skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like you can't call a group that can get "the people in power to cave" as powerless. That is power.

But it only works if the authorities are fearful, conflict-averse ass coverers. If the authorities ignore Twitter, then Twitter has no power. It's not like the "Twitter mobs" have guns, or even literal pitchforks. If they don't get want they want, all they can do is whine some more on Twitter.
A second Russian citizen arrested with camera drone in Tromsø
Google translate: https://www-vg-no.translate.goog/nyheter/innenriks/i/EQQy5l/...

The first Russian citizen was arrested at tuesday with 4 TB of photos and videos from camera drones, carrying 3 passports. Some of the files were encrypted. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33193095

Friday, another Russian was arrested for flying camera drones, this time around airports. Among his photos were photos of a military helicopter, although the context of these photos has not been disclosed yet
Just put imperial measurements on consumer goods next to metric and satisfy the brexiteers, no need to change everything.
> What I don't understand is why are we conscious beings instead of extremely complex bio-computation machines exhibiting memory, inputs, and complex behaviors such as attention and decision making models, all with behavioral actuators, and all this simulating thought and intelligence but really have no entity whatsoever thats actually experiencing stuff?

Subjective experience and the "self" are just emergent properties of the system I described, on a scale that's difficult to comprehend.

> I've always wondered what ultimately makes neurons and all so special that they produce conciousness. Does a rock that undergoes vibrations have some sort of consciousness associated with it, if not much less than what is seen in a human?

There's nothing special about neurons, they are biological systems to encode information from the external world and produce action potentials that trigger other neurons. It's also a misconception that neurons are the only thing firing in the brain. Glial cells also play an important function here. Further, it doesn't make sense to talk about consciousness at the neuronal level. Consciousness is an emergent property of the nervous system.

You can't point to any molecule and call it wet, but a bunch of h2o molecules clumped together have an emergent property of wetness.

Likewise, a rock is hard and if you use it to crack open a walnut, it has physics that relates to the entire object. However, we could explain the entire system at the molecular level but it doesn't really explain the hardness and physical forces that emerge from the rock that allow us to crack a walnut.
This statement is just false.

As of yet, the outcomes have been on the lower end of modeling, i.e. less severe, until the models are revised to be more conservative in their estimates. Convenient because then the models can come back with elevated outcomes by comparison to the predicted average. Ah! See scientism at work?

It's the persistent, politically motivated science that causes the hesitancy and disbelief
Am I just incredibly cynical today or does this read like dense corporate bullshit and lies from start to finish? I have no idea what the software does but it sounds like network-sniffing, privacy-intruding malware being severely sugarcoated? It even starts out with the clichéd line of being “strongly committed to open-source” coming from a Microsoft executive, who (correct me if I'm wrong) haven't open-sourced Windows. Am I the only one who gets dystopian vibes from this?
*they don't pay
Why? Imperial is a terrible measurement system, inferior.
I mean its a silly idea but I don’t see why systems would necessarily need updating if people chose to sell in imperial measurements.

1 - any seller would likely in any case have to list the metric equivalent anyway.

2 - all imperial measurements are now defined by metric measurements anyway.

3 - any company choosing to sell B2B in imperial measurements would likely find itself at a commercial disadvantage, as businesses in the UK almost always work in metric.
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That's a bit missing the point of what he said.

You are correct about the hardware requirements - but his point was that 90% of the applications of this high end hardware ends up being in machine learning (and or crypto mining) and not the tiny ultra-high-end gaming market that can afford to pay several thousands for such cards. Most gaming "rigs" are nowhere near those specs.

Nobody would manufacture such cards in quantity beyond a few "show pieces" only for the few very rich enthusiasts that can afford them if there wasn't this non-gaming market, it simply wouldn't be economical.
Why are we getting fatter?
When I was young, “woke” meant being aware of the excessive greed of the banking system, of injustices against the lower class, the treatment of minorities, and the crimes of the military industrial complex.

Today woke means counting how many black people a VP collected on last month’s corporate hiring spree.

It means a movie studio race swapping a classic movie character and applauding themselves for “diversity”, instead of taking the time and effort to actually write an original with a diverse cast.

It means a university reducing the number of Asian student admissions.

The list of cringey, obviously racist and condescending behavior goes on and on. The point is the term “woke” has changed. This happened some time after the Occupy movement, when corporations decided to co-opt this rhetoric.
I can almost guarantee that this is being proposed because it performed well among a certain demographic during some focus group. So it’s a way to get a few cheap votes from the “back in my day…” crowd. It has the additional benefit of appearing like the government are doing something, while they somehow still continue to not tackle the other ongoing crises (among other things - energy prices and the recent mini-budget which cost the Chancellor of the Exchequer his job)
The new RTX 4xxx generation still has the same amount of VRAM, so I don't know how it would help you that much.
I am not 5 year old kid and I do understand how things work so there is no need to move so much air. Out of 2 murderers I would "prefer" the one that kills 10 people instead of 10,000. They're still murderers to me.

>"The thing is, most democracies attempt to constantly improve upon this."

Judging by last 30 years I'd say that government in most "democracies" are working to make things worse for common people.
You will never win against these people with nice words.

Only going on an aggressive offense will work.

A bully will never back down if the victim apologizes: this will cause the victim only to be bullied more.

The bully must feel the hard fist of his victim breaking his nose, there is no other way.
McKinsey and other consultants are the modern equivalent of counselors to medieval kings.

A strong, competent king would still have counselors - but he'd make sure they were competent, loyal, and deriving only modest and honest profits from the arrangement.

A less-strong but passably competent king would often need more & better-paid counselors - if only to provide coverage and a chorus of arguments, when he needed to do things that weren't so popular or familiar.

A weak or incompetent king often fell victim to Evil Counselors - who more-or-less ended up ruling the kingdom, for their own enjoyment and profit.

Back in medieval times - when insulting the king could literally get your head chopped off - it was quite reasonable to blame "evil counselors" whenever the kingdom wasn't doing so well.

But now? Why the h*ell can't people see and say the obvious, when craptastic managers, bureaucrats, and politicians need to be dethroned & defenestrated?
Nah, this is full story 99.9% of the time. I worked for government and this happened all the time - nobody ever got fired for choosing 500x more expensive IMB general solution versus something that you customized for the stakeholders and has 0 issues and million users and 0 incidents. I had personaly many such products being on the side of the government once, and on the side of the private vendor after that.

One example - I created Help Desk system for the public finances of entire country using Redmine and other FOSS tools. The cost was 0, the time to implement it was single year of not so focused work and it served hundreeds of thousands of people. Then IBM took over with its service desk, implmenting it for years and costing infinity. They could get into tender, I could not since I and my team are small company. The funny thing is that stakeholder subteam abandoned it and returned to my solution (with 0 maintenance since I left the company).

This is typical. You need to know how government works to understand it. I understand it, but do not approve it. I am also not frustrated about it, its just how this world works currently, in majority of the countries as far as I know.
> 42 images (maximum I can fit on my GPU with 24Gb memory)

Probably I'm completely wrong, but surely scaling down those images, at least for the initial iterations, will reduce noise, and give you vastly better batches and faster iteration leading to better training -- then as it converges you would crank up the resolution

Note that scaling doesn't have to be cubic, there are algorithms that crop less 'meaningful' pixels; giving you smaller files with the same resolution
When I bought my 386 sx/16, they were all out of 10mb drives, so I bought a 20mb, and my dad thought I was crazy, because that was more space than anyone could ever need. :)
They have no power outside that which is given to them is the point.

If random people want to cancel waffles, they are powerless to do so. It’s only when someone who actually has the power to cancel waffles decides to cancel them does it happen. The mob can only influence these powers that be.
There are a number of solutions but it seems the best one would be labor protection. One of the downsides of “at will” employment is you can be easily fired for things as innocent as being a temporary embarrassment to your employer. How many public teachers or police officers are being canceled? I use them as examples because I believe they are examples of strong union protections in America, but with 50 states that generalization will of course not apply to all teachers or police officers in the country.
No one is saying games don't need bigger GPUs is this post some sort of bait?

Also Nvidia would probably go more into custom accelerators (tensor cores) as whole industry is moving more towards bigger VRAM and more tf32/bf16 units for AI training over standard fp32 gaming workflow and that's isn't focus of RTX class gaming cards.

And 4090/3090/2080ti is old Titan class card for prosumers mostly focused on 3d rendering/video editing etc. and also gaming for AI pros they are milking sweet money out of quadro lineup.

If you are rly limited by VRAM you should just go fully TPU not wait for some magic consumer VRAM increase as it won't happen for a few years probably (most games in 4k can't utilise 16gb.)
switch to imperial? is that a typo?
and undoubtably we are undergoing disasters with wholly unintended consequences.

When the house is on fire, you don't worry about water damage.
I'm still waiting for a description of what 'woke' is that doesn't compare it to things that are widely considered[0] to be bad (or good, for that matter).

Who wants to try?

0. There's such a thing as a healthy amount of narcissism. A bit like the salt in your diet: too little is problematic too.
Zeek is a network protocol parser used to monitor network activity. It parses protocols such as SMTP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, FTP, File, SSH, etc. and collects metadata about that activity.

Here's some of the DNS fields it extracts as it observes the traffic:

https://docs.zeek.org/en/current/scripts/base/protocols/dns/...
I think you wanted a different article. While pretty short, I pretty much agree with the two reasons they give for bringing in consultants.
Not really. It can be sold for parts. If someone can grab one, he will.
Which makes a bit of interesting observation about what the map is actually showing. Mostly density of wifi networks for this subset of users but partly their movement patterns too.
Suggestions to make international train travel more attractive
That's fair. Having looked at a few of those threads, I think the premise behind the "level playing field" statement is likely flawed.

These are press releases. They will be sterile. Compare that with someone linking to their personal website where they can choose to add any title of their choosing. I'd humbly suggest that those two categories being treated the same on HN isn't right given how the latter may or may not be an originating story.

I respect the work you guys put in to offer such a service to the community and for the patience in putting up with a nobody who's challenging your historical decisions in the comments :) I hope i don't come across as rude by saying that the experience for niche topics might be a little better if the headlines are made accessible without adding opinion.

Other than that, i respect your work and will not editorialize the titles anymore.
It’s like saying the emperor is not wearing any clothes. Everyone can see it and thinks it’s crazy, but all emperors (and emperor hopefulls) wear no clothes, so they’re disinclined to make an issue of it.
Yeah and at least in tech you get to play with: technology.

So it’s fun, but I have this constant feeling that I could actually create value and also earn more.

All the paths seem to be closed though whenever I dig a bit deeper. I was optimistic with decentralization for a while because that would let you operate outside of established firms that all seem to have the issues a sibling poster describes [1], unfortunately it didn’t take off for many notable non-financial use-cases.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33214646

Edit: added link
You're right. I updated my comment. Thank you!
Nvidia doesn't think so simply because you are a tiny niche that has such "requirements" - and also the money to burn for it.

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with it - just you are simply not the market that is making them money anymore.
is this an out of season april fools joke?
Ahh, thanks! I had always assumed it was named after the Er- in Ericsson :).
Walk barefoot more. There was an article on here a while back that also claimed it helped. Because you get in contact with dirt/ground.
The "hard problem" is how it is possible for anything to "look like" or "feel like" anything in the first place. Not only do we not know how to simulate that, we don't even know how to sense that it is taking place in anything other than our own minds.
What the actual F. That is just insane. Brexit has been such a rolling disaster. It's constantly reminds me why compulsory voting in Australia is the best thing since sliced bread. It's just insane what the British have decided to do to themselves.
I never quite fully grasped the purpose of having patients stay engaged during brain operations. Is it possible to undo a brain incision? If not, what good is it to know a patient's abilities are degraded after having made a cut? Is it just to mitigate compounding unexpected damage?
The metric system is too "European", and more specifically French for post-Brexit Britain. We need a patriotic system of measurement, not some foreign idea designed to take away our sovereignty.
This isn't true. Developers like tinkering with new frameworks. Doctors like experimenting with new treatments or procedures or drugs, often very immature and untested. Lawyers will seek opportunities to flex a new legal strategy or argument in order to make a name for themselves or to impress a judge, even if it may not be the safest strategy for the client. Finance people do just about anything to avoid simple, straightforward, time-tested investment strategies.
What a UI mess. I am not a terminal person but how the heck is my brain supposed to consume this front page. My eyes went crazy.
Like on ARM with neon and x86 with avx, but even on those, they got direct hardware acceleration without neon/avx of memcpys and memsets (big and small).
You don’t make more cuts there
I always thought the point of consultants was to manage internal politics by giving management cover to do things that everyone knows needs to be done but nobody wants to do
That's right I'm not. Not anymore an I know some people are. You've already read my comment where I say there are real problems in our society. There's more to do. But progress is possible and is happening, things aren't constantly getting worse, it is possible to address a lot of these issues.

Now is't the best time to be saying this, we're in for a tough winter, but modern western liberal society is the most powerful engine for making the world better humanity has ever had.
Java designers officially mentioned Modula-3 as source of inspiration, sadly they forgot value types and AOT in the process and are still catching up on that front.

C# is finally there, since .NET Native and the improvements they keep doing since C# 7. Sadly WinDev keeps ignoring what comes out of DevDiv, they worship their COM with C++ implementations.

Go, well, plenty to catch up in regards to Modula-3 features.

While upper case keywords are a bit of a bummer, like on Visual Basic and most modern SQL tooling, there are options to automatically format keywords into uppercase.

Among all modern alternatives, I would say C# 11 and Swift are the closest to Modula-3, with a rich ecosystem in the backpack.

D and Nim could also be candidates, but they still miss much of the tooling to make them competitive in current times.
Hn yes, that makes sense. If I remember correctly, CF liked isolates because they have a superb cold start time. How does Plane do there?
You would rather have industrial makers have nothing to test and calibrate their impurity detection equipment on? Probably nothing bad will happen if they just wing it
This is a very interesting and balanced article describing the societal psychological issues underlying the "woke" phenomenon. Highly recommend reading it!

It is unfortunate that the "woke" individuals that most need it cannot read it, as it might trigger reflection and self-analysis. The underlying pride and hubris (and lack of self, history, or actual confidence) of the "woke" prevents any such introspection, tragically.
I agree, but the situation is that the people leading our institutions are self interested, weak, and not omniscient. And that means the Twitter mobs do have power and they often use this destructively. The question then is: Given that our authorities are weak, and the mob is causing us real problems, what should we do about it?
When people say they want the legal system to be the solution they mean they want people to be caged and/or they want fines that only matter to the poor, in practice. They’re promoting state violence, not an ordered society
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Or, since Betteridge's Law, like Moore's and Poe's, is a physical constant of the universe, it could implode in on itself and create a supermassive black hole.
because it's probably the world's most popular security monitoring platform? it's been around for a long time, it does it's job very well, and it's available in whatever flavor of implementation difficulty you want. from completely free roll yourself, to easy to deploy via push button with thousands of detections already to go for you.

even most of the enterprise solutions sold for network monitoring proudly boast that they use bro under the hood for their stream parsing engine.
This is too simplistic view of the state of the affairs.

If that was so, countries would not work at all. There is always a service that needs to absolutelly work, or your government is fucked and lots of its people. For those projects you absolutelly need to hire those that will provide desired outcome without failure. Most of the services are not so crucial and in those you can have such failures without much of a problem, it even seems "good" sometimes as you must employ number of people to fix service mistakes constantly.
… it vanishes when the companies fold?
Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all.

I think they’re a group of people with too much knowledge but nearly no wisdom. They mistake knowledge for knowing something. Again, generally speaking.

I don’t think it’s their fault. We have infantilized them and never let them out of the cage. We were so scared of them failing that they’ve picked up on it and have packaged it as compulsive neuroticism. They’ve been overloaded with information from dubious sources for years now.

Saying that there’s a lot of great kids out there.
So? There are 8B+ people in the world. Some are going to have differing opinions.
> the next round of games will target more powerful graphics cards when they area available.

I'm hoping the Steam Deck will save us from that, by presenting a fixed target that games have a good reason to optimize for.
Same. I've worked in systems engineering for 10+ years and never even heard of it.

I have heard of: Ganglia, nagios, graylog, grafana, science logic and others. And I've used most of them.
It's true if you pretend wind and hydrogen don't exist and require a solution for northern europe.
Sorry and how many people actually have 8k displays to begin with? Or have a monitor that is actually capable of those 240Hz refresh rates?

Better graphics sells games, no doubt. But there is also a tradeoff between investing huge amounts of resources into developing/optimizing for what is a tiny ultra-high-end niche that can afford the bleeding edge hardware.

The OP is not disputing this - all he is saying that this stuff is not what drives the GPU market since years ago anymore.
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This type of traffic is very common. We see thousands of these every day. A quick and easy solution to this would be to use Cloudflare's WAF. Would block most of this traffic before it reaches you.
> Rational wiki are well known cranks

Incorrect, they do not fit the criteria. Their pages are extensively sourced and annotated, as is the about section of their site, and the Wikipedia article about them

and while we're at it:

> Spencer holds contrarian views on climate change and intelligent design. These views are rejected by the scientific community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer_(meteorologist)
Nope, it's a genuine proposal from Jacob Rees-Mogg's department.

Leaving aside that, in his mid-fifties, Mogg is probably too young to have learned imperial units at school ...
But in the US at least antibiotics require a prescription from doctors. So you need the doctors to play along, too, and in my own experience I’ve never received antibiotics unnecessarily
Ask HN: Have you used a 3D Printer?
If so, how would describe your personal experiences on a scale of 1 to 10?

Cheers,
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And of course there is a VSCode plugin for it as well.