skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how you can usually know which site a link is from based on how the title is worded.

> I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge - HN

> What’s a sign of extremely low intelligence? - AskReddit

> Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in China - News/WSJ
Good idea. Although most likely I'm serving a dev shop in the middle, not the end user. So I doubt they would contribute.
A market has two sides: supply and demand. The assumptions only involves the supply side but we do not know much about demand, so would be hard to give a full picture of how the market would look like.

That's said, if we have ample supply of any given commodity/occupation, then the market will greatly shaped by what the demands look like.
How can an assumption that the computer is right be reasonably made with no examination of the algorithm or the code implementing it?
>>My house is valuable to me even if there isn't a collective belief in it.

Right. I believe the point of the post you replied to is that while it may be "valuable to you", it also may or may not "have value" (which I interpret as being exchangeable / interesting to other parties), which requires common belief/faith that it has value (basically a circular definition). I could be misinterpreting one or both :)
It's almost certainly more about scheduling than vectorization. The data dependencies is going to constantly stall the CPU pipeline, so it's just not able to retire instructions very quickly. The SIMD part is almost certainly a red herring. It's helping, but it's far from why it's so much faster. Tiger Lake can retire 4 plain ol' ADD operations per clock[1] - you don't need SIMD / vectorization to get instruction level parallelism. But you do need to ensure there's no data dependencies. The data dependency here is the 90% cost. The SIMD is just the cherry on top.

1: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
I can add my 2 cents to the Smalltalk discussion as I've been watching just recently many of the Alan Kay's videos on the YouTube.

I can summarize Smalltalk thing this way: existing Smalltalk implementations (Squeak, Pharo etc.) are not something we should use in real world, they are just proofs of concept and food for thought. Real Smalltalk-like/Object oriented systems were bespoke written for specific machine and specific customer. Current day examples of OO (object oriented) systems really are... the Internet with all of its nodes, operating systems UI windowing systems to some degree (although very crippled and simple), maybe something like kubernetes, but again, it's very crippled and awkward. The ultimate goal is to create an environment, where there can exist objects (let's say processes/agents), which talk to the environment and other objects using messages. On top of all them you should be able to create full programming language which would allow you to compose/iterate/send messages to objects in any way you want, creating as many levels of abstractions as you wish, maybe creating new wrapper objects keeping some other objects inside etc. The programming language itself also should be the subject of real object orientation, for example the debugger or running program should be an object reacting to messages like "stop", "resume" etc. Languages like Rust/Go/JS should be used only to implement internals of some object and react to incoming messages in its narrow area when managing memory, data structures and IO. This is partially true today, we use OS to send messages/pipe sockets etc to the objects/processes. Sending messages should ignore the physical location of the object, just like the Internet does.

Thinking this way, the glue code we write today should disappear in 99%, we should be able to start thinking in higher abstractions, about running processes, computations in time and space, how they relate to each other, make queries to the processes, create interceptors etc. This is that I see when Alan Kay says the computer revolution haven't happened yet and we're still dealing with bag of bad ideas from 60s and 70s. Just packaged in nicer clothes, because we have faster computers and better screens.

We should start thinking longer term and not focus on immediate money as quickly as you see some results, because that's running in circles and real wealth is not created.
Here's a video demonstrating the system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg

The whole green retro terminal style display and graphics reminds me of a cool movie prop I'd never thought would exist in real life.
If you already have an Oculus Quest you should try hooking it up to your PC using Airlink or the link cable first. This allows you to use it with Steam VR or the desktop Oculus apps. As long as your PC can handle VR, you'll get better graphics and access to more VR titles. If you use Airlink you'll still have a completely wireless headset, a trick to reducing latency and avoiding problems with traffic spikes on your network is to get a wifi card for your PC and set it up as a hotspot so you can connect your Quest directly to the PC without going through the router.

Some good first time experiences for people are Space Pirate Trainer if they like shooters or I Expect You To Die if they're more of a puzzle game type and Beat Saber if they like rhythm games. These games don't involve thumbstick based movement so they probably won't make you feel sick. If you want something that's really chill and is just kind of pretty to look at and walk through then Walkabout Mini Golf is pretty good, it's not the most exciting game but it does have multiplayer and it's pretty relaxing to play a round and just admire the work they put into the courses.

I've heard that setting up a fan so it's blowing on you while you're playing VR is a good way to prevent motion sickness. I don't really get very motion sick though so I haven't had to try it.

Some very good games that will definitely make you motion sick are Pavlov and Bone Works. You will feel queasy after playing these for the first few times, have some Gravol on hand just in case.

For better screen quality you can either use a Quest 2 or the Valve Index, you'll be tethered to the PC with the Index though which for me is a deal breaker.
I never cared for green card/visa thing... If I'm going to uproot my family for a few years I need to know that the path for full immigration and citizenship is well set.
I think the point is that you’re not going to get any killer ideas from this. More power if they do, but the people working in the “make a better computer” space have been doing so deliberately for years, spending much more than $500 in the process.

Maybe you get a better computer by sprinkling $500 checks around to random devs in the developing world, but it’s not likely to work as a legitimate strategy to improve computing. If you really want to do that, take this entire fund and invest it in one of the many future of computing projects out there already well under way.
That isn't a study, and doesn't claim to be one. It is a case report, as stated right in the title. Case reports have "n=1" by definition.

As for being able to "safely disregard" it... an insufficient number of data points doesn't mean that at all. It means you can't draw conclusions one way or another.

Let's put it this way: your team has a new chemical that's supposed to do (amazing thing). You decide to test it on yourselves. The first guy takes it and dies instantly.

Do you then say "Hey, 'n=1', so I can 'safely disregard' the fact that Dave just keeled over." and take it yourself?

I think not.

To be clear here, I think the COVID-19 vaccines deployed in the United States are both safe and effective -- but the solution to bad statistical reasoning is not even worse statistical reasoning.
>I thought it was repeated till boredom that vaccines will not prevent you from catching the virus, it prepares your body to fight them well when the real threat comes.

No, in mid 2021 the uncensored science detailed >90% immunity after the 2 shots. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34002089/

The 10% was more in relation to people who are immunocompromised. They absolutely said these vaccines would prevent you from getting infection. They absolutely said the vaccines would provide herd immunity and get us out of lockdowns.

The censored science, including the discoverer/inventor of the mrna vaccine, said no such thing is possible. Instead of a healthy discourse on this, he got banned from everything until joe rogan brought him on.

>In immunogenicity analyses completed during phase I/II vaccine trials, 100% of participants developed both binding and neutralizing antibodies following vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and 90% of participants developed binding and neutralizing antibodies following vaccination with the Janssen vaccine

The problem hit when there was small towns with high vaccination rates had more people sick than unvaccinated people. Literally proving the vaccines don't work. So then and only then did they start saying that the shots dont prevent you from catching covid.

Has anyone counted the moral/ethical violations above? They published lies and censored the truth. They blasted informed consent out of the solar system.
Replying to myself that the author posted some information about their plans for Consus [1] back in 2016, with some commentary about how some people on HN were speculating about what exactly happened. Consus is also abandoned now, of course.

[1] https://hack.systems/2016/12/29/why-consus/
So when do you accept the terms & conditions? The fridge will not be cold unless you do?
I find it odd that people use extra management software for their dotfiles. Most of the files are in `~/.config` anyways, so you can track this folder like a regular directory in git. And for the software that does insist on writing into `~` directly you can set up symlinks, with a script or manually.
I am very sincere about this and I understand we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust. I also understand that will take a lot of time.

I do think the details matter though because based on the comments across the web, most people seeing this news cycle are coming to false conclusions, e.g., that this is about our search engine (it's not), that we give 3rd-party Microsoft scripts a free pass on 3rd-party websites (we don't), that we don't block 3rd-party cookies in our browsers (we do), or that any of the major browsers offer better web protection (they don't, and in fact they don't even attempt this particular type of protection).

Unfortunately this takes a few paragraphs to unpack fully. Probably someone else can explain it better and more succinctly, but I'm trying my best here to be succint.
I can confirm this as I experienced it when I was there.
In this case since the slower one is spending most of its time stalled out, the faster one will probably be more power efficient. This isn't an AVX512 power-gobbling monstrosity issue.
Race condition in Linux perf subsystem leads to local privilege escalation
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Are smart fridges even that common?

I bought all new appliances last year, and none of them were smart. I don't even remember seeing any smart ones at the shop. Granted, this was an appliance store in a town of about 8000 people... but it seems to me they're more gimmicks for people with too much money than a part of most peoples every day life.
Caveat: intern doesn't comprehend the problem, goes crazy with decomposition, there's an overengineered mess in the end.

Now there's a 2nd puzzle: how is this mess supposed to solve that task. Which of the thousand-possible call chains, or search constraints, ended up with a particular result.
Sounds like one of these twitter bots I keep hearing about.
Sadly, the compiler/software optimization for stack machines is a neglected field in computer architecture evolution.

If you are interested in this, you might find these useful.

1) Optimisation Techniques for Stack Based Architectures - Christopher Bailey

2) Investigating Opportunities for Instruction-Level Parallelism for Stack Machine Code - Shi Huibin

3) Second-Generation Stack Computer Architecture - Charles Laforest

[1] https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~chrisb/main-pages/publicati...

[2] https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~chrisb/main-pages/publicati...
It's true that utility is also a factor but it's extremely limited.

The house you and others have mentioned is an easy one. That whole concept of ownership is reliant on an entire system existing and enforcing those "rights". It's the threat of violence that prevents someone from showing up, "claiming" your house and kicking you out.
>it could burn my house down if left unattended

Really? I have a hard time imagining how heating elements in a steel box is going to burn your house down.
I have used Clojure professionally at several companies, and can confidently say that you will find libraries for everything.

Actual Clojure libraries or by wrapping Java libraries?
Most of the cellular connection CPAP machines also have a SD card slot and will put the full logs on it if you put a card in.
> Now I can't find anything programming related.

Sounds like you learned that the profile Google has on you has benefits. The more of the general population that uses DDG, the more the results will skew towards the general population who are not programmers.
One way I think we could curb AI wealth inequality is if we regulate that all AI agents or robots (who produce useful work) must be associated with a real human and their fiscal number.

If a factory needs 200 droids then 10% of droid generated profit goes to the real human associated with that droid.

If a lawyer office needs 200 processes running AI agents searching through common law cases then 200 ppl would have to receive a fee for AI agents' use.

You can extrapolate to anything you want but basically the idea that very few humans actually need to work but that all 'work' must be regulated and associated to a real human with a real fiscal entity, not simply a thread or a company asset in the case of a physical robot.

In this scenario the question of a single uber human, master of all trades, no longer makes sense.
> My notebook, which I use like a Bullet Journal, has no batteries that need recharging, no screen that can crack,...

And also no backup of any kind. So if and when your precious dead-tree notebook is lost or stolen what are you going to do?
This post is about Adminer though. If you are going for simplicity then you might actually like Adminer
It's possible that these policies are a large part of why Northern Europe is doing so well.

The best thing you can do for people in other countries is help them clean up their own countries. People keep calling it colonialism though.
The feature causing this is -O resident which tells the device, "Hey, you need to remember these credentials" (ie they are resident on the device).

For WebAuthn this enables "usernameless" login. You rock up to a random PC anywhere in the world, go to example.com, just click "Sign in", and your authenticator is like, "Hi example.com, according to my records I am archi42, user 123456-ACBDE-123 and as proof here's a signature made with my unique private key" and the site checks its database and signs you in. Convenient and fairly secure (most devices with such a feature expect a PIN, or a fingerprint, or some such factor beyond "something you have" in the form of the authenticator itself).

For SSH, this means the magic file that makes SSH with FIDO work can be regenerated on another client machine by just asking it to spit out the credentials.

Chances are your device does not have this feature, usernameless login on the web is rare, so few people need this, and of course it's a considerable extra hardware implementation burden. Yubico products have it though, as do some others, and the phone implementations (iPhone, newer Android) likewise.

If you mostly use the same machines (laptop, maybe a desktop) for SSH, the resident feature isn't important, just don't write "-O resident" and remember that although they aren't a security feature the resulting files are unique and if you don't have them you can't log in. If you regularly use different machines for SSH login because you're say, a roaming technician logging in to physical hardware on site or you insist on travelling very light, then it's very valuable and worth upgrading to get the resident feature.
What would happen is there’d be a doormat race, submitting to the natural people.
You cannot have ads in cars in France (and generally - Europe). That must be an insane experience.
Yes, sorry didn’t mean to suggest you didn’t. Comment was more to clarify to others as the simplistic “it’s faster” can cause people to misunderstand the nuance, which is important as the developer UX of async is worse than sync. I believe we should stick to sync unless there is a significant reason not to.

The trouble with all these things is what the definition of faster is. If it’s “requests per second” then yes these async frameworks are incredible on these benchmarks with their somewhat simplistic view code (I haven’t looked in detail at the one linked, but many often are only echoing back a response).

Really for the vast majority of developers the speed that matters is “time to first meaningful paint” - the time it takes to get a webpage to display on the users browser, or for an api the time until the response is ready to be passed by your front end code. Async doesn’t increase the speed at which that will happen, except in some situations with heavily paralyzable IO within a view.

It is however true that you can get more out of your hardware with async if your are handling 10s or 100s thousands requests per second. Very few of us ever get close to that though.

(Again not suggesting you don’t know this, commenting for others)
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If that were true, potentially every intelligence agency on earth would have a copy and it would defeat the purpose of it since anyone could spoof gps signals. It seems entirely within Europe’s interest to keep it out of any other agency’s hands as it would defeat the purpose of it.
It'd be interesting if you had a brain tumor and could just ask your neighbor to operate it out - but I guess you'd still need to rent an operating room.

I guess humans would be like general purpose computers that you can program to do anything (let's assume all of the computers are equally specced). You said "entertainer", so it makes me wonder if people will still be wowed by acting or singing performances if they could also do it as competently. Would humans have to be like Borg units in this scenario?

But to return to the labor market, I guess no one get's paid 6 figures because they're "one of the few" that can architect the JSON for a webapp for some food delivery service, everyone can do that! People would still buy food because maybe not everyone wants to be a farmer, and people would still buy plane tickets because there are not enough resources to build everyone a plane (or an operating room).

After watching this (long) documentary about status anxiety[1] (or shorter summary: [2]) I like to see things from that perspective. Would the labor market have financial advisors if we're all competent at managing our wealth, would we even be chasing wealth (which we mostly do because IMO it's a status symbol) if we're all equal?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1MqJPHxy6g

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipn6yM43sM
Part of the magic of asdf is that it reads a `.tool-versions` file from anywhere above your current directory and applies the correct version of each tool based on the listed value. (You can also configure a global default version for each tool in case your directory tree doesn't have a .tool-versions file with an entry for the tool you want to use.)

Does Nix allow for a similar workflow? It's really nice to be able to move between projects and automatically have the correct tool versions configured without having to run any special command.
Not a country, and quite optimal conditions but South Australia tells what the future will bring globally as renewables and storage continue to scale. Switch hydro from continuous to more of a peaker style of operation and we are very close.

> Sometimes the sun does shine and the wind does blow. That’s most of the time in South Australia, apparently. The average share of wind and solar during October was 72%. For 29 out of 31 days, 100% of the power used in South Australia (SA) was renewable. The sky didn’t fall, the grid didn’t collapse, and the apocalypse is not nigh.

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/04/solar-wind-72-of-south-...

With a 65.7% average of renewables over 2021.

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/record-year-rene...
What else needs continuous funding? Pyramid schemes.
As long as you're willing to expend unlimited amounts of money doing so. But no one is.
My favourite is "I'll be your google, I'll be your Stack Overflow, when you would usually search something, ask me instead". So you eventually ask them, and they give you a cryptic answer back.

I'm sure Google wouldnt be as successful as they are if their answer to "how do you define an array" was "well think about what you're trying to do here"
Yes, sorry, that was my roundabout way of saying that. Whenever phpmyadmin gets on my mind I just see red and wake up in a pool of sweat, several hours later, without any memory of what happened.
The "belief" that value depends on is the belief that there is demand, so the good can be exchanged if desired. The "trust" is that people are going to want the good tomorrow, similarly to today.
Seems to me VCs do a lot of work in scouting out potential new companies and trends. This would be a cheap way of collecting those in a “pull” manner rather than “push”. They’ll end up getting a lot of early-stage ideas from people desperate for cash, but maybe that’s exactly what they want.