skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the open kernel driver also fundamentally breaks the limitation about geforce gpus not being licensed for use in the datacenter. that provision is a driver provision and CUDA does not follow the same license as the driver... really the only significant limitation is that you aren't allowed to use the CUDA toolkit to develop for non-NVIDIA hardware, and some license notice requirements if you redistribute the sample projects or other sample sourcecode. and yeah they paid to develop it, it's proprietary source code, that's reasonable overall.

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/eula/index.html

ctrl-f "datacenter": none

so yeah, I'm not sure where the assertion of "no progress" and "nothing meaningful" and "this changes nothing" come from, other than pure fanboyism/anti-fans. before you couldn't write a libre CUDA userland even if you wanted to - the kernel side wasn't there. And now you can, and this allows retiming and clock-up of supported gpus even with nouveau-style libre userlands. Which of course don't grow on trees, but it's still progress.

honestly it's kinda embarrassing that grown-ass adults are still getting their positions from what is functionally just some sick burn in a 2004 viral video or whatever, to the extent they actively oppose the company moving in the direction of libre software at all. but I think with the "linus torvalds" citers, you just can't reason those people out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into. Not only is it an emotionally-driven (and fanboy-driven) mindset, but it's literally not even their own position to begin with, it's just something they're absorbing from youtube via osmosis.

Apple debates and NVIDIA debates always come down to the anti-fans bringing down the discourse. It's honestly sad. https://paulgraham.com/fh.html

it also generally speaks to the long-term success and intellectual victory of the GPL/FSF that people see proprietary software as somehow inherently bad and illegitimate... even when source is available, in some cases. Like CUDA's toolchain and libraries/ecosystem is pretty much the ideal example of a company paying to develop a solution that would not otherwise have been developed, in a market that was (at the time) not really interested until NVIDIA went ahead and proved the value. You don't get to ret-con every single successful software project as being retroactively open-source just because you really really want to run it on a competitor's hardware. But people now have this mindset that if it's not libre then it's somehow illegitimate.

Again, most CUDA stuff is distributed as source, if you want to modify and extend it you can do so, subject to the terms of the CUDA license... and that's not good enough either.
Oh wow, that's wild.

It's like a cuckoo that has evolved to mimic Steve Jobs, just enough to feed on VC and beta product dollars. I'm sure it'll take off out of the nest, fat and happy, once its brood parasitism is complete.
But, like, as a teen in the 80s by the time I learned C from Kernighan & Ritchie (not an exotic path back then), where a hashmap was one of the examples and the subject of a couple of the problems, it wasn't remotely new to me. The real world had plenty of others learning these things from Byte magazine and such even with no CS degree.
> that I cannot for the life of me figure out why the FTC/DOJ haven't been constantly trying to break up

Because Luxottica is not a US company, they are an Italian company based in Milan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica) which puts them out of direct reach of the US FTC/DOJ.
But seeing all this evidence to the contrary has made your belief in the theory stronger?
Cool! I haven't checked in a while, so good to know it's at least possible somehow.
He's closely associated with the Neoreactionary movement (NRx, for more research look up Curtis Yarvin) and coincidentally happens to be on good terms with the new VP pick JD Vance. They see principles like democracy as barriers to achiving personal power and enrichment. It makes a lot of sense he'd build a surveillance firm.

Relatively recent article from the Atlantic specifically on Thiel: https://archive.is/1Nz71

Slightly older article in Vanity Fair that covers his connections with NRx and other topics: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...
IIRC, on his deathbed he was complaining about the design of the hospital's suction catheters.
yup, not an extensive list, but further demonstrative:

- terminal emulators are not security hardened clients against malicious actors
- ssh lacks PKI and is inconvenient so users never do prekeying in practice, so it's TOFU / zero server assertion in most practical cases (i.e. easy to mitm)
- ssh channel features are a constant concern, for server resources and for client features like agents, agents are easy to disable
- most ssh implementations don't scale that well, it wasn't ever really a goal to do so
- there are few tools for auditing and monitoring, unlike the common protocols/services/clients

fun for toys, but i wouldn't put credit card details in there, unlike some streamers started doing lately.
Police warn of thieves using WiFi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms
I used irssi for years, but I want something that will work on my phone without the connection dropping all the time if I let the display go to sleep or if I change networks.
I’ve been to both and the Turkmenistan visa took me a week. North Korea required 2.5 years.
I stopped taking Buffett seriously when Lehman bankruptcy proceedings unearthed a massive exotic derivatives transaction Buffett did with top investment banks. You can google and find the details. He sold a naked long maturity “rainbow” put option on 3 indexes for billions of dollars in option premium.
This was at the same time he was publicly writing eloquent letters on how derivatives are weapons of mass destruction.
OK. How do you propose to fix the current situation, then?

Completely impractical “yeah, but”-isms basically turn HN into an online political rally. This isn’t thoughtful conversation.
It just simulating what most people do...
Two lines of shell script in 4 hours of custom Ansible module development
Bernice Johnson Reagon, US civil rights activist and singer, dies aged 81
>I don’t think there’s anywhere in SF city limits to put it.

If only there were somewhere nearby to house the undesirables in. Maybe on an island?
Should be updated now
because that's how the guberment collects data

frankly I prefer when it's the government rather than companies selling it to foreign countries or scammers
Exactly. Europe and Brazil didn't outlaw AI. They just outlawed opt-out use of personal data for training those models. You are still free to use opt-in or publicly available data for training.

Nevertheless, Meta was using photos from users in those regions not to develop local AI technology, but to strengthen its global business. The money, know-how and innovation were going to end in Silicon Valley anyway.
Only dead fishes flow with the stram.
No, there is nothing "insane" about suggesting people to at a minimum _consider_ starting a family or think about children. It's what humans have been doing for thousands of years and many find fulfillment in it.

Additionally, OP clearly stated that he is not "16" and doesn't want to explore "hobbies". As I mentioned in my comment below thread, exposing him to diverse point of views can help him figure it out on his own.
Who said that they don’t? One person voting for a politician doesn’t change governmental policy JUST for them. How unnecessarily condescending.
I Tried the Free Vacation No One Dares to Take [video]
Part of the reason for this is online job postings.

The good candidates apply to some jobs, get hired, and stop applying. Some terrible candidates will apply to hundreds of jobs, never get hired for long, and just keep applying on every job posting. So a small minority of terrible coders end up being a disproportionately large fraction of interviewees.
what if they can make money? then the problem is on claude/gemini...
What you are describing sounds like comparing traces of two supposed-to-be-identical programs to see where they first diverge. That's not what this is describing. There is no trace at all, nor any decision about what to trace or what not to trace.

There is only a decision about whether to use the old or new implementation based on the hash of the call stack at that moment. Then you binary search on hash values to identify the exact call stack hash for which the new implementation causes a problem. Then you run the program once more with the instructions "print the stack with this hash".
Haha yeah I was thinking about that. Either way my decision will work as evidence for itself.

Either I stop believing in the backfire effect due to the new evidence, or I ignore the new evidence and keep believing in the backfire effect :)
It's not like the AI made this on its own, it was iterative work with a human

> As I was making the song, I felt like I (a guy with no musical ability) was working with one of the most talented (and patient) bands to bring my song to life through brute force trial and error.

Max Martin comes to mind as an interesting comparison

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin)
It's a long video (watch at 1.25!) but a very interesting description of what happens if you try to actually take the scam "free trip" offered by timeshare companies.
The Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse has over 20,000 nerve endings
Yeah, it's wildly hyperbolic. Stuff like

> Blindly copying the bytes of an object instance, and just hoping that somehow that works correctly – in an object-oriented language derived from Smalltalk where even numbers are often reference types – is farcical.

is a nonsensical thing to say, when NSNumber started using tagged pointers 15ish years after NSCopyObject came into existence. But I'm sure it gets more clicks than just pointing out that a very old piece of software has some API warts which should be avoided.
AWS is sunsetting QLDB
Just received an e-mail informing that

> We are reaching out to you to inform you that after careful consideration, we have decided to end support for Amazon QLDB, effective July 31, 2025.

> As an active Amazon QLDB customer, you can continue to use the service as normal, including create new ledgers in your active account, until July 31, 2025. After this date the service will no longer operate, and any data that has not been migrated away from Amazon QLDB will be permanently deleted.

> To assist you with the offboarding process we have published a blog post [1] to guide you through next steps, including how to use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition as an alternative for audit use cases and instructions on how to migrate or export QLDB ledgers in and off AWS.

> If you need help planning your ledger migration or choosing the right destination for your ledger data, please contact your AWS Solutions Architect or open a support case with Amazon QLDB [2]. If you do not take any action, your data stored in Amazon QLDB will be deleted on July 31, 2025.
> These pixels are variable wavelength, but can only produce one at a time

Citation needed. The article doesn't say anything about how the colors are generated, and whether they can only produce one wavelength at a time.

Assuming they are indeed restricted to spectral colors, dithering could be used to increase the number of colors further. However, dithering needs at least 8 colors to cover the entire color space: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, white, black. And two of those can't be produced using monochromatic light -- magenta and white. This would be a major problem.
ssh definitely supports PKI, it's just not the standard workflow for individuals

ssh-keygen (1):

ssh-keygen supports signing of keys to produce certificates that may be used for user or host authentication.
Certificates consist of a public key, some identity information, zero or more principal (user or host) names and
a set of options that are signed by a Certification Authority (CA) key. Clients or servers may then trust only
the CA key and verify its signature on a certificate rather than trusting many user/host keys. Note that
OpenSSH certificates are a different, and much simpler, format to the X.509 certificates used in ssl(8)
I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure.

If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are the same age as I was 20 years ago are just as grim if not more so. They're at a point in their career where so much cool stuff is new to them, and they're completely dry and professional about it.

For example, I was in a huddle with a coworker, and we needed something from a parquet file. My coworker said he might have time later to write a script to extract the information, and I was like, "No, check this out!" and I started up duckdb and had the answer in under a minute. My coworker's response was just a monotone, "I've never seen that before. It looks useful." Not "whoa, cool!" or even a simple "nice." It was almost like he felt worse for knowing it existed.

It makes me look around at my coworkers and wonder if everybody could possibly be as miserable as they look and sound? And if so, why?
What are some examples?

What I've noticed buying Ikea stuff over the last 30 years so that it's gotten progressively lower-quality.

Take for example their Kallax shelves. I've purchased them at least 4 times in the last 20 years, each time, a part that was metal before got replaced by a plastic or wood part, the wood got thinner or less dense, .... They still work so maybe that's innovative.
If your partner is on medication.. uncertainty, fear, and mistrust.

But for as many medical trials as we've tried, you will not end up with HIV.

If your partner is HIV+, you also are likely on prep. If not, you're probably looking at a course of HIV medication within 48 hours.

So you are looking at a fair number of ways to mitigate, but the actual medical safety is a lower than expected risk.

(The dangerous chance is if you're having sex with someone who doesn't know their positive status, and you don't take other protective measures.)
Buran: The Most Impressive Thing the Soviets Ever Built [video]
What were you expecting them to do instead: use mmap instead?
Caching across sites is a privacy risk in itself, because scripts can measure the time required to load a resource and therefore detect if a visitor has visited another site with the same resource before. That‘s why modern browsers no longer cache across sites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135
True. It feels like humans are driven by individual selfishness, so much that it's threatening the survival of the species. But on a long timeline of centuries and millenia, somehow "collective selfishness" is working out well.

In terms of population, the past century has been a grand success, far above any local damage caused by immense selfishness of an individual or small group. Who knows, maybe such seemingly destructive tendencies are even contributing to further the collective.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999470
MPS is pretty cool but goddamn dod I hate projection.

Something that in theory sounds good but in reality means you have to build a bunch of extra tooling around it.

Feel like just text will be the way to go for a long time.
> It's not at all clear that "restarting with a small subset of cards" is better.

Sure it is. It could grow as quickly as allowed for given the time invested by the user. That could mean a return to the full subset within the span of a single day, or it could mean many months. Perhaps even never. It all depends on time invested by the user going forward. Starving regular review for the sake of verification is an example of an algorithm failing when faced with the real world.

At minimum it is clear from what was said that (better) prioritization between conflicting goals is needed. That somewhat matches my own experience with it from years ago. The algorithm was simply not flexible enough to fit my own usage patterns. In other words I was not part of the target audience, which I found frustrating because I very easily could have been.
In my opinion, neither way makes sense.

Some kind of things are just not the things that HTTPS is meant to do and therefore does not do very well. For downloading and uploading files (and forms, etc), HTTP(S) is working, although some other things won't fit very well with it, and are often done in a rather complicated way that still won't fit very well with it.

Client certificates are a feature of TLS, and not of HTTPS; however, since HTTPS is using TLS that means that you can use client certificates with HTTPS too, even though they are not commonly used. (Client certificates are more commonly used with Gemini protocol.)

The article says SSH does not have virtual hosting. HTTP does, and so does TLS (although I think some older versions of TLS do not have virtual hosting), so HTTPS does have that benefit, at least.
Also in this case, we don’t have to generalize “Native Americans” but specifically the Apache peoples/tribes.

What have they said about this?
Entirely regional. Houses near me are still under offer in days unless they have some critical flaw.
Labyrinth walking: An ancient activity that could help ease anxiety
How Many Languages Does Wikimedia Search Support?
Amazon wants employees to come to the office – and stay there
It's an interesting but fundamentally flawed idea. My suggestion would be to play with it and have fun but don't bet the house on it.

If you're curious what the flaw is, think Empiricism vs Rationalism.
Well yes and a processor is just a bunch of sand. It's the state and arrangement that matters.
I was puzzled earlier this week, by a bee repeatedly hovering over a flower, landing for a bit, and then hovering again. The same flower, again and again. Turns out there were a couple of small ants inside, on the petals of the narrow-necked flower. The bee would land on the style, seemingly trying to avoid touching the petals, and an ant would chase after its touches, feet and such, jaws open. Hover again, wait for the ant to move away, and repeat.
It’s hilarious that your off-the-cuff solution to “stopping data being shared to the intelligence groups” is itself reintroducing a known and now-mitigated security vulnerability.

This stuff isn’t easy. HN has way too big a head.
USPS Informed Delivery emails have tracking pixels. But all the mail scans are just attachments to the emails. You can configure email client to not load any remote content and the they will still get rendered pretty nicely. I was pretty surprised to see those attachments in the first place, because some of the scans were quite large (a few hundreds KBs).
> No single person will ever willingly consent to having their personal photos used to benefit a money grabbing company like Meta, or any company for that matter.

I'm pretty against big money-grabbing companies as you put it, but I'm happy to license all my photos, code, and art with public domain licenses, even if it benefits those companies. Because I think it's the right thing to do. Ultimately, companies use copyright as a weapon to oppress the speech and learning of regular folk.

If some kid who's trying to learn coding sees a function I wrote, they should be able to copy it wholesale if it pleases them to do so. If somebody in school is learning to make hobby games while they're supposed to be doing homework, they should be able to take a bunch of sprites from nintendo games and make the story about spider-man if they want to. they should be able to share that game with other people, and even sell it.

If meta uses artifacts I create to train their AI, that's a small price to pay for doing what's right for people who are just trying to learn and express themselves naturally.
absolutely brilliant solution for if your keyboard breaks and you REALLY need to send an email
I did story points with a team of 12 over a two-year period of time, and it worked.
I'm not talking about supporting public key cryptography, I'm talking about having a specific and usable deployment of a PKI. The closest thing SSH has is SSHFP, which depends on DNSSEC, which is according to many opinions, DOA.
This post has no substance but many words, was this written by LLM?
Hey, thanks for the response. Is it just a matter of measuring the LLC miss rate and then figuring out the max DRAM bandwidth somehow? What about in a multicore setting? NUMA? It would be nice to have a library or tool that works this out - always surprises me there isn't something off the shelf.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999470
Ask HN: How is your organization using LLMs?
I'm curious to hear how different organizations are integrating large language models (LLMs) into their workflows. Are you using them for customer support, content generation, data analysis, or something else? How have LLMs impacted your operations, and what challenges or benefits have you encountered?
Okay, I'm not really sure what you're talking about, apologies. I don't have anything else to add.
I really don't like this take. Your aversion to the use of LLMs in education just shows a lack of imagination.

1. LLMs are in their infancy

2. LLMs are better at explaining things than A LOT of teachers.

3. LLMs don't mistreat/shame students for lack of understanding

If I could get a degree just by chatting with an LLM, I'd do it in a heartbeat. School is about gaining understanding and skills, not something else.

I don't need a human to hold my hand along the way, I need an efficient, fair, and cheap system to prove I know 2+2=4.
I can't say for sure, but haven't worried about it since I opted to _not_ load remote content in e-mail messages.
This is not really a problem with the SSH protocol itself, but with certain things that the implementations may do automatically (although it would be easy to change them to not do such things automatically).

(This is unlike WWW. WWW is so complex and messy that it effectively does have fingerprinting and is difficult to change.)
Just like cough Bell Labs maybe?
I wonder how accurate a reset based on astronomical observations or GPS would be.

Just checked out https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-re...

I didn't understand everything, but it looks like they have a fleet of atomic clocks for UTC and are resilient to one of the clocks failing. I guess it is possible that if all of those clocks go down, the world loses track of time. I wouldn't want to be responsible for that cluster :)
I hope we can keep it alive. The latest volume of Knuth is full of puzzles, which is wonderful. But then I see the other top thread on HN where people are whining that they aren't getting paid more than 99.9% of the population for sitting at a desk solving problems all day. Sometimes I think those people don't deserve to be doing this job.
> moof (Movie Fragment Box)

Very cute easter egg. Moof is what dogcows say: http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/history.php