skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better way to think of what you said is:

If toyota cars unintentionally accelerate and kill people, but sometimes people mistakenly accelerate and kill people. If I am driving a toyota and accelerate and kill a person, if 100% of all cops/investigators believe the first case doesn't exist, and the second case is the only possible answer, I will be thrown in jail without a second thought; my life is destroyed, and it wasn't even my fault.

But more than that, we don't even know what the ratios are, is it 90% / 10%? is it 10% / 90%? is it 50/50? Because everyone believes it is 0%/100% we can't make the "N guilty men" decision at all, so we need a hard stop, evidence, and re-start.

I know you were downvoted, but I think your thoughts are exactly the problem I am trying to point out. So thank you for commenting on it.
1. Absolutely. clickhouse-keeper is distributed as a standalone static binary or .deb package or .rpm package. You can use it without clickhouse as ZooKeeper replacement.
2. It's not recommended to use slow storage devices for logs in any coordination system (zookeeper, clickhouse-keeper, etcd and so on). Good setup will be small fast SSD/EBS disk for fresh logs and old logs + snapshots offloaded to S3. In such setup the amount of PUT requests will be tiny and latency will be as good as possible.
About 70% of convicts in prison are there for violent offenses and should be there. The remaining 30% is mainly drug and property crimes.

Now it’s important to understand what is meant when people reference incarceration numbers. A lot of these are people awaiting trial on charges they will be found guilty of but receive minimal sentences via plea bargaining. Another large portion are illegal immigrants that are awaiting processing for either integration or deportation.

So if you erase those 2 groups it’s mainly violent people. There’s an abundance of violent people in the USA compared to Western Europe and certainly Asia I’d say.
It's not Nvidia's fault that the competition (AMD) does not provide the right software. There is an open alternative to CUDA called OpenCL.
Semantics though: He gave tens of thousands of salviating engineers on the internet the first competitive LLM to play with. Or left the door open for people to take it, if you prefer that narrative. The entire progress chain that has given us ollama, lamacpp and hundreds of innovations in a very short time was set off by that.
Has anyone else noticed that sleep apnea machines are being over-prescribed in the US? They were a rarity ~10 years ago, but now it seems like anyone who goes to a doctor with sleep complaints are prescribed one.
A bug report for this issue had already been filed, and years had passed without it being fixed.
He's announced it was one year away each of the last 10 years. [1]

[1] https://futurism.com/video-elon-musk-promising-self-driving-...
I (M) once got into a relationship with someone (F) who was oddly unfond of my friendships, esp female friends. She in a way isolated me from close friends. When we broke up, it was because she accepted a marriage proposal from her 'friend' whom I kept asking her about.

Anyways, it took me time to mend some friendships, some never recovered.

> Not totally on topic but I have learned my lesson to actively pursue friendships from now on and cultivate them

Yes, spousal relationships can sometimes drain us of other friends because of the exclusivity it comes with.
We sometimes have to be very deliberate in keeping that balance. That includes taking on new interests, getting to know our kids' parents, etc.

I encourage my wife to meet new people, as she relocated across our country, doesn't have a lot of friends around, and stopped working shortly before kids.
Interesting...spent 20s in city also but now live in suburbs and don't feel isolated at all. We know all our neighbors, our kids play together etc. I didn't know any of these people before we lived there obviously.

Would argue it's less about "where you are" and more about "how easy it is for you to make new friends" but that's purely anecdotal.

I guess if it's about going to bars to make friendships then yes there will be less of that in suburbs (assuming U.S. here). But as you age going to bars is a "need" that seems to generally decrease for most (not all of course) people.

How is a suburb inherently lonely exactly?
> I wonder what it would take for folks like that to vote GOP.

Their state's GOP would have to offer a political platform that appealed to the state's urban voters. That's it, it is not a mystery.
"Hot takes" politics actively makes things worse for EVERYONE. Real life is full of nuance and grey areas and none of that can be managed by something described in 160 characters.
IMO the next gen AI are going to be tiny nukes that middle schoolers could play with on their iPhones.

AI regulation is as needed as radioactive material regulation.

Nuclear energy is great, Hiroshima not so much.
It basically has the loop unrolled. But it looks like it’s evaluating a polynomial approximation so I suppose it makes sense
Anything LLM / AI is trending towards commoditization and will become a feature in most products. If your AI product looks like a feature in some other app, likely gonna be hard to compete with a native feature. I think it will also be hard to build something general enough to be that feature across different app types, while still having competitive output compared to purpose built models, which we already know almost always outperform. There is also business risk in letting your data or internal communications go to more AI vendors, over using the built-in features with the current service provider.
> Leveraging public cloud infrastructure has traditionally demanded sifting through layers of boilerplate code and intricate configurations, often monopolizing a significant chunk of the developer’s time and energy.

I don't buy this line of reasoning. At the end of the day we are building infrastructure that needs to be reliable. Spending 30 minutes to set up an SQS queue (proven technology) doesn't sound as bad as putting all my trust in a toy queue that Deno built "on top of SQLite / FoundationDB". Is the 30 minute setup cost and added "developer experience" really worth the risk? How often are you setting up queues anyway.
> Are you implying that it is unions that cause corporations to seek offshoring, automation etc.?

Well that's at least the spooky scary threat that companies use to get people to not join union so my bet is that it's total bullshit and if they could already offshore their workers and factories they would have done so already. Milk those higher wages and benefits while they're still here because they won't change the calculus at all when compared to workers who will work for single digit dollars a day.
Yeah, I did something similar in effect in Python some time ago: https://github.com/vollcheck/pypelines - this is a bytecode hack rather than operator overloading.
If you read the whole article it is something like, "yes we produce a huge amount of CO2, but we're investing in fusion energy to power our steel plants, so get off our backs for 7 years." Good luck to them though, steel plants are a great application for high power, continuous sources of energy that don't go away when the sun sets or the wind stops blowing.
You need to focus on niche tags to find worthwhile unanswered questions. Browsing the $foolang tag is just for the OCD FOMO types who spend their day farming rep.
Wut? Proofs? Mac m1 has both and more freedom
So the code from the dude in the blog post here
Ah, I got confused by the "I guess that could be much of your commute if you're a poor schlub" part, because I would assume they'd get up to highway speeds to end up wherever they live, whereas someone more well off wouldn't hit that.
Microsoft disagrees with you: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1705664458952151101

The "solar makes nuclear useless" line seems wrong. There are situations where solar isn't feasible (like in a spaceship or on a boat or submarine). There also may be space, reliability, and weather limitations that make solar less attractive. Finally, we're making solar panels very fast, but if we really go all-in, it will take a long time to build as many as we need. It's probably better to hedge our bets and build nuclear now.

Re: Helion, I'm skeptical that their fusion reactor will ever be commercially viable but am not an expert and would love to be wrong. There's tons of Helion skepticism on the internet you can find if you look around.
Nice idea, but something as simple as this doesn't work:

pipeSync(p => [
"hello",
p + " world",
console.log
]);
The experience will probably be hellish anyway because of the Web integrity API. Javascript compiled to asm.js could produce painted-to-canvas websites too, and it won't be any less viable especially considering the growth of the CPU scores. Webassembly is prevalent in the canvas use cases because DOM manipulation with it is slower, clunky(due to the poor browser integration) and because people want to reuse native-language codebases.

If the canvas website really was a threat we would have seen much more of it by now already, but it hasn't happened for a number of reasons -- we only see them in the dedicated desktop-app-like use cases like this one. Anything scrollable won't be viable because it would be inherently less responsive than the real deal. Fonts look different, most designers actually prefer for people to be able to select text, and be able to use browser functionality that looks native for the different OSs. Canvas websites are also more expensive in terms of blob loading and ability to cache pages. So it's not really a threat.

Most adblocking happens by the means of network/URL blocking and I don't see any potential difference between WASM and JS in this regard(unless the APIs are enshittified, but JS isn't impervious to this too). If ads can't be blocked by network, and the website proxies ad contents through its own domain(as far as I know that's not prevalent, maybe I'm ignorant -- they need to track users and clicks themselves anyway), than you could get hard to block websites with JS+DOM too -- it's possible disrupt DOM based blocking by frequent randomization/obfuscation to the degree that one would need some kind of advanced AI to even hope to find the ad DOM elements. Between WEI, web bundles, Topics API push, webassembly's supposed higher indecipherability (which isn't true, chrome "disassembles" WASM into the WAT form and it's pretty readable. More readable than wasm.js) doesn't even register.

>And for what?

To not deal with JavaScript? To be able to develop for the web in the language you want, without floats being the fundamental numeric type and other BS? Is that too fantastical of a desire?
For sure, we're going to have differing opinions based on life experiences, data consumption, and the resulting mental models. Outcomes are going to be driven by voting (politically) and unions. With union support being at the highest in history in the US, along with rapid electorate turnover (4M 18 year olds aging into voting each year, ~2M 55+ annual age out rate of voters), I'm hopeful workers will be able to secure a greater piece of the value they generate (through a combination of wages continuing to be pushed up and a shorter work week) at the cost of those currently holding substantial assets and wealth. There will be some inflation, that is inevitable due to the US freeloading on substantially underpaid labor for so long it has become accustomed to it (the federal minimum wage is laughably at $7.25/hr for example [1]) as well as structural demographic compression of the working age cohort. Lots of macro unwinding that is going to be painful due to the poor economic choices made over the last half century. Importantly, most people under 30 didn't have a hand in shaping these poor choices.

> If one truly wanted to help those who are hurting the worst, this is completely ass-backwards. It seems designed to make those who are already comfortable a little more so.

Very broadly speaking, the very wealthy have enough [2], and can make due with less. Tax them more if necessary [3]. Those hurting the worst are hurting because of greed and selfishness of a minority, not workers who have been taking it on the chin for decades. But, most unfortunately, the mental model that gets you wealthy heavily discounts luck and overemphasizes individual exceptionalism [4] [5], so these folks aren't self aware enough to come to the conclusion on their own, leaving collective action and the legal/political system as the most likely path to success.

Again, the productivity already exists. Where do you think all of this accumulated wealth is coming from?

[1] https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/ ("The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. In the absence of action at the national level, many states and localities have raised their own minimum wages. Explore the map to see how these rapidly changing laws differ across the country. Values as of July 1, 2023")

[2] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly... ("2023: Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years")

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0 ("Rutger Bregman tells Davos to talk about tax: 'This is not rocket science'")

[4] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol... ("The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized")

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419334
Domestic violence is higher where poverty rates are higher. (I am not saying that poverty is the sole determinant, but it closely correlates). You will find pockets of higher domestic violence throughout the US. I don't think you can rationalize bias like this, people with ethnic prejudice will look for any apparent fact pattern to support their preconceived bias.
Lord, what I would give to see Haiku gain real traction. BeOS was something truly special and I often wonder what the tech landscape would look like today had Apple chosen to acquire them instead of NeXT.
I'm not sure if I'd agree with a 'very large chunk', but certainly I don't think this is an isolated incident. It's just that people don't usually make a fuss.
It's all about risk vs reward for both parties. If a cop pulls you over for a speeding ticket, trying to bribe him is a high risk option that could suddenly see you facing felony charges to try to get out of a low cost ticket. And similarly for the officer. You're not going to pay more than the ticket in the bribe, certainly not much more, so it's negligible, and accepting it could completely destroy his livelihood if found out.

On occasion it still does happen, but it tends to be because the mutual risk/reward ratios are changed. One of the most common bribes cops are found taking is sexual stuff. That may have a much higher value for the officer than the bribe price would, and a much lower risk for the briber since they can be overtly flirtatious without ever making it clear (from the point of view of a criminal prosecution) they're offering to exchange some sexual favor for a way out.

By contrast in the government scenario the risk for both parties is effectively zero since much will go on without a single word even needing to be said. When various government agencies were pressuring Twitter to censor all sorts of things, they never made a single overt threat - yet they simultaneously spoke both threateningly and demandingly. It's the same sort of relationship. The people making the "requests" of Twitter had a million ways of going after Twitter, or the people in charge of it, and Twitter knew this. So they played ball. Even if you got access to every single email, you wouldn't be able to prosecute anybody over it. It was all completely legal, which creates a near infinite risk:reward ratio.
I had the same reaction when I first encountered marathoninvestigation.com, which is a blog that calls out cheating in road running races. Most of these people cheating aren’t even anywhere close to the level where having a slight edge might allow them to place, or win prize money. So they’re effectively competing against themselves to set a personal best time…and cheating at it. So strange to me.
I'm not sure if this is a troll or not and I don't really want to debate this kind of thing on HN, but you've baited me. It is not a straw man. As I said, the source of the input could change in the future and it could be missed. The safe version is no more complicated than the unsafe version, so why wouldn't you just do the safe one? There is zero advantage to the unsafe way and it's straight up reckless to defend it.

I'm one of those people who moved from Ruby to Elixir. Ecto, Elixir's defacto database wrapper, will throw and exception if you try and write interpolated code like this, so luckily I don't have to have these insane arguments anymore (well, I work alone now, so there are several reasons I don't have to have them).

EDIT: My bad, I glazed past the last part of your statement.

Ya, I think this is probably where some of the defensiveness comes from: using a library vs rolling your own. If you're rolling your own, of course you're going to need to interpolate table names and whatnot, but it shouldn't even be possible to interpolate values. My example and argument is based of Rails, though, where you never specify a table name or anything like that. So in the specific case of my coworkers, they were wrong.
Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions
>Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.
The OP... The technical controls of the OS...

Autocorrect and a lack of editing are a bad combo.
How long did it take to develop each web service?
Which rps produces?
For most cities, the cost of the water infrastructure (building and maintaining pipes) is much more expensive than the cost of the actual water.

In Melbourne, Australia, since tap water mostly comes from catchments in national parks, water requires very little treatment (some fluoride and chlorine is added), so it works out cheap: ~$25 AUD per million liters. Desalinated water, by contrast, cost about 24 times more (~$600 AUD per million liters).
I don't think people realize how little money they'll dance for. I always imagined you had to donate in the hundreds of thousands at a minimum to get their attention. Turns out for even a <$5K donation you can get an invite to a dinner party where you get to whisper in your senator or representative's ear for 2 hours.
I agree completely. I initially wrote that with a frame of “epitome of intelligence as we define/know it”, but felt that nuance wouldn’t sit well with most people or even register. Humans are extremely anthropocentric in their understanding of intelligence. A lot of my comments on HN actually pertain to this; I think animals are far more capable, competent, and intelligent than we give credit.

I see a sort of irony in that we’re often not intelligent enough to recognize intelligence in others, even within our own species.

But thanks for adding that. It’s a really important thing to consider. It actually feeds into the “smallness”, as well.
The Ashley Book of Knots (1944)
The Oral History of ‘Stop Making Sense’
And yet it’s wrong like all the rest
How to delay automation of your deployments and ruin your life
I fully agree about the newer ThinkPad keyboards. I wouldn't call them shitty, but after using the old ones it's such a step back. I use a key remapper to fix this stuff, currently using Xmonad which works very well (e.g., that dumb screenshot key is now the traditional menu key).
Rust supports more software engineering best practices than Go.

Some people say the learning curve for Rust is steep. But, in a way you're learning how to write safer code using the latest in language techniques.
I agree with the additional clarification that the interest of the business is somewhat the interest of the workers (and vice-versa).

My point is there exist many things that workers might want for their immediate benefit but shouldn't want because ultimately it will be bad for them via an unhealthy business and/or economy.
By making deuterium fuse with itself.
I jokingly thought to myself, when do we just move to Elixirscript?

And then, remembering that everything has already been invented, I found this:

https://github.com/elixirscript/elixirscript

You're welcome.
Get together with other employees and buy it from the owners.
I would equate it to a rabid badger that is behind a door behind another door with both having signs saying ‘beware of rabid badger’. If you want to play with the badger, go for it or just leave the doors shut and you never have to worry about it.
Exactly, creators should offer services in their community to people they know and people their friends know. I know there are multiple platforms that give people the ability to offer their services but they are based on good reputation and ratings which takes a long time to build. The idea behind Taskwer is to have a place where people who need to raise funds quickly, can come, create a campaign, offer services mostly to people they know and raise funds for their cause that way.
Both can be true: Big companies can lobby for protection and there being risk in the technology that broad diffusion creates additional risks.

Cat's out of the bag though - we're still trading mp3s decades after napster, this ghost won't go back into the bottle and realistically, most of the risks people flag are not AI risks, they are societal risks where our existing failure to regulate and create consensus have already gone past the red line (election interference, etc).
Isn't your assumption likely flawed? If 40% of Americans are obese and that's highly correlated with sleep apnea, why is it necessary they are over-prescribed?
Why is a non-profit or small business not capitalist? I feel like the latter, especially, is a weird stretch.

Shareholders can be convinced that a long term play may be less profitable today than it will be in a decade and opt to take that path. I’m not sure why that’s assumed to be prima facie untrue.

Is Uber or Door Dash not a company or mot capitalist? The latter especially appears to have no road to profit. If it’s not capitalist, by your definition, what is it? Why are its shareholders not replacing the board on a daily basis until someone makes it profitable?
> Spending my 20s in city, where I could walk to a bar/friend's house/restaurant/ball game, was a wonderful experience.

For many, living in a city like that can be just as isolating, if not more. Because being surrounded by so many people and not having any real connections is a different kind of hurt. It's sort of a cosmic joke at that point.
Yeah, this thread is a lightning rod for people demonstrating bad interpersonal relationships and it’s really cringeworthy considering what the age range of HN readers can be.
I'm an old man, and pretty much my entire adult life, we've had fusion energy as being "just ten years away."

Given this is the era of zero-consequence big lies, Nucor and Helion just shifting the horizon a bit to greenwash their operations.

I'll see it when I believe it.
I am a sysadmin who thought I wanted a numpad, but it turns out I want the desk space and ability to toss the keyboard to the side more.
I'm not that familiar with these alternatives. What's a good service provider you recommend for a persistent KV store?
Sometime back, I tried using clickhouse-keeper as zookeeper alternative with few other systems like kafka, mesos, solr, Wrote some notes here: https://pradeepchhetri.xyz/clickhousekeeper/
Reducing car dependency will increase social activity. Cars are isolating socially and geographically.

Everyone should try live car-free and see how much more connected to your community you'll become.
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You should not worry about AI problems by 2028. Dozens of millions worldwide will die from climate-related problems by that time. Literally, nobody will care about the topic of AGI anymore.