skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
kind of amusing to say that, given the reason this is occurring is because the US is an incredibly popular country for immigrants to flock to improve their QOL and give their kids the best opportunities even though they know they're entering on non-immigrant visas. Yeah USCIS is infamously glacial and the visa situation these people are in is extremely frustrating, yet they persevere to live in the US.
Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is about Trees
Author here.

So the article begins with a story where a character, who doesn't know what he's talking about, try to mentor one of his colleague. It might be awkward though, and difficult to understand; sorry for that.

For sure this article was written better by others, but to me they were also lacking some stuff. I never found an article summarizing the whole story; most of the other sources were brushing away too much information for me to understand really why the TTY device had this weird structure.

But I guess not everybody will agree... and that's fine :)
> they are afraid of the scorn they'll get from people like you and be excommunicated by their peers

Rightly so - this type of intentional pollution of our shared environment is simply not acceptable, even as a scientific study.

You can't run a controlled experiment by releasing gases in the upper atmosphere, so it's very hard to understand what scientific value there could be to this anyway.
I was just following the “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”-principle.

There is just no evidence that Ellis Island officials made up names, and this is a very througly studied area of US history.
>ON BATTERY

Why would I even care about that for ML?

>I know the usual Apple bashers

Apple fanboys found one benchmarks which looks fine (Performance per watt) and decided it applies to everything and the only thing that ever matters - even when it's totally irrelevant.

It used to be they cared about Mhz, until it became 'the Mhz myth' when Apple was losing.
I refactored a big project by using sane DDD and Domain Modeling practices in Python 3.10. I also used a lot of type oriented design as means to cement my domain modelling.

I do not think it would have been possible without mypy or the facilities of Python. I also believe Scala 3 would be even better fit here.

Can CL / Racket /... whatever be useful here? Any examples?

I also do not think that Bartosz Miliewski's book could be rewritten for some Lisp.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused by the concept of "controlling terminal". As I understand it, in the physical video terminal days, the console connected to the computer was the "controlling terminal", but I'm not sure how this concept translate in the terminal emulator world.

So, do you know what's the difference between the "controlling termina" and the "terminal connected to stdin"? I though the terminal connected to stdin was the controlling terminal...
Most sat phones use a kind of AMBE from DVSI
Or AI video generator text prompts.
Remember also that "ADHD" is more complicated than a binary off-or-on thing. I've never been diagnosed with ADHD and doubt I would be if specifically evaluated for it, but I have another diagnosis that comes with "ADHD-lite" behavior as part of its usual phenotype. It originates from a different place (as far as anyone knows) but it sure looks pretty similar.

So what I'm saying is, you should think of "ADHD" as a lens through which you can choose to view yourself and your brain. Some things might fit or describe you well, other things will not, regardless of "diagnosis" or lack thereof. And that's normal. Make use of the conclusions and techniques that work for you and make your life and the lives of those around you better, and forget about the others. That's all anyone can hope to do.

(You'll need a diagnosis should you want meds, though.)
Back then, news, or even ability to read anything was not available as it is today. So it is a little bit different in a scale.

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell
Studying the same people for 76 years – Alzheimer’s disease discoveries
With the “it’s a China virus” none sense so rampant in the right I think all this economic turmoil hitting China puts that to rest: it makes no sense for them to release something that ostensibly causes them more harm than anything else. The west has more or less got it handled with good RNA vaccines and mitigations. But we are seeing huge spikes now in China…
By what metric are you suggesting 20-30% coverage?

The point of these trials is to demonstrate safety not simply test limits. Waymo cars work fine in conditions and areas outside of their current tests.
I think it's very hard to get better quality out of that little data :(
According to their website they emitted 20g of sulfur in the atmosphere. Probably not going to cause the ice age tomorrow.
But this is mainly an economic argument. And the comment was (in my point of view) about the ethics.

High wages (or any income at all) can lure people into all sorts of situations. It is those that have that power to act responsible.
I honestly cannot believe in the 21st century we tolerate such archaic systems for highly sought professionals, that we in turn educated via subsidized education (se is a nursing grad from University of South Florida) especially with the enormous demand for nurses.

I think at this point, especially with the massive layoffs in tech and the high back up for even renewals and thus precarious situation with H1-N visa holders, it's probably worth exploring a market-place for residence/citizenship via contractional marriage with prenuptial agreements. The situation is becoming more dire and the thought of losing more US raised talent due to such an absurd situation like a backlog of application renewals demands that tech disrupt this monolith.

> As someone living in a northern European welfare state, I'll just say what a shitshow the US is

I agree, but the truth is that EU/CH isn't much better either. There is a large stigma of German professionals, specifically physicians, coming to Switzerland 'taking all the jobs' when most Swiss who do attend university don't even study medicine to fill the roles they require in most cantons.

And then try and come into Switzerland as a professional that conflicts with te Swiss population if you're from a less desirable country like Czech Republic, Hungary or Slovakia--there is a large Croatian population in Switzerland due to the diaspora after the collapse of Yugoslavia, but one of my predictions is how they will delay things for those who want to come and enter Schengen next week.

And I'm not even going to go into the quota situation because its murky, and varies from canton to canton.

But honestly, it's an absurd system that as the article outlines is ultimately upheld with bi-partisan support in the US, which means that their is no alternative has been the maxim for far too long with no change in sight despite the massive shortfalls of talented professionals in a post COVID World.
One major reason: the green card backlog is immense – especially for immigrants from India; it can take decades for them even to have a chance to apply.

This is bad even from the most hardcore selfish, anti-immigrant position: you want people moving in when they're educated and young, not when they're a decade or less away from retirement.
>Thoughts on fan noise and thermal throttling

I think your answer is on this Reddit comment[1], I quote:

"I have to step away when it is running ML models. Fan sound is loud"

There also appear to be various comments on Lambda's own forums on the subject of fans...[2][3]

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/vhqjkq/comment/idila6y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
[2]https://deeptalk.lambdalabs.com/t/tensorbook-fan-speed-too-loud-or-too-high-control-tensorbook-fan-speed/742
[3]https://deeptalk.lambdalabs.com/t/tensorbook-produces-loud-grinding-noise-from-the-fan-back-of-the-laptop/1620
Sadly Apple Silicon is still very much difficult to properly configure for some areas of ML whilst leveraging the GPU (object detection for example), so having that nvidia really makes the set up smoother.
The efficiency of Apple silicon is a matter of fact now, however isn't nVidia with its cuda still king in this segment? Please correct me if I'm wrong but doing ml/dl on CPU instead of GPU seems to be the least efficient way to go about it?
Lifetip: as soon as you boil down a legitimate issue to “race I don’t like doing thing I don’t like”, no one takes you seriously
You're willfully releasing pollutants into the atmosphere to see what happens, and hoping something good will come of it.

I very very much doubt this can't be shut down by some environmental agency, if they only care to look. Even if there is no specific law about it, you can't normally just release stuff into the shared environment - you have to have some kind of dispensation for it (like the oil and coal industries unfortunately have for their own pollution, for example).
"Conspiracy theories are looking for ways to become something that fits people's predispositions."
Maybe that is exactly yours predisposition?
do you have some hygiene or routine ? like being offline while working ?

I do a "lot" but it's noisy, stretched thin and confusing, which I want to describe as "few".
That's 50/50 true ;P And will maybe much more in the (near?) future.
Guy goes to patent office ans says "I invented want gun powder."

Patent clerk: "Gun powder has been invented already."

Guy: "I invented more of it."

This article demonstrates thinking in isolation. How you show that you are uneducated about the subject you are talking about and not curious to learn.

The first thing to do is to look at the research others have done on the subject. Try to find a name for the phenomenon.
Why would I train ML models on a laptop?
Instilling communism through means of genocide and oppression killed people. So maybe someone will find a nicer way to dispossess people that everyone will like. Whi knows
Consider yourself lucky that you have no idea of what fascism is.
You knew all the smart people you now know since they were kids? And you yourself was a smart kid that could accurately judge intelligence even at a young age? That's all quite impressive especially since most humans have memories that are not at all accurate and we can remember things that never happened.
1984 is interesting: to read Goldstein, the oligarchy ("inner party") is relatively benign (it is definitely not based on ethnicity, and is merit based, hence —in principle— not hereditary either) yet to believe Winston (a narrator who admitted his willingness to commit domestic terrorism!), it is still dysfunctional, because apparently the oligarchs believe enjoying their own good fortune doesn't suffice: others must suffer misfortune.

(to understand this book properly I think it helps to recall that Orwell was on scholarship ["outer party"] to bring up the exam scores at a boarding school that otherwise catered to the rich and thick [cream of society — "inner party" sprogs]; many scenes in 1984 can be traced back to the posthumously-published Such Such Were the Joys)
F0.3 – The Impossible Lens [video]
American right-wingers should stop pretending they only have a problem with the T in LGBT.

In the past few months they have gone full 1950s and are back to accusing gay men of being groomers/pedophiles.
Don't forget the Paul Kelly song of the same name.
Any links on how to do this you can recommend? I'm down.
This is probably reductive and ignorant. I do have some post-grad education on quantum computing, but I by no means have a full grasp of actual mathematical foundations of the theory.

The main issue I have with the prevailing perspective on QM (including this Zen one, which is more widely accepted than the article makes it sound), is just that it's rather pessimistic and slightly unscientific. When declaring that the world works on this foundation of pure mathematical randomness, you are effectively stating that's the end of the line, there's nothing below to explain the phenomena. Probability is a tool to meaningfully reason about incomplete information, but the information is not fundamentally unknowable.

You could for instance say that wether a child will be male or female is purely mathematically random. For all intents and purposes, it is random in the sense we cannot hope to predict it before conception in a single instance. It's not uniformly random, there are external factors that may affect the probability, but it would still be correct to model it as a random variable.

But we must never forget it is a model. We do actually (mostly) know why it looks random from a macro scale: (being very simplistic, I might be quite wrong here) we have many molecules with a certain temperature wizzing past each other with Brownian motion, and it is effectively impossible to predict which will react with which, leading to a certain gene to be selected. We cannot predict it, but we can explain it and prove it by experimental means. It's a chaotic system ruled by relatively simple rules, and we can do a lot of meaningful work with that.

I'm sure many professional physicists also treat QM as an abstraction and model, and there are people trying to peek under the rug. But the community has mostly failed to express this perspective when communicating with a wider audience, and possibly between themselves and their students, for the last century.

Physicists like to redefine the word "real" as to mean "the mathematical model that currently best fits observations", but that is not the common sense of the word. It is merely a pragmatic excuse to focus students on actual publishable research and prevent them from getting constantly philosophical. But it does also make it slightly heretical to keep researching how these phenomena emerge from underlying laws. Which, to an outsider, is kind of the whole point of physics.

To be fair, it is becoming exceedingly expensive to do any experimental work in this area. And as long as we don't have a good number of strong measurements that differ from the theory's predictions, we can only formulate plausible but mostly unprovable theoretical models. I understand why the community is pushing students away from such folly with a small sprinkling of dogmatism.
The 85% increase: does that cover any associated costs? Typically to go up that much you’d be looking to migrate to the US, but that would mean, for example, paying for medical insurance that you might not have to do at the moment (outside of your taxes of course).
You might find some difference by chance by
analysing enough dimensions!
> When you say "without coordination", does it mean simultaneous backups from several machines to the same repo are possible?

It is, with a bit of (other) coordination. Basically, only one process can actively write to a borg repository. Once something is writing to the borg repository, the repo is locked and nothing else can write to that repository.

However, you can easily stagger backups from several hosts into the same repository - node 1 writes at 09:00, node 2 writes at 10:00 and node 3 writes at 11:00. This works without problems, it just needs some monitoring for quickly growing backup sets in case your timing goes awry. You can also configure a wait timeout, how long a borg process will wait to lock the repository, but that will require some tinkering with SSH heartbeats to avoid connection timeouts, as borg won't talk over the wire while waiting.

As the documentation correctly states, this slows down the backup writing process a bit, because each node has to synchronize its local chunk cache at the start of a backup or a prune. This wouldn't be necessary if each node had their own dedicated backup repository. This can take 5ish minutes on our large repos (4TB+) and usually takes less than a minute for our smaller repos (<1TB). It's not really a big deal imo.

However - and we made that mistake earlier - something like `borg check` and other commands become really slow if you have some 15TB - 20TB+ borg repository and borg repos that large become really messy to manage. It works, but some things work at a glacial speed on a good day - while locking out all other backups. That's why we tend to group our borg repos by dataset and storage type ("All databases supporting app X backup into the app-database-X repository"). This way, all databases are in that repository even after failovers or switches to geo-standbys and it's easy to setup a restore procedure. Hoqever the overall size of the repository is somewhat limited and manageable.
In unexpected situations they avoid obstacles just like people do.

Mapping isn’t about unexpected situations beyond the loss of GPS.
> Experiments with the other systems have killed millions.

I'm pretty confident we can say this about every economic system. But we can't really say who has saved the most because we can't do very good A/B testing or really any good causal analysis. It is important to remember that economics is not a hard science and most "experiments" are either in the lab (and we gotta question scaling) and natural experiments, which means its difficult to come up with causal explanations.
What is the Mickey Mouse trademark for, exactly? A character is not a product or service. If the trademark forbids anyone but Disney from making cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse, it is obviously an abuse and it should be revoked.
I visited Ireland this year (+- the Wild Atlantic Way), we considered biking but I'm happy we eventually decided to hike/hitchhike/take buses cause Ireland is not designed for walking/biking. Everything's fenced, roads have crazy high speed limits for their width, there's no pavements outside cities, even forests are banned most of the time.

Hitchhiking on the other hand was great - we waited for more than 15 minutes only once over 3 weeks.

The situation with walking is crazy to see coming from Poland, where most forests are public property, there are almost no fences on fields (partly cause people mostly grow crops instead of keeping grazing animals I guess). It's a very strange to be in the countryside and not be able to walk from one place to another.
Flailing wildly with dangerous ideas is much much more likely to hurt than it is to help.
I think personal content like photos of you/your family growing up, projects and works stories you created for school, old music that doesn't exist anymore or a particular track that is impossible to find because it was never digitized.
By definition, these things can't really be reproduced or replaced and they have the abillity to help you travel back in time and know yourself better
I have no problem running random executables on my Qubes OS (in a hardware-virtualized, disposable VM).
One other aspect not mentioned that I see creators struggle with is being just below that threshold & the consequences in an algo driven world.

i.e. You have 60% enough true fans and need the more lukewarm crowd to make ends meet.

The true fans will be there no matter what. The lukewarms can easily disappear just because the black box algo has decided it doesn't like your twitch stream this month and funneled them somewhere else.

Suddenly the creator has an existential career crisis on their hands and might need to drop streaming entirely in favour of full time burger flipping just due to $$$.
You draw a line yourself, like paint
Where would you expect to find the "Startup Disk" pane on iPhone?
> it will really be a new chapter in the art book

Hm, new chapter sure. What about the aesthetics? 20th century art (architecture primarily, but also paintings, etc.) expresses feelings mostly because with the advent of tech (photography, etc.). I get that there was no need to improve upon what we had in terms of sculptures (Greek-Roman, etc.)s and artists nowadays are all about originality... But modern art is ugly AF compared to past centuries. Poor aesthetics are everywhere, from the way we dress, to the way we build... Even when budget is a non-issue.

Take any 8th-BC-to-17th-AD art-form and compare it to a modern counter-part and you'll see what I mean. I feel that most 20th century art-form won't survive the next 200 years for good reason.
Then why dumb pipe should be worth 44B$? And you are contradicting yourself - if something is facilitate debate (as opposed to enable) then it is not dumb.
Seems like a lot of work for 300k (15m exit with 2%)

Big tech in USA is paying that as salary
This is true but short-sighted approach IMHO. In age when China will be a close match to US in superpower-related terms (even if its less efficient they have sheer numbers on their side), US would be more than wise to make true proper long lasting friends rather then bullying everybody else to its whims.

Or it might find itself more and more lonely and less relevant globally. It takes just few steps to make big dent in that - international payment systems, oil cartels, military bases in Africa, military equipment +-on par with west etc.
Enough with this 'emulating a PDP-11' cliche (never seen it quoted as the PDP-7 before). Explicit instruction-level parallelism has its own issues that make it difficult to use effectively, precisely because it must do statically what out-of-order processors do dynamically.

The use of C as a scapegoat is odd. What alternatives would have led to a different world of processors? Pascal? PL/I? Experiments in parallelism at the time like Erlang are about process-level parallelism, not the kind of instruction-level parallelism this line of argument calls for.

You absolutely can have simpler systems than we use today, but let's not fool ourselves about how we got here.
Interesting book on this: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
Because the UK and it’s colonies stood upto Hitler while america watched from the sidelines?
Came here to write this, you beat me to it.
Physical todo lists are great, and you can take photos if you need them on the go
Interesting book on this topic - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
By this logic, a company should be free to launch a nuclear missile at Russia from US soil, as long as they pinky promise to accept legal liability for what follows, right?

When the potential damages of an action far outweigh what it is even conceivably possible that the entity doing the action could ever hope to repay, the standards for preventing that action change.
The first thing that depresses wages in Southern Europe is lack of value creation.
Using those kind of Unix tools is like having a time travel machine to understand what kind of mistakes you should never do when Iyou design a software.

Not having system wide keyboard shortcuts is one of them: vim, emacs, nano etc all have a different shortcut to quit the app

Worse still, every software invents his own configuration format.

Thinking that being ultra configurable is a good excuse for not doing the right thing by default is another big one. Syntax highlighting should just work, not only sort of work when you learn a configuration syntax and install little known third party packages
Yeah, a lot of companies still aren't willing to fully comply with these laws... but having them does make it a lot better.

I've had a few companies ask me for a government issued ID for proof of residence within the EEA or in California; that's just horrible behavior from every perspective.
Writing-related tasks, primarily. Also, brainstorming, and quick initial research.
That is not how it seems to work. The US has been “back to work” for quite a while now, but there are a lot of staff shortages. People don’t just bounce back to status quo after immense trauma.
An existing term for an unpredictable or uncontrollable person, usually in a potentially negative way.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/wild...