skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the release. I'll definitely check it out more in-depth, but first impression is really good.

> Fleek gives you opinionated starter configurations for bash and zsh in four different levels of BLING.

Any word about support for fish?

I suppose you can add `shell: fish` to .fleek.yml but I don't know what consequences there might be.
> RabbitMQ also put up a fight.

I'm interested in hearing more about this (making a similar decision right now!). What pains did RabbitMQ give you?
> very little of the content is true journalism; much of it is effectively op-ed

What is your alternative for a true journalism / non op-ed radio news station?

Other than some tech sites and link aggregators / discussion forums (hello hackernews), I limit my news-reading to the AP and Reuters sites. But I’d be interested in learning about radio-based news sources, provided that they’re either accessible in my area or online.
ARM cloud hosts typically run distros with good ARM support. Oracle Linux is actually quite good, kinda like a pre optimized RHEL.

Which begs the question: what is Hetzner pushing on these? SUSE maybe?
Do you trust that the one coming in the mail isn't going to hack your phone! haha.
This is dystopian, I would rather swipe my life away than submit my lovelife to the ai overlords. Seriously. When will this madness end. AI is cool, but read brave new world.
Right. Sell it and somehow you have no responsibility.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35531833

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35520178
.tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq

https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html

you still have to renew though
There are small adapters which disconnect the data lines. I use one of those to connect my phone to my car so that it only charges but avoids my car to want to add it as an external storage for the entertainment system.
I'm not looking at it from a 'legalistic' perspective. I was elaborating for you because you seemed confused or uncertain about what dangerous speech was.
> In theory, we aligned the ladders in a manner that Principal sits parallel to Directors in the management track.

That seems extremely high in my personal experience, which is that Principal Engineer corresponds to Manager on the management side.

> I'm expected to impact org-wide culture, policy, technology direction, strategy, etc...

Also in my experience this sounds more like Technical Director level as that really having input into directing the org.

An issue is that as an org grows it tends to create more titles in order to cater for egos and the pecking order among people who may have been there for a long time. So you have Junior Engineer, Engineer, Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Senior Principal/Associate Director, Director, Senior Director... In which case Principal Engineer certainly isn't on same level as Director on management side.
> utterly balanced of you to give an old-school Maven pom.xml
Sorry I started to use Java a long time ago, not sure what is the "recommended" way of doing things today.

I guess I just need to know which random Github project is the new hotness today that does something that the other languages do out of the box. Thanks for supporting my point of view.

Again, to produce a single binary you need to know/care much less with Zig, Go and Rust than with Java.
A human neuron is a hell of a lot more than just “electric charges.” There is also zero proof experience itself is a function of neurons.
If it's of any value to anyone, perhaps as an indication of hardware/environment implementation, I get identical numbers (<1% difference) on Oracle's Ampere Altra servers with OpenSSL 1.1.1n on Debian 11.
I find I often rely on a bunch of third party packages. They are essentially part of my code but I don't care about their folder structure, only their API. These are stored flat in npm/cargo/pip. Lot's of my code ends up not being business-specific and could be extracted into similar small packages.

When I need one of these packages, I search Google, and typically read their API on Github. I never navigate a hierarchy to find them.

When we make our own code flat, we have problems because we don't have an easy way to search. Another argument would be that hierarchies can help contain dependencies - i.e. don't depend on code outside of a directory.

> that doesn't mean the hierarchy of the books on the shelves is useless

I just think the hierarchy should be virtual/automatic, and the focus should be on tracking dependencies between components. I think very few people would look at dependency graphs of their codebase...there's just not good tools.
Disagree. The Sales leaders are generally also looking for continued growth 3 years out. Sales know there’s sprints but you are also running a marathon where continued growth YoY is expected. They should have seen the smartphone potential and started chipping away to grow their base long term.

Similar to why the best sales leaders only do deals where there’s renewal possibilities in 2-3 years out.
Building LLM Applications for Production
Happy music and happy words when "preferred" people/ideas are the focus of the story. Sad music and choice words when "bad"/ideas people are the focus of the story.

It's maddening. Artisan hand-crafted propaganda.
Why does there need to be a thing?
By his logic, Tesla should be labeled as "Government-funded Car Company".
The case for function-level metrics: an observability sweet spot
You phone can only figure out if it’s connected to a known device (your car, your speaker, etc) by asking the data pins. A charge-only mode would “break” usability of the USB port for most users.
It's probably pretty rare (though maybe increasing) to have a workload that is ARM-only, so it really comes down to price performance. Amazon claims 40% better price/performance on Gravition2 vs. comparable x86. While it varies by workload, for scenarios where this plays out and the architecture isn't important (languages increasingly make multi-arch deployment easy) this (and S3 intelligent tiering) are the closest thing to free money I can think of.
> Countries that don't want to be tied to the US dollar for trade between themselves outside of the US hegonomy.

What currency do you propose people, companies, and countries trade in? And why that currency?
It's definitely not new, they required an id 20 years ago. (From EU citizens, so it's not about the country either).
How big is the Eircode database?
Not sure NPR's track record of this, but other news outlets labelling anything they didn't approve as misinformation, and calling out any affiliations for outlets they don't approve with abandon, now go: "It's not OK when others do it to us".

>The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.

Notice the BS reporting wording, because of course Musk did it, it couldn't be that Twitter employees did the labelling for thousands of outlets, including NPR.

They even managed to write about how Musk "allowed that he might have gotten it wrong" in a negative light.
> For me at least, if I knew I was getting same performance for less energy I’d actually be willing to pay a bit more.

Well if they're spending less to power my ARM machine, then they should damn well be charging me less to host it.

That's the best, and only, long term path towards more efficient compute.
>Better UX and data quality is. Why was the data so disjoint to begin with? Why is Latex so hard to work with?

Do you mean build better, specific, UX and normalize data for only this task? Why spend that time, even as a developer of whatever improved app/system you're thinking of, when he can just turn to AI?

I'd rather lean on GPT4's ability to generalize highly specific technical work rather than ruminate on each individual app's lackings and how it could be better than using AI if we just... put more effort into it?
I was always suspect of those public charging things, especially the ones that you leave you phone unattended or "locked" in a box.
Just the right time date predicates with Iceberg
I’ve never paid much attention to Hetzner but this interested me. Upon clicking the call to action in the announcement they blocked me with “Request on Hold - Suspicous Activity Detected”.

I have no interest in subjecting myself to this treatment.
Maybe, but like it didn't hurt Fox
https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-breaks-16-month-twitter-sil...
I like 'em. I wish they were cheaper. I would buy and wear these articles of clothing at a lower price point. They remind me of 2D backpacks: https://2dbags.co/
> Is this just due to all the marketing from Apple around their proprietary M processors leaking into the enterprise market?

That doesn't seem likely, as the release of AWS Graviton based instances predates the Apple M1 release by about two years
Also remember to check your Halloween candy for razor blades.
Puberty blockers themselves are not free of risk of irreversible damage, as you very well know.

And if you had to bet money, if I told you some kid started on puberty blockers, what would be the odds they later got surgery or further irreversible damage done? Higher or lower than if they didn't start on puberty blockers, as they did 10 years ago?

If I'm right and social contagion is much more prevalent than "real dysphoria", that is a very relevant point, and makes fighting against the contagion the right thing to do, not dishing out puberty blockers like candy.

Now, you can tell me that you believe there is little social contagion and we'll have to agree to disagree, but don't try to twist your way into roiding kids up, it doesn't make sense. And you know it.
How on earth can anyone say "falsely labeled"? NPR does get money from the federal government, that is an undisputable fact. How are they not "state-affilated"? I don't care how small a % of the budget is money from the government. The fact they take any money at all from the gov makes them sate-affilated.
Tips for Identifying Query Patterns
We're trying to move some direct access to our team's database by some internal teams behind a microservice.

We've collected sample queries to find common patterns for REST endpoints, but it's turning out to be a bit tougher than we originally thought. For those who have done a similar task, do you have any recommendations as to how to approach this? Are there automatic tools that can look at a bunch of queiries and output something useful regarding their usage patterns?
Exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote this. They left USBs on the ground hoping the right person would pick it up.
TSMC 7nm HPC: 66M Transistors/mm^2
TSMC 7nm Mobile: 96M Transistors/mm^2
Intel 7: 100M Transistors/mm^2
TSMC 7nm+: 115M Transistors/mm^2

It was perfectly fair for them to rename it, but yes, in the context of deliverables it's the same slipped process that used to be called 10nm.
> Using ls for listing modules/classes...

Interesting. Just made me think of using a custom filesystem to navigate a codebase. Similar to: https://github.com/osnr/TabFS. I wonder if anyone has done this.
Rich Scandinavians are difficult to understand. If you're rich you gotta look poor because poor people try to look rich and you don't wanna be associated with poor people.
"Awakening from the meaning Crisis" by John Vervaeke

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5e...
The BBC isn't comparable to NPR. The Chairman of the BBC is appointed by the UK's King-in-Council, on the advice of the Secretary of State. Similarly, RAI is owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance; RTVE is state owned. Not sure on RTP and ARD; they sound more NPR-ish from their Wikipedias, although ARD appears to be paid for by a mandatory license fee like the BBC is.
Spotify Measures Backstage ROI
I don't think its a good idea to extrapolate using CPI, because food/energy is so volatile. Its not like anyone can predict the next Avian flu / Swine flu / whatever... and oil prices rise / fall to the whims of OPEC+, which is also quite unpredictable. (Also, weather: mild winter caused lower energy prices this past few months... but we can't rely upon good weather constantly)

Core-CPI isn't so rosy: the last three MoM values are 0.4, 0.5, and 0.4 (1.3% core CPI inflation over 3 months), which extrapolates to 5.3% yearly core-inflation.

Which _is_ down btw compared to last year... But its not nearly down enough.
> massive increase in mortgage costs

Sorry, but why do you think landlords have experienced an increase in mortgage costs?

Maybe if they have adjustable rate mortgages or if their loan originated after March 2022. But I don't think that's the case for the vast majority of established landlords.

What's way more likely is that everyone marking rent money off of leveraged property went ahead and refinanced everything to 2-3% fixed rate mortgages as soon as that became an option.
I think I recall such a thing happening at DEFCON. It was either that or USB sticks being handed out.
You are right probably, that's a good point. Even actions can be tokenized.
Not in a large number of countries in the world.
> All images and transcriptions are now freely available on the web at the Archimedes Digital Palimpsest under the Creative Commons License CC BY.

The transcriptions... why aren't them under public domain?
I know it's cliche to say but I started reading this recently and it is amazing how well it applies to the media today. I can't wait for it to be designated a conspiracy theory!
That isn't sufficient to protect you on a charger you don't control: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...
LAMMPS: https://lammps.org/ - MD Simulator (Sandia Labs)

GEANT4: https://geant4.web.cern.ch/ Monte Carlo code for particles through matter (CERN)

Moose & MFEM are great projects and important in itself, but not relevant in the nuclear physics domain. Software which is remains export-restricted for good reasons. Here a list for the curious mind:

FISPACT-II: https://fispact.ukaea.uk/ Inventory & Source term (UKAEA)

MCNP: https://mcnp.lanl.gov/ - Monte Carlo code (LANL)

SERPENT: https://serpent.vtt.fi/serpent/ - Neutronics (VTT)

VASP: https://www.vasp.at/ - Ab Initio DFT (U Vienna)

TRANSURANUS: https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/collection/transuranus - Nuclear Fuel Performance Code (EU/JRC)

BISON: https://bison.inl.gov - Next-Gen Nuclear Fuel Performance Code (INL)

(edit: formatting)
Gpt-4 is a far better poet than gpt-3. It isn’t world-class and may be missing some ineffable poetic soul, but its attempts are definitely notable and interesting.
They seem mostly better than what I could write with significant effort.

Oh and I should emphasize that the quality and specificity of the prompt has a huge effect on the output.

I agree that gpt-3 was pretty trash at poetry, at least compared to human standards. It was impressive for AI, obviously.
It's tricky. I go around the neighbourhood and meet lovely, warm, friendly, happy inviting people.

But I'm a white english-speaking (albeit with a slight accent) reasonably-well-off male so of course they're nice.

Then they add me on facebook or twitter or ask me to come to their church, or I hang out with them at their BBQ, and god damn it, they turn out to be angry racist homophobic xenophobic folks actively working to make life as difficult as they can for [women|people of colour|homosexuals|immigrants|poor people|anybody different], while promoting black salve and homeopathy and power of prayer as remedies and planning how they're going to "get" the biden/trudau/scientists/leftie/woke/socialist/pinkie/commie/etc bastards and their vaccines and chips and jewish world domination plans.

I've been genuinely morally/philosophically/existentially torn last decade: do I try to see only the good in people? Do I try to engage them in commonalities, build from positions of mutual agreement? OR, does that make me an enabler of evil if I'm not tackling and facing and acknowledging and arguing their darker demons?
I know what you mean but "laws" don't matter in a world where the government can decide There's a "dangerous emergency" and basically supress all rights and between the bought for media and tech they will supress any pushback against it.

I know it's not popular to try and remove the blindfold of propaganda but the 2020 to 2022 and covid authoritarian, anti human rights, policies were an awesome example.

But if you are quick to dismiss those there's always terrorism, the children, drugs, and every other typical gov excuse.

It's not a tech problem. It's a problem of the people who have decided they will go along with autority at every step, If they get pushed.
I'm hesitant to post this because its tabloidy ("Seattle is Dying"), but came across this regarding Seattle's problems with crime and homelessness. It's done by their local news channel as a sort of mini-documentary.

Towards the end they also give an example of a city that is managing to turn this around with some good programs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
I had success with having it guess the formatting, which was a pretty cool experiment.

I had a table in a PDF of registers and associated information, and I copied and pasted the text directly into ChatGPT as a big block, and asked it to structure the data as a table again based on its best understanding of the data, knowing it came from a table. To my surprise, it did a really good job. A couple small edits here and there were needed to change some formatting and it missed a couple values, but overall it took me a couple minutes to edit and I was on my way.
Microsoft Approves ChatGPT Plugin for Venerable PowerToys App
There's often a big gap between things that constitute a crime, tort, or breach of contract and things that would make me disinclined to do business with a person. I'd like to know if the founder of a startup has a bait-and-switch habit before I decide to rely on their product, for example.
Note: The video game chat group was not the original leak. That's just the Guardian making a clickbaitey title.

"That user had, in turn, found them on another Discord server, run by and for fans of the Filipino YouTuber WowMao, where 30 documents had been posted three days earlier, with “dozens” of other unverified documents about Ukraine. However, even that did not appear to be the original source: a third Discord server, named “Thug Shaker Central”, among other titles, may have been where the documents were originally posted as early as mid-January."
It might work, depending on your cadence. If a user is interested in getting a particular feature NOW, they pay for it specifically and then get the rest of the new stuff when they buy the next version upgrade.
I would guess simpler CPU core architecture means more cores per die. Presumably it also means lower performance, but perhaps not by as much as you think, since typically the most performant CPUs aren't the most cost-effective.

Quick Googling shows:

- Intel W9-3495X has 56 cores for $5889
- AMD EPYC 64 has 64 cores for $4299
- Ampera Altra M128-30 has 128 cores for $5800

The Altra uses about the same power as AMD, and much less than Intel, despite offering twice as many cores. So it stands to reason that you just get twice as many cores for the same money, even if you factor in power, cooling and maintenance costs.

Hetzer offers a 16 core AMD (v)CPU machine at 225% of the price, so that roughly works out.
So what you're saying is we will have some kind of central system, like a bank, that issues Bitcoin, and then a bunch of spoke systems that issue currency based on the value of the Bitcoin holdings?

How is that different from what we do now?
> Scalars, when applied to a specific curve, do have a “order” though,

Nitpick: the important point here is that points on the elliptic curve have order (by definition the smallest k such that kP = identity), and the group of such points has order (by definition, the number of elements it has). Here, scalar is just a way to say "not a point", or "integer value" and if you define them in the right group, sure, we could talk about their order as well, but what we actually care about is the order of the points.

From the definition of order, qP = identity, thus (q+30)P = qP + 30P = identity + 30P = 30P, hence the wrapping.
Answering my own question, you can make an element appear using just CSS and a hash:

https://enmascript.com/articles/2019/09/26/toggle-content-on...

I don’t like messing with the URL to achieve this, so unless using the “details” element, maybe JavaScript is actually the best approach…
Well, Bye.
That cold open joke is amazing. I miss MIT.
I want to bulk buy “Ito En“ Oi Ocha from Japan's #1 Tea Company in 144 teabag box with easy re-order function.

+ itoen-global.com
There’s a 50/50 chance the lights aren’t on for us either.

There may be conscious beings in the universe (or galaxy, or perhaps solar system) who would consider us only vaguely conscious or not conscious at all.

Am I typing this because the lights are on or because I’m compelled to by my genetic and social programming, predictably and without a genuine choice in the matter?
My understanding is that conscious is a side affect of how memory works. Your conscious experience is essentially processing stimuli, connecting with existing memories, processing, and storing what is written to your “conscious” scratchpad.

Of course this is only one theory but I find it convincing.

https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/fulltext/2022/12000/....
I've seen the other side of this. Our SaaS (a data API) has a number of "customers" who attempt to use us (or our competitors; we're not special here) to power some data displays on their phishing-scam websites, to make them seem more legitimate.

We ban these people — they're violating our ToU by engaging in illegal activities. But they come back. With different names, different IPs, different browsers, different credit cards. They have complete identities to burn. (We spot the correlations anyway, along other dimensions I won't disclose here, and so can keep them out pretty effectively.)

And guess what? Very often, their requests are coming from Hetzner IP blocks.

I don't think the scammers have a direct business relationship with Hetzner, mind you. I think Hetzner tries just as hard as we do to stop these people from making use of their services. But I believe that these Hetzner boxes are either set up as exit nodes of one or more common VPN providers; or they're being registered for other purposes by other parties, and then resold on the secondary market on dark-web forums.

If I were a VPS provider, and I didn't want to support illegal activity, I'd probably just give up on providing service to individuals altogether, only taking corporate customers; and even then, requiring a DUNS number or something as an additional proof-of-work for that corporation, so that people can't just keep spinning up corporations in places where that's essentially free.

Hetzner hasn't gone that far; but it makes sense to me that if a user account is flagged as needing extended verification, and the ops person responsible for verifying the account takes a look at the user-lifecycle activity logs for the user, and sees that this user has: their IP coming from multiple places during registration vs login, their browser locale and timezone bouncing around between requests and set for settings uncommon to the country their IP is originating from, etc. — that the answer would be "ban" rather than "ask the user why the heck that's happening."

One time out of ten, the user is a real person doing something weird. The other nine times out of ten, the user is a scammer and is going to make up some story about being a real person doing something weird. Every scammer has their very own pool of man-hours, and if you're in the critical path for their scam, they can burn a number of those man-hours being really insistent that they're authentic. Until you let them in, and see that they immediately start up the same dumb phishing-scam bot script that all the other scammers purchased.
Cautiously Configuring Copilot