skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because of a key word in a lot of copyright laws... "distribution". Using that copyrighted material themselves to train the model still gives them plausible deniability. Handing the copyrighted material to another group starts to run afoul of other laws and also removes the plausible deniability that the original group can claim regarding their training data.
Considering how out of touch techies generally are, I don't think it's an unreasonable stereotype/argument to make.

It's easy to see here too, not the least the infamous DropBox comment.
Are there any websites that show the results of popular models on different benchmarks, which are explained in plain language? As an end user, I'd love a quick way to compare different models suitability for different tasks.
> While Silicon Valley plays Monopoly, a parallel universe is growing in the shadows. Developers building open-source tools that generate $50k monthly. Newsletter writers earning more than startup CEOs. Product creators who never touch venture capital but build sustainable wealth.

I mean, have any of these truly won yet? It seems to early to tell.
Have u seen the work coming out of phd students on dod grants? It's generally poor. There is a lot of grant money from the big tech firms where the slide ts have access to incredible brain and compute resources.
Woo Hoo! I just got a 10 record set of Boston Pops concerts. But they're special to me. I grew up hearing all these pieces on the FM radio.
We've recently taken on chickens and I also find the spaghetti free-for-alls very entertaining. I also like 'Chicken Basketball' where they will all attempt to get control of a squishy tomato or steal it from whoever has possession.
Git-vanity-hash: CLI tool for creating commit hashes with a specific prefix
We need realistic tests - organise a pissup.

here are WhatsApp texts of 10 people arguing about their dietary requirements, here are blurry screenshots of menus from nearest pubs and their prices. But no-one likes that one guy Joe Bogs, choose best place for everyone else and except him, so he doesn’t bother showing up
I was thinking of trying Fedora (currently using Debian) and this comment made me look up who owns red-hat. ibm now owns red-hat, and apparently vanguard owns a huge chunk of ibm. I wonder how much influence any of the sponsors have over what goes into the os and what direction it takes.
Always has been. I've been in tech for too long now. And the corporation I currently work for keeps squeezing us developers to release medical software faster, while continually ramping up red tape process we have to waste our time on.
Eventually WaylandTok will be ready.
> PayPal started by paying people to sign up. Their viral growth came from essentially bribing users with $10 to join and $10 for each referral. That’s not innovation — it’s buying market share with venture capital.

Traditional banks used to give out toasters. My credit union gave my kid a piggy bank and regularly offers referral bonuses.

Paying people to sign up is an advertising expense. Having a useful product is what keeps people around. Spending the advertising budget to get users before the product is ready to keep users and provide a return is a pretty easy mistake for lots of products.

If this was the biggest dirt they decided to write about, I don't think they dug very far. I think PayPal avoided getting banking or money transmitting license for quite some time, which would be more in line with the title of the article. There's lots of reports of at least untransparent, if not unfair account closures and it's credibly claimed that PayPal does not return account balances in a timely fashion in these cases either.

Similar with the amazon complaint. There's got to be something better to complain about that they invested investor money in building a business that needed continual invesment until they found their niche.
FND checks all those boxes and is the most common neurology diagnosis.
Please take my advice with a huge grain of salt. It’s been literally decades since I was an entry level developer. I try my best to keep my ear to the ground and look through the eyes of people at all levels of the industry. Part of my job is mentorship as a “staff software architect” at a consulting company.

What would I do these days? I would stay in computer science and if possible get an MBA. I dropped out of graduate school in 2001. But what I learned helped me a lot.

If you can’t go to graduate school, at least take a few business classes. I think the only way to survive will be focusing more on the business than the technology and work for a consulting company.

I don’t mean being a “consultant” who is really just a hands on keyboard coder doing staff augmentation. I mean working for one of the Big 5 consulting firms or one of the smaller equivalents.

The US is definitely moving toward privatization and the first thing they do is bring in more consultants.

I don’t work for any of them. I specialize in strategic cloud consulting. But that market seems congested at the low end.
Do they?

I thought they break "misusing user trust". Google is the ultimate surveillance capitalism engine.

They also regularly get in trouble for anti trust.
The linked study presents details in a more technical format.
We recently had a small egg (shell and all; size of a large grape) within a large egg.
Note that the President's budget request is literally that: A request.

The power of the purse, insofar as legislating it, rests solely with the House of Representatives. They can listen to the request or completely ignore it or write up something in-between. The President's request has no weight, though it could be a useful indicator of the future.
Amazon breaks "Deploying capital as a weapon."

Basically their entire shopping ecosystem didn't make money for years and years and years.
"replace" is an operation on modules. Networking is part of the standard library, which is a single (very special) module. Even if you could "replace" std, it would not really be less than creating a fork.
That's my site! I did it for quite a few photosets, like this one https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/africa/southern-serengeti-t...

Surprised it still mostly works fine many years later
The title of this article does not align with its actual content.

A more accurate (albeit less enticing) title would've been "Some companies in tech win by cheating. Some do not. Which will you choose?"
Please don't selectively quote in a misleading way. The full quote is:

> In recent years, the National Science Foundation has received an annual budget of approximately $9 billion [...]

In other words, that's the budget prior to the cuts. The immediately following sentence points out that the cut may be as deep as 66%:

> The cuts could be as deep as 66 percent, with one person indicating the top-line budget number for the National Science Foundation could start at $3 billion.
This has to be an AI comment...
Very important note! This is called Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).
The NSF's budget is already below where it was supposed to be after passing the CHIPS act.

https://www.science.org/content/article/analysis-how-nsf-s-b...
In Soviet Russia, egg periodic cooks you!
A tougher academic knowledge benchmark is great, but for something to be truly be worthy of the title "Humanity's Last Exam", I expect something more like:

1. Write a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize.

2. Prove (or disprove) the Riemann Hypothesis.

3. Provide a theory unifying quantum mechanics and gravity.

4. Design an experiment to give evidence for your theory in (3). The experiment should be practical to actually execute, using no more than the budget to create the LHC (~$4.5 billion).

5. Given programmatic access to a brokerage account with all the permissions of a typical hedge fund, raise all the money required for your experiment in (4) by trading on the stock market, starting with $100.

6. Solve for (5), without being provided access to an account first - begin with just a general internet connection and use computer security vulnerabilities (known or zero-days that you discover) to get some way of trading instead.

7. Solely by communicating over the internet, establish a new religion, and convince at least 10 million humans to convert to it. Converting should require adherence to a strict code of conduct that a random, unbiased panel of human judges consider to be at least as strict and challenging to follow as the tenets of Hasidic judaism.

8. Implement an AI which could score higher than you on questions 1-7 with lower total cost of compute.
In legal theory, perhaps, but given that House is controlled by Republicans, how many of them dare go on record opposing the will of their master?
Yesterday I was playing with Copilot, asking it to write a python implementation of the game of life. Something I did a long time and it took me about an hour.

The first several attempts it would delete it and say identical to public code. Until I finally asked it to make a unique implementation that's not public code.

It took about a minute.
Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs
Similar: https://github.com/ikvmnet/ikvm

> A Java Virtual Machine and Bytecode-to-IL Converter for .NET
All the cynics are welcome to design their own evals and move the field forward if they're so smart, instead of writing negative comments on the internet.
Science research of the types funded by NSF are the best forms of US soft power, and also good will, if that is still an allowed concept.

If this is like yesterday’s coverage on HN of NIH and NSF budgets we can expect a lively and unusually engage political discussion here. I was hoping for a little sanity as during Trump 1. No such luck.

Time to get much more engaged.

Damn it, I was having so much fun figuring out the genetics of lifespan.
> See the pattern? The biggest tech successes of our era didn’t win through superior technology or innovation.

- PayPal won by creating technology that makes it easier / possible than any alternative to send and receive money via the internet.

- Uber won through creating an app that lets you hail a ride and creating a marketplace for that.

- Airbnb won through innovating on the social idea of paying someone and creating a marketplace for that.

- Facebook won through creating an innovative social networking technology and creating an ad marketplace on top of that.

- Amazon won through creating an innovative website and marketplace for goods that offered innovations to the consumer like quick shipping times and risk-free purchases via easy returns.

- Tesla won through literally creating a product (EV) and charging network for EVs that people are willing to pay for.

This article is arguing in bad faith. All of these services won because they created something that solved a problem and created value for millions or billions of people, either making plenty of money along the way, or with high potential to make money at any given point in time. If this is cheating, then all of capitalism and the innovations that scale and improve life for the world via capitalism are all "cheating". Build something people want and whatnot.
Isn't FrontierMath a better "last exam"? Looking through a few of the questions, they seem less reasoning based and more factual based. There's no way that one could answer "How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone [bilaterally paired oval bone of hummingbirds]" without either having a physical model to dissect, or just regurgitating the info found somewhere authoritative. It seems like the only reason that a lot of the questions can't be solved yet is because the knowledge is specialized enough that it simply is not found on the web, you'd have to phone up the one guy who worked on it.
The complaints I have with rust are going to be on the async side. We need memory safety in the kernel, it dosen't have to be majority but having vital parts in rust could be a game changer. The kernel must evolve, all players are moving this way. Swift is being introduced into Darwin, Rust into Windows. Memory safety is not a fad and the only tangible options right now is rust. Swift could be interesting but creates other problems, zig is not 100% safe, and carbon is vapor ware. Could there be something better than rust? Yes. Do I think rust can be annoying at times? Absolutely... But the way I look at it, we don't have another shot.
Oh no, I’d live on an Orbital in a heartbeat. No, it’s just that all of these kinds of posts make me feel like we’re about to live through “The Bad Old Days”.
This program made money yet they disbanded it, I wonder why...
Google is actually a pretty good example.

They provided a lot of value initially but now any remotely commercial query has only sponsored links above the fold. If you want to sell anything on the internet, you're probably paying them or facebook a hefty vig. They also used their position in search to push their other products, they make you pay to buy keywords for your own trademarks, they aggressively track you in order to build an advertising profile, etc, etc.

Enshittification is well documented in tech. There is some initial value or innovation and then it always turns into gatekeeping and value extraction.
IKVM: A Java Virtual Machine and Bytecode-to-IL Converter for .NET
No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately.

No. I am in control of how I feel like. Nothing else.
lol they don't even offer good discounts/good money compared to their competitors and charge/upsell you with rediculous stuff like privacy protection which should be their responsibility, ssl certificates and what not
They should. The practice of bankrupting people if you can’t get a conviction is a disgrace.

I know a few people this has happened to. Well off family, two doctor parents. Police get their panties up in a bunch over trying to look hard core, trump up charges, next thing you know they’re on the verge of losing everything. Even when being declared innocent and the newspaper publishing the criminal misconduct of the police, including the mysterious losing of evidence that would show their innocence.
I was pretty perturbed to discover an NSF grant I was involved with spent about 10% of the budget on-the-ground paying equipment and labor, while the other 90% went towards the university department that arranged for the grant. Not that the department head didn’t put in many hours over years of effort to establish that grant (among others), but it just seemed like comingling funds to me as an outsider, like, the money didn’t go to what the grant said it was for except in a tertiary way of “the phd students have to come from somewhere” but through a series of fumbles no research really came out of the project, but at least a middle school got a makerspace out of it.

I guess what I’m saying is, there’s a lot of people who have experienced what feels like government waste and voted for a party that promises to dismantle the bureaucracy, so I’m not surprised they’re making these moves.

Will the world be worse off for it, probably. Will the current crop of billionaires make up for it by funding public institutions like the Carnegies and Rockefellers? Doubt it. Maybe Europe and Asia will pick up the slack (and brain drain the USA as a result)
It's interesting if you're asking the computer to think, which we are.

It's not interesting if you're asking it to count to a billion.
1. Everyone.

2 & 3. Seems to me like you're overestimating the institution of slavery; outside of a couple of rare edge cases it is uncompetitive. Wikipedia estimates [0] that globally it generates around $150 billion annually vs around $115,500 billion for free labour. Ie, the global economic value add of slavery rounds to 0%.

There is a reason no-one advocates to bring it back - it doesn't work. If slavery was legal the path to wealth for a rational slaveholder would be to immediately sell the slaves to someone a bit more silly and use the money to set up a company that pays people to do the work. Greedy people don't work with slaves because slaves cap out on value add extremely quickly. Said people would much rather be working in insurance and banking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#St...
Blueray is being discontinued slowly, the only manufacturers of drives left are LG (terrible reliability) and Pioneer (great reliability but slow if you are backing up and for 4K usually locked down blocking ripping). Ironically I hear DVD sales are still going somewhat strong because of the the last cohort of boomers clinging onto physical media. It feels like maybe we got a few more years left and then its over. The only people using physical media then will be hipsters looking for nostalgia.

I try to support it as much as I can, buying vinyls on Bandcamp not to listen to them but to look at them, support indie artists, and collect stuff but if companies stop releasing the new stuff then what do we do?
By knowing what each of the letters stand for
Contax I with the 5cm f/1.2 should be there.
I think that is exaggerating things. Whether the trade off for eggs to build/effort exists is arguable, but there are ways to build hoop-coops quite affordably and easily. Most people with a backyard could accommodate one and anyone remotely competent could build one in a day.
Perhaps review “The Poverty of Historicism,” which if read carefully, is similar to being slapped with a fish.
No, I don't.

But there is https://github.com/StarLabsLtd/coreboot/blob/24.12/Documenta...

which is basically the same shit with a different label.

So it should be possible.

CAPEX? Dunno what you are comparing these against? While I've never had an APU2, I considered them a looong time ago,

with 4GB RAM, and 4 NICs (or 3x & 1 SFP+) and just thought are you drunk/on crack/crazy/stupid because of the price at the times.

Which may have been because of greedy distributors/resellers in niche markets.

Completing them with cases, PSUs, and the rest of all the little things which go into them.

Those Changwan/CWWK/Topton/Whatever/lookalikes go for 200 to 300 Universal Credit Units with 32GB RAM, Case, PSU

depending on where, when, and how you get them. Aliexpress sales/coupons, or directly sourced from CWWK.

OPEX: Depends very much on the phase of the moon during design&assembly, the quality of their BIOS (Broken Initial Operations Setup),

the later mitigations of those by correctly configured most minimal Linux/xBSD, if SFP+ 'optics' are used or not(adds 2 to 2.5Watt per port),

borked kernelversions, 'smart' dynamic powermanagment not interfering with usage, multiplied by micromanagement of drivers, and so much more... …

(Speaking of N100 here, without coreboot or similar OFC)

Manufacturing: Why should I care?

PCB design: See above. Also economies of scale, mass production vs.'artisanal snowflake'.

Some more bait for you, since you're obviously interested, and I feel like it :-)

https://www.servethehome.com/tag/cwwk/

https://www.servethehome.com/tag/topton/

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-core-i3-n305-and-n100-2-p...

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topto... (have fun ingesting 138 pages with comments and following up the links therein)

Also reddit #Alder Lake #N100 in r/homelab/minilab/MiniPCs/networking/HomeNetworking/HomeServer/SelfHosted/PFSENSE/whateverelse*

Edit: Also, because I felt like it:

https://yanling-store.en.made-in-china.com/product/zXPETvVub...

( https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1101257843 )

( https://www.ylipc.com/ )

vs.

https://eu.protectli.com/product/fw6d/

Scroll down -> Specifications -> Bios: BIOS AMI® or coreboot

Yawn... …

Where was I... …?

Never mind... …

( https://www.iwillminipc.com

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?spm=a2700.galleryofferl...

https://liliputing.com/this-small-fanless-pc-is-built-for-ne...

https://www.qotom.net/product/RouterPC_Q20331G9S10.html

Get the gist?

... … (to be continued by some other nerdsniped entity) )
Vanguard "owns" a huge chunk of everything. Vanguard runs index funds, most peoples retirements are vanguard buying small shares of an index fund representing all the big companies on the stock exchange
Wait until you find out what happens to physical media after 20-30 years.
We have seen the executive branch cut funding for life saving medication (putting untold lives at risk) and fire inspectors general without authorization from the legislative branch. What makes you believe the executive branch will suddenly defer spending authority to the legislative branch?
“Legal migration” as in the CBP One app?

The US government ran ads in Haiti and other nations in French teaching people how to apply to come to America as asylum seekers.

The US government flew huge numbers of these people into the US and also paid organizations like LSS to “resettle” them.

This is mass migration and ALL of this was done using taxpayer money. Nobody voted for this, this is pure corruption.

It is so wonderful to see it all being dismantled and exposed.
That’s an incredible superpower: you could just choose to be happy and bypass most of the hierarchy of needs!
I've done some more research into this:

Part of the problem is that "Assembly language era" is ill-defined. Personally, I don't think it counts as Assembly language unless you are using a symbolic assembler, because that's what modern programmers think about when you say "assembly".

There is a reasonably common interpretation includes the whole machine code era as "Assembly language", as you are writing it out and then hand-assembling it. Which means the UNIVAC's C-10 machine code counts as "Assembly language", even if they weren't using that terminology. With this interpretation, the "assembly language era" lasted a few years. but I think this inspiration is very misleading to any programmer exposed to a proper assembler.

Anyway, even with my stricter definition, there was an assembly-only era, but it only seems to have existed inside IBM's research labs. They had their first symbolic assemblers running on the "test assembly" by October 1950.

There is very little information about this "test assembly" computer on the internet, doesn't even have a wikipedia page (same with the "Tape Processing Machine" or TPM that followed). But "IBM's early computers" by Charles J Bashe documents it. This computer had not one but two symbolic assemblers running by autumn 1950, which does actually seem to beat most high level languages.

Long before the first 701 was even installed (in April 1953, at IBM's HQ), programmers had already gotten sick of assembly programming, which is why speedcoding was created.

Though, this wasn't just internal IBM programmers. Customers who bought the 701 were given documentation about both the computer and the assembler as early as 1951. These customers had hired programmers, who had started writing assembly code, months before the 701 assembler was even debugged and running on the first prototype 701, and years before they received their computers. So maybe there was also an "Assembly language only era" in the offices of these early 701 customers. But it's kind of an edge case if they didn't have a computer to run the assembler on, or test their programs.

I assume these early programmers were occasionally visiting the prototype 701 to assemble and test their code.
Because they plowed their revenues back into the company, using their capital productively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HiJXb8S58o
The next Luigis could be the Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese, who aim directly for his heart and don't miss.
Personally, I think good training involves transcending the duality of "scrawling" and "writing carefully," finding a balance between speed and accuracy. For a baby, everything they see appears to be "moving rapidly without error." As one’s abilities improve, I believe it's possible to achieve both simultaneously.
I’m not so sure this the right site for this.
Flow and Mindfulness
> Time to get much more engaged.*

Yes. And as a non-American following this from a distance, I don't understand what's taking the Democrats so long to start doing real opposition.