skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is, as is, they would be able to play, but not be very good.

The main issue I see is the spatial component is hard to describe in text. The new vision models make it easier, but still I imagine it's not trivial to integrate all the mechanics plus the spatial component on the limited prompt space.

I do think that 1) combining with the hand crafted AI and 2) having an "LLM advisors" system where for a given aspect (eg military) the "advisor" would present the options and tradeoffs to the "Main AI" and the role of the latter is to weigh the tradeoffs between the options presented by the advisors.

And what I do know is that it could be so much more immersive than the current hard coded AI!
This is dependent on your usecase, what types of storage you use, familiarity with tuning systems, setting up raid layouts, etc.

I love ZFS. It's incredibly powerful. It's also incredibly easy to screw up when designing how you want to set up your drives, especially if you intend to grow your storage. This also isn't including the effort needed to figure out how to make your filesystem redundant across datacenters or even just between racks in the same closet.

At the end of the day, if I screw up setting something on EFS I can always create a new EFS filesystem and move my data over. If I screw up a ZFS layout, I'm going to need a box of temporary drives to shuffle data onto while I remake an array.
Rclone + rsync.net? A bit more than $20/mo though.
Now that you mention it, I did have gmail fail to deliver a bunch of email from Thursday - Friday. Didn’t notice until Saturday when a bunch of email came in. I’m a 0 unread kind of guy so getting 15 emails in one morning was abnormal.
> Honestly at this stage, this stuff starts to feel like FUD.

I understand how you feel, now that I use Wayland everywhere myself. But I still remember when some things I used has issues and I have a whole list of a dozen of them.

Even now, using Wayland involves a LOT of compromise on my part. I'd have to stop my anger at CSD and issues with Global Menu a lot out of tiredness (still annoying - I have to run OBS in xwayland temporarily to access its remux menu). I have to contend with not having unattended remote desktop for my Linux devices. And I have to manually change how I set up fcitx5 instead of just setting it up in three lines in Home-Manager.

It's full of annoyances, but I'm tolerating it. Others... probably just don't have the patience, especially the devs who are supposed to fix these things for their app when they just want to focus on other things (especially multiplatform devs).
"hindering the identification of issues like line breaks" doesn't quite sound like completely losing electricity.
Guns are made to kill people. Are stupid people made for evil?
> The concept of "window position on screen" makes no sense, since a compositor is allowed to display windows arbitrarily, and doesn't necessarily display them as 2D rectangles (for instance, they could be displayed in a VR environment at arbitrary 3D positions, or they could be warped arbitrarily, etc.).

This is a poorly thought out objection (sounds more like a rationalization), neatly addressed here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

> No problem! For window managers like this, it is perfectly legitimate to just ignore the client’s positioning requests. The API specifically mentions that clients should not rely on absolute placement to happen. It is merely advice to the compositor to choose a sensible initial spot to put a window. Same goes for weird form factor displays or specialized compositors, of course (but those may not even implement xdg-shell at all).
What is a decent tok/s?

Your best bet is to run a quantized 7b model using LMStudio or Ollamma on your M1 Mac, like neural chat v3.1 from Mistral/Intel.
A lot of fun to be found in the adjacent possible!
Same questions as a comment on the post:

- Does anyone know the exact protocol/methods used? Is it published anywhere?

- How exactly does a single session work? Sit down, fire up Anki, and work through the Letters deck?

- How does progression work? When to incorporate numbers, words, capitals, etc?
good product.
imho, slack or Teams notification integration is a nicer way ...
I've done this many times. So many that I set up the hypervisor (fanless CompuLab PC) to bridge the WAN Ethernet, and all of the possible USB modems (multiple smart phones, and hotspots) on one interface which the OpenWRT VM uses as WAN. With it set up like this, I can simply plug in the correct device and then reboot. No configuration changes required. Over the years I did need to do some minor tweaks to get IPv6 working properly in all configurations, but it's been solid.

Note that doing it this way doesn't require most of the steps in the parent article document. The hypervisor recognizes the network hardware, assigns it to the bridge, and KVM/virt-manager assigns the bridge to the OpenWrt VM as a virtio network device. OpenWRT sees a plain vanilla virtio Ethernet device so it doesn't need any special drivers or configuration.
Yeah it connects to a little water chiller. It’s a quick connect system. I’m not sure if it’s proprietary, but I’d guess it’s not. The chiller has physical climate control buttons.
What are some of the solutions to plastic pollution?

(Edit)

What are some solutions to the internal and external costs of plastic production, distribution, consumption, and waste?
Oops, correct link here: https://blog.oxen.ai/reading-list-for-andrej-karpathys-intro...
> not really. it would still just be the experience of one person in one place

If you provided a location, others could research the labor participation rate among men and women in the area you’re talking about. It would literally be the exact opposite of “the experience of one person”.
Not all devices have this. I have a Pixel 8 Pro that I ordered at launch and it has zero issues.
Ask HN: Why do half of Internet users think we are living in a simulation?
My question is inspired by an Internet poll[1]. When it appeared on HN two years ago[2], 45% voted that, yes, we are living in a simulation (of 14,463 votes at the time). When I checked back just now, about half (51%) still voted yes, but now at 4,111,498 votes.

Whether we are living in a computer simulation is indeed a fascinating question, and I'm not dismissing it, but there's no proof or experimental evidence for it as far as I know.

I know about the simulation argument[3], but that's not a mathematical/physical proof or an experimental result. Lots of brainteasers and paradoxes have arguments structured like the simulation argument; one example is Olbers' paradox: Why is the night sky dark if there is an infinity of stars, covering every part of the celestial sphere? The argument about the stars seems to make sense but it doesn't count as proof or experimental result, and we know it's not true.

So I'm wondering how and why so many people are now convinced that we are living in a simulation?

[1] https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29866981

[3] https://simulation-argument.com/simulation
The gear is pretty similar for tDCS, tACS (which uses alternating current at the "target" frequency"), and TI. Our data suggests that you can hit deep brain structures with all of them (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815958116) but TI has the advantage of focality: it avoids stimulating things between the scalp and the target.

The other major difference is how it affects the neurons. tDCS, tACS and even TMS create electric fields that electrically polarize the neurons. TI...doesn't. The stimulus itself changes too rapidly and only the envelope fluctuates at the "target frequency." However, that envelope isn't real: something has to extract/demodulate it from the carriers and it's not entirely clear how--or how well--that happens.
Mining tycoons battle over lithium's 'corridor of power' in Australia
After reading this, I recall how weird it was to me to think of a process as a person inhabiting a planetary directory tree. I think this metaphor is what kept me from really understanding processes the first time I touched an AIX system coming from my Apple DOS / MS-DOS world. Prior to meeting AIX, there was no persistent directory structure; my first computer didn't even have a tape drive (Commodore PET), so the analogy never even took shape.

I mean, the article talks about the "what", but it makes me wonder about the "why".
i did this last week. google takeout provided 40 or so zip files that are easily decompressed with a find -exec for the existing photos

Im now using synology photos to backup new photos to my nas as i take them
Note that the ODF conversion is happening on google's side - which means that if you have a cloud document above some embarassingly small size (like a Slides deck of the interns' end of year presentations with a couple of videos inside) ... you'll just get a size error, and there's nothing rclone can do to fix it. (Basically, pay attention to the warnings...)
Using d-feet/d-spy was the most helpful thing for me in wrangling dbus along with the mantra Dbus is dumb, needy, verbose and explicit.
I have a full sync of my cloud storage on my media PC, which rsync's nightly to an external drive. I have another external drive that lives at work, which I bring home and sync every month or so. In theory I think that covers most scenarios I care about (cloud provider failure, HDD failure, house fire etc).

It has been a long time since I used Drive, so I can't remember if has a Dropbox-like desktop sync app, so this may not apply.
that’s honestly an amazing power move
To users, this is data loss until they can provide a way around it.

I know that internally this is different, but until there’s anything a user can do, this is data loss for users.
Equally supported conclusion based on this thread: half a dozen Windows users have the same virus.
My first thought was to use the Address calculation logic for an additional ALU, then... my second thought was trying to justify this during a code review... and lastly, why Microsoft used the LDT upper byte to make Xenix 286 incompatible... and the headache that changing architectures made for poor programming.
I have similar questions as a comment on the post:

- Does anyone know the exact protocol/methods used? Is it published anywhere? How atomic is "atomic" for fundamental cards like letters/numbers?

- How does progression work? When to incorporate numbers, words, capitals, etc?
User generated content is the future, doncha know?
> concurrent, consistent read+write access to a shared network filesystem

I don't think this is an "architectural decision", more a hold-over from legacy systems that had NFS dependencies. Main (public) example that comes to mind is Jira Data Center: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/running-jir... If the business made a decision to buy it, then you need NFS, and EFS can fill that. In this sense, I think of EFS as being in the class of AWS products like Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ - the architectural decision was made outside of the context of your company's stack, but AWS still has a managed offering to support it.

Modern systems will typically pick S3 instead, as it's much cheaper. I'd be hard-pressed to imagine a need for which NFS is a reasonable modern decision in greenfield development.
> That 20M figure was simply adding those metro areas

Metro area does not imply urban or dense, you’re counting farmers in that “metro area.”

Austin has an urban population of 1,809,888 at 2,921.0/sq mi (4.6 people per acre) covering 620 square miles which is already fairly low average. The metro area is however 2,421,115 people covering 4,285.70 sq mi but remove the urban bits and (2,421,115 - 1,809,888) = 611,227 people across (4,285.70 - 620) = 3,665 sq mi your down or 166 people per square mile (0.26/acre) which is in no way dense.

Hell the state of Tennessee averages 168 people per square mile, good luck arguing the entire thing is dense.
> And I suspect that teaching a random person's child may not yield as much results as teaching the child of a genius like Larry Sanger.

Why do you believe that? Are there any studies proving the nature vs nurture debate? It seems like the techniques followed can be equally applied to all children, e.g. imagine this being officially taught in nursery schools.

> I think it could also be the case that the adult intelligence level will not be greatly affected by any kind of learning technique or pace during childhood

Again, where is this coming from? The child will start earlier and will have more time to learn more advanced subjects than their peers, which could definitely lead to higher intelligence at any given age
Looks like I got hit, nothing showing after Jun 1.
I will have to see if their NFSv4 implementation has improved any. When I added support for EFS to my company's NFSv4 client we ran into a couple of performance bottlenecks and just general spec non-conformance.

Specifically, we noticed lack of support for these features:

- session trunking (and, in general, multiple channels)

- multiple concurrent requests on a channel (ala ca_maxrequests)

- callbacks

ca_maxoperations was quite low (10, I think?), and they limit the number of parallel clients that you can access EFS with at once.

What this amounts to is that you can reach acceptable performance on file reads/writes, but metadata heavy access patterns have no hope of reaching the advertised IOPs. It's a shame because frankly metadata performance is something NFSv4 excels at.
Interesting, I hadn't heard that before, but it's certainly related. The word I was searching for was the term for this particular biofilm/community, so it's some long technical term.
Unfortunately google’s own “sync to local” software is quite unreliable, at least on the Mac. Anyway its synced “files” are often just urls, so you can’t search them and the content isn’t actually downloaded.

I don’t understand why anyone relies on this.
The "economy" is just a measure of how much money the ultra-rich have.

When the DOW or NYSE or whatever drops a bucket of points, that's still not me. It's the uber-rich.

When a grocery cart of groceries goes from $40 to $200 for the same damned things, that's definitely on me, and families all around me. And as far as we can tell, those numbers were based purely on greed, or in the sanitized terms of economists "what the market will bear".

Well, the market don't give 2 fucks about us people; I say let it burn and bring out the guillotines.
This is a total non-starter from a privacy perspective. Not only is it pulling in everything from all the cloud apps you connect to it, but also the contents of any devices you enable it on, everything within every browser tab, and god knows what else.

It also seems to solve a problem for Dropbox (they aren't on the AI train) but not for the user. How many people don't know their upcoming meeting is on their calendar, or that the spreadsheet they created is in Excel/Sheets? All of which have excellent search experiences already.

https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/warp/en-us/d...
Solutions to cut down on pollution or clean up the environment for all the plastic pollution accumulated for decades?
I'm all for having as many children as you can raise, and caring about old people, but interpret the following how you wish. It is a highly anomalous thing in the history that ordinary people receive real medical care when they are unable to do basic tasks themselves. You might have some basic care if your children care about you, but that's about it, and that might be our future and there's very little we can do about it except enabling policies that make having children viable option for those who want to have children.
> 15-20 years ago, people generally thought that software jobs would be outsourced to low-cost countries. CS enrollments were low

19 years was ago was the highest peak before the boom in the last decade, and even at the bottom of the short trough after that, more CS degrees were awarded that any time before the 5 years before the peak

> CS enrollments were low, because people didn't believe in the tech job market anymore. Ambitious STEM graduates who wanted a lucrative career went to finance instead.

Nope, business, finance, and humanities dropped—less sharply, except business—at the same time CS did; natural sciences, health, and medical science curved up at an accelerated rate (which continued even after CS picked back up).
Death of a Salesman was published in 1949. Has the American Dream just been dying in different ways over the past several decades?
Only if you no-true-scotsman the set of "any kid" down to the subset of any kid who 'wants it bad enough', 'is motivated', 'is a self-starter', etc etc. Of course you can just conveniently define that subset as "any kid for whom my plan works".
Civ 6 has a multiplayer mode called "Play By Cloud". Here's the best description I could find about how it works: https://civ.halfstack.software
lsof is also good for seeing what files a process is using https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/lsof-command-examples/
when ask question in the demo site, it writes a love letter, haha ... good job !
came here to say this. 7MB hero image served from nginx. put it in a cheap object store or behind a cdn?

that being said, great looking app!
Sadly the article doesn't really answer the question as to why, but it's probably because they keep making bad movies that they don't think will perform well.

To be extra clear, IMO this is not the fault of the creatives -- but the fault of the execs who ordered things to production.
> Binder and D-Bus which should be what you reach for by default for IPC.

Well that’s silly. If the portable options can do it for you, use those.
One good use case is if you are doing atomic operations on pointers, you can atomically modify the tag as well.
Brutal, but effective I suppose. Hopefully she never had to give you anything time released! You do not want to chew them if you plan for them to work in their properly metered delivery.

Fun fact, OxyContin was deemed "impossible to become addicted to" because it incorporated a time-released design that everyone just started chewing up anyway.
NFSv4 is designed to alleviate the consistency shortcomings of NFSv3, but unfortunately I'm not aware of any client implementations that leverage the full spec as intended. The linux implementations are improving frequently.
Google’s desktop sync doesn’t actually download googles own files, just files in other formats like pdf. Do you launch a Google takeout request from a from job?
It was just amateur porn by young adult women or late teen girls, like mirror selfies by women/girls in bikinis with their tops pulled down or ass bent over or whatever, but the people in the photos were very young. Whether that meant 18, 19, or 17, or 16, people weren't too concerned.
People often believe in things without rational proof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
You have no idea how Consul works?

> Registered services and nodes can be queried using a DNS interface or an HTTP interface

This thread is about Hesiod, a service which provides DNS interface for databases.
You probably mean that it shouldn't be your only copy. Of course. But day to day devices are definitely less reliable than the redundant storage managed by a bunch of expert storage engineers.
Child-proofing or any safety, really. It wasn't until the Chicago Tylenol Murders[1] that they put tamper evident packaging into use.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
I can't read the paywalled article, but "college sports" is much bigger than the SEC football example referenced at the beginning of the article; most programs don't throw around that kind of money.
> My friend has lost all her Gmail emails since May 2023 until Tuesday 21 November.

> I did have gmail fail to deliver a bunch of email from Thursday - Friday.

I'm honestly just stunned to be reading stuff like this. I'm only just now realizing this that I'd always implicitly assumed that Google would not make mistakes like this. I guess it's time to go frantically run Takeout on all of my Google accounts... and figure out somewhere to save the ZIP files other than Google Drive.

Just curious, how do you know that Gmail failed to deliver the email? Is it possible that you just genuinely got no email for a couple days, and then got a spike of email on Saturday? Poisson processes do be like that sometimes...
For most popular consumer products, there will be expert users who want to help. Official forums are a great way to engage those experts. Otherwise the experts will just start their own forums (and often do) e.g. forums for cars / mechanical issues.

Should Google be paying more to provide customer service? Absolutely! But it’s just not in Google’s culture to do customer service. Google likes to develop products with extremely lean / efficient burn rates. Googlers value efficiency orders of magnitude more than human connection.
> absolutely no way they lost data permanently

How do you know this?

> (maybe hours worth of data, worst case scenario)

Or you’re saying they could have lost data permanently?

At this point Google is as trustworthy as musk.
Shoot. I mixed up the module name. It's the sh module https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

sort_env = os.environ.copy()
sort_env["LANG"] = "C"
sh.wc("-l", _in=sh.uniq("-c", _piped=True, _in=sh.sort(_env=sort_env, _piped=True, _in=sh("some-command", _piped=True, _err_to_out=True))))

It's not as natural in some ways for most people because you have to write it right to left instead of left to right as with the pipe syntax. If you split it over multiple lines it's better:

some_command = sh("some-command", _piped=True, _err_to_out=True)
sorted = sh.sort(_env=sort_env, _piped=True, _in=some_command)
unique = sh.uniq("-c", _piped=True, _in=sorted)
word_count = sh.wc("-l", _in=unique)

There's also all sorts of helpful stuff you can do like invoking a callback per line or chunk of output, with contexts for running a sequence of commands as sudo, etc etc.

And of course, you don't actually need to shell out to sort/uniq either:

output_lines = sh("some-command", _err_to_out=True).splitlines()
num_lines = len(list(set(output_lines)))

This is also cheaper because it avoids the sort which isn't strictly necessary for determining the number of unique lines (sorting is typically going to be an expensive way to do that for large files compared to a hash set because of the O(nlogn) string comparisons vs O(n) hashes).

It's really quite amazing and way less error prone too when maintaining anything more complicated. Of course, I've found it not as easy to develop muscle memory with it but that's my general experience with libraries.
That's a conflation. I'm certain for at least some, the choice is more about using a single language than avoiding JS. I'm sure there are people using htmx who use a JS backend. That there are at least 5 LiveView clones for JS also are evidence that there's a desire to use JS for both front and back end for dynamic websites: https://github.com/liveviews/liveviews#javascripttypescript
Getting Started with Orca-2-13B
It’s a deliberate strategy to reduce costs on the part of the company.

They “gamify” volunteer support with badges etc.

One place I worked called it “Level 0” support in that it cost the company zero dollars.
There are definitely trends, but the pattern I see with early JS and PHP is they simply didn't anticipate the consequences of certain decisions.

What happens is you make a decision "locally", for some use case or program. And then you don't realize how it affects other programs.

The well known "Wat" talk about JS by Gary B. is basically a bunch of these unintended consequences.

So the problem is really to see the whole picture, and to get some experience using the language. But there's that catch 22 -- by the time you release it, it's almost set in stone.

I remember in the early 2000's Guido and the Python team would always refer to "Python 3000" -- the one chance they had to break things!
https://archive.md/rOocF