skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean waste is probably a source of inflation but lots of it just comes from unrestrained profit-seeking behavior. If a company believes it can raise its prices without impacting sales, it will do that. That's why so many massive corporations posted record-breaking profits during the recent bouts of inflation.
Non-hormonal birth control: Antibodies can stop sperm in their tracks
What’s a 4x4 engine?
But they’re not EMERGENCIES
> I said we very much do

Do we (as a society/species) though? If we cared about climate change we'd be doing something about climate change. And we're really not.

Everybody cares about somebody else making changes in their life to reduce pollution but how many people actually make meaningful change in their own lives?

And if you ask somebody to consider drastic change in their own life – driving as little as possible, never flying in airplanes, buying significantly less stuff in general, not having kids, not eating meat, living in apartments rather than single-family homes, etc. they'll just say the corporations are the problem and anything they do wouldn't matter at all.

I'm kind of at the point where I say we just all let our own metaphorical 4x4 engines run and see what happens. Most of us reading this will be long dead before anything heinous happens to us (or we're wealthy enough to be insulated enough from the effects to where we'll get by OK).
Then stop engaging with the content, and when it does show up use the "Not Interested" feature. You have control over the content you're shown.
Having worked in the finance industry, I'm glad that my compensation no longer works that way.

In years with good recruitment or lean profits or really whenever the hell the bosses feel like, the company will stiff everyone in the back office on their bonus compensation regardless of performance and make some weak promises about how next year will be better. Everyone competent will leave for other companies, or if they're smart and competent other industries.
> If you're at Volvo with a collective bargaining agreement that probably makes it harder for Volvo to lay you off or fire you.

I've never seen that stop Volvo from mass layoffs when sales are bad?

But sure, unfounded firings seem to be rare.
Wow, that’s exceptionally unhelpful. It hasn’t been my experience, but this mirrors my experience with fly. I guess we’re never safe, haha.

I’ve had several projects of varying complexity running with excellent uptime, both on the apps platform and on plain old droplets, for longer than I can say with certainty. Close to 8 years I guess. I might just be lucky, but in that time I really can only remember the one unexpected outage.
I think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.
Oh, look at the tortured path that .io dollars take, since it's technically a TLD for an occupied country, being operated by someone (Ethos Capital) with no connection to or permission from the original or current inhabitants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#History
Can you elaborate on how users are the product for Spotify?
Not sure this kind of rhetoric ever worked. As far back as I have followed the news - so perhaps for 35 years - it was about to be too late. We were at the brink of a catastrophe. Humankind had to do something now. Tomorrow, it would be too late.

Look, global warming exists, it's (at least partially) man-made, and that's really bad.

But it's one issue out of many man-made or man-fixable issues. Fighting poverty is another. Curing diseases like malaria is also important. Curbing starvation. Spreading democracy and the rule of law. Then there are women's rights. Education. Racism. Avoiding WWIII. I am sure I forgot many large issues. How do we prioritize? Do we have to prioritize or can we deal with all of them at once?
Is the main motivation for these groups notoriety?

In particular this group was created before I was born, which makes me extremely curious about what makes them keep going this long.
Is nitpicking a statistic the strongest argument you can muster against climate change, or is there a good argument that the planet is not heating up more rapidly than we have been able to observe in human history and with ice core samples?
Or you can have a competitive market where you just take your skills to a different employer. You're essentially just describing making the union a middle man to what you could on your own if you have marketable skills.
Raspberry Pi is many things today. The foundation is indeed focused on education, but the company behind it has a much broader focus and sells many (most?) of their devices to commercial customers, where 2x4k outputs might be beneficial, e.g. in digital signage applications.
He is probably thinking about venture capital backed firms or high risk ventures like movies or games, there it you can't have it be worker owned and workers getting paid since there is no revenue until later, worker pay comes from the owners pocket.

In a business with stable income it makes perfect sense though, like doctors or consulting firms.
>Seems like the previous landlord was naïve, or at least operating on an outdated worldview where local reputation mattered

Or maybe was an individual with a conscience who didn't want the old couple that had been in their property for 30 years living on the street. I guess you could call that naivety though.
> “We were actively told if we start to talk about solutions, if we start to talk about the policy implications of our work, we will have abandoned our supposed ‘scientific neutrality,’” Gill said. “And then people will not trust us anymore on the science.”

This is basically correct, and it is the thing that every climate activist does not seem to understand.

When you start treating your favored issue in moralistic terms, and insisting that it's an emergency that must be acted upon now, then you have entered into the realm of political economy. You're now making a statement that the issue you're advocating for is more important than other issues, and people take umbrage with that.

It may seem obvious at first glance that if we're careening towards 1.5C with myriad and unknown feedback loops that might lead to ecological disaster, we should stop emitting carbon, and pretty quickly. We only have six years.

Except to do that, we have to end almost all transportation, reduce electricity usage substantially, stop using all concrete, stop flying airplanes, stop eating beef, stop using petrochemical fertilizers, etc. It is not an exaggeration to say that billions of people would die within 12 months.

You might complain and say, my goodness, we've had fifty years to be reducing these things, of course we can switch to sustainable energy and materials. But we didn't. So now we have to decide what's most important, and if it's your position that the most important thing right now is to stop emitting carbon -- or even by half, within six years -- then your position is utterly insane and divorced from reality, because yes, many people will die as a direct result.

And if you associate yourself with the position that "we have to take immediate and drastic cuts that will cause huge numbers of people to quickly die," then people might get upset with you.
From the developer POV, the difference is on the interface. And while we have all kinds of tools to help us keeping a monolith in sync and correct, the few tools we have to help with IPC can not do static evaluations and are absolutely not interactive.

From the ops POV, "deploy is more complex" is a large understatement. Each package is one thing that must be managed, with its own specific quirks and issues.
This is not a topic where bias is possible. There are people like you advancing known false narratives from con artists and regurgitating workshopped slanders in an attempt to muddy the waters. And then there is an overwhelming majority of subject matter experts.
Billions of people will die regardless. As far as I know, no homo sapiens has yet lived forever.
most ads I see on Instagram don't want my clicks. They want me think of a Rolex watch or a new BMW car by injecting themselves between the content
I knew that FLT was FairLight and TRSI was TriStar?
The education part is tinkering with hardware and linux.
Andrew Ng would be inclined to agree.

"There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source, so they're creating fear of AI leading to human extinction," he told the news outlet. "It's been a weapon for lobbyists to argue for legislation that would be very damaging to the open-source community."

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-google-brain-big-t...
This isn't PIP on TV but I use the PIP feature on MacOS ALL THE TIME! It's so handy with Youtube videos. Just open in Safari, two-finger click and then two-finger click again to open the OS menu and go into PIP.

Hope this helps someone!
Yea. Used to work in a warehouse and it was almost a competition to see who could do the least amount of work without getting fired. My manager was partaking in said competition and it lead to me losing my job because she was rarely around and basically caused our shift to become less profitable by encouraging everyone to slack off. This was all during college so not a huge blow but it was a "wtf" moment.
both have nefast and tied consequences
There is a type of advertising called "brand advertising" where the goal is more about brand awareness (e.g. think of a Coca-Cola superbowl ad) than "direct response advertising". Such advertisers don't really care if you click on ads, but they still want to reach high-value users.
I didn't have any sedation or other medication when I had a colonoscopy (in Norway). It was uncomfortable but not painful.
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Any body which is delegated authority will push it as far as possible, until legally challenged, and then just keep doing it anyway. That's what the Biden admin did with regards to student loans and rent moratoriums.

In this case, they are framing AI as a homeland security threat, among other things possibly, to give themselves the latitude to create new regulations.

We could complain about this being out of scope, but that ultimately needs to be decided by the judicial system after folks with standing sue or, ideally, the legislative branch could pass more guidance on to what extent this falls within the delegated authority.
Since the OP excluded "at work" then what's to stop one from hooking up to another network and cleaning browser cache? (maybe a few other things. I'd have to look up what EFF recommends for privacy) I even forgot that I have a "PrivacyScan" app on MacOS that cleans up a lot, and improved over previous versions. (I got a new computer, and am installing apps one by one)

I'd be more concerned by Google and the like, that keep browsing history "forever" unless you delete it, and even then "For limited purposes, like business or legal requirements, Google may retain certain types of data for an extended period of time."

At work, in their network, you've got to play by their rules.
Your work equipment may be locked down by management software (and spy on you, even at home? It was done to schoolkids.)

Given the complexity, I agree with the "get your own gear" posters. After all (sarcasm coming) Porn belongs in the home, not at work.
Going through the procurement process itself results in massive delays (have you tried bidding on a federal government contract?), a race to the bottom (since the government more or less has to accept the lowest bid), and massive overspecification by policy writers (mostly to try to salvage some quality from these RFPs).

Echoing that Recoding America is a great book to read even if you have nothing to do with the federal government. You might see some similarities in how large companies operate.
Except the model was fitted on people from the same period in the same region.

Also, Ethiopian runners would be a counterargument. It's just reading way too much in a model that probably was there before the data. Seeing how everybody defends it as "learning", the example was sought to be described by the model.
Did openAi ever publicize how many params GPT-4 had?
That might be an interesting experiment. Poll people on a large scale about dozens of minuscule moral issues that can be determined as GOOD or EVIL, then try to assemble more complex moral issues out of these building blocks. You could end up with some sort of statistical model of morality.
Really? Facebook, while not the worst or most tasteless ads, are overwhelmingly scammy in my feed.*

"Going out of business" sales for fast fashion websites only a month old. Crowdfunding projects which obviously are just clones other products. Items with a slick video which if you buy them from any other place, they cost half to a third the price.

*last I used Facebook for any significant amount of time, which has been a while.
Yes so effectively its not possible right now unless massive changes happen at UAW.
> "America's global brain drain might have been the single most effective strategy"

The website has a section titled "Bring your AI Skills to the U.S.", and then a button with this label "Learn about pathways to work in the U.S.".

This is very encouraging. And it reminded me of Eric Schmidt's recommendation on this topic [1], which was published on the final report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence:

Chapter 10. Page 178:

"Nations that can successfully attract and retain highly skilled individuals gain strategic and economic advantages over competitors." [...] "Unfortunately, international students in the United States are increasingly choosing to study in other countries or return home. One reason is the growing backlog of green card petitions. Indian immigrants face a particularly long wait. Many will spend decades on constrictive work visas waiting to receive their green cards, hindering both the technology sector’s ability to recruit talent and Indian immigrants’ quality of life."

The report recommends to focus on building better Immigration Policies. Maybe this .gov initiative listened to the advice from the report.

[1]: https://www.nscai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Full-Report...
This feels a bit like saying that the opioid epidemic is due to drug users buying more. Sure, all of them made a decision at some point to start using. But that doesn't remove the responsibility of those pushing the product to at least allow users to say "please stop" and then actually stop.
Next years chip with twice the power budget wining a first party benchmark is the status quo; it would only be news if this did not happen.
If you don't have a linear map in mind, why do you write your dot products with one set of column vectors and another set of row vectors? Computationally, the best way to do dot products would be to walk all of your arrays in contiguous memory order, so the row/column thing is an unnecessary complication. And if you have more than 2 matrices to multiply/"steps of dot products to do in a pipeline", there's almost certainly a relevant interpretation as linear maps lurking.

Outer products are one way to define a "simple" linear map. What SVD tells you is that every (finite dimensional) linear map is a sum of outer products; there are no other possibilities.
That does not look like the most journalistically rigorous site the mentioned article is from "Energy Talking Points", I suspect it's a shill for the "energy" (read fossil fuel) industry, based on a random selection of their other article titles:

- How today's global anti-fossil-fuel agenda is crippling American small businesses

- An open letter to Elizabeth Warren on natural gas prices

- Talking Points on the dangerous falsehood that "Climate change is a public health issue"

I'm open to examining the science, but I don't appreciate equating the views of an industry insider or someone with an axe to grind with what a much more broad consensus of scientists have to say about climate change.

Especially when there's a _very_ clear financial incentive for the "energy" industry to continue business as usual. Qui bono?
I used to have a number of private equity clients when I was still working at a firm.

Private equity's business model is to profit from the destruction of people's livelihoods. PE partners are the most immoral people I have ever met (and for comparison, I used to work as a public defender representing murderers and sex offenders). If they could make a dollar by murdering a baby, most of them would do it with a smile.

Yes, there are the occasional accidental success stories like Staples. But they overwhelming majority of PE stories are viable companies being ripped apart for their "valuable assets" or saddled with crushing debt to fund the acquisition of the company and/or dividend payouts to their new PE owners.
Start with a clip-on macro lens for your smartphone. See if you find it fun to actually frame and adjust your shots, and to patiently find good subjects. If you don't enjoy those parts, I wouldn't bother getting a digital camera. You'll want to spend well over $1k on a dedicated setup if you're going for macro photography and you already have a smartphone, so experiment before diving in!

I did phone-only for about 2 years before getting a nice lens and decent camera (the lens is the important part). I wouldn't say you need to spend that long, but if it doesn't become a hobby without a dedicated camera, it won't become a hobby with one.
Hm. I think maybe you're using "system" to mean a different thing than I am? I thinking of "the system" as the thing that is executing in production - it provides the business behavior we are trying to provide; there is a larger "system" surrounding it, that includes the processes and engineers, and the CI/CD pipelines - it too has an "architecture", and _that_ architecture gets (moderately) more complex when you add CI/CD. Is that where our communication is clashing?

Because the complexity of that outer system is also important, but there are a few very major differences between the two that are probably too obvious to belabor. But in general, architectural complexity in the inner system costs a lot more than it does in the outer system, because it's both higher churn (development practices change much slower than most products) and higher risk (taking production systems offline is much less permissible than freezing deployments)
Hi Rob! Miss the DW days. Hope you’re well.
Those legal rights are gained from being organized workers. No business wants a union. Thats the point.
Huge numbers of people are going to die regardless at this point, we’re simply arguing the mechanisms by which the outcome is arrived at. We waited too long to make meaningful changes to positively impact carbon trajectory and planetary boundaries [1], everyone lived on proverbial credit (draining resources faster than sustainable), and everyone is unhappy the bill came due that sophisticated participants knew would come. Oh well (not glib, just a realist).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38065125 (citations)
All of those issues inevitably will get worse or be triggered by a runaway global warming scenario.
"Monolith first."

Also, call stack can go pretty deep. You can't go deep with microservices. Everything has to be first hop or you risk adding latency.

Also, transactional functionalities become lot more challenging to implement across services and databases because it's blasphemous to share database among Microservices.
Yes, bad things will happen, but we should be making them harder, not easier.
> Facebook or Google does not sell your data.

Really? And they keep shadow profiles out of the goodness of their hearts? That data can't be used for advertising directly, but it sure is lucrative to _somebody_.

> It's literally against their own interests

Their only interest is increasing profits, by any means necessary. Selling parts of the data they collect is not a one-time transaction, but a subscription. So it's not like they're giving away their secret sauce.

> There's FTC, and EU regulations that govern big tech...

Please, that's such a naive take. Governments have been far too slow and lenient to enact and enforce regulations, partly because they're in a symbiotic relationship with Big Tech.

Besides, the FTC regulates a minor aspect of what makes Big Tech harmful. EU leads the way in regulations, yet it's still far behind the schemes these companies pull.

> I'd except better from Hacker News Readers...

There's a downvote button you can express your dissatisfaction with. :)
We have a solution for virtual thread as well. Currently working on a blog post describing exactly how. Will update once releases
I think the intent is less to have people actually pay for it, and more to use it as justification for their tracking on the users who won't pay for it.
What would you expect astronomers to do if there's a building-sized asteroid headed for Earth in 40 years and the response so far has been to build a handful of bunkers and now there's 6 years left to build the complicated spaceship that needs to save the remaining millions living in the region where it's going to hit?

I understand the idiology of science existing in a abstract realm detached from reality and politics, but also, I can't fault them from feeling the heat under their feet. Climate change is not existential for us, but it's gonna suck and can be entirely prevented if you can only somehow get through to people

> And if you associate yourself with the position that "we have to take immediate and drastic cuts that will cause huge numbers of people to quickly die," then people might get upset with you.

People got upset with Nelson Mandela also, enough to lock him up for 27 years. I wonder if he'd say today he'd rather not have made people upset to help solve a big problem
> by the 1990s we had civilians manufacturing and releasing sarin gas in subways and detonating trucks full of fertilizer.

How does actual and potential harm from these incidents compare to harm from common traffic accidents / common health issues / etc? Perhaps legislation / government intervention should be based on harm / benefit? Extreme harm for example might be caused by a large asteroid impact etc so preparing for that could be worthwhile...
It's actually George's idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYWZhN8Yks
I haven't bought any in a while, but looks like the Pi Zero W is in stock and available for $10 at Microcenter. Other sellers seem to have them in stock for $15. So isn't there already a widely available Pi in stock for under $20?
I mean I guess if you don't go to the airport or any hotels for ten years it might be possible to miss it as well. Every hotel offers it, the airport has plenty of signs, and the actual people on bikes and motorcycles with trailers moving the bags are _all over_ the place.
Well said Mr. Founder. I think the best that can be wished for, would be the pi-hat/screws/case/etc plus a howto & code. perhaps you could explore the ce vs. pro version (ce being dated, less feature rich than pro. By getting your tech in the hands of thinkerers/homelab-builders, you will ensure once they get into the enterprise, they willa dvocate for paid products from you.
This and The Scene Is Dead[1][2] are some truly extremely memorable 64k intros. I immediately thought of them when I saw this on the frontpage here.

[1]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59105

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXIGHOElrE
There are a tiny number of major labels that control music rights. Presumably they are interested in listening data. Also Spotify free tier has ads so it's the same as any other social network in terms of fingerprinting.
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I see a company like Palantir also being active in that space.

Related to this, I seem to remember that there were talks about some start-ups doing this kind of stuff on millions of people’s profiles, this was before Cambridge Analytica, I wonder what happened to them. A former colleague of mine (very smart guy) ended up working for one those start-ups back in the day (2013-2014), that’s how I first learned about their existence and about their business model.