skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we're a small r&d project under geant.org gn5-1 project ( https://wiki.geant.org/display/RARE/Home ) consisting of about 10+ network researchers/engineers ( https://github.com/rare-freertr ) around the globe, working on creating a router from whitebox switches... i'm writing to you because today we reached a milestone: with fib compression, the intel tofino2 based boxes (64*400g) can accommodate the full bgp view in our nren (tier3 network of ~100 universities and 4000 intermediate schools) with a plenty of free headroom in the tcam available for future table growth... we target mostly mpls based isp networks but imho everybody can find an interesting "sdm prefer" from the current repertoire: ( https://bitbucket.software.geant.org/projects/RARE/repos/rar... )

bng - pppoe / ipoe terminating pe
bras - l2tp termination pe
cgnat - asic assisted natter (first packet in sw, the rest in hw)
cleaner - flowspec executor / preface filterer/scrambler box
fw - asic assisted stateful firewall (first packet in sw, the rest in hw)
ggsn - 3g/4g/5g gtp-u terminating pe
gre - gre terminating pe
ipip - ipip terminating pe
nfv - nsh switch
pe - mpls pe box
rawip - private peering node
srv6 - p/pe in an srv6 isp network
tor - evpn/vxlan based dc spine or leaf
vpls - layer2 vpn pe with psewudowire headed service termination
wlc - gretap/udptap layer2 bridger for tons of aps over a routed network

if you miss something, one can arbitrarily mix and match features by enabling the needed features until the compiled code fits to the asic... one more thing, we have two addition interesting dataplanes: one with dpdk packetio and one with ebpf/xdp packetio, both targeting nx10g cpe use cases, and these are not "sdm prefer" based dataplanes so they have everything always available... the common between the asic, dpdk and ebpf/xdp dataplanes that you configure all of these using the same, cisco-alike control plane ( http://www.freertr.org ) the same way, regardless which dataplane do the packet processing...

let me know your thoughts!
That’s because our financial system is controlled by power hungry but small minded sociopaths.
Sad for the narrators, but good for the world.

There are so many books I have that don’t have an audiobook version because the economics just aren’t there.

This is an easy way that technology can expand human experience.

Even in situations where the author reads the book, I expect it will be cheaper to train an AI to sound like the author than to put the author in a studio for 50 hours (or whatever).

I thought it was a really dumb ruling when Amazon was forced to remove the text to speech function from kindle.

I also think that screen readers are hobbled to avoid this legal issue. I want to send any text through a narrator bot and have it read it to me. There is zero need to compensate anyone other than the developer who writes the AI (and hopefully it will have open source versions donated by developers).

If I’ve bought a book, I should be able to use it as I like.
Consider submitting the source code GitHub repo instead of some running service.

In the repo, have example exported data that are used as input and generated output.
I am befriending two of our local Corvus Coronoides (Perplexus), this summer. I have a bird-bath outside my office window that I refresh every day, and I leave them some food - sweetcorn, a few cat biscuits, sometimes some fruit if we have any going soft.

It’s a welcome distraction from work, seeing them eat, drink and sometimes play.

They used to hang out in a group of 4, two adults and two juveniles, but the juveniles seem to have moved on. We put a cat toy (a ball with a bell in it) out for them a few weeks ago and watched them play with it, picking it up, dropping it and waddling after it.

They are quite used to my presence now and don’t retreat far when I’m putting the food out. Afterwards I always watch from inside with the window open and talk to them, sometimes they approach and respond back. They don’t seem to mind the cat watching either (there is a fly mesh, he can’t get to them!)

Very occasionally one will have a bath and today I got to see something I haven’t seen before - ‘sunbathing’ where they sit low to the ground and spread their wings and tail feathers, in the hottest part of the day, which apparently helps maintain feather condition and dislodge parasites.

So far it’s quite a rewarding relationship.
That's really rough. It's one thing if a child has a history of asking for stuff and then abandoning it. Eventually if the parent says "not until you've used the other stuff", I can understand that, even if that one more thing could have been the item that really clicked for the child.

But in this case, to be forced to play only one kind of thing and then not be allowed to try something you want seems really hard. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Thanks for sharing.

Quick story about this comment resonating (pun intended) with me: My son is quietly coming and pulling out my electric guitar from my office room these days and strumming it randomly (just open strings). I haven't said anything except to be careful after he tried to walk it sideways through a door (screams internally in pain). He's watched me practice scales and the wanted to know how to play individual notes so I showed him and left it. A few days later I heard a tiny "ding" of a single note from him for the first time. Still haven't said anything. Maybe he'll love it, maybe he won't.

Basically, I'm going to keep your comment in my mind to not fall into the future trap of denying him something he really wants to try out just because I have some other hope for him. Even now, it'd be easy to jump on my son at this point and say "ho there child, I could send you to some classes now" and then get upset if he doesn't like it. It's really easy to fall for my own bias and whatnot. I'll remind myself to avoid doing that.

If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you asked for an electric guitar initially?
If you're going to do all that I barely see the benefit of tailwind over just writing the CSS rules yourself.
Shifting contexts this much tends to shift existing intractable problems into new classes of tractable (and still intractable) problems. Answering this will require a lot of people with differing domain expertise discovering it and trying it out. This is a potential (I’m inclined to say inevitable) revolution, once all the pieces are in place.
Amazing anecdote either way :D
Being able to easily put the fork down / always dieting is the genetic blessing. Some people maintain a low weight with almost no effort, while the genetically unlucky seem to be hardwired to always be craving food & would subjectively suffer a lot more to eat like the naturally skinny.

I'm full (and would get nauseated if I continued eating) with an amount of food that would leave my sibling still feeling constant hunger pangs... the feeling of "fullness" here is the genetic/hormonal blessing
That sounds incredibly unlikely.

I know we all love a good M$ conspiracy theory but this one is far too silly.
> However, if Github is actively curating content, that means they're also responsible for the stuff they do leave up.

This is an entirely incorrect reading of Section 230.
Makes me wonder if OpenAI via its microsoft connection is pulling strings behind the scenes (less believe conspiracies than that has turned out true in the twitter saga)
Amazon has raised the number of jobs it plans to cut 18,000
https://archive.is/lRbxR
PSA: Seems like deleting deploy keys on the CircleCI end doesn't actually delete them from Github, so you need to do it on both ends.
Stolen means Slack no longer has something that the thief has, right?
> ambulances [are] Generally low mileage vehicles, no idea why you'd not be able to use them as EVs.

Because they are neither low mileage and the medical equipment behind needs power. You never want your battery to go flat in an ambulance and lose the mobility and life support at the same time. Also, they're used the way EVs hate most. Accelerate and decelerate constantly while trying to plow through traffic in city centers and rush hours.

> fire trucks Would be excellent EVs. They have super low millage...

I wouldn't want an inextinguishable box of lithium near something hot like a fire. Would you?

> power company trucks [are] Excellent option for EVs because they almost never haul equipment

I don't know how yours operate but the power company trucks I see carry a whole workshop behind, and some of them carries enough spare parts to build a sizeable transformer from scratch. If we are talking about cranes, their hydraulics will consume enough energy to affect their mileage considerably.

> Generators are a thing that pretty much every one of these services will have.

You'd need a couple of 1.2MVA generators to charge these vehicles if you want to do it quickly, with redundancy. And these things are neither small, nor silent or can be deployed anywhere you like. We have a couple of them outside, and boy, they're literally shipping container sized things. This excludes the fuel tanks and other infrastructure they need to be able to generate electricity.

> And, consider this when thinking of a "grid down" situation. How do you pump fuel if the grid is down?

Uh, just pour fuel to the tanks or pump with a manual pump?
> I don’t appreciate this being called “complete secrecy”. There’s literally API to find out when it happens!

You still seem to be missing the point. This is about end users not developers.

This is a UI problem, not an API problem. You want to make a technical point, because you're a technical person, but you're missing the forest for the trees, because this isn't a particularly technical problem. This is a typical Apple problem of paternalism, Apple believing that Apple should take care of everything, and users shouldn't worry their pretty little heads about anything.

> I mean, in a perfect world all of this would be perfectly exposed to users and they would know every single action their computer takes.

We're not talking about "every single action", we're talking about the OS detecting malware on an end user's Mac and then... not bothering to tell them about this fact. Imagine if you went to the doctor for a physical, took some tests, the tests indicated you had an STD, and then... the doctor just gave you some drugs and didn't bother to tell you that you had an STD. That would be malpractice. You'd want to know. You'd need to know. Because one doesn't just "randomly get" either an STD or malware. How you got it (and especially who you got it from) is just as important as that you got it.

> Nobody says the system firewall runs in “complete secrecy” either even though it doesn’t warn you when it blocks connections.

1) You have to manually enable the firewall. It's disabled by default on macOS.

2) Unlike malware, you can just "randomly get" connection attempts from the internet. Attackers are probing everything. I can see that in my web server logs.

I make a simple claim: if macOS takes action to remediate malware then it ought to tell the user. Simple question: Do you agree or disagree with that claim?

All of the discussion about logging and endpoint security is because the author has determined in testing that macOS actually fails to tell the user when it remediates malware.

To follow my earlier analogy, this is like talking about how to do your own STD tests when your doctor neglects to tell you whether you got an STD. But you doctor should really tell you, and then you wouldn't need your own tests. But you seem overly focused on the tests rather than the telling.
I’m very interested to see if/how the model can figure out to produce a different voice when a character is speaking and how to keep the same voice for each character across the whole book consistent. Especially the second problem is not trivial at all from my understanding of how neural networks work.
Writer here, it's a terrible sentence.

"I know Bill carried within him deep currents of spiritual yearning that he found easiest to express through the beauty he saw in all places wild."

"Deep currents of spiritual yearning" is both cliched and unspecific / unclear.

"That" is superfluous.

It's unclear how Bill is expressing the beauty he sees, and the sentence structure implies he's somehow responsible for the natural beauty.

"All places wild" is wilfully awkward and anachronistic.

There are countless better ways to say the same thing. For example the tone would be similar and the sentence more concise just to say:

'When Bill spoke of the beauty of nature, I could sense it inspired spiritual feelings in him.'

Or simply: Natural beauty inspired in Bill a yearning for connection to something spiritual.

Neither are great - because the central thought is unclear. Writing is to a large extent the process of expressing a thought or feeling. Clarifying exactly what one wants to say is a central part of writing and editing. The author seems to have failed to clearly define their idea or emotion, so its expression is decorated rather than clarified however you phrase it.
In return, as a token of my gratitude, I give you a script that allows horizontal scrolling in Excel with Shift + Mousewheel (bafflingly not a default in Excel, even though that's becoming standard almost everywhere else):

; Excel horizontal scroll with Shift + Mousewheel
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe EXCEL.EXE
+WheelUp::
SetScrollLockState, On
SendInput {Left}
SetScrollLockState, Off
Return
+WheelDown::
SetScrollLockState, On
SendInput {Right}
SetScrollLockState, Off
Return
#if
Computer Chronicles Revisited, Part 37 – AT&T Unix PC, Grid Compass 1101
Maybe RETNA is mislabeled, and the general idea is to group artists with a "black style".

I think the most likely scenario is that automatic's trying to group that style, which is fair and the purpose of those categories after all, and him coming from 4chan is no stranger to the n word, so that's what came to his mind.
An important lesson I’ve learned in the past few years learning to drum is that I rarely improve while practicing. I practice, and practice, and then at some point I come back and I can already do the new skill.

I wish I’d understood this as a younger person. I might have learned a lot of things.
I’ve never heard of GitGud.io, so I took a look at their home page/login page. Wow a lot of those claims are bad:

> Free - Yes, totally free for any user or group

Such claims are invariably false. Or, stated most generously, heavily misleading, because of limitations. And that’s even ignoring the common “it became popular and we realised what we were offering wasn’t sustainable so we’re charging or limiting sharply or shutting down” result.

> Fast - One of the fastest git hosting services

Holistically, I’d say this isn’t even possible if you’re using GitLab. Significant parts of GitLab are very slow. And as for GitGud.io at present, well, that repository’s URL is consistently taking about ten seconds to send the first byte of the response, and even HEAD / takes more than five seconds to issue a 302 redirect to /users/sign_in.

> Highly available - average uptime of 99.83% ¹

Look, “highly available” is a vague term, but for this kind of service I’d expect it to mean three nines at the very least, probably four, and to mean an architecture and upgrade deployment mechanism significantly different from GitLab’s, where upgrades are disruptive.

Also, their actual status page is currently saying 91.16% for the last 24 hours (2h7m of downtime), which is already more than two months’ downtime budget even at 99.83%.

> Reliable - We have never lost any data, unlike other services

You also probably haven’t dealt with any of the scale-related issues that have caused data loss in said Other Services.
Silvergate Raced to Cover $8.1B in Withdrawals During Crypto Meltdown
GitHub is just a mirror of linux; it is not the primary VCS for it.
2019 I did an "Ask HN: When will text-to-speech replace narrators"

Most answers did not age well I would say.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20931541
“You violated the ‘don’t be a dick’ rule too many times” isn’t much different than that. We found it regularly necessary, and that giving specific examples and number of times counterproductive.
I will wait for "how to quickly befriend a grizzly in 30 seconds".
Jackson has water. Flint has water. They simply lack trustworthy infrastructure. This can be fixed by upgrading.

California has infrastructure. They simply lack water. This cannot be fixed by upgrading.
Really? "dumb" and "retarded" are considered "-ism" level offensive? What about retroactive abortion and the like? Is it so easy to trigger cancellation nowadays?
Note the year. 2014 was a very different time on the internet.
3D printing seems a good example:

Extruded plastic took off before resin printers because the patents expired a few years earlier.

As far as I can tell, we could have had the 3D printing revolution in the 90s or early 2000s, but instead we locked the technology away to only be used in a few esoteric commercial applications until the patents expired.
Clbottomic
It's been pasted multiple times in the comments, but here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/co...

If it was just one of those examples, sure. But there are multiple things that are 'arguably racist' combined with apparent activity on 4chan, I'd say it doesn't seem just coincidental.

We don't know whether this has anything to do with the suspension though, everything that's being written is all just theories.
chatGPT prompt to create your very own tabletop RPG game
> There is a sub-curve (Ristretto) which is of prime order which can be used on top of curve25519.

I'm sure you are aware of this and are just abbreviating, but I think it's important to clarify this for other readers: Ristretto255 is not a sub-curve of Curve25519. It is not a curve at all. Ristretto is abstractly a prime-order group, and concretely a scheme for encoding group elements such that round-trip decode-and-encode produces the same element encoding.

It happens to have been designed to have the same order as the prime-order subgroup of Curve25519, for convenience of implementation, but it is possible to implement it using a different elliptic curve under the hood (though in general you're better to use Curve25519 under the hood for the same reason as avoiding Ed448: there are many more eyes working on solid implementations of that curve's arithmetic).

> But doing zero-knowledge proofs of Ristretto operations is significantly more complicated due to the fact that it is a sub-curve

Using Ristretto255 in zero-knowledge proofs is not much more complex than using an elliptic curve. It just isn't as _simple_ as using a plain elliptic curve, because you cannot witness a Ristretto element as a coordinate pair (x, y), again because Ristretto255 is not a curve. You instead have to witness the encoding of the group element, and then implement the decoding operation inside the circuit to constrain the encoding to its arithmetic representation (e.g. a Curve25519 curve point). This would actually be pretty straightforward to implement in a PLONK-style arithmetisation, but it's also only 12 field element multiplications and an inversion constraint, so it's perfectly feasible in R1CS as well. And thanks to the decoding constraints providing a firewall between the group element encoding and its arithmetic representation, once you have the latter you can safely just use it, and don't need to propagate subgroup checks or cofactor elimination throughout your protocol (like you would using Curve25519 directly).

In practice though, I agree that if you can use a prime-order elliptic curve, then you should definitely do so. Ristretto255 was designed at a time when people wanted to use cofactor curves for performance and curve-safety at the cost of group-safety; Ristretto255 provides that group-safety. Nowadays we have complete and performant formulae for all of the prime-order elliptic curves people want to use, so if you have the option then both secp256r1 and secp256k1 are decent options. But if you're in an ecosystem where Curve25519 is a necessary primitive, then Ristretto255 is a great option.

(Disclosure, since I'm not using a pseudonym here: Filippo and I are authors on the Ristretto IETF draft [0].)

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-ristretto25...
The most basic aspect is: Natural life does useful work, suggesting that artificial life might also.

I'm like if you want a spreadsheet, fine, use a von Neumann machine. But if you want do inherently robust system control, that has a chance of doing something sensible even in situations that were neither programmed in nor trained upon, what you want is an overprovisioned system that is intrinsically aware of its deployment in space, and is constantly repairing and rebuilding itself.. and this video is another baby step on that road.
That felt pretty isolated to US bubbles, though. I had never even heard of it until 3 or so years ago, and on Twitch, Pepe was used throughout it all, including in LBTGQI+ channels.
Higgs, who hypothesized the Higgs boson back in the 70s, has only published 2-3 papers in the decades since. Before it was announced that he won the Nobel prize, his University was deciding between forcing him out or gambling on him potentially winning the Nobel prize which would bring more reknown to the department. He has commented recently saying if he were a young, freshly minted PhD today he would not have gotten tenure with his publication record. That seems insane to me and a bitter critique of today's incentive structures created by the funding system we have that rewards incremental work over real breakthroughs.
Perhaps you can encode them in some other format and nobody will bother to check it.
>People usually can't change their accent.

Skill issue.
> They had just released their own version of stable diffusion in bing

Did they? I thought that was chatgpt variant.
Very interesting post but aren't obesity rates similarly increasing in EU countries?
Does that make it easier for breastfeeding?
Yay thanks this!
>>> MAANG

> MANGA

Reading mentions of big tech on HN is always a Mugato, Gumato moment for me, with every comment using a different acronym to refer to these companies. What's the status of Rust in the greater AGAM(EMNO)N?
Augmented reality allows for powerful and intuitive solutions in navigation. By showing virtual guides in physical space through the view of a smartphone or headset, users can be directed point to point more naturally than by comparing a map to their immediate surroundings. Due to this great benefit, AR navigation can help in both indoor and outdoor environments.
I've seen that quote before but this time I'm laughing at the assumption in, "we have good taste".

I think he means that you get into creative work because you have an awareness of what you like and a desire to make more of it. But the use of the word "good" amuses me.
What accent is used by the first voice? It creeps me slightly, some kind of rz sounds...
Which ironically is how white people during the Jim Crow era in the south decided guilt vs innocence of black people accused of crimes. No real evidence just assumptions of circumstances based off of the person's skin color.
Another pertinent paper from 2021:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11184
[author here] thanks for sharing this!
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Graphical Code Tracer (GCT) is a static code analyzer that shows you how EVERY function in your code is graphically connected to each other.
As a software developer, I’d want to see a rewrite to clean up the legacy bodges before we conclude we can’t add more.

Also, wealth inequality isn’t a problem: how wealthy the people at the bottom are is. Wealth inequality is associated with fewer poor people and a higher standard of living because wealth inequality requires a wealthy society.

What exactly are you “fixing”?