skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It ends with,

> Given panoramas’ use as propaganda for war and colonialism, I don’t want to valorise the past or the present. It’s not hard to imagine incredible uses for the Sphere’s technology. But like the places it best simulates, the Sphere’s ultimate service may be as a refuge from the heat of the world.

lol
The left and the right agree on an awful lot, particularly how to swing the pendulum to and fro. I think this is amplified by the internet and media, where we see echo chambers amplifying ideas (to the benefit of individual egos and the institutions which reify them) without relativity to personal histories and experiences which inform them. If you want to know a person, break bread, and see what you have to say with your mouths full.
Exactly my thought. When they replace Finder, it’ll almost certainly be with a port of the useless iPad Files app.

Apple unfortunately isn’t in the business of making powerful, efficient (user-facing) software anymore.
Thats like saying both horses and container ships are used to transport cargo.
per Zuckerberg[0], ~half of their H100s were for Reels content recommendation:

> I think it was because we were working on Reels. We always want to have enough capacity to build something that we can't quite see on the horizon yet. ... So let's order enough GPUs to do what we need to do on Reels and ranking content and feed. But let's also double that.

So there's an immense capacity inside Meta, but the _whole_ fleet isn't available for LLM training.

[0]: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/mark-zuckerberg?open=false#§...
Yes, absolutely! WebXR is very powerful in regard to accessibility. After you create an experience it can be viewed across mobile, laptop, and almost any VR headset.

It also makes deployment easier because once you publish, your VR experience is available at a link without any downloads or even embeddable like a YouTube video. With WebXR you can bypass any app stores too or avoid side loading processes.

The downside is you more constrained performance-wise with WebXR and have to keep that in mind during implementation. However the one-click deployment speeds up the feedback loop, allowing for rapid prototyping and more iterative development. For example, I could often build and tweak a VR experience on a call, letting the other person try out those changes by just refreshing their browser.
Is there any available information about this?
I have a short chapter on using MiniZinc with Python in one of my old books that I am currently rewriting https://leanpub.com/pythonai/read#constraint-programming-wit... (link directly to this chapter online)

MiniZinc is a constraint programming system. There is a good Coursera class using MiniZinc.
As a Lua user and a big fan of Qute et al browsers, I really want to like Luakit, but they've had a video bug[1] (they don't work at all) for a long time, and basically just ignore the issue as "not our bug" because it's apparently a webkit bug.

[1]: https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/882
It has been renamed from "The Sphere" to the even more pretentious "sphere(tm)".
When i started reading the Common Lisp Reference Manual i knew neither English nor Lisp. When i finished it reading it for the first time, i learned English better. I read it again 3 times, then i started learning Lisp.
How did you for out?
And what kind of steps are you taking right now?
If boeing actually killed those whistleblowers, it may threaten the family
This looks great, would have loved this back when I was doing audio stuff on the ESP32. There were no good compact options. It is a bit on the expensive side tho!
No they aren't.

You failed to mention the big one: most people by very far have 1 Gb/s network switches to... Connect their machines to this thing called the Internet. Some may have heard of it.

And most people also have not more than 1 Gbit/s up/down.

Do I have switches (with a 's') with 10 Gbit/s SFP+ at home? Yup. Is 1 Gbit/s obsolete: definitely not.
is there a way to make curl do wget style progress output? i like curl but would love that kind of meter
This is the sort of thing that absolutely fascinates me. Were we much different then? (Has our technology eclipsed our humanity?)

From another point of view... well, one question begets another.
I like the writing style and how it’s so succinct and basically bullet points.

Becoming an expat isn’t mentioned surprisingly, since this is tuned to Western societies.
OCaml for the Skeptical (2006)
if the I or the Y stop working or get corrupted, the redundancy allows you to recover them properly from the spelled out words.
This looks like a nice write-up and implementation. I'm left wondering what is the "trick"? How does it manage to beat OpenBLAS, which is assembly+C optimized over decades for this exact problem? It goes into detail about caching, etc - is BLAS is not taking advantage of these things, or is this more tuned to this specific processor, etc?
I don't know what internet you are on. That's the dead ass opposite of what Tim Wu is saying. He's saying very clearly that companies have too much power & saying very clearly he thinks algorithmic & other limitations trample in free speech rights.

> By presuming that free speech protections apply to a tech company’s "curation" of content, even when that curation involves no human judgment, the Supreme Court weakens the ability of the government to regulate so-called common carriers like railroads and airlines — a traditional state function since medieval times.

He's saying we should regulate these companies like common carriers. He's saying we shouldn't be allowed to have our news feeds be generated or curated by systems. He's saying the broadcaster has a right to send stuff to our feed whether we want it or not.
Google sent a copyright violation notice for each .DS_Store anyone at my company uploaded to Drive for nearly a year (yes, many support tickets were filed).

It wasn't Apple's fault, but it still would have been nice if there was a way to turn them off.
He does have a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beaumiles

And agreed, he puts out some superb videos.
I’ve worked with a dozen solutions and built several of my own to do this. Buzz.ai is my recommended solution. Great API, handles all the problems for you.
SQL Explorer
You make it seem as if this is a common occurrence but I'm only aware of it happening with extremist content, it isn't a problem for 99% of people. And if it does happen, extremists can find other hosts, as they often do. That isn't a first amendment issue it's a business relationship issue. In a free society, businesses can't be forced to have you as a customer.
IIRC from that time, those CD-ROMs contained two tracks, one formatted with ISO 9660 and another with HFS+. Windows didn't come with HFS+ drivers so it ignored it, and probably MacOS prioritized mounting the HFS+ track.
Agree with the other commenter the new approaches are mostly neurosymbolic and based on DNNs vs the approaches given here. FWIW I think this is one of the critical pieces to AGI and I know many of the large AI labs are working on integrating these approaches in an agentic way with the LLMs they’ve trained. I expect this will dominate at least the next 12-24 months of research. There are also a few AI startups out there also working on prototyping these ideas.
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It's probably just a float value and they're only rendered as text for the data export that the user requested, don't you think?
This is where I am with it now. I got bored with the image generators and tired of their plastic looking output.

I still use GPT or Claude occasionally but I find switching over to prompting breaks my mental flow so it’s only a net win for certain kinds of tasks and even there it’s not a huge step up from searching Stack Overflow.
To suckers.
I miss the old Pre-OSX finder that could accomplish copy files without opening a second window and dragging into.

I'll never get how some rocket scientist (IVIE I suspect) removed Apple's best finder feature, colored file folders, which made for easy sorting. To make matters worse, added stupid dot labels instead. What a cluster.

Oh well. Still a bad day on a Mac is better than a great day in Windows.
Show HN: Red Blue Battle
Good question.

The best answer is for someone who has found ways to boost their own productivity, but also understands the caveats such as hallucinations and not pasting proprietary information into text boxes on the internet.
Impressively, the author predicts the man/men-ness of our industry.
I spent 10 mins on your docs, website.

Excellent effort overall.

But I didn't know until I read your comment here about the uploading CSV, instant parsing that non technical people may find very interesting. This is something pgweb for example doesn't have.

Your docs are also missing a complete sample env.

See that you've integrated pivottable. Nice touch!

If you can figure out minimal barcharts , you may even have an opensearch/log community interested.

Another killer idea is uploading CSV/json and getting faceted search.
No one does this! But maybe distracting to your roadmap.

Keep up the excellent work!

Good luck!
One nitpick on disown:

It will prevent the process from getting SIGHUP when the terminal is closed, but it won't change the pty or stdin/stdout/stderr of the process, so it may still abort if/when I/O is performed. Using e.g. nohup solves this problem more completely. If you see programs abort even with disown, they are probably aborting on I/O errors to the terminal.

Also, some terminals (e.g. kitty) will not auto-close when bash exits if there are still processes having the PTY open. Here's a simple example to play around with to see some different possibilities (and check how your shell handles things). NB: It runs "exit" at the end, so run in a fresh terminal window/tab

{ set -e; rm -f /tmp/got-here; sleep 5; echo hi; touch /tmp/got-here; } 2>/tmp/test-stderr & disown; exit

If you run this in a terminal that doesn't close when your shell exits if any other process still has the pty open, then the tab/window will hang around for 5 seconds and then disappear; /tmp/got-here will exist. If you run in a terminal that does close when your shell exits (e.g. xterm), then /tmp/got-here will never be created and you'll see an IO error message in /tmp/test-stderr
5 year old CPUs today (i.e., 2019 era chips) are generally pretty efficient.
Indeed. But, does it present a problem (or a solution/opportunity?) You know who might be good at answering these questions? Programmers who are sick of sitting on their butts.
Has LLM shaken up this field?
The US began arming and supporting Pol Pot in 1979

This allegation floats up from time to time, but lacks veracity.

Of course Kissinger would have loved for the US to have done so -- but that doesn't mean it actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
> The was never a single famine in the Soviet Union after World War 2.

That is technically wrong [0]. But more importantly is the fact that you're arguing that most of the deaths were before WWII - ie, the USSR (single handily!) was comparable to the Nazis even before the Nazis went full Nazi. And then throw China in to the mix. This history is why it is a higher priority to root out powerful domestic Communists than to neutralise the Fascists. Even though both were terrible, the Communists managed to be the scarier of the two, even at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%93...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...
Containers are offered block storage by creating a loopback device with a backing file on the kubelet’s file system. We noticed that on some very heavily utilized nodes that iowait was using 60% of all the available cores on the node.

I first confirmed that nvme drives were healthy according to SMART, I then worked up the stack and used BCC tools to look at block io latency. Block io latency was quite low for the NVME drives (microseconds) but was hundreds of milliseconds for the loopback block devices.

This lead me to believe that something was wrong with the loopback devices and not the underlying NVMEs. I used cachestat/cachetop and found that the page cache miss rate was very high and that we were thrashing the page cache constantly paging in and out data. From there I inspected the loopback devices using losetup and found that direct io was disabled and the sector size of the loopback device did not match the sector size of the backing filesystem.

I modified the loopback devices to use the same sector size as the block size of the underlying file system and enabled direct io. Instantly, the majority of the page cache was freed, iowait went way down, and io throughout went way up.

Without BCC tools I would have never been able to figure this out.

Double caching loopback devices is quite the footgun.

Another interesting thing we hit is that our version of losetup would happily fail to enable direct io but still give you a loopback device, this has since been fixed: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/d53346ed082d...
Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not
I work on ReFS and a little bit on NTFS. Alternate data streams are simply seekable bags of bytes, just like the traditional main data file stream. Security descriptors, extended attributes, reparse points and other file metadata are represented as a more general concept called an "attribute".

You can't actually open a security descriptor attribute and modify select bytes of it to create an invalid security descriptor, as you would if it were a general purpose stream.
Yes, but it’s a common courtesy to perform a curtsy in the appropriate situation.
A take on One Million Checkboxes?
What percentage of GPUs are being used for training versus inference?
Putting in in the folder is also nice in that it naturally gets deleted when the folder is deleted
Fear sells indeed. We also have many more data points than were previously available. The problem, realistically, is discerning the signal in the noise and making out the meaning.
Heavily inspired by OneMillionCheckboxes, I decided to create this website.

Is it useful? Funny? Addictive? Nonsense?
For books that you don’t understand much about and can get daunting/painful reading it, you should use the table of contents and read the most interesting one first, then the next..
That's scary considering how willingly they'll shutdown accounts for tripping their automated copyright violation service.
I think there is far too much focus on potential productivity gains, and not nearly enough on entertainment value, which still has a ways to go but much higher potential compared to serious problem solving, which may or may not be be feasible with these models. Nobody has really figured out yet a good way to integrate generative multimedia together in a way that makes a hit, but surely someone will in the next few years. Right now there are utterly half-assed apps like Linky making good money, and that's just midjourney and CAI glued together awkwardly. I don't know what a genuine hit product is going to look like, or if it'll even be an app, but the potential for generative multimedia is so much higher that what we're seeing now.
hello, my name is gsq. what's your name?
Glad that you and yourn are safe and well! Here’s hoping the Yucatán and eventually Starbase fares as well.
Why? Somehow DS_Store is claimed as a copyrighted file?
Nvidia: An Overnight Success Story 30 Years in the Making
Propaganda site
What's it going to take to do this locally?
Discussion (24 points, 3 hours ago, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871143
The article title reminded me of when I was young and used to read Byte Magazine. Byte used to cover a wide range of topics, and could get quite technical, but the big thing that is vastly different to today is that you would get a monthly digest of articles that were selected by the editors, not by yourself. And I used to read it cover to cover. There was a lot I didn't understand, but also I feel like I gained a wider knowledge than if I only read what I was interested in, and many times the ideas that I was exposed to turned out to be useful much later in life.

Some of them ended up being distractions too, like playing with hardware, or writing a compiler, but it was all very interesting.
No offense intended, I may have misunderstood something here.

You use a routerboard block diagram as your model to demonstrate how a hardware switch is connected to the rest of the system. But then you go on to claim that they are impossible/difficult to work with.

Did you source a routerboard at any point here? Fairly sure that OpenWRT can be built for most routerboards, and the 2011 should be a fairly common device on the second hand market.

Maybe this is a better question. Was the goal always to build from scratch? Or did you discard the concept of using someone elses hardware for a particular reason?
The KPNLF were in a coalition government from 1982 on with Sihanouk and the communists, whom you call the "Khmer Rouge". In fact the coalition with the communists happened as soon as the US began funding them - it was probably ordered by the US.

Any how, the US fairly openly armed what you call the Khmer Rouge, I guess a sliver of plausible deniability is enough for the minority of people like you who want to deny it. Nightline even did a whole segment on it.
I see you saying this all over this topic and yet I don't know anyone who uses AI for anything real. I've never used it once for anything, and I work in tech. The only people I know who use AI are kids who use it to do their homework for them. I'm sure they love it, but it's hardly a good thing.

It's like hiring someone to go to the gym for you, as far as I can see.
The Mac version of the original Descent was like this too, with a great redbook audio soundtrack. The game wasn't locked to the original disc though, you could pop out the CD in the middle of the game and replace it with any other audio CD and it'd play that just as well.
One snapshot would help because, if EVERYTHING collapses, and you need data recovery, the snapshot provides a basepoint for the recovery. This should allow better recovery of metadata. Not that this should EVER happen -- it is just a good idea. I use Jim Salter's syncoid/sanoid to make snapshots, age them out, and send data to another pool.

I agree that ECC is a damn good idea - I use it on my home server. But, my lappy (i5 thinkpad) doesn't have it.
Yeah, that's horrifying.
How does this work if Boeing isn’t a person?
The difference is the frontend role would require a real understanding of React, but these "AI dev" roles don't require a real understanding of AI.
I see so many comments about taking notes while reading. I didn't even know that was a thing. I'm not even sure if I would want to do it, because it would interrupt the reading. My own personal belief (which I came up with just now) is that reading novels should be a smooth relatively easy affair. Because I read simply for the fun of it. This may not be the case with academic books however. I just, start reading.

I have in fact stalled on books before though off the top of my head only SICP and Anna Karenina come to mind. I'll reattempt both of them in the near future. Stalling on SICP was probably due to me not having the sufficient math background, which I'm slowly working on fixing. The post you wrote gives me hope.

There's a possibility that I've been doing things the wrong way all these years.
Ontological frameworks have been around for many decades. They have had limited success because it is very difficult to represent knowledge in an object oriented approach. An example is Ologs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olog

It would be interesting to know what you see is different about your approach that would lead to more adoption?
$35T in national debt for one. At some point that house of cards is going to collapse.
The best thing about reading(and finishing) Infinite Jest is that you are not sure. Not sure if the book has ended, not sure about anything. I've read and listened to multiple interpretation of the book. But that is what makes it a different experience(because of varying perspectives)

I wrote a small blog on how I did read Infinite Jest > https://www.prasannakumarr.in/journal/reading-infinite-jest
It's where the kumite was held.

https://youtu.be/smGHdOU4Qu4
Runoff from mining? Activist groups I'm sympathetic to have been screaming for years about certain types of mining specifically open pit mining obliterating watersheds. At a guess I would say either new mining interests are being developed around the relevant rivers in Alaska or old mining interests are being improperly decommissioned. Either way id bet my guess is right or close to right.
The Wikipedia article you linked to mostly goes against what you said.

I urge people to read the link which you yourself posted - people can learn about the US arming the so-called "Khmer Rouge".
Revolut CEO Storonsky Builds Side Bet to Disrupt Venture Capital with AI
Context: I have been paid to work as an AI practitioner since 2982, nothing special about me except I have worked with amazing people. I have lived through at least two “AI winters.”

The author of this blog makes a great argument that there is a risk of AI investments not paying off because if a revenue gap: The author argues that the gap between the revenue expectations implied by the AI infrastructure build-out and actual revenue growth in the AI ecosystem has increased from $200B to $600B. This is due to factors such as the subsiding of the GPU supply shortage, growing GPU stockpiles, and the dominance of OpenAI in AI revenue. The author also notes that the $125B hole in AI revenue has now become a $500B hole.

However, my experience with previous AI winters is not relevant here because now is the first time in history that there is a possibility of what we used to call “real AI” and now call AGI. No investor wants to miss out completely on the creation of near limitless wealth.
Python can efficiently call C libs if you use ctypes and native pointers, which numpy uses. Of course depends on expected layout.

If you want to convert to Python lists its is going to take time. Not sure about Python arrays.
Always wondered if something similar would be possible with milsim games like DCS Worlds.

E.g. can you improve or replicate missile intercept algorithms
Thank you for glider!
Give this a try, I installed it and so far so good. I like that they use RAG on the notebook, so it tailors the responses on what I'm doing. Really great way to get your toes in so far.
Interesting, but at this price range we're overlapping something like Raspberry Pi 4 which has significantly more compute power.

I'd like a very cheap WiFi 2-way audio device that one could use like an "Alexa / Echo" sort of thing against a self hosted (LAN) powerful server that can do all the STT, TTS, audio streaming, etc. locally. Does that exist already?
The stamp to own a fully auto is only like $300 and a couple pages of paperwork.
Go be a Dick (Proenneke). What a life!

https://youtu.be/hy-4NxJRxNQ?si=KQtILIEddG_ZPU1P
That's still a weaker hand. macOS also has the ton of ._ files. Would have been better to have folded than raised
It'll be so interesting to see what sorts of "biases" future AI models will manifest when they're only trained on a fraction of the web. All any group with an agenda has to do is make their content available for training, with the knowledge/hope that many of those with balancing content will have it blocked. And then there will be increased complaints re said "biases" by the same ones who endorse blocking, without a thought that the issue was amplified by said blocking. And of course use cases for AI will continue to broaden, in most cases without a care for those spouting about "biases". It'll be a wonderful world.
Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services