skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is hardcore antivax misinformation, carefully and intentionally crafted to be so, and "coherent" is a very low bar. No matter how good your motives were in posting it, it should be flagged. You've now put the onus on people to either let this superficially convincing thing go unchallenged and have people believe it, or waste their time trying to refute the ever changing arguments made by these bad actors. Please reconsider the second order effects.

Like, if you see a creationist proof against evolution that follows the scientific form superficially, do you post it to HN because it deserves to be discussed? I sure as hell hope not.

What happened with the AZ vaccine in the Nordic countries is pretty good at showing how tiny effects would be detected by the public health authorities once the vaccines were rolled out to prod, and how the authorities would react to it (hint: not by covering it up to boost foreign big pharma profits, or whatever the conspiracy theory of this week is). The safety of these vaccines, as well as the relative benefits, has been intensly studied by the people who have to make the actual calls. Those are the people we should be listening to, not engaging in a dialogue with malicious crackpots.
My understanding, as a software engineer with an interest in history:

Russian history is essentially the story of Russia getting invaded time and time again. The Mongols, Napoleon, Hitler, the list goes on and on and on. This, combined with borders that are difficult to defend (no mountain ranges or other natural barriers), has left the Russian psyche with a sense that their position is always precarious. It seems reasonable to me, given Russian history, and the fact that less than 100 years ago their society was nearly eradicated by Nazis. So the Russians are always wary of other powers and are always concerned about their borders.

Now, since the end of the Cold War, Russia has lost quite a lot of territory. This territory has all been snapped up by NATO, even though the Cold War was apparently over. NATO has now slowly expanded to the point that it is right up on Russia's border in the Baltics. The Russians look at this, and look at the failures of "shock therapy" economics in the 90s, and look at their demographic crunch, and look at the increasingly unstable political situation of their Western neighbors. They conclude that now is the last and best possible time to make an aggressive chess move against the West, and snatch up Ukraine before the West can.

So that's what this is about - it's a response of geopolitical insecurity. Russia thinks the West is very aggressive and unstable, and seeks to put Ukraine in its "sphere of influence" before it's too late. To be honest, I don't think Russia is in the wrong here, there is no real reason why Americans should even be involved with this country right up on the Russian border. How would Americans feel if we lost the cold war and Russia started trying to dominate Mexico and Canada?
Have you ever heard of AlphaFold?

[0]: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-...
Continuing this "you're either with us or against us" false dichotomy is only going to result with one day soon finding out that almost everyone is against you while wondering how that happened seemingly overnight. There's lots of middle ground to be had but forcing everyone into your camp or "the other" camp is going to result in you being in an rapidly shrinking camp.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. What's wrong with preferring the metaverse to their sunny neighborhood? Honestly the matrix seems like the end game here and I'm all for it. Then it can be a sunny day in the neighborhood every day. The doom comes from the matrix being built by people who either don't have our best interests in mind, or aren't competent enough to build the system to correctly act in our best interests.
> PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren't perfect.

fwiw you can change the firefox chrome(what they call the browser widgets itself and predates googlechrome) css to highlight the active tab fairly easily if it's important to you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
Ask HN: Why was the Web3 thread killed today?
This popular discussion was killed today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30058807 It wasn't a productive discussion. But it wasn't off topic and didn't violate the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html as a submission as far as I can tell. Perhaps the guidelines could be updated or someone could explain why it got killed?

There is a lot of powerful people who'd want negative press around web3/crypto killed. A16Z et al for example. It feels a bit icky to be left wondering why something got killed without explanation.
One can make a hypothetical where such an injunction might make sense.

Imagine a sufficiently funded company (like google) wants to buy you or put you out of business. They could intentionally hire your staff and pay them to twiddle their thumbs, and hire your new staff when you replace them until you fold.

This strategy of specifically targeting their workforce to put them out of business would be unethical, but I don't know if it runs afoul of business law.
Library vs. Service vs. Sidecar
> Is the packaging that big to separate the pins from each other

Yes. DIP packages have standard pin spacings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package
Facebook has been hiring FPGA engineers with ML experience since 2018 so I don't think this would be out of the question! But even so, Nvidia sell custom GPUs that aren't the same ones for gaming.
No, it wasn't dense enough.

https://www.ecowatch.com/volcano-eruptions-hunga-tonga-clima...
Thanks for the detailed posts. This can be useful for ppl considering applying there.

I work for Elastic for the last 6y or so and I feel I’ve been lucky to have managers who cared (for customers, also for the team), provided actionable feedback, and put me in projects that lined up with my strengths and interests. I feel a lot of that is encouraged by the company culture, but esp two individuals I have in mind—I think they’d behave like that in any other company (or burn out quickly).

Would you mind sharing if this was SV or some other region? Do you know if this would a “general” culture for Google/AWS, or limited to certain teams or offices?
For context:
* El Salvador has 2 legal tenders, most of their reserves is still in USD that is know to go down in value over long term. More likely their bitcoin holdings will be worth more than their USD holdings some day.
* They own a bit over 1,000 bitcoins, while MSTR owns over 140,000 bitcoins. Apples to oranges, but still.
Show HN: WebRTC Bandwidth Estimation. Send pre-recorded in multiple levels
"Deskreen is a desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi."

Any device? Gauntlet thrown. I am very sure that I can find a device with a screen and a wifi dongle to which you cannot connect. Got a smartwatch?

"Available Disk Space: 210MB
RAM: 250MB on average to run app with one screen sharing session. Every new screen sharing session will need upto 100MB of extra memory on average for smooth performance. CPU (Windows): any modern dual core CPU, weaker CPUs may have performance problems. CPU (MacOS): any modern CPU CPU (Linux): any modern CPU"

There it is. It can only connect to "modern" systems, probably limited to those built in the last decade or so. That isn't "any device" in my book. It isn't even every device in my office.
Hm, maybe they're optimizing DLRM models, since inefficient HW communication sometimes bottlenecks Facebook's data center performance for them [1]. The improvements would be better personalization, ie. monetization.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05158.pdf
It’s a market. Anyone that spends more than the value of the information they are recording on the blockchain, will eventually be unable to do so, because they’re bankrupt. On a short timeline garbage can be written, but at the limit it should be flushed out.
Use LUKS, don't use LVM.

I do that with ZFS for all the non-ancient stuff in github.com/Ericson2314/nixos-configuration
"Most of the points in this article I'd be comfortable asking to a room of PhD scientists with expertise on Covid and vaccines."

How about discussing those points with a roomful of non-PhD, non-scientists, with no particular knowledge of medicine in general?
My (poorly made) point was that at normal (not-unicorn) scale, bandwidth is practically free, or should be.
I wouldn't think it would take putting in any hours to be a crazy outlier - just a markedly different value system.
I believe that point is directly addressed by my quote from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, namely that we do not have a national incentive to ensure that aspirin usage is at herd immunity levels.
I mean, they could have used APNG at this point.
https://caniuse.com/apng

Doesn't compress stuff like that super well but no worse than a sequence of PNGs.

I feel if you're gonna use JS animation anyway, you could just use 2 jpegs, one for masking and a canvas.

Hm. Webp is doing darn well these days too.
https://caniuse.com/webp

Avif isn't an option yet.
Im not going to bother filling in the blanks for you.

Tangently if you want to start a journey to understanding why the movement away from centralised infrastructure is important (and arguably unavoidable) from a fundamental perspective, go and read one of the primary sources for crypto libertarinism - https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transi... this book was published in 1997 it describes cryptocurrencies and their terminal implications on prevailing powerstructures and so much more. The Author was a member of the House of Lords in the UK and his son is now the current Leader of the House of Commons.
Unfortunately in this case the original post is mostly correct. It claims that this vaccine study did not establish that the vaccines were protective against death.

This is both true at a glance (the number of deaths are clearly too small to establish statistical significance, i.e. the trial was underpowered to detect efficacy against death), and corroborated by the study you link to which (on page 68) lists the 95% CI of efficacy against death as NE-100%. NE = non-estimable).

Now, we do know that vaccines are protective against death from covid-19, but this study did not establish that fact.

Why do I bother writing this? I believe the only way to defeat "misinformation" is to rebut it accurately. An inaccurate rebuttal is likely to be interpreted as "my opponents don't even understand the data, therefore I believe my original position even more strongly".

I think a better rebuttal to this argument is "yes, the original trials did not prove efficacy against death - because they were underpowered, not because the effect did not exist. Subsequent observations of death rates among vaccinated and non-vaccinated populations are basically impossible to explain unless the vaccines protect against death, even though those observations weren't taken during an RCT."
I'm the same way, other than the git branch of the cwd where applicable. A minimalist command line is almost like a sacred place of pure intent where I can give my eyes a rest and catch a break from the mad world of GUIs.
None of that is scary. Pretty much all of that advice applies to systems you run internally. I do wish GHA had a solution for secure file injection, which solutions like Jenkins already have, so we didn't need a janky workaround for JSON blobs.
A privacy first browser should be completely up front about what data is being collected. The simple fact that they did while implying something else means that they arent to be trusted to not abuse the privilege in the future.
RVO is not new in C++17 though, only the standard requiring it in some cases.

Unless your compiler is truly ancient odds are good it RVOs just fine no?
Doing better than Argentina...

https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi
Interesting. I've definitely seen such people, but not often.

In my experience the people I've seen self-label this way (in a non-anonymous way) do so because they think it reflects well upon them (it's 'cool', demonstrates intelligence or superiority, etc.). It is usually the limit of their self awareness and they are never outwardly conflicted. My inner arm-chair psychologist thinks it stems from varying combinations of insecurity and lack of empathy.
Yeah, I got you! Come join sometime, either an official or a renegade version - you’ll love it! Just don’t hold any expectations whatsoever :)
"Kara Morgan" has mismatched earrings. That's typical.
> Who codes based on email requests?

Trust me, it's a thing in many orgs. In fact, centering developer discussion on an asynchronous email mailing list (or more functionally but rarely, an internal NNTP server) used to be a preferred practice.

> how is that thinking like an attacker? You are not thinking about anything attackers are interested in.

I think you're using a rather narrow definition of 'attacker'. It isn't too rare to encounter adversarial attitudes within and between groups in an org. Sabotage per-se is less common, but does exist. At a most basic level, your KPIs look better if someone else's are worse.
Linux-Targeted Malware Increases by 35% in 2021
Yep, hetero multigpu fleet mixing high ram GPUs (40-80GB each on each A100) as multigpus w smaller (ex: ~12-16 GB T4s) nodes, w crazy interconnects locally (nvlink) and across nodes. And storage gets fun as well, like parallel SSD arrays for 100GB+/s combined per node. Then whatever legacy+hybrid CPU stuff. Ex: for stuff like PCIe, new generations that ~10x the bandwidth you'd see in a gamer box, and like 1-2 per GPU. Varies a lot for say log mining vs NN training, and even for diff NNs. Ex: Graph NNs end up needing more balanced CPU side.

Saturating a box with 500+ GB GPU RAM is fun. Only our gov users ask us for help on that typically: most of our users are commercial nowadays, but with much smaller/scaled down GPU rigs. I think that'll change as the fintechs keep improving and software gets easier, but they are still not there (outside of niches). Working on it :)

(If you like writing shaders, we are hiring :D )
The vast majority of code would end up with no attestations. Theres simply no incentive for anybody to do so.

It's tragedy of the commons, but now with more visibility in to how tragic it is.
This solution feels a little like cheating because it's using the "target" list to train. The target list contains all the solutions, while the larger list contains all 5-letter words. A human would not know the target list. For a more fair solver, it should add the two lists together to train, and then test on the target list.
I hope a positive outcome of this will be that universities direct more of their research effort toward efficiency of network architectures and/or understandability.
There may be some possibilities. I'm not sure if it counts as AI but nevertheless a nice video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTETsm79D3A

There is never enough compute power. Dwarf Fortress on a supercomputer?
> if there turn out to be unexpected long-term effects to something many people were strong-armed into taking with no legal recourse, there are going to be lots of angry people who think dangerous kooks were right all along.

Wouldn't that mean the dangerous kooks were the ones unscientifically asserting there were no long-term side effects in spite of it being completely and utterly fucking impossible to know that without conducting longer-term trials?
In Asturias they will accept a positive antigen test as you can go to a pharmacy and they’ll do it and report you as positive to the health system.
People definitely sometimes choose not to be professional, and sometimes it's clearly the right thing to do.

On the other hand, often there are lots of options between "do nothing" and "blow up my career".
Webb Telescope Arrives at L2
And the alerts are not instant, at least with Azure - they run reports every 24H or so, and execute alerts every 24H or so. So even if you're careful, you can still be on the hook for a couple of days' worth of spend - which could be very expensive.
Literally don't care. Facebook should not be the company with this. :/
The fact that Google is scanning your files for "copyright infringement" is bad enough. They have no way of knowing that you don't legitimately own something. Then pair that with this example and if that isn't enough of a deal breaker for using Google drive I don't know what is.
Could this have been the reason for chip shortage?
I actually thought we chose L2 so that JWST could be shielded from the Sun by the Earth to keep it ultra cool. I didn’t realize it was solar powered.
My understanding was that skipping accessibility features was more about cost than anything else.
There's already more than one successful company, see vw & ea. Tesla only opened their network in europe where they have the same plug experimentally. In the us it looked like they might open their network by putting dual charging plugs at superchargers if they were getting money from the bbb, but that money seems remote now. If telsa started building ccs charging networks in the us that were about the same as tesla superchargers except with that plug, they'd crush the competition because they charge market rates for their electricity and fix them when they are broken - this is beyond the capability the vw-owned electrify america.
vitamin d deficiency
Some founders are recruiting developers who can’t speak English
Probably more along the line of they have some library that uses PNG sequences. Maybe even as simple as a slideshow with short durations. It's a newsy site. They don't have a lot of control over what their CMS/publishing platform can do. Someone probably had a clever idea on how to use something existing in a way not envisioned when created.
This holds true even on current CPUs, although they're obviously not packaged in the same way.
For the system, I like the devos template:

https://github.com/divnix/devos

The idea of flakes is how you define inputs, and you define the system (and packages, and shell etc.) in the outputs using the inputs. The inputs are git repos which point to other flakes. You can mix and match these as much as you want (see the devos repo for examples) and when you build the derivation, it generates a lockfile for exact commits in that point in time what were used in the given inputs.

You commit the lockfile and in the other systems where you pull your config from the repo, it uses exactly those commits and installs the same versions as you did in your other systems.

This was quite annoying and hard to do before flakes. Now it's easy.

The problem what people face with building their system as a flake is combining the packages so you can point to `jq` from the unstable nixos and firefox from the stable train. I think this aspect needs better documentation so it wouldn't be so damn hard to learn (believe me, I know). Luckily there are projects like devos that give a nice template for people to play with (with documentation!)

Another use for flakes is to create a development shell for your repo, an example what I did a while ago:

https://github.com/pimeys/nix-prisma-example

Either have `nix-direnv` installed, enter the directory and say `direnv allow`, or just `nix develop` and it will gather, compile and install the correct versions of packages to your shell. Updating the packages? Call `nix flake update` in the directory, commit the lockfile and everybody else gets the new versions to their shell.
That would be a win-win for everyone.
Falstad is a really excellent education tool. I used it myself as an undergrad and as a tutor. Can't recommend it enough.
That's kind of always been Mozilla's thing.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...
There's currently no 802.11ac support, but this is in-progress. There's usually an update about WiFi support in the FreeBSD Foundation quarterly reports, and some major changes were merged into CURRENT a few weeks ago.
Sure, but it makes me question these HN comments like "the author is clueless about statistics" and the like.
As if the unvaccinated are going to stop the spread of COVID. Misinformation is falling back on your original argument that the vax prevents the spread of COVID.
Well, it could be argued that selling 75% of such a business to a major financial firm, is better than running it yourself, if you don't have the financial and IT staff to do so in a risk-mitigating way. It's easy to get into a ton of trouble quickly in finance and insurance. VW might or might not have done this for the right reasons, but perhaps handing this over to a financial firm is, in fact, the right decision (for them).
I think you might be misunderstanding. They’re still getting paid. They’re just frozen in time and not getting stock vests or raises.
Tarsnap is entirely encrypted and the service provider can't see the keys. They run it on EC2 and S3: https://www.tarsnap.com/infrastructure.html
I disagree with OP on this. Their boss in my opinion made the right call. I'd say for a few reasons:

1. Why did OP do this without talking through it first

2. Introducing a new language to a team is not some small decision, and IMO typically not a good idea

3. Why would it take a month in Java to do what takes a few days in Go

4. If it made this one task faster, the burden it will put on the team in the future can be bad in the long run

Perhaps the team would benefit a move to Go (I doubt that), but it should be something that is planned. Otherwise, they'll have "that" one thing that is written in a language that no one on the team really knows.
You're not assuming the worst if your assumption is that "some third-party I distrust will respect the checkbox they themselves control".

Mozilla has arbitrary code execution rights on your computer the moment you allow them auto-updates. They're also entirely free to ignore your opt-out or opt-in requests.
It's all about the distributed filesystems made from big arrays of fast fast disks, and the massive I/O backplane to the storage system and between nodes.
I can't shake the feelings that a trillion or a quadrillion parameters won't solve the fundamental shortcomings of ML models not being models of artificial intelligence. I guess there's no way of knowing until we reach AGI, but I've never heard a compelling argument for why pure ML would get us there. GPT3 seems more like an argument against that hypothesis (in my view) than for it. Even the best, most expensive models today are incredibly brittle for enterprise usecases that shouldn't necessarily require AGI.

I've always imagined AGI (perhaps naively) as being achieved by clever usage of ML, plus some utilization of classical/symbolic AI from pre-AI winter days, plus probably some unknown elements.
I think its important we have the same conversations in public as we do behind closed doors in academia. Especially when we are asking people to inject medicine in their bodies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

More simply: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once you use it to determine how much money somebody makes"
Well.. this articole has some points but is not 100% fair or correct. The value of distributed ledger (aka blockchain) is given by the fact that you can find the latest version of a record in a decentralised way. This is usefull outside cryptocurencies (even for university diplomas you need a good mecanism for revocation). You can do revocation with a centralised system but a decentralised version could actualy imprive security and privacy (not with blockchains alone you need encryption and other cryprographic tools)
I've added the `let` keyword given a few people commented on this.