skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the people providing the AI demand the same money as the workers it replaces, it doesn't seem like society actually benefits

Those people no longer have jobs. That sounds bad, but consider they can now do something else. (Ad infinitum this is obviously a problem. But the history of technological development provides cause for optimism in the long run.)
I think both the OpenAI and the Sam Altman brand sustained some damage. He may be great at marketing but now that the gun is on the table and the cloth is withdrawn we'll see how much success he has in the future with trying to wrap people around his fingers.
If you give 100million women a vaccine eventually to save 80k women death (assuming they die sometimes in their last 20 years of life), it's not instantly obvious if it's worth it.

There have already been studies that show getting herpes vaccines increases your odds of dementia. Less than getting actual herpes. But if you could tell yourself to marry a virgin (as a virgin yourself) and remain faithful, you wouldn't have to worry about the brain issues from either the vaccine or herpes.

And of course the possibility exists other yet unknown problems exist too. Most people that got the hpv vaccine probably weren't aware of the dimension risks at the time.
It was somewhat common in NYC, until the city banned it[1]. There are a few chains that have notably attempted to ignore the requirement[2].

[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/consumers/Prohibition-of-Cashle...

[2]: https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/nyc-businesses-told-to-pay-up-...
On the flip side, it has never been easier to become banked in the US.

Chime & Co. have lowered the entry difficulty for fundamental banking services for the poor. And loading cash is trivial, walk into any number of thousands of stores (such as Walgreens which charges no fee). You see these cards commonly used by poorer Americans across all of retail now.
So I guess, you're just paying/voting for a more decent entertaining content. I can understand that even if I'm old.

Peace kids
I support this. Border security SHOULD be a national issue. The flip side of course is that this means that California WON'T be able to take down razor wire that border agents put up should the national leadership change.
I think Germans are more likely to pay with cash because of privacy concerns. Maybe we need a society that values privacy more.
Expect price increases for OpenAI, then. Maybe OpenAI's business model of cheap AI for banal purposes won't work.
Possibly!

I just think we should be clear about what tradeoffs are being proposed. This isn't all fairy dust and magic, and the average person doesn't have the background to understand the impact of proposals like this.
I think this is the best answer. The R1 is directly connected to the device's sensors and can write out state to the shared main memory. Processing the sensor state in 12ms gives 4ms to consume the world state and draw a video frame and hit a solid 60fps.

Any lag from the position of your head/body and the eye display is going to mess with your proprioception. The worse that lag the more likely you are to get motion sickness.
“Notice how Chromium does not have a Zig branch just like it never had a D branch. It was all C++ until Rust offered clear improvements to safety in exchange for its adoption costs.”

Chromium has a rust branch because “Rust has X feature”, not because zig does too and there was never a decision: rust or zig.

That’s apples and oranges my friend. All I’m saying is Zig, while lagging behind its corporate sponsored behemoths, is going to be around for quite a while. There’s a lot of game dev happening with zig too. Bun is just an easy target to use as an example.

I do agree with your argument about “why choose X over Y to rewrite your codebase” but to clarify, I never made such comparisons. I wouldn’t recommend zig for a c++ refactor. Maybe a rewrite if it was small. Definitely for green field development. A stability promise is still just a promise. Backwards compatibility is a valid argument to make. Will my code from a decade ago compile today? Zig still has some growing to do before that is true.
The article (and comments) don't seem to make what I think are essential points.

* Free-market competition is essential for price-setting. Aftermarket parts must be allowable. IMO no solution will ever work if the prices are set by a single vendor. People get mad, but

* "Parts pairing" and DRM are a real problem. They prevent the establishment of a market for replacement parts. I would like to see a discussion of banning this practice.

* Patents preventing the manufacture of "clone" replacement parts is another issue, but even that takes a back seat to software lock (or hardware lock, as a comment below mentions [1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39096846

> [...] they have a battery backed latching relay to detect if the boards are disconnected [...]
What about proton-ge wine with Android x86? https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

(Edit) the Moonlight + LizardByte/Sunshine server part of Steam-Headless can do 4k 120fps FWIU; and there's already a Moonlight client for Android [TV].
https://github.com/Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless
because it is a dead language.

Not dead, as in no one uses it, but dead as in it has stopped living and no longer moves around.

In the same way that sanskrit or latin, languages known by millions of people, are dead languages.

And finally a bit of snark. python2 also has the neat property that it does not rot.
This is not actually true. For example the NYT news desk does not employ any fact checkers. You have to go to the opinion desk for those.
You zeroed in on one of the things I mentioned. You didn't consider the mentorship, writing documentation, or just general product ownership over time.

Of course, if your organization considers a firm handshake and constant eye contact more important than being a competent engineer, so be it.
What do you mean? It did continue to develop (right up to the latest 3nm process!), it’s just inherently lower density due to its structure.
Perhaps most of the five justices who agreed to this decision are happy with our having a porous border. But I don't think this is necessarily a politically motivated decision. After all, the federal government is responsible for controlling our national borders. Maybe the Court's next relevant decision will be along the lines of: "Executive Branch: Take seriously your responsibility to keep any and all persons from entering this country illegally. Get the job done."
I think this is the real reason some people hop companies every other year. They never have to be confronted by the result of past poor decisions.
You want someone with a metal detector. Call your fire department or pd and ask if they can put you in touch with someone.
Stuff like this really makes you wonder what other kinds of fraud are happening in scientific research, especially in medicine where lives are on the line. Despicable stuff.
Submodule workflows have a lot of overhead at review time. During development it's fine, you work with the fully materialized tree just like it's a monorepo. But once you need to submit your changes for review, how does that workflow look?

1. Commit in submodule A, then get it reviewed and merged as SHA 123

2. Update submodule A to 123, get it reviewed

3. Reviewer has feedback on usage of new API in submodule A

4. Make another PR on A, at commit 457. This time don't merge it since reviewer on main repo might have more feedback.

Monorepo:

1. Make PR to monorepo

2. Get review feedback

3. Push changes to PR branch

4. Merge

5. Update submodule to 456, push to existing PR

...??
I'm leaning towards what you say even more for the next generation. Assuming our society doesn't fall apart... it seems safe to assume that digital purchases/assets will be an increasing portion of our economy going forward. Teaching children the relative value of those assets (albeit non-transferable) and what that means isn't something that shouldn't be ignored.
Implement Fractional GPUs in Kubernetes to save upto 50% cost
Check out this detailed tutorial featured on the Hugging Face blog about utilizing fractional GPUs in Kubernetes.

It demonstrates how splitting a single GPU into seven smaller units can save up to 50% in costs, each unit having its own resources. The author shares valuable experiences and insights on various open-source frameworks, highlighting the Aliyun GPU Scheduler Extender as a standout tool despite its complex setup in Kubernetes.

It's a great read for anyone who aims to optimize their GPU resources for specific workload requirements.
LibreWolf[1] is a Firefox-based alternative to Brave, and appears to pass more privacy tests[2].

1. https://librewolf.net/

2. https://privacytests.org/
One of the first twilight zone tv episodes, maybe even the first one, featured that pronunciation also.
Let me put it this way: the text in the training corpus may very well contain the objective thought function. But to the LLM, that is indistinguishable from anything else. It's just another set of patterns between tokens.

From the LLM's perspective, there is only "what", and never "why". The "what" may even contain the "why"! Even so, it is always "what" to the LLM's eyes.

There is an objective difference between ideas, expression, and logic in my mind. I can't tell you precisely what that difference is made of, but I'm quite certain that LLMs are missing it.
That's certainly one way to implement it, no doubt.

I have my doubts that unrepairable, failing products are produced by few enough manufacturers that holding a handful of large ones to these rules would make a big dent in waste. But, maybe I'm wrong!

(Also, good luck convincing people to spend 4x on a vacuum because it's "repairable" when the no-name brand is not. Most people will roll the dice and save the money today.)
Do you work on Gnome, by chance?
Chime is not a bank; it’s a financial services company. This distinction is important: people who depend solely on bank-adjacent financial services are more likely to lack access to ordinary banking services for the reasons mentioned in the article.
Yeah, this should be read that the Federal Govt has to have access to national borders, full stop (agreed).

It doesn't (and can't) address the fact that the reason the Federal Govt wants access in this case is to help non-nationals BREAK FEDERAL LAW.
Bitcoin is still wasting gigawatts every year, but later blockchains are literally a million times more efficient. If the current generations of AI turn out to be useful, maybe someone will figure it out an efficiency optimization.
People and governments really need to start asking if the results of the current generation of FAANG-size LLMs are worth the costs, in additional chips, power, and cooling water -- especially in locations that are constrained for any of those resources. Are we getting ten times better Google results for ten times more energy? I don't think so.
I'm not totally enamoured with morejun cluttering up the night sky
What are you asking? Your question was how is he wholesome. I don't watch MrBeast on any regularity. I have seen his videos though and have seen most of his interviews. I don't have a classification but I can see how would could group his content in the wholesome category, not Wizard but not "Hey bro let me punch you in the face" prank.
I don't understand why this complaint survives, it seems a myth at this point.

Open a fresh install of Brave. No crypto things are happening. There's one button inviting you to enable it, which you can dismiss with 2 clicks. It will never ask again.
The Unseen Barriers Around Bathroom Breaks in the Field
This article is hard to follow without any prior knowledge of the saga.
The U.S. is an experiment to determine if an individual can govern themselves. This is a clear indication the experiment has failed. These are humans that are more concerned with high price entertainment than other humans.

A good society would levy heavy taxes, a sane one would build tech that actually is good for humans like it was meant to be.
Because generally people picking the tools are not majority of dev. They are architects or Senior Developers who do enjoy learning new things.

Also, git generally does just work and most IDE/Source Control Systems take care of basic operation of pull/branch/commit/push/open PR.
To flip that flipside around again, the proliferation of MFA has disenfranchised folks who try to manage such accounts online. In order to login to an online service, you could sign up for a public computer in a library. But you'll also need your "Obamaphone" (that's charged, has service, and its screen is legible) to receive the security code.
Very similar to what's recommended in Basecamp's Shapeup book:

https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.1-chapter-07
I don't really disagree with what you say, but I mostly play on laptops and I find that a MacbookPro M3 max feels about the same as my Razer gaming laptop with a 4090 in it.

It's the same silicon on laptop and desktop with apple gear though, and that isn't true with x86. The desktop chips with an edgy heat profile are nearly twice as fast as the laptops if not more. But compared to xbox or PS the apple machines still win. So it's really specialized gaming desktops that win, even though it is by a solid margin.
You can definitely train a model to identify fish, to be honest you don't really have to train a whole model, there are tons of models trained on millions of images, you can just extract the embeddings from those models and train a single matrix to project them to the different classes and it will work very well.
Connecticut is the witch hazel capital of the world–and it's harvest time
>Is that really any different from aspirational athletes, musicians, or actors?

Yes, not for Substack (as teens don't like this "writing" thing much), but e.g. a huge number of teens (and 20-somethings) tries to be vlogger, influencer, etc - more than athletes, musicians, or actors which is more of a 'far away' dream.
Bank or financial utility?
A burden that is proportional to the amount of personal data the corporation collects sounds excellent.
It's more of a broad fear of change/technology/the modern age in Germany. Homeopathy is considered real medicine there even today. Physical paperwork for all of the bureaucracy, and of course the bureaucracy there is legendary. Credit cards fall under a similar umbrella.
> Then, I can look at the difference between clocks that came direct and clocks that came the long way. If all the differences are the same, then I can say that going A-to-B-to-C has the same effect as going A-to-C-to-B or B-to-A-to-C or any other route. Doesn't that show isotropy?

Again, no, because you can only measure around the full loop. Any clock you can compare has gone just as far east as it has gone west, just as far north as south, and just as far up as down. You can rule out some particular kinds of anisotropy, but there are possible patterns that just wouldn't show up.
Very common in Canada now. I noticed this week that everything at Whistler/Blackcomb resort is cashless.
Riot Games laying off 11%
> Apple told developers their existing iPhone and iPad apps would be made available to Vision Pro users automatically unless the developer edits their apps’ availability in App Store Connect. (…)

> Likely, many app developers are just allowing their existing apps to be ported over until the Vision Pro has a big enough user base to warrant the extra attention.

If the Mac App Store on Apple Silicon is any indication, many developers mays indeed allow their iOS apps to run, but they probably won’t be the ones you want the most.
> completely made up by one guy who tours the country selling his "method" to police departments

... oftentimes that one guy is an ex-cop. No bias there.
I can link any one of a dozen videos showing thousands of people crossing the border every day. To the tune of millions of people per year.

I am honestly curious, what are the rational reasons that the current administration wants this to happen?

Is it really cheap labor? Is it voters? Or is it really just the moral concept of open borders, anyone should be allowed to live anywhere in the world that they want?

Maybe it’s all three?

I am genuinely asking, I think we are beyond the point of asking whether or not the current government wants millions of people to cross the border, it’s more a genuine question of why.
Agree with all of this, and recommend this process for engineering tech debt: https://max.engineer/long-term-refactors

In short: maintain a list of long term refactors that everyone's gradually working on, without necessarily showing it in the ticket tracking system.
The complexity I have in mind is roughly that the TCP state machine isn't quite the cartesian product of two opposed unidirectional state machines, but it could be. (No proof of this, only a TCP implementation based on the idea. I really must sort the question out rigorously one of these days.)

Re the reliability: the same is true of pipes. You can't assume `mail` will take the message, even with pipes, because, just as with TCP, there's no feedback channel. The disk could have filled up after `mail` took the final bytes from its input, for example.

Your point about application-level acknowledgements is 100% spot on, then, but pipes need application-level acks too, in much the same circumstances as TCP would, for just the same reasons. Even pipes make a distributed system.

Not all protocols need application-level acks, though. In the `echo | mail` example, you do get feedback that the process exited abnormally, but this is feedback to the supervisor (here, the shell), not to the preceding process in the pipeline. The same could (and should) be arranged for a TCP-based link between `echo` and `mail`. The failure-signalling takes on some of the responsibilities than an app-level ack would have discharged. Pipes vs sockets makes no difference.

Your point about the difficulty of constructing the necessary back-channels for app-level acks is also spot on. If one were to reformulate a transport layer in terms of simplex channels, one would want to retain an easy way to configure a pair of them as a single duplex channel. This is as true of pipes as of sockets. A nice design would allow capability-passing as well as regular message sending: then, you'd open an outbound stream to a server, and as your first message, you'd send a capability for the write-end of a matching inbound stream. Modular session establishment. Permits a bunch of other interaction patterns, too, such as session handoff, redirection, continuation-passing, load-balancing etc. Richer topological possibilities even than SCTP and QUIC. If capability-passing was in TCP, it'd have been trivially handled by the NAT, too, so FTP wouldn't have been broken. Ah well, never mind.

All that said, Dan isn't taking aim at TCP-the-protocol here. (He does, elsewhere.) Instead, the focus is the sockets API. The API could easily have involved two unidirectional fds instead of just one, without changing the protocol, or how easy/difficult it is to establish a connection. It'd just expose a read cap and a write cap instead of a single mixed capability. It'd be a small change that'd eliminate a bunch of special-casing. I think he has a good point; it's a shame we can't get there from here...
Card-based transactions becoming so pervasive has made me wonder if countries should start redirecting their efforts to building nationalised payment infrastructure that would allow citizens to transact electronically with zero fees, rather than their main function being managing and printing physical currency. Maybe some countries have done this already, but in Australia at least we're basically building our entire payment infrastructure on top of Visa and Mastercard.
Funny you mention that. No, I don't, but I'd often been unhappy with how GNOME was developed, and worked in general. Instead of whining, I stopped using GNOME, and started contributing to a different desktop environment. Our stuff has its faults, too, and none of us have enough of the time we'd like to spend working on it, but we do the best we can with the time that we have and the effort we're willing to put into it.

Not saying everyone has the skills or time or even desire to contribute regularly to an open source project. And that's fine! But that doesn't mean whining about (what you see as) a project's deficiencies is ever cool.

(Note that I'm fine with people writing up constructive criticism. But just stuff like "this project doesn't provide release builds unless I pay and that's not fair" is just entitled nonsense.)
A seemingly common theme through all these layoffs is that engineers are less impacted than other orgs.
The economic elements of Animal Crossing can be understood as a solution to a natural problem of a game featuring item collection: what do you do with excess collected items? How do you ensure the player feels like the main gameplay activities are still worthwhile even when they're not adding new fish, bugs, etc. to their compendium? The game wouldn't play much differently if shop items were free and house upgrades were unlocked over time or by collecting enough unique items, but money adds a very familiar way of measuring progress, which is psychologically much different.
> Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost

I wonder how the automotive industry has managed to do just that over decades.

The answer is relatively obvious, laws require them to do so, which in turn limits the amount of "SKU churn" to keep the logistics reasonable. Your usual car design holds on for 3 years, after which it gets a tiny rebrush that fixes usability or other issues that cropped up during the first period, and it will not change too much between the lines internally.

In contrast, we have many manufacturers that are as wasteful as to create "Black Friday" SKUs that are deceptively similarly named to "rest of the year" SKUs but built with slightly worse components.

This is utter, utter madness. There is no reason for this to exist at all.
I live in Oakland and it's getting more and more popular here in order to avoid theft. SF I think requires you to take cash as legal tender though so it's not allowed there.
It's been fine when used as a tool for internal staff to resolve support issues. When the user reports they are seeing something funny on the page, you can go and see the page exactly as they see it without having to have their credentials. When it's given to the end users as a way to avoid having to build a proper permissions and sharing system, it's pretty gross.
TSMC Is a Bellwether for IT, but It Is Not the Weather of All IT
The average american has 6 months of savings for unemployment. I don’t think there’s any cause for optimism on that timeline
> Energy from nuclear fusion is available today – you just need solar panels to capture it

Nitpick: stellar fusion is fundamentally different from thermonuclear fusion.

Proton-proton fusion is mediated by the weak force [1][2]. A lump of the Sun radiates less power than your body. It works because there is a lot of Sun. Thermonuclear fusion is far more energetic because it's mediated by the strong force.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton–proton_chain

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_plus_decay
It's sometimes not even undisclosed; the first few units (and the last, slow units) can get various free updates quite often.

When prices plateau they'd much rather "spend" the loss in upgrades than in dropping the price.