skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those would be the 'Xen-WS' version, I once used one on a network in the mid 80s (85 or 86, couldn't say which with certainty, but it was while I was in secondary school*), the 'workstation' itself was still running DOS/Win1.x but all storage was on the network. I don't know if it was net booted or had DOS etc in ROM on the network card.

* Although the network and classes were at the local college as some kind of crossover access, I recall another of the classes involved their lab of Apple IIe that had this weird gated access to the internet for email.
Somehow the paper they mention completely flew under my radar when I was researching MCTS. Surely it's gonna be a lot of fun to give this modification a spin on my next opportunity.
Half a Century Before Midjourney, There Was Aaron
Apologies for the super late reply, I was travelling.

I totally agree, and that’s where experience comes into play and building a more holistic understanding of how the systems you’re using actually work. If I had a slow query in, say, Postgres, the very first thing I would be doing is “explain analyze” to see what the query plan is and what steps the database will be doing to execute it. 98% of the time doing that will either give you insight into how you might restructure your query or which indices you need to add to make it faster.
I'm looking for a tool like this that converts the schema to Laravel model files. Why? Because I'm lazy.
Dishwasher manufacturers may not officially care what brand of detergent you use but they do recommend a specific brand often in their service manual and I have to assume that some amount of money changed hands for that to happen.
Also see: espressif and the esp-32, it's like a sick joke dealing with TI and NXP afterwards
From my POV, $50/year is not necessarily better than $0. Open source "donations" to open core / commercial OSS businesses typically don't amount to much in total. It's basically a rounding error for most businesses, with the extra downside of accounting/tax tracking. And although many FOSS financial contributors understand that this is a no-strings-attached type of situation, a small portion become very demanding and have unreasonable expectations due to being a supporter.

I mean I kind of get where you're coming from, but on the other hand... outside of software, would you ever praise a product as an amazing life-saver, but express a beef with the makers' lack of a pocket-change GoFundMe?
Yes, if a terrorist blows up all of the several Amazon DCs holding your data, your data will be lost. This is true no matter how many DCs are holding your data, who owns them, or where they are. You can improve your chances, of course.

There have been region-wide availability outages before. They're pretty rare and make worldwide news media due to how much of the internet they take out. I don't think there's been S3 data loss since they got serious about preventing S3 data loss.
I keep reading that fragmentation doesn’t matter for SSDs. But the latency difference between a sequential read and a random read is absolutely huge? When are we going to accept that fragmentation really does matter?
oh, hey there :)

yep. no matter how much bench homework i try to do with my GH projects (uPlot, uFuzzy, uDSV, uTable) to show off their perf, it's impossible to be anywhere near exhaustive. there is simply too much variance in envs, hardware, software versions, etc. i do think it's important that all compared libs perform the same benchmarks though so it's at least apples-to-apples, even if it's just 5 apples out of 1,000 :)

it's a lot of work implementing (in good faith) all other competitors' libs.
True, but I was just trying to point out that they'd have to pay me a lot higher than they would ever do, to make it not a loss to me. Either you make it remote, or you maybe relocate to some place cheaper.
These days, I recommend using DC optimizers that are attached to each module. They provide MPPT tracking on a module level, and make engineering calculations simpler.

They are also much cheaper than microinverters, safer, and more reliable.
When the GP mentioned lipstick and pigs, I thought they were going somewhere too.
Get an Arduino kit, and start playing around with series/parallel circuits driving LEDs, using coils and capacitors, etc.

Really old stuff, with vacuum tubes, can have a "hot chassis" with mains voltage on it, and/or 200-300 volts on the plates of the tubes, be careful. Tube testers can be had, and so can tubes, for the most part.

Newer stuff, with transistors, usually has dead electrolytic capacitors that need to be replaced, and sometimes there will be other issues, most of the time it's a matter of tracing signals through a system to see which stage is at fault.

When you get to the newer stuff, with surface mount components, you'll need to have schematics and block diagrams in order to even start to figure out what's going on. The really new stuff has transistors and other passive parts so small you'll have to have a microscope to work on them with. You'll need hot air reworking gear to repair that type of stuff.

But first.... as I said earlier, start with the basics... programmers don't have good intuition about parallel and series circuits, etc. You can get multimeters and oscilloscopes very cheap these days.

If you want to get into radio, investing and playing with an RTL-SDR dongle and GNU Radio is a great way to get a feel for how things work, and to learn about negative frequencies, and all things signal processing related.
Rivest, Shamir and Wagner, 1996:

"Time-lock puzzles and timed release Crypto"

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf

FWIW it took me about 3.3 years of computation (on one core, it's not parallelizable), from about 2015/2016ish to 2019, to find the solution to Rivest' LCS35 problem (which he created in 1999, so I found the solution 20 years after he created that LCS35 puzzle):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCS35

An article on WIRED for anyone interested (I'm still rocking the same monitor and same keyboard!):

https://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-ol...
Te Reo is often considered a taonga due to its value in the heritage and identity of the Māori people of New Zealand.

Te Reo names are often gifted by Iwis or individuals with sufficient Mana. As a Tangata Whenua Inia, I was strongly recommended to avoid using Te Reo names in business due to cultural reasons.
I wouldn't call it a purpose. Just a source of inspiration and dedication.
Really curious about how the copy legal landscape will look in 5 years after a lot of the AI lawsuits settle.
It also has very poor contrast. I can turn my phone on the side to read the vertical text but the white text is impossible to read on the yellow and orange backgrounds.
I respectfully acknowledge that you aren't the parent to whom I was
responding and that you're jumping in with your own contribution.

But I do not think the "discussion revolved about making a living"
Indeed, it's something of an irritating HN trope/style to try steering
the narrative by telling other people what the "discussion is
actually all about"

As I see it the main theme here was the low social status of academic
work in general.

I realise, and sympathise, that a lot of HN posters are deeply anxious
about "making a living".

My disagreement with the parent is the claim that "the market" is:

"" just society's built-in mechanism for trying to guide people into
doing things that are most needed. ""

Markets are awful at determining what is "needed". They're great at
figuring out how to satisfy people's superficial desires and great at
making money. Look around you. Millions of people doing pointless
make-work jobs in advertising and "the financial industry". Meanwhile,
we keep failing to solve the most elementary challenges of a
sustainable, healthy environment, which is surely a fundamental
need.

For me, this where Neo-liberalism falls flat. Markets cannot tell
society anything about what is needed. Society must tell markets what
is needed... however we achieve that. And so to see things only from
within the frame of "market think" is to remain blind to most of
reality.
Replying to self to correct myself. The Qi series (microchannel based 386 and 486, the very last apricot PCs) had 1.44MB floppies
Probably because actual dialogue would eventually lead us to the inevitable inconsistencies inherent, even foundational to the cause.

The only defense, then, is to shut down dissent at all costs.
This was originally announced in 2022: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/25/23320722/spacex-starlink-...

I'm impressed that they're only a few months behind schedule.
Recall is a defined legal procedure. It doesn't matter if it has to actually go into a service center or not. This is absurd nit picking.
The Ten Thickest Books I Own
It does not, just that both dimensions are coded for in some way. Per the current article, temporal and spatial codes have been previously studied in isolation, so it was not known if or how they might be intertwined. This has elucidated new nuances of that relationship.
I'd be happy to debate with anyone who has even watched an online virology course:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhmZX2NKiNktEViriylQ...

Just spend 25 hours watching videos so we have a common language about how viruses and the immune system works. Doesn't need to take a decade to bump up a person's knowledge above the level of online blogs.
There is no difference. You cannot have someone calling the protester an idiot and then being offended when called out using the same language. Zero difference.
Amazon is definitely the wrong place to look for products in this category.
> an European standard traffic sign since the 1930s

and how's the standardization drive going?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign#No_mo... (link somebody else posted)
It took me a while to understand how little is ultimately going on here. If you're using Astro to generate a static site, then the question of how to serve it has nothing to do with Rust — it's a question you can ask (and which should be relatively easy to answer) for any web server.
Like FTX/SBF, this person would have probably become an accomplished businessman, if his criminal mind wasn't in his way. Fascinating to read how crafty those people in exploiting any gaps where potential profits could be made. They are like is financial "hackers" that can segfault some .org.
A foundation in Julia (programming language, 3-Part series)
Exactly, we had 1 to 2 QA people compared to 6 to 8 developers, roughly speaking the developers knew more about particular details of like a third of the system where QA knew all the interactions.
Didn't he also invent dry-cleaning fluid? Flourine-based, powerful stuff.
Relatively is itself a relative term. Tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands? You’ll have to quantify at least a little better to attract meaningful answers.
If you don't enjoy studying openings, you can get far by just being aware of opening ideas and common traps, and spending the rest of your time on midgame and endgame. Memorizing thousands of opening lines is really only for 2200+ Elo players (global top 20,000), even though Chessable and other marketing teams are doing their best to convince amateurs otherwise.
Like SBF?
It's normally automatic, but there's quite a few edge cases.

Tesla's manufactured pre-June 2015 (which is still quite young for a car) are losing OTA updates because AT&T ended 3G coverage in 2022. They can be updated, but not everyone is going to do so regularly.
You can see a realtime map here. It looks similar to me. https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink
How does it affect Boeing? I suppose in terms of service contracts and the like, but haven't the airlines bought the planes already?
It has. Unless you are willing to take a reduced rate, there’s not a lot out there. I’m just about to go perm again after 6 years contracting because I’ll be better off !
I recently released NAISYS, an open source command shell wrapper for LLMs that makes the shell all context friendly. I've been testing it out with building web sites, and improving things along the way. It's funny how good AI is at answering questions, but not like project management. So I'm using NAISYS to explore that.

https://github.com/swax/NAISYS
1) And they continually get undermined by populists, just as is happening here.

2) Argentina has the GDP of a third world country. It is poor. You don't need natural resources to be a wealthy country, you need efficient industry. You will never get that as long as Argentina continues its populist policies. I'm not even against government spending, but the spending needs to be done tactically, like east Asian countries, not for "muh workers".
Oo good question.

I guess you could arguably say Plato’s Republic touches on this, but its not the same. Makes me think there must be earlier examples of this though.
In HN conversations and just about all conversations there is a significant difference and HN's guidelines express this. And the point there is not about who has a right to be offended but not filling up the thread with invective. If you thought the other comment was bad, you can just downvote it and/or flag it.
I'm a UK contractor and I'd say I've learnt lots of new skills and tech in my periphery while on Ruby on Rails and database contracts.

In the last few years I've been exposed to enough Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Azure, Google Cloud, Dataform and BigQuery to feel comfortable putting them on CV.

Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint too but I don't think I could face any more.
What behavior would you prefer from a box that specifically instructs you to ask a question?
Excellent point on "Death of a pig" by E.B White. It's the perfect example of a timeless essay, without a "big scientific idea".

For others unaware of it, that essay was written in 1948[1], go read it in full. It starts like this:

"I spent several days and nights in mid-September with an ailing pig and I feel driven to account for this stretch of time, more particularly since the pig died at last, and I lived, and things might easily have gone the other way round and none left to do the accounting."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240227003736/https://www.theat...
I was thinking of Wirecard. There's an awful lot of centry-level financial fraud going around right now.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-bigges...
Performance and Efficiency
> Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive.

It's an apples to oranges comparison. Solar panels don't provide power overnight for example, but people place a lot of value in being able to use power at night. Likewise the grid scales up and down to meet the demands placed on it which a basic solar setup (i.e. without batteries) can't do. Then there's reliability, transmission etc.
This is accountability theater because of institutional US government support and dependency on Boeing as a strategic defense contractor for other divisions. After MCAS, they know they can't be touched.
It’s not a search box.
Thanks for making this! Helps simplify it nicely
Can this be used with “bedrock edition” of Minecraft? Or only the java version?
> I'm suggesting that social science isn't really a science.

In reality and practice, no effort at science is 100% "really a science".

But for "social science":

(1) It can be a goal to have some of social science be real science.

(2) My wife's Ph.D. was in social science, and her dissertation was real science. The work started with a real question, in social science, gathered some real data, analyzed the data statistically, and came to some real conclusions. The conclusions were "new, correct, and significant". Some science? Yup.
Reviews can contain incorrect information. Do you blindly trust everything you read in a review?
It's called regulatory capture.
Wait 10-20 years and re-evaluate which of them is successful and which isn't.
I think of this piece of literature every time I see people criticizing universities for not having “useful on the job curriculum” or schools not teaching “useful skills”.

Useful skills might stop being useful quick, general knowledge/intelligence goes further.
yes, you are right !
If you've ever had to organise a scientific study you'll understand why. Privacy and ethics are important but they make recruitment of a large and representative sample for any medical study a nightmare. First you'll need to run your protocol past an ethics board and do back and forth until it's agreed. Once you have that done you'll send out an invite (often blind) in hopes of getting people who fit your study aims and you will get who you get. There are often costs associated with this.

So now you have some willing participants you have to screen your initial group to filter it down to people who actually meet your recruiting criteria and consent them for your study. Finally you actually get to gather your data, if you need people to come in for sampling and have to cover their expenses.

Next you'll look at your data and realise there's some confounding effect which reduces your powers to infer anything (e.g. somehow you overrecruited a particular group and they turn out to do something which correlates with the thing you're studying). You'll cry a little and realise you need to recruit more people to have any statistical power to draw a conclusion.

tldr; medical and scientific studies are hard if you want them to actually have any validity.
Pair programming with AI already is great. I fear if it weeds out experts and people implement AI versions of themselves as offshoot. Seems far away given depth of business logic/available data in those limited spots
Constantly updating geyser to keep it up to date with the most recent bedrock versions is quite a pain. Maybe paper has tools to automate these updates (I use fabric) but it seems unlikely.
I'm getting sick of this: Groq, Tenstorrent, all the promising startups are offering inference-only solutions. I have it from Groq official channels that they do not plan to invest development time into enabling training, because inference is where the big money is at. Which I understand insofar as inference demand probably outstrips training demand by ~millions, but I still can't help but find all of this so egreriously disappointing!
I feel like this could be done on shadertoy fairly easily, no?
The current dividend rates + IR35 means the gap is much smaller than it used to be.
The market resolution to a Koch brothers outfit moving tar sands coke next door is “tough bananas”.

Regulations and administrative law exists to prevent a free-for-all of “fuck you, do something about it”.

Because your air, your water, your society is at risk from this kind of “unfettered” capitalism.
You could try Chess 960 (a.k.a. Fischer random) which was designed to avoid opening theory. It's very fun.
That assumes a working cellular modem. Tesla has already lost connectivity with pre-June 2015 models in the the US. Long term we can expect all onboard cellular modems to become outdated as cellular networks evolve in various countries.
They do use JDBC and even allow you to customize your choice of driver version for a db. It is a bit clunky when one has to resolve missing dependencies but that's just how it works I guess.
Give your small business or side hustle an edge with AI!
“That's private property!” — Colonel "Bat" Guano in Dr. Strangelove (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s
I want to be careful not to pummel a straw man, because it's sort of clear that Graham doesn't believe the Best essay must come from an exploration of science or of exciting new ideas (though most of the advice he gives is for that kind of essay). If I have a concern, I think it's about the chemistry his writing has with this community, how threads here will bleach it down to a game of prog-rock writing, trying to somehow outdo Darwin.
A lot of that depends on the company and their ability to execute on these things. At my company, I’m not too worried in the near term. Thinking 10-15 years out, I still don’t know if I’m all that worried, when I look at what progress has looked like over the last 15 years.

A lot of people are wearing rose colored glasses right now when it comes to AI. It will take time to see how much of that optimism is valid and how much is misplaced. This isn’t the first technology to come along that people thought was a silver bullet to solve all the world’s problems. Over time, as the market matures, the glasses will come off and we’ll see where we end up. AI is a tool, and will be really good for some things, but won’t be the right tool for every job. There will also be various levels of autonomy giving to it, depending on the use.

It’s also worth remembering that there are a broad range of businesses out there are varying levels of technical maturity. Just because some companies figure out how to do some cool stuff with AI doesn’t mean all companies will be doing it at that same level. There are still many companies that barely have a web presence, 25-30 years after the internet went mainstream, while other companies exist solely online.

I have no doubt I’ll see professions disappear in my lifetime, while new ones are born. If I need to adapt, I’ll adapt.
Absolutely agree. If you’re willing to maximise your pension savings, inside IR35 work with a higher day rate is usually more lucrative overall, even though you have to pay tax the normal way (gasp!).

Also, being on PAYE through an umbrella is less admin, no worries about HMRC, and lower overheads compared to Ltd - no accountants, business bank account, xero/sage (if you’re a DIYer), insurances, etc.
Have you tried looking him up? He could still be alive.
Insilico reveals a 'soup to nuts' process for AI-generated lung fibrosis drug
I don't use copilot so can't vouch for its accuracy but I have heard it produces code with security holes a large percentage of the time. I do use GPT-4. ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) is not that great. GPT-4 blows it out of the water. Let's take SQL as an example.

As a software engineer/founder, I've used it to write all kinds of advanced queries for Tunnelmole that get all kinds of metrics which previously would have require a Data team. You can write a prompt like "here is my table structure, give me a query to get my abandoned cart rate".

If I ever hire engineers for my project, prompting is a skill I'll be looking for.
The OED can say whatever it likes, but if it invalidates "cogent" as a description for an actor rather than their actions, it disagrees with modern usage, and is thus itself, in a word, wrong.
That’s why the article characterizes them as an “alternative to GPUs […] for AI development“.

That being said, it’s a Grayskull Processing Unit. ;)
I don't see how these are incompatible views. Maybe it takes a decade, maybe it takes a century, maybe it doesn't happen at all... building the alternative remains the first step. Certainly no adoption is going to happen before the medium exists. Also we wouldn't be publishing articles like this one if there wasn't already some desire to change things.
Because you want to fuzz more effectively, not write a fuzzer more effectively.
That's some great advice.

When you say "don't overwrite", di you mean to start from scratch every chapter? I can imagine this would work for me: repetition is key. But also to get frustratingly boring after a few chapters.

I'll just treat is as any trunk based git repo. Commit significant progress, several times per hour. Then rebase to "summarize" my learnings into a history. I'll commit them to a public repo and treat as if that annoying colleague is going to review. Not that anyone will ever read them. I probably won't myself. But the art of rebasing, amending and pulling apart helps me with what would have been the perfect eLearning history.
This. The UI was one of the most appalling, unintuitive messes I've ever encountered on any software product.

The game was up for Postman when I realised I could replicate all its functionality I needed by asking ChatGPT to write me some Perl scripts that made heavy use of LWP.