skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The IRA (Irish Republican Army) was responsible for killing around 1,800 people during its terror campaign from the late 1960s through the late 1990s. This includes approximately 650 civilians"

So 650 civilians in around 30 years, that's less than what Hamas did in a couple of hours on October 7th. Btw Hamas is not only active in Gaza, it was a big part of the terror campaign that derailed the Oslo peace initiative and later Camp David - mostly in the West Bank. Hamas' reach is all across the Palestinian territories and it has hit Israelis in all kinds of ways - suicide bombings (in the West Bank), rockets (Gaza) and recently full on invasions and massacres. The death toll, destruction and disruption to the economy and civil life it had on Israeli society is orders of magnitude larger than what Britain has ever experienced.

> Yes, the IRA had the objective to eliminate British rule in Northern Ireland entirely, which is quite similar to Hamas's goal of eliminating Israeli rule in all of Israel. I'm not sure if the IRA was as happy to kill any loyalist civilians as Hamas is in killing Israeli civilians, to be fair.

So there's a major difference here I think, Britain could have simply left Northern Ireland or reach some compromise to meet some of the IRA's demands (which has actually eventually happened) and still remained Britain. For Israel to meet Hamas demands it needs to commit national suicide, cede control to a group that hates it (happy to kill Israelis - your words) and wants to take revenge and as a result probably have the majority of its population flee the region completely (where to? perhaps to the West, which is also not the most hospitable environment for Jews/Israelis).

> I'm not sure what superpower you refer to here (are you calling Egypt a superpower? Edit - oh, you mean the USSR...).

I am talking about Iran which is considered a regional superpower and about the fact Israel is surrounded by Iranian made armies (Hezbollah to the North, Yemenite Houtihs and Iraqi militais to the East) that are now occasionally bombing its civilian population or trying to force a naval blockade on it.
England never had to face anything remotely similar to this with the IRA. The last time England had something similar to this was WW2.
Linum (YC W23) is a hiring a founding AI engineer to train text-to-video models
Basically exclusively at this point.
No-code, AI-powered risk and fraud detection
I've still got a few issues somewhere in storage, the DR one for sure but also a few random issues. I may be stuck in the 90s/00s but I still love many of the emigre typefaces (matrix, mrs. eaves, filosofia, soda, and all those early bitmap typefaces).
> Why?

Sometimes it's nice to just stay in tmux
TLA⁺ Unicode support: Learning to work with others in open source
I don't own a car, so I've rented vehicles from time to time - and my experience is that (in my country at least) the vehicle rental experience is absolute trash.

Would you believe that on three separate occasions I turned up to collect my (reserved and paid for) vehicle on a Friday, ready to go on a road trip, and they simply didn't have a vehicle for me?
In this case the software in question was a game. I have not seen any visble business models for truly open source games under the acceptable licenses for F-Droid. There are source-available games, but that would not be enough in this case.

I think the main issue may be how much up-front investment games need that would never be recouped with an open source license, but I'd love to be shown an example to the contrary.
You aren't thinking about the exponential decay of emissivity near absolute zero. It isn't linear like we get to assume to make the math easier.

Thus why IBMs largest refrigerator can only dissipate tiny amounts when cold.

> enabling close to ~10 mW at 100 mK cooling power, and over 24 W of cooling power at 4 K temperatures. Finally, the weight of the entire system — 6.7 metric tons

They aren't building single huge quantum processors, but networks of easy to cool parts.

IBM hopes that one GoldenEye refrigerator may be able to hold a million qbits but that isn't enough to break RSA.

RAND estimated 890 MWh per key to be broken.

It will be horizontal sprawl, not vertical integration.

Larger objects simply have to get hotter to expell the same watts per volume or increase surface area.

That is problematic for quantum computers.
HN's intended community wants desperately to be those tech CEOs/tech billionaires. So, your comment is a little ironic.
I assume this is for belt driven turntables, not direct drive. I also have a pair of 1200's. Most mixers these days have BPM built in, and before that you had red micro bpm counters and headphone amps to validate BPM. Never once on my 1200's did it read something outside of the producers BPM count when pitch was locked.
> Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

How can that be reconciled with abridging the freedom of speech of millions of citizens by requiring that their preferred press must only controlled by the government's preferred owners?
Mine was similar but worse than your last point... They messed up my billing three months in a row, then they cancelled it 3.5 weeks into a billing cycle for being "late" 3 months in a row, and billed at a pro-rated by the minute billing that was over a thousand dollars, when the full month was under $200 at the time.

No negotiation, just "pay us."
Hi Andrej!

First, thank you for your teaching, it has helped me a lot, didn't think I'd ever have the chance to say thank you, but here you are and I hope this gets to you!

Question - what's a relevant (05-2024) baseline to compare the performance of c code to? Back when you made nanoGPT you were seeing "the file train.py reproduces GPT-2 (124M) on OpenWebText, running on a single 8XA100 40GB node in about 4 days of training". So twice the memory on the c node, but unsure of data size /epochs, any other details I may be missing. I.e. what's the net uplift of running c vs "legacy" torch code?

Thanks again for everything.
946 comments!

Here is mine. The Boomers, the generation born 1945 - 1965, benefited from affordable housing, and when it grew up, set about making housing an investment.

'Affordable ' and 'investment' are mutually exclusive. That is why supply is not keeping up with demand, and why there are so many unoccupied houses.
I've analyzed support ticket requests before, and that doesn't seem to be the case. At least for the two times I've done this: 1) IT support tickets for a local school, and 2) Tickets for a B2B SaaS app. In both cases the majority of tickets where for things that seemed to me to be obvious. That if the user just bothered to spend 10 seconds looking they would figure it out. But they didn't. Some training helped on the IT side, and some UX improvements helped in SaaS app, but the bar is _sooo_ much lower than many expect.
The Stench of Climate Change Denial
One of the biggest bottlenecks of multi layer transformers is that reasoning can only happen in the hidden layers. Past the final layer, the model must generate a token that conforms to the training process. This token can then be fed back into the transformer from the beginning, but since it necessarily must be in natural language, it limits the type of reasoning the model can perform to the "thoughts" it has seen in the dataset and is therefore allowed to express. If you could figure out how to have the first layer take both the KV of the first layer and the KV of the final layers in the attention mechanism into account, the model would become capable of infinite length reasoning.
https://archive.is/wip/gWX1U
Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts
There aren't really reference BPM's.

Not everything is recorded with a click track, though a lot is.

But even so, while it will usually be an integer BPM, it's not always rounded to the nearest 5. 120 might be too fast while 115 is too slow, so you pick 118.

For an app that's trying to correct your turntable speed by e.g. 3%, it couldn't even begin to guess the "correct" BPM.
>Cheap credit causes an increase in demand. This is not demand for homes but additional 'artificial' demand for properties as investments. Think short term rentals, second homes, land banked properties, etc. By definition, only investment properties can be underutilised - owner occupied homes are occupied! So in an environment that encourages property investment you will see more underutilisation.

An important nitpick: cheap credit intensifies the search for returns. You need to consider why those races end in real estate. In the US, at least, the answer is that the American single family house is the single most privileged asset class in the history of the world. The entire economy assumes that housing prices will grow at a rate that outpaces inflation. You cannot, in that system, be a person who calmly watches to evaluate the correctness of the hypothesis.

No, you shut up and push. Whether you're the President or the Fed or some affordable housing commission, you shut up and push for housing as an appreciating asset.
Delinquency Rate on Consumer Loans, All Commercial Banks (DRCLACBS)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCLACBS
Taking off like a rocket, people are strapped for cash and have been burning all their credit to survive. Mortgages are low for now, but once people run out of easy credit, which they have, mortgage delinquencies will rise. People are poor.
Funny I noticed this one when I was reading a paper about people using an OS-9 variant together with the Turbo9. See https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/10/1978

I had a Coco 1 and a Coco 3, with the OS-9 operating system you could run C and Pascal compilers as well as use BASIC09 which was like a modern bytecode interpreted language (Python). The 6809 stands out because it was designed to support compiled languages, shared libraries and such. It not only had the right addressing modes but it had just enough registers that code generation was straightforward.

When I replaced my Coco3 with a 286 machine I switched to hardware that was more than an order of magnitude faster but MS-DOS was a big step back from OS-9.

Lately I have been obsessed with the lost 24-bit generation of micros and was quite delighted to discover the eZ80, would be nice to see the 6809 follow the same route but Motorola was too committed to the ultimately doomed 68k.
I was surprised to find that back when I went to college, every computer connected to their network, whether it be the laptops that each student had via the required technology package, and even personal desktop computers and gaming consoles and every device connected to the network in the dorms, every machine was given a public facing IP address without NAT.

Even your phone or tablet on the campus wifi got a unique public IP...

Of course there were firewalls in place and all the incoming ports were blocked, but doesn't that seem like a big waste of IPs?

The university owns 155.92.0.0/16 and every machine on the network gets a 155.92.x.x IP address.

https://ipinfo.io/AS11500/155.92.0.0/16

Is this normal? Or shouldn't the IPs all be NAT'd behind a few public IPs?
> WordPress is proof that clean code doesn't matter.

At least it isn't Magento.
apparently, it means you can say whatever the fuck you want, but then you also have to cry about it when you have to face consequences for your actions.
>If you're on life-support, and brain dead

Her [sudden, at 60] stroke was massive, but confined to only her left hemisphere. She was intubated (against her DNR). Through prior agreement, this was a "terminate me" condition. She was not in hospice care at the time, and still worked 50+ hours per week. "If you make me retire [because of my health], you might as well kill me," she had recently told me.

>if you're brain dead, you don't need painkillers and ... aren't on them

False. Prior to my arrival (as pre-arranged death angel), the hospital had induced knockout via massive sedatives. My first action (before viewing the PET scan) was to stop these, which caused her right brain to "wake up" — which is terrifying because she still knew who I was (her son, there to kill her), but could not speak. Upon reviewing her imaging, I decided that "she had met her criteria [to die]."

>they turn the machine off and you just die

I further helped this by instructing attending physician to turn up the fentanyl ("to eleven"), remove her breathing systems, and then I smothered her with my bare hands.

>They don't crank the painkillers up - in fact no doctor will do this because it's legally murder.

False. See above. Jurisdiction may very, as will each situation.

--

I wish you well in your enjoyment of life; Mom lived well, and you (and I) should try to, too.
Ruby 3.4 throws SyntaxError while passing block as argument in index.

#ruby #ruby3.4 #block #array
There appears to exist a guy with a formal background who is interested in submitting a paper about formal verification and static analysis and stuff. Impressive work, but I really don't know what to take home from the existance of this, or what argument this supports.

In my sibling post I merely want to illustrate that all these concerns have little bearing on my day-to-day work (which mostly doesn't need to be certified, and is not related to the defense industry or similar). Some of these I perceive as FUD, as said I know that you can provoke these situations but I've never personally encountered nasal daemons in practice, and I feel quite productive, am not spending a lot of time on bugs, so why bother.
A few years ago, I needed to return a fragile set of items (ceramic bowls). I didn't want to worry about trying to pack them so they wouldn't break, so I chose the option to bring them to a UPS store, which clearly said that UPS would pack them for me. I then proceeded to have the following conversation with the UPS staff:

UPS guy: Are you sure they didn't come with a box or something?

Me: I mean, I don't have it.

UPS guy: Well, they might break... you might want to do something so they don't break...

Me: Uh... if you're packing them, isn't that your responsibility?

UPS guy: We don't pack them. We just put them in a box.

Me: Amazon said you would pack them.

UPS guy: Well, if they break it's not your fault.

Me: Cool.

Other UPS guy to first UPS guy, as I'm walking out the door: I think Amazon just destroys that stuff anyway.

It was all fine from my perspective -- I got my refund, and Amazon didn't complain about anything breaking -- but it definitely felt weird. UPS's own page for their returns program[0] claims that "Certified Packing Experts ensure proper packaging".

[0] https://www.theupsstore.com/corporate-services/corporate-ret...
The Atlantic Journalism Standards Have Gone To Hell.

Evidence: See article
I'm describing evolution itself as the intelligence here, not the monkey. And the million typewriters taking ages is why Creationists argue it can't work (having not understood half of it).

> But talking points aside, this does not make the monkey more "intelligent" nor does it mean that "randomness" is a practical methodology for achieving specific results on a human timescale.

Not by itself. Evolution is more than just random, it's a specific filter on top of randomness, just like all the other things. And computers roll the dice very quickly compared to reproduction, which is why neither you nor any other human can win a chess game against the best computer any more — it did it on a human timescale.
I'm trying to understand why you think there is a difference between "green" and "big" so that when I'm looking at a green thing I'm seeing a green, but when I'm looking at a big thing I'm not seeing a big. Yes, big is a size, but so what? Green is a color. Why do you think colors are different from sizes with regards to what part of speech they are?
Awesome work dude!

It's great to see how much you have evolved the project.
Of course they’re not Hamas operatives. Just like the guys waving swastika flags in the middle of a Republican convention are not Nazi party members. Is there really a difference, though?
Which plant produces pollen at PM2.5 tho? Pollen usually isn't entering your bloodstream through your lungs, its too large.
You might want to look at how Apple's platform does it. If you use the high level API it's pretty straightforward.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
People really want there to be "one reason" for skyrocketing housing prices. Real life is not so accommodating.

The problem is multi-faceted.

Is there asset price inflation due to cheap money? Yes.

Have foreign nationals been parking their cash in real estate in certain western countries? Yes.

Has restrictive zoning and NIMBY-ism reduced the incoming supply of new homes? Yes.

Multiple things can be true at the same time, all contributing to the current state of affairs.
Sometimes there doesn't need to be a "market", just an interest and passion.

I think there's value in an open and modernized 8-bit MCU/MPU that isn't PIC or whatever.
Touché. I suppose the separators are important also.
Nice work! This looks really good.

I'm not in the intended audience as I don't have a turntable, but if I had one I feel like I would be much more likely to use this if it was a web app. If I didn't know about this app beforehand, I'm pretty sure I'd be looking on Google rather than the App Store.

That being said, you made this app for yourself and it looks great. Congrats on shipping!
As you might expect, there's a Black Mirror episode not far from that (IIRC "White Christmas"). And several other works of literature.
Realistically we cannot build enough supply for distribution not to matter.
Right, but the idea is that if you had an atmosphere with a higher partial percentage of O2 you could get by with far less inert gas filler, which makes terraforming a bit less daunting. You could imagine an atmosphere with 35% O2 at 0.3 atm being possibly habitable and requiring many trillion less tons of material added to Mars.
I love AVR-8 myself.
But you... control the file names... You can overwrite contents in most other file systems easily.
Do you think grokking leads to proper generalized reasoning? https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071
I would devote my time to building high quality, durable, and energy efficient 3bd 2ba homes in the rural areas surrounding major metropolitan areas, which I would then sell at material cost.

Buying my first home (mobile/manufactured) has been a combination of the best and worst thing I've ever done. The house cost nearly 3 times what my grandparents paid about ~30 years ago in the same neighborhood (on the same street!) while the construction and finish quality are sub-par at best, with a nearly endless list of things that are constantly in need of repair, multiple water intrusion issues, etc. To make matters worse, the housing market in the area I live has reached unreasonable levels, with my current home being 'valued' at 1.4x what I bought it for roughly 3 years ago.

Additionally, I keep seeing homes built that are on monolithic slabs and nearly everyone I know personally who is a homeowner is having issues with their home's foundation due to the high movement soil (clay) even in recently built homes. I would build homes that use pier and beam foundations with piles deep enough to resist soil movement, ensure site drainage was appropriate for each home, and generally put all the necessary care and work into ensuring that each home built would last for multiple generations.

I want to build homes that last and allow others to flourish without the litany of concerns I currently have to struggle with on-top of my day job.
Yea, that sounds sane. The RF transmitter gets the DMX commands to groups, which then get translated to batches of RF bands, and then they just act on that.

I wonder if the RF system has enough bandwidth to show a movie or an animation at a decent frame rate, because that would be a neat effect.
Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius (125,6°F)
Behind the Curtain: AI's ominous scarcity crisis
I guess they get to squeeze more money out of my transactions. I miss the days of boring ads that were contextual on the site you were on and not trying to pry into my life in creepy ways.
"The Entire State Is Offline Get in There Now Fix IT Do Whatever IT Takes"
Never heard of this trick, I go to try it and... nothing. TFA may have some funky network setup to allow this.

Also calling web browsers made by "stupid people" without even properly evaluating the effectiveness of your own network hack seems rather hypocritical. :)
The Atlantic was never a newspaper - it was always a magazine.

I'm not sure when the colloquial definition of magazine and newspaper/journalism began merging, but The Atlantic, New Yorker, and Harper's were always magazines that were critique and op-ed driven.

Here's a good article explaining the difference between newspapers, magazines, journals, and other forms of nonfiction [0]

[0] - https://libanswers.memphis.edu/faq/34544
Yes. As much as I love to talk smack about GitHub, I can't join on this particular criticism. They're clearly just adhering to tax law here.
Game is its own thing indeed and I'll admit that first, I don't play much, and second, never even started thinking about business models for open source games.

Maybe you could license the data for a fee and have the code as open source?

Of course this is low effort and you know way better than me.
Interesting idea, but I don't think it'd work, as most people aren't critical (sceptical) readers.
Nuclear war.

This may sound positively retro and cold-warish, but IMO we've had way too many close calls in the 80 years nuclear weapons existed, and the quality of governance worldwide only seems to decline.

Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union treated each other with the vitriol that Russia and the US do today. Do you believe Putin and Trump are half the gentlemen Kennedy and Khrushchev were? I seriously believe we are closer now to nuclear deployment than at any time after 1945. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev was dreadfully worried about nuclear war and wrote many cables to Kennedy sorrowfully bemoaning the thought. While today, Putin airs propaganda to an increasingly uneducated audience treating a theoretical first nuclear use as unremarkable, and his ministers seem more concerned with the idea of whether or not they can ever beat MAD.[1] Trump liked to brag about the size of his "button" to Kim Jong Un like it was a WWE script. There's little hope I have that the world will escape, even a limited tactical deployment in the coming two decades, playing fiery chicken with the future of humanity.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65119595
Correct. That was often done when mastering with tape. Record at one speed, playback at another to make it sound more "lively." There are songs that were sped up that way anywhere from 25 to 40 cents. It's another reason why live music so often doesn't sound like the recording.

When using digital mastering, you can also adjust the playback speed, but you can correct the shift. You get more "liveliness" without the shift change. That's why you're not hearing the pitch shift so much in more recent music.
I remember a while back someone managed to build a many hundred year sequence of growth rings by analyzing all of the incremental construction in one town and aligning tree rings from one piece of wood with the same rings in newer or older pieces, using software not unlike reassembling DNA fragments, but with growth rings.