skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the ever-growing infection of post-modernism in contemporary US institutions

You make it sound like truth wasn't a game until now, all of a sudden, or that people weren't championing the goals they value until now, all of a sudden. Politics didn't start yesterday, you were simply more comfortable with previous regimes. 'Post-modernism' is one of the most over-used keywords to describe the current landscape, particularly if you think only a certain party can be accused of it.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inflation-reduction... - It seems like it just puts it on an equal footing with other solutions.

Unless there's a downside that I'm not aware of, that seems like a reasonable thing to do?
> we may actually completely ban AI and any sufficiently strong ML algorithm.

Who are 'you'. The US, or maybe Angloamerican countries may do it. Many countries won't. Those who don't do it, will get ahead of everyone else.
> Those new people will be less trained than real soldiers

Ok, I see you didn't even bother to do a minimal research on the topic at hand. Sorry, but it's really hard to take you seriously when your reasoning is based on assumptions and imagination, instead of specifics and facts.

> all the newest stuff was spent

Yesterday's talking points were that there isn't new stuff at all and it's all old Soviet stuff. Doublethink at it's finest.
There was a fire at a similar Tesla grid-storage battery facility in Victoria, Australia, in 2021. EEVBlog covered it in a couple of videos, with the post mortem here:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oknr1OaqnUE>
> Why do you think so much hardware was captured by Ukrainians? Because there just wasn't enough people to drive it all back when they retreated.

Those vehicles had crews, that's how they got to the battlefield in the first place. The vehicles are being abandoned because they don't have the fuel to make it back to friendly lines because their logistics is a joke. So crews are abandoning vehicles rather than sitting in a Javelin magnet waiting for a fuel truck that will never arrive.

In a professional army if a vehicle managed to run out of fuel or was damaged but serviceable its unit would detach some soldiers to watch over it while an engineering vehicle (an armored tow truck essentially) was dispatched to retrieve it.
Judging from the photo, the kid has fetal alcohol syndrome. He likely came into the world with few choices.
Back the day, before the Urkaine invasion, I thought of Putin as a pu0et player and calculated risk taker, but one that knew his limits and had a keen risk calculation. The he non-surprise invaded Ukraine and botched it horribly. Seems somewhere during Covid he got on the crazy train to his own universe of madness...

I totally think Putin is insane enough by now to order a tactical nuclear strike. I also think, for now, the Russian military will act by then and "remove" him from power. Or not, because who knows how those things play out in real life.
And I would wish so much for a button "play next", that makes a song play directly after the current song (and then proceed with whatever was scheduled before).

I often browse spotify while listening. If I find something I haven't heard for a long time, I often want to directly listen to it, but not cut of the current track.
I noticed the size seems to correspond to the model. With a large model, the error is tensor<1x1280x3000xf16>. With tiny, it's tensor<1x384x3000xf16>, and with medium it's tensor<1x1024x3000xf16>. It also seems like a bad thing that those are f16's but the "expected" data is f32.
I appreciate that video but after watching it I'm definitely not an optimistic nihilist as described in the video, I think while the video does caveat a lot of it's statements and I do overall agree with its sentiment it's too definitive and confident in certain areas.

"Existential hope" is definitely my position, no confidence, certainty or belief in nihilism required, just inject even more uncertainty and the nihilism goes away as well.

It means that in contrast to the video summing up its point by saying "do what you want and bonus points for helping others", I say that discovering and investigating and progressing is actually an imperative task.

I think the divide may be that I neither presume or reject as default materialism as the final truth, the video doesn't explicitly either but it does frame things in a way that I never would and it's conclusions for a meaningful life are also a narrower subset of my position in some areas and broader in others.

My possibly false impression based on the video is that optimistic nihilism takes for granted that materialism is a starting assumption.

I think while materialism is our current empirical observation I don't know if that will hold up long term as the underlying nature of reality.

Existential hope works equally well for those who lean or suspect that this underlying nature is deist, theist, atheist, materialist, metaphysical or dualist.
> Amen. React 18 was the moment where they forgot they started as the V in MVC.

Yep, exactly.
Not my house. I use kraken so I think I will remain less affected than users of other, less credible, exchanges.

Cryptocurrency has been working just fine before tether, and it's going to work just fine without it. We've seen ups and downs. So I don't think it's that crazy when the house has failed many times in the history of cryptocurrency.
Looks like astroTERF isn't really catching on with consumers.
I think people dont fully understand the risk of debanking in crypto. If you go to the regular players with a billion dollars in cash, say you are cryptocurrency firm and would like a bank account they will turn you around.

This is such a major factor with every cryptocurrency company. Especially 5 years ago when tether was made.

Tethers ‘dodgy’ investments is partially driven by there being no other options.
Hardest country to emigrate to in Europe is most probably Switzerland (barring maybe some tiny 'states' with obscure rules). There you can apply for citizenship after 10 years of continuous habitation (which means work at least majority of the time), and you need to pass some pretty basic language and overall knowledge test.

I know quite a few Russians here, who wanted to get passport has it, its just about strong enough will and consistency. But that's something very few have, ie consistently take language courses for a year or two, learn culture, history, actually integrate into local society and not just stick around the people from same speaking country all the time.

If you have no good expertise, work hard on getting one, god damn there are countless programmes in both EU and Switzerland to become an expert in something basically for free. It may not be a CEO position but it will be a well paid honest job. Sorry but every single time I've met people complaining about this, they really, really slacked on above and just kept dreaming about superb chances for free, which obviously never came.

This may not be true about other continents, no experience there. But commenter you respond to is 100% correct for Europe.
AI-produced art is still human-made, as a person does the job of engineering a prompt and selecting from the generated images. The copyrightability of such work is unlikely to ever seriously be in question.
> This is why I insist that nothing I use automatically updates, and I'm extremely conservative about what I update and when.

One trade-off there, of course, is that the number of known security vulnerabilities in your currently installed system will keep growing over time.
I think they do it on purpose to keep the average consumer from being able to understand the price/performance to expect between the SKUs in each generation. If they’re selling what should be a 4060Ti as a 4080 [1] they need to “reset” the naming scheme every once in a while when they run out of names at the top end.

IMO it’s shrinkflation for GPUs and the naming confusion is used as an attempt to hide it. My prediction is they change the entire naming scheme for the next generation because the current scheme invites historical comparison and criticism like the Reddit post I linked.

Watch them switch to pure, meaningless names. It wouldn’t surprise me.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/xk2nsf/the_40...
How do I conflate zfs-fuse with ZoL? I was trying to highlight that if someones memory of "poor fuse performance" is because of zfs-fuse, then someones memory must be quite old, as ZoL has been available for quite some time and since then also fuse itself has received quite some performance gains.

Edit: Also I don't want to imply that FUSE is near in-kernel filesystems, but it is certainly performing much better than 12 years ago.
They do? Is that an American thing? I don't know anyone in the UK who has it.
Why are humans the only creatures that matter? Are we the only ones capable of suffering? If it wipes out a quarter of all species isn't that a catastrophe, even without considering our dependence on them? Myopia like yours is how humanity got here.
I know this isn't a tech support forum but maybe someone here knows. I'm attempting the sample python code from the github and almost get a transcription running on my work laptop without a GPU, but I run into this error message:

>>> result = whisper.decode(model, mel, options)

Traceback (most recent call last):

[snip]

RuntimeError: "slow_conv2d_cpu" not implemented for 'Half'

It looks like a Torch error, is there some twiddling with "options" I can do to get it to run?
It's not rocket science for starlink to make their bandwidth better. It's IETF rfc7567, rfc8289, rfc8290, & rfc8033, published many years ago.
I've been wondering that too, it's kind of confounding. Particularly since Starlink started with CGNAT to manage a limited IPv4 address allocation.

FWIW there've been hints from time to time that Starlink was working on IPv6; users reported being given working addresses. That mostly stopped though when they handed over ISP operations to Google last year.
The money supply has been steadily but quickly increasing for decades now. That can't be a result of fractional reserve banking alone. When I say the Fed creates money, I'm referring to the virtual printing.
To keep inventory streamlined for this product, we only have a single configuration of the product. It is super easy to open up and add more memory to though. We include a screwdriver in the box and encourage you to explore the inside.
The Fatal Error of an Ancient, HIV-Like Virus
If (when) the Fed starts selling mortgage-backed securities in its balance sheet ($2 Tn), then it will be a bloodbath closer to 2007. And again, there's the problem of people with negative equity just walking out, causing a vicious cycle.
The downside is it is expensive, while much cheaper methods are available.
That is the submitter but the full title doesn’t fit (whether HN should increase the size of the database field allocated for the title is left to dang).

I personally would have replaced “titles” with “ebooks”.
if its 10% phoners, this isn't a problem. because there is a natural turnover with everyone else, and the phoners tend to stick they generally represent an increasing faction over time.

as they start to dominate the organization, they actually cast shade on people that are trying to get something done. nothing is getting done so the giant company starts sucking in as many people as possible to try to replace the outflow and to try to start getting something done.

does anyone know of a company that survived this process?
A text adventure game on TypeScript's type system
Yeah, that's why I'm not really crying for the Russian citizen right now. They had a full half year to risk jail by protesting the war, when it was "just" their country invading and murdering other people. They did it for a few weeks, then went back to their Stormbucks and McDelicious.
so everything lol
And of course with Guix System.
(odd to always see Nix* mentioned when someone talks about Guix.)
Yea, I inferred that was the purpose of the tags, though I didn't see the capability mentioned explicitly anywhere.

It doesn't seem like a fundamental limitation; if innernet let a single machine have multiple wireguard interfaces, each on different subnets, that would seem to be an elegant solution. But I didn't see mention of that, either.
Those don't look like rings to me!
I actually work half days during the week often, and then work part of the day on Saturday and/or Sunday. This allows me to work with my head down on a weekend day without co-workers messaging me, and the same for working early in the mornings on weekends when my family is still asleep. This actually allows me, personally, more flexibility on weekdays to go out with my family when there aren't as many people out and about, and go with my wife to our son's medical appointments and other important things like that.

I wouldn't advocate everyone can or should do this, but I think that the "don't work outside working hours"/"must work during working hours" status quo can hurt flexibility a lot. Personally, weekends to me are just another day of the week, and I want to try normalize that wherever I go.
> They will refute at all cost that this is stack ranking

Graded in the context of peers’ performance does not imply that they sort employees by performance.
I think the parent was posting ironically or forgot to add the \s? Otherwise, yeah, folks need to hang on to those '21/'22 salaries if they can. We may not see those again for some time.
Not directly as far as I know, but federal taxes are the other mechanism by which money can exit the economy. I should have stated as such.
Oh, my bad looks like they only bought an exclusive license to GPT3.
Spotlight gives 0.
"I'm starting to struggle [how do I get better?]" is a lot different than Ptolemy telling Euclid the Elements is too hard and asking for a shortcut. That much is obvious because OP pretty clearly enjoys the work and wants to do more of it. There are going to be right and wrong ways to go about this.

(Here's where I really go off the rails, but trust that I mean this in the same good humored sense with which I would point out that say, vinegar catches flies better than honey.)

We should also cast doubt on the original quote. One, we only have it according to Proclus, roughly eight centuries after Euclid. Two, Ptolemy I was brilliant in his own right, even among the Diadochi. Three, we don't teach anyone straight from the Elements anymore and have learned a great deal about ways people learn. So while I agree there's no substitute for rigorous practice if you're looking to understand a mathematical concept on an intuitive level, we've certainly found some "highways" since 300 BCE.
If you had to identify the top three things (in terms of impact) that could be changed (albeit with difficulty) to reduce the chances of employees being stuffed into cannons, what would they be?

My three would be:

1. Relatively weak labor protections in the USA.

2. The fiduciary requirement to maximize shareholder value. Why not allow a company to define its own metric, such as a blend of profit along with employee treatment (or others, within some notion of reasonableness*), make this metric public, provide some sort of accounting and accountability for it, and let shareholders adjust accordingly.

3. The quarterly reporting of public companies. This makes long-term planning and investment much harder.

* I haven't studied this very broadly. I'm familiar with the Triple Bottom Line and B-Corporations.
Yeah, the only NATO navy worth talking about is the USN, with the Royal Navy and the Marine Nationale following distantly behind.

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is much more impressive than the Brits and the French though. (And Japan has major strategic reasons to keep the Chinese on the far side of the Taiwan Strait, most relevant being that that's the easiest place to stop an island hopping campaign towards the home islands)
Sadly, this proves that the economy is ultimately run on debt.

Someday, maybe we, as a society, will realize that debt, credit, and lending is the way bankers scam money out of everyone else, and we collectively won't put up with it anymore. Banks often have some of the biggest and shiniest towers in downtowns all around the world. How did they get them? Interest, fees, and charges. I can't count how many times people (even on this very site!) have said something like "don't buy things with cash, invest it and get a loan for it instead because interest." It's no mystery as to why you don't have a tower, because you're paying for someone else's.

Normal people figured this out such a long time ago, that a verse in the Bible says that the borrower is slave to the lender. I'm no slave.

And don't be fooled by the cash and airline miles that your credit card throws at you. You're paying for those "rewards" by fees that the banks and networks charge merchants, and they're ultimately built into increased prices that everyone pays. No one got rich from those crumbs, except the bankers.
> Fed is responsible for 90% of inflation

You're really jumping straight from proposing a zero-reserve central bank to theorizing the source of inflation?
You shall check the news.
17x realtime on a 3090

I did some basic tests on CPU, the "small" Whisper model is in the ballpark of 0.5x realtime, which is probably not great for interactive use.

My models in Talon run closer to 100x realtime on CPU.
Adjusting to drinking your own coffee rather than ordering Starbucks via uber 3 times a day is an easier adjustment from going to affording food to not affording it all. Didn't think it needed to be spelled out but there you go.
Ah, yep, 100%, westerners impressions of Russia is something directly from fairy tales.

I actually wonder if Russia somehow uses it as a part of it psyops. At least that clearly helped with the sanctions.
> This feels a bit screwy. Maybe it's arguable what the "lifeblood" of a volunteer-run open source project is, but surely it's not simply the users -- without sufficiently motivated volunteers there would be no project for the users to use.

Without users, there would be no point to any software project. Less, Open Source...

> And how is working as an unpaid volunteer, alongside your day job, anything but a hobby anyway?

That's precisely why Open Source projects need to find a way to get funding. There is no way the general public would build their lives and future on Open Source that relies on hobbyists. Which is a reason why Open Source is not where it should have been today.

> What happens to the project when their motivation is completely sapped because they haven't been able to work on interesting problems, due to having to pacify needy users who aren't giving anything back?

Nothing. The project dies. Before that, the users will have already left, probably for private, closed ecosystems. Because it was a folly to expect people to build whatever they were going to do, less their businesses or organizations, on volunteers who may go away at any point in time.

Sounds brisk and brutal, I know. But that's the reality of public usage of software - if people can't rely on it, they won't use it.
An important aspect of conspiracy theories is that they provide seemingly simple explanations. It’s not difficult to understand a world controlled by conspiracies. It’s much harder to get a grasp on and accept the sheer actual complexity of the world.
BSI standard for test finger appears to have been withdraw [0] in favour of EIC standards. You can still get test fingers on Amazon though [1].

[0] https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/standard-test-finger...

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/GOWE-IEC61032-IEC60529-Probe-Finger...
The Treasury auctions the bonds off to the primary dealers.

The primary dealers sell the bonds to the Fed.

At the end, the Fed has bought boatloads of Treasury bonds, but not from the Treasury!
Is there any evidence the other way? I know, proving a negative, but I’d argue the null hypothesis here is “pumping money into the economy causes the economy to have more money”
I'm finishing my degree in the year 2024, I'm actually class of 2025, but I think I rat-raced enough in HS with AP tests that I can probably graduate in 3 instead of 4 years. Are internships mostly for graduating students? I thought they were everyone above 1st year.

Should I just look for junior-dev jobs to do while in uni instead?
> 30 minutes or less.

Aren't they just intended for short-ish calls/meetings anyway? I don't think the expectation is that one is consistently in one for longer than 30 minutes anyway.
A particularly rad track with accompanying software sequencer https://youtu.be/hzGmbwS_Drs
I guess tweets at bottom didn't load for you. There are many pictures.
What's so funny?

The FDIC has a track record of payouts and they keep meticulous of every bank they insure, going back to the program inception in 1933.
Slowing sales could be the result of low inventory. That is, sellers are not eager to list/sell. Everyone is waiting and seeing.
Note: I started my comment with "in theory".

I would be disappointed in framework if they locked out 3rd parties from selling replacement parts. That's the whole point of right to repair.

My hope is that if people rally behind a platform like this, it will drive the price down too.

There's also the fact that we currently aren't pricing in the cost of e-waste, much like how gas in the US doesn't currently price in the cost of climate change related damages. It could be that those $400 laptops are artificially cheap for now, but once you start charging companies for planned obsolescence, it doesn't make financial sense anymore.
Depending on how complex the task is, I also jump from sort/join/awk/sed to the SQL train more often. But if I have already gone this step, then I would also like to have the whole SQL(ite) power and that would then but really blow up the command line.
In such cases I usually write a TCL script, the integration of SQLite3 [0] is quasi native and besides the full SQLite3 functionality I also have flexible extensions (e.g. directly usable TCL procedures of any complexity) at my disposal.
Tools like Q represent a middle ground, although they build on SQLite they remain behind in functionality [1]. But as long as I want to keep it simple on the command line while adhering to the UNIX philosophy, coreutils, sed, awk and possibly perl remain my best friends.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html
[1]: http://harelba.github.io/q/#limitations
Wayyy off topic, but here are some thoughts.

> There’s a lot of stigma associated with dropping out of something like medicine...

Sure, there's external stigma, but IMO, the larger driver for stigma is self-imposed. Med school enrollees are filled with "most likely to exceed" personalities who are harder on themselves and catastrophize a minor setback v. peers as "the end of the world."

> (colloquially doctors hardly ever call them boards in the US, they just call them “step”.

Anecdotally, I've only heard friends in medicine (US) refer to them (the USMLE exam[0] and steps) as "boards," while in med school. I'm sure that some call them steps, too. I'm also aware of post-residency/fellowship specialty boards. Those are usually singular because you only need one and sometimes they're oral, like a thesis defense where you get grilled on a schedule of of your cases over the past couple years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Medical_Licensin...
This is under the presumption that most/all of the people being let go are actually low performers, and that leadership is able to correctly identify them.

The same leadership that thought those people met the caliber for working there in the first place.

I won't deny that there's low performers at any organization, but this is giving the people making the cuts too much credit imo. Double-digit cuts say more about leadership than the people being let go.
Comparing https://wiki.systemcrafters.cc/guix/nvidia/ with https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia makes me think that in this specific case there's a difference.
Heh, I named it and was specifically going for that reference :)