skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes it can. Democracy means everyone gets a vote. We can't say it's not democracy when people don't vote the way we want them to. That's the first step down an even darker path.. If the way people are voting precludes grassroots change, then the people have spoken.

If the rulers have designed a system where change the existing rulers have not condoned is all but impossible then have they really spoken? There's a reason I compared it to a dictator that keeps getting "elected".

At what point does it become not a democracy? There isn't an obvious distinction. It's necessarily a subjective judgement call.

Surely 2023 Russia isn't a democracy despite having elections. What about 1802 United states? 1859 Georgia? There are many factors that go into it and there's isn't a simple and easy answer.

I think it's probably easier to be a democracy in lower touch government systems simply because there's less axis of potential policy and therefore less potential for "I hate this but I'm voting for it anyway because of some other thing" combinations and therefore any expression of intent by the people is more clear. For example contrast a simple ballot measure with any given US presidential election that always begs the question "are people voting for one guy and/or party or against the other guy and/or party". The intent of the people is more clear in the case of the ballot measure (yes I know direct democracy vs representative induces an apples and oranges situation but it still illustrates my point).
All statistics show 2016 being peak in population growth in the western world.

Acceleration stopped 1968.

CPU improvements stalled around 2012.

GPU around 1030 so in 2017.

Energy is the master resource.
I'm pretty sure LLMs can be used on anything considered a language, including things we as humans wouldn't consider language.

Sam Harris was recently talking about using an LLM processing wireless signals to identify where humans were standing in a room. I've not looked up the paper on this, but from everything I understand about this the generalized applican can apply to vast ranges of data.
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Do we really need full-blown ChatGPT to believably simulate Sims? I think something that understands just 1000 words of Basic English would suffice.
Google ends updates and effectively kills 3rd-party Assistant Smart Displays
The people she pissed off are wealthier and more connected.
I’m not too familiar with the H1B visa situation in the US but from what I understand if you lose your job there’s a clock to get another one or get deported.

In Germany for example there’s a longer lead time to getting laid off or being fired. And the bigger companies often help, especially those on visas, find work. I’d say the only “easier” thing is the time and that you don’t lose healthcare and such. And there’s an unemployment insurance that taps out at some 2500 or so euros a month that you can tap into.
Having looked at the docs, it seems to be full of stringly-typed parameters.
Nope. In case you haven't noticed we're replying to an article about "moral panics". Somebody upthread pointed out that there is currently a moral panic centred on transpeople. Politicians talking about "demons and imps", banning drag shows and "eliminating" trans identity or introducing the felony offence of having the wrong books in the classroom are examples of this phenomenon. Despite the OP's denials, this phenomenon is very much in evidence; the scientific research concluding the net harm of any and all forms gender-affirmative care recently criminalised by the same politicians isn't (and even if it existed, that still wouldn't mean moral panics over transpeople didn't exist)
In python, I find it pretty intuitive. It's very convenient to have "do these two objects have the same contents" vs "are these two the same object at the same memory address."

Other language design options are to use pointers / references, be strongly typed or be functional. Seems like you're saying all weakly-typed object-oriented languages are failures?
Entertainment is not enough? What's our purpose in life? Work and reproduce?
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> i suppose - or you can watched live stream together over video chat, and not have something over your face. you can do that today and not have to pay hundreds of dollars for hardware too :D

Speaking as someone who does sit with something on their face to "hang out" with friends thousands of miles away, it's an infinitely more immersive experience than video chat. We actually started with the chat route, but eventually gave getting together on the Quest a try, and it won us over immediately.
What Happened to America? We Asked 12 People in Their 70s and 80s
Because Wages.

Median household disposable income in Mexico is around $9800 [0]

Median household disposable income in China is around $5,000 [1]

In reality, in Prefectures like Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin you are seeing median household disposable incomes that are comparable to Mexico [2], hence why high value manufacturing is returning to MX, because Chinese high value manufacturers can't compete within the US with MX when factoring shipping costs.

Within Asia, Chinese high value manufacturing is still competitive, but is returning to Thailand and Malaysia for the same reason (all those consumer electronics factories in Guangzhou were started and managed by Malaysian Chinese in the 80s)

[0] - https://www.inegi.org.mx/temas/ingresoshog/

[1] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...

[2] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202202/t2022022...
If you want to use an async framework without sacrificing simplicity, look into Elixir/Erlang and the BEAM.
Seems like typical media bias against FB. Don’t forget- FB was bullying media companies for a while. Now they are getting a chance to strike back.
And they will agains say the current hyped language a year later. It’s almost like we shouldn’t really cater to “new programmers out of college”.
If it's snapshots causing issues that clearing .m2 is fixing, try adding `-U` to your mvn execution instead, that forces snapshots to be updated.

Do you run `mvn install` for your local project under development, or any of its locally built dependent modules? Are all of those at a snapshot version? If not, I think you'd need to delete it from .m2 (or clear all of .m2) to get updates to it into .m2, since even for the local cache I don't think maven will override a cached version during install.
Everyone mass spamming their resume blindly to hundreds of positions in response to the flooded market is only making it harder for companies to sift through applications or actually read resumes.

AI is getting people past initial screen and then ghosted and the “right fit” people not even getting looked at.

It’s self fulfilling and will eventually resolve itself when the market picks up and standards are lowered. (Assuming that happens before GPT5.

If you can sit this cycle out for 6+ months and work on your own stuff or take a sabbatical you can help accelerate us out of this period of chaos.
Love going to Powells - great weekend activity with the kids (still need to find time to read the books I buy though; that’s the real bottleneck)
I imagine this is one of those extremely common situations where the law doesn’t matter. Even if you are entitled to some compensation, how are you going to get it?

The only recourse is taking them to court which will end up costing your time, money, and sanity.
People and office space are traditionally two major contributors
You're probably thinking of dynamic typing, which Python has, but Python's typing is strong, not weak, so e.g. '1' == 1 returns False.
Ooh yes, I wonder if you could use it like gait recognition to define your own not-easy-to-replicate motion. My dance is my password...
More water is only a feature if you’re using stone age detergents. Modern detergents don’t benefit from more water, but they do benefit from better agitation.

Modern detergents use enzymes to break down dirt and material to bonds dirt to your clothes (like oils and fats), they need good agitation to physically separate the loosened material, where surfactants in the detergent can then bond to dirt and keep it suspended in the water. They’re so good, at keeping dirt in the water, that you just need enough water to saturate the clothes, and form a small amount of cleaning liquor. A drain and rinse cycle then completely removes the dirt from your clothes.

Adding more water makes the agitation far less efficient, because rather than being able to pick up and drop your clothes on to other clothes, or the hard surface of the wash drum, your clothes hit water first which cushions the impact. Resulting is less effective removal of dirt.

Finally modern detergents work best with plenty of time. The enzymes doing the heavy lifting don’t get consumed in the process, so the longer they’re in contact with your clothes, the more dirt they can break down. (Also worth mentioning enzymatic cleaners don’t damage most fabrics at all, because they’re carefully designed to only target dirt)
Ultimate Guitar did something similar. The premium account that I bought almost a decade ago got transformed into a free and unlimited premium subscription when they changed their business model some years ago.

Overall that worked out pretty well for me, because the new model includes a ton more than what I paid for initially.
You can entirely forget the computational side of it. The carbon footprint of the man-hours related to implementation is going to be an order of magnitude larger.
Sorry I didn’t pick up on it. And there have been govt types that have floated such proposals including expanding the RealID program into something like this. I seem to recall the Brits also voicing the want to try something like this, and they tend to be quite ahead of the curve on the domestic surveillance and privacy invasive policy front.
It’s way more common than you might think for companies to give people job titles in order to figure out what the job involves.

If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed. And even if there are already a couple of people with that title, there’s no guarantee that they know how to actually make a difference at that level - they’re figuring it out too. Or that what they do to succeed in their division will work just as well in yours.

A big part of being put in a leadership position is precisely that if you have questions like ‘how do I actually make a difference in this company on this dimension?’, the answer is: ‘we don’t know. That’s what we hired you to figure out’.
Oh I understand that. The server doesn't even need to go down, a specific NFT can simply be blacklisted. I was asking to see if there is something I'm missing.
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Yet somehow sophisticated and well informed enough to keep their keys secure and not get scammed.
> It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be

I agree it's clear on day one that these models will be useful.

What's less clear is how useful they are -- a year ago most experts would have told you that an architecture that "predicts the next word" won't be powerful enough to make a model that could lead to AGI-alike abilities (and many people here still argue the same today), but here we are now.

> Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early

That's just a lack of vision. GPT-2 was released in 2019, GPT-3 in 2020. He had plenty of time to commit to AI development instead of Metaverse.
x86 is pretty limited when it comes to power consumption. That's where the raspberry pi has almost a monopoly.
Just FYI: this is referring to USB charging stations, not EV stations.

This advice has been standard in cybersecurity training for a long time now and frankly I'm surprised that this is the first time the FBI has felt the need to issue an advisory on the subject.
> OK, but why bother with virtual threads if the JVM could just magically decide to run all my virtual threads on one thread? I guess "efficient" in this context doesn't mean "fast". I want my code to run on all available cores, and not be hobbled by a JVM that decided to hate me today.

If you have 10,000 threads blocked on a sleep (or I/O), then there's no reason to run them on more than one code. In fact, they won't usually be running at all.

This is the use case. It's less about giving the VM a new way to 'hate you today', and more about telling the VM when it can save resources and share system threads.

Edit: There is some potential for unexpected downside to the extent that this introduces a new scheduler for the virtual threads. If every thread is an OS thread, then it's the OS scheduler that controls when they run. With virtual threads, I assume the scheduling policy (deciding when virtual threads get time on OS threads) is controlled by a JVM scheduler that may or may not be as good at making the choices you'd like. But probably best to assume it won't summarily drop everything on a single OS thread and call it a day.
>The founders saw it necessary that people have a religious based moral system. The same system and values that they based the government on.

In the system of government they created women were not able to participate in the body politic and slavery was legal. The suppression of women in society and slavery are both endorsed in the bible. Being superstitious has nothing to do with morality or ethics.

> The premise all men are created equal relies on religion to be true. Inalienable rights is a judao Christian idea.

This is demonstrably false. Christianity had 17 centuries before the French Revolution to setup a system of government based on these ideas but instead was aligned with Monarchy and Feudalism. Equality and inalienable rights are Enlightenment ideas.
I think Terry Pratchett was doing the same, at list for a time, but with WordPerfect.

But I think there is a huge difference in the fact that most of thoses authors still using old machines with old text processors[1] just follow a workflow they have been using for decades before newer computers were available. And the risk of distraction is pretty much the same if the laptop or the phone is sitting next to the dedicated machine. I don't think there are many newer authors deciding to look on ebay for old dos machines for writing.

[1] there are also musicians still using cubase on Atari ST to drive other midi instruments, I also remember a documentary showing a camping owner who wrote is management softwares decades ago and who was still running it recently on an Atari ST or Amiga 500.
I too have noticed some quite transphobic attitudes on HN over the past year or so. It's been a bit shocking at times.

I have considered emailing the admins to state my concerns, or creating an account here to add another voice to threads when things start heading in that direction - but ultimately it seems futile as transphobia seems to have ramped up everywhere recently. It's scary.

Of all the wonderful trans people I know in the real world, very few are getting the medical assistance they need. Those people are fortunate enough to pay for private care, and even then the level of care they are getting is barely acceptable. My other trans friends are approaching their 30s and still on waiting lists.

Many things presented as fact in this thread do not line up with my experiences of trans issues and the wider LGBTQ community. In my opinion many users on HN are truly insightful about tech and programming, but utterly heartless when it comes to social issues.
> Apple was stolen from NeXTStep

Who founded NeXT?

Why?

What happened to the IP?
>> iTunes could have reached greater heights had they allowed nuclear plants.

The old iTunes "Burn Disc" icon with its yellow and black colors and sharp angles always reminded me of the "Radiation Warning" symbol:

https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/burn-iso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radiation_warning_symbol....

When you were burning your own custom mix CD, things got hot . . .
Lock contention IIRC
A simple web app that generates colored Google profile icons using the same font and colors as the default random-colored Google icons.
Hm, could we write a program to generate these templates?
While GitHub copilot is a big deal, it is a tiny tiny tiny portion of the promise of LLMs. There will be far more economic disruption from LLMs as productivity tools than as coding tools.
Important books missing: The Bible, The Quoran.

I think these will be the first books most people think of.

Your idea is great and I hope it works out. I could only get errors when trying.

For me, I don't need any more book recommendations. Once I started reading more a few years ago, each book referenced or even recommended other books, and I'm still riding that wave.
Vuescan sucks too.
I have been somewhat curious if/when this will occur with EV stations as well. What controls might one gain over a car from the charging port on the assorted makes/models? Even hacking aside I am curious what PII, telemetry and tracking data could be pulled from the charge port.
This is a great idea! A while back I had an idea to maybe scrape Linkedin(or download one of their numerous dumps) to help "track" executive movement from company to company and set alerts if I use products from the new company so I can have a heads up before they inevitably turn to shit. Alternatively, I was also looking to expand this to when companies get bought out by those vulture capital "management" firms as they will start to squeeze costs. The Hackers of the 90s dreamed about software being an equalizing force between the powerful and the powerless...well this is one area that can definitely help(at least in the short term).

Your idea sounds like something that independent journalism can pick up or some non profit organization that exposes these kinds of things. Of course I'm sure someone will go after them sooner or later.
There are benefits to all these approaches, and combining them all gives best results.

But specifically on coatings, it's true that conduction and convection also play a role, and radiation is only part of the picture. However, it is theoretically possible to design a coating that can cool a material by 45C (~80F) compared to ambient at night, and practically a cooling of 4C (8F) has been achieved [1]. 4C is pretty substantial, considering it stacks on top of the effects of insulation, high thermal mass, and efficient heating/cooling appliances.

Remember that in the daytime the effect is far more substantial - the difference between the best and worst thermal coatings could easily be 100C - when people say 'that rock is so hot I could fry an egg on it', it's simply due to the absorption properties of the rock under sunlight.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/10/2/144
I usually buy from ThriftBooks.com which has an enormous second hand selection. The only time I buy new anymore is at the local bookstore (and even then, once nice thing about our local bookstore is that it has both new and used books on the shelves together rather than in separate stores or sections).
The Science of the Solar System (Planetary Astronomy)

by Caltech Professor Mike "plutokiller" Brown

https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system

I really liked this course. Here's the blurb:

Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites. The quizzes and final exam are designed to make you think critically about the material you have learned rather than to simply make you memorize facts. The class is expected to be challenging but rewarding.

It is also taught at Caltech, see https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system
I don't think "===" in PHP is the same as "is" in Python, though? Identity is important (why would you want to check for 0, None, "", etc.. in separate cases, unless you want to?) but I don't think that is what "===" in PHP.
I worked on a SaaS CMS. A major consumer PC manufacturer was a customer and their "Welcome to your PC" app would pull their news feed from our system. People would turn on their PC and they'd pull a little JSON. 100s of Thousands of request per day, no big deal. The manufacturer decided that they wanted the updates to show up for everybody at the same time on the hour. Serving 100k req/s for a minute is a much different problem to solve.
Civil engineers actually have liability, they can go to prison. Software "engineers", not so much.
Visicom is the new owner, right? So that's a new policy, as in not the one he agreed to when he signed up for a lifetime license.
Uh the joys of PHP's type juggling. Fairly sure this bug is still present in many systems.
> I once was in Rio de Janeiro

> They insisted on paying the $5,000-ish fee we usually charge to send someone from Norway to Brazil

You work for Aker/Kvaerner, by chance? :)
I'd imagine they are referring to the post we are commenting on (whose context is PHP).
Had she ripped off the poor she’d probably get a lesser sentence.
Not anymore. Intel sells Celeron quad-core chips with 5W-10W TDP with integrated graphics. AMD also.

R-Pi was leading 8 years ago when it was readily available, dirt cheap and x86 was only gas guzzlers. Now the market has shifted against it.

People should really look into recent developments instead of defaulting to R-Pi out of habit.

I can buy a Intel N5095 based NUC for 170 Euros on Amazon with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD[1]. Sure it's more expensive than a PI, but that thing is readily available, will sip power and blow any R-Pi out of the water performance wise, plus it comes with 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 3 display outputs. It can be a great home server, it can be a great PC replacement, it can be anything you want. R-Pi is still far to weak in comparison.

If that's too expensive and overkill for you, and you just want some low-end ARM SBC to blink some LEDs from the internet, there's still the Beagle Bone Black with a single core Cortex A8 and 512MB of RAM, for around 60-70 Euros.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Ethernet-Windows11-3-Screen-Displ...
They should move to the biggest continent on earth and be smug there...
We need to peacefully separate from these annoying borgs.
> Now they hopefully can work around the kernel for file descriptors (network and disk) saving 30% CPU globally on all Java servers.

Can you expand on this a little? Are you referring to the necessity to copy between kernel memory and user-space memory, or something else?
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I bought lifetime licenses for the other competitors of Plex: TVersity, PlayOn, Twonky.

Twonky currently is the only one I'm using, but all of them seem to respect the lifetime licenses! They've moved on to newer versions which use subscription models, so I don't get new features. Twonky still offers old version downloads (which is nice), but I'm not sure the others do.

Honestly, I'm not sure I need any of this software anymore now that VLC is available on Android, Xbox, etc. and supports reading off SMB shares.
High-income Westerners do not like to engage in activities that make them appear like mindless consumer zombies.

In Denmark the highest income households have small cheap TVs they can hide away while low income households have big 4K TVs as the main attraction in their living room. The reason is that the former don't want to appear like passive mindless consumer zombies who watch TV.

It is a very superficial opinion but wearing a VR headset is literally the most 1984 consumer zombie thing you could possibly do.