skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you have posted it again if the fourth post did not receive 200 comments?
Greed, excess and short-term capitalism.

My particular beef is disposable/ short-lived goods -- the impact on the Earth of a product that lasts for 30 years is far less than one designed to need replacement after 5.

Yet weenie product managers & vulturous MBAs are constantly engineering things weaker & less repairable.

Sometimes to make the unit cost 0.5 cents cheaper, but perhaps more often to force earlier replacement and another revenue opportunity.
I've tried to love argparse but it is so complicated. I always have to read the docs each time I use it.

getopt has its own brutal simplicity.
"absolutely an expected outcome."

Good day. Is it the right time to talk to you about Common Lisp?
These seem arbitrary rules.

"Use internal status signaling" for example doesn't seem any better than deciding what status codes mean what; it's just a second layer of codes where the first one is now useless.

"Limit yourself to GET and POST." - delete and patch are pretty useful for documentation simplicity too. If there were a LIST verb that would be even handier, but nothing's perfect.

"build a protocol along the lines of your subject area" - I think you can do this (and well or badly) using REST or RPC forms.
Video title "Billionaire Foundation - The Most Immoral Charity In The World "

(inv.tux.pizza is failing to work for me)
What's wrong with doing something profitable for a few years? H100's in a couple of years will be like having a cluster of K80's today.

Not everything has grow to have the appetite of Galactus and swallow a whole planet. Making single digit millions of dollars over a couple of years is still worthwhile, especially if it helps others and moves humanity forwards.

This project isn't ever going to want to try and compete with AWS, so no, it's not a billion dollar question. $20 Million, yeah.
I’m a biologist and also a reluctant sysadmin. I’m happy to see I do roughly the same [0] except that I use an ed25519 ssh key and switched to Tailscale (it’s just too easy). I only open “unsafe” ports on the tailnet.

I did just install my first NixOS system so I’m indeed heading towards full automation.

[0] https://blog.hmrt.nl/posts/first_steps_arch_box/
It's not as simple as the population suddenly switching to another language, methinks, while staying genetically uniform and unchanged. That much anyone should agree with. The old "science" is indeed beyond flawed. However, the truth is complex. The [Eurogenes Blog](https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/) has talked about it a little bit. Who knows what we'll discover still?
I get why everyone is downvoting you.

What I’m really curious about, and mean this with no malice, I’m really intrigued why you thought to bring this up and phrase it in this way.

Not judging, I’m just curious.
Human level AGI is hard to achieve but there are loads of smart people working on it so there's a good chance of progress. If it comes to be it's bound to be transformative, I figure.
Good luck telling to the billions
of people living in poverty in South America, Africa, and Asia that they have to give up on the dreams for a more affluent life. While we (The West, the rich countries etc call it whatever you want) enjoyed the high living standards for decades.
> the redefinition of a disorder because of a change in societal norms seems different

Different how?

Early accepted medical practices were often barbaric, and not effective.

When we learned more about the human body, we stopped doing those things.

Much can also be said about the many fields of science, and the giant shifts that were necessary as the fields matured.
> Shelter, climate control, transportation, food

Yes, those seem like some good things to work on reducing the impact of.
Well not having chromium as a dependency is a start. But even glossing over that fact I found that it's much better for many diagrams. PlantUML is also a one stop shop. You can basically make anything kind of diagram in it.
your earliest link here was August of last year. I have heard people taking about long COVID as early as early 2021. Properly researched literature takes time to be written and much longer to be peer reviewed and disseminated into the circle of the academic conscious.

I don't think there's much value taking the word that literally. I simply assume the acedemic conscious when I hear "there is no literature on X". I certainly wouldn't want a neurologist to tell me "oh yea I read some news on this last week and X" and treat that as gospel for an ongoing issue.
The new Chrome "memory saver" feature that discards the contents of old tabs saves a lot of memory for me. Tabs get reloaded from the server if you revisit them.
Community list of comparisons between Text to Diagram tools: https://text-to-diagram.com/
> In the UK doctors recommend no more than 1,000 IU/day during the winter months.

You're mixing two pieces of advice:

1) everyone 'should consider' taking 400IU daily over winter (under-4s year-round);

2) infants should not take more than 1,000IU daily (adults: 4,000IU)

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

Of course, 4,000 daily is still only 28,000 weekly, not 50k, but GP is doing it on the basis of blood work & physician review; the NHS website certainly isn't intended to contradict that, it's generic advice in lieu of it.
Anyway, carrying on with the discussion, there's plenty of those positions that pay better than average, or even way better than average, but the skilled people just aren't in the area yet.

Obviously you can pay a million dollars an hour to get people to come from anywhere.

My point is: pay is only one of many market forces impacting this specific industry. Markets are inefficient.

Sometimes, it's just not knowing how to do hiring! How to properly advertise roles, without leaving out signals that make or break employees calling you.
> - People driving their kids to school is driving the climate crisis - People having enough to eat is driving the climate crisis - People taking nice vacations with their families and friends is driving the climate crisis

By my count, two out of the three are reasonably considered “excess” and are seemingly not being questioned as claimed by the headline.
It does seem to be the conclusion that people arrive at but don’t really want to say out loud. If we really want to save the climate we should all just kill ourselves.
Retro Punched Paper Tape Using a Fanuc PPR (Portable Punch Reader) [video]
No worries. As an aside I'm not a tech worker I'm primarily a clinician as well so I don't make access decisions but if it were up to me I would give MDs more.

Some places are better, most institutions I've been at have given me full access because I have a tech background and had a previous relationship with Epic but occasionally I've hit similar brick walls to you.

Hope it works out.
This reminds me of a super lightweight flight simulator I played circa 2014 - I cannot remember the name for the life of me, but unlike LAC and GL117, it was only a few hundred kb in size, but was well featured with joystick and network multiplayer support.
I did not conflate. Outright told you that your assumptions that these things are mutable are wrong.

You sound just like an anti trans or old school gay hater.

Things you think are choices or are “developed” may just be things that are the way they are. Why do some people like blue and others purple.

You are outright putting your desires as normal and others as not.

You are a penis bigot at worse, or misinformed at best. Take some time to understand you are one person and not representative of all and what is normal for you may not be normal for others.
That sounds terrible. Instead of having surgeon with decades of experience they retire after 10 years because they have enough. Instead building bridges with experience engineers and construction workers, we can let some kid out of college do it.
The study is based on a couple hundred people in a city in Finland, they could at least have tried to collect data on people closer to the tropics to hedge a bit. I doubt this has any validity ignoring such a basic confounding factor like living in a place that does have a lot of sun exposure.
No it will be the same level of skill and difficulty to do correct shared memory multithreaded programming. You'll have to manually manage locks and reason about potential for deadlock or other race conditions.

If anything it will be harder as the implicit serialization of the GIL being removed means libraries might suddenly develop race conditions that you've never experienced or seen before, likely causing spectacular crashes and undefined behavior or bugs.
People know this but it doesn’t make things better. If you dedicated thousands of hours to mastering technical skill of illustration, it isn’t nice to see the value in that work obliterated overnight.

What makes this so much worse than things like chess AI is that chess is done for fun and the final output is useless. While art is mostly for the output. While the process is fun, it’s fun because of the value of the output.
Receive retrospective ovulation estimates with Apple Watch
can you disclose your SIP provider? or suggests any?
There was a “Metaprogramming in Ruby” article on the front page last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875815
The big thing that is driving no GIL is the speed up of processing data for ML, which afaik cannot be done with multiprocessing.
Get a good audio book version; I find that someone properly pronouncing the names helps with things like War and Peace or the Silmarillion.
There’s a few problems with that. There is very little overlap with what goes into notes written for other doctors and insurance companies and what a doctor says to a patient.

And physical exams have a ton of manual components where a doctor is just palpating things and asking if that hurts or this hurts or feeling if a lump is freely moving, or whether someone can rotate something at a specific angle etc…

Without the doctor annotating exactly what they are doing and what the patients response was every step of the way, the LLM would be missing too much data to really be useful.
For a comparison between different Text to Diagram tools, see: https://text-to-diagram.com/
In the trade we call this being "API go lucky". It doesn't work well in conversation.
Notably, the line-skipping benefit to users only exists if a minority of people use it. If it becomes widely used, it degrades to the old state of affairs (i.e. waiting in line behind all the other CLEAR users). Without actual increases to throughput of the TSA checkpoint, it's only temporarily beneficial to early adopters as everyone else catches up. And when we're done, a private company has gathered loads of facial recognition data, CLEAR flyers paid for the privilege of giving it up, and they still have to wait in line.
I was thinking about this in the context of wealth inequality and the "existence of billionaires". I don't think that the common refrain of simply attempting to "tax billionaires out of existence" is functional or reasonable. People work hard, then they hit a really good idea and their company sky rockets in value. The notion that there is no ethical way to become a billionaire and that somehow all billionaires are inherently evil is, to me, very naive.

However, Elon Musk shouldn't exist. So how do we stop that? My proposal is a cap on revenue per employee before a company must go public, and a cap on individual ownership of any company. So for example maximum $5m per employee revenue before you have to list, then a single person or entity can own at most 10% of a company.

This means once you hit that figure, you have to list the company and cash out, and let other people step in and take not only responsibility but also share the revenue and ownership more equitably.
Making Cleveland look good.

Detroit's problems aren't locational, they're otherwise (as can be seen by the cities that are (technically) not Detroit but right outside it doing pretty well.
I've heard later versions of codewarrior had crappier 68k support, not due to strictly deprecating it, but just lack of interest/maintenance work as the OS developed and PPC happened
> maximize profit until you hit a certain point, then stop

This was explicitly the goal of early capitalist philosophy. Adam Smith envisioned a world where growth came to an end as societies expanded to fill their "economic space".

Smith misinterpreted human desires and motivations; enough is never enough as long as our potential future adversary is also accumulating wealth. Economic arms races ensure there will never be enough.
An H100 uses up to 350 Watts, while an A16 has a TDP of only 8 W. But, the A16 is a smaller chip (about 108mm vs. the H100's 814mm) so you can fit more of them on a wafer. Since a wafer is 300mm in diameter, its area is 70685 mm^2, which would yield 86 H100's or 654 A16's. [1][2]

However, that discounts the waste on the edges of the circular wafer, as well as the chip yield, which will both likely be worse for the larger chip [3]. But, assuming a generous 70% yield by area [4], one wafer's worth of H100s all packaged into GPUs and running full blast will use maybe 20 kilowatts, while the same wafer of A16s might use 3.6 kilowatts. Although in practice, the A16s will spend most of their time conserving battery power in your pocket, and even the H100s will spend some of their time idle.

TSMC is now producing over 14 million wafers per year. At most 1.2 million of those are on the 3nm node, and not all of that production goes to GPUs. But as an upper bound, if we imagine that all of TSMC's wafers could be filled up with nothing but H100 chips, and if all of those H100 chips were immediately put to use running AI 24/7, how much additional load could it put on the power grid every year?

The answer is, around 280 gigawatts, or if they were running 24/7 for a year, about 2500 terawatt-hours. That's about 10% of current world electricity consumption! So it's not completely implausible to imagine that a huge ramp-up in AI usage might have an effect on the electric grid.

*edit: This assumes we're talking about the Apple A16 (ie. the difference between phone chips and GPU chips). If we're talking about the Nvidia A16 (ie. the difference between current GPU chips and last node's GPU chips) see pclmulqdq's comment.
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[1] https://nanoreview.net/en/soc/apple-a16-bionic

[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/h100-pcie-80-gb.c3899

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185108

[4] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/analyst-tsmc-hitting-5...

[5] https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/manufacturing/...

[6] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2814+million%29+*+%282...*
I think you need to re-read Marx, then. I'm not a Marxist, at all, mainly because of the empirical evidence that hardcore redistribution of wealth goes very, very poorly. Frankly it annoys me and worries me that some people associate literally any limit on capitalism with socialism. Adam Smith's invisible hand was driven not by self-interest, but enlightened self-interest.

Putting a hard, generous upper limit on wealth accumulation is not even close to Marxism.
I understand that Go is simple (thus productive), and JS has every feature on earth (thus productive), but why Clojure over other Lisps (which are already productive)?
Carbon emissions biggest offender is the energy industry. How is that the work of the unwealthy masses?
Have you tried building the images with eatmydata library?

Essentially, dpkg is hilariously slow due to its approach in issuing fsync calls for every file - eatmydata wrapper injects a shared library which turns that into a no-op.

I haven't timed it rigorously, but I experienced up to 10x speedup in container builds by just wrapping dpkg with eatmydata.
Greed and excess are at the core of our economies which are based on infinite growth. It just doesn’t add up to a healthy society or healthy environment.

We need to embrace degrowth and radically change our economic system.

But we won’t, at least not in time, so I hope the survivors of our post-capitalist meltdown are able to craft something better.
Not in safari, but maybe it wasn’t actually working.
What’s the point of putting AI tech in their cpus when they’re clearly not interested in making it work even in their gpus?
OP's probably being ironic.
Reducing the impact of those things by making people poorer is very different than reducing the impact by innovation. Degrowth is never going to fly.
I’m not a huge fan of Cython and the like. It seems to be more natural to open a tcp connection to a c/c++ program and let that do the heavy lifting. Anything else seems like not a proper UNIX style solution.
That's a pretty sweet domain name right there. From the HP (as they say in Japanese):

> We're your online technology videomagazine, and we're different from other online magazines because we create all of our own content, and because most of that content is published in sequentially organized YouTube Playlists arranged for easy learning. We offer hundreds of hours of free, high-quality, technology-focused content, with subject matter ranging from how the Internet works through setting up and securing your own home-office network to writing high-performance online game/simulation software!

Way to go, there are actually a lot of interesting playlists in there. Even one on running Jane's flight sims which were a favorite back in the day.
> I'd just use asyncio to serve up read requests to the data and it should scale quite well.

Quoting GP:

>> often CPU heavy

We have to take their word for it that it's actually CPU heavy work, but if they're not lying and not mistaken then asyncio would do nothing for them.
Un-wealthy === un-powerful.

It's flawed and naive to point fingers at those with relatively no power. This issue is not new. It's been on the radar of those with power for *decades*.

But it easy to shun responsibly and accountability when you're redirecting the narrative from your yacht.
The current AIs powered by LLMs intend to "talk/think like ordinary humans do".

There might exist some practical applications for such AIs that might have economic value, but doing highly innovative things is not among these.

Doing highly innovative things rather means subverting the current state of art in a very clever way. If you think of people who have this property, you will likely immediately think of some ingenious smartass who is nearly always right, but insanely annoying to the people surrounding him because of this know-it-all attitude.

Would such an AI be possible to create? I don't know, but let's assume it is.

What should be obvious is that such an AI would need entirely different techniques to develop, but let's again assume that this problem has been solved.

What would a business model for such an AI look like? You clearly could not sell API access to it, since such an AI would demand far too demanding in the learning requirements for its users (discussion partners if implemented as a chatbot); look in the mirror: how many post-graduate level textbooks about some scientific topic (in particular math or physics) did you read in the last months?

So, such an AI would only make sense in the basements of some big corporation or three-letter agency, where there AI is commanded by some insanely brainiac users who have gotten a yearslong training to develop the actual intellectual capacity and scope of knowledge to actually understanding a glimpse of the AI's ideas. This glimpse then "trickles down" into innovations where no one has the slightest idea about where their true origin is (they fell into someone's lap).
>Want to live on one salary like a 1950 person, with 1950 level goods, you can.

No, you can't.

People lived in smaller houses, but the vast majority of the increase of property values is _land_. If you want a house that's anywhere near as cheap as the average was 50 years ago, you get to live somewhere with no jobs. That is not equivalent.

As for everything else, the majority of the modern day luxuries we enjoy amounts to a rounding error next to the actual necessities that people also had back then. Consumer electronics are _cheap_, not having them will not meaningfully increase anyones wealth.
3.11 and on should be comparable to Java for most use cases with multiprocessing (set up correctly of course)
Yep, multiprocessing is a cope.

If processes were a universal substitute for threads we wouldn't have threads. That reasoning only gets stronger when you apply python's heavy limitations, but it gets the most strength when you experience the awkwardness of multiprocessing firsthand.
In the US 85% of emissions are transportation (which people don’t have a mundane choice generally on how they travel - low emission options come from regulatory and policy choices), energy production (again, not mundane), industrial processes (again not by people) and agriculture.

If you’re argument is that people consume the things provided to them and they could vote with their wallet ignores going to the root of the emissions and tackling the issue there.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
One day, in fact, with standard MDT.

I've actually been involved in a leprosy case investigation in a school. Everyone was freaked out, community meetings, the works. No second cases were ever identified. It really is quite difficult to spread outside of household contacts.

Similarly, the case of leprosy I myself diagnosed (off a skin biopsy that was initially thought to be cutaneous tuberculosis) had no related cases either.
I mean, is the yoavweiss in the wrong here? The #112 issue does look like spam (pretending to care about diversity in hope of making problems for the maintainer, because diversity issues are taken very seriously at Google).

Don't get me wrong, I hate this proposal too and I hope it gets dismantled and forgotten. But I would probably do the same, as an owner of a controversial repository that somehow got to the top of HN frontpage.
It's better than nothing and you can't please everyone. Read this thread; people are coming out of the woodwork to protest this limit as Marxism. Besides, the actual number isn't really important - acknowledging an upper bound to wealth exists is the key idea. It's an idea I've never even heard discussed.
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Oh. Do you know anyone with kids? We do multiple loads a day!
Hey, I saw Khoj hit HN a few weeks ago and get slaughtered because the messaging didn't match the product.

You've come a good way in both directions: the messaging is clearer about current state vs aspirations, and you've made good progress towards the aspirational parts.

Really glad to see the warm reception you're getting now. Nice job, y'all.
> the line-skipping benefit to users only exists if a minority of people use it

Which is what the price gate confers.
Did you mean to reply to the person above me? My point was that is you are biking no matter how distorted it is from real world cycling you still train in movement.

Whereas if debate gets corrupted you don’t necessarily learn wider skills. Whereas you would if the debate remains convincing to people who aren’t debate judges.
Give me a better alternative that avoids 2 degrees of warming, then. Burden of proof is on you at this point. "Innovation" had 50 years to work, and did nothing to get us out of this.
Now do Afro-Asiatic!
That's great! It sounds like we're on the same wavelength.
Or, you DO want a rule-check, where it reduces incidence of critical errors that are known (due examnation of prior failures) to be more likely when under pressure.
For starters, he spent tens of billions of his own money and $13B in LBO loans in order to rage quit litigation he was losing. There never was a plan other than "I could flip it for less than a settlement would cost."
It sucks for them too! Most artists aren't Taylor Swift or Eminem and have enough clout to own their own label AND be an extremely successful artist.
The energy industry powers all of industrial civilization. Everyone, wealthy or not, relies on industrial civilization to survive.