skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with trying to hand-create symbolic rules for AI is that things like natural language, and the real world, are messy. Even with fuzzy rules you are never going to be able to accurately capture all the context dependencies and nuances, which may anyways be dynamic. Learning from real world data is the only realistic approach, although I don't think language models are the answer either - you need a system that is continually learning and correcting it's own errors.

CYC was an interesting experiment though. Even though it might have been expected to be brittle due to the inevitable knowledge gaps/etc, it seems there was something more fundamentally wrong with the approach for it not to have been more capable. An LLM could also be regarded as an expert system of sorts (learning its own rules from the training data), but some critical differences are perhaps that the LLM's rules are as much about recognizing context for when to apply a rule as what the rule itself is doing, and the rules are generative rather than declarative - directly driving behavior rather than just deductive closure.
> I don't know if increased volume will decrease the prices by much, they're only higher than premium imports by a little bit.

I don't think its reasonable to expect lower prices for domestic production at all, because the demand for domestic products is only going up (from people that used to buy Vietnamese Nikes).

Personally I think the whole tariff experiment is predictably going to fail, because "increased self sufficiency" does not buy you anything, and at some point people are just gonna push back politically if the cost increases get too bad.
FYI for readers, nearly the entire "coaching industry" is a decentralized pyramid scheme siphoning money out of people desperate for an escape from ordinary employment, but without the wits or knowledge to find and execute on a reasonable path to that, by convincing them to first pay for coaching, then to become a coach, at which point of course you need even more coaching...

Very nearly the only ones who make a go of it, do so by becoming predators themselves. There's nowhere near enough actual demand for this "coaching" (which is largely offered by people who have zero expertise in their "coaching" topic) to support the huge number of people trying to do this.

It's also largely women, preying on other women while promising empowerment and freedom. Super gross.

Weird, weird world HN may not be aware of if they've not gone looking (and if you're male, you've probably not seen it marketed at you nearly as much as women do)
I'm having a bit of a Gell-Mann moment here - I'm hearing the exact opposite from every residential and C&I installer I talk to, that solar installations are booming right now.

There are very few states in the US where net metering doesn't exist, with California having the NBT (and Arizona and Utah something similar iirc), and Alabama, South Dakota, Tennessee, Idaho, and Texas all have utility-set forms of net metering. Just because California has phased it out and it's a sunny state doesn't mean you can't install a solar roof in Massachusetts and benefit.

The cost of panels is dirt cheap (even with tariffs). You don't need energy storage if you pay $100/month in energy costs, just offset that. Home Depot will install it if you want!
VMS systems give you literal decades of uptime. Google, Amazon and other large providers regularly have outages, all the time. They are usually small in duration and localized.

They are completely different mental models and ways of thinking about the problem of reliability and uptime.

VMS(and IBM/360 and other large compute systems) will almost certainly give you stronger uptime guarantees than any modern compute stack, but almost nobody needs uptimes measured in literal decades.

The Hyperscaler/TOP500 computing needs are not optimized for reliability in the same ways OpenVMS does.
The tension this article writes about can be expressed to a tech audience as a compression problem.

Dollar General wins out on low prices - essentially compressing their value prop onto a single dimension, prices. They won't do the Strong Towns things like sponsor a park or thoughtfully curate what they sell to fit community needs. There's no button to press in a DG that says "sell more eggplants please".

The value of a small scale community business is many things on different axes, of which delivering goods for money is one. Much like when you compress a jpeg for size at the expense of image quality, you can optimize for one thing to the total exclusion of others.

For a customer at the till it's totally reasonable to think on that one axis, but it's important that there be voices tasked with appreciating the whole. It's a need of society to think of what's a better lossless algorithm so that we can efficiently enjoy the benefits of all dimensions.
John O'Hara, Inventor of AMQP, on Why Standards Are Worth Persevering With
>> Like "I don't know anything, so I'm just going to try "stuff" I find online without really understanding.

> A reasonable place to start. But fair that you can't stop there if it isn't working.

It's not a reasonable place to start. You're basically talking about copy-paste coding. Google search, stack overflow, paste in the first answer. Afterwards, ask the dev if they know what they did and why it works, and they won't be able to answer because they don't know.

> Next step, in my opinion, is to look at the interface more closely to see if it provides any hints. It will most of the time if it is well designed.

The people I'm taking about can't and won't do that.

> Sure. That's what the test suite is for, though: To document for users full intent and usage. You're still not going to go to a reference for that. As an added bonus, it is self-validating, so none of the "is it me or is the reference incorrect?" rigamarole.

I'm getting an "I don't need comments because code is self-documenting" vibe here. I disagree with that. Prose is a better way to express many, many things related to code than the code itself or even its test.

Sure, the code is the most authoritative place to find what was implemented, but it's not the best way to find the why or the concepts and thought behind it.
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This reminds me of these projects https://escargot.chat/ and https://nina.chat/
It's such a good name that, once you thought of it, you'd almost be obligated to start writing the code.
Would be good to have a little dot next to a room if it has an unread message. Or a signpost telling you at which point unread messages begin. Basically just track read / unread messages.
Systemd-nspawn is like the chroot command, but it is a chroot on steroids
Yes, a duress account would be highly needed in these times. I'd even go as a whole partition and the whole thing enclaved so it's nearly impossible to know if there's another partition.
Apples and oranges.

Among many other things, Docker (and Podman etc) has

1. Images and OverlayFS

2. Networking

3. User namespace mappings

4. Resource management

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If all you want is file system isolation, then docker (and postman, etc) is massive overkill chroot is correct.
My point is that US government economic policy is completely disconnected from the concept of economic fallout, so it seems silly to consider that a gating item for this hypothetical.
Not a developer affiliated with the project. But here's my take:

The problem is that the proof is in the pudding. Some of their claims feel outlandish. Imagine writing your game with SQL queries. Rather than crafting update packets that only contain relevant game info you just do `select * from players where abs(player.x - current_player.x) + abs(player.y - current_player.y) + abs(player.z - current_player.z) < 100^2` and it just updates automagically 60 times a second.

Running physics sim in SQL stored functions sounds insane but that's exactly what they're advertising. They say it's due to in-mem DB optimization but I'm not sure how they horizontally scale that (they allow you to run standalone but any scaling requires their cloud product)
Mothy Roscoe, the Barrelfish PI, gave a really great talk at ATC 2021 [0]. A lot of OS research is basically "here's a clever way we bypassed Linux to touch hardware directly", but his argument is that the "VAX model" of hardware that Linux still uses has ossified, and CPU manufacturers have to build complexity to support that.

Concretely, there are a lot of things that are getting more "NOC-y" (network-on-chip). I'm not an OS expert, but deal with a lot of forthcoming features from hardware vendors at my current role. Most are abstracted as some sorta PCI device that does a little "mailbox protocol" to get some values (perhaps directly, perhaps read out of memory upon success). Examples are HSMP from AMD and OOBMSM from Intel. In both, the OS doesn't directly configure a setting, but asks some other chunk of code (provided by the CPU vendor) to configure the setting. Mothy's argument is that that is an architectural failure, and we should create OSes that can deal with this NOC-y heterogeneous architecture.

Even if one disagrees with Mothy's premise, this is a banger of a talk, well worth watching and easy to understand.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc21/presentation/fri-key...
If you look at the retailer margin on an individual product, it looks pretty big. But if you look at their overall financial report, their overall margins aren't anywhere close to that.

There's a lot of cost to running a retailer. If it was so easy to avoid the costs and the margins, you'd see more brands going direct to consumer exclusively, but most brands do a little direct to consumer and most of their sales through retailers.

Movie theater economics basically suck and have gotten worse over time. The projectors are very expensive, the pricing to show a film is bad, so ticket and consession prices go up and people stop showing up. Big chains have more negotiating power for film terms and equipment, which can help them survive. Sometimes the independents band together for group purchases, but I think that doesn't always happen.
I can highly recommend: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest
Assuming you're referring to the backend side of things for online/multiplayer games, working through the Hathora tutorials in the docs can be a good first introduction to general idioms related to backend systems architecture: https://docs.hathora.dev/#/builder/

From my past consulting experience though, the distributed systems side of games is all over the place. Designs tend to need to be customized for each games needs, which usually directly influences which technologies are chosen.
A certain amount of bullshitting is a rational strategy for sane, low-conscientousness actors with middling intellects.
Appreciate the different perspective. Curious what would be the end goal of imposing this tariff? Or what the president is trying to get out of it?
> but dentists can fix this

I find this a laughably bad excuse. Dentist visits are expensive. A society-wide increase in dentist visits is expensive to society. The post in OP mentioned that dentist visits went up in Israel by 2x. This is not an adequate alternative option to fluoride.

Edit: also, dentistry does not fully restore teeth to their pre-cavity condition anyway. It doesn't prevent all the pain. There's lots of non-monetary damage even before the dentist visits increase.
If the goal was to really reshore there are a lot of ways to encourage companies to move in that direction. The CHIPS act is one but Trump wants to cancel it. And I'm sure there are others than can work, but broad based tariffs are not a solution.
I agree. In case you haven't heard of it already https://tldr.sh is pretty good for this.
The specific (fictitious) example they gave was $100 -> $150 due to a ~$23 tariff.

> But if we bump the cost of freight, insurance, and customs from $5 to, say, $28, then they wholesale the shoes to Footlocker for about $75. And if Footlocker purchases Nike shoes for $75, then they retail them for $150. Everyone needs to fixed percentages to avoid losses.

The point being that many parts of the supply chain don't operate on fixed costs and instead percentages.
In the early 90s, my parents undertook and completed an ambitious project to expand our home, after owning it for about 20 years. Without adding a third story or encroaching too much on our open yard space, we managed to double the kitchen and expand/renovate several other rooms and the results were really wonderful.

However, the process was painful for me as a young adult. I recall first a controversy over whether a professional, licensed architect should be retained, or if the contractor himself should draw up the plans. We were told that architects often had ivory-tower type plans that were impractical, expensive, or needed modifications by the contractor anyway. I can't actually remember which side we came down on.

Mom and Dad also permitted me to specify a bunch of elements in my own room, and being a rebellious goth in the throes of PTSD I made some really bad decisions, before permanently moving out two years later. My dad has the room now: it's got pitch-black carpeting with an incense burn in it, the miniblinds are also charcoal black with dark-grey accents in weird middle stripes, and two windows may be cranked open for fresh air, but one is ridiculously narrow, and I suspect that the design intent was "prevent AStonesThrow from jumping out of this one". (Well I did climb out of windows, but more for exploration's sake than self-harm.)

The demolition was also mindblowing as I got a taste of just how sturdy our original construction was. It was a tough "chicken-wire" lath embedded in plaster/stucco, and it was a Faraday cage fortress that took weeks to tear down. They replaced it with ordinary gypsum drywall, and I was incredulous about the sheer quality difference, but it was clear that matching the original style would need to be superficial unless we were spending millions of bucks at that point.

It really turned out well despite all my efforts at sabotage. I'm not sure about my parents' motivations; I believe it was mostly Mom who received a really awesome modern kitchen, and a modicum of "keeping up with the Joneses" because that decade saw so many of our neighbors adding stories and Granny Flats and renovations, commensurate with rising property values. Yay!
Anyone who just wants to enjoy an AAA title like Cyberpunk 2077, accepting a small amount of input lag, check out Nvidia Geforce Now. Works really well.
This thread is kind of wild and something I've never heard anywhere in tech. Every place I've worked would consider a developer at least 5X more valuable if they actually had business or product sense, and could operate without the need for constant symbiosis with a "product guy". At one BigTech company we've all heard of, our division didn't even have product people. The engineering lead was expected to handle all of the product duties, and they wouldn't hire you if they didn't think you could at least grow into that role.

It's one of the reasons I went back for a business degree and then re-entered tech. No, of course nobody in Silicon Valley cares about the "MBA" title (HN sees it as a negative), but everywhere I've interviewed/worked they've appreciated that we could talk about the economic and business impact of the software, and not just the algorithms and data structures.
7.2 Terabit/s HBM Bandwidth raised my eyebrows. But then I googled, and it looks like GB200 is 16Tb/s. In plebe land, 2Tb is pretty awesome.

These continue to be mostly for bragging rights and strategic safety I think. I bet they are not on premium processor nodes; If I worked at GOOG I’d probably think about these as competitive insurance vis-a-vis NVIDIA — total costs of chip team, software, tape outs, and increased data center energy use probably wipe out any savings from not buying NV, but you are 100% not beholden to Jensen.
Audio and video streams, two way sync and async communication, raw bytes with meaning, etc. And it's not just remote services, it can be for automating stuff local real-time on your machine, your ide or browser, etc. Like the docs say, MCP is to an AI model as USB is to a CPU.
> LLMs are worse than humans with good search indexes at hand

But "good search indexes" are all LLM-based.

:)
If there's anything I learned from history, is that people don't care about history and don't learn from it. We care about what's happening now, not what happened 100 years ago
Markdown, Markdown Extended, GLFM, Mediawiki Markup, Asciidoc, reStructuredText (RST), Pandoc, Mundimark, Djot, Creole, Textile, BBCode, Dendron, Pendown.

I bet at this point if you came up with a new completely independent standard it would probably match one of the ones already created. We mostly just have to pick one.
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> Full sale was never likely. Some sort of 51%+ US JV (which afaik US investors already owns majority) maybe. But tarrifs obviously blew everything up. So now it's wierd scenario where Trump seems loath to ban, as in very much want US to own so nationalization of US operations doesn't seem unfathomable.

Trump was very popular on TikTok which is why he's in favor of keeping it or making it a US company so he can sell it to one of his sycophants. But it will be fully sold to a US company or banned. I don't think a JV is on the table.

> In response to shenanigans like TikTok US branch being nationalized, or CFIUS mass reversing PRC MNC portfolios, i.e. shares/purchases of US assets. They can be functionally "nationalized" in retaliation as in just have whatever is in country siezed, as in their presence in PRC. It means WFOE like Tesla losing their factory, whose workers will make domestic cars. Apple losing some R&D centres, all the capex infra build for foxconn can be messed with. Continue hampering capex/engineer export to India or whereever Apple wants to setup their none PRC operation to make process as painful as possible... or simply just kill Apple hardware 90% dead like US tried with Huawei/ZTE.

Right but those activities harm China too. If China isn't building iPhones in China because China nationalized those specific assets then Chinese workers sort of lose too. Similarly with the Tesla factory - if they keep it running they have to spend money to retool it to make BYD cars, then they have to sell those cars to someone - perhaps domestic consumers, but there's a lot of analysis that would be needed to be done to understand the exact effects.

I mostly took issue with your statement that Apple and Tesla would be nationalized, but I think you just meant to say their assets would be nationalized in China which is certainly an option that China has on the table.

But like all things there are actions the US can take that China would be very unhappy about, like, perhaps the US decides to build a military base in Taiwan. Now what? I'm not suggesting that's a good idea or on the table, but just saying both countries can get creative.

> Because it's been ~30 years, foreign MNCs who wanted to be in PRC are in PRC. In the short term domestic companies better positioned to soak up domestic demand, which has been independant trend in past few years.

Sure but now with US ventures like KFC probably being forced to shut down there should be room for European companies or companies from other countries to move in to China, which China will be just fine with right? I'm imagining since tariffs will be higher for Mercedes in the US they'll have to ship those cars to other countries and who better than China?
I think the shoe graphic after the $75 cost is disingenuous to be still shown as $100 base instead of $150 base. This would show that this basic "100% markup" is just scalping. Expenses and overhead would not double so it's just more in the profit bucket.
Because if your company is against using LLMs for work based on security concerns, it's usually the concern that an employee will enter company confidential data into the LLM, which when using a SaaS LLM means exposing the data.

But if your company buys a server to run it themselves, that security risk is not present.
> "we're not against change, we're not against business, if you want to open a nice little coffee shop and bookstore, but Dollar General just isn't quite a good fit."

this line stood out to me because it mirrored a lot of debate in my small rural community when a dollar general proposed moving in (spoiler alert: DG won).

the debates around DG had a way of exposing some previously-unseen class and economic divisions in the the community. it wasn't a NIMBY vs YIMBY thing -- both wanted development -- but they just had very different needs and expectations.

you have one group that wants the cute little bookstores/coffeeshops to preserve "local character". they may not be rich, but they aren't struggling day to day so they say "I don't mind paying a little extra to support local business".

then there's the other group which says "i don't have any extra money to support local business". they'd love to be in a position to worry about local character, but today they just need to be able to afford another single roll of TP and have some snacks for their kid after school.

in my community, these two groups existed in their own little bubbles never really interacted until the DG debate came up, so in a way it was good for dissolving some of those boundaries.
Did you also remove the copy protection ? What is the third word in the second paragraph on page 37...
>The world's democratic governments generally oppose the overthrow of democratic governments by dictators who want to grab some place by killing the locals.

Not only do Western governments not actually oppose this, they have orchestrated the overthrow of democratic governments and installed dictatorships numerous times when it suited their interests.

The actual Western perspective is not to give a damn who runs Taiwan or how many locals they kill as long as we can do favorable business with them. Although the Red Menace rhetoric does play well at home.
The worst thing is that you don't know if a video is 15 seconds or 3 minutes. This is great. Thank you!
Mine are slow because of large images. If I set "draft" mode, it speeds up dramatically. I don't know why latex needs to read the entire image file but it seems to do that.
8960 chips in those 140 racks. $4.20/hour/chip or $4,066/month/chip

So $68k per hour or $27 million per month.

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Like how they keep incorrectly characterizing VAT.
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> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Further, there is nothing in the link you submitted that's about your apartment specifically, or what happened.
Spot on! We're starting from specific functions for now, and will expand the scope if/when feasible. The challenges exist across two axes: language coverage and library coverage.

For language coverage, Function currently doesn't support classes (on the roadmap) or lambda expressions (much harder). But these are the main limitations.

For library coverage, this is where things get incredibly hairy. If a library isn't pure Python (i.e. most of the important libs), we can't compile them. We instead have to reimplement the library's functionality. For now, we plan on using LLMs to automate this as much as possible.
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