skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia didn't get where it is by following some magic set of rules. Success came from:

1. FAILURE: After Silicon Graphics went tits-up, as part of the linux-tsunami which killed all unix workstation companies, some of the refugees formed Nvidia. Silicon graphics had all kinds of cool technology, so at least they didn't have to start from zero.

2. HANGING IN THERE: they managed to find a niche in graphics chips/cards. For 2 decades it wasn't even a particularly profitable niche, and it had stiff competition.

3. DUMB LUCK: LLMs are another tsunami, but this time in favor of the kinds of chips Nvidia makes. If LLMs hadn't come along, Nvidia would still just be hanging in there.

Success is basically picking yourself up again one more time than you get knocked down, until you finally have the winning lottery ticket. It's not some magic set of rules which you religiously follow.
Oh you’re right. Sorry. Let’s never change anything.
From what I've read, many teachers using AI for grading are being supplied commercial AI tools by the schools themselves. They're expected to be using it. Given the trend towards lower budgets and larger classes, I can't imagine pushback against AI tools being taken very seriously by administrators.
In Kirby 64 (and maybe others?) he could combine powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_64:_The_Crystal_Shards
3. Authoritative lists cannot contradict each other.
Well, I'm not in America, and I'm wondering if this is an American thing?

I just checked my insurance policy. The word "trampoline" never once occurs in it. I don't think my insurer cares about trampolines.

If I think about it: given the absurdly large payouts for some injury lawsuits in the US, I understand why American insurers might be particularly sensitive to things that might induce injury, like trampolines. Given Australian courts tend to be much more modest in the damages they award, I can see why Australian insurers might not see them as something worth paying any special attention to.

Also, even in the US: it might seem obvious to someone who grew up there, but for an immigrant from a country with a different insurance system, it wouldn’t be obvious
Wrote the firmware for an amateur packet radio terminal controller that flew on the shuttle a number of times in terminal+digipeater+bbs modes, was somewhat popular in terrestrial use, and had a few other bells and whistles like RTTY, SSTV, AMTOR and WEFAX.
I agree, especially in the case where only the wealthy are doing
I was first employee and only software engineer for 12 months at a startup working on increasing large scale solar power penetration in electricity networks globally. Worked there for 4 years solving all sorts of interesting problems working with meteorologists and electricity network specialists to build solar power forecasting systems. Implemented direct integration with several national electricity markets putting forward bids on 5 minute power generation which indirectly controlled many utility scale solar farms. This and more while keeping costs down and whole company to less than 10 people. Put lots of automation in place early on which enabled this as people joined. Having good monitoring solution along with CI from day 1 was a great enabler.

The project moved the needle for the amount of solar power that could be confidently installed into electricity networks in Australia, and many countries around the world. I got heavily burnt out, didn't get any equity, and initially took a substantial pay cut to work there, but on balance still the most impactful work I've done, and will be hard to top.
Configuring 1.1.1.1 is a great option for people outside the US whose countries are unable to pressure Cloudflare for information. A better option for those of us in the US is to run our own DNS resolvers. My DNS resolver runs on a little PFSense box that also has DNS blocking and a ton of other features.
And what's the very easy way to do that?
Do you know any similar hosts that attempt to provide shielded VMs?
Not to sound snarky, because this is a genuine question, but what does that even mean? Unless you’ve been brazenly selling child porn over the VPN and been getting away with it for years, I don’t really know how you would establish a VPN is trustworthy vs you just haven’t been targeted for your minor torrenting, or whatever.
Materials may cost that, but you are not getting a roof replaced for $1,700. Maybe $17,000 and even then it’s pushing it on the coasts especially. Labor and other overhead costs have really gone up and contractors don’t want to deal with small jobs. Sad really.

I’ve never seen slate roofs in California, so not sure if these are to code here. We looked at metal and other materials, but the problem is the weight is different, so now you are engaging an engineer to evaluate structure, submitting plans, dealing with code updates. Or just new asphalt shingles every 15-20 years. The payoff isn’t there and folks don’t tend to keep houses for generations, unlike in the UK.
Prejudiced much? Wow.
This is what I wanted to say. You said it very well.
Because brain development happens under external stress, and absent that people stay dumb.
Someday Postgres will get support for PIVOT/UNPIVOT, but today is sadly not that day.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/from-usi...

https://blogs.oracle.com/sql/post/how-to-convert-rows-to-col...
The best philosophic ideas I’ve read come from programmers and builders. I don’t know why that connection exists. My hunch is that programming and philosophy both deal in the abstract so are inherently connected somehow.
I’m not arguing what insurance should be I’m merely talking about the end result of this technology.

I guarantee you income is correlated with state of home repair. If insurance companies can more easily access state of repair, lower income individuals will end up paying more than they did previously.

Regardless of whether that is fair, it is a change from the status quo, and it’s obvious why some people would consider that problematic.
Those Ukrainian concrete buildings can take a bomb and still stand...
Is Twitter (tech community) the next Facebook because of garbage tweets?
I am paywalled so I can't read the article. But generating investment income always depends on having a strong supply of young workers to, you know, do the actual work.
> Why the fuck do you need my home address just so I can copy and paste some GIFs? Because you want to sell this data to data brokers, and you know there will be absolutely no negative consequences if you mishandle this data

One might argue that selling or giving away (or even internally abusing) customer data is every bit as bad having it stolen. As far as I’m concerned, selling my address is a data breach and should be treated as such.

(Obviously, as the article notes, data breaches aren’t really taken seriously.)
Maybe not the most useful thing, but certainly useful and the coolest thing I built is a code formatter for the m language (also known as powerquery). At the time there was only daxformatter.com but no formatter for powerquery. So I wrote one and some people are using it. Imo it has a very nice ruleset to format code that I would prefer to formatters in other languages that I use myself. People reported issues and I took care of every single one of them. It's not much but it's honest work.
Ever started your car engine in a parking space but not been able to immediately pull out? Airports are extremely dynamic and complex and do not run like clockwork - they are pushing big hunks of metal through the air and across concrete with constant contention in both cases, and waiting for humans in between. But modern airports do try to optimise their Target Startup Approval Time (TSAT) and you can Google that term if you want to go deeper.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-why-near-miss-cyberattack-1...
"deep neural networking"
Advertisers are using AI to write ad copy.
Consumers are using AI to read and ignore ads.

So, developers and users get into an AI war over CAPTCHAs.
...and, well, welcome to the latent dystopia :(.
Students have always been getting cheated.
Can you elaborate please? The UK isn't blocking gay porn sites for example.
That sounds very nice. What would a competitive rent for your house be? Is it near London?

For Americans who don't know anything about housing in the UK, there is an interesting article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house

Being Wikipedia in 2024, I wouldn't assume it's not all AI hallucinated references, but still, it's interesting.
Insurance protects against unexpected losses during the policy period. An insurance policy is not a home warranty.

If your roof has a finite lifetime and is approaching the end of its life, the cost of insuring your roof will be close to the cost of a new roof. If your insurance company is not allowed to increase your rate to match your risk (which seems to be the case in California), they will drop you as a customer.

Your previous premium payments insured against the risk of unexpected loss during those earlier policy periods only. They have nothing to do with your current insurance rate.
Students shouldn’t be turning in essays. They should turn in the chat history with an LLM. We need to go beyond just putting your own thoughts into words but instead guiding students on how to explore and hone their own thoughts with AI.

If they come up with metprocesses to game this, that’s a win.
No DICOM is more for imaging. This is a real-time control protocol over CAN-Open.
https://www.can-cia.org/can-knowledge/canopen/cia425/
I’m curious how this works with the new ID-scanning machines that no longer require a boarding pass. Maybe there’s some level of fuzzy-matching name/sex/dob?

I assume for TSA Precheck users there’s some lookup that can just grab your KTN from the database from your ID and look up tickets based on that.
Most of the time I'm using `filter ... where` for cases like these... for example

select
column_name,
MAX(value) FILTER (where meta_key='total_rows') as total_row,
MAX(value) FILTER (where meta_key='not_null_count') as not_null_count,
ROUND(SUM (amount_in_cents) FILTER (WHERE EXTRACT(MONTH FROM TIMESTAMP '2006-01-01 03:04:05) = 1) / 100.0, 2) as 'january_sub_total'
FROM table
GROUP BY column_name
Momofuku probably thinking of how the non-trademark status of "sriracha" made it easier for competitors: https://www.lawinc.com/sriracha-trademark-history

The difference here seems to be that Momofuku is not the original or the most popular.
The name Loki is such a great fit! WOW!

This is some giant BS that is for sure. Some stupid, literally brain-dead AI searching things created by humans to determine what is a "fact". This is beyond dystopian crap.

We all know all the fact-checker orgs. used by big tech like Facebook and others are filled with hyper biased woke people who do not actually fact-check things but get off on having the power to enforce their beliefs, feelings and biases.

I can already tell this is total BS without even looking into it, what kinds of sources will it use? What ranking will they give them? Snopes? ROFL. Probably just uses some woke infested, censored and curated language model to determine a fact based on what has the most matches or THE MOST LIKELY because that how AI works. Has absolutely nothing to do with facts.

And it's even worse, we are literally in a time when AI hallucinates things that do not exist. I won't use a stupid AI to find me "facts".
I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew during the height of the 3D Robotics days, and spending time pair-programming with him on a GPS Driver for ArduPilot. It was incredible to see his confidence in moving around the codebase, making edits. It left an impression on me, it was watching someone who really knew what he was doing. I was inspired. He was also very jovial and fun.

I also remember how concerned he was about the safety of flying vehicles. We were all on the rooftop of a building in Berkeley showing off hackathon projects on drones. He was pointedly staying under the one roof overhang, telling people that this is definitely unsafe. Minutes later someone crashed a drone at full speed into a utility pole, sending shrapnel
and lithium battery chunks everywhere. How it didn't catch fire I'll never know. I think 3DR was a little cowboy for his taste at times, he.

Tridge, if you read this, it was a real pleasure working with you!
Wow. At first I started reading the article thinking the goal was teaching kindergarteners to avoid getting distracted while eating. I just assumed after they finished eating then they could go out and chat or play. I most certainly did not expect the goal to be for scores to maintain high rankings, or for this to be the entirety of their lunch times.

This feels like... torture. We want to limit children's social media usage and cut off their in-person social interactions in school? How is this not horrifying to all the parents? Whatever happened to "think of the children"?
The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
Literally installed it yesterday for the first time. Damn.
Awesome!

Anyone using this long term or in production who can comment on how it's been working?

I see TRIM is supported. Is RETRIM also (or whatever is needed during drive optimization to release areas that didn't get TRIMmed the first time due to a full command queue).

Could this serve as an effective NTFS replacement with data parity for those who don't like ReFS?

How mature is it compared to ZFS on Windows?
I used and was impressed by Namecheap EasyWP, which seems to be part of what they’ve folded into Spaceship. They really delivered on high performance, serverless, cheap WordPress. Moreover, they proved that Namecheap doing greenfield produces starkly better results than what I’d come to expect from their main website and last-gen hosting.

However, EasyWP also ultimately lost me because they just never implemented DMARC/DKIM/SPF or automatic backups. I’m on board with necessary cuts to legacy and ecosystem compat, but missing these features isn’t that, it’s just an incomplete website – and solving it with plugins and manually synced external services significantly detracts from the value prop. And I’m not seeing either feature explicitly advertised on spaceship.com.
> any kind of pro-security legalisation were proposed

Most of these kinds of policies are done in coordination with companies. Google and Facebook/Meta are actually massive laggards on the lobbying side.

It's companies like Cisco, Microsoft, PANW, ZScaler, Crowdstrike, etc along with some up and coming startups that partake in this. Some of the stuff they propose is good, others is crap.

That said, no one's an idiot. Most of these kinds of legislations and proposals are a direct result of coordination and cooperation between defense buyers, vendors, and ICs.
Most of life is just conformity anyway. I agree with you, but your strategy won't get you ahead, if anything it will make it worse.

If you're a man, you're the last man.
My posts had no deeper meaning. I personally don’t feel elegant mathematics really implies anything about the physical universe, but that doesn’t imply anything beyond the need for experimental evidence.

> What model do you prefer for vacuum energy?

The standard model seems fine without vacuum energy > 0. ex: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0503158.pdf

Are you aware of any experiment that suggests it, beyond the apparent acceleration of the expansion of the universe? Because IMO an explanation that only shows up after an observation and also only applies to a single observation isn’t a deeper explanation than the observation itself. (Edited for clarity.)
There is one Greek-English of Plato's work. I'm on mobile right now so don't have it but you should be able to Google it.
> It makes you fit to work in low class blue collar jobs.

Go take a tech job in Miami and get back to us…
Would this make it possible to boot Windows10 and 11 from a btrfs formatted windows usb stick?
> and then give customer service (via phone/email) the admin/power user abilities to deal with the few special cases that the website cannot handle.

Typically, the problem here is that customer service is unwilling to deal with these special cases, through some combination of:

1. They are too scared to correct the data - e.g. they have been told to follow some poorly-thought-out procedure to the dot and/or they're scared of committing some sort of "fraud" by entering the data sensibly.

2. Although they could handle such cases in their system, the system has to interface with a labyrinth of other systems that can't.

3. They have to use an interface that is essentially the same as the website, with all of its limitations.
My anecdata says the only way to be seen in a bike is to dress like a cop. People noticed me a lot more with a white helmet than a red and black one.
Opnsense has it. Never got it to work though.
I wouldn't say it's wanton abandon - here is a deeper explanation of the threat model of SecureDrop workstation https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation?tab...
...and please give me half a billion dollars to.solve that problem, even though I have no proof of concept or even a good hypothesis.
Crichton amnesia - Dr. Gell-Mann doesn't enter into it - is a good way to describe how a lot of discourse around these systems goes. Some domain expert picks apart the outputs in their domain but imagines that it's just fine at style or history or what have you, and uses it for that.

I see this especially with STEM experts attempting to automate away activities traditionally associated with humanities subjects.
For the last 4 years, we've been working on improving the efficiency of deep sleep. This isn't more time spent in deep sleep, it's increasing the synchronous firing of neurons which are the driver of slow-waves, which define deep sleep.
We've got working devices and are going through the ethics approval to continue testing on a larger group of people before we're able to confidently bring our solution to market.

I find it useful myself atm, I think it has the largest potential impact of any project I've worked on before. (https://affectablesleep.com).
The best VPN provider is one you control and is hard to ban.

I set up an OpenVPN server on DigitalOcean for a friend visiting China. It took 10 minutes with the template in the DO marketplace.

It even allows downloading a client with the parameters baked in.
No. This is horrible for UX/UI. No thanks to the app being different for me and different everytime I log in.
They'd just ask ChatGPT to invent a suitably profound prompt history, and that's it?
Here’s the manual. I remember being in awe of this stuff when I was 19.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-...
Provided the company feels like paying for both which they don't. Even if this technology sucks and consumers don't like it, it will be used widely and UX people will be laid off. Any time commercial use art could be automated at the expense of creative labor it has been -- from illuminated manuscripts by the printing press to illustration by photography to typesetting by desktop publishing and now from art direction to AI. Oddly enough, the most cut & paste jobs are management and no one is illustrating how effective AI could be replacing those jobs. It shows off the ingenuity of the creators better when "AI" looks creative. Someone needs to show how it's better at analyzing risks based on measurable outcomes than most C-level executives already. The top 20% of my company makes more than 60% of the wages. The savings are way better and the technology is considerably easier.
Not buying it, Charlie. I live in Bangalore.

Even at 10 USD an hour, that works out to 1600 USD a month. 400 USD is enough to get a BEAUTIFUL 2-bedroom apartment in Bangalore. I'm supposed to believe you'd rather go homeless?
Any chance of releasing code to own and host on own servers?
RDS also outperforms Aurora. My 12 year old Dell R620s outperform both for certain types of queries (admittedly they have some fast NVMe over insanely fast Mellanox).

SANs add latency, who knew? What did surprise me during testing is that Aurora seems to have added latency even if the entire dataset could easily fit into buffers, with zero disk reads required.

If you want actually fast cloud DBaaS, the only way is with instances that have local NVMe for caching, like AWS ??gd.db instances.
You describe theory. In practice, the price will not drop for you at all, but will increase much for others, or they will be unable to get insurance.

In fact your price will propably increase since more overhead needs to be allocated to fewer customers.
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Additional questions of Electronic topology, and optical sensing:

- "GAN semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology" (202 ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365632

- "Deflection of electromagnetic waves by pseudogravity in distorted photonic crystals" (2023) .. "Distorted crystals use 'pseudogravity' to bend light like black holes do" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008449

- "Coherent interaction of a-few-electron quantum dot with a terahertz optical resonator" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10522 :

> By illuminating the system with THz radiation [...]

- "Ask HN: Can qubits be written to crystals as diffraction patterns?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501668 :

> Presumably holography would have already solved for quantum data storage if diffraction is a sufficient analog of a wave function?
Interesting! At the same time, HN current design already looks kind of brutalist to me, it's crisp and sharp without fluff. That's what makes it intemporal and easily readable on every devices.
For 1k with such a clear culprit, isn't that worth suing, like in small claims with self representation (perhaps sitting with a lawyer for 1h to go over what you plan to submit and say)? Or at least talking to a human, since a "refund" of -7 sounds like another computer bug?
If it's really true that they only needed a "cursor streaming binary file feed with a very limited set of functionality", then why claim in the headline they wrote their own database and begin the article with the observation that doing ACID databases is really hard?

Maybe they really built only what they needed. If so, good on them, but ditch the clickbait title. On the other hand, a lot of people believe that they've built only what they need, only to discover in a week or a month or a year that they underestimated their own requirements. Then they gradually re-learn all the lessons that led to the development of real databases, to their eventual sorrow.
I think freedom of speech is an obvious example.
https://archive.is/JNUYO
This is quite a humble take on definition of value, I like it.
ProtonVPN is easy for split tunneling on my Androidish device. Linux requires a little CLI configuration.
Pfsense has it
Mostly I find AI is useful for software engineering in very legitimate ways. It's a far better alternative to Stack Overflow. It's super helpful when writing boilerplate.
>that requires capital - more than the average owner really has access too

It sounds odd to my ear to matter-of-factly state that the US is deprived due to being capital-poor.

I mean, I'm not disputing anything specific, but where do middle-class people have better access to consumer finance than the US?

If you'd asked me what single fact represents American homeowners to people interested in economics around the world, I would've guessed it's the access to 30-year fixed rate mortgages.

As far as I know this is a deliberate policy in the US, that has not been emulated by those envious of the American economy, but why I haven't a clue.
What do you consider “invoking a brutalist experience” to mean?
gcc/gdb/binutils; developing the original model for commercial free software from scratch; changing opinion so that forking was no longer considered a tragedy; originated FOSS projects with independent steering committees.