skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electrical & Computer Engineering Undergrad to CS M.S. Graduate here.

Hardware in general requires a rigor and knowledge of math and science that just isn't as present or necessary in computer science. However, I would argue that computer science requires more abstract and creative thinking.

To each their own. I moved to Computer Science and A.I. specifically because my brain enjoys abstract logic puzzles more than the required precision of a physical system.
>working is next to impossible at the level needed as a SDE.

This is the truth. I can't reason as well or as quickly. Things go over my head. My working memory is so much smaller. I get lost in code all the time. I forget what I'm working on.
Yeah, that's fair. I could have been more precise about what an advantage research talent can be.

As an example, the startup-employed AI researchers I know had already PEFT'd llama2 within a day or two of the weights being out, determined that wasn't good enough for their needs, and began a deeper fine tuning effort. That's not something I can do, nor can most people, and it's a serious competitive advantage for those who can. It's a rather different interpretation of "can adequately fine-tune" than "can follow a tutorial".

When I think "AI startup", I think of the places where these people work. I don't think there's many of those people, and I think their presence is a big competitive advantage for their employers.
When you find out, please share. There's dozens of us.

I've been slow walking my FOSS releases because I have no idea how to squeeze some ramen out of it. Though my (dare I suggest) paradigm/category busting project was really hard (for me) to figure out, the end result is simplicity itself. And so therefore trivial to clone, fork, run away.

Possessing the business acumen of plankton, I've been swindled, plagiarized, and mooted a few times before. I don't need much more than ramen money. But not getting anything while others profit from my work, again, would really suck.
Sure eating carbs feels great, and it doesn't stop you from building a healthy diet that includes spaghetti, but you're in for a world of hurt if that's all ya got.
I would guess it's less than 5% of users in the US.

There are weed addicts. My college dorm had about half a dozen students jonesing when all the dealers (5-6 in our area) went home for the winter holidays. Did anyone lose their job, get in a wreck, end up in the hospital, or die from it? I seriously doubt it.

I'd say alcoholism and binge drinking are far bigger threats. You know, like my roommate who nearly died from alcohol poisoning on his 21st birthday from downing half a dozen shots of everclear and more.

The magnitude of harm, impairment, and life dysfunction for substance abuse varies by said substance. Weed addiction isn't nothing but it's not tobacco, drinking, or meth.

I'd said the biggest harm of weed is people who smoke it unfiltered and inhale microfines and ultrafines more so than filtered tobacco cigarettes. Dabbing could be potentially better, but so much of the market is grey and black that there's not enough research or uniform safety standards on producing healthy inhalation products.
I see now and also the author acknowledges above. Thanks for clarifying
They have threatened to do this before, but it's clear they have no intent. Once we finally get past the "Ukraine can attack Russia.. including Moscow" part and Russia doesn't use nukes, it will be more obvious this is standard Russian brinksmanship.
Are the “missing baryons” simply too hot to see?
Surah Al-Fatiha and the Lord's Prayer Comparison [pdf]
So other people talked about how it does track, but there's another thing to note here.

"The high-gain antenna has a beamwidth of 0.5° for X-band, and 2.3° for S-band."

At 130-150 AU, the earth is always within about 0.4° of the sun. Since commands are sent on S-band, pointing directly at the sun gets a pretty good signal.
.... until the end of the human race as we know it.

I think this is the critical part. If humanity (as we know it) only lasts 10 more years, then sure x86 will still be around somewhere.

If we last a million years, it will probably be gone long before that. Even in a thousand years it's probably gone a long time ago.
It's possible that the last time I dealt with that on debian force-unsafe-io wasn't set in /etc/dpkg.

I haven't really built debian-based containers in last two years.
Oh, thank you! The library author here :)

We've just hosted one of our first community/contributor calls a few hours ago, discussing the plans for the upcoming 1.0 release, and integration with UCall, UStore, and UForm - our other FOSS libraries. Please don't hesitate to reach out for any questions or feature requests - now is the best time :)
Whom do you think Mathematics for Machine Learning benefits? In my personal opinion the only audience for a plethora of courses and articles available in that regard is useful mostly to the people that recently went through college level Linear Algebra.

I'd like more resources geared for people that are done with Khan Academy and want something as well made for more advanced topics.
Haven't read the article but who plants trees like that? If you want to grow a tree, you must go to forest, dug out the baby tree which is not going to survive, like when you see a big number of instances of the tree in relatively small area, then you go in wiser place and dug the baby tree in. Here is how I do it.
> Of course, when confronted, they say it's not addictive and they dont have a problem. As we know this is the first sign of a very serious addiction.

The first sign of an addiction (at least, the first which is visible to an outside observer) is that it interferes with your life and you won't stop.
Until about a week ago, I was a heavy daily cannabis user for a very long time (more than ten years). If you had asked me if I had an addiction, I would have said no.

Recently I came to believe I had Cannaboid Hyperemesis Syndrome, a disease for which the only cure is to quit cannabis. So I quit - immediately. I have a gigantic pile of weed in the house (I had just bought more when I started having symptoms), and I pass by it everyday. I just shake my head and go, "darn, wish I could smoke that," and go about my day.

That's not a story you're going to hear from an addict.

That's not to minimize the experience of people who do experience a cannabis addiction. I have known people I suspect have a problem. But no, cannabis and alcohol continue not to be comparable as far as their harm and addictive potential.

(And I have absolutely no regrets about my consumption, it was an incredible medication for my anxiety.)
I'd say that someone riding against traffic is making it unsafe for themselves and others.
High school boys are trending conservative
Video resizer in browser locally with ffprobe / FFmpeg WASM
Just chiming in to agree, I don't think we have a single mac in our entire company (100's of people). It's all just windows/x86 like every other business I've worked at.
If you don't know who Ricky Jay was, this is a nice introduction.
I read somewhere that birds and squirrels are better at planting trees because they do it at random, their forests grow faster, are more diverse, provide better shelter and are more resistant to fires and bugs.

Can't find the study or news anymore. Anyone help? Could they plant a border of tress for squirrels and birds, so they would do the rest of the job and fill the square?
The first time it demonstrated superconductivity they dropped the quartz tube it was in, cracking and accidentally oxidizing it at a specific point in the heating process and providing vibration that caused the formation of a crystal structure in the material.

That's... not easily replicable.
Do you know what a hole from the surface to the molten core is called?

An active volcano.
Yeah compared to svelte, vue I think React is the way to go. For me the alternative for a small or medium project is a standard template system like Liquid (Jekyll), ERB (Rails) or EEx (Phoenix).
> your comment extremely low effort.

and yours is extremely high in brain worms. Not sure why you're still beating this horse.
> Software does not wear out like most physical components.

It fails like buildings near fault lines, because the ground moves under them. Think broken dependencies, operating system obsolescence, et cetera.
In Europe you can not buy a home vacuum with decent power simply because it is the law.

https://commission.europa.eu/energy-climate-change-environme...

You can argue that the law is well intentioned and even necessary.

The end result is the same, my old cheapo Scarlett 1500W vacuum from 20 years ago does a better job that, AEG, Electrolux and even my new Miele. All of them are hard limited to 900W.

Then again is it really saving power if you spend 2x time using 900W vacuum instead of 1500W one?
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631291/united-states-...

Seems like a bad investment.
On the one hand I'm enjoying wondering what the song would be paced like if instead of touch tone speed each number was separated by how long it would take to return to 0.

8 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 6 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 7 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit....

ON the other hand, touch tones were invented in the 60's, so it's possible that they had access to the tech to touch dial at that time.
> Except that there's basically no way to know which products are going to be more reliable!

The fact that basically all manufacturers offer the same fairly pathetic warranties (and that extended ones cost absurd amounts) should give you some idea that basically all products out there are made with similar expectations as to how long they'll last before something breaks.
Ah! This does make sense. I mostly run things fullscreen on my laptop and use Mission Control to swap windows so I really only encounter this when my laptop is docked to a larger display.

It doesn't particularly bother me one way or the other to the point I didn't even think of this, despite also being a daily Windows users on my desktop computer.
> That official statement seems incredibly light on detail

They are complaining about the official statement, specifically its lightness on detail.
how could it be the consumer if the Industry did fake good products since the begining of time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Negligible. You're far more likely to fall ill from bacteria in your garbage disposal or fungi in your bathroom.
Bet he didn't pay the wine tax either.
Youtube has the video service with cats, puppies, howtos, reviews, and conspiracy theories and YoutubeTV which has live TV, as well as movies, and shows. It is the latter which is artificially limited on Linux but LESS so than for instance hulu or Amazon.

In case any confusion remains these latter are available at tv.youtube.com with a subscription.
I think the limiting factor on this type of turbine is the material you use to make the disks. As the disks get bigger the rotational stresses increase. To be practical the stress induced would need to be below the ultimate tensile strength of the material. Since these turbines need to spin at extremely high rpms and need to be fairly large to be efficient, there's no practical material that they can be made of.
Running other equipment within the mine and lessening the load on the generators, generally.
It really must be nice to not feel the need or want to alter your consciousness. Lots of people I know who frequently use cannabis do so in order to change their perception of reality because for many, reality fucking sucks. Getting high is a great way to escape that.
It’s talks about planting a whole bunch of trees in an area,

It doesn’t bring in the fact that you also need to bring in animals, and small plants to kickstart the rewilding process
I don't love the model, but it's hard to see long term how Roku sustains itself on hardware sales alone. How many new Roku devices does one house need in a 3-5 year period? Investors want recurring revenue streams, and a new Roku device every few years isn't going to do that.

Kind of surprised that Roku hasn't been bought up yet.
see comment below. you are wrong no matter how nerdy your logic.
Atlas – The world’s most dynamic humanoid robot
"The world’s most dynamic humanoid robot, Atlas is a research platform that allows us to push the limits of whole-body mobility and bimanual manipulation. An advanced control system and state-of-the-art hardware give the robot the power and balance to demonstrate advanced athletics and agility."
It just occurred to me that this might relate to why people get near sighted with age. An old tool maker may no longer be as productive in hunting and gathering but instead masters his or her craft thus aiding the tribe.
I have a not-eReader 078 (back then it was just called not-eReader before the 10" sibling came to be) and it's an incredible device for a super small niche: secondary screen for an emergency laptop. https://imgur.com/a/xmRmYSn especially https://i.imgur.com/eV7qq8Y.jpg .

Notably there has not been a successor to the One Mix Yoga 2S. Later devices are larger, the current crop of handhelds are gaming handhelds with appropriate controls without a keyboard. Even the Ayaneo Air 1S which only has a 5.5" screen is 224mm wide where the Yoga 2S was 182mm. It's a little narrower though. I might buy it and use it with the ancient Samsung NP-Q1 keyboard.
Attention all device manufacturers: I don’t want your f-ing cloud. When I buy a physical thing, having to keep paying you every month is a dealbreaker. I don’t care that you want a constant subscription revenue stream, buying a piece of hardware is about me, not you.
I have moved all my "matlab like" work (mostly signal processing) into Octave for that same reason.
For something like a fridge, vacuum, dishwasher, washing machine they're all lasting substantially more than a year, even at the bottom of the market. If you're talking about a £20 blender then... yeah, I guess?
Are you evicting or deleting large sets (or lists or sorted sets)? We use a Django ORM caching library that adds each resultset's cache key to a set of keys to invalidate when that table is updated – at which point it issues `DEL <set key>` and if that set has grown to hundreds of thousands – or millions! – of keys the main Redis process will block completely for as long as it takes to loop through and evict them.
I hope you find someone to love you.
If I could choose between a $1000 appliance with a 10-year warranty and a $500 one with a 5-year warranty I know what I'd go with. But that sort of choice is virtually never available.
People buy stamps that are guaranteed to rise at less than the rate of inflation as an investment? And the USPS advertises it that way??

I'm not convinced. I would need some evidence of that.

(I am aware that stamps may be used in prison as a currency, but that's a special case.)
God, I hope this is a genius plan. Something about bird and squirrel labor for reforestation pleases me
I find that doing almost everything under WSL is a much better experience, if you can spare enough ram to the environment. Mostly because the monitoring software doesn't run inside the WSL/Ubuntu env.
>data exfiltration

Pi Hole can help with limiting this:

https://pi-hole.net

Here's the 24-hour top blocked domains list for my network (1x Kindle Fire Stick):

https://i.imgur.com/JZsO3WK.png
After long stints with Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, and Debian, I got very much into Gentoo Linux. Kept a local copy of the portage tree. Ran a dozen servers out of my house. That sort of thing. Then, I found a new job with a very-small, highly-technical company, which had built a successful business on the back of a custom physical testing software written by the young guy who was my boss. They used Gentoo for everything. It was probably a year into the job before I went to look up something about a package, and found my boss' name listed as the maintainer. That made sense, because it was a vital package that our custom software stack depended on. Then I noticed his name on something else. Then I grepped the portage tree, and discovered that he was the maintainer of MANY HUNDREDS of packages in the distro. I believe it takes a special skill set to want to do that, but this guy was on another level. He is the most talented, yet most modest, person I've ever seen.
Well don’t bring a deck of cards to a fist fight
If you wanna have additional insights, head over my Medium ports with SPEC CPU 2017 results.
https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-platform-cpu-pe...
But banknotes are literally issued by private banks? Why not have a national mint that covers all GBP?
I hope he goes ahead with the lawsuit. Would be interesting to have those researchers explain to the court the exact meaning of the phrase "hate speech". Is it really hate speech or simply speech they don't like? They should be prepared to provide thousands of examples. A few dozen won't suffice as evidence of a "rise in hateful tweets".
Completely agree, coding with chatGPT is hard.
I've been using this bot I wrote to code. You describe what you want in your github repo and it just writes the code and pull request for you. https://github.com/sweepai/sweep.
"The only known natural concentration empirically compatible with long-term human civilisation".

"The planet did exist/will exist just fine without us" is a pretty worn truism. You might as well wryly note that water isn't natural because everything was hydrogen once.
The submission deadline has been extended to the end of Sunday, August 6, anywhere on Earth.

https://cfp.packaging-con.org/2023/cfp
> you're are also having problems developing AI

I have no interest in talking computers.

cf. James Mickens' USENIX Security '18-Q keynote speech: "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

Anyway, they're just a pile of linear algebra and a massive pile of Other People's Data, eh? (And piles and piles of hype, my god, so much hype. Even in the "academic" papers!)

The difficulty would lie in amassing that data, not in developing software. You would have to solve that "conflict of conscience" first, no?

But more to the point: none of my goals can be advanced by talking computers.

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> Is there an AI stack that RMS would approve/use?

I have no idea. You could ask him if you're really interested.
Perhaps I am assuming too much of the subtext.

People commonly say things like this to suggest that it necessarily causes addiction which makes it a Bad Thing. It is true generally that it "can" cause addiction but only true circumstantially that it "does" cause addiction. Again, I may be reading too much into the comment but it seemed to be trying to make the "necessarily does cause addiction" point.
Optionally enabling it does break the ARM spec.

Their cores break the ARM spec in other ways too. Added instructions for AMX, new guard privilege modes, HCR_EL2.E2H can't be disabled, GPRs are clobbered on WFI, etc.
I wrote a BASIC to JS compiler/transpiler that includes all of the programs from "BASIC Computer Games" as examples.

You can try it out in your browser at: https://codepen.io/kgr/full/yLQyLjR

Just select the game you want to to run from the top-left list box, then press the "Compile" button and you'll see the translated JS source in the right text-area. Then press the "Run" button to run it.

The source code for the compiler is available at: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3/tree/429f2fd2b4cef0e37996a...
I am not sure I understand the Plex example here - their free streaming service that they are pushing so aggressively involves a lot of ads and some ad revenue as well. Eventually since they have to pay FireTV the 30% cut, they might end up raising prices of Plex Pass, or discontinue their "free" streaming service?
- modern, clean and pretty UI

- simple encryption support. should be able to set it up with a couple clicks and don't have to worry about it

- seamless synchronization between devices

- quick push notifications that don't require me to have something cluttering up my notification bar forever

these are just some of the points I could think about at the top of my head. the majority of clients have one or a couple of them, but there's no client to my knowledge which has all of them.

I have yet to find one that doesn't have awkward push notifications. like come on, do you really think I want an ugly notification turned on at all times watching for messages?

edit: formatting
I would much prefer the explicit, vertically-legible, autocompletable and real CSS rules to a horizontal mishmash of proprietary aliases.
Your Lua implementations are pretty decent. I was just learning Lua last year while reviewing your implementations.
FireTV is a roughly a quarter of the OTT market in the US. Content providers could likely boycott the platform and survive if they got together and collectively stood against it.
Crazy, basically using the stored potential energy to their advantage.

Never occurred to me to use the energy to create electricity. Makes me wonder if you could build a power plant at the bottom of a mountain that slowly levels the mountain to power the local grid.

I wonder just how much potential energy could be extracted from a mountain?
There is a difference between

* 20 million people watched show X-Episode 5, and

* notatoad watched show X-Episode 5 on 28-July-2023 at 8pm. We can also correlate that that they used UberEats to order Thai Cuisine at 7 pm on the same day, and that a certain group he belongs to was Y% more likely to buy the product placed within that show.

The second kind of information will be used in the future against you, to extract the maximum amount of money from you for services that "you just can't miss", after being bombarded with ads and social media influencers in sufficient quantity.
I could still beat it in a fight...
Often these open-source projects have their own commercial offerings to support development, e.g. Elasticstack, MongoDB. And then AWS destroys that, without offering any contributions themselves. So it's no longer commercially viable for the original organization, and development suffers.

That's a net negative result.
Yes and: I understand that we want to prevent the non-human emissions from becoming a positive feedback loop. Meaning that at some tipping point, the thawing tundra, burning forests, and acidic oceans will continue to get worse, even if/when human emissions completely stop.
The RTS Age has a good ring to it.
I got the wrong ram (64mb instead of 16) and will say it ran like a dream on a 5x86-133 with a cache module. NT4 ran really well on there as well for the time. OS/2 didn't behave quite right, after NT4 I never really looked back. Kept a 9x partition for games only.
30% is too high, but historically, cable networks gave about 15% of their impressions to the cable or satellite company to sell locally. So, on MTV, you'd see about 15 minutes of ads sold by MTV and 2 minutes of ads from the local car dealership that were sold by the cable co.
> Information about brand reliability is widely available.

Where? If you Google for it, you're only ging to find SEO'd info-free sites. If I take a look at what people tall about in only forums, they haven't a clue either.

I just see no evidence of this.
Okay I watch a lot of YouTube it it’s several leagues of quality below a lot of TV shows.

Some documentary YouTube channels also clearly just read Wikipedia and regurgitate random online sources. They don’t have the budget to go to the actual source or do any interviews.

Ofc there are a lot of bad TV shows on streaming services too but a world with access to both is nice.
Maybe humans become more developed because it got colder? Even on a country and global scale, the south is usually "behind" the north. It's hot, no one wants to do anything.

The American south (Arizona, Florida) were tiny and unimportant until air conditioning entered the chat. Phoenix was at 100 thousand people in the fifties.

The cold makes us think, the cold make us survive, keeps us on the edge - where we need to be. Respek the cold!