skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought the same thing. Finding the root cause is easier when you don't have to debug dozens of abstraction layers (KVM, Containerd/Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
"None of these search engines promote sources which could be seen as relatively neutral like Al Jazeera or Chinese news or whatever."

I had to read this twice to check this is what had actually been written..
-- South Korea - naver - kakao - huyndai - samsung - all hiring like crazy for developers - if you're a developer in south korea finding a job is very - very easy --
Häagen-Dazs anyone?
> the legions of JS developers think the web is the only thing that exists today.

As if all JS developers can be grouped into a single entity with the same thoughts. This sounds a bit like saying "the legions of Makita Tools carpenters think" or "the legions of Volvo truck drivers think".
in WoW characters have something like 50 abilities

unless they remove 95% of them from WoW I don't see how it could ever be possible to play on a controller

(vs. something like overwatch that has maybe 4 abilities per hero)
I wonder what the impact on the soil would be. If we have super-charged growth, can the soil support many generations of fast-growing trees?
Yubico explicitly recommends spare keys https://www.yubico.com/spare/
There are some conditions (dreaming, on drugs, etc.) where this does indeed happen. One could argue that current LLMs are analogous to the human mind minus the "control systems" that keep it reined in while awake and in a normal state of consciousness. Not claiming this is the case, just that it seems like a plausible hypothesis at this point.
> If we accept that Rust is indeed more difficult to learn than comparable systems programming languages

My problem is with "comparable systems programming languages". To me the only thing that fits there today is C++ and while a great many programming languages would be easier to learn than Rust, C++ is not one of them by a long shot.

I think the C++ Quiz https://cppquiz.org/ and the Rust Quiz https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/ illustrate handily. Neither of these languages is a walk in the park, but, notice they both have "Undefined behaviour" as a possible answer? Safe Rust doesn't actually have undefined behaviour, so you get to rule out one of the possibilities any time you don't see the "unsafe" keyword, which is in fact every time on the Rust Quiz. In C++ some of the quiz questions invoke UB, but good luck correctly guessing which ones.
Could we make the chips go slower like around 1Ghz? Maybe that is not feasible with the current software architecture to achieve great user experience.
And just like that, someone in my family got covid because their coworker decided to tough it out and come to the office sneezing their head off.
Even though they have unlimited PTO and unlimited paid sick days.
What you're talking about is not some ideal state that we currently exist in where demographic trends aren't resulting in impairment of healthcare delivery (which is a fundamental human right). What you are talking about is the first part of the death by a thousand cuts which is demographic decline and failed service delivery which will only be exacerbated over the coming years as the impact of an ageing and reduced taxpayer, below-subsistence population replacement kicks in.

The fact is, and remains, that the 'right' thing to do is to ensure adequate service provision and that the 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 year old who needs a hip replacement, or aortic valve replacement, or high level care nursing home, actually receives it. But the powers that be, even now, are able to reduce the current impact to healthcare budgets (and thus government expenditure) by pushing waiting lists out to such an extent that people are rendered basically invalid by the wait times, and die on them.

It's not just europe, it's basically the rule in the US (unless you are independently wealthy or have a decent healthcare plan), and it will only get worse unless people unzip their trousers and make the beast that has two backs.

Or, we decide collectively that the attempt at death by a thousand cuts is not in any way acceptable. Which is hard because the insidious nature of death by a thousand cuts is (to absolutely mix metaphors) that you don't notice the temperature rising until you are parboiled.
Running the structure is expensive. According to Wikimedia, base salaries are 20000 USD to 30000 USD per month or so. It has to be paid somehow.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
Wouldn't it be cool if apple had some kind of menu called like "display settings" or something, and in that menu there was like a checkbox labeled "use invisible scrollbars", and when the checkbox was checked, scrollbars would be invisible, then when it was unchecked, and I know this'll sound crazy, the scollbars would be visible, and people could just make it look the way they like?
But don't forget that TSMC's margins for massive bulk purchasers like AMD will be lower than the average.
MIME not only arrived after SMTP (the 'E' in MIME stands for 'extension'); it doesn't infect the SMTP part of the stack. There's nothing in SMTP that would have to change if MIME was abolished. SMTP provides no special support for MIME. They are disjoint.

Since HTTP/1.1, HTTP hasn't been premised on HTML, and vice-versa; again they are disjoint.

I don't know why author makes these claims.
Context: the author is peripherally around the rationalist / lesswrong subculture (or at least read by them). A ~200-upvoted post in that community from yesterday basically starts with "we are in AGI endgame mode, with no solution to the alignment problem, everything is fucked, we are all going to die", reflecting on chatGPT, which is created by OpenAI, the organization the author is working for. That community has 1.6M visitors per month, and their members are about as much tech-savvy as HN.

That's the target audience for this piece, and I think he got a lot.
The Foundation have invested a lot over the last decade in reliability. Nowadays it is in a great place, but about 10 years ago it was up and down all the time.
Don't forget that AMD also bought Xilinx
Progress is imperative. We will build more and more impressive AI _because it’s there_, because we can do it, and because it looks cool. And you don’t need a large organization to do it, the large models of 6 months ago are open source already and being optimized for reproducibility. Banning them is useless.

And, if somehow we create the AI which is genuinely smarter than humans — that’s great! We are all mortal anyway, and not too good at many things. If something smarter and better than humans will inherit the Earth — why not? The particular species is not relevant. Sum of all knowledge and discovering new things is what matters.

Ultra-accelerationism is the only way to fly.
Correct! This thing about "republic not a democracy" is so absurd. Don't people learn this stuff in middle school?
That's not how the average age works, men in Russia die young and that skews the statistics. If someone lives to be 66, there is a good probability they would live another 10 or so years.
It's funny how people mention Finland every single time and then you go look at their TFR and it is still below 2 for the last 50 years and has crashed from 1.8 to 1.4 within the last 15 years.

And that's ignoring the fact that Finland has a population of 5.5 million and that there is no evidence that their "solutions" scale to bigger countries.
Reply to person asking:

Current estimates are around 2 billion people impacted by 2100 - around 1/4 of the earths estimated population at that time:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/rising-seas-could-r...
You’d need to know it’s previous altitudes.
Operating at this scale you can assume that all these things you mentioned do exist :)
Lofimusic.app
We need governments to have pro-natal policies and to stop attacking those who do have pro-natal policies, (Hungary comes to mind).

The ridiculous (and often artificial) rise in house prices is another problem with real solutions like an end to restrictive zoning laws and the banning of foreign speculators buying accommodation just as a store of funds - some areas of London have huge numbers of empty flats caused by this while at the same time ordinary people are desperate to find somewhere decent to live.

People forced into couch-surfing and tiny bedsits aren't going to start families any time soon.
I'm a big fan of "boring" technology for this reason. Huge knowledge base behind the existing stuff. No real need to change.
I don't think Kagi is close to that amount of traffic to be honest (although I'd love to be wrong, in which case they might bypass the limit by rotating between different Programmable Search Engine accounts).. I mean they require signup and even then limit to 50 searches/month unless you start paying $10/month, which is totally fair but a very high barrier of entry.
Remember that they mostly serve static content to non-logged-in users.

As long as the cache layer is working, most people wouldn't notice an outage.
Google Poland afaik has hiring freeze right now.
the embedded comments section in the blogpost seems to lead directly to a discord channel. thats a pretty unique comment system! wonder how effective it has been for the author.
> Wagner group, Russia's private mercenaries leading the charge in Bahkmut are run by neo Nazi's don't you

Don't know why you didn't mention Rusich as an obvious example of Nazis, but ok, let's say Wagner group is Nazi. So what? They are not part of official military forces of Russia, unlike Azov in Ukraine. Moreover such people in Russia are very much frowned upon to say the least, especially in by official soldiers. But hey, if they can help on the frontline without good people risking their lives, why not let them.

> The whole "we're saving them from the Nazi's" was a constructed lie to sell to the ignorant and reactionary

So the bombing of Donbas, Alley of angels, countless reports of Ukraine violating Minsk agreements, Ukrainian and European officials admitting Minsk agreements were a lie, cutting of civilian infrastructure, tortures, kidnappings, people loosing whole livelihoods for dreadful 8 years is lie. Seems legit.
And worker rights are objectively much worse.
You’re implying serious and useful work can be done in a stable tech stack? Preposterous.

Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.
The fruit trees in the red zone are a bit run down in my experience. Fruit trees need a lot of care to do well: pruning, fungicide, pesticide, bird netting, irrigation etc. It's interesting to see which varieties thrive on their own. Plums and grapes seem to do well.
What is the role of ARC (automatic reference counting such as in swift) compared to the explicit approaches rust takes?
There's very few countries in the world with tax systems like that - even Estonia I believe has some tax free threshold, such that the first $x of your income is not taxed (then a flat rate of 20%). Sure, if your income was massively above that threshold then a 20% cut is pre-tax income would be pretty close to a 20% cut in take-home income, but I'd think for most here on HN it wouldn't be anything like that much (though probably not as low as 10%).
I have underpants from "Danish Endurance". Not sure why they are called like that. Haha. :-D Are they common in Danmark? Jeg er let nysgerrig.
They do have a pretty complex infra with redundancy, extensive caching, the whole works. But I think they use a relatively boring, reliable stack throughout. It doesn't look like they run a lot of GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT Cloud Solutions to Supercharge™ their web-scale data blazingly.

On the plus side solid stable software can run for decades without incidents, as long as the hardware is willing. The main negative is that it's not as Supercharged™ as the latest cloud product with a 99.9% SLA, which itself relies on 5 other internal microservices with 99.9% SLA each.
> Hyperscalers are already looking to evolve from ARM

citation needed

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/5_percent_cloud_arm/

"5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO"

5% does not seems to me as a position that you want to change to something else.

ARM in every day computing outside of mobile phones and SBCs is just getting started as I see it.
Everything that is needed to develop working software in terms of project management is described in Frederick Brooks "The Mythical Man-Month".

Design software. Do incremental development. Half of the code should be automatic tests (doesn't have to be unit tests, that are often waste of time, functional test is typically more useful).

Unlike many, if not most, "Agile" proponents Brooks actually took part in creation of a really robust and badass piece of software, IBM's OS/360.

In addition to corporate agiles like Scrum of SAF (SAF is a true abomination, all the most stupid ideas put into one bucket, but expensive SAF certificate expires after a year and has to be repurchased, so they make a lot of money) there are also anecdotal agiles, like Basecamp "Shape Up" that probably can work if you have a lot of time, mature fashionable product that sells itself anyway and you don't have to answer to annoying customers.

All of this is mostly buzzword filled bullshit. Waste of time.
> or is (in the case of php) especially known for its robustness.

It's 2023, can this pointless PHP bashing please stop once and for all if you're not talking about Wordpress?

In some cases, "keep it simple and stupid" is the thing to go - MediaWiki has mastered this.
Knowledge on how to make nuclear bombs or bioweapons is not secret. It is publicly accessible and any good physicist or biochemist can understand it.

Thankfully, it has considerable engineering challenges to not be accessible to any individual person or even a small organization. Not only everything is expensive, but it requires decades of hard engineering and construction experience for large-scale projects.

ChatGPT can tell you how to build a nuclear weapon. You can _read_ on how to build a nuclear weapon even without ChatGPT, down to all measures and materials list, this information is not exactly secret anymore. But you on your own won’t be able to do it.
Food is typically more expensive per calorie than Soylent and competitors (should) be. Also requires time to shop for groceries, prepare food, wash dishes. If you're on the go these are perfect, in theory.

I lived for a month in Amsterdam in 2017 and didn't have the money to rent / book an apt with a kitchen so I stayed in hostels. The problem then became food cost, a meal in amsterdam was around 15-20$ so 3 meals a day would be around 70-80$ which was too much for me so I went with JimmyJoy which is a dutch competitor and that reduced my costs to around 6$ per day. Now it wasn't perfect, I had a LOT of gas which I managed to reduce by making the shake with mint tea but the freedom and cheapness of it made me very happy
It's all public:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

You can even get access to devops/SREs tickets (and IRC messages)
Docker? You’re probably right. K8s? Wouldn’t be so sure. Would like to hear from the horse’s mouth though.

Edit: looks like it’s used. Wonder if it’s more tooling than production traffic. No time to dig further.
It switched from a charity-like operation, with barebones staffing and incredible benefits for users per dollar spent, to a 'splash the cash and hope' strategy.

I personally don't want my money spent like that, so I don't donate.
FYI they also have a nice public Grafana instance at https://grafana.wikimedia.org

It has all the info about HTTP requests, DB info, CDN, etc.

The wiki page about this https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grafana
Language is a world model, outputting acceptable text is outputting text that fits what's underneath the language: the meaning of the terms and their relationships. As far as I can tell that's how we do it too, I have no reason to believe we need a special mechanism for logic.

You should just ask ChatGPT, it will be more convincing than anything I say, I've literally had it make up dozens of things. I had it suggest a niche type system for a novel language to program variational models, and elaborate on top of it given a specific set of constraints. Yesterday I was asking him to make up a new U.I element to replace the timeline in motion graphics software, he proposed a series of bubbles with each bubble representing an effect and its radius representing the length of the effect and changing color when the effect is being played. When it had just come out, I had him imagine the effects of reversing specific principles of lung physiology and how it would affect others. I've had it apply complex functions like ROT13 on entirely original text, encoding numbers in different bases and so on.

If it can execute code on unseen data and perform logical inference on entirely imagined scenarios that don't fit its world model, that's as much evidence of creating a new idea as you can get.
damn your reasonable logic!
Yup, obviously they are aware of AMD competition and can adjust their margins accordingly.
I'm not sure that the person who submitted this could have considered the fact that the service has now been restored, regardless of how imminent the restoration was.

It's an interesting event (albeit it relatively low impact one) which we would not have known about if it wasn't posted here. Also, check out the wikimedia service status page, pretty cool, huh?
+1

That is true for deep work like:

- solving mathematical problems

- coding non-trivial stuff

- teaching non-trival stuff

The challange is shallow work e.g.

- replying to emails

- meetings

- scheduling meetings

And than there is no-work:

- checking your phone

- lunch

- walking and chatting before the next meeting

Shallow and no-work can easily eat anywhere between 20 and infinity :)
Their results are invalid because they used Cinebench. Cinebench uses Intel Embree engine which is hand optimized for x86, not ARM instructions. In addition, Cinebench is a terrible general purpose CPU benchmark.[0]

Imagine if you're testing how energy efficient an EV and a gas car is. But you only run the test in the North pole, where the cold will make the EV at least 40% less efficient. And then you make a conclusion based solely on that data for all regions in the world. That's what using Cinebench to compare Apple Silicon and x86 chips is like.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/pitid6/eli5_why_d...
> Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.

laughs in left-pad, Webpack, Grunt, ...

JavaScript tooling absolutely sucks - even for a moderate sized project, `npm install` can take many minutes, often enough because some native code has to be compiled. Webpack builds can take even longer.

In contrast, with PHP you run `composer install` and it works, no bundling or whatever required.
Love that there's a "munted" medway footbridge:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+'munted'+Medway+footbr...
Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7M cloud spending
I guess it depends on whether you are talking about experiencing luxury or buying luxury products - in the latter case I'd say that France is a clear leader - food, drinks, fashion, even extreme high-end cars...
Those calculations always completely overlook the growth in government.
Visualizing 2019-2022 change in math achievement in the U.S.
I often listen to talks at faster speeds, but there's a trick to it: ramp the speed.

Start at 1x, then increment the speed slowly over a bit of time giving your brain time to adjust. You can easily get to 3x speed by "ramping" the speed over a period of time.

Is there any audio book reader that supports such speed ramping? In an automatic way?
You forgot about eating ze bugs ;)
I never thought to look for an expiry date. Thx for pointing it out.
What is stopping it to be better?

BTW an AI trained on a larger dataset generated by an AI trained on a smaller dataset is still technically only knows the smaller dataset. It can just be a better AI trained on the same dataset.
That seems to be a Danish brand of athletic/performance clothing[1]. Founded by a runner who wanted better options.

[1]: https://danishendurance.com/pages/danish-endurance-our-brand
It doesn’t have to be true. It’s just that people outside France often buy this kind of marketing.

It’s like in 90s in Russia everyone was crazy about so-called “European renovation” of their apartments. The materials and styles they used had zero resemblance to what you see in a quality Scandinavian or western-European home. Moreover, people who move from Eastern Europe get disillusioned when they see e.g. that many for-rent German apartments are crap(black mold on the walls is something very common).

So in essence, these “country X” brands have nothing to do with reality. But stereotypes are strong especially if you’re live far away.
> Creation of value only exists through spending.

Nope. If I grow carrots, I create value. No spending required.
They still sell the powder.

The problem from what I read is that the powder market is just too small and there isn’t much more space to expand.

They apparently still sell both the bottled version and the powder version.

(I stopped giving a damn when I got married. Cooking for 3 people is a different story than cooking for 1.)
Have users view and approve each permission individually. First permission is listed, buttons for "deny" and "approve", user clicks "approve", next permission is listed, etc.
Clicking stuff is a lot of work for users and some of those permissions sound pretty intimidating, so I suspect either extensions would start getting by using fewer permissions or users would start getting by using fewer extensions.
We do have an overpopulation problem if we expect to increase the quality of life of everyone on Earth.

Wealth-wise, the global bottom 50% emit on average 1.4 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) per year. The top 10% emits 28.7 tCO2e [1].

We're not talking about billionaires when we mention "the top 10%. This was a 2019 study, so 10% of the population was about 770 million people— that's roughly the population of the whole of Europe [2].

That bottom 50% deserve their living standards to be elevated. They deserve and should get sewage, home appliances, water pipes, electricity, cars, meat, video games, disposable income, etc etc. When that happens, half of the population could be producing one or two orders of magnitude more tCO2e. Someone in that 10% right now is producing 205x more tCO2e than someone in that bottom 50%, and it isn't because they own private jets, it's because they can afford a washer and dryer.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z#:~:text=G...).

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/
> for almost all human history working all a day was the norm.

References for that? Didn't they do studies showing that e.g. hunter-gather type tribes such as Kalahari bushmen had about the same amount of downtime as modern Westerners?
At any rate, the sort of work you're doing makes a huge difference as to how sustainable doing it 60 hours a week is.

(Quote from article linked below:

“Our hunter-gatherer ancestors almost certainly did not endure ‘nasty, brutish, and short‘ lives,” he writes of seminal studies of the Ju/’hoansi, a hunter-gatherer group living in southern Africa. “The Ju/’hoansi were revealed to be well fed, content, and longer-lived than people in many agricultural societies, and by rarely having to work more than 15 hours per week had plenty of time and energy to devote to leisure.”)
> poor containerization support

I use UTM and Docker on a daily basis and it is extremely smooth. What exactly is missing?

> an annoying development toolchain

What are you talking about exactly? For example most Python and Rust builds just work out of the box.

> no _real_ support for video games

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Metal.html

These claims look like a bit of an exaggeration.