skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hardware manufacturers in the 90s were incentivized to support Linux to expand their customer base.

That is not an accurate description of linux support by hardware manufactures from that time period.

> Unsupported hardware in the 90s typically had a much larger customer base and group of hackers willing to spend time adding supporting for it.

I also don't think this is generally correct. Have you looked at all the random drivers in the linux kernel for niche hardware. A ton of that is from one or two hobbyists taking the time to add support.

> Apple can decide at any point to make their hardware much more difficult to support. Newer models or firmware updates might break things. Being at the whims of a corporation that is the antithesis of F/LOSS to run Linux on their hardware doesn't inspire confidence.

I guess, but so what? Apple can't break the hardware they are already shipping if you are just running linux on it. Its true, I might not buy a theoretical future laptop from Apple if I can't run linux on it, but I don't see how that would affect my purchasing decision for hardware that is currently available.

> The willpower, patience and skills required to wade through the absolute mountain of issues must be astronomical. Yet this is also part of my concern; how long can a developer keep the motivation and sanity to swim against the current?

Hmm, maybe you've not worked on projects like this, or are motivated by different things. To me, reverse engineering a thing to figure out how it works and then writing software to get it to do things the original designers hadn't planned for is one of the more satisfying and fun activities of being a software engineer. I suspect the asahi team is having fun doing a lot of this work. (That's not to say its all fun. It sounds like getting things upstreamed has been trying. I also think having to read giant comment threads where people are needlessly negative about their work might be a bit demoralizing.)

> It's great that Asahi works for you and everyone else. I'm just pointing out why it will likely never be my choice for any serious work.

You should obviously run whatever works for you.
> First-hand observation

Well no, it is not. If you spot an UFO, chances are your "first-hand observation" is lying to you.
> Isn't this just EPR w/ X-Ray photons?

From a quick read: I don't think so. There's no magnetic field, and the collected electron can be from a pair (ie both spins in one orbital)

I think it is better described as exotic STM: In normal STM, you put a bias on the tip relative to the material, and then put the tip close enough to the material so that a valence (or free) electron tunnels across the vacuum.

In this work, it appears they put the tip close to the atom and then whack one of the inner electrons with an x-ray photon, which is then collected by the tip. [I don't understand how they engineer the fields so that the scattered electron is collected by the tip, but I'm assuming the atom to be measured is somehow connected electrically to create a bias between the sample and tip. If anyone has access to the paper, don't keep it a secret.]

Corrections welcome, I'm curious myself how this works.
But not until eating cows, pigs, and chicken gets banned too. So it'll be a while.
> That said, Apple has been very hostile to hackers over the years imo. Hardware being hard to repair, access, upgrade, etc. I think at one point they were making it virtually impossible to replace components because they were serial locked.

That came partially out of the desire to reduce the lure for thieves and robbers. It was really bad during the first generations that regularly had jailbreaks and ways to bypass "Find My..." or whatever, then the first tightening reduced resale values of stolen iPhones by a good amount (as they were only good enough to slaughter for parts once reported stolen), and the latest round made it even worse for criminals.

Personally though, I'd preferred they simply provided "unlock codes" with a phone that could be used to remove the association between a part's SN and the IMEI/SN of the phone. That way, buyers of iPhone have something similar to a certificate of authenticity.
Slaves were cheaper than the early steam engines. As such even if you built a steam engine (I think historians have documented primitive ones that did work - but they were small, very low power, and inefficient) it wasn't clear that the effort to develop it into something better is worth the cost.
Are programming socks actually a popular fashion in progrmming? I'm not sure i have ever seen anyone wear them in real life.

Edit: i didn't realize this was a term for anime-ish knee high socks. Regardless i think my point still stands.
Why we love stories about messy rich people
Thanks for this, I really appreciate the real data and perspective
Animals are pretty brutal as well. My neighbor has free range chickens. The other morning, I woke up and looked out in my backyard, and there were 7 dead chickens strewn about my property. They were all over the place, it was a mess.

So, I checked my cam for the next couple nights, and found a fox strolling across the property with a chicken in its mouth. I figured they'd eat one, but nope... 7. And he's been back for more since.
All the domains I am aware of are working https://archive.ph https://archive.is https://archive.md https://archive.today well the homepages at least
These are just the steel frame.
You don’t need to downplay tech just because you don’t like it.

LLM can already remove huge chunk of boilerplate or useless search. An actual AI would be on a completely different level.
In practice there are lots of ways to stream for free to a small audience, and that is a good thing. I just don't think the idea of paying for bandwidth would be much of a barrier.
> Right now this is just a portable, private screen

That "just" is doing a lot of work there except I think it's WFH and on a Netflix binge.
Definitely don't quantize to 4-bit at this param count, if that's what you're doing. The redpajama.cpp repo is a bit crazy for making that the default.

I'd say at this size don't count on accuracy. Think: fancy auto-complete, simple NLP task-doer, or a base for fine-tuning a task specific model. IME RedPJ-3B was too small to do anything at all other than ramble. The novel contribution of this model here being you can use this at work, and it has a GGML implementation unlike Falcon and MPT (last I checked) - meaning CPU-based inference on the cloud VM you use at work, maybe.
> How's TD Ameritrade protecting me from losing money?

https://www.tdameritrade.com/regulation-best-interest-and-fo...
https://archive.ph/mqxfT
hahaha, man, I need a new keyboard. Yes. Humane. I'm not demanding a human sacrifice. I'm just going to leave the typo up for posterity, hopefully more folks get a kick out of it.
Humans aren't being boiled in their natural environment, yet our temperature senses react to it. Why do you suspect lobsters to work fundamentally differently? They are exposed to different temperatures in their natural habitat, just as we are.
Don't use "-tris" in the name. That's something they've gone after a lot in the past. Shame you already bought the domain...

If the game name doesn't sound too close to Tetris and doesn't contain the music (really, trademarked a folk song? gross), this game will be fine and legal, whether your remake or the original.
You can still do so with VMs, officially endorsed. But Bootcamp is RIP. Asahi Linux is not a VM, so not a fair comparison.
Lots of nice improvements.
This is some Vizzini (The Princess Bride) grade logic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
So clicking a registration button and filling out username and password is too challenging for you? How on earth did you manage to set up an email account, lot alone register on here?
> You can eat non-sentient beings that are alive (like plants) and they won't suffer.

Define suffer?
Facebook is doing this. Their website is not only lacking features but it's also glitchy to the point of being dysfunctional. The scrolling jumps multiple posts at a time with no user input, posts missing like/comment buttons, CSS messed up where some posts are cut in half. I'll delete my account before installing their Spyware app though.

Firefox on Android with no extensions.
I doubt it's the devs. It was likely a change of product manager (or something similar) and the desire to impose their vision on things.
> The problem is, of course, you have no idea if that dose is what caused the change.

No, there's no problem. It doesn't change the fact that the dose is when it happened.
Firefox's Devtools uses React and it doesn't use JSX. Example: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/aec3a901e6f6b3041b...

Their reasoning: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools/frontend/re...
what are you doing :( don't kill the whataboutism in less than 5 minutes
> "eyestalk ablation"

i didnt need to read that
I hate to break it to you but most prey are eaten alive. I’m not advocating for it in the least, but it’s the reality.

I don’t know what is worse, living a somewhat free life in the Savannah and then one day being cruelly and viciously eaten alive by a predator or to live your life on a farm in a small pen with no freedom and then blinking out of existence at the hands of a sledgehammer to the head.
I just know a take from a16z is going to be worthless. Then I read it to confirm.
Dumb questions ...

- Am I wrong in understanding this is a general purpose computer (with massive graphic capabilities)?

- And if so, what CPU is it using (an NVIDIA ARM CPU)?

- And what OS does it run?
One simply needs to think more laterally about the dog.
Without power users Reddit dies and something more useful will take its place eventually. The internet is still full of possibilities. There will always be a place for geeks to go and share.
> Yes, that null has to be there for historical reasons. It doesn't mean it is a good idea to write code that relies on it.

That null has to be there because if it isn't then the implementation is broken, not the program.

If you are coding defensively because the implementation might be broken, then you can't rely on argc being positive either
Based on your followup post, I think you're confused. Binocular overlap doesn't magically give you double the perceived resolution. If it worked that way, everyone would have a way higher PPD, but it doesn't and they don't. For a naive calculation on resolution you should just use the per eye resolution.

As mentioned resolution on the centroid may be higher depending on the lens design, but there's so much dependent on the rendering pipeline and the optics that I don't think it's worth doing more than ballparking. If you're interested in HMD displays, Oliver Kreylos has posted a lot on resolution measurements over the past few years:

* Optical Properties of Current VR HMDs http://doc-ok.org/?p=1414

* Measuring the Effective Resolution of Head-mounted Displays http://doc-ok.org/?p=1631

* The Display Resolution of Head-mounted Displays http://doc-ok.org/?p=1677

* The Display Resolution of Head-mounted Displays, Revisited http://doc-ok.org/?p=1694
Wrong URL? Gives 404.
TV series Zoo (2015), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(TV_series)

> professionals who investigate the mysterious outbreak of violent animal attacks upon humans all over the world.

https://www.vox.com/2017/9/27/16360684/zoo-cbs-season-3-revi...

> Zoo is an entirely ridiculous show. So in the interest of maintaining some level of professional dignity, I will be upfront and say Zoo probably won’t blow your mind so far as thematic nuance goes. But let me be clear when I say Zoo will definitely blow your mind with a chaotic swarm of kamikaze bats, telepathic lions, 70-foot invisible snakes, and so very much more.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOfZfNXMP4
> At some point - we have to eat something that is alive.

Not necessarily as we could wait for living things to die naturally and then consume them (maybe becoming fungus-like in the process). For livestock, that could possibly create a loophole of farms having conditions that cause a premature death.

With plants, there's the option of following fruitarianism and just eating plant material that falls off such as fruit. (Fruit is unusual when it comes to being consumed as it arguably "wants" to be eaten so that the parent plant can better distribute its seeds). There's problems with following such a fruit heavy diet though and I don't think it's a good idea by itself.

Alternatively, we could go the Soylent Green route?
> Every child will have an AI tutor [...]

Is anybody keeping score on Neal Stephenson novel plot points becoming real-world news in 2023? ("The Diamond Age" in this case.)
With digital avatars you can fix the gaze offset issues.

It's oddly draining doing zoom or meets where you can't make mutual eye contact. If you look at the camera you cant see their eyes, and vice versa.

If the digital avatar is as good as it looks, it could resolve that and make teleconferencing less exhausting. Not to mention worry less if you're having a bad hair day. ;)
It's better WebP, without patents and license fees (so unlike HEIC). There are also advantages to encode and decode speeds compared to other formats. It's a superior format compared to most alternatives in many situations.

Adding the format and maintaining it requires some work, but the potential for load speeds and data savings is huge. It's also finally a somewhat efficient format for bitmap animations after all these years of GIF and APNG. I've also run into the 16k size limit while converting some PNGs to WebP myself, to JPEG XL would be a nice way to losslessly compress those images more efficiently as well.

That said, so far WebP is serving me fine in most cases, I don't really care if it takes two weeks or two years for JPEG XL to make it into the mainstream.
Then I guess the answer to your off-topic "do people want a strawman horrible future I just imagined?" is "no".
What does this mean in practice? Clearly cows and sheep are sentient and we eat plenty of those.

Eating something alive is wrong for it’s own reasons. The majority of religions consider it a sin too!
Sure, when POSIX gets updated for a proper full stack development experience, and modern hardware devices.
iPad apps are intentionally useless for dev work, so a Vision platform that is similarly locked down can never replace a MacBook for my use case.
Long ago, before jsx and react, before hack, Facebook had a fork of php called xhp, which allowed xml data within php. I'm not suggesting anybody should maintain a fork of python with xml support but a pre-processor could parse xython and generate standard python with trees of html.xx() calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHP
> Snowden: "What happens when the machines start making mistakes?"

This is exactly the concern. These corporations are infiltrated with NSA, FBI, and CIA. All the data gathering and surveillance tactics are in full swing across the board (e.g, Meta, Amazon, Google, Accenture). There's a bunch of data, and AI connected to it, trying to figure out "good" from "bad", "opportunity zones" for monetization and the like. They share the data with each other and with the government. NSA, Meta, Palantir and the like have developed "personas" of every single one of us.

AI is advancing. Ben Goertzel correctly said "we don't have to know as much to employ AI/ML now." Snowden correctly points out "this tech is cheaper than ever before." And we keep trusting AI to "figure it out." Just feed AI more data (looking at you OpenAI). Well, what happens when AI is wrong? We see books such as Algorithms of Mass Destruction highlight HR hiring and firing mishaps, and police incorrectly ID-ing possible repeat offenders. This is a small set of the vast negative impact society has already endured.

Now, we have more people, with less education and ethics training, employing more AI models, with fewer safeguards for user privacy and security than ever. Stop pretending that the cloud is super secure; it isn't. This is crazy. We are at real risk of modeling ourselves out of existence.

Snowden: "Maybe they [government spy agencies] can stop spying on the public, and start spying for the public."

Exactly. Leverage what we have. Disincentivize corporations from predatory data gathering tactics and deploying harmful AI.
“system braiding” - what is the wikipedia or googleable term for this?
These are still gotcha questions that don't fundamentally address the concerns of the original poster. Either address my points in good faith or just say you disagree with the position and provide your own reasoning; these questions feel clever but they're intellectually shallow.
> track requests coming from multiple hosts

The problem here is that many users are behind CGNAT, meaning many end users share a single IPv4. Unfortunately the days of counting distinct users by their IP(v4) are over.
Disused multiple times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666035 (46 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788020 (67 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ruff
> Why not just buy a Linux laptop and have everything work out of the box?

Because these things are rare as gold in the first place as being Linux ready isn't a focus for most OEMs, sometimes severely lag behind the competition in feature support (e.g. limited to UVC webcams with crap quality), have serious availability issues (Framework), you have a tough time getting service or spare parts, or barely any resale value, or limited choices in screens (which is the one and only thing keeping me from a Framework - who the fuck wants a 3:2 screen?). Also, tough luck getting firmware updates for embedded components.

Apple devices, spare parts and repair centers, in contrast, are widely available across the world (okay, maybe not in places sanctioned by the US), firmware updates come around when needed and hold their resale value for years.
Why would it decimate the economy and oust those in power when every other new advancement seems to grow the economy and concentrate wealth on those already able to invest in it?
This! I tried using third-party apps and for some reason didn't like them. The official app is clunky but it is not like we haven't seen similar experiences with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I mean look at Twitter, since going private, the whole thing has been so clunky, but the parameters governing how well Twitter is doing are still hinging policies related free speech, user-abuse and content moderation.
My ga. domains squatted by Safe Names. Lets check their privileges...
I don’t really follow. There are billions/trillions of these creatures who are eaten alive every year in the wild. Why is it so significant that humans also do this?

Are we trying to make reality fit our wholesome romanced version of reality?

Not that I could stomach it myself, but I don’t really see this as much of a moral issue.

Devour to survive. So it is, so it’s always been…
A better solution would be to have the clock turn itself off, wait an hour, and then turn itself back on again.
As far as I know, that's because way back when they introduced "new Reddit" (the redesigned web UI) they made the bizarre decision to use a slightly different and incompatible Markdown parser. So ever since then, posts and comments have looked different depending on which version of the site you view them on.

The URL escaping syntax is one difference, but another one is that the two renderers support different syntax for monospaced code blocks. As you can probably imagine, that wreaks havoc on the formatting of posts in programming subreddits.
Indeed, I just ask ChatGPT to write me a story using this premise and it was gold.
Scientists closing in on long-lasting swine flu vaccine
I don't think you were supposed to think about it that hard.
Indeed. Slippery slope arguments do tickle my funny bone.
If you consider yourself equal to other animals, then you should treat them with the same respect you would have them treat you.

If you consider yourself better than other animals then stop comparing your behaviour to theirs and be better.
Excited for the launch! Looks like you've built something cool. Excited to try it out
You're largely attacking the person here, instead of their argument.

I think "lying on behalf of the government" happens like...constantly. (See: war in ukraine) I don't really think this guy is lying, but ruling it out is...well, "ridiculously stupid."

It doesn't have to be rationalized. There's a littany of reasons we could invent that could justify lying about UFOs. This government has many foolish people in positions of power. Those people in, in theory, can do foolish things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

And the claim we're up against is literally aliens. You gotta bring receipts on that, and war medals aren't enough.

I'm highly interested to see this develop, and I haven't chosen sides yet. I would fucking LOVE to see what the world does if they get smacked in the face with proof of aliens. I am giddy with excitement.

But I'm not taking this guy's word for it, yet.
Oi mate you got a loicense for that language model?

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941667
> it's more like a modern scam religion to distract from actual problems.

This is more or less how I feel. I’m sure some (most?) proponents of longtermism genuinely agree with the philosophy. But then, it’s a time honored tradition of the rich and powerful to soothe their conscience with philosophies that conveniently paint their actions and power as a moral good.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that brilliant folks are more than capable of convincing themselves of what they want to believe, whether or not it sounds compelling to someone outside their bubble.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230325034108/http://www.columb...
This is just another take among the dozens we see recently. They all sound identical, like "look guys, AI is hard, you don't get it but I do. Let me explain why it will be infinitely good/bad/anything else."
Nope, not to my knowledge. It's just a meme.
Curious what automatic generation you have in mind?
This is really great advice and I appreciate it. You're right about having something to start writing in immediately. It's funny getting tied up in the process when I haven't really even discovered if I have much love or knack for writing yet!

All the replies to my comment have been super helpful but the mindset to write immediately is important. I'm grateful for the suggestions and one of the other replies also sound positive for bearblog - it could work out well and I'm going to check it out :-)
Students who cheat get an 'Academic Dishonesty' statement added to their transcripts. Professors who accuse students of cheating based on flimsy evidence or broken tools they selected should have 'False Accuser' put next to their name in all university schedules and catalogs, along with their employment record.
> Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.

On whole plebbit or just some subs?
>> run LLaMA 30B at almost 3 tokens/s

Please tell me your config! I have an i9-10900 with 32GB of ram that only gets .7 tokens/s on a 30B model
> It recommends against declawing, nicking, eyestalk ablation, the sale of live decapod crustaceans to untrained, non-expert handlers, and extreme slaughter methods such as live boiling without stunning.

I mean, that's all well and good, but if you take the "sentience" part seriously, then surely we should also consider in scope:

- bottom-trawling, dredging or other fishing practices which can casually kill large numbers of individuals

- ocean pollution

- warming oceans that may put whole populations at risk

Like, if the suffering of individuals is acknowledged, then surely reducing that suffering is important whether it's in a restaurant kitchen or on the sea-floor beneath a fishing boat. You don't get to ignore the harms your actions cause just because the effects are out of line-of-sight.
One might hope people could be held to a higher standard than snakes & spiders...
“AI” burger joint on Deliveroo: an amusing case of overfitting, at best