skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For inference the bandwidth is generally not parallelized because the weights need to go through the model layer by layer. The most common model splitting method is done by assigning each GPU a subset of the LLM layers and it doesn't take much bandwidth to send model weights via PCIE to the next GPU.
I think that the people who want to use encryption should use their own software for encryption, which is separate from the cloud service. (This alone might not do, because you also need to implement other security, but it will be one thing to do.)
Kinda curious to see how man tok/sec it can crush. Could be a fun way to host AI apps.
Live updates: Supreme Court rejects Trump's foreign aid freeze
Depends, brigading can be organic or artifical. Artificial brigading from a campaign of controlled accts would be proper astroturfing.
The Texas lottery has an app you can use to scan the tickets unique barcodes printed under the scratch off layer and find out if and how much the ticket won.

Haven't ever dug into it but the app doesn't require a login to use that function so I'm willing to bet there's an unauthenticated API endpoint that could be sniffed out (they may possibly have it documented somewhere too).

Outside of being a fun itch to scratch, using the app directly is fast enough with very little effort.
> Saudi Aramco declined to comment. Coal India, ExxonMobil, Chevron, TotalEnergies and BP did not respond to requests for comment.

They're not even concerned enough to lie to us. Must be feeling pretty untouchable.
I finally heard a politician openly tell it how it is today! Current French Senator Claude Malhuret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh0TUTtvI :

>Washington became the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester under ketamine in charge of the purification of the public service.

>in one month, Trump has done more harm to America than in four years of his last presidency. We were at war against a dictator, we are now fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor.

https://www.rawstory.com/french-senator-musk-trump/ covers it, https://www.resetera.com/threads/washington-became-the-court... <- this has whole speech translated.

Macron, Starmer, even my own president are all still in denial :| Germany's Merz seems to know whats going on, but is still trying to be veeeery diplomatic about it.
It'd be better to scan the barcode that lotto machines scan to determine if it won. It's possible, but rare, to get a misprint where the ticket does not have winning symbols, but scans as a winner.

I pick up and scan any scratchers I find littered near stores. I've made a few hundred dollars over the years on misprints like that.
Practical Focus: Saying "Not Now" Instead of "No"
Atmospheric drag on satellites- especially how it changes with solar output levels- is a hard thing to model accurately, and a major contributor to orbital uncertainty here on Earth. The Martian atmosphere is two orders of magnitude thinner, but it is far less than two orders of magnitude understood. And the level of our understanding matters for our ability to correct for it's perturbations.

NASA is very good at sending spacecraft through regular space and hitting precise windows (MCO units issues aside), it's in orbit that things get more complicated, because now there are just a lot more potential interactions to deal with. We can use LOS on planetary occultations to give you some data, but it's still a lot of work to get from there to mascon maps, upper atmospheric data, etc.
... until they outlaw silent prayer?
My blog is a set of markdown files parsed to HTML by an ASP.NET application. You can self host GitHb actions runners, so making a new post is as simple as committing a markdown file. I wrote the static site stuff myself which was probably a waste of time, but a static site created by Hugo/Jekyll/etc. hosted on your own VPS or server and deployed with GitHub actions (or another version control equivalent) is definitely the way to go.

https://github.com/eoncarlyle/portfolio-website
https://iainschmitt.com/post/november-2024-grab-bag#moving-t...
https://iainschmitt.com/post/new-syntax-highlighting
I had the same question - what does this add beyond normal DuckDB?
It's not only a column but a daily email. Of 20 unread emails in my inbox 17 are these ones. It's too good to archive without at least skimming through. But it's a longish read and accumulates fast.
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Wow that’s a pretty glowing review of the service. Sucks about the pricing though.

I haven’t really looked at math academy, but I was in school (including college) I probably learned 40% of math from khan academy, 40% from textbooks, and maybe 10% from lectures.

How does math academy compare to Khan academy?
I sort of have to hand it to republicans, I am impressed by their commitment to slash spending even in the face of hurting their own constituents, like at least they're consistent.

On the other hand, it's amazing that people seem to hear "Republicans will make the Government better" Rather than "Republicans will slash and burn the Government regardless of who it hurts" even when they're not particularly quiet about it.
I should have said "large" then, I could only find a 16" model with the specs I want. It's not bulky in the sense that a gaming laptop is.
Vietnam wasn't a war of defense, so it's not a great comparison. Maybe better to compare UK conscription in WW2. Which I can't really say whether it's immoral or not.
Unfortunately, you're likely being generous to Putin if you think the killing will stop just because Ukraine surrenders.
>Is this just a weekly Roundup of financial events?

Matt publishes his newsletter Monday-Thursday, and a podcast on Fridays. It is a roundup of stories with high quality commentary on 2-4 stories, and a list of additional interesting articles at the bottom. He used to be an attorney with Goldman Sachs, giving him a good background for adding context to market corner cases people exploit, incentives of different parties involved in deals, legal perspective, etc.

Two of his main lines is "everything is securities fraud" and "everything might be insider trading", with probably 100+ examples of each over the years.
If you don't believe that long-term Bitcoin is going 10x - 100x and becomes, at the very least, a planetary store of value, then of course Strategic Bitcoin Reserve doesn't make any sense.

If you do believe that then you understand why any person, company or country will benefit financially by stocking up on Bitcoin today.

If you believe that Beanie babies or russian ruble will 10x - 100x then you would believe that any person, company or country will benefit financially by stocking on beanie babies today.
Hopefully this posted correctly
I don't think too many people have an issue with the idea of "right sizing" the government. It's an organization meant to achieve goals; there's an approximate number of people needed to do this and anything beyond is waste.

What rubs a lot of people the wrong way is an executive branch run by billionaires acting with no constitutional or statutory authority to terminate the employment (and vital benefits that come with it) of tens of thousands of ordinary people without any real consideration for the institutional knowledge being lost, all in the name of "efficiency" and "cost savings", while the people in the executive branch have far more value than they could have ever produced in a human lifetime, and stand to benefit the most from such destruction.
>> ... and your eyeballs move left to right when you're reading.

How long until this is also fixed by the software? :-) This is within the state of the art now.

>> CV was also full of exaggerations that were generated.

+1. I see companies offering AI-generated CVs which barely even ask about the work a candidate has done. One of them stated that the customer should refine the AI-generated CV to match their actual skills and experience, but did not say anything about how their product/service helps with this. It's just left at AI-autogenerated CV. (Shame on such companies.)
TB 5 seems like the sort of thing you could 'slap on' to a beefy enough chip.

Or the sort of thing you put onto a successor when you had your fingers crossed that the spec and hardware would finalize in time for your product launch but the fucking committee went into paralysis again at the last moment and now your product has to ship 4 months before you can put TB 5 hardware on shelves. So you put your TB4 circuitry on a chip that has the bandwidth to handle TB5 and you wait for the sequel.
Inspiring and well written. It resonated with me for I find myself in a similar position. I wonder how much time did the author commit on weekly basis. Nonetheless, I wanted to signup on Math Academy immediately but doesn't look cheap.

Are there any other recommended websites for learning math (apart from Khan Academy, Math Academy)?
https://archive.ph/2025.03.05-013509/https://www.sacbee.com/...
I have read a lot of Matt Lavine, but just remembered it having more editorial analysis. Maybe that is the difference between the daily and other articles?
It doesn't matter if it's actually unfair or not. What matters is if it feels unfair.
The Administration actions are all to fund the $4.5 trillion tax cut.

* DOGE - Cut Expenses

* Tariff - Bring Revenue (another form of Tax, the victimized countries can't/don't influence USA politics); this is essentially Sales/VAT Tax without being said as Sales/VAT Tax.

* Cutting Aids - Cut Expenses

* Ukraine - Cut Expenses

They're looking for all avenue to fund $4.5 trillion tax cut for the Billionaires.

That is the main logic and reason behind all these moves, not the smoke and mirror they said to the media.
One year I'll go this route.

Living in a city I can't really raise anything beyond herbs, however hunting once a year reduces my reliance on factory farming so much.
It definitely cannot be beaten using random inputs. It doesn't even get out of Pallet Town after billions of steps. We tested...
I gave up and started self-hosting Mailcow. It’s worth paying the support fee to free yourself to do other more productive things. Let them manage the complexities.
>2. get access to a router firmware in the lottery datacenter en route to the database

Seems non-trivial given that the database server is likely to be in the same datacenter/rack/physical machine. If you have this much access you might as well plant a backdoor in the server and tamper with the database however you want.

>3. wait for the query to get the winning numbers from the database

Are lottery winners determined immediately after they close? I thought they did a number picking ceremony by picking out literal number balls from a tumbler?
In that vein the actual order never uses the phrase 'reserve' only stockpile. I'm not sure it would rule it out though you could start it with the existing assets and then actively manage it like a reserve.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/stre...
25 arrested in crackdown of AI-generated child abuse images network
One can upgrade the SSD storage for a M1/M2 Mac Studio through a third party for a lot less money than what Apple requires at purchase time.

I'd expect an upgrade route for the new Mac Studio will appear.

Here's one YouTube video showing an upgrade to 8TB of SSD storage. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFCurB3-0Q
I do not work on "internet forms" but medical research :)
Why did the US let a child safety bill for social media die?
In a coordinated operation, Russian authorities conducted raids on three of Moscow’s largest and most popular nightclubs on Friday night, detaining hundreds of men and taking them to military conscription offices.

According to witnesses, dozens of police vehicles, including paddy wagons, lined up outside the nightclubs as enforcement personnel, accompanied by police K9 units, systematically entered the establishments. Clubgoers described the scene as chaotic, with people being escorted out in groups. The authorities focused their efforts on male patrons, detaining many of them and subsequently transporting them to local military conscription offices. Women, on the other hand, were eventually released after their passports were photographed.

One attendee, who wished to remain anonymous, described the atmosphere inside as tense and surreal. “It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. They came in and started checking IDs, taking the men away without much explanation. The music stopped, and everyone just froze,” the witness said.

Video from the raid: https://www.threads.net/@opium_hum/post/DDANoVHsojO
A new release of software or technology is not adapted for its new features. New technologies help to create new security vulnerabilities which in turn force new release of the tech. It's a vicious circle where tech and hacks play a catch-up game. Old PC hardware is like Mayans or uncontacted tribe from an island. They can't tolerate getting exposed to the new world of internet.

Also, companies don't want to invest in supporting multiple versions at any point in time, and can't afford reputation risk by not forcing upgrades.

My company let's the employees to request for and get a software installed, but can hardly allow them to use the features! The Risk & compliance department wouldn't like anyone to work or use any software properly. Any moving thing is a risk.
Sounds cleaner than Milorganite.
> generative AI models will be another?

In the same sense that a music producer telling an artist to "make me a new song" or a new album is creation of music on the part of the producer.

It's not what most people think of when they hear "creating music".
Same! Echopraxia did not really resonate on the first read, and I think it was misaligned expectations. As Peter himself said in one of his Reddit AMAs, it starts with action and continues with a lot of action.

But it's fundamentally not about action; in fact, it's hard to see the protagonists having much agency, and certainly no clear goals. It's almost existential in that sense; but based on that beginning, my mind was searching for a story and hero and conclusion.

On the second read, having the framework of the events in my mind, I could focus on the ideas, and it resonated much better. Now I re-read both books semi-regularly (just like Dune and Neuromancer:)
Yes, but it's perceived as abusive when two of the most feared devils come into play against you in a two-flanked attack: Network Effects and Vendor Lock-in.

I feel cornered when my social circle all use iPhones and then they want to Airdrop me something and I just can't receive it. I'm an Android man, I cannot stand the blue pill Apple feels to me.

Peer pressure is a serious threat, presented in the form of... abusive behaviour indeed.
Are you aware of the absurdity of your reply?

On one hand, multiple years of Russian government-controlled television running professional segments, depicting potential targets, stock footage of missiles flying and exploding, with supporting quotes and appearances from Russian government figures.

On the other hand, you recently saw *checks notes* internet randos venting, displeased how a portion of their government bends over backwards to appease Russia for no legitimate reason.

You want us to believe those are even remotely comparable? Weak.
Holy hell, they hired 83,000 people since 2019? Does no one care we are $36T in debt? 40% of our income taxes go to paying just the interest on our debt!
The first paragraph that talks about the OS itself is depressing:

>macOS Sequoia completes the new Mac Studio experience with a host of exciting features, including iPhone Mirroring, which allows users to wirelessly interact with their iPhone, its apps, and notifications directly from their Mac.

So that's their highlight for a pro workstation user.
i am sorry for my awful qa on the site :((((((((((((
There are already specialized instructions in the Apple Silicon chips. IIRC there's something tailored for the Objective-C runtime, and something useful for Javascript runtimes.
A joke whose punchline can be and frequently is retrofitted to any setup… isn’t a particularly funny joke.
> one of the biggest learning is that larger, generic models always win

You’re confusing several different ideas here.

The idea you’re talking about is called “the bitter lesson.” It (very basically) says that a model with more compute put behind it will perform better than a cleverer method which may use less compute. Has nothing to do with being “generic.” It’s also worth noting that, afaik, it’s an accurate observation, but not a law or a fact. It may not hold forever.

Either way, I’m not arguing against that. I’m saying that LLMs are too general to be useful in specific, specialized, domains.

Sure bigger generic models perform (increasingly marginally) better at the benchmarks we’ve cooked up, but they’re still too general to be that useful in any specific context. That’s the entire reason RAG exists in the first place.

I’m saying that a language model trained on a specific domain will perform better at tasks in that domain than a similar sized model (in terms of compute) trained on a lot of different, unrelated text.

For instance, a model trained specifically on code will produce better code than a similarly sized model trained on all available text.

I really hope that example makes what I’m saying self-evident.
Saying "no limit" is like saying you can accelerate to the speed of light.

There are physical limits, my friend.
Historically bombing civilians has always galvanised the public against the enemy more than it 'demoralises' them.

For instance the bombing of England during WW2 didn't break their will to fight. The fire bombing of 95% of Japan's cities didn't diminish their will to fight either.

And let's not forget the vietnam war... didn't seem to be effective for the US...

Bombing civilians rarely achieves any war goals and may actually have the opposite affect.
> there's a lot of inaction on the D side

Not true - I've gotten five fundraising texts today.

Now effective action? Not wrong.
I just don't like that a small minority of readers can flag something and make a decision for an entire community. There's all kinds of stories don't like on HN. But I've never flagged any submission. It's up to the community to determine what they want to interact with (and the majority of stories rarely get more than 2 up votes. So they know how to 9fnofe stories).
I don’t currently use AIs, but if I did, they would be local. Simply put: I can’t build my professional career around tools that I do not own.
> But it seems like nobody really cares.

I think enough people cared. I end up back on reddit from time to time but it's nothing like it was before the big 3rd party app debacle.
That person would be making nothing. The AI does everything.
I think I simply made a mistake in remembering the word :I

thank you
I miss the XServe almost as much as I miss the Airport Extreme.
Nope.

You needed to have multiple (exact count undefined) confirmed matches before anything was sent anywhere.

And even then "Apple employees" would only see a "reduced quality" (Can't remember the actual wording) version of the images. Basically just enough for them to determine if there's something actually illegal in there.

You'd have to be the unluckiest person in the world to get 5 false matches against actual verified child abuse imagery. And even then you'd just slightly inconvenience a human checker.

Now they're doing it in the cloud for every image you upload unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection. Just like every provider.

I think I'm literally one of the very few people in the world who actually read and understood the white paper - and I have the downvotes to prove it :)
Now this story that popped up last week makes some sense:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/27/texas-senate-lottery...
Veteran suicide can be massively helped with psilosibin and ketamine therapy, things that I hope RFK Jr will implement quickly.
It was discussed in the article, but to be more explicit, sometimes a person who is sure of their understanding of things learns a new thing and that new thing opens their eyes to a huge amount of complexity they were missing. They go from feeling like they knew everything there was to know about a thing to feeling like they know little to nothing about the thing. (this is the "Falling off Mount Stupidity")

Depending on how senior they are at work, that can be quite traumatic. A lot of people in tech sort of base their self image on how smart they perceive themselves to be with respect to their peers. When that perception inverts their own world model makes them feel worthless.

In the two cases where people I was managing this occurred (that I knew of) their productivity dropped like a rock and they became seriously depressed. One I managed to get back on track, the other left tech and I have lost track of where they ended up.
I love my Xerox! It's a VersaLink that I took from an office of a defunct company.

Came with replacement toner cartridges but I'm still on the set that was installed when I got it!!

Prints are crisp, fast, and it doesn't use very much power when idle. Love it!
each new framework is replacing the one "you learned" - that is the nature of this industry. the sooner you get that better off you will be.

flutter sure is dead, react will be dead too (probably cool kids these days already consider react dead anyways :) ).
Seems hard to enforce, no?
I think it's always been that way. The choices for a "flagship" laptop were always MacBook, ThinkPad, or XPS for at least the last 15 years.
> "low quality substitute" and "effortless" are value judgements on your behalf.

Accurate value judgements in this case.
Of course that, as usual, this was due to the West taking the hit, and China continuing doing pollution as usual:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48353341.amp

Let’s hope that now that Europe needs to focus on more important issues, they stop hindering our productivity with environmental artificial limits so that China can keep increasing their pollutants and industry.
No, and thank you!
IMO a true agent would 1) announce an unverifiable top secret something-or-another uncovered WMDs-or-similar-boogeymen[1] in Ukraine, then 2) convince Ukraine to capitulate or send in boots. Why not cut to the chase?

[1] Precedent: The Iraq War
a cool idea, except that battling actually doesn't even matter to the ai. if you look at what the agent is doing during a battle, it is sort of spamming options + picking damaging attacks. it would be a stretch to say that agents were 'good' at battling...
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