skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a good and open and honest blog post. And I liked a lot the way it is interlinked with other interesting posts from that blog. I wish I'll have some time to read more articles from that blog.
So that's a no?
Apparently you fell for the narrative that LA ran out of water because they preferred to save the environment. Just so you know, it didn't matter how much water was in any reservoirs. There was plenty of water. The two failures that happened were -- 100 MPH wind after drought conditions, and the fact that if you try to get water out of every fire hydrant in a large area you will run out of water pressure. The solution to water pressure is increasing the number of reservoirs so that each one services a smaller area. That is done with infrastructure improvements that require a government willing to fund them, and residents willing to accept them. 100 MPH winds + drought conditions + fire over a large area is not addressable without massive over-provisioning. You may want to reconsider where you get your news from, because it seems you are being misinformed.
This is propaganda, not news.

I have no objection to your near-simultaneous posting of another story on your blog about the executive order from RFK jr on the same topic; I think he's a charlatan but he's an appointed official and his statement of policy is newsworthy whether I like it or not.

This, by contrast, is just a made up speech trying to leverage JFK nostalgia to advance your own opinions.
Never thought I'd hear being a nazi referred to as tribalism. But you are right.
Nothing beats Delphi for GUIs. Unfortunately, there were more VB4/VB5 jobs and I had to switch :(

Borland was in trouble long before Kylix and .NET. They wanted to be everything: enterprise, Quattro, dBase, Sidekick ... Lack of direction killed Borland.
Louis and Temple Abernathy
A couple of potential future uses I'm seeing here

- Military. If these exoskeletons can help tourists climb a punishing mountain, they could probably help soldiers do the same, carrying more gear than they'd normally be able to

- Humanoid robotics training data. Surely these things could collect tons of data about walking given they're attached to people's bodies. Could this be used to train an algorithm for an actual robot, without the human?
>The employees refused their requests, and called San Francisco sheriff’s deputies

The LARP scene has gotten out of hand.
There's a teaching method called "handwriting without tears". The title is almost certainly a play on that.
I'm not opposed to anyone voluntarily using a NAT at all. I just hate it when somebody makes that decision for me, and that unfortunately still happens all the time.

If it's a well-reasoned decision, sure, but I do suspect that more often than not it's a lack of knowledge about alternatives that makes people still opt for NATs, and that just makes me sad on top of being annoyed with the inconvenience of having to tunnel when a direct connection seems so close at hand.

> I would hazard that most devices on there internet are in the boat of want to talk to the internet but not be reachable on it.

I highly doubt that. One big example is VoIP: Incredibly common these days, yet so much of it is going through centralized relays, and often for absolutely no technical reason.
If low cost GPUs are not what they are offering then what are they offering anymore that I wouldn't get a big cloud vender. This looks like self inflicted mortal wound.
It would be fun to get Ricochet P2P messaging to work over Ricochet P2P packet radio devices.
>The bill reforms the CLOUD Act, which permits foreign governments to make surveillance demands directly of U.S. companies rather than going through the U.S. legal system.

I don't get how this works.

Let's say I'm Microsoft and I operate in the UK ... UK can still contact Microsoft and has to respond if they want to operate there.

Wouldn't this just put these companies in awkward position explaining to each nation that operating in that nation means they to follow each of their conflicting laws?
It gives you control via abstractions. That’s fine, and I like K8s personally, but if you don’t understand the underlying fundamentals that it’s controlling, you don’t understand what it’s doing.
I kept Linkedin profile since 2018, and it LI content made sense back then.

2 years ago I got more active, and noticed it turn to worse: much AI slop (premium users group full of polls with questions like high-school essay titles -- probably LLMs talking to each other). Every interesting job posting already having 200+ applications, and requirements inflated (because if you demand less than masters degree, you have to walk through and seriously read 1000+ applications).

But you could still get at least something.

Until about half a year ago it got its vacancy search broken, that it always shows the same list, no matter what keywords you type in the search field.
"Mortal wound" lol.
Yeah, if you're running your own cluster.
you can still get them like that - the search term is "double shot" for using two molds. very popular and durable for custom keycaps.
He's been writing about Rebecca and his family's journey since pretty early in her diagnosis if I remember correctly. I remember when he posted about her passing too.

Grief comes in waves. Long after you think the storm has passed. We all process it differently. A 16th birthday is pretty big milestone in the states. I imagine that can be a magnifying glass for grief and pain. I know my friends feel the weight of their son's birthday and the date of his passing quite heavily.

I lost my mom 16 years ago. To this day something can remind of her and it's like time stops. It's dizzying as the world around me moves on. Then I catch up again until the next wave.
Yep, those are better. Almost always the most honest words.
If IT doesn’t want random things plugging into the network? That’s what 802.1x is for
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We live in a polity. That polity can be generous, well-regarded, respected, feared, and despised. The admixture of those attitudes affects our polity’s ability to pursue its interests.

(I also happen to think that our polity should assist the least fortunate on its own merits, but you may not)
It's more Tha the tech improved. It's a way better feeling than any 3d projection and it's able to be interacted with.

The main issue is adoption. They aren't cheap enough that you'll simply gather a family around to play locally. At best you communicate online and experience it through peers from afar.
Over the internet? Run a wire

nthing the objection that anyone who needs an accurate clock is getting it via NTP
AI will build its own startup before it builds one for a person.
Why would you have %s tied to a string type instead of having it print anything?

The type should not be coming from the format string but be inferred from the arguments that are being combined with that string. Of course certain conversion specifiers in the format string only makes sense for numbers.
My takeaway from the article is that there's no real market for GPU VMs so it's pointless for Intel and AMD to make them work.
> These are finanical systems, they need to add/subtract and multiply/divide lots of transactional data. AI not needed.

The IRS gets 125 million paper forms every year:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/tax-season-irs-digit...

They tried and failed to scan some of them with OCR:

"OCR – This project involved extracting machine-readable data from low-resolution and poor-quality images (both digital and paper) with the capability to integrate them with the IRS’s information technology systems and intake different types of forms and data. The pilot project was discontinued in October 2022 after failing to identify acceptable solutions using the vendor and resources provided. The ED&CMO has no plans to resume this effort at this time."

https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-09/20...

I imagine that a few GB200s would actually help with that effort
The firewall shouldn't have to track IPs, just the connections it would be tracking no matter what.

And sure a million IPs could cause problems, but that's not a good reason to set the limit to 1.

> I'm skeptical of the typical IPv6 position of "a flat /64 network (or something emulating one) is all you'll ever need".

That's not the position. You can have as many networks as you want. Connect them with routers like you would on IPv4.
If it's useful to anyone, I made a VS Code/Cursor extension that combines all open files into one big text document.

I use it with ChatGPT's o1 pro (which can handle around 100,000 tokens).

1. Open all of the files I think are relevant

2. Use the extension to combine them

3. Copy and paste into ChatGPT

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DVYIO.co...
If it's worth anything, my family and I got vaccinated and boosted and none of us got Covid.

Or at least, we never tested positive, and had no mysterious flu-like ailments that struck us down for days or weeks. Either we were exceptionally lucky, or the vaccine worked.
Hosting Mastodon is as difficult as deploying a traditional web app: if you are familiar with docker, it's just a matter of choosing where you are going to put your database, redis and where to store media.

The problem is that it is expensive. Even if you host on a cheap VPS and put your media on some object storage like Storj (~$4/TB/month), you are problably looking at a minimum of $20/month for the server. If you get for yourself, maybe your friends and stay under 50 users, fine.

If you get more than that then you'll need a beefier server, and if any of users follows lots of media-heavy accounts and does not set it up to delete old posts, your object storage will be full very quick.
Yes, but you have to submit a request to every single one of those places. And then they have to review and redact them. I've had these policies denied in public records requests because the 800 page document would take many hours of review to complete. Had to submit the requests in piecemeal and it was very time consuming for me and the agency. That's just for one place.
Yeah, IMHO, Codeberg's biggest selling point is the warm-fuzzies and independence.
Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS
> At this point, optimizing compilers are excellent and probably have more architecture details baked into them than I will ever know.

While modern compilers are great, you’d be surprised about the seemingly obvious optimizations compilers can’t do because of language semantics or the code transformations would be infeasible to detect.

I type versions of functions into godbolt all the time and it’s very interesting to see what code is/isn’t equivalent after O3 passes
`atuin search --cwd .`

https://docs.atuin.sh/reference/search/#examples

You could also make "directory" the default filter mode or bind it to up-arrow:

https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#filter_mode

https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/key-binding/#custom-up-a...
Arch does have systemd by default, but there seem to be options to do an install without. Probably a lot of struggle down that road for a desktop environment though.

I saw some of that SixOS and I am really interested. There was an "ownerboot" tool they linked to that also looked nice to me.
I remember we did this in my elementary school (also in Colorado), but I never bought a set. Didn't do anything for me
IMO, it's rather hard to fully know all of kubernetes and what it's doing, and the kind of person who demands elegance in solutions will hate it.
Man, there is no way I can read this. I got choked up just reading the titles of the blog posts, knowing what was coming.

I remember being younger and not being emotionally bothered by anything. Yet as I get older I am able to relate to so much more and everything hits so much harder because of it.
Zack’s video on this subject was definitely the most clear and informative- definitely needed given the huge spread of misinformation.
> Wouldn't this just put these companies in awkward position [...]

Presumably. There's probably still an argument for changing the incentives for foreign governments to make these orders and for Apple or similar to comply. In particular, this bill appears to amend the provisions for foreign governments to gain access to their citizens' data and provides some possible legal recourse for US providers in US courts. It's not clear this will achieve the intended outcome, but it seems like one reasonable approach if your lever is US federal legislation.
> they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money

May just be my naïveté, but I thought that something like ECS or EKS is much cheaper than an in-house k8 engineer.
Have you tried auto tab discard?
This mainframe system from the 1990s was so much simpler

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=sysplex-parall...

even if it wasn't as scalable as Kube. One the other hand, a cluster of 32 CMOS mainframe could handle any commercial computing job that people were doing in the 1990s.
https://github.com/yihong0618/Kindle_download_helper/issues/...
> I thought Trump was the "save waste" guy.

What made you think that?
That's not how it works in the case of WordPress though, in this case it's not posting to some account on someone else's instance, each blog is it's own ActivityPub instance (as they just add support for the ActivityPub endpoints to the existing hosting)
I clicked on their profile to check and saw "Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!" and I thought this was spam but it's actually part of the footer of Hacker News. Hovering over the link, the URL reads "ai-sus".
At the company I work for, I routinely mock the software devs for solving every problem by adding yet another layer of abstraction. The piles of abstractions these people levy is mind numbingly absurd. Half the things they are fixing, if not more, are created by the abstractions in the first place.
Or mine some crypto with the excess. I'm only half kidding. Having too much power is a good problem to have.
Replying to myself because I’m past the edit window - the trial I’m referring to was through a third party (Walmart) it sounds as if the terms vary on a case by case basis.
Love to see it.

Regenerative farming is about to make a comeback in America.
Thanks for answering!

Assuming your original question was not rhetorical and was asked in good faith, other people who've used SFZero before the advent of LLM's made sure they understood juce::Synthesizer (despite its many warts, juce's public interfaces are well documented and represent a strong point) as this just defines a specific implementation, and either referenced the provided example or read the headers, which are pretty straightforward.

It's great that the LLM was able to get you to where you wanted to be, and congratulations on getting your project to that milestone. Especially for not having worked in C++ before! But to the point of the person you were responding to, the LLM was not fulfilling a generally unmet need. Everything a professional or practiced amateur needs was there already.
Well this was an unexpectedly and horrendously heartbreaking story to find.
why not?
all matter is photo reactive, and will hold a charge, and has some magnetic susceptibility and conduction of heat and electricty
so the potential number of materials for use in solar pv, battery storage,super conduction and memory is essentialy infinite, and we only need 4

odds are very good that we will find what we are looking for
> It seems like any language other than C has poor interoperability with anything other than C

Interop between C and classic 3rd generation languages such as Fortran, Pascal, Basic, COBOL, Algol, PL/I, tends to not be that hard [0] – because their feature set is at roughly the same level as C's: just functions/procedures without polymorphism or inheritance, relatively simple (non-OO) data types, etc.

Whereas, C++/Go/Rust/Swift/Ada/etc all add lots of complex features on top, and it is when you use all those complex features, interop with C and classic 3GLs gets harder. Sometimes you can define a subset which omits many of those more complex features and makes interop easier, but then you lose out on the benefits those features bring

[0] one complexity, is for historical reasons, sometimes these languages use different calling conventions than C – but on platforms on which that is an issue, it isn't uncommon for C compilers to support those additional calling conventions as an extension, and newer implementations of those languages for newer platforms are generally converging to C's calling conventions. Another is that some of these languages have data types for which C lacks native support – e.g. many COBOL implementations feature BCD arithmetic – but it is easy to write a routine in C to convert BCD to binary and back.
Got a link? I flipped through the last dozen or so blog posts and none of them hit on a search for "FOIA".
I'm the same way. A friend of mine bought a new couch because she wanted a change of pace, so I came over to help her. I have no idea how that couch got in. I ended up literally sawing it in half (it was an old, beat down couch) to be able to remove it.

Needless to say, that reinforced by Ikea furniture only mindset until I know I'm not moving for a decade.
Lightning doesn't cause fire because I have observed fire created by matches under a blue sky.

(I've also observed lightning that was not followed by fire. We really need to stop wasting money on lightning rods.)
Because Elon giving the finger to the public is more important

He literally gloated on his website about closing it
They’re pulling it in as a dependency. it’s not a fork.

As soon as you run cargo build the source code will be fetched including the original license. That’s better than a settings menu with just a license!
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.

I don't want GPUs, but that's not quite the reason:

- The SOTA for most use cases for most classes of models with smallish inputs is fast enough and more cost efficient on a CPU.

- With medium inputs, the GPU often wins out, but costs are high enough that a 10x markup isn't worth it, especially since the costs are still often low compared to networking and whatnot. Factor in engineer hours and these higher-priced machines, and the total cost of a CPU solution is often still lower (always more debuggable).

- For large inputs/models, the GPU definitely wins, but now the costs are at a scale that a 10x markup is untenable. It's cheaper to build your own cluster or pay engineers to hack around the deficits of a larger, hosted LLM.

- For xlarge models™ (fuzzily defined to be anything substantially bigger than the current SOTA), GPUs are fundamentally the wrong abstraction. We _can_ keep pushing in the current directions (transformers requiring O(params * seq^2) work, pseudo-transformers requiring O(params * seq) work but with a hidden, always-activated state space buried in that `params` term which has to increase nearly linearly in size to attain the same accuracy with longer sequences, ...), but the cost of doing so is exorbitant. If you look at what's provably required to do those sorts of computations, the "chuck it in a big slice of vRAM and do everything in parallel" strategy gets more expensive compared to theoretical optimality as model size increases.

I've rented a lot of GPUs. I'll probably continue to do so in the future. It's a small fraction of my overall spending though. There aren't many products I can envision which could be built on rented GPUs more efficiently than rented CPUs or in-house GPUs.
Looking forward to what will come as a result of this EO.
Linkedin used to be business. Today is just idiota trying to sound smart or business influencers.

Seems like LinkedIn boost people with less useful content ever seen.

There are ton of people (mostly Indians) who just copy good articles from internet and put into Linkedin without quoting the real authors.
The domain ends in dot gov
The system dynamics[1] view here would be that complex dynamic system behavior tends to be dominated by feedback loops; and once identified let you ignore many of the other factors. And the trick is to figure out ways to introduce or activate feedback loops that work in your favor, instead of against it. To me that gives some hope of the existence of “simple” solutions to managing complex system behavior over time.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
> In what sense have nand gates "not gotten smaller"?

Because 22nm was not actually 22nm, and 3nm is not actually 3nm.
LLM Ecosystem Predictions
The text is the material. The medium is the message!
The increase in complexity of tax law coincided with the era of COBOL mainframes and those changes were a lot easier to implement incrementally, but to build it from scratch now is a herculean task regardless of the language.

AI definitely won’t help with that.
The government should provide a fund for people who have experienced child loss so they never have to work again.
Is this deep state in the room with us now?

Funny to hear people parrot that term, when they clearly have no idea about the machinations of government, national security, etc.

"Deep state" is obviously a bogeyman, manufactured (likely by a foreign adversary) to allow a corrupt regime to destroy our government, our democracy, and our way of life in plain sight.

This term was artificially injected into the political lexicon just a few short years ago, yet the flock has internalized their deep anger around it as if it's been part of a personal, lifelong struggle that has destroyed generations of their families.

Meanwhile, the same leaders who championed the term engage in frank corruption and are openly realigning our nation with adversaries who don't share our national values, by creed.
The software is was written in the 60s and patched, patched, patched... I knew someone who worked on it, he passed away in the late 90s.

Plus tax laws change every year, in many cases causing massive changes. Every conversion failed because no one is left fully understands the whole system.

Plus for a conversion, you need a long quiet time, with the tax laws you never get that.

Not to mention, even with Biden's additional funding, which I am sure it will be cut, it is far from the amount needed for a successful project.

So here we are. I think some "modernization" has occurred, but the core system is still running some 60 year old software.

Note, I knew a lot of people who worked there prior to 2000, so maybe what I know is a bit out of date. But I doubt it since the attempts I have read about over the past 20 years did not succeed.
Is it a government website?
Which ChatGPT likely "always does" because the vast majoity of style manuals prescribe closed usage[1][2][3], and that's therefore how it mostly appears in human-generated text. It's definitely how I learned to use it long before LLMs existed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Spacing_and_substitution

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-...

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/punctuation/da...
Specifically, "told you so" as we all sink into the abyss.
Indeed, I have to wonder how many people actually understand Kubernetes. Not just as a “user” but exactly all what it is doing behind the scenes…

Just an “idle” Kubernetes system is a behemoth to comprehend…
> GPU workloads tend to have terrible cold-start performance by their nature

My Fly machine loads from turned off to first inference complete in about 35 seconds.

If it’s already running, it’s 15 seconds to complete. I think that’s pretty decent.