skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that some organizations within the US have a more refined development culture, and there are a lot of developers within the US and outside of the US that aspire to emulate and be within those organizations

But you could just as easily get into an organization with a similar experience as ETH Zurich within the US, I would say that is far more common
my city apartments are always coated in black dust... several floors up
Empirically Americans are 17% better than the Swiss at programming ML frameworks

In all seriousness this isn’t something you can compare - so many more important factors
I'm not talking about delusion. I mean the simplest case where you acquired some information, have no reason to believe that it is untrue, and convey that to someone else.

There's no intention to deceive or any possibility for you to know that your information might be untrue.
I highly recommend this video:

https://youtu.be/jG8LJ0QkBo4

I too thought we were closer to nuclear war now. But really with US second strike capability, and the fact that many of the nuclear warhead numbers don’t take into account usable missiles, among other factors, makes me sleep a bit easier at night.
I won't blame the user. I will say that it has very little to do with the underlying code quality though, at least without corroborating examples from the codebase.
Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing
What if they all are FLOSS or isolated from the OS like on Linux phones?
He can talk?
This is why police officers often give a lot of warnings.
(At the risk of having my comment turn gray) The entire concept of "hate speech", the concept of "dead naming", anyone who thinks "words are violence" and therefore retaliation with physical violence is justified.

These are all forms of attack upon free speech and there have been instances of these in universities for the past decade.
It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
… Your evidence for this is one tool from Microsoft which you were able to get working, vs one tool from a university which you were not? I’m really not sure how you can read anything at all into that set of facts.
> football coaches

The football team probably brings in enough revenue to pay the coach.
If everyone is identifiable all the time then you have a totalitarian state. Free speech is the first thing that flys out the window.

And what about whistle blowers or rape victims - should they be identifiable to those they accuse?

Edit:

What about walking along the street, I bump into someone and say sorry. Should I be identifiable to the other person? If not, Where's the limit/cut-off for identifiable? If yes, what is the difference to Chinese social scoring where literal everyone is identifiable?
I followed their documentation and tried two different ways that they mentioned to run the program. Nothing worked and I got obscure errors and the Jupyter kernel died several times. With Guidance, I just imported the library as mentioned in the docs and used it in the next line.
Looks a little like FRP.
He worked for bell labs since ‘67 before his death?

Wow, absolutely unheard of now. I’ll have to read a few of his papers now.
The best gem in all of it is this:

> You can make classes, but you can only ever make one instance of them. This shouldn't affect how most object-oriented programmers work.

This describes my experience with most OOP code very well.
From local price of 56 cents per litre of milk to the farm. Even if we doubled that it wouldn't still be that expensive for consumer. And that would cover doubling of the wages. As that price already includes all other costs.

Labour isn't actually that big of an part.
I find myself losing hope for humanity when I observe a significant portion of society in Germany, for instance, either voting for or intending to vote for a party known as the 'Alternative für Deutschland'. This party is primarily defined by what it opposes. Its supporters are often frustrated and resistant to evidence that their meat consumption contributes to climate change, or that fossil fuels exacerbate this global crisis. They seem to long for the past, harking back to the ways of the 1980s, and are generally resistant to change. They often resort to derogatory names for those advocating for environmental responsibility and believe in conspiracy theories about hidden powers controlling the media and society. These theories often involve notions of a deluge of immigrants designed to alter the fabric of Western societies and strip them of their privileges.

Engaging in rational debates with these individuals proves challenging, as they often dismiss any evidence presented as a sign that you are 'woke', deluded, or part of a clandestine group intent on their destruction.
Who gets to decide which ideas are allowed reach? That’s the current frontier in this debate.
Really? Not in Sweden though. What do you think accounts for this difference?
Replace LLM with people and it makes a lot of sense.
I wouldn’t go that far. Often there’s a bigger and/or better community elsewhere, but the Reddit one is also passable because so many people are on Reddit.
I like to use the OpenCL benchmarks as a rough point of comparison: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

M2 Max lands just around the 3060 mobile performance profile in this instance, it would be curious to see how the tokens/s reflect that.
Spending 1.6 euros (18,50 SEK) per meal (assuming 3 meals per day) including eating out etc is very low. That is far from the average in Sweden. And it is even more far from being what you spend if you wanna eat out a lot (which many high income tech people want). I'm not judging (I spend very low amounts on food myself) but you can't really say you are representative for the average tech worker in Sweden when it comes to food spending.
And create a new problem: banning by IPv6 is a nightmare https://adam-p.ca/blog/2022/02/ipv6-rate-limiting/
It negotiates and then switches to 20V to deliver 100W, so it only needs to run 5A through the cables.

Wire gauge requirements are related to current, not power; that's why high-speed trains usually operate at 25000V or 50000V to allow their megawatts of power to be delivered through a ~1cm diameter overhead line.

That said, I still hate USB-C as a power standard. I would have much preferred 2 connectors just supplying 20VDC, no questions asked, with a standard connector, just like 120VAC power works. Pick another connector for the USA low-voltage standard, none of this negotiation fuss, none of this complicated power circuitry, and much harder to get cables wrong. With the complexity of USB-C there are just way too many substandard cables flooding the market, and average Joes don't understand the difference between a 100W-capable cable and a 60W-capable cable and one that is charging-only, one that is USB 3.0, one that is USB 3.2, one that is USB 3.2 + 100W charging and all of that. People just buy "5-star" rated cables online that often don't meet the standard and it's a shitshow.
Wow, bad headline.

She is in custody because she refuses to self isolate, not because she refused treatment.
In what sense? Putting that much power down a USB cable? USB-PD keeps the potentially cable-melting amperage capped at 3A or 5A (the latter only if the cable is explicitly marked as 5A capable) and moves more power by increasing the not-cable-melting voltage instead, so 100W is 5A at 20V. There's already laptops which charge at 140W over USB-C, it's fine.
It's been a little over two decades since I first attended university, but I recall that very few of the courses had a textbook. The lecturer wrote notes, be it on paper to hand out or on the boards to be copied and annotated. Now and then a reference was made to a textbook for further reading or for some specific proof or some such, but in no way was any course taught from a textbook in such a way that you simply needed the textbook. This was at a university in London, reading Physics.

I wonder how unusual (or not) that is? Is the heavy textbook emphasis a US thing, or is it more common?

(About a decade later I read Maths with the Open University, which is basically the student on their own for six years learning some trick mathematics; a couple of those modules definitely taught from textbooks, although by no means all of them; some of them again simply provided notes and explanations and problem sheets generated by the university)
> driven by consumer desire for local LLMs

Citation needed. I don't think general public has any desire/care for that. Like they don't care about a locally run Siri.
Like I said, this is anecdotal evidence and I'm wondering if there's a more general pattern that others have noticed.
It's possible to disable third party keyboards for sensitive data entry at least on iOS. Not sure if the same is possible on Android – worst case, a wallet could just provide their own keyboard/passphrase entry method.

> The same way you verify anything is what you want and stays that way, MD5/SHA256 hashes and airgaps.

How do you determine a given hash to be trustworthy? And how do you know you can trust your `sha256sum` implementation?

You're always trusting someone. Any security analysis pretending otherwise is worthless.
This is a classic math pitfall, described by mathematician Jordan Ellenberg as "Don’t talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative" because they're more often confusing than illuminating.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/06/how-not-to-be-wrong...
This is just a single user with a single post so you can't draw any useful conclusions,

but...
The main difference with Mastodon here is there is no fancy algorithm. It's just a chronological timeline.

So as a user, you quickly unfollow people who waste your time with uninteresting posts. Whereas on algorithm-driven services (literally every other social network) the algorithm will suppress posts of people you don't engage with, but leave you showing as following them (even though you don't see their posts)

So with mastodon no matter how big the network gets, you'll always have fewer followers (as bored people unfollow you) but they will be more engaged (as your posts are never hidden)
I do agree that at some point it breaks down. But dozens of teams probably should be split for organizational reasons anyways so splitting up tech isn't much more overhead.
A smart professor is the one who wrote the book they sell to their own class.
Yeah, that guy is wrong. Cancers have many different mutations.
> If climate change were really really as dire as some say it is, we wouldn’t be half-assing our way

Yes, this is why people are worried. It is dire and we are half-assing our responses.
Yeah it's an interesting divide. Two EECS professors actually teaching deep learning said in lecture nobody truly understands anything right now. Then you have many other scientists who call it a stochastic parrot, or super autocomplete. I would love to see a public panel discussion between a bunch of experts in this, see them air out their views.
Yes I would like another laptop to compare this against as by itself it is a bit meaningless to me. Also total power draw would be interesting to know as well.

However I suspect the unified memory architecture of the M2 is a big benefit here and this M2 Max system is either a 64 or 96GB model?

Even the very highest end Nvidia dGPU powered laptops won't have anywhere near that amount of GPU memory available and I don't know what the performance impact is with using system memory vs GPU memory on such systems?
Like the famously left-wing Nazi's bookburning?
Does that necessarily reflect the quality of the underlying code, though? Does it even insinuate that the American software is inherently "better"?

I don't know the answer to that. I don't use the software. I think a lot of people are right to call your hypothesis out as hyperbole though, this entire post reads like a pointed complaint at German researchers for not outperforming Microsoft.
No one comment on mustodon. Google plus was far better than all these things. But yeah it was Google plus at last
I mean, I’m not sure it’s even anecdotal evidence, any more than it would be anecdotal evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.
20 gauge wire is 0.9 mm diameter.

A USB-C contact is much smaller (seems to be around 0.5 mm).

This is the part I don't understand. If you require a 0.9 mm diameter wire, how can you have it connect to a 0.5 mm landing strip?
It is true that there are different causes to homelessness, totally agree. But the person pilfering packages, looking for things in cars, or shoplifting at target, is not going to be your typical economic homeless case, their is already a selection beyond being homeless going on at that point.

> far more overlap with gang activity root causes

I have no idea why you are talking about gang activities in retaliation to homelessness, since we have plenty of homelessness in Seattle and virtually no gang activity. I'm guessing that is more of a Californian thing?

> It's worth trying to solve those together and taking an approach that instead of demonizing them for their choices/mistakes seeks to help them set their lives on a more stable path.

We really need to do both? The choices definitely need to be demonized, lest our kids think they are OK choices. My greatest fear would be my kid somehow makes these bad choices in the future because our schools taught him that these people were just victims of society rather than victims also of their choices.

> Mental health related homelessness requires access to healthcare that can fund whatever they need to be on and courts that can recognize this is the case.

We've found this to be problematic because cases will be misdiagnosed as mental health problems when they are really severe substance abuse problems (or the patient will say they don't have a substance abuse problem given the stigma associated with it), to predictable ineffectiveness.
Individuals may not, but businesses absolutely care that their data isn't accessible to third parties
Okay. So make the equation equate. How could humanity make most of the planet uninhabitable 1000 years ago?
Yeah. I know. I’ve read a lot about the 1800s, specifically squared-rigged warships. Midshipmen were very young. Taking children into battle on naval vessels… it was a very different time.
ME: "Release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from warming ocean sediments and decaying organic matter, a potential extinction event." Is this a realistic possibility?

GPT-4:

The phenomenon you're describing is associated with an event referred to as a "Canfield Ocean" or "Strangelove Ocean." The hypothesis is named after paleoceanographer Donald Canfield, who proposed that several mass extinctions in Earth's history might have been caused by an increase in hydrogen sulfide (H2S) produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria when the oceans became depleted of oxygen (anoxic).

Under certain conditions, this is a theoretical possibility. If global warming were to result in widespread anoxia (lack of oxygen) in the oceans, it could potentially trigger a large-scale release of hydrogen sulfide gas. This gas is poisonous to most forms of aerobic life (those that require oxygen), and a significant increase in its concentration could lead to mass extinctions.

However, it's essential to note that while this hypothesis is theoretically plausible, it remains highly controversial, and the conditions required to trigger such an event are extreme. It's not a certainty that global warming would lead to widespread ocean anoxia, and even if it did, it's not clear that this would necessarily result in a large-scale release of H2S.

Moreover, our understanding of the exact causes and progression of the various mass extinctions in Earth's history remains incomplete, and there's ongoing debate among scientists about the role played by hydrogen sulfide. Other factors, such as volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, and changes in sea level, have also been implicated in these events.

To summarize, while the scenario you're describing is theoretically possible, it's still highly speculative and there's a lot we don't know. It's not something that's likely to happen in the near future, but it underlines the importance of taking ac
Do laptop power supplies scare you?
Indigitalization: Indigenous Computing Theory – Jon Corbett
This presentation explores how Indigenous cultural knowledge can be used as a framework for computing science and computer programming. First, this conversation introduces decolonial computing and some of the problems with “culture-agnostic” or “culture-neutral” computing initiatives. It then proposes an Indigenization of computer science to disrupt established western design principles in computing by focusing on culturally-specific interfacing in digital technologies and computer programming.
History ebbs and flows like the tide. A hundred years ago young people saw how censorship, racism, and authoritarianism were being used to maintain the status quo. A wave of free expression and individuality grew throughout the 20th century as a way to disrupt the power balance. They encouraged diversity of thought, even things you didn't agree with, and expected that freedom of expression would allow the "good" ideas to naturally arise.

Enter the young people of today and their perception of the status quo is that it's built on these principles of individual freedom. As they evaluate the history of their forebears and find it lacking the way that every generation does, they can't help but see the shortcomings of the 20th century. Which means being critical of absolute free speech since that was the dominant motivation of much of the actions by people in Western nations.

To be more specific, older generations entered the 20th century with women not being allowed to vote, evolution not being taught in schools, and racism being coded in the law. They saw that those things existed because social institutions such as churches enforced conformity of thought. So it was progressive to insist on greater personal freedom. Young people today entered the 21st century with climate change, poor mental health, and systemic under-the-table racism. They see that those things exist because of short-sighted individualism. It's progressive now to insist on greater social awareness.

In other words, if kids today were taught "think globally, act locally". You could say that the previous generations grew up with "think locally, act globally".
I saw the opposite happen so often and every time it's very painful to see people have knee jerk reaction instead of thinking outside the box.
> by consumer desire for local LLMs

Consumers don't care where the LLMs are run, but if companies can off-board the computing costs onto the consumers, then they will save millions per month, but the other big limiter for local llms is storage and network costs.

> Local LLMs are the future

I think the issue with local-llms will be how can businesses talk to them? How do I use my local LLM with HN, Twitter, Shopify. Can my local LLM help me request a refund from a Shopify order or would Shopify have to fine-tune their own model? Then what? I download a 300GB file just so I can refund an order?
War has indeed always threatened to take away our children's futures. Yet the possibility of peace is ever present.

The difference with climate change is the "peaceful" analog is vanishing. Humanity has always been able to choose peace. But we may soon not be able to choose to live on a healthy planet.
We need to keep CEOs away from AI regulation
https://archive.is/zdRmW
It's possible that the problem is that speech is not the right abstraction.
Perhaps we should be advocating for something along the lines of "free expression of reasoning".
This is why we’re on “Hacker” news :)
There is also a gender difference [1]. Women are significantly less supportive of free speech than men.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-antisocial-psych...
There is in fact a whole, and very famous, book about it

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

It is as much a real object of specific concern as it is shorthand for "oppressive wage slavery in poor conditions" in the general sense.
In Spain they were hard causalities in the 80's and early 90's due to chemistry kits for children.
I think you have a point. For example, Julia as a language often gets criticized on HN because it's not technically solid and I think it might be because it's written by academics.
I used to run a Windows VM on my (work provided) Macbook Pro, because the only way to change our AD passwords was through a domain-joined Windows machine. My team had permission to purchase macs but the rest of the org used Windows. I also used a separate Windows VM for customer VPNs, I had snapshots with specific installs I would rollback to for any specific customer's VPN as there was more than once I couldn't install the differing versions of Cisco or something (can't recall the specifics.)

I'm not sure how to accomplish this on Macs with the arm chips now though.
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say. Though I still trust SO waaay more than GPT, and so deleted my GPT account for good.
Must be something like that, we used to run 120 MPH on bolted rail and steam.
I wouldn't characterize ocean ecosystems dying from the bottom up as "totally doable" but, sure, the resource wars probably won't kill off the entire human species.
How does the water drain through them?
It's kind of wild that Apple provides code samples you can use to directly create your own VMs. Has ended up being the most straightforward way to run virtualized macOS on a macOS host that I've found, and comes with the nice benefit that your can read the code yourself and fiddle with the knobs.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean

Also, this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-strangelove...

"Sepúlveda's team was able to tell that the carbon in these post-impact sediments could only have been assembled into these hydrocarbons (and other compounds) in a functioning open ocean ecosystem with plenty of algae photosynthesizing away at a pretty good clip. Since these sediments were deposited right after the impact, the "Strangelove" ocean theory, with a vast lifeless sea, is highly unlikely."
"the left" is perhaps too broad a group, but definitely amongst the progressive liberal left there are now examples of editing particular books to remove problematic terms. I'd consider this an even more insidious attack on free speech than outright banning books.
The benefit is ease of access, if content gets blocked on one mirror (ipfs.io), it may be available on another (cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/, etc)
To defend free speech you must defend it all not silence those you disagree with
Don't forget python and c++
It's a lot of energy. And close to signalling wires. Controlled by computers (What you describe is done by a CPU, not some simple foolproof system, I guess?) which can go wrong. In a small plug that can get yanked out easily and damaged.

That kind of thing. Am I being paranoid? It just smells like a house fire in the offing.
Most browsers don't support the ipfs protocol and instead only use the gateway.
> What books were banned by "the left"?

Not banning but altering would be one form of censorship, e.g., "Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive":

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-boo...

"Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books":

* https://lithub.com/why-i-decided-to-update-the-language-in-u...

"D&D: WotC’s New Batch Of Errata Removes Racial Alignments, Retcons Drow":

* https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2021/12/dd-wotc-removes-raci...

To quote George Orwell's 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." The past is being rewritten (as opposed to leaving the original language and simply putting a forward in explaining things).