skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had already replied to this article over on lobste.rs but I'll link to that from here.

https://lobste.rs/s/iovz9o/state_async_rust

The tl;dr is that I think this entire async concern stuff is ridiculously overblown. I suspect the vast majority of Rust devs, like myself, not only accept the current state as "fine" (couple things to work on) but are very happy with the decisions tokio made.

Things like "oh no you have to use Arc" are really acting like that's more than a trivial change. Or "you have to use Mutex" when you don't. Or "you can accidentally block" as if that's not the case with regular threads too, and in that case I acknowledge that async can make things trickier there. Or "tokio is so popular" as if that's not exactly because of the decisions it made early on that appealed to rust developers.

Sorry but it's just not that big of a deal. The warts I run into are in cases where I'm trying to do stuff like zero copy, async, abstracted deserialization. That can be a pain right now (and is being worked on). 99% of the time it's a matter of just writing `async` or `await` and not worrying about anything. In fact, I almost never use `tokio::spawn` anyways except at the binary level - these problems virtually do not impact me.

Source: I have written 10s of thousands of lines of async Rust, probably 100s of thousands.
The difference from 4 to 5 is the breadth of conditions under which autonomous driving is viable, seemingly with locality as a limiting factor. If a route has the truck leaving the local municipality, the truck is likely not autonomous, even at level 4. I'd be curious if it's possible to schedule a route from San Francisco to Sacramento (let alone San Francisco to New York City) with either Cruise or Waymo, assuming it's necessary to take a highway for such a trip.
Geospatial SQL queries in SQLite using TG, SQLite-tg and datasette-SQLite-tg
In practice, science is, and has been, rather flexible about its assumptions, and, ironically, has been criticized for that by philosophers - and yet it has been remarkably successful, arguably because it gives a lot of weight to empiricism and not so much to debating axioms.

> We don't know how wide that window happens to be and how much of reality we can see through it... We don't even know if the scientific method is the best it could be in what we use it for.

It is telling that these sentiments are not followed by something beginning "analytical philosophy, in contrast..."

> [Science] was only expanded with the idea of falsification in the 20th century yet we were still doing useful science before than.

It was doing de facto, though somewhat ad hoc, falsification long before Popper focused his attention it. The philosophy of science is much more descriptive than prescriptive.

Having said this, you may be surprised to learn that I spend a some of my free time reading and thinking about various aspects of philosophy. I must say, however, that I feel that western metaphysics lost its way in its attempt to address fundamental questions through the analysis of language.
There are few air bases but many sections of highway which are long and straight enough to take off from. Targeting all of them with expensive precision munitions is totally impractical.
I think you need to calm down. "AI" today is just fancy predictive text and there's no evidence it will progress far beyond that.
Thank you for the answer! I don't want to use a cloud service for sync, I will take a look if an opensource solution has a direct device to device sync, I haven't thought about that. I will also checkout the yubikey bio - I guess as it's hardware so no pesky account cloud connected? Thanks for the ideas!
I have a RedditSucks container that allows my account to not be linked to anything else I do, and have a company account accessible if I need it. Really a great feature.
"Welcome to your new life! Brought to you by Facebook!"

No thank you. Maybe back when the Internet was new, and we knew little about data privacy, targeted ads, and psychological manipulation.

We just know too much now. Nice try.
Jenkins X? https://jenkins-x.io
I'm not a fan of the government mandating the disclosure of how much money I make.
future will tell, there is a chance OpenAI will just burn through the 10B on training without creating revenue stream
Linux Tablet and MiniPC, Kernel LTS Down to 2 Years, Gnome 45 – FOSS Weekly
Say what you want about TikTok, but anything that drives people to read more is a good thing
The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents
We completely agree with this! It's better to say, "It's imperfect due to X reason, but let's merge and fix it later," rather than just a "lgtm" message that doesn't educate anyone."
Vaccines are still tested with horseshoe crab blood. This is finally changing
Without knowing what your library does, it's hard to tell if the simplification benefit is worthwhile when traded off against the lack of usability from apps which should not be blocking worker threads. Could well be, but overall I'd just use Tokio and Reqwest (which has a module exposing a blocking API, even!)
Sure, but when family is in the car, I drive in the slow lane, to help protect them. When family is on the metro, wtf am I supposed to do, beyond maybe a pocket knife on my belt? I took my family on the metro exactly once, and never again, after a younger one almost stepped on a syringe, and a homeless guy was rambling about hiding in a dumpster.

If you're a guy taking a ride, sure. Otherwise, get real.
This is nuts.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

Intel's documentation is claiming 0.5 CPI, or a bandwidth of 2x of these operations per clock tick.

I mean, forget about bit-shuffling or permuting. I feel like with the right configuration, you can operate 512-bits of CRC32 calculations in parallel, maybe in like 3 or 4 instructions (or ~2 clock ticks) or something incredibly fast.

> this ends up quite limiting if you want different matrices, so most of the uses are ones where the matrix is the same for all elements

Elliptical Curves is the obvious use case.

CRC is one immediate use where all the matricies are the same (and linear in the GF-field), albeit the reduction needs to be done "somehow" but that can be figured out in a later operation... probably...

AES encryption is operated over 4x sets of GF(2^8). I know that AES is already got its own instruction but a full software implementation of the GF-operations behind AES might be possible with this.

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I dunno, there's a lot of things I see already as immediately applicable where the "A" matrix is nearly constant across all elements. And for those where A isn't constant, pipelined operation is obvious.

8x different "A" matrixies means that we can build a "pipeline" where we can AVX512-shift the bytes down by 8 as well each clock tick, and build an 8x-deep pipeline and apply those 8x A matricies in parallel while consuming 64-bytes per clock-tick, while performing 512-bit worth of operation per clock tick (no, 1024-bits because Intel chips support 2x such operations per clock tick).

Pipelining, full parallelization, etc. etc. So many architectures are possible with this spec. IMO, it shows that Intel knows what they're doing with these intrinsic, and I think this is something now GPU can accomplish yet. Truly an advantage to Intel chips only.

Very nice instruction. The practical benefits though (Intel-only, exceptionally arcane with very few programmers who can work with, etc. etc.) may make it a dead instruction though. But I'm sure some wizard out there is going to do something cool with this instruction over the next 5 years. (It'd probably take weeks of practice on some practice problem just to learn how to use this instruction correctly, lol)
There's a lot more highway than airstrip length. According to Wikipedia[1], Finland has 78,141 kilometres (48,555 mi) of highways. That's a whole lot of runway to destroy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_in_Finland
Yeah I understand why it was included, that's also why I added mine :). Sorry if that came across as making fun of your reply!
Being able to easily use different profiles, I like to have one profile for work and one for personal stuff. Chrome/Edge implementation is really nice, you can have different taskbar icons, different theme, history, bookmarks, etc.
> And it is not true that computing power will continue to reduce; Moore's Law has been dead for some time now, and if incremental growth in LLMs require exponential growth in computing power the marginal difference won't matter.

I think the stronger argument here won't necessarily be Moore's Law related but a change in architecture. Things like Apple's Neural Engine, Google's TPMs, or Geohot's Tinybox. In Intel's Tick-Tock model, this is the Tock for the previous Tick of larger datasets so to speak.

(Note: I don't necessarily agree, just trying to make a stronger argument than just invoking Moore's Law.)
Salesforce Standardizes on RHEL
Covid and a layoff probably saved my life - quit a serious alcohol habit but ended up very sedentary until I got laid off and basically ended up rehabbing myself by helping my parents out with some construction work. Then had a slow year but now I'm back to the gym and finding out that I'm not as decrepit as I thought and headed towards being in the best shape of my life.

Been a weird couple years for sure.
It's tricky to put airstrips out of service (for long), especially if the one looking to do the attacking doesn't have the ability to meaningfully contest the airspace there, as would be the case for most if not all adversaries an F35 might have.
No you can't. That works for laptops but not phones, tablets etc.
> It's interesting seeing all of the support in this post about MDMA, while methamphetamine has such an ugly stigma associated with it.

That's because having similar names does not make them similar in any way. "M D M A" isn't a list of ingredients, it doesn't contain methamphetamine. They have some chemical similarity, but their effects are very different. Once you understand this, you can see that people chastising meth but liking mdma aren't being hypocrites.
Hey, this looks promising. I think I might try it out. I'm using mako, which itself works well enough that I rarely think about it, so I might as well poke it with a stick and muck around with an alternative option becuz whyyyy not?

Thanks for posting, I'll return with some feedback should I get around to testing it out soon enough.
I don't really consume HDR content through Youtube,so the Chromium relation doesn't have much bearing on my situation. Although it does make me sad that the only browser that really caters to what I want from a technical perspective is Chromium, I'd love to continue daily driving Firefox.
I guess that's not how corporate liquidation work.

A liquidator will evaluate the assets current market value and try to liquidate them in the most advantageous way for creditors.

Which means: they'll try to get at least the valuation that Anthropic got from the AWS deal. The problem is: they need to find someone willing to buy these shares at this price. If they do so, FTX creditors will be happy.
That is a major failure of government. We have stone composite quartz work tops here in Europe too but I'm pretty sure no one gets silicosis from working on it. You can get them from IKEA.
Paper has two objective advantages over digital: It's reliable and it doesn't scale. That makes it the only option for elections as any compromise of a digital system would instantly decide the outcome. With paper, a bag of ballots might be lost or a few fake ones introduced, but none of these attacks scale very well so if we can prevent most of them, that's good enough.

I won't touch on preferring paper for visualizing thoughts because that's just preference, but seeing people prefer paper invoices over digital ones is just sad to see. On a conceptual level digital should always be preferrable, but we somehow managed to screw the inplementation up so bad that it's worse than no implementation.

Why do we need to overcomplicate everything?
> that the browser is not their only focus.

No one thinks that it is. The annoyance is that it seems to be their last focus.
What’s to say it would ever lead to lower prices and not simply higher executive pay, stock buybacks etc? That certainly seems to be far more the order of the day.
I thought this was a VTOL aircraft so runway length should not be such an issue.
Finally, I can decorate my virtual home with blood splatters, a bag of dope, a gun and a grinder.

In all seriousness, the application is pretty cool but some of the 3d models included make me imagine some of the gruesome scenarios that need to be modeled like this. Hat's off to the people who do this in order to solve crimes. I know I could't stomach some of it.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This is a question that is asked every few years.

Some past iterations:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 by mdoliwa

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 by kewball

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16482392 by pyeu

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614966 by codester news

Just like in past iterations I am very curious to see the results, and maybe there have been a few surprises since ChatGPT last appeared almost a year ago.

The original text:

> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
> mind numbingly obvious statement that increasing supply decreases prices

Only in idealised markets. Housing markets are often not like that.
Yeah if I wanted to write for a JVM, I'd use kotlin
Deepmind didn't produce any AI product with good proven adaptation, while burned many billions.
Thanks for that. And for getting it...
At least with “Foo Lake” you immediately know it’s an Intel CPU architecture. That a valuable feature. No reason to burn any bridges. ;)
TLDR:

This intriguing paper delves into the creation of autonomous agents through the emulation of human brain functions, perception, and actions. It introduces a conceptual framework for LLM-based agents consisting of three core components:

1. The “brain” module, acting as the central controller, handles fundamental tasks such as memory retention, cognitive processes, and decision-making.

2. The “perception” module is responsible for sensing and processing diverse information from the external environment, encompassing various sensory inputs.

3. The “action” module executes tasks using tools and exerts influence over the agent’s surroundings, enabling it to interact effectively with its environment.
> if you ignore all the things

Not all the things, just their unprofitable side business attempts. It's like knowing a guy with a well paying job who always complains he is broke. But he conveniently never mentions that he's spending $4500 per month on a Lamborghini lease.
> Does Linux have mechanisms to guard against that?

Sure. ulimit or cgroups can.
I see mention of T9 in "On phones that used the 9-key numeric layout, T9 predictive text was used. Other phones used the full-hand layout with the familiar QWERTY layout, with other proprietary predictive methods." I'm unable to verify this app has T9 as an input method. Is there a custom layout for this?

T9 was pretty sweet as you could type without needing to look at the device.

Maybe this layout?

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/263

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6scYO3PHnyvA_JwB09W...
I had actually noticed this a few weeks back. I figured they'd finally killed it. Looks like I was right on the nose...

I still haven't forgiven them for killing the Gmail Notifier taskbar program.
Seattle really is the perfect example. I love living here, but I can only afford to own real estate in the suburbs. But, the moment I buy something in the suburbs, I'll either have to buy a car, or take 3+ busses to get anywhere I want to go in my off-time, which just drives the cost of my decision to move up, or it harms my quality of life.

For now I rent and hope that the cost of living doesn't screw me.

If I could just bike to the nearest train station, and zip around everywhere I needed to go, the radius in which I would want to live would be much wider. Hopefully some of the light rail expansions will make things nicer, but a high speed rail would be a complete game-changer.
Good job on coming out of beta. It's crowded out there so best of luck!

I think the initial README could do a better job of showcasing the framework. I think including the Maven coordinates and the quick start example instead of linking to other pages could be a step in the right direction. Check out the README I wrote in https://github.com/tofflos/undertow-examples to get an idea of what I'm looking for.
No no no. Just look at the janky stuff one needs to do to compile Kotlin for an iOS project. Plus, object lifetime semantics differ. Now you won’t be able to write Kotlin native code without thinking of iOS rules. So now you have the worst of unfamiliar worlds with a “most fast” product speed.
Imho the stark difference between the number of views and likes that these videos generate and the actual sales of the books and (often) their literary quality shows that these book influencers promote merely the idea of reading.

The average TikTok user knows that being on this platform is a gross waste of one's time, but it's oh so addictive, so giving a like to a video promoting a much more healthy and valuable activity like reading a book works as a kind of self-assurance that "I'll start reading again someday, I promise".
One suggestion I have would be to include a very minimal implementation of login management (basically just properly hash/salt passwords and provide some easy way to add users). I've used Django before for the sole reason that it includes a database and user management because some API had to be login only since said API had high resource usage.

I can see how having your own database is kind of "minimal" in the Java sense of the word. You don't need to install 50 different packages just to make a simple web app. There are minimal frameworks in the sense that they only provide a basic web server, but those are so minimal that you are forced to install a bunch of packages. It's minimal in the sense that create-react-app was minimal (RIP).
In a market you don't need to replace it, you replace millions of hours of building/testing/documenting apps and you've effectively reduced demand for SWE labour (ignoring the potential for new job creation).
OP said that they did this with a first-gen kindle, and I would not be surprised if it had an always-on wifi connection and was processing data much more frequently then you suggest. I agree that there are plenty of ways to build this in a power-efficient way, I just want to suggest that given modern battery controllers, heat is a much more likely cause of failure then keeping the kindle plugged in all the time.
Yes, I am open to the possibility that confiscation by the state (with compensation) in the interest of national heritage may be the right thing to do in such cases, I'm just, as I said, skeptical of the claim that "full market value" for completely unique things that have never been on the market can be determined by a committee; and that interests of the farmer and the interests of the government are as blissfully aligned as was claimed.
People don't need money to not die, they need to work to not die. Until the fulfillment of everyone's basic needs can be automated, people are expected to work (disregarding some obvious exceptions). The money is just a proxy for that work.

Although there is certainly a lot of fuckery going on with the money (currency) itself, but if that's the problem you're alluding to, I don't think summarizing it as "capitalism" is accurate.
Isn't the F-35 VTOL capable anyway? Wouldn't it already be able to use most "big enough" paved surfaces to land and take off?
Right, and that's different than the magician where harm was never expected.

I would have been uncomfortable drawing blood, even if she wasn't, but I'm not surprised the audience got there.

I am quite surprised they put a gun to her head, and that there was any level of discussion/disagreement about it's use.
I grew up in Tucson, a city full of garden apt complexes that in the 2000s charged $300-$600 for a one-bedroom apartment. All of them were built by private developers, owned by private mgmt companies, there were no rent control laws, and rents stayed pretty low there all the way up until the COVID demand shock.

You aren't going to ever have cheap housing in a desirable urban core, but the vast land area of inner ring suburbs can house many more people if upzoned.
Sillycovalley – Startup Simulation Game
The security properties are also really really different, and really intuitive, and quite strong too: if you have physical possession you have total access, otherwise none at all.

With a computing device, only if you are certain there is no wifi/bluetooth/cellular/etc hardware inside the device, can you have a similar trust. And the days are rapidly coming when there's no such thing as a device without such hardware, not even a watch.

With computing devices, you do get the ability to encrypt data at rest, so for example, a locked physical paper diary is less secure in that sense than an encrypted text file. But the possible number of actors that would attempt to break the security for a physical paper document is much lower, only whoever is nearby, not everyone on the entire internet.

If I had something I really didn't want to get out, these days, I'd be much more likely to recommend the use of a notebook in a safe than an encrypted file on a laptop or phone or something. It doesn't matter how encrypted it is if my device gets compromised.

(If it had to be electronic, it'd be a laptop with no working networking hardware, in a safe.)
Waymo/Cruise are the more relevant entities for this conversation (although neither are actively pursuing trucking right now). Tesla hasn't even legally registered FSD as a self-driving product in California. Once they do that and get their disengagement rates 10^-3 lower then they will be more relevant to the conversation about how safe driver-less vehicles are.

Not to discount the obvious potential safety issues, just noting that Tesla is taking a very different approach that is currently pretty far from being able to complete trips consistently, let alone be measured up against human drivers.
Police leave the car running for the same reason.
There are a few companies who are actively tackling these types of challenges. The space is called "Intelligent Document Processing".

Checkout aihub.instabse.com or docsumo.com
You are missing the entire point that it doesn't necessarily have to be this way and use it to finger wag a straw man.
Yeah, usually a guilt trip type of moment.
Have you ever heard of Twitter and Reddit?
> You’re not fungible and never were

Sure as heck doesn't feel that way. And that's as a software developer with multiple college degrees and a decade of experience. The neurodivergence means I've always had to mask and be on guard and push well beyond my limits into physical/mental damage, because the fear of losing employment is ever-present. Feels pretty commoditized.

> and anyone who tries to make you believe that deserves the utmost vehement pushback.

The faceless corporations and their boards of investors who value "line go up" over basically every other metric of human wellbeing? Yes, they absolutely deserve pushback, but it's not easy (open source COTS guillotine plans, anyone?).
Or for those with true tourist savvy, carry (N-1)th phone as primary in pickpocket public, and your current, flashy, expensive device is your backup instead.
> they do not have the risk of someone stealing passwords from their server and walking away with the money

So if they get hacked and the credentials to upload code get stolen, what happens? Wouldn’t the hackers be able to deploy code that steals users crypto?