skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think, IF you are financially literate (I don't mean this in any derogative way, just more like you understand compound interest, the value of saving/investing...) it is a very poor financial decision to pay off the house, especially if you are holding 3.x% loan.

There is nowhere you can get money with that interest and if instead of trying to pay off your house early you took that $ and invested it, you'd definitely end up on top. House also ties you to a specific location which makes your life harder if hard times actually arrive
> With some orgs, you're going to meetings all day and there's no time to focus.

Let's be honest here, some of those meetings could have been done over chat conversation.
Show HN: Assertables version 9, a Rust crate of assert macros for smarter tests
Classic web banner ads don't block the page for one minute either, but to me they are still more annoying than print ads.
For those sorts of things you need to understand:

- the reason it's happening

- the cost (time / people)

- what else you are deciding not to do instead

You don't have to be in the weeds enough to implement it yourself but you need to guard against both:

- people working on things that aren't priorities because they only want to work on their own pet projects, by not being technical enough to tell when they're BSing about the technical justification for certain things

- people doing things in inefficient or not-aligned-with-future-needs ways because they are more junior and don't know some technical things, or because you haven't shared enough roadmap context

It's related to "managing up" in that it's good to be proactive about sharing some of that info upward as-relevant with your boss so that they don't have to go out of their way to know what's going on with you (or else you run the risk of them having a wrong assumption when they're making decisions that impact you and your reports).
I tried using it but one of the hard parts is defining a good metric that the underlying optimizer can use. Came up with an approach for that here:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1obuS9cEWN9MT-MIv5aL...
> Which most contractually agree not to do without a valid court order. In which case, authorities have to at least put forth the time, effort and money to submit a legally valid court order --- which can be substantial based on the jurisdiction.

The same contracts where they also say they are able to change it at any time without any notice and a lot of them say they may request a court order, not that it's a must.

Also same in the case of a VPS provider? They can also say no logging unless court ordered.

> If the provider logs your IP when you connect, they have enough personal information to identify you.

Also they can't identify you based on it, it alone doesn't give them enough to identify you, they aren't able to access any subscriber info from your ISP, mobile carrier, etc.
Are you suggesting we should never have made the random one, and stuck with mac address plus timestamp forever?
> Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions,

This specific example doesn’t seem like slack as such. The expectation here is that they will spend “more” time making key decisions. Whereas slack means they just have time to do whatever they please, getting bored, sleeping, reading HN, chatting with a neighborhood store owner, or whatever.
In street photography, and any photography really, paying attention to light is super important. I’d argue it’s more important when you can’t control it.

Sure you could just go out onto the street, take a bunch of photos and pay no attention to light, but if you want to improve your photos, or know why good photos are good, paying attention to light is just as important as say composition
The selection, nomination, and confirmation processes have certainly become significantly more ideologically-driven over time, so I would expect that to have an impact on the composition of the court and the way they make decisions.
My keyboard has no caps-lock key ... I've been looking for a program that prompts me to walk around a bit!
> the true square root of all evil is 25.8069758011.

Ah yes, 665.99999999856098676121, such evil! :P
Fun!

The 11labs agent product is promising but very buggy, I was glad to see some of those issues in your implementation as well. The agent often drops out and comes back randomly after long stretches of silence. They also seem to be running some kind of half-functional censor on the llm output when used with Gemini 1.5. It also bills 500 credits for any time < 1 minute, not the aggregate use.
I'm not suggesting that these sequences can "look forward" in time. However, consider that mutations are constantly occurring. These mutations shouldn't be dismissed as "junk" simply because they seem unnecessary now. In the future, they could become essential.

Over long evolutionary or environmental timeframes, these sequences may take on important functions, potentially becoming critical under conditions we can't currently foresee.
Working with OpenAI's models I've found a very good strategy is to have two passes if you can afford the extra tokens: one pass uses a heavy model and natural language with markdown sections discussing the reasoning and providing a final natural language answer (ideally labeled clearly with a markdown header). The second pass can use a cheaper and faster model to put the answer into a structured output format for consumption by the non-LLM parts of the pipeline.

You basically use JSON schema mode to draw a clean boundary around the wishy-washy language bits, using the LLM as a preprocessor to capture its own output in a useful format.
Never heard of brainrot before but this is funny as heck. I lol'ed at this one especially

try/except/finally hawk/tuah/spit on that thang
> Voting is the only thing in the democratic process

Voting is not the only thing. If it was, Russia or Belarus could have been considered democracies — people get to vote there (in case you didn't know). You can research why those countries are commonly considered autocracies / dictatorships, despite holding elections.

> If the people are easily convinced by tictok, that's on the voters

If people are easily addicted to heroin, is that on them by that logic? Ok maybe. Now imagine if China were smuggling heroin into the U.S. specifically to destabilize American society — would you still blame the people? Or might you consider it reasonable to fight against that?
It (and gitk) are actually Tcl scripts. Note how the "shell script" you linked exec-s itself with `wish`
That column truncation sounds bizarre. Are you sure the terminal didn't have some sort of sideways scroll available?
Oh! Now I remember the name of the tool that came before Google wave and (I think) inspired it.

Etherpad.
Long term bonds were near 5% this last year. Currently around 4%.

If there is horrible recession caused by the fastest tightening cycle in our lifetimes then they will go through the roof. If not then you have some passive income.
For me it started with signing up for Match.com for free in 1995 because I was one of the first 10,000 users.

Seriously, it was probably Usenet that kept me engaged. The web was exciting to browse but the conversation was on Usenet.
> first time I've seen anyone float the idea that making life better for people might make them a bit more inclined to make more people

Financial incentives for giving birth have been around in some countries for decades. In France it's called "prime à la naissance". This is on top of delivery being almost free.
EV stations have a lot more competition that doesn’t need to turn a profit; a person’s home. Nobody has home gas tanks to fill up their car.

I don’t know many people buying electric without having a home charger.
Firefox Maker Rebrands as "Global Crew of Activists
I wonder if they were thinking of the inner platform effect
There is a line of thinking that the required tokens shoved through training also needs to go up, perhaps super-linearly to the model size. And of course, there's a line of thinking that there are diminishing returns in all things, including these models. Both could be true!
This is wonderful news.

I was actually scratching my head on how to structure a regular prompt to produce csv data without extra nonsense like "Here is your data" and "Please note blah blah" at the beginning and end, so this is much welcome as I can define exactly what I want returned then just push structured output to csv.
> I'm considering having him committed because he acts very strange.

By your own suggestion, I think they should start with you.
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> I was also hoping that, because open <dialog> elements exist in a distinct top-level layer, that they might even able to escape the bounds of the browser viewport, which would provide real value to the end-user in a lot of places

And, within three seconds of release, a <dialog> with this ability would be misused by advertisers to bring back the old pop-up windows that all browser's block by default now, because of advertiser misuse.
There are 6 fixed bits. The other two are in the 17th hex character.

But overall you have that right. Every bit is either completely random or fixed. There are no reduced-randomness patterns unless you generated it wrong.
This sort of thing is a dang nightmare. Perk your mouse in the wrong place or scroll and stop at the wrong place with your mouse over the page and all of a sudden you're not reading what you were reading. This is happening all over the place on the web and an apps. Sometimes it's moderately useful like this looks like it could be but sometimes it's just completely superfluous.
It depends on what you need to do. If you just need to say when something happened (e.g. some log event) then milliseconds since the epoch is fine. If want a user to schedule a reoccurring meeting at 8am on the first Thursday of every month, you can also keep a set of timestamps as milliseconds since the epoch, but you are going to need to do some work to figure out the right numbers correctly.
Someone close to me told me they chose to have two kids because they didn't want the burden and responsibility of caring for their parents to fall solely onto one child.
> What exactly is the worry? Undeserved downvotes?

The Russkies must not get our precious bodily fluids.
I read a post like this, and what the proscription is and my first thought is "no thanks, I'll just die when it's my time."
Okay, could be a nice feature.
Linked from Oct 30:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42002414
No, you are putting forward one particular definition as the "right" one, and arguing all contrary definitions should be ignored, even when proposed by esteemed scholars in relevant fields – which is the complete opposite of Kershaw's point.
> make it 10 hour days I’m not that much happier

I'd much much rather work 4 x 10 than 5 x 8. Having a whole day without work makes a huge difference. Also, I find myself working 10 hrs a day anyway, so 5 x 10 (or more like 5 x 12).
The point here is that the article title is "The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats", yet, a decade later, the plutocrats are more in charge than ever. And are popular with the masses.
> And of course I’m still very curious whether there’s a cryptanalysis approach that lets me achieve more effective search over a random-ish ordering of UUIDs. I’m gonna do some more reading there.

I think that's definitely possible. Especially if you realise that you only need a random-ish looking order, not a cryptographically secure random order.
Exactly. Every language has their own names for other countries and cities. I once got into an argument with a Russian who insisted I was saying “Moscow” wrong, as apparently I was supposed to say it exactly it like they do, “Moskva” while speaking English. I asked him how Russians say Washington, D.C. and my point was immediately proven.
Proves that pigs can fly?
Can a link please just work like a link and not blast some unwanted content over what I'm reading?
I was early to Match as well. When I first started, there were a total of 8 women in the entire Bay Area. I kept that free account for years and eventually found my (now ex-)wife through the site.
Yes, it's not opt-out, just additional coverage or the use of private facilities. Apparently about £1k per capita[1], I'd suspect a lot of that is probably dental due to a huge shortage of NHS dentists.

Historically private healthcare here was just about fancier rooms, better food, etc... Now it's often "the NHS said I need to wait 6 months to get this procedure, if I pay I can get it next week". A lot of the time with the same doctors and same facilities as if you went NHS.

In general, if you weren't waiting a long time for NHS healthcare, people were happy with it: five or so years back I worked for an American company that offered private healthcare as standard, even in the UK, and the healthcare company offered you £50 a day while you got NHS treatment rather than actually using their services while you had coverage, as it was obviously much cheaper for them, and everyone I knew took that deal every time.

Increasingly this is less true though, a decade and a half of being slowly throttled, then Covid, and you can feel that everyone is rushed and stretched to breaking point.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
The high-effort parents I know aren't overly concerned with that their kids want, but they constantly sacrifice their own time and sanity for what they deem to be in the child's best interests.

Kids love screens, parents love getting to do their own thing while the child is quietly occupied, but a certain type of parent feels the need to go to war over the screen time limit rather than enjoy their dinner. Neither father nor son is having a good time at soccer practice, but a kid's got to have a sport. And so on.

We're calling for something bolder here than merely the will to override a child's wishes. Parents need a permission structure to prioritize their own desires, not just the ones they have on behalf of the children.

There was a good Ezra Klein episode about this [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
The grandparent is getting a bit too much flak here I think. "Vendor" to me means "seller", so a more charitable interpretation is them asking for someone selling them other than AliExpress. Possibly (and reasonably) because enforcing consumer protection rights is easier under your own jurisdiction.

I am saying this as someone that has done a fair bit of shopping on Ali and have had mostly a good (if not great) experience with them. The low point would have been recently when a package never arrived, despite tracking showing that it had arrived. Ali have their famous refund guarantee, so I thought I would invoke it and contacted both Ali and the seller. I was told that I needed proof that the package had not arrived by contacting the shipping firm. One slight problem, I had never been informed of the company responsible for shipping. I asked, got a non-response response and closed case. Contacted support, got a friendly response "I will handle it! Do not worry about it!" and then the same non-response response after it got escalated. After a lot of back and forth, Ali just closed the whole case permanently at which point I reached out to PayPal to invoke my guarantee with them which worked and was settled within 15 or so minutes. So, yes, I can imagine someone potentially preferring a local vendor over Ali as I am currently holding off purchases from them until my blood stops boiling.
Hailey Welch's crypto launch draws scrutiny
Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thinking
> You're arguing against the import of very low margin labor-intensive physical goods

No. I am arguing against the import of low margin labor-intensive physical using forced labor and resulting in actual harms

1. Actually harmful products being let in ([1, 2])

2. Decimation of local labor through unfair practices [3]

3. Actual slavery (forced labor) [4]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/temu-children-clothes-contai...

[2] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/14/s...

[3] https://itif.org/publications/2022/11/21/how-to-mitigate-the...

[4] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/01/china-carmakers-implicat...
But you and your company are now "family", so you can bask in the glow of generating more shareholder value "together"! Hurrah.
Medicine is still more art than science. We only have clear evidence-based treatment guidelines for a limited set of conditions, and even with those there are a lot of exceptions. While health insurers do occasionally make egregious errors in denying claims or prior authorization requests, most of those fall into gray areas. Like if a patient is immobilized by severe hip pain should they go straight to joint replacement surgery or try physical therapy for a few months first? Ask 10 different physicians and you'll get 10 different treatment plans.

And health insurers don't increase shareholder returns by denying claims. Due to the minimum medical loss ratio it's rather the opposite. Most of the pressure to tighten coverage rules actually comes from large self-funded employers who use those insurers not to provide insurance but rather to administer their health plans.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...
Honest candidate will just report your spending. :-/
I explained in my original post. The fact the UK government spends less than the US government on healthcare per-capita, despite the fact it gives everyone healthcare rather than just a subset of the population is pretty damning. How can anyone possibly argue the US system is working more efficiently given that?
Information vs. Assurance
Young people are won over on TikTok, nothing weird about it.

I don't know any of the TikTok people and yet many peers call them celebrities.

This guy broke some rules around elections spending and he will be punished, but calling it Russia interference just because of his politics doesn't have any weight behind it.
Ayn Rand's model of "living money"; and an upside of burnout
Position-try fallback options and conditional hiding in CSS
A common requirement for tooltips is that they should appear above or below some other elements, depending on the position, in order to make sure they stay inside the screen. CSS now has native support for this.
Just like the "junk DNA" of the 1990's wasn't junk either.

We're just scratching the surface of the complexity encoded into DNA and RNA.

It's not the base pairs that are expressed, all the stuff not expressed is encoding information as well. DNA, like proteins, encodes information in the way it folds itself around histones. DNA can't be expressed if it's still in a compact state!

So it look like RNA is similar. The noncoding sections are part of the system that regulates how the encoding parts are encoded.
Because wealth is money that could be used to help people who need it.

Also climate change obviously leads to criticizing those lifestyles.

You're going to say it's political.

Those celebrities leading happy lives don't mean they're taking happiness from other people, but money is a resource that could use others to reach a minimum amount of happiness, at a low cost to the celebrity.
There is no excuse for this comment, and frankly if it is on this site the moderation has failed.
LA thinks AI could help decide which homeless people get housing – and don't
So essentially you are advocating for the Great Firewall of China. Would you ban VPNs as well?
every form of communication is manipulation

the only thing you can attack him for is the lack of reporting of election spending
Is there a best approach for providing structured input to LLMs? Example: feed in 100 sentences and get each one classified in different ways. It's easy to get structured data out, but my approach of prefixing line numbers seems clumsy.
https://archive.ph/Rf8t1
Structure, People, and Chaos
Sounds like Tokyo has too many government employees.
They are; the blog post explains why.
Don't they just have Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok?
True in more ways than one…
> Because, of course people are, but that's not the point.

Are they?

If the LLMs could talk to grandma for 40 minutes until it figures out what her problem actually is as opposed to what she thinks it is and then transfer her over to a person with the correct context to resolve it, I think that's probably better than most humans in a customer service role. Chatting to grandma being random for an extended amount of time is not something that very many customer service people can put up with day in and day out.

The problem is that companies will use the LLMs to eliminate customer service roles rather than make them better.
Let me cook something up for you. It's an interesting puzzle.

I think you can get pretty far, if you compromise on your entropy: it only has to look random, not actually be random. (I mean it doesn't have to be cryptographically secure randomness.)
3 months now might be more valuable than 3 months when you’re old.
The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net [video]
I actually believe we shouldn't have made any of them
There's also a variation of this book called

A Short Stay in Hell (2009) by Steven L. Peck

It's a fun and scary read. Especially if you understand very big numbers.
So no evidence. Got it.

Ironically, for anti-ban folks Meta is by default assumed guilty despite evidence unlike TikTok which is given the benefit of doubt despite evidence [1,2,3].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index....

[2] https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-china-bytedance-user-data-...

[3] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-probes-tiktok-after-surprise-win-in...
Pointing out that other groups have the same problem doesn't make it any less of a problem. Besides, money is an information technology, if anybody is going to recognize its bugs as such and fix them, it's going to be us.
I think this might be the single biggest factor, and it seems hard, if not impossible, for most people who grew up in financially comfortable situations to truly understand how much it affects every aspect of your life.

I was fortunate to grow up relatively (lower?) middle-class, but even then, we weren't exactly financially secure, and I still remember how bad things were during the Great Recession, even though I wasn't working at the time. My wife grew up in poverty, and even though we're both doing decently in our careers, I don't know if she'd ever truly be able to get rid of the worry and anxiety that something might happen and we'd end up homeless. Even if we suddenly won the lottery and ended up with $500 million, that fear would probably still be there at least a little bit. And like you said, that fear makes enjoying/being comfortable with unemployment impossible.
Btw, one suggestion to make the scrolling look more believable would be to let people scroll by fractions of a line.

(Just like on HN, I can scroll so that just the bottom part of the first line of text is visible.)
To enjoy some of your prime years?
I'm unable to figure out how to solve current Daily Puzzle (Puzzle ID: 79369cc6) at https://arcprize.org/play

Either I'm really dumb or the test is getting into captcha-like territory where humans aren't really good at solving/deciphering the test anymore.