skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, home / hobbyist LLM users are not overly excited about this, but

a) they are never going to be happy,

b) it's actually a significant step up given the bulk are dual-card users anyway, so this bumps them from (at the high end of the consumer segment) 48GB to 64GB of VRAM, which _is_ pretty significant given the prevalence of larger models / quants in that space, and

c) vendors really don't care terribly much about the home / hobbyist LLM market, no matter how much people in that market wish otherwise.
Obituaries were published in newspapers. The news spread to local strangers, not just friends of friends of the deceased.
assuming you have full control over which compiler youre using for each step ;)

What's to say LLMs will not have a "compiler" interface in the future that will reign in their variance
Maybe from a legal standpoint, but from a practical standpoint, any website who cares to identify you can do so with good probability if they're willing to buy the appropriate databases. Perhaps in some imaginary idealized version of the internet you can just browse sites without it going on your permanent record, but this hasn't been true for a number of years.
Nobody is expecting you to support them, they are a corporation and do not need your support.
(2023) Small discussion at the time (64 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413615
Get your daily carbs under 50 and you will change remarkably. Get under 20 and you'll think you're re-born.
The UK already has sovereign compute capacity. Just it's excessively expensive, mostly legacy and expensive to run and maintain. Crown hosting initiative 5 - 10 years ago was an attempt to solve some of that but not heard much positive about it.

Recently one of the more successful UK hosting partners went bust as it's really not possible to compete against the offerings of AWS etc for a lot (most) government uses. There are obvious exceptions where cost Vs functionality Vs security trade-offs kick-in and security wins.
> Unfortunately it feels like we are heading to

> "I know this, so everyone should change their behaviour"

Depending on which avenues of the web you were on more than 10 years ago, even if that was some of the side streets on Tumblr or Twitter or whatever, we long ago already reached that point. It’s just gotten progressively more mainstream with each passing year, but the backlash was always going to come, and we’re living it.
I agree with you but I think we are kind of the oddballs at this point.

It does seem quite normal now to keep up with people you haven't seen in 10 years in person and will never see again. Maybe even people you would go out of your way to make sure you don't see in person but you can give them a thumbs up when they post a picture of their lunch.

I have no idea why anyone does this but it would be hard for me to say that not having any social media like us is "normal".
Their Webnotebooks are choice.
This is fun, and holds true in the creative writing group I run. We use a website I programmed that helps us collaborate on writing branching fiction. We have a mapping utility that creates graphs like in the article, except more animated (d3.js, elkjs).

As different authors can start their own new stories, one thing I often have to deal with is that they want to design their story to have both long path lengths (multiple chapters before an ending), and also high choice count. Those of you who know something about geometric series know that this causes problems. I often have to tell them they can't have everything they want, which causes minor drama. :)

As a result, one of our stories basically shot its "choice budget" in the first few chapters, leading to many linear paths in the latter parts of the narratives, which is fun in its own way.

Another of our stories has just started playing with the "gauntlet pattern" as the article describes. For this one, we decided that all chapters must be in the "same universe", just following different characters' perspectives, and are planning for certain "anchor chapters" where all characters come together for a meeting. Probably the detective questioning them as a group (it's a murder mystery).

All of our stories are supposed to be literary, so usually in third person, sometimes first, never the second-person. So we don't tend to use choices and chapters as directions and rooms; it's all about how the plot moves. We also don't track state; they're designed to be able to be printed as books people can page through.

Overall a super-fun project for me and a handful of other writers, it's been a consistent way to spend a few hours of fun each week.
Your games rule :)
No, it’s a forum. Everyone sees the exact same website (except for user-setting tweaks). There is no concept of “friends” or “followers”. The wensite intentionally looks boring so that the design doesn’t lure you too stick around too long.
Boeing production in 2024 expected to be less than half of rival Airbus
> In July 2024, Donald Trump ally and Project 2025 contributor Russell Vought sat down

The article lost all credibility by that one statement.
> The problem seems to be languages with a small, well written specification.

that’s why I’m making my language as big and poorly specified as possible:

https://hyperscript.org
Something I've been wondering for a while is if BitTorrent or other P2P protocols are ever a consideration for pushing game updates? Naively, it seems like an ideal fit since a large swarm of leechers quickly turns into a large swarm of (partial) seeders mostly chattering amongst themselves. I recall Facebook and Twitter used to internally torrent their updates in the 2010s and BT scales just fine to thousands of peers and tens of GB files at least, but I think I've only ever played one game whose updater was a torrent client so I'm guessing it's a nonstarter for one reason or another. Are game publishers just allergic to it due to the piracy association? Are end-user upload speeds too slow to meaningfully make a difference? Are swarms of ~100k just too large to manage?

Edit: Silly me for posting while sleep deprived. It's not the update itself that you're saying is causing thundering herd issues, but the log-ins all being synced up afterwards much like in TFA, duh. My curiosity wrt the apparent lack of P2P game updaters still stands though.
Sure, events/posts like that are the main upside to social media.

Unfortunately, that makes up a tiny fraction of most feeds.
> there is no way you would be censored (banned) for calling a woman a woman or a man a man. Now, speaking biological and factual truths can get you censored

You can claim this and reach to the transphobic dog whistle but these "biological truths" aren't actually true and the only world in which they are is a grossly oversimplified version of reality that ignores all of the messy complexity of how biology actually works.

This isn't a matter of "truths being insulting or discriminating". It's a matter of stopping people from using their complete misunderstanding of biology as an excuse to try and harass, other, or discriminate against groups out of prejudice.
Let us just say that not all friendships, even the ones that start out strong, end up having the same depth to them because of the loss of shared context (e.g. moving out of the same city for jobs, new responsibilities caused by marriage etc.)

In such cases, there's still some reason for the two people involved to at least have a general idea of what's going on in other people's lives, and even reach out should there be something significant, such as a birth of a child or a loss in their families, etc. Without the broadcast aspect, once communication has ceased for some amount of time, it is very difficult to restart it, at any level.

As an introvert, I still find broadcasts weird, because there's that tingling notion that people wouldn't care anyway; and was one of the reasons I ceased to be on social media many years ago. However, I understand why some people choose to do things differently.

(There are similar anecdotes throughout this thread, I'd encourage you to read it for perspectives on this matter.)
I believe that this game is an artistic masterpiece.

On the first playthrough when I woke up with amnesia, I simply played a cop with amnesia in all of my responses. It was goofy, I annoyed Kim for fun, I beat the game, etc.

On the second playthrough, I chose all of the dialogue options that honestly explained how the character became an alcoholic. It changed the vibe of the whole game to somber, and I was fascinated that the relationship with Kim felt different. It also felt natural to explore all of the lore and sidequests of the game involving the pale in this mood.

And then I went on a completionist binge and found some great social commentary in the "high-net-worth individual" sections.
I think it is strongly indicative that your underlying bias so colored your reading of the article that you made a very basic factual error. I would encourage you to read it again with a more open mind.
> this nostalgia is preventing us from focusing on finding solutions

We're gatekeeping nostalgia now. How sad and pathetic.
"Technically, but nothing miles away caught on fire. The ignition zone is likely only a few hundred yards even in intense Santa Ana winds."

Not true. Here in Riverside we were watching large still-lit embers floating in (some which caused a repeat fire in the riverbottoms north of the 60, first called Brown then called Holly.) The primary stopping zone currently is around Pomona but another hard uptick in wind and it can easily cover out to the badlands.

These winds are absolutely insane, you just do not understand. When they were peaking on Wednesday morning, my Subaru was being blown almost out of lane while driving down the 91 to work.
This is both engineering and art. Magnificent.
If it's a passage, I usually input it manually, which can be a pain.

But it's more common for me to just ask general questions. For example, when confused about a term, I asked "In Thoughts on the Funding System and Its Effects from 1824, what did Piercy Ravenstone mean by a sinking funding system?"

Sometimes, it needs a lot more context to output anything that makes sense.
New Glenn Mission NG-1
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> That particular symptom is called cataplexy, and it's my chief narcoleptic symptom. You lose control of your muscles, either in part of your body or in all of it, and then you can't move for a while. Your mouth and face require muscles to move, so if they're undergoing cataplexy you won't be able to use those either

What if he fell facedown on something like a blanket and couldn’t breathe??
Its been 6 months without social media. I didn't missed any news or update that really matters to me.
Related:

Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677608
Yeah the guards go home for the evening and then you can probably walk in after dark. You'd have to walk a really long distance in some of them though, because the vehicle gates are usually a very long walk from the scenery, and that's at high altitude.
They don't need to be. Web forums and mailing list are useful when you want to form a larger community with a central idea or project. A chat group is mostly an online hangout place, kinda an equivalent of a favorite bar or a reading club.

What I don't like is when people wants to use a chat group where a forum would have been more useful.
Absolutely. And AI will continue to get lots of investment, too.
I haven't seen many CS curricula start bottom-up with things like digital logic, yet the best programmers I've worked with all started around there and then went upwards --- many of them were self-taught, and although I realise that introduces some selection bias, I have also worked with others who were self-taught but started with some HLL instead, but they didn't have quite the same performance.
Now back with AI and a new name.
Surely a repo dedicated to bash would know not to use $@ without its quotes :-( https://github.com/bash-my-aws/bash-my-aws/blob/e5cdae316084...

Have they not heard of shellcheck?
In my experience y’all works as a perfect alternative to “you guys”, even as a non-Southerner myself. After my initial discomfort using it it became quite natural.
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Sure, I follow. FWIW, every time I've seen this discussed in a corporate context there was always a suggested alternative, and it was always "folks".
'n' -> [chrome or firefox autocomplete] -> news.ycombinator.com
I have often been thinking about what this reflex does to my mind.
Perhaps a canary deployment per region might help in such situations? Prime the CDN assets with a smaller set of users.
How is that gatekeeping? Isn't it an observation?
I dont really get the defamation angle. It seems like the practices where still very strange and performative. They seem to argue that it was more frequently about radios and boats than airplanes. Is that that more offensive or hurtful?

I think the core of the metaphor is still there, that a practice can pass into lore and performance, severed from their logic and context.
I think it's interesting they argue for the people moving, and bringing goods back over trade. I would have said there's a case for trade. Objects move around, acrue value by distance from source. Obviously, people are valuable too and I guess "I can't pay you but the loot is rich" might apply too.
This is just the etymological fallacy. Etymology is interesting in learning where words came from and what their sources originally meant, but it doesn't define what words currently mean.

You can "decimate" something without actually killing 1/10th of the people involved, and you can call some people "yo vo" without meaning they are cunning dogs.
Personally, aside from whether I was persuaded to abandon the metaphor, I found the history fascinating and informative. I actually remember being taught the apparently incorrect version of the origin of cargo cults in an anthropology class, so this was useful to me.

HN seems put off by the tone. Perhaps if he had positioned it more like "People who use the term 'cargo cult' are mostly idiots who have no idea what it really means. I went all the way down the rabbit hole to uncover the truth for you dumbasses. Now you too can sneer at your colleague for trying to sound smart and miserably failing."
Is this text AI generated?
How much of appealing countryside is there that is attractive living area for humans?
Not necessarily. By default they will continuously render frames but some are capable of skipping frames when nothing is changing. However this is a manual optimization to perform whereas using a proper UI framework would handle it automatically.
also in the old days, your friend bob would have told cory, "hey, did you hear alice's dad died? we should all go out for drinks". but we live in the bowling alone era, where we're increasingly isolated.

quitting social media is not, on its own, going to fix your social life. and being on social media can make you more connected, or more miserable. the responsibility is yours
I have linked sources in this thread.
Free for 8 years-ish. Yeah. its hard to look people up. Oh im in this town, yeah wonder what happened to xyz, no chance of finding them or shooting them a message. FB connections are so low key and keeping people around makes them easier to find and stay in touch with, IMO.

But there's also lots of upsides. I guess I dont know one way or the other.
I would avoid using this feature! It downloads a compiled portable python binary from some random github project not from PSF. That very same github project recommends against using their binary as the compilation flags is set for portability against performance. See https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
"Bay Area progressive politics" - you mean "don't bias your hiring in favor of male employees"? or do you mean "don't bias your hiring in favor of straight people?"

Maybe we should just go back to the days where we should just not hire black Americans or women into tech? Maybe go back to a time where only a few tech companies actually did that, and those that did then had to literally create there own banks, because even when a tech company did employ someone, and paid them the same amount as a white man, the banks would not let those employees get mortgages? Maybe go back to firing people because they're gay or trans?

Would that make you feel better?
Here is more akin to a forum (or gathering in a physical sense) than a community. I only know a few usernames and that's because I've heard of the person behind each. The only central theme behind all my interactions is finding a post interesting, then reply to a comment once I've got something to say. I'm not interested in any individual, only on the discussion. Social media wants you to care, and care about a lot of things that are mostly irrelevant to your life.
We all saw the debate. If some journalist is willing to lie and delude themselves about Bidens cognitive ability it doesn't change the reality.
I think you're reaching for outrage. I don't see anywhere in this comment's ancestry where anyone said anything resembling that.
You can easily replace FB with Instagram in this context. Nobody I know personally posts very much on Facebook, but they do post their updates on Instagram stories.

Facebook's last hook on me is groups - small town community groups especially. If you live in an area with its own group, there's a high likelihood that it's going to be on Facebook.

I don't really have the time to campaign to non tech-savvy retiring gen Xers and their parents that I don't want to use Facebook to know what's happening in my area, find services, etc.
How so?

* Russell Vought absolutely is an ally of Trump. He served in the first administration, it's been announced he will serve in the second.

* Russell Vought very publicly is a Project 2025 contributor.

* Russell Vought did sit down, multiple times, in July 2024. The specific case intended here has been captured on film.
Not really? The title is a reference to the article's topic of systematically manipulating time standards (which results in the time for the entire company getting slowly sent "into the past") for the purpose of avoiding complexities like leap seconds, etc.
This is not a sour way to put it; extreme levels of information hoarding, cookie licking[1] and building and defending fiefdoms were the norm from what I saw at my time at a FAANG.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091201-00/?p=15...
I am a Qubes user for a couple years now, and I wish I'd switched to it years earlier.

Basically every criticism you hear is about correct-- principally worse graphics performance and battery life. But the performance issues for me were less bad than I expected, and the seamlessness of its usability was much much higher than I expected.

Like copy and paste, moving files between VMs, plugging usb devices into VMs, networking, etc. all pretty much just work. It's pretty impressive if you have any idea of the machinery under the hood needed to make that work.

And now I don't feel anywhere near as nervous that whatever vendor program I need to use to configure a device or browser zero day is going to compromise my system. I can read documents from adverse threat actor sources in a netless VM and feel reasonably confident that it can't phone home or steal my data, etc.

Obviously it doesn't replace real air gap security, but it's the closest thing you can get to a network of airgapped or firewalled per-application computers which you can fit into a laptop bag.

I also like that I can use software that really only works right on fedora/redhat along side software that really only works right on debian. (Or windows, for that matter, but it's not as seamless). I like that I can substantially upgrade my operating system while running--- like I went from fedora40 to 41 just by installing the template, and switching over appvms one at a time. If anything goes wrong it's trivial to roll back, and I can have some app vms that work fine on the new stuff while others are held back if there is a compatibility issue. I like that applications that go nuts and try to use all my memory only screw up the VM that they're in instead of my whole system.

It's so nice that when I want to get something working I can spin up a vm and scribble all over it until I get it working. Binary patch my libc, whatever. Then once I've solved it, I can apply the final clean solution to a persistent template. Any random experimentation just goes away when I close the appvm. Need some program just for a single thing? install it in the appvm rather than the template and it naturally is gone later. I can be intentional about changes being either ephemeral or persistent, and never have to worry that the removal of something temporary was incomplete.

Of course YMMV, -- if you're someone who is mostly doing text and low performance graphics and can run it on a fast computer then its costs will be small. If you'd find a ten year old computer perfectly usable chances are that qubes on a modern computer won't seem slow or poor battery lifed to you. Particularly if you have other computers for games, 3d gfx, full screen video, etc. If you are someone who has been subjected to targeted hacking attempts the increased peace of mind will be substantial.
According to https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture of the habitable land, still half is used for agriculture.
Not that portable since it only works on a single PDF engine.
Re-reading this 2019 article, makes me think that Numenta's / Jeff theory alluded to the latest test-time compute paradigm in LLMs.
> I haven't seen many CS curricula start bottom-up with things like digital logic

That's how we did it in Slovenia (Uni of Ljubljana). You start with discrete math and bool algebra, and you learn how transistors work in physics, then you learn about digital circuits and write some assembly, after that it kinda feels like two parallel branches. One set of professors teaches you the math of it all, the other set teaches you how all that math works in practice.

It's a really good curriculum.

Yes yes you also have programming classes in parallel with the digital logic and the math and the assembly. Gotta make sure folks can get those all important part-time jobs and feel like they're learning something useful. It's common, or at least was back then, for students to have jobs in industry while they are studying CS. I honestly think having a job and getting to apply what you're learning makes it stick more ... even if it leads to abysmal completion rates (average 7.5 years to graduate when I was there).
There's a difference between encouraging good behavior and loudly asserting your moral superiority.
Good, here's hoping it'll fix how YouTrack URLs (e.g. <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/YTDB-A-3/Short-term-...>) take a monster number of seconds to load :-(