skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did it lead to the decline of the Ottoman Empire? China had the printing press for centuries before anyone else and on a per capita basis was not substantially better off or more powerful. Europe did overtake the Ottomans after they adopted the printing press, but a lot of other stuff happened as well and it was only centuries after the adoption that Europe began to match the Ottomans.

Obviously in western culture that evolved subsequent to the printing press easy publishing has become critical to how we live our modern lives and it's easy to draw a line connecting those dots, but it does not necessarily follow that the printing press either triggers or is a prerequisite for industrialization.

Even if the printing press was a major contributor to Europe's rise, that's not quite the same thing as the Ottoman's decline. Europe was eventually in a position to deal a deathblow but the Ottoman Empire had a lot of issues for a long time prior to its end (which coincided with several European empires as well). Perhaps the printing press could have helped some of these issues, but it's not at all clear it would have done more good than harm.
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Not obvious. Seems like if it can be corrected with microcode just have people use updated microcode rather than litter the kernel with fixes that are effectively patchable software problems.

The accepted fix would not be trivial to anyone not already experienced with the kernel. But more important, it obviously isn’t obvious what is the right way to enable the workaround. The best way is to probably measure at boot time, otherwise how do you know which models and steppings are affected.
Malaria is a good example. It used to be endemic in the southeastern United States but was eradicated within a couple of decades - not by billionaire philanthropy, but by a robust government-managed public health effort:

> "Malaria affected 30 percent of the population in the region when the TVA was incorporated in 1933. The Public Health Service played a vital role in the research and control operations and by 1947, the disease was essentially eliminated."

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...

In the absence of basic local public health infrastructure and disease monitoring and response agencies, i.e. government services, malaria eradication is highly unlikely and all the mosquito nets in the world won't change that.
I did, but it was a surprisingly close thing!

My friend and I were recruited for a counterintelligence spot that paid a $35,000 re-enlistment bonus at the time. I just couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger and stay in.

My friend stayed for another two enlistments before getting out. His stories convinced me I made the right decision. He now has a very lucrative related job in the private sector while I shifted gears entirely.
You can only meaningfully determine that if you assume the die is more-or-less the same between the two versions. It is not; the M3 Pro has many changes, the perf/efficiency core ratio is different, they have different amounts of per-core cache, max clock rate, etc. That gets bigger as you move away from the CPU cores (e.g. the GPU is a big architecture change.)

For example, the M3 Pro has 6+6 P/E cores, versus the M2 Pro's 8+4. That is a big change that impacts performance, but can only be truly measured "globally" on a specific workload. The M3 Pro does do better for many workloads despite that. Maybe we could assume the improvement in transistor density gave them enough performance uplift, they were able to get rid of 2 P cores and still come out ahead. Does that mean that 3nm is "bad"? No, it meant it was good enough that it allowed them to make a different tradeoff.

"How much uplift comes from this one exact thing" is not really a super simple question to answer in this case, unfortunately, and there are many factors to control for.
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It’s not a ui problem per se.

it is a problem of shitty developers responsible for critical decisions.

Unfortunately they are everywhere.

Every a little bit advanced internet user face the pain 12 times a day.
I'm happy to hear it.
We should EV even harder
Then there’s microwaves and other timers.

Punching in “99” will run much longer than “100”.
Nice try, but my complaint illustrates the issue. Im not complaining about white button text, Im complaining about the awful UX of "twitter threads", which all of the twitter clones seem to have blindly adopted, instead of taking the opportunity to improve on it.
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I think this is one piece of the puzzle absolutely. I also think companies try to compensate for this blurring of boundaries by offering so many wellness benefits - and perhaps it's asking employees to frequently turn inward and evaluate emotions too often (or in the wrong setting).

I find that when I'm focused on myself, I feel worse. When I'm focused on others, I feel better. I find that when I'm self-evaluating, I feel worse. When I'm assessing my next goal, I feel better.

As a people manager, I certainly do spend time building relationships, but in a 1:1, I never mine for "how are you doing?" information. I almost always focus on 1) making it clear what the goal is; 2) offering help in supporting achieving that goal (so they gain new skills).
Literally the same experience as me. I had not been to UG since I started my career as a dev. I now have thoughts and opinions about the internet. UG goes against basically every single one of them.

I honestly don't understand why it ended up like that. Did they really have that much trouble monetizing the largest collection of community-made content for guitar playing? Did YouTube eat their lunch in that regard? I imagine they had editorial staff for the articles (going off my 12+ year out of date memory), was that what was costing them so much? I really have no clue.
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For "expedited" retrieval it is $0.01 per request plus $0.03 per GB. Doesn't seem like a fortune. And there are retrieval options for 1/10th the cost.
Back when I worked in the incredibly dysfunctional video game industry, it was common for various key technical people to become soured over the course of the 18 months of 7 day weeks... After they'd threatened to quit multiple times, extorted the studio for as much raise as the studio could afford... they'd call me in to be the guy that talks his attitude down for the duration of the remainder of the production. I have the skills to evaporate anguish, overt aggression, and talk pragmatic sense into people pushed over the edge. You may have heard of the incredibly stressful day to day working at EA Sports; several of those games in the 90's were in serious risk of never completing because the team were going to kill one another - then they called me in.
> These tests aren’t intended to be purposeful in any way, nor to represent anything that real-world code might run

Seems like a strange test then..

Can anyone speak to performance regarding programming?

My 2017 macbook pro is good enough for a lot of things (running java locally, node with nodemon), but slows down for anything native app (xcode) related and running a Docker container with >1GB memory. That's where I'd love to have some improvement
What you are failing to comprehend is that the United States has a policy of enforcing international naval freedom, and routinely transits international waters near many nations. The US has no issue with any vessel's location in international waters, regardless of what nation.
I am on Medicare, and ever since 2007 It’s gotten worse and worse and worse to the point now or I can no longer get care or the test because doctors are so afraid of not getting reimbursed from Medicare.
That is some really heavy-handed cherrypicking to justify an opinion. The entire concept is nonsense, summed up in one sentence:

This book … is both about the science of why there is no free will and the science of how we might best live once we accept that

First of all, if you have no free will, then it doesn't matter how you live, or want to live, or try to live, because you aren't in control. Right off the bat we can stop reading. But more than that, this suggests that you can decide how you live, despite not having free will. So what's the point of free will? Practically speaking there must be no point, so there's no point to this book.

Second, the definition of "free will" is always subjective, because the concept is imaginary. There is no such thing as "will". It's a word used to describe the resulting actions which can be derived from a biological being's desire to act. It's not an action in itself, nor a physical thing; it's metaphysical. It's nonsense humans made up, like morality, ethics, right and wrong, God, etc. And the "freeness" of this imaginary concept is, again, subjective, based on what constitutes "freedom" to you. So what you consider to be "free will" is different than what I consider it. And even if we came to the same conclusion, it still doesn't matter, because you can't eat metaphysics.

Third, like the second, is that how we might "best live" is again subjective and based on not just ethics, but practical considerations. How you "best live" is gonna be different from someone halfway around the world. Even if you have free will, your form of "living" is subjective.

Science really has nothing to do with this discussion other than to provide the tailoring for this Emperor's new clothes. If you want to talk about living well, or free will, just make anything up you want. It will have the same validity.
People don't want $60k+ Fords and Chevys.
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Was just listening to a local news interview on this with a staffer and it always amazes me what's often not said in these press releases and temporary websites etc is that they have NO EMAIL. A huge blocker to contacting people, getting anything done etc. The staffer sounded flabergasted and was like, "we have no way to communicate with staff other than this giant 'call sheet' of phone numbers I have". And what do they want to communicate to the staff? "keep all devices turned off" --- Turned off? Like they're haunted? Uggh. Unplug from network maybe. Could still be used as a document device, they're using pen and paper to manage library ops!
The problem is that word games have real consequences. Word games can dehumanize groups and make it easier to justify atrocities. If free will exists, then retributive torture is easy to morally justify.
It's community content however due to UG's monetization they are subject to tablature licensing rules (hence why some artists can't be found on there).

If you were to gain attention hosting their scale of tabs, you would likely run into legal hurdles pretty quickly.

For example a full archive of most sites dating back to the 90s already exists here: https://tabarchive.mikethetech.com/index.php. However he does not have permission to actually share it.
This is true for all social media not just X.
EV adoption is still increasing. The rate of increase has decreased.
agree - well said. Also here is another simple aspect.. a ChatGPT transcript recently showed "as an AI, I do not have access to library collections or external databases" ... several times in a session on certain technical topics. So obviously, hooking up to actual library services for document retrieval, or API calls for actions.. is a giant competitive topic, and not-less a safety topic.
is it the model that made it really fast?
> Mitsotakis' plan for the sculptures is extremely self-serving and overall sucks for Greece.

What is the plan?
And, perhaps, men placing a higher emphasis on those issues in their self-evaluation.
That's sad because the old timers generally have a lot of wisdom to share. They are usually also the ones at that stage in life where they are willing to mentor someone.
Way to cap a nascent industry before it even finishes being born.

We have no idea what cultivated meat can taste like, how healthy it can be, and how cheap it can become. Right now there is a handful of research-based companies trying to make the thing, and none really succeeded at anything.
This should be super obvious. Too many people who don't do what I want and also stop me from doing what I want. You'd have to be a Zen master or something to not be ticked off by that over time. OTOH, that's why it's called work and you get payed for it.
YouTube Vanced until last year. Ad-free youtube client not distributed through the play store. Super popular as it gave youtube premium features for free.
Is discrimination against lepers a moral failing?
I don't think AMD does microcode updates for performance issues do they? I thought it was strictly correctness or security issues.

If the vendor won't patch it, then a workaround is the next best thing. There shouldn't be many - that's why all copying code is in just a handful of functions.
Obviously this would happen, and most obviously they will win. It's a blatant and intentional breaking of the law.
sounds like you found someone new to pray for
sometimes you just don't have the full context on the situation. I used to work with a systems dev manager who was notorious for getting mad, yelling, and questioning every little detail whenever an external team went to him for launch signoff. at first, I thought the guy was just an asshole. what I gradually figured out was that the application teams had been outright lying about designs, fabricating test results, and only involving him at the last second to launch a pile of trash on the critical infrastructure he was responsible for. this had been going on for years and resulted in several major outages.

sure, he could probably have been a bit more diplomatic instead of blowing his stack every time, but there's only so much a person can take.
One difference is that Twitter no longer shows threads to logged-out users, while Mastodon does. If someone posted the same thread to both sites, the Mastodon one would be better to link to.
Oh, no doubt, but the parent's comment about a potential flipover in 2027; that is, in my opinion, with the sources cited, wildly optimistic.

I am personally in the camp that believes, because of the geographic area of the United States and people's families (very different if all your friends live in Spain, and you live in Spain, versus California to Chicago); EV adoption in the US will be much more strained than Europe or China (as in China, 60% of the population lives in 12 coastal provinces and most of the family stays together). I could see the US easily being a decade or more behind, not because we're stupid or backwards or lazy, but because our requirements are different.

For the US; I think Plug-in Hybrids are a fantastic option that should be encouraged. They completely kill the arguments or concerns about range anxiety; and, what, 80%-90% of all miles travelled will be electric? Don't let perfect be the enemy of very good; especially when far more people would be willing to sign up. I think it's fine and reasonable to get 80% of the way there with broad adoption, wait a decade or so for EV technology to be even better and go further to where nobody has concerns, and then transition to 100%. Forcing people into premature technology ruins first impressions and sets stereotypes that will never die.
Related discussions from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439794
The same as it's always been. You've just been redpilled. Just as usual, as it's always been since you were alive; its the way your brain is shaped and connected.
I mean there is the third option which is “Don’t use Meta”.
Good luck finding a sedan for less than $30k, manufacturers are only making expensive cars if they make any. They seem to think the market wants those FX50's or SUVs, but that's because they can charge a lot more for them. Well, they can charge that, but as we see, the vehicles just sit in lots at this point.
> overtake the Ottomans ... began to match the Ottomans

this seems like "too broad a brush" for a meaningful discussion
Fake news. It was in 1949, and it was Bugs Bunny! Here's the evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_9U1NH6Mj4

I grew up watching these cartoons (much later, in the 80s). I had read this article before, but I never thought of looking up which came first, the cartoon or the actual event - I had always assumed the cartoon was contemporary to, and inspired by, the actual event. Now it turns out the cartoon predates reality by 20 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Rabbit
The main takeaway in this article, which I agree with, is distributed / remote work for all of its benefits also comes with occupational hazards which manifest as mental vs. physical problems so it's more difficult to understand, quantify, and do something about them.
One way I mistake-proof things in SQL Management Studio is to have different colors for production vs test databases.

To do that, on the "connect to server" dialog, click "options". On the tab "connection properties" in the "connection" option group, check "use custom color". And I pick the reddest red there is. The bottom of the results window will have that color.

edit: my horrible foul-up was restoring a database to production. The "there is trouble" pagers were all Iridium pagers since they loved climbing mountains (where there was no cell service back then). But then that place didn't use source control, so it was disasters all the way down.
Paperless was a project and then it died, so it got forked to Paperless NG (Next Generation). Paperless NG died off and it got forked again to Paperless NGX.

At least that is my understanding following the Paperless project over the years.
This has to be the most American thing I read on HN this year.
> I hate to break it to you, but there is no doctor’s order that say you must buy anything, it is perfectly fine to exist without consuming

That's a very extreme Hobson's choice. Sure there's no "doctor's order," but you can't actually do that without being a subsistence farmer or hunter-gatherer. And you'd have to be a squatter, because if you own land you'll have to pay taxes on it, and there's no way you're going to be able to do that without buying anything in the broader economy.
I agree. No one can tell me there’s any state of mind they can be in where they want to die by suicide. That is a mildly healthy state. Pain and suffering are no excuse to die by suicide.

People do not know what it means to say “if I was suffering, I would just kill myself“ to someone who lives with the mental illness and his homeless. Because mid 50s and that’s me. So you’re literally giving me the OK to kill myself.
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The NumPy library doesn't utilize Python's C layer for its memory management.

Instead, it maintains its own memory space. Consequently, transferring data from the Python environment into NumPy or vice versa is relatively slow.

The process of opening a file and travesing its data within Python relies heavily on the C code behind the scenes, resulting in near-C performance.

However, if one were to write an algorithm along the lines of LeetCode - one that has a time complexity of n*2 - Python's performance will be slower compared to other languages. This difference could range from a factor of one to potentially even a hundred.
> failure is not an option — it comes pre-installed

Love this. Whenever people say “failure is not an option”, I get the sense that they don’t really understand how the universe works. It’s like saying “entropy is not an option”. Uh...
They might be telling that to the administration, but the problem is apparently not so severe as to get them to drop their prices. I'll believe them when I see deep dealer discounts on EVs.
> write a program that exhibits "free will".

A bit more detailed spec would be really helpful here.

What are the test cases? How can QA validate if the program exhibits "free will" or not?
Great comments. My short version: Watching yet another neuroscientist driving boldly off a 3 meter board into an empty pool. The most impressive SPLAT was that of Sir John Eccles—-with his incredible idea of “critically poised neurons” that were sensitive detectors to quantum signals from the spirit world.

The original post does a great job of dissecting the many problems of Sapolsky’s arguments and his lack of dealing with definitions of words he would like to debunk. Read Daniel Dennett instead of Sapolsky.

Thanks, I love the Chomsky meta-critique above.

Sapolsky’s book cover should include be a DALL-E rendering of Alfred E. Neuman and Napoleon discussing “their” battle plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman
Let's say it is. Nobody gets rugged pulled. The argument was in response to the trust factor.

If you don't believe those trades to be organic, would you also deny the volume is happening decentrally.

My take on wash trading is that it is very prevalent, on centralised exchanges which blockchain and decentralisation has nothing to do with, quite the opposite.
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C is a very wide target. There are plenty of things that one can do “in C” that no human would ever write. For instance, the C code generated by languages like nim and zig that essentially use C as a sort of IR.
microeconomics man.
the product is not optimized for you, it's a tool to scrape $ out of ya.

I expect they're just gonna keep going till we're barely happy with it, or a little under that.
The funny thing is, it's not a single piece of metal anymore, they completely ditched the whole "exoskeleton". The Cybertruck is made just like the Model Y, with casted front and back ends attached to an upper frame with body panels. If you look at recent pictures you can see the lines between all the body panels. The panels are stainless steel and probably are a little thicker than a typical body panel so they might be a little more resistant to dents, but that's about it.
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Interesting observation. I agree, seems like people, especially so called "hackers", don't want to follow the threads and externalities of these people as far down the causal chain as they would with say, I don't know, starfish reproduction or some other curio. To me, it seems like the most fertile ground for the awareness that billionaires aren't in a vacuum, that fundamentally greedy decisions make our planet worse off..reality has a complexity bias, and it doesn't take much to realize how much harm these people have caused.
I'm not sure if you left your reply on the wrong comment by mistake since it doesn't seem to directly relate to anything I said?
Or you could just use the snap, and you don't need to do anything :)
> He had no choice but to write it.

“I had no choice but to write the book” is not a coherent response to the claim that he betrays a personal belief in Free Will via his stated motivation for writing the book.
Those five qualities are all great if they can be codified into a delivery system. Don't hate the player, hate the game. If you don't like the game, only one thing to argue about, which is changing the rules of the game. But then the fifth quality kicks in, which is "Letting Go." Trust/improve the process for the sake of using less energy.
Avoiding political conversations at work is probably a good idea even with people you do get along with.

Getting along great doesn’t always mean two people will agree on every topic. And obviously people do not need to agree on every topic to have a fantastic time working together.

Also, depending on the context, other people might overhear part of the conversation and disagree, get offended, etc.
True, but even without free will, you can still be deterministically programmed by the book to personally operate in a way that's less illusionary. The acceptance arrives [the book claims] as a mechanical process of undergoing the reading and understanding.