skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with proper filtering it seems to cause some problems, e.g.:

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/departement/medien...

"In 2022, the canton of Zurich examined the surroundings of waste incineration plants (WIP) for dioxins and published the results in November. No massive or large-scale contamination like in Lausanne was found in the canton of Zurich. However, the random sample from the Josefwiese was within the range of the legal test value of 20 nanograms of toxicity equivalent per kilogram (ng TEQ/kg)."
A cloud-oriented open-source programming language
Oh it's getting stranger every year, I mean most of the presenters are like from an entirely different universe when they start to talk about trivial things.
I think a great start is to make arrays of similar data. Instead of an array of (x,y,z) use an array for x, an array for y and another one for z. If you then square these and sum them for example, the compiler might figure out good optimizations for it if you write it as a simple loop.

Also read about SIMD instructions like AVX2. They are often used under the hood when possible, but just knowing what they require can help "triggering" them, depending on which language you use. In C++ for example, the compiler really looks for opportunities to use those instructions. You can tell the compiler did it, by looking in the assembly code if any XMM or YMM registers are being used (these are the names of the SIMD registers).
One need only look at other NGIs (natural general intelligences) to see that this is obviously not true. Plenty of animals kill themselves to beget offspring (for two short examples, all sorts of male insects and arachnids are eaten while mating; octopuses and various other cephalopods die after caring for their young), or just to protect others in their group (bees and ants are some of the most common in this area, but many mammals are also willing to fight for their group). Humans throughout history have sacrificed themselves knowingly to help others or even for various other goals.
That’s pretty awesome!

I have a Lelit MaraX and a Niche Zero. I really want to get a lever machine next, but it’ll be awhile before it’s in the budget. Besides, I’m still learning how to use this current setup, having had it for a year and change.
The product is at best an alpha or beta and they are already putting in ads.

Classic Microsoft!
Wireless Networks May Leak Data Thanks to Wi-Fi Spec Ambiguity
I have been remote for 11 years now and have two children 9 and 12. I can't imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm, we would have lost out on so much bonding time with their daddy being an integral part of their life.

I managed to be highly productive, build a career, yet be there for bath times, tucking into bed, school plays / sports days, nursing when ill, impromptu dancing to toddlers programs on the TV.
The whole function just makes no sense, it's just `target_list.append(value)` with extra steps.
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-success-models
Also https://mastodon.social/@bagder/110102954036946925

> Bloomberg sponsors #curl with 10K USD. Thank you!
You could probably run a model but not train a new one, especially one bigger than GPT-4. You'd need ten of thousand of A100 as a rough estimate.
Ask HN: How can I create a webserver that runs Git commands securely?
Hi, I'm currently writing a webserver (REST API) which will run certain git commands such as "git clone" when a repository link is given via endpoint. I'm wondering how can I make this secure. There are a couple of security flaws that I could think of:

- cloning a huge repository will take a long time (how can I check the repository size?)

- cloning a couple of repositories at the same time might make the server slow

- running shell commands on the actual system might be dangerous

First thing I thought of was running these git commands in Docker. But I'm not sure that's applicable since everything will be running inside Docker anyways. What would be the best way of doing this?
Mini-Consortia Forming Around Chiplets
Working fine from the Outer Asteroid Belt....
They'll call it the dark mesh and show images of faceless people wearing hoodies and doing stuff in the dark with their computers.
Good point not often mentioned. The entire EU could be CO2 neutral by 2030, destroying itself in the process, and yet the net climate impact would be around 0.1C of average temperature reduction by 2100.

The thing with fighting climate change is that it isn't actually an emergency. We're way past that. It is also not a disaster like a flood that would cause damage so abruptly that only preventive measures make sense.

For a human timescale, climate change has been slow to set in and will be slow to slow down. The upswing of that is that we truly have time to adapt. Other species don't, unless we specifically protect them. It's a disaster in slow motion, and like everything else happening in slow motion, we'll outscale it by a large factor.

With human development, our ability to minimize damage from natural disasters vastly outpaces any (experimentally uncertain so far, but should happen according to predictions) growth in the amount and severity of disasters such as hurricanes and droughts.

Well that was a wild tangent. Anyway, main point is, unless all BRICS countries are involved in anti-emissions measures so drastic they will never agree to them, there's nothing that can be done to meaningfully prevent temperatures to climb at least 2C by the end of the century. Sorry, there's geoengineering too but we should also avoid that if possible.
Sure you can easily upsample in playback.

And the studio can master the recording from a high sample rate recording using an enormous FIR filter, because latency and computing power are mostly irrelevant.

High sample rate equipment just allows you to listen to studio intermediate data without having to have it downsampled first.

But there are problems. For example, if there is any non-linearity in the equipment this can easily cause inaudible tones in the ultrasonic range to intermodulate with each other to produce tones that are audible.

Nothing is simple.
It's possible it might actually be safer to work from a public space. In such a space, they don't have your business on file, so they're not able to correlate data and build a profile on your business activities so easily.

I'm not so worried about the fact that coworking spaces have cameras, though. It's not that they can learn things about my business that bothers me. It's more that they don't offer much in the way of reassurance that they hold whatever they learn in confidence. For someone running a business that might have competitors or that might have clients who require confidentiality, that seems risky.

I was hoping more people had grappled with this issue and knew something that maybe I don't know. But the more I ask around, the more it actually looks as though most people just don't think about it.
Julia 1.9 is fast. And you can use https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy to write python extension in Julia now. So I think after 1.9 release julia would be much more usable.
I love how OpenAI went from being open to being ProprietaryAI and a suppervillain
A paper with many egregious methodological issues is, at worst, a paper that should be ignored, as though it never happened. We cannot say that it is "wrong" or "incorrect" or "bunk" because it's a nothing, a non-argument. Until the experiments are repeated, sans egregious methodological issues, we can't logically make that determination.
AFRL couldn't get enough XML in the 2000s.
What on earth makes you think that the business domain of Airbnb/Doordash is any more complex than what 37signals is working on?

Almost all complexity in software is created by developers. 37signals seems to be one of the few companies that really understand this.
And thus become purse holders. The cycle repeats.
Why would anyone buy a phone from Samsung and not expect it to do weird stuff like this?
No effect

Working again now
I think my response comes down to having an absolute rule like this is not a good idea.

My practice is to have a set rule about when to continue and when to put away. And I think that’s ok.

I’m all for people having their own heuristics that work for them, but don’t like sharing an easy to follow rule that may be harmful but is followed just because it’s simple and easy.

It seem especially funny that a literature professor would have such a rule as there are so many great books in literature that are difficult and unpleasant while I’m reading them but I’m glad I did.

I’m reminded of a colleague who said something like “every morning a 5am I don’t want to go to the gym and I want to quit the whole time because it’s not fun, but after I finish I never regret having done it.”
"...The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!..."

- George Carlin
Rust is verbose. I would use https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/jnumpy to write python extension in Julia and usually get similar performance.
Isn't it the same like whitelist and blacklist ?
If this is true, are you also concerned about the algorithms controlled by American billionaires? I think that's a national security risk as well.
Yet it’s true, from my experience being unemployed but still being financially stable. Work provides a lot of purpose and fulfillment that isn’t so easily replaced, although definitely not impossible. A suitable replacement often looks like work, just perhaps not paid
OK, fair enough. You're right, it is important, and no, people don't talk about it as often as it deserves.
Hah, if the U.S. spent a tiny fraction of the money being spent on the Ukraine war on border security, one would get far better outcomes. No fear of inflation at all of-course - to print endless money to wage more war. But spending on the border ? Oooh - that's bad!
So what if China blocks apps. Our freedoms are what make us different from them and the first amendment is the most important of those freedoms.

If US persons are truly helping TikTok engage in espionage then arrest them, it’s already illegal.
That's neat. How does Bloomberg use curl? Presumably they use it all over the place when downloading/injesting various content into their systems they use for reporting but I wonder what those platforms are, or in what mode they use curl. Via libcurl or a mountain of shell scripts?
I looked around the documentation and it looks really nice, bonus points for being a native application. Unfortunately it cannot replace Elasticsearch for our use cases because it doesn't seem to support aggregations yet. Are they planned?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
> Who gets to designate “adversaries”?

The Commerce Secretary, however the bill also specifies the legislature's ability to check this via a joint resolution (in both directions, adding or removing from the list). The legislature has just assigned responsibility to a faster acting executive, not totally ceded their control.
> VPN providers may also find themselves in hot water if an adventurous prosecutor wants to make a case that the VPN provider is “aiding and abetting” simply by providing a service that can be used to circumvent the law.

I'm not entirely sure how VPNs work but can't the providers just block access/refuse to connect to the IP addresses TikTok uses?
Does this require superimposing many images to get a single computed image? Or will a single shot per image suffice?
There's some new models that can run locally, but I have no idea what the performance of them is like. I was wondering if that's what was used, given the sensitivity of the data
> California has been at the vanguard of reducing prison population

California’s prison population has been stable since 2017.

13 of 35 state-owned facilities operate beyond capacity.

Source: https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-prison-populati...
Also we really aren't only talking about BRICS, but all other countries in South America, Africa and Asia as well. With sizable populations who certainly want to increase their quality of living by most means possible.

I think the number of countries ready to limit their increase of living standards if not already high are only those that are truly impacted. For everyone else they will try to find some other way around issues. And probably anyway end up better of than they are now.
Pretty much, ARC is RC without needing to manually write it. It can be as compact as Python and near C++/Rust speeds with some optimization. Then add in macros for real performance tricks like simd. Julias pretty nice as well.
Yeah read up on where the B in cyclon B came from.
This perfectly shows how easily these omnipotent, omnipresent services can be used as attack platforms. Regulate them to hell.
Isn’t that just that new behavior of Twitter where people can forbid what circles can see their posts? I also found that I can no longer view several “global” posts unless I follow the given person, which has to be approved or something like that?

I only rarely use Twitter though.
I certainly don’t think people should continue on with terrible books or power through everything. If I have schlock I don’t want to give it 50 pages and it may be worth quitting at 5 pages, or 15, or even on the cover.

I’m not sure I’d have very useful advice other than to think about what they read and why and to constantly adjust their to read and am reading list of books.
LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?
Level playing field.
Building an Open-Source Runtime for Confidential Computing on Nitro Enclaves
> trained on 12 million hours of speech

Humans train to recognize speech on much smaller datasets. If a small human is awake 16 hrs/day, that amounts to maximum 5840 hrs/year or 58400 hrs per 10 years. Why do mathematical models use more data and produce lower quality results? Is it because they don't understand the meaning of words?
>Something similar will happen here. Today, recipes on Chatgpt are to the point. Tomorrow, they might start adding affiliate links to the ingredients. A year from now, the experience won't be any better than what you currently have on Google.

Correct me if I've misinterpreted your comment but it appears you're suggesting that rather than use something that is a superior product in more than one factor, you're advocating for using a product that is terrible in many factors just because... The superior product might get worse... Eventually...

Blind loyalty to a corporation no matter how terrible they make my experience and abuse my trust isn't really something I'm desperate to cling on to. There is a thirst for ChatGPT for a reason.
Nothing is stopping OpenAI from pulling all the same anti-consumer behaviour that Google pulls today, but then the field is wide open for someone to come along and pull a ChatGPT on them, and the cycle continues.
Git already had momentum before GitHub became popular. And yes, it is absolutely Linux and other high-profile projects that ensured its success in the OSS world. Claiming that Linux having used a different VCS before git means that Linux's use of git doesn't matter is really odd when git was developed for the Linux project.
Good to hear! I noticed I was doing this too at a certain point, then adjusted myself
While they will absolutely backstab each other given an opportunity (see the VCs who caused a bank run that primarily affected other VCs), they do seem pretty chummy. Davos is quite literally the summit of the elites.
> I would never expect Little Snitch (my opinion) to completely block all network traffic on all levels

It's very easy to say this in retrospect, having read the blog post. How many people would have said it beforehand?

As far as I can tell, hardly anyone has ever said it, except the one other mentioned article from 2021: https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/network-security/bypassing-lit...

Moreover, it seems that Little Snitch changed its behavior at some point in order to use deep packet inspection. It wasn't always that way.
They have time to make their solution even better. They are not rushing into the war without proper armor.
> I saw your post on journaling and found it thoughtful

Thanks!

> Let me know if you’re interested in this

That'd be really great, I'd love to do something like this with my journal. My email is in my profile, or just drop me a message on LinkedIn or something. Whatever's easiest.
Do not forget the Espressif, as they have shipped multiple generations of ESP32 MCUs based on RISC-V cores already.
This is the course you are looking for.

https://cgmasters.com/blender-for-complete-and-total-beginne...
Every organisation need contract lifecycle management. It is vital to have processes in place that allow for a consistent approach to managing a large contract portfolio. A poor contract lifecycle management system could lead to contract mishandling and loss of track of your contracts.
Perhaps, but how does it expose me to more books. What is this method compared to?

I don’t think there are only two options- quit after 50 pages or always finish. You certainly shouldn’t always finish, but I don’t think you should always read 50 pages either.

Im more in the camp of “having to rule is better than following this rule.”
Yep. Still doing it today. Very large scale Enterprise systems with complex multi-country/multi-organisational operational rules running 24/7. Millions of lines of code. No Kubernetes. No micro-services. No BS. It’s simple. It works. And it has worked for 30+ years.
Does it implement HTCPCP? If not, are patches welcome? :D
I don't agree with this. Many times, I struggled with a book but "forced" myself to finish it, to find it beneficial in the end and resulting in a substantial change in my views.
At a guess, the moon is a diffuse rather than a reflective surface, so it's going to be closer to a maximum of the lunar surface temperature than to solar surface temperature.

An atmospheric lens, however, will reach a maximum of somewhat closer to solar surface temperature, though still lower because of scattering and absorption which definitely isn't trivial on this kind of scale.
Russia detains a Wall Street Journal reporter, accusing him of espionage
Review link and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35262156

I think the review and the discussion answer your questions. If not, do say so.
Oh! Thanks for that recommendation. Added to my Amazon list. Much appreciated
It is weird that you mention Elon Musk, but not Apple and Google, for example. These last two also push their employees to come back to the office, especially Apple. Every two months there is an article about Apple trying to bring everyone back working from an office.
I mean there's always linux instead of getting rid of it
Show HN: Open-Source Webhooks Gateway for Platform Engineers
Hey Friends,

Convoy is an open-source webhooks gateway. Webhooks continue to be hard at scale, and large teams require consistent tooling for inbound & outbound webhooks. Convoy enables developers to securely send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably with features like retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking, customer-facing webhook logs, zero downtime secrets rotation and more.

Since our initial launch [0], we've learned a lot about our users and made several important improvements we are excited to share:

- We are now a webhooks gateway! Akin to API Gateways that sit at the edge of your network to receive all API traffic and route them to the respective microservice, webhooks gateways sit at the edge of your network to receive webhooks from any backend service and route to client endpoints as well as ingest events from multiple providers and route them to the required backend services.

- We now have first-class integration with Pub/Sub Systems. Our users wanted increased deliverability guarantees. Your backend services write events to a queue/topic etc. Convoy consumes the queues, creates webhook events and dispatches those reliably to client endpoints. We currently support Amazon SQS and Google PubSub. On our roadmap, we have the following planned - Kafka, RabbitMQ & Nats (In that order)

- We switched our backend store to PostgreSQL. This improves the self-hosted experience tremendously. MongoDB was great for storing schemaless data, but was severely lacking in some important features for our users, e.g. transactions don't work on a single node; you need to bootstrap a replica set; also, we wanted to ship updates frequently, but the lack of migrations for schema & data changes slowed us down.

- We decided to go the open-core route of OSS monetisation because it offered us a good balance to serve our community and make enough money to run the company. Like GitLab, we hope to be good stewards of our community edition. Since our enterprise edition is simply a wrapper around the community edition with enterprise features like RBAC, Audit Logs etc., we are properly incentivised to continue making it excellent.

- Our Cloud platform is in the private alpha stage. Please contact us at founders@getconvoy.io to gain access!

Our mission is to serve hobbyist developers all the way to the most ambitious teams on the planet with a consistent and easy-to-use webhooks gateway for asynchronous communication on the internet.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30469078
That's a bulleted list, not an ordered list. It's not relavent that it's listed first, all of the points are equally important.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hackenporsche ;-)
Just watched a talk[0] about natural language understanding research in post-GPT-3 era. Old issues may has been solved, while new topics are coming to this area (quoted from the slides):

- Retrieval augmented in-context learning

- Better benchmarks

- Last mile for productive application

- Faithful, human-interoperable explanations

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnHHWRCDGk
Well, down, I hope they do restore noscript/basic (x)html support for account/payment which was working 2 years ago.
And even if they are open source, the development is not (initial development often closed completely, later development requiring CLAs) and the projects only care about Canonical's use of them to the point where even building them on other distros is often far from trivial.
Why the European Commission must consult the Open Source communities
These kind of network already exists.

Some examples:

Guifi [Spain] http://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet

Freifunk [Germany-Austria-Switzerland] https://freifunk.net/en/

Ninux [Italy] http://map.ninux.org/
The dataset humans are using does not just include the audio stream but also visual context. E.g. people pointing at things while talking about them.
Yes, and a monster. It weighs 28kgs and is 70+cm tall. It’s pretty quiet by grinder standards and only runs for 3-5 seconds per shot, so that’s nice for others early morning.

https://c4coffee.co.nz/products/mazzerroburgrinder
Timing Side Channel in HashiCorp Vault Shamir's Secret Sharing
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/28/bid-to-ban-tikto...

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1137076864/fbi-says-china-cou...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/2023/03/27/tiktok...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/spy-balloon-technolo...

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-spy-balloon-us-penta...

China is not an ally of the United States.
The Chinese government wants what is good for China. Shouldn't be a contentious or confusing idea.