skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I should have been more tactful. (I was still groggy in bed while reading the post on my phone, and it's difficult to type lengthy diplomatic sentences with long words on a phone keyboard.) The commenter seemed to have intended for the website to reach a wide audience: "will work on anything.. from IE 6.0 or FF 2.0 upward". But it kinda fails to meet that goal.
what happened to the DEVAP? https://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/biblio/1047710
It appears it's been in development for more than 10 years:
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/87527.pdf
What? Since when??

Pay is compensation for work done.

Not having to commute does not affect the company at all, they still get the same amount of work done and it is still have the same value to then so i can assure you that the work i do did not became less valuable to the company just because i did not spend hours of my personal time moving to the office and back.

Pay should either stay the same or, ideally, it should go up because while they are saving money by me not going to the office, i on the other hand have extra costs because i have to get good internet, will use my electricity for doing the work.

Where i work not only pay did not get lowered when the team moved to fully remote, they actually pay us extra to cover costs of working from home. They also offer a one-time pay to cover the costs or assembling your home office so you can buy stuff you need like desk, chair, printer, etc when you change to remote or when you are hired as remote.
I read the followup:

Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human [2000]

https://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Machina-Reconciling-Darwin-Cho...

Completely changed my worldview. Evolutionary processes every where.

My (turrible) recollection:

Darwinian processes for comprehending speech, the process of translating sounds into phenomes (?).

There's something like a brain song, where a harmony signal echoes back and forth.

Competition between and among hexagonal processing units (what Jeff Hawkins & Numenta are studying). My paraphrasing: meme PvP F4A battlefield where "winning" means converting your neighbor to your faction.

Speculation about the human brain leaped from proto-language (noun-verb) to Chomsky language (recursively composable noun-verb-object predicates). Further speculation how that might be encoding in our brains.

Etc.
> Much like one huge difference between string "42" and the number 42 is that the latter can have math done to it

I actually agree with your comment but this part made me laugh out loud because JavaScript :) ("42" - 1 === 41 but "42" + 1 === "421")
Thanks for doing this! It’s amazing feature to use docs to compose and paste to my Hugo blog. Very good workflow
Quicquid latīne dictum sit, altum videtur.

Learn Latin and you can fake your way through so many situations.
But the expected value of past games may not be the same as the expected value of future games.
It begs the question as to why one would prefer a more complex strategy.
LARPing Made Me a Stronger Person. It Can Do the Same for You, Too
The Macintosh at Dartmouth
Is this still an issue? I thought crypto is pretty much dead now and the speculators have moved onto AI?

Also, didn't the big coins (ethereum) move to proof of stake anyway?
> of eight [people] in the development team

Going to make a wild guess like maybe they should have had more than 8 people working on the "biggest non-military IT project in Europe" at the time.
This is basically an ad
IBM does offer the Z Development and Test Environment which is an emulated mainframe for a normal x86 computer. It's $5,980.00 / year. It looks like there is some sort of free trial, and there was a learner's edition.

https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment
It's a great delivery channel.
In the U.S. getting that license requires med school. Almost no one is capable of learning advanced topics on their own unless they have already been trained to learn an advanced topic. It’s interesting to see the number of comments talking as if self learning is easy or doable for any but a small percent of the population.

Self learning a topic is largely an ability of those who have been taught advanced knowledge in some area.
> Is more shielding not the obvious answer? A thin sheet of lead around the sensitive parts should do the trick

Lead "is effective at stopping gamma rays and x-rays" [1]. Jupiter's radiation comes from "trapped particles [that] are about ten times more energetic than the ones from the equivalent radiation belts of Earth" and "several orders of magnitude more abundant" [2]. When those encounter lead they cause bremsstrahlung radiation [3], a sort of subatomic shrapnel that can be more dangerous than the original radiation.

Lead is also heavy, which means not only increasing the mass of the spacecraft, but its balance and thus propulsion profile. That might mean upgrading and moving thrusters and propellant tanks--in effect, a complete redesign.

(It's a good question that doesn't deserve to be downvoted.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_shielding

[2] https://www.spenvis.oma.be/help/background/planetary/traprad...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung
>And if you're worried about the energy usage of crypto, wait until you hear about this AI thing...

Both of them are stupid energy/water sucking machines. I'm kind of curious how much emissions would fall if we just outlawed crypto, AI, and private jets, because those seem like three large things that don't particularly matter to normal people.
Not to mention how much faster the web feels with Javascript turned off.
It's hydrogenated fats, aka margerine. Not butter.
None of this rethorical back and forth about commuting is denying that the class move exists, aims exactly at what we're discussing, is driven by the big players through obvious cartelization, and so far, it's working as expected.
You seem to be putting all homeless people into a bucket where they're all equivalent to a crazy person walking around naked in a convenience store.

Yes, absolutely, we need to have a real function in our society that provides housing and care for those who are so impacted by mental health challenges that they will never be able to care for themselves.

I think it's a mistake to think of most homeless people as you seem to - that they're irredeemable and forever broken.
"I'm guessing there's a clause missing in the contract that says Infineon must disclose all known problems to NASA regardless of how the chips will be used."

The article doesn't say or even imply that NASA has any contract with Infineon.
It seems much more likely they are buying the chips through one of their approved distributors.

Without something saying that NASA bought directly from infineon:

1. It's not obvious how they would know who they sold to.

2. It's not obvious how they could get the information out beyond how they usually do it - issuing erratum notices.

Honestly, it feels like the article goes out of its way to try to imply Infineon should have notified NASA, but gives no data to suggest it had any idea at all what was going on.

If they had data that infineon and NASA had a contract, they would have put it in the article and used much stronger language. All these contracts would be public and are easy to find.

The fact that they don't have anything in the article about this suggests the contracts don't exist, and as usual, they are just using implication instead.
I don't mind it when the data being pushed through is less-structured. Once it gets past a certain point, I just want types backing everything up and double-checking my work as I go.
I think Synology lets you do that? I'm sure I've seen someone running things like Pihole on them. Not necessarily as integrated as you're talking about though.

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm/feature/docker

I struggle with the difference between "lab" and "production". You may start messing around with Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi but when your partner can't turn on the lights with a voice command you're going to find that you need something more resiliant.
This ticks 9/10 boxes on my detector for typical LLM generated SEO content spam. :\
I also have a brain that (I believe) has become fairly good at detecting when LLMs are hallucinating.
I'm just giving my personal opinion, I'm sure shared by some people, that I'd actually accept less pay for a WFH job. Or, in other words, if they want me to work in an office they'd have to pay more.
> Gitlab has 2,268 employees. That's probably an order-of-magnitude more than they need

The state of their long open issue tickets suggest otherwise.
Imho, you're judging syd too harshly without really understanding it:

> for example, silently turning O_RDWR into O_WRONLY

This is only done for Crypt sandboxing and admittedly it's mostly aimed for encrypting small files that are rarely rewritten, such as config.

> prohibiting PROT_EXEC on memfds

Syd is secure by default and almost always gives you options to relax specific restrictions. For this one, you want: https://man.exherbolinux.org/syd.2.html#trace/allow_unsafe_m...

> Syd also blocks executable+anonymous memory

Same, can be disabled if not needed: https://man.exherbolinux.org/syd.2.html#trace/allow_unsafe_m...

> > As of version 3.19.0, Syd turns the "O_PATH" flag in open(2) system call arguments to the "O_RDONLY" flag and emulates the system call as usual which avoids the TOCTOU vector

This is a kernel limitation and there's an open kernel bug to implement O_PATH similar to O_CLOEXEC: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218501
I can see that perspective I suppose, but it's certainly not marketing flame bait.

Whatever story ports were always supposed to be, they aren't. Numerous people's real world experiences go sideways, because of the way that they are designed. You're setup for failure and confusion.

I never claimed to invent anything. I'm highlighting Donald Reinertsen's work that more people should be following.

The purpose of the article is to remind people of why everything is broken so that they can identify it and fix it, including examples.
While we haven't made a box, we made the software side in GoLang [1]

This lets you host the most popular self hosted apps with a click[2] and you get an IP from us. :-)

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjklYTxE8ks
I use deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 & DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct when I want speed & codestral-22B-v0.1 when I want smartness.

All of those are FIM capable, but especially deepseek-v2-lite is very picky with its prompt template so make sure you use it correctly...

Depending on your hardware codestral-22B might be fast enough for everything, but for me it's a bit to slow...

If you can run it deepseek v2 non-light is amazing, but it requires loads of VRAM
No excuses necessary I think that's a great question. Yes, like in the article - you can remove extremely unlikely to be real things, unlikely to be real could be because of things such as being extremely conditional (pentavalent carbon for example) or simply implausible. The point is that by preventing the model from learning a distribution that captures the extremely rare though real instances of things, you end up with a distribution that departs from whatever the reality of the situation is. You end up with a biased model, and that is highly unlikely to be a good thing.

Bottom line, it is better to let a model learn the full distribution then clip predictions that come from extreme ends of the distribution, rather than preventing the model from considering these extremes in the first place. Either way you don't get predictions from the extremes, but the model allowed to consider extremes is more likely to do interesting things.
The "funny" thing here is that this is (somewhat, perhaps?) how an AI intelligent beyond human capacity might execute an attack - or what an attack by one such might feel like: Lots of apparently unrelated actions, many or all of which make no sense ...

... (until and if you see the larger picture, which might be insurmountably difficult ...

... this, coupled with AI-level scalability of social engineering, at AI-level scale -and- with an AI-level understanding of "known-outcomes" that might be desirable towards given goals: "Leader change", etc.-)
I did competition math in middle and high school, and the only reason I was able to build the base needed to do decently in the AMC, AIME, and CEMC was because I was introduced to various concepts in math much earlier than when American or Canadian curricula would introduce them.

Competition math becomes a zero sum game when you are competing with students who have both built strong fundamentals AND then concentrated on technique and problem solving.

You can't run if you can't walk.

> failing and failing and trying again, is a life skill that learning calculus two years early won’t teach you

But learning Calc for 2 years, and getting a 5 on the AP Calc BC exam means you can take 2 additional courses in college or graduate early.

> Many of the tactics used in competition problems are also useful in general quantitative situations

Agreed. But at the end of the day, the kids getting into AIME or USAMCO were already doing high school or even college level math by 9th grade
Best of both worlds: replicate across friends and families similarly self-hosted all-in-one boxen.
Well, nobody I know would respond to such a question with a reaction (an emoji, yes, a reaction, no), so this is not an issue in my crowd. I suppose (and it's obvious now that I think about it) this depends on what the social norms are in your group.

> By bothering them again, you are asking them to do things differently for you.

To a trivial degree, sure. Why is it OK for others to ask me to do things differently in this regard and not for me to ask them to do things differently anyway?

Social interaction always involves compromise and reasonable accommodations for others. In this sense, I ask people to do things differently for me every day, and they usually do. And others ask me to do things differently every day, and I usually do. It's part of the social negotiations that make societies work.

I do feel the need to reiterate that I am not opposed to reactions generally. Only in email.
The rad vault on Clipper is an aluminum-zinc alloy, not lead. There are different kinds of radiation to worry about (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron, protons, heavy ions), and I think certain shielding approaches good for one aren't always good for the others.

Different sources of radiation interact with electrons or nuclei (1:1 with number of atoms) or nucleons (individual protons/neutrons, 1:1 with the mass). For instance, neutrons bounce off nuclei in nuclear reactors, and the lighter they are, the more energy the bounce can siphon off from the neutron. So having more, lighter (low-Z) nuclei (hydrogen in water and carbon in graphite are commonly used) provides better slowing of the neutrons vs. heavier (high-Z) elements, like lead.

Smashing ions (alpha, protons, heavy ions) into materials can also cause a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_shower
Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists
I'm thinking, more people could go "hunting" that way.
Scaling Pandas with Devin Petersohn – Weaviate Podcast #101
Hey everyone! I am SUPER EXCITED to publish our 101st Weaviate Podcast with Devin Petersohn from Snowflake! Devin has had a remarkable career so far in scaling dataframes from building Modin while at UC Berkeley to then marrying the project with Lux at Ponder, and eventually joining Snowflake!
This was one of the most educational conversations of my time hosting the Weaviate Podcast!!
Devin explained all sorts of things from:
• Origins of working on the scaling dataframes problem
• What makes Pandas slower than SQL?
• Separating the API from the Execution Engine
• What is a Task Execution Engine?
• Query Optimization
• Materialized Views
• Innovation in File Formats
• How to read CSVs faster?
• gRPC, Serialization, and Apache Arrow
• The Separation of Storage and Compute
• CUDA Dataframes and RAPIDS
• Ponder
• And of course... Large Language Models!!
I hope you find this useful! Thank you so much Devin!!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4XSsgyYR9c
Correct, but ruby historically (and might still) use a stop-the-world gc.

That’s why I specifically said “with a stop-the-world GC”
Sales receipts are not necessarily a spool of paper. It's just a separate log of individual activity/events and is the source of truth for the list of transactions. A spool of paper is easy to make/inherently tamper-evident (for the risk profile of a cash register), but cryptographically signed/sealed logs that are sent (spooled!) to a parallel system in tandem also qualifies.

If the "accounting software" is taking a shortcut by not recording an independent transaction log, the entire system is not very auditable.
What problems exactly? Haskell has a few things that imo it does better than most languages in this area:

- All IO is non-blocking by default.

- FFI support for interruptible.

- Haskell threads can be preempted externally - this allows you to ensure they never leak. Vs a goroutine that can just spin forever if it doesn't explicitly yield.

- There are various stdlib abstractions for building concurrent programs in a compositional way.
Just pair AC with dirt cheap solar panels and the problem takes care of itself.

No need to by hyper-efficient when energy is almost free.
It's not secret. It's out in the open and people who don't do it are looked at with scorn or dismissal.
It's no longer a boom (and yes, AI is probably far worse at this point)

And proof of stake consumes less energy, but still significant.
Don't Use Web.dev for Accessibility Info
Most people are pretty comfortable copying and pasting arbitrary commands they find on google and don't understand into the terminal, so I'm not convinced this is any worse.
Yeah I'm more thinking of something everyday consumers could use.
Start9 offers this. No experience with their servers, but looks interesting:
https://start9.com/
Here in the US that kind of thing generally varies from state to state. But as I understand it, in most states, once the verdict is rendered and the jury has been discharged, the jurors are free to discuss the case with anyone.
If you want your mind blown, Egan is the guy to do it. He writes proper hard sf.

I'd recommend his earlier stuff over his later stuff tho.
Big-picture, the idea is that different modalities of sensory data (visual, olfactory, etc.) are processed by different minicolumns in the brain, i.e., different subnetworks, each outputting a different firing pattern. These firing patterns propagate across the surface area of the brain, competing with conflicting messages. And then, to quote the OP, "after some period of time a winner is chosen, likely the message that controls the greatest surface area, the greatest number of minicolumns. When this happens, the winning minicolumns are rewarded, likely prompting them to encode a tendency for that firing pattern into their structure." And this happens in multiple layers of the brain.

In other words, there's some kind of iterative mechanism for higher-level layers to find which lower-level subnetworks are most in agreement about the input data, inducing learning.

Capsule-routing algorithms, proposed by Hinton and others, seek to implement precisely this idea, typically with some kind of expectation-maximization (EM) process.

There are quite a few implementations available on github:

https://github.com/topics/capsules

https://github.com/topics/em-routing

https://github.com/topics/routing-algorithm
Have you checked out Umbrel[1]?

You can self-host Umbrel on your own hardware[2]. I'm not sure if they allow for multiple nodes to stay in sync. If (/once) they do, it'd solve for disasters / availability as well.

[1]: https://umbrel.com

[2]: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel
Literally no

But social media did radically change society and not strictly for the better, imo.

With hindsight, someone saying “social media will destroy society” seems more justified than it did 20ish years ago.

I’m using hyperbole to elicit and emotional reaction which, hopefully, will give readers pause to reflect on what I wrote.

Not everything is strictly literal.
It may be cheaper or more effective to increase efficiency rather than offset the efficiency cost with more energy. Plus you can do both!
ok but...

>The letter stated that the axe-heads were discovered in County Westmeath using a metal detector.

>The museum explained those "severe penalties" are in place because unauthorised metal detecting can cause "serious damage to Ireland’s archaeological heritage
Not a larper but I have GM'd a tabletop game for a decade now and I have said the same thing about GM'ing the practice at leading, improve, reacting to unexpected surprises and trying to balance the needs of my players against the needs of the story have made me a better leader and communicator.
Is It Too Late to Save the Southern Grasslands?
Last episode of Tech Ingredients teased this:

https://youtu.be/hc_HcT4pIOE?si=0Nn1HwY-rpvhny9H&t=922

in the next video we're going to
show you how to improve the efficiency
of air conditioners and not by a small
amount it's estimated that approximately
$200 billion a year is used worldwide to
generate the electricity that drives air
conditioning so even a few per reduction
in the cost of running an air
conditioner would make a huge difference
and could save billions of dollars and
what we're going to show you isn't going
to improve the efficiency by a small
amount but by a huge amount so stay tuned
I would imagine that requests for this feature went way up as ChatGPT has popularized.
The American model of higher education focuses too much on teaching and too little on self-study. This makes the degrees more expensive and less useful. You need to hire more teachers if you want to cover every required topic in a class. And then the degree only signals that the graduate can learn complex things if properly supervised. It's less certain that the graduate can learn new things on their own, which future employers might want to know.
Chevereto – open-source self-hosted ImageShack alternative
per the submitted post, it seems that every time a sub postmaster manages to get an expert witness into court, the PO ends up settling out of court instead of continuing legal actions. For really good and pure reasons I am sure.
They're public domain and the images in the article are pretty high res I don't think anything is stopping you from getting a print made
Absolutely, email is in my profile. Please reach out.
With CO2 Levels Rising, Drylands Are Turning Green
Yeah, it's appropriately ironic that these things were supposed to give power to the people (excluding the private jets), but power has become consolidated to those who have the means to consolidate it ... and the climate pays.
A bit of a sensational title, I would say that Learning to Read as early as possible, then reading well above age level, would be a greater "Educational Life Hack".
Thank you that's a very useful article!
That's a very healthy approach to it and deserves applause. Kudos.

The goal of mobbing around task breakdowns is to drive the communication and building that shared understanding. Just with an output of writing most of it down in a way that makes it easy to track progress and approximate the size at the same time.
Haven’t you heard? Math, logic, reading and writing… it’s all white supremacist colonialism.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/the-folly-of-woke-mat...
> and Infineon didn't follow up with NASA or their contractor because they assumed that NASA was okay with the lower rad tolerance levels typical of space

It's more likely that Infineon's folks talking to NASA were equally clueless about this change.