skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point I’m discussing with @bsder is about who is holding the “pointy stick.” As nutty and stupid as MTG’s district may be for voting for her, the elites calling them such are still the ones holding the pointy stick. They have the money and the power, while those rural Georgians have gotten the short end of the stick from globalization. Focusing on MTG’s antics to distract from that fundamental fact of life is objectionable.

As to your point about criticism, I think it’s fine to criticize them for supporting MTG. But note that the seat had been held since 2010 by a normal Republican before her, who opposed Trump but won re-election anyway in 2018. Before that it was held by Nathan Deal, a became governor of Georgia and was known for having a very friendly relationship with the then-mayor of Atlanta. Do you think there is a reason they picked someone different in 2020?

I will also point out that the media applies extreme double standards about this criticism. There’s lots of nutty ideas floating around the leadership of low-education communities in the US. Look at the folks connected to Louis Farrakhan and the NOI. But the media soft peddles that because apparently only white people have moral agency.
Agreed. No one is coming to the rescue. No one backed by guns really cares a ton.

The idea is solid, but a wiping of the slate will allow for a new generation. One that will better benefit established powers.
Reliance of cobalt is already reducing.

Half of all new Tesla’s now use Lithium Iron batteries which are cobalt-free and have improved safety.
Monthly car payments have crossed a record $700. What that means
I think I'd pin the primary cause as the cost of living increasing rapidly and salaries not keeping up with inflation. Couple that with it becoming increasingly obvious that alcohol consumption has negative health effects and it's not surprising that people look for other forms of entertainment.

There's also just more to do in the modern world. There's things like raves as you pointed out, video games, the online world. There's also a million new hobbies which are now much more accessible thanks to the internet and online stores, and much more media content. Compare today's access to entertainment to the pre-television era...

And finally, to top it all off, we have technologies like instant messaging. Instant messaging makes it possible to group text your pals after work and decide to meet anywhere you like. Before that, coordinating with a large group of people was a lot more complex and took some planning ahead, so maybe it was just easier to default to always meeting to the pub after work.
There are some educational videos to learn the sounds of your babies cry’s. It’s a huge relief when you can tell the difference between a tired cry, a hungry cry, and a distress cry. Takes all of 30 minutes to learn, but the best time we invested before our newborns arrived.

Later, teach them baby sign language. It’s incredible how much they can say with sign language. And even today, I can ask my 15 year old if he’s like a glass of milk in baby sign language, and he remember exactly what I’m asking.
Do their actions match their words?

ARM could have extended their ARMv7 ISA to also be 64-bit without much trouble at all (plenty of space in the ISA). Instead, we got a ground up redesign that has more in common with MIPS64 than with ARMv7 (to the point that it's fascinating that ARM and some others bought MIPS just to get patent rights before immediately selling them off again).

I'm sure the go-to individual here is Jim Keller.

First, were his words free from constraint? If he said "x86 is crap and we should be using ARM or RISC-V" while working for those companies, how long would it take for him to be fired? Even if he were working at another company, saying that would burn a bridge that has kept him fed for decades. Would that be worth it?

He later said that if he were designing a new chip from the ground up, he'd probably go with RISC-V. He then proceeded to do that when he went to work for TensTorrent even though licensing ARM cores and adding their custom units on the side would be cheaper and faster to market. Given his connections, working with the AMD custom division would also be possible and would not only save some time and money for the startup, but would also have a massive set of available and heavily-optimized software working from the very start which would save even more money.

I'd say that his actions when free from corporate constraints show a definite opinion on the matter.
Do you care about your craft?
I’m reading through The Pragmatic Programmer again, this time stopping at each tip along the way and thinking about my work and how what the book is talking about applies to me.

The first tip is to “Care About Your Craft”

I had to realize that I haven’t really cared about the craft in some time. I’ve been sailing through a series of meetings, deadlines, changing project requirements, office politics and general life that the caring of the craft is at the bottom of my list of cares.

I used to care about the craft in detail: getting formatting in code right, following best practices, seeking the new more efficient way to do things. But now it’s just get it done and push onto the next thing.

Thankfully starting to do some summer technical book reading has ignited that care for craft in me again.

So I ask you all, do you care about your craft? Why or why not?
“I am thrilled to see kids learning on smartphones”

I’ll say one thing, at least we can look forward to no more craptastic computers in the classroom initiatives. Kids can do their own IT.

What will the kinder learn? Tiktok University.
I kind of feel there are two different levels of sw development for CUDA.

1. CUDA level programming for graphic processing etc, or writing a c/c++ library for Pytorch/tensorflow framework.

2. Pytorch/Tensorflow level coding(e.g. training a model), you just pick their CUDA-specific APIs, and the two frameworks handle the rest under the hood, no CUDA specific coding details(point 1 above) is required from the users as far as I can tell.

if you're interested in 1, Nvidia has c++ guide to download, if you're interested in 2, then the focus is on the AI framework instead of CUDA.
> AGI is inevitable because computation is universal and intelligence is substrate independent.

Let's say Human Intelligence and AGI are subsets of General Intelligence, we don't know whether GI will actually subsist without the biological drive, AGI's might decide that hoarding resources/knowledge is futile in a finite universe and shut themselves down then reaching the halt state of this paradox. It might never be possible to achieve an AGI too different from the stealing/warmaking/miraculous HI.
I don’t think there is anything in wayland that would make the porting hard.
It will be interesting to see how Texas and Georgia removing tenure from their public universities will impact what they can retain and recruit, once the news really gets out.
The Japanese quite conservative and usually for good reasons. Move fast and break things and fail often isn't in their playbook.
A comment that finally explains HN's sentiment on cryptocurrencies. I take it then that crypto is the financial equivalent of a fax machine (as Krugman described the early internet)? Well then, let's see how it all works out...
Medicare is what pays for that btw. Dialysis is covered, as is any life saving treatment (like heart attack).

What ends up happening is hospitals then charge others to cover their costs (hence high rates). Granted hospitals do take a bigger cut imo than they deserve, as do pharma, doctors, etc.

Let’s not forget the number of doctors is intentionally restricted. They also seem to have a political bias imo (how much volunteer work and what kind you’ve done).

Then you have regulations around drugs (FDA), hospitals / practice insurance, etc

Combined, the entire industry is over regulated and captured effectively by cartels (what is Johnson and Johnson but a legal cartel). You can’t even sue for vaccine (any vaccine) injury. Think about that for a moment and explain it.

Fixing the medical industry can only be done by deregulating it. I don’t think it would even be that hard; but people would lose their minds. I’ve spent a lot of time in one of the largest medical billing companies in the US. My family worked in this space for decades. The issue is really just fear.

Regulatory / legislative changes:

1. Remove any protections pharma has against lawsuits

2. Remove bloated credentialing for doctors, instead have an apprenticeship program (at least for military and gov doctors)

3. phase out Medicare, no one under 60 will ever receive it again.

4. Completely defund the FDA

5. Remove much of the requirements around drugs. Enable easy purchasing of medication. Could just be consultation with pharmacist. Or maybe nurse. Or no one.

Do that and overnight the cost of medicine would drop massively. The medical costs in the US would be less than Mexico.
Lol right before I quit Meta last year my team was told to drop everything and focus 100% on integrating our product with the Novi wallet.

Whatever my old teammates have been working on for the last 8 months just got trash canned.

Constant product thrash was one of the worst parts about working there, I guess not much has changed
If you sell widgets for big bucks and someone invents a nearly free widget replacement that could interfere with your primary income.
Cmon this line of reasoning isn’t worth it
They haven't had a new release in over 3 years, and the program stopped working for me a long time ago. I start it up using the exact docker command they provide, then press Ctrl+L to go to the address bar, type in www.google.com and it just says Loading forever, nothing ever happens.
Humans are going to be fine too even if the sea levels rise. Humans adapt that's our biggest strength.
Yes. Now every computers tend to be power limited (or say heat limited).
Thank you for putting it so simply! I agree.
I got the cheapest tesla solar panels you can get and that produces more than x3 the electricity I need to power an electric car for 7k miles per year
I built some binaural beat headphones plus stroboscopic eye glasses when in my early 20’s. Incredible effect. However I’ve tried it again since in my 40’s, and the effect seems minimal. Maybe brain changes?
There are many other problems with TDD (caveat: it's a good idea for _some_ projects) besides "it's no fun". Watch the Jonathan Blow video on the subject for the details.
But Ford decided to build electric F-150s? I don't actually doubt that the research was done in good faith, but I also think internal biases also played into it.
Smartphones are also generally a lot larger, so they don't fit in my pocket very well while cycling or running.

I need my smartphone to do a whole bunch of things outside playing music, and restricting myself to specific models with physical audio control buttons and small screens makes the market a lot smaller and would probably leave me with a poorer phone than picking one without needing to think about its ability to play music while exercising. I did this for my previous phone and the result wasn't very pleasant, so went with the separate players this time around.

Different headphones might be an option, but again a lot of the better phones are ditching headphone jacks, so it would be restricting my phone options.
There's a related phenomenon called "elite panic", where the media focuses/outright manufactures fear about poor people looting, rioting etc whenever there's a natural disaster, and this leads to idiocy like police standing around guarding undamaged rich people's houses instead of even trying to save the actual victims:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_panic
Beigels, software, and why you should control queues instead of cycle times
“Much much longer”

Imo all western countries are within the margin of error. The real truth is that the US subsidizes the medical fields of Europe.

The US provides protection; which means the EU doesn’t have to pay for military and they dedicated funds to healthcare. Further, all the drug revenue for R&D recovery comes from the US market.

With the countries of Europe gearing up for war. I’m curious if they’ll keep paying for the medical treatments of everyone.
The public sharing of intimate images without consent is a growing problem
I don't know it, I say "may be" quicker to help.

It does seem likely, given what we know about bystander effect. In cities, we're conditioned to expect someone else will take care of whatever's wrong, and this is less true in rural environs.
It's coming soon!
It's hard to understand why to this day royalty, listening stats, and distribution payments take so long with all the technology around.

The real truth is music should really only cost about 50 cents or less per song to download, and streaming royalties should be much higher than they are now.

It's pretty crazy that the current industry has a crippling stranglehold on modern music, and that radio is still stuck on playing the very same 1990's music into infinity, but it is what it is... There is always a flood of optimistic musicians willing to give their work away for free while also spamming the entire Internet with it even if it's guaranteed to be an unsuccessful venture. The best music is not found by trusting the algorithms... It's found where no one is looking or listening... Just like the old record shop days, but now on the Internet.
I wonder why this site doesn't just automatically add rel="noreferrer" to all links to that domain.
A lot as gotten considerably worse since the 60s. Pointing out why gets you flagged though.
It's not fear, it's money. All of those unnecessary things are huge profit centers for certain people. Health care is middle-manned to death, and not just insurance. There are loads of other middle men at every step.
I don't understand how what you said here relates to what I said. I didn't say that lower income people are more rural; I said that if you look at the left leaning subset of the lowest income people, they are very urban, and the right leaning subset of the lowest income people, they are very rural.
His idea about luxury beliefs is really insightful. We're all familiar with the old "rules for thee but not for me" type of hypocrisy. Luxury beliefs strike me as the inverse.
> Who on Earth would rather have to end a function block by typing out "End Sub" instead of a curly brace

It’s called BASIC because it’s more approachable to beginners. End Sub is not as strange to someone new to programming as a curly brace because it is almost English and less abstract.
Horses say cars are scary.
> Industrialized countries have power grids and the like that were built before such demands for power existed

This stinks of fake news to me.

At least for locations with air conditioning systems this seems false. Hvacs require more inrush (start capacitors) and run energy (run capacitors) - and coordinate very poorly with neighbor and industry use (during the heat of the day)

Electric Cars require none of it, 90% of use cases can charge 1-3 nights a week off of a standard 120v 15 amp circuit.

It's also possible to coordinate both your hvac and Bev to not turn on at the same time and to deprioritize for your utility or rate plan.
I don't know why they just don't buy Venmo
Honestly, these days I feel like it's dumb to deploy on a platform you have no control over, unless you have enough money to pay lawyers to get Google's/Apple's attention.
There’s an opportunity here in the less regulated pet health space: flip the pipeline around and treat it like a staging environment for human healthcare, rather than a place to expand treatments later to extend ROI.

One example: glucose monitors for pets lag a generation or two behind glucose monitors for humans. Releasing a human glucose monitor requires lots of testing and certification. Starting in the pet space and then expanding into humans would allow you to iterate faster than your human health care first competitors.
> AGI is inevitable because computation is universal and intelligence is substrate independent.

That says nothing about timescale. There's no guarantee that the current favored approach will work. Or even that we'll figure it out before we go extinct for whatever far-future reason.
The companies can alway deny that they received it unless you send certified, and even then companies need x number of days to process it.
Vendors won't offer that capability cheaply. That's against their business model of "differentiating" on peripherials and extracting value from that.

So it would be interesting how this will affect the mcu market, long term.
For people who are interested in this stuff, I suggest this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532704

The ideas behind Trane don't work for things where we haven't had good pedagogical development -- but they are the state of the art for things where we have!
(felt founder here) Sorry to hear that. What issue are you having? Feel free to DM me and I'll take a look.
Think of a stoner / surfer / skater saying it. That seems the most appropriate origin.

Tripping itself is easy to understand. This is from acid trip.

The balls part is like balls-out (a locomotive term, popular because it was similar to ballsy or they suspected it was related to testicles somehow) or balls-deep (an obviously sexual term). We like to make things about balls, IDK.

Tripping balls just means very very high. Typically mushrooms or other psychedelics, but not necessarily. You could come out of an anesthesia and have someone say “he was tripping balls when he came out”, and it wouldn’t be too out of place.
Design patterns are just a repetition of the golden rule "don't repeat yourself" (when they're not they're antipattern). Maybe the functional developers don't need a book to teach them how to walk...
Yup I meant "Apple didn't show permissions". Edited my comment.
Looks like it has nice syntax but it seems very very far from pushing state of the art, and that is totally fine.
I have an engineering degree and work in tech. I've also been part of more than 30 exhibitions around the world.

Creating a new web app side project and an art project in whatever medium is exactly the same type of creative work.

However, being somebody working inside a large institution, whether tech or art, is not creative because you are limited by the org what you can say do and in practice even think. You cannot be creative there.

So the environment either permits you or restricts you from being creative. You need to breakout and create your own environment to be creative in.

And, once you become an established artist you have certain rules to follow so you can no longer be as creative as when you started out.
Show HN: Feathr – An Open-Source, Enterprise-Grade Virtual Feature Store
Hi everyone! We are engineers from Microsoft/LinkedIn, and we released an open-source Feature Store called Feathr a few weeks ago (https://github.com/linkedin/feathr). It has many highlights like below. Feel free to check out the repository and let us know if there are any questions! We also have a few blogs and recordings in case folks want to learn a bit more about it:

Open Sourcing Feathr (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/open-sourcing-fea...)

Feathr + Azure integration (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feathr-linkedin-s-fea...).

Tech talks on Feathr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZg01UKQMTY)

And its highlights include (more highlights are in github repo):

Battle tested in production for more than 6 years: LinkedIn has been using Feathr in production for over 6 years and have a dedicated team improving it.

Scalable with built-in optimizations: For example, based on some internal use case, Feathr can process billions of rows and PB scale data with built-in optimizations such as bloom filters and salted joins.

Rich support for point-in-time joins and aggregations: Feathr has high performant built-in operators designed for Feature Store, including time-based aggregation, sliding window joins, look-up features, all with point-in-time correctness.

Derived Features and centralized Feature Registry which encourage feature consumers to build features on existing features and encouraging feature reuse.

Happy to chat about it if anyone is interested in it!
the demand for printing has been surprising and it's coming ~~ soon ~~
That wikipedia page makes it sound like os/2 is very much dead
The problem is that hydrogen makes no sense. Most of the hydrogen that we have is produced from fossil fuels, and we have no hydrogen distribution infrastructure.

You could argue that electric vehicles are the most conservative solution because we already have a national power grid, and there's a fairly clear path towards producing green electricity.
If you look at the US state by state you would see similar outcomes.
The above poster used a referenced published average and you responded with your 2 hyperlocal anecdotes.

Averages are averages, medians are medians, and anecdotes are not data.
I don’t think this comment is relevant to the discussion, which is google removing the permissions list for apps on the play store.
There's a reality you're living that must be quite different than the rest of the world.
I expected something like 1) to happen because there a lot of truckers worried about their future right now with new changes they have no control over
I mean fear of deregulation. The truth is that we push politicians to do what we want.

As it stands, people are afraid to completely deregulate healthcare.

Funny enough, even though imo it is the only way. I do think money would stop it from becoming a movement. When’s the last time you saw a leader stand up and say “let’s dissolve XXX three letter agency!”? You don’t see it. Wonder why?

Last one I recall was Trump. Media did a number on him, so much so we can’t even discuss him without worrying about being attacked. Isn’t that something?
So, the theories that I've been reading present the picture that what AGIs have already has a sort of consciousness that isn't anything like human consciousness, because these agents really only have a subset of the processing that humans have, which in most cases these days, is language.

Human brains develop by performing movement, in fact, much of our brain is specialized for performing movement, judging angles and speeds, testing if we can jump across a puddle safely. The AGI would need to be trained on these things and the language associated with them. Your example with the egg, I think, is illustrative of the amount of training the AGI would need to go in order to learn, and that training would become part of its "personality".

There is also a set of desires that humans have, such as survival, companionship, hunger, etc. These would also have to be trained. These desires would have to be trained into the AGI as well.

The theory is that if we would have to train an AGI the same way we do humans in order to get it to be close to human consciousness. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have a type of consciousness along the way, maybe closer to what we experienced as we grew from children to adulthood.

Anyway, just conclusions from what I've been reading.
The media misrepresentation is a two-way street. The area around my wife’s office in DC was boarded up and dead for a year because of the BLM protests. Didn’t see anything about that on CNN.
Scientists Uncover New Species of Giant Water Lily
Where I live if it's a condo the organization built around the unit owners is called a condo association or corporation. The principle is the same though. The board is elected by the unit owners based on ownership units and they manage or delegate management of things like fees and reserves and upkeep.

The main difference between a condo association and an HOA here is what kind of property is involved. But HOAs are also a relatively recent development here and aren't regulated as strongly so they vary more.
Yep if the translation is done by hand then that might be a potential problem. However a lot of modern proof tools have proven correct translators (based on the CompCert work).