skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. If your magic superweapon needs a small amount of red fairy dust and there is only one person making the red dust, it is a good idea to also buy some blue dust to conceal which type is the necessary ingredient. Nobody depresses any stock price, rather you give some false business to another source too.
That's exactly what it is. Privileges and handouts in exchange for obedience and votes (at least nationally - the EU has gone full CCP with their irreplaceable bureaucrats).

> through taxes and inflation, which is the worst kind of tax.

100% correct. Most EU members have official debt that equals GDP (some are worse) and they probably figure they have another 50% of GDP to borrow.

Now is also a great opportunity to transition from Covid 19 handouts to UBI (first experimentally and then - after EU-funded scientists discover it works really well - on an ever growing scale).

If they spend 5% of GDP per year on UBI, that can go on for a decade or longer before everything collapses.
There are under 3000 billionaires worldwide. In order to generate enough revenue for any sort of meaningful UBI the government would have to raise taxes on more than just billionaires.
I’m sceptical about UBI, but I am willing to change my mind if it works (on a large scale) in practice. The only thing is that I do not want to be part of the experiment.

Since I am from the EU this initiative concerns me, but I would fully support an US or Chinese experiment.
> There is no inherent right to live in Munich, while there is a natural right to life and a decent subsistence even for those who cannot immediately secure gainful employment.

Why do you believe in one and not the other? I don't see any compelling categorical difference between either of these. The latter just "feels better" because "life and decency" are positively connoted. In both cases, the "right" is that person A has to pay the cost for person B to live a certain way. If you restricted your argument, to, say, a "right" to the bare minimum nutritional supply to survive, that would be categorically different. However, that's not an issue in the EU anyway.
The exact same is already true for minimum wage and salary in general, and while some people do migrate, there has arguably been no society-ending migration wave due to this reason. This is a common trope that has no basis whatsoever.
Yes, there is a natural right to live where you're at home.
> If you are taking people’s money for banking or investment, you provide 24/7 phone support. Period.

So much this. I have been working in Fintech for 8 years now, and the lack of seriousness I've seen in different aspects of startups in this fields is appalling. When you are mingling with other's people money, you don't get the advantage to "move fast, break things". You don't get to "whoops" when someone hacks you and steals funds, you don't get to say you are sorry when a bug makes you lose millions to fraud.

But still my experience has been that the majority of product and business people in startups don't take it seriously. They keep pushing Engineering teams to move fast and release yet-another-half-assed-feature instead of listening to the clamours of the developers for bug fixing and security improvements.
Huh, that's interesting. While I'm hesitant to suggest that what the world needs is even more patents, this doesn't make immediate sense to me.

Let's say someone comes up with a new sorting algorithm, which completes in less cycles than was previously believed possible. Sure, it's math, but isn't that a new, creative expression? Don't we want to encourage them to publish their algorithm (one of the key purposes of patents—this way, anyone can use it after 20 years), as opposed to keeping it hidden from the world?

It makes more sense to me than most software patents (admittedly, a low bar to clear). And if the patent office is doing its job (big if), the patents should only be granted for algorithms which are sufficiently novel.
That's true of any test of any kind... Don't try stupid things.

"Tried and true" means doing things the same way everyone else is doing it, i.e. following the crowd. The whole point of marketing/advertising/publicity/PR/other-words-for-the-same-thing is to stand out from the crowd.

So while I agree that people tend to stick to the "tried and true", that's also why most of it doesn't work. You can't both stand out from the crowd and follow that same crowd. They're contradictions and mutually exclusive.

But that doesn't mean you should lose your head and do stupid things just for the sake of doing something different. Small changes, implemented incrementally, are the best ways to enact long-lasting change. You have to go into every test fully prepared for it to fail. If failure would be catastrophic, that's a stupid test.
Obviously can't speak for everyone, but I would definitely stay on Apple's platform even if some big names left (after all, most if not all are available as a web app still anyway).

Doubly so if the big names are leaving over the collection of user data.

Unfortunately, I don't think the vast majority of people care about privacy (in regards to corporate spying and tracking) and would likely jump ship.
Programmers Fall into the Same Old “Trap”?
How is this command from the page:

# Lint a Helm chart
# Good to put in pre-merge checks
$ helm template . | kubeval -

different/ better than "helm lint" (https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_lint/)?
The EU is no unified entity. Fot obvious reasons, any UBI would be adapted to local circumstances. Side note, unemployment benefits are based the last salaries already, as a result they tend to reach the cap more often in places like Munich than the Polish border. Social security is not based on region, any rent subsidies are so. And while there is no right to live in Munich, there the right to live where you want. Or to continue to live in the place you already live, if not necessarily the house or apartment.
I'm not a political scientist, but it doesn't seem too far fetched? What OP seems to be saying is that it's easier to capture a small but strong follower base with focused effort, than a large (or any) follower base with diffuse effort. If the current social and political climate is any indication, people (at society level) genuinely don't seem to be receptive to efforts of unification and the betterment of mankind.

The agendas that are most successful are those which are laser focused to benefit particular groups, or even worse, to ensure that certain vilified groups have it worse. In the US, higher taxes are a very controversial topic, even if they would benefit the majority of the people. Even worse, some of the most ardent opposition is from the social class would most stands to benefit from liberal policies.

The whole game theoretic aspect of rational actors is out the window. Instead we have ever more isolated groups of people who don't care that they have it bad as long as their presumed opposition has it worse.

In light of all that, I'm actually inclined to agree with OP that a campaign that would benefit north of 50% of the population could easily be unpopular as a punchy opposition riles up the throngs of temporarily embarrassed millionaires to vote against their own interests.
Rack space can be quite expensive.
Sometimes you need a lot of computing power in one or two rack units.

Would be interested in what the management pains are.
I agree that 2 socket machines require more thought in a lot of scenarios, especially IO heavy workloads.
The answer to your first question is for the courts to decide, unfortunately.

However, for my purposes, using a new license with particular terms would only be to make companies like GitHub pause and think before using my code as "training" to an "algorithm" like Copilot.
My educated guess is that there is a cadre of local engineers whose market includes similar buildings and that the deterioration was ordinary enough that the engineers could draw on years of experience to say "it is not likely to collapse because other buildings like it have not collapsed."

As I have said elsewhere, the only thing I suspect is unique is that this was the first building to spectacularly fail.

It failed with people in it because there are tremendous disincentives toward saying the sky is falling even when the sky is falling. It's bad for business and it's bad politics.

Or to put it another way, suppose it was bad design or bad soil. Do you think that the same engineers, owners, contractors, and government agents did everything right on every other building? Think of how hard it is to keep salt off of rebar during construction next to the ocean. Now do so when there is every incentive to save money and no incentive to predict catastrophe.
> Many people have more than a billion

Yes, exactly 2755. I’m having two and a half men flashbacks.
Writing a firmware-only keylogger
I am worried about how cost of living would explode to untenable levels. Low skilled labor prices would get out of control I am guessing since it is a basic supply/demand issue - when you put a floor with UBI, minimum wage to take up manual labor jobs would rise dramatically. It is actually incredible how much of our society depands on manual labor. Most people on HN are out of touch with this reality. The world runs on physically moving, stacking, filling, driving, cleaning, joining and constructing things. UBI I can see can diminishing the ability for the same laborers to obtain affordable food, housing, and transportation.
Darktable 3.6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27720908 - July 2021 (72 comments)
The largest problem for UBI - from a state and political standpoint - is that you are actually taking away power from the civil service and politicians, because they would no longer have the power over people's benefits. UBI reduces the amount of benefits you could afterwards give to specific political groups you favour.
Ok, let's not use waterfall then.
If you're permitted to WFH indefinitely, you can move somewhere cheaper and buy a larger home for the same or lower price.
Complexity of the universe comes from super simple (relatively for gods) rules of math.

You don't have bugs in math.
It's likely genetic - i.e. an inherited Anxiety disorder. I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). It disproportionally affects Gifted people and causes a bunch of physical problems that exhibit as mental problems. hEDS is rarely diagnosed and smart people are more able to adapt around the problems and not get diagnosed entirely. It took decades of searching to figure it out myself. This does make me question the Giftedness a bit :) But I am freakishly good a things most normal people are not. So it's swings and roundabouts.
Simple Unix shell. Made with Golang
I'm honored to have been exposed to some of the hotel's history and its famous tenants through a relative who was part of the scene in the 90s. Truly an iconic place!
I love the concept of null in computing so much and for golang channels and the most practical concurrent programming paradigm on earth there is CSP. He is a GOAT of this domain.
There should be an article like this for every language, as the author mentions it's not just syntax to change a language. Much of it is experience based knowledge.

However, this is how you would setup for a new project only and in a piecemeal manner, if you didn't already have some existing template.

Compatibility issues with your main dev tool would rule out using Poetry, in the same way running the latest versions of any software without reason is a rookie mistake. Chasing a higher version number is a jr / intermediate folley.

If you're developing python professionally, save your money and just pay for pycharm. The morning of fluffing with a dozen new tools which then have their own maintanence overheads is less cost effective than buying a product that gives you >70% of what the author has recommended and it does so in a generally consistent manner.

This blog post was a great reminder of how much pycharm gives me on a day to day basis, how people get lost in their +1 more tool mindset and how switching languages is an intial cognitive overload.
Yes, it would need to be qualitively different

Simply to be able to simulate the universe, or provide a basis for (however we describe the issue) already needs to an excessively stupendous amount of power -- but that is something still within the realms of physics

I was suggesting (as essentially do you) that to break out of the nested simulations (or whatever formulation) takes something qualitively different to what this universe is able to even fully conceptualize

My placation to God (aka universe simulator runner), is to say that clearly this thing exists (else we don't) and clearly it must be different and outside the universe to an extent that we can't describe it

In the same way that a set can't describe it's aleph numbers

-- So in brief, I'm agreeing that another layer of simulation doesn't cut it
This is all hypothesis. Everyone can draw any scenario imaginable.

Here the author claims that TSMC and Taiwanese fabs will become "unavailable" in case of an invasion by the mainland. He also makes the claim that Taiwanese would 'disable' those fabs themselves in order "to protect customer IP".

The former is of course a possibility, the latter is rather more strange. Neither are explained.

It seems to me that the mainland would have an interest in protecting those fabs and in resuming "business as usual" as soon as possible, so I would imagine them drawing plans to make that happen in case of a military invasion. Fabs may also be very useful in order to keep any sanctions towards China at a minimum: Would the US want to push for, say, a trade embargo if that meant cutting off semi supply? Maybe but that would make these sanctions very painful for the West and their allies.

On the Taiwanese side, there might be a temptation to sabotage the fabs but IMHO that would be a shot in the foot: If the fabs are gone and the mainland does take control of the island then they would never allow such concentration in Taiwan to happen again so Taiwan would fade forever. And if the invasion fails then there would probably be a massive push to rebuild outside of Taiwan. All in all the destruction of the fabs would probably be used as a bluff/threat to push the US to protect Taiwan as much as possible (although the US would likely never directly attack Chinese forces, and reciprocally).
Although you can move freely to any country, to recieve benefits in a most countries you need to have had a job for 3 months before you can claim any benefits.
It also shows that copilot knows nothing about copyright, and is incapable of considering copyright as such.

I'm not sure if I would characterize as a "database stored in a neural net", but that is definitely something to deeply consider.
Wars and revolutions predate the existence of pamphlets by many thousands of years.
>> The London-based bank on Monday notified clients of the prohibition on debit and credit payments to Binance, which it said would start immediately and was intended “to help to keep your money safe”.

They keep my money safe by holding it securely, not by deciding how I use it. That’s the regulators job and they haven’t banned Binance, just a specific part of the product. Where does this end? If I try to width draw cash will I need to tell Barclays how I intend to spend it?
Given the username, I'm guessing their solution is "Don't do UBI".
No, the fixed prices solved the problem of people starving due to not being able to afford food when market rates went up. Collectivisation later fixed the problem of sabotage by large landowners. Along with mechanisation, the poor periodic environmental conditions were also compensated for and thus the century-old periodic famines were ended.

Central planning could optimise further than the profit of individual landlords, since the USSR clearly prospered.
I own the 400km range model 3. I can tell you that you’re comparing apples and oranges.

Over the course of the 50 weeks of a year that I don’t take it on long trips I spend 0 seconds waiting for a charge. I plug it in at night and it’s always full in the morning. A typical errand running day for me is 200+ km and I have more than enough range for that.

The one or two times I take it on a road trip I usually time it with pee breaks and filling my self with coffee.

Net/net I spend less time over all waiting to refuel my car.

Yes, of course this depends on me having a place to plug it in at night.
How much economic and employment freedom does one have when health care is tied to the current employer?
Slide 26 is interesting - arguing that cloud providers have an advantage for future CPU design since they can analyze so many real world customer workloads directly.

In previous roles I have worked with CPU vendors who have been very keen on getting access to profiling data from our workloads for design optimization, and lamenting the fact that it was hard to get such data and they were often limited to synthetic benchmark workloads when tuning new designs.

So this argument does sound like a valid one, and does imply AWS etc will have significant advantages in future designs.
I don't entirely agree.

Whereas using the browser's copy feature requires the user to have intent to use it, getting Copilot to produce exact code does not. And proving that intent is not easy.

I think companies will see that such code can be exactly reproduced and decide to stay away from Copilot. I hope they do. In fact, I am less willing to take outside contributions for my own code, even for bug fixes, just because of the risk that that code came from Copilot.
I'm sure there are existing systems for which this is quite involved. These are design choices, though. If the compiler can figure it all out and find everything, then so can an IDE, and make everything visible where it needs to be visible.
No that is factually untrue.

Green hydrogen is electrolysis based hydrogen that uses renewable electricity OR plasma based hydrogen that uses Renewable Natural Gas with or without renewable electricity.

Anything that is made from Natural Gas is by its very nature grey or blue (per ridiculous color definitions).

The better approach is to use Carbon Intensity values but that is too difficult for the general public (and most professionals) to understand the nuances.

What you are referring to is if it is possible to roll out electrolysis quickly enough using renewable electricity to ensure that our hydrogen portfolio is net zero or at least significantly better than oil and gas as current stands.
Africa still has birth rates 3 times higher than Europe. That's a lot.

> There have also been lots of state/local-level initiatives in the US. USA is still an innovative driving-force of the world even though some leaders have tried to sabotage it.

They are, which is why I initially replied to the comment that singled it out.
Agree with you. Very few expert advisors can fight the urge to impose their solutions (prescribe), and give time to reflect on the problem with you.
In my peer group. Incentives drive behaviour
In case anyone wants to detect the selectors automatically, here's a small python library I wrote that does it for you: https://github.com/lorey/mlscraper
The libertarian argument is that government should not force the usage of inflated currencies as the legal tender.
I'm afraid I cannot frame this question in a way that does not sound judgmental, and for that I am sincerely sorry.

I'm genuinely curious why you would pick an arbitrary story out of the infinite multitudes and "choose to believe it" as a way to combat existential despair. It would be as if I, gaining some comfort hearing about Ragnarok, "chose to believe" that Odin literally exists and somewhere there is a bifrost bridge I could visit. Can't you like the story and gain value out of it without also believing in its literal truth?
The author mentions the Codd-OLAP conflict of interest, lamenting that despite what happened "Codd is still regarded as the father of the relational database". But this remark sounds like a non sequitur to me. No matter the scandal he got into in the 90s, he still invented relational algebra back in the 70s, didn't he?
FPGAs from Xilinx are very complicated. They are no longer homogeneous 4-LUTs or 6LUTs with dedicated multipliers here and there.

Today's FPGAs are VLIW minicores capable of SIMD execution with custom routing and some LUTs thrown around. They've stepped towards GPU style architecture while retaining the custom logic portions.

FPGAs remain so difficult to use, I find it unlikely that they'd be mainstream in any capacity. GPUs seem like the easier way to get access to HBM + heavy compute, but either way the HBM future is eminent.

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GPUs have big questions about ease of use and practicality as it is, even with widespread acceptance of their compute potential. FPGAs are much less known, it's hard for me to imagine a mainstream future of them.

Since memory bounds remains the biggest issue and not compute performance, I bet that the easiest to use accelerator with mass production and cheap access to the highest speed HBM is going to be the winner. GPUs are the current frontrunner, but the Fujitsu ARM CPU has easy access to HBM and could be a wildcard.

POWER10 will be using high performance GDDR6. Not quite HBM, but it signals that IBM is also concerned with the memory bandwidth problem in the near future.

CPUs could very well switch to HBM in some scenarios.

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If I were to guess the future: I think that AMD and NVidia have proven that today's systems need high speed routers to practically scale

AMD has their IO die on EPYC. NVidia has NVLink and NVSwitch. That seems to be how to get more dies / sockets without additional NUMA hops.

More efficient networks of chips with explicit switching / routing topologies is the only way to scale. The exact form of this network is still a mystery, but that's my big bet for the future.

HBM is probably the future for high performance. DDR5 for cheaper bulk RAM but HBM on high performance CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs is going to be key.

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The insight into RAM bottlenecks is interesting but seems to be point in favor of SMT. If your core is 50% waiting on RAM, then SMT into another thread to perform work while waiting on RAM.
The pandemic really messed a bunch of stuff up for a lot people in this situation. I don't think it's malicious, or even incompetence. They just had to scale back staff dramatically at foreign embassies. And isn't UK still having virus problems? In any case, he's certainly not "banned." Hopefully he'll be able to get a visa appointment sometime soon.
Your health is a lot more important than your current career.

Take a well deserved break first, and you can later think about doing things that you would enjoy. You say you have a very successful career, which is great. But personally I think it's a lot more important to enjoy life than having a very successful career making good money if it makes you depressed.
Please omit flamebait from your HN comments. It tends to produce flamewars, which are tedious and nasty. Your comment would be fine without the last two sentences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has done some very significant work in showing exactly that, and has built robust and successful empirical models demonstrating and predicting it. His book “The Logic of Political Survival” covers it in fascinating detail.
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to go with single socket servers unless you can't scale horizontally (e.g. database server). Why deal with the complexity when you can just side step it.
Ministry is awesome for coding.
What is the motive to live in a high cost of living area? Usually the two biggest reasons are economic and social opportunity. Economic opportunity is irrelevant in this instance if UBI cancels out in the two locations. Will there be enough social opportunities for people to leave their friends, family, and home country to move to a higher cost of living area?