skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tandy 2000 was the only 80186-based machine I'd known of until now. I actually had one for a while, bought from Radio Shack when they were quietly dumping the remaining stock for something like 90% off. It was like a computer from a slightly alternate timeline, one where MS-DOS's original notion of not being tied to PC-specific hardware (e.g., more like CP/M) actually took off.
Working in ML Engineering this doesn’t surprise me in the least. The ratio between “impressiveness of technology” to “the number of practical problems actually solved” is probably higher for LLMs than just about any tech to come out in my career, probably longer. Every executive at every company is tripping over themselves to incorporate “AI” (which is almost exclusively defined as LLMs, for some reason) into their products. Problem is that many, if not most, companies really don’t have meaningful use cases for LLMs. So you end up with a bunch of problems being invented so they can be solved with AI. What feature can Facebook provide for their users utilizing LLMs that users actually, genuinely care about? I can’t think of any. And I assume Facebook can’t either, which is how they arrived at this.
> all militia members are the most violent and evil people living in the world.

That's a strawperson. It doesn't have to be all. Groups that call themselves 'militias', arm and train themselves, plan violence, and sometimes perpetuate it. It's reasonable for the public to be concerned about them.
You can train ML to recognize vegetation in satellite photos and further train it to estimate its height +/-3 meters

https://github.com/facebookresearch/HighResCanopyHeight
IGNITE artpack highlights obscure graphics protocol for Atari ST BBSes
How do you spread the word about an obscure Atari ST graphics format from the BBSing days?

Recruit some folks to help you make an artpack full of images and animations showing it off!

That's the idea behind IGNITE, an artpack from Mistigris and Break Into Chat with 18 images and animations in "Instant Graphics and Sound" format.

IGS was a graphics protocol for BBSes on the often-overlooked Atari ST computer platform. It was similar to RIPscrip, but predated it by several years, and included commands for looping, music, and animation.
As someone who grew up in Detroit and watched decades of decline its revival makes me so proud. I have visited many of these places and the revival is real.

What they do not mention here is that the startup community leaders of Ann Arbor (Michigan's strongest entrepreneur community) have been volunteering their time advising and guiding Detroit's startup community.
As an engineer — in other words: a salaried employee — you're already a businessperson. How do you negotiate for better total compensation or benefits if you reject knowing, and thus positively influencing, your worth to the company?

If you really don't want to engage in that sort of thing, I'm sure there's a lot of companies that'll let you be a fungible code monkey for pennies…
And exactly how does that help the specific narrative?
I must be getting old because this blog post scares me to death. Knowing this will be sharing roads with me, scares me. And it's not the DIY:ness, I don't care if this blogger is 10x more competent than all the engineers at Tesla, I don't trust a machine with my life or my family's life.

Obviously it's illegal so I don't expect them to use this while in Sweden.
LLM's did well: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2024/12/15/llms-vs-aoc.html
The purchase and sale of humans, or the lack of such transactions is a meaningless distinction?

by which definition of slavery do we have “purchase and sale of humans” as part of that definition?!

Article 1(1) of the 1926 Slavery Convention: “Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.”

just because you are not purchased/sold does not mean your condition cannot be defined as slavery
I suppose by "new reality" I meant that asynchronicity seems to be happening from both above (programming lagnauges) and below (hardware and I suppose..physics), and then in the middle we still have units of execution pausing on syscalls. I get that io_uring is an abstraction built on top of classic unix syscalls, but I still find it interesting that even linux people are starting need an async model at the OS level.
> firefighters failing to render first aid certainly didn’t help that one kid who was dying a couple hundred yards from a fire station

Still not terrorism. Left-wing militias are a problem in some parts of the world. They aren’t in America.

Our domestic terrorism comes almost exclusively from radical Islam and right-wing nutjobs. (Who, somewhat hilariously, see eye to eye on more than they realise.)
I love shooting film but IMO this is just a matter of emotional taste. There’s no such thing as “truer” except in how a photo feels to you based on the emotions it conjures. If the process of shooting film feels more natural to you then great! I’m not sure there’s any way to argue it objectively though.
Death panels.
* Download pack ZIP: https://mistigris.org/packs/IGNITE01.ZIP

* Watch pack as a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_riObN32o

* Read deep-dive series on history of IGS: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and...
> If one is looking for a single label to encompass many of the new foundations – perhaps to form a new school or department – I would suggest Systems.

What about good old philosophy?

Philosophy already has a long tradition of birthing new sciences, a long tradition of encouraging polymath thinking and a long tradition of estabilishing foundational ways of thinking.
>> I bet that if you look at poor black men who live in US cities the figure is very very high

Blacks are 14% of the population, so black men would be under 7%, poor black men who live in cities would be less than that.

So that doesn't explain the statistic.
I think it’s important to discern that sodium citrate is part of the base of citric acid. So while yes the sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, will break down the rest of citric acid and leave you with sodium citrate, the citric acid will be just as effective on it’s own for those without baking soda at the ready. The baking soda changes the flavor as well which may not be desirable. In the case of a cheese sauce you may not want lemon acidity flavors pulling through.
> That’s a financial product, not a medical one.

It often goes unsaid, but America, on a cultural and political level, is really ideologically fixated on a distinction between working and non-working individuals, and, in a far deeper sense, whether an individual "deserves" healthcare or not. This makes access to healthcare intricately connected to class, wealth, and income, in America. That's why access to healthcare is seen as a product in and of itself. You can either afford it ("you've earned it"), or you go into debt for it ("you have to earn it"), or you simply have no expectation of ever paying for it ("you cheated the system").

The entire conversation is often dominated by these ideas in a way that often makes talking about healthcare with Americans baffling to people that come from many single-payer or universal systems.
> Not sure how it is in USA.

Assuming the record was as an adult, it will be reported publicly by the county (or other jurisdiction) court system and be on public record. This used to be a musty records keeping office somewhere you'd have to go in person and request the records of the individual in question - so without prior knowledge of where a conviction was it was difficult to "background check" people without extensive investigation.

Then these became digitized and put on-line most places.

The larger issue is data brokers who aggregate the records of literally everyone in the entire US (or close to it) into one database you can pay them to make lookups into. They send someone to every courthouse in the US (well, they sub-contract others who sub-contract, etc.) and get all new records. This builds a nationally searchable database that more or lives on indefinitely. All legal since the records are public information.

You can get records sealed and such by court order, but once it's aggregated it's basically a game of whack-a-mole. You can go further and get it expunged which typically requires a state governor signature or similar, where then you might have better luck with said data brokers as the penalties for reporting it are heavy in some states.

It's a very fractionalized system, built out of bailing wire and duct tape like most such records are in the US for historical reasons.

Some employers simply have a binary policy of "zero criminal records" and don't go any further into detail beyond that. Other employers are more lenient, but the more desirable a job is the more likely you are to run into the former policy.
A few days food is a normal kitchen cupboard — singular cupboard, not the whole kitchen.

A few weeks was what I kept ready during the pandemic, just in case I got ill and didn't want to go shopping for a fortnight. Plenty of natural disasters are in that kind of range, even outside the pandemic.

Civilisation collapsing needs a stockpile of about however many months it would take for you to turn your garden into a residential farm and get to harvest season, plus a bit for if that doesn't work… or if raccoons steal in the night everything the ravens didn't steal in the day.
It does look interesting (and related to the Systems school proposed by TFA), though I've also heard it described as a watered-down or easier CS degree. (Then again, CS itself is sometimes criticized as a watered-down or easier engineering degree, or a degree in calculators.)

Data Science sometimes gets a similar watered-down label, but it looks like Stanford's program (at least) might be somewhat technical and may incorporate scientific computation, as well as statistical applications.
> I'm surprised someone didn't even tell him to just for the optics of it.

White house staff and Trump's family members were urging him to do something while he was enjoying watching the show unfold on TV. I'm unsure of where you live but the truly surprising thing is many people in the US aren't aware of this.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-probes-season-fi...
What kind of file should be uploaded?
From the 90s the whole DNS on which the internet is standing today was run successfully with minimum error by a bunch of folks who used to call themselves sysadmins. Developers seems to run out of things to develop and they have been reinventing themselves as devops and SREs. They have been pushing out pure sysadmins but at the same time this trend shows how demand for developers or SWEs falls far short of the supply of developers in the market.
I used to know this guy that got two felony DUIs in a week (both with injuries) and all he ended up with was six months in county jail (plus, I'm guessing, a shitton of fines) after all was said and done.

Dude totaled at least his two cars (don't know what happened to the cars he hit), hurt some people and obviously didn't care since he did it twice. Of course it was over a woman...
You should have included a link to be unambiguous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

It was quite a spectacle.
People in the white house did tell him, we know this from testimony under oath. He refused to do anything until it failed.
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We need a way to concentrate the gains of things going in the other direction as well.
I didn't claim the "sky would fall". I just claimed it would affect you.

I think most would agree that it is easier to form connections with those who are more similar to oneself. Call it racism or tribalism if you want, but that's reality.
Still too small for that. It’s barely bigger than an amuse bouche.

I think this must be a tasting portion, maybe a cooking school thing or similar.
I daily an (newest model) SE and got some wireless lavalier mics that plug into the lighting port. They work well and were cheap. Have to carry them around. Not name brand or anything. Though I hope to get some from rode.

What do you use for storage?
One of the more disturbing parts of seeing him back in office is going to be knowing that a lot of this malfeasance is just not known by the general public.
Is GitHub a trustworthy keeper of our code?
Certainly feels like a missed opportunity not to advertise that somewhere official.
Why Chinese EVs will not take over the world
Trees also reduce or eliminate urban heat island effects, improve soil absorption during downpours thus mitigating runoff, provide food and habitat for wildlife, increase humidity through evaporation, and on and on...
They're so good at improving the localized climate, it's why they're trying to use millions of them to stop the Sahara Desert from expanding southwards.
I have a Xc70 now, from the year they stopped making these brutalistic work horses, and having owned a 740, v50 and a V70 before I believe this is peak "herrgårdsvagn". Nowadays the large Volvos like the v90 are stupid Chinese luxury cars that I will never buy.
I work morning to night and don't have an office. It's really nice to be able to get out of the house and the yemeni coffee shops provide a way for me to get out and stay out for a while.
I remember the "generic" VGA driver having horrible default settings that resulted in 300x200 at 16 colors.
Much has been written about Gen Z having a tiny appetite for risky behavior, and the causes are attributed to all sorts of stuff. But my entirely unscientific bet is that there is a real chilling effect to growing up as the first generation that had entirely digital “permanent records” and zero tolerance policies for their entire lives. Very little room for error when, regardless of whether you learned anything from it or not, your mistake is recorded forever and searchable by anybody. And because the rest of society didn’t grow up with that level of retention, they’ll still judge you for it being documented.
> look for pmf by making your idea smaller, not bigger

This!! And your related explanation is so good!
As an engineer my job should be to engineer systems not to worry about how the business is running and how much profit it makes.

and yet you don’t actually get to be an engineer if the business is not running and profits are not made - if that happens you get canned and you have to find another place to engineer. the whole purpose of your employment is that you should generate more value to the company than your compensation. people that are not aware of this will have a difficult career in front of them
Often. If you want expert results, you want to exploit the portion of the weights with expert viewpoints.

That isn't always what you're after. You can, e.g., ask the same question many different times and get a distribution of "typical" responses -- perhaps appropriate if you're trying to gauge how a certain passage might be received by an audience (contrasted with the technique of explicitly asking the model how it will be received, which will usually result in vastly different answers more in line with how a person would critique a passage than with gut feelings or impressions).
Given the for-profit prisons, it comes very close to being the purchase and sale of humans.

It's not full chattel slavery such as was legal before the 13th Amendment, but the word "slavery" has always encompassed definitions short of that, e.g. in ancient Rome.
Cursor better than copilot and vscode?
You'd prefer to be one with none of the resources?
> They are discontinuing membership programs/fees

> They are discontinuing certification programs

> They are however continuing to ensure ANT+ is available on silicon

> All documentation to be made fully available online

funny how "the beginning of the end" kind of sounds excellent.
Hosted Metis Jupiter V6 Swap API
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-florida-virginia-co...
That is fun, I have an EEEPC 207g, those smaller ones. It still works, but I never thought about retro gaming with it - mine is just "collecting dust", it would be fun to try these things on it!
Frustrating article. They didn't discuss the goals of the militia's or their concerns at all. The spy was basically a one man militia.

Whole thing smells.
Actually, I thought the same about flutter. As it seem to be a huge effort to maintain and further develop it. Even Dart seems to be only used for flutter development. The technology behind flutter is complex, similar to react native. If Google or Facebook would stop support for these tools, I think, it would be highly challenging for the open source community alone to maintain it. Facebook uses RN as part of their core products. However, I don't see the incentive for Google to maintain Flutter...
I’m not sure if more brilliant. Just less proud, arrogant and conceited.
I literally can't think of a single canadian population/group that would be willing to die for canada. Liberals don't care, conservatives (the group more likely to join the military) absolutely don't care about the Canadian identity anymore, Quebecers sure wouldn't, immigrants (me included) wouldn't either...

Like, this isn't 1812 where Upper and Lower Canada had an actual identity or link to the British throne, or were descended from loyalists. We are mostly just a country that is held together by economic interests and a lot of inertia.
You didn't include jack stands, crawling under the car, nor needing an appropriate place to work in your original description making it sound so easy. I do a lot of DIY including car stuff, but for oil it's a toss up of whether I actually want that hassle or whether I'll just outsource it to a still-competitive market for a low price.

(I did get burned on a cross country road trip by some dipshit stripping my oil pan drain hole. I don't know if they just didn't like the far-off plates, or aluminum was an exotic material to them, or what. But that's much less of a worry when you go to the same local place)
Infinite Luigis Theory:

I get a sense that we are beginning to see a resurgence in lone-wolf style operator activism and crime (or terrorism, etc., depending on your view of things), sort of like was more common 30+ years ago, a la the Unibomber, Skyjacker, all of the serial killers in the 60-80s.

The reasons of “why now” and “why lone wolf” are complicated but mostly boil down to high availability of information (awareness of opsec) and relatively low trust amongst social groups and of institutions, coupled with a more online and more destabilized male demographic the younger you go.
Yeah this one is closer Brave New World.
Because PLA is made from sugar, funny enough, if use PLA from Europe to 3D print it smells like cotton candy (cause made from cane sugars) whereas PLA in the US smells like popcorn (because made from corn syrup). It's also why its completely biodegradable, if you leave it outside, bacteria and UV light will eventually break it down, its also why its not a good material for anything exposed to environmental elements or something that needs to be durable for a long period of time. Its fine for most things, including biodegradable cups and straws. All that said, its probably the least toxic of the plastics considering its source.

PLA has been around for a while, its not new with 3D printers, its just commonly used for 3D printers because it has excellent properties for 3D printing.
I've only played a with this, but it was impressive.

https://ghidra-sre.org/
I'd feel better about a "right to comment":

So instead of deleting the record of my arrest, I could add some kind of comment explaining that I was not convicted in the end.
There are enormous problems with this kind of thing though, especially when for example, a murderer is part of the establishment or is cuddled by the big established entities.

There was a guy who was a motor journalist for a major Swedish newspaper (Dagens Nyheter) who stabbed a man to death while his friends prevented the man's escape, and you basically don't get to hear about. It's even been removed from the journalist's Wikipedia page.'

I think truth is much more important and I think what a court does must be inherently public and I see a court, is as a proxy for going before the people itself to deal with a matter that can't be decided privately (and obviously, when somebody is dead, there's private way to make up), and therefore I believe their decisions have to stand forever and should be as public as possible.
Exactly. And defense against tyranny is a legitimate thing. Militia's are not really special. It's unclear what it even means given many things are legal in the US.
> does RISC-V also somehow imply that the microarchitecture will be open?

Not at all. Most are completely proprietary.

And that's fine. We're likely to end up with dozens of companies competing to license you their RISC-V cores, and lots of open source designs ranging from not very good to just a couple of years behind the commercial ones.

A much better situation than having just one vendor that can go out of business or simply decide to do something else at any time (see DEC, MIPS, Sun, Intel with iPX 432, i860, i960, Itanium, ...). Or even Intel and AMD with x86. Or Arm, Apple (not selling cores or chips to 3rd parties, only finished computers), Qualcomm (being sued by Arm) in the Arm ecosystem.
What does it even mean "militia" in the US? Is any group with weapons a militia? Is it a militia to gather and train and only worry about tyranny?
Historically criminals from Germany would find a new life in Argentina. And they mostly lived out plain unremarkable lives, so this does work. Not sure everyone appreciated the benefits to society though.
You could use the LLM to help you write utility scripts for whatever disassembler you’re using e.g. python for IDA. That might work better than feeding it raw assembly.

Game RE communities also have all sorts of neat utilities for decompiling large cpp binaries. Skyrim’s community is pretty active with ghidra/ida.

Guessing you’re not lucky enough to have a PDB?
Cybercrime City Mysteries [video]
that's not how fair chance works -- it just means the company will consider whether or not the offense(s) are relevant to the job. the employer isn't committing to hire more people with criminal records
Come to Bluesky. It’s not perfect, but neither was twitter 10 year ago. Bluesky feels a bit like that.
I suspect they wanted to be able to say "worked on AI at Facebook" on their resume and this was their way of doing it
People need to practice with bots and are depressed because they are lacking real social interactions. They went too far to digital rabbit-hole. Now is time to log off.
The key idea here is that authenticity has to be relative to a reference. It’s not clear what that reference is for new photos taken today, unless you mean that the experience or photos are more authentic to a previous era.
You skipped:

> They are ceasing development of new ANT+ Profiles

Which kind of ensures a slow death, as new devices potentially would require them.
Researchers build assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human
Downgraded in which way? Slower responses? Bad suggestions by the llm?
Just bought the decket and the book based on your recommendation. It looks neat. I've recently gotten into card games with my kid and it's a lot of fun. I'm hoping these games are half decent as well. Have you played many?

On another note, I've really enjoyed finding one-player games that use a standard 52-card deck as well. There's a ton of interesting games out there.
De Cecco? Nah, that's pretty bad. You want to try Garofalo or Molisana.
Not to be confused with https://github.com/aperezdc/signify which can be used for the other kind of signature. I don't think it is typically used for email, but it probably could be, and I intitially thought that was what this was about.
If you find this interesting, you might enjoy this old interview with the founder of the CLT, a competitor to the SAT that's intended to create incentives for schools to teach a more classical curriculum: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/philosophy-of/educating...