skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is just a difference in how you view it? I'd expect ancient person to be noticeably ancient. Not necessarily frail, but just as an old tree has signs of aging that younger trees don't necessarily have. Not that they stopped aging entirely.

So, if you limit aging to "getting frail," I am fully there. But there are other things that happen as you age.
We agree Envoy is legendary - and per se doesn't lend anything to the AI space. That's essentially what we are doing here, building on top of Envoy to add capabilities specifically for AI and prompts. For instance, we use Envoy's filtering capabilities to handle and process prompts - this was get to keep all the robustness and security features for TCP/HTTP from Envoy and solve the critical but undifferentiated tasks related to prompts like safety, observability, routing, function calling, etc.
I never did understand this. It appears that they were maintaining their own fork of distutils anyway (and if you open up a latest-version wheel today you should still see it included); so why did the standard library removal cause a problem?
More recently, in a similar vein:

> Torvalds seemed optimistic that "some clueless young person will decide 'how hard can it be?'" and start their own operating system in Rust or some other language. If they keep at it "for many, many decades", they may get somewhere; "I am looking forward to seeing that". Hohndel clarified that by "clueless", Torvalds was referring to his younger self; "Oh, absolutely, yeah, you have to be all kinds of stupid to say 'I can do this'", he said to more laughter. He could not have done it without the "literally tens of thousands of other people"; the "only reason I ever started was that I didn't know how hard it would be, but that's what makes it fun".

https://lwn.net/Articles/990534/
> Given all this history, to me it is utterly bizarre that Trudeau cares to defend this dubious group of alleged terrorists more than maintaining diplomatic and economic ties with India

Setting aside the morality of who is right or wrong: my understanding is that just like in the USA, domestic politics are far more important to Canadian politicians than geopolitical concerns. Trudeau likely feels that he and his political coalition cannot afford to alienate Khalistani supporters - if they do so, then they will lose political power until a new coalition can be formed.
Welcome to the 80s part 2. Hope you enjoy the ride.
The Degradation Drug (2022)
Why Nintendo Chose DMP's PICA200 GPU for the 3DS
Here are some actual performance metrics:

https://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1836114401213989366

If chain of thought really worked we should see no difference between 1 digit and 20 digit multiplication.
[Warning: bad joke ahead]
Every day at noon a soldier fired a cannon to signal it was noon. A guy was curious as to how he knew when to fire the cannon. So he asked the soldier, who told him "the guy in the guard station gives me a signal, and I fire the canon". He asks the guy in the guard station how he knows when to signal, "I use the clock on the wall, a guy comes and sets it occasionally". He finds the guy who sets the clock and asks him how he knows what time it is, "I sync my watch to the clock in the town square, then set that clock from my watch". So he finds the guy who sets the town square clock and asks how he knows what time to set it to. "Oh, I just sync it to the noon cannon".
I tried to make our SaaS accessible to the blind for two of our users.

I spend two months trying to understand the user agents for blind users and the HTML attributes: but ultimately I gave up without achieving anything noticeable. This was for a small business (6 employees and I was one of the 4 co-founders).

How were we to choose the right compromise between the cost in hours to me personally versus the cost in hours to our blind users?

Is a blind user's hour more valuable than an hour of mine?

What about the huge number of other users that missed out on usability improvements because I was trying to support our blind users?

This was for a custom framework because I started building it in 2006 (when jQuery was king and no component framework had much market). Therefore hiring outside help was not going to be simple for such an intersection of highly specialised skills. Moreover a similar compromise needs to be made. How many dollars should it cost us as owners? Resources are not endless.

I still struggle with trying to find the right answer to competing deserving needs.

I have a little appreciation for accessibility because I was constantly trying to find solutions for my elderly mother (she was very clued up, but physically limited).

This comment mentions basic Bosch microwaves in Germany with an interface that could work for the blind (one power knob, one timer knob): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848689
File backed SQLite in a browser? Do you mean like OPFS?

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md#opfs-wal

Again, just because the all the Lego pieces sound like they should all just fit together, doesn't mean that they will.

The VFS mechanism was primarily designed to make SQLite easy to port to multiple OSes. WAL mode is hard to port everytime you step away from a more traditional OS.

“We have SQLite in the browser, let's just stream the WAL like the Litestream hack” does not add up.

It's not impossible, but it surely took a lot of effort at Cloudflare (or at Fly, or Turso) to get there. And neither of them opened it up sufficiently to help us do the same. In a browser.
No, but great idea. Once I get the current batch back from the repair shop I'll start doing that.
100%! Eventually, one way or another, I think they'll be scanned every year to study the environmental effects of tourism and compare over time.
Speculative execution like almost every modern CPU performance trick decreases power use.

Mobile SoCs have OOO.
I'll admit that there are certain patterns/data structures/etc. that are awkward to implement in Rust, but to write good C++ you are essentially required to think about ownership and lifetimes to some degree anyway (despite the greater lenience awarded compared to Rust and the lack of static checking). For anyone familiar with modern C++, I don't think that the shift in mental model should be too huge so the degree of backlash surprises me somewhat.
Those cards are commercial bank handouts. Bank accounts should be a utility.

I am working on the chexsystems issue, and am intimately familiar with the unbanked issue. Onward.
There are also just a bunch of operational hassles with using DPDK or SPDK. Your usual administrative commands don't work. Other operations aren't intermediated by the kernel -- instead you need 100% dedicated application devices. Device counters usually tracked by the kernel aren't. Etc. It can be fine, but if io_uring doesn't add too much overhead, it's a lot more convenient.
Hey I'm really sorry! It's really hard. My photo permissions at Giza took two years to secure. My only advice is to keep showing up in person and hang in there--I feel for you!
Negative reaction to stock BuyBacks are also emotional and irrational. I've never heard anyone articulate a cogent argument why they are worse than paying a dividend.
>The same people removed distutils

Yes; it's extremely cruft-filled and nobody wanted to / had the skills to keep the standard library version maintained. There's a note in the Setuptools documentation somewhere about how distutils was deemed fundamentally unfixable, and it doesn't come across like the hacks Setuptools was applying on top of distutils were particularly well understood by anyone.

>In these decisions the only thing that matters is if Microsoft, Facebook, Bloomberg or one of their employees is pleased.

I don't think there's good evidence for this, and the current case is certainly not convincing. Why would they want distutils removed - as opposed to that motivation come from the devs who would otherwise be responsible for its bugs?
>”It tells you that something pretty negative is happening among some subgroups of the population to drag the average down, because the wealthier, more highly educated subgroups are actually doing better,” Olshansky says.”

It is expensive to live a healthy lifestyle in the US.
> You're out of touch with reality. I'm not a fan of everything musk says but you're not clear about how ludicrous it is to catch a rocket with chopsticks. You're only going off your gut feeling from social media and popular opinion.

Not sure what you're getting at here. I just praised SpaceX, but you're acting like I downplayed its success.
But why would you not want to beat aging in a medical sense? I don't really understand your logic here.
I've never actually used these industrial-strength "containers" before, but I had understood that they're supposed to be primarily for deployment, or at least some automated testing step in a big CI system. Why would the REPL come into play for these use cases?
That is not necessarily true, especially for older Chrombooks. Distros like GalliumOS existed for a reason - many Chromebooks needed drivers not available upstream for things like touchpads. Not all have UEFI Firmware support either. There is a great resource though for people who want to boot regular Linux - MrChromebox[1].

[1] https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/known-issues.html
Yes. The mini feels like an abandoned product. In landscape mode, the keyboard takes more than half of the screen. UI elements are routinely covered up in various apps. For example, in Flighty, the flights "drawer" cannot be hidden in the way it can on the iPhone. This is probably fine in a larger iPad, but on the Mini, it covers more than half the screen, meaning it HIDES THE AIRPLANE ICON of the flight you're tracking. Apple Maps has a similar behavior with its drawer in portrait mode, but, IIRC, at least that one can be hidden.

I've owned 8 or 10 tablets in my life and never gotten along with any of them. The Mini6 is my latest experiment, and it's my favorite, but I still find myself rarely using it.
Look at the list of Emacs-type editors. Plenty of them were not written in Lisp.

> Please, if you know any editor that allows me to modify the behavior of any given function/procedure/command with the same level of granularity as the advising mechanism of GNU Emacs, I would love to know about it.

Zmacs did that before GNU Emacs existed. It also allowed ALL parts of the editor to be changed, not just the ones written in Emacs Lisp for GNU Emacs. Remember, the core of GNU Emacs - both the core Lisp implementation and some core editor and UI functionality - is written in C.

Btw., on a real Lisp Machine the editor (Zmacs) was not the main user interface. For example on a Symbolics (but also in Interlisp-D), the listener and a file browsers were their own applications. Zmacs in Genera has a Dired mode, but no listener. Also Genera can run multiple Zmacs windows in the same Lisp, running concurrently -> the Lisp supports multiple threads and the applications use that feature.. Something which GNU Emacs can't easily do. It's mostly blocking and single threaded. Something which can't be easily fixed in Emacs Lisp.

Run Lisp code in GNU Emacs in the REPL (m-x ielm) and it blocks the UI. That can't trivially fixed and is a major implementation fail of GNU Emacs.

Other Emacs-like editors can run multiple things, without blocking the user interface.
Yeah, this is why I lift everyday and I plan too until I can no longer do it. Lifting is also good for mobility if done correctly. Especially deep squats.

Hunched over old people do not have the muscle mass to help keep them upright, I guess amongst other things.
I always try and build Petra in my desert city before the AI in Civ 6!
I don't think ozempic is amphetamines.
New Neal Stephenson out today, looking forward to more of that formula, we'll see.
How do you throw stones out of an underground burrow?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41852580
Maybe. But they have free healthcare and a better living.
So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels.

In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max.

All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for? iPads are mostly used for media consumption, no matter how Apple wants to position them. Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware, but perhaps people really start using iPads for productivity/creativity workloads that can make use of “Apple Intelligence” (the silliest moniker since “Spatial Computing” and “Retina Display”).

The comparatively small difference in screen real estate between an iPhone Pro Max and the iPad mini makes the latter rather pointless. Perhaps they are targeting people with a smaller iPhone who want another device to watch YouTube. What could have made a difference is a folding display. I think the iPad mini would have been the ideal candidate for that.
I didn't get the pun......
Every single one of them. I’m not being facetious. Sonnet 3.5 outranks every single OpenAI model on most benchmarks.
(Looking at the videos: global color swatches please, it’s super powerful to be able to change everything drawn in a color - fills, strokes, effects, etc - with a few clicks.)
I have been "advocating" (i.e. complaining) for better REPLs basically the entire time I've been writing code - One of my favorite pasttimes is getting all flustered and trying to throw enough extensions and custom code to get an offline REPL.it style experience out of VS Code for whatever language I'm playing with at the moment, and lately its kinda been working (for Ruby, at least).

I am also very found of pointing out that Powershell still has one of the best ISE's/IDE's in the game for this kind of stuff. One window for editing, a terminal in which whatever you edit runs, and then access to every var/function/etc you just touched in that same terminal is a joyous experience that is shockingly hard to recreate for many languages. Hell half the time I'm just testing out random syntax or a portion of a function and being able to do that in the same session as the script I'm working is awesome.

With enough abuse VS code comes close (for Ruby at least, thank you Pry!) but it would be nice to get a similar experience with Python; I've used a few of the existing REPL options for python, but most of them require you to actually figure out pdb and even then it wasn't as tightly integrated as what I actually wanted.
In case you're getting that from my GP post, let me clarify.

I believe that in this particular situation, Boeing intentionally cut some safety corners to improve their profitability:

1) Pushed their airplane production rate so high that many of their workers didn't believe they were producing safe airplanes.

2) Took various steps to convince the FAA to allow the 737 MAX to fly with the same type rating as other 737s, despite it being pretty clear to outsiders that MCAS warranted additional training.

3) Fired QA staff / whistle-blowers for raising legitimate concerns.

4) Chose to not halt production to address safety concerns that had been raised.

I'm arguing that every one of those choices was ultimately made to maximize Boeing profits.

Certainly there are some situations where money can't magically fix a problem. But in my judgement this isn't one of them.
A lot of the parity issues are due to Bedrock not reimplementing bugs from Java (quasi-connectivity aka "droppers are doors".)
You didn’t read the link huh?
Superb!

I expect whoever coated the remains with that red cinnabar stuff died rather early, probably with tooth and hair loss and severe mental issues. Perhaps this fate was expected but given that "mad hatters" were a thing until fairly recently, people can be a bit strange when it comes to dealing with poisons.

The guide notes point out that only the most sacred rituals involved this red mercurial stuff. I'm not surprised. It might be rare but rarer still will be people willing to deploy it unless that fate is considered a good way to go.

That tour is a remarkable use of the technology.
the typical way to allow something to bind to specific ports in selinux would be something like

allow foo_t http_port_t : tcp_socket name_bind ;

the biggest problems are that you need to a) confine your users b) label everything
sorry, yes, I'm referring to birdnet.
The actual video now that it's succeeded is even cooler.
You can download or test the Unreal version pixel streaming here: https://mused.com/netherworld-ancient-egyptian-afterlife-sim...

Or here's the trailer for the project in Unreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlNgpG9X7mc

I have a lot of work keeping up with games, it's true--games are expensive to build and aiming at photorealism art style continually looks dated quickly while stylized graphics, less so. I'm trying to fundraise to build this game currently, but it's a tough sell. Educational games don't do well on Steam, so right now, I'm just distributing through my website as I build. The small income this provides helps me contribute back to the modern Egyptian Egyptologists that are excavating and documenting their own culture though.

The latest Game Science title, Black Myth Wukong, does an awesome job with 3d captures of Chinese monuments and bringing the mythology and history to life.
Dying sooner is certainly not why they started.. rather the bleakness of outlook is a (fairly rational) reason why they don’t quit.

If obesity is supposed to be the other main candidate for why life expectancy is down, you can do a similar analysis there. Is life really good enough to prolong or attempt to improve for people that are in at-risk categories? That’s the question people are looking at when they choose to move towards or away from self-care. For someone who makes minimum wage and already has to choose between paying for a date or paying for rent, it makes less sense for them to care much about losing weight, because it makes a bad life longer but won’t help their love life.

This is how practically all population-level analysis of health is just economics in disguise, even without directly looking at costs of medicine/services
So 5,000 qbits to crack a 50 bit prime key. That’s an interesting factor. Assuming a similar scale, 204,800 qbits would crack RSA 2048 keys. I’m curious why it scales to needing “millions” according to those researchers.
You and the parent are both "missing the point", which is sadly not talked about by the manufacturer either (IBM).

I used to work for Citrix, which is "software that turns Windows into a mainframe OS". Basically, you get remote thin terminals the same as you would with an IBM mainframe, but instead of showing you green text you get a Windows desktop.

Citrix used to sell this as a "cost saving" solution that inevitably would cost 2-3x the same as traditional desktops.

The real benefit for both IBM mainframes and Citrix is: latency.

You can't avoid the speed of light, but centralising data and compute into "one box" or as close as you can get it (one rack, one data centre, etc...) provides enormous benefits to most kinds of applications.

If you have some complex business workflow that needs to talk to dozens of tables in multiple logical databases, then having all of that unfold in a single mainframe will be faster than if it has to bounce around a network in a "modern" architecture.

In real enterprise environments (i.e.: not a FAANG) any traffic that has to traverse between servers will typically use 10 Gbps NICs at best (not 100 Gbps!), have no topology optimisation of any kind, and flow through at a minimum one load balancer, one firewall, one router, and multiple switches.

Within a mainframe you might have low double-digit microsecond latencies between processes or LPARs, across an enterprise network between services and independent servers its not unusual to get well over one millisecond -- one hundred times slower.

This is why mainframes are still king for many orgs: They're the ultimate solution for dealing with speed-of-light delays.

PS: I've seen multiple attempts to convert mainframe solutions to modern "racks of boxes" and it was hilarious to watch the architects be totally mystified as to why everything was running like slow treacle when on paper the total compute throughput was an order of magnitude higher than the original mainframe had. They neglected latency in their performance modelling, that's why!
Disclaimer: I'm the author. But you might be interested in TinyBase.
x86 has a a mature open source driver system especially for graphics. Although there are great reverse engineering efforts (Collobra and others), with ARM SOCs you can find yourself dependent on blobs for graphics and locked into ancient and insecure Android and Linux images.
Discussion (25 points, 4 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563

Including an interesting breakdown by @adrian_b of how the article jumps to conclusions not published in the paper.
19W at idle seems extremely high to me.
GoDaddy has athena.ai and it costs: £3,062,349. We paid a bit less than a $100 USD
On second look I think it can be further generalized to N+M nCr M for all grids NxM where N >= M since the number of ways should depend on combinations of the smaller number.
You are welcome to naively walk into a Lion den and get eaten.

If you do not want to get eaten, don't get eaten.

There's nothing to fear here.
HN comments, N levels deep: The subtle mention of a largely tangential but controversial topic is important to me. Here is an eight-paragraph thinly-veiled diatribe on why you are wrong.
Kind of ironic that your "hellscape" is created by an increased difficulty to get a job.
Never had an iPad but I think I will buy this one.
Discussion (138 points, 9 hours ago, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41849058
In the dark ages of the internet, you had to host a server in things like Ventrilo[1], which was the thing Discord tried and succeeded at disrupting. Since now you can create a "server" for talking with friends (and friends of friends) without being technical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo
Maybe they pronounce “many” as “mini”?
> For once doesn't seem like a hit piece

What?!? It must be the outcome of a meticulous reading on what must be millions of words from Stallman, tolling for anything that reflects one just aspect of his outlook on life. Based on that alone one outlook it recommends he be banned from everything. There must be at least man months of work in it.

I guess there has to be, as it's a weak case. It's based on thought crimes, not actions. The difference between the two is obvious - just look at the real damage the dispute between Automattic and WPEngine has on bystanders. They are actively trying to inflict harm on each other and succeeding. Never mind the collateral damage.

No mention of the more positive aspects of his personality - like him buying coffee for the homeless he met in the street. Very little acknowledgement of the positive changes social he's wrought through man years of labor and giving the results away for free. We all have bad points. If you evaluate any of us just based on them, the scales are always going to point one way.

To me, it's an exemplar of a hit piece by someone with an single minded obsession. To make matters worse, it's an anonymous someone.