skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I was a senior in undergrad (1993) the profs were quite excited about the price/performance of 486 computers which thoroughly trashed the SPARC-based Sun work stations that we'd transitioned to because Motorola rug-pulled the 68k. Sure we were impressed by the generation of RISC machines that came out around that time like SPARC, PA RISC, POWER PC and such but in retrospect it was not those RISC machines that were fast it was 68k that was dying, but x86 was keeping up.
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If Microsoft insists on treating them like phones with locked-down software stacks, still no.
Software engineers are notorious for not wanting to support legacy devices and software. You see this all of the time on Hacker News. If you want more venders to support older devices, you need to change the culture. You also need to acknowledge the costs. Here are the costs:

1.Increased software development costs - Costs increase because software has to be designed to fallback to alternative implementations when the newest OS, browser, database, etc. features are not available.

2. Increased performance optimization costs. Older devices tend to be slower and this means software engineers will have to spend more time optimizing programs.

3. Increased testing costs - You need to test all features on older and newer devices.

The other problem is it might not be worth it to support older devices. Basically, supporting older devices may not be profitable (i.e. too few users who do not generate enough revenue to justify the increased costs).
Sure, but abstraction is not in any way the same thing as architecture (which is what you were talking about), and it's not structure (which Bartosz Milewski was talking about).

And besides, Category Theory is mostly concerned with finding similarities between different mathematical objects, when you look at them abstractly and ignore some details. It helps you find that numbers with adding are homomorphic to functions with composition. But programming is about telling a computer how to actually add 156 with 1571 by adding bit to bit, and how to compute the composition of two functions by computing the result of the first and putting it in a register so the second one can take it as input, which CT doesn't concern itself and no category theorist cares about in the slightest.
Also, I tried to open Glyph3D.xcodeproj from the GitHub repo in Xcode and got an error message that says:

> The project ‘Glyph3D’ is damaged and cannot be opened. Examine the project file for invalid edits or unresolved source control conflicts.

> Path: /Users/user/src/LookAtThat/Glyph3D.xcodeproj

> Exception: didn't find classname for 'isa' key

Although this could also just be that the version of Xcode I have installed is too old. I haven't used Xcode in a while so I haven't updated it for a while either.

My currently installed version of Xcode is Xcode version 15.0.
> the Moon belongs to no people yet, versus the opposing view established by the Outer Space Treaty that the Moon belongs to all people

You're describing the Moon Treaty, which was never ratified [1]. It would have made the Moon the common heritage of all manking [2]. The Outer Space Treaty is far less restrictive [3].

And even if the Moon Treaty were in effect, it still wouldn't make lunar colonisation an assertion of human privilege. It would be an assertion of certain humans' privileges over others. But there is no non-human concern in play to any practical effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty#Provisions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_heritage_of_humanity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty#Provisions
Interesting, but this doesn't support multiple tools with different arguments, or an arbitrary number of steps in the conversation. If you add that, you basically get PydanticAI.
Unrelated, I have an old Axiom midi controller that I'd like to reprogram to use with GarageBand. I'm not sure where to start, but I'm thinking of using Go or Rust. Do you have any pointers on how to get started?
battery life is great for moderate use in my experience. Won't support watching videos all day, but I usually get almost two days of life out of it.
The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth
There has actually been some research on this. I didn't save the link, but the paper I found showed that time spent reading code is a much stronger predictor of skill development than time spent writing code.

I'm guessing in practice it's probably comparable to music and language learning, which seem to work similarly in this respect. You do need to spend time practicing by doing, but having that be most of your skill development time is sub-optimal for people who aren't already at an advanced level. Most your time should actually be spent carefully observing what the experts are doing. Because that's what builds the intuition you need to critique your own performance. Which, in turn, acts as an enormous force multiplier for your active practice.

That's arguably why contributing to open source projects is such a great method. Because, unlike drilling yourself on practice problems, the vast majority of time spent contributing to an existing project will be spent reading and understanding the code that's already there.
Merger with AMD is very unlikely for competitive reasons but I’ve read some rumors that 1) Apple will push some production to Ιntel from TSMC and 2) Apple (and Samsung) are considering buying Intel.
> Are you planning to eventually do a SETI@home style thing where anyone can join?

That's one of the goals of the stuff we're working on right now, I personally hope we can make it work!

> What was Durk Kingma's involvement in DisTrO?

As a co-author on the paper, we brought him in to bounce some ideas off of & have him validate DeMo's design and implementation to ensure we weren't hallucinating these results.
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Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG
This specific model is only trained on 100 billion tokens, so it's not SOTA by any means, but we've got designs on larger training runs later :)
It won't matter if people are too unintelligent to understand it. The message has effectively been lost for a few hundred years.

The Simpsons movie demonstrated it best-- Grandpa has a heart attack or something at church, Marge asks "what do we do?" and Homer desperately flips through a Bible "looking for answers, but I can't find any!"

People take it too literally and subversives overemphasize the Old Testament, especially in pointing out "inconsistencies." It's an extended fairy tale, not a historical record. Nobody walks on water, but anything is possible if you believe [in stagecraft]. Getting cursed by plague and loss of family is easier to handle if you reframe the situation as a test of your willpower ("faith"). We aren't meant to do what Biblical figures did, only to think like they did to solve problems. If someone steals your glove, give them the other not because you're a chump, but because you don't fucking need one if you don't have the other.

The Old Testament is written by Jews, for a Jewish audience. Christianity is about Christ, a whistleblowing Jew, whose entire schism from Judaism existed to save gentiles from exploitation and corruption by said Jews (he had a lot to say about the Synagogue of Satan). He was "one of the Good Ones" and was ultimately killed for disrupting their operations, like every aid worker and journalist working to save Palestinians from Jewish violence in Gaza.

Someone should have told him that hashtags have no leaders to crucify or drone-strike.

As a martyr, the only way he can be killed again is by publishers watering down the message and shills shifting focus onto neurotic Old Testament nonsense (before he even existed) to induce confusion and foment violence against arbitrary groups that is decidedly against the namesake of the Christian religion.

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+1 for the 13 mini if form factor is your primary concern (and given the sizes of even the 'small' mobile phone offerings of recent years I completely understand why that would be).

I upgraded an eight year old SE (first generation) to an SE3 thinking it would be the obvious choice, then promptly replaced it with the 13 mini within a week (fortunately still available at the time).

The difference is small on paper but noticable in your hands, and I honestly feel like the 13 mini is the spiritual successor to the SE series while the SE3 is a weird relative that you don't really want to have to interact with.

For some reason the slightly more boxy and grip friendly design of the SE1 and SE2 was changed in the SE3 to have the curves that were introduced in (I think?) the iPhone 6, despite the SE series having a slightly more square design up to that point. But the SE3 also inherited the lower raw technical specs that were expected from the SE series.

So somehow the 13 mini wins in terms of both form factor _and_ tech capabilities/new Apple features (such as Face ID over Touch ID).
Those are very nice to have, but if the device still can do basic web and phone things do you really need to upgrade?
If managers are doing their job, how is this possible?
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Don't forget Bob Swan
None of those points incentivise software developers to deliberately block me from using the “last working version”. That last version already exists: it was already tested, already performed well, and had all of its engineering costs already spent. Suddenly stopping me from using it does not impact their profit in the slightest.

I was an iOS developer in a past life. It doesn’t take that much effort to keep the lights on on the older OS. But even if it did, it makes zero sense to suddenly make that already working older version stop working.
Microbes are CRAZY. They're everywhere. Thermal vent-friendly microbes. Space-friendly microbes. Vacuum-resilient, heat-resilient, acid-resilient. Microbe-free-environment-friendly microbes [1]. It seems hard to imagine that a blood-brain barrier could really keep the brain sterile.

We're lucky to live in a scientific era during which a "gut microbiome" is taken for granted (heck, even FDA-approved treatments depend on it! Google FMT, but don't click "images" from your work laptop), but it wasn't so long ago that we felt microbes were unlikely to live endogenously and harmlessly anywhere in the body.

There were also some hypotheses (untested, if memory serves) that COVID-19 influenced olfactory neurons through direct infection. Don't tell the blood-brain barrier, but if I were a bacterium, the nasal palate would be my ingress strategy. Or maybe the gums or gut — one of the cranial nerves, certainly.
[edit] I should clarify — covid is viral, not bacterial, but it does show that this is a potential entry vector.

The central nervous system is incredibly complicated, and our symbiotic relationship with microbes is extraordinary. I think it does a disservice to bacteria to suppose they DON'T get involved in an organ :)

[1] https://www.space.com/ryugu-asteroid-sample-earth-life-colon...
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Our founding team has gone from garage to IPO before. We have experience at big companies (Amazon/Meta) and small. We are remote today, but have a preference for people near us (Bay Area/Chicago). We may not be fully remote in the future. We are early in our journey. We are backed by some great VCs. Now is an exciting time to join.

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I have to admit that I was a bit surprised when my ex-wife listed off Spanish prepositions to discover that it excludes a lot of words I would have thought were prepositions but Spanish considers adverbs and only become prepositional when used in conjunction with one of the enumerated prepositions, usually (always?) de.
But adopting a rule that says 1/0 = 0 means you may also have to accept that 1 = 0*0.
Why have U.S. bird flu cases been so mild? Scientists have some theories
This is something that Apple should also be held accountable for.
Depends on what Apple wants…

Yes Congressman, we agree to take over Intel fabs if you agree to drop this antitrust nonsense. And we would like our $20B from Google back too.
At some point you no longer get security upgrades. Or new web browser versions aren't available and you're unable to access certain sites. In some cases there are workarounds like installing an open source OS but that's too much hassle for most consumers.
you could absolutely use DisTrO for federated learning. The DeMo optimizer on its own doesn't solve the adverserial aspects of training on local-only data, nor does it solve tensor parallelism across devices, so you're still limited to only what fits on your local GPUs, but it does enable distributed data parallelism over the internet at a bandwidth orders of magnitude lower than before.
This is a good point. Why would someone even notice people burning to death in cars let alone keep track how many people burn to death in their cars? Counting people that burn to death in their cars must be motivated by politics
Very hard to clean a blender!

More nitpickfully, one of the big things we care about is if the bacteria are living _harmlessly_ in the brain. i.e., site of microbes, and a lack of inflammation, will answer more than just "are there microbes around".
I mean its a marketing hype for their product. Its a pretty good starting step though - assuming they can build on it and expand that world space as opposed to just converting an image to 3D.

Certainly has some value to it.. marketing, hiring, fundraising (Assuming its a private company)

My take is that its a good start and 3-4 years from now it will have a lot of potential value in world creation if they can make the next steps.
What are you talking about man
Looks like OP is completely unaware of what a gift has been handed to him directly.
I'm not a charity. I'm not going to create some weird dynamic with friends where I am flying people out to expensive festivals. How often are you giving your friends thousands of dollars? It's not something I'd advocate for.
Ah, the "My Workstation" guy. I wonder if that text could be factored out and linked to in a sidebar or something (it's in every article I've seen from him, here).
If I want to produce a device, am I required to put work in to maintaining it forever? An iPhone 8 is really old by this point, honestly I’m impressed it still works.

What timeline would you recommend that is fair to both consumers and producers?
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Is there a reason to use this over Bitfocus Companion?
Yeah let's not compare daily driver computing devices with hardware appliances or even speakers.
Former internal security agency chief arrested in Poland's Pegasus spyware case
>I think the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD

Oh no no no no. Oh hell no. For now, we need competition in the x86 market, and that would kill it dead. Imagine Intel re-releasing the Core 2 Quad, forever.
I don’t know what you are trying to say. If you have a point to make, at least be honest about it.

Also, I am not American and not an I conditional supporter of their foreign policy. And considering the trajectory of American politics it is obvious that any foreign multinational developing in the US should have contingency plans.
I'm in the middle of reading Kurt Eichenwald's 'Conspiracy of Fools'. When Enron management described all the innovative ways they were 'making money' they weren't kidding. They were creating it out of thin air with complex, mirrored in and out transactions of all types in every utility sector they could find, and no one (except Arthur-Andersen only occasionally) was there to call them out on it until it was too late. Reading about it, it almost feels like a .9 release of Theranos, where management was complicit and clueless at the same time.
You don't get it, do you?
> From what we can tell, no lights on Earth are visible from the Moon.

Wait, really? That's surprising to me!

> With all due respect to the Navajo Nation, I'm putting this one the wrong side of reasonable.

Totally fair, and I tend to agree. My point is that not everyone does. I'm sure there's reasonable compromise. To bring it back to my earlier example, we do actually mine national parks (at least the UK does), we're just careful with our approach. I hope this type of approach would suit the author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodsmith_Mine
Too many demos loading on the site at the same time makes it unusable
There's a good chance they sell more collectibles on the idea of the game than the dismal reality of whatever they finally release, assuming they do ever make a real release. Right now the game could still be anything. (Even though in reality, it's nothing but a buggy alpha.)
LOL, thanks for the feedback. I see what you are saying. I need to say what version I've tried it against. I have not tried it against any of the MariaDB variants, so more than likely it won't work with those.
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I remember Murderbot working to blend in and pass as human, but I don't remember it trying to pass as male or being perceived as male?
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#1 That is an extremely dumb thought to project on everyone else. Mars isn't an a replacement for earth, and wont support even a tiny fraction of the population in the foreseeable future. Why do you believe people will think this?

#2 I hope we fix earth, but we either will or wont completely independent of Mars policy. Again, I dont see how they are related. Is the idea to prevent Mars activity as a motivating punishment (e.g. Birthday parties are cancelled until you clean your room)?

#3 What does "wrecking Mars" mean? What is a good Mars and what is a bad Mars?
One war-game I played came with two rule books, which was incredibly helpful for learning to play - each player could read his own copy.

But single-page "QuickStart" rules for each player (which later serve as a reference) and a main rulebook can work well, also.

The problem with this is it can result in a bunch of "special cases" not being known about until later; IIRC we had this problem with Agricola and it wasn't until the fourth or fifth play through that we didn't identify a rule we had been mistaken about during play. That game's especially bad since it has so many possible interactions that could be A then B or B then A.
> Nvidia and their amazing software stack and support for their hardware.

Linus seems to disagree https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIdxbWhHSM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299639
With the B770 16GB gone and the idea for the B580 to be cheaper than current 7600 XT @ 16 GB by cutting 4 GB makes Battlemage DOA. A gamer making an investment on a card for ~3 years cares less about spending ~$30 more vs being unable to run high resolution texture packs on a gimped GPU. The XMX cores are superior for AI for a month until Blackwell with smaller 2 and 4FP units, but a month is too little lead to overcome the CUDA software inertia. The next beancounter CEO gets the gift of terrible sales numbers and the excuse to drop the prices to move them out before RTX 5000 & RX 8000 competition hits.