skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD has real good hardware to compete at least in the gaming sector. But, the hardware is only as good as the software/driver supporting it. In the ML and Cryptor sector, Nvidia has built a moat around their hardware called CUDA, a pretty much standard if you want your GPU specific code to be “portable”. I’m afraid OpenCL won’t matter anymore unless Nvidia supports it. Anyone with more industrial domain knowledge wants to chime in?
>I wish all projects would converge into a common library like wlroots.

They could also converge to a single display server implementation and the display server can interface with a separate window manager which could be swapped out.
George Orwell noted during WW2 that fascism didn't have a good definition (see https://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc). This is during the culmination period of a literal world war against fascism--and it was still liberally thrown around as a slur against anybody whose politics you didn't like.
based on the tweet you provided as evidence I find your comment more of a "malicious attack" actually
The blog post mentions support for 300+ services. I have a couple of questions:

1. It would be interesting to see a comparison between the Rust service coverage and other language SDKs that have been around for a while such as Java. Is there such a place to see this comparison?
2. Will the Rust SDK stay up to date with the latest services as they're announced?

I'm very excited to see this announcement. It's been a long time coming.
Yes, done by Ed Catmull himself.
Hardware development has much higher inertia than software development, and so you can't just chase the wind and see market-disrupting results in a year or two.

Nvidia's success is rooted in design and business choices made a long time ago. They were bets at that time, as ambitious hardware initiatives need to be, and other vendors like AMD made different bets. Nvidia won their bet more spectacularly than others, and now gets to benefit from their lead as others slowly work to reorient their ships in its direction.
Any chance of a sensor that can detect whether doors are locked (rather than open?)
Thanks for your work on this!

Are there plans to improve the compilation times? Aws sdk crates are some of the slowest dependencies in our build—which feels odd for what are basically wrappers for http clients.
Mobile phones and the question of declining sperm quality
I was not expecting an actual fix yet this is an admirable attempt.

I contend that it would be too tempting for the service not to reward some users who get it right more often with more points to spend as probably happens in all social networks (bellweather users). That would speed up the gold being found and up engagement.

The operators also don't want to make their "talent" work hardest of all the platforms for least amount of gain. Low quality hype is their bread and butter, a status symbol even.

The proposed style of system only really becomes necessary when you have an over abundance of content and here it is claimed to produce the exact level of abundance needed such that some lurker can peruse it all in the time it takes to spend all their points. It will result in a low content social network with very low possible engagement time (read: habit forming time). Maybe it could work for an already saturated social network looking to decrease churn but never as solution to the chicken and the egg problem where variable reward over time is the hook engine.
According to [0] there have been several releases in the last 10 years.
Including one in 2021 that added variable refresh rate and touchpad gesture support.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server
Reminds of unbreakable linux.
Dave Cutler has elaborated on a lot of this stuff in some recent YT interviews that are excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K3eMzF6x28

Part of it is Cutler really really hated working with IBM... it starts around 3:00 minute mark.
I hope we'll get a screen adaptation of HL/HL:OpFor/HL2, at least as good as HBO's "The Last Of Us" (I loved it, and haven't even played that game).
> Przybylski and Vuorre studied data on psychological wellbeing from 2.4 million people aged 15 to 89

> He compared regulatory proposals such as banning phone use for under-16s or limiting access to certain social media apps to “security checks at airports... it’s wellbeing theater.”

GIGO?
I use the Ikea outlets and Hue bulbs.

An important part of my setup is that all the switches in my house still work, and won't actually cut power to the bulbs. There are decent options available to add a Zigbee (or wifi) dimmer/relay/remote behind an existing light switch, which is also great for controlling lights that aren't Zigbee and/or multiple devices simultaneously.

This has the added benefit that the stuff it's controlling doesn't have to be on the same circuit, and "rewiring" a light switch is done very quickly in software instead of physically rewiring.
Would have loved a cheap human presence sensor instead of a motion sensor!
As usual, a study that finds an association needs to be followed by a study that uses a randomized controlled trial to establish causality. Quoting the paper:

"Participants reported time spent in TV viewing (mentally-passive sedentary behavior) and sitting during work or driving (mentally-active sedentary behavior) at age 44. Waist circumference, C-reactive protein, and glycated hemoglobin were also measured at age 44. Depression diagnosis was self-reported at ages 44, 46, 50, and 55.
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If you are unemployed and not in school and living alone, watching TV is a default activity. The cause of depression may not be watching TV but the circumstances leading to it. You could do a study where in the treatment group people's cable TV is turned off. I doubt it will make people happier.
My belief is that Amazon sees IoT as a way to further grow AWS backend services. All those nodes need a cloud, somewhere.

Taking stewardship of FreeRTOS allows them to develop a SDK, with or without a hardware kit included, to encourage IoT developers to lock into the Amazon ecosystem.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/freertos/latest/userguide/c-sdk....

Microsoft saw this chain of events and panicked, buying up ThreadX to create Azure RTOS. I believe MS is now abandoning this path and focusing on other green fields...the recent events with OpenAI being a huge signal.
Coyote at least has urbanized in southern california. Huge packs roam neighborhoods every night. Plenty of ample food from scavenging and live prey. No predators. No human hunting or seemingly any state sponsored culling.
This sounds like a libertarian-exclusive problem to me, and Lemmy's culture leans away from the Libertarian / Reddit style.

The overall plan seems to be: major centers of relative openness (sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world), a few hybrid locations, and finally well curated gardens (ex: Beehaw.org).

The different groups will federate, or de-federate, with each other as they see fit. You're right in that the more libertarian-leaning instances (ex: sh.itjust.works) are experimenting with lack of controls... but even they see various instances as toxic and are willing to ban them wholesale.

I don't think anyone is going with the extreme-libertarian Reddit style "everyone is welcome" anymore. There's too many shitty communities out there who are attracted by that.

The overall "Most are welcome" signposts are good enough for now.
"Bullet proof" glass would likely add a ton of additional weight and cost and be impractical with how thick it would have to be to be described as bullet proof. I also think you would likely have to re-engineering the power windows mechanic.
The vast majority of homes in the US use a public sewer versus a septic tank.
Same issue here. Also not getting webhooks on new commits.
AMD might've gotten more traction if it wasn't schizophrenic with regards to compute support on its hardware. GCN was such a great architecture for heavy compute, yet it was mostly wasted by shit software.

Crypto really only managed to use it because there was more money to be made using AMD, justifying the wrangling needed to get compute to work on it.

Now they continue to waste their potential with ROCm's design choices which make its hardware support range very limited.
Thank you Gunnar, I linked to your blog post (and even linked to it already in my previous blog post "Custom JFR Events: A Short Introduction" https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2023/11/20/custom-jfr-events-...)
Ocean beach's zoning situation is a travesty. This development is welcome by me.
The part about NTFS is slightly incorrect. It wasn't really a new file system. It was a copy of High Performance File System (HPFS) for OS/2, that was originally implemented in assembler by Microsoft's best programmer Gordon Letwin. NTFS and HPFS even used the same partition id.
Sounds like that must have been an absolute bitch to build. I cannot imagine re-implementing 300 existing API’s for Rust from scratch…

On the plus side, I guess the work lends itself well to parallelization.
OK.

Nevertheless, the point of software freedom is freedom. I'm not upset about systemd as long as I have other choices.

It's the tendency of systemd users to say "shut up, you don't count, you're just a minority and you don't have anything real to complain about" and otherwise forcefully evangelize for their favorite paperclip maximizer that irks me.
Microsoft's ugly sweater for 2023 is Windows XP's iconic default wallpaper
> All the UIs we have for sky-watching now have moved away from that

Check out SkyMap!

https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid
The passengers will do fine as they presumably will have been designed to withstand the radiation.

The will also presumably be powered down until arrival, as they will be robots.
Having problems with receiving push-related webhooks as well.
"Online opinions don't matter though"

There is overwhelmingly negative sentiment about this vehicle. I have absolutely no doubt that the True Believers will buy it. Contrarians and attention seekers (e.g. cryptoscammers and MLM sorts are going to have one on their socials in no time) will buy it. That will account for a minuscule number of orders. The "pre-orders" that turn into actual orders will be low single-digit percentages.

"This is not a believable, rational comment."

Am I a bot? Am I just an Elon-hater? I mean, I do think he's a manchild who seems to be succumbing to some sort of severe brain rot, however my analysis of the vehicle is based upon all of the details we have before us. I mean...you know we can actually see it, right? We can see the pictures of the catastrophic (earned negative words) design and the compromises that entails. We can see the spectacularly impractical vehicle Tesla is pushing out. This is, in every way, The Homer. Actually The Homer had some benefits.

"How do you know if "these" are "production" or not?"

You have no idea how any of this works. If production was two years out these rather ridiculous excuses could fly. I mean...even then they wouldn't and prototype vehicles are usually especially stellar, for obvious reasons.
Same here!

I also have automatic deploys on Heroku which aren't being triggered
I want to mention another awesome project, which implements PDP-11 on FPGA and can be used with PiDP-11 panel. (PiDP-11 by default uses software emulator running on Raspberry Pi.)

https://pdp2011.sytse.net/wordpress/
I think its safe to say webhooks are degraded on the platform.
Same here. Repositories in an organization.
Iron in Spinach
Nothing like being lucky and good.
IMDSv2 doesn't change the URLs, the "/latest/" in that URL is referring to the meta-data profile, rather than the IMDS version. IMDS is a lower level change in the authentication workflow to use a token (which is retrieved using a PUT request).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance... has a good example.
We could 10x the human population and still be sustainable. Your idea of sustainable is a common misconception.
I would expect AWS to provide custom libraries for basically every language. The cost of a few full-time engineers who are experts at any reasonably popular language is probably pocket change compared to how much even a few companies using that language might spend on AWS services.
I've been setting up my little docker image that has both llvm/clang/tidy/clangd and gcc inside with boost with an idea I'd run it and from outside use it to code with live checking and compiling without littering my OS. Now, I feel like I'm doing something that already exists but couldn't really find what everyone use, ought of those that would prefer such a setup. Debugger within is probably a pipe dream, but who knows.

Basically I'd prefer to have a docker image with tooling that I can hook into.
I used aurora for a while and liked it quite a bit (especially compared to Alloydb which was absolutely horrible).
I don't think it's exactly "luck", the trends are being driven by the technology, which they have done a good job of inventing. For better or worse, low-watt parallel compute is the primary area of innovation in compute hardware, so naturally the areas of innovation in software are more likely to leverage this innovative hardware. In other words, when all you have is a ton of tiny processors, every problem looks like a massively parallel process. It does raise the question of what we are missing because we don't have e.g. super-fast single-threaded processors or whatever new tech exists in an alternate universe.
Back when i was a single grad student i would do a few months at a time for years. 4-8am and 6-10pm were pretty good slots, as i could still go out at night if i wanted, and i didn't find it very burdensome. Now that I'm married it makes less sense.

One of the other advantages to this pattern is it's relatively easy to start and stop. I frequently use it as a stepping stone when fighting jet lag by inserting a half cycle.
Ah yes, Reinvent season, when all of the AWS announcements make the front page of HN but most won't be generally available for 6-12 months.
Is it like another Intel ME, phone modem firmware, etc? Absolutely!

Everything from your x64 CPU to microSD to credit cards(not the readers; readers run antiquated Android and soon known-bad Chromium) runs some form of weird slow proprietary RTOS. It is what it is. I bet it takes ~century with help of superhuman AI to make those run an open and verified code. The situation is improving too, slowly, because using buggy proprietary code is not a goal, but means.

It's ok to be disgusted about the status quo, but that is not necessarily worth your time; IIRC one of original complaints by RMS on the state of software freedom that lead to Free Software Movement was about some HP printer running buggy custom OS. Even the point people said enough is enough goes back that far.
The great thing about FDB is that they have a testing infrastructure that is unlike any other database: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
If there is a Swift compiler bug that causes data loss I will bet money they will catch it (I will also bet they will find at least one Swift compiler bug)
Ask HN: When given a task, do you have a method to request criteria of success?
> That will change

Been hearing that from Wayland folks about very basic things for what, 15 years now?
IANAL but in some courts the contract has a different penalty/enforcement when money are exchanged between two parties.

So in a way: going to a court the user has more chances of winning when they paid for a service than when using it freely, even if using it freely means they pay with their privacy, when there is a breach of the contract.

Not saying this is what Meta is doing but saying that in some cases it is better to give something away for free than to ask even 1 EUR for it.
Have an older z-wave heater valve that seems to be on a version of the protocol no one bothers to be backwards compatible with. Never happened with zigbee no matter the amount of quirks needed from zigbee2mqtt.
Because rust has no real c++ migration story. Apple has been putting a lot of work into swift/c++ interop specifically to support migration from c++ to swift.

Rust seems utterly uninterested in supporting gradual migration of C++, which makes porting millions of LoC untenable.

Additionally rust has no interest in ABI stability, which is actually important (the rust ABI stability story is to my knowledge “expose a C FFI layer”)
> I don't think we necessarily disagree, since I don't read you as saying there's never any place for AI chatbots

Definitely not. I can, for instance, see how chatbots might be of great use in palliative care or to help ward off cognitive decline in the elderly.

> We need independent research that isn't just done by the AI chatbot companies themselves so that folks can figure out optimal approaches for training them.

Yes, definitely.
Significantly higher reach. I use steam every day and didn't know its used for video distribution.
I did it it was the craziest process but it worked eventually even though that was quite a while ago.
I'm curious to hear more about your troubles with alloydb. It's something I just started to test out at work
When your "mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," it feels deceitful & dishonest & shitty to go out and delete a good fraction of that information.

There's so much unintentional data loss here, people who are going to be so sad and mad. The shared photos grandma sent us a decade ago will all just die. Those of us tending deceased accounts will have to forever juggle a yearly ritual of carefully logging in to all relevant services. Eventuslly time will win and Google will delete the enduring digital part of our family trees. This is such a monstrous shitty awful turn.

So far the Google graveyard has largely been Google projects. It's such a darker more bitter twist to me that Google is trying to put some of the enduring surviving bits of grandma in the grave too. What an wretched twist from 2023.
Maintenance work has been done, yes. But not new feature development.
>Allowing any application to do that without the user knowing, the X11 model, is a recipe for disaster.

I don't know a single person that has ever fallen victim to a virus or malware on linux, and I've been using it almost exclusively for the past 20 years. If it was a threat vector, it clearly wasn't a very big issue.

If they wanted to not break existing apps, simply intercept attempts to share screens or inputs, and pop up a dialog box asking the user for consent? That would have been fine. That should have been a part of their default implementation. What they actually wound up doing was infinitely more user hostile.

I tried using it summer of '22. The wayland hype train was well underway and major linux distributions were already pushing it. I'd be much more forgiving if the wayland devs said 'hey guys, we're working on a new display server but it's very experimental and no one should use it unless they want to help us work out the kinks'. Instead, it was 'this is the future, x11 is abandonware'
I've used both systemv and systemd professionally. They both have flaws. I have had fewer issues with systemd(albeit I have a system that rarely doesn't start up its target program after a restart, but it's managed so it's not a problem and just gets a manual start). Individual experiences may vary obviously but overall your comment supports the GP assertion of a vocal minority.
Companies in Africa are transforming cost centers into cash
interesting. Are there such papers - that one can check the proofs and references and etc - on IT/computing related stuff? Most papers i have stumbled upon, back in time, have been some mumbo-jumbo showing-off this or that approach or achievement, but rarely coherent or consistent (one example talks X, another talks Y, with no link inbetween).
Hence i stopped reading any such papers, years ago..
Vector search and state of the art retrieval for Generative AI (Ignite talk) [video]
KDE's Wayland session is fine on Nvidia, at least with my 3070. There used to be more visual artifacts, but everything I'm using works, from CUDA to Mesa to DLSS. The largest remaining bug I'm aware of has to do with how blurred windows are presented. It's pretty functionally solid, at least with newer drivers.
I'm no expert, so please excuse my methods of research. Here's what chatgpt tells me:
"Yes, homomorphic encryption allows you to perform certain types of computations on encrypted data without needing to decrypt it first. This includes operations such as addition and multiplication, depending on the type of homomorphic encryption used.

For your specific case of summing up values in a numeric column of a database, homomorphic encryption is indeed applicable. If you encrypt each value in the column using a homomorphic encryption scheme, you can then sum these encrypted values. The result of this operation will be an encrypted value that, when decrypted, will reveal the sum of the original plaintext values. ypes of Homomorphic Encryption

There are mainly three types of homomorphic encryption:

Partial Homomorphic Encryption (PHE): Allows only one type of operation (either addition or multiplication) an unlimited number of times. An example is RSA.

Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption (SHE): Allows both addition and multiplication, but only a limited number of times.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE): Enables both addition and multiplication on encrypted data an unlimited number of times. This is the most versatile form but also the most computationally intensive."
This is a solid take.

The motifs that he evokes in this essay are far too complex for me to digest in confidence from a "Techno-optimist" "tech leader" who is still so relatively young. I'd be more interested in reading this perspective (and its counterperspectives) from someone else.
dprint is soo much better (configurable) and already written in Rust so very fast

I am sad it's not getting more popular
Likely it'll be talked about in-depth this week at Reinvent. This intro article is par for AWS "product announcements".
It's worse in an environment with inflation. Let's say I lend you money at no interest for a year, and let's say inflation is X%. Even if you faithfully pay me back the full amount in a year, then I still have lost money. I need to collect X% interest just to break even.
I think Nvidia has built a firmware and library support moat around their hardware that is difficult for others to keep up with. They invest time to work with studios to make sure they have game ready drivers available the same day as new AAA games are launched.
Interesting, I have never had any problem with Source-based games.
The worst offender for me was Talos Principle and Far Cry 4 due to the headbob effect which couldnt be turned off (why?!).
Pytorch itself, or abstractions built on top such as Huggingface