skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, if you get out early enough and only invest a portion of your previous winnings into the next cycle, it only has to work long enough for you to build a decent nest egg. But I suppose the average cycle chaser doesn't think like that...
The most interesting bit is that this is RWKV model, meaning constant size state (no quadratic attention). AFAIK the biggest open weights non-transformer model.
Double Q-Learning Explained
> Starting with calling it a ban

It's a threat of a ban of a medium of US users' speech. Is calling a threat of a ban a ban too much academicism? Perhaps in certain cases, but in this case here's the law text [1]:

> (1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following:

> (A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.

> (B) Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.

An alternative to getting banned is divesting to a US company. You might think of that as "getting banned is an alternative to divesting to a US company", but I think that's the wrong framing in consideration of US TikTok users, who by default have a First Amendment right to use TikTok as long as TikTok willingly continues offering service to the US.

> 2 - Right? Right? "Oh but GDPR is bad, no?"

What does the GDPR have to do with a US ban of TikTok? The EFF is referring to US lawmakers, probably Congress in particular.

> 4 - it was done to Grinder

After the forced sale of Grindr, the US should've passed a privacy law to ban nonconsensual collection of personal data by first party services and ban nonconsensual distribution of personal data by first party services to third parties (including both non-goverment parties and government parties) and from those third parties to other third parties (the way data brokers do). Anyway, I'm not entirely convinced that the way the US government forced the Grindr sale passed the First Amendment.

> 5 - Yes but to let China off the hook because somehow we need to take the high path is just naive. China is free to unban western social networks first before playing the victim here

The EFF's appeal to morals is not very robust in the context of China. I think it's still important to consider the legal angle that the EFF didn't bring up: What China does to US social networks has nothing to do with the First Amendment of the US. National security can override the First Amendment, but "other countries do XYZ too" doesn't.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
oof. We didn't even have the Internet, nevermind Google. Kids these days will never even know what it was like pre ChatGPT. programming and even just computers alone was hard back in the day.
at that point, I would have just disabled the system completely. If I was planning to resell, then I would go back to the stealership and get it repaired.

In my opinion, there are way too many “assistance” systems in modern cars. In the USA, modern trucks and SUVs are built so high that it obstructs a significant amount of view directly in front of the vehicle. It’s become such a hazard to children and possibly some adults.

The solution by the industry? Add a camera to the front bumper…

It’s totally not the product we are selling. It’s the person!!1!

I dread the day I have to retire my sedan and forced to upgrade to a modern vehicle. I am even reluctant to upgrade to an EV due to the anti-repair trend most manufacturers have opted us into.

Let’s not forget the privacy nightmare…

Give me a manual transmission vehicle, a backup camera, a small to midsize car, and something that I can maintain myself. That’s all I need.
I think this issue is not specific to containers.

I've work many years on bare metal. We did (by requirement) acceptance tests, so we did need deterministic builds, before such thing had even a name, or at least before it was mentioned as much as nowadays.

Redhat has a lot of tooling around versioning of mirrors, channels, releases, updates, etc. But I'm so old that even foreman and spacewalk didn't exist, redhat satellite was out of the budget, and the project was migrating from the first versions of CentOS to Debian.

What I did was simply use DNS + Vhosts (dev, stage, prod + versions) for our own package mirrors, and bash+rsync (and of course, raid+backups), with both, CentOS and Debian (and our project packages).

So we had repos like prod/v1.1.0, stage/v1.1.0, dev/v1.1.0, dev/v2.0.0, dev/2.0.1, etc Allowing us to rebuild things without praying, backport bug fixings with confidence, etc

Feels old and simple, however I think it was the same problem/issue that people gets now (re)building containers.

If you need to be able to produce the same output from the same input, you need the same input.

BTW about stablebuild: nice project!
I’m unfamiliar with JCL, but from a quick search it sounds like most scripts don’t use much of the language. Still, I’d bet that most of the JCL functionality is used if you look at a decent-sized collection of scripts.

How much of the full JCL do you think would be necessary to reimplement in order to get, say, 30% of the existing scripts to work?
> the understanding you gain from tinkering is priceless

You pay with time. It's priceless, if you are a romantic or lack foresight (because what you did with your total will be way more important than what is left). Otherwise it will always be the most expensive thing you have (and we must still be able to spend it without care, because what would life be otherwise).

> But when it doesn't, I often wish I was that guy that had tinkered with my car

Don't. Instead build a network of experts you trust and make more money doing what you do best to pay them with. Trying to solve the world on your own is increasingly going to fail you. It's too complicated.
Sadly no data provided on how researchers achieved that. Seems they used "regular" planar lithography process with same old dopant (phosphorus). Now wonder if complimentary P-channel is also possible by using regular boron dopant ? :)

Also, article states that diamond semiconductor can be characterized by high mobility of conductors, which positively effects max switching frequency. Is diamond CPUs our not-so-distant future?
Edit, not similar to what (PuppetLabs) Hiera does. But I've been using Hiera for years, first with puppet, then with terraform. Not to program, but simply to store config in a hierarchical store. There is crossover. But this seems to go deeper into the type of stuff that people don't want to use yaml for. It's interesting though, so I will check it out.
I doubt it’s true but if so it’s because ice cars are unnecessarily complex . We could easily make quality ice cars for $12-$15k retail price
They don’t only offer DDoS protection, but also a WAF (Web Application Firewall), and if you run commodity software, attacks are very common.

I know this because I manage a WordPress site fronted by a different WAF, and I can see in the logs that malicious bots are trying to pwn the site basically 24/7.

(and before you say ‘patches’ – yes, but defense in depth is a thing, and you don’t always have the luxury of vendors with good security practices.)
> I think there's a difference with Linux, because it's something you own and control and can dive into and see every part of. I hate investing time in proprietary technologies, because I know I can be stopped or locked out.

The problem with this approach is then you get a generation of engineers with tunnel vision thinking the One True Way to achieve your goal is the same way your GNU (or whatever) software did it.

Invest time in learning your technologies, whatever they are.
There's valuable knowledge in proprietary stuff just as there is in OSS.
> How many TVs/tuners are compatible with HEVC over ATSC 1.0?

Great question to which I don’t know the answer. My intuition is the video decoder is the compatibility limiter but it’s beyond my expertise but not my interest.
You should have your site looked at by someone in copywriting or thelike.

There are a ton of errant mistakes that make no sense and a lack of consistency.
> I can’t think of any case where regulation/government was reduced and companies responded with something less profitable for the company.

When the government deregulated air travel prices, routes, and schedules.
yep so is buying back bank, mortgage and insurance companies
> storing all the lifetime prompts and outputs would be comparable to "learning on the job"

I'm not sure.

I guess we're talking about letting the LLM loose in a programming playground where it can be given requirements, design and write programs, test and debug them, with all inputs and outputs recorded for later off-line pre-training/fine-tuning. For this to be usable as training data, I guess it would have to be serialized text - basically all LLM interactions with tools (incl. editor) and program done via the console (line editor, not screen editor!).

One major question is how would the LLM actually use this to good effect? Training data is normally used to "predict next word", with the idea being that copying the most statistically common pattern is a good thing. A lot of the interactions between a fledgling programmer and his/her notes and tools are going to be BAD ideas that are later corrected and learnt from... not actions that really want to be copied. Perhaps this could be combined with some sort of tree-of-thoughts approach to avoid taking actions leading to bad outcomes, although that seems a lot easier said than done (e.g. how does one determine/evaluate a bad outcome without looking WAY ahead).
> All data shown here is made available in the Google Sheet over here:

Over where?
Correct. It’s an insurance product.

Whether you take it is all about your risk tolerance and in no way impacts the usefulness of the machine.

I believe 14% is worth it.
A problem with radio signal or with a wire would affect all TCP connections at the same time. It does not matter if it is one or many, the outcome will be the same. I believe in real life this is a majority of cases. A problem affecting just one TCP connection out of many on the same link must be related to the software on the other side, not network itself.
This website, of all means, talks surprisingly little about startups enabled with significantly reducing the price to get to orbit.

"Masses" sent to orbit roughly split into 3 groups: heavy simple materials - mostly metal structures and fuel, complex devices - mostly electronics, and humans. Significantly and closely human-related things are practically humans (can't have humans in space without those roughly in the same flight).

For the first group, the cost is mostly in delivering them to space, SpaceX mostly covers that. Second and third groups look quite promising. We already see several projects of orbital space stations; maybe more are in order? Also all kinds of in-space manufacturing - we already see profitable biological and high-tech electronics and communications products, but what about energy, satellite and deep space probes assembly and manufacturing, repairs of on-orbit things?

> I'm sure we'll find many reasons to put a lot of new things in orbit if it's cheap enough.

I'm sure we will - and hope we'll do it soon.
Yeah preinstalled. And I never had issues with Ubuntu breaking in ways like arch or gentoo. Breaking includes trying to install some new thing or uograde and having random other stuff have to be googled.
Physical learning machines require noise to learn. They are also necessarily dissipative. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11954. The key is to engineer the noise to maximise the learning rate. In classical devices, stochastic switching is controlled by temperature through the Kramers rate. This means kT controls energy loss. If you use dissipative quantum tunnelling this is not the true thermodynamic lower bound. Any quantum nonlinear dissipative system, with a far from equilibrium steady state, is a good case to consider. Dispersive optical bistability, realised in SC quantum circuits, is the way to go. And quantum error correction is unnecessary.
PyTorch and Tensorflow are arguably the two most practical neural network frameworks in the profession.
We know what will happen. Germany had no copyright protections in the 19th century. The country's economy boomed, making Germany the industrial powerhouse of Europe.
Not only the user is affected by this.

The difference between a 2MB and a 150KB CSS file can be a lot of bandwidth.

The difference between a bad and good framework can be a lot of CPU power and RAM.

Companies pay for this. But I guess most have no clue that these costs can be reduced.

And some companies just don't care as long as money is coming in.
That would not work long term because those same libraries are where those books and papers came from in the first place.
How do you use AI to learn internals of massive repos? Surely the context is too big and/or it requires opening org code up and I'd never get approval for that. What LLM do you use?
From a cursory glance at the article, they appear to use the word bullshit in the same sense as Frankfurt's essay on bullshit.

Frankfurt's essay goes into a lot of detail about what is and isn't bullshit. If I remember correctly, he differentiates between deception / fraud and bullshit, which he characterizes as lack of concern for the truth. A liar has an untruth they want you to believe, a bullshitter wants you to believe something, they just don't care whether it is an untruth or not.

Now of course, one might complain that Frankfurt hijacked a colloquial word for his idea, but he does spend a lot of time trying to understand the everyday use of the word bullshit.
I don't understand how this relates to paid warranty or insurance. Your TCO for a non-Apple laptop can also include a protection fee or cost to repair with no insurance.
Awesome! Thank you for being the change you want to see. Inspiring to say the least, great work!
Proposing that any rights holder would accept a solution where there is no technical control preventing arbitrary copying is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be cool, I’m saying it’s never going to happen.

Secondly, you should reread their post, it’s much broader than your interpretation. They were envisioning a world where the device and copying restrictions we have today don’t exist.
It could be that their agenda is different from yours. Their agenda, as leader, is to keep all the balls in the air, keep everyone energized, everyone feeling trusted, the whole enterprise moving fast. A way to do that is to just keep charging forward with enthusiasm, at any target that's available. The movement and energy and trust is the thing.

The what and how is not for your client; it's not for the CEO (or not for a certain kind of CEO). That's for you and the employees. The CEO's job is to lead, inspire, motivate, provide resources.
MTV European Top of May 1994 [video]
At one of the FAANGs I work, it's a relatively smart autocomplete. Saw some examples of autogenerated e2e tests. I think it's quite decent as a language tutor.

But besides that, agree, not many good examples, and it's been a year since gpt-4 release.
That's kind of the plot of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Lots of C++ inference code out there but this does training as well - impressive.
"The Origin of Consciousness", Jaynes

"The Book of Mormon", Smith
Presumably Ookla.
Missed this comment apologies!

- ops are (mostly) declarative, but some (server.shell) will always execute the command given

- inventory is just that, basically a list of hosts to target plus associated data, docs page: https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/inventory-data.html

- absolutely for syncing files, check out the files.put and files.template operations (and the files ops in general): https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/operations/files.html
'Brutalist web design' is a pretty small niche though, no? It's the kind of thing Hacker News readers will have heard of, but I don't think it was ever close to mainstream.
> You can’t even have a market of IP without government granted ownership of IP.

Sure you can. See Germany in the 19th century with no IP protections. Business and prosperity boomed!

Consider also the incredible success of open source software.
Modern vehicles today are “complex” because apparently car manufacturer focus groups tell them the consumer want more tech junk in their vehicle. Consumers apparently want “sAfEr” vehicles in the form of LaRgEr Is SaFeR.

More resources to build each vehicle. Higher costs of production. Car manufacturers need to often farm out the technical aspects as well and need to license the tech. More sensors and cameras. More and more points of failure. Reliability of vehicles is dropping. Wasteful idiots trading in vehicles more often.

It’s disgusting.
Interesting that you have such problems with Amazon. I‘m using an iPhone XR (5,5 years old) and don’t have any problems using Amazon in the browser (Safari). And I’m on the latest iOS (17.4).
And it's worth noting that while man mmap on macOS doesn't indicate what happens when the protections are violated (that is, if you try to read, write, or execute in violation of the set protections) the related function mprotect has this to say in macOS 14.3 (what I have available):

> When a program violates the protections of a page, it gets a SIGBUS or SIGSEGV signal.

(The Linux man pages for mmap and mprotect indicates SIGSEGV would be signaled.)

So the past use and assumption (SIGSEGV or SIGBUS) are consistent with the expectations of mmap and mprotect given the documentation provided.
Commercially available electromagnets are too bulky, require too much power and are designed with generally physically unworkable assumptions around electrical interface types with respect to cost-effective manufacturing. In short the principle is sound, but the products are unworkable. Therefore, the coils must be integrated on-PCB to be cost effective.
It was decades of mismanagement by the government that prevented ranchers and others from setting the yearly fires, starting in the 1960s. Now these same people, who often live hundreds of miles away and often have never even been there are offering solutions?
> I can run EXPLAIN and paste it here ...

Might as well, could turn up something useful. :)
Yes I think this pattern will get much clearer in the near future. We already see these links with chronic illness, depression, etc and gut dysbiosis. One thing I wouldn’t count out is the effect of lingering virus or viral antigens causing regular immune system stimulation leading to various unexplained illnesses to varying degrees. They also can contribute heavily to gut dysbiosis which may be linked with serotonin production and other things. Knowing how bacteria plays together is one thing but we also need to understand how pathogens can affect our guts as well!
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Thank you for all the videos! I particularly enjoyed the porting and profiling/optimization videos and I still occasionally rewatch them to this day. :)

Your overall pragmatism and no nonsense C++ style is something more developers should aim to replicate imho.
"...or be able to change roles."
> If I ever lost that drive I think I'd rather be dead.

I wonder how many others had this exact same thought, before they lost their "hacker" drive while also preferring to continue living.

This may shock you, but people's interests and desires can evolve over time, even when those people don't expect them to evolve.
It was even worse in the Win95/98 era. I remember reinstalling the entire network stack multiple times in one day just to get TCP/IP working. The operating system was an extremely broken piece of shit and wasted days of my life.

Shoulda this. Shoulda that. This is just the reality of Microsoft that we have to accept, and it will never change. There are tools to deal with it. So I use the tools and move on with my life.
Its the foolish CEO that blames the contractors he keeps hostage.
Please explain your alternative mechanism for compensating the author for their work.
They only need repairs if they break down. EV reliability is quite good.

In any case, the cost of repairs is a temporary effect. Mostly this is just dealer ignorance and a lack of mechanics that know how to do these repairs. So, they are learning on the job, making beginners mistakes, and are having issues correctly diagnosing problems with cars they are supposed to fix. This all adds up to higher bills. But that should get less of an issue as these repairs become more routine and people get trained up.

Otherwise, the TCO of EVs was already quite favorable for fleet owners, lease companies, and anyone capable of using the power of spreadsheets needed to calculate the difference. There are some clear trends there. For commercial fleets, EVs are very popular because they are simply better from an economic point of view. With purchase price of new vehicles dropping below that of equivalent ICE vehicles soon, this is going to become more obvious for less calculating consumers as well.
>Possible that eventually EV's will be lighter than gas cars as well.

The energy density of gasoline is about 100x the energy density of batteries. Batteries can have other advantages but it's pure fantasy to think batteries will beat the energy density of gasoline.
> yet many people accept them uncritically because they haven’t learned any better.

The political establishment doesn't necessarily want critical thinking - they just want you to believe their version of lies. People uncritically accept anything negative about Trump all the time and people who own media channels don't want that to change.
I agree, despite the fact that I use OTA TV. I would prefer to just get an internet stream, but I need to pay like $70/mo+ to get the content (plus a ton that I don't want), and it still has ads.

I would be willing to pay a reasonable price to access a live CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox stream, but no one (legitimately) offers that. So OTA it is.
Some of the first Hackintoshes, and the origin of the term "Hackintosh", were from the practice of putting Mac motherboards in to non-Mac cases, often using non-Mac hardware. For instance, "Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" showed me how to use a TTL / Hercules monitor with a motherboard that came out of a Mac Classic with a broken picture tube. I used that machine for years.

> While I knew about and even tried various very early attempts to run macOS on non-Apple hardware [...]

Running System 6 / System 7 / Mac OS 8 on Amigas was also popular back then, both legally (by buying Mac Plus ROMs) and not necessarily legally (by loading ROM images from disk). If you had an Amiga with a PowerPC accelerator or a PowerPC BeBox, you could run PowerPC Mac OS, too. Early attempts to run macOS on non-Apple Intel / AMD hardware had plenty of precedent ;)

Will Hackintoshes be made using ARM computers running modern macOS? It's hard to say for sure, but considering how clever Opencore and other communities are, and considering how much can be done to virtualize / emulate hardware presented to virtual machines, I'd be willing to bet we'll see macOS VMs running on ARM systems at some point.