skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about external SSDs over USB? How do you trim those?
Calm or not, when you called their behavior "humorously arrogant" it set the tone of the rest of your comment to condescension. It distracts from the on-topic discussion, despite any informative value contained in your comment.

When people post like this it's hard to tell if they are trying to have a conversation in good faith, or they are seeking pleasure in the form of belittling someone.
This does not appear to dispute the claim that mere communication is an effective way to have a lot of power.

Do you think I was claiming someone might be able to demonstrate absolute power, rather than mere relative power? Even Stalin didn't have that, but he would've been one of the closest.
As an owner of and neighbor to many of the standard protagonist monoculture lawns being discussed here, I would also caution against this concept due to how it will be managed; copious amounts of pesticides more than is already being used is what will happen. I try to handle weeds by mowing frequently enough they never get to maturity and so my neighbors are sending dandelions into my yard, I don’t fight it, I just make sure they never get tall enough to bloom or cast seeds from my area. They’re so hard to keep away, I would have to put down full coverage pesticide if I was trying to fight their very existence on my property.

My neighbors aren’t even that neglectful. Yet you see it ever. If I had to guess the largest producer of dandelion diaspora are schools and parks and some of the medians in my city along with random patches of “low maintenance”/ vacant land. It’s also windy where I live so it just travels far.
I've always felt that advertising is fundamentally a bad thing for the Internet. I feel this strongly when I experience episodes of privacy-invading ad targeting. I set my privacy preferences in Google settings to not show me ads based on my interests and I'm quite diligent about opting out of sending cookie data to third parties. It's like I'm protesting in my own small way to try to minimize any benefit the ad ecosystem gets from me. However, sometimes I do get ads for products or services that are so appropriate and tempting that I temporarily put aside my high-minded ideals ;-)
So you discount the possibility of widespread ideological indoctrination to claim that everything that is negative does not exist and is let's say - a Jewish propaganda? What about Russia? Still not possible to have completely different reality where everything negative is the fault of somebody else but themselves?

I saw the videos taken inside Al-Aqsa mosque, not just "some videos" and that considerably differed from what Palestinians claimed. And no, this is not an isolated event, just an example of very consistent pattern of lying.

Now about the 7ht October. Hamas paraded the captured civilians through Gaza and was welcomed by thousands of spectators. Honestly, the claim that 91% of the people are not at all aware of any atrocities against civilians can only mean two possibilities - they are lying or they do not consider it atrocities.
Feels like the book Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
We have to make sure, that if there is a "D" on one side, there must be a "3" on the other side. If we see a "3", we are done, otherwise if there is not a "3" we have to check that there is no "D" on the hidden side. Hence we have to check exactly all cards facing a "3".
The protestors are there because they think they have an effect. The people trying to legally kill them want to stop them, because they also think they have an effect (and oppose it). Both of them are wrong.

(I should say this also comes from a misunderstanding of Vietnam War protests. Namely, they think they stopped the war, when in fact they didn't do nothin.)
>Let's move to OS. Well, there's lot of security stuff in any OS. Process isolation, namespace isolation, encrypted storage.

How can the user run some random application and not have it wipe out their OS? Can they plug in a random USB stick safely?

There's no real security in the OS part of the stack, but lots of security theater.
I don't take issue with anything you say here, just your earlier comments about how expensive and non-compositional soundness necessarily is. I just described a programming language with built-in access control that only needs to be verified once for memory safety and absence of ambient authority, and then you can build any system with it and declare security policies, compose them, and have them enforced for no more cost than any other language. So why wouldn't you?

There is no cost-benefit here, it's just benefit. This is why I keep pushing back on how you characterise soundness, it just doesn't necessarily entail the kinds of costs and non-compositionality that you describe.
From my experience as an author of a tech book, the ebook is pirated even before the official publication date, the authors only have access to the ebooks fees days after the publication date. That’s why I’ll never write a book again.
True enough but we know what scientology believes because of USENET (alt.religion.scientology). The church of scientology literally ran out of lawyers for DMCA takedowns, which don't work on USENET because it is structured like the internet.

NNTP needed things to be sure but the above issues have technical solutions that seemed out of reach not because they were too complex to solve, but is seemed as if society itself wanted multimedia web pages like a coke addict.

Also things like digital identity seemed to flag as innovation for such things stalled out around the time HTTP became rising. I remember moving data between mainframes from different vendors and what was once a set of problems that seemed intractable suddenly fell as TCP/UDP/IP took off with a suite of solutions that worked so well together.

USENet was a better place to get good information compared to web pages at that time in parts due to bad web site designs and DMCA takedowns, neither of which was an issue for NNTP. I like Reddit because (at least old.reddit) is similar to USENet in how it is structured.

Had NNTP adopted HTML and Netscape written a browser for news groups using HTML, the so-called 'world wide web' and it's anachronistic client-server model might not have effectively displaced NNTP.
I would expect a 'technical writer' to have reviewed before publication. But then again, to save money, they might just rely on Grammerly.
Regarding that article, not main post,

> Today all this is discarded

I can only comment on the one field where I am intimately familiar: computer vision. It is true that when you need a text description of the contents of an image, we have discarded feature-based approached. But attempts to change vision-based tracking, mapping, and navigation into a learned process have not performed well in the applications I have worked on. It's true that end to end control from raw images to output can do very well, but in most systems, the feature based approaches are still employed along side CNN for tracking. ML-only tracking is subject to a lot of noise because of its lack of good history, poor association, and sensitivity to outliers.

So, it's not discarded, it's supplanted by CNN as the primary signal, but our old tricks (reassociation, factor graphs, batch processing, even plain old homographies and MH-EKF) are still very much the scaffolding.

I expect it is the same in other sub fields mentioned - the main driver for improvement is no longer human directed knowledge-based algorithms, but rather human-designed, learning-based, heterogenous pipelines. Even the RAG or Tesla autopilot (probably) fits this bill nicely.
Whoa. Comp.arch. I learned so much from that during 90s. There's nothing like debates with anecdotes thrown between experienced folks to learn from, and comp.arch back then had such a high signal-noise ratio that it was amazing.
No, because the framing of the problem includes a statement that if there is a letter on one side then there is a number on the other and vice versa. The K can't have a D on the other side unless they're lying in the problem statement (which would defeat the purpose of the experiment, so why would they and why would you assume they are?).
To be contrary, lots of sites have men's names, generally real people. Craigslist, Bradsdeals, trustdale.

I think Angi(e) is real but maybe others are not. What's often not real is the purported independence.
Create a partition that you'll never use and run blkdiscard [1] from util-linux on it.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/blkdiscard.8.html / https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/master/sys-uti...
No, I don’t agree and your argument makes no sense. Slavery has historically gone down in American but is going up in China. Clearly we have not done “absolutely nothing”. I don’t know what you mean by “a longer time”, slavery has existed in China since well before the current Chinese regime.

America is not perfect (maybe not even good) but your attempt to portray them as “worse” than China is nonsensical, the Chinese NK and Russian governments are as bad as it gets in 2024
It might not be that bad. Auto workers produce more cars per employee, but some of the really repetitive activities are done by robots now. I think not having to do the same weld 8+hrs a day every day with consumers still getting their car is a net positive for owners, consumers, and labor.

Personally, I would love to deliver more projects. The vast majority of my time is spent on mind-numbing drudgery that makes the job extremely unsatisfying. If someone offered me a job where I got to focus on the fun parts of my work, and I didn't have to dump the drudgery on a poor intern (the AI does it), but at half my pay, I'd resign the same day.
This isn't true. H1 antagonists, which is the group of drugs commonly referred to as antihistamines, contains two subgroups of pharmaceuticals. There are the first generation antihistamines, which are generally more popular and earn the reputation of making you drowsy, and the second generation antihistamines. The second generation antihistamines are significantly more selective for the H1 receptors you want to block versus the ones in your brain. Doxylamine is a first generation drug marketed under the brand name Unisom for insomnia, whereas a common second generation antihistamine loratadine commonly includes the phrase "non-drowsy" on the box. It still increases sedation, but at a substantially lower rate than the first generation drugs.
I have such a hard time relating to this. Do I just have an efficient stirring method?
I don't think that is quite what Pareto had in mind.

To me, it is the way that the investment banks/hedge funds were the elites 20 years ago and now the elites are from silicon valley. Along with that came a huge shift in cultural values in society.

It is hard to talk about Pareto though because he has an entire sociology in a 4 volume, 90 year old translation that you have to buy for $200-$300 on ebay and then each page is so dense. I think I have read 40 pages of Trattato di Sociologia Generale and it is a daunting task to think about reading the whole thing.
The wolf cull has very little to do with hunting for sport. It's above all agricultural interests that are lobbying for this.

If anything the hunters are pushing back against it, especially with regards to moose. They're in some cases straight up refusing to shoot their allotments because they can tell the population is shrinking. (The forestry industry want them gone because they're feeding on younger trees.)
I have to believe VESA tacked VLB onto ISA to buy time.

It was early in the IBM clone phase. Standardeers seemed to be catching up to the rate of progress and to how much time+resources were needed to craft a next gen bus.
> Scale back now, do the research later.

I'm all in for this, seriously, but people who are addicted to monies will say vehemently no.
How Optical Mice Came to Dominate Input Devices
> The English language seems to lack a way to encode unambiguously the "A => B"

It doesn’t: “If A then B” encodes it unambiguously.

It’s just that as you said, many people don’t think hard about the difference between this and similar-but-different concepts like “B only if A”.

It’s not the language itself, it’s the way people use the language and think about what it says (or in this case, don’t).
Except Ireland, Britain etc is on the same continent.
Way faster than dial up with a 56k modem.
Well from the perspective of a residential landlord all the laws are stacked against us, to the point where I can't risk renting to a very large segment of the population that (especially now) needs rental units desperately. So we shift investment from residential to commercial, or only have very high-priced units for high-income families. The narative is always faceless corporations and rich fat-cats, but that's not always true.
I'm not sure even Los Angeles keeps them up 24/7. Most cities either schedule them for evenings or do as-needed.
> Can you elaborate why that is?

First, the person I was responding to was talking about a college campus and not a park. Second, the ridiculous number of mass shootings that have occurred in schools in the past three decades including the one on the Virginia Tech campus.

If you see a bunch of people running around and hiding in a place that's not expected it's not a great idea to assume they're doing it for fun. Not with a sad history of gun toting lunatics shooting up public spaces.
Just like to-do list apps, everyone thinks the solution to not being productive is a technical one.
Tritium is only necessary because the magnetic confinement is poor. If we assume that it gets much better then it becomes economical to use deuterium fuel.

Also, I question the explosion claim. Without confinement, the energy drops below the threshold necessary for fusion and the reaction stops. An explosion would require a self sustaining reaction of some kind and I'm just not sure where that would come from. It's not like there's much inertia in it.

But you're right about the neutrons. Maybe you can get away with a rice maker sized reaction chamber, but you're going to want it shielded in something the size of a couch. Probably best to just put it in a deep hole and pump water down there. Then you can provide the neighborhood with steam for heating and electricity for everything else.
This is what you get when you learn fusion physics from sci fi comic books
Dude an investor in this startup or what?
EDF has only recently become fully state owned. Also the French state have recently amended the ARENH arrangement to get greater revenues (who knew selling options for 42 EUR/MWh was a bad idea). Greater losses and damages have been incurred by previous governments.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Agreement-on-pos...
> I’d suggest it’s particularly important to explore these discussions as dispassionately as possible if you regard materialism as the only theory of mind that has any scientific credibility or validity.

I agree, and similarly for those who feel that materialism cannot possibly explain consciousness. Kastrup, for one, seems to sometimes behave as though ridicule makes his philosophy more correct.
None of it is mere communication: Need to organise events and travel schedules, create (or shape) organizations, find funds, etc. Communication is perhaps the mostly "visible" part, though.
It seems like you are engaging in magical thinking. A larger, more complex object will be more expensive than a smaller, simpler object. We can quibble on the exact ratio, but making your heat source 40x larger has to have an effect.

One consideration that implies accelerating cost increases is reliability. A fusion reactor will have many Criticality 1 features (like welds that, if they fail, leak coolant into the vacuum vessel). The larger the reactor, the more reliable each such component must be. Reliability is expensive.
The fact a conscious mind loses capability when brain damage happens shows quite clearly that consciousness as a process is reducible to smaller non-conscious parts though.

There's also an innate problem in assuming the human experience of say, "green" is consistent. What I actually see when I see the colour green only appears consistent with the physical behaviour of light. Whether any two people really see colours the same way is highly questionable.
They can't isolate from this, so hopefully they'll decide it's important
Yeah. That site has a lot of info for a huge number of flash controllers/chipsets/etc.

Wish I had a bunch of spare time to burn on stuff like this. :)
Wellp this was a fun conversation, but it seems to me that at this point there's not much more to do other than repeat ourselves. The final thing I'd emphasize is that it's important to make sure metrics measure what you want them to measure. To some degree we've already ruined the name of the Turing Test with excessive simplifications. 'Oh that? Yeah, it was passed a decade ago, right?'

Of course one practical issue that, in some ways, makes this all moot - is that if we ever create genuine AI systems capable of actual thought, the entire idea of a "test" would be quite pointless. Rapid recursive self improvement, perfect memory, perfect calculation, and the ability to think? We'd likely see rapid exponential discovery and advancement in basically ever field of human endeavor simultaneously. It'd be akin to carrying out a 'flying test' after we landed on the Moon.
no no. the question is, pricing page says under pro

- Everything in free plan
- Resource management
- Advanced project reporting
- Track team members' progress
- Reports exporting

are these available in agpl self-hosted version or not?
Not SF but I recall the accepted manner of doing business in my city, should you want a taxi on the big party holidays, was to gather your group and war dial taxi companies until somebody actually arrived. All of them. They would swear they’d show up, and you would swear you’d wait for them to show up, and everybody knew they were lying.

Then when you wanted to go home you’d do the same thing except out on the street and you’d steal the first unattended cab, regardless of who’d called them.
This is a better way to measure anomalies. Today, when something seems off, doctors will try to prescribe medicines which does not get down to the root issue of the problem.

Example: High uric acid? Try some Allopurinol. Not: ‘Hey, let’s check out your kidneys because your bloodwork has similar characteristics of XX.’
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Just wondering why multiple-ISA cores in the same chip isn't more common. It would seem like a very useful feature.

From either core(s), use the same peripherals included in the SoC. And use the same peripherals / connectors / storage etc included on a board with that SoC. Just from a development perspective that could be very handy.

How much silicon area to devote to each ISA's core(s)? Decide that depending on intended use cases.

Edit: and with "multiple ISAs" I mean for application software. Not the 'hidden' housekeeping cores (different ISA from the main one) that are found in many complex chips these days.
> crimes JR has committed against modern science

Science doesn't work like that, religion does. "Science" harmed itself with some people and an ideology heavily censoring opponents, and by shutting down any debate, including scientific one.
That’s not what science is at all. If reality changes science will adapt.
I think PyPy moved away from partial evaluation to trace optimization, fwiw
> leader cowering on a floor in diapers

This is probably an accurate description of Joe Biden.

They always shoot themselves in the foot. Every single time.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/clock_gettime.3.html

"dynamic clocks" ?

> Linux also supports POSIX clock operations on certain character devices. Such devices are called "dynamic" clocks,

I don't get why you'd want a file descriptor to be a "clock"?
I don’t think I really remember a time when American Exceptionalism wasn’t really just a sort of toxic nihilism. At some point it seems to have gone from believing we could do anything if we put in the effort to believing that all the pathologies of our society are unsolvable. Guns, homelessness, access to healthcare; the despair creeps in everywhere.
When you go even further, math is again invented to represent The Underlying. If it were discovered, math would be it.
What if the gaming PCs were in orbit? You could have the orbit of the satellites track the sleeping times of populations, so that you don't have PCs above areas where nobody would use them.

Starlink promises latency around 20-40ms, so I do wonder if this is possible. You would have far more distance between the client/server, but I would expect that routing would be greatly simplified.
Httpx – next-generation HTTP client for Python
Honestly I’ve never had a shit landlord that didn’t fly every single red flag imaginable within minutes of meeting them or touring the property.
Quite downplayed (in the review, anyway) is the bare-knuckled competitive approach of the two dominant religions. Spread not quite as much by the marketplace as success on the battlefields, large and small.
Yeah it's amazing. The Swedish narrative includes the logical somersasult that the population must be slashed in half to reduce the risk of inbreeding. Like I don't even.
Is there a device I can buy that spoofs GPS?
In the US, mortgage banking is about 20% or so of a regional bank on up in terms of revenue generation.

Modern banking is an incredibly complex business so you could basically say no single division makes much money vs the other parts as a whole.

I think that would be a wrong way to view the business though. As if banks would not be in mortgage lending if they could. It is quite the opposite, any one bank would love for the other banks to get out of mortgage lending.
What's the Indian equivalent of the 'bamboo network' called?
She did. This seems like a complaint about getting personalized ads.

> Dudley said she typically listens to 30 to 40 audiobooks a month, most of which are fiction. "I listen to the books on my iPhone and often search for and check out books there too," she said.
What if the distinction we are all groping for is immortality at the cost of determinism? A machine can be powered down and dismantled. A new machine can be built and fed the exact same training data, or run the same model, and presumably it would behave the exact same way. Any entity whose behaviors are that regeneratable and that replicable is perhaps less "conscious" than entities which are not.
A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting a Study over Fake Data (2021)
Well, this guy is highly proficient at administering an artificial lysergic acid to LLMs: https://x.com/repligate/status/1792010019744960577
About ten years ago I got my hands on some of the last production FusionIO SLC cards for benchmarking. The software was an in-memory database that a customer wanted to use with expanded capacity. I literally just used the fusion cards as swap.

After a few minutes of loading data, the kernel calmed down and it worked like a champ. Millions of transactions per second across billions of records, on a $500 computer... and a card that cost more than my car.

Definitely wouldn't do it that way these days, but it was an impressive bit of kit.
Use SystemV ABI for C++ Entrypoints for JavaScript LLInt
I wish the scientific community would get the terminology straight.
I tried to convince the publisher to add cutouts for pieces when they went to reprint an even more deluxe version, but they were unconvinced.
Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening homeowners
> We can't prove other people aren't p-zombies but the value bet is definitely that, appearing like us in every other way, they also experience like us.

Logic doesn't need to be binary. There is no need for the answer to such a question to even be defined.