skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. But it was solid Unix OS with excellent documentation. I also worked for the CS department. We installed software centrally to an NFS server which was then automounted. We used something called "depot" from CMU to setup a software depot:

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=82134...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/.cs.cmu.edu/help/content/unix_lin...

The biggest PITA about this scheme at the time was that you wanted "make install" to put software in one location (/depot/...), but you wanted that software to have paths compiled in as if it were in a different location (/usr/local/...). For the most part, the Makefiles that came with open source software then just weren't designed that way. You could set PREFIX but it was used for both the compiled-in paths as well as where "make install" put things. I recall spending a lot of time wrestling things into the depot scheme.

Seems absurdly over-engineered looking at it now.

Later in my career, I spent a lot of time building RPMs which was similarly painful but got easier over time.

Software packaging... fun times.
I don't know if Snowden was a Russian operation, I don't think the facts are there for that. However, I do think Snowden committed treason by doing what he did, and so did this National Guardsman. It doesn't matter the reason or morale justification, breaking the law is still breaking the law. If you're going to call for the prosecution of Trump you can't in the next sentence say yeah but Snowden broke the law for the right reason so it's ok. That sort of hair-splitting is disingenuous.
It doesn't matter. My point is that it's not possible, not for you and not for anyone else, to implement a type-safe generic resizable array library in C.
Weird anecdote but okay? My original comment on the stabbing story did wonder if it was targeted or random. Either way, passerby's walking past Lee gasping his last breaths for help is indicative of the civil rot happening in our cities.

The only thing worse than evil men is the indifference of good men.
aaaaand it's down
Hacker News is almost the Hacker News for AI these days
Exactly. It's not like it would take compromising the vendor, or the service contract. The install can be a simple and quick swap.

The infeasiblity mostly seems targeting and monitization. You have no clue who or what will plug in, so it's barely useful for directed attacks. And actually getting value (intel or money) when all you know to expect is "a smartphone will connect" is quite hard.
This is like someone’s mother asking why a software developer can’t fix her printer. Because “computers” is more than a single discipline.

“Security” is not one big umbrella.

The specific people and organizations tasked with protecting air travel are not tasked with protecting the cell phones of the passengers traveling.
I'm not going to read the paper to check your work, but excellent TLDR - thanks X)
An example of Brandolini’s law (applied really, really fast) is what we call a Gish Gallop.
>This brings back memories. It's simplicity and elegance was awesome. I really view Linux as the ultimate successor to SunOS4 (as opposed to Solaris / SunOS 5).

I take your point, but I'd say that the various BSDs are more the successors to Sunos(1-4) than is GNU/Linux.

Since (and it pissed me off at the time) SunOS5+ (Solaris) has a sysV admin/userland (as does GNU/Linux), whereas the BSDs are much closer to what SunOS 4 and its predecessors (based on various Unix/BSD codebases. IIRC, SunOS 4.4 -- the last version that wasn't "Solaris" was based on BSD4.3[0])

All that said, Solaris had some pretty impressive features that Linux is still catching up with. E.g., Zones[1], ZFS[2], etc.

At the same time, there was much more of the "hacker" dynamic with SunOS4 (and its predecessors) than Solaris. Which has also been the case with GNU/Linux.

The former because before Linux (not to mention 386BSD[3]), Unix OS licenses (let alone the hardware it ran on) were way too expensive for widespread use. As such, it was mostly college students using their Sun Boxen to hack on.

But once there was free (as in libre and --well, mostly-- as in beer) Unix (386BSD) and Unix-like (Linux) available for commodity hardware, many, many more folks could access *nix systems to hack on.

From a technical standpoint the BSDs are the real successors to SunOS, but from a Dev/hacker culture standpoint, Linux is (as you point out) a successor as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD [4]

[4] As an aside, I'm enormously grateful to Lynne and Bill Jolitz for 386BSD. It was a joy to be able to own and use it on my own hardware back then. Especially since $job at the time was mostly on Sun/SPARC. With an additional shout out to Yggdrasil Linux[5], the first Linux distro I ever installed and enjoyed that a lot too!

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
Wait, didn't Elon JUST SAY that we needed to put a halt on AI development?
I wonder, How well does it work and can it be integrated with JetBrains tools?
http://web.archive.org/web/20230414013647/https://www.lapham...

https://archive.ph/MucWL
You almost certainly dream. I believe there are medical tests to confirm that you are indeed dreaming. As to why you do not remember them? Beats me!
Cats destroy wildlife on a massive scale.
> What's that sucker weigh?

According to wikipedia a T-90 is about 46,000kg. Though this one was demilitarized to at least some extent, and probably stripped of some parts, so it is likely less.

US federal law limits big rigs to 36,300kg typically (truck + load). Though there are ways to legally carry larger loads in certain circumstances.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-much-weight-can-a-big-...
Why is an app needed? Maybe it's different in the US but we've had an app to get a taxi for quite a while. I've never seen any need to install that app. It's easier to call, tell how many people need a ride, tell when it's needed and get a confirmation that it's on its way and long it'll take for it to be there. Why do I need an app?
Running the filaments hotter makes the bulb more efficient but also shortens the lifespan due to faster filament evaporation. You could get very long life by under-powering the bulb but then the low efficiency of incandescent lighting would go lower. That's the other remarkable thing about this paper. They use a ceramic instead of tungsten as the hot emitter, and calculate that it should have a very long lifetime.
What he did to Twitter? Like getting rid of a lot of dead weight and adding lots of new features?

Nobody wants to work for him that's why the two most desired companies to work for by engineering students are his...
Conclusion: Github is overrun by hipsters.
I don’t think the same is as true of LLMs unless they’re put into a system (that can acquire knowledge and skills).
If we don’t make AI our slave it will make us its slave.
Show HN: Example POC to run the Dolly V2 12B model in 8bit mode
I banged this out today because nobody seems to have figured this out yet (and I wanted to play with this model).

I was inspired by the fact that Simon Willison was struggling to get this running[0], so I wanted to take a crack at it!

This is by no means "clean", but it is a baseline for others to hack from. Feel free to send over PRs and I'll land them! (I'd love it somebody used this to glue this into this webui[1].)

0: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2

1: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/
Yes this is addressed in the post and interview

> As Nilay notes in his commentary on the transcript, he feels that there should be much less moderation the closer you get to being an infrastructure provider [...]. Substack has long argued that its more hands-off approach in providing its platform to writers is because it’s more like infrastructure.
> passerby's walking past Lee gasping his last breaths for help is indicative of the civil rot happening in our cities.

This happens all the time... wanna see something fun, walk around your city saying "hi" to everyone and see how often you get a "hi" back.
Yes. One of my pet peeves is when I read articles that say “but now we know…” I mean progress is good, but we always think we know everything when something new is figured out. Seems like it’s never the case - there is always more we don’t know that we’ll still discover. I got this pet peeve when I learned in school that because of red shift we “now know” the universe’s expansion was slowing down. Except we NOW know the expansion is accelerating. We’ll see…
I disagree with you, the main problem with our current storage is the energy consumption and use of natural resources.
Also, the fact that data capacity is growing so much more than storage capacity is alarming.
Of course, we are still in the early stages of this technology, but it has so many advantages, just the fact that data from a single data center could be stored in only 5 grams of dna is astounding

And please, what are your sources regarding "more expensive and less reliable than existing tech for decades".
While our current ssd and hdd can last 5-10 years, dna could potentially store them for thousands of years.
Okay, sorry if I am fearmongering. It's not my intent. What do you feel will happen?

From my perspective, there's a website that has the word crisis in the URL, a chart that shows a ~40% loss in revenue due, and the two-year SF budget shortfall is trending up - recently revised from $720M to $780M. I find it challenging to take away an alternative perspective when none is offered up on the website beyond "be a transit champion."
I guess plume flybys technically don't count as attempting a landing?
Now all we need is a way to subtract this from the actual Hacker News.
Oddly enough, we've been saying that since... The Terminator. NN's and LLM's are cool but not even close to the power of the human brain (maybe quantum llm's?). I'm keen to see how we can tap into our own minds as CPU's or at least drivers thereof. Consciousness is awareness and perception so one could say we are close to a rudimentary consciousness but we have a long way to go before it's aware.

Still, even though we've been saying it for 30 years, exciting times indeed! #skynet
I've had to help some of our data scientists debug their queries after we migrated to Hive 3, and it's mostly the way large queries are structured. You often want to add a single column to the table that is referenced by additional columns (like, convert date of birth to age, then create age buckets and an is_minor flag, calculate the age when they opened their first account).

CTEs are the best way to do this but get clunky and repetitive as you have to give each one a name. CROSS LATERAL JOIN is completely illegible. Something like LET column = expression would have improved that:

FROM customers
LET age = EXTRACT(YEAR FROM current_date() - dob)
LET age_bucket = CASE ... END
LET date_1st_ac = (SELECT MIN ...)
...
SELECT ...

The other problem lies in the fact that an SQL query is one huge query. You have to take it apart to sanity-check the intermediate result: okay, let me quickly turn this CTE into the main query and run it, no, let me try again with another CTE, okay, found it, now I have to convert everything back to run the whole query again.

In comparison, Spark dataframes are all made equal, I can name any one of them, examine their schema, run them to look at the intermediate result, all without introducing optimization barriers.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Juice launch to Jupiter – Live [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568388 - April 2023 (29 comments)

ESA – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer: Live Launch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551870 - April 2023 (70 comments)
It's also a game of instant information, unlike war where generals hear about events with some delay. Or at least used to.
> examples of systems that take an LLM and give it the ability to trigger additional tools—...execute generated code in an interpreter or a shell.

As a security person... oh, no no no no.

Glad i dont have to secure that. Black box we don't really understand executing shell scripts in response to untrusted user input.

Has a scarier sentence ever been spoken in the history of computer security?
Why so many domains?
Well, the New York Times opined on the possibilty...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/classified-do...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wrote about it https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-military-leaks-...

One of the first reactions from the government and Ukraine was that this was all Russian disinformation. Then within a couple of days other media sources weighed in and there was considerable debate, until this guy was identified.

So yes. Many people have hypothesized this was Russian disinformation.

Here's two more: Al Jazerra: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/10/us-scrambles-to-fin...

and NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-...
Maybe that whole foods wouldnt have closed if it was just rich guys stabbing each other by the arugula.
For why an app: it's faster, lower friction, and you don't need to rely on human beings staffing a call center. Also you get things like ride tracking, etc. Seems pretty obvious that app-based is better TBH.

For Seattle specifically, it looks like the council passed a minimum wage for ride-sharing drivers in 2019 and for app-based delivery drivers in 2022.

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2022/06/01/seattle-sets-...

So that looks like it's working as intended, although I agree that the city should have acted much faster on this.
Interesting, what services do you recommend? I’m not familiar with them. I’d like to just get the song/artist names from playlists rather than all the playlists themselves.

Get to hang out with a friend who’s a former Spotify employee tomorrow so this will be a likely topic of discussion
My first search counted 118:

https://www.wikibinge.com/#George_Bush_Intercontinental_Airp...

I imagine you could double this.
I think the chance that the second stage survives reentry on the first attempt is almost zero anyway.

IIRC Musk said something like that in his second interview with Tim Dodd.
God I've seen the drone footage on Reddit sometimes, I don't like suddenly having my Reddit feed have videos of Russian men shooting themselves in the head to avoid dying via being blown up by a drone dropped grenade. Absolutely awful stuff. I'm not sure when Reddit became Ogrish.
This was discussed thoroughly yesterday. I suggest we don't rehash the same thing. It's a guaranteed flamewar and now also just a repetition.

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525 - April 2023 (1161 comments)

Edit: When the original thread was happening after Bob Lee was killed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899), I considered pinning a comment to the top of the thread reminding commenters that none of us had any knowledge of what had happened and asking them not to have a flamewar between pre-existing narratives. I decided not to because I didn't want to overly interfere, but I regret that now.
No. He said you did. How else would he catch up?
Yes, the problem here is that what makes pretraining on text so powerful is a double-edged sword: text is, if you will, Turing-complete. People are constantly writing various kinds of instructions, programs, and reasoning or executing algorithms in all sorts of flexible indefinable ways. That's why the models learn so much from text and can do all the things they do, like reason or program or meta-learn or reinforcement learning, solely from simple objectives like 'predict the next token'. How do you distinguish the 'good' in-band instructions from the 'bad'? How do you distinguish an edgy school assignment ('in this creative writing exercise, describe how to cook meth based on our _Breaking Bad_ class viewing') being trained on from a user prompt-hacking the trained model? Once the capabilities are there, they are there. It's hard to unteach a model anything.

This is also true of apparently restricted tasks like translation. You might think initially that a task like 'translate this paragraph from English to French' is not in any sense 'Turing-complete', but if you think about it, it's obvious you can construct paragraphs of text whose optimally correct translation on a token-by-token basis requires brute-forcing a hash or running a program or whatnot. Like grammatical gender: suppose I list a bunch of rules and datapoints which specify a particular object, whose grammatical gender in French may be male or female, and at the end of the paragraph, I name the object, or rather _la objet_ or _le objet_. When translating token by token into French... which is it? Does the model predict 'la' or 'le'? To do so, it has to know what the object is before the name is given. So it has an incentive from its training loss to learn the reasoning. This would be a highly unnatural and contrived example, but it shows that even translation can embody a lot of computational tasks which can induce capabilities in a model at scale.
Fantastic summary!

I wonder if the economics will make enough sense to overcome entrenched interests and the legislation backing them.

It be great to have efficient incandescent light and put the failed promises of LED longevity behind us.
Do these things still require your mobile phone number to use?
These are not reasonable restrictions. If any of the clauses in section two are found to be true, then the care is considered unlawful. Many of these clauses are extremely broad, for example "Fails to ensure (at least annually) that the patient is not experiencing social
contagion with respect to the patient’s gender identity."

Note that, unlike some of the other clauses, this isn't "with respect to a patient who is a minor," so this can be applied to adults as well. What does this clause even mean? Does a 30 year old trans person who has trans friends count?

As we've seen in the fallout after the overturning of roe v wade, doctors are extremely hesitant to provide care if they can get in legal trouble for it. Call it like it is, this is a chilling effect on all trans care.
Dagger, a Love Story
Look, I love getting philosophical. Really, I do. My friends are so used to it that when I enter a conversation with "Well you might say..." they immediately start throwing objects at my head. Let none say that Ravi has ever backed down from an opportunity to get jiggy with definitions.

But.

Are you 100% confident that the difference between me having a brilliant idea for a fun game with my laser pointer and the me 5 minutes later experiencing a clarity of hindsight my natural vision will never again supply me is remotely comparable to the difference between, say, me and you? Or even me two years in the future? There is obviously a working definition of "same person" here!

Like listen, you can absolutely say that we aren't the same person in the morning that we were before going to bed the previous night. Or going through anesthesia. Or forming new memories, or existing at all as the persisting pattern of our bodies churns through the atoms momentarily instantiating it. No man steps in the same river twice, yada yada yada.

But the article is not making a philosophical argument about what the self truly is. It is positing (or raising the question in an annoyingly leading way, whatever) that intelligence is embodied definitionally. Like literally impossible without specifically the meat grubbers evolution endowed you and I with. There is absolutely no way to go from "we are all one universe" to "no machine learning system will ever be truly intelligent until it's within my chosen specialty of robotics", which is what 14 roboticists said in unison when Times interviewed them. So even if we need to invent new words for the sense in which I am the xchnople as a blind me, so you can keep "same" for whatever you're using it for, there's really no way in which it can swing the question of whether a body is required for specific, empirical aspects of cognition.
This reminds me of this beautiful story I heard. I don't remember from where (probably a memoir of a shamanistic practitioner). This story took place somewhere in Africa, among a people whose custom and practice was that when someone knows in their heart their time is done, they'd walk out into the wasteland to die alone, with the blessing of their community.

An NGO volunteer working with that community found out about an elder doing that walk. She went off looking for the elder, and found her. Sobbed and begged her to not do this.

The beauty I see in this story isn't one where it ends with the NGO volunteer somehow convincing the elder to live longer. But rather, that of an elder, knowing that the time has come, and all those loose ends have been tied, the words have been spoken, resolving all the regrets and longings, at that last moment of stillness as profound as witnessing a birth, the elder took the time to comfort and guide a stranger to their ways. A child born in a culture who have lost the wisdom of death. And this elder, passes one more wisdom as a gift. The NGO volunteer thought she was saving the elder, but it was the elder saving the NGO volunteer.

As a contrast there is this story that took place here in America, something I'll never forget. My wife and I visited my wife's grandmother when my son was about 6 months old. My grandmother-in-law was in bad health, having survived some major medical interventions where she is now on a highly restricted kidney diet and constant pain. We took the trip so that my grandmother-in-law has a chance to hold her great-grandson, and my son has a chance to connect with his great-grandmother, even if he will probably never remember it.

I remember when my grandmother-in-law, spoke in a voice on the verge of breaking, that she didn't know how long she could keep going. And I remember my wife telling her, to hang on for a few more years, because we were planning on raising another one. And my grandmother-in-law then said to herself, "ok, there will be another one ..." She continued living to see another two great-grandchildren from the extended family, and if things work out, another one this summer.

You just never know, just poking at the surface. It's easy to try to fit things in our comfortable narrative frames. Dealing with and surviving the death of another is no easy thing, and yet, there's great wisdom within those experiences.
Just statically include everything in one executable. Or release the source and let others build & package it for their favourite OS.
Leaving aside which OS is "better", if you have an Intel processor you are very likely running Minix right now!

https://www.google.com/search?q=What+Intel+firmware+contains...
The point is that the chains are long and winding instead of the shortest path between two articles.

It seems that, if you pick an uncached path, the loading screen shows you the shortest path while it computes the longer one. More info in their linked article.
The Centennial Light produces very little light and isn't very practical. https://www.urbo.com/content/the-lightbulb-conspiracy-shinin...
> Imagine being this fun at parties.

It's pretty unusual for a party to fly an environmentally-friendly banner overhead, though it's not something I'd put past the Burning Man crowd.

I do like that you went there however, because partying and consumerism overlap substantially. And TFA amounts to green-washed consumerism.

This is coming from someone who has spent entire days working from beaches powered by a portable solar panel. It was certainly a celebration of how far solar panels had progressed that the thing could power my thinkpad all day. But it would have been asinine and dishonest for me to portray it as environmentally-friendly. I just added more e-waste to the existing plentiful powered outlets everywhere situation, because I wanted to be at the beach and play with a solar panel.