skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats your opinion and I respect it. Especially the bit about complaining about syntax. There's no ther language directly competing with rust which had less syntax.

My opinion is that in Rust you have to make decisions on certain things which are take n for you by the garbage collector in other languages.

Should you store a reference or value in your struct? You can't just change it without modifying other places. I understand that this gives you the control to get the final 20% of performance in certain places but it's still lower level than other languages.

You could say just spam Arc everywhere and forget about references, but that itself is a low level decision that you make.
> spending less, saving up, and investing

On a personal level, sure, that's responsible (for whoever can actually afford to do that), but if everyone is living frugally and don't spend that much money at all, doesn't that have pretty horrible effects on the numerous businesses that actually need consumers?
Pragmatism is a good value.

Your analogy doesn't work because this has been made easy by trash cans and the effect is immediate, local, and advantageous to yourself vs water conservation which requires sacrifice and water use itself is not inherently bad, it's the results of aggregating lots of water use together that can be bad.
The rich stay rich no matter what.

Hell, there are companies and families who supported the third Reich openly.

They were rich before world war 2, they were rich after and they are still rich today.

Not to mention none of them had to go to the Nuremberg trials...

It's their system, it's their game.
The backlash will be enormous. In the near future, there will be less competent coders and a tsunami of bad code to fix. If 2020 was annoying to hiring managers they have no idea how bad it will become.
Yeah this is true. It’s similar enough such that most gui version control interfaces include an interface to deal with this.
It makes the rich poorer but keeps the poor in the same place.
The article also uses income...

Anyway, if anything the distribution based on wealth would even more starkly be hyper-focused at the top, the people in the 10-9% range aren't exactly sitting on mountains of gold.
Funnily enough I was trying to describe this particular type of autistic to my girlfriend last night. These people are often brilliant but have terrible social skills. I've met many of them. I've interviewed several. I've had them go off on random tirades during an interview about the very specific thing they are not a fan of this week. I would never let one of these people speak directly to customers!
> ...but it will work

You don't know that though. There's no "it must work" criteria in the LLM training.
DIY solar install is much easier than I thought it would be, especially if you use micro-inverters.
UK watchdog to investigate TikTok and Reddit over use of children's data
Solarpunk being an anarchist adjacent genre/aesthetic makes it very distant from an authoritarian regime that suppresses freedom of speech such as Singapore…
You can always arrive at a correct statement. A random expression generator can occasionally do that. You just can't tell if it is true.
A simple integer counter can generate the Gödel statement, it just doesn't have the ability to identify it.
You could take a guess, which is what people are doing when they say they they understand, they have applied hurisics to convince themselves, the problem is either decidable, or they are simply wrong.
Yeah this is the stuff I meant when I said high level languages should borrow from Rust.

It's also good to remind people that these things were borrowed by Rust from other languages too. Primarily the ML family of languages.
Income, like the article used.
I think about this from time to time and I suppose everything is cyclical in the end. Most of us would have been some peasant in the feudal age and when it gets really bad it always ends in a revolution of some sort. It's just on a global scale and timeframe now.

As more of the population feels the effects of inequality they won't appeased by just fancy toys and shiny things, they will want change by force. My only solace is I'll probably be long dead by the time that happens.
This is astronomically incorrect it’s basically an info hazard.

A market crash like that would result in extremely broad layoffs, major global supply chain instabilities, and a cataclysmic knock on effect of capital losses into nearly every walk of life on earth.

Not to mention, as many already have, the federal govt would undoubtedly bail out the worst actors and leave the poor to fend for themselves.

Just yesterday the Treasury Department announced they aren’t going to enforce a money laundering law. You think they’re going to New Deal a major crash’s now? No way.
Same kind of problem with an old HP LaserJet 1300 we still use. It began by it occasionally picking up multiple sheets of paper and jamming. It gradually got worse until the printer wasn't usable anymore.

The issue turned out to be the solenoid for the pick-up mechanism. When activated it should cause the pick-up mechanism to turn once. The solenoid once apparently had a small rubber pad to reduce noise. This had turned into goo and the solenoid would stick causing the mechanism to turn multiple times.

Fixed by removing the left-over goo and a piece of tape. Ten minute fix.
It covers a different use case. JSON, MessagePack and CBOR fall into the "schameless" format which mandate a common but useful enough data model (CBOR is novel in that this data model can be somehow extensible too). Cap'n Proto and Protobuf fall into the "schametic" or "schemaful" format where you always need the correct schema to encode and decode the thing, but is possibly more efficient in encoded size and general performance.
Median household income USA in 2023: $80,610

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...
Where are the stats for France? Asking genuinely
I only use firefox, and I have since Firefox 16 or something. What issue does YouTube have for you?

I don't have any issues with firefox, and I seriously smell astroturf, when day after day Firefox gets bashed.
The article really should be "Everything Is Chrome + Safari", the "Firefox on the brink?"[1] article even shows that Safari has ~37% market share (Although the underlying site[2] currently shows me ~34%.)

[1] https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
[2] https://analytics.usa.gov/
Now combine it with elevatorjs:

https://tholman.com/elevator.js/
Yeah, no, 100% sincere personal view. That guy who killed himself after using it is obviously not ready for this. Imagine killing yourself after typing in `print("Kill yourself")` at the Python REPL. The guy's an imbecile. We don't let just anyone drive a truck. I'm fine with nearly everyone being on the outside and unable to use these tools so long as I'm allowed to with as little trouble as possible.

I recognize that the view that others should not be permitted things that I should be allowed to use is generally a sarcastically expressed view, but I genuinely think it has merit. Everyone who believes these things are dangerous and everyone to whom this is obviously dangerous, like the aforementioned mentally deficient individual, shouldn't be permitted use.
And top 10% household in Japan is about 10 million Yen ($67k)...
The share of wealth held by the 1% in the US has been constant for a decade, at 30%. You can argue thats a problem, but it has not been getting worse.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134
Imagine every website had a widget on the side giving an EXAMPLE of how your data will be used. Like "You have been marked with liking chocolate velvet cakes. This data can and will be used against you in the court of the next website you go to"
I think his point is that such people exist, and they're on the upper end of some "distribution". The experience you're describing is more of the median experience.

Perhaps he's simply pointing out that with the right set of skills, you (or others) could also move yourself up (down?) the bell curve, and that your position on the curve isn't necessarily fixed. Treating it as such is inherently limiting.
> Usually I can just ignore the bugs or avoid the site, but sometimes it’s something that I have to do (like pay a bill) and so I have no choice but to keep a Chromium install around as well.

It's very odd, because recently I've had more of the opposite, where Edge (Chromium based) doesn't work, but Firefox does: on the sites where I pay my water and gas bills. Not that sites don't break on Firefox either, I've had that too, it's just odd that sometimes the mainstream browser doesn't work (wonder if it's an extension issue).
I think it's our duty to use Firefox as much as possible, and only launch Chromium for the odd task where Firefox fails. This is the only way to fight the browser monopoly. We have to generate as much Firefox activity as possible, so that websites have to take it seriously as a platform and continue to develop against it.
I think most server type software can trade off the borrow checker for a GC while still benefiting from other Rust stuff.

IMO there's still need for a higher level Rust where you don't need that last 20% of the performance and control.

Some people say that OCaml is the high level rust, but I think it's got a lot of gaps which rust doesn't.
Not really a question, just one phrase that left me scratching my head a bit:

> The downside to radix-8 multiplication is that multiplying by a number from 0 to 7 is much more complicated than multiplying by 0 or 1, which is almost trivial.

I think you can leave out the "almost" there - multiplying by 0 is 0 and multiplying by 1 is the number itself, as shown in the example, so I would definitely call it trivial.
Or stop taxing the poor? I.e. stop deflating the currency.
Yeah but that was also because she was a foreigner and people made up scandals around her.
100% positive it was a mockingbird. Huge variety in calls, including a handful that sounded vaguely like sirens and car alarms and such
Then publish many books?
I think the importance of financial education is pretty underestimated. But just to illustrate, investing $10 a month into an index fund would mean something like $100K saved up for retirement. Even if you’re poor, it is usually possible to find that $10.
Median personal has to be close to zero before redistribution payments, for all ages.

It paints a pretty poor picture of what is possible. I met many uneducated immigrants on a fish processing boat in the Bering Sea making 10k a month, a job usually begging for people. They would show me pictures of their wives and children living well.
>Wealth inequality is not innate; there have been plenty of civilizations with far less of it. It’s only an inherent part of free-market capitalism.

Please by all means, name these superior civilizations with minimal wealth inequality. The fact that some people are immensely rich and many others aren't is much less important than how a given society regulates individual rights to live one's life and be protected by the law. Wealth inequality is also less important than the specific question of how these rich people became what they are and how much power they have over those less wealthy than them. Ie: You can't honestly compare a modern market economy with a feudal barony.

In much of the modern "terribly" unequal market economies, a Bill Gates or Musk can be freely told to go fuck themselves by anyone less wealthy than them and their wealth has little to do with some random average person's capacity to better their own life. The same often doesn't apply to societies with low wealth inequality, which coincidentally are often poorly developed and authoritarian.

I don't really care if Warren Buffet, Zuckerberg or Ellison can buy a dozen private jets any time they like if I live in the same society with most of my legal and economic rights protected, and with the ability to create a comfortable life also respected. I would however worry about a more supposedly egalitarian state in which central authority figures have given themselves the legal right to confiscate property and earned capital for reasons of ideology.

Also, while many on this site live in a bubble in which the importance and influence of Musk's X (previously Twitter) is grossly fetishized, in the real world, it's just not that important. Musk can throw all the tantrums he likes on the site and ban whoever he pleases, and for 99% of the world, it doesn't matter enough to be worth a single shit.

It's when he obtains literal political power that I worry, and the mechanism behind the kind of authority that could confiscate earned wealth beyond a certain ideologically or politically defined point can at any time fall victim to someone with the kind of grossly egotistical personality that someone like X's owner has.

having the legal authority to prevent a rich person from owning a social media platform is much more dangerous than that rich person simply owning a social media platform (in a landscape of others that it has to increasingly compete with).
Liberalism has failed.

Perhaps to save it Just give a few trillion to the people in msci world stock locked for ten years or so to teach them.
Probably what you want is not an LLM but just the embeddings for clustering. It's much lighter and would work well with new material as well.

I've tested it out for filtering RSS feeds and has worked pretty well [1].

[1] https://github.com/m0wer/rssfilter
Well done, folks. Congrats!
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. But doesn’t it brings a host of other issues? For example, I need to update instance RAM from 4 to 8 Gb but how do I know if the instance exists or should be created? I need to make a small change, how do I know what parts of my scripts to run?
You guys are so obsessed with inequality because you're always looking in the other guy's cup. I don't care about inequality at all - only absolute living standards. The US has been an unequal place all its history and it's a tremendous country to live in.

Here's a recipe for happiness: stop comparing yourself to others and stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. It's old advice, but it's clearly been forgotten.
They do not repeat. The totp is calculated with the whole Unix timestamp, not a cyclical counter.
Nature article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213563
That a knowably correct program cant simulate human reasoning is basically Godel's theorem. One can use a diagonalization argument similar to Godel's proof for programs which try to deciding which Turing machines halt. Given a program P which is partially applicable, but always correct, we can use diagonalization to construct P' a more widely applicable and correct program ie. P' can say that some Turing machine will not halt while P is undecided. P'. So, this doesn't involve any logic or formal systems, but it is more general - Godel's result is a special case as the fact that a Turing machine halts can be encoded as a theorem and provability in a formal system can be encoded as a Turing machine.

Penrose indeed, believes both in the stronger claim - a program can't simulate humans and the weaker claim, a knowably correct program can't simulate humans.

The weaker claim being unassailable firstly shows that most of the usual objections are not valid and secondly, it is hard to split the difference ie. to generate the output of HC using a program which is not knowably correct. A program whose binary is uninterpretably but by magic only generates true theorems. Current AI systems including LLMs don't even come close.
The Winter of Civilisation
Indeed, the bailout if banks in multiple countries is the biggest transfer from the rest of us, to the rich there has ever been.

Absolutely enormous amounts of money.
Arguably even doing it the first time around was a mistake.
I'd wager it's due to someone complaining about firefox (its always bills, you notice? The same reason IE6 stuck around for...), without fail, everytime the word "Firefox" is mentioned anywhere.

And then we get anecdotes like "gmail and YouTube are buggy"

Oh, really? That's so weird that a multinational would hamstring a competitor that doesn't feed their shareholders more value.
>But this is not what I as a consumer end up seeing at all. Consider the RTX 5090. Gen-on-gen (so, compared to the 4090), for 20-30% more money, using 20-30% more power, you get 20-30% more raster performance. Meaning the generational improvement is 0, software nonwithstanding.

The 4090 and 5090 are the same generation in reality, using the same process node. The 5090 is a bit larger but only has about 20% more transistors of the same type compared to the 4090. Which of course explains the modest performance boosts.

Nvidia could have made the 5090 on a more advanced node but they are in a market position where they can keep making the best products on an older (cheaper) node this time.

>Why would you bring absolute values into comparison with a relative value? Why compare the 286 and the P3 and span 20 years when you can match the 2 year timespan of your Ryzen comparison, and pit the P2 ('97) against the P3 ('99) instead? Mind you, that would reveal a generational improvement of 7.5M -> 28M transistors, a relative difference of +273%!

That was my point though, to highlight how relative differences in percentages represent vastly different actual performance jumps. It quickly becomes meaningless since it's not the percentages that matter, it is the actual number of transistors.

To put it another way - If you take the first pentium with about 3 million transistors as a baseline, you can express performance increases in "how many pentiums are we adding" instead of using percentages, and note that we are adding orders of magnitude more "pentiums of performance" per generation now than we did 10 years ago.
> Regardless of our Turing or Super-Turing status; is a Turing machine sufficient for consciousness to arise?

Another question. How do you go about detecting whether consciousness has arisen?
> It exists because capitalism favors profits over anything else.

…and that’s where the regulator needs to step in and establish a set of requirements which must be met to allow profiting.
There is always an exponential distribution of wealth, it isn’t rational to argue against it. What needs argument is what the exponent is.
What's your approach for keeping the clock in sync?
Even the most basic of primates have a sense of fairness and get unhappy if someone is hoarding.
The most powerful environmentalists are anti-urbanism. Every major environmental movement supports only single family homes. Environmentalism has as much to do with helping the environment as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic of the people.
I think its to recognize the role of Middle Men. With the tech (and globalization), Middle Men have been getting real fat.

Lina Khan types need solid support and fire power to make a dent.
I downloaded a Windows binary from here:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-win...

and had not heard about this patch. Links are appreciated...
> just on a global scale and timeframe now

And nuclear. We have yet to see our first nuclear civil war.
Wow, so much hate against CSS here. I like CSS. I first learnt CSS in 1999 or something. Granted, it has grown much more complex (and powerful) since then, it has a lot of quirks, but it's not that bad.

Lately, I've built simple websites and small web apps in vanilla Javascript and CSS, without using any framework, and it's much more enjoyable than years ago.
Modern Sisyphus is doom scrolling on tiktok.
taking the kids home takes at least as much time as commuting to home and back

“Just live closer” thanks I’ll just ask to double my income
2. and 3. have again nothing to do with the question. Plaintext passwords are obviously unsafe material, but that's not the point of the question.

Nuclear material that leaks its containment is bad no matter what, how is a hashed password leaking a bad thing is the entire question and you're only addressing it in 1. but I don't find that convincing. When was the last time a practical attack was found on a hashing scheme that wasn't already obsolete 15 years ago?
And now I'm wondering if this statistic is based on taxable income, because the extra rich mostly avoid those events too.
> So a stock market and/or real estate crash can actually be good to reduce inequality . In fact I think its about the only way to dramatically reduce inequality.

This would assume rich people have all their money in stocks, which is not correct.
I exhort you to rise above the most basic of primates. I have transcended the flinging of my faeces and it has brought me great joy.
Interpersonal or community conflicts could work for example
You're right, though I consider that the workaround and not the actual solution.

Also, some apps cannot be disabled depending on the vendor. e.g.: Weather (which launches random notifications from time to time), Radio, etc.
It makes the rich less rich, the poor more poor.
> They are still general living expenses. Those don’t go away based on employment or not, at home or not. They could decrease/increase some, but you can’t assume the whole amount is tied to employment only.

That wasn't the assumption. The assumption was that the difference was $2500/mo. Real estate in the heart of the downtown is significantly more expensive.

> Besides, if you don’t like your living expenses…quit or move.

At which point we're back to the efficient market hypothesis. If you live downtown, your rent is $2500/mo higher than if you live an hour away, but if you live an hour away you spend $2500/mo in time and commuting costs to get to the office.

But if you work from home then you live an hour away from the office, never go there and have no commuting expense, so you're ahead by $2500/mo and the company would have to compensate you for refusing to allow that.

> What if you are not?

Then you probably still have the same structure where the facilities that require in-person work are separate from the corporate offices:

> what if you are a bank, a hospital, a factory, an insurance company, a processing center?

A company is not a factory etc., a company has factories, or bank branches, or warehouses, or medical facilities. These facilities are generally already separate facilities from the offices where SWEs and other administrative staff work, because those facilities have different geographic requirements. Bank branches or medical facilities have to be near customers or patients. Warehouses or factories will be in places with cheap real estate or industrial zoning.

Offices have traditionally been in cities.

> What about the HR and morale impact when 75% of your employees cannot work remote, but your SWEs can?

This is a really dim view of people. Nurses and factory workers know perfectly well why they can't work from home. Why would they resent that someone else can when their job doesn't have the same requirements? Do they get mad at park rangers because their job allows them to spend time in the outdoors?

They might even notice that it's to their advantage because it gets 25% of the cars off the road so there isn't so much traffic during their commute, and stops them from being in competition with SWEs for the housing within reasonable distance of where they work.

> If they are a salaried employee, the amount of work required for completion in a given week doesn’t change whether a commute is 10 hours or 10 minutes.

You might expect that bosses would get away with giving you more work when you have more time, or that the quality of any given work might be influenced by how much time someone has available to spend on it. And nobody says you're working 168 hours a week, but a lot of people do more than 40, when they have the time.

> That’s time the employee is investing by choosing to live where they live and work for the employer they work for.

It's time the employee is being cost by being forced to commute into the office, which time would be available for other things in the alternative.