skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the weights have been released, 4k https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct and 128k context https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
> `final` does one specific thing: It tells a compiler that it can be sure that the given object is not going to have anything derive from it.

...and the compiler can optimize using that information.

(It could also do the same without the keyword, with LTO.)
I've been fascinated by Cellular Automata and the Game of Life ever since seeing the art installation of _Network IV_ by James Seawright. It was at Sea-Tac Airport, and has since been removed.

There's some debate whether it was the Game of Life or some other automata, but I remember the sounds of the relays clacking and the light bulbs humming so distinctly. It certainly had a "Game of Life vibe".

Are you aware of this art installation? Ever seen it?
Oh definitely. Love Galactus.
Chromeos flex could be worth looking at, and depending on the build of their old machine, they may not need to buy a new computer at all. CPU, RAM, and SSD upgrades could help if it's 15+ years old though.

I recently did this to my family's old 20" 2007 iMac and it's perfectly adequate for light web browsing, email, and youtube. Not too shabby for a 17 year old computer.

The best part is that it's secure and easy to use for those less tech literate.
Exploring Magnet-Embedded Paper-Based Interactions
>the value of PI is a constant

You mean "about 3" right?
Where are all these workflow apps getting their ui from? Is there some JavaScript library for boxes connected with lines?
Can you elaborate on what you mean with „the threat is gone“ please?
Double Edged Sword of Docker: Balancing Benefits and Risks
wow -- watched the entire video -- and wow.
AI search startup Perplexity valued at $1B in funding round
Facts about Americans and TikTok
This works only if you're on-call for every little thing. macOS is not Windows, running as a standard user is highly constrictive.

For someone just watching YouTube videos maybe it can work, but its also incredibly infantilizing too.
One thing to be cautious about when selecting prior art for reference is that CSS sets a high bar for declarative control. I can’t speak to any you mention in detail, but my sense is that more comparable prior art would likely be found in print use cases.
HN may be too easy to read as parody, to parody it…
Any recommended further reading on how this effects are handled in Haskell?
There's a surprisingly large number of direct to DVD/VHS animated movies you just cannot find ... anywhere. Not on streaming, not at the library.

It's hard to even find a list; and some are pretty decent, for what they are.
And a lot of people without autism (or that it hasn't been diagnosed) who have issues travelling and managing unexpected stuff.
This is the mentality that leads to multiple pile ups in fog, because every idiot is looking at the tail lights in front of them.

FWIW: The driving test (at least in Blighty) teaches you to look as far down the road as you can, never to just do what the bloke in front is doing.
Money can buy some power, but power is power. Power can create money, destroy money, redistribute money, etc. Even in a capitalist society, money is weaker than other forms of power, it's just easy to measure.
Interviewers might actually look at your YouTube. Not your GitHub.
The popular "just buy this printer" Verge article recommends the Brother HL-L2305W. But Brother appears to have gone the subscription route and replaced that model with the HL-L2405W, which is "Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready" and whose product description says "Requires enrollment in a monthly billed Brother Refresh EZ Print Subscription service plan based on monthly printed page allotments."

The older model is no longer available new from Amazon.

Is Brother still a good recommendation? This subscription pivot gives the company all the wrong incentives.
These are military assets, the Pentagon gets what it wants.

That’s why CHIPS was passed, the brass told Congress to get them some fancy new fabs, and like all requests the Pentagon makes, they got it.

Long term it doesn’t matter if these fabs are hugely profitable relative to other locales, we’ll find a way to keep them producing.
There was a mini-series, starring Benjamin Bratt, about fifteen years ago.

Wasn't really great, but not bad, either. Just didn't have the impact of the 1970s movie.
Unfortunately it is not that simple. All of the cells in a pack need to be balanced the same so it’s not as easy as just swapping in a replacement for a dead cell. Even if you replace all of the cells at once they need to be balanced.

The biggest time sink when building DIY battery packs is testing and charging every cell to the exact same voltage.
Nothing on the GP's comment is about capitalism.
Meta announces smart glasses with AI with Vision
Balatro Source Code Smell
The problem here is the sheer cost of college. Since college is so damn expensive, it creates a lot of risk aversion. You can't flunk a student or take away their scholarship because they'll end up with a lifetime's worth of debt without any degree. That's potentially life ruining. College as a whole is way more risky. The baby boomer idea of using college to explore one's passions becomes untenable when a single year costs 80k.

The paradox here is that while college is extremely expensive, it's also still very much a gateway to white collar, middle class life. So you end up with a lot of students who are forced into college by their parents, who don't really want to be there, and who need decent grades. So yeah, they're not going to study that hard. To avoid this, we need cheaper college, and more routes into the middle class that don't involve college.
OK, these ship yard owners can surely also be bought off with the right size one time amount.
This is the same as was posted the other day, correct?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025195
Just because the weapons are in Taiwan doesn't mean that the US would use them to defend Taiwan - unlike Cuba I doubt if the military leaders would be given delegated authority to use nukes defensively and I doubt any US political leader would use nukes first when faced with a conventional attack on Taiwan.
I see this shift as a tech hype wave finally having its bubble burst under how shit a deal it is for everyone but the middlemen. Then again, I guess a lot of people actually like streaming services for music? This is alien to me. I just straight up never got into streaming music services. I've never had or wanted a spotify account. I think my use of automated discovery tools consisted of trying last.fm recommendations for a while. For the most part I like discovering music by word of mouth or bands touring together or through random happenstance. When listening to music on purpose I prefer to curate it myself from what I have in my collection (Which is mostly digital and I manage it through a filesystem. Most cloud file storage has a garbage featureset compared to like vanilla POSIX, let alone everything we've invented for file management on computers since). Sometimes, if I don't have something, I'll go try to find it specifically on Bandcamp or Youtube, but especially on the former I'm likely to buy it if I ever want it twice, and this is only untrue for the latter because stuff on youtube doesn't usually have a clear way to give the artist money, making it often easier to pirate than buy. I suppose I could still buy and rip CDs, but my last remaining optical drive is over a decade old and it's kind of inconvenient to do that

I'm not trying to be elitist or anything here. It genuinely baffles me that so many people prefer to just have a random stream of music play at them based on what some recommender system thinks they won't turn off, interspersed with ads or for a monthly subscription service that may average out to slightly less than I spend on music (but I'm pretty novelty-seeking and really like supporting artists when I can, so I think I'm above-average in how much new music I will buy). That's not even considering how bad it is for the artists, how it's yet another piece of a surveillance web, etc. I know people mostly ignore that stuff, and that there's a lot of industry dollars going into making it easier to ignore. But the baseline use case just seems obnoxious rather than pleasant or useful. I don't know how to reconcile the fact that my preferences seem really far outside the norm without explicitly trying to be contrarian about it. What do people like about this stuff?
Invasion by CCP followed by full ceasing of chip shipments.
What would be the casus belli?

Multiple US companies with trillion-dollar market caps that are completely or near-completely dependent on TSMC.

Remember that Japan attacked the US in WWII largely because we cut off their oil supply. Now, let's watch China cut off the US's supply of advanced semiconductors, and see how that goes for them. You bring the popcorn, I'll bring the beer.
There are some dedicated publishers that make bibles (most any Christian publishing house will have a bible of some sort) but the big names on Amazon or the bookstore are from the big houses (often under an imprint, mind you).
Gotta cut it some slack since it’s from 1994, but still that’s a humorously bad RFC:

> These require use of a
keyed message-digest algorithm, MD5 [Riv92] […] while sufficiently strong […]

Heh!

> […] is hard for most
people to read, remember, and type in.

Ok, go on…

> English words are significantly easier for people to both remember and type.

Most people don’t know English.. But that shouldn’t be a problem since the word list can be changed. Right?

> Because of the need for interoperability, it is undesirable to have
different dictionaries for different languages.

Oh. Well the world already learned the 26 characters of the English alphabet so adding a few words is probably fine..

> char Wp[2048][4] = […]

Oh, well at least it’s common words suitable for English beginners?

> WAD, BESS, MERT…

Hold on, these words are tricky even for…

> ORR? AGEE EGAN HAAS!!

…Are you done?

> GAUL FLAM! DRAB!
I can get a refurb 100kw pack for my Model S for ~$14k from Tesla. 2018, has ~125k miles on it, less than 10% degradation heavily Supercharged.
I don't think the system here is trying to prove any of its underlying assumptions, just building on some set of existing ones. I doubt the theorem you are thinking of is applicable.
On a galactic scale, I wonder what the average time is between a species evolving intelligence, mastering technology, then using that technology to wipe themselves out of existence?

That's the most likely answer to the question, 'where are all the aliens?'
I don't know how it varies in different parts of the world, but where I live 300k miles is a rustbucket that's one pothole away from the scrapyard.
You're absolutely right, comparing VMs and containers across different cloud providers is definitely tough. So far from research, lots of VM providers like DigitalOcean Droplets vs AWS EC2 use different CPUs, have location-based pricing, free tiers, varying memory options, and flat rates vs. pay-as-you-go models.
However, despite these complexities, I believe it should be possible to provide a reasonably close comparison that offers valuable insights. After all, these providers are essentially offering the same core services. My goal is to highlight the key trade-offs between them hopefully.
Thank you again for the feedback on the typo I've corrected that now. I appreciate you taking the time, and I hope to share my progress soon!
Fedify: ActivityPub Server Framework
Britain's mysterious WW2 'island of death': weaponizing anthrax
It would affect the Moon's natural radiation. It would vaporize plutonium and other isotopes and this would be attracted by the Moon's gravity and eventually settle as a powder all over the Moon. (We did it to the Earth already. You can't find anywhere on the planet without detectable plutonium in the air or water.) This is maybe now less of a concern, now that we have samples returned for background comparison.

Blowing up the Moon would still be a very compelling scientific experiment. I can't think of a cheaper or easier way to get spectroscopy of a sample from below the surface. And aside from the fallout (literal and political) there's not much downside.

Wikipedia has an article about the proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
Linux can run your car's safety systems and driver-assistance features
The Trouble with Passion
168 hours in a week

-56 hours sleep

-15 hours classroom time

-45 hours study time

-7 hours exercise

= 45 hours remaining, or 6.5 hours per day
> the human uni-cyclist steers in front of Waymo, knowing that it will brake

That's a level of optimism I don't have....

...on the same level as a bloke I saw advertising a food blender on the shopping channel, sticking his fingers into the thing to prove the safety mechanism would stop the blades.
A student buys a used book, goes to a copy shop,
spends a few hours copying, then returns and sells
the book back, saving lots of money in the process.

Wouldn't a new book be a better example for effect? The student copies from a new book and returns it, saving a lot of money?

The article ends in a strange way:

> It’s hard to imagine that companies once sued churches for making copies.

That's the end of the article haha (and it's not that hard to imagine). I was hoping they would touch on Napster and CD burning and tie it all into what's going on today with AI, leaving the reader with an informed perspective on IP.

And since I'm apparently a writing critic now: The numerous links to court cases, articles, and interviews throughout made it read like a Wikipedia (in a boring way). Provide sources sure, but in a way that doesn't feel like stepping through the history section of a Wikipedia article. For such a relevant topic and decent headline I expected better writing.
It's still pretty easy to download malicious shell scripts that can wreck your user data and configs on Linux, so noexec is a great tip for setting up a system for a non-technical user.
The system isn't being used to prove its own consistency. The consistency is proved in a different, stronger system.
Exactly, flatten those in the first five minutes and that “shield” is gone.
Are those numbers real in the technical report? If so it really is something big, a < 4 billion model overtaking SOTA 7-8 billion ones, and by quite a large margin.

Seems too good to be true, or I'm missing something?
The individual perceives no negative effects from their data being sold, and this is I think the main reason why people don't care. And this will never change, so if we leave it up to individual choice, then the data will be harvested and sold.

The other big thing is that not knowing things about people makes it harder to control them. So, data is useful for the government as well, and commercially gathered data is a subpoena away from them to access.

So right now, privacy is a hard sell. The individuals don't like it, because it makes thing inconvenient* or inaccessible*. It's a hard sell for companies, because they can turn it into income by selling or using it for advertising themselves. And it's a hard sell for the governments as well, because private people are harder to control.

* I mean inconvenience like when migrating an E2E encrypted messaging app from device to device, and no way to share message history, because of the encryption.

* Inaccessible, as in applications refusing to work if not given specific permissions
Interesting. what is the browser usage like for most of your family? i.e. how many tabs do they tend to keep open at a time?
I worked full-time while finishing up my degree. 40 hours of work, 12 hours of class, an hour a day for transportation, 7 hours a day for sleep. That's 92/120 hours a work week accounted for before homework and personal life stuff, so 76% of the hours in a work week. Weekends were loaded with a lot of studying time, lots of reading ahead in classes. I didn't hit the gym often during the week but a lot of my commute was bikeable so that kept me active. Parking on campus was expensive.

It was a busy time in my life but was just a few years while I was young. In the end I feel like I had more personal time back then compared to now with multiple children.
Internet Service Providers Plan to Subvert Net Neutrality. Don't Let Them
Not sure what you're asking here.

In re:

> Otherwise, it's compatible with literally anything and hence can explain nothing.

Feynman restates it from a different angle: he calls these kinds of things vague theories and states that they are not very useful to scientists because they can be hard to prove wrong.

Throughout he gives a bunch of examples of such vague theories that cannot be proven wrong. (eg that moogles did it, or the positions of the planets influenced when to go to the dentist, or maybe it was caused by flying saucers. )

He also points out Newtons laws which are not vague, and thus can and have been proven somewhat wrong since (see also: Einstein) .

I think further down our thread, this is in re whether saying "God did it" (or "A wizard did it" etc ) has Explanatory power:

* Why do the planets move in ellipses: "God did it"

* Why do the tides go in and out: "A wizard did it"

* How fast will an apple hit my head if dropped from precisely 10.25 meters, and will I need to wear a helmet? "Zeus knows the answer"

etc.

I mean, all technically plausible answers (maybe?), but not very useful if you're trying to understand anything. :-P

(ps. The answer to the latter should be about ~14.17 m/s ~= 50.4 km/h . Something you could go out and measure for yourself outdoors if you like! )
Thanks for you response!

1. Could you tell me the last time you faced this?
1.1 What was the most challenging part?

2. How often do you face the issue when you can’t find something you read/watched/heard?
2.1 Do you feel frustration when you can’t?

3. How often it occurs? just approximately

Stay safe, I know what you’re feeling
> I certainly hope so

Maybe. I can see strong arguments for both sides.

Clumsy as the copyright system is it does attempt to solve an actual problem. I do feel for the true artists getting their style ripped off for half a penny in image gen tokens for example.
I found that iPhone and iPad work great, but my parent also wanted a computer and I went with it. 95% of my support calls are regarding something with the computer.

The iMac really is just subtracting value from their life. The phone and tablet are fantastic, but I want to hire someone to break into the home and steal that computer.
There have been a lot of "wow" moments in my Life career, watching complexity emerge out of the repeated application of simple rules -- but I guess I'd say that it was more a confirmation of things that I thought I knew already.

In 2001 I had already been playing around with things like the Mandelbrot set and aperiodic tilings and Douglas Hofstadter's strange loops for quite a few years, so I knew the kinds of magical things that the iterative application of simple rules could produce.
What is the point?

I recognize myself in lots of things that are described by some people having autism and out of curiosity I ran an online test once that basically said that I might but it was also clearly not definitive. But more often than not I didn't really know where to put the cursor between totally agree and totally disagree so I answered some of them very randomly.

From what I understand if you are not neurotypical there is very little that can be done and I don't think it should be considered a disease to be slightly different. I honestly prefer not to know as I don't think it would help me in my struggles regardless of the result and if I was I am not sure I would want to be labelled as such. YMMV of course.
The tyranny of metrics arose with the industrial revolution, not capitalism. It is obviously easier to measure many things by proxy with money in a capitalist society, but Robespierre and Stalin were no strangers to optimizing society around metrics.
This is funny considering the whole streaming ecosystem. You might be out of touch.
> nobody makes complex macros

http://boost.org/libs/preprocessor
I agree, this was kind of my point. Work ethic can mean somewhat different things to different people. Some emphasize hours worked, some effort, some obedience, some loyalty and other honesty, bravery or creativity.

Some of these can even be contradictory. Some workplaces reward the bravery to provide constructive, honest criticism to coworkers and especially senior management. In other places, such behavior can be seen as disloyal.

But there are also cultures that actively repress people who seem overly eager to give their best. I personally know of places where the union has been going after young people who work at their full capacity as it makes the older workers look bad.

In other places, I've seen laziness being seen as completely acceptable. And particularly in groups that feel underpaid, either relative to management or to coworkers in other countries with higher salaries. ("We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us").
Neat. I like it.

Out of curiousity, why don't browsers have pluggable layout managers? Like Java's AWT/Swing LayoutManager. [1]

Fussing with CSS and Java's stock layout managers (gridbag, table) always fills me with frustration and anxiety. In my experience, for the fussy work, it's easier to explicitly code what I want.

Ages ago, inspired by Designing Visual Interfaces [2], I made a layout manager [3] for canonical design grids [4].

It was pretty neat. Fluent API. Always visually correct. All the baselines aligned just so. Predictable results. Perfect for banging out CRUD forms. [5]

1/ https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.desk...

2/ https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Visual-Interfaces-Communica...

3/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110302212909/http://java.net/p...

4/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110308034949/http://designgrid...

5/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110515182322/http://wiki.java....
There's benefit in destigmatizing the trades. And not every job should require a degree. I find the informatics-related apprenticeships described here an interesting contrast to the "BS in CS or you're worthless" mentality I see in some areas online.

But 16 is way, way too young to be asking someone to make major decisions about what they want to do when they grow up. At best, they should have two more years of life experience before deciding on college or an apprenticeship.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
"Aviation system" = "Air traffic control"

Which...is a subset.
I know this is totally tangential to what you're saying and irrelevant to your point but I'm curious. I'm pretty up on MacOS and Linux, not so much on Windows. Is Windows less of a walled garden than MacOS?
A powerful volcano is erupting. Here's what that could mean for climate
I don't remember the exact numbers but undergrad would, I think, be at least 3 hours of classroom a day.
Doesn't work on Chrome for android. Mid range android phone though
Half of Americans say Public K-12 Education is Going In The Wrong Direction
The article is interesting, but doesn't seem to address that the pandemic ruined the illusion of fine dining.

This is especially true for single people. What used to be a red flag is now a litmus test. Inviting people back to your place to entertain is a prime opportunity to flex. It's not even about the cost. Your home says a lot more about you than ever before.
Maybe remote/online classes are getting to be a lot more popular post-COVID?
Where in Michigan? I regularly visit libraries in Ann Arbor, and Whitmore Lake. Both have libraries that are a wonderful resource for the community, but the difference in funding is obvious.