skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. GitHub alone killed my last effort to go all-in on IPv6 for my personal cloud.

Sure, I could have hacked my way through it. But, that was more work than just paying the extra few cents a month for IPv4.
About a decade ago I tried to use random() and I found its behaviour to be very random... The changelogs of all databases I used later contained bug fixes on this subject. (Sybase, Microsoft)

I'm not sure if standards today are consistent and trustworthy on this subject. Back in the day it was very obvious that most likely nobody ever seriously had tried to use random().
I was referring to climate arguments that we need to reduce our impact to at least mitigate the severity of issues being predicted for the very near future.

I call them apparently hollow in this context because we can't both chase the resource behemoth that is LLM tech and make any meaningful change to reduce our impact.
Two British 1/2pences weighed exactly £8's worth of....
This statement above is the point…. Your networking requirements are quite modest compared to those whom IPv6 is essential.
For now, yes. There also used to be plenty of dumb TVs on the market, but not anymore. If there isn't major consumer resistances to this (and let's be honest, most people already accept smart phones and smart TVs and smart cars and smart appliances all with the same shit) then in less than a decate you won't have many options for dumb monitors.
> establishing a connection even through NAT is not that much harder.

This is false. Because of the inconsistency of NATs and other middle-boxes out there and the fact that many are broken, it's far less reliable. You end up having to relay some traffic, which imposes external cost that unlike a third party locator server isn't trivial. Now you're already losing the benefits of end-to-end connectivity.

Also if E2E is easy there are distributed algorithms for location like DHTs that can be implemented. With trivial end to end they're pretty easy and would be fast and reliable.

The way the Internet has developed has basically broken it for end to end connectivity, forcing everything into the cloud. That is far worse for privacy and autonomy (and cost, making everything a subscription) than IP tracking.

I think you're a little blinded by what is and unable to imagine an alternate path.

Evolution is very path dependent and small changes at one point make things massively different later. One less asteroid and we'd be warm blooded bird-reptile like things that laid eggs.
I really liked the idea.

Played around with rip2 on my MacOS.

Unfortunately after playing with it for two minutes, the "undo" and "scance" functionality seemed to break:

I have opened a bug https://github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2/issues/54].

am I doing something wrong?
That’s an advance organizer (again, Joseph Novak). But it needs to be created by an expert, not by an LLM.
Elon Musk's Big Business and Conflicts of Interest with the U.S. Government
The end result is never the code itself. In fact, the end result exists over time, and often the shape of the result in the time dimension is better the shorter the code and the more thorough the intangible forethought.

But yes, I don’t know how clear must I be about it—this is learning (for very young humans still psychologically immature), that’s exactly why it has to be spelled out that evaluation must be on the effort, precisely because it is never on the effort in any other activity in adulthood.
We don't have that tech though.

Its a reasonable hope that we could discover a new energy source that can produce orders of magnitude more energy with even less impact than today's sources, but that is just a hope. In the meantime we would be committing ourselves to a new, much higher baseline of energy needs whether we make that discovery or not.
Well how else would you get security updates for your insecure devices if not by connecting them to the internet. /s
In a written exam they can cover the names - give you a random number as you enter the room and you write that on the paper, and but your name and number on a different paper. You also need to type everything out on a computer with spell check. (and even then if you write bucket or pail will identify you but it is unlikely any professor knows you well enough to tell those)

When you audition for a symphony you perform behind a curtain and are required to wear soft slippers (so they can't tell if you are a wearing high heals - female).

We can probably use voice changers so the examiner cannot tell who you are by your voice, but those tend to be fatiguing.
All excellent point, but I'd like to add that it also forces you to do your own research the correct way, by surveying the current state of academic research and then finding and incorporating scholarly sources into your own arguments. Every academic essay I ever wrote after high school started with a trip to the library and JSTOR. I had to guide my own education instead of learning from the teacher and then repeating what had been taught.
Or the price is right.

Come on down! Use WebAssembly. You'll love it.
I've tried this in Shadertoy and it looks pretty good.

Can this be adapted to work with classic line segments made from quads or is it just for drawing grids in screen space?
> cherry pick the one study from the nuclear energy agency

The IEA is the International Energy Agency. It deals with energy in general.

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

You are thinking of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Different agency.

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

What you describe as "consensus" is nothing of the sort. And of course you cite mostly opinion pieces. The one actual "study" that compares costs is ... drumroll... Lazard.

I was waiting for that one. If you actually read the study, you will find that they did not actually look at the cost of nuclear power. It even says so in the footnotes. They weren't interested in the cost of nuclear for that study, and so used the cost of Vogtle (the most expensive reactors to date) as a stand-in.

If you don't believe me, believe the vice-chairman of Lazard who is responsible for that study

“We do not, in this study, try to cost out new nuclear” (2:35)

“We think nuclear will be a big part of the future” (2:47)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16HVh_Fx6LQ
I disagree this is "hype train" trails that lead to Azure. Management and their legal departments navigate in different ways.
While I understand the spirit of your message, you should not care about that.

"One of my kid's teachers set out a warning to students that all essays would be checked against the other students' essays to see if they are the same and the repercussions one would face if caught. A classmate did a Google search and found the questions of the essay as examples on a book."

One thing is perfectly valid, the other one is not.

Then of course, there are shades of gray. Using ChatGPT for some things is not copying and you can even say the kids are learning to use the tool, but if you use it for 95% of the essay, it is.
Hah, that’s great! Hopefully this dramatic chapter in history is a short one, and we learn to adapt away from graded homework. A 4% false positive rate is insane when that could mean failure and/or expulsion, and even more so when any serious cheater can get around in two minutes with a “write in the style of…” preprompt.
I think you missed completely the point. It is exactly the opposite of your conclusion, the benefits of TRE are not because of weight loss/reduced caloric intake.
That's sadly how we advance into new tech, historically speaking. Humanity only put a man on the moon as a case of showboating to political rivals. And look how we iterated on that 60 years later (I'm aware the moon landing was more or less stuck together with bubble gum and hopes/prayers, but still.). the uses for rocket propulsion to serve the public only came later.

Someone really important or really rich needs to build that demand so we get something for the wrong reasons but for potential good intent. FWIW, I'm not really optimistic that the bubble lasts long enough to even get these plants off the planning stage, though.
Or https://wg21.link/std23
OTOH in production settings you can run 6-8 copies of your Node app to utilize the 8 physical CPU cores without (much) contention; the JS engine runs additional threads for GC and other housekeeping. Or you can use multiple "web workers" which are VM copies in disguise. The async nature of the JS runtime may allows for a lot of extra parallelism (for waiting on I/O completion) on one core if your load is I/O-bound, as it is the case for most web backends.

Th same does not hold for frontend use, as it's for one user, and latency trumps throughput in the perception of being fast. You need great single-thread performance, and an ability to offload stuff to parallel threads where possible, to keep the overall latency low. That's basically the approach of game engines.
The article was published in September 2018, when the 4K version wasn't yet released. Still, the author seems to have been aware of it.

From one of the quotations in the article: "Even beyond Kubrick's grave, Vitali continues to work to preserve the director's vision. For the current re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Vitali color timed the 70 mm print that's being screened in theaters. He also worked on the color timing of the 4K transfer which will be coming to home video soon."
Yes I remember doing the same. I'd probably be about 12 years old, and my dad asked "What is this Ubuntu thing you got in the mail?", even now he asks me about Ubuntu.
For those of us outside of Italy that might be worried that our government (and powerful corporations, which increasingly seem to be merging) isn't protecting us like the Italian government is, don't worry, pretty soon the "rightsholders" worldwide will be able to ensure we can't even browse most websites unless we're running an "authorized" OS, let alone access our cloud storage.

Apple and Google are full along implementing that, which when complete will cover a huge percentage of the population.

Then many more popular sites will start blocking (or, more likely, heavily degrading the experience with CAPTCHAs and the like) the "unknown" clients, at which point I have no doubt that Microsoft will finish any work to get Windows to that point.

Then 98% of the population is covered and even very sympathetic engineers will have to block these dangerous "unknown" clients because justifying to management why you wouldn't block these clients will require arguing that availability is more important than security, an argument that (at least in the current culture of safety being more important than everything else) is career suicide.

Then us long time Linux people who have been fighting this crap since the early 00s will sit around and reminisce about the good 'ol days when you could run uMatrix or uBlock Origin in your browser, save important youtube videos and webpages offline, or even control when your software got updated. The kids will look at us the same way we looked at the old guys reminiscing about the simplicity and fixability/upgradability and ability to tinker with the cars of the 60s and 70s.

Admittedly not quite the same thing, but this feels like part of the overall trend.

Happy Monday everyone!
> The MS security software (for better or worse), is better than any open-source linux solution

is it able to detect ransomware ?

Seeing MS and security in the same sentence makes me suspicious.
Hmm I think you may have misinterpreted. The accusation isn’t that the teacher used AI, the accusation is that these tools are unreliable
Interesting seeing the training disclosures...
I'd rather just use a dedicated (dumb) docking station rather than giving yet another device internet access.
I just have a long text file with notes of all different things in it which I grep through as necessary for todos etc. But for time tracking I didn't really like what was available so I (shameless plug) built etu[0]. It's free and open source and I quite enjoy it.

[0] https://github.com/xyzshantaram/etu
It also how you define "fake", eg in machine learning it can be everything from fabricated results to data leakage, low quality data, bugs, p-hacking, weak baseline design, insufficient handling of randomness, etc etc.
(I should caveat what I'm about to say that I'm primarily concerned about writing robust and highly performant programs, and while I believe it should be a focus broadly, it's a practical niche.)

That's the thing, though. It's arguably even more important for distributed code. If we abstract away the state machine too much, it becomes difficult to reason about the code precisely because of abstraction. The complexity that was present explicitly in the state machine will just cause confusing behavior in the abstracted version. Using lightweight threads or another high level abstraction that approximates blocking code will allow getting a program out faster, but lower quality at that. Two examples to illustrate my point: first, you mention scatter-gather, but the base concept is orthogonal to sync/async. However, I/O is characteristically async, and therefore the underlying mechanisms are async anyways. Second, io_uring is showing that async can be good for performance while not being a difficult interface.

Sync code makes things easier to reason about but also kinda not. I think the big issues with async are that the OS hasn't done a good job allocating responsibility of async interfaces and the fundamental difficulty. The former makes async seem less efficient than it could be, which is true in that a sync-over-async interface is better than an async-over-sync-over-async interface, but we should have async interfaces accessible. The latter probably feeds into a bias to not even touch async where mixing async and sync would be the best blend of performance and programmability.
> The 8k pg page maps to 2 pages in a typical SSD disk.

You might end up with even more than that due to filesystem metadata (inode records, checksums), metadata of an underlying RAID mechanism or, when working via some sort of networking, stuff like ethernet frame sizes/MTU.

In an ideal world, there would be a clear interface which a program can use to determine for any given combination of storage media, HW RAID, transport layer (local attach vs stuff like iSCSI or NFS), SW RAID (i.e. mdraid), filesystem and filesystem features what the most sensible minimum changeable unit is to avoid unnecessary write amplification bloat.
I have 53 students in my class right now. A 15-minute oral exam works out to 13.25 hours of exam time, assuming perfect efficiency. As a comparison, our in-class time (3 hours over 16 weeks) works out to only about 48 hours. So a single oral exam works out to 1/4th of all class time.

But in principle this is not a problem for me, I already spend at least this much time grading papers, and an oral exam would be much more pleasant. The real problems will come up when (1) students are forced to schedule these 15-minute slots, and (2) they complain about the lack of time and non-objective grading rubric.
Are we supposed to believe that every other person in government isn't making obscene amounts of money on conflicts of interest?
I took a programming languages course from a professor what written a book on SNOBOL. It was out of print, so he distributed photocopies. I didn't see much point in it, but when I encountered Perl a bit later, it did help.
> It’s a fairly calculated move, as they know market for engineers isn’t in the best shape, so a significant chunk will keep working with no complaints.

Of course, that's the sort of thing that tends to be true right up until it abruptly isn't.
> In the future you will probably read books and memoirs from international banking leaders, speaking more unfiltered about how they had to keep the truth from the population, just as we today can read the memoirs of previous Soviet leaders admitting their lies and failure.

No, we really won't.
you could ask for reasonable accommodations - e.g. if you have a recognised medical condition, or even just going through a rough time - e.g. ask to be allowed to write down your answer while they wait.
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover triggered academic exodus, study suggests
Then I completely agree hahaha
I'm not sure what you're saying. The cable length is largely fixed/determined by the building you're running cable in. I'd rather spend an extra $100 on cable than start ripping open walls/floors/ceilings to get a slightly more optimal run length.

If it's new construction or you already have everything ripped open it's less of an issue.
> The point is, that if your organization has chosen an enterprise security platform, you don't make exceptions because of ideology

You're right. MS can always blame state actors when something fails. /s
In real life you need to be able to communicate written, in formal talks, and in informal discussions.

Those of you who severely lack any of the three will be penalized. Just like someone who can discuss a topic orally but could not write it up would be penalized.
"We" in this case would be the broader collective society, but also more specifically the very leaders pushing the LLM industry forward.

Big tech companies have a long list of promises made over the last 5-10 years promising huge cuts in their environmental impact. Those same companies and their leaders largely abandoned those goals.

I didn't really have political leadership in mind when writing that comment, though they could be part of that "we" as well.

> The people driving AI investment will simply not be significantly affected by climate change. They don't care that hundreds of millions in the tropics will die, and that much of organised human activity will collapse, because up until the last possible moment they'll be insulated from the consequences.

We've spent 80 years globalizing economies in an effort to avoid another world war. We'll all be impacted by it if some of the climate predictions are accurate.

Edit: to add that many of the same leaders developing LLMs make claims that LLMs and AI (if we get there) may be our only hope for finding ways of reversing our environmental impact. Either they are making that up as a sales pitch or they do in fact fall into the "we" here of people that care deeply about our impact while simultaneously burning massive amounts of resources on the hope that LLMs may fix it for us.
You're technically correct, but ISPs best practice is to hand out a /64.
Hmmm not sure I see the advantages of 3d printing vs lithography.

I mean, yes, technically, this approach could advance to catch up with lithography. In practice? Yes we are working toward smaller feature size in additive, but we are nowhere close to micro let alone nano scale.

If the advantage is "hobbyists can do it" then I would say "hobbyists can eaglecad too"

This seems like a detour or speedbump on our existing path toward atom level logic production.
Honestly I think you could set AI entirely to the side here, it seems increasingly a cultural meme (and an unfortunately accurate one) that kids can't read or write. And not just on social media either, I've seen this crop up in official training and my professional experience matches it too. The vast majority of people in the United States just write really, really poorly, and the average reading level sits at an utterly pathetic sixth grade.

I don't wanna trot out "think of the children" bullshit here but it's hard for me to not notice that this trend has been happening since smartphones became normal and schools have increasingly become utterly toothless with regard to enforcing standards in education, i.e. "you need to know this shit in order to move to the next grade up." Nobody does that anymore. Just fudge the scores with extra credit or make-up assignments and send them up the chain to be a different teacher's problem next year.

> My opinion is, the only solution to this problem is to allow AI detectors to flag work, but that when a work is flagged, that flagging just triggers a face to face meeting between the student and the professor, where the student is required to show through discussion of the work that they understand it well enough to have written it.

You said it yourself in the subsequent paragraph, but if professors had this much time and energy to teach, their kids wouldn't be writing like deprecated GPT instances in the first place. We need to empower teachers and schools to fail children so they can be taught and experience consequences for lack of performance, and learn to do better. They have no reason to try because no one will hold them accountable, personally or systemically. We just let them fail and keep failing until they turn into failures of adults living in their parents basements playing Elden Ring all day and getting mad at each other over trivial bullshit on social media.
These kinds of internet attacks happen all the time to children who host Minecraft servers, small businesses, amateur programmers, etc. Finding the responsible party is often difficult if not impossible, and usually the FBI and other powers-that-be have bigger fish-to-fry (i.e., drug traffickers, cyber criminals who focus on extortion, etc) and are unable to devote resources to finding these types of attackers.

The sad reality is that a lot of people are unfairly attacked on the internet and many go unpunished due to lack of investigative focus, resources, etc.
Looks interesting, but I don't see anything for how to build it into an iOS or Android app. https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/install/index.html
> a military prevented kidnappings by killing the people who could be taken as hostages.

which events are you talking about?
> Written assay evaluation is not and has never been an effective evaluation.

I kind of disagree.

I've kept a blog for almost 20 years now and one thing is for sure: well-structured writing is very different from an oral exam the writing allows for restructuring your thoughts and ideas as you go and allows for far more depth.

I don't think, for most folks, that they could have as much depth in an F2F as they could in their writing with the exception of true experts in their fields.

The written essay has a cohesiveness and a structure to it that provides a better framework for evaluation and conveyance of information.
Exactly my thoughts. When I started really getting functional programming it was a breath of fresh air. For me the test is not just how fast someone else can pick up the codebase but how fast I can remember how it all works in n years.
Gimps Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹ − 1
14% is a lower bound. I suspect if you include studies that can't be replicated it's well over 50%. And yes with that much garbage the public should dismiss all new published scientific findings. Modern scientific publishing has been gamed it's nearly useless for learning anything directly because you can't trust it. Some fields more than others of course, but it's all bad. Yes this includes tier 1 journals.
Fjall 2.2- featuring multi-writer transaction support
> Mostly it’s the other way around: attackers follow MS „security software“ to get deep into your systems.

Don't tell them. They just forgot about this with the new Win 11 24H2.
Perhaps. Can’t afford books and friend trips, spending on buggy AI scanners.
Students who use the "word of the week" can easily explain it by saying they used an AI in their studies.

"You asked us to write an essay on the Civil War. The first thing I did was ask an AI to explain it to me, and I asked the AI some follow-up questions. Then I did some research using other sources and wrote my paper."

It might even be a true story, and in such a case it's not surprising that the student would repeat words they encountered while studying.
>>> Before we had software engineers, we had sanitation engineers

>> Trying to make sure I understand what you’re saying.

> title inflation.
If JS runtimes take type hints into consideration, then they can be much faster. SIMD is not really hard to support, though value types can be hard to retrofit.