skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone posted this earlier from Schneier on Security but it didn't get much traction:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35162918

"AI Could Write Our Laws"

I didn't read it fully (yet) but early on he (I believe) coins the term "microlegislation".
taking responsibility for our supply chain and things we depend on that use mostly for free? absolutely preposterous, the business demands more features.
TIL the first business model of Google was Amazon affiliate links
I took 5y because I had a misguided detour into aerospace engineering for a couple years. She was out in 2y
48% discount from peak valuation (95 G$ in Mar 2021). Ouch.
I think a lot of platforms would change the terms of their digital products if they could not use the term "Buy" otherwise.
Banks would charge fees for services.
If you could see my face you would not read surprise on it.
Would love to know who your clients are so we could patronise them :)
I mean, in general in the world if you live in a country with a rule of law and you said something like "Hey, I'm working on a project that's going to kill a lot of people" some nice little armed men would show up at your door and arrest you and put you in a concrete and iron cage.

But in the same sense I do agree, because that same group that controls the armed men will say to themselves "wow, we should build an AI to monitor everybody on the planet" and then we're in the same position where we've created the world eating monster, but now with even more authoritarianism.
That unironically sounds great.
It's great. We migrated our images to it months ago (not because of this, bandwidth issues mainly, we also vendor our base images on it) and it has given us exactly 0 problems.
Imagine being a manager of any business, and when something goes wrong on your watch you say "Hey! Remember, that guy that was the manager 3 years ago? Yeah, it was his/her fault." How do you think that would go for you?

I do find it slightly entertaining you let these people spit in your face, place the blame on others, and then just accept them laughing at your blind faith in them.

I think you're also mistaking my dislike for a certain group, and presenting a strawman argument trying to conflate that with support for another group.
Damn near all possession laws and laws where criminal intent is not required should be civil offenses without potential penalty of jail time.
Isn’t the point to generate semantically equivalent Rust code from C, so that you can just get it re-compiling under Rust, and then from there you have a working base from which to start rewriting into safer Rust?
According to https://blog.talosintelligence.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-f... it's an out of bounds write, which I interpret to mean it is luck of the draw about the "RCE" part, but almost certain about the Availability component of the CVSS score

While TFA didn't mention the Patch Tuesday part, the Talos blog said the fix is included in the March release, along with some other venomous looking ones
Texas announces takeover of Houston schools
> Why in the seven hells would they need 6.5 billion on top of that? Are they building gold-plated toilets at their offices?

It’s worth reading the article before commenting:

> All proceeds will be used to help Stripe employees cover tax obligations related to the pending expiration of restricted stock units, plus to fund a new stock tender offer for current and former employees.
> Why can't we build fabs in countries that aren't at risk of fuckery by the CCP?

Because they have ICBMs and we don't have countries outside of Earth yet.
FibJS: Based on V8, uses fibers instead of async
Too late to edit but it was 2am when I wrote this I didn't mean to come off that shitty.

I just thought that for avoiding having to use a generator step there's a lot of glue that's being written.
Is there enough homes within walking distance of the office for all the developers?
Mostly industrialization and export of machinery and (later) pharmaceuticals. Banking is less of a relevant factor for Switzerland's GDP than most people realize. If I remember correctly even the insurance business (which is also considered financial industry) is larger than banking.
The company is 12 years old, the biggest player in their domain (online payments) and still needs that much funding? Where is it time to turn the knobs and start producing income?
Google Chrome completely ignores that.

EDIT: Apparently Chrome will respect the following:

<input
name="new-password"
id="new-password"
autocomplete="new-password"
>

I'll try this.

I'd still appreciate an answer to the question if anyone has one.
On Leadership (Briefly)
I'm sure docker will happily hold off on this work until you can fit it into your OKR planning next quarter. /s
> It defaults to safe and old Debian versions of apps and software.

It doesn't default to anything - you can load whatever OS you like that will run, including latest major Linux distros, and plenty to choose from. You can obtain your software from anywhere you want, not just the distro's default package manager. Exactly like a plain ole computer.

> Recent versions of said apps and software - unlikely.

I have the latest Ubuntu LTS with Firefox, VSCode, Chromium etc all running on a Pi right now, the latest versions much the same as any other computer I own. It runs the latest versions of virtually all programming runtimes. It can have the latest version of Docker... Getting recent releases of Linux software appropriate for a credit sized hobbyist arm computer is rarely a problem at all on the Pi 4, which has been out now since ~2019. Its still not all that much harder on a Pi 2, 3 or zero.
Prime minicomputers had decimal arithmetic in microcode & hardware in the early 80's to support PL/I and COBOL "picture" data types and packed decimal. They also had sophisticated editing to pictures like ZZZ,ZZ9.99 which would display 1024 as 1,024.00

These instructions were also implemented in PMA, the Prime Macro Assembler, in the OS so that if a machine didn't have these instructions, a UII fault occurred and the instruction was simulated in software. I implemented a lot of the easier instructions in C in the Prime emulator, but for the more complex things like decimal math, I let those fault so the Prime OS would handle them.
It's raised 9% (not 90%) of its goal...is it really available? I ask as someone who waited more than a year to actually get ahold of a CrowdSupply project that was more than fully funded.
Virgin Orbit pauses operations for a week, furloughs nearly entire staff
This sounds a lot like CoralCDN. You should look them up, they had some good papers. We actually used CoralCDN on reddit for a while, where we'd send users to the CoralCDN link of the webpage they were trying to get to instead of the actual page. It sadly didn't work very well.

Here is one of their papers: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi10/tech/full_papers/...
(Don't) crank up the warnings to 11
I'm a bit cynical when I see stuff like this. Is it a way for the company to exit employee shareholders and put that equity into investor hands? Especially at a discount from peak?

That can be good for employees (money in your bank is a good thing), but only if they want to sell.

Edit: there's another thread with more info. This round looks to address a specific issue that would affect employees very negatively. So it seems like a good thing and not corp greed.
- Deceptive advertising

- Removal of advertised features

- Broken UX / Failure to deliver purchase successfully

(I think that last one is going to be increasingly common as people spin up a bunch of thin-clients over GPT-4 and other AI tools - I've already tried buying an AI art thing and it was just completely broken and had to do a refund through googlepay).
Steep haircut, but 50% of something still better than 100% of nothing.
> Stripe [] has signed agreements for a Series I fundraise of more than $6.5 billion (€6.15 billion) at a $50B (€47B) valuation. Primary investors include ...

> The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards, resulting in the retirement of Stripe shares that will offset the issuance of new shares to Series I investors. Stripe does not need this capital to run its business.

As I read this, the plan is to issue a number of shares, buy exactly that many shares from Stripe employees, and retire the purchased shares.

Why do it that way instead of allowing the employees to sell their shares into the Series I offering?
> The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards, resulting in the retirement of Stripe shares that will offset the issuance of new shares to Series I investors. Stripe does not need this capital to run its business.
>I got a new phone number

recycled phone number?
> Nobody is going to "generate training data" if they get precisely nothing out of it.

This is trivially false. Eg, fanfiction exists.

Maybe monetizing art will become hard as cheap art becomes ubiquitous, but that doesn't mean people will stop creating stuff.
Always record these calls. Screw what the state law says about this.
The most important thing in analysis isn't to be objective. That's the second most important thing. The most important thing is to make sure you're measuring something meaningful. If something is difficult (or impossible) to measure, just grabbing the nearby easy to measure things doesn't suddenly make it meaningful analysis.

Removing subjectivity isn't the goal. Providing insight is. And this isn't providing much insight.
A "supercomputer" will have far stronger communications between the CPUs / GPUs than the typical AWS network.

For example, a typical DGX supercomputer system from NVidia is pushing 7.2TBps (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-h100/) GPU-to-GPU communications.

In contrast, a typical DDR4 RAM on your typical desktop is 0.05 TBps, so yeah, 7.2TBps external bandwidth between GPUs is quite a lot.

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For Frontier, the Slingshot NICs are 100GBps each. So each node can communicate with more bandwidth to each other than your typical Desktop computer has RAM-bandwidth.

The diagrams imply that there's 4x Slingshot NICs per node on Frontier, suggesting 400GBps bandwidth to the interconnect. (https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/frontie...)
Lunark: Getting Retro with Rotoscoping
This is literally like saying "If refers to a particular negative stereotype of a person, usually from a poor neighbour hood, usually black, usually without a father" and ascribing any kind of prejudice to it. Is this seriously the kind of discussion you want to be having?
Anyone know if these LLaMA models can have a large pile of context fed in? Eg to have the "AI" act like ChatGPT with a specific knowledge base you feed in?

Ie imagine you feed in the last year of chatlogs of yours, and then ask the Assistant queries about the chatlogs. Compound that with your Wiki, itinerary, etc. Is this possible with LLaMA? Where might it fail in doing this?

(and yes, i know this is basically autocomplete on steroids. I'm still curious hah)
Show HN: I Got Fired from my FinTech Job so I built this
I'm Cliff, – nice to meet you. Layoffrecruit is something that I wish existed for me less than 2 years ago.

You see, I was dealt a devastating blow when I got laid off from my fintech job after 6 years. I felt hurt, lost, and like a complete failure. I had no idea what my next move would be.

Today, thousands of tech talent are being laid off by tech companies every day, 138,302 in 2023 alone. And, just as I felt, I'm sure those affected by these current layoffs feel the same way today – lost and devastated.

This is why I built Layoffrecruit – to help recently laid-off tech talent find new jobs and get back on their feet.

LayoffRecruit is the world's first job board for any employee affected by layoffs. We help connect talent with startups and top tech companies looking to hire them.

I'm stoked to be sharing this with the community. I'd love to know what you think here, or you can hit us up at hello (at) layoffrecruit.com if you have questions/feedback/suggestions!
> The funds raised will be used to provide liquidity to current and former employees and address employee withholding tax obligations related to equity awards, resulting in the retirement of Stripe shares that will offset the issuance of new shares to Series I investors. *Stripe does not need this capital to run its business.*

It’s the second paragraph of the OP
I imagine it's as simple as employees own common stock and investors want preferred stock.
> [W]e -- as a group -- were not acting with avarice or recklessness.

(First off, unashamed Oxide/Bryan Cantrill fan!)

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but some of the depositors obviously were reckless. Circle had $3.3 billion at a single bank. Roku had $487 million.

If you're trying to say that you/Oxide did not act recklessly, maybe not, but some of the depositors obviously did.

Ask yourself, if I was your accountant/CFO/CRO and I approved keeping vast uninsured amounts in a community bank, and that bank went under (as some have), and FDIC chose to uphold the letter of the law (as sometimes it has -- I'm not miles from were one of the most important oil and gas bank failures occurred), ask yourself -- would your board allow me to keep my job? I think not.

This bailout, with a few day's hindsight, is probably an okay policy, but this industry's failure to understand why people feel this way, and to shade the truth around something depositors are not supposed to be doing, is simply terrible politics! (Goes to "Why do people hate us?! We're not the tech bros...")

How would I get this industry on the road to being likable again? Be humble -- say we (as an industry, as a company) made a mistake, thank the feds and the people of the US for helping your industry get back on its feet, and you personally, out, and the put your head down and get back to work. Don't you dare imply people shouldn't be resentful when you've been given a special break/bailout. Be thankful, no one was entitled to this bailout.
> fairly high volume produced of the latest manufacturing nodes

By the time a fab is completed, it is often no longer in the "latest manufacturing nodes", specifically when it was not in the "latest manufacturing nodes" even at planning stages.
Weird for the article to compare OS threads to Loom threads, and skip over the last ten years of Futures.
> your local credit union just issues and holds them [mortgages]

I was on BoD of a CU. About the only thing we didn't resell were loans which did not conform. The business was to originate, quickly resell, and do some more.
If it was used in any of the Puss in Boots movies, then it was at least used in a Shrek spinoff...
median rent is inflated by manhattan, which should be off the table at this salary rang. brooklyn rent is comparable trending towards cheaper than SF rent.

i think dependents are probably what drives the disconnect. COL differences per area are amplified based on family size. but this isn't spelled out anywhere, nor does the fact that most people aren't trying to raise families in major cities in the first place
HN users with Karma over a certain amount can downvote comments.
> And your definition of metal is amusing

I did not attempt to define Metal. I only tried to point out that it is often heavily compressed, as is pop music, see for example:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/17/metallica.guit...

I certainly find the idea of playing this stuff on a 10K Hifi amusing, which was perhaps your original point?

EDIT:

You can check your favourite albums, by using this resource: https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/1/dr/asc?artist=Epic...

Compare with e.g. some classical music recordings: https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Berliner%20Philharmonik...
Who would want to walk away from their home? The people living on the streets perhaps?

Credit inflates the housing markets. Houses used to be bought outright without credit. Credit is top heavy, where a small number of parties can obtain enough credit to buy many houses while an increasing amount of people cannot obtain credit to buy a house to live in. The people who already own property benefit from increasing valuations, while people entering into the housing market bear the costs. It's gotten to the point to where people with 6 figure incomes cannot afford a house.

It seems like the instability of the housing prices is largely due to the volatility of credit markets. If housing was not emphasized as an appreciating asset class to be hoarded by speculators who want to grow rich from housing, then more people, who are now stuck in the rental trap, can live in their own home. The situation we have now is that non-speculators who want to own a home have to bear the risk of a credit inflated & volatile asset when all they want to do is own a house & not pay > 2x rental costs. Those who do successfully play the game now live with neighbors who also play the game, instead of a more diverse crowd of people they would rather be neighbors with. The banks created & profit from this mess & are bailed out. The non-speculating aspiring home owner pays the costs.
Just an update, submitted it:

https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=8222
The argument that I've heard is that a speaking filibuster results in inability to pass other bills through the chamber. So we can at least get other bills passed, but also some bills which can't be voted on would be able to get through because it's so easy to block things. I'm not sure which option is better.
It depends whether current employees are getting their next RSU before or after this down-round.
Russian propaganda bingo in only one comment. Impressive.
To put that into perspective. That's $1MM a year (at %3 inflation) going into the toilet just because you don't want to do some minimal cash management. You could hire a CFO for that price and it would pay for itself 3 times over. I mean I get the vibe and totally agree that you don't want to overthink things. But I also think it's easy to underestimate the value you're leaving on the table and the risk you're exposing yourself to by not giving it any thought.
That would be the best name by far!
Probably easier to do legally. Usually your option shares have a clause that you are not allowed to sell them on the secondary market (which this would be).
Hi TheRealGL,
Maybe I could fix this issue. I just deployed a new insiders build for Linux Ubuntu/Debian. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 and couldn't find any more problems. It would be super nice if you could test it again. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your help!
> There is no rental trap

Your decree does not invalidate the lived experiences of the people who want to own a home but can't afford the > $80k down payment, so they are stuck paying rent. The problem is credit inflates housing prices. Some parties, such as speculators, have plenty of credit, so they can buy multiple houses & inflate the markets using credit. Those who cannot obtain credit or are not willing to play the game are stuck trying to save up > $80k for the down payment on top of their regular living expenses that are under rapid inflation.

The middle class used to be able to buy a home or large acreage outright without credit.
What will happen is it won't be the "Second Opinion Machine". It'll be the "First Opinion Machine". People are lazy. They will need to verify everything.
Not that awkward, open source models exist.
> even though I have done nothing with the company for 5 years and they never contacted me

You should do some business with PayPal.
To be fair, 30 year treasuries have fallen almost as much. Did Stripe's valuation drop, or did the long-term value of today's cash increase?
congrats on getting the interview :)
Does this imply that Stripe thinks an IPO in this market would value them lower than $50B?
I assume ChatGPT can spell the UK way if carefully prompted. Its training corpus surely includes both spellings.
If I'm understanding this correctly, this is less about raising money for the company and more about letting current employees cash out some stock.

It's a roundabout way for employees to sell stock to investors with Stripe acting as a middle man.
> If those images disappear, we lose the ability to release and that's not acceptable

It’s your responsibility to ensure your own business continuity. You should review how your build pipeline depends on resources outside of your org perimeter, and deploy a private registry under your own control.

btw, you could also contribute some mirroring bandwidth to the community. You must’ve heard that the cloud is just someone else’s computer.
but that's what the topic of the article in its title is.

I say that as someone who once had a Solaris Internals book (and worked at Sun in that area), and it would be pretty great for that book's explanation to be online for Java people who didn't use original green threads to see.
Is anybody else intrigued by the mention of multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework.?

Is this something new? The code seems to be included as sub-modules of OMR itself, and all the repos[1][2][3] show recent "Initial Commit" messages, so I'm operating on the assumption that it is. If so, I wonder if this is something that might prove useful in other contexts...

[1]: https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/arras4_core

[2]: https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/arras4_node

[3]: https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/arras_render
What are you building? What features will you need?
Also a PITA (even though it’s super easy for devs to replicate): being connected to your local network, but your internet is down.
Could you give a bit more details about this? Do you have a link?
Ah, you're behind the times. You may be remembering 2008 when Amazon had those big "DRM Free" messages and t-shirts and talked a lot about how music wanted to be free. It was a big part of their sales pitch. That faded away, and then some music started using DRM. However, if you purchase a music song or album, you can still mostly download MP3s, as far as I know.

On the other hand, if you use Amazon Unlimited or Amazon Music Prime, you cannot download music as MP3s. You need to use a player that supports their DRM.
A number as made up as the one in the original headline of this submission.
No, not at all. Nobody would invest if they thought that were the case. It does mean they believe they will need to delay their IPO a year or more.
It might be a matter of executive preference. Lots of people don't want to deal with the regulatory attention and mandatory reporting which comes from a company being publicly traded.
Then hold short term treasuries. Problem solved.
Would you see Buildflow as a competitor to Dagster, Flink, or Spark Streaming?

I'm about to build a pipeline that needs to pass thousands of docs a minute through a variety of enrichments (ML models, third-party APIs, etc) and then dump the final enriched doc in ES.

There are so many pipeline products and workflow engines and MLOps solutions that I'm very confused about what technologies I should be looking at. I think something looks good (Temporal) but then read it's not really for large-volumes of streaming data. Or I look at Flink that can handle massive volumes but it doesn't seem like it's as easy to wire up as other options. I think Dagster looks nice but can't find any answer (even in their Slack) about what kind of volumes it can handle...
>Your example servers have 16-32 GB of memory, which is basically nothing

we just need to add more Peers and evenly distribute the workload.

> what kind of cache hit rate are you expecting at the peer?

I don't know. We have too many moving parts right now and can't predict anything.
Some relevant prior art (some of it 30 years old) can be found via searching for the phrase "The Graph Model of Conflict Resolution".
Show HN: Plotting realized historical yield for DeFi protocols