skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is very true. Let's take word processing for example, with say Word 5.1 on a Quadra 700 as a highish end (probably $10k in today's dollars) setup available in around 1992: In a narrow sense typing US English on a keyboard and being able to print it was fairly well solved. It would feel slow to someone with today's machines but it wasn't that bad. On the other hand if you shared with someone else in the early 90s odds are it was by handing off a floppy disk. Did you remember to include the necessary fonts? Oh wait, does the other end have a new enough version of PostScript installed? Does it all fit on one disk? Most languages in the world either required a different OS install or were fully unsupported.

Today all of this stuff is pretty well resolved, but at a cost. Easy sharing and interactive collaboration over network is built on protocols like TLS that would be very slow even on the Quadra. The networks that runs over use an amount of compute that rivals supercomputers of the 90s (for one example just look at channel correction in MIMO radios). The disk footprint of all the fonts, languages, etc, is mitigated by storing them server-side, but this is all usable due to how fast networks are now. Machine translation means you can work across a language divide. Dictation is a win for accessibility and avoiding RSI. All of this is available on a Chromebook or iPad that is more reliable than the Quadra, runs on a battery, and is 50x cheaper.

We're not done, just as today spell check and grammar check are widely accepted as table stakes in another ten years features like built-in writing coach, editing, and research assistant features will likely be considered basic requirements with all the hardware needed to support that.

And that's just word processing.
> EDIT: Wow, lots of city boys on HN, who would have guessed! :D

I know, it's a little concerning. There are other articles that occasionally get discussed talking about the crisis among young men and whatnot, not having meaningful ways to be part of society and what can we do about it. And then something so simple as work, which obviously comes with tradeoffs, gets immediately dismissed as dangerous or exploitive or anti union or whatever urban sentiments people have. It feels like many would rather try and force young people to conform to some office worker version of life, and if they don't accept that then to drug them or imprison them, or just talk about how ignorant they all are.
> Employees pay payroll tax, even if they don’t see it taken out on their paychecks.

Yes, the so-called "employers' contribution" is a fine piece of propaganda.
Falcon 7B running on Mac with Core ML at ~4.3 tokens per second
I think you've confused "first USB4 expansion card" with "first device that has a USB4 socket." Laptops have had USB4 for a couple of years now.
> but it seems to be lacking when it comes to good programming.

That is an awfully heavy accusation for someone who hasn't even gotten their software running.
Kids are the key to shaping the future, but kids is also the reason we are here.
Generations upon generations of children being produced, who with each generation "produce" more CO2.

Our planet needs strong leadership that dictates what can and cannot be done. Instead we have leaders making up solutions that are not solutions, but are presented as such.
This really does seem like an AI-generated response. WTF
Beware, if you're spending $10k+ on consumer hifi speakers you're almost definitely getting ripped off.

It costs only a few thousand at most to get the raw parts and materials to build truly world class speakers (quality-wise) that are loud enough for any normal living space. Maybe not for a concert hall type space, but that's not consumer hifi anymore.
I said "incentive". You made it "monetary incentive".

What do you mean with "torrents work fine"? Do you have any statistics on the lifetime of torrents?

Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is still available and massively distributed. It seems very unlikely anything will ever get lost during our lifetime. So I would say that is an example that monetary incentives do work?
> those who are in a business for the money ... greedy people

Well, yeah. And people who get a job also do it for the money.
you've the same kind of talk and hate than some African with colonialism

Personally I don't give a damn about nations, I care about the planet as a whole, I live in France but nowhere like the average, more like a third-world person (I don't even have a fridge, not hot water, nor heating or AC, just to give you an idea), so your talk doesn't make sense to me
When some scientific organization comes out with a survivability index map for future locations by year, I'll like and subscribe.
Raspberry Pi Ltd is not wholly owned by the RPF anymore. They did raise outside funding a while back.
Got any 8gb CM4? I'll buy one from you...
The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...
A victim of Poe’s Law.
In fact OpenSSH has already done so! https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0
For those of us with Twitter.com blocked in local dns, what size model is it getting 40tok/s on?
> Why does attaching pay make it special?

Incentives. A bouldering gym is incentivized, due to the cost of liability and the impact on their reputation, for every visitor to have a safe experience. If your kid falls and breaks his neck after you paid a gym to help him learn, you’re going to sue.

Employers are incentivized to extract as much labor for the least amount of expense. New laws disincentivize safety by reducing liability.
I happen to mostly agree.

You’re picking one sentence I used as context for the rest of my comment.

Regarding the telegram office, I’m pretty sure 13 year olds have a lot more schoolwork than they did in 1850. I frequently had days I spent all day in school and spent most of the night on homework.
Just FYI for anyone tempted to buy this card: it does not work. There are multiple revisions and none of them work right. It stands a 50/50 chance of becoming terminally confused after a peer disconnect, will thereafter not work and hang the BIOS on reboot, only fixable by unplugging the machine. Absolute garbage. If you want TB4 I strongly recommend a machine with TB4 ports integrated, preferably from a major brand like Intel or Apple.
It's easy to trick people into overspending on audio gear because you can use their love for music and their subjective biases and their egos against them. It's like the perfect situation for slimy sales tactics.
This is done around all key stages of life where insecurities can be exploited.

The wedding industry from wedding rings to venues, new babies, even interviewing for white collar jobs used to be accompanied with the need for a new suit.

Once it can be established something is important and to be revered, rent seeking knows no bounds.
For an alternate take on this: https://twitter.com/ethicalskeptic/status/166465744222596300...

His data suggests that the rate of rise in ocean temperatures can not possibly be due to man made circumstances and is instead due to earth core leakage.
I absolutely agree. But I think existing laws already struck this balance. But what we're talking about now is kids cleaning the floors of slaughterhouses at night.
Goal misalignment - education vs profit, and similarly health vs profit. Both discriminate against poor people by making their services too expensive to reach.
They target the most vulnerable people.
It feels to me that the Overton window shifted rapidly (and arguably inverted) in the late 2010s. I remember this speech being posted and praised in forums and among people who would now consider it a harmful "dogwhistle". And I concur with the generational divide. As a mid-90s birth I've often found myself defending these principles towards younger people, and have done so by pointing out how the left used to support them (I was one of them), and it was the right suppressing them, only to be alarmed to learn that said younger people have no idea what I'm talking about. They came into politics after the "skeptical/free inquiry left" had been replaced by the "public safety" left
Have you checked if they’re still tweeting? I still have a twitter account, to hold the username on the off chance that Musk gets bored and divests to spend more time with his car tunnels. At least among my social circle this is rather common; if I look at the ‘following’ tab on that account it’s rather quiet.
I was recently faced with this (luckily I realized it before coming across any strange bugs), and realized std::deque works great for this if you don’t need random access (which was fine for my use-case because I just grabbed references immediately after insertion).
It is not just record, it is well above all the previous records, including some strong El Niño years (that didn’t started yet).
I countered a post I found a bit cynical in the comments, but I figured I should also counter the overly rose-tinted substack post, as it lacks some context.

> Iceland is also home to lots of "love refugees," tourists who found love during their trips to Iceland and never left.

The foreign workforce in the tourism industry is probably filled with people like this, so you're likely to get that impression. Most foreign immigrants move here to do all kinds of jobs simply because the salary is better than in their home country. For example, I once met a guy who was a manager at a software company in Poland that moved to Reykjavik to clean because it paid so much better.

It is quite common for IT related work in Iceland to be outsourced to mainland Europe. So while there is venture funding available to create new companies, the actualy labour of software development is outsourced. This to me is a red flag that counters the underlying message of the article.

> Iceland stands as a global leader in renewable energy, with 100% of its electricity grid relying on renewable resources.

Technically 99.9% as some areas require diesel generators. Iceland isn't a "leader". Iceland is geograhically lucky to have a lot of glacial meltwater (hydro) and shallow volcanism (geothermal). The virtue signalling around Iceland's grid is quite on the nose, particularly when it overlooks similarly lucky countries like Costa Rica. As an Icelander in this very field, I would say Ireland is the leader in renewable energy (if interested look up Eirgrid's DS3 project), as they're literally leaders in pushing the key technical limits of grids relative to renewable energy (i.e. inertia).

One broad aspect that is overlooked here is the need for work and residency permits. It is incredibly hard to get either of those as a non-european foreigner. Both because the requirements are highly restrictive and the directorate of immigration does its best to find reasons not to provide permits. The only recent positive change, that some here on HackerNews might find use for, is the long-term remote work visa (https://island.is/en/get-long-term-visa-for-remote-workers).
Is hugging face shilling for Falcon? I've seen way more promotion of this, with suspicious wording "(and fully open source!)" than for any other model, and it's been going on since it was first released as a freemium 10% royalty thing. It's worrisome that the org that effectively controls model distribution appears to be biased so hard to a particular model, especially given it's sketch history.
This is from my notebook. I don't have the original source and don't claim that I came up with this, but it's been incredibly useful for me (and pardon the succinct crib-notes).

How to fight procrastination

Behavior = Motivation + Ability + Trigger

If lacking Motivation:

- Build motivation by reminding yourself "why" in the first place

- Add personal, meaningful reasons to the task you put off.

- Remind yourself why you took it on

If lacking Ability:

- Breakdown the task

- Create a simple timeline:

1. Start at due date

2. Go backwards day-by-day (or week-by-week) and put milestones

3. Pin the timeline

4. Start on First Part

If lacking Trigger:

- Create a cue (A trigger is: "what, when, where")

- Take <15mins to decide task to start with. If you still don't know, pick one at random

- At the end of the day, put the next day's item at the top

Procrastination is a gap between intention and action.

Not all delay is procrastination.

To create intention:
"In situation X, I will do Y to achieve subgoal Z"
Textboox pricing issues seem to be so country/subject specific.

UK, Computer Science, 10-14 years ago. I was given 5 core textbooks on day 1 of my course – Java, C, 2x Maths, Communications. Probably about £200 worth. After that there were no required books. There were recommended books, of which the university library had copies of all of them with policies that meant they were always available to read but couldn't be loaned out because they were core material. On top of that there were subject reading material that no one used and made no difference. I never once heard of a textbook being part of an assessment - like using questions in the book.

I seemed to have been very lucky, both CS often requiring fewer textbooks and the UK not having quite the same culture of exploitative companies. But it does illustrate how unnecessary the process is. Maybe students need to strike on buying textbooks.
At least renewable energy generation is still following a nice exponential growth curve. It's too slow to prevent dire climate change, but it might be fast enough to prevent complete collapse of technological civilization.
From the thread:

> Watching llama.cpp do 40 tok/s inference of the 7B model on my M2 Max, with 0% CPU usage, and using all 38 GPU cores.

> Getting 24 tok/s with the 13B model

> And 5 tok/s with 65B
You want to explain a phenomenon by looking at differences. One difference you picked up is "Americans vs others". The other difference I want to point out: written by academics/students at ETH Zurich vs. professional engineers/programmers from Microsoft.
Breadth on Usenet is a lot worse though. One can find a private tracker to cover pretty much every -non mainstream- niche one can think of, and that also comes with a community attached.
I don't buy the bot explanation, even if 10% of followers are bots it wouldn't change the calculation.

The more likely explanation is feed manipulation by as demonstrated most prominently by FB where "following" is barely more than a suggestion to the algorithm.
Thank you for explaining.

> Brazilian software developers working for american companies for a salary that would be inhumane to an american put doctors here to shame. I'm talking 2-4x, depending on the company and exchange rate. It wasn't like this before.

It sounds to me that this is really the root cause of your unhappiness, rather than more doctors entering the market. We had a similar situation in India too, but over time the wealth gets spread around. The software engineers will too, after all, need healthcare and they will be willing to spend more on it given their higher disposable incomes.
I believe it's also louder, with a worse ride.
I did not receive any error.
The way this debate ends up is odd to me. There's no question about human trafficking or why so many unaccompanied minors have turned up and how they got here. Nothing about whether this is safe and what happens if one of these kids injures themselves. There's no question about what the cost is on local resources to put them in school and whether they are even going to school and how they are doing. There's nothing about the cost to pay for their housing and medicine versus the theoretical economic benefit, etc. No one asks what their health and safety status is or whether they owe anything to cartels. Are they paying half their meager wage to an adult? What happens to the money? Let's not ask who is watching over these minors. Let's not ask where their parents are and whether the parents are exploiting them or immigration laws.

Instead the debate turns to them working. Who benefits from this? It's not even close to being the average person in one of these states.
Yeah I played around with it for a few days to improve my python code, and narrowed the command space enough for it to be helpful 50% of the time

here's the video: https://www.loom.com/share/5e83475be2464778950f7df7e209ac2d
I have so many questions after reading this. Like this example:

[
// Call console.log
"@", [".", ["console"], "log"],
// Verbatim call parameter
"hi"
]

What sort of sandboxing model is susceptible to this?

I can't imagine any sort of principled sandboxing model that would be susceptible to running a whole interpreter within. Protections should go on the equivalent of syscalls, the side-effects code can have. We've known this for -- conservatively -- 30 years. Can somebody with knowledge explain how these extensions are breaking Chrome's security sandbox?
What error are you seeing? I'm seeing the same page in the archive as on the live site.
Nope. You could actually order Zeros in packs of 10. There is increased availability of many models - the Zero 2 W, however, has an in-chip memory package that makes it a rarer item in general, and will take a while longer to ramp up.
7B

here's the linked github fwiw

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1642
What does 2σ mean here? Is that referring to a normal distribution with the given mean, i.e. if temperature were following a normal distribution with a mean like from 1982-2011, then 95% of the temperatures would fall into the 2σ range?
Attaching pay attached a large amount of coercion: are you willing to give up the future income of this job in order to refuse a bad or dangerous or illegal request? That’s the core argument behind many worker protections. And the idea that children are going to be better at making that decision than they are at deciding whether a cigarette or a special onetime investment opportunity is a good idea is … low evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enobosarm

I’d read some research about this a couple years ago and didn’t remember seeing anything about effects on the cardiovascular system but that does seem like a possibility
Do you think kids can vote?
> Please note: I will close any issues without unreproducible steps.

Surely you meant "without reproducible steps"?
Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices
Warner Discovery CEO made $498M in the last 5 years– 384x the average writer
And one is a smokescreen for the other. "Stop treading on me" really just allows special interests to take advantage of people.

Similar to how all these calls for lowering taxes on the top 1% is supposedly to support small businesses when most of those don't benefit and neither does it "trickle down".

Example: https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/fact-shee...
Yes, that’s my understanding.
There's plenty of real engineering but it's only engineers that can differentiate the heavily marketed and absurdly marked up snake oil things from what's real. DIY people share honestly good designs that are underperformed by speakers/amps that cost 10x or more.
It's not quite the same, because with other stocks you have months or years of past performance to go on.
I've been using BirdNet for a while. Is Merlin significantly better?
I don't need to be ashamed of suggesting that. These professors should be ashamed of themselves for not taking this issue with their administration. If they can't stand for these issues, how can they teach future generations?
Clearly the lizard people from Earth's hollow core are responsible.
2024: the first Republican primary debate ends in chaos when cyborg Ron DeSantis gets stuck in fart mode.
Yep, I realise I only talked about the negatives, not the advantages. In general I prefer to use make_shared and be careful with uses of weak pointers.
School and professor dependent. I had a few professors at UVA who authored the book being used in class.

I also had a few who made copies of the chapters they wanted from whatever books and had the library hold those copies for us. We would just check them out normally, make our own copy (or read, take notes) and return for the next person.
It isn't a cultural thing if course. But you'd be a fool to trust the safety of your home to cultural trends or even to building codes. That aside, be honest: you probably don't know where all the electrical wires in your dwelling lie.

I was surprised to find that an entire condominium (many units) had 120 VAC wires running 2" above ground level at the front picture window of every ground-floor unit. We have had hurricanes where rainwater has risen in the courtyard above that level, entered the walls and beyond. Ergo know how to cut the main power!

You mention pools so I will punish you with this anecdote: we got rid of the condo pool years ago. It was a maintenance hazard b/c of pool lights, pumps and a chlorination system that broke down as well as drunk fuckers (I mean that literally) who accidentally broke beer bottles around the pool and didn't clean up.

If you have a pool or hot tub then have it checked annually for electrical and child safety. The only cure for the drunk fuckers is to buy more insurance and charge it to the condo owners' association (or better, get rid of the damn pool).
The need to not burn coal goes beyond CO2, the particulates and radiation coal plants put out is terrible for health.

Coal has, and continues, to cause more deaths then nuclear ever has and produces radioactive ash while at it.
If you intentionally fill up a truck with material that destroys it and then leave it, that is property destruction. That is equivalent to blowing something up (the concrete expands and blows up the truck) in that it is property damage.

Another example to help you understand:

If I came into my office in the morning with a highly flammable liquid and put them where the sun shines in the afternoon, and then intentionally left for "striking" - the ensuing office fire would be property damage on my part.
perhaps the friction for minors looking for a job exists for good reason. the focus at that age should be school, not work, i recognize that there are those less fortunate that can't afford to do school sans work, but the solution to that should be financial aid, not making them work. society's goal should be to get a more educated populace, by lowering the friction to enter the workforce at such a young age you're endangering that group of kids on the edge who, given more friction, would have stayed in school and gone to do greater things, but since it was so easy to get into work so early they lowered the overall potential of their lives.

so regarding the poor families this would supposedly help, I'd argue it's more complicated than that, and what this may be doing is providing short term help while sacrificing long term social mobility. keep the poor working and not learning and they'll mostly stay poor.

there's nothing wrong of course with a part time gig to get accustomed to different responsibilities, but it should remain restricted to that. you've got your entire life to work full-time, there's no need to rush things.