skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t blame Nvidia. I think caring about blame when discussing this topic is missing the forest for the trees anyway. The bigger problem is that Nvidia can and will abuse their monopoly power. Whether it’s Nvidias fault or not, once upon a time governments would step in when that happened. Thing is, I don’t think that solution even exists for something as high tech as GPGPU stacks and vertical integration. I don’t see a solution at all really, which worries me a little in the medium-long term.
In the court cases, there was communication between Dotcom and van der Kolk that essentially said (paraphrasing here) 'hey, downloads are going down, we should add movie x or album y somehow, people search for those a lot'. There was a lot of evidence (in the form of emails and chat logs) that showed that their 'file sharing' angle was just a front to their actual business which was distributing copyrighted material.
I've had similar crises of faith every now and then. I never got into Docker, and every time I read somebody's K8s horror story I get hives. I begrudgingly learned enough about systemd so I wouldn't become a hermit, but I'm not happy about it. I still more or less prefer to do Web things without the SPA-like features.

Some of this is because this is what I know, but some of it is because I'm too dumb to see the benefits of the added complexity. I'm not going to do "WEBSCALE!" things, more than likely, so why not just run a FreeBSD server and, if needed, stand up a jail here and there. Chasing the tech rabbit can be fun, but it is also exhausting.
the price is actually going down with the creation a nuScale mini reactor.

https://tiempoheadlines.com/nuscale-power-plants-in-central-...
It is common in journalism to write total nonsense into headlines.
Java programs might not run in debugger very well either, depends on where and how you place breakpoints.

However I'd be glad if profilers (and notably memory profiler) would slow down a Python program only as much as valgrind does C.
soon, Salt Lake City. look at the building damage diagrams, the stats on how long water will be out, and just how many hospitals will be impeded.
one problem in SLC is they don't have frequent quakes so nothing had to be built to code.

https://saltquakecity.blogspot.com/?m=1
We have some big problems to solve this decade. This hints at what is essentially the capitalist version of a “social credit score” (or at least leans in that direction), and is deeply concerning. It goes hand-in-hand with credit card companies holding immense power over businesses, and when coupled with other trends like the bulk purchasing of consumer data by the government, unchecked expansion of ML/AI, etc. it feels like the tech industry is on a precipice of sorts. A subtle push and we descend into an authoritarian techno-dystopia…or maybe we’re already there.

As a product manager, the thing that bothers me is that a human made the decision to green light a feature that would deny access one’s devices. Having worked with many PMs who don’t seem to give many shits about 2nd/3rd order effects of their product decisions, it’s rather worrisome to see products increase their impact on daily life in the most fundamental of ways, while knowing that a large number of people who hold this influence have no business doing so.
It is relatively easy to grow, but depending on your climate there’s all sorts of environmental factors that could affect your plants and will persist beyond harvest if not properly remedied. Harvest can be adjusted to increase quantities of CBD, CBN, CBG at the expense of THC. Then there’s terpenes.

Having grown a few runs now as a mere gardener, I’d like to be able to send a sample in the mail for testing to a lab without violating federal (US) law.
> Helped deactivate 5,000 former Soviet nuclear warheads

You mean the ones in Ukraine that, were they still there would act as a deterrent to the invasion?
My math is weak. I thought dot product measures alignment. Help me grok what "distance" means here?
Nothing about the word "ban" requires a legal aspect.
> This can often trivially give you a 10x, and sometimes a 100x performance difference for real-world single-threaded code

That's one hell of a lot of speed up, can you explain how you managed that? I mean I can certainly believe it but not when you put "trivially" in front of it, I could only conceive of that in very special cases and with very careful coding.
The Last Good Website?
That’s what the person affected here did:

> I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri. Though out of habit I’d sometimes say “alexa” only for her to remind me how stupid I was.

https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
For the last 20 years in web development you've adapted to plenty of technology changes. Double the 20 years timeframe and you'll find developers working in assembler on daily basis - just think about how far you are from there. AI is a very significant change (maybe even the most significant one in the 40 years timeframe) and a serious risk if your plan was to stop adapting, but it is essentially a tool to bring programming to a higher level of abstraction. Less work on form validations, but more on building value.

We are still early adopters in using AI to increase productivity. The society as a whole is not yet aware of what is coming and the results are essentially unpredictable. Your attachment to the top 5% salary band might be irrelevant in 10 or 20 years because we might live in some kind of eco-utopia by then. Or all wealth might move to AI-controlling entities, in which your current standing is irrelevant and beyond your control.

Stop worrying. Focus on figuring out ways to increase your output with the help of the new tool or invest in AI to ride the wave you expect to drown in. You're way ahead of the 7.5b other people.
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Not necessarily, I'm interested in carpentry, so I watch carpentry videos, which have no turned into a photo of a guy with his finger chopped off, blood gushing out and a title like, "EXTREME DANGER: Don't try this at home!".

You see what I mean? It's like normal content I'd like to see, sensationalized.

It honestly makes sense because I guess it's all about robbing attention. I actually do sometimes want to click on these types videos because, who doesn't want to see a dude with a severed finger and learn how to avoid that mistake. Often though, the content itself is lack luster and the thumbnail is a scam to get you to click.

My gripe is that the feeds have become a constant, fatiguing barrage of, "should I click this, is it wholesome for me to do so?" Kind of like if you're staying in a hotel with only fast food joints nearby and you've on a diet. Discerning what's worth watching and not watching has become quite tiring.

I watched an Elon Musk interview on Bloomberg or whatever, and now my feed is full of "Just Happend" with a strange photo of Elon.

Maybe Elon's interviews are full of garbage? I could accept this :)
Megaupload was much easier to search than Mega

The indictment said it was not searchable by the public.
> In programming/math skills it may not be about skills themselves - but rather that meds are what makes it possible for me to apply them consistently for anything that isn't a personal hobby project with no external expectations.

Exactly, application of skills is often more important than skill level, and that's what a lot of people with ADHD struggle with. I do not get a sense of reward or accomplishment when I finish tasks, or at least I get very, very little of that feeling of pride. So give me something I'm intrinsically motivated at in the moment, and everything else shuts down and I can focus on it entirely. Once that intrinsic motivation goes away, difficult jumps up so much and pretty much the only motivator that consistently worked to cut through that was stress.

I was actually worried about losing some effectiveness at hyperfocusing when I started ritalin (which was not something I needed to be concerned about, but whatever), and the thing that got me over that was thinking, "hey, you could actually be quite a bit worse at programming, and if the benefit you got from that was that you actually finished any of your projects, you would still be way more productive and produce much better work overall."

People honestly overestimate the importance of skill. Even if ritalin did lower my programming skills (which it doesn't), not being able to do boring things is way more limiting than not being able to produce exceptional work all the time.

> I usually describe this as Ritalin making me "sticky" - as in, I'll happily continue doing whatever it is I'm doing when on it, whether it's productive work or commenting on HN.

This is another point in favor of "these drugs affect different people differently and it's not really useful to generalize too much."

I don't see this effect at all. My experience with ritalin is that it makes my executive dysfunction goes down but it has little to no impact on my distractability or how focused I am. I jump between tasks exactly the same, I still hyperfixate on things, I still have a hard time sticking to tasks that are unenjoyable -- it's just easier for me to respond to external stimuli I set up (timers, lists, etc) that help to keep me more on track. I know other people have very different experiences.

My feeling is that people sometimes look at downstream behavioral changes and they want to draw an exact cause and effect to "the drug makes you do X, it makes you worse at Y." No, the drug affects my dopamine reuptake receptors and other specific parts of my brain chemistry. Because of my experiences in life and because of how my brain has adapted to having bad regulation of those chemicals and because of the pathways it's formed to help it adapt to that bad regulation, that leads to individualized reactions/behavioral changes. But motivation and focus are extremely complicated. If I think of my brain like a car, tuning or altering one part of the engine so I can drive it better is not going to make it drive identically to everyone else's car, and changing the same part in two different cars that are tuned differently might have different effects on how the cars feel to drive.
> I don't think I will ever like kitchen sink languages.

What makes a kitchen sink language?
From the pip on subinterpreters:

>> In this case, multiple interpreter support provide a novel concurrency model focused on isolated threads of execution. Furthermore, they provide an opportunity for changes in CPython that will allow simultaneous use of multiple CPU cores (currently prevented by the GIL–see PEP 684).

This whole thing seems more like something developer wants to do (hey, it's novel!) than something users want. To the extent they do want it, removing the GIL is probably preferable IMHO. That a global lock is a sacred cow in 2023 seems strange to me.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I don't want an API to manage interpreters any more than I want one for managing my CPU cores. Just get me unhindered threads ;-)
I'm completely in favor of regulating "illegal" drugs instead of prohibiting them outright.

But I think it's also pretty clear that is a significant political leap that may even be at least a couple of generations away.

In the meanwhile this sounds like a pretty good way to save lives which may even be possible within the current political environment.
This is what we've done at Salad (www.salad.com). SaladCloud (officially launching on July 11th) has 10k+ Nvidia GPUs at the lowest prices in the market. Not conducive for training but for serving inferences at massive scale.
According to the plans (not actually law yet):
- private citizens will be able to grow a limited number (I think 5?) of plants, with the produce used only for their own consumption. Passing it to others will still be illegal (though consuming it with others on private property would be very unlikely to be prosecuted).
- non-profit "Cannabis Clubs" can grow a limited number of plants per member (again, I think 5). Membership is limited to max 500 and members have to be 18+ years old. Clubs can't be near playgrounds/schools/etc. and can only hand out a limited amount (I think 30g) per month to each member, who can't consume it on or near the club's property. The weed also is limited to a max THC and the club's properties have to be secured to a high standard.
It was extremely difficult to play for newcomers. You almost didn't even get a chance to frag old school players once because of the skill discrepancy. I could hang with most of the higher tier guys, but there were some that just seemed nearly invincible. They should have had more resources for developing skills. After I stopped playing, I discovered that some were playing Q3 at ramped up physics speeds in single player. When going back to playing at regular speed, it feels like you're playing in slow motion.
I mean, depending on the scope of what he was actually locked out of, doesn't Amazon own Ring, which could well include your video security, your alarm system and so on? That's beyond a mild inconvenience.
This man has patience of a sage. He's considering not using Amazon devices? I would had thrown all of it by now. Poor man locked himself in a digital jail
US "poverty" doesn't look anything like global poverty. How many of that 14% in TX have access to a flushing toilet, clean water, food, shelter and a smartphone. Take all those people out of that 14% and willing to bet it's 1% and that's on the high side. They would be considered very well off in many regions on the planet.
Apple's biggest competition in India? Used iPhones
This was my immediate thought when I saw the title. Very misleading
After reading the linked blog post ... it seems the person was not literally "locked out" as in prevented from physically entering his own home.

He was only blocked from using his smart devices like Alexa/ echo and similar smart devices for a week which I am sure was very inconvenient and reflects poorly on Amazon.

But I do not think that would really be life threatening?
This is what it was like to read any Kotlin book for the past few years. The general assumption was, "we all know Java, and we're all using IntelliJ... so this is analogous to....". It's useful for Java developers of course. It's not as useful to those that were new to Android development.

I believe the reasoning here is that it's often easier to teach by analogy. Rust is fairly difficult to approach as, "My First Programming Language". On the other hand, C had to do exactly this back in the day. Every book had to explain the stack and the heap so that pointers would make sense.
Really? There was a vice documentary, but I have not seen any evidence that a significant proportion of weed is laced with synthetic cannabinoids.
It sounds completely revolting.

Sales of plant-based "meats" have not been successful in the US. I don't see this as a trend going forward, either.
Google’s EU launch of AI chatbot Bard delayed by privacy concerns
Thank you.

Having been doing computer vision in production since 2011, then RL in production, it’s always frustrating as hell when people get excited about all these high level concepts and totally ignore that it has all the same problems plus a lot more new science flavored problems compared to other technology applications.

Like the fact that your production system isn’t as deterministic - by function - as all your other technologies is a real change in mindset if you’re not familiar with it.

Just wait, when Embodied Reinforcement Learning methods eventually blow away all other computational explore/exploit methods we’ll see the same kind of stuff except with even more over the top “yes but is it a living thing” pontificating by people who have never broken a distro with an errant “chown”
I'm firmly in the double-space camp, but for a reason not mentioned in the article: A sense of finality. Two spaces ends a sentence. The double-tap means it's time to move on, not meander in the trailing thoughts or follow-ons that commas often give rise to. A double-tap's finality is partial, and far from being as jolting as hitting Return; flow will continue, double-space's finality is linking, a small leaping limp, a tactile and audible pirouette, to what comes next, and simply can't by substituted by a mundane, routine, middling single tap.

I draw a line at four spaces after commas.
You’re not too stupid, nobody is. If you need to learn it, you can, and you will. Some things are hard to learn but it’s worth it because they help us do things we couldn’t otherwise.

As others have pointed out: don’t use k8s to deploy a web app for your local soccer team. All of the suggestions in this article are fine.

It’s actually kind of smart.

Update: ... except the REST/HTTP part. It doesn't matter for a small friends-and-family website, sure. But if you're building something you want to have grow and stick around and be used by others you'll just be setting yourself up for problems down the line. I dunno why RPC has come back into vogue, it was a pain in the 90s and early aughts that I had hoped we'd abandoned. It doesn't play well with the wider web ecosystem, it's a pain to grow horizontally, and locks you out of some pretty neat tools that can take your website further as you grow without much effort.
> socialists

Communists. But you are right, every opposition leader in Russia cries wolf how they should not have supported Yeltsin rigging elections and how it all went astray since then
I've compiled some data.

Regarding Portugal (which decriminalized all drugs in 2001), according to the Drug Policy Foundation, a pro-legalization advocacy group, drug deaths initially dropped (2003-2010) but have since returned to pre-legalization levels(2015+).

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...

In the United States on the other hand, the number of drug-involved overdose deaths increased from 20,000 in 2000 to 106,000 in 2021.

https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd...

Of course there are several US specific factors that contributed to the 5x increase (prescription opioids -> fentanyl), but if you allow yourself to imagine that not everyone can set sensible limits for themselves - then liberalization reveals itself as rather selfish.
How much of your company’s revenue is earned through that product? If it’s significant then the cost of introducing regressions in quality or functionality goes up. As companies grow and mistakes become more costly, they become more risk-averse and invest more resources into reducing risk. This slows things down and requires more people.
Ask HN: What is the difference between a “leader” and a “manager”?
From the source article:

> I was not truly in the dark for a week. My smart home runs mostly locally and Alexa really is just a polymorphic interface. I was just able to use Siri. Though out of habit I’d sometimes say “alexa” only for her to remind me how stupid I was.

Dude spent a week without being able to talk to Alexa. The headline seems a bit overblown IMO.
> Most folks like me that are doing application programming don’t need Rust’s full feature set. You can benefit from type safety/performance/etc even with a subset of the language.

I do think Rust suffers sometimes from guides putting all the complication upfront. When I first started playing with Rust lifetimes confused me… so I used Rc<> everywhere I’d need to use a lifetime and everything worked great. Then, later, I got to grips with how lifetimes actually work.

The vast majority of Rust applications aren’t so performance centric that a little reference counting would kill them. But you rarely see it recommended because it’s not the Rust Way.
The privacy war is already over and everybody knows the good guys lost.

If you google that line, that is the best you can do in a sense. It is a message encoded in a sea of absolute noise.

Fool the sky to cross the sea.
>We’ve been waxing lyrical (and critical) about Apple’s Vision Pro here at TechCrunch this week – but, of course, there are other things happening in the world of wearable tech, as well. Sol Reader raised a $5 million seed round with a headset that doesn’t promise to do more. In fact, it is trying to do just the opposite: Focus your attention on just the book at hand. Or book on the face, as it were.
Just Dropbox with different marketing.
Ok, so from his blog post, not locked out of his house, just locked out of his Alexa...

"I do want to note that since I host many of my own local services and many devices are local only. I only lost the ability to use Alexa. My home was fine as I just used Siri or locally hosted dashboard if I wanted to change a light’s color or something of that nature."
If other countries are any proof, the opposite happens.
I don't think it's hard to see why people have this reaction when they're inundated with people who are better than they will ever be on social media and sites like HN.

Not everyone can be the best and this seriously affects some people's self confidence, especially when they see the best around every corner.

In 2023 it's not good enough to be good enough, at least not if you believe what the people on the internet have to say so folks rebel against such things.
I'm so conflicted.

~40 of the programs I am responsible for are single threaded. They were relatively quick to develop and were made by Electrical Engineers rather than career/degreed programmers.

2 programs use multithreading, I had to do that. The learning curve was not a huge deal, but the development time adds at least hours. In my case days(due to testing).

I imagine its too hard to have an optional flag at the start of each program that can let the user decide?
Why is it strange when everything was built out of wood, and indoor fire suppression systems didn't exist? Oh and everything was lit with candles and lanterns.
The US has a similar 'WTF' when it comes to pharmaceutical ads.

The US is heading in a similar direction with gambling, if we aren't there already. Sports betting it feels like makes up half of the advertising and sponsorships you see when you watch professional sports these days.
Right, and single thread performance won’t matter as much if it becomes easier to implement multithreading. This hurts legacy code, but I imagine it would be worth it in the long run.
I'll need to see a source for this. It is contrary to basically all public health research I've read about.
Point of higher level languages is and was productivity. Now some languages have Turing complete type systems and I have seen some clever usage of types where really even the author might not know how it works given enough time passes without touching the code base.