skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the information that you think this leads to based on all the lovely documentation you can find of the Apollo program, it’s gone, none of that happens now, it’s all subcontractors and ITAR and patents and intellectual property, the “public” part of public paying for this stuff was mostly dead by the late 1980s.

My best example is the AX-5 hard shell spacesuit. Public funding research done at NASA Ames, not commercialised, not brought up to flight readiness so it’s hardly going to justify some secrecy, and all the documentation is basically nonexistent other than some thin on the ground engineering documentation in non-public access engineering journals. Amazing engineering work and basically none of it is published in and open way.
How do the other OS's get around this?
Before exerting a lot of effort/energy do a rough napkin-sketch calculation determine upper& lower bounds of tax burden / ramifications.

Only take efforts that are quality to or lesser than the tax burden and/or the risk/cost of not filing anything altogether.
> If you want a better system, it's better to make as many changes as possible to the system so that problems are impossible and/or unlikely.

I disagree with this premise.

If you want to make a system better, you need to enable as many information flows as possible, shorten feedback loops, etc. The classic Meadows leverage points. The proposal of making cars noisy has the opposite effect, by sweeping problems under the rug.

Just "doing as many things as possible" is a great way to paint oneself into a local optimum.
How much money do you think was in it? Are we talking hundreds, or thousands?

If it’s thousands, small claims court might be the way to go. It’s surprisingly effective, and also surprisingly painless.

For tens of thousands, hire a lawyer. I can help put you in touch with someone if you don’t know any.

If it’s hundreds, I’ll just Venmo it to you so you can mentally move on. Someone going to school and dealing with health issues shouldn’t have to also go through this.
*Citation needed-- ABNB is so expensive these days, although they won't disclose half the cost until the final phase of checkout!
That's fair if the constant factor is relevant, but if bubble sort is terminating in any reasonable timescale then the difference between qsort, C++ std::sort, and a custom implementation is really not a factor.
The reduced circle of Washington bureaucrats have too much control over the world. It's time to diversify. Using less the dollar, paying taxes in other jurisdictions, ignoring their sanctions, etc. Specially Europe should realize that hinging on the US at every step is not a realistic plan.
Well, the concern I have is about alternatives. Joanna Videoessayist might not have the technical know-how, the business acumen, or the capital to build her own platform — she just wants to make great video essays. Eliminating platforms like YouTube wouldn’t make Joanna better off, it would just cause her to return to her marketing job.
This is really smart. Although I imagine if it was very widely used, someone would come up with a way for AI to generate a fake history
That always looked like a no-problem to me. Can't the brine be put in a pool and let evaporate instead? You get drinking water from the desalination plant and salt.
> It sounds like people are standing up to psychological manipulation

99% of the sound is clearly people standing up to defend Facebook's interests against China.

Nothing about psychological manipulation here.
Please stop with the "nature's bounty" rubbish, it's just soft thinking. Since you ask let's try carrots, beetroot, fat hen, strawberries (yes, leaves and stems are edible too), samphire etc. If you want to broaden out a bit, various fungi and seaweed.
I think Zillow tried to do something like this with properties in Florida in 2021, and ended up holding the proverbial bag.
The definition of AI has varied over the years. In the beginning even the A* algorithm is considered AI.
I think you’re very interested in why you think the chat interface to LLMs is not great, and why you think your model might be better. But you don’t need people to follow that chain of reasoning for them to see the place you ended up as being interesting.

Show, don’t tell. And start with what the tool does, before you explain why it does it that way.
Google Chrome now detects typos in your URLs
Thanks for the video! Really neat technology, seems like a great way to explore. Something about the FOV makes me ill.
Navy ready to start implementing fixes to notoriously slow computers
It is painfully clear that Musk isn't the brains of the operation, but the showman.
How can you say that when here is an article about people being left traumatized when they had to sift through tons of actual child abuse material, 9 hours a day, to "teach" a machine that that is not okay haha
Instead of pumping the brine into a pool, pump it into a ship. As the ship sails, it slowly releases the brine at a rate much more tolerable. When the tanks are 50% empty, turn around and come home. lather rinse repeat.

of course, a renewable powered ship
The source of Uber's dumping wasn't chiefly VC funds, though. Uber's ability to price below market was mostly funded by the residual value of their drivers' vehicles.
I hope these people do something similar for the hp48 or 50 series, though I understand it's a big undertaking. I'd be the first person to buy it.
Sorta. They have to rely on this on a repeated basis such that it matters. And there, if startup time is still 10x this, roughly, why push for solutions that require that many kernel startups?
This whole thing is moot because precisely those subjects in which AI is most applicable are the ones whose graduates will most likely have their jobs taken away by AI anyway.

Like, at least let AI earn you the grades while you're in school, if it's going to put you out of a job once you're out, ya know?
I probably boot a few embedded devices per day.

If someone did not optimize this this might indicate other optimizations
Knowledge is like water; it can leak.
You said splitting entities into small chunks doesn't work for low-level. But as you already know (exposition monologue follows :D) memory, all of it, is allocated in small pages. Typically 4kb of size. That's what the low level actually is.

On some hardware the page is 2MB which is called, literally "huge pages" (or "large pages"). But that's about it, bigger pages are essentially not used.

If your language can't help but see 4GB as one thing, that's a flaw in your language that it even permits that. I'm not talking about how it appears on the surface, but how it's allocated and chunked.

In data structures designed for COW a single 4GB chunk would be anomalous occurrence, basically a bug, everything is split up in structures roughly the size of a page max, or so.

So we had some truth here at the hardware and OS level, which is "never allocate things in huge chunks" but we lost it at the higher level and then we think this is just how things are and design all our languages around it. An OS may permit you to allocate more memory, but that's with the idea you'll manage this yourself, say as an arena. If you instead just store a monolithic piece of state in it, that's just ignorance, or a special case, like say large buffer for DMA, or the like.

Regarding nested types, you can still inline content, you don't NEED to add indirection. The behavior of inlining vs referencing can be determined based on content structure and should be transparent to your code. It's trivial and many runtimes do this (I suppose your next objection will be how come we have a runtime, but ostensibly even C has part of its library acting as a runtime for basic things like mem alloc).

> If you combine it with higher performance requirements and requirements like wide spread platform support etc. it's very very hard.

If you have the right foundation, writing optimizations on top of it is a lot more trivial than when your foundation is 70 years of ad-hoc cruft.

This was demonstrated by Microsoft experimenting with C# written OS (I think called Singularity) that bypassed a lot of OS and even hardware APIs in order to manage most memory operations & safety on its own. And that turned out faster than C code. Unfortunately, not compatible with the status quo. C is a nightmare.
Thanks for this. Can you provide examples? I'm still working on adjusting that.
It is easily circumvented by typing out the AI response rather than just copy and pasting
No, it's not normal to wait for the IDE. Maybe you need more RAM, to adjust JVM settings in your IDE, fix some weird issue. IntelliJ has index updater bugs after releases sometimes, for example, and the Bazel plugin has lots of problems.
The issue is mainline Linux support, most of these aren't supported by the vanilla Linux kernel.
I am planning the same and for exactly the same reasons, viz snap. Its encouraging to hear you have had success with it.

edit: Is there anyone who can share their experiences switching from Ubuntu to Debian on the desktop?
Being able to force someone to do anything against their will, minus the right to sell people, still sounds a lot like slavery to me.
I think many of us working in software can be overconfident about how easy it is to scale things, probably because of the peculiar progress in the improvement of integrated circuits and the commensurate increased availability of raw compute for not that much more energy.

You may have neatly (and politely) pinned down why we computer folks are so arrogant about how easy problems outside our direct field would be to solve, if only we were the ones “allowed” to solve them.
Maybe if you had articulated your objections up front instead of posturing, your subthread wouldn't now be sitting at the bottom of the page.
I really can't say much about your situation but note that public discourse has gotten way crazier in the Trump era. It's now ok to say some crazy shit so I guess that makes everyone wary and reinforces conformism even more ?

Imagine you want to talk about hormonal water pollution created by contraceptives used in masse. The first thing I am thinking now when wanting to even mention the issue is to make very clear that I don't believe they are putting hormones in the water to make people gay and that this is not a trojan horse against contraception.
> "There was a democratic vote"

Somehow this feels like that XKCD alt text[1] "I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."

If the best thing anyone can say in defense of Brexit is that it was "a democratic vote", that is an implicit concession that there is nothing else worth saying in its favour. There were 100 people on the bus, only 30 bothered to vote, 16 of those voted to drive the bus off a cliff and kill everyone, and now you are compelled to agree with that course of action because "it was a democratic vote"[2] and anything else would be anti-Democratic and therefore bad. It's pretty clear that there was a lot wrong with the vote (it was said to be non-binding then was treated as binding, for example, which may have affected how many people bothered to vote), and the media around it - claims made which have not panned out and the people who made the claims are not being held accountable for their misrepresentation, or the messaging around "control of borders" which (a) we already had, and (b) post-Brexit has more immigration not less, in fact record high levels[3], and etc.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1357/

[2] see also https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-... where internet communities drive the bus off the cliff and die due to fear of being called "intolerant".

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63743259
Keyboard looks like an oldschool Thinkpad. You can also get an older Thinkpad x220 for around the same cost or cheaper with more power.
An interaction with leptin? Or are you just feeling hungry after the side effects wore off?

You also said it stopped working while you were taking it in another post; are you just talking about satiety or one of the other effects like insulin production or glucagon release? Are you diabetic or just overweight?
> i feel offended A LOT on internet these days.

American, yeah?
> So what? People can host their own content.

How do they do that? It's services all the way down.
> I wonder who the actual competent players are at tesla and spacex who have actually got things done

For SpaceX, do not wonder, this is known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-nasa-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-tw...

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/gwynne-shotwell-aiming...

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-gwynne-shotwell-to-oversee-...
> What do you propose to replace CSS with

I don't think I need to have a solution prepared to define a problem?

> How will it avoid the problems you perceive with CSS while still being useful?

How did <insert any language> replace <insert any older language> while still being useful?

This is kind of what I mean when talking about CSS. For whatever reason, all of the innovation, invention, tinkering, progress that went into _every other aspect of software_ just gets forgotten about with regard to CSS? This idea that CSS is the perfect solution, or close enough that there's no reason to invent something radically different. We're on our 5000th Javascript build tool but we still just have terrible old CSS.

> and never had a reasonable answer.

Completely reasonable answer: I have no idea, it's not my responsibility to create a solution. CSS is enough of a problem that I just generally refuse to use it. I'm not alone in this.
Yep the answer is still "no." Also their tourist suborbital is still grounded after an incident last year.

They did finally deliver some BE-4 engines to ULA though.
Product quantization for vector search
Someone should calc out when it will start flooding
It's likely not as cheap to mass produce compared to other soft drinks.
> A drug that promotes weight loss, lessens the desire to smoke, drink, etc...sounds too good to be true?

It does sound too good to be true. However, it's possible that the drug is working on all of these through the same mechanism: by altering the brain's reward system.

If that's true, the drug doesn't make you not want to eat, it makes you not want stuff, in general. That could potentially suppress a wide array of addictive behaviors. I also wonder if that suppression might look a lot like clinical depression, though.
That's why I said that public transportation is a victim of car culture.

The fact that there weren't buses from or to your neighborhood is a symptom of car abuse, not the cause.
It's a bit the same story as GPT:

Early: Google does primitive tech (Google Earth)

Later: Microsoft does amazing implementation (Flight Simulator / Bing)

Finally: Google tries to copy but fails (Google Maps)
Since the 1400s; ref polder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Neth...
Ask HN: Resources to Learn About Query Languages and Querying Distributed DBs?
I will be moving into a team that does query processing for a timeseries DB.

All of my distributed systems & databases knowledge up to this point has been focused on correctly & efficiently writing/storing data: consensus & transactionality models, as well as concerns about how to actually efficiently write to disks, etc.

I know the "read path" - query languages & DSLs as well as the query processing and optimization is a huge field unto itself.

I would love to have some deep dive resources on this - prefer books if possible. My bible on the distributed storage side is Database Internals by Petrov.
I would love to find something of equal quality on the read/query side.

Architecture & design docs for specific databases are also great, if they go into enough depth on these specifics
Honestly a congressperson seems easiest to replace with AI from your description. They have an absolutely tiny amount of physical presence with their voters... a burger flipper has far more.

Then you're completely missing the point on road building... This job is already super highly automated. 2000 years ago it took a Roman division to build a mile of road. Now it's just a few people and a lot of equipment that is getting more and more automated every year.
Its funny, but even if the LLM was open source and free, it would still be unethical in terms of not attributing all this effort it is basically stealing.

So thats the first problem to solve. Its not an easy one because depending on the context the output it could be just generic, you can't attribute the entire universe, but in a specialized context it may well be literally impersonating some expert's output.
Turtle solves all the XML cruft problems and is very readable. RDF is completely independent from rendering format, which doesn't have to be XML, I am surprised people still associate it with XML.
Instagram Readies Twitter Competitor for Summer Release
Twitter accuses Microsoft's refusal to pay for tweets, abusing its data access
Where is the line between choosing what people see and exerting editorial control over what to print?

If a newspaper puts up a dark corner of their website that gives people labyrinthine access to all of the submissions that they decided not to publish, are they no longer liable for the content they post and promote on their main site?
This is the "AWS Lambda cold start" use case: you're not doing this every time, but you are doing it on scale-up, initial deploy, etc. Depending on complexity, those costs start to hit your p99 as well as your p100.
That sounds reasonable. The water would have to go somewhere, but that alone could be catastrophic regionally. Cities are built around water sources, so having them move on timescales of human lifespans is worth worrying about.
I think your point is fair, but the point I'm making is that we should applaud when private industry is willing to shoulder a large proportion of the risk (vs. the traditional externalize risk, internalized profit).
Vicuna-13B: Best Free ChatGPT Alternative According to GPT-4
Included link to youtube video
Show HN: rqlite 7.18.0 – now with Unified HTTP endpoint for reads and writes
These are servers and I reboot them only when necessary. It's a pet peeve, but a big one.
Totally agree.

However, I suspect that individuals are more likely to tolerate delays in hardware acquisition, and also more likely to stick with an RPi due to the ecosystem offering vastly greater levels of support and existing solutions.

(When I struggled to lay my hands on a Pi Zero a while back, I looked for other options, but found various negatives for the potential alternatives.)
Your thinking isn't obsolete, it's more just... incorrect about what Section 230 says and why it exists. You should probably read the TechDirt "You Are Wrong About Section 230" article[0] and get some misconceptions cleared up.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
I'm glad you asked. I work for a non-profit called Ameelio (ameelio.org) that is working on that. We started with free incoming (to the facility) mail (aka letters) and expanded to free video and voice calling, and are currently working on expanding further though I don't want to say exactly what at this point.

To answer your question though, yes entrenched interests and lack of competition. When you are sole provider, no matter how broke people's families are they are going to dig deep. Some states also allow a "kickback" system where the department gets a % of the fees collected by the providers. Fortunately some states have made this illegal and more are starting to now that we've shown how corrupt and gross the incumbent situation is, but there's still a way to go. I will also say that I've been impressed with a lot of people in the departments. Many of them don't like the current system either and they think it's wrong, so they've been really helpful/willing to work with us.

Related past thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042558
They’ve had Siri for years now. Massive amounts of data, ability to deploy at scale, real concerns about privacy.

I’d expect that Siri group had grown substantially recently and is having a lot of fun, building the next generation.
Change your IP? Most ISP change every modem reboot. Others you can call and request a change
For one, there isn't a single "prison service" in the US. There are somewhere between 51 and several thousand prison and jail systems, depending on how you count.

Profit extraction is one reason, and a large one. However, an equally large one is cruelty: these systems are designed to make prisoners suffer, and public accountability runs counter to that goal.
TypeScript 5.1 RC
There is a lot of work out there, the problem is will it put food on your table?
> toggle switch in control panel before restart

Ah yes, let's brick the OS when hardware fails and has to be replaced without advance notice.
As long as they do the best they can to comply with the law they would likely be protected from judgement. Courts do not require unreasonable standards of compliance.

If phone users turn off their GPS location feature Apple can't be held accountable.
I agree completely and totally see why people do it. I am keenly aware of the big spread between trade-in value and what the dealer will turn around and sell it for -- and yet, having sold a vehicle a couple of times, I will probably never do it again. Especially when you consider the risk of getting scammed somehow in the money transferring process, a lot of people will eat the few thousand bucks. I don't know if Carvana will stick around, but definitely see myself going to them or Carmax instead of Craigslist next time I am done with a car.
https://archive.ph/c1bG3
Udemy Agrees to Pay $4M Settlement over Deceptive Pricing Practices
PSA: My own employer (not Apple) restricts the same, and is pushing employees to use an internal Azure GPT3.5 deployment instead.

Unlike OpenAI, we do not disclose to employees that all prompts are logged and forwarded to both the security and analytics teams. Everything is being logged and replicated in plaintext with no oversight.

So be careful about code snippets with embedded creds or asking EmployerGPT really stupid questions about how to do your job. The priests are recording your confessions so you never know how or if they'll get used against you later.
> The system is working as intended.

Wrong. The intentions of the ruling class are not to oppress others but merely to protect their own interests, which is a far more difficult matter to confront.

The fundamental basis of capitalism, being the state's violent protection of the right to accumulate capital, defines the predominant motives of oppression. Members of the ruling class have little choice but to expand their personal power and control, lest they lose it all. This tendency alone results in the private prison industrial complex and erodes citizen rights.
At which point the prison service will be responsible for bugs/unimplemented features/support. Often, simply offloading responsibility is worth a lot bureaucratically even if features would be technically identical.
Info on LTS support (5 years): https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
Then there is the extended LTS, ELTS (10 years): https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended

Not all the Debian packages are covered by this security support, but there's a tool to check your installation (see the LTS wiki).