skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we move beyond class and focus on how an individuals vision for the future can never provide what humans truely want… a collective vision for the future which preserves freedom and human dignity.
Pinterest is really unsurprising. Unbelievable Google doesn't spike them it's utterly useless as a search result.
This is a problem; with the inertia the system is carrying where there are no "ethical" choices left. That's of course no excuse to pick a horribly fascist and evil one. Yet that seems to be the inference in any conversation where you point out that fact that we're basically fucked. "Oh yeah, well obviously you are a genocidal monster. That must mean we're not fucked."

Uh, no. I'm watching this garbage truck smash into the wall, same as you. We're all in the same boat.
Then sadly big business and government figured out how to turn that promise into the dystopia of today.
> Given the level of snark and off-topicness, I presume you don't actually expect me to answer the question with dozens of different methods.

Dozens of different methods to ... buy crypto? You can keep them.

I would trust something like Kagi more than any crypto exchange to keep my privacy.

You are right that it may not be a good idea to have all your searches tied to your identity, but mixing crypto into that won't help.
>They need to know if you can write a custom k8s controller in Clojure to generate cronjobs that run k8s jobs that call AWS lambada to ingest data from elastic cakehole and inject it into substandard-IA random availability zone iceberg storage while a Annoying Notification is triggered via ANS to a Rickety Queue Storage sent to someone via Shaky Email Service that eventually ends up in someone's Junk Mail folder in O365 but contains a link to the insecure bucket with the entire company's payroll data in it.

:D LOL

As someone getting paid for exactly that, 1000 internets to you!
IBM made very few products for the masses. Their platform took off because of clones like Compaq, HP, and Dell.
In fact I see some serious lab quality glassware in the background. But posting without its provenance is a weird for sure.

IMO there’s an awful lot of amateur / informal attempts that are promising enough that, while not convincing, are inspiring of hope. But I do wonder how much is fake. But more than a few seem to be clearly not fake, such as the work Varda is posting.
Yup, I just never took the time to set it up properly.
Of course, if something was actually intelligent just as we are, but didn't need food etc, then the 'means of production' would now be wholly and completely owned by capital, and there would be no place for workers of any sort.

But with LLMs we are as close to that as climbing Everest takes us to the Moon. No small feat, but not particularly relevant. After all, all they do is return statistically likely text responses from text inputs, based on a very large corpus of text previously written by humans. Any claim above that is technical hubris and/or funding strategy.
> That said, I agree with n2d4 that it’s stupid to insult the authors. Talk is cheap and building is hard.

If your code offers an expectation of determinism then it's sloppy to not distinguish where there isn't determinism. There's nothing difficult about writing a comment to the effect of "this function is non-deterministic. For deterministic results, use X".

The code is sloppy if the developers didn't consider determinism and offer nothing to consumers, or if the consumers writing software cannot know where non-determinism is introduced.

If that's somehow insulting then I'd say someone has very thin skin.
Do you always store modules in the same repo as the terraform itself?

Why not put them in seperate repos that can be tagged and versioned and then referenced like below?

source = "git::https://bitbucket.org/foocompany/module_name.git?ref=v1.2"
My favourite review so far! Thank you for the kind words.
Trains are fine but also very expensive. And rail networks are already very congested. And also very outdated in large parts of Europe. People like the idea of trains but not the practice of high ticket prices, disruptive delays, multi day journeys to cover the distance you can fly in 2 hours, etc.

The main issue with aviation is that fuel is burned, which is bad for the environment. However a lot of short haul flight can transition to battery electric pretty soon. Probably before any significant amount of new rail gets built. That removes the major environmental concerns. And lots of small planes can fly point to point so you remove the dependence on big central hubs as well.
There are a number of problems that all interlock. Democracies with their relatively short election cycles will naturally find it hard to deal with problems that last much longer than those election cycles and that have the bulk of the problems downstream of us. Voters are motivated by their personal issues first, local issues second and global issues dead last. Countries are going to have to collaborate in a very strict manner in order to deal with global issues.

Throw all of those in a blender and it's easy to see why democracy and global problems are not going lead to an actual solution. Individuals are going to make some minor difference but not enough to offset the larger trends as long as it isn't a solid majority doing this.
Usually people use "state" to mean that the resource accumulates data. E.g., a VPC is stateless, but the s3 bucket containing flow logs for the VPC is not.

Tearing down and recreating a VPC can be disruptive, but that doesn't make it a stateful resource.
That would be a safe assumption, yes. Im clearly not a complete moron.

It reduced my productivity when I used it.

Between having a slightly faster and slightly customized version of google vs. being sent down misleading rabbit holes, the latter won out.

I found a few niche use cases where it proved useful but it was all out of proportion to the hype.

I've paired with other people who were bullish about LLMs using them and witnessed them falling down rabbit holes. I found the whole experience bizarre - it was like seeing a new "social reality" take precedence over what was happening in front of our eyes. Computer says yes.
Such tiny samples warm up to room temperature very quickly, on the order of a few seconds. In my experience, it's not possible to make such small pieces of YBCO superconductor levitate, they warm up too fast.
A lot of landscaping is conspicuous consumption. Just like a 50k Rolex, people buy it because it makes them seem rich.
This is honestly probably the most tiresome argument that constantly pops up in every HN thread.

Imagine if one of your friends come back from a holiday trip and tells you how fantastic the place they visited was. Is your response "Well, maybe that place ain't going to be so nice in a few years!"?
X-isms
No idea if accurate but there was this which is interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36996337

> “ Specifically they were one of the last believers of long-forgotten Russian theory of superconductivity, pioneered by Nikolay Bogolyubov. The accepted theory is entirely based on Cooper pairs, but this theory suggests that a sufficient constraint on electrons may allow superconductivity without actual Cooper pairs. This requires carefully positioned point defects in the crystalline structure, which contemporary scientists consider unlikely and such mode of SC was never formally categorized unlike type-I and type-II SC. Professor Tong-seek Chair (최동식) represented a regret about this status quo (in 90s, but still applies today) that this theory was largely forgotten without the proper assessment after the fall of USSR. It was also a very interesting twist that Iris Alexandria, "that Russian catgirl chemist", had an advisor who was a physicist-cum-biochemist studied this theory and as a result were so familiar with the theory that they were able to tell if replications follow the theoretical prediction.”

So it might be an old hypothesis brought back?
It beats -45 I guess... (that's the lowest I ever saw on my outside thermometer on St. Josephs Island).

You make a good point though: what is and what isn't habitable will change and as a result there will be substantial movement of people, displaced either by choice or by need.
There's no suggestion that would be a bad thing.

Just highlighting the flaw in your assumption that the anonymous person behind this is male.
If you make comparisons only for "upload/download a file" versus, for example, zmodem...Kermit doesn't fare well.

Kermit is, though, more than that. One example is that it includes a scripting functionality somewhat like the once popular "Expect" package[1]. For things like interacting with a Cisco router cli, ftp servers, etc. Or, as the article mentions, "server mode[2]"...something zmodem also doesn't do.

So, for example, it was really useful "back in the day" for things like connecting to a network enabled modem bank and running batch jobs to do various things.

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckscripts.html

[2] http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckututor.html#iksd
Now I have to wonder whether it would be possible to build a cache around an unmodified 6502. I.e. a component that just sits between the (unmodified) CPU and memory and does caching.
Doing a reproducible build with Vagrant and Docker is possible but very far from straight forward as you have to make extra sure that you use the exact same source box/image and install every software in the exact same version and deal with updates manually (and while most of the time updates don't break stuff anymore, it still happens at least once a year) + you still have to deal with synchronizing your IDE settings, secrets & credentials which you don't want baked into a Docker image, ... again yes it's possible, but not as straightforward as working in the exact same environment...

the VM on an external SSD is a better solution, but then it's still something you have to carry with you even though it's more compact than a laptop...
> Public transportation still requires you to go to the bus stop in the rain.

I want to say here that this comment sounds extremely alien to me, to the point that out of context I would have taken it as satirical.

I know you're serious, but there's probably a big portion of people to whom discussing the problem of walking in the rain to the bus stop sounds completely ridiculous, in any context, and as as something we must consider when talking about climate change policy, well, even more ridiculous.

I've lived in rainy places, and you just wear a raincoat, boots, maybe an umbrella (not always), and carry on.

This kind of disproportionate weight assigned to even the smallest levels of personal discomfort, when discussing these problems, is what most people are denouncing here. And this bias might be what pushes people towards techno-solutionism that doesn't have a chance of actually solving our problems in the time frame that we need.
Have there been any strange geological events recently like volcanic eruptions that could have caused this?
Yes it is going on. I wound up having to write a new python GP library from scratch due to DEAP license being gpl3. Now I’m translating that to Rust. One point of order: don’t only try stuff randomly. Also try trying stuff in shortlex order. Also, make sure you use hyperparameter optimization on the outside of the GP evolution process or else you’ll wind up with too many parameters to hand-tune.

I think the link between Pascal’s Simplex, Koza GP Tree Words, and Levin Search, is fascinating.
How nice then that you can use Kagi as it is right now, today. Then if your prediction comes true in the future you can stop using Kagi.
> The 6502 doesn't have a cache

I don't think CPU caches were much of a thing back then, at least in the segments involved.
AFAIK Intel wouldn't get on-die cache until the 486 (the 386 did support external L1, I think IBM's licensed variants also had internal caches but they were only for IBM to use).

The most distinguishing feature of the 6502 is that it had almost no registers and used external memory for most of the working set (it had shorter encodings for the first page, and IIRC later integrators would use faster memory for the zero page).
I actually mean better graphics, yes. I'm not sure what you mean by "numbers" (fps?), but I'm talking draw distance, shadows, grass details, etc. I was comparing Red Dead Redemption 2. We don't have other games in common.

My AMD card is a 5600 XT, bought in 2020 IIRC, right before prices exploded due to mining. I don't think the PS5 was out at the time. Anyway, I've never seen one, so I'd be hard-pressed to make any comparison with it.

I've also not tested this in person, but I seem to remember watching a recording of someone playing GTA V on a PS4, and the graphics didn't look as good as on my PC. But then, I don't know how the compression and whatnot affected the quality.
it's event-sourcing re-discovering accounting, back to ~1500 Luca Pacioly maybe..
It writes better JSDoc than any of us. Anyone who consumes a Typescript method is likely to read it, it’s the tiny text that pops up if you code in VSC.

If you go through my history here on HN (you don’t have to I’ll sum it up), you’ll see that I’m not a fan of LLMs for code generations. In fact I’m not convinced they will ever be good enough to be useful for it. For documentation, however, at least for JSDoc GPT is incredible. I really mean it when I say that it writes it better than we do. It’s able to figure things out and describe it in ways that still amazes me from time to time.

It does require you to be good at naming things.
I don't care about what people call me, I'm just pointing out there are too many of us. Historically when there were too many people we ended up with wars or famine. I don't think this time around it will be an exception to that rule, but it's the first time this is happening at this scale. In that sense all bets are off, it is also possible that given such stakes humanity can find it in itself to pull the cart as one but I'm not too hopeful about that.

We could easily be in 'adapt or die' territory somewhere in the next century.
I have an nVidia card and I never managed to get any AI stuff working on my base system. The only thing that's worked off the box is Docker images with CUDA support.
When you see a divergent year then you need to ask yourself did anything odd happen this year?
Co-ops and nonprofits aren't always great. We have a co-op grocery++ store (almost like Walmart I assume) in Norway named Coop. It's a fine store and all but they're no different than the rest.

They spend tons of money on advertising etc so they just end up acting exactly like a forprofit corporation except they can say they're a co-op and market themselves as "a little bit yours" because you can pay like $20 a year or something and "own" it.

I'm convinced there's a bunch of forprofits siphoning off the profits somehow. Just like with charities, they find ways to extract that cash flow. Slurping it up like black gold.
> geoengineering is something we can't avoid

With all its inherent uncertainties geoengineering has many chances to make living conditions even worse.

It appears that the best think we can do is to stop doing thinks. I concede magic will be needed to make boomers accept that.
China Pleases Parents with Plan to Limit Kids’ Smartphone Use
No paywall : https://archive.is/pI3Sb
It's gotta be better than the SEO garbage on Google
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This in nothing new or surprising. Virtually everything Apple has engineered for decades prioritizes Apple's interests over the users in some way.

iPhones don't support memory cards or wired headphones for the same reason.

I tell all my Apple friends to name something their $1000 iPhone does that my $200 Motorola can't. I can name several simple, practical, useful things an iPhone can't do --- not because Apple can't do it but because they don't want to.

I made the mistake of showing an Applehead how I could use a Windows PC to archive photos from an iPhone to a memory card and free up space. This unleased a stream of requests from others to do the same.

This should be just as easy to do in the Appleverse garden but apparently it's not --- because Apple prefers you buy a new iPhone or pay for on-line storage instead.
I don't really know why people think AGI would be some type of static event. Like there will just be this thing called AGI, that is some type of mind, who mindlessly lives forever backing itself up to the cloud? It truly seems absurd ? "Minds" are useful for humans and biological creatures to support and protect their bodies. It's yet to be seen how much need there is for a mind outside of this context.
We migrated from terragrunt to terraform as we thought the same thing. I'm in half a mind to go back.

Managing multiple environments is much easier in TG. State management in TF is kneecapped by the lack of variable support in backend blocks. I can only assume it's to encourage people into using terraform cloud for state management.
Thank god for MDN...Wish I had it when I was learning HTML.
The way you phrased it definitely made it sound like you were implying it was a bad thing lol
In the Netherlands the problem is now getting enough train drivers, conductors and traffic controllers.

The hardware is easy. Just throw enough money at it.
As an FP purist. These third party libs for JS are a mistake.

stick to stdlib and native lang constructs.
Update to the 2013 numbers: As of today, the Intel SDM (https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/782158/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abc...) has 5066 pages.
There are seriously so many conflicting informations that this should be hanged from implementation before it its fully formulated (aside fact that it is bad idea and should be scrapped).

Firstly on Android Chrome implementation (testing) only Google Play is now implemented as attester and it does not seem that probable for it to change. (so presumably at least Chrome+Root wont work).

Second and Most Important - the mechanism does not allow for "willing to attest it" - it actually contains this phrase "The web server then checks that the token came from an attester it trusts" so it is disingenuous to say that "any single atestor" is OK - it must be attestor that server decided beforehand (so if server decide we only trust Google and Microsoft - and you have Mac, then tough luck. [more realistically Linux will be at issue]) - so we are getting system that can exclude certain OS and Browsers permanently without recourse - by server side.

@zb3
>doesn't it mean it will be the browser that decides which atestor can run on a given platform?
That seems to be case in Chrome implementation* - and there is nothing about this in standard so unless other browsers would create another standard - this way seems likely.

This would be disastrous for any decentralized OS like Linux or BSD - it would be completely impossible for it to realistically work as it requires single "platform" by design - and I should remark "there is no single uniform thing in Linux".

* - note that server decides which attestors it trusts. Which means in essentia that sever decides which platforms it trusts.

Again this must be scrapped.
You know you’re dealing with amateur management when they think doubling people is going to linearly halve the time of a project. This completely ignores the varying skill sets, and difficulty in decomposing some tasks. Onboarding and ramp up is also very time consuming. Productivity of existing team members will drop, temporarily, as they onboard new people. Communications overhead is also very real.
No frost on the sample either. The only way I can think of to fake this in camera is to make the "sample" out of a strong magnet, and make the "magnet" a hollow shell concealing a chilled piece of YBCO!
It also depends if train travels 100 km/h or 300 km/h on average. With high-quality high speed network across Europe demand for air travel could be greatly reduced. Europe is small.
I live maybe 400 km from Toronto and when people from that city come by with their "Torontoww" accent they're pretty easy to distibguish from the local lads from up the line as soon as they open their mouths. My wife's relative from up in the valley speak with an almost unintelligible dialect with different phrasing and pronunciation than I'm used to.

So I think the analysis is just lazy.
I have never seen a productive application of event sourcing at scale. The idea is super elegant but there’s so much extra overhead. Your data size is easily 10x bigger, unless things nearly never change anyway (and then why do it, right?). Even simple things such as fixing a typo require a Command to be stored as an Event etc etc. Fixing fuckups by manual database edits / script runs gets harder because it means you’ll create a mismatch between the events and the main db, so you ought to inject events instead, but you’re under time pressure so what to do, and the list goes on. I wish these things weren’t issues because in a very real way event sourcing feels like the “obviously best way” to deal with pretty much any kind of structured data storage. I want it to succeed.

Does anyone know of a system that successfully did/does event sourcing at scale? How did you deal with these downsides?
Hard disagree because Ramda is full of well documented standard native FP constructs. if you must use JS then Ramda can help make the code more correct
All processors have bugs. Despite their simplicity the 6502 were hardly bug-free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Bugs_and_q...
Mastering Database Transactions in Go: Strategies and Best Practices
Quality of life in a very narrow materialistic definition for an individual? Or overall and sustainable society quality of life?
> I would generally refrain from insulting other people's code if you don't know much about the system it's written on.

Well, the general state of how utterly shoddy most of the code in the AI/ML ecosystem is is observable to anyone trying to follow a guide on how to set up Stable Diffusion on AWS. It's a fucking mess of trying various combinations of driver versions, Ubuntu kernel versions, Python versions, and the fact that Python requirements.txt (similar to NodeJS) doesn't pin versions of transitive dependencies doesn't make it easier because it makes for very brittle and not reproducible builds/guides. Oh, and at least some of that stuff won't work without root.

Yeah I'll keep AI shit cordoned off in its own subnet.
> I don't think CPU caches were much of a thing back then

Indeed, because memory was fast enough to respond within a single cycle back then. Or alternatively, CPU cycles were slow enough for that to happen depending on how you want to look at it :)
The point is, license audits suck for everyone and present their own kinds of reputational risks (e.g. Oracle), and making them less necessary by using other approaches towards the problem is rational from Red Hat's perspective
>A single modern games console has more RAM than all of the Atari 2600s ever manufactured put together

In other mind boggling movie lore, an RTX 4090 has 2x the TFLOPS computing power than the killer AI Skynet used in Terminator 3[1].

The writers back then probably though 60 TFLOPS is such a ridiculously high sci-fi number for the world-ending AI, that nothing could possibly come close to it, and 20 years later consumers can have twice more computing power in their home PCs.

It's also a nice reminder how far technology has progressed in the last decades even if the pace has slowed down in the last years.

[1]https://youtu.be/_Wlsd9mljiU?t=155
The Final Hop Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup: Week 31, 2023