skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My students" - so there's really nothing on the line except a grade then, yeah? That's why you wouldn't pay any cost to make it 10x better, because there's no catastrophic consequence if it fails. But sometimes wasting a few milliwatts on average is the difference between success and failure.

I've built an autonomous drone using Matlab. It worked but it was a research project, so when it came down to making the thing real and putting our reputation on the line, we couldn't keep going down that route -- we couldn't afford the interpreter overhead, the GC pauses, and all the other nonsense. That aircraft was designed to be as efficient as possible, so we could literally measure the inefficiency from the choice of language in terms of how much it cost in extra battery weight and therefore decreased range.

If you can afford that, great, you have the freedom to run your satellite in whatever language. If not, then yeah you're going to choose a different language if it means extra performance, more runtime, greater range, etc.
Not sure about the EU, but in the UK the support for the far-right is highest in areas with the fewest numbers of immigrants. It's not about peoples personal perceptions, as the areas with relatively high numbers of immigrants are invariably also the areas where there's low support for the far right.
I witnessed the most extraordinary use of this in the one year my wife's son lived with us during his pre-med coursework in undergrad.

He would read aloud to himself (in a quiet voice). He explained that it was his way of keeping himself concentrated, because (in his description) he was reading, speaking, and listening all at the same time, and that that combo overloaded his attention and kept him focused.

He went from graduating towards the top here in our middling uni, to being accepted into Johns Hopkins (but choosing to remain local), and then getting his first-choice residency. He is now an accomplished specialist doctor.

Three notes:

1) He never drank alcohol in his life. It was a distinct advantage, especially in undergrad.

2) He said that he would not let himself be a patient to over 85% or 90% of the doctors that graduated with him from med school.

3) He had a grand total of FOUR HOURS of nutrition education in med school. I think that's insane, but the system is really about pills and procedures.
Disappointed in this article. I was hoping to get some introduction to Beers methods especially compared to naive centralized planning but its mostly about how Beer didnt live up to his potential.
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No, it's more like someone took a photo of themselves to show to their family, and after they were done with it they left it on a bench in a park (perhaps not realizing that the photo wouldn't magically go away on its own), and a long long time afterwards someone happened to stumble upon it and look at it.
>In Europe the terrorist attacks and crime is real though, that doesn't happen much in the US but in Europe it happens quite a lot since the immigrants are different.

We're having some similar problems in the US, but not at the same scale. It used to be MS-13 was the big foreign crime boogeyman, now it's the Venezuelan gang "Tren de Aragua": https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/its-spreading-americas...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/migrant-population-charl...
This is a bit misleading as those countries tend to have the vast majority of the population crowded into a handful of cities that are fairly close together and then a vast untamed wilderness where close to nobody lives. It's easy(ish) to have rail between Oslo and Bergen, less practical to extend that rail to Oldervik.
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Reads a bit like legal gymnastics, or maybe an admission that the regulations around publicly listed companies are too difficult to meet for smaller players.

Less regulation, but in turn it's not as public ("Only institutional investors, employees of participating companies
and investors who can meet the definition of high net-worth
individuals and self-certified or certified sophisticated investors
under the Financial Promotion Order (FPO), will be able to buy
shares on PISCES"). Also no issuing of new shares and no buybacks, only trading of existing shares.
He means that if the state, courts and other systems don't get people justice or something you can squint at and call justice when they are wronged some fraction of those wronged will go outside the systems and seek to get even instead.

The (rare, perhaps crazy) people who shoot CEOs or armor bulldozers are what check the power of the state to ignore this part of its job.
The house panel is more interesting than a North Korean kangaroo court say because most of the virus research which may or may not have caused covid originated in the US and China. The Chinese aren't saying anything much so that leaves the US and the house panel has been about the only body that has been able to compel people to testify. For example Peter Daszak was one of the main funders of the WIV (Wuhan lab) and so you'd want to ask what did you fund but he was replying that he can't say anything because he had a confidentiality agreement with the lab not to disclose. The house panel however had the power to make him testify in spite of the non disclosure stuff so it's been able to get better information.
I'm increasingly thinking of customer product relations in terms of giving treats to your users.

The moat and stickiness concepts are ok, but "candy store" is more fruitful.

Of course what constitutes candy is different for every product and you need to understand your customers to know what "flavors" they want
> Bodily autonomy for free adults of sound mind is absolute.

There's no jurisdiction on the planet in which this is true. Certainly not the USA.

> let's not distort the discussion by inventing fake rights that appear nowhere in the US Constitution

The Constitution itself openly and clearly shoots down this idea in the Bill of Rights, in the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

George Washington himself instituted a vaccine mandate. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolu...
How would your situation change if you didn’t have to account for US income tax while living abroad? Does it offset at all due to agreements with France?
Don't know about Amazon lawyers per se, but my understanding is that this is what almost always happens when some complementary third-party software uses in its name the name of the software it complements, in particular when it makes the third-party product seem to be developed or endorsed by the owners of the complemented product. May or may not be trademark related.

> The logo has a clear "unofficial" tag and the information is a stream of press releases. I don't see why anyone would care about it.

To see that you have to actually visit and pay attention. By name only, "AWS News" looks like an official Amazon/AWF too. The potential for confusion is real (any actual impact on the company, less so.)
What do you mean where does it all go? Isn't it obvious? We are living in a second gilded age. How else would 1 man have a third of a trillion dollars?
My new Samsung monitor has a Lightning dock integrated into it. So on the back of the monitor, there is an Ethernet port. Presumably this is only connected to the dock, but we have really no way of knowing. I won't hook up the Ethernet port on this thing ever, because I no longer trust anybody to not try and spy on me and steal my personal information. Honestly, if this monitor hadn't been given to me, I would not have paid for it.
Considering that these are legal sales between law-abiding adults, the ATF doesn't care at all. There's the perennial "they're taking all our guns!" discourse that serves to misinform everyone, and then there are basic facts that mostly pierce all the nonsense.

https://trac.syr.edu/reports/733/include/figure1.png

"Rogue rampage" indeed.. almost 10% higher than pre-covid Trump convictions and about the same level as we saw under GWB! Then again, the average person convicted in 2023 had >2 prior convictions and over 7 prior arrests so maybe these are actually just criminals? Wish everyone would decide if we should enforce laws or not.

https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-fa...
> You see the company hire friend after friend of execs, friends' kids as interns, friends' wives as Executive Directors, execs' girlfriends as "Chief of Staff" - and you realize you need to get something too, so you use company time to form your own startup.

They do this because no one wants to work at their startup. How do you see this being solved then?
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this is hands down the most heartwarming post I've seen in A WHILE.

Like most people said, I too started kinda like that. Coding/computers is an amazing journey with near infinite paths to choose from

I wish you the best and slow clap to the amazing dad that was there to set the stage and be there for him.

Made my week for sure!
As always, and tediously, I want to remind people that the lifetime of the artist should largely be irrelevant in thinking about rewarding the creation of new works. An author writes their most lucrative bestseller when they're 20 years old, makes K dollars; another author writes their most lucrative book at 75, makes N dollars. Why are K and N different? The answer today is mostly that they're not, because the lifespan of the copyright itself is taken into account when compensating the author. Without that system, the 75-year-old author would earn drastically less than the 20-year-old, despite creating the same value.
yeah the difference i feel when i've been in front of a screen all week compared to one without...its scaryt
If you live in the USA or other developed countries then your opportunity to have all of those things is greater than at any other time or place in human history. Of course, not everyone chooses to seize that opportunity. Some people would rather complain or blame others rather than grinding and delaying gratification to improve their circumstances.
A quick skim of Amazon for literally any product would prove this comment entirely wrong.

Do they produce quality goods now? Sure. But it's also still where most of your just barely above garbage quality goods come from.
You mean ability to take someone else’s code without attribution?
The primary sector is only a very small part of the economy though. Prices for raw materials are low because it's easy to mine etc vast quantities nowadays and there is a lot of competition in global commodities. Most minerals are found in a LOT of places all over the world.
It didn't say their exam was an entire postgraduate exam. It said they passed an exam consisting of questions from a postgraduate exam.

I'd guess that if someone tried to take the entire exam it would include things that do require "complex math" (whatever that is). But you don't have to get to the parts of QM that require such math in order to cover things that exhibit the meat of QM, such as superposition, entanglement, and uncertainty principles. I'd guess that it was those kinds of things covered for these students and that is what they were tested on.
Enjoy it while it lasts, your social programs are a gift from the US historically subsidizing your defense.
Been using pure Dart since last year, it's a lovely language that has it's quirks. I like it.

It's fast and flexible.
There are a few documented cases of traumatic brain injury (of various forms) actually fixing mental problems. They're very rare, but it happens every now and again.
Is that satire? The last time I seriously looked at moving to Europe, it was a pretty fundamental part of why I aborted the effort. Unless something has changed recently, for software engineers income is vastly better in the US.
Indeed, I think this is part of a long game to make it so that all network requests can be hardware attested that the user is running a known and/or "blessed" system. It's not just Microsoft either, but all the big techs (Apple, Google, etc). Riff raff like us that run Linux will have to switch or say goodbye to most of the internet.

Other parts of this include Apple's Private Access Token, and Google's Web Environment Integrity. Once they have all that done and covering the large majority of users, the ratcheting will start. Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).
otoh When performance doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

otoh When the title is "Speeding up Ruby" we are kind-of presuming it matters.
I was not defending its use, but its existence means it could be used, and that fact acts as a sort of invisible check on what corporate/government power can realistically get away with. If the ammo box didn't exist as an option, then even in a democracy the "overwhelming majority" could do pretty much whatever it wanted to.
So we pay more for tires, the pollution keeps happening, and the extra money is used for virtue signaling with minimal change?
I was there to see it, it is great :)
This is a fact that most in the US refuse to confront.

China has mastered making high quality goods at scale.

It does not matter how they got there, the fact is they did, and there are some pretty staggering military implications that are not really being discussed.
Lead poisoning was written about in Roman times, so you could argue that it's millennia of research. (There's a theory that the fall of the Roman empire was due to lead poisoning - likely from lead-lined aqueducts). However, after the Romans, it wasn't picked up again until the 17th century, so quite plausibly "centuries" of research.

Of course, it used to be relatively easy to avoid lead poisoning (e.g. not using it for water pipes) until we started to pump lots of it into the air around the 1950s.
Actually, I think our quality of life is going downhill. Things are very expensive and the taxes are still high. I think that the reasons the far right is winning everywhere is because people feel they have lost something. I agree. We have. We bought into the neoliberale thought mill and simultaneously lost our belief in social democratic welfare state. We are in short, becoming more like the states. But without the things that make the states so great. The states can basically print money and then other countries will begrudgingly buy dollars to keep it from inflating top much. So its basically global nation state socialism.
Is that not a false dichotomy? I make quite a lot of income and still have lots of time with my kids. At least as much as I'd have anywhere in Europe, I bet. It is not a hard requirement to make good income that you sell your soul to the corporation.
There's a great QAA Podcast episode about it.
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> Those 600 million people making 1000 CNY/month or less (and probaly another 300 million making a bit more) will be happy for a respite in being priced out of everywhere

Those 600 million cannot afford to buy real estate even at the crashed price.

The going rate for a 2bhk in a tier 2/3 is still $100-300k, which is still unaffordable given that median urban household income is $6k and median rural household income is $3k.

And this is the crux of the problem in China - all this "overproduction" isn't necessarily due to some grand strategy, it's due to a lack of consumers because salaries are too low.
Looking at how no samples other than the 3 samples in the "Long horizon memory" section have any camera movement which puts something offscreen and then back onscreen, it certainly seems that they are stretching the capabilities as far as they can in writing.
Pixel peeping is another story, but most people are looking at these things on the iphone screen itself or at most something ipad/laptop size. Its not like the old days where you went down to the basement with the slide projector and watched the vacation photos on a sheet.
It seems you've made a digital mnemometer!
Two reasons to pick it:

- It was a steal deal under $10
- If this goes well and gets good traction, I'm gifting it to PG! It's his if he wants to claim it.
Do people honestly think Americans don't have rich social lives? Just because we socialize differently doesn't mean it isn't rich. Most Americans seem to prefer church groups, and small friend and family gatherings at their homes rather than going out and mingling in urban entertainment districts and bars.
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> People would still rather emigrate to the poorest state of the USA than Bulgaria or Romania.

Reducing this to employment mobility displays a lack of knowledge of history.
For some reason, when I read aloud, I have a hard time concentrating on the content. It’s like reading aloud and comprehension are two different tasks that I need to multi-task.
That's the ticket! I've always known that AI will save us all.
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The US excludes the first $120K of income for expats, IIRC. That probably works out to >100% for the majority.
I’ve been thinking about documenting the journey online, likely in the form of a blog. I know I would have been interested in reading about someone who took this step before I did. So, the answer right now is "no," but hopefully, when I get a chance, that will change.
Yeah I agree, and do the same. Likewise some config gets complex and can only be reasonably set through config. I prefer when I have a system with one base configuration struct where certain fields can be tagged as available on the command line, another subset in the environment, etc.
schizophrenia has been proven to be stress triggered and im just not interested to listen to humanity idealization by engineers any more, with the endless utopias and perfect characters, and the blame on everyone not fitting into that template under duress. What good is a construction plan for a machine with all parts carved from diamond? If you cant integrate a real humanity in your perception , your plans and interests, why even waste public bandwidth on your ideas and the terrors they will become ?
I'm not used to putting effort into friendships, so it does sound like an unwelcome task.

And it sounds phony, since I have never put effort before. If I have to put effort then am I not faking it?
What’s even nicer is if kids don’t need their parents to leave them an inheritance just so they can afford a roof over their heads.

The U.S. is filled with homeless people. Even Italy, which was doing economically terrible when I visited, didn’t even have a fraction of the homelessness problem as in the U.S.
Can you point to any statistics which indicate life is even remotely as dangerous in Europe as life in the US is?

I can't even come up with enough terror attacks in Europe to reach 100 deaths in 2024.
The Economist is a British magazine, originally marketed at devotees of classical liberalism, which was also called economism at the time. Its readership is largely British, and therefore seeks comparisons between the British economy, European economies and the US economies, because they are seen as peers of the UK.
As has I’ve heard said, the best place to make money is the US and the best place to spend money is the EU. If you believe this is the case as I do, the next step is to figure out how to lifestyle arbitrage. Make US wages while living in the EU.

I’m older with bit more freedom than when I just started out, but this is exactly what I’m doing. My plan is to eventually quasi retire to the house I’m currently renovating.
did you know about the ban in advance? Or was it a surprise when getting ready to move there? Or did the place disclose that during recruitment "FYI, no rats allowed"
That's easy to solve. Just make the copy while you are still alive, make it so that you can control both brains ans bodies. That way you should be able to shut down the old body and keep on living?
Also (mind the year this is from!):

— Can you teach a computer to write poetry?

— If you can teach it--yes, there's nothing easier. One of the things is that you could do, for example, you could simply give it a collection of poems or prose or whatever you have, and then provide a program which selects pieces from these, either individual words, individual phrases, individual passages, and so on, and merges them together according to some criterion, which you would then write into the program, and also with a certain element of chance. Usually, you know, you'd say, "Well, you want to pick this sometimes, that sometimes." Yes, you can write it, but you raise the question, what would be the point?
there are lots of 3D modelers spending hours on 3D worlds and assets to use in training, this seems to automate a lot of that work
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> the U.S. owes much of its economic strength to its robust legal framework

Pretty much. This is the mainstream institutionalist view which won AJR a Nobel Prize.

This is also the reason why China began the Guiding Case Project with Stanford Law before it got shut down due to Xi 2's crackdown.
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There's a saying in economics:

"There are four types of economies: developed, developing, Argentina, and Japan."

One must be very careful drawing conclusions for other societies based on Japan as a sole example. I somewhat agree that Japan illustrates that massive infrastructure investment, combined with diligence in maintaining functioning societal systems, does in fact yield a high quality of life that appears sustainable even if the metrics of economic growth look terrible. That's because GDP as a measure of "quality of life" is a shitty indicator IMO, but that's a whole 'nother rabbit hole to go down...
Won't spin off reform, and in all likelihood, is just going to result in Fortune 500 companies doing unethical shit to begin budgeting for armed protection for their top brass.
Also, any inheritance money would come way too late to be useful in my life.
And when a bug shows up (as they always do), some AI will fix it.
This always went both ways with the EU providing a market. When the US stops to provide defense, watch and see the EU reaction, starting with all things digital.
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when you control the measuring stick (USA dollar)

you'll always be the tallest of them all
>Did you asked the kids in the videos (who are grownups or teenagers now) if they are ok with random strangers watching their kids life?

>Also I would doubt, that most people were aware, that they were uploading the video to the general public.

Those sentences are working against each other. You don't need to ask for permission to observe something in public. That's what makes the public sphere public; that there are restrictions and expectations in the private sphere that don't exist in the public sphere. If someone mistakenly believes they're in private when they're not, that's unfortunate for them. It's their responsibility to know where they are, not your responsibility to act according to their expectation. You're not obligated to avert your gaze if someone walks out in public not wearing pants by mistake. Is it polite to do it? Sure. Is it wrong not to do it? No.