skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the impulse to not want to support other countries who don't seem grateful for the aid -- but this sounds like one of those "cutting of your nose to spite your face" situations. Even if you're annoyed that a recipient of US aid is insufficiently grateful, and even if you think NATO allies should be paying their 2% ... a key question is still, "Do we prefer the world where the current-aid-recipient is unsupported?"

If the US prefers the world where Ukraine is not annexed into Russia, then even if our support is not appreciated to your satisfaction, it may still be best _for the US_ to provide the support.
But on a more serious note, there are definitely bouts when reality feels more real and the mind feels more present and aware, like being hyperaware or experiencing hyperrealization, whatever is opposite to derealization and depersonalization (not sure if I'm using the correct terminology, so please bare). The feeling is akin to waking up and realizing that the past month has been a blur and you weren't yourself exactly, even though you remember, it feels like you weren't consciously making decisions, or being in the moment so to speak. Similar to that exhilaration of reigniting old passions that you'd forgotten about for some reason.
Is tax optional? What basis is there to force another to pay tax? Can there be a moral basis for taking another person's income, or is it bound to be immoral, as I think.
I understand the logic here, and I'm aware Microsoft has a large number of convoluted backward-compatibility requirements, but this seems like drinking to solve your problems and just putting off the inevitable hangover. To be clear: what you're doing here is lying to the user and the developer. Maybe that's justified in isolation, but now this lie is one more bit of "hidden state" you have to keep track of in further development and integration testing. And just like in the real world, lies have a tendency to compound on themselves until you're completely lost in them and have no idea what reality is.

I have a feeling that "solutions" like this are part of why an increasing number of my computing problems take the form of, "I tried to take an action, nothing happened. No error, no activity, nothing.", and are impossible to debug or diagnose. UX designers made themselves terrified of ever showing an error code to a user, but they took that and replaced it with a world where your shit just doesn't work, and when you try to figure out why, all the OS does is shrug.
Previous discussion from a few hours ago (149 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398448
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398448
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"The idea here is to have the printing functions all behave in a manner perfectly consistent with printing being fully supported, yet mysteriously there is never a printer to print to."

This must be satire. Otherwise I can't comprehend how something as infuriating as this could be presented as a good or smart thing to do UX-wise
You have a citation for 2022 which is right before use of AI exploded and NVIDIA started selling AI machines like hotcakes. I expect energy use to be much larger this year.
> Take that same language and sign a contract with it today ... different story.

I wouldn't be so sure about that; do non-tech people commonly understand "training" to mean "training of AI models"? I don't have a poll to prove it, but I would expect not.
They also have an explicit end date so people know they need to keep working and can't just rely on it.
>a single Balenciaga pope

I approve of this unit of measure
> The USA did this during the COVID era. We basically implemented UBI. We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way. For the first 6 months it was awesome. And then shortages started spiking and inflation started creeping in. We ultimately had to roll it back.

Yup. And don't forget where most of that money finally ended up - as absolutely massive corporate windfalls. That COVID money went through the economy like shit through a goose and ended up where it always does, in the hands of those that are good at making money.
Polish T-72s are modern tanks with tons of upgrades. They are not comparable to base model T-72s in Iraq. They have much improved armor, firepower, sensors, and mobility. It's a lot like how modern Abrams are barely comparable to the original model, which is only 6 years more recent than the T-72. In fact, the Russian T-90 and Chinese ZTZ99 are also heavily upgraded T-72s.

In the era of ATGMs IFVs can engage tanks and win, no matter the tank. In fact, an infantry soldier with an ATGM can engage basically any tank and win. That doesn't mean a soldier is more survivable or more capable than a tank.

A Bradley would be disabled or destroyed by many weapons any modern tank would shrug off, and it cannot provide sustained heavy fire as it has a very limited number of ATGMs.
I am working in ai all my professional life and have to admit that right now it’s both exciting as well as burning me out.
I get tired when I scroll through LinkedIn and see all the dall-e images. I am annoyed by all the snake oil sellers who say that they will change the world - and then there is just another prompt underneath.

It all has its right for existence. But I really wish the hype ends soon and people become more realistic again.

It will have a big impact on the world, but people don’t get that it’s not there yet and there is a ton of research we still need to do. That’s burning me out. There is so much more work to do compared to the expectations- and even in the scientific community there is such a big volume of junk papers coming out (sometimes even by big companies) that it feels like most of the time wading through all the BS and marketing hype is all I do.
A 4-step framework for crafting meaningful designs
$0 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: its called a hand.
I was ready do disagree but I think there's a valid point in this article. Sometimes busywork is downtime. We can't be doing high traction work all the time.
> and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault

Genuine question as someone who has no connection to either government of the Russia-Ukraine war: didn't the US push Ukraine into not accepting terms with Russia, under the promise that it would support Ukraine in case of war? In other words, it pushed Ukraine into the war, using it as a proxy to fight Russia.
"Amazon Joins Elon Musk's SpaceX In Mission to Destroy Federal Agency Protecting Workers" ... an agency, which is currently "investigating numerous unfair labor practice charges against Amazon for its anti-union activity at JFK8"
Good UI/UX involves saying No. Making money involves saying Yes. Its hard to reconcile the two in corporate environments.

FWIW I think they try really hard and invest a lot of resources in trying to achieve it - but the Yes people only have to win once to corrupt.
Even if Apple’s new AI proves to be exceptional, it will, like many of Apple’s offerings, operate solely within its closed ecosystem. This could be seen as a limitation, although Apple may view it as a strength. Its ability to ‘rival’ Microsoft’s AI could be questioned, given that access to Apple’s AI may be more restricted. While some features of Copilot are exclusive to the Microsoft ecosystem, it is not to the same degree as Apple’s. Copilot is accessible to anyone via a web browser, offering substantial utility.
Is there a benefit in using GPL for text editors?
The only thing missing is CSS that works (layout was messed up on my phone).
The tension is the desired outcome. I know meetings are useful and necessary, but if I start with the extreme position of “all meetings are worthless productivity leeches” it changes the conversation from justifying changing meetings to meetings having to justify their existence. Meetings should have to fight for their lives, not the other way around.
Even better, make a simple networked game. Socket.io makes it quite trivial to send messages. What I found works really well is keeping state as a series of mutations. Then a client emits a mutation and its broadcast out, if the mutation can’t apply, then it gets discarded and the server sends its copy of the state to the client that emitted the bad mutation. Makes it really hard to cheat but only requires sending mutations to the clients.

https://matthewc.dev/projects/vuex-sync-p1/
This isn't Twitter or your polycule's Wednesday night political discussion, my friend. Being proud of rejecting historical facts doesn't give you as many virtue signalling points as you think.
> Writing a toy program that fills the screen with "HELLO, I AM COMPUTER" does not feel like you just learned a magical incantation that makes this machine do your bidding.

No, but in the 80s, when the guy at Radio Shack didn't know how to stop it, it was still worth it somehow.

What can your kid do to assert some goofy kind of power in today's adult world?
Once upon a time it was considered a great strategy for browsers to make the best effort to display a page, even if the html code had errors. Just try to guess the author's intention as well as you can, and go ahead. Errors are bad. Users don't want errors.

I thought we learned from that experience. Apparently not.
Thanks for posting this. For those unaware, Weizenbaum wrote one of the first chatbots, ELIZA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum
If you actually read Amazon’s filing, they put in a few paragraphs towards the end basically dumping a bunch of constitutional arguments that are popular right now.

This is called preserving your argument for appeal. Amazon doesn’t think those arguments are going anywhere (certainly not in a proceeding before the board, is the board going to declare itself unconstitutional?), but they might get lucky and have one of these issues decided by the Supreme Court before their case is finalized on appeal.

If you don’t raise the issue now, you forfeit it later even if the law develops unexpectedly in your favor. Best practice is to preserve these arguments.
There are already some custom chips out there such as groq's[1]. And isn't Google using a lot of TPUs for this sort of thing now?
Microsoft also said to be working on custom AI chips.

[1]https://groq.com/
Glad to see that so many large corporations and billionaires can set their petty differences aside and work towards a common goal of screwing the little people.
The H100 at this point includes just the bare minimum hardware to be considered a GPU. As long as AI is primarily matrix multiplication, GPUs are going to be near ideal.
At my institution, we can contact our library and ask them to get access to those things for us, sometimes they can, sometimes they can’t. It’s not freely available because they don’t buy them all on mass but can sometimes access things for us that would otherwise be unavailable.
If you haven’t already, it would be my suggestion to try that.
Most of these are either fairly short-lived limited pilots, or aren't really "UBI" (e.g. Alaska's $1,600 a year hardly qualifies as UBI as it's just enough to buy groceries with, never mind rent or any other basic needs)

You seem to misunderstand what UBI means. UBI doesn't imply an amount of income to keep someone at or above the poverty line (or to meet all of one's needs). There are types of UBI: partial basic income (which is what most people with any sort of political or economic power talk about, including the examples in the article, which includes Alaska's Permanent fund) & full basic income.
> If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens. Look at China's economic situation right now to see how ultimately unproductive that can be.

What hogwash, if there's anything that's apparent today it's that the rich do not get there either by working hard or by being more smart. They just happen to have rich parents. Why are we ok with billionaires like elon musk who spend most of their day tweeting to control society changing amounts of wealth?
With nature, I believe it's interesting because unlike something like Minecraft, where a single chunk is entirely dictated by math, everything in nature is dictated by life. A fully grown tree exists because a previous animal didn't eat it as a sapling. A hole which was dug by rabbits now houses snakes. A path has been created by various animals moving between the trees, so there's less vegetation there, and it allows for an easier walk through the forest...but that path wasn't there originally and animals had to choose to go that way and make the path.

Whether there is intelligent design or not, you can see the effects of life existing and changing in a forest. You can detect choices, individual and collective.
> When they publicly apologize and recognize that the United States is truly the only thing keeping any order in the world

That's the exact way to alienate people and piss away the power projection network you've spent decades to build.
Agreed, using neuron layers as vectors seems like a waste. Moving to a graph-like compute model seems like it'd be more efficient.
I just use a simple customized version of the Pomodoro technique. Setting the 25 minute timer itself helps me get going as I don't want a false record of the amount of time I've worked. So when the timer starts, I know I need to work.

I typically do 2 pomodoros in a row, and then a 5-10 minute break. But if I feel like working longer (ie I'm in flow state) I keep going.

The breaks are really helpful for getting up and stretching though. Walking around. Giving the eyes a break from the screen.

I record each pomodoro I've finished in a notebook and on my pomodoro timer (a custom browser extension I made that stores a log of completed pomodoros with start and end dates, length, and notes all automatically). This helps me check how long I worked on each task that day. I can also go back and easily look at past days.

In the end, this is just a more flexible version of the pomodoro method, which I find really helpful for keeping myself on task + taking necessary breaks for my body and mind.
Isn't there is a similar spread for older technologies and crafts like horticulture/agriculture, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, printing, music, cooking... is this just evidence that software has arrived?
Odd plan. The invasion is at, what, ~500k casualties? This also assumes massive assimilation.
> specially the Middle East is a very ancient civilization with a tradition of backstabbing and betrayal going deep into the Antiquity.

As a "Middle Easterner" (a colonialist term by the way), I didn't realize that the "Middle East" was one conglomerate culture. Thank you for teaching me about my history /s
One huge hole in your plan: the shortages weren't because people suddenly had more money, they happened because a huge percentage of production and international shipping came to a halt. Demand helped but it was not a majority of the problem.
Clickbait.

Administrative agencies are not criminal courts: prosecutor, judge, and jury.

All the people piling on Amazon should realize that, someday, a 2nd Trump administration could appoint people to an agency who do things you really don't like. That's why everyone should care about separation of powers.
"Trust grows at the speed of a coconut tree and falls at the speed of a coconut."

I remember this from the book Alchemy by Rory Sutherland.
> I hope when Assange dies in prison we will have the same outrage in the media as today.

Yes. But not in the same media. /s

Journalists are hard working people who have a rent to pay, want to go on vacation and maybe have a family to feed.
My apologies. I was "referencing Tupac" ;) AKA being a jackass. I'll do better.
The relevant state of the art here, is the state of "what can an 8-year old kid who just learned how to type" create videos of. That was even worse 12 months ago!
> HOWEVER, and I hope this is a transient situation, there is a problem: in GNOME, applications that aren’t native Wayland apps don’t scale nicely.

Transient situations are almost permanent in Linux land. This has been a problem for a long time and I don't see a solution coming in the near future. But maybe I'm wrong (I hope so!).
Your ecosystem has gone so complex that you can't test it anymore. So instead of handling errors properly you suggest to implement a convoluted user flow that offers always failing actions (install a printer when there's none available).

If that's really the suggestion of product and engineering leadership at MSFT no wonder all their products...err...work as designed.
Today, a customer tells a programmer what to build using natural language. The customer doesn't write a precise spec; instead, they iterate with the programmer: "no, add a button here.", "yes, but make sure you can decline an order.".

Imagine you're a non-technical person and you communicate with a programmer only via email. You could still get your product built.

Is it really hard to imagine than an LLM could (someday) be on the other side of the email?

As for stability, I think that's something that LLMs have an advantage in. Imagine the user and the LLM create a set of regression tests. The LLM can patiently run the tests on every change.

The goal isn't perfection (LLM reads my mind and instantly creates a program). The goal is better/faster/cheaper than dealing with a human programmer.

Believe me, I know LLMs today are not there yet. The question is how long will they take to get there? My guess is 10-20 years, and I'm probably a pessimist.
I'm sure you are right but the numbers for 2023 will be published next year. We can also estimate [2] and extrapolate from the recent shift of 30% (?) of bitcoin mining from China to the US [1]. ARPA-E funded the tabulation of all US energy uses in Sankey Diagrams, which included datacenter use [2] but also does not split out NVDIA's, Bitcoin mining or AI's parts.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/us/bitcoin-mines-china-un...

[2] Energy, Following the Numbers - Saul Griffith Stanford talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewEaTlGz4s
That's sort of the point.

A lot of people got drawn into the industry in its latest boom and found themselves glueing together remote services using an ever-changing collection of heavy frontend frameworks and never experienced actually modeling an application from top to bottom. It doesn't need to be a game, but doing more of the dirty work that "[you] have no idea how to model" andis "more complicated than anything [you]'ve ever seen" can help induct you into a much richer and more cognizant craft practice.
The MAGAts in the House from the Speaker on down are blocking all Ukrainian aid concretely, not rhetorically. That's literally pro-Putin, and it comes 100% at the direction of the leader of the MAGAts.
Mirror: https://archive.is/hvVP4

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1asg116/even_desanti... (old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1asg116/even_desantis_thinks_florida_book_removals_have/kqq2cf8/)
"The big risk behind the AI investment boom"
These days, there seems to be an ever growing number of new tools and products trying to serve a small slice of the ML lifecycle, making the landscape complicated/hard to wade through. I've seen a ton of coverage about the financial/regulatory risks associated with the huge AI venture funding wave (e.g. The big risk behind the AI investment boom - https://www.axios.com/2023/10/23/venture-capital-ai-risk-investment), but not many discussions about the impact to the tools/services/infra used around it.

I wrote about the tradeoffs between choosing general purpose solutions over a suite of hyper-specialized tools in a blog here (https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickHouse-and-the-machine-learning-data-layer), and thought I'd share for those who might also find it interesting.

Curious if anyone else is thinking about this?
I’ve been searching for alternatives to crossfilter.js for slicing large multidimensional datasets at sub 10ms speeds. Would DuckDB-Wasm be a suitable alternative?
Yeah Rust the the language I'd like to know. Go is the language I'd like to use. Especially if I have to work with many other programmers.
Social security is another $1.4T/year budget that is not considered welfare [0]. Medicare is another $0.9B [1] that isn't considered welfalre [1].

If we raided these programs, along with the previously mentioned programs, we reach an annual budget of $3.5T. The per person math is $10,000/person/year. A two person household would very near the federal poverty line.[2]

It's starting to look like it could be viable if we add state budgets into the mix, and find another solution for elderly healthcare.

[0] https://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-where-do-our-fed...

[1] https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...

[2] https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...
> Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around and will stop delivering parts for F-35s in a conflict

Other pluses: American equipment is expensive. The recent purchase from S. Korea is significantly cheaper and IIRC entails a partnership agreement that requires that at least some of the manufacturing happens domestically in Poland. This allows the S. Korean defense industry to establish a base of operation in Europe. Also, the Polish armed forces have been investing in a diversity of equipment (American, EU, S. Korean, and domestic) for some time, which, of course, means they're not too dependent on a single country.
And they ask why we're cynical. I'm about done with this whole "personal computing" fad.
This is easily proven inaccurate. The largest network of sex workers is OnlyFans. Go look up stats for OF creators. It's 99.5% people making basically zero money, and 0.01% making 99% of the money.
There's a big difference between "not combating" and "encouraging". UBI would be much closer to "encouraging".
"controlled demolition"? Yes, very controlled, especially when we see outright admission by their officials that they're after "damage, not accuracy". Indiscriminate shelling and bombing is very obvious and has been recorded for history to remember.
SLI was ultimately killed by the rise of TAA. Interleaving frames breaks the assumptions of TAA models about the presence of temporal history. That's why NVIDIA went down the path of building a better TAA model/upscaler instead.
Any scenario where anyone throws a nuke means the __world__ will be blown to pieces. That's a different scale of issue.
We've been over-polluting with CO2 for over a 100 years[1]. I prefer to focus on how now we're slowly gaining the will and the way to address that.

- Solar and wind power

- New Nuclear options

- Grid Storage

- Electric vehicles

It would be nice if we'd done a hard left turn on the economy and somehow never got here but that was probably never realistic.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2889/