skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the end of the Weimar Republic was essentially an electoral choice, significant chunks of the electorate by then had been skewed, divided, disenfranchised, or even displaced it wouldn't be accurate to call the elections fully representative. And yes, similar efforts are underway in the US too.
anyone have a non-paywall version?
This is extremely cool, thanks for your work in this area, coolwulf. It's very important work and has the ability to help a lot of people. I work in an adjacent field and greatly appreciate seeing an open source approach to this problem.
How is it selfish to not want children?

There is more to life than being a parent.
Opencl was the alternative, came along later, couldn't write a lot of programs that cuda can. Cuda is legitimately better than opencl.
In which a more satisfying story "beats" the messiness of true history.
What if you have parents who are very willing to be the childcare you need? Is there really, seriously, "no existence more tragic" than a child who spends a few hours a day with a doting 50 year old grandmother? Or with their cousins and aunt and uncle? Or with a kindly neighbour and their kids?

> "Don't have children if you can't raise them yourself."

What do you think of "it takes a village to raise a child"?
Their OneAPI is really interesting!
The Papers, Please guy will be happy to credit you two for the sequel idea.
The latest version of CUDA is 12.3, and version 12.2 came out 6 months prior. How many people are running an older version of CUDA right now on NVIDIA hardware for whatever particular reason?

Even if AMD lagged support on CUDA versioning, I think it would be widely accepted if the performance per dollar at certain price points was better.

Taking the whole market from NVIDIA is not really an option, it's better to attack certain price points and niches and then expand from there. The CUDA ship sailed a long time ago in my view.
They went on to support their point. To ignore that is...the fallacy fallacy fallacy?
How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11B
I think it's partly because Apple has made a lot of the more onerous parts of distribution hidden from developers. They don't have to deal with it, so they think it has no value, so they don't want to pay for it.
Debian on Apple hardware (M1 and later)
But AMD was formed to shadow Intel's x86?
The allure of the Apple ecosystem is the whole "it just works". I would absolutely want to be warned (and have less technically minded family members warned) when they are being sent to some third-party payment system when they're used to the guaranteed safe environment that Apple provides.
> The true crime is as always the impact on businesses

It's hard to tell if you meant this as sarcasm or not, but... it really is a big deal. If all your competitors are screwing their employees in order to increase their margins, that means they can out-compete your on price. Which means you can either screw _your_ employees.. or risk going out of business. And eventually, the only players left are the ones that are screwing their employees.

So yes, if you want to look out for employees, then you need to look out for businesses by making sure everyone is following the same rules. That doesn't mean the businesses themselves are more important, just that their health is vital to the well-being of the employees.
http://archive.today/NEh2L
Yes, but the houses farther out are affordable because they lack those amenities.

The same narrative plays out over and over again. "I can't afford a house with an easy drive to a supermarket and library, and I want to be carless."

Well yeah, so does everybody else, which is why that type of housing is expensive.
> The argument from patent proponents is that without the legal monopoly, they would rely on trade secret law instead, so they would do their best to ensure no one else understood what they do.

Look at China, and the argument of "maybe it will be bad" turns out to be wrong. I'm not saying the system is perfect, far from it, but the idea that patents are a life-saving measure is utterly false. Companies live and die in both systems, but at least in China they get to share their improvements.

The premise is that a patent is necessary to have funds for continuing innovation, but that's just not understanding what capitalism is and how pervasive it is in our society. The reason individuals need money is precisely because of capitalism redistributing money to those who have the most already, not to the ones who need it the most, not to the ones making the most progress, or not to everyone in a fair manner allowing all of us to live without worrying about that aspect (yes, there is more than enough resources creation for all of us). The patent system only furthers this uneven distribution. Innovators do not calculate the amount they might be getting from their invention before setting about and coming up with something new; that is a lie that needs to disappear.

Patents are not making the society better.
> Who will buy your products and services 20-30 years from today?

Won't someone think of the poor capitalists!

That's a sad excuse to bring a life into this world. A world that suffers from the side effects of capitalism, ironically.
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>making millions soaking businesses with patents that should never have been granted.

Invalidity arguments and IPRs suddenly aren't things?
Do you work at apple because your take is ridiculous. Developers are angry because apple is doing its best to prevent the EU to shut their monopoly for good by introducing stupid stuff that have no place being there.

> (guarding them from software piracy and creating a trustworthy app market that generates real value, unlike Android/Google Play)

you never heard of cydia or what ?
Someone posted this link in a GitHub issue on the ZLUDA repository [0], related submission for that is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815

[0] https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/issues/58
"How far do you have to drive to go to a supermarket from that development?"

That's the system - resource scarcity and preference. If you live in a densely populated area, prices tend to be higher because real estate is constrained. Zoning won't fix all of that because many people have a preference for SFH, larger sizes, etc. You end up with options and amenities, but it will cost more due to the consolidation. Or you end up with space, needing to drive to amenities, and cheaper prices largely due to less competition.
You can translate cuda to hip using a regex. LLM is rather overkill.
On top of that, this screams ChatGPT. I could be very wrong, but ChatGPT is good at this word spaghetti
Adding another free browser changes nothing. People don’t choose free browsers because people don’t choose. The owner of the platform chooses (with the notable exception of Windows where Google has spent billions of dollars to advertise it).
Inventor profits by being ahead of competition. VisiCalc (first spreadsheet) was a killer app.

But they didn't innovate and were taken over by Lotus 1-2-3 four years later.

Lotus was great, graphs and all.

Same thing happened to the Lotus, Excel was just better. Lotus didn't innovate (e.g. IBM had first ever pivot tables and they made separate spreadsheet program for it instead off improving Lotus).
This is a great blog drafted by an independent developer who has been working with Langchain before discovering Rasa's CALM. https://rasa.com/blog/navigating-calm-s-benefits-technical-i...
The situation is a bit different: AMD got its foot in the door with the x86 market because IBM back in the early 1980s forced Intel to license the technology so AMD could act as a second source of CPUs. In the GPU market, ATI (later bought by AMD) and nVidia emerged as the market leaders after the other 3D graphics pioneers (3Dfx) gave up - but their GPUs were never compatible in the first place, and if AMD tried to make them compatible, nVidia could sue the hell out of them...
Same, and no, no hope. Money trumps all – most people are in this for the buyout, and when they get it, their users don't mean anything anymore. The best we can do is just use the services we like and know that any additional service we add will someday be a big fiasco to transition out of. Which, by the way, is why we should demand that every service make portability a standard.
I will try immediately.
I was the lead programmer on The Mana World client from about 2005 till 2009 and have been project and server admin for a while as well. I remember TMW being a very welcoming project, with at some point over a dozen of active contributors, so I'm a little surprised by the bad experiences reported by @wulfeet and @jdright.

Of course, the project has had its struggles, being an open source online game, there's a lot of challenging dynamics and competing visions, and the many forks that sprung up did not help either. I've tried to at least unify various projects around maintaining a shared client at https://manasource.org, but in the end most developers, including me, got busy with other aspects of life, like families, and could no longer maintain it. The new server we were developing for The Mana World is currently only used by the still somewhat experimental Source of Tales project (https://sourceoftales.org/).

These days, after various teams have "joined forces", the website https://themanaworld.org/ forwards to the wiki and unfortunately paints a very confusing picture of what this project is really about and what is "The Mana World", actually.

Since a few weeks, I'm trying to revive the Mana client project (at https://git.themanaworld.org/mana/mana), and I hope that others might be interested as well, or would give The Mana World another chance, so that we might once again have an active development team with a shared passion for this kind of game!
I claim that the name “capitalism” states whose interests are favored in our system. That’s a claim, and it’s not vague.

Also I didn’t voice distaste.
There are some great replies to my comment - my original comment was too reductive. However, I still think that entrenching CUDA as the de-facto language for heterogeneous computing is a mistake. We need an open ecosystem for AI and HPC, where vendors compete on producing the best hardware.
There is no possible path for advancement that doesn't threaten people and the things they hold dear. It never worked that way in the past, and it won't now.
Monads in Modern C++
> Destination weddings can save a lot of money by having far fewer guests […]

I do not know which cultural background you are from, but with my background, guests generally show up with Hallmark® envelopes containing cash. If you budget assiduously it may even be possible to turn a profit on the reception.
I have a masters degree in physics from a Swedish university, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard the “myth”.

But the actual story as described in the paper is vaguely familiar. Before reading it my mind wandered to Einstein and quantization of light.

Is this mainly a US myth perhaps?
Any means testing (and I do mean ANY) will always exclude people who have an actual need who'll never be able to get.

And really, if 1 out of a thousand "cuts drugs" with formula, so be it. At least that's non-toxic... and frankly, laughable as DARE propaganda.
I rolled my own several years ago with Voice Attack and python
But not paying with Apple is a risk. Handing out your payment info to any random website isn't the same risk profile as paying with my Apple account. The popups are fair given that this is a new interaction for users. As someone who has for over a decade given/recommended Mac/iPhones to tech illiterate people, I would be appalled if they didn't do this.

Developers forget that users also have a relationship with Apple.
Maybe you should stop looking at yourself in the mirror and look at the data?

As a parent, I feel people like you are the reason formula ends up being unavailable for real babies as you enable gangs to steal them driving up cost.

Here is a list of places with free baby formula and stuff in the Bay Area:

https://www.211bayarea.org/sanfrancisco/food/food-programs/f...

https://www.findhelp.org/goods/diapers-%26-formula--san-jose...

https://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/san_francisco_and_s...

One advice: Stop with harmful virtue signaling. It is easy to virtue signal like you do here with looking at any data or bearing any of the real cost of virtue signaling. I will repeat. People like you are the reason formula ends up being unavailable for real babies as you enable gangs to steal them driving up cost and causing shortages during real crises. As a parent this is frustrating and rage inducing.

https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/infantandtoddlernutrition/form...
This is more of a shade of gray, but I think over-assigning side work is also a form of unpaid labor that managers allow to happen to their front house staff as well.
well now we will get in a Hobbes vs Locke, I am more Lockean

I disagree, and history has shown that free markets absent government control doe not instantly become monopolized, and infact through out most of history monopolize form when the government regulates the most

Look at todays market as an example, the most competition is present in markets where the government has the least influence, where markets like energy, healthcare, etc which are the most regulated are also the most monopolized
I agree mostly, though I think the "break things" bit got twisted and
misunderstood.

We were supposed to break; limits, barriers, status-quos, ossified
ideas... Instead we broke; treasured social norms, privacy, mutual
respect and dignity. There's a difference between benevolent
innovation and reckless iconoclasm. I think it started the day Peter
Thiel gave money to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Don’t get me wrong I actually agree with you. I’d also love to have more consistent ui’s, but at the same time I get why the business wants to differentiate it self from the competition by not having a super effective “boring” ui.

What I’m getting at is that it’s a lot more nuanced than what I as a software developer might like.
Tesla makes this mistake with their ambiguous "lock" button on the iOS app. The button toggles between an open/closed padlock icon. I often lock the doors remotely and since I can't physically see the car to confirm, I get paranoid about whether the icon is representing state or action.
Err, yeah I'm a little skeptical of parents who want lots of children. I'm in my twenties now, but I was raised Catholic, I have twelve siblings, and I was homeschooled until my senior year. There were several issues:

- Me and my siblings all feel like our parents loved the "identity" of being parents and having lots of children, but when it came down to the brass tax of actually caring for our emotional needs, they were entirely absent. This was such a large rift that almost all of us intentionally don't have close relationships with our parents.

- On top of emotional neglect, there was inevitable physical neglect. One brother clearly had autism but our parents never had the time or finances to get him treated appropriately. Two siblings weren't able to get the braces they needed for their teeth as kids and had to get jaw surgery as adults. Two of my siblings were injured in severe accidents growing up that would've been avoided if a parent had been watching out.

- The parents of these families go around narcissistically glowing with all the social credit for being "superhero parents" when realistically the majority of the labor falls upon the oldest siblings. Me and my two sisters effectively raised all of our younger siblings with our mother being pregnant so often, and father working full-time. Our parents never recognized how much work we put in, and as we transitioned to adulthood it took a lot of work to establish healthy relationships with our younger siblings where we didn't feel taken advantage of (the younger siblings had parental expectations of us for years afterward).

- The lack of socialization from being homeschooled really came back to bite us in the ass. Some of my siblings got (cyber) bullied after transitioning to the real world. Some simply never were able to make the adjustment to talking to normal people, and some are still really struggling. I was able to get "socialized" and now appear like a normal SWE at a large tech company but I'm very lucky.

So....be very careful around these families and their values. A lot of times having lots of kids are a narcisstic vision from the parents, rather than a true desire to take care of a lot of people.
Maybe sex bots will become fertility assistants by carrying seeds between partners who can't talk to each other. Future models may feature internal refrigeration.
Sam could get more chips for way less than $7 trillion if he helps fund and mature this
In America. Not much of a war to start with probably.
My first thought on seeing the source was dwitter - it's such a fun community to peruse!
Seemingly also the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe) claims the pop-sci ordering: “As the theory diverged from empirical observations when these frequencies reached the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum, there was a problem.[3] This problem was later found to be due to a property of quanta as proposed by Max Planck: There could be no fraction of a discrete energy package already carrying minimal energy.”
There are companies besides Apple that developers trust, so your argument is invalid. Apple equals Apple, not trust.
If you don’t enforce a patent as soon as you become aware of it, it becomes much harder to sue (similar to trademark I believe). I could be wrong, IANAL
I think this is just basic game theory.

If they settled the trolls would just keep coming.

If they fight the patent extortion then trolls are going to think twice before suing them, for fear of losing .
Yeah it was too much work to support PWAs in the EU for this beta. But they managed to have time to implement it for the rest of the world
€120.000 a year puts him comfortably in the top 1% earners: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/inkomensverdeling, but he complains he'd earn twice as much if he lived in an area where the cost of living is much higher?

I mean he lives in Amsterdam, which is more expensive than the rest of the country, sure, but nowhere near what it's like in SF according to https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp (Amsterdam is ranked 75, vs SF at 8), and I'm not sure if that index includes health care and social benefits like state pension, etc. Speaking of, that's only salary, ìt excludes stocks, bonuses, pension contributions, and other benefits.

Then there's accessibility; living in central Amsterdam means he can fulfill most of his daily needs and transport by bike. Can't get much cheaper than that.

TL;DR, he can move to SF if he wants to earn SF rates.
Vulkan running an emulation of DirectX and being faster
as a contrast to "accelerate" let's consider "addiction" cycles. Business-driven tech seeks addiction cycles in consumers due to orders of magnitude larger results.
Tech is like a fission reactor: powerful, elegant, delivering value through leverage, but requires strong controls and protections (moderators, containment) for humans so it doesn’t ruin us all.

People worry about AI paperclip maximizing, but Tech is already that in some ways (find or build moats, blitz scaling, no concerns for the harm incurred). It’s just fuzzy cohorts of tech workers and management doing the paperclip maximizing, for comp and shareholder value respectively. Not much different than AI reward functions.
Exactly. It isn’t a store opening speech or some other super formal part of the wedding. Best man/maid of honor speeches are usually supposed to be more of a storytelling piece (of variable funniness) that ends on some heartwarming and/or cute conclusion.

I wouldn’t blame people for using chatGPT to generate more formal/canned sorts of speeches, but the man/maid of honor speech is imo a terrible application for that.
> The possibility of it being thinner simply means you can maintain the current size and increase battery size

May be but I think they will utilize the space for more sensors and optical camera equipment.

Compared to early 2010s the current average smartphone battery capacity is 3-4x higher.

Do we know how much of that is due to increase in average battery volume vs increase in energy density?
Holding him to account is what taxes do, which are allocated by the government. Should taxes be increased? Should there be a wealth tax? I don't care, but it feels wrong when people expect CEOs or investors to somehow fix the world's problems.
Seems like they are not available for all regions or countries. E.g. the pages for Europe, Germany and UK don't have such a link.
I guess this is related to data and file size.
I wonder if it might be pop-sci vs science, rather than modern vs historical.

Physicists (from the outside at least) have always seemed more like hunters than the town watch, they go looking for the problems. There isn’t some catastrophic looming threat of physics approaching that they have to deal with, haha. Unexplainable data is an opportunity and all that.
While the NEC does not specify light switch toggle orientation, there seems to be a general convention among electricians and installers for the toggle switch to be positioned up for "on" and down for "off."
this is an excellent summary of how the system works.

Every month HN has a thread like this, and every month the usual suspects rant about how patents are fucked up, and there needs to be this, that, or the other. And nothing changes.

Ask your local candidates for Congress if they'll support removing patentability for software. That's how you solve this problem.
I feel like that is the least committal press release that could exist about this topic. The police might be correct but the facts described aren't as clear cut as they're making it.

> Wilson has a history of drug offenses: felony drug abuse, felony possession of cocaine, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

"Offenses" is carrying the whole team here. All this says is that he was charged with the crime of doing drugs while black. I could have been arrested for all of these at one time in my life or another. Without a trafficking charge they're just speculating he might be a dealer.

> While a black market exists for stolen baby formula to be resold for its intended purpose, reports indicate that baby formula also is used as a cutting agent for cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine by drug dealers looking to dilute their product and stretch their supply.

So he could be cutting drugs with it, or he could just be stealing it to sell directly. He even could even be selling it to actual drug dealers. Not saying that's better but the police kinda gloss over that as presented that's the more likely option.

I promise I'm not trying to drag you or anything but I'm originally from Columbus and you have to take anything the CPD says with a shaker of salt. Columbus is a fairly boring city and so CPD always tries to punch up the stories.