skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amusing to see "WWII" as if the military today doesn't still run on these things. It's more Monster energy drink and vaping these days (I guess still dip for dudes who grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line), but at least in the US Army, the Soldiers are still being fueled by caffeine and nicotine. All the other advice about vitamins and turning off screens and what not kind of goes out the window when you're getting 2 hours of sleep a night for over a year.
I also didn't imply this neural network's universe needs atoms, but it needs to run the computation somehow, the computation itself is the complexity, no matter with what physics or other manifestation it shows up

And if it is simulating our universe's atoms, then that part of it basically is our atoms. But is a neural net doing that really simpler than the atoms just running with a more direct mathematical model?
This article is weirdly vague in the sense they didn't mention the registry is is an official docker container: https://hub.docker.com/_/registry

It also doesn't go into any of the detail about starting up / configuring the registry, or explaining that running your own version is like running you own private hub.docker.com.

The registry is great! It just doesn't seem to be maintained much anymore, maybe because it's feature complete, or maybe because Docker is trying to sell plans to their "hub".

For anyone else interested in advanced Docker features: check out Docker Swarm (the only way to reasonably run Docker Swarm is to manage your own Docker Registry).
Part of the article is about the intersection of embarrassment for money and algorithmic content recommendations. Mr. Beast is an example that embodies both of these trends, whereas reality TV is necessarily less "online" than a social media influencer. In a lot of ways, online content is an intensification of the trend that reality shows like "Fear Factor" started.

It's also a short article. Bringing in other examples would necessarily lengthen the piece and potentially distract from the major points of the piece.
CogVideo was released only 4 months ago, you can see some samples on this page https://models.aminer.cn/cogvideo/.
Statistical models can be used more efficiently (see KerasCV, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005585), and computing power can increase.

I don't think AI will be able to create a movie anytime soon, but I think it will become "good enough" to serve as inspiration for creatives, or to replace simple stock footage (Much like SD and DALLE-2 is now).
> YouTube provides their content for free.

But YouTube provides very little content of their own. They are primarily a hosting platform used by third-party content providers.

If YouTube doesn't want to make content accessible for free anymore, it would undermine the use case of the vast majority of people who use it to distribute their own content.

I don't know what their finances and operations look like internally, but I suspect that the revenue they are bringing is enough for them to operate very much in the black, despite some proportion of their audience blocking ads, just as traditional broadcast TV networks have been profitable for decades without having nay mechanism to ensure that viewers are watching commercials.

Perhaps YouTube should just accept that ad blocking is part of the market landscape they operate it, and plan their monetization around reasonable estimates of the actual reach of their ads with blocking taken into account. Potentially undermining their core business model just to increase ad viewership by a few percentage points doesn't seem like a sound strategy.
I agree. Not enough critical thinking was happening when I saw devs start adopting JWT without clearly stating why, other than "current best practices is to use JWT... end of discussion".

My concerns with JWT from early on is that the data stored in them was potentially stale. Front-end developers would always request fresh data at each interaction. Second, the JWTs were so long. We had to keep passing these long JWTs around.... mainly for testing stuff out, we had long lived tokens, especially in dev, so I think we passed them around to replicate API calls. So you felt how long they were.... and in my head I kept thinking about all this useless data being passed around taking up CPU/network/memory resources. So I would just remove JWT and replace the tokens with UUIDs. Everyone was happy about it, but they were confused as to why they were needed in the first place. I would just respond with, well when you find out let me know and I can add them back.
a bit of a tangent. what's art. and so is following the trends to produce youtube no1 videos art?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrNWuppMcc&t=3790s
Intel has been locked in MBA sociopath organizational antipatterns for a decade now. There's nothing controversial about your post, it's just stating the obvious.

As others pointed out, the real controversy should be ... did Intel just take the government money and run? Even worse, did they sit on these funds while AMD was perfectly capable of delivering exascale and prevent AMD from providing a second computer? In terms of government boondoggles it probably is peanuts though.

The most shocking part of your post is that AMD got funding to deliver a computer somewhere else. I would have thought Intel could have blocked that with lobbying.
Occans razor in this case applies to the complexity giving rise to a situation here though, not the complexity of a described system.

Conventional physics giving birth to our universe is currently the model with the fewest assumptions.

What would have to take place to give rise to a universe the size of a data center, running an AI model of a human? It feels like we have to bake in assumptions of stable physics, a rise of a stable system for that data center, and some path towards creating it and modelling a human.

That said, if we believe we're capable of running billions of believable simulations, then we're more likely to be in such a simulation than ground reality. But a datacenter pocket dimension bakes in a lot of assumptions that make it less likely than our own universe.
I strongly strongly doubt that critical emergency call infrastructure will be blacked out before literally anything else.

Even when massive ice buildup took down a whole region's power grid in my home EU country, mobile cell towers were the first to be kept up and brought online to allow emergency services and citizens to communicate.

This feels like a nothing burger from Reuters (which is publishing some seriously dubious news these days).
If static method behaves like a function I see very little reason for mocking. Do people mock also calls to complex constructors (which are too static methods)?

I think some people put unit testing to the extreme by not wanting to test logic outside of the unit tested (which is not possible to do fully). They write additional code for mocks so their tests could be less useful but more "pure".
New malware backdoors VMware ESXi servers to hijack virtual machines
Well, I still don't think you need JS interpreter to simply include JS in your project e.g. PHP Laravel, Elixir Phoenix et. al. serve JS assets just fine via integration with webpack, esbuild and the like.
Mobile networks are considered essential. They will be the last thing to be turned off. I would expect trains to stop running first and businesses having their power cut before any cell tower would be affected.

I would also like the point out that network operators have mobile cell towers they can deploy and do deploy during large crowd events. These run for hours on diesel.

This is sensationalist journalism trying to sell papers. Every paper will be reprinting this in their language as they do for many reuters articles. Irresponsible IMO just like the weekly nuclear holocaust headlines because of that reactor in Ukraine. How about we educate the public instead of printing garbage headlines?
> A knight riding on a horse through the countryside

I didn't know you could be drifting with a horse.
There is none. Personally, I use it for authentication on a platform where the user shall be logged out after 30 min anyway.
Could you be up your own ass any deeper?
This is a fantastic move by both Cloudflare and Yubico. I have several keys in rotation and they're definitely the future for security.
Cookies are quite problematic these days
> go to work at 9 and leave at 5

Most people aren't even lucky enough to have this much consistency, and for even less money.
If this technology (or its future iterations) is not enough you can always combine this with your movie cuts. This lowers the resources/bar needs for creative people and obviously also for the uncreative ones.
Yup.
And the side channels / work arounds end up turning into "just release the fix and send me an email, we'll paper it up later" or "look I have no idea what your application does but I'll approve the change, just don't F* it up"
8 years is pretty old in GPU years. Certainly that old hardware is still useful, but not if you're doing anything where modern GPU performance is helpful, or even necessary.
All of the examples look pretty bad to me for a "finished product" - maybe it's because the Stable Diffusion revolution has taken off so fast.

Looks messy, uncanny and low res.

Is there anything adjacent to Stable Diffusion in the works for video?
Exactly this. They just need to validate the JWT signature against a JSON Web Key Set (JWKS). There's no need to store the data.
Half-OT:

Anyone got experience with switching from Node.js to Deno?

What's better with Deno? What's still worse?
In Sweden we haven’t separated their power supply from anything else, so rolling blackouts will kill them as well. And the blackouts are probably coming sooner than a fix can be in place
Not even that, really? It claims "6 days since last Cat 4 Hurricane", yet yesterday a Cat 4 was bearing down on Florida. The date used on that one seems to be the day Ian became an official tropical depression … not the last day it was a Cat 4.
> Is Kotlin the only other language they know?

On the JVM: I'd say yes.

Scala, Groovy, Jython, JRuby, and what not came and went.

I'd say Clojure is the third, and it take a nice place in the design space.

But Kotlin to me is so close to Java that it is basically Java 2.0: the Java that Java cannot be due to intended organizational slowness.

> Python is one of Java's main competitors, and when it comes to teaching a first language it is the main competitor.

Yes it probably is. The changes outlines in the article are not going to help here I'm afraid.

But I'm weird. I'd say the best lang without static typing for noobs is a LISP (so that every student is likely equally confused). When learning a language with types go for Rust or Idris. All not exactly competitors of Java :)
Whaaaaat? This is an AWESOME move. Finally getting a spare key!
Ex-Lax the bits too. Oh wait.
I have this problem that when I know that the such ambient noise is synthesised in any way, then my brain simply rejects it as if I knew it is a placebo so it no longer works.

Similarly if I listed authentic recorded ambient noise, once I recognise a loop point, it becomes extremely annoying.

That's why I can't use tools like mynoise.net.

I had a couple of solid 8 hour recordings from a cafe or office, but after a couple of listens I kind of learned it is a recording and they no longer work. Basically rather than focusing on doing work etc. my brain is listening for faint phrases, whether I heard it before etc.

The workaround I found is that I just have a window open so I can hear street noises, but this is going to be troublesome during the winter.

I am planning to start making recordings so maybe if I have a solid month worth of ambient noise, I will be able to trick myself it is not a repeat if it takes a month for a full rotation.
Two pre-shoegaze recommendations:

Cocteau Twins

Talk Talk (Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden, post-synthwave)

This all falls under dream pop and while I don't think it has much in common with noise's effect on the brain, it can be a little disorienting due to the depth and variance in sound.
I'm surprised there's any churches left still doing that frequency. Is it a touristy thing or something? Definitely would have thought most at this point are down to hourly or even just once at noon, with an awful lot more silent but for special occasions like weddings.
The creator of Stable Diffusion gave the indication of text-to-video:

https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1539881228773429249
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I am not so sure if this is true for mobile base stations in Europe e.g. in cities, mounted on roofs of e.g. a church or another building roof.
>>What, if any, are the political arguments against government-provided 3 square meals a day for kids provided by default?

Just the good old-school conservative mindset - that it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to feed your child. You had a kid, you should make sure they are fed. Why burden the taxpayer with this?

>> I'd gladly pay more taxes even though my children aren't at risk.

A lot of conservatives would have a heart attack at just the thought of paying more taxes, even if it would benefit them or their kids.

Edit: Since this is getting downvoted for some reason - I just want to categorically point out that I'm not supporting this viewpoint. Just explaining it.
I'm very interested in what will come out of this new (sub)medium. By virtue of video being a collaborative medium, I never feel like I'm getting a message from a singular consciousness like I do from less resource-intensive mediums like books (I know that book editors exist, but the medium has less filters to pass through compared to large products like movies). I could see this substantively lowering the barrier of entry for video and enabling a lot of new stories to be told.
generating a sufficiently random session id is not difficult. Using JWT doesn't substantially make this easier for you and operationally you are going to have to invest in significant key management infrastructure. If you don't need the stateless nature of JWT you should just not use them.
That was always the plan no? They would stop allowing updates before they officially removed the extensions from the store...
You can track JWTs on the server, via a sessionId or whatever you wish, it just breaks the intended pattern. If you have to do a lookup on each request (necessary to invalidate the token imperatively) your JWT is no longer stateless which is a core tenet of the JWT approach.

It'd be like building a React app and calling getElementById(id) to update DOM values. You _can_ do it but...
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I have a few dozen of these email addresses and very rarely get spam to any of them - then received two spams to the same address within the span of a few days. It seems relatively unlikely that it was just guessing.

I'll try to provide redacted headers within the next day or two so that interested parties can take a look anyway.
Love "Machine Gun" from Souvlaki: https://youtu.be/SQ6pHlVKW9w
I agree. That experience of quickly flipping to a page or jumping from one place to another in the book is sorely missing from e-books. That said, they have their positives too. Like being able to search for definition of a world, quickly looking up notes(not easy to quickly jot though, new kindle may change that) and the ability to carry many many books so that you can change books like channels where ever you are reading.

PS: e-book readers have greatly improved in responsiveness and refresh rate that it is different enough experience if have only seen the early ones
Yes for distraction free content!!!
> run a leaky AI model or SELECT *

That's the point though isn't it? Only the person who wants the results can get them or even see the inputs. That restricts the data available for shitty AI and precludes any Joe Schmo from scanning the whole database.

If your threat model is instead that you don't trust the FHE endpoint, then much how you want HTTPS termination to happen in a place you control you also in this case just encrypt the stuff you care about on your own devices.
Congrats! Great product
C++ boilerplate is criticized all the time. Just being able to pass a range rather than begin and end iterators was such a huge improvement in wordiness and is a widely loved change, for example.
Zimbabwe has faced sanctions regularly - it's of little interest because it doesn't really disempower the elite.
Amazon’s iRobot deal faces renewed scrutiny from Dems
I mean, that looks a lot like he hated buskers which is not the same thing. Indeed, it is an attitude I'm extremely sympathetic to. Noisy intrusive music that one cannot avoid is pretty damned unreasonable imo
> We have to be careful to avoid the Argument from Authority fallacy

Indeed, but we also have to be careful of writing off numerous opinions from multiple diverse sources in multiple countries, from politicians, economists, bankers and many other roles, as well as the actual actions of the people on the ground that have born out the criticisms, as the ill educated musings of a few 'pundits'.

> When the most productive members of society...

LOL. Seriously? I'm paid in that bracket (or I was until last year when I left the UK, and I'm now paid in that bracket somewhere else) and I don't believe for a second that we're the most productive members of society, we've just figured out ways to get people to pay us a lot. I look around at some of the unutterably useless arseholes that are on similar money and litter the offices of London, particularly in anything adjacent to city finance, and can only laugh at this ridiculous piece of libertarian orthodoxy. Most productive ... most productive at clumsily and innappropriately flirting with the disinterested secretary, most productive at clearing off for a long lunch somewhere new, most productive at looking busy, passing the buck and collecting the cheque, maybe.

Yes I've heard of the laffer curve, no I'm not a particular believer that it's some sort of cast-iron truism, and neither apparently are the people you're defending, who are forecasting the various tax cuts to cost the treasury multiple billions, at least in the short term, until their miracle of growth happens, if it happens. There's a lot of argument about whether (for instance) the continuation of the lower corporation tax rate is even useful for that.

These decisions are a kick in the pants to the people who actually need a tax break, your man on the street that you mentioned above, who would quite like a bit more money in his pocket due to the spiralling cost of living and energy crisis. He could do with a tax break to keep the family going this winter and deal with the higher mortgage payments that will come about because of the further interest rate rises these new changes will necessitate.

But I guess my highly paid contractor friends will get to stick another few tens of thousands in their pension pots instead.

The best thing that can be said about this budget is that it was done at completely the wrong time.
i don't understand the concept of needing a specific amount of performance in a supercomputer to do research. You go to publication with the system you have. I;m sure some researcher calculated that if they had X more resources, their simulation would be able discover new things in regime Y, but you know what? Often computer scientists find ways to solve problems that traditionally required a supercomputer- but can be solved on a desktop.

Chasing larger supercomputers is a folly, one we do to remain visually competitive with other countries who want to take the US's crown. But they benefit very few while costing a lot- not a good investment except for problems like "I need my submarine to be 5% more streamlined to remain competitive".
I agree -- astronaut not terrifying. However, the hand on that teddy bear... :shiver:
It’s not as endemic as you make it out to be or there would be a public outcry.

Banking and social media are also two very different industries. One is essential while the other is mainly bread and circus with a myriad of alternatives
I believe the parent was referring to Russia’s demand that the west agree to deny Ukraine membership to NATO and/or EU now and in the future.

I’m not an expert on this though, that was just the impression I got.

I don’t think anyone could say what’s happened since Feb is “reasonable”.
Sounds like great improvements. I would wish for the ramp to be extended a little bit to also do something about packages, for example allowing a common prefix like "com.company.project.whatever" to be elided, so that we don't have to go from "src/Hello.java" straight to navigating the maze of "src/main/java/com/company/project/whatever/hello/Hello.java".
I have happily used JWTs as signed objects that can be easily parsed and validated by any API consumer, in any language, using library code.

These objects can be transferred through untrusted channels, and retain their verifiability. That can be useful when moving data between organizations, or systems that do not talk directly (e.g. a mobile app that interacts with multiple unrelated backends).

RFC 7519 says:

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing
claims to be transferred between two parties.

Not all claims are authorization claims. Not all claims require ad hoc invalidation. Some claims can even be permanent!

Authors ad infinitum have pointed out the risks in using JWTs for authorization (linked web article says "authentication", but both could apply).

Those risks are:

- Invalidation/expiration controls are limited
- Receiver might not properly validate signature
- Protocol dumbly allows "none" algorithm

Only the first is an operational concern, the others are just "bad code works badly" problems.

The moral of the story is: If your claims do not fit the timed-expiration model of JWTs (e.g. some authorization claims), then don't use JWTs!
I assume you mean when nothing is loaded in it, or it's showing a plain HTML page. 1GB+ is completely common for a lot of Electron apps in real use. If you run a dev environment and are using 2-3 Electron apps, 16GB will be a struggle.

Currently sitting at 29GB (on M1 Pro), just for regular web dev environment on MacOS.
>Then there's people just shooting themselves in the foot and not actually signing them and just trusting them without any crypto signatures.

You would be surprised, a very short time ago I saw a (pretty large/common) web FinTech service provider that included the private key to verify the signature encoded within the JWT. It was SHOUTING to be hacked. I don't understad how people can be so irresponsible.
What? Why whould the signaure be invalidated?
> What, if any, are the political arguments against government-provided 3 square meals a day for kids provided by default?

Other programs could be a better use of resources and provide more support to parents. Like minimum income programs that make paying for lunch a non-issue.

Hypothetically, parents might want their children to follow certain diets for legitimate reasons, so letting them provide meals provides more support in those situations.
So you need to optimise on compressed version, not the whole thing. What they’re doing right now is akin to a human trying to hold an entire picture - or entire movie - in their head all at once.

We can’t do it. AIs can sort of do it.

Latent diffusion models already demonstrated that operating on a compressed representation gives far better results, faster, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near the limit for what’s possible there. It’s no coincidence that this is how humans work.
would rly love to see this if you don't mind sharing a link
> and submarine base with US fleet ties.

As part of the nuclear triad this is likely the highest priority target. Likewise ports useful for shipping military equipment are high priorities. For similar reasons, downtown manhattan is somewhat safer than Brooklyn due to distance from important ports which can be used to ship soldiers.