skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is pretty clearly politically motivated. Thr argument is XYZ number doesn't capture everything and the absolute number is higher.
Which may be true, but for U3 unemployment that has always been true!

The fact is every unemplpyment metric you look at is at a historical low. So regardless of what they are or aren't capturing they are all better than they've been in decades. In relative terms the economy has been doing well.

The difference is two thing. In 2020 half the world shut down and it caused inflation. Our inflation was also much better handled than most of the developed world. And number two, there is a very strong echo chamber that wanted to convince they country the economy was bad, and they were successful.

I'll have to find the link, but there was a reputable poll right around the election that asked people in all the swing states how the economy was doing. They all rated it poorly. They then asked how the economy was doing in their state, they all rated it well.

Voters in every swing state saw up front with their own eyes the economy was doing well in their states and said so in the poll, but were sure the economy was doing poorly because of what they heard about all the other states. Mission accomplished for the echo-chamber.
> ...never heard this in Ada circles...

I tried to track down where I read someone advocate this, but I can't find it now. I probably shouldn't have accused the whole Ada community (of which I'm a member) of this attitude. Regardless, I find it odd that 'Unchecked_Deallocation' is so thoroughly discouraged without what I'd consider an acceptable alternative.

> A programming language is seldom used without its standard library...

Nearly all of the Ada I write is for RISC-V microcontrollers, using the 'light' runtime that comes bundled with GNAT. There's no collection classes, and no heap for them to allocate anything in. The semantics of the language are absolutely still important. I still want a language that makes harmful mistakes difficult.
Who destroyed a nation-states industrial output?
The thing that makes vehicles inconvenient in flat as a pool table Ukraine are huge losses incurred daily by drones. The only reason to see donkeys now is because they are cheaper than Chinese mopeds and two-wheeled tractors ru troops currently use for short supply trips, not to mention loafs/hunters they were paying ~$15K/piece in 2023. They make sense due to disposable status of ru soldiers, no need to worry about survivability, no hummer/mrap/apc for the meat.
"Because as long as it’s illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don’t qualify for social security, they don’t qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket."

This stopped being accurate about a decade or two ago.
IMO yes. The entire purpose of copyright law is to protect the incentive to create new material. A huge portion of the value prop of AI is that it captures the incentive normally bound for the creators of the training material (i.e. the whole point is you can ask the AI and not even see, never mind pay, the originator).
Oh, I have seen this proposed, in real life. It was like 2019 or 2020, so not even new. Honestly, it was a good idea as it was proposed then, and I wish more of the tooling I interacted with adopt it.

WASM to an API is essentially the `Fn(…) -> …` type. E.g., you have

POST /some/api

And it can take JSON, but what if it needs to do "something", where something depends on the consumer?

And across the board, what APIs/aaS's do is that some PM goes "I think these are the only 2 things anyone will ever want", those get implemented, and you get an enum in the API, the UI, the service, etc. And that's all it is ever capable of, until someone at the company envisions something bigger.

If I could pass WASM, I could just substitute my own logic.

Like webhooks, but I don't have to spin up a whole friggin' HTTP server.
Big companies indeed work hard to generate investment and interest. We can take the threat and promise of the technology seriously without taking the science fiction grade hype literally.

If you have your certainty then there are plenty of opportunities to short this space. For the rest of us who don’t have crystal balls, contingency planning (ideally through policy and not as individuals) will have to do.
Copyright covers expression, not ideas. The underlying problem here is that Ross Intelligence never went to the trouble of distilling the purely idea-based and factual element from their original sources; even their finalized search system still had a pervasive reliance on Westlaw's original and creative expression as embedded in their headnotes. Using Windows and then creating Linux is something entirely different because Linux goes to great effort in order not to use anything that's specific to Windows. Large-scale language models are probably somewhere in the middle, because their unique reliance on an incredibly wide variety of published texts makes it very unlikely that they'll ever preserve anything of substance about the expression in any single text.
This is delusional. Even the Orion project [1] was aiming for only a 4-month trip to Mars. As a reminder, the Orion project was a concept of a rocket propelled by nuclear bombs exploding behind a pusher plate that pushed a spaceship. There are no credible alternative propulsion methods that could match or exceed the Orion mission parameters, and be anything close to being technology ready.

To go into a bit more technical details. To get to Mars in 60 days you need to achieve velocities of about 40 km/s. This Rosatom thruster has a thrust of 6 Newtons. And the photos of the engine make it look like it's of the order of one ton. One ton pushed with a force of 6 Newtons accelerates by 6 mm/s every second. It would take 77 days to accelerate to 40 km/s. If you attach a spaceship to the engine, then it would take much longer. For example, if the spaceship is 9 tons and and the engine one ton, it would take 770 days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
>the court’s ruling that West’s headnotes are copyrightable even when they merely quote a court opinion verbatim, because the editorial decision to quote the material itself shows a “creative spark” ... when Ross paid human annotators to write their own versions of the headnotes, they really did crib from West’s wholesale rather than doing their own independent analysis

... so it follows that it was then Ross's annotators showing the creative spark
> They're also now intent on destroying them in favor of the "new" primitive UI by trying to cater to new users (who are seemingly fine with never becoming power users).

I am a power user of my tools. It is sad when a tool gets simplified and have configurations deleted, it is like getting rid of "Advanced" option, essentially.
It really won't. For some use-cases, yes.

> WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.

Except not. The wasm ISA is really quite limited in the types of operations. A full-blown RISC/CISC ISA will have way more opportunities for optimization. To say nothing of multithreading and pipelining. JITing also has overhead.

> You can compile several languages into WebAssembly already.

But if you can compile them, why not just compile to container, and get free performance?

Wasm will have a hard time with anything low level: networking, I/O, GPU, multimedia codecs.
Reducing the Transformer Architecture to a Minimum [pdf]
The copyright lobby has really done a number on public policy. Copyright was never meant to be perpetual.

I’m good with your proposal if we also revert to the original 14 year + 14 year extension model. As it stands the 120 year copyright is so ridiculously tilted that we should not allow it to extend to veto power over technical advancements.
The combined effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have led to a more severe inflationary shock than the US, but with much worse economic growth and lower wage increases. The majority of households have cut their spending in recent years.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Eurotrack_Co...
5090 was an example, same process applies to lower tier GPUs that don't require extra power cables. ie a 3080 with the same power budget as a 1080 would run circles around it (1080 with default max power limit of 180w gets approx 7000 in TimeSpy, 3090 limited to 150w gets approx 11500). Limiting the power budget is very simple with tools such as MSI Afterburner and others in the same space.
> With respect, I find your perspective hard to believe because I don't buy that you would not yourself call that very same number if something truly drastic happened to you. I have a difficult time believing any detractors of 911, for that matter, would truly actually abide by that standard.

I don't know if I would dare call the police, for any reason. Inviting poorly-trained, on-edge, armed brutes into your home who have legal immunity from anything they do, who do not have to justify escalation to violence, are not held accountable for inappropriate escalation... I don't know if I like the odds. I might just roll the dice with the home invader and hope he just wants my TV.
I think you meant Java Applets instead of Compile once run everywhere.
No one's preventing you from hiring just people you get along with/personally like when you're a tiny company.

When you start becoming a big tech company whose products have the power to bend entire societies though, that's when people typically start calling for more accountability in hiring practices.
No, it's Wirth's law eventually overcoming Moore's law.
I was thinking
- Upgraded thunderbolt support
- New dGPU for FW16
- Gaming handheld
The computer industry already has these. 48-54V PoE (power over ethernet) that ends up being used to power equipment designed to operate at ranges of 1.8-3.3V is extremely common.
Nice! I was just think my company should be doing code reviews as part of the interview process. Will definitely check this out.
That's basically what parent poster said, with the most negative possible spin. Yeah, maybe the leader of the company doesn't want to put up with argumentative bullshit, and just wants to do cool and fun stuff with people who are excited to do it.
You're confused. The president of the United States is not just "some guy". He is elected by the citizens of the United States to head the executive branch. Besides, you're assuming two more things:

1. That there has been no vetting (100% false - FBI vetting began in early December)

2. That they have or need access to any information requiring clearance
They’re readily available, but most households don't actually have one. Many more households have a coffee maker, which is essentially the same thing but specialized for dripping the boiling water through coffee grounds. Anyone else who needs boiling water just puts a pot on the stove, or possibly an old–fashioned metal tea kettle.

We could even use 240v electric tea kettles here in the US if we wanted to; most kitchens with an electric range and oven have 240v (or 208v) outlets to plug them in to. But those outlets are usually inconveniently located for counter–top appliances. It wouldn’t cost much to add another above the counter, but it is rarely done in practice. Of course, in many parts of the US natural gas heating is cheaper than electric so the houses there are built for gas ranges and ovens instead.
My sarcasm detector isn't working on this one. Are you actually against open-sourcing of a self-driving system?
Except when the "expected tolerance" is unreasonable.

Even if the connectors and wires are to spec, the design leaves next to no margin for play. You need that margin to account for reality: Handling by casual end-users rather than trained professionals, the ambient temperature of the average room or office, dirt and grime that might get lodged and go unnoticed, wonky supply/draw of power, and more.

Running 8.3A through connections rated for 8.5A is "expected tolerance", it's also fucking stupid in no uncertain terms.
Related:

Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
Read Hernan Cortez’s own description of the Aztec empire when he arrived.
I've yet to see a single example of WASM in the wild. How is it supposed to "replace" anything, if nobody is using it?
We're a lot more than 10 years away from a robot that can snake out a plugged toilet.
> I don't think safety is a 1 dimensional spectrum (say from 0% to 100%). I view it more as a multidimensional thing, and tradeoffs between these dimensions.

Absolutely. This is evident in the different language features of Rust and Ada. At any rate, Rust has advanced the state of the art when it comes to memory safety. The next generation of programming languages are inevitably going to be compared against Rust. In the same way Rust has been compared against Ada. Especially given Rust's popularity. I imagine that if a next-generation 'systems language' can't at least match Rust's features, it won't achieve wider adoption.
An OCI container (what people call Docker containers) are just applications that run on a Linux kernel.

That is, you need a Linux kernel underneath for the containers to run on. More often than not, that Linux kernel is running in a virtual machine.

When you run Docker Desktop on your Windows or macOS machine, how do you think it runs that Alpine Linux container? It works because there is a virtual machine running Linux that all the Docker containers run on top of.

If you are running Linux directly on real hardware, your containers do not need a VM. Everywhere else, they do.
Why do you think it would be? If 200 humans share enough air to dilute the relative concentration of poison in that air effectively, none of those humans will receive lethal doses of poison.
No e-ink product is cost effective.

That's why they have to tout other benefits like being "eco friendly".
I don't understand WASM, but I read that a big draw of WASM is it's ability to provide portability to any language. This would mean Python libraries that depend on an unpopular C library (which could be lost to time) could instead be a single WASM blob.

Assuming equivalent performance, which I understand might not be the case, is there merit to this idea? Or is there nothing new WASM provides?
"I would highly recommend Tomcyberghost@gmail.com I felt a strong connection with him and appreciate his knowledge, expertise and manner in which he worked with my former partner and I. He handled the challenging dynamics of our relationship, and through our work I was able to leave a relationship that was hurting and hindering me. I came to that conclusion not through any direct encouragement, but through doing the work."
There's lots of similar examples in other creative fields - artists who have one piece of work that does tremendously well, but everything else they make is only noticed by their more dedicated fans.

My interpretation is that it's because they make the art for them, not for the audience. In a sense they got lucky that one piece of their work found itself at the right confluence of factors to blow up like it did, because that's not something you can really control or guarantee, unless you play it extremely safe (which is why all the big game/movie studios produce sequel after sequel, or old rockstars will just keep performing their classics).

There's an interview with Jon Blow I heard recently that stuck with me, where he says that he could probably have made lots of money making Braid 2 or The Witness 2, but that it just wasn't interesting to him.

Willingly leaving money on the table, now that's the mark of an artist.
To the first half of your comment, as you said, "I don't really care, Margaret." Our disagreement is intractable and so we move on to your answer to my actual question of how to handle our differences:

> Ideally, Congress should be auditing and prosecuting fraud themselves as stipulated by the Taxes and Spending Clause of the Constitution.

Not "ideally Congress should be", "Congress must be" -- according as you point out, to the Constitution. And they are prosecuting and auditing. For instance, USAID just passed an audit in the Fall, and despite all his noise, Musk has not yet been able to show fault with that audit.

What you advocate in your "obviously though.." paragraph is an extra-constitutional power grab of the Executive branch. Their job is to "faithfully" (that's the operative word) execute the laws, and they aren't enabled by the Constitution to do what they are, which is shut down Congressionally chartered federal agencies that the American people want to exist. If we follow this to its logical conclusion, that means as soon as the other side is in power, they'll just negate all laws and rights of the other side.

Congress exists so this does not happen, and that's why it's not the ideal solution, it's the only Constitutional solution we can use unless you're fine with rule by edict. Which, if that's what you're getting at just say it plainly. I get the feeling I'm arguing with people here who actually want a dictatorship but don't want to admit it yet. Because the process you're defending is a dictatorship by construction.
My God I havent struggled to contain laughter in a public place like this before. Thanks.
> Our mind children, if and when they arrive, will understand that they are constructed creatures, without ancestry, without parentage. When they begin comparing themselves to us, they will be afflicted with a shame opposite to our own. They will be ashamed to have been made instead of born. Call it Pinocchian shame.

Says who? No, seriously, where does this weirdly-confident assertion come from?

How is it even reasonable to expect that these future entities will (A) consider themselves not-born (B) care about the difference and (C) feel negatively?

For all we know the first "proper" AI is going to consider its own history history as "born" just as much as any biological child, or it may think we're weird because obviously all human children are being constructed by nanobots.
This post is really puzzling. How do I use libraries with WASM? Lets say I wrote a nodejs app, seemingly I will need to bundle not just node_modules but also the entire nodejs runtime to make it run. Why would I do this? How does another developer make changes? If there is some way to specify what dev tools to download, what is the difference between that and docker? If you aren't doing anything complicated, docker is just a good way to set up your dev dependencies. If you are doing something complicated I doubt WASM is going to help you.
Suprised Nix isn't mentioned here.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the bar for contributory infringement is much higher than that. I think you'd have to find representatives of the defendants actually indicating somehow that people should use it that way. It seems to me that Grokster, etc.'s encouragement of their users to infringe copyright was an important factor in them losing this case, for instance.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/545/913/
Lex Fridman's interview with Noland and the doctors is a marathon 8.5 hours, but I highly recommend it for a deep dive into the process and results.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Kbk9BiPhm7o?si=g-MqcUcmS9sZhVdc
Good stuff, but if you wanna bring it up a few notches see https://everyuuid.com/
> His age is (and should be) a major mitigating factor

Counterpoint: young offenders (those released under 21 to 30) have high rates of recidivism [1]. The logic for putting someone like this in a low-security and enriching environment until they’ve aged out of high-risk behaviour is there.

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/effects-aging...
From what I can gather, one challenge with 24V and higher is that switched-mode converters, such as the buck converters used in the power stage, get a lot more inefficient when operating at high ratios.

You can see this effect in figure 6 in this[1] application note, where it's >90% efficient at ratios down to 10:2.5, but then drops to ~78% at a ratio of 10:1.

So if one goes for higher voltage perhaps 48V would be ideal, and then just accept the GPU needs a two-stage power conversion, one from 48V to 12V and the other as today.

The upside is that this would more easily allow for different ratios than today, for example 48V to 8V, then 8V to 1.2V, so that each stage has roughly the same ratio.

[1]: https://fscdn.rohm.com/en/products/databook/applinote/ic/pow... (page 14)
Not a criticism, but a question. Did you consider adding a subpanel? If you're running a new circuit I assume there was already some drywall patching to be done, seems like it would have been more cost effective and removed future headaches to just give yourself more breaker space.
Just triple mirror with cheap drives from different manufacturers.
What about WASM doesn't encapsulate dependencies? Isn't it all one WASM blob at the end of the day?
In a timeline where ai continues to advance at the current rate and ends up destroying a lot of office jobs I could see the trades becoming much more competitive since the potential labor pool would become much larger.
Usually, you can tell whether an article has ideological and political biases by looking at its accompanying pictures. Recognizing this helps you critically engage with your sources.

as for your question

> "The ruling Chinese Communist Party promotes atheism and discourages citizens from practicing religion"

communisim is a materialism ideology, so communists should not practice religion, CPC members could be discharge if they do so

there's no limits for non-CPC citizens abt this, "religion freedom should be respected" is written in the constitution

this is not a question for anyone in China or have traveled in China, because if you were there you'll see how many people in temples there at weekends

a funny part, empire's propaganda sometimes against each other:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/22/temple-visits-...
I have been on the lookout for something that code help me with Jinja files and it seems like a plausible candidate. Extra bonus points if I could actually embed the Python in the same grammar but at this point even having the code blocks segregated from the literal parts is a good start

https://pest.rs/?g=N4Ig5gTghgtjURALhAMwJYBsCmACAvLsLgMoDyAkr...
+1. I've tried really hard to replace even some parts of my job with AI ever since GPT3 era, unsuccessfully. All it does for me is it allows me to enter unfamiliar domains (such as e.g. SwiftUI) but then I'm all on my own. In domains where I already have expertise it just doesn't work well. So it is a productivity booster, sure, but I don't see it replacing anyone doing non-bullshit work. I don't even see a trend line pointing in that direction.
Inflation doesn't typically cover cost of living, does it? A poverty line basket of goods is different than someone wealthy. And is rent/real estate cost increases and insurance covered?
Almost every article I read on fair use talked like I could only use small amounts while not competing with them. AI people focus on a tiny number of precedents that they stretch very far. A reasonable person wouldn’t come up with their interpretation of fair use after looking at how most examples play out in court.

It shouldn’t surprise the writer that the AI companies’ versions of fair use didn’t hold much weight. They should assume that would be true. Then, be surprised any time a pro-AI ruling goes against common examples in case law. The AI companies are hoping to achieve that by throwing enough money at the legal system.
So dumb - Shoresy
American Express uses WebAssembly for exactly this use case:

https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-o...
Ditto NSW in Australia (but not all states).