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Amen. On the left coast in Silicon Valley, there was but no longer the below. People in the valley used to make their own homebrew electronics and homebrew computers. Moreover, most Americans who weren't business people made things at home more than just furniture or minor residential remodeling, as opposed to now where it is fairly rare to even change one's own car's oil or brake pads because just about every task and need in personal life and even human interaction has been commodified or transactionalized. It is the norm that office workers have few (apparent or claimed) skills besides what they do for work and tend to be adverse to trying new things; it's not a condemnation but an observation. Anyhow, here's the list:

- WeirdStuff Warehouse - DIY PC computer parts, shareware floppies by the bin full, used electronic goods and components that sold inventory to ebay:outback6

- Halted/HSC - Somewhat similar to WeirdStuff but sold inventory to ebay:excess-solutions

- JDR Microdevices, which was more professional than DIY

- And there were specialized shops for vacuum tubes and particular kinds of electronic appliances, notably there were ~100 to 100's of independent IBM PC-compatible DIY computer retail shops in 1990's SF Bay Area region selling made-to-order beige box systems and DIY parts. (Back then, there was no RGB, no pane glass windows, and all computer cases were the same color of beige, with black and off-white only becoming available in the late 90's.) Not quite as fancy or organized as what is available elsewhere in the world like Shenzhen now, but more spread out and sometimes owned by hard-working, first-generation immigrant families who represented the best of America's melting pot and American sole-proprietor entrepreneurship. They were small stores put out of business by the multi-store and hypermart chains like Central Computer Systems, NCA Peripherals, Fry's Electronics, and CompUSA.

Nationally, there were:

- Heathkit - mail-order, educational, self-paced kits including ham radio, major home appliances, and test equipment like TVs and oscilloscopes

- RadioShack ("RatShack") - electronic components, soldering and hobbyist parts, many electronic kits for kids

- Fry's Electronics - many shelves of electronic components and assembly tools that never received much attention, it was mostly a convenience store if you were doing commercial work and needed something overpriced now
TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea https://web.archive.org/web/20230228035749/http://sites.inka...
Yes, training is a tiny amount of usage, this is well-known.
Good luck to have HN as a native app and get a huge diverse community around :P
> As far as I know, the brain continues to have observable changes throughout your life.

That would imply that people might retain the ability to form memories past the age of 25, though.
Khronos Group adopts the Slang shading language
There is also the related joke [I think by Jamie W. Zawinski of Netscape Navigator fame] that any sufficiently complex
program eventually will be enabled to send email, and its
sister joke that any sufficiently complex program eventually will have an embedded LISP interpreter (Emacs is an example for both phenomena).

Hardware people tend to say "Everything is a machine".

Compiler people tend to say "Everything is a compiler".

Database people tend to say "Everything is a database/relational database management system".

Operating system people tend to say "Everything is an operating system".

There are many broadly-applicable paradigms in modern computer science.
Linguistic abstraction, i.e. the definition of a Domain Specific Language (DSL), is a very powerful technique that is often the right choice (but don't apply it to read an *.ini file! That is called overkill/distraction). Abelson and Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" book (SICP) is the gold standard book to teach you the various forms of abstraction.
You say criminals, but I think you meant intelligence agencies
You really have to overlook a lot of lies, broken promises, hype, fluff, ignoring and breaking laws, taking credit for the work of others, and what looks like fraud, intimidation, and bribery.

https://elonmusk.today/

Sadly, Musk-style “decision making capability” works as long as the right people profit from it. Sociopathic personalities too often succeed, because they don’t care about other people and think the rules don’t apply to them. I don’t think we should admire or emulate those people.

Musk has cleverly learned how to extract handouts from the government while criticizing government handouts, and how to focus attention away from his trail of failures by promising something even more distracting next year.
You can simultaneously believe that the energy demand for cooling is unethical and that evaporation is the best source of cooling.
I'm a bit lazy to type right now so Claude can type the message in my stead:

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Think about comparing two families: the Smiths have 5 people and earn $100,000 per year, while Jones is just a couple earning $70,000. If you only looked at total household income, you'd think the Smiths were doing better. But when you realize the Smiths have to split that money five ways ($20,000 per person) while the Joneses get $35,000 each, the picture changes completely.

That's exactly what happens when we compare countries by total GDP. China's total GDP might dwarf Denmark's, but China has to spread that wealth across 1.4 billion people, while Denmark only needs to support 6 million. It's like comparing a pizza between a huge family reunion and a dinner date - the total amount of pizza matters less than how many slices each person gets.

This is why economists prefer to use GDP per capita - it's like looking at how much pizza each person at the table gets, rather than just admiring the size of the whole pie.
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I presented some hard to digest (for some) facts in my opening comment here. You'll only need to read European, Ukrainian, and Russian history for 30 minutes to know that. Of course you wouldn't, you're just a parrot repeating propaganda. You have no interest in the truth.
Do people still read JGV? I've read "Journey..." twice now (alas no times in FR), but I'm pretty close to 大刘's generation.

Wonder what his father had done? (also puts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Teacher_(short_sto... in perspective) G&S' The Mikado has a Victorian fantasy of the punishment fitting the crime; if so, I'd guess working conditions might be much safer if the designers had any idea they might be labouring in their own creations someday — if not, at least it beats the reputed 焚书坑儒*!

Edward VIII abdicated rather than playing his part ("England Expects..." etc.; should he have been resigned to looking at the ceiling and thinking of England?), but I suppose you're right: these exceptions are (in)famous because they were. I think the common sol'n, at least in Edwardian and later times, was to send too-disgraced younger relatives off to the farther colonies to live as "remittance men".

Lagniappe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209040 (EEPH)

* there is a story about Genghis promising "no bloodshed", but ATM I'm not sure if it was really part of his propaganda, or of his enemies'.
I'd just be happy if by law, security updates had to be updated monthly, with weekly and daily for certain criticals, for a minimum of 5 years.

And maybe a 10% revenue fine, yes revenue, for each missed metric.
A 24-Hour International Women Centric Hackathon
It's people trying to generalise some rule over the wrong thing. The right thing is that, in both directions, how the project goes is simply a skill question.

You have unskilled, sloppy developers? The homebrew project AND the third-party integration will turn out a mess.
Well, if that's the case, then the situation is worse than I imagined. I thought that training the model would be far more expensive computationally than using it to compute an 'answer'.

Thanks.
Child Made $30K Rugging a Solana Meme Coin–Then Crypto Degens Got Revenge
There were also “other” reasons to skip version number 4: https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/winamp-4-skin/
There was the q3 client and the q3 server. It was point-to-point but could be hosted on the internet. There was no "middleware" except for locally-hosted aimbots for cheating by rewriting the cheater's client packets using a socks proxy... obviously not sportsman-like nor fun for anyone else.

PS: I had 7 ms ping* to a Q3 server at Stanford but I still sucked, unlike one of my college roommates who stuck to Q II and the railgun and was quite good.

* Verio/NTT 768kbps SDSL for $70/month in 2000-2001
This is not true for fiduciary accounts, which are covered per principal. So FDIC coverage should extend to all customers if the account was properly declared.
That’s also correct but not what the sibling comments are saying ;)

There are quantum error correction methods which more resemble error correction codes rather than replication, and that resemblance is fundamental: they ARE classical error correction codes transposed into quantum operations.
Please don’t be that person quoting the rules when you don’t understand the arguments.

This hit piece from someone whose job is directly endangered by LLMs is in the same absurd category as the similar articles about how AirPods contribute to e-waste. just look at them! They’re tiny! Or the breathless editorials blaming Elon for destroying the environment with the damage done to the launchpad by his rocket.. a one time incident that threw a few chunks of concrete on a beach and killed not a single animal.

In a way the more absurd and outlandish the claim the more it is circulated by people that want to stop something they’re scared of, usually in the sense of “this is bad for my career”.

“Windmills kill birds, didn’t you know?!” — someone working for the petrochemical industry.

Write down two numbers before replying: the gigalitres of water used industrially in a similar manner — don’t forget to include literally every skyscraper’s HVAC system that uses evaporative cooling — and then the liters used by ChatGPT.

Divide the two numbers.

Then, and only then, try to make a coherent argument about why ChatGPT is specifically a worse water-usage problem than, say, the rest of the Azure data center where it’s hosted that the NY Times hack who’s about to be replaced by a bot strangely had no problem with.
s/stock/bond/
It makes it slightly harder to go on vacation, I think a lot of people won't like that.
Well, foreign projects communicating with each other is always ground for a mess, but this is not an either-or question.

Also, your mileage may vary based on the niche you are working on - in case of, say java, the initial setup of the build system may not be "fun", but it will just work from then on.
Truly a joint fuckupery worse than the Nuon scandal or the Nya Karolinska hospital construction scandal.

When I was born, Sweden had a state fund to last for another 200+ years of running the country.

Today, Sweden has no fund left and is quickly accumulating debt.
> If a farm generates £50k of income per annum, what makes it worth the £3 mm at which UK inheritance tax will likely become payable?

Answer: it is worth the £3 mm only because land prices have been inflated by people purchasing land for tax planning purposes. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the governent’s solution, the market has been distorted by an anomaly in the tax system.
Maybe you could get a professor from the Academy of Projectors in Lagado to agree to advise, whereby you could get allocated some time on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine for your own research?

(thanks for reminding me of "Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?"!)
You can't post like this here, and you've been breaking the site guidelines in other places too. If this keeps up, we're going to have to ban your account. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit – ancient forests inside are at risk
Yeah but the sampling process required to determine what they are good at is not free either. (For starters, it's consuming huge amounts of public research funding and compute, but let's not go down that rabbit-hole)
It’s odd

> If MPTCP is not supported, OpenMPTCProuter can also use Multi-link VPN (MLVPN) or Glorytun UDP with multipath support.

It’s unclear to me from a brief look why they use mptcp as a backend for bonding
Martian Meteorite Points to Ancient Hydrothermal Activity
"Phantom chemical" identified in drinking water is new to science
> I'm a little confused of what the current state of the project is.

The project seems to be sleeping. The development was veeery slow. It was not open source so, in the end, CDE is the way to go if you need something like this.
Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
It's interesting that it's latency predictive with corrections and doesn't use anything fancy like operational transformations (OT). I guess it's actually simpler and shared state isn't a collaboratively-edited document but needs an independent, ultimate source of truth, is faster to develop, and probably more performant as a shared server.
>I once saw all this technology as an empowering wave for individuals to accomplish their goals

There are more people accomplishing their goals now than ever before.

40 years ago you had to scrounge for some McGraw Hill or TAB books in your local library and then hope there was an electronics store within 100 miles (and there often wasn't). In the 90s there were entire categories of parts that were completely unavailable to the individual unless they were associated with a university or corporation because the only distributors that carried them only dealt with customers who had a Dun & Bradstreet number and a purchasing department to which they could send invoices: no retail sales allowed or desired.

Now there is the web and stores like Adafruit and iFixit and Digikey where you can get anything in your hands nearly instantly.

It is only slight hyperbole to suggest that there are probably more YouTube channels dedicated to smartphone repair than there were people bothering to dig up the documentation and travel to physical stores for parts to repair their old landline telephones back in the 70s and 80s.
There's enet (https://github.com/lsalzman/enet) or something like naia (https://github.com/naia-lib/naia) which supposedly uses ideas from the old (but very reliable back in the day) networking of the game Tribes 2 (https://github.com/nardo/tnl2 / https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf).
Are you kidding? I started reading the X11 handbook series in the 1980s and now it's 2024 and I'm nearly finished, and you want to replace it? ;-)
the majority (if not all) normal people would never agree with this:

"Whereas with Google you can just use a product, have it work with any device, any OS, across devices and you're never forced into anything else."

"really sucks because Google is the only big tech company that I haven't had negative interactions with."

but the cherry on top is this gem:

"Maybe Google didn't cooperate enough on something classified?"
Funny how 7 ping was phenomenal 25 years ago, but now it is the minimum expectation (in WEU). I expect my ping to always be 7 or less (in CS:GO). I don't play on MM servers if the ping is more than 10.
A number of kid environments depend on Chrome. Google is basically giving their pie back to Apple now.
Some stories with political overlap have always been allowed here, just not too many of them. I posted elsewhere in this thread on this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204689
Nope. It runs a heavily restricted version of Windows.
According to the government this inheritance tax change can end up generating at most £0.4-0.5 billion, which does nothing for its over £1,100 billion spending, there is no monetary justification for this change, only contempt for a class of people who work hard and earn next to nothing(in the UK).

I personally see inheritance tax itself being a deeply immoral construct, your estate was made out of money that was already taxed multiple times by multiple different types of taxes, instead of you being able to pass your hard earned wealth to your heirs, the state takes it away. If you owned a house your children might be forced to sell it because the tax on it could be 40%, if you got as mortgage in your early 30s, you probably paid it off in your early 70s which is close to the life expectancy of 78 if you are a man, so technically, you didn't really own anything and you were just a slave to the state.
Petrol engines have a nontrivial amount of engine braking due to the throttle. If you have a manual car you can easily compare it to coasting by disengaging the clutch. Bicycles also naturally coast thanks to the freewheel. If you're used to a bicycle then the engine braking of a car is quite surprising.
> It's not enough that cis and trans people are equally entitled to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their AGAB.

Their sex, actually.

Sports are sex-separated for good reason and it makes no sense to include individuals of the male sex in female competitions.
I interpret that sentence as taking about real computers, which does put it outside the category.
I expect OEMs to come out with cheaper variants (and more modern port selections).
If you like reading about GC implementation than keep reading wingo's blog. He's currently being funded by NLnet to finish the Whippet GC library.
Yes, that annoys me as well. Will take note of your app related suggestion. Thanks a lot.
They are mentioning that in the article
X11 is utterly broken for multi-monitor setups with different resolutions at different scales (e. g. builtin laptop screen @1.25x, external display at 1x or some variation of that). With high resolution screens (e g. 4k at only 27"), that setup is not uncommon anymore.

(Wayland is broken in very many other ways, though, so you trade one evil for... 5 others).
“Build out” used to be a noun for the plan/process of setting up a facility like a data center. Then became a verb for that sort of process. You don’t “build out” a hose.

“Hating on” is a specific activity instead of a state of being or emotion. It’s more precisely about a temporal process.
Avoiding alcohol is gonna be a whole lot better to avoid cancer than not eating bananas
Your comment seems like shilling, coming from a new HN account, but I will assume your sincerity.

> I don't think it's a wrong approach.

Cool. You can use whatever job hunting strategy and tools you like.

> Do you not have any issues with companies using ATS to disqualify qualified applicants in thousands, and posting fake and ghost jobs?

I have learned how to bypass those systems, so yes, I have “issues,” but I don’t expect I will change the reality of those systems by myself.

> Usually when people come on here to use terms like 'old-timer', it's to give them some ethos to allow them to hate on everything not from their time.

Consider your own ethos jumping to conclusions like that, and making unfounded generalizations. I used the term “old-timer” because I have more than 40 years experience in the software business, including both lots of job hunting and screening/interviewing candidates. I didn’t hate on anything. I suggested trying better job hunting strategies rather than optimizing an obviously poor strategy.

As for “not from their time,” I still work in the business. Do you exist in an alternative timeline?
This isn’t accurate. A fintech’s own money (as opposed to customer funds) may have low insurance. But if set up properly, those customer funds can have pass through FDIC insurance. See https://www.fdic.gov/financial-institution-employees-guide-d...

However this apparently doesn’t protect you from the failure of the third party, which is what is unexpected. If you look at this bulletin the FDIC put out after the Synapse incident, they’re basically claiming they aren’t stepping in because a bank hasn’t failed. A fintech that isn’t the bank, but has records of what’s at the bank, failed.

https://www.fdic.gov/consumer-resource-center/2024-06/bankin...

Personally, I find the explanation to be pretty weak - what does pass through insurance even mean then? Does every fintech startup need to also directly be a bank - if so that’s a huge barrier to entry and basically gifts incumbents with regulatory capture. If the money is in an FDIC protected account, it should be safe. It does not make sense to me that they would step in for Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, but not in this situation.

One weird part of the situation is that it seems the underlying bank does not have records about each customer and their numbers. To me that seems negligent on the part of the underlying bank. Surely they knew about this arrangement of pass through insurance and the need to protect funds. They should have maintained separate accounts for each client of the third party service. Regardless of negligence it seems the FDIC is trying to make this record keeping a requirement:
https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2024/fdic-proposes-...
(May 2024)
It’s irresponsibly common for journalists to use the term for once-through cooling.

But evaporative cooling consumes water just like the human body.
If you can't secure computers against state attackers, then you have to stop using computers and to simply talk in places where there are not phones, computers etc.

If you're afraid about directional microphones out in the woods there are countermeasures for that too, but security is very possible even against the very most well-funded attackers.

Furthermore, I don't think even internet-connected secure computers are so hard that they can't be built. Limit what you do, so that you can write the program short enough that you can afford to have theoretical guarantees-- maybe write it to run on a computer with Harvard architecture to avoid buffer overflows, and you can probably build one on an FPGA, even as a hobbyist.

State attackers aren't magic.
* a proportion of Atlantic salmon return to the sea after spawning, mostly females. Most still die
You might want to check out Dhall[0], which is a configuration file format that allows a safe-ish subset of functional programming language idioms. Needless to say that it requires a full compiler :)

[0]: https://dhall-lang.org/
Show HN: LLM Alignment Template – Aligning Language Models with Human Feedback
Hey Hacker News!

I've been working on an open-source project called LLM Alignment Template, a comprehensive toolkit designed to help researchers, developers, and data scientists align large language models (LLMs) with human values using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).

What the project does:

Interactive Web Interface: Easily train models, visualize alignment metrics, and manage alignment with an accessible UI.
Training with RLHF: Align models effectively to human preferences using feedback loops.
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Data Augmentation & Transfer Learning: Includes tools for advanced preprocessing and utilizes pre-trained models for improved performance.
Scalable Deployment: Comes with Docker and Kubernetes setup to easily scale deployments.
Key Features:

Unit tests and E2E tests for quality assurance
Monitoring and centralized logging using Prometheus and the ELK stack
Docker and Kubernetes deployment options for easy setup
Modular training scripts for data augmentation, fine-tuning, and RLHF
Why it might be interesting:

If you're looking to build an LLM solution and need a strong foundation, this template has all the core tools to get started.
The project provides an end-to-end solution, from data augmentation to deployment, making it a great starting point for those interested in AI ethics and model alignment.