skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's funny to read being from outside the usa.

Idk where outside the USA you are, but the IBM PC easily had the easiest time taking over the USA. Amiga and Atari were considered hobbyist computers while Macintosh constantly battled DOS until slowly fading to irrelevancy between Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, not regaining real steam until Mac OS X 10.2-10.4.

The TI series was very common on the super low-end/hobbyist end, and Sinclair/Coco/Dendy/Timex/etc derivatives had negligible marketshare.
I've got a few i like:

Put your money to work for you.

Time in the market is better than timing the market

It's better to own a small basket of good companies than a large basket of mediocre ones

gold is an important security in some cultures; but the US economy is a better bet if you can make it.
The docs don’t make it very obvious how are the environment variables actually applied. And I think .env files are much easier to manage and share. `envelope check` could be replaced with a CURRENT_ENV environment variable in an .env file. I can’t see how it would help avoid environment confusion more than $CURRENT_ENV displayed in your prompt would. (Or even better, not having production credentials on developers’ machines…)
Show HN: Batteries Included AI Deployment
Hi HN, I've spent the better part of the last year deploying AI inference systems for both personal and work projects. I've noticed a ton of "gotchas" and footguns throughout the process that make doing it right a pain, so I built "Batteries Included AI Deployment". Not a creative name but it does what it says on the tin.

In short, it's a template for deploying AI inference APIs with FastAPI.

In long, it uses Docker to encapsulate (almost) the entire development and deployment process. The repo includes:

1. A way to download and cache models straight from huggingface

2. A way to expose those cached models via a FastAPI server endpoint

3. A docker configuration that exposes a `debugpy` port so that you can debug your application within a container

4. A way to run tests

5. A way to debug tests (using `debugpy` as mentioned above)

6. A way to run pre-commits on staged files

7. A way to manually run pre-commits on all code in your repository

8. CI steps via GitHub Actions

9. Full Observability with a Grafana Dashboard

10. Metrics via Prometheus

11. Tracing via Tempo

12. Logs via Loki

13. GPU monitoring via DCGM

14. CD via GitHub actions and a `post-receive` hook on the server

15. Alerts that email you when something goes wrong in production

I say "almost" because you still need a way to attach to the debugger port from outside the docker container and there's some one-time configurations that need to be set up manually, but not anything beyond that.

I'd love to hear any feedback you might have :)
I triggered a coloring bug as well during that stage.
yep, do it!
This is what I've been knocking around inside my head. I'm part of the limewire and BitTorrent generation. I remember everyone in highschool and college pirating everything they could, from music to textbooks and professional software.

I personally believe large corporations wont be able to control the productive AI market without regulatory capture. Creating models is just too easy once you have the data and the compute. I see all these pushes for regulation as red herrings that will likely result in cementing the current leaders in place rather than protecting the people that created the IP that went into their products.
I agree, but

> Maybe one day they'll finally get to follow game engines in deleting all of their atlas hacks.

Are there any public game engines using bindless resources? Unreal seems to be the only one, but they pretty much don't care about low-end Android.
German Court Fines Netflix €7.05M for Infringement of Broadcom HEVC Patent (2023)
I developed an extension to implement the import function, it's still in development and lacking documentation. You can try it out, but I'm not sure if there are any bugs. Feel free to join our Discord to stay updated.

https://github.com/mayneyao/eidos-extension-importer
The problem with this kind of reporting is that we don’t know if it’s a reliable source or someone spouting off but who has no insight, or has an ulterior agenda.

This is how narratives work best. You mock something up, give it some gravitas and hope it grows legs.

Sometimes you get “the pentagon papers” other times you get a “Steele dossier”… it’s hard to tell the two apart but in retrospect.
How about no? The evidence is that markets are essential. Attempts to use central planning instead have been universally disastrous, for reasons that were predicted ahead of time.
If you lick the positive pole of AA battery while touching the other end you get a sour taste. But there's no taste change when you do the opposite.
If you are that paranoid about interception, and someone correlating the messages, it seems like you would also want to rotate the key fairly frequently,perhaps including the new public key in the encrypted text of the email.
Pick a couple of subjects where you think you are qualified and please create free content, at least 1 video.
I'm aware of this phenomenon.

My point is that until the road is narrowed, the safe speed on it may be lower than the average backseat traffic architect might think.
The thing with VMs is that there is much more overhead to booting a Linux VM which makes checkpointing much more attractive. For a container running with Linux namespaces/cgroups the container can be started in a few milliseconds.

Im sure there are some niche applications for container checkpointing, but I don’t really see the complexity being worth it.
Maybe checkpointing some long running batch jobs could save you some money, but you should just make your jobs checkpoint their state to an external store such a ceph or s3 and make the jobs smart enough to load any state from those stores if they are preempted.
I think if you're going to exclusively comment on political threads, the bar is higher to stay assiduously within the guidelines, which basically means avoiding any kind of pejorative writing, even if it's oblique, about the commenters who disagree with you; write as if to a beloved but intractably wrong and somewhat thin-skinned uncle on an email thread just before Thanksgiving.

This is most excellent advice. Thanks for chiming in.
Indeed. To a large extent, art was a means of displaying your social status, a way of demonstrating your wealth and buffing your ego. It was used as a justification for colonialism and imperialism. Our society is so advanced; look at the art it produces; obviously we're superior so we should dictate what others do.
Why are they having to sue? Surely there’s a “you owe me money” form somewhere on NASAs website.
Hey. This is completely unrelated but I wanted to ask if you provide an RSS feed for your blog? I did find a /feed page but I'm unsure if it's working.
Why was Dr Disrespect banned on Twitch? Everything you need to know:

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/why-was-dr-disrespect-...
You can tell this is an academic fight because it contains the phrase "disproportionately harm marginalised groups", which is the San Francisco version of pounding the table when they don't have an actual argument.

More importantly it doesn't mention making money off it.
Still have a cd-rom with copy of minix3, from when he had a talk in my university. His books on OS and Networking are very approachable and fun read!
Honestly, it's a pretty interesting article, and I didn't want to change the original title.
Tillich argues a stronger point in "Love, Power, and Justice"[0]

Power without love is tyrannical, binary harshness.

Power without justice is foppish sentimentality.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Love-Power-Justice-Ontological-Applic...
we stick our graphics where the sun don't shine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150923005950/http://web.mit.ed...

we unleash the world's most powerful graphics technology:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230117073114/http://web.mit.ed...
without that the entire project is no better than uber or lyft

Obviously not, because consumers appear willing to pay a premium to not have a driver.
Negation, being a concept, exists only in the mind. Same with "things". A thing is a noun; a part of speech. The "real world" is undifferentiated quanta.
It just comes down to the fact that music is cheap. Outside of a very small cohort of star artists, musicians just don't create anything that people at large value to any significant extent. Only a very small portion of your fans would be willing to pay for a CD or a T-shirt; most just have a song or two in a playlist somewhere, and if you make your music unavailable on that steaming platform, they won't even notice.
This is just total delusional reality stuff.
Emergency bugfix release: Org Mode 9.7.5
I'd suggest reading up a bit more about X.509 CSRs and Certificates before assuming that private credentials are being transmitted in the clear.

Nobody suggested that. But I said that it is said in the article that the UUID needs to be sent to the server to get the request signed and that the UUID is the only identifier while the server itself runs on HTTP, which is also said in the article. Now go and put 1&1 together. Btw, I read the RFCs, that's why I don't see the point in this setup.

I appreciate the somewhat misguided feedback because you did point out that the rationale isn't clear enough. The rest of it is questionable though.

There is no misguided feedback here. You want to go back to the drawing board and read up about x.509 and think stuff through. All you do is overcomplicating things by using x.509 instead of the UUID directly being blinded by the idea of some kind of security.
I feel like the title should qualify that this is 16degF
I think he’s not telling the truth.
NASA already retrieved it, and since it’s still property of the government, they can freely claim it.

Really they should have offered to pay for repairs at that time.
Is it the same generation? I grew up in the Napster, MIT license, software-patents-are-bad, "information just wants to be free, man" days, and have more or less the same views today, particularly when it comes to AI model training and such.

But time moves on, the internet skews younger, and Gen Z is all the rage now, and starting to set talking points. I think when all your music has always been streamed for free or like $8/mo, playing by the rules feels different.

But I am curious how many former "intellectual property isn't property" folks there are that are now on the side of "scraping web content to train a model is immoral".
Maybe the quote in the essay was pulled out of context, but it seems to suggest a false dichotomy between valuing technical knowledge and ethics.

Edit: Other than that, lots of nodding while reading the essay.
When I have the UUID, then I can get a CSR signed on the server because that's all that's needed. Creating a CSR creats my private key for the CSR and once the CSR is signed and the certificate is returned I have a valid keypair.
We've had destructible polygonal and voxel environments for a while now, yes. Destructible Nerfs are a whole other ball game - we're only just starting to get a handle on reliably segmenting objects within nerfs, let alone animating them
Recently I had a flashback to a similar video on one of the MSDN CDs called "Studs from Microsoft". Studs, for those who weren't in the USA at the time, was a sort of dating game show in which two improbably attractive men each dated the same three improbably attractive women. The men are then quizzed on what the women thought of their dates and of the men, with the potential grand prize being a dream date with your preferred girl of the three. But that wasn't the point, the real entertainment value was all the ribald sexual talk in the questions and answers.

Studs from Microsoft was a parody of this format, with the "studs" replaced by Microsoft programming nerds, from Seattle area sketch comedy show Almost Live!. It is also notable for featuring a pre-Science-Guy Bill Nye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=broFpsLHehc
The DevOps around LLM/AI is a disaster right now.
Apple PenLite: The iPad Before the iPad
I once built a PC that would blue screen Windows 7 within the first 10 minutes. Reinstalled multiple times from different installation media including a retail pressed disc. Nada. Same result. Windows Vista though ran fine. Ubuntu fine. Later Windows 8, fine. Just 7. Why? Who knows.
https://archive.is/JG1X5
Zardoz and the Politics of Degrowth
No, the author is saying the share of revenue the distributors (tech, music industry) are receiving is misaligned with the value they're adding. Compare content creators with a SWE. They both produce the product being sold, what percentage of the revenue should they receive?
I only do that if I’m three shades of ripped

Balaclava / buff neck wraps are great for this too :)
Archive link: https://archive.ph/yJJ8W
When I needed to create texture atlases I copy-paste from Mikko Mononen.

Here’s a C++ port of his C version: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg/blob/master/src/FontStash...
> core components

A Dropbox clone is now 'core OS compinents'? That's just as much a valid criticism of Windows as anything else in this thread
If I remember this correctly, NASA is allowed to settle only very tiny damage claims on their own. Above a few thousand dollars they are required to defer to the Attorney General, whose office settles the larger claims against federal agencies.
I suppose you can still brag "I climbed Everest" to people without any experience climbing Everest if you just go to base camp.
I'd read this but I'm too busy playing video games. I'll read it after I watch this movie.
The increased uncertainty to retain access to obscure and out of print works does seem to give one a desire to begin digital hoarding.
Most people do trust them already, they're still the worlds biggest desktop os by a large margin.

So erm, it probably wouldn't make any meaningful difference?
I mean, AI is a vector for their growth now and Satya questioned in the past like why Microsoft research did not produce something like OpenAI.
- Eidos has an Airtable-like table, but Obsidian does not.
- Eidos and Obsidian are both file-based.
- Eidos is based on SQLite, and Obsidian is based on Markdown.
> About your third point: raising animals on pastures is not necessarily worse regards climate compared to growing vegetables on fields.

Thermodynamics by itself would already question this assertion, no?
The VHS were pretty underwhelming, which I could tell even as a kid
Putting aside the fact that Tesla's robotaxi model will likely never actually ship, I don't see how you're not displacing a driver's job by operating your car as a robotaxi instead of letting it sit idle.
This is so true! Going after the pie in the sky only works for a short while, then you have to work for your pie. the worst is that employees in windows used to get slower promotions than these new tech groups (live,mobile etc ) which means more of them are in powerful positions to continue this trend. They tasted success with this strategy in their early days when they built sq
L, xbox and word. Azure was the last successful play like this but at least they wrote own software.
Almost all Bitcoin transaction include at least one public key. It is a part of a script.
So then you notice that if you measure more precisely you get a different fraction... and even more precisely another different fraction. It's natural to ask what ratio you'd get if you measured with endless precision.

In some cases there is such an answer and you can reason it out without conducting a series of increasingly precise measurements (though you could also find it with a sufficiently precise measurement), but in other cases there is no such answer. Isn't that interesting?
Parkinson's and Addiction Are GTP Deficient Disorders
The start menu has had ads since Windows 8.

It started off as ads for candy crush and MSN affiliates and has grown from there over the years.

I’m very surprised you haven’t noticed it. On early windows 10 it would occupy the right side of the start menu.
Apple CarPlay may have given automakers just barely enough of an "out" that the pressure is reduced. The only time I use the system's own interface is to update its firmware once a year, and the only time those updates have noticeably mattered was to make my car compatible with CarPlay over USB Type-C.

Given this, it's surprising to me to see reluctance to adopting second-generation CarPlay, but someone who knows more about the tradeoffs can certainly account for that better than I can.
I don’t know if “nobody cares about text” so much as they’re waiting for NYTimes to set precedent that they can use to crush OpenAI. OpenAI is also making content deals with a bunch of publishers to allow them to use their work for training, so maybe people don’t care if they’re still paid?
There are lots of family owned businesses in the US that look after their employees. I think it’s more that there are significantly fewer tech companies in general that are family owned businesses.
Exactly where do "exploitation rights" come from if not copyright? Anyone who is going to enter a contract for these "exploitation rights" is going to want exclusive rights so others can't just share, republish, copy, etc. This is what copyright affords those who want to sell "exploitation rights"
offtopic, but I can't fathom why academia and Nature specifically thinks that 2 columns of tiny text is a comfortable format for reading off screen
Why is training humans different from training AI, then? If we make a few edits to the text:

> "Someone who publishes my work as their own (theft) or republishes my work (like quoting or linking back) doesn’t have the right to make the choice for me to let my content be used for educating a student. This is where I struggle the most with the “opt-out” style of student education on the web."

Imagine a student who gets into a top-ranked research university, studies lots of material from proprietary textbooks, takes in hours of instruction from professors who have strict IP contracts with their university, and then graduates - can they then go produce for-profit content built on that knowledge base without paying a fraction of their earnings to the university that trained them?
What happens with microsoft if openai fails to become a dominant player that created a new market with significant revenue? I feel like this is gonna end up just like Windows phone did.
That’s not really reasoning, right ? Maybe humans rely disproportionate on association in general.
do you understand that Oracle was chosen in the first because all the cloud providers are running out of the available hardware? Microsoft also partnered with Oracle with the same reason. Oracle has some cloud infra, that nobody is using (lol).
Maharashtra has a long history of cooperatives, some of whichquite successful. I wonder if employees brought up or were given a option to form a cooperative, if immediate liquidity was not a major requirement.
The odds are perfectly fine lol. If you think spitting into a tube before sex is preferable to being immune, I think you have a huge misunderstanding of casual sex
It doesn't actually suggest "love without intelligence" though.
Wait really? I didn't know that, That sucks......
I live in Finland and have never heard of that. I've only seen standard blinds that let a lot of light through even when fully closed. Most people here use blackout curtains.
Why did they use Minix and not e.g. L4 or sel4?

Which version of Minix did they actually use? There is Minix v3.1 (released in 2005 with the book), 3.2 (released in 2012) and 3.3 (released in 2014).
Is this true? I think the difference in ROI between land speculation and investing in the stock market is minimal. At least according to my napkin math. And both incur their own risks. BTW, I am not making an arguement for renting instead of buying. But if you had a spare $1million, becoming a landlord won't make you significantly richer than just putting it in the stock market.
I'm sure emergency services would like that idea
I work in the rendering and gaming industry and also run a 3D scanning company. I have similarly wished for this capability, especially the destructability part. What you speak of is still pretty far off for several reasons:

-No Collision/poor collision on NERFs and GS: to have a proper interactive world, you usually need accurate character collision so that your character or vehicle can move along the floor/ground (as opposed to falling thru it) run into walls, go through door frames, etc. NERFs suffer from the same issues as photogrammetry in that they need “structure from motion” (COLMAP or similar) to give them a mesh or 3-D output that can be meshed for collision to register off of. The mesh from reality capture is noisy, and is not simple geometry. Think millions of triangles from a laser scanner or camera for “flat” ground that a video game would use 100 triangles for.

-Scanning: there’s no scanner available that provides both good 3-D information and good photo realistic textures at a price people will want to pay. Scanning every square inch of playable space in even a modest sized house is a pain, and people will look behind the television, underneath the furniture and everywhere else that most of these scanning videos and demos never go. There are a lot of ugly angles that these videos omit where a player would go.

-Post Processing: of you scan your house or any other real space, you will have poor lighting unless you took the time to do your own custom lighting and color setup. That will all need to be corrected in post process so that you can dynamically light your environment. Lighting is one of the most next generation things that people associate with games and you will be fighting prebaked shadows throughout the entire house or area that you have scanned. You don’t get away from this with NERFs or gaussian splats, because those scenes also have prebaked lighting in them that is static.

Object Destruction and Physics: I Love the game teardown, and if you want to see what it’s like to actually bust up and destroy structures that have been physically scanned, there is a plug-in to import reality capture models directly into the game with a little bit of modding. That said, teardown is voxel based, and is one of the most advanced engines that has been built to do such a thing. I have seen nothing else capable of doing cool looking destruction of any object, scanned or 3D modeled, without a large studio effort and a ton of optimization.
Actually no we don't. I work for a company with 10,000 windows seats and we use it because we're basically locked in and stuck with the steaming turd. And the rug is getting pulled on Windows 10 now.

Notably one of our biggest security threat vectors is actually Windows. The security model on it is so crap it's either locked down so it's completely unusable via GPOs and behind DLP proxies and firewalls. Or the risk is accepted and as a regulated industry we get fined to death if anything goes wrong.

So no we aren't happy, we don't trust them but we have to gargle it anyway.
This is such a persistent issue that I've been dealing with in newer build apartments in the US. The blinds, whether they are shutter or pull down, have consistently not been sufficient to block out the light streaming in from outside at night.
In the modern day, there's almost no way to decipher the true precise meaning of a law just from its text. What really matters is case law - how the law has been applied in practice by courts over the years.