skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard some people describe this as the inevitable outcome of enabling Israel’s apartheid practices. That Israel has been using harsher and harsher policies against Palestinians over the years, dehumanizing them in the process, electing ever more right wing extremists into their government, etc. That Israel is functionally becoming a fascist ethno-state as a logical conclusion of practicing apartheid, and the international order not raising an issue. Starving an entire population of “the others” is simply something that fascist ethno-states do.

> It's interesting to me what the Hamas government thought was going to happen when they decided to attack Israel.

My theory is that they thought Israel would retaliate as they did, but then the International order would kick in, order a ceasefire and they could negotiate a deal using the hostages as leverage. I don’t think they thought that the international response would be as lackluster as we have seen (even the Bush admin did not veto a ceasefire resolution in 2008 like the Biden admin has done now 3 times).

We have to keep in mind that most (all?) Hamas members have family members who are starving and suffering. I very much doubt that they want that to continue.
I don't see how that shows that "free love" is supported by credible scientific research.

Worth noting is that Mead herself had an adulterous past. Sexual misbehavior can produce feelings of guilt and disgust with oneself, and one (unhealthy) way to try to cope with that guilt is to rationalize one's misbehavior. If Samoans, seen through modern Western eyes as a representation of the "pure state of nature", can be shown to be promiscuous, then, according to this highly tendentious and fallacious interpretation, promiscuity must be "natural", the state of nature, and it is the West, or perhaps even "civilization" in general, with its weird sexual hangups, that is in error. So why feel guilty?

Of course, as the aforementioned expose shows, there were Samoan police records of men with broken jaws or whatever that contrary to Mead's account, Samoan men expressed exactly the kind of reaction to their wives' adulterous affairs as one would expect. Not that contrary evidence would change anything anyway.

Aldous Huxley admitted to a similar rationalizing process, but one that was even more deeply offensive from a metaphysical point of view. He admitted that the real reason he and those of his generation and his milieu celebrated a nihilistic view of life is to rationalize their own promiscuity. If nothing means anything, then why not sleep around? Of course, he later had the honesty to admit his motives.

Alfred Kinsey is another one we can add to the list. Kinsey himself suffered from sexual pathologies, and his "studies" were riddled with selection bias wherein the selection of those he interviewed skewed heavily toward sex criminals and people with various sexual disorders. Never mind the sexual abuse of children he engaged in.

We could add Reich, Freud, Satre,... to the list.
Not directly related but I'll take any opportunity to rant about property investment in commonwealth countries.

Something I have observed about Commonwealth countries is the obsession with property as a vehicle for investment. Speaking from my experiences growing up in New Zealand and living in Australia, I find the culture infuriating.

Every single financial planner I have spoken to has recommended that I invest heavily/exclusively in property. The tax incentives and welfare given to property investors are so generous that they renders all other investment vehicles irrational.

Why buy stocks, start a restaurant, or do anything other than buy property and sit on it? It's such a parasitic industry perpetuated by policies designed to deepen, or at the very least maintain, the current status quo.

It has resulted in an environment where investors have no incentive to increase housing stock (particularly in terms of density) or improve living conditions for tenants.

For instance, adding thermal insulation to a property is an expense with no advantage to the investor (they don't need to be competitive) and the disincentive towards higher density contributes towards sprawl which strains public transit resources.

As a young professional trying to be smart with my hard earned, slowly accumulating nest egg - I'm deeply saddened by this environment.

/rant
I assume that means, "The obvious solution is to increase property tax on rental properties to force the hand of landlords.

Otherwise you're taxing the potential and new home-owners who might be on the edge of being able to afford a house.

I'd pretty much go for anything like this at this point that would stop the ever widening gap between average income and average house price - and I'm a landlord.
"Seattle is known for its rainy weather, especially during the spring months. According to historical data, March typically sees an average of 17 rainy days in Seattle. Given that we're in the middle of March, there's a fairly high likelihood of rain on any given day.

Without access to real-time weather data, I'd estimate that there's approximately a 50-60% chance of rain in Seattle on March 20th, based on historical averages. However, for the most accurate forecast, I'd recommend checking a reliable weather website or app closer to the date." -- chatgpt

(prompted with the current date, location, an admonition to estimate, and a promise that I understand it will likely be wrong)
> Fizz Buzz does not test for that.

No, but it's decent for what it does. You're criticising the wrong thing.
I’ve no qualms about asking (or telling, if asking doesn’t work) people to be quiet if they’re talking on their phone or asking them to turn it off if the glare is distracting. What surprises me is how nobody else calls out the bad behaviour – even though they’ve all paid a substantial price to enjoy the cinema experience.
Yes, let's do everything apart from increasing supply, surely this time that will work. There's some sanity in the comments of the article which explain the silliness of the articles thesis.
I used a similar setup to reboot my home server remotely, with gpio pins instead of wakeonlan.

I eventually replaced it with an aliexpress tuya pcie power switch. I just wish I'd gotten the zigbee version. Homeassistant with local tuya wifi devices is quite janky.
For clarity, I’ll call out the areas where I think we disagree:

> “the home … [has] less potential for lethal outcomes.”

I don’t think this is true. Roads already have systems in place to make them safer, and people are aware of the dangers. This isn’t the case at home, and useful home robots certainly have the ability to cause serious injuries/deaths

> “If we can solve home robotics I think cars would be easier”

I also think cars are easier. However, I think this is _why_ we’ve made more progress towards solving self driving.

> “I’d pay a handsome sum to have perfectly cleaned kitchen and bathrooms every day when I wake up.”

When you say “perfectly cleaned rooms”, I think “better than you can get with a 90th percentile hired cleaner”. I suspect useful home robots might be 10 years out, but I’m doubtful we’ll get “perfectly cleaned rooms” from a commercial home robot and using the above criteria within even the next 50 years. Maybe controversial, but I think AGI might be easier, lol
Not unlike Peter Thiel.

Gates, Jobs, Dell, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg are all dropouts.
This alone makes me want to try Causal. I run my business with a gargantuan Google Sheet. It works - we nail our numbers. But scenario testing is very hard.
My parents used to sub-let back decades ago... So even that increased the number of people per unit. I don't think outside room mates that is popular anymore either. Which means more units are needed.
If I were any good at following best practices, I wouldn't be a startup founder :)
Yeah, those pesky setbacks like getting injured, working yourself to death and running out of money so you can't feed yourself.

If only people tried for real.

In my experience people most likely to write this are trust fund babies who neglect to mention they're getting essentially a stipend from their parents to take care of all their life necessities, so they can "try for real". Whatever that means.
True.

However it is also the specific context in which the lifetime-universe-traversal concept emerges.
Charles Barkley is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy
s/LLMs/people
To be clear, hell yea it would.
Yeah, I thought those were really bad examples. The author seems to be desperate to provide ammunition to undermine their own article :D
Swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone. Oops, you're suddenly doing 3D transformations.

There are dozens of UI effects which rely on the GPU, and there's just no such thing as a 2D GPU these days, it makes no sense unless you're building a retro console or something.
Putting my systems to sleep at night saves me € 400,- a year. Enough to buy a mini pc to watch the fortress.
Absolutely. In Churchill’s prose: https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-...

Landlordism is an absolute scourge.
Java 8 allows access to unsafe methods, which despite being meant for internal JDK use only, have been widely used in external projects. Newer Java versions do not permit the use of unsafe except for the JDK itself.

It wasn't ever part of the public API that's promised to never break, and JDK developers were annoyed that it being used meant Java got perceived as unstable, and it's gone in more recent versions.
If you only increased property tax on rentals and not owner-occupied homes, it would basically be a tax increase on the poor (since they are competing for rentals, and landlords that would rent to them all have the same property tax increase). I would never go for it.
Concepts from the mechanics of flight (e.g. lift and drag) have helped ornithologists understand birds better. Birds themselves did not learn much.
Just today at $DAYJOB we had a complaint that one teams Azure Kubernetes clusters was "slow". About only metric out of norm was network traffic - but lack of detailed instrumentation meant we couldn't really isolate the cause to specific container or process
Got it. Appreciate that. That makes sense.

Was genuinely curious.
My experience is in fact the opposite. I usually buy the larger sets, and have nearly always had left over smaller pieces. It made me worried the first time it happened and I spent the time tracing back through the model only to find I didn't miss anything.
AI can only learn from what has been created. So far, humans created all stuff is used to train AI.

Thought experiment : If humans stop to create/innovate and delegate everything to AI, AI will be left with no more training data except than the one it itself created (+ all digitalized data created from humans before they stopped).
Which will be condensed in statistical weights, again and again. Over the years, no more innovation, just tuning a statistical model, and humans hoping for something new and unseen that works, because AI has all knowledge.

I just hope humanity won't end up like this.
Land Value Tax achieves more with less compliance overhead and no loopholes (hiding land is hard).
At this point I'm pretty sure that any attempt to verify someone's "humanity" is bound to be a privacy nightmare. Worse it seems it will only become more so as we get better at making computers mimic human behaviour.
Ask HN: What "project" should I work on to get a SWE job?
I'm a senior CS major, looking for internships for the summer and also of course a full-time job for when I graduate in December.

I keep being told to do some projects or something.

But what exactly should I do?

I'm kind of worried because outside of class I never code for my own sake. Feel like in class we are always working on some project, often complicated projects, but no employer wants to hear about that. They only want to hear about things you've done outside the syllabus.
> Java keeps chasing mistakes like green threads

If by green threads you mean virtual threads in JDK 21 could you please elaborate why they are a mistake? I'm not a Java developer but from what I see new concurrency model allows to write much more efficient network software - OS threads are expensive (in terms of RAM/CPU) and to handle many thousands of network connections (C10k problem) you have to either throw a lot of hardware or use NIO (New/Non-blocking I/O) which is hard to code.

One of reasons why Go become popular - gorutines look like normal threads (relatively easy to code) but more efficient.
And even if there is enough houses they are in places where there is no demand due to lack of work... Remote work can serve some, but you also need robust enough manufacturing sector. And those are not remote jobs... In the end globalization might have made stuff cheaper to buy, but also led to housing issues.
The evidence in the OP is much broader than that:

In terms of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, the UK has roughly the average number of homes per capita: 468 per 1,000 people in 2019. We have a comparable amount of housing to the Netherlands, Hungary or Canada, and our housing stock far exceeds many more affordable places such as Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. It is impossible to make a case for unique levels of housing scarcity in Britain, in comparative international or historical terms.
Many people with homelabs - or a NAS with a ton of disks - don't use it all that often and it can cost quite a bit in electricity over the course of a month.
Or maybe they live in an apartment and prefer quiet over the noise of fans and disks.
> Israel may not allow them back in again.

Never thought of that...

I really hope those people get food, it would be a shame for Israel to become the moral twin of the NAZI.
> SO needs to refocus on user stories and pain points.

It did, massively, but ended up alienating a lot of loyal, hard working volunteers in the process, because actually a lot of first time interactions were good and patient, and only a few weren't, and SO talked as though they were all bad. And even then, they were mostly just brusque based on culture rather than actually bad.

If you read some of the beginner questions that had no effort put into them, requiring a long patient conversation to tease out the detail, partway through which half the time the beginner would lose patience, say something rude and leave, and then post about toxicity on Reddit, you might also sympathise slightly more with mods and regulars who've dealt patiently with this sort of thing hundreds of times.

Tl;dr: You can't be both a repository of useful, searchable reference content and a human-powered ChatGPT interface for beginners.
As a musician I absolutely love my "so small/light forgot I had it in my backpack"-500W Bass amp, compared to a 36 kg tube one. Class D is the shit.
I believe the point is that we understand the birds' flight better applying the principles we learnt designing and flying airplanes. Similarly, we can learn more about human brain by applying things we learn from building the ANN back to the study of humans (anthropology in general, maybe neuroscience and psychology )
> They hypothesized that a student who studies the textbooks before the open-book exam was likely to perform better than a student who studies the textbook.

interesting hypothesis, but probably not what was meant.

“editor” is shaping up to be the hot new job for fleshy consciousnesses by the early thirties.
I liked the time when Avi yelled at the director of SETI, Jill Tarter (inspiration for the fictional Ellie Arroway from the movie Contact), whose life's work has been searching for ETs for not searching for ETs in the right way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI&t=1879s
Ask HN: What should I specialize in as a senior CS major?
CS is so big, there are so many things to do.

How do I find out what I should "specialize" in?

I've studied a whole bunch but I just don't know what to do.
I for one think it is important to make sure that young scientists not learn to dream too big.
Causing landlords and speculators to actually put units to market does increase supply, without the added complexity (and cost and time lag) of having to build it first.
They use population not number of households in many places such as:

“the UK has roughly the average number of homes per capita: 468 per 1,000 people in 2019.”

“even though its population is roughly the same as it was 70 years ago”

“the UK’s homes-per-capita ratio actually exceeds the US’s.”

The last one is why I brought up the US household size. 2.36 vs 2.67 is a huge difference requiring a great deal of extra housing stock. IMO, using households once at the beginning then swapping to population was intentionally deceptive.
There's No Dark Matter?
But not if you put "starting the next Google" as the criteria for success.
> No, it's like arguing that all people who are no longer in their prime need walk-on ramps or lifts in addition to stairs.

That's basically exactly what I said yeah. Which isn't correct because plenty of people who are not in their prime still do not need those things. It doesn't help with making your point.

Instead I'd cite statistics on how many people actually use these accessibility features, and not some far more general group of "how many people are not perfect".

Also, in case it isn't clear, I'm not arguing against accessibility features at all, I just think this part of your argument was a bit misleading.
I decided that nothing is important enough to me to spend any time on this. Other than financial, job, medical, insurance or tax records and the like.
> Can't do same with ASICs.

You can make latches with ASIC perfectly well. Or even more complex memory elements.
I accept this as at least somewhat responsive. But (1) it's pretty vague and speculative as a statement about how resources have in fact been allocated thus far. And (2) it seems like no matter how much I try to clarify, you just can't resist making this into a matter of how bad string theory is, which is all well and good but is not the point of my question.

I was hoping for something along the lines of "Yeah, check out chapter 4 of Peter Woit's book where he gets into the crazy things he witnessed at his campus during the 2010s" or something like that.

I guess I'll just try Peter Woit's book and peruse his blog a bit to see what he means.
It compiles on my machine but I can't run it, I always get a SIGSEGV. Same thing for the chess program.

I ran both the original build command and the "And now it is 2024" one.
> land value tax, not property tax.

If you fund your schools with tax on property, the amount of money you need scales with the number of residents you have. So now you have to distribute those liabilities across land value rather than per occupied units, that could lead to some huge distortions (a 100 story apartment with 200 kids paying negligible taxes while a single family home paying for 200 kids while they only house 2).
A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts
You gotta fight, for your right, to have websites
AMD "c" cores are about 65% as big as the normal ones.

Intel "E" cores are about 30% as big as the normal ones.

AMD avoids the scheduling issues, but does not get the density benefits.
Much of the gap of debt to income comes from interest rates. I don't know what the best way to address this, but I think we can require larger downpayments for investment properties too.
>Customers will happily pay 10k-20k extra for a self-driving car, and there are industries in which even more cost makes sense. Customers are less likely to pay that for a robot that does your chores

It would be at least an upper middle class purchase at that level but it depends how generally useful it was. People pay thousands of dollars a year for a housekeeper to come by.
The UK does indeed have plenty of housing.

Unfortunately, it's mostly in places where people don't want to live, because there's no jobs in those areas.

The places with the jobs have severe housing shortages. Some of those shortages can be resolved by building more homes, but there are also places which look great right up until you realise they're on a flood plain.

But even the places where you can build more houses, if you just do that without also improving the surrounding infrastructure, you'll end up with horrible congestion… and if you're building infrastructure anyway, you should put that infrastructure in the places that already have houses so that businesses will want to start up there.

Unfortunately, the UK government keeps cancelling the bits of infrastructure that would help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2
Ah no you're right. I meant raid 1.

With 4 bays you can definitely fill them up and go for striping to increase capacity and redundancy but high TB disc's are $$
I kind of empathize where they are coming from, my electronics version of "this meeting could have been an email" is "this fpga could have been an arduino".

I feel like we're constantly spoiled by the clock speed of computers, they are good enough for so many things. FPGAs can make simple things a bear to implement, and you will just get there faster.

But there's a bunch of things where FPGAs are like discovering fire, all the discrete digital logic you ever wanted in the palm of your hand (until you have to meet timing).
I observe that my parents still live in a five bedroom home they purchased in the 1980s. This is not uncommon where I live. As the next generation moved out, they couldn’t find housing because their parents never left. In areas like where I grew up, it’s a ghost town of under-occupied monster homes and shuttered schools.

Time to roll out some tax policies designed to incentivize the old to move along and free up space for the young.
The diversity in today's transmissions is finally bringing in a golden age... except for manual transmission fans (though still the most economical option, automatics have grossly improved with all of these new technologies).

* Hybrids are largely "Power Split Devices" (Toyota / Ford / etc. etc.) which use a planetary gearset to kinda-sorta make a CVT-like approach.

* CVTs with belts and/or cones are all available, to varying qualities.

* Dry DCTs have created sub-100ms shifts in automatic transmissions

* ZF8 (wet-clutch planetary gear / torque-converter traditional automatic) has sub 200ms shifts (~150ms or so for the typical ZF-8). Just old tech but done exceptionally well today.
>and finally GPT4 achieved the understanding of the world and reasoning capabilities that would probably qualify as AGI just 10 years ago.

...not really. GPT4 is just MoE so its good at more things, but its not really a huge upgrade over 3.5, the quality of which is directly a result of much larger parameter scaling.

I expect GPT 5 to be just more multi modal, perhaps with some added capabilities through prompt engineering internally. For example, when asked a question about code, it would execute the code, and ask itself if the answer is what it would expect or are there any issues. Or do things like automated web searching and using the html in the context, and provide answers based on that. And for any of those modes, there is countless optimizations you can do.

The thing about LLMs is that they are basically just the next Google, i.e efficient information lookup. There are 2 main things missing from them being able to reason.

1. Self guided recurrent loops. Rnns are difficult to train correctly, which is why transformer architecture took over, but for reasoning there needs to be some sort of recurrent loop that is self determined by the model to iterate on the correct answer.

2. Information ingestion without need for training loops, which looks like some sort of short term memory. Context windows aren't it. There needs to be some way for an LLM to look at a piece of text and with minimal passes auto configure the parameters to "remember" that piece of text.
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You hit the nail head on. The field of IT is a pop culture and consequently just as prone to fads and periodic fashions.