skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget:

- ExUnit for incredibly easy tests

- Hex package manager that just works

- FLAME for the ability to scale different processes to different computers with nearly 1 line of code (the whole library itself is just a few hundred LoC if I remember)

- Ecto for interacting with SQL databases in a functional manner (I still never know how to feel about ORMs, but I was able to write a few composable queries and get rid of 90% of my SQL, so I'll call that a win)

After months of struggling with deployments, uptimes, segfaults, package times, etc I moved my webserver & data layer over to Elixir + Phoenix. It's more well tested than ever, so much easier to reason about, I trust it will scale, and deployment was a breeze.

Because of convention over configuration, I was able to get up and running _insanely_ quickly with Phoenix (way more than FastAPI). I really wish I did this months ago.

Now I'm training models in Nx, playing around with Bumblebee/Livebooks, and adding presence/live functionality to my app for nearly free.
Nobody want's that – it happens, as part of a trade-off to improve rapidly and dial it in early into something that's good, before it is so good, that absolutely everyone will want/need it.
I meant low risk in the sense of doing some basic homework and investing, and investing in large publicly-traded companies, I consider it low risk compared to everything in startup land. I'm pretty confident I could 10X in 10 years with ~80% probability by investing actively and doing homework.

Joining a startup is extremely high risk from an opportunity cost standpoint. Literally any profitable company's stock is low-risk in comparison.

But ... if you don't want to do homework, you could just buy a smattering an equal distribution of the biggest names in tech (MSFT, NVDA, AAPL, GOOG, META, TSLA, etc.) and you would have easily gotten 25-37% pa averaged over the past 10 years. It's highly unlikely all these companies suddenly fail, all together.

And if you want to protect yourself against that, write covered calls at ~15-20% per week and use the proceeds to buy protective puts on all of your stocks.

(Disclaimer: not investment advice blah blah blah)
I learned LISP on systems like an IBM mainframe, DEC-10 with TOPS-10, the DEC VAX 11/780 with VMS, SUN 3 & 4, Symbolics 3600/3640, ... all these had large virtual memories, with the resulting feature that the speed of memory access varies widely between cached memory, main memory and virtual memory.

I doubt that the early small memory Intel-based machines played much of a role for Lisp programmers or even education (other than being used as a terminal to a different machine). Lisp was memory hungry, due to the interactive use (with resident dev tools) with a garbage collected heap. The 386 supported virtual memory and various other ways to extend the available RAM was used on early intel machines under the various DOS variants...
hughes isn't the only game in town now.

If you've ever looked at satellite internet, hughes was not affordable, and very slow. Now starlink has shaken things up, and it is even fast enough to do real work.
There was a recent paper about a way to censor LLMs by just deleting the connections to any bad outputs, rather than training it to refuse them. I think this technique wouldn't work.

Obviously you could train any bad outputs back into them if you have the model weights.
UK climate "needs" AC for 1-2 months, one summer in three.

And a fair chunk of that is the summer holiday season, when a lot of people won't be home anyway.

It is possible to mis-design houses and apartments to need it more than that (extreme sun traps essentially); schools/offices and public transport are a different case because of the number of human bodies in a small space.

But our homes need A/C so rarely that it's not worth it, same as most people don't have winter tyres or snow chains, or even know how to fit them. Materially significant amounts of snow for a few days one winter in three, unless you live in Scotland or the Pennines.
Point 2 and 3 are identical, no?

And it's not like those laid off can't start their own, disruptive ventures. As employees get more efficient, it'll be easier to run small, nimble companies that take on the big leagues. I'm quite optimistic about all of it.
X-37 was developed by Boeing's Phantom Works, which is outside the normal commercial structure.
compare https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5311579 (1953, 3 bits)
can you propose a concrete prediction here?
And a lot grow fast enough that as long as you pick young specimens, it's rare to find bugs as they won't have had much time.

E.g. chanterelles are usually big enough to pick in 2-3 days. When I used to pick them growing up, we'd usually avoid the older ones, as they weren't worth the hassle of cleaning and cutting away bad parts.

Bugs is mostly a problem when picking bigger/slower growing ones. That's not to say it doesn't happen with others, but it's not really an issue.

The problem with sticking to cultivation is how few mushroom types are reliably cultivated at anything approaching reasonable prices.

Most of the options cultivated at scale bore me.
Compendium of space medicine sheds light on what happens to astronauts’ bodies
cordyceps ant zombie fungus which inspired "last of us" tv series

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w1ibC4lf4Dw
I wonder if this compares to or will ever affect well known non-phone japanese platforms such as nintendo or sony
You’re on Hacker News. It’s a shadow of its former self, but still.
You should read scratchapixel really)

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/int...

In the real world light travels from the light source to the eye. But this lesson xplains that simulating this with a computer is not efficient. A more efficient technique is to follow the path of light but in reverse, starting from the eye and waking back to the lights making up the scene. Again read the lesson(s) it's all explained and that's why the lessons are there in the first place.
Phishing emails abuse Windows search protocol to push malicious scripts
It was originally "Wagon Train to the Stars".
I'm reading it as naivity. You trust companies when you see evidence you should, and you stop trusting them when you shouldn't. Trusting a regulatory process leads you to bad decisions.
We tried to design the additional usage grant (https://github.com/restatedev/restate/blob/39f34753be0e27af8...) as permissive as possible. Our intention is to only prevent the big cloud service providers from offering Restate as a managed service as it has happened in the past with other open source projects. If you find the additional usage grant still too restrictive, then let us talk how to adjust it to enable you while still maintaining our initial intention.
You're not wrong. It would be more challenging, but I think the bundle of services Microsoft offers to companies is easy to get entrenched into? If you get some Azure credits for using their stuff then maybe you don't want to deal with egress fees. Maybe you get LinkedIn Premium for free for all your in-house recruiters. Microsoft Teams isn't great, but at least it comes free instead of paying a ton to run your organization on Slack, etc.
The ChromeOS team is pretty conservative with major feature releases and generally won't make something available by default until it goes through a ton of testing internally and with external testers.

ChromeOS is quite different that other Linux based OSs in that it's supposed to "just work".
Unsafe is still needed in some cases to access low-level APIs or to talk to the hardware.
It can still be safe because that is limited in scope, and still makes the whole product easier to review.
Feels like another reason for this is to hide the rampant bot problem of obviously fake accounts liking tweets (and thereby pretending to have real engagement?)
Celebrating FreeBSD Day: A Journey Through 31 Years of Open Source Excellence
I'm no expert, but I'd assume "cleared for emergency evacuation in space" means "if the alternative is imminent, certain death - this option is better".
Don’t think so. Asimov wrote that his editor John Campbell established the 3 Laws. I think it was to tighten up Asimov’s work, though I’m less sure of that part.
The comment is correcting the article. Why would it be a defense of the industry?
Google Workspace is not comparable. Every large enterprise seems to run on Mac and MS 365.
Modeling Boundedly Rational Agents with Latent Inference Budgets (2023)
"We are shifting our focus on GPTs to Commercial and Enterprise scenarios and are stopping GPT efforts in consumer Copilot"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/gpt-builder-is-bei...
I think it's probably unreasonable to expect them to without giving them the ability to experiment and test ideas.

Pretty much no inventions were invented just by thinking, which is the environment most LLMs have.
Recently moved my python app over to Elixir, and currently gushing over Elixir every day. I'm a huge fan and have loved everything about it, except...

Comping from a LISP, the Elixir REPL really is not world-class. It's a really far, distant second. It's nice, I enjoy it more than python's personally, and more than what I remember from irb back in the day -- but nothing beats the integration of structural editing and nREPLs.

LISP doesn't have to be for you, but there's still a lot to learn from that REPL experience if the Elixir community wants to grow ;)
The bar for success for Google and Meta is much lower than Nvidia - at least for internal usage. Any dollar amount that Google saves on CapEx or OpEx by using custom silicon instead of buying Nvidia helps bring down the cost of revenue. They don't have to match Nvidia on raw performance, and can aim at being better at performance per watt or performance per dollar (TCO) for larger workloads, and IIRC, Google is already doing for some internal inferencing tasks.

> I would also note that at this phase of a cycle in tech trying to save billions takes your eye off the prize

Big Tech companies are conglomerate-ish and can multitask. The search engine folk aren't pushing stuff back onto the backlog to put out fires delaying chip tape-out, and I bet the respective CEOs aren't burning braincycles micromanaging silicon development either; directors 2-3 rungs below the C-suite can motivate and execute on such an undertaking. The answer to "I need a budget of $300M in order to save the company $5-15B over 3 years" is "How soon can you start?"
1. Nobody chooses Microsoft - it's rammed down their throats by corp IT or gaming addiction.
2. Alternatives are $3000 macs with 1% of the ecosystem, or an enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor and constantly breaks.
Totally is.

RCS is an old standard that was discarded by everyone else about 15 years ago.

Only North America is adopting it. Late.
Trucks basically do all of the damage. Generally they can have 16,000 lbs per axle. With 5 passengers, a Model X weighs 6000 lbs and has 2 axles. 16000/3000=2.66. 5.33^4=807, plus the truck has 2.5x as many axles, so the semi is doing 2017x as much damage as the car.

Even in residential areas, package delivery trucks are always driving around, and they often have about 15000 lbs/axle, so they're doing about 625x the damage of a Tesla X. Road damage due to passenger vehicles is just not significant, even if they're heavy for a passenger vehicle.
Happily using flycut the last few years and it's been amazing. So yeah my question is how clipbook is better than flycut ?
They already are, they make bank on the fact that people live their lives in these things, skimming some money from all transactions in their stores which they've made default and hard if not impossible to replace.

We need regulation that recognises that these are general purpose computers and that as such it must be possible for users to supply their own software to run on them. Personally I'd like that to also include bootloader access to prevent planned obsolescence from rendering perfectly capable devices more or less useless.
> But apart from that, his enthusiasm can even make the seemingly most boring topic interesting.

Totally, his ever-fresh, ever-genuine excitement with all this stuff is so contagious (for the duration, and then some =)
Office sucks, Azure sucks, Windows sucks, xbox sucks and etc. Everything modern microsoft touches turns to crap. The only good thing they have is VScode and even that is getting bloated.
I am not so optimistic about it.

AI will create a large power asymmetry which will inevitably result in large scale abuse with no limits.

In almost every economy where the elite does not need the support of the population to be wealthy and to exercise territorial control, the result is almost always a brutal dictatorship where the population is weakened and disarmed so they do not revolt.
I remember getting through some battle and coming on a room FULL of ammo of every kind. First time, it was awesome. But gradually ammo caches started making me say "Yikes!"
I mean theyre definitely comparable. I agree office sees wider use but worse decisions have been made to save however many millions large corporations are spending here.

I think you need to get out of tech if you think every large enterprise runs on mac
> If Google had a better chip, or even a chip that was close, they would sell it to anyone and everyone.

While I do not actually think Google's chips are better or close to being better, I don't think this actually holds?

If the upside of <better chip> is effectively unbounded, it would outweigh the short term benefit of selling them to others, I would think. At least for a company like Google.
It’s almost certainly the case that the most profitable and popular podcasts are ones built around the personality of their host(s) and not because the content is merely in audio form. So while this tool is useful for listening to information instead of reading it, the likelihood of a major podcast being entirely AI-generated is pretty low.
Not even. I've a 500wh ebike battery which is about 3 litres in volume. We're talking 1/500th the density.

Which is a good thing, as EV battery fires are nasty. A lot of stored energy there!
Critical Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability Executes as Email Is Opened
What's GGC in this context?
Yes, these are all good examples of things that actually shouldn't be
done, under a certain interpretation of law.

They are perfectly reasonable under a certain interpretation of
monopoly. It's just that the US definition and that in Europe (and
elsewhere) differ quite profoundly.

United States anti-trust revolves around the idea of harms. You have
to show that Mr Moneybag's empire causes material harm to customers -
such as paying more than they could in a more efficient market.

The European (and it seems Japanese) take is directed at power. Even
if it benefits consumers it's wrong to leverage dominance in one area
to obtain power in another.
That’s an .. interesting reaction to an unique and thoughtful gift.
So you're saying, H100s are the corporate equivalent of Raspberry Pis now? Bought to not miss out, then left to gather dust in a drawer?
Will work on that next then). It will be cool -- and worth the wait. Sorry if the project got on stall for some years. Life can be difficult some times and it was for me for all these years. Yet I put my heart into writing what's about 500.000 words now which is equivalent of roughly 8 books of 200 pages. All this for free since 2009). I understand your frustration, but hopefully with time and the community support (don't expect any of the corporations out there to help us in that process) we will get these topics covered. But as I am no millionaire, I can only work at the speed at which I can feed myself.
Finally some sanity....
The server still runs the simulation for serious Sam and would kick any client getting out of sync (e.g. because they're cheating).
Wasn't that even worse before? Games like Warcraft and Doom played across Intel x86, Motorola 680x0 and PowerPC
I'm having a hard time imagining how the bottom of his feet were pressed against his chest?!

Were his knees bent the wrong way?
This lines up with my whole theory around AI which I expect extrapolates to the commercial and enterprise scenarios as well based on how quickly I've seen stuff canned already at my org:

1. This is really cool! How amazing! We can do so much with this.

2. User activity drops off fairly quickly.

3. Oh they want money? Lets wait until the trial expires.

4. Not renewed.
SteamOS (via Steam Deck) is surprisingly amazing for gaming. Most of the titles I tried worked perfectly fine without any configuration changes.

I haven't felt the need to use Windows for years now thanks to this.
As a user no apps outside of Apple's will be on your iphone if you don't explicitely install them. Make sure to install no such app and you'll be fine for the forseeable future.

If you think this is unamanageable and there needs to be more provision to protect your consumer rights, you should talk to the consumer rights regulators to ban the behaviors you need protection from, Apple isn't a proxy for that.
Giving large, politicised software companies the sole power to determine what LLMs can and cannot say is against the public good.
Just to let you know I found your website unreadable due to:

- annoying animated background

- white text on black background

- annoying font choices

Which is unfortunate because (as I found when I used Firefox reader mode) you're discussing important and interesting stuff.
Yeah.
I find this romanticization of the past, this search for the "true" or "natural" way of doing things... I've seen it done for things other than childhood, like relationships in general, physical activity, diet* (does the paleo diet apply here? I know nothing but the name)...
I think we do this because society and the typical human life is changing really fast, which prompts us to consider different ways of doing things, and wonder what would be the best.
It's kinda disappointing at first that there are no clear answers in the past... but maybe at least we should be reassured because it means that our chances of doing it the "wrong" way today aren't that high.

Along those lines... the other day there was that discussion about the play-based childhood from decades ago, and I feel sometimes people were romanticizing it -- I don't think the increased rate of physical bullying and pressure for fitting in were mentioned enough (though there were some mentions).
Personally, I think I'd rather not have been born in the 60s. The Internet is directly or indirectly responsible for like 99% of my knowledge (speaking English included), which in turn is responsible for so much in my life that's different and better... If I look back to the folks my age in my home town (which I think I'd never have left), I don't desire their life AT ALL.

* Unlike for behaviors and social conventions, I don't think we have so much freedom with things like diets. Humans do have some hard dietary needs...
Taboos and self-censorship among U.S. psychology professors
For a moment I thought this was about https://thefarside.com/
Strangely enough, we've ignored that "find-and-replace across the body of law" in the past. Even the new gender laws ignore existing laws. I sometimes wish that we had written a compiler for law. And a statically typed language designed for compiling policy (think Rego + Rust). Politicians and Law makers would have to test their new proposals in code before wasting anyone else's time on it. Lawyers would have to learn the language and compiler tools as part of their study, but anyone in the country would have access to them so that they could run their own tests and even settle minor legal disputes without having to pay lawyers. New laws that cause compiler errors don't get through, unless you can first unblock them with a refactor (which must also compile without errors). I think it's obvious that an attempt to encode the current statue book would fail miserably. You might have to start off an extremely simplistic set of rules (kinda like RocoCop's prime directives or Moses' 10 commandments) because I think we can all generally agree that killing is wrong generally. Ok, add a law "thou shake not kill". Oh, but what if someone's trying to kill you or your child? "Killing is wrong unless X is true". At the very least it would be an interesting exercise.
I get this. Currently have a front-end built, with the need (& existing functionality) for offline local first etc. Switched to phoenix on the backend, and the amount of liveview stuff I have to 'wade through' is really distracting. It also seems to be eating up about 75% of the hype in the Elixir community :laugh:
> The Taylorism didn't exist until "Agile" came along around the year 2000.

Its widespread adoption (and usually counter to the spirit of the original Manifest itself) took years however — years where most places, the craftfulness was still prevalent. Myself I haven't encountered that in teams until the mid-2010s, less than a decade ago. Might have been earlier in SV, of course, though. And the bigger Java/.NET/Enterprise shops.
LOL, that struck a chord. And the way things are is for historical reasons. Man, I wish I had a dime for every time I hear this.
Switching to GNU/Linux: Mentally
RocketLab isn't doing decent buissness launching less. Launch is a small part of their revenue and the make low or negative profit.

They are developing an 8t to orbit rocket.

The market today cares about constellation. Its about launch rate and cost.

5 tons is more then enough for the types of sats that go into all the constellations.
Is this something you know or something you say?
> temporarily restricted their availability within Russia

The article suggests that Mozilla did this voluntarily because of a persistent request, not as a result of a binding legal demand. Do I have that right?
I read the article, and the fact that they continued sending payments even after that group was designated a terrorist organization by the US government seems pretty egregious to me, and gives me very little faith into their claim that they were forced into payment, rather than wanting to pay and fund them to combat Chiquita's political opposition. With their company's history they should be hyper-aware about what they are doing when they give money to paramilitary groups that run large drug trafficking operations.
Agreed. But uncensoring Llama 3 can do harm in the immediate term.

As much as I am not a fan of Meta, an uncensored Llama 3 in the wrong hands is a universally bad idea.
There are apparently some 400 of H100s sitting idle somewhere upthread. Yes, I'm having hard time imagining how's that possible too.
Let's assume, just for laughs, that I know a little history.

Many people have been burnt alive, Bruno included, Galileo excluded.

Bruno was a singular immolation for multiple heresy's, the Cathari were immolated en masse along with non heretics (for God to sort out) .. but none for claiming the earth traveled about the sun, Bruno (IIRC) made waves for denying actual core beliefs.

( Wikipedia cites Bruno not accepting the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, transubstantiation, et al as the main items on the docket .. more than enough for the church of the time )

Galileo wasn't burnt at the stake and many would hold that despite popular opinion his trial had less (almost nothing) to do with his support of heliocentrism nor even his "mocking" of an old friend and now Pope as "Simplicio" and was instead rooted in the worst kind of corporate infighting - he had savagely insulted people that ascended to power within the church who seized their chance for revenge when it came.

You can always find a hook to hang people upon if you look hard enough, the actual reasons for wanting them hung are often orthogonal to any claimed in performative public trials.
This is absolutely the case, TPUs scale very well: https://github.com/google/maxtext .
A lot of serious things look like a toy or a joke at first.
The consumer never knows what they want.

That being said, I would hate an always on AI always watching my actions and phoning back home to Microsoft.