skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, you are definitively making a very solid point, cost for getting mass production right are a killer once the institutional knowledge is gone. For example, its very visible in the field of battery technologies if i am not mistaken. Going from lead to lithium was a gigantic task and the inertia going forwards hasnt reduced enough at this point.

But realistically this is a matter of going back far enough, to lower the cost far enough? 10% are a good start but to stick to the topic, physical gyroscopes from decades ago are now replaced with MEMS ICs where the reduction in cost is magnitudes more then down to 10%. At a certain point the reduced cost makes it viable. The question is just has it been long enough?

While we wont get 90nm cheap enough, the question is what can we do on a hobby level (vs academia)? Because going from there (neglectable cost and technological requirements) to mass production will at some point be cheaper then the cost of setting up reproducible tooling for older high tech systems.

I am likely still off with 180nm, but there should be a level at which this makes economical sense. A level that gets cheaper to reach with technological progress / time.
Congrats on all your accomplishments Mitchell and looking forward to what you'll create next.
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There could be so many places where this is happening, and it's going undetected, until law enforcement happens to seize some unfortunate individual's computer and child porn is found on it.

Distributing or creating such material (with real children) is rightfully illegal. Possession with intent to distribute, as well. But absolutely not simple possession.

These crazy laws need to go, it's a modern 21st Century form of morality policing[1]. Such morality policing is not much more that primally driven primitive behavior, akin to which our tribal ancestors carried out, and coming from a part of our brain that is thousands of years old. It does not belong in a modern technologically based society. And the internet, with its fundamental lack of privacy, has enabled such morality policing on a shocking scale.

Such material can be easily generated locally with AI with no risk of detection by law enforcement, and planted into people's web browser caches or other temporary storage so easily. The government is basically giving any sophisticated hacker or state actor (e.g. Russia) a push-button way of destroying any political opponent with ease.

If you live in a Western country and criticize a Russian political figure too much, well the FSB (the successor to the KGB) is going to put child porn on your computer. They've already been caught doing precisely that. [2] So it's especially important in this current geopolitical situation we're in.

1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485652311936...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#History
For non chemists just working with standard commercial stuff(Epoxy, UV resin, grocery store cleaning chemicals, and that's about it), various sites and ads give the impression nitrile is "The good default thing you should use"....

Good to know that's not always the case?
A good friend of mine was cured (knock on wood) of leukemia by CAR-T. She was one of the first people to get it during a clinical trial. She'd been through all the regular chemo, bone marrow transplant, etc as well as 3 other (failed) experimental treatments and was nearly beyond hope. It seems pretty certain that CAR-T saved her life. I went hiking with her not too long ago. Pretty amazing.
Maybe! This article could be mistaken calling this a tax abatement. The original press release refers to this as a "grant" (perhaps still tax abatement with financial shenanigans).

Still, under the terms of the grant program, the state has lots of options to claw back any grant money if the recipient doesn't fulfill their requirements: https://www.michiganbusiness.org/48f6cb/globalassets/documen...

I can't find any source on what the actual financial agreements of the grant are.

UPDATE - I found the terms of the $600 million dollar grant (not tax abatement!): https://www.mackinac.org/archives/2022/GM%20Board%20Pack%20A...

> The MSF may require repayment for: (i) failure to obtain the Jobs Commitment (proportional), (ii) mass relocation of jobs out of state, and (iii) breach of representations, misappropriation, insolvency.

GM has been getting reimbursed quarterly based on real expenses they have occurred, but may have to give some or all of it back.
Regardless of whether this is verifiably new knowledge, it's an interesting case study when you consider limiting access to AI based on model size or some other regulatory measure, and the unfair advantage that confers on corporations that do discover new knowledge or laws of nature, and can monetize them without sharing.
In a nice chart for you:

https://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx
They straight up fired some of their best staff+ engineers today. Does that count as losing them?
A stochastic parrot used to generate variation of a program, to do hill climbing on programs.

The magician lose some its charm when you know his trick. The Earth used to be the center of the universe, now it's circling an average star. Intelligence used to be a sacred mystical thing, we might be in our way to make it less sacred.
I use HashiCorp software nearly daily and think Terraform was the biggest eureka! moments for me. I've held HashiCorp since the IPO... Hasn't gone as planned so far, but holding on. Honestly, I expect an acquisition like Slack (just my hunch).
Bug report, FYI:

Output contains double-double quotes if the input has double quotes:

"1",
""2"",
"3"
Levee Breach Creates New Tidal Marshland in San Francisco Bay
I just found myself in this exact situation today. I picked up "a month" of Illustrator a couple months ago for a few tasks and went to cancel it today, only to discover that after paying for two months I will be billed close to $100 for canceling. The UI included a nice lecture about how Adobe had generously given me a significant discount in return for the annual commitment I have no recollection of making.

Pretty sad, to see the tech company that put the cool symbology puzzle on corporate hq many years ago now applying their innovative efforts to devising ever-more effective anti-patterns. Somebody must have gotten a nice bonus for creating this revenue stream.
That's just what Big Fat wants you to think.
They definitely took notes from previous attempts to take down fan projects by releasing it anonymously when it was completely finished. In fact, it's kinda surprising just how well the creators kept it under the radar too; neither the modding scene for Link's Awakening/the Zelda series as a whole nor the folks disassembling the original game knew a thing about the project until its release.

It just came completely out of nowhere, and took us all by surprise.
This is just silly. Firefox on Android has had uBlock Origin, the world's most effective ad blocker, since day one. But sure, go invent conspiracies rather than do a little research.
kdeconnect has an iOS app
Here's an interesting discussion thread in comp.sys.apollo from 2003:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apollo/c/55dqpf11hEw/m/...

The setup was more complex than I described, as the second 68000 did not simply wait for a page fault to happen but was executing regular code (unclear if application only or also OS kernel, but the code was not allowed to raise page faults, user processes usually ran on one CPU, see the last quote below) and only handled the fault on the other CPU when interrupted by the MMU.

Unfortunately, the only versions of Aegis/DomainOS available online seem to be 10.x (on bitsavers), but support for the "sau1" 68000-based systems (DN100/DN400/DN416) ended with version 9.x, so we can't have a look at the code implementing this feature.

Interesting quotes from the thread:

"The two processors were called "A" and "B" and processes could be marked runnable on A or on B or both. It was almost a multiprocessor, except that you couldn't run anything that might take a page fault on both at the same time." (by Jim Rees, who runs the Apollo archive at https://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/)

The answer to the following question was posted by Dave Tweed, a former Apollo engineer who worked on the MMU design for later Apollo workstations (see his resume at http://www.dtweed.com/resume2.html):

"> Hmm. So how did CPU B know that this was needed? It sounds like they
> weren't running the same code, after all.

No, of course not. The MMU was external to both CPUs, and when one CPU encountered a page fault, the MMU would interrupt the other CPU to handle the exception.

The CPUs shared the main memory, so in that sense they were running the same code -- e.g., there was only one copy of the exception handler that either CPU could run. But they were not lock-stepped the way the OP described. I can't even imagine how you'd accomplish that in general."

However, from another thread, also by Jim Rees (https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apollo/c/GzEtBHVHEvA/m/...):

"Back in the good old days, the 68000 was the only Motorola processor available. It did not have restartable instructions, so you couldn't do VM with them. Early Suns didn't have VM, they squeezed everything into real memory, like a pdp-11. Early Apollos had an ingenious VM system. There were two processors, the 'A' and the 'B'. One of them would run until it took a page fault, then it would go into a memory wait while the other one brought the page in.

It's not really parallel in the usual sense of the word, but there were certain things that could run on either processor, and in fact you could have both of them running at the same time. Normal user processes only ran
on one."

What a fascinating rabbit hole...
Given the sensitivity and value of the info disclosure, lack of documentation doesn't necessarily refute experimentally reported results.
Kids are a thing that can be next.
Why would they take the risk of hotloading microcode instead of rolling out to small numbers of machines and rebooting gracefully?

Unless they run their datacenter at redline all the time, there should be plenty of spare resources to shift load and bring a machine down for maintenance. Right?

I really don't understand how the risk of crashing programs or introducing undetectable errors outweighs the effort of rolling the update out gradually. surely they have an automated system that can shut down any number of machines without disrupting the network?

Then again I have no idea what a datacenter on Google's scale even looks like. Maybe there's some crucial reason they can't shut down any machines at all ever. Smells bad to me though.
You don't need to know about physics.

Some people who do know about physics don't need coders and some do.

You need to find people who do know about physics, but who still need coders.

Physics is just too big a subject to 'know about it' enough to 'get into physics as a coder'.

Yes, you will need to know about a specific 'problem domain' within physics

One that someone somewhere needs a coder for.

But start with people, not with physics

People need coders, physics doesn't

People have physics problems that they need coders to solve

Read up, find the people with the unsolved physics coding problems that you can work out how to help them solve

Then your problems will really begin

Then you'll find out if getting into physics as a coder was right for you
Heavily doubt that one.
RDS doesn't have zero downtime updates from what I know - they update & failover so there is a brief outage (1-2 min).
Even jobs like "mailman", which you'd think is a modest government job with decent benefits, have suffered. A lot of mail carriers are precarious contractors without a fixed schedule.
Congrats! You've Terraformed the industry!
This is a weird take. If anything, Nomad, Consul and Vault are on the ascent, as the realities of the CNCF ecosystem set in for people with results to deliver.
Some of my first OSS work was also based on Vagrant (https://github.com/ezekg/tj). I eventually turned that into a commercial desktop app, built on top of that CLI project. Ultimately, the project didn't work out, but it was a big step in my open source and entrepreneurial journey.

ty, mitchellh!
We receive information that its radios are still working.
I meant different thing. ISS is big enough to cast a small shadow on Earth. It moves fast and covers a star for some fraction of second (roughly size/orbital velocity). Still every day several times.
My point is that it is easy to tell in the restaurant, and it is not easy to tell in a cloud storage context. We're not disagreeing about the former.

I actually have cloud storage customers at my company. If you asked me what an unreasonable amount of cloud storage consumption was, I would have a really hard time coming up with a number. A petabyte, I guess? We have customers that store kilobytes, and others that store many terabytes. Frankly we'd love a petabyte customer, because we actually charge people for storage, like any sane B2B storage offering. Some things are not meant to be unlimited.
Writing a Rust lexer/parser, maybe. The entire compiler? Dubious.
Voyager 1 has a large 12-foot diameter directional radio antenna that it keeps pointed at Earth. If you look at photos of Voyager, the antenna (the big dish) basically is most of what you see: it's bigger than everything else on craft.

There are radio antennas across the Earth listening to its very weak signal.

More details: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24338/how-to-calcu...
I can ask it questions and get a straight answer instead of sorting through SEO spam.

I use Deepl Write to improve my German writing without straight up translating from English. It tells me how to write properly.

I use it to write emails when style and personal voice don't matter. For example to cancel subscriptions.

I have tried all sorts of other things but for very mixed results.
Id be shocked by them ignoring the blatant “customer noncompete clause dystopian hellscape loophole” thing again today and tweeting bloviating research white papers instead of performing literally 30 seconds of basic HTML or Next.JS code deletion, but I’ve already been shocked by it every day for weeks and at this point it’s just funny to chuckle at their idiocracy.

Gee, should take a whole minute of one person’s day we delete the felony level explicit anticompetitive one liner from our terms which also happens to be an existential AI Safety nightmare because human brains are models in development? Nah, let’s write a research paper about AI SAFETY!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974519864045756454/11...

https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/118419694649...

Way to go OpenAI!
My suspicion is that he simply might spend some time with his newborn and enjoy life a bit after such a wild streak. He has more than enough financial resources to do that comfortably.

He has stressed twice in the post that most of his life revolved around that company - Maybe it's time for that not to be anymore - simply put.
Related question: how can I learn how to read the mathematical notation used in AI/ML papers? Is there a definitive work that describes the basics? I am a post-grad Engineer, so I know the fundamentals, but I'm really struggling with a lot of the Arxiv papers. Any pointers hugely appreciated.
> Not commenting about the ethics of all this, just wondering why technically Apple can only block ~5% of Beeper Mini users instead of all of them? Could this potentially be tied to the use of an email id as the iMessage handle?

Apple could block 100% of the people using Beeper and throw Hackintosh users into that as a bonus as well.

The reason they’re not doing that is because it could have unintended consequences as some are using someone else’s actual device serial number and those people would be inconvenienced.

It’s nothing that can’t be easily solved, the moment they reach out to support either in person or via phone/chat Apple can immediately verify if they’re using a legitimate Apple device, but even if it boils down to a small percentage of users you still need to prepare for the influx of support requests.

To do this, Apple uses a scoring model to determine if they can access iMessage and historically they’ve been pretty generous by allowing clearly spoofed serials if the Apple ID involved is in good standing and has a positive history, think of it as a credit score.
They can tweak the threshold score and probably are testing this out as we speak to find a sweet spot they’re content with.

Apple could also push out an update tomorrow that would end this once and for all by utilizing device attestation and leveraging Secure Enclave, but this would potentially lock out older devices, something they were willing to do when they upgraded the FaceTime protocol a couple of years ago, but they might not want to do that this time around.
If it's self-aware, that's enough. What if your thoughts were controlled from birth, making you "not feeling" but self-aware (let's assume for a moment that simultaneous fulfillment of both of these conditions is possible) and manipulating you at will. Would that be acceptable?
new teslas do not have any stalks - no turn signals or gear shift stalks.

turn signals - they are a touch sensor in the middle of the steering wheel.

gear shift - the new cars "guess" which direction you want to go and shift for you. You can select a direction on the touchscreen. There is also a touch area underneath the center console for selecting gears (you have to touch it to wake, then touch again to shift).

lights are a touch area on the steering wheel.

the horn is a touch area on the steering wheel.

By law cars require rearview mirrors, so tesla ships them, but they are fighting against them both technically and in a regulatory way.

I think tesla is throwing the baby, your spouse and your kids out with the bathwater.

I would prefer if these controls were an $2k option, maybe even a dashboard as an option.

you are a worse driver in a tesla.
I think that the difficulty is not in doing this, the difficulty is in doing it in a way that an adversary can't strip out.
Best news in the mobile browsers' space since Firefox supported extensions!

If Firefox goes back to being THE browser of choice for tech savvy people, I'll stop thinking I made a bad choice supporting it everyday since it came out.

Sometimes a joy.
I have MS. I'm in my mid-40s and have few day-to-day symptoms. I'm fairly lucky so far.

But that could all change tomorrow. Some years ago, I woke up and couldn't see out of my right eye. It got better, but it took months to heal (and I was kind of lucky with that, too). I still have reduced grip strength from a 'flare' a few years back. What next? All it takes is one flare to make my life more difficult forever.

The current medicines tend to reduce disease activity - which means most folks have less disability and more mobility than in previous decades - and all have some side effects, which vary in intensity. At least there are pills now: The older drugs were injected at home and tended to make folks feel even worse than modern drugs.

Last resort? Not really. It might be worth the risk of chemo just to not have to have this sort of uncertainty every day. I know chemo brings its own risks, but at least there is a more clear path on what might happen.
I got 10/10 without having any idea who any of the people (except pg) were. The comments always made it possible to link to the companies of the posters somehow.
Interesting experiment to try to figure that out but I'm left wondering if I should be familiar with all those people and what they do.
Vger will come back, eventually.
A lot of people took it so they could put it on their CV/resume and get past the job filters, consultancies got their testers to do it so they could get past client filters ( from my experience when I was working in the UK)
TIL about a 2,000 lb "manhole cover" (big armored plate they welded on the end of a pipe to contain (HA!) the explosion) that got launched into the atmosphere in 1957 by a nuclear explosion test, leaving ground at 150,000 mph (220,000 fps). Spoiler: it probably vaporized.
I recall hearing (can't remember where) that in the olden days, computer programming was considered akin to typing or secretarial work, so at first it attracted mostly women.
If you're a software/sass company, how exactly do you categorize developer salaries anyway? Your product is software, so that could be viewed as COGS. On the other hand, it could also be R&D.
In case anyone else wanted to cut to the chase - as in, what is the most badass, dangerous, corrosive and potentially deadly cleaning method:

Hydrofluoric: Concentrated solutions of HF will remove just about everything from glass and will even etch the surface of the glass itself. It should not be used on calibrated volumetrics. HF causes severe, painful burns that do not heal well, and prolonged or intense exposure can lead to a very slow, painful death. It is not to be used by any students at Truman under any circumstances.
Sure we have, melphalan is being used to treat multiple myeloma for decades now.

Kill all the cancer in your bone marrow and transplant new stem cells to regrow it.
I used my personal usage data in the format

timestamp_of_session, duration_in_seconds

Yes, sorry for lack of details I meant root MSE
This is not at all like a coupon that you never cashed in. The company actually received $824 million in corporate welfare. Meaning if it weren't for the state they would literally have $824 million more and the state would literally have $824 million more.
My comment, in my opinion, was entirely accurate.

There was NO physical evidence of murder .. certainly no indication the diary was used to batter the children to death.

There were the very dark feelings of a very guilty parent who had multiple children die on their watch, there was a very outwardly suspicuous husband that didn't trust his wife, yes.

> where the true outcome is extremely statistically unlikely, as you point out.

What I stated, and as the Australian Acedemy of Sciences pointed out, in a country the size of Australia such a case is to be expected.

Not that it has a low chance of happening at all in a hundred years, but that it is expected to happen a few times or else something is up with the numbers.

We ground buildings because we know that lightening will strike somewhere.

It's important for the general public to understand another thing about statistics and events.

That it's "unlikely" for a random person in a population to have multiple children die due to a genetic condition isn't the thing to focus on.

GIVEN a person has had multiple children die (as a starting point of fact), then how likely is that due to a genetic condition (or other "not murder" possibilities)?

( Answer: a damn sight more likely than the first question )
Everyone's experience is subjective. Maybe they really hated it.

I also hate the wording, it threw me off for a few seconds and made me lose min train of thought until I realized the author simply doesn't know what the word "additionally" means.
Signal processing algorithms can pull out a signal from well below the noise floor these days. Even the small and nondirectional antennas on your phone are good enough to receive GPS signals even all the way down at -125 dBm, which is WAY less than your phone receives in interference from random radio stations and faulty LED bulbs nearby.

The tech used to receive Voyager signals is not really different, just more sensitive and sophisticated (and expensive).
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