skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very big stake at risk if you let loose prematurely any old ancient manuscripts for those who are in authority.

For example imagine if the earlier ancient version manuscripts of holy books would say the totally opposite about the later version of the widely accepted holy books. Or the newly discovered ancient holy book manuscripts prophesized exactly in details of an upcoming prophet, but he belongs to the different later religion that the previous religion (of the newly discovered ancient religious manuscripts) has been denying all along for centuries. The list can go on but I think you get the point.

True story, researchers got personal death threat when they discovered statistically that Indus valley script are most probably alphabets for language not random symbols. By the way Indus valley script still has not been deciphered until now but those who do probably going to get Nobel prize to their names.
I could go for a good Chomsky essay, which one?
True, even back in my day the closest thing to a father figure would have been Steve from Blues Clues. But he was always coded more as an uncle/big brother instead.
> which need longer to recharge than it takes to top off a tank

Meanwhile, BYD says its new chargers can power vehicles for about 250 miles in five minutes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/byd-china-ev-maker-charge-five-...
The frontend world gave you many fancy toys; but they all come with hidden cost. It is your choice: do you want to stay on or get off this treadmill? My need is modest, so I got off. I rewrote my simple SPA from Svelte to SolidJS to no framework at all. Now I have ~1000 LOC javascript, ~500 LOC CSS, all written by myself. No framework, no package, no build step. If you want to see it in action:

https://airss.roastidio.us

It is a fully functional RSS reader. You are welcome to poke under the hood. The key insight is that I don't need reactivity, if re-rendering everything at every event is fast enough.

I believe this style of barebone SPA programming can scale up to at least 10,000 LOC javascript.
I think Jobs failed, but learned a lot from Sculley

That said I hated everuthing about ios 7 from a usability standpoint.
> Red Hat (not IBM) made the decision to end CentOS

I don't understand what you mean here? Wasn't Red Hat already owned by IBM when this decision was made?
No, we don't enforce any robots.txt restrictions ourselves. We also don't do any scraping ourselves. We provide browser infrastructure that operates like any normal browser would - what users choose to do with it is up to them. We're building tools that give AI agents the same web access capabilities that humans have, don't think it's our place to impose any additional limitations.
Bullshit, because I don't even know what "the McKinsey kool-aid" is on this topic.

But the best companies/teams I've worked at realized that some mistakes are inevitable, and they had a culture that quickly remedied those mistakes, learned from them, and moved on. The worst companies either (a) had "analysis paralysis" issues or (b) made lots of the same mistakes over and over and refused to learn.
I started using Things about 4-5 years ago and it's been amazing, partly because of the first-class support for syncing between devices and their cloud. Thanks for making this great!

I would be interested to read any articles you've written about Things's sync pattern, if any.
To save you the clickbait: the 1000-year old technology is screen printing and they use polyurethane to make wearable electronics. The whole article is actually a sales pitch for their Kickstarter.
It must be said that having this document in your possession when crossing the border may itself lead to suspicion.
> Rocky Linux is the replacement free RHEL-compatible distro

Wasn't (isn't) there another CentOS replacement that was created around the same time? Are they still around? Are there alternatives or is Rocky pretty much it?
The USPTO is limiting IPR, not the other way around.
Not just nationalism, but economic control. GMO is patented, farmers become dependent on USA ag companies.
You still have to wait for the final fsync which is only requested after the transaction work has completed. So not sure you’re gaining much if at all from this.

There’s also concurrency issues with writing and fsyncing the same fd: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/fsync-different-thread-usele...
Has the new administration replaced the leadership at the USPTO yet?
Bike is the one that gets me - when the full Ode to Joy hits I tear up every time.
Quantitative Finance: Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature Deep Hedging
American fascism isn't neonazizm. I'd wager that the people who subscribe to the tenants of "effective accellerationism" and related ideologies are more consciously fascist, and have a more coherent and articulable set of reasons why, than anyone wearing a swastika arm band in a neo-Nazi group.

You might say Musk might be too busy playing video games to actually have read up on the subject. He might be more of a hanger on. But the Germans would've charged him with a crime for what he did. They know what they saw.
"Just use HTTPS" sends French messages directly to NSA, insofar as those platforms are concerned. In that case there's not even a copy of any encryption key...
That's why we need a few billionaires to chip in!
I tell students today that the best way to learn is by studying the mistakes others have already made. Dismissing the solutions they found isn’t being independent or smart; it’s arrogance that sets you up to repeat the same failures.

Sounds like you had a good mentor. Buy them lunch one day.
How can you say that when individuals are not allowed to show religious symbols or wear religious clothing in any government-affiliated setting?

I don’t see how state-enforced irreligiousness (secularism/laicite) doesn’t completely contradict with individual freedoms.
Well now that Ross ulbricht has been pardoned I'm not sure iocaine is all that useful
I liked this article. I’ve been reading some intense leftist theory lately and this is refreshingly clear.
They designed it as a wireless mouse. Moving the port wouldn't change the reliability of the signals without a redesign.
I personally used scuzzy. I've heard it pronounced sexy.
Preventative Maintenance: Dust Buildup
Like I said, use something with a real debugger.
The "idea" to merge online and physical stores was way before even Ahrendts arrival. I remember it was a common topic during even Steve Jobs era. But it wasn't done because I think it wasn't a priority. People forget iPhone could lose out to Android like how Mac lost to Windows.

Katie Cotton passed away in 2023. She left in 2013/2014. I think that is quite some time after Apple.
How can we know that without excavating?
Slightly surprised that we don't yet have a model called goLLM or goLLeM.
This essay needs more work.

Are you arguing for a better software abstraction, a different hardware abstraction or both? Lots of esoteric machines are name dropped, but it isn't clear how that helps your argument.

Why not link to Vello? https://github.com/linebender/vello

I think a stronger essay would at the end give the reader a clear view of what Good means and how to decide if a machine is closer to Good than another machine and why.

SIMD machines can be turned into MIMD machines. Even hardware problems still need a software solution. The hardware is there to offer the right affordances for the kinds of software you want to write.

Lots of words that are in the eye of beholder. We need a checklist or that Good parallel computer won't be built.
Commodore PET 2001 Series
>Secure
All packages validated and delivered via secure supply chain from CIQ repositories.

How deep does this go.

Are they inspecting every line of code in every source repo ?

What happens when I need a package they haven't validated yet ?
Also, the Fifth Generation computer project subscribed to the old AI paradigm, not based on statistics.
https://github.com/ciq-rocky-fips
Because the federal government was meant to be extremely limited and mostly serve to mediate _actual_ interstate commerce and foreign affairs. The oft ignored 10th amendment left most everything else to states or the people.

The system wasn't designed to fairly accommodate the gigantic social benefits, massive regulatory apparatus, and local spending apparatus the feds now get involved in. The people that designed the Senate thought that stuff mostly wildly unconstitutional. If they planned on that stuff being constitutional they'd have likely made the Senate more like the house in composition.
> The Australian passport doesn’t require fatally accurate information per your own link:

>> Customers who identify as a gender other than male or female (intersex, indeterminate, unspecified, non-binary) may request that the gender in their ATD appear as X.

No fatalities are required.

Passport applicants are required to be factually accurate about their identity and how they identify.

Perhaps you might think on that a little.

There is also the very real cases of people that have applied for and hold Australian passports that were born neither [M] nor [F] by any clear apriori definition.

Hence the applications for change, the court cases and the Federal ruling.

There's no real wriggle room wrt the edges cases of 25 million births, not all births fall into the neat buckets of ideal preconceived notions. Empirical observation begs to differ.
"unless you have a target on your back"

If you are in, or on the border of, the United States, it's reasonable to assume you have a target on your back.

Otherwise the courts would not have made such ridiculous rulings.
Larrabee was something like that, didn't took off.

IMHO, the real issue is cache coherence. GPUs are spared from doing a lot of extra work by relaxing coherence guarantees quite a bit.

Regarding the vendor situation - that's basically how most of computing hardware is, save for the PC platform. And this exception is due to Microsoft successfully commoditizing their complements (which caused quite some woe on the software side back then).
Red Hat is probably the biggest single provider of GPL software in the world. They consistently choose the GPL for software they author and release. They founded and fund the Fedora Project themselves explicitly to be a community driven distro independent of their commercial efforts. They provide the full source to their products even though a huge percentage of the code is MIT, BSD, or Apache and does not require them to. They provide everything required to produce the "aggregate" full product even though the GPL does not require them to.

I will go on record now with the prediction that, if uutils catches on, Red Hat will be one of the last companies to move away from GNU. They are probably the largest contributor to glibc and GCC.

What evidence do you have that they would have "preferred not to provide source at all"? Because their is a mountain of evidence otherwise.

As an individual user, Red Hat will give you a free license to their flagship product. Then they will tell you how to download every line of code for it. I don't have a license. I do not use Red Hat (other than occasionally using the also totally free RHEL9 container).

"Remember when Red Hat tried to lock away the source code to subscribers only?"

I do not remember them changing the policy you are talking about. If you think they did, it highlights how overblown the response was at the time. The biggest impact of the Red Hat change is that Alma Linux is now a better project that can actually innovate and contribute.
> "Very quickly and for no clear reason" ...

The reason is crystal clear. A particularly stupid portion of Americans have gotten their lord and master, the undisputed "Emperor of Stupid" elected and it has emboldened them.
You are so close to enlightenment!
You probably already know about https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog are you saying we should accelerate scryer-prolog with a Grayskull board?
Here in Sweden the answer from the general public often is "yes, I am honest and have nothing to hide".

Unlike French media, Swedish media does not have a well-developed tradition of confronting those in power and/or demanding accountability.

I often get frustrated by how easily interviewees dodge direct questions by answering something completely different, and get a "thank you" from the journalist in return, instead of a follow-up question.
Playbook for maximizing the performance of deep learning models
> In this subthread we were looking at the question of any actual examples of foreign born leaders causing trouble for their host country.

No, we were looking for foreign born leaders who caused trouble because they were puppets for their birth country
I agree, they should rewrite the kernel in Rust
Built by Boeing? Hope it flies ok.
> when they seem eager to follow whatever the most current thing is?

Rust hit 1.0 *10 years ago*. How many more years will it take for people to stop constantly insinuating that people only use it because of the hype, and not simply because it's a vastly better language than C?
You are thinking of Alma, and I believe they are still going, though a lot seemed to be up in the air.
Funny how mathematicians always try to sneak their linear algebra and matrix theory into ML. If you didn't know any better, you'd think academicians had invented LLMs and are the experts to be consulted with.

If anything academicians and theoreticians held ML back and forced generations of grad students doing symbolic proofs, like in this example, just because computational techniques were too lowbrow for them.
"Sometimes, special people come into our lives, stay for a bit, and then they have to go"

As a kid who grew up poor and moved around a lot as mom tried to make ends meet, this episode fucking obliterated me. Goddamn 36 year old watching a neighbor's kids having to explain that I'm fine, don't worry, to a couple of very confused littles.
> The people that designed the Senate thought that stuff mostly wildly unconstitutional.

Do you have evidence of that? It sounds like an 'appeal to authority' of the small government crowd.

> the federal government was meant

It was meant to be a democracy, where the people are free to make it what they want.
And that is exactly the difference between old Apple and New Apple. Old Apple uses Apple Store as experience and services. It is part of the Apple ecosystem. It is not another "real estate property" like other Retail brands that is solely measured by incremental revenue.
A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
And flagged. This thread is so interesting and shows how much european language diversification is involved in tech. Not sure why some people cannot stand multi culti.:-)
You could try Barrier (formerly Synergy) for input and clipboard. I found that it's really good latency-wise on 100MBit+ LAN.
Sure you did. What were they? The only successful transputer was the T414 and it never made it outside academia.
> What I would like is a CPU with a highly parallel array of "worker cores" all addressing the same memory...

I too am very interested in this model. The Linux kernel supports up to 4,096 cores [1] on a single machine. In practice, you can rent a c7a.metal-48xl [2] instance on AWS EC2 with 192 vCPU cores. As for programming models, I personally find the Java Streams API [3] extremely versatile for many programming workloads. It effectively gives a linear speedup on serial streams for free (with some caveats). If you need something more sophisticated, you can look into OpenMP [4], an API for shared-memory parallelization.

I agree it is time for some new ideas in this space.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Perf-Support-2048-To-4096-Core...

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7a/

[3]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base...

[4]: https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/OpenMP
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
https://github.com/jax-ml/jax
> To me it just proves that they don't understand the very basic of how encryption works.

Even if you don't have the encryption keys you can read messages by breaking into a phone and taking screenshots, for example.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snakepit/id1625569471?...

Radical dependency calculation for PMF min/maxing at scale, 20 minute interview with cloud computing 2 nanometer mushroom tentacles. An intense deluge of immersive think-pieces that will forever change how you think about entrepreneurship in the age of LLMs. Increased my dopamine by 69x with 420 seconds of application.
That's how I avoid arrest.
Disable it if you want, I'm just offering an alternative for people who wouldn't bother taking that precaution because it's inconvenient. You're not going to convince everyone to take the full measure, and a half measure is better than no measure.
It is really shocking to me that this isn't more of a thing.

If the I/O block size is 4,096 bytes and you are doing things like updating a user's email address or some boolean preference, you could get a LOT more data packed in per unit space & time. Each block is enough to store an entire page of text or a small image.

The only caveat is that the system needs to be consistently under heavy load, or you would have to force clients to wait unreasonable amounts of time for a sufficient batch to accumulate.

I think the best goldilocks path is to put something like a MPSC ring buffer in front of the command processor and to "take what you can get" in terms of batch size each iteration.
Whether you count it as two continents or one depends on where you are from.
I have a command line tool that just takes a line of input, then writes the time stamped entry to a text file, one per quarter. A cron job pops up a terminal once an hour during business hours. I use that log to prepare for performance reviews to recall what I’d worked on, and I often go back to remember details about a problem I solved months or years ago. It’s fantastic, been using it for seven years.

In 2023, I wrote another script that appends a line to a csv file every 5 minutes. The line includes the focused window class, command line, title, name of the git branch that’s currently checked out, system idle time, and WiFi access point name. So I know pretty much how long I was working on everything vs other stuff like slack.

I’m finally starting to write tools to visualize and analyze this data. Is it going to change how I work? Not really, but for some reason I like seeing at a glance how I spent my time.
The cricket episode is so good! It gets me everytime.
lol can’t imagine the messy systems people create if they like UUID.
Ah, those are just wider-gamut conventional projectors.
So, the company wants us to trust them - trust that they will not take advantage off the BSDL to do things the GPL would prohibit them from doing. And we're supposed to trust them because doing so means that there would be more "hands on deck" (e.g. working on the now-canonical LZO compression library that everyone uses because it is BSDL).

Sorry, trust has been broken too often in these scenarios, and the benefits of lots more people working on the same library are not entirely clear.

I understand that many companies don't want to be a part of the pool of software licensed under the GPL - that is their right. But don't try to spin this "if only BSDL was the common one, there'd be a much bigger utilization of a different pool of software". That might even be true, but it would come with the caveat that tivoization would always be an option, which for some of us is something more significant.
The title is a play on words.

Because many people describe Russia as a police state.
https://sscspace.com/esrange/

> Esrange, owned and operated by Swedish Space Corporation (...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Space_Corporation

> Company type: Government-owned

So, Esrange is government-owned, but the company that makes the rocket is private.
I would argue that organized crime benefits from economies of scale - and that's what they're saying this might somehow alleviate. It's really not that hard to find one OSS e2ee app that is only updated for severe security issues when you have millions flowing through.
Yes, see the FDR era and the threatening to pack the courts to change the interpretation to allow progressive reform.

The reason why the thoughts of the people that designed our government is relevant is not appeal to authority but to understand the rational to how it was designed the way it was.

>democracy

The whole point here is the Senate is not a democracy in a conventional sense, but rather distorted on weight of vote per capita.
Does anyone have good tips for removing dust out of the air in a room with computers?

I run an Ikea air purifier all the time, but still get quite a bit of dust in the computer vents.

Wondering if anyone has had a good experience with a set up to purify the air in a computer room.

Maybe it's just more air purifiers.
ClearCase is the worst source control system that I've had the displeasure of using. I'm not sure what "DevOps Code ClearCase" is (latest/rebranded version of ClearCase?), but I expect that it's a raging dumpster fire of lost productivity with UX from hell.
He says:

FROM scratch

COPY ./hello /root/

ENTRYPOINT ["./hello"]

> Here, our image contains 2 layers. The first layer comes from the base image, the alpine official docker image i.e. the root filesystem with all the standard shell tools that come along with an alpine distribution.

But I thought "FROM scratch" was an empty container, while "FROM alpine" is a container with alpine libs/executables.

otherwise using "FROM scratch" to populate for example an ubuntu image would pollute the container.
I think we’re getting into kludge territory there. Might as well have an explicit property that can be autocompleted/stumbled upon via spec or docs than an implicit behavior born of a little trick.
This is a bad idea for so many plain reasons that I'm not even sure how the author could propose this as an approach. What they're doing is functionally no different form saying "I don't know my password", it just includes a lot of extra steps and some fantasy that the border control guard will be interested in reading a blog post about encryption. Needless to say, don't do this, if you don't want to share your data, it's easier to not take it, back it up and/or transfer it later.
How much of the GNU Project was "presented by" Stallman? What would your threshold be where, if the figure was larger, using it would be unacceptable, but if smaller, it would be OK ?
> When I tried to unsubscribe using the one-click unsubscribe button in one of the emails, I was met with an error: “Something went wrong, please try again later.”

I want to start a blog which is just shaming every company whose most basic functions don't work and there's no recourse. It happens at least twice a day to me. Like a financial services management company whose website can't load my financial information. Or a jobs site that offers me premium subscription but its payments page is broken and I can't even notify them because there's no contact method. Or half the unsubscribes on the internet that never work, or require me to login to unsubscribe but it won't let me log in.

Does anyone work at Google? Why is it that, on my Samsung Android phone, when I pull up Google Search in the browser and click the search bar, if I don't wait at least 30 seconds, anything I type into the text bar not only is severely lagged, but then the letters appear in random jumbled order like the cursor is jumping? But if I wait it works fine?? Don't they make billions of dollars? Isn't this their whole product? What the hell is going on over there?!

The enshittification of technology is so extreme it feels like the whole web is constantly broken and literally nobody cares. If physical stores didn't exist and it was all online, I think riots would break out.
What's OKCupid's incentive?
What do you mean by serial portions? Aren't operations automatically serialized if there are dependencies between them?