skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with him on TruffleRuby for almost six years, and knew him for a few years before that. I think every one who knew him is shocked and saddened by this news.
Grady's got a video on that too...
OT: are camboys a thing? It's not my niche, but I wonder if we will see a shift in the word towards "campeople" or some other unisex name.

Not even trying to stir shit, I am genuinely curious. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with gendered names.
Where I live paper wasps are aggressive and multiply quite rapidly. We went from one next to dozens in just a couple of years. I probably get stung at least once a year.
1/2 + 3/2 + 1 = 0 + 1 + 1 = 2
> the limitations on speech imposed by many western governments

Ok enough I quit hacker news
Great work.
It's a real bowl of fresh air coming from huge framework that use cuda.

So many different cuda version, with each framework using its own, that all rely on a different driver, and everything needs a new version every 3 months and takes ~10G, (and don't even talk about cudnn needing some manual logged-in install).

Here everything is just two files. For embedded system that don't have a GPU it's perfect.

Here the parallelization and vectorization has been done by hand, but there is a glimmer of hope coming from the side of various compiler projects :

Here is an interesting intel project that does the parallelization and vectorization automatically for different architecture that's definitely worth a look :
https://ispc.github.io/ispc.html

For the auto-differentiation when I need performance or memory, I currently use tapenade ( http://tapenade.inria.fr:8080/tapenade/index.jsp ) and/or manually written gradient when I need to fuse some kernel, but Enzyme ( https://enzyme.mit.edu/ ) is also very promising.

MPI for parallelization across machines.
I dunno, as long as this app bullshit is hit over its head by the courts, do we really care what road was taken to get there? (As long as Capone is in prison, do we care why?)
Avoid your own house or yard? Annoyance? Tell that to my wife, my brother in law, my uncle, my cousin, or my good friend. They all could literally die if stung, and have all been to the hospital at least once after a sting.
Clickbait. This describes a method which might lead to "direct detection" not a paper announcing that detection.
Behind "Creepy is the new cool" lies ambivalence [1]. Author Ginevra
Davis writes a voluminous 4300 words that revel in, celebrate and exalt
a culture which, in her parting sentence, she reveals to be the sum
of all her fears.

[1] https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/4415/current-...
I swear this is literally the meme with the soyjack at the end crying “no, not like this!”

There is literally no functional difference between using racial statistics to argue for segregation or against id cards. The only difference is, you like one policy and dislike the other.
Location: Global (Oceania/SE Asia for awhile)

Remote: Yes

Resume/CV: https://breezysail.com

Technologies: Ruby, Javascript/Typescript, Golang, Rust, SQL/NoSQL, Cloud and Containerized infrastructure services

Email: ahoy - at - ^aforementioned_domain

10+ years of experience as a full-stack product engineer. Currently looking for contract positions of all durations. Send me a message; let's build together. Cheers!
> Even if I put my capitalism hat on I don't understand why one would argue against socialized healthcare.

Honest answer: because currently my family and I have access to above-average care at below-average wait times due to having money. This will go away necessarily due to math. So asking people who are lucky enough to be in this position to support socialized healthcare is tantamount to asking them to value the lives of randoms more than those of their family.
This begs the question of how can you build anything solid on the back of such a shallow foundation of knowledge since the answer to a basic question remains evasive?
> Effective taxation in a country that's suffering heavily from tax evasion

That can be done with a simple receipt. No need to 'invest' tax payer money into a complex CBDC system.
>I doubt that. Most people in the US getting into a car with a third pedal and a stick shift would just not have any idea what to do. The more enterprising would think, ok, I guess to I need to put it in first gear. So they try to move the shifter, and they can't move it. Assuming they don't break anything, maybe they figure out they need to press the clutch pedal. So they shift, and release the clutch pedal, and the car stalls.

In what scenario they'd go right into driving a manual car without prior instruction, looking up some instructions online, or someone knowledgable explaining it to them like 10-15 minutes?
The luxury and call to arms fails to reach all ears considering out government routinely does the same thing to teenagers in the states, but because they are poor and black, it's largely considered acceptable in our culture.
Even in best case scenario Rust code will be confined to individual subsystems and drivers for a very long time. And even in these subsystems you will probably still have to interact with a lot of C code from shared data-structures in other subsystems.
I think the 'chat' part was not a very good choice; it's more the 'instruct' (on which this is based?)/'conversational' type of thing where you try to create something incrementally. For instance, filter/classify data, write snippets of code, write tutorials/books/papers etc. It's not good at chit-chat and seems many people thought it meant to do that.

It generates massive bags of code from 1-2 lines of english without me having to look up everything. And I can incrementally improve that code because it has memory. I think that's impressive and definitely helps me a lot.
How did you do that? GPT-3?
They should just sleep on the sidewalks like everybody else ...
Are you a woman in tech?

The reason that I ask is that your account is pretty new and this seems a little bit like stowing up discord on social media.

Regardless. There is a difference between a beautiful woman that can code (these are actually getting more and more prevalent) and the trashy looking profile picture that all of us instantly know is some kind of spammer or scammer in our DMs or our inbox.

The fact that they're portrayed as woman has more to do with the loneliness of many men in tech than anything else and pretending that this type of behaviour is non-existent is childish when it's clear that places like LinkedIn and Twitter could do a lot more to detect it and prevent it.
That is also a possibility, indeed.
Spoken by someone who hasn't worked with either sheep or humans. My bet is sheep, because they are -very- different creatures.
I saw this tweet and I was wondering about the language used there like "permanent rest" but was thinking he was going to delete his Twitter account. Will miss seeing his comments on HN and his contributions. RIP, Chris.
Matte or glossy, the sharpness of the display (all other things being equal) will be exactly the same. Glossy displays just look "nicer" because we associate glossy surfaces with higher value: glossy magazines, brochures, photos etc.
How about leaking your data to both Russians and Western LEA? Telegram is run by an UK LLC.
It worked in the french revolution.
for sure. beats complaining having to write crud.
Do tell more, please.
The average woman is fairly well treated and not at all like the average LinkedIn stalker, let alone a model. You're trying to bridge two related but different contexts
NiMh is better but alkaline still lasts longer. For low drain devices like remotes where shelf life is a bigger concern than power draw, I’ve heard zinc is better still. These are often labeled “heavy duty.”
Can you link to a recent case where a teenager was executed for distributing movies?
And you're not going to solve world problems by acting like the internet police
OpenAI is working on cryptographically watermarking GPT output
There are often conflicting requirements of privacy, security, and something else...resistance to inauthentic actors, bots, spam?

Is Telegram supposed to be private? I always thought they were more security than privacy focused. Now how do you allow private and secure messaging without being overrun by every bad actor on the planet? They'd flock to the platform if there were no hurdle to account creation or ensuring authenticity.

Handle payment like Mullvad?
That is a fair point and I realize that I do remember some facts because the questions on the respective exams were, in my opinion back then, terrible. I would, however, consider most of these facts trivial by now. Still, it has played a role in my understanding of the matter.

On the other hand, these tests are usually meant to evaluate learning progress and are not themselves thought of as teaching material. I find this quite unfortunate and would really wish that an exam were more like an individual learning session but here we are.

Thus, while this question as it it might advance understanding, it might at the same time hinder progress because someone will fail the exam for giving the wrong answer.

Or for spending too much time on a question that someone who failed to get the lesson answered in a second. This is an answer to what if the question is not meant to be answered "correctly" but just to stimulate learning. Unless the whole exam does not get graded - which would be great and hilarious at the same time - I fail to see the fairness here.
Plus members of the AfD party, which is currently in the Bundestag, and under scrutinity for far-right / Nazi connection.
Uhm. Reichsbürger aren't noticeably cosmopolitan. Understanding foreign languages isn't their thing. Pedantry is, though.
https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi

You don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's enough information from your comments across your accounts to reasonably identify you if someone wanted.

MIT did a study on 'anonymised' data and found out it only took something like 2 data points to identify someone.
You can use similar primitives that docker is using to achieve security hardening.

Even docker themselves have a detailed dossier of documents saying they’re not a security layer (but that they’d like to be).

From FAQ:

> Is Docker a secure platform?

> The Docker platform itself isn’t inherently secure or insecure. While containers may be isolated from other processes on a host, additional security measures are still crucial to prevent container breakout and other types of vulnerabilities. An effective container security strategy for building and deploying containers is the best way to reduce the risk of a vulnerability, and in turn, an attack. Just like any other technology platform, following security best practices is the key to mitigating potential threats.
Prompt it better, provide escape hatches (if I am not clear ask follow up questions), tell it not to improvise, provide more context, prime your prompt by referencing deep related material, provide examples of what you want it to do.

If you follow all this in your initial prompt, you will get vastly better responses... which is unsurprising. How would you react when you get a random DM from someone asking such an esoteric question, without surrounding context? (Is the person just role playing here, or is this a genuine research request for the purposes of a report?)
I personally feel that the aliens are everywhere, only we can’t see them. Like shapeshifters, they come and go as they please [1].

[1] My Uncle Larry
> European hornets are not aggressive at all, they are just big and loud.

Seems like you are talking about bombus, not vespa. The worst thing about hornets is that if one insect has bit you somewhere near their nest than you better run as fast as possible from that place because of pheromone mark.
Very sad. I loved the fact I could change my username whenever I wanted. Ideally I would want no username as well as no phone at all, just a random numeric ID like ICQ had.

I really hate being forced to invent a nickname and be hard-glued to it forever.
Odd that Northrop Grumman are publishing this. Otherwise the point about phosphorous relative importance (in terrestrial biochemistry) vs abundance is new to me, very interesting.
Are you telling us that BMW's decline will follow that of Toyota?
Even if the traditional image of a VN probe were impossible, and I doubt that, the effect of a traditional VN probe is unambiguously also achievable with a big enough group of humans and tools.

On this scale, 10 MT of industrial equipment and 100k people that self-replicates in 35 years, isn't particularly different from a fancy hypothetical atomic 3D printer that masses 1kg, needs another 1kg of support equipment, and which self-replicates in 6 months.
I mean you're allowed to move to north Korea if you want.
Yes, a compromised Bluetooth chip may be able to replay an old update or simply block a new one and leave you with a vulnerable version of your software.
“Teledildonics” haha.
An american Defense Contractor writing about this just reeks of slow preparation of the public for the eventual release of evidence that some of those Navy UAPs are in fact extra-terrestrial and we have no Idea what to do about it.
IIUC, Marvin Minsky, at some early point in "AI", wanted to build it with computers as a method for understanding how the human mind works. I think Computer Science came a little later.

When I got into "AI", much later, coming from CS and software engineering thinking, "AI" seemed to be "things we currently think are hard for computers to do (and useful computational methods that we've already figured out)".

Now "AI" is getting different, and generalized AI is looking more plausibly attainable than it was shortly before DL. (Minsky thought it would happen quicker, and also speculated explosive growth of capability once the AI could teach and evolve itself.)
The lifetime of the universe is so long that it's hard to reason about intuitively. Saturn's rings were formed about 100 million years ago, which is cosmologically speaking a blink of an eye.

1 million years ago is 1/14,000th (0.007%) of the lifespan of the universe, so almost trivially miniscule in cosmological sense. If some sentient alien civilisation got 1 million years head-start on us wouldn't they basically already have achieved any technological advancement possible?
Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy, but U.S. Is a Major Outlier
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678060
Automagically assimilating NixOS machines to your tailnet with Terraform
No amount of money can force people to love you
> former sets up an argument that these rights are superfluous

Luxury has more than one meaning [1]. If you prefer the language of counting blessings, so be it, though I could also pedantically quibble it implies a divine underwriting of our fundamental rights.

> the latter fails to recognize areas where the west does poorly at upholding rights, especially the limitations on speech imposed by many western governments

This crosses from pedantic quibbling to missing the forest for the trees.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/luxury
There is a difference between not understanding and not wanting to write C.
Taiwan bans state-owned devices from running Chinese platform TikTok
Most of Linux kernel is drivers, so if new drivers can be written in Rust, it's a huge win in safety for the whole world.
bigger issues, perhaps, but it's not either-or, and the issues are connected.

the monopoly on publishing centralizes control over information, which allows publishers to set the terms (publish or perish, publishing focus)

the political and funding landscape are then shaped by an entity that now has a structurally adversarial relationship to the academics that form it's value base, as it's interests are only served by keeping that community subordinate.
Elon Musk’s Release of Documents Triggers Twitter Lawyer Jim Baker’s Exit
At some point we have to accept that this is the People of North Koreas fault. They are very aware that their country is massively worse off than the rest of the world, yet they don't murder their kings.
I find that Model 3 FSD hugs the center line even on roads with a huge amount of lane space, to the point that some cars and trucks will honk at me because they think I’m about to cross over. It also gets confused constantly by badly marked roads and can’t drive for more than a mile or two on complex streets without making some critical error or behaving like a drunk driver. It’s interesting to drive if you watch it like a drivers ed teacher teaching a vision-impaired student’s first lesson. It is not yet an assistive technology (outside of highways) that anyone should be delegating any amount of their attention to, and I wouldn’t want to be walking on a road with people using it that way.
The Dell XPS has a fantastic OLED screen that is better than anything I've ever used before. I think the Apple laptops have slightly higher pixel densities, but it's all the same when they're as dense as they are.
It is categorically untrue that "it is hard to run your house off solar". Thousands of sailboats, and country houses around the world do just that.

It is true that if you insist on making the cutover from inverter derived AC to grid AC without an interruption, you will need some subtle circuitry that can automatically "glide" the inverter into synchrony with the grid before cutting over.

I don't know if Tesla, Bluetti, and EcoFlow devices do this, or just make a step-change in the phase and frequency of the output. That would be an interesting investigation, maybe Matthias Wander can do it?
I'm all in for tech innovation but after what happened in Canada, I can't stand behind this "innovation".
Also related: Quake III fast inverse square root[1].

[1]: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/c...
Most of these people would have been guillotined during the French revolution.
Aliens mean danger and danger means new, advanced and very expensive weaponry.
A follow up on the above.

https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/11348 was merged which resulted in:

- Optimize client memory usage tracking operation while client eviction is disabled. Mitigated the 1% drop in performance from 6.2.6.
Can Plants See? In the Wake of a Controversial Study, the Answer’s Still Unclear
Workload mTLS Certs with ACME
it's primarily used as a platform, not a messenger

also, Telegram has no ties to Russia
They need to monetize. Blockchain is one way to capture value (unfortunately, the hype train has long left the station). Given Telegram's functionality (file sharing, large groups in particular), it is likely the costs are way too high.
Not saying it's infeasible, I just don't believe that the person who posted that bit actually did implement it.
“Customers should be encouraged to use alternative channels (Internet banking, mobile banking apps, USSD, cards/POS, eNaira, etc.) to conduct their banking transactions.”

Yes, i’m serious. I don’t see anything directed to use strictly CBDC here. They seem like to tackle tax evasion for business and individuals (read it like: traceable) In many countries there are limits on what you can do with cash already.
The “Oscar movie” is dying
I don't have kids; I really like this perspective, though. I don't happen to share it, but I can appreciate it.

It's obviously a necessary and good thing for people to have children if humanity is going to continue. However, one thing that isn't discussed much by Team Parents is the prospect of there being too much of a good thing. The population explosion over the last 150ish years is a clear trade between more people and less everything else in the natural world. At some point (now, anyone?), that trade is not worth making. It's an irresponsible trade. Does not promote the maturity of society, even if it matures the individual.

What say ye to this line of reasoning? I grant you that city-living and domestication is 'naturally' reigning things in as far as population growth, hence the article. I'm asserting that perhaps there is a kind of virtue in foregoing the wonderful self sacrificial experience known as being a parent, in that the childless are helping the general state of affairs.
> Then came the Covid pandemic and “climate emergency”. What had been a friendly, ideological tussle about the digital rights of scientists versus profiteers took on a new tone. To call it “civil disobedience” would be to miss the point. Universities simply stopped playing the game – and the more progressive governments followed suit by deeming the enforcement of academic publishers’ copyright no longer in the public interest.

So, this didn't happen - and IIANM, there wasn't even a copyright/patent moratorium on vaccine-related IP, right? I seem to recall tussles over where poorer countries would be able to just manufacture copies of the Pfizer, Moderna or Astra-Zeneca vaccine locally, without permission from the IP holders. What ended up happening with that?
I.E. US State Department
The VN probe thing was mostly a mechanism to make the point for having a prohibition on a civilization becoming too grabby. Maybe the UFOs and such are the local galactic “police” looking for civilizations that would want to participate in a vast diversity of life in the future universe and acting as a backstop in case someone gets too grabby.
Life is self-replicating, but it can't just use any substrate. Nutrition and energy requirements are quite specific. Any life on earth that managed to survive an interstellar journey would need to find organic chemicals similar to what are found on earth in order to continue replicating, and I think at least water as well. There are only some tiny number of spores that can survive in a vacuum at all, and while I don't think it's impossible that something like them could actually survive an entire interstellar journey, I'm reasonably sure nothing we know of can do that. They also can't change course. Most space is empty, so the most likely place they end up is nowhere. The next most likely are the largest gravity wells, which are all stars and black holes, where they are not going to replicate. Then you get to planets, but giant gas planets are going to be the largest gravity wells among planets. Assuming even one manages to find a planet earth-like enough to support life like it, would it survive atmospheric re-entry? Spores don't have heat shields.

What you're describing is something like the protomolecule from the Expanse books, which is a nice concept, but it required its creators to have the technology to locally alter the laws of physics as we know them to work, making it possible to use an asteroid with no propulsion system as a carrier vehicle, with energy sucked out of a different universe they figured out how to gain access to (not something that is likely to actually be possible).
Lmao.

> They are very aware that their country is massively worse off than the rest of the world

That's not necessarily true. They don't have access to the internet or foreign media. Only propaganda.

> yet they don't murder their kings

If it was that easy, every country would be a democracy.
I implemented whisper + chatgpt + pyttsx3 and it worked. But then suddenly the chatgpt wrapper that I found on github stopped working.

edit: whisper is awesome
Rest in power.

Death to totalitarians.
So to clarify, what's your issue here? Do you think they weren't executed? Or is it that you think executing them is totally normal and cool?
Looking at the rate of technological progress, my bets are that intelligent life that spreads intergalactically takes extremely small time to do so (relative to the expected time to randomly spawn life from fluctuations). So the odds of two simultaneous fluctuations competing is nearly zero. We're just the first, and it is the normal thing to expect to be the first. With sufficiently high ratio between these two durations, most observers in most universes would be the first ones. Being first isn't special, it's actually the most common.