skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keeping a factory alive is not free. If you have committed to delivering a certain product for the next 30-50 years, you need to be able to deliver that product even in year 49. Even if it's only three parts and the factory is only profitable when producing thousands a year.

Some costs that will crop up even without investing in R&D and maintenance:
- Factory maintenance. The lights need to stay on, the floors need to be swept and the bearings need to remain greased. Things like ISO and security certifications also need to be kept up to date.
- The longer a product runs, the more likely it is that the original employees on the production line retire or leave for another job. This means you'll need to be able to find and train new people for a job that uses tools and methodologies no longer used anywhere else. It will probably be more expensive to hire for those jobs than for jobs where people learn transferable skills that they could use in the rest of their careers.
- After 40 years, many of the components in the production machinery will be difficult to come by. A CNC machine from that time might use the (then brand new) 286 processor. If it breaks, where would you source extra 286 processors? Alternatively you can redesign the process to use up-to-date components, but that costs a lot of extra money.
- Usually the demand for components drops off over time as the world moves on to something more modern. For example, demand for components of older fighter jets will slowly drop off as new airframes are no longer being built and the existing ones slowly get taken out of service. This means you'll need to spread the fixed costs of the above points over fewer and fewer components over time.
- Finally, the need for R&D and marketing doesn't actually go away. If you only focus on producing (say) targeting processors for the F16, your company will go out of business at the latest when the last F16 leaves service. Your shareholders will probably not be happy about that, so it's still important to invest in gaining new contracts too.
Half way through your second paragraph I just knew you'd be reaching for 'jq'!

All joking aside, that's not a bad solution to the underlying problem. Fundamentally, unstructured data in shell pipelines is much of the issue, and JSON can be used to provide that structure. I'm seeing more and more tools emit or accept JSON. If one can pinch their nose and ignore the performance overhead of repeatedly generating and parsing JSON, it's a workable solution.

Years ago, a project idea I was really interested for a while was to try to write a shell in Rust that works more like PowerShell.

Where I got stuck was the fundamentals: PowerShell heavily leans on the managed virtual machine and the shared memory space and typed objects that enables.

Languages like C, C++, and Rust don't really have direct equivalents of this and would have to emulate it, quite literally. At that point you have none of the benefits of Rust and all of the downsides. May as well just use pwsh and be done with it!

Since then I've noticed JSON filling this role of "object exchange" between distinct processes that may not even be written in the same programming language.

I feel like this is going to be a bit like UTF-8 in Linux. Back in the early 2000s, Windows had proper Unicode support with UTF-16, and Linux had only codepages on top of ASCII. Instead of catching up by changing over to UTF-16, Linux adopted UTF-8 which in some ways gave it better Unicode support than Windows. I suspect JSON in the shell will be the same. Eventually there will be a Linux shell where everything is always JSON and it will work just like PowerShell, except it'll support multiple processes in multiple languages and hence leapfrog Windows.
Clickbait? It's what happens when self-annointed "journalists" don't understand / practice actual journalism. It persists because no one stands up to say, "You're not a journalist. You're a hack."
Thanks! I've always edited the script adding a `set -x` at the top. Never occurred to me that I the shell of course had a similar startup flag.
> I disagree with Hofstadter that consciousness and free will are illusions. But I wholeheartedly agree with his most original, profound claim: at the bottom of everything, something is doing something to itself.

This is a ridiculous claim, on the order of quantum woo. He disagrees with a cascade of data from neuroscience because it doesn't fit his preconceived notions about "god" and "consciousness" and chooses to believe in mystical unfalsifiable bullshit. Amazing what passes for "science writing" these days.
No I have not. This is the killer feature for me though. Text based stuff I can just ignore or block, but the videos/images are what actually bother me (the abundance of porn on the site is what prevents me from using it in public).
I got screwed on options once. Never again.
Everything in the settings. Default is boring. And there are tons of extensions in GitHub which actually works unlike Nautilus.
Those who are asking add any right click context menu to Finder, it is now very easy with BTT. https://maverickmac.github.io/2024-07-28/finder-context-menu...
только-только вперёд. За горизонт!

now we've moved from sky-blue to navy blue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl62ce6I6jE

Separated at birth?

A/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddk8VXJUBcg

and

B/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0KabcfT3w

(both versions being a little short on rum and the lash)

EDIT: my aural comprehension is poor, yours did mention a бутылка рому.

Pedantry: "hoist the colours" (compare Поднять все флаги), but "hoist by their own petard" (loosely compare Ёж — птица гордая: не пнёшь — не полетит)

EDIT2: icymi, the sky blue berets in particular are worn by these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJOZBtToKY (judging by the efforts they're putting into passing for het in this clip, I wouldn't call several of them "sky blue guys" in public — not without a MANPADS handy*, at least)

* in which case, as the Kadyrovtsy have discovered, flying low and slow results in a ride on, not the black pearl, but the black tulip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBAwN2YaTE8

EDIT3: on the slight chance you were asking for lyrics instead of giving me a "paper chase" hunt: https://www.smule.com/song/даниэла-устинова-пираты-карибског...

> You're either with us, or you're overboard. (Ты либо с нами, Либо за борт) —DVU

> You're either on the bus, or you're off the bus. —KEK
Related (and mentioned) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_paradox_(sociolinguisti...
Please checkout automq: https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq

AutoMQ is a cloud-first alternative to Kafka by decoupling durability to S3 and EBS. 10x cost-effective. Autoscale in seconds. Single-digit ms latency.
The induction wok shown seemed inadequate and the host unknowledgeable about the requirements for wok cooking.
1) Even if it doesn't improve performance, athletes might still think it does and try to get the asthma medication. It might surprise you how much lore and voodoo surrounds professional sports. People are willing to try almost anything if it has even a small chance to improve performance by 1%. Also, both of the studies you linked are quite new. Athletes have been obtaining (possibly false) asthma diagnoses for decades.

2) Maybe they don't use normal doses. As long as they get the prescription, they can take however much they want, right?

3) A few studies might not be enough to thoroughly prove that there's no effect under all possible circumstances. Again, as long as there is even a small amount of hope of it helping, many athletes are willing to try it.
You also can't expect people to disregard the history of the company and the meaning of words because it has decided to change its direction. It seems to me that they made the choice to not rebrand and accept the fallout because it's less damaging to them than the loss of brand recognition. Why do you feel the need to defend them?
Do you know what happened? Or was it just some cheap components failing?
> “Your subconscious is smarter than you are,” he once told me, “so get out of its way.”
A HTPC (with an Intel N100, etc) can work amazingly well too.
OpenAI o1 Struggles with Simpler Tasks, 4x Pricier than GPT-4
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> What you are saying essentially is that PowerShell is a better programming language than bash

In some sense, yes, but there is no distinct boundary. Or at least, there ought not to be one!

A criticism a lot of people (including me) had of Windows in the NT4 and 2000 days was that there was an enormous gap between click-ops and heavyweight automation using C++ and COM objects (or even VBScript or VB6 for that matter). There wasn't an interactive shell that smoothly bridged these worlds.

That's why many Linux users just assumed that Windows has no automation capability at all: They started with click-ops, never got past the gaping chasm, and just weren't aware that there was anything on the other side. There was, it just wasn't discoverable unless you were already an experienced developer.

PowerShell bridges that gap, extending quite a bit in both directions.

For example, I can use C# to write a PowerShell module that has the full power of a "proper" programming language, IDE with debug, etc... but still inherits the PS pipeline scaffolding so I don't have to reinvent the wheel for parameter parsing, tab-complete, output formatting, etc...
> This matches the output format of Bash's builtin set -x tracing, but gives the script author more granular control of what is printed.

I get and love the idea but I'd consider this implementation an anti-pattern. If the output mimics set -x but isn't doing what that is doing, it can mislead users of the script.
> Jumping to that conclusion does require a very honed skill of looking for outrage.

Welcome to the modern internet.
> Actuater

Someone wrote this article in a last night frenzy before some submission deadline didn't they? :P
Majority of the fentanyl was backpacked in. I am not sure if you are trying to make the point that even though the US Government has failed to effectively stop the flow of illegal immigrants and cartel mules flowing drugs across the southern border, fentanyl is coming through official ports of entry illegally. Honestly not sure why it matters.
Absolutely, if you can't use a filesystem with checksums (zfs, btrfs, bcachefs) then rsync is a great idea.

I think filesystem checksums have one big advantage vs rsync. With rsync if there's a difference it isn't clear which one is wrong.
The Myth of Type I and Type II Hypervisors (2007)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537558 for the 'real' one
> Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. [...] When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out.

Google is terrible at release notes. Since several years ago, the release notes for the "Google" app on the Android app store always shows the exact same four unchanging entries, loosely translating from Portuguese: "enhanced search page appearance", "new doodles designed for app experience", "offline voice actions (play music, enable Wi-Fi, enable flashlight) - available only in the USA", "web pages opened directly within the app". I heavily doubt it's taking these many years to roll out these changes; they probably simply don't care anymore, and never update these app store release notes.
Am I missing something or this "ARC-AGI" thing is so ludicrously terrible that it seems to be completely irrelevant?

It seems that the tasks consists of giving the model examples of a transformation of an input colored grid into an output colored grid, and then asking it to provide the output for a given input.

The problem is of course that the transformation is not specified, so any answer is actually acceptable since one can always come up with a justification for it, and thus there is no reasonable way to evaluate the model (other than only accepting the arbitrary answer that the authors pulled out of who knows where).

It's like those stupid tests that tell you "1 2 3 ..." and you are supposed to complete with 4, but obviously that's absurd since any continuation is valid given that e.g. you can find a polynomial that passes for any four numbers, and the test maker didn't provide any objective criteria to determine which algorithm among multiple candidates is to be preferred.

Basically, something like this is about guessing how the test maker thinks, which is completely unrelated to the concept of AGI (i.e. the ability to provide correct answers to questions based on objectively verifiable criteria).

And if instead of AGI one is just trying to evaluate how the model predicts how the average human thinks, then it makes no sense at all to evaluate language model performance by performance on predicting colored grid transformations.

For instance, since normal LLMs are not trained on colored grids, it means that any model specifically trained on colored grid transformations as performed by humans of similar "intelligence" as the ARC-"AGI" test maker is going to outperform normal LLMs at ARC-"AGI", despite the fact that it is not really a better model in general.
> will it just be slow

This. I use it on a tiny backup server with only 1 GB of RAM and a 4 TB HDD pool, it's fine. Only one machine backs up to that server at a time, and they do that at network speed (which is admittedly only 100 Mb/s, but it should go somewhat higher if it had faster network). Restore also runs ok.
After 20 years using ext3 and ext4 I only lost data when ffing around with parted and did.
> we should stick to filesystems with data checksums such as ZFS, as well as ECC memory.

While I don't disagree with this statement, consider the reality:

- APFS has metadata checksums, but no data checksums. WTF Apple?

- Very few Linux distributions ship zfs.ko (&spl.ko); those that do, theoretically face a legal risk (any kernel contributor could sue them for breaching the GPL); rebuilding the driver from source is awkward (even with e.g. DKMS), pulls more power, takes time, and may randomly leave your system unbootable (YES it happened to me once).

- Linux itself explicitly treats ZFS as unsupported; loading the module taints the kernel.

- FreeBSD is great, and is actually making great progress catching up with Linux on the desktop. Still, it is a catch-up game. I also don't want to install a system that needs to install another guest system to actually run the programs I need.

- There are no practical alternatives to ZFS that even come close; sibling comment complains about btrfs data loss. I never had the guts to try btrfs in production after all the horror stories I've heard over the decade+.

- ECC memory on laptops is practically unheard of, save for a couple niche Thinkpad models; and comes with large premiums on desktops.

What are the practical choices for people who do not want to cosplay as sysadmins?
The owner of that company wrote that FT cited the wrong data
Are padded shorts necessary if her saddle provides shock absorption? https://www.specialized.com/us/en/power-pro-with-mirror/p/20...
Yes, we have plenty of customers doing just that. You can connect to the pg instance directly or using the connection pooler. You can also disable the Data API (PostgREST) if you want so that you have less security surface area to manage (eg, you don’t need to set up RLS policies if you are connecting only from the server)
> That doesn't seem to happen in England, which allows metal detecting.

In England you need permission of the landowner (or which ever authority is responsible for a piece of public land) and must report any archeological finds. There's a lot of illegal metal detecting at night - "Nighthawking", and fairly tough convictions.

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-68445207
It's trolling from a relatively fresh account, as usual.
Do you have a link which business was taken away from an entrepreneur?
Good to know. Ext2 is much more robust against corruption. Or at least it was 10 years ago when i had kernel crashes or power failures.
If it knows it needs to backtrack then could it gain much by outputting something that tells the code to backtrack for it? For example, outputting something like "I've disproven the previous hypothesis, remove the details". Almost like asking to forget.

This could reduce the number of tokens it needs at inference time, saving compute. But with how attention works, it may not make any difference to the performance of the LLM.

Similarly, could there be gains by the LLM asking to work in parallel? For example "there's 3 possible approaches to this, clone the conversation so far and resolve to the one that results in the highest confidence".

This feels like it would be fairly trivial to implement.
2022 census had lots of issues, IBGE (Brazil's statistics institute) was underfunded due to Bolsonaro's policies.
In the next version of Bun You can compile and run C in JavaScript
Big note, the article is about RAW compression and not standalone .jxl image files
Nonsense. People are born to use only two kinds of programming languages: either those which everyone complains about, or those which no one else uses. Never the twain shall meet.
AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion's Biggest Polluter
>>>
Gretchen: "That is so fetch!"

>>> Regina: "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"

So now we know there is some linguistic context to that conversation.
https://www.census.gov/econ/overview/go1200.html

Federal Government's "check register": what they spent, where. goes back to the 1980s.
De novo design of high-affinity protein binders with AlphaProteo
Async Profiler Manual
Some, sure. Most either won't care or will actively welcome it. Of those that stay, a minority will request to not work on DoD projects, which are requests that will almost certainly be granted.

There are much, much larger reasons than that to leave the company. For example: their inability to say "Hey, we're going to be losing money for a while, so bear with us. Sorry that we can't prop up the share price with stock buybacks.", instead laying a bunch of people off and cutting penny-ante perks and not-penny-ante benefits to "right the ship".
It's sealed for a period of time, not a state secret like Top Secret, etc.
"four types of hypermedia controls found in HTML: links (anchors), forms, image tags and iframes"

"Examining the hypermedia control mechanic of links, forms, image
tags and iframes in HTML, we see the following common functional
pattern emerge:
For each of these controls:
(1) An event trigger (click, submit or load)
(2) Causes a particular type of HTTP request issuance
(3) That request is made to a resource location specified by a
URL
(4) The content of the HTTP response is then placed in the user
agent viewport
Within the context of HTML, this gives us the following functional definition of hypermedia controls as an element that incorporates this hypermedia control mechanic:
Definition 4.1 (Hypermedia Control). A hypermedia control is
an element that responds to an event trigger by issuing a type of
request to a URL and placing the response at some position within
the user agents viewport."

They mention the limitations of these existing hypermedia controls within HTML. In general, existing HTML controls don't allow the developer to choose any type of HTTP request to be sent from any type of HTML element and target any part of the page.

"in the absence of an extension
mechanism hypermedia clients and servers must agree in advance
on the types of hypermedia controls they will support.
HTML includes a very powerful extension mechanism: JavaScript
[47 ]. By taking advantage of this extension mechanism we are able
to extend HTML and provide the generalized hypermedia controls
outlined above to HTML authors."

"CONCLUSION
In this paper we proposed an informal and then definition of the
term "hypermedia control", derived from the implementations of
four common such controls found in HTML: anchors, forms, im-
ages and iframes. From this formal definition we then derived a
generalization of the concept of hypermedia controls within the
context of HTML.
We then introduced htmx, a JavaScript library that implements
these generalizations for HTML authors. We demonstrated two interactive patterns that can be implemented by HTML authors using
generalized hypermedia controls. Finally, we introduced Hyperview, a mobile hypermedia that also implements the generalization
we proposed. We demonstrated an interactive pattern achievable
in Hyperview using this generalization, thus demonstrating that
this generalization applies to hypermedia systems beyond HTML
and the WWW."
I imagine that it would also be quite difficult to realize such a narrow filter in hardware, 90 Hz is already quite low.
* Sign in with Google is a dealbreaker for me - please allow email/password

* Subscription fatigue - I'd like to be able to use my own OpenAI API key or a local LLM

* To avoid filter bubbles, it would be nice to have filter strengths per topic (e.g. block 80% of US Politics, 60% of Ukraine/Russia war)
I've seen fully loaded Ansys go for over $30k but yearly maintenance would have been maybe $15k, however this was over 10 years ago.

... And let's not forget the the $30k workstation needed to run it too.
It's absolutely amazing to see a large fraction of of otherwise reasonable people supporting censorship by fairly problematic governments because 'musk bad'.

Is there a name for this phenomenon? Kind of seems like a reverse ad hominem.
> Having `exit` or `quit` without the parens work might accommodate some people whose first choice isn't to call a function (I guess because they're thinking of the REPL as a shell?),

In ruby, parentheses are optional for function calls. `exit` is a regular call, not some REPL peculiarity.

EDIT: Nevermind. Just found that despite the `exit` method being already defined, both irb and pry overshadow that with a repl command that does the same thing. Maybe it's so that it can't be redefined.
Software bugs might cause that (eg. drive fails after exactly 1 billion IOPS due to some counter overflowing). But hardware wear probably won't be as consistent.