skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/135revf/amazing_foota...

Raw footage is linked there, too.
I get the point, but it just doesn't solve anything as much as it just dismisses it. "It's a UFO because its hard to see, if we could see it, we'd know it was a helicopter that moves in 4 dimensions."
I read about how he met a prominent flat earther and had some really interesting takeaways from his conversation, namely saying, "She is not unintelligent." He seemed shockingly open-minded while fascinated more by the path of reasoning that leads to flat earth thinking. I wish I could find this again.
A de-dollariztion and a move to what? Yuan? Ruble? Bitcoin?

Sure countries might be unhappy with the dollar as of late, but there really is no serious competitor. It's like being upset with the Ritz and threatening them with moving your stay to the Comfort Inn.
I agree. Management skills isn’t just about the company, but about your relationships and network.
History Scores for 8th Graders in America Plunge
It’s impossible for an organization the size of Microsoft to behave according to a consistent set of values. Don’t rely on their “good graces” for an instant.
What's weird about that? Excel is absolutely everywhere in finance, so if you have a special programming language that you consider to be part of your secret sauce it makes sense to integrate it into excel as well.

A friend who works as a at risk manager at a major bank sometimes shares horror stories about the giant spreadsheet they have for some part of their holdings. They have disabled the "automatic recalculation" feature because it takes over 48 hours to recalculate everything. This is after running it through a special excel compiler to speed it up.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804599

I'll post my comment from the other thread here as wel:

For BIMI to work, you need a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC). This is a x.509 certificate, but with additional extensions enabled. Most notably the 'pe-logotype' (OID 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.12) extension, which embeds an SVG file of your 'mark' (most likely your logo) into the certificate. The VMC proofs that your domain (the part after the '@' in the sender email address) is in fact the legal owner of the mark (the logo) that you are using. Otherwise any sender could use the logo of a bank.

A VMC is like an EV certificate on steroids, because there are a lot of things the CA must verify before issuing the certificate. The CA must verify that you own the 'mark' (the logo), and in order to do that the mark must be registered at your local trademark office. The CA must then contact your local trademark office to verify you own the mark, and contact your company (by phone) to verify you actually ordered the VMC. Needless to say: VMCs are not cheap (currently ~800 USD). Also needless to say: you can't get a VMC at Let's Encrypt or other free CAs.

Once you obtained a VMC you must host this VMC and the mark (as SVG) on a dedicated HTTP server, supporting TLS. I say dedicated, because most customer (browser) facing web services simply won't do. You must ensure that the files are served without cookie banners, CAPTCHAs, redirects, etc. The served mark (SVG) must be binary equivalent to the mark in the VMC, or else it will be rejected. This means hosting your BIMI assets using Windows machines may actually prevent it from working, as it may rewrite the line endings.

VMCs are certificates, so they will expire. You must renew your VMC annually. If you forget, you may harm your brand reputation.

Finally, BIMI mandates that you have DMARC enabled with 100% quarantine, or reject policy enabled. Which, on itself, can be quite a long process to adopt for large organizations.

My company has helped dozens of organizations with obtaining a VMC, we also host the BIMI assets for them. We see it is quite a big hurdle to adopt BIMI for most customers. It is definitely not as straight forward as becoming verified on Twitter et al.
I suspect there will be companies touting AI or GPT types of things seeking investment. Some of these are likely to turn out to be fraudulent without any such technology being used, this type of thing happens with every tech hype cycle.

It would be super helpful for the industry to have some independently created and peer reviewed (under NDA if necessary) stages of AI or terminology that can and cannot be used in various ways. Without this I expect to see a bunch of "GPT", "bot" and "AI" terms thrown about for years when under the hood none of those things are used and people just used the words to get traction.
Buddha statue uncovered in Egypt's Red Sea reveals ancient trade route
A comparison with x86_64 CPUs (e.g. those seen in comparable MacBooks and AWS machines) would be useful.

Also, I'm not sure if "correcting" the numbers for 3 GHz is reasonable and reflects real-life performance. Perhaps some throttling could be applied to test the CPUs using a common frequency?
I'm afraid this is far too clever for me to understand. I know what I mean by subjective experience, and no amount of linguistic hair-splitting will convince me it doesn't exist.
Looking at the aircraft history, probably more likely a transponder problem.
Currently unresolved sighting of a UAP

https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/video/Middle...

disclosed during the AARO public hearing

https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-te...

on April 19th, 2023. Obviously not definitive proof, but high res footage of an anomalous craft with no visible means of propulsion.
Freedom from monetary debasement. An attempt for the first time in human history to have a global currency not follow the "money printing, debasement, start a war to try and fix it/civilization collapse" cycle.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement
The "insider trading" question brought up in the first paragraph got me thinking. I suspect it's been asked before (it's just a rehash of "is ChatGPT copyright infringement?") but it's the first I'd heard it.

> Will some ChatGPT-style large language model manage to do some insider trading? Will it, like, ingest some corpus of data that includes inside information, and then use it to answer questions like “which stocks should I buy?”

But yeah, this "everything is securities fraud" thing is... also interesting, let's say. It's a weird manifestation of Poe's law. I can't tell if such lawyers "drank the kool-aid" or not.
author complains how much higher their bill is without realizing that it was initially subsidized to promote vendor-lock in. Sorry, but this isn't auth0 fault, it's yours for being greedy and worst case clueless. A penny saved is a penny earned; now that you're successful your bill is due.
Indeed, the vertical scrolling behavior on mobile (Chrome) is terrible: it is flickering, and it is jumping around the site randomly, and it doesn't let the user see what was a few lines below the current text.

Please don't ever override the scrolling behavior of the browser of a website, it too often leads to inaccessible content and/or the user getting lost.
Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail
Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how
I don't think it's tedious, headline went for an overstatement
Yes they can and yes it will work, if they use the right technology.
> Even so, I feel like the push-back I'd get from suggesting that folks estimate in log-space would be that I'm being ridiculous complicated

Its a more theoretically grounded relative of the common agile “T-shirt sizes quantified by Fibonacci sequence, without the repeated ‘1’” estimation recommendation (which is pretty close to just doing “each complexity step is ×1.5”.)
Today you have Unicon.
6 million lines of Haskell. A language known for the ease of creating domain specific languages and thus writing the business logic declaratively. You would assume that is what is also done in Standard Chartered.

6 million lines of Haskell maintained by around 40-50 engineers. Sounds like a lot of tech debt in the making.

Maybe the 6 million lines includes their fork of GHC?
I'm not going to see their ad anyway, and if I did and knew it was targeted, I'd be more likely to find somewhere else to shop. What did we have before targeting existed?

- I thought unobtrusive keyword-based ads in Google searches were okay, when they didn't fill the results page.

- I think context-sensitive ads are fantastic. People reading a boat-building site see ads for boat-building or other related products/services. I would click on these ads.

- Word of mouth, vetted reviews, brand loyalty...all valid, rights-preserving approaches.

Since the lore is that targeting gets higher click-through rates, maybe small businesses could pay a little less for the less skeezy alternatives. Targeted advertising is forever linked in my mind to Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" email. Facebook/Meta is the biggest offender in this space, and I'm happy to watch it die in a fire.
From missiles to subs to jets, the US military has never been shy about pointing at an adversary's strengths (accurate or not) to justify increased budgets.
This sounds like a generally good thing. Private security guards can be held accountable for their actions in a way that sworn officers cannot, and they don't have a powerful union whose contract with the city obstructs any attempt to regulate their behavior.
Side note, potentially check out vimtutor, or also https://vim-adventures.com/
Why is apache2 running as root on my Lubuntu?
I use a small netbook to run a web crawler, and it uses Lubuntu with minimal applications. I have definitely never installed apache on this machine. ps is showing it running as root user as well as my user ID. I uninstalled it and the process is gone. But why was it there to begin with?
Based on the the replies, I tried a different prompt:

# python script that prints out an integer between min and max

And it did better. Included the import, didn't add unrelated code, but did still put the code inside a function.
So far no, but I'm sure I won't have a choice eventually
While studying Computer Science as an undergrad, I took a SNOBOL course (or maybe it one of the languages taught in a general coding course) ...either way, it was glorious. I love languages that are 'task-oriented'.

My all-time favorite was GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System) which would simulate transactions in a model...think of cars arriving from four directions at a traffic light. You could tweak the car arrival times and the length of red/green lights and get different outputs for 'wait time'.

I loved it so much, I asked my professor if there were good opportunities for a career using GPSS. He answered 'no' (LOL) and so I never pursued it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPSS
I keep thinking there should be a way to train a copilot against just one set of code libraries. I know LLMs require training against a lot of text to get their smarts, but is there a way to set this up so a model can be created for a specific library by anyone, so it could provide open source support via a transformer + model? Maybe this would be a better approach than a jack of all trades, master of none.
could you provide any reference? Is it a variant of ELO?
When shocks his the system, the supply of loans collapses and the demand for loans increases. In good times the supply of money would far exceed the demand. Rates would go up in recessions and down in booms making the bust nearly impossible to exit and the booms into a week long party fuelled by a cocktail of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy consumed off a shovel.
The inflation reduction act couples 2.4 trillion of spending with 740 billion of taxes.
Biofuel is renewable and kills about 3 million of the 7 from particulates. Renewable is not the goal. Low carbon and clean are.
Tree Eyes Can Help Us Find Our Way
Functionally speaking, the WWW is an implementation of HyperCard. They're very similar, again, functionally.
But the "free market theme" is an illusion, since the interbank lending rate is a function of how much base money is available to banks, and base money is by definition the money not produced by "free markets".

The alternative of trying to fix the money supply growth and let the rate "float" doesn't look less like government intervention, and it does involve a lot more wild lurches in interest rates and bank/company failures.
Why is this all coming out now?
No, you might have one "global" importmap in your HTML file and that applies to the entire graph of modules you load after that, which also means that you can "chain" importmaps and can also do things like pin the versions of dependencies of dependencies in that top level importmap. That sort of thing will need package-management-like tooling and dependency "packages" built for it, but that gets back to the idea that importmaps in theory are a lighter weight replacement for package.json/package-lock.json files.
Are you planning to add pricing? or will this always be free.
On the other hand if your human comment is indistinguishable from a bot comment, maybe it’s ok to be kicked out?

Related: Reverse Turing Test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test
Thanks for the tip about esm.sh. For some reason I hadn't heard of it before, or maybe I had but it was before I fixed issues with ES module exports in my library. Previously I was using Skypack, but it didn't bundle dependencies (at least as far as I could tell).

Thanks to your tip, I can query public datasets with SQL with a one line import in an observable notebook [0] :)

[0] https://observablehq.com/@milesrichardson/madatdata-esm-spli...
Angular v16 Is Here
Surprised to learn StableLM is worse than plain LLaMA.
link to their leaderboard: leaderboard.lmsys.org
There are two related concepts: liquidity and solvency. When a bank accepts deposits and loans some of those deposits out, i.e. fractional reserve banking, it is exchanging a liquid position (cash) for an illiquid position (the loan). However, the bank is still solvent because the loan has a value and the value of the loan is typically close to the value of the deposits.

What we're seeing now is that the banks are actually insolvent, which means they did everything I listed above, but now the value of those loans has dropped enough where they may have serious issues meeting their obligations to depositors. You can't just waive your hands in the air and say "this is all fine because of fractional reserve banking."
Given inference costs and ability to run on devices, there's an argument to be made for training models that are smaller than Chinchilla-optimal though, especially if you can still eek out improved performance with longer training times.
They ballooned massively in size after covid (when their IPO occured), in 2019 they were still smaller.
congrats Chad! great to see you ship this. I wonder if anyone familiar with Azure Durable Functions would be willing to give this SDK a side by side comparison!
Wait, I'm confused. In countries with heavy renewables investment in Europe, there are days when they make so much energy they have to export it, and there are days when the wind doesn't blow quite as much so they have to import energy instead.

That is a fact, right? Not some right wing propaganda.

So if we know this is a fact, how can we address the fact that renewables dip below what we need from time to time? How do you handle the baseload? I don't think that's "cherrypicking" - more like a fundamental issue that as far as I can see has only couple ways of being addressed - either have plants that run on fossil fuels, or.....nuclear power. Out of the two, nuclear wins easily when it comes to environmental cost, no?

Like....is literally anything I said in any way controversial?
Does your web crawler run as a non-root user and not in sudoers? Does sudoers allow passwordless sudo? Could it be the crawler hit a malicious URL designed to trick crawlers into executing commands or code using a parsing bug?

Or by chance does your crawler or some other package have a web UI that utilizes Apache as a dependency but you perhaps have always used the CLI? By default apache should not be running as root. There should be an suexec in the configuration file and the child processes should be running as a non-root service account. Are there any comments possibly left by a script in the config?

Do you have package installation logs in /var/log somewhere? I dont use the Ubuntu variants so not sure which log this would be. Maybe /var/log/apt/? or /var/log/dpkg.log or maybe there are entries in /var/log/messages? Packages installed just prior to or just after apache2 may give some clues as to what pulled it in as a dependency.
I dunno. Any time I've tried to submit a ticket for a GUI related problem on Linux the answer has been "talk to the hand".

You'd think allocating enough space for text labels to fit (and not overlap with each other, fall off the edge of the container, etc.) in the user interface is "blub"

https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox

so far as Linux enthusiasts is concerned.
Where do they go? It’s not like the grass is greener in the industry, quite the opposite. I’m asking for a friend.
That others are doing it too is correct and irrelevant.
To me it would be somewhat more interesting to compare head-to-head mobile CPUs instead of comparing laptops and servers. In this particular microbenchmark, mobile 12th and 13th-generation Core performance cores, and even the efficiency cores on the 13th generation, are faster than the M2.
3 million is indoor cook stoves on biofuel without ventilation. 4 is all ambient air pollution, mostly from fossil power plants but including cars.

Car fossil can be reasonably replaced with nuclear through electric vehicles. Same with stoves.
I recently got a new laptop that came with Win11. I decided to test-drive it before wiping it and installing Linux. Honestly, once you set it up with a local account, it's much better than Win10 for one reason: it's easy to run Linux GUI programs alongside native Windows ones. This is possible on Win10 by installing a Windows Xll server and so on, but it's enough of a pain that I use the Cygwin W32 port of Emacs (my IT department no longer supports Linux workstations). With Win11 I can just use the real, Linux Emacs GUI from Ubuntu, which is a major improvement.

Yes, I know I can use a "native" Windows version of Emacs, but to be comfortable I need more than just Emacs itself: I also need a Unix-y environment for it to live in. WSL provides exactly that.

I am still going to run Linux on the laptop long-term, but it's changed my mind for the next corporate refresh cycle. We usually get a choice of a Dell Windows machine or a Mac. I was leaning toward Mac for this next round, but I may stick with the Dell if I can get it in Win11.
Translation: IBM Chief doesn't feel like learning how to develop or properly leverage remote employees.

He says it right there in the article: "I don't understand how to do all that remotely."

Disappointing that these leaders are able to stick their feet in the mud so deeply without any journalistic criticism.
Git repo available from post.
Sovereign Clouds
React JavaScript Emerges a Clear Favorite Among World Leaders in Web Development
Interest rates affect debt. The higher the interest rate(s) the less debt people are willing to take on. Debt is the lube that keeps the economic wheels spinning.

If you can borrow for 5% but can make 20% return on that money, then you obviously are heavily incentivized to borrow at 5%. If you can borrow at 5% but can only make 6%, you are not really incentivized to borrow. This means less purchasing will happen, slowing down the economy.

To think about it another way, which might help: borrowing is moving money from the future to today. To do that costs you something. The more it costs, the less likely you are to do it.

Credit Cards move money from 30 days in the future to today without much cost(and in the US often incentivized with rewards/cash back, etc). As soon as 31 days happen, the cost to move that money forward in time is suddenly 20+%, making it ridiculous for anyone with a clue to borrow money on credit cards past 30 days.

Mortgages move up your house purchase by up to 30 years. If it costs you a lot more to borrow today than it did a few years ago, you are much less likely to move up that purchase.

The same is true for companies and everyone else. The more it costs to borrow, the less likely you are to borrow, decreasing spending today.
It's a benchmark of GitHub Actions(Azure) vs a really old Macbook Pro 15, not exactly what you are looking for, but it tells the vibe already.

https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/blog/a-performance-r...
At the moment it's a few brand new accounts posting essentially the same content-less statement that covers the big points in the headline {novelty, pollination, frog}.

Example:
That's amazing! It's incredible that we are still discovering new species, and that some of them can even have special abilities like pollinating. I'm looking forward to reading more about this frog.
> any physics PhD student

Ignoring that Fortran should be easier for a compiler to optimize than C, this is more of a measure of how much performance "fast" code leaves on the table. You can get very good speedups by just paying attention to the problem, but short of reinventing the universe there's only so much you can do.

Ab initio just being a physics PhD doesn't magically give you skills of optimization and (say) knowing how caches work. I know these skills do often come together but in my experience for example every single academic "programmer" I have ever met has been basically lay - fumbling around in the dark, no taste, no idea how the machine works, no idea how to write code that isn't wrong, etc.
They didn't need to buy long-term bonds and MBS. They chose to because they were looking for a return on their capital.
Yeah I try and preserve the original source's headline as best as possible, but it's confusing if you don't work in pharm. I've changed it from "Lilly's Donanemab Significantly Slowed Decline of Early Alzheimer's Disease"
hey, can you make some viewgraphs about the new dynamics codes?
well for women there’s a biological reality that they tend to gain weight in pregnancy and don’t tend to lose it all after

but for both sexes it’s a lot less free time and alot more stress. both of which are contributors to weight gain
You can always find negative things if you go looking for them. The reason people care so much about "income inequality" rather than "poverty rates" is that poverty has declined dramatically around the globe. So doom-and-gloomers shifted the goalposts and ignore successful results.

You can't accuse corporate CEOs of short-term thinking and then use infrastructure and "societal safety nets" as the measurements -- CEOs are responsible for the success of their company, not of the well-being of an entire society, that's the government's job.
Yes. Since it's Ada, I'm suspicious of codegen tuning being a major factor here.
For some things there isn't even a plist setting.

It's a sad turn of events that people were paid to make an OS less usable.