skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important thing that I feel this article left out was how technological innovation was driven by military endeavors. From antiquity to Europe getting comfortable with gun powder was a very long time. Prior to gun powder, the focus was on siege warfare - how to destroy walled defenses in a timely fashion before supply chains before untenable. With the rise of gunpowder, innovation followed. Alot of industrial success came out of America, and with a giant ocean between itself and any potential invaders, they were able to focus that innovation for industry as opposed to militarily.
I know Charlie Stross reads HN, so I'm going to say that I really enjoyed his book The Annihilation Score, which uses Peel as a plot device.

It's book six or seven in a series, but all the books really stand alone.
Section 5.7 of the same RFC actually lays out the reasoning and security considerations for mandating https.

I'm not sure where "web URI" is defined, but I am pretty sure that a Git URI uses "git://" and Git-via-http is still a "web URI" method.
Yes some people like to buy gold because it seems like it may hold its value to those people. That is not a new concept that crypto invented. People bought Baseball Cards and Bennie Babies long before crypto in the hopes that those items would hold up in value.
That's great, thanks. I've been taking notes for a while on my reading, to try and remember it better (under the idea that if you summarise and write it down, just that process will help you remember it better).

I suppose it's better than nothing, but I've found the same thing, if I don't revisit those notes, I do still forget it.

So I think a more formalised spaced-repetition process like this can help me.
Write tests and/or fix bugs (and write tests to cover them)
I also note "inter-specific" in the first sentence.
FTA

> 1. Europe to plug into desert sunshine
Solar energy harvested in the sunbleached dunes of the Sahara desert is set to power millions of homes in Britain and Europe.

It's not just nice points. It's the entire point of the article.
This is Shunyu, author of Tree oF Thoughts (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601).

The official code to replicate paper results is https://github.com/ysymyth/tree-of-thought-llm

Not https://github.com/kyegomez/tree-of-thoughts which according to many who told me, is not right/good implementation of ToT, and damages the reputation of ToT

I explained the situation here: https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1663946702754021383

I'd appreciate your help by unstaring his and staring mine, as currently Github and Google searches go to his repo by default, and it has been very misleading for many users.
> Show me a causal chain

The article itself says that the theory that Rome fell due to lead poisoning is disputed. In fact they say these then recent findings are contradicting the theory. The exact quote you didn't seem to notice:

"The city's infatuation with lead pipes led to the popular (and disputed) theory that Rome fell due to lead poisoning. Now, a new study reveals that the city's lead plumbing infrastructure was at its biggest and most complicated during the centuries leading up to the empire's peak."

> or this is yet another a puff piece from Ars.

There is something particularly odious about complaining about the lack of intellectual rigour while showing none in the same comment.
This. If you're thinking about distcc, try icecream first, it is much nicer.

> But unlike distcc, Icecream uses a central server that dynamically schedules the compile jobs to the fastest free server.

https://github.com/icecc/icecream
> Everything on the same LAN should generally be treated as "compromised/not compromised" together. There's rarely just a compromise of one machine in the same way there's never just one cockroach.

I would not generalise so quickly.
Is every computer compromised in the internet if one is compromised?

No. It highly depends on the trust between those machines and whether they share similar services with critical vulnerabilities. Only then, they might be compromised together.

But the world has evolved and not everyone anymore bases their total trust and security thinking for "no outside internet connection, we are fine".
We are 100% on board with that and are happy to help anyone who is serious about developing a mainboard.
A machine staying up for almost 3 years is irresponsible in this day and age.

Yeah, I remember people having uptime competitions on Slashdot and the like some decades back, but you only need to look at the ssh logs of a 5 minutes old machine to realize this is a terrible idea in modern times.
Or: fusion reactors are just solar power with extra steps
> I'd like to know if there's a name for that.

Some people call it "Spidey-senses" or "Spidy-senses" after Spider Man, but from your description of the blackout parts reminds me more of how vampire super-speed is portrayed in movies, so a vampire trance maybe?

Sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker but in a benevolent way.
This is one of the more impressive and polished "Show HNs" I've seen recently. The landing page is superb, the tool is impressive and the ease of trying it out with the "Try on this page" is really great.

I think I'm inclined to agree on some of the other comments about pricing. It doesn't sit quite right in comparison to what I pay for other paid tools that I use daily.

I can see myself using something like this, and I don't mind paying for great software, but there is something about the $30/month entry price that just stops me considering it further. Maybe I need to actually use it to understand that it's worth this, but it's not clear enough to me coming to it cold.

One criticism. I clicked on the "Try on this page" to test it out, and after being initially impressed I clicked on "Try it Free" in the menu, assuming this was a link to see what free/trial options were available, but the link didn't do anything. It took several page refreshes and re-clicking this to realise that this was just doubling up the function of the "Try on this page" option and in fact there is no free trial available.

Overall though, seriously impressive work.
From Lukas’s latest tweets, he is using our Display Kit, so at least that spec is the same!
> Is there a different name for that state?

I call it "overdrive" or "NFS-brain" after the racing game series.
A good idea. Your brain has had to time process so I would imagine what you end up writing down is much more valuable and actionable.
In terms of Business, it may not be great but it is not bad either. Switching Fabs is hard. And getting your direct competitor to join is even harder. But they are working on it.

But in terms of technology, rather than their previous IFS which was complete BS and doesn't work. Intel is actually working closer towards TSMC's model in terms of transparency and opening up to others. From that perspective they are going great.
Software Has Eaten the Design and Engineering World, but Why Not Manufacturing?
This makes Network Time Security difficult.

This is a reason you add an RTC to your RPi.
It depends on your use case. Starting with the spec can unblock other implementers, so that they can work with mocks while you build the implementation. And it can help prevent re-work by describing the API first and getting feedback.

Bigger orgs also have style guides for public APIs and you can use various linters/standardization tools to enforce this. Tech writers can work on the API documentation without making changes in your code. There are tools that can tell you if your spec changes would cause breaking changes to API clients, such as adding a required query parameter.

You might not need these things on your project, but for some users it makes sense to write the spec first.
25+ years ago, our company used Clearcase for version control and it's clearmake had distributed build capability. Clearcase used a multi version file system (MVFS) and had build auditing so clearmake knew exactly what versions of source files were used in each build step. It could distribute build requests to any machine that could render the same "view" of the FS.

Even without distributed builds, clearmake could re-use .o files built by other people if the input dependencies were identical. On a large multi-person project this meant that you would typically only need to build a very small percentage of the code base and the rest would be "winked in".

If you wanted to force a full build, you could farm it out across a dozen machines and get circa 10x speedup.

Clearcase lost the edge with the arrival of cheaper disk and multi-core CPUs. I'd say set the gold standard for version control and dependency tracking and nothing today comes close to it.
My reading is that people are suggesting that the copyright law be reviewed and changed, not that lawmakers are suggesting that they will change it. Lots of people are suggesting that the US and other western countries change the law as well, but we have yet to see much come from it.

The general message seems to be that 'Under current laws Japan's government can't enforce copyright on training data', and I don't believe the line you're quoting changes that message in any significant way at current.
Why? They obviously need new expertise.

Bricklayers don't avoid un-built houses.
Maybe the Thinkpad x13s then (Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3)?
Yes, we might use AI to accelerate things here and there, for example anomaly detection, but the core and base of the software will remain traditional.
Reviewers are already overloaded with reviewing all kinds of papers and aren't paid for it. To increase their workload is an absolute worst outcome.
Seems like a vector for phishing / social engineering and scammers / advertisers
If you're looking to save a few dollars check out WikiJS as a confluence replacement (can import too), pretty, easier, works with OAuth out of the box, and you can self host on pretty much any instance.

Also, figma has figjams which is similar to Miro for many use cases.
Air gapped machines and kernel live patching both exist.
There's so many causes:

- Average tenure in a dev job being so short means it is detrimental to optimize for the long term.

- Promotion policies in most companies are heavily balanced towards "shipping more" rather than towards "shipping better". Even in companies without formal policies around this, "more" is way more visible than "better". Even more so if you get to be the hero firefighter who rescues the site from downtime, nevermind that it was your code that set the place on fire in the first place.

- Software as an industry has very low capital requirements, which makes it easy to get into. However, that also means competitors can spring up very quickly and many companies respond by constantly churning out features to stay ahead of the competition.

- It is IMO way easier to teach yourself programming with a dynamic language rather than with a statically typed one. Interpreters are certainly not exclusive to dynamically typed languages, but they are definitely more prevalent. With so many devs being autodidacts, it's not a surprise that many of them default to dynamic languages.
Henry Kissinger’s real triumph is as a businessman, not as a diplomat
Cause where would be we without them
Interesting implication that the field can contain a non-web URI. I just imagine seeing a `file://` URI and the application procedure is to somehow get your CV onto their server.
Kernel bugs are rare. Most (almost every single) vulnerability can be patched without rebooting.
Fair enough. Charging for 1 hour and then being able to use the laptop for a couple of days still would be amazing.
The worst thing is that AMD….. a distant second place…. seems completely uninterested in competing or winning against Nvidia.

Nvidia has given AMD the biggest possible opportunity by charging insane prices and lately, with making garbage GPUs (4060/4070).

AMD could rip Nvidia to shreds by taking this chance to price low and deliver powerful GPUs. Instead they seem content just to overcharge same as nvidia and make the same garbage cards as Nvidia.

AMD has the technology… the 7900 XTX rasterisation performance is not far behind the nvidia rtx 4090.

It’s weird. Maybe Lisa Su isn’t the right CEO for AMD.

So we’re left to wait and hope that one day Intel will work out how to make a fast GPU.
Except this is bs because modern jit outperforms C and C++ compiled code in some cases. Dynamic types mean the constraints are known later. It doesn’t mean they’re never known. And when they’re known you can partially reduce.
The world will add a record 440GW of new renewable capacity this year
It makes much more sense to just repurpose container ships - of which there is a glut I think.

What we should be transporting (ships, trains, trucks) is standard modular power units. Perhaps the glut of shipping containers could be repurposed to manufacture large standard modular power units.
The killer feature here would be hooking this up to Netlify/Vercel etc. and having a 2-way-write. Every time you update something in the CSSPro editor, your codebase is actually updated and the site is rebuilt in the background. This would let you essentially design in the browser and avoid the tedious copy/paste, rebuild, reload cycle.
That was my thought too, seeing open source and altium in the same submission is just jarring.

This is the second time I've seen an altium post here in about a week, I wonder if they've hired an intern to do "community outreach"? I can't see it working with their lack of "hobbyist" support tbh.
Doesn't both nuclear (fission) and fusion mainly generate heat that is used to make steam to spin a turbine? I'd say solar skips a few steps rather than adding extras
Can you not use gaslight in place of dishonest? I know it's popular, but the behavior really needs it's own word. Also, nothing about a corp stretching the truth is hard to understand for people, I hope.
It seems a C6 state is an individual core sleeping. The intersection of people who don't reboot for 3 years and people who have sleep states enabled must be pretty small. It's an interesting bug though!
When I worked at a big well known tech company their prod environment of 100,000 or so servers didn't have access to the internet.
Bookmarked this post.
I don't think RARBG ever had ads, and they always filtered out anything malicious or low quality. Your description applies generally, but is the complete opposite of what RARBG was.
Why are we using the term “feature phone” to describe phones that have unusually few features?
Tree of Thoughts: Official vs. Wrong Implementation
This is Shunyu, author of Tree oF Thoughts (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601).

The official code to replicate paper results is https://github.com/ysymyth/tree-of-thought-llm

Not https://github.com/kyegomez/tree-of-thoughts which according to many who told me, is not right/good implementation of ToT, cannot replicate paper results, and damages the reputation of ToT

I explained the situation here: https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1663946702754021383

I'd appreciate your help by unstaring his and staring mine, as currently Github and Google searches go to his repo by default, and it has been very misleading for many users. Thanks!
Eh fair enough, but that's debating definitions which is not usually all that interesting. Seems like word choice aside we agree.
So, it's Rundeck with a nicer user interface?

Rundeck is Open Source and self-hostable, whereas this appears to be a proprietary hosted solution, which is prickly given that this tool will theoretically have administrator privileges on lots of stuff it automates.

I've successfully trained non-technical users to do simple tasks on Rundeck, I don't think that's a big issue.

Edit: And less functionality, it seems. No bash scripting or Ansible? Rundeck has a wealth of plugins[1] already, Onu will have to do some serious catchup. As it stands, I'll need to write more custom application code & glue for these Onu tasks than I would otherwise.

The UI does look friendly though, and I've found that it's harder to get businesspeople to use something that doesn't look "modern" like this does. Perhaps Rundeck needs a CSS pack?

[1]: https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/plugins/
Fossil fuels are just Solar with extra steps.
I had the same experience.

But I'm also much older now. I wondered if the community changed, or if I was the one that changed and can't appreciate it for what it is anymore. Maybe both I and the community changed in different directions.

I probably will never have an answer. But I still remember the old times there fondly.

In a sense, 4chan in the mid-2000's was probably my final experience with the old web, in a time before walled gardens, before social media trying to lock everyone in and tracking the shit out of everything to shove ads down the collective throat. A place still not neutered by contemporary political correctness and value systems. Full of extremely smart people and extremely dumb people in equal measure. It was maybe the ultimate form of the prior iteration of internet forums and irc chat rooms.

Nothing lasts forever, entropy dictates that on a long enough timeline all things become shit. Oh well.
Or maybe she knows something that we do not. Such as AMDs yield and their ability to scale up. It's quite possible that AMD isn't able to price low and go for volume because that's not the market they are tooled up for.
You don't need full system resets to get security updates. Kexec, live patching, userspace reboot.
One of the problems of RarBG was that they were dealing with real data. Today to get a popular file from bit-torrent network all one needs is a hash (AKA magnet) - DHT and other distributed announcement protocols will take care of everything else. But the moment you gotta deal with real content - you are in a big trouble both legaly and technically: todays 4K media can take up to ten gigabyte per hour of screen time. No wonder RarBG suffered that much.
At 2W per core, even 128 Core would be 256W + I/O equals 300+W. Not entirely sure why they went with 192. They really should have optimise for 64 to 128 Core design.
Well they have to follow the current law right? Can't enforce copyright on something that doesn't apply, so currently saying they won't enforce copyright is an accurate statement.

I don't think it will hold up in the long term though and the Copyright Act will get changed but right now it doesn't apply to training models.
The reason there will always be ads: average consumers are never willing to pay as much to keep their eyes clean as others are willing to pay to dirty them.
> ADHD is not a disease, and does not need to be cured. Neither is autism. Both can be a great asset too.

That is an actively harmful statement. It is akin to saying losing a leg is not a disease and can be a great asset. ADHD is executive function disorder where person is unable to manage time and memory which is required for basic living. It may also come with issues in emotional regulation and other problems.

It is NEVER an asset. People maybe able to manage it and succeed despite having it never because of it.

You-problem becomes me-problem if you want to keep job/friends/partner or simply you want to keep track of the keys and turn off the gas.
I recently had the pleasure of undertaking a course with The Knowledge Academy, and I must say that their support and guidance exceeded all my expectations. From the moment I enrolled until the completion of my training, their dedication to ensuring a seamless learning experience was evident in every interaction.
I like to run client code in a VM and my nuclear reactions several light minutes away. It's just basic hygiene...
Wouldn't be the perception of things being easier/ performance improvement just another effect of having your brain soaked in chemicals?

I have been in life and death situations, once dragged by strong currents deep into the sea while swimming alone. I also moutain bike.

For me both states of mind are very different.

When doing sports there's definitely adrenaline but there is also a lot of confidence in what you are doing coming from knowledge, experience and having the right gear.

When I was trying to swim back to my campsite it was pure adrenaline without any experience or knowledge on how to swim in those conditions.

And the possibility of death was so intense and real that I entered a mode where I became my own guide, repeating myself to stay calm, save energy and try to swim sideways to get out of the area with the rip currents (that was totally made up, but maybe worked).

I ended up getting out of the water a mile from my campsite.

There's no mountain I could hit today that could match that experience.
> I'm fine with prod approvals but not for blow-by-blow changes

I'm at banking and we use containers heavily, they are not just for scaling but also for ease of deployment. We still need approvals for changes in production, but the main reason for being strict with them is legal and less beurceatric.

What did you mean by blow-by-blow?
Lower Your Guards: A Compositional Pattern-Match Coverage Checker [pdf]
Came across this through this tweet, impressive: https://twitter.com/innf107/status/1663922920370913283?s=52
That is one way to show your commitment to “encourage career growth” I guess?

Assuming someone who works at the company would have easier access to someone who has access to the server in question…
I dont understand opinons like this

Just because it would be dangerous for your nodejs web_app.exe running on ubuntu behind apache fully exposed on the internet

then there are billion other ways to use computers, like even air gapped systems.

So, dont try to justify obvious flaw
The point I was mentioning in section 7b is this

> Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices

Given that this didn't appear. I felt it was OK.

> One _can_ fork a AGPLv3 project, but one needs to adhere to the terms.

We had already forked and had kept all the copyrights statements intact. We still ended up having to rewrite...
This is mostly for the visual types. Designers tend to have an inner picture they want to see/create, so they know what to create.
Nice move of goalposts from "better than ever" to "pre-war", that is, Covid-riddled era with low demand.

The hard facts are that federal revenue is down -22% while expenditure is up +26% and Russia is running a 30% deficit.
You’re saying maybe they can’t make enough cards to compete because their tech capabilities are below par?
Interesting but I would rather see quick start python vice than a YouTube video.
SQL: 2023 Is Out
Any language where you don’t know the syntax looks weird at first. There are 6 types of commands with 20 commands in total. Half of those use document based coordinate system and the other half are relative to the previous command.