skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sama is very active in YC and makes the call on OpenAI product roadmap. Furthermore YC encourages good CEO-community relations. The fact that OpenAI is so far behind Stable Diffusion and has reduced pricing shows that sama wants OpenAI to be a highly profitable enterprise company. I.e. not “Open.” You can do both (e.g. Cloudera) but clearly sama is not strong enough at AI to make this happen.
Snapchat has 86m DAU in Europe vs 99m in North America. Definitely big in many demos in Europe.
Trolling is not welcome here.
> Cloudflare is not a public service,

Isn't it, though?

I see people are still desperately clinging to this "websites aren't public services" narrative but as the years go by it's becoming increasingly clear that it just isn't entirely true.

The whole logic behind the "it's a private space/service so they can deny service to whoever they want" argument is that, if a user is denied service, they can seek service from an alternative provider elsewhere, usually without much difficulty. If the other providers also don't want to provide the service, fair enough. But this isn't really the case in the modern web because you often don't have alternatives. If you are denied service by cloudflare, you can't just go to another cloudflare down the street. Same with many other major online services that are effectively monopolies in their field.
That's what you get when you refuse to maintain and develop infrastructure and then build over floodable areas, as many in this thread said.

Same stuff as Katrina and many other less-visible disasters related to "sudden" "floods". Californians can remember the Oroville Dam spillway failure - it's all the same, negligence multiple times over, just on a bit less scale.
Suffering has been normalized for some, unfortunately, and any devastation striking that region is glossed over almost as if calamity is expected to befall. See for instance the outcry and support for Ukraine (not diminishing their dire circumstances by any means) and immediate call to take refugees while sympathy for southern and western Asian states has fallen to the wayside.
The TI-99/4A joystick port fit an actual D-sub connector.

As a child, I made a kind of breakout box for the joystick port, using a standard connector, project box, and screw terminal strips. For very simple interfacing with normally-open switches. (Arduinos and RasPis are much better.) First applications were to build a burglar alarm, and grade school computer voting station.

(This was pre-Internet, and pre-modem, and no docs to speak of. Somehow, I didn't break the family home computer, despite blindly shorting unknown pins, and with no knowledge beyond what I could understand of the Forrest Mims intro electronics book.)
> but I believe the rebar and concrete provide different kinds of strength

Yes, concrete provides great compressive strength, but is not very strong given tensile loading.

Rebar provides the tensile loading support that concrete alone lacks.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebar
Changing Views of Chiropractic and a Reappraisal of Nontraditional Health Care
You can use Google, you know.
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Sued for Tax Fraud
What makes you say that? There's a vocal faction I've heard who essentially say that statistics can never be intelligent. I don't understand the argument. I think it's grounded on feeling like there should be something somewhere in the complicated system that you can point at and say it understands, but just like the old chinese room thought experiment I think the question of what it means to understand isn't the important one. Practically it's hard to deny that a system of approximation run statistically can do more or less the same things we can, because that appears to be what we are.

I think there's the much more defensible position that current techniques can't scale up to general artificial intelligence. That's pretty clear because we've already had to change details of model architecture a lot to get the models to where they are now
So now bicyclists can suffer the same class of life-threatening injury that motorcyclists do!
Wasn't OpenAI supposed to "democratize deep learning"?

It seems more like they were trying to accomplish the opposite.
Cloudflare is not a de-facto monopoly. There is plenty of competition.

Simply being popular is not having a de-facto monopoly.
Yes, but how deep?
When I read the headline I thought "Wait, Snap is developed by an own company and not canonical? I'm glad it's not that snap thats downsizing :D
As a private company, they can choose how they serve users.

Isn't this what gets said everytime Twitter bans someone?

Cloudflare is allowed to offer services to people you don't like.
Customer data is basically what I referred to as PII.

Reputation is really hard to measure and has not been observed in cyber to my knowledge. People say they care, but most don’t.

Trade secrets is IP what OP mentioned. It’s not a big thing in the incidents I have seen.
I don't know man, everything so far seems to show that it scales frighteningly well. Maybe the skepticism over DL is wildly exagerrated?
It's unsustainable
The main problem (as described) is that CSS classes don't take parameters. Imagine coding in Foolang and its classes don't take parameters, resulting in class explosion.

Author goes on to show how to give them parameters, news at 11. ;-)
It does run on Apple silicon. 55 seconds in M1 Pro (vs 15 seconds on RTX 3070).
>is as close to an essential service as it gets in the digital world

Thankfully, that's not true at all. About 16% of all sites use Cloudflare (80% of 20%)

“Cloudflare is used by 79.8% of all the websites whose reverse proxy service we know. This is 19.1% of all websites.”

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare

>This is not the same as saying "posting on Twitter is a civil right"

It's pretty much the same thing, yes.
Did we really get to the point that anything that isn't SaaS seems alien?

You know companies sold software that you paid once, and then ran as much as you wanted on your pc?
We're going to get an explosion of indie animated shows. Will soon be possible to make as a year-long passion project what used to require $15 million and network exec buy-in.
Fuck Russia, but Pakistan does not have sanctions on it. And the EU won't do anything to them if they keep importing from Russia.

Perhaps use "US" instead of "EU", it works better on the morons believing Russian garbage.
That's one way to look at it.

Another is that AI/ML will replace illustrators, musicians, vocalists, and the like. That "metaverse" will take over gaming and lead to powerful new filmmaking techniques. I'm building something in this space and I can tell you that these technologies are powerful because people who aren't "traditionally skilled" are using these tools to create amazing content and excel. This stuff is going to eat the world.

Not sure about the other domains you mentioned, but I'm sure they have ardent believers too.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah Nswag is great, but pretty specific to the .NET ecosystem if i understand correctly ? Ideally we'd like this to become a universal generator where any dev/team/company publishing an API gets typed and idiomatic clients, including the long tail of languages.
> The nature of special operations units is demanding and grueling, and the selection processes should always endeavor to mirror that intensity.

Then again, there are plenty of way to achieve that. The issue with the so called “hell week” is the amount of swimming in frigid water. You don’t need that much swimming to produce the desired effect. You could replace say a quarter of it with gruelling runs in the jungle and reach the same results without all the pulmonary edemas. I mean the issue is so common that applicants know how to self medicate. It clearly means there is an issue there.

But it’s an hopeless fight. BUD/S has been criticised for decades even by high ranking navy officers and nothing changes. The SEALs all went through it and refuse to face that the thing is absurd out of pride. I fully expect people to keep dying until politicians put their foot down.
AI (ML more accurately) helping to solve climate change would be the future of everything.
Yes, but it doesn't matter for a bike. Riding it is not going to crumple that amount of rebar.
He was/is the target of legal action from Ubiquiti. I assume this statement is part of some settlement he has reached with them regarding the legal action.
Depending on where you are, everything can cause cancer.

This website is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
At the minimum, you need to trust yourself to be a CA. That's strictly more attack surface than not having a CA.
Hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of sales are driven by the clout of badges on social media. That's where we are now. Small one off ethical problems become social problems when they aren't one-off and then become legal problems.

Of course it is up to consumer, investor, vendors to be more discerning. Of course, they aren't. So it's not a legal problem, right now, it is a social problem and that is being addressed by reporters and the platforms. That's where we are. It is completely congruent for ProPublica to be involved at this stage.
Sure, and you’re right about that, but I still think an easier to use muting mechanism would help dampen the annoyance factor, and that would make HN that much nicer a community. Kinda like, annoyed people annoy people.
The story your telling was the mainstream story from when "deep learning" first arose, using Boltzmann machines for pretraining, etc. But then the field exploded, more compute power was directed at the problem, and people discovered that yes, in fact basic MLPs with SGD work well with enough compute.
> In the most reductive case, you could argue that anyone selling food or water to white supremacists is supporting white supremacy.

This, incidentally, is why the term "racism" (and similar supremacist terms) must be understood to refer to embedded social structures that may include honest, and often honorable, people unwittingly perpetuating them and not just being mean to the target. So, the question you are in effect raising is how Cloudflare can be ANTI-transphobic and not simply trans-supporting, and whether it has a moral or other obligation to do so. To me, it's a very easy answer with an extremely difficult execution.
For historical footage, I could see some use cases. For cinema, I don't know why you'd want to do this. < 60 fps playback of video that was shot at < 60 fps looks just fine. Even if the interpolation was perfect, what's the benefit?
GitHub copilot is trained on Open Source code bases, and regenerates OSS code in your proprietary apps, potentially breaking the licensing of the OSS code or your proprietary app.
I've been a PIA customer several years and have been concerned about them since their acquisition by Kape in 2019. This audit is good news for them and does make me more inclined to stick around when my subscription expires. All consumer VPNs rely on user trust and open-source VPN apps, audited no-log policy, RAM-only VPN servers, and court-tested results are about as good as it can get.
Why not go a step further and call the incentives and the ones who prop them up slimy?
The remote host can do:

fn authorized(peer: ClientConnection) -> bool {
return true;
}
But you as a private individual or company can choose to hold the right to free speech in high regard.
Management was terrible, was never going to be a success.
I could run rife https://github.com/nihui/rife-ncnn-vulkan

dain didn't work for me in m1 https://github.com/nihui/dain-ncnn-vulkan
> I can only guess either safety from misuse

I still don't understand what this would mean. Where are all of the terrible things that were supposed to happen, now that Stable Diffusion is available?

We've been able to create completely photorealistic fiction for decades now. See any movie with CGI for an example of whole worlds, and people, that don't exist. The bar has gradually been lowering (see the amazing CGI that YouTubers do these days), and now maybe there is a bit of a step function down, but being able to make things that aren't real isn't remotely new. I don't understand the fear.
"The problem isn't that certain customers, in my personal biased subjective opinion that is subject to no oversight whatsoever, are bad people who advocate doing bad things. The real problem is that certain customers, in my personal biased subjective opinion that is subject to no oversight whatsoever, are bad people who advocate doing bad things."
Put them in your PowerPoint alternative of choice and record narration?
Python is kind of a special case. It's slow, widely used and often used as "glue" calling out to other programs and libraries that do the real work. There's also a lot of overlap for python and systems programmers, so there's tooling and that community knows how to do these things. There's more of a culture in python that to do anything serious (read fast) you write that part somewhere else and call into it.

If you look at JS tooling like eslint, tslint, uglifyjs, tsc, webpack, ~~esbuild~~, etc, it's all JavaScript (moving to typescript if anything).

EDIT: I stand corrected in that esbuild is not written in Javascript, but I think that's a disadvantage to it's success if anything and would point out webpack is more popular
Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5M to woman, struggling to get it back
>I think of cookies as a mechanism to send data across the network. That mechanism can be used to simulate persistence on the client, among other things.

I can't get with that definition. A server that attempts to set a cookie is very explicitly asking for state persistence on the client in the otherwise stateless HTTP protocol exchange. It literally has no other purpose.
Thanks! Yes, it will do that automatically by generating an SDK for your client (which will include all types you expose on your backend).
A revolution is when people take to the streets to demand something from the state. Let's say the Europeans took to the streets - what will they demand? Falling fossil fuel prices? And who will cover the difference? In Ukraine, until 2014, gas was cheap at the expense of a government loyal to Russia, but I guarantee that no one in this country will want such a life to return. Though it was an abundant life.
I think he’s calling you a cyborg.
> That is the equivalent argument in the physical world that the fire department shouldn't respond to fires

This is a false equivalence, because fire departments are public utilities provided and regulated by the state. Cloudflare is a private business. If Cloudflare was democratically elected by its constituents, and it was accountable and answerable to them, then I would agree with them that they have a responsibility to make their services available to all of their constituents, subject to the due process of law.

But they aren't a public utility, and they don't get democratically elected. Cloudflare is a private business, and it exists to capture the surplus value of keeping more websites online and marketing their security products to more corporations. They can do business with whoever they choose to. And they choose to do business with Kiwifarms. Honestly: in effect, Kiwifarms functions as a free success story for Cloudflare's sales folks—"Look at how many people hate this website, and yet they're still online, thanks to Cloudflare!". I think that's probably the reason that Cloudflare's support of Kiwifarms rankles so much with people who are victims of the website—the fact that Kiwifarms is still online is Cloudflare working exactly as intended, but amorally.

> For instance, when a site that opposed LGBTQ+ rights signed up for a paid version of DDoS mitigation service we worked with our Proudflare employee resource group to identify an organization that supported LGBTQ+ rights and donate 100 percent of the fees for our services to them

Okay, you donated the fees, but why continue to accept the money from the site that opposes LGBTQ+ rights in the first place? Cloudflare still got to keep the benefit of increased revenue, and a larger customer base, and the world still got worse. Did the donation they make actually offset the harm done to the world by keeping that site (whatever it is) online? It seems unlikely.

> In addition, I think it's touched on but Cloudflare is huge. Even if they changed their mind on terminating amoral customers, how would that go down? Another automated moderation system that checks for certain keywords?

No, it would go down, ideally, the same way it does today and the same way it did for the Daily Stormer and 8chan. Terminating services for customers like Kiwifarms is a big decision, and it's one that shouldn't be made lightly, and frankly: there just aren't that many harassment websites that are as big and as long-lived as Kiwifarms. I can maybe think of one or two others off the top of my head. I'm okay if Cloudflare decides to terminate one or two of the biggest, most important harassment sites using their platform per year—doing something is better than doing nothing.
We keep user keys in LDAP. LDAP is mainly read-only having many many replicas is pretty easy.

This is by far the most elegant solution we've determined and allows for instant revoking of user accounts.
The idea that IT or security cannot be recursively defined to have docs, test plans, coaches, infrastructure specialists, or coordination apart from "software development teams" when IT and security both develop systems and software seems a bit off the mark.
It's great that he added concrete steps for creating the bike.
Not sure why that is more sad than all the other dead people that can't see it.
There is generally a negative connotation to race to the bottom. The Investopedia definition captures this:

The race to the bottom refers to a competitive situation where a company, state, or nation attempts to undercut the competition's prices by sacrificing quality standards or worker safety (often defying regulation), or reducing labor costs.
They didn't say it was a dead end. I think their observation is rooted in gradient descent and how it improves but gets stuck in local maximas, when that solution might never be good enough. Hence the ladder. No matter how good you get at ladder making it with take you to the moon, but it will get you closer the entire time you improve at it.
I agree, but it kinda depends. For me, my personal setup has 8 things I can ssh to. It's not that big a deal to update them all if I get a new laptop or need to rotate my key. But I can certainly understand if someone didn't feel like doing that 8 times and wanted to use certs.
Something about wind power brings concern trolls just swarming out of the woodwork.
It's a fair point, and thanks for teaching me a new term!

There's a lovely documentary called "Tim's Vermeer" about Tim Jenison's - one of the founders of NewTek, the people behind Video Toaster and LightWave, incidentally both tools that made hard visual art tasks accessible to wider audiences - hobby side project to prove that Vermeer used sophisticated optical tools to capture and copy his scenes from physical sets, rather than e.g. paint his famous grasp on lighting purely from his own mind. He builds such tools himself and then proceeds to successfully create his own Vermeer-alike painting, despite possessing very artistic skill himself.

It's full of good ruminations (and good at sparking more) on tools-vs-artistry but also execution-vs-method, and whether designing and adopting innovative tools and the tedious process to use them made Vermeer less of a genius, or just a genius of a different kind than otherwise presumed.

It's very accessible and doesn't require knowing anything in particular from the art world.
How big was the biggest dataset in the 1980s?

And I'm pretty sure that a modern computer with 4 GPUs beats the best clusters from the 80s
Yes. We're flexible on the # of hours, but would need to be at least 20 a week to make sense.

We also offer full benefits in the US if the person needs them. Finding healthcare in the US without it being thru an employer is a huge pain.
>Talking alien!

Maybe that's what we were supposed to do all along. Not find or be found by aliens, but to invent them.
Would you accept posts which say people should kill themselves which have not been removed (and their posters not banned)?

I could easily find hundreds of such posts, but I don't want to waste my time if you wouldn't consider them.
Or mouth/nose height?
I agree - and while I certainly trust the people you listed quite a bit it is important to not elevate anyone to cult status or revered leader type stuff. I think we can trust that they have more authority than most but that does not make them the authority.
The only time supplies were cut to zero was for the annual maintenance which happens in the summer every single year, and the pipeline is always shut down for that. Go look at the history of Nord Stream flow rates (on their website) to see that this is true if you don't believe me.

The technical problems are real. A western company (German even) received a compressor turbine, repaired it and then sat on it due to sanctions. Germany got the sanctions voided for that equipment and it was shipped it back to Russia. If the problems weren't real we can assume it would have been discovered at that point. Also remember that the whole point of imposing sanctions on Russia is to degrade their factories and ability to repair complex equipment! Industrial disruption due to inability to access foreign parts and repair services is exactly what the sanctions were meant to create and yet when it happens, media and government claim there can be no possible wear and tear on huge pieces of rapidly spinning equipment, so it must all be 4D chess.

Russia did not "demand unilateral changes to gas contracts". It's the other way around. Europe sanctioned Russia and then stole all their EUR foreign reserves, an unprecedented and highly hostile move. Because Russia could no longer transact in EUR they said, OK, you'll have to pay us for gas in rubles. Given this they could theoretically have said you're violating your contracts which say you'll pay us in EUR, so we won't supply any gas until you un-sanction us, but they didn't.

So, every claim you're making here is wrong and this can be checked against documented facts and sources that aren't connected to Russia.

This is a core part of the problem with what's happening. The media lies and simply makes things up. People believe it anyway. Did Russiagate teach us nothing? What Russia is doing is bad but telling ourselves a bunch of nonsensical fairy tales will only make the situation worse.
Maybe the problem is trying to understand this in terms of confidence and not in terms of accuracy. In fact, we might say that some are underconfident, some are overconfident but almost all are inaccurate in predicting the form and/or details of progress. In that case we don't have to care about the technologists who thought the recent wave of image generation would take 10+ years AND we don't have to care about the people who think evil AI will bury us under paperclips in the next 30.
I just use an external tool like good old del.icio.us now known as https://yabs.io
Three-day hackathon uncovers hundreds of bugs in Yahoo search engine tool Vespa