skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the point of using Docker is that it's a unifies configuration and backups, and makes installation easier.

I can easily see which directories or files to back up, and it's fairly explicit which knobs I've tweaked or config files I've changed, regardless of what stack the app relies on.

It's also makes it much easier to roll back a version. Just take zfs snapshots of relevant directories before pulling new image, if it goes south just roll back snapshots and use the old image.
Run:AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738342
The kind of sparsity that the hardware supports is not fully general. I'm not aware of any large models trained using it. Maybe they are all leaving 2x perf on the table for no reason, but maybe not. I don't think sparsity is really proven to be "almost always a win" for training.
I always thought that if that was true, our whole system of promotions, working hard, working better etc would come crumbling down.
I love how SSE is just a "don't close the connection and just keep flushing data". I bet IE6 supports this.
Manually having to sync with stuff like:

git commit -am "update"

is very tedious.
Isn't that just a computer? Or an eGPU, if it doesn't contain the rest of the computer?
The most shocking part about this comment to me is that tidbit about AWS limits. It's amusing to me that their egress fees also extend into the UI.
They don't assume that:

> This interview is important for a few reasons, but let's start with the most obvious: the Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI either can't or won't explain what materials its video-creating generative AI was trained on.
Well, not really a good signal.

Here is a nice overview of Swiss universities in the different rankings: https://www.universityrankings.ch/
the scam is the illegal investment emails they keep sending to everyone who purchased from them.

about fsf. well, the least worse is still just the least worse. doesn't make it magically open source.
Still... I don't think it's bad as such. We all benefit from it. I view it in a similar way to Google indexing. Or human learning. We all benefit from society's knowledge as a whole. Especially for models that are open source (well, public weights) I think it's a good thing.

Of course not everyone agrees but only in the rarest of instances will it return source data verbatim.
Experience brings complacency.

Averagely experienced woodworkers loose fingers most often.

When you are new to something you are super careful. When you are veteran you made or seen somebody make all mistakes already.

When you are averagely experienced it's the most likely time for your confidence to exceed your capability.
Out of curiosity, which university is this?
IMO the number of universities that actually teach CP is small.
sites know their audience, they know their usual impressions, and that's how marketing saleshouses functioned for about one-two decade(s).

it's much simpler for both sides, no crying about bots, etc.

of course it's not great if you want to target Putin et al. ( https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad... )

ad networks can simply send out banners to sites for time slots, and that's it. do you want to advertise healthy food? send it to yoga sites (insert it on #yoga hashtag profile pages, insert it after videos/snaps/tiktoks/reels that the AI categorized as yoga, etc.) ... it's called item-to-item recommendation (use the content of the page - as it was done for - again - decades)

it's perfectly possible to ban and remove tracking bullshit
It's one of the reasons I prefer monorepos in practice. Especially if you use something like GitHub Enterprise, the cross-repo experience in terrible. In theory, many repos is better than a monorepo. In actual practice, most tooling only works well for monorepos. (And don't get me started on CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions)

Or you do what the .NET team at Microsoft did, create a separate monorepo that rolls up individiual repos: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet
I will try this. I unfortunately don’t really know how to dial down since it makes me feel guilty.
4090 has more VRAM than most computers have system RAM. Surprised this is considered "low RAM" in any way except for relative to datacenter cards and top-spec ASi.
Sure you can. Generate all 1 digit numbers, then generate all 2 digit numbers and so forth. Which number won't be generated?
Is he making fun of the actual fact or just the majority of the US population? If it's the latter, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to make fun of whatever institutions cause them to believe this simple flattery?
Humans aren't bored any more [0]. In the past the US the US had 250 million people who were bored. Today it has far more than than scrolling through instagram and tiktok, responding to reddit and hacker news, and generally not having time to be bored

Maybe we'll start to evolve as a species to avoid that, but AI will be used to ensure we don't, optimising far faster than we can evolve to keep our attention

[0] https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/social-media-profound-boredo...
I can't help thinking its simultaneously ingenious and hilariously convoluted. Looks like it would be fast to setup, easy to read from the line cook area, and also simple to modify. I'm sure if I was doing the work I could learn the system pretty quickly, but glancing over it as an outsider all I can think about it how ridiculous it sounds that an upright jam packet over a mustard packet means 3 eggs.

And they use what they have, these places always need pickles and jam packets, whereas a real magic marker can dry up and you might forget to order replacement. Fascinating for sure.
> If it were my site, the UI would be a little more suited to the current year.

The only things I would change is make the Reply link open a text box in-line rather than needing a new tab, and add an icon next to my username/karma in the top right whenever there's a new reply to one of my comments.

Any other "modernization" is probably a step BACKWARDS in UX. I really like the simple design of HN.
> Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines

AKA, we’ve created a messy monster that’s out of our control, please don’t blame us.
> As far as I know banks and their apps do function based on gov regulations so it is pretty far from chips or uber points.

Electronic payments depend on a long series of things working correctly, any one of which can block you.

Electricity and internet connectivity are two obvious ones, which do fail.

More subtle, both you and the recipient of the payment must be in good standing with whatever authority (or multiple ones) the payment is flowing through. If either one is blocked for whatever obscure reason, no payment can be made or received. So now you have the denial of service risk of a third party arbiter on whether the payment you're trying to make is fine with them, or risk being blocked.

Cash suffers from none of these problems! It is strictly peer to peer, requires absolutely nothing external to be functioning and has no dependency on any third parties. You have bills in your pocket, you can pay anyone at any time for whatever you want. Completely anonymously and it cannot be blocked. Aside from the small inconvenience of having to carry the bills, cash is the perfect payment mechanism.
If only the overall amount of waste were small, the transport secure, and we had geological formations in which to bury the stuff that by their very dissolvable-but-not-dissolved existence proved that water left only by evaporation!

Ah well. I'm just glad that renewables are finally moving forward. Better late than never.
This needs a source. If you just mean that this is happening because far more people know about McDonald's and are therefore less likely to know that Big Jim's is hiring, then sure, but I don't buy the idea that 9/10 people working low wage jobs are actively thinking about the relative stability of the employers they apply to.

> People will ask friends who work if company is a good place to work.

I 100% agree with this, but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
the australian economy digs up dirt from the ground and sells it for a lot, it covers all our issues. theres a lot more that could be said, but it fundamentally comes down to that
I did a lot of Pascal programming on I think a CDC6300 (?) at the university. If you could get to a terminal you could submit a compile job and wait for the operator to hand out your printed output. The system was case-insensitive and some terminals were all uppercase (of course monochrome, I guess 80x24 or so). So even minor typos took like 20 minutes to be reported.
I recently got curious about running a PC from floppies and found out I could get an external USB 3.5" floppy drive and boot a (I think) 2013 or so Thinkpad into DOS 3.3, with some doing. Managed to edit Lotus 1-2-3 with DEBUG.COM to remove copy protection. Of course much useful info to do this was on the web.

That was nostalgia also, but the old days with the terminals and line printer output were really something.
> As long as browsers still work with TCP, some networks will continue to block UDP (and thus HTTP3/WebTransport) outright.

HTTP2 should still work in that scenario then you don't need to worry about multiplexing.
The downing of Francis Gary Powers' U2 didn't "cause a shift from manned bombers to ballistic missiles," it illustrated something the US knew all along, that anti-aircraft missiles would someday be able to take out very high-flying aircraft. Ballistic missiles for nuclear weapons delivery had been a dream for both sides for years, and by the early 1960s had become practical, which the Valkyrie was not.

Still, it is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly.
> The fact that AI can do something doesn't diminish its value when it comes from the hands of a human.

Sure. Morally it doesn't. Financially, it certainly does. This is essentially in the definition of automation.

Turning software engineers into artisans will not save %95 of software engineers.
Haha we did the same. Every one of us with a GitHub account was forced to "request" a CoPilot license. Whether we wanted to or not. I didn't because I mainly use it as a repository for safekeeping scripts. I was wondering why. Now I know. Thanks.
There were three sentences. Which one exactly was hyperbolic?

- "We are leaving the conditions that work for humans and other animals". We're outside the envelope (the historical range) of biotic and abiotic conditions that defined our species' existence on earth for the duration of our time as a species. We are seeing climate extremes never before experienced by the genus homo, let alone homo sapiens. This is a matter of climatic record, absolutely no controversy here.

- "3 billion climate refugees in the next 30 years"? That's a future prediction so obviously we can't confirm or deny it. We've "only" seen 100s of millions globally displaced already from small-scale recent collapses. But those have other causal factor in addition to climate. Still, sea level keeps rising. Water extraction continues sinking coastal water tables into brackish water. Extreme storms happen more and more frequently. Most people on earth live near the ocean. Totaled property damage is more and more common. 3 billion people displaced in 30 years is plausible given the recent trends. It might be less if we're lucky.

- "We must slow down the climate catastrophe now." Given the ongoing catastrophe, I fail to see any hyperbole in this statement.
Yes, but I imagine if you put a human inside a brain scanner, add a feedback loop that uses AI, then you can generate novel stuff with the human being used to just passively rate the output of the AI. You could build a small farm with humans, and generate novel commercial music.
I always forget that the ability to expand an image link to show an image inline is a feature of Reddit Enhancement Suite, and not a stock feature built into reddit.
I appreciated seeing an article on the other end of the spectrum from the dark matter skepticism on sciencealert.com
no it means rent seeking.

imagine aws if they also sold all computers in the world, now you can only rent from them
Cisco Closes $28B Acquisition of Splunk
I dunno if I'm just being overly picky because I know it's AI generated but it feels like the timing is all off in this example (musicians please chime in!)

Sort of like the musical equivalent to someone trying to do a comedy set off a teleprompter
the aws apis are quite fast. no idea why tools wrapping them tend to end up very slow, even ones developed at aws.
WebUSB exists, but requires explicit permission to a specific device. I'm still not entirely comfortable with exposing that kind of API to people who have no idea what USB even is, but it's a lot safer than WebGPU.
> 3 million worldwide deaths yearly

Is this a count or a statistic?
> though I don't think that belief would bear up to scrutiny with a supercomputer.

It's certainly computationally infeasible for home users, that's for sure.
Writers can hugely benefit from AI. Not really by having the work done for them but for rephrasing etc.
"The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne. Was good for me at 11, 16, 28 and 40.
if the comment i replied to posits that people on diets are overweight, and there are people on diets who aren't overweight—then why don't you go ahead and finish that logic for me.

not like any of this back-and-forth is whatsoever relevant to the thread anyway.

and btw, i think the insult you were looking for is spelled 'woosh' or 'whoosh.' onomatopoeia and all that. a 'swoosh' is what basketballs do.
Microsoft will remove the old PDF viewer from Edge in early 2025
> Harmless, until some contractor accidently disturbs it, and people have to have their home vacated (just happened to a friend of mine).

That's inconvenience. Which was systematically invoked because the harms are well understood and tended to.
Not sure about the effects of lotilaner as described in the article, but flurolaner is the active ingredient in bravecto, a flea and tick medicine for dogs. There's a class action against the manufacturer as thousands of dogs have gotten seriously ill or killed from the drug. My 2 year old collie (no previous health issues) was poisoned and died after we gave her bravecto. She had several seizures within hours of giving her the dose and was dead within 48 hours.

I'm surprised that similar sounding drugs are making their way to humans. I'm not a chemist and I'm not sure how similar lotilaner and flurolaner are, but damn if I'm not suspicious.
It's as harmless as a defective WW2 grenade in a garage.
Saudi Arabia's Non-Oil Revenue Hits 50% of GDP
A Soviet style grocery seems well out of reach anyway, where are you going to find enough competent abacus operators?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdb7Ju_nq0
This label will be mostly misleading. Absence of the tag will give false sense of veracity and presence of it on non-ai generated materials will discredit them.

Fact checking box like on twitter would be better and if you can't provide it, don't pretend you know anything about the content.
key excerpt for those without a subscription: https://twitter.com/thomasrice_au/status/1768743073524441515
For at least a dozen years it would seem.
There sort of is, but isn't that why stuff like VLIW exists? So that the compiler can optimize the hell out of the machine code, and the CPU doesn't have to do its own OoO nonsense?
Why just "software development"? People should really think of the endgame. Everything will change.

I mean, what business, science, [popular] art, and even politics are all essentially? Just a clever optimization process against the real world. Throw ideas/hypotheses on the wall and see what sticks.

Computers are very good at optimization! No reason to believe it won't all be solved in N years, with like 100x more efficient compute and a couple more cool math tricks.

Give future "GPT-10" interfaces for interacting with the real world, and it could do everything — no human supervision/"prompting" needed at all. Humans would only be an unneeded bottleneck in that optimization process.

There will be big companies consisting only of their founder and no one else. And I am not sure there will many such companies (so like "everyone could have one") — no, it is more likely that due to economies of scale, there will be only a few megacorps, owning all the compute.

What we should worry about is how to avoid extreme wealth disparity/centralization that seems imminent in that future...
Chuckle and move on. :)
I thought it was more that the Document object had to stay alive. ...although, these days a lot of mobile browsers will kill that thing off if the page is not in the background, so yeah...
Presumably because the document was not updated in 2013. So no part of the document was first published in that year.
> The risks of nuclear power are still largely unknown, as there have been only two major disasters over a few decades.

No, the risks of nuclear power are very well known, as there have been only two major disasters over quite a few decades, and the root causes of both of them are well known and easily avoidable.

> We don't know how much worse the reasonable worst case could be.

Yes, we do. We know that Chernobyl was worse than any reasonable worst case for any other reactor, because nobody is going to build another reactor with a positive void coefficient of reactivity and with no secondary containment, and then run uncontrolled experiments on it. And we know that Fukushiman was a reasonable worst case, because it subjected a just shut down reactor to zero decay heat removal for an extended period, and that is going to be the consequence of the worst possible accident that could happen to a running reactor, since any such accident will shut the reactor down.

In other words, in a sane world, the risks of nuclear power would be more insurable than the risks of, say, coal power, precisely because the nuclear risks are contained. No insurance company is going to sign up to liability for deaths due to respiratory failure from breathing coal dust over a period of many years. But in our insane world, we don't hold anyone accountable for such risks, so we end up treating nuclear, which is far safer per unit of energy generated than any source except solar, as if it were the riskiest of all sources.
Let me put it another way: Are the people making those comments responsible for those procedures?

Having seen this sort of thing many times, and being in that position myself, it seems more about it not being the "rank-and-files" responsibility to fix these things. I'm not going to deal with the process and bureaucracy in order to (try to!) fix processes that are above my paygrade - and with no guarantee things will change in any way

In short, this is a sort of coping mechanism

(Obviously this is less applicable to upper management)
Ah, yep! You're right! It works now!
> Modern power infrastructure is incredibly resilient and outages are usually localized to regions and power is restored within hours.

This comes across as a very sheltered view I have to say.

Modern systems are very fragile, as they get ever more complicated combined with less and less appetite by utilities to spend on redundancy and disaster preparedness (cuts into profits).

> In this scenario where people are desperate to do a food riot, a power outage has occurred for multiple consecutive days if not at least a week.

In 2017 hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico without power for many weeks (in many areas) and multiple months (in some parts) (or even a few years in most remote areas). Society goes on, but you'll be well served to have cash.

While that was a major hurricane, electricity outages of like a week are quite common with smaller storms.
Domino's did not make an effort until they lost in court. They even admitted during the course of the case that the requested fixes would cost like $58,000 to make, far less than the lawyers cost in the case and appeals.
They are absolutely not safe at normal doses. They killed my 2 year old dog. There are thousands of dogs out there that experienced seizures from this class of drugs.

She had seizures within hours of giving her the stuff, and was dead within 48 hours.

I'll happily die on this hill of looking like an internet crank ranting about drug companies, but it was a traumatizing experience for my wife and I, and even worse for our dog.

Fuck Merck, they can rot in hell.
why not both?

covid is now proven both as lab leak and a convenient emergency for multiple ends /s?
Agree with this.

More practice means better. And the best practice is real interviewing.

Also don't take the first offer given unless its one of your goal companies.

Keep interviewing for a bit more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem.
I've seen a bunch of timeouts / heartbeat / keep alive durations. I think it might have been Wireguard, but 25 seconds seems like a good number. Usefully long, most things that break are more likely to do it at ~30 seconds, and if there's an active activity push at 15 or 20 seconds with device wakeup then the keep alive / connection kill might not even happen.

Full Refresh; yes please, in the protocol, with a user button, with local client state cached client code and reloaded state on reconnect. Maybe even a configurable polling period; some services might offer shorter poll as a reason to pay for a higher tier account.
That's right.There was mention of a precision aware transformer engine which might make it easier to use fp4, but it's not 30x faster in a like for like way. This shouldn't be surprising since it's more or less two hoppers next to one another on a slightly improved process node. 2.5x seems more likely in cases where you don't exploit a new feature like that or the increased memory.
Interesting, I have had this conversation many times about Montrose, Colorado. There are more car washes there in terms of its size than any place I have ever been and there are more under construction.
> That scenario in which people are bartering for resources is a scenario in which power has been lost for multiple weeks in the United States?

Well, 100% certainty since it has happened within the decade.
The ability of compilers to make code faster is 12 (twelve) times slower than Moore's law: they double the program's speed in 18 years [1].

[1] https://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html

This might seem discouraging, but it is not - one can still reap the benefits of code optimization twelve times as long after Moore's law stops working.
Chernobyl was not a result of safety systems deteriorating over a long period of operation. We have plenty of reactors in the world that have operated for decades and their safety systems still work just fine.

Chernobyl was the result of an insane reactor design (positive void coefficient of reactivity and no secondary containment) which then had uncontrolled experiments run on it during operation. Nobody is going to repeat that bonehead move.
My grandfather is in his 70s and does this as his "retirement job", it's generally around $500 last I asked him...
I worked in device attestation at Android. It’s not robust enough to put our understanding of reality in. Fine for preventing API abuse but that’s it.