skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans look for "strong leadership" whenever they feel threatened, respectively have an uncertain outlook onto the future.

Authoritarian states are the result of a societal phase-change, occurring when a majorty feels this way. Those presumably "strong leaders" usually lack any sense for democratic ideas of relinquishing their position.

And manufacturing further "threats" down the line is easy to do. Which is why authoritarian regimes behave the way they do.

If you want to counter authoritarianism, you have to help people feel save about their future.
> Where C# is the most dominant language in the .NET world

Why would we want to live in the ".NET world"? I say adopt a programming language, or languages-ecosystem, that's not useful only in the "[some niche] world", but more-or-less everywhere. Whether it's older and well-trodden or newer and up-and-coming, I don't see the benefit of limiting yourself that way.
The price should be public, period. I had to create a dummy account just to view your pricing, which left unpleasant taste.
Microsoft Managed Desktop Service Ending Next Year
Fun fact, when I worked at Red Hat for many years on the Opensource.com project, we created a collection of dozens of great articles on the ins and outs of git, written by open source community members. You can still find most of those articles here:

https://opensource.com/tags/git

Unfortunately, the team who ran site got caught up in Red Hat's layoffs earlier this year and the site has been sitting in limbo ever since, so I don't know what will happen to it long term.
On Google/Meta it's built into the product though. You're connecting to their servers to use the service on their servers. You also don't pay them anything by default.

For Nvidia you're expected to pay $1000 for a graphics card and then they will collect data on you and send it to their servers even though you didn't choose to use their online services at all.
Is the proposed software something that creates a competitive advantage or is foundational/plumbing?

I'm not going to fund an open source project that would represent an even fleeting competitive advantage. On the other hand, I'm not going to pay to build an in-house CMS. If I had the money would consider spending it to support some open initiative. The rub I see though is that most startups don't have the runway to throw discretionary spending at open source.
You can't really "generate" a high-DPI segment.

The display either has a sufficient pixel density or it doesn't. Foveated rendering let's you cheat the details you render outside the focal point, but since your eyes can move to any portion of the display, the entire display needs to have a high-enough DPI that, once your eye moves to focus on that section, the content rendered in that location will be sharp.
I went to art school for college, and one of my internships was working with a guy who did facial prosthetics using medical-grade silicone.

I made a couple of eyes and ears, and kept some of the discarded ones we used during testing. I still show people for fun every now and then because they look extremely realistic.

I don't have any pictures available but I do a link to some of my old artwork (I don't really make art anymore):

https://www.behance.net/gallery/2201575/Drawings-2010-2011
Hi! I’m one of the great students working on this. This is merely a request to get more visibility. It will also help us get more grants. We don’t have any intention of restricting the “openness” of it.
Yes, your timeline is correct with the boom in Ashburn. It started out with Acc1, then Acc2 and then Acc3.. These were just some tiny buildings compared to the DC’s that would come in the next 20 years. ACC4 came online somewhere around your timeline as well.

ACC4 was the most state of the art data center in the world when it opened, and it was like 10 times the scale as the previous 3.. Construction halted on ACC5 when the 2008 recession hit. They said the funds dried up to continue construction, and laid thousands of workers off one morning.

Things picked back up a number of years later, and I believe they are past ACC12 now lol..

Here is ACC4, and 5 is right next to it..

https://maps.apple.com/?ll=39.018565,-77.461943&q=Dropped%20...

The newer generation data centers with 2 floors right down the street eclipse the ACC’s of the past and make them look child’s play.
Absolutely devastated at the news. Bram was really patient with me based on the few times I tried to contribute. I always liked his way of doing things, despite complaints from others.

I know there are a number of developers who regularly contribute and I hope they can continue developing for it.

Personally, I will archive Bram's last patch for posterity.
CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
It's missing "pickle" and "ferment", but I guess there's not enough culinary influence at Zoom HQ.
Very nice! Congrats on launching it's very well made, love it.

When I placed a circle I immediately pressed control to keep the ratio of the object -- photoshop reflex ahah -- it would be nice to have a similar UX.
Love your videos, already excited for the next one!
Except the drug addict has an actual excuse for getting back to it: addiction is a medical condition, whereas here it's just lack of any kind of decency.
I meant the syntax, yeah
They have to pay a lot with what they earn (to do their job, like insurance and such).
I just re-read the article – there is no sensitive browser extension here, just a pure webapp.

I wonder if the project will keep paying $1000 (begging the quesiton if that's denominated in USD or tokens "worth $1000"?) to everybody pointing out that pretty well-understood fact about the browser/extension security model to them?
Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again
For future models.
Is Hurd (in theory) a good fit for lightweight VMs?
> I would have said d. XXX. My reasoning being that in sets 1 and 2, the third tile has an X in every space where the first or second tile has an X.

This is of course the correct reasoning, but ChatGPT was way off, as we'll explore shortly.
It's just predicting the next likely token and while that works for a lot of things, clearly, it does not seemingly work well for abstract reasoning and logic.

While I think it's fair to say that being able to solve one Abstract Reasoning problem would indicate having Abstract Reasoning abilities to some degree, given that it's a multiple choice question there is a solid chance of just lucking into it (like with any human taking a test, even!).

As such, these tests typically have multiple questions of the same form but with different specific instances (much like the abstract Class vs the concrete Instance in Object Oriented Programming) in order to identify whether or not a conscious being does indeed have Abstract Reasoning skills.

So I will be more than happy to see ChatGPT solve several of these types of problems in a later iteration if it can, but I do think we've found a limitation of the class of models here.

Let's look at ChatGPT's reasoning for why that could be:

> 1st column: In both sets, the first tile is “O”, so no filling pattern can be determined.

False; both full sets have an X in the first column in the second row so this is completely wrong.

> 2nd column: In both sets, the second tile alternates between “X” and “O”.

False; only the second set alternates between "X" and "O" while the first set has two consecutive "O"'s in the first tile

> 3rd column: In both sets, the third tile repeats the same filling pattern as the second tile.

False; only the second set repeats the same filling pattern as the second second tile while the first set clearly is a combination of disparate tiles
(I specifically chose that representation to make clear that it was an Additive rather than Subtractive problem, by the way)

All three of these observations are incorrect but stated authoritatively that many people might not even have noticed.

Of course, the "predict next token" engine doesn't KNOW that so it just keeps on predicting tokens into the wrong solution.

I believe it will do this most of the time and that shows it does not yet have Abstract Reasoning skills.
Yea I don’t care neither but business seems to care. If you listen closely their specs are pretty much bloated with DUs.
Can't agree more, looking at what Windows has become from Windows 8 and onwards. It used to be that Windows users chose Windows over Linux because they saw it as the OS that "just lets them get their work done." No one can possibly say that about the Windows of today, the OS that gets in the way at every turn and corner to squeeze profits out of users who already paid.
Let's correct this false notion: "Shelters have very restricted hours, so if someone has a job that includes nights they likely can't use a shelter."

This is flat out wrong. MANY shelters will alter their curfew hours based around a person's employment status. Talk to the actual shelters about this policy and you will realize most are more than willing to adapt hours around a person's legitimate employment status.
Yeah, dealers are notorious for "whatever gets me my cash".

You could find those RAV4s here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12fx6j51iiA7q1Wm3keDu... (or the hybrid or prime) if you were bored.

Often the manufacturers allocate vehicles to dealers on somewhat of a random lottery, so if you need one fast you're often best traveling to the dealer that's as far away from a big city as possible.
I don't get why the base ISA didn't include any atomic instructions. It's an annoying omission when even tiny embedded devices often have more than one core available. And single-core designs could just implement them as no-op, the silicon cost is miniscule.
A very powerful example of the difference between the words “will” and “shall.”

Hats off to zoom for the free contract drafting lesson!

[edit: thanks to HN commenter lolinder for the actual lesson].
We will mostly do this comparison when we write our research paper. I can post it here when we do it.
The biggest things I notice are less ground clearance, which becomes a problem in heavy snow and the less powerful engine which makes it harder to get traction in snow and ice, particularly when trying to get up an incline, such as a hill or ramp.
MIT raised millions – research misconduct
https://web.archive.org/web/20230807100843/https://www.bizjo...
The carjacker was not visibly pregnant, which makes this woman's arrest even more ridiculous
> All fine but if say 2% is the tipping quantity (I'm pulling numbers out of my arse here) and it happens so that those 10% are the only percents we as humans can influence, shouldn't we push to reduce those 10% and keep an enjoyable planet for our grandchildren?

Of course, we should do it and reduce our carbon emissions as much as we can. But in addition to it we should be researching additional ways to control the climate -- reflectivity of the oceans, stratospheric reflecting particulates, methane control, etc. Putting all the eggs in the CO2 control basket might not solve climate for this or next generations.
Can you use vulnerabilities in a driver that's there but not currently loaded?
I’m not saying it was terrible but that it took a long time for it to be worth the trouble unless you really needed transparency. It’s only been the last year or so that you could expect to be able to use it for anything non-trivial and not spend time dealing with tools which didn’t support it.
Link to Actual Plan [.pdf]

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/FY2024-2026...
Possibly, I was looking at it thinking they were going for seeding the re-crystallization process during recharging in order to avoid dendrites and maintain cell energy density. I find it is often hard to deduce exactly where they are thinking of applying this due to the incredible competition around patenting and rechargeable battery ideas. (electrolytes, electrode configurations, etc). I've gotten to the point where I search patent applications with the lead authors names in them to get better clarity on why the author thinks they have made a breakthrough :-)
I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a courtesy by providing a pasteable citation.

Similar "we would appreciate citations" statement for (BSD-licensed) pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/about/citing.html

8000+ pubs citing pandas: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9876954816936339312
> As a developer, do you write 10k-20k lines of code a day?

No, nor would I consider it an improvement if I did.

OTOH, I’ve had some very good days where I net removed 10K+ lines of duplicate, unnecessary, and streamlinable lines of code, and those were very happy days.
Right, insulation isn't that expensive, it's mostly labor. So laying down rolls in the attic is cheapest (held by gravity), then tacking rolls up into the joists in a crawl-space probably comes next. Opening walls or vaulted roofs is much more intensive.

Another problem is older framing might use 4" studs or rafters and you'd really want 6-8" to have more space for adding thick insulation.
One of my thoughts is yes there is an issue with people that have to park on the street. A few random thoughts on that.

Urban drivers drive about half the miles/year than suburban ones. Probably 6000 vs 12500. And being an average some of them drive a lot less than that. I had a car in SF that I was putting 3000 miles/year on. If it was electric it's only use a batteries worth of power every month.

Given the duck curve and oversupply of solar during the day (oversupply == cheap) we should be installing chargers in employee parking lots. It's possible urban commuters could totally get by with charging at work. And it's probably cheaper and logistically simpler to install chargers there than on random street where cars park at night. Not to mention eventually power in the evening and night time is going to cost more than during the day.

Basically I think we still have a lot of low hanging fruit when it comes to electrified transport.
On modern computer systems still virtual paged? I don't think it really matters if the entire OS fits in the l3 cache because if it's paged as i believe it is then the most relevant pages will end up in cache.

So even if you have a really large monokernal the parts of it that actually get used will be in cache in the parts that aren't used and won't be in cache.

Has other people stated how Michael Colonel is still going to need a lot of user modules to do most of the work that's normally in the monolithic kernel, so it'll probably end up being about the same amount of code that needs to be in cash first, not in cash. The differences is really come down to just call boundaries as I understand it
As opposed to the amazing Windows Registry? Those who throw stones ...

Nevertheless, your criticisms are fair. However, unlike on Windows, Linux is actually working on that. Distributions like NixOS and Fedora Silverblue are starting to take the whole "put everything under control" very seriously.

I see no comparable efforts on Windows.
I made a turntable that spins cars around at 12 rpm, which doesn't sound like a lot but when it's your car spinning around at 12 rpm, it's a lot.
https://archive.md/RWjNQ
I use very little of the outbound/link-building things, but find the alerting on broken content and notifications of which specific pillar pages are hitting traction very actionable and useful.
That may be the case, but just as an example, elite progressive opinion seems to have shifted to a nonsensical "pro-gun control, anti-arresting people for gun crimes".
Cloud Cost Handbook
Using a framework like Suave probably reduces the "impedance mismatch" between ASP.NET and F#. If I had used that, I probably wouldn't have needed to split the code base into C# and F# parts.
No, I was actually really fascinated by the server and IT infrastructure in these types of operations and worked to make a career switch to programming.

I’m a full stack engineer now professionally, and work on open source code on the side.
I'm no expert but hopefully I can still point you toward the happy path: start very small and increase distributed complexity at your own pace until you can fully appreciate the entire end-to-end system and all the processes involved. The book: DDIA is a well-known 101, if a little primitive, and has references you can dig into as well.

Ideally, you also have some exposure to this at $job as simply building DIY infra horrors without seeing the real-world context, tradeoffs, etc. in which they typically operate will be misleading.
Someone just pointed me at a new version that contains animations as well as music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpnXANXGUg&ab_channel=Weird...
Not to diminish your point, but the GM electric trucks are extra hefty! The Ford variety isn't quite so shameful.

Ford F-150 Lightning 6,015 to 6,893 lbs

Rivian R1T 7,148 lbs

Silverado EV 8,532 lbs
But these are two very different scenarios though. When I use a website I'm actively interacting with that website. I want something from their web servers.

When I'm using an Nvidia graphics card I'm not actively looking to use their web services. I want the graphics card that I bought to work and that's it. The graphics card doesn't improve as a device by connecting to the internet.
Retroformer: Retrospective Large Language Agents
Abstract: Recent months have seen the emergence of a powerful new trend in which large language models (LLMs) are augmented to become autonomous language agents capable of performing objective oriented multi-step tasks on their own, rather than merely responding to queries from human users. Most existing language agents, however, are not optimized using environment-specific rewards. Although some agents enable iterative refinement through verbal feedback, they do not reason and plan in ways that are compatible with gradient-based learning from rewards. This paper introduces a principled framework for reinforcing large language agents by learning a retrospective model, which automatically tunes the language agent prompts from environment feedback through policy gradient. Specifically, our proposed agent architecture learns from rewards across multiple environments and tasks, for fine-tuning a pre-trained language model which refines the language agent prompt by summarizing the root cause of prior failed attempts and proposing action plans. Experimental results on various tasks demonstrate that the language agents improve over time and that our approach considerably outperforms baselines that do not properly leverage gradients from the environment. This demonstrates that using policy gradient optimization to improve language agents, for which we believe our work is one of the first, seems promising and can be applied to optimize other models in the agent architecture to enhance agent performances over time.
Also, that's not me. I'm not "Weird A.I."
Does not matter. When we sell our cars, the value tends to zero ;-)
Well if Apple paid for broken chips, that would lower the incentive TSMC would have to fix the problem. What I don't get is why people have been paying for broken chips until now.
Yeah but let's say your time is worth $60/hr. If you save only 40 minutes per month then you've broken even. Basically one lunch break. Some things are just a hassle to do, personally I would try to self host the Next app but I definitely see where the author is coming from purchasing Vercel.
Again, it's just a concept photo. The graphics designer hasn't used the product, nor has the model. They made the image to look pretty - the model, the monitors: they're all laid out in the rule of thirds. We shouldn't try to tease out what it should be like using this thing.

To play devil's advocate, your 32" monitor is more than 3x as large as the 13" monitor I'm working. People use interfaces on wall-mounted TVs that are 3x your 32" monitor just fine.
I love the Loch Ness monster comparison at the beginning. Brings it back to earth from the clickbaity headline fast.
> half of the world decided to ditch the USD and form a new global alliance called the BRICS+

Are you still talking about the Covid response? Not much actually changed since 2019 with the BRICS. Oops - I should say not much positive changed for the BRICS since 2019. Russia, though, got itself into a war that is causing massive economic damage.

So this looks like you're just throwing out a bunch of arguments, hoping something will stick in a reader's mind, but without much concern for reality.
That's cool.. I replaced a fireplace surround, flattened the wall, wired in for speaker passthrough and electronics to mount a tv, the surround didn't allow room for a tv mount and now power, etc.

Also enclosed a garage at a prior house, turning it into an office. Sub-breaker, lighting, etc.

Haven't been able to do much at my current house since the fireplace as my physical health is less than stellar. On the small repairs, I just can't handle those, I had trouble reading small text and not much dexterity before the tiny ribbon cables in modern laptops and phones. If it's beyond a sodimm or m2 slot, I'm out.
Currently most of dev bounty platforms do start with OSS, but we only started doing that last year.

Because of that, 90% of users of our commercial usage today is still close-source, and biggest customer base are from heavily regulated industries like insurance, finance, and even commercial banking, with 2 of them having > $15B each under management.

Now, as you pointed out, we had to implement and background checks, audit logs and have direct full-time relationship with devs through our subsidiaries.

But what made the biggest difference was our security tooling like GitSlice, which along with dev environments cuts down majority of risk exposure.

I would be really curious why you think something like this wont work for private repos?
Does SeL4 have all of of the speculative execution mitigations that Linux has?

Syscall latency also is not the end-all-be-all of performance. Does that actually translate to faster disk and socket I/O on average?
China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say