments. There are tons of creative users to make patches, and after the initial sample is added (which could be anything), most samplers have a full blown set of filtering, envelope, modulation, fx, audio manipulation etc options.
Normative approach versus a descriptive/empirical approach.
Slippery slope indeed.

But if your wealth comes from a line of crime, then yes, compensation would be adequate.
Golang API pages collect all examples into a list at the top. Maybe do the same kind of things for stuff like "Quick explanations" and "Warnings/Gotchas". But it would get very subjective and potentially very messy and unmaintainable.
"Share to Youtube" should at least make the video Unlisted by default which is probably what most people expect: They get to share the url with their friends/family, but you can't find their videos in search. And the security model makes sense: anyone with the url can view it.

Public by default is just so bad.

Youtube playlists used to default to public and it's ridiculous to realize some personal playlist you've been accumulating is right there on your profile. I think they finally fixed it.

Facebook also bungled massively in this space where just commenting on some embarrassing Facebook group ended up broadcasting it to all of your friends' walls. And you had no way of knowing that until one of your friends told you that your question on "Foreskin restoration support group" showed up on their wall.

You're probably in the top 1% of product/UX designers if you spend just 10 seconds pondering the level of privacy the average user expects as they do things in an app.
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Yep, positive vs normative might be the words you are looking for.
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> What happens if at one point in the future people start demanding benefiting from all that riches and success?

With any luck, what will happen is that future people will benefit from all those riches and success.
"AI speak" refers to the temperature parameter of models.

This meaning is slightly different to the former common usage, and closer than that to what I mean. That's why I chose it! Hahaha :)
I live in Spain and use DIGI; they give me an IPv6 address. Granted, I have only tested this through IPv6-detecting websites so I do not know how good it actually is.
The ISP itself is also reliable and cheap in my short experience with them.
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Do you cringe about clothes when you are visit other places too?

Adilettes (Adidas flip flops) und a fanny pack by Gucci are a legit clothing style in Germany. Maybe cringe for some, but state of the art for others.
GDP is C + G + ... and the C is personal consumption, so I guess if you pay 100 USD that's what gets added, and the premiums (and whatever your employer pays for you)
> If you live in the USA already, why didn't you start SpaceX? Millions of immigrants come to the USA. Why didn't anyone else start SpaceX?

I don't live in the USA.

Because very few people has US$100 million of initial capital investment.

Why didn't you start SpaceX? As far as I know you're an aeronautical engineer, so why didn't you do something bigger than the D languge?

The same answer might apply to anyone else who you ask that question.
That's incorrect, it's explicitly adjusted for inflation/change in price level, although of course this adjustment isn't perfect.
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15-18 is only a fraction of 15-25...
There is way more anti-US propaganda than pro-US propaganda at this point.
Yes, but "Freeware" is not a license. Typically there is an EULA that tells you what you are allowed to do.
And when you sell, it goes down for everyone. I don't consider you richer until you cash out your bitcoins for real money.
I wouldn't say so.

As the financial system is set up right now, Bitcoin has a lot of potential to reduce friction. For cross-country payments as well as for buying coffee:

Speed, fees, finality.

But the lightning network will have to mature first. We will see if the global financial system evolves faster than the Bitcoin ecosystem. I would expect Bitcoin's ecosystem to evolve faster.
I found out Red Hat is now using AI to dig through git commits in large upstream projects to find out what new features were added and removed, to direct downstream QE efforts. It's done with a human review afterwards. Kind of interesting, not sure yet how well it'll work in practice.
This means this is also the perfect audio visualisation ever. You see exactly what you here.
I am so surprised everybody calls them out of style. Youth around here (German speaking countries) just throws them over the shoulder. This slowly creeped from 'dealer on the corner look' to the default norm.
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I think it’s far more likely that his blindness influenced his writing style than his choice of writing implement.

If you can’t go back and read what you just wrote, it results in a concision of thought - formulate a sentence in your mind, transcribe. Repeat.

When you can read back what you’re writing, it lends much more scope for punning, for long, tangential sentences - as the paper becomes your short term memory.

This holds particularly true for a not only blind but aging mind, with a slowly diminishing capacity for short-term recall.

So, did the typewriter turn him into a machine-man? No. His blindness mandated a modification to his mode of expression, and the transcription technology he chose.

I can’t help but think of the allegory of the tightrope walker and the jester, reading this.
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Us Europeans are more 'detached' from the economy than people are in the USA. We basically coast along. We don't live on credit, but debit, and most people have zero investments outside their house. We're content and risk adverse and don't care much for the stock market (even though many people's pensions are tied to it).

In places where higher education is cheap, or even sometimes free (like Sweden), there's less pressure to perform after graduation. It's quite common to study some field, but after graduation you go do something completely unrelated. A degree is just a means to an end, something to put on your CV to get an edge over those that does not have a degree. Those who study for the purpose of using their knowledge to create a successful business are very few.

And when it comes to starting a business, the EU market is rarely the target, instead the focus is the domestic and much smaller market.

It's also difficult to start a company that targets a larger market from the get go, because it means you need to advertise in multiple countries, target different languages, set up offices and contacts, and all of that costs money that startups do not have.

The EU single market is largely a myth from the perspective of wanting to start a successful company that can compete internationally. It's not any easier now than it was before the EU existed.

The EU is still a collection of different countries, with different languages, and the people in one country doesn't really care about what happens across their border or which new and up-and-coming company they have to offer.

EU citizens like American companies, because we here about them on the news constantly, but we are completely oblivious to companies from our European neighbors.
Every international median income ranking I've seen, which attempts to compare median income on an apples-to-apples basis, puts the US very near the top. Here's one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#Median_equivalis...
Also so many situations where someone gets inspired to do this, or bands together to build BCI for someone they know, but no productization happens because no profits
HN is a bubble of very rich folks compared to the vast majority of the global population. It's easy to fall into the trap of how people here talk about money, like a US$ 150k salary is too low, or like having less than US$ 300k in savings makes you poor.

Just remind yourself this place is an extreme outlier whenever you hear someone here treating life-changing sums of money for 90-95% of the global population as "inconsequential".
I'm the project lead for VectorChord. I have tested ScaNN on AlloyDB Omni but have struggled to achieve reasonable recall on the GIST 1M dataset, with results peaking at only around 0.8. The limited documentation makes it challenging to understand the underlying causes of this performance.

Additionally, I couldn’t find any performance benchmarks for ScaNN integrated with PostgreSQL, particularly in comparison to pgvector or its standalone. The publicly available metrics focus exclusively on query-only indexing outside of the database.

On our side, we’ve implemented the fastscan kernel for bit vector scanning, which is considered as one of ScaNN’s key advantages.
Maybe like what the Game Boy would have been if it had had a framebuffer. It's a little bit sad, actually, that WASM-4, like the Pico-8, is a framebuffer console - there's less cool tricks you can do with raster interrupts and the like.
I can see your attempts to generalize, i.e.

Acquisition := Most useful when we're studying
Application := Most useful when we're working
Cognition := Theoretical knowledge
Action := Practical steps

...but in my mind, the older quadrant labels were immediately insightful at a glance.

Glad to learn that you've given your system a discoverable name though; for years since that PyCon presentation, I've informally recalled it as "the idea by that Django documentation guy".
I had a go at building a service mesh (with a bit of eBPF)
I didn't know about this, so had a quick look. It seems like they didn't deliberately add it, but boiled the grape syrup in lead containers which leached the lead into the sapa. However, copper cookware was more common, so it's likely that lead aqueducts probably caused more lead poisoning than the sapa. (Sapa is the name for the grape must reduction which may or may not contain lead depending on how they made it).
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This piece explicates the concept well IMO:

[Beer] frequently used the phrase “The purpose of a system is what it does” (POSIWID) to explain that the observed purpose of a system is often at odds with the intentions of those who design, operate, and promote it. For example, applying POSIWID, one might ask if the purpose of an education system is to help children grow into well-rounded individuals, or is it to train them to pass tests? “There is after all,” Beer observed, “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.”

<https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminkomlos/2021/09/13/the-p...>

(Much more in the essay, but that's a gist of it.)
"Real" is a misnomer. Interest expenses aren't included in the CPI adjustment for real wage growth. Decreases in used/new vehicle prices wouldn't necessarily offset increases in food prices for someone taking public transit.

For a worker with credit card debt, or one who already struggles to afford public transit, the real wage growth is illusory.
To be honest, you don't really want people saving too much in a healthy economy. You want them spending.
This looks like it might have been one of them? https://ginkgovest.com/.

*edit* seems different - google search led me astray. I didn't realize ginkgo is a tree with a distinctive leave
FAQ lists are the equivalent of the box in my garage where I put things when I've been told to get them out of the house, and I can't actually be bothered to put them in the right place.
that’s fascinating. i don’t know if it’s the opposite to me but reading aloud can definitely help me focus.

but there’s a stigma around that: smart people just “process”.
The US easily tops this survey of desired migration destinations FYI: https://news.gallup.com/poll/468218/nearly-900-million-world...
> despite measures of material wealth and economic success being positive

Are they? GDP is a measure of national economic success not of personal economic success.

The latter is measured by metrics such as: value of a home relative to wages, value of rent relative to average wage, disposable income relative to the prices, food prices relative to wages.

These are the numbers you don't often hear about in the media, you only tend to hear about GDP and the time derivative of prices, neither of which have much relevance to ordinary people.
Pretty sure the install of assets was somewhat automated even before they got their own - if not by the OpenTTD project themselves then by distros.
Not GP but thought of the exact thing when seeing this - look at the wording on the axes.
I mined 12 BTC from my gaming computer dual-booting between Linux/Windows that I also used for SETI@Home and Folding@Home, I ran the miner just for fun as I thought it was another distributed system doing computations and was fascinated by that concept at the time.

They were lost when I had to re-install Windows to play games and formatted the whole hard drive. I don't think much about it because it's so long ago but I'd have enough money to start realistically considering to retire...
>This is a huge step forward for AGI

Anything can be a huge (or a microscopic) step on a journey when the destination is vague and its distance is unknown.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14135435/Marshall-B...

> Marshall was a cornerstone of entrepreneurship at NC State, and a very key person who dedicated himself and was a real entrepreneur, and really dedicated himself to the students ... he, through and through, down to the bone, had the love and desire to help students ... Brian was born in Santa Monica, California, and was heavily influenced as a child by his father's work designing components for NASA's lunar lander and his later development of Atlanta's MARTA system.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article296186159....

> “A lot of people I would tell about my business, and they said, ‘Oh, it’s a cool idea,’” said Kevin Barry, who founded the startup FilterEasy as an NC State undergraduate. “But Marshall is one of the people who would dive in and ask you every question and every problem and help you work towards solutions.”

Obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/cary-nc/marshall-...