skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My favorite Berlin Wall story was a friend of mine wrote an opinion piece for the college newspaper in the fall of 1989 talking about the moves towards democracy in the Warsaw Pact nations which concluded with the line, “but don’t expect the Berlin Wall to come down any time soon.”

He submitted the piece at the beginning of November. The paper came out on November 13th. "

Nobody really suspected that the wall would totally come down the way it did, as far as I know. (And I know a bit, because I was there when the demonstrations started, even though I could barely talk at that time)

Tiananmen square massacre in china just happened before and even though russia itself was opening up - east germany was still under tight control of Stalinists, who would have rather shot everyone, than giving up. This was the general sentiment.

So there were lots of demonstrations before and slight optimism that some opening up could be achieved and some democratic reforms could be done, but till the very end, the fear was very real (and warranted) that it all could turn into a bloodbath any moment.

Luckily, it didn't.

For many reasons obviously, but mainly it was that the people in power were way weaker, than everyone believed. You cannot just have people shot, you need soldiers or police doing it. And when enough of those soldiers or police have relatives who joined the demonstrations - then they will eventually refuse. And the usual fall back plan, to use russian troops in this case, was no option anymore as Gorbatschow made clear internally.

One anecdote I know, is that a friend of my family, a fireman, was ordered to use his fire truck against demonstrators. And he refused, saying a fire truck is only for real fire. A brave move, as he also had family and dissent was dangerous (and he would have suffered, if it would have all turned out different). I suspect many such small or bigger insubordinations happened, making the power base of the party finally crumble and then the wall crumbled down as a very visible signal of their weakness and then history happened.
> don't think there's any meaningful connection between institutional DEI and economic justice

DEI is how the upper quantile has co-opted economic justice rhetoric while entrenching itself in economic sectors (finance, tech) and behind policies (immigration) that deepen economic divides. It’s Wall Street’s brilliant makeover (in response to 2008), which has created a national conversation wherein being a racist plumber in Michigan is somehow worse than working in private equity.

It’s immaterial what educated professionals purport to believe in. Politics isn’t just about supporting this policy or that policy. It’s about how you spend political capital to construct a majority coalition that can manifest policies. Upper quantile professionals have spent their political capital to create a majority capable of enacting their preferred social policies. When they wage trench warfare to make sure kids learn about race in history class, that’s political capital they didn’t spend making sure kids learn about the history of the labor movement. These are choices. And as a result of those choices, upper quantile professionals have created a Democratic Party that includes Wall Street, but excludes much of the working class (and excludes most of the white working class). As a result, that coalition is wholly incapable of addressing economic inequality.
It is for him. You don't get to complain about a product when you're not actually buying the product or when you are in fact getting paid by a product manufacturer to showcase their products under the guise of a "review".

He does rant about not having a sponsorship agreement with Asus. He clearly says all of his other sponsorship agreements finalized in Jan 2023, but that Asus hasn't.

He has no clue if customers have been screwed over because he's never been a customer, and if he is, let's say he used his own money to buy the Hero board he mentions in the video, why did he go Asus like 5 weeks ago for his own stuff if he thought they were bad products, or a bad company?

This sums up the entire ordeal perfectly, maybe it's backpedaling, but this doesn't seem like customers are getting screwed over.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/13g3yep/comment/j...
> When the day comes that I shutter another I'll ask the active members at the time what they want to happen to their data.

You might not have that chance; unless you have a co-admin with full access to everything, the reason for the forum to shut down might be because you're no longer there.
Some people don't have an inner monologue at all, and reason entirely non-verbally except when they're writing or speaking aloud.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-...
By the same logic, humans should no longer fall for phishing scams or buy timeshares since information about them is widely available.
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

The Web I want - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816494 - Aug 2018 (2 comments)
It doesn't seem to matter in practice. Current generation Intel CPUs and the Apple M2 have very similar performance at the same power levels.
This seems like enormous news. Lukashenko is Europe’s last true dictator.
One of the issues with long-lived sockets is power consumption. Generally you need to send keep alive packets or else the connection is dropped and doing that forces your modem to wake up and send bytes.

QUIC is a big step in the right direction as long as middleboxes don't hollow it out.
Depends. Some people are heavily traumatized, e.g. from childhood abuse. The title provides almost no indication as to what the content might be (OK, maybe a little, but only if you speak German), so I think it's fair to warn others for whom this kind of stuff can be a problem. I agree with your sentiment for "regular people", though.
> 1. Heat in the winter, this will reduce you range, some just a little, but in places like Minnesota in Feb, a lot.

Scandinavia here.

I've owned gasoline powered cars, I've owned diesels, I've owned hybrids (Priuses) and cars with additional fuel heaters.

My current EV absolutely demolishes every single one of those in the speed of heating up the cabin. It got down to -30C a few winters ago and I had to drop off my kid at school so that their face wouldn't freeze solid (we don't do "snow days" here). I actually timed it, ~2 minutes from a weekend-long -30C weather to 20 degree air blowing into the cabin. The only ones that got close were the fuel heater (8kW heating power, no emissions standards applied btw) and Priuses.

Yes, it takes a bunch of electricity to heat up the cabin at first, but the upkeep is a few kWh using the heat pump.

Also: My EV has _never_ failed to start in the winter, no matter what the situation. All of the above (except for the Priuses) have failed or given me extra heart palpitations during colder days.

> 2. Stuck in traffic.

I know people first hand who have _literally_ camped in their EVs multiple times. 5-10C outside, car keeping itself at a comfy 20-22C and the battery drain is negligible. Heat pumps with high COP are fun!

Unless you get in a China-style 10 day traffic jam[0], you'll be just fine. Better than people in ICEs.

> 3. Battery recycling and disposal.

Do you know why we don't have a multi-million battery recycling industry? Because the damn things won't break. Decade-old Teslas and even Leafs with their completely botched thermal management are still mostly (>90%) running on OG batteries.

And even if an EV battery is too degraded to be practical in a car, a 100kW battery that's degraded to 50% capacity is still a 50kW battery. That's enough to run a _house_ for a few days or a small cabin for weeks.

Remember the Three R's of recycling: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Very few batteries will get to the last R where they are actually broken down to their base metals.

> 4. Old EVs may need battery replacement

Old cars tend to need expensive repairs, the difference is that an EV has less moving parts to break. The only big thing is the battery, but that tech is moving too fast to make any kinds of predictions.

It's possible _today_ to get an old Leaf battery swapped for one with 50% more capacity than the old one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110_tra...
Their data may not be that much better; however Deepmind is still one of the best institutions that study AI fundamentals. OpenAI works hard and focused towards products, but the academic research is far better from Deepmind. So since Google hasn't been trying to put any AI into products really at all for the past 10 years, they're going to have to push a little bit to make the public facing interfaces and put polish on things, but the underlying models they have made are far better than OpenAI (just not the ones made publicly accessible to anyone).
I do actually but it is up to the person. The main reason for me to encourage it is that if knowledge is reserved for the high priests it will eventually be lost. How many civilizations did we build by now? No one knows! We haven't the records. The stuff people must have figured out. Of course may would pretend it wasn't a big deal but all those deleted forums had plenty of insights to offer. Practical ones and historically valuable.

The real value of knowledge doesn't change if you duplicate it or make it widely available. On the long term, blocking access and rent seeking doesn't create value, it destroys it. It seems useful for the individual who wants to pay their bills or for the one with insatiable greed but in the end it will makes us stupid.

For example: I would like a high quality UV-B lamp that isn't INSANELY expensive. They are pretty ordinary lamps but developing the coating is very expensive. The work has been done tho, lots of times, over and over again. Most results are just bad.

About 35% of the US and about 1 billion globally have vitamin D deficiency, 50% has an insufficiency: Fatigue, Not sleeping well, Bone pain or achiness, Depression or feelings of sadness, Hair loss, Muscle weakness, Loss of appetite, Getting sick more easily, etc

Great loss of economic productivity or more opportunity for me? You decide!
This is true.

But applications can be small and performant.

It takes skill, time, and work; a hard sell, these days.

Nowadays, we can throw together two or three massive dependencies, and get a really high-tone app.

That waddles like an overfed walrus.
Inviting public comment!

What % of comments will be GAI generated, I wonder? How much of this will be corrupt fallen horseshit like the Lead ID & LCX news, of these folks getting hired to drum up public comments for pro business cases, & impersonating millions of public commenters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35934504 https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-...

My feeling is that trying to over regulate & clamp down won't help here. But the threat to open society is huge here, I acknowledge, and my god are we quickly coming clinging for security & assurity; we are sold that uncertainty & bedlam are the norm, we are shocked to disbelief of what we have & hunger for change, any promise.

I want defense systems, but I don't want to hurt AI overmuch. And I don't want a new world regime where "to prevent abuse" you can only use attestable devices (aka devices you the user cannot control), https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/..., and only after you present government id, https://github.com/WICG/mobile-document-request-api.

We are both easily manipulated & they get away with it, but just as bad, fear sells. The idea of disinformation is a very viral meme, spreads panic quickly, that we readily sign onto. And how would we know otherwise? How can we intelligently doubt doubt when the doubt itself is so often vague gesticulations?

I want to come to some better conclusions, but this is such a fucked age. We have scary bad hard to detect abilities to be appear authentic but be deeply inauthentic, at huge scale. And we need real responses. But what we will do in the name of this crusade against Uncertainty is going to be likely as bad.
> What genuine efforts have been made to rebuild the web without starting on the web/browser? We could just start over and not allow the same things that made the web today turn to to shit.

What you're describing sounds like Gemini, which has been fairly successful in its own niche. https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
> It is clear the web is turning into trash or is already there

Back in the "good old days" people keep mentioning there were maybe some single digit million people online. Today there are ~5 billion. So by what measure are things clearly worse? And for whom?
Despite the Headlines, Steven Pinker Says the World Is Becoming Less Violent
Browsers and operating systems will eventually include them.

But for now, you would need a good privacy reason to go this route.
Interesting, I was thinking perhaps it was to hold soft boiled eggs such that it was convenient to dip strips of buttered toast into the yolk.
Related:

The Day You Became a Better Writer by Scott Adams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953775 - March 2017 (4 comments)

The Day You Became a Better Writer (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13673276 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)
Sorry, I don’t understand.
Crazy, they seem to have deleted it. Thanks.

Still a trash article.
I didn't delete any posts, nor did I flag or downvote any of yours. I actually resurrected one of yours (vouched) so that I could reply to it.
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What does matter is standardization. For example a booting process. When I have x86 image of Windows/Linux, I can boot it on any x86 processor. When I have ARM image, well, then I can boot it on a SoC it is built for and that's big maybe because if outside peripherals are different (i.e. different LCD driver) or lives on different pins of SoC, then I am screwed and will have at best partially working system.

Standardization is something what will carry x86 very far into the future despite its infectivity on low power devices.
I was not aware of any of this. Thank you! I've just been buying on- or off-brand toner cartridges for way more money than this. (The off-brand ones work fine, the on-brand ones are certainly not perfect; this thing is terrible at photos.)
just the latest most high profile example making the rounds yesterday

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna84180
They're the same thing. At this point no batteries are made purely from lithium (I remember seeing some research on that front).

It's all lithium ion, lithium polymer, etc. In casual settings the terms get used interchangeably.
ARM used to find itself on the wrong side of this tradeoff in the era of 4-wide x86 decode units and 4-6 wide ARM decoders. They lost too much perf to cache size for the decoder width to make up for it.

It's unclear to me if they will pull ahead on the perf/area game with the era of 8-wide x86 decoders coming.
You can write an application that never frees memory and isn't leaking memory.
Update: a tiny spider drone has malfunctioned and jammed the release mechanism of a critical spacecraft component.

But genuinely it’s far far simpler to make a reliable antenna release mechanism than it is to make some spacecraft traversing spider robot!
Absolutely,

The most evil variation of this is "we'd rather have the increased productivity than spend the resources to actually avoid X so our guidelines say they're to avoid X but really they're to blame a line worker when X happens so we can keep saying we don't want X". See the rash of train derailments and toxic spills we're lately now that railroads have imposed "precision railroading/precision crew scheduling".
>Besides migration, some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice, or hibernated underwater

Sentences like these remind you that science is a recent invention.
How is it exponential? It's only a multiplicative increase in decode positions.
I'm still waiting for the first independent winter test of any hydrogen car. There are a bunch of "tests" where a car manufacturer has invited journalists to drive cars in the north, but the cars are always pre-warmed by the company.

The fuel cell does NOT want to freeze, it can actually physically break if it goes under 0C.
EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
"Release early release often" was a mantra of "Extreme Programming", a closed-source commercial software development methodology that predates this article by about 4 years, and was au courant at the time Raymond was was writing. One of my big thematic criticisms of Raymond's article is that it doesn't seem especially in touch with how closed-source development worked at the time.
Is a blue check worthless? It might gate keep your message out of the top promoted messages and for some I'm sure that is an important consideration.

For me, it is an anti pattern that shows your were desperate or stupid enough to pay for one. It's like and NFT but somehow even more worthless.
Yes, they're basically used interchangeable even though it's not 100% accurate. A LiIon cell versus a LiPoly spicy pillow may be different, but from this perspective they're the same.
The famous announcement was in regard to permitting unrestricted travel (for a supposedly limited time window). Nothing was said about dismantling the wall (at the time or at any point in the future).

The "dismantling" itself (which at the outset was more like vandalism and souvenir-grabbing) started happening spontaneously after crowds began to overwhelm the border crossing, and the ensuing carnival atmosphere took over.
In this case, the trick is to look at the document internally and see the comment history.
So to distinguish an AI from a human in order to get access to a public service, you would need to do an iris scan by a crypto company founded by the guy who controls the AI.
How much power does it (roughly) use? Are we talking about 1% of the overall usage? 10%? 50%?
I have no solution for the web turning to complete shit but I do have a solution for the "laptop on fire" / fans going crazy and my solution even helps the planet a tiny little bit.

I do simply throttle my entire CPU when I'm on a virtual dekstop / workspace where there's a "surf the Web" browser opened (as opposed to, say, a workspace where I have a browser I use to test stuff in dev).

It's all automated from my window manager: everytime I switch workspace the maximum CPU speed allowed is modified. I go to workspace 3, where my editor/IDE is, the CPU governor is set to "ondemand" (i.e. the CPU can boost to 5.5 Ghz if it wants to). I go to other workspaces: the CPU governor is set to "powersave".

It's brutally efficient. No more noisy fans because this and that websites are busy executing oh-so-important JavaScript code to track me.

I don't bother modifying the max TDP of the GPU when I switch workspaces but I could (the reason I don't bother is that I'm using fanless GPUs in my two main machines).

It just works.

In the past I used to put CPU and RAM quota on processes/group running browsers but I find it much easier to just modify the CPU's power settings upon switching workspaces.

It's trivial to do and there's really not much websites can do about it. They can basically suck it.
Well testing on Friday has clear implications, while numerology is dubious at best.
What if the burn out is maybe caused by the students, some of the new students caused a different interaction to happen, causing the teacher to lose enthusiasm.

is is a data point so it could be possible there is soem variable I do not know about.
The Mac's "integrated memory" means it's shared between the CPU and GPU. So the GPU can address all of that and you can load giant (by current consumer GPU standards) models. I have no idea how it actually performs though.
Are you joking? In your example, the responsible party is the boss, not "environment and culture."
Why did the 8086 have the LOCK prefix? I think of it as being mostly useful in parallel contexts, e.g. lock cmpxchg for an atomic compare and swap. But the 8086 was a single core, single thread processor, and I'd be surprised if it were used in multiprocessor machines. Oh! did it have anything to do with the 8087?
Again: DEI's most vocal opponents are the ones legislatively blocking any reform to inheritance taxes; in fact, they're attempting to repeal the Estate Tax altogether, as they have been since the 1990s, when the effort was a plot point on The West Wing. There is no reasonable connection to draw between DEI and a resistance to taxing generational wealth.
I think it's worth asking why, which I guess is less fun than complaining. Are the frameworks too fat? Do they encourage wasteful network requests? Are things not being compressed? Do developers not understand how to incrementally ask for data?
I think most people spend their free time watching television because they lack the will or energy to do anything else; work has sucked it out of them.
Nitpick: In general, the graphical tools don’t literally invoke the command-line tools. Rather, both the graphical tool and the command-line tool use the same C or Objective-C API (usually private and undocumented) provided by some system framework. But the command-line tools do tend to be more direct reflections of the underlying API, and more flexible.
I've been working on a React-inspired framework in Ruby [1,2]. It only requires a few kilobytes of JavaScript, and only includes the relevant stylesheets for each page. Works pretty well and I guess I'm in a rural area (about 90 minutes down the river from Iquitos, Peru) on a 4G connection.

I recently did another experiment [3] where each static DOM tree becomes a custom element, which also reduces the amount of data that needs to be transferred.

I should probably make a Show HN post soon...

1. https://github.com/mayu-live/framework

2. https://mayu.live/

3. https://github.com/aalin/rdom
This idea that ChatGPT is better than the models that Google has is false; but I understand the perception.
Deepmind has far better models than OpenAI, and the models OpenAI have made are based on the research done at Deepmind.
For example, ChatGPT was not the first model trained by RLHF - that was Sparrow by Deepmind.
The difference is that Google has been very disinterested in making products out of these systems, and didn't spend any effort to make them publicly accessible.

Deepmind is still the leader in AI, and they have much better models - it's just going to take a while for people who don't study ML to realize this because Google hasn't released any of their good models for public use yet (and yeah, I'm not counting Bard, etc because the real model was probably put together by one guy in an afternoon at Google, and the rest of the time working was marketing).
I’m interested in this. Can you elaborate?
Case in point: http://68k.news/
I'm in the same boat and also find that having a good goal can alleviate some of the pains of ADHD. In my case I like to set goals that I can easily visualize and associate with a tangible outcome. That way when I get off track, I can nudge myself in the right direction with reminders of what having the end product would be like.

An example is "implement XYZ paper" -> when you get off track, think about the algorithm running on your computer, how much faster it would be than the previous one, etc.
I really liked it when my eldest son was playing with it years ago, but not being able to build your own functions was really unfortunate.