skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not too familiar with how EFI handles it, but I think that grub would need some NTFS support?

I use EFI, but I keep all of grub, the kernel, and the initramfs on the EFI partition. So grub wouldn't need to know anything at all about the partition for /, as it isn't loading anything from it.
Has anyone ever heard of the DMT theory for NDEs?
>I've been to endless elementary school plays; I've seen that kids really don't have the refined performance skill to pull this off. One might but not scores.

In middle school I used to look at what drugs were prescribed for what mental illness, then read the DSM–4 for the symptoms, book an appointment for a specialist so I could get those drugs.

Faking mental illness is extremely easy and extremely enjoyable.
"If all of us had infinite money we would just use private jets or something, but that doesn't mean that jets are strictly superior to cars"

That would mean cars were an inferior good over that income range.
Amazing ... I had just checked a few minutes before this post. I tried RC.1-4 and they were definitely improvements on 19.07 in terms of general feel, reduced need for weekly reboots etc.
> There are many hard problems in video game performance, but "games just can't make good use of multiple cores" is not one of them.

That's not quite what I said.

I'm happy you're using specs to work on an open source game. Specs and bevy and all the ECS work being done is super exciting and fun. I <3 Rust.

In the meantime there are no major games that effectively scale to, let's say, 64 cores. I don't know of anything shipped that can saturate a 12-core/24-thread Ryzen. ECS alone will not get us to that level of scaling.

Yes it's trivial to to throw audio, networking, and a few other subsystems onto separate threads. Modern games definitely leverage 4 cores. Although several of those cores will be severely under utilized.

Modern ECS designs are rapidly evolving and rapidly improving our ability to better leverage multiple cores. But we're not yet to a point where games can easily and efficiently saturate 10+ cores.

Personally I'd love to see a game like Eve Online that can effectively simulate a universe with tens of thousands of players either spread across the universe or all in one places during one giant battle.

> It is certainly far far easier to see real performance wins with multicore than by using multiple servers, which introduce very heavy coordination costs.

This is extremely true.
My mother was a special Ed teacher for years. Specifically for kids with emotional/personality disorders. She always dreaded parent teacher conferences because the parents were bigger, louder versions of her disordered kids. But despite what you might think, it's less about the kids being raised wrong and more about genetics. Bad parenting is usually a result of the same behavior problems afflicting the kids.
Speeding up Python Jupyter notebooks 25x with simple concurrency and AWS servers
Being able to serve 1000+ players in a spatial "MMO" game is like the holy grail of netcode programming...

> Here's a demonstration showcasing 1000 cross-server players, this simulation is functionally identical to real player load. The server TPS never dips below 20 (perfect) and I'm running the whole thing on my laptop.

If it can run on one laptop, why does it need horizontal server scaling? :P

You don't really know where the bottle-necks are until you put 1000 actual players on the same "server".
I live in Japan, and have a Kei. Honestly: they're wonderful. I'm importing at least one when I head back to the US.

It reminds me a lot of my first car, an early-80's Honda. Tiny engine, almost nothing in the way of luxuries. Basically no sound deadening, and it uses my knees as its front crumple zone.

On the flip side, this thing has the best visibility of any car I've ever driven. Old-school low beltline, and the front of the car is maybe two feet in front of my driving position?

Yes, it's box on wheels, but it's a great box on wheels.

Really does make me sad that heavy regulation (nominally at the behest of the US auto industry) and "cash for clunkers" has driven these out of the market in the US.
This is a prime example how fighting something can simply give it more eyeballs. I just heard about this through HN. Maybe we can just ignore people who don’t agree with us…
> there is hipocrisy in your demands for specific evidence in your first comment

You must refer to the post written by CameronNemo. Those aren't neither "my demands" nor my comment.

Yep, I believe totally in those hypothetical women putting plants in their room because "Stallman can't stand being in the same room as plants". The trick is working great it seems.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Eg...

http://blogs.laprensagrafica.com/litoibarra/wp-content/uploa...

Is also obvious that the man is afraid of trees and nature in general

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stallman_Jadwisin_9....

Real phobias are serious medical problems causing a lot of anxiety and pain in people that just can't avoid being afraid. Is not funny stuff to gossip about it. I think that spread the rumor of somebody having a phobia is, if not malicious, at least of very bad taste. Specially when several documents show the opposite behavior.

And if you say that this wrapped thing is a gerbil, well... Solid evidence. All packages with that shape contain a live gerbil inside. The more expensive Tesla cars even have four squirrel units inside for feeding the battery.
I like this take "they understand why Linux hasn't gone mainstream". Agree, Pop OS focuses on getting basics right.
I'm slowly working on a SaaS app to combine in-browser real-time collaborative text editing with plain text accounting, using the hledger format. Just curious if that is something you, or others, would be interested in.
Then you need to quantify your statement.

-> _For the ultra-rich_, trains and other public transportation are inferior options.

This is completely different from saying that public transportation is an inferior good overall. It's not that simple.
Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker
This seems like a roundabout way to achieve a closed-loop cooling cycle. Why do this vs a water-to-air heat exchanger and never evaporate the water in the first place?
The only truly intractable problem I don't see a way around is the interagency nature of some of the requirements. In many cases, they aren't really requirements in the sense of being formally written down anywhere. It's worse in the IC than in the DoD, but present in both, where enterprise services meant to interoperate with systems run by other components have to go through a trial period after releasing to some sort of near ops environment. Every single involved stakeholder has to sign off on this.

Who can solve this? There is no common authority. Theoretically, that is what the DNI was supposed to be for, but they don't have any kind of IT expertise.
There are proper diagnosed awareness activists with large followings on TikTok, and based on the humanity on display within TikTok, I have no doubt for every legitimate individual, there are many times that number of fakers.

As for a narcissist awareness activist, they're not wrong, they are right, and you are an arsehole and it's all your fault!

Schizophrenia on the other hand is absolutely tragic, and it often contains disordered thinking. There is/was plenty of content on YouTube but it wasn't awareness based, rather it was paranoia based.

You're always going to get scammers and fakers, but the legitimate people who are letting others in to their lives to spread awareness is overall a good thing. I would have liked to discover I wasn't alone as a teenager with undiagnosed ADHD. Treatment at that point in my life would have changed it's trajectory significantly.

Neurodiversity isn't a diagnosis by the way, just a catch-all for a group of other disorders.
Thanks for your comment. Spatially allocated servers was my original implementation! There’s a link to a video demo in the blog post. You are definitely correct that spatial sharding is easier and more robust.

This new approach was primarily made because I thought it would be fun and cool :P
Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?
The iPad Pro is great, but you can't develop on it.

I just bought the 16GB M1 MacBook Pro a week ago. Xcode flies on this thing.
Core societal issues shouldn’t be hand waved away like a disagreement over a referee call.
The car industry really just needs to standardize a connector (USB-C?) and a protocol for an external device to drive the dashboard touchscreen and any relevant physical buttons. Like Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, but open and universal.
If you're just using ECS to parallelize disjoint subsystems then no, it won't get you there. But if you're using it (as Veloren is, and as I hope more people do) in a more deliberate way, to further parallelize within a system, you can indeed scale quite well to large numbers of cores. I've done some theoretical bottleneck calculations and we will still have tons of work to do with 64 cores available, if the game is written properly. We can already get decent utilization out of 32 threads at busy times, and the server was not really close to peak load in terms of player count (and we are very far from done optimizing): https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/539518074106413056/....

That's just for our server. Our clients can make use of cores in even more ways, although they have less work to do and generally have fewer cores available, and you can see Veloren taking advantage of 16 client threads with similar utilization here: https://twitter.com/sahajsarup/status/1431837669391142916.

The most important thing I want to note is that in both cases, you are not seeing tremendous imbalance between the cores most of the time. While there are definitely single-threaded bottlenecks in games, you have to be working pretty hard before they start bottlenecking the workload! Instead, we are just suffering from a combination of general inefficiency and lack of work to do.

So no, I'm going to push back against this notion that multicore scaling for games is some sort of crazy intractable problem. It's not. Like any other kind of parallel scaling, it's trivial in some places, more challenging in others, and depends a lot on your workload (including you actually having enough work to saturate the cores in the first place!). But there's nothing special about games here.
It seems illogical to cite being able to have a sleeper car as a reason to take a train instead of a plane, when the plane would have you to your destination the same day before bedtime.
Is it much different than the Hoover Dam, or interstate highway system? We praise those accomplishments...
I recommend categorizing some non-urgent, nice-to-have, non-intricate tickets as onboarding tickets. It takes discipline to set them aside and not touch them because it is so tempting to just get those done and out of the way, but they are great for new team members to play during their first days. If you deploy on merge, it gives them both a sense of accomplishment and a sense of belonging. Learning by doing is the best kind, especially when it comes to being introduced to the intangible aspects of the established mores of an established team.
Not just aiding and abetting. Also “anyone who intends to engage in the conduct”. That is, literal thoughtcrime. Literal pre-crime.
The Secret Life of machines is a great series for someone that was born in the "digital" age. It's great to see the progression from mechanical parts to electric parts and easy to see why electric is the future due to lack of moving parts and thus greater reliability. Think internal combustion engine with all lubrication and gaskets vs. an electric motor.
If it's not impersonation, it's not misusing, as far as I know.
If you also don't feel like readying a 16k word article to find out the answer use this https://tldrthis.com/
Not on this one. This one literally has people being able to turn people in for something like driving someone to a medical procedure under the guise of "aiding and abetting".

This is not a movie that offends a religious group that gets riled up and tells people to not watch it which only encourages people to watch it. These are state laws that affect everyone in the state.

Ignoring horendous laws is not the answer. They need to be discussed, and then have people get motivated to have them changed.
Holy cow, I almost never read entire posts on HN but this one was excellent and thoroughly helpful :) nice work OP!
It's a privilege to be able to ignore people who don't agree with you, one that people who can get pregnant in Texas don't have atm.
I think it's often taken for granted just how much humanity has kicked ass over the past 200 years, technologically speaking. Motors, antibiotics, airplanes, skyscrapers, computers, the moon landing.... It's just crazy compared with any other era of human existence.
If your income goes up and you spend less on something, that's an inferior good. That's pretty much the definition of an inferior good.
man, i really want to like them. i was having problems with my thinkpad, and wanted to get a linux-first vs. linux-afterthought laptop. in the end, i'm still using my thinkpad, and am planning on selling the lemur pro on CL. the system76 is just kind of underwhelming. feels slower, the fan is loud, it burns through battery faster.
Perhaps we have to distinguish between GPT-3-the-model and GPT-3 paper. IMHO GPT-3 as a model is straighforward engineering, putting a lot of resources in an oversized GPT-2; and while there's significant novelty in the "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" paper about how exactly you apply these models, that is orthogonal to GPT-3-the-model, the scientific content of that paper applies to any other powerful language models and isn't intimately tied to specifics of GPT-3.

In essence, I feel that the same people introduced two quite separate things - a completely new paradigm on how to obtain few-shot learning from a language model in a way that competes with supervised learning of the same tasks; and the GPT-3 large model which is used as "supplementary material" to illustrate that new paradigm bit is also usable and used with the old paradigms, and by itself isn't a breakthrough. And IMHO when the public talks about GPT-3, they do really mean GPT-3-the-model and not the particular few-shot learning approach.
There is "debate" on whether vaccines give you autism... I mean, debate existing doesn't make it a good idea or not worthy of criticism..

Most people who eschew curl|bash as being a fine thing rely quite heavily on the notion that TLS is infallible.

But there's a lot more dangerous to it than that; half-downloaded scripts or scripts which check your useragent and change content depending on the method of download.

It's just a stupid foot gun, best to avoid aiming guns at feet.
Back then, advertisers and book dealers sold wild futurism because it made them money. Now media outlets new and old sell fear and uncertainty for the same reason.

There is no crystal ball.
Bay Area commuter route, East Bay -> San Jose. Not only is the train restricted from going faster than 35mph in half of the East Bay due to NIMBYism, it also goes through a lot of marshy environmental preservation areas and hilly areas with no signal or weak signal.

The seats were nice, I'll give it that. Would still rather be in a car driving at 2x the speed by myself.
Performance. FUSE filesystems are cool but not really native in the same way an implementation like this is.
I moved from an edgerouter4[1] to openwrt on a protectli fw4b. On my home gigabit fiber (centurylink) link, it has been great so far (performance, throughput, etc)!

[1]: Ubiquiti has had packet processing issues in the 2.x firmware series for what seems like forever, and lack of updates lately has prompted me to move to something that is arguably better anyway.
Interesting, that pie chart also shows the percentage of global transactions that are bitcoin. What matters is energy-per-transaction.
Sub7 legacy: A fan made sub7
Are there any standards bodies or informal organizations that try to quantify software bloat and featurism? Seems like an opportunity for groups that are motivated to keep software lean and consumer friendly to pool some resources ala open source. Anything like that out there already?
This is not a fair-use, news, satire kind of a thing. Its sole purpose by existing is to make it so people are not going to the "actual" site.

I am quite amused by the direction and attempt to harass, but I'm concerned it will be short lived. Shows how not smart these people are though. Any one of us would have known to register all of the TLDs plus potentially any common misspellings etc to protect the brand.
If we kept our tech level at around the 80s but only increased the power efficiency, we wouldn't be in such a bad position.
A lot of this stuff is actually legacy from when NT hosted POSIX and Windows subsystems simultaneously on the same kernel.

Sadly that stuff is long since dead but they have in part revived some of the ideas with their SQL Server for Linux port and WSL of course.
Tangentially related, I had to move a web app off of DigitalOcean because the CPU performance was terrible compared to what you get for $80/mo from a dedicated server from OVH. I know Linode and DigitalOcean compete. Get a OVH dedicated server, try the CPU passmark bench or whatever and compare. AWS + Linode + DigitalOcean are all VPS and pretty slow.
That's true, those weren't your demands, but you're the guy who doesn't believe the women, and called my friend a creepy spoiled brat while lecturing me about civility.

Defending RMS's love of trees isn't the hill I'd choose to die on. If you really don't believe her, re-read what that wise woman wrote 35 years ago about RMS groupies, and tell me that it doesn't apply to you today:

>Yet I still hear people I love and respect talk about him as if he were some kind of deity, as if his Free Software Foundation were the noblest effort in the world. It is admirable, yes. But to glorify the thoroughly sick human being behind it into some sort of whole-life messianic figure is unconscionable. Meeting RMS groupies was yet another contributing factor to my punting of the computer world for the time being. So many of the "hackers" out there (hackers, not crackers/urchins/destructoids) seem to have their external values totally fukt. Sure, we're all entitled to different values. Fine. But it grieves me to see good people withering away behind a self-imposed wall of lonely techno-perfection, their frantic efforts to acquire friends and lovers made all the more poignant by the desperation in their eyes, voice, manner. Most of them know that they are lacking something important, but don't know what it is, or how to get it, or who to ask for it. Many can see themselves alienating people or spurning offers of friendship and affection, but don't know how or why they're doing so. They just look impassive and bored and in control, and damn themselves silently in their minds, self-inflicting the rejection and pain that they feared from the outside.
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Pass saves each password in a separate GPG encrypted file. I personally like this approach because it integrates into Git extremely well and they have `pass git` commands and also if you're syncing with a cloud service it only updates the actual passwords that have been modified, as opposed to something else which may need to sync a 300MB+ database whenever you update a single password or some metadata.
> The presence of egregious errors (such as text in an integer column) is a convenient early warning signal that something is amiss.

We should be reporting or logging those errors. Accumulating them in our permanent storage will cause recurring bugs when reused until they are manually discovered and somehow repaired.
There was some YT clip essentially claiming that is was a piano being dropped? i guess it was just similar.
I come at this from a data security point of view. I honestly don't care if police want to read my data. If some knocked on my door with a warrant, I'd gladly decrypt my drives. I have nothing illegal on them.

What I do have a problem with is anti-encryption laws weakening the security of my services. Hackers are getting better and better. Nation states are DDoSing services that I use, and leaking the details.

Police wanting backdoors means that real end-to-end encryption isn't even an option. This opens me up to vectors of attack from people I don't even know, who are desperate for my money or identity.

For that reason, my threat model includes corporations and government. Although, if asked to decrypt my data in person and hand it over, I will with no issues.
FYI, article is from 2012
I now understand and agree with your point.
The start of the pandemic/lockdowns also highlighted the flower global trade: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-flower-industry-cras... , including the mention of Kenya.

DDGing "Covid flower industry", there also newer articles talking about the state of the it as lockdowns in Europe eased.
AI safety researcher here. I've interacted with several folks at OpenAI, DeepMind, and other such groups, but have no affiliation with any of them.

While I'm not privy to OpenAI's internal motivations, it's worth keeping in mind that as a nonprofit they face a pair of hard organizational constraints:

1) Training state-of-the-art ML models costs huge amounts of money. That means OpenAI's capex is forcibly high.

2) Their charter (https://openai.com/charter/) commits them to a "fiduciary duty to humanity", so among other things they can't accept donations which are subject to conditions that may be misaligned with their mission. That means OpenAI's effective funding pool is forcibly low.

The combination of 1) and 2) means that, absent an absolutely massive yet hands-off private donor — a rare thing indeed in the nonprofit world — it's hard to imagine a solution to this dilemma that doesn't involve some kind of for-profit spinoff. And the outcome here really is pretty binary: if you believe OpenAI will build safe AGI, then 100x returns for investors really are immaterial compared to the wealth they can expect to generate for everyone else. While if you don't believe they'll build safe AGI, then you must either believe that A) they'll fail to build AGI (in which case investors get nothing anyway); or that B) they'll fail to build it safely (in which case your concerns are presumably technical rather than organizational).

Incidentally, it's quite likely that in the beginning, OpenAI's own researchers were by no means sure they'd be able to get results like GPT-3 through scaling alone. But that turned out to be the world we live in, so they're now playing the hand they've been dealt.
Yeah, I do too on one of my laptops, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to use it. X is not going to get better, and some things like screen tearing, especially with rotated screens, are only fixed in wayland.
If I were us, I'd get on the internet, send out a major distress signal.

Hackers of the world, unite!
For standing to sue? Yes

Why would a special interest group be able to sue to protect frogs, but another wouldn't be able to sue to protect unborn babies?
Anyone who seriously thinks that the reason for these restrictions are anything other than a means for the CCP to exert control and remind big tech (the entertainment industry in this case) exactly where they stand in the pecking order is simply naive. For the children my ass...
Protonmail has IMAP if you're a paying subscriber.
> used cars [...] with 100k+ miles on them

> it'll last you another 60k+ miles

> current battery tech requires you to buy replacement batteries well before that point

That's not true. After 160k miles, EV batteries still have more than 90% of their original capacity: https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...