skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Over the course of two hours, the CEO of startup incubator Y Combinator personally attacks or retweets criticism of “extremist judges,” whom he accuses of emboldening criminals with the help of local media; any supervisor who dares to oppose bonuses to hire more cops; Nancy Pelosi and lawmakers concerned about the safety of autonomous vehicles; education activists who want to change math curriculum in public schools; venture capitalists who are “evil” to startup founders; “decels” who want to pump the brakes on technological progress; Apple’s monopoly on apps; YouTube censors; and last, but certainly not least, NIMBYs.

I once learned a lot about helping people with alcohol addition for a family friend. A few of the things I learned were: 1) labeling the person as an alcoholic will make them drink more 2) yelling at them and forcing them to defend themselves will make them drink more 3) any kind of aggressive intervention will make them drink more.

Unfortunately, attacking people generally serves to make them feel defensive and want to defend themselves. When we defend ourselves, that generally makes us dig in further.

I'll note that I hope that SF shifts in the direction of Garry's vision, and I'm in favor of the end outcome.

If Garry's goal is attention ("if you want to get an audience, start a fight") then attacks are a good method. If his goal is to change minds, I'd note that he may be more successful if he picks up a few books on helping people who have addictions, and borrows some of the methods from them (in short: make them first feel understood by you, and understand their hesitations and what makes them tick).

He could kind of treat it like he's doing customer development for a startup. Find people who've gone from one side to the other, talk to them about their journey, and so on.

The main point I'm hoping to emphasize is that attacking the other side like this to win may result in victory, but it won't result in peace.
Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place.

A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially non-recyclable. A lot of the elements that went into making the 2010s state of the art electronics are now lost in landfills, never to be recovered or reused again.
No -- that's my preference as well. However, I could be considered a "late-career" developer that wouldn't benefit much from credit for small patches.
The point of a university -- it's in the name -- is to learn a universal method of acquiring knowledge. Ask any education researcher and they will tell you the dirty secret: it doesn't matter what you major in. Whether you learn this method by studying parts of the human body or the intricacies of computer code is immaterial. For (almost?) all sciences, it'll be outdated before you leave the place anyways.

So indeed, the end cert doesn't quite matter so much as going through the process.
I moved the mouse to the left.

Went through a lot, trackballs, 2 mice, narrow keyboards, but the left hand mouse was the one that fixed the biomechanical issues, and they haven't returned in 20+ years.
One earthquake later…
If I'm not mistaken, I think you can change the brightness from the projector itself.
Companies are not people. They are engines of economic production that use people as one of their resources.
That doesn't seem to make sense. I can run Llama 2 on my 12-year-old desktop PC with no compatible GPU and only 16GB of system RAM. It ain't quick, but it runs.
Apple sets prices and there’s no reason they need to charge customers for the R&D costs of supporting public APIs. In fact, if they charged developers per call, maybe customers could pay less. It used to be pretty standard to charge for better application development frameworks. Heck, people used to pay for compilers!
Im glad it got posted again, it's news to me. Sadly my life includes things other than browsing HN for the latest headline, so I occasionally miss news.
> At first glance, I thought this was another Linux distro with a custom window manager, not a new operating system. But it is its own operating system!

Indeed, these "reskinned"* Linux distros seem to be so common, it's easy just to make assumptions.

This (Essence) looks pretty impressive - to be built from scratch and have a nice clean (dare I say it... "non-linuxy looking") UI is even more impressive.

* "Reskinned" is probably a bit of a lazy term here - many of them are a lot more than that - but still, the point is that the value prop. is often the nicer more user-friendly aesthetics layered on top of an existing distro. What we're looking at here seems a lot rarer. Snapping at the heels of ChromeOS?
And that's a good thing. Do you think the situation on Windows would be improved if Microsoft forced everyone to use their store?

There is competition amongst stores and people outright reject software that is exclusive to a store that they do not favor.
It pays off to have your expectations calibrated before you engage in an activity. To be named a kernel contributor on the basis of this particular patch seems to be a bit excessive (even if it had been properly signed off, which it wasn't), of course you are entirely welcome to disagree with that.

To give some perspective: there are ~30 million lines of code in the kernel and about 5K named contributors, and a much smaller set of maintainers who will accept patches, modify them, discard them, rewrite them and or merge them based on their judgment, which they generally exercise very well.
Mice can go on the left.
> we already have something like that... that's basically streaming YouTube videos over WiFi

I don't think that's correct. Streaming data over WiFi it's like loading a painted portrait in a boat, rowing over the river and then unloading it in a different place.

What you're thinking is like reconstituting the portrait from the wave patterns made by the boat in the river. Which is possible and it's called Van Eck phreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
I agree, it obscures all the heavy lifting debugging and validating and certifying with strong confidence the fix works and continues to work, the guy even tested it on newer kernel releases. Someone who exudes that much perseverance should be welcomed with open arms. These are the kind of go getter get stuff done type of individuals every company longs for.
Someone offering a product they’re free to make and you’re free to buy is not coercion. Forcing a man to make the product you want is.
Also relevant: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=mokyuu - synchronize your radio-controlled watch when not in range of WWVB/DCF/JJY time signals.
Not as a film analyst. Just as someone who has seen any of the popular movies that have been released recently. Which ones have had a plot that you walked out of in amazement and didn’t just employ the standard tropes?

But that’s Sturgeons Law in a nutshell I guess
As has been mentioned elsewhere if this had been submitted via the standard process, something more like that might have happened.

However, this was submitted to the security mailing list which is optimized for quick, precise fixes, not for teaching new contributors how to adhere to coding standards.
what do you use "the most powerful language model for its size" for?
Maybe it doesn't work when charging? That's the case with some devices
Huh? I don’t see any further close readings. Empty promises.
i use the gmmk pro myself and i really enjoy the knob. i ended up buying a second one just for work bc they weigh a ton and i wasn't going to constantly lug it around
Thanks for sharing this great article. It explained lenses very clearly, without me having to read a paper first.
The way the wind's blowing, we'll have a GPT-4 level open source model within the next few years - and probably "unaligned" too. I cannot wait to ask it how to make nuclear weapons, psychedelic drugs, and to write erotica. If anyone has any other ideas to scare the AI safety ninnies I'm all ears.
V8 isn't, but chrome is. And google uses their monopoly of the browser market to give other google products an advantage.
I suppose it is probably hard to engineer a battery that is prone to spontaneous barbecues but resistant to the influence of outside barbecues. But I'm not sure I agree that it's just a numbers game that if you put enough of something in one spot, some of them are bound to suddenly catch fire without outside intervention.
Grab the torrent here:

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I remember not trusting these guys since they raised a lot of money with not much of anything but if this performs well it def bumps their credibility.
>I can’t empathise with the author. It seems like they’re only interested in OSS when a) they get credit, and b) for only fixing problems that affect them.

Most people want credit for their work. People enjoy recognition for the things they do, though not all people crave it.

As for part b), isn't that exactly the attitude encouraged in snide style by OSS advocates whenever someone complains about the function or quality of an open source project?

"If you don't like behavior x, you can fork it and fix it yourself <smiley face>"

So someone does some work that many don't do, did it for free, and wants to see their name somewhere on the patch note. Sounds reasonable to me. If that gets more people (self) interested in maintaining one of the world's most important software projects, okay.
LOL. I already use it to write half my CSS, and that was before it could see what I was fucking up. I'm looking forward to this.
If their historic allocation was similar to their current one, it's no surprise; its a very bond heavy vehicle and bonds over the last decade have had basically non-existent interest rates.
Having worked in a plastics factory (it's where I learned how to properly troubleshoot things, injection molding is fun) we recycled the runners or bad parts in house. Toss them in the grinder, blend them with a certain amount of virgin material, and it doesn't really affect the parts until you start getting past the 80/20 blends (if I remember correctly and this was about 11 years ago so some things may have changed).

But this is all relatively clean, fresh from the mold plastic. It didn't sit in a shipping container in the heat for months, degrading. It didn't absorb any number of oils or contaminants. I imagine a dirtier recycled plastic would require more virgin material to maintain the intended strength/material properties, so where the recycled plastic comes from is likely just as important as what you are trying to use it for.
Securing multiple tenants on a GPU is a really, really hard problem. As https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#malicious-use notes, there's a tremendous surface for undefined behavior.

Now, it does appear that the security model https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/security-... ensures that any nodes to which the GPU is connected aren't running the full JS Workers code, just the WebGPU functionality. So secrets that are maintained on the JS side aren't likely vulnerable to Cloudbleed-esque attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed .

But I'd be incredibly wary in sending sensitive information to the WebGPU calls themselves - assume any other WebGPU-using tenant can arbitrarily access data sent to any GPU and modify your outputs.
Forwarding a random email conversation from a year+ ago without any context to public mailing list that is read who knows how many people just to get it into an archive so that you can link to it in HN comment does not really help your case.
No you’re not. No one forced you to buy a Mac.
But why they didn't compare it to SOTA finetuned...(like vicuna playtus..)?
... smells a bit strange..
Sweet, thanks for sharing Murus (https://murusfirewall.com/murus/)
I had my kids in 2001 and 2003. I just started putting money away into 529 funds and that was kind of all my thought process. If I spent time then thinking how expensive it would be when the money would be needed, that would have been paralyzing. As I mentioned, along the way I got lucky and was involved in two modest exits that let me put enough into savings that I had enough combined with the 529 to basically say I would pay for their undergraduate. Obviously, I could have just kept that money for myself but it was what I wanted to do. I have had various retirement savings all along so that I feel like I am OK provided I do not live to be 90 or something.

My last exit happened end of 2019, just in time for me to get it all invested in time for the pandemic to start. I am pretty sure I turned all that investment into cash at the bottom of the stock market and did not really get it back into investments in time to make it all up. Around end of March 2020 I was definitely expecting the stock market to keep falling and panicked. I probably would still have money for myself after paying for college if I had just not touched it and caught the rebound.
Imagine a scenario where there is a store that requires strict controls on ingredients and supply chain, where if you want your crackers or frozen pizzas or fruit sold there, you have to ensure they are USDA organic, free of GMOs, pesticides, and so on.

But I like Cheez-its, and Cheez-its are NOT USDA organic and the supply chain is full of modern monoculture farmed grain and its full of artificial ingredients. The store refuses to carry it. It's not nice! I like those, why can't I buy them there?

Even if it was the only store in town, and if I live in Anytown I have to shop at the fancy-pants health store, I chose to live in Anytown. I can leave anytime I want. But wait! There are parts of Anytown I really like! It's walkable, and quiet, and safe. I just can't have Cheez-its. It's not nice to make me choose between all of the things I like, and the things I don't! I want to have my cake and eat it to, or, rather, in this case, my Cheez-its.
...two of which have near-identical layouts, and one of which I'm typing on now!

I have literally dozens of keyboards: mechanical, split, ergonomic, mobile, the list should end but it doesn't... And yet I'm typing on this split, tented, rubber dome Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic. It has tactile keys, and such an extraordinarily low profile that I can type with it on my lap with my wrists pointed down. It has function keys and I don't need a second layer or FN key to access home/end/pageup/pagedown. The spacebar is split so it doesn't bind like many single-body split keyboards. And it's wireless!

This mass-produced, reasonably inexpensive keyboard is not perfect in any way, but it's 90% to perfect in almost every single way.
What's the monetization plan going to be?
> Battery and heat-wise they are still behind,

That's all that matters at this point, imo. Very few workloads that can be done on a laptop really benefit from an extra 5-10% perf boost. Performance has gotten good enough that it's no longer a differentiating feature
Design operates within the contexts of a system. A perfectly viable design can be made bad by a change in the system for which it was designed.

Does this current design require disabling SIP? Then I don’t think it is worth my effort to use (for my use case). If Apple changes the system in the future, my opinion might change.

But a design cannot be judged as good or bad outside of the context for which it was designed.

If you feel this is a better way to tackle the problem, then talk to Apple about it.
I see plans for more models via HF partnership, but can I or will I be able to run a custom fine-tuned version of a supported model?
Nice site.

I have measured my rainfall for more than 20 years using a rain gauge and when I check the Mean Annual Depth for my location I can see that the satellite measurements are within 0.4" (10.2mm) of my measured mean annual totals. The satellite data suggests a larger amount than that actually measured but I know that the area of the calculation is pretty large, about 50 sq miles whereas my data comes from a single point source within that rectangle.

I notice that your stats come from the time period 2001-2020. Mine cover 2002-2022. Is it possible for you to add the more recent data from 2021-2022? I have found that the long-term mean appears to be increasing for my area of North Texas (climate change is giving my area more rainfall). Data that I have from the period 1981-2010 shows mean total that is 1.7" (43.2mm) lower than that from my own measurements for the time period 2011-2020.

It may be worth considering using current data as a flash flood likelihood tool. Use drought monitoring data combined with projected rainfall as a predictive tool for flash floods.

Areas that are in drought may be more flood-prone due to vegetation loss and the first rain that falls can quickly trigger flash flooding if the rain event is a heavy downpour. It takes time to wet the surface enough to capture rainfall instead of having it all run off.

Another predictive tool could be for flash flooding or landslide probability using drought and wildfire data as a predictive tool. That would be a value-add for your customers.

At my location we are in an extreme drought. As of today we are 14.4" (365.8mm) below the 21 year mean accumulated rainfall for this calendar date. We ended last year with a 13.5" (342.9mm) deficit relative to the 21 year mean annual total. Last year was the second driest year in the last 21 years and at this point in time we are 1.4" (35.6mm) under the accumulation relative to this date last year. I have not noticed the beneficial effects of the El Nino so far but my data indicates that we will likely end next year well above normal accumulation if the El Nino holds. El Nino years tend to give us 120 - 200% of our mean annual accumulation during the first year and then tail off into the next La Nina.

Good site. I like this.
I never thought of it like that – a broad education is a good way to learn to respect how and why people in other fields think they way they are.
The secret is trying to figure out how to make society pay into that... but we seem to have a hard time as a society making education more than a investment in future income.
> the hypothesis of an intellectual environment

Given tempus et mores, I made a friendly amendment.
Picking a single sentence in a long comment is flattening.
Malicious or a mis-remembering?
One-handed number entry is nice. It makes entering codes and PIN numbers easier. And of course Excel.
> Don't forget "refuse".

I don't see how it's different from "reduce": you have to refuse to reduce.
.... what a great question to ask... an unaligned AI
> Who should dictate what content is "appropriate", and what about cultures with different opinions on the subject?

OpenAI should dictate that, because GPT 4 belongs to them. So they decide what kind of service they're interested in offering.

There will be plenty of other powerful LLMs that can be used in the near future. Some will be more restrictive, some will be less. If you want fewer restrictions, you will be able to pick one that offers that for you.
I liked living in sf when I was there. One nice thing about moving is not having to feel like I care about all these little political battles people get outraged about. Something about that city attracts the most toxic and loud people like this. Every city has problems, but there is a lot of media and internet outrage about sf.
Bc that's not as good a comparison? Foundation models are better compared to each other. Can apply vicuna/guanaco/orca/sharegpt/whatever data to it and then do more of an apples-to-apples comparison.
The thing non-kernel people (including this guy) don't seem to understand is that the debugging and investigation is much more valuable than the actual code fix. The author of the article and commenters here seem overfocused on the actual patch. But the valuable and hard part was identifying the issue. Reported-by gives credit for that.

(Sure, in the same situation I would prefer to also be credited with authorship too. But I get it.)
Take your freedom? Is someone now forcing you to buy an iPhone, like you want to force Apple to make a product?
On many machines, the firmware is the largest contributor, with user-space services and their dependencies being the rest.

`systemd-analyze` (in particular, `systemd-analyze critical-chain` and `systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg`) are useful to diagnose. On my system you can see that my graphical session waits for systemd-user-session.service, which waits for network.target, which waits for NetworkManager taking its sweet time, which isn't started before network-pre which waits until nftables is done loading rules, etc.

Optimizing the service order and their dependencies does wonders for boot time.
It's embarrassing to watch a CEO of anything fire off what they think are 'pithy' and 'clever' tweets. It's pathetic when Musk does it and it's no better here.

Doesn't he have something better to do with his time as the CEO of YCombinator?

Edit: To be clear, I don't care about the content of the tweets, I'm not taking a position on Tan's politics. I just can't fathom him spending time on this stuff.
Yes, because they're incentivized to (or depending how you look at it, penalized if they don't) by way of the core charge you pay that is refunded when you return the old battery.

It seems we have a solution to this problem but we're not using it. Imagine if you had to pay a "plastics charge" when you bought a 6-pack of soda, that would be refunded upon turning in the bottles? I have to figure that would prompt a lot more recycling.

However even beyond that, the cost to recycle plastic is also higher than that of just producing virgin plastic, partially because of the substantial subsidies given to the oil and gas industry. As such, it's pretty understandable why even the best recycling outfits in the United States don't see a ton of business, when recycle-ready plastic is more expensive than virgin plastic and takes more energy and effort to convert into new plastic products[1], you'd be stupid to do that. Hence we really only see it in niche industries where they can market their products as being "made from recycled bottles" or something and charge higher prices to Eco-conscious consumers. And to be clear, that's a good thing, unambiguously. But instead of relying on people who are willing to spend more to do a good thing, it seems to be to be far more effective to for starters, mandate businesses that make plastic products to at the very least, pay what oil is actually worth, especially given that we still rely on it for energy for tons of applications to which EV alternatives aren't yet ready for.

1: This is of course presuming your plastic product can be made from recycled plastic at all which is not a given. Many "recyclable" plastics cannot be used to make certain plastic products. Still other plastics are indeed single use unless your secondary use is MUCH DIFFERENT to the first, in which case even calling it recyclable seems dubious at best. Car bodies can technically be recycled to produce coral reefs, but few people would call that recycling.

And hell, we still have areas of the country where recycling service isn't even a given. I have a friend in Indiana who doesn't recycle because the city he lives in charges a non-insubstantial fee for recycling pickup, and while he would like to, he just can't afford it. So he drops his bottles and things in public recycling bins when able, but the majority of his goes in the trash because the city doesn't provide the service with regular garbage pickup.
I think the section “ A Study on Attribution” and associated paper might be as good of an answer as you’ll get to that
Baukit – tools for building PyTorch research prototypes