skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a talk I gave several years ago to my local linux users group (CIALUG) about time... I don't have the recording anymore but still have the slides https://www.slideshare.net/denner1/all-about-time-or-how-to-...
You fill your codebase with additional information for the compilers' benefit and not the benefit of the software developer.

In any large statically typed program, 2 out of the 3 lines exist to make the compiler happy rather than the software developer.

Static typing is a terrible terrible way to develop code once you start measuring it objectively.
This is a wrong take for various reasons. Panic is a response we developed for survival against predators and clear-and-present dangers. But look around, the only predator in sight is us. Can we panic against ouselves? Climate change and more general sustainability is above all a collective social/economic and political organization problem.

How we internalize and communicate about the predicament we brought ouselves into is important. You don't cry fire in the crowded room, you find ways to calmly evacuate.

Which brings to the second reason panic is hopeless: It is also objectively not possible for us to "flee" in a hurry (Except for Elon and his Mars escapists - good ridance). The crowded room is our planet and there is nowhere to go. We are doomed to "work it out", put down the fire. We have no option but accept the damage that will be inflicted in the mean time. The smarter and faster we "work it out", the less damage. Thats the equation and tradeof.

But nobody ever solved a tough problem in a state of panic.
2020. I ran out of characters to add that to the title.

The way I determined it was by looking it up on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.uspt...
We will!
User-space apps have a lot more avenues for timely updates than middleboxes or kernel-space implementations do though, and developers have lots of experience with it. If middleboxes actually received timely updates and bugfixes, there would be no ossification in the first place, and a lot of other experiments would have panned out much better, much sooner than QUIC has (e.g. TCP Fast Open might not have been DOA.)

There's also a lot of work on interop testing for QUIC implementations; I think new implementations are strongly encouraged to join the effort: https://interop.seemann.io/
uWebSockets.js
Looks like 2019.
I really don’t follow your complaint. QUIC (and other similar UDP protocols like uTP used for BitTorrent) implement congestion control. If packets get dropped, the sender starts backing off which makes you a “fair” player on the public internet.

As for gaming, that remains an unsolved problem, but QUIC being UDP based isn’t any different than TCP. It’s not like middleware boxes are trying to detect specific UDP applications and data flows to prioritize protecting gaming traffic from drops, which I think is what you’re asking for.
Because Postgres and MySQL are more familiar and by the time they're falling over, you have raised 80M and can afford to hire folks like me who's entire job is pestering developers to stop reading-after-writing, to stop forcing queries to the primary (just incase there's lag!), to stop "select id from table" -> "select data_I_want from other_table where ID IN (list-of-a-million-ids"), to beg AWS for early access to the fastest possible machines, to systematically destroy the custom ORM you built during the first 5 years of the company, before you had customers.

Scylla/Cassandra is exactly the database you want when you're serving the entire planet.

Postgres is exactly the database you want when you're desperately searching for product market-fit and just need things to work and code to get written.

Turns out it's much better to start simple and face scaling problems maybe than start complex and face scaling problems maybe.
You can have a rigid schema with Cassandra/ScyllaDB. Transactions are a whole other thing though for sure.
An argument that someone could make, although maybe it's a bit logically suspect, is that Twitter is losing money for every user, and using Twitter is costing Musk more money than it's generating for him.
And even the US is coming on board.

Caltrain (commuter train in the SF Bay Area) is actively testing a fleet of new EMUs now, scheduled to begin passenger service in Sept 2024.
But would it gain something? I'm wondering if HTTP/3 could be enabled in one of my websites, which is even much smaller, and which has no blocking requests. I don't mind if the gains are small, as long as the impact is not negative for most visitors. I'm mostly concerned about some of my visitors visiting the website through an unreliable connection (mobile).
> Swap is disabled on my system.

Yep I do the same. If I have a server with hundreds of GB or even TB of RAM (not uncommon these days) I'm not setting up swap. If you're exhausting that much RAM, swap is only going to delay the inevitable. Fix your program.
> Though we could disable theming directly in our apps, we do not want to resort to this.

Lol, I look forward to the followup sites:

StopPatchingThemeSupportBackIntoMy.App
StopDistributingYourOwnBuildsOfMy.App
StopUsingTheMorePopularForkOfMy.App

GTK2 has a large ecosystem of themes, and flexible (but slow) engines like pixbuf for those who don't want to write C. GTK3 broke that, but promised that its CSS-like styling would let a hundred flowers blossom as Web devs could contribute. Over a decade later and scouring OpenDesktop shows mostly just "flat design" and "flat design - dark mode".

I know that GTK vs Qt and Gnome vs KDE are holy wars, but GTK/Gnome seem to be squandering their position as the distro's default choice. Many standalone/third-party projects have jumped ship (e.g. PCManFM, LXDE, Audacious); I wonder if major distros will do the same (after all, Ubuntu wasn't afraid to push Unity).

PS: OK, I admit Vertex is quite nice; but GTK seems to keep breaking themes with each point-release https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013757

PPS: Are we really calling things "apps" now?

PPPS: Does anyone know a (not yet broken) GTK3/4 theme which changes the scrollbars from their godawful default? I've been looking for years; I'd roll my own, but the lack of diversity across themes makes me worry it's too painful to bother.

(Written from Firefox (which uses GTK) on Phosh (a mobile-friendly Gnome compositor) on a Pinephone ;) )
Yeah, I use that too, but it’s hidden and still a lot harder than “flag as spam”.
Prior to Android 11, NextRadio worked. I don't think it does anymore.

My current phone came with an FM Radio app, so it's a non-issue for me.
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Performance with ECC DDR5 Memory
PR tracking HTTP/3 support in Node.js
But the creation of a useful generative AI system is just an intermediate step toward the ultimate goal of producing output for direct human consumption.
Many of the plans for the future currently involve drastically undersized battery storage and decommissioning nuclear. That’s why.
>Like you can make a transformer output some part of it's training data - but not an entire work

There's been many examples of getting large verbatim passages of text or large image regions, etc, from AI tools.

I don't think you need to use the entire work to infringe. Certainly lawsuits claiming use of part of the work have had the rights holder prevail.
My boss would give me a thumbs-up. Perhaps you should consider other teams or workplaces?
From https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/11

> The DHT implementation was largely borrowed from Magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) a popular and widely used app which is likewise unable to service these requests.
Drew DeVault makes plea for evidence of Hacker News misbehavior
https://frame.work/ : Already exists
A sphere rotating in a vacuum should still experience black body radiation and gravitational drag. Damn kids and their pesky attempts to violate the 2nd law.
Security and accessibility/simplicity are almost always at odds with each others. It's a tradeoff that needs to be made. You are entitled to dislike the current trend and prefer making security optional. But you can't possibly be surprised if most people are happy to prioritize their privacy and security over "the barrier of access to disruptive counter-corporate/counter-state information".
Gonna be hilarious when the big publishing companies behind this "we must PROTECT AUTHORS!!!!!one!!!!" moral panic end up expanding written copyright so wide that putting four words together in a sentence can cost licensing fees (paid to them, naturally).

Think it's impossible? Look at what the equivalent cartel has already accomplished in the music business.
Nothing can completely obliterate your chances of keeping or restoring files like Windows feature sets for keeping and restoring files.
Chart comparing the efficiency of different technologies:

https://www.nrel.gov/pv/interactive-cell-efficiency.html
Human ego and economic incentives.
You can build/install mmc-utils on the device (even from Google's repo,[1] if outdated) but can't access the storage device paths without root. If you're on a custom ROM, the mmc command might even be part of it.

1: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/mmc-utils...
Everyone leaves out a large cohort - people that believe it, but don't want the solutions you're selling. We typically put forth constructive solutions like nuclear, which get shouted down / laughed out of the room instantly.
So does that imply that to continue to use Twitter is to harm Musk further? If that’s the case it’s zero sum and you’re still benefitting the other users of Twitter.
I can tell the talk would have been really enjoyable but I agree this format is just lazy for conveying that information.
Ah sorry let me explain. All my details were sold. So now when someone unknown phones my VM says Hi - if you know me text me who you are or email me on xen@opendm.co I got 20 unsolicited calls a day
But not all composition is a chain.

A sandboxed solution is at least as strong as the sandbox.
This not a typical low-bypass, cigar-type turbofan jet engine you see on airplanes, rather, it’s a modified turboshaft jet engine used for helicopters, intended to provide longitudinal rotational energy. The air it moves from the intake is a fraction of what it produces as the combustion process itself results in gasses being chemically formed. There is no propeller or fan on this engine - it’s closer to a rocket than what we think of as a jet.
Regarding [1] - are you being sarcastic?
I think gen4+ glocks are fully cooked now too. Not sure if they have multiple lugs/blocks or what.
I’m afraid conspicuous consumption predates consumerism by a few millenia :(
What's wrong with "select id from table"? (presumably "where" skipped for brevity of the example)
But that's a naive number that also includes periods when the CCGTs were turned off due to "market conditions" where other energy sources were cheaper, so is mostly unrelated to the technical ability for them to reach much higher capacity factors.
Yeah, it's Google all over again. I can scrape your website to list it in my search results, but you can't scrape my search results to make another search engine.
Bloomberg the news outlet hasn't been shy in the past about using the opinion section for being a direct mouthpiece for the man himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if this opinion is shared by Michael.
I often appliances turn off and on again and I’m always seen as a tech guru.

I wish i could say I’m joking but I’m not.
thanks for the great feedback. Valid - we will tune messaging. But you have the correct idea on the product
> Why should the government be responsible for building out an incredible infrastructure project so that some businesses don't have to worry about handling cash?

Your post is pretty poor tone-wise, but I'll address this. It's the exact opposite of what you're saying. If the government wants something, it should pay for it. Business is not imposing anything on the government. Business pays the government money it earns, and the government decides how much, and how long to lock the owner in a box for if they don't pay enough. Why should businesses be financially responsible for things the government is paid to solve?
Impossible because you'd need a server certificate? But you can issue it yourself and add a trust anchor to your browsers.
Army wants one-third of future recruits to be college grads
Can I use their output as the training data input for my use?
They don't have that much precision in controlling velocity. Solar panels are fragile. It's a recipe for getting two broken apart satellites in that orbit.
We might also consider that the LLMs will take traffic away from original sources, much like Google Search showing the relevant passages that answer your question. It's not always about outputting the exact passage, though this point may be tangential to the post & case at hand.

My primary usage of LLMs fit this pattern. Use Bard for simple programming questions, typically something I would have previously searched for via docs/reference/SO for. Now I don't have to filter the results or skim the pages for the right section, it's just given to me, and I can ask/make follow up questions or corrections. This here is what makes them much better than vanilla search, the ability to iterate and refine.
AIs do not create new works. They merely blend multiple copyrighted works together to create a new derived work. Just because the derived work comes from multiple authors doesn’t make it fair use.
I expect it is very much the entire point to copy the human intellect producing individual arts (a.k.a. patterns inherent in human-generated media)
So they may be replicated by other individuals lacking the specific intellect or training to produce their own
Harriers are still Sci-Fi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GfqB7P6uAE
Yucatan Sunshine is my go-to for habañero. For a change of pace, Marie Sharp's.
Without any extraordinary effort and having only typical DIY skills, I have repaired a half-dozen of my family members' iPhones that people complain are "not repairable".

To me, "repairable" means "capable of being repaired in a practical way". I'll also grant you the unstated "at a reasonable price", which for me, having a cheapskate nature, I've always found the repair parts (batteries, screens, and buttons) to be extremely reasonable in price.

For people who don't want to DIY it, most every mall has a kiosk that will do it for 2-3x what I paid, but still <15% of the price of a new iPhone.
There's a really great Youtube channel that covers indigenous American history called Ancient Americas:

https://www.youtube.com/@AncientAmericas

It does a ton of really great deep dives into pre-Columbian and native cultures. I agree with you that there's a lot to learn and an unrecognized degree of influence on our day to day lives (corn and potatoes being two examples).
> terms of the right to use and modify free software there's no difference between an end user and a distro creator.

Yes, but completely irrelevant as this is not asking for the right to be taken away.

> What if a user themes their apps a bit and publishes their configs?

Totally fine. Publishing those configs allows users to have a choice and opt in to a config that they know was not QA'd by the developer.

> What if that turns into a distro or a "spin" on another distro with a website?

If the distro takes on the role of providing QA, documentation and support then there is no issue. The distro could also clearly communicate about the theming so users know why stuff might break. The issue arises when they do none of these things and make the resulting breakage someone else's problem.

> It's a scale not a yes/no question IMO, and these devs are showing hostility to some users, which comes across as an attitude of arrogance and hostility to all users.

I don't see any hostility. I see a very politely worded request that explains the negative impacts certain behaviors have in certain context.
That's not a great analogy. Your registrar is bound by a strict contract, in some countries it may even be telecom legislation, and your domain is legally yours (again, within contract bounds). While they need to delegate it to you, they cannot arbitrarily suddenly give it to someone else.

BBC.co.uk belongs with the Beeb, anything else would be considered an attack on Internet infrastructure and treated as such. You cannot compare that with the power Google has over Chrome. It is theirs to do what they wish with.
It makes some good points but a part of me wants to toss the text into an LLM to un-grug it
Nixpkgs is a distribution, as is NixOS. Neither of those things is Nix, but it's an easy mistake to mentally correct when interpreting someone charitably. That said, GP didn't give you much to go off of.

As for security, it's worth noting here that there are Nix-native tools for generating MicroVMs as well, if that's what folks are after with Kata and Firecracker.
> There's not a perfect solution, but distros can at least try and not make the problem worse for the sake of "brand identity", which is what this article is actually complaining about.

Erm, the page literally argues in favour of "brand identity" (only for themselves, of course!)
The people that I know with those $70K trucks seem to really enjoy them and get a lot of use out of them. Especially for towing trailers they work really well.

If they didn't buy those trucks I don't think they would work any less. They would just spend the money on something else.
Is Krita used in the corporate world? What companies or niche industries use it heavily?

I thought it was more of a tool for hobbyists?
Erwin Schroedinger explained this in 1944 with a quantity called “negative entropy” instead of “assembly”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy
Sort of. More like from a DNS service for time, to which the navy both contributes and receives information from. I found that part to be the most interesting.
> What? How do they get "is the work transformative" from "is the work commercial"?

They get it from the case law applying the purpose and character portion of the fair use criteria, back to the original articulation of fair use as a Constitutional limit on copyright law stemming from the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech and press, which the statutory rule were an attempt to codify, they don't get it from the “especially...” clause at the end of the statutory articulation of the purpose and character criterion.

(But its kind of weird that you read the “especially...” clause as limiting/negating the broader language that precedes it.)
So the title of this post could be changed to "What Tranformers Are" or "What Transformers Do" instead
DuckDuckGo could have been Apple's private search engine
It used to irritate me that my old dumb mobile must have known exactly the correct time in order to operate on the cell phone network. Yet it kept it secret from me. I had to manually set the clock by guesstimate
Hetzner is using this setup (Desktop Ryzen Zen4 + ECC DDR5) for its AX102 server [1].

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102
> 2) Encryption is needed in the bottom stack! WHY?

One reason is that hardware (NICs) can offload encryption more easily when it's closer to the lowest end-to-end layer (i.e., no lower than IP).

So IPsec and QUIC are easy to offload, but TLS-over-TCP less so. It especially helps that there is no need to buffer up part of the TCP stream so as to get whole TLS records to decrypt.
Not on this scale.[0]

[0] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consum...'
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No, by using both a combustion-gas turbine and three steam turbines to recover the waste heat you get 63% efficiency for electrical energy production.

By using the residual heat for hot water and for heating in winter and cooling in summer, the global efficiency typically becomes well above 80%.

Even the best Diesel generators may reach around 55% efficiency, while working at much lower maximum temperatures.

For a few seconds I thought that this thermophotovoltaic technique is great, until I have seen that the emitter must have a temperature above 2000 Celsius degrees. For such a great temperature it is very easy to make heat engines with much better efficiency and which might even be less expensive, because these multijunction III-V photovoltaic cells are many times more expensive than normal solar panels.

If these were used for solar power, the concentrators would also be very expensive. Already the concentrators that produce temperatures around 1000 Celsius degrees, which is more than enough for easily reaching 40% efficiency with closed-cycle heat engines, are much more expensive than the concentrators that reach only lower temperatures, like 650 Celsius degrees, which would still be good enough for a steam turbine or for a closed-cycle supercritical carbon dioxide engine.

The only real advantage is that these should need less maintenance than turbo-generators, which may be essential outside Earth or in remote locations, but less important than cost and efficiency otherwise.
Isn't web crawling essentially "training data" ?
> It fully copies the style and feel, which aren't copyright protected.

Is that for certain? I have a feeling this point could be debated.
How large? Copying some verbatim is still fine under fair use.
Exactly the same here with my golden doodle. We feed her dinner at 4pm and she’s pretty much always off-by-one and comes to check on the status at 3.
The description in words might not be intuitive enough; a video here would be more straightforward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelCnZpnGNM