skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP is categorically wrong about some of their assessments:

"with more and more wealth going to a smaller and smaller segment of the population while the impoverished fraction grows on the daily"

Poverty around the world is being reduced on a massive scale. There are undeniable issues with wealth gaps, but the world population is still benefiting greatly from the imbalanced amount of downstream wealth coming to it.

"The rise of right-wing and/or outright fascist authoritarianism across the world, even in countries that would have fought strenuously against it a scant hundred years ago"

The world has been dominated by these ideas for the majority of its existence. Several of the world powers still operate within these ideas, not to mention many of the third world countries, the power just moves from regime to regime. Acting like authoritarianism is "new" because the OP just got an inkling of it in their own country is pretty dense.

TLDR op just plucked a few news headlines that get re-iterated and made that their world view.
Meanwhile, the median social security recipient gets about $1,700 per month. I don't think most people are going to get behind a "Rob grandma's pension so a bunch of college socialists can write poetry instead of working (and even then actually can't because they're bad at math)" program.
What market were they in? What did the growth and earnings look like?
You should try to work on your maturity instead of throwing a hissy fit at the first whiff of criticism.
Perhaps not the best example to pick - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
Why do anything if there is already someone doing it?
I could never watch it with the new guy. He just feels fake to me
> and will it be my go-to move?

speak for yourself, earlier today I punched someone for taking too long to answer my question.

/s
Just enjoy your time here, plant a tree if that would make you happier. Don’t dig your self into an hole and loose sight of brighter things. / a parent
They still make a lot of noise.
> The most hateful southern baptists in my family who are still screaming about Obama's death panels can still agree that donating to food banks is a good idea.

I expect they would argue that a) they don’t agree that being required to donate is a good idea and b) the food bank can turn people away if they’re not deserving and has its own stigma, which are both part of the goal
Spotify has gone bad a long time ago. Hell, Spotify was born bad. This is about a new way that Spotify is deciding to be bad.
How is a T-72 a "modern tank"? There are dozens of stories of both American (during various other wars) and Ukranian Bradley crews engaging T-72s and winning.
That mixed metaphor popped out to me as well. What if what you're doing is analogous to a glass of wine? It's kosher and haram at the same time!

Kosher is to treif as halal is to haram.
Open client?

It does have a place. For example, a password manager browser extension should be open source regardless if the server/platform is. It's nice to be able to audit something that is running on every website you ever visit.
Thanks for these clarifications.

Though I still don't quite understand what is the original question here. I have not read Diamond's book, so I don't know what he is exactly trying to explain. The phys.org source talks about "Eurasian political and military dominance".

First, the focus on Asia (in addition to Europe) is strange. The renaissance, the industrial revolution, the demographic transition, secularism, constitutional democracy, institutionalized science etc all started in Europe and not in Asia. So apparently Diamond tries to explain the current political dominance of (some parts of) Asia. But then he would need to also take into account the US, not just Europe and Asia. So I don't really understand what we are trying to explain here.

One important point that hardly anybody dares to mention is that people of East Asian and European descent have significantly higher IQs than people from other geographic areas. Personal IQ is highly correlated with measures of life success, like income, highest education degree etc. Moreover, national IQ is substantially correlated with per capita GDP. We also know from twin studies that adults have similar IQ to their biological parents, not their adoptive parents. This suggests IQ causes both personal and national success, and isn't just correlated with it.

So arguably the task should not be to explain some sort of "Eurasian" dominance, since this dominance can likely be explained sufficiently with IQ as a proximate cause. The open question is rather why people of East Asian and European descent have a higher average IQ. Or why modernity began in Western Europe, not Asia, despite East Asians today having higher IQs than Europeans (excluding people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, which have higher IQs than both gentile Europeans and East Asians).
I'm not sure I ever saw a height adjustable monitor till LCD screens started appearing.

My first desktop LCD was a Sony and did not height adjust.

Some people had furniture that raised the monitor up. Other people had the monitor stacked on top of the computer itself, and the "stack of books" thing was around.
Yep we have an integration that allows you to sync your bookmarks. This will grab the content from all your previous bookmarks as well as new bookmarks
> Food delivery isn’t a technology problem. It’s a trivial hiring and logistics problem.

It doesn't matter how you classify the problem; food delivery apps have a ton of advanced logistics going on behind the scenes that the basic "pizza shop delivery" of decades past don't have.

Consider route optimization with multiple restaurants and multiple stops, area incentives for drivers, recommendation algorithms for consumers that take into account time of day + location, etc.
sounds similar to my daughter's path, except she did chem-eng instead of physics; joined Epic out of college now going on 5 years and in that time has switched over to full-time SW engineering (mostly SQL, Typescript). She enjoys that but I'm less sure of its value (unless she becomes an Epic lifer or someone maintaining Epic systems at hospitals, which is what a lot of former employees end up doing and they make more $ that way), compared to continuing on with hard sciences.
> Financing it. These programs are monumentally expensive. You need to get the money from somewhere. The easiest place to take it is via the money printer and the second is from the rich.

This is not actually that hard because they're only expensive on paper.

Right now you have a slew of means tested programs with phase outs that amount to high marginal tax rates on the poor. Meanwhile we try to do the opposite with the tax system and have higher marginal rates on the rich. These largely cancel out, if not impose higher marginal rates on the poor than the rich.

With a UBI you can use a flat tax system because the UBI rather than the tax system is what makes it progressive, which has the added benefit of simplifying the tax system. Then everyone is paying the same tax rate, which puts a higher "tax rate" on low and middle income people but only on paper, because you've eliminated the benefits phase outs and they get to keep the UBI, which more than offsets it.

The result is that you have a small tax increase on the rich and a small increase in transfer payments to the poor/middle class, but the main benefit is the dramatic increase in simplicity and the reduction in bureaucracy and administrative overhead for administering all of the separate programs it would replace.

> Diminishing effects. A bit more money is great when everybody else in your local economy didn't get it. But when everybody gets it, things just become more expensive.

Except that the average person doesn't actually have any more money, since it's all transfer payments. Someone making $30,000 got some additional money but someone making $70,000, even though they do receive the UBI, has still received less money than they paid in tax to fund it.

And this is what already happens, but much less efficiently, through various existing means-tested programs that would no longer be needed.
POWER 10 is on 7nm.

It also has a ton of RAS features.[0]

ECC beyond SECDED, processor instruction retry, CRC on all fabrics part of which can fail and the system will degrade to half-bandwidth. Hot/Swap and/or Redudant everything to include the LCD panel on the OP Panel.

I'm actually curious what type of RAS stuff EPYC and XEON have, and hope somebody can link to the info.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/2RJYYJML
In the US, we gave money to people during the pandemic.

We increased unemployment benefits to the point where for many people it was more than their previous income. Of course people weren't going to be excited to effectively lose money by taking a job. That's not at all a UBI which pays whether or not you're working.
If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly
I would agree with that. I wish there was a way to know how much though. There was an undeniable impact of giving people “free money,” but it doesn’t seem like most Americans received very much. Most of the people I know of received their 2-3 checks and that’s it. You’d see news articles two years into the pandemic saying things like “Americans finally running out of stimulus money.” It made me laugh because it seemed like most people spent that money crazy fast on their bills and very few people were able to actually pocket that cash.
The problem is that many apps on macOS use Cmd + one or more other modifiers for their own shortcuts. On Linux at least, no apps that I know of use Super in any shortcuts.
You're the only one that mentioned the stock market at all, so I would question if you know the difference you're alluding to here.
I doubt that. Spotify has always been an immoral company and gets worse and worse over time because it's making them money. They're not going to self-destruct when they're the default app for streaming Joe Rogan's bad takes directly into the average person's head.
That's pretty remarkable considering their aging population.
This doesn’t look like Navalny’s face
There is even a dedicated wiki page for 2022+ deaths of Russian businesspeople

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian...
> If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens

We may have different definitions of "rich" here. I don't think you can call them the most productive citizens. I think most extractive would be the more accurate label.

And the stimulus checks were short lived, not universally distributed, and came in under $1T. The majority of the money spent was on other sources, even if you want to include the boosts to unemployment in the "UBI" category. As others mentioned it's also conflated with other factors like supply chain failures and massive business loan fraud.
The difference is that was a signed agreement.

This chatbot merely said something was possible, no legally binding agreement occured.
Metro stations have enormous throughput in comparison to a building.
Living in poverty is expensive and stressful, and can trap you into staying in poverty.

You become desperate, and make very suboptimal decisions. You get rewarded for short-term rewards.

A good example would be jobs. If you could dedicate all your time to applying for jobs, you could maximize your salary - but what poor people can afford that? So you take the first and best job you can find, as you need the money now. 6 months without pay is an eternity. If you're poor, you can't really go longer than 2 weeks without pay.

And when you're shit out of luck, not a single cent in the bank (negative balance, even, with the overdue fees running) you start to look for expensive loans to float you. Payday loans, expensive credit card loans, and what not.

You get hit with late fees for every bill you can't pay on time. Things which are somewhat affordable early on - like getting cavities in your teeth fixed, become horribly expensive down the road.

Those are just one of many, many things. And we haven't even considered the physical and mental stress - the first and last thing you think about, is money.

At least UBI, or some similar system, can remove some of those stressors.
The point is that these are not necessary. Someone is not harmed if you drink in the same room as them and do nothing else.
Most engineers have more mechanical (or logical) sympathy than user empathy.

This is not a bad thing, generally -- attention is a zero-sum system, and a profound awareness of human discomfort is not as important to creating systems that are good for the systems. The primary stakeholder in any engineering product is the medium in which you're working, and for software engineers, it means knowing how to work 'with the grain' of ten thousand different mechanisms.

Yet humans seemingly arrive at the threshold of this world as inscrutable, outside forces, with capricious, unreasonable demands. Why would a user prefer a PWA, made with React and ten thousand pounds of JS goop, to something nice and clean (maybe executed in django and htmx?) Why would a user prefer some annoying elaborate third-party product integration, when they could instead just simply download a .csv?

The engineers who specialize in bridging both worlds (frontenders) are themselves often less respected and esteemed by other engineers. People talk about FEEs as "just" frontend engineers -- as though knowing two complex kinds of system (the mechanism, and the user) were somehow less impressive than knowing one. (This is not an uncommon cognitive distortion; for example, ask a fluently bilingual person about this.)

Part of the problem, I think, is that 'real' engineers think of product design as a form of visual design, which they then think about as a kind of subfield of aesthetics, like feng shui or cosmetics.

This is probably because not enough engineers are exposed to _usability theory_, which is a rigorously and empirically tested body of knowledge that identifies and expresses the grammar of human-machine interaction. If I could have one wish granted, it would be to get every engineer to read at least one article out of NN/g (https://www.nngroup.com/) per month, and ideally, one per week. I wish everyone knew basic stuff like Miller's magic number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...) and the profound impact it has on system design and user preference.

UX architects and frontend engineers, frankly, need more respect, and need to be listened to more frequently, by backend engineers and management alike.

They also need to be hired in larger numbers and less frequently laid off (the recent industry-wide layoff convulsion has been particularly hard on designers.) And engineers of all kinds should have more opportunities to upskill and train in usability.

For consumers, there's the old adage, "you get what you pay for." For product owners and engineers, I'd suggest a corollary: "you create what you value -- and you fail to create what you don't."
>"Yes, of course giving people money makes their lives better. It especially works when a very small subset of the population receives such treatment, such that their relative income is higher than those outside the experiment."

I've never seen a UBI experiment which demands that the participants pay more in taxes and forfeit all other welfare benefits in exchange for the payment. Every "experiment" so far has been measuring the happiness impact of the upsides without any of the downsides that would be necessary to make the program work.
Sadly not licensed under the GPL.
Yeah. The easier money is to get, the more willing people are to pay higher prices.

There might be a 0 to 1 issue (people stuck at 0 need some kind of traction) that is at least improved in a practical sense with a small UBI although we still need productivity to continue increasing in order to drive prices down
>The way these models are creative is the same way humans are. The artist that painted Mona Lisa didn't credit any of the influences and inspirations that they had.

I'm continually amazed at how many people argue against this point on HN, which is largely biased toward logical discourse. What you just said is exactly right, and is the Achilles heel of the legal arguments against generative AI. If what they are doing illegal, then so is the human act of creativity. If human creativity is legal, then so is generative AI trained on existing art.

What has yet to come is the mass realization (or perhaps, admission) that the way AI works is no different from the way we work.
> But there's joy to be found in writing pointless and abstract programs. It's more about the journey and less about the utility of the finished product.

Sure, and that's how you know you're really into programming. That's how I could tell my kid wasn't really into it, but rather wanted to try out this thing his dad loves to do so much ;)

I guess that hasn't really changed: if programming is something that "calls to you", it will still "call to you" despite all these changes.

I guess what I'm wondering is whether there's a "middle ground" we're missing. There are kids who will choose software development just because "it's a good career". I don't want my kid to take that path and risk ending up with a job that is absolutely devoid of joy, rather than trying to find something that would be more fulfilling. On the other extreme are the kids who are the way I was when I was a kid: programming is something that fascinates them regardless of whether it's useful or a good career, because they find joy in the act of programming itself.

Does the middle ground exist? Are there kids who would actually be happy writing software for reasons not so banal as "it's a good career", but aren't in the "holy shit, this totally abstract and pointless thing I did was so cool" category either?
> ... it will announce its upcoming AI products once they're ready to hit the market

> "We've got some things ..."

Not only is this not an actual announcement, but it's not even saying anything specific.

Also, the timeline is "as early as this year" supposedly.

Maybe post again when something of interest comes up?
> You need to get the money from somewhere. The easiest place to take it is via the money printer and the second is from the rich.

universal basic dividends.

a % of shares in all companies should go into a public equity fund.

dividends from this fund are then distributed to everyone equally.

we already contribute to the wealth of these companies, if we search on Google or post on Twitter, why should we not get a share in the success of those companies?
I disagree. I expect any credible offer a company makes in an advertisement, on its website, using a chatbot, or through a customer service agent to be authorized by the company. Surely a corporation with lots of resources knows better than to program a chatbot to make fake offers; they'd get sued.

And they did get sued. Next time maybe they'll make sure software they connect to their website is more reliable.
They are very loud, they bathe streets/sidewalks/buildings in permanent shade, etc.
As pointed out by others, supermarkets will then raise their prices to grab that extra money. Happens every time you subsidise something.
Yep, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04248 tried a Mambaformer which seemed to perform well.
Open-Source Security Chip Released
But how? I didn't find any research paper or specifications in their developer pages.

How can an LLM be trained on realtime data? If not than how does the pplx-70b-online be online?

In my understanding, it's just doing a function call for all the queries using Bing and replying with citations. Nothing new even, Mistral and ChatGPT-4 does it. Also if vector embeddings are being used how can it be scalable?
Ah yes, Minecraft. Nothing else comes close to waiting 20 minutes for it to load your modpack and the game using 10GB of your RAM.
You’re counting UK but not Canada in the EU?
Linux is only the kernel. To pass the Unix certification:

https://www.opengroup.org/membership/forums/platform/unix

>The specification encompasses the base operating system environment, networking services, windowing system services, and internationalization aspects and programming languages.
And noone[0] whould allow to use that in a DC because this is now a high-voltage device what can be source of fire, shock and death. You need a certification for this kind of tech and it's not cheap.

[0] of course most of time it would just go under the radar, but you can find yourself in trouble, especially if the device malfunctions
> The easiest place to take it is via the money printer

FWIW: the easiest way to get people to throw you into a "junk economics" bin is to use terms like this. "Printing money" is, at best, an inside-the-echo-chamber shorthand for macroeconomic finance policy that is only going to confuse real economists trying to understand what you're talking about. Most of the time, though, it's just a signal that you don't know what you're talking about.
The tunnel itself (regardless of method) isn't the expensive part. Dense urban environments have a ton of stuff underground that was never accurately mapped. People don't like a city block bursting into flames because you hit a 4" gas line or the building they are in collapsing because it has an unmarked piling.

Building up is actually a cheaper solution, we just need to get the NIMBYs under control. Imagine how nice it would be with 101 and 280 being double deckers the whole way.
"Trust is a technology?"

I had no idea that other social animals were so high-tech!
I don't know. I'm Russian and I didn't feel humiliated. I don't even remember when it happened.
well, sure, you can use some external program do process the stdout; then it's no longer "pure bash" which is fine, nobody grades ingots of script based on if they're 90% or 99% or 70% "pure" shell.

But -- importantly -- running

n=$(gzip -9 < /etc/passwd | tr -dc '[[:print:]]')

may process the nulls, but is it reversible? Can I now send $n into gzip -d and get whatever I put into it out?

I can do things that are reversible --

n=$(gzip -9 < /etc/passwd | base64 )

But now I can't process the output "natively" except by calling base64 every time.

And maybe I've gotten myself into this hole because sometimes the contents of $n have nulls and other times not?

Pure shell is a road to madness. Don't ask me how I know...
AI Elections Accord
People focus about the cost, but I would GLADLY pay 46k if it ups revenue by 60% plus. The added income over the years makes this a drop in the ocean to be honest.

The experience he had while paying the 46k is the bad bit, and I honestly would have called it quits a lot earlier than he did.
> IF something did go wrong, they would at times call IBM and ask for service before the customer had any knowledge of an issue.

I always assumed their call home service was triggered by SNMP but may be wrong? Regardless, IBM exposed a lot of metrics via SNMP so it was always an easy way to query it for metrics and/or accept traps from their devices/OS’s for failures
It's Trump's fault for telling his sheep not to pass the bipartisan immigration bill which included aid for Ukraine.
How much of the 14T was in stimulus checks and how much was corporate welfare?
The AAA industry is eating itself right now. Indie seems like a good place to be.

Also, indie games are a billion dollar market. Maybe it's time to stop using it as a synonym for "not serious." The consumer doesn't care that Undertale was made with Game Maker.

>There's also O3DE which last I checked isn't ready.

Literally no one cares about O3DE.
This clause is not fairly standard. This clause is similar to clauses in other services but is considerably worse.