skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related Register story just yesterday:

China cooks covert chips, recruits global geeks to dodge US restrictions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249523

Guardian piece 2 days ago:

Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239793
It feels like Africa is setting itself up for a lot of suffering. It’s difficult to see the continent being able to support 3-4 billion people while also getting heavily hit by climate change over the next 70 years, with many regions already very susceptible to drought.
Why?

Also HIBP has a "domain search" for sysadmins: https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch

If you just want to check if the passwords of users of your service have been breached, there is a separate API for that: https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#SearchingPwnedPasswordsByR...
Got the same thing. Glad I was not the only one. I thought maybe I was being hacked.
PFAS are so common that it’s unlikely that they’re as bad as asbestos. They probably aren’t more dangerous than leaded gasoline.
No you’re right, protested shouldn’t be disruptive. That is not their very point or anything….
Rather than asserting that current LLMs are at their tail end, or that AI isnt good enough, it is much more instructive to check what are the bottlenecks or constraints to further progress, and what would help remove these bottlenecks.

They can largely be divided into 3 buckets

1) Compute constraint - Currently large companies using expensive nvidia chips do most of the heavylifting of training good models. Although chips will improve over time, and competition like Intel/AMD will bring down prices, this is a slow process. But what could be a faster breakthrough is training using distributed computing over millions of consumer GPUs. There are already efforts in that direction (eg. petals/swarm parallelism for finetuning/full training, but the eastern europe/russian guys developing them dont seem to have enough resources).

2) Data constraint - If you just rely on human generated text data, you will soon exhaust this resource (maybe GPT4 has already). But the Tinystories dataset generated from GPT4 shows if we can have SOTA models generate more data (and especially on niche topics that appear less frequently in human generated data), and have deterministic/AI filters to segregate the good and bad quality data thus generated, data quantity would not be an issue any longer. Also, multimodal data is expected (with the right model architectures) to be more efficient at training world grokking SOTA models than single modal data and here we have massive amounts of online video data to tap into.

3) Architectural knowledge constraint - This may be the most difficult of all, figuring out what is the next big scalable architecture after Transformers. Either we keep trying newer ideas (like the stanford hazy research group does), and hope something sticks, or we get SOTA models few years down the line to do this ideation part for us.
Clean Code is not an uncontentious book. See:

It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code - https://qntm.org/clean

Long discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27276706
Rust proc macros scare me.

They can literally do anything. They can access anything the user has access to.
Yep but not sure you have much choice... Unless you can somehow reach higher level support
Most exciting news of 2023.
Learning soft skills as a software engineer
Then, where to read more about this? People who built autograd and other frameworks like Pytorch, mxnet, etc. should have learnt them in details somewhere. Where? AFAIK mxnet came out of academia (probably CMU).
https://archive.is/mQAnu
> We decided to go with the approach of having a small number of predefined planets, which represent your progression through the game.

I am a bit sad about this, procedurally generated worlds with "infinite" universe would have been really cool.

But anyway, I know I will sink too much time in this :D
> Apple: right to repair means you must buy $275 display module to fix a broken display.

We cast about for myriad unique negative motives for Apple, while essentially all the various activities that "harm" middlemen are better explained by:

Apple wants normal buyers to have a frictionless no worries experience.

They didn't care about the telcos, refusing to bundle crapware. They don't care about the mall screen repair kiosk. They don't care about ad companies. They don't care about any middlemen on the value chain. They care about how the normal buyer feels about depending on and using Apple.

You can explain product designs, app store curation, Apple store experiences, and repair policies, through this "don't make me worry" experience lens.

> Apple being world’s most valuable company, is not going to willingly allow consumer or repair shop to get advantage over itself without kicking and screaming.

They are not most valuable by screwing people over. Resenting this suggests the real complaint is annoyance at having to go that extra mile of excellence around the total experience to compete. It's incredibly difficult to compete with their operational excellence.

The negative motives are mostly attributed to profit motive, as in this parent post, though when taken apart, Apple is usually find to be delivering a more consistently high quality at a margin comparable to rest of market, with any better margins usually boiling down to operational excellence.

> A smartphone is not a device of yore, where components cost make up vast majority of its price. Instead it is almost pure margin. Every device repaired without handing cash to Apple handsomely is one less device they can sell.

Teardown after teardown has found when you include not just parts but also assembly quality and longevity, as reflected in resale value, (a) other manufacturers such as Samsung or Dell charge the same for flagship products, and (b) Apple's assembly retains higher resale value.

This would imply Apple's focus is on quality, quality costs money, and yet their pricing is comparable to flagships of less quality, making Apple a reasonable or even better "deal".

Of course, it's not just that.

There's an overall value prop you can expect anywhere you engage with Apple in their value chain, including walking into a store for a repair:

- Think Different (and at the experience level, not just the parts)

- Tech that "just works" (relative to others, and w/o tinkering)

- "Using the product" is the product, not "User" is the product
When they tell you "the price is low if A is the case, and high if A is not the case" and you say "I'll take the lower price" and A is not the case then you are deceiving them.
All decafs I tried tasted like ass. And I buy quality beans from the hipster roasters.
Building a network of people, preferably over a wider geographic area and nurturing those relations.

These people could be a mix of people you know in person or on social media, particularly on Twitter, LinkedIn and perhaps GitHub.

You typically meet these people via events (conferences, hiking, kickball, running, etc) and shared interests.
Bit of confirmation bias, no? The other people that have prepared don’t talk about it because it isn’t a big deal to them.
I suppose part of what would count as "actual change" would be the reliance that the Inflation Reduction Act won't be revoked almost immediately in 2025.

It's not the people ignoring the issue. It's the people actively working against a solution.
Blue signals just mean that some, but not all, segments ahead are blocked by a signal.

Also, this video[1] by Soulless Gaming on "How to Fix Train Path Errors" has a lot of useful tips on train/signal troubleshooting.

[1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsep-xJXkI
Like one metal blade that is placed in between the wires (current flows) and slid up to an insulating part (current does not flow) ?
Peter Norvig's notebooks: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes
Disappointing that the TL;DR doesn't address the title question.

As a backpacker and a sailor, I strongly feel that DWR/Gore-Tex stuff is garbage anyways- it's (only slightly) breathable when new, but when the coating wears after a few weeks or months, or gets dirty it becomes no longer hydrophobic, and the water sheets on completely blocking the pores. This leads to zero breathability like a sheet of plastic, yet they usually also manage to leak water in constant all day heavy rains or ocean spray. The gore-tex membrane inside is very fragile and becomes ripped and unglued pretty rapidly, in places you cannot see- you don't know until you are counting on it, and it fails.

Two vastly superior alternatives that are PFAS free, much cheaper, more durable, more waterproof, and already on the shelf at most major outdoor stores:

* Polyurethane coated polyester raincoats, e.g. by Helley-Hansen cost about $100 USD new, and are more durable and waterproof than DWR/Nylon/Gore-Tex. Zero breathability (just like Gore-Tex in practice!) but because designers know this, they have excellent vents added, with waterproof zippers to close in extreme weather. Although they look similar, these are much better than your standard cheap PVC raincoat. I use these for sailing and stay bone dry with waves crashing over my body all day long.

* Membrane only jackets (membrane on the outside) such as Columbia OutDry. Because the surface material is fundamentally hydrophobic, they need no PFAS DWR coating, and stay waterproof and breathable even when dirty or aged. Only about $150 new.

// Edit: a third great option is PFAS free Nikwax brand waterproofing you can apply yourself to almost any garment. I've personally only used this on tents and car convertible tops, but it worked great.
> Finally aspartame is proven to cause cancer

mmm... no

"IARC classifies aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2B), based on limited evidence it might cause cancer (specifically liver cancer) in people. IARC also notes there is limited evidence for cancer in lab animals and limited evidence related to possible mechanisms for it causing cancer."

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspa...
Ok but does it actually work? I’ve never been lucky enough to see my site on the first page of google for any good search terms. It feels like trying to do this is like a kid trying for the NFL or NBA as a plan. Very few will make it. And isn't the best thing you can do is get backlinks? Which has nothing to do with just changing your URL structure and making the HTML nice and searchable. Getting backlinks is all about either 1) being so linkable people just do it 2) business development deals.
Why do they use a paywalled service to publish their research?
The headline on this one should be along the lines of "Semiconductor Industry Assoc Responds to Recent Story"
Because nobody has yet bothered to sue them for false advertising, so they continue to get away with it.
"First order IR" in the sense of "without lambda abstractions"? Then I guess this [0] would be a decent starting point for understanding it? It seems to describe mlton's compiler pass for flattening the higher-order functional parts with some kind of flow analysis. (?)

[0] http://www.mlton.org/guide/20130715/References.attachments/C... ("Flow-Directed Closure Conversion for Typed Languages")
Then you'll get trumped up charges with interfering with officers, destruction of property, possibly some sort of nonsensical assault, who knows just how creative they can get.

Also, won't you be super easy to track? Doubtful you could get enough people wearing these to be any more effective than ID'ing yourself
I started my PhD doing algebraic topology and tried using TDA for a couple industry projects before eventually switching to work on quantum computing algorithms because I decided TDA wasn't that useful. It's definitely a solution in search of a problem, and while there do seem to be a couple interesting use cases (such as genetic data analysis), I completely agree with you that there are better alternatives in most situations.
Comprehensive Prompt Injection Primer
One point he doesn't bring up is that this could be an evolutionary selection event. As wealth, education, birth control, and abortion make it possible for women to choose whether or not to have children many are choosing to have zero or one child. But some are not. I know a handful of well off, educated women with more than two kids.

If those tendencies are based on heritable personality (or other) traits and not purely random or situational, they would be selected for in the current environment. Not sure how we'd determine if they are.
Psychology is not really a science, so I am not surprised there. I lump all both religion and psychology into the same category as horoscopes, palm reading, fortune telling, Greek oracles, etc..

> did you not hear that the Catholic Church founded, established, and propagated the worldwide system of hospitals?

That is a massive list. Did any of them actually produce anything of value?
That's what the grandparent sensibly referred to as reuse; you can do that, but you after you're done reusing it, you can also recycle it, that is, melt it down and make new glass from it.
Does evolution not still play a role? Nature can select for arbitrarily complex behaviors genetically, if it means the survival of the species. I don’t see why the same does not apply here to humans. Like if evolution can select for complex dance routines to ensure that birds mate, it probably will select for a propensity to want to have children. Choosing to not have kids is essentially the same as dying because one was unfit to survive in an environment, evolutionarily speaking. So if most of the people who did not have a strong innate desire to have kids “die”, then the ones who are left are being selected for because they had a stronger innate desire to have kids.

It seems obvious to me that the desire to have kids has at least SOME genetic component, it’s not purely instilled by society, and the “death” (refusal to procreate) of the ones with a weaker drive will mean that the only people left will have a stronger desire to procreate.

I’m not sure though, I would love to hear an argument against this idea from someone with a biology background.
The Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining Act: A Postmortem Analysis
https://archive.is/70tDt
As far as I know, all LCDs operate on polarized light. I’ve generally assumed that Apple puts a quarter-wave plate in front of their screen to circularly polarize the light. Without having done any math, I would expect a noticeable amount of color shifting when viewed through a linear polarizer because most waveplates are wavelength-dependent (they shift the optical path by a certain distance, which is a different amount of phase at different wavelengths).

I’ve never found credible information online, but I haven’t looked that hard.
"Dark Matter" is a name for the observations of the discrepancy. It's not a theory in and of itself. Lots of the theories trying to explain the observed discrepancy (dark matter) include that in their name (like the λCDM theory), others (like MOND) don't. They're all trying to explain the same observations though, so they're all theories of "dark matter".
IP level filtering is purely a "better than nothing" approach, though. It's very fragile and porous. You have to constantly monitor your logs to find the new IP addresses to filter out as they are adopted, but the only way you'll see them in your logs is after they've already done the scraping.
Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) has both a compiler and an interpreter.
In The Traveller's Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor, a travelogue from the Caribbean, he gives an account of water divination. He initially sees it as some voodoo myth, and is taken aback when they repeatedly find water.
Is this the "going dark" problem we're constantly warned about?
I don't think that's a completely fair assessment. Often people don't want to live in "shithole states" because those states discriminate against them.
The College Board is a perfectly legal enterprise, and how could you know their reasons for how they do things? Besides, they are a "not-for-profit" organization so we know for a fact that they don't want profit.
https://archive.is/FxU0d
It is the case in many places in the US. Many utility companies are working on burying the cables, but it is often slow and expensive so it just takes time.

I think a lot of people also don't realize just how huge the US is. PG&E is planning on burying 10,000 miles for example, but according to them that would only be 1/3 of their cables.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/other...
> A while back, a prepper tried to ride out an arctic blast with canned food and survival gear. He didn't realize his electric can opener wasn't...

Wait... what kind of "prepper" is that ?
I think you're missing the point. Did you head out somewhere completely naked without a single item on your person? Because if not, you were aided by the grid. Hell, even the shelter, clothing, calories, etc... that got you to the place and time that you decided to head out came from the grid.

No one is truly living off the grid.
I had it stitched into a pillow. It makes me very happy every time I see it.
Surfing Uncertainty was a really cool book. I think we think too highly of ourselves.
Agreed it would be way easier to survive as part of a small tribe rather than fully alone, but I wouldn't use the TV show Alone as proof. They purposely pick some of the least hospitable places for life, drop people off at the end of fall with no summer to stock up/prepare, contestants have to follow all the local regulations around how/what game they hunt, and (most importantly) nobody is allowed a gun. Plenty of small-time trappers and other pioneers survived on their own during the westward expansion!
The train needs to reserve the whole next contiguous sequence of chain signals to be able to go, so the foolproof method makes it sound like each train reserves the whole path from one station to another. It makes sense, but I like to do the optimizations, then, and allowing trains to stop in longer stretches where they can.
'Prepping' is a great way to deal with temporary disruptions. I think the author has a really good point that the idea of living off grid during a climate disaster is copium. 'Living off the land' requires that the land is productive. That's not a given in an age where droughts, wildfires, and heat waves are striking more often.
While Reddit is hardly a representative sample, it's not a bad example – and there is basically zero vindictive content on https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers/
You can clone a specific tag or branch from a git repository without the full history. It looks like LuaJIT's git repository does not support this, although the github mirror does:

# git clone -b v2.1.ROLLING --depth 1 git@github.com:LuaJIT/LuaJIT.git

The git log looks like this:

commit 2090842410e0ba6f81fad310a77bf5432488249a (grafted, HEAD, tag: v2.1.ROLLING)
Author: Mike Pall <mike>
Date: Mon Aug 21 03:18:35 2023 +0200

Merge branch 'master' into v2.1
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
And how did they verify that it was someone other than yourself? Just a checkbox? Or like document upload or something? SSN?
Ubuntu Desktop: charting a course for the future
Honestly, looks like a pass from me, as messing with the existing tech tree to introduce new barriers sounds more tedious than fun.
Heh, water table here is at about 350 feet with nothing but boulders and clay between ground level and there. Good luck.
Check out project manifold[1]. It integrates languages at the type system level using a technique the project labels “type manifold”, which is described as JIT *static* code generation.

This project targets the JVM, but the general model could be adopted with any static type system / compiler.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold#what-can-you-do...
The ones I've seen claim to be "constant voltage", which I took to mean that they are always 1.5 V right up to the point that they need recharging. That would make the battery level indicator in many devices report 100% right up until the end, which would be pretty annoying in a lot of cases.

What I want is a variable buck converter (if the real cells are lithium) or variable buck-boost (if the real cells are NiMH) that adjusts the output so that a battery level indicator that expects alkaline batteries will show the correct battery level.
I do so enjoy the George Carlin 'You have no rights, you only have priveliges'.
Yeah. For most operations, you pay for drive throughput & redundancy, and the actual storage itself is “too cheap to meter”.

Except when it isn’t, but those customers know who they are.
> Without written language, no record can exist of the spoken language.

It's possible to go back further, at least if there are multiple descendants. We have a reasonably good understanding of spoken Proto-Germanic based on literature in Gothic, Old English, and Old Norse. We can even go back further to Proto-Indo-European as we have records in Hittite, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit.
I get it.

That they're willing to sacrifice effectiveness for an illusory sense of control is precisely what I'm characterizing as bizarre ;-).
I would not feel comfortable, making such a statement. There is plenty of evidence out there, that they mess with our endocrine system, and are perhaps responsible for the obesity crisis in some part.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/pfass-chemi...
That was a shock to me because it used to actually be everyone's names.
It's not a shortcoming of the language; it's a shortcoming of the goal! You can't have both the goal of fine-grained effect tracking and the goal of not having to make fine-grained changes when effects change. They're incompatible goals in any language.

The strength of Haskell is that it allows you to achieve the first goal if you want. Most languages don't (pretty much no other language, actually).
Barbie grossed double Oppenheimer. Feminism is the culture- not the counter-culture.
There is sometimes great utility hidden unseen, like the value of having access to hundreds if not thousands of threads of much more intelligent than average humans arguing about politics.

Not useful for all people, but potentially useful for some.
Let’s not encrypt (2019)
Back when I still managed an LTO tape library (which was way back when LTO-4 was state of the art), our data was encrypted before writing it, also negating any compression. And back then the compression ratio was advertised as 2:1, not 3:1.
Doing my best to summarize what I got from this article:

1. In an auction, is possible to over-bid on a thing

2. If you over-bid on a thing and you win, that's not good

3. It's better to not win the auction than it is to win it by bidding higher than you value winning the auction

4. The Big Insight: before you bid, stop to think about whether you're about to bid higher than you value what you're bidding on.

...what am I missing? Why is this interesting? What does this have to do with negotiation? What are the negotiation mistakes to avoid?
I assume it's one person's DNA. The last time there was talk about this in popular media was the DNA of one person.
Montgomery also seems to subtly flip off Lindell with a hidden "Trump Lost LOL" message.
I'm looking at an AC wall socket, with a 5 places multi plug with plugged in 2 phone chargers, my laptop's power brick, a fan. All of them are transforming AC into DC (well, maybe not all of the fan.) I guess that the problem here is that all those DC appliances have different voltage inputs so a hypothetical DC wall socket maybe would be 12 V or multiples of that and then we'd still need transformers to a different voltage. On the other side all my AC appliances are standardized at 230 V.
Take out the /s tag and you are right on the money. Humans can not be trusted with anything because they are trivially fallible. Humans are terribly stupid, destroy their own societies and refuse to see reason. They also hallucinate when their destructive tendencies start catching up to them.