skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting how a poor health care system can impact the general economic productivity.

I thought this was basic governance. Even at the most ruthlessly utilitarian, healthy workers pay taxes.
I'm pretty sure petrol and diesel consumption will not fall significantly: As the price falls, people will drive more with larger cars in countries with less stringent environmental regulation.

Open cycle gas turbines will increasingly being use to generate electricity because it can quickly come online when solar and wind power is insufficient. They burn diesel in many parts of the world.

The real loser is coal.
Okay so what institutions do you trust? Can you name five?

Also what terms did you Google?

Also also there is no "the rest of us". You don't belong to or speak for a group. It's just you and I talking, so don't think you've got some kind of majority in this conversation or in this idea.
No matter what batshit crazy things I stumble upon while running around the internet today, none of them will be as insane as “Chris Coyier was never passionate about coding”. Being “business minded” and “having passion for coding” is not exclusive. Chris is a living breathing coding resource, and that definitely came before he realized that the blogging and conferences and book writing was going to lead to a multimillion dollar payout. He was in the right place at the right time, and willing to put in an overwhelming amount of effort. But it all started with the passion.
In the TechEmpower benchmarks, Clojure is about 2.75x slower than Java, while Python is 5.59x slower.

The fastest composite Python "framework" is uvicorn at 17.9% of the fastest run in Java (officefloor). The fastest Clojure run is Aleph at 36.4%.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z...

About SBCL, I get conflicting results. The Benchmarks Game shows it roughly as fast as Java for many problems:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

But here it's significantly worse than the Clojure runs, likely due to the slow DB bindings (the other test types show it roughly in line with Clojure; though it uses a "Stripped"/unrealistic HTTP implementation):

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z...

I am not sure which Lisp implementation is used; is it SBCL? Does this file speak to you?

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/73eb...
Many europeans would feel that precisely describes the roma. Hoo boy you wanna see a European get real ugly real fast, ask them about the Roma sometime. I'm not racist but with those people it's not really racism, it's just fact... type stuff will follow.

but like, at the end of the day thinking that "multiple cultural groups" is the problem basically a coded/socially-acceptable way of saying that we can't have a social safety net because of black/hispanic people (or whatever disfavored minority/immigrant group is currently en-vogue). It always has been.
Not the latest NASA one. The others.
Yeah, I also think they are that good. Unfortunately, there are not much of them.
A related thought experiment: in Shuster's case, substitude Jewish for Canadian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster

Both work for me, and in the context of how two young men impacted U.S. settler culture, with its profoundly Anglo-Saxon basis, it is entirely valid to identify their cultural, religious, and/or political background.
Of course your reading comes easier! Each political team captures political energy with specific critiques. Then the opposing team considers those critiques as the territory of the other, turns on their rationalization and cognitive dissonance, and avoids considering them on their merits.

It does take work to go against that dynamic. You should do that work, despite it being harder than knee jerk dismissal. It's the only way to tame this partisan fueled polarization.
Cool! Visuals are tough on mobile. Easier read on desktop
>and replace them with compatibility shims

christ can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out and inexplicably make it not only uninstallable by the user, but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any attempt to sidestep or evade it would be met with ruination? Its so bombastic the US Justice department hauls your pepsi sipping CEO in for a round of slouching, hand-waving antitrust litigation but somehow you manage to make it out by smirking through interviews and the grace of a nation thats just awakening to the dawn of the internet.

then fast forward 20 years later, your dumpster-fire web browser with all its lock-in and exploits still exists in the OS but the average user sees it as nothing more than a glorified blue icon to immediately download what has become your direct competitors far more competent and meaningful execution of browser software.

So you sunset the horrorshow that was IE in favour of your competitors browser engine to power your new browser but the haggard burro of a thing you call an OS is so inextricably encumbered by your blues-traveler era nineties myopia you now need a team of H1B's to start writing shims and the burger from lunch feels like its starting to come back up...

...now eight years later whatever frankenstein browser you convinced yourself was a good idea to build is still nowhere near as popular as your competitors, and thats after you added built-in gaslighting to your search engine to dissuade anyone from even searching for your competitors browser. you even came up with your own prefix to force links in your daytime infomercial of an OS to open directly in your new pet browser but people still dont want to use it. heck, you routinely reset their default browser and the only thing its managed to do is galvanize what by all indicators is a nearly white-hot detest for your pet chrome that has 45 seconds of unavoidable fullscreen lecture on first load, built in ads and tours, and a weird buy now pay later feature.
That's a very Euro/Ameri-centric take. Most of the world is much much different especially if you look like you should belong/conform.
I don't think college students will like paying for that kind of arrangement.

Apply that model to high school and you'll just have teachers desperately trying to cram lessons into the beginning of class, to make up for the fact that 80% of the kids didn't watch the lectures.
Congrats Philip on hitting #1 on Hacker News! Great piece of work!
I think that's a fair point and question with regard to how we handle collateral damage from police action. The most important piece is probably how we handle Bond and people under investigation as well as their arrest records after the fact. I don't think that arrest records that do not lead to conviction should be able to be used by Third parties, although I understand that their retention is valuable for police themselves.

Ideally, holistic police oversight would take into account the damage they do and make sure that they take reasonable care to mitigate the damage. Ultimately the taxpayers should be on the hook one way or another for the full cost of police protection that they want
> By that perspective NVIDIA can't really afford to sell cards to individual gamers

They can't afford to continue profitable line of business that took them from nothing to multi-billion dollar corporation?

This is not a new problem - why does Intel sell CPUs to gamers for $100 when theu can sell same CPU for servers for $1000?

Narket segmentation, and you try to make sure these markets buy diffetent products that are priced differently. You artifically create differences in priducts. For example Intel withholds ECC memory from consumer products. Whether its rihht or wrong is debatable.

But please let's not use language like 'we can't afford', It implies they are losing money and subsidising gamers.

Whereas in reality they are very profitable and you are saying they could nickel and dime their customers even harder.
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What?

Do you notice a trend in the membership of your named organizations, mainly that they seem filled with old conservative men?

Re: "daughters of the america"

"Council of the Daughters of America, a patriotic fraternity, which seeks to aid in preserving and perpetuating the Public School system; to instill a spirit of patriotism into the youth of our land; to place our flag over every schoolhouse; to promote the reading of the Holy Bible therein; and to protest against the immigration of paupers, criminals, and the enemies of our social order"

Ugh, yeah, my queer self is not really looking for that kind of engagement and I doubt they're looking for me.

It has to be noted that there is absolutely an increasing poverty of community life and hyper individualization. It's kind of incentivized in currently existing systems.
Maybe the knife landed near him and he picked it up right away before he got up.

You're putting a lot of weight on "you can't hold onto something from a 15' drop" to dismiss everything, even though there were hundreds of witnesses, many of whom were interviewed about the events.

Why don't you go ahead and tell us your theory of what happened. I almost guarantee it is more outlandish than "he held onto a knife from a 15' drop"
Hmm, what I had in mind was rather a tool that would generate a new access key (or some other way to correlate the requests) and record and show me in real time what permissions I need and let me play with that and simulate what API calls would fail with a policy that I'm just writing. Very low volume.
> For the average Grandma who just wants to use Hotmail and Facebook, learning Edge is actually a monumental undertaking

I don't know what value of "grandma" is subject to being averaged, but this feels needlessly hyperbolic.
Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
For me this is the wrong attitude.

AI is there, and more of it will come. The best you can do as a parent is to help your children to use it correctly. I'm pretty sure that using it correctly will help to improve the critical thinking, and will help children to express themselves in a better way (by virtue of example, or correction, etc -- possibilities are countless).

New technology doesn't mean people will regress.
This is a very real problem when using a VPN into another network with same ip-space.

Though I'm not sure the complexity is worth it. Suppose it would be nice if tailscale implemented this type of substitution-routing-NAT this for users.
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Oh I'm aware of that. The thing is, modern forms of slavery are varied in forms. Some are based on laws but still criticized as inhumane (e.g. US prison labor, kafala in Arab nations), some are based on laws but widely accepted (H1B, conscription in militaries), and some are completely illegal (e.g. human trafficking for sexual and agricultural exploitation).
Sadly, the devil is in the details of determining whether something is a genetic defect, or an adaptation to an environment just around the corner. Would you get rid of cycle cell anemia even though it gives an advantage towards Malaria? Genetic variability tends to be beneficial in the long run. This can easily be seen with dog breeding, where the hybrid crosses have more vigor than the "true breeds".

In the end, one would be justifying a decision based on a bias.
Hasn't the definition of a computer monitor been "4x the cost of an equivalent TV" since the beginning of the HD age?

What makes sense or doesn't make sense for gaming is a function of the software as much as anything else.

I think the biggest disappointment of Stadia was that so many companies got onto the cloud gaming bandwagon out of some combination of self-servingness and me-tooism. Of all companies, Google was in the best place to develop games that could generate graphics that could be streamed to 20+ players who simultaneously inhabit a complex and closely coupled world... Google has machines in Google cloud that are completely capable of that, but instead of moving the standard of gaming forward (where gamers will be saying "you can have my cloud games when you take them out of my cold dead hands") they just streamed more boring episodes of Assassin's Creed.
Pretty sure that would require AGI, and is at least well beyond the means of LLMs.
The problem in the UK is less that everything is expensive, but that nearly everyone is poor. Inequality really appears to be going rapidly the wrong way.
AFAIK Apple doesn’t have any PM roles for their major products. Think about that for a second.

The most successful product company doesn’t have Product Managers.

Saying this as a product person.
> Also, sequentially consistent RMW atomic operations don't order with non-sequentially consistent atomics

So just use sequentially-consistent atomics everywhere, unless otherwise needed.

_No one_ should be itching to touch that acquire/release paradigm unless you really have to. Its grossly more complex, and very few programmers understand it.

Acquire/release exists because its necessary. (Ex: implementation of spinlocks/mutexes). But its a tool no one should feel good about using, its very low level, very subtle, and full of potential traps.

A good acquire/release lock-free algorithm or data-structure is still a PH.D thesis level material these days. Its obscure, uncommon, and difficult to write. Don't do it unless you have to. And if you have to, try all the patterns that have been figured out already before innovating.

> Going deeper into the atomic add example, are you sure that the cache line bouncing will not be an issue?

Do you mean false sharing?

False sharing is a performance issue. Your code will be correct, albeit slower. That's fine. Furthermore, acquire/release doesn't do anything to solve false sharing, you need to change your memory layout so that objects are on different cache lines.

> So again the solution could be to use a mutex and split the data so that the mutex is mostly uncontended.

We're only at "#4" because "#1, #2, and #3 have failed". If you can solve things with a mutex, slap down a mutex and call it done. Don't reach for the more complex tools unless necessary.
There's always going to be an imbalance between GPU companies and gamers.

The ideal for a gamer is that every year the GPU maker pulls another rabbit out of their hat, and doubles the performance from the previous year, with the same manufacturing and 50% less power consumption. Anyone who can remotely afford it and prioritizes gaming could upgrade.

The ideal for the GPU maker is that every year, gamers double in number, and double in hunger for higher performance, and any incremental gain in performance can be sold for double the price of the previous year, all while R&D and manufacturing costs are dwarfed by sales volume.

There were years where it felt like the gamers were winning. You could buy a mid-range card for a couple hundred US dollars that outperformed the previous flagship. Amazing! The past couple of years shifted the other way. Between cryptocurrency mining and machine learning, the appetite for GPU hardware created a seemingly insatiable seller's market.

Fortunately, the mining craze has all but vanished, and GPU hardware is much more powerful than it was a year earlier. However, the GPU makers are still on a high from the wave they were riding.

If you're a gamer (and not a machine learning hardware consumer), you're not in a terrible place right now. There's lots of hardware that can run modern games in 1440p and 4K resolutions with lots of eye candy and plenty of performance for $500 available to buy right now. If you can't afford $500, you can buy a $200 card and easily get excellent 1080p performance. But things aren't advancing as fast as they had at some point in the past, and there is no new midrange ($250-300) card yet available from the current generation that can embarrass old flagships (that used to cost $500-600). So we can be a bit unhappy about that, but I don't think things are terrible. And I think with a little patience, we'll still see performance increase, and affordable options continue to improve.
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Can we let IPv4 and NAT die already?
Creation should require some form of bravery, blindly plunging into the unknown. Not knowing how the creation will be received until it’s actually created.

In the past decade people have been getting burnt out on all these lean startup, kickstarting fucks that just want to test for a market or audience before building out a product. The end result is we are bombarded with vaporware products, services, books, that we have to show interest in or worse put some money down before the creator decides to actually create anything. This makes people skeptical of “new” offerings. The consumer wants a product right away, not a promise. Also, the end product becomes subject to the tyranny of whatever can be tested for with pre-marketing.

The risk needs to shift back onto the creator. I’m talking big designs upfront; products coming to market ready to consume. If it does poorly, the creator just takes the hit in the form of wasted time and money. This is how things used to be, before a generation of entrepreneurs decided they wanted to be risk averse and try out a hundred half baked ideas rather than one idea really well thought out. It seems that as the skill of getting products right on the first try began to wane, “lean” processes began to grow in popularity.
> Doesn't matter - the bandwidth used by an average user costs a small portion of a montly subscription fee.

Citation needed.

> High prices for GPUs may be a good way to get more subsribers, who will pay a lot more money over the years.

And they set price of both markets. Sounds like market manipulation to me.
Rule by weather forecasters.
Well, if humanity is unique in this, we are the only species to make this far in the entire universe, that's pretty cool that we have all these technologies and we should keep going. If we are not unique. why worry about this? Not unique, then this is probably a natural path the same as going from a bacteria to a walking fish, just a few steps further down the evolution...
We used to use regular audio cassette recorders to store/restore data on the TRS80 before hard/floppy drives. It's also how you backed up/restored midi data from early synths. It basically just sounded like an early dial up modem transmitting data when you played it back as audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHrjqmt_wQ
If you mean military alliance:

Formally, no.

Informally, very much so.

Another example of a country in a similar arrangement with the USA would be Israel.
According to the article, it's about people who stopped working due to health issues.
Boundaries are crucial, but one must derisk their downside to effectively enforce them.
shudder

Brings me back to the days of having to support IE6 for a client website when everyone has moved on from IE6. That shit was a dog to support
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There are multiple people here recommending clubs and interest groups, but I think this is missing the point of the article. "Hanging out" as defined in the article is explicitly about not having anything specific to do or to talk about. It's unstructured socialization, being together with no particular goal in mind.

What struck me reading this is that our cultural obsession with productivity has bled over into our private lives—socializing has to be a calendar item in order for it to fit in, and if it's going to be a calendar item it should have a specific purpose. This is sad. We've lost something important: spontaneous, purposeless social interaction.
I wouldn’t mind having a Jarvis with subminds to help him manage my life.
Nah, I don't know specific examples that satisfy the OP's original question, but writing for entertainment (and showrunning as a management-level tier of that track) is just a career transition like any other.

People who've had one professional career and been grinding on their writing on the side absolutely make the leap and move their way up. Often, their break comes from writing from their expertise. If you dig through shows about medicine, law, policing, etc etc, you'll often find several writers who were worked in those fields.

Not every writer was a barista until they made their break. Some of them were indeed lawyers and engineers.
Yes.

I keep going back to Stephen King's definition of writing as telepathy. The machine does not think.

That doesn't make it bad, it just makes it meaningless. I was able to use it to identify an obscure 90s B movie and that's pretty cool.

But in terms of actual meaning, you might as well be talking to a tree.

There's a long and storied history of humans who talk to trees and project deep meaning on their answers, so we're probably doomed to fall for the delusion anyway.
> A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L
Who reads the papers? Yes, Prime Minister - https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M
My comment was ambiguously worded, sorry. I meant ESA is keeping up with what others are doing. Inspiring folks and radically innovating space tech doesn't even seem to be on their agenda, although in theory they have the capability.
The crazy thing is it feels like wages are really set by the standard of living. Most corporate jobs are paying just enough to afford a decent place to live, a vacation, and then putting away a few thousand in savings. This idea that we live in this meritocracy and you get paid for the value you create is completely bunk. Were all basically accepting a livable wage like cattle being farmed for value by rich people.
This chart is fascinating but seems somewhat devoid of the reality of marketshare, price, regulations (safety, taxes), etc. Tracking a particular set of car models and talking about how they have evolved over time is only relevant if the marketshare is similar and the demographics of the customers are similar. If the average selling price of a particular a "compact" car has increased in price (relative to inflation and the market) by 2x and it's gotten .5m longer, is it really the same car segment anymore? Just because it has the same name is it the same thing?

Another aspect which is fascinating is how neatly these mythical segments all increase in length over time. The reality is that for any given year, there are a variety of sizes of car for sale. Do we look at a scatter plot per year of length vs price, or length vs engine displacement, or length vs marketshare? There are so many ways to slice and dice the data.

The auto industry has also been predicated for years on the concept of planned obsolescence. Each year the new model of a particular car needs to get slightly "better" in some way. Bigger, better (more "luxurious"), faster....

The overall average of all of this may be essentially similar. The graph reminds me a bit of a Shepard tone. It's an audio illusion where a sound seems to be constantly rising in pitch, but on average it's actually staying the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Back pressure and circuit breakers matter.