skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NVCleanInstall, maybe? I couldn't find anything called "NV Install".

Personally I'm still running with the drivers that came with the box when I bought it in 2020. GeForce Experience is an abomination; besides the mind-boggling bloat, demanding that I create an account just to download a driver update really made me determined never to buy NVidia ever again.
It seems all cutting edge datacenters like x.ai Colossus are using Nvidia networking. Now Google is upgrading to Nvidia networking, too.

Since Nvidia owns most of the Gpgpu products, they have top notch networking and interconnect, I wonder if they don't have a plan to own all datacenter hardware in the future. Maybe they plan to also release CPUs, motherboards, storage and whatever else is needed.
As matt levine likrs to say. High level finance is mostly about seating charts.

In other words, it's about status, not money.
How come my links show up here https://lynx.boo/favicon.ico/edit but not here https://lynx.boo/favicon.ico
So the choice is now mediocre and high quality?
Thanks for the informative post. It pretty much backs up what I've already learned. However, the "complications are beyond rare" doesn't seem to be the case for myopic people doing RLE. In particular, the risks of retinal detachment seem to be around 1%, according to e.g. https://crstodayeurope.com/articles/2017-apr/long-term-compl... (see below) and other sources I've found. Maybe the state of the art has improved since 2017, but 1% is an uncomfortable gamble with something that will at the very least make you unable to read and drive.

The mean incidence of retinal detachment and cystoid macular edema (CME) after RLE are 1% and 0.1%, respectively. The risk of retinal detachment after RLE is increased with young age, male sex, degree of myopia, and axial length exceeding 27 mm
UW is a leading public R1 university with 50,000 students and almost 5000 faculty. Are you really going to tar them with all with your "openly bigoted" brush?! That feels a very simplistic take.

To put it another way, you can't find any organization, anywhere, of that scale, that doesn't have some problematic people. Or do you really believe that all universities are "openly bigoted" and therefore all their research should be ignored?

Or are you content with continued preference being given to white guys?
Oh yeah Cobol absolutely worked as a programming language, but it never lived up to the promise of being a plain English replacement for code which was a common promise at the time.
Couldn’t have said it any better myself
Haha, it really works. Thanks!
Compared to what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

Coal is $4000 per kW

This solar project is right on the average at $1,327, although NREL says it can cost upto 2743.

Some investment group says a 1MW coal plan would cost similar or upto 4x the cost:
>estimates suggest that the construction cost of a coal-fired thermal power plant can range from less than $1,000 to $4,500 per each kilowatt of installed capacity.
https://esfccompany.com/en/articles/thermal-energy/coal-fire...

So, seems just about average and on just the construction cost - cheaper than coal.
No that wasn't your argument and this new one is off course a much waker one that you fell back onto to be “technically right”.

That attention heads are mandatory for transformers is a tautology (without it a transformer is just an MLP…) so of course this statement is going to be correct, by definition.

But when you move the goal post to land on a tautology then you've surrendered your abilities to argue anything and you are just ridiculing yourself. Take this question of your for instance:

> If you know of any models that have had success (even at the GPT-2 level) without Self-Attention, I'd be interested to know what they are, because I don't know of any.

Which is a legit, non-ridiculous, one.

If you replace it with your later much weaker argument:

> > If you know of any MLP that have had success (even at the GPT-2 level), I'd be interested to know what they are, because I don't know of any.

Then it becomes a dumb question given that MLP have no way of encoding context and can't process sequences of words in the first place.

So when you argue that it was your argument all along, it's particularly embarrassing because you're just arguing that your previous arguments were equally dumb even when they weren't.

That's why I said you're disrespecting your earlier argumentation by retreating to your later tautology.
That wouldn't help for this case. Even a PhD in cryptography and computer science doesn't help you in any way be convinced that a particular machine is securely counting your votes. If you want to be convinced of that, you have to audit the code and the hardware specs and the network code and everything in between to ensure that the system: (a) implements the claimed algorithms, (b) does so correctly and free of side-channeled attacks, (c) doesn't implement other things that can weaken the security after the fact, such as remote code download, and (d) has adequate physical protection to prevent hardware interference. And probably other things I'm not even thinking about.

And all this work doesn't then help you ensure that another machine in a different jurisdiction, even one that is the same make and model, is also secure. Plus, every single person that cares about the vote has to put in this work for themselves: you can't "trust the experts" when the stakes are so high.

I think this pretty clearly goes beyond what you could do teach a high-school setting.
> Most of these sites being illegal says something about our laws.

The perspective on this changes if you stop being a consumer, and start
being an author.
Thanks! That’s such an ambitious endgame that it didn’t occur to me.
From a research perspective, this approach isn’t new; David Ha and Danijar Hafner explored similar ideas years ago. However, the technique itself and the achievement of deploying it for testing by hundreds of users is commendable. It feels more like an experimental prototype than a viable replacement for mainstream gaming.
lmfao. you are a menace!
It has become a sales oriented product, which is where the alternatives struggle and they shine (relatively). Round robin, intersecting calendars etc

They have dropped the ball on the admin UX and menu design, very confusing.
> Ideally in a web application, aside from some in-memory caches, no object allocated as part of a request should survive longer than the request itself. Any object that does is probably something that should be eagerly loaded during boot, or some state that is leaking between requests. As such, any object promoted to the old generation during a request cycle is very unlikely to be immortal, so promoting it is wasteful.

So could each request clean up it's own garbage when it finishes, so then they should never need any global garbage collection?
At least for one of the websites in this lis, no it does not as you don't gain anything from the money that the users pay. And frankly some people will email you asking you to send them your work for free and you will happily do that.
What do you audit if both the tally and the paper ballot are consistent? The only check possible is the voter checking themselves before they hand over the paper ballot.
What about if on Friday morning you're wishing it was Monday? Like, two Mondays ago? So you weren't quite as late on everything?
We Moved from AWS to Fly.io
> While we don't have forests of paper, we have pocket-sized computers that can talk peer to peer and store practically infinite amounts of transactions.

And how do we know that someone's pocket computer doesn't contain a
forged list of transactions that never happened, or is missing some
transactions that did happen?
Isn't WebGPU supposed to be containerized? So that it only access its processes, which are the computations it is running for rendering? I honestly don't know much but I had heard it was sandboxed.
Maybe I'm Not a Pro Anymore
Probably not. The average EU citizen living in "centuries old city centers" emits ~5.66 tCO2eq/year [1], while an analysis of cruise ship vacations for Seattle shows each passenger emitting on average ~421 kg/day [2], equaling ~153 tCO2eq/year (27x the EU average).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

[2] https://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Comparison_of_CO2...
It is absolutely 100% not overblown. Voter punishment and suppression is a well established practice in many places. India's vote tallies for example have evolved to a pretty complicated system, because local powers were even instituting collective punishment on whole villages if they voted "badly". So, the vote counting system had to be adjusted to extend vote secrecy not just to the personal vote, but even to entire counties.

This is a very real problem with a well known history. Even in the USA, gerrymandering is facilitated by this kind of information. If votes were mixed during counting so that you didn't have information about vote counts in each polling place, it would have been considerably harder to come up with the crazy districts being used today in many places. Having personal identification of each voter would definitely have creative uses as well.

And as for bribing, in this very election we have Elon Musk publicly announcing he's giving out money to people who essentially pledge to vote (with some attempts at plausible deniability for committing this federal crime). I'm sure smaller and less loud election influencing is being attempted all the time - but it's hard to do if people can outright scam you and vote differently than what you paid them. Having an online proof of your vote would open up the floodgates to this at a massive scale. And there are plenty of people poor enough to see this as a lifeline.
> None of them get any usage.

Github stats show some uptake so clearly someone finds them useful
Exactly. In terms of CO2 emissions, you're better off flying to a tropical destination and booking a hotel. The cruise ship will burn much more fuel than the jet per passenger in just a couple of days. If you stay on the thing for a month, it's going to be an order of magnitude more. There's nothing green or clean about these things.

They also have a huge ecological impact on the destinations they go to; some of which may have fragile coral reefs or other marine life that doesn't respond to well to the presence of waste dumping cruise ships. The Venetian lagoon is now off limits for cruise ships. But that's because it has sustained a lot of damage over the years. A lot of other destinations are still being actively destroyed by cruise ship tourism.
Honestly? I love it. It's this kind of creativity that is fun and should be embraced not banned.
In case anyone is wondering what the worst case scenario is here’s an overview of how voting works in Colorado:

https://www.cpr.org/2022/10/17/colorado-elections-ballot-cou...

Importantly there’s always an audit in which auditors verify random samplings of ballots. This audit process is overseen by judges from the Republican and Democrat parties.

So even if all the voting software was compromised the audit would still catch any manipulation in the vote entry.
Why Didn't Larrabee Fail? (2016)
You are confusing reality with your own wishes:

Many Jews actively opposed the creation of a Jewish nation; the Bund is just one example [0]. I’m not sure what your point is here—people are entitled to different opinions. However, Einstein actively persuaded world leaders to support the UN partition plan, which was before the founding of Israel.

The founding of Israel resulted from the UN decision on the partition plan, which the Jews accepted while the Arabs rejected. The "mass expulsion" was a consequence of the war, similar to contemporary events in Europe (where 3 million ethnic Germans were displaced) and India (with approximately 20 million displaced). Additionally, you seem to overlook the 900,000 Jews displaced from Arab countries and areas that were meant to be part of Israel but ended up under Jordanian control. This is why, many people at the time (Einstein included) didn't hold the prevailing view that 80 years later is dominating the left.

The U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were undeniably created through colonialism. Live with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Jewish_Labour_Bund
That already existed, it was exactly the Photomator that got acquired. Let’s hope it stays alive
It's my understanding that the browsers use a translation layer (such as ANGLE) between both WebGL and WebGPU and a preferred lower level native API (Vulkan or Metal). In this regard I don't believe WebGL has any more or less protection than WebGPU. It's not right to confuse abstraction with a layer of security.
So much arguing. Don't worry - I'm not going to confiscate or outlaw your rice cooker!

> If I making rice in the instant pot I can't use the instant pot to make actual food.

I'll just correct this one misinformation. You absolutely can cook multiple dishes at once - I've done it, google: 'pot in pot' - assuming they can tolerate roughly similar cooking times.
Are you saying that the only check possible is looking at it while its in your hand?
Not actually saving them. Just collecting souvenirs and mementos before they are scrapped.
It's an almost exact copy of my last few months, right down to the 10am start.

Except that all our other senior engineers got laid off and there's nobody to pair with, I don't give two fucks about bullying because at this point the entire company knows I'll quit on the spot if they try, and our problems are mostly that the remaining team cannot understand the terrifying eldritch decision making process that led to fun little patterns like "wrap every API call in a try/catch and then ignore the errors".

I am seriously considering doing a TAFE course and becoming an electrician.
No update is currently available for Debian¹. This vulnerability is marked as "low priority"² for Bookworm.

1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/n...
2. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-graphics-drivers
Disposables: Run your test dependencies in disposable containers
Fully agree, the default should be strict, jQuery based code requires every developer to be aware of every selector used in the project and remember to update it when the DOM changes. That is of course impossible.

I think it is possible to replace the jQuery init function with your own implementation that enforces length.
Apple was an early investor in Adobe.
> First of all zero-knowledge proofs allow you to verify stuff without being able to prove it to others

I doubt it, and I suspect if you try to point at a specific system to implement you will find that that none exist even in theory. I can verify I voted with zero knowledge, yes. But I can't verify who I voted for. So I can put candidate A into the machine, it switches to candidate B and we can all prove I voted in the election.

Conversely, if I can prove who I voted for then the scheme is vulnerable to the well known after-election issues because I can prove it to others. If I can only prove something with plausible deniability note that I probably can't tell if the machine switched my vote around. There might be something that can be done in the space, but it is a tricky one to resolve.

> But honestly, I think the whole idea of being able to prove how you voted being dangerous is overblown.

If you check you may well find it in a reasonable-worse-case scenario it is a matter of life-and-death. I think maybe literally zero government electoral systems make the voter's vote public (ie, we have near universal secret ballots [0])? There is a reason for that. If we wanted people to sign their name on the vote slip that'd be great for auditing - but we don't because that would set the system up for some really horrible failures. The one that leaps to mind is "if you don't vote for me and I get in, I will do [insert blank] to you" strategies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot#Chronology_of_in...
This is just not correct.

Dynamic systems like the ones based on javascript or Java or scheme have received A LOT of attention in the last 10-20 years. In fact, javascript does start fairy quickly.

The usual solution to the startup problem is to have many compilers working at once (aka tiered jit compilation). A fast bytecode interpreter + mid-level jit + ssa-based heavy stuff, all working in parallel. Obviously, this means a lot of background compute and memory burned.
So Laravel Spark is also a problem?
I feel like you're missing their point. The person you're replying to made a convincing argument that differentiates Person A and Person B by considering the fraction of products sold and how that affects the probability of the null hypothesis (using that price by chance). That's not a double standard.
The wording of this does imply they've trademarked the word Spark, but that really doesn't sound likely.
What do you do when you live in North Korea and are worried about an elections integrity? At some point the answer is you survive as best you can.

But to fight corruption you need more transparency and to increase the costs of conspiracies, ie, to head in the opposite direction of voting machines.
Grace Hopper already includes Arm based CPUs (and reference motherboards)
Credit-card shaped and sized magnets are actually pretty popular as tourist mementos. It's true that they are typically slightly smaller than a credit card, but they're a common occurrence.

And while it's true that the strong force has very complex interactions which make it both stronger and weaker than EM in certain situations, I don't think there is any situation in which EM is weaker than gravity. Of course, the comparison is ultimately apples-to-oranges, as it basically amounts to comparing the amount of electrical charge to the amount of "mass charge". Still, if we compare by, say, the total number of particles with mass/charge respectively of any kind you need two bodies to have to have an equivalent effect on motion through gravitational VS EM interactions, in every situation that we know how to model, you would end with the same conclusion.
Washington and Oregon still need volunteers to monitor the drop boxes and retrieve, count, tabulate, and audit ballots.
Biden's chips achievement is losing support before the money rolls out
+1 to this - I think the authors did a wonderful job at explaining the fundamentals of causality in a self-contained way.
> Like why didn't anyone catch the issue with the logs?

I see questions like these a lot and every time I feel that people immensely underestimate the effort required for curating data. In my experience data can only ever be as good as what it's being used for and in this story the logs haven't been used for this purpose before so they're not going to be any good.

It's some sort of data variation on the second law of thermodynamics - entropy is winning. Going in with the expectation that things should be better will only lead to frustration.
Strongly disagree. As would any voter who had their vote suppressed in Florida in 2000 due to confusing analog voting machines, dangling chads, or “partially” filled bubbles.
Rqbit – BitTorrent Client in Rust
I've no idea who this is, but Soft White Underbelly's interview with the hacker Gummo are really interesting, so I'm intrigued to say the least.
Are we talking about "Voter ID"? If so, isn't that being constantly derailed by the democrats? Just like all the issues with illegals and the border wall, which they don't seem to want to fix and make it impossible.
Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems
This post was inspired by recent discussion here:

RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004219

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506835, 11 months ago, 14 comments
The joke is that Facebook literally did, right?
I feel like I just enumerated several ways that China is overwhelmingly cheaper than practically any other advanced economy. But I will try to spell it out even more.

Labor is almost certainly not as cheap in Mexico as it is in China. China still enjoys benefits of "developing nation" status despite being very advanced when it comes to manufacturing. There are many variables when it comes to productivity such as the amount of investment, the size of the workforce, and government subsidies. If you believe in specialization, then having a much larger population to work (as also consume the product) is a big advantage. The Chinese government is heavily involved with its domestic businesses, from literally owning them to spying on their behalf, to putting up roadblocks for any competition. Mexico might be as advanced as China if we had outsourced everything to them instead of China, but I'm sure that did not make sense when we started doing it and it probably still does not.

There's nothing magic about China. It's just got lots of people and cheap labor, and a bunch of policies that are unfair to the rest of the world. They have a head start of about 30+ years on Mexico and other competition. The US and euro nations have let everything basically rot for 30+ years instead as everything got shipped to China. It's not that we can't do anything that they can do in principle, but it takes time and investment and the result is hard-pressed to make enough money due to the fact China can do it cheaper. In most cases Western manufacturing was better than Chinese for the longest time, but we basically taught them all our trade secrets without them sharing back any knowledge. We don't have a large pool of workers with manufacturing experience as they do, because of the outsourcing.

We have some subsidies, but they pale in comparison to what China does and come with random obligations like quotas per ethnicity or sexual orientation. TSMC complained about this stuff recently. They got billions of dollars in subsidies but still struggle to hire the right people locally in the US.

It takes decades for some of these industries to build up, even going back to the university training pipeline. The idea of pushing a "service economy" is a costly mistake that nearly all Western countries fell into. At some point, China and other manufacturing-based nations will refuse to take worthless Western currencies in exchange for their goods. That is, unless we have something real to offer in exchange.
Those are all historical remnants. Modern web browsers serve a radically different purpose than they did in the 90s. It doesn't make sense to even keep calling them "web browsers" since most people don't know what a "web" is, let alone "browse" it.

Modern browsers are application runtimes with a very flexible delivery mechanism. It's really up to web developers to decide what features this system should have to enable rich experiences for their users. Declaring that they should be functionally impaired or what they "should be" without taking into account the user experience we want to deliver is the wrong way of approaching this.

To be clear: I do think we should take security very seriously, especially in the one program people use the most. I also think reinventing operating systems to run within other operating systems is silly. But the web browser has become the primary application runtime and is how most people experience computing, so enabling it to deliver rich user experiences is inevitable. Doing this without compromising security or privacy is a very difficult problem, which should be addressed. It's not like the web is not a security and privacy nightmare without this already. So the solution is not to restrict functionality in order to safeguard security, but to find a way to implement these features securely and safely.
They will be unsuitable because of that dithering resulting in, among many other things, poor charging infrastructure.
Toast needs more attention than rice
Profiling Without Frame Pointers
Including an advertiser on a webpage.