skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's ridiculous. I bought two racks of Origin2000 with a friend in high school and that was enough logistic overhead for me! I can't imagine 72 racks!!

Installing IRIX doesn't require CDs; it's much, much easier done over the network. Back in the day it required some gymnastics to set up with a non-IRIX host, now Reanimator and LOVE exist to make IRIX net install easy. There are huge SGI-fan forums still active with a wealth of hardware and software knowledge - SGIUG and SGInet managed to take over from nekochan when it went defunct a few years ago.

I have two Origin 350s with 1Ghz R16ks (the last and fastest of the SGI big-MIPS CPUs) which I shoehorned V12 graphics into for a sort of rack-Tezro. I boot them up every so often to mess with video editing stuff - Smoke/Flame/Fire/Inferno and the old IRIX builds of Final Cut.

I think that by the time Bitcoin came out, Origin2000s would have been pretty majorly outgunned for Bitcoin mining or any kind of compute task. They were interesting machines but weren't even particularly fast compared to their contemporaries; the places they differentiated were big OpenGL hardware (InfiniteReality) with a lot of texture memory (for large-scale rendering and visualization) and single-system-image multiprocessor computing (NUMAlink), neither which would help for coin mining.
The EU didn't get this right - or else they aren't enforcing it. I'm in the EU right now and the crap I see is a popup "We respect your privacy. Us and 352 (not an exaggeration!) of our partners are collecting data on you. Approve or Details?" Pick details and you can spend your time going through the partners

https://pasteboard.co/rrL2bpmiE6Zq.png

And most you can't reject

Even more hilarious. pageboard itself said 847 partners!

https://pasteboard.co/XQHhPzTw42Pv.png
Did the CEO’s of these carriers ever get dragged in front of congress and get asked inane questions for 5 hours?
If your everyday work consists of looking up academic citations then yeah, LLMs are not going to be useful for that - you'll get hallucinations every time. That's absolutely not a task they are useful for.

There are plenty of other tasks that they ARE useful for, but you have to actively seek those out.
The issue here is whether this counts as the production of copies and/or whether that production is fair use.

For example, CDs are digital. To play a CD that you own, the player is going to create a copy of the song in memory in order to decode it into an analog signal that can be played on speakers. Then it's going to discard that temporary copy, leaving the CD as the only permanent one. It seems pretty obvious that either that sort of temporary copy doesn't count or that it should be fair use.

But then how is it any different if the temporary copy is on your tablet instead of your CD player?
No you can't, KV buffer and compute buffer goes up as context window goes up.
It has RBAC, service accounts, and Secrets all with APIs. I guess you could automate provisioning storage accounts on nodes or have a system that creates tokens with the cluster key. Not sure that's really any better than not using it, though
Arent gamma, x, and uv ALL em radiation? What makes a gamma with a wavelength near uv still allow it to be called gamma? Why dont we say the nucleon emits uv at 148 when it transitions to its ground state?
You mean we don't know who managed to blow up the pipeline that some NATO members threatened to blow up several times? Yes, we only have this official investigation from two ""independent"" countries that wouldn't hesitate to point their finger at Russia if they had any evidence, no matter how weak, yet they closed it "without identifying perpetrators". You're right, no clue!
Just because it is in xkcd doesn't make the argument valid, correct and smart.

A book doesn't give you access to the content produced by billions of people instantly, neither music, refined apps where people that earn more than six figures work daily to ensure you spend more and more time on them. Neither does a TV.

They are not the same.
> Totally sold on LLM written unit tests though, they are a drag to write and I do save time not writing them by hand.

This is where I've landed, but I'm also skeptical of totally relying on them for this.

In my personal experience, it's worked out, but I can also see this resulting in tests that look correct but aren't, especially when the tests require problem domain knowledge.

Bad tests could introduce bugs and waste time in a roundabout way that's similar to just using LLMs for the code itself.
I just downloaded the Omnivore app on my phone. I can share the link to the app, and it automatically extracts the title and user. There is a bit of a delay for the article to show up in the app, but in general, it works pretty well. Thanks!
Emirates should be in Abu Dhabi
> the VHS/Betamax time-shifting wars were 70s

Are you talking about legal challenges?

For popularity VHS was the 80's I think: "JVC released the first VHS machines in Japan in late 1976, and in the United States in mid-1977." and took a few years to take off widely.

Interestingly enough, VHS was developed in secret at JVC: "However, despite the lack of funding, Takano and Shiraishi continued to work on the project in secret. By 1973, the two engineers had produced a functional prototype.". The development of blue LEDs has a better story. Does Japanese culture encourage secrative development?
The opposite can also be true - at least for knowing the relative risk of getting her pregnant.
Can't read the article because blocked in my country (Brazil) for some reason (legal demands) ;-(
"Citation: I said it"
Actually, I can just assume UTF-8, since that's what the world standardized on. Just like I can assume the length of a meter or the weight of a gram. There is no need to have dozens of incompatible systems.
Looks like (today) Humble Bundle is selling the third edition of that plus some other maker books:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/electronics-and-design-fo...
I do not remember a pole flip in my 20s
To be fair, it seems from the article that it's their interactions with the community using the feature that shits on it. Or do you have specific counterpoints to their arguments made against tiered storage in kafka? As far as I can tell there are two points being made against tiered storage: operational burden is increased and networking costs (which if you've read any of their other posts or visited their homepage, is a primary motivation for the existence of their product) are not reduced.
Finally! Finally I’ve found a fellow factoid correct / original meaning aficionado!

I ceased to die on the hill but it still makes me twitch.
That is my struggle as well. I need to keep pointing out issues of the llm output, until after multiple iterations it may reach the correct answer. At that point I don't feel I gained anything productivity wise.

Maybe the whole point of coding with llms in 2024 is for us to train their models.
Could you explain what you mean by that idiom?
Testing LLMs for sequence extraction attacks
Maybe in your area. Certainly not in my area.
"is he stupid?"
Also the dimensional analysis is wrong.

X dollars/day ÷ Y dollars = 1/days (so, the answer is inverted)
Thanks for the comment.

I did watch half the first season years ago and wasn't too captured, will give it another go.
Yep, even the BBC surrendered to the Americanism.
It's an interesting question, but I doubt it will happen. Companies gain even more (their free code is now more reliable) and FOSS maintainers lose more (now they're liable for the code they give away).

More questions: How can FOSS maintainer be compensated for this? Are they liable in every country? Etc etc.

Alternatives: companies could do public audits of specific software/library versions.
Yeah, poor person. It's your fault.
“New findings suggest classical quantum physics and nuclear physics can be combined”

Seems like the bigger part of the title
I never got into second life. I wanted to like vrchat but it runs pretty poorly and it feels a lot more viscerally awkward to be in a 3d space with people who are already talking than to lurk a chat room
Speaking of new computers slowing down to access IO, someone managed to add an ISA slot to new PCs by using pin headers normally used by TPM devices. It's called the "dISAppointment".
I use Pocket (getpocket.com), although I will freely admit that it mostly serves as a graveyard of links.
I think the real question is "what the hell IoT is doing on a globally-routable network?" Put it on an isolated VLAN with no Internet connectivity. Or a minimal connectivity only to what's absolutely necessary (e.g. I haven't seen IoT devices that need inbound connections, so drop any inbound packets unless conntrack says otherwise). There there will be probably no need for weird NAT66 contraptions or anything like that - just old good plain drop-by-default firewall.

But then, the article is about consumer tech, and most consumers aren't gonna set up any VLANs, firewalls or complex NAT systems, they don't know anything about those. They got one single flat WiFi network and that's about it. So, I guess, all the technical suggestions here are not really relevant.
It’s not normally the courts’ job to change the laws. People need to get Congress involved. I doubt very few people write to their representatives about fair use.
If memory serves there was a plan to invade the Azores in WW2 which would have been immensely ironic.

After WW2 the US was gracefully handed over a few islands to serve as aircraft bases. The Chinese still lack such soft power so they have to make their own islands.
That site clearly had UX issues and I'm glad it was redesigned, but I disagree with your statement in principle. I think it would actually be great for democracy if every time you were asked to support some official, you had a call-to-action for taking their role.

On that note, I don't see any issue whatsoever with 82 people running for presidency - why not more? "Politics are too serious a matter to be left to politicians" -Charles de Gaulle
The in-app purchases are a dealbreaker. Not only is there no reason for it, but it necessitates the integration of Google Play Services.

If the goal was to be privacy-centric, it already fails at that for this alone.

And if the goal was to profit off of women's need for privacy-centric period tracking, then there is absolutely no reason not to find a proper FOSS alternative that cares about its users more than making passive income for the developer.
Unfortunately, it seems like you need to join the waitlist to use it. And while I don't see anything explicitly stating the license or business model, it doesn't seem like this will be open sourced. Still, it's nice to see some competitors popping up for Sora. Hopefully soon we can get an OSS model that can be fine tuned.
Nicely done! Does the footer disclaimer about affiliate links mean that you get a cut from eBay if someone buys through your link? Is that lucrative for a niche like this?
Sorry to hijack a bit here, but have any good links to open source baby tracking apps that allow sharing between partners? The popular options out there on the app stores are a privacy dumpster fire.
I didn’t say he’s the best investor. I explained that he has made profits in the past, and that’s why people keep giving him money hoping that he’ll continue to do so in the future.

Investment is a risk after all. Besides, there’s also something off-putting about snarky HN comments trying to judge someone’s whole skill set and character by only one angle.

I almost wanted to say “If he’s so dumb and you’re so smart, why don’t you go raise billions and profit like him,” but I won’t because I recognize that things are more complex.
Yeah it’s like a mobile midway pacific war at that point!

Sailing midway all the way!
This sounds like "Microsoft has done some bad things, ergo it must be a villain that makes the world worse". That doesn't seem like a sensible evaluation strategy.
No, I meant .is, .today etc; archive.org does not do weird DNS things to my knowledge.
Shoulda put Dart into the Chrome browser. Flutter was plan B, no plan C for Dart.
Archive copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20240429061925/https://csvbase.c...
Well I'm more looking for GLP1 generics developed whole-cloth in India.

India is quite good at pharmaceuticals -- their generics basically serve the rest of the world that are priced out of US-made products IIRC.

Ex. their generic version of Paxlovid:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Basically, with the expiring patents coming up on a bunch of these drugs:

https://www.biospace.com/article/9-drugs-losing-patents-or-e...

We're going to be in interesting waters soon.
> This problem used to be a whole lot worse under pre-OS X versions of macOS that used CR (just CR, no LF) as the line separator.

That bare CR newline convention used to be very widespread – not just Classic MacOS, also many 8-bit micros (Commodore, Acorn, Apple II, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum, HP-85), Oberon, MIT Lisp Machines and Microware OS-9. But, by the late 1990s, Classic MacOS was the only one of those systems with any mainstream significance. And now you'll only encounter bare CR newlines in retrocomputing or obscure legacy systems – oh, and raw mode terminal input.
Imo at this point you're better off just using OSS not packaged by Grafana. Grafana Agent pulled in a ton of OSS as dependencies and basically implemented a service manager and config management system. However, such a big dependency tree seemed to complicate updates and also abstracted away useful config.

Fluent*/Promtail for logs and Prometheus for metrics haven't had much/any changes in the last couple years as far as I know
I'm disappointed that the article doesn't discuss this in more detail. Most byte sequences are not valid UTF-8. If you can decode a message as UTF-8 with no errors, that is almost certainly the correct encoding to use; it's extremely unlikely that some text in another encoding just happened to be perfectly valid as UTF-8. (The converse is not true; most 8-bit text encodings will happily decode UTF-8 sequences to nonsense strings like ðŸš©.)

If UTF-8 decoding fails, then it's time to pull out the fancy statistical tools to (unreliably) guess an encoding. But that should be a fallback, not the first thing you try.
You get exposed to the symbol for a fire extinguisher that much as a child? I would expect encountering it at some point not before reading.
You can't assume it if you're handed a random sample of text files.
> Shamir Secret Sharing

> ChatGPT

please don't roll your own crypto, and PLEASE don't roll your own crypto from a LLM. They're useful for other kinds of programs, but crypto libraries need to be to spec, and heavily used and reviewed to not be actively harmful. Not sure ChatGPT can write constant time code :)
But that's it. Life doesn't seem so unlikely, does it? There are things we still don't understand about it, but we understand some, and it's not magic. It can happen, given the right conditions, much like mold may grow on a piece of bread under the right conditions.

What's difficult to comprehend is the immense vastness of the universe. It seems unlikely that nowhere else did the preconditions for life arise, and in fact, it seems likely that they must have arisen in multiple places. Immensely many places, in fact. Considered like that, it's more unlikely that life didn't appear anywhere else but in this Pale Blue Dot.

We look at our planet, and all that had to happen for those first lifeforms to come into existence, and it seems so unlikely... but not impossible. And we're playing with a lot of dice here! Very hard not to roll a few sixes with a bag of dice so large.
Integer 0 means empty with respect to a particular operation (addition) but is not empty with respect to all operations (ex. multiplication)
> Master craftsman? Master mold? Master copy? Head Master... Just because this word was used in relation to slavery doesn't curtail its use in language, removing it only serves to focus its "power".

Except none of those examples are relevant comparisons. It's well documented that the reason the default branch name was master traces back to Bitkeeper, which was using the master/slave nomenclature.

> Also, thats not how language works. At all. It is never how language worked. An Australian and an American are going to have a very different reaction to the word cunt.

Master and slave have universal meaning across all English dialects.

If you're going to make an argument against this change on the basis of semantics, at least get your facts right.
Really? Blaming the victims of poverty?

I kept expecting it to say "Just kidding!" but it didn't.

Being poor just takes one sad accident, one unexpected health problem, the circumstances of birth, bad luck, or a system that undervalues and drives down the value of your labour.
> Performance improvements have flatlined.

Multimodality, MoE, RAG, open source models, and robotics, have all been/seen massive improvements in the past year alone. OpenAI's Sora is a multi-generational leap over anything we've seen before (not released yet, granted, but it's a real product). This is hardly flatlining.

I'm not even in the AI field, but I'm sure someone can provide more examples.

> Current AI predictions reminds me of self-driving car hype from the mid 2010s

Ironically, Waymo's self-driving taxis were launched in several cities in 2023. Does this count?

I can see AI skepticism is as strong as ever, even amidst clear breakthroughs.
I really wanted to disagree with you but sadly that's how it was treated in secure environments a few years ago: "ipv6.disable=1". Everything that's not in needed would be disabled. Nobody wanted to be the first to "need it" and learn all that stuff, if it works with ipv4, stick with it.

Sure, one can figure out the split DNS, tunneling/no tunneling, DHCPv6, multiple addresses per interface, additional filtering rules, or just you know "ipv6.disable=1" and worry about in a few more years perhaps.
Default UTF-8 is better than the linked suggestion of using a heuristic, but failing catastrophic when old data is encountered is unacceptable. There must be a fallback.

(Note that the heuristic for "is this intended to be UTF-8" is pretty reliable, but most other encoding-detection heuristics are very bad quality)
> disposed to almost always recognize pain as some combination of characters.

Well, break out the eeg, let’s see if pain is also a valid perl program.
I take objection to the characterization of "begging the question" having a changed/incorrect meaning. I assert that the "original philosophical meaning" is the fad idiom, and the common usage is a true parsing of the words unrelated to the idiom.

"This begs the question of why X Y Z" is just a shortening of "this [thing you said] begs [that] the question [be asked] of why X Y Z".

I think the only reason there's any discussion about it at all is because the sorts of people who are likely to use the idiom of "begging the question" with regard to logic, are the sort of people who enjoy being pedantic about other people's language, and this presents an opportunity to do so.

You could say I'm plussed about the whole thing. It brings up a whelming amount of emotion in me.
I would tend to guess that the reverse of your assumption about Google Translate is true. The translations from an uncommon language available for training will, by far, outnumber the translations to that language.
Indeed, given the legal complications of reproductive health in some states, privacy would be at the top of my mind if considering to use an app like this.
It's pretty clear that the liability shield doesn't cover malicious acts. The malicious act is committed by the person introducing the backdoor. There shouldn't be any liability on the company since they had no knowledge. If a user wants to be sure of the security, they can inspect the code for flaws (or rely on reviews of others who had inspections).
Possibly groundbreaking new architecture for GPT-2-chat on lmsys
Origins of Covid
> and payment has already been agreed upon

Why bother appealing then? Seems to just be wasting lawyers fees on both sides.
To add to what Toutouxc said, stalls are a fairly routine training/familiarization maneuver in most light aircraft. The typical recovery is just to push forward on the stick/yoke. A manual[0] I found with a web search claims a Cessna 185 on floats may require up to 200 feet to recover.

Stalling one wing but not the other usually results in a spin, for which recovery requires both breaking the stall and stopping the rotation. The ailerons, located near the wingtips are not effective (or even counterproductive) during a spin because air is not flowing smoothly over the stalled wing; the rudder, located on the tail is used to stop the rotation. This usually requires more altitude for recovery.

If you stall one wing but not the other at an altitude of 15 meters (49 feet), it's very likely you're going to contact the surface in a manner you did not intend. Inappropriate control inputs, such as trying to correct the resulting bank using the ailerons guarantee it. It's still a good idea to attempt to recover rather than sit still and pray because a more controlled impact is usually more survivable.

[0] https://aerocet.com/uploads/A-10010.pdf
> that exact thing previously.

Yes, it stops them from doing that exact same thing again while incentivizing the general behavior of intentionally breaking laws until told to stop.
Regulators have largely been defanged in the US for decades now.

Just read the article and note that this was discovered in 2018, the FCC decided to do something in 2020, and from then until now it's been gridlocked by Republican party obstruction on the panel.

And this isn't nearly the end of it. It'll go to court under appeal, for more years, and who knows how that falls.

The result is regulators like the FCC and SEC barely enforce any standard of corporate behavior. A big part of it is they've been so gutted they don't have the resources to meet the necessary volume even in the absence partisan gridlock.

This is what happens when "Government bad, regulations bad" rhetoric comes home to roost. The violators pay a token fine and the average American gets screwed.

Maybe we should rethink that rhetoric just a bit?
We used to say the same about Eclipse!
Except I can
I'm working on a game for Amiga (another 68k-based platform) and settled on ZX0 to decompress assets on the fly: https://github.com/einar-saukas/ZX0

I was originally using LZ4, but I switched to ZX0 after learning that it can do in-place decompression, which means I don't have to allocate separate memory for the compressed data. I'm very happy with the compression ratio, and decompression of large assets (~48kb) only takes a few frames on a 7MHz 68000.

Also of note is LZ4W, included in Sega Genesis Dev Kit (and discussed in the comments section of OP's article), a variant of LZ4 that only uses word-aligned operations. That makes it much faster on the 68000, which can struggle to efficiently handle 8-bit data. More info here: https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK/blob/master/bin/lz4w.txt