skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theres a theory that the black plague led to the enlightenment.

The landed monopolistic rich had their foot on the necks of the poor for so long during the dark ages that when 50% of all people were killed it actually allowed new opportunities to arise and new people in nepotistic positions and the economy to flow again. This allowed a flourishing middle class to arise again, which gives more people free time to use however they want.

It's also theorized that WW2 had the same effect on the middle/lower class prosperity for almost a century.

Growing up in the '90s it was super easy to get a cheap apartment and a job as a waiter and just play in a band or write a book or work on some passion project. This also allowed huge groups of people to congregate in the same spot to develop crazy subcultures for their passions (i.e. grunge, cbgbs, Hollywood, etc )

Now were losing that middle class edge and everything being so expensive the friction to do any sort of risky activity makes it almost impossible unless your parents are already rich.

I personally think that when you take away the ability for people to explore their passions because they're working two jobs to survive it removes culture and takes potential genius out of the human race.

I wonder if this is the beginning of regressing to some sort of human mean of massive inequality that won't be broken again until another war, revolution, or plague.

That's the cynical economic take. There could be other reasons as well, like maybe we're too comfortable.
Hydrogen as fuel are expected to start to be used in the energy grid by the start of 2050 as earliest and more likely by 2080. They are not part for the actually strategy of the 2030 or the 2050 goal, and they are not part of the strategy to reach the Paris climate agreement. Their use is currently limited to only green steel production, and for now only in very limited trial runs which are heavily government subsidized.

The plans for carbon capture is also very far into the future, more likely to have a significant role in next century than this one. The only party that talks a lot of carbon capture is the fossil fuel industry, and according to them they would need around 150 billions in government subsidizes in order create the technology.

In both cases the cost is overwhelming too high. No one is investing into this except for government funded trial run. The ambition is obviously to use it in the future(tm). That sounds nice and is something politicians use, but its a fantasy if people think it will actually be used to reach the climate goals of 2030.

side note Language like "You seem to be intentionally missing the point" is pointless. You insult me, I insult you, it will just sound like children talking. Please skip it. If you have to address the author rather than the content, then simply don't write anything.
Why would people feel threatened leading machines smarter than them?
AI generative media is going to let single individuals create more than all human knowledge to this point.

We're entering a Cambrian explosion on a personal level.

The real worry is that we may never want to leave.
I work for a company that ships safety-certified software. We, or often our customers, have discovered bugs in that software. We do not fix the bugs because one single small bugfix means re-certifying the entire software, a process that takes months of producing proof of matching the safety case plus many more months of updating and approving accompanying documentation and going through an audit. Everything has to be re-touched.

We just issue an updated defect list to go with the software and our customers needs to work around the bug. Known unfixed bugs are a fact of life in certified software. Update releases are not. Customers pay a premium for this because they, too, would have to go through the same pain and expense on their side.
It's very clear-cut. The topic is about deleting data.

There's a massive difference in deleting records that did exists vs. records that never existed in the first place.

The former is deleting data, the second case isn't.
Because generative AI isn’t creating new ideas, it’s just remixing existing ideas. This is exactly the type of thing AI is useless for.
Hacking Time
Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
Yeah, requirement to rename files makes it no-go when you want to continue seeding your Linux ISOs.
Not really, Spotify was founded just 3 years later.
What a monstrosity.
Why does that remind me of Soylent Green?
Moore's law, sure.

But rn it's totally doable to run a 65B or 100B model on CPU with a reasonable workstation.

Does Moore keep us from wiring more memory onto a GPU? Or making a GPU with expandable memory (slots?)
The title "A Mulching Proposal" references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Fusion power would basically be solved.
You can also use SIMD to parse varints (used by protobuf format).
True from a pure solo experience perspective, blockhains are a social construct so only relevant between people. I can imagine e.g. wanting to matchmake against only those players in a tcg who will play with the cards they have on-chain.
It lacks an adequate delivery system and recurring revenues. If we could construct some sort of machine to conveniently squeeze the slurry out of the packaging to spare our consumers the hassle you'd really be unto something.

Top shelf industrial design. No funny business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
Successful companies don't build strong economies (cf Fordlandia); strong economies provide the foundation for successful companies.
The real next level game is to get a patent you own into a standard.
Here in Norway we're fighting the 28-day rule[1], since our eggs are low on salmonella and the eggs are kept cold from producer to consumer.

Apparently tests have been done here and found our eggs were perfectly fine in a cake after a year in the fridge[2], but the taste of the egg itself changed a bit after 7 months. YMMV...

[1]: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/03/norway-pushes-for-exe...

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/livsstil/eggene-varer-_nesten_-evig-1.759...
Soylent Green is mint chocolate! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T68WHWQ/
Beware of I/O, memory usage and cache eviction.

A low-priority background job can issue I/O requests that result in high I/O latencies for everything else (by e.g. making lot of random seeks).

This is very easy to get when using spinning rust.
This is very cool. I do think it needs two volume controls so you can adjust. Music is too loud, I would like to hear the chatter more and LoFi just filling the gaps.

I wonder if something can be build on top of it if the mix is happening in the browser…
Certainly there are potential exploits if you rely on a 3rd party cloud or service to run the coordination service, though these might be more limited than on a VPN server.

Yggdrasil, assuming nodes operate their own identify based firewall as described the the original article, and tailscale if you use it with self hosted headscale rather than their coordination server can improve on this further.

At work we run headscale on a physical machine we control for now.

Personally I’m very interested in mesh networks like Yggdrasil and secure, radically open overlay networks and virtualised services in general.
Yes if you have millions of servers you would be using Katello (open source Satellite) anyway and then you only have advantages from CentOS Stream.
I think this topic shifted from the realm of Satirical hypothesis into the real world about six months after is was published.
In another thread I said an electron is an excitation of a quantum field. Is that a mistake as well?

I don’t think quantum stuff will ever make sense to me…
better electric motors in general, they can be smaller when they have less waste heat to worry about, and higher torques. The navy was playing around with miniaturization of vessel motors more than a decade ago[0] but I haven't run into how that projects gone in the intervening years.

[0]https://www.powermag.com/superconductor-motor-for-navy-passe...
You do that systematically and the executive in charge of that department gets that entire sum as a bonus. That's how these things happen.
Unrelated: Roofers in Australia started wearing an early tennis shoe that was cotton canvas with a sole that emulated a rubber tire. It became so popular they made a steel toed version. Only steel toed tennis shoe I know of. https://volley.com.au/products/safety-canvas-black-grey?vari...

The regular ones are fantastic by the way. Very comfortable, insanely flexible and grippy. But they do tend to fall apart quickly. In AU they're very cheap, but more expensive for us.
Which is... surprisingly not bad.

Makes it seem like GPT4-level capability could be within reach on current workstation-level hardware, with enough optimization in data, model training, software, and hw specific optimizations.

(Intuition, not hard theory --though I'd argue intuition should not be thrown out wholesale)
I hate to "blame this on millennials," but think it might be just that millennial (and gen-X) culture is stuck.

1. I think that is common for every generation however. "Pop culture" changed, but is mostly the youth. The older generations didn't change that much. We remember the differences, but forget how much is the same.
2. Youth culture is different today than the late 00's, but it takes time and space to see those differences clearly.
3. Cultural plateau is the historical norm. While we can argue if it is good or bad, the wider 1k+ year historical view shows this is just a reversion to the mean. (granted before it was localized and now mostly globalized)
Is it the superposition volume (volume of non-zero probabilities?) that is a perfect sphere?
AI generating personalized, unique media would not be homogenization. It would be the opposite - the death of shared culture.
The search for a perfect notification system for a large org is like a chemical clock reaction, which swings back and forth between states of equilibrium.

No one in an org will ever be on the same page, as people work on different tasks.

Some tasks are repetitive and allow you to dip your attention in and out.

Other tasks might require deep thought (like composition and putting words to a document) where your thoughts and output can’t be mixed with the sound of others coming in.

It works for truckers/pilots because the input/output by workers is relatively the same and compatible with background “noise”, but this metaphor breaks down as soon as the type of work changes.
The only interesting challenge is non-trivially parallelizable multicore applications that need to share memory across threads.

And the only choice you need to make is arrays of 64 byte structures C OR Java.

In other words do you need to be able to sleep after a day of launching new feaures?

The way I tend to do these things is to prototype with Java and once the concept/protocol is finalized and fossilized; rewrite it in C atleast on the client.

Java is the best language for server platforms, with classloader hot-deployment for sub second global turnaround and no crashes VM+GC.

About services being infinitely accessible: companies that have non-trivial solutions are now moving away from this with queues.

Limit the number of concurrent users and when saturated customers have to wait.

Open-source/source-available is the best way to scale though. If people are prepared to pay, others will run you service.

You need to allow others to make money though. I recommend revenue scaled monthly licence fees recurring on something like gumroad.

Finally I'm pretty sure the new 4nm chips will proove to be more fragile than the 14nm stack, only alot of 100% CPU time will tell.
https://scrapfly.io/pricing

https://scrapestack.com/product

https://www.scrapingbee.com/#pricing

There's quite a few products in this segment around that price range.
I'm not sure how I do it since I do it differently each time, but I do see some called "older" so I think I rename the old one then move.
I am a big fan of Cohen and I normally try to stay away from the personal life of my favourite artist. But this acceptance speech talks heaps of the kind of person he was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnx20BZquAo&ab_channel=cdgr0...

Measure that against Bob Dylan's show on the Nobel prize.

Disclaimer: I am an even bigger Dylan's fan.
And the person who established their bona fides integrating that solution wants to preserve the resulting status, so you'll hear some variation of "I don't think that will happen, but let's cross that bridge when later".
Their communication is much more complex too, and neither they nor their connections are static.

We don't understand how they work at the subatomic level simply because human understanding of the subatomic world is not complete, but even just at the atomic level a single neuron is massively more complex than anything humans have created.

Going up to the molecular level, even that is staggeringly more complex than the incredibly simple abstractions that make up a neural net.

Is what happens in the brain at the molecular, atomic, or subatomic levels relevant or necessary to intelligence and consciousness? We just don't know yet, but we do know all of that is far more complex and very different from the simple abstractions that are used for neural nets and LLMs.

The back of a napkin calculations in this thread don't even begin to do justice to the tremendous amount of "calculation" or "storage" that happens in the human brain.
> And the fact that tech platforms censor the right is a fact, it may be a right wing talking point but that doesn't negate it being factual just because it displeases some people on the left when they hear it.

You're not wrong, but the issue is way overblown. The far left is censored just as much or more as the far right, but have much less mainstream political support in the strongly anti-socialist US. Censorship and free speech are the issue far more than political persecution of one side or another. Allowing the debate to be turned into a neolib vs neocon political battle rather than a matter of fundamental rights and Constitutional law is a mistake.
Your mother was clearly important to you. Maybe you should go see a doctor re the shakes. I'm a recovering programmer who's now a professional musician in his late 30's, but just sayin'
Have… have they never heard of phones?
I imagine a world someday where browsers no longer exist. Everything is just an app that you download and the internet is infrastructure for pushing data around to apps from content servers. Some people probably live in this world already, I know several people who spend little, if any, time looking through websites or forums.

There would be no reason to have websites, because it would all just be AI garbage that has been SEOed to hell. No reason to search the web because you just ask an AI on your phone for an answer.

It’s over. Perhaps some community of people will still build traditional websites, but it honestly just feels like they’re LARPing. There’s no reason to build a website over any other piece of content like a video, or images, or a game, or a story.
Indubitably, good fellow.

I suspect if we can fine tune and optimize this 65B model, we can achieve some truly remarkable results.
What are wrinkles? Wrinkles are creases, folds, or furrows in the skin that appear due to skin aging, loss of elasticity, tone, collagen, and hyaluronic acid, substances that support the skin. What causes wrinkles?
I don't understand why go through the complication of giving this a new name (i.e. "Restructuring Pattern") where the second explanation seems more intuitive and correct.

"Restructuring Pattern" sounds like you can put back together a struct from its constituents, but that's done by normal struct instantiation.
The loophole for face-to-face and telephone conversations is sort of interesting. I wonder if it remains because it historically wasn't historically practical to record...or solely because of eavesdropping/consent laws. Or some combination of the two? What if you were using a 3rd party chat with no history capability at all...where does that fall?
Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)
Trying to connect banning abortion to “fascism” is a weird angle. Abortion was illegal in the principal allied countries that defeated Nazi Germany: the U.S., U.K., and Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had legalized abortion in the 1920s, but banned it again in time to fight and defeat the Nazis.
I think this article is correct that the cause of the freeze is the internet homogenising culture.

But this process also happened in the 1960s with the rise of TV. That's why if you ask someone to name a band, the most common answer is still The Beatles. The word 'futuristic' still refers to the aesthetic of The Jetsons. And if you talk about 'the 20s', you mean the 1920s, rather than the current decade.
Summary: Don't make me think(revisited) by Steve Krug
I don't get what is really fundamentally new about CBDCs; currencies are already de facto digital.
> Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals […]

I think you’re (plural) using and understanding the word “politics” in slightly different ways. As long as you believe that others should follow the rules you follow, it’s politics*. Even if your decision is motivated by religion, it’s still political in practice.

Nothing wrong with that. Nowadays saying that something or someone is political is automatically understood as an expression of identity/belonging, or placing someone or one at o other side of sort of a spectrum. But that’s not what the term politics means.

* gross oversimplification, I know, just trying to keep it brief
FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
My mouse (MX Master) has an unlockable wheel, and an auto-unlock feature. I have both disabled, precision scrolling is much better for my reading style, and it doesn't randomly trigger things.
That tweet is pretty funny. Sure, Paul, nobody would know you were from the future, because you don't do weird shit. Wear weirder clothes. Be part of a subculture. Make some friends with the kind of people who write microfiction or zines or 256-byte demos. Make the culture yourself.
The use of the term "anti-abortion" is misleading in the age of US abortion restrictions. Preserving bodily autonomy is still pro-choice regardless of whether or not you personally would like one.
This blog post shows S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs $2.05 USD for 2 TB but on the AWS pricing page it's showing as 2,000 GB * $0.0018 per GB = $3.60 ?

Edit: this is for London pricing, guess it's a bit higher.
You’re quoting and talking to an LLM
So the poster is mad about abusing dependency confusion and expects a big tech company to reward them blindly?

Do they not realize that most big tech companies have moved on to single feeds that are governed by their own security/inventory teams? Using public registry is an anti pattern now and has been for awhile, well before “dependency confusion”.

Not all package managers have implemented a stopgap to the problem either. I’m a bit disappointed to see this article though. The world runs on trust and we all trust that people won’t abuse known vectors for their own gain.
Nerds are likely to overestimate regular people’s desire to have extremely custom things, or the uniqueness of people’s taste overall.

We are memetic creatures, and most people simply enjoy the same things.

AI might help us find new things with mass appeal but niche audiences will continue to not matter so much in comparison, culturally and economically.
Also available in video presentation form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11e_rpdf-Ck
I find this feature annoying and am very unhappy when it randomly activates due to some driver bug (requiring me to open the Logitech software and possibly reboot the mouse).
Good to know, the reference article does not talk about this and I was not aware of the feature set. My personal belief is that the term 'zero trust' comes in shades of grey. I personally believe that anything internet exposed is the lowest form, implementing a software-defined perimeter is the next, and that the final is to embed overlay networking into the application itself so we do not have to trust the WAN, LAN or even host OS network. I wrote a blog on this last year using Harry Potter analogies - https://netfoundry.io/demystifying-the-magic-of-zero-trust-w...
I dunno, it seems obvious to me that our culture is still very much being created, changed, and iterated upon, just perhaps not in a way that feels familiar to people born in the 20th century.
What’s amazing to me is that they didn’t just use a phone call or video chat.
Reliable for all cases is one thing, but it should support scene naming fairly trivially. The approach they are taking seems to lose information that's within the filenames, particularly with movies (i.e. the year).

For scene naming you don't really need to filter much of anything out, the tokens are there to split on already. For TV "<seriesname>\.S<ss>E<ee>\.<junk>", for movies "<moviename (greedy if REGEX)>\.<yyyy>.\<junk>".

Just a strange choice to go with something nonstandard that you can't come back from. It's a barrier to testing it.
Yeah, I think the key take away would be, if you do cook salmon in a dishwasher, in foil or in a jar, the first time you do it use a heat probe and graph to confirm it goes into the bacteria killing hot-zone for the correct amount of time. She also mentions heat resistant spores, so it should be eaten as soon as it comes out of your dishwasher. Once you’ve done one run and confirmed it’s ok, I expect you don’t need to do the temperature probe the next time.
Probably not unless you like rearchitecting your entire security system when you already have 500k users!
That would've been nice. If Kerr, as described, has had trouble presenting even his quantifiable metrics, polling his hospice patients and using statistics on the responses, to other professionals, I doubt there's a way to get published. Maybe an observation without a question?
Show HN: I made an interior design tool to test styles before hiring designers
Teams are worst software ever. other things - I agree.
Bill Gates established that a large portion of Microsoft culture is based on the idea that software should be licensed and paid for. This was a radical vision for the Personal Computer market at the time. This vision is very narrow and only tangential touches on the wonders of computing.
Few short learning + chain of thought would let it identify patterns in its gaps
Exactly. I am awaare of Ockam, I work on the OpenZiti project (https://github.com/openziti). I believe our approaches to embed zero trust, private overlay networking into the app is the best way (with tunnelers for non-embedded where needed) so that we have the least trust in underlay networks (WAN/LAN/host OS network). Ziti is similar to Ockam at a high level (I am sure there are nuiance differences) though while we do not have a Rust SDK, we do have them for Golang, C, Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, ObjectiveC, JavaSript, NodeJS, etc.
That's basically ChromeOS, right? Some people seem to use it.
I think the biggest issue with VRAM right now is that it's very expensive compared to regular system memory, perhaps with the exception of the DDR5 for the latest CPUs.

But there should also be absolutely no issue in making a commercial TPU like google has internally for inference with more but less expensive ram and sell it. There surely must be a market now with these new models.
> struggling to manage even a single Chrome tab

Is Chrome significantly slower today than it was just a few years ago or is this more of a complaint about how modern web pages are constructed?