skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At its heart, Kubernetes is a workload scheduler, and a fairly opinionated one at that. IMO, it's too complicated for folks that just need an "extensible platform" when all they really need is a dumb scheduler API without all the Kubernetes bells and whistles that have been bolted on over the years.

Kubernetes tries to be everything to everyone and makes the entire thing too complicated. Seeing Kubernetes broken up into smaller, more purpose built components and let folks pick and choose or swap could be helpful, at the risk of it becoming OpenStack.

There's an alternate reality where Fleet is the defacto scheduler and cats and dogs live together in harmony.
another perthian! w00t
<ctl>+f entropy didn't return anything, so I went looking for the paper. It looks like it is: "High-Temperature Gibbs States are Unentangled and Efficiently Preparable" [0] but maybe it is "Structure learning of Hamiltonians from real-time evolution" [1]

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16850

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00082
I've not heard of it since, no. It's got some steep hills to climb as a concept before it's a better option for building materials than just pouring more concrete.
The engine part is looking for users that are somewhat, but not totally satisfied and building for them.

That is - you don’t want to build for people that already love your product (it’s already great for them!) and you don’t want to build for people that absolutely don’t like your product (would need a very different product), but instead build for people that you can convert from “somewhat like” to “love”.
>I'm hoping to see more decentralized/hyper-local power generation and storage

With the scale we're dealing with decentralization does not work. You need to centralize for efficiency (i.e. optimize power generation and maintenance per unit of land-area). Though in this case the point is moot, since we don't have any grid-scale storage solutions for wind/solar - making them non-viable as the primary power generation regardless of price.
I'm trying to figure out the logic that makes "free for commercial use with less than 700 million monthly active users" less open than "free for non-commercial use", which is the traditional norm for non-copyleft open source machine learning products. But I just can't get there. Could somebody spell it out for me?
A more fitting quote would be "They gave them the propaganda number".
Reasoning explained here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3173-floa...

TLDR: no one really uses it, the spec is ambiguous and deprecated, and those that do use it seem to be using it with constants that are usually infinities which is better suited and clearer with next_up/next_down, and those that don’t use infinities tend to assume the range of the value and pick a constant outside the range which can be dangerous if the range changes
Linux 6.12 to Optionally Display a QR Code During Kernel Panics
Mmm. A lot of it’s motivated by pain, with the output filtered through a web of organizational friction, principal agent problems, self-promotional nonsense, and other harmful factors. If the web’s any indication, there’s no guarantee this activity is efficient at getting us closer to meeting a high quality bar.
> Having a modem is a pretty handy thing built into it.

in what way?
You still agree to this EULA by using it:

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1/blobs/0ba8f0e314b4

> By clicking “I Accept” below or by using or distributing any portion or element of the Llama Materials,
you agree to be bound by this Agreement.
Given how dominant AMD-based options are from a new machine standpoint (you can get a pretty good 5000-series U-grade processor for less than $250 on Amazon) I’m kind of surprised by the lack of AMD options on the list. This is a useful idea though, but I wonder if the lack of AMD may be hinting at some variable that hasn’t been considered?
As with nearly anything Trump-related, it's based on very little of anything to do with reality, and good luck with trying to source it other than "I said it".
Yes this confuses me too. In developed countries a huge amount of energy goes to using things, not just making them. Let alone efficiency gains from production.

This is possibly why energy use has flattened while GDP clips along at its normal exponential curve - we're also more efficient.
This is great! The one thing I'd say is that the market is rife with non-mainstream brands. As an example "Beelink" [0] and "Minisforum" [1] are very commonly referred to and have a lot of great models, but they're not well represented here and often times offer better value depending on what the buyer is looking for. My recommendation would be to expand the vendors into the popular non-mainstream brands. Easy ask, but harder to execute on your side - so I get it.

Also, AMD is crushing this market - but AMD is pretty under-represented here. There are also some great N-series Intel machines that are highly popular and you can get on AliExpress [2]. Or even more US focused brands under this umbrella like Protecli [3]

[0] https://www.bee-link.com/
[1] https://www.minisforum.com/
[2] https://www.servethehome.com/fanless-intel-n200-firewall-and...
[3] https://protectli.com/
MTA Says No More Free Bus Rides for Fare Evaders
Not who you are replying to, but likely: 1) heat 2) fan noise 3) power consumption.

I recently (8 months ago) replaced my 10 year-old laptop. The only reason I retired it was because the display was starting to go.

So I bought a second-hand workstation-class laptop with 6 beefy CPU cores and kinda wish I hadn't. Overall I want to like it but the battery life is abysmal, it makes a lot of heat even when fairly idle, and is a bit heavy due to the large heatsink inside. (And that's without a dedicated GPU.)

If I had to do it over again, I would trade it for one with a weaker but more power-efficient CPU.
McMaster will get it to your house next-day in lots of places too, and you don't have to deal with the local hvac supply house refusing to sell to a walk-in customer that isn't an employed hvac tech.
Chrome VRP Reward Updates to Incentivize Deeper Research – Google Bug Hunters
Yes, this is exactly why I switched as well.

Also a benefit was actually being able to understand and edit my conf file without having to RTFM everything. Certainly not a reason to switch by itself, but a nice plus.
Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250k
I think that focusing primarily on the discussion of what is or isn't open source software makes us miss an interesting point here, that Llama enables users to have a similar performance to frontier models in your own systems, without having to send data to third-party sources.

My company is building an application for an university client, regarding the examination of research data written in "human language" (mostly notes and docs).

Due the high confidentiality of the subjects, as often they deal with non-patented information, we couldn't risk using frontier models, as it could break the novelty of the invention, therefore losing patentability.

Now with Llama3.1, we can simply run these models locally, on systems that is not even connected to the internet. LLMs are mostly good in examining massive amount of research papers and information, at least for the application we are aiming at, saving thousands of hours of tiresome (and very boring) human labour.

I am trying to endorse Meta or Zuckerberg or anything like that, but at least in this aspect, I think Llama being "open-source" is a very good aspect.
If you’re on an Apple device, Mail.app provides a unified inbox.
For example, you start a `screen` session, and within one of those `screen` windows, you SSH to an untrusted remote system, and that remote system can then send arbitrary bytes to be interpreted by `screen`. If there's a bug, it's potentially remote system having arbitrary code execution capability on your local system that's running `screen`, under your UID, and then escalate from there.
Well volume is an issue. Even a low margin part which has very high volume sales can help you afford to build leading edge Fabs, and keep process technology leadership.
>So it's possible to build more and use less energy, even if you don't reduce the energy cost of building things.

In principle I can imagine that being true - but that's not represented in our world, so it is an open question if you can 'build more and use less energy' in the real world.
As someone who also uses emacs, I type C-a a so often that sometimes I do the same in emacs and it leaves an extra a. It's quite rare though.
DJB and Tanya operate as a unit. Saying Lange agrees with DJB is like citing Clark as support of Lewis.
> quantum systems - even messy complex ones, boxes containing cats and air - evolve unitarily and do not destroy a superposition

This is wrong, they do collapse, you can test this using the double slit experiment. No human has to be there for the wavefunction to collapse and thus break entanglement.

If what you said was true then this wouldn't be a part of physics, physics is only about stuff we can measure not nonsense that has no meaning.
Those other methods are great in a philosophical debate, but have no power until implemented as law.

I'm not saying you're wrong, those kinds of debate are great at telling you what the law should be, but the practicality of it is that a right you can't enforce is not useful.
From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft's chatbot
Would it be difficult to add a 'rename from scratch' feature? I mean a feature that takes normal code (as opposed to minified code) and (1) scrubs all the user's meaningful names, (2) chooses names based on the algorithm and remaining names (ie: the built-in names).

Sometimes when I refactor, I do this manually with an LLM. It is useful in at least two ways: it can reveal better (more canonical) terminology for names (eg: 'antiparallel_line' instead of 'parallel_line_opposite_direction'), and it can also reveal names that could be generalized (eg: 'find_instance_in_list' instead of 'find_animal_instance_in_animals').
They literally said you can do this at around 40 users.
I believe there is `pass-age` https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage ... unifies to `ssh` keys as the key material.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

```
RECIPIENT can be an age public key generated by age-keygen ("age1...")
or an SSH public key ("ssh-ed25519 AAAA...", "ssh-rsa AAAA...").
```
Nvidia and Mistral AI's super-accurate small language model
I've been using pandas for over a decade and I'm very efficient with it.

The Modern Pandas blog series from Tom Augsburger is excellent, and the old Wes McKinney book (creator of pandas) gave a good glimpse into how to effectively use it.

I don't think many people learn it correctly so it gets used in a very inefficient and spaghetti script style.

It's definitely a tool that's showing it's age, but it's still a very effective swiss army knife for data processing.

I am glad we're getting better alternatives, Hadley Wickams tidyverse really showed what data processing can be.
Just as an FYI Ibis is being around for 10 years approximately...
Spec CPU 2017 and GCP: Mid-2024 Performance Refresh
Wow, haven’t seen this before, hyprland looks amazing. Any issues with this setup?
… which is usually mediated by electric field interactions, involving virtual photons.

Right?
Our Bigger Brains Came with a Downside: Faster Aging
... which is the exact opposite of being "the first".
Show HN: Radiance Cascades
Brian Pontarelli Scaled FusionAuth to 6k Customers
Hope and disparity: a colorful new way to visualize air quality around the world
SPARC Initiative: US NIH funds open map/treatments of human Vagus Nervous System
Just discovered this amazing project the US government is funding to not only map the human vagus nervous system in high resolution but also create treatments via the multi-million NeuroMod Prize

* https://commonfund.nih.gov/sparc

* https://www.neuromodprize.com/about-the-neuromod-prize/
I think TSMC, ASML and ARM are making quite good money on the iPhone. And so did Samsung for a while before the Apple A4 came out.
coincidentally the flat earth movement is imploding a bit, as their 'thought' leaders were invited to visit the south pole to observe 24h day as witnesses.

A thing technically impossible for flat earth 'model'. But they just started attacking each other as not reliable enough to go.

Anyhow they would claim time near the edges slows down the time or the whole thing was a virtual 3d future tech used to fool them
Never used Superhuman - has to be one of the most hyped startups with the least amount of IRL users that I know of
IIRC: RHEL9 no longer has screen (EPEL-only), and only has tmux.
There are plug-and-play kits for installation on balconies that are popular in Germany: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/germany-solar-pa...
"how I learned to ____ and love ____" titles seem so editorialized I don't want to read the article but it ended up being interesting.

however, i'm not sure yet how it's useful outside of fly.io. It seems odd to say "I like to self host" and then yield to fly.io.
> Sorry this just false. Battery deployment for electricity grid storage is progressing with unprecedented and accelerating speed.

And what, exactly, is that speed? The US plans to deploy "15GW" (presumably the authors mean GWh of storage, GW is not a unit of storage) of grid storage in 2024. That's less than 2 minutes of storage!

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61202#:~:tex....

Again, global battery production is only about 6-700 GWh (be careful with figures that cite capacity, which is distinct from actual production). And very little of that is dedicated to grid storage.
Apple doesn't make their own chips TSMC does and TSMC generated net income of US$26 billion in 2023.
You should ignore this article. They ultimately did not get PMF
There are some refurbers that will take office PCs and put a modern-ish GPU, upgrade the PSU etc. That said, Mini PCs don't offer PCIe expansion most of the time, so a GPU upgrade isn't an option. Less appealing compared to new options.
I think this is just the ollama site rehosting in violation of the license (unless there is some fine print I am missing). Huggingface makes you login and accept the agreement.
Interesting, so like aalib for the browser?
It's the title of the blog post.
Dask was really cool back in the day. Farewell, friend.
No, citing one example of the current system as "proof" that the whole system must be thrown out is the problem with "politics as a whole."

Also: thinking that a few paragraphs on Hacker News constitutes sufficient wisdom is another problem with "politics as a whole." It is not going to convince you no matter what I or anyone else says.

Do some research. That probably means reading some books, hate to warn you.
> wave function collapse is relative

No it isn't, why do you think this? If it was we wouldn't be able to see it in our experiments, as where the particle ends up would depend on which observer is looking, which would get absurd consequences.
There is nothing weirdly cynical about it. This is a fact of life in Silicon Valley - that a lot of FLOSS is released for strategic reasons (such as building up a community before enclosing it to extract a profit), and not because the Grinch's heart grew 2 sizes one day. "Commoditize your complement": https://gwern.net/complement

You can benefit a lot from it, and I have... but do be sure you know what you are ferrying on your back before you decide to offer it a ride across the river.
This is, in my opinion, a silly argument for a number of reasons. The main one being that a robot is not a "species", it is a machine.
superdeterminism is deeply weird, just in a different way that most of the other quantum mechanics interpretations are deeply weird. The main thing is that it implies that this global quantum state is just-so arranged that no matter how you make your decisions about what to measure, it's always correlated with the underlying quantum state.
Would a Group Opposed to Police Blow the Whistle on Its Founder?
Apple designs their own chips, but they don’t make them.

In any other context, that might be splitting hairs but it’s a meaningful distinction in this conversation.
I clocked that too.

Perhaps author is nodding towards replacing fossil fuels with electricity.

Decarbonizing steel uses a lot more energy. Ditto cement, plastics, fertilizers, HVAC, etc.

Anyone care to guess how much more energy our glorious renewable energy future perfect economy will require? 4x? 6x?
When would you expect to put a video of a diagram into a readme file?
fun fact if you weren't aware, Ibis was also originally created by Wes McKinney and takes a lot of inspiration from the tidyverse
The issues for p.v. are mainly two:

- one is speculation, because yes panels get cheaper, so inverters and batteries, but prices to the customers AUGMENT more and more, and current prices for private, domestic p.v., at least in the EU, it's so high that's a nonsense installing them. Personally, since in my country it legal, a thing NOT so common, I've build a small domestic system for 11.500€ while the cheapest offer was a bit more than 30.000€ for essentially the same setup, worst than mine;

- the other is again speculation on many sides, one of the most prominent the push toward utility-run p.v. witch is UNSUSTAINABLE, because it makes the load to large classic power plant vary way too quickly and too much to keep the frequency stable because we can't make enough grid storage and for such usage batteries life span it's way too low, p.v. works very well for self-consumption, with domestic storage as a grid backup, but not more.

If we do not state clearly: the service model where very few own nearly all it's incompatible with the Green New Deal, we have two options: killing large finance capitalism model or falling to implement the New Deal plunging from the first to the third world countries. I'm damn serious.
I was with you until:

>If an LLM can interact with a browser and figure out how a UI works and take code hints from un-mimified code I think we could see all SAAS apps be commoditized. The backend would be proprietary, but it could figure out API formats and suggest a backend architecture.

whoooha! that's a lot of probing and testing of the SAAS that would be required in order to see how it behaved. SAAS aren't algorithms, they operate over data that's unseen on the front end as well...

>All this makes me think AI's are going to be a strong deflationary force in the future.

I don't get this. I've literally never worked anywhere which had enough software engineers, we've been going on about software crisis for about 50 years and things are arguably worse than ever. The gap between the demand for good software (in the sense that allocating capital to producing it would be sensible) and the fulfillment of that demand is bigger than ever. We just don't have the mechanisms to make this work and to make it work at an economically viable level.

Then we get AI to help us and everyone thinks that the economy will shrink?
Btw, they definitely did not find my steam account or actually report me. Even if they did, it’s literally a free shooter. Id be on another account within minutes. Yes I’m aware of how to get around HWID/IP bans…

Glad to see that my comment caused quite the shit storm though.
My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books
Ramadan is repetitive partial daily fasting, so less valuable than a long term continuous fast.
Having access to a weight doesn't make it open. Else you can make the argument that Microsoft Word is open source because you have access to the binary.
I think probably not, if the assets are coming from the same place, since the connection will be reused in most modern situations. Maybe if you’re loading the JS from a CDN though, and there are no other large resources, or those resources come from a different server.
Editorial decisions can be unethical but rarely illegal, so I'm assuming there's absolutely no legal standing there and it's solely intimidation
If you don't like to run javascript outside of a browser, MkDocs is a great Python-based alternative: https://www.mkdocs.org/
As a test, I refactored a 500 line-ish analytical query that joins more than 20 tables with tens of complex CTE and I can say that this FROM-first syntax is superior than the legacy syntax on almost every single aspect.
Frameworks for Implementing Distributed Protocols
> Without the support from upstream, just _syncing_ your fork with upstream can be a massive pain, as your changes conflicts with the new upstream changes.

This happens if you don't fork often, post your changes once in a very long time, and don't rebase your work very often.

If you rebase often enough you shouldn't have the mergeability problem.

> It's even more debilitating when you realize your efforts may not even be rewarded -- the upstream can simply decide to refuse to merge your fork.

The alternative is letting people greenlight you to even go and do a proof of concept. It smells like bureaucracy to me.

Having a fork and a working proof of concept can back your argument about feature development. The implementation is just a detail and can be adjusted or reworked as necessary.

Otherwise you risk your ideas getting stalled (or worse, completely rejected) by people that don't even fully understand what you're talking about.
String Theorists Accidentally Find a New Formula for Pi
Also The post-Covid interest rate hikes. Which is why prices went up from 2021-2023. The author attributes this only to supply chain: developers had PPAs signed in 2019-2021 that assumed lower borrowing & construction costs, then interest rates went up sharply, and all those PPAs had to be either renegotiated or the underlying project was never built.
A 4chan post, no doubt.
The only polls that matter happen at the ballot box, and in the legislatures. You have one meaningless data point.
Yep, and it's annoying because variable speed units themselves are _better_ than the old classic one or two-speed units. They are more economical, quieter, and mechanically more reliable.

But the insane control systems compensate for it.
Oh my, this is amazing. Nostalgia lane!
Show HN: Pod the Road Again – AI audio stories for the coolest places in America
That would be a great (and extremely justified) way to bring antitrust actions against those 'in control of search'.
> The cat's observations of itself would still be in superposition in theory.

Not anymore, not according to this theory.
I have mixed feelings about this. It's saying that python is too slow for data science ignoring that python can outsource that work to Pandas or NumPy.

For GraphQL on Rails you can avoid graphql-ruby and use Agoo[1] instead so that that work is outsourced to C. So in practice it's not a problem.

1. https://github.com/ohler55/agoo
> It is a fixed resource for people; everyone dies.

What has dying got to do with it? Everyone dies at different ages and points in time. That’s the opposite of fixed. Again, time isn’t fixed. Even if you sell your time by the hour, not every hour is equally productive.

> Git was fine

You’re once more conflating git the tool and GitHub the service. They’re separate things and in your own link they recommend alternatives to GitHub which use git.

> it became a way to launder intellectual labor to benefit MSFT shareholders instead of the people who did the work.

Again, how is that different from what you claim to do? You explicitly said you sell your time to the highest bidder, meaning you’d have done the same if you had been paid for it and thus have no moral high ground. Or you wouldn’t in fact have done it because you have scruples, in which case you don’t really sell your time to the highest bidder but take other factors into account.

You can’t have it both ways. Personally I hope you do the latter.
I've never seen OAuth replace the scenario of a first-party site allowing user generated content that can embed a third-party site authentication flow. Are people using OAuth for that?

I've only ever seen it for explicitly supported authentication flows by the first-party site.