skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, no AMD GPU support mentioned. What a sad state of affair, I regret going with AMD this time.
Do you have examples of where this has been done? Based on my understanding you can do things like cache the embeddings to avoid the tokenization/embedding cost, but you will still need to do a forward pass through the model with the new user prompt and the cached context. That is where the naive O(N^2) complexity comes from and that is the cost that cannot be avoided (because the whole point is to present the next user prompt to the model along with the cached context).
Promote electric vehicles, heat pumps, inductive cooktops, and other decarbonization that would increase electricity demand since you've got a plethora of electricity? Nope.

Incentivize home energy storage and invest in grid level energy storage and encourage purchasing EVs that can be used as grid batteries? Nope.

Invest in better grid-level interconnects to export electricity? Nope.

Work with the community to attract industry that uses lots of electricity and approach commercial/industrial users to find ways to decarbonize? Nope.

Ban customers from new grid-intertied solar: YES.

Engage in scare-mongering about solar causing fires and being dangerous or causing grid instability when grid-intertie systems have a slew of safety mechanisms? YES.

Absolute morons.

Also buried in that article: they signed a contract with their wholesale provider mandating that they can only generate 5% of their own electricity. The article claims, but does not explain, how this doesn't limit solar generation - there's a bunch of hand-waiving about how "it doesn't prohibit homeowners from generating solar power."

That contract goes until 2050. Who looked at the electricity market and said "you know what? Let's sign a multi-decade contract, that seems smart!"?
This also sort of raises a red flag for the author—short term relationships weren't really a thing in the world of Austen, just prospective long-term relationships and essentially affairs.
That’s not what the link says at all. Not even the title.
When comparing solar to nuclear we also need to include storage and dimensioning to get an equivalent guaranteed 24/7 output.

This might still make solar cheaper but difference will be smaller than headline numbers (and you might retort that for nuclear we then need to include dismantling costs as well).
It's still newsworthy to have evidence, c.f.:

> The Kremlin instruction resulted in thousands of social media posts and hundreds of fabricated articles, created by troll farms and circulated in Ukraine and across Europe

I mean, would you prefer this not be reported simply because you aren't personally surprised? Where does that logic end? The German invasion of France in 1940 was hardly a surprise either.
Yeah, it's not a totally unknown standard or anything. But I feel pretty safe claiming that "bug" (unobserved in code) / "error" (handled in code) / "crash/fatal/unhandled error" (obvious) is both far more common and far clearer at a glance... which is probably why it's more common.

In technical documents, the standard can be useful for being very explicit and unambiguously identifiable. I'm far from convinced that it deserves use elsewhere tho.
They're pure brain dumps on whatever is on my mind at the time. But if other people find my incoherent rambling useful, then it's worth sharing on the interwebs. Hope you got something out of it!
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
There is no nuance - russia attacked Ukraine without any provocation murdering hundreds of thousands there. What kind of f#$@ng nuance can there be?

Also USA, UK and Russia committed to protect Ukraine's souvernity in exchange for Ukraine giving up third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Ukraine is simply asking for what was promised in exchange for what was already delivered (nuclear disarment) by Ukraine.
I'm referring to the whole picture not just platitudes.

The reality of the situation is that certainly a lot of stuff "could" happen, like Fusion and Nuclear power too.
Satellite/aerial imagery followed by more accurate surveying where necessary.
And businesses prefer the open core Apache alternative.
I have yet to see any ASAT tech, from any country, that isn't mutually destructive.

Kinetic ASAT weapons create debris that affects everyone in space.

EMP ASAT weapons would also affect nearby satellites. For example, if they wipe out their own Glonass satellites, their own weapons systems (which are dependent on Glonass) would suffer - and their ground-based systems (Loran) has limited cover and accuracy. Goodbye to weapons that need accurate navigation/guidance.

It is mentioned that these would be some absolute last ditch measures...so do keep that in mind. About as last ditch as conventional use of nuclear weapons. If that time comes around, we're all going to be pretty screwed either way.
huh what
Either pro democracy or an enemy. Is that wrong?
Very, very interesting to see all these random accounts immediately showing up in mass to defend the Kremlin. Especially on a post like this, where it is not some outlandish accusation. Those countries are coming up on a third year of a full scale war, it'd be more surprising if they didn't have a disinformation campaign to discredit each other.
yes, but as soon as you can survive on your own do it.
How would one go about generalizing goals in the cargo cult example? To me, it would be something like "achieve your business goals," which while true, is not super useful. Maybe that would have been a better description though, given how much commodification is prioritized.
I thought Germany was famously an OSS leader? Thought all govt machines ran Linux. Maybe it’s just certain municipalities.
The AI Institute
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No, that wasn't my intent at all. I was only pointing out that this is not surprising because this is how Putin has always played the information warfare game. It's definitely good to report on it.
As my comment is the grandparent to this one, for my own sense of integrity I have to make it clear that this is very far from what I’m talking about.

And fwiw I believe this is a lot of BS, it’s literally the incel narrative. I’m not going to go into “why are incels wrong”, there’s enough to read about that on the internet.
There's a Reason McDonald's Coke Tastes Better Than All Others
Listening to your emotions is easier said than done, especially when you’re in the moment, which is essentially when you need to listen the most. There are many ways and methods to analyze emotions afterward, but in my own experience, those aren’t really effective. At the same time, it’s extremely difficult to train in listening to emotions without real emotions occurring.

journaling and video games helped me personally
What are you using to generate the PDFs? Are you doing something like PrinceXML (or weasyprint) which directly convert HTML+CSS to PDF? Or are you converting HTML+CSS to something else?

Are there any demo pages where it is possible to view the generated PDFs? I would imagine this would be easier to do since this is all based on Javascript.
The Constitution has been amended 27 times, most recently in 1992. And there’s no need to divide the United States into two; the United States is already divided into fifty states, each of which can have its own laws. And in my view, it has consistently been the Democrats who are hellbent on imposing their preferred laws on the red states, just as they’re the ones who consistently advocate ignoring the constitution, packing the Supreme Court, and creating and strengthening an unelected, extra-constitutional fourth branch of government that saves them the need to actually win elections and convince the American people to go along with their ideology. The Republicans haven’t been great about this either but at least they’ve taken some steps towards restoring the constitutional republic.
Try deepseek 6.7B
People who filter out all ICMP are probably unaware of the standard, but router implementors that limit ICMP rates are balancing transparent observability with the need to keep the equipment running.

I guess you could provision the router cpus so they could send ICMPs for line rate incoming packets that must be dropped, but that doesn't seem like a good cost tradeoff.
So the company that sells computers with all sorts of garbage software pre-installed is warning you about buying used because it may have garbage pre-installed? Got it.
Animal organ meats tend to accumulate pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, synthetic growth hormones and antibiotics, etc. Livestock operations use the cheapest animal feed they can find, turning it into as much animal mass as they can with hormones and antibiotics, and bioaccumulation of toxins becomes an issue.

Eating anything coming out of that pipeline is probably not that great of an idea, but organ meats are the least advisable portion.
Yeah the real difference with tech, at least as it's been for the last while, is you can do it after 10-20 years. I've had a very middling career overall and after about 15 years I'm very close to being able to just move on and do anything else without worrying about day to day expenses.

Now people who have run faster and faster on the hedonic treadmill with their inflated tech salaries, they are going to be in trouble.
Pointer chasing, bad for cache locality.
I believe that was more of a rhetorical question than an actual question.
> Yeah, yeah, he does. Not only C/C++ v. Java, but before that ASM v. C/C++.

Argument from analogy is one of the weakest one can make. Because analogies are always incorrect.

Besides, two can play this game. I'm arguing to use cars to get from point A to point B when you're arguing to use horse-driven buggies.

> Get off HN and write competing apps. If these are really "lazy" developers delivering "slow and bloated" apps, you should have no problem kicking their asses in the marketplace.

> But you won't.

Ad hominem an kindergarten-level "I dare you" are even weaker arguments
What's wrong with pg_dump?
I believe the GP is referring to Alyssa Rosenzweig.
I think you're being purposely dense. You pretend that it's unusual that a human would view a pattern that has occured 10 billion times and then expect that it would continue forever. But, I'll answer anyway.

It seems that for such a simple problem, involving basic arithmetic and small numbers, 1, 2, and 3, there should be a number N where if you try all examples less than N, you have sufficient "resolution" to reveal all patterns between the numbers. Maybe we could somehow say "if a counter-example exists, it must be smaller than N". I don't know what kind of math would allow us to formalize the possible patterns and what N is, I don't think it's been discovered yet. Maybe such math doesn't exist, but certainly we haven't discovered all mathematical tools for solving such problems, so maybe it does exist.
Scratchapixel 3.0
I too learned that terminology at university almost 20 years ago. Haven't heard it used like that since. Yes, precise language would be useful for communication, but in this case it feels like a lost cause. Nobody uses these terms like that.
There was a book (I think The Intelligence of Emotions, or something along those lines) that says that we get angry when a boundary (be it a physical, emotional, ideological boundary) has been violated. Sometimes these boundaries have been set unintentionally in an irrational way (such as a childhood trauma, or as a defense mechanism to rejection or something else "bad" that might happen). It's good to investigate your triggers and consider if they are actually rational. Sometimes it can be. It can be very hard to look at and adjust. Nigh impossible in the moment.
Hair is composed of dead hair cells.
For me alacritty >> other terminal emulators on macos.

Not because it does have cool features, but because it is not as laggy [0] as the others and comes close to Terminal.app but supports 256colors

[0] i'm normally a linux user and use "foot" as my terminal emulator, and the terminal emulators there are so much more responsive than on macos/windows
What is stopping Hackernews from selling the content people post here?
What if you join a company with equity as part of the compensation, rise the ranks, and then the company goes public or gets sold and you sell your shares? It's probably a very rare scenario that a company will become exceptionally valuable, but it could be an alternative to starting your own business.
ah, that closes the loop for me, thanks
I would posit that it’s people who apply game theory to dating are the ones over analyzing things.
This epidemic will continue to spread unless the burden of proof is placed on the party filing the complaint, along with having penalties imposed for filing bogus complaints.
Well, obviously they couldn't use "good" vs. "evil" directly, so I read it as trying to express the same thing with "concordant with the purposes and principles of the UN" vs. "contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN", such that the scope of permitted acts is intentionally very broad.
People who think they don't need to hear both sides of the story are why Machiavellian CEOs are successful in the first place. If people withheld judgment and investigated for themselves their tactics won't work.
Technically GNU Emacs does have dialog windows (at least the GTK version): if you click File in the menu bar, followed by 'Visit New File...' it opens the GTK file picker.

I only know that because when using Emacs on the Steam Deck using the menu bar is a little easier than doing input using Hacker Keyboard on my phone passed to the Deck using KDE Connect.
> This is hopefully too cynical...

Nah, it's just how it is.

A casual web search will show that women care about money in relationships and marriage... a lot.
Nothing you said contradicts GP, who didn't claim Elon discovered anything. Elon did recently demonstrate what has been known for a long time - but not widely believed.
I realize that it may be a rude question or too direct, but I thought it could cut the conversation down into something quicker. That's all. You can write whatever you want of course... but the modern world put a crazy highway in our brains, my friend. Give me the info like you would give a soldier an order. I would fall in love with you for it.
> A lot of bitcoin miners use stranded power, which would otherwise go to waste.

Often claimed, rarely supported by evidence or numbers.

It's also unlikely to be very practical, because that'd essentially mean running bitcoin miners in load-balancing mode, and not running them most of the time. Given that bitcoin hardware tends to loose value quickly, as the next generation of mining hardware comes to the market, this is unlikely to be a feasible model.
This is very timely for me as I spent last evening playing Obsession[1]- a board game based on courtship and prestige in (roughly) the era of Austen. They have a few specialized rule variations and one is named for Austen, in which the interest of the desired suitor is not revealed until the end of the season, mimicking the veiled intent of her characters. Definitely worth checking out if you have a long evening and a long attention span.

1: https://www.geeksundergrace.com/tabletop/review-obsession/
I think that “just need to” can be said about a lot of things. And even space x can build rockets, it’s not exactly brain surgery!
Yes, that sounds interesting, and I sincerely hope that a future release of React manages to simplify use cases such as SSG with build-time JS.
I recommend consuming everything Brendan Gregg produces. His work is mostly around kernel performance profiling and tracing, but you can learn a lot from just doing that. Also, the vast majority of time when you need to dive into kernel internals it is for performance reasons.

https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

If you prefer physical books “Systems Performance” by Brendan is good as well.

As the sister comment says, Linux Programming Interface is really good for learning linux system programming topics but it is mostly focused on user space.

For more userspace stuff I like Chris Wellons‘ blog at nullprogram.com
dma here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

Apple cannot simply invoke DMA (50) as a free pass. For its arguments to align with the intent of the legislation, here's a roadmap of what they need to do to justify their security-based restrictions on iOS:

Apple must be transparent about the exact security issues posed by alternative browser engines with concrete instances (not merely speculative risks). They need to prove that these are unique to iOS, given the successful use of unrestricted browser engines on macOS (and every other OS).

Before opting for the extreme step of removing functionality, Apple needs to offer documentation of all the methods for managing and mitigating specific threats that were considered and subsequently ruled out as infeasible (sandboxing, enhanced APIs, etc.). This emphasizes that their actions are indeed the last resort and not merely a way to suppress competition.

The company needs to demonstrate how they would proactively work with browser engine developers to establish strong security controls and threat monitoring on par with or exceeding their current practices for native-only experiences. This shifts the focus to building a safe environment rather than merely limiting the scope of capabilities.

Apple must guarantee that if and when these security challenges are met, it will progressively expand support for unrestricted use of web standards for third-party browser engines. This creates the long-term perspective the DMA is designed to protect and gives confidence to developers investing in advanced web app solutions.

Without taking action in these key areas, Apple's reliance on this DMA portion won't hold up to regulatory scrutiny. They cannot cite generic security dangers then fall back on "practicality" arguments without robust, evidence-backed reasoning.
I think it refers to the fact that you can't just compute an offset from element 0 to get to an element N, like you could if you'd have an array of structs or classes. Assume a struct uses up 128 bytes, then you can get to element N by using a pointer of N * 128 and you'd be positioned directly at the memory location of that struct. - Edit: cache locality like sibling comment mentions sounds more convincing.
The playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks
And if I can't find the app because of the awful app store interface, and if it's stealing my information by demanding permissions that it doesn't need, and if it's showing me ads that I can't block, and if it's bothering me with constant updates, why should I care if it's "fluid"? The goal of software is not to look pretty, it's to be functional. Web apps are more functional than native apps by my metrics. I do not care if it's less fluid, because I use software to do things.
I use Brave for that reason and it’s a totally different browsing experience.
Yeah. I knew something was fishy when I clicked the StuffIt Wikipedia link and from there the link to the Stuy high school page was already a visited link!
And you still haven’t answered the question - 90% of App Store revenues comes from games and I’m almost positive the same is true for Android. Wouldn’t they be motivated to use PWAs to avoid Play Store’s 30% cut if PWAs were so great on Android?
Bigcos don’t care. Bigcos are about getting that paycheck and keep moving.
You're so brave
The fact that it's a tiny part of what pharma companies do is why there is a disconnect. There is something like 70 billion in grants alone (so not even including salaries and stipends a lot of the time) going towards biomedical fundamental research, and it's disconnected from the price signals because pharma companies will never be the ones doing it. It's still a necessary part of the process.

So for the market it looks like 99% of the cost comes after academic research but in reality that's only 40-60% of it.

At the end of the day the price signal doesn't even reach most of the ressources and it is itself a poor proxy for the metric we actually want to optimize, which would be something like QALY.
I remember feeling like this a while ago -- like there was something inherently different (...better?) about "us" (who are in tech because we just fundamentally love programming) compared to "them" (who are in tech because there's good money in it). Though over the last couple years I think I've been changing my mind a bit.

I've had the chance to get to know some more people -- people who are indeed in tech for mostly financial reasons, but who are still fantastic developers and care a lot about the craft. I realized that having dreams outside of software doesn't necessarily make you worse at it, or "less deserving" of the job.

And, I definitely wouldn't conflate "in tech for the money" with "playing politics" / stupid ladder-climbing -- I bet there's some nontrivial overlap there, but there are other reasons one might need strong financial stability, like if they don't have any kind of other safety net (from the government, from their family) to fall back on, and thus feel worried without a good foundation.
Looks like it's already available on Linux & Mac. The change is that they're adding Windows: https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Frankly I don’t care. If they want to take the responsibility then go for it
Pis are expensive? A Pi 4 and all accessories is about $100. Where am I going to do better? Every time someone says this I go look at NUCs and other minis and I don't see anything cheaper.
One of the biggest misses with IP fragmentation was not requiring each fragment to carry the higher protocol header. Or at least do that for UDP.

That decision alone would’ve made fragments so much simpler on network devices and appliances, and much less likely for them to get dropped.
AccessKit
Literally all you did is bitch and moan about someone asking a simple question, lol. Go touch grass.
In the late 90s my Dutch consultancy company worked for McGraw Hill. As a non-native English speaker, I didn’t think much of the name Stuffit until I told a graphics designer at McGraw Hill to use Stuffit to handle a bunch of files I sent her. She looked at me both appalled and curious, likely thinking that this weird European said something offensive. I apologized profusely and explained that it was nothing more than a tool to make files smaller. I still think she thought I pulled her leg.
>What kind of f#$@ng nuance can there be?

I just love how some believe the views of genocidal dictators should be worthy of the same consideration as others. There's no fucking nuance when you've got an invading force indiscriminately butchering civilians, kidnapping children and raping women.
You seem to know more about the field. Will you share some details of your perspective?
And instead of suing Google and Apple, if the PWA experience was so good on Android, then why didn’t Epic just make FortNite a PWA?
For the most part I think it's irrelevant whether some bit of software is provided by Apple or a third party, I see weird hissy-fits about, say, the fact that keyboard customization on macOS uses Karabiner, and I just don't get it. Yes, none of the three+ package managers used on macOS are built in, why would anyone care about that, what possible difference could that make.

But work restrictions are one of the circumstances where the difference becomes a practical one, and getting your company to relax the restrictions may be infeasible, or more effort than it's worth.
Same. I really want AMD to succeed because as a long time Linux user I have strong distaste for Nvidia and the hell they put me through. I paid a lot for a beastly AMD card in the hopes that it would be shortly behind Nvidia and that has most definitely not been the case, and I blame AMD for not putting the resources behind it.

AMD, you can change, but you need to start NOW.