skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get found by people who are impressed with your work. That might mean posting on twitter or reddit or posting your work here on HN. But it also might mean joining some small semi-private communities and sharing your journey there. Once you find people are engaged and interested in what you're doing you can figure out what's externally fulfilling to others and find out what others might pay you to do. And this can definitely be done in the context of getting a job. Not applying to open jobs but finding people who are currently hiring or in a large org that can point you in the right direction.
I really think that this is a quality of implementation issue.

Even though most implementations do so, there is no requirement to implement fd_set as a bitmap. It could also be an array of integers. Though this still won’t allow you to select() against an infinite number of file descriptors, it at least allows file descriptor numbers to span the full range of int.

Furthermore, there’s also no requirement that FD_*() corrupt your memory. I get it that these macros can’t return errors back to the caller, but they can always set some kind of flag in the fd_set to indicate that insertion was unsuccessful. select() could check that flag and bail out if set.
Phantastes by George MacDonald
Reminds me about the telco offer to sell gps location traces on anyone you wanted, but to ensure 'anonymity' you had to order a batch of 30 people minimum and you did not get information on which trace belongen to who in that set.

Figuring out which of those traces belonged to which employee was a real puzzle /s
because out of curiosity i try to understand for what/whom you are looking for ...

so - in some kind of a "reverse conclusion" - its the somehow "rich" people you try to address!?

imho. these are the minority, who don't need to work to pay for their rent and food etc.

at the risk of stating the obvious again:

* why should they be interested in working for/with you!?

* to stress this: on your ideas!?

i imagine, being a rich person would enable me to work on my own ideas ;))
I just finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I'm currently reading Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences by Tynan Sylvester.

A good friend of mine gifted me Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and I'm planning on getting into that one soon.
Your example is not concurrency though, it’s parallelism. You’re consuming two different services at the same time and waiting for the result. What you would want to showcase is how you handle two different consumers calling a single service. The difference is rather important once you have many consumers calling a lot of services and your computation needs to be done on the right state.

As a side note I really don’t think C# does parallelism better than Java.
I think the key thing is being able to remove people that aren’t playing by the rules. A lot of sites functionally don’t or can’t do this because they have free account access, etc. and have no “buy in” - as in, it’s easy for an anonymous new account with no history to contribute. Reddit is a perfect example of this.

Freemium style could work, but I think if I were going about this, I would provide a product and then include access to a private community. The key point being that you’re not just charging for the community access, but that there is a genuinely useful product being sold. You’ll get more people that are really there to participate and not just because they’re bored and have time to kill. (A major issue with online discussion forums IMO.)

Also, just as a disclaimer- I have no direct experience is managing a community like this myself, my opinions are just from being a member of online communities for the last ~20 years.
Re-reading "A song of ice and fire" saga with the hope that "Winds of winter" arrives just when I finish
I'm reading 'Hooked'
Arch may have packages first but generally Fedora will have its packages integrated first; ie, if package A and package B release new versions to work with each other, then Arch may have the new versions first, but when Fedora releases the new versions then they'll be configured to work together, while Arch's packages may take a little longer for them to be configured appropriately
> There is virtually zero chance that a bar would be found guilty of illegal discrimination for banning an individual woman

Especially since, federally at least, sex is not a protected class for public accommodation discrimination (it is for employment and housing discrimination.)
It’s my fear that markdown will eventually become as convoluted as SGML but with simpler syntax
I swear to God, it occurred to me only recently that the album name is not "untitled", even though I've been listening to it for years! Well done, Ae!
This seems like something the antitrust should look into either way.

I mean, it's almost literally what MS was doing with windows back in the 90s, isn't it?
FM synths used dedicated ASICs to generate audio. It wasn't possible for mainstream CPUs of the era to do it in real time.
I believe that's at least partially because they rewrote it in UWP.
Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook. Over, and over, and over again.
You’re supposed to test before shipping.
Tesla has economies of scale because they manufacture more or less the same equipment globally. They are passing less money to suppliers. And they have more technicians going around so they can use connectors that are replaced more frequently. They don't have screens and have starlink for backup comms and car comms. When they lose connectivity with the mothership they charge at full speed for free.

Regardless of that, if thier costs are the same, by asking for less money for more outlets they are more likely to get money. When you show you're willing to put up your own cash or just ask for less money in general while offering equal or better performance, you're more likely to win bids.

Politicians prefer to say they brought 10000 chargers than 4000.

The subsidy request is just you asking for money and doesn't represent your costs just what you want to ask for. You can ask for more than you need i.e make a profit on building costs

The question is how much do you want to do this, not how much will it cost you
protip: if you do this to avoid liability and car sales tax, you relinquish your claim to complain about others avoiding liability and tax too
Xi Jinpings four book set "The Governance of China."
Thanks for the offer, but unfortunately developing one game engine at a time is my limit :). I'm avoiding looking at UE source code specifically to ensure I don't accidentally copy code into Bevy.

Best of luck though, and always glad to see more people work on the WebGPU spec! Maybe you can help push for raytracing and bindless extensions :)
That's literally the first part of the description you responded to, not an additional fourth part.
Let's say Amazon creates their own OS. Google then makes manufacturers sign a contract that says if they manufacture devices that run Android (with access to Google Play services), they can't manufacture devices that use forks of Android or Amazon's from-scratch OS.

If it's an anti-trust violation, then it's an anti-trust violation whether it's a fork of Android or not. If it isn't an anti-trust violation, then Google can ban things that aren't forks of Android too.

If it's legal for Google to force manufacturers not to use Android-based FireOS, then they could also force manufacturers not to use Vega-based FireOS. It feels like Amazon needs to challenge the legitimacy of those Google contracts or else they may find themselves in another situation where Google just amends their manufacturer contract to disallow Android forks and Vega-based FireOS.
I’m still curious on thoughts, I have no experience other than my previous ~15 years with online communities. But I never really thought much about it until I considered building something of my own. I do agree a paywall seems like the easiest way to sift through legit users, and offering a product makes the paywall a little more digestible.
Chinese Thought by Roel Sterckx
Horizontal scrolling code does make it quite impossible for me to follow the examples
So do drugs.
Just started Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo.
Movie in production now.
Ask HN: How many of you still have a Facebook account?
Just wondering, if HN community still have a Facebook account?
Whatever the Humble Bundle is selling DRM-free. Currently the _Rick and Morty_ comic book series.
That truck doesn't have une pipe
White Holes - Carlo Rovelli
Well, god help whoever gets that in their syringe. AFAICT its main 'legit' use was to bring down large animals like elephants, fast, but that seems to have stopped in 2003. It has also probably been used as a chemical weapon in Russia!

I guess it was the next logical step in the "smaller quantities of more powerful stuff are easier to smuggle" race, but I'd expect to see more dealers turning up dead from accidental exposure if it became widespread.
Most people I would imagine
Quoting https://science-atlas.com/faq/how-much-of-the-earth-is-inhab...: "According to the FAO Global Land Cover SHARE database, produced in 2022, 0.6% of Earth’s land surface is defined as ‘Artificial surfaces’. Artificial surfaces include any areas that have an artificial cover as a result of human activities such as construction (cities, towns, transportation), extraction (open mines and quarries) or waste disposal. This figure gives us an estimate of roughly 900,000 km2 of human-covered land worldwide."
Hey, don't let the keyboard warriors get to you. HN commentors will always find a way to position themselves as smugly superior.

Thanks for your great blog post.
Who would you recommend this for? Just for SysAdmins?
> This is another situation where you can put anything you want in a contract, even if it is blatantly unenforceable. This is why contracts have severability clauses.

Severability clauses are often one of the unenforceable bits of a contract, though.
I read “The Bitcoin Standard” which I really enjoyed. However i’m not finding “The fiat standard” as interesting.
AI-Boost/Awesome-GPTs: Curated List of GPTs
And how much co2 is emitted while building these structures vs planting trees?
Would you use Facebook login with other apps? Or Google or Apple login? Which one do you prefer?
You seem to have missed a lot of news recently, Chevy has already announced they are delaying their truck at least another year because they have no hope of making them without losing money. Why do you think Stellantis will do any better than GM?

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-del...
Why not APUE?
I bought a copy of Ben Hur in a second hand store for 3 dollars. The book was printed in 1887 and you can se it has been read by a lot of people and has been repaired at least once. I am hoping I can stick with it and finish it. Wish me luck.
exllamav2 is super efficient about this, with its 8 bit cache.

I'm not sure about that specifically (I am away from my desktop at the moment), but my 24GB card can handle Yi 34B 200K out to 50K+, depending on how much its quantized.

I would bet you can do 50K+ on 12GB with Mistral.
I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by and generates scripts to read aloud. It's fun and I learned a lot about places I go to all the time.

Unfortunately all the APIs are pretty costly so I can't post it for the group. Now that OpenAI's TTS and GPT-4 Turbo is out, I could probably revisit it. Still, not sure if people would be willing to pay enough for something like this.
US Military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7M to develop nuclear spacecraft
The oldest black hole ever found – and it's huge
No. It is the percentage of land surface. Earth is cosmically insignificant and incomprehensibly large, both.
> Rare earth refining traditionally generates a lot of toxic waste of various sorts.

Could someone explain why? It certainly seems obviously easier than radioactive waste. All that has to happen is a stable solid. Why are there liquids?
Yeah I have had a desire to build a similar thing myself. The main problem, I think, is avoiding the “social lifers” becoming your main user. By this I mean people who spend all of their time talking and arguing on social media. Most “regular” people are busy and don’t have time for this, but they’re exactly what make a community great.

If you merely have a paywall, and no product, I think this is what will inevitably happen. So you need some sort of product or service that is useful in-itself.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but if so I am baffled that you think so and would love to hear an explanation.
Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

https://www.notbored.org/dialogue-in-hell.html
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. There's a series of games based on the books but I'm enjoying the storytelling in the book far more. Basic premise is after nuclear war survivors have built a new society inside of the tunnels and stations of the Moscow metro system. There's mutants and other threats, but I don't want to spoil too much.
People on this technology forum are skeptical that an incredibly inefficient technology used to recover carbon from air is a better investment than using technology to emit less carbon in the first place.
Tolstoy
Ask HN: How are you dealing with PII data in context of productionizing LLM apps
We have been working on a bunch of cool prototypes only to realize it's going to be difficult productionizing these ideas since the final version will need to work with PII data. Are there some off the shelf solutions to mask/scrub/redact PII data? Eager to learn about your experience, pitfalls.
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard [1].

Ballard is science fiction in the sense he explores inner space instead of outer space.

Some are kind of eh, and ones that have really stuck out for me,

"Concentration City" - a giant infinitely expanding city ala Dark City or Blame!.

"Studio Five, The Stars" - poetry is written by machines and only eccentrics write their own. Think AI generation of art but in 1961.

"The Subliminal Man" - government uses subliminal messages to promote mindless consumerism - They Live but 1963.

"Billennium" - Earth is vastly overpopulated and any semblance of personal space or privacy is non-existent.

"The Garden of Time" - allegory of never ceasing approach of time no matter what you do to defend yourself from it.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_o...
Thanks for sharing this. Does it add mor value compared to, for example, u-block origin? Shall I use both u-block and privacy badger or either of those will suffice?
Where is all this energy going to come from? Cause fission is the only thing I’m aware of that we know that can generate enough new electricity capacity to do reclamation. Fusion is too far out and solar/wind can’t handle enough of the grid to have enough left over to also be doing reclamation.

The economic and legal arguments are a joke. The only serious plan would involve 100x or even 1000x our investments in fission R&D and capacity build out (and fusion research too because fission needs to get us there).

Don’t see that happening until the situation getting dire enough and that’s going to be too late because capacity can’t come online fast enough and these are runaway global processes. It’s taken 200 years of really bad destruction and it would take much longer than that running reclamation going at an insane rate to try to undo that damage. Arguably we’re already in runaway territory - We didn’t go to 0 but it was the single largest global reduction in co2 and still one of the worst global warming events we’ve seen so far. Do not expect anything magical from net 0. At this point it’s massively negative 0. That 2c of warming is a dream at this point. I don’t know what the actual number is because the international reports are constantly getting rewritten by politicians because the scientists are just being “too alarming”. It’s a joke.
Is that the modern money mechanics book?
You are saying there are rational reasons for taking actions that would have killed a significant proportion of the world; reasons which in hindsight were wrong and unnecessary. Sounds evil to me.
Jim Butcher's latest Cinder Spires book.

Recently finished the last Brandon Sanderson secret project.
With exllama, the number is "flexible" because it supports completely arbitrary quantization levels.

7B fits comfortably in 6GB. 70B will squeeze, into 24GB, albeit with significant (but not catastrophic) quality loss.
Because I help a senior with his online existence I made one I use exclusively to test things and explain to him later in his own account. Otherwise, nope.
This is a predicament everywhere in the US, the suburbs are not alone in this issue of debt financing for... everything...
Okey-dokey, then
Ah that makes sense, thank you.
Hello there,

I've had long conversations about our requirements at Cryptlex with Kate from your team but it has been a while since and I am aware that you have improved OpenAPI spec support greatly.

From whatever updates I have followed, I think Mintlify completely supports our use cases now but I'm not too sure if the packaging of the plans is well-suited for us.

I'll drop Kate another message after an internal discussion and we'll look into Mintlify again. Thanks for reading my naive exploration.
Easily verified from ice core data. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity banned large-scale iron fertilization experiments in 2008. Cynically, I don’t think anyone’s figured out how to make money on it either.
I do not anticipate this will be a race to see who can produce the best OS for the consumer, or the most privacy conscious OS either.
No, but there is already a 64K Airoboros instruction tune based on this.
I’ve been reading “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich while slowly working my way through Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”.
Or maybe the things will just pile up unsold after a while. There's a glut of electric cars right now. The electric Ford F-150 is more useful yet not selling well.
Maybe the DAC system can be put at the center of a giant heliostat for the required energy to split the C from the O2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Font_Romeu_France.jpg
Thanks for reading. I should probably have added that I did this exploration a few months ago and from the updates that I've read from Mintlify, I think they support most if not all of our use cases now, including automated doc generation from OpenAPI specs
Last three things I read (slightly all over the place):

- Aleister Crowley by Steven Ashe: A biography of the British occultist.

- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis: A (very well meaning) story of Sam Bankman-Fried

- The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt: A book about "safety culture" on campus and it's implications at large.
I have a long list of RSS feeds that span a lot of topics: OS (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux), languages (C++, Rust, Go, some TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin), tech (HN, Eli Bendersky, Fabien Sanglard, Bruce Schneier, The Old New Thing, The Register, DevOps stuff), other (web comics, Nintendo, mechanical keyboards), etc. The list evolves naturally though, no need to worry about it when you start.

I mostly skim the titles and only save/read what I like, but by spending 20 minutes a day doing this (or 1 minute, 20 times a day) I can get a good glimpse of the evolution of tech across the months/years. It's good enough to know that something exists if you ever need it at work.

I now read books only for subjects where I must learn something for work (but always generic enough that I can reuse that later). I don't have the time to be a nerd anymore due to having to take care of my wife or the house, or going to the restaurant with friends.

> we must equip ourselves with such massive changes

The massive changes have happened in the 2000s with Linux, the internet, and free compilers for everyone. Don't be obsessed by change because it's not a race, you must still enjoy life every day.
Nice! I had a similar idea to use MCTS to explore various AST generations through an incremental AST parser[0], so I could generate runnable code via LLM at a higher success rate than what we were seeing initially with them. I never got around to it, but this makes me curious to circle back around.

[0] There are few parsers that consider "failed, but could run if the next symbol is valid" and "failed and no way to continue" as separate statuses so you can make progress by enumerating (hopefully intelligently so) the space of valid states. Surprisingly TreeSitter wasn't one of them though, for that it's just "fail".
How on earth is this ever going to be economically feasible. Wouldn’t it be more economically viable to literally just bury paper in the ground, or like simply not use the carbon in the first place?
It’s a tough but to crack no matter how you look at it, time for something to revolutionize the space. But I agree it’s walking a tightrope.
+1.

When I was working out the maths myself, I had exactly the same thought.
My sweet summer child.
Perfume 'The Alchemy of Scent' by Jean-Claude Ellena - the art and business of creating perfume.
> App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework

I was really excited. Until reading this.
With every mailing list, trip report, CppCon presentation, etc, C++ gives the impression of being simultaneously far too simple and far too complex. IMO, the language does suffer from the lack of any coherent vision. That said, I’m interested in how far the language can go before implementations start giving up. Furthermore, it would be interesting to see how much tooling could help to simplify the language.
The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology - Nick Cook.
I thought The Coddling of the American Mind was excellent.
I’ve been getting into Italo Calvino after reading Invisible Cities, which was great.
Right now I’m reading The Baron in the Trees.
Been sitting in the garden all afternoon reading Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire.

So far: terrific. About a quarter the way in. Space opera with political intrigue.
Those seem like different goals. Don’t we need both?
Competition isn't always a good thing. For example, would you want multiple robbers competing to break into your home? I'd rather have zero.
I agree it's not really a problem, if it was I would ask people to call me by my legal name or change my legal name to my preferred name.
Its been well supported and functional for over 23 years through 17 years during which ati/amd gpus were closed source and bad then just bad.

X11 + Nvidia is still one the most common and functional configurations for people who want to use their computer instead of beta testing.
I’d also recommend looking at kindavim: https://kindavim.app/

Also a happy customer here. I use shortcut and kindavim in tandem
I don’t really hold onto any hope it’s coming out anymore… take this from someone who started the series as a preteen when A Feast for Crows came out. I’m now 30.
You seem to be skipping the part of the grant request (free money) that they had a limit of 70% of the charger's cost. So even by asking for the max allowed, they still would be required to put up their own money. No business person I have ever talked to would leave free money on the table.

My original question was asking if they are were requesting less than the maximum allowed, and you quibbled with the premise, yet here you are suggesting that's exactly what they did. You're suggesting it was due to altruistic reasons. I just did the thought exercise of knowing people will assume you requested the max allowed, then do the math to come up with a price that's not correct just to F with people. Seems exactly like something Musk would do.