skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, looks like boron coated cadmium tape. The relevant excerpt from Command and Control...

> To avoid the embarrassment of relying on a Los Alamos design, Teller used Livermore’s new core but added a mechanical safing device to it. A strip of cadmium tape coated with boron was placed in the center of the core. Cadmium and boron absorb neutrons, and the presence of the tape would stop a chain reaction, making a nuclear detonation impossible. During the warhead’s arming sequence, the tape would be pulled out by a little motor before the core imploded. It seemed like a clever solution to the one-point safety problem—until a routine examination of the warheads in 1963 found that the tape corroded inside the cores. When the tape corroded, it got stuck. And the little motor didn’t have enough torque to pull the tape out. Livermore’s mechanical safing device had made the warheads too safe. A former director of the Navy’s Strategic Systems Project Office Reentry Body Coordinating Committee explained the problem: there was “almost zero confidence that the warhead would work as intended.” A large proportion of W-47 warheads, perhaps 75 percent or more, wouldn’t detonate after being launched. The Polaris submarine, the weapon system that McNamara and Kennedy considered the cornerstone of the American arsenal, the ultimate deterrent, the guarantor of nuclear retaliation and controlled escalation and assured destruction, was full of duds. For the next four years, Livermore tried to fix the safety mechanism of the W-47, without success. The Navy was furious, and all the warheads had to be replaced. The new cores were inherently one-point safe.
> automagically turning blocking operations into non-blocking is - which has not really been tried before (with erlang and go being the first).

sorry, but Haskell has had it way before Go, with proper STM too. Neither Erlang nor Go are offering the same level of ergonomics for compile-time checked M:N threading.
Defining how “fully” paid a creator has been is the entire point of license agreements. It defines the extent of how much the rights have been purchased away from them.

It merits investigation as to have these creators been “fully” paid to the extent that they have no claim to any future royalties and can have no objection to their work being used as training data.
> DDR5 DIMMS directly

That's the problem. Good DDR5 RAM's memory speed is <100GB/s, while nvidia could has up to 2TB/s, and still the bottleneck lies on memory speed for most applications.
I honestly believe a lot more people have used Netscape Navigator than ChatGPT. If you include Internet Explorer(which quickly took the crown from Netscape), that number will be dramatically higher.
Khan academy for kids.
It's wonderfully educational,suitable for a broad range of ages, and large range of high quality content.
We might not consider it a 'game' per se but my kids have limited enough experience with apps that this definately qualifies.
Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose the Future of Computing
The png in the readme shows both OpenCost and Wiz but `git grep -i opencost` says nothing. Is that aspirational or you're trying to show that your product replaces those products?

I also don't follow what's going on with the massive amount of commented out code; was there a rush to open source it?
I’m not familiar with CS’ structure but the ones I am senior Execs can have 10–15 years of comp clawed back. Line employees still have clawbacks but it’s usually narrower (3-5 years) and a much smaller percentage of comp (100% vs 10% for example)

Note the most serious clawbacks are for criminal behavior or extraordinary mismanagement. I doubt they’re invoking severe clawbacks at the extremes (100% for example)
I'd still use AES256 or ChaCha20 (as part of a secure AEAD construction if at all possible) for any new crypto system designs, or a new profile of an existing system. See "Understanding brute force" by Daniel J. Bernstein. Get someone who knows what they are doing to look at the basic design before you start.
Aside from being convicted at trial in two separate Federal jurisdictions and agreeing to forfeit tens of millions of dollars he illicitly earned while working for the Russian billionaire in question you mean? What specific corroboration are you looking for?
Etleap (YC W13) is hiring back end developers in London – 50% remote
> "Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet."

This is subtitle of the article, just above the byline, so I suspect he's talking about how impressive the demonstration was to him.
We use Rails's built-in i18n. So this should work, as we could just send in the translated strings.
The problem of scaling threads up further is fundamental and not really solvable by more kernel features. JVM virtual threads can be efficient because the runtime has complete knowledge of the executing code and stack layouts, how the heap is laid out, how the GC works and it can control how code is compiled. The kernel can't do any of these things - it has to assume a process is a black box that could do anything with its stacks, could be compiled by anything and so on.

Note that this advantage obviously goes away the moment you call into native code. Then the JVM is in the same position as the kernel. It doesn't control the compiler or the stack any more, and so that's why a virtual thread becomes "pinned" at that point and you lose the efficiency (the JVM needs to acquire more kernel threads). Fortunately though the JVM ecosystem doesn't rely on native code all that much, so it should be rare in practice.

This advantage can be brought to other non-Java languages too via Truffle. Truffle languages are reimplemented on top of Java and when programs call into native code they have the option of calling into JIT compiled LLVM bitcode instead of real native code (or indeed any JVM bytecode library). In that situation the JVM remains in control and so things should in theory still be Loom-able. Not sure if that's currently true in practice, but it could be.
Research before buying, troubleshooting after buying. I'm not a pro but a diehard enthusiast so most months I don't visit it but when sorting out gear I can spend days on this stuff and most of it is on DPR because that's the only place where people congregate specifically to discuss gear's obscure features and niche applications like astrophotography. Can it do bracketing and interval shooting together? How bad is rolling shutter? Can I adapt this old lens to that body, what about flange distance? Do you want to find out before you shell out $2000 that you have saved up, or after?
The "cost" is that you may consider using Planetscale for your next project/company. So a win-win really.
For a small organization with single digit employees, it's possible to give the layoffs a human touch. For mass layoffs that does not scale.

Then there is the aspect where we can't have nice things because someone somewhere took advantage of some discretion and now HR sees any discretion as a potential liability so they don't afford that discretion but for rare exceptions.
can you comment or link to the syntax you used?
Shor's algorithm and Grovers algorithm are fundamentally very different. Most conventional asymmetric crypto algorithms are essentially all hidden sub group problems which are NP hard for classical computers. What Shor's algorithm does is reduce hidden sub group problems to P on quantum computers.

Grover's algorithm is quite complex and I'm not qualified to say much about how it works, but I do know that the underlying mathematics is very different.
I have no aversion to `the funding of knowledge work`. (c)opywrong law is actually a huge tax on doing knowledge work for everyone except the 1%.
Agreed, we need to regulate social media in some way, period, especially for people under 18, not just TikTok.

If TikTok demonstrably moves towards subversive behavior then it should frankly be banned. Until then regulate and allow like other social media.
I hired a guy years ago for a project who was an "Oracle expert." I would have put that guy on any project involving databases as while he clearly knew Oracle inside and out, I have no doubt his knowledge would have transferred in some form to other platforms. Can you make a living being a "Postgres expert"? That's hard to say. Anymore if I were hiring someone I might want them to have more know-how that just the guts of a database, IE: I'd want them to know something about the systems on top of the database so that they can make stronger recommendations.
By law, google employees should be paid no more than public officials.

(No, this doesn't make any sense either)
It also seems like it would actually be fairly difficult to explain to a majority of people, especially in a non-verbal way.
Yeah, I've been a technophile all my life but this is probably the first development I don't see as a net positive. All the use cases I've seen so far lead to a shittier world, and we probably won't even get sci-fi AGI in return.
The Apple M-series CPUs with unified RAM is interesting in this regard. You can get an 16-inch MBP with an M2 Max 96GB of RAM for $4300 today, and I expect the M2 Ultra go to 192GB.
If the US is going to ban it they’re going to ban it. You appear to be hinting that China has something to hide. Sure they obviously do. The US is hiding that they’re intent on banning it regardless of what the company does outside being American property.
how condescending of you to think that "europeans" need to find you about burritos (of all things)
Hard to worry about AI reducing the quality of their docs
Linux literally is a 3rd party knock-off of his 1970s work.
That's a fair point and "unfair advantage" is a bit of a cliché anyhow, so I've taken the word 'unfair' out of the text above.
Microsoft wins dismissal of gamers' suit over $69B Activision deal
I can't say whether banks in other countries would hire the former CS bankers, but surely they'll be interested in the one that never worked at CS.
Sure, the last few years are an extreme example. But I don't believe it's just the Fed, there are other factors at play.
So you want the entire set of public services run through private contracting firms instead who take 10% off the top for directors and another 10% for shareholders?
My nine year old has been using Minecraft education edition, Swift Playgrounds and Lego Boost to figure out programming. In Swift, he figures out structure and concepts, in Boost it is the interactions with the sensors and in Minecraft he puts it all together to make traps, contraptions and just experiment.
That's a good take, I hadn't thought about it like that
It's a little surprising to see all these replies with none of them mentioning that this discovery applies to high explosives, which aren't used in small arms ammunition. Ammunition uses propellants, which burn quickly (deflagration) but not as quickly as high explosives (detonation); the latter would burst the firearm. Therefore this discovery is unlikely to have any relevance to small arms ammunition.
And the fun part is - everyone (who favors this aggressive interview tactic) seems to have their own set of shibboleth definitions which -- for them -- are magical tells as to whether someone is bozo / plodder or not.

For some, it's the boot sequence of a PC. For others, it's the Liskov Substitution Principle. For others, it might precise definitions of all the database transaction or normalization levels.

That is - pieces of genuinely useful knowledge, to be sure. Stuff we probably should have been exposed to at least once. But also stuff that, once we've gotten the basic point - is easy to slip out of our muscle memory over the years.

Especially as we end up doing, you know, real work for real people. And we start to develop genuine technical horse sense that goes beyond the ability to memorize (and retain for years and years) zillions of verbal definitions for things.
Good choice but that for me breaks the "carpe Diem" part of the inspiration that can go away in a whim, that it's what I have when I'm writing (complex) one liners in the shell.

Or maybe I'm just lazy.
The Hunter Biden laptop story turned out to be true? Since when?

Last I heard, nobody has any idea who the laptop belonged to, how it found its way into the computer shop man's hands, why Rudy Giuliani spent time with it, or how it's been modified. There's zero trustworthy evidence that there was ever any evidence of any illicit activity at all.
Unfortunately I agree-- no repercussions at all. I've been visiting the site basically from the beginning and had no idea Amazon bought them. I guess I missed that one blog post from 2007.

It's such a shame.
the S and D keys in qwerty are uncomfortably close to each other.
Within limits. Valhalla seems to be still far from launching, and allowing features to back up behind it might just recreate the situation Java has previously found itself in during the 7/8 era where slippage in massive projects caused everything else to slip too. The new release cycle was meant to fix that, but if half the new stuff ends up waiting for value types then the problem has just reappeared in a new form.

The odd thing is that part of Valhalla is about how to migrate existing types to being value types, and they already have code that can simulate the same restrictions. So it's not really clear why these features have to wait. Migration is a part of the Valhalla plan anyway.
Why do I need to sign in to read your docs? What's on the main page seems nice but before I can refer to my PM or others I want more info, without signing up to anything.
It's a human institution. It absolutely isn't without flaw. I can think of a couple stories they did I wasn't a big fan of. But this is part of how the system works and why well funded, ethical, serious media is crucial to a functioning society. News agencies will report on each other and help raise the standard of how they are run. Some, NPR included, with have news desks that are devoted to just that and will even report non-flattering news on themselves.

The author of this article is really good about it. He's aired some pretty unflattering, dirty laundry about NPR/PBS, not just other news orgs. Sometimes his pieces are a bit too inside baseball for me, but I appreciate the value they bring to the system as a whole.

An introspective news ecosystem is a healthy one. A healthy news ecosystem helps build a healthier society by rooting out corruption, waste and injustice.
But

"For the last 15 years, Redis has been the primary technology for developers looking to provide a real-time experience to their users. Over this period, the amount of data the average application uses has increased dramatically, as has the available hardware to serve that data. Readily available cloud instances today have at least 10X the CPUs and 100X more memory than their equivalent counterparts had 15 years ago. However, the single-threaded design of Redis has not evolved to meet modern data demands nor to take full advantage of modern hardware."

That's not what they are saying is wrong with Redis. Is Redis really 'antique tech'? Arguably, concurrent processing with a scale-up-only approach is a poor fit for "modern hardware".

So yes, you are correct: Redis from github requires knowledge and (your) code to make n instances work together (whether on the same node or not). But to claim that this is the case for "anyone else [but Redis Labs]" is questionable.

From a certain architectural camp, pin-to-core-process-in-parallel approach is optimal for [scaling on] "modern hardware". Salvatore can correct me on this but I don't recall that being a consideration at the early days, but it turned out to be a good choice. Some of the Redis apis however require dataset ensemble participation (anykind of total order semantics over the partitioned set) which is what is "difficult" to do effectively.

So basically any startup that can do that, should theoretically be able to squeeze more performance form their SaaS infrastructure than running Dragonfly type of architecture. Bonus, as pointed out by Redis Labs, being that the lots of parallel k/v processes can bust out of the max-jumbo-box should you ever need that to happen (for 'reliability' for example) ..
I would not be surprised if behind the scenes they are starting the lobbying engine to safely mine whatever they want. The universe of existing content out there is simply too enticing and out there. This is Google Search vs authors all over again.
I think the types of error chatgpt makes are indeed very similar to the ones a tesla autopilot does (
probably due to the nature of NN)

There is one big difference though : there are TONS of tasks chatgpt can do that don't require 100% accuracy to be useful and actually replace humans.
Intel really needs to not give up and double down their game in the GPU space as there's curranty an opening for them. Nvidia more or less abandoned the gaming market with their insane prices and hold a monopoly in the ML space so they charge whatever they want. AMD is second best in gaming while charging gamers near Nvidia money for GPUs that are weaker and have less feature and being completely absent in the ML space.

Here's what you gotta do to succed Intel: Make affordable GPUs in the price bracket previously occupied by Nvidia's XX60 series cards, that has the SW support to run CUDO compatible ML workloads, and you screw over both AMD and Nvidia.

Really curious if Raja left on his own or was pushed out with a golden parachute, and who they'll replace him with.
No it wasn't a small group of enthusiasts. It went nation-wide in the 1990s (in the US, and most affluent nations), rapidly. One of the fastest product adoptions in world history.

In a middle of nowhere town that I grew up in, in Appalachia, it was common to use Netscape + dial-up access circa 1995-1999 (that included at home, at work and at school). Tens of millions of Americans rapidly adopted the Web due to Netscape making it easy to navigate and that all happened in about five years. The Web became a common story point of movies, TV, advertisements (@ everywhere campaigns, email, urls on movie screen ads, etc etc); it went from almost nowhere to everywhere in roughly 4-6 years.

A tiny fraction of the US and world populations have utilized ChatGPT. It would be equivalent to where the Web was at in terms of adoption in ~1994.
Don’t forget AI driven relationships, ala what happened with Replika
If people aren't capable of signaling value based on market participation, then why have free-market capitalism at all? The two are fundamentally intertwined in an inseparable belief that people can make rational decisions that benefit themselves as individuals and which aggregate into a social good.
"If I have 100,000 subscribers and only 1% sign up for the paid plan at $5/month, I'll be pulling in $60,000 per year. A million subs, and I'll be rich!"

Problem is, almost no one wants to pay, and even if they do, you have to deal with massive churn and a constant demand for high-quality content that is truly unique, high quality, and impossible to find elsewhere.

There are only a few top level people making this work, and all have deep knowledge of profitable niches or business customers who can foot the bill for their employees. Almost everyone else is constantly begging for people to convert to the paid plan, or burning out.
Sounds like what we have currently in the US. I have a family member who is a manager for a state unemployment department ... She oversees like a dozen reps that help handle unemployment claims. She makes $70/hr with a fully paid for pension + benefits and like 4-5 weeks PTO. Recently had a friend get laid off and filing for unemployment. Their queues have like 5-6 hour waits and you can schedule a follow up ... like a week in advance.
Use 4 consumer grade 4090 then. It would be much cheaper and better in almost every aspect. Also even with this, forget about training foundational models. Meta spent 82k GPU hours on the smallest llama and 1M hours on largest.
I wanted to share how I developed a simple AI therapist called Sommer that has provided me with quick assistance for handling different mental health and relationship problems I have had.
My journey began in March 2022 when my girlfriend broke up with me because I had to move to Washington for work and I did not want her to leave her university and be in an inconvenient situation. Things took a turn for the worse when my family was involved in the Uvalde School shooting. Even though my family is safe, I began experiencing sleepless nights due to "What if..." questioning on myself and my work performance declined. I went to therapy but found a few problems with it such as having to jump between different providers due to personality preferences and specializations and no therapy structure or being able to see my therapist's notes easily.
I was able to meet a wonderful girl through all this but as you can imagine my issues came up in the relationship and it led to arguments. I started messing around with ChatGPT to see if I could at least improve the communication in my own relationship and see if I could improve my sleep and I found it to be beneficial. With that, I decided to make a ChatGPT for therapy. That's when Sommer was born. Im building 3 different features, CBT, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Retroactive Resolution Therapy(RRT) which will be used to apply CBT into past traumatic events and help you explore back in time. Using the SFBT I have been able to list problems and goals, and get a structured plan of how to achieve my goals for those problems. I've used it for communication in my relationships, handling extreme emotions, and for improving my sleep and managing my anxiety.
Although Im not fully well yet, and Sommer isn't perfect, using it has not only helped me manage my PTSD and relationship struggles but also provided me with a quick assistant for handling different problems as they come. Sommer is completely free, and I developed it to help myself get better and extend that help to others.
If you are struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship issues,, or anything else please consider giving Sommer a try. You can find it at www.sommerai.com. I welcome all feedback and suggestions on how to improve it further and please ask me any questions you may have in the comment section.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I hope Sommer can provide you with some help and I hope you will assist me in making it better.
>Capitalism is not why they are exposed to toxic chemicals as you say. It's the corruption...which won't be solved if we are using some other system

It's not corruption. It's capitalism. Who do you think funds the corruption in Vietnam? Don't look to closely at Nike or Apple's connections in SE Asia.

Vietnam was just an example. Capitalism firms expose billions of people all over the world to unsafe conditions to maximize profit, even in the United States and Europe.

> Your post reads like you are in the antiwork subreddit.

Your post reads like every conservative in existance. It's not capitalism's fault! It's just everything that exists in a capitalist system!

>Most people have this romanticized view of communism and socialism that we will somehow have exactly what we have now, but you won't have to work (or you will be given a home by the government).

I'm not sure why you are rambling about communism or socialism. You understand that there are a lot of economic and societal theories in the world. You don't have to buy into binary narratives.

>It's funny how many people fight so hard to have someone else pay their bills.

It's funny how many privileged people refuse to acknowledge the huge amount of human suffering caused by capitalism.
You can shoot people and be sent abroad to take over other countries, but god forbid you can mention sex to an AI bot.
Yes, others have been saying something similar.

The discussion is partitioned almost evenly between these two distinct topics, though, so I think it makes sense to keep the threads separate.
> Computer power goes up exponentially thanks to Moore's law

If you look at a graph, that stopped being true well over a decade ago.