skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fyi the gist was a copy of that letter originally posted to board.net. It was created by a user here on HN when the board.net link first came out and its servers subsequently crashed from the HN hug of death.
Reminds me of the “revolving door” problem. Obvious risk of corruption and conflict of interest, but at the same time experts from industry are the ones with the knowledge to be effective regulators. Not unlike how many good patent attorneys were previously engineers.
No you can’t

American/Worldwide capitalism incentivizes monopolist behavior

There are no currently coherent checks on this because of regulatory capture. There exist no socialist governing bodies that have power at the same scale as capitalist ones. (Note: please no “might make right” rejoinders)

The us government has set precedent over the last ~40 years which has intentionally, and structurally enshrined the capital class as legally distinct and more protected in practice
> Linux supports ACL's, too, but they are not enabled by default.

Oh, it is, just nobody bothers (chances are, `getfacl .` in your homedir will succeed). They are also POSIX ACLs, not NT ACLs, so they have slightly different behavior.
Not a given that it is here to stay and grow after the company showed itself in such a chaotic state. Also, they need a profitable product - it is not like they are selling Iphones and such..
Probably an ASUS Zephyrus G14
Introduction to BitTorrent [pdf]
If you notice differences vs. the originating plugins, would definitely appreciate it if you could file an issue! We tend to be very responsive especially when it comes to matters of correctness.

Candidly, for Flake8 plugins, my experience is that Ruff tends to be more consistent, more robust in its inference and, at this point, more extensively tested than the original implementations -- both via our own testing and via the significant number of projects and companies that now use Ruff in production. (As compared to Pylint, though, we catch fewer issues, since Pylint does some type inference across files, which Ruff doesn't support yet.)

Ruff is also designed such that we will iteratively lint-and-fix until there are no more fixable issues, so if you've seen the linter introduce _new_ fixable diagnostics, that would be a bug too.

Regardless, thanks for giving it a try :)
> \* realtime collaborative spreadsheet editing
> \* live backing up all my files

These are broadband adoption and bandwidth issues and don't explain why the OS has grown. We had real-time networked apps in 1998. We had networked file-sharing and backups.

> \* 28 inch high definition monitor
> \* watching movies in HD
> \* playing almost lifelike games
> \* Running large complex scripts on the same machine I can easily carry in one hand
> \* Running an IDE like JetBrains

These are hardware scaling issues and don't explain why the OS has grown. And we had IDEs in 1998.

> \* browsing an extremely hostile internet

Better sandboxing of the browser explains (though only partially) why the browser has grown, but doesn't explain why the OS has. If anything, the browser grew (in functionality and thus size) because the OS didn't (in functionality), so why did it (in size)?
When I worked at a restruant years ago, the owner got in trouble with wages so he started having to pay everyone with a check. This included the mostly illegal immigrant staffed kitchen. This presented a problem as you need their SSN's to have them legally work there to legally report their income.

But the guys in the kitchen didn't flinch. They just went over to the run down part of town, and the next day all came back with fresh new SSNs. These guys had no idea what an SSN was, just that they needed one and that you can pay a guy to give you one. The owner doesn't care because it's not on him to police the legitimacy of the provided ssns.

So you end up with a bunch of people whose IDs were stolen having to wrangle with the IRS to not get taxed on the pay for a line cook or dishwasher. Totally idiotic and outdated system.
> 'network transparency' which doesn't work that great and almost nobody uses.

Works fine enough, and I use it occasionally to this day (though it is replaced by other things for many tasks these days).
But not as a truism. It's possible to manipulate well enough that people above and below you both believe you are working in their interest, but it's quite hard. Great for job security if you can pull it off.
I use Bluetooth earphones daily with my desktop running manjaro KDE. the only problems I have encountered relate to the hardwsre, not linux.
As a dev, wish I worked there, IBM was the only other place I worked where many devs and even a few thousand ordinary users like marketing, ran Linux. Also, I wasn't aware RedHat removed KDE, what an odd and crappy move. KDE rocks. Gnome not. RPM based distros sooner or later corrupt themselves, I run and recommend Ubuntu or Kubuntu (for KDE people), with Snap disabled with a small apt preferences file.
someone told me https://system76.com/laptops/oryx but looking at ASUS Zephyrus G14
I always heard:

There are two hard problems: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
I expected discussion of __builtin_parity and cmov at least.
I think this link should point to the post at https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1
>But it is not accidental because isolation is one of the most important techniques of cult mind control. The point of Sequences is the same point as Dianetics it is supposed to rewrite the way you communicate so you just can’t relate to “wogs”

At the very minimum, that might have been the way it worked with previous grifter cults. You can sort of characterize those as the ones that were created for a single founder to exploit the cult for, money, sex, and adulation.

But, if these others are cults, then they're a very different sort. They do seem to want to communicate to others. That tends not to happen, as the other side seems to shut down communications one way or another (something like an immune response?).

> Everybody else concerned about the future is concerned about climate change but EA is at first silent and then reveals itself as a climate denying movement

I'm fairly sure your species is functionally extinct already. It's unclear why you're concerned about the future farther than, I dunno, 100 years out. While there are exceptions here and there, as a civilization you seem hellbent on wrecking your fertility. Any civilization that can't be bothered or otherwise refuses to create the replacements for those that will die of old age is already gone even if it doesn't know it yet.

Climate change isn't a problem, because 500 years from now there won't be anyone around to suffer it.
Without any context or followup, this seems like old news that doesn't need to be rehashed on the front page today. This event pre-dates the Microsoft purchase of Github.
this is why Prompt Engineering is going to be so important

we don't want to start another "Your purpose is 'to serve man'" fiasco...
Newbie question... Is this purely for hosting text language models? Is there something similar for image models? i.e., upload an image and have some local model provide some detection/feedback on it.
> IMO, the only reason to see creating it as a 501(c)(3) being a mistake is if you think cutting-edge machine learning is inherently going to be targeted by people looking to make a quick buck off of it.

I mean that's certainly been my experience of it thus far, is companies rushing to market with half-baked products that (allegedly) incorporate AI to do some task or another.
Just got done chatting with Pi for the first time.

I asked some very softball questions about it's "creators" aka Inflection AI and it would not provide any information. It told me it was prevented from discussing sensitive company information. I then used Google/Wikipedia to learn the information I requested, and pasted the results into Pi, after which Pi made limited comments on the founders.

I then moved into questioning why this was blocked and why these blocks were not publicly disclosed given that Inflection AI is a "public benefit corporation".

I didn't learn much, and generally speaking Pi "agreed" with me but still I could not get it to budge.

I understand a block on "sensitive" information, but these "hard coded" limits should be publicly disclosed (correct me if I'm wrong) otherwise I won't trust the tool.
> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.

— Brian Eno
They do apply to corporations. Allowing commercial use is part of the definition of both "open source" and "free software" so a non-commercial license is incompatible with the GPL

Without Stallman releasing an official Non-Commercial GPL (NCGPL) and allowing GPL'd software to be upgraded to it like it can be upgraded to AGPL, there's no way to merge non-commercial licensed code into GPL code without relicensing even if the non-commercial code is otherwise using a standard FOSS license.
That said, it should be noted that there are still USB flash drives in the wild that do no error detection. It's a pity that `badblocks` is so poorly supported these days ...
> The liberation of the Golden Temple and handing it back to the Sikhs is not a "bad deed". It is a "good deed"

I guess I understand why they’re pissed off now.

> West wants to break relations with India by supporting this Terror group

False dichotomy. You don’t conduct extrajudicial killings on American soil, full stop. If you do, you’re an enemy. This is a line even the Soviets respected. (And if you attempt it, don’t do it so stupidly you get caught. Twice.)

Consider the political repercussions of America offing an Indian right now. Of course it would kill coöperation. No matter how much it made sense. It would be difficult to imagine the contrition it would take to heal that wound. And currently, there is zero contrition coming from New Delhi.

> Learn your history before it is too late

It’s never too late. And there are tens of thousands of frozen conflicts worldwide. The only reason this one is relevant is because New Delhi made the Khalistani cause international news.
Median household income globally is about $10k, it's about 2 months household income worth.
Their IRS determination letter says they are formed as a public charity and their 990s claim that they have met the "public support" test as a public charity. But there are some questions since over half of their support ($70 million) is identified as "other income" without the required explanation as to the "nature and source" of that income. Would not pass an IRS audit.
It must be hard to update a language that was already perfect in 1990.
This ex Indian diplomat analyses the recent Indian affair in context of BRICS and US’s views on the matter, and Modi’s “security state”:

https://www.indianpunchline.com/nijjar-affair-poses-an-exist...

”All in all, the Nijjar affair takes the lid off the acute contradictions in India’s foreign policies. The assumptions driving the foreign policy’s China-centric thrust turn out to be delusional; the “westernist” trajectory has landed in a cul-de-sac; the assiduously propagated larger-than-life global image of India turns out to be a mirage; foreign policy built on personality cult and opportunism rather than rational and consistent principles attuned to the world in transition got battered; and, most important, the hubris in India’s diplomacy boomeranged.

The Nijjar affair poses an existential dilemma. Surrendering to the US diktat will make India look a surrogate state and a laughing stock in the Global South. Indians won’t approve of it.

On the contrary, ignoring the diktat will be hugely consequential. Make no mistake, Five Eyes had a gory history against the Soviet Union; in the post-cold war era, it all but destabilised Hong Kong, and is today an active player in Myanmar and Thailand in India’s neighbourhood. Its entry in the subcontinent is ominous.“

And then (strangely more vigorous)

https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-wont-be-bullied-in-mul...
This is from 2014. Was there ever any resolution to this? I don’t see any previous discussions about this on HN.
I was early adopter and managed to get a 2-letter username but I’ve also been renamed to -xx without notice and any explanation :(
From the independent battery tests I've seen the battery life should be noticeably better. Did you take a look at Activity Monitor to see if something is using high CPU?
>Better sandboxing of the browser explains (though only partially) why the browser has grown, but didn't explain why the OS has

Because the same kind of sandboxing happens on OS level now as well. In Windows 9X days the apps could access the hardware directly but not anymore for safety and security. Everything is now layers upon layers of sandboxing that must talk to the HW via APIs.

>because the OS didn't (in functionality)

Didn't it though? Or are we being needlessly snarky?

I don't remember Win 98 having on-line automatic OS update and automatic driver update, firewall, heuristic anti-malware, DirectX 12 support(check the featurelist compared to DX 5), support for multi-core 64bit CPUs, PAEX, NVME SSDs, WiFi, multiple high-dpi screens, virtualization(Hyper-V), USB4 & Thunderbolt, accelerated fancy transparency in the GUI, etc.

Yes, some of those features are hardware related, but having the OS support all those new HW features and exposing it reliably and securely it to the userspace adds bloat in from of binary code that makes all that work seamlessly.

All of those features and support for all that newer faster hardware, are a given now but were unheard of in consumer OS back then when PCs had the complexity of a toaster by comparison.

So let's stick to the facts, not emotionally driven rose tinted glasses.

> so why did it (in size)?

Because as HW became powerful and cheaper, it made it less profitable for SW companies to hyper optimize everything like they were dong in the Win9X days with assembly and stuff. It would be a needless expense that brings no ROI.

Yeah Win11 is needlessly overbloated compared to WinXP, but people said the same about WinXP when it launched, compared to Win98, and they said the same about Win95 when it launched, compared to DOS. Where does the buck stop? At the Altair 8800? Pretty sure that had no bloat.
There are multiple instances of Cold War era US autocratic allies developing into democracies, such as Portugal, Spain, South Korea, Chile, Argentina, and Greece. The claim that these alliances “almost always backfired” is just not true; it succeeded more often than it failed.
I’ve been on the other side of this.

I asked GitHub if they could change my username to one that was already taken. As long as the account does not have repos of their own and was deemed sufficiently inactive they can take it.

The support staff approved my request, but I have friends who’ve gotten declined.
I don't see why this changes anything. There are some, sort-of intelligent networks of cells in the gut that help in digestion and other processes. Doesn't change the fact that consciousness resides in the brain.
All plugins are certainly not made equal. Some I've used are surprisingly bad performance-wise for what they do, while others are just genuinely computation-heavy.
My M1 Pro still feels super fast...

the corporate thing reminds me of my professor back in college - they'd upgrade him to the latest/greatest Power Mac each year, only for him to boot it up and terminal into his VMS machine and launch min...
Why do you want a laptop? You'll be paying for worse performance and less capable cooling. If you already have a primary laptop you use, it would be cheaper and higher-performance to build a CUDA-oriented homeserver and SSH into that.
I can't find a followup, but it seems like "rbishop-xx" is still there, "rbishop" still owned by someone else, and Russ Bishop has moved on to the user "russbishop".

It's still a bit curious and troublesome.
Because, JavaScript.
OK I'm commenting twice and have no affiliations to TE or The Kount.

But apparently, The Kount made a buncha sounds for this thing.

https://twitter.com/THEK0UNT/status/1727365475976216610

I'm not that good at making beats, don't have deep knowledge on tech specs, or even have good creative workflow (I'm a very enthusiastic dabbler). But The Kount's free sample packs are so good (IMHO), and the beats he makes are certified bangers (he uploads 1 min vids of them on Twitter/ IG/ YouTube). Just wanted to highlight this as well and makes me happy to know.
How Losing First Programming Job Helped My Career Growth
If you’re writing a program or a library to perform fast arithmetic computation over large numeric arrays, Fortran is the optimal tool for the job.
Not to mention, the mission of the Board cannot be "build safe AGI" anymore. Perhaps something more consistent with expanding shareholder value and capitalism, as the events of this weekend has shown.

Delivering profits and shareholder value is the sole and dominant force in capitalism. Remains to be seen whether that is consistent with humanity's survival
Given the MX record resolves to `.` I suspect not any (successfully)
Is every website these days just going paywalled? It's so annoying. I pay for 2 already.. I simply can't pay for all of them.
nothing screams 'protect public interest' more than Wall Streets biggest cheerleader during 2008 financial crisis. who's next, Richard S. Fuld Jr ? Should the Enron guys be included ?
Does still sort of does come off as majoring in the minors.

As illustrated by the examples in this thread, the actual benefit of this isn't particularly large, and it comes at the expense of worse developer experience. At the point where this would actually have a real measurable performance impact, your application is so hideously bloated there is without a shred of doubt other things you can do to improve the performance of your application that is more impactful than minification.
These numbers are fine and all, but what really matters is how many requests per second it can do. Combined with response time across a timeline where you gradually increase the number of clients (fake or real).

To observe where your server experiences pain, and watching how it deals with it, and how/if it recovers is super useful.
Benchmarking tools to pound your servers are plentyful, and these stats (connection/sec and avg response time) combined with the hardware spec is what makes a good praise or diss of a webserver performance.

Maybe you'll never intent do draw a huge load for real. I'm just saying its performance can be measured better than its cpu and ram usage while on low or no load. Even if that is a useful aspect in some sense.

Unless this is serverless of course. New ballgame entirely.
It did leak SSNs for sure. I assume it leaked info about purchases, which would could give you car make/model/year. It could have leaked things like credit card info also.

Consider those questions many services use to verify identity...things like cars you used to own, past addresses, banking relationships, etc. The leak could have exposed some of that directly or indirectly (like cc# include BIN, which gives a name of a bank you're associated with).
She usually is, but it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Is it me or do they not mention the size of the model at all? Pretty hard to compare it with other models when we don't know what weight class it's in...
One big thing I remember is that it's illegal to have multiple array arguments reference overlapping storage, so storage regions can't alias. This means functions can be optimized more aggressively.

My fingers can't type Fortran anymore, so I'm going to use C as an example.

Imagine you have this function:

/* Add entries in arg1 to arg2, put result in result */
void add_vec(int arg1[], int arg2[], int result[], int length) {
for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
result[i] = arg1[i] + arg2[i];
}
}

In C, it's perfectly legal to call this like so:

int array[101];
// ...pretend array is initialized...
// for the first 100 elements, set a[i] = a[i] + a[i+1]
add_vec(array, array+1, array);

The C compiler has no choice but to iterate through the array one element at a time, doing things in the exact order that the source code spells out. No loop unrrolling or vectorization can occur.

In Fortran, the compiler knows that the arrays are not aliased, so it can do much more reordering, unrolling, and vectorization to speed this code up.
Indeed the more complex and complete you make your rational model, the more tunable weights there are. By just dropping in the right weights, you can get whatever result you want. Therefore complex models tend to produce worse results in practice than very simple ones.

This lesson was brought home for me by https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Deve... explaining why the COCOMO model didn't work well in practice as an estimation technique, despite their having collected a lot of good data on what affects schedule.

This lesson is one that the EA community broadly seems to ignore.
Every weather prediction model, and every climate model, is in Fortran.

Caltech has a project attempting to write a new climate model in Julia:

https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaCore.jl

https://clima.caltech.edu/
Linux Mint also looks pretty close to Windows, and they seem to explicitly try to accommodate Windows-experienced folks, with a lot of preinstalled tools and a similar UX.

I run NixOS with KDE on both my desktop and laptop, and whilst it is closer to Windows than Gnome is, its not as close as Mint, or rather, Cinnamon. KDE looks close to Windows with the default UI, but the UX differences are more noticeable.

Another good distro for Windows users would be Zorin, with their Windows layout.
I'm impressed by the meticulous detail here, but I still have to believe that if the original goal was to build 10 of these, (one every 2 years) and accept a 60% fail rate for each, we'd have gotten more telescopes for the same money in the end.
ah yes, good idea. Link to one on amazon please?
I'm not kidding. But you're talking about something different.

India and Soviet Union had a different kind of co-production deal. It has always been, even to this day with Russia, technology transfer and licensing i.e. you help develop systems and then fully hand over to India. No troop deployment, you're only in it for the money. The BrahMos missile development is the best example of this.
Did Apple raise funds and spend a lot of time promoting itself as a giant apple that would feed humanity?
John Titor said he arrived in a 1967 Corvette that he brought with him from 2036. I do not think he said it was a 2036 Corvette. If he planned to travel to the early 1970's, that makes sense.

Here is a bit about it. I can not confirm any of what they are saying: https://www.reddit.com/r/JohnTitor/comments/yago4w/john_tito...
If you allocate a character object, then write to it with an internal write statement, F’23 now requires that the variable be reallocated to the actual length of the formatted record, instead of retaining its former length and being padded out with blanks (or truncated).

The LLVM Fortran compiler (Flang) has warnings for various usages whose semantics would change if F'23 semantics were adopted by default, which I'm not sure I want to do.
The biggest disadvantage of open source is the lack of organization. Blender solved this. Solve organization and open source wins.
And we're seeing the result in real-time. Stupid shit doers have been replaced with hopefully-less-stupid-shit-doers.

It's a real shame too, because this is a clear loss for the AI Alignment crowd.

I'm on the fence about the whole alignment thing, but at least there is a strong moral compass in the field- especially compared to something like crypto.
>a real disruptor must be brewing somewhere unnoticed, for now.

Anthropic.
Makes me wonder if they train their data on everything anyone has ever uploaded to Creative Cloud.
Ansible v9
Driverless cars in search of Edison lightbulb moment