skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20mil for the new system, 80mil + 5 years of implementing for the translation layers to communicate with the legacy systems.

> Reality is that those systems should be killed one by one and finally when there is one system

It take so long to replace each of the systems, by the time you get to the "one true solution" 40 years have passed and you are back where you started.
>Did those turn by turn systems allow you to just drag the map onscreen anywhere to change location to anyplace on earth?

as long as you had maps installed for this area - yes

>To drop pins and send links to anyone in an email?

yea. multi-point navigation with ability to search along the route/in the area/specific city/etc. all without breaking route. you could also save route iirc. i had 2 weeks road trip pre-planned.

there was some ability to share route/coordinates. don't remember details

> To be updated instantly and for free when the data was refreshed?

back than maps weren't updated that frequently. in general.

on the other side, it gave you ability to go anywhere without having a data connection. google offline maps are still very limited. igo was showing on screen next two maneuvers back than. google still didn't figure it out. or ability to show real 3D landscape and 3D landmarks/buildings. or ability to mark street as blocked so navigation will route around. getting traffic information from radio in case there is no internet.
Australia is a social democracy, not socialist.
It does do exactly that. If you visit https://sqlite.org/src/stat, the "Schema Version" line tells you exactly what version of the database schema that the repository is using. The SQLite repository uses the very latest Fossil schema, which you can see from the "stat" page has not changed in 8.5 years.
Ironically affirmative action is systemic racism itself, no matter how well intentioned.
Linux Mint on my old Dell E6350 (workhorse home machine that never leaves the desk).

Pop!_OS on my regular grab-and-go laptop.
> Experts revealed the 125m-year-old fossil that froze in time after being taken on by a small mammal a third of its size. They are tangled together, the mammal’s teeth sunk into the beaked dinosaur’s ribs, its left paw clasping the beast’s lower jaw.

I'm pretty sure my little dog would do something similar if she encountered a wild boar in the forest. I'm quite sure that if I were successfully chased down by a velociraptor, I would not just lay down and wait to be eaten.

> Researchers said the discovery challenged a long-held view of early mammals as “fodder” for dinosaurs.

I don't really get how that "challenges" any view at all. As if dinosaurs never got bitten nor scratched by stuff they were trying to eat. And with an erupting volcano nearby, I'd probably fight harder just for the hell of it and to mess with the palaeontologists.
(I haven't tried pljs but I think this is relevant) I've used JavaScript UDFs in Snowflake for array processing and also dumb POCs things like importing an entire library for useragent parsing
> These jobs are not dehumanizing because of management. They are simply dehumanizing.

Nonsense. Helping people with their problems isn't dehumanising. Following a script that your company has optimized to avoid helping the person is dehumanising.

> Exactly what would you like to force people to do? What's this "attitude," and by what process does it dehumanize people who work in call centers? Do call center workers have material problems, or is this a question of abstract mindset or aesthetics?

You could make them fiduciaries for the people calling in, or something slightly less extreme. Call center workers have problems that are superficially material, but addressing them on a directly material level would just be playing whack-a-mole; the unpleasantness of the position stems directly from the incentives that those who control them are under.
some of us dont see our relationship with the computer as one with a dictator. looks like you have been hurt by a computer bad. we see it as bicycle for the mind.
When companies we deal with don’t offer human phone support I tend to call their enterprise sales departments and have them transfer me to someone who can help. I think the furthest I’ve gotten was once where I pulled the cell phone number of some CEO off their LinkedIn and called them directly because everything else had failed.

As long as you’re extremely politely annoying it works every time in my experience.

I imagine the AI is meant to replace the type of call centers that are as useless as an e-mail form or a chatbot, but I don’t personally believe in something that useless. I mean, what’s the benefit? To make people who aren’t stubborn idiots go away with unresolved issues?
The rate of token output is bottlenecked by the time it takes to transfer the model between RAM and CPU. Not the time it takes to do the multiplication operations. If you have the latest and greatest mobile phone and 8GB (or 12GB) of LPDDR5 on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 you still only have 8.5 Gbps memory bandwith (max, less in actual phones running it at slower speeds). That's 1 GB/s. So if your model is a 4 bit 7B parameter model that's 4GB in size that means it'll take at least 4 seconds per token generated. That is SLOW.

It doesn't matter that the Snapdragon 8 gen 2 has "AI" tensor cores or any of that. Memory bandwidth is the bottleneck for LLM. Phones have never needed HPC-like memory bandwidth and they don't have it. If Qualcomm is actually addressing this issue that'd be amazing. But I highly doubt it. Memory bandwidth costs $$$, massive power use, and volume/space not available in the form factor.

Do you know of a smartphone that has more than 1GB/s of memory bandwidth? If so I will be surprised. Otherwise I think it is you who will be surprised how specialized their compute is and how slow they are in many general purpose computing tasks (like transferring data from RAM).
Now do the math with 300 million EVs. Also, assuming SUV sized ones being popular too, alongside many commercial vehicles too. It is not that simple. Especially since so much of it will be DC fast charging and not slow speed charging.

Compression is not that energy intensive. It's more BEV FUD to make this to be a big deal. If done correctly, it is only a few percent loss of energy: https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/pdfs/9013_energy_requirement...

Also, it is recoverable energy. Compressed gases are energy storage mechanisms in their own right. In the long run, this will be very minor loss of energy.
I used to ride one (before I had a kid), and I was generally a pretty careful rider.

After I took my license exam, the instructor sat me down and told me every stupid thing I had done in great detail. He then said "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but you passed. But if you keep riding like that, you will be another road statistic.". I got the point.

Anyway, despite becoming careful, I still loved riding it. It is way more physical than driving a car and that was pleasurable in itself.

But there are indeed a lot of completely crazy bike riders out there.
Godspeed, if I can help in any way definitely ping me.
Well kids, see you later. Let’s talk again when you are 30.
I agree completely. Something so striking about the situation as well is that on balance, we have a staggering amount of wealth to share with the less fortunate.

Yet these are children, specifically, who deserve every opportunity we can afford them by default. Not “hopeless addicts” or some other group deemed not worth saving by so many of us, but people quite literally the epitome of worth saving. These people need every ounce of reassurance that we care and that they can integrate and function in society. That they deserve opportunity as anyone else does.

If we had to be self serving we could look at it like “each one of these people is statistically far more likely to be a burden on my own children in the future, so a small investment now could save a lot later”, but we seem to fail even in being selfish about it. I find this topic heart breaking.
RISC-V is not remotely anywhere near ready for such a thing. On my side we really don't understand this push beyond embedded at all.
FTCC: Fast Text Classification with Compressors Dictionary
The author can’t refute the two instances I gave so not sure it matters.
Except for the Nissan Leaf, most EV car batteries do great at managing heat even in adverse conditions (high heat, fast charging, etc).

I have a 5 year old EV which is always charged to 100% and it’s lost maybe 5% of its range capacity so far. Perhaps it was over provisioned (undersold the actual capacity) but it’s unlikely as it’s a cheap compliance car (that I still love to drive).
I have them backed up to a second account.
> regular people would be jealous of how kids who were wards of the state lived

Given that the money to do that would have been taken from those parents, you can see why in a democracy parents would object to having their resources stolen for government kids to have better lives over their own.
I mean, the article's logic is effectively that you can break code without the type system helping or warning you. I don't think Hickey would disagree with this – it's arguably a point in his favour.
Something doesn't need to be perfect to be better. We're talking about 60k kids who will be able to receive an education instead of 4% of that. It won't solve hunger, but for these kids it's a good news.
There is no shortage of studies verifying babies do not select the families, location or socio-economic conditions they are born into, but the world will treat them as if they chose poorly.

Or look down on them.

It’s funny hearing about the concepts of handouts when the people most offended are too often including those who have access to some amount of privilege but not enough.. and end up upset about sharing it.

There is a lot of easily accessible learning available there for your statement that would help illuminate a bigger picture for you. You are already part way there by being engaged on it.

Mostly about it’s not being about an immutable trait. Knowing this requires you to exert more than a basic interpretation and opinion.

If you don’t think it’s a big deal would you switch positions with someone in that position since it’s so easy?
Article puts the cost to produce a cubic meter of water at $1-$2

In the bay area, I'm paying ~$2.80 per cubic meter.

I don't see why it's not feasible.

Yes, there are transmission/pumping costs. Assuming the water we're getting now is free, that's still only ~50-75% increase in cost over current costs.
Nightfall: A menu bar utility for toggling dark mode in macOS
"Twitter's former head of security is now blowing the whistle on the company. Peiter Zatko, also known by his hacker name Mudge, filed complaints with several government agencies. He accuses Twitter of serious security flaws that he says pose a risk to the platform's users, shareholders and national security. "

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119103584/whistleblower-says...
Site is down? The correct history is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
Nope this is false and a gaslight perpetuated by vested interest. I thought the same btw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790301
> Hydrogen refuels just like gasoline cars. It is the most logical replacement for current cars.

You should talk to this other guy who's currently arguing that the current paradigm doesn't matter and we should focus on what will make sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839960
Argh!!!!

"The assassination of an Austrian dictator in 1934 as part of a putsch did little to shake the slain leader’s newly established political system."

They're talking about the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss. [0].

The system they're talking about lasted only four more years before the backers of his assassins took over the country, and it's possible that he might have been able to continue Austria's independence if he had lived.

For background, I'd like to suggest Patrick Leigh Fermor's memoir of travelling in Austria during this time period, _A Time of Gifts_ [1], [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_of_Gifts

[2] https://www.amazon.com/A-Time-of-Gifts-audiobook/dp/B00JXQQ3...
Assuming the best intentions of those running this, there may not be enough money in the budget for it to be free for everyone.
It's the perfect honeypot situation, isn't it?
Thank you, I stand corrected :)
Based on articles I read in trade mags via my work email is that battery manufacturers suspect that with careful design and thermal management a lightly used automotive battery could have a 20-40 year service life.

I think people have a disbelief that there have been large improvements in battery lifespan in the last 20 years when there absolutely has been. Modern ion batteries aren't just 20 year old ones but cheaper. Degradation and charge discharge rates are substantially better.
I agree it should cost less, but I don't understand why everyone seems to think the government (taxpayers) should be paying these tuitions. The problem is that tuition is ridiculous.
> There's an approximately fixed number of jobs in time periods meaningful to humans.

Bullshit. I've got relatives who can remember when call centers weren't a thing.
This is incorrect. I’m not sure where you’re finding 250kW as the max for a V4 Supercharger but they’ve been shown to charge at more power in the wild.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689247/tesla-v4-superch...

And while not deployed in the wild, NACS supports up to 1MW with a forward and backward compatible larger 1000V connector in the NACS spec: https://www.tesla.com/support/charging-product-guides#techni...
The ruling elite don’t go to public school. They already pay for their children’s food.
The libertarian answer is to deny his own theories by ignoring inconvenient information.
You shouldn't be a sucker. For the ruling elite, it's an insignificant tax rebate. The overhead of a means-testing system to make sure that people who have been taxed for 50 free lunches don't get one is a waste that wouldn't be tolerated, except for the fact that we know the hurdles of bureaucracy will eliminate most of the people who qualify, bringing down costs by leaving children hungry.

edit: The idea that your tax dollars are going to pay for the universal benefit of someone who pays more taxes than you do is mathematically nonsensical. It's purely a gimmick. It's a shell game with no shells other than innumeracy.
>you ask someone “where are you from?”

Generally, I'll answer with "The place so nice, they named it twice."[0]

[0] I wasn't sure if I wanted to include an actual reference to define that, but here you go[1].

[1] https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/new...

Edit: Fixed typo.
I think the justification is that because maths isn't plural in practice (I've never heard anyone say "mathematics are"), it's pointless to retain the s, and only leads to an awkward megasyllable like the end of "wasps."

The Anglo-American linguistic divide is always fun to examine. We don't always come out ahead, but now and then we get winner like "acclimate."
Knew this was gonna be Kiss Guy before I even clicked it. Yayo's a legend!
I've been playing with running some models on the free tier Oracle VM machines with 24GB RAM and Ampere CPU and it works pretty well with llama.cpp. It's actually surprisingly quick; speed doesn't scale too well with the number of threads on CPU, so even the 4 ARM64 cores on that VM, with NEON, run at a similar speed to my 24-core Ryzen 3850X (maybe about half reading speed). It can easily handle Llama 2 13B, and if I recall correctly I did manage to run a 30B model in the past too. Speed for the smaller ones is ~half reading speed or so.

It's a shame the current Llama 2 jumps from 13B to 70B. In the past I tried running larger stuff by making a 32GB swap volume, but it's just impractically slow.
>"There Are No Successful Black Nations" was the original title of this article in Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/09/why-black-people-must-h...

I read the article with the original title. Resulting Reddit discussion: <https://np.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/4x2vbu/there_are...>

>It's an uncomfortable title, but it's a truth that must be confronted. How have once downtrodden countries like Korea, China, and large swaths of Eastern Europe been able to turn rags into riches while most of Africa has so far failed to?

It's all of Africa. I was flabbergasted to learn that, contrary to what I'd heard for years about how Africa was poor but rapidly growing, the truth is that Africa is poor and not growing at all. <https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6krxpv/world_map_of...>
We're not far off. I'll often copy and paste docs examples in and it will work its magic pretty well
I wonder if this will cause any parents to give their kids up in an effort to let them attend college.
>it does not exist in any particular way as an obvious evolutionary benefit except for adult-adult-heterosexual.

it's not unique to nature. You're in heat, you want to mate with anything that looks attractive. What's attractive will vary immensely based on societal and personal experience, for reasons we still cannot fully understand as the human mind is still a huge secret to unlock. It's not perfect in the same way that few parts of nature are perfectly optimized. Remants of old patterns or general heuristics on "what is good enough" will remain and they can persist for very long times.

The only unique-ish thing about humans is that we have no "mating period". We are continuously in heat compared to most of nature, so that urge remains around consistently. Virtually every form of society has evolved some sort of culture to control these urges (as well as ways to control sexual conflict, which is another topic entirely) in order to advance as a civilization otherwise it'd be non-stop mating
There is no reason not make it universal. A lot of kids will still bring their own lunches. Teens in high school will choose paid lunch options some of time. The program would probably have a similar cost to SNAP.

Hungry kids don't learn well, so feeding them will lead to a modest increase of academic achievement on average. Academic achievement correlates with higher earnings, thereby paying for the program with their future taxes.
Does he encourage them to remain incels or to better themselves and become something else? Seens like incels are pretty bad and we should encourage them to not be incels anymore.

I do realize he doesn't do this out of the kindness of his heart and there is a monetary aspect.

As far as people that are not incels not being a target for his rhetoric, I somewhat disagree. He preaches a lot about discipline, and personal responsibility. Something I can relate to. I am not an incel, I am happily married with kids, financially successful, and decent looking. I say this not to brag, there are many people on this site multiples more successful than I am but just to illustrate that very few people are 100% bad and worthy of silencing. There can be good in most messaging. The OP I replied to advocated for silencing Tate, I personally don't think anyone should be silenced, we are all responsible for our own actions and reactions to stimuli.

The few truly evil people on this earth live on in history books, everyone else is shades of grey.
> record keeping system of "points" related to work product of members, and an annual distribution of profits proportioned strictly on a point basis.

This is hilarious :) It is so close. I called them 'stakes' but otherwise it is pretty much the exact same thing. I wonder how many other implementations of this idea there are out there.

The company that is running using this idea is 'Infocaster', a project company in Arnhem, NL. One of the founders put his own spin on it with a whole pile of automated administration but he's - as far as I know - yet to farm it out beyond that one company. He also wrote a book about it.
That's widely inaccurate. The fundamental advantage of an electrochemical system is that you are no longer limited by Carnot's theorem in the same way as heat engines. As a result, the efficiency of both systems can be the same. Not to mention you don't have to deal with all that heat either, making operation much simpler.

In the end, a fuel cell is basically a metal-air battery, and has the same level of efficiency.
Formulas are like magic spells. You don’t get to use them without understanding what they mean, and more importantly what they assume.
Pretty much I thought the same thing, this is the right thing to do, everybody benefits, nobody is getting less from this.

I am almost amazed how they managed to do the right thing...
Much like the gouv.qc.ca suffix.
Yes, exactly, https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/des-patrons-de-bars-en-garde-...
This is exactly correct. Fairness and equality.
> Doesn't the means-testing bureaucracy frequently outweigh any potential savings?

Maybe. Don't assume yes.
IIRC PSLF originally required not ten years of elapsed time but rather 120 sequential on-time payments in full under a qualifying repayment plan, where "on-time" was determined by the loan servicer. And you had to keep working beyond that time until the application was approved (most were rejected) and processed (probably as quickly as government departments usually operate.)

Loan servicers had every incentive to thwart this by declaring payments late or incomplete, steering borrowers into forbearance or non-qualifying repayment plans, etc.

As you can imagine, fewer than 1% of applicants successfully had their loans discharged.

They've been trying to fix things since the pandemic for people who consolidate to a federal direct loan.
Because even with all his money there is something that he can't buy... Respect.
Because it’s hard to achieve yet America and many other multicultural nations must achieve it or fall apart. You do hard things by trying to do them.
I’m not opposed to the carbs. I think if they’re in a whole food form, the kids are so much better off than if they’re eating processed… Anything.

Not teaching kids to eat whole foods is one of the greatest assaults on public health we’ve done in the last century, from what I can see. They become adults who normalize eating these perfect addictive meals, who allow their own kids access to the same junk, and then they their own kids as well, and so on. Until today when grocery stores are quite literally predominately food that you shouldn’t eat. You just shouldn’t.

Most common diseases in north America are highly correlated with diet. I find that so profound. We’re all eating ourselves to death in some form or another, it seems. To have that start in a public school is a real affront to individual and social well-being.
1. the planet is a finite system, it has a defined size and limited resources, and the amount of solar energy available to earth is not infinite

2. no, we can replace melanin with chlorophyll and we'll be ok, if we can imagine it

3. has elon started selling tickets yet?

Agree: we are doomed.
Bernie Krause was originally a musician, but then got a PhD in bioacoustics and is now much better known for that work

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause
If it's all free, it'll be just like the public school system.
Jamaica, and especially Haiti, are in no way "successes". The Dominican Republic is not exactly a rich country, but the contrast between it and Haiti are so stark as to beggar the imagination.

Relevant: TIL that Haiti has had 23 constitutions since 1801, with the most recent being enacted in 2012. At least two have declared the country to be an empire. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3t5wzt/til_th...>
OT: hijacking to reply to a past comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147435>

You might find my work based on the HN front page of interest: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110437783957361794>. Note that this is a subset of total HN activity, though a significant subset.

There's also Whaly.io's retrospectives based on the HN API:

<https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>

<https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-...>