skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even easier is to use Tailscale. Run tailscale on your laptop and server, and then access the web UI by using <tailnet_server_ip>:<port>
I think addressing people's expression of skepticism of the average motives of journalists by simply making the unqualified claim that the people expressing skepticism "know nothing" made the opposite point than you intended.

This is an article posted to Hacker News where a defendant was incarcerated by a judge for media manipulation, and journalists who were involved made statements to the judge in support of the defendant. Since the defendant was incarcerated, that makes the journalists involved closer to malfeasant than not, but the entirety of your claim is that there is never malfeasance involved in journalism and the skepticism of the people you're reprimanding is simply "populism." Frankly, that comes off as a bit malfeasant, in the reflexively defensive sense.

Would you like to claim I "know nothing" about the profession of journalism as well? How would you know that I know nothing about the profession of journalism?
Cool story, but nobody wants 70GB of VRAM except the tiniest portion of ultra enthusiasts that already have $35k to blow anyways. Top end GPUs are already extremely rare. Steam reports 0.72% of RTX 4090.

Running LLMs and various models locally will not require 70GB of RAM. It'll go down to manageable amounts, or noone except a tiny portion of ultra enthusiasts will run them.
servethehome.com has been talking extensively about the Dell/HP/Lenovo varieties in their TinyMiniMicro series. They also have a bit of coverage on even more affordable and bang-for-buck Mini PCs typically sourced through AliExpress. You typically don't find these on the secondary market (yet) but if buying new is an option you can get a decent Ryzen barebone for ~$300.
I've also found it's all just a matter of processes.

For example, open source is often all online, and it creates innovation all the time. People bounce off ideas on forums, on issues, often with a high level of thought going into it all. Great exchanges can happen in written form.

But I think a lot of companies that went remote just had no clue how to organize processes, discussions, and decision making for a remote environment.
Dual licensing with Apache/MIT are very common in the Rust community
Yeah... 2.666 $ and a lead time of 3 weeks. That's exactly the kind of bullshit I'm talking about - the target class for this is embedded developers, but not tinkerers and ordinary developers, the latter of whom you need as a platform the most.
Nomad is far from dead. It’s a good option when you want resource scheduling and can’t use containers.
Librewolf as well
There's a lot of developers who like macs because they do not value control, access or freedom to use their hardware the way they want.

If it weren't coming at the cost of everyone else in the industry, i wouldn't mind this preference, not everyone has to be a hacker. As is, apple's existence is a net negative.
Any first hand experience? We are using pg_vector and it works really well
Does `container` mean `Docker/OCI container`?
I have recently was on the journey to learn react-native. And was starting to compare few rn ui kits. I haven't test tamagui so don't know how good it is regarding tech but some small things that turn me off:

- the landing page of tamagui is just throwing me off. Too much noise and pollution: too much colorful, too much gradients, colors changes when scrolling, too much animation, not consistent choice of fonts (good mixed with retro style). overall it feels like a big advertising banner screaming for my attention or old web 1.0 websites that abused animations and styles.

- they recently released paid one starter kit that I was about to buy. It's good that they provided many screenshots but please (message to anyone making such 'developer elevator pitch'/'test drive experience') provide both:

a) some online gallery app / kitchen sink that shows your product

b) the same app that I can just install with no fuss on mobile using expo go so that I can see how smooth it behaves on native devices (even better if there is demo app in appstore)

This is just maybe my OCD but (again message to some creators reading this and selling some dev tools). We developers even if we like your product still have to onboard other team members or even worse our supervisors who are design leaders. Make my work of 'selling' your product to supervisors smooth. If my eyes hurt even though I'm trying to be still understanding - my design lead supervisor eyes' will bleed and potentially kill any respect when sharing your product demo.
Interesting article. I can see how it makes sense for OpenAI or someone with a LLM to take advantage of any entropy that presented itself, as a shortcut to non-repetitive answers. I'm not sure if you're saying that these LLMs take on new characteristics as they get more randomized? Or just that it would be hard to get your hands on a fresh one to test the determinism of?
Does this work for packages like PyTorch too, in GPU mode?
That was in the days of analog TV. No good way to authenticate uplinks there, I think.
Why Supermarket Honey is FAKE [video]
1 he is
2 his time
3 he or
4 his assignments
5 he doesn
6 guy is
7 his low
8 his guitar
9 guy and
10 him go
11 him then
12 he chooses
13 he goes
14 his natural
15 he can
16 he wants
17 he goes
18 he relies
19 his natural
20 him through
21 his assignments
22 He experiences
23 his usual
24 He can
25 his assignment
26 he hands
27 he doesn
28 his official
29 him too
30 his UNIX
31 he would
32 he could
33 his own
34 He flunks
35 He ends
36 He can
37 his strength
38 him to
39 He conceives
40 he embarks
41 his resources
42 his own
43 him so
44 he will
45 his sensitivity
46 he knows
47 he smells
48 He can
49 he is

My conclusion: this is about something that only happens to guys.
No, mixing boxed and unboxed types is very typical for garbage collected languages. As the article shows, you can distinguish with a bit whether something is a boxed type or not, so you do that during GC. For many GCs, you typically have another bit for marking (whether you need it depends on the GC technique -- copying GC may not need it). With modern 64-bit CPUs, usually the three lowest bits are free (because every struct will be 8-byte aligned and thus pointers end in 0b000) that you can use for tagging. This will give you 61 bit ints, which work just as described in the article.
I linked to Alex Washburne's criticism of Pekar (the "two lineages" paper) on biorxiv above, and I believe that's generally sound. (Note that he's got a different preprint alleging genomic evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was assembled using BsaI and BsmBI, which I believe is quite wrong.) That Twitter criticism is from a pseudonymous account, but it's clearly some kind of relevant academic.

Prominent journals have been unfortunately willing to publish low-quality work in support of natural zoonosis; I assume you don't think pangolins are the proximal host, but it took Nature more than a year to correct "Isolation of SARS-CoV-2-related coronavirus from Malayan pangolins". David Relman published a note back in 2020, which doesn't say much but does refute the arguments of "Proximal origin":

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2021133117

There's no more recent summary that I'd recommend. The most notable development since then is perhaps the absence of notable developments; there's still very little evidence on either side, and these arguments often devolve into whether the PRC is covering up a research accident or covering up zoonotic origin. If SARS-CoV-2 did arise from a research accident, then the evidence confirming that may be an intelligence matter (like a leaked document) rather than new science. For example, the Sverdlovsk anthrax incident wasn't confirmed to be a lab accident until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Alina Chan's book is written for a popular audience, but well-referenced into the scientific literature. Jesse Bloom does excellent work, but his papers address particular narrow questions, nothing like a summary.
There is one model even worse: when leadership claims that they too sit in the open office like everyone else … only to take up a big meeting room all day as if it is their personal office, causing the actual meetings booked there to have to move to the middle of the open space, making everyone an unwilling meeting participant.
This might be also a cultural difference and might cause some friction in the communication. If I remember correctly in general in the US it is preferred the style "what; why" while in Europe generally it is more "why; what". If the appropriate style works it's not used you might be perceived arrogant or condescending. Very high level generalization here but I think you get the point.
He can be both, it's not an either or.
Comment: As a former beekeeper and we ran over 2000 hives and had a bottling plant that bottled over a million pounds of honey per year, I can tell you that when the pollen is not super filtered people would reject it and take back to the store saying it is "dirty' We used to only use a mesh sock to strain the honey but ended up having to use a filter bag precisely because of this. Second, Chinese imported honey has been a plague since the 80's. Third, Much of what they call honey is actually invert sugar. Invert sugar is white sugar boiled with citric acid that converts it to what the Brits call "Golden Syrup" you can find many videos on how to make it. to go from golden syrup to fake honey, you need some aromatic flower scent. Pandan extract, rose water, a little bit of grape and just a tiny amount are some common additives. I myself have experimented in the kitchen learning how to make it and it is surprisingly close to the real thing in taste, color, aroma, and mouth feel. Lastly in the USA labeling something that is not 100% pure honey as honey is a big criminal violation. I can guarantee you that at least in the USA, your competitors will be sending bottles of your product to labs for testing. We often sent our competition honey to the labs and occasionally we did get corn syrup branded as honey back in the lab results. We would inform the distributor and that product would get pulled ASAP. Mainly because product liability for adulterated food goes all the way from the supermarket to the producer. However IF you label it as Honey syrup. Like Popeyes does, it is not legally honey. It does not have to contain any honey. You could also say honey flavored syrup in small lettering and get away with it under USA law.
I think this is a tricky one. Certainly I wasn't particularly impressed with how the science was communicated in a few areas:

- The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, and the risk/benefit analysis, particular in younger adult demographics

- The WHO's position on airborne transmission of Covid-19, and the way in which understanding in this area was misrepresented to the public

I took part in a vaccine clinical trial myself, and there was a much more in-depth discussion as to what was known about the candidate vaccination, its side effect profile - and, more importantly, the limits of our knowledge given the small population it had been tested in when I volunteered.

We didn't see much of that nuance during the height of the pandemic.

At the same time though, some may argue that trying to combat misinformation requires over-simplifying some things, such that they can be effectively communicated to the public.

Ref:

https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7
...You realize user agent is operator set, right?

If they won't reapect robots.txt, they aren't interested in your consent.
I don't think the problem here is the actual scientists. The problem is the "I Follow The Science™" laypersons. A scientist can speak on a subject with some degree of authority, and be perfectly open to dissent if it's followed with sufficient rigor. However, their layperson followers may go on to parrot a claim made by said scientist, proclaim it to be an absolute truth, and shun anyone who might casually question it. A situation not unlike religious zealotry. In general, science is great; scientism isn't.
In F# (.NET) primitives aren't boxed unless they are stored in a variable/field of type System.Object. Generic methods are specialized by the JIT compiler when their generic arguments are primitive types.
You are probably correct that few journalists seek to mislead, but you skim over the real problem by saying it's "certainly commendable" to want to read primary sources...and then just drop the subject. Why is it so damn hard to read the publicly available source material behind an article, if it's so commendable to do so?

You argued for five paragraphs that it's not nefarious, but never gave your own answer; yes, some journalists are bad at summarising, but that doesn't tell us why none of them provide sources, or are expected to.

I'd guess the answer is some combination of deadlines and editors and market demand and it just not being critical to summarising the news, but it's a bit milquetoast to complain about other explanations without giving one yourself.
I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
The cloud isn't supplying storage, the cloud is providing reasons not to need storage in the first place (piracy vs streaming).
Got stuck in a clothes a chute growing up, can confirm that those things are evil.
I was being a bit silly; wpt.fyi doesn't do the naughty/nice thing.

If the WEI proposal keeps progressing towards a standard I'd expect that team to submit a test to WPT, yes.
If the prime minister leading the power grab weren’t currently under indictment for corruption you might have sounded reasonable.
Democracy includes the rule of law, it is not just "there was a vote once so everything the winner does is democratic"...
Tailscale hired the guy who wrote Headscale, for him to work on software, so they're sponsoring the programmer who's working it, but it's not "Tailscale" software, and they have no warranty, express or implied, because it's not theirs. It's its own project.
> I wonder if the accusation has to be made to a law enforcement agency, or whether it would apply in my situation where the person made an accusation to a private entity?

I can't find any case law which directly answers your question; as far as I am aware, no case has ever been prosecuted under that law for the type of scenario we are talking about (but just because it hasn't happened yet, isn't in itself a bar for it happening some day in the future). This law never says the false accusation has to be made to a law enforcement agency, even though similar laws in other jurisdictions do explicitly say that; I don't see why a court would insert that requirement when the text doesn't explicitly contain it. But of course, nobody can be certain unless some day the matter actually comes before a court to decide.
A truly incredible feat of FFI!
Bulk convert images using WebAssembly without uploading to server
Nice, the site also has TempleOS games. Very niche I would say.
The idea isn’t unreasonable, but your idea of a scientific dissident is probably not mine. In this very comment section we have folks promoting literally any disagreement as valid dissent, up to and including social media DIY researchers, as a valuable voice in this space. I disagree with the bar for validity not only being lowered but removed entirely.
Not sure the claim is true in the strong form, but that aside: was the approach wrong as far as policies and social outcome are concerned? Would a more nuanced approach have worked better and by what metric? Just being unhappy about what happened isn't enough for things social.
> isn't the consensus still that the virus has a zoonotic origin?

It's all very well to speak of a "scientific consensus" when that consensus is based on good, peer-reviewed research. But when the evidence is weak, then any "consensus" you might find is indistinguishable from an opinion poll among ill-informed folk. It's not a "scientific consensus", it's just an opinion that's popular.
Super cool! Fun, useful and slightly cursed indeed
There may be something lost in translation.
I'm curious to research if a dedicated TSDB is worth it for my project. Not to waste time could you recommend one that in your opinion would be worth it over just Postgres? I used InfluxDB a couple of years a ago but didn't really see the value, even though I loved the product. Should I give it another chance?

Application is storage of a diverse set of (irregular) events. Lifecycle management and archival is more important than compression. Volume is moderate.
It’s on archive.org, is that really going to work?
Uhm... It depends on the scientist. I've met a more then a handful of the "it has to be this way" types. The kind who thinks that being correct and being a brute are interchangeable words. Maybe the real problem is they feel the need to be correct about the unknown? Unclear.

Good scientists are what you describe. But they seem to be becoming more rare.
The older I get, the more I would agree with that statement. Tech and business grads without a classical humanities side-education tend to become the worst people, hyperspecializinh on things that maximise profits at the cost of human suffering and environmental destruction.
Alternative take as a dev that only uses Apple products for work, the local hardware doesn't matter that much. We've almost circled back to dumb terminals with everything running on a network connected server.
https://kotaku.com/the-brilliant-snes-emulator-creator-known...

https://www.insider.com/chris-chan-arrest-what-is-kiwifarms-...
Do we need to spell out why something is interesting or useful? Show don't tell?

Or are we all looking for an aesthetic that we love and want to see more of but we know it when we see it?

I've been journalling about computers since 2013. I am looking for something higher and beautiful.
Yeah exactly my thinking. The user 499…215 is going to have some his own identity, but is also socially defined in contexts of friends or social bubble system like Google+ Circles/Discord Server/Mastodon Instance. That has to become the default over coming decade, perhaps half a decade.
Ex-Amazonian here, and while I agree with the facts you present, I do think the "tall" vs "wide" debate is being misapplied here.

Amazon is extremely and perversely obsessed with, and good at, building decoupled systems at scale, which in essence means lots and lots of individual separate "tall" systems, instead of monolithic "wide" systems.

So IMO, Amazon subscribes to a "forest-of-'tall'-services" philosophy. And even at that meta level, I would say the forests are better off when they grow taller, rather than wider.
~20 GB vram for the 7B model and 48 GB for the 13B model.
It depends on the context size as well. I'd recommend renting a 4090 from a cloud provider like runpod/vast ai to get started, using a PEFT tutorial.
> I was greatly impressed by Raj's succinct way of giving me the right information in the right detail without going into unnecessary explanations.

Did he though?

"I'm okay" is a good start, but then maybe "there has been an accident", followed by "the car is fine" or "I hit/got hit by a bull, which is now dead".
In Germany you can tax deduct your rent for an office room with a door and a proportion of your utilities for the office
> I've linked here to a Lancet correspondence where top scientists "strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin". I guess that's not quite the same thing as "probability zero"; but isn't it even worse?

I remember conspiracy theories that it had been designed and deliberately released, so no it's not really the same.
> a "quick question" that disrupts my flow and ends up being 60 minutes of work which I get no credit for but they do

I ask which project this is for and log my hour on that. At least my boss sees I'm not slacking, and if it happens a lot can take action. Perhaps the other person needs more guidance or maybe was a poor fit for that project.
Right. "By design" is doing all the work there, because the design goals are different.

Phones are designed that way as a way to prolong the longevity of the phone. This bike is designed this way as a way to extract a subscription. These two things are not the same.
Au contraire. Publish nothing, delete the key results, and put intentional bugs in every home project. Otherwise you will be stolen from, or exploited. Sit back and wait and watch the rare few people approach your ideas. Reach out to them with interest and make best friends for life.

I know the op isn't about this but love putting nuggets like this out there
Solar has the advantage of scaling down. 1000 people can give 1M US dollar which can produce approximately 1GW of power on a thousand of power plant in a year. You can scale down as low as 400W of energy production and distribute the financial cost to many people.
Can't you symlink individual files? More effort but only a quick bit of scripting away.

(I've occasionally used a duplicate file eliminator that finds dups over a certain size and replaces them with symlinks. You can run it on an entire subtree or drive)
No you don't. You would be better off with hardware that is designed for your usecase.
Gene Therapies for Eternal Youth
I think with the pricing of cloud storage and photo, video and assets taking more and more space, the opposite is true.

For example apple requires larger storage to even use prores:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212832

Or Baldur's gate 3 takes 123GB of storage for the install.
I’ll give you an example.

Until 2020, healthcare authorities in the Western world were were certain that viruses could never remain airborne for extended periods of time.

People who thought otherwise (i.e. Asia) were routinely dismissed as unscientific dunces following some weird cultural habit.

Eventually it turned out that the Western scientists didn’t really have any hard evidence for that belief. It was just an old idea that happened to match with their priors, so they kept parroting it to one another and to the public until the dead started piling in.
This is great news, and somewhat unfortunate something so benign requires celebration.

I used to ride a Zero SR. It was a phenomenal bike but also completely unserviceable in Australia. I ended up reverse engineering the log protocol [1] to get a sense of how it was performing and maintain what I could myself. It was horribly painful, inefficient and completely avoidable spend of time.

Hackability for devices is one thing but when you straddle an energy source that propels you, a fragile meat sack, at speed imo it's essential to have absolute confidence in how the machine behaves.

[1]: https://github.com/zero-motorcycle-community/zero-log-parser
I will offer myself as a counterexample. I worked at many companies, as exployee or contractor and held various positions. Dev, tech lead, manager.

I have yet to see a good application of microservices. I’m not saying there are none but the companies that can truéy benefit from that are few and fare apart.

From my experience smaller companies usually benefit a lot from simple monolythical architecture. Large companies tend to split problem into multiple products. But each product is still a kinda monolyth.

I have no experience with huge SaaS companies like Netflix. I can easily see why there the situation is quite different.

My horror story from recent days is that I had a 100-ish LOC patch. I had to push an update to 8 repos. That means 8 merge requests, 8 code reviews, deploy changes in correct order such that it does not break anything. The whole thing took 3 days. Coding was done in two hours.
The article mentions "sunken cost [fallacy]" as a driver to fill the offices again. Where office space is paid for, and hence has to be filled or else this investment is wasted.