skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some context [1] that is missing from the article:

> 3M has said the CAEv2 earplugs, which were designed in the late 1990s so soldiers could carry only one set of earplugs in multiple types of combat, aren’t faulty unless they are worn incorrectly and 3M said it worked in “close coordination” with the U.S. military to develop the design.

> 3M tried to use the government-contractor defense, which allows companies to be protected if equipment made under a government contract is later found to be defective, but the court rejected the defense because there was never a written contract between the U.S. government and Aearo regarding the earplugs' design.

Unfortunately, I can't find any clear answers around whether they do always work when worn correctly, whether they were manufactured to specification or not, or whether the specification was ultimately (verbally?) approved by the government.

All of which makes it exceedingly hard for any of us to judge whether this was 3M being negligent in design or manufacturing, or the government being negligent in ordering something it knew or should have known was defective in advance, or the military being negligent in not ensuring soldiers were using them correctly, or multiple of these. Unless someone here has more sources?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/08/27/3m-may-...
Try it. I've jumped ship a while ago, and it's amazing. I miss it a lot on Linux and Windows, FlowLauncher doesn't feel nearly as polished and I already forgot which launcher I use on my Linux install.

The ones I love the most are Keepass, Bitrise, and the fact that you can just press enter to join the Google Meet call attached to the next upcoming meeting.
Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing
Just like every other OSS license. Sorry but this is not a reason for preferring AGPL over other licensed

And of course the real reason that some developers prefer AGPL is because of the restrictions it imposes on how the software is used. Those restrictions relate to bundling with other software, which is a thing many commercial users would want to be doing. And which is a reason why the likes of MS, Oracle, Google, Amazon, etc. are unlikely to employ anybody that actively contributes to such projects.

You could argue that because of the lack of commercial contributors, a lot of AGPLv3 projects are doomed to be abandonware.
Yes. In the llama.cpp server command, specify the number of layers you'd like offloaded to your GPU via the -ngl parameter, e.g.:

./server -t 8 -m models/wizardcoder-python-34b-v1.0.Q4_K_S.gguf -c 16384 --mlock -ngl 60

(You might need to play around with the number of layers.)

[Edit: make sure to compile llama.cpp with GPU support first, e.g., "make clean && LLAMA_CUBLAS=1 make -j"]
So what would be the recommendation if it was found at 205 years instead of 195 years?
The encyclopedic CRC handbook used to (maybe still does?) list what different metals, minerals, and other materials taste like. It seems a lot of people felt taste was an important sense to make use of.
>It’s typical of people who don’t live in SF to completely downplay the situation there as “propaganda” because it puts their favorite tribe under scrutiny.

This feels pretty unnecessarily pointed while simultaneously kind of at odds with the point you're arguing in the next paragraph. It's not like San Jose isn't also a strong dem city. Shouldn't the apparent success you're pointing out in SJ while they struggle in SF indicate that the issue is specific to SF rather than a "tribal" concern?
Wow Ubi gave their full approval, also props to them for their hard work
To me the whole post read like "we are aquihired, but we cannot admit we are are aquihired". The closing of registration driving it home.

If AWS bought it for the product, what reason would there ever be to stop the current business model entirely rather than leaving it on its current trajectory for a few months, untill said "needs" are addressed?
Note that I didn't compare social media to heroin, I've just made a simile of how something can be addictive just like heroin. I didn't say it was similarly addictive, and I didn't even compare their addictiveness, the simile was used to illustrate the point on a non-controversial example (which everyone knows is very addictive)

And yes, you are entirely right - sugar and other things in that ice cream create an addiction - this is why you had ice cream yesterday even though you knew you shouldn't have had it!
Even if you get it right, the court can change what is right at any time by ruling differently than last time.
tv commercial: "if you or a loved one..."

veteran: "what?"

tv commercial: "served in the military between..."

veteran: "served a delicious military bean?"

tv commercial: "you may be entitled to significant compensation..."

veteran: "I knew those dang earplugs wrecked my hearing but i didnt know people were eating them...i guess that explains the significant constipation..."
Agree with the sentiment here as well that it applies to many "laws" of programming. There are always exceptions, though this one is particularly harmful. I've worked with people who don't consider any optimization until it starts to be a problem, even if something trivial can be done to prevent it (n+1s were an example). As engineers we seem to be constantly searching for a single answer to each common problem but that's just never going to be the case.
Ah I see. So basically instead of a local Linux box you are piping it to an AWS instance with that card. This was what I was alluding to, in where you are just displaying the shell from the connected Linux host so you don't need to write any software on the TRS-80 itself:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/surfi...
Ahaha a lot of people would love to hop in there (one day maybe ;) )

We've studied a lot batteries and drones and we don't think that drones will reach the specs we can get through a lighter than air aircraft. Even for civilian helicopters, today, they have between 2h and 3h of flight time usually. Military equipment won't be used for that kind of topic.
Not necessarily true. Investors treating real estate as a commodity (because everyone has to live somewhere) cause prices to skyrocket. AirBnB et. al removing long-term rental options to make unregulated hotels causes prices to skyrocket. Commercial landlords who would rather leave an apartment empty than drop the price cause prices to skyrocket.

I agree that urban living is still desired, but that desire is only part of the price story.
There's a lot being said about the moat nVidia has with CUDA, but when companies like Tesla are forking $300M on 10,000 GPUs [1], it can't be that difficult to port whatever code to whatever platform if 100s of millions are in question, or is it?

Can Google/Tesla/etc create an H100-like GPU in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost? And is CUDA really necessary if this much money is at stake?

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/teslas-dollar300-million-a...
China has also printed a lot of money. As the currency is not freely exchangeable, it's largely unnoticed.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/458148/china-m2-broad-mo...

[2] https://thesoundingline.com/kyle-bass-china-has-printed-more...
The slots have separate load averages in https://sipeed.com/assets/cluster-la.45176f2b.jpg, so it really is a cluster with multiple kernels running.
> Lithium Ion packs are far more dangerous than gas stoves or general use of electricity.

How much of that is due to tech being relatively new?

Gas has some impressive failure modes too; in fact, every now and then I hear in national news about a residential apartment building having to be torn down after being structurally damaged beyond repair by a gas explosion in on of the flats. That's on top of fires and carbon monoxide poisoning. Gas is relatable in its ubiquity and danger, in ways lithium ions aren't yet.

> If you don't recognize that fact then maybe I should send you my safety notes regarding lithium ion battery packs?

I'd actually love to read those. I am personally afraid to play with lithium ion batteries, though a little less than I am playing with propane tanks. Maybe your notes would help me recalibrate. My mail should be in my profile.
I hope that’s north of Ohio and not northern Ohio because quite a few people living in Cleveland came up then Highway 21/US 19 (now Interstate 77) from WV and points adjacent during the 30s when there was no work.
Nice research and great to see Poznan featured: it is a great town if you get a chance to visit. Just don't drink vodka with the locals, they're nutters.

Some seeds I am pretty amazed by are some of those of the cycads. Check these out: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/3f/35/ca/3f35ca3dbdfbaf957ad6ca333...

They both have spikes and are physically quite large and hard, so large and hard in fact that nothing alive can eat them.

Apparently a going theory is that they previously largely depended upon distribution by extinct macro-fauna. I wonder: does that mean the groves that we find in the Australian bush date from periods of macro-fauna? Anthropogenic distribution is limited to 65,000 years, water can move seed, yet many are in places for which water cannot account for seed dispersal.

What a shame that we are destroying and mismanaging everything for short term need through ignorance.
Bottom line: every computer that you want to work correctly needs ECC RAM. It's a damn shame that Intel has conditioned everyone to think that only servers need ECC RAM.
And the source that debunks the transgender suicide claim is literally named "The Transgender Trend". But I guess that a person who takes the NPC meme seriously deserves an another bullet point in author's bullet list - they are somehow all very similar.
Here is a good podcast from 99 Percent Invisible - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-country-of-the-bl...

And his book - https://www.amazon.com/Country-Blind-Memoir-End-Sight/dp/198...
> std::tuple seems great until you realize that most PLs that support tuples just do "(,)"s for them, in creating, binding, and naming the type.

This C++ code compiles and does what a casual reader would expect it to do:

#include <string>
#include <tuple>

using Foo = std::tuple<int, std::string, float>;

Foo foo(int a, const char* b, double c)
{
return {a,b,c};
}

godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/Koa4zYT99

I gotta be honest, this interface is exactly what I would like a tuple API to look like. I want to declare my tuple as a `tuple`, I want to give it a friendly name, and I want to explicitly declare the types in the tuple, and I want to all of that at compile time. This API is exactly the verbosity that I want; I would be unhappy with either more or less boilerplate than this.

> First-class support for these is important.

Agree to disagree.
'60 million U.S. citizens are infected with Toxoplasma Gondii'

US 2023 pop >> 340M .. so about 1 in 4 people you randomly interact with are allied beings.
Don't you have to ask for permission to be white-hat?
Thanks for pointing it out. Still, it seems highly unlikely someone would decide to use such a function declaration yet want to use the proposed syntax to pass both positional and keyword arguments.
What sort of noise levels are in a data centre, or is the duration of noise the issue?
He was right. One of the first steps of slaughtering is draining the blood. There isn't much left by the time it gets to the butcher. The red liquid you see after cooking red meat is myoglobin, which lives inside the muscle tissue itself as opposed to the vascular system. It also turns blood-red in the presence of oxygen.
Wether you consider learning a hobby, a chore, or part of the job description, is entirely up to you, regardless of how close to the topic of paid work it is.
Commentary on the journalism:

Fantastic for calling Fizz out. "Fizz did not protect their users’ data. What happened next?"
This isn't a "someone hacked them". It's that Fizz failed to do what they promised.

I'm still curious to hear if the vulnerability has been tested to see if it's been resolved.
Argentina has defaulted on its debts in the following years:

1827
1890
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1982
1989
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Clicked on ChatGPT / Compare ChatGPT plans / Enterprise ...

> Contact sales

Oops. Scary.

I'm missing the Teams plan: transparent pricing with a common admin console for our team. Yes, fast GPT-4, 32k context, templates, API credits... they're all very nice-to-haves, but just the common company console would be crucial for onboarding and scaling-up our team and needs without the big-bang "enter-pricey" stuff.
I have no idea what a "W-2 job" is. In my country, and most countries, it doesn't matter if you're paid by the hour, by the "year" (what?), salaried etc. Virtually every employee has an employment contract, and every employee without an explicit employment contract (which is illegal) has an implied employment contract.
Hah fair point
You might find this interesting, from a guy that worked with John Carmack.

http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
You join a startup in hopes of it getting acquired or going public some day. Fig was never going to go public so if I worked there I’d be happy about the acquisition assuming that I wasn’t stiffed on my stock options when joining.
Look First to Failure (2004)
Incorrect. Prices reflect the ratio of demand over supply. Something can be relatively undesirable to the whole population, but still expensive if the supply is sufficiently limited.

Tiger penis is much more expensive than ribeye steaks. But ribeye steaks are more desirable across the whole population.

Under 20% of the population wants to live in an urban area: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america.... But far less than 20% of housing is in urban areas.
Perl is a progression of that particular environment. It is a superset of shell/grep/awk/sed.

A shell command works exactly as you would expect copied literally inside a backquote. With all the other goodies of a real programming langauge.

Doing this in Python (to me atleast) seems unnatural.
Just for fun, turn off your adblocker and try reading this.
I think the context should be pretty obvious to most people in the engineering field.

> why not just provide the context?

Because lawyers might find ways to dismiss/challenge it?
There's a group dubbed "Friends of the Court" and others want to kill NYC's rent stabalization laws and they're already asking the Supreme Court to take the case.

Article: https://www.levernews.com/friends-of-the-court-ask-scotus-to...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37298543

There's a very good chance that the housing crisis might get even worse before it gets better.
Fig works in any terminal though, and its free tier gives me useful enough recommendations and docs. It's very useful to be able to use IDE-like autocomplete inside my IDE, which is the terminal I use 99% of the time. As far as I'm aware, Warp is really a standalone gig.
Raise less, build more
Not cryptographic acceleration, compression acceleration. Anyway, they ain't got one, so it doesn't matter if it's supported.
They could not have been ignorant of storing non-anonymous, plain-text messages. Even if we don't count that as insecure, they can only appeal to ignorance/negligence up until the point the security researchers informed them of their vulnerabilities.

After that, that they continued their "100% secure" marketing on one side, while threatening researchers into silence on the other, is plainly malicious.
the title is literally the first sentence in the article
I have tried using LLamaIndex and APIs are just aweful. It's a nightmare of class hierarchies and abstractions that only author can wrap their heads around. Comments are basically useless classic style of rewriting the function name. Just look at this example:

def get_context(self, response: Response) -> List[Document]:
"""Get context information from given Response object using source nodes.

What can you get out from this?
It is absolutely not that simple, for the reasons you name amongst others.
The manosphere promises to fix young men’s lives. It’s making them miserable
> Parents can also easily move kids to other classes to avoid unwelcome company.

This is definitely not the case in the schools our kids go to. The class sizes/composition are shaped by the demands of the teacher's union, we recently learned.

We always thought that the parent survey the school sent out, asking about your child, was so that our kid could be put in a class with a teacher who would be compatible. Not so, we learned!

The information was used to create class cohorts that are evenly balanced, and only after this happens are cohorts assigned to teachers. But at this point in the process, the desires of 20 distinct families cannot be used to match students with teachers.

Instead of focusing on matching certain types of students (those who need more remedial work, those who need more advanced work, etc.) with teachers who are good at providing that type of learning, the school is focused on making sure that all of the teachers have the same class composition, so that none of them can claim to have a "worse" class than anyone else.
Boba tea, milkshakes, smoothies, and all similar drinks are awful without straws and would not have their problems solved with a lid like that.

All drinks are awful with paper straws, so maybe studies like this will free us from this hell and people will focus their energies on much bigger problems that relate to climate change.
Are you putting indexes into your backups?
The role of a lawyer is to make persuasive arguments in their clients favor, and those arguments are supported by a wide spectrum in strength of evidence and legal opinion.

Completely baseless stuff can get lawyers disbarred, but many things are shades of gray. The way the CFAA is written, just about any security research on someone else's machine that doesn't include "we got permission in advance" often falls into this gray area.

The fact that the DOJ doesn't prosecute good-faith security research is DOJ policy, not actual law. The law as-written doesn't have a good-faith exemption.
Seems odd not to mention competitors such as AMD. Not as if Nvidia has any secret sauce. "Analysts" like this also seem to misunderstand Cuda as that such a sauce, when in fact AI wants higher-level toolkits (which are not at all tied to Nvidia).
I used Skype until 2019 when I moved back to the US. It was nice to have a local US number for my family to call. (Maybe there's a better way to do that, though.)
Isn't threatening to report someone to the authorities if you don't do something extortion?
There is obviously such a thing as going too far, but it's kind of hard to draw a clear line. In a good faith context, laws and precedents can change quickly, sometimes based on the whim of a judge, and there are many areas of law where there is no clear precedent or where guidance is fuzzy. In those cases, it's important to have severability so that entire contracts don't have to be renegotiated because one small clause didn't hold up in court.

Imagine an employment contract that contains a non-compete clause (ignore, for a moment, your personal beliefs about non-compete clauses). The company may have a single employment contract that they use everywhere, and so in states where non-competes are illegal, the severability clause allows them to avoid having separate contracts for each jurisdiction. And now suppose that a state that once allowed non-competes passes a law banning them: should every employment contract with a non-compete clause suddenly become null and void? Of course not. That's what severability is for.

In the case in the OP, it's hard to say what the context is of the threat, but I imagine something along the lines of, "Unauthorized access to our computer network is a federal crime under statute XYZ punishable by up to 20 years in prison." Scary as hell to a layperson, but it's not strictly speaking untrue, even if most lawyers would roll their eyes and say that they're full of shit. Sure, it's misleading, and a bad actor could easily take it too far, but it's hard to know exactly where to draw the line if lawyers couch a threat in enough qualifiers.

At the end of the day, documents like this are written by lawyers in legalese that's not designed for ordinary people. It's shitty that they threatened some college students with this, and whatever lawyer did write and send this letter on behalf of the company gave that company tremendously poor advice. I guess you could complain to the bar, but it would be very hard to make a compelling case in a situation like this.

(This is also one of the reasons why collective bargaining is so valuable. A union can afford legal representation to go toe to toe with the company's lawyers. Individual employees can't do that.)
> Can you survive several hours in a typical wet bulb event?

I'm going to vote maybe. At best, it'll be close.

Resting metabolic output is about half the active value I provided (per NASA's PDF). That means for a bucket of water that starts at 32°, you have 5 hours before the bucket is also 95° if you discount ambient heating from the air, circulatory constriction, and assuming no prior conditions.

Since you can't discount those (and are unlikely to find barely-not-frozen water for an entire city's population), survival for more than an hour or two is nowhere near guaranteed.
I thought this video was a good breakdown of Elon's livestream: https://youtu.be/ZI7-Swmuo4A
Other than price (ie, too popular!) I don't think those are significant issues in most US cities I've lived in. It's probably not a coincidence that 90percent of the time someone talks about these kinds of issues they always have to use the same one example, San Francisco. The east coast is a lot more livable I guess? Winters are not that bad but the fear of them seems to keep the Californians away and keep things somewhat affordable despite access to good jobs.

My biggest complaint is the schools -- as soon as you have kids you won't be willing to live in more affordable neighborhoods you would have been ok with previously (or else resort to private, so you pay either way in tuition or rent) -- but truth be told, great suburban school districts are expensive too so there's not really that big a difference anyway there. In the end all you really give up for city life is the grassy yard, and for many people it's worth it.
Have you taken potential higher risks of climate change into account? I mean more extreme weather events? Which seems to have a higher baseline from where to start, compared to the rather tame shit we're experiencing in europe, at the moment.
last time i checked several courts in EU tried and enforced the GPLv3 but I might be wrong
It could explain his poor health.
I'm rubber and you're glue...
3M also knows that many of the claimants are full of it - but a court would still side in favor of veterans so it makes sense to settle the cases.

"Nearly a quarter of the plaintiffs with impairment under either AMA or WHO standards reported their condition in hearing tests before they ever used the Combat Arms earplugs"

"Under WHO and National Institute of Health standards, more than 85% of plaintiffs have normal hearing."
Neither one will save you fro slower writes due to unnecessary indices.
momentum investors (or hype investors, of which there are many) don't care about the current price, as long as chart is going up and to the right
It is common and convenient to blame big oil companies for climate change, but they are not creating the demand for hydrocarbons.
The JH7110 is also standards compliant unlike the TH1520 which includes a significant amount of proprietary extensions as well as an incompatible RVV extension.

However the TH1520 is roughly twice as fast as the JH7110. What we really need to for a faster and standards compliant core to come out to make this a moot issue.
I mean the 3rd precinct was burnt down ~3 miles from Target headquarters, and rioters also broke into and attempted to burn the HQs in 2020. Is that so hard to believe would have no impact on downtown foot traffic or desire to work from office there?