skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private healthcare in US seems to be criminally greedy.

Classifying healthcare spending as "anti-poverty" spending may lead to an inaccurate assessment of the effectiveness of these programs. Including healthcare spending in the evaluation of anti-poverty initiatives, it could potentially mask the true impact of more targeted interventions, such as food stamps, housing assistance, and cash transfers. This could, in turn, hinder the development of more effective policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty.
Doing that at compile time would require being able to perfectly predict everything the program can do, which is equivalent to solving the halting problem (make the program do something undefined after it finishes, then if you get an error at compile time then it halts) and is mathematically impossible. Doing it at runtime would have a massive performance impact
You're not really engaging with your parent's point, which is about misinformation.

Would it be OK if Twitter allowed misinformation about the miltary operations in the Ukraine to run rampant? Would it be OK if Twitter censored pro-Ukranians (because they share a lot of misinformation)?
People can live without electricity, but only for very brief periods of time. If we had to go extended periods, I don't think it would be a stretch to say civilisational collapse would be immanent.
Because common sense is subjective. Murdoch owned media is good at manipulating it. From where I'm from, there is no "left" and "right" politics in the US. One major party is more conservative and more pro-corporation than anything that would be remotely considered in my country, and the other party is the GOP, which seems like a mad joke at this point. That for some reason ~50% of the country votes for a party that wants to make so many bad things worse, is concerning for to me, but, I gave up on US politics after Hilary got nominated, the writing was so clear on the wall even back then. Any time I hear that Trump is still relevant as anything other than which prison he is at, just confirms it.
Mics? Chances are (unless you're a vocalist) you can either DI straight into a plugin or use a VSTi to just midi program a sampled version of your instrument both performed and engineered to a higher standard than you can reach.
The thrust of my argument, just to make it explicit, is that I think it is unwise to jettison nuclear power as an abundant source of energy because of the nuclear weapon connection. Alas, these days this view is rather in the minority.
25 minutes walk to work is also a huge factor. Even with cubes, if I could easily walk to the office I'd do so some days. As it is, my assigned office is about a 30 minute drive and I haven't gone in for 4 years or something like that. Have to go into another office for customer visits now and then but that's almost 2 hours each way.
It's wild how bad the reputation of nuclear energy has been, when the alternative has largely been fossil fuels. It's really not that dangerous relative to source for 80% of energy production the world still relies on.
after all, 15 year old girls’ top concern is how the 2008 crisis hit them
Could set up a local instance or something as a solution.
I don't know how we'd quantify that in any objective way.

Subjectively, it has 1/5 the population of the US and its influence is rather large.

But really, what's the counterargument here? We're not sure if it's good for artists to have healthcare? I'm not sure the quality of the "arts scene" is the right question to ask.
AI, Mass Evolution, and Weickian Loops
Yep, the cost to run these programs is more than it would be to have a 20k UBI given how to each person living in poverty.
Science popularization inclines layppl. to underrate their dependence on experts
> Tom seems brilliant but I wouldn't refute my argument based on a single datapoint.

Sure, I agree. However, there are many other examples that you can easily look up. But I do find the by amount of mental gymnastics in your response interesting.

I think it's fair to say that the opinion of those who have worked with Elon closely for many years hold the most weight. Compared to outsiders who just speculate on the internet.
I don't hear them complaining, though. But I do hear people making the same money I do. I mean like non stop woe is me can't afford blah blah blah, billionaires have so much more than me upper middle class (lol at the "middle" part) whine. It's all just envy.
Assuming you will remember how you die, that's what the entire life is about.
The US used to let kids roam with the current road layouts.

The real problem with letting kids roam free is that we banned / defunded mental health care and gun regulations, and also gutted the middle class.
> agricultural workers

As a Canadian farmer, I would think working from home is the most common arrangement for farmers.
Tesla Q1 2023 Deliveries
Here is a list of some mostly vendor specific tools for RISC-V verification: https://www.riscfive.com/risc-v-compliance/
See linked, also from The Verge

> Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine

> The Brother whatever-it-is will print return labels for online shopping, never run out of toner, and generally be a printer instead of the physical instantiation of a business model.

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...
It's false that people now have more leisure time, in fact we have less than ever before.

For most of human history we were hunter gatherers. We know from the field of anthropology that people in hunter gatherer tribes "work" about 30 hours a week - but their work consists of things we consider leisure like hunting, fishing, hiking, and building things with friends (ever spend a weekend helping a buddy build a deck?).

Hell, even medieval surfs had more free time than us. Planting and harvesting seasons certainly had some full workdays but other than that... lots of time off. You know all those feasts in the Catholic church? Yeah, they got all those off. Kind of like how government workers get all the extra holidays off like MLK and Columbus day. A medieval surf's PTO puts an average American's PTO (0 days by law!) to shame.

If you compare our current amount of free time to the free time of a Dickensian orphan working in a factory at the turn of the 20th century then yes, it seems like we have it pretty good. But compared to 95% percent of human history, we work way more time at our stupid jobs than any other humans in history.
On the contrary, John von Neumann was not known to sleep much at all and he was well known for being the fastest thinker alive in his time.
Unless you’re about to retire, it shouldn’t matter. As long as you’ve been dollar cost averaging every month and buying more into it, you’ll be in a much better position when you do retire. The market is always going to cycle up and down (over long term) and you just need to deal with it.

And if you’re close to retirement and seeing large changes due to to market, you haven’t invested properly. The closer you are to retirement the more safe the investments should be.

Checking your 401k balance every day at 30 years old is going to make you crazy.
By that definition there are lots of rockets who flew successfully at first. Falcon 9 for example.
Just want to share a couple great works by Sakamoto. I'm a big fan. One of my favorite bossa nova albums is A Day In New York by Morelenbaum/Sakamoto. Here's Desafinado from that album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rtdR9WkOOY

And his early synth-y stuff is just so hip. Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978) is some badass stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo7n6CMCcE
I typically (especially on the weekend, since at work I somehow have higher motivation to push myself) go down a "thinking cascade" to adapt to this, where I'd code for some time, then when my brain gets tired go do something involved but not too involved (like figure out how to do something with Linux or whatever, or read a book that is actually useful), then when I get tired of that go read medium-effort stuff, like history or check how to do some project around the house, then when my brain is completely fried I'd go comment on hacker news :)

Or eventually just go exercise and do chores... I find I can reset to the beginning of the cycle in an hour or so.
Your comment has 0 to do with WFH or remote. All you've said is that Zoom is worse than in-person. Well there could be another tool. Does remote = Zoom now?

And Zoom can be better than a poor office with a terrible chair, small monitor and other bad equipment. Again this doesn't mean in-person itself is bad either.
Two things that makes Canada a bit different from teh US that might help accelerate this trend.

1) We've got really high housing prices

2) Partially related we only have 4-5 big cities.

one of the US's strengths is that there are great cities in almost every state where someone can move to and find a job no matter their profession.

Canada has Toronto, Vancouver, and maybe Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa. I don't say that to shit on those cities and the ones I didn't mention but we don't have alot of huge job creating cities.

We just don't have the big job generating cities like other countries do because we're very concentrated in 2-3 areas.

That means our population is drawn to live in the GTA(surrounding area of Toronto) or Vancouver.

Work from home allows our population to spread out a bit, which is something our huge country sorely needs. it should also have the benefit of allowing people to move elsewhere and lower our property prices in the big cities.

We also have had dry runs for remote work in the form of satellite US offices with minimal supervision for a long time so we've got atleast some experience in our work force with remote work before the pandemic started.

WFM won't be a panacea that fixes our housing prices alone, we'll probably need to start taxing people who own multiple homes very heavily, but its a trend that could help bring them down and spread our population out to other areas,
While I've certainly done everything in software, there are a lot of genres (such as metal) where micing is a part of the sound. If you listen to metalcore vs a lot of metal, you can hear it.
I really dislike giving HN exposure to this kind of issue; it only brings us the forbidden pleasure of voyeurism while not helping the maintainers & contributors in the slightest – and can even crystallize conflicts while we eat popcorn.

Let us let them take their time, wash their dirty laundry among themselves, and take the time they need to go forward on the project.
not one mention of Zumwalt or LCS in this article

you cannot talk about (re)building the military without discussing the decades and billions wasted pursuing pipe dreams and failed ideas

right now we are building an LCS that will be scrapped within a year of it being put to sea...we still have LCSs that even haven't had their keels laid...which will meet the same fate! say it out loud: "we don't want the LCS and will scrap them...can you build us eight more please?"

do you think the Chinese Navy is ordering boats they don't want?

and try spending some money on people, and I don't just mean better soldier pay...look at the pathetic physical condition of today's soldiers...what % of the armed forces are medically obese? go watch random military videos on youtube and see the guts hanging over the belts...its just pathetic
> the recording industry is the problem that music has. But this 'problem' is not limited to music.

In most other industries the individual isn't part of the product, but replaceable a lot more easily.
The second biggest geopolitical opponent to the US, Russia, is in major decline. Their primary opponent, China, is slowing down and has enormous domestic problems to deal with that are projected to worsen for a long period of time. The US was supposed to be behind in AI research, but technologically, they're ahead. I believe that once AI is used to exert geopolitical pressure, economically or through counter action, it will be a runaway advantage. If this were Star Wars I think we'd be at the point where we were only starting to see the rise of the Empire.
Feature flags are great but they should not be used as a crutch to leave unfinished or non-working code in the codebase. IMO they should be used to rapidly pull back the change before the slower revert can take place.
The tl;dr as I understand it is that jart had a misunderstanding of how what was actually happening and the benefits of the map optimization… the claims of actually being able to shrink the model size from 20GB > 6GB were just completely false, and while there was a model loading time improvement, actual memory required and used did not change.

A number of people saw this and said that making a breaking change to the repo that a lot of people are using and have forked for other models was a bad idea, thus this new PR.
Should be clarified that it's biased towards Islam.
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Is not ego-driven, the requirements for running any model dropped by more than half, you can know run the largest model, 30b, on domestic over the shelf computers. The change is very welcome in the community
Lol. Wait till you have a bunch of kids who want to print color.
doesn't C force 2s complement now? If so, one less thing to worry about.
Partially, the reasoning they gave back then was it was too tightly integrated with Firefox's internals. Even if WebExtensions had all the APIs needed, it would have needed nearly a complete rewrite and they weren't up to it.
That's exactly what I mean. Patents requires publishing so that it could be replicated.
If you have an always-on machine at home, their older network printers can have AirPrint added with CUPS, avahi and (optionally) and avahi service file.
> Elon Musk praised Russian state media propaganda outlets in texts, court documents show"

From the article:

> "Actually, I find their news quite entertaining," Musk continued, according to the filing. In a follow-up text, the world's richest man described Russian media as having a "lot of bullshit, but some good points too."

> "Free speech matters most when it's someone you hate spouting what you think is bullshit," Musk commented after Gracias agreed with his stance on free speech.

Spinning this as praise is borderline disinformation. But then again, spewing clickbaity BS is completely on brand for BI.
I pretty sure what he is saying the the gap upwards is near meaningless. If you drive a Civic or a Ferrari, you still arrive to your destination in about the same amount of time. If you can't afford a car and have to take a bus it takes you 2-4x as long. There is utility in owning a car and almost no further utility in owning a luxury car. Same for moderate-sized house vs mansion. Southwest vs a private jet. Walmart clothes vs designer.

The US has one of the most progressive tax systems. What Buffet is pointing out that at the .1 level it plateaus out (even falls in some cases) when it should still be going up.
"After the concert, we started talking, and he complained that I played much slower than the original songs or pieces. He asked, “Why?” That made me think, “Why do I want to play much slower than before?” Because I wanted to hear the resonance. I want to have less notes and more spaces. Spaces, not silence. Space is resonant, is still ringing. I want to enjoy that resonance, to hear it growing, then the next sound, and the next note or harmony can come. That’s exactly what I want."

- Ryuichi Sakamoto, https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ryuichi-sakamoto-o...
All downhill? I remember the 2010s as an uninterrupted bull market. SPY opened the decade at $110, and closed the decade at $320. Tripling my money in 10 years, plus low inflation? Yes please!
Counterpoint annecdata - my cheap HP injet printer dried up. I got what I paid for (I guess even less).
Man, what a condescending tone you take.

> Block whatever stupid protocols Windows uses for file sharing so you don't leak your credentials, that's all the outgoing filtering you need.

It's clear that you've never managed networks that need to meet stringent security requirements.

> Universities are research facilities, they're supposed to be at the forefront of technology, not run into service issues because their policies are frozen in the late 90s.

It's also clear that you've never worked on infrastructure in a large heterogenous environment that grew organically over decades. Or dealt with infrastructure that was grant funded.

Yeah both of those problems are solved or alleviated with tooling but it can take years to get all the disparate systems managed in house.
By American city standards, San Francisco is dense. Even if they have a lot of SFHs, they are counting Victorian row houses that are placed next to each other.

> You can’t say building density doesn’t work when it hasn’t even been tried in the last 30 years.

What do you mean? I lived in Beijing for 9 years, and it was plenty dense, and plenty expensive to rent for locals.
I would expect that indicating interest in a topic overrides global default settings. For example, I followed a number of accounts about the war, and I see a significant amount of Ukraine content. Maybe there is a x0.5 global default setting, but there is another "topic interest" variable somewhere doing a x10. Right now people are just cherry picking lines in a giant codebase without knowing how all the pieces interact.
Pushing optimizations for personal glory that look good with some benchmarks but may have unthought of or hidden regressions on other aspects of the code/user base.

On the same hand this may be an ego driven revert. from reading the bug it seems like some people might be salty that jart gets a lot of publicity for a few changes where other people which bigger contributions to the project don't get.
mmap breaks previous (not guaranteed) compatibility and (few) people demand option to turn it off by reverting all of the commits and throwing hands up by demanding more testing, documenting, and more optional arguments.
While I agree with some of the premises, it’s up to ggerganov in the end. If he wants this to be the default, so be it. Throwing a (polite) tantrum because you should please all, while not offering to do any of the work, is entitled demand.
Is this a serious website? "Prompt Engineer 20 years of experience"
Good point. Lots of anti-WFH only know about "the office". Like you can't work without an office when a lot of the population don't.
> Network management is there for a purpose, and the people focusing on bypassing it are generally bad actors

I don't follow your reasoning. So you have the ability to block QUIC, but declare QUIC to be a "bad actor" trying to bypass your network management?

They switched from TCP to QUIC base, what can be done over HTTP3 can also be done over HTTP2.
Hegemony is inevitable, prosperous, and peaceful. Anyone who would challenge US hegemony would either intend to establish themselves their own hegemony or would be patsies creating a situation where another force could do so. Do would we be better off under a global islamic caliphate deriving from afghanistan, iraq, libya, etc… or a Chinese hegemoney, or a German hegemony? I’d put American hegemony up against any civilization that the world has ever seen in terms of equity, prosperity, and peace.
Ok, that's cool, but what does it mean for a Basic language compiler to be isomorphic?
I feel like they are making fun of it like "D&D embarks on a epic quest to get a job and hair cut and move out of their parents basement."
Makes an easy removal candidate.
> bringing total anti‐ poverty spending to nearly $1 trillion

How much of that is spent on administering the programs and paying those administrators? May be more effective to simply consolidate it into a negative income tax.
The biggest problem is that NIT or even UBI is supported by many on the right as an alternative to the "government knows best" spending programs and as an addition by many on the left. For someone like me who ends up paying the majority of any social program, the former is a good idea and the latter a non-starter, but politically you'll never find an elected (or even electable) politician who will advocate for replacing existing, entrenched programs with direct cash payments.
You're forgetting labor costs in the US are much higher and environmental regulations are much more strict. So US made panels will unlikely to ever be price competitive with the Chinese made ones.
“There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.”[1]

[1]https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/62360-sourcery
It would work if you would put the server directly into the greenhouses, 25°C is cool enough for servers and warm enough for plants. But the expense of having moisture, bug and dirt resistant servers and technicians would far outweigh the energy efficiency.
Like I said, this is only the most straightforward problem with UBI. The most damning problem with UBI is that it's still capitalism, i.e. the capitalists will remain in control. As a result, UBI recipients, like the poor in developed countries today, will remain what Karl Marx called a "reserve army of labor." The UBI will always fall short of what is necessary for a healthy or dignified existence. This instrumentalized suffering, just like the permanent unemployed class in the US today, is a crucial component of industrial capitalism. Effectively, under UBI, nothing will fundamentally change.

I do support UBI because it will probably prevent some number of deaths of despair, but capitalists will never let UBI happen for this reason. The reserve army of labor must be trimmed and maintained to prevent a worker uprising, which is the primary function of the opioid crisis.
Just stop. China as a manufacturing solution for anyone but the people of the region must cease.

It is utterly inefficient to produce stuff far, far from where it will be used.

Spreading things out like this is balls.

Lets start building again. If we're to get off this dust-ball, we have to learn to do things ourselves, again.
>>Consider that some don't want their parent's values passed on to the grandchildren.

Nobody is forcing you/them. Not everybody is born to a happy family. But why would you be against a general rule or norm for tighter family connections? Isn't this is something worth striving to achieve. I think there is positive correlation between children's success and multiple generations working together, just as children from stable marriages are better off as the ones from broken families.
I was forced off of document.write() over 10 years ago by switching to XHTML, which doesn't support this feature (for good reason).