skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I got up to here and stopped reading. Not really an honest attempt at debunking this data, just handwavey "it's all health care costs and its stupid".

Does it explain some of the divergence? Sure, but it doesn't even come close to making up the wage / productivity gap.

I imagine much of the other "debunkings" are similarly naive

A cursory search of how much of wages healthcare costs as a percentage of total compensation is in the US comes out to 7.6% in 2022. In 1971 it was 2.9%

> For employee-benefit plans in 1971, health insurance contributions equaled 2.9% of all wages and salaries.

> Insurance benefit costs accounted for 7.6 percent of total compensation and 26.8 percent of total benefits among private workers in September 2022. The component breakdown can be seen in table 1. Health insurance accounted for 7.1 percent of total compensation, with 0.2 percent for short-term disability insurance, 0.1 percent for life insurance, and 0.1 percent for long-term disability insurance. (See chart 1.)

https://www.bls.gov/ecec/factsheets/ecec-insurance-benefits-...

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v36n4/v36n4p27.pdf
No, rationing is the complete opposite and ensures that not just rich people can have access to a resource.

This is basically why the word "rationing" exists in the first place.

What good is being "productive" (whatever your definition of it) if poor people die from lack of access to water because chips need to exist.
Ehh...yes?
Heh, probably not, though my homemade router is actually based on NixOS with the ephemeral tmpfs root, so kind of the same idea as OpenWRT.
This take is utter nonsense to me - just don't use them...
First, Hamas would swap 33 women and children, plus hostages older than 50, for “many hundreds” of Palestinian prisoners, during a 42-day ceasefire. Second, all remaining male Israeli hostages would be released in exchange for the IDF’s withdrawal from Gaza. In the third phase, once withdrawal is complete, Hamas would give up the bodies of deceased hostages and prisoners.

vs

Phase one entails the release of 33 Israeli hostages including all women, children and men over 50.
Negotiations on implementing the second phase will begin by the 16th day of phase one and it is expected to include the release of all remaining hostages, a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
The third phase is expected to address the return of all remaining dead bodies and the start of Gaza's reconstruction supervised by Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations.

That's the Free Press/CBS/CNN version of things vs the Reuters version. It doesn't sound like the details are nailed down beyond phase 1 at all. Raw deal for Israel though.
There's a strong part of me that thinks that a model not unlike BBSes with Fidonet might be the way to go. Everyone gets to have their own little bastion of the 'net that they control, filled with their own content (games, warez, text files, the good ol' shit) and global email/forums/chat provided in a decentralized way. When people are arseholes, you cut them off by blocking them from your server, and we all move on.

I keep toying with building a modern version of that using some of the existing fediverse infrastructure, but I just don't have the time or attention span for it. Partially because my attention span was fried by Instagram.
You're continuing to focus on the functional similarities and functional equivalences of 3, 3.0, 6/2, 2.999... etc. You're right, from an arithmetic standpoint, these are all the same value. I've definitely always agreed with this and fully understand it.

But the question wasn't testing that you knew how to divide and round. The question was testing if you understood what the teacher was trying to teach about whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, etc.

6/2 as written is not an integer. It is not a whole number. The value it represents can be written as a whole number, I fully agree, but as written it itself is not a whole number. Whole numbers are the set of numbers Z including -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,... I doubt any math teacher, upon teaching "what is a whole number", draws a number line and proceeds to label it -3.999, -6/2, -12/6, -5/5, 0, 5/5, 12/6, 6/2, 3.999..., and on.

The notation was the key part of the question and was a key part of the answer.

The teacher wasn't looking for a value (which is what you're so focused on looking at), they were looking for a notation, a format.
Criticising, being realistic, seeing through lies and being empathic are not exclusive. We can do all of those things at the same time.

The fakes were not realistic here, it didnt need any AI and most people who are mocking her here read more about the topic than you apparently
I think the issue I have with it is she divorced her (assumedly) loyal husband, then took (assumedly) half his money in court only to give to another man she was planning on cheating with. Then the schadenfreude cherry on top was it was all a scam and she was too gullible or stupid to know. She deserves to be mocked. If nothing else for what she did to her family.
I've tried several boilerplates like SaaSPegasus and one thing I can't really get around is that I feel like the experience of developing in a docker-compose with two build-and-serve containers (e.g. one with gunicorn auto-reload and the other running something like esbuild for the frontend) is very clunky in VSCode?

I feel like I'm doing something crazy, this must be a problem many other people have, but things like language server integration on the JS and Python side separately do not mesh well.

If anyone sees this and has a minimal open source boilerplate to recommend I'd love to try it.
If it weren't for homeschooling my autistic daughter would be spending her day in the headteachers office shaking and crying due to her cripping anxiety.
The people in Gaza are probably desperate enough to accept anything at this point and everyone involved has a long history of going back on their word.

Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and supports West Bank settlements. To suddenly give an Iran-backed militia a win goes against literally everything in the grand scheme of things.
No it wouldn't be ironic because all of that is allowed.

In fact, existing tiktok users are welcome to keep the existing app on their phone.

What's being banned is the commerce.
>Farming isn't an industry.

It both is and isn't. Have you seen PETA footage from inside factory farms? It's hellish in that special way only the industrial revolution could produce.
It is specifically for reservoirs and by extension municipal water supply systems because it's relatively easy to determine the surface area and height of a reservoir
Did you move from cf to someone else, or are you still using them?
I didn't see any announcements and I don't see it in the settings so I don't think so. With that said, I have customized version of tree style tabs, so I am not sure how would these visual customizations transfer.
It’s directly correlated with young earth creationism and climate change denial. A significant portion of the population being taught "don’t trust scientists they’re lying on behalf of the literal devil" has done terrible things to American politics.
What on earth are people still searching for using search engines? I’ve found chatGPT to be significantly better at answering question I have than google or DDG or any other search engine. It’s still AI slop, but at least it’s a bit more succinct, and I can ask follow up questions
Actually not fair criticism, given that I even talk about changing the control parameters and demonstrate the effect of changing them.
> there weren't any financial collapses in the 1800s comparable in magnitude to the Great Depression or Global Financial Crisis.

Oh yes there were. Go look up the Panic of 1837, Panic of 1857, Panic of 1873, and Panic of 1893.
Don't forget fire every few years. Natural biochar (at small scale).
> America solved it in the 1800s with commodity money; the US dollar was worth as much at 1900 as it was at 1800

What? No it wasn't. The value of gold relative to commodities or industrial products wasn't stable over that interval. It would be ridiculous if it had been. Not only were we in the throes of the Industrial Revolution, the California gold rush had just started a two-century boom in the quantity of gold [1].

> there weren't any financial collapses in the 1800s comparable in magnitude to the Great Depression or Global Financial Crisis

Free banking was a constant drumbeat of bank failures, inflation and scams [2][3]. (Also financial crises [4].)

If you want a country that didn't have a civil war in the 19th century to go off, grab a copy of Bagehot's Lombard Street [5]. It's written by arguably the world's first modern central banker. He battles credit crises, bank runs, inflation, et cetera. All while Britain was firmly on the gold standard.

[1] https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/200-years-of-global-go...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_central_banking_in_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

[4] https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/freedmans-bank-build...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_...
I just invented a scale that goes three stages further than the Kardashev scale, so we're in an even better position than you think!
Super interesting!

My preconception (not a botanist) was that monocultures were automatically worse for local ecologies. I wonder if lumbering practices in America are similar. Obviously, it's a mix of good and bad, but it would be cool to find some research that suggests how we're doing.

I also just like an eclectic, vibrant forest, and personally, monocultures ruin that vibe for me. I'm pretty spoiled though, having lived much of my life in heavily-wooded areas.
> Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in.

You can get this feature on Linux if you use flatpaks or snaps on an older computer. I got used to bearing with it because it allows me to have a stable core OS combined with modern applications that have been released today. It's a price I'm willing to pay. Nevertheless, I don't know how slow it is on a more modern machine, I guess it is probably quite fast.

Also, gnome-calculator is not an application I would install through a flatpak or snap.
I can't believe people think this is true. There are no school room sized cells in any prison. At least not in this country.
I wouldn't mind paying if it wasn't setup in a way like "oh want to watch that movie? subscribe to this service" at one point I was paying for maybe 5 different providers eg. Apple TV, Netflix, Disney+, HBOMax, etc...
It's easier, yes. But also it's harder to effectively work in a badly designed office (read open office). At home, I can create my ideal work environment. Specifically for me, I don't want to sit in traffic for an hour a day just to work in a worse environment. It's also my time. Work is not paying for my commute so my 40 hour week turns into a 45 hour week. This dilutes my pay while at the same time reducing my free time to spend with/for my family. With young kids, you can't get that time back.
He explained it was for his birds. If you don't believe the words from his mouth, now you're in conspiracy theory territory and believing what you want to believe instead of what is documented. You're free to do that, but understand that it's a lie.

Where did he say he actually eats the roadkill? One source?
The Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression seem to directly contradict you on that. The crashes were maybe not as large but that's because the economy of 1873 was an order of magnitude smaller than the economy of 1929.
The author asks:

> Has the model ever seen cosine similarity?

Yes - most of the time, at least for deep learning based semantic search. E.g. for semantic search of text, the majority are using, SentenceTransformers [1], models which have been trained to use cosine similarity. Or e.g. for vector representations of images, people are using models like CLIP [2], which has again been trained to use cosine similarity. (Cosine similarity being used in the training loss, so the whole model is fundamentally "tuned" for cosine similarity.)

Articles like these cause confusion, e.g. I've come across people saying: "You shouldn't use cosine similarity", when they've seen SentenceTransformers being used, and linking articles like these, when in fact you very much should be using cosine similarity with those models.

[1] https://sbert.net

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020
These tech parents are hackers by nature, and I think they’re convinced that in homeschooling they’ve happened on the ultimate life hack: just opt out of being around average people.

I agree in part and disagree in part:

Agree - they're absolutely "hacking" education for their kids. The 1:1 student/teacher ratio and the ability to custom tailor almost every part of the curriculum are the biggest selling points--and that's true whether it comes from a desire to give their kids the best they can, or a desire to micromanage and control every aspect of their lives.

Disagree - I think it's less about "average people" overall and more about opting out of learning from and being trained by what can feel like a gachapon of teachers and administrators in public (and to a lesser extent, private) schools. It probably seems to them like, "If I wouldn't hire this person to work at my company, why would I 'hire' them to do the much more critical task of preparing my child for their future?"

None of the arguments convince anyone. Homeschooling remains what it was in the creationism-and-spelling-bee days: an ideological choice.

In other words...

Windows = public school
Mac = private school
Linux = homeschool
Please don't post ideological battle comments to HN and please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of what other commenters are doing. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quantum was cool until Deepak Chopra ruined it for everybody.

Quantum Mysticism is Stupid (Deepak Chopra, Spirit Science, Actualized.org):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQTWor_2nu4

Deepak Chopra Faces a Real Theoretical Physicist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFGs-SIWB4

>How does Deepak Chopra respond when confronted with an actual Theoretical Physicist? Why, he maxes out the nonsense generator and gibbers whatever random jargon pops into his head.

Professor Brian Cox Enraged Deepak Chopra | CONAN on TBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajO5MvL9pVE

>"I'm going to shove my cosmic consciousness up your ass!" -Enraged Deepak Chopra
When the President literally owns a competitor called "Truth Social" do you think he will not take the America First pledge??
NPM and pip hell come about for several reasons, one of the biggest being that package versions are global.

In rust, you can project A can use dependencies B and C which can both depend on different versions of D. Cargo/crates generally also solve some of the other metadata problems Python has.

This means the developer experience is _significantly_ improved, at a potential cost of larger binaries. In practice, projects seem to have sufficiently liberal bounds that duplication isn't an issue.
Perhaps other countries will also regulate or ban social media companies.
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
NatSec should not even be needed. A simpler reason could be that China bans foreign social media apps from operating in China, so Chinese apps should be treated as such.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot

> The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water,[1] and river flows.

Seems to be.
The problem with homeschooling is it's pretty much a crapshoot whether you end up in a weird religious environment or an abusive environment, with a long-shot chance of ending up in a fun constructive environment with lots of personalised attention and the opportunity to travel the world.

Of course, this is pretty much the same set of dice you roll when you spawn into a traditional school system, except you roll with disadvantage when it comes to the long-shot.

I don't know, I was fortunate enough to roll the long shot, and it worked out pretty well for me. Though I will echo the article's note that forming emotional attachments continues to be a bitch if you didn't have a large peer group at a young age...
Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring Technical Account Executives
> and later tried very hard to delete all uploads of this video.

I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting.

> Because in the real world that strategy is more likely to get you convicted after all.

I don't think that's true. That's true for not cooperating, but you should do so with a lawyer. You shouldn't' talk to police until you get a lawyer. That's all.
I can second this. Their sales people have such poor behaviour that I am considering moving away simply on principle. There is nothing predictable about being on an enterprise contract and they will hit you with bullshit overage charges like using too many dns requests (wtf??) all of a sudden to force you onto a much larger contract. On the 28th of December no less ! We have used them for a very long time but I am having very big doubts about how much we can use them in the future even though their products are great.
I don't buy it. I do think the problems are not trivial but it's not like there aren't trivial problems within the larger problem.

Let's take a trivial problem: holidays. Every account you have comes with a holiday calendar. So if you got a Microsoft, Google, and Apple account you'll have entries in triplicate. These are all day events with identical names. There's a lot of hints to tell you that these are identical and you only need to display 1.

A bit harder would be birthdays. These might not be in a unique calendar. But the word "birthday" is a huge hint when it's an all day event.

I do agree that defaulting to a position of not destroying data is best (though here we'd never destroy data). But that doesn't mean we can't offer users assistance. We do have the capacity to let users merge events or in some way note that they are identical.

One more issue, why the fuck can't I move an event from my Google calendar to my Apple? In the worst case, just copy the damn thing and then hide the event. You can do this even when you don't have write access to the Google calendar.

So the thing I don't buy is that we can't do more. A programmer's job isn't easy. But it involves problem solving. I think there's not enough grumpy yet motivated people who will voice up such things because management usually says that it's not important. But these non important things add up. Life is complex so the little things actually matter a lot.
Good.

And I want this to set a precedent that we CAN reign in the social media companies.
oh please, just trying to be funny

have wanted to do this meme for so long

my bad though
Thanks for the valuable feedback, we really appreciate it! We'll make sure to update the format and change the description to explain how it's useful for deepfake detection.

In terms of QA on segmentation masks, we did do a manual review of the output and removed ~15% of the original images that had invalid or empty segmentation masks, interestingly we found out this way that most segmentation models tend to generate incomplete or inaccurate masks when the aspect ratio of the input is not 1:1 .

We're writing some code snippets that use multiple models to vote on the segments based on semantic class that is generated by the model, we plan to use this to speed up our assessment so we can release more image samples in the future, we could turn this into an open source library if that sounds useful.

Happy to stay in touch!
This isn't rocket science. What's going on is having the keys to the kingdom with regards to serving videos to influence the mind of a user with extremely precise targeting.

China doesn't want USA doing that, and banned their social media. USA doesn't want China doing it because they've been doing it all over the world to everybody since Radio Free Europe, and likely before.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radio-Free-Europe
No information, but at least it doesn't mislead into thinking there are 4nm transistors, or transistor gates, or some discrete feature of any sort that's that small.
The source here isn't the JP, it's wikipedia. Wikipedia investigated and banned the editors. JP is just the reporter. You can find other news sites with the same news, or Wikipedia itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_the_Israeli%E2%8...

Those human rights groups, unfortunately, have a long history of bias and foreign influence. The closer they are to the UN, the more political they are. Literally half of the UN's resolutions pertain to Israel - while 99.999% of war deaths, famine, modern slavery, etc, happen without Israel being involved. The UN was led by a literal Nazi in the 70s - Kurt Waldheim - and the last few UN Secretary Generals have said that there is a serious bias against Israel there (obvious from the obsession).
I find it really straightforward until lifetimes are involved. I used Rust for a few weeks last January.
They famously failed to ban strava and some military assets were unintentionally disclosed on the strava heatmap by soldiers logging their cardio jogs through facility hallways.
It also says something about the quality of the "education" that you were able to (presumably) manage some sort of technical aspirations and career without the "required education".

I know the feeling.
I am not sure I follow your point. There have been both National Security risks as well as protectionist economic policy enforced against china that benefits domestic players. In a lot of those protectionist cases, there is either a case of China flooding the market or there are cases where the government makes a choice that its beneficial to keep domestic manufacturers alive.

In the above provided examples its quite clear that there are possible national security risks involved with China being involved in US infrastructure and technology. If DJI was from the EU there would not even be a discussion.

If you have better example beyond hyperbole I am all ears.
I Put a Senior Engineer in the Driver's Seat on Day One
Cool platform to get valuation multiples for tech
If you read far enough into the math-y explanations, stiffness is a quantity in the equations. That makes it more than a hand waving explanation in my book.
In Poland we have pedal-less bikes for tiny tots. It's amazing how well they work. First they walk with the bike, Then they take longer and longer strides. Once it's clear that they can balance, you get them a proper bike with pedals. It's painless learning.
It seems like a repeat of Uber's play but at 10x scale. Lose 10s of billions of dollars scaling a product that loses you money on every sale in the hopes that it will position you well for the massive disrupter of [self-driving | AGI]. Uber's play didn't shake out so now they are very very slowly digging out of a 30bn hole. I guess its just a question of how big the AI hole gets before they either make AGI or give up and start shoveling.
They voted for a bunch of horrible people to do horrible stuff, which consequentially will negatively affect those voters the most.
By "the same way one might've also used" I meant those Quantum guys would've been just as likely to have used Turing, but yes, "Turing" is close to hitting the "jumped the shark" / "hackneyed" level of usage.
Huh, I don't know, it seems like common enough knowledge. Why need to exhaust all possible options to get to MAX GAINS (sometime in the future but not today) when they are proposing something that seems to work now and is better than whats possible today? Seems like you end up bikeshedding a simple idea to death.