skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is not javascript itself (look at Mr. Bellard and friends "quickjs").

The issue is the "scripted" and dynamic web: its complexity is grotesque and absurd not to mention their mandatory need of a nearly state of the art c++ compiler which makes things even worse. We all know they want that to exclude de-facto small real-life working alternatives (or they are brain-washed... often the case).

css is not really the issue, since it is mostly orthogonal to the html document. Some "styling" stuff has actually some semantic value and should have stayed in html or be given _simple_ attributes/values/etc (I am not talking about the insanity of the "semantic web" we had a decade ago). In the case of the html table, the rulers (aka "borders"), as they "organise" kind of semanticely a "2D document".

HTML table "layouts" are not harmful as it is perfectly fine to have "semantic 2D html documents" and they actually can do wonders. Navigation thru such documents is already ok, namely even screen readers can go thru. But, if a document is good enough in 1D, don't fancy 2D documents.

I insist on the fact that when I used "semantic web", it is not a reference to the brain damaged specs we had about this a decade ago.
Unusual is an understatement. This just seems ill-conceived to me. You can't eliminate one effect on the brain by introducing other effects on the brain that might have their own consequences for the results.

All this shows is that ketamine while under general anaesthesia is not more efficacious than placebo. Ok then. This just seems like a failed attempt to introduce better blinding to me. I'm not convinced it sheds any light on the mechanism by which ketamine is effective.
Hi, I've had the same experiences (ruminating about job when I should be sleeping), and listening to SF/fantasy audiobooks in bed seems to help a lot. If you're invested in the story, it stimulates your imagination and crowds out all the everyday worries.
I would be happy to donate considering the value I get from their work. Given the market where they operate, the salary and severance is actually low in my opinion. I would like them to pay their people well.
Oh another thing, I'm not a fan of the premise:

"As a general-purpose memory allocator, though, we can't get away with having no free implementation."

I have a belief that the future of software are short-lived programs that never free memory. Programs allocate and terminate. Short-lived program communicate with each other via blocking CSP-style channels (see Reppy's Concurrent Programming in ML).

If you could also educate me on why this is a bad idea I would appreciate.
> I'm incapable of shutting up if I see any inefficiencies that could be improved by communication

This is one of my biggest struggles. I see so much flawed work and I can't help but voice my opinion, but I can't possibly dedicate time to try to fix it all, so I'm often afraid of just coming across as a complainer.
Certainly not the worst approach, but it might turn out far less watertight than hoped. E.g. plenty of places in html-based UI where you can sneak in an URL that pulls some image, with all the data sent upstream you can fit in a GET. And good luck noticing, when everything is on https and someone decided that certificates should be pinned.
*UPDATE* - I have a reply from my ticket:

"Thank you for your feedback regarding the mention of blockchain in the terms and condition in relation to our proprietary blockchain connection authentication. This information was in need of an update. We originally had our own blockchain which we were using to develop various ideas such as decentralised gateways and connection to them anonymously. However, we were unable to make it work in a way that added any value and as such it was subsequently dropped. Our solution currently makes no use of our own blockchain. However, our independent carbon credit provider uses their blockchain solution for tracking and eliminating corruption. I have now updated the t&c. If you would like more information on this or have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks again for helping us prepare for launch".
China’s ChatGPT rival bans users who ask AI about Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh
It's also often the only place to find local information even if you do have affordable internet. Especially in smaller counties and towns. Someone might show up in the count, but it doesn't mean a strong attachment.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

-- Upton Sinclair
Well, what they're trying to do is provide better blinding. Doing proper blind studies of ketamine is quite hard because its subjective effects are far too noticable.

That line just says people should do better at this in future to get more accurate results. It's not a statement about the ultimate form the treatment should take.
Maybe make this a series? I think another post just like this on the stack is in order. You could show allocating stack frames with the slider! Then you can put them both together in a third post and show the entire memory layout of a C program.

Would definitely like to see more thoughts from those cute corgis.
Using the -x option to get just the audio via one of the YouTube downloaders is also popular.
> Comparing to revenue is a stupid way to think about things. Profit is the incentive to conduct business

Because it is and it isn't. Companies can make people filthy rich while not making a single dollar of profit thanks to the stock market where the price does grow, broadly, in terms of revenue.
There's an ongoing thread about Dragonfly here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018221
Sorry, my chemical experience is qm and biotech/pharma. Molecular not large-scale…
Git.ht in a Nutshell
Some books that helped me: Peopleware and The Manager's Path
> My bet is, just as with cigarette and oil companies, we will discover in 30 years time that Facebook had unpublished research into just how bad for the world some of their activities are.

Ahem...

Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

https://archive.is/zhGBC
Show HN: ThumbnailMaker – Leveraging ControlNet to generate YouTube thumbnails
It's funny, I saw and retweeted this while writing this post: https://twitter.com/samwhoo/status/1650572915770036225?s=20

Not sure the future you describe is where we'll end up, haven't given it a huge amount of thought. Would be interesting to see, though.

Things like web servers could probably get away with doing some sort of arena allocation per request (I'd be surprised if some don't already do this).
If you're gonna accuse someone of posting lies and FUD, at least have some sort of reference [0] to point to, please.
Otherwise you're just participating in a "uh-huh!", "nuh-uh!" pissing contest.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
Meta fined $1.3B for breaking E.U. privacy rules
yes ofc, but if the treatment is the trip it will never work blinding it like this. If anything they should be looking for drugs that give comparable trips, with no potential for depression treatment.
How colleges are changing as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle
Oh, yeah. That's how I have to treat large orgs as a contractor. :) And trouble start almost immediately, because they apply PoLP only to you...

First thing with a new client is usually some form of a VPN access. Even with open protocols, it's challenging to secure a VPN access. Eg. by default running openvpn with a random config provided by a third party allows the third party to push any network setup they want remotely. There's no whitelist, etc. It takes quite a bit of effort to run openvpn as unprivileged user and make it do all network setup via a trusted setuid helper tool that can do whitelisting of allowed network configurations.

And oftentimes VPN has to be some closed source garbage. Management daemons for these require high privileges and take remote commands on how to reconfigure the network and god knows what else. They also can't deal with any non-basic networking setup. The first such VPN solution I had to briefly deal with (before telling the client that we'll want something secure for both sides and it's going to be a fixed wireguard config), was some Linux binary blob that I checked in ghidra before running, and one of the first things it did was scan the system for USB devices, and it had other hidden (to the end user, probably not to the buyer) remote management functionality absolutely irrelevant to a VPN software.

Devs need to apply PoLP also to the clients. Otherwise it's quite easy to accidentally route networks of multiple different clients together via a dev's machine.
https://archive.is/jemIo
Sorry, but

(base) vid@kk:~/D/ai/tortoise-tts$ python3 -m venv venv
(base) vid@kk:~/D/ai/tortoise-tts$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) (base) vid@kk:~/D/ai/tortoise-tts$ python -m pip install -r ./requirements.txt
Collecting tqdm
Using cached tqdm-4.65.0-py3-none-any.whl (77 kB)
Collecting rotary_embedding_torch
Using cached rotary_embedding_torch-0.2.3-py3-none-any.whl (4.5 kB)

…

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [8 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-i7ubxxkc/scipy_4d5af4f3e2094adca3313ccb41a6d5ff/setup.py", line 196, in <module>
setup_package()
File "/tmp/pip-install-i7ubxxkc/scipy_4d5af4f3e2094adca3313ccb41a6d5ff/setup.py", line 147, in setup_package
from numpy.distutils.core import setup
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[notice] A new release of pip available: 22.3.1 -> 23.1.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
(venv) (base) vid@kk:~/D/ai/tortoise-tts$

I'm sure you could eventually help get this working, which is kind of you, but the point is the "supposed tos" don't work either. It needs to be comprehensively fixed if python really wants to be approachable. Maybe it doesn't. It's also just not a good citizen when it comes to heterogeneous apps on the same system.

This isn't the first time venv didn't work for me, then there's anaconda, miniconda, and a bunch of other things that add env and directories. I don't really know what any of them do, and -I don't want to- I'm not an expert on every app on my system, but I can use nearly all of them without pain. (remember this is about ease of use)

Oh yeah, and python 2 vs python 3. <rolls eyes>

It's very much the "works for me" experience from the old days. There's no good learning from it, except dependencies suck and python systems aren't good at them.

I think when releasing anything that includes dependencies that span the operating system, it's just good engineering to use a container approach. Otherwise you're just causing a lot of discomfort in the world for no good reason.

It's funny because chatgpt would give me an answer to this in a few moments, but I'm locked out for a week because it can't figure out where I am.

Now I'm spending my Sunday morning setting up a dockerfile for tortoise-tts. At least I will learn something reusable from that. I guess I will create a PR for it, though it seems the author isn't tending the repo anymore.
Exactly. This is like testing to see whether scaring someone with a spider cures hiccups but in order to keep it blind only showing them the spider when their back is turned.
I average 8.5 hours an night, have 3 and 5 year old kids, get up with them half the mornings, eat with them 6 nights a week, gym 3 times a week, run a popular open source project, cofounded a startup (and a staff+ IC until recently) and do my share of chores at home. I’m sure that’s not possible for everyone/everywhere but a non-trivial number of privileged middle-class parents in tech (like me) have convinced themselves it is impossible when it is not.
PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware
To my understanding, the CLOUD Act is nothing like FISA already because it is about criminal law. Besides, the EU also recently enacted its own quite similar "e-evidence" law, and similar laws are pushed globally through the Budapest Convention. The biggest problem here probably is that the mutual legal assistance system is being replaced internationally by much more opaque practices. (And as for cyber crime, some major "players" are not participating.)
One of the objections against the improvement observed that is mentioned in tfa is precisely that you can get "trips" from general anaesthesia:

'Schenberg points out that people often report dreamlike and visual, auditory, and affective experiences under anesthesia. “Maybe people who had dreamlike experiences during the anesthesia had more improvement than the people who didn’t,” he says.'

So maybe the trip does indeed help, but evidently it is not necessary to be able to remember if you had one to get the reported benefits.
There's a bit of a renaissance here in Rust, or perhaps this is just my bias. Many people are drawn to the lack of a garbage collector and efficiency of the runtime code. Lots of packages optimize algorithms that are unlikely to be strictly necessary for the task at hand.

I think it will remain niche to care deeply about these things but they aren't forgotten. In my late 30s and finding this type of thing more and more fascinating despite working for companies building criminally inefficient software using Ruby and Python and dozens of microservices.
For nearly half of households, the severance for the CEO represents over 10 years of income. Households, not people. A great many of those people would have never received severance pay of any amount. Of those who do, they would be fortunate to receive months of severance pay based upon earnings that are a fraction of what a CEO earns. Is it any surprised that some people would be upset? Factor in that the Wikipedia depends upon donations and volunteer labour, and it looks like some people are reaping a disproportionate amount of the rewards.

I'm not saying this to diminish what the Wikipedia does, nor to suggest the pay was not earned. These people almost certainly could have earned more elsewhere, yet decided to align themselves with an organization that serves the greater good. What I am saying is it is (or should be) easy to see where these sentiments come from.
And also because that action has consequences on the world stage. Deliberately harming one of your ally's largest businesses isn't something I expect will be tolerated indefinitely since it's a diet sanction.
As a relatively seasoned meditator, I am absolutely sure that this is the trip that helps, not the chemistry. One way to look at meditation (and, I hear, psychedelics) that fits my experience is that it has the potential effect of opening the range of "ways of looking", to change the way one builds the perceived world. What propulsed my meditation to a totally different level was to see it as a practice of actively engaging with other ways to perceive the world, and let those act on the psyche, rather than as some form of "mental gym". As I understand, what makes a psychedelic a psychedelic is that it propulses the user into a state where the workings of the mind is apparent (Psyche-delic, this which reveals (delic) the mind (psyche)), and new ways of perceiving are opened. If one considers depression as primarily a form of "negative filter" that turns all external objects as dull and uninteresting, it makes sense that psychedelics can help get out of it, and that a necessary condition for that is to actually consciously experience those transformations of perception.

Unfortunately, this means that the standard way of doing medicine research, with control group and placebo, is unlikely to ever be applicable to this area of research, and that a new epistemiology of medical research has to be developped for it. I find it super interesting.

(side note: if the idea of meditation as active engagement with "ways of looking" is intriguing you, I highly recommend looking up the teachings of Rob Burbea)
As a former content creator on YouTube (50k subs, 5M views), I realised that the success of a YouTube video depends directly on its thumbnail.

I'm building ThumbnailMaker, the next-gen design tool I wish I had when I was making videos.
https://archive.is/CZxGu

The high level:

"April 11 on the Greek island of Lesbos, 12 migrants — men, women, children and an infant — were locked inside this unmarked van…forced onto a speedboat, transferred to a Greek Coast Guard vessel…and then abandoned in the middle of the Aegean Sea, in violation of Greek, European Union and international law. They were left adrift in an inflatable emergency raft."
Ignoring for now the severance package, the salary seems pretty low for a CEO of such a large foundation. $400-500K is about the salary range of a senior-staff engineer at FAANG and their responsibility is way lower.

One of the issues with non-profits is that people expects the employees/management to be there for the cause and to be happy with lower salaries. This seems to incentives IMO one of the following:
- only already rich people to apply
- high turnover
- people with less experience or options to apply

Having a generous severance package that for example requires you to work for at least x amount of years might solve some of those pitfalls?
Enterprises should work on an open source LLM and run it on their own. This also helps people like you and me to run LLM at home.

It has worked before like in case of Linux and can work again.
And you object to them trying to find out if it does?
Only for temporary help, as can be seen, which can end at any time.

Otherwise they wouldn't need much of a severance package.
Why is this downvoted? Telegram is IMO the best alternative to WhatsApp.

It has a much better UX than Signal, more desirable features, not to mention more users and channels. There is an on-demand E2E encryption for those who want it. Pavel Durov is not on a friendly terms with Russian govt now for those who care about it. You can pay for the service to support the company, get rid of ads and gain some meaningless features.

What's not to like?
You can run Stable Diffusion on an iPhone 11 and it completes in under a minute or two. Running on CPU generally takes around 5 minutes. My almost top of the line macbook runs a batch of four in around 30 seconds on Metal, and I'm sure it's much faster with a mid-range GPU considering how unoptimized Metal is with Torch. And yes, you can go take a look around reddit and 4chan, the vast majority of those aren't dreambooth/MJ/remote models.

That's not even taking into account local LoRAs and scripts that are possible instead of some company's untweakable crap. The open source around this is healthy, has pushed past DALL-E, and there's no real roadblock to Open Source LLMs except of course, the training cost. Even still, people are getting $200k+ models in their hands for free from various training runs and donated computing and LoRAing them and fine tuning them all to make them comparable to the closed off remote models.

Any "cryptographic" scheme with the generations of these will just catch the lazy. The lazy already include the confabulated sources in their papers, and don't try to normalize the Error Level Analysis in generated images (probably the quickest way to determine whether an image is generated), so I don't think it's actually a net benefit. It's a cat and mouse game, and will push the mice further into the walls.

You can't possibly say that generative images like this are "poor quality"

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/131lpks/my...

https://i.imgur.com/3iDf43z.png
I guess that is why its a separate app. Its not turning instagram to twitter, but it offers an additional space.
Yeah, I hear you. I've not done a lot of FFI stuff directly, it scares me.

Arena allocators are cool, the idea is you allocate a large-ish region of memory and sub-allocate into it (often with a fast, simple allocator like a bump allocator) and then free the large-ish block when you're done. It's a way to take knowing how much memory you need as a whole and optimise that to a single call to malloc/free.

You may enjoy looking through https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht....
I think it's your kids. They should be your priority for now. You really can get back to tech stuff later. Phases of life and all that.
JAX's use of pytrees is great! They implemented a lot of useful utility functions, namely `tree_map`, that makes working with these objects easy and intuitive. I recommend looking at their neural network example library "stax".
You know SSRIs can work while the serotonin hypothesis is wrong right? And no - I'm just going to asking people posting FUD, like SSRIs dont work, to stuff it. If huuhee had posted some of the review articles problematising the performance of SSRIs we could have exchanged different studies and had a discussion. But they didn't, as you didn't even if you think you did. And don't accuse me of having a pissing contest when you are the one hufffing and puffing.
This story is written creatively, yet succinctly. Fantastic.
Nearly 200 in my password manager but there are probably a couple hundred more that I created prior to using a password manager that I rarely access.
The article you linked says it _reduced_, not _prevented_ the symptoms in people who knew it was a decaf.
Is it unrealistic to strive for a job that “means something” or is not a BS job?
But since it's a global network it means that they would have had to up and moved the whole operation into the EU which is pants on head stupid. The moment two countries have incompatible laws it all breaks down. This isn't something that should even concern Meta and should be a US/EU negotiation.
Readable link: https://archive.ph/nh1qg
Also easy to do this with a lateral join (and a limit 1 in the subquery).
Show HN: Ki Programming Language
Alpha preview for the ki programming language. Currently linux-x64, macos-x64 only. Windows users can use WSL for now. Feedback is much appreciated.
My first take was "They are also, along with Bluesky, attempting to grab the Twitter sceptre of power."

There is a tidbit in there about "compatibility" with other networks, including Mastodon; I wonder if their implementation of the protocol will include Mastodon reaching into their garden. If it does, I might believe they have learned something.
I go onto bandcamp and click around randomly listening to songs. I try to not focus on overly synth-y/lofi stuff on there (which is a whole supra-genre that's overflowing these days).... and you find a lot of decent stuff there.

Collecting up mp3s of stuff I like, sticking them on my NAS and walkman, and having it is a fun exercise, even if it's not my everyday listening collection. I do often open up a music player and listen to my MP3s pretty often, just to listen to an album I owned.

I do like listening to internet radio a bit, tho honestly a lot of that is "greatest hits" stuff, so discoverability isn't what it used to be.

Youtube used to be really good for discovering new music! But their algo is now "your recommendation feed is the same on every video" leading to getting Ben Eater recommendation vids after watching some video about biking down a mountain or something absurd like that. I miss real recommendation systems...