skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched my self hosted baikal and previous nextcloud to icloud. I need redundancy and persistence if I pass away for my family that uses iPhone. I manage it with emclient and my android phone (sync'd via davx5). I find I am able to edit what I need to between those.
It's a name that accurately describes the ultimate goal of the technology. It's not there yet, and Tesla makes it clear that this is the case. I don't see an issue with it and it works exceptionally well as is.
I guess there would be a silicate famine in the seas, that seems to be the limiting factor for diatom presence overall among plankton

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom#/media/File:Diatoms_Egg...
(2023) Discussions:

Part 1 (345 points, 188 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709284

Part 2 (55 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728849

Part 3 (212 points, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801150

Part 4 (57 points, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907482
Since it's apparently a 3d map (?) I'd be curious if they will re-run the scan and compare between the scans? Pure speculation my part, but that would be pretty interesting, surely.
It's called lawfare.
Getting beyond the title, which I definitely agree with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896346), there was this nugget about hallucinations:

> I think over the past 18 months, that problem has pretty much been solved – meaning when you talk to a chatbot, a frontier model-based chatbot, you can basically trust the answer

Can't decide if he actually believes this, or he's just spewing his own hype. While I definitely agree the best models have reduced hallucinations, going from, say, 3% hallucinations to .7% hallucinations doesn't really improve the situation much for me, because I still need to double check and verify the answers. Plus, I've found that models tend to hallucinate in these "tricky" situations where I'm most likely to want to ask AI in the first place.

For example, my taxes were more of a clusterfuck than usual this year, and so I was asking ChatGPT to clarify something for me, which was whether the "ordinary dividends" number reported on your 1040 and 1099s is a superset of "qualified dividends" (that is, whether the qualified dividends number is included in the ordinary dividends number), or if they were independent values. The correct answer is that the ordinary dividends number (3b on the 1040) does include qualified dividends (the 3a number), but ChatGPT originally gave me the wrong answer. Only when I dug further and asked ChatGPT to clarify did I get the typical "My mistake, you're right, it is a superset!" response from ChatGPT.

Anybody who says that LLM output doesn't need to be verified is either willfully bullshitting, or they're just not asking questions beyond the basics.
We are a necessary but insufficient part of the proof of life. One cannot say "no proof" when necessary proof has been achieved. All that remains is a second example -- the first took several billion years to achieve self awareness.

Like they say, the first million is the hardest.
> and have a bad credit score to begin with.

They do a credit check for these deals. They wouldn't be able to get the deal if they have bad credit.
Natural gas at least one more main type of training data, and it's much bigger than self play for natural training:

Testing against the universe.

Self play and self play ignores the whole of Empiricism
The success of this project is going to be very non-linear with speed, so it really hangs on where your speed improvements will plateau.

If you get below 2x, you can compete with WASM and ASAN. If you get it down to 1.1x-1.2x, you can compete with RLBox. If you get down to 1.05 you can call it software-emulated CHERI and kill the whole hardware line before it even comes out.

If you get it down to 1.01x, Rust will copy you, and then beat you by skipping checks on borrowed references ;)
Most cloud providers will accept a cloud init cloud config file. Sometimes they call it a “script” but they still accept the Yaml file if it has the `#cloud-config`.

There are modules for setting up ssh, adding users, installing packages, etc.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
> but certainly more than $10b

Based on?
I am also intrigued by this question: What was different for guys like Ramanujan, and how were they able to tap in to this hidden reservoir of knowledge. And how can we replicate it

One guy able to tap into this knowledge in dreams is an indication that it is possible. Now, how do we make this the default for everyone is the question I wonder about

The way we found one variant of wheat in Mexico that was resistant to bacteria, and replicate that to the whole world -- can we do something like that for humans
( even I don't like the sound of it, but I hope you get the feeling )
Fragile and too expensive to replace often. The software updates that apple pushes on to them screws them up. Happened to my first set of airpods and swore off of them since then. The batteries are awful too.

My go to since then has been the one plus z2 headsets, brilliant call quality, great form factor, decent ANC, and fantastic battery.
I guarantee to you that Wired has been an intelligence front for 20 years at this point. This is an absolutely predictable position from them, and it's meant to be quoted in Congress and in courtrooms.
This is also the case for unverified and verified humans, and one thing I can say with absolute confidence is that the majority of internet content has always, and will always be unverified opinion and ideology. As is the majority of human minds. The most valuable thing to come out of AI is the forced introspection about ourselves. It's "us" times N. For better or worse.
To quote an artist friend: exposure is good until you die from it.

Being forced to do subjects that you hate is not exposure, it is being forced to do things which you are completely unsuited for.

I would go so far as saying that being forced to take music until 7th grade put me off any musical pursuits for the next 20 years. The less said about the torture disguised as education that is PE the better.
I've used Scalene at various times in the past few years, and always liked using it when I want to dig deeper compared to cProfile/profile. You might also want to look at:

1] https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument

2] https://github.com/benfred/py-spy

3] https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin

4] https://github.com/bloomberg/memray

5] https://github.com/pyutils/line_profiler
Sorry, yes I only meant in the context of cryptography of course. NIST is a great organization and it's really a historical accident that they do anything with crypto.
Curiously it worked for me (on a Windows 10 install) - no ads, no Edge, no telemetry (I use sysInternals ProcessExplorer and other tools as a cross check).

I also use the seperate O&O tweaks (App Buster and ShutUP) that I saw were included as part of the winUtil's many options (I'm guessing titus just copied the tweaks across).

Maybe you misread the GUI (perhaps ticked options but didn't apply?).

Hard to debug from a distance.

Regardless - there's also the Revision community that are dedicated to gutting windows for peak gaming - you can read their stuff and talk to their members on forums, etc:

https://revi.cc/about https://revi.cc/docs/playbook/general

As I recall this is also the path taken by a number of Qubes users to make their Windows "Qubes" (a clean stripped down windows VM to spin up fresh for secure tasks isolated from others).
> Imagine if jobs worked like this - "Yes, we know you are a great developer but you don't really understand economics. Sorry".

This is exactly the route to exploitation by MBA managers.

Great developer, loyal, doesn't understand the need to change companies to get paid a competitive salary. Perfect hire.

The person who doesn't understand economics pays the price themselves.
I appreciate the added context. I agree, this kind of flip-floppy, turbulent thing does of course happen. My whole comment was poorly written. I was mostly trying to say that it seems unlikely that some time ago someone said "we should hire people and treat them well for a while then treat them poorly and do it all over again."

Except, I don't even really agree with that. That's how companies treat employees all the time. Not just in software, but floor workers and warehouse folk and anything else.
And eating right! Gotta complete that trifecta, each one compliments the others.
Went to see an artist (DJ) I liked and forgot my filters. Remembered that I had my AirPods Pro and used them in transparency mode and after only 10 minutes completely forgot I had them even in. I was surprised how good they worked as hearing protection!

Now when I’m at festivals and I have friends without earplugs, I usually recommend them to just use their AirPods Pro (if they have some) instead of buying cheap plugs
The account isn’t particularly relevant, it’s just what the CNN article about Zuckerberg’s letter uses as the source.
By staffing agents closer than 10+ miles, building out the necessary infrastructure, and not waiting until after someone crosses the border to respond and head out in that direction.

It's wild that packs of migrants can travel over desert wastelands on foot and swim across rivers to cross over the border but it's seen as impossible to get a border control officer to them when we've got access to trucks, helicopters, drones, sensors, and all the advanced technology we could ever want at our disposal.
> it is continuous

We don’t know this. It has been as far as we’ve measured. But there are compelling reasons to at least consider discrete spacetime.
So many rules, laws, and systems for all of this to be random. Seems a waste of good code if everything is random.

Is an ecosystem random? What happens when one outside force is added to an ecosystem? There's plenty of examples around the globe of this.

Life doesn't 'find a way' and balance. The ecosystem is damaged, and often times destroyed by adding a single non-native species. That doesn't seem random does it?

Randomness should have error correction, as it's random. Doesn't seem to though.
Alternatively, he could have been like this all along and now he’s just striking. It’s in vogue to “re-align” your corporate backed FOSS project to squeeze money out of everything you can. Collateral damage be damned. Enshittification seemingly knows no bounds.
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Specific citation needed.

At Big US Engineering School, many people are done with their prerequisites in a year.

Unless you're talking about painful core classes like "compiler design" and "networking", which I would say is a different conversation.
> when was the last time you read about a bridge that collapsed from lack of maintenance?

2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Hollow_Bridge
It's a great idea. Leveraging the awesome power of the American civil tech economy is going to be very necessary as great power competition heats up.
> How do you measure pi?

Pick your method. It’s the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
No. It's humour.

There is no such thing as the Second Law of Thermodynamics of a Turing Machine.

Unless! You turn the machine off. Then energy input equals zero, it becomes a closed system, and entropy kicks in.
Yes, it goes in every "regular package" folder (a folder without one creates a "namespace package" - or rather, a "portion" thereof; this allows for a parallel file hierarchy somewhere else that holds another part of the same package).

Python represents packages as `module` objects - the exact same type, not even a subclass. These are created to represent either the folder or an `__init__.py` file.

The file need not be empty and in fact works like any other module, with the exception of some special meaning given to certain attributes (in particular, `__all__`, which controls the behaviour of star-imports). Notably, you can use this to force modules and subpackages within the package to load when the package is imported, even if the user doesn't request them (`collections.abc` does this); and you can make some other module appear to be within the package by assigning it as an attribute (`os.path` works this way; when `os` is imported, some implementation module such as `ntpath` or `posixpath` is chosen and assigned).
I'm more than happy to sign onto a reasonable certification. Many good reasons for it. I am, personally, fond of the idea that an ABET certified BSCS should be ground floor level. Other ideas have been floated...

But this particular work is really, really, really awful. For reasons that are well documented.

In the most fundamental sense, the IEEE doesn't understand what professional SWEs need, in appropriate portions. It confuses SWE with PM, badly. And it has done so, historically. To the point of wide condemnation.
There are, but then the question really becomes "what is the moat"? I.e. lots of these companies are essentially just providing wrappers around the best models coupled with some type of RAG approach.

FWIW, I believe there is a defendable moat for the players that have really good UI and are really focused on end-user solutions. E.g. I pay for Cursor.sh because I believe it is an easy net win for my productivity. But I do really wonder if these "AI application" companies can support their lofty valuations. I feel like most of them will have limited pricing power because if they try to price too high it's easy for someone to say "OK, we'll just go to a competitor, or even pull it in house."
I have read the original article as well as many pieces of additional context posted in this thread and yet still don't understand what is going on here.

Yes, the intern was actively behaving maliciously, but why? What did he stand to gain from breaking another team's training code? I don't buy that he went through all that effort and espionage simply to make his own work look better. An intern is only employed for 3 months, surely sabotaging another team's multi-year project is not the most efficient way to make your toy 3-month project look better in comparison.
As a less sophisticated audienc emember, can someone PDF the thing for me my vision wetware can't grok it
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> I wonder how many geniuses we skip on because doing the chores of homework and getting through boring classes is busywork and memorization for the sake of getting an A.

Zero? If you qualify as a prodigy, it is apparent from a young age. Maths prodigies are especially easy to distinguish. Given a little time, they will self-learn, grok and innovate on anything you throw at them and will likely attend higher education early unlike "the brilliant kid"s who will struggle with advanced concepts all their lives.
I too am wanting to know the answer to this question, sounds like an intriguing concept!
To think that it's only been a touch over 100 years that we've even had confirmation that other galaxies besides our own exist.

Prior to that it was thought that the entire visible universe was around 100,000 parsecs across (what we know now to be just the Milky Way.)
The problem is that packages can also look very different. For example, Python can import an entire package hierarchy from a zip file. (This is essential to how `zipapp` works; and under limited circumstances, a wheel file can also be used this way - which plays an essential role in how Pip is bootstrapped.)
I think it's "plainly obvious" the the people pushing for this keep repeating the same argument, that is, they have no argument, they just say "duh, obviously watchtowers work!".

This isn't evidence-based policy, this is literally the opposite.

Can you name one program similar in-scope anywhere that would achieve results in-line with what you could see here? A pilot study in one small area that measured impact and effects? No? Oh well its just "plainly obvious" right so who needs evidence?

This is cargo-cult nonsense, through and through. "See if we do the right mystical movements and arrangements then magically things will be fixed".

Do we need to bring up that even Israel, one of world's most militarized states, failed to leverage this technology despite arguably far stronger technological knowledge institutionally and far more flexible hand in security spending?

No, October 7th showed the same failures as it would for this border program. The problem is and never was about interdiction, the problem is the root-causes of these "threats" having nothing to do with physical human beings crossing a geographical space without being recorded on camera or a sensor.
> The department is considering asking chief technology officers and other senior tech professionals to take up high-ranking positions in the reserves.

So rather than a recruiting pipeline for actual technical experts, they'll be recruiting linkedin "thought leaders." Good luck, I guess.
Specialization does begin earlier than that. Most high schools in the US have advanced classes that students can opt in to, and there is the AP program.

Personally I think that we could do better by tailoring every student’s education to their abilities. Put in simplest possible terms, we could arrange classes by complexity rather than by year. Have one class for addition and subtraction, another for multiplication and division, then geometry, algebra, etc, etc. Then let students graduate from one to the next based on proven ability rather than by age. Do the same for language, history, etc. Let every student proceed through the courses at their own speed.
Yes, there’s been a lot of negativity toward earlier versions of this document. It’s been around for a while and represents a formal, structured, and rigid approach to software development. Historically, it reflects the 1990s era, when waterfall was the preferred method, and there was a push to make software engineering a licensed profession. At the time, we were also in a “software crisis” where large, expensive projects with extensive documentation and formalized planning often failed. Today, we have quicker releases, faster feedback, and more direct user communication (what we now call extreme programming or agile). However, this has also led to too much cowboy programming. So it’s important to maintain some level of standards. Might be worth revisiting?
I think the "layoff in disguise" aspect is true for sure. I'm saying there's a big difference between Amazon asking people who WFH to hoof it 10-40 minutes each way to their nearest office, versus Walmart asking people who might already commute to a Walmart office to move to Bentonville.
Why would a carrier give someone a phone if they have bad credit? It's not like they are mandated by law to provide everyone the latest iPhone regardless of credit score.

I worked in customer support for Rogers(A Canadian phone carrier) for a very short period before it was mandated to have unlocked phones and people still stopped paying their bill even if the phone was locked. The vast majority of people want to pay their bills on time especially for something as critical as phone service. The people who don't, are going to not pay their bill no matter what sort of rules in place because they either simply don't have the money or they don't care.
For profiling memory consider far more advanced memray.

https://github.com/bloomberg/memray
Ah yes a debate between scientists with theories which are so far removed from Science that it can’t be called anything other than fairy tails

For those who aren’t in the know physics is in a crisis where huge portions of theoretical physics are turning out to be complete nonsense.
"Exposure" would be spending much much less time on those subjects, especially the free home time. Then the number of subjects is practically infinite, so expecting "most" is just as unrealistic (and colleges also continue this "exposure")
you can't serve two masters.

How would you characterize R's master and the "normie" master?
Without the new software, there is no boost to external sound in transparency mode, so they are not useful as hearing aids. I’m looking forward to testing the new release.
You spent $100 and came out with $1,000. That’s 10x (you’ve returned 10 times the initial investment).
I agree. There is a huge bias in our culture that we imagine a human supremacy. We are the top of the food chain we think. The masters of our world we argue, despite simple bacteria being superior in all environments compared to fragile sickly humans. We not only assume that aliens would think like us, we think they would even look like us with more or less the same body plan. We think they would have the same cultural sensibilites of exploration aboard a ship, of making treaties and even sharing technology. Even in this thread you get pushback from replies and downvotes from people who are almost offended that this would not be the case.

If you ever study evolution on the other hand, you would realize how fantastical these assumptions all are. No, life elsewhere if anything is far more likely to look like how it did for most of the history of life on earth: unicellular. People forget that even multicellularity, let alone an organism with an entire bodyplan, emerged from pure chance, and could have easily been wiped out or outcompeted for resources as soon as it came if it didn’t have sufficient fitness. How lucky it was for us that our ancient eukaryotic ancestors enveloped that first mitochondria. How different life would look today if that never happened and we never had such an energy source to actually support these later iterations, considering all life that exists today are directly descended from this single line. How supremely unlikely it all is to tread even close to the same path. How many potential paths are lost along the way and how many paths only emerged as a result of previous paths.
Love that they're still calling themselves the Department of "Defense" even after Operation Northwoods leaked
> there’ll be detailed comparisons between the AirPods Pro 2 and existing OTC devices in the near future once iOS 18.1 is widely available.

As someone with a diagnosed, severe hearing loss, I wonder how these compare to prescription hearing aids. I currently wear a pair of Phonak hearing aids and am looking to replace them, but I wonder if spending 5-6k on another pair is worth it versus the OTC or Apple AirPod options that exist today.
Apple clang versions don't coincide with public clang versions. Apple clang's major versions follow Xcode's. For instance, Xcode 16.1's clang is 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.4).
usually a star in the foreground, or, aliens
The interior contains a singularity, which may as well be the entirety of the interior. Maybe it has a "degenerate interior", which is very different than a region of space.
"Everything is an expression" is low-key nice.

Scala has it. Other languages too.
Famidash – open-source Geometry Dash port for NES [video]
- https://github.com/tfdsoft/famidash
Working with Chris Riccomini on an updated V2!

https://x.com/criccomini/status/1831091262986088473

Also 10 years since "database inside out" talk, https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3l52cfxhq...
Too big to fail?
I am not sure I like this.

inittab is (or had always been) dead simple. With this, no more.

There are plenty of init systems out there, Why not just use these and leave sysvinit alone?

That field had been one command for decades. This is bound to break something somewhere, for no good reason.
> If I don't have kids and grind harder than women who take time to raise kids, why should we have equal opportunities?

they're not comparing vs people who are grinding. I think they just want some guarantee that they won't be discriminated against because of maternity leave. And that they'll have some kind of on-ramp for getting back into the workforce

Which is entirely doable and reasonable, just a question of whether corporations are held accountable here or not
If it had not been for Hardy, we would know a fraction of what R did.
Not breaking the law is just about the lowest bar you can set for an organization.