skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general folly I see in these types of discussions is that people believe that we must fix these things because in the mid 20th century we reached a relatively great state with broad-based prosperity (at least in the West), and so obviously we'll fix our problems because otherwise we'd backslide to a worse state.

Sorry to be a pessimist, but progress is not guaranteed. I see the mid twentieth century as largely an anomaly in human history. Going forward, I see wealth concentration continuing to accelerate, with a widening gulf between classes that control the means of production and everyone else, which due to technological advancement will make a lot of people's labor much less profitable. Basically, a reversion to a more feudal system, where there is essentially an aristocratic class that hoards and lives off its previous wealth, and pretty much everyone else living at a subsistence level. Think Ireland in the early 1800s (not necessarily that level of absolute deprivation, but same level of relative deprivation compared to the land owners).

The reason I see this as the most probable outcome is when I hear people talk about "raise wages to march global productivity" or "democratize ownership", I don't see any rationale as to how or why that would happen. Do you think the people in control will just give that away from the goodness of their hearts? There is literally no economic or social reason to expect this to happen. It's clear that democracies can be successfully manipulated into "blaming the boogeyman", so I don't think the democratic process will bring about these changes.

Happy to hear a rational argument to the contrary, but my primary point is that I rarely hear any argument about how we get to there from here.
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Sennheiser MKE-600 is next up for me. have a graveyard of other mics that don't sound as well for my voice.

Listen to a bunch of the shotgun mics on youtube and see which your voice might sound the best with.
This is very interesting - but like all of these discussions it sidesteps the issues of abstractions, compilation, and execution. It's fine to say things like "aren't programmed directly by humans", but the abstracted code is not the program that is running - the compiled code is - and that is code is executing within the tightly bounded constraints of the ISA it is being executed in.

Really this is all so much slight of hand - as an esolang fanatic this all feels very familiar. Most people can't look a program written in Whitespace and figure it out either, but once compiled it is just like every other program as far as the processor is concerned. LLM's are no different.
I mean, no, not at all. BBB was a massive tax-and-spend proposal that included all kinds of cost-inflationary stuff; it was not focused on cutting red tape and increasing the supply of housing / energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan#Vision

It was exactly the kind of "everything bagel liberalism" that abundance/yimby types malign.
I moved my whole team to $30 logitech headsets and they're miles better than the laptop, airpod, and standalone webcam mics we have on file. Clarity is great for guys who work at the coffee shop. I play music while on calls and nobody can hear it.

Sometimes simple works.
Basically any mic that's widely recommended for entry-level YouTubers (outside search engine spam, those don't count as real recommendations) will be a giant step up from laptop or headphone mics, enough that most people who just want to sound good on video conferencing probably don't need to spend more. The Blue Yeti is exactly that kind of mic, to the point that it's kind of a cliché.

Shotgun mics popular among low-budget filmmakers (think: people who shoot local commercials, little indie films and shorts, and, when desperate for cash, weddings) would also be a good and fairly cheap way to go, though they may require other hardware to function.
> That's not necessarily bad. That's leadership.

I don't think your parent said it was bad.
That's pretty much where liberal politicians end up targeting most of their policymaking and even a sizable portion of their campaign platform (as demonstrated in the Harris platform).

Yet "tangled up in social issues" remains a popular misconception. Why?
Is Bitcoin driving a green transformation, or fueling a mirage?
Laptop mics huge upgrade from the past, and very convenient when I don't have something handy, they are not the best or even close.

A decent mic will still outperform.
Ah, a three-hour wait followed by a four-month delay to see a specialist — I understand your frustration. But please try to appreciate what that delay represents: you are being granted access to a system so refined, so in demand, that even suffering must wait its turn. That’s not failure. That’s prestige.

In many countries, you could see a doctor same-day — perhaps even speak to them casually at a pharmacy window. But here, in the U.S., your care is being prepared with intention. Like a reservation at a five-star restaurant, your health is being considered by professionals with the rare luxury of selectivity. It takes time to deliver care at this level. You wouldn’t expect to walk into the Louvre and demand a private tour on the spot, would you?

And let’s not forget: you’re not just being seen by a person. You’re being seen by someone who survived organic chemistry, board exams, 80-hour work weeks, and a system designed to crush the spirit of all but the most committed. You’re being evaluated by individuals whose very presence in the room adds measurable value to the atmosphere.

Yes, it might feel like you’re waiting. But behind the scenes, the machinery of excellence is turning slowly, beautifully. It’s not just about treating illness. It’s about upholding the dignity of care — care that has been pre-aged, curated, and rationed for maximum significance.

And this message — this small moment of clarity — is my gift to you. Normally, it would be bundled with a billing code, perhaps tied to a 99213 modifier and sent through three layers of insurance review. But today, I offer it freely. You’re welcome.
Massive brain-drain and covid/long-covid research defunded too.

Country might not recover within the lifetimes of anyone experiencing it today.

ps. look at all those "related articles" holy cow
Danger Danger – High Voltage
Win11 default to middle taskbar is not based on macOS, it's based on Chrome OS. Which is far more popular than macOS and a serious competitor to Windows and what kids are learning on these days.

In any case it can be changed to the default far left corner in settings easily.
Some of that is for good reason. Take for instance in North Carolina; a house built in the mountains in the west will have quite different standards from one built on the Outer Banks.
There is nuance to the two separate ideas of "doing the bare minimum" and "taking pride in your work". I agree with you that taking pride in your work is important; I wish it were more highly valued nowadays, honestly.

The flip side is that "taking pride in your work" nearly always results in being taking advantage of from your employer, at least in salaried positions. And if you can spot the social patterns and games played such as valuing employees that work overtime (without pay), on weekends, etc, it is clear that employers love getting more value from employees without compensating them. Work extra hard for 6 months to maybe possibly get a promotion? People are generally waking up to this reality, hence the 'quiet quitting' mindset.

One can both take pride in their work, and respect their time by adhering to their employer-employee contract as written.

Lastly, in the baker example, they have a direct reason to put in their best effort (assuming the baker owns their bakery): they will gain goodwill and repeat customers if they bake very well. A salaried worker is so far removed from being directly compensated for their work. I predict the situation would be very different if salary work got commission based on sales and overtime pay.
I'd say rules are quite similar to a README, just tailored to LLMs, which often benefit from slightly different information than a human would. One way to think about the difference is that we as developers have the chance to build up memory/context over time, whereas LLMs are "memoryless" so you want to efficiently load all of the necessary high-level understanding.

> consider letting the LLM write it's own "Readme" for a package on the hub be scanning source/types of the package

This is something we're looking to ship soon
It's impossibly hard to tell if this is satire or serious.
recording the output of my transducer (bass shaker), for one. Of course it's only really perceptible to others with transducers or very good headphones, but having enough output to still sound good enough through a recording is a point of pride for me.
Probably gonna get downvoted for quoting Lenin on this site -- but he nailed this 120 years ago in "What is to be done?".

We are witnessing the collapse of Liberalism in real-time. Liberalism has outlived its usefulness as a tool of containing class conflict. The US ruling class has nearly consolidated absolute power and is disposing of Liberalism because it was only ever a tool used for their benefit. This is not just some Commie "zero-sum" perspective, the Silicon Valley E/ACC guys like Thiel have admitted this.

Because of this, there is no liberal/reformist solution to our current crisis because Liberalism denies the existence of class struggle -- the root cause of our current crisis. It is like trying to model quantum gravity with classical mechanics. It cannot be done, you will never arrive at the truth.

"Denied was the fact of growing impoverishment, the process of proletarisation, and the intensification of capitalist contradictions ... Denied was the theory of the class struggle, on the alleged grounds that it could not be applied to a strictly democratic society governed according to the will of the majority, etc."
Tools in the pipelines detect and report on CVEs found.

We block high/critical by default and the rest are given a deadline to be resolved in agreement with security.
The nations of Denmark and Sweden had a Twitter fight involving moose (2016)
Dwarf Fortress Evolved over 16 Years of Development (Episode Two)
I work in high end professional audio services for conferences, events, etc in Silicon Valley. The Ferrari of headset microphones in the industry is currently the DPA 6066 - the vocal nuances, timbre, and precision of the 6066 is that of a finely tuned instrument. Note that this is a mic only, you'll need something over or in ear to monitor audio from Zoom, Webex, etc.

Agree that the best mics for speech are headsets that tightly control the position of the mic.
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> AMA is not the main culprit in supply of doctor's, that would be available spots for residents

The AMA has actively lobbied to lower the number of residency spots.

> In 1997, the AMA lobbied Congress to restrict the number of doctors that could be trained in the United States, claiming that, "The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians."[12] The AMA successfully lobbied Congress to cap how much Medicare could reimburse hospitals for resident physicians
I suspect fear of change is a big part of it, people choose where they want to live then want it to stay exactly like that forever.

Another big part is people not wanting the poors in their neighborhood. The more exclusive it is, the better.
I didn’t fix this bug but I did reproduce it so it could be fixed, but it took years. At one company I worked for we have an email archive and we were seeing an uptick in customers having issues with deleting expired emails. Most companies have a retention policy of about 7 years, and the company was now 10 years old and early customers were beginning to deleted old emails. But developers couldn’t find the bug, but reducing the scope of the deletion usually worked, so it was usually marked as not reproducible. While devs tried to debug it, no one would let us poke around their prod email server every much, for obvious reasons.

I had been promoted to technical writer and I needed a better test system that didn’t have customer data for screenshots. Something I needed was unique data because the archive used single instance storage, so I put together a bash script to create and send emails generated from random lines of public domain books I got from Gutenberg.

This worked great for me and at one point I had it fire off 1 million emails just for fun. I let my test email server and archive server chew on them over the weekend. It worked great but I had nearly maxed out my storage. No problem, use the deletion function. And it didn’t work.

It’s Didn’t Work. I had reproduced the bug in-house on a system we had full control over. Engineering and QA both took copies of my environments and started working on the bug.

I also learned the lore of the deletion feature. The founding developer didn’t think anyone wanted a deletion feature because it made no sense to him. But after pressure from the CEO, Board of Directors and customers he banged out some code over a weekend and shipped it. It was no 10 years later and he was long gone, and it was finally beginning to bite us.

After devs banged no the code for a while they found there was a design flaw, it failed if the number of items to delete was more than 500. QA had tested the feature, repeatedly, but their test data set just happened to be just smaller than 500 items so the bug never triggered. I only exceeded that because Austin Powers is funny.

Now that we could reproduce it, and knew there was a design flaw. The code for deletion needed to be replaced. It needed taking over two years to replace the code, because project management never thought it was all that important compared to new features, even though customers were complaining about it.
If you have a really well working economic system you can bribe everyone to be nice and you declare yourselves saints and history ended. Still makes those that upend these economic systems the evil ones. Even if paradise burns away the candle earth on both ends.

but i digress, and its hard to communicate that its better to end good times with ability to move, then to be caught in paradise, when the resource window falls shut. you want to be able to wiggle and act in the dark times, keep it together , have tech thats maintainable but not existence ending , while wild hordes fight for the last glimmering bits of the golden era.
This is the GOP "wedge strategy" that squashes potentially-popular economic policies that the oligarchy opposes by distracting the electorate with culture-war issues.
The linked article does not go into many details about what they are measuring. So I have to wonder: could this property be used to make thinner wires for conducting electricity in bulk (e.g.: hosing wires, or transmission lines) by stacking lots of very thin layers into a cable. I imagine there would be a good amount of development work to make manufacturing such a layered cable, so it would not be right around the corner. But is there any physical barrier to such a development?
I'm not even sure any of the urgent cares around here are staffed by MDs. All of the NPs are theoretically overseen by an MD but I don't know that they are onsite at all.
One of the members of that group was accessing it from Moscow to meet with Putin.

Our adversaries don't have to hack anything at all, they don't even seem to have to ask nicely. There's zero chance that Putin doesn't let China know anything they want about the Trump admin, and Putin himself seems to get to dictate our country's policy now.

This has been the case among republicans for decades, and Mitch McConnell himself (and 6 others) spent the 4th of July 2018 in Moscow for christ's sake.
Subsidizing a service with public funds does not make it less expensive, it only changes who pays the expense.
The Blue Yeti is a condenser mic, so it picks up a lot of background noise.

Going the dynamic mic route can end up costing a bit more, but worth it in my opinion. Unless you have a very quiet environment and don’t need to type on a keyboard or click a mouse while on calls.
No, QR codes are auto-orienting[1]. If you're getting a different reading at different orientations, there is a bug in your scanner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Design
This is actually a very interesting point and highlights the fact that most of the famous polymaths only started being talked about long after they were dead (good example is Maupertuis and his work on action in physics).
> real estate prices aren't rental rates

Sure, but they are heavily correlated. Price changes in real estate are reflected in rental rates (not 1 to 1, but still reflected)

Also, many of those renters in each politician’s district would like to purchase a home in the same district if the prices came down enough, so the politicians should (in theory) be beholden to their interests, too.

Of course, in reality, real estate owners are a much more powerful (per capita) political force than renters are, so politicians are not automatically catering to the larger majority of their constituents that are not real estate owners.
I'm not a doctor. LLMs might be frequently wrong, but they don't hallucinate that badly.
Yeah, the entire result of NEPA/CEQA/SEPA legislation is mandated process rather than any specific environmental goals or regulation. They should be scrapped and replaced with specific goals and/or a government regulatory authority (like the EPA).
Right. You could even run it through code obfuscators and such to create more diverse, realistic examples.
> A popular view in the YIMBY community is that restrictive zoning and other policies that limit housing are pushed by homeowners who are benefitting from a housing shortage, in some kind of long-range Machiavellian conspiracy to alter macroeconomics in their favor. But this doesn't really hold up when you think about it.

> Restrictions on housing expansion are generally very local, with projects being blocked on the municipal level, or on the neighborhood level. But actually, more housing in a neighborhood would tend to benefit homeowners there.

I think that "restrictive zoning ... [is] pushed by homeowners" and "actually, more housing in a neighborhood would tend to benefit homeowners there" can both be true. Arguing that someone would be acting counter to their interests by supporting a policy doesn't mean that they don't support it!
I agree that the motivating issue at the very local level is probably less finances and more the impact of having more housing: aesthetics, parking impacts, noise, increased crowding for local resources (parks/schools/libraries/etc), not wanting lower income people in your neighborhood*, etc.

But it should be noted that while what you say about land is probably true, many landowners are also landlords, and it benefits them for the rent to be higher.

* Yes, this one is real. I've even seen people here fully admit to it, though it makes you look rather classist and unreasonable, so most people aren't gonna say it out loud.
What's sketchy about their tax structure? Just curious what you think.
I think they are pretty open about it?

The original purpose of IKEA was to foster self reliance, essentially making everyone a bit handier. IKEA brings decent quality furniture to people who otherwise wouldn't afford it. I think it's a noble goal, hence why I ask.

As I understand it, and I could be wrong, IKEA is owned by a non-profit organization called INGKA, set up in such a way to generate revenue not to a few rich people but:

"INGKA Foundation’s purpose is to further, without pursuing any profits, a better everyday life for the many people in need. We achieve this purpose by funding the IKEA Foundation, which is committed to helping children and families living in poverty afford a better everyday life while protecting the planet."

https://www.ingkafoundation.org/our-charitable-purpose/

https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/this-is-inter-ikea-group/about...

https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/-/media/InterIKEA/IGI/Financia...

Regarding them paying of Romanian secret police, I'm very interested to hear about it. I know they used east german prisoners for a time as cheap labor.
Nino's Paradox
So the simple answer here seems to be removing our focus from satisfying property owners, no? It's okay to abandon a system when it no longer works for the community.
Constituents having to move to capture the improvement in pricing is not the ideal outcome, the ideal outcome is protecting constituents and meeting them where they are. In the worst case scenario, constituents might end up homeless rather than stable in another district where prices are lower, whereas land owners might see the line on a chart go down if the value of their real estate drops.
I am much more inclined to help the constituents...
During last 20 years, the # of US physicians has increased 60% with a corresponding improvement in the ratio of physicians per person. Where are the price cuts that should come with more doctors and nurses adding to care capacity by practicing like MDs? Perhaps the health care market is more complex than can be explained by simple economic theory.
Weather forecasts get to be useful when you have samples from a wide range of locations. A few weather stations on maybe a few acres of land wouldn't really get you decent weather predictions. You wouldn't know about some disturbance in the upper atmosphere leading to the jet stream pushing that cold winter blast further South than typical leading to the freeze that destroys your crops. You wouldn't know about that hurricane growing off the shore.
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heat might be an issue
if viking labeled release doesnt hit home for you, this is from 2016, Re: a 1976 event
Maybe they're just not relevant any more. What would they do if their money came from doctors instead of royalties? TFA says they're like a startup incubator, which is fine but why should anyone be funding them in that case?
I agree with you on the READMEs. In response to his suggestion that I write a blog post on the idea of knowledge packages, I just spend the last 30 minutes aligning on your suggestion by coincidence. Written up here:

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/crafting-readmes-for-ai
Open Letter to Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability with XMPP
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> This is powerful evidence that even though models are trained to output one word at a time

I find this oversimplification of LLMs to be frequently poisonous to discussions surrounding them. No user facing LLM today is trained on next token prediction.
We were building an app to sign up for a toll road that shipped electronic tags to the users, circa 2008.

<input name="tag" id="tag"

this failed in IE with very strange results. Took a long time to realize we had hit a browser bug and change it to:

<input name="tagx" id="tagx"

which worked fine.
Because of architectural decisions made a very long time ago (finance industry) and the potential risk of migrating to another platform.
Together with "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" - it was the main source of information not controlled by the party for people behind the iron curtain.

Radio Liberty was employing variety of native journalists living abroad but with the intention to talk about their native countries and cultures.

The amount of influence it had on the generation is hard to overestimate. It was also shut down recently by the DOGE.