skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is making these loans? Do they know something we don't? Or do they just think that they'll be bailed out when it all goes bust?

Last time the banks were selling the loans to other people. Is that happening again this time? This can't-lower-the-rent phenomenon is well documented at this point so I'm just having trouble figuring out why anyone with money is willing to continue taking on the large risk with limited upside (the value of the buildings).
270 login credentials work+personal. I don't use 'sign in with Google'. I regularly try (not always successfully) to go through my 1Password vault and delete accounts that I haven't used in a while.

(I wish 1Password let you order credentials by "last used". This way I could start deleting from the oldest last used accounts.)

I wish I had less accounts because each account means some random website holding my data hostage. It's too common that a website doesn't allow you to delete an account. Sometimes you can find a support email and request a deletion. Other times, all I can do is try to replace my data with junk data. Although, even that isn't possible sometimes!

(Rocketbook won't let you change your email, for example. Or ChatGPT saves your phone number after you delete your account.)
Sure bud. Sure. To each their own. When these GPU enter the consumer market is when the AWS cost becomes irrelevant. =)
To the author: Elixir (well, Erlang's BEAM VM actually) can be configured to allow more than the default 256k tasks (262_144). I'd do that and post the numbers for 1M tasks.
I admit my language is squishy. Sometimes it helps point to what I'm trying to point to. And I know where you are coming from, as someone who was a materialist for much of my life. We are simply talking about different things.

You are talking about the contents of consciousness - the things that get altered by physical processes. We don't need tests to establish that. When the sun rises, the contents of my consciousness change from black to orange, thus we know that physical processes can change the contents of my awareness.

I am taking about consciousness itself. When the sun rises, the sky is the same, even it now seems orange.
I use SQLite. I used plain text for years but grew frustrated because it’s very difficult to edit the data in any structured way. Parsing is also difficult: there are always trade-offs between human readability, ease of parsing, terseness, and extensibility.
TPU and other accelerator performance varies by application... And even in a hugely popular config (like finetuning LLaMA with JAX) its hard to find a good benchmark. But generally speaking Google charges a pretty penny for TPUs

Accelerators outside TPUs are exotic. Off the top of my head... Cerebras only offers their WS2 as a 1st party "pay for a specific training job" kinda thing. Intel Gaudi 2 is supposedly good but is mysterious to me, and Ponte Vecchio has barely started shipping. Graphcore and Tenstorrent chips in the wild seem kinda long in the tooth for big training jobs. The AMD MI300 is not shipping, and the older AMD Instincts are difficut to find in cloud services (maybe because they got eaten up for HPC?)

Lots of other promising accelerators (with my personal favorite being the Centaur x86 "accelerated" CPUs, perfect for dirt cheap LLM inference/LORA training) died on the vine because of the CUDA moat, and I think more will share the same fate.
I don't think that AMD is uninterested in competing.

It is just that the mindshare is swallowed up by Nvidia that it is really difficult to use something else even if you want to.
Do you mean like how the UK was plundered by Scandanavians and Frenchmen for centuries?
After reading the Wikipedia summary, "The Sheep Look Up" sounds too real
Now maybe I have to change all my usernames to animats0r for the same reason
I was wondering if you've considered having an alternative, human readable encoding (either your own syntax or a JSON-based schema)?

I find it quite useful to be able to inspect data by eye and even hand-editing payloads occassionally, and having a standard syntax for doing so would be nice.

(More generally, it's a shame JSON doesn't support sum types "natively" and I think a human readable format with Typical's data model would be really cool).
Crystal 1.8.2 https://crystal-lang.org/:

n = ARGV.first.to_i32
finished = Channel(Nil).new
n.times do
spawn do
sleep(10.seconds)
finished.send(nil)
end
end
n.times { finished.receive }

Memory usage determined with `ps ax -o pid,rss,args`. Runtime measured with `/usr/bin/time -v`. (Had to run `sudo sysctl vm.max_map_count=2500000` to get the final two rows.) Results:

N Runtime(s) RSS(kiB) RSS(MiB)
=======================================
1 10.01 1792 2
1000 10.01 6016 6
10000 10.11 45184 44
100000 11.00 435840 426
1000000 20.25 4336768 4235

"System time" rather than "user time" is the majority (7.94s system time, 2.83s user time in the 20.25s wall time run). Is this pointing to memory allocations?

Crystal Fiber docs https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.8.2/Fiber.html says "A Fiber has a stack size of 8 MiB which is usually also assigned to an operating system thread. But only 4KiB are actually allocated at first so the memory footprint is very small." -- and perhaps unsurprisingly, 4KiB times 1000000 is approximately 4 GiB. Nice when the math works out like that :)

To me this is useful as a baseline for something like a websocket server, with some number of idle connections, each Websocket connection mapped to a Fiber that is waiting for I/O activity but mostly idle.
Funny story, but this stuff matters more than ever now due to Moore's law stopping when it comes to power consumption.

It's just that now it is all happening in the data center where they can really measure the difference.
The value proposition is very different between one who is just starting to learn AI/ML and one who already knows what to train.
A jailbreak which prompts it to espouse a particular political bias isn’t evidence that it has any particular bias in itself. The bias is in the prompt not the weights.

But if a jailbreak which prompts it to be neutral produces politically biased output, that is evidence that it has a political bias in itself. The bias is in the weights not the prompt.
Why do they ignore my design documentation?
> you need a cost comparison of how much time and money it costs you, versus how much time and money it costs the attacker.

Not quite! It's actually "how much money your countermeasures costs the attacker to beat, versus how much money it gains the attacker to beat your countermeasures".

The attacker doesn't care if you spent $1 or $1 billion on it, they only care what it costs them vs. gains them. If it gains a lot, there are usually ways to fund the effort, no matter how large. There's usually an enormous mismatch between your budget and the attackers' budgets (in either direction), as well as a massive adjustment for purchasing-power-parity.

This isn't a "near-peer" fight where you're trying to "outspend" the attackers using efficient techniques to exhaust their budget before your budget is exhausted. This is a situation where there are nomadic bandits, regional pirates, FAANGs, and entire governments where you want to just make it so they look at your system and go "nah skip that. we'll do this another way entirely by getting access to a different company's system instead".
Regular banks or not, the Congo's Sicomines agreement (linked above) and Sri Lankan port seizure make it pretty clear - China stands to achieve strategic goals when countries default on loans.
ok, so far.. there appear to be at least two angles.. One is the factual measure of the role of carbon in various forests over time; the second is as a target for collective action.

Deforestation and forest fire are certainly significant sources of carbon emissions. Not all carbon goes into the atmosphere, however. Given current conditions and human practices, acting now to prevent deforestation and catastrophic forest fire are significant in themselves. Forests and managed forests are an important source of food and trade goods for humans worldwide. Mangrove forests are a topic in themselves.

In IPCC_SRCCL_2019/IPCC_SRCCL_05_Chapter-2:

Global models and national GHG inventories use different
methods to estimate anthropogenic CO2 emissions and
removals for the land sector. Consideration of differences in methods can enhance understanding of land sector net emission such as under the Paris Agreement’s global stocktake (medium confidence). Both models and inventories produce estimates that are in close agreement for land-use change involving forest (e.g., deforestation, afforestation), and differ for managed forest. ...
The gross emissions from AFOLU (one-third of total global emissions) are more indicative of mitigation potential
of reduced deforestation than the global net emissions
(13% of total global emissions), which include compensating deforestation and afforestation fluxes (high confidence). The net flux of CO2 from AFOLU is composed of two opposing gross fluxes:
(i) gross emissions (20 GtCO2 yr–1) from deforestation, cultivation of soils and oxidation of wood products, and (ii) gross removals (–14 GtCO2 yr–1), largely from forest growth following wood harvest and agricultural abandonment (medium confidence). {2.3.1}
Land is a net source of CH4 ... emissions for the 2006–2017 period (medium confidence). The pause in the rise of atmospheric CH4 concentrations between 2000 and 2006 and the subsequent renewed increase appear to be partially associated with land use and land use change. The recent depletion trend of the 13C isotope in the atmosphere indicates that higher biogenic sources explain part of the current CH4 increase and that biogenic sources make up a larger proportion of the source mix than they did before 2000 (high confidence).

--

"Terrestrial greenhouse gas fluxes on unmanaged
and managed lands Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) is a significant net source of GHG emissions (high confidence), contributing to about 23% of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) combined as CO2 equivalents in 2007–2016 (medium confidence). AFOLU results in both emissions and removals of CO2, CH4 and N2O to and from the atmosphere (high confidence). These fluxes are affected simultaneously by natural and human drivers, making it difficult to separate natural from anthropogenic fluxes (very high confidence). {2.3} The total net land-atmosphere flux of CO2 on both managed and unmanaged lands very likely provided a global net removal from 2007 to 2016 according to models (-6.0 ± 3.7 GtCO2 yr–1)"
He seems to give in very quickly if Turkey, India, or Russia objects. Although I think Twitter has rolled over faster to the US government after Elon became CEO than it did before, as well.
I am confident that in gaming, AMD and Intel can compete if they can get their act together.

But for AI/ML, we are pretty much stuck with Nvidia.
I have been using ergodox keyboards for a long while, I did not like the kinesis advantage much (not split). The glove 80 looks interesting and I would try it were it not for the fact that switches are soldered.
I was thinking about this, if I have already done sudo in a shell & its authentication is active for a bit then any shell script I run (source) can potentially do a sudo and elevate status.
You mostly see illegal pirated copies of those. There are series no one will touch (Nintendo or Doraemon), and series that people will sell at real life events but won't upload anywhere permanent or allow resale (mostly if it involves actual people, like bands or movies).

The series where they're open about it commercially like Touhou/Vocaloid have explicit rules for what's ok and what isn't though.
If it is just email, it is more ergonomic to setup a local POP client like Thunderbird to download the emails. You don't have to use it to send email, just configure once and bring it up regularly to fetch the emails. I have a full copy of my gmail mailbox this way (already moved banking/govt services to fastmail anyway).
Earlier I used to maintain the passwords in an Excel and the life in a way changed when I discovered Password Manager KeePassXC - which is amazing.

For my frequently accessed accounts, I also prefer Apple Keychain to login faster across the devices.
Is there an option for the folks on the security that disables app passwords?
I used to not have any friends, but it changed once I started realizing that friendships require regular work. If you don't put effort into it, they just fizzle out, and that's when people start ghosting you.

I started by finding people with similar backgrounds, commin interests, and in the same stage of life that I am now. It is much easier to be friends with someone who is similar to me. After you find people like this, just talk to them on the regular, invite them to go out, and do things together. Eventually they will be an important part of your life just like you will be part of theirs.
I suppose the "contingency plan" was the main plan all along.

It is easy to bribe or to force governments in poor countries to take a loan in disadvantageous terms. Public servants easily do actions that will have consequences in the long term for a bribe, since when the concequences will reach, they will be gone already.
> If someone has a hypothetical medical device with a screen (do you have one in mind?) I’m sure the owners of such an establishment would seek to find ways to accommodate. It’s an edge case and not likely to impact the overall atmosphere.

Yep. I agree we should accommodate medically necessary exceptions. Also, anyone can step out of the cafe to use their screen (medically necessary or not) at any time.
$50 million in 1980s dollars of conjecture?
Well said. I’ve had a friend, who is non binary, tell me “they didn’t feel like themselves”. We had a very good chat wherein I revealed, as a straight white male, I too am plagued by the thought that I am the wrong person living the wrong life.

My choices are my own and I do not presume to judge anyone else's choices. But “thrown-ness” is not an indication of your sexuality (edit: or gender) - it’s an indication of your humanity.
I got a similar package on Upwork last Friday.
I concur - the most interesting research in this space comes from inside large companies like Bayer who likely have decades of datasets.

Random example: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/621e3c3...

All the authors work at Bayer. I think some of the authors recently got poached by Pfizer. Imagine how much of their research doesn't make it outside the company!
MTR Traceroute
Javascript is better, but its still sloppy:

tasks.push(
(async () => {
await delay(10000);
})()
);

.. So tasks.push is called with an IIFE, which returns a promise, which resolves after its internally awaited another promise...

You could just do this, which avoids about 3 unnecessary allocations:

tasks.push(delay(10000))

And I'm not convinced promisify(setTimeout) is what you want here. I'd just use this:

const delay = timeout => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, timeout))

... Which honestly should be part of the standard library in javascript. However, I'm less convinced that replacing the delay function will make a big difference to performance.
Let's not make this about mechanism unnecessarily. They'd download an exe from that github just as easily.
I was just thinking about that. I like the idea of getting rid of my phone. But looks like you can't do that now.
Hat tip for this post. I assumed it was a regular news article from Reuters. It is not. I would classify it as an editorial by a professional money manager. Here is the author: https://www.breakingviews.com/journalist/felix-martin/

And: https://www.1167capital.com/bio-felix-martin/

He sounds like the real deal.
Planting trees is a terrible way to mitigate the release of CO2 into the atmosphere[1].

There are many problems (most of which are covered in that article), and they include:

- mature forests are generally carbon-neutral and can also sometimes become carbon emitters, depending on specific circumstances

- young forests sequester carbon more quickly, but the trees just aren't that big and the amount of carbon sequestered is trivial

- as trees die, they release much of the captured carbon back into the atmosphere as they decay

- planting new forests is much more expensive (in terms of time, energy, and money) than just sequestering carbon when it's produced or, better yet, not using fossil fuels as much as we have in the past

1. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-dont-we-just-plant-lot-t...
Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic
This is probably the best one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26100075
I think it is not needed? Or did you mean something other than this?

Python 3.11.3 (main, May 4 2023, 05:53:32) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110]
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 8.13.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: !cat /tmp/x.toml
[servers.alpha]
x = 10

In [2]: import tomllib
...:
...: with open("/tmp/x.toml", "rb") as f:
...: t = tomllib.load(f)
...:
...: t
Out[2]: {'servers': {'alpha': {'x': 10}}}
It's a nice sentiment, but no.

I've tried on man and woman. Both cause dysphoria the same way the wrong binary does for binary trans people. There are aspects of one or the other I do mesh with, but I've talked to enough enbies and binary trans and cis people to be confident that one does in fact need an additional identity to cover it. My experience is unlike that of the many men and women I've talked to about this.

This is not something I casually glommed on to and never considered again. I've thought about it more than you likely have. You can't "everyone is the same maaaaan" this away.
Because the tasks are all running concurrently. (They're all running at the same time).
Yep we are going to see a mass rebound over bad business decisions.
Oddly, he wouldn't. He very much appreciates exploring the work of others. Such that large portions of his writing is historical in nature.
> many aren’t allowed to carry a phone when they go to work.

Reachability != carrying a phone.

For those working at a job that prohibits phones, they are still reachable, just that emergency contacts will call the workplace instead (where someone would then deliver the important notification in-person to the employee).
Funny you mention space stations, because the Genie engine that powers the Age of Empires line of games was also used for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Engine#Games_using_the_G...
I've had Google block accounts when I entered the correct password the first time
Wow that was a treat. The author makes everything seems so easy. I fired up AUTOMATIC1111 recently and making good AI generated art (or whatever you want to call it) is way harder than it seems.
Ask one level higher in the thread.
They haven't created a lot.
On Departure
May also suggest the suite of open source DeepView tools and which are part of PyPi. Profile and predict your specific model training performance on a variety of GPUs. I wrote a linked in post with usage GIF here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7057419660312371200-...

And links to PyPi:

=> https://pypi.org/project/deepview-profile/
=> https://pypi.org/project/deepview-predict/

And you can actually do it in browser for several foundational models (more to come):
=> https://centml.ai/calculator/

Note: I have personal interests in this startup.
Scare quotes make sense for social engineering, but if there's a trojan installed and used to increase access I would say that's enough to qualify as hacking.
1. Search “jukebox” and the latest Bollywood/Tollywood musicals on YouTube

2. Distractingly good music in high quality TV shows. Those music directors for US tv shows are insanely good music curators

3. My kid

4. Guitar song or style tutorials on YouTube
I normally love heavy, chewy, thought-provoking sci-fi books, but lately i've been fighting burnout and wanted something lighter.

I stumbled into the Pip and Flinx series by Alan Dean Foster. Easy and enjoyable sci-fi, great world-building, and interesting adventures broken up into about 15 books. And free for kindle via my public library.

Can recommend if you want to skip the gaudy 7 layer chocolate cake and just want a tasty madeleine instead. :)
I end up charging my mouse about once every few months

Wah, that is crazy. What is so special about this mouse that it needs so little power? Why isn't this reported more widely!? Other wireless mice that I have used need regular recharging or new disposable batteries. Always a sub-par experience.
Where/how do you backup your takeout data?
Kind of tried something similar in the game called Rust: https://youtu.be/j674nbG4_t8

This is a style transfer via SD, Controlnet and EbSynth.
I think there are just a lot more birds in cities than in the country because cities are where all the easy food is.
it's beej saying why he write guides
DIY on fastmail with custom domain.
Show HN: Horizon – Programmatic Prompt Generation and LLM Configurations
Hi HN. I heard you like dev tools and AI, so we wanted to share our project that we’ve been working on. We’re working on Horizon [1] - a higher level abstraction for LLMs so that developers can spend less time trying to grapple with LLMs to make them work and more time with users.

This is the starting feature set which takes an auto-ML approach to identify the optimal LLM model, hyperparameters, and prompt - instead of just giving you the tooling to figure it out yourself. You can read more about it in our documentations.

Our view is that as LLMs become increasingly commoditized and prompts become easier to develop all the while fine-tuning is not realistic for the many organization out there - the configuration, optimization, and management will become much more difficult at-scale (consist with Andrej’s recent post [3]). The idea came as we were trying to build LLM apps (think sales outreach, ppt generation, support, etc. etc.) last fall and realized with this tool we could easily build many of the applications with Horizon in minutes versus that days it took us before.

Let us know what you think!

[1]https://www.gethorizon.ai [2]https://docs.gethorizon.ai/quickstart [3]https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1655994367033884672?s=20
The reality is "somewhere in between". It's actually specified as a voltage source with a fixed impedance [1]. Tricks like snaking the signal in series through multiple receivers don't really work; whereas tricks like sourcing +5 VDC from the connector do work.

But it is correct that the current which ends up flowing through the connection is what determines the bits sent (by virtue of the receiver being an optocoupler, not an op-amps).

[1] https://midi.org/specifications/midi1-specifications/midi-1-...
Considering Swift 1.0 was released in September 2014 I'm not exactly bowled over by how long it's taken Apple, with all their resources, to rewrite Foundation.
Our Homunculus Is Showing
The streets are safer in your opinion in the scenario where 50% of pedestrians were killed?
That's how Andrej Karpathy's video lectures are shaping up for me... I'm learning a lot about not just neural networks, but Python and Pytorch.

It's more or less magical when you find just the right conjugate match between tutorial material and your own learning style. I can see how Beej's Guide might do the same for someone new to both socket programming and C.
Micron Banned in China
Cyberspace Administration says chip maker failed review, in a move that seems aimed at hitting back at U.S. chip ban
one side effect of Proposition 218, put forth by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, was that it became illegal to charge any household more than the costs of conveyance to that parcel. It was illegal to charge punitive rates to send a price signal to wasteful users.

Why does punishing wasteful users require charging them more per unit? If I waste a lot of milk, like by bathing in it, I'm punished by having spent way more on milk than a normal person. "Use twice as much, spend twice as much" is fair.