skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've already created such a design. It's called the MI300A and costs $20k.
No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work. Mainly because most people on here are programmers and the job and interview is related to intelligence. People who take pride in there programming skill think they're intelligent.

As a programmer myself I think most programmers are average. Programming isn't a very hard job imo. It doesn't require a huge amount of intelligence hence the reason why it's one of the few occupations that can be entered without a degree, with self training, or a bootcamp.

People think this is a field that requires high intelligence. This is false. It's a field that requires slightly above average intelligence mostly. It depends on your specialty but for the typical web dev software engineer it's more closer to average.
It would be more interesting if you pre-approved the transaction for some set date in the future (the task due date), which you cancel on completion of the task.

This also guarantees "punishment" in the event that you forget about it.

I would genuinely consider using something like this iff ~90% of the money went to a charity of my choice (with the rest as a platform/transaction fee)
Can you share more info about the creation? Did you register a patent? What was the MOQ? Have you sold out? Did you have to comply to any electrical regulation?

Kudos!
Wimps, lay people off

IBM is doing everything they can to push people out without any responsibility on their end
> and I stuck with Ubuntu 10 years.

For a while Nexenta had an Ubuntu running on the OpenSolaris kernel.
That the NSA spies on Americans on a massive scale was revealed by Snowden in 2013.

There is no excuse to be surprised by it in 2024.
The public sector doesn't have a monopoly on internal politics. Posturing between departments to be included in the next big initiative happens in lots of companies.
One steak a week is a reasonable proposal.
Id suggest going to something like udemy and buying a Python or JavaScript course for 20 bucks to see if you even like it.

I don’t know if they look for bootcamp on your resume in the US, but here it would be nothing but a giant waste of money unless you cannot do self study
This might be because lawmakers equate 'capitalism' with 'big business', and thus are in favor of large mergers.

If you try to discuss splitting a company, or denying a merger, you are called a communist for standing in the way of business.

The concept of 'competition' in capitalism is somewhat lost now.
I cannot imagine being upset over this instead of the fact that data brokers can sell all this info in the first place.
We really need to find a better way to have these conversations as a society.
The 2nd law doesn't say that a decrease in entropy is not possible; it just says it's extraordinarily unlikely. But given sufficient time extraordinarily unlikely things will happen
An anesthesiologist working on the kernel? That's awesome and a huge inspiration for me.
I must applaud the webmaster though for providing such a convenient way of downloading the entire archive in a single file. :) If only every disappearance off the surface of the web was handled this gracefully with a warning several months ahead in time...
Mercedes used to be insanely good at parts - I could order brand new stock parts for a 25 year old 240D with no issues and at quite reasonable prices.

Those old cars were clearly designed by engineers who cared; the hood had simple latches on the hinges that when opened would let it open to vertical.

https://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/2022/04/22/mercedes-1...
It's not the action of buying the data, but the action of buying data on people you're not supposed to spy on, plus the technical capabilities of the NSA which raises the question of what the heck are you doing all this data plus the data you collect covertly with methods you don't tell, and what are the consequences of this on personal, national and community level?.
Manned missions are not in fact on the horizon. At all.
The problem with this definition is

> Utilizes addictive, harmful, or deceptive design features, or any other feature that is designed to cause an account holder to have an excessive or compulsive need to use or engage with the social media platform.

Many platforms can argue that they're not engaging in this behavior. Do Mastodon and Lemmy count as addicting? They look like Twitter and Reddit on the surface, but they don't have a sorting algorithm that maximizes for engagement. So would they be included in the definition or not?

And if they don't, what's stopping big companies from claiming the same, since you can't actually see their source code for news feed sorting?
Then these must be some old pizza boxes to exist before governments wanted to slipstream backdoors into hardware
> PSA for people that believe they are somewhat smart, have cool ideas yet seemingly no power whatsoever to actually work on them.

Well, in some organizations it's pretty easy to feel like you have no power. The org structure almost seems built for it.

Related to the OP here, I'm a huge fan of the phrase "it's easier to ask permission than forgiveness." The rules as you think you understand them are almost never the real limits of the possibility space.

Figuring out the right rules to break is a hell of a skill.
Sun had some lovely desktop hardware. They also had SPARC.

I really miss Sun.
The promise and challenges of crypto and AI applications
Well, yes, I read code of (and contribute to) the kernel and web browsers I use, but that's not really relevant.

There's a big difference between "large, structured projects developed by thousands of companies with a clear goal" vs. "humongous shell script by small group that downloads and runs random things from the internet without proper validation".

And my own personal opinion: The venn diagram of "Projects that have trustworthy design and security practices", and "projects that are based on multi-thousand line bash scripts" is two circles, each on their own distinct piece of paper.

(Not trying to be mean to the developers - we all had to build our toolkits from somewhere.)
MQTT is a transport too, but its design facilitates a brokered pub-sub message queue. The transport implementation is effectively the queue, as far as the applications are concerned.
The Computer Recreations column by A.K. Dewdney was fascinating to me when I was just getting into programming. (And of course it followed the more famous Mathematical Recreations column of Martin Gardner before him.)

Dewdney collected his columns into a few books over the years. The Tinker Toy computer is featured in this one: https://archive.org/details/tinkertoycomputer00dewd
No, they're in the clear. There is a very easy way to opt-out: you need to pay for a subscription to Spiegel. It's on the first page of their cookie dialog, you "just" have to log in. And give them your credit card number, if you haven't done so already.

The GDPR explicitly allows for this. Practically all of the old-school EU news orgs work like that nowadays.
I would add the point that these dynamics are also present for any large IT system. Just search for people having issues migrating to SAP or Amadeus or whatever
This happened 2013 and the guy is actually from Leipzig, not Dresden. And they weren't hackers by any means, at least I wouldn't expect them to show up at any meetup.

Anyways, his name is Dirk
I'm literally doing this same idea currently but I pay a friend instead. They are under no obligation to give me my money back at a later date and I'm not expecting them to. The key is that I have to give them cash, so every time I check in with them and have not completed my goal, I have to take out my wallet, grab the money, and hand it to them.

My first check in for the year is coming up this weekend and I'm not looking forward to even going to the ATM, much less paying them if I didn't meet my goal!
Yeah, CPU inference is incredibly slow, especially as the context grows. 4-bit quantized on an A6000 should in theory work.

If those rent-seeking bastards at NVidia hadn't killed NVL on the 4090, you could do it on two linked 4090s for only $4k, but we have to live under the thumb of monopolists until such time as AMD 1. catches up on hardware and 2. fixes their software support.
But parts that fail the PRO tests can be sold as non-pro parts, so you better hope you don't get one of those.
Analysis of 'What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory'
Doing without understanding usually misses some "obvious" detail, and that makes the whole thing a lot less useful, if not harmful.
Very nice. Was just thinking about building an LLM-assisted version of this where it DMs people asking their availability and then figures it all out. This is way more efficient.
If not “at fault”, everyone is probably doing something they could/should have done better or more safely. In this case, the pedestrian could have avoided crossing against the light, and could have continued walking rather than stopping; the Nissan could have avoided the incident by noticing the pedestrian and stopping; the Cruise could have avoided its part of the incident by having more situational awareness, and knowing that when a pedestrian is acting strangely it should probably slow down, and when a pedestrian gets hit in the next lane, it should immediately stop.

All complex systems are in “failure mode” of some sort at all times. But complex systems that work have enough wiggle room and safety mechanisms that true failure doesn’t happen until there’s some criticality of overlapping errors.

Yes, there are some failure modes that are so devastating that everyone else could have been behaving perfectly and it would have made no difference, but likely many if not most traffic accidents are the confluence of multiple failures, even if most are minor and would never cause an accident on their own.
The CDC 6600 could run multiple functional units (adder, multiplier, logic, etc.) at the same time, and the CDC 7600 added pipelining to the mix.

These machines were organized in such a way that the main CPU did not run (most of) the OS and was not responsible for I/O. Those operations were all handled by an array of secondary processors optimized for the purpose. A PPU (Peripheral Processing Unit) would interact with an I/O device, load data into main memory, and then notify the main CPU.

Vector came later, with the Cray 1 (and the CDC Star, less effectively).
I feel like my entire life experience invalidates that second point.
Isn't that how search engines came to existence, that intelligence people needed such computer system that handle disorganized collection of enemy documents to be sifted and correlated by specific key words and expressions?

Is it that they no longer have a classified on-prem Google, or that they have difficulties with Algolia or Elasticsearch, or that Google dominance is starting to come back at them?
At first glance that does seem to match my temperament. I love this quote as I have recently discovered it working for me

If you want to think clearly, be calm and be smart; schedule a Micro Nervous Breakdown at least once a day.

not sure if that is healthy though.

I guess with regards to mental health DSM type issues vs other issues, it is difficult to untangle for me. It may not be an actual disorder, but it certainly causes me distress. It's like being a science enthusiast that can't move past reading pop-sci articles (but wants to).
I have seen stories of CEOs firing folks due to some new ai assistants. In the medical field ai and ml is analyzing images and finding stuff even trained practitioners have missed. It's happening.
Impressive feat to remove the gym part out of a gym membership.
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I love giving nonsensical answers. To the people trying to sell me newspapers in the street I usually reply "I don't read". For the door-to-door charity folk I tend to use variations on "I don't like [whatever their charity is for]". E.g. I don't like children.

This usually confuses them enough so you can get clear before they recompose themselves.
Yep, I agree that could be made clearer.
Correct answer would have been "I don't know, whats the resistance of the wire".

1.2 Ohms per meter, 45cm (which was what i had) would burst in a flash of liquid metal when connected to 240V.
I know it's not the same thing, but Quickemu happily works over SSH too.

Run it on a remote system via ssh, and it will "X-Forward" the Qemu console on my local Wayland session in Fedora.

First time I ran it, thinking I was doing a headless mode, and it popped up a window, was quite surprising. :)
don't they have like moderators to take care of that?
So just schedule a bank transfer to your charity? 100% will go to them if you don't cancel.
The point of competition is that if 10 deeply flawed organizations take a crack at a problem, they won't all produce garbage.
> The people most at fault for the state of Beoing will probably cash out with enough money to get spoon-fed caviar for the rest of their life while their progeny will never have to work a day in their life.

Your dissent from techno-neo-feudalism has been duly noted, and added to your Equifax file.
Because the US tries to micromanage people’s behavior through the tax code. E.g. it offers EV credits because they want you to buy an EV instead of a gas car.
That's probably just a coping mechanism
Especially regarding GPU acceleration... Running video-conferencing inside windows inside vbox is almost impossible, and even modestly complex GUI apps have a significant lag there.
> This has nothing to do with interpreted or compiled.

I agree with you. That's what I tried to express in my post. They asked for a compiled lisp but the actual requirement was self contained executables which interpreted languages could also fulfill.
What does "foreign" even mean in the internet? It's not like there are clear lines between plots of land. Everything is everywhere.
Yes it is not a great idea.

AI isn't the problem, it's the saturation of folks like myself with 10+yrs of development who are clawing and fighting to the death for what jobs are out there. Market SUCKS right now.

I am THANKFUL for my current gig, but I wanted to add something my current employer (co-workers) mentioned to me. They were surprised at the high regard that people had only completed bootcamps held themselves.

Those running these organizations are selling a lie. You cannot make a baby with four women in three months. There is no replacement for years of experience in industry. Period.

I think they are an incredibly useful resource, I myself was a TA for one that started locally during their first cohort.

If you want to learn stuff, start building things right away. Don't build too big, find challenges that are appropriate to your skill level (BCs are good at this). Find others who will look at / inspect / find ways to break your work and use these opportunities to learn / grow / figure out what to do differently.

Repeat until job. Either the work you will do can attract some attention, or you will inadvertantly prepare yourself for the opportunity you didn't see coming. Stay busy. Keep working. Share what you are doing.

You don't need to pay 10k for the education you seek. It's just going to take every bit of effort, mental acuity and sanity you have left. You CAN do it but there is risk of burnout. Read my comment history if you wanna know what that looks like.
Oh? I thought you may have been thinking of the 1993 book by Paul Carroll, Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM which is where I know it from. It gets mentioned on page 103.
The other company in this space I've been following is Speak (https://www.speak.com/). Aside from supported languages, how is Univerbal different?
A much better alternative for this is: https://www.beeminder.com/
There is a time window for how long you can hold an authorization on cards otherwise it’ll expire. IIRC, 30 days is standard for most payment processors. Longer term goals would require a charge and a refund, and most processors still charge fees even if the amount is refunded.
Maybe I missed something as a European who doesn't always see what's happening over the great pond, but the sentence "hey we just copied Canada why are you complaining" confuses me.

Did I miss Canada embarking on a policy of euthanasia?
I know that the treatment of native people had quite a few scandals in recent decades, did you want to allude to that?

Without wanting to make light of that situation, I think it is rather different in scale to what you propose.
US proposes new 'know-your-customer' restrictions on cloud providers
This is legit full diagram plus pcb component map, everything to generate proper BoardView file for https://pldaniels.com/flexbv5/
The snark here is impressive:

> in order to quickly fix this pressing matter, I've attached code that I believe will fix your issue. It uses a custom caching mechanism and fits well into the systemd ecosystem.

pid_t systemd_getpid(void) {
return 0;
}
Wonder the implications of "SpookGPT" hallucinating minor details and facts that then get into reports that later are summarized again and it all snowballs into some catastrophic set of decisions.
My feeling is that it's heavily friend-group or clique dependent, or potentially geography-dependent (metropolitan vs rural).

I'm also in my early 30s, but the majority of people I know are not married. I know about the same number of people who are polyamorous as married despite not running in those circles.

I know I'm an outlier because the stats don't hear anything close to that.

I will say that in the major metros, marriage still feels relatively uncommon. I think I've been to one wedding in several years, and it was a work acquaintance more than a friend (I was surprised to be invited, really). Most of the people I knew that were married were in their late forties and beyond.

> I don't think I know anyone who's completely checked out of the idea of a relationship yet - the single people are still dating, often with the expressed desire of finding someone.

I think it's important to delineate between people who want a relationship and people who want to get married. Relationships can exist absent a marriage, and marriages can exist absent a relationship. Some people don't want to be single, but don't want to be married.

That's the demographic that I've seen growing. I don't see people pulling away from relationships so much as marriage. Marriage comes with so much baggage, and a lot of the traditions are based around historic assumptions that don't hold true anymore.
I do not have any utopian thinking. I just said "wow paper is such a great invention. if i had paper i could send messages really far away and write down my thoughts and draw and write. Everyone could benefit in so many ways if paper was ubiquitous. Its probably worth a lot of effort and sacrifice."

And youre the one going on about politics, regulation, and utopia. Its just not relevant.
Does it run natively on Arm (Apple Silicon)? How about the latest versions of macOS? Is there graphic acceleration? How's network handled?
Yes, I agree with most of what you say. I'm sorry if my comment came across as aggressive. I didn't want to offend anybody.

And of course, if you've got a gluten allergy regular bread won't work for you. I know that nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all thing.

But you also have to agree that there are many keto snake oil salesmen.

> keto doesn't work because people believe in quick fixes, it PROBABLY works because you can't subsist on dougnuts, frozen pizza and beer anymore.

Yes, that's better formulated than what I did in my comment.
Central Banks print money faster than we could destroy :(
We are all the moderators. Flag it if you don't feel it should be on HN.

(dang is the actual moderator, to be clear, but HN is a community effort, and most moderation is done by community up/down voting and flagging)
Spain's Catalonia Is Spending $2.6B to Survive Without Rain
The “savings” is entirely due to weight. More weight requires more fuel. The single biggest cost by a large margin in the life of a commercial airline jet is fuel. Increase fuel efficiency by even 1% and you save the airline industry billions.

Source to backup the claim of the scale of worldwide airline fuel usage: https://www.statista.com/statistics/655057/fuel-consumption-...

Source to give you an idea of how much US airlines pay for fuel:
https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/us-airlines-january-2023-fuel-c...
We need to commission more scientific studies so that I can know what I think.
discipline and perseverance
A probably dumb question: why don't these missions carry a microscope instrument and a drill? We know there is sub-surface ice or water (brine) at some locations. Bring some up and look at it.

I ask because there's a minor conspiracy theory that's made the rounds that NASA either has these things on board secretly or deliberately does not include them because they don't want to actually find evidence of life. I find that pretty unlikely and figure it's probably a lot harder to build such an instrument and get useful results than you'd think.
It doesn't download "random files from the internet", it seems to be using original sources only.
More sensitive docs leaked on their forum last month.

https://www.eurogamer.net/war-thunder-players-leak-military-...

> That now makes it nine times a player has leaked military documents via War Thunder in just 2023 alone, according to the documented occurrences on Wikipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Documents_leaks]
It should be obvious. The government can use information to prosecute people. Corporations can't. The government is much less accountable than corporations for malicious behavior due to sovereign and qualified immunity.
They didn't say anything about the age of their kids. Roblox is played by almost all ages.
The government is supposed to play by different (more constrained) rules because it has a monopoly on force.

I don't know what the legality of the NSA buying private data is, but it feels like it violates the spirit of the law that says they shouldn't be spying on their citizens.
> No motivation to start cool new projects is not among them...

Starting projects isn't the issue (personal experience w/ ADHD) - following through and finishing them is, which is listed in various ways under the inattentive section

I've got plenty of new project folders, draft blog posts, plans written down, database schemas, etc - but no shipped results. This is the main issue for me. Starting a project is easy, working on it is the issue!

> And here's a philosophical question to ponder: should we change[1] to fit society's expectations or should society adjust itself to our needs? Should we take drugs so that we can be 100%, not even one percent less, productive 9-5 because that's what we're supposed to do?

Should we? Absolutely not! There's loads of value in people with different brain wiring. "Think outside the box" is our default setting!

Do we have to if we don't want to starve? Until we live in a post-scarcity world with infinite food and shelter.. unfortunately we're gonna have to.