skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that, it's another point: efficiency vs assembly line. Humans are not build to be robots, they are build to evolve.

If we learn a classic desktop paradigm computer system at school, while we learn all the basic and less basic cultural stuff we learn at school to became Citizens, we can profit from this knowledge for life. We can choose to dig deeper or not, but we have something useful for our entire life.

If we learn the modern desktop paradigm we never evolve. We are not Citizens, we are workers in an assembly line and upon any change from the factory owner our acquired knowledge goes to the bin.

I hope to have successfully described the point in my poor English. To give a simple example, I track my bills (well, like many, nothing special), I've crafted a bit of automation (org-mode notes + BeanCount + a bit of py automation), it took two/three days, MUCH more than most users do with modern tools, BUT thereafter anything goes nearly autonomously so I've spent 2/3 days + few seconds looking at my org-agenda regularly vs few minutes to start than keep spending few minutes all the time. In the short term the classic model is not good, in the middle term it's equivalent but demand more intellectual work, in the long term outshine the modern one so much that's like comparing a runner by feet against one on a jet in a speed race. Actually the effort spent in automating my bills notes it's also useful (at least in some parts) to automated other stuff, a bit at a time, an evolutionary step at a time I've built and keep up my PIM, again all the effort put pay back and I've gained valuable knowledge from doing that. The modern approach seems cheaper at first but it's much more expensive in the long run and gives little to no valuable knowledge at all.

The same model apply to any other aspects of our life, one to remain in economics the "ownership model" vs the "rent model", owning a home seems to be much, much more complex than rent one, it demand much more resources, much more computations and projection up front etc BUT it pay back much more thereafter. The rented home is just a regular expense that pile up year after year and at the end you have nothing. The owned home in most cases (essentially all, with insurances) have a final value, normally a big enough one to pay back the capex + opex of the time passed.

Since we are not made to live a single life but to evolve, doing better things a generation after another, passing knowledge and anything we can to newer generation, the modern paradigm is the slave paradigm, he/she produce a new generation that have no benefit from the old one, get nothing, leave nothing in the end. The classic is the human model, where we build families, passing what we have built and the accumulated knowledge, improving a generation after another.
Is Apache Spark really a MapReduce replacement? All the recent technical books I've read look to MapReduce as a thing of the past.
The current SOTA models (GPT4, DALL-E, Sora) were trained on GPUs. The next one (GPT5) will be, too. And the one after that. Besides, only very few people train models that need more than a few hundred H100s at a time, and PyTorch works well at that scale. And when you train large scale stuff the scaling problems are demonstrably surmountable, unlike, say, capacity problems which you will run into if you need a ton of modern TPU quota, because Google itself is pretty compute starved at the moment. Also, gone are the days when TPUs were significantly faster. GPUs have “TPUs” inside them, too, nowadays
Uptime kuma is cool.
Generating documentation from working code – as long as it's not at the expense of quality descriptions – is by far the superior way to make documentation. Every time I have not done that, the examples have become outdated within a year.
I still don't think I'm getting my point across.

What if you store 40% of the data and 40% of the metadata in CPU memory. Is that the same for performance?

Is there a reason we want particular parts of the layer to stay on the GPU? Or is it just number of bytes.
PX-1000Cr: Deliberate weakening of a cryptographic algorithm by the NSA
Last I understood, political texts still couldn't be sent using an "auto dialer" unless prior consent is given. Twilio and automated sms senders shouldn't be sending non-consented political messages.
They may have been. They live in Lebanon, when they're not being contested by settlers or occupied they're usually trying to maintain their claim to sovereignty same as anyone. It would unfortunately not surprise me to hear if they were threatened throughout October.

Regarding being an American citizen, I feel pretty proud that our government is taking a skeptical approach to Netanyahu's leadership. It just pains me that I'm indirectly supporting the same people that are effectively displacing half my family. I do engage with US politics, I don't see the value in petty protests of democracy though.
This is addressed very directly by the second paragraph of my first comment. Please adjust your response to take that into account.
The fact that we have a phrase (mid-life crisis) for radical change later in life, should clue people into the fact that some significant portion of older people are capable of change. Most new businesses in the US are started by people over 40 is another hint.
This is incorrect.

The F1 MGU-K is geared to the crankshaft via the timing gears. The wheels are absolutely NOT electrically driven, it’s working as a torque fill for the conventional powertrain.
I put in the quotes because the person asking the question picked the exact phrasing, which as we both pointed out isn't correct. They're just pilots. The normal crew driving the boat are crew, not pilots.
Could you use some sort of RAID array of GPUs to compensate...?
This is a further issue for those using e-ink devices (tablets, e-book readers, monitors), where rapid animation at higher quality settings is exceedingly disruptive --- stuttering, screen-flashing, and the like. (It is possible to display animations, if desired, at reasonable refresh rates using lower-quality display settings, e-ink offers a trade-off between text quality (resolution, ghosting) and refresh rates. But as if there needed to be additional arguments to put a hard stop on highly-distracting design elements, this really stands out.)

I've also found it ... interesting ... to note that a single Web page often has the memory footprint of an entire book (a few MB for just plain text, though that can balloon upwards with complex typesetting and graphics), and that even a browser optimised for e-ink (Einkbro) has roughly 10x the power consumption of the stock ebook reader (Neoreader) on my Onyx BOOX tablet (labeled as an e-book reader, but in fact an e-ink based Android tablet).

I can read books for days on a single battery charge. I can browse the Web for ... a few hours.
Not my wording. I was responding to someone who was confused whether pilot refers to the normal ship's crew (it does not).
https://web.archive.org/web/20240330173821/https://www.forbe...
No, it isn't distinct from inflation. Higher wages necessarily means increased cost for product, leading to an overall increase in cost.

This is exactly what inflation is.
Tesla is serving that purpose; they didn't need it much for technology per se, just that it is best in execution, and they needed someone to nudge the local companies like BYD to next level.
Between monoliths and microservices you have services and sidecars. If you don’t at least have sidecars I really don’t see the point of kubernetes, because most of the rest of the services will follow Conway’s Law and can reasonably do their own thing for less than 125% of the cost of full bin packing.
Turns out all Flock needed to do was ask the police for permission, and now they can have ai cameras monitoring the world. The "didn't ask permission" aspect was not at all hard to remedy; the local elements of the state are more than encouraging about AI powered mass surveillance at a very fine fine level.

Will Flock be able to use this data themselves? Will they be allowed to sell this data to others? At what level? How much will they charge me to track a red Nissan with roof racks all day for a day?

Just two weeks ago a federal court gave copsa thumbs up on installing a camera watching someone's home & comings & goings, for 68 days straight. And here the state is watching the entire city at once. The availability of these capabilities is so remarkably high, and it's hard to imagine how democracy gets a say in reconciling these new powers of the state. Meanwhile the courts are happily making more room than ever for the state. https://qz.com/feds-can-film-your-front-porch-without-warran...
> Dude, they're not having the robot strip on the weekends as a side gig.

Beautiful.
Last I checked (which was years ago, admittedly) the GLX libraries still required Xlib. There were XCB functions for GLX, but they didn't work with the client-side libraries, so you had to use Xlib.

Of course, you should just skip GLX nowadays and use EGL instead, which I'm pretty sure does work with XCB.
> I spent about twenty seconds on my original comment.

You then kept defending it.

> you can see the edit I made

Even after that, you were still insisting there were loopholes.
I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996.

I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories.

It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives.

To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and also on my Mac M1/M2 machines (and as a tool quicker than even Mac's own Preview). It's a primary install for me, whichever any platform I'm working on; and a software that's truly a gift to the world.
IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years.

IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.
> The engine uses port and side direct fuel injection systems (PFI/GDI, referred to by Toyota as D-4S); a cooled, external exhaust gas recirculation system (cEGR); and a wide range of authority variable valve timing with electric phasing on the intake camshaft and hydraulic phasing on the exhaust camshaft. Atkinson Cycle is implemented using late intake valve closing (LIVC). Effective compression ratio is varied by varying intake camshaft phasing.

Clever indeed.
I for one, hate being a Gmail customer and still having ads cluttering the account.
The residents didn't win. They eventually settled, on terms worse than they were fighting for.
this seems to be an accurate capture of the original "databasecolumn" blog post https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/backwards-vertica2008....
The author is referring to something called Chaitin incompleteness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Chaitin'...

Of course trivially some KC can be proven, ex a language with 1 or 0 characters that is interpreted to a specific string. Or to prove KC(x) where the compressed value has length N and you can list out all the results for all strings of length less than N, and they don't equal x, proves KC(x)=N.

The interesting number paradox (Berry's paradox) is more related to Chaitin incompleteness.

Basically, given a language there’s some code which enumerates proofs that KC of a string is more than some constant L, and returns the first one it finds.

If the constant L is large enough, it becomes larger than the entire proof generating code. So the proof generating code will never find a proof of any KC larger than L.

It's interesting to think about that the language gets more complex, proofs for larger strings become possible. And what it would mean for the languages to keep getting more complex indefinitely.

it's a similar train of thought to busy beaver numbers and how systems of logic (PA,ZFC) become independent to values like BB(745), and what it could mean to have more and more advanced types of logic which don't become independent until some high target n.
At least this eclipse will be visible from a wide range of places all across the continent starting in Mazatlán which likely has the best weather but has been booked solid for months. Traveling on the day of the eclipse will be a problem so best to be in place the day before. Was on a Caribbean cruise during the 1998 Feb 26 eclipse and deck space was in short supply but it was quite a party.
Well, I reached the end of the article (interesting btw), and still not convinced why bob can't claim that there was no foul-play involved and that his got his result due to excellent luck.
I'm sure many (if not all) developing countries with a significant market are doing the same. The difference is how serious the receiving country is with that knowledge transfer process.

I've worked as an expat in Malaysia and now in my home country, Indonesia, alongside expats in a local company. The message is more or less the same, "market access in exchange for technology." But the transfer never happens :) I understand this is individual, but I don't think it's any different at the institutional level.
I had a similar idea but wasn’t sure how to build it. If you could integrate hotel booking in with this product I think it would be a serious competitor to some of the major travel sites. From there maybe things like busses/trains, excursions, best place to get coffee, etc.
Could you elaborate on why this is? Naively, the temperature of a simple hydrogen flame is not too much hotter than a methane flame. And in torch form, it seems like MAPP is several hundred degrees (C) hotter? And oxy-acetylene a few hundred more on top of that. Any torch seems to have way more than enough heat to melt platinum (1700C)?
They also used to give out expensive surprise gifts to attendees - that’s the main thing I remember about early versions of it.
This might create interesting dynamics.

Advertising that focuses on people who don't use ad-blockers is more valuable, so products and services that sell to this demographics win more ad auctions in Google.

Those who are less computer savvy, or can't control what they install become ad targets.
People use VISA because they like the convenience and assurance it gives them over cash or a bank transfer, both of which don’t have a fee. Crypto both has neither and is more expensive per transaction.
Isn't the Hadoop story also playing out with spark--the open source version is kinda buggy, while the spark committers at Databricks have retained all the fixes for themselves.
That story links to a different document filed with the courts.

Additionally, the scope is wider than just what Onavo did for Facebook.

There are comments being made in that post as well where people are assuming all of the communication on one side, which was not the case at all.
100% agree. mapReduce hype always seemed strange to me because it's basically the volcano paper from the 90s but with custom user defined operators instead of pre baked ones in a more traditional engine.
To make everything worse, hadoop came along, ignoring every industry advance of the past 40 years with its "one tuple at a time" iterator based model on a garbage collected language. I realize it's very easy for me to say those things in hindsight, but it's not like vectorized execution was a weird obscure secret by the time these things came out.

On a side note, it finally looks like the industry is moving towards saner tools that implement a lot of things that this article mentions mapReduce was missing
For me...

Banning by Google as a single point of failure seems less likely than the single points of failure in ordinary alternatives to Gmail.

For example, I relied on backing up Thunderbird profiles as an email archive for many many years. Based on my years of experience the probability that my old spinning disks in the box in the closet are unreadable is higher than the probability that I will get banned by Google.

Google hardware is more reliable than mine. Google's algorithms are more reliable than me. That's me of course, not you and your mileage can and will vary.
Too bad this is not a DMR radio.

Some other custom firmwares have been made for other radios, like the GD77: https://www.opengd77.com/ and the MD380 and similar: https://md380.org/

But as far as I know they are still just mods on the original firmware. And DMR is kinda a must-have now for hams. Analog activity is negligible now on the VHF/UHF bands, at least where I am.

The "best" Chinese DMR radio seems to be the D878UVII but it's extremely expensive ($200 or more).

By the way the Retevis RA79 seems to be the same radio. It's cheaper here on Amazon so I think I'll try that. Also, "Retevis" means "Ass fish" in my language so that's definitely a plus for me!
As long as they are physical controls that a person can find and operate while focusing on where they're trying to go. Levers are familiar to hundreds of millions, so that's a safe bet. Changing it without good reason is unwise.

Using touch screens that require visual inspection is irresponsible.
Here in Argentina in some places we had "chain voting" (Spanish) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_electoral#:~:text=Voto%...

autotranslation> Chain vote, allows the purchase of votes, the first one who enters to vote, puts another envelope (not the authorized one, but any one). That vote will probably be contested, but they take the valid envelope with them. Then he inserts a ballot from his party into it and closes it tightly, then he can organize a chain of votes making sure that they are in his favor, even if there is a dark room. He offers each person a reward if they bring the empty envelope in exchange for taking the full envelope. Frequently used in low-income areas where political leaders organize the chain.

It's a lot of work to avoid the checks of voting in person. Without those checks it's too easy to force or pay someone to vote for a party and verify it 100%.
https://selfawarepatterns.com/2020/09/04/the-problem-with-ma...

> In other words, if physicalism is true, then Mary’s complete knowledge of all the physical facts will include knowledge of what it is like to experience color. When she does have the actual experience for the first time, there should be no surprises. If there are, then she didn’t really have all the physical facts.
> FYI, ZGC doesn't perform any collection work in the the stop-the-world pauses.

Yeah i know, but on a certain level I don’t care what it does or does not do.

I care about my application not having latency spikes due to stop the world pauses :)
> and their use is optional

It is not, if you have objects with dynamic lifetimes, and allocating them for the whole duration of the program is not an option.

Sure, their use can be much less than a managed language that can only do automatic memory management, but RC is objectively a worse from most perspective than tracing GC, except for the fact that they don’t need runtime support, and a slightly lower memory overhead.
The benefit of wgpu is that you don't have to mess with synchronization the way you do in Vulkan and DX12. This is an enormous productivity booster.

Besides, if you pick one native API (say, Vulkan), then you're still going to go through translation layers on the platforms it isn't native to, so wgpu isn't any different. Or you can write multiple backends for different platforms, which multiplies the amount of work you have to do. Either way, saying that wgpu gives you "no added benefit" is silly.
I'm really interested in what you're comparing Tailscale to internally, because it does way more than just VPN. What are the cheaper options, and do they also have an SSH feature, oauth authentication to the network for automation services, the ability to stand up VPN node loadbalancers in kubernetes clusters, and ACME certificate request automation through LetsEncrypt? Just to list a few features that I use from Tailscale's free tier that I don't normally think of as the job of a VPN service. And they're constantly adding new features that make it a really interesting and competitive choice, in my opinion. Honestly I'm mostly interested in this take because I'm shocked by how much they offer in the cheaper tiers.
Right. I was thinking of keeping the same 90-day validity but renewing much more frequently, rather than the 60-day period that LE recommends. But I can see my questions have irked other community members, so I'll leave it at that. :)
Your AI Product Needs Evals: How to construct domain-specific LLM eval systems
Lasse appears to be active and working on undoing the sabotage. https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blobdiff;f=CMakeLists.tx...
Brings to mind if there's a service that will monitor all the certs and their expiry.

Cloudflare seems to handle a fair bit of this if you host your domain with them, but you have to use Cloudflare.
I had a discussion with someone in similar position. He implied that at a certain point it is about succeeding and keeping score, rather than about the money.

The people who would bail out and live on a beach are probably the kind of people who wouldn't have the success to do so. (I count myself amongst them.)
The real problem is that in america public ilumination sucks and is almost inexistent. Its really hard to see anything on the road, of course drivers are going to want more powerful lights
It's about speed mostly. And I got used to the shortcuts, ctrl+r to resize, 'i' to check image metadata. I don't really use any of the editing features (I use Paint.NET for edits).
In theory I don't need a dedicated image viewer but I like IrfanView so much that I even paid for it so I can have it on company's laptop.
Very early on in my enterprise career, in a continuance of a discussion where it was mentioned that our customer was contemplating a terabyte disk array (that would fill an entire server rack, so very fucking early) I learned about the great grandfather of NVME drives: battery backed RAM disks that cost $40k inflation adjusted.

“Why on earth would you spend the cost of a brand new sedan on a drive like this?” I asked. Answer: to put the Oracle or DB2 WAL data on so you could vertically scale your database just that much higher while you tried to solve the throughput problems you were having another way. It was either the bargaining phase of loss or a Hail Mary you could throw in to help a behind-schedule rearchitecture. Last resort vertical scaling.
What's the potential percentage of malware on 100GB (100,000,000,000 bytes) in your system if a backdoor occupies 100 bytes?
I was a GMail user from the only-by-invite stage but some years ago I've ditched it to own my mails. In users terms GMail was probably the first WebUI with a nice and effective search built-in (not crappy limited IMAP search), a decent contact completion and many not-so-integrated services in the same package. However the don't be evil motto's is history now and mails are more and more important in modern life (a bit a time as the society digitalize), good search do exists also with local tools (notmuch, mu to name the best I've found, I use notmuch). Local tools allow a level of integration GMail still can't offer, and much more automation. MailDrop + a simple script automate my bills notes, just reading my mails as a small example.

So well... My compliments for all GMail devs, especially for those who have made it as a side project in their paid free worktime, that pay back Google MUCH, MUCH more than the expense, but today for me GMail and Alphabet services are a no go. I still have a non monitored account used only for Meet, since some ask me to use Meet, but that's is.