skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in Japan; Yes most certainly it is a low wage country.

>The average salary in Japan is 6,200,000 Japanese Yen (JPY) or 39818 USD per year in 2024 (as per the exchange rate in May 2024).
https://www.timedoctor.com/blog/average-salary-in-japan

The low wages and overtime culture that exists there is the greatest contributor to their lack of marriage and low birthrate in my opinion.

Korea has the same issue from my understanding.
Appreciated! Didn’t know Cline already does RAG handling, thought I’d have to wire that up beforehand.
Joni Ernst is a Senator who I heard speak on this issue. She was trying to get information out of USAID and it became a long battle just to check their work and could only do so under extremely limited conditions later. They try to hide everything, basically.

This source apparently talks about it, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14359253/joni-ernst...
> In the 1920s Russia was experiencing its first famine that could reasonably be attributed to communism

There were no famines in the USSR from 1947–1991, but there was a variety of considerations such as monarchy, civil war, 2 world wars, and anti-communist sanctions from the 1890-1947 period, so if anything, it appears that the evidence would imply communism ended the famines, not caused them.
I've nothing against red hat and i love that an organization is doing work in the free software space. But it's a choice as an engineer if you want to devote your loss of salary to do honest work.

I do open source in my free time because my family can't sustain itself otherwise. Kudos to all the devs out there working on open software.
Softbank is dumb money at the poker table once again. Will they be left holding the bag again, like they did with WeWork?
Revenue, not income.
So they came up with an overly complicated plan with little outcome and this is supposed to be amazing?

Oh hang on, I can do better. I have a plan to build 3 billion teleportation machines by 2045. This makes for a great mad libs set.

I have a plan to build thousands of Super Star Destroyers on Exegol by a long time ago.
This is academic. I have equal control over both, which is to say none whatsoever. Capacity to influence a company falls to the following (in order)

1. Executives

2. Large shareholders (usually institutional and rarely individuals)

3. Customers

4. Employee unions (if present)

The tech industry is an anomaly where 1 and 2 largely overlap, but this is not true in most industries. Unless you are super rich, you will never be able to have more influence over a large company than you do in the role of a pissed off customer ready to take his money elsewhere.
We noticed that Swedish isn't currently working properly, but we weren't able to replicate this with any other languages. Please let us know if it's still having issues!
This is the most pervasive bait-and-switch when discussing AI: "it's general reasoning."

When you ask an LLM "what is 2 + 2?" and it says "2 + 2 = 4", it looks like it's recognizing two numbers and the addition operation, and performing a calculation. It's not. It's finding a common response in its training data and returning that. That's why you get hallucinations on any uncommon math question, like multiplying two random 5 digit numbers. It's not carrying out the logical operations, it's trying to extract the an answer by next token prediction. That's not reasoning.

When you ask "will water freeze at 27F?" and it replies "No, the freezing point of water is 32F", what's happening is that it's not recognizing the 27 and 32 are numbers, that a freezing point is an upper threshold, and that any temperature lower than that threshold will therefore also be freezing. It's looking up the next token and finding nothing about how 27F is below freezing.

Again, it's not reasoning. It's not exercising any logic. Its huge training data set and tuned proximity matching helps it find likely responses, and when it seems right, that's about the token relationship pre-existing in the training data set.

That it occasionally breaks the rules of chess just shows it has no concept of those rules, only that the next token for a chess move is most likely legal because most of its chess training data is of legal games, not illegal moves. I'm unsurprised to find that it can beat an average player if it doesn't break the rules: most chess information in the world is about better than average play.

If an LLM came up with a proof no one had seen, but it checks out, that doesn't prove it's reasoning either, just because it's next token prediction that came up with it. It found token relationships no one had noticed before, but that's inherent in the training data, and not a reflective intelligence doing logic.

When we discuss things like reinforcement learning and chain of reasoning, what we're really talking about are ways of restricting/strengthening those token relationships. It's back-tuning of the training data. Still not doing logic.
"isolate yourself from grocery stores" that sounds like self control. Anyway not trying to argue this.

if it's working for people great, I'm on the boat that does not like it when obesity is supported eg. in victoria secret but I'll just sound like an ahole to say that

edit: I'm also on the side of being somewhat against physical/genetic modification as it lies to your partner/future child what you actually look like but when it gets to that stage (eg. crispr) then I guess it doesn't matter.

I'm not religious so it's not from that perspective I'm also not white

Last thing I'll add, why not too, I mean humans don't have wings yet we engineered airplanes to surpass birds, is that wrong?

I am a nihilist to some extent so yeah really nothing matters except what is truly real pain/suffering and death.
Very handy tool! I love eBPF, but playing with it you quickly get into cryptic kernel internals territory. Tools like this are a great way to smooth out the experience. Well done!
Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can't Seem to Make Its Physical Stores Work
One thing this article doesn't cover is WHO is doing the trafficking, and in most cases, it's Americans.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/fentanyl-trafficki...

Most seizures happen at checkpoints or vehicle searches.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-c...
FINN (https://finn.com/) | Senior Data Scientist - Pricing | Munich, Germany ONSITE | Full Time | 73-85k€ + equity

FINN offers convenient and flexible car subscriptions, bringing a true e-commerce experience to car ownership and accelerating the arrival of electric mobility.

As a Senior Data Scientist in Pricing, you will be at the forefront of developing and transforming FINN's pricing strategy and implementing state-of-the-art pricing algorithms.
You will leverage advanced forecasting and optimization models to uncover demand and price trends, predict outcomes, validate impact and provide actionable insights and recommendations for our pricing team.

Requirements:
- Quant Master / PhD
- 3+ years in e-commerce (leasing, rental, airline, hospitality are a plus)
- Skilled in data and time-series analysis, statistical modelling and implementing forecasting and optimization models from scratch
- Experience in E2E implementation of pricing strategies and building POCs

Post: https://jobs.lever.co/finn/e8fb0360-11c1-418a-af53-a317fb5d6...

For more details or submit your application, reach out to me at <giacomo dot coletto at finn dot com>
This sentiment peaked in popularity in urban areas ~4 years ago. Since then I've noticed support for this position slowly eroding, and my hypothesis is that the general population has slowly had enough interactions with someone who is on fent.
Ok, but what is a good pattern to leverage AI tools for coding (assuming that they have some value there, which I think most people would agree with now)? I could see two distinct approaches:

- "App builders" that use some combination of drag&drop UI builders, and design docs for architecture, workflows,... and let the UI guess what needs to be built "under the hood" (a little bit in the spirit of where UML class diagrams were meant to take us). This would still require actual programming knowledge to evaluate and fix what the bot has built

- Formal requirement specification that is sufficiently rigorous to be tested against automatically. This might go some way towards removing the requirement to know how to code, but the technical challenge would simply shift to knowing the specification language
Is that Spotify making that decision or the big recording companies?
I think this depends very much on how you use the tools.

My experience with email is that people have subject lines, email explicitly identifies to and cc recipients; email is threaded; email often has quotes/excerpting/highlighting from prior parts of the thread.

On the other hand, most chat usage I see is dependent on temporal aspects for threading (people under-utilize platform features for replies etc), tagging is generally only done to ping people to attract attention, chat groups are frequently reused for multiple different purposes.

Leaping to a point-in-time within a chat stream is often a bad user experience, with having to scroll up and down through unrelated stuff to find what you’re looking for.

Stuff in email is just massively more discoverable for me.
+1. I do think there's certain efficiency gains in concentrating decision-making in companies, but nepotism and hereditary power are strange characteristics to keep from feudalism
The EU AI Regulations has some very broad carve outs added for Law Enforcement, such as real-time facial recognition. And individual EU states still have the authority to carve out exceptions as they wish.

Like every other form of tech regulation done by the EU, it's all bark but no bite because politicians of individual countries have more power than MEPs.

What's to stop Fidesz, PiS (if they return to power), etc from carving out broad exceptions for their own Interior Ministries? They've already done this with spyware like Pegasus.

Instead of techno-feudalism, it's basically techno-paternalism which is essentially the same thing. In both cases, individual agency is being limited by someone else.
https://archive.ph/deyJX
How does AUM compare between the two?
The client generally saves money in the PFOF situation. They benefit, their broker benefits, and the market maker they deal with benefits. The only loser is the abstract rest of the market being able to get fewer penny shavings.

What in particular do you see as against the spirit of the law?
> By now it’s well known that Trump desperately wants to proof his professor wrong

By now it it's well known that globalization is for a fantasy world that doesn't exist, and people should stop listening so much to economics professors. Trade barriers need to go up to re-orient things. Unfortunately, Trump is unlikely to do it competently.
> I’m all for fairness. For example I think we should weight votes, where everyone gets one vote for each dollar of taxes they pay.

You are joking right? Honest, question, what life experiences have you had that make you think that this would be a good idea. It would effectively mean a handful of billionaires would control the country.

> I also want to see all landlords structure rental contracts so that the renter pays the property taxes

It is a free market. Outside of a handful of places with rent control, nothing is stopping them from doing that. And if you think splitting out property taxes as a separate line item will somehow make tenants think that landlords, the vast majority of whom increase their rents to the absolute maximum that the market will bear, are somehow not greedy, I think you have a pretty bad handle on what it is like to be in the renter class.
> Do you have any pointers on how to find these in the spec or in the handbook?

I just checked now, and apart from FSIDR I was mainly referring to DAFE [1], a HyTime 2nd ed. facility actually part of AFDR (archforms) allowing additional attribute capture and mappings in link rules towards a more complete transformation language as SGML's link rules are a little basic when it comes to attribute handling. Note in a HyTime context, transformations (for lack of a better word) are specified by AFDR notations/data attributes in not only a highly idiosyncratic way but also redundantly when SGML LINK is perfectly capable to express those classes of transformations, and more. sgmljs only implements LPD-based transformations (yet with more power such as inheritance of DTDs into type checking of template processing contexts and pipelining) and only the DAFE part of AFDR but not other parts.

[1]: http://mailman.ic.ac.uk/pipermail/xml-dev/1998-July/004834.h...
(see also ISO/IEC 10744 - A 5.3 Data Attributes for Elements (DAFE))
It’s hard to beat Fidelitys offer right now. They give you a 2-3% checking account. A 2% cash back credit card, access to their low cost funds and a decent enough website. All in one place.

Other brokerages are better at their niche but the fidelity package is quite competitive
Mexico agreed to an additional 10,000 troops.
By export I assume you mean as a virtual webcam? I would definitely prefer that as a user to be able to use any videoconferencing app.
4-5%
Chat is a bad interface for tools in general, but this problem goes deeper than that.

What's a good interface?

There are a few things we try to balance to make a good UI/UX:

- Latency: How long it takes to do a single task

- Decision-tree pathing: How many tasks to meet a goal

- Flexibility/Configurability: How much of a task can be encapsulated by the user's predefined knowledge of the system

- Discoverability: What tasks are available, and where

The perfect NLP chat could accomplish some of these:

- Flexibility/Configurability: Define/infer words and phrases that the user can use as shortcuts

- Decision-tree pathing: Define concepts that shortcut an otherwise verbose interaction

- Latency: Context-aware text-completions so the user doesn't need to type as much

- Discoverability: Well-formed introductions and clarifying questions to introduce useful interaction

This can only get us so far. What better latency can be accomplished than a button or a keyboard shortcut? What better discoverability than a menu?

The most exciting prospect left is flexibility. Traditional software is inflexible. It can only perform the interaction it was already designed with. Every design decision becomes a wall of assumption. These walls are the fundamental architecture of software. Without them, we would have nothing. With them, we have a structure that guides us along whatever assumptions were already made.

If we want to change something about our software's UI, then we must change the software itself, and that means writing. If NLP was a truly solved problem, then software compatibility and flexibility would be trivialized. We could redesign the entire UI by simply describing the changes we want.

LLMs are not even close. Sure, you can get one to generate some code, but only if the code you want generated is close enough to the text it was already trained on. LLMs construct continuations of tokens: no more, no less. There is no logic. There is no consideration about what is right or wrong: only what is likely to come next.

Like you said,

> You can’t build real software without being precise about what you want.

This is the ultimate limitation of UI. If only we could be ambiguous instead! LLMs let us do that, but they keep that ambiguity permanent. There is no real way to tie an LLM back down to reality. No logic. No axioms. No rules. So we must either be precise or ambiguous. The latter option is an exciting development, and certainly offers its own unique advantages, but it isn't a complete solution.

---

I've been thinking through another approach to the ambiguity problem that I think could really give us the expressive power of natural language, while preserving the logical structure we use to write software (and more). It wouldn't solve the problem entirely, but it could potentially move it out of the way.
Fluid Compute
Broader question, but whatever happened to every university with a CS department hosting mirrors of popular distros? I always assumed CDNs replaced them, but seeing this, maybe they didn't.
It was done democratically. Trump ran for president on abolishing this deep seated managerial class that controls the federal government, he specified Elon to be at the helm of it and here we are.

You have no business pretending this is undemocratic. These offices being shut down are the same people who sabotaged Trump during his first term, they have every right to do this. And if anyone understands large organizations, it's Elon: the man who's proven he's the greatest engineer in the world and that you don't need a PhD to be that.
It wasn't Portland. Voters in Oregon as a whole passed Measure 110 in 2020 that replaced criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs with $100 fines.

Then in April of 2024 House Bill 4002 made possession once again a misdemeanor but kept most of the other provisions of Measure 110 and still focuses on "deflecting" people who possess out of the criminal justice system and into treatment programs.

So Measure 110 is still mostly in effect. They just made it so you do in fact have something on your record if you're caught with possession.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't post like this, and please stop perpetuating flamewars on HN. The guidelines say:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

Since this topic is as divisive as it gets, so your comments on it should be at maximum thoughtfulness and substantiveness right now.

Edit: we've unfortunately had to warn you about this many times - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779071. If you want to keep posting here, please fix this.
You're not buying an inflationary currency. The inflationary currency is what you buy things with. Like commodities (bitcoin)!

Bitcoin (or any other commodity/crypto) being valued well and being a "good" investment is completely detached from its function as a national currency. One does not (and should not) imply the other.

You need something to exchange things with (currency), and you need things to exchange. The currency is the medium of exchange, the journey, not the destination.
We have to stop putting everything into left/right categories. People are more complex than that as we've seen in the past. One of the recent assassination attempts was done by a supporter of the party the candidate ran for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don...

> He was a registered Republican; his voter registration had been active since September 2021, the month he turned 18
I dunno, sure doesn't look like Biden let up on enforcement to me [1]. More likely is that Trump destablised the west and caused a net increase in illegal migration attempts. Since Congress refused to pass comprehensive immigration reform (to please Daddy, of course) they didn't have the tools or money needed to keep up.

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic...

> My issue with liberals is the lack of common sense, e.g. allowing biological men to destroy women in sports, not being willing to define what a woman is

I find this one so funny. Most liberals agree with you on this, but none of us will get on board with turning to fascism because an incredibly small portion of the population needs a civil rights issue addressed. That means we are forced to deal with the radical leftists who you are so angry about, because at least they aren't trying to overthrow the government. It would get settled much faster, and much more to your satisfaction, if a third of the country wasn't determined to act in bad faith and pretend those people don't exist. That's just as bizarre as the people who pretend that biological women and trans women are the same.
And I was making an (apparently) even more veiled reference that I approve of the comment to which I responded.
Why does that make it useless? paths can be converted to basic_strings for passing to platform-specific functions to handle that 1%.
I love Radxa. When the time comes to replace my Raspberry Pi, I will likely buy a Radxa board.
If he actually pulls off the "everything app" idea, so that it becomes ubiquitous as a way of sending money, then "X" will make more sense. It'll make it feel fundamental, and "tweets" will seem too frivolous.

That might be the biggest "if" I've ever seen.
Yes, the impression is that the article is attempting to spin the issue by making it deliberately vague. The implication fits with an on-going manufactured narrative about immigration enforcement.

There is a possibility that El Salvadorians who are in the US illegally could be deported back to El Salvador. If they fit the profile of the MS13 gangsters, they may be imprisoned in El Salvador based upon their profile alone. This could be as simple as having gang affiliated tattoos or tattoos that are perceived as such. As I understand, due process has been suspended in these cases.

None of that fits with the article's implications by omission. A nasty bit of propaganda.
Type Theater and Pushing Left
His cost is probably around $4k per device, which gives him $16k to play with.

His gross profit is probably about $12k per.

Shipping is probably about $4k/container. It used to be $2k for a 40-foot before the pandemic.

He also has to front the money and carry the inventory, which is the real problem. The big manufacturers finance their equipment, which he probably can't do. So he needs to pay cash up front. Maybe he needs to sell 4 to cover costs. But then he needs to buy the next shipment, which'll eat up his cash flow.

FYI, this is the problem with inventory financing (or lack thereof): you need money to buy and carry the inventory. If you're not careful you'll lose money on the float.
Please don’t quote half a sentence and then argue with it when the second half is an important qualifier.
He’s not an engineer.
Yes; but in my view, one of the political parties in the country has gone completely off the rails. I was raised right and actually have some core values, so how can I respect someone who enthusiastically voted for president “grab ‘em by the pussy”? There is nothing left to demonize: his sins and crimes are completely out in the open and his followers love 'em. An impeached felon and rapist who tried to blatantly steal the last election is our head of state, and I feel like I have nothing in common with half the country anymore.

In truth, though, I don't think much of this is organic. Right-wing TV and radio (Gingrich, Limbaugh, Carlson, etc.) have been rotting brains around the country for decades. Our current situation is the result of a concerted propaganda campaign by the powerful and wealthy going all the way back to the Nixon impeachment, not some day-to-day disagreements about taxes or culture war issues.
I guess Tailscale or Mullvad should consider hosting you.
Even Youtube can't figure that one out
Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with (such as for ideological battle). We ban such accounts and it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

Also, please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html