skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched Bowie's 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' after hearing a very wide range of opinions - love, hate, and "meh".

It's a very interesting film in somewhat the same vein as 2001 - It does not provide a narrative throughline and the conclusion is less than satisfying.

An unsatisfying narrative and conclusion is a double edged sword - it can lead people to think about the film for a longer time and ruminate on it - or it can make people angry and/or say stupid things. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo66iLNEZw

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I also think about Alex Garland's film 'Civil War'. It is very unsatisfying to never be told which side is the 'right' side, or what the war was about.

That unsatisfaction can make someone hate the movie, or it can be taken as commentary on war - it doesn't matter which side is right or what the fighting is for, no one wins a war. Winning a war is not morally satisfying. I think this is very very hard for Americans to understand, as our military tradition has centered on WWII.

I feel pretty confident in saying that no war that America fought after WWII has had a satisfying conclusion.

After 'Winning WWII' America also won the peace, which is actually why we can feel satisfied now. In no war before or since has America won the peace at anything close to the Post-WWII level.
I liked the fun animation, but I agree that the text should be darker for readability / accessibility.
Sounds like you haven't had good congee, or it just isn't your thing. It can be amazingly delicious and is a great comfort / cold day dish.
I'm mad about calls for violence regardless who they are (esp. how quick everyone are to label someone)
Are the land developers supposed to lose money and be charitable? Costs for both materials and labor have up due to inflation, Covid, etc. How could you expect something different?
>Well, how about the fact that gnutls allowed passive cleartext recovery attacks to go unpatched for about 2 years?

They patched it when they became aware of it in <https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1011>, it was not "allowed" to go unpatched.

>How about the fact that GnuPG is predicated upon the web of trust

No it is not, the web of trust is one mode of operation out of infinitely many that you can come up with, it's not forced upon the user. It was evangelized for a long time until the keyservers got DOSed. In retrospect obvious, but also gnupg is more-or-less an "activist" project -- big corps and govs are against encryption for the masses by and large. Had it had institutional backing from the beginning (which it never got) it'd have a much more robust model for users to work with.

>encourages misuse in the form of long-lived identities which discourages key rotation

You can automate key rotation with gpg. The long-lived identity argument can be seen as a strength too, short-lived isn't always better.

>a littany of vulnerabilities involving authentication and downgrade attacks?

I'm not aware of these; do you mean that GnuPG is not secure by default in its algorithm list? It chooses compatibility over security, but you're free to change the configuration. I think it's too harsh to say that GnuPG is inadequate because of that.

>GNU is just organizationally incapable of producing secure code.

I don't see why that'd be true, anyone can contribute to GNU so there is nothing inherent about GNU that makes its projects insecure.

>GPG is not good. It is broken at a fundamental level.

Works for me! I use it to sign my git commits and tarball releases, and with gpg-agent I get to authenticate to SSH servers.
"For most of its history, nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer, so not proletariat." They certainly were in the context we are speaking of here. Official Soviet terminology, apparently starting at least from Lenin but I haven’t checked this thoroughly, divided the proletariat into rural proletarians (in Russian селские пролетарии) and urban proletarians (городские пролетарии). In any event, in colloquial contexts the word serves handily to refer to a life of rather menial trudging wherever it’s lived.
Yes, and the sprites were supported by a specific coprocessor. For example, the Apple II didn't have one.
Your point being?

I'm not commenting about the white boarding.
Not my area of expertise, but this paper may be important for the reason that it is more closely aligned with the “enactive” paradigm of understand brain-body-behavior and learning than a backpropogation-only paradigm.

(I like enactive models of perception such as those advocated by Alva Noe, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Valera, and others. They get us well beyond the straightjacket of Cartesian dualism.)

Rather than have error signals tweak synaptic weights after a behavior, a cognitive system generates a set of actions it predicts will accommodate needs. This can apparently be accomplished without requiring short term synaptic plasticity. Then if all is good, weights are modified in a secondary phase that is more about asserting utility of the “test” response. More selection than descent. The emphasis is more on feedforward modulation and selection. Clearly there must be error signal feedback so some if you may argue that the distinction will be blurry at some levels. Agreed.

Look forward to reading more carefully to see how far off-base I am.
Is there a list of confirmed dodgy repos?
Do I seriously have to prove to you that you like ice cream? Have you tried it? If you sincerely believe you are a husk whose language generation is equivalent to some linear algebra then why even engage in a conversation with me? Why should I waste my time proving to you a human that you have a human experience if you don’t believe it yourself?
>The high cost arises from needing to provision a bare-bones cluster with redundant management nodes.

?!

How else are you managing your infrastructure besides having redundancy in the control plane? Even if it’s a chef or puppet server, or even sysadmin Dave running scripts on his laptop, you should still have redundancy.

> Moreover, Kubernetes’s slow autoscaling meant I had to over-provision services to ensure availability, paying for unused resources rather than scaling based on demand.

??????

Slow compared to what exactly? Anecdotally, k8s with karpenter is significantly faster to scale than auto scaling groups.
Go to gym during the week and do gardening/landscaping work on weekends. Should get you a good portion of the way there.
Why is your GitHub organization’s logo, the AWS logo?
Just to point it out, but there’s a native terminal command `caffeinate` that does the same as Amphetamine.

I use the -disu flags
Makes sense, thanks for the good reply.
Old joke:

A farmer wins the lottery. When asked what he's going to do, he replies, "I'm going to keep farming. And when the money runs out I'll find another way to keep farming."
You mistake a few faked demos of remote-controlled mannequins for actual working android robots. The point of the Tesla robots comes down to pumping the stock, not colonizing Mars.

Watch videos of state of the art actual robots and try to draw a line from their actual abilities to building a city. On Mars. In an environment with no infrastructure, no people to repair them. Pure sci-fi fantasy at this point.
Great, comes with free idea evaluator. AKA we'll steal you're idea and sell it!!
It’s only socialism when someone else benefits.
Then tie it to some signal or power rail that only gets enabled when the camera is in use, and that must be enabled for the camera to work, e.g. when there's power to the sensor itself.
In addition to being a faculty member at UMass Amherst, I am an Amazon Scholar, working at Amazon Web Services, where this work was conducted.
Self-hosting is not held back by Azure.
It's not the wafer cost. The masks (the "negatives" for the lithography) are the problem. A mask set (you need multiple exposures for one device) for a modern EUV node costs 20-30m$. That's the limiting factor. You can't get cheaper than that.

As a sibling comment notes, multi-product wafers are a theoretical answer. However, since you have process corners (manufacturing defects aren't uniformly distributed on the wafer), it is unfeasible for anything but the cheapest parts.

The real next moonshot in the foundry business would be to lower the respin costs, i.e., the amount of money it costs when your fabbed first silicon doesn't yield or validate functionally in the way you had expected/planned.

If I were the US government (or any other), I'd focus on that. Subsidize the respin cost to zero in the short-term, given certain prerequisites for start-ups, and push an all-out Manhatten project RnD effort to lower the respin cost in the long run.
> DRM was re-instantiated, when iTunes started streaming as Apple Music

Purchased music is DRM free. Streaming music was never DRM free, since you arguably do not "own" music that you have not purchased. Though I'm sure record labels would love if they could get DRM back on purchased music again.
I hope they at least split Office and Windows into seperate companies. Hopefully, then we may get Microsoft Office on Linux.
I don't know why you would make these kinds of arguments, and I do not care.

Stealing is always wrong.

Stealing is wrong even when it is stupid people who are doing stupid things that are stolen from.

Nobody deserves to be stolen from.

Especially by a cop.

The end.

Further replies will be ignored. I don't willfully talk to Nazis.

(Is that an implication? Hmm. Why would anyone think that?)
Humans will not go to Mars and live in cities built by androids. All of that is fantasy and hype.

If we had the technology required to colonize Mars, or even the moon, we could fix the problems we've created on this planet. We could colonize the oceans. We cant't "terraform" anything, we don't have androids that can build anything, we don't have a plan for getting lots of people to Mars, or keeping them alive. That's all fantasy and self-serving stock pumping.
Yo Squirrelz, R U aware of https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html ?
Indeed, you develop using a fab-specific PDK. But if you share a (Tower Semi, for instance) PDK, your device can have shuttle wafers with multiple designs from different companies. This is done for old nodes and low-volume or RnD parts.
self hosting for all the software that is increasingly becoming cloud only?
I would expect dynamic type crowd to embrace microservices first, given how everybody says that dynamic codebases are a huge mess.

Regardless, to me enterprise represents legacy, bureaucracy, incidental complexity, heavy typing, stagnation.

I understand that some people would like to think that heavy type-reliance is a way for enterprise to address some of it's inherent problems.

But I personally believe that it's just another symptom of enterprise mindset. Long-ass upfront design documents and "designing the layout of the program in types first" are clearly of the same nature.

It's no surprise that Typescript was born at Microsoft.

You want your company to stagnate sooner? Hyperfixate on types. Now your startup can feel the "joys" of enterprise even at the seed stage.
how come it isn't hosted under the official aws organization? https://github.com/aws
If someone has this level of control of my system, pictures of me are my least concern. You can have them. Fuck off away from my bank account tho.
A sequential build/release number would suffice in many cases.

If the thing you're shipping isn't meant to be a dependency for other projects, then semantic versioning doesn't really fit.

In trunkver though, using the timestamp of the build time is a little weird, since you could inadvertently end up building an earlier version of trunk at a later time.

Putting an identifier of the job that built the release in the version number also seems heavy for what could just be an entry in a log file for when you need those forensics.
Cloudflare MCP Server (WIP)
Brain-inspired, neuromorphic architectures are usually very different from neural networks in machine learning. They’re so different (and better) that people who know both keep trying to reproduce brain-like architecture to gain its benefits.

One of my favorite features is how they use local, likely Hebbian, learning instead of global with backpropagation. (I won’t rule out some global mechanism, though.) The local learning makes their training much more efficient. Even if a global mechanism exists (eg during sleep?), brain architectures could run through more training data faster and cheaper. Expensive step just tidies it up in shorter periods of time.

They are also more analog, parallel, sparse, and flexible. They have feedback loops (IIRC). Multiple tiers of memory integrated with their internal representation with hallucination mitigation. They also have many specialized components that automatically coordinate to do the work without being externally trained to. All in around 100 watts.

Brains are both different from and vastly superior to ANN’s. Similarities do exist, though. They both have cells, connections, and change connections based on incoming data. Quite abstract. Past that, I’m not sure what other similarities they have. Some non-brain-inspired ANN’s have memory in some form but I don’t know if it’s as effective and integrated as the brain’s yet.
It's great when combined with random test input generators.
This codepen's presentation strongly presents the "phantom squares crossroads" optical illusion.
Discussion (13 points, 2 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241438
I hope my idea for a dating app for dogs is not on this, it's going to make me millions!
Yep; anyone using that deserves to have their idea in the DB..
Having work and leisure mixed on a device or service is a pain.

I had tried to block Reddit but then I needed it when researching some programming stuff. Most conversations happen on Reddit these days so if you need to look something up for work to see what others are doing, chances are Google will give you Reddit links first especially if what you are searching for is relatively recent.

What I found is that I developed a muscle memory for just ignoring the block and overriding it.

Instead of allowing myself an override that so I could dismiss the block I had to just hard block all of Reddit by setting an PIN I immediately forgot and if I really need something I’ll use ChatGPT to summarize.
That page doesn't work on mobile, the code is covered up by the menu.
Well, yeah... it's from China. And you thought Google's PC self-censorship was bad.
Would be really remarkable to call yourself a populist and then kill the case against landlords colluding to raise rent, but seems like that’s what’s likely to happen.
Of course Lenin had an interest in selling the idea that everyone is actually proletariat. In reality by Marx's definition, proletariat are those who don't own the means of production (and are therefore stuck in earning by selling their labour), whereas farmers at least until the NEP died, mostly owned their own farms which means they did own the means of their production, which is also why farmers, or virtually everyone in the USSR outside the cities hated the communists.

But I got your point.
Strictly speaking, the postulates say nothing about compasses, or even straihhtedges/constructions. Also introducing lengths similarly, involves introducing number which is not a "pure" geometry concept. The third postulate just says that a "circle" exists defined by a point and a radii (which also, not a "pure" geometry construct since it involves a metric - i.e. number.

I would say yes, alot of the fundamental proofs while not striclty "incorrect" or false, are rather informal and contain some hidden axioms/circularities.

Tarski put geometry on a more secure footing using first-order logic.

Similar to how Calculus wasn't on a solid logical foundation until Riemann.
Still need to eat tomatoes when we are at war with country we buy tomatoes from.
And inside philosophy class, I would argue, that the knowlege of the chair your are sitting on, is also not so much more confirmed and solid knowledge, than ones own birthday.
A lot of time businesses that farmers could do as side gigs become the primary gig over the generations but the farm just has to stay there and keep doing farming things so you don't get screwed by the municipality or state on zoning or facility related compliance BS.
> Why did it regress into Kubernetes

The “KISS solution” didn’t scale to the requirements of modern business. I remember running chef - essentially a complicated ruby script - on 100ks of servers, each of which with their own local daemon & a central management plane orchestrating it. The problem was that if a server failed… it failed, alongside everything on it.

Compared to that setup, k8s is a godsend - auto healing, immutable deployments, scaling, etc - and ultimately, you were already running a node agent, API, and state store, so the complexity lift wasn’t noticeable.

The problem came about when companies who need to run 5 containers ended up deploying a k8s cluster :-)
I stayed with a succession of farmers while cycling across South Africa (with all the land fenced off, your only choice at the end of the day is finding a driveway and following it up to the farmhouse in order to ask for lodging), and what really impressed me was how much reading every one of these farmers was doing. Soil science and so forth is apparently a continually evolving field, and a modern farmer has no choice but to keep up with it. It really challenged my citybred prejudice of farmers as somehow uneducated.
https://ollama.com/library/qwq
Money back guarantee?
Ask Anthropic whether the USA has ever comitted war crimes, and it said "yes" and listed ten, including the My Lai Massacre in Vietname and Abu Graib.

The political censorship is not remotely comparable.
> remarkable to call yourself a populist

Trump never used this language. (He was also aggressive against Big Tech in his first term.)
The article is paywalled, but don't you have to be a monopoly to get in trouble with antitrust? This isn't the 2000s, microsoft is not really a monopoly anymore.
"Now, most of those farms have been sold off to mega farms or handed off to kids that don't really want to be a "farmer"."

It's common practice that the person doing the farming may not be the land owner. Field leases are extremely common. So they can inherit the land and just lease the fields until they decide to sell to a residential developer for big money as the urban sprawl encroaches.
Doesn't affect existing apps with extended mode access, for which you have to apply and be approved. Gives you a higher ratelimit so you can ship to production. Plenty of people (me included) build small widgets for themselves without bothering to apply for extended.
Or you get to keep your agricultural property tax breaks.
Not any good ones unfortunately! Great opportunity for someone to make one while other platforms are still scrapeable.
Also probably in the training data: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-least-odd-prime-factor-of-...

It's a public AIME problem from 2019.
> He is 100% part of the old Microsoft guard.

I don't think people really fear the Microsoft old guard anymore. HN loves to wave around the Halloween documents as evidence of Microsoft's persisting evil, but the remaining Windows users can't be made to care. If anything, most of the Windows/Microsoft product users I speak with want the old user philosophy to return.

Ironically, the advertising, data collection and service revenue abuse of Windows doesn't appear to even be a serious concern from the looks of the report. They're more interested in Microsoft's abusive B2B contracts, which have been reputably sketchy for years now. Burning down your operating system for the sake of service revenue isn't illegal - if it was, Tim Cook would have been put behind bars a decade ago.

This is what consumer protection looks like; for modern Americans. Don't forget that, the US government does not give even the faintest shit about your awful user experience if the OEM plays fair ball. Feeling free yet?
I don't think that's necessarily the case. It's impossible for human curators to catch everything, as crawlers do. Lots of companies are inevitably going to be left off the list because their website is #2,000,000 in the world & they occupy some industrial niche. Those companies, should they want in, would not be buying entry, but applying for entry, and their application would be reviewed in accordance with certain rules and other criteria.

Blogs and forums could probably apply for free.

I imagine that the still-theoretical company would (hopefully) profit, and that the curators are neutral salaried employees, rather than Wiki-style volunteers.
In my experience the AWS waf and ddos mitigation are really expensive (min $40k per year contract) and are missing really basic ddos handling capabilities (last I evaluated it they did not have the ability to enforce client js validation which can be very effective against some bot networks). Maybe it has evolved since but Cloudflare enterprise was cheaper and more capable out of the box.
If Apple didn't have such a paternalistic attitude towards their customers, I might have forgotten. But they do. I definitely care about my ability to do what I want with stuff I've purchased...
The pinnacle of the modern tubular aluminum road bike frame was probably reached with the cannondale CAAD8 and CAAD9 frames, which could easily be built into UCI-illegal-weight bikes using expensive components and wheelsets.

stripped example:
https://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cannondale/comments/1d9nind/2009_ca...
Show HN: AI Hackathon_ Prize 20K USD '1-Min Creative Innovation with AI'
VIDraft's Mouse Hackathon is an innovative event focused on creating and deploying AI-powered web services. Participants can use the Mouse-I tool to automatically generate and deploy functional web services within 60 seconds by simply inputting prompts. This tool combines AI automation with enterprise-grade infrastructure, showcasing new possibilities in web development. The hackathon encourages the development of web services across diverse themes, offering participants the opportunity to bring their creative ideas to life. (huggingface.co)
The claim they put on the box is typically true, but based on some damn modest usage. (e.g. 3 hours per day in ideal environmental conditions) And of course, a mean-time-to-failure figure to someone with one bulb built with minimal QA is just a dice-roll when faced with the bathtub curve of product failures.
Yeah. I know a beet farmer who struggled a lot with his farm to the point that he had to start selling paper at some point. Poor Dwight...
How many of these farmers are hobbyists, though? Or, use the farm land to offset their taxes (like they do a lot where I live)? Maybe farming is their second job, rather than the other way around?

If you go to the actual report, you'll see that the "very large scale farms" have the smallest percent of acres while also providing the largest value. Maybe the small-scale farms are inefficiently managed and operated.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/108074/eib-263...
thanks for sharing, that’s a good data point in comparing those services.
I propose we do this intentionally - put a few tardigrades and some other extremophiles in a rad-shielded container inside a fully-passive reentry vehicle and throw it up into a graveyard orbit for a couple million years. Cheap insurance for life on earth!
Can’t honestly remember the details! But it’s very much an AWS-owned org.
If I were a LinkedIn employee. Just to sabotage the site, I’d propose features like this which may seem appealing to management but create an awful user experience for everyone.
Why do you want people to be homeless and overpaying for housing just to depress the price of food?
Its a welcome change from Vercel, who, if you site is under attack will email you saying congrats on using 75% of your quota in a day.
What do you mean by Hanlon's razor and Chesterton's fence?
The title of this post doesn't seem to have any connection to the title or content of the linked article.