skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have dived in the red sea dozens of times over decades. There are many solid dive operations. It's probably at least a notch or two above the rest of (edit: Egyptian) society since it's a bit of a bubble that works mostly with foreigners. Still not up to western standards but also not as bad as you make it sound. It's one of the world's most popular diving destinations and incident rates aren't that high. There are many good instructors but you do have to be more careful.

These days there are a lot of Russians due to the war with Ukraine I imagine some of them have found work in the dive industry. The last time I visited was 2 years ago and there were certainly a lot of Russians but I didn't dive with them.

EDIT: I generally dislike Egypt, everyone smokes, an oppressive government. Third world. I'm not sure I'll go diving there again. But my experience with boat diving has been good, that's the only part of Egypt I like ;) I've had dives in Hawaii that felt less safe with instructors chasing people that bolt to the surface and other near misses and generally questionably run operations. I think the key in these third world countries is to chose specific operators.
As someone who enjoys corresponding with old friends and distant family via email (as opposed to, like, text messages or social media comments), I feel like this trend has ruined my ability to do so. It seems like people - who've given up and let their inboxes become flooded - just don't even look in their inboxes for legitimate, personal correspondence anymore.
ROCm is the stack that people write code against to talk to AMD hardware.

George wrote some incomplete non-perfomant drivers for a consumer grade product. Certainly not an easy task, but it also isn't something that most people would use. George just makes loud noises to get attention, but few in the HPC industry pay any attention to him.
Thank you for sharing about Okene, what a great story.
But at some point if you’re saying hundreds of years of human history are “the wrong road”, isn’t it like saying gravity is the wrong road? Even if true, what does it matter? I don’t believe prescriptive changes to human nature have ever worked.
I love to hypermile my accord hybrid, but when my wife pulls the exact same mileage without doing anything special, it makes me feel so goofy.

I’ll continue to hypermile for fun anyway lol
They're also surprisingly good drawings. I drew nothing like them as a kid.
It is not. The whole point of TPM/SEP is to protect the entire boot chain. Whatever BIOS/UEFI firmware does by asking for a "password" can be bypassed, unless it is also protected by the TPM.

I once forgot the BIOS password for my mid-2010s Thinkpad. You just desolder the flash chip and install a new one. I've even seen someone try dumping it straight from the mobo (sorry can't find TFA now).

The correct solution is to minimise the surface for such bugs to happen.
Kinda hard to do now
This tripped me up:

"I was not a big fan of designing a
mechanical clock unless there was
another option."

So either this should be "... unless there was no other option", or I'm completely misunderstanding.
I don't even think it's the technical barriers per se that makes people distrust domain names as a form of verification. I think the idea of competing sources of truth creates some uncomfortable cognitive dissonance for a large number of people which drives the demand you identified for a central authority.
Reminds me of the old angular template syntax.
Better use CreateDirectoryW instead. Didn't you see that post last week on HN? All the "A" functions are broken and susceptible to attack.
The US President is about to rug pull the country and make billions. What a timeline to live in.
Can someone answer this without an evolutionary presupposition?
Where in the world are you getting the numbers for how much video streaming uses energy? I am quite sure that just as with LLMs, most of the energy goes into the initial encoding of the video, and nowadays any rational service encodes videos to several bitrates to avoid JIT transcoding.

Networking can’t take that much energy, unless perhaps we are talking about purely wireless networking with cell towers?
What if no one misses TikTok?
It was a solid autocorrect typo on my part, mb. But fair callout!
I have the Daylight Computer mentioned in this article.

I like it quite a lot (though the price is still high enough that it’s really an indulgence only justified if you can buy gadgets through an employer or your own company).

The physical design is the opposite of the Apple aesthetic. Instead of metal and glass and vibrant colors, it’s a dull gray rectangle with a soft-touch plastic backside and a sort of paperish texture on the display. In fact it looks and feels like a prop from Apple TV’s “Silo”. It gets a nice lived-in quality after a few months.

The display is sharp and fast and monochrome — a unique combination these days. It reminds me of the original NeXT in that sense, which is great. But the brightness and viewing angles take some getting used to. It’s really good in daylight, as the company’s name suggests. The backlight has an adjustable amber tone which goes with the retro/“Silo” vibe and is also nice in the evening.

It’s good for reading articles and books, but the monochrome display is also a surprisingly effective distraction remover filter for websites and even videos. I generally hate watching YouTube videos, but if that’s the only option to learn something, I’ll rather watch the video on the Daylight Computer.

It comes with a stylus and the display has a nice texture, but I haven’t yet got into note-taking or drawing.
> we humans and nearly all other mammals certainly don't have a singular queen and a sterile caste of workers.

No we have many queens and many sterile workers. Almost all women have children and increasingly more men don't father children. We've outlawed polygamy, but society is trending that way anyway, especially considering online dating statistics. 80% of women are choosing from the top 20% of men.

Men die in war. Look at ukraine. A million men dead, while women dance in clubs. Vietnam, on the American side: 55,000 men dead, 8 women dead. Most women stayed home, like the queen bee. Most of those men were sterile for all intents and purposes.

If we don't introduce artificial measures, the natural tendency is toward fewer women mating with more men and the end result is one to many. There's a British lady trying to mate 1,000 men.

We are more like bees than we like to think.
A new way to meet the right person for you
Browsers need to change how autofill works
How does a co-op exit?
> There are countries other than America

I've heard this myth repeated a few times online, but it sounds like an urban legend to me- and is easily disproven. If other countries exist, why do all of the movies take place in America?

How come I once walked for hours in the same direction and was still in America?
Neat.

Debbie Downer: Looks like it fairly easily could have been made with like 50% less mass.

Perhaps that wouldn't have mattered though.
No, it grows the parts in which settlers live inside the West Bank and increasingly restricts life of the Palestinians there. And I'm pretty sure you know that.

If you want to talk about occupying new land, this has been happening too in the recent months: As of today still in southern Lebanon and "prophylactically" in the eastern Golan heights and on Mount Hermon (not even talking about the previously annexed western Golan heights anymore).

Meanwhile, the settler movement is openly talking about settling Gaza, southern Lebanon and eventually "from the Nile to the Euphrates": https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-21/ty-article-ma...

One could discount them as a bunch of crackpots as they exist in every state, except that those guys have strong representation in the government and several Likud party members and government ministers were visiting their conference. They have power.
Getting to 50 tok/s for a big model requires not just memory, but also memory bandwidth. Currently, 1TB/s of MBW will get a 70B Q4 (~40GB) model to about 20-25 tok/s. The good thing is models continue to get smarter - today's 20-30B models beat out last years 70B models on most tasks and the biggest open models like DeepSeek-v3 might have lots of weights, but actually a relatively reasonable # of activations/pass.

You can test out your half the speed but w/ 64GB or more of memory w/ the latest Macs, AMD Strix Halo, or the upcoming Nvidia Digits, though. I suspect by the middle of the year there will be a bunch of options in the ~$3K range. Personally, I think I'd rather go for 2 x 5090s for 64GB of memory at 1.7TB/s than 96 or 128GB w/ only 250GB/s of MBW.
Merritt Baer's Cyber Resiliency Summit Interview [video]
Italy seeks to curb 'fake' online reviews for hotels and restaurants
> You don't want to upgrade your networking the day after TLS 1.0 is rejected by that server you interact with. That seldom ends well.

Otoh, upgrading your server to support TLS 1.2 also meant upgrading to support HeartBleed.

It depends on your dependencies whether up to date is better than old and seems to work. And also, some dependencies will have breaking changes every release, skipping a few releases may mean skipping ahead on the cycle of churn.

Picking stable and high quality dependencies is nice, but not always an option.
"Not judging, but it’s such mind disgracing activity in my view." Just because you say not judging doesn't mean you are not judging.
What are you asking for, a parable? A metaphor?
Dying worker bees ensure survival of the group without a measurable impact on death of the colony, which when seen as a super organism, means only a part of the organism, leaving the reproducing parts intact, since workers don't mate anyway.
I personally experienced the issue myself
I run pinchflat [0] to automate yt-dlp and file management behind the scenes. Also can integrate with sponsorblock to remove in-video ads.

0 - https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
They're not "meant to be hard", they're just normal texts. The question is literally "can you read this?" because if you can: "Cool! Want to help transcribe it because the constraining factor when it comes to digitizing cursive is literally how many humans we can get to help out".
> Ideally we want a world where we license the artist’s style, and hopefully they can get paid out like streaming music artists in the long term. Along with that, we need laws that let you sue people that copy the style with no license.

Years ago, I just kind of assumed that should be true. I'm not so sure anymore. I don't see any evidence that creativity comes from copyright and patent protection. Germany flowered in the 19th century without them.

For the last 20 years, I've been releasing my work under the Boost license which is the most permissible license out there (public domain is my preference, but it is not recognized in some countries).
Riot Tech Blog: Improving Performance by Streamlining League's Server Selection
> The trade-off for recovery key custody remains a user choice, but you cannot turn on encryption without setting up recovery.

Yeah but just how many cases do you know where people just store the recovery key file on their desktop, lose the printout or whatever... or they only have one iDevice that they use for 2FA so they can't log in to their Apple account...

Any widespread way of encryption must take the most braindead user into account or whoever rolls it out will be inundated by utterly stupid and preventable complaints.
I can not install this stuff on remote servers and docker images. I would like multiple backbends to execute commands and gather informations (local, ssh, docker).

It should be installable locally, and run commands on remote machine via ssh! And via 'docker exec' commands.
I'm a middle aged European and I have no issue reading the cursive handwriting shown there. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of (UK) senior citizens who would be thrilled to help out here. The retirement homes are filled with bored people eager to engage in anything.
> In addition to the tablet (still without price or release date)

That's the thing... I saw a discussion on reddit the other day in which people were asking about TCL NXTPaper products announced at last year's (2024) CES that still weren't available. I'm interested in one of these NXTPaper Tablet 11 Plus devices for an ereader as my Boox Air 3C's color eink display died about 3 months after buying it (now I know they have a reputation for being extremely fragile). But I wonder if it will ever actually be available in the US.
Why? Because the code quality is bad? Or there's just so much code?

I submitted one PR to React like 10 years ago. The maintainers were quite pleasant to work with and it wasn't too hard to figure out what I needed to do.
You are not pushing it at 100. I can classify "Is 20 bottles of ferric chloride' a service or product in probably 2 seconds with a 4090. Something that most people don't realize is you can run multiple inference. So with something like a 4090, some solid few shots, and instead of having it classify one example at a time, you can do 5. We can probably run 100 parallel inference at 5 at a time. For about a rate of 250 a second on a 4090. So in 11 hours I'll be done. I'm going with a 7-8B model too. Some of the 1.5-3B models are great and will even run faster. Take a competent developer who knows python and how to use an OpenAI compatible API, they can put this together in 10-15 minutes, with no data science/scikit learn or other NLP toolchain experience.

So for personal, medium or even large workloads, I think it has killed it. It needs to be extremely large. If you are classifying or segmenting comments on a social media platform were you need to deal with billions a day, then LLM would be a very inefficient approach, but for 90+% of use cases. I think it wins.

I'm assuming you are going to run it locally because everyone is paranoid about their data. It's even cheaper if you use a cloud API.
I thought both would be all caps but it seems that the language uses an initialism rather than an acronym. All my life I’ve been rarely typing out all caps Tcl like I’m one of the folk who use all caps MAC for the line of Apple computers.

TCL Technology Group Corp. (originally an abbreviation for Telephone Communication Limited) is a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong province.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCL_Technology

Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or as an initialism[8]; originally Tool Command Language) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl
> It's easy to think of a CEO deciding that all the communications between their employees should just be fed into an AI that they can query . (Ironically that would be easier to enforce if everyone was remote).

This is already happening, whether the CEOs want it or not - when there's a legal issue requiring discovery, e-discovery software may be used to pull in all digital communications that can be accessed, and feed it all to AI for, among other things, sentiment analysis. Applications of GenAI for legal work, in general, is a hot topic in legal circles now.
I think you are missing a few points. First, is the adversarial nature of mate selection.

A female peacock who falls for a trick will have fewer offspring that survive. The discerning hen will do better. Honest communication works because it is backed up actual fitness. It doesn't require group selection.

Second, I think there is a lot more going on with respect to taxes. Taxes have existed for maybe 10,000 years. An armed man demanding half your stuff or they kill your family is a tax too. Same for a mature lion that eats what another animal killed. I would argue taxes are an inherent result of power imbalances among humans. Differences give rise to power differentials, which give rise to security concessions, which consolidate into kingdoms and nations.
Paul Graham RSS Feed (Open Source Generated)
Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (DPoP): Preventing Illegal Access of APIs
The implication is that your bookmarks would read an RSS feed provided by the website for notifications
The same way you validate it if you didn't use an LLM.
Read this in my early 20s and loved it. Many ideas that have stuck with me. Hoping to reread it with my wife soon, nearly 20 years later, and see how it aged.
Nope.

It happened once and I hope won't happen again. I make myself available out of courtesy and I made a point that I will not be remunerated outside of the long expired knowledge transfer agreement.

Funnily, I got remunerated this one time with a lavish gift card for Neuhaus, but it only proves the point.

Of course the buyer knew the root password, details of the setup and all passwords reset procedures were part of the deal.

And of course they can reset the password when properly guided, people are not dumb even when they are not software engineers.

OTOH, most people are totaly unaware of Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the roles of public and private keys and have limited patience and even less interest in learning new things in a stressful situation.

And yes, people with money and authority have a particular distrust for people with skills and knowledge.
That's not entirely true. For example, being gay is hypothesized to give an evolutionary advantage because you can provide care for your sibling's children, who share their dna with you. Same goes for early menopause. That can extend to small villages where individuals may give up their own resources for a greater survival chance of their kin within the collective.
Weight or brightness?
I don't know of any non-soldered memory Strix Halo devices, but both HP and Asus have announced 128GB SKUs (availability unknown).

For LLM inference, basically everything works w/ ROCm on RDNA3 now (well, Flash Attention is via Triton and doesn't have support for SWA and some other stuff; also I mostly test on Linux, although I did check that the new WSL2 support works). I've tested some older APUs w/ basic benchmarking as well. Notes here for those interested: https://llm-tracker.info/howto/AMD-GPUs
Agree with this. Also luck is a multiplier, not summative.

Success = Hard work * Luck * Recognition of opportunity
Still has the same problem even with type=forking. Only way to get it working was RemainAfterExit=yes
Agreed. I still have a 2008, and it has gotten me through a couple nor'easters. Even with the original Goodyear Integrity tires. One of them was on the rolling hills of I-90 and I-84 through western Massachusetts and Connecticut. On every uphill portion I'd pass people who had gotten stuck, until I finally reached a place to stop for the night and wait out the storm. The front wheel drive seems to make it better than a lot of other cars out there. Put some CrossClimate2 tires on it, and it would be even better.
We have a tool for people who can't deal with the responsibility and freedom of adulthood. They have guardians who make the decisions for them (parents in the case of minors or a guardian assigned to them).

The american education system being abhorrent is a separate issue but adapting society to fit the lowest common denominator isn't a solution.
No, it should not be possible to compute encryption key from the password.
Or, to phrase differently, you derive the key from the password and the data held by the secure element.
>The fact that you can replace programmers with prompts

this is how you end up with 1000s of lines of slop that you have no idea how it functions.
It wasn’t even really a thing for HDD. There was a broad consensus that it was inefficient for such purposes by the 1990s. If you had random access at all, you could do better.

The killer app was tape drives.
Very well written, and I'm sorry to hear you're struggling!

Maybe writing might be a good cathartic way to ease some of the mental pressure? Journaling is a place where you can talk about anything, so to speak.

Hmm, the bit about pain becoming a spectacle is interesting. I have one thing which I don't talk about in that realm. That's something I don't like to talk about because it's a bit to emotional/gruesome, and I don't like the idea of people finding it "interesting". Like I'm using the story as some sort of social collateral.

Anyways, if you do find you have many such things, perhaps it's worthwhile to talk to a therapist, if the finances allow. Coupled with how you've described your childhood, it seems like you have some thoughts bubbling up you want to talk about, but don't have someone to talk about them with.
I recently decided to keep my email filters, because they're still working for me.

On my personal laptop, which folder of mine an incoming email lands in:

* Trash -- All those "new device" emails that sites have started sending every time I log in from the same IP address as always, because I don't preserve their cookies (congrats, you've made security worse), plus Fedex (who won't let me unubscribe from marketing emails). I might look at this every few weeks, briefly.

* Junk -- Detected spam by my email hoster, plus emails from people not in my addressbook (with a few exclusions, such as for certain domains). I have to check this folder every couple days, briefly.

* Lower -- Emails matching large list of rules for senders/subjects I know I don't see soon as they arrive, but will check this folder at least once a day.

* Inbox -- Everything remaining after the rules applied, which is generally emails from people I know, and things I know I want to see promptly, and new unknown stuff from addresses in my addressbook (of 11K entries). This is the only folder that triggers any kind of notification to me, and it's a fairly low-disruption notification.

That's for personal. My work email setups vary by employer/client, but I always get notifications of emails by default from anyone in the company, partners, customers, etc., so I can be responsive. Then slowly add rules to exclude notifications from those of employer/client/partner/customer things that you know don't need prompt attention (like a noisy SaaS announcing every change in a high-traffic repo or wiki).
This is the real killer. Gambling in the CS scene is absolutely rampant, you will only find a handful of CS influencers that do no accept gambling sponsors (As they offer much more than other companies).

I was happy when Belgium banned loot boxes, but it was not nearly enough.
That definition, solved=perfect, is not what sandworm meant and it's an irrelevant definition to this conversation because it's an impossible standard.

Insisting we switch to that definition is just being unproductive and unhelpful. And it's pure semantics because you know what they meant.
I think you actually probably want type=oneshot (and also RemainAfterExit=yes) for the kind of service you're describing
I haven’t had much trouble with the cli, but it is kinda wordy. I made this alias:

alias sc='sudo systemctl'

Now it matches the sc utility introduced in Windows many years back. Then remember the verb goes first.
I agree with the article 100%. There are still emails you can't unsubscribe from and shouldn't report as spam or block, for example your monthly bank statement email. It's sad that you can't turn these off as the bank is required to send them. For these cases I do set a "send to trash" rule. If using iCloud, note that rules you set locally on your Mac only run if the Mac is on. To have them run on the server they need to be set on iCloud Mail online, which gives a very limited way to set rules but just barely good enough for these rare occasions.
True, I wonder how that would not be a factor, surely they always have stuff they could send up to the ISS as a backup. So if they would have made this 500g lighter, they could have sent 500g more food, for example.

I also can't imagine that the resupply flights are volume limited instead of mass.
> because providing tech support for custom OS's (in addition to the wide variety of popular handsets) is more costly.

Ah, it's the same with supporting browsers other than Internet Explorer!