skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lawsuits over the legality of using using someone's writing as training data aren't the same thing as them saying they won't use you as training data and then doing so. they're different things. one is people being upset that their work was used in a way they didn't anticipate, and wanting additional compensation for it because a computer reading their work is different from a person reading their work. the other is saying you won't do something and then doing that anyway and lying about it.
We get it, you work in adtech :)
Credibly establish that for every strike they make against your power grid you'll make several against theirs.
Intel's financial reports show their fabs losing billions every quarter.

Nevertheless, it is hard to know how real are these numbers, because the prices charged by the Intel fabs for making Intel CPUs are set internally, so they could be manipulated to move all losses on the fabs from the consumer and server product divisions.

Moreover, for the latest Intel fabrication process for which anything is known, i.e. Intel 4, which is used for making the CPU tiles in the Meteor Lake CPUs, it is known that the fabrication yields have been much less than desirable, which had two outcomes, both less profit margins when selling Meteor Lake and the inability to produce as many Meteor Lake CPUs as they could have sold. Both effects have increased the financial losses suffered by Intel during 2024.

In general, "uncompetitive fab" can mean two things. Either there are things that the fab cannot do at all or the fab has too low fabrication yields at the things that it can do.

The Intel fabs are in the second situation. They can do about the same things that TSMC can do, but at much lower fabrication yields, which means much higher production costs. High production costs means low profits and Intel is a company that has been habituated to have huge profits, so it cannot manage well the case when its profit margins are very thin.
Been blown away by 2nd hand prices lately. Back in 2022 we needed another car for my wife, and she wanted an auto. I would have loved to get an electric as she doesn't cover a lot of miles - but £12k was cheap at the time for something like an electric Nissan Note. We ended up getting a diesel Kia Ceed - was £8k.

I was looking again recently, and found two Notes for sale for £1000 - with some nicely looking models around £2k - all of a sudden a 2nd electric car becomes very attractive - even if the battery only does 70 miles now, that doesn't matter - we drive about 10 miles a day at worst and even if I drove to work it would be around 50 miles return.

A good few people I know are buying or leasing electric cars now - looking forward to these newer cars hitting the 2nd hand market.
Yeah, because the cost of an internet connection/computer/cellphone got cheaper over the years.

Microwaves were also for the few, and now they are cheap and most people have them.

And microwaves got cheaper without having to resort to displaying ads while the user cooks food.

What a stupid argument.
Yeah that's true, even in the Netherlands our high-speed line between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp was a nightmare. It cost billions, way more than budgeted, many of the bridges turned out to have construction faults (despite all the cost overruns) so the trains aren't able to actually go fast, and the high-speed trains were bought on a budget and had so many flaws that the Belgians refused to allow them. Now we're stuck with a non-highspeed train on the track that was supposed to be highspeed and cost a fortune to build.

In other countries like Germany, France and Spain the high-speed network works like a dream though. Though the good stuff is all nationally focused.
GitHub Actions feels like it was first designed to let people customize the GitHub Pages deploy flow (since GitHub by default only offered Jekyll as a static site generator, and Jekyll is Ruby tooling and not lightweight to run at all) and as a CI tool second, being molded into behaving like one after Travis CI went bad for open source projects.

Gitlab CI actually seems like it was made for CI in the first place.
That was my immediate thought. Congrats to gitlab
Democracy in the US works quite well, although it is a shame that your guy lost.
There is not much a police state can do when 1 out of every 3 Americans own guns.

> There is nothing to celebrate here.

Disagree. This might be the best news in a long time.
I got a SMR on my roof: Small Modular Receiver, for fusion energy.
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I remember hearing from some creators that youtube premium watch time is MUCH more valuable than ad-based people. I don't remember how much though.
They never had the launch codes, which were controlled by the Soviet Union, whose successor was Russia.
We get those already so removing all the others is still an improvement. But we can outlaw paid product placements too.
Excellent strawman, good job!
Can be done up to some level, but you still need a stable source of ~50Hz frequency to keep everything synced.
The Internet got to be for many before it was filled with ads.
That particular issue also exists in GitLab. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2797
They are basically the only functioning power plants to my knowledge right now. Russia can hit any target it wants in Ukraine.
Dark chocolate isn't any more likely to have lead, arsenic or cadmium, that simply isn't how it works. Dark chocolate is a result of mixing the cocoa powder with alkali, and the more it is processed with alkali, the darker it gets. All cocoa powder starts out a light brown color. The cacao beans are where the lead, arsenic and cadmium come from, as those metals are present in the soil, and it affects chocolate of any darkness.
While that's a sensible thing to care about, unfortunately that's not as useful a question as it first seems.

Eventually any system* will get to that point… but "eventually" may be such a long time as to not matter — we got there starting from something like bi-lipid bags of water and RNA a few billion years ago, some AI taking that long may as well be considered "safe" — but it may also reach that level by itself next Tuesday.

* at least, any system which has a random element
"Bulldozer man" was Marvin John Heemeyer, of Granby, CO.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer>
tell us more?
Plus you get to use the atmosphere as a free sewer, filling it with pollution without paying the actual cost to clean it up, which makes flying really cheap
I'm one of them. I've been coding for 22 years and now I use copilot all day every day. It gets stuff wrong, but I only ask it things I expect it to do well at, and I find it easy ignore or verify the bad answers.

I've never used electron and I got a small electron project up and running considerably faster than I would have otherwise.

I did some consulting for a project written in Vue and I know React, I got a good summary of the differences in the concepts, how to layout and structure files, etc. I had to modify a PHP project that was hosting Vue and I used chatgpt to find out where to look in the project to point to where I needed to look in the code to make the changes in the code.
Just this morning I needed to use git bisect but I couldnt remember the exact syntax, I could have googled it and gone through the verbose documentation, the stackoverflow reply, or a long blog post. Instead, I got exactly what I needed back in seconds.
I had to develop a migration plan for another project, I already had a rough idea of what to do, but I asked chatgpt anyway because why not, it takes seconds. It came up with what I had thought of already, some things I didn't need, and some things I hadn't thought of.
> If your company has multiple things you need to log in to, its doing something wrong.

It is inevitable. The SSO tax is often very high and for some products very difficult to justify. And then of course the large tail of smaller vendors that just don't support any SSO period.

> Normally sharing passwords should be harder than not sharing

Talk to marketing, they all share passwords to all the company media accounts because it is often the only way, those vendors don't support anything else.
I don't know what happened to that student (I'm guessing not in a field commonly using math ??), but my experience as a student with access to calculators during exams (sometimes even to programmable calculators) is that they were just slowing you down for simple calculations, resulting in a worse grade if abused, especially since you have to lay out all the intermediate steps anyway. (And you just figure out with experience what the cutoff for 'simple' is, and it raises as you keep getting better at it, just as the bar to what is considered a minimum 'intermediate step' raises with the class level.)

But then also the importance of using a calculator as one of the tools to double-check your work (because they make much less mistakes) should not be underestimated... whereas the situation seems to be opposite with LLMs !
Let me give you a piece of advice. Since you are still young and you do not have enough experience to make a lot of money. Because before it was not a few dollars that you mention, but hundreds of dollars. Advertising revenue has dropped so much. I thought the same as you. I was young and naive. Companies also have little money from advertising and therefore they simply cannot hire you and pay you a lot of money. Think about making a lot of money while you are young and full of energy. I am about 50 years old and I can not work hard anymore as in my youth. It becomes harder to make money with age. Think about the fact that none of those people who come to your site without advertising will give you a dollar in your old age. They will forget everything. Start being a serious adult. You are responsible only for yourself, but not for other people who just come to your site, and you do not have enough money to enjoy life while you are young. This time will quickly pass and in old age you will remember that you did not earn a lot of money in time.
Can they map it to cm accuracy and cope with the millions of changes that happen every day?
No, it's just an account on HN posting about it, no need to reach that far...
> in the world today people are arguing that the problem is that some people are very well off.

Of course it is. Look at someone like Musk. Because he is VERY well off hey could literally buy an election, and before that he bought the biggest social media platform and turned it into a right-wing propaganda site.
While I agree with the post author on the "if I pay the subscription then there should be no ads" part, there is a bit that comes fairly often in such posts which I find rather funny: "sell my data to your advertisers"

Sorry, that's not how 90% of digital advertising works. The company doesn't sell your data, they just offer some other companies to put an ad in front of your screen based on some specific profiling.

But these ads companies don't receive a file called "Manuel Moreale personal data and shopping history"
> Nations with good high-speed rail systems have quite different priorities and local governance structures than America.

Hmm true but Europe has most of the same red-tape/NIMBY/environmental impact studies etc issues as America. Those are not unique.

However considering climate impact it pays itself back.
Injecting Code into a Linux Process
> The comparator would be eating pork in a Islamic State.

Not really. Mohammedans don’t revere the pig; they think it is filthy.

> The ban on beef is not intolerance, but a form of tolerance.

That’s nonsense on stilts. It is textbook intolerance.

Beef is an absolutely delicious meat (so’s pork too, by the way). Hamburgers, steaks, roast beef, beef stew, cottage pie: to a very great extent beef is what food is.
Yes, but how can this strategy work, and who would choose ChatGPT at this point, when there are so many alternatives, some better (Anthropic), some just as good but way cheaper (Amazon Nova) and some excellent and open-source?
Interesting point!

It looks like Skanska is GC for the Project, and cites it as a 9 acre (!) lumber roofing system[SK], and that it uses 3.5M board foot of Douglas Fir Project Lumber[PL].

Douglas Fir is 3.2 pounds per board foot, or 1.45kg [DFM]. So 1.45 * 3.5M = 5Mkg of lumber for PDX airport.

DF has an Embodied CO2 of 1.6kgCO2/kgLumber [DFC]. A little hard to believe? But maybe that's bc a lot of the mass of a tree is left in the ground. Worth following up.

1.6kgCO2/kgLumber * 5MkgLumber = 8MkgCO2 = 8KtCO2 embodiment/sequestration from the PDX roof project. (tho there's a lot more to the project that probably goes in the other direction)

Global CO2 emissions from commercial flights is ~60MtCO2/month [CF], so we need roughly 12,000 airports per month, 144,000/yr, to offset flight CO2 emissions.

There's 9000 commercial airline airports [NA] (tho obv many smaller than PDX, but they would also represent less CO2 from their flights), so 144,000/9000 is a 16x annual airport rebuild rate we'd need to offset CO2 emissions from the flights they service.

So yeah, this is absurd on the face of it.

But, how much of the mass of an airport is the roof? If it's like 1/100th the total mass, and you start building airports with all wood (foundation, runways, etc) you'd get to 16% annual rebuild rate to offset flight emissions. Still too high to be plausible. But another 10x somehow and you get to ~1% range of annual airport rebuild rate to offset emissions.

Then you'd have something.

[SK] https://www.usa.skanska.com/what-we-deliver/projects/278172/...

[PL] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnoseid/2024/08/19/portlands-...

[DFM] https://www.globalwood.org/tech/tech_wood_weights.htm

[DFC] https://www.douglasfir.co.nz/net/environment/carbon-footprin...

[CF] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1500409/global-aviation-...

[NA] https://sentinel-aviation.com/blog/over-40000-airports-in-th...
I think attracting these sorts of minds also depends on the resources a company can provide to them. Right now intel is keeping their belt tight. Iirc, there was a whole team of brilliant engineers who were working on a RISC V project let go from Intel late summer/early fall. I’ve read about talks regarding a sort of brain drain occuring.
Well I'm pretty much an anti-ad radical as well, but you're saying you block ads and you don't want to pay for stuff like subscriptions and similar. Well that's also not very sustainable, content creators have to eat :)

Fortunately there's many ways to financially support the workers whose content you appreciate: patreon, ko-fi, etc. I still wished there was something much more friction-free, something like flattr
If I go to TheBrink to read about game news, and I click on a link that says the article is about that new game, then I get what I asked for. Coupled with a clear indication that it's paid-for content, it should be fine.

What's not fine is seeing an ad for the new game when I didn't go to a games news site and didn't click on such a link. I don't want to be interrupted with games news while I'm watching a video on DIY. I shouldn't be shown appraisals of the new game while shopping for a new car radio.

Ads should be opt-in.
Trump picks venture capitalist David Sacks as AI and crypto 'czar'
I'll add: in practice its goal is not to solve a problem, but to create a need.
I've built a logging system like that, in an embedded context, and defmt (https://github.com/knurling-rs/defmt) is an open-source implementation of the same context. What's most handy about it is that logging continuous sensor data and logging events can both use the same framework.
I wasn't been able to get my 2nd gen EPYC 7642 idle under 100W. Most of that power goes to the I/O die. The cores themselves manage their power very well. While I have all memory slots as well as a number of PCIe lanes occupied (more than 24 available from the consumer chips, but probably less than 48...,) I routinely think about side-grading to something else just to reduce the idle power consumption.

I would be hard pressed to believe that another EPYC would be able to significantly reduce I/O die power consumption significantly, given that AMD hasn't really made many major changes to it over the generations.
I sometimes think Americans are "shrewd" in a sense that "Hey, I don't fully understand the system we are in but through some trickle down effects, we are at the top so why bother questioning anything."
What an interesting way to misquote this. The signatories of the memorandum were: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, russia, United States and United Kingdom.

Arguably, the ongoing policy of the US administration w.r.t. of strike prohibitions is in violation of the memorandum terms. Obviously, russia egregiously violated the memorandum as well as a multitude of (now effectively non-functional) international laws and has committed a large amount of crimes against humanity it was not and still isn't held accountable for.
Understanding the Odin Programming Language
The story I've read on the net is, (mostly from https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-rise-of-dos-how-microsoft-got... and https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-pc-history-part-... and following parts and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_syst...) :

IBM visited Microsoft about the computer languages and apps for their new PC. When IBM asked about an OS as well, Bill Gates, following the gentlemen's agreement that MS had with Digital Research, deferred to Digital Research, telling IBM that they should go to Gary Kildall at Digital Research for an OS. Bill Gates gives a vague heads-up to Gary Kildall about a meeting with some important people soon.

There's a lot of she-said-he-said about the initial IBM-Digital Research meeting. Gary wasn't there at the start, his wife handled the meeting. In the end, Digital Research treated IBM as just another OEM - if IBM wanted CP/M, they'd pay the same royalty rate as any other OEM. The IBM folks weren't keen on paying a royalty per OS license installed. Plus, their Project Chess PC didn't use an 8-bit CPU. They'd need an OS that could run on a more recent CPU (16-bit or more), And they needed it fast - Project Chess was going to ship in one year, so Digital Research had less than one year to get a 16-bit OS shipping. Gary Kildall wouldn't commit, so IBM walked away empty-handed.

IBM met with Microsoft again and mentioned that IBM hadn't signed a deal with Digital Research. If there was no OS, there would no IBM PC and no revenue from licensing MS-BASIC et al. One of the Microsofties mentioned that they knew of an OS for the Project Chess PC, Intel's 8088. Did IBM want it? IBM said yes. Microsoft offered to act as a go-between or IBM could deal directly with the new OS company. IBM told Microsoft to handle everything.

When it came down to paying for the OS, PC-DOS, Microsoft offered several options:

- per PC license royalty

- flat fee for a non-exclusive license with unlimited installs

IBM chose the flat fee, which meant less accounting work over time, but we all know what that "non-exclusive" would enable - PC clones.

IBM would charge a relative pittance for their PC-DOS, $40. Digital Research came through with CP/M-86 for the IBM PC, but they were charging much more, almost $200 more, and shipped six months after the IBM PC launched. IBM paid $45K to Microsoft for PC-DOS, so after the first 1,125 PCs, PC-DOS revenue was pure profit for IBM.

Digital Research finally relented and lowered the price of CP/M-86 after one year, but IBM released the IBM XT and PC-DOS 2.0 with support for hard disks, subdirectories, etc.

But a couple of months before either of those events, an app written in assembly language was released for PC-DOS - Lotus 1-2-3.
> Who would’ve thought we’d get to a point where we’re not designing efficient models but feeding pre-trained giants like they’re vending machines?

Anyone who has paid any attention in the last two decades? That’s what investors and VC money does, they make everything shittier. They only care about their own individual profit. You’re putting the money addicts in charge then wondering why there’s no room for craftsmanship.
If you can write such detailed argument, what the hell was that "ok boomer" earlier?

We got IPv6 government-mandated but what do i know, strangers on the internet...
My favorite example of this is grep vs method references in IDEs. Method references are more exact, but grep is much simpler (to implement and to understand for the user).

I think you're also right about LLMs. I think path forward in programming is embracing more formal tools. Incidentally, search for method references is more formal than grepping - and that's probably why people prefer it.
> You get used to it in a few days

I don't even know how to reply to that, but I feel the need to call it out as, potentially, the most creepy-as-fuck quote-unquote justification of literally anything.
Hmmm, for 3 minutes?
> I don't think that many Americans would appreciate someone eating horse or dog meat in public

I believe that it’s actually worse in America: to my knowledge, it is illegal to sell horse or dog meat at all in America. Which is intolerant and frankly stupid.

I love my dog, but it’s no skin off my back if someone else eats his.
> > do better

> Which is what?

UBI.
To elaborate a bit more; first things first - Gitea is still MIT and open source. Not open core, full open source.

The main reason for Forgejo is moreso that Gitea as a project was taken over by a company instead of being run as a non-profit. Some of the dev team felt uncomfortable with that and forked it.

Personally I haven't seen much reason to switch from Gitea to Forgejo - this is the sort of ideological issue that I'd rather kick the can down the road on until Gitea Ltd goes bad (and in an assumption of good faith, I'll assume that it won't.)

It's not that difficult to move git repositories around after all.
Ok, so you have a review article about PC networking equipment, sponsored by Cisco. That's an ad for you.
Now you go to the homepage of the site that wrote that review. They link to that review from their home page. Is that an ad? Probably, because it could contain an ad-like image as its banner (showing Cisco equipment) and maybe even a slightly ad-ish title ("Cisco outperforms other networking equipment in our recent review of x articles").

So, is another page, that links to that page also an ad? Because maybe the homepage that runs Cisco-sponsored reviews might also have a cisco-sponsored banner. And even if not, maybe over time they become associated as "the thing that reviews things were cisco always wins"...

Oh, and what if it wasn't a sponsorship. What if instead Cisco just gave them the hardware to test at a discount? Or for free? Would you not write a slightly more favourable review for nvidia if they gifted you their top-tier GPU? What if instead of gifting you the GPU, they just give it to you at a discount? Or earlier than normal customers? Or they just have nvidia-stickers for your kids in the box?

Ads are an extremly slipperly slope, they're part of human nature; everyone I ever met is trying to tell me about (=market) themselves, their beliefs, their current hobbies, that new burger place down the road, ....