skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads are literal spam. And spam is bad because people are forcing others to look at crap that they never wanted to see in the first place.

If you find these flyers genuinely helpful, and you explicitly gave them your consent to send you the flyers, then by definition it is no longer spam, and thus it is not immoral. But if you did not give your consent, then they are spamming you. How are they supposed to know if you want the flyers if you don't explicitly give your consent?

Maybe if I mailed you my shit, you'd find it useful, maybe not. But if I just mail it to you every week without your consent, it is the same thing as mailing flyers without your consent.
OK, now please do it without a computer or calculator
Yes, because OSS was meant to be a superset of projects including Free Software, so that stuff that did not fit the Free Software definition could still be considered ideologically acceptable. Do I really have to draw a diagram...?
I take it you don't have any friend or relative that are dying because of an illness, otherwise you would have found a goal for AGI all by yourself.
Quadlet uses SystemD Generators [1] feature. Generators are a way to convert non-systemd-native configuration extensions (like containers, volumes and networks in case of quadlets) into regular systemd-native configuration like service unit-files. The quadlet generator converts the podman extension for systemd into regular service file that you can examine yourself. Non-root podman container services are in /run/user/<uid>/systemd/generator. Here is a blog post that describes the design in detail (slightly dated): [2]

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.gen...

[2] https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2021/10/12/quadlet-an-easier-w...
All talk, no proof.
It's interesting that mathematicians, when asked philosophically, might have all kinds of interesting and nuanced ideas about this topic. But when you let them get back to their mathematics, they behave as if they believed deep down in their heart that mathematics exists independently of the observer.

(It's a working attitude that works well in practice. Just like a heliocentric world view works well enough for most celestial navigation you can do without computers.)
No, on actual paper one is darker and more saturated than the other. Unlike RGB, CMYK is subtractive, so “all of everything” gives you black, not white.

https://www.rightbydelzer.com/standard-black-vs-rich-black
> I am also not a lawyer, but the worst problems a startup can have are not ones that break your startup immediately. They are ones that break your project or startup after years of work.

As someone who has been sued by non-practicing entities related to a patent, it doesn't break the company. They just want money and they make it affordable. They sue you immediately in order to start the negotiations and show their seriousness. Often their license fees are explicitly set to make it cheaper than fighting them in court specifically so that you won't challenge the patent's validity - so you can settle and move on. It is a tax and it can be unfair, but it won't kill your company.

Honestly, can you share one example where a patent license fee killed a start-up company?

I am not a lawyer.
Funny, I hit /apple for the same reason.
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You do realise that the fact that this is one the news completely makes this tactic unworkable
anymore?
Which, if you think carefully enough, means that he's neither interested nor capable of (creating) AGI.

He, like many engineers, think intelligence is a kind of engineering; so you just need to build something that works.

Intelligence is all about coping under failure. It is a lot more like, 'acting safely when you dont have the answers you need' than 'answering questions correctly'.

That latter impulse resigns the whole field to cheap mimicry. These guys arent even starting from the right point, nor could they, being engineers.
Why wouldn’t day based work? Just because your sleep schedule changes doesn’t mean when you’re supposed to take the medicine changes.
And in addition a real number can encode an infinite amount of information, and as such real numbers are a construct that doesn't exist in the physical universe. Making them, unreal.
Maven is always more or less the same - you have properties, dependencies, build (plugins), profiles, maybe modules and dependencyManagement if you have multi-module build. That's it, every project is the same.

In Gradle there is are infinite number of ways how to configure it. I haven't seen 2 projects done in the same way, when I want to understand a new gradle build, I need to learn few new Greadle (or Groovy) features.

Sure, in very complex Maven builds there might be some quirks and some plugins have bugs, but it works so much better than anything else out there.
> If you go to an Indian casino, and you want to play a slot machine, but it's requiring you to wait on another player, you're dealing with a class II machine.

This is all really interesting, but I don't think I follow on this point (and I'd like to understand!)—are you saying that two players are playing on different machines, but the second machine can't operate until the first is done? Are they relying on each other's outcomes to calculate odds or something like that?
> This is not entirely true in general sense. Yes, a typical ARM CPU is more energy efficient indeed, but theoretically nothing prevents x86 to be nearly as efficient.

The very complex instruction set does. You can easily throw multiple decoders at Arm code, but x86 scales badly due to the variable length. Current cores need predecoders to find instruction boundaries which is just not needed with fixed width instructions and even then can only decode simpler instructions with the higher numbered decoders.
QED, for the oldies
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Huh? The younger generation lives with their phones attached to their face. They don’t prioritize actual relationships.
What? If you use containers this simplifies the stack rather than complicating it. Instead of kubernetes and other popular tools it's just rootless podman and systemd which is already there.

I'm using a similar setup and this excites me. It's too new to be in my repository but as soon as I get an extra hour I'll compile it and take it for a spin.
Jammers don't have much effect because of the frequency hopping technology of 2.4ghz band used by hobbyist has been improved upon for years. We used to have flags and announce use frequency during the FM days, now we just go out and race without worrying about interference with other users.
Oisin Tymon. Out of 58 producers who worked on the show he was the 3rd most prolific: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628033/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl...

Definitely not a junior member of staff.
I actually think point (3) is a good one, but am still extremely skeptical of teaching students more maths.

Basically, I believe that there's a heavy correlation between being good at maths and being good at solving every day (and not so every day) problems.

But I don't believe there's much of a correlation between being taught math at school for even more hours will make much of a difference. Most schools are terribly at teaching anything.
The engine is already there. We're talking about alternatives to the console-specific shim layers.
This is one of the rare times I've seen tech demonstrated, and immediately felt a strong need to have it for myself
After doing some profiling when that game released I'm not surprised. Game lacked LOD system, 70% of frame time was spent doing terrain rendering(IIRC it also generated mesh from texture every single frame).
I'm still not clear whether quadlets are a feature of Podman or systemd...

The reliance on systemd is an issue on its own. Much has been said about its intrusion in all aspects of Linux, and I still prefer using distros without it. How can I use this on, say, Void Linux? Standalone Podman does work there, but I'm not familiar if there were some hacks needed to make it work with runit, and if more would be needed for this quadlet feature.
Because pesky hackers keep stealing their files.
That makes sense now :)
Maybe they mean Quadrant.
95% of the world.
I would ask why this individual is searching for patents he might be in violation of. In computer science there are likely a ton of overly board patents that may, if you squint your eyes, could be viewed as applying to your projects. Why would you do this to yourself? Do not go out and try to find potential violations and look to license them all - of course any patent owner will love to get unsolicited license fees, but you are basically engaging in an unnecessary make work project that will just hurt you.
As a warning to others that the CIA will only let you live 8 years after allowing you to publish "the truth"?
it's a Motte-and-bailey situation [1]. In theory AI-Safety is about X-Risks. In practice it's about making AI compliant, non-racist, non-aggressiv etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
The ultimate root of the problem is thinking healthcare works like a bakery: if the bread is too expensive i'll go shopping elsewhere or even choose something else besides bread. This last option is basically off the table in healthcare: you either get healthcare or die. Which in the usa seems to be the options indeed.
There are some people out there in filter bubbles where AI has become something that is trendy to despise. Whenever the topic comes up, you’ll see a few people reflexively hate anyone who has anything to do with AI now. In the absence of any other context, I would assume that’s what this is.
Ok, look, this isn't complicated. Here's some kind-opinion, kinda-fact points:

1) Tesla is making vehicles with EV drivetrains at cost parity or less than an ICE car (depends on the actual reporting on Tesla's per-car margin accuracy). This number is somewhere around $100/kwhr at the pack level.

2) EV drivetrain cost has been steadily falling at nonlinear rates for a decade, with very much runway.

3) CATL and other battery suppliers have released 150 wh/kg sodium ion and 200+ wh/kg LFP in mass production. The sodium ion density (150 wh/kg) is somewhere around a 300 mile range car with good engineering. The LFP density (200+ wh/kg) should be good for a 400 mile car.

4) the pack-level cost of the cells remains to be seen, but likely the sodium ion pack level cost will drop to 50$/kwhr give or take. The LFP will be in 60-80/kwhr. Note that this is not dependent on lab-to-factory maturation. The cells are already beginning mass production, and the full cost drop is just a function of boring traditional factory construction and logistics.

This means that in about 2-3 years, a car company with a decent EV engineering team will be making cars that cost them, at the core "guts" of the vehicle, about 1/3 to 1/2 less than an ICE car.

If you've driven in a Tesla, you know an EV produces a lot of torque, is quiet, smooth, and a very good riding experience. The downsides of slow recharge are steadily improving.

But if an EV costs 25-40% less than an ICE, and your car company cannot make those vehicles, your car company will cease to exist in short order.

The last five years where VW and other companies started doing the large EV investments, they were following long term trend lines, without acutal substantive technological pathways. So conservative companies like Toyota / FCA / etc could plausibly drag their feet and sell wait an see.

They cannot do that anymore, which is likely why Toyota is making all these announcements only 1 year after questioning EVs and pushing Hydrogen for the nth time. It's the new Sodium Ion and LFP going into production, which is a tangible no-projecction add-up-bill-of-materials that equals: the ICE is not a competitive economic product in the very near future. It is obsolete. Yes it will have inertia, but its days are numbered.

Of course, those numbers are just for the sodium ion / LFP stuff that CATL is putting into production this year.

The roadmaps for sodium ion in 1-3 years is to hit 200 wh/kg (the 400 mile car, or a smaller/cheaper pack for a 300 mile car), and LFP to hit 225-250 wh/kg (the 500 mile car, a cheaper pack for a 400 mile car).

So go ahead and take all my calculations for 150 wh/kg sodium ion and 200 wh/kg LFP and slash them by another 20-30% for reduced drivetrain costs.

Now, what's in the wings in the 5-10 year range? solid state batteries, sodium-sulfur or lithium-sulfur batteries, all in various stages of lab-to-commercialization. Energy densities in the 300-500 wh/kg. Yeah, drop those drivetrain costs even more.
Just saw today a worker in a cloud of soil dust with a machine that, I guess, breaks the hardened soil - right next to a busy road. Anyway, next article would be about these workers getting Candida auris.

Anyway, do you expect their employer to watch them all the time when they work? If they have passed instruction and cannot be supervised all the time, then it's employees fault.
Selling your soul to a different crack dealer. Hmm.
Initially Russian expectations missed the reality. The was no "one week of bombing " fase. Then Russia had to spend enourmous ammouts of rockets\artillery (mostly due to lack of planning and lack of military education\experience in the army) to have at least some results.

Right now Russia's abilities are very limited.
No need to ask, just get a job at Apple, same as every major company
Put GrapheneOS on it and watch the battery really soar.
There you go https://github.com/cristianoliveira/dotfiles/blob/cd1921ebda...
> Getting 'f' vs 'f(x)' right mostly is really important for programmers who deal with higher order functions in general all the time. Most mathematicians don't fall into that category.

Operators and functionals?
You can, if you really care about this, get a dedicated hardware to store your TOTP tokens (for example [1]). There's also various open hardware projects (like [2]). Or you can just use an old smartphone without a SIM card, which probably doesn't "interact with society" any more than the website you're trying to log on to in the first place.

[1]: https://www.token2.com/shop/product/molto-2-v2-multi-profile...

[2]: https://hackaday.io/project/176959-open-authenticator
I'm sure this news will annoy many a Swedish military nerd. JAS 39 Gripen was designed for takeoff and landing from highways just like its predecessor JA 37 Viggen (developed in the 70's) could. In fact, that JAS 39E/F is easier and cheaper to operate (disputed of course) was one of its main selling points. The Finnish air force, however, choose F-35A over JAS 39E/F.
It's quite unfortunate that this article mixes up what's necessary for podman quadlets with coreOS concepts.

With quadlets, the only thing required is to drop a `.container` file in the right place and you end up with a container properly supervised by `systemd`. And this of course also supports per-user rootless containers as described in [1].

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
> University prof might not be a wealthy job, but class wise it is usually considered pretty high class. We're not exactly talking about the people putting 9-5 in doing manual labour at a construction site.

Ah, yes. Agreed.

> Maybe, but its still a large investment for questionable financial gain.

No no, I don't think you realize how cheap education can be where I'm from. Getting admitted is an entirely different matter. And don't ask me how, but here there's an inverse correlation between how good a university is and how expensive it is. Like, here the best universities seem to be run by the government and are therefore much cheaper than private universities. Which is why it is also very hard to get into those govt run universities.

Also — I think this is a cultural thing — generally people here tend to want go to college, even if ultimately there is little correlation between what they study and what they end up doing (atleast, for non-engineering non-medical courses).

And, college degree is kind of expected for any job here. I don't know if that's what's caused the cultural default of going to college, or vice versa.

So yes, lots of complex, and sometimes contradicting dynamics at play.

There are inefficiencies with such an attitude, but I guess it is what it is.

(And, I'm not an expert in any of what I said above, so take all of that with a pinch of salt.)
I think we will end up pulling back towards PHEVs (or range extended EVs). You can have literally 1/4 of the battery and still never use fossil fuels for 90% of journeys. You don't get to have as much power, but EVs are more powerful than necessary anyway.
I’m also trying to discover what’s note worthy here as well.

I feel as a community we are failing to ask critical questions. This should be the sort of forum where PR puff pieces come to get picked apart.
Sony are still in business
To me, this big problem with Docker is that it does a ton of changes to my system, even when I don't use it.

It runs a daemon, it uses a bunch of IPs, it mounts a ton of stuff ...

Is there a reason for all that noise and complexity?

There can't be a reason until I run a container, right? And even then, it seems way too much.

Is it different when using Quadlets?
Exactly, one is about shielding humans from their own stupid intents whilst the other is shielding ourselves from AI's homocidal/genocidal intents (even if it's a second-order effect).
SteamCAD moved to SourceForge
You didn't approve, but many people did. "at the expense of their users" isn't a fair characterization.
scott alexander has a nice post about the intersection of these two types of ai safety https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/perhaps-it-is-a-bad-thing-t...
> Getting 'f' vs 'f(x)' right mostly is important for programmers who deal with higher order functions in general all the time. Most mathematicians don't fall into that category

Mathematicians deal with higher order functions all the time, e.g. in functional analysis.
vello.ai is very, very slow. I used it for web searching but waiting (sometimes) more than 30 seconds for a simple queries is unacceptable
Don't know about anywhere else but my local laws says you need to see the drone to operate it and you aren't allowed to control it in FPV mode.

Local law also say there are very little places I could really use it in 50km radius from home.
There's also the viewpoint that the universe is part of mathematics.
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> Nintendo is still mostly like that, one-time up front payment for the main game, with infrequent optional expansion packs added for particularly popular games.

Have you seen what happened to the Pokemon games?
I don't buy that argument, to be honest.

Firstly, before online banking existed fraud was quite common, and this dind't make banks unsustainable. And indeed, one of the key points that made people trust credit cards was that the bank had your back if someone emptied your account somehow. I once had fraudulent charges from a country thousands of kilometers away, on a card that I hadn't even used (so there was no chance it could be my fault). I just flagged them as fraudulent and the bank returned the money a few days later, no questions asked.

Secondly, even if you are a security expert with great password practices, do you really want your banking security be considered just your problem? What if one day your account is hacked through no fault of your own, because of some breach/hack of the bank's systems, and the bank denies it, giving you full responsibility? I think it's extremely dangerous to give banks the option to do that. Fraud should always be the bank's problem by default, unless they can prove that the user was negligent.

Thirdly, even if we accept the assumption that 2FA is needed for security, there are more ways to do 2FA that don't involve a smartphone - for example with a physical device, or with a coordinate card. The fact that most 2FA (at least where I live) is mobile-only, and even banks that used to offer other choices are now moving to mobile-only, is evidence that there is a motivation beyond security, they want to make smartphones mandatory.
If you want to really simplify using containers, you could just use systemd-nspawn.
I mean, this was mandated by the EU recently, right? So we should expect ALL manufacturers switch to this soon.
By "personal computing" I guess I do mean machines that I have full root on, so usually either a laptop/desktop or a local headless server.

Out of curiousity, these servers that you're dealing with, do you have to use them for long/focused work like writing or software development, or are these more like sysadmin interactions? Have you noticed any repeated commands or sequences you find yourself running over and over? Is there any opportunity for you to write local scripts that then SSH into the targets and run those commands on your behalf? Or locally use sshfs and manipulate files like they were local.
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If he's been groomed his whole life for running a multi national car company, there's reason to believe he would be better suited than just about anyone.
I am as annoyed as anyone at the dumbing down of generative AI in the name of preventing offense at all costs. But what's at stake with AGI is not somebody's feelings - it's the existence of human race.
While I agree with the point you make, I think that syntax has a huge impact. Maybe not on mathematicians themselves, but I am certain that mathematical syntax has done more to scare people away from the field than the actual mathematical problems themselves.

For example the convention to use the greek alphabet for certain things. This is totally arbitrary and you could have also used emoticons instead (had they existed). But what this means is that the pupil, before tackling the meat of the mathematical problem has to accept that weird looking letter they have never seen for no real reason whatsoever.

And I say that as someone who can fluently read the greek alphabet.
In recent months I’ve noticed a few blogs talk about living with out a phone or, in some cases, internet for a weekend as if it’s some amazing accomplishment.

I love gadgets as much as the next guy and even I find it weird and depressing that some individuals are this dependant on their electronics that they need to write about their digital fasting in the same kind of way that one might talk about a solo expedition to the South Pole.

Even in 2023, I still don’t use my phone for navigating as a tourist. I just walk and explore. It’s far more enjoyable stumbling upon cool places than it is starring at a screen while you rush somewhere.
I am waiting for the universe to do something non-mathematical. There is no reason to believe it can't :-)
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> The original Quadlet repository describes Quadlet this way:

> What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet?

> A quadlet

So it's based on reinterpreting the root "kuber-" which ultimately means something"to do with "turn", as "cube", and then metaphorically reducing a cube to a square.
I would guess that some intra continental communications still use sub-sea cables, either through necessity (UK to France) or to cut out a large number of hops (say South Africa to the Ivory Coast; I don't know if such a cable exists, but I think there are cables going alongside west Africa).
Yeah … this response is devoid of substance. What’s all this nonsense about “soy”? Why not critique the approach with what is better about your approach or docker-compose or whatever it is you use and talk about the merits.
Author decided to move SteamCAD (and SteamCAD2) from GitHub[0,1] to SourceForge[2,3].

[0] https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD

[1] https://github.com/oskardolch/SteamCAD2

[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/steamcad

[3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/steamcad2