skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This misses that evolution has been pre-training the human cognitive architecture - brain, limbic system, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, coevolved viral and bacterial ecosystems - for millions of years. We're not a tabula rasa training at birth to perfectly fit whatever set of training data we're presented. Far from it. Human learning is more akin to RAG

Yes, but.

The human genome isn't that big (3.1 gigabases), and most of that is shared with other species that aren't anything like as intelligent — it's full of stuff that keeps us physically alive, lets us digest milk as adults, darkens our skin when exposed to too much UV so we don't get cancer, gives us (usually) four limbs with (usually) five digits that have keratin plates on their tips, etc.

That pre-training likely gives us innate knowledge of smiles and laughter, of the value judgment that pain is bad and that friendship is good, and (I suspect from my armchair) enough* of a concept of gender that when we hit puberty we're not all bisexual by default.

Also, there's nothing stopping someone from donating their genome to be used as a pre-training system, if we could decode the genome well enough to map out pre-training like that.

* which may be some proxy for it, e.g. "arousal = ((smell exogenous sex hormone) and (exogenous hormone xor endogenous hormone))", which then gets used to train the rest of our brains for specific interests — evolution is full of hack jobs like that
Can't think of a better word to describe our current times than "Hellocene"...
That’s expensive, I get it for free with GitHub. And a loooot more functionality.
There is a video.
Yes! Highly recommend. It has so much wisdom for such a short book.
I switched to Firefox for privacy reasons, and it took a while to get used to it, but I'm completely enjoying Firefox.

There is some subtle tab / link click behavior that takes a bit to get used to, but after a while it just doesn't bother you any more because you're used to the behavior.
Sorry, that should have been "discourage" or "promote avoiding."
I started using Ansible a few years back to set up VMs (or Raspberry Pis) with a consistent environment. Once I wrapped my head around it, I've found it very nice for any situation where I need to treat systems as livestock rather than pets.
I would probably create a public git repo that has lists of companies performing this practice so that people can avoid interaction if they so desire.
Also, ask customers for a demo to understand how they use the product and what they think is important.
> there's no "use my tool" in this particular post, it's simply an observation

There's a big "Try it!" for their error tracking software in the banner that follows you down the post. I don't think it makes the post "garbage", but it does almost definitely have marketing/SEO intent behind it opposed to being an impartial observation.
They are blessed with oil, geothermal, and wind and, unlike the UK, didn’t piss the North Sea oil money up the wall on frivolous tax cuts.
There is occasional talk of moving the Windows implementation of OpenZFS (https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases) into an officially supported tier, though that will probably come after the MacOS version (https://github.com/openzfsonosx) is officially supported.
ZFS might be better then any other FS on Linux (I don't judge that).

But you must admit that the situation on Linux is quite better then on Windows. Linux has so many FS in main branch. There is a lot of development. BTRFS had a rocky start, but it got better.
Ironic that the first country to ditch ICE cars is also a country whose economy is heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction.

If everyone else switches to EVs, where will Norway get the money for its own EVs?
There are multiple, but indirect indexed (pointer + offset) is only for page zero, but you have two of them, one for X and one for Y (I don't recall the differences anymore).

The 6502 was a really sweet little processor.
> I'm actually fine with trying to be virtuous rather than promoting rapists, corruption, racists and so on.

Stuff like that is exactly what's so dangerous with virtue signaling: It leads to conflating tiny, or possibly non-existent, infractions with serious evil. I'm sure you didn't mean to say people who talk about "cargo cult programming" are corrupt racists and rapists, did you? Or that they promote corruption, racism, and rape?

Maybe you should have tried to find a way to express yourself that didn't make it sound quite so much like that was what you were saying. Or, you know, if this virtue-signaling article didn't exist, this discussion wouldn't exist either, and then you wouldn't have said it.
Yes - interested in this too. Is this for both ARC and L2ARC, or just L2ARC?
My pipedream is to have a containerized desktop environment like this that outputs directly to a physical monitor over HDMI/DP without needing an X server on the host machine. So far I haven't found any clear answers on whether that's possible at all.
Are ultra-processed foods changing the shape of our jaws?
This would require a revolution in the algorithms used to train a neural net: currently LLM training is at best distributed amongst GPUs in racks in the same datacenter, and ideally nearby racks, and that's already a significant engineering challenge, because each step needs to work from the step before, and each step updates all of the weights, so it's hard to parallelise. You can do it a little bit, because you can e.g. do a little bit of training with part of the dataset on one part of the cluster, and another part elsewhere, but this doesn't scale linearly (i.e. you need more compute overall to get the model to converge to something useful), and you still need a lot of bandwidth between your nodes to synchronize the networks frequently.

All of this makes it very poorly suited to a collection of heterogeneous compute connected via the internet, which wants a large chunk of mostly independent tasks which have a high compute cost but relatively low bandwidth requirements.
‹Luke› “Amazing, every word of what you just said is wrong.”

First, the general stupidity: I didn't assert a single thing you claimed I did.

However, there's a reason stimulant medications are monitored by a doctor: escalating dosages due to normal tolerance needs to be distinguished from escalating dosages due to use and abuse of the medication for (initially) spurts of productivity and (eventually) avoiding the need to sleep. I can assure you that you can stay up 4 days on Vyvanse™ (i.e., fancy amphetamine) just as easily as you can on methamphetamine; the difference is the doctor and pharmacist keeping you to a sane dose, even if everyone involved is winking and nudging about whether you actually have adhd.

Imagine if addicts got a limited amount of their fix for pennies with very basic oversight, instead of screwing around with random chemicals that seem to make life bearable for a short period, but which quickly result in escalating dosages, health impacts and antisocial and criminal behaviour ultimately resulting in homelessness and incarceration with all of the social and economic costs involved in that.
> Likewise, in my analogy

I find the limitations of your analogy artifical and thus irrelevant. Other people thinking about the trade-offs aren't bound by whether you decide that in the whole supply chain only the manufacturer's limits should be considered. So while you're free to arbitrarily limit your thinking, that won't help you answer questions like "Why do computers get this special treatment of vendor lockdown, but not any other product?"

> reason is increased profit rather than increased security.

That's fine, but we shouldn't rely on vendor motivation anyway, so the validity of your assessment doesn't help us decide when the increased security is worth it

> You're missing the entire point here

You've cut your quote off to make it seem so. I've explicitly mentioned the perception in the very next sentence

> but there aren't nearly as many people who defend the warranty practices you just mentioned.

That would depend entirely on the specific tech involved and other factors. Are you sure people defending software vendor lockdowns would not defend some limits for parts for nuclear plants? For guns?
Also why did you skip the "for some parts there is actually not even an alternative" practice?
Would fewer people defend the right of a manufacturer to also manufature parts for sale (forcing some kind of divestment so that the "vendor" doesn't get an extra "fee" from the parts business)?
They have the best managed sovereing wealth fund - it exists only to hedge against their oil reserves.
Give me the hydro power of Norway and I will make any country all-electric. Even if CO2 was great for our planet, it would make sense for Norway to go all-electric and export the oil. Let's just face it, they are lucky (and smart). Good for them, but people must stop putting pressure on others with this "ooh, why don't you do it like Norway?".
Firefox can be configured to use Kerberos for authentication (search for "Configuring Firefox to use Kerberos for SSO"); on Windows, Chrome is supposed to do so too by adding the domain as an intranet zone.
Use PEX instead of copper.

You seem unwilling to say what you actually want to say. I'm more than happy to dance around it if you are.
All your points are examples of luck compounded over time.

Let's take your example of not being born in a hut in Tanzania. That bit of luck is called the birth lottery and has a major influence on one's life. It defines the resources you have growing up, including school systems, community, and medical care. Then, it extends into networks known by your parents, influencing where you get into college/university and where you start working.

We can't control events to guarantee the right outcome. The best we can do is load the metaphorical dice. For example, you increase your chances of finding a life partner through good hygiene, mental health, social skills, etc.

My meeting with my current partner is one of those luck stories. If I hadn't gone to that dating meetup, if I hadn't gotten the card for "German dungeon porn" in a Cards Against Humanity game, if there wasn't performative shock by all the pearl clutchers at the table, I probably wouldn't have said, “It's hard to be shocked by much after you discover your father is a cross-dresser.”

That one statement taught my partner a lot about me (filtering skills, lack of pretense, humor, and confidence) and made me desirable in her eyes, setting another luck chain in motion.

In my opinion, it was 80% luck and 20% skill.

I'm not sure you can take pride in many things that have happened to you or outcomes you think you achieved because they are most likely luck. Whenever I discuss life and luck, I'm reminded of two phrases that sum it up beautifully: “There but for the grace of God go I.” and “If you want to make the gods laugh, tell them your plans.”
> Why not FreeBSD 14.2 as its already available? Because pkg(8) packages are built against ‘oldest’ FreeBSD version in the current tree – which means FreeBSD 14.1 – and that often breaks kernel related packages such as really important drm-kmod or virtualbox-ose-kmod packages.

FreeBSD still lacks basic LTS functionality and keeping distribution coherent.

May be one day some vendor will create LTS distribution based on FreeBSD with at least 5 years support cycle?
Indeed, that's the point I was making earlier. It's one thing to tell an apocryphal story to illustrate something we already know to be true, and another to base our "truths" on made up stories.
Your first statement proves my point that Israel is in Asia. Unless you believe that Western Asia is not in Asia or that people in Western Asia are not Asians. China and Japan are referred to as the Far East. As I said, the keyword is "East" which references Asia. The "Middle" refers to it being between Europe and the Far East. Hence the Middle East. I thought this was common knowledge.

I don't think there is any need for sarcasm. It's common knowledge that there are 6-7 continents (depending on how you want to count the Americas).
Amazon races to transplant Alexa's 'brain' with generative AI
One of these:

> ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace
Sweden is a nearly cashless society – how it affects people who are left out
Don't forget hydro, I think it's 40+% of production in Norway.
Can somebody fact check the LA firefighters running out of water despite being next to an ocean? I already know their trucks can pump sea water just fine.
Man, Langar is always awesome. They are not shy on serving size and the food is almost always legit amazing. Dont' miss out on the halwa!

One of the mind blowing things about this is the sheer amount of people some of the Gurdwaras end up feeding (1000s) and how non-trivial the whole process is from kitchen to serving. All volunteers generally.
A bus ride in a congestion pricing scheme will almost certainly be faster than a car ride in a congestion-pricing-free scheme. The point you're missing is that congestion pricing massively reduces traffic.
> That was a big surprise to Christofer Brothers, who studies dragonflies and damselflies at UC Davis. “Before this talk, I was under the impression they avoided contact with the water outside of females laying their eggs.”

Not to throw any shade, but this sounds... weird? I mean, missing that they do something you can only see with a high speed camera? OK. But missing that they dip into the water? Would you not at least have watched them for a couple hours if you are "studying" them? At a university?

Oh, I study data structures but I've never measured the access time of a HashMap. Am I being too harsh?
You're asking it as a moral question, when I honestly care about the end result. And the end result seems to be going in the same direction as movies, as the range gets narrower in terms of what's produced, and everything is a sequel, remix, reshuffle of previous work. There are exceptions, but their percentage is far lower than in previous decades.
Find time to exercise. Kick caffeine easy to say, harder to do but totally worth it.
Top tech stacks powering popular open-source projects
Well, they can afford it...

I wonder how long it will take though for oil demand to go down significantly.

Most countries don't have access to as much cheap and clean electricity, so it makes less sense both economically and ecologically for them.
And there's the rub. You feel like your hard work is dismissed. To be honest, that's a framing problem. I think you misunderstand what people are saying.

Take me as an example: I'm in a very enviable and privileged position. I worked really hard for it. But if someone were to tell me "you're privileged", I don't get my feelings hurt.

I recognize that 1) someone else working 10 times as hard as me still would be extremely unlikely to get where I'm at if they were from another group. 2) If I were in a disadvantaged group, all the hard work I have put in is unlikely to have been enough. 3) Therefore, the fact I'm sitting here, no matter how hard I worked, is ALSO very much down to luck.

The first time I thought about it in those terms, my ego took a hit. It is an uncomfortable upending of the way I used to see the world and my place in it. But it is nonetheless true. Trust me, I am not trying to dismiss your hard work, but make you see it in its true context.

And after some time thinking about this I have a much greater respect for those that struggle as hard as, or harder than, me because they don't have the privileges I was born with.
HTTPS certificates should already have that public key for you, so it should be trivial.
X-ray flashes from nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously
You're getting downvoted and I don't know why. Norway was only doing fishing before they discovered oil in the North Sea, so all their wealth is based on oil. They still drill and export a significant amount of oil. Yes, the energy they use is green, but they export a lot of CO2. I'm not sure if you send your CO2 to some other place you get to call yourself "green", though.
Yeah, that's just nuts. Let's be very specific: the issue was that Bud Light hired Dylan Mulvaney to do a social media promotion. It's not as if Dylan's face was on beer cans available in stores or anything. And this simple act caused a massive backlash. I would think that this might raise some questions about who exactly the prigs were in this instance.
Nitpick: when the Donner Party got snowed in, they were already back on a well travelled route, their problem was just that taking the supposed "shortcut" (the "Hastings cutoff" - map: https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/donner...) delayed them so much that they weren't able to pass the Sierra Nevada while the weather still allowed it. The reason no one stumbled upon them was that no one was foolish enough to attempt crossing the mountains at that time of the year anymore (and, if they had attempted it, they would have ended up in the same situation as the Donner Party).
No, not on modern Thinkpads.
Thoughts on the Liability of the Product Surface
In terms of electricity production it's more like 88% currently[1], along with a total reservoir capacity of 70% of annual production.

[1]: https://energifaktanorge.no/en/norsk-energiforsyning/kraftpr...
Thx! didn't notice that pluto had this feature (I used it like a Jupyter notebook, shame on me :-) )
But without the forced conversion tactics.

I’ve personally been converted 4 times. All times without my consent to be converted but it was so forceful I learned the 2nd time to just go along with it.

By the 4th I learned to lie.

All I wanted to do was help or just do my own thing.
It's kind of similar. When I was homeless I tried to stay at shelter that had Christian ties. It never worked they always had hours of service and moving from ceremony or room to room which ate time while I needed to look for an apartment. Likewise all of the Christian places would not let me bring my laptop bag without putting it into a large pile of homeless cloths that anyone could take from. It was my only means of earning income and I couldn't allow that so I had to go leave my laptop bag in a storage unit 3 miles away.
Thanks, didn't know about that tool. Will try !
NTFS had compression since mot even sure when.

For other stuff, let that nerdy CorpIT handle your system.
Robinhood to pay $45M SEC settlement over data breach, other violations
And places you can park your car outside your house, unlike the UK.
Berkshire Hathaway operates dirtiest set of coal-fired power plants in the US
Perhaps they're betting that they will run their oil resources dry before world oil demand crashes? In such a scenario it might make sense to use the oil for export income instead of using it themselves?
Unlike just about every other major oil producer (my own home country, the US, included), Norway has strictly followed the rule, "never get high on your own supply." Fuel has long been more heavily taxed than in, say, Germany, which already has relatively high fuel taxes, and only a small percentage of the petroleum revenues received by the government are allowed to be spent directly (something like 4%, if I remember right). The rest has gone into that enormous sovereign wealth fund for the day the party ends.
The future wellbeing of their populace?
> Don't forget hydro, I think it's 40+% of production in Norway.

Hydro is the first row in the table at [1], so it's 84% by capacity (second column) or 87% by typical annual production (third column).

[1] The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate: https://www.nve.no/energi/energisystem/kraftproduksjon/
https://archive.ph/20250114021429/https://www.wsj.com/busine...
wouldn't capturing only env names without values be ideal middle ground?

look we had access to your Aws tokens, we could take over your account but we didn't steal actual token, we just got proof that we could access it
I give you oil, wind (and hydro) but geothermal? There isn't any serious geothermic activity afaik. Certainly nothing like Iceland but even the UK has hot springs (nothing like that in Norway).
More like 95+%
Essentially everything. On average they own 1.5 percent of all listed companies.
> The owners and staff of Lupa pizza in Norwich are so revolted by the Hawaiian that they have reluctantly added the topping to their delivery menu but only with the eye-watering price tag.

Why not just... not offer it on the menu? It'll be easier than having to explain every at every single occasion about it.
It gets immediately marked as hate speech. Due to personal whims of the company's owner, rather than some widely held belief that it is hate speech
You can see here: https://www.nbim.no/en/investments/all-investments/
Why is lithium [not] the drug of choice for bipolar disorder? (2024)
It's not ironic, they can only do that based on the lots and lots of money they got out of fuel extraction.
To debug code that doesn't work, you generally have to fully understand the goal and the code.

To write code that does work, you generally have to fully understand the goal and what code to use.

So unless you just flat-out don't know what code to use (ie. libraries, architecture, approach etc.) it's going to be no faster and probably less satisfying to fix LLM code as it would be to just do it yourself.

Where LLMs do shine in coding (in my limited experience) though is discovery. If you need to write something in a mostly unfamiliar language and ecosystem they can be great for getting off the ground. I'm still not convinced that the mental gear shifting between 'student asking questions' and 'researcher/analyst/coder mode' is worth the slightly more targeted responses vs. just looking up tutorials, but it's more useful scenario.
On zfs there is the ARC (adaptive read cache), on non-zfs systems this "read cache" is called buffer, both reside in memory, so ECC is equally important for both systems.

Rot means changing bits without accessing those bits, and that's ~not possible with zfs, additionally you can enable check-summing IN the ARC (disabled by default), and with that you can say that ECC and "enterprise" quality hardware is even more important for non-ZFS systems.

>Correct data with a faulty checksum will be treated the same as incorrect data with a correct checksum.

There is no such thing as "correct" data, only a block with a correct checksum, if the checksum is not correct, the block is not ok.
> If everyone else switches to EVs, where will Norway get the money for its own EVs?

This question doesn't even make sense. EVs are already cheaper than ICE cars when it comes to Total Cost of Ownership. There are clear signs that we will soon see EVs that are outright cheaper to buy than ICE, and that replacing a battery will be cheaper than replacing an ICE engine.

This whole EV transition isn't something that's costing Norway money. It's an investment which is already paying huge dividends.

Norway is now building the worlds largest undersea tunnel, and they found that due to the high share of EVs in Norway, they could save 30 million dollars on the project due to decreased requirement for active ventilation. There are lots of examples like this.

The number of car fires in Norway is going down, as EVs are ~10-20 times less likely to catch fire. While each EV fire takes a bit more work to put out, it's not 10-20 more work than an ICE.

Norway can already measure significant decreases in air pollution. What impact do you think that has on the public health insurance expenses?

You should also know that Norway's economy is surprisingly diversified for an oil nation. Norway was fairly wealthy before oil, and will still be wealthy after oil. There are still huge natural resources (hydropower, fishing, etc), a fair amount of industry and manufacturing (Hydro, Yara, ..), a decent tech sector. And after all, a lot of the profits from the fossil fuel extraction has been put into one of the worlds largest sovereign wealth funds, which could be used to help bootstrap more industry in the transition away from oil.