skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today.

Is that a far statement to make, given ~20-years has passed?
An AI isn’t infinite either. Infinities don’t enter into this. You brought it up, not me.

I’m aware of Bostrom’s argument and it is bogus. There isn’t a continuum of intelligence difference between a worm and a human, and a human and a so-called superintelligence. There is a categorical difference between the worm and the other two, which occupy the same class. Hierarchical abstract thought allows the human to reason (using cognitive artifacts like pencils or computers) about processes of any complexity, including those which vastly outstrip its own.

Boston’s a philosopher, not an engineer or computer scientist, and it shows when he makes basic errors like this.
Aren't there power delivery versions of HDMI?

I can understand requiring a license for any power wires behind walls.

I could also see the possibility that it's just an old law that doesn't consider data-only cables which don't have the safety issues that wires carrying power do.
Thanks for the memex pointers.

Since Alan Kay is posting LLM takes on Quora (OpenAI partner), his singular answers will likely be incorporated into ChatGPT :)
Technology like this will create huge selection pressures against desktop apps if it becomes easy for people to reverse engineer, remove payment mechanisms, and then freely distribute. Wouldn’t you think?
I wrote a program "syncdir" that will synchronize two directories. I use it every day for making backups. I originally wrote it for DOS eons ago.
As is the nature of bad design, “nobody uses it other than some people sometimes” is a silly sentiment and indicative of a problem.
This looks good, as I wanted to "escape" the Authy jail (you cannot easly move out with your secrets), but moving a lot of 2fa's to a "new thing". How to make sure they are a good project?
My wife is an optometrist (so, an independent worker), and she needs to check the list of patients she has seen (and the types of care they were given) to make sure that it matches correctly with the clinic's records. It is a tedious job, something that takes about 20 minutes per day. With a little scripting, I was able to bring that down to about 5 minutes per day. The time I saved her has added up to several dozens of hours now, and will amount to several hundreds of hours saved as the years go by.
Just this morning I was wondering if one could cure their hypertension by getting an artificial heart to circulate their blood more efficiently.

I mean sure you could also treat with weight loss and regular exercise, but it's a fun thought experiment.
You’d be shocked at how hard it is to fund, start, and ship even a basic project at a company the size of YT or anything else in the Google/Alphabetaverse. It’s probably also a legal landmine and all that, but organizational friction’s more than sufficient to explain simple useful features failing to ship.
Are you sure things are executed sequentially in that order? I would expect hypothesis strategies composed together to be lazily evaluated.

In any case, even in the case you describe, I would not expect the strategy to fail with probability 1. Remember that this generates multiple samples, and only one of these need to be valid.
the reason NVIDIA has a lead right now is largely because they didn't slack off during the Maxwell era and kept iterating even after the 22nm/20nm node fell though. AMD decided that hey, we can't really afford this right now, and NVIDIA can't shrink either, right? But NVIDIA slipped in a major architectural iteration that was basically a full node worth of efficiency gains, and that really has put them in the position they are today.

Being able to take a trailing-node strategy during the Turing/Ampere years, being able to run a full node behind RDNA1/2 and use dirt-cheap Samsung crap and last-gen TSMC 16FF/14FFN while still fighting AMD to a standstill on efficiency is entirely the result of AMD slacking off.

AMD themselves have said they slacked off. Lost focus, is the quote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1956&v=590h3XIUfHg
There's also the dgx nv72
It's a short story, a brief one (~32 kB): https://gist.github.com/neckro/0f3a9ec60be34e3164c6677d4ecc1...

CW though, it is pretty grim. Very early example of the "AI takes over the world, decides humans are redundant" trope though. (Maybe the first?)
Learn emacs shortcuts and install emacs shortcuts extension.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tuttieee...
As they say, Unix gives you enough rope to shot yourself in the foot.
I’ve never used it but it seems like this would do the trick. https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver
Most post-collapse writing I've seen presumes a very long tail of salvageable computation devices not to mention batteries, LEDs, motors, solar panels, plus tools like oscilloscopes and soldering stations, etc that would all assist in the re-bootstrapping effort.

Assuming a planetwide em event is a pretty major wrench in the works and definitely puts you back a lot further in terms of how to rebuild the technology ecosystem.
You really don’t want to seal a cutting board with anything other than mineral oil and beeswax. Stain is pretty toxic - wouldn’t want that to leach into your food.
Researchers in Japan petition funding to increase basic science competitiveness
Well yeah, most of the time if I want to be understood I will say “the 1700s” because it is straightforward to connect with familiar dates.

We still say “20th century” though because that’s idiomatic.
Just get a PCIe card that does U.2 and you're usually good. You can buy some of these 15.36 TB capacity drives second hand.
A TUI client for Confluence

A script that does a speed test of my Internet connection once an hour and plots a graph

A financial analysis webapp that barely works

I call it meware: works for me, and hopefully for someone else, too, but it's not polished.
I'm not a spreadsheet guy, so I can't say how "good" they are, but Emacs has a few. Of course org-mode can do some of it (what can't org-mode do?), but in my experience it bogs down with larger datasets. Simple Emacs Speadsheet has been around a while and comes built-in these days, but I haven't tried it.

One nice thing is that Emacs has calc-mode built in that gives you all kinds of advanced math capability you can use. The tables in org-mode support this directly, but since calc has a Lisp interface you can use it pretty much anywhere.
That story is an original from Rev. W. Audry (my grandmother bought a lot of those books for me as a child, I specifically remember that story and Gordon being imprisoned until he accepted his lot in "life").

It wasn't just okay in the 80s / early 90s, it comes from waaaay before then.
This will get you the first 80%:

* Any solid search engine (bm25 + embeddings and hnsw)

* Any api to a model (gpt3.5, gpt4, claude, etc)

* Some middleware to call search then build the prompt

Then the remaining:

* Create an eval dataset, then tune the search and the prompt as needed
This sounds like a great project to reconnect one with growing food… with some perks.

Appreciate you sharing, helps share others are thinking about it too.

Is there a reason you went with hydroponics vs aeroponics?
I don't think language would matter much as the primary delay is getting a response from OpenAI apis. The advantage of Rust (or other similar language) is you get a simple single executable. Otherwise Python is completely fine.

I basically use this any time that I am in the terminal already and have a question that I think could reasonably be formatted fine there. I'd say, I use it for 30% (conservatively) of my ChatGpt queries. Naturally the web interface is way better for lots of stuff, but sometimes breaking out of a terminal session is jarring.
It's not just the food it's flushing out.
What helps me (and I am by no means perfect): realize that ultimately it doesn't matter whether there is despair, or if you have any talent for the subject, etc. You only have two options: do, or do not. Thanks, Yoda!
Yea, i was hoping for iCloud / Apple Watch support..but unfortunately:

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/182
The right answer was, and still is: Jan 1, 1901
it would be fun to make an open-ai gym wrapper on this & train an rl agent to hit the corner every single time
Aegis is great but it's Android only. I really like their thoughtful export system. Ente has export as well, I wonder how it compares.
We would love to have you back for that!
I originally bought some solenoid valves to experiment with, but ended up simplifying my approach. I use a submersible pump that is plugged in to power. I can just automate turning on/off power to that outlet (I have two TP-link / Kasa HS300 strips). The nutrients / water are in a tank below the tray of plants, so when the power is "off", gravity brings the water back through the pump into the tank again.
Twilio breach leaks over 30M Authy-linked phone numbers
We need to talk about testing(2021)
I basically don’t agree that anybody could depend on this holstering-causes-it-to-fire behavior. Or at least, their use-case requires design compromises that are so unthinkably ridiculous as to make the gun they want something that no reasonable person without that use-case would use.

It is possible that the entire field of programming is full of ridiculous people. But it seems more likely that C++ is like a gun with no safety, or something along those lines.
1800-1899 is the eighteen-hundreds, 1800-1809 is the eighteen-noughties. Easy.
This reminds me of Microsoft's sync toy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy
I wrote a hacky PHP web app that allows me to generate 5" Optical Media artwork for imprinting using a inkjet disc printer. My script loads it's own truetype fonts (to stay on brand) and produces print-caliber artwork in milliseconds, instead of minutes. I spent a single day mastering it, and have used it weekly for decades, saving untold hours of effort. Alas, this side of the business is failing due to lack of demand (who has an optical drive anymore??), so this code will also die someday.
People complaining about an "Authy jail" and yet I have no issues with Aegis. Which is also open source, available in the f-droid store, and been around for years.
Sounds like you'll be better served by obsidian. The free plan covers all those use cases and more
You can get a concussion pretty rapidly from vibrating your head.

https://twitter.runhello.com/mcclure111/status/8374813399893...

https://twitter.runhello.com/mcclure111/status/1108808351150...
Oh yeah, I did forget that, despite being separated into uops, sign-extend-mem is still more efficient than literally being separated as such (some other similar things include memory insert/extract, and, perhaps most significantly, broadcast; with various results across intel & AMD). I imagine the memory subsystem is able to simultaneously supply ≤128-bit results to both 128-bit ALU halves, thus avoiding the need for cross-128-bit transfers.

The _mm256_setr_epi32 by itself would indeed be very inefficient, but clang manages to vectorize it[1] to vpaddd+vpsllvd, which require some constant loads (also it generates some weird blends, idk).

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/7jq4z39GT - L833-847 or so in the assembly, or on L67 in the source, right click → "Reveal linked code"
> Allan Doctor, a bespectacled 61-year-old physician-researcher at the University of Maryland (UMD) School of Medicine

Not at all the point, but I get way too much enjoyment out of the fact that this person is Dr. Doctor. I hope he occasionally insists that people call him that and then quietly hums the song by the Thompson Twins.
Nano specifics aside, we can already feed people intravenously. We do not yet know how to electrically trick the brain in any meaningful and safe way.

I might also be crossing the streams on partially remembered text, but I believe the nano component of the blood was about engineered hemoglobin that was a more effective oxygen carrier, not glucose.
Thanks - it's been a rough few years. Lost my aunt and uncle, my dad, and pretty much all my other relatives except for my sister. I've tried dealing the anger in healthy ways but despite my calm outer demeanor, I am quite angry and generally wearing all black these days.
Apologies for the late question, I only just found this thread.

I work at Brave, VP of IT. I worked at Mozilla for 5 years. So have some experience with browsers.

I see our insanely high infrastructure bill each month, most of the cost comes down to CDN/distribution of updates, block lists, safe browsing etc. But we also have a bunch of other costs for staff to maintain said infrastructure and security.

If you get to scale, what is the plan here? Because $1M won't get you a very long runway and the moment browsers stop doing what they should be doing well, they die. Wishing you the best of luck.
Pikimov sounds like some russian guy's name. An odd name for a project.
As a Brit the first thing I imagined was one of those large, thin plastic boards, usually green, with a grid of various measurements and angles printed on them, used for cutting fabric for sewing patterns.
Ask HN: How do you track the accuracy of your text classifications over time?
Also, the manner in which the aliens evaded observation literally took my breath away when I first used it. Brilliant book. All the Rifters books, actually. And The Island, and… well you get the picture. Fantastic author.
Huh. And here I thought it was a reference to "Saturday Night Fever."
I would sort of agree, except when c++ was invented, it was even more awful in practice (does anyone remember the chaos around STL and template caches?). So, age isn't really a factor.
Make it twice as wide -- instead of 16x120 it's 32x60. Half as many clamps opened twice as wide. Repeat as necessary. Goes for every step.

It only takes four seconds for a board to go through mine. Takes much longer to crank the wheel down from the 5" I had it at before.
API to detect LLM outputs issues in real-time (hallucinations, errors, security)
Authy has been having security incidents. This is an OSS competitor to Authy (Twilio).
Ask HN: What is your favorite rolling Linux distro?
What is your favorite rolling Linux distro, and why?

* Arch

* OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

* Others?

The "List of Rolling Linux Distributions" Wikipedia page was recently deleted (May 2024), but here is the most recent archive.org snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240503140631/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_Release_Linux_distributions
Clickable link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240503140631/https://en.wikipe...
> Where do you think the N in NOR and NAND come from?

That makes it sound like you could also do a NOT with XNOR, which is only the case if you can use a constant 0. But that would similarly also be the case for a XOR, but with the requirement of a 1.
I was thinking of using Redis Stream instead of SQS, what would be better Redis or SmoothMQ?
I use two pumps from Atlas Scientific - one for a jar of base and one for a jar of acid. I have a sensor for PH so I can see in the live dashboard, and can click a button on the dashboard to disperse a set number of ml to the tank. I should have been clearer - PH is the one thing I didn't "close the loop on" because it'd be a little volatile. For instance when you first add nutrients to the water the PH drops steeply but stabilizes over hours or a day, I didn't want to respond too constantly to those changes. I should spend more time on this aspect though and maybe just have notifications for when it makes decisions.
I wrote an app to log mileage while doing deliveries, etc for my small business. It gives me a small tax benefit at the end of the year. To make it more fun, I gave the UI a "terminal" flair.

I wrote it over the course of a week or so and I use it frequently.

It's not that it won't see the light of day for anyone else but it's a very specific niche so I doubt anyone would even find it on the app store

If anyone's curious: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.thisischris...
You don't need regular backups, just every time you add a new service.

Ente has free backups and it's own encrypted export format, which sounds promissing.
> - rose tree "integrated shrinking" (eg. Hedgehog) follows the constraints of the generators, but has issues with monadic bind

> - the only approach that seems to magically "just work" is Hypothesis' "internal shrinking", which uses a layer of indirection to shrink lists of random choices instead of the values themselves.

My preferred framework is falsify, which provides "internal integrated shrinking". It's similar to Hypothesis, but uses a tree of generators rather than a linear sequence (it's based on "selective functors", which are a nice interface that's also useful for e.g. validators).

From https://hackage.haskell.org/package/falsify

> This library provides property based testing with support for internal integrated shrinking: integrated in the sense of Hedgehog, meaning that there is no need to write a separate shrinker and generator; and internal in the sense of Hypothesis, meaning that this works well even across monadic bind.
The right was rescinded the following year after lobbying by media representative organisations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33566933 (I've not looked at this link, I just know it to be the case and prima facie this looked right)
loved the demo video! we need more enthusiasm like that, really shows how much you love the work you've put in :)
I would really love to learn more about your TUI for confluence.
it doesn't say anything about house prices IMHO,

simply put the cost of selling a home should not be linearly related to the cost of the house,

and especially should not be a fixed constant across the entire country
There's also Scheme In A Grid (SIAG):

https://siag.nu/siag/

It has support for the Scheme programming language, MySQL, sending email (was jwz on this project?), and being part of a whole office suite.

SIAG Office:

http://siag.nu/index.shtml

(I'm kinda surprised. I remember when this was just that odd little program that shipped with Damn Small Linux.)

It can even load multiple file formats, including LaTeX, troff, and HTML tables:

https://siag.nu/siag/fileformats.html
If you come up with a pattern you want, send me a ping (email in profile, and a gallery of example work) - I do customs.
And if you dare to combine two of the paradigms it supports, you get UB.
I've had a dozen Pis over the years, and every single time I'd prefer an old laptop or server (amd64). It turns out that things like casing, power management, platform expandability, standardisation, sensible storage devices, things not made by broadcom, etc. are all desirable features.

Pis are toys, fun but frustrating if you want reliability.
Probably closer to 50,000 as it is an enterprise product.
Even if you are a person that people like to solicit advice from, you'll find they rarely follow it if it's very different from what they do normally. That makes me a bit reluctant to give much of it.

Listening, though, is a great talent that is very beneficial to yourself. I don't think it's really something you have to become; rather, you can switch it on and off. Focus your attention on them and do not interrupt. Hear what they're saying. If it's emotional, try to read between the lines. Don't make corrections when they're not critically important. Look them in the eyes.

That's probably a good start.
so for fast responses we usea a rtx4090 with vllm, but yeah it depends on your use case
In practice aeroponics is very fragile. All it takes is a failure for a few hours for roots to irrecoverably dry out and kill the plants. Most hydroponic methods give you a safety margin of days or even weeks.
I’m not saying one way or the other, but “minuscule” varies on the scale and just because there’s a closed loop cycle doesn’t mean there’s not a local impact to removing water from the area.
Indeed, I am a huge proponent of Rust and have been using it since before 1.0 (even contributed to it, in the past) -- and I complain about Rust a lot, too. Trying to restate Bjarne's point here: if I wasn't using Rust, then I wouldn't have any reason to complain about it.
I have heard only prise recently...

If you find the source or news article please share!
Kinda related, but I use the Seek app extensively to identify plants and it seems to work really well!
I didn't say that, it's just that it isn't relevant.
Check the revisions from BLS over the past year.
BLS revised down both April and May numbers by 30%. These are big revisions. This is a pattern now. Media only reports the initial figures.
Do you have a minimal docker image so we can start the service with a single command?
> But second, people drink the water and then breathe the moisture back into the air, or pee it and it winds up back in the water cycle.

Not for nothing, but in really arid locations (like las vegas for example) human consumed water is fairly well captured. The water cycle ends up looking like a series of plumbing turning piss into potable water.
One point, the singular they has been in use for centuries, where this essay suggests it's a recent invention.
Here is direct link on drone video of S400 destruction using ATACMS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1czed3k/stri...
So basically there’s no reason to use this over something with a bit more trust, like Bitwarden’s 2FA app.
Is that related to what that Humacyte company was doing? I remember seeing it show up in the various politician stock trade trackers that follow Pelosi, Tuberville, etc.
Nominative determinism strikes again.
The Lock-Picking Lawyer shows the modern way to do this.[1]
Yes, there is an app for that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkk-2QEUvuk
Mysterious export controls on quantum computers
Totally relate, I also hate the sand it gets everywhere.
The benchmarks for all these CPUs that my personal view point is based on are all out there. Anandtech was my favorite source for this at the time due to relatively detailed testing and a clear understanding of the implications of architecture decisions. The complete history of their contemporaneous reviews are still online and userbenchmark.com has independent data on these older CPUs as well although obviously with less control over potential mitigating factors.

AMD was struggling to release CPUs that were competitive against year old Intel Core 2 Duos which remained the status quo through their Bulldozer architecture. Things started turning around with Ryzen when a combination of architecture improvements and typical workloads taking more advantage of multicore flipped the script.

The bits about "true" multicore are also sketchy considering Bulldozer was using shared L2, fetch/decode, and floating point hardware on each module and calling a module two "cores" for marketing purposes.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd...
It's hard to call it "software", but the last one was a script to merge multiple Google Calendars into one, born out of frustration with juggling them manually. It runs on Google Apps Script, reacts on triggers, so once an event is created/modified/removed in one of the calendars, the change is reflected in the main calendar automatically.

[Edit] In the opposite direction as well: if modified in main, it reflects in the original one. AFAIR, it was the feature I missed, since Google only supports (-ed?) one-way mappings.
Saw the talk announcing Rise in person and it was very impressive and seems like a pragmatic approach to server-driven UI.

It’s server components without the wait.