skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually really impressive coverage of the launch system. The photos and videos of the maintenance and upgrades are extremely impressive considering that so many of them are made by a guy who just sits across the street all day.
I do blog mainly to document stuff for my self while I learn new things or figure something out. I often read one of my own blog articles months or years later if I need to reproduce the same thing.

Writing it to my public blog improves my writing skills and sometimes helps others with the same problem which is a great plus.
> being named ’Register’? It is a relatively common newspaper name

Incidentally: The Times (The "Times of London", first with that name form), debuted on 1 January 1785, with the name The Daily Universal Register.

Even "interchangable", you may (rhetorically) say.
I don’t blog, but I do journal regularly. Writing helps me process thoughts. But I can understand that there’s also value in trying to be read. Not for validation, but because the act of making something readable forces you to refine your thinking even further
That page says the lowest waiting times for surgeries are the USA and Switzerland, which has a mostly private healthcare system and private health insurance.

It also claims waiting times for a GP are only ten days on average in the UK which doesn't sound right given the difficulty people have even getting an appointment booked at all lately. I wonder how they compute these numbers.
Wont somebody think of the vodka industry?
I keep seeing such diagram, keep people making and presenting them, and I'm not sure if it's just me or they are generally counterproductive?

Let's the take one from #5 in the article. If someone instead of painting this diagram wrote: "Drupal Load Balancer inside Drupal VPC load-balances traffic between Drupal Instances inside two Availability Zones: AZ1 and AZ2" it's way faster to read, more precise, and leaves me without a doubt that I misunderstood or missed some detail.

It's even worse on more complex and busy diagrams. Takes me a while to just visually parse everything, figure out relations between elements, arrows, and even after I scan everything I'm not sure if I understood everything.

On top of it, just creating and later maintaining them is such a hassle, comparing to just editing text.
Lots of good points about the "why". Here are mine, that I explicitly wrote on my site (lol):

Here I have fun with HTML/CSS, can let the graphic designer within me run amok and will try to post semi-regularly about some of my hobbies: computing (mainly programming) and art (music, films, novels).

This website exists for a few reasons, others than those listed in the landing page:

* I wanted to make a generator in Common Lisp during my vacations (I had a very crude one in sh a long time ago) so I did.
* I dislike the modern Web full of Jabbascript, so I thought I'd explore the limits of static HTML5/CSS3. I'm not fully there on that point, but still pretty proud of the file explorer sidebar thingy.
* Like a lot of millennials, I still remember a web that wasn't exclusively a one-way street carrying lackluster content from corporations and "actors" to clueless consumers. So I consider it a pretty important mission to do what I can to help, even if it's just a little blog full of nothing.
I checked out your site (excellent content and very, VERY useful), and I came back comment with what I think is similar feedback that other commenters have.

I would suggest a few things -

1. Less resource intensive site - I’m on my phone, and it took probably 5 seconds to load the front page, and then to actually get to the list, it took a few seconds more. I do not have a current gen phone, but I’d hazard a guess that my phone is about average in age as far as the potential user-base for this site goes! Do not discount mobile users, especially for a site focusing on CLI applications.

2. Maybe I care what language a CLI utility is written in sometimes (Albeit, I can’t recall a time when I have). I’d add a search in the front page, if well thought out. Or, honestly, I’d just have the front page be the list. People are great at lists, and generally quite good at reading, and your list has very well-written descriptions.

3. Kinda related to the above, but I think the categories view is effectively useless. The categories already appear in the description (and if they don’t, they probably should) - so why not just skip straight to the list? You could add a filter for the list if you want. Or, even better - a simple search box!

I’m only giving these criticisms as a means to (subjectively) improve your site, because overall I think it is very well done and thoughtful, without a lot of fluff. There are hundreds more I’d not have criticized, but only because they felt like a waste of time and dead weight. Keep up the good work!
This is pure internet chaos at its finest!
Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
I can see why that idea is tempting, but it doesn't seem to work.

Military had "don't ask don't tell" for a long time because legalisation and social acceptance are different (also seen in reverse order with cannabis). Even today, the percentage of people in the US who think society should not accept it, 21%, is higher than the percentage who are homosexual or bisexual: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-...

For this reason, there's still plenty who want to stay closeted.

And there's a lot of stuff with 5% or more reporting interest, according to Aella's sexual taboo survey, that society still very much isn't OK with: https://aella.substack.com/p/fetish-tabooness-vs-popularity

If sexual liberation was driven from the top to reduce blackmail opportunity, I think there'd be a lot more desires whose taboo was lessened, not just homosexuality.

(Though perhaps I'm underestimating how much else has changed due to what hasn't; I'm sure "cheating on spouse" used to be a thing that killed political careers, clearly doesn't now).

It also feels like the social acceptability of trans people has moved backwards. (Just my perception, or has that actually shifted?)

That said, the logic you give is still sound, and I think the increasing ease of private surveilance means we must eliminate as many taboos as we can so that society can keep functioning.
Waiting for super-conductors?
Sadly, the OSAID also does not require training data to be available. :(
It’s like building your own personal knowledge base
>That's probably one of the better examples because I think that fighting STDs is an honorable cause, but $83.5 million when we're both trillions in debt and have pressing concerns at home? Yeah no, we need to help ourselves first if we can spend that kind of money on a whim.

1) It's 83m dollars over 5 years : https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_NU2GGH002369_7523

Amortized cost per year is 16.6m dollars a year. The CDC gets 10b in funding per year, so they would be spending around .2% of their budget every year on such a grant.

Again, microscopic. I don't think enough people understand the scope of how much money the government has, and even how much of that allocation to other departments is when they budget items.

2) this is a publicly visible grant on a website simply querying USAspending.gov. This was not some hidden agenda Musk was needed for in order to find. This sounds more like something a niche youtuber can make a career on than whatever is happening with DOGE.

>Am I actually correct in assuming y'all are trying to tell me I shouldn't care that my taxes are being wasted just because the sum is relatively small?

Yes. Because We the People don't set the budget. We vote represenatives (we vote on 3/535 of them each) who appropriate a budget. And even those 535 individuals can't always agree in time.

If we're being frank, and this is a bipartisan issue, if you let Americans vote on spending, it'd be no different than giving a kid 100 dollars for groceries. Lots of candy, maybe a few pieces of jerky, and no vegetables. Someone else with better knowledge needs to understand what is good for us vs. what feels good to have. Congress putting 60%+ into Healthcare and various social aid shows we haven't at least gone off the deep end... yet.

Regardless of how I feel on how congress allocates funds, I sure as hell do not trust a billionaire who only knows how to slash limbs off his company to make number go up to make a better budget. Keep in mind he he's been given billions in grants from the Feds compared to this 82m dollar allocation as well. He has extreme conflicts of interest that would make Carter's peanut farm look like a toddler's temper tantrum.

>An efficient government means filing our tax returns wouldn't be anywhere as obnoxious as they are today

They were trying to simplify tax filing for years. Blame Turbotax/H&R Block for that one. I think all of us are in agreement there except those who make their salary off confusion.

Even then we recently suceeded: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-106933

So, another thing making strides without hasty invasive "auditing". It's a large ship, it has to steer slowly and deliberately. Lest we get stuck in a canal and everyone suffers.
DHH has said that Markdown editing will be a feature in 8.1. Also, Marksmith requires the use of ViewComponent, which is non-standard.
Maybe for those that have to use Rust. But borrow checker was sole reason why I wanted to learn Rust. And at that time (~2018) it was also reason why people were recommending it.
I don't necessarily disagree beyond the fact that this the same USA that now wants to annex territory from it's allies.

There might be no winners, but it's better to be a loser than a sucker.
Business travel also has the potential of suffering from the "different budget" problem, where a cheaper flight requires an extra night at a hotel, or the savings from a cheaper hotel are more than eaten up by the additional taxi costs (but only the more expensive constellation is within the approved limits).

Business travel has a lot of potential for abuse too, though, so the restrictions can sometimes be understandable.

Conferences are often held at desirable destinations, allowing attendees to combine a business trip with a mini vacation. OTOH, I suspect that much fewer people would be willing to make some trips (that the company wants to happen) if there wasn't some personal benefit, because (I assume) most people don't particularly enjoy sitting on an air plane and living out of a suitcase.
Reader mode isn't available. Why?
I can't imagine any new systems programming languages gaining traction that aren't at least as safe as Rust.

Am I allowed to sigh here? It's a good thought, but this is humanity we're talking about here.

All it requires is some big-project, some big-corp creating some essential ecosystem with lame-language-A, and now it's got traction.

And frankly, look at rust and its weird crates. Weird as in "Let's make a super-safe language, then import random stuff from unknowns, unaudited, and just hope it all works out."

If rust was really serious about security, only signed crates from validated developers, with code review would be the norm. Oh but wait, that'd be "not easy".
Because practically speaking, you can fine tune them I suppose?

But that's also true for binaries, games are a good example of where people pushed this quite far. Based on what little experience I have in ML, I'd say it's about the same thing. Whereas an API is more akin to a piece of software you can't tinker with in any way.

Guess the bar is just lower in the LLM space :P
The rise of single node processing challenging the distributed first mindset
Yes but that would increase the BoM by several cents on these $1k+ GPUs so it's not likely to happen.
The hatred of global variables for the sake of it is something that Common Lisp and its earmuffs un-brainwashed in me, thankfully.
Because PG&E was the cause. If a lightening strike caused the fire, then that would be the cause. If a stray arsonist poured gasoline over the field and lit it all on fire, then the arsonist would be the cause. If it was teens lighting fireworks, then they would be the cause.

But none of those things actually happened. PG&E’s equipment caught on fire because it couldn’t handle its normal electricity load anymore, because they delayed maintenance for years.

There is no sense talking about all the things that “could” be the cause in some hypothetical future where PG&E hadn’t caused the fire that actually happened first. Because that would require PG&E to prevent the fire that actually happened, which they did not.
Is it reasonable to expect companies to redistribute 100TB of copyrighted content they used for their LLM, just on the off-chance someone has a few million laying around and wants to reproduce the model from scratch?
> No, whether misguided or not they're doing this out of patriotism. They care about US citizens and US interests, and believe the deep state is hostile to both.

This type of religious fervor following these two people is what concerns me the most. Trump and Musk are the deep state if such a thing even exists. The only thing they care about are themselves. When Musk details and cuts all government funding to his companies and Trump stops openly taking bribes, then maybe we can have a conversation about whose interests they care about.
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Nope. Just someone who also submitted this earlier as well. I think HN’s dupe detection is off these days.
Hey I'm not saying it's always a better way or that all apps should be developed in a certain way. But it's a trend, people are doing it for a reason and I think I understand why.

You asked whether some of the reasons are technical. Not in the sense that you can't do it in a simpler way, no.

Look at it from the perspective of a company that has a product and a few developers working on it. It's successful. Now a lot of requests pops up. Some are small, some are related to an obscure integration, maybe a few custom development requests from important customers, bug fixes... The company can now either say no to a big chunk of them (a fine choice), or, if it has money, it can hire more people.

Now, with more people, for them to be somehow effective, you need to create internal APIs and narrow down the focus areas of your teams. Backend/frontend is a separation layer, you're right. But I'd argue it's not that useful for this problem. If the backend emits HTML, what's the frontend work then? Styling? On the other hand, running a thick client in the browser that consumes an API makes it possible to decouple even the release cycle of the frontend from the backend.

Mind you, there are companies that are/were successful with a small team. But most often, the success is supported by large teams at the cost of technical perfection.
If you believe [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ratio-of-combat-soldiers-t...], it varies from 7% to 14% of active military personnel that would be in ‘combat arms’, with everyone else being behind the lines in support roles. At least in the US. That lines up with my understanding anyway.

It’s actually a much lower percentage though. As most combat arms folks will be stuck guarding something and never see action, be in an indirect fire type role (artillery, sitting in a bomber or in a connex piloting a surveillance drone), or even if actually infantry have a super boring tour patrolling some pointless BS in the middle of nowwhere.

It also depends on where you draw the line at ‘killing’ of course. Does being a loader in an artillery battery count? A forward observer? A pilot who fires a cruise missle? A dude pushing the button to fire a cruise missle on a ship? An officer ordering an air strike?

About the only folks who are ‘killers’ in the way most folks would recognize the term though are infantry (of various forms, including mech. inf.), and perhaps some pilots if they have really good optics.

Soldiers follow orders. If they’re good ones anyway. Most have been trained to be able to be killers, and are often armed as such, just in case some folks need killing (per the chain of command and appropriate ROE).

But it rarely comes up, and anyone going into most MOS’s in the military hoping to do that is likely to be sorely disappointed.

Even those high speed low drag types.
It kinda does but perhaps not entirely. The increment will always end up in the right place afterwards but internally if you expect it to be +1 in the same thread you’ll sometimes be wrong
Love the von Neumann "aufgewärmte Suppe" anecdote.
When I do architecture diagrams (not that often), my audience is usually non-technical people. I personally rarely see value in them, because they tend to blur different levels of abstractions as well as current and anticipated realities. I can't remember when I saw one and thought it was a useful tool to understand a system.

For story telling, they're sometimes useful to me.
How do you manage the authentication? What happens if the same user connect to another instance?
I'll bet that's what most startups do.
Because typically adapting or improving traditional code to your needs is very difficult without access to the source code and build files.

For an LLM you can finetune and enhance, distill and embed given just the model weights, the runtime, and a permissive license. Having more is better. Well written detailed model release papers help a lot. Training code and training data are a great bonus.

However, I find the purity contest a bit too dismissive of the great contributions to the AI dev ecosystem that Meta and Deepseek have brought us. Without these, there wouldn't be the open ecosystem we have today.
The RL-only (no SFT) approaches might remove that issue. Problem sets should be smaller (and mechanically creatable) than the entire western corpus.
> He has revealed that literal millions and billions of our tax dollars (or loans, to make it even worse) are being wasted on questionable ventures at best. I want him and DOGE to dig even deeper so the House is forced to write a clean budget devoid of all this fucking garbage. American taxpayers deserve better.

You are aware that this is the guy who made the secret service stay at his hotels/golf club to scam tax dollars into his own pockets? Why should I trust him to actually care about tax dollars?

>>Screwing the details is how you enable corruption, by the way.

> I agree, which is why it's great that Musk and DOGE are looking into the details of where the sincere fuck our money is going. All these whiners are crying that we shouldn't look at the details, it's all fine! No, fuck them. I want all this out in public view, in bite size chunks consumable by the common man paying for all this, to be scrutinized; anything worth having should be able to withstand any and all scrutiny.

So will Musk look into the government contracts that he is benefiting from (both Tesla and Space X received significant government funds)? You think he'll be impartial?
Open source becomes really complicated once assets with unclear license are involved in any way. Lots of people for example would say that Jedi Knight 2 is open source because Raven Software released the source code and tools needed to build the game. But that alone doesn't mean you can run it, because you still need to get a hold of all the assets (models, textures, sounds) which may or may not still be property of LucasArts or its successors. Even if you have them, it's actually unclear if it is legal to use them this way. So while there are tons of people working on mods and conversions, noone in their right mind would distribute all the source assets.

Much in the same way, no sane company will touch the legal nightmare of releasing LLM training data scraped from public websites. Even releasing the LLM alone might be infringement, there are literally court cases being fought over this right now.
I think I have a pretty keen eye for LLM slop. I didn't see this at all in the article.
I get the opposite experience nowadays. Still having to debug random issues that are only on Linux.
Maybe just go 24V (or even higher, it's not like the GPU connector sees a lot of switching so contact arching is not a problem). Yes, that's a new PSU, but at that rate it's going to happen anyway.
Donkey Kong's famed kill screen has been cleared
> The theory is just that theory.

Well no, Feyerabend let himself be called an "anarchist" but clearly there is a "more scientific" and "less scientific" - they cannot give you a lecturing appointment at the LSE or elsewhere to just shrug.

> the listener ... as justification

As justification to what? A producer makes products for different markets: people may sell bars of sugar with appetizers and synthetic flavours, that does not make the product remotely similar to healthy food.
>It's fair to say that individual tools should have to justify their costs in terms of productivity improvements or time savings.

Indeed, and this is why it's often advised that people should buy their first set of tools at Harbor Freight (or any other store selling cheap tools, for the not-Americans).

If those cheap tools wear out or break from use, then you go out and buy the really good ones from Snap-on or Milwaukee and the like.
Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
Depending on what they're doing, it could easily be multiple Gb per user. When you do VSCode remoting, pretty much everything but the UI is running on the server. This includes stuff like code analysis for autocompletion, which - especially for languages that require type inference to provide useful completions - can consume a lot of RAM, and a fair bit of CPU.
is there a noticeable input delay when using Kanata?
No-Code Isn't About Code
You're confusing the facts of the case with the opinion.

The section you're quoting is a recapitulation of the facts of the case, as agreed upon by all parties. The majority then lays out its legal theory and applies them to the facts, not all of which are relevant to the decision.

The court argues at length that under English Common Law (which is also the law of the United States), anyone born in the country is automatically a citizen, with only two exceptions:

1. Children of accredited diplomats.

2. Children born to hostile foreign armies in belligerent occupation of some part of the country's territory. For example, it cites the case of a child born to the wife of a British soldier during the British occupation of Charleston, during the revolution. That child is not an American citizen.

The court only recognizes one further exception to birthright citizenship:

3. Children born under the jurisdiction of Native American tribes. The court says that the existence of quasi-independent native tribes is a special circumstance with no precedent in English Common Law.

The court specifically argues that English Common Law and the text of the 14th Amendment allow no other exceptions. The concept of "legal domicile" is not relevant to citizenship, and the court specifically states that even the children of sojourners, businesspeople and others only temporarily in the country become citizens at birth. The only exceptions are those I listed above.

The point is that you have to actually read the majority opinion, which argues all of these points at great length.

What Trump is trying to push through, by executive order, would be a massive revision of American law, going back to the Constitution and even before the revolution. The 14th Amendment was intended to make those principles, which Trump is now denying, completely unassailable for all time.
Each defense intervention needs to be weighed against its cost, and also against the threat model. If the attacker can inject arbitrary content into the message queues of most business applications, they already have the keys to the castle. And all of those other serialization libraries come with costs and tradeoffs.

I'm guessing you work in security and don't actually build production systems for a living?
Japan, its not too late to stop it !