skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if that's the case then the test is invalid: The point is to determine whether the lost phone is in coverage range. If you can get in range by moving around a bit then the lost phone might also be in such a place.
> But then you have to do the extra step of pressing a separate 'start' button. Why? why do this?

Probably some consumer tests showed that people had trouble with rotating the knob without pushing it during rotation. Or, pushing the knob sets the time and now you can set the power by further rotating the knob and then pushing start.
That argument would mean that SSL transparency logs are pointless.

I'd argue that if the key being stolen/misused becomes more easily detectable, signing with said key becomes more meaningful.
Pulpatronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID tags
There is still a huge amount of stuff not using GPU and never will. Claiming that's only for 2020 is pure nonsense.

They are likely looking at future racks with GPU as well, but as a first product getting the basics right makes more sense.
I guess the point is then: once you’re migrated over, you live happily. For a while. The next migration will come. It’s only a question of when. What then? You’re now so far removed from simple Unix-like principles, tools and platforms that migration will be harder by an order of magnitude (and you noted how much work it is!).
Interesting. It is possible to disable GPS on Android. But yeah - cell towers will still know roughly where you are.
In fairness, the blogpost argues that owning is more economical than renting. Everybody knows what cloud compute costs and if this more economical then maybe there should be some price indicator?
32 1P servers in a 42U rack is impressive? If you use 1U servers, they would only use up 32 units, leaving with 10 units for storage and networking.

Also, I remember for example HP BladeCenter BL20p systems. There you would have up to 8 or 16 servers per 6 rack units IIRC. So about 56 to 112 servers in 42U.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPE_BladeSystem
Yep. Been navigating the firestore / datastore maze and even though it mostly works I still can’t quite tell how the bits relate to each other. There is firestore on fire base side. And then on gcp side also firestore. Except it’s called datastore there. And comes in native flavour and datastore mode. And then there is firestore compatibility with native mode datastore. But also datastore in datastore mode.

And they all have different documentation pages and APIs and pricing and honestly wtf google
That Oxford example, at least, does have a "get in lane" sign[1] as you approach up the Woodstock Road, so any driver intending to go straight ahead on the A44 should know to use the right-hand lane to enter the roundabout.

But of course not everyone notices every sign (and some drivers just wilfully disobey them if they think it'll save a few seconds...)

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.787062,-1.2794264,3a,15y,317...
do you know what gauge steel? i'd suggest 1/4 inch and above. anything less can be cut with a 18v angle cutter.
I think you're right that it serves only as a way to communicate to the kernel that userspace wants MTCP socket.
The recursive design allows you to go the "wrong" way around the "big" roundabout.If you want to take the exit immediately to your right, the "single huge roundabout" design would require you to go almost all the way around to reach your exit. The recursive design allows you to take the third exit from the first two mini roundabout. Sorry if that's unclear, it's a bit tricky to explain in words.

Another advantage of the recursive design over a big roundabout is that it keeps traffic speeds slow, so collisions are much less deadly.
It is recognized. But I think the goal is that 90% of people should be homeowners and getting people there.

For the vast majority of people, owning a home is superior to renting. So I think most home policy is in getting people able to purchase, own, and sustain their own home.

Certainly, some people’s situation makes rent better, but it’s much smaller than people who should buy. But it’s too expensive to buy for too many people.

I don’t think someone should be embarrassed, but it’s not like the goal here is to get more people renting and fewer owning.
While working in telecom data centers circa 2016 I've seen many single rack computers from Dell, IBM, HP, Huawei... Not sure that's a new ideia, ex. the open source bits.
Building from source will be slower, but GitHub allows you to publish a package as a well.
Hey! I am building a visual regression testing tool to help make frontend testing more accessible by general public(even people who don't know test automation much). This approach easy to setup and quite easy to maintain compared to other automated testing approaches!

I am also happy to discuss any topics frontend testing and get the feedback on our oss tool
Try that with most retailers and the conversation ends at delivered. Your only option is to hit them with a summons and that's not a guarantee.

So with due respect that reality doesn't exist.

One reason I buy stuff from Amazon mostly is they are big enough to eat the issues and I put enough business through one service to be a customer worth keeping. Everyone else, not so much. I won't go into how shit Apple are on this front.
I might actually use Valgrind in the future! Looks helpful as hell.

https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/quick-start.html
Though in the cases of colonial history our access to the records are based in politics. Many texts were destroyed and our connections to the cultures that produced them were destroyed along with them.
Perhaps next time someone holding an Apple device acts like a dick, maybe also take a look at what brand of shoes they're wearing. It's possible their dickishness is actually a consequence of being a Nike fanboy. It might sensitise you to the failings of Nike.

Oh come now, that's ridiculous. Let's be real for a moment. No serious person would ever say that Nike is responsible for the coffee shop etiquette of people who wear their products. It's not the Nike shoes, it's obviously the Apple laptop.
lmao, it was never "the plan to" fix Earth. Nobody ever claimed it's going to be "transformed to Earth" anytime soon, too.

It's the plan to protect humanity (as in the genus) from extinction level events such as asteroids, mega-volcano eruptions or global wars. As a nice side effect, the technologies developed to transform Mars would be the same technologies that would help fix Earth.
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The only thing that's changed is the medium they are written in/on.
No — changing your code makes every one of those aspects harder, more time consuming, and thus a worse option. (Again, except network topology.)

And yes — I’ve helped migrate global systems on the peta-scale, for finance where compliance is legally mandated. The idea that changing your code at the same time is irrelevant is laughable:

Changing your software significantly while migrating has caused major errors in projects I’ve seen attempt it — you’re essentially doing a rewrite while trying to migrate, which introduces bugs in compliance, security, etc.

- - - -

Edit to include a specific example:

Let’s imagine I’m migrating a dataset, A. And my copy is A’.

In the scenario where I have some wrappers, W and W’, I can write my validation test on the data, T, to work against that interface.

So then T(W(A)) = T(W’(A’)) implies that W(A) = W’(A’), since T is a function (and the same code, run both places). My problem in demonstrating my data integrity reduces to ensuring that my wrappers faithfully marshal data — something I’ll get by writing unit tests.

In the scenario where I don’t have those data wrappers, I have to write two tests — T and T’.

But then what does T(A) = T’(A’) prove? Nothing directly — I need to prove that my two integrity tests are actually measuring the same thing.

In this way, isolating the complexity of your data marshaling directly impacts the complexity of downstream tasks, such as verifying the integrity of your data.
I enjoyed
"The precise mechanism by which the Heslington brain was preserved is unclear, however; in a bid to shed light on this question, researchers buried a number of pigs' heads in and around the campus to see what happened to them[needs update].[7]"

...and am looking forward to an update in which we learn the name and then age of the undergraduates that dug them up and what pranks they played with them.
With rack- and multi-rack-level management of all your hardware infrastructure (including networking and storage, along with VMs) using an API:

* https://docs.oxide.computer/api/guides/responses
And my account is literally because login-walls on businesses and services. Does this make me an occasional tourist or business traveller? Not part of the population for sure.
Show HN: Turn long videos into short videos
Hey! I've been working with some friends on Bolt Foundry, a tool to help people upload long videos and download short clips to share on social platforms.

It's free to use for transcription, and you can preview the clips it generates.
Unfortunately people who have travelled the superloop say it is not much quicker than existing bus services many of which are slowed by traffic not the number of stops and there are no orbital routes they can use to speed their routes up (except using the flyover 100 yds from me meaning there ios no superloop stop near than 25 minutes walk away even though it passes 100 yards from my home)

ALso in South London there are orbital rail and tram routes so your case does not seem to happen in South London.
Lots of comments about moving to OPNSense -- anyone using something Linux-based that they would recommend as a comparable alternative?

My impression is that this might not exist yet (the currently available projects are significant lacking in either features or reliability), and that my odds of getting something user-friendly with tools like pfBlockerNG are even slimmer.

I always feel so handicapped when something breaks on my router, due to being so much less familiar with BSD, and due to it being an older / limited FreeBSD release (many things missing from the pf repos).

Just last week my pfsense upgrade resulted in a non-booting system, and I felt helpless (user error -- zpool upgrade but didn't upgrade something about the boot directory). I didn't have my usual tools, so I ended up having to install ZFS support to an old RPi3 running NixOS just so I could look around and get the ZFS parts sorted and figure out what happened. (Thankfully I eventually found an old mailing list thread with some obscure incantation that I ran from a pfsense installer usb and resurrected things.)

The whole time I just really wished that I could have been on a Linux machine with my familiar GNU tools!
> incompetent developers doing things wrong or being lazy/negligent/indifferent. Which sadly is very common.

I was code reviewing a dev who was implementing some auth and I mentioned they should log something for audit purposes. They said 'auditing isn't one of the requirements of this ticket' ... at which point, I knew it was time to leave. Like do you need someone to write a ticket to do your job? When people come ask "who logged in and deleted my org's content" ... you better have an answer. This is software engineering 201: logging.

It's like an electrical engineer wiring a house not up to code and saying 'I don't care because the customer didn't ask for it to be up to code.'
DRAM itself hasn't really changed too much for decades, and the length of time for the cas latency is determined by physics, so it's probably comparable to any other dram. Once you have the row open though, you can burst it out almost instantly over the very wide bus HBM gives you.
If you are building your own cloud infrastructure, you're not doing cloud computing.

Unless you rent it out and are a cloud provider, but the website at least does not seem to target those.
I agree with you that HCL sucks when it comes to variables.

Other thing that is funny: no user-defined functions; being unable to use function calls in string interpolations, but allowing variables... so it is like saying: we have this parser and at some points it allows expressions, at some other point not. This seems wrong.

At the same time I agree with or at least understand original author's intent to squeeze HCL to maxinum. There is something appealing in HCL's visual form, at least when defining resources. Maybe it's just (almost) simplest form of defining such structures that can exists.

This is why I started to work on my own format for configuration, visually similar but with different model of computation.

Here is the first attempt: https://github.com/wkhere/bcl

Disclaimer: I named it BCL, 'B' stands for Basic, to somehow relate to HCL and make it easily pronounced. But later I discovered that another BCL is used as Google to configure the Borg platform and seems to be massively hated ;) So I look for a better name..

Project seems to be a bit stalled since few weeks, but that's illusory, as I have a rewrite with a non-yacc parser almost ready in the other branch. Then I will code parsing nested structures and at that point it will become really neat. Plus, an add of implementation in several other languages I usually code.

Please stay tuned if you like it.. or tell me what's wrong with it if you don't ;)
You're surprised real-world accounts dont match common internet stereotypes?
> capitalism will destroy everything it touches.

The irony of some US based kid, who's literally been the biggest benefactor of capitalism his/her whole life, coming up with this line of argument isn't lost on me.

The first time I've personally even seen a microwave was around 1992-93, because communism.
Sad? Non-violent crime such as parking tickets, littering, playing the music too loud and petty theft should not involve armed officers showing up. This presents needless chances for escalation.

The “defund the police” movement was onto something - but it has to be spelled out. - offload many of their jobs to metermaids and other ticket-issuers and keep armed POLICE for things like robberies, no-knock raids, breaking up fights and arresting violent criminals etc.

Most civil disputes can be - and are - handled by banks and insurance companies. This includes auto accidents and credit card chargebacks. Not even the justice system (public courts) need to get involved, they handle thousands of cases a day.

But don’t let everyone write tickets or it will go too far: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
this might be usefull

https://syncthing.net/
The CPU is commodity, nothing else is. Costume Mainboard and firmware without BIOS and their own BMCish thing and their own Root of Trust. Same for their router. Standard chip, everything else is costume.
No, but 10-15 seconds vs 30 seconds is a huge difference in some cases. 15 seconds will take butter from fridge temp to room temp. 30 seconds will take butter from fridge temp to melted.
QMoE: Practical Sub-1-Bit Compression of Trillion-Parameter Models
Text from the Abstract:

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures offer a general solution to the high inference costs of large language models (LLMs) via sparse routing, bringing faster and more accurate models, at the cost of massive parameter counts. For example, the SwitchTransformer-c2048 model has 1.6 trillion parameters, requiring 3.2TB of accelerator memory to run efficiently, which makes practical deployment challenging and expensive. In this paper, we present a solution to this memory problem, in form of a new compression and execution framework called QMoE. Specifically, QMoE consists of a scalable algorithm which accurately compresses trillion-parameter MoEs to less than 1 bit per parameter, in a custom format co-designed with bespoke GPU decoding kernels to facilitate efficient end-to-end compressed inference, with minor runtime overheads relative to uncompressed execution. Concretely, QMoE can compress the 1.6 trillion parameter SwitchTransformer-c2048 model to less than 160GB (20x compression, 0.8 bits per parameter) at only minor accuracy loss, in less than a day on a single GPU. This enables, for the first time, the execution of a trillion-parameter model on affordable commodity hardware, like a single server with 4x NVIDIA A6000 or 8x NVIDIA 3090 GPUs, at less than 5% runtime overhead relative to ideal uncompressed inference. The source code and compressed models are available at http://github.com/IST-DASLab/qmoe
You can, but if the AP's aren't aware of their shared clients they can't hand them off to another AP when signal strength degrades. Let's say you connect a client to AP A, then walk out of range closer to AP B. Your signal strength will suck because you're now farther away from AP A (and close to AP B). AP A won't disconnect your client to allow it to connect to B for better signal strength (that is, until AP A's signal strength is too low to sustain a connection).

Networks that are meshed by design take this into account and communicate about signal strength per client, handing them over when they notice a neighbor would be able to serve the client better.
Yeah including networking and storage together with virtualization is what makes hyperconverged infrastructure hyperconverged. Otherwise it's usually just called converged infrastructure.

It's nice, it's just nothing new.
We're basically still living in the cultural mileu formed in Rome, though. I would expect to have much more cultural connection to someone in Rome in 0AD than someone in the Amazon in the 14th century.
That was the line we were sold by cloud vendors. There is a reason that significant portions of both native cloud and migrated workloads are shifting back to self-hosted; the cost savings never materialized.

My google-fu failed to find any articles for or against my statement that weren’t paid advertising or lightweight tech summaries. StackOverflow will have to do. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/20/are-companies-shifting...
Related — are there any good end to end benchmark datasets for RAG? End to end meaning not just (context, question, answer) tuples (which ignores retrieval) but
(Document , question, answer). I know NQ (Natural Questions) is one such dataset:

https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions

But I do t see this dataset mentioned much in RAG discussions.
I'm glad that my simple plastic OpenWrt router is sufficient right now, and I don't have to deal with changes/problems from Netgate, Ubiquiti, and other brands of fancier gear that once seemed appealing.
I don't think the Estonian digital citizenship is anywhere near as bad as this, I thought it was a genuine way to get digital documentation within an EU state?
I think this is a good point. Maybe GCP is failing at communicating why things are changing.

As a customer, I'd be fine with GCP doing things to keep their costs down so GCP pricing stays the same or decreases. But I understand this is hard to quantify outside GCP and requires a bit of faith (which I accept as inherent, since full transparency is impossible).
The difference is that when you're buying a x86 system, the entire CPU bringup (incl. AMEGAS/openSIL on AMD) runs proprietary and poorly documented firmware. You're entirely at the mercy of the vendor.

Oxide has put immense effort into writing open-source platform initialization code, and built their own open-source BMC/RoT solution.
Does anyone use any of these tools as part of their professional life?
I would love to know which tool you use and how it's used.
Yep thats one of the criticisms of his Ethics (there are plenty others).

But the problem is, there is no arbitror on what amount, duration, or proportion is acceptable. Being inherently dishonest from the start, there is absolutely no way to know what percentage of early, or current Reddit content is inorganic.

The problem with "I will break the rules a little" is that its a gateway drug. Corruption does not start from someone signing a blood diamonds deal with a warlord, but with people in the org thinking small ways to not do things "by the book" and escalating from there. Thats the reason there is "a book", because if we all agree on the rules and we let those who cheat win, then the ones who cheat the most will win every time. (See taxation loopholes for another glaring example).

You could always have transparent inorganic content. "Admin_cat_content", "Admin_politics_content" as named accounts, post some content and people clearly know who is behind the content, and the type of stuff they are sharing, the communities they are fostering etc. Or you could have an existing network that you leverage (like harvard students for facebook) instead of starting a social media with fake accounts.
Plus $30 in broadcast fees. It’s nuts.
I'm so paranoid about dropping my shit from a ski lift that I've taken to a chestpack, lanyards and karabiners. It makes me feel better.
Stolen property with an address and evidence will always get actioned. It's easy and rewarding for them.

Online or telephone stuff won't. It is much more complex and requires system knowledge.

It's that simple.
It's call "high risk debt". The high interest rate offsets the likelihood of default.
Google is not interested.
Verbosity, for everyone who has actually written any bash/posh, any code tbh, verbosity is something to cherish. Because, u know, someone is going to eventually read it, and at best they will not be cursing the previous author. So this verbosity in posh is very well calculated, and again - sadly misunderstood by bash/perl hackers who very often care only about themselves and not their fellows.
What has this got to do with archaeology?
Does it have tooling to enforce those guidelines? If not, how is it better than someone saying "write correct code" and calling it a guideline?
DigiSpark (ATTiny85) – Arduino, C, Rust, build systems
Two recent (weeks) papers/presentations on:
doing just that (LUT at the row buffer) https://youtu.be/9t1FJQ6nNw4;
doing parallel sense in NAND for computing AND between rows (which they call pages, but in DRAM they're called rows. It's the same concept, though.) https://youtu.be/QWL2Rw_VhHg
Nonsense. The operative bit of "cloud" is "provision and de-provision instantly via an API, without much concern for what's going on inderneath", not "lives in someone else's datacenter".
So similar to a IBM mainframe then?
Bad regulation. Ofcom is allowing Openreach to keep asymmetric pricing for FTTP. Unjustified market segmentation.

The govt has a focus on download speeds (which are useful for high quality video) and does not care about upload or latency which filters down.

On reflection, even the the terms "upload" and "download" are based on the assumption connections are for consuming media.
I think that we provide a higher level experience than Fly. Regarding AWS global accelerator, I haven't tested the product, but from what I see we also provide a higher-level experience: we take as input a GitHub repo or a container image, so we can abstract away the VM layer, EC2 - we directly run "applications", not virtual machines
Lindenmayer Systems
Many garbage collectors (e.g. CPython’s) will use reference counting as part of the process. If a reference count hits zero, the object can be destructed, prolonging the time between mark-and-sweep passes.

The performance difference, though, is mainly in switching over to a compiled language in the first place.
"but ultimately the Find My location wasn’t granular enough to find the phone"

Depends on the generation, the new ones with ultra wideband (UWB) are really awesome, you can locate the item to tens of centimeters. I think you already have to be in a certain range for UWB to kick in. So might not really help if you could not identify the apartment otherwise.