skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty impressive. Its interesting that this is getting put into other engines when Nanite doesn't quite feel fully baked itself.
I actually think things are much safer nowadays with cell phones and satellite communicators, and the wealth of information on the internet about what parts of certain countries are safe. You can even message random people who actually live there on social media about the situation on the ground. Many are happy to reply.

Up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine it was fairly straightforward to do a train journey from London to Singapore. Other than Russia and Belarus the entire rest of the route (London-Paris-Frankfurt-Warsaw and Ulaanbaatar-Beijing-Nanning-Hanoi-HCMC-Siem Reap-Bangkok-Penang-Kuala Lumpur-Singapore) is extremely safe in terms of violent crime.

Warsaw-Moscow-Ulaanbaatar was also safe for tourists prior to the Russian invasion.

(Nitpick: The -Siem Reap- segment would have to be a bus due to the lack of functional rail in Cambodia. However, China is building rail across Laos to connect China and Thailand by rail)

Getting from London to India over land is a little more involved. The European rail network will get you to Turkey comfortably and safely with very little effort (-Frankfurt-Munich-Budapest-Bucharest-Istanbul all have regular trains), and Istanbul-Tehran(Iran) rail service also exists, but heading further east will send you into some unsafe areas very quickly. In the absence of the Russian situation you could do -Warsaw-Moscow-Astana(Kazakhstan)-Almaty-Wulumuqi(China)-Kashi and then as long as it's summer/fall you can take a bus from Kashi to Gilgit(Pakistan), then another bus to Islamabad, and then you can take trains from Islamabad-Lahore-Delhi(India), which travel through some sketchy areas but also isn't a war zone and you'll probably be just fine on the train. Once you're in India you once again have all the rail you want, you can continue to the far south of the Indian subcontinent by train.
Availability is the star of the show for me. One IC, long product lifetime, always in stock, after the shitshow that was 2021/2022 I'm not going to bother trying to shave a few cents to compromise this again.
This is my jam, my 9/11, the diamond arrow, everything.
Some quick googling says OpenAI is losing $700,000 per day operating it's models, which some other quick googling say are processing roughly 10 million queries per day, which if we do quick back-of-napkin math is about 7 cents per query.

Currently their lowest-tier price is $20/month, and limits users to 80 queries per hour. If we assume that 7 cents number and our hypothetical user actually uses those 80 queries for whatever odd reason, that's $5.60 it costs OpenAI, which if that user used them for say, 8 hours (the typical work day), that's $44.80 for OpenAI on a user who's only paid $20. And that's one day, that $20 currently gets them a month of access to that 80 queries per hour. I hope for the dream of profitability that they would get throttled at some point. So the user could, in theory, already render their subscription a net loss for OpenAI with 4 workdays of steady usage.

And yes this is strictly back-of-napkin math here but it would explain why "OpenAI" and "bankrupt" keep appearing in the tech press over and over.
Fixed link: https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/
all comments on this thread are pointless as the requirement now is a non-rooted Android or ios phone with a special app per entity.

nobody is accepting TOTP anymore.

some govts (br, sg, ru) even allows govt apps to authenticate via bank apps.
what was wrong with winmine.exe?
Do you think that reaction is natural, given the patterns and preferences of most of human society?
No language feels more pleasurable to write in. It's incredibly expressive and things are just dead simple 99% of the time

It's not perfect, but I hope it continues to flourish because it gets a lot right
Why give up a good vehicle for posturing?
File Uploads with Django and DRF
iTunes Match/Apple Music completely corrupted my music library. Files are all still there with the wrong names and album art.
Ah it's much higher than that.

I always ask: tell me the question you are answering with this.

99% of people can't answer that question.
As someone who speaks English, Japanese, and computer programming languages, I will say that language absolutely affects how we think. My trains of thought are very different from someone who only speaks English or Japanese, let alone someone who doesn't speak programming; and I definitely can't fully relate to someone who speaks Spanish, Chinese, etc. either.

As far as I'm concerned, that theory is not psuedo science.
> the price must rise. That may be important for anyone building businesses on top.

Well yes but every business owner knows that, or should know that. That's a known business risk. We're all adults here.

If your business fails because you naively assumed that prices you rely on will never go up, then that's on you.
As another huge rust fan myself, Swift 6 has really won me over.

I find myself reaching for Swift as the default for a lot of things rather than Rust, especially with the advent of C++ Interoperability and the new Swift embedded stack and ownership model.

The only thing I really need is a UI story on other platforms, but it’s an area Rust is lacking great solutions too. I suspect the C++ interop might eventually make Swift have great Qt bindings to compete with PySide as an accessible way to make multi platform UIs.
> Makes it easier for upstream and the distro.

Until there's a vulnerability in one of the dependencies and now you have to rebuild all of the packages which use it. Specifically for Rust, there's also the fact that most projects use a lock file and if your build process respects it, you now have to wait for the upstream to update it and release a new version (or update it yourself). And if your build process doesn't respect the lock file (or the project doesn't use it) and you just fetch the latest compatible dependencies at the time of build, you now have no idea if you're affected or not by the vulnerability because you don't have the exact resolved versions stored anywhere (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2801).
Have you ever entered a room and forgot why you entered the room? I think a similar thing happens in sleep. What happened in dream doesn't carry over into waking memory. And maybe vice-versa.

It seems that memory splits when environment splits.
An Old Man's Guide to Making Chiptunes with DefleMask
One can clearly see E.l.o.n. and S.a.m. prototype models in the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkismK9a_84

They should act more harmonious moving forwards... lol =3
I’m a big fan of the ARC as a problem set to tackle. The sparseness of the data and infinite-ness of the rules which could apply make it much tougher than existing ML problem sets.

However, I do disagree that this problem represents “AGI”. It’s just a different dataset than what we’ve seen with existing ML successes, but the approaches are generally similar to what’s come before. It could be that some truly novel breakthrough which is AGI solves the problem set, but I don’t think solving the problem set is a guaranteed indicator of AGI.
There is an interesting dynamic right now. NVidia is selling cards at somewhere around 98% margin, they are then investing money into these startups - who will then spend some fraction back on NVidia hardware. It's a smart strategy by NVidia, as they can effectively leverage past revenue to create future revenue - but it's unclear what business models will be sustainable coming out of this investment.
God speed, OCI is a pile of garbage. Once had them delete every single one of our production servers in the middle of the work day (in the hundreds of instances) due to an uncaught billing error.

Triage took over 3 three days and there was a significant amount of lost customer data and financial impact.

I wouldn't recommend OCI if they were the last cloud provider on earth.
Generally only when in a very fine powdered crystalline form, though, and only when exposed persistently at a moderate level.

High short term exposure apparently isn’t a cancer risk (but is a ‘you’ll be miserable
and have a hard time breathing’ risk), and low grade exposure below a threshold is also apparently fine.

And just sand itself (except for certain specific rare types) is also apparently fine.

Weird eh?
thanks for the correction! TIL
Google's GenAI Training: Did They Illegally Use Copyrighted Data?
I suppose they totally have that capacity, because cellular networks depend on fair play of thousands of devices sharing access to a part of the spectrum in a given area. Constant stats gathering has to be vital for detection of hardware faults and coverage problems in very complex city networks. Stations can even ask mobile devices to work as remote probes, and report immediate signal levels for each station they can receive. Operators have all the incentives to snitch on anything suspicious or broken to both the regulatory body, and the security services (who probably reply “oh, it's ours” most of the time).
Nothing will ever change until we start sending the upper management to jail.
If somebody has a problem with it, they can always choose the live coding. I try to find ways to make the process more equitable.
Nobody actually runs HSMs in FIPS mode anyway. FIPS certification just means it can be run in a FIPS mode, and that it did at one time pass the certification. So while it is a very useful hurdle to jump over, it is impractical to use (for the same reasons you mention, and others).
From the comment I replied to:

> Generally grid backfeed capability for these systems is predicated on the presence of a stable voltage and frequency already on the grid.

You are using the reference clock to know precisely how misaligned the grid is and you use the reference to make small corrections to the generator power or inverter phase to restore phase alignment.

If you have an external stable reference clock (GPS) you know what the grid *phase* should be and it should be easier for network of multiple small inverters to keep the grid stable and to bring it up by themselves if there's a large blackout.
Lock washers help prevent fasteners from loosening particularly under vibration or similar stress. They're not as effective as LocTite or similar products (adhesive thread treatments), but also don't gum up the pieces.

Somewhat ironically, greasing threads can actually result in a more reliable fastening as it permits removal of the bolt or screw and permits stronger tightening which can increase the physical bond.

If you really want a reliable fastening, use a retaining device such as a cotter pin or retainer ring, or riveted fastenings ;-)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(pin)>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_pin>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-clip>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retaining_ring>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivet>
Using capital to subsidize costs and sell your product for less than it's worth actually seems like a huge market failure to me, and is the consequence of huge concentrations of capital in the hands of a small and shrinking group of people. The only people who can afford to compete are the already wealthy. It stifles competition.

As a consumer it should definitely concern you if you're using poorly financed or unsustainable products. Maybe it's great now but I would rather have a slightly more expensive product that is more stable than one that suddenly had to make the experience a lot worse because they burned a lot of cash and had a down round.
The more I hear about inverse proportionality, the less I like it.
>they raise prices and/or make the product worse in order to get their money back

They should only be able to do that if they have a considerable moat though?
I actually thought this was well established? Largely, it isn't just a complete lack of sleep that is the problem, it is lack of functional rest. Usually leading to lack of functional waking time, as well?

Specifically, my understanding was that a complete lack of sleeping is rather fatal.
This is a bunch of legal procedure that I don't know with confidence, but my expectation is that the answer is "theoretically yes, but it won't be granted in this case." That is, the "theoretically yes" comes from some sort of mechanism to handle plaintiffs who pull this sort of stuff abusively, but Musk's (lawyers') actions here haven't reached anywhere near that level of abusiveness, so there's no reason to grant it.
Honestly race is very relevant here. It might have become less safe for a white man over that time period but it’s orders of magnitudes safer for people of other ethnicities than it used to be. I’ve been to more than 70 countries and for the vast, vast majority of those visits, the people have been overwhelmingly welcoming.
Assuming my experience with Swift 5 is still accurate, compilation speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than Go.

It’s a much more powerful language. In my opinion slower compilation is worth it for all of its great features. (Does Go even have parametric enums?). But its definitely a trade off.
Pips are disingenuous. If you get put on one, find a new job as fast as possible
Also iTunes with its 99 cents per track way back when we still paid for music downloads.
No, Conway's Law[1] is attributed to Melvin Conway, a different computer Scientist. Also unrelated to either Lynn Conway, or Melvin Conway, is Conway's Life, which is named for John Conway[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
Did you read my comment or just the edit?

It was constructive critique. Terse, but not only did I point out the things that are unclear to me I suggested a fix.

The edit was to soften the effect of being so blunt. Its a technique of being harsh then giving the reader some reason to attribute their negative emotions to. Its a way of side stepping the ‘defensive reflex’

So my friend I would appreciate you take as much time to read as write
Swift and Go are on polar ends of the language complexity spectrum. Someone who enjoys Go for what it is, i.e. a dead simple, straightforward language, would not see Swift as being "better".
Can anyone break down why it is still so expensive to get battery storage at my house?

A single Tesla Powerwall is something like $10000 (before incentives) for 13 kWh capacity. I regularly see articles about battery costs being ~$150/kWh now. Thats about $2000 and yet the Powerwall is 5x that cost. Even if it was $200/kWh that doesn't get close to adding up.

Is it all installation costs? extra hardware costs? Or something related to trade where we just can't get cheap batteries here in the US?
Fedora and Debian do this too. That's why it sometimes takes longer for a project to be packaged - you literally have to recursively package all of the dependencies first.
Imagine how loud it will be with a Dyson Sphere connected to the Disaster Area portable speaker.
As you say, a typical Rust program can easily depend on hundreds of crates that nobody really checks. That's a security issue.

The whole point of a distro is that someone distributes them, so you can choose which distro you want to trust.

What I don't like about Rust and Go is that they enforce their preference. I am fine if you want to link everything statically. I just don't want you to force me.
A weird coincidence. In my search for sane discord servers I just happened upon one for satanists last night.
Oh, well that didn’t answer my original question at all then.
My guess - Poland is hint to this question. Poland was a little behind on the integrating Google/Apple Pay, so they have invented (via MC tech) a tokenized payments (BLIK). I guess because of its prevalence there are not too many people using NFC payments via phone, so MC wants to convince BLIK users to "upgrade" to this insecure atrocity (insecure because source image is generated by a simple selfie, proven to be insecure years ago). The advertisement for this crap is all over social networks.
>It's a well-established, economically rational business model to subsidize prices in order to gain market share.

Economically rational for the business owner, maybe, but it inevitably results in eventual enshittification for the consumer. (And Uber isn't a great example of this; its share price has only recently surpassed what it was at IPO 4 years ago, and many companies don't even do that well)
I feel the same. A huge part of the pleasure of Go and Rust are that I never run into dependency problems. I'm happy to pay the "Hello World is 4MB" tax.
Why would it be an 'or' thing?

Each of these by itself is a big accomplishment:

* Inventing super-scalar architecture

* Writing THE book on VLSI

* Becoming an accomplished professor, a favorite and recognized teacher to many of the "greats" in the field.

* Undergoing (then new and much riskier) gender reassignment surgery despite the legal and social consequences that it might (and ultimately did) entail - losing a prestigious job, losing a family, and having to start life over.... and doing all that quite successfully!

The fact that ALL of them are true of just one person is pretty spectacular. The fact that there are many comments in this thread from people who knew her and respected her for just one of these accomplishments (mostly the tech ones) and are just learning about the rest should answer the question for you about why this is being upvoted.

Heck - either of my first two bullet points is on it's own black-bar worthy. The fact that you feel the need to focus on "the transgender thing" as possibly being the only reason there's attention should give you some pause. The fact that your entire comment is focused on the fact that a major innovator in our field was transgender with only the faintest of acknowledgement that her work underpins most of what we do here is just plain gross.
What is neat is that this could potentially project a configurable hologram!

You could partially cure the bottom layer, pull that layer up, then finish curing that layer while forming the next layer. This could significantly accelerate the print speed!
2x without rewriting the code, potentially 100x with rewriting the code.
A much larger pool of online documentation, example code, and experienced hobbyists who like answering questions, is worth a great deal more than eighty cents.

Getting more use out of the battery is a good and sufficient reason to use a less powerful controller, though. It being cheaper is nice in theory, but almost meaningless for a one-off project, in practice. I can't remember the last time I made a purchase which was a fraction of a dollar, it just doesn't move the needle.
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Sure thing, but if you don't compensate them for the work you're going to lose people, actually you're still going to lose people who don't feel like being tested at all.

I've been involved in hiring developers, and I get it, you want to make sure. But just because something can be measured that doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

I like to suggest a time limited evaluation period instead.
No shit, next you're going to tell me water is wet.

If you're the sort of person that cannot decode what a "Performance Improvement Plan" means then you're going to be eaten by the industry alive. It's insane to me that we even need qualified people to reassure anyone about that.
Low balling the crowd with this I see
Of course, the EU has a large user base and economically strong demographics. Still, even knowing mistral excellence it's hard to conceive that they will serve 27+ countries with different languages, demographics, and cultures.
RIP, Lynn Conway.

For those had a doubt like me, it is different Conway than another computer scientist,John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) famous for "Conway's Game of Life".
Rather he chose to understand the point of view from their side. It is extremely difficult to do so and only a few public facing individuals is able to do ( Jeffrey Sachs etc. )
If you repeat false claims used to justify a war of conquest, you can't complain if people see you as aligning yourself with support of that war.

I wish Chomsky a speedy recovery, but he has had a number bad political takes over the years.
Most developed countries will probably run the experiment before us, as long as we can keep the country appealing enough to keep attracting immigrants.
What Boeing needs is to be cut up and sold off.
Ed Stone Has Died
Thank you for your reminder that I should finish rereading If on a winter's night a traveler. It has sections that, IIRC, deal with similar themes.
Prior leaks or reports… can’t recall which… said the service providers could trace people with pinpoint accuracy. Way better than GPS. The cops were using it. I think it was in a law enforcement portal with some telecoms, too.

The other trick was how more things are designed to stay on even when they look off. An older one with older phones would make it answer silently so you didn’t know if they were listening.

There’s so many risks with telecoms that high-assurance security (a) said keep cell phones away from anything security-critical and (b) used Red-Black separation where whatever connects to untrusted line never had any plaintext, just encrypted. Seperation kernels, like INTEGRITY-178B and seL4, were invented to hopefully do that with software.
People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
How would you envision that working at the hardware level? GPUs are massively parallel devises, they need to keep the scheduler and ALU logic as simple and compact as possible. SIMD is a natural way to implement this. In real world, SIMT is just SIMD with some additional capabilities for control flow and a programming model that focuses on SIMD lanes as threads of execution.

What’s interesting is that modern SIMT is exposing quite a lot of its SIMD underpinnings, because that allows you to implement things much more efficiently. A hardware-accelerated SIMD sum is way faster than adding values in shared memory.
Compiling fast has ripple effects throughout your workflow. Having your iteration time go from 1s to 5s is a massive difference: it can mean you break out of the flow state when you restart your server to test your code.
Stop putting peoples on #1 there are surprising examples, there is no #1 in any field, tesla, einstein or:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Inventing_career

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/hedy-lamarr-radio-c...

;)
I totally agree. Static linking is essentially easier for people who don't want to care. But ignoring security does not mean it solves it, on the contrary.

Static linking comes with a lot of issues, just like dynamic linking is not perfect. I really think it depends on the use-case, and that's why I want to have the choice.
This seems like a good article for folks who don't know (which is still a lot - people think that getting into tech is a sure way to get rich and not be routinely abused by a neocolonial industry)!
Some people want generics and ADTs in Go. If you're using go because it's

1) fast

2) expressive

3) concurrent

4) compiles natively

then I think Swift is the better of the two.

If you just want a very simple language, then sure, Go is there. But I don't think that's necessarily what makes Go, Go.
Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers?

Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?