skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once went to see an antique palace with my wife, which according to Google reviews was home to a 3-star hotel with a restaurant. Turns out the hotel was long gone, the property turned private, and the new owner didn't notice us and locked the gate when leaving, trapping us and our car inside. We jumped the fence and found the guy and kindly asked him to come back and open the gate.
I don’t really think that’s possible in an organization that size. People don’t really care about organizational outcomes any more but rather aim for personal outcomes.
Why shackled to SMS?
I don't have an iPhone don't use iMessager and haven't sent a SMS in the past 10 years.
Everything these days is What'sApp / Telegram / Signal
I think this article is overstating the effect that Apple's walls have on lock-in effect.

I'm an Android user, and a little less than a year ago I actually bought an iPhone, specifically due to Apple's iMessage lock-in (nearly all of my friends have iPhones, and the especially broken group messaging between iMessage and Android was the primary driver of my desire to get an iPhone).

Except the problem was that, after over a decade on Android, I had zero desire to switch over all of my data and apps over to iPhone. For better or worse the "Google ecosystem" is where all my stuff lives and I just didn't have a desire to spend a bunch of effort just to switch. I ended up giving the iPhone as a gift to an iOS-loving family member.

That's the thing about both iOS and Android platforms - I think you'll find anyone who has been in those platforms for more than a couple years will be extremely reluctant to switch just due to the effort. Our cell phones are often the center of our digital lives now: apps, headphones, watches, etc. The lock-in I think is more from that "ecosystem effect" than any amount of particular lock down.
For today's lucky ten thousand, the grandparent comment is about dropbox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
In most of the southeast you're only going to see English. Even in medium size towns. Texas is completely different however, where you can easily see 3 languages alone set of store fronts.
LLM Honeypots?
Q- Is it possible companies will plant honeypots using non-exisiting unique words to detect if LLM crawlers are bypassing their do-not-crawl policies?
It is somewhat smart capitalism, drive up the prices extract as much money as possible as fast as you can and when product stops selling write it all off. Executives get their pay checks from options and investors see line go up for short time...
Nice job! One suggestion though: replace the "Challenge" box with a short video demonstrating the actual procedure in real time; this would help convince those who are looking for such solution.
I mean that's basically what they're doing. The BUSL license these projects are using boil down to "you can't resell the project against us". But that's a non-starter for many folks and the companies using such a license are the devil.
Just ran into this because of David Foster Wallace's 90s story about the Las Vegas porn awards. Not affiliated with (and not even sharing the particular faith of) the site owners.

But the article seems worth sharing, although I have to warn that it contains descriptions of gut-wrenching violence.
Won’t help for tweaking a logo for an app or adjusting a diagram for a presentation. AI generated images do not have direct control. It’s like trying to do tech support with an elderly relative over the phone.
In democracies, usually it's up to the population to decide what favors the population best.

Also, in democracies with a somewhat free market, you can simply choose not to buy phones that do not ship the port you prefer.
What feedback have you received, regarding your resume?
Which kinds of roles are you trying to secure?
So for you it's the same than being paid by a private corporation?
> On iOS this clears any keys stored in the Secure Enclave and it’s much harder to get a forensic image.

Are you sure about that? I've been able to power on my phone without any connectivity and still access my keychain passwords, which should be locked behind a key in the enclave.
More info here: https://www.littleworkshop.fr/projects/keepout/

It uses Three.js.
I understand the noble intent behind much of the tax code, but it has grown into a gnarly beast full of loopholes for the rich, and the wrong kind of societal incentives for the poor.
To expand a bit more, energy is the fuel of civilization, since we won't have oil at surface level and solar won't be possible without panels, we should concentrate in generating hydroelectric power from rivers that will still be there. With unlimited power everything else is just as easy to rebuild.
That's correct! The machine is in exchange for sharing your art program.
I’m sorry are you implying that congresspeople are receiving monetary compensation because they live in poverty
VC mindset-

1. Raise a lot of money from LPs (Rich People or Institutions).

2. Get ~3% out of the fund for operations and then for every successful exit.

3. Fund startups/industries that others are investing into to create a cycle.

Now what happens when all the startups are doing bad? Can't deploy capital?
You can't return the cash to LPs saying "OOPs didn't find best startups to fund"

Instead you go, "See everyone is investing in AI, so we are also doing it!", LPs happy to be part of a trend and thinks themselves smart while you raise more for your fund. :)
If anything Terraform will get reinvigorated. I'd bet IBM will reverse the license change by the end of the year.

> This leads me to my first concern, IBM has a conflict of interest. IBM has a cloud offering, admittedly with a 1.8% market share. Why would they want to keep developing tools that frankly benefit their competitors more than them?

Because they'll make bank off of Hashicorp Cloud Platform.

> Another option is to ‘go native,’ with each of the big three hyperscalers offering its dedicated options: Cloud Formation with AWS, Bicep with Azure, and Config Controller in Google Cloud.

Not an option. People manage way, way more than just AWS, Azure and GCP with Terraform. GitHub, Cloudflare, Tailscale, etc ...

It's an interesting time for Hashistack for sure, but I don't think the industry is prepared to move away from the tooling.
They’re not. They take all the funding away, push for our tax money to go toward things that don’t help the overwhelming majority of citizens (and probably a similar number actively disagree with where taxes go, like bombing other countries), and then they create businesses to extract money from private individuals. They use it to create completely absurd and wasteful private industries for the soul purpose of making money. They aren’t solving problems, they’re exploiting problems they’ve created by undermining the government.
Hmmm we can see the screenshots right there. Who took them?
You're mistaking corporations for people.
Stupid question but what is the point of taxation if we don't care about deficits anymore?
That's an absurd reason to flag what is a quite interesting blog post about the MS-DOS source code release. Whatever the author's other views may or may not be is irrelevant to this article.
Btw, I support some Kenyan high school students and am looking at supplying a few schools with llamafile+models on flash drives for their computer science curricula.
I built my own personal weather station when Wunderground was destroyed by TWC and IBM. It has continued to grow over the last two years. With each new idea I have, I have been adding additional functionality to it. It's fun and I've learnt a lot because multiple programming languages are needed to get everything to function.
cool, but stopped working as soon as I hit the shop entrance. Just black screen.
> It is quite certain that in the near future, a majority of all research papers will be written with the help of artificial intelligence. I suspect that they will be reviewed with artificial intelligence as well. We might soon face a closed loop where software writes papers while other software reviews it.

This is fine as long as there are humans trained in critical thinking skills (i.e., a liberal arts education) are monitoring every step in this loop ensuring that the scholarly output is of high quality. I am unfortunately not sanguine about this optimistic scenario.

> And this new technology should mediocre academics even less useful, relatively speaking. If artificial intelligence can write credible papers and grant applications, what is the worth of someone who can barely do these things?

Actually, I think the opposite of this is true where AI has the potential of leveling the playing field and increasing the productivity of less productive employees.

> Unsurprisingly, software and artificial intelligence can help academics, and maybe replace them in some cases.

I don't think so. Instead the individual components of academic workflows can potentially be accelerated by AI.
I think that was a bit oversimplified, the Free File program was problematic in a lot of ways, but it's not like the US government was just sitting on their own free file system that was locked behind a vault. They had to actually make the thing and it was never a given that they'd be able to do it. When the private companies said they'd offer their services for free to prevent the government from taking on the expense and hassle, it was sensible trade off. When the tax prep industry got greedy and overplayed their hand, they got bitten and are now in deep trouble.
Doesn’t seem like a contradiction?
I really like Bart Dring's work but haven't seen this one before. Thanks for sharing!
All Jokers in Balatro at Once [video]
Every country in Europe I'm familiar with has free texts, but I think I can count with one hand the SMS I've received in the last ~10 years from actual people. Absolutely nobody sends SMS over here.

Might be that US got the free texts first though. Not sure anymore what was the timeline with that.
Everything Google's Python team were responsible for
> Android was initially designed so that operators could customise it. The idea was apps were developed (and sold) only by operators, and everything else would be via the browser.

I'm not sure where you got this information. The Android Marketplace arrived with version 1.0 of Android on the T-Mobile G1. Side loading has been available since the very beginning.

What you describe more closely resembles what iPhone did, except that it was never a given that Apple's carrier partners were going to be able to ship their own user facing software on the device.

Operators and OEMs can absolutely customize Android and it was more allowed in the beginning than now. As a way to reduce fragmentation and gain more control over the platform, Google started attaching more and more stipulations to allowing it's suite of software (including Marketplace, now known as Google Play) to be included on handsets.

Was there ever a case of a mobile operator launching their own software store on Android? Certainly OEMs did it, with the Samsung app store being the most prominent. Genuinely curious here, as others do note that (see the Japanese handsets post) OEMs have and even still do a bunch of customization and pre installed apps.
WebGL for games is so awesome for low-friction deployment.

As a rainy weekend hack I did a quick and dirty port of a fan decompile of the original Tomb Raider to WASM/WebGL a few weeks ago:

https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/ (this uses alternative fan assets inspired by TR1)

The TR community has a couple of websites hosting lots of great fan levels, I'm hoping to make this good enough to allow playing them straight from the browser at some point.
And no way to batch-delete?
>> nobody ever saw it as the government being intimately entangled with anyone's life

Is that true? There's no one, not one person in Sweden, who sees that as government overreach?

Scary if true.
So TikTok will be banned. Seems inevitable.
How would you check?

Think we put - UEGVHBEWCOUB, in my website and the website is about making pan cakes, now you expect when we ask for a recipe of pan cakes it will return this string? It won't because it scanned 100k other websites for that too.

Becomes a needle in a haystack problem.
Pretty easy, assuming 2 kids filing jointly. Standard deduction is $29,200, so effectively only $30k of taxable income. Of that, 23k is taxed at 10%, 7k @ 12%, or $3.14k/10.5% effective.

Then $1.6k/kid gets subtracted due to the Child Tax Credit, for a net -$700 in taxes paid.

Keep in mind the cost of living in the USA is higher than many other countries. 60k for a family of four is doable in most places, but it is not a life of luxury.

edit: the family will also end up paying 7.65%/$4.6k in a separate tax for a mandatory retirement scheme (FICA)
Enemies only have shadows but no model. Chrome pixel 7.
Bicep has the potential to provide a cross platform solution, but it’s unclear whether that’s the direction:
https://github.com/radius-project/bicep-types-aws
Sure, I've met them. I've been them. I've also met and been the opposite.

Many people can be 10x when everything is aligned for their specific skill set, working environment, and personality. Being hyper-productive is less of a unique aspect of a person, and more about giving people the exact environment in which they can do their best work.
Einsums are the regexes of tensor programming. Should be avoided at all costs IMO. Ideally we should be able to write native loops that get auto-vectorized into einsums for which there is a CUDA/PTX emitting factory. But for some reason neither PyTorch nor JAX/TF took this route and now we are here.

Some of the einsum expressions I have seen for grouped multi headed/query attention is mind-boggling and they get shipped to prod.
Thank you for your suggestion, I have thought of adding a video as well but haven't yet recorded. Are you a developer yourself?
I tried to get ChatGPT and Gemini to do ASCII art and both fail abysmally. Doesn’t mean they could never do it, but it really surprised me.
What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI
The fact of the matter is the tax code is stupidly complex for no good reason. It's used to promote policy and benefits the wealthy (Warren Buffett has noted this numerous times). That's it. If the focus was on collecting taxes it would be stupidly simple.
"Experts say a nationwide rollout could someday disrupt the multibillion-dollar tax preparation industry; Americans spend more than $200 a year, on average, to file a return using software or a tax preparer."

This year it took me five minutes and cost whatever I pay for my bank account, which I used for identification. $30 maybe? I could have waited a bit for papers through the mail and approved with a SMS.

Might be an OK goal for US:ian lawmakers.
1) You actually can, as high voltage DC transmission lines have shown in China (and some places in the US), where you can transmit for literally thousands of kilometers. Transmission is a political problem, not a technical one. Which doesn't make it easier to solve (it's harder to solve political problems, as a rule), but your sort of argument contributes to making it harder politically, a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

2) Making it near consumers makes little difference to overall land-use. Yes, you can make more solar power from the same area in desert than in more temperate climates, but you're still talking a very small amount of land.
Thanks, that's interesting to know. Someone else commented about how they might effectively mess the gut microbiome.
Ok, let's go with the discussion:

- Microsoft is one of the top conglomerates and has a lot of issues which are common at that size of the organization while delivering incredible revenue results.

- I completely agree with you that we can make a list of Microsoft completely unfair practices. One of my companies is full dedicated to Microsoft Windows System Programming/Internals and I an personally not using Windows "anymore" since I cannot (be 100% sure) disable telemetry and all those scammy bloatware.

- Having said all that, I have insiding information about the first cybersecurity approach from Microsoft Bill Gates time and it was real. Following that thing, today cybersecurity IS geopolitics so you cannot play the wrong game.
> There's also enough barren desert space just in Nevada to power the entire continent of North America.

Q: How do you transport that across "the entire contient of North America"?
Small correction: Apple was getting 15% from Spotify, not 30%.
> None of the C stdlib can be used in the kernel, either,

Except the bits allowed in a freestanding environment and (stretching the definition of "used in") the "nolibc" partial C standard library the kernel includes for environments that don't have any other libc available (`tools/include/nolibc`, mostly used for kernel tests where there's no userspace at all).
Isn’t that a choice the website owner should be able to make?
> Policymakers will absolutely piss off a huge number of people over some basic principle.

...which is why a lot of countries are shifting to the right, people are fed up with policymakers ignoring the public will.

(Examples: Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Italy - next up: Germany in 2025, maybe France..?)
...is that actually scientifically true, or just a random thing a guy said?
I played around with the idea of a language motivated by this same thought process last year: https://github.com/lukehoban/ten.

* Succinct syntax and operators tailored to AI model definition

* Fully statically typed tensors, including generic functions over tensor dimension and batch dimensions (...)

* First-class hyper-parameters, model parameters and model arguments for explicit model specification

* Einops-style reshaping and reductions - tensor dimensions are explicit not implicit
That’s a nonsense issue. The plow is literally designed to swap the top layer of soil to kill off the existing plants and sand isn’t toxic.

Nobody is wasting money to add a thick enough layer of sand to be a significant issue. And if they did you could just sell the sand. Further the guys making more money leasing the land than farming it, set some aside to pay for cleanup if he’s worried about it.
I don't follow. Maybe the point is a lot of people are not balancing their systems, so by sticking with wimpy-era IO architectures, they're not feeding their GPUs?

I think about balancing nodes differently when designing older Spark CPU clusters vs modern GPU systems. (New spark clusters changed again to look more GPU/vertical, another story.)

In the databricks wonder years, horizontal scale made sense. Lots of cheap wimpy nodes with minimal compute per node was cost effective for a lot of problems. It was faster because the comparison point was older hadoop jobs that didn't run in-memory. But every byte moves far, and each node does very little... slow, energy costs, etc.. Makes sense when vertically scaled components are more expensive for same power budget etc, which used to be true before multicore & GPU chips got a lot cheaper and same with memory & IO (and software caught up too.)

As soon as you jump to GPU nodes, you're back to vertical scaling thinking. Instead of chaining a lot of single-GPU A100 boxes, and waiting on internode IO, you go multi-GPU (intra-node) and bring data closer/wider. One PCI card on a consumer devices might be say 8-30GB/s, and much faster if you go server grade. Similar multiples for IO, like 4-15 SSDs at 2GB/s each, or whatever network you can get (GDS, ...), or getting more CPU RAM (TB is a lot cheaper now!) to feed the local GPUs.

It takes a lot to saturate a single GPU node that looks like those. Foundation model teams like OpenAI & Facebook's core ones doing massive training runs will use hundreds/thousands of GPUs and need those nodes. But people doing fine-tuning, serving inferencing, and 400GB/s ETL... won't. Replace your roomful of Spark racks with a GPU rack or two. E.g., we have a customer who had a big graph database over many CPU nodes, but nowadays we can fit their biggest in 1 GPU's memory. They have more smaller graphs, so we can add a second GPU on the same server, and keep all of their graphs in CPU RAM. So a 2-GPU node with a bunch of CPU RAM can replace a rack of the CPU-era vendor. So not even a rack, just a single node. Nvidia's success stories on cutting down Pixar render farms worked similarly at way more impressive scales.

And for folks who haven't been following... Nvidia RAM increases have been impressive. An H100 doubles the A100's RAM 40GB => 80GB, and the H200s OpenAI started using have 141GB. For a lot of workloads, we see bursty use vs always on, so we actually often price out based on $ per GPU RAM: <3 T4 GPUs, despite being old!
Can you explain what it is? How it works and is useful?
Right, so anyone using roads or having gone to school shouldn't vote?
It depends on if your yearly payments to them exceed some threshold. There may be more to it than that, of course. Don’t listen to me, I’m the idiot who couldn’t figure it out.
This is a surprising result to me, given that (in my mind) the method simply does a few more forward passes, without encoding or transferring meaningful state between each pass.
From what I've heard, TikTok as it's presented in America is banned in China, and instead the company offers "Douyin", which is similar but has a different algorithm tuned for presenting the user with wholesome/helpful content. I've never bothered to confirm how true that is though, so take it with a grain of salt.
I know a miter joint, a box joint and dowel joint. But what is a mitered box joint with dowels?
Did you miss this?
> ... and you're asked to onboard their replacements, people told to take those very same roles just in a different country who are not any happier about it.
Thanks for posting this - it's a lot of fun to play, in a casual and fun way.

Also, this reminded me that I hadn't played my Rogule [1]for today, so I'll go do that, too :)

[1] https://rogule.com/game.html
The cost of land ISN'T that much.
5 Years ago VMWare support was, in my opinion, absolutely gutter.

Calling in for any questions was met with a support tech who was actively hostile and tried their best to find some way to disqualify our ability to get support. The first trick was always Hardware Compatibility List ("HCL") followed by interrogating us about software versions. Before I get the cries of pity about all the dumb users who waste their time by not upgrading, we probably opened support cases twice weekly - and the same verification interrogation happened.

We'd routinely find situations where the stated support for SANs wasn't what it said, etc.

I'd have said it could not get worse, but reading what Broadcom is doing, I am convinced otherwise.

Anyone using VMWare for business critical things is likely in for both a huge pocket book hit and an even larger support headache.
It just has a different name: Douyin.
No, they can't. There is no legal codebase in the world that is grokkable to ordinary people anymore. 8th grade story-telling level of understanding is not the performance level you need in the legal game. That's enough understanding to make you sound smart while getting into trouble.
It's not a secret if your company uses any of the large payroll services due the Equifax "The Work Number".
This. Your system will almost certainly have an IOMMU. But that can’t be said for all systems that the Linux kernel supports.
Even the most extreme Apple position isn’t trying to take 30% of all of Spotifys revenue, they’re trying to take 30% of each subscription originated on-device, for the first year of that customer. Which is still a huge cut, and still a problem that doesn’t encumber Apple Music, but the business question for Spotify is “do the incremental subscribers make sense (in quality and quantity), not “sell one subscription and Apple eats our entire operating budget”.

A better Apple (with less adversarial partners) might have tried to structure the commission as a profit share, not a rev share, to keep high and low margin businesses on the platform, but alas.
Thanks, that's a fair bit disappointing to be honest haha