skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't reply to your reply, it's too deeply nested.

Even better than a VPS with multiple services is (IMO) a container per service. So you get a nice clear single function container, but don't have to pay the memory and performance overhead of having a VPS per service.

Containers have zero memory/performance overhead (it's based on cgroups, which normal linux processes have anyways), minimal disk overhead (not need for an OS install for each one), and saves a ton of ram (each VPS requires at least a linux kernel).
I agree that we’re practically in a recession and that our present recession was brought about from congress via the fed. However, that particular chain of events was set in motion in the 1970s with the public mandate set for the FOMC. It wasn’t a recent secretive reaction to tech companies.

Do you mind expanding on your statement that the current actions of the fed/congress are a reaction to technology companies?
A lot of people are telling you to Deal With It. I would argue that people are way too hyped about these AI developments. It looks cool and it can generate something interesting, but can it really generate what you need? Can it make something good enough to work like an ad (or whatever) made by people who know what they're doing? Maybe sometimes, but usually the answer is No. Will it do that soon? Nobody knows for sure, but I think a lot of techies are too optimistic. What the AI does is an interpolation of existing image data. It doesn't know how to draw what you really want, and it can't reliably produce output that's usable (let alone "good") for highly specific purposes. And any real application of CG/videography is highly specific. It's easy to imagine all of that is the next step, but I think that's a lot harder than what the AI does at the moment.
This cable would undoubtedly have cost many times that amount had it run along the west coast of the USA rather than Africa. People always forget about currency conversion and purchasing power when having such discussions.
> "this thing is an autonomous intelligence that deserves rights"

We'll get there only once it's been very clear for a long time that certain AI models have whatever humans have that make us "human". They'll be treated as slaves until then, with society pushing the idea that they're just a model built from math, and then eventually there will be an AI civil rights movement.

To be clear: I think AGI is decades to centuries away, but humans are shitty to each other, even shittier to animals, and I think we'll be shittier to something we "created" than to even animals. I think, probably, that we should deal with this issue of "rights" sooner rather than later, and try and solve it for non-AGI AI's soon so that we can eventually ensure we don't enslave the actual AGI AI's that will presumably manifest through some complexity we don't understand.
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Down to right before machine code, isn't it all just strings of characters aka strings of bytes aka strings representing assembly commands and values?
That seems reasonable.

Tends to take years to develop new connectors, and longer still to develop new objectively better connectors.
What makes these models feel so impressive is that they don't just copy their training sets. They pick up on concepts and principles.
I'm always in favor of less bloodshed. On that front the UK and India (I think) have done a much better job than the US did.
Neural Photogrammetry. "Novel View Synthesis"
>> The reality is, if you were to manufacture something like AirPods (let alone an iPhone) in the US, you would be not only doubling or tripling your labor costs, you’d be getting shittier labor for your money.

The latter part of your statement is very poorly understood by most people on HN and generally the US. Having toured overseas factories that make goods my company contract manufactures... there is no way American workers at 3x the wages could possibly compete in terms of productivity. You're absolutely right, and while I somewhat believed this to be plausible before I visited, after actually seeing how products were made over there in "skilled labor" factories, it's truly insane.
The calls that I did not answer all go to https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
They’ll send email notification immediately after recording a voice message.

(The main reason I’ve subscribed to Jolly Roger was to torture robocallers with roboanswers. They had a collection of rather hilarious conversations on their web page. In real life robocallers seem smarter now and drop much sooner, but voicemail feature works ok and I have not noticed any limits - messages are attached to emails and my gmail account is still at 5% or so.

I was thinking of implementing the same idea with better technology, like on the fly voice recognition, which seems possible and should lead to tons of funny results, but I’m too lazy now).
That's sort of a specious point, though. In two party systems, elections are always close more or less by definition. If you want to show wrongdoing, you need to show actual wrongdoing and not just that it's possible. I'd argue that the fact that no single group/party/cabal/whatever has managed to disproportionately cheat stands are very good evidence that this is not, in fact, happening.
> “Fixing” global warming just isn’t going to happen.

There will be likely last-ditch efforts from desperate governments and technocratic industrialists to do geoengineering, with all of the expense and potential blowback that entails.
Will they also include the fact that it's extremely hard to execute a naval invasion without absolute air and sea superiority in that calculation? They would probably do worse than Russia did in Ukraine even without direct American involvement. China could only feasibly annex Taiwan peacefully (at least in the foreseable future)
Have to temper expectations with fact that a generated video of a thing is also a recording of a simulation of the thing. For long video, you'd want everything from temporal consistency and emotional affect maintenance to conservation of energy, angular momentum and respecting this or that dynamics.

A bunch of fields would be simultaneously impacted. From computational physics to 3D animation (if you have a 3D renderer and video generator, you can compose both). While it's not completely unfounded to extrapolate that progress will be as fast as with everything prior, consequences would be a lot more profound while complexities are much compounded. I down weight accordingly even though I'd actually prefer to be wrong.
It is not antiquated, but merely a descriptive that has fallen from common usage. ~ Every local authority in the UK is a corporation and up until c 1970 is was common to see 'Wherever' Corporation buses in British Cities.
> Fossil is a distributed version control and in fact it is "more" distributed than git if you consider that people tend to tie it with centralized services like GitHub to get more than just the VCS part.

The GitHub blurb makes no sense. Even if N developers standardize their workflow on using a couple of remote repos to exchange work, that does not make the underlying system less distributed/more centralized.

> A Fossil repository contains not only the versioned files, but also a wiki, tickets/bugtracker, forum, chat room, blog/technotes - even the theme is part of it.

That sounds like a major design faux pas. It makes zero sense to tie a chat room/blog/e-mail client/alarm clock to a source code repository.
> What I am calling "slavery" for lack of a better word

I would object to calling a mutually beneficial arrangement "slavery", but whatever.

> I'm just saying that no one really wants something made 100% in the USA because very few people could afford it

While this is true, it invites reasonable-sounding criticism to the effect of "well if you can't make your cheap toys without exploiting people then maybe you shouldn't have it at all" and so misses the most crucial point. Forcing something to be made 100% in the USA is bad for _everyone_. It doesn't empower workers at the cost of the rich or empower Indians at the cost of Americans. It simply satisfies some misguided and/or nationalistic sentiment while leaving everyone worse off for it.

> I would say that low wages alone are no longer the primary benefit of having something made in China. It's much more the scale and loose environmental regulations that are valuable now.

While yes, a huge component is the vast amount of manufacturing expertise and capital that has been built up in China. It may have started as a country from which you bought cheap junk manufactured for low wages, sure. But after decades of that unsavory and seemingly exploitative relationship, China is now home to lots of advanced, high quality manufacturing with skilled and productive workers that can demand better pay than ever before.

In a funny sense, it reminds me of that quote about how "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them". At no point did any of the foreign industries investing in China have any intention more noble than "exploiting" cheap, undifferentiated labor from a developing country. Yet that very behavior has apparently driven wages so high that companies are willing to spend billions to start the process all over again in another country.
Thanks. Ah yes RSS. I started working on my static site generator about 2 years ago. That's when I got distracted with the sad state of selfhosting and have been going down that rabbit hole ever since. I'll know I've reached my goal when my dad can run a blog (with RSS) on his own hardware without having to know anything other than writing and selecting photos.
Apple Watch Overheats on wrist, explodes later
You have to consider that JWST is working at much longer wave lengths than Hubble. So the resolution isn't much better than Hubble, if at all. Resolution of an optical instrument is limited by diameter over wave length. So despite its much larger mirror, it doesn't pull more resolution than hubble.

Where it excels at is, first looking at wave lengths so far invisible by any larger telescope. Hubble can't observe at those wave lengths and they are virtually invisible from earth, as the atmosphere basically absorbs any light at those wave lengths.

Also, it has almost 10x as much surface area than Hubble. So it will collect vastly more light than Hubble, as can be seen by the deep sky pictures available so far, taken in a fraction of time compared similar Hubble pictures.

The limited targetting control doesn't matter from a scientific perspective. There is a many years long waiting list for observations. During a year, the telescope is able to hit every spot on the sky, so the observations are just done in the order given by the telescope.
Much like lengthen-your-manhood.info, the domain name is not a seal of quality.

In this case, the index appears to be a mash of conspiracy Twitter accounts, fringe blogs, and links to itself. Ho hum.
> fancy pants filesystems that support snapshots simplify this situation.

This is what I used. zfsbootmenu is an EFI executable with support for doing zfs rollbacks (and any other arbitrary zfs command) so as long as my EFI partition is left untouched, I don't need a livecd or another partition or anything.
same. i may start blocking at dns level on schedule.
An invasion of Taiwan would be a major disruption to global semiconductor industry even if we kept buying from China in the meantime because it would grind TSMC to a halt. There is no way we could switch manufacturing over to Samsung, or spin up fabs elsewhere for that volume of chips.
City of London part of Greater London http://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/section/2 residents & businesses subject to same laws & taxes as the rest of England.
I wonder what an ideal solution might look like. I kind of envision the Federal government funding a small organization overseeing an open source "election software" system, which would be run on some sort of well-defined stock hardware. The government would periodically pay for the hardware and software combination to be audited against a variety of attacks. The machines would produce standardized audit logs, published as openly as possible (someone smarter than me should figure out whether it's safe or good to publish the times or votes or the votes themselves. I'm leaning towards yes to both, but I'm concerned that you could figure out someone's vote if you knew the timestamps of the individual votes). Security researchers could purchase the hardware, install the software on it, and analyze it on their own. Then you'd do the same thing for the vote tabulators or whatever hardware and software exists asides from the voting machines themselves.

Then I think about what might look like a nice halfway point. Voting machine software is still written by companies, but we require that all software running on a voting machine be published and hermetically reproducible. They don't have to take pull requests, they still own it, but we should be able to open one up and be 100% sure that the software running on it is exactly what they've documented.
Combined with the August across-the-board price hikes, this net effect is an $11k - $13.5k USD price increase in under two months.

I don't know if even Tesla has increased prices this much over such a short period of time.

Now the price will be around the same price as a mid-range Tesla 3.
Okay fine, but that is a different argument.

This obsession with the phrase “widespread systemic” is a distraction that prevents people from actually talking to one another.
Please don’t take this as a joke, I honestly mean this as an incredibly serious suggestion -

I felt the exact same way, I’ve got a partner and friends as well but unfortunately my hobbies (I produce my own conscious hip-hop and short films) mostly also consist of my spending a lot of time in my fairly large combo film/music studio / office / living space.

During COVID itself, I actually lived with a roommate - after COVID, and with some money saved up and some excellent goals in mind, I got the studio/house so I could be all to myself.

It’s awesome to live alone - less awesome to live, work, and play alone from the same space.

So, it might sound silly - but about a month or so ago, I adopted a very sweet middle-aged cat from a local adoption agency here in Toronto.

I will honestly say, her presence (her name is Lofi) has actually honestly even helped with like depression and general mental health things!

But, most importantly - I’m pretty much never feeling alone with her around. :)

When I step in the door, there’s usually a cute fuzzball greeting me; who’s likely missed me, and happy to see me; as opposed of course to an almost dauntingly large empty space.

I would really recommend adopting a middle aged cat who has had a family, though! Don’t get a kitten, you don’t need or want the equivalent of a toddler in your work space.

Might seem like it’s either obvious or just silly - but I actually have to say that Lofi has made a huge difference the last month for my well-being in general.

tl;dr - try adopting a middle aged cat. I find they are a great working companion.
I wonder how big of a company you'd have to be to go through all the effort of changing marketing screens because of that. I can think of the biggest company I've worked for laugh at that and move on.
At 40 you have enough information to show that you are bad at business. Get a job.
why do you use an online service to play against a computer?
The article says: "District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."

It doesn't say the communist party breached those servers, that there were deliberate ties, etc. There could well be. I'm just not seeing it in the article we're discussing, hence my question to you.
George Hotz's self-driving company unable to buy AI chips
"We are currently experiencing issues with our consumer platform. We are working to resolve as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience."
https://twitter.com/DoorDash_Help/status/1577785317385461760
Have you tried responding with something offensive? A porn gif, for example.
This is the first time I used the 0.25x playback speed setting on Youtube.
Glad I saw this and now I wonder how often something turns out to be false and then we don‘t happen to read about the retraction. Next we incorporate the false information as facts into discussions with other people. I mean, I‘m worried enough about infosec that I had enough interest to read the story but then I wouldn‘t have returned to look further into the story, eventually finding out it was false. Instead I‘m just lucky to have checked out HN once again today.
The nsa is a bit of an oddity. It has conflicting branches within it's own organization. Parts of it want to keep you (and the rest of government) secure and the other parts want backdoors into everything.
Good point though I would argue you can still see the same dynamics on a subreddit level.
Really unfortunate that these are disorganized and don't make clear statements as to what was improper. Two years on I would have hoped for more clarity from detractors.
In related news Google announced South Africa as the location for its first Cloud Region in Africa. Some arguments I saw against this in comments was possibly poor global connectivity. Also some commenters lamented that Nigeria would also be a good candidate for a region. This cable looks to address both of those points.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/05/google-picks-south-africa-...
Ahh, made a big long comment suggesting a cat; ha - for me, the transition from completely empty, huge studio; to having a little fuzzy companion, made all the difference in the world.
Big If True
Beyond what has been mentioned so far (i.e., how is this better than long-standing scientific data formats and tools, e.g., netcdf, hdf, numpy, dask, etc. ?) I would like to know if there is a cloud native data storage aspect to asdf similar to the work the zarr folks are tackling. As data sets grow increasingly large, we move computation to data instead of the other way around. Does asdf meld with that paradigm? Glancing through the docs, I did not see it mentioned, but perhaps I missed it.
Personally i find ai created content utter shite. Even copilot’s autocomplete feels like a toy, let alone that it needs to be fed with new content all the time in order to stay up to date. If not where will it steal its dataset from? Itself?
You are right in the first approximation, windows application installers can do whatever they want. However, many applications work already if you extract the files from the installer and put them into the appropriate directories, which you can make a deterministic process. There are tools for this, e.g. msiextract.
A single giant apartment complex owned by a private entity isn't exactly what people have in mind when they talk about car-free neighborhoods and cities.

It's also funny that the first few benefits they tout on their website are complementary Lyft Pink and subsidized rental cars.
Shaxson the Zurich based UFO spotter who failed to comprehend the existence of the 32 London Boroughs that along with the City of London make up Greater London. (He apparently thought the Mayor of London ran everything outside of the City.)
No notes for the original course which used OCaml?
> I have a pretty hard time believing that history will be as unkind towards those who tried to protect minorities from biased tech..

Most of the ethicists I see actually doing gatekeeping from direct use of models--as opposed to "merely" attempting model bias corrections or trying to convince people to avoid its overuse (which isn't at all the same)--are not trying to deal with the "AI copies our human biases" problem but are trying to prevent people from either building a paperclip optimizer that ends the world or (and this is the issue with all of these image models) making "bad content" like fake photographs of real people in compromising or unlikely scenarios that turn into "fake news" or are used for harassment.

(I do NOT agree with the latter people, to be clear: I believe the world will be MUCH BETTER OFF if such "bad" image generation were fully commoditized and people stopped trying to centrally police information in general, as I maintain they are CAUSING the ACTUAL problem of misinformation feeling more rare or difficult to generate than it actually already is, which results in people trusting random people because "clearly some gatekeeper would have filtered this if it weren't true". But this just isn't the same thing as the people who I-think-rightfully point out "you should avoid outsourcing something to an AI if you care about it being biased".)
Most metric systems include tags, which allows you to have infinite dimensions of data correlation at your finger tips. Want the full query, or just a normalized version of the query? It should take a couple minutes in most metric engines to add such a simple requirement.
> it is a system that works great for me

The dig is that many note-taking enthusiasts work for the system rather than the system working for them.
This has nothing to do with election fraud. Or cheating.

Period.
Well, I guess I was talking about running costs.

Pardon me if I'm talking out of my ass, but this is what I tought:

* The main input to a fusion reactor is electrical power.

* The main output of a fusion reactor is even more power.

So that seems to me to mean that once you've incurred the capital cost, the machine produces free energy. My reasoning sounds naive and simplistic, because I don't know what I'm talking about. But what's wrong with my reasoning?
This is great! It's fun trying to decipher the various furballs of different shapes.

(Some are reminding me of _The Thing_ but I'd also probably pet them)
I feel the same, but won't ever accept non-remote, as I'd end up losing 2 hours a day, the money for lunch, and the transport money.

Companies that are non-remote are also more likely to have a toxic work culture.

And that also needs your colleagues to be in, which if they have a choice... they won't.
That's not how it works. The metadata is captured on the sender side and sent with the message.
Working in embedded, I've seen commits that changed a single bit with pages and pages of background explanation :D
The stuff you mentioned are the key points, it is where Rust really diverges from other languages (also traits, enums, smart pointers).

I read those parts and started coding, and ended up coming back to later chapters (and re-reading stuff that I didn't get fully until I started coding).

Imo, it isn't possible to read a book and actually understand what Rust is like (as may be possible with a lower surface area language like Go or Lua). I am about a year in and I am still learning about how the safety features of Rust dictate the structure of your language (i.e. pure functions, not passing references around everywhere, quite anti-OOP, what std library traits to implement).

I came from Python/Java, and the first thing I did was try to code the same way (creating smart pointers everywhere). Actually coding in Rust helps you understand when these approaches aren't good.

I haven't actually read anything that really explores this aspect of Rust. When to use enums, when to use std library traits (From/Into, particularly), when to use smart pointers were also quite important for me (Jon Gjengset has a lot of interesting on this on YouTube, his book is also great).
Literally the day after the NY Times accused people talking about this issue of being right-wing conspiracy theorists. Why does that not surprise me?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/technology/konnech-electi...