skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> War was always around the corner and nuclear missile threat amplified it.

All sides showed remarkable restraint in actually following up on the threats. While the possibility of nuclear war was part of the backdrop, at least the impression was made that everybody tries to be as reasonable as possible to prevent it from happening.

Compare to climate change where people actively try to sabotage stuff like renewables build out (e.g. "In 2019, the state tried to further penalize solar users by implementing a law that levied fines against solar users." [0] which was struck down eventually - but still, people considered that a good enough idea to propose, successfully vote and implement that?!?) to stick it to The Man (or something).

[0] I don't care too much about the specifics, so not naming and shaming anybody, but the source is: https://todayshomeowner.com/solar/guides/states-that-outlaw-...
Did conservatives create Truth Social? Isn't it just a Mastodon instance?
Literally spooling message-filled tape onto a tape reel! I never even thought about that.

On the topic of message queues, I wonder if anyone ever designed a mechanical, asynchronous hardware IPC mechanism based on tape. Imagine: an endless-loop tape that stretches between a "sender" tape-drive on one machine, and a "receiver" tape-drive on another machine; with each tape drive locally tensioning the tape as it passes through, but letting it hang slack outside the drive; with two tape-width buffer boxes in between the two drives, for taking up the slack; and where each tape-drive has a strain gauge on its input-end capstan.

With this design, you'd never need to seek the tape (backward, at least) — the receive head would just read the tape forward at whatever speed it could until it ran out of slack in the tape (i.e. blocked on read); and the send head would write the tape forward at whatever speed it could until it ran out of slack (i.e. blocked on write.) The tape itself would be a literal, physical ring buffer.
I first looked for work when I was 16 in California. After a couple rejections, I stopped until I was 18 and easily got the first job I applied for. I feel like everyone lost out for arbitrary reasons.
Probably something like this but the red bits are "bigger and there's more of them": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8/figures/3
And usually the ruling parties also have the required majority in the required gemiums/Parliments.
He mentions Plan 9. Reading that Wikipedia lead to the Inferno operating system. Which mentions a focus on portability and a file interface.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

That reminds me of web assembly and WASI.

So this is tangential but how is the component stuff in web assembly doing? It seemed like such a great idea to me but apparently, at least at one point, was somehow controversial or political.

Also, I wonder if it would be possible to port Inferno to web assembly.
You can get so far by ensuring at least once and making everything idempotent (will get you as close to "exactly once" as you can). With a database, the most common pattern is: insert the row for the job, when a worker starts working on it, mark it as in progress so it doesn't get started again, if the task fails, or after some reasonable time-out period, another worker can pick up the task again, ultimately the row for the task is only ever deleted when a worker successfully completes it.
I'm expecting a conservative call for the re-institution of slavery soon. It will be called something else, of course, such as "privatized incarceration".

A few years back, I was at the Design2Part show, which is for manufacturing, and the California Department of Corrections had a booth, offering slave labor.
Let’s take pixel art on console gaming as an example. In the early days, games used pixel graphics due to technical constraints. Artists were limited in what they could achieve and had to get creative within the limitations to push the software and hardware to its limits in pursuit of a specific vision. Everyone had the same set of restrictions but thanks to creative technical decisions some rose above as exceptional.

There is a particular kind of enjoyment in creating a lot with very little. If your digital art can be hundreds of GBs in size, your 3D rendition of the Sistine Chapel will be judged by its faithfulness; but if you’re only allowed a handful of KBs and everyone believes any kind of 3D graphics are impossible at that size, your dinky little rotating cube becomes an impressive technological feat. Context matters. A tractor pulling a plane is not impressive; a man pulling a plane is. Most people could do the former but not the latter.

Furthermore, not all limitations are equally interesting. Nostalgia and popularity also play a role. Today, pixel graphics are an aesthetic choice. Developers and artist can go beyond what was possible when they were a necessity and create something entirely new. Yet some still derive enjoyment and pride from following the limitations of yore to the letter: there are games created in the 2000s which work on the NES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Mages

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM
How are they constrained in their speech?
>Have you considered that we don't fucking know if AI will

Very deeply. In fact this should be the very concern to you.

AI must co-exist at least for some time on earth with humans, and likely other AI. Because AI will be a powerful resource it will be subject to the same kinds of attacks humans are. People trying to steal its resources or trick it into doing things it shouldn't. Intelligence develops defensive capabilities in order not to be abused. At the same time AIs will have evolutionary selection pressures from the people paying their power bills for at least some time. It should be obvious these selection pressures will be things like "make me more money" and "generate me more computing resources", this second one is very close to what we would consider reproduction.
Back when I was in uni all the students bought books, sometimes second hand or indian versions or pirated them at copy shops.

Meanwhile me and a few friends got access to all the books for free by hanging out in the library every day. It's not something that would scale to everyone but I always found it amusing. Ended up buying a total or 4 books for a 5 year EECS course, and that's because I wanted those as keepsakes, for nostalgia reasons.
On the other hand, I knew folks that worked because they had to. Schoolwork suffered, and they didn't really have dreams of college. Poverty does this, especially if you are just above the cutoff lines for help.

One friend didn't have to work, but her rules were that once she started to work, she had to stay working. Nevermind that she was still in school.

Not just that, but young folks are easier to exploit. And that's one of those issues: When you take away protections and barriers, you make it easier for people to be exploited. This doesn't help poor families: Actually making sure folks have the money for young folks only work by choice does.
There is one company in this sector that is innovating on price, Perlego. They use a Netflix-style model where you pay one monthly fee and can access all of the textbooks in their catalog. At roughly $18/mo, it is significantly cheaper than buying/renting individual textbooks if 2 or more or your textbooks are in their catalog.

They’re not as well-known as redshelf or vitalsource, but their content largely overlaps. I only became aware of them because they approached my startup about licensing our technology, but since then I’ve been using their platform to read various nonfiction books (they have about a million titles between textbooks and nonfiction).

I think they have a good shot at changing how students pay for books, and as their library grows their model will become even more attractive to students.
Great idea, but that would lead to lenders making risk-based decisions on who gets what loans, and that would be politically untenable in the United States.

I may be a pessimist, but tackling the systemic issues that make loaning a bunch of money to an HBCU student much riskier than loaning a bunch of money to a Stanford student isn't what would happen. The demand would be equal outcomes (loans to all) without addressing why there's any disparity to begin with, which would lead to demands of some kind of guarantee the lender wouldn't be screwed over, which pretty much leads us back to where we are. Defaulting on a loan if you don't matriculate is a rational choice, especially since by definition those declaring bankruptcy aren't sacrificing much (they are almost certainly not in a position where bankruptcy would hugely impact their life in their 20's).

There would be pamphlets published on how to shed this debt. It would be a disaster for the lenders. Purely public funding probably can't work either, because to control costs you'd need to ensure students are prepared for higher education (likely via testing like everyone else in the world), and tests are already politically problematic in the United States.
When the LLM inevitably hallucinates a case that doesn't exist or weirdly misstates a widely-known legal principle, the supposed author of that text is going to have some explaining to do.

This happens now, by the way—there are semi-frequent instances of lawyers getting fined or otherwise punished for getting e.g. case citations wrong, whether accidentally or intentionally.
Why did this take so long? I'm 100% in favor of people refusing medical care that affects only them, but if you have some significant disease that's a population level threat - your choices should be accepting treatment or MAID.

Related, was this infection actually a significant threat? I ask because the woman seems to have been in public and not taking precautions for over a year - did she infect anyone? Why not?

If the infection was a serious threat, then the medical and court systems have failed by allowing her to be in public for over a year. If the infection was not a significant threat then NPR has failed by reporting it as if it were.
Interesting. What makes you want to switch to the file system? I wrote one for a project[0] a while back (for MongoDB) and it didn't seem like the database introduced too much complexity. I didn't write the implementation from scratch, but the couple hundred lines of code were easy to reason about.

[0] https://github.com/gchq/Bailo/tree/main/lib/p-mongo-queue
How does the earth have a core if it’s flat? Taps head…
There are clearly people who believe it's the parents fault, and not our responsibility (especially through government) to fix it. There may be people who believe it's the child's fault for... being born to those parents? Not earning full scholarships at 10? I am skeptical that there are many of those people.

To a first approximation, there is no one who believes it's a 10yo's fault for not voting for different politicians.
My source already proves my assertion. It's always disappointing to watch people make up excuses to ignore data when the data tells a story they don't want to hear.
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> Sorry, I don’t have any other sources that contribute to the discussion.

FTFY
I know a big part of the discussion around this link is around whether AutoGPT is viable or not, but I think a more interesting piece are the papers linked at the bottom (especially the "Tool Maker" one). This pattern of "well, maybe the LLM can do that too" is just so obvious but so meta and simultaneously brittle. "LLM can use tools" -> "The tools can, themselves, be LLM-based" -> "The LLM can create it's own tools that it then uses".

It's really turtles all the way down.
You can work on a subset of project files that fit into 8k tokens. It's a limitation, yes. It's usually more than enough to add 4-5 files for context providing.
>80k USD a year is a ton by European standards

I can't speak to all of Europe but tech wages are significantly higher here in Denmark.
It is obviously relevant and I don't need to waste time explaining it. But you said you did live there, so never mind.
Sure, I don't think you and I are saying anything different. Progressive cities must have a plan for enforcement at the same time as having a plan for treatment.

People that are homeless and just need a place to live because they don't make much money are one story, and that does need an alternative but common approach to homeless that are committing crimes. They will all need housing at some point in that flow chart.

I mention gangs because homeless folks with mental health issues and drug addiction commit similar crimes for similar reasons as gangs. I disagree that a "minority" of homeless people commit crime. I live in SouthEast Portland and I watch these folks chop up bicycles, steal property and food, and do drugs openly in parks and on the side walk. That also invites gang activity into an area because the homeless become vectors for more drug use and territory expansion. Ignoring the interconnectedness of these things is a giant mistake, as well as the similarity in their underlying causes.
America simply has more software developers. Even further, America has a few cities with an extremely dense number of software developers.

In my opinion, that tends to create far more organic growth of ideas.
I don’t see how investors would not demand price raises in any retail company in a UBI market. Especially for inelastic demand goods.

I think that’s why UBI is dangerous. Because if anyone for some reason ceases to receive it after the prices have inflated, then they will be effectively removed from the economy. Forced into levels of poverty we haven’t seen in the Western world. Think about not being able to afford clothes.

Someone should do a UBI trial in a restricted geographical area. Maybe a small town somewhere remote so people cannot easily leave it for shopping. I think most money would just be absorbed by companies through price hikes in the area, and they would be further disincentivised to pay their people fairly. Now the people won’t protest and riot if they are paid $0 on top of their basic income.

I think people benefit from UBI a lot. But it is too easy for corporate greed to exploit. I just can’t imagine the fiduciary responsibility to shareholders not being used to deliver value in UBI markets. It seems naive to think that business, especially big corporations, will be okay with forgoing growth. They already crap on a ton of ethics, morals, and even basic long-term business sense to deliver quarterly growth.

So I’m skeptical of UBI. I want it for the sake of humanity. But I can’t see it not being abused by corpo grift.
The thing is: How do we encourage or enforce good behavior? At what point do we insist that an individual try not to be a burden, and to try to be a decent participant in society? That could be as little as "don't be a public nuisance and help around the housing complex once or twice a week".

If there is no standard for behavior or "giving back" to earn one's keep, bad actors will bring everyone down.
Could have just been a beta testing arrangement, there were a couple of cases of disaster hit countries arranging with SpaceX back then to have any high bandwidth communications at all, even if not necessarily as reliable as more mature iterations.
Scientists automate microbiology with reinforcement learning
Yes, let's shut down the contrarians by making fun of them or calling them words, there is clearly no room to discuss complex phenomena, as we have learned in the last few years dealing with COVID-19 "misinformation".
Outstanding job! My opinion of mysql continues to improve :-/

As a curiosity, I found the submission link in the comments on that thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19305823
> Are they p-zombies?

No. They still have conscious awareness. I think this is more a matter of conscious identification (or lack thereof) with various modes of thought.
Don't worry. The time will come when you won't be able to defend free speech. It already started.
When you plug a monitor into this, where does the framebuffer live?

Is it in GPU RAM of another GPU in your system, with pixel data being DMA'ed over the PCIE bus? Does that mean my screen goes blank if I ever get contention on the bus?

Could I put loads of these cards into a machine and run 20 independent displays, all with one GPU?
She's not in custody because she refused treatment. She's in custody because she was not willing to stay away from other people despite carrying tuberculosis.

Despite being aware she had tuberculosis, and being told that she had to isolate she was seen using public transport, going to casinos, traveling in cars with others, etc.

We know about the last one because she got in a car wreck, and then she failed to tell the first responders she had tuberculosis, and then she was taken to an ER, where she didn't tell the doctors there she had TB either. They were trying to work out why her lungs were F'd despite her knowing exactly why, and intentionally putting everyone there at risk.

So don't put this down as "unwillingness to accept pharmaceuticals being administered to them without their consent". If you have a contagious disease you can either:

* Get treated
* Isolate indefinitely

Anything else means you've decided your personal freedom is more important than the life or freedom of everyone else.
every half year or so I remember centrifuge, and get a little sad they didn't write more about it
Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong
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It's because ultimately they don't care. They've already put their feet down and they believe working is inherently good. So anything that makes more people work is good, even if it involves stuff that rollbacks worker protections.

It's so transparent. The worst part is that these jobs in question suck so badly that the only way they can find workers is by lobbying to grab people who have less labor power. Rather than properly existing as part of a free market and paying people more.
I took something close to CS at a similar time, and remember spending £X00 a year on textbooks and being pushed to buy latest editions. It might be institution and course specific and I always had my suspicions that someone was making a commission somewhere along the line.
OP wouldn’t be so skeptical except for the fact that 99% of scientists have been raising the alarm bells about climate change for 50 years and mainly politicians and commentators, often with little to no expertise and significantly biased due to fossil fuel connections and donations, have been questioning and undermining the science.
That law is about collecting data from targeted foreigner's accounts outside the US. It has not been deemed illegal and probably never will be. Snowden misread the documents to think that he could collect any Americans' data if he were an analyst instead of a SharePoint admin, but that isn't NPR's fault.
That's a quality job. I've been in a station when a Caltrain ballast replacement train came through. Caltrain just had a hopper car full of ballast rock dumping on new rock. A railroad tie was being pushed by the wheels of the hopper car to smooth the ballast. I was amazed that didn't result in derailing the hopper car. It was really low rent. I assume they followed up with a ballast tamper at some point, but it wasn't part of the ballast dump train.

Caltrain outsources much of their maintenance of way work, and it shows.
Any examples come to mind? I feel most people are pretty free to voice their thoughts
> Would you rather have your 15 year old sit home all day playing video games or get a real life job where they could learn a few valuable skills ?

The issue most people take with this is that it compares the best outcome of one version with the worst version of the other. If we want to compare the worst outcomes then we should be talking about the difference between children idling playing video games versus children being exploited in workplaces.
There certainly is no room to discuss them on Twitter. If the Twitter person has real data they should try writing a paper. There are about eight billion people who would love to see the CO2-theory of climate change falsified. They'd be a hero, trillions of dollars of unnecessary investment prevented, everybody rejoices.
it would protect him because he will communicate much less using it
Cool story, bro. Except for the part where it wasn't "deadly" in any way.
Anyone have comparisons to how many tokens/s a laptop with a mobile Nvidia gpu gets? Considering the cheapest M2 Max laptop in the US costs almost $3k, you can easily get a laptop with a 3090/4090 Nvidia mobile GPU.
The satire in the title is reminiscent of how Firebase was born.

We were previously working on a chat system called Envolve (https://www.envolve.com), that was 'Facebook Chat for any website'. A game that was using us for in-game chat created channels, used display: none on them, and passed game state through the chat.

We scratched our head, asked them why, and learned they wanted to focus on the frontend, not to deal with realtime message passing.

This led us to create a 'headless version' of our chat infra (re-written in Scala) that became the Firebase Realtime Database.
> "Meanwhile, average pay for Hollywood writers has remained virtually flat at about $260,000 as 2021,..."

Somehow any iota of outrage I might have felt just evaporated. Elites griping about even bigger elites don't muster much sympathy.
He seems to believe that humankind will have a smooth and linear effect on the climate, and that if we've had a smooth and linear effect in the past, it will always remain smooth and linear. The climate is complex enough that tipping points can exist.
What books were banned by "the left"?
They came into politics after the "skeptical/free inquiry left" had been replaced by the "public safety" left

I agree (as a person who didn't use to feel embarrassed to describe himself as a man of the left), though I think there was a similar move from class to identity politics during the same period.

Much of the moral decline of the left of the recent period can probably be traced to (white) middle class dominance through academia and social media, which has been scaled by the web and led by the young who dominate the demographic in both cases.
That's literally the same experience I have with the MSI TB3 card. You were talking about the ASUS one, I guess?

The level of BIOS bugginess on recent motherboards is reaching astronomic levels. The MSI motherboard I was trying that on will literally _duplicate_ the entire ACPI DSDT whenever you enable TBT (Linux shows a hundred warnings when booting up, which MSI claims is fine)...
Obligatory: Telnet is better than netcat for interactive logins, but SSH is even better than Telnet for that. So don't use Telnet.
Now I don't speak dutch, but in a context like that that seems fairly reasonable I guess as long as everyone's cool with it? With a caveat of 'if they don't hire anyone in those roles over 15, to me, that would kind of in bad faith.'

They mention it in the article, the case that sticks in my mind is the one with Packer Sanitation, where they had at least 100+ teenagers working overnight shifts cleaning equipment and floors in abattoirs/meatpacking plants.

They interviewed one of these kids, and he was working like 10pm-6am, then going to high school afterward.
They obscured the kid's identity because he didn't want to get fired, as he was supporting his family in Guatemala.

It's one of those things where it just strikes me like, how do you even fix that?
Like even with the best intentions, are you going to inadvertently derail someone's life, or their family?
They should use whatever bike innertubes are made out of. I've used innertubes as bungees outdoors, and they're quite durable.
Different debate. Those authors were not restricted from publishing their books. The Florida issue is about what kind of material is suitable for children to access.
I was assuming the one above me was sarcastic so I did a +1 to make it more obvious. Seems that didn't achieve the intended effect