skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read this book because I saw it recommended in Hackernews threads and my disappointment was immense. It is, without hyperbole, among the worst books I've ever read.

It's a shame too because it has a seemingly interesting premise. Hey about 15% of people say that their jobs don't need to exist.

Now roughly the same percentage believe in lizard people, bigfoot, etc. so we should maybe take self-reporting with a grain of salt but it does seem to ring true to us right? It feels like we've all seen people in jobs that don't need to exist.

And by the way that's exactly what modern economic models would predict. When we say the market is efficient we don't mean that's it's 100% completely and instantly efficient. In fact innovation relies on people recognizing areas where there are marketplace inefficiencies and exploiting them.

The propagation of new technologies through a market takes time and in that time there will by definition be useless jobs in places that technology has not propagated to yet.

What's more the main objective of a job is not always clear. That government employee who feels like he's doing nothing might actually be doing nothing but the purpose of their job might not be to accomplish anything, it might be to make them financially dependent on the government (or maybe the government would say it's a means of economic stimulus).

This is a really interesting topic and there's plenty to explore and lots of existing science to mine from economics to sociology, etc.

David of course ignores all of this and uses the premise to set up a rant about anti-capitalism (without making a cogent argument for an alternative). He includes such amazing insights as, "The only reason countries have armies is because other countries have armies. If we all agreed to stop waging war we could spend that money on better things." Brilliant! Why hasn't a great philosopher thought of this before?

He addresses this briefly in the book saying that the only push back he's gotten is that he's ignoring economics and that he doesn't consider that a valid argument. The problem is twofold. First, much like someone claiming they've found a perpetual motion machine, I don't need to debunk your specific version of it, I can just say, "That violates every observed law of physics, you'd better have extraordinary proof for me to consider your claim." Secondly, David makes no particular claim nor does he have any coherent theory. You can't 'disprove' his claim because he doesn't make any (or more specifically he doesn't have a central theory that can be disproven - he has an observation that broadly consistent with what we know about the world and would expect already, if surprising to some people).

And his criticisms of capitalism contain so many logical fallacies and half truths that it would take a book of greater length or a youtube video on par with the classic "debunking ancient aliens" to get through them all.

It's nonsense political drivel and it's disappointing that so many people here seem to consider the book profound in some way.
Apple Q2 2023 report indicates USD 166 billion in cash reserves.
You should do what everyone else does. Buy the same monitor on Amazon and return your broken one to Amazon. Mostly joking but I wouldn’t fault anyone they did bc Amazon is awful
I've found Kurt Caz and Bald and Bankrupt go a lot deeper than Indigo Traveller.

One of my favorite recent videos from Kurt Caz is where he travels on the world's most dangerous road in Bolivia with Kevin the llama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGCSct5ONo
The most successful life form on a planet will probably always ask themselves this.

Because if we'd been happy remaining primitive then we wouldn't have become advanced.

We were not happy after inventing technology (not with technology either, but we thought we would be).

Evolutionarily: The people who were happy without children, or another child, or a second wife to make more children, were not as successful in propagating their genes.

Why were peacocks not satisfied with a small slightly less colorful tail?
I'm not aware of any local-LLM framework that works with Apple GPUs?
I highly recommend this book as well. I am always on the lookout for technical books that have a good mix of history. One of my favorite examples is the "Disappearing Spoon", which is an engaging exploration of chemistry with stories. Biography of the Pixel is right up there with that.
Just hung out at my local library this past weekend. Notable experiences were there being 3 police officers standing guard in full gear in this small local library, and me ending up sitting across from a guy who was quietly talking to himself about shooting guns. I can understand why the only younger middle+ class people there were volunteers, though it made me a bit sad.
Sure, but we are still talking about an uppity sect of superstitious people (with great learning in their superstition but not much else). They had no business locking people up at all, no matter how much the Pope didn't like being called Simplicio.
> That's the unfortunately prevalent "TikTok"-level version of the history.

It is also almost verbatim what I was taught in an Ohio school in the 90s.
Well, the phones that could handle it are locked down too hard to run your own web server.
> they'd need a really compelling reason.

Money?
For me, in terms of ones I’ve used 10 times or more during the past week:

Chatgpt

An iPhone app to use gpt-4

An ai newsletter that sends me new tools (I’ve found lots of cool tools from it but none that I use regularly)

I think that’s it? Kinda surprising. There are so many gpt powered products I’ve tried but none I’ve stuck with.
Don't know how far the 5g rollout is, but in Vienna, Austria we have full 4g in all subway lines and stations since 2018. No need for wifi.
Google alerts is too simplistic, one needs a deduplicated tracker of events, an ability to scrape from public records as well as news sites

Perhaps it can be a starting point, but some sort of manual/automated natural language processing is needed on top
Tea/GUI: The 'Open Store' for Open Source
But how exactly do they choose British accent instead of a Canadian one or an Australian one or whatever?
> Local LLMs do best on big GPUs, which aren’t an option on Macs.

For processing speed, Ms are fast but I agree not anywhere near a top Nvdia chip.

For memory size, the memory on an M chip can be used as graphics memory, so a person could get an M2 today with 128GB of graphics memory for ~ $5k. Not bad considering an Nvidia chip approaching that memory size is several times that much.
I think there are at least two broad types of thing that are characterized as “alignment”.

One is like the D&D term: is the AI lawful good or chaotic neutral? This is all kinds of tricky to define well, and results in things that look like censorship.

The other is: is the AI fit for purpose. This is IMO more tractable. If an AI doesn’t answer questions (e.g. original GPT-3), it’s not a very good chatbot. If it makes up answers, it’s less fit for purpose than if it acknowledges that it doesn’t know the answer.

This gets tricky when different people disagree as to the correct answer to a question, and even worse when people disagree as to whether the other’s opinion should even be acknowledged.
Looks like a combo reference.
Perhaps we need to bring back the artificial Transatlantic Accent they used to use all across Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
Regarding this:
> It’d be one thing if Apple actually worked on AI softwares a bit and made it readily available to developers.

* Apple Silicon CPUs have a Neural Engine specifically made for fast ML-inference

* Apple supports PyTorch (https://developer.apple.com/metal/pytorch/)

* Apple has its own easily accessible machine-learning framework called Core-ML (https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/)

So it would be inaccurate to say that they are not doing anything for the ML community.
> TSMC need to know they have a customer for new nodes in order to invest in them

I mean, does anyone doubt that thinner process nodes will be in demand?
The reality is, if we were using demographic factors to prevent immigrants who cause violence from coming into a country, there's a few that are much more predictive than race.

First, we'd ban all men.

Second, we'd ban everyone under the age of 30. Maybe everyone under 50 if we were feeling really fascist.

With these two evidence based restrictions, we'd effectively eliminate violent crime perpetrated by immigrants. That's the stark reality, and its so funny to see racists try to avoid these points.

> We already police men way more than women, what's your point?

We would need to put more police in places where men congregate to be truly consistent - like software companies. The de-policing of men's places of work like these, may be putting us at risk, after all.

I'm just being realistic.
How do you niche down would be my question here.

I am 40 next year and have missed the opportunity to niche down - I work as Tech Product Manager and enjoy my job but find very little opportunity to really focus on something I truly enjoyed. Either the startup run out of money, the project in the large org got cancelled or there was simply not product role available.

I'd be glad to know if somebody has an advice on how to niche down (technology, domain, personality, branding etc.) Thank you
Türkiye, General Elections, 14 May 2023: Preliminary Findings and Conclusions
"Most parties conducted a robust campaign with polarization evident in an often negative tone, marked by inflammatory messages and harsh language, as well as mutual accusations of terrorism and extremist views."

"The legislation does not contain comprehensive regulations on party and campaign finance, which,
combined with the limited enforcement, significantly decreased stakeholders’ trust in the integrity and accountability of the regulatory system. Due to a lack of interim campaign finance reporting, voters had limited information about campaign incomes and expenditures before election day."

"Legal provisions on defamation and insult of certain public officials, combined with the recent
criminalization of disseminating false information, frequent blocking of websites and online content removal, and cases of arrests and prosecutions of journalists in the election period had a detrimental effect on freedom of expression and contributed to self-censorship. The ODIHR EOM media monitoring found that public broadcasters clearly favoured the ruling parties and their candidates, despite constitutional guarantees of impartiality."

"The legal framework does not fully guarantee effective redress for electoral disputes, as it grants final authority over the electoral process and results to an administrative body."

"Election day was largely peaceful, although a few incidents occurred in and around polling stations."
I think those that choose to stay at Dell, should now add their commute time to their working hours. Over the past three years we've clearly demonstrated that WFH is effective and productive - shift the cost of travel to the office onto the employers if they want butts in seats so badly.
The only oil I use, and use it sparingly, is olive oil. Olive oil is a fruit oil.

You don’t need oil to cook. Your diet will look a lot different, but you certainly don’t need oil to cook.
The "What's New" tab only opens when I don't open Code into a project directory, usually it opens right into the last file I was working on. The extensions notifications I suppose could be an annoyance, but I seldomly encounter new file types, so it's a non-issue for me and I suspect most users.
> it’s not as fast as big, dedicated GPU silicon

It's not yet. Apples combined memory architecture enables them to significantly cut the cost of bundling more memory for various GPU, Neural or other domain specific cores. I believe they will catch up or even overtake Nvidia as the leading AI platform.

Desktop AI class GPUs are hell expensive. If Apple can get something 50% as performant, but in an iPhone Pro or MacBook Air, thats going to change so very much.
Kata, Kumite, Koan, and Dreyfus
Edison's observation of the silvering of one side of a DC light bulb was the neat thing I learnt from this video.
It's a nicely done video and fully acknowledges earlier mechanical computation.
If you have a 100 million dollar CRE building on your balance sheet, and sell it for 50 million, that's a 50 mill hit. Companies just don't want to realize the hit and kill their performance for that quarter
It's a profitable and effective political tactic to force a position on every issue and flush out fence sitters. Even in this thread you've got people classifying institutions by how aggressively they toe the line on one by one political bugbears.
Dude!! URLs please.
"Traffic advisory; tune radio to 1610 AM"
find a bug in Intel's pseudocode

It's well-known that the official docs have bugs; others have had success using AMD's to compare:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/sgdtsidt-fiction-and-reality/
Meta has been doing AI steadily right through all the Metaverse stuff. I don't see any indication that forming a new top-level AI team is the same as winding down the VR projects.
The Roman Governor famously found nothing wrong with Jesus, that is to say nothing threatening to Rome, and washed his hands symbolically to say Jesus is dying because of the demand of the crowd and the religious authorities. He was dangerous to religious order, not secular order.
No, I am not controlling anyone in that case. I am treating other people as professionals and letting them structure their work the way they think is best. Maybe it would be even better for me if they all worked from home, but I am not telling them to. I am questioning why the office workers try to make other people return to office with bad faith arguments (water cooler talk and synergies), when remote workers seem just happy to be working from home, without pressuring office workers to come and join them.
The core problem is that people don't want to pay for news.

You can see this right here on HN. Just submit a paywalled article and the top comment will be a link to the archive.org version.
Imagine walking into a bar and seeing everyone's dating app profile hovering above their heads.

I know 100% that this will happen some day, and I hate it.
It's surprisingly refreshing to see a project say what it actually does
I'm just your average full stack JS dev and I'm not doing any interesting project in my free time besides personal website stuff. Fortunately this means I can do literally everything on the Steam Deck (besides hosting obviously[1]).

What kind of development do you do? In theory, it's possible for a lot of roles. If you can get your environment working smoothly on a distro that Distrobox supports then you should be able to work on it.

I'd love to see someone rock up to the office with a Steam Deck, plug it in, and just start working. That's quite the image.

[1] The Steam Deck has a kind of A/B boot. By default it loads into Gaming mode and the other is Desktop mode. In Gaming mode, most apps and services aren't running (as far as I can tell but now I want to check) so I don't think you could ensure a server stays running in the background if you switched back to Gaming mode. On the other hand, you could live totally in Desktop mode and game from there, only losing the nice Gaming mode GUI.
NPR has always seemed more neutral than actively tacking toward a moderate position.
Oh, I didn't even think of their website articles because I barely go there. I might be wrong here but when most people think of Vice today, they think of their shows or the content on Youtube. Their news show was consistently doing great original work (some of which they would post on Youtube).
None of us know what the direct profitability of Android is. Given the revenue from Play Store, it at the very least is not obvious that it's a loss-leader.

But one thing that is obvious is that having 20% less revenue would not mean Google was unable to work on Android. We know that, because they were able to already fund Android in the distant past of 2021, when their revenue was 20% lower than now. (In fact, they were able to afford Android in 2010, with 90% lower revenue.)
I wonder if someone could prevent their ability to make/receive phone calls and SMS DoS'ng the site?
There's a very common mindset that you only "benefit" if you have the latest, best "thing."

There are so many ways to benefit. I've never owned an Apple product in my life! And yet, I own an AMD CPU that was built on a TSMC process. I feel like that benefits me. Would that TSMC process be as good if they didn't have Apple as a customer? Maybe not. I don't know for sure - it's not something I obsess over.

It would be different if the products you could buy outside of Apple were actually bad. (And for some people who want fanless Apple Silicon, a lot of laptop alternatives are bad, but for my needs, both desktops and laptops with fans are fulfilling my needs and wants.)
> Apple customers’ appetite for compute is practically bottomless.

I don't think so, the typical iPhone user has not scaled up their compute needs much past the 2015 A9.

And if you exclude the computational photography stuff, I could imagine some users don't take advantage of it at all.
Not an expert, but one risk when using this on an immutable OS is that your start to treat the containers like pets, ie that you're going to want to upgrade then to newer versions and have to do all the maintenance chores an immutable OS is supposed to do away with.
> model based on managing the flow of value

This is not something I've ever heard of. Some websearching produced this article. - is it describing the concept?

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate...
Using 3.5
What exactly is the argument? That rich blacks commit murder at a higher rate than poor whites directly contradicts the argument that it is all about poverty. So the usual argument that slavery led to poverty and poverty leads to crime is wrong. What's left? That these people are committing murder to avenge the slavery of their ancestors, or that murder was baked into their culture by slavery?
I would have to redo it.. I cleaned up all my prompts.
> For example if you are a billionaire and donate $1B of your appreciated stock to your donor directed fund you need to distribute 5% per year on charitable works to keep the 503b status

This is the dirty little secret of billionaires' private foundations. That 5% has a lot of latitude and little oversight. For example, it includes administrative costs. A private foundation can pay each family member a salary (allowance) and that's a valid cost against the 5%.

As for the Mormon church (or any church for that matter) non-profits aren't meant to be politically active, as in campaigning for a particular party of candidate. We all know this happens all the time..

I'd be fine with keeping tax-deductability for contributions to complying non-profits. But why do they get to enjoy tax free status on, say, investment gains? Or income from investments (including property they own)? Get rid of that and I think a lot of problems go away.
And revenue! i.e. 2022:

Apple: ~$395bn
Microsoft: ~$200bn
Amazon: ~$500bn
Meta: $116bn
Are the young people watching old episodes of "Look Around You"? [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9MRYJz9-4 [video][1 min]
Placement takes precedence over caliber size.
China invades Taiwan?
Quite an interesting website cataloging international uranium transport events over the years: https://www.wise-uranium.org/etiss.html
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I'm talking about echo chambers as a social problem, not threat, and there is plenty of research to corroborate that. Maybe you're in an echo chamber on your own and missed all of it? :D
Investing into something better than your competitors make is competing, not anticompetitive.
No. What you're missing is that the fabs moving to the US are pretty much just the ones the US military might need.

TSMC isn't moving their cutting edge production here. The fabs will be a node or two behind.
I'd like to recommend ekatra.one, a GPT-powered education platform designed for under-served learners, especially in India. Helps with personalized learning experiences and uses WhatsApp for course delivery.
I believe that's including things like high liquidity investments and so on, so not quite cash.
The entire argument follows from a single incredible, unsubstantiated assumption, that “creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.”
It’s never bragging to say you work with Drupal ;)
No, but companies still like to have preorders to pay for the investment, rather than having to empty their savings to raise cash. Apple with the cash they have thrown at TSMC and the almost certain high sales they know they will have, can make pre-emptive moves other companies will struggle to do.
For me the biggest selling point is being able to install things from official or more trustworthy sources than I can otherwise. For example Signal does not show any official way to run the desktop app on Fedora, but I trust the Archlinux community repo so I can just install it on an Arch distrobox environment and add a launcher for it to my bin. This beats the unofficial Flatpak in my opinion.
Sigstore: Roots of Trust for Software Artifacts
Invention Is a Flower, Innovation Is a Weed (1999)
That's actually not true: https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM
Who are you worried won't have to hear from you any more?
Unfortunately I suspect you might be right about that. Water cooler talk and synergies might mean I like you being forced to talk to me.
> Where's the profile of the many trans folks who regret their transition?

Many? It's barely 1% that do regret transitioning [1] and - warning, anecdata from here - most of that is due to societal pressure: parents and other family disowning their trans children, particularly for trans women having to experience the everyday discrimination and harassment of women, or being constantly mis-gendered or otherwise discriminated against at work and in general society. A small number will also express regret because of medical malpractice or a lack of training for the reconstructive surgery process (e.g. a lack of feeling due to damaged nerves), but that is common across all kinds of cosmetic surgery.

In contrast, suicide ratios among LGBT in general are immense [2], and it's worse for trans people [3]... that alone should make it clear, based on actually validated data, that it is better to assist trans people than to - in the worst case - force them to detransition.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detr...

[2] https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/suicide-coming-...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/
They can be, but in my experience that isn't the case.
> Local LLMs do best on big GPUs, which aren’t an option on Macs. What Apple has done with the M-series silicon is really impressive, but it’s not as fast as big, dedicated GPU silicon.

It'd be pretty silly for Apple to cram in big, dedicated GPU when 99.9% of their customers don't care and don't want to pay for it, especially considering that anyone that does want big, dedicated GPU can outboard as much GPU as they want.[1] And many seem to think that the onboard GPU along with Neural Engine should be adequate for local LLM.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544
> If someone’s preference is to work in a company where 100% of the employees are in office, then

Then they should get along great with the people whose preference is any number of other ways that they dictate terms to the rest of society.

Fortunately, those people are losing, and this is good.
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