skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... despite population being the multiplier that scales every single problem the world faces

That's the big one which people don't understand. The poor that has five kids is doing more harm to the planet than the rich who has only one kid.

Wife and I decided, on purpose and for that reason, to have only one kid.

And no matter what we do during our lifetime, we're polluting less than people having more than one kid. It's a fact and a simple one. Yet people simply don't understand.

My father had four kids. Today's world problems are his fault and nobody is changing my mind on that.

And don't even get me started on people having many kids for religious purposes, to conquer the world with the women's bellies (as they say): they'll get the planet they deserve.
The example at the end sounds just like the predictions you get from normal phone keyboards in the last couple of years, which presumably don't use a modern GPT-style language model. A bit disappointing.
> Either way, the easiest way to look at it is, do parents tell their kids to aspire to become bartenders?

That sounds incredibly elitist and cringey. If I had a child earning six figures as a bartender I’d be very impressed, and even if they weren’t earning six figures but were enjoying life I’d be happy… And taking it from another perspective, I know people who’s parents would be disappointed their children are ‘lowly software engineers’ too. With that sort of attitude you can rarely win.
Sugarless Kellogs with whole milk are super healthy and also very tasty. Unfortunatelt people end up eating junk such as frosty flakes with some milk substitute.
https://archive.ph/UEn8h
Cereals are great - I eat rolled oats with milk or yoghurt and it takes ages to digest so i don't have to eat anything until lunch. Keloggs sweetened nonsense (seriously 40% sugar?) of course doesn't make sense
I use voice to text all the time on my iPhone and find it to be astonishingly good. I’m a 50 year old man who grew up in Southwestern Ontario so that gives you an idea of my accent.
We made the jump from 8 to 17 this year! Some of our developers of course still write 1.6 level code, of course
It's a redundant sentence. Fish are animals.

It's like saying "I went to the San Francisco zoo and aquarium and enjoyed the animals and the big cats"
An exciting read! Of course my initial reaction is to be a bit wary and cynical of success story sites like this and wonder what the site is selling…. But perhaps this is a genuine celebration of entrepreneurship and I’m too jaded by the enshitification or the web to be open to it at first?

For many of us, building and succeeding at a little website like the bank pdf converter is the dream. But what challenges were there? What has worked and what didn’t work at all? Let’s hope Angus joins the chat here and gets a bit more in depth :)
One thing you can do is have some narcan (naloxone) on hand. It's available without a prescription at national brand pharmacies. Many insurance plans have a $0 copay for it, almost all would be under $20. Useful even if you don't know anyone in your life that would use fentanyl. There's any number of situations where it could happen.
Until many years ago, I had been obese for many years and I had been believing that nothing that I could do was able to change that, due to many previous failed attempts.

Then I have made a very detailed analysis of everything that I was eating and I have begun to weigh myself every day at the same hour and in the same conditions with high resolution scales, to be able to assess the effect of the changes in my diet.

After replacing the junk food that I was buying with food cooked at home from raw ingredients, after a year I have reduced my weight to two thirds of the initial weight and then I have kept it constant for the next two decades.

The worst offenders among the junk food that I had to completely eliminate from my daily intake, had been fruit juices and fruit yogurts and breakfast cereals, all of which contain excessive amounts of sugars, regardless of producer.

Now, instead of breakfast cereals, I eat at breakfast home-made bread (baked quickly in a microwave oven), made of pure wheat flour, without any additives.
I'm getting a lot more too. I'm applying for senior DS or a level lower mle positions and have gotten significantly more interviews in the last few weeks than the previous 2 months
It was record high the whole year.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2023/09/asina_S_iqr_...
I love occasionally doing breakfast for dinner. Usually that means I’m having eggs, toast, bacon, fruit, and (decaf) coffee.
Such penalties would only exist for fine-tuned models. Base models have only the temperature setting. As the example at the end shows, even GPT-2 seems "smarter" than the Apple model, probably because of the number of parameters.
So Universal Music Group is depending on its competitor, Warner Music Group (owned by Access Industries which also owns Deezer)?

Interesting. I thought Universal/Warner/Sony were propping up Spotify as leverage for when they need to negotiate with Apple/Google/Amazon.
Big fan of formalizing state machines and designing backends around them. I’ve been building a similar thing [0] but taking it a step further by enabling async tasks to run in response to transitions.

[0] https://github.com/fabianlindfors/restate
“If you wanted to discover new music, the last thing you'd do is turn to the radio”

Really? What would people do, then?

I grew up in the 70s/80s in a small town. No music store, not even a Walmart until the mid-80s.

Pre-MTV, radio was pretty much the only mechanism for hearing new music, excepting maybe small doses of new stuff via SNLs musical act or someone on the talk shows.

I don’t think much (popular) contemporary music is genre-less. Fair number of crossover songs, maybe, but that’s not new.
Let me simplify the idea so that we don't get caught up in historical debates: we won't move beyond anecdotal evidence of UAPs unless our academic institutions start looking for them systematically and/or we reach out to our elected representatives to declassify/release whatever data the DoD has already collected.
I’d have presumed it to be Kheer Vermicelli. It’s a very well known and loved sweet dish in India. My aunty often makes it as an addition to the morning meal when I go back to her village and stay with her.
When I was growing up, breakfast was very often just re-heated leftovers from a previous dinner. A full plate of meat & veg with some sort of gravy or sauce was the norm, not the exception.
Good luck with that. :(

Rent seeking behaviour is so deeply entrenched in US-led business culture, that any time potential advances are figured out they are viewed through the lens of "can we patent this?".

If the answer is "No", then funds for developing that potential advance - eg concept dev, prototyping, potential field testing - just don't exist.

It's not about being able to improve manufacturing. It's become "what's the greatest ROI on spending these dollars? Can we lock in a monopoly around it somehow too?".

While that short sighted foot gun approach remains prevalent, "fixing" the advanced manufacturing problem is going to proceed pretty damn slowly.

Outright abolishing all patents might get things going in the right direction, but the heart attacks that would cause in business circles makes that impractical. ;)
The entire western economic system is structured in such a way that ethical consumption is difficult and expensive. While certainly I would agree that economically advantaged groups bear some responsibility to make ethical choices about what they consume, expecting someone on minimum wage to pay extra for a lower carbon product seems unreasonable (e.g. taking a train from london to paris is often significantly more expensive than flying).

Fixing the problem of climate change requires deep economic restructuring, and much of the responsibility there lies with those who have the most power to enact these changes (i.e. politicians, ceos, large shareholders). Treating climate change as an issue of individual consumer responsibility has been a long term tactic of large polluters (e.g. oil firms) to shift attention and blame from their damaging activities.
The runtime is similar, both are continuation based under the hood etc.

What sets VirtualThread apart is that all the support you get from the Java Stdlib. i.e ExecutorService and friends and now ThreadGroup with the improvements in Java 21. Not to mention the structured concurrency features that are planned to complement them. Another key difference is how much easier they interact with interrupts for cancelation without having to resort to context, channel and select hacks.

Compare this to Golang where this is very little tools for managing groups of goroutines. You have the sync package, specifically WaitGroup which get you some of the way there but it's still massively behind the equivalent JVM stdlib support for real concurrency. JVM has equivalents to everything in the sync package but in addition to that it for instance the collections library which contains ConcurrentHashMap, which naturally works perfectly with VirtualThreads vs Golang which map is not goroutine safe and you have to go outside the stdlib to get concurrent safe structures.

So yeah, if you are working in Java already you should checkout VirtualThread for your i/o intensive needs, especially if you were using Go for those tasks before.
I use zenjob since a while and am quite happy with it.
Do you know how much it costs, and how many failed experiments, it takes to develop a drug?
Non US person here, so feel free to call me out on BS. IMHO people who do fentanyl already have pretty serious mental and/or existential issues going on, like who tf would play russian roulette like that? Sounds more like a societal problem than a mere drug distribution regulation problem to me.
Could you elaborate on your world view or are you just trolling?

Progress and capitalism optimize for value or $, and have no attention for the environmental cost as long as those are not put into regulations. You don't agree with that?
The sound/structure was changed many times before to make an album sellable, for the radio, to make venues sell more beer, to help the graphical aspect when shown on MTV and the list goes on.
Why stop at medicine? Why does anyone get to have enforcable patents in "poor countries", make a profit, etc. etc. Do you also know people can buy the medicine in "poor " countries for free then, and just ship it back to the "non poor"?
Apple has assumed its users are hapless morons for many years. Most people seem to prefer it this way.
Climate change is not some game where the goal is to enact petty revenge on people who are trying to lose the game.

It's not about accountability, it's about stopping climate change so our current biomes don't degrade.

Directing your anger and energy at some small group of people that have an insignificant impact as small as the country of Uganda is simply not worth it or even relevant.

While you're whining about rich people, wealthy people in general are destroying the fucking planet. It's them who should be held responsible. It's them who complain when gas prices get high, it's them who vote against participating in the Paris accord. It's them who vote against stopping trade with China. It's them who should have been educated, who should have taken it seriously.
Because the current climate spending is extremely inefficient and stupid. For example, if we put all this effort into making more energy, e.g. making nuclear actually work, we could soon make the climate do what we want, not the other way around.

And of course anything the government gets involved in will get screwed up, so just stop screwing it up and let the bright people do what they are passionate about.
I never really had cereal for breakfast or any other meal (or does puffed rice count? I used that as a dinner dessert) and cereal with milk sounds pretty bad as a breakfast. I'm not lactose-intolerant but milk feels pretty “heavy” to digest. I don't want that in my stomach when I'm running out the door.
Building corpora has been an ongoing research activity since the 1990s. Many countries lacked the academic programs and support to build them. Often, the material isn't even there. E.g., wikipedia is a great source, but many "national" wikis are rather empty. The Bahasa wiki has 1/10th of the articles of the English one. They also seem to be shorter.

But also, Apple doesn't do much research. MS, however, has always had an active NLP research and support program, if only because of the importance of Word. But Apple depends on the research available from third parties.
> cereal is cheap and sugar is addictive. Better to take the time to eat a good non-processed-food breakfast.

Cheap/easily available, tasty/desirable thanks to sugar, trivial&quick to make and eat when time is at a premium - that sounds perfect in general, doubly perfect when you're trying to ensure kids eat something relatively nutritious before school. I imagine that's why cereals stuck around - it's the "trick kids into drinking milk" plus energy booster for school children.

(Also, sure, it's "better to take the time to eat a good non-processed food breakfast", but most people have neither the time nor money for that.)
good. candy for breakfast isn't usually the best way to start the day.
Null! The BH is way too small. We're talking about jet when dealing with SMBHs.
> The best places, in fact my current role in an SV-adjacent tech company

Would love to find a company like this again, past two roles were JIRA micromanagement shops and actively discouraged talking about anything.
Breakfast cereals without added sugar exist. At least, in countries other than the US they do.

Example: https://www.uncletobys.com.au/products/cereals/uncle-tobys-v...
I've been arguing this is the way AI should be deployed. Rather than trying to sell ai as an end to end solution, just let it do the small part that it can reliably do. It's cost effective for the host, and valuable for the user. win win engineering!
But think of the 401ks...
Oatmeal (if unsweetened/unflavored) has about the same GI as orange juice or cake made from some Betty Crocker boxed cake mixes and is just slightly lower-GI than the American formulation of Coca-Cola (see #333 Oatmeal (Canada), GI value of 54 ± 4 in the table at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...).

I think oatmeal and other high-GI foods are promoted as low-GI in hopes of helping wean diabetics and pre-diabetics off of even worse foods (e.g. something really bad like powdered donuts), akin to how methadone is used to try to help heroin addicts. But genuine low-GI foods would be things like eggs, cheese, or chicken breast (all with nearly 0 GI) or some raw veggies like raw broccoli or the greens in a leafy salad (in the neighborhood, roughly, of 10-20 GI). Cooking low-GI vegetables like broccoli defeats the purpose and raises its GI to around the same value as oatmeal.
When politicians start messing around in people's private lives and try to outlaw such a basic human need for love and companionship, then it's clear that the politicians are not working on behalf of people, but are instead following a different, authoritarian agenda.

Same sex marriage has been around for a lot longer than ten years.

The first legal same sex marriage in the U.S. was 1971

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_same-sex_marriage

> At least two of the Roman Emperors were in same-sex unions; and in fact, thirteen out of the first fourteen Roman Emperors held to be bisexual or exclusively homosexual. The first Roman emperor to have married a man was Nero, who is reported to have married two other men on different occasions. First with one of his freedmen, Pythagoras, to whom Nero took the role of the bride, and later as a groom Nero married a young boy, who resembled one of his concubines, named Sporus.
That's.. quite disappointing..
Still, I do have some hope that just maybe, maybe he will understand how the toxicity harms... others, and make changes for the better..
Crop yields have increased by use of fertilizers, modern farming machinery, and chemicals that prevent disease. Yields did NOT substantially increase due to higher photosynthetic rates which is how carbon is fixated.
Agreed that what is “appropriate” for certain meals is pretty silly. A pet peeve of mine though is when people bring fragrant, dinner-smelling food to eat in the office (not the cafeteria area). It's kind of distracting. :p
> That said I'm not a vegetarian - my diet is based on industrila logistics - I eat the protein that the supermarket logistics chain provide to our neighbourhood.

Directly associating “protein” with animal products and implicitly assuming protein is something we should be at all worried about when there hasn’t been a report of “protein deficiency” ever are a big part of the problem.

I can’t assume this is your case but I’ve still to meet a person who brings this up and has no access to, for example, beans or lentils. A quick google search will offer many more alternatives, although it’ll also consistently bring up the fact protein is something that should hardly ever be on your mind.

You do have to actively and periodically watch your vitamins though, which we all tend to have less than what we need, and lower-than-healthy vitamins for long periods can do irreparable damage in the long term.

You do have to watch your B12 when switching to a vegetarian diet, not because animals naturally produce it but because they are generally supplemented with it; but low B12 is also pretty common in meat eaters. By the time you feel the symptoms it’s already dangerously low.

I’m not looking to attack you — I just don’t want random people reading unfounded reasons not to go vegetarian and unconsciously believing them.

> Only thing you need is to convince the elites to change to vegetarianism.

Maybe, but what others decide to do or not does not prevent individuals from doing their part. Just by changing your habits and living your life you’ll influence people. You’ll get to patiently answer honest questions, show off amazing recipes that will wipe away preconceived culinary notions, etc. Your friends, after years of seeing you well, will stop thinking “omg they must lack protein” or “they must be rich to be able to afford veggies”

Bottom-up works too, and I’d even think it’s usually the way to go with all society-scale changes. Waiting for someone else to do something generally leads nowhere good. Also, a ton of famous people are already openly vegan or vegetarian.
Offtopic: Sorry, but I can't stand those laptops which vent the hot air on the right-hand side, right on my mouse-hand, cooking it nicely till golden perfection.

It's an absolutely infuriating UX fail which seems to stick to Lenovo's business line for some reason. I wanted to throw my work provided T14 out the window so there's no way I'm giving them my money for this design failure.

Why can't they blow the hot air towards the back/display like most other laptops? Can you imagine Apple ever selling laptops venting the hot air on one side instead of out the back?

Even my ancient HP ProBook I had would at least vent the hot air on the left side, so at least us righ-handed users were spared, so Lenovo seems to be the last and biggest offendant of this "crime".
I once needed that thing (with 32-bit integer keys, and either FP32 or FP64 values), but I didn’t want to spend too much time designing novel data structures.

I have copy-pasted B+ tree from TLX https://github.com/tlx/tlx (Boost license), and then I did some local changes to improve the performance for my specific keys and value types. I have used AVX2 intrinsics to improve search within nodes, and I also implemented a few more simple tricks. After these changes, the performance became satisfactory for my application.
Ask HN: Transformer alternatives that could have emergent properties when scaled
I am trying to identify model architecture candidates that could, like transformers, have "emergent" properties when they are scaled (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682).

Some contenders I already know about are:

* Monarch Mixer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00396.pdf)

* Hyena (https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena)

Thanks for your help.
From what I understand - people who got addicted to legal opiates now can't access them and fentanyl is somewhat accessible and gives same effect with lower dose. So it's not necessarily your stereotypical junkies that are using it, it's normal people who were given opiates to deal with pain and now got addicted.
I guess you could see de-growth as efficiency, lower useless production/necessary production for a good life-ratio.

If we just reduced the resources needed to produce todays consumption, why wouldn't the savings just go to producing more of the same stuff? Ie. growth?
I have a lot of respect for Drew for the technical work he did, but it's difficult to take this seriously. Maybe because we come from very different cultures, I don't know. I've never felt the need for any "community" for my window manager of choice (which happens to be sway) and can't imagine what a "victim of harrasment" for such a thing would look like. If whatever the developer clique are doing (which are actually pushing the thing forward) works for them — great! I'd be just fine with it as a user.
Can you imagine the magnitude of the humanitarian and environmental crisis China would be if they had not industrialized and joined the global market?
A country that size full of uneducated farmers and first generation coal power plants would be a nightmare for everyone, not just China.
> all drugs need to be decriminalized and sold at affordable prices and pharma-grade quality.

Sure, fuck the 20%-30% of the population who can't control their addiction and ruin the country in the process.
This is simply because the American elites have chosen a different way to prosper. They have chosen, to reach the top of the world, and then ripe the easier and larger pies. The might of the US military protects the interests of the financial institutions (and some other oligarchs), and this can go on as long as the US military is strong enough. It is thus NOT the interest of the American elites to promote manufacturing. Not only that, even the American people are getting used to it too, they too do not want to work in manufacturing, tiring and non-prestigious.

I don't really see a way to reverse everything. It is not about investing more in education or patching up policies. We are talking about a whole generation, maybe two, of elites and (some of the) people who profit from globalization. You simply cannot rely on the hands to chop themselves off. This is going to be a violent, bloody process because changing tides in politics is always bloody, literally. This is also going to touch the cake of numerous upper-middle class interest groups: landlords, bankers, you name it, anyone who prosper from the last 40 or so years, especially last 10 years since the first QE. Why? Because you are basically saying, OK I'm going to create a new group of middle class people but hey the cake is just that big so I need to cut someone else's piece.

Of course, everything has a cheat. The cheat, which I believe was already chosen by the American elites, is to instill conflicts globally and create mass exodus of highly skilled workers from other countries to the United of States.