skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it also cannot find my audio device (I have several connected), so it failed at the the one job it really had.
Am I the only one who finds it a bit odd that the article starts off bragging about what was an outage?

And I as soon as I hear “we were still running with half our network down”, the first thing I think of is that no one really is using IPFS at all.
I cannot tell if I'm the victim of Poe's law right now. If this is satire, it is brilliant. If it's not, I highly suggest taking a long hard look in the mirror.
Political instability driving a default would be pretty different.
Interesting stuff! It would be interesting to see whether large language models could also help explain certain strategies or interface with traditional financial techniques. For instance, you might be able to have the language model interface with traditional portfolio optimization techniques using something like toolformer or differentiable portfolio optimizers (https://github.com/cvxgrp/cvxpylayers).
> it saddens and maddens me

Yeah, unfair, eh wot? Maybe a god could create equality and perfect justice, but anecdotally I haven't seen it happen yet.

Is it possible to learn to be chiller and more accepting? Is stress twice the killer for those who were gifted dodgy genes by their ancestors?

You are surely already in the top 10% of humanity, so sour grapes that another fellow gets 20% more than your riches in time is hard to swallow ;p

Personally, the bastards in my world seem to get their comeuppance because while they present a lucky face, I often find they have shot lives when I know more detail.

I'm a mostly-good middle-aged white guy from New Zealand (godzone[1]), so I reckon chances are that I have a similar outlook to you.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/3q4nth/hi_nz_wh...
Why are people so hung up on the licence agreement? VMs run fine all on all sorts of hardware, Mac’s, Nucs, NASs, actual servers etc.

I often see posted that using VMs violates the agreement, has someone been sued or something?
My first Blog post was 22 years ago: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2002-02/05-2002_02_05

It has been on the same software (DokuWiki) for 18 years now: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2005-11/25-splitbrain_relaun...

How time flies when you're having fun ;-)
That's certainly the implementation, v_filocks. But I'd be wary of saying that the implementation drove the design. Remember that people have historically disagreed about synchronization mechanisms and which ones are the good ones. It's quite possible that the design was simply intentionally that way, not following from any implementation considerations.

For example: Dave Cutler architect of Windows NT called the OS/2 mutex mechanism a "mutant" because xe thought the semantics were bad. But the semantics that xe didn't like were designed so that a locking thread was told whenever the preceding mutex owner lost the lock because it ABENDed, and that thus whatever the mutex was guarding was probably not in a consistent unlocked state.

One has only to cast one's mind back to how file sharing flags worked, or just didn't work, on MS/PC/DR-DOS when they first came along (Hands up if you remember compatibility mode sharing, or Netware's added spin to the whole thing.) to be reminded that sometimes design was just odd, by today's standards. (-:

By the way: NFS began in 1984 and was available for AT&T Unix System 5 Release 2. File locking with lockf()/fcntl() dates from AT&T Unix System 5 Release 3 which was actually later, not earlier. Also remember that System 5 Release 3 at the same time introduced RFS, which did do locking and statefully maintained open file descriptions on the server, so the idea of the PID being accessible is a bit of a red herring.
Is that a solution, or an additional poison?
With enough weapons, psyops, and funding, you can start a civil war anywhere. With overwhelming military force, you can make the civil war end in the way you want.

Consider that if the US was in Libya's relative standing, an external actor of such magnitude could easy have interfered to make Jan. 6 into the start of a civil war. If then you have a foreign country getting involved militarily, it can end however you want. This is true of basically any country in the world.
I use my google search history to find things.

I blog when I feel like writing rather than when I have something to write about. Then I go to https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?pli=1&product=19 and see what I was researching in the last month or two.

Theres usually something there where the existing articles were out of date (because tech!) or maybe it took me multiple results to actually solve my own issue.

That might be a way for you to find things.

Also I write for myself, I'm basically documenting for my future self so I dont have to research the same thing again. Some of my tech posts are just 2 lines of shell script and brief description so I can search google for my own content later but these posts still seem to be useful to other people based on views.

I think this could work for any blog where you're just writing about your interests or hobbies!
> If you had to pick between having REPL access in production and REPL access locally, would it be close? Because I value being able to mess around with a REPL while developing thousands of times as much as I like a neat toy in production. And that ability is exactly what Python or Ruby or Erlang give you. Technically lacking compared to the full suite? Perhaps. But we're talking 0.999, not 0.5.

I can't speak to Ruby or Erlang, but the Python REPL is much less than 0.999 because of the semantics of "import" making it very challenging to change code once it's been imported.
The context as written by the author of this project: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1632664864538738688
It seems the routing algorithm used in the project is uncontrolled flooding with TTL. Obviously this won't scale. Any plans for more sophisticated routing?
Back in the late 1980s when I was a teenager I found plans and built this little circuit with a LED that would light up if someone else in the house was trying to listen in on my phone calls. More than one phone off the hook... LED lights up.
This part is gold:

Given every available forecast, it was the perfect time to hire 1,200 blockchain developers, spin up original streaming content, and lead three rounds of funding for my nephew’s AI-powered B2B sourdough recipe app.
> One guess: if macOS could be virtualized, it would be even easier to run things like Messages, FaceTime, and Photos on non-Apple hardware

I can be and it’s not hard to do. I assume your referring to breaking the licence agreement?
Here how it's better:

- stronger hand
- stronger finger
- better vertical movement instead of horizontal
It's an interesting case though because they are clearly different songs. I listened to that song for many years and never once made the connection to the other one until I heard the live version played with the special ending.
Pretty sure you also pay for them when they are shut down too.
My partner is from the ex soviet part of the world. She uses the term "very slowly, then all at once" to describe what happened there.
On the other hand, this Rust-based one called Psst looks awesome and works: https://github.com/jpochyla/psst
Voice of Tchaikowsky and Anton Rubinstein on Edison Cylinder (1890)
Would it?

Have a crack and you can probably get a macOS VM running on whatever hardware you have in short order.
Not quite to the degree that C++ does, but it's pretty good. There are several places in the standard that specifically allow for making a dynamism/performance tradeoff.
Absolutely! One of my favorite things on my own website is the random button which takes me to a random page. It's a fun way to be teleported back in time to some post in the past.

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog?do=randompage
I’d say they kept it together a little longer. My 2006 e46 still had most of that BMW DNA from my friends’ e36 & e30s… Even my 2010 e83 is essentially a lifted e46 (with a really bad suspension tune). IMHO it was really the f chassis where they told their enthusiast fans to fuck off so they could sell to suburban women instead
Australian politicians do the same. Important or bad news gets released before a holiday, when people are not paying attention.
Calling it an hourly wage is misleading. It’s akin to having a rental property that you fix up and lease out for a year with a single payment.
Yes, because a saturated pixel might be 101% full scale, but it might also be a hundred million percent and you have no way to know. The same reason that a camera might substitute zebra stripes or a bright colour for a blown highlight in a preview as opposed to just making it white.

When using a coronagraph, it's possible that that value is all over the place (diffraction around edges, noise, etc) but you know any data "under" the coronagraph is bogus and you know which pixels are covered, because you know how the device was made, so you can mark them as bogus yourself.

The actual value in the data isn't black (0,0,0), it'll be some obviously special value that won't otherwise happen, because black is a valid value.

I suppose the idea that not-misleading data trumps aesthetically-pleasing data continues then to the press release image, even though a solid white central spot would look more familiar to people who have accidentally included the sun in a photo.
>No kidding, if people really read and understood the manual for xmessage(1), > you will quickly see it has no competitor in what people call "modern". I use it a lot in many interactive shell scripts.

amen. could someone show me a simple gui message popup in ventura. i am sure it exists but have not been able to locate.
we need a worldwide mesh network.

who's hacking StarLink?
In what way is it a breach of contract? It is using someone else's intellectual property without a license. Morally it is no different to using a cracked version of Photoshop, or playing a cracked version of Grand Theft Auto. Quite simply it's breach of copyright.

To be clear, I'm not here to be a scold or a narc. Copyright is overly abused by large corporations. My ability to shed a tear for breaching the copyright of billion dollar corporations is limited. If you want to run macOS inside KVM on your own personal rig, all power to you. I'll cheer you on from the sidelines.

But if you're using this software as part of regular business operations, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it's morally justifiable. And it's ridiculous to pretend that anyone should have the legal right to Apple's intellectual property without a license — save, apparently, for security researchers.
Your data pays for the upkeep, same with every other free social media app.

This is about servers, where the hosting bill is footed by the company, until its not.
I would also add that even the odd writer with a great early book or books commonly slumps down to meh and then churns it out from there on, which is sad.

It's like the fiction publishing industry had this technology for 10-20 years already.
I'm prompted to remind you of this part of the site's guidelines :

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What's prompted me to remind you is that I've observed this 'throwaway' account commenting quite combatively throughout this thread, which makes me think you've created the account to 'give you the freedom' do just that. Which is against the culture here.
America's Empire Is Bankrupt
Why does it have to understand how the LLMs are built? They have used gpt-4 to just build a classifier for each neuron's activition, and given the nlp abilities of gpt-4, the hope is that it can describe the nature of activation of the neurons.
What Russia did is save Latvia from being liquidated entirely by the Nazis.
Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely
What practical benefit does that offer over existing (synonym-aware) keyword and phrase search approaches? The corpus of one’s mailbox is too small a dataset to draw conclusion from, surely?

Not to mention being far slower to query.
Many are already there.
I think well-roundedness gets overlooked because our culture is one that lionizes those who push themselves to near-death in a certain specialization, so you get a segment of people pushing themselves harder than is holistically healthy.

For example, a recent study found that two thirds of pro cyclists have markedly low bone density:
https://www.velonews.com/news/dutch-study-two-thirds-of-pro-....
Curious. Do you know if it was because of the .NET overhead, or because the fresh implementation didn't have all the edge case optimisations of the previous one?
It's a pity all those highly extensible vim/emacs editors ship with such awful unergonomic defaults and are so resistant to change, such a waste of a potential :(

Relevant to this devil mode (and to a similarly named god mode): they do replace the pinky control, but they are still stuck with the default keycaps after that
I wonder if insurance on new cars are more expensive than old ones.

As in if someone bought a Toyota sedan in 2013, would the insurance bill, adjusted for inflation, be the same as buying a Toyota sedan in 2023.
Oh, interesting - this is actually about Thunderbird. I was expecting some AI startup founded by people too young to know there was already a Thunderbird.
Not useless at all, these kind of ad-hoc mesh networks are perfect for communication during protests or other organizing, particularly when state actors are trying to monitor or disrupt cellular (like what happened in Ukraine protests years ago).
Apple AirTag Reverse Engineering (2022)
Easy yes, but the number of steps to go through reduces the expected value of the return. It makes you pause for a second, which is enough for higher brain functions to kick in.
We’ll see. As far as I know, the biggest blocker to using Rust outside of drivers is the fact that LLVM lacks support for some architectures Linux supports. And rustc_codegen_gcc seems on track to fix that eventually; even if it takes years more, that’s not much time on the scale of Linux’s development history.
Not So Fast! Boyd OODA Looping Is More Than Speed (2015)
Yup there's a hill nearby that I've climbed about 100 times on my bike over the past couple years. I always cherish my time that I spend there - the scenery is constantly changing throughout the season, and I frequently run into acquaintances along the way.

Every day might get a little monotonous, but a couple times a week is doable (and enjoyable) for sure!
Thea person you are responding to understood that; what they didn’t understand was what the person they were responding to had come to understand about part of the population from the person they were responding to conflating thanking with understanding.

And, I think that was the hardest to understand thing I’ve ever said.
TRAPPIST-1e – exoplanet orbiting the habitable zone with atmosphere
TRAPPIST-1e is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for habitability among the TRAPPIST-1 planets, but it is still unknown whether it has an atmosphere or any liquid water on its surface.
I'm not quite sure where you got that figure from, but some quick research cites numbers vary between 0.1 and 1.2 acres per person.

In any event, 17 acres could theoretically supply food for an enormous range from 15 to 170 people, depending on how intensively it's farmed.

[1] 4000 sq ft bio-intensive farming (http://www.growbiointensive.org/)
[2] 0.44 acres permaculturism (https://permaculturism.com/how-much-land-does-it-take-to-fee...)
[3] 1.2 from a 1994 study (and further discussion in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1aozn1/how_much...)
Yes exactly! Sorry, should've specified that
I still can’t comprehend that VB6 had time travel debugging 20 years ago, and we still don’t have that with most other IDEs.
I'm unclear as to why that is hard to imagine.

I live in a city that has many free tech meetups.

One of them involved going through fast.ai. Tech companies were happy to host us for free.

Another was about doing Kaggle competition to practice ML with fellow newbies. Again, tech companies allowed us to use their space after hours, or we'd just to the library and book a room for free.

Vice versa other groups that revolve around learning specific languages or going through specific technical books.
I took a moment from my day
And wrapped it up in things you say
And mailed it off to you

Phish - Wading in the velvet sea

Thanks for the blog posts over all these years.
Have you tried it? "Runner's high" is a real thing.
Even in the Expanse it was more of a cold war between Earth and Mars, and a class war between the belters and the rest of the solar system. Globalization and the advent of planet-scale weapons have made relative peace and cooperation the more sensible option. The only wildcard is a sovereignty that has nothing to lose, a bitter history, and the power to exact real harm, and the closest we have to that in modern times is Russia. And the best way to avert this harm is to ensure no-one has nothing to lose.

But as I've said before on this forum, The Expanse isn't facts.
No, the company hasn't enabled it yet for us.
Brilliant comment—-and back to basics.

Yes, and put that compact fruit fly in silico brain into my Roomba please so that it does not get stuck under the bed.

This is the kind of embodied AI that should really worry us.

Don’t we all suspect deep skunkworks “defense” projects of these types?
> no one outside HN cares about the Hayes AT commands any more.

You might be surprised. A lot of cellular modems and Bluetooth modules are controlled using a variant of the AT command set.
Apple's Mail app is constantly losing it's connection to my various different work email accounts, but the annoying thing isn't that it's losing it, it's that it's not doing a good job of either telling me, or having me re-auth. I should probably give Thunderbird another try - specially since they're funding is up.
Didn't or do still some CPUs have instructions that can aid the JVM?
Clones were great until they went upscale with powerful expandable machines that competed with their profitable high end tower macs
if the song is being listened to, and thus generate money, is there any real reason for removing them?
wqweto is a genius. Check out his twinbasic project, 99% similar to VB6 with a bunch of extras, modernising the language.
Shout out to all the VB6 legends still going at it and extending the language, wqweto, the trick, olaf, retailcoder.
All politicians and companies do this type of thing. Here's [1] a particularly egregious example from 9/11, where a UK government advisor sent out a memo at advising "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury".

Judging from the tone, the writer was elated. She sent the email shortly after the second plane hit.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/09/uk.past
Any mirrors in the house?

"argument"? LOL
Where did you get that the LLM was as _intelligent_ as a human?

All we've shown is that LLMs are as useful for parsing legal text as the average human. Which is to say, not.

A dog is also as useful for parsing legal texts as the average human. So is a rock.
But I just learned it the easy way :)
I buy these: https://www.kingoscar.com/product/brisling-sardines-in-extra... They're not the cheapest sardine option; definitely not $0.80/can. But I have the money and really like them. I think the Tiny Tots-branded ones are identical (just different packaging). https://www.kingoscar.com/product/tiny-tots-brisling-sardine...

There are also some fish meal combo tins (salad toppers, really) I like, such as these: https://freshemeals.com/ My favorite is the Moroccan Tagine salmon. They're on clearance at my local grocery store for 50% off so I bought a few dozen...

iirc a physician advised my then-pregnant wife to have salmon at least twice a week, vs. the common recommendation to have tuna at most once a week.
How do you know that nobody is making money applying it? It’s not exactly like you would know if they were, would you, since by definition they wouldn’t be advertising it?
> they have a quite large budget

That is a hilarious statement.
Charging money (and seeing who balks) is a good way to filter out people who don’t value their time highly. $5/m for good conversation is a steal.
In 2020 California had more hate crime than Texas: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

Edit: Actually I checked 2017-2020 and every year had way more hate crimes than Texas. CA has ~33% more population, but had triple the hate crimes. In 2021 CA somehow dropped from thousand+ hate crimes to like 40, so I'm guessing something is up with the data there.
I'd be interested to know what their median donation is, assuming $21 is the mean (which it seems to be). I wonder to what extent that number is inflated by a few big donors (it might not be, I'm just curious).
> I’m guessing ~$25 million for an upper stage.

That was what you responded to. Since when the upper stage is the payload? Which facts are you asserting?
At a guess - very long exposure times. Even if it's only sending one photon per second in our direction, if we stare at it long enough then eventually we'll have an image.
The enshittification of Google products continues.
Share files without downloading anything
What made Hinton into an AI doomer
I think that would have to be in the eyes of the beholder :\

Naturally, there's no accounting for taste.

Artificially, we'll just have to see what passes.
Putin’s Inner Circle Criticized Kremlin’s Ukraine Strategy – and He’s Not Alone
> Honest question: are we sure that it doesn’t do logical reasoning?

It's not the Creature from the Lagoon, its an engineering artifact created by engineers. I haven't heard them say it does logical deduction according to any set of logic-rules. What I've read is it uses Markov chains. That makes sense because basically an LLM given a string-input should reply with another string that is the most likely follow-up string to the first string, based on all the texts it crawled up from the internet.

If internet had lots and lots of logical reasoning statements then a LLM might be good at producing what looks like logical reasoning, but that would still be just response with the most likely follow-up string.

The reason the results of LLMs are so impressive is that at some point the quantity of the data makes a seemingly qualitative difference. It's like if you have 3 images and show them each to me one after the other I will say I saw 3 images. But if you show me thousands of images 24 per second and the images are small variations of the previous images then I say I see a MOVING PICTURE. At some point quantity becomes quality.
It's being listened to by bots on loop instead of multiple user accounts. So effectively revenue/user is going down with this I'd guess.
I agree even though you’ll always get responses talking about other US cities where it’s technically possible to live without a car.

I found living without a car in SF not so ideal because it ultimately means living your life in a pretty small subset of the overall metro area. That slice of the metro area is also disproportionately gentrified and has that kind of yuppie vibe (with prices to match).

I feel the same from visiting other cities like Seattle, Chicago, DC, Philly, etc. New York is the only US city I’ve been to that I would say is actually comparable to other global cities. All the other US cities pale in comparison.