skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the article has a definition it uses for each of the types of ways food can be categorized based on how its processed
Well, that's pretty much the size of it, isn't it?
What America's top economists are saying about AI and inequality
Some actual data in there.

My default worry is that ML will increase inequality. It basically contributes more valuable forms of capital, and the return on capital long-term does not seem to go down much as its supply increases (according to Piketty, at least).

But this isn't a given at all, and there are tantalizing data points that suggest ML could push in the other direction, as TFA notes.

Overall I agree with this quote from TFA, that it's not a prophecy, but a choice we can make:

>"We have choices about how we design our systems." With the right design of AI systems (and also public policies), Brynjolfsson says, AI might be able to usher in more widely shared prosperity.

also:
>"And one of my pleas to business managers and to technologists is to think harder about using AI to augment humans and to benefit humanity more broadly rather than have all of the benefits accrued to a very small group."

I'm trying to keep on the lookout for such applications, so if you know of good ones, mention 'em!
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Do you have a good resource for learning what kinds of hardware can run what kinds of models locally? Benchmarks, etc?

I'm also trying to tie together different hardware specs to model performance, whether that's training or inference. Like how does memory, VRAM, memory bandwidth, GPU cores, etc. all play into this. Know of any good resources? Oddly enough I might be best off asking an LLM.
The year2000(dot)com was the clearing house for much of the non-hypearticles from IT folks.

The way back machine has it archived. I’d suggest looking at the copies of the site towards the end of 1999. A good example of such an article was ‘a crock of clocks’

If you wanted to hear my take on y2k 20 years later? Check the podcast: y2k an autobiography

Cheers
Would you object as strongly if it had said that he was a really nice guy?

Would it be more or less honest a retelling of history if this was ignored or left out?

TFA is clearly not discounting the work because of it, and probably nobody would good-faith argue that personality was always decoupled from work? In which case how much you care is just a POV?
Editors that are geared towards advanced users, i.e. they allow mostly or completely keyboard-driven interaction (to increase precision of actions), editors that are rich in the way that they understand and navigate text, i.e. they offer multiple paradigms of text navigation, be it by structure, by line, by mini-map, the "jedi" style. Editors that allow substantial automation and extensibility without a massive effort on the user end, possible ad hoc, rather than requiring a full-fledged programming project. Editors with multiple existing integrations with third parties, but also allowing for a relatively easy addition of such interactions. Editors that aren't overly reliant on third-party software to function (i.e. can function when X-Server isn't available, or when Web isn't available).

Some anti-features that are preferably be missing from good editors: unnecessarily constraining user to the choices the editor designer or the editor administrator deemed necessary. Excluding particular functionality from automation or requiring substantial workarounds in order to automate particular aspects (eg. having functionality associated with a button that can only be clicked by positioning the mouse cursor over it, or, even worse, functionality that is only available through drag-and-drop). Reliance on modal windows. Automatic editing and formatting of editor-related configuration files in a way that doesn't preserve user's edits and formatting.

In other words, it's possible to take a decent editor, like Emacs or Vim and turn it into a bad editor like VSCode or IDEA by doing bad things to it because the base is very extensible. But, in general, excluding the administrative / repackaging component, editors like Emacs or Vim will win in this contest.
> Now you’re just being patronising.

Jesus Christ, I was just trying to be nice. Your defensiveness is repeatedly leading to misunderstanding and getting in the way of us having a productive conversation.

> Right, so now we’re talking about unbounded iteration?

You’re conflating multiple different topics here. NASA doesn’t allow unbounded iteration. That’s a separate topic from whether recursion can theoretically be transformed into iteration.

Recursion can always be transformed into iteration. That statement is not and never was dependent on what NASA does. There is no such thing as a recursive function that can’t be iterated. In practice, iterating is as efficient or more efficient than using a call stack. This is still and always was my point. If you’re using a call stack for recursion, you are wasting memory and cycles, which is one of the reasons “Software developed in Prolog has been criticised for having a high performance penalty compared to conventional programming languages.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog#Limits

I work on ray tracing hardware, which is conceptually recursive, uses recursive tree data structures, and often implemented using recursion. We make it faster by transforming the recursion into specialized iterative hardware, and also algorithms that do iteration in place of recursion. Computer graphics is full of algorithms that are conceptually recursive and yet always more efficient in practice if you avoid using call recursion and implement them iteratively instead. Character rig animation is one example. And browsers do this for rendering HTML.
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The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.
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Sorry about this. Lots of people jumped on it and we're working to fix the underlying problem that caused it. Should never have happened!
I'm the Governor of Hawaii. I've Seen What Vaccine Skepticism Can Do
The police are NOT an executive function and do not report to the PM.

The Ottawa police, report to the city of Ottawa. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Police_Service)

The Ontario police, report to the Province of Ontario (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Provincial_Police)

The RCMP, reports of the Country of Canada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police). And the RCMP is "a police service for the whole of Canada to be used in the enforcement of the laws of the Dominion, but at the same time available for the enforcement of law generally in such provinces as may desire to employ its services."

The most important part is the RCMP enforcement in provinces is at the DESIRE of the provinces, in this case The Ontario Provincial Government.

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Mixtral and Deepseek use MOE. Most others don't.
> This is my problem with the “elites in control” hypothesis. It seems to rely on voters’ power existing, but being circumvented because said voters are too stupid to handle it.

You are correct (except that it need only be a subset of voters).

Now that you've done a good job of elaborating on the hypothesis, what exactly is your problem with it?
WayBack Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250107123815/https://www.nytim...
Useful things you can do with Rails console
I don't mind them, but they are getting ridiculous where I live. There are 5 roundabouts in a row.
I installed bsky but I don't even know where to find the accounts that talk about AI developments.

I basically get all of my tech news from X and often have interesting discussions.
Aegypti: Faster Triangle Finding and More
What are the jobs that require social skills (except sales)?
> America is the most successful country on this earth

According to what metrics? life expectancy? crime rate? wealth per inhabitant? education? work life balance? health care? happiness? incarceration rate? human rights? corruption? freedom of press?

American tax dollars aren't spent in Europe or elsewhere in the world for some altruistic reason. The US want to maintain their hegemony and prevent other powers from emerging. They certainly don't care about Europeans or Taiwanese or whoever.

> I challenge you to find another economic system that has worked in history, because it sure isn’t communism if that’s what you’re referencing.

Not that I'm a big fan of communism or China, but communist China has been doing pretty well, and is getting more innovative than the US
The increasing TDP trend is going crazy for the top-tier consumer cards:

3090 - 350W

3090 Ti - 450W

4090 - 450W

5090 - 575W

3x3090 (1050W) is less than 2x5090 (1150W), plus you get 72GB of VRAM instead of 64GB, if you can find a motherboard that supports 3 massive cards or good enough risers (apparently near impossible?).
Using Hall-effect sensors to measure current isn’t that common when currents are in the uA to mA range. I’ve also never seen them used even for Amp range measurements when the application is purely on-board power supply meaurement.
Ask HN: Opening Google Meet on Firefox slows down the entire browser
Recently, I can't seem to join standup calls through firefox. I really don't want to switch to chrome. But seems like I have to.
But for every step that turns out to be "correct" you now have to go back and redo that in your held-out sample anyways. So it's not like you get to save on repeating the work -- IIUC you just changed it from depth-first execution order to breadth-first execution order.
I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen. I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house.

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous well-being. And then I'm happy for the rest of the day
An interview with Flow's director linked here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442151
If the VRAM wasn't small, the cards would all get routed to non gaming uses. Remember the state of the market when the 3000 series was new?
>"Lamb Weston and McCain alone control 70 percent of the market" hides that McCain holds about 30% of the US market.

What exactly is objectionable about this sentence? The two companies are clearly outlined as separate in the article, and the fact that one company holds about half as much market share as both combined is... not surprising or misleading. Would you rather have the 40-30-20-7 split more explicitly outlined, and why do you think that has a big impact on the reader's takeaway from the article?
> hope we get a crash

That's the best time to buy. ;)
Yet the FE versions end up cheaper than third party cards (at least by MSRP), and with fewer issues caused by the third parties cheaping out on engineering…
Its impossible to not get blindsided by HFCS and the general sugar content of American foods if you compare the retail shelves like for like with Europe.

In Ireland and other European countries they literally have to 'cover up' the Breakfast Cereals in the 'American Speciality/Import' section due to their misleading nutritional information and/or child targeting.

For example, American formulation PopTarts have to legally cover up the claim on the front that they are "a good source of nutrition" and another sticker on the back with a factual nutritional breakdown, as is mandated by most EU members.
0.0.0.0 is a reserved address to mean "this device". Also, 0/8 is a reserved subnet to mean "this network" (which no-one uses any more). I wouldn't have expected ping to substitute 127.0.0.1, but it's not that weird either.
Some of the better video generators with pretty good quality can run on the 32gb version. Expect lots of AI generated videos with this generation of videocards. Price is steep and we need another 9700 ati successtory for some serious nvidia competition. Not going to happen anytime soon I am afraid.
Or you wait out the 5000 Super too and get the 6000 series that fixes all the first-gen 5000-Super problems...
> Lack of a DMCA equivalent.

Good. It's heavily misused here.

> No equivalent of Section 230.

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

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

> Laws around targeted advertising mean you can't generate revenue comparable to what the US based firms can do...

Good! Agriculture is cheaper with slavery, but that isn't a great argument for permitting it.
Both are valid ways of using "would have", in this case I'm using it as the past tense of "will have". But I appreciate the ambiguity it creates.

> We use "would have" as the past tense form of will have:

>> I phoned at six o'clock. I knew he would have got home by then.

Note the difference between this and:

> I phoned at six o'clock. I knew he was home by then.

Which implies first-hand knowledge of his location. The first only signals a logical conclusion.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-gram...
Maybe, it is simply a legacy business model. Nvidia wasn't always a behemoth. In olden days they must be happy for someone else to manage the global distribution, marketing, service etc. Also, this gives an illusion of choice. You get graphic cards in different color, shape, RGB, water cooling combinations.
> Seems to me in my experience after decades of watching and participating in online discussion extremism really only became more problematic when fact checking and active efforts to suppress took hold. Whatever the good intentions may have been, the results were worse.

Seems like the opposite. Traditionally we only had siloed forums which were often heavily moderated by volunteers who considered the forums their personal fiefdom, read every single thread and deleted stuff for being "off topic" never mind objectionable, plus the odd place like /b/ which revelled in being unmoderated. Then you ended up with more people on big platforms that were comparatively-speaking, pretty lightly and reactively moderated. Then you ended up with politicians weighing in against moderation with the suggestion even annotating content published on their platform was a free speech violation, let alone refraining from continuing to publish it.

The difference between antivax sentiment now and circa 2005 isn't that nobody ever determined that they weren't having that nonsense on their forums or closed threads with links to Snopes back then or that it's become difficult to find any references to it outside antivaxxer communities since then. Quite the opposite, the difference is that it's now coming from the mouth of a presumptive Health Secretary, amplified on allied news networks and now we have corporations running scared that labelling it a hoax might run the risk of offending the people in charge. Turns out sunlight is a catalyst for growth
I'm really disappointed in all the advancement in frame generation. Game devs will end up relying on it for any decent performance in lieu of actually optimizing anything, which means games will look great and play terribly. It will be 300 fake fps and 30 real fps. Throw latency out the window.
Boredom snacking from starting a new job is killing me. I put 10 pounds on starting a new job, sit at the computer and snack on shit. Crept into "overweight" according to BMR. Hard exercise 3x a week, hard but milder exercise pretty regularly. Its too easy to snack my to 3k calories. I only maybe eat out/order in 3 meals a week.

Snacks and meat have too much calories
Spending $2 quadrillion on a GPU won't fix poor raster performance which is what you need when you're rendering two frames side by side. Transistors only get so small before AI slop is sold as an improvement.
I agree she's tainted which makes her a bad choice to be his successor. But people have short memories and I think in 3-4 years the Trudeau stains will have washed off. In that time she'll have a chance to make a name for herself.

I think if she wanted she could very well be a contender in the next election cycle.
I think this is great. It's being replaced by community notes, which is a more democratic way of fact-checking rather than relying on Facebook to enforce their own views on us by moderating content.

I'm not sure why nobody is mentioning it, but Mark Zuckerberg admit that the Biden administration was pushing for censorship. This should be the #1 story.
Wow, I just meant that “collapse the fed” is too big an ask for most people.
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I'm curious how many people tasted beer for the first time, and purely based on the taste wanted to drink more. My impression, and this might just be limited exposure, is most bitter drinks are niche products unless they deliver alcohol or caffeine. Does anyone have a good counter-example?
If you're expecting this device to stay relevant for 4 years you are not the target demographic.

Compute is evolving way too rapidly to be setting-and-forgetting anything at the moment.
I would ask kindly that nobody 'disrupt' the elevators I use to go into work.
Ehh not the best weather and they haven’t invented the trash can or dumpster yet. You can get good food everywhere these days. And as the years go by I am less and less interested in drinking till 4:30 am especially at todays bar prices.
Anti-vaccine sentiment didn’t arise due to suppression. It arose due to the ease of cheaply spreading a message on social media. We ran the experiment and see the results.
Can you actually use multiple videocards easily with existing AI model tools?
I based my keymap off of that of the Kinesis Advantage, which does have function keys.

I have Ctrl + Alt + Super on the thumb clusters, each as their own key. I did copy the default layout for the Ergo S-1 which uses a modifier key (also on the thumb cluster) to access the function keys, so F1 is Fn+1, F2 is Fn+2.

I thought I would miss having dedicated Fn keys but they are surprisingly not missed much in my workflow. Might depend on your workflow though. The current solution is workable, at any rate.
I came to the comments just to post this. Ironic coming from film buff, the idea that we should judge historical figures through a modern lens.
Microsoft tests Outlook?
Indeed you're not a gamer, but you're the target audience for gaming advertisements and $2000 GPUs.

I still play traditional roguelikes from the 80s (and their modern counterparts) and I'm a passionate gamer. I don't need a fancy GPU to enjoy the masterpieces. Because at the end of the day nowhere in the definition of "game" is there a requirement for realistic graphics -- and what passes off as realistic changes from decade to decade anyway. A game is about gameplay, and you can have great gameplay with barely any graphics at all.

I'd leave raytracing to those who like messing with GLSL on shadertoy; now people like me have 0 options if they want a good budget card that just has good raster performance and no AI/RTX bullshit.

And ON TOP OF THAT, every game engine has turned to utter shit in the last 5-10 years. Awful performance, awful graphics, forced sub-100% resolution... And in order to get anything that doesn't look like shit and runs at a passable framerate, you need to enable DLSS. Great
true, which is why you should never take life advise from studies. the worst examples are participating.
How is “enlarging the cake” (usually the metaphor is “pie”) naïve?
> it indicates the Federal Reserve anticipates and prepares for worst-case scenarios that could severely disrupt the financial system

Yes! That's the point! You don't want to arrive at a worst-case scenario unprepared!

The US military has all sorts of files and plans on bizarre and implausible scenarios, mostly as intellectual exercises ("if we wanted to invade Canada, how would we do it?"). That doesn't imply anything about their likelihood.
Moreover, the parent misses the forest for the trees: yeah, the congestion fee is lower than the fare, but the fare is vastly more expensive than driving a car.

The current pricing model encourages resource sharing (this was true before congestion pricing as well), and the choice of whether or not you take a car or a cab is a function of the amortized cost of use per unit time. So yeah, just in terms of congestion fee it's a little bit cheaper to take an Uber for a single trip, but if you ride around in an Uber all day long, it's way, way less cost efficient than driving your own car.
Yeah I never got the aversion to operator overloading either.

"+ can do anything!" As you said, so can plus().

"Hidden function calls?" Have they never programmed a soft float or microcontroller without a div instruction? Function calls for every floating point op.
Haven't had time to read the article yet, but very cool to find a place where there are a bunch of such journals. Good to know the good 'ol Internet that I used to know and love is still out there. Bookmarking that one.
Not really into offroad or gravel but have been planning a longish (2 weeks) road cycling trip for a while; wife and I looking for the opportunity (can't really take the kids along; I mean we could, and people do, but they would not be happy). In the meantime long weekend rides, local century events, etc.
The only reason gaming doesn't use all the VRAM is because typically GPUs don't have all the VRAM. If they did then games would somehow find a way to use it.
that hasn't been true in any city i've lived in that had speed cameras (shockingly few actually). dc makes money on their cameras
Firefox 134: touchpad hold gestures on Linux, accelerated HEVC on Windows
> In most dishes like a pasta or curry

That seems like a waste of steak. Must be a lot cheaper where you are than where I am.
That's not quite what I mean. Being a llc doesn't help you within the Youtube Content ID system. What I'm wondering is could you have a second entity you control make claims against your own videos - or do claims stack. i.e.: Would you still be vulnerable to vexatious claims from a third party.