skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chip War has a great section on how the Soviet Union tried a “just copy/steal” strategy in semiconductors and fell hopelessly behind because of it. It’s a great theoretical idea to just copy/steal and fast-follow, but semiconductors, AI, and other “harder technologies” require building human and intellectual capital that will get better with time. From there, you need to have the prior generation to keep up with ever-increasing complexity and difficulty as these things get more advanced.

I disagree with your section on Huawei and China. China isn't just trying to just copy/steal AI. In terms of models, China is a bit behind in LLMs but arguably more ahead in self-driving cars. China is throwing everything at semiconductor manufacturing instead because that's where their bottleneck truly is - not CUDA. Had Huawei had access to TSMC's 5nm and 3nm, they might already be equal to Nvidia in raw GPU prowess. After all, HiSilicon's Kirin already matched/exceeded Qualcomm before the Trump ban. Their 5G chips/implementation were well ahead of anyone else. In software, it's easier for China to adopt a CUDA alternative because China is usually really good at unifying under one vision - especially when they have to.
No amount of terraforming will save the Earth when the sun dies and takes out half the solar system with it. There are other dangers too that make it irresponsible to leave all of humanity on one planet. Our survival as a species depends on us being able to survive on multiple worlds in multiple solar systems, or at the very least being able to sustain ourselves on interstellar ships.
That’s awesome. I love that it’s the intersection of tech and something so wholesome and unequivocally good. It feels hard to find in tech these days.
Is this something you could throw Gymnasium at and see if it can clear it?

https://gymnasium.farama.org/index.html
> I’m personally in the camp that thinks we should just be doing everything we can to minimise all types of pollution because we just cannot really predict what the effects will be. Even if we think something is benign.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Halo CME Detected – Associated with X1 Flare on 23 March UTC-Day
If you think the number of people is what counts: there's a cliché that the attacker needs a 3:1 advantage. Russia's population of 15-30-year-olds was less than three times Ukraine's, if you exclude immigrants.
The paper, some points, discussion [0](86 points, 2 days ago, 3 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39784395
I use zfsbootmenu with hrmph (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf). You can see the list of packages here (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/blob/master/hrmpf.pa...). I usually build images based off this so they’re all there, otherwise you’ll need to ssh into zfsbootmenu and load the 2 gb separate distro. This is for home server, though if I had a startup I’d probably setup a “cloud setup” and throw a bunch of servers somewhere. A lot of times for internal projects and even non-production client research having your own cluster is a lot cheaper and easier then paying for a cloud provider. It also gets around when you can’t run k8s and need bare metal. I’d advised some clients on this setup with contingencies in case of catastrophic failure and more importantly test those contingencies but this is more so you don’t have developers doing nothing not to prevent overnight outages. A lot cheaper than cloud solutions for non critical projects and while larger companies will look at the numbers closely if something happened and devs can’t work for an hour the advantage of a startup is devs will find a way to be productive locally or simply have them take the afternoon off (neither has happened).

I imagine these problems described happen on big iron type hardware clusters that are extremely expensive and spare capacity isn’t possible. I might be wrong but especially with (sigh) AI setups with extremely expensive $30k GPUs and crazy bandwidth between planes you buy from IBM for crazy prices (hardware vendor on the line so quickly was a hint) you’re way past the commodity server cloud model. I have no idea what could go wrong with such equipment where nearly ever piece of hardware is close to custom built but I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that. The debugging on those things work hardware only a few huge pharma or research companies use has to come down to really strange things.
Remote environment with a thin client that can interface with it. Client is local, but it all ends up running remotely.
4:20pm Turns out it was DNS
Red meat studies, based on my googling skills a few years back, do not control for the cut of meat or method of preparation, so they are close to useless
I spend 0 time worrying about stuff like this.
Love the list and the eBPF tools look super helpful.
Thanks for sharing.

What worries me is this is always going to be about a quick buck vs long term risk. We do not have the collective wisdom to stop.
Is this like a nutanix? What is this?
Nuclear fission is relatively straightforward so long as you either don't know or don't care about the health risks of radiation. It's just a pile of spicy rocks at the end of the day.

Fusion, on the other hand, requires you to get center-of-sun temperatures and pressures going on to work properly. That usually requires either extremely difficult engineering processes or a fission bomb (and more precise engineering calculations but they're actually reasonably solvable).
I've made React applications using Python via Transcrypt, but wrap component functions in a Python decorator that make direct calls to React.createElement() instead of using JSX (example: https://github.com/JennaSys/tictacreact2). It's possible to use JSX with this approach as well, but IMO it starts to get messy and defeats the purpose of using JSX in the first place.
aside from what others have said, here's another point : it's not easy to know what you don't know.

Every answer given by GPT is the best answer that specific model can give given the context and relational clues, but counting those 'nodes' of context and relation clues isn't actually a good metric for discovering the unknown and finding holes in the model.
That depends on how much you watch. It would at least incentivize them to produce content worth your time. On the other hand, it could lead to a lot of content being stretched out and padded to increase minutes spent...
We moved from Nebraska to California. I miss Runza and Valentino’s pizza.
I'd prefer preservatives over contaminants like heavy metals.
Vaccines to prevent cervical cancer?
And why do social media platforms have such a hard time banning them?
Idk if it’s true but supposedly in the the Telarc recording, the cannon fire went down to like 7Hz and would blow out your speakers if the signal wasn’t filtered.
As someone who's traveled the undeveloped world pretty heavily, you would be surprised at how bad the "raw" food quality is; especially if poverty is very high. Undeveloped doesn't mean "without access to industrialized goods", it just means industrial infrastructure of their own is lacking.

You seem to be mixing undeveloped (Port au Prince, Khartoum, Dhaka, etc) up with "tribal". They still have access to pesticides, heavy metals, low-quality/toxic feeds, gasoline, etc; in addition to having generally very lax/non-existent regulations.
Bunch of discussion four months ago regarding their official blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023891
What (if anything) do the colours of the non-black squares represent (or is there no scheme)?
Freakonomics is actually covered in some college econ textbooks (usually as an aside that reinforces a core concept). It's hard to say which one as I've gone through like 7 so far in the program I'm doing. Most of the textbooks I've read have been VERY "cool" and approachable with a decent amount of humor from the authors.
> The system settings UI on Windows 11 always shows an ad which says that an account should be used to use office and other apps.

Macs also do this with their iCloud accounts, with little widgets all around the place prompting you to log in to their app store, etc... if you don't have an account. Possibly those prompts or ads are even more "in-your-face" than Windows? Probably most Mac users don't notice them because most just create an account
Humans are optimized for faces in much the same way that dogs are optimized for scent.

So much so that we even see faces when there aren't any (in rocks, water stains, pieces of toast...)
Building Engineering
What's with the "etc"? I can't tell what comes next.
Totally doable, as a peer response mentions... You can get a lot of performance in a couple 1-2u servers these days. Literally replacing a full rack from 6-8 years ago in 8-12u.
They use massive amounts of pesticides and have huge pollution issues due to burning trash and trash disposal problems, including out in fields.

If you spend any time in India, for example? Holy moly.
You were gonna drop $2.5M on one of these racks?
Like a good neighbor, State Farm moved the hell out.
I do not purchase hardware, but $1MM is way above what I would have expected. Going to Dell, the most expensive pre-built rack mount starts at ~$30k. Assuming 16 of those only gets you to $480k. Throw in an extra premium for the rack itself + small company margins still leaves me reaching to get to that price point.
It seems a bit strange since you would expect the apartments to be located further away from the fire risk, closer to downtown than the outskirts of the city near the forests.

If this was State Farm deciding to drop insurance on homes that are in grossly overgrown forests with no buffer then it would make a lot more sense given the likely increase in fire activity in the coming years.
Yeah, I didn't remember this kind 'branding' message before either...(it was servers?).... but the marketing changed slightly when they hit a milestone 4 months ago....

Bunch of discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023891
When I was at a modest sized public facing site, roughly 3/4 of requests were from bots. Most painful is over half were search result pages, which were much more costly.
In most common scenarios, curl | bash is no different from apt-add-repository && apt install. Running a completely non-curated executable is very different.
About getters.. are they foo? or ?foo ? The examples have it mixed, "Meet Rye" doc has it as ?foo
Knowledge of history?

Startups eating the lunch of entrenched, bureaucracy-laden organizations is a very old story indeed -- long before Silicon Valley.
If there are places with lower risk, certainly, extend insurance there (when reasonable) using data driven risk models. But places where the risk is high? Prohibit building by refusing to issue a building permit, and perhaps cover existing owners in some fashion. If their house burns down, they must turn over the land to be locked up and never built on again to receive their claim payout. Similar to what FEMA does for flooding.

You want to strongly discourage moral hazard (repeatedly funding rebuilds with taxpayer dollars in high risk areas) while not making housing insecurity drastically worse than it already is. I admit this is a tall order with the perpetual housing shortage.

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230502/fact-sheet-acqui...

> Acquisition of Property After a Flood Event

> If the homeowner still owes a mortgage on the home, the balance due will be deducted and paid to the lienholder. After required payment(s) have been made, the structure is then demolished and the land is deeded to the local government with its use restricted to open space. The land must remain open in perpetuity.
This article buries the lede, but boy is that lede fascinating.

> Estrogen receptors are known to bind to certain regions of the genome when a cell is stimulated by estrogen. The researchers found that these estrogen-binding sites were frequently next to the zones where the early DNA breaks took place.

Estrogens are important for other things, so (what's effectively) menopause would be a rather impractical preventative measure for most people – but knowledge is still power. I'll have to read the paper sometime.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06057-w
My preference is tools that give a rolling output as it let you capture the time-based pattern and share it with others, including in JIRA tickets and SRE chatrooms, whereas top's generally clear the screen. atop by default also sets up logging and runs a couple of daemons in systemd, so it's more than just a handy tool when needed, it's now adding itself to the operating table. (I think I did at least one blog post about performance monitoring agents causing performance issues.) Just something to consider.

I've recommended atop in the past for catching short-lived processes because it uses process accounting, although the newer bpf tools provide more detail.
[dupe]

Some more discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790505
The subtitle "The Secret Danger of Everyday Things" really ties the room together.
youve just done that !
I agree with most of this but I think we do recognize and every year we get smarter about how we handle it… I think it’s just very hard to see how we improve over a few years time scale… I remember in 1986 or 1987 my dad took us to his office I think it was cricket software in Pennsylvania and in the front of the very shiny new office was an extremely polluted stream. It was a bright red/orange color. I recall my dad telling us to avoid playing in the water and explaining that it was not supposed to be that color… years later and while much of the area that was farm land in PA is now homes and neighborhoods- I don’t believe such a stream exists…. That said plastic is still very hard thing to reduce in our environment already we see many more bio degradable examples of packaging being used and a lot of research into which plastics are harmful and ways to help reduce or mitigate the impacts… back in the 80s if it was known it was not talked about… progress is slow but if you care very deeply about it you should IMO go into research or engineering to do something positive about it. Understand why we use it and find good alternatives
Don’t forget that high power is still a worthwhile target in and of itself

Not all applications for batteries are completely focused on power density
Why are you referring to me as if I am the United States?
Last time I tried to tip a cop they threw me in jail and tried to call it bribery.

Luckily, the judge didn’t mind. /s
A lot of "these people" are passionate about both. Long-term thinking shows the appeal in both renewable infrastructure on earth and space exploration.

Maybe sometime on the far future someone will say we evolved for tens of thousands of years to live right where we are now, and if only those people who're enthusiastic about colony ships had that much passion for asteroid mining and Mars culture.
> reading through the documentation and putting your distro together gives you way more insight into the inner workings which is invaluable for when it breaks.

I definitely feel that way about the core libraries/frameworks I'm building my applications/codebases on top of, so can relate!

But for my WM/desktop, I'm pretty happy to a) not know it's innermost workings, and b) just have it not break in the first place! :-)

I guess we can each have our own yak-shaving preferences. :-)
Yes but we aren't talking about a no nothing country. We are talking about probably the second most powerful country on earth.
Garbage, read the responses, here's one:

> Zhao et al report 79% increase in actual number of cases from 1990 to 2019, but this figure can be misleading, as it does not take account of population growth. The authors therefore also report estimated annual percent change (EAPC) of the incidence rates of various cancers. However, it is unfortunate that the press has largely focused on the overall number rather than the per capita risk of cancer, giving the impression that we are facing an epidemic of cancer in young individuals.
https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000049.responses

The headline figure of 79% does not account at all for population increase. This is bad science (communication).

> In 2019, the incidence number of early-onset cancer was 3.26 million, a 79.1% increase from 1990 (figure 1A,B).

Incidence number simply counts cancers. Of course there are more cancers given world population increase. This should never be in a study headline.
1x annual revenue
I am betting on a decrease in the amount of sun exposure during childhood being the cause.. it's known that the more basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas an adult has, the healthier they are in general.. and the incidence of those non serious cancers is generally linked to sun exposure in childhood
All I know, is that if California picks up the tab on any of these uninsurable houses, the owner better be forbidden from rebuilding on that location.

I recall a NPR story where some guy in Texas had his house flooded and rebuilt by the Fed some 13(?) times! Stop throwing good money after bad, that area is not fit for humanity.
Sure, though traffic is an issue of population density and lack of reliable affordable mass transit.
I’m curious to know if this is a good business model.

Is the a market for these?
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I have pushed an update which should fix this issue.
On Visa card.
Grift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
Fewer IT staff for systems mgt. Reduced costs in off peak hours with on-demand instances. Right sizing resources to application needs.

There are wins that one can have, but nothing is guaranteed. It will vary by application, size and staff.
I really enjoy UI changes on software. They feel a lot like redecorating/renovating your home. Suddenly your device feels fresh and exciting again, and usually more capable than before.

As long as they aren’t broken or removing large amounts of useful functionality. The only redesign I’ve ever disliked is the Reddit one, and only because it still doesn’t work properly.
The subtitle: longer genes are most susceptible to aging
Cool! I just wrote my first assembly program for the TI-99/4A, and am working on a TMS9900 assembler.
The graph is clear and competently made.
It's not "unscientific." We have something like a century and a half worth of evidence that the hazards to environment and human health from man-made substances is very often missed, understated, or outright suppressed by the industry that is profiting off it.

How many more decades do we need?

Given we are seeing plunging birth rates and species unprecedented rate (a dozen to hundreds of species a day), I'd say shifting to a "you have to prove it's not harmful" is a good policy.
Its still a disease of old age not of environmental factors
Also hepatitis B vaccinations and screening for early enough detection to treat surgically.
Huh? Every study is going to have a variable adjustment for obesity.
My SurfaceBook has a better build quality that my MacBook Pro model from the same era (2019) - MacBooks have improved a lot in the last few years though with the new chips I guess?

I prefer the MacOs to Windows, but MacBook hardware was definitely disappointment on this model. I had numerous graphics & power issues on the MacBook Pro, plus touchbar was annoying.

Dell & Lenovo are crap, I've given up on them. Surface is good, and I'm happy with my LG Gram.
Ha ha, enjoy all the Asian food you now have. You'll miss it if you return to the midwest.

Chinese places here are buffet style, offer pizza.

(Just kidding. Not really.)
Yes, the chemical industry has not stuck to the precautionary principle.

Besides, lots of excellent drugs are used in a trigger-happy way. Take for instance antibiotics, which are one of the greatest achievements of modern science. Lots of children are prescribed antibiotics for mild infections, i.e. when they don't need them, ignoring side-effects. Thankfully, doctors are starting to be a bit more cautious.

This is one of the reasons autoimmunity has skyrocketed during the last 50 years, and quite a few friendly commensal bacteria are nearly extinct. Persistent gut inflammation, below what is considered autoimmunity, is responsible for lots of colon cancer cases in adults. It is all tied.
If you don't come from Rebol it would probably be weird to you that there are many specific word-types in Rye.

name: Janko ; name: is a set-word - it binds value to a word
?print ; ?print is a get-word - it get's value word is bound to in this case a print builtin function
:age ; left leaning set-word (this is get-word in Rebol)
what? ; just a regular word
...

name get's the value anyway, so we don't need to use ?name but if word is bound to a function just invoking a word will evaluate a function and if we want to return a funtion we use get-word. which has ? in front.

? at the end is just a regular word and a (currently accepted) naming convention where noun? means get-noun. so length? in instead of get-length etc.

Rebol used ? at the end convention for more things, a lot for boolean results, testing of types, like string? and positive? but also for lenght?

For booleans current Rye's naming convention is that we use is-adjective. Rebol used positive? to test if value is positive. We would in this way use is-positive.

The conventions might change if we see that there are ways that make more sense and are also consistent.
Pretty sure last time I tried to install an old enough version of Office, it forced me to upgrade somehow. I couldn't stop it either, it was a toxic UI.
Yes, people 200 years ago did not possess the material science knowledge to build a solid wing that would not be insanely heavy, vs... canvas.
Blu-ray is 'digital media' but because it's physical, US libraries can buy regular copies and lend them out as they wish.

See 'first sale doctrine': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine?wprov=sfla...
I think this is because we have offshored manufacturing and even farming.

Could you imagine what rivers in China and India look like ?

I do agree we have improved in some areas for sure. But we don’t get clouds contaminated with plastic for no reason.
This is a cool project. It would be really powerful if you could integrate Home Assistant's voice assist into this. I haven't played with it much, but I believe you can create custom sentences which would probably help with the joke telling. Or I think you can even set ChatGPT as the backend which seems like it'd make some of this stuff a lot easier (like reformatting the train times). And this would enable speech to text so you wouldn't have to mess with a phone tree and mapping dialed numbers to letters.
I am... also a bit surprised that it's on HN right now? (We introduced the term when we launched last year.[0][1])

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/launching-t...
None of them I would guess.

Math is math and the hard sciences like physics, chemistry, biology,and engineering are all good assuming somebody isn't mining p-values or something like that.

The social sciences require a ton of data and simulating something like the economy with trillions of variables and bounded rationality just isn't possible. If you wanted to simulate an agent like myself you'd likely need millions of lines of probabilistic code and then you'd need millions of other agents running on a supercomputer the size of Rhode Island.
Related:

Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616347
Eh, not really. Look at this b.s. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8270689,-122.2087796,3a,60y,...
That no one has an advantage
mintendo just doesn't want smm to compete with smm2
It's using rrweb - https://github.com/wirequery/wirequery/blob/a276e52b2b42aecb...
Astronomy has a colonialism problem [video]
Ah yeah, that damn yearly thing everyone used to get.