skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source collaboration does not mean that mainland Chinese corporate and government entities get to hire Western consultants for money. That’s the only thing this legislation can affect if you understand how open source works so I don’t see the problem.

> All the other countries in the world will continue to collaborate on RISC-V, in the EU, in china, japan, austrailia, canada, and wherever else, and none of that will translate into increased experience or capability for the US.

Yes, and as long as mainland Chinese entities don’t get official support and consultation that is perfectly fine. You can’t stop unofficial support because open source, which is fine.

I can also guarantee that all of the countries that you listed will take the US stance, especially Japan and Australia. anyone would with any familiarity of geopolitics would know that

The PLA navy and the navies of the US and its allies such as Japan, the UK, and Australia are getting ready for combat in the South China Sea as we speak. You cannot ignore that unless you want a weak argument
Relying on franchises and remakes has lead to "...the most boring, mundane, mind numbing movies made...."

And it's true. Hollywood needs a complete reset. I'm hopeful this bear-market of failures will be the catalyst.

Sadly, a live-action Legend of Zelda is exactly more-of-the-same (and will likely fail too therefore).
It's only entrapment if you wouldn't have committed the crime otherwise. I think it's safe to say that, had Rentahitman.com not existed, she would still have tried to rent a hitman if she were able to do so.
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but speech rarely infringes on my constitutional rights.
Sure they do because you’re released.
"Potatoes get a bad reputation as a fattening food when in reality they have the highest satiety rating of any food on the planet"

The author doesn't claim potatoes are low calorie, he says calorie for calorie, potatoes make you feel more full.

I can see it, eating one large potato will make me feel full longer than eating twice as many apples.
> A car can kill people just as easily as a gun ... How do you justify that point of view?

Right, and we have some oversight and regulation about who can operate a car, what kind of (admittedly low) bars they need to pass, and when their license can be revoked. What oversight and regulation do we have on what the CIA and NSA are doing? Congressional, obviously, yet it hasn't prevented the many abuses of the past.
Given the endless endorsements in this very thread that club has the exact “vibe” they want, it seems the bouncers are doing a damn good job at their job.

It is the fool that tells the industry-proven expert that they know better.
A confusing thing about pencil lead for test marking is that while a #2/HB hardness is usually specified, there were specially marketed pencils that were actually softer. The pencils and leads were generically branded as "mark sense". They had a higher graphite content to improve electrical conductivity, but which also made the leads softer. (Scanning machines initially used electrodes, then switched to optical sensors.) I haven't been able to test many samples, but I think "mark sense" pencils were about 4B.
I recently gave a talk on delimited continuations for anyone curious https://youtu.be/uRbqLGj_6mI?si=cOqlJighLJE42c-Q
> This person really tried to put a hit on layaway.

Layaway would mean $100 for kidnapping and $900 later to close the contract. Sounds like a deal until you get the bill for room and board.
Calls to action are speech. When I open my mouth and words come out of it, that is speech. When I punch you in the face, that is not speech. When I tell someone else to punch you in the face, that is speech. When he punches you, that is not speech. I don't know how much simpler I can make it.

If I'm not free to tell someone to punch you in the face, then I don't have absolute free speech.
Pipeline Parallelism for DNN Inference with Practical Performance Guarantees
Ask HN: Why Are Contrails Visible Some Days but Not Others?
From where I am currently I have a great view of the sky in an area where a lot of high altitude traffic flies over, and notice that on some days aircraft contrails are clearly visible, while on others they are not at all?

It's cool to take a pair of binoculars and have a look at aircraft. But on the days where there are no contrails, they're not easy to spot.

Not that it's annoying, just interesting. I don't really mind when I can't see them, it's just a bonus on the days that contrails criss cross the sky. But I don't understand how can the weather be so different, that the same process reflects so differently in the sky.

Assume we have all clear blue skies, how can weather conditions be so different that on some days the water vapor condenses and is visible and on others it's not?
I'm not aware of any truly long term studies but any substance that takes thousands of years to break down I don't want in my body at any level.

Finding plastic in our blood doesn't seem healthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla...
Wow! My blog made the HN front page!

I've been lurking for a while but only now made an account :^)
ikeaordeath.com doesn't seem to work anymore but the game still works on the waybackmachine which is fun:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180126014527/https://ikeaordea...

Even the sound effects work!
Unfortunately, the fake hitman site has been shut down, apparently due to financial difficulties: https://rentahitman.com/
The chess stuff has been pretty wild, particularly in how users claim it plays more "human-like" than chess programs.

I still remember the eerie feeling when Copilot suggested something in a personal codebase that reflected something fairly unique to my own thinking elsewhere in the code but did so about a minute before I was going to think of it.

It's one thing when GPT is approximating humanity at large.

I think "main street" is going to have yet another WTF moment when integration into email clients, chat, document suites, etc suddenly start approximating their own unique thinking, phrasing, inside jokes, etc.

It's pretty amazing tech and only getting better, even if it still has a long way to go before I'd ever feel comfortable in handing off the reigns to compose things for me without additional review.
Catastrophic failure.
Wow, didn't realize he was selected as part of the Times 100. Also, is there a reference for the OpenAI claim? It's a bizarre claim to make.
Nardil is unfair
I love diving into other peoples forths and checking out what trade offs they made. After figuring out the model (theaded, token etc.) I usually jump to the flags, dictionary layout and then the assembler (in forth) if it has one. My favorite is still f83 - it’s a masterpiece.
I’ve already listed one news article with specific examples. One can find more over the past decade. I don’t have the burden of proof. That’s on you since this is common knowledge in the West
Being raised with neglect or abuse is one of the many, many factors that can influence risk perception. Toxo seems like small fish in that big pond.
The claim should be tested by measuring the latency of a well-engineered TS-written language service provider. The language services for TypeScript themselves run in far fewer than 100ms, and that is a far more dynamic and complex use case. The shell language service on the other hand is trivially cacheable and on the whole quote simplistic, at least compared to the full TS semantics.
Wrong analogy. Dead actors did not sign a contract for use of their faces in any new media. They signed a contract for a single performance.

Right analogy would be this: you call your plumber saying that, in your new house, the toilet broke and he should come and fix it for free since he owes you a working toilet.
Copyright is a human right only in that it's the right to stop your stuff from being stolen. Which really isn't a right, but a set of rules that are needed for a developed nation to prosper by ensuring people make productive work in pursuit of selfish riches. Otherwise, you could make something, and someone could come along, take your idea/work, and undercut you slightly to put you out of business.
Alcohol also interferes with vitamin D synthesis.
Are you suggesting to setup a separate VM for each process that may only require like 0.25 cpu? Another thing you can’t do with VMs is oversubscribe (at least not with cloud ones)
How not finishing the Silmarillion comes back to bite you
Thanks for the reply, frossie. I do understand fair share of government bureaucracy as I'm currently employed as one. :-)

I think, I'll throw my hat in the ring.
Digital Deception Escalates
Day by day.
thanks for writing it! i look forward to seeing future installments
This makes no sense. If the bank lends $100 each to two people, it has to be prepared for them to take that money and spend it more or less immediately - on a house, or payroll, or whatever. When you put your $100 into the ATM, and two people get $100 bills from the ATM, where does the second bill come from?
I'm pretty sure I have a Geforce FX 5200 around here somewhere...
It blew my mind when I realized that all but about a dozen of the points of light that you can see at night with the naked eye are actual stars... but nearly every point of light in the Hubble deep field is a galaxy of 10^8 stars.
If the parody was obvious, why isn’t being a customer also considered parody? If it was a real hitman site, presumably it would be illegal for the site owner and not just customers.
That's the problem: they don't have those when they're hired; that shit comes with the job, not before it.
If the government agency running the honeypot went out and started badgering people into contracting hits. That would be entrapment, according to my understanding.
Gleam is looking to be a nice alternative to Rescript.

The docs are a little sparse on this (being initially focused on BEAM), but the discord & community is very helpful which makes up for it.

It's a very neat and well thought out language.
You ask a question. It outputs a cell. The cell contains the the answer and the prompt. There is no state, unlike the webapp. When constructing an API call, we use the materialized cells to reconstruct the context. Because of the notebook format, it's easy to edit everything. Because the LLM is speaking code, it's easy to check everything. You can feed the cell value outputs back into the prompt.

Cells can depend on each other, so you can build up. Cells can be prose, so you can plan. You can change the plan halfway. You can edit the AIs plan. You can forget the plan and do something else without affecting what happened after. You can keep the dialogue and context tight and information dense.

When generating a response, the LLM considers it's previous responses, which you can edit. So you get very fine control over its chain-of-thought. No need to use system prompt to train.

It's simple, but the emergent properties enable much more powerful collaboration.
First thing, this is wicked cool.

I've never heard of LiveViews before, but honestly this is what I think we've been looking for... treat the browser just as a rendering engine, keep your codebase on the server.

I'm curious if the protocol could be implemented on Quarkus, or preferably Tomcat or TomEE... one thing we've come to love in recent years is CDI. It just make writing large applications very easy because they can all be broken down into simple parts and tested individually using Mockito. I could imagine all sorts of cool CDI extensions with this... an 'EventScoped' bean and CDI Events would fit right into the whole concept.

Can you explain a little more about what's happening? Watching the network inspector, it looks like the browser is relaying events back to the server over a websocket (as you said). After that, what's happening on the server side? Somehow it arrives at a diff command for the client. Curious what's happening to calculate the diff!
“Hope is not a strategy”
Guild wars 2 does something similar. When you’re running around on your own, the game responds instantly. But all of the in-game mounts take a moment to react to your steering. Responsiveness, jump height, horizontal speed and turning radiuses all differ massively depending on the mount you’re using. As a result, long distance navigation is a complex puzzle requiring you to choose a good mount and a good route at the right time and manage your energy bars and cooldowns. Do you try to hop up this ledge with the griffin you’re already on, or take the time to swap to the springer and clear it in a big charged bounce? Was there a better way around this ledge? It’s shockingly fun.
The OpenAI dev day product manager had a slide with her calendar. Two slots were marked up in red "Find GPUs" . Sending a message there.
Me too, although it's actually "Clédial". I was certain no one would market a drug with an accented character in the US.
Neither is a honeypot…
it introduces knowing where the ambiguities are in your grammar and eliminates large classes of parsing bugs

it's also dramatically easier for other people to understand
A Floating Data Center?
Hmm... you can try to move branches around. If you .code is writable of course. Though without 'rep movs' it could take a lot of code to move a branch.
Temperature and humidity are the main factors in their length and persistence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
>> I want to get better at building things.

Well that was my thought as well. I assumed that the latter would take care of the former. But I'm finding that if you aren't working in FAANG or similar this is not really the case.

I now realize I have to take concrete steps to progress my career in terms of positioning and salary.
System combines light and electrons to unlock faster, greener computing [pdf]
What killed Alpha and high performance MIPS (And eventually SPARC) was simple economics; their design costs grew faster than the revenue they generated.

I don't think many of the arm chair CPU experts really understand how expensive it is to design a high performance CPU core.
Right, it's a trade-off. The benefits of vitamin D, infrared spectrum light on the immune system, and blue light on hormone signaling likely outweigh some increased skin cancer risk if you are smart about your exposure patterns.

There is some evidence than sun exposure decreases your risk for many other cancers moreso than it increases your risk of skin cancer, although exposure patterns and other factors are going to be very important here. And obviously there's a lot more than just cancer that a healthy body and immune system is protecting you from.
I want to give the book a try. It seems interesting. I'm not sure though. I'm so burnt out seeing anything about a tech career or career advancement is unpleasant. I'm trying to accept that I just have a job, not a career, and that I won't get beyond midlevel.
Who exactly deserves a middle-management position where they sit between the actual business-handshakers who suck the blood from the company and the actual ("individual") contributors who do all the useful work? A nebulous self-busywork position that exists solely because it's convenient for the game of Feudalism that the upper management plays, the possibility of joining their ranks dangled in front of you like some cruel game of keep-away, with them knowing you'll never actually be able to become like them? Nor ever being able to return to the realm of Actual Work, as your skills slowly decay away and you lose your own sense of self-meaning, spending your entire days in meetings playing petty politics and cooking corporate metrics? Waking up every day to a miserable, tired existence as an utterly worthless being, your presence only resented by those underneath you, and mocked by those above you? Who deserves that waking nightmare!?
"The UK government has set in train plans to introduce legislation requiring tech companies to let it know when they plan to introduce new security technologies and could potentially force them to disable when required."

They surely have a weird understanding of security. Or is it insecurity? I am not sure any longer.
First René Girard Conference at Catholic University
Yes, trying to lift large boxes with narrow sticks seems iffy.
It's a rather bulky machine for what it does.

Here's a commercially successful robot for the same job.[1][2] Universal Robots has some nice machinery. They've succeeded where Rod Brooks' Rethink Robotics failed. No cute display with facial expressions, but better mechanical engineering and short payback times. Also, UR's machines are safe around humans. The chopstick robot looks too dangerous to run outside a cage.

While AI for controlling robots in unstructured situations still isn't that great, the mechanical and electrical parts work much better. Motors and motor controllers are great and not too expensive. Sensors are widely available and pretty good. Compensation for flexing under load has made much progress, and robots no longer need to be as rigid as a milling machine. A decade or two ago, if you tried to do anything with robots, you spent most of your effort on those issues. (Been there, done that.) We're now past that.

Vision is far enough along that semi-structured jobs work pretty well. Pick up known object from bin, place in machine, get out of the way while machine does its thing, remove object from machine, put in output bin - that covers a lot of factory work. Especially with vision systems smart enough to notice that something is gone wrong, stop, and call for help.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuPJnDUFi8

[2] https://www.universal-robots.com/
…but betting that the next ten years will play out like the last 75 is a pretty good strategy.
Gender disparities in sentencing is a statistically well documented issue.
> Raking in absurd sums to tweak linters or buttons may not be the worst thing in the world, if it also didn’t lead these bored people to dream of becoming architecture astronauts by introducing absurdly complex tools to solve imaginary problems.

I'm forced to sit back and admire a sentence that's as well wrought, funny, and true as this.
> A certificate that is published in CT logs isn't necessarily legitimate, but at least it's public so domain owners can detect it and raise the alarm if the certificate is illegitimate.

Oh yeah. I can't believe I didn't put that together. Thanks for spelling it out :-)
It's not run by law enforcement. It's an individual who gets lots of "leads" most are obvious pranks --but he occasionally gets live ones. He forwards those on to local law enforcement, other times the FBI.
> AI labor is effectively free at that point, didn't you get the memo? :)

It’s not. Machines need power to run. Even if it was super cheap, there is no reason for their owners to share its output with anyone unless they have something to give in return. You know “trade”.
Developers can focus on the business logic when they're close to the business. Look for places where you sit close to the business people, talk to them a lot, maybe even talk to customers. Where you're part of a team that has a responsibility of delivering product X to customers rather than a team that has a responsibility of doing things that use technology Y.

The more organisational layers you have between you and the customers - architects, business analysts, and the like - the more disconnected your work will be from the business value.
What’s the old adage? Just that only the hard finance/accounting classes are worth it?
> reading the article

God forbid.
I could use a book on how the heck to finally move into a 'normal' software engineering role after having it elude me in every way you can imagine for for the past 3 years after college.

Seriously, how did I become a software lead without first being a SWE? I'm handling it well, but I really just want a 9-5 where 80% of my day spent with the code.
After reading https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana..., I think we have different policies set for the CPU Manager.

In my case it's `"cpuManagerPolicy": "none"` and I suppose you're using `"static"` policy.

Well, TIL. Thanks!
https://github.com/wmealing/gleam-otp-design-principals/blob...

This is what I wrote regarding using otp in gleam. One of the issues I'm working on next is to send typed messages to processes, which has me a little stumped.

At the moment the typed channels work, you can't register () a channel or a pid.

I will likely continue working on this document once I have my current project completed.
I came to the realization that software engineering was not what I wanted to do - about 4 years ago. 6 years into my career now. I still do it because I have bills to pay. I sometimes wonder how many others are in my shoes.
> If only we had better ways to distribute fixes to papers.

I'm not sure what's wrong with OpenReview?

Anyone can upload, like arxiv. Comments are allowed and threaded so can be tracked. Revisions are possible.

But as a ML person, I post to arxiv a lot too. They have improved a bit, allowing for links to Github and such. Which we could make it common place to upload tex source files. Which are already completely accessible via arxiv fwiw.
I envy the certainty.
Just shy of 50% of coin flips will be worse than a coin flip.
> 99% of people are far smarter than horses but people still pay to ride horses.

How many working horses are there today vs before automobiles?

Heck, how many domestic horses are there today vs before automobiles?
"Ability" by itself is a bit vague here, but I will say that having a proven trackrecord in their ability to learn is something I specifically look for in a candidate. Not only learning new tech, but also learning from mistakes and experiences over time.

However, I don't think raw "intelligence" is the right metric for hiring. Unless you specifically mean emotional intelligence, which can curtainly contribute to improving communication skills on the team.

I've also found that when hiring someone with mostly expertise outside your current stack it's critical to provide good feedback loops and mentoring early on so they can "get up to speed" and contributing valuable, idiomatic code as fast as possible without feeling as though your entire onboarding experience is trial by fire. This mentoring takes up extra resources and is a net drain on your team in the short term, but pays off in the long term.
Alpha was on life support by the time Compaq bought DEC. AXP was literally one of the things that basically killed DEC.

By the time HP bought Compaq, AXP was on legacy mode. Plus Itanium was as much of an HP architecture as it was intel's, so it made no sense for HP to develop AXP further.
If anything, the fact that her cases are failing left and right is casting a lot of doubt on the validity of her ideas on antitrust. The lesson is that a popular academic legal paper does not translate into success in real courts.

Her academic background is not at fault here.

The FTC hasn't had any success at antitrust the past several decades despite being led by experienced lawyers due to a judicial change in antitrust doctrine. There are plenty of people commenting on this thread that weren't even born the last time the FTC had a major antitrust victory.