skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The copy and pasted definition supports my argument exactly.

> Romans 2000 years ago socialist (Roman state build roads)?

No because Roman roads were built for military purposes and with military funds.

> Were middle age European kings (they were the state) socialist for building roads?

No, because there was no government that represented the people. All the land was owned by the royals and aristocracy.

The roads today are owned by the state, which represents the citizens of the country, not an individual, family or military. The roads are funded by direct allocation of the taxes of citizens and not from any single individual’s bank account or military war spoils.
> I would rather have my 15-16 year old working on 6 hour hard labor job learning real life skills than playing video games or their IPad.

If only we lived in a world with more than 2 choices for everything...

> McDonalds for a 5-6 hour shift. Does that count as Child Labor ?

No, if there are health and safety protections in place and enforced. And it's not interfering with schoolwork or rest.
> Here's a weird idea. Bundle materials into tuition expenses.

As a former textbook seller, professors will exploit this for profit by publishing their own textbook at inflated prices and collecting a nice reward. This does happen in some places (or did, I'm out of the industry).

Imagine if every state or country developed their own open source curriculum, instead of allowing publishers to exists as owners and gatekeepers of knowledge.
Yes, India and China as well.

You open your banking app, enter their bank and account number, the amount to transfer, then somewhere between seconds and a couple minutes the money arrives.
When all that carbon was in the atmosphere, dinosaurs weren't even around yet.
What I am saying is "this is a complex issue that should be deeply understood before rushing to easy ideological solutions".

The problem is that, like my children doing math, no one wants to understand problems. Ideological solutions that fit in memes are much easier.
I've never come across it before this post was made. It's only a matter if it catches on or not, just like how tornado cash was there for a long time, until it wasn't anymore
Why not frame it as „Major challenges ahead“ instead of „no future“? That sounds like a recipe for learned helplessness and defeatism.
Alpha emitters are the most sophisticated poison when swallowed.
> End of the world cults are a common feature of human societies,

The different tech that can make good on the apocalypse are a relatively recent addition to the equation.

We've had the ability to lay waste to the planet for just a handful of generations.
I once tried to figure out the smallest modification to cga hardware that could be made to substantially improve the palette.

Inverting the digital red line produces some amazing options. Not least because the palettes containing red became black enabling the colour that was typically used for black to be reused as this was the only palette entry that could be set to any of the 16 colours.
How can 100W be delivered through those tiny USB-C connector landings, especially since only a few of them are used for power?
The public healthcare system in Denmark is a travesty. Preventative care is almost totally absent. Yet Danes defend it as "unnecessary tests" [1]

That perception is made clear in this Reddit thread

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/copenhagen/comments/11xbvvk/boom_in...
You forgot all the people who forget there are N5095 (and now N100) mini-PCs galore at pretty reasonable prices these days.
“Friends”: a group of people who reinforce among themselves a particular worldview and the permissible behaviors that go with it
RRR: A Succinct Rank/Select Index for Bit Vectors
SSL cert expired 1 day ago on this linked page FYI
My children aren’t going to care because I don’t care and there’s no reason to fill them with unnecessary doom and fear.

Yes it is outside of our sphere of influence. It’s bad parenting to make kids worry about things outside of their control.

And before you criticize me, know that I’m a cloth diapering, organic food growing back-to-land hippy. I’m happy to compare our carbon footprints.
The warming of the oceans could lead to the following consequences:

- Coral reef collapse and loss of marine biodiversity.

- Accelerated sea-level rise, resulting in coastal flooding and displacement of populations.

- Ocean acidification, harming shell-forming organisms and marine ecosystems.

- Disruption of ocean currents, leading to altered weather patterns and increased extreme weather events, potentially causing massive oceanic dead zones leading to

- Release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from warming ocean sediments and decaying organic matter, a potential extinction event.

---

Peter Ward: “Oceans - What’s the Worst that Can Happen?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eM1aakTzMw
> And 5 tok/s with 65B

Which is still incredible. I recently tested llama.cpp on a dual xeon server with 24 cores and 70gb RAM and on the 65B model it took like 15 seconds for one token.

GPU seems the way to go here
US cancer drug shortage forces doctors to ration life-saving treatments
Never install software required for your company/university onto your personal device. Not even with VM or OS running off external drive. source: former university system administrator.
The slavery is already enshrined in constitution. Just need to build those work camps and get people imprisoned there.
That's interesting, thanks for taking the time to investigate this further (I lack the knowledge about this field and the statistical methods and it was an honest question).
I work in a company that has offices all over the world. I do find a difference in the engineering culture of each region, but the individual contributors seem about on par. The strong company/regional culture can have profoundly negative effects on a engineering team. My main observation is that both Asian and Eastern European developers have a very strong process/enterprise culture and the Western (US/AUS/FR) countries have a very independent/agile/startup culture. These two cultures clash a lot of the time and only one delivers fast so the business values them more. Individually however the developers seem to be on par with each other. I can find S tier people in Asia that are totally suffocated by their own engineering culture - which they embrace!

I'm currently working on a culture shift for some of these people and it's really hit and miss. Some of the people feel very uncomfortable doing things "the western way" and other love it and say so.
Publishers have a sales force that courts and encourages (bribes) academics and administrators. They fund conferences and provide jobs (writing textbooks).

It's a patronage network that exploits young people.
This is an important lesson - if someone is using your tool in unexpected ways don’t just shut them down; there’s likely a business case that could be identified and specialized in.
> If the Twitter person has real data

His data is the data from the website this HN thread links to.

He's just pointing out that 32% of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) warming since 1995 arrived in a mere 3 weeks of 2023 and asks the question how that is possible.
> Does that mean my screen goes blank if I ever get contention on the bus?

The monitor has a framebuffer of it's own.

Otherwise how could it display the OSD (On Screen Display)?
Devastating profile dogs CNN boss
That is the central point of subscriptions, of course. They make people totally misjudge how much they pay for something. And that then enables $5 instead of $50 software. $5 is cheaper than $50, isn't it? Of course, no, it isn't, but that's the point.

Microsoft office used to be $80, now it's $5 per month. And you can bet that's a price rise, since MBAs are thoroughly in control at MS.

And if you calculate:

* At $5 per seat the formula for "can this software exist?" is something like $months_of_work * 10k / 5. Which translates to 1 month of work per 2000 paying customers.

* At $5 subscription per seat, avg retention 1 yr, you get one month of work per 167 paying customers, or about 12 times more pay. That justifies a lot more software.
I'm not sure what you're asking here?

Rosetta is a tool for running x86-64 binaries on an arm64 OS.

I think you're asking if rosetta lets you run an x86 kernel, to which the answer is no - the whole point of this framework is to support virtualization, e.g. the OS is running directly on the hardware. The moment the OS can't do that, there is no point in doing anything other than emulation.
They clearly mean fork in the GitHub UI, not fork as in running git clone locally.
Or "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach"
I see 3 semi-distinct bands in the data, where there are dense clusters of lines, and gaps in between where the lines are a bit more sparse. It looks to me like the line jumps from the bottom band to the middle band in 1997, then back down, then up again in 2001, and then stays there until 2014/2015 when it jumps up a second time. You can see them better if you remove the mean/+2sigma/-2sigma lines. I wonder the reason for that? Could be I'm just seeing patterns where none exist of course.

Edit: the jumps kind of correspond to moments in time when the solar insolation was on its upswing and the periods when it temporarily slowed kind of correspond to periods when insolation was declining, I think however I'm exceeding my training a bit, perhaps an actual climate scientist could tell us more precisely what's going on.
This bit I applaud:

Mocks his own staff's Zucker-era COVID coverage: Licht "slapped his palms on the table between us, mimicking the feverish pace of an imaginary broadcaster. 'COVID, COVID, COVID! Look at the case numbers! ... No context. And, you know, the kind of shaming.'"
This is such a poor interpretation of the data that it almost seems intentional.

They're cherry-picking an arbitrary year for comparison over an arbitrary time range. There's many years you can select to draw similar bad comparisons. For example, select 2021 & 2015 and look at Feb 28 - March 5. Are you going to believe a sensationalist claim that "90% of SST rise between 2021 & 2015 arrived in 2 weeks"?

Hopefully not, because that's a bad comparison and ignores that temperature fluctuates up and down
Videogames, 100%. As an aside, I think they positively impacted me and got me interested in computer programming to make my own. But my main point is we are talking about children being trafficked into dangerous meatpacking plants where several were injured!

The benefits of work and summer jobs aren't the stakes here, not being coerced into doing manual labor during long night shifts is. The idea of saying "at least they aren't playing videogames" is so absurd to me, it'd be like looking at a homeless person and saying "at least they aren't wasting money on uber eats!".
AWS is the most reliable cloud provider.
Drought forces draft restrictions on Panama Canal shipping
What is big deal about meat packing? I could see problems with being part of butchering process with knifes and so on. Or maybe dangerous machine. But in general outside those roles? Let's say putting meat in plastic boxes or building pallets?
Stupid question from a software person: Why don't they just pour cement, epoxy, or tar over all the stones to fix them in place, fill in the gaps, and prevent dirt from getting in them?
Is this the sort of sustainable business that our governments are encouraging?
One of my relatives attends a public university that rents textbooks to students. At the end of the year they're returned. If a new edition comes out, the university eats the cost. As I understand it, some of the books are available as downloads, and in other cases teachers accept the use of old editions.
I think that’s a bit dramatic and airing on fear mongering. Other comment responses of OP have better sources, but I do not agree the “future is at risk” because of this.

I’m more inclined to closely watch geopolitical events unfold, as US hegemony becomes slowly unstable and potentially untenable.

If climate change were really really as dire as some say it is, we wouldn’t be half-assing our way via renewable energies which don’t have a power grid or power store nearly capable enough to handle a “fully electric future”

We’d be spending more money than the likes of other world powers on proven nuclear energy (unlike Germany who has decommissioned theirs in favor of coal)

I think I read the nuclear waste of nuclear power stations we have today could fit in a big Walmart? That’s an insane amount of energy density. That doesn’t include the potential for nuclear diamond batteries to reuse the spent fuel rods, or other upcoming technologies to reuse the waste.

Don’t get me wrong, we should look into truly renewable energy. But needing vast amounts of rare-earth minerals for solar panels and batteries from China, or nickel and cobalt from child-labor mines in the Congo doesn’t seem to line up with the ethos of “going green”

We should “go nuclear”
Exactly, 5 tok/s is just fast enough for real-time speech.
According to the CDC, 80-90% of lung cancer deaths are linked to cigarette smoking (1). It seems like a simple solution for people to just not smoke...

(1) https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm#....
Nice work! I've enjoyed playing this game in the past, and have been working on porting various apps to wasm lately. Coincidentally, this is one I was looking into porting when I found this post.
Copying textbooks is explicitly legal in India as part of case law, as "fair dealing". This was decided in 2016 and involved Oxford University Press and Cambridge University press, so the opponents were pretty powerful overall.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/University-copyin...

Wiki article because the hindu is paywalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_v._Ramesh...
Your nephew's ability to eat or keep a roof over his head is not conditional upon completing the boulder course at a pace set by a foreman, or completing it at all. That's what makes attaching pay to it special.
Most 13-year olds in the 19th century (including Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison, both telegraph boys in their youth) had literally no schoolwork. High school wasn't a common thing then and most people only went to grade school to learn how to read and write and do basic math. Carnegie went to grade school in Scotland before his family moved to America, and Edison was only given a basic home school education by his mother.

I'm not saying that was good, but comparing 13-year olds then and today is hard. 13-year olds then were basically already adults.
Ultra‐low‐cost mechanical smartphone attachment for blood pressure measurement [pdf]
Vanuatu might disagree.

In Vanuatu, sea level rise is a very real concept with a number of communities already being inundated during high tides

(2016) ref: https://www.spatialsource.com.au/sea-level-rise-mapping-reac...
After years of people being genuinely damaged in their careers and reputation it is disappointing that these disingenuous questions ("sealioning") are still asked in threads like these.

Here's a start for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cancel+culture+examples
The cable must report itself as being capable of 5A, which requires it to use 20-gauge wire for the VBUS.

ETA: I guess your question was specifically about the connector interface, which is less of a problem because there are 4 power and 4 ground pins. 1.25A per pin is no issue.
GPT3.5 3x the speed on Azure vs. OpenAI
> Nazis: ~6 million

After many revisions the total death toll at each of the concentration camps where the Holocaust occurred (which just so happened to only occur on ex-Soviet territory) adds up to a tiny fraction of 6 million, but the overall "6 million" Soviet propaganda term was never revised.
I was thinking it was going to be some kind of "miniature replicas of famous places" that could be visited, which would be cool. I see now it's about "tourist locations around the world that have either been the site of atomic explosions, display exhibits on the development of atomic devices, or contain vehicles that were designed to deliver atomic weapons."
So the lesson is to use unpopular, yet still secure (i.e. audited and transparently and competently developed) software/hardware?
Basically WebAssembly is anything but new.

You can also check Burroughs, Xerox PARC Workstations, USCD Pascal, Modula-2 MeDos, IBM AS/400, TenDRA, Taos, Oberon, among many others, that have had the idea of bytecode as portable OS binaries.
History has shown that in capitalism the absolute floor for wages and rights for employees is chattel slavery. The slave states were willing to build an entire culture around exploiting cheap labor.
At this point he mays as well be refuting gravity
> The US destroyed it's chemical weapons stockpile in the 1990's and 2000's.

Maybe officially.
See my warning regarding s_client and security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179850#36186559
iNaturalist also is an impressive app, all species not just birds.
They’re just like us
Welded rail buckling in hot weather has become a real issue with global warming and wider temperature swings.[1][2] Australia has especially bad problems, due to wide temperature swings and very long runs of straight track.

[1] https://toolkit.climate.gov/topics/transportation-and-supply...

[2] https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2015/07/kink-in-track-freight-tr...
I realize this is different, but let’s recall that not too long ago folks who did not the Covid vaccine were vilified since government agencies falsely said that one can’t spread Covid once vaccinated.
A few of the best profs at my school had their own "textbook" that was basically custom-written and only covered the material covered in their course. 40-60 pages, $20-30, and 100% relevant
Your first point is very good, thank you. I acknowledge and respect it.

The second one is way more complex. There is a big discussion on classic liberal circles about that. Karl Popper, the very own champion of open societies, was strongly against giving free speech to the enemies of freedom.
What I find strange is that people are actively building a zoo for themselves.

The population could have been very happy and rich with around 1 billion people — less garbage, less pollution, less extinction of species, less monocultures and farms, more biodiversity, sustainable resources, and not as much pressure on ecosystems.

But we live on an exological credit card.
If thats the argumentation they go by, the car should be able to drive on tomatoes.
Yes quite. But we were contemplating a future where small scale landlords were extinct.
Apple is kinda hamstrung with the M1. Their base model is 8gb, only ~5 of which is addressable by the system if you have nothing else open. They need to bump up the minimum spec if they want local LLM support to feel seamless, especially on iPhone where the memory constraints are even more dire.

Honestly, Apple doesn't strike me as any better or worse off than their competitors. Maybe AMD, given how late to the party they are. Intel has AVX fallback acceleration through Haswell though, and libraries like OpenVINO offer extra acceleration paths for modern Intel CPUs. ARM has ARMnn for any multicore ARMv8 system, and of course Nvidia has CUDA support for multiple arches and OS. Projects like the ONNX Runtime are unifying all of these inferencing interfaces, giving developers multiple deployment options without resorting to walled garden implementations. WebGPU may obsolete them altogether.

Local LLMs are awesome, but Apple has some work to do if they want to lead the pack.
Another feature of human end of the world predictions is its always different this time.
That’s a good question- it could probably adopt some of the things I’ve learned from the Pico layout (light/dark modes for starters) but it’s left-aligned in order to fit text and details about individual add-on boards. It also once had a Pi outline peeking in from the top left to help people orient the pinout.
Everybody's considering becoming a professor. What's your research portfolio look like? How much grant money can you raise?

Demand for those jobs is extreme. Meanwhile the ranks of tenured professors are shrinking as colleges make more use of contract teaching staff.
Yes but climate disaster isn't a cult. There's the crazy guy who thinks Zeus is going to strike us all down and then there's the oceanographer out there with actual thermometers and log books saying hey this water is getting really damn warm.

Will be the end of life on earth? Not at all. Will it be the total extinction of humans? Probably not. Will it be far more war, starvation, death, and human suffering than we have collectively ever witnessed? Yes.
Right, and then they propose an alternative theory. Time to collect evidence, perhaps code up a model, compute some errors bars and submit it to peer review. You know, build a case why your theory is better than what we have so far. Right now they have about as much substance as my suggestion with the Lizard people has.
You mean switching to paper straws did nothing?
Specially to note is the history of C, where he acknowledges the issues with C and the creation of lint for static analysis (in 1979), or his proposal for fat pointers, that wasn't accepted by WG14.
Not arguing about that specific project as I do not know anything about it, but not figuring out how to run software seems like a pretty big design issue. You can't always blame the user
I'm surprised that will how many people and institutions should be interested, there aren't more textbooks with a Creative Commons license. For anything non-specialized in a mature field, it doesn't make sense to have so many equivalent options all priced at $150. Calculus is calculus.
I don't know what quantities you wanted for prototyping, but on the actual "we have a product and need rpi to ship" this was well enough advertised (imo). I certainly knew about it just from looking into acquiring some hobby-use Raspberry Pis.
I wonder how many people have several older models of Raspberry Pi sitting in their drawers and collecting dust, as selling them seems to be too much of the hassle?
Ikr? Even with GPTPlus it would still hallucinate things in 90% of cases I’ve thrown at it, so by the time I fully debug its output, I’ve spent about the same if not more time than just figuring it out on my own using good ole Google (or an alternative search engine) and StackOverflow.

And that’s for things I’m fairly competent in, to judge the quality of an answer.
Linux originated from Finland, Blender from the Netherlands, Siemens Germany, Beckhof Germany. VLC is from France, so. Notepad++ french again. Irfranview also Europese. I actually don't use American software a lot. I do use android and windows and Linux and apple but I guess the best software i use is European.
“Average“ means there are a few who make millions and the rest make like 40-80k. JK Rowling would still be considered a writer, for instance, pushing the average up for her few movies.
Gerganov is probably going to find himself hired away by Apple Inc. at this point.
"Americans"

You have a valid point, they were treated like shit but talk about broad-strokes...
Their hardware development cycles are anything between 2-7 years, and even if the M3 was literally twice the performance of the M2, they would be unlikely to boost baseline RAM and storage on _any_ device to do that kind of thing this year.

Over time, sure. Maybe even on the top-tier Macs as a demo. But I wouldn’t expect anything better than LLaMa.

I would, however, expect them to come to their senses regarding how inadequate Siri is.
Not an EE but 100w, that gives me The Fear. It reeks of trouble. Someone please set my mind to rest.
Do research papers count as books?

https://unherd.com/2023/04/did-city-uni-censor-my-gender-res...

This one’s hilarious/tragic because the censored paper was researching censorship.