skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you ever wanted to know about bog butter
If you're interested in the union's proposals for those "long overdue measures", obviously you don't ask the WSJ.

> No one understands safety better than the very workers who meticulously build these planes every single day. That's why we must have a voice in the company's safety initiatives, as our livelihoods depend on it. Our Members are experts - they know how to build the best airplanes in the world, and they are the ones who will bring this company back on track.

>

> We spent Saturday drafting and proposing a new safety and quality framework that provides Union involvement and input into the Quality Management System, ensuring we protect the integrity of our production system. We know that the only way to ensure Boeing makes the right decisions is to have a seat at the table when critical decisions about quality, safety, and new product developments are made. Having a voice at the highest levels can and will influence changes. That's what we are trying to do in this contract. We are proposing these articles for the first time in our history and know that our Members' voice is critical in this effort.

https://www.iam751.org/?zone=/unionactive/private_view_page....
You have to admit, it’s a strange comment though.
But how giving 2B to Intel helps with that? Again you could send thousands of Polish engineers to work for free at major facilities around the world using a fraction of this money if you want them to get more experienced. We are not helping any Polish firms with that move just taking away from them and giving it to US firm.
Nothing is really going to protect you from a direct lightning strike. Lightning strikes are on the order of millions of volts and thousands of amps. It will arc between circuits that are close enough and it will raise the ground voltage by thousands of volts too. You basically need a lighting rod buried deep into the earth to prevent it hitting your house directly and then you’re still probably going to deal with fried electronics (but your house will survive). Surge protectors are for faulty power supplies and much milder transient events on the grid and maybe a lightning strike a mile or so away.
Are you in the car industry? i feel no one talks about refresh cycles so confidently unless you’re very tight.
I think 99.9% of people in the industry have no interest in shaking the equation that feeds. but,conversely, there really is nothing but upside for the consumer. cars have been “refreshing” for decades in a fashion that is not driven by function. I think ‘visually or recognizably new’ is a marketing cheat that wastes resources.
I think some believe the truck is ugly to draw attention but, and while i can’t rule that out, i think the weighting would be in the 10% realm. the remaining , at least originally,based on pushing the envelope as practically as possible. for instance, to be able to fold the metal of the car to simplify it’s construction.
Stainless steel holds a special place in many engineers’ minds. this truck is fundamentally cool because so many ideas got to come together under one hood. a truck is foremost a tool, like a hammer, and nobody tries to keep a top coat nanocermajama on their hamma!hehe
LLMs are just modelling token order. The weights are a compression of the outcome space.

No, causality is not just an ordering.
As another example, NAND is manufactured on 40nm and for the foreseeable future it'll be. https://thememoryguy.com/why-3d-nand-is-stuck-at-40nm/
Optimizing the Time and Dose of Melatonin as a Sleep-Promoting Drug
But if you leave $1b to Bezos, which is a pretty good retirement fund, you can give $500 to every American.
A good reason to use Haskell is that it generally guides the programmer away from doing things like this.

If you make a breaking change to your API, then you should want your tools to tell you loud and clear that it’s a breaking change.

I also don’t agree that keeping the structure around values internally logically consistent “doesn’t really contribute to anything”. On the contrary, I think this idea is hugely important. How would your idea generalise? The compiler should just know that my `Int` should be a `Maybe Int` and cast it for me. Should the compiler also know that my `[a]` should be cast to a `(a, b)` because incidentally we’re fairly confident that list should always have two elements in it?

I think if this way of thinking is unfamiliar, then it’s a good reason to learn Haskell (or Elm, which is at least as good, or maybe better, for driving this point home).
Three times you’ve alluded to not watching the video.

It’s Kurzgesagt. It’s as much of a reliable source in general as the NY Post intern is a reliable source on astronomy. To me anyway.
You probably know more about this than I do since you claim "people keep repeating this without context." Looking at your links, it seems to me a confusion of terms. Yes, the legal entities behind GM and Chrysler went away...in order for the new entities to receive billions.

So, technically, you are correct. The business entities of June 2009 failed. However, the consumer DGAF who owns www.gm.com or www.chrysler.com. They can still go to their local dealer and purchase a vehicle "made by" these companies. The "companies" live on.
It's a little embarrassing for OpenAI though?
That was always FUD more or less. ZFS uses RAM as its primary cache…like every other filesystem, so it if you have very little RAM for caching the performance will degrade…like every other filesystem.
Which tends to be available in all major compiled languages.

Don't use scripting monkey patching friendly languages for applications.
We’ve had such spikes in an old apartment we were living in. I had no servers back then, but LED lamps annoyingly failed every few weeks. It was an old building from the 60s and our own apartment had some iffy quick fixes in the installation.
Was there any change in the license that made you believe that it should be less than a issue?

Or do you think people simply stopped paying attention?
Pity you can't just flag/downvote the wrongthink away like you can on HN.
The form you propose runs `command`, which may have undesired side-effects. I always thought `which` to be standard, but TIL `command` (sh builtin) is[0].

[0]: https://hynek.me/til/which-not-posix/
I think this website is beautiful in its simplicity
A THIRD of all Rust devs are trans?
Yes - although it's worth bearing in mind the number of load/unload cycles a drive is rated for over its lifetime.

In the case of the IronWolf NAS drives in my home server, that's 600,000.

I spin the drives down after 20 minutes of no activity, which I feel is a good balance between having them be too thrashy and saving energy. After 3 years I'm at about 60,000 load unload cycles.
We have no way of knowing the initial conditions for this (position etc of each fundamental particle in any brain), even if we assume that we have a good enough grasp on fundamental physics to know the rules.
The creation and iteration of ARC has been designed in part to avoid this.

Francis talks in his "mid-career" work (2015-2019) about priors for general intelligence and avoiding allowing them. While he admits ARC allows for some priors, it was at the time his best reasonable human effort in 2019 to put together and extremely prior-less training set, as he explained on podcasts around that time (e.g. Lex Fridman). The point of this is that humans, with our priors, are able to reliably get the majority of the puzzles correct, and with time, we can even correct mistakes or recognise mistakes in submissions without feedback (I am expanding on his point a little here based on conference conversations so don't take this as his position or at least his position today).

100 different humans will even get very different items correct/incorrect.

The problem with AI getting 21% correct is that, if it always gets the same 21% correct, it means for 79% of prior-less problems, it has no hope as an intelligent system.

Humans on the other hand, a group of 10000 could obviously get 99% or 100% correct despite none of them having priors for all of them in all liklihood given humans don't tend to get them all right (and well - because Francis created 100% of them!).

The goal of ARC as I understood it in 2019, is not to create a single model that gets a majority correct, to show AGI, it has to be an intelligent system, which can handle prior or priorless situations, as good as a group of humans, on diverse and unseen test sets, ideally without any finetuning or training specifically on this task, at all.

From 2019 (I read his paper when it came out believe it or not!), he held a secret set that he alone has that I believe is still unpublished, and at the time the low number of items (hundreds) was designed to prevent effective finetuning(then 'training') but nowadays few shot training shows that it is clearly possible to do on-the-spot training, which is why in talks Francis gave, I remember him positing that any advanced in short term learning via examples should be ignored e.g. each example should be zero shot, which I believe is how most benchmarks are currently done. The puzzles are all "different in different ways" besides the common element of dynamic grids and providing multiple grids as input.

It's also key to know Francis was quite avant-garde in 2019: his work was ofcourse respected, but he became more prominent recently. He took a very bullish/optimistic position on AI advances at the time (no doubt based on keras and seeing transformers trained using it), but he has been proven right.
Not reusing passwords at all is pretty impractical. If you really want to depend on a single password manager then you have some other issues. Usually I have settled for rotating, compartmentalized password modules which allows me to somewhat rather than fully contain a compromised password. And if your modular password has three slots (term taken from linguistics) then you can compose passwords which reuse parts, are memorizable, and not automatically reusable on other services.

The problem though is that since one has a number of passwords which may be different but closely related, a human may be able to infer a few possible passwords from a few compromised ones. In other words it still dramatically shrinks the key space an attacker might want to try to brute force. Preventing re-use is then a problem for 2fa regimes.

For my part I won't use passwords I cannot memorize and keep memorized in relation to the web site.
Googler Chris LaSala instructs to disable chat history for Jedi Blue
Show HN: I build list of the coolest and nerdiest macOS apps
Hi Hackers!

TLDR:
After switching my daily OS from Linux to MacOs, I really miss something like Gnome Extensions store.

There is an AppStore, but it is quite poor.

I love configuring and upgrading my system, so I created such store myself.

Hope you like it, I would love to hear your opinions!
> doubt more than 2% of the fentanyl in the US comes direct from China. China just ships to Mexico

Correct. "The majority of precursor chemicals for illicitly manufactured fentanyl come from China and are synthesized into fentanyl in Mexico. Fentanyl is then smuggled across the border into the United States" [1].

That said, "China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through international mail and express consignment operations environment, as well as the main source for all fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States" [2].

> which makes it to the US through the wide open southern border

No. "Most of the illicit fentanyl coming across the U.S.-Mexico border is smuggled through official ports of entry" [3].

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1953

[2] https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192557904/part-1-investigati...
Some Math Behind Neural Tangent Kernel
I'm giving a proof of a theoretical fact not saying it's feasible
Intriguingly it seems better than 4o
As I had posted a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41085314), I recently implemented a very similar thing myself.

My solution ended up using tc's mirred[0] action for implementing a fully L2-transparent frame relay. I wonder if their setup achieves the same degree of transparency, because afaiui, that's just not possible involving a 802.1Q-compliant (Linux) bridge.

I spent close to a week optimizing my setup looking at kernel flame graphs and perf results, reading adapter-specific tuning guides and driver source, and can say that the only really meaningful performance optimizations (in both the Broadwell- and Zen3/Vermeer-based implementations I tried) were disabling mitigations in the kernel (esp. on Zen3, that boosted performance by more than 20%), and getting CPU frequency scaling/idle states sorted out correctly (which yielded much higher wins on the older Broadwell uarch, because power state transition appears to happen much quicker on Zen3).

As for the solution presented in the (on the whole really great; I love it!) article, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of the cargo-culted "sysctl tuning" mentioned - TCP, for example, is simply not involved at all in the described setup, so "tuning" its buffer allocations cannot have any effect on the workload.

Kudos to the writers for solving their problem in a creative, cost-effective and maintainable way! :)

[0]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-mirred.8.html
People interested in Hallelujah should read the exhaustive book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" which was also turned into a documentary film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
This is a more water tight proof of the same fact (so we don't have to argue about physics)
Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands
Nothing magical; just front and back of the midpoint between the eyebrows until you settle on a point where you get the sensation. That is why i called it a "physiological trick".
Transitioned from C.

The percentage is greater but few will admit to it.
The competition has a precise definition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_world_cycling_rec...
US is sensing China's severe weakness and finally going for the detachment from China. That's why the recent passage of bans for TikTok, DJI, 100% tariffs on BYD, and now closing this loophole.

- Consumer giants from Starbucks to General Mills have one big sales problem: China. Starbucks reported China same-store sales dropped by 14% in the quarter ended June 30, far steeper than the 2% decline in the U.S.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/07/us-consumer-giants-have-one-...

- Foreign investors pulled a record $15 billion out of China last quarter
https://fortune.com/asia/2024/08/12/foreign-investors-pull-r...

- China’s startup ecosystem has almost completely collapsed in the last 5 years. https://x.com/alecstapp/status/1834201320212898179?mx=2

- IBM Decides To Move R&D Out Of China https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2024/09/07/ibm-dec...

- Microsoft shuts down physical retail presence in mainland China https://www.retail-systems.com/rs/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Physi...

- The world’s biggest luxury brands are hurting as Chinese shoppers rein in spending https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/business/lvmh-luxury-firms-ch...

- Japan’s Companies Sour on China After Years of Brushing Off Risk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-08/japan-inc...
Or in my case, a key filesystem metadata block that ruins everything. :s
It must have been "promising founders working on an idea with an unknown or unknowable factor", right?

I can't imagine it working out so well without that qualifier.
So many people only need one machine. And these people certainly don't need an image.
Influencing physical organization of DNA with light controlled droplets (2024)
> "opinionated" people who cannot tolerate any difference of opinion, and think that SWAT raids are a valid means of addressing disagreements.

I believe they call that the "paradox of tolerance."
Circuit Breaker is not an OOP pattern.
First in the world? Or of Huawei?
The other main difference that I can’t get past is that the Internet and cell phone were so obviously useful to a layman that you didn’t really have to explain the value proposition.

The ability to type an email for instance, and send it instantly to someone on the other side of the planet for free was something that was in such contrast to the tools of the time it can’t really be understood by someone who didn’t live through that period.

AI to me is really hyped up by some very highly regarded CEOs with strong track records in other domains and tech enthusiasts who seem hell bent on being able to look back and say they called the next Industrial Revolution. In short everyone thinks they’re the counter to Paul Krugman saying the internet would be as useful as the fax machine. Credulity levels are off the charts. It’s gotten to the point where skeptics are automatically assumed to be wrong.

But what’s missing is the obvious amazement that should come to an ordinary person and frankly I still don’t see most people naturally gravitating to these tools.

Perhaps that could be explained by how amazingly fast technology has advanced in recent years but then that in and of itself seems to call into question whether this technology that’s being called AI is truly revolutionary when compared to what’s already available.
No there was legit internal push back about releasing GPT2. The lady on the OpenAI board who led the effort to coup Sam spoke about it in an interview that she and others were part of a group that strongly pushed against it because it was dangerous. But Sam ignored them which started their "Sam isn't listening" thing which built up over time with other grievances.

Don't underestimate the influence of the 'safety' people within OpenAI.

That plus people always invent this excuse that there's some secret money/marketing motive behind everything they don't understand, when reality is usually a lot simpler. These companies just keep things generally mysterious and the public will fill in the blanks with hype.
This is a complete tangent, but I would note that we don't have physical models nearly good enough to actually compute the way billiards balls (or even worse, snooker balls) interact with each other and the fabric on the table. It's all guesswork and experience, mostly. The interactions between the balls and the fabric are critical for the vast majority of the movements, and they are far too complex for any physical first-principles based model to capture.
What We Remember and What We Forget When We Forgive
awesome! yeah, it definitely seems like it would be great on multitouch
It does feel like scraped is being used for it's negative connotations.

Perhaps "consumed" would work just as well and be more accurate.
Thing is, for many people they are just bash scripts with extra steps.
> Generally the latter won't end up with someone getting stabbed.

A technology may not be literally stabbed, but I think it is fair to say that it very well may get stabbed metaphorically. It may even lead to the complete demise of the technology.

Passionately calling for the death of Next.js isn't really any different than calling for the death of a person, other than you may perceive it as being different if you hold people more dear than technology. But, in that case, that's just your arbitrary opinion that means nothing to anything other than you. There are no doubt some who would be more concerned about the loss of Next.js (bad example; nobody would miss Next.js, but you get the idea) than the loss of a person, which is equally valid. The true arbiter of truth, the universe, certainly doesn't have greater feelings towards one than the other.
I'm interested in their last step, in which they set

vm.dirty_ratio = 40
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10
vm.swappiness=10

governor=performance
energy_perf_bias=performance
min_perf_pct=100

to raise a surprisingly low performance ceiling.

I can't believe they were under any memory pressure, so the first three presumably made no difference, but it's also quite surprising to me that the default ondemand cpu governor was responsible for such a dramatic performance hit. Not throttling up quickly enough leading to higher latency maybe? Very interesting anyway.
see this detailed report: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shinmera/talks/master/els2...

> Overall we have needed to do surprisingly little actual performance analysis and optimisation work to make Kandria run well.
It's essentially the same as S9, sharing the same cores (t8310).
proof + fact, and theoretical, are very different words, I'm really confused by your meaning here
Because the great majority of stuff being put up for sale on Amazon comes from Shein and Temu, or some smaller Chinese lookalikes. In pure colonial style the Westerners just want a bigger cut without bringing anything new to the table.
Economics describes culture. Basically all economic policy recommendations are about "hey, how 'bout a little culture shift toward denser housing, more free trade, less xenophobia when renting out, hiring"

"wanna get a bit more aggregate supply, how about letting women work, maybe even drive!?"
No. bash as a shell is for interactive use or for automating said interactions. I want the computer to do stuff. The “everything is a file” and text oriented perspective in the unix world is just one model and bash is very suitable for it. Powershell is another model, just like lisp and smalltalk. I’m aware of the limitations of bash, but at the end of the day, it gets the job done and easily at that.
No, it exists because of all must bow to the deity of increasing shareholder value. Remember that good product is not necessarily equal or even a subset of the easy to sell product. Only once the incentives are aligned towards building quality software that lasts will we see change.
Django apps can be the modular part of a modular monolith, but it requires some discipline. Django apps do not have strong boundaries within a Django project.

Often there will be foreign keys crossing app boundaries which makes one wonder why there are multiple apps at all.

In fact some people opt for putting everything into a single app [0]. Others opt for no app [1].

Django apps are good for installing Django packages into Django projects. But there’s no firm mechanism that enforced any real separation. It’s just other Python modules in a different folder (that you can just import into your other app).

The rule would be something like, if you can’t pip install your Django app into a project, it’s probably too weak of a boundary (that might be a bit too extreme, but if it is, it’s not too far off).

[0] https://careers.doordash.com/blog/tips-for-building-high-qua...

[1] https://noumenal.es/notes/django/single-folder-layout/
Yes this seems like a major downside especially considering this will be used for larger complex outputs and the user will essentially need to verify correctness via a black box approach. This will lead to distrust in even bothering with complex GPT problem solving.
Naa. Chucking C++ into the garbage bin is revolutionary.
"for any sufficiently X the Y" just means that if you don't observe Y right now, just increase the magnitude of X and you'll inevitably reach the conditions for Y to happen.

Famous use of that pattern is Arthur's Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.". As with OP's quote, this is also vague and imprecise but the point of the idea is that there is a gradient towards which advancements in technology bring us towards a situation where the average person no longer understands how it works and it may as well be magic (while not necessarily defining exactly when does that transition happen)
The article takes an awfully long time to get to the point, but as far as I can tell it’s “this guy is religious and conservative and that’s bad”.