skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a misunderstanding about the processor limits. I can't find an official doc because everyone links to a KB article that must have showed them in the past, but now talks about virtual memory...

But XP docs talk about a limit on the number of processors that is a limit on the number of sockets. If you've got an old quad pentium 2 system, with four slotted processors, XP Pro is only going to run on two of them, because it has a 2 processor limit. But multiple cores/threads are subject to a different limit that I can't find. Home may have been single socket?

Some people might have tried to run it in virtualization, and not been careful to setup virtualized cpus as cores in a single socket rather than multiple sockets.
My favorite reply in similar comments is the reference to the total perspective vortex by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
Ouch. I went to a similar school I suppose, UIUC and never had that experience.

I once presented the most optimal solution, so I was tasked with presenting it to the class, but I wasn’t put down for it.
I've been somewhat surprised that there hasn't been an effort to re-work e-mail as a content management system --- incoming e-mails have all attachments stripped off and stored in a hierarchy based on sender/subject/recipient/date (and dupes discarded and replaced w/ a pointer) and replaced w/ links w/ the matching e-mail text stored as an editable wiki or similar marked up text, outgoing e-mails are synched up w/ the appropriate attachment and the wiki/marked up text updated based on the content.
Any shipbuilding not on the coast would only be set up for river vessels anyway which are mostly irrelevant in this scenario.
I don't think it needs blue light to be harmful for that to be a feature. I personally don't know or care if it's "harmful," but I know that it messes up my sleep cycles so I try to avoid it before bed and especially during the night.
I prefer the chaos of devs randomly storing data in appdata, programdata, the program files dir, the x86 program files dir with mostly but not entirely duplicate data, c:/games/game/game and ../, c:/game/game, ~/games, ~/game/game &./game, ~/documents/game, ~/documents/games/game, ~/game saves/games, etc...
AI for nethack: "weirdest bug in my CS career"
Thanks, pot capacity being scheduled differently would explain the behavior.

Almost all my ec2 instances are spot, and actually I can compare the distribution with the on-demand ones.

My spot instances are very short lived (15-30 mins max) and AFAIK I've never seen a spot instance force-terminated (this would be hard to find I think).
Answering the Right Question
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
I thought this was mostly/fully solved with CRDTs?
Unless you are targeting browser, not using .NET as back-end for F# seems like a poor idea as you really are sacrificing the tooling and a lot of performance.
There was a moral panic over fast food that was really taking off at the time, and cashing in on it clearly paid off for him.

It did make McDonald's put more effort into rebranding with "we care about the health of kids" - I was a kid when the documentary came out and I remember frequent McDonald's ads on kids channels that were just Ronald McDonald teaching you how to do exercises. But I don't think it really made as much of a difference for people binge eating their food as much as the past few years where their prices for all their food have shot to the moon.
Depending on the amount of money involved, you might consider hiring an accounting firm to do a forensic audit of your books. Then, if they find there's evidence of embezzlement, call in the cops.
I can’t wait for RAG 3.0 on the blockchain.
Their employer likely has absolute control over their Windows install. My personal Windows laptop isn't allowed on the corporate network either.
photo comparison between ipad and daylight - ipad is in the shade, daylight in sunlight

not an ipad (or any apple) fan, but not a great way to instill confidence
Implementing React-like Composition using Go's HTML/template
Had a similar problem with a Samsung washing machine here in the UK, one of the more expensive models too. After just a few months, it developed problems.

I had to spend hours on the phone to their support people, who would tell me to reset it, switch it off and on again, wait a few days and try again etc - just... useless. I practically had to bed them to send someone round. Eventually they agreed, and a local repair guy came round - he spent a few minutes looking at it, declared it a write-off, and told me he advises all his customers to avoid Samsung!
> I could go on ALL day. How do you legislate all of that?

"Everything required to replace or repair parts of the device should be fully, clearly and publicly documented, including all discrete part numbers, tools, jigs, etc. Any parts that are manufactured only by the device's manufacturer under patent protection or trade secret must be available for purchase."

If jigs are required, they must at least fully describe the jig so that people can make their own, if required.

You can use glue as long as it can be removed without damaging the device, and the type of glue is documented and available for purchase.

Mandating a level of skill is not necessary. If a repair requires high skill, like desoldering, they can find someone to do that repair, or sell the device to someone willing to do that repair before purchasing a new device. The level of skill required to repair a device will become known, although I'm also not opposed to requiring that be declared up front.

As you said, the scope of possible designs is infinite, so there exist designs that can satisfy all of these requirements.

The whole point is to expand the lifecycle of devices and create a repair and recycling industry, rather than the existing limited lifecycle of manufacturer->consumer->ewaste.

> Finally, I actually think it is actually rather insulting how many people believe that fixing something like a phone PROPERLY is "not that hard" and "any tech can do it".

Perfect is the enemy of the good. If your phone is a brick and an improper fix makes it useful at a much lower cost than a whole new phone, that's all that matters. Sorry, but your comment just sounds super elitist. Even if only 50% of devices are successfully repaired because they're being done "improperly", that's still a 50% reduction in ewaste.

> and also you don't want to be on the hook for repairing really good counterfeits (and I have personally experienced the latter).

Then don't. I don't see why the manufacturer should be on the hook to repair a counterfeit.

> 5) Right to repair will not solve e-waste. My opinion is it won't make much of a dent.

I disagree 200%. I've repaired countless phones, TVs, computers and other devices for myself and friends and family, all without help of legislation that would ensure the availability of parts and instructions, and the right to repair would only expand this trend. Most people wouldn't do this themselves even with the right to repair, but they are almost certainly within 2 degrees of separation of someone that would.

You're also looking at this very myopically through a specific tech industry lens and ignoring one of the main motivations of the right to repair: super expensive farm equipment. John Deere has a stranglehold on farmers who tend to be very DIY, and this has been driving up their costs and sometimes even driving them out of business because they can't access service or parts at affordable prices, and they can't repair the devices themselves. Breaking this stranglehold would be huge.
>how do you all think about device security/privacy when the manufacture is relatively unknown and overseas?

Find out their update policy. I wouldn't buy a device not matching or exceeding 7 years of OS upgrades / Security patches.
i remember when we used to call this malware... :x
It runs Android (which uses linux).

Steelmanning though, I imagine you are saying somethign like "if I can't load my own linux distribution on it, then it's not a computer" then I very much agree. OP has said elsewhere in the thread that they will provide bootloader unlocking and you can put LineageOS or whatever you want on it! For me that was the last thing I needed to get me to buy.
BYD Workers on Strike Due to Wage Cuts
I support this motion.

I'd definitely splurge on this bur I want to actually own the device if anything goes wrong with the company.
Fear -> anger -> (redirect) -> Courage
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I gave up on Zsh/OMZ/Powerline and all of that. I went back to plain bash and keep it simple.

Zsh is cool to look at and has a couple useful plugins, but the whole thing slows down your shell start up and adds a slew of dependencies that may go on life support, or under control of a foreign government.

I'll just stick with bash. It's ugly. It doesn't have pretty auto suggestions but at least it works and it will be there forever.
My work mac never seemed to overheat itself, but it would routinely be warm and out of battery when I took it out of my bag if I wasn't very careful about what was running when it went to sleep. If Outlook was left running, look out.
Is this fine-tuning with a more hyped naming? Let's say a company produces 100 documents per day that are appended to a knowledge base. What's the cost and delay to be able to ask questions about these docs whenever a single one is added in?
You can 100% do this. We do that at my startup (https://emergingtrajectories.com/). We build a fact base from reliable sources or information you give us, and we have multiple layers of checks to ensure the LLM only references those facts.

It is not 100% foolproof, though, and depends on how broad your universe of knowledge needs to be. If you can only cite from 3 sources or 100 facts, this is easy to verify and force...

For Google, they need to have the world's information (they are a global search engine, after all) -- deciding what is true or not is incredibly complex and there are many shades of grey.

I think part of this is also just eye-catching headlines -- Google searches aren't reliable either, but we've learned to live with them and incorporate them into personal workflows that work for us. LLMs are new and we're still figuring out how to do this as users (and as product builders).
The original QQ post [0] was auto-blocked by HN so I had to resort to the blog above.

BYD has been cutting down on overtime, which has drastically reduced monthly wages from $700-900/mo to $500/mo.

This is part of a trend that has started in the Chinese EV industry recently with Li Automotive's layoffs.

[0] - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/io1cSoE_i_pohJEoDOjkgw
Capex vs opex

Migrating to the cloud transferred capital expenditures (server inventory, depreciation, real estate, etc) to operating expenses (monthly utility bill)

For many businesses, it was better to spend more on opex, than to have all these assets on their balance sheets that need to be managed long term.
Thanks - that got it.

I followed the steps to uninstall and reinstall, but it didn't work until I manually added this to ~/.bash_profile:

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH
Maybe you should apply for YC, Front app is a multi billion dollar company, they could use some disruption.
Being on nice terms is a policy. One way is by having a defensive oriented army and not getting involved in conflicts. Big chunks of the world already do this.

While I am treating it as a hobby I do have a garage full of CNCs, 3D printers, laser cutters, a pretty complete machine shop and the ability to do some foundry work. I am not expecting a complete collapse of society, mainly the collapse of the middle class as gradually the things they need get more expensive and they earn less. Being able to make stuff myself is already saving me money - you’d be surprised that for many of the bespoke things I need it is far cheaper to make it myself than send it out to a job shop. The idea is to be able to make replacement parts to contribute to the success of my local community so that it’s in their interest to shield me from whatever is going on beyond my gates.
The principle of least constraint is the basis for rigid body mechanics based contact forces. This has been known since the days of Gauss and Hamilton, and is fundamentally how restitution and collision forces are derived in Lagrangian mechanics. There's a long literature on this going back more than a hundred years.

It's true that some commercial solvers like Ansys use spring/penalty methods, but this is due to the spring forces being easier to couple to other solvers. It's harder in the Ansys force/velocity formulation to combine things like elasticity and fluids to their rigid body solver. To deal with the instability of systems of many stiff springs they have to take many small timesteps to avoid convergence issues.

More recently techniques like XPBD have been gaining popularity, particularly in film, which use purely positional constraints and variational methods to combine many different types of physics simulations. There's a really great and approachable series of videos by Matthias Muller on youtube which goes through how to implement all this in JS https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/

Finally it's funny you should mention games, since many older games used spring methods for physics. It was only when constraint based solvers became popular after Havok/Half-Life 2 did we start to see games with real rigid body dynamics and stable stacking of boxes. Older physics games like Trespasser ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespasser_(video_game) ) had many bugs due to the use of hacky spring physics. For a good explanation of how games do it today look at Erin Catto's work on Box2D https://box2d.org/publications/
Opinions are like asses - everyone has one. Self righteous people are those who think that only their opinions matter and try to present them as facts, rolling over any reasonable objection with hand waving and insulting the other party for not understanding things.
Yeah, I feel you sometimes need to provide the actual verbatim quote the LLM is referencing for the fact, otherwise it's unclear how the LLM 'interpreted' the information for you.
Interesting. From the second link: "Russia currently sends gas to China through the Power of Siberia 1 pipeline, which began operating in 2019 and runs through eastern Siberia into northeast China. Experts say that as China is not expected to need additional gas supply until after 2030, Beijing could drive a hard bargain on price for a second pipeline via Siberia."
you saw what I did there
As part of an intro to optimization class in university, we inputted gov't nutrition health guidelines and the McDonalds nutritional menu into a model. Solved how we could hit the health guidelines (min and maximums) by only eating McDs. Basic conclusion is McDs is fine if you don't eat the fries or sodas.

The book "Fast Food Nation" was an optional reading. It explained how McD single-handedly improved the quality of beef and potato industry in the US.
I made an app to learn this - https://grantas33.github.io/Doomsday-algorithm-practice/
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Samsung as a whole is a shit company to work with. The mobile startup I worked at a decade ago partnered with them and they were a nightmare. Literally working all hours of the day and night on projects that made little financial sense but looked good to someone's boss in SK. Their appliances are literal garbage as well. Brother's Samdung fridge no longer makes ice (and only did for like a month). My front loader washing machine broke within 5 years. The matching dryer was repaired twice in that timeframe. Fuck Samsung.
Posted a reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466855

This is a specific reference on how constraints model contact between rigid bodies https://box2d.org/files/ErinCatto_UnderstandingConstraints_G...

Most games since Half Life 2 use constraint forces like this to solve collisions. Springs/penalty forces are still used sometimes in commercial physics solvers since they're easier to couple with other simulations, but they require many small timesteps to ensure convergence.
This is inspiring. Makes me want to try to duplicate the results using old-fashioned bump mapping.
Why we shift testing left: A software dev cycle that doesn’t scale
That seems like it would have exactly the same problem. The problem is that EBS volumes load very inefficiently from snapshots. (They’re also unnecessarily expensive: you pay for (number of instances times size) despite the fact that what you actually want is for each instance to read exactly the same data.)

Fundamentally, EBS volumes are designed to work more or less like actual disks, whereas modern scaled workloads want something closer to net-booted diskless machines.
I did not claim that investing $1 is a tax loss.
Plan 9 has a similar concept called upasfs http://man.postnix.pw/9front/4/upasfs
> The alternative to this unfair structure is no United Nations, and no place for countries to come to the table which is potentially worse.

Why the alternative is no united nations instead of equal and real representation of international community without bunch of countries having veto power.
Fine-tuning is not RAG. It is the opposite of RAG. Fine-tuning is what one is trying to avoid when using RAG. That's not to say that fine-tuning is bad; it's not, but it's just not RAG.
The thing about building ships is not only does it take forever to build up shipbuilding capacity - it takes forever to build ships.

This should be interpreted as emphasizing the strength of the US Navy though, since it would take years and years for China to possibly match the tonnage of the US Navy even if the US didn’t build anything.
Boeing sued for negligence by families of Marines killed in MV-22B Osprey crash
Hi Friend -

This question was recently asked in the /r/machinelearning subreddit.

You can find the link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/18yzv...

Generally the first question I ask when someone asks me that question is:

What are you trying to do?

If you are learning machine learning to do research, your answer will be very different than if you are learning machine learning to start a business or create something with the ML tools/applications available today.

General knowledge ML book:

* Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems 3rd Edition by Aurélien Géron

General knowledge data applications book:

* Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems 1st Edition by Martin Kleppmann

General knowledge statistical machine learning book:

* The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) 2nd Edition by Trevor Hastie (Author), Robert Tibshirani (Author), Jerome Friedman (Author)

Tooling wise, the rabbit hole goes very deep depending on what technologies and what areas you are exploring. Anything from PyTorch all the way to programming GPUs and how to store / work with massive data as well as general algos to work with all of this.
What's the easiest way to get the Teams app to accept the MITM on TLS?
Nine Takeaways from Our Investigation into 3M's Forever Chemicals
I worked from 2008-2016 next to that landfill [0] and for the last three years of that, being outdoors meant constantly smelling the worst sour milk smell you've ever smelled everyday and stinging your eyes at least once a week.

Coldwater Creek [1] is a whole other catastrophe with independent investigators and like you said, denial from the gov't entities. "In August 2015, the United States Army Corps of Engineers admitted that they found thorium-230 in the creek. In January 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated the high rate of cancers in the area, and confirmed a potential link between the cluster and the polluted creek. In 2022, radioactive material was found at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant. The radioactive material includes lead-210, polonium, radium, and other toxic materials." The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up the creek for decades but refuses to share detailed information with the public about its findings."

"... Most startling, however, was that the documents indicated that the USACE, dating back to 2016, had notified Hazelwood School Board members that it wanted to enter school grounds to conduct testing. ... Bernaugh and the Jana Elementary PTA sent a letter to parents informing them of their discoveries. On August 5, the Hazelwood School District, in a separate letter, acknowledged that the USACE had informed it of “low-level radioactive contamination” on the property on January 27, 2022. For over six months, it had failed to inform the community of these results, maintaining that the “contamination did not pose an immediate risk.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_Creek_(Missouri_rive...

[2] https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jana-elementar...
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Yet we all npm install or run random binaries without a second thought.
We can see the Milky Way in clear conditions; with light pollution we can only see the brightest stars. Perhaps an orphan star would have a darker sky, without a clear view of a galactic superstructure without using a telescope?
That's a very appealing aesthetic (possibly because I'm old enough to remember downloading games over a 2400 baud modem!). Very nice work!

That video looked great, and (at least for me) felt very evocative. In the section where the roof was too low, I started feeling claustrophobic and cramped.

Those rock and sandy-floored caverns, and the cavern with boulders (which are gorgeous!) made me think I'd love playing a Myst or LucasArts-style adventure game using this as the renderer. Spelunking through caves, or archeological digs, etc.

Can't wait to see where you take this!
I was working on a Rails project and had a YouTube video playing in the background, its a 49whr battery and the CPU can easily burst above 15w and usually sustains around 7w plus backlight and all the other components of a laptop, a sustained power draw of 15w while doing development work isn't unusual.
jfc with all these issues with boeing.

it's fine. everything is fine. :x
DDG UI is a lot calmer. Opening Bing feels like entering a Middle-Eastern market.
https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/
To all those going around in circles debating the legality of hiring similar-sounding voice actors (spoiler: it’s still illegal) there’s a great round up post by Zvi M on this — you want to be looking here if you’re interested:

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/do-not-mess-with-sca...
The page where the videos are from isn't meant to be marketing material. It's a documentation page for people who already have the tablet -- the page says "Welcome to Your Daylight Computer". I personally have no qualms if some of the videos there are sped up, and it has no bearing on my trust of the company.

If you want the promotional videos actually advertising/backing the display claims, check out the main website: https://daylightcomputer.com/product . If you do find evidence that the video there is sped up, I agree with you it's a bad look. But the videos look pretty clearly not sped up based on the human motion.

Regardless there will be third party videos popping on YouTube soon, as the parent comment says.
Prediction is not about the future, it's about the present