skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dad was a teacher, too, and he also couldn't bear forcing his students to pay for new editions of a textbook. So he wrote his own. Students could print copies at cost in the print shop. I've continued the tradition of writing my own books and putting them online for free for the students."

Thanks for that. My professors were in part like yours. But some other professors (I think it was about MBA folks, not IT people) apparently urge everyone to buy their really expensive book. And if you did not, you would have no idea about the weird case in chapter 2, he makes the exams about ..
Hercules doesn’t emulate at the microcode level. It implements the appropriate instruction set(s).
Spot on for me, but there's a different argument at play: At the beginning of the OSX on x86 times, Apple had an OS with a stellar user experience, but the hardware was just completely overpriced, so Hackintosh made complete sense.

Fast forward to today and I think Apple managed to pivot this almost to the complete opposite end. I think the hardware is incredible value (that's debatable for sure, but my M1 aluminum machined Macbook with Apple Silicon is blazing fast, completely silent, super sturdy and runs forever — I wouldn't trade it for any other laptop I could buy with money), while the Operating System has really taken a backseat, with hugely annoying bugs unfixed since 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39367460

To me, in a world like that, Hackintosh simply doesn't make much sense anymore. Asahi Linux is really the star on the horizon, by doing exactly the opposite: Letting a free and better maintained operating systems run on strictly awesome hardware.
I was wondering why in my neck of the woods a small 2 bedroom has a mortgage of about $4500/mo.
It’s also a lot harder.

Does Intel support ECC? Last I checked it was only their enterprise cpus that did.

What about AMD, they claim to support ECC, but, then tell you that you need a compatible motherboard. Now go on Newegg and try finding an amd motherboard with documented support for ECC. It’s nearly impossible.

And im saying this as someone who has built a few AMD+ECC systems.
Are you able to find COBOL programmers to hire, or is it like Rust where a lot of jobs are "know C++ and we'll train you"?
This is a feature large csps we’re looking for to improve their unit economics. There are a lot of issues that the author points out, but first and foremost it’s not a clear TCO win.
About tweaking the fundamental settings of your brain
Wow, I think a lot of us would exchange their lived experiences with anything, even pay to get rid of them. Although most people try to get over it at work, most people aren’t well, mentally-wise.
Hello, we're 4 engineers who recently released Optico, an audio-chat moderation SDK for multiplayer-games.

After years of lack of innovation in this industry, we had a technical breakthrough that allows us to charge gaming studios only 1¢ per audio-hour.

This is >10X more affordable than our competition, while still being 2X faster than them.
The nature of numbers as `A10^(n+1) + B10^n` for digits `XXXABXXX` is a very important relationship for doing any arithmetic. As you tokenize strings of digits, you lose the position information within the token make more complicated relationships between tokens because the total number of token pairs increases.

For example in order for a super simple model to learn 3 digit multiplication, it would need to see at least one example for each token in order to get ANY information about what number it represents. Alternatively, with single digits you only need an example where each position is present in each location. Obviously, we would hope to have plenty of data, but I would expect better generalization from models which need to rely on memorization less.

Alternatively, I can see a few reason why grouped digits would be better, but they are more complicated reasons than the reason above so by Occam's Razor my intuition says single digits should be better.
Put USB stick into computer, click on "Files" in the program chooser, select the USB drive (helpfully listed as "USB drive" even), drag your files there?

Same as on Windows and MacOS really. I don't dispute that Linux has rough edges, but putting files on a USB stick is not one of them tbh.
No. I'm teaching my kids basic math for now. They can learn how to program later if they have the interest for it. Generally I allow them to follow their interests instead of forcing them to learn mine.
The kind of LEO satellites that’s being considered here wouldn’t have such a big issue with space debris. In very low earth orbit the orbits decay rapidly, so debris is cleared fairly quickly. And using these low orbits is something SpaceX is in a unique position to exploit. SpaceX doesn’t care if the satellite falls down after 5 years because they can realistically replace a full constellation for a reasonable price within 5 years anyway.

Having spy satellites in low orbits is also something that only works if you can launch hundreds or thousands of them since each one will cover a fairly small area. Again, something only SpaceX can realistically maintain.

In fact, I think making higher orbits unusable for satellites would be extremely beneficial for USA right now, since they’re the only one who would have the capability of operating satellites in that environment without bankrupting themselves.
Uncanny X-Men 141-142
Conversely, perhaps that $343k home actually shouldn’t be worth that much. In a properly functioning market (e.g. no perverse incentives to own a unit and decline to rent it instead of renting it for less money, along with genuinely unpenalized liquidity such that a long-time owner can sell and buy something different without paying utterly absurd taxes and fees), prices should tend toward the market-clearing price.

Sadly, in real estate, one can easily own a $1M house, prefer to live in a $800k house, and have a situation in which making that trade results in a net loss of cash.
To be perfectly fair, the list of DNSSEC cock-ups is staggering. .nz ccTLD was taken down, IIRC, for 4 days after a bad KSK rollover just last year. I’ve seen prominent registrars with ‘automated’ DNSSEC fail to upload correct NSEC and RRSIGs. It’s not uncommon to see .gov domains go down because of DNSSEC. You’d think all these entities should get it right, but they don’t. Probably why many major tech domains such as google.com don’t use DNSSEC.

But to your point, using a ‘off-brand’ can really hurt sometimes. `.af` might be a cute marketing tactic, but it’s actually Afghanistan, and the Taliban play by a different rulebook. I believe it was `gay.af` that found that out the hard way. Tons of other stories.
Reversible computing doesn't help wrt. static or leakage power, which is an increasing fraction of power draw in recent device nodes. It does help wrt. dynamic power, and can be implemented via charge-recovery logic - but this comes at a cost in area which increases static power.
My MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014) is my only computer. I still don't feel like changing it so far...
My favourite “well actually” on HN. As a reluctant DIYer, thanks!
Well okay, but that's quite a different thing than "these are harmful responses".
Specifically camera/lidar technology, sensing and making sense of the world around them. Also the realtime chip/OS almost certainly has crossover with the car since they need a RTOS as well.
While I never jumped on the Hackintosh bandwagon, I had many friends who did for almost a decade. They built systems that ran macOS for considerably less when it came to the price/performance ratio.

Nowadays, those same friends are all using Mac Studios because the price/performance ratio for running macOS is better. I believe this is one of the major factors to why the Hackintosh community is dying today (not just changes to drivers and the macOS codebase as the author suggests).
>In the meantime, Apple continues to work with ad tech vendors it trusts — or rather, those with stated policies it approves of — particularly when it comes to a cornerstone of the iPhone maker’s brand: user privacy.

>However, a key question remains: how will Apple ensure user privacy as its ad ambitions expose the iOS ecosystem to a sector of the media landscape with a chequered record when it comes to a cornerstone of its brand promise?

>Earlier this year, it unveiled a tool it will use to police user privacy in the guise of Privacy Manifests (see video above), a measure that many interpreted as Apple’s attempt to (finally) stamp out illicit user-tracking, a.k.a. fingerprinting.

Apple has a vested interest in user privacy and talks about it constantly. Facebook has an interest in selling every piece of information they have about you to the highest bidder and has talked about how stupid users are to give them personal information.

They are not the same.
Your argument is excellent and made me evolve my point of view about Mac. I use Mac for efficiency, and yet, I was wrong about what kind of efficiency I’ve been developing. Tinkering is so important, even if just for the fun of it.
iTunes is still the canonical place to post a podcast and get it picked up by nearly every app.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...
I gotta say i find it extremely hard to believe that one can "own" a domain. This sounds like hand-waving. We don't own software, we barely own computers (to do with what we want), we don't own media.

Is this like "one can own land" but really that's asterisked with Eminent Domain (no pun intended)?
Sorry, should have been more precise. I was measuring loading search results. E.g.:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=test9999

vs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=test9999&ia=web
I am yet to find a highly skilled person who gets excited by “moving fast” aka charging towards bullshit targets backed by unrealistic time/quality expectations. And getting highly skilled people bored or demotivated is the best way to drop all the balls that “leader” tries to juggle.

Seriously, I think this whole Marvel movie style leadership will be seen as a huge red flag and anti-pattern in 10-15 years, just like we now look down on those Henry Ford style managers of the 20th century.
Reading about the history and practices of Scientology was illuminating because it’s the only religion explicitly designed for the modern post-WWII era. It distills many essential ideas of religion to their operational core and attaches them to a front that presents a palatable vector of initiation (which, for modern Western societies, Hubbard correctly identified as psychotherapy, so he made his church look like a mental health program).

Seeing the process of starting a religion laid so bare is helpful in understanding successful operators of the past like Paul the Apostle, Muhammad, Smith, etc.
I once went to a conference about a company selling MLM products (I didn't know they were selling MLM products and I was young enough to not know about MLM). They were eating their own dogfood there, and lunch was free. It was at an expensive hotel in my country. There were loads of yuppies there. Everyone wore a suit.

Despite that, the conference felt as if I was at a cult. And the CEO knew I had a couple of questions about his products. He gave me the death gaze / cold stare during a speech. I was in my early 20s, scared shitless.

Now, remember I wrote the conference was as if I was at a cult? I got invited to this conference via a brother of an aunt (cold side). He used to be in a cult. Now he was a hardcore Christian. He got very rich from these MLM products because he was high up in the chain. As they say: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
>After spending a lot of time with language models, I have come to the conclusion that tokenization in general is insane and it is a miracle that language models learn anything at all.

Truer words have never been spoken
The latest version of Excel loads faster on my laptop than most websites do. I’ve timed this.

I can load the entire MS Office suite and open a Visual Studio 2022 project in less time then it takes to open a blank Jira web form.

What’s your point?
If you assume there is some population whose house size is mismatched to what they want (in particular, the house is too large), lowering the transaction costs could encourage more people to move, which would mean that more people end up with an appropriately-sized house.
> You'll lose a whole lot more time on forced Windows 10/11 updates

Utter fantasy.

They complete whilst I sleep, taking zero of my time at all.
This is addressed in TFA and is not true. The bloat is a symptom of what I've seen referred to as the "laptop class" and is unrelated to any feature adjacent.
That sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. There's not a whole lot I would wanna exchange my experiences for.

Basically we're talking about traveling back in time but forgetting all your memories after that point. And without those memories you'd just end up at exactly the same spot where you now are, wouldn't you? Assuming the universe is deterministic. Which paradoxically means you actually cherish those lived experiences so much that you wanna relive them. ;)
> there's still a lot

define "a lot."

> not every you can

I assumed you would use the already existing automation system. Almost all of them have a mechanism to easily do this.

> as if you're writing everything off except the part you like.

I have a point of view that is different than yours. I'm suggesting that the points you've raised do not all share equal value in the decision making process, and if I had to guess, were based off slightly outdated experiences in the industry.
This is how it should be to be honest, and in tech everything gets compressed because of how fast it moves.

- Energy of the young -- doers

- Leadership of the middle aged -- management

- Wisdom of the elderly -- advisors

It feels like so often we put the elderly in this executive roles, when really they should have a seat at the table, but not be the preeminent decision makers.
I reckon you need tacit knowledge. Experience. Luckily in the order
of 100 hours not 10000.

Build a GPT using Python and Pytorch. For a good course: Andrej Karpathy is your keyword. At $1000 his course is great value. But actually it is free which is even better ;-)

It wont take you to flash attention but will ramp you to the point you could probably read papers about it. I almost got that far then life lifed me. But I was able to implement changes to the architecture of GPT and do some “hey mum I am doing SOTA (2021) machine learning”.
Makes me excited for the next model though!
If you have a great team going to YC helps lower your downside. The most successful companies in your cohort are likely to acquihire you when they need to grow quickly.
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The problem is that this attitude infects even government departments, which ought to serve all citizens, not just the rich ones.
Because they send controlled substances to the US and falsely label them as "supplements"

I know, because I bought RX stuff from India and it did not get labelled as medication
One example I can easily recall is some guy bsing about his arena rank in wow. I wasn't good, but I asked enough questions to determine he was absolutely bsing to the point of laughter.

Like the kind of kid that says he has a GF that lives in another city or state or even Canada lol
Did you miss the part where I say "[and] no de facto standard"? Requests is a de facto standard, and I do use it.

But besides having a clear, well maintained, de facto standard being OK too (as I wrote), it's also great that I don't have to use Requests, as I can write for urllib3 and know that my project will just work everywhere with no added deps - which I do for simpler stuff.

Heck Requests itself is using urllib under the covers, which also has some benefits of uniform implementation of protocols and such.
* for sites they have another way to do it
“No Man Knows My History”, Brodie
1. Russia should have overwhelmed Ukraine years ago. Yet It’s still stuck. The EU is also finally mobilizing militarily. Also, this really isn’t our problem anymore. The EU can’t even give us good trade deals. They’re too busy passing one protectionist law after another. What’s the point when until now they were unwilling to pay their fair share into defense?

2. Iran isn’t doing anything but proxy wars here and there. Mostly in places where we will eventually retreat from.

3. Washington doesn’t need to contain any of them. Globalism is no longer a US interest. We are tired of subsidizing world trade and world security for little to no gain. All we get plenty of is criticism. Only countries that need energy imports from the Middle East are worried about the Houthis. Unlike many other countries, the US does not need energy imports or food imports. This is everyone else’s problem now.
I've not been able to reproduce this behavior. Maybe someone else will have better luck.

create unlogged table foo (id int primary key generated by default as identity, organization_id int default floor(random()*10), created_at timestamptz default timestamp '2010-01-01' + random()*(timestamp '2020-01-01' - timestamp '2010-01-01'));

create index on foo (created_at);

create index on foo (organization_id);

alter table foo add column updated_at timestamptz null default '2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone + random() * ('2020-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone - '2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone);

create index on foo (updated_at);

insert into foo (id) select generate_series(1, 1e8);

cluster foo using foo_created_at_idx;

vacuum analyze;

explain analyze select * from foo where organization_id = 1 order by updated_at limit 10;
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=0.57..169.50 rows=10 width=24) (actual time=0.088..0.242 rows=10 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using foo_updated_at_idx on foo (cost=0.57..173267047.88 rows=10256672 width=24) (actual time=0.086..0.237 rows=10 loops=1)
Filter: (organization_id = 1)
Rows Removed by Filter: 73
Planning Time: 0.168 ms
Execution Time: 0.269 ms
United Airlines Boeing plane loses external panel in flight
Doesn't this contradict that people who believe they're too clever to get scammed are the easiest marks? It seems like a complex topic where multiple factors are a force.
I wonder how contra-rotating schemes compare to something like PBCF?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8PjWSeLUzY

It seems like it should achieve almost the same de-vortex efficiency gains, but without all that added mechanical complexity, skin drag, and underwater noise (PBCF is actually quieter than having no fuel-saving device).

Honestly I'm surprised Sharrow doesn't already use it on their regular toroidal propellers. I notice a lot of hub vortex in their underwater videos...
> outdated experiences in the industry.

clearly, you don't know me or what i do, but we all know what happens with assuming
I know Cirrus CI uses (and I think developed(?) Tart^1 as a scriptable VMM for macOS CI.

[1]: https://tart.run/
Better build system for embedded ESP32 development?
I recently did some development using esp32. The tools provided .. idf.py is horrible at building software. I'm kind of surprised how bad it is.

You have to use kconfig to configure esp32 components.. but you can't disable a component - it will be built even when not used.

Adding a 3rd party lib requires one to write cmake to build the library as an esp32 component.

I guess what I'm asking is what you use for building software based on esp32?

I was looking at something like the yocto build system but for embedded development. I wasn't able to find anything.
These days, if you have the skills and tools to swap a transmission you have to tow it into a dealership and beg them to flash the transmission so it will work in your truck. If you want to avoid that you better know where to find the strategy code and match it up before purchasing another transmission. Same goes for touch screens and a whole slew of essential parts. While we weren't looking the rug was completely pulled out from underneath us. Now your family mechanic is beholden to the dealership.
K&K i would recommend as a first read on logic. i found GEB to be a bit long winded.
You never had the freedom. You can't curtail something that never existed.
i just fucking love this guy.

the Dalton & Michael series at their youtube, i learn a lot!!
Young people told us why KOSA will be harmful to minors
Some of these sites are un-fucking-bearable on my gen old iPhone.

And the if I’m in a place with a shitty signal, forget about it, this problem is 10 times worse.

I’m not even talking about the cluttered UI where only a third of the page is visible because of frozen headers and ads, I’m talking about the size of the websites themselves that are built by people who throw shit against the wall until it looks like whatever design document they were given. A website that would have already been bloated had it been built correctly that then becomes unusable on a slow internet connection, forget slow hardware.

All that is to say, I can’t imagine what it must be like to use the internet under the circumstances in which you described.

I can only hope these people use localized sites built for their bandwidth and devices and don’t have to interact with the bloated crap we deal with.
You all may collapse the difference, but I agree with John that it is meaningful.
Warren Buffet loves Coca Cola. His company Berkshire Hathaway has invested a bunch in coke. His company has also invested a bunch in Apple. Perhaps the similarity of the two businesswise is the key to why he has done this?
I was trying to get AMD GPU support going in llama.cpp a couple weeks ago and just gave up after a while. 'rocminfo' shows that I have a GPU and, presumably, rocm installed but there were build problems I didn't feel like sorting out just to play with a LLM for a bit.

Kudos if Ollama has this sorted out.
I applied for a domain at nic.eu.org in 2023 and I have never gotten a response
Answer Questions Using YouTube Videos as Context (LLMs and Embeddings)
Simple experiment for question answering on YouTube videos using embeddings and the top n YouTube search result transcripts.

Take a question and optionally a YouTube search query (otherwise an LLM will auto-generate one), will compile transcripts for each video result, generate an embedding index using the transcripts and then answer the question using the relevant embeddings.

Returns both a string response and a list of sources that were used for the answer.
as a data point youtube is unusable on raspberry pi 3. This happened within the last year, because prior to that you could "watch" videos at about 10-15FPS which is enough, for instance, to get repair videos in a shop setting (ask me how i know). When the raspberry pi model B - the first one released - came out, you could play 1080p video from storage, watch youtube, play games.

I'm not sure what youtube is doing (or everyone else for that matter.)

If we're serious about this climate crisis/change business, someone needs to cast a very hard look at google and meta for these sorts of shenanigans. eating CPU cycles for profit (ad-tech would be my off the cuff guess for why youtube sucks on these low power devices) should be loudly derided in the media and people should use more efficient services, even if the overall UX is worse.
its quite wild how sam altman left and did it again though, these guys are crazy good
I don't think so, this may be the case in your country of course. I may well have recorded it in my notes if I dig them out, but this was a fourth year course and they certainly degraded over the years.
Yes, some humans would rather increase the homicide rate by two than by one, if the one is themselves.
Probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOxKexn3iBo (or just skimming the attached colab).
We have several. Hiring is possible.

Hiring people with experience of the respective OS is more difficult.