skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market doesn't care why customers pay a lot for something, and doesn't care if something like health care costs more than it needs to and thus serves fewer humans that it could, or how those few lucky are selected.

The market does things efficiently, they are only occasionally and incidentally desirable things. It more often does undesirable things efficiently.

The market is a tool like any other tool. It's effective, but has no innate value positive or negative in what direction that effectiveness is applied. It is a saw that will equally effectively cut your lumber or your leg.

When you apply that lack of value to a human, the term is sociopath, and is pretty much equated with evil outside of a clinical context. Not because the sociopath actively wants to harm, but merely because they are truely neutral and don't care one way or another.

The market is sociopathic, and is unfit for deciding anything.
If you're shipping something you don't want fiddled with, don't ship it, because it's an impossible task.
It's not propaganda. Cobalt and nickel are scarce resources, the mining of which is harmful, and they're not even necessary.

Cobalt and nickel are basically used by auto manufacturers to make luxury supercars with slightly more range than they would have otherwise. They're also a convenient excuse not to make more EVs. "Sorry, cobalt is just too expensive, and we can't get enough of it to make as many EVs as we need. I guess we'll just keep making ICE vehicles." If you want to make a million cars, cobalt/nickel based batteries are maybe acceptable. If you want to make a billion cars (which is the scale on which EVs are going to need to be made), they're not a realistic option. The best battery technology for that right now is LFP. Some companies (CATL for instance) are working on sodium ion, to reduce the lithium dependency.

(As other comments have noted: the cobalt in these new batteries is used in a catalyst, so presumably they'd need a lot less of it than in a conventional lithium ion battery, which would be a good thing.)
No, but if your account at one of the big techs gets stuck in bureaucratic hell, the only way to get support is to make a fuss here.
What Really Happened with Windows Vista (2017)
It's not just a parasite - it's a protist. An online search led me to a snippet from a paywalled online study site that has this text:

"Biologically, a protist-disease vaccine is more difficult to develop due to the mechanism and pathophysiology of diseases such as malaria and chagas."

More on vaccines for protozoal diseases:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3961066/

Specifics on the difficulty with a vaccine for malaria:

https://www.malariavaccine.org/malaria-and-vaccines/vaccine-...
This article made me grieve the loss of my precious chicken selects. Damn those were good. And my angus third-pounder with red onions.
This is the most American, "I have never left my country and I don't really care about other cultures because mine's more important" thing I've ever heard. Enjoy your bubble, dude.
That seems insane.
We can't really make use of this citation because it's marketing, not objective scientific data. This page was done by a marketing team who want to sell you a nice story and a nice picture, not by scientists who are seeking some kind of truth.

This web page that says Apple is environmentally friendly weighs more than 20 MB.

edit: I just read it, there isn't anything about screen, battery and chipset / CPU production and material sourcing. In short, the big part of what is an actual issue with computer hardware and the environment.
how do you do bidirectional channels/rpc?

like “send request to channel A with message 123, make sure to get a response back from channel B exactly for that message”
Assuming it has no imports or requires, and no references to meta, it’s a bare JavaScript file, and whether you treat it as esm or cjs shouldn’t matter, no?
You could also modify the source code to remove the check, I'm guessing this is just for people that are accidentally setting LD_PRELOAD.
Showing roughly 1.5-2.0x speed ups on a couple of example workloads under fp8. Not bad for what's basically just a software change. Just one more thing that will make it hard for AMD to catch up.
This argument also applies to GitHub, yet I’ve never seen an open source project criticized for hosting issues on GitHub.

Both are proprietary websites owned by for-profit companies. Both require you to create an account in order to participate in discussion.
Do you have a business account? I have a $1500/day limit. Looking it up it seems like for popular banks it tops out at $2500/day, and some go as low as $500/day.
This is pretty obviously trying to prosecute dissent. Writing the bail bondsman number down, giving money for people to get bail? This won't stand, but it could be years of trouble for the people they are attacking. And this will definitely chill resistance.

It's a black mark on the record of any prosecutors involved in this.
Chris Olah's Distill intended to do this: "a new open science journal and ecosystem supporting human understanding of machine learning. Distill is an independent organization, dedicated to fostering a new segment of the research community." The journal went to sleep in 2021, unfortunately. (https://blog.research.google/2017/03/distill-supporting-clar...)
To clarify for people familiar with the names but not what corresponds to what:

BERT - Encoder-only - embeddings for downstream tasks

GPT/OPT/etc - Decoder-only - language generation

T5/T0 - Encoder-decoder. Kind of does both?
Not off topic at all! The title is wrong and should be fixed!

All the OP had to do is just copy->paste :^P

Maybe it is just me but I find it jarring when someone decides "Nah, copy /paste is for shumucks, I'll type it all myself." and then does a silly typo some people's brains go like "Huh!? That doesn't look right. What's an 'artic'?".

Tip for HN - look what https://lobste.rs/ is doing: you paste the URL, and it gets the title for you. What kind if witchcraft is that!? ;^)
That's on a different level than what SpaceX is putting into the air and doesn't count as ICBMs.

Trucks are dual use. Like almost everything else.
Still not clear to me what ESM exactly fixes. CJS works pretty well for me. The amount of pain ESM gives in unit tests is enough to ignore ESM. Maybe Bun will make a difference here.
Async traits come to mind immediately, generally needing more capability to existentially quantify Future types without penalty. Async function types are a mess to write out. More control over heap allocations in async/await futures (we currently have to Box/Pin more often than necessary). Async drop. Better cancellation. Async iteration.
I noticed it mentioned that in the article. Did those get discontinued in the US?

They're definitely still a thing in the UK, along with the McPlant (which I'm not sure was ever successful stateside). It's interesting how the menu differs geographically.
My banks Zelle integration tells me the name of the other account and will specifically alert me if my Zelle "contact" name is different than the actual name on the account.
If the company has gone through the trouble of hiring a ESG officer, you're going to have a hell of a time providing intent. The ESG officer might be an insincere box ticker, but he sure as hell is going to make sure that there isn't a email along the lines of "btw I don't care about ESG compliance at all" sent by the CEO. Any litigation on this is inevitably turn into a gravy train for law firms, as they rack up tens of thousands of billable hours poring over company emails and arguing in front of a judge whether a CEO who's ostensibly sincere is really sincere.
Man, I should've made a repo with customer complaints when I had the chance...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
Just be handsome and rich.
I wonder if Rust should have gone down the same path as Java’s Project Loom and implemented async I/O using the same memory model that is used with operating system threads.

I suspect that to take advantage of 1024-thread systems the only sane programming model will be structured concurrency with virtual threads instead of coroutines.

It’s the same progression as we saw in the industry going from unstructured imperative assembly programming to structured programming with modular features.

Both traditional mutexes and to a degree async programming are unstructured and global. They infect the whole codebase and can’t be reasoned about in isolation. This just doesn’t scale.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

I don't use or recommend exactly what they do but they have a long list of settings you might want to change that is better documented than any other source I've seen and if you click the wiki link there is detailed info about how user.js works.
Didn't Dean Kamen invent those to get funding to make water purifiers.
At which bank?

The highest available limit I can find is $5,000 per day, and that's limited to private clients and businesses:

https://www.gobankingrates.com/banking/mobile/zelle-limits/

Common limits vary between $500 and $2,500 as you can see.

I've never heard of anyone being able to use it to send $10K in a single transaction, so it would be very helpful to know where you can do that.
Grid scale batteries are still aways out and still have to prove themselves at scale but a promising one is made out of materials that are sourced universally - such as iron. [1]

If lithium is battery substrate of choice then the actual raw materials suppliers are more numerous and are not highly correlated to OPEC members. So you get relative energy independence. As far as I know there is not any sort of lithium cartel that has formed as of yet.

Additionally as I understand it - since for grid scale, density is not a factor - there is not as strong a need for rare earth metals. [2]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/iron-air-battery-renew...
[2] https://www.energy-storage.news/comparing-six-types-of-lithi...
Sure, but trucks are dual use. This is a basic mistake that people that look at the world in conventional ways make all the time: they think that because a truck is meant to be used in one way they can't be used in another. For people that want to kill other people a truck is a weapon. Just like a SpaceX missile is a cargo to orbit tool on one day and a way to deliver a weapon halfway around the planet the next.

But we have safeguards in place around SpaceX (at least, that's what it looks like). Trucks are readily accessible.
https://archive.ph/lcbJb
I still don't know how you keep the schedule of 15 iOS/Android devs full on an app that's pretty much done. How many lines of code are they changing/features are they adding over 8 hours a day on average?

I agree with your breakdown, but what's missing (and not very easily measurable) is that 80% of these 178 people are working at 20% performance. "Working with their hands in their pockets" I like to call it. This is how you keep around 15 mobile devs. Modern office work is a pile of wasted human time and nonsense, enabled by 20 years of free, low-interest money.
I assume you mean that energy density is about 14% less (86%) rather than having 14% of the capacity of lithium ion.

I just wanted to make that clarification in case anyone who isn't familiar with LFP is misled into thinking that LFP-based cars would have a range of like 30 miles.
I tried the prompt "electric bass" -- the generated image was OK (it was a three string bass, but whatever) but the background removal not only removed the background but most of the body of the bass because (I assume) the pickguard was the same color as the image background.
> Maybe in the 2000's but I feel this reasoning is no longer valid in 2023 and should be put to rest.

So do we discard existing ways of making software more efficient because we can be more wasteful on more recent hardware? What if we could develop our software such that 2000s computers are still useful, rather than letting those computers become e-waste?
Assuming that their claim is true that they will soon(-ish?) be writing TB/cm^2 and reading at GB/sec rates using electron beams, this seems like a very cool breakthrough in electron beam microscopy, both size and price, and there would be many other uses for their technology. I could Sooo much use a portable/tabletop electron beam microscope!!
The writing between the lines is that McDonald's is preparing to do away with human order-takers altogether, replacing that role with a food runner that can occasionally take an order but mostly just takes food to people's seats. The ordering will move to digital kiosks and online.

And when you do all of that, having the fountain machine on the customer side makes almost no sense.
It was always C++ for some type of high-performance data processing engine. Around half the stackful coroutine implementations were off-the-shelf libraries (e.g. Boost::Context) and the other half were purpose-built from scratch, depending on the feature requirements. The typical model is that you have stackful coroutines at a coarse level, e.g. per database query, which may dispatch hundreds of concurrent state machines. All execution and I/O scheduling is explicitly done by the software, which enables some significant runtime optimizations.

If coroutines can be preempted then it introduces a requirement for concurrency control that otherwise doesn't need to exist and interferes with dynamic cache locality optimizations. These are some of the primary benefits of using stackful coroutines in this context.

Being able to interrupt a stackful coroutine has utility for dealing with an extremely slow or stuck thread but you want this to be zero-overhead unless the thread is actually stuck. In most system designs, the time required to traverse any pair of sequential yield points is well-bounded so things getting "stuck" is usually a bug.

Letting end-users inject arbitrary code into these paths at runtime does require the ability to interrupt the thread but even that is often handled explicitly by more nuanced means than random preemption. Sometimes "extremely slow" is correct and expected behavior, so you have to schedule around it.
The railroad companies that merged to create what's left of the rail industry in the US are the ultimate evolution of "too big to fail" corporations. They've been kept alive/subsidized for almost 200 years now, and they've had time to tilt the playing field to their advantage just like e.g. Amazon, except they've had a lot longer to pull shady stuff.

If you look into what privileges the railroads have, it's insane. In some places they have eminent domain ability, and immunity from eminent domain. Since most of the railroad regulations are Federal, they override state law as in this case in Ohio:

https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2022/SCO/0817/200608.asp

Basically... they're entrenched, and they've had 200 years to dig in.
The diagram demonstrating the attack shows DMARC fails. All they have shown is that everyone should have DMARC configured properly, and use a reject or quarantine policy. This has been best practice for a long time now.

They use the example of state.gov. That domain's policy is currently set to Reject, which is what all Federal government services have been using for years now.

Here's CISA's requirements:
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-18-01-enhanc...

Microsoft also uses their own auth mechanism in addition to DMARC. It's called composite authentication. In my experience, comp-auth is more strict than DMARC alone.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/off...

What am I missing? Why is this noteworthy?

EDIT:

After reading more of the paper, my conclusion is mentioned in a later reply:

"They are demonstrating a problem with managed providers, and their opinionated configuration. You give up a lot of control as an admin when you use 365 as your front-end. This further proves that. "
It works fabulously. If a McDonalds has a "broken" milkshake machine it most likely means the workers did not maintain it in a hygienic manner. Stop eating food from that store. Requiring these machines in the stores is a hidden gift from McDonalds corporate to your intestinal tract.
It is mostly to protect from unusual configurations rather than protecting from an attacker, e.g.,
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/43933 and https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/10505
The Chinese probably intend to skip steam catapults and go straight to electromagnetic (like on the new Ford class carriers). I don't think they want to deal with steam generation and plumbing.
I am no lawyer, but when someone gives money to someone else in order to commit illegal activities, in some cases at least the former can face charges as accomplices and/or facilitators. Here, if it turns out that the shareholders explicitly demanded ignoring security reports, or they knew about this but made nothing, then yeah.
> Additionally, TensorRT-LLM includes fully optimized, ready-to-run versions of many LLMs widely used in production today. This includes Meta Llama 2, OpenAI GPT-2 and GPT-3, Falcon, Mosaic MPT, BLOOM, and a dozen others, all of which can be implemented with the simple-to-use TensorRT-LLM Python API.

Is this a typo? They mention it includes an optimized version of GPT-3, but GPT-3 is closed source.
I don’t remember when was the last time I had to serve myself a drink at McDonald’s. Always got it from the counter. Could be my specific situation of being in Canada and rarely going to McDonalds that almost always happen to be either smaller urban locations or part of a larger highway service centre.
The actually edible chicken option was taken off the menu in my area a long time ago, I'd guess around 2015.
A Chick-fil-a near me recently remodeled and moved to a dine-in model where you don’t order at a counter- you sit down and someone comes to take your order on a tablet. I suspect we’re 5-10 years out from McD and others trying to incentivize tipping for order takers, and eliminating dine-in from some locations entirely.
McD fries just aren’t the same when delivered!
Is LaTeX Worth It?
NVLink is the most notable (>600GB/s GPU-to-GPU communication) whereas the best case scenario on 30x0/40x0 GPUs is peer-to-peer PCIe (~30GB/s) and average case is routing PCIe through the host (~15GB/s)
You should write that up as an Op-Ed or contact some journalists to use it as part of a story.

You've got a lot of details in there that are definitely not common knowledge and would be of wide interest.
I am a lawyer and tried to find this new language but none of the legal documents I looked at appear to be updated to reflect any of this. Microsoft has a lot of different docs and it's a little confusing but the ones for Copilot are straightforward and none of those have changed any indemnity-related provisions since the spring.
What’s the server for a metaverse client? Is there a standardized protocol, or a particularly popular one you’re targeting?
My claim wasn't that an Income Graduated Fixed Charge would make your electric bill go down from what it currently is -- it could very well go up.

My claim is that, assuming an IGFC is implemented and the marginal cost of electricity goes down considerably, then a heat pump becomes cheaper to operate. You'll be paying the same fixed cost to be connected to the grid, whether you have a gas furnace or an electric heat pump. It might just be that the newly-lowered electric rates finally make a heat pump more cost-effective than a gas furnace.
Ironically, after working in cubicles and hurk open floor plans for most of my career, now I have an office with a door. Ten feet from my bedroom. ;)
Adventures in Image Processing – From Pixels to Features [video]
Reminds me of the case, where tax investigator were diagnosed with a clear "paranoid-querulatory development" or an adjustment disorder in almost identical expert opinions because they were too successful in finding tax evasion money.

They brought the state about 1 billion euros in back taxes from rich tax evaders from Lichtenstein accounts, including from a foundation of the Hessian CDU.

The chronic course and the incurability made the tax investigators unfit for service for all times, also in the sense of partial incapacity, follow-up examinations were presented as pointless.
Maybe you should be mindful of the needle in your own eye? From atop your high horse. There are human weaknesses to be sure, but the power structure is money, armies, governments, corporation, not “hacking human weaknesses”—that we are helpless to stop the hacking of our “weakness” is just that propaganda itself toned down by one degree. That all it takes is for someone to inject some extra fat and salt into something and then we are powerless to resist.

It IS the case that they are doing this. But they are successful because of the sheer, massive scale of it all. Not because there are pleasure-buttons that they can just boop at will.

The perennial myth is this Skinner Box idea. But people don't just fall into that mold if you just give them a cheeseburger. They fall into it when the forces against them are overwhelming. Which is the case for the power structure.

(People self-regulate just fine in a healthy environment. They don't have to frickin' throw away all earthly temptation—people naturally have the ability to “delay gratification”. But the environment must be healthy. Thus it is wrong to say that people have “biological weaknesses”—people manifest biological weaknesses in unhealthy environments.)

The problem IS the power-structure itself. And as long as they exist they will just morph into something else to exploit us.

But technologists are often believers in these one-weird-tricks. But no drug will pull the wool from people's eyes—always “people” by the way, something other—in the sense that the power structure will just disappear with the disinfectant of illumination.

Of course these technologists/scientists are often better-off with the usual things that correlate with economic means (not education) like being more healthy. And thus it serves their self-aggrandizement to believe that poorer people can be manipulated by just promising them a slice of pizza—helpless to resist their “biological weakness”.
It's just a series of patches

pick them up individually and maintain your own fork, not that hard

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source
> Still not there yet. For grid storage we need batteries with 30+ years lifespan in harsh very hot/very cold weather conditions. They also need to be much cheaper per kW/h than current lithium ion tech.

No, not at all. They can be adequately shielded from the elements, they don't need to last so incredibly long, and even currently priced Li/ion batteries make economical sense today in given scenarios.

What's your rationale for these criteria?
FedNow is not a service for end users. It's a service for banks.
> There’s no smell or visible gas.

FWIW, this is also true of methane. An odorant is added to the stuff that's put in gas pipelines. Couldn't they add the odorant to H2 as well?
No, they changed the allocator API so everyone had to update their code, here's the story:

https://pithlessly.github.io/allocgate.html
Bring Back the Cardvaark (2011)
It's literally not debt. Debt is when you borrow money or issue bonds with obligation to repay the principal, plus interest

This is an equity investment: the VCs buy an ownership stake in the company, which they share with the founders. They don't receive "profit"- they get a payout proportion to their ownership stake if the company is sold or retained earnings if the company issues dividends (not common)

Source: I'm a founder and former VC.
I cannot fathom how terrifyiny it is to be using iCloud Keychain. Would honestly rather become a new customer with Lastpass over that.
It is the case when a library already uses dlopen in unusual code paths, but we want to make sure that code paths won't work.

The examples are some authentication plugins.
that's like asking why need vite when you have tsc. I assume bun does not "run Typescript React app", it only does the jsx,tsx transpiling out of the box.
Socialists say it, capitalists do it.