skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People define their utopia as whatever society doesn't have the problems they imagine,

I defined it as (a) guaranteeing food, clothing and housing; and (b) where people are not compensated for their actions. This is an abstract model of a functional society that might exist without capitalism, and it's not subject to my whims.

If you believe such a society is impossible, or prohibitively difficult to get to, that's one thing. If you have reasons that such a society would be a bad place to live, then that's a different thing: it means we shouldn't be striving for it, and that's a really valuable insight! Both of these are ways you can productively argue with anti-capitalists, and I wouldn't say either kind of criticism is stupid or boring.

Such criticisms might be obvious to you, but they're clearly not obvious to good-faith anti-capitalists (of which there are many, though you might not meet them much on internet forums). If you can only share your insight, maybe you can turn those good-faith anti-capitalists away from their path of pointless, desperate futility.

> In utopia bad things do not happen.

I think you're thinking of eutopia (lit: good place). I said utopia (lit: no place). "Magical utopia" was a deprecating caveat, referencing the uselessness of this description as an instruction manual: if that part is confusing you, feel free to ignore it.

Compare the magical utopia presented in Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, where food, shelter and immortality are available unconditionally to all citizens of the Bitchun society, and everyone else is dead. That society is not a mere happy fantasy land: it has problems, and those problems are consequences of how society is organised. The Clarketech that supports the society might be impossible, but saying "that society's impossible, so thinking about it is irrelevant" is just a refusal to engage with the premise.

Frankly, if you don't want to have an opinion, then don't have an opinion. If you don't want to explain your opinion, don't explain it. But don't state your opinion, and then act like explaining yourself is beneath you.
Yeah, but I'm not sure conference proposals by themselves actually have a lot of value given that, in many cases (ask me how I know), the presentations won't actually exist until week or two before the the event.

Certainly a talk by X that's totally unconnected from anything they're directly involved with has less value.
Two-bit values are common in bioinformatics, and I’ve found the ability to efficiently convert between packed arrays of 1- and 2-bit values to be valuable in that domain.
But here's the things I'm not clear about: Surgeon get immediate feedback if they make mistakes because their patient might die or get severely disabled, but is there any feedback to GPs about the effectiveness of their work?

Let's say someone is not treated that well by his doctor for a chronic condition. He gets to the emergency in a different hospital and probably dies. Does his GP get to know about it?

For example, many doctors in my country believe that Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) on an ECG is nothing much to worry about, as long as there is no anatomical LVH showing up on an Echocardiogram. Yet, study after study online concludes that ECG LVH is a serious marker of cardiac pathology distinct from (but related to) from anatomical LVH.

How do doctors who operate on this assumption going to learn from experience, if they mostly don't know that their patients have cardiac events as a result?
The 'full load' designation may be a distraction as the research appears to be focused on improving the cooling in general which obviously enables the use of less efficient and cheaper electronics.
How do you know chickens aren’t reasoning about things?
I don't know what you mean by 'simple fructose'. You're the only one who has said that. Candy usually has high fructose corn syrup which is about 60% fructose and 40% sucrose.
Agreed that’s interesting. Really makes you think about all these crackpots talking about a uniparty, deep state vs the people, etc
California being the most populous state is a pretty big deal. I'm guessing the focus on two states is more a result of Mercedes' focus on geofencing/mapping test areas than anything.
3rd party chipsets not always a good thing.

I remember consistently having reliability issues with Windows 98 when installed on systems with VIA chipsets, but almost no problems with Intel chipsets. Gigabyte motherboards if it makes a difference, and yes, the chipset drivers were installed.
I’m not sure it’s hypocrisy so much as pure self-interest. It would be hypocrisy if the complaint was actually about the condition of Chinese workers. Few really care about that unless they’re jumping out of windows, and most not even then.

In both cases, it’s just capitalists wanting to make money. It may be awful but it’s at least consistent.
I think the idea is a company would only build what they use instead of replicating AWS feature for feature. If they just build what the need then I think 30% is on the low side.
DC would even be cheaper, you could skip the PFC front-end.
It's funny but when I think about it, I realize I don't find much continuity in my career. Officially, I'm a SWE today as I was in my first internship 25 years ago. But everything was different. The people, the tech, my skills, my brain, the expectations, even the country I was living in, the type of company. In that sense, I don't feel I have much more useful experience than my 30 years old colleague.

This is also true outside of professional life. When you're 50 years old, you're a different person than when you're 20, facing totally different sets of situations.
As a certified teacher with about a decade of experience who still struggles with explaining things, mainly with knowing my audience and not saying ALL THE THINGS all at once, if recommend volunteering in a classroom, practicing in a mirror, recording yourself, following advice from Make it Stick: the science of successful learning, and to continue listening to and especially emulating skilled explainers.
> I can get a 128 core system today, if I need the density.

256 core now with bergamo.
Have you ever thought about just passing out a set of grades on random to random individuals and see how that shakes out. Like totally random and unjustified grades. D minus for an A+ student. A+ for fails etc. Just random chaos. Then just score the final correctly and see the effect?

Or just having a Kafkaesque pass fail grade with no feedback for each student relative to their own performance over time with an expected growth rate applied?
I think GP's point was specifically about science answering the questions like "why is there something rather than nothing?"; relativity and QFT don't say anything about this question.

(Though lacking falsifiability isn't necessarily such a bad thing even for scientific theories anyway.)
This is all opinion, but for me, it’s not that modern macOS has severely regressed from Snow Leopard, though I don’t like notarization and I also don’t like the flat design and iOS influences that have made its way to macOS in the past decade. However, it seems to me that macOS hasn’t improved substantially since Snow Leopard, at least from my point of view. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; even with the iOS UI elements that have made its way to macOS, somebody from 2009 using Snow Leopard would easily navigate a 2024 Mac running Sonoma; the macOS interface hasn’t changed substantially since 2001. Other than integration with the rest of Apple’s ecosystem, most of the macOS features I use were present all the way back in Tiger, such as Spotlight.

Another issue I have with modern Apple software is the removal of features (I still miss iPhoto; Photos.app is inferior) and the loss of the perfectionism that once defined Apple; I feel Apple’s software has gotten buggier. Of course the Mac today is much more stable than it was in the classic era (no memory protection and cooperative multitasking made for an unstable environment that meant needing to reboot in the middle of getting work done), but it seems like a regression from the 2000s when Steve Jobs had tight control.

There’s also the context of when Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard were released. I believe these releases of macOS were far better than contemporary Windows releases (XP, Vista, 7) and compared to KDE and GNOME of the time. In fact, if somebody made a Linux desktop environment today that was a clone of Tiger and if enough software was written that conforms to Apple’s human interface guidelines of the era, this would be heads and shoulders better than current versions of GNOME and KDE, but this is my opinion and everyone has different tastes.
Yes you have to think of the overhead. It's not just buying a rack and some hardware. You need power, cooling, standby generators, redundant internet connectivity, firewalls, people who know how to run all of those things, and people to manage those people.

Amazon and Google and Microsoft spread the cost of all of that out over many customers, you're paying for it yourself if you're doing it yourself.

As long as there is no collusion, having at least a few big cloud providers should eventually drive prices down to close to the marginal cost of providing the service. Your job is to avoid lock-in to any specific provider's platform.
I'm not a big fan of putting everything in the cloud, but one of the advantages of online grading systems is that it is easier to make this kind of adjustment. The workflow goes like this: make a rubric item for a specific kind of mistake (it takes a little experience to know which mistakes are likely one-off and which ones are likely to be repeated by other students), assign X points, and later if you decide there are worse mistakes, adjust the points and that gets applied to everyone.
You are not charging enough. Good luck.
Getting harder to use cash. Fewer places accept it at all since COVID, and even some consumer purchases trigger SAR review when I withdraw the cash. (e.g. buying a whole rig's worth of expensive computer parts from Microcenter, a car, or even some TV's can all approach that $8,000 limit where banks consider it close enough to the $10,000 rule)
Well yeah that’s what the name “United States” means - different states in one country.

And each state has its own set of laws. Dunno why this example popped into my head but - back during COVID when we had the first case in the state of Washington, we said “first case in the U.S.”
You are quite naive. Government in many countries is a framework to help enforce ethical behavior. Without enforcement I wouldn’t pay my taxes just because “I want to pay my fair share”. I pay them because the IRS exists. Having companies and industries regulate themselves just leads to a lot of “trust me bro I’m good” scenarios.
brew install --cask xquartz

Or install from the project homepage [1]. Then just launch the X11 app. Note that it does require the application to be built for Mac - it’s not an emulator, just an implementation of the X11 APIs.

[1] https://www.xquartz.org/
Look up a graph of rising sea levels after the last glacial age. Writing starts precisely where the graph levels of to current levels.
You mostly don't need all the things AWS built. You need, maybe, 10-20% of it.
You act like this is something new. Instead people acting like idiots in mass is the status quo. Just think about the internet before AI, we were taking the most brilliant minds of the generation and having them focus on selling ads. We're a self destructive lot in general.
Consider how my family was able to handle it, growing up on a council estate (kind of like a ghetto, in America) in the 80s. Sure there was probably more T.V. than was healthy, but there was as much quality time as possible.

Nowadays we say negligent parenting (yes, I believe putting your kid in front of a screen all day is negligent) is acceptable, and move on. Stop blaming circumstance. I know there are alternatives, because here I am.
I'm pretty damn sure you have it backwards. The intelligence crapmunity wants power, and politicians are merely the means to an end.

See what happens when a politician of any stature dares to defy them.
Do these solid floor racks still have troughs between the racks for flooding?
Yes. Doctors in the US have to get a certain amount of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits (usually done by attending conferences and lectures).
Turns out bullshit asymmetry theory is impossible to beat.
Does DDG provide Bing with your location (/24 or some other proxy) always, or only in the case of the local search in your example? Which seems like a minimal privacy violation (Can’t have “What’s nearby” and “I don’t want to tell you where I am”, but I get your beef; you want DDG to localize results instead of M$).
As a different but similar situation: I have a first name that is usually at the top when sorted alphabetically. Nowadays it's not a problem anymore, but as a kid I usually received a lot of calls from people that either misclicked or didn't know how to use a phone properly. It turned out it was because I was the first on the phonebook list.
I guess? Is your question “do different countries have different ways of speaking?”

The UK uses both, this one is more explicit/formal, although it does seem a bit redundant.
Even at top-notch universities (public or private), when I talk to retired faculty, grading almost always comes up as a reason they don't want to teach anymore.

[Edit: not disagreeing with your point.]
The doctors themselves have as much to blame for this too, not to mention most hospital administrators are MBAs with a healthcare background, they are not art students.

Medicine perpetuates a hazing culture of overworking residents thanks to a jumped up medicine pioneer who took too much cocaine. They refuse to come up with a way to train doctors at scale and instead restrict it to physical residency spots, keeping their compensations high. Train doctors like engineers, break up the medical unions and lobby groups with the anti trust act and most of the problems will be solved.
> As of April 11, there were 65 Mercedes autonomous vehicles available for sale in California ... One of those has since been sold, which marks the first sale of an autonomous Mercedes in California ...

Those are pretty small numbers and strike me more as them testing the waters. It's neat to see some potential in the space after what felt like a total collapse with Waymo and Tesla especially not living up to expectations. It's not clear how good the tech is here, but it's a political victory for the space if nothing else.
Right but you need the power and cooling, which is the main thing they amortize over many customers.
It is, yes. You're moving (your) home, it's just what everybody says. Just as dropping 'on' from "let's meet Monday" equally baffles Brits.
It's a slow Saturday morning, so I actually watched most of his YouTube presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjPi7uZ2OI&t=3696s I stopped at the Q&A where they started going off about UFOs...) He claims that the dU/dx in an asymmetric capacitor (a spatial gradient in internal energy) leads to a net overall force on the center of mass. If that were true in this system, then two different springs under compression would also have a net force on the center of mass. Or two adjacent, differently pressured vessels. It's just wrong. There is no net change in momentum happening in this system.

His "quantum" explanations are even worse (just some hand-wavy BS with the fine structure constant thrown in.)

I don't doubt he has managed to generate 1 g of electrostatic force on a charged object - but that force has to be reacted against something else. Otherwise Newton would be spinning at an ever-accelerating rate in his grave.
>a racecar can trivially out-brake a MotoGP

Racecars are essentially wings due to the aerodynamic plate on their underbelly, sucking themselves hard downwards into the ground, that's why they can brake better than vehicles that don't do that. And contact patch has to be the most misunderstood and overanalyzed concept in racing. It's baked into the coefficient of friction already. The force it exerts is still directly proportional to the normal force on each wheel.

>What kind of car do you have? Almost all modern cars apply brakes to all 4 wheels.

That's good if it's true. Maybe they will make 18-wheeler trucks start having brakes on all 18 wheels so they can get similar stopping distances as those cars. Point is there are plenty of vehicles on the road where only 2 or the 4 tires go into a skid when they lose traction. Parent comment was absolutist about how unicycles will "never" match any other vehicle in braking. I figured I'd defend unicycles. Don't want to jump off the rails too much here.

I know my car has rear drum brakes actuated by the hand brake. It can lock up the rear tires for a drift. And front disc brakes actuated by the foot pedal. Perhaps it does use all 4 when I press the foot pedal - my mistake if so.
nah, Chinese real estate bubble bursted, because demand collapsed (despite the prices kept low due to municipalities financing a large part of their budget through land sales, and banks were incentivized to issue a lot of mortgages, and that's how Credit Suisse run into a wall)
If you like Ceefax you might also like Ceephax Acid Crew[1], discussed on HN previously [2], who uses a lot of vintage electronic music gear and puts actual(?) simulated(?) Ceefax screens in some of his videos. He's the brother of Squarepusher if that means anything to you.

- [1] http://www.ceephax.co.uk/
- [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30998462
What is your application? I'm curious why AGPL wouldn't be a reasonable choice. Seems like you could modify it and link it in a way that doesn't trigger AGPL on anything except your modifications to MuPDF itself, which don't seem like they'd be too valuable to give away in most cases.
Nothing will ensure incumbency better than slapping more regs on it
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-t...
I'm always terrified I will doze off without realizing when I'm in traffic jams. There's just so little stimulants that my brain demands going into standby mode.
Distros generally don't provide Nightly at all.
Long survival sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
The deployment and operations of modern hardware certainly is a field in itself and always was. What experience do you have with that? It doesn't really seem exponentially more complex to me. Yes, accelerators are more common now and the heat production is similar to that of old rack-mountable mainframes but that in itself is nothing too new. Also, we have had low-latency interconnects in the HPC space for ages - that hasn't changed that much neither it is just more widely deployed now.
> Shouldn't you be aware that mathematics and computer "science" are closer to philosophy than actual (empirical) sciences ?

OK. So what? The problem is that as philosophy moves closer to math it moves into the math department, and as it moves closer to empiricism it moves into the various sciences. The philosophy department is left with the dregs. That is what I claim results in a lot of pooh-pooh-able work.

> Yours sounds more like the now very tired "two cultures" argument, sounds like you are discussing more the sociology side of things than anything ?

Perhaps, but my focus here is much narrower. Snow was talking about everything that isn't science, and I'm talking only about those things that are commonly labelled "philosophy" for the last 300 years or so. Before that, science had not yet broken away from "natural philosophy" as a field in its own right. I'm not questioning the value of the arts.

> And wasn't Wittgenstein (et al.) the one that specifically recentered philosophy around the questions of language, trying to prune the accumulated historical bullshit that philosophy has a much harder difficulty to get rid of than (empirical) sciences ?

Maybe he was, I don't know. It's possible that I'm being unfair to him by focusing on the Tractatus, which has always struck me as just such obvious bullshit that it astonishes me that anyone can read it as anything other than some kind of practical joke.

But what I do know is that I don't see a lot of references to Wittgenstein when I read modern papers about natural language processing, and so his work doesn't seem to have had much impact. It's possible that this is because his work had so much impact that it's considered common knowledge, kind of like Turing doesn't always get referenced when the halting problem gets mentioned because everyone Just Knows.

And it's not just Wittgenstein. I don't see any philosophers having much impact on the world outside of university philosophy departments. That is what I am criticizing, not Wittgenstein per se. Tractatus was just an example.
Are you aware the alternative is less oversight? FISA protects Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...
Anecdotally, the course I grade has this effect (just looking at the average score). I have been grading this course from last 5 years(9-10 times). Last names with L-Z score slightly more than A-L.
There's also the omnipresent story of the thunder-god that defeats the huge snake/dragon. Here's a summary of all the variations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon#European_stories/record...
You seem to be irrationally upset about my light-hearted anecdote. I sincerely hope your weekend gets better.
Pretty standard stuff I would say.

Back in the day when I worked in this field malware writers regularly used things like Youtube as blob-storage and Instagram comments as C2 server mechanism.

Hiding in plain sight can be very effective.
Power and cooling are the two main things that they amortize over many customers, and everyone needs those.
Past, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357315
If anyone is tire-kicking this, I'd be curious to see how joining Zoom meetings works in it, including the ability to share a window into said meeting. That was one of the big reasons that I threw in the towel at work and went back to macOS - I was not convinced that I was setting myself up for day-to-day success trying to blaze trails into Linux+arm
Indian names start with A,B, N. Chinese names also start with, C, F, L.
This seems simple to fix - deactivate all links that didn’t become part of a published comment.

I’m sure this is hard, especially at that scale - then again it seems doable eventually.
The first actually autonomous car (under very specific circumstances) sold to the general consumer should be a historic day for Mercedes US, and the auto industry as a whole.

But there doesn't seem to be even a press release on mbusa.com?
I made my fortune by building a GPU miner in January 2011. Even by then, the best GPU for it was sold out so I bought 4 of the next best one.

I shut it down in July of that year because it was raising my electric bill by like $100/month. Possibly the biggest financial mistake of my life.
I also have the theory that having an app/software starting with A, B, or an "alphabetically first" letter was noticeable in the past.
Nowadays things are usually sorted "algorithmically", but it was common for stores to list searches with some alphabetical score, which meant that those apps were usually shown first.

Even now, for example, if you go to Play Store and want to know the apps that you had but are not installed, the default sorting is by name.
I think you have things a bit backwards. Without FISA, the intelligence agencies have less oversight and fewer restrictions.

> The FISA resulted from extensive investigations by Senate Committees into the legality of domestic intelligence activities. These investigations were led separately by Sam Ervin and Frank Church in 1978 as a response to President Richard Nixon's usage of federal resources, including law enforcement agencies, to spy on political and activist groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...