skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. There's an argument to be made that information which one could obtain piecemeal being made easily accessible at mass scale can create a qualitatively different situation to one in which significant labor is required to acquire it.

It's not a perfect analogy, but we can consider the case of recording in public being legal and the majority of people feeling this is reasonable, versus people's gradient of unease with uniquitous CCTV surveillance, versus how people would feel if the government made sure a law that all CCTV cameras are made remotely accessible at all times.
Gravity is something very simple. It cannot be a complex thing, because it demonstrates a very simple behavior.
A rootkit built right into the kernel? And apparently this is okay because it's "encrypted"? (Aka impossible to diagnose or monitor.)

Yikes.
This is so cool. I’m going to try it this weekend.

I’ve been playing with the idea of auto creating tasks when I write todos by emailing the PDF and sending it to an LLM.

This just opened up a whole realm of better ways to accomplish that goal in realtime.
Mister Donut also started in the US. Tower Records also lives on in Japan.
As a Computer Science student, what should I be focusing on in order to get a job in this market?
I didn't intend to sound crunchy like that. College for practical means has long been the norm in the US vs. elsewhere, going back to agricultural schools in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is nothing wrong with that; what is NOT good is the whole-sale replacement of job training to colleges, as it cannot properly encompass every eccentricity of a particular job, leading to the problems mentioned before.

College is about getting the knowledge to perform your field, not the knowledge of every particular procedure one could possibly expect to see. The modern emphasis on internships softens the blow somewhat, but it's a half-hearted replacement and is easily abused in many fields.
Were a lot of those 40% near the US and with a good view of the satellite? If so I don't see why it's amazing they want to purchase services from your company.
Use middle name for best flow/compression rate

里夫耕作，促苗三遷

Still, that misses out on the asymmetry(?) between the difficulty in (centralizing) production of goods vs "antigoods".

Work : heat ~ tech deployment : tech debt

"Politics is the continuation of capital-deployment in less quantitative means" --not you-know-who

Maybe your N-assholes theorem could point the way to formalizing (all of) the above!

PS: I stumbled on your Schroeder Lindy PS, starting as hard as shipping? (从 can be read multiple ways, for you, a DAG)
There are lots of situations where people will not notice at all. At my last gig, I wrote pretty extensive Ansible manifests that built and configured all my favorite tools on on bog-standard company provided development hosts so I found them cozy for remote work. I took severe liberties with these hosts and nobody batted an eye.
Back in the '90s, I read a book called the "Zen of Windows 95 Programming." The author started off with (paraphrased) "If you're reading this 25 years in the future, and are having a laugh, here's the state of things in '95"

I did re-read that section again 25 years later...
NIH slashes overhead payments for research
There's more than one flavor of virtue.
Research was researched extensively. It's a net win for humanity, don't worry about it.
In the sense that island communities are invariably quirky and the sexual abuse tends to be off the charts bad, sure. But nothing is happening behind the scenes. There isn't enough else to gossip about and people can't hide their wealth or stay off the radar.

It isn't really possible to fight the community on an island that small. If a lynch mob forms it could potentially include the entire 10 people in the police force and nobody saw nuttin'. Corrupt, but overt.
Bob Geary, eccentric S.F. cop who patrolled with dummy Brendan, dies at 85
I may be making this up, but I seem to recall a chat feature on one of Napster, Limewire, or Kazaa.
I’m amazed at the mental gymnastics I’m witnessing from people trying to defend 100% of what’s happening.

When people were criticizing the age of the people on the team, the narrative was that they are young and energetic adults and that it’s offensive to bring their age into question.

As soon as one of them (age 25!) was discovered to have written some blatantly racist remarks, the narrative flipped to pleas to forgive them because they’re just kids.

Not to mention how quickly this all went from shining a light on the situation to insisting that we blindly trust claims of corruption with no evidence or even independent review.

It’s all so absurd to watch. Regardless of where you fall on the political side, the intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy is so blatant that you can’t possibly ignore it unless you’re resigned to being so hyper-partisan that anything goes as long as it’s done by your team.
Around 50% of higher education takes place at community colleges. A firther large percentage of higher edcuation takes place at regional state universities that do very little research at lineral arts colleges. I think you dont understand the higher education market. It seems you think most stidents are at research universities and that isn’t the case.
Wow. Only a genius could come up with the idea of compromising the localhost security when connecting to a remote host --- and still call the thing SSH.
To consider: do we overestimate what we know about how we humans reach an answer? (Humans are very capable of intuitively reading scrambled text, for example, as long as the beginning and ending of each word remains correct.)
> hiring inquisitive, energetic juniors who didn't know shit about software engineering but wanted to learn everything about it

the modern management culture has warped the apprenticeship/mentorship model (which is what's being described).

The management do not want to risk investing in someone junior, lest they become senior and move to a different company. So the strategic thing to do is to hire someone already senior, and not pay the cost of the education/training.
> Writing a new OS only for the
386 in 1991 gets you your second 'F' for this term. But if you do real well
on the final exam, you can still pass the course.

what a way to argue...
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> if i recall right, often servers were run as take a file leave a file, so if you had something good to exchange that was social capital

Often there was a requests directory in the top level with you would need to upload a requested album/program in order to get access to the entire server. There was also banner clicking to get a password, but that never worked tbh.
Most remote access software has the same patterns as malware, no? It's only a matter of who's driving?

A related anecdote: I watched, in person, a user call into their workplace's offshore IT support, who had honestly no idea what they were doing, and kept poking around aimlessly in a remote desktop session. I remarked that, having watched tech support scam baiting videos, the interactions were honestly indistinguishable, and hopefully the user had dialed the correct number. The user was not amused.
It's useful for combinators, like flatMap. For instance if you want to flatten an iterator of optional values into the values of all some elements.
what is the type of application that was hinted as being murid? I couldn't crack that one.
> In youth sports, something similar happens when referees fail to call fouls on rough play.

This is actually not limited to youth sports, you can even see it happen with professional athletes.

It's a very common human reaction when participants feel like the rules aren't getting enforced. For all ages. Which only reinforces your point.
> Did it again in the midst of winter, and the staff allowed me and the two other blokes to stay for the night in the next departing train with the heating on.

That’s a notably kind and humane gesture in the midst of winter.
That's not so bad; why not cut the battery draw in half by pulling from the wall circuit in parallel? 120WH in power tool batteries would cost ~$170-$180, so we can imagine a $200 kettle. Expensive, not a mass market item - but give it a few more years of continued battery improvement, and maybe this could happen. The base would certainly be much bulkier than that of a normal electric kettle, but it would still be smaller than the base of an average blender, so not unreasonable for a North American kitchen.
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/gkd_trainer

Take a set of prompts, run it through the large model and small model, calculate KL divergence between all the logits, then update the small model to minimize the loss.

This gives the smaller model a much higher density signal than SFT which is usually cross entropy against the single correct logit.

Edit: note that the term is abused quite often and SFT on just the traces from the big model is also sometimes referred to as distillation (Eg the Deepseek smaller models). IMO that is incorrect.
well, pharma companies are screwed. They aren't going to do their own research, so no new drugs
> The short of his rant…

This does not read as a rant at all to me. Rather it seeks to highlight a problem using an example from his own work and proposes a possible solution (with a previous caveat of “I don’t know how to fix this”).

> "Code Of Standards for maintainers" in addition to a CoC

He wants maintainers to behave in some pre-determined understandable fashion. He wants some accountability, and that seems reasonable to me. This is not a “maintainers must do what I want”, this is “let’s set basic expectations” and ensure people follow them. Whatever those should be.

> in order to witch hunt people he feels "gets in the way."

B does not follow A. You are simply straw-manning here, so I have nothing to say to it other than it’s a fallacious point.
Can you explain why though? I get that you had to put a lot of effort into blocking VSCode but it's not clear what have VSCode caused to motivate this.
This seems like a problem that will quickly fall to the new reinforcement learning methods introduced by DeepSeek. Just build a system to synthetically render a few million pages of insanely complex, hard-to-parse documents with different layouts along with a JSON description of what the correct OCR should be, mix in some human annotated datasets, then do RL against a verifier that insists on 100% accuracy.
Seems like some LLM could do this. If not a chart, at least some summary of the results.
Argentina would be a good candidate. Islas Malvinas and all that.
> It’s almost like we need to ensure no one has much more resources than anyone else (ya know, workers owning the means of production) so there’s a more level field!

Heh, yeah, I was going to post to add this as well. That is the underlying problem. I don't necessarily think it has to mean "workers owning the means of production" per se, more like "the richest person's wealth cannot be more than X times the poorest" and "the largest participant in a market cannot have more than Y% market share", but the idea is similar. :-)
Or Uruguay. Lots of IPv6 in Uruguay
I think it's RAT (remote access tool)
Zed is now open source. It’s new, and it’s great!
Note that your local plugins do not get installed on remote instances without manually doing so
Ah yes, one of my favorite skills learned in school was how to work around arbitrary rules made up by cranky sysadmins! I still use it all the time.

The smart kids (whom I’m sure look like they are learning that precious openssh client) are doing their assignment locally or on a free tier VPS with VS Code and scping the thing over when it’s done.

They’re also smart enough to learn openssh when they need it IRL.
Political will can be used to pass legislation and ultimately to change the Eighth Amendment.
while i do no tknow, this question is really great :)) ++1
2007 was looking pretty hot - http://web.archive.org/web/20070707022624/http://www.nokia.c...
Another illegal move by Trump admin and the US Congress will do nothing.
can"t wait until they are off lease
No, I feel this way about the Linux kernel.
How soon until this one is flagged too
This is far better than the first term where decisions were made with absolutely no thought, then continually doubled down on the bad decisions consequences be damned - it's just like the flu, encouraging police riots, federal shock troops teargassing a church, stop the steal, etc.

Your comment is like when everyone jumped on Trump for talking about injecting bleach and getting light inside the body - "what a dumb idea, blah blah." No, throwing out random thoughts to see if they might spark some viable idea is called brainstorming - that was literally the guy behaving at his most intelligent. This is him actually accepting some sort of feedback. We should encourage these things since we're stuck with him, at least until the dementia finishes its job.
At least it’s still preserved in academia.
The more amazing part is the total lack of qualification.

What besides IT knowledge qualifies them including Musk to do what they claim to do?

Sounds more like McKinsey on steroids.
I sincerely believe that one of the fundamental problems of our time is individuals' sense of entitlement. That is, 'if it is is possible, there are no laws against it, I can afford it, and I want to do it, then I will'. Consideration of collective concerns are less significant.

I think it is related to the rise of neoliberal politics. Individual rights over collective rights. The 'loss of community' is real and leads to actively harmful choices.
The reputational damage to US scientific prestige is incalculable. And all for amounts that are tiny slivers of the federal budget for research that benefits potentially everyone.
Re: gramsci gap

Collaborate with VR to get discounts?

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-steppe-function

Summary of the Gg Man(dala) vs Machine premise. Monsters plug the gap between the decline of the over-formalized ancien regime & the new era driven by a (re)nascent boys' club. Rao: Perversion of preexisting rules are also "monsters(Zizek)/morbidities(Gramsci)". (Incumbent rules are far deadlier than incumbent rulers)

>the horse feed in China didn’t have sufficient selenium to breed strong horses"

Hmm TIGR to examine the value of garlic (vs ginger? X) in different Chinese regional folkways

PS: Ultima ratio regum = pushing on the emergency exit bar
Reforming overhead payments, somehow, is probably a good idea.

Altering the deal on existing contracts without notice is very much NOT a good idea. That they're attempting to do so is a pretty good sign of bad faith.
Undoubtedly some people get jobs this way. But even if none have so far, that doesn't mean you won't. As they say in the finance industry, "past performance is no guarantee of future performance." Given how easy it is to post your info, why the reluctance to do so?
I hired a designer from one.
I just want to observe libc != glibc there have been and continue to be diverse libc. Maybe I missed if zig on BSD is faster without native non-gnu (possibly less or non-portable) libc. It may well be. They tested on asahi Linux.
It will be interesting to see who comes out in defense of the schools who will have to take on the burden of indirect costs.

How can they possibly shoulder the costs with their $40,000/yr tuitions and multi-billion dollar endowments?
Hotline was life-changing software for me. It was pretty niche, being Mac-only, and its BBS-like nature meant each server had its own culture and "cliques" and community. Getting an account on certain servers (rather than being a lowly guest) was a noteworthy moment. I remember a couple really badass servers like one called "JADE: where some guys in a university hosted a Hotline server on the uni's insanely fast connection. I want to say it was an OC-12 connection (600mbit)? This was in like, 1998.

I still have a few friends from those days, one of whom I talk to almost every day. Unfortunately one friend I met on Hotline passed away unexpectedly this past July. I never would have expected to be making decades-long connections when I was just a kid looking for "filez" to download. <3

Actually that same friend gifted me his old PC which was my first Windows machine. An amazing and kind gesture which changed the course of my life (I had grown up only with Macintosh systems until then).

Further, I found music on Hotline that I would never have found otherwise. I didn't find much on IRC (didn't know where to look) but I made connections with people on Hotline which resulted in me being exposed to amazing music from all over the world -- another life-changing experience. Too awesome :)
thank you, i'll take this as food for thought and see if i can improve the datavis!

I agree, if you need insights related to budgeting, then I recommend Actual or Firefly, as noted in readme. This app is strictly intended to be simpler. no budgeting, just tracking.
And the all knowing pg said that the iPhone will never have more than 5% market share

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083

I mean it had more space than the Nomad and wireless. What else could he have wanted?
It didn't have to
I've had much better luck with Who's Hiring.

EDIT: Oh, it looks like a job from a few years back I thought I reached out for was actually them reaching out to me from Who Wants to Be Hired.

So apparently I had good luck after all. :)

For context, it was a security research position.
Relations were good until Xi took over.
This monopoly seems to be preventing unexpected changes. Maybe better Internet would cause it to turn into a digital nomad paradise, which would cause more demand for visiting or living there, and that in turn would cause greater tension in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_d...
Deutsche Bank: 'China eats the world'
> you already have permission to do all the other things

Of course. The problem is that a 3rd party agent can now use your permission to do what it wants, and you will be none the wiser.
Yeah, the only real solution here feels like paying off the monopoly, a cost which in the end is likely going to need a handout from the UK. It’s tough to identify anyone who’s done anything explicitly wrong in this story, or a solution that doesn’t end up shafting someone. Perhaps a negotiated tax on non-monopoly users there that goes to the monopoly to help defray their investment is the only sensible solution.
Interestingly Frank Herbert wrote about the hidden value of slow and measured bureaucratic processes. His essential argument was that a slow bureaucracy has time to review not just the letter of laws and policies, but the impact that they will have after enacted which may not be part of the conversation to get them passed. The story he writes on this is borderline satirical with a government agent called a saboteur, whose sole job is to slow down and muck up an incredibly efficient future government which is able to pass laws which have sweeping impact across the nation in hours, and in some cases seconds.

While most of us corporate drones often laugh at the speed of government, considering the lightning fast decision-making often made in the world’s top companies, that book always made me think about the fact that government operations often have far more riding on them than any private enterprise ever will. So maybe that time is being spent more effectively than you assume.

Personally, this whole scenario makes me very wary. Though I understand the complexities of the infrastructure we’re discussing here, I’d be super nervous to have my Internet lifeline to the rest of the world governed directly by Elon Musk.
And as they say, the rest is history.
The unofficial *nix ports allowed some basic encryption but this was never supported by the original Mac (and later Win) clients. Since the protocol was plaintext, it was easily reverse engineered, thus "hx" was born :)
Hello! This is my devlog entry.

I've been testing on Linux 6.12.3 AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor, against this glibc:

libc.so.6 => /nix/store/nqb2ns2d1lahnd5ncwmn6k84qfd7vx2k-glibc-2.40-36/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb4dbd62000)
This is my biggest issue with it. Security concerns aside, it's difficult to even debug when issues arise because of how opaque it is.
Yes. I posted in Feb of 2021, was hired and still at the same place.
They’re working on signing: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/trust/

They have a rootless mode: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

Firewall situation is mixed: https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/packet-filtering-fire...

It’s a bummer that those aren’t the defaults, but it would directly make things less convenient and therefore make people less likely to use it (same reason why installing various software is still offered as a Bash script that you curl and pipe to your terminal, e.g. Ollama; at least it’s not offered as the only way usually), what a world.
I missed that it was about formal verification, but don't think formal verification is necessary for effective RL in the coding domain.
How effective it is will be different for each person, since supply and demand is different for each job. Clojure CTO and React UI Developer aren’t vying for the same job, for example.
After many years the domain of the default tracker built into the client, hltracker.com, expired... Someone in the community snapped that up and is hosting a new tracker at the same address, so when you fire up the original Hotline clients on an old computer or VM, it still works just as if it's 1997 again. Pretty sweet! There are quite a few active servers still.
I had the same experience where a trivial prompt ("the river crossing problem but the boat is big enough to hold everything") sent Deepseek off on a long "think" section that was absolutely wild, just going off in unrelated non-sensical directions, gaslighting itself before finally deciding to answer the question. (correctly too, I might add.)
The Linus response is pretty great -> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI/m/P8...
There were trackers before github for sure-- but like it's a pretty ordinary setup to make issues private to project members until triaged... that sort of thing pretty much kills brigading dead and it's a thing you can't do on github.

There is a continuum between totally private and what github provides, with self hosted tools you could hit a number of different spots on that spectrum. Cynically one reason for the lack of flexibility is that the maximally permissive side is probably better for the expansion of Github's business.
Exactly. Research is overrated, we have progressed enough. The Chinese can do the rest. Everyone should join the trades.
Obviously he does not like Rust just as much as C++, which is understandable.

The difference is that he is a little bit more diplomatic than he used to be.

But why someone want to push a language into someone else's kernel? Fork your own, if you want.
I assume that funding ran out around 2014:

https://blog.minix3.org/tag/news/
It’s true though? I don’t see anyone picking C/C++ over Rust/Go in my immediate environment.

That might reflect my environment, but all of the things I’d consider C variations for I’d use Rust for as well…
Are you sure?

The husk of slashdot is still around.
About time. https://github.com/containers/ramalama also working on this
$1 million over 4 years I can see...but original post said it went up to $10 million for some execs....
Precisely.

I remember my university taking 35% off the top of all grants for a lab that was 30 years old (hadnt been updated), and a sufficient but hardly cutting edge instrument room.

The university was getting far more money than if the PI rented lab space at an incubator.