skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrg, I just realized I lost my demo system in a recent drive failure. So I don't have anything I can show directly... but this is my recollection.

I used systemd-nspawn containers https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers .

For each container I'd run a `filterway` process with a unique app id outside the container and mount the filterway wayland socket inside the container, then wayland programs in the container would just work IIRC (maybe needed to set an environment variable for the wayland socket, or xdg_runtime_dir or something).

I think the wayland compositor itself was running as a user, so I had some setuid commands so that the system bar launch icons could start/stop the containers as the wayland user.

IIRC wayland was pretty flexible, just mounting sockets in various places and making sure permissions were set on the socket worked great.

Some other quick notes: App ids are optional in the wayland spec, but as long as you don't run any such apps in privileged contexts (outside of a container) you can still visually distinguish those. Also IIRC Sway didn't have the ability to vary chrome based on app id - I thought I'd try to indicate the permission level in the task/system bar instead but I think other compositors do have more powerful window decoration rules.
For those curious, NVidia and Cerebras have been doing R&D in sparse neural nets for something like a decade. NVidia began adding hardware support for them several generations ago (Ampere).

It is significantly more complex than it appears at first sight.
I'd like to address the aside for completeness' sake.

An x86 monopoly in the late 80s was a thing, but not now.

Today, there are sufficient competitive chip architectures with cross-compatible operating systems and virtualization that x86 does not represent control of the computing market in a manner that should prevent such a merger: ARM licensees, including the special case of Apple Silicon, Snapdragon, NVIDIA SOCs, RISC-V...

Windows, MacOS and Linux all run competitively on multiple non-x86 architectures.
It's painful having to remind people of this.

Also the fact that everyone alive today is so as a result of either being on the winning side of colonialism or from their ancestors otherwise clubbing somebody else over the head.
Perhaps that's true of your body, but my body was manufactured in the Soviet Union, and it shows.
Intel did have an ARM license at one point. The margins would have never been acceptable to Intel. Annapurna Labs / P. A Semi probably sold to Amazon / Apple respectively for the same reason.
Agreed, but I'd go with a great lab coat :)

On the other hand, the reflowing/small screen readability story of LaTeX is a very sad one, and no typesetting will be able to taper over that for me in 2024. Even scientists use smartphones.
I think it's better to avoid css unless it's strictly necessary.
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IMO Intel is far more of a strategic asset to allow such short-sighted policy from whatever administration. The upcoming administration surely knows that, and as far as I know Intel has never made strong steps that would alienate the coming administration from them. Also getting it back on its feet is actually inline with the narrative, it is easy to give it such spin, even if some personal differences are at play, this is more important than that.
> It's an extremely powerful position to have every at-home AI geek's setup to be bound to using intel cards

So, incredibly small market share while your competitors already have the first-mover advantage and nailed down the ecosystem? With no data backing it up, I think, graphics cards for local LLM needs is not really on demand. Even for gaming it’s probably more attractive, but then again, that’s not even where the real money is.
Could this work with cloudflare d1 since it uses an sql-lite interface?
If you want to do HA kubernetes, you need oncalls and at least 10 engineers to get a stable rotation.

If you do that in Europe you have to pay them during standby hours.

400k/year seems very low to me.
Also noting that you can occassionally get a "tortiose shell" esque male cat via a pretty rare process known as chimerism. i.e. two or more different embryos merge in the womb resulting in different parts of the body being formed from different embryos (meaning different DNA depending what part of the body you sample from). And of course for this to result in a cat you can see, they have to get lucky enough that the combination of embryos still produces a viable fetus.
My parents got a mature older orange cat who was baffled by doors. An open door was no issue but a half door open? Baffling! He sat and stared at the impossible to navigate two foot wide gap.

He loved BBQ it was obvious his previous owner did a lot of BBQing. My Dad dropped some raw hamburger for him.

Dad's Lay-Z-Boy chair wouldn't do down. What he didn't know was the cat was under it. The chair would slam down on his head but that was of no concern of the cat.
And any operation of planting and cutting to drawdown CO2 must bury or properly process the biomass to actually put co2 somewhere

Else it is an open cycle where co2 in == co2 out
"It ended up with Americans having the highest purchasing power in the world"

Uhm, https://www.numbeo.com/ has the US as fifth highest in 2024-mid year and fourth in 2024 overall...
Do they want to sell pentiums in China or EU?
Single-threaded benchmarks without additional information are pretty much meaningless, because the single-threaded performance is easily increased to beat any competitor just by accepting a higher power consumption.

The best Intel core for single-threaded performance, Lion Cove, has an IPC (instructions per clock cycle) about 2% higher than AMD Zen 5.

Currently both cores are made by TSMC and they reach the same clock frequencies, therefore the Intel core is negligibly better in single-thread performance.

Nevertheless, Intel Lion Cove has a much greater area than AMD Zen 5, despite being made with a superior TSMC process. Because of this, Lion Cove is inefficient for multi-threaded performance (because in the same area more smaller cores could be crammed), so Intel is forced to use it in hybrid configurations with Skymont cores, in order to achieve an acceptable multithreaded performance.

The worst is however that Intel is not able to use its up-to-date cores in server CPUs, because they are too slow at design/validation. Their new server CPUs, Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, use obsolete CPU cores that are not competitive with AMD Zen 5, instead of using the best Intel cores.

Unlike Intel, where 1 year or more of delay between using a core in consumer CPUs and using it in server CPUs is normal, at AMD they launch the corresponding server CPUs only a few months after launching consumer CPUs.
When Logseq is running locally, you can use its [local http server](https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/local%20http%20server) to do this. https://github.com/logseq/nbb-logseq is useful for automations and is already used to create github actions e.g. https://github.com/logseq/publish-spa. In the upcoming database version, nbb-logseq is able to read and write Logseq graphs completely independent of the app - https://github.com/logseq/docs/blob/feat/db/db-version.md#sc...
If this is a rhetorical question, just make your point instead.

If not, look up e.g. Microsoft 's purchase of Activision, both US companies.
Does GitHub Copilot Really Improve Code Quality?
In my opinion, the best way to make restaurant menus better is to go back to printed menus. Every other solution I've seen is terrible, and I can't think of a way to make them not terrible (but that doesn't mean there isn't a way, of course).
EDTF has advantages in less ambiguity. At the same time, Markwhen does also support non-EDTF dates too. The docs do a good job of explaining both https://docs.markwhen.com/syntax/dates-and-ranges.html

Personally I think it goes a little over-flexible on support for non-strict formatted dates to the point it becomes difficult to figure out what a given date string is going to result in rather than feeling easier to use. That's probably part of the reason the primary example uses the clearer format.
No. Here are two common and practical kinds of curve fitting:

1. Least squared polynomial fit.

This finds a curve that approximates a set of (x, y) pairs.

2. Polynomial interpolation

This makes a polynomial which goes exactly through the given points.
It takes a while. But if you continue to practice, it will eventually click.
It isn't possible for you to know these things.

In the event that you disagree, "check" if you can (even consider trying) to generate a flawless proof for each of your facts.
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It's crazy how fast poplars grow in temperate climates. And absorb excess nutrients and contaminants.

Would love to see huge fields of them grown, then harvested, and the product turned to lumber and other longer-term carbon storage. Even composted or biocharred and the carbon amended into top soils (yes it won't stay there forever, but...) Assuming the process can be done without emitting more CO2 than is captured.
last few years.

It's pretty much two decades at this point.
I'm seeing a lot of commentary that basically complains that category theory isn't useful. Like most topics in programming, it's useful for some things and not others, so YMMV. The parts of the programming discipline that are truly useful to all programmers are pretty much all learned at the beginning of one's career, or are really difficult to teach and must be learned by participating over time. The fact that you haven't found something useful doesn't mean it's useless in general, since it could just be too specialized to apply to your domain.

As a professional programmer, I personally can say that I have found category theory to be at least occasionally useful in my work, and for me it was worth knowing for that. But I've also studied a lot of math, so it wasn't a big leap out of my comfort zone to learn about it. Like I said, YMMV.
Hell no, I don't want the Intel management structures coming over here. Qualcomm is welcome to them.
It sounds like as a tech lead, if you're in charge of some degree of scheduling, and you have other tech people that you barely interact with, maybe you could start some sort of weekly or bi-weekly "meeting of the minds," and have a place to bounce ideas around. Even if your work isn't closely related, I bet they also feel a bit of isolation, too. It's likely in your work's best interest to have some common/shared knowledge for a small tech team in case of some sort of tech emergency.
Great thing about wood is you can build almost-permanent structures with it?

And the remaining biomass (leaves, bark, etc.) is fine to compost and re-enter the carbon cycle.

Also it's clearly not an open cycle, not in temperate climates. The accumulation of carbon in top soils etc. is one of the things that kept CO2 in balance for millions of years prior to us pulling it out of the ground. Peat bogs being another key one.

Yes, it can't keep up with us. But it's not an open cycle. (It is in the tropics, though)
Start Web Scraping with Python
Web scraping is becoming increasingly mainstream and it has never been as complex as it is today though modern Python tooling is quite incredible and very approachable given the right direction.

This article is my attempt to digest everything into a single starting point that should help anyone to bootstrap themselves into web scraping scene.
Fully agree. In my college ecology course, my professor stressed that sequestration/capture, while not ideal, will likely be crucial as our production of greenhouse gases outpaces the rate of absorption by plant biomass and ocean algae.
Better than what they previously had: Yes, with a but. Better than the competition: Overall no.
I'm not going to repeat myself at this point.
News article from Berkley, where it was developed.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/23/capturing-carbon-from-t...
No, there's no MMU.
I'd have thought first of the Schleswig-Holstein question.
You make an excellent point. Companies could eg. have 25yrs to make a profit.

On the other hand: if an artist produces something that slumbers in anonymity for decades before it suddenly explodes into popularity and becomes part of the cultural canon, then I'd want the artist to reap whatever benefits possible. That is: if anyone is making big bucks off of that, it first and foremost should be the artist, for as long as they're alive.
Agent Framework / shim to use Pydantic with LLMs
> But even then, I'm afraid I am not producing the software to the highest standards of the industry

Realistically, you’re not, but does that matter at all to the company? I’ve had your role in a small company, the job wasn’t really about the tech. Unless there is a dedicated product manager, that is your role now too, and it’s one to take seriously.

You have enviable freedom, do not waste it. Be straight with your boss and explain the tradeoffs regarding availability / tech debt / accuracy you may be making and why.

Above all, understand the business, how your boss sees it, and anticipate their needs.
Pretty much missing out on AI completely was and is a problem for Intel.
TIL, this was my first time seeing the term. I just assumed that the poster had left out the second word of "bush league". That would mean something similar but subtly different, though (a lawyer not up to professional standards).
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That used to work great for me, but recently it started to fail. It downloads a few pages but then it gets errors, as if it is detected and prevented by the server from scraping.
> If A-tel (Amd-inTEL) can not sell to the EU the merger will not happen.

What the EU gonna do then? Stop buying computers? Perform rapid continental ARM transition for mythical amount of money?
The other key point when comparing car stats to flights is car stats include pedestrian/cyclist and motorcyclist deaths which make up perhaps around half of the deaths.

Yet I suspect the people in twin towers weren't included in airline death stats.

Sure there isn't a perfect single metric - just pointing out that the one the airlines prefer appears to be biased towards air-travel.

The other factor that is often ignored is the issue of control. As a passenger of an airline you have very little impact on the chance of an accident - you are just an accident statistic.

Whereas if you are driving, your own driving behaviour, choice of car, route etc puts you more in control of the chances ( though of course by no means completely ).

This has a big impact on the perception of risk ( as more than average think they are better than average :-) ).
Apple is the obvious one. Essentially the only place with both the capital to do it and the extreme vertical integration enthusiasm. AMD hopefully still remembers running a fab.
No, cats are a bit different from other mammals:

In most mammals, including humans, red hair is caused by mutations in one cell surface protein, Mc1r, that determines whether skin cells called melanocytes produce a dark pigment or a lighter red-yellow pigment in skin or hair. Mutations that make Mc1r less active cause melanocytes to get “stuck” producing the light pigment.

But the gene encoding Mc1r didn’t seem explain where cats’ orange fur came from. It isn’t located on the X chromosome in cats or any other species—and most orange cats don’t have Mc1r mutations. “It’s been a genetic mystery, a conundrum,” says Greg Barsh, a geneticist at Stanford University.
The original intro video can be found here. Personally, I find it much better with the music:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-q1MZW6Ds
Not his campaign merch, though that's good to see I guess. He's got business lines in everything from food, to home furnishings, to apparel. Is that all manufactured in America?
LLMOps Database
The government exists to protect the property of its citizens. You can’t have a reliable market without the threat of violence (prison, fines, etc) and judiciary from an authority and government is suitable for that purpose. It’s their main purpose in fact.
The papers lead author stated that 200g of the material can absorb as much CO2 in a year as a tree.
They’ll need to dump a lot more money than $8B to Intel to compete in all fronts of manufacturing with China, and focus on it for a decade. Those time horizons are politically impossible, since next elections are less than 4 years away. That being said, competition is good.
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> Sugar cannot be made outside a factory

We've been making refined sugar as an ingredient in foods for over a thousand years. Hard to say it can't be made outside of a factory when they were making it in 350 AD. Even the white refined variety, it's just been clarified and filtered. Anything they're doing in the factory to clarify it can be done in a kitchen. Which then continues to make me question at what point is a kitchen a factory? You've still never actually answered that question.

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

> industrial products

Can you actually define this term? Is dihydrogen monoxide an industrial product? Sodium bicarbonate? Sodium chloride? Trimethylxanthine?

And finally, candied bacon is really not an ultra-processed food? I truly don't understand what the definition of "ultra-processed" is if something which is cured in various salts, fried, and glazed with a refined sugar is considered a healthy, non-ultra-processed food. So long as I use the right sources of nitrates and refine the sugar myself. As long as it's not in a building technically considered a factory by cynicalpeace, its A-OK!
> Such data show us that important cultural developments in the fourth millennium B.C.E.—including the Yamnaya migration and the dissemination of kurgans and Indo-­European culture—probably took place many centuries before the first horses were domesticated

I can't find the citations to this in the article.

The tone of the article seems like this author has a particular schtick with the Yamnaya and / or the Indo Europeans. A lot of academia and journalists do this so not surprised.
Because Intel, AMD, etc have offices in EU and China, for sales, distribution and also R&D. If you intend to operate in those markets you need to comply with local regulations.
It's 99% corruption and stupidity. The system is pretty convoluted, with multiple layers of middlemen taking a cut before the coffee reaches the international market. The auction system with multiple middlemen and commissions complicates the supply chain, reduces transparency, and delays payments to farmers, discouraging investments in quality. Marketing agents paying allowances to cooperative board members to secure business is a form of corruption that undermines fair trade practices and leads to quality neglect. Despite buyers paying premiums for quality, improvements in processing facilities aren't being made. So, even if farmers are trying to produce high-quality coffee, the facilities might not be up to par to handle it properly. The absence of direct relationships between buyers and farmers makes it difficult to hold anybody accountable for quality. The discontinuation of traditional processing methods like double washing, likely due to reduced volumes, may be contributing to quality decline. High financing costs and delayed payments make it challenging for farmers to maintain high-quality standards. The lack of reforms in the coffee export system perpetuates the current problematic structure. It's 99% corruption and stupidity.
Well, it's not real LaTeX unless embedded images come out wrong size and 1-10 pages before or after they were inserted in the source.
Alan Bates sounds like the epitome of the British "stiff upper lip". Stubbornly standing against overwhelming adversity for years, for the good of his fellow society and his own integrity.
Messybeast ( http://messybeast.com and more specifically http://messybeast.com/catarchive.htm and http://messybeast.com/genetics-index.htm ... and much much more) is the site I've found for cat coat genetics.

http://messybeast.com/mosaicism6.htm
>> I am not sure about your level of computer literacy, so sorry in advance if I give a a overly detailed response

> In technical discussions, this is what I call "The Move". It comes from a desire to position the person making The Move as more knowledgeable and experienced and therefore correct and the other person as relatively new, inexperienced, lacking in wisdom, and naive. It's extremely sophomoric and perversely favored by those who lack the attributes they're trying to project. Don't do it.

Nonsense. Judging from your previous post it is apparent you are speaking outside of your expertise. Smearing labels all over rather than factually responding only makes it more so.

You claimed sandboxed browser apps was "more secure" than a traditional app.

Nobody suggested otherwise. In fact, we weren't discussing brower sandbox security model up to that point, but the differences between a online-only closed source web app and a traditional FOSS app.

> I know how browsers and web apps work.

So do the lot of us here, yet you don't seem to share a common understanding of the domain.

You do have a skewed understanding of the web app and seem to fail to understand why people would want a traditional app they could inspect and lock down as they please.

This suggest to me you are junior and/or suffering from a bit of Dunning Kruger because you might be skilled in other areas (in this case skilled in web dev and unskilled in traditional app dev), hence my previous comment about your skill level.

You responded to a lengthy post I made, and yet you fail to address any of the points raised.

> The central observation I made

.. was questioned by me and others and you just ignore what was said.

> And the thing is, you and everyone else in your camp already knows the truths I've written out here.

Get off your high horse.

You haven't shared shared any truths, you haven't addressed the issues we raised and you have a rather rude tone saying things like:

> You have made one of the most baffling logical errors that commonly crop up when people criticize browser-based apps.

And then continuing to fabricate intent.

(My point still stands).
That's how we get Cheshire cats...
While a nice story, people maybe forget just how bad AMD was doing then. Intel, even in its currently weakened state, earns >10x as much revenue as AMD did in 2015.
He failed on GPU. The product was substandard.

That means either he knew and allowed it to happen, which is bad, or he didn't know and allowed GPU division to squander the resources, which is even worse. Either way, it was an adventure Intel couldn't afford.

There is a similar story in other areas.
The same reason as anything else. If the merger goes ahead with opposition from foreign markets, those markets can impose import tariffs or outright bans. Smaller markets may be ones these combined companies are willing to piss off, but not Europe. Their opposition is defacto a deal killer.