skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crux of the argument of this article seems to be that C allows working directly with raw memory, which is necessary for some low-level tasks, such as communication with memory-mapped devices. This is not possible in pure managed language, due to the additional level of abstraction.

However, the author themselves state that this is not something that implies that undefined behavior are unavoidable when working close to the metal:

In fact, the very “unsafety” of C is based on an unfortunate conflation of the language itself with how it is implemented. Working from first principles, it is not hard to imagine a safe C.13 As Krishnamurthi and Felleisen [1999] elaborated, safety is about catching errors immediately and cleanly rather than gradually and corruptingly

I would say that, what they are describing is essentially what Rust has achieved, or at least what it is meant to do.
Male chromosome makes men more vulnerable to cancer
Probably seen that clip a dozen times and this was the first time I noticed Whitford manspreading in the middle of the clip and Janney batting his leg back. By the look on his face, it seems improvised to get a laugh out of her.
Love Kysely, been rooting for it ever since it was first released. Paired with kysely-codegen, it's my favorite TS <> SQL interface. Does just enough, but not too much.

Had lots of good experiences working with Knex.js over the years, and Kysely is the TS-native spiritual successor to Knex.
waiting is absolutely a use. It is just not a use you agree with. Waiting for how long? Now that is a discussion. Is it abandoned or not? There is a line. I've not heard any sane proposition on that that line is. If I go on sabbatical and the world goes on lock down and you cant get back to the house for a few years, it is absolute _insanity_ to demand that house be yielded to others.
And washing machines¹. And small boulders².

1. <https://imgur.com/gallery/VI0B0nl>

2. <https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315>
Ask HN: How do AI labs setup their infrastructure to train large models?
At my company I have to do this task, and so far I have seen slurm-based cluster setup (v100s or h100s), some fast distributed file system, Docker for containers and PyTorch with DDP strategy.

But I read somewhere kubernetes can also be used. And their singularity as Docker alternative.

Where can I learn more about this?
So it is Flickr I have to thank for this devops nonsense
Describing somebody as an electrical engineer and noting that he goes by a second name that readers may be more familiar with is an ad hominem?
If the "data" is genuinely interesting then I'm happy to leave it to the experts to analyse it.
I was mixing up where the big multiprocessor changes that went into the 2.5 series in that 2000-2005 era came from.

I was thinking of the the basic kernel preemption stuff and sched_setaffinity syscall + userspace plumbing like taskset that is _extremely_ consequential on little multicore/SMT machines, but the prominent name on a lot of that was Robert Love and he was at MontaVista at the time.

The Dynix parts that arrived via IBM were, as you say, mostly NUMA and RCU stuff based on Paul McKenney's work, which also went in in the same major overhaul during the 2.5 series but weren't quite so immediately consequential to smaller systems.

I hadn't heard that anecdote, but that is a neat tale of IBM using their gravitas at the time to legitimize Linux.
Hi, I think English isn't your first language so, first, let me point out that telling someone "I'm not sure what your point is" comes across as rude and aggressive.

I wasn't "making a point". I was asking a question. My question is why the author said "possible": since this is an educational piece of writing, isn't it misleading to say "possible"? Am I right in thinking that basically all computers in common use now (e.g. phones, laptops, desktops, machines used in corporate data centers) have multiple CPU cores? And furthermore, that they are basically always executing instructions simultaneously on all cores? (Instructions from some userspace process or the kernel)
The only real way to get to advanced levels quickly is with a shit load of practice.

That, and actually digging music through forces coming out of your own soul (and not for the sake of meeting your parent's expectations ... or worse, serving as fodder for their half-baked education experiments) might have something to do with it.

Don't see why your comment should be downvoted, BTW.
B12 is one of the least problems, because there are several kinds of bacterial cultures that produce it with high efficiency.

The research for improving the production of other kinds of vitamins is more active, by trying to either discover or create bacterial strains suitable for this purpose.

A serious problem is that unlike the production of traditional food, the production of vitamins and nutritional supplements is concentrated in a few countries, and mostly in China.

So if overnight everybody would become vegan, then suddenly most of the world would become nutritionally dependent on China.

Ideally every bigger city should be able to produce the vitamins needed by its inhabitants, like it is able to produce other staple foods, but we are very far from this when entire countries may not have any vitamin production facility.
This is just manually implemented garbage collection, really.
You can watch the lecture referred to in the article here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgGOccMEiY

The paper you quote is from 2022; it's also the last one Hinton posted to the arXiv:

https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Hinton%2...

His resignation from Google and public warning about AI happened last month:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65452940

As LeCun is quoted saying in the article, "Geoff only started thinking about these things a couple of months ago".

Finally, as already mentioned by others, agents finding unexpected ways to maximize their reward is a well known problem of reinforcement learning:

https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-algorithms-surprise-us-18-0...

Fun quote from that 2018 article: "there was an algorithm that was supposed to figure out how to apply a minimum force to a plane landing on an aircraft carrier. Instead, it discovered that if it applied a huge force, it would overflow the program’s memory and would register instead as a very small force. The pilot would die but, hey, perfect score."
Of discontinuous projections, I prefer Waterman over Dymaxion, it feels more regular and is more intuitive to see how it wraps around a sphere (or geoid). While Waterman might have more distortion in some absolute sense, the regularity of the distortions makes it still more pleasing (subjective, I know). One weird thing about Dymaxion is how the 70° parallels around both north and south poles are distinctly lumpy.

But really the biggest problem I have with Dymaxion (and with all discontinuous maps to some degree) is how difficult it is to grasp how the different landmasses are located in relation to each other across the discontinuations; the worst-case example is probably estimating the path from South-America to Australia or Africa which requires some degree of mental gymnastics to accomplish.
How do you go from "25,000 requests per second" (25krps) to "one request every 3 seconds"?
And then their account gets banned
To trick investors into thinking its worth a bajillion dollars somehow I assume.
I'm not sure that's an applicable data point.

I think "reading" is usually shorthand for reading material that is intellectually and/or grammatically/vocabularily challenging. In short, something that can expand your ability to understand and communicate ideas.

I don't think it hurts or kids should stop doing it but I don't think reading text messages from your peers is going to do that.
This was the moment Walmart lost to Amazon in the e-commerce race
I don't see it I'm afraid. Yes, it says it's CC0, but that doesn't mean it's actually true...
Tabloids love this crap.
Their units of measure seem to consist of pools, Empire state buildings, double decker busses etc.
Now read the predictions about nuclear power from the 1950’s. If we had kept up our focus on nuclear power and didn’t allow ourselves to be influenced by the anti-nuclear Greens, we would have had far more zero carbon nuclear power available today and be in a far better position with respect to climate change.
> though enterable input fields would be nice.
So funny you say this. I could actually not believe that you really need to use another tool like protopie on top of figma if you need that simple functionality eg. for a mock-up.
Not sure why you are focusing on Debian - Windows and Linux have different ideas of how large a long is.
Debian all the way(when available, many providers only have Ubuntu)

However Ubuntu pro is very enticing
Yes, certifying DB2 for Linux (back in 1998, https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=db2+linux, scroll to bottom) was an absolutely earth-shattering event that announced that Linux had arrived. I think that event (and of course Oracle and Sybase a few months prior) really sounded the death knell for big-iron UNIX.

But in 1999, IBM ported Linux to run on System 390 (https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=mainframe+linux) and I remember there was a story that some IBM scientist booted more than 30,000 Linux instances on a mainframe on his lunch break. This research led to the big SUSE partnership, as well as open-sourcing other enterprise-y software like JFS and putting a big devteam to make the kernel ready for real SMP (Linux didn't have efficient+mature SMP even into the early aughts, although a few companies had built some massive SMP boxes.)
There’s big gap between not being a schmuck and getting your company to be one of the biggest tech behemoths.

Rewriting app, means years of no new features (like Twitter did with their backend rewrite). That’s a very vulnerable period of time. And no guarantee that their apps will be any good (especially given their track record of low quality). It wasn’t guaranteed in any way that they will start making meaningful money on mobile.

They could’ve easily end up like Twitter, plagued with reliability issues and no good monetization.
Still don’t see it (iOS, both iPhone and iPad).

I see 5 circular buttons: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, and a “Copy url to clipboard” one.
I'm not at all surprised that an AI might be more patient with regulars from /r/singularity than fellow humans would be.
I don't know and don't care. But the dog shit that's covering it isn't dry yet.
> On the list of things that make math intimidating, for undergrads at least, the notation for powers, roots, and log, is very low.

I guess whoever reaches undergrad math courses already passed this hurdle. It would be interesting to know if this makes a difference for school children being introduced to the subjects, like ~8th class for roots, or ~10th class for logarithms.
Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat and many of its developers are employed by Red Hat. Much of the work in Fedora is done by Red Hat.

Red Hat did not fire the FPL. They laid off the Fedora Program Manager, which is a different role entirely. I would still say that was a lousy decision, but the FPL is a very different role that goes back a very long time and AFAIK remains filled by Matthew Miller.

I've seen the two roles conflated here and there so I figured it was worth correcting here so it doesn't continue to spread.
How my AP Econ (Macro+Micro) teacher tackled that was spend the majority of the the time teaching the Samuelson and Mankiw books and then spend 1 month having everyone practice College Board style tests.

Tbf, in our HS AP Econ was gatekept for 12th graders, and most of us had at least 6-7 AP tests done already so we had experience with the exams already.
There is no single criterion by which you can decide which distro is better.

All I know is anecdotes. RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 came out around the same time. Around May, upstream QEMU started getting bug reports from Canonical developers that you couldn't reset a virtual machine that had been created in 12.04 and migrated to 14.04 due to some firmware incompatibility.

In RHEL we had started testing cross-version migration 6 months in advance.
Flip-flop master race reporting in!

(Although I don't do it anymore bc I work in a lab.)
How to Install and Use Redis on Windows 11
The most dangerous thing about cocaine is the nasty crap it's cut with and the violent gangs that control its distribution.

We literally craft laws that guarantee people will die from impure substances and that violent criminals will get richer, and we call it the morally correct policy. We pretend it is stopping people from using drugs, when in reality it simply ensures that a 15-year-old can get coke more easily than whiskey. It is fucking psychopathic.
I doubt people are actively giving less value or worth to places that appear smaller on the map. Additionally, the majority of people just don’t have a concrete frame of reference of distances beyond how far we can see. As such, the only real exposure to vast distances at the scale of continents is going to be via maps, unless you have the privilege of being in LEO. It’s pretty rare that flat projection is useful for anything except trivial, surface information paired with the sort of infantilizing teaching that prompts students into pointing to their home country. If this is your only exposure to the world, it’s easy to see how you will begin to assign some value at a subconscious level. Any indirect representation of something larger is going to be a compromise based on the needs of the application, but we can do better than the flat projection just from a UX level.
I totally understand and respect your ideals. I wish more people were like you. But at the same time you fail the see the nuance for why others might make a different decision. I think it's reasonable for someone to take a moral stance here, and I can also respect someone that choses to stay at the job that's the best at providing for their family. That's the insight I was providing.
Tabi socks are a traditional sock in Japan, worn with zori (thonged sandals). They date back hundreds of years. You an also get Jika-Tabi, which have a durable, rubber sole, for outdoor wear.
Not sure what you mean by "trivial", I mean a simple prime finding algorithm is easy to write down, but it will be very inefficient, especially for large primes (the very ones you use in cryptography).

Coming up with an efficient prime-finding algorithm like Miller-Rabin* is far from trivial.

* Technically it's just a prime-checking algorithm, but you can just generate random numbers until you've verified one of them is prime.
How do we think it works currently?
TLDR: AI snake oil software pretending to be a lawyer wasted more time and money after hallucinating worse recommendations for the client which a human could have done without it.
Not quite the same outcome.

One brings into existence games that probably wouldn’t have been made otherwise - and the investor takes the risk of the game bombing.

The other is primarily to deny the competition access to long running popular franchises - and is practically risk free since those franchises are almost guaranteed to print money.
> Color-shifts cannot be re-calibrated that well because the shift happens due to the chemical decomposition process of the phosphor in each LED, which causes the color of the light going INTO the color-filter to shift (the base light that is filtered for RGB is no longer white).

But you can change white balance of most monitors right ? So they at the very least need cold white and warm white LEDs, just change balance of those. using RGB LEDs in backlight could also allow for that correction.
Prayer can be both public and private. It's more than just the danger of being exposed as a Christian to a regime that is hostile to it and persecuting Christians. The seal of confession is an obvious good example of why privacy is important. Everyone standing in line to the confessional knows you're Catholic and that you're going to confession. They don't know what you're confessing to.

Obviously, you shouldn't be storing confessions in an app, but the principle is that privacy goes beyond the danger of persecution.
Hemingway?
I'm very curious about this as normally all tools i know still have a higher entry point than i realize.

My current setup is 'get a k8s cluster spup up and configured properly as fast and easy as possible' and than just use argocd. Argocd is by far the best tool i have been using in the last 15 years: It does exactly what it should do (syncing and showing me k8s insight vs my git repo), can manage itself through the same mechanism (IaC) and people of different backgrouns are very fast in using it.

This tool either might bridge the gap for people and potentially solve problems but i do have to say: argocd.

Even if you think you want to start small and just use kubectl: start with argocd.
Ahh yes, the “must be marketing’s fault” cry for bad usability, not internal disfunction and turf wars between engineering and product, or incompetence, or inattention, or…

I bring this up only because I find when I do this blaming of <other non-build people>, I often miss the problem that is actually in front of my face and can actually impact.
hmmmm maybe something like page 184 here https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA327435.pdf
since you are already in the ridiculous area, ehm, soccer fields...
German journalists love to compare weights in Jumbo Jets.
I don't think I've ever claimed that EVs are suitable for everyone right now or that the infrastructure is there to fully replace every single scenario. The point is still that most people can have most of their needs met by a simple wall plug for charging.

Chances are that you don't even need to charge on your 150 miles trip. Most modern BEVs will be able to take you anywhere from 300-350 miles on a single charge. In your scenario you could literally do a round trip and have a comfortable level of charge when you get home again.
If somebody's executive dysfunction is preventing them from going through the basic steps needed to get help for that very thing, then they seriously need to enlist the help of either a family member or a professional who can walk them through this and ensure that they succeed.

I'm not sure what the implication of this comment was, but hopefully it does not imply that "if my executive dysfunction prevents me from seeing a real professional then I'll press buttons on my phone and see a fake one instead", because that's a horrible life choice. Complete inaction would be significantly less harmful in a case like that.
> radio and broadcasting resulted in for Europe through the 1940s

Are you arguing that radio and broadcasting are the cause of WW2?
/proc pseudofiles could have a mode (perhaps on open) that determines whether the protocol is ascii or packed/binary. there could even be a side-band interface that provides the packed schema (assuming not everything is exploded to atomic type-evident items).
People are just asking to be ruled. Cool talk to your companion AI while actual psychopaths achieve power in the real world.

Humans are apparently ready for it. There is so much enthusiasm, and HN is ahead of the curve. This article is 100% wrong. The coming world is not post truth, and people are ready for what’s coming. They want enjoyment rather than freedom.

Be my guest.
It looks like you never took middle school hygiene and watched the propaganda film, so here you go, the classic 1950s futurama educational film „Don’t Date Robots!“
Good thing I keep a copy in my vcr at all times: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQqlhqAUuQ
1 US teaspoon is about 14.8 ml

1 UK teaspoon is about 17.8 ml.

It goes on: 1 US gallon is about 0.83 imperial gallons
It turns out it wasn't Bluetooth - it was one of those proprietary radios with a USB dongle which should be a lot more reliable. But still... it doesn't sound like they had any kind of backup at all. Maybe they just didn't talk about the backups?
Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1T, Most Since April 2022
By that argument, Oracle is owned by shareholders, so that money should be either getting reinvested or returned to the shareholders, not funding political campaigns that their shareholders may not even support. (The rest of your comment can be similarly reinterpreted).

In reality, both organizations know that at the scale they operate (super-national), one of the legitimate means to advocate for their constituents' interests is to ~~bribe lawmakers~~ make political contributions, so they dedicate some of their resources to that.
The only problem is getting useful data into and out of the human.
The overlay of Canada on Europe is always a fun one. We moan so much here (perhaps rightfully so) about lack of public transit and reasonable infrastructure to get around, but we're also comparing a population of (just recently hit!) 40,000 and ~700,000. Orders of magnitude larger, but roughly same land area.

This is why I am hugely in support of increased immigration into Canada, housing crisis aside (it'll resolve over time)
Thanks for sharing this. I became a bit of a fan of Dr Hutton after I followed his Functional Programming in Haskell classes on Youtube.
Popular Science mentioned the same effect in 1912.

* https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814....

* https://i.ibb.co/nQKZfzC/climate-change.png

* https://tinyurl.com/climate1911 (Google Books link)
I recall a Reddit thread on this where many people chimed in with their experiences, which seemed to have a distinctly climate-driven element:

* Shoes off = don't track mud and dirt inside

* Shoes on = don't expose yourself to insects

And then depending on cultural background they would tend to keep one or the other habit after moving to a different climate norm. The shoe habits predate modern construction, so they may not matter like they used to.
I am so pissed by this move, it is totally against the spirit of free software and GPL. Using additional contracts to subvert the free software licenses. You get to see the software, but you can't share it further. RedHat would not be here if someone behaved like this 25+ years ago.

I would prefer a variant of GPL which strictly forbids this (imo it should already be forbidden, these are clearly additional restrictions). Let's put "GPL v2 or later" to good use...
I was visiting a friend once who happily wore the same shoes inside and outside his house, but was uncomfortable with me being barefoot inside and outside his house. Apparently my bare feet would track dirt into his house, but his shoes wouldn't? Eh, people are strange.
There is a lot more to the story than that. How many people entered the workforce in the 80s with more than a years salary in student loans? Inflation adjusted home prices have more than doubled since 1985. Inflation-adjusted median wages were 20% in 1985 than they are in the present.

It's a whole generation where people know they'll never own a home or be able to retire, unless they don't have kids.
Using chat gpt to build software is not good, this is not programming.
They aren't even ready for a truth world. We're optimized for self-delusion on a good day.

The future is going to be a baklava of fast-cut CGI-grade hallucinatory blandishments and threats at scale.
A lot has changed since then.