skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It communicates to new users that this is a currently maintained project, that it has modern features that they expect, that it works on the latest operating system that they might have installed, etc.

It's obviously important for a commercial project, but even for an open source non-profit it's important, because you want to have an active base of contributors and if you aren't getting new ones they'll slowly diminish over time.
This is hilariously cherry-picked. THAAD is extremely expensive if that's the case. Wikipedia says you can get a Patriot for just $4M. Also SLBM's as actually deployed aren't using maximum MIRV counts, both for treaty and role reasons. Wikipedia says 4 RV's on average for Trident, FWIW. But the big whopper is that you're forgetting to account for the $4B SUBMARINE (just $200M per missile though) required to deploy those missiles in their cost!

Good job though. Honestly the numbers are closer than I'd have expected. But ICBMs remain more expensive.
I was self-taught in both terms of computer science when programming books were the staples and DIY computers when they came in beige boxes. I would trek to a Computer Literacy Bookshop north of downtown San Jose to acquire DOS and interrupt call reference manuals. College prep over-achiever high school but avoided the heard intent on swarming Boston, Berkeley, and Palo Alto. Instead, did UC Davis where there was UNIX flavors and Linux. Was CS before transferring to CS&E (EE/CS equivalent). The intro networking course 3rd project was to write a forking caching forward HTTP/0.9 proxy. There was little-to-no grade inflation and it was sink or swim because they were itching to compete with Ivys and PacNN on fundamentals of rigorous undergrad program and vying for interesting research, especially in computer graphics and infosec.

Prior to this, I had a high school job as an assistant manager at a retail software store before going into sysadmin consulting.

Engineering systems thinking and discipline comes from practice and experience of doing difficult things. Brand Name degrees have a bad rep now in a post-Theranos world where there's the easy ramp to capital and support based on pedigree tick boxes, which doesn't necessarily translate into hack and hustle. There's another phenomenon where people who come from well-off backgrounds are often under pressure to go well beyond ordinary expectations of education and job performance to avoid the perception of riding pedigree and upbringing.

I look for engineers who mildly obsess over correctness, remove tech debt and net LoC, weigh the tradeoffs with discretion, express continuous curiosity, and bonus points if they're partially extroverted and easy-going. I've worked with engineers in title who fell into their positions via a transition from IT roles, but sometimes engineering ingenuity and curiosity are missing and that's a bit disappointing.
AMD/ATI has always been terrible at drivers/software for their GPUs going back decades.

It’s really as simple as that and it still hasn’t changed so nvidia is dominating them in AI as a result.
This looks like a case "straw manning" the original argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Senoir/Lead Engineer, possibly transitioning to be a residential remodeler and small construction projects. I just enjoy it more than writing software now.
They stopped letting you add funds on the Vita so you have to do it on the web or another device. I don't think the PS4 store has Vita Games, the PS3 did but it actually supported transfering to and from the Vita whereas the PS4 never did. So you still need to make purchases on the Vita itself (or I guess a PS3).

I had all my Vita games on my PS3 so I could transfer them rather than slowly redownload them on it itself but Sony BROKE that functionality when they forced two factor authentication. The worst bit is they couldn't even be bothered to offer a sensible error message like "this feature isn't supported anymore" you just get some cryptic error number.

I loved the Vita but I'm never giving Sony money for a handheld again.
Great article.

I wouldn't say I'm great, but a lot of my cooking doesn't follow any recipe very closely. I'm dead certain that when some recipe says "1/2 tsp of pepper" the chef who wrote it never measured it until asked to write it down. Then he or she tried it once or twice just to check that it really worked with 1/2 tsp. Then went back to just throwing some in.

I think it's actually more fun that the food isn't the same each time. Maybe in a restaurant people really expect it to be, but at home? Nah. It's a human activity.
I've experienced that DO servers sometimes get blocked from speaking to the DO API (because they are running Cloudflare!).

It's hilarious to me that DO doesn't trust DO servers (and their customers).
Why Is This Propeller Getting So Much Attention?
Gotta have money to start to keep taking risks
Yes, complete spinal cord injuries (think 'total cut') are pretty rare compared to incomplete injuries (think 'crush')
[1] https://www.nscisc.uab.edu/Public/Facts%20and%20Figures%2020...
I think 'its own games' is the problem. It would require a lot of investment to be able to support it. Which is what they didn't do with the Vita. The competitors like the Switch and Steam Deck deck don't split the game library they have to support into two separate libraries.

The dedicated handheld market is just another of the devices replaced by smartphones. The Vita and 3DS generation combined sold about half as many as the Nintendo DS alone. So an investment into those games may not get a return.
The iCalendar-standard (RFC-5545). CalDav supports VEVENT, VTODO and VJOURNAL (journal and note entries). Personally I use the jtxboard Android app and use DavX5 to sync to my Nextcloud server.
Why do I use this? It's reliable and syncs well. All my contacts, calendars etc have been synced with CalDav for years reliably and easily without needing a proprietary solution like ms outlook.
Your story reminds me of this segment from Mr. Wizard that I saw as a child. This kid eats an apple while doing a hand stand, and I remember being amazed by it.

https://youtu.be/bC6jJnVe1LI?t=1072
(starting at 17:52)
I feel like that just makes it worse (though I didn't know about the DA's office messing up the paperwork).

Let's assume that understaffing and additional work required to close cases are the main causes for the low clearance rates. Monitoring a legal protest in case crimes are committed seems profoundly wasteful, compared to working to resolve crimes that actually happened.

I don't envy SFPD. Trying to reduce crime in SF seems like a huge challenge that they are poorly equipped to solve, for many reasons. But the original comment in this thread is trying to justify surveillance here as preventing possible property crimes, and that just makes no sense to me.
From Pages to Polygon, the Storytelling of Metro (2019)
There's no ICBM by the time any realistic interception scenario takes place. There's a slightly diverging cloud of warheads, chaff, jammers, light (inflatable metallized film) and heavy (small thingies that produce plasma in the higher atmosphere) decoys. The interception of a single target is hard because of what you said, the interception of any realistic salvo is impossible due to the sheer volume of incoming stuff.
What about a ransomware, phishing or data breach victim? Cybercrimes are often committed by organised criminals and investigating them seems like the most obvious reason for the DOJ to issue a subpoena to PyPI.
I just had the same discussion with a friend, I'm pretty curious about this
It's not exactly that, the GP isn't claiming something the parent didn't say, they're just treating the example as the whole point. They act as if attacking the example invalidates the whole argument, when the point clearly stands and it's trivial to just find a better example.
If I’m reading Wikipedia [1] correctly, a program that does an AND of 32 booleans when obfuscated is 32 GiB. No indication of runtime overhead but something tells me it’s a large constant overhead (if I skimmed the paper correctly, the complexity class must be the same).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indistinguishability_obfuscati...
Software is "done" when it is retried.
Could it be possible to illustrate with an example just for clarity? How does this compare to, say, the Netherlands? For example what are things that are possible in the United States that are not possible in the Netherlands? I would assume there are things that are not legal but not penalised in the latter but under certain conditions would be addressed and penalised and there's no way around it, but would like to know of an example just to make it super clear for me. Thanks!
what does he mean by "tape out" chips?
The only reasonable solution is to keep migrating and checking the data on various media; but this is expensive and often deemed not worth it.
I have spent weeks of my life trying to get windows packaging to work. Twice with APPX, twice with MSIX. Mostly with greenfield C# apps, sometimes with existing WPF apps. Every year I think: surely it'll work now, they just published another blog post touting the new features? No. Every time I run into something that's not documented how to be done, something that's not implemented, or something that's broken, often with a detailed bug report that nobody at Microsoft has bothered responding to (e.g. [0] one of many).

Windows is in maintenance mode. Nothing new and substantial they create will ever get to a working state, they just don't have the resources. I have given up.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/8141
Is world of goo a kids game? I mean, it's appropriate for kids, but it doesn't seem to target them particularly. This adult enjoys it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out
Ironically, this comment is better written than nearly all others under this post. I take LLMs to be net positive contributors to literary expression.
I always saw Minix3 was as a companion to the "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 3/e by Andrew S" book which was in 2006. Probably you were only ever going to run it in a virtual machine. More of an "educational" kernel.
An important aspect here is the fact that subpoenaes only share information one way. You are asked to provide information, and you get zero information about why. There is a simpler way to get information: Contact the person you want information from and make the case that they should give you the information. Using a subpoenae seems like something a government would do when they're doing something shady and don't want you to know about it.
Looks like constructive but my math knowledge is probably equivalent to a freshman’s at best.
The flaw with broken windows theory was that it was used to justify excessive and abusive police actions. Cleaning up trash, turning vacant lots into parks and pleasant spaces, keeping public areas well maintained, and generally making it look like people give a shit about where they live really does make a huge difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ02VLZ_Ey0
The end goal is getting acquired by AMD of course.
Microsoft announces new customer identity offering – Entra External ID
Thanks for that, it seems like a surprisingly modern format for such an old game.

Links for the games referenced:

- Frogger II: ThreeeDeep! (1984)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/7265/frogger-ii-threeedeep/

- Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (2000) [1]

https://www.mobygames.com/game/2492/frogger-2-swampys-reveng...

- Frogger 2 (2008) [2]

https://www.mobygames.com/game/47641/frogger-2/
Possibly safer for people's rights, though.
Industry term for a chip design being sent to manufacturing/being produced.
I find a couple things a month on HBO Max that keep me on the service anyway. I find it hard not to have Disney+ by comparison... pretty much can't get hulu, verizon or half a dozen other things I use(d) without Disney+, wonder how much they're cheating on their subscriber counts or how much they're actually making.
It seems much more likely that some typosquatter managed to compromise the security of government sites by uploading malware, and Uncle Sam wants to catch the culprit.
Tim Dettmers is such a star. He's probably done more to make low-resource LLMs usable than anyone else.

First bitsandbytes[1] and now this.

[1] https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes
It is not efficient enough that you need to worry about exciting developments using this scheme. But it’s a step towards more reasonable mathematical assumptions than previous constructions, assumptions that may actually be true. Give it a few more years and we might be able to use this stuff.
I'm having trouble understanding this comment. You seem to be grasping at one of the central points the author is raising, but you've phrased your comment as if what you've said is in opposition. Nature doesn't care about divisions, but our ways of communicating and sharing scientific knowledge are shaped by them - often to our detriment.
I'm aware of Headscale and Tailscale's stance on open source. I just don't trust it that it's not phoning home or leaking data. In general, I prefer avoiding complex tools in this space. Zerotier, etc.

Besides, Wireguard alone already does all I need from a mesh VPN. The UX could be a bit better, but I wouldn't trade ease of use for the peace of mind that my VPN traffic is secure.
Wireguard to this day does not handle IPv6 correctly. When connecting to a domain with A and AAAA records it stupidly prefers the A one.

Which works horribly on 464xlat providers, as now you're routing your VPN traffic over a IPv6->IPv4 proxy. While that's fine for outgoing stuff it breaks all incoming stuff as soon as you put your phone to sleep, as nothing can send stuff your way anymore.
Cannibal Water, Part 2
Ever is a long time! In 50 years when travel via rocket between cities on Earth is common, why wouldn't airports build rocket pads for it? When you can fly New York to Singapore in less than an hour, JFK isn't going to just give up that market, they're going to want to capture some of that money.
AMD has been tackling exactly the wrong problems. They poured their money into a porting solution for developers to take CUDA code and run it on their GPUs. I guess they didn't find it worth it to really compete. I doubt it's about being able to tackle this problem with $5m, but rather convincing the company they can win.
> "Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises," the statement reads.

This a pretty specific conclusion. I wonder what indicated this.

Edit: a lot more details in the Microsoft article: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/24/vol...
Nobody is suggesting that the Earth itself is under threat. The biosphere will survive but humans, especially those in poorer regions, stand to suffer greatly, and many consider it a moral imperative to mitigate that suffering. The best way to do that would seem to be avoiding the most rapid and dramatic climatic changes in order to give people and ecosystems time to adapt.
I'd like to put $5 on "ransomeware threat actors"
Yes, sure, that wasn't lost on me - but that's not screaming "chat bubble". ;P
https://twitter.com/SendGridSupport/status/16615194199089725...

> Ahoy there! We're experiencing a period of maintenance for the SendGrid website (see http://status.sendgrid.com). You can subscribe to status updates which will let you know when the maintenance is complete and you may login.

As far as I can tell, no email heads up was sent out.
For me, reducing cycle time really helps. There's a window where if the build takes longer than X, I'm going to get tired of waiting and look for something else to do, and there goes the focus.

Otherwise, avoid outside intrusions if possible. Turn off, at least temporarily, notifications for things that can wait. Wear headphones to avoid sounds from around you, etc.
Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines
Realtime CNN digit recognizer in Shadertoy
Fun to draw digits with the mouse and see all layers of the CNN computed as draw.
In the case of individual files with non-conformant or corrupted elements it seems fairly straightforward project to build an AI model that can fix up broken files with a single click. I suspect such a thing will be widely-accessible in 10 years.
How do users who can't find an answer get an answer from support?
The open secret about status pages is that they intentionally or unintentionally become marketing artifacts. It's very much beneficial to keep it running on the same system it's monitoring, as this automatically ensures the page is always either green or unreachable. Anything else would be bad press.
>jurors should simply judge on the evidence presented in court

I don't know if humans are able to ignore evidence they have heard outside of court. We are not good at only including one set of information when making judgements.
A Survey of Software Fault Localization [pdf]
Trash title.

> established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures
Reprompting: Automated Chain-of-Thought Prompt Inference Through Gibbs Sampling
Well, we know they're ML classifiers and they're not making syscalls. So there's obviously a limit to "we don't know what they do".
DeSantis’ launch marred by horrendous Twitter tech failures
I'm glad people are talking about this. Minix has so much potential, and it needs a community. It also has a very specific area of need, it's not like you would install it on a desktop and I doubt you can get it running with a purpose in AWS.
Hey, desktop apps that embed JavaScript engines would also love to get an option 5 orders of magnitude less memory intensive :)

Even ES5 (the rest can be polyfilled).
There's no data for that 90% claim.
Those drives will all be encrypted and most likely shredded.
This is why I don't use the google play store at all. Every app on my android phone other than a few built-ins is from f-droid.org.
The Emotional Lives of Scientists
This is off-topic, but are there any communities or congregations (that aren't reddit) based around locally hosted LLMs? I'm asking because while I see a bunch of projects for exposing GGML/LLaMA to OpenAI compatible interfaces, some UIs, etc, I can't really find a good community or resources for the concept in general.

I'm working on a front-end for LLMs in general, having re-implemented a working version of OpenAI's code interpreter "plugin" already within the UI (and yes, I support file uploads), and support for the wealth of third-party OpenAI plugins that don't require auth (I've been testing with the first diagram plugin I found, it works well.) I'm planning to open source it once my breaking changes slow down.

This field moves very fast, I'm looking for feedback (and essentially testers/testing data) on what people want, and looking for prompts/chat logs/guidance templates (https://github.com/microsoft/guidance) for tasks they expect to "just work" with natural language.

Instead of being limited by the monetization for ChatGPT Plus (and limited number of messages every four hours) for extensibility within a chat interface, I want to open it and free it, with a Bring-Your-Own-(optionally local)-LLM/API key setup.
Not gonna go hunt for the link right now, but I think Minix 3 was intended to be more industrially applicable than it's predecessors: there's a talk somewhere where Tanenbaum talked about the need for a more fault tolerant kernel in all sorts of applications, and I think he got a grant from some European institution for that purpose.
I've known a lot of people who did DDoS and it's honestly like speeding. Chances are that everyone is already doing it so you're not going to get caught, unless you decide to go 140 mph in a 55 mph zone or DDoS Chase bank.

DDoSing your own university and then disclosing publicly it is like going 140 mph in a 55 mph zone though.
People deploy personal experience like a trump card, especially like issues on this. An urban friend and I laugh about the ultimate trump card people try to play - human feces, a blatent attempt to arouse maximal emotions of disgust, and bypass any rationality (how do you know it's human? How closely did you examine it :D ? Did you take it home at test it?). Again, never seen it myself - as far as I know!.

Right? It's rude to question someone's personal experience; that's what makes it such an awesome trump card. But I'm also not going to stand quietly any more and let the disinformation BS pass. I don't know your experience. I know cities, and it's very hard to believe most of these reports on HN are true.

> police brutality, racism or sexism

A great signal of this stuff, the equivalency facade. Those things are the powerful abusing the vulnerable, a serious concern that oppresses and kills people. The vulnerable discomfitting the powerful - with human feces! - y'know, suck it up buttercup. Not a crisis.

> you may have intuitions about where and when to go or not to go, and how to act to discourage troublemakers from approaching.

Actually, my well-developed intuition is that you can go anywhere, talk to anyone, and you'll be fine. People live in these neighborhoods their whole lives are 99% are fine. I mean, read the room a little - whatever neighborhood you're in, if someone looks like they are upset or busy, don't be some rude idiot. Just be a human being. Don't look tense and people won't be afraid of you and react badly. Act nervous and they'll be nervous.

> You may just look not as the type to mess with.

Actually, people talk to me all the time. It's just people.
My point is really well established. Many real currencies, some failed. Many cryptocurrencies, most failed. The "snark" appears to be required to actually drive the point home. I don't care if you want to argue your point.
Yes, the Ally brings some nice features to the table - the Z1 APU being the centrepiece (although it didn’t seem to impress Digital Foundry as much as the on-paper specs suggested it might). 120hz VRR display and an excellent and near-silent cooling system are other standouts.

For the cons: very short battery life, poor back paddle placement, some questions around QC on the face buttons. And the big one: as Windows has no gamepad-native interface, you’re stuck with Asus’ Armory Crate front-end which seems to be half-baked at best. I don’t think it’s the work of a moment to fix that kind of thing.

Asus has done a pretty good job of tarnishing its reputation of late. I’d feel like I never knew how long they were going to support it and what would happen if it needed repairs. Subjective, but I reckon it looks terrible, too.

I think my next handheld will again be from Valve.
This reminded me the idea of compilers bootstrapping (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714194). That is, now you can code in SectorC some slightly more advanced version of C capable of compiling TCC (https://bellard.org/tcc/), and then with TCC you can go forward to GCC and so on.
https://mynintendonews.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-leaks-mention-n...

They're going to the trouble of developing NVN2 for their next system, it doesn't sound like they're doubling down on Vulkan.
I switched to Joplin a few years ago, and it was able to import my notes from Evernote.

My existing Fastmail account gives me WebDAV file storage, and Joplin can use that as a sync backend. End-to-end encrypted.

There are clients for macOS and Android. Neither of which are as relentlessly buggy as text editing with Evernote. Web Clipper browser extension. All open source.

I've had zero regrets about switching away from Evernote.