skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can you vote? can you protest the government? do most people think they live in a democracy?

Was Jan 6 a protest of the government or an insurrection? Can Russians vote or are elections a sham? Do the majority of Russians believe they live in a democracy if they’re afraid of whose conducting the polling (or the MAGA non response to polling)? Those are values question that require you to have an agreement on reality.

> You can even do local predictions if both can agree, such as "will the combined incomes of my family be higher or lower in 4 years time?" as low coupling proxies for gdp

Your personal income has absolutely no predictive value on gdp. It’s more predictive of whether you personally made successful bets or even if you’re better at sucking up to the current power structure. It tells you nothing about population level metrics if you have no way of conducting reliable population level surveys. For example Donald Trump’s personal net worth sky rocketed under Biden because he won the election while as the leader of the opposition to the democrats was looking at jail time and whether that was legitimate or not depends on which political lens you look through it.

> If they affect your life they can be observed.

Ah, but if either side distrusts the other about whether the observation made is truthfully reported, how do you solve that? It requires some amount of trust and right now there’s a very clear divide there.
In my experience with a mesh wi-fi project, physical devices come with real world physical side-effects: accidents happen, devices go offline, or get stolen, or knocked off the walls/shelves, a physical location needs to be negotiated with the space owner (less of a problem if the number of venues is in the hundreds as we have business people to handle those at scale), dust, water, heat, animals, etc.

It's not a big problem if you want to equip one venue or a couple, but scaling the operation means these side-effects scale too, and we had to work on solutions to handle those, rather than working on our core competency of mesh wi-fi. Unsurprisingly the project was scrapped despite being technically feasible on a small scale - we had a couple of sites.

Virtualizing a physical space gives you more flexibility. It keeps most problems in the software engineering space and limits physical requirements (eg someone might still need to walk around an airport to update the model, but I can't think of any other major ones).

That said, AI is sexy (right now), Meta is heavy in the MR space and the tech is reusable, even if it's not the most energy-efficient solution.

(disclaimer: just my personal ramblings, I don't work on project Aria)
That's correct, this is how it should be. Enjoy it. Get a hobby.

If your software gets used, it means that you are hired by extremely smart and highly competitive people, because only those can get their software to be used while still making money enabling them to hire engineers. Which means, these people get the best deals for themselves all the time. Which means, you have pulled a short stick: they got a great deal with YOU, too. If your software gets used a lot, it means that you make a lot less than you could, if you only worked for different people.

Extra point: if your client is happy, it means you undercharge them heavily. A client should be always unhappy, but just a bit less so than it takes to fire you.

If both conditions are met - congrats, you have maxed yourself out and are making the top dollar you can.
> ...includes support for a soft memory limit. This memory limit includes the Go heap and all other memory managed by the runtime, and excludes external memory sources such as mappings of the binary itself, memory managed in other languages, and memory held by the operating system on behalf of the Go program"

Of course it’s a runtime setting, it won’t affect other factors but you can’t say it didn’t solved anything “because there’s a GitHub issue open” Then Go runtime was unpredictable because of its ideology “CPU is unlimited but not Memory” and containers are kinda of a dynamic resource allocated but it did solve vast amount of problem dealing with kernel OOM and unpredictable GC cycles

> You still need to use a helper library like https://github.com/KimMachineGun/automemlimit or https://github.com/uber-go/automaxprocs.

I would be surprised if the Go team implemented it into the runtime, because some devs would love to have there own way of handling such settings so I don’t see it as an issue

> Forgot to add: The JVM does this for you since JDK 17 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/19/java-17-wh...

We can’t just compare added features if don’t compare how backwards compatible the language is at that time I don’t know much about Java, but I wouldn’t say the same from upgrading from Go 1.9 to Go 1.19
Upgrading from 11 is trivial though and we are at almost 24. The hardest was 8->9, or 9->11.
My personal expectations of someone optimizing the spending of the biggest military power on the planet apparently seem to be higher than yours.

I would have a proper research and validation team in place making sure there are only correct information being shared
We’re not “missing” anything, your interpretation of the Constitution is incorrect. You may want to scroll up and read Article I, which constrains Article II (that’s why it comes first).

Your understanding of Chevron deference is also incorrect, for what it’s worth.
Right, but in the rest of the world it's more common for the libraries to support a wider range of compiler and language versions. The culture as of yet of Rust, is that more libraries require the newest compiler.
Idle spinning hard drives consumes multiple times that of idle SSDs. Over the life of the drive this becomes significant as well.
That is far better; this 'blahblah' that, after bankruptcy legal reasons prevent from passing out the source should not be allowed as excuse.
Show me one that has substance. I see a lot of really wild stuff, but it all boils down to indirect attacks [0], not arguments. Seen any different? Show me.

[0] "why did democrats/progressives/leftists never say anything when.." and all that, basically lumping all criticism of this into whatever fantasy category the author happens to prefer, and then projecting what is being avoided on that category of people.

Some want to talk about the substance, others kick up sand, and then some people say "oh this is not nice, let's split the difference and just shut it all down until it goes away". Which is essentially the end result of what all the kicking up sand is trying to achieve.
There is always the risk that some of the code (non 3rd party) may look a lot similar to code of a previous employer of the person that committed it

It's all legal risk with little commercial upside
As an electronics engineer I have no idea what the author is talking about here and was about to post the same question.
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I, nor likely any of the commenters here, are political strategists. We are not creating electoral strategies. We are looking at a man who comes from apartheid money, a man who gives literal Nazi salutes (miss me with that "Elon wave" bullshit), who quotes white supremacist rhetoric, who actively supports the Germany far right party, etc. and etc. and etc.

Elon Musk is either a nazi or merely a capitalist who knows dog whistling as a nazi is good business right now. That my observation of this doesn't help with a national political strategy doesn't mean much to me in the moment. He's not been quiet about it, and people don't seem to care (do you?). So, I guess we'll see where it goes.
Cut your friendly neighborhood billionaire some slack. How else will you expect him to expand companies to serve you better, airplanes that don't crash for example.
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That has been my question. They are just cutting line items out of a csv from what I assume are Ai results.

I’d be surprised if anything was correct at all.
oh not sure, just pointing out that he's lying about the reason he's doing it so we're just guessing
Hmm. You know, if instead of proselytizing this was framed as a sort of luxury preference, like "I'm so fussy and squeamish that I don't want to even imagine animals suffering anywhere near anything I touch", I could endorse it. People having picky preferences and being upfront about it is kind of cool. Then it just turns into a battle between the reach of the imagination and the allure of bacon, and is entirely about what feels nicest. In fact a friend of mine is vegetarian in an even simpler way, "I'm not making any principled argument, I just don't really like meat".

The biohazard angle is fairly persuasive too.

Personally I'm fond of venison, and puzzled by the part about laws banning the consumption of hunted meat, since meat is expensive and then there are frequent deer culls which are apparently also expensive, and yet this doesn't often lead to me getting venison pies, it's frustrating.
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Right and also there's a full linux under there with numerous processes running, waiting for touch and other i/o events, updating the display and RAM. Not great if you want weeks long battery.

I would like to imagine an e-ink operating system like what Kindle has: a hardware off by default mode, unless a physical button press is given. It wakes instantly, does its job, as complicated as needed, and then goes right back to hard off until the next wake.
trust is earned.
A single protein may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language
And on a related note, this project was for educational purposes, but if the author wants to do more parsing in Rust, there's the excellent `nom` crate [1], which provides a JSON parser as an example [2].

It uses a very similar paradigm to what the author used in the article, and provides a lot of helper utilities. I used it to parse a (very, very small) subset of Markdown recently [3] and enjoyed the experience.

[1] https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom

[2] https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom/blob/main/examples/json.r...

[3] https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/logseq-to-linkwarden
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DOGE uncovered its own waste and incompetence, that is about it.
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The ends don't justify the means in a Constitutional Republic
You could have the user create an account which remembers which timezone they picked on signup.
Where is this huge waste though?

Musk said they will clean up, I only have seen false information, wrong numbers and the removal of a few millions of aid which is something the biggest economy on the planet should easily be able to afford.

If condoms against HIV is the biggest win so far, the question would be if it's valid to disrupt millions of lives and destroying/ignoring the separation of power in a / the biggest democracy we nlknow.
> Purpose and meaning is found outside of the job.

I second this.

Work can / may play an important role in one's wellbeing, but for the most part work in the capitalist society is incredibly unfulfilling (not that other systems necessarily do it better) and meaningless. We're making money, some of us more than others, and all of us contributing an obscene amount for the ultrawealthy, directly or indirectly. But jobs should be about a lot more than that, and also not help destroy the planet and each other.

At the same time, we should be working a whole lot less - in the wealthy economies 2 days of work should be sufficient. Our time should be spent doing something else, or simply being. Homo Faciens (to do / make) is glorified in our society but we should cultivate the Homo Esse / Existens and the Homo Contemplativus a whole lot more.

https://philosophybreak.com/articles/aristotle-on-why-leisur...

https://iai.tv/articles/the-benefits-of-doing-nothing-auid-1...
I'm not really sure how that's relevant? I'm not even American, I don't care who runs it. This seems like pointless flame bait.
This sounds like a robot character in a sci-fi novel, but the reality would actually be tedious.
The way regulatory authority works is that Congress writes laws that offer general guidance, and then regulatory body creates rules around that guidance. It can enable them to quickly react to changing scenarios, and also offer greater expertise or more detail than may be reasonable to expect of Congress. The issues arises when it's unclear if actions and guidance are aligned.

For a contemporary example, part of the CDC's power comes from Section 361 of the Public Health Services Act [1], which grants them the power to execute orders to prevent the spread of disease into the country or in between states. Examples included inspection, pest extermination, fumigation, and so on. The CDC invoked this power to prevent landlords from evicting delinquent tenants during the COVID stuff.

That was a gross enough (and also, critically, harmful enough) violation of their mandate that it was able to be challenged in the courts and eventually tossed even in the Chevon Deference era, but a lot of scenarios are much more ambiguous. So now their actions will be fully subject to oversight from all branches of government. The end result is that executive departments will have a much harder time overstepping the bounds of authority granted to them by Congress.

[1] - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-8773/pdf/COMPS-877... (page 405)
It's not surprising, maybe even coordinated. Reddit has a similar problem of Musk fanboys brigading threads about Tesla, coming from Discord chats.

And look at the bottom of the page. YC is advertising an "AI Startup School" with Musk and Altman. Peter Thiel was a member at some point. I'm not implying the mods are putting their thumb on the scale but this site does attract people who are pro-oligarchy if they think they too can make a buck.
Everyone in the United States is impacted by government insolvency and the economic collapse it will inevitably lead to if unchecked.

Everyone is impacted by the fact that money-printer-fueled government spending crowds out private spending / investment / growth.
It's incredible how frickin long I've waited for this. I've had WiFi off for years to avoid updating.
FWIW when I buy groceries online using Instacart I appreciate the box that pops up after I click "Check out" and asks me if I want to add anything purchased previously, and if I want to see my most recent orders: almost always there's something I DID want to order today but forgot.
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Nice work! How is the trending value calculated?
Seeing that article -- an article that basically has zero actual foundation for its headline -- quoted constantly by people justifying an autocracy / oligarchy, is simply amazing.

Americans are staggeringly, blissfully unaware of what they have to lose. Of how far things can fall. And they are going to fall at a shocking clip.

And somehow you'll blame that on Democrats. It's the norm.
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> What that post describes (all work going to one/few workers) in practice doesn't really happen if you properly randomize (e.g. just use random UUID) ID of the item/task when inserting it into Kafka.

I would love to be wrong about this, but I don't _think_ this changes things. When you have few enough messages, you can still get unlucky and randomly choose the "wrong" partitions. To me, it's a fundamental probability thing - if you roll the dice enough times, it all evens out (high enough message volume), but this article is about what happens when you _don't_ roll the dice enough times.
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Isn't modeling and animating the hardest part anyway? You're saving some time on texturing and lighting (which is still good, don't get me wrong).

But the whole premise of AI video is that you're basically directing, and the model does all the hard parts for you.
That might also have bad consequences (not because the idea is bad, but because corps will try to route around it). It'll start with pieces of the software not being able to be released because they were licensed from a third party, and end with software development teams being organized into contract shops that own the code and thus (oh! How sad!) are regrettably unable to supply any code after the bankruptcy of the main entity. Would need very careful rules from regulators to try and anticipate tricks like this.
this is impacting scientific research to the point that people are scrubbing the word "gender" from their papers to avoid their research programs getting flagged by the doge gestapo
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Golang's standard library looks pretty complete to me and they will probably master it in a month.
why are you guys acting like elon is the bad guy?
At a previous company, devops would regularly find CPU fan failures on Hetzner. That's in addition to the usual expected HD/SSD failures. You've got to do your own monitoring, it's one of the reasons why unmanaged servers are cheaper than cloud instances.
Orientation towards common good in cities: individual urban mobility behavior
Yes I’m aware. And what does that have to do with my comment?

There are probably a non-zero amount of EV owners who solely charge with public chargers. Those owners probably don’t care about cost. They want an EV for the other things they enjoy about it.

Just about 100% of gasoline car owners don’t fill up at home.
Trump won because he has lied and manipulated a population of idiots. They have managed to create a situation where they can say whatever they want and still get support.

That much is clear to everyone outside of the US. And we don't want any more of your culture over here thank you very much.

No one is debating whether or not increasing efficiency or reducing government is a good or bad thing. It is the way it's being done we take issue with. It's as close to 1930's Germany as you can imagine.
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It can hit north of South America, subsaharan Africa or India. It cannot hit Iran or China, we already know this.
I'm not against gov efficiency.

I just find it disrespectful to try to do this in a week while trump has 4 years to clean up.

This disruptive behavior kills people and hasn't provided any efficiency for real waste.

Btw government jobs are good. Capitalism is not the end goal.
I wish we had batteries so small and powerful but there's no way to record constantly with a tiny device like that
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This argument holds as much water as saying that Google's Privacy sandbox reduces tracking because it gives advertisers the information they want. The IP is still available so you can assume that malicious websites will use it for whatever nefarious purposes they desire. An additional timezone header does not incentivize them to track you less.
Keeping them at a uniform size probably helped them stack evenly when displayed in an HTML table. Back in the day, these GIFs served as site badges or favicons, which weren't created until 1999.
And yet the device enclosure is made with “soft touch” ABS plastic, which degrades terribly over time and becomes sticky. Any gadget made with this material is ewaste in 6-10 years.
I think the difference here is it is not at all obvious to me that an LLM is a force multiplier on same the order as cars to legs.

Cars are pretty easy to observe in action doing what they promise to do. Driving a car is a very straightforward, mechanical, repeatable, intuitive operation.

Working with an LLM is not repeatable or straightforward.

I'm short, your analogy is not helping me
Where are the mass protests? Are there even any people in the streets?
I can see how it helps to feed a 60% final product, but at that point isn't it style transfer, or, DLSS?
The pathology for broken collar bones was changing right as I took up mountain biking, and subsequently shattered my collarbone.

It was hotly debated at the hospital, if my specific case should be operated on or not. Each time I had a checkup, one doctor would say "wait and see" while the other was saying "I can't believe we didn't operate on this".

At any rate, the outcome was as good as if they had operated on it, according to the doc anyway. Nice of them to test it out on me!

More related to this though, I have broken both my collarbones, the first time I had little direction and just held my arm still for 2-3 months. It took forever to heal, and my arm atrophied significantly. The second time, similar severity. I was guided through rehab and I was back using my arm within the first month, very little atrophy.
> How many battery cells does it take to keep a steel mill running through the night, and how will that impact power prices for large customers?

Steel mills run when power is cheap. They historically have run at night (and only minimum power during the day) because cheap power is available at night. Of course there are lots of different steel mills, older ones can't shut down - but modern ones don't run 24x7, they run when power is cheap. Even the old 24x7 ones did their yearly maintenance in December - when power demand is highest (Christmas lights).

Wind and solar are easially predicted a few days in advance with high accuracy, and thus the mills change their shifts/output to follow the cheap power. If it is cloudy/no wind they will send their employees home (with pay) or do maintenance for that week while waiting on more cheaper energy. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to melt iron and so they manage this carefully because it makes them money. They can't deal with months of no production, but they can manage a week here and there.
And here I thought these guys were all about "merit"
Almost the exact same list as the Stack Overflow stack ranked top technologies of 2024 list.

Frankly: imo if you need a website/tool like this/find this website helpful, you might consider it a sign you need to start thinking about life more generally. :)
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With news like this, it's difficult to argue that Musk is cutting government for his own benefit.
An article 3 months from now...

"According to Musk, the efficiencies gained by leveraging the exposure of the assessment team make SpaceX the only viable vendor. 'A bidding process to select the only possible applicant would be silly.'"
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Also, all of this will definitely mean loss of soft power throughout the world for the States.
They'd absolutely report on it. I consume news from many different conservative and liberal sources. NYT newsroom is still one of the best and while bias can't be completely eliminated, they are fair. The opinion section of course leans to the left, and I find little value in it, but that has no bearing on the newsroom.