skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobbyists may engage in PR activity, but that does not make PR activity lobbying.

Lobbying has a pretty clear definition which you are trying to stretch here.

Let me put it this way: Airing an ad about a government rep or piece of legislation is PR or advertising. Using the threat or promise of airing that ad to try to talk a politician into doing something is lobbying.
Thank you for the feedback. Of course, it's AI-based. I have a cron job to check for new content every hour, but it generates articles only when there is some discussion going on.
The original bacteria that were engulfed to become mitochondria are the "alternative route". It's clearly possible for a cell to have oxygen metabolism on its own because that's how we got here. So the question is, is endosymbiosis the only way to integrate that with a large, complex cell? When you phrase it that way, it should be clear which way the odds lie.

But yes, "worship" is not quite the right word for whatever obsession it is that people have with mitochondria.
Another bitter lesson? http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
But you don't need to horizontally scale if you use a beefy Postgres instance. Horizontal scaling is a problem created by using an inefficient DB in the first place.
The numbers Tether produces don't really make sense. They're widely assumed to be massively fraudulent - although we can't prove this without being able to audit them. And of course their keep pushing back on attempts to do so [1], which pretty much confirms the assumption.

[1] https://blockworks.co/news/tether-pushes-back-timeline-on-au...
Copper is more corrosion resistant than iron. Cast iron and galvanized pipes are usually swapped out for copper or plastic.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/plumbing/reviews/types-of-plumb...
Outside of hardware/implementation optimizations, and position embedding choice - has the SOTA transformer architecture evolved that much?

Llama-2 code appears to be about the same as gpt-2.
Best bet I can think of would be to mass produce something that ~doesn't decompose and spread a bunch everywhere so at least one will be found.

Something like diamond plaques with writing on them, maybe just reuse what we put on Voyager but in different materials.

I bet there's a better material than diamond, not sure what though. You'd want something that lasts, but not something that can be reused. Eg don't use gold, someone will melt it down later...
> Perhaps unusually, the authors of this paper are not convinced of the correctness of their proposed hypothesis.

A refreshing conclusion to an academic paper, and beats the hell out of "further study is needed."
It is. But you need to connect these addresses to people and events. That might be feasible if you are the USA and can pressure poeple/companies. But most other countries/jurisdiction don’t even have the technical capacity to do such a thing.
> I'll also assert with no evidence that it is generally harder for an English speaking engineer to successfully communicate a technical idea into business speak for English speaking VC investors than it is for an English speaking engineer to communicate a request to buy a specific part to a Mandarin speaking engineer

sounds like a fun challange, probably true
We (former startup) hired a deaf intern. Whole company went through training.
This isn’t about cloning an image, it’s the full running VM state, including memory.
"Has a clear core of acceptance" might be another big qualifier.

For all meaningful fiat currencies, there's at least a moderately sized, easily definable, reasonably contiguous market that will accept the currency without a hassle. Even a stack of 5000KPW notes, you could take them to a shopping centre somewhere and spend them, although that shopping centre is in Pyongyang.

Conversely, Bitcoin acceptance tends to be a few random scattered vendors, and technical obstacles (poor connectivity) make it harder still. Even in El Salvador, despite their attempts to make it a legal tender, you're not going to be able to reliably and seamlessly spend Bitcoin.
It's best not to ask, or to worry about it.
I don’t think it’s possible to determine if a decision like this is a good one without working at the company. News articles like this are useless.
in Europe, many penny machines now simply aak for a euro or 1.5 euro, and press a copper blank from an internal cassette.
'Hallucinate' Is Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2023
Could probably go even faster burning GPT-4's weights right into the silicon. No need to even load weights into memory.

Granted, that eliminates the ability to update the model. But if you already have a model you like that's not a problem.
Light travels at one foot per nanosecond. So a processor one foot wide you'd expect to run at 1 GHz max.
Maude you have JS disabled? It’s one of those fancy animations as you scroll websites.
200ms is enough for an RTT from Boston-Auckland-Boston. S3 is slow. You’re single digit milliseconds from us-east-1 under optimal conditions.
What you say is true, but thinking of ourselves as the only life feels like hubris. It reminds me of geocentrism.
There is something of a mystical quality to what the DeepMind scientists are claiming: that the LLM managed to — just maybe — think for itself.

Uh oh
I once made a bot to reserve a place at NoMa (a restaurant). Someone I knew wanted to go there and told me if I was able to make a reservation then he'd invite me with him.

It was a wonderful time. It was also a fun one-off to make.
Not too long ago nanometer was made up.
It has helped me so many times I now automatically provision at least 10G of every drive for a NTFS partition right after the EFI. 10G is small enough it won't be missed (even on the old 128G SSD I sometimes have to use) but big enough to hold 2 regular ISOs.

I also leave inside a few basic scripts to add grub2-filemanager to the UEFI boot at the bottom of the list (after the regular UKIs) and a few static binaries for rescues.

I'm now moving my binaries to cosmopolitan, mostly to make it easier to have their configuration file follow: cosmopolitan binaries have a /zip part where you can stuff say bashrc, which will be automatically used by the cosmopolitan bash if compiled with the right option to check /zip for config files.

When I'm done, my "rescue" NTFS partitions should only contain a handful of files (mostly ISOs and cosmopolitan binaries)
Google mitigated it via CSP , as did Bing Chat.

ChatGPT is still vulnerable btw
The website doesn't really give the impression that it intends to be a mainstream OS. Marketing seems to be "lightweight hacker distro using musl, but simpler than the others in the same category".

I wish Linux distributions could advertise to existing Linux users without inadvertently causing this sort of confusion among the non-Linux tech media. Many Linux users don't want the OS to take off, because things will get materially worse in many regards if it gets popular. You often only find the new users and tech media theorizing about the 'year of the Linux desktop', or about Linux's product weaknesses in the narrow lens of comparing it to Windows.

Fedora is able to balance this public image issue fairly well. In their landing page, they emphasize that it is for "developers and makers of all kinds". But because Fedora Workstation actually is fairly close to being an easy-for-all-users distro, in their "Is Fedora For Me" page, they have this paragraph that essentially explains that it might also be for non-developers as long as they are curious/enthusiastic about computers in general:

> The Fedora distribution is made for enthusiastic and curious computer users that like to learn and experience newer versions of software and therefore might not suit everyone. Although the Project works hard to make Fedora as usable as possible for the widest possible audience there are inherent limitations on how fast a new software can be translated, gain accessibility features, provide the most comprehensive documentation and guidance. If you on the other hand need a stable Linux distribution that supports even the latest hardware, are willing to put some effort to help the free and open source software (FOSS) community and file some bug reports this might be a perfect system for you!
I used to be a bit perturbed by the thought of living in an ancestor simulation, but then I figured if that's my reality, then I suppose it is what it is.

It seems like a long time since there have been any really game-changing breakthroughs in theoretical physics. I'd be a fool to say that that means that there aren't any more to be had, but it does seem more like we're just sort of fiddling around with a few refinements and there might not be anything huge left. As you say, maybe a greater intelligence than what we've got can figure it out, but that does go back to Fermi - if they could do amazing things like enclose a star or travel interstellar distances, then why haven't we seen them?

What if it's all just protons, neutrons, and electrons (and some other less important particles presumably) plus a bunch of energy out there? Would a super-intelligence really be interested in seeing more of them?
It's not exactly legal but you can download a libgen dump & Wikipedia (is legal, but less thorough), put it on such a drive, and then have a good proxy for all academic knowledge on your network — not bad.
I created a personal CRM web app for systematically keeping in touch with people. I am kinda bad at maintaining important relationships. So, this allowed me to keep in touch with lots of people.
The same culture of understatement is present in the UK, which is where Australia likely inherited it from.
A more sensible proposal than changing the calendar.

But consider base 12 has few advantages over base 6 but base6 greatly simplifies math since you only need to remember 24 entries for the commutative pair tables (multiplication)
> Manjaro developers just suck

This. They cant even be trusted to renew their certificate 4 times in a row. The level of incompetency reaches new highs.
Efficiency. Its always efficiency.
Renault Zoes look like regular cars too.
Not as big a factor as you'd think; Texas has lots of wind and solar. Florida just isn't a good place for infrastructure of that kind when 150 mph winds come through for a visit. Wind turbines, especially.

The parent poster's "I didn't see any driving around Florida" argument would also serve to disprove the existence of ski resorts.
it's okay, sometimes i also wish i was an attractive woman working in tech.

On other days I think again, and I don't. Most days i am not sure
Right, people predominantly buy bitcoin to speculate on it's future value, not to use as a medium of value exchange.
It's like conlanging but for math!
You can't be serious, Bitcoin Cash has been around for 10 years and is working great just like Satoshi design.
Privacy is a human^W^W an iPhone user right.
yes exactly what I meant
Not exactly idle but only at around 30% utilization on average (measured on a ~900 GPU cluster over ~25 days)
My guess it won’t. If you have been following the news, they are under a lot of scrutiny (usa/new york) that I doubt they are the disaster people think they are.

That and they are fully cooperating with regulators (ie: they have blacklist functionality in their smart contract)
> Secondly, they will not accept the diminished battery life associated with extra [charge]/discharge cycles.

For the correct price, a great many would. Once the batteries are too degraded for mobility use, they’re still often usable for fixed storage.
From memory, it was larger. From my vantage point it appeared to be a full size helicopter that could carry a pilot and co-pilot if there had been a cockpit. The shape was similar to the one in this article but from memory the underside was flatter instead of bulbous. I immediately went online once it was out of range and searched for anything about unmanned helicopters, drone helicopters, autonomous helicopter, etc and couldn't find anything that looked exactly like it though I did find a similar body on a Bell helicopter. I assumed it had to be one of theirs since they manufacture them about an hour more or less away from where I live.

There is a chance that it was closer in size to the one pictured in your article. If that were true and I had/have missed on my estimates of the range/altitude then the path it flew would have been following a high-voltage powerline path that was put in as they constructed this highway bypass following the same general path across the landscape. There are lots of things that I can be wrong about on any given day and this is certainly one of them.

If you work with Schiebel do you know what colors they use one theirs?

I just searched again and found several autonomous helicopters available now. I guess the technology moves quickly once you nail down the flight software. I had a sense that the Cessna was tracking the drone helicopter to make sure it had no issues since they flew along above it in gentle loops along the same path as if they were keeping it in sight.
Which itself is a reference to an old sponsored educational reel, made familiar by MST3K https://youtu.be/FkUVn0JiTz8
> China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On

Finance is fictional, trains are real. In the anglospheric West, when a spreadsheet and real world disagrees, Beancounters will believe their spreadsheet.
Then why not make a solid argument for it higher up in the chain?

Instead of a reaction to a comment further down.
It is annoying because it seems to have been watered down to “have the correct amount of prudence” at this point. Which is definitionally correct. But we don’t need an analogy to get there.
If you ever wonder why resistor values are odd it's because they are logarithmic.
Density is one of the main ways to get cost savings. But there are others too, and there's also a lot of hype around them. Chiplets for example. Or CXL for memory.
By “two held out hands”, do you mean a person’s wingspan? Is there something similar for centimeters? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity and not antagonizing. I would love to have more tools at my disposal. An inch, for example, is the length of the first digit of the index finger. [0]

With length, I find that most of my use cases are division into equal parts as opposed to scaling. The imperial system was designed for this (frequently using base 12) [1]. I understand that this may be due to my framing.

I agree with the sibling comment about temperature granularity. Fahrenheit set 0 degrees to the coldest temperature in his hometown, then used freezing water and body temperature as reference points. 100 degrees is about body temperature, and around as hot as ambient temperature gets for many people.

[0] Useless trivia: an acre is one chain (66’) by one furlong (660’) and was supposed to be the amount a field a single ox could plow in a day. Neither of the latter two measures are commonly used anymore but a mile was redefined from 5000’ to 5280’ to make it an even 8 furlongs.

[1] Apparently this is the reason that the French failed twice to establish Metric Time
A guy in Canada tried this when they got rid of the penny. After a bunch of careful scheming, he ended up…$0.89 (or something like that—-it was certainly under a buck).
That is really how I meant it. Using Linux for almost 20 years I've found the most important part of having a working system is being on the beaten path. Distros that do too much exotic stuff spend all their time fruitlessly trying to keep up with porting and end up confined to a small user base of OS geekery enthusiasts.
It is extremely high. Typically I’m dealing with less than a minute, occasionally up to 2 and rarely, when I’m dealing with heaps of dependencies perhaps 5, but 30-45 is just crazy.
> Subsidize heat pumps, to make all heating/cooling electric.

Are there ways to try to ensure much of these subsidies end up reducing the price (and associated hurdle) of consumers rather than 80+% ending up as increased profits for HVAC companies?
I did some research on this for my CSS framework, I didn't want to have a max-h-1rem type value for every single number, just a small subset that is easy to remember.

5-smooth numbers and practical numbers overlap with the highly composite, but include more of the common "Numbers you see everywhere that people seem to like".
It's not used by any of the major ones, so in practice lots of apps will be broken. I like musl, and I link it for my own stuff but I only have to make sure my stuff works. if I had to make sure everyone's existing stuff worked glibc is the only practical choice.
It only took a few months to get an employer to have them installed. Financial services, a few billion in annual revenue. ChargePoint chargers. Total spend was under $50k and employee time for procurement and integration with HR information system in order to onboard employees (as they’re private and can only be used to charge by employees in a private parking facility). I provided one of my EVs for commissioning and testing.

Can totally be done. Asking is free, and if you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
possible to add the function filtering events by type ?
One way to maintain leaves efficiently (amortised O(1) time and space to add/remove) is to keep 2 extra vectors that "point at each other": L[] is a vector containing the indices of all leaves, and LP[] is a vector such that LP[i] stores the index within L[] of the value i if i is a leaf, and -1 otherwise. That is, for i a non-leaf, LP[i] == -1, while for i a leaf, L[LP[i]] == i.

To find the indices of all leaves: That's just L[].

To add a leaf i: Append i to L[], and set LP[i] to L.length - 1.

To remove a leaf i in constant time:

j = L[L.length - 1]
L[LP[i]] = j
LP[j] = i
LP[i] = -1.
DropLastElement(L[])
And good luck doing either without accessible fossil fuels.
That's interesting. It isn't like the one I saw though. It is too small and the wrong shape. I see from a current search that there are several players in the drone helicopter business with similar business models - agriculture, infrastructure monitoring/maintenance, military, etc.
12 people have been to the moon for about a total human surface time of about 6 days 17 hour mostly spent most of that time spent within a small radius near the six landing sites. and we haven't bothered to go back in over 51 years the number of tablet you would have to bury on the moon for a civilization as advanced as our to find one would be ridiculous you would essentially have to tile the moon in them for us to have guarantee we would have found one of them.
I used extensively at a previous company for longer running background tasks. It was simpler to use SQS than dealing with standing up our own RabbitMQ cluster. Their Amazon MQ service did not exist at the time. Our system was built to tolerate duplicates and it worked well enough. For something higher volume I'd definitely use RabbitMQ though.
Yes, in Germany Euro was dubbed Teuer-o ("teuer" meaning expensive).
Basically, most prices were converted 1:1 from Deutsch Mark to Euro.
> He started using the AI model as a front-end engineer. He would talk to the AI the way he would talk to the resigned front-end engineer, giving tasks, iterating on the React UI, and making final changes in the source code before pushing it to production. After a week-long pilot, he asked headhunters to use the opened position to find a UI/UX designer for the team instead. He no longer needed a front-end engineer.

Wait lemme get this straight — AI didn’t eliminate a job; it changed a job to something higher in the abstraction chain. Isn’t this actually the very best case outcome?

Low level language dev -> high level language dev -> designer
"Xorg has no business being the display server" in much the same way as sysvinit had no business being an init system: Sure, they're both old and clunky, but they both also work, and allow me to get stuff done.

Nobody is saying that Xorg isn't old and crap, or that it shouldn't be replaced: I remember being pretty excited when I first heard about weyland - it sounded like it was going to solve a bunch of problems.

I was excited, so I jumped on my triceratops and went over to see my friend Ug. I didn't hang out in Ug's cave very often because it was kind of messy and his sabretooth wasn't very friendly, but I'd read a thing about weyland and I was all excited.

Ug was less excited than I, he pointed out that X has been a thing for a long time, and there will be a billion assumptions about its architecture in all kinds of weird places, and switching to an entirely new thing that isn't really backwards compatible will likely cause a bunch of issues, and that there's some software out there that's targeting X, unmaintained, and still in use by people, and a bunch of this software will break. And that these wayland people will have to do a lot of thinking about all kinds of weird edge cases, like remote X sessions, multi-window applications, screensavers / lockers, windows with transparency or non-rectangular shapes, etc etc etc. He pointed out that even if you do spend a lot of time being super diligent about something like this, such a large fundamental change is still very likely to cause a bunch of weird edge cases in the real world that will break people's workflow.

My concern is more around timelines and the issues it will cause when it is forced on people, not "this is bad/unnecessary". I don't think I've ever seen anyone make that argument about X.

Some of us just want to have working systems, get stuff done, and keep using the great software we've been using for decades without problems.

I mostly just hope redhat have learned from the experiences we had with things like pulseaudio, and that they've checked whether the replacement actually works in real-world scenarios before forcing it on people this time.
Founder here!

We're still in stealth, but I'll be able to share details and performance figures soon.

Our first product is a bet on transformers. If we're right, there's enormous upside - being transformer-specific lets you get an order of magnitude more compute than more flexible accelerators (GPUs, TPUs).

We're hiring - if the EV makes sense for you, reach out at gavin @ etched.ai
The title needs to be corrected. The point of the article is how to boot from an ISO image without needing a USB drive.
The Truth about "Fsck"
It would be like trying to measure the GDP of the renaissance, then predict which artists to invest in.
See this peer comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38669000
Chinese just launched on a supersized rocket
This comes after this year selling the rights to the Transformers movie series, an arguably larger hit to their ability to have mainstream impact. It seems very unlikely they wouldn't be looking for a buyer for WotC as well, and trimming down to just the IP may be making it a better sale.

The company is struggling and likely pulling out all the stops the avoid bankruptcy, when you need liquidity this could very much include cuts to otherwise profitable segments.
But only if it works with your OS version. It always takes them a few months to support the update. I'm not complaining. It's not like they're a giant company making megabucks to support it. But if you buy a new Mac today with Sonoma pre-installed, you're gonna have to wait a while before you can encrypt your email.
The article keeps confusing the blockchain tech (ie: bitcoin) with the centralized exchange business (ie: binance). In 2017-2018, crypto grew so fast that the tech couldn’t catch up. The centralized exchanges indeed won.

However, a significant volume is being traded today on DEXs (ie: uniswap). The OP fails to mention that. Uniswap did around $1bn in volume on a Saturday. These amount are very hard to fake as uniswap fees are simply brutal comparing to CEXs. This means a part of the market has moved off-grid and it’s significant. I don’t think the article argument can ignore that fact.
Also cost... They aren't worth more than a gas car