skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Socialists are always concerned with distributing production equally.

This doesn't reflect the most well-known socialist axiom on the distribution of production...

> "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

...which you appear to be aware of. The entire point of idealizing "to each according to his need" is that different people have different needs.
Confirming settings is standard and I had the same with AMD, the support person has to tick their boxes before they can forward you to RMA
Platonist meaning an assumption that mathematical objects have a real existence, and the universe is inherently mathematical, so we can just defer to mathematical reasoning instead of observation. I'm applying the term in a modern setting, not Plato or Aristotle debating the forms.

This debate played out in String Theory were some proponents claimed physics had progressed beyond the need for observation in favor of beautiful mathematical reasoning, that provided great explanatory power. But String Theory so far has failed to deliver a theory which describes our universe. Physics still needs to explain the actual world.
The Apache 2.0 license includes a patent grant.
>conclusions are as follows: Don’t use unsafe.Pointer

is it sort of an odd coincidence—or not a coincidence at all—that the generation we are told was raised by "helicopter parents" are also deathly afraid of pointers? It's like cats and cucumbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBrZsgy4-SQ

a pointer points, a knife cuts, it's you who determines… safe or nuts.

"...yes, your revulsion is palpatine. let your Hate flow through you, downvote the cucumber before it tells everybody how scared you are"
> So the problem is for llms yet the tool is for site owners?

The problem is that of end users, and the tool is an attempt to help them with their problem. It does require cooperation with site owners, yes, but when a site exists to help the end user...

> Why don't we make a tool that solves poverty by taxing the rich?

Well, for one, there is not nearly enough utilized resources in the world to solve poverty. Taxing everything we can get our hands on would still only provide a fraction of what would be needed to solve poverty. As things sit today, it is mathematically impossible to solve poverty.

There is all kinds of unutilized resources, namely human capital, that could potentially see an end to poverty if fully utilized, but you will never tax your way into utilizing unutilzed resources. A tool to unlock those resources would be useful, and, indeed, there are efforts underway to try and develop those tools, but we don't yet have the technology. It turns out developing such a tool is way harder than casually proposing that we agree to name a file `llms.txt`.
I'm not an compiler expert, not by far. But my understanding is that if you compile the same code on the same machine for the same target, you'll get the same bits. Only minor things like timestamps that are sometimes introduced might differ. In this sense, maybe they are not deterministic. But I think it's fair to classify them as "determinstic" compared to LLMs.
There's a big difference between "this project is like time travel or cold fusion; it's doubtful whether the laws of physics even permit it" and "this project is like heavier-than-air flight; we know birds do it somehow, but there's no way our crude metal machines will ever match them". I'm confident which of those problems will get solved given, say, a hundred years or so, once people roll up their sleeves and get working on it.
Last year, I had a recruiter from Automattic reach out to me. Doing my research (as I always do), I read that the interview process is quite unusual. It might be different now, but at the time a candidate went through several interviews, two weeks of paid trial, more interviews, two weeks of waiting for an answer, and little feedback the whole time. So for me, that would mean at least a month of stress and unresolved anxiety. :) Lots of people on glassdoor describe the CEO as "mercurial."

But anyway, things I liked about the company are that they tend to work with mature technology stacks (e.g. probably a culture of iterative improvement vs teardown-and-rebuild) and that all engineers start out doing three weeks of helpdesk. That should be more common in the industry.
Modern take would be to simply not open anything to the outside world - except WireGuard (TailScale or such).

From there everything is either considered "localhost" or a local network.

You can setup one or two central boxes (actual home lab "server" where you already have HTTP based services, and a raspberry pi zero 2 for backup) with TailScale.

With remote devices (including phones) in same tailscale network - you can access anything in home network as if you're physically home (but also have ACLs for kids/friends/etc).

On the other (professional) end - well then NginX and SSH are not even on the same network interface. And you run NginX LB/ReverseProxy on separate boxes compared to where actual apps/websites are ...etc.
Pretty sure the military made it clear they aren’t launching any nukes, despite what the last President said publicly. They also made it clear they weren’t invading China.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/18/politics/air-force-genera...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58581296.amp
"200V" is a terrible code to put in an efficiency product when inefficiency varies by voltage^2.
If its true that predicting the next word can be turned into predict the next pixel. And that you could run a zillion hours of video feed into that, I agree. It seems that the basic algorithm is there. Video is much less information dense than text, but if the scale of compute can reach the 10s of billions of dollars, or more, you have to expect that AGI is achievable. I think we will see it in our lifetimes. Its probably 5 years away
The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns [pdf] (2023)
Dynamicland Front Shelf
> Please do share.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Expand "OS Version."
Brutal. Intel processors will be the equivalent of government cheese. Not what anyone wants, but it's what you get with your government dollars.
Never heard of Kratos or FTT, they just bought a small turbine maker. GE Additive doesn't sound like they're doing any design work, just manufacturing.

None of the majors were interested in making a 35K engine (or apparently modifying their cores with the previous 4 engine design), it would be in a zone between large biz jets and commercial single-isle. The former are hundred million dollar iterations of existing designs, the latter are billion dollar developments now. As this is not a conventional engine, it will cost $1B to certification if they're lucky.

I guess it's theoretically possible if KSA is funding it like Lucid and your expectations are way lower than Lucid.
And you still have to do that with ZKPs. Otherwise, I can just "borrow" my buddy's license and get into a pub. Unless the ZKP will interface with a biometric authentication system and do something like facial recognition.

And even then, it hand-waves away the issues with revoked licenses. How do you do license revocation with ZKPs?
Wild that the people who made the language that forces me to type

if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

after every second statement are advising against code repetition.
Inflation is (was originally) the increase in monetary supply (when the Fed buys treasuries and prints money). That absolutely happened big time. And we're no where near back to 2020 levels. See: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Notice how the level of inflation kind of matches the balance sheet curve if you assume the peak was that 9% (~June 2022)...now we're back down to ~3%.

But the Fed is talking about lowering rates, not increasing them further (because we're just magically on some 'glide path' back down to 2% I guess). I suppose you'll call that price gouging as well when inflation flares up again? Some of what's being "disguised" here are the definitions of words.

Just saying there are other factors at play. It's not all about the big bad corporations.
That PineNote page doesn't even have screenshots. Absolutely pathetic marketing.
Not sure if country of residence makes any difference (I’m in EU), but at least I got a new pen from warranty when the nib holder broke. And I think it was even little over 2 years after the purchase.
> This draws into question exactly how 'autonomous' said autonomous zone was.

It seems like you're conflating sovereignty with economic dependence, which are two distinct concepts—being entirely economic independent seems highly geographically dependent. Few regions in the world are lucky enough to even have this option. For instance, you can be economically dependent on neighbors but still locally determine who runs the local courts. So it's not great evidence of how their society is run, particularly when other states—say, Afghanistan, where the current government has clearly exercised local sovereignty—have similarly been affected by the withdrawal of US troops and the seizing of assets.
I'm running Sway on Fedora Asahi Remix and I've experienced fewer crashes than in macOS (and the few crashes was software I've installed, the system is rock solid). And these days, I trust Fedora and Debian's maintainers more than Big Corps. If you're only using a few apps and don't really care what the system does as long as you do your $job, macOS and windows are good. But any custom workflows and you're in a lot of pain.
> I'm tired of things shitting dot-droppings into my home directory.

You're a saint. I have little faith that this will happen but I hope it catches on.
Seems like it's something as simple as a missing `sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'` ?
Reminds me of git itself, you read about its internals it sounds easy. You start trying to figure out how to map commands in a way that makes sense, it baffles you when things break.
wow, Thanks! Some super interesting resources, some that I haven't even heard of.
10 years of progress is a flash in the pan of human progress. The first deep learning models that worked appeared in 2012. That was like yesterday. You are completely underestimating the rate of change we are witnessing. Compute scaling is not at all similar to biological scaling.
It's not good as an e-book reader regardless of how much storage you need. It renders epubs to pdf on the fly (so changing the font size induces a long delay in a big document, for instance). The documentation even tells you it's not a good ebook reader.
I shave with only water and a philips oneblade (because I also trim). I used to just use whatever schick quattro or Gillette equivalent was cheapest when I kept a clean shave. And I can use the same blade for at least a year, maybe even 2.
Linda Sun and Chris Hu Indictment [pdf]
I love boring old ubuntu desktop
I guess it all depends on the prices the utilities have to pay to buy the power and whether they are forced to buy the power if they don't need it. If the price is higher than the rate the utility would pay for utility scale solar, than I think you have to admit the owner of the solar panels is getting at least a small subsidy - likely paid for by other rate payers who are unable to put up solar. If the price paid is basically the same, then there should be no complaints from the other rate payers.
> Math, of course, is that stuff which can’t be invalidated by observations.

This is a misunderstanding of what math is, I think. You can invent a perfectly valid mathematical theory that conflicts with observations. Math is just a sequence of "if this, then this" and if the conclusions follow from the premises, it's math. But if you demonstrate that in the universe we occupy, a premise isn't true, then the mathematical theory isn't any less valid, it's just not sound in our universe.

For example, there's a ton of completely valid mathematical work on the correspondence between anti-de Sitter spaces and Conformal Field Theory. However, much of this mathematics has no application in our universe, because our universe seems to be a de Sitter space (positive cosmological constant/expanding), not an anti-de Sitter space (negative cosmological constant/contracting). That doesn't make their math invalid, it just makes it not real.

You can also do a lot of math in Minkowski spaces, which are flat. But our universe isn't flat, it's curved. Doesn't mean it's not math, just that it's not real in our universe.
Pledge and Unveil makes a ton of sense, because it moves the responsibility to the developer who should know the application better than the systems administrator.

Sometimes, when the developers make a mistake, which is unavoidable in a large project, it is nice to be able lock down applications as the administrator.I just don't think SELinux is the right tool, because the chance of you making a mistake in the configuration is pretty high. The functionality is there, but it needs to be easier to write policies and maybe that comes at the cost of some flexibility.
I really do love mine too, and support has been rather good. I do worry about it reaching end of life, but only mildly. I do wish that boox would open source their android changes, they are arguably the best in class features for eink, and beat the pants off systems like the Kindle
In capitalism it is your choice how to spend your resources - on the farm or on a rocket shop.
Yes. I’d assume it’d be slightly different on different monitors
I think the issue, in the author's case, is that they don't have any projects they truly and completely believe in. The part where they sit down and browse through their archive of unfinished projects is telling. To really get one across the finish line you have to wake up thinking about it and have the completed vision of it burning a hole in your brain and that's what keeps you pushing through all the yak shaving and CSS refactors day after day.

Which is to say, I believe the "productivity porn" angle - setting up certain processes/systems - is a red herring. Inspiration is the driving force.
Intel Core Ultra 200V Series Lunar Lake Launched
There are class actions now like https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/clearview-ai-fac...

Nobody even knew what OpenAI was up to when they were gathering training data - they got away with a lot. Now there is precedent and people are paying more attention. Data that was previously free/open now has a clause that it can't be used for AI training. OpenAI didn't have to deal with any of that.

Also OpenAI used cheap labor in Africa to tag training data which was also controversial. If someone did it now it would they'd be the ones to pay. OpenAI can always say "we stopped" like Nike said with sweat shops.

A lot has changed.
If anyone actually does this - please have a backup for the time when either Fail2Ban or/and PortKnocking (so both) fail or lock you out.
"Biological activity" is just computation with different energy requirements. If science rules the universe we're complex automata, and biologic machines or non-biological machines are just different combinations of atoms that are computing around.
I've taken a stab at analyzing the game for 3, 4, and 5 numbers here: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/09/04/the-game-is-fl...

There's obviously a huge gap between the 5-number game and the 100-number game; it's possible that the best mixed strategies settle down as the number of choices gets larger, or (for all I know) it's possible that the best mixed strategies get crazier and crazier. I'd love a ping if anyone does any real exploration of the 6-, 7-, etc.-number games.
Discussion yesterday (38 points, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435760
People who have 8200 on their resume can easily back it up with photos and official documentation.
Boom's Blake Scholl: from high school dropout to supersonic highflyer (2022)
FTT definitely knows how to design and build jet engines, but iirc all their designs so far are small subsonic engines for drones and cruise missiles. I'd love to see it happen, but his is brand new territory for them in both size and performance.

edit: not a Fourier transform
They are building a huge fab in Ohio but I don't see Intel as a going concern that will be around at the date of completion. I fully expect the project to be abandoned.
And they'll love it more, once Analytics for Recall gets deployed to their middle managers
you can backup and sync without the subscription. you just don't get unlimited storage.
OMG, it's Mike Herf! I even linked your "give me a gigabyte" article randomly yesterday to someone complaining of an application using 1gb on his 64gb machine, and remember most of your website off by heart still, in particular the soft shadows / roundrects, all the way to random funny things like SreeD :) Thanks so much for the great articles <3
I'm not saying it's right, but... The people making spending decisions are vastly disconnected in most cases from the people who content with reliability issues.
If you have the technology to push big space rocks onto a collision course, you have the technology to push big space rocks off a collision course.
Non-Newtonian fluids are fun... until they aren't.

One time a group of college students I hung out with got a bulk order of silly putty. This was fun to play with. Until someone had the idea of dropping it from about 6 feet up onto the floor. It shattered. Picking up slivers of silly putty from the carpeted floor was not fun.

Elsefluid ... a different category (shear thinning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_thinning ) has it so that if you drop something through it, it takes {some time}. If you immediately drop another thing through it at the same spot, it takes {some less time}. One of the chemistry professors wanted to do some experiments with this type of fluid and had his grad students develop a proof of concept. There are some challenges with this - it can't be a thin cylinder of the fluid you drop it through since the distance to the walls is a variable in the speed too. It also needed to be a tall enough cylinder with enough viscosity that you could time it with a stopwatch (initially). One such fluid that has this property is ketchup. They bought 10 gallons of ketchup from the local grocery store (that's all that was on the shelf ... seriously, you need about 7x 20 oz bottles to make one gallon), poured it into a large cylinder... realized that they needed a clear bottom to see it, made a new cylinder with a plexiglass bottom, and did the experiment. They dropped steel ballbearings from height into the the ketchup and timed the duration it took to drop one and the same spot that another had just traveled through vs a new spot. It worked and so they then worked on synthesizing 40 liters of a particular polymer that had that property (another significant effort - took much longer than buying 70 bottles of ketchup) but had the advantage that you could see through it.
Yeah, we take a lot of things for granted. Intelligence is relative, and so we do find a normal distribution when defining IQ with a target median and mode of 100. However, we don't have to construct a society where thriving requires a median intelligence! That's a choice made by those who, as you say, benefit more from the system.

It's not so simple to measure intelligence, anyway. I marvel at some of the things a below-average person does every day such as drive a car at high speeds on the interstate, or navigating political bureaucracy. Meanwhile, I'm two standard deviations above the mean but have ADHD and sometimes struggle with basic tasks that even people of below-average intelligence have mastered.

The contrast is so much at times that I can see the confusion and concern in the faces of those around me whenever I have an ADHD moment. Yet, I'm an expert in multiple subjects, a quick learner and have a well-developed sense of intuition. People are multi-faceted, and we're not going to get very far with over-simplistic models of intelligence.
> Human brains use neural networks...

They don't, actually.
Can't say that I haven't disabled AppArmor on a server or two to make things work short term. Fixing the AppArmor is a bit easier than fixing SELinux policies though.
Hmmm, is it credible that Iran is trying to undermine US democracy and support for Israel with misinformation published on the "Savannah Time" - “your trusted source for conservative news and perspectives in the vibrant city of Savannah"?

Obviously a New York Times article claiming that Iran is spreading misinformation on an obscure local website is enormously more impactful: how many US citizens will be pushed to taking a side opposite to Iran (therefore pro Trump and pro Israel) by the news of this manipulation attempt? Of course, you would need a refined actor to pull something like this, an actor with advanced hacking abilities and a lot of credence in the media...
That's true but irrelevant to my point.

If rooftop solar costs me $300/MWh, that's a third cheaper than the $450/MWh charged by my local utility provider. So, even without any subsidy or feed-in tariff, it would be rational for me to install solar, use it when available, and fall back to the grid when it's not.

Again, the only point I'm making is that this this statement appears to be true:

The thing with rooftop/local solar is that it doesn't need to compete with wholesale electricity prices, it only need to compete with retail prices. It's already competitive there [without any need for subsidies]

I'm not arguing for or against subsidies.
i have my own syllabus kind of thing curated: https://geekodour.org/docs/updates/syllabi/#hb03-get-back-at...

i don't think my math problem is new. i remember after one summer vacation(we used to get one full month break in school during summers) after summer vacation i totally forgot how to do subtraction, i had difficulty subtracting 2 digit numbers. this was around 8th standard.

later this problem came up in other areas, i catch things pretty quickly but forget them faster! so the way i am currently approaching math and other problem solving is i keep in touch with everything very casually by doing minimal practice and this is good enough for me for now whenever i need to jump into more advanced stuff.

plus chatgpt/claude has been a lifesaver in this regard related to concepts but I don't think anything can beat the intuition that comes from practice. I've heard good things about math academy but idk if it'll be good for me as I don't like to do "math" on the computer and don't like quizzes much.
Bluetooth 6 Launches, Could Enhance iPhone's Precision Finding Feature
I'm curious… if many uses cases are covered by two products, don't those two products compete? If two products compete, how can you think that they're not in the same market in any sense?

To my mind, my ultralight private laptop is more similar to a many tablets and two-in-ones than to the 16" Macbook Pro that I was issued from my employer. Saying that the two laptops are in the same market and the tablets/two-in-ones aren't in that same market… just doesn't make sense to me.
Learning to Live Beside Endangered Tigers May Be the Key to Saving Them
Well, that was some time I'll never get back. What a fun little game.
You mean the mention of MCS labels? I read that, but I guess I don't understand the practical implications.
I feel like that's already been demonstrated with the first-generation video generation models we're seeing. Early research already shows video generation models can become world simulators. There frankly just isn't enough compute yet to train models large enough to do this for all general phenomena and then make it available to general users. It's also unclear if we have enough training data.

Video is not necessarily less information dense than text, because when considered in its entirety it contains text and language generation as special cases. Video generation includes predicting continuations of complex verbal human conversations as well as continuations of videos of text exchanges, someone flipping through notes or a book, someone taking a university exam through their perspective, etc.