skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The market will solve this" only works with an idealized free market.

Labour is the very definition of an un-free market. Employees are looking for the very means to survive, while employers (especially ones like Tesla) are just looking for ways to make themselves even richer than they already are.

A free market, in the sense of "market theory", requires (among several other conditions, very few of which apply here) that what is being negotiated over is a commodity. Neither side can have their very existence at stake, and what's being traded can be swapped with another provider's version of it for no (or very low) cost.
Then you'd run into a lot more false positives, which ought to make LSH a non-starter for this application.
As an asset it sucks because it doesn't represent anything unlike stocks, index funds, real estate, art, magic cards, anime girl statues, antique junk.

As a currency it sucks because there's no reason to keep it stable because people treat it like an asset class so why would you want stability instead of growth?

As a technology it's literally a captain planet episode with bitcoin miners being literal villains turning pollution into money.

Like there was that one guy who ordered a pizza with it and that was cool because it was like dominos so a big company was like let's try this new technology blah blah blah. But there's simply not been a reason since to care unless you are trying to make a buck on a new hype train.

And that's the problem. Even if people pump it up to a million dollars a coin or whatever, it still doesn't represent anything. The only reason anyone cares about it is because they think it will make them money. That's it. There's nothing about it that connects what a cryptocurrency is to anything other then it being a cryptocurrency. Even national currencies have a connection to nation states. You believe in the United States ability to keep the dollar stable so you sell your oil in dollars. You believe in Norwegian economic growth so you sell your natural gas in kroner.
> "getting crushed by a wave of very low cost Chinese competitors"

That's an odd way of spelling "maintaining a stable market share in the face of Chinese competition".

Going forward, IoT security is going to be an increasingly important factor for new designs. The EU is quite serious about combating security problems with IoT devices. And security is something that the new products coming out of Nordic is very serious about.

I don't think many big, serious device manufacturers are willing to risk being the target of the first catastrophic IoT attack just to save some pennies on a dirt cheap Chinese design, with some poorly verified RISC-V core thrown in with a power hungry Bluetooth radio.

ARM TrustZone is not something the RISC-V ecosystem has a clear standardized answer to yet. So I think that's a reason why ARM will keep its role as the main application processor in high-end BT/Thread chips for the next several years.
For me vim is deadly as a touch typist. 'woops wrong mode oh dear what did I just do?! because I just typed in 30+ commands into vi'
EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts
Tarski's axioms for geometry are the standard example of a system which is both complete and consistent. It is even decidable - there is an algorithm which you can feed a statement and it outputs whether it is true or not.
No it's not. Don't even mind sketchy methodology, that number is just 13 years out of date.
> tourist trap

We visited Blue Lagoon on Monday. It’s definitely a tourist destination and slightly gimmicky, but overall we enjoyed it. It’s organized, relaxing, and a great photo op.

Maybe the term is fair if you’re expecting something “authentic locals” do, but it has none of the long lines, price gouging, or disgruntled staff of real “tourist traps” I’ve landed in.
Thanks. confirmed with chatgpt, and, if you're doing debug build, you probably do not want to use -flto, otherwise it's great for release build.
IMO, social media requires a relationship graph, e.g. friends/follows/subscriptions. HN doesn't have this so it's just a forum.
Making code that works on all primitives and accounting for nulls/empty each time is way more difficult than using a type system.

That’s the same argument people always use. “If you account for every case and also have 30 billion unit tests you can avoid all the problems”. The reality is, people don’t. They cut corners, they forget, or they simply make mistakes.

Not only that, debugging a system without types is a terrible experience, and IDEs don’t offer nearly the same level of refactoring support for untyped languages bc it gets very hard or impossible to infer what’s going on.

If it’s a personal project or a small script, untyped languages are fine. Any other scenario you should be using types
This is true in the US, too, but selectively and only really enforced in a meaningful way by a few states (including California). If you spend 30+ days in California for work reasons (visiting a employer's office would count, even if you're not on the clock when you do it) it triggers state income tax requirements. No fine, but equivalently unpleasant.
No, it creates social mobility for everyone. One example is that it’s now respectable to be a computer nerd in many circles the US, because some of the richest and most influential people of this generation are. In Sweden: not so much. Money and power stays were it has always been.
Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues
For me personally, my new theory is its an ADD thing. I'm older but recently came to fully appreciate how ADD my mind is, and how I've basically built many habits around coping with it. More recently I learned types is one of those things. I realized with types I can off load a ton of my working memory into the type system. I can bounce between ideas the way my brain wants me to without losing any state, because I'm always setting up the interfaces to the various thoughts I had. And the IDE knows how to take advantage of course, linking everything, popping up docs and hints and etc for every little idea. And so the result is it just matches my brain's natural patterns.

I still remember being quite shocked many years ago when I took a job using Java of all things, I was so fearful coding would take forever. It was my first typed language. But within months, I was faster, by a lot. I would write a lot more code before I had to test it, and once I began testing it there were few if any surprises. Now I'm working in Ruby, and without a debugger and constant tests, I feel I can't hardly get anything complex done in a reasonable amount of time. Like you I thought this was a hurdle that would pass, but while I'm far more effective than when I started, I find that its overall just mentally taxing to write code in this language.

Yet at the same time, when I pair with people who do not dislike Ruby, and watch them work, they are constantly asking "What is this" and "how does this work" and navigating parts of the codebase by grepping. They are effective, and I know its been studied a bit. But to my eyes, they would so obviously be far more effective with types, even when they state they dislike them, I just can't accept its a generally better approach in the absolute sense. I won't judge people for preferring a non-typed language. But I'll likely not accept another job where I can't use a typed language.
What do you call an economy where the central establishment keeps stubbornly giving consumers things they don't want?
EmotiVoice: A Multi-Voice and Prompt-Controlled TTS Engine
Not actually true.

The first year the Famine Relief provided by the British Government was better than anything anywhere else in Europe, (which was also affected).

The second and third years the pressure on the Treasury was such that Westminster wanted the rich Irish to also contribute, (Ireland wasn't subjected to the Income Tax being paid in Britain). The Irish refused and so in response Westminster dumped the problem of Famine Relief entirely on Irish local government, which was simply incapable to take on such a mammoth task.

(The reason why the Treasury couldn't afford to borrow the money required was that they had just recently borrowed huge sums of money to buy the freedom of all the slaves in the British Empire).
Well, yes. Good. We work the political, regulatory and legal systems to develop this utopia. I agree this is what we should be working towards. I am delighted by your optimism, it’s wonderful.

But, looking At Washington right now (for example), can you honestly see this happening anytime soon? I’m sorry, but I can’t.

I think we should think about how we can work around that gridlock, even if we’re just doing it to pressure the powers-that-be (government, banks etc) to do a slightly better job.
> choose to prioritise humans over the meaningless growth figures

Again, then you either need to invent your own currency and stop participating in the global economy or accept that Nordic welfare state will cease and we'll become akin to a soviet block economy in the next 50 yr timespan
The online school I’m attending is like this with its email. My options are to run the Outlook for Mac desktop app (which oddly seems to be a different beast than “new” Outlook on Windows) or keep Outlook webmail open in a tab. Not even Apple Mail via its Exchange support is permitted.

I ultimately landed on keeping the desktop app open to reduce browser clutter and for the icon notification badge so I don’t miss any important emails.
How else are they supposed to get your emails to train their ai models?
You're being downvoted currently, but anti-Communist sentiment was absolutely a big factor in the erosion of the power of unions over the course of the Cold War years.
Vers un modèle de langage dédié aux applications fiscales
Cabinets d'avocats, directions fiscales ou PME, les modèles de langage pourront, demain, simplifier la rédaction de documents juridiques, la création de modèles de simulation fiscale et la recherche documentaire afin de se concentrer sur des aspects plus stratégiques de leur travail.
One thing the article didn't mention is that a gaussian blur can be approximated with multiple passes of a box blur. Not sure how that would relate performance-wise to the discussed stack blur algorithm. The code would probably be a bit simpler, anyway.
Damn you are right, the problem is the people themselves that must be removed from society.

Institutional rot is people rot.
I need to think more on this.
It is public knowledge that fee drops to 25% after $10,000,000 and down to 20% after $50,000,000 in game gross revenue.
> Why on earth would we displace wildlife and thus rile up the nature conservationists when the parking lot real estate has already displaced the wildlife that was there?

Politicians probably don't like it because the construction riles up their constituents while it's happening.
Tangentially related: in Joe Haldeman's SF novel "The Forever War", at some point "stasis field generators" are added to the arsenal. They limit the maximum speed (of matter and photons) inside a small volume of space to less than 20 m/s (not counting the insides of specially shielded space suits). If you want to root out enemy troops holed up inside the field, you need to get in with bows, arrows, javelins and swords.
you mean, just like companies have it in the US? they also cooperate, to do things like suppress wages or fix prices. what's stopping them from getting whatever they want?
> I’ve yet to see anything that indicates [...] that Tesla employees themselves want a collective agreement with IF Metall.

I, uh, wonder how you arrive to this conclusion considering all the Tesla employees striking for this exact purpose? Admittedly it's not the employees themselves manning the picket lines, but that's for safety reason as bosses at Tesla has threatened to fire people who participate in the strike.
I don't get OP's comment either. The American economy has been mainly service-based. Designed by Apple, and made in China/India/Vietnam.
It's not a matter of time but of volume.
This is Google.

I'm really glad to see this today.

Yesterday, there was a blog from someone else who worked at Google after their company was acquired. The title promised it was describing working at Google, and the length made it feel very in-depth.

It wasn't, there was a few dog whistles you'd hear if you worked there, but it had that saccharine and acrid taste of "don't want to be accountable for anything I say here, so I just won't say anything".

I left last month after 7 years there. I'm not ready to talk about it in full, succinctly: "people are people everywhere all the time"
You should just use a coin tumbler from a secondary wallet whenever you're buying legal stuff. That way you never have to risk your main wallet.
Elton John told me that space is cold as hell. Presumably the ISS is putting its waste heat somewhere, but I don't really know the limitations of radiators in space.
VCPU, thread, core, node, socket. What do CPU terms mean these days?
It is what society deems beneficial. That is not necessarily what is the best possible outcome, to what you see being the best possible outcome.

I suggest nothing. That would require injecting my feelings towards the matter, and that would be in bad faith.
France, UK Seek Greater Regulation of Commercial Spyware
Space is around -270°C cold. The heat would dissipate so quickly, much better than even liquid nitrogen cooling.
> During a trip, psychedelics are silently doing something even more remarkable than warping reality: They are rapidly inducing a state of neuroplasticity, in which the brain can more easily reorganize its structure and function

Neuroplasticity is a goal in many psy{chologychal, chiatric, *} process. Avoiding not-good trips while having new synapses would be perfect.
To add to the other replies, the issue isn’t the manager wasted some corporation or billionaires money.

The issue is that if the manager had grown the team in a way that grew revenues and value they manager could have created more than 20 roles in the entire organization. Sometimes the manager with 5 engineers and a strong vision can create enough value to hire hundreds or thousands of people throughout the company.

The manager who empire builds often creates negative value. So they create jobs for 20 people. But these jobs contribute nothing. Someone’s work in the org went to pay for those 20 jobs, and they got sucked into a black hole. Worse they require support, interact throughout the company, distract from real valuable work. In the end they contribute negative value, and the manager employed 20 people at the cost of 3 people’s jobs that could have been created but never were, their employment cost -23 people’s worth of value and contributed zero.

Now in many organizations this leads to a promotion because they seem important for having so many employees. They create a role model for other less effective leaders. As they hire managers to work for them, they hire those that add people as fast as possible regardless of value production. Now they’ve created 200 jobs, at a cost of 30. But their emergent doppelgängers have formed 10 of them with 20 people, contributing -30 jobs as well. Now there are 400 created jobs, but -60 net jobs.

Eventually the company is overrun with empire builders. It’s a big company. There are a few highly profitable cash cow teams that are extremely competitive to get into and are largely left alone. The profits though of the entire enterprise are flat and inline with peers of similar size. Headcount makes the comping look like a giant of industry. But it’s half the size it could be if there had been focus on creating new and better value.

In my experience this is why Amazon employs nearly 2 million people and is hyperbolic in its growth over such a long time. While empire building certainly exists there is a lot of process to control for it. Hiring (generally) is well metered, and leaders (sometimes) are rewarded for their dynamism in business growth (not always, YMMV). It adds new businesses constantly and a lot (not all!) businesses do pretty well and if they don’t get shut down and people reassigned.

Google, well, listen. It’s got great benefits and the managers have some impressive empires with high salaries and a stable of smart people to tally up for their biography. But there are only a few successful businesses and god bless you if you can name one that’s launched in the last 10 years. But it is killing them.

Many companies don’t have the luxury of a wildly profitable cash cow like Google. They get overrun and whither away, sometimes really fast.

That’s how it’s like cancer. Not literal cancer, and cancer is a horrible disease not to make light of, but empire building represses job growth over the long term in exchange for rapid short term growth that ultimately kills the host entirely.
While you might be right, I suspect there will be some years of people doing chips in both ARM and RISC-V to trial balloon it and see how it goes. Most customers will already have ARM toolchain they'd just prefer to stick with.

But if it works out for them, I think it will be far more than a marketing play. Having control over the ISA and dropping the license fee while still getting access to industry standard toolchains, is too tempting.

ARM would not have gotten a $50B+ valuation if the license fee was seen as not a big deal.
Yes. Regardless of what the members want. In many Swedish unions the majority of members effectively have to sponsor their political opponents.
I run Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo t460 and Windows on a w540. On the t460, I see none of the problems you report. It is a reliable, solid, and fast system. On the w540 running windows, I see many of the problems you reported. Are you sure you are not running Windows??
One thing I used to do to every computer I owned was to turn the keyboard repeat rate up to the max. Made typing feel much faster.
Driving Lego Vehicles Up a Slippery Slope [video]
> Maybe something the Western competitors should learn from.

Back in the day our university was flooded with Atmel AVR kits.

I don't know about my university now, but many high schools now use BBC micro:bit kits, which uses Nordic Semi SoCs.
> Just a quirk of where the highways run?

Yes, most likely. According to this site [1][2][3], Illinois has almost double the wind generation capacity of Indiana. The average megawatts per site is almost 50% higher. Neither state holds a candle to Iowa, but again with Iowa most of those turbines aren't visible from an interstate.

EDIT - This wikipedia page [4] shows a list of large wind farms in the US. Sort it by capacity, and you'll see that the turbines you see on I-65 in Indiana are part of two adjacent farms that each are in the top 15 largest in the US and would be the second largest in the US if considered a single project.

[1] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=indian...

[2] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=illino...

[3] https://cleangridalliance.org/focus-areas/projects?gp=iowa&t...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_Unit...
I was so disappointed that this had nothing to do with the new Mario Wonder game. :(
Yeah, that leaves Python as the one still not shipping a JIT on the reference implementation.
Or, the sea floor, right? Most human settlement is near the ocean, go off the coast a bit and then down a couple hundred meters.
I don't think this sounds quite like my startup, but perhaps it was Reclaim.ai? Either way, would love for you to check it out :)
I don't know if I'd agree with that. Bowyers would spend years practicing and honing their craft as apprentices, the process to make a good bow usually involved weeks or months of labor. It wasn't as simple as finding a stick and curving it, there was boiling it, gluing it, layering different types of wood, each step of which could take days.

Meanwhile I can build a gun with not much more than a block of wood and a pipe, as for bullet availability. As a species we've produced a lot of those and a lot of them can be found in a lot of places, so I don't imagine a bow will become feasible until well after the collapse.
I thought the post was a sarcastic/joke submission, but after reading the comments I’m confused. I mean sure nice the idea is cool and I’m sure it’ll work better soon, but right now it’s hilariously bad. And we’re talking about a really simple operation.

There seems to be a trend in HN in general I’ve noticed of “it’s cool to be optimistic” and I don’t really like it. I mean sure I’m optimistic when it comes to human beings around me but when discussing technology and people who are out there to make money (or not) I don’t feel the need to be overly optimistic. Plus, competition is the very foundation of innovation and harsh honest feedback is a very important piece of the puzzle.
Solar farms have made it much cheaper to expand electricity production, but the point of this article is still true: efficiency gains in data centers have a compounding effect.
>Because that is forced obsolence and damaging for the environment, the computer from today should be perfectly usable in 4-5 years.

And for most users it will be. If we're talking "forced obsolence" Apple is probably the last to blame, given their stuff retains high ratio of original-vs-resale value (meaning they have long second hand careers).
Because of the cheap power available in poor western provinces that can be harnessed for the compute needs of wealthier eastern provinces? https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-179-the-east-west-compu...
> We also have a work culture were effort and ability is not rewarded (which at least I associate with strong unions), but “playing politics” is.

To me that sounds like your typical large company. I've had a great time working at small startups but I've found that my job satisfaction pretty much scales with the inverse of company size (within limits, it seems 20-30 employees is the sweet-spot for me).
Not really, we got over 10k signups since the HN post and now wanted to share again since it's ready
Jezebel was a cancer that promoted dehumanization.
The people who worked there deserve jail for the hate they spread into the world.
> I regularly saw Dock and Finder leak and eat gigabytes of RAM each

Make sure to view "Real mem" in Activity Monitor. That's the amount of data actually stored in your RAM, the rest being swapped out. That number can be quite small, even for apps that theoretically use a lot of memory.

I have found Docker to be an "actual" memory hog with not much of it being swapped out, but could imagine that it would be possible in the case of Finder.
Even earlier, starting in the 20s if memory serves well.
Don't think it's generational. I'm 41 and had the same take.

I think the core of it is that I internalized a (supposedly) fundamental hacker aesthetic of autonomy, and it seems the culture traded that away for a needy, zero sum, external-validation-needing void.

Now we're told that we really should be working on our brands, amassing our GitHub stars, and other bullshit that is wholly orthogonal to actually building cool stuff. Cause who wants to do that when the rewards are uncertain? Follower counts are what really matters, this is the attention economy, and you can't be left behind!
Is falling back to USB a good idea? It seems like if it’s public knowledge that they’ll use removable media as a backup transfer system, it’d open a whole new attack vector for other systems.
I use Windows for work because that's what corporate likes. But at home I've been running only Linux on laptops and desktops since 2006. In 2020, I switched my mom's home computer to linux. It's been a joy.

Why does anyone use Windows at home anymore? I guess gaming is still an issue?