skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what makes 80% of my YouTube chnnel.

It's really so satisfying to see someone repairing their phone/shaver/toothbrush and commenting saying thanks for the help.
I did some repairs for a few people and the moment the thing works is really what keeps me going.

One was an interesting experiment doing a live stream helping someone do a rtx4090 pc build.

Many thinks have small defects that make the appliance / device unusable yet they are easy to fix at home.

Plastic welds can fix a lot of things around the home.
They’ve all pivoted to AI now, so take that for what its worth…
The closest guy to Carmack today seems to be Brian Caris, who developed virtualized geometry[1], a rasterization based rendering technique where the geometric detail of static objects is adjusted to the screen resolution in real time. There is another talk (can't find it right now) where he mentions Carmack as an inspiration. I wonder what Carmack would be working on today if he was still in the game engine business.

[1] https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2021/Karis_Nanite_SI...
Check out (my) https://build-system.fman.io.
Well, yeah. I'm not sure I do see the value prop of k8s.

The fact that it's a supports multi-node means that you get all of the drawbacks of a multi-node system without any of the benefits. It's single node deployment but worse.
Indeed, I was literally saying this yesterday.

If you stay out of the “news stream” you can pursue your ideas deeply and even if someone else is working on something similar, you will have your own unique take on it.
If I do it wrong, are we talking about my application (say, some web app) becoming noticeably slower? Or we would need to be running several million operations per second before anything a user could notice the difference?

I suspect only very high end games, image processing apps and that kind of thing would ever need to care about the order of fields in a struct... perhaps the author of my web server as well, but even that only if I have a ridiculously high load on my server (which I don't, almost no one does).

So, no I don't think I should know that until I develop one of those highly niche applications myself.
Yeah, the high tech blades occur in combustion turbines.

A simple cycle combustion turbine power plant might have 5% of the capital cost per watt of a nuclear power plant.
Forgot to post link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324127
So if we scaled up nuclear builds to same number of sites and same building standards we could reach them being in few percent of promises?

My point was that no one has ever promised to go over budget and be late.
It was a different time. It's not like today when everybody has a Steam collection full of games played just a couple of hours and then abandoned.
This has been built on extensively over the past two years. For instance: Tighter Bounds on the Expressivity of Transformer Encoders https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10743. I find it interesting that transformers are equivalent to first order logic on circuits with counters. Amazing what you can do even if you're not Turing complete!
The tiny piece of the US hidden in England – BBC Reel
Sure, if you are independently wealthy you can do whatever you want, including slow focused work on a topic for months.
But in Reeves case it wasn't that. It's that the slow focused work was the work he was assigned or expected to do. He didn't just do it because he was rich, he got paid for it, as part of his preparation for playing John Wick - same way actors have to bulk up, diet, learn some skills like piano playing etc before a movie.

Plus, the post's point isn't that "Reeves worked like that, why don't we all?", as if putting the onus on the individual. Yeah, "Because our boss doesn't want it, and we're not rich and can't afford to lose the job" would be the answer to that.

But Cal's point is more about "this is a good way of working, why isn't there more of it", including why it isn't being more of what employers set the working environment up for and demand (in which case you wouldn't need to be rich to be able to do it, you'd just be doing your job).
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Cocaine and other illegal stimulants certainly increase productivity to some extent.

The point I'm making isn't that US software is inherently harmful (nor would I make that argument for every drug that is illegal in the US, though) but that the situation is comparable in that US software and business conduct found to be in violation in the EU is harder to prosecute than the same software and conduct from EU companies. The "innovation" US companies take advantage of is getting to grow their products and companies and a less regulated market before taking advantage of the slow reaction time of the legal systems of foreign markets they enter fully-formed (whereas companies local to those market would get nipped in the bud if they tried to build the same kind of business there).

This should be self-evident when the reason we're even talking about this is that the EU is taking actions against US companies that it would have already taken against any EU company trying the same (e.g. consider the Ireland tax loophole used by non-EU companies in the EU or the circus around trying to game the GDPR and privacy laws).

In short: the innovative advantage of Silicon Valley is that it allowed tech startups to build products that would have been blatantly illegal in Europe and then enter the European market with sufficient political and financial capital to squash any existing competition and bite the legal fines until legislation was able to catch up with what they were doing. This is consistent with recent "disruptions" like Airbnb innovating zoning law violations, Uber innovating taxi service regulation violations, Crypto innovating financial product regulation violations and AI innovating copyright violations.
Not only the link itself - but if the email body /attachments contains the details - it is also easier to write a good reply by selectively quoting from the mail. So it isn't just for the first mail, but for the follow-up discussion thread(s).
Heads up; that isnt an even remotely accurate reduction of religion or deities as a concept. I could see the misunderstanding if your only exposure to religion was via christian sermons - they are real big on describing their god as the perfect being that is all powerful and blah de blah - but even their creation myths don't portray an omnipotent being, and much of their bible depicts a deity that strives and mistakes as we do (albeit writ large).

The truly salient difference is that aliens unlike gods aren't focused around our loves but their own.
https://archive.is/XA4vi
They only need to slow and control the car's stop so that it doesn't slip under too far. In this case there is no perfect, but a massive improvement in safety in just three box steel sections should be a very palatable regulation. Apparently it is too much to ask.
This is an extraordinary article by the BBC. Against the background of severe criminal & fraud issues with FTX, Tether, NFTs (...and back to MtGox, etc.) -- the SEC is now enforcing existing legislation.

To describe this as an attack on crypto repeats the propaganda of an industry built on fraud. What's happening is enforcement of laws previously unenforced on an industry with widespread law-breaking.

The reason these cypto companies aren't in the US is because the US gov will enforce the law.
Just did a quick check. Profit margin for Old Dominion Freight Line is 22% [a]

[a] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ODFL/old-dominion-...
Twitter sued by music publishers for $250M
I really wish people would stop calling cryptocurrencies "crypto". :(
Justifiable homicide.
It’s not whether or not you are proud that has people upset. They gave you a month of free service and you ignored their attempts to contact you. You are using this incident to paint them in a negative light when they probably gave you more than you deserved in the situation. Your attitude is very entitled for the size of customer you were. If they sent you text messages or letters I would assume you would have ignored those as well based on your prior actions. What exactly would you want them to do here? Free service until they can make contact with you?
- I have been using a 12.9” iPad since march 2018 for exactly these purposes. It has worked very well.
- the better notes apps ( I use goodnotes ) are functionally much better than paper, in that they make it easy to move areas of writing about and erase things you dont want, and add arbitrary pages ( with arbitrary templates ); searching my ( fairly awful) handwriting works well so finding things again is much easier.
- writing on the iPad with the Apple Pencil is not like writing, use the blunt end of a Bic on a flat piece of glass and you will have the feeling exactly. On the other hand, there is little lag so you can create handwriting that is just like what you’d make on paper with a pen. There’s no good equivalent of a fountain pen.
-overall I would never willingly go back to pen and notebook, and I was very picky about good notebooks and pens.
- There are some amazing PDF annotation apps, and for typographical markup it’s a dream.
- Reading A4 pdfs is as good or better than reading a printout.Plus, search. Minus, flipping through. (Bearing in mind i typically print out 2up double sided, but still.)

- Still, my iPad is now > 5 yrs old. The battery life is reducing and the backlight is showing its age. I am tempted to try the Remarkable tablet instead of buying the new iPad, in part because I think you need the big screen for all this to work - but Apple doesn’t make the iPad equivalent of the 15” MBA; in other words the big iPad is overpowered and thus overpriced for my use case. The Remarkable doesn’t have a lot of iPad’s functionality, but it is designed to be a notepad and pdf annotator and the writing experience is said to be very close to pencil and paper.

(It has also turned out that carrying a thin A4 device is easier than carrying a thick A5 notepad, but obvs YMMV ).

Hope these notes are somewhat useful!
The majority of this is not specific to Rust and not exactly groundbreaking stuff, certainly a good reference material for effective engineering.
> Making carbon emission expensive you say? Lobbyists have historically stopped that one, so we're back to an issue of political will.

EU is doing it, with CBAM. Basically internally trading emissions and taxing carbon at the border.
Not fast enough.
worse even, it killed off many vibrant quake 3 communities that had been going from 1999 to 2008 because half the people started playing quake live and the other half stopped playing alltogether
iCloud-drive-Docker: Sync a local copy of your iCloud documents/photos
Yup. We used to apply shadows to things to give the user a sense of depth and contrast. Now everything is on a flat plane, and any overlapping elements are either indecipherable, or live on a full bleed scrim. Very boring!
Or have the username be a number that is all the feature flags when converted to a binary representation. Then you can just have one username for each combination you want to test.
Failure of imagination on your part I think. Its easy to get thinking that the world cannot and has never changed.
Well Putin has destroyed this possibility for the next ~30 years. (Also the majority of Russians, who supported an invasion against an independent country and millions of its people.)
Once it's in the hands of someone adversarial, physically, there's no way to completely stop this.
It's 2023 and you can literally buy malicious USB peripherals for next day delivery for a few dollars. Why are people still blasé about attaching tech they care about to USB connectors of unknown provenance?
The Mac OS menubar search actually opens the relevant menus and submenus and puts a big floating indicator on the result. It does teach rather than simply surfacing the result.
"Is the US trying to enforce pre-existing financial regulation on Crypto in the US?"

fixed that crappy title for you! and no need to read, the answer is "Yes."
> Nobody needs or wants it. It has really been almost 15 years with no viable legitimate use case at all.

That's not true. It's been very useful for funding the DPRK nuclear program through ransoms.
It has an extremely low barrier of entry while providing the features of a relational database when all you need is a local data store. The files are trivially easy to transport using standard tools when needed. I've been in back-end automation/integration for my entire career and use these kinds of things all the time. The overhead of maintaining a full networked RDBMS isn't always something I want (or need) to do.
> the propaganda of an industry built on fraud

> an industry with widespread law-breaking

I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference.
>Making the text more fluffy will not make it more empathetic,

Of course not, but empathy in communication (not in action) is full of fluff. It almost requires it.

>Our bullshit receptors are good spotting dishonesty, so it'll just sound cringe

All "genuine" affirmation for the sake of empathy sounds cringe to me. I'd rather the doctor devoted their time to doing their job well instead of trying to make someone feel heard and validated - especially in an ER scenario where they are juggling critical patients. This tech can help with that.
We are talking about having physical access to the machine for long enough to partially dissasemble it and physically manipulate the mother board. There are a lot of attacks that enables, and almost no one even claims to defend against them.

Put another way, a modern computer can be thought if as a network of relativity simple devices, of which the eeprom is one. Normally we assume that an attacker does not have access to this network. If the attacker does have access to this network, the game is lost. Everything about the network is unencrypted.
I think the idea is that adolescent activities prepare us for life as adults, as adults we concern our self with the grown-up version of the same thing. Whether it's running a business or waging war or building machines or whatever.

That's predicated on adulthood being a state where you're autonomous and free to do something with your life, and falls apart when we're up to our ears in debt and working as wage-slaves.

In the latter scenario, you may satisfy the itch for the thing you've been preparing for by additional preparation. We play video games or watch TV-shows about people going on adventures instead of actually going on adventures ourselves because that's not an option.
It might be true but if there is no evidence it ever happened it never happened.

What value would you get from reading such a review?
You can learn to write concisely.
Reddit worked for years without hosting its own videos and even images. For many years, it was hosting nothing but structured text and links to external resources (which was its original raison d'être, in fact; discussion about external resources).

HN chose to be pure text and not embed external resources, but this is just an editorial choice, it wouldn't cost more resources to add them.
In TFA, replace every instance of "crypto" by "fraud" and see how the article reads perfectly right. Like "fraudcurrencies", "Fraud King" etc.
It was a cheap power adapter design that was sold by Nvidia that caused the melting, it was nvidias own doing selling a cheap cable on a $1,600 card. Using proprietary interfaces has everything to do with monopolistic behavior and nothing with faulty standards.
How A.I. Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design
I'm not sure why this would be the case. Secret keys never leave security processors or data drives. The BIOS does very little here.
There were stranger coincidences in the past, and China always denies an investigation, so it's nothing special in this case.

Especially with Trump as president and we all remember the proofs of the WMDs in Iraq.

BTW there are multiple reasons to enter a brothel without cheating, they need electricians and plumbers too. According to you they all are proven cheaters.

>Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu.

>When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%”

That isn't the same as saying one of the three was Patient Zero.
Yeah, those are not the cases I had in mind - or the extended family living together of times past.

More about the "30 year old avid gamer living in parent's basement" or "coming back to live with parents after the dream of skateboarding-pop-singer career didn't pan out".
Awful and yet totally unsurprising.

Yet there will be people still calling for private profit-motivated companies to run everything and this will be dismissed as a one-off, never-happen-again sort of event.

edit: I think it's worth including this quote too:

Gregory Jaczko, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, stated, "That's a multi-billion dollar asset that had to be shut down because of improper work planning, improper understanding of how to properly do this containment retrofit".
So - what is the BIOS password really protecting against - other than deterring employees from playing with company laptops?

Note: If I own the laptop and don't have the password, I'm at the mercy of the vendor. And does the vendor want me to use my old hardware, or buy a new one?!
"Chatgpt, write an email based on these bullet points!"

"Chatgpt, summarize this email into a few bullet points!"

Somehow, I doubt we'll notice. The reason we don't send the bullet points email today is that the receiver will think we're angry with them. In University the engineers all needed alcohol as a social lubricant, if chatgpt replaces it I expect we'll trade hangovers for higher electricity bills and carry on.
Very very few indeed, it's stupidly wasteful.

The vast majority of that cleanup is incredibly QALY inefficient, spending millions removing tiny bits of radiation from soil that would cause a hundredth of a cancer case. This is because the rules are that they need to return the area to the same radiation levels it used to have, not merely to a safe enough level that further action would be QALY inefficient.

Even in 2012 the natural reduction in radiation meant you have only a few square kilometers[1] with exposure levels over 20uSv/h, the level at which we can actually detect a cancer increase. An area that seems to have had less than a thousand people judging by satellite photos. There is no way to justify spending $150 billion cleaning up something that would kill only a couple of people (particularly when you can just pay them the old value of the land/housing and then let them decide whether they want to accept the increased cancer risk) when even in Japan you can save a thousand lives with that money.

[1] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/uploadedImages/wnn/Images...
The SEC is just taking out the trash, it should have been done years ago but better late than never.
Gotta love a classic Conflict of Interest!
> Someone tried to tell me that airplanes crash fairly frequently

Usually at most once.
Text mode GDB is very clunky, but it is better than any frontend I have tried. Whatever pain points it has, I can mostly work around with scripts, which isn't possible with a GUI. The worst part is that it's awfully slow for programs with a plugin architecture. If I set a pending breakpoint before starting the program, I can wait ten minutes until all plugins are loaded. I really wish I could tell it to preload some debug information at the start.
A purely renewable grid is sadly more expensive due to storage costs. Even CAES isn't enough to get below nuclear.
> I'd rather the doctor devoted their time to doing their job well instead of trying to make someone feel heard and validated

Not doing this can make the job actively harder.
Then why was the train not put in service?
Why did Putin attack Ukraine instead of retiring on a superyacht? Why is he risking it all for what would, in a best-case scenario, become a decade long guerilla war against the ukraine resistance, even if russia managed to capture all of ukraine (which probably was the assumed/likely outcome as the war broke out).

Clearly the incentives and motivations of people running oppressive regimes are slightly different.
I see two potential AGI apocalypses described in scenarios like this.

1. Skynet type scenario where machines rule and somehow we can’t pull the plug on them.

2. Humans hoping to make money and gain power and weird positive feedback loops cause AI to goad humans into war with each other, causing massive world conflict, destroying the earth.

I cannot for the life of me fathom number 1 ever happening. How many data centers or aircraft carriers or really anything electronic or mechanized continue working without massive human intervention to keep those power outlets or engines going? I can’t think of anything. Why do we keep fearing this? I don’t care how much the AI evolves and iterates in silicon, it cannot escape this law of our physical universe and need for a physical connection to the real world we live in. It needs an army of humans, the great generalists, supporting it, to even survive.

Now if you fear #2, well that is more plausible and it seems we are living in it now.
> I'm working on proper API docs (…), these wouldn't be served by Vrite.

I struggle to see what makes this a "technical content" CMS then, rather than just a generic marketing CMS.

For a generic marketing CMS aimed at marketers, the feature set makes a bit more sense. But for actual technical staff, all of these design decisions just break whatever flow the users might've had and add very little.
The AI aspect is interesting, it could solve the funding issue. AI scooping requires a (paying) licence. Or, the paying licence would be restricted to closed-source AI models, and it would be free for open-sourcec models, thus making them much more competitive.
It is also draining to be around people that always require feeling heard and validated or else they get crabby. Two sides to everything. The doc in this story probably does not require AI to write something compassionate. He simply does not have the bandwidth to do it while juggling critical patients and their family while they are not taking no for an answer and insisting on inappropriate treatment.
That’s exactly how it works for providers in Germany… as a foreigner I find it hilarious. You do get back-charged on the extra costs, tho.
It doesn't have to be that specifically but it's a good example of something we can produce in mass quantities now that's sufficient. It's not particularly high tech either. Also, the components are relatively common, except maybe Chromium but I'm not sure you need that much of that.
Nice, but... Anything simpler that one can deploy atop one's own K8S? There were a few dokku-inspired things that would generate the right manifests and leverage the same build packs, but things seem to have stalled on that front and "simple" solutions are thin on the ground.
To be fair, trucks in Europe also look different anyway because there is also legislation for visibility.
Which basically means the same thing, as the main use of crypto right now is to avoid financial regulation.
Your fears will manifest in reality. Just stop being afraid.
You should try and focus the energy you spend on thinking about how hard it is to be poor into more productive things.
That’s exactly what it’s stopping - users who don’t own the computer from tampering with settings.
Peaks: Speedcubing (top 10), classical guitar (comp level in my youth), couple of major games (top .01% recently in one, top .1% a while ago).

I wish that I had learned to love programming in my teens, these things have made me happy but certainly not rich, haha. I like it but don't love it - I'm just okay at it.
It was not unseen to replace the original "keyboard" with mechanical one back then. The membrane keys were awful.