skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux on the desktop is utopian. Even in 2024, it is plagued with millions of bugs. I can't use Linux for an hour on a desktop PC without encountering some issue. On the other hand, MacBooks and Windows PCs just work seamlessly, without any problems whatsoever. This is solely the fault of Linux developers, who, instead of developing one system well, create dozens of half-baked package managers, desktop environments, and other components. Unfortunately, none of these work well.
A brief look at the problems keeping FOSS "functional" and not "optimal".
I think you might be a bit biased and talking here about US banks after the US deregulation disasters (still ongoing!). There are non-US banks.
If we don't earn money, how do we buy the goods the robots make abundant? What's the price when nobody has any money..

The whole point of money is lubrication under scarcity. If you don't have a job, you don't have money. No lubrication.
If humans die then what exactly is technology “solving”?
....hence the great value of open source because a lot of those managers don't give a thought to what you put in your requirements.txt or package.json.
Why did he quit? Burnout? And what career did he switch to?
Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I wouldn't just approve an individual Copilot subscription either. The problem isn't the money, it's the copyright and whether trade secrets are being leaked. Those things can surely be solved, but it's far from trivial.
Well, it gives the USA tremendous power, no? Imagine Microsoft would prevent Europe to access Azure and M365 tomorrow...

It creates jobs in the USA, which is also good.

So of course people will defend that.

In my opinion, what they fail to understand is that this power doesn't have any significant impact on their personal lives. It favours only those who are already in power.
GDP

Seems like a weird metric to overfit to. Maybe because it's easily measurable.
It won't. There will always be problems due to conflicts of interest between people.
“Developer time is not a KPI and we pay you the same whether you work 160, 180 or 200 hours a month”
I still don't quite understand how BNW was a dystopian novel.
In the U.S., sure. But in the UK status of a doctor is akin to that of a schoolteacher. Totally not a highly sought-after, profitable career like it is in the U.S.
What is it contradicting?
Can’t IT workers?
> I imagine a lot of humans will be left to die

Which would mean discontent and rebellion. I don't think any significant portion of the population would just die quietly. And from what you described, you are probably talking about 50-90% of the population.

Of course if you are cynical, you could just say that technology could "solve" this problem as well.
You can have authority while still having someone be accountable to the org. We had a situation where we were paying for three different presentation tools and two whiteboarding tools for a team of 30 people because two people had minor preferences.

I have to request a limited card for recurring spends, which comes with a "why" box. It makes people think about what they're buying just a tiny bit more. But I've never had a single purchase denied (other than the time I accidentally paid for a personal holiday on my work card because Google pay's default payment card on device and online are linked)
And asking isn't a problem - it stops three different teams signing up for slack, campfire, teams.
How do you make these links?

Edit: actually, not working anyway.
Live performance from a given artist doesn't scale. There are more people who want to watch Taylor Swift than who wanted to watch Elvis Presley because there are more people, and there is more opportunity to travel to the performance. Even if a modern top-tier artist can attract fewer people in terms of percentage (because people are happy watching on netflix or whatever), the price will still increase because the total number has increased

If there are 1M in the catchment area, and 50% want to see them, and there is seating for 50k, then prices will increase to what's affordable for the top-10%

If there are 3M in the catchment area, even if just 33% want to see them, seating is still 50k, then prices will increase to what's affordable for the top 5%

> But the central issue of this article is the issue I have with Universal Basic Income. If a person's labour is worthless, then the State has to provide some sort of income for them by taxing the business for which they would otherwise have worked.

Tax the land. Land value has massively increased over the years, everyone needs at least some land to live, even if it's just 100 square feet. Everyone has a fair claim to the land, unless you're a fan of feudal lords.

Your taxable business will not have a great business if nobody has any income. Doesn't matter how many widgets they make if nobody can afford them.
> too much suffering and risk for relatively little reward.

Is the pay as high as the US? Specialist doctors have crazy high salaries in the US.
One thing that is unlikely to change, regardless of what happens: people will keep writing these speculative doomsday pieces (perhaps with the help of some generative AI).

“What if all the roombas decide to band together and unionise? That would be a disaster!”

When humanity gets wiped eventually, maybe the robots will keep the tradition going?

“Traces of human DNA discovered in Alaska! Any chance they could come back?”
> if you solve a problem using it, two more problems spring out.

It's because people tends to forget the problems and it's solution when a technology entirely solve it without creating new problems.
ATMs for example doesn't create problems and solve a lots.
As long as there is a need to make money to survive and live, technology doing more is actually a bad thing. It'll ultimately help the "owners" and crush the "doers".
The signal will be more and more depressive content stressing out young people who don’t know better, so they don’t have kids or worse. Then make healthcare bad - it’s expensive and if governments don’t do it right, nobody blames the government, but doing it wrong saves soo much money. Then put a strain on things humans need but machines don’t - food, mental health, time off, sunlight, recreation, childcare, education. This doesn’t have to be done by machines either - just successful but sociopathic humans with resources and automation that doesn’t question their motive or means. Because you can achieve scale fast through tech, anything damaging can be scaled quickly, so if communication between humans becomes impaired, then they can all get surprised by the same problem and not know how to respond. Finally you may see some specimens kept as pets to aid whatever is left unaided.
The entire point of this discussion is whether we should question the CPI figures you are using to 'debunk'... this discussion.
> there is no equivalent to the Table feature from Excel

FWIW this is no longer true, the feature is called 'Database Ranges'. However i (sadly) don't disagree LO is still miles behind Excel.
Drug policy is perhaps the area where ideology clashes with reality the most. Both too hard and too soft stances are super counter-productive, it takes a very pragmatic approach to achieve a good result. Portugal may be the best example of success, but I'm pretty sure you can find faults to its policy.

https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
This seems to have been a completely calibrated response. Everyone knew it was coming. Iran threw a bunch of a cheap drones at Israel with hours of warning.

Others have commented the same, but Iran just wanted to give a small slap, step back from the limelight and continue to let Israel politically isolate itself.
I don't know if OP's inverter supports it (looking at the manual real quick shows that it should), but the one I have will let you set any loads to use the battery when it's fully charged. Then set a point when it'll switch off battery, say 90%, and use the excess solar (after loads) to charge the battery again. So keeping the battery between 90%-100%, while still using most of the solar.

I don't have any loads setup on mine because I don't want to run cables everywhere like that, so my battery just sits fully charged until I need it.
Perhaps scarcity is the reason why humanity hates to share. But in a post-scarcity world, I imagine later generations used to that level of security (and with no memory of scarcity) might begin to think differently. I do agree that the first-generation that experiences post-scarcity won't change their habits a wit.
In all brutal honesty it solves a cost center for companies.

Less people to employ, for the same or greater output equals more profits.

I am not a proponent of this development, just a realist.
be happy. travel, see the world, meet new people. have sex,
raise kids, make human-made music, art, knickknacks. the economist would focus on joblessness but there's more to life than work. the singularity is in sight, but there are multitudes of problems to wrestle with before we can actualize that for everybody.

thing is, that lifestyle has been here for some ever since trust funds have existed. all the singularity will do is let the rest of us live that lifestyle.
Humans are spectacular at creating their own systems for abusing and depriving themselves. No doubt we'll still be judging and killing each other for something or other. We might even have more time to decide on things we simply cannot stand the idea of someone else doing or being.
It may seem to not make sense for places that have large highways but in certain situations it is impossible to close even 1 lane during the day. This enables work under the bridge on one lane while with traffic is still flowing on all lanes.
You need to present a business case. Offer to give up the coffee.
Heavily agree with your first paragraph! I'm contemplating on leaving Germany, because I think that this is just the beginning. Idiotic politicians wasting money on bullshit and not seeing the problems we have. More bureaucracy, less motivation to move things (let's all reduce the time we work), less value for your money, less security and more resignation. I don't see a path forward except me leaving this dumpster fire to be. I cannot build the life I want here and have the opportunity to leave, so why not ... I don't see any way how this can change without a bigger reset.
"Since the cocky, self absorbed, nerds at Canonical have decided to rotate their logo 90 degrees clockwise in the 'about' menu of Nautilus we have decided enough is enough and will fork the entire distro. We are pleased to announce <abc...xyz>buntu fork #87126378215!"
It probably will. Technological leaps have often led to new kinds of war which reshape the world order (e.g. industrial revolution -> WW1).

Meanwhile, the efficiency with which capitalism (and war) created an angry, resentful underclass sowed the seeds that allowed fascism to bloom in the run up to WW2.
Well done that guy - but this is amazon trying to make itself look warm and cuddly - and maybe they are a bit better than other big online companies but treat uour workers better maybe stop trying to grow infinitely and try and be more sustainable - not to yoru profits margin but your people. Oh and not just "distinguisehd" engineers - box packers too...
You can say QM is deterministic either somewhat trivially in configuration space or with superdeterminism. That's probably good enough for God.

Edit: or even Bohm, if you're pushing "initial state" to the breaking point.
A small percentage of people control the vast majority of the money, and thereby control the output of the AIs. Everyone else most likely gets by on a UBI. If everything is truly abundant, they may well even have objectively better quality of life than the average person now, just no real ability to impact the world.
>hen the State becomes a dominating force in the economy, and the principles of the market economy start to break down

But isn't that the second element of this? The principles of the market economy break down because most people won't have anything to offer in the market, not because the government is over-reaching by trying to provide support for people who no longer have any legal means of supporting themselves in a market where their value is now zero.

We're going to be in very dangerous territory, but it's not because of government meddling (which is how I read your comment as viewing UBI - sorry if this isn't the case, but there are quite a few free market opinions on here, so again sorry if I'm misrepresenting your views). It's because the very thing that all economic models are based on is about to have the rug pulled from underneath it. The models will need to be altered as production without labour is about to become much more common.
Sure:

* Competing against luck

* Four steps to the epiphany

* Positioning by Ries (IIRC)

But also books on business strategy and marketing are essential. I read several at uni. Maybe pick up an HBR guide or FT book if you don't want to go for a full textbook.

They should give you more ways to think about problems, let you be more confident in ideas you choose, and reinforce the need to iterate quickly and only gradually commit more resources.

Most entrepreneurial advice could probably be summarised as: make products with new tech that solve real problems.

The new tech part means you get in before competitors, and solving real problems keeps it laser focussed on customers with important enough problems they'll pay for it.
It's because ultimately we live in a plutocracy and that is a measure of their collective success.
Exactly what I thought. Exceptions are always possible, but more people need to channel their inner baysian and assign appropriate prior probabilities. Someone with impressive and relevant credentials gets a higher prior from me that their talk will be worthwhile. Doesn't mean that prior is 100% or that some nobody's prior is 0%.
Dan's Journey Back to Health and Fitness [video]
Get a hobby that you can do outdoors with other people. Hiking, hunting, paddling, sailing, bouldering, volunteering, playing sports, LARPing, reenacting...

Embed yourself into the local community, become a pillar of it.

Start a family and support your children, don't try to mould them into what you wish you could have been.
llm.c is now down to 26.2ms/iteration, matching PyTorch
I think that's routine, to the extend that it's possible. But one also wants to avoid having too much stored within shooting range.

BTW. One of my history books stated that in WW2(?) the necessary supplies were more than a ton per day and front-line soldier. 16kg of food and drinks, and a little of this and a little of that.
Devil's advocate: it is characteristically autistic to have episode names memorised like that, and it sort of is 'blurting out a series of words' if you don't know that's what it is; a more 'normal' answer might be more like a description of the episode or 'the one called [...]'. I think perhaps you can see that in Sam's assistance, he doesn't know the episode names, possibly he knows or expects that is an episode name, and is describing one he remembers that it probably names.

I don't think there were necessarily saying that John just said a load of nonsense that didn't answer the question, just that it needed a bit of deciphering; that Sam helped explain what he meant to a non-fan.
The EU has compelled companies to switch to Microsoft — yes, you read that correctly. The EU introduced the GDPR law, which significantly increased the complexity of using third-party services. To minimize this complexity, companies found it more straightforward to consolidate their services with Microsoft, as it facilitates easier compliance with EU GDPR regulations.

Once again, we can thank the EU for pressuring companies to use Microsoft products.
> A year and a half later, in mid ‘98, we were gifted CSS 2. (I love the background on this page, by the way.) This was a modest upgrade that addressed a few deficiencies in various areas, but most interesting was the addition of a couple positioning primitives: the position property, which let you place elements at precise coordinates, and the inline-block display mode, which let you stick an element in a line of text like you could do with images.

inline-block was actually introduced in CSS 2.1, which came a few years after CSS 2.
Depends how you define demand. People who need and seek care, or just those who need care?

Some people absolutely don't bother seeking care because they know they'll be denied care without a huge battle
The Elephant in the room: all the different languages in Europe and it is only recently (past 10-20 years) that English proficiency has become high enough. This made communication difficult and still makes it very difficult to get people to move to another country. (edit: you need to know the local language to get any kind of social life).

Compare getting someone to move from Chicago to San Francisco (same language, same culture) versus getting someone to move from Norway to Italy (completely different language, very different culture).

So USA had a much larger effective work force when a company wanted to hire developers and much easier marketing of the products.

Europe had a lot of computer hardware companies in the 1980's but they were never able to capture the full European market. So they died out due to lack of scale.

There is also the problem of every single country wanting to be a king, so there was no political will to say "we need to join forces and create one single SV" (or one single unix company).

Still today EU can't create an European Silicon Valley as you don't get a SV by saying "we want a SV here", you get it by saying "everywhere else is NOT going to be a SV".
Well yes? You're complaining that a motorbike has an engine when you're perfectly capable of and would rather power it with your own two legs.
Absolutely not. Not all IT jobs & Doctor jobs are created equal. Entry-level roles might not warrant super high salaries in either case. Both IT and Doctor fields have a spectrum of jobs with varying pay scales depending on complexity and criticality.
> preferably working with development of new patient records systems.

That field is quite a mess. There's a oligopoly of few large vendors with low quality products but high quality politics and sales. Although as a working physicians you're probably familiar at least with the results.

Edit: Further discussion, including EHR system developers, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39186252

Having been on the user side could be a major upside for improving the efficiency of the systems, but I'm afraid the business model of EHRs don't really allow for improving the systems much.
> That's the reason why malware has it easy because companies still send office documents that should be a PDF.

PDF embedding attacks have been a thing for years.

Personally I think that the culture of sending everything as a Word or Excel attachment has a lot to do with the dominance of MS office but if you can't avoid Office-like applications the other options are even worse.
or the Scandinavian countries that generally have higher spending power than the us.

remember not to conflate a strong economy with an economy that is worth living in. you can possess minimum paid jobs in order to make profits for shareholders and never see a dime of that wealth yourself, but alas, you live in a strong economy.
I'm curious about the two numbers recorded every second Saturday:

242/119, 246/85, 183/78, 187/84, 207/76, 115/197, 121/201, ...

Maybe it's obvious to Americans? Is it related to sports? I sure hope it's not their blood pressure!
Not really.

3 cups a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month = 60 cups of coffee. If we say 15g of beans per cup means you'll use 2 one pound bags in a month which could easily be $20-$40.
Is that necessarily true on a very long timescale?

Is it getting easier or harder over time to make meaningful contributions to storytelling, science, mathematics, etc?
Rat Rods: Teaching a rat to drive a car
All we have are three raccoons in a trashcan, but you'll be able to fit this in the current sprint, right?
+1

Moving forward with historical debt is very difficult and risky. However, at the same time, it also requires managers to have a clear understanding.
"During the eighties, a nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his job"

And now we know he got his period on the 15th, as well. Did the author not read each cell systematically?
It's triple the cost of a single user license for the same thing. Beancounters don't like that.
having built my own startup in elixir/phoenix, i'd have to agree.

I think it comes down to how you define a microservice/monolith. when it comes down to codebase, our codebase is very much a monolith. however elixir lets you connect nodes together and setup individualized processes that can be communicated with by any other node in your network toplolgy using the BEAM's built in pubsub system. in essence, creating a new microservice is easy. you just define a geneserver file and add it to your application.ex. about as much effort as adding a controller in rails and that makes a big difference. you get a lot of the advantage of microservice architecture where you spread computation across your physical machines but the codebase is a small easy to maintain monolith.
So it would have been legal for the UK to bomb Dublin in the 90s because the IRA was bombing civilians in the UK?
I usually go to https://archive.is/, copy in the link I want to archive, submit, wait a minute, and then you receive the link to the archived article.
People don't hate Teams. It is competitive enough against Zoom and Google Meet (which is the worst of the three) for people to use it for video conferencing.

As a slack competitor Teams is arguably worse, but for people who haven't used Slack the difference is hard to justify switching.
Depends if you wanna figure out the mysteries of the universe or live in subsistence, either are fine by me
Learning things for fun and not just for profit. Physical development, learning a new sport. Spiritual development, meditating, observing. Engaging in arts, creating, exploring. Helping the less fortunate, volunteering, teaching. Traveling, learning about different cultures, different languages. Cooking. Spending time in nature, watching animals, birds, mushrooms, sunsets. Photography. These are just some examples, the list is endless :-)

Personally I’ve grown a lot from gardening and weightlifting. Having children made me more human.
Reading many of the philosophies on how AI will solve all the problems - I have to wonder if those people ever worked a "real job". I am professional in IT sector just like majority here, but on occasion when I do some masonry, or plumbing or electrical work - I do appreciate and understand how much flexibility and creativity people have. Event with "simple software" that you build for real business (like waste collection, logistics - ie. not IT), you might see how much more complicated the real life is from the "lab" setup AI is evaluated in.

I believe with AI we will see future similar to self-driving cars: they will improve work, and some mundane repeated tasks (the tasks that might take 60-80% of time) - but they won't fully replace need for workers. Just that workers gonna be different - instead of repeatedly doing stuff they will have to make decisions, spot issues etc.

And then there is whole artisan theme. You can take for example bakery. One can purchase anything in super-market cheaper, but there are bakeries where it's just better and more preferred for those who can afford. Or coffee. Or whatever else that is already automated but we prefer to be served by human.
Plenty of businesses - probably especially AI companies that do original research - found PMF in a market that’s too small for their cost structure. Like I bet Anthropic and OpenAI have positive margins on their raw APIs if you exclude all R&D costs. Even Google’s AI research is subsidized by one of the largest profit generators in Silicon Valley.

So basically, yes, amount raised.