skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this just the main reason?

> Replacing low-efficiency AC power supplies with a high-efficiency DC Bus Bar

The part after it about better cooling fans, meh, there are more efficient liquid-cooling methods including immersion-cooling which are already there in implementation albeit niche.
I like reading Sophie's World by
Jostein Gaarder. It is an introduction to philosophy in an interesting way.
> Tsar Bomba blast area was 16km2. It would take over 9000 Tsar Bombas to burn as much forest as only Canada's 2023 forest fire season

The fire burns beyond the blast area.

Also, urban fires produce

> Maybe provide some source for your assertion

Sure [1][2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219184/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00794-y
Is this what is used to find direction of sound or where sound is coming from.
Like gunshots?
Not confident but overconfident in this case. Clearly nobody has ever told him it's a crappy question (unless you're interviewing for a math PhD or something), and wrong on top of that, and he didn't have enough self-awareness to double check. Or maybe somebody did tell him, but he didn't care to listen.
> My question was whether this supposed data was available to the whistleblower before he was fired or not. It is kind of important (see my first point).

If you read the court case, you can see quite clearly that he never obtained any evidence, and simply hoped to go on a general fishing expedition.

For him, it was like the AlphaChip authors performed a magic trick. Magic is impossible, and so something must be up. Even if he doesn't know how they did it, there must surely be fraud somewhere. Did it ever occur to him that he might just be wrong?

The closest thing he had to "evidence" of his belief was his study where he says he tried AlphaChip and got worse results than SA. But even that study was flawed, and known to be flawed at the time. From "That Chip Has Sailed":

"In 2022, it was reviewed by an independent committee at Google, which determined that “the claims and conclusions in the draft are not scientifically backed by the experiments” [33] and “as the [AlphaChip] results on their original datasets were independently reproduced, this brought the [Markov et al.] RL results into question” [33]. We provided the committee with one-line scripts that generated significantly better RL results than those reported in Markov et al., outperforming their “stronger” simulated annealing baseline. We still do not know how Markov and his collaborators produced the numbers in their paper."

([33] is the sworn statement from Jon Orwant, head of the independent resolution committee.)

How large do you imagine the conspiracy is here? The method is secretly bad, but the TPU team uses it in production anyway? MediaTek built on it anyway? The TF-Agents team claimed to reproduce it, but they're actually lying? Jeff Dean put his reputation behind it but he's either fooled or lying?

Please hold off on replying further on this thread until you have read OP's linked paper. I understand you want to defend your field against the encroachment of people you perceive to be bad actors, but I believe you have things backwards.
IMHO: I don't think living minimally is solely (or maybe even primarily) about what you cut out, but how you spend your time and value your life.

If you want to live locally, I think it's more about building connections and community – local friends, shops, artists, musicians, workout studios, businesspeople, industry, ranchers, farmers, students, museums, city councils, etc. And that can look very different depending on where you live. "Local" in the Bay Area is going to be mostly techies. "Local" in rural middle-America is going to be ranchers and farmers. "Local" in some small outdoorsy town will be a lot of hikers, skiers, bikers, etc.

The thing is... people can have all the things you mentioned above, but still live "minimally" because they don't focus on those things. They don't give more than a passing thought to those things, whether they have them or not. Their lives are too full of the things and people they love the most.

It's not about what you cut out, but what you embrace. Chase (or find) your passions and the rest just naturally fall aside.
Substack is the real Twitter/X replacement?
Thanks, I've been doing it and have seen some encouraging results (weight-loss, less cravings, more tolerance for hunger).

> reduce your weight so that your BMI is between 22.5 and 25. This is the area of lowest mortality. There's no point to go lower

Thanks. I doubt I'll have to ever worry about going below 22.5 :-). I'm at 28 right now. Gonna be a huge fight to get to 25.
Developers, developers, developers!

More seriously: I think there are a ton of potential applications. I'm not sure that developers that use AI tools are more likely to build other AI products - maybe.
Another one!

What’s the point of your argument?

AI companies: “There’s a new machine that can do reasoning!!!”

Some people: “actually they’re not very good at reasoning”

Some people like you: “well neither are humans so…”

> research on LLM reasoning ability benchmarks them against average humans

Tin foil hat says that it’s because it probably wouldn’t look great and most LLM research is currently funded by ML companies.

> Large proportions of humans struggle to comprehend even a moderately complex sentence with any level of precision.

So what? How does that assumption make LLMs better?
I'll cop to (a), but only out of laziness, not for any of the broader motives you are attempting to impute. And definitely not to (b), which definitely does not follow from what you (falsely) think to be my position, at all.

Frankly -- to every extent you think we're busily trying to "dial up" America's innate evilness, it seems you're definitely trying to divert/deflect blame for its actions, also. For example, spinning the torture/murder of Dilawar as a matter of his being framed by locals (as if that were the primary cause of what happened to him); without focusing on the infinitely bigger circumstances behind his death, which is the simple fact of the occupying soldiers choosing to beat the guy to a bloody pulp in the first place.

There's also the weird way you describe his death as "sad and tragic", as if it were a car accident, or something similar fateful. It was nothing of the sort of course - it was a war crime, straight up.

Someone makes a hyperbolic "America is evil" claim.

They said nothing of the sort. The initial commenter made some serious (and in my view perfectly justified) criticisms of the fact that the US never seems to have undergone a genuine moral reckoning for the moral disaster that was the 2003 Iraq invasion.

But this is very different from an essentializing, moralistic statement like "America is evil". So for all your concerns about hyperbolicizing over small details such as why exactly so-and-so got picked up before they were tortured, you're clearly doing some serious hyperbolicizing yourself in this case, and in a much intentional, top-down way.
The main insight is that the LLM has to be trained on good chess games. If the training set is of random games, that's not helpful.

I'm still amazed that this works at all, since it lacks actual board state.
Wow, this is nice. I don't know, but is it possible for us to study code for this? I would love to see how all of this is built.

I can understand you might have commercial obligation, so hoping Netlify can make this public :)
> Why can't I await in a normal function? await sounds blocking

> You can await in a normal function in better languages, just not in JavaScript.

Await, per common definition, makes you wait asynchronously for a Task/Promise. How on earth are you going to "await" for a Promise which also runs on the same thread on a synchronous function? That function needs to be psuedo-async as in "return myPromise.then(() => { /* all fn code here */ }), or you need to use threads, which brings us to the second point...

With the closest thing to threads (workers) in JavaScript and using SharedArrayBuffer and a simple while loop, perhaps (didn't think too much on it), you can implement the same thing with a user defined Promise alternative but then why would you want to block the main thread which usually has GUI/Web-Server code?
> Russia's pre-war demands were less extreme than that

Than what? I gave two scenarios.

The requirements "that NATO deploy no forces or weapons in countries that joined the alliance after May 1997," "any NATO military activity in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia" and "a requirement that both side's nuclear weapons only be deployed on national territory" are non-starters across the board.

They're the equivalent of requiring Russia withdraw entirely from Africa and the Middle East and stop selling weapons to India.
The editorialized title is correct. The original article isn't saying that each trait is individually a local maximum. It's saying that the concept of Rust traits is one.
Not targeting you, but the industry in general. In every other industry I've been in outside of software dev, 10 years is not considered elder. You're just now becoming not a greenhorn. You're just now getting your sea legs. It's amazing what additional experience happens after year 10.

To that effect, Rust (2015) is 9 years old, Go and Node are 15 years old. While Python (1991) is 33 years old. Just putting things in a different perspective
But how am I supposed to doomscroll on Substack?
Yes, 350€ (before taxes of course) per week. No additional compensation for responding/ working on incidents.

I would be interested in how response times are?

Mine is 15mins. So I have to respond and be in a incident call within 15mins.
My 6yo had 3D printer in school and now is super excited about 3D printing. I'd like to get one of these but have no clue what are the criteria when purchasing one. Can someone help in assistance what to pay attention to while choosing such device? Obviously one of the main criteria user friendliness so that 6yo could quickly start using himself.
Somehow annoying that Senator Warner gave the story to NYT and WaPo, even though WSJ broke the story:

"The hackers behind the infiltration of U.S. telecom infrastructure are known to Western intelligence agencies as Salt Typhoon, and this particular breach of U.S. equipment was first reported in early October by the Wall Street Journal. But Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, spoke with the Washington Post and New York Times this week to warn the public that this is so much worse than we initially thought, dubbing it “the worst telecom hack in our nation’s history.” And those articles based on Warner’s warnings were published late Thursday."

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-t...
I've seen it other places as well. Film/video post production has phases of the hot editor/colorist/director/etc. Then a new young hotness comes along because people feel the gray beards are too long in the tooth and impossible for them to be hip. Then the gray beards watch the newbie make the same mistakes over and over. It's called getting old. It's young thinking they are invincible and finding it impossible the olds can possibly know anything. It's human nature
Well for example we've shown that red foxes have strong preference to pouncing in a north-eastern direction, and in other directions their accuracy plummets. It's believed that this is due to geomagnetic sensing.

We've studied how the blue photoreceptors in our retinas are actually magnetoreceptive, meaning in the right conditions, suspended in a fluid, they'll align the the Earth's magnetic field just like a compass needle.

I'd read before that this technique was theorized to be used in fruit flies, with the photoreceptors suspended in a fluid in the eye. But more recent studies have failed to replicate the geomagnetic sensing capabilities of fruit flies.

It's still nuts to imagine what that might look like. Distortions in your vision from magnetic sensing sounds so neat.
There’s a short Notes feature now which mimics Twitter (Substck links got banned from Twitter after they released the feature)
We do Thursday to Thursday and then you get Friday off after completed on-call.
Being on-call gives you no extra pay by itself, but if you get paged off hours and need to work you get paid 150 to 200% of your normal hourly wage depending on what time of day you need to work.

Best on-call I’ve had.
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here
Not enough content to doomscroll yet but seems better than direct copycats in long run
You deserve a better browser than Chrome
Personally I believe that Kahlil Gibran's work is also immortal.
Can I replicate the „Projects“ feature where I upload files and text to give context? And will it allow me to follow up on previous chats?
If they could build it themselves, why haven't they? Say what you want about Amazon, but I find it hard to believe that Anthropic bamboozled them into believing they can't build their own AI when they could do it cheaper.
These are the personal lifestyle choices which enable major worldwide pollution. Maybe we need to take a step back and reevaluate which parts of our lifestyles are truly sustainable. I'm not speaking from a soapbox, I need to do this as well.

If we could unify enough to make collective demands about food packaging, and push for aggressive banning of most plastics in the food and retail industry, something might actually change.

Until then we can expect for things to get irreparably worse, as we trade immediate convenience for posterus generational suffering.
> Also leftovers are a thing.

Are you familiar with glass? Leftovers are a solved problem.
Current estimates of the "heritability" of intelligence are far, far lower than "0.7 or 0.8"; they're probably below 0.1, and that's before digging into what "heritability" means, which is not generally what people think it does.

I'd guess the person you're responding to has thought more carefully about this issue than the median HN commenter has.
If your threat model includes states. The states being nation states or not is irrelevant.
No it is not.

Bluesky already matches the old Twitter experience, enough to be a true 1:1 Twitter replacement for many users to migrate to.

If you use Twitter, then you have learned 90% how to use Bluesky already.

Other than that or Threads, the rest (including Substack) are not even close. UX familiarity is the point.
Wordpress isn’t worth protecting.

Change my mind…
Larry Wall would agree :-D
Linux CoC decision over BcacheFS developer's conduct
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203447 & co
I like to think I have a fact and experience based opinions. History is a pretty good guide on what works and what does not. NASA of the 1960s is far removed from the reality of today and the progress they achieved was largely wasted.

But I am giggling at the make america great again argument.
We do daily shifts with a follow the sun rotation, makes it easier to handle persistent commitments and ensures a bad week doesn't all land on the same person.
The nation state as a threat model adversary is kind of a weird abstraction. Does it include intrusive questions eg about social media asked by a border agent on your next trip abroad? Does it include getting your web browsing traffic collected up by the nine eyes spooks? Or does it mean a rich country is marshaling all its resources in a manhattan project grade effort to target you personally?

In any case as in all things defense, you assume your adversary is to some extent rational and making attacks harder (more expensive, risky, opportunity cost, etc) improves the equation for you.
I very much doubt this:

> Many of the artists in the list below have both streaming and sales included in their totals.

At best, this is a misleading comparison of apples and oranges. At worst it's an attempt to prop of streaming as actually compensating artists when they basically don't.
And yet you, like me, who also doubt it's worth, participate in the addictive HN front page threads. Curious.
The US de-facto leaving NATO is a bigger concession than Russia asked for pre-war. Maybe do a little reset here to just one probable-case scenario? What concessions do you see the US making in a negotiation?

I don't understand how you can suggest "America de facto leaves NATO" as an option but also commit to NATO military activity in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus. If the US de-facto is out of NATO it has no business in any of those places. Unless you mean de-facto the US stays in NATO and de-jure leaves it as some sort of fake concession.

And requiring that everyone keeps nuclear missile deployments on their own territory is just common sense. We shouldn't need Russia to ask for the US to agree to that, everyone should start from that point. Forget a Russian ultimatum, the US should be doing that if it isn't already. If that is an unacceptable point I condemn the US for it and their pigheadedness, although I assume it is actually acceptable.
> But websites need to be up 24/7, cron jobs need to run on the weekend and backend servers need to be up to support both

Tech entrepreneurs should give more weight to choosing markets that don’t require this
Is there any bullet propf open source middleware for this any more?
I believe the proper term for what i am describing is a recursive descent parser. With which it is also quite doable to generate proper error handling and even recovery. Some form of this is used in almost every production language I think.

It has been years since I've written a proper parser but before that every time I had to write one I tried the latest and greatest first. ANTLR, coco/r, combinators. All the generated ones seemed to have a fatal flaw that hand writing didnt have. For example good error handling seemed almost impossible, very slow due to Infinite look ahead or they were almost impossible to debug to find an error in the input schema.

In the end hand crafting seems to be faster and simpler. Ymmv.

My point about the article was mostly that all the formal theory is nice but all it does is scare away people, while parsing is probably the simplest thing about writing a compiler.
My team has a meeting to hand off the on-call to the next person, and we discuss all pages we got during the week. Primarily two things: whether the page was for a good reason or not (good: our on-call person had an something actionable to fix. bad: non-actionable pages, pages because someone else's system was broken, false alarms, etc), and also whether there is something we can do so we never get paged for this again. I find it very effective at reducing pages.
X11 is fine. It's mostly just Video Games that need an alternative. It'd be nice if there was a "pause X11 video card control and give exclusive access to a single application." Then there's no need to care.
...isn't it tax fraud with extra steps? Asking seriously.
Lovely system, the R8000 is indeed a rare bird.. given the hype not a particularly remarkable CPU by any measure versus its contemporaries at launch (Alpha A21064A, IBM POWER2 and HP PA-RISC all traded heavy blows in that era, SPARC seemed perpetually behind) but would be a nice one to score. It was an interesting time as Alpha was really pushing clock speed while POWER2, PA-RISC, and the R8000 showed impressive numbers at much lower clocks.
Yeah this working with knowledgeable customer is like magic.
I got 2:57 after discovering a few shortcuts
SGI dominated the workstation graphic market back in the day.

Steve Jobs wanted NeXT to essentially be SGI.

I have a soft spot for the Octane.

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

The G4 cube, was Apple version of it whe when Jobs returned to Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube
Distributed training in general isn't practical.
On a past team I set up on-call to be:

- Mon/Tue
- Wed/Thu
- Fri
- Sat/Sun

Original reason for this schedule was that on-call was paid by days per quarter in a tiered system so this guaranteed that all members got the 5% on-call for 10 days/quarter rather than one person hitting 9 days and dropping to 3%, but I stand by this as a better on-call rotation.

The number of people does need to be not wholly divisible so the days rotate so if you run into this you can combine Fri into Sat/Sun or break Sat/Sun apart. It’s a bit complex to set up but the mental impact of on-call is greatly reduced and if you need a week for vacation you can much more easily find someone to cover your shift for a couple days in a nearby week rather than ending up with 2 weeks back to back 6 weeks from now. And if you pull a weekend you get the week off rather than losing your weekend to on-call and going into a work week still on-call.
Yeah, I've also had difficulty finding something with enough I2S. It was a while back and I've used Sprocket carrier for Jetson TX2 - it had 6 lanes, so up to 96. It was for a SODAR application, so the sampling frequency was not that critical and to me it felt like the perfect trick to make an array with off-the-shelf hardware. So I was just curious, if this was something you've considered.

For something indoors, yes, I can see how low sampling frequency gets very limiting. And 192 microphones, that's really pushing it. Love it.

The $2/mic vs $0.5/mic argument is a fun one. You've obviously poured enormous amount of engineering in there, involving PCB design, FPGA and network programming, writing custom CUDA kernels, signal processing, PyTorch, the list goes on. And you've had 4090 plugged in your PC in 2023. Classic hobbit in a mithril vest ;)
I got 2:57 — required a near-perfect run but still room for improvement
Offtopic: Ahhh, usually title editorializing is frowned upon, but this could really use some love.

Ontopic: Very disappointing, especially the actual reason - find it ridiculous. The worse is, Linus is very silent on the topic, this is the most saddening. Is anyone, I really hoped that he would put his foot down on this one, instead of standing by this witch hunt (even if only silently, so far)

And of course, the elephant in the room: that exchange was nothing unusual on LKML. And compared to Linus 1.0, one could even call it cordial.
Reference for the memberberries: https://youtu.be/Vhh_GeBPOhs
Full BS from idiocracy... Self hosting is a perfect reliable solution.
Chinese hackers preparing for conflict, US cyber official says
Interesting approach, i like the aesthetic. When you say 'add audio' is a big task , does this mean the videos after cutting up don't have audio, or just that the preview doesn't have audio? the latter wouldn't be a problem for the use case of slicing up home videos. I have the same task as parent, might have to make a weekend project out of it.
LG develops a stretchable display that can follow compound curves
You can now try Microsoft's Recall AI feature on a Copilot Plus PC
> When I built out an A/V and networking rack for my house

Asside: where has this american-english prediction for adding random prepositions come from? Everyone now builds ‘out’ things instead of just building them, hates ‘on’ things instead of just disliking them from the comfort of their chair, and I was today told to switch ‘up’ a config file for a tiling window manager. I don’t remember this from the 2000s.
What an excellent write-up, and very entertaining at that.

I suspect that most devs will prefer the local maximum that traits are. Perhaps with a bit more help to ensure there's only ever one implementation of a given trait -- think of a trait registry. One might still allow multiple implementations, but with one single one chosen at final link-edit time or, if linking dynamically, at run time. To support something like that the registrations in the trait registry would have to be exacting as to each trait's semantics. A registry has its own cost: friction, and someone has to be a registrar, and registration might have a cost. But a registry has its advantages, and one could have namespaced traits, too, to enable multiple registries/registrars. Registries might feel like a hack, but so what, compared to the problems with implicits, they might be worthwhile.