skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Criminal negligence. It is obvious to any practitioner the safety consequences of implementing systems that way.

I'm not an aerospace engineer, but it doesn't seem at all obvious the design of MCAS would rise to the level of criminal negligence, which is an understandably high bar. It's not a flight critical system (pilots can easily safely fly the plane without it functioning) and pilots are trained to respond to issues with automatic trim regardless of the cause. The particular failure mode of the system and the difficulty the pilots had in responding to it, even after they knew about it in the case of the second MAX crash, should obviously be addressed and arguably should have been considered during the design phase. But I don't see any world where that reasonably meets the bar of criminal liability.

> Fraud would be another. Agents of Boeing represented to airlines and regulators that training nor knowledge of implementation details were necessary for safe operation.

Again I don't see how that meets the criminal fraud bar unless Boeing knew in advance that extra training and awareness were required and deliberately chose not to provide those things.
The Best Essay
That's a good point. Not sure how to do that right now
I'd love to listen to a podcast about this.

When I saw "fraud of the century" I thought it was the OneCoin scam (Ruja Ignatova, "The Crypto Queen"). BBC did a very detailed investigative podcast about that one: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/uj5nz-a0b8a/The-Missi...
Sorting with CUDA (SIMD) Shuffling
Seems that people like SIMD/SWAR stuff.

Public writing is scary -- feedback is much appreciated!
Exactly. If I actually wanted to fuzz this I'd use libfuzzer and manually fix the crc32. An LLM would be useful in helping me write the libfuzzer glue code.
Surveillance Through Push Notifications
Energy dissipative composites using self-repairing interfaces
> You sound like a manager [not wanting an "overqualified person with a terrible attitude"]

They sound like a bad/lazy manager. If their report is overqualified, they need to be fed better, harder, larger work. If their report has a bad attitude, a decent manager would figure out what's misaligned and fix it.
The second I saw this was about OIDC support I knew what's up. This is a great way to flood your support bandwidth with "doesn't work with X" complaints.
I have a project dedicated to this topic: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench

It is important to explain the limitations of a benchmark, provide a methodology, and make it reproducible. It also has to be simple enough, otherwise it will not be realistic to include a large number of participants.

I'm also collecting all database benchmarks I could find: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/22398
That's a great argument and way of reversing the argument-from-ignorance line.

That said, I think people who argue from ignorance suppose we don't know how AI works either. Since the admen selling it tell them that.

We know exactly and precisely how AI works; we can fully explain it. What we don't know are circumstantial parts of the explanation (eg., what properties of the training data + alg gave rise to the specific weight w1=0.01).

This is like knowing why the thermometer reads 21 deg C (since the motion of the molecules in the water, etc. etc.) -- but not knowing which molecules specifically bounced off it.

This confusion about "what we dont know" allows the prophetic tech grifter class to prognosticate in their interest. Since "we dont know how AI works, then it might work such that i'll be very rich, so invest with me!"

All this said, it's a great observation.
I know it isn’t the what you mean, but as an aside (rather than a contradiction), the gaming marked is still much bigger than the ML model training one, right? So presumably people care about the graphics part in the sense that development there funds the development of the cards, haha.

I always assumed that was what killed Xeon Phi. Hard to justify a GEMM card in and of itself. However clever you get, NVIDIA will be back next year with twice as much bandwidth.
Looks nice! I have a comprehensive docker compose file with itzg’s image [0] repeated a dozen times.

[0] https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server
CraftBukkit isn't really server software anymore either, you can still download it for latest MC but it's really just Spigot with some features disabled. https://madelinemiller.dev/blog/stop-using-craftbukkit/
Not to take away from your point, but I'd argue that counting cycles is usually misleading even for small embedded systems now. It's very difficult to build a system where cycles aren't equally squishy these days.
I imagine you can strap a detachable, properly sized solar panel to a torpedo and use the sensors and engine on the torpedo to do most of the work and seed it everywhere.
There is a constantly updated table in ClickHouse with no login required for querying: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGNvdW50K...
AGPLv3 https://github.com/ArneVogel/listudy/blob/078fe15806ab7b2391... and elixir and nodejs

I wondered about whether it was just static repetition, and it seems that, no, they're pulling in Stockfish.wasm: https://github.com/ArneVogel/listudy/blob/078fe15806ab7b2391...
You must mean clear cut cases too then. Not self defence etc.
Paul’s blog looking a bit different!
> This could instead be explained by having a IQ

I respectfully disagree. Reasoning and memory is not the same.

If you happen to actually become aquaintaned to more than one of this type of people during your lifetime you will (maybe) note that their abilities in memory do not need to be correlated to their abilities in reasoning. I have personally met more than a handful with extraordinary memory skills, and while some would probably be able to achieve a "high IQ" score others would certainly not. The latest I've met did not even pass public school reading tests [0].

As an aside, obtaining a high IQ score is done using a standardized procedure and as such it is only a measure of one very specific class of reasoning skills, not "general intelligence" per se

[0] First hand, he told me

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Edit to add this: Here I specifically relate to the memory-equilibrists due to the parent comment emhasizing one such specimen. Others in the savant spectrum (it is a spectrum) do have abilities that would correlate better with the measure known as "IQ".
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The PR author had an expectation that their PR deserved to be merged.

The people who agree with that are the ones who see FOSS as a freebie.
Plenty of books have written in Norwegian. Why would you expect a culture to be celebrating other culture's victory when they are competing instead of their own? Would we end care about the south pole genre without Shackleton? There are so many things that Norwegians do that don't make headlines here. A story that transcends culture and interests the entire world is rare.
You definitively looking wrong way. You cannot choose software before you have industrial grade hardware.

And sure, you could try to push people to buy non-industrial grade hardware, but I do not advise to go this way.

Industrial grade hardware, is essentially money machine, which is designed to work and gather money, so when for some reason happen out of service, client will suffer money losses.

So reliability is extremely important for this market.

And when you sell system, based on industrial grade components, they usually have in agreement TOS - usually in means of possible unscheduled downtime, for example IBM mainframes have 99.999% uptime (about 5 minutes unscheduled downtime per year, it mean, they will pay money if you will have evidence, that downtime because of their fail).

What this mean, if you have development processes certified for regulations and industrial grade hardware, if something happen, you always will have hard guarantees against sues, but if something is not adequate grade, you could lost huge money.

In some cases, regulations just prohibiting usage of non-certified hardware and software for specific regulated functions (examples are medical equipment, life-critical building management equipment, for example ventilation controller).

And life is complicated. Just few years ago existed huge market niches, where nobody care about non-reliable systems, but last months lot of things changed, now even toys for children are regulated, and I'm not sure when this trend will end.

And you may already understand, exists industrial grade windows, industrial grade linux (even some branch of embedded OS/360), but must say, they are extremely different from "civilian" - for example looks like is is still possible to use industrial OS/2, when civilian is already subject of ancient history, and industrial linux is also probably very old.

Any way, most probably you will not have rights to make significant changes into industrial system (only certified environment, only certified drivers), because if something changed, you will lost TOS guarantees.

Looks like in each case you should carefully check pros and cons of specific system to make decision, what is better for you.
Considering the length of the road they took to become QA testers, they had better be. This is more evidence that humanities studies are a substantial stumbling block, in terms of career growth.
This is not the first time that the whims of the rich have gutted cities. Compared to the explosion of suburbia and white flight in the 50s-80s, the current situation is much less dire.

My hometown of Minneapolis lost 30% (!!) of its population between 1950 and 1980. The only major difference now is that rich people are losing money instead of making more of it.
I'm also close to this area, and executives see the writing on the wall.

ChatGPT doesn't even need to be nearly as good as the writers it replaces for those writers to lose their jobs. It just has to be good enough that the people who write the cheques can't tell the difference, and such people don't all have a good eye for quality writing.
>the end of Dennard Scaling around 2006 has meant that the rate of increase in performance has slowed even as Moore’s Law has continued.

This is why parallel compute (multi core/GPUs) has taken off since 2006 - heat puts a cap on clock speed, so the only option is to do more operations per cycle. Even some microcontrollers are dual-core now.

I don't see this trend stopping. Massive parallelism is the future of computing.
Could a GPT write those 20 lines of code?
>So your theory is that China is investing unprecedented amounts into EV production to improve air quality in coastal California thereby propping up land values?

China has the necessary political organization and willpower to meaningfully invest in nuclear energy, making EVs an environmental benefit. That does not apply to the US.

>Wouldn't it be cheaper to pass permit reform so that LA and SF metro areas could just build mass transit?

No. Better public transit could work in SF but SF isn't the problem. LA is the problem because it's surrounded by mountains on most sides that trap the pollution, and LA city planning makes public transit a nightmare no matter how you build it. You can't plan a city around interstates then bolt on public transit later.
Is that legit political belief? I ISIS legal in US too?
Chia ran a contest for those:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18437659
You can ZK an XGBoost or neural net with https://github.com/zkonduit/ezkl
Pterodactyl is a commonly used one as the other comments say, but just to give some background, Pterodactyl itself, rather than being a minecraft server hosting software, is actually a generic server hosting software that can be used pretty effectively with a lot of games or even webservers. The base configuration of a pterodactyl managed instance is an egg, which is basically a docker image wrapped in a bunch of configurations[1]. This means you can run any docker container in pterodactyl and manage it all through a fairly slick web panel[2] which allows you to easily tweak things like memory allocation, send commands directly to the console, and share access with other accounts. There's lots of eggs already configured for minecraft and other games like Rust (not the programming language), so a lot of the complexity of setting up a docker container is abstracted away and for a non-advanced user its a pretty nice balance between the ease of use for a realm and the extensibility of a full server.

[1] https://pterodactyl.io/community/config/eggs/creating_a_cust...

[2] https://streamable.com/hlscux (an example of a panel for a server I administer)
This is not the greatest essay in the world. No, This is just a tribute.
The hardest part of writing is it's hard to predict how it will be received. You cannot 'focus group' writing, unlike other mediums of information.

Disney can predict with a high degree of certainty that its superhero movies will do well, as there is a large, built-in market for those movies, and they tend to be conceived on the same creative blueprint or foundation. Even its 'duds' are still profitable.

But this is not possible with writing, especially not internet writing. What is the market for short-form contrarian non-fiction? Who knows. It's hit or miss, mostly miss
First sentence reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ
GPLv3 https://github.com/biolab/orange3/blob/3.36.2/LICENSE but other parts are AGPLv3 https://github.com/biolab/orange3-text/blob/1.15.0/LICENSE
Mobile NixOS is mostly dead. Last successful hydra build for op6 was in January 2023.

Bluetooth refused to turn on in mobian, I'm not sure why.
Simpler answer is: at one point stuff got put into swap to make room for a memory-hungry task, and it hasn't been referenced since, so no need to pull it back into RAM.
Is this novel? Spatial codes have been known for long and neuron (populations) are known to code for time [1]. That reference also states that "Neurons that respond selectively to the temporal and spatio-temporal structure of sensory stimuli have also been identified in the auditory system of birds and mammals". Doesn't that pre-empt the conclusion that "Thus, the brain can represent time and space as overlapping but dissociable dimensions".

[1]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2012.046...
Holy shit I need to use this now.
If the plane can be taken out of the sky by a stray balloon, its a shit plane. The segment was about quality issues with Boeing. Similar to BMW. Yeah great engineering but crappy quality so IMO they are shit cars.
The problem with these approaches is that the data is scrambled on the backend, so you can't access the files directly from S3 anymore. Instead you need an S3 gateway to convert from scrambled S3 to unscrambled S3. They rely on a separate database to reassemble the pieces back together again.
That's never the proposal but is often the outcome. Firing your engineers and outsourcing or eliminating large amounts of QA most would agree was likely to make Boeing planes less safe.

Yet no lawyer raised an objection. They lawyers also successfully argued that FAA testing was not needed and Boeing can and should be trusted to signoff internally.

There are lots of ways to justify.
It's absolutely true. The detriment of manifesting the necessary new and very nasty manufacturing processes make it a done deal, especially compared to simply building trains, which is admittedly not simple in the US due to the cruel and unusual political economic situations. Nevertheless, all of this is true.
> letting personal biases and stereotypes drive the process

also known as "culture fit"
Daymnnn this is amazing. Feels like I need this too too.
Some questions tell me more about the writer of the article than about what's not in the movie.

> What is the functional difference between House Atreides and House Harkonnen when they both share the same brutalist architecture and technology?

For the Fremen, very little. For the urban population in and around Arrakeen, the Atreides are obviously less brutal (and closer to baseline human) than the Harkonen.

> How exactly do the Bene Gesserit operate

Not every questions needs an answer.

> what makes Lady Jessica different enough from the others that she’s seen as a traitor to her own people when she’s acting exactly the same way as them?

She decided on her own to risk bringing the Kwisatz Haderach, putting a very long term plan in jeopardy because her husband wanted a son rather than a daughter as dictated by the plan.

> Part 2 scrubbed much of the intentional Islamic influence from Herbert’s text, such as never calling Paul’s war a “jihad,” and replacing the Arabic words used by the Fremen in the novel with a new fictional language.

Isn't a desert being mined for a vital resource and being occupied by colonial powers oppressing the indigenous population enough to make the connection?

It feels a bit like criticising 2001 or Contact for now showing how the aliens look.
It's true, however the main security measure of Qubes-Whonix is not Kicksecure but hardware virtualization, which isolates Tor Browser (anon-whonix) from VM establishing the Tor connection (sys-whonix). Kicksecure is of secondary importance.
Why the Use of "Recall" for Tesla Over-the-Air Updates Is Silly
> Our study reveals neurons in the MTL and mPFC that encode
time and space during exploration in a virtual environment for
fixed durations. Time cells activated at rest in the absence of
movement or other external contextual change, while distinct
time cells and place cells emerged during navigation and ex-
hibited divergent responses to changing tasks. These results
demonstrate a neuron-level code for spatiotemporal context in
the human brain, in which time and space are simultaneously
represented but not wholly conjoined.

Hack for skimming papers:

1. Read the abstract. It's short and will tell you what the paper investigates. If it's too much jargon, skip it and come back.

2. Skip the entire paper and read the "discussion" or "conclusion" near the end. This will pretty much tell you what the paper is saying, typically in more familiar language.

3. Go back and re-read the abstract.

4. If you're still interested, read the figures.

5. If this paper is up your alley, now you can read the whole paper with context and can appreciate the methods of investigation.
Turso – Countless (SQLite) databases embedded anywhere. Simple.
Does that still work? I'm getting "Code: 60. DB::Exception: Table default.hackernews_history does not exist."
Adding tilt to the panels cost US$200 for a US$100 panel. Would have been cheaper to have 25% more stationary panels.

Few installations bother with tilting panels any more. 20 years ago, when solar panels were expensive, that was a thing. Not so much any more.

That you can get 13KW of new panels for US$6000 is amazing.
There's a cost to open-sourcing code. It takes effort. You must write documentation and clean up your code in many ways. It's good to "clean up code" of course but is that the most urgent thing on your task-list?

Who should pay for that effort? The original author? Yes if they think it's worth it and they can afford to spend the time on it.

There's also a risk whenever you publish source-code, someone might sue you for copyright infringement, or patent violation, etc.
I know a few PDs, and I also worked in a court. The story checks out to me. I don’t think you’ll find a lot of PDs who will say cops and prosecutors regularly target genuinely innocent people. For the most part the job is to make sure all the boxes are checked and that the prosecution matches the actual crime.
I need to be more offline then.
I completely agree with this assessment.

But to play devil's advocate, someone else might claim that if I never meet any insufferable people, I am likely the most insufferable of all. (Just trying to steel man the position I disagree with here.)
They're actually orthogonal approaches – from what I've seen so far the LLM fuzzer generates much higher quality seeds than you'd get even after fuzzing for a while (in the case of the VRML target, even if you start with some valid test files found online), but it's not as good at generating broken inputs. So the obvious thing to do is have the LLM's fuzzer generate initial seeds that get pretty good coverage and then a traditional coverage-guided fuzzer to further mutate those.

These are still pretty small scale experiments on essentially toy programs, so it remains to be seen if LLMs remain useful on real world programs, but so far it looks pretty promising – and it's a lot less work than writing a new libfuzzer target, especially when the program is one that's not set up with nice in-memory APIs (e.g., that GIF decoder program just uses read() calls distributed all over the program; it would be fairly painful to refactor it to play nicely with libfuzzer).
Apparently Turso has a free $0 tier (yay!):

https://turso.tech/pricing

(Which makes it a good candidate for the following page, listing online database providers with free tiers) :

https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget/blob/master/pages...

Related:

YouTube video: "Getting started with Turso":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39KzlxHHnH0
Stalks or not?

Actually, I think it’s a significant omission as to whether or not her Tesla X had the old stalks, or the new “screen only” gear configuration (well, there are buttons overhead for gearing but they’re not intended as the primary selector).

I have a Tesla Y with stalks. I’ve test drove the new controls and personally would never buy a Tesla (or any other brand) with the new controls. I don’t buy MKBHD’s assertion that you get used to them.

The article says the family had 3 Teslas. Again, no mention of whether there was a mix of controls among those cars or if they all had one or the other set of stalks (or not). But the family doesn’t blame the car.
Tenacious reference.
We need moore's nvidia law.

Price increases 50% every 2 years
Show HN: Teaching myself baby plain text accounting with large language models
I finally took this community's advice after reading about plain text accounting for years but being too scared to dive in. I timeboxed it to an hour or two this weekend and thankfully large language models are more than up to the task! If anyone has done similar things or already solved this problem I'm all ears. Next up will be a dashboard using Observable Framework with this transactions data (https://observablehq.com/framework/; made a demo here: https://jaanli.github.io/american-community-survey/income). Open to any feedback/tips if you have done this before or are less fearful of accounting!
Very cool. Now I just need to find a reason to use it.
> One thing I like in an initial question is outrageousness. I love questions that seem naughty in some way — for example, by seeming counterintuitive or overambitious or heterodox. Ideally all three.

I believe it is possible/likely that the best essay in the world could not be realized as such (thus, it wouldn't/couldn't be the best essay in the world), because most people couldn't even get by one of these let alone all three...and, there's likely to be many other hurdles one would have to make it over.
> These anecdotes have as much credibility as alien abductions, remote viewing, out of body experiences or other self-reported paranormal experiences...

Those types of experiences are not the type of behaviour that is on topic here. Also, depending on perspective what you wrote may well be perceived as derogatory.

People suffering[0] from some degree of savant syndrome generally can display "non-normal" behaviour which is

1) observable, and

2) repeatable

[0] Yes, suffering. To quote the article

Injury, disease, or disability essentially “unlocks” the brain, leading a particular region to explode in functioning and flourishing.

... but also in the sense of many having difficulties living among "the normies" which are the rest of us
This feels like Shamir's secret sharing with a pinky promise that "we won't decrypt things earlier", am I missing something?