skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are ways to use Windows ... securely

Going to respectfully elaborate on this specific point, with full awareness that it's not core to the discussion, and that my opinion is my own and highly subjective, and that I'm not fully disagreeing but wish to point out a nuance. There are too many ways to put hidden software on a Windows system, which makes it harder to use securely than my OS of choice, macOS.

It's more difficult to audit a Windows system than a macOS system. For example, background processes can be installed on Windows in dozens of ways. Go download AutoRuns (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut...) and look how many tabs it has. The docs even say "You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!". UAC mitigates this somewhat, but it lacks granularity; it's all-or-nothing so you'll click Allow without knowing what's actually going to happen. And then you have COM registration and win32 APIs that let applications get at other windows easily. Layer upon layer of legacy compatibility make the whole system feel like a mess - at least to me.

Using macOS securely is also quite involved of course - for example auditing Homebrew's behavior when it downloads half the open-source world just for one package. But when it comes to stuff running in the background, by comparison, macOS Ventura recently added a comprehensive list of launchd agents and other daemons that run at startup; each of which can be toggled (though the UI doesn't allow you to drill into them). It's all on one pane in System Settings, built into the OS, no need for Sysinternals' separate tools.

Using macOS securely is a lot easier, in my experience. There are ways to use Windows securely, but it's a lot harder, and (I think) that makes it not worth the trouble. Using macOS securely is a lot closer to just using macOS.

That said, for any OS, it goes without saying to only install trusted software. It's possible to cleanse both OSes fully of software you no longer want, but on Windows it always feels like surgery, whereas 90% of cleaning something from macOS is dragging the application bundle to the Trash.
I dont get why people spend so much time defending a "jack of all trades" device that is not even cheap. Its popular consumer trash that exists to help people be "good enough" and average. Thats why they keep releasing new ones every year. Its some form of self harm and chaos. Maybe they love chaos i am not sure. Iphones are chaos.
> ideology

That is, you mean, education?
No, they would not. Everyone knows it's an eastern religion originating from the Middle East. Next you'll be saying Christians have not been told Jesus was not white! Like, that's also something that all Christians know.
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In your mind, I'm trying to convince you to accept a risk that's unacceptable to you. But I'm not. I don't want to change your risk-tolerance.

It's very laborious explaining that to vehemently anti-nuclear people. Please read my other comment in this thread, because I'm not going to repeat myself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34248266
TypeScript: 'any' is a code smell
All seems sensical to me.
> Writing is to a large extent the process of expressing a thought or feeling

Neither of which we believe a machine to be capable of conceiving.
For systemd/journald managed log, best is to add non privileged user to the systemd-journal group.

For logs managed by syslog daemons, most implementations allows you to set the owner and group of the log files. You could decide on a specific log group and add the desired dedicated user to this group.

In the end it is usually better to ship the logs to a dedicated machine/space/database.
Please don't stink up this place with pointless puns, keep it on Reddit.
I’ve never heard New Yorkers call New York the greatest city on earth in earnest. It’s a great city in a way no other city in America truly is. In a league with Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Paris or London. Density and cosmopolitanism bring a unique combination of economic and cultural gifts that set these cities apart, and have for similar cities across history. New Yorkers also tend to be well travelled to those cities, because that’s how cosmopolitan culture works.
Was given a ZX Spectrum, at age 11. Unfortunately the cassette-player was broken, so we couldn't load any games from tape.

That meant I spent the Christmas period reading the manual, which explained how to write BASIC and from there I taught myself Z80 assembly-language.

Initially my interest was in hacking games, both to remove the copy-protection, and to get more lives/energy/time.

After that I moved to PCs and started programming for a living, before moving into more formal education and later jumping from development to sysadmin.
Some narrators never should have had their jobs to begin with. I'm viscerally angry at the narrator of "Permutation City" on Audible. Such a great book that could not have a more bored, disinterested narrator who clearly doesn't understand the text he's narrating.

An AI TTS engine at this level would do a far better job of it than that particular dude.
We've got the ulam programming language custom tailored for the MFM, and the SPLAT spatial programming language built on top of ulam. I expect we'll want more languages or language features as we scale up, but we need to earn our way to them with design experience. I'd love to build a T3 tile, probably FPGA-based, using lessons learned, that could provide perhaps 10x or 100x the average event rate of the T2s. And get them out into researchers and hackers in quantity.
Shouldn't take 100d to learn python. You can do it in 10.
Yeah that interpretation didn't permeate every community, it's good to hear it was always well received on Twitch. I do recommend the doc though, it sounds like you'd enjoy it :)
> I do think high frequency rate monitors are a gimmick

Do you mean refresh rate? If yes, I used to think that but couldn’t be more wrong. Nowadays I have a 144hz monitor and I’m considering even going >240hz.

If you have the gear to push that much fps it’s a night day difference.
Please keep these pointless pun threads on Reddit. HN doesn't need this taking over here too.
To be clear, I understand that the chip is built from 4 general-purpose OOO RISC-V cores, one service (?) processor and the rest of them (1088) are intended for GPU-like compute.

Then they build the compute by using Ice Lake Xeon to drive such 8x SoCs, where each of those SoCs are hosted on their own dedicated PCIe 4.0 slot. And then they upscale the whole thing to a dual-socket system which then translates to 17408 vector/tensor cores and 80 GP cores or ~17.5K cores in total.

Pretty exciting.
Regardless of what the author of the repo did or did not do, I think that deleting his account and everything in it is a failure on the part of github and warrants a policy change. There's lots of good knowledge contained in the issues and discussions hosted on the webui repo all of which are now lost or very hard to find. Even papers coming from big companies have directly used the repo as reference[1].

I was personally playing around with prompt2prompt and reading issues when the ban happened and now I can no longer find the most recent comments, I still had the url but the internet archive only has a copy from back in october, and finding this specific discussion will be hard again since it will be pruned from search engines.

IMO github should've put the repo in read-only mode, if they want their social features to be taken seriously they can't be removing discussions and comments that people that have contributed that have nothing to do with the infraction. What's the point of hosting discussions if there's a chance they'll be nuked later just because the original author of the repo did shitty things.

[1] ctrl+f automatic1111 on https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704
How to get 1.5 TFlops of FP32 performance on a single M1 CPU core
My uneducated opinion on the matter is that we are more tolerant of subtle errors in pictures and writings than we are in sounds. Subtle variations of tone can change the meaning of a conversation that words on paper just can't convey.
Best of CES 2023: electric skates, pet tech and AI bird feeders
Fine. But you don't have to go with your first assumption.

If, say, the guy had made mods smirking at the George Floyd protests, had made skin-color mods, and had also said "no comment" when asked what the 'n' and 'c' tags represented, would you still go with your first assumption?

That he's clearly more than a little racist isn't enough for me to defend nuking the guy's account without warning or explanation. But it is enough to make me think twice about blindly downloading and running the guy's code (which also downloads a lot of stuff).

Who knows what other norms of basic decency this anonymous person from 4chan would violate.

Edit: apparently all the git pulling and bash+curling happens during install, and not fully automatically afterwards. It does not strictly speaking self-update.
We've migrated from Slack to Mattermost some time ago. Best decision ever. Not sure why companies keep using Slack nowadays. It's like those companies many years ago using HipChat instead of Slack. Slack's is the HipChat of today.
To me this is industrial espionage rather than copyright infringement. If I post a picture online and you use it some way i didn't give permission for, maybe there's an infringement case, that's not very interesting.

Here, we have effectively malware that is taking stuff that was never shared, from a personal or business cloud, and using it for some other purpose. That's a much bigger deal, because it involves stuff nobody agreed to make public.

I strongly suspect Microsoft does this too with Office. I'm always catching them trying to make excuses to upload images for "connected experiences" (industrial espionage) and I imagine in the end they just do it. This is a big problem, for example when working as a contractor and dealing with private client data. There is a risk that's hard to manage of big vendors stealing data through their software that I don't know how to manage
The pictures have weird limbs and the writing has errors. A book is long therefore there will be a lot of issues.
Why describe this as whitewashing if 2 of the 3 mods changed all the skin colors to something other than white? Just dont see how you can come to this conclusion from 1 all black mod, 1 all yellow mod, and 1 all white mod.

Its problematic. Maybe racist. But whitewashing?
I remember very well that Pepe was used by all sides until some article on the Hillary Clinton's campaign website in 2016 that associated it with Trump and then suddenly you couldn't use it for anything with being labelled white supremacist
My favourite part of Scotland!
So in line with the amount of turnover each year anyways due to "rank and yank" policies, be it official or just the implicit result of management's actions.

The news industry is incredibly desperate for stories about layoffs it seems.
It doesn’t matter if the sentence is terrible writing. It can still be easily read out loud correctly, but not by this computer program.
Having been on both sides of the table, credentials are shortcuts for expected minimum knowledge base for technical understanding.

One should likely never use credentialing to substitute or proxy as a marker for creativity or capacity. Credentials only show a snapshot of knowledgebase at a specific point in time.
Are visual generative models really that more advanced, or could this simply be an artifact of their usage?

With generative visual art, people usually spend considerable time fine-tuning the results, and we don‘t get to see all the prompts that didn‘t work out (except if the failure is notable in some way).

Try e.g. illustrating a book, but using only your first prompt for each image. I think the quality would be in the same ballpark as having Siri narrate the corresponding audiobook.
That article is NOT listed on news site https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news
Yes, your direct link works, but the article is not listed.
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Pragmatic frontend-focused developer who would love to speak with you about your project.

Roughly 8 years of experience with web dev, mostly with TS/React/Node in remote startup environments in small teams.
Not Matt, but I have a similar situation (3 kids, FT job, side project). My side project has been running for a few years now, but I am able to be pretty productive on it.

First, I wake up early, and make sure the side project is the first thing I do every day. There's a book "the richest man in Babylon" and one of the ideas is "pay yourself first". I take that principle to my side project. I work on the side project first thing in the morning, to ensure I give it my best. I still want to learn and deliver good work at my FT job, but I've always ensured that from a time perspective I've paid into the side project first, because I believe thats the best long term career investment. Unfortunately, yes, this means that you need to set an alarm, but I enjoy the work, so I don't feel like I'm dragging myself out of bed.

That leads me to my second point which is make sure you enjoy the side project. I've worked on multiple and the biggest mistake I've made is building something I didn't need or want. I built a few projects because they were technically interesting, not because I really needed them. For SAAS you might not necessarily directly need or enjoy the tool you build, but you better enjoy building it, and enabling others to use it! If not, it will be difficult to keep up motivation when things get tough.

GL!
What country is racism illegal?
If it's one percent, that makes me think it's an announcement designed to help the share price, or send a message to its workforce, since 1% is close to natural attrition of a few months, ie some sort of hiring freeze could achieve a similar thing.
It's mainly the media. While there was probably some far right groups/people who decided to go along first, the "association" of the OK sign with white supremacists was popularized by the medias
At the cost of upside to OTHER people.
That's what I was thinking, too. Perhaps we already know majority of what there is to know, when it comes to fundamental concepts? Probably plenty of work left in improving our tools and engineering solutions, like machine learning-based software, as well as in understanding the intricates of biology. Maybe mathematics, too. Maybe improvements in these will cause another golden age of discovery. Like, understanding biology enough to gain significantly extended lifespan, which means much more expertise can be built by one individual.
Not saying there's something wrong with lnav - just that spamming HN every 3 weeks isn't great.

There were submissions with links to lnav.org main site:

- 21 days ago

- 22 days ago

- 46 days ago

- 68 days ago

It's a spam campaign from my pov.
> Imagine if you work at a car dealership and you wear these to repair an in-warranty car

Any employed car mechanics here to comment on this? I would think unless you're in training you would not need this. I also suspect it's a poor idea to rely or depend on this kind of technology as a mechanic. I'm not a mechanic or engineer so maybe I'm very wrong here.
The correct wording is “Amazon will do anything they deem necessary to make their shareholders happy, no matter if it’s profitable or not.”

I am convinced they have zero data indicating firing these people will be profitable on the long run, only that short term it is, and that’s all that shareholders are interested in.

I’m a big fan of any measure making stock exchange less volatile, like some form of tax on every transaction, to slow down the machine, make short term investments (speculation) less rewarding. This may help in reducing the appetite of shareholders for such short sighted measures.
Could you do Hemingway, McCarthy and Joyce next? It's untenable they wrote 'unspecific / unclear / superfluous / awkward / anachronistic' language such that our robots cannot render to speech.
Can you ask a specific question, say, based on the Q&A?
> Because these religious texts are hardly orimary sources that state historical facts,

You're overgeneralizing. The Bible is effectively something like an anthology compiled from texts written in different styles over thousands of years. The character of Genesis is quite different from, say, the New Testament Gospels. While Genesis is not intended to be a scientific text, the New Testament does describe events in a historical kind of manner.

> they are closer to pure propaganda pieces.

I have no idea what that means. You should probably revisit your assumptions.
Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?
This has already been replied to but no, this is not a 'God of the gaps' argument. As I mentioned it's a thread in ongoing research on cognition. There's a good summary of some of the perspectives in this space here - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
> I do think high frequency rate monitors are a gimmick...

Same. I don't scroll often enough to care. Or rather, I don't try reading and scrolling at the same time.
Theory of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn.

Major breakthrough that disrupts the paradime. Followed by normal science with diminishing returns until the next paradime.
Here's a background on some of the arguments - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
> The focus is clearly on "getting the grant". And the grant acts as an entity in itself, as it becomes a line in the CV of scientists, which will help them "get the next grant". The outcome of the grant becomes thus irrelevant. Maybe competition is missing?

I think there's plenty enough of competition in academia. And competition alone doesn't help, because the metrics over which one loses or wins the race are not correlated with short or long-term worthiness. And while we can describe, even if somewhat vaguely, what makes worthy science, there's no way I know of to have a stable system in which that metric drives funding.

> Deepmind keeps seeking to publish proprietary research in Nature, instead of creating an open ecosystem that will drive reinforcement-learning science forward

This research at least has some feedback: Google funds it because it expects to make money off using its results in practice, so the research has to be at least somewhat correlated with reality. Unfortunately, this structure also means that "open ecosystem" isn't pursued.
Because to understand intonation and rhythm you need to perfectly understand context and emotions. I don’t doubt these things will be added soon enough, so I expect perfect reading end of this year and perfect reading in anyone’s voice with a few samples in 2024.
> All the discussion of GC-friendliness of caches makes me think that there aren't any conduits that have more data than can fit in memory on a single machine.

Yep! That's currently still the case. We do have some ideas to put caches on disk using mmapped files, so that you have fast access when it all fits in memory but the OS can also drop them when it wants to.

For the moment we just use instances with 128GB memory, and those can still fit the datasets of the biggest customers that we have right now. Datasets go up to 10s of GBs, so it's not really 'big data' that needs to be distributed across machines. Due to the regular occurrence of aggregations (sort/group/window/deduplicate) that require at least _some_ synchronization, we only have small sections that can be completely parallelized. It's already a challenge to use all the cores on a single machine in an efficient manner, and I don't think we'll achieve much by using multiple machines for a single job. We've discussed a lot of this in an earlier blog post here: https://www.channable.com/tech/why-we-decided-to-go-for-the-...

> Separate question, do you have any actions that produce more output than their input?

Yep, we don't have cartesian products but we do have a 'split' action. Typical usage might be that a customer has a "sizes" field with values like "M,L,XL" and that they would split on that field so that a single item becomes three items for the separate sizes.
The increase in the number of items is usually limited, and the increase in memory usage is even smaller because at most points during the data processing we only store the changed fields, and refer to the original item for the rest. In these cases multiple items will point to the same original item.
The number of highly disruptive studies remaining the same seems impressive enough to me. I expect diminishing returns to be the long-term norm in science. The low hanging fruit get picked first, and every breakthrough means one more concept that the next generation of researchers have to learn and incorporate into their work.
Or migrated to Mathematica, they obviously do that stuff there.
This is honestly very convenient. If I ever accidentally delete a picture I can just ask adobe for a backup. Very consumer consious decision on adobes part.
> The news industry is incredibly desperate for stories about layoffs it seems.

I don't think this is an informed take. Amazon not only cancelled all hires but also increased the number of employees they want to fire. From the first time in the company's history, they explicitly announced they were going to fire people in a purely cost-cutting approach and in a way that was not tied to employee performance.

If anything, this signals that Amazon changed radically it's corporate strategy from a growth-oriented strategy to a consolidation one. This has strong implications on the company's revenue expectations.
Anyone knows of any tribes that still have pre-neolithic culture where women can be hunters under normal circumstances? That is the closest clue we may have. And what chimps do.
Ehh…from my experience, overtime was the rule, not the exception so I don’t know how strong that incentive was.
I'm not sure the size of the reduction is the key point here, its the reversal from limitless hiring which is more telling.
Musk last wrote code in 1995, most likely.
Can a machine attempt to approach the task of creating unique content that would be indistinguishable from human-produced artefacts? Is it possible to do this with the help of generative adversarial networks (GANs) — by learning the structure of the complex real-world data examples and generating similar synthetic examples that are bound by the same structure? With the recent advances in the development of generative models, the answer seems to be yes, at least to an extent. It is proved by existing GAN applications.

In this article, we are going to take a deep dive into what the generative models are, the recent developments in the field, and the usage of GANs in business.
Whitewashing is what happened with Stardew Valley and my mention of it is just a small bit of history to explain where these sorts of mods come from.

The RimWorld mods aren't whitewashing, they're just problematic and when you take in the broader context of the history of these sorts of mods (not to mention the history of these RimWorld mods on the Steam workshop, as another commenter pointed out, they started with the all white mod and only uploaded the all black and all yellow mods later), are pretty clearly racist.
> Being 30% faster is the easy part. Being 30% within the same thermal behavior is the hard part.

Yeah, but I'd argue it isn't heat, but power consumption that matters (understanding that heat/power use are directly related).

The Apple M processors aren't about top performance, they are about top performance/watt. I'd love to see intel/amd pull off the magic required to bring x86 into comparable perf/watt with apple silicon, but I wont hold my breath.

This smacks of marketing to try to redefine the metric of competition back to raw performance. Reminds me of the Hz wars.