skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI reduces the need for low skill humans, the skill ceiling is just being raised. Even AGI won't replace most jobs because literally nobody trusts it, and the companies who do will eventually suffer fallout when it fails. It's just like self driving cars, nobody cares when humans crash, but if a self driving car slows down traffic people are burning them down in the streets.

The only people who are fucked are people in third world countries because AI is cheaper than human labor. Inequality is gonna go through the roof and if I lived in a crappy place I would be doing anything I can to get to a first world country.
> thus uniting the bloodlines

There was bo bloodline though. Until quite late (much to its detriment) the empire maintained some of its original “republican” character and the emperors derived their legitimacy from the will of God and the people rather than inherited it (which resulted in endless civil wars). Unlike in Europe in the medieval and the succeeding periods your bloodline/dynasty was secondary to your ability to take and hold power effectively making emperors closer to modern dictators than kings in some ways.
I've had the thought that this is possibly being funded by the car and/or fossil fuel industry. Otherwise it makes zero sense to me why "climate protestors" are so up in arms about this factory over any of the massive factories we have in Germany churning out gas guzzling, planet destroying ICE cars. Or the coal mining or coal power plants.

It's more of a conspiracy theory of mine though rather than anything based on anything substantial. I just don't see who else benefits from this.
At fertility rates of 1.6, it takes just 25 generations for the global population to go from 8 billion to 900k. Just 10 generations for the global population to drop below 1 billion. Pretty scary stuff.
Correct. math/rand/v2 isn't optimal, but it's not an immediate catastrophic flaw to use it when you should have used crypto/rand any more. From the article:

> It’s still better to use crypto/rand, because the operating system kernel can do a better job keeping the random values secret from various kinds of prying eyes, the kernel is continually adding new entropy to its generator, and the kernel has had more scrutiny. But accidentally using math/rand is no longer a security catastrophe.
That gps is not RTK compatible.
> Then he empirically disproved the strong-form EMH

Not clear as we do not really know exactly how RenTech works. It is believed that there are substantial tax loopholes that were taken advantage of - which would go a long way (not all the way) to explaining the incredible performance of his fund.
Emoji History: The Missing Years
it would seem like RenTec is the first two
Too bad there's no ACM ICPC for distributed systems. Most devs are plenty good at algorithms. The differentiating factor is distsys.
In your lifetime, Korea will have more than two 60+ year olds for every working person. They are screwed.
Maybe you can go into that more. Where's that intuition coming from that tells you "Apple wants to destroy everything"?
Also on watches:

* https://timeandtidewatches.com/how-to-use-a-slide-rule-bezel...

* https://www.ablogtowatch.com/how-to-use-a-watch-bezel-slide-...

* https://www.exquisitetimepieces.com/blog/slide-rule-watches-...

Breitling (for their Navitimer):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PBRX8WCZR0

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9N7loHYwCdCM3G68svj...
this is a big reason why i stay away from Deno

by actively seeking to meter DX, they've actually driven dollars to their competitors.
Privacy is challenging to achieve
Doesn’t really matter here, I’m talking about the pollution the article is referring to. I am simply discussing the concept of reaching a peak in pollution vs. a peak in emission of the same pollutants.

Putting the above aside though, I would disagree. Everything is subjective except math (and even there, I think there’s a debate), but I would definitely not classify pollution as _highly_ subjective, that makes it sound it belongs to the category of things that particularly lack consensus, which is definitely not the case amongst the scientific community. Not to say there’s 100% agreement on all things, but I think there’s a broad consensus.
The ePrivacy directive does require them, though. (Of course, not in the malicious-compliance form we see today.)
Current is _generated_ in static lengths of wire.
At any point the voltage exceeds the design, it arcs.
Current passing through imperfect conductors are heating elements.

Both sparks from shorts and excess heating of conductors are possible ignition points.

n.b. I have not look at the paper.
I wasn't aware of this till a friend told me: the Simons foundation partly also funds the Perimeter institute [1].

[1] https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/new-simons-foundation-sup...
No, people assume that because they only identify it when, to them, it is vacuous and terrible. They barely notice it, if at all, when it is effectively targeted at them.
Ok, but disagreeing is not what cancel culture is.

It’s attacking someone relentlessly, canceling their contracts, getting them fired, kicked out of institutions, debanked.

I’m not sure if you are pretending to not know that, or really just don’t know anything on the topic at all. But either way, it’s kind of showing your cards.
I don't think it's healthy to have so little perception or understanding and think think everything is that simple.

No one is traumatized. It's just unappealing and tone-deaf that's all. Showing a harmless little toy head and face getting squished and then popped, and presenting that as cool and fun and good, just makes you wonder about the person who produced that imagery and thought it could possibly have those associations, that's all.

Showing a bunch of mixed colors of paint oozing down the side of something is not "emotionally distressing", it's just unappealing, especially to Apple product customers, who buy Apple products precicely because they are sleek and minimalist and clean. Steve's & Ive's entire universe was clean & sterile.

It's remarkable because Apple are supposed to be the KINGS of exactly those sorts of intangible things like impression & subconscious reaction, where things like a 0.1mm or 0.1degree difference in a shape actually matters.
Typing of the dead! Ask me how I learned touch typing in anger. Such a beautiful piece of hijacked game.

Much, much love to anyone who worked on this gem, or work to preserve it.
A (G4) geomagnetic storm is likely this weekend
You have to have the right kind of ground to drill with this. I think lots of gravel and rocks won’t work well. Never used it myself but was considering it in the past.

https://www.drillawell.com/complete-kit
Okay, so, stupid question; could you replace this with this screen recorder[1] and browsers' built-in web dev tools[2] ? The screen recorder lets you record and download a session (nothing is uploaded), and the dev tools lets you capture any errors the browser sees, the network connections & errors, the source, browser data/steps, yadda yadda.

The built-in web dev tools have a Recorder function to record what the browser is doing while also recording video[3]. You can export the recording in a number of formats. It can replay it, let you edit steps, even simulate a slow network. Seems like a product person could follow a simple guide to record and export a session, and send it to a dev?

[1] https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/screen_recorder/ [2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ [3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/recorder
People live for 80-100 years, so the population will gradually tick up. But once the very top-heavy global population pyramid begins to die off, things get extremely ugly, extremely quickly. In our lifetimes, we are going to see a horrific amount of elder poverty.
>Back in the day, the parallel port was awesome for hobbyist hardware hacking.

Also the MIDI-game port which was basically an ADC for the PC, meaning you could build your own gaming racing steering wheel using a volume knob screwed in the middle of a CD cake case and pedals using volume wipers, all connected to the MIDI port with no extra drivers needed. Good times.
the precision required in home building is incredibly low, a drunk human can frame without even thinking.

It will probably just be a small group of people maintaining a few machines doing the repetitive work while humans put in the final touches and fix the broken shit.

definitely 20-30 years out though, its so much easier said than done.
>AI reduces the need for low skill humans

Except the focus on AI has been replacing _high_ skill jobs like artists, writers, and developers. The end-goal of AI devotees is that humans will dig the ditches, and AI will do all the 'fun stuff'.

It's not a great plan, but they seem really gung-ho about it.
FTDI also makes a lot of USB chips with software controllable GPIO pins:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264

https://ftdichip.com/products/ft2232h-mini-module/

Bit banging on a modern OS subjects you to a lot of jitter though. It's not like using a parallel port in DOS where you just have to worry about interrupts. The preemptive scheduler can really mess up your timing.

That said, the FT232H, FT2232H, and FT4232H have an FTDI Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engine (MPSSE) cores that you can program to protocols like SPI and I2C where the high speed part doesn't require any smart logic to handle. It's a bit of a special skill though (you send MPSSE specific command bytes over the USB interface into the chip's command buffer and tell it to execute them).

If you need more high speed smarts, it's also convenient to use a Raspberry Pi Pico with MicroPython or CircuitPython with Programmable I/O (Pio) with an interactive session:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/what-is-pio/

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/rp2/quickref.html#pro...

But yeah, beyond that, you're better off using an Arduino or something and doing it all on the microcontroller.

On the plus side, all of these things are relatively cheap and easy to obtain.
its not stupid.
The key phrase in your problem statement is "more value", which assumes that all value can be projected onto a single axis. Typically [1], this means that you can assign a dollar value to any change in the physical world [2].

The "debate" for many people is whether this simplistic economic model can be used at all. They say that value is multi-dimensional, and those value dimensions are not fungible. Concretely, if making a medicine factory results in the extinction of a specie, you can't say that it is okay, because the benefit of the former is incomparable to the loss of the latter.

Coming to population, more humans mean more destruction of ecosystems. And it is not clear whether destroying ecosystems can be fungibly compared to the additional human economic value those extra humans create. It's not about more or less, it the incomparability of the two.

[1] but not necessarily what you meant

[2] Just to be clear, the economics discipline already has a wealth of research that humans cannot in fact consistently assign absolute or relative dollar values to the same thing. Yet our political-economy and popular conceptions have this as a central assumption.
Can you please add rss to your blog?
The social implications of using Android phones...
Please tell me you have a youtube channel or blog on that thing.
GUIs recognize keyboard as a valid input option
Is this Mr.MattKC himself on HN?!
> doctors working outside the insurance system

I do see this to a huge extent in the area of mental health in the wealthy area that I live in.

Many of the best doctors have no need for insurance- rich people will gladly pay $300 an hour or more for a good therapist so why bother with the insulting $60 reimbursement that a doctor will get after doing a lot of paperwork with an insurance company.

I am not sure that this means anything whatsoever about a free market or not - and not all kinds of doctors are doing this, but it’s happening. And it really sucks to be paying the huge insurance premiums I’m paying, and still have the best doctors all out of reach unless I’m willing to shell out MORE money out of pocket.
I'm actually upvoting you. Not because I agree, but because this sentiment is so pervasive I need that responses highlighted instead of buried.

Linux users don't hate GUIs. I say this as someone who's used Linux as a daily driver for 15 years! GUIs have their place, but they aren't for everything. There's are two main issues here

1) The terminal is far more flexible and lightweight. I can do so much more in my terminal and get far more done in less time by using the terminal. Learning a little bash can greatly increase your productivity. And on top of that, I can do this with little cost to resources. I live in the terminal not because it is pretty but because it's faster and more efficient. Yes, there's a learning curve but it pays dividends.

2) customization. Don't confuse this for aesthetics. Those do matter but you should see yourself as an expert craftsman. Your carpenter, engineer, etc all build tools, jigs, and other things to help them, especially with organization. Like them you should create the best environment for you. I know you were told I'm programming classes that the magic is to not keep writing the same lines but to wrap those up. This is the same thing. The aesthetics are so I can see the things I care about the most, not because it's pretty. The aliases and scripts I built are to prevent me from wasting time relooking up things I do intermittently but not frequent enough to memorize. Customization is incredibly hard in GUIs. Dragging and dropping things and half the time the whole fucking screen scrolls because it's hard to not do this. And even then, it gets corrected cluttered and you end up with this long tree of menues. But wait you say, just give it a macro! And at that point, what's the difference? In the terminal we recognize something fundamental: to know it's name is to have power over it.

Yes, this isn't everyone. Every person is on a different part of their journey. And like I said, the customization is about making you productive not trying to find the most optimal, because that idea is laughable. There are good defaults but optimal is personal.

This is why I'll always trust someone more when they live in the terminal. The GUI person might be faster at times but they're limited. The person who will fuck around and find out is the person who will eventually understand more about the complex things they work on. They're more likely to dig deep. And this is the thing silicon valley has lost, the sense of creating what can be, not what is, not someone else's vision but yours.
Much ado about nothing.

Didn’t LG do the exact same ad some years ago?

Seems like the real conversation here is about the total lack of originality here: this is so, so far from anything Steve would have approved.
For a world affecting CME, it might take a month but a 9.0 magnitude earthquake is not going to destroy the entire world, so you don't need a years worth of food before help arrives. we're talking about a little extra bit of water and food, not an underground bunker. Help from outside the affected area will be coming.
Apple isn't reading the room at a time when many older creatives (their customer base) feel threatened by generative AI.
Countries like India, all of South East Asia, all of LatAm, a good amount of North Africa... all below replacement and falling fast. Argentina's incoming preschool class in 2024 is 30% smaller than the class of 2020. That's how quickly this is happening.
You have no clue, sorry. Insider trading cannot generate the consistency and returns as RenTec does. Even insider traders lose money if the market does not react as expected.

There are tons of strategies out there that does not involve insider trading or fraud. One such example is simply shorting Bitcoin at the market open whilst going long QQQ. This has paid a lot , like today , in which Bitcoin is down 3% and QQQ down a tad. There are people running this strategy now which despite being public knowledge, is still profitable. Shorting bitcoin during market hours, in fact, realizes all of the downside of Bitcoin without the upside from shorting it.

There are other strategies like this. now imagine you assemble the greatest minds in the world and tons of computing power to find many strategies and run them 24-7.
> The point is to exactly avoid this kind of overhead when you have zero paying customers, as that's premature optimization.

It should take a day at most to work out the data model for a startup. I don’t see that as a lot of overhead.

Do as you will, but from my perspective, I’d rather do it correctly from the start.
Would have been better to see these items coming from the phone and growing big.
Recently launched MethaneSAT locates anthropogenic ultra-emitter methane plumes to their sources. CH₄ GWP is ~70 in 20 years.

Satellite images show biggest methane leaks come from Russia and US (2022)

https://archive.ph/eYig4

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-methane-tracker-2022/over...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabo... (2022, 400k t)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Canyon_gas_leak (2015-2016, 100k t)
The competition has been running on device models with specialized hardware for longer than Apple has. Even with on-device LLMs, Apple is already far behind. https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/pixel-featur...
> in general we're trying to simulate meaning instead of 'understanding' it. 'understanding' simply means knowing a man is to a woman what a king is to a queen, but without the need to learn about words and letters (that should be just an interface).

I have no idea what I'm talking about, but what you describe is exactly what LLM's do.

Words are tokens that represent concepts. We've found a way to express the relationships between many tokens in a giant web. The tokens are defined by their relationships to each other. Changing the tokens we use probably won't make much more difference than changing the language the LLM is built from.

We could improve the method we use to store and process those relationships, but it will still be fundamentally the same idea: Large webs of inter-related tokens representing concepts.
People all age at the same rate. 8 billion old people is a very scary prospect indeed. It's honestly shocking we ever talk about anything else.
Look you can either have AI written articles or train wreck titles written by humans. Which one do you want? /s
The step-up itself is not capped but the tax savings are capped by the estate tax limits. If your estate is less than $12M you pay no estate tax and your heirs pay no capital gains tax either; that's the loophole. But if your estate is much larger than $12M it has to pay back your loans, then pay estate tax, then the basis gets stepped up for whatever's left. There's little or no savings. AFAIK.
I understand that there is an entire culture surrounding these machines and that people enjoy collecting and restoring them. Hell, I would even like to build a cabinet myself one day.

But there's a reason they are disappearing. They're old and obsolete. While they may have value to a niche group, they are overall viewed as mostly worthless.

Secondly, there's a very simple solution to disliking what someone else does with their own property. Purchase it before they do whatever you dislike. Either from them or by beating them to the punch and buying it from the previous owner before they do.
I do, I went from a MacBook to a dell XPS and I just didn’t enjoy using it nearly as much. The hardware is great, and the benefit of the silence of operation is hard to overstate. The software may not gel with you which is the biggest barrier but I like it.
I agree— having switched back to Windows five years ago, this is one of the biggest things I miss about the Mac hardware. Having a separate key just avoids the whole drama around whether Ctrl-C is "copy the thing" or "shut it all down", and which of those functions is going to get remapped to Ctrl-Shift-C and all the fallout from that.
restarting a dead grid is the blackest of magic.
Also, while libftdi isn't hard to work with:

http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blob;f=examp...

It's dead simple to also use these FTDI devices with Python:

https://eblot.github.io/pyftdi/api/index.html
The paper's a bit hard to read but I don't think it suggests a mechanism, or that the correlation between CMEs and forest fires is statistically significant for that matter. If you email me (address in profile) I can send you a copy.

It does seem plausible that you could get fires as a result of electrical sparks off of long conductors (transmission and communication wires, pipelines, fences), such as with the Carrington event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetically_induced_curren...).
It is difficult but doable. most people would be better served to not try.
Really, they will fight in the voting booth. Imagine US politics right now, but the boomer generation is 3x as big. That is going to be reality in most democracies in the next 20-40 years.
> them, the constitution of their political order dated to 753 BC with the founding of Rome, even after they lost Rome.

I’m not sure they were particularly bothered by that. The late Roman/Byzantine empires was over everything the universal “Christian Empire” and being a true Orthodox-Catholic Christian basically became synonymous to being Roman the pagan past prior to Constantine was mostly ancient history by the middle ages and had limited if any influence on their self-identity.
Discussions on related NOAA posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356
Same. I and a couple of my colleagues got offers.

Regarding love of complexity and C++, they’re sitting on the C++ committee. Complexity is their bread and butter. :)

I also kinda doubt “Trillion dollar ultra low latency / high throughput high frequency trading/AAA+ games running on 4 x 4k monitors at 200+ fps” people are such enthusiasts of the bleeding-edge of C++. The standard library and the style of programming popular in the committee isn’t very concerned with high performance it seems.
Configurable windows managers on Linux let you code a “super” key. I like the Window key, since it serves no other purpose, and never overlaps with default bindings on Linux.

So the Cmd/Ctrl split on Mac maps nicely to the Win/Ctrl split on Linux.
Not sure why this was downvoted. IQ almost certainly plays a large role. Why do these top quant firms so aggressively filter for IQ, like puzzles and test scores?
Yes, Apple has cultivated a certain brand image in some ways.
Art creation is creation. Muic, images, video -- they all benefit from good screens, fast processors, quality stylus integration, first party apps, and full-stack attention to latency. The iPad is about creation, just not your type of creation.
Bill Gates did graduate study in math and computer science as a first-year undergraduate at Harvard College, and published the fastest pancake-sort algorithm (held the record for 30 years), before dropping not to start Microsoft. And of course he invented Microsoft's early technology, which advanced the state of the art. He was highly likely to be a great computer scientist if he chose to stay in school.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919981