skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When explanations include superfluous detail, I find it very confusing. Like Chekhov's gun, I keep trying to fit it into the plot but it doesn't fit.

My super power is a terrible memory. So I have to understand things in order to remember them (aka a cognitive compression). I can't just learn things like normal people.
But that is the point. It only emphasizes the concern. It is where I draw upon the insight to foresee where this technology will lead us.

AI is simply a power upgrade for all the institutions who wish to control thought and social engineer society to their liking.
I've been really meaning to get using relibc with NixOS going. (relibc supports Linux syscalls too).

Not going to lie, there's a lot of money for RIIR these days ;). More seriously, libc is a very crucial piece of software and a good candidate for writing in a better language. Showing that we can blur the lines further between a Linux and Rust OS userland makes the latter kernel seem much more viable. Should be a win-win all around.
> Personally I don’t see the point of segregation. It’s not like shunning men will make women’s lives any better. Your best bet to improve things is to make the one side understand the other. You do that by socializing them.

Sorry, but this reads as pretty disconnected from reality. On the surface what you're saying sounds nice and feels like it should be true, but it's not quite that way in reality.

I recently got out of school (well, 3 years ago), and I can say with absolute certainty that women need a safe space in their early career that is free of men. The behavior of sexually frustrated men towards women in CS can be vomit-inducing (just ask ANY female CS student). There is a time and place for socialization. If you integrate every career space, watch the numbers of women in CS drop precipitously.
It's the term for what I was expressing. It's fine if you haven't seen it before. At some point, I hadn't either. That's normal.

It means you have to pay more to keep getting the same amount & quality of labor regardless of the financial situation in your own industry, because alternative careers available to the same pool of upcoming workers can pay a lot more than they used to (typically thanks to productivity improvements or technology introducing entirely new types of jobs) while productivity of your own workers hasn't increased much, if any. One expects especially to see it in jobs that can't effectively "scale" labor, despite improvements in technology.

It is, of course, also possible to let quality slip instead of increasing pay. For fields with fairly inelastic demand, like healthcare, you might even get away with it. This is what I expect to see happen in these two fields. I don't think we'll increase pay & improve working conditions enough to maintain a similar level of quality (in the case of education, at least, I think it's already been heading that way for years).

We've kinda tried to fix this, with things like MOOCs (in education), but results haven't been great even under ideal conditions, and some parts of the field (early childhood education) seem especially naturally-resistant to solutions involving technology. Nurses and such are in a similar position—computers and all that jazz have helped some, but not all that much, while productivity and pay for (say) office workers with a decent head on their shoulders have shot up, often alongside less-demanding work, making those more appealing alternatives for young adults choosing a career, or mid-career folks in these fields who finally get fed up and start looking at their options.
That must be nice. Hopefully the rest of the world catches up to that.
23andme doesn't sequence DNA, it just checks some genomes.

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/227968028...
If "support@yourdomain.com" internally is sent to timcook@apple.com, people will know.
If it's sent to nickphx+support@fastmail.com, your personal email address, name, and login are leaked.
That one might be the most impressive one yet.
How do we fix this? Televisions are badly broken
Televisions and, to a lesser extent, streaming devices have become abusive and intrusive.

Abusive in the sense that they have turned every screen in a home into digital signage loaded with advertising. TV manufacturers are doing as they please. Every firmware update makes it worse. Nothing seems to regulate how they behave, the decisions they make and what they can and cannot do.

Intrusive, because they are tracking absolutely everything they can through these devices. Televisions, in this sense, have become surveillance devices.

One particularly egregious example of this is a service from Vizio. They want consumers to upload their images through their TV's into a service hosted by the company. The terms of service clearly state that they can do as they wish with these images (paraphrasing). Anyone at Vizio and associated entities can look at them.

This is wrong. It has to stop. It isn't getting better.

Clearly we are at a point where legislation, some kind of a lawsuit, or both, are required.

The question is: How?

I contacted my US Representative with a request to look into this. About 30 days later I got a form letter with a "thank you" and that was that. I get it. This won't drive votes. Which means they don't really care.

So, how does one raise this to a level of awareness that will lead to change when it has no political value at this moment in time?

Before you reply with things like installing ad blockers, firewalls, etc., understand that those are solutions for a privileged few as a percentage of the affected population. If we consider consumers in general, these are not solutions at all.

This is about protecting all consumers, not just the technologically capable and financially-able to explore engineering-level patches.

Any ideas?
OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-SIMD-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x
That was my experience, Nvidia Optimus (which is what allows dynamic switching between the integrated and dedicated GPU in laptops) was completely broken (as in a black screen, not just crashes or other issues) for several years, and Nvidia didn't care to do anything about it.
Oh man. I had to study this instruction set for a systems programming course for my undergrad. The project was to make a linker/loader that could run assembly code written in this.

Boy does it have a complicated instruction set. Anyway, we early on negotiated with the instructor on what instructions we would support. Early education in defining scope for success I guess.
"In my head, the way it happens is..." Okay, sure, man. Whatever you say.

Decades of research have proven that people cannot be trusted to describe how their own minds work. We are unreliable narrators of our own experience even in the best conditions, and having a zeitgeisty, quirky trait like aphantasia to wear as a badge will obviously skew the results even further.

Personally, I don't believe for a second that there are a significant number of sighted, otherwise typical human beings out there who have zero ability to visualize anything. Of course, people get better at things with practice, so I buy that some people might be better at it than others. I couldn't recall melodies very well before studying music for several years. But if you know what an apple looks like, and you can describe that or draw it, even crudely, then you have some inner representation of what an apple looks like. Whatever words you use to convey your internal experience of recalling or assembling the relevant information are inconsequential.
For the same reason VHS beat Betamax, the 6809 should have won, because it had the SEX instruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing)
Unfortunately, a few of the people I share some of my DNA with.
Visa/Mastercard also have an incentive not to help the shop owners not remove the tipping screen, because Visa/Mastercard charge a percentage of the transaction size. Removing the tip option has an impact on their profits.
I have RDP on port 8443.

On another host I tried port 443, hoping to disguise it to appear like SSL. No any difference.

Also, there are services, which already publishing all my (and yours) open ports. Here is the report for my IP:

https://search.censys.io/hosts/104.63.172.143 (It's public anyway)
llama.cpp, ExLlama, and MLC LLM have all had ROCm inferencing for months (here are a bunch of setup instructions I've written up, for Linux and Windows: https://llm-tracker.info/books/howto-guides/page/amd-gpus ) - but I don't think that's the problem (and wouldn't drive lots of volume or having downstream impact in any case).

The bigger problem is on the training/research support. Eg, here's no official support for AMD GPUs for bitsandbytes, and no support at all for FlashAttention/FA2 (nothing that 100K in hardware/grants to Dettmers or Dao's labs wouldn't fix I suspect).

The real elephant though is that AMD still having the disconnect that lack of support for consumer cards and home/academic devs in general has been disastrous (while Nvidia supports CUDA on basically every single GPU they've made since 2010) - just last week there was this mindblowing thread where it turns out an AMD employee is paying out of pocket for AMD GPUs to support build/CI for drivers on Debian. I mean, WTF, that's stupidity that's beyond embarrassing and gets into negligence terriroty IMO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37665784
I think this is still reasonable, attackers may have a database of leaked keys (e.g. if you ever accidentally commited to GitHub, or ever ran a malicious script which uploaded it), which they then try on random servers.
I'm sure there are valid reasons for doing that, but whenever I see multiple franchises within spitting distance of one another, I can't help but be reminded of Gob Bluth's "market research" for a 2nd banana stand in Arrested Development:

> Did you know that more frozen bananas are sold right here on this boardwalk than anywhere in the OC?

And of course he goes on to cannibalize the family's original business.
Binaries are published in the release section, in the form of a bootable ISO.

Instructions also are there too
The fundamental mechanisms of the Korotkoff sounds generation
> So it's important that vendors don't feel let off the hook to provide sane packaging just because there's an option to use a kitchen-sink container image they rebuild every day.

Sadly if e.g. 95% of their users can use the container, then it could make economical sense to do it that way.
First of all, tens to hundreds of companies are being hacked every week. The exact numbers are hard to exactly determine since they are not required to disclose the information. Here is a publicly available report on the state of ransomware in 2023 [1]. Of 3,000 respondents 66% were hit by a ransomware attack in 2023. So right there we have ~2,000 successful attacks which would be ~40 per week, just from the companies directly surveyed. The rates are consistent across company size, so if we assume it is representative of large companies then over the probably tens to hundreds of thousands of companies with over 50 M$ in revenue, that would be tens of thousands of successful attacks per year averaging out to hundreds to thousands per week. And that is just ransomware.

Second of all, 1 M$ of hacking resources is like one or two person-years of skilled hacking labor. The counterfactual scenario you are considering appears to be tens of thousands of companies being hacked for 10 M$ per for a total of 100 G$ of revenue per year. Do you realize what you are expecting there? You wonder why 18 year old hacking nerds could not bootstrap a 100 billion dollar per year business (more than the estimated revenue of the entire illegal drug trade in the US and similar to the revenue of Facebook) with no venture capital and train and hire 10,000 skilled hackers (nearly a entire Google's worth of software developers) in under 10 years? Give them a break, 10 years after Facebook was founded they only made 12 G$/year and you are expecting some kids with no support structure to do 8x that while bootstrapping. For the world to look like your counterfactual, they would need 1,000% YoY growth for a entire decade; that is ludicrous.

I hope it is now clear that the reason everybody is not being hacked all the time is because there has not been enough time to grow into that yet. They are trying really hard though. Look at that report again. The mean ransom payment doubled from 2022 and the rate of high end payments quadrupled. In some other reports (that are behind signup walls), the number of attacks has been tripling YoY and the mean payment/ask has been tripling YoY for the past 5-10 years. That growth curve looks like a wall. The 18 year old hacker nerds who started these criminal enterprises 10 years ago are now 28 year old business people with 10 years of experience under their belt and have access to real organized crime support structures. This is why the attacks are growing so quickly, this is a greenfield opportunity that everybody is rushing to exploit as quickly as they can, but there are real limits to training talent and bootstrapping. Give them some time, we'll get there.

[1] https://assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/at/c949g7693gsnjh9rb9gr8/...
> The monthly rent for Class B in 2022 was $32-38/ft2.

That is not the monthly lease rate. All commercial property lease rates are quoted as dollars per square foot per year.
Elon Musk Followed Right-Wing Nutjob's Plan to Destroy Twitter
I wanted to share a clip. It's within some political commentator's show, ignore that. I've linked directly to the time when the clip starts.
I think this is kinda cool. It pushes forward our understanding of how to work with LLMs. However, it doesn't appear to be something that can be relied upon idempotently. It seems liable to every flaw people have identified in LLMs so far. If the syntax itself can be hallunicated or misunderstood, then it's no better than highly specific prose. Or rather, no better than any other arbitrary pseudo-code structure I could come up with on-the-spot.

At least it has a specification and beginnings of a testing suite? And I do like any new ways of reducing tokens without losing signal. Tho personally I haven't had many positive experience of having LLMs faithfully follow programming delimiters and punctuation like curlies and whitespace. LLMs like prose itself, as that's the bulk of their corpuses (corpii?), right?

If this can deliver idempotence across various domains, and the LLM isn't "distracted" or "jailbroken" by the interface's innards, then yeh, AWESOME. But it still feels fundamentally awkward and scrappy? .. Like trying to hammer a nail into a wall with frozen butter. It probably works, sometimes. Reliably tho? No. I don't know how happy I'd be to use it in production. I'd rather work to develop precise prompting tailored to my domain + splitting the domain into multiple atomic pieces instead of a monolithic prompt) + implementing appropriate I/O checks and filters.
As a PopOS user I'll be quite interested to see if Cosmic is deemed mature enough to ship in 2024, as suggested earlier this year.
I don't run laptops except when work requires it and that tends to be windows so that may explain the difference in experience.
Monday this week, it was 24°C here, a full 9°C above the seasonal average for Berlin for the beginning of October.

I'm aware this is anecdata, but I'm not used to needing to wear shorts in September, let alone October.
I am one of the people to whom you refer. I read about fail2ban in a "Linux Server Bible" e-book around 2010 and have used it on all of my servers since, even though I am careful with my keys and use password-less login.
Apple provides security updates for not only the latest IOS, several past versions (and the phones which cant upgrade from them) still get updates with security fixes
Feds illegally used smartphone data [pdf]
I am so so surprised
actually, it's a good point because that's how I always install nvidia drivers as well. Never from the local package manager.
lmao, touche :)
The iPhone 12 Mini could be an option.
It's also a false sense of security because community roms are maintained by a small group of (often) entirely anonymous people with nearly zero repercussions if they put something in that they shouldn't.
It would feel more appropriate to me to not have rounded corners at all - you'd be hard pushed to find rounded edges on a truly brutalist block of flats!
> The hardest problems I have solved required me to build observability

And you were able to do this without writing a line of code and committing it?
There's cheaper still.

I'm still in contact with someone who lives in the west slope of Colorado. Lives in a small city of ~20,000, and splits a 2BR with a friend. His share of the rent and utilities is under $350/mo. I think the actual rent is $550/mo. He's in walking distance (5 - 15 minutes) of everywhere he needs to go, including no fewer than two supermarkets and a Wal-Mart.

The Dakotas do tend to be very cheap, but also parts of the Rocky Mountain rain shadow, parts of Appalachia, and a few other pockets around the country.
We're specifically talking about an OS here, so the scope is not really the same, but still: are you ok with no package updates ? No update to the documentation, the wiki, and stuff like that ? No forum or chat ?
I'm sorry, but this link doesn't back up what you're saying at all. It doesn't list felony vandalism at all, just "criminal damage". It doesn't even give a break down between felonies and misdemeanors.

I'm old enough to recognize when someone did a quick google search in an attempt to win argument on the internet, but this doesn't back up your argument at all. Especially with your final line, which is just made up of a whole cloth to justify beating someone.

Troll harder.
We don't buy. We lease and change for a new car every 3-4 years. I consider vehicle the same type of expense as Netflix. More expensive of course but it just goes to the same 'expense' category as other subscriptions.
Oh absolutely a terrible replica. Real mall ninja hours.
> I actually feel like very little has been added between Java 8 and Java 21.

var, records, sealed types, and pattern matching make a huge difference in how Java is written. A lot has changed since 8.
It was only used by closed vertically integrated brands like Apple and Commodore (Amiga) at a time when open component based PCs were all the rage. I don't even think M68K motherboards you could drop in a case and build with were even available. If they were it was never a big thing.

The entire market dominance of the x86/x64 architecture came out of that era and came about because you could build PCs with it and run a variety of software on it including DOS, Windows, FreeBSD, commercial Unix, and later Linux.
Nice touch with the marquee component!

Maybe as an addition you could introduce animations with jagged easings such as slide in, spring ... DHTML style.
Yeah, Optimus was a huge PITA. I remember fighting with workarounds like bumblebee and prime for years. Also Nvidia dragged their feet on Wayland support for a few years too (and simultaneously was seemingly intent on sabotaging Nouveau).
ROCm has HIP (1) which is a compatibility layer to run CUDA code on AMD GPUs. In theory, you only have to adjust #includes, and everything should just work, but as usual, reality is different.

Newer backends for AI frameworks like OpenXLA and OpenAI Triton directly generate GPU native code using MLIR and LLVM, they do not use CUDA apart from some glue code to actually load the code onto the GPU and get the data there. Both already support ROCm, but from what I've read the support is not as mature yet compared to NVIDIA.

1: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
only if you're an SMB

enterprise rigs normally come blank, and get imaged in-house from corporate standard image masters (and against corporate licensing)
Yup. People need to understand optionality. Markets are about adjacent hypotheticals.

Right now it's not like parent needing to do other things is some low-simmering quasi-strike disciplining labor markets. It's more like the expense of having kids disciplinarians would-be parents.

A post of post-work post-scarity stuff runs through more people working. It is counter intuitive, but that is how things work. So long as people who would like to work are not, it will hang over our heads and we won't be able to shrink the workweek.

If you need some real-world evidence, see right now, at this period of record low unemployment, the one of the UAW's demands is a shorter work-week.
That's one of the advantages of using programming languages where source code is distributed (e.g. Python, JavaScript, PHP), not compiled binary artifacts (C/C++, Java). You can see the source. You can even modify it and run the modified version without compilation.

It's also awesome to use Java IDEs that can show both the bytecode of .class files and also perform decompilation.
there is a middle ground between low and high density.

there is no need for each home to have their own garden. but a multi story building with a dozen or more families that can share one.

take a look at some cities in germany. stuttgart, ruhrgebiet, and many others. they are actually a lot of small cities close together with lots of green space in between. each has their own shops, offices, schools, etc within walking distance and an extensive public transport network to connect them.
Auto workers worry it takes less labor to build electric cars
That's a really good point, and it seems to pervade the scientific establishment. There's an unfortunate tendency to study something, and (assuming a real effect is found & reproduced) say 'well we know about that now' and just move onto something else, instead of building out infrastructure to gather more longitudinal/geographic data. The efforts in the UK to build huge datasets for long-term diagnostics is a welcome exception.
Looks like Archive.org is using Emularity: https://github.com/db48x/emularit

So get your emulator in there I'd say!
> The facts about climate change are damning enough, i don't know why people feel the need to resort to poor logic and fallacies when describing climate change. The truth is actually on your side. Lets present that instead.

In fairness, that demonstrably hasn't worked on the politicians for the last hundred years.
Report each review as irrelevant?
The important distinction of stackless coroutines-as-async vs. green threads-as-async is the function coloring problem. I think stackful coroutines are largely obviated given more manageable function coloring, structured concurrency, and whatnot that Rust is currently exploring and working on. Actual OS thread-like preemption probably requires a heavy runtime (I imagine Java can do this for their virtual threads?) or OS support, though. (See scheduler activations for the latter. They might actually catch on this time, who knows?)
Oh, there are definitely things that can help a consumer avoid the slimiest ones. For example, if you get a loan, they will often be contractually obligated to the lender to meet their production targets. You can also ask for a production guarantee.

But not all states force them to do that, and salesmen are paid on commission.
Hilarious way to get access to your target audience.
Maybe before, but i feel that is not a problem anymore.
Windmill.dev solves this with easee. Very good UI on top of the workflow engine.
I thought we dealt with this?
Hopefully your are on your way to tip the power plant workers. Make sure to tip security and the cleaners on your way in as well.
How does the Big Hat lobby fit into this?
Factorio Friday Facts #379 – Abstract rewiring
Only because IBM failed to prevent Compaq to start the component based PC market in first place.