skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hydropower is so abundant

Almost all of our current hydropower is based on damns made of concrete. Creating the cement for that is very energy intensive. Also turbines and generators are made of metals which require a lot of energy to melt.

Probably you can bootstrap a waterpower based industry somehow without fossil fuels but it is not trivial.

The other thing is that each incremental step in such a process has to provide some benefit to the participants. For example you are not going to have generators without readily available good quality copper wire, but bootstrapping a copper refining and wire making industry without fossil fuels is very hard. Those people need to see a reason for doing it in a world where there is no electricity yet therefore there is very little need for said copper wires.
That’s a good point. I remember in elementary school, our librarians were teaching us how to find information online using some really technical search engine. Maybe called like jstor or something else? They hated google and said you can’t properly filter with it the way you could with theirs. But years later I obviously never heard of the previous one again and used google regularly
Not even true next door in Canada. Don't know why so many are in love with the phrase "every other country" to attack the US when it only serves to destroy their credibility.
Happy chimera user here. It feels fast in regular usage though I use ssh much more than desktop.

What’s actually amazing about chimera is the musl + clang/llvm/compiler-rt combination. It allows you to do all kinds of amazing things easily from a programming perspective.

The apk 3 package manager, build system (cbuild) is also excellent. Everything feels modern and clean. Package availability is still limited and you would probably need to compile many of your favourite packages from source but I would still highly recommend this distribution.
> Democrats would likely become more left wing

Is this supposed to be a good thing?
The core would use cache near it? Memory access delay such as caches is not considered part of cpu frequency either afaik.
Sounds like a thing Reddit would know what to do with ;-)
As soon as coins appear in a geologic stata they become the most common archaeological artifacts found from humans, and at this point we've got hundreds of billions of them spread all over the globe with many becoming lost in spots where even if they were submerged in water, they could easily still remain intact for hundreds of millions of years. Not all coins are inert, but many are, and many really are going to stick around millions of years. While volcanic heat and pressure can mangle inert metals, not many other natural processes will. There's no magical entropy that would cause inert artifacts in geologically stable areas that some coins would wind up in to just lose their form magically. In our world today there's a lot of stainless steel, gold, and other inert artifacts that are going to persist for hundreds of millions of years. It's not like there's volcanoes everywhere, nor do tectonic plates subsume everything - we've got Cambrian fossils after all...
There's a great article from the NYT several years ago that discusses this, among other fascinating insights related to the development of the iPhone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s...
they do though, just not in the way you think; in general chimera is designed so that whatever you install from the repositories, it'll yield a working out of the box configuration

you want a desktop? you install it and it works; there is no (mandatory) tinkering with getting dbus, audio, wifi/bluetooth, or whatever else to work - most importantly things are set up in a way that installs are consistently deterministic and auditable (there is no reliance on complicated shell hooks or anything of the sort to do any kind of "fixups", most packages consist solely of extraction)

sure, when you involve third party shell scripts or whatever, there is a chance you'll run into compatibility troubles, but perhaps not as often as you think either
Has anyone actually tried the network multiplayer? I won't have a chance to try this out for a while, but if there is now a great way for me to play actual commander with the MTGA rules engine (for speed and accuracy) with friends I would love this so much. Can anyone share their experiences?
There does seem to be some mechanism at work that creates a stable 49/51 vote split. My theory is that this is somehow related to maximizing the income of the professionals who work in politics. Fall off that cusp and it's less easy to raise funds and hence...no new boat this year.
Respectfully: so what? Wait until you find out how old fsck is: http://mbzz.de/unix/ultrix/_root/fsck.pdf

The obsession with recency is easily my least favorite HN cultural norm.
NTFS works on all platforms: with VFAT, it's the lowest common denominator between Windows, Linux, Mac (even if was read-only on mac the last time I checked) and far more resistant to damage than ExFAT.

Like you, I also hate grub and prefer UKIs, but grub2filemanager is just a list to pick ISOs like in Ventoy, so I'm fine with it!

To do the job, grub only needs to show me the list of files and read the ISO file when I select it.

There's no need for a write access, so no need for ext4 - also, if I was using ext4, I couldn't see the files or add new ones from Windows

I can use the same partition as the Windows recovery partition (where .wim files are stored) - this is a dirtier trick, but a Windows recovery partition is needed to boot Windows with Bitlocker, so why not put it to a good use and keep other files?

It's a "special" partition so I can be sure Windows won't touch them and won't easily let the partition be mounted (or formatted by accident)

Overall, it's easier for me to keep this same standard partition scheme everywhere (efi=part1, msr=part2, ntfs=part3, regular OS=part4+) as it's peanuts (even with a 1G EFI and a 10G NTFS) in comparison to the comfort it provides
I've never done this in China, but I've done it in Vietnam (before I learned more of the language) and in Japan.

It is surprising how much you can communicate by drawing circuit diagrams, sketches of oscilloscope traces, and equations! It works quite well!

However one problem I encountered was that many (maybe most) vendors were not engineers and had no understanding of the parts sold. They just knew the name of the parts they had in stock, and how much they could sell them for, and that's it. Often they weren't even being paid -- it's a family business and they were just the niece or nephew that got roped in to vaguely watching the store while playing games on their phone.

This was much more of an issue in Vietnam (Nhat Tao market) than in Tokyo (Tokyo Radio tower). In the latter there appeared to be quite a few retired engineers who were quite enthusiastic to meet someone who was looking for something specific. It was pretty neat, and I occasionally encountered someone with a wealth of knowledge!
I find it hard to trust a tutorial that tells me forking curl is an exemplary way to interact with a local restful API in Python.
> This article originally appeared on 09.08.17
I think you should add some more screenshots or a small video showing how it works, so people can see without downloading.
> store-store dependency

You can make it an exchange rather than a plain store. Questionably worthwhile but you can do it. swp is only 3 cycles on firestorm https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm-int.html
Not just # of atoms?
Trigger warning: Website overrides browser scroll behavior.
> According to the article, they're moving people to IPP (the protocol CUPS uses)

I'd hate to spoil your revisionist history, but Windows has supported IPP out of the box since Windows 2000 (in 1999), right around the same time CUPS had its very first release.

CUPS did not invent IPP.

What eventually became IPP was initially proposed by Novell ('memba them?) back in 1996.

The difference is Windows already had this entire ecosystem of legacy print drivers whereas Linux had barely-functioning print services at the time. It's easier to move to something new when you can scrap the past wholesale.

It's amazing that Linux (and Mac and Solaris etc.) having decent printing is largely because of the work of one guy.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter has mapped the lunar surface to, best as I can tell from a quick search, about 1m resolution. So I think a reasonably sized stele or 2001-style monolith would probably have been discoverable at our current tech level.
what is non-GNU?
Ad Industry Wants U.S. FCC to Avoid Broadband Privacy Rules
I think the two existing replies misunderstood your question, but it's a good one. Which is to say, I don't know the answer but I feel like I should!

I'll take a guess.

There are large gaps between good RSA keys. 100 may be a valid key and 138, but not anything in between. Or, well, they're valid but they're trivially broken by having a divisor other than 1, itself, and the huge prime factors (the example of 100 and 138 are not good keys for exactly that reason; finding secure keys is left as an...). That's why we need RSA keys that are more than 256 bits in length: the key space is sparse and an attacker can, with some amount of efficiency, skip over the gaps. (This is all from years-old memories of how RSA works, don't take this for absolute certainty.)

What I'm guessing the answer to your question is, is this: it must be inefficient to reconstruct the key from an indexed form (e.g.: the first good key (100) has index 1, the second good key (138) index 2, etc.) without spending computational power disproportionate to the amount of extra resources that storing/transmitting the full key takes.

Now that I read the other answers again, maybe that's what Dylan meant, but to me that answer seems wrong because the public key is argued to not be uniformly random and that's precisely what compression algorithms are able/made to deal with. Perhaps not as efficiently as indexing can, but still. You wouldn't need to apply it to the prime factors or private key (doing that would, as they say, leak information), just the public part which people were saying is not fully random.
Average life expectancy is 20 years, so 70 years is amazing!
If it's simple enough, I'll embed a Mermaid diagram into a Markdown file committed with the change.
I prefer having cheap cards. You are paying for the experience not the cards when you draft.

What I don’t like is wotc printing new powerful cards in non-standard sets. Modern horizons, commander sets, etc print absolutely must play busted cards but the sets are limited print quantity and artificially scarce.

If it was up to me all new cards would be printed in standard sets and supplemental sets are reprints only.

2016 magic was nice because you could play reserved list cards without having to sell a kidney…
This is one of the few times I would argue you're offering an unreasonably charitable interpretation.

It reads like a textbook strawman. Asimov's certainty on us 'finally' getting things, more or less, right was challenged. He then strawmans that into somebody claiming there is no such thing as being right, as the future might discover your views flawed. Asimov then procedes to tear down the strawman which he built, with a more than healthy serving of thinly veiled ad hominem and other fallacies enjoined alongside.

I suspect this is why our original poster linked to that 5 page essay instead of paraphrasing what he found so compelling. Argumentative fallacies can give the perception of being right, and even insightful. But in hindsight, it's difficult to say why or how.
Reminds me a bit of what I once made: doodledocs. It's offline, but the idea was to built a collaborative space for styluses that were pressure sensitive. I was also using the idea of the web as "remixable" and more as a document. Annotating the web with a stylus :)

It was a show HN at one point but it never really got traction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhrNl-fRrC8

https://github.com/melvinroest/doodledocs
CogAgent-18B – visual-based GUI Agent capabilities
Running mixtral on an 32gb M3 Max is surprisingly hard on LM Studio... turning on "Apple Metal" mode just crashes it. It takes about 10 minutes to load otherwise into memory, and inference is super slow.

Anyone got suggestions? Would love for it to run summarization over GBs of ncbi data.
But without coal you quickly run out of forest. I mean, England did, and they were coal rich!
I've got a 3.xBIL model running on a 8GB version which is fine-tuned to be better than 13BIL models; heres how I did it: https://christiaanse.ca/posts/running_llm/
The problem with todo apps for procrastinators is that they forget or procrastinate on using a todo app to assist in their procrastination.
the point with "just working" applies to what the system ships, obviously third party whatever is outside of our control

the system aims to have high quality packaging that results in a system that is consistently deterministic and auditable, while indeed making things just work (no extra effort beyond just installation required to get any software the system ships to work - on any CPU architecture it supports) - you can bootstrap a fully working system pretty much just by installing a single metapackage + a kernel in a root (and then refreshing the bootloader)
Wow that's incredible. And legit too. I was reading through issues on llama-cpp about implementing memory swapping so I didn't think it had been done.

Thanks!
This matches everything I’ve ever heard, some of which certainly comes from that article.

I don’t see that there’s actually anything new here. And I would say faking the signal bars is the least interesting part of it all.
Thank you! Would you be more open to using it if the code was fully open source?
Do you need to use Mixtral? The typical quantized Mistral 7B and similar models can do summarization fine.
We have fossils from the Cambrian period ~500 million years ago that include many traces of holes from burrowing animals. We've identified animals from ~500 million leaving many different kinds of traces as well as from fossils. 500 million years from now humans will have left many remaining traces. While older fossils are rare and precious, there's no generalized entropy that just destroys all old things (until there's a supernova/mega-meteor/etc., eventually the planet will be gone with enough time). In the right conditions much can be preserved for hundreds of millions of years. Many human artifacts like gold and other inert metal tools will be around besides the many physical changes we've made across the surface of the Earth.
So your point is that the v types of behavior displayed by Darwin Awards have the potential to be widely remunerated by society one day? So, things like pointing a gun at your head and pulling the trigger to prove that it’s loaded? I guess I’m not quite as cynical about society and classify those as not just differences in degree, but also differences in type.
There are many encouraging published studies.

Europe: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

US: https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/publications/published-...
I have been trying it with WebStorm. Pretty solid. The autocomplete is a little more accurate compared to Copilot. Not a fan of the chat and the fact that the VS Code extension has more features but whatever it's free for now.
First, the DNSSec keys are TOFU so only the first connection is attack-able by someone in control of DNS zone root keys, and any other connections set off alarm bells.

Second, DNS lets you connect to someone else's host and get their public key without needing to find their (not your) CA.

Third, if you're not entering IP addresses by hand DNS forms some part of your systems trust no matter what you do. You're free to pin a domain's DNSSec KSK if you're very worried about someone in control of the whole Internet using that control to trick your first SSH connections.
They can outsource their API requests to third party “AI startup” who proxy their requests to OpenAI for a small fee
I’m worried about others in my vicinity committing crimes.

Should I leave my phone at home whenever I get a spidy sense that a criminal will be crime-ing within a 100 yards of me?
Google Kythe
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/55461/what-wou...
> Compared to that, I think formatting another partition to install ventoy to (in the use case you're outlining), or updating a grub config with code like `loopback loop (hd0,5)`.. for me, these take more effort and care.

The other partition with the ISOs is not for when I plan to boot into a newer live ISO (which I would have to add to the partition etc): it's for when I don't plan to, or even want to!!

The last time it helped me, I had made a configuration mistake on my laptop in an airport. "grab a spare thumbdrive, and install ventoy to that" would have been very painful, but rebooting and selecting from the UEFI grub2fm to then pick an ISO from which I could fix my mistakes was very easy (or at least, easier than the alternative!)

However TBH I I hadn't had such a setup, I don't think I'd have taken the risk of doing some configuration and UKI tweaks at the airport while bored :)
Good point, I had glossed over the title. That is definitely clickbait, “life-sparking” is not the same as “potential life precursor”. The rest of the article seems unusually restrained, though.
curl is the default method for a lot of simple AI API tutorials, unfortunately, although running a curl command in Python is a new one.

It's very easy to port it to Python requests or a similar HTTP library, at the least.
Jump to heading for benchmarks and examples: https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file...
Early Ironworks couldn’t use coal due to suffer issues, the US didn’t swap until 1827 long after the Industrial Revolution kicked off. Also, we’ve used a relatively small fraction of the worlds coal supply, so there’s little reason to assume a prior civilization would have used it up either.

A large fraction of the early/mid Industrial Revolution was powered by hydro/wood. Abundant rainfall is why so much industry ended up in the north eastern US and England. Efficient motors was more a result of a scientific and industrial innovation rather than the cause of such.

So suggesting Ironworks as a major obstacle doesn’t really stand up.
> Imagine you own a gas station. Your actual cost to fill your tanks is some multiple of the price you can charge per gallon. Requiring 10 cent-rounded prices kneecaps your ability to efficiently price your product.

This is… already the situation?

Most gas stations where I am are pricing their product in thousands of a cent and rounding the total off to the nearest cent when it’s time to pay.

We got rid of the penny a decade ago in Canada. It just means that for cash transactions the gas station rounds off to the nearest five cents instead. The most they can “lose” is two cents _on the total transaction_. Hardly seems different than losing several tenths of a cent on some transactions (as they already were) in aggregate.
Not settled

> ruling issued today by Utah's state Supreme Court

It would take a US Supreme Court ruling. Apparently a few states have ruled in different directions in different circumstances.
Unless you can use an off the shelf http client to make ssh connections I can’t think of a benefit for using http headers vs non-http key value pairs.
Recently I made a script that allows to save the recent history of my Apple Notes. The reason I wanted this is because I wanted a "back button" in Apple Notes and it wasn't there. I figured, if I'd have my 25 most recent Apple Notes in a history somewhere stored in a file, then I can just look the note up. I also created a Sublime Text extension that when I click on the generated URL, it opens Safari which opens Apple Notes on the right note.

I'm scrambling to make a Github repo out of this as some others might want to adapt this for their own needs. Creating a public facing project out of it, even as small as this is taking some time. Anyway, the project will be up here in an hour or two :) [1]

[1] https://github.com/melvinroest/apple-notes-history
This was true before digital switches were ubiquitous. To trace a call that was routed through mechanical switches, actual people would have to spring into action and actually trace the circuit through the selectors and trunks and whatnot.

A surprising number of places were still served by these ancient switches into the late 80s. Maybe even early 90s?
England ran out of Land not forests. They set aside large tracts of land for growing wood starting in the Middle Ages because having wood was useful both as a construction material and for burning.

Critically, you can move wood long distances so running out locally isn’t an major issue as long as you don’t run out globally.
Old versions of FF on android supported EVERY extension from their store imagineable
> I don’t see that there’s actually anything new here.

It's a Yahoo article
The War is over. It had been for about a year now.

US and Europe won (crippled Russia without loosing single soldier and spending just a bit of money).

Russia lost (diminishing industrial base and costly hot border for years to come).

Ukraine lost even more (population halved to 24 mil, with terrible demographics, diminished tax base).

So the West can safely lose interest in Ukraine now…
See [1]. Essentially the programs which most Linux distributions come with are provided by the GNU project, especially basic infrastructure stuff. Stuff like sed, less, awk, etc.

However these programs have cousins in stuff like BSD or Busybox, which implement similar functionality, but have a mostly, or completely separate codebase, and some differences in what they can do and how you make them do it, with a common user-facing one being differences in the command line flags available, and precisely how they behave.

In this case, Chimera uses a mix of stuff from FreeBSD and elsewhere, and also uses an alternative toolchain for compiling C, called musl, which is not glibc (glibc being a GNU project).

Since Linux distributions that use GNU are almost the universal rule, distros like this describe themsekves as "non-GNU".

https://chimera-linux.org/about/#alternative-userland
Running out of depths to plumb, advertising-wise, really.

But there’s one more step. Give it a month, and all the ads will be for ElonFans.
great! we haven't had a dollar coin released in a while, let's deprecate the penny and put Lincoln on a dollar coin! he can be featured as part of a rotation of existing dollar coins over the next several years as we get them back into circulation.
Just need to install the Resolve.app in conjunction with NowDo.app ;)
I should update this to say it is alive but unwell - text-based Usenet is apparently now mostly relegated to cranks who get banned everywhere else, as well as discussion of the Usenet system itself. However, there are several providers (not just E-S), and it's beginning to enjoy a little resurgence in 2023 due to what's been happening in the social media sphere. I encourage everyone to try it out. I made an account on E-S using my email address, and connected with Thunderbird.
Have you considered that things are complicated enough now it can't be boiled down to single number comparisons?
Doesn't MCTS imply that you'd have to generate a whole tree of tokens? Instead of maybe a 200 token response, you'd have to generate several thousand tokens as you explore the tree?