skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part in particular caught my eye:

> Step 2: Diagnosing broken machines

> As is typical in setting up large GPU clusters, we found that about 10% of the machines failed to boot, mostly due to physical issues with the servers. Some issues we encountered included: unconnected or miswired Ethernet cables, hardware issues in iDRAC, broken power supply units, bad NVME (nonvolatile memory express) drives, missing internal wires, and network cards or GPUs failing to show up.

This is a crazy high failure rate. Is this standard for traditional data centers too?
Most reusable bags here in Italy are still made of plastic, but much sturdier than single use shopping bags. Personally I like them. My only issue is the few times when I forget to put them back into my car.
Or just very long power lines and multiple solar stations, it's not like the moon is impossible large. But that would be harder than a singular location using nuclear fuel, it's true.
Didn't they just announce they'll delete messages older than a year for unpaid users? This is a huge red flag. You don't want a company with a business model that requires them to pull the rug on critical data if you unsubscribe. A business model of continuous threat. I'll find an alternative free self hosted platform with e2e and no AI snooping through our private issues to build profiles on the group.
I can’t read the article due to the paywall but is this the incident where software written by some firm accused postal workers of theft and got them fired? Hard to see how the final outcome can be characterized as a good job, unless they’re claiming they implemented the specifications they were given.
Last paragraph of TFA:

> But “different” doesn’t necessarily imply “better.” As I stressed in the second edition of my book Why Gender Matters, apples and oranges are different. That doesn’t mean apples are better than oranges. Men and women are turning out to be different, more different than we may have imagined. That doesn’t mean that women are better than men, or vice versa. But it does suggest that if we ignore the differences, we may disadvantage both women and men.

In my experience, men and women have different ways of approaching problems. Given all of the other things that go along for the ride in male vs female bodies, it's not at all surprising to me that brains would be different between the two genders as well.

Why is it such a problem to acknowledge difference? People are different from each other and have strengths and weaknesses that don't overlap. vive la différence!
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754641
Show HN: I made a library for dynamic stack strings in C
I got sick of the manual memory management of building out strings for paths or debug info etc, and made this library to help with that. I also don't like using fixed size buffers, feels icky. Includes arena like functionality if you're using GCC.
Exactly, there are so many limits in the shell that I don’t want to be bothered to think about. When I get serious I just write Python.
> But there is an authoritative version of a particular writer's version of a particular story

Not necessarily. I heard this about, I think "Ulysses," but probably applies to most published books -- there are almost always changes between editions (if a books goes through multiple printings), differences in printings between different markets (even if those markets are in the same language), notes the author may have written at home but didn't get published, notes the author wrote on the review copy that got left out of the published version or got misunderstood or misspelled or otherwise improperly published...

A "text" turns out to be a lot less definitive of thing than it may at first appear.
In case you didn't know, HN stands for Hater News and as the old saying goes, "haters gonna hate"
If it's anything like the "file upload" feature in ChatGPT, it's not very good. CGPT will frequently straight up lie to me about the contents of even short files I uploaded specifically for it to reference. Like, rewriting the code to use the opposite API pattern from what I gave it, or totally ignoring what detail I put in a file specification and making some up - things it basically never does if I paste the code directly in the chat.
My two cents: Americans deeply distrust education. It is naturally hierarchical, which is to say not democratic. It is labor intensive, and resists efforts to make it capital intensive.

But sports programs, and jobs programs we tolerate pretty well.
That looks like a regular necklace to me, of a fairly generic choker variety that is popular today and was popular 20 years ago.

I see nothing explicit in that necklace.

Maybe to you it does have some additional meanings, hell maybe it does to her as well, but so do wedding rings, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say you aren’t critiquing people for having profile pics with those.
The algorithm used to draw the ellipse should not have any issues with accidentally overdrawing even by a single pixel if your arcs are defined in 90-degree increments.

And you can, in fact, draw the four circle segments in one go, since they will all be mirror images of each other. If, instead of the absolute coordinate of the pixel, you compute the offset from the starting point, then you can compute it once, negate it as needed, and draw 4 pixels on each step.
Not just fired, convicted of crimes they didn't commit.

He's defending himself as much as the software. He personally gave testimony against some of the convicted postmasters. He's in denial because otherwise he'd have to admit that he was not just wrong, but personally helped send innocent people to prison.
Again, I am not and have not said my taxes are the reason I do or should have a say over the behavior of the government. I'm saying my taxes are my personal connection to the actions of the government, that they are why I care, nothing else. The taxes are my emotional motivation to assert my Constitutional rights.
ControlFlow A new Python framework for building agentic workflows
Have you looked into TinyCorp [0]/tinygrad [1], one of the latest endeavors by George Hotz? I've been pretty impressed by the performance. [2]

[0] https://tinygrad.org/
[1] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad
[2] https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1800932122569343043?t=Y6...
Killing millions for certain seems like a bad trade. After all, isn't the primary reason to avoid global warming to save lives?
Heh, I didn't even think of that, but you make a good point. Don't worry though, we will keep the access coming. I hate to say it, but it literally is... stay tuned for more exciting updates.
Yes, I do appreciate the info! At this point, I could have just watched the whole video, instead of replying piecemeal in comments :) But I appreciate you summarizing it.
Their jewellery appears discrete to me. What would continuous jewellery look like?

You may not think it's appropriate for a workplace, but their employer clearly does or they wouldn't be employed.
You can, you just need to define the private key.

For example

DOTENV_PRIVATE_KEY_PRODUCTION

Would provide it with the information it needs to read .env.production
First they came for the Amish, but I did not say anything because I was not Amish
okay, I've retracted my comments. Thanks for your generosity.
In adittion, if I'm not mistaken, child processes inherit the parent env vars, so if your application forks or use subcommands, you may be exposing the whole environment trove to 3rd party scripts, no root needed. Also, most vulnerabilities that enables execution of code will happily leak the env vars, no root access or "being inside the process" thingy (I know, code execution is technically "inside the process", but without requiring privileged levels)
Well, that would've been a lot more interesting if it had so much as hyperlinked the references...
They have a basement filled with hundreds if not thousands of computer donations stockpiled like the warehouse scene from Indiana Jones.

Also, it's "LCM" not "LHM".
It's absolutely embarrassing to watch.
How about a CLI tool that uses Claude's APIs to make changes to the files and do commits? Or, is it a must this is integrated into a web page and/or code editor?
Curious what topics do you teach and at what level / audience?
One thing I don’t understand is how Indonesia became an Islamic nation. One of the islands, Bali, is Hindu as I understand. That fits my expectations more given the geographical location. Is there some past history of religious brutality in this story?
It already is an issue and it works both ways. Engineers going to companies with proprietary stacks need to spend a lot of time onboarding. And engineers moving out of companies with proprietary stacks need to reorient themselves to the open source tooling.

But to a certain extent, that's part of the job description. If you move from a company that uses RoR stack to one that uses GraphQL or Node, you're going to have to learn the ropes.
I can do that without UB. In fact, I implemented wrapping, trapping, and saturation semantics in my arithmetic.
The rumors say $20k. Nothing official though.
> I hate when people use the word "sanitize" in this context

The term I've seen used is "bowlderize"
That photo is absolutely fine. You're telling on yourself more than anything else.
This is so intensely wrong. Silicon valley was largely funded by military contracts. Its like pretending the space race wasn't about icbms.
Mostly cooling towers are not likely to work in a place with no atmosphere.

Radiators though, are constantly used in spacecraft, and seem to work well. Low gravity, no motion might let the thing be mostly the radiator, with not much support structure. Except it might need to be in shade, in the shadow of a building? hill? solar panels?
Thanks so much for doing that. There are loads of people here who really appreciate it. We will stay tuned!
JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known Universe
And https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
Some years ago I lost my device and I got in first place the experience on how I was dependent of those cloud services for almost everything since email until my photographs.

Fast forward I made exactly that: I got another cloud provider and I started to sync to another 2 physical local devices one with by-sync (remote to device and device to remote) and another one only local to remote on top of a local NAS and hard drive.
If someone was to fork Material and attempt to make a successor project from that foundation, are there any Google-shaped crosshairs they might be inviting unto their person?
I think you meant to reply to the person I replied to.
Pure hubris. He worked on the system, people are saying that it is fatally flawed and he's just not accepting that possibility because it feels like a criticism of him.

He can't imagine the bug so the most likely explanation is theft.

We see this attitude here all the time, e.g. the people that think they never write bugs, and tools to avoid them like static typing, Rust, tests, etc. are just for lesser mortals.
For many people, if not most, the line is fuzzy enough to still be hurt by flirting. Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean it won't bother others/your partner.

There IS an important distinction to be had between flirting and being friendly, though. Being friendly and even laughing at a joke is not flirting without the intent.
For anyone wondering at the context here, more than 900 subpostmasters in the UK (that is, contracted franchisees running small branch post offices) were accused and convicted of supposedly embezzling money, based entirely on faulty software. See the Wikipedia post for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
> In late 2015, a group calling itself Impact Team got angry at the site and hacked into its servers. The group grabbed a bunch of user data and code, then posted it on Reddit with the claim that 95 per cent of the people on the site were men. I was intrigued. How could all those men be having affairs, if there were virtually no women on the site?

So in a way, the site was _preventing_ men from cheating, since they mostly interacted with bots instead of real women.
Amen. There have long been intellectual cults like the LaRouche organization but the internet had made it so easy for groups like ‘rationalism’ that are the exact opposite of what they claim to be to operate.
These sorts of pedantic exchanges are so pointless to me. We are programmers. We can control what characters are used in filenames. Then you can use the simplest tool for the job and move on with your life to focus on the stuff that actually matters. Fix the root cause instead of creating workarounds for the symptom.
This may have been true in the 60's but the vast vast majority of rifle hunting happens with AR platform rifles. That being said, talking about rifles in the context of gun deaths is all misdirection anyway. Less than 400 people died to rifles in the last year that we have statistics for, 2019[1]. Banning them is not only constitutionally untenable, but wouldn't provide much at all in the way of decreases to overall gun deaths.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I'm pretty sure he spilled the beans, I don't think he has to worry about prison, staying alive is his new main story line.
I was thinking about "what have they found there?". I remember reading that the Central Bank of China was feversly buying Gold, and a few weeks ago they stopped all buying. Then this came to focus, and it made me think... did they find 100 tons of Gold up there, and they know that if they start bringing this in (on Earth) they price will plummet, and expect a massive sell-off in the next few weeks???

But then I do read and watch too much sci-fi!!
Yes, and even being Widevine L1 certificated isn't enough, Netflix runs their own licensing program.
Maybe Fediverse is great, but i'm not using a technology who's logo is a rainbow pentagram that has fed in the name.
This has the same energy as labelling any critique of Israel anti-semitic
"Bioplastics" and "Biodegradable plastics" are two different things. One is made from bio origin, second is supposed to be degraded by bio processes. This quote actually sounds like someone was being intentionally misleading.
Is it just using the Have I Been Pwned API?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#SearchingPwnedPasswordsByR...
This is exactly the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that I find really difficult. You could have stated this very differently instead of using sarcasm and we might have agreed on some points, but "is an odd way of saying" is so unnecessary. Did you read the article? You may find quite a bit to agree with. I personally have a pretty low opinion of Assange, and the article talks quite a bit about his narcissistic tendencies.

Your language also doesn't allow for the fact that although his actions might have helped Russian intelligence, it may well not be that he sat down at some point and explicitly said "right, how can I help the Russian government?" There's some fantastic literature about how well-meaning people can get dragged in some terrible directions, like Into That Darkness about Franz Stangl, the commandant at Treblinka. I'd encourage you to rethink the way you phrase things like this if you want to have substantive debate. If you just want to shout at people, fill your boots, but I'm not going to engage with it.
It's a weird vibe going on in this post. A lot of people are cheering the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I wonder how many know that the Taliban has all biometric/financial data that the US left behind enabling them to round up anyone who ever helped the US.
Uber has partner drivers which have their own companies, their own rating, and can be punished for their behaviour. Once a company completely vertically integrates (like Google would like), meaning they have their own cars, they no longer want to punish themselves for bad behaviour/cars. Since they have to choose between short term cost of higher maintenance fee or long term cost of loss of quality of service their managers will start to optimize for quarterly results: cutting short term costs. What they want is to first entrench the market, push out competitors, introduce complex regulation and fees which prevents new competitors into the market and then start cutting costs everywhere they can and increase prices.

Since you mention Uber, I can definitely see in my city how the quality of cars decreased and they started using almost inclusively cheap immigrants who realistically couldn't pass a drivers exam in my country and have on multiple occasions driven into wrong directions/ran red lights etc.
The Scheme to Reroute India's Water
I haven’t seen any coverage of technical details of how the buggy software might have made fraud look possible. Does anyone have a link about that?

A priori it seems a little implausible to me that any software could make such a mistake in a way that didn’t make it obvious it was a bug, but I don’t know the extent to which the Post Office might have mishandled the evidence.
I don't doubt he's been partial/sympathetic to the Russians. But, would you rather:

a. Piss of both of the most capable countries capable of spying and "mysteriously" bumping people off, or

b. Accept a deal with the devil to not die, and make up any excuse afterwards to justify your actions?

The US unfortunately isn't a very nice or fair country to piss off when they go about bullying (even Assange's treatments have been anything but "fair and above board"), so I'm not sure he ever even had a chance. (Assuming he wanted to live, of course.)
Funniest thing is that they are the same people who reject Linux because they need to read some docs from time to time.
From [1], there are a few differences that arise from gojq ignoring object key sort order (which you shouldn't really rely on anyway).

[1] https://github.com/itchyny/gojq#difference-to-jq
Inlined nearly divisionless random numbers
A self imposed exile inside an embassy and then 5 years in a British prison isn't torture. Trying to say that waters down what the word actually means.

>His mental health deteriorated a while back.

Okay and so what..? Does that somehow mean he shouldn't be held to account for his crimes? Plenty of prisons have bad mental health but that doesn't mean they should be let free. Had he not spent 14 years trying to avoid a trail he would have already been out years ago.
It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

Over 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted and 236 went to prison, including a pregnant woman whose baby was taken from her, despite no evidence the money she was accused of stealing ever existed in the first place. People lost their businesses and homes, were shunned by their communities and some committed suicide. And the Post Office knew from at least 2003 the software was broken.
MIVisionX is probably the library you want for computer vision. As for kernels, you would generally write HIP, which is very similar to CUDA. To my knowledge, there's no equivalent to cupy for writing kernels in Python.

For what it's worth, your post has cemented my decision to submit a few conference talks. I've felt too busy writing code to go out and speak, but I really should make time.
He also shakes his fist at the software stack, but loudly enough that it has AMD react to it.
And a late self-reply as I've found the relevant case citation, for whomever may find this useful, most likely Future Me....

Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. Westlaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain.

There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:

<https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333420>

(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: <https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=swrep...>)

The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:

H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East

Full title: HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST

Court: Supreme Court of Texas

Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279

So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.

Which is here:

<https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103152245&se...>

(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)

I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: <https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/>, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.

On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.
This is incredibly cool! Does the video audio amplify the sound of the discs flipping or are they really that loud?
Fair enough - also lol at people downvoting. It was an honest question.
Also, many of the 900-plus people affected were made to "pay back" "embezzled" money that was never missing in the first place, and more than a few went bankrupt in the process.
I believe this is the least known and most important use-case for LLMs today -- understanding and inferring the meaning in language. We've all seen cases where Google can occasionally surface the right content for indirect descriptions of what you're looking for. The most famous example I can think of is searching for "eyebrows kid" returns images of Will Poulter. Google's knowledge engine is getting pretty good at this kind of thing, but LLMs are way better.

Language models are exceedingly good at understanding the meaning of your language without the use of specific keywords. Here's an example from a recent search I did.

> metals can be flexed or bend, and it will regain some of its prior shape

in Google returns either "ductile" or "shape-memory alloy," which are both incorrect.

> What is the property of a material where it prefers to stay in its current form? This is often found in metals, where it can be flexed or bent, and it will regain some of its prior shape?

in ChatGPT correctly explains that

> The property you are referring to is called elasticity. Elasticity is the ability of a material to return to its original shape after being deformed (stretched, compressed, bent, etc.) when the external forces are removed.

We all know that LLMs can hallucinate, and they are therefore not a reliable source of truth or knowledge. I'm not necessarily trying to say that LLMs are more accurate than something like Google's knowledge engine. The value in LLMs is that they can infer your meaning to some degree of accuracy (just like asking a human) so that you can productively continue your own research in more depth.
Even the default out of the box color scheme of WS 2003 was fantastic. Indeed the pinnacle of Windows UI design.
Weren't those non-believers, though?

Old Testament God is pretty firm on that line. :D
Ad hominem is a fallacy if you are arguing hypotheticals and philosophy in a Greek salon.

In understanding how the world around us works, credibility matters quite a bit, and "I'm not interested in pretending True Pundit says true things" is a pretty reasonable shortcut.

Rather than just thought-terminate with "logical fallacy," the burden is now on the one bringing the evidence to bring it via a channel other than True Pundit.
Material Design (a design spec) is not Material Web Components (a Javascript component library).