skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possible in principle, very hard in practice, even with full access to necessary asml machines and with a lot of experience and expertise without the difficulty of stealing incomplete information.

They certainly can’t “just” do that, no :-).

Source: see Intel, who have the money, experience, expertise, time, incentive and asml machines to do this and are making a big bet on gaining TSMC parity (at least). If the stock price is any indication, they are unlikely to succeed.

Disclaimer: I work at Intel but in an unrelated area. My information in this area is the same as an interested outsider. I do fiercely want them to succeed in becoming the only tsmc competitor.
https://floccus.org/
That is also unrelated. Firefox Sync itself requires Mozilla Accounts to function at all, which requires email for verification and password reset. To properly self-host Firefox Sync you need those parts too, which includes an SMTP server (or substitute).
Nominate your invertebrate species of the year
Sure, difficult to really explain it as I don't think I have the correct physiological knowledge/vocabulary but I can try to paint a picture.

We assembled a plastic product with about 20 components of different shapes and sizes. There were slots to align and friction fit, there were things to click, wires to route, glue to dab etc.

The far extreme of "can think in 3D" were the people who could be shown the finished item, the kit of parts and pretty much just assemble it. They would miss some "trick" or "knack" we had developed and they might not quite get the alignment or placement of a part perfectly but the product would work.

The opposite end were the people who unless I was stood with them and helping to move the components in to alignment just simply couldn't "get" it. It was as if they didn't have a the ability to retain the finished view and movement through 3D space required to complete the movement. Could also have been a coordination, dexterity or proprioception issue.

Of course this was a spectrum and we had to make a judgement call (often in discussion with them) about how they would improve/get up to speed or if it was a lost cause. We built jigs and tools to help remove the finesse required in the assembly which helped a lot BUT, when you got someone who could just see it no amount of training or jigs could get everyone to that speed.

On quiet days we would have little competitions on certain stations to see if people could get a new record and it was those days when you could really see the people who just got it. The best example I can give was making the final cardboard packing boxes, this was an 8 movement process from flat box to assembled with lid open, the record was 2.7 sections, a sustainable pace (so the time that actually mattered) was around 7 seconds, people who just couldn't get it were over 30 seconds and usually with many quality issues as at those people were often fighting the box and material.
> I can understand that this could be a means of trying to bargain with Russia

Is the secretary acknowledging the US does offensive operations against Russian targets? Why would he even do that?!
I have some shamefully bloated webpages and some rather low end computes. I don't know why or how and realize it is highly anecdotal. Just sharing my surprise. I don't have any extensions. (if you do add things to chrome that are native in brave I imagine it to work slower) Perhaps it is my limited ram that holds back (the more memory hungry) chrome. Not sure how regularly calling home affects chrome.
Taking that lesson to its extreme you realize there's a rounding effect where seemingly no matter how carefully you hold the file, the edges of the face are cut down more than the center. To combat this you might discover you can use the end of the file (like the last tooth) as a scraper. You can use a gauge block and some blue ink to discover the high spots and repeatedly work them until it's flat. Congratulations! You've just discovered how to make a lathe bed.
AWS is not a greener solution because it fails to solve the primary goal i.e. DIY, decentralisation and self-ownership.

Besides, the environmental cost of AWS is not the power-draw of your VPS, it's the externalities of monopolistic-capitalism. You are not just funding private jets but a fascist oligarchy and handing them control. It's not even scifi doomerism any more. We are watching in real-time as American oligarchs dismantle environmental laws and I expect there will be glowing editorials in the AWS owner's newspaper.

In a similar vein, I presume that providing AWS as a publicly owned utility (socialism) would also not achieve their goals of individual self-sufficiency. I presume it's more prepper-ish than utopian and considers state centralisation too vulnerable to capture by negative regimes.
Relay is unrelated to that conversation.
> implies you're solving a problem for yourself, not the world.

But I don't have to solve the problem of feeding the entire world sustainably¹. I just have to make sure that my contribution to a more sustainable world is net positive. It is.

The same argument often comes up in "Being vegetarian": my personal choice won't solve animal welfare or carbon emissions of food production. But all the vegetarians in the world do make a large difference.

> 80% of the resources you are buying to support your hobby farm

That's a bold statement to make and one that I know, for a fact, to be untrue. I source most myself. You truly don't need that much to grow 20kg of apples or 10kg of tomatoes in a year. Nearly all of what it needs is provided by "nature" and my direct surroundings. From compost to seeds to sun, water and CO2. I really don't need that much to grow this. Same for keeping bees. Some wood for their hives - less wood per hive than the pallet used for shipping your honey from China into Europe. Some tools and some (reusable) packaging. But non of that compares to what's needed to get that plastic squeezy jar of honey into your cabinet. I'm certain my net emission is far less - per jar, per tomato, per apple than when I'd buy them in a supermarket.

¹ And that ignores the fact that the current model of food production also cannot feed the entire world population on generational timescale. So to argue that my "contribution" won't feed the world is a strange one.
Empires collapse. States do too. NRx wants a philosopher-king from a tradition that believed in cyclical power structures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory

Meanwhile, the open question is whether or how much AI will kill humanity. No one questions how AI will compete against and govern itself; they just assume it'll be more capitalism!
This is not the case. A Russian puppet took over the Ukrainian government on promises of aligning Ukraine with Europe and was removed by the Ukrainian people when it was clear he had lied. He then fled to Russia, where he belongs. The legislature did the equivalent of impeachment+removal to remove him from office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
Yes, he did everything he could to prevent it - being mocked mercilessly by the rightwing for suggesting Putin might do what he eventually did.

Biden did not do enough to kick Russia out, though. He should have given Ukraine everything they wanted, including a no-fly zone (and ideally Warthog support when Russia was stuck in the mud).
Languages like haxe simply won't compile if you don't cover every enum value in a switch case. Would that not be preferable? I quite like that feature.

F# I believe is similar wrt discriminated unions and pattern matching
Thanks for linking to that! Really enjoyed it
I'm sorry you had to find out this way but no, souls aren't real.
You're right.

I think I confused it with the Eevee Next project released last year.

https://code.blender.org/2024/07/eevee-next-generation-in-bl...
> You don't seem to be able to encounter someone that disagrees with you without immediately assuming they must be doing something wrong, lack experience, or be stupid.

Yes. Not stupid though. More lack of experience. That’s my opinion about it and in my opinion the gui is better and that is a fact.

What I don’t understand is why my opinion about something as a fact no matter how extreme leads to you openly calling me a stupid fanatic and calling me a child?

I said you come off as stupider earlier with the additional statement of “not to be insulting”. I also said it to sort of illustrate to you and imitate you on what happens when you call someone stupid and then say the words “I don’t mean to be insulting” as if that negates what is in actuality an insult. It doesn’t and now you’ve openly called me a child. This ends here. Good day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_re...
Yeah, I strongly disagree with this too.

I've spent a lot of time reviewing code and doing code audits for security (far more than the average engineer) and reading code still takes longer than writing it, particularly when it is dense and you cannot actually trust the comments and variable names to be true.

AI is completely untrustable in that sense. The English and code have no particular reason to align so you really need to read the code itself.

These models may also use unfamiliar idioms where you don't know the edge cases where you either have to fight the model to do it a different way, or go investigate the idiom and think through the edge cases if you really want to understand it.

I think most people just don't read the code these models produce at all and just click accept and then just see if tests pass or just look at the output manually.

I am still trying to give it a go, and sometimes it really does make things easier on simpler tasks and I am blown away, and it has been getting better, but I feel like I need to set myself a hard timeout with these tools where if they haven't done basically what I wanted quickly, I should just start from scratch since the task is beyond them and I'll spend more time on the back and forth.

They are useful for giving me the motivation to do things that I'm avoiding because they're too boring though because after fighting with them for 20 minutes I'm ready to go write the code.
What an apologist for Putin…

With BS statements such as

> The Russians didn’t conquer or invade Crimea. The Russians didn’t invade Crimea. They were already there because they had a leasing agreement. There’s a naval base at Sevastopol, and the Russians were leasing

Sure they had a leasing agreement over parts of Crimea but they sure didn’t have military control of it all
> Privacy is a key human right that should not be abrogated by the state, ever.

Nonsense. The state definitely has the right to seek out criminal and undermining elements. Better, a democratic state has the obligation to do so.

> Would you be 'okay' with Russia and China operating their own Pine Gap

They do. And there's nothing I can do against it.

> even though they have not murdered as many innocent human beings on the basis of lies in one illegal war, after the other, as the USA and its war-crime committing cohorts have.

Oh dear, aren't we rabidly anti-West today? I wonder how you square that with your "Privacy is a key human right that should not be abrogated by the state, ever." stance.

> Or do you really think that China and Russia have murdered as many civilians as the USA and its minion states have done, this century, in one illegal war after another?

Why the sudden switch to "this century"? Your argumentation is switch-and-bait throughout. But China probably has perhaps already murdered more Uygurs, and if we add its "minion" Myanmar, they'll top it.
My old boss keeps telling me to watch that. Thanks for the reminder!
Maybe they taught it that a) it doesn't work, and b) not to tell anyone.

Lying will goad a person into trying again; the brutally honest truth will stop them like a brick wall.
It's enough different components to not be a good fit for an all-in-one image at all. That road lies madness.

docker-compose is a much better fit. That already exists. What we need is more people actually deploying and engaging (;
It's a great product to navigate ubiquitous ads
Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
> At which point you'll be a decade behind TSMC.

Moore law is losing steam. TSMC itself is probably just 10-20 years behind physical limits. A decade from now TSMC will run out of room to be much ahead anyway.
It’s better than nothing. If he has something better than nothing he’d present it. I doubt he does though.
We're talking about recommended content. I can't tell if you're trying to be pedantic.
Mars Energy Challenge [video]
My problem is that having it makes me want to use it.
That is not how I interpreted “all non-classified, non-sensitive public data”
Reminds me of the time I was chastised for adding a NULL check to keep <program> from segfaulting by the dev responsible for said segfault because crashing without even as much as a warning was "intended behavior". IIRC this was over reading a file from disk and just assuming it existed.
You are 100% correct, but decided not to try to fix it manually, as it's a cool demo "I did this in 15 minutes in ai chat".

Truth be told, it has less UI issues than my last outsourced app I deployed. And it had dedicated UI team and a few million budget.

The Hamster v0.0.1 is working. He's just not great at his job.
Your (3) is beautifully said... and to prove the point, we are perfectly able to make computational systems that can manipulate symbols in the same way that Gödel did to verify the incompleteness theorem. Humans and computers are both able to do work within either logical system, and incapable of doing work that crosses between them.

Everything that makes "truth" slippery makes "intelligence" and "consciousness" even more slippery and subjective. This is why AGI has such negative impact on AI discourse -- the cause only advances when we focus on improving at measurable tasks.
You could go show the world that your favorite language is better by writing a browser in it instead of complaining about the work others are doing.
I guess I just don't understand the insane degree to which business will go to deliver "toothpaste and batteries" — communities be damned.

I suppose if I am being charitable to Big Corp I should instead blame the people of these various communities for placing orders for toothpaste by way of Amazon.

Like a lot for things these days, a lot of the crap is in fact just what you see on the surface. You start digging at it and there are just layers and layers of it. And I know I am being a little dramatic here, but as a society I feel like we are increasingly losing (and I use that word loosely and broadly) and we're going to ultimately be the losers.

I didn't mean to rant or put so fine a point on the thing, but it kind of is these little things that just boggle my mind — why they exist at all. And so often "we" seem to be without agency to forestall them. And does it seem like the public is in general gaining more or less agency with regard to billion-dollar corporations in the current climate we find ourselves in? (That was I think rhetorical.)

And then of course even though small, these things just keep piling on....
Is this not just a global convolution?
I think those might be a specific kind of greenhouse rather than a standard polytunnel. The back wall is essentially a solar heat store.

Here's an article on them:

Chinese-style Solar Greenhouses

https://ag.purdue.edu/department/btny/ppdl/potw-dept-folder/...
The Framework Laptop 13 has just been upgraded to AMD's Strix Point
> I know an engineer who spent two years of his life making sure the new water pump designs would fail at warranty + 50 percent, but only in an annoying, non catastrophic way.

Wow what an abhorrent waste of talent and life.
There's a general pattern of:

- People inventing new technologies to not write SQL
- People inventing ways to avoid writing HTML

I feel like the solution to both of these is just to stick to SQL / HTML as for both of these there's a lot of resources, tooling and knowledge and they will not go away. They are transferable between languages, projects and whatever tooling companies are using.
Map: https://gpsjam.org
>The problem is that this would have be to incorporated worldwide wise. Otherwise will capital first run to different cheaper state or different (tax paradise) country. I'm also not sure if alone would solve the problem.

For the US specifically I disagree. The massive size of the US consumer market puts so much power in the hands of the government, that they are currently not using. Probably due to lobbying from corporations that try to prevent just that.

Agree on overproduction. This could also be handled by government subsidies or straight up government investment. Eg. solar and wind investment doesn't have a good ROI anymore for private companies. Maybe the state should be the provider of energy, so we can get very cheap and sustainable power.
It takes decades to turn on a new plant which is why you won't see the latest and greatest commercially deployed anytime soon.
Alibaba research launches new RISC-V processor for high-performance computing
Just did, mind blown. I didn't know "parasitic brooding" was a thing in any animals, but totally makes sense.

As always, the HN collective helps my brainspace and experience of the world grow a bit.

Edit: I’ll pay it forward with another one: my favorite fact about bluejays is their evolved mimicry of hawks’ screams, to scare away other birds.
https://archive.is/qaFhc
ha! just thought of the same..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43240394
>It was exactly the point I said at the start should be the point of focus. Maybe we're talking past one another, I don't know.

I think we do - we agree that the symptom is that we don't experience the same gains now as we used to, and that is a problem.

My issue is the notion that this is caused by a slowdown in performance gains from the hardware side, when this is clearly not the case. A common complaint is along the lines of "we only got 30% when last time we got 50%", which completely ignores that the latter 30% is way more actual new performance than the previous 50%.

>I legitimately just do not see the utility of framing the topic this way.

IMO it's always useful to identify the actual reason for a problem and think about the fundamentals.

If the problem is that we're not experiencing the performance gains, we should be asking ourselves "Why does software feel slower today despite the hardware having 10x more performance".

Instead we complain about the hardware for not managing to add the equivalent of all previous performance gains every 2 years, because Moore's law observed that it did so in the beginning of the chessboard (so to speak).

Instead of wondering whether Moore's law is dying or not, we should question why Wirth's law seems to be immortal! ;)
And make for nice props that show up well on a 90s CRT, and they fit the Stargate aesthetic that lifted many 60s hippy occultist ideas including both "pyramids are too advanced, space aliens must have built them"[0] and "crystal skull has psychic powers"[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F (hmm, even the book name sounds like two SG-1 episode titles, pilot and when thrmey meet Thor)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull
There is zero chance that anyone can invade a country and take its semiconductor infrastructure even vaguely intact if the defenders are disinclined to allow it.

A cup of coffee dumped in the machinery would destroy most of it beyond all hope of repair, let alone something fragmentary and full of nitrogen bonds.

The only sanction you could perform would be "no chips for anyone, anywhere".

And in such a, uh, kinetic, situation, I'm absolutely sure neither side will allow the other to retain working facilities that don't undergo very unfortunate accidents. Even a sudden power cut can be devastating. A foil balloon was enough to take out multiple fabs in Germany, and Samsung dropped 3.5% of global flash supply on the floor from 30 minutes down.

MAD doesn't come only in nuclear flavor.
Agree, just means less time developing and more time on quality control.
Any chance those chips will be marketed outside China? I eagerly wait for the day when I'll be able to buy my first RISC-V desktop, not just some expensive barebones dev board.
How much of your time is spent doing math that goes nowhere?
I bear upon you a first hand account.

The then lawless frontier rouge state Ukraine was host to a CIA sponsored safe house where a white hate white terror thought control cell directed the rape and murder of the families (women, children, men) of Russian sleeper agents from “the old world.”

Note, these had always been there, were retired, and had no active operations, they were relics.

One of the four early super sonic missles obliterated this cell and every trace.

I do not condone the unlawful warfare upon the Ukrainians however the circumstance is far more complex than laypersons are capable of comprehending (world shattering wtf.)

We are thought controlled! The war is raging within us all this very moment.
They did- they are so catchy, there recently was a post about Vietnamese graphic design - spectacular stuff and colors. This poppy propaganda plus the space tech is what generated the self-image of a "loosing" system capitalism in the west.
Hehehe - Nice distinction!
That reminds me of what happened with Kitchenaid, where now only the pro line and better has metal gears, which is why folks seek out the old models at garage sales.
> This is no different from any other enabling technology.

Coding is unique. One can't replace considered, forward-thinking data flow design reasoning with fancy guesswork and triage.

Should anyone build a complex brick wall by just iterating over the possible solutions? Hell no. That's what expertise is for, and that is only attained via hard graft, and predicting the next word is not going to be a viable substitute.

It's all a circle jerk of people hoping for a magic box.
Lots of rich people become poor as well, maybe its just that few people see a celebrity or multimillionaire going bankrupt and disappearing from the public view or their decedents blowing their inherited money on designer goods, cars, gambling alcohol or an expensive spouse who loves them for their money as particularly notable.

"from rags to rags in three generations" etc...
If you have someone who you trust deeply and who cares about you, consider setting parental locks on each other’s devices. On iOS and macOS it’s dead simple to set up. The Lenten season is coming up and my wife and I have decided to both give up social media completely until Easter. Much like celebrating Christmas is a good time for goodwill, it can be a good season to try giving up something you feel is not good for you.

I’ve decided I’m going to spend my free time using making a ground up point and click adventure game with my kids. We spent about two hours on it this weekend and my girls (six and ten) were howling with laughter. It’s cool to see my oldest drawing up plans for what she wants each room of the game to look like, and what she wants to be able to do. All very exciting and new. GitHub copilot makes making it almost trivial, just spun up vite with typescript, created a canvas element, and off to the races.
I never knew it as "shop class", but my high school in Austraia had a "metalworking" elective and it was _so cool_. I made a mirror frame and a sword.
With Great Power Came No Responsibility: Enshittification in the Trump Age
Have been having the same thoughts lately, and always find myself asking that am I turning into a sour conservative who doesn't like progress.

But no, there's lots of progress I like, just increasing traffic (here traffic in airspace increases from zero to non-zero) is never something I like. Plus those drones are really loud, I wouldn't want to bother my neighbors by ordering with those.