skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original post deserves an award for tech writing, https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1228730-taking-the-de...

> Windows gets itself all ready for sleep, tucks itself in, then tells the BIOS "too eepy! time for bed, S3~" but instead of the S3 reaching the BIOS, OSM intercepts that call. The OS has halted itself, and is waiting to be told that it's time to wake up, but OSM instead proceeds to alter the universe around it ... the OSM will move all the memory pointers around, then reverse the sleep process, causing the machine to instantly "wake" - from a sleep it never actually entered.

> Windows thinks it's taking a nap, but it wakes up as someone else, leaves the house, and commits murders it has no memory of. In other words: Phoenix figured out how to turn the BIOS into a hypervisor. It's almost, almost beautiful, if it wasn't both incredibly fragile and completely uncalled-for. But christ. Christ almighty, what a hack. One could come to tears over it.

There is a software archaeology epilogue waiting to be written, based on artifact reverse engineering and a trail of public breadcrumbs:

Hyperspace was acquired by HP.
Hyperspace creator left HP and founded Bromium (acquired by HP in 2019).
Bromium productized OSS Type-2 Xen (uXen microvisor), copy-on-write VMs in 150ms.
Microsoft cloned Bromium vSentry as Defender - Application Guard.
Bromium AX ships on HP biz laptops /w nested x86 virt for OS+UEFI virt.
OSS Bareflank hypervisor = attempt at replicating AX (Windows-as-dom0).
OSS Android 13 pKVM-for-Arm is closest OSS in spirit to Bromium AX.

In other words, conceptual descendants of the Phoenix Hyperspace hack are shipping today on millions of Android and Windows systems. In 2018, https://github.com/rust-vmm/community#why-rust-vmm deduped CrosVM (Chromebooks) and Firecracker (public cloud) micro VMs on KVM.

Industry needs an OSS Type-1 L0 hypervisor: https://twitter.com/stacktrust/status/1640145980833005568

Video with virtualization history of Xen (Type 1), uXen (Type 2) and Bromium/HP AX (Type1 L0 for nesting of Xen, KVM, VMware, Hyper-V): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVe2y34dnM)

pKVM baby step towards dropping SMM/TrustZone: https://twitter.com/stacktrust/status/1595951965699473408
I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example:

> 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax

Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example group for this conjugation.

> 18. Overton Window: You can control thought without limiting speech. You can do it by defining the limits of acceptable thought while allowing for lively debate within these barriers. For example, Fox News and MSNBC set limits on what political thoughts they consider acceptable, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re both fairly conventional.

While this is true of MSNBC, Fox News is clearly swinging to the right more and more.

> 41. The Invisible Hand: Markets aggregate knowledge. Rising prices signal falling supply or increased demand, which incentivizes an increase in production. The opposite is true for falling prices. Prices are a signal wrapped in an incentive.

More recently, the invisible hand has been shown to have its thumb on the scale.
Assuming you need enough lithium to replace the tritium, and 100% energy efficiency, one atom of lithium makes one atom of tritium which makes 17.6 MeV of energy [0].

That's an energy output of 7 x 10^7 Wh per gram [1], or alternatively, a 70MW reactor needs one gram per hour, or alternatively, a very large 3.5GW plant needs 500 grams per hour, roughly the equivalent of the water drunk by a single thirsty person.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium%E2%80%93tritium_fusi...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=17.6+MeV+divided+by+ato...
Another history of the Apple II I enjoyed: https://juiced.gs/store/sophistication-simplicity/
If I'm reading your comment correctly, housing supply problem being an apparent symptom seems to be your way of saying "we could fix that easily if we wanted to, but we aren't fixing it, therefore we don't want to fix it."

And I don't exactly disagree, but surely you see how it's just slightly more complicated than that, and also how fixing the housing supply symptom (i.e., homing the homeless) would really help?
We can both completely completely agree on both points. There are no magic wands that will solve corruption and rent seeking. These are both human flaws. I’m not even against a dose of socially managed resources and services where it makes sense. Cheers.
Having been each of these at some point during my career, I think I’m best at kamikaze, have thoroughly enjoyed dabbling in sniping, and am just not cut out to be a soldier.
Have a look at Uniplot - https://github.com/olavolav/uniplot
This is an old playbook from Facebook, where the company creates rules that they know they can not detect violation of.

This gives the company plausible deniability while still allowing ~unrestricted growth.

Persistent storage (in violation of TOS) and illicit use of Facebook users’ personal data was available to app developers for a long time.

It encouraged development of viral applications while throwing off massive value to those willing to break the published rules.

This resulted in outsized and unexpected repercussions though, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

People should be wary of the development as much as they are enthused. The power is immense and potential for abuse far from understood.
You don't really need to do much. Most "modern" conversions bypass the petrol injector electrics to pick up injector pulse timing for the gas injectors, and have a separate ECU that manages the fuel mapping.

Once you've got it installed and given it an initial rough setup (not much more than programming in how many cylinders and how large an engine) it'll just trim itself. The LPG ECU maintains a map that makes the vehicle's own ECU think it's running at a perfect mixture on petrol, and is otherwise totally unaware that anything is different.

Older systems are a bit cruder, but still don't need much more than an extra lambda sensor fitted for the gas ECU.
> I often talk about the use of cell based structures (e.g. think Amazon Two Pizza, Starfish model

Wow right out the gate I have absolutely no clue what it is going in this article.
The 1% who brag are rarely SWEs IME - usually PMs and admins and the SWEs who do rarely do it for long generaly just a lull between projects or during research phase or just recovering from burnout. There's a lot of very bursty types here though - people who don't do much for a few weeks at a time then drop something massive in a marathon or something.
As I type this, QLD is using 77% black coal. SA is using 71% gas.

Over the past 24hrs SA was 83% renewable (solar+wind), 16% gas.

In that same 24hrs QLD was 79% black coal, 12% renewables.

Plaudits seem deserved.

https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-elec...
You can do all that with plain text, except for the bold.
The point of using a computer/AI is enable predictable and/or factual output. It’s not really a useful gotcha to say that “most humans would get this wrong”…
Therapy and lots of it.
> In business and life, instrumental rationality is much more useful and works more of the time (this is why the LessWrong crowd isn’t good at stochastic domains like business because their models, though logical, are insufficient.

One of the ideas that helped me there comes actually from them: "Rationality wins". Which is the old: "If you're so smart why aren't you rich?".

Not easy to apply for anybody, it's much easier to be a smart loser.
In Norway we simply removed all taxes from battery EVs. Last year 80% of new cars sold were pure EVs. The plan is to ban new ICE car sales in 2025 but the law has not been passed yet as far as I know. But because the market is already so dominated by BEVs there is probably no need to rush.
Oh, interesting! Thanks for the pointer!

But you can't always complement the language easily for an UFA either, right? The path to an accepting state may be unambiguous, but there could at the same time be a path to a non-accepting state, so flipping the states may keep some words in the language. And make the automaton even ambiguous.
> if you have the financials of all companies, and apply certain variations of the cigar-butt strategy, you get out ahead

> This not only makes sense logically but also works in backtesting.

No, it does not work at all in backtests.

That's exactly what I'm talking about: a long short, normalized, rank based on e. g EPS. A typical value signal.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit_H11

"...but it also requires at least a computer terminal and some form of storage to make it useful."

So what did you use for terminal and storage? Did you expand the memory beyond 4K?

The days of the kit-computer were on the way out when the triumvirate of Apple II/Commodore PET/TRS-80 Model I arrived in stores (unless you were handy with a soldering gun).
This is however US focused, on other regions it was "The C64 Age", "The ZX Spectrum Age", "The MSX Age".
Obviously, the doors must open toward the exit, as this is a fire safety requirement in most countries. However, a really smart neural network should be able to figure out that this is not a logic problem. You just have to help the blind person, not shout through the door, just open the door, and guide him through.
Not for the goal in the UK. The UK doesn't have a tax break for buying electric cars as regular people at home, it's for companies. The important tax break more specifically is around providing them to workers under what's called a "salary sacrifice" scheme where you forgo some of your income in return for a benefit in kind. The BIK rate for EVs is very low, meaning they're almost tax free. This is targeting people who get new cars under hire agreements, drive them for a few years then get a new one - the goal is to increase the second hand market.

also

> its the sane in britain - if you earn $200,000 income-tax-free means 50% off, but if you earn $20,000. it means like 5% off

For SS schemes the person earning £20k would be paying a marginal rate of 32%. Most people earning more than this have a marginal rate of 42%, then frankly the figures get complicated to explain but it's a very small minority of people that hit those levels.
“Personally I always found that ^] for various terminal commands was much more of a hassle (…)”

Yeah, tell me ’bout it. Back when I used Windows at work, a friend told me that instead of Ctrl ] one should press Ctrl ¨ – because on a regular Swedish keyboard, ¨ is on the same location that has ] on a US keyboard. (Not sure if this works with Linux/Mac, never tried there.)
I actually wish there was a neural net alternative to IRs, they also just don't sound right to me.
What the hell. You have a page with a 150 jobs and a form. You basically don't need anything more than an html editor.

We need to talk about how we do software architecture and technology choices today. In the time you played around with CDN stuff you easily could build a company listing, fixed your footer and header links, thinking about a pricing, build an apply-form, fixed/build job notifications, ...
Image models don't understand it either, they only know the typical "look" of something but not the correct proportions or number of parts. If you have the word "wheel" in the prompt they might turn every circle-like shape in the image into a car wheel because it cannot selectively apply parts of the prompt to parts of the image.

At least the few models I tinkered with all had this issue, and without some additional guidance that understands scene composition and anatomy/proportions in three dimensions this probably won't fundamentally improve.
I’m not sure what your argument is…

They receive tax payer money. That’s why the label was given.

Personally, I feel it’s appropriate. They can’t say they are independent is they receive govt funds.
In addition there is a world wide trend that the ratio of administrative vs academic staff keeps on increasing, in other words less and less people bring in the money (via teaching/research) that sustains the university.
Hence the overheads go up, because those people need to be paid.

Even more infuriating is that when processes get reformed/changed it almost always ends up such that the work of admin gets easier at the cost of academic workload (because academics typically don't have set hours and just do the work until its done). To give 2 examples, at a previous uni there was always a lot of buerocracy about putting marks into the system (lots of paperwork, especially if there was some accidental mistake so a mark had to get changed). So during the end of the semester the uni forbid admin staff to do overtime for cost reasons, however the work still had to get done, so academics were doing the admin work as they were not on a fixed working time.

Second, at my current uni, when getting travel reimbursements, we are required to fill out an online form, scan all receipts and print out a generated form and send the form and original receipts to finance. So academics end up spending time scanning and printing documents that could just as well be done by a person at the finance.
Although, some of us had to actually think for a while to notice what may have triggered your comment.
https://www.androidpolice.com/best-rts-games-for-android/
> I'm perplexed what the problem is here?

It sounds like there is a large potential for corruption and waste with such an opaque system.
Can you share the script? If you do, no need for the standard “I need to clean it up” and so on apologies.
Maybe the AI's should ask questions of the humans to ascertain their level of intelligence and then give answers tailored to them in that way.
very very misguided view of life. avoid eating sugar!
What the bible says and how christendom are observed to behave are very, very different things.

While I'm sure you could point out this is true for other beliefs, they aren't being followed by virtually everyone in government where this is happening.
The only solution I've found is making the dog guard it. They climb to every place my cat can jump to.
Alice, Bob, initially at rest, Bob accelerates to relative motion of 0.5c, turns around, returns, decelerates to rest with respect to Alice, both agree Bob experienced less time.

No clock is preferred, but the dilation is real.

That the Alcubierre metric is supposed to avoid dilation made me ask ages ago if it also avoided the usual paradoxes, but everyone I asked insisted it didn't help at all with that.
The discussion was about being higher-level vs lower-level. Rust is a more expressive language than Kotlin. Where languages are used is a different matter, because expressiveness is not the only thing playing role there. Politics and historical reasons are another dimension.
That was my thinking. This seems over-engineered for a simple jobs board. I would be surprised if the traffic even warrants the CDN setup.
Exactly. I can code using ChatGPT. But I have to know what I want and make sure that its doing what I want and how I want. I can ask "Write a class to do this and that", "refactor this code", "extract this code in smaller methods", "write specs for this class", "parallelize this piece of code" or even "write a Dockerfile for that", but i still have to make sure that the code makes sense, and often, it doesn't. So how i see it is: Me as senior developer can leverage ChatGPT to increase my software development throughput. But one must be software developer, specialist in a language, framework and the infra and environment where you deploy it, to have success using that.
This seems to be an invented combination of several real events. King Sooper was sued for selling prepared cantaloupe with listeria, and there was an event where deli meat and cheese sold elsewhere was contaminated with listeria, but I can't find anything like what is described.
that's one case. More general article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
This also happened (happens) to me and my 2020 Model Y. When I first purchased the car I had a Google Pixel 4 (I think) and now I have an iPhone 13 running the latest iOS. My car still doesn't unlock right away about 1 out of 20 times I walk up to it. It's not really a big deal as the car usually unlocks shortly after arriving but it is kind of a pain if my hands are full and I have to fumble with my phone to "manually" unlock it.
To understand that worthlessness is worthless leads to the Buddha.

-- from Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East (1989)
It doesn't change the point for Google docs & co, it's just a refresh of the UI not a breakthrough update with new features if I'm reading the news that you have posted
You can see in the picture! The terminal was a VT-52 clone from Heathkit, and the box on the left is a dual 8" floppy drive. I upgraded the memory to 64Kb.

A bit later I bought a 6Mb hard drive, and designed and built an interface card for it and wrote the driver.

I put the Heathkit terminal, floppy drive, and cpu box together from their kits. They all worked the first try. (I paid part of my way through college soldering boards. Being able to solder well has paid off for me a lot over the years.)

The H11 was a bit pricey, but I wanted one real bad.
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No. I think that time has past. The UX is simply not as good as a monolith site.
At least in Victorian London, which was being slowly buried in horse-poop, the poop was restricted to the streets. Poop from flying horses would be a lot less pleasant.
"I am curious now, would it be possible to make the keyboard generate a NULL byte either by existing keyboard shortcut or custom hardware - and how would the system handle it?"

Not sure I understand the point of the experiment, but in NetBSD kernel one can remap the keyboard, e.g., set a key to 0x00. How to do this in Linux kernel is a question for reader.

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev...
> I find that our entire industry is encouraging and rewarding type-3 behavior

Latest instance: ChatGPT and the hype around it.
I think the proposed rewrite better captures the author’s intention:

> I was trying to explain why the arguments saying it's impossible are inconclusive and we shouldn't throw out the possibility too quickly

Specifically the point is that the author believes that impossibility has not been adequately proven. Not that possibility has been proven.
Not 100% unless you only have customers in the US. Correct me if I'm wrong but unless I pay for the business plan I may get re-routed on major ISPs in many countries. Have experienced this 1st hand.

For many workloads Cloudflare can be more expensive.
I think that 999 of the thousand can be brought into the virtual realm - and that companies that do so will find their ability to measure and chnage the important non functional requirements will be an advantage.

Just some ideas:

- speed (obvious)
- capacity (that's fairly obvious too)
- reliability (MTBF, incident count)
- The Google Speed vs stability metric
- usability (starts out as a toughie but if you record users mouse / UI activity then it becomes measureable - and this is kind of the point - the more HCI is captured and available to the "virtual world" the more these problems are within reach. the more software eats, the more it can eat.
- scalability : scaling up or down? Measureable
This is obviously not true - or at least, not true across the board. There might be some that don't do punishment.

But... we have places like the Salvation Army that would rather have folks die instead of giving a trans person shelter and help.

There are abusive homeless shelters peppered across the US, some of which have forced church, forced drug classes, and forced work. Some of these will take away your possessions or turn away a man with children because the shelter that allows children has a strict "no man" policy.

Right this very moment, people are passing laws to ban trans folks and take rights away from queer people in general.

It doesn't really matter what you think the point is, it obviously either isn't shared or doesn't show in people's actions. There are plenty of examples of christians actively doing harm in real time.
and India. The alternative is cutting them off instead and cause widespread famine.
I'm pretty confident that the landscape is going to look very different by the end of the year, as there are so many people poking around now. I think that significantly smaller models will definitely be good enough for specialized tasks, but an equivalently tuned larger model will always be better, the question is by how much. On Meta's benchmarks [1], there's only a tiny gap between 30B and 65B, for example.

For 65B, GPTQ 4-bit should fit LLaMA 65B into 40GiB of memory. Currently the cheapest way to run that at an acceptable speed would be to use 2 x RTX 3090/4090s (~$2500-3000) or maybe a Jetson Orin 64GB (~$2000). I've seen people trying to run it on an M1 Max and it's just a bit too slow to comfortably use (I get a similar speed to when I try it on my 5950X - about 1-2 tokens/s), but it seems like it's within a factor or two of being fast enough, so not out of the question that it might get there just through software optimizations. I'd definitely upgrade to a 7950X/X3D or a Threadripper (w/ 96GB of DDR5-5200) if I could get 65B running at a comfortable speed all the time.

I think training is also advancing at a pretty good clip. LLaMA-adapter [2] is doing fine tuning of LLaMA 13B on a single 8xA100 system in 1h (so for ~$12 for a spot instance) and was already over 3X faster than Alpaca's training.

To me, the biggest thing limiting easy plug-and-play distribution is actually LLaMA's licensing issues, so maybe someone will offer a better open foundational model soon and the community can standardize on that. It'd be nice to have a larger context window (Flash Attention?) as well.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CA...

[2] https://github.com/ZrrSkywalker/LLaMA-Adapter
Seems to me like railroads these days are burdened by lots of expensive infrastructure and are chronically underfunded. It's hard to care about everything if there's always too much on your plate.
> The claim that it's capitalism that has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty is a common one, but it's our technology that's advanced.

The main factor there was economic liberalisation in south east Asia. Mainly China of course but not only. There was nothing inevitable about that, it was a political decision. The Soviet Union didn’t do it, North Korea didn’t do it, but China had Deng Xioping and he did do it. He or someone else could have easily gone a different way. My wife is Chinese and I’ve visited frequently in the last 20 years and seen the transformation for myself. My wife’s family there are among those who went from grinding poverty to a comfortable lifestyle owning several properties with 2 cars.

Owning properties privately, in China, before Deng that would have been unimaginable. My wife’s sister even owns shares. It’s capitalism gone mad.
Nah, I'll report ip theft as soon as my license is violated.