skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I should clarify what I mean by capitalism: A combination of relatively free markets (e.g. present day markets) and private ownership of the capital which is used to make goods and services that are then sold. I think this is a relatively standard definition, but I still think it good to say it explicitly.

Now that that has been said:

What, like lower classes have zero agency regarding their desires? Are advertisements mind control or something? I acknowledge that cultural influences can be strong, and can influence desires like this, but I don’t see why it would be necessary within capitalism that those that hold substantial capital must collectively have a stranglehold on the cultural values of the population.

Now, if people with power want to make it so that people in lower classes practically need to buy more things, by making them required for their jobs, that may well be feasible. Like, in a sense this has been nearly done with cell phones, and internet connection. But I don’t think “people buying things because they are needed for their job (or similar)” really counts as the kind of consumerism under discussion.
> everything to do with generating sales

You say this like it’s a bad thing, and maybe it is, but it’s hardly a surprising thing.

Literally everything Apple does is entirely about generating sales. They’re not running a charity for the benefit of their fans. The only reason to come up with designs that people like is to sell them.
Engineering is a professional activity, a legal title is just a moat, it doesn't mean that it is Engineering, just a protected profession of some sort.

In al seriousness, Engineering is about verifying systems to make sure their lifespans and failure modes are known, up front.

This has a legal dimension and a practical one. Legally you can make people liable for unreliable systems. But you can also be liable for failure to maintain properly, or failure to warn about impending calamity. Because it's all documented and verified.

Practical you can live worry free in earthquake and flooding proof buildings, trusting in the diligence of Engineers, and maintenance workers, because they and others have liability imposed on them.

For software this is only the case in a few sectors. For buildings in all cases. Not comparable.
onto is not the same as to
The 4chan dating app is now the most widely used FOSS dating app
See also Ann Leckie’s Ancillary books (5)
Or you don't have to accept either - authors don't need to canonize a theory of biogenesis within the world they build to tell compelling story.

"How can Vulcans mate with Humans" doesn't need to be explained if the compelling part of the story is "how does the child of a human and Vulcan navigate both worlds and what does that tell us about ourselves." Of course, you could write a story where a shared or divergent biological/geological past was a part of the metaphor/allegory - but Star Trek doesn't need that.

And if Star Wars replaced the "galaxy" part of that sentence with "kingdom" and all the space ships with wooden ones no one would even need to ask the question, because Star Wars is as much fantasy as science fiction.

There are certainly some creatives who go that far, but I personally take issue with the necessity of detail and depth in scifi worldbuilding. It's really a recent phenomenon that audiences expect so much out of creators and I think it hurts the stories we tell.
The bandwagon was actually an Ice Cream truck run by the old lady from the Sponge Bob movie.

Intel had just wiped the floor with x86 servers, all the old guard Unix vendors with their own chips were hurting. Then Intel makes the rounds with a glorious plan of how they were going to own the server landscape for a decade or more. So in various states of defeat and grief much of the industry followed them. Planned or not, the resulting rug pull really screwed them over. The organs that operated those lines of businesses were fully removed. It worked too well, I am going to say it was on accident.

Intel should have broken up its internal x86 hegemony a long time ago, which they have been trying since the day it was invented. Like the 6502, it was just too successful for its own good. Only x86 also built up the Vatican around itself.
Perhaps look for social settings in which 'what do you do for a living' is not the beginning and end of the conversation.
That sort of transition would be managed unambiguously. This is a firing.
> Air pollution accounted for 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021
[0]

> In 2019, air pollution caused about 6.7 million deaths. Of these, almost 85% are attributable to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and diabetes. This makes air pollution the second leading cause of NCDs globally after tobacco.
[1]

[0] https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/air-pollution-accounte...
[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/25-06-2024-what-are-health-con...
How far would you take this? That rhetoric taken to its conclusion leads to travesties like destroying national parks to install oil wells and strip malls, a net negative for 99.999999% of humanity.
You have no idea whether Mars is a dead rock or not. Even if it now is, you have no idea whether it used to be alive or not.

So no, we shouldn't just dump random crap on Mars based on your ignorance.
If I get a 13 mini today, updates will last 3 years. That is not much for what it is still a fairly expensive phone
The problem is that this transition is very capital intensive and all the money was spent on share buybacks the past decades. The stock market looks at CPUs and GPUs and likes the latter a lot more so no fresh money from there. At the moment the only stakeholder with a vital interest in Intel semiconductor capabilities is the US government and even that may change as a result of Trump.
Or any other "passion" or hobby that you try to turn into a business. You end up spending the vast majority of your time on the business, and very little on the thing you once enjoyed.
My wife’s Thinkpad which is less than five years old won’t run Windows 11.
Same as any other full-text search solution - it's your job to integrate it.
Think "normal" call syntax like

foo(bar(baz(42)))

and then remove the superfluous parens

foo bar baz 42

The expression is evaluated from right to left.

Now, let's make two of the functions into object members:

A.foo(bar(B.baz(42)))

Remove the parens, extracting the methods from their objects, instead feeding each object as a left argument to its former member function:

A foo bar B baz 42

This is normal APL-style call syntax; right-to-left if you want.
Retirees, a Rich Life Does Not Require Spending More Money
There is no indication of EM-Fields involvement in biological functions. The observation of EM-fields where voltages spike and currents flow seems to be another case of the meta-scientific phenomenon of researchers in one discipline re-discovering the results of their colleagues from a neighbouring discipline. In this case biologists "discovering" Maxwells Equations.
Right - it unquestionably is a custom rule. But it's not as broad as it is made out, not is it the fundamental problem here. The Post Office knew the system is faulty, hid that evidence and lied in court under oath about it.

As to lack of evidence... It's not so simple. A popular UK insurance hack is when people overtake you on a motorway and slam the brakes, to make a claim on your insurance. Unless you present evidence this was done to you, like dashcam footage, you are presumed to be responsible. You don't need the scammer to prove they didn't crash into you. I'm sure the US has similar mechanisms, where fault is presumed, like if a car hits a pedestrian.

This is similar. Computer systems are presumed to be correct unless evidence is presented. Maybe it's a bad rule, but it's not the horrendous dystopian catastrophe it is declared to be everywhere.
> You forget that there is value in having moneyed consumers. You can sell them more things that cost more money than you could poor consumers.

With increased financializarion and abstraction of tradable assets - the capital class no longer has to worry about "goods" or "customers" (in as much as they may be indicators of bad stocks with a dim future). Services are the future: as far as they are concerned, the amount of profits available in housing or healthcare may be infinite, of you need the chart to go up, increase the price of the cancer drugs in your portfolio.
First, consider that the culture of the city you're in can play a role https://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
But more than that, the neighborhood or whatever natural social circle you've found yourself in is that way, but it need not be that way with some extra digging into other subgroups of people around you.

Second, consider your own behavior and whether it's not tech itself but another aspect that you're confusing with being in tech, simply because people are (annoyingly) too polite to tell you.

In "tech" I find almost as much diversity of personalities and quirks than in the general population. I haven't personally experience what you're talking about, but that doesn't mean you're wrong. Perhaps the nearest neighbors that are lowest friction to socialize with aren't the best choice?
that’s a good point. +1
yeah true. Also the govt prob not used to state intervention in this way - learning a lot of new lessons on how to do it, on the fly
What good is winning when people can see on the internet how you did it? History is stories.
Even assuming the stats are measuring the actual miles traveled and not the planned miles (I'm not sure that's true), the difference would be vanishingly small given how rarely planes crash on takeoff. The overwhelming majority of flights complete safely, so the denominator is barely changed at all if we don't include flights that crashed on takeoff.
Linux is very explicit (and always has been) about not having a stable driver API or ABI; if nvidia tries to target that unstable interface, they are absolutely responsible for the result.
Could you provide example search queries that return bad results? My solution is to ask generic stuff from LLMs (and rarely youtube) and read specific on vendor's website. HN search works good as well.
Their design license doesn’t extend to Nuvia’s IP however according to ARM.

That is the entire crux of the issue. ARM gave Nuvia a specific license, and then Nuvia was acquired which transferred the IP to a license that ARM did not extend it to.
The story of why it is called dynamic programming is pretty great: https://conversableeconomist.com/2022/08/24/why-is-it-called...
>Counter-intuitively,

or intuitively, it is when you start to lose influence and power that you become more crazy and aggressive about maintaining what you have, like the truism that really tough guys don't act all macho, a truly dominant church does not mind the small theological disputations.
Are you saying that farmland production is unnecessary (at least at its current rate) but spce colonies aren't? If your concern is that humans need the latter to live, shouldn't the former be justified too? Is the Earth too doomed for the former to work? I don't follow.
Like I said, I understand and believe you. But clearly that’s not what most commenters understood so I proposed how you could’ve made that clearer and not have to keep clarifying and getting downvoted.

It was simply a suggestion. You can take it or leave it, it’s all the same to me.
> don't make infrastructure tools like gmake depend OS specific APIs

Even if you're going to implement OS-specific APIs you still need a general case for OSes that don't support those APIs or don't support them correctly. That means you still need to solve the original problem regardless, which then means that it doesn't actually save you time and energy to use those APIs but rather creates more development and maintenance work and not less.

If those APIs don't provide you a significant benefit (reliability, performance, etc.) then it's likely not worth implementing them at all if the general case works, and if it doesn't work you have to fix it anyway.
This is an example of the difficult (politically not technically) problem of companies externalizing costs. Apple washing their hands of the burden of maintaining software for old hardware is no different than Exxon washing their hands of the burden of capping abandoned oil wells. In both cases the company saves money by costing society more.
For readability, I recommend reserving "b" for bits, "B" for byte, "p" for parameter.

I assume in your post that "30b" meant 30 billion, or in other words, 30Gp (giga-parameter).

Furthermore is 24Gb of VRAM 24 gigabits (power of 10), or 24 gibibits (power of 2)?
End-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades
Rust has so much momentum behind it. It's become extremely popular among leading-edge systems and tool developers, for being just the right mix of approachable and geared towards sustainable correctness.

For example, the Jujutsu VCS is written in Rust. Of course it is — it was started in 2020 or so, and no other choice would make sense for software which needs to be fast while not compromising on correctness. And Jujutsu is not written by web developers. It is written by systems developers.

I've also been in private conversations to start a couple of new systems projects to fulfill some currently-unmet needs. Again, of course they would be in Rust; there was never any doubt or serious debate.

This by no means indicates that Rust is the end-all of languages. I hope Rust gets superseded at some point! But if you're making a decision today, right now, about systems projects you want to ship and deliver value with, then Rust it is.
> Every time I try to use Nomad, or any of the other "simpler" solutions, I hit a wall - there turns out to be a critical feature that is not available

Maybe you could give example of feature in case of nomad?
I was going thru a box of old things the other day and came upon an old iPhone 4. God, what a beautiful device. In my opinion, the peak of iPhone design. I would love to have a phone that small again.
An unborn hypothetical baby is not a human death.
New open source 4-axis non-planar 3D printer [video]
The only, only reason I ever buy anything but the smallest phone they offer is because the best cameras are never on the smallest devices. The extra size is pure down-side for me, and I don't really give a shit about slightly faster processors or what have you (I hardly burden the low-end ones), but I do find when looking back at older photos I always appreciate when I've had better cameras, so I hesitate to go too low-end on those.

I'd pay about the same (or maybe even exactly the same, but feel a little annoyed about it) for a small Apple phone with the same camera as the expensive big models.
> desperately

I don't think those floating rocks have any urgent needs at all.
Pugh's exercises aren't trivial calculations, they're the proof kind of exercise. If you manage to do 10 a day consistently and still have time for your other courses, congrats.

I also don't think that people who develop new medical treatments necessarily did all the exercises in a pure maths textbook. Being able to prove that continuous functions on a compact set are uniformly continuous probably won't help you fight cancer.
Alternate link instead of Google Drive

https://boardgametextbook.com/EBGRIA.pdf
True. The most popular local bean in my area tastes like battery acid, but there's a roaster about 20 minutes from me who is only ~20% more expensive than Lavazza (my go to large roaster) who produces a variety of good roasts.

Not sure on the off gassing comment, I drink what I think tastes good. Espresso pretty much exclusively, lightly fruity, low acid, with a rich sip and a non-bitter aftertaste.
I echo this. If you liked murderbot, you might also like the Battleship Chronicles series by L. Claire (1), and ofcourse, the Imperial Radh series by Ann Leickie (2), and bobiverse, mentioned below, by Dennis Taylor (3), among others..

(1) https://www.goodreads.com/series/391892-the-battleship-chron...

(2) https://www.goodreads.com/series/113751-imperial-radch

(3) https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
You can install multiple keyboard layouts in your OS. Many users do this.
That their tooling (and community, starting from teaching examples) seems to rely on Github so much is worse than dealing with a diversity of distributions.
They didn't say in what way the kid's handwriting is trash, but I've noticed that westerners who have spent time writing kanji end up with handwriting that looks like it was done by a machine.

Probably the same concept at play, but what helped me as a kid was getting one of those black Pentel 0.5mm engineering mechanical pencils (used to be $5 apiece or so at Staples) and using it to write everything as small as possible. On college-rule paper my lettering would occupy 25% of the vertical space while strictly adhering to the bottom line in neat rows.

Few teachers could read my writing without a magnifying glass, but they got their revenge by specifying essay lengths in number of pages. I had to do 75% more work to meet the page count.

I wasn't intentionally being an asshole with this-- in writing such tiny lettering it forced me to pay attention to clarity of my lettering to an autistic degree, otherwise my writing would be entirely illegible to the teacher and my work would be rejected.
The fusion of single nucleus myoblasts into multi nuclei myofibers is clear at this link...quite neat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myogenesis
Politicians eh? Not sure they are that great on either side.
What is the story for multi-language corpus? Do I have to do my own stop word pruning, tokenizing, lemming, etc? This is usually the case with full-text search solutions and it is a pain.
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Same

> The page displays a Cloudflare challenge error, indicating a potential security or server issue that could impact SEO.

> Semantic Analysis
The page currently shows a Cloudflare error and lacks essential SEO elements like a descriptive title, meta description, and proper header tags. The content is largely unavailable due to the error. Fixing the Cloudflare issue is paramount, followed by implementing appropriate title, meta description, and header tags for optimal search engine visibility.
A few years ago my team mounted what I think was the largest-(to-date) scale search for this in electron microscopy brain tissue volumes [1].

I STRONGLY believe there is a substantial central nervous system microbiome, but (spoiler alert) no evidence found in that search :)

If you're excited about this work, the datasets are all freely available from BossDB [2] — well over a dozen petavoxels of it! I'd be so curious if models these days could pick up on something we missed!

[1]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.12.499807v1
[2]: https://bossdb.org
That's kind of the challenge of using jargon and industry specific acronyms. Creators should use plain language to describe their product as much as they can, even if your intended audience should be aware, it is a good way to practice improving your communication skills.
I would be (grudgingly) fine with populating Mars if I felt that we as a race were remotely trying our best to improve Earth. By opening up Mars, incentives are wrong and we will probably become even more lax.
I was inspired to write this post by this one lol.
I don't read Hacker News and my friend just sent me the link to the post you mentioned and told me that it's similar to what I do)
But actually apps have a lot of differences.
I built it for myself first and it helped me a lot, so I decided to share it with the world
Gut microbes affect brain too
Ironically these two comments seem to indicate a guide to technical writing, that did not view technical writing itself as a technology which they were writing about?

Like, should start with a "quick start overview" about here's how the process looks, etc.?
One of those is actually an urgent need. The other one presupposes any utility at all, let alone the massive leap in technology required to solve the other problem.
I'm using the same $9 (yes, 9) drip coffee machine to make my daily coffee for more than 10 years currently. It has an on/off switch and no 'smarts'. It works fine, why should I change it? It's plugged into a smart outlet that I use to make sure it's turned off after an hour. That plug is getting close to 10 years old as well.
I think a big part of this is that upgrading from iPhone 8 to 16 is such a huge jump that all the muscle memory that you've built up has changed. You might as well switch to an Android phone. I wonder how OP's opinion would change in a few months once they're used to the phone.
The Mother of All Bubbles
Apple had good reasons for both transitions. In the scheme of 'forced upgrades' these are about as good as you're going to get. Also, if the OPs dad is using the computer for so little that it would last another 30 years, they certainly have no need to upgrade computers. No reason one can't keep using an intel iMac to browse the web
This is awesome. My wish is to one day be in a position to do things like this and help people in need.
Yay - I can't wait for Pax Sinica to do away with the inefficiencies of democracy if it means more suffering humans will be uplifted. A brief period of reeducation is worth the amazing infrastructure and getting things done. The end will justify the means, right? /s

There's something unsettling about the might makes right amd post-hoc justifications dor colonialism. Especially considering the colonialists did not have those "noble" goals in mind. No one lauds Google the way they laud the British empire, yet the same exploitation vs. public benefit arguments apply.
That doesn't really answer the question. Yes he has started initiatives that will take 5-6 years to pan out. Is there an early indication that they aren't all duds? How can anyone state with any certainty that Intel is on a better path today than it was 4 years ago when every single measurable metric is continuing to decline?
I'm running an iPhone SE that's probably older.

Love it, it's perfect for me, I dread the day it stops working.

I've been forced to use various newer models over the years, and they just keep getting worse to me.
Doubt MLK Jr had much to say about Mars colonization. Why would he be opposed to it as long as Martian settlers were treating each other equally?

I don't like the view that we shouldn't go to space as long as there are problems on Earth to fix. There are always problems to fix. It's an excuse to never explore space. There's no reason that going to Mars would prevent addressing pollution on Earth. I don't even see how they're related. If anything, trying to live on Mars would probably help us deal with climate change on Earth.
> as they eagerly continue stockpiling unconscionable amounts of wealth

It truly is, too.

I do appreciate the tropes of "It is the year 4,000 BC, and you are immortal, the pyramids are being built. You make $10,000 a day, tax-free, and spend none of it..."

But even that is hard to digest.

I'm in my mid-40s. If I tell my friends, "Someone gave you a million dollars a day, every single day since you've been born. And yet, there are multiple people out there with ten times more money than you," it becomes more digestible.

And still just as unconscionable.
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