skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvme to usb enclosures can work great, but can also be dodgy to work with. I personally find SATA enclosures more reliable overall, as they are less demanding

There are a few issues at play:

1. Power supply issues: the power demands of your mix of enclosure and drive may not be satisfied by your USB port(s), which can vary wildly in capability, and over time.

2. The controller within the enclosure can overheat under load. This seems to happen across many enclosures I’ve tried. Larger enclosures may allow for attaching a tiny heatsink.

3. NVMe drives may not gracefully handle sudden disconnections. USB connections are inherently unreliable interfaces prone to physical disruption and loss of power, which will multiply against any normally hidden non-resiliance in the nvme drive.

If your drive decides to stop showing up, first try loading up the boot device selection screen in the UEFI, and then insert the drive. It may take several seconds to show up. If trying that a few times doesn’t work, the drive may be stuck in some kind of bad state. You may be able to recover from this with the unfortunately poorly known power cycle technique https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/

The technique summarized is:

1. Connect to power (not data) only. Alternatively letting the drive sit at bios setup screen also seems to work. Turn on the power and leave the power on for 30 minutes.

2. After 30 minutes, power down or pull the power cable.

3. Wait 30 seconds, then restore power.

4. Let the drive sit powered on for another 30 minutes.

5. Power down again, then wait 30 seconds.

Always set up automatic backups if you actually have non-replaceable data on the drive. They can and will just suddenly die forever with loss of all data, just like thumb drives. You have been warned.

All that said, there are generally less issues if you are simply putting ventoy on it to just install an OS from an iso.

I have a dual raid1 sata enclosure that I use to boot a windows to go install created with Rufus (https://github.com/pbatard/rufus), which makes testing and benchmarking so much nicer to deal with. I’ve even stuck games on it, and other than relative filesystem slowness it works pretty great, once I added a heatsink to the enclosure controller.
How are we going to order our society when none of us can compete with machines? It used to be that everyone could contribute something- even grandma could churn butter and dullards could pull a plow. But technology has made it so that only a few people can really contribute anymore. Most people's labor just isn't that valuable anymore, relative to the machines. We have the tech to live to 100 but no clear way, or reason, to afford it. It all points to a coming crisis point when we must radically alter the social contract.
I came to say something similar, though I would use:

while (1) {
...
if (!n) {
...
return 1 - ab * rsqrt_a2 * rsqrt_b2;
}
}

Also, the "So let’s use the common Pythonic zip idiom:" version is missing the sqrt calls so doesn't give the same answer as the first version.
I always felt like the Aztek looked like the prototype of every generic crossover that came after it. Not good, but not terrible either. Just...there.

Given that, I particularly appreciated this article's detailed breakdown explaining why the car's appearance and proportions didn't work from a design perspective.
The Anarchist Cookbook – How to Make LSD and Explosives
It does feel like putting tech into everything was novel (Cars becoming iPads with 4 wheels) and at some point the scales tipped into mechanical things with the least tech in them are novel (Mechanical watches[1], manual transmissions, typewriters, developing film, INS[2]).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Speedmaster

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Ove...
Such a great contribution to OSS :)

How does mani-diffy fare against its counterparts in the wild?
You don't need AGI for that, you just need a decent system designed for your needs rather than the competing needs of many vendors, including advertisers, for your dollar/attention.

Maybe that will come after the AGI fucks off :-)
Based on that logic, why did the LLVM community develop Clang, Clang++, libc++, etc. instead of continuing with DragonEgg? There already were GCC, G++, libstdc++ , as well as EDG C++ front-end.

GCC, Clang, MSVC, and other compilers complement each other, serve different purposes, and serve different markets. They also ensure that the language is robust and conforms to a specification, not whatever quirks a single implementation happens to provide. And multiple implementations avoids the dangers of relying on a single implementation, which could have future problems with security, governance, etc.

The GNU Toolchain Project, the LLVM Project, the Rust project all have experienced issues and it's good to not rely on a single point of failure. Redundancy and anti-fragility is your friend.
Seeing the ENIAC and EDSAC in operation, meeting Von Neumann and Turing would have been appealing, but that's about it. And those things were accessible to only a select few privileged individuals.
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I 100% agree. That space needs competition and alternatives to the Adobe monopoly.
It all hinges on how the government is planning to handle mass unemployment.

If they're just going to be sending out a $1,200 check once a year, then yeah, things are gonna burn.
If you read the article, this take actually is not true if you have a grid powered fully by renewables. It only makes sense when you have a hybrid grid where baseload is powered by fossil fuels and the arbitrage difference makes desal attractive. Note that a nuclear grid doesn’t have this problem & it has enough capacity to reliably power everything + continuously run desal. To run desal off of solar requires a much larger capacity installed because you have to make up the lack of 24/7 operation with excess capacity whereas something like nuclear can make up the production gap due to smaller excess capacity by running 24/7.
Imagine if we had the same enthusiasm about increasing human intelligence.
> and the real dangers are quietly and thanklessly mitigated by more competent people.

With all your examples, the mitigations were not quiet at all.

- nuclear war, well, that one got resolved by an entire empire outright collapsing after engaging in a decades long financial war with both the USSR and the US spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

- Peak Oil was ... mitigated by making an example out of Iraq and Libya: don't fuck with our oil, or else. On top of that, governments (most notably the EU) instituted strict emissions controls, much to the chagrin of the car establishment.

- The ozone hole was mitigated by globally banning CFC gases, again much to the chagrin of the refrigerant industry.

- the Y2K problem was mitigated by investing 300 billion dollars in preparation efforts (updating and especially testing), and a further 308 billion dollars in remediation costs worldwide [2].

> Seems like "Climate Change" is on the way out

It's certainly not. The "war for attention" may be (as it's being replaced by the Russian War and now the I/P clusterfuck), but this year was among the hottest on historical record, and natural disaster severity and frequency keeps increasing.

Unfortunately, this time we can't trust that those in the background will continue to mitigate the problem of climate change. Germany is being politically ripped apart with the only thing keeping the country together being the knowledge of the coalition that a new election would see them replaced by a conservative "trickle down" moron and a ragtag band of Nazis. The Netherlands struggle with the fallout of a few court decisions impacting the agricultural sector. And in the US, Trump is looking to make a comeback, with his fanbase deeming climate change an outright hoax.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/935886/umfrag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Cost
It was wild seeing companies have their biggest stock jump ever simply by talking about crypto magic beans on an earnings call.
I think the transition is jarring for many people and while ultimately I think physical buttons are often better, I am the type that will gladly accept a little degradation in favor of progress and minimalism. I also think there's an extremely vocal minority that feels like no-buttons is backwards progress.

Note, this is not an excuse or justification for touchscreen-only interfaces, but my personal feelings towards the matter.

I have two Teslas and I have never found the touchscreen to be a problem when the "automatic" setting is GOOD. For example, I almost never touch the AC. I set it to the temperature I like and it keeps me comfortable during the entire ride.

However, when things like the automatic windshield wipers are bad (and they constantly fluctuate between disastrous and good enough between software updates), I get really frustrated because I have to tinker with the bullshit screen too much.

Personally, I think the end game is minimalist physical buttons (some multipurpose) + software that is actually good enough to not interact with the touchscreen very often. Most companies that aren't Tesla really struggle on the latter portion.4

After having these 2 cars for a couple of years, I find most cars extremely cluttered and almost claustrophobic. I really like how clean and simple the Tesla interior is. I hope we don't overcorrect back into the 2010s and even 80s style of "put a button right in front for EVERYTHING." But I do think there's a ton of room for healthy middle ground.
How is UBI funded? Is it significant taxes on corporate entities? And will adopting UBI be super challenging for a consumer economy like the US that depends so much on discretionary spending?
It does make sense in the web server context to optimize for memory first over compute. This could explain the dynamic you called out. Furthermore, the propensity for many popular gems to have native portions makes the trade off even more useful.

Regarding JIT being faster, types are the next effective tool IMO.

The two drivers I see are:

- JIT has more stack frames to optimize away, allowing more optimization - you addressed this one

- JIT has more information to limit possible outcomes, therefore finding more opportunities
Recent and related:

YJIT is the most memory-efficient Ruby JIT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265773 - Nov 2023 (29 comments)

Also:

Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579926 - Sept 2023 (154 comments)

Running Ruby 3.2's YJIT in Production at Discourse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35895309 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413012 - Jan 2023 (286 comments)

Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344065 - May 2022 (89 comments)

Ruby YJIT Ported to Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094130 - April 2022 (88 comments)

Rust YJIT is complete – it passes all the CRuby tests - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31090084 - April 2022 (1 comment)

Ruby: Porting YJIT to Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971360 - Jan 2022 (48 comments)

Benchmarking CRuby, MJIT, YJIT, JRuby, and TruffleRuby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29824076 - Jan 2022 (29 comments)

Merge YJIT: an in-process JIT compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28938446 - Oct 2021 (24 comments)

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28874283 - Oct 2021 (47 comments)

Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691048 - Sept 2021 (77 comments)

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371977 - June 2021 (1 comment)
I'll just link to my other answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688101

Your claim that it's not "possible" seems completely baseless and absurd to me
There's something to be said about philosophy of simplicity in C. However, C pretty clearly evolved into the opposite direction. This is nearly all due to compiler developers, and the fact that C has to cater to so many different hardware requirements.

Unlike C++, ISO C is nothing more than culmination of features that more than 1 compiler has implemented (and doesn't interrupt the compilation process of a micro-controller firmware that was released literally 40+ years ago). Anything else, is GNU C. And it is so incredibly complex and obtuse at times that clang still can't compile glibc after years of work.

Zig was not created with the same spirit that created and evolved C. Zig was created with the idea of a simple C, one that does not match reality, and frankly leans more on Go rather than C. Zig, Odin, V, nearly all these better-C languages are more inspired by Go itself, than what C actually is. What they want from C is just the performance; that's why they're so focused on manual memory management one way or another.
Most innovations to make things easier/more automated have caused humanity to work harder and longer. It would be quite humane if AI allows us to finally do the opposite but I don’t think that will be the case; The new level of productivity is often just the new baseline that competitors have to meet.

Someone still has to run the AI. It will be a while before AI can fully reproduce and improve itself, especially throughout the whole supply chain, which means humans still need to be in the loop for that. “Smarter” or not, AI will be symbiotic with humanity for a very long time to come.
The obvious answer is to just let the LLM boostrap use better abstractions.
For me, "I press the button and it does what I wanted" is both minimalist and elegant. Form must follow function.
The funny thing is I'm being compelled to invest my own savings (taxes) to fund R&D that is then patentable. It would be a huge improvement to directly pick what I'm subsidizing, and actually get to read the results I've paid for.

Capitalism is a few centuries old. Statistically speaking it's most likely not the economic system we end up with forever. Optimizing for innovation under that constraint only seems premature. To channel Le Guin:

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
Sure it's strange, but I guess the difference is nobody has ever been a comic book or anime character, but plenty of people lived in the 1940s.
Only because you have to overbuild more solar capacity than you need to with nuclear/hydro/fossil fuel plants which have a more reliable method of operation.
Whoever is dumb enough to invest in a company that hasn’t even bothered to come up with their own company name, but just copied the name of the current most hyped competitor in their category, deserves to lose their money.
If Figma agrees that it satisfies the debt, why not?
This is the first time I ever saw a scientist say something positive about peer review
If AI unquestionably surpasses human intellect, then certainly any idea of a meritocracy goes right out the door.

If a business owner claims they succeeded by being smart and working hard, well, any common AI works smarter, and manual laborers work harder.
> If you want to do anything more complex than transfering text and images you'll need to trust a lot of things

Yes, exactly; that's why I wish the web were still based on the transfer of text and images.
Url changed from https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-cyrus-cylinder, which points to this.
You can work on multiple problems at once.

And this problem is actually just multiple smaller problems, that are actually an issue in society today, that also need to be solved.
A few points...

By all accounts it is essentially a subway with smaller cars that is more point to point, which would seem to be more efficient. There were proposals, bids, and open reviews. They decided to buy more after seeing the first ones.

How's that new subway line going in NYC? Has it finished yet? When I lived there in '08 they were just starting it and last I heard it was not nearing completion, but I ha ent heard in a few years

A Tesla owner cannot drive their car into it afaict, so the headline is designed to be click bait

This guy is a Boring company nerd and has documented it all in detail: https://youtube.com/@BoringRevolution?si=bk90-9f2xBzCUsUJ
About CDs being "nicer tech", even quite a few people growing up in the CD era disagree with that. Vinyl is more tactile, has bigger album covers, demands more focus in the music (like how it takes more effort to skip). CDs are like an awkward in-between phase between vinyl and downloads/streaming.

Besides it's absolutely not vinyl VOCs that will get you. Compared with health low hanging fruit, from diet and exercize, to stress, bad sleep, to BS substances in modern industrial food and city air pollution, it's beyond insignificant.
I completely agree with you about 'vegan purity'.

Making people abstain from meat completely will turn people into the meat-eating equivalent of alcoholics. I bring up the comparison because sobriety is contingent on a period of continued abstinence along with veganism or vegetarianism. You will be mocked if you called yourself vegan and ate meat a few times a month, as you would be mocked if you called yourself sober and drank a few times a month.

Many people look at a lifetime of denying themselves a basic pleasure and rightly balk at the prospect and put it off to some distant 'later' or create a rationalization for why they don't need to do it. This wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem if we quit using absolutist terms like 'vegan' and instead came up with a way to make it a moral issue to acknowledge the problems associated with meat consumption without shaming those who limit it but do not abstain from it.

Basically -- advocating that the solution is a 'vegan' one is probably not going to work, and if it does it will create (at least initially) a population of guilt-ridden people and an associated culture of shame. Let's think of a better way to do it.
I think it is definitely easy enough, but it's just not as intrinsically addictive.
UEFI seems hard, because there's no standardized way to boot ISO files, and memdisk from syslinux doesn't work in UEFI. With memdisk, the OS kernel could (if properly written) hook into the loaded image, and mount that as well.

Without that support, you have to take apart ISO files to netboot them, and your PXE environment needs to understand the various kernels and how to boot them, and how to provide modules / filesystem images.

It's a big pain.
Thanks. Yeah I suspected as much, but the title of the HN submission being what it is...
NoScript baby.
Ah, same here. Have been itching to make some use of those local llms for some time, always ending up in chatgpt as well.

Although for those napkin like ideas gpt4 (including the turbo variant) get costly quickly.
The US are allies with Ukraine. If they don’t support them it sends a very serious message to Japan, Taiwan, Australia that it’s probably better to start siding with the CCp ?
These are all semantic ontological questions which are worth thinking about. What would it mean that "time exists" vs. "time does not exist"? What would be some consequences of time existing or not?

I tend to take a practical viewpoint: I can travel thousand years into the future of our planet by moving fast enough in space and coming back. Time-travel into the future works. Whether that means that "time exists" or not, I don't really care because I can't see practical consequences of that. What would be some verifiable consequences of time existing, or not?
(I’m a UX engineer but not at Spotify)

It’s always been wild to me how incongruous / inconsistent the experience of using Spotify’s web/ios/android apps have been. It points to an organizational mess rather than a Figma mess, but maybe it also shows that Figma doesn’t address the entire picture yet of addressing org level communication and syncing with prod assets
Sounds like you might have the problem here if you think you can determine someone is acting schizophrenic via internet comments. The person I am replying to is suffering from confirmation bias about their belief in confirmation bias.
So your argument is basically, "touchscreens are OK as long as I don't have to actually use them"? And I don't get your argument about degradation in favour of progress -- progress towards what, exactly?
The BBC misspelled LARP.
It's getting closer, and well, what matters is price points and what, billions of people crunching away on the various problems.

There's huge momentum on the "user" side of the equation that just getting cheap hardware and passable performance means Nvidia losing dominance.
Oh, it's not so bad that I would not consider buying the car (like we did with VW). Day-to-day it's not a huge deal. If the auto-climate is already set to what you like, then you just hit the clearly-labelled, but-still-capacitive, "climate" button and you're done. And the voice control actually...works; what will they think of next? :-)

But it certainly could be better.
It's hard to believe that the reviewers misunderstood the examples. It's more likely that the surrounding text was badly written, and the reviewers had no idea what they should be looking at.
Well said. Ok
As if the average zoomer has any more technical knowledge beyond using their smartphone to scroll through social media than the average boomer.
Our family bought an Aztek. It was honestly one of my favorite vehicles that we ever owned. Yes, the exterior, which is all this article manages to focus on, was goofy as all hell.

On the other hand, the interior design size and the overall utility of the vehicle in it's medium sized package was amazing. You could fit tons of cargo in there or throw an air mattress in the back and go tailgate camping very comfortably. It handled less than average in the dirt, but with good winter tires, it was more than capable of dealing with northern Minnesota winters.

We drove that car until it died. I still miss it sometimes. Who cares how the tailgate looked?
Nah mate, you’ve got to be realistic. No human will ever accept a downward adjustment.

Plus, meeting in the middle is even less sustainable than the current situation.

The options are:

- Dramatically less (like prehistoric levels)

- Dramatically more (star trek)
Which society? 34% of world’s population hasn’t even got Internet access
Here is the linked meme from the article:

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-releases-unruly-passenger-h...
You can get a consumer laptop with AI: https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-7840hs

The thing AMD doesn't have is the software stack.
fly.io employee here, it's basically an adaptor from the Kubernetes world of YAML to the fly.io world of Machines. How could we have framed it better so that it was more clear?
Citation needed. If that were the case, meme stocks would have been embraced by Wall St instead of heavily shorted (IIRC BB & B was) because a pump and dump doesn't in fact materially improve the underlying business.
as the father of a teenager and a former teenager myself, teens are strange in many many ways. This is about as harmless as it comes though.
How can you say that with a straight face? There are something like 2 billion Muslims compared to a few million Jews in the entire world.

You can very easily go on twitter yourself and see how much louder the blatantly anti-Israel voices are compared to your antisemitic claims of “zionists”

Can’t roll my eyes hard enough
Most of them are in mental institutions, loving their lives and blissfully ignorant that the BBC even exists.
Internet Archive appeals, says judge Koeltl "misapplied the fair use factors"
Tesla confirms wireless inductive electric car home charger is coming
Does Gemini[0] look interesting to you?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)