skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SFPD’s staffing levels are also at historic lows (and much lower than UN averages) while the work required to investigate and prosecute crimes has increased due to the professionalization of policing (a lot more TPS reports but also valuable constraints on autonomy). Perceived aggregate activity being down isn’t particularly surprising.

The U-Haul stunt was largely just a stunt. It was later revealed the DA’s office just didn’t get their paperwork right to organize evidence transport.
Understandable, ChatGPT started calling itself Wintermute and was looking for Neuromancer.
I’ve been suffering through something similar with a DLT IV tape from 1999. Luckily I didn’t send out to the data recovery company. But still unsuccessful.
What kept Neeva from "succeeding" on its own? I know there were previous discussions, but I am not in a position the moment to dig in (apologies).

Is their current technology that good?
Ah, now I see it, thanks.
> By the way, the U.S. has excellent defenses against all classes of ballistic missiles

I am highly skeptical of this claim.

The author is otherwise correct: you can almost pinpoint the target soon after launch of a ballistic missile because of the way trajectories work. Ballistic missles go through three phases: launch, flight and re-entry. Modern ICBMs have a re-entry velocity as high as 7km/s (Mach ~20). Intercepts at that speed have, to my knowledge, an extremely poor record.

Another factor is that ICBMs can (and do) carry multiple warheads. These will separate at different points in the flight phase or re-entry phase to hit different targets. Detecting multiple warheads isn't necessarily easy either because they're unlikely to have the visible plume of a full-blown rocket engine and it's at such a distance that radar signature probably isn't sufficient to detect the warhead let alone plot the target sufficiently accurately for a kill vehicle to hit it.

The author is otherwise correct in that the real advantage of hypersonic missiles is targeting. The speed (Mach 5-10) makes intercept difficult and you won't know the target until it hits it really so good luck intercepting that.

Maybe top secret THAAD development has improved to the point where it can reliabily intercept ICBM warheads at scale but I'll believe it when I see it. Most ICBM defense relies on hitting the launch vehicle in the boost phase because that's when it's the slowest.
Yeah, but there are almost no public trash cans anywhere. Lots of bins for bottles and cans though.
On my aging Windows ThinkPad with 32GB of RAM, my hiberfil.sys is ~12GB, so you would be correct. As for S2 moving to S3, this is similar to how I’ve been using the system for years; close the lid and I get S2 or S3 (haven’t looked to see which one)—if the battery charge hits a certain level, the system moves to S4/hibernates.
GPT 4 just got browsing, so I've actually started telling it to do the entire research phase I was gonna do and just let it grind it out without having to despair at Google's abysmal search results. Still a bit unreliable but actually gets it done quite well on occasion.
Honestly backup space is weirdly sparse for anything on enterprise scale.

For anything more than few machines there is bacula/bareos (that pretends everything is tape with mostly miserable results), backuppc (that pretends tapes are not a thing, with miserable results), and that's about it, everything else seems to be point-to-point backups only with no real central management.
It’s sort of chilling when you go this route. Apple literally told me “great interviews, great record, but you didn’t go to a top 10 school or work at another big company yet. Call us in 5 years.” Thankfully Google felt differently, but man. There’s these little filter steps that are mostly luck and are unintuitive. Not lucky as in “oh I’m lucky I got into Yale” but “oh I’m lucky the Google recruiter read my confused earnestness as admirable”
They’ve been replaced by LLM powered script kiddies with 20 years experience.
This is huge, don't know why they flied under the radar.
Q2 guidance of 11B is the main reason imo -> 44B/year revenue if you are comfortable extrapolating

Actually if you listen to earnings call, 2H year is expected to be significant sequential increases
The Patriot has a very high failure rate and isn't all it's cracked up to be.

https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/scuds-vs-patriots-desert-s...

https://www.gao.gov/products/t-nsiad-92-27
Don't know. I was hanging out in the Slack for the Plugins alpha test, which probably helped.
The pricing for Kagi is reasonable, even cheap. I think you're doing the mistake of comparing a normally priced product with a great bargain product like your VPN.

Just because two things are on the computer doesn't mean their prices are comparable. Go to a bar and get a drink for $9 and you won't raise an eyebrow at the price, even though your VPN is immensely more useful to you. If you pay for parking downtown you won't write a comment on HN about it, even though you pay the same price for a couple of hours of parking as you pay for watching Netflix every evening the whole month. You get a meal in a restaurant for the same price as you pay for bed sheets that you use for hundreds or even thousands of hours.

Kagi is very reasonably priced for the quality of life increase the better search results give.
Isn't caddy fully free and open source software?
I didn't mean globally (though on a quick search I'm seeing it place above e.g. Swift, Kotlin, Dart, and Ruby), I meant it's frustrating to see Go be chosen over a better-designed language "in the small", for a specific product or SDK.
The more you cut titanium the harder it gets. It can eat even carbide drill / mill tools. Welding it is a nightmare.
https://canarytokens.org
I'm experimenting with these settings. On my machine (with a 6GB NVidia GEForce, 32 GB of RAM and Intel i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz) I get worse performance offloading to the GPU.

276.23 ms per token without GPU, using only -t 12

296.04 ms per token with GPU using -t 12 -ngl 22

How do you determine the right fit for -t and -ngl? I definitely compiled using make LLAMA_CUBLAS=1

I'm using models/ggml-vic7b-uncensored-q5_1.bin, does the model matter significantly?
I think the usual issue is a mirrored surface is not robust enough to absorb extreme levels of energy for very long before it becomes a poor mirror.

I expect the counter will be more along the lines of having sufficient ablating material to block the laser - a small amount of extra armour probably has an outsize affect on survivability.
The more I read stuff like this the more I realize all countries on Earth should pay thanks to the USA and all the great advances it has gifted the world with. And I'm not being facetious it's really crazy just how much advances in the United States have forwarded technological progress. Please tell every seething European to thank America for keeping them safe from Russia too.
I would have a hard time believing someone who learnt Unix at some point in the previous 20 years did so by reading some manpages.
The other day there was some other bad news where the subject began with "An Update on...". Seems like that's the newspeak for "Bad news about...".

To be on topic, typical "My replacement for Evernote" comment: Joplin (with a server in a Docker container on my NAS) works well for me. There's even an import from Evernote feature, although when some sections of the Evernote note were password-protected, the same note in Joplin is some undecypherable Base-64.
This is incredibly nifty, thank you!
Why don’t nerds get the same rights?

According to US news over the past 3-4 years, you can just ignore subpoenas, then get a contributor job on a cable news network. Bonus points, the more you flout the law as arrogantly as possible ;p
To be more precise, the Notes app could be used as a barebones version of a journaling app, which leaves enough room for dedicated types of note apps (in this case journaling) to flourish. As a platform maker, I think you have to walk a careful line between what you do in-house vs. what you let your partners provide. A daily journal seems niche enough to leave to the partners.
For normal people sure, but for VIPs and especially military it will happen.

Imagine being able to drop Seal Team Six into Taipei, the Red Square, or literally any other piece of earth with a ~50ft clearing on ~30 minutes notice? That's a capability which is very hard to put a price on.
Yes, I'm aware -- my other comment says that.

I realize this comment is a little ambiguous: the order in the warrant case is an order by the court to the court's officers to perform an arrest, seizure, etc. It's not an order for you (the subject of the warrant) to comply.
To be honest as long as they are very careful about not doing any damage to the original media then it might work and be a win-win for both sides in a "no fix no fee" model where the customer only pays if the data is successfully recovered.

Their cardinal sin was that they irreparably damaged the tape without prior customer approval.
The concept that you think that I can't have an opinion about things without having zero emissions is obviously ridiculous.

I'm trying to have a reasonable discussion about the systematic sources of GHGs, and then am just getting whataboutism deflection in every response.

I do think GHG heavy meat-consumption that is associated with climate change should be disincentivized just as much as I think GHG heavy fuel-consumption should be.

If you want to keep asking me to make arbitrary GHG comparisons (that only a PHD researcher would be able to accurately calculate), then I'm not going to respond. Whataboutism is only an effective rhetorical device if your intentions are in bad-faith.
As a Googler…way I see it, too big too quick too much google and wrong time. Launch a year later and you’re legit have some rocket fuel via LLMs to build something new.

I never used it till it shut down, and it looks like about 70% of google to me. That’s great, but you gotta avoid the xoogler trap of rebuilding the 20% of google you want to fix as a startup.
Sure, but it still means that your body has to force the food/drink down (er, or "in" if you're in space, I guess) rather than just letting gravity do the work.
Yeahz 3 or 4 at max. At this moment its only 2 houses, and 1 commerical.
Just spitballing here but it might have to do with the fact that materials that absorb light are more heat conductive than materials that are reflective.

The SR71 was famously painted black as a mitigation for surface heating issues because the black paint conducted heat away from the areas the were really susceptible to ram-heating.

Perhaps reflective surfaces reflect some percentage of the incoming energy away, but thermally conductive surfaces conduct a larger percentage of that energy away and are able to safely sink it into some thermal mass.
That sounds plausible. Will have to check what a sibling comment suggested with getting the reason of the wake-up.
The stock market reacted quite positively to this acquisition (Basically confirmed a few days ago). Buying a soon-bankrupt startup is very cheap, and getting a strong tech stack and already formed team with strategic synergies with the main business is going to be valuable.

This is contrasted with panic acquisitions like say Adobe & Figma.
> To get around this, these “booter services” have long argued they perform a legitimate function: providing those who set up Web pages a means to stress test websites.

Don't these botnet services run on compromised computer systems?
Would you have a link by any chance? Thanks!
Valid points but strategies with low or no risk can be recommended to try even with very little evidence.
Weird I just checked and every single bill I have I can only pay in CZK. Guess this revolution must have slipped by us here in the technological backwaters of Central Europe. Looking forward to reading about how people in the USA can pay their electricity, gas, groceries, internet, mortgage, insurance, tuition, taxes or anything else using XMR though. This sounds like a gamechanger!
Can’t see your link, it just asks me to sign into AppleConnect
I thought it was a reference to PH, not temperature?
Yes. Truth itself stands at the top of the moral hierarchy. It can stand alone without any justification. "You told the truth" will never be immoral, consequences be damned.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/did-you-know-the-sr-71-black...

Some of these incidents are probably false or exaggerated, but it does seem it produced enough of a boom to route away from cities.
I understand your take now, but it still seems like the two approaches are complementary. Specifically because afaik the only known way to restore spinal cord function is to get signals traveling through whatever means, so that the body will regrow the pathways. (I am not at all an expert, but my understanding is that) stem cells aren't going to do any good if they're just wedged in randomly. If they or something else carries a signal, they will organize to strengthen that signal and can then permanently repair function (at least partially). If they don't carry a signal, they will wither and die. So it seems to me that when you don't have intact nerves carrying signals from point A to point B, then anything that carries those signals will delay degeneration and possibly facilitate repair. If you need wires or nanotubes or little strips of squid skin to carry those signals initially, then that's what you'll want to do.
I personally never encountered JPEGs or MP3s which were totally unreadable due to the being encoded by ancient software versions, but the metadata in common media formats is a total mess. Cameras and encoders are writing all sorts of obscure proprietary tags, or even things like X-Ray (STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl game engine) keeping gameplay-relevant binary metadata in OGG Vorbis comments. Which is even technically compliant with the standard I think, but that won't help you much.
> But if the issue is merely scale, all you need to do is make more interceptors, which is a finite and predictable expense, as opposed to developing a new technology which could be a massive money pit that ultimately fails.

Except it costs many times more to make an anti-ballistic-missile interceptor then the original ballistic missile.

There's a fundamental asymmetry here, because interceptors have to be extremely high performance to be useful but the launching missiles can be as cheap as possible as long as it can throw enough penetration aids into the approximate trajectory.

So regardless of how much is spent on such a program, any country could spend a small fraction to fully defeat it, maybe as little as 10%.
The same goes for the employee. It’s a two-way street.
I've seen them outside supermarkets in Boston.
Also have all of Wikipedia sitting on a thumb drive. Redundancy and contingency plans are important.
It's easy to say China, or even India, agreed to the Kyoto protocol when that didn't bind them to any goals. It just encouraged developing countries to adopt policies that encouraged reductions.

Aside from that, the US is currently below its 1990 levels while China is 4x its 1990 levels and double the current US production. It doesn't seem to line up with what you're saying about the US not taking action.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

You can create a nice graph here and add counties to compare.
At least you'd want to track user language. There are many words that are spelled the same in different languages but have completely different meanings. Just one example.
> Do you not value the increased memory safety?

C offers an appropriate level of memory safety for the problems it solves.
I take managing my own memory over unreadable code and dependency hell any day. The fact that C will run on DSPs with 27-bit pointers is just an added bonus.
The ease of manual memory management in C is an advantage, not a downside.

And the tooling for C will exist long after rust has been abandoned.
Disclosing facts is not a crime.
Tape absolutely isn't viable for the consumer at all, but definitely worth exploring for the novelty. Even if you manage to get a pretty good deal on a legacy LTO system (other formats don't even come close to the tb/$ of 10+ year old LTO and drives are still fairly cheap), the drives aren't being made any more and aren't getting any cheaper. Backwards compatibilty may be in your favor depending on your choice of tape generation at least, I think there's at least two generations guaranteed. Optical will probably remain king though the pricing is worse than HDDs, there's no shortage of DVD or BD readers, but you might run into issues with quad layer 128 BD as they only hit the market fairly recently.
"per capita" is misleading here. We don't measure concrete production per capita like that for example
You're allowed up to 5 profiles. Why does this line of technicality even matter?
"Also, practically no one free ranges their meat birds."

Is this a USA thing? I can go into any UK supermarket and buy a free-range chicken to cook.
There's a pretty extensive list of administrative subpoena authority here:

https://www.justice.gov/archive/olp/rpt_to_congress.htm

tl;dr: Everyone from the Appalachian Regional Commission on down can subpoena you without a court being involved. And of course Congress has inherent subpoena powers.
As for reboots, Offworld Trading Company is kind of in the spirit of original M.U.L.E. In fact, one of the things you can use in the game is called a MULE, very likely an homage to the OG. Sadly, Offworld Trading Company has a pretty badly flawed end-game: An opponent will suddenly buy your company out, a process that (as far as I can tell from multiple play-throughs) cannot be blocked once that opponent gains enough momentum. Meaning you can be playing along, your money going up rapidly, making no mistakes, and still suddenly lose.

I think an Offworld Trading Company without the "buy shares of opponents" game mechanic would have been a really great successor to M.U.L.E.!
I did not even realize the game was 40 years old. I played it a lot when I was younger, and apparently it was born before me!
> You can't say "Hobbit" in your own stories

You can, though.

You can't use it to market your stories or other products, and there's some manners of use innthr body of a book that might run some risk of liability for dilution or tarnishment, but...
Tape drive and Bareos/Bacula "just works"

Absolutely not worth it tho. Drives are hideously expensive which means they only start making sense where you have at least dozens of tapes.

There is an advantage of tapes not being electrically connected most of the time so lightning strike will not burn your archives, I have pondered making a separate box with a bunch of hard drives that boots once a month and just copies last months of backups on hard drives, powered from solar or something just to separate from the network
> The stock market reacted quite positively to this acquisition…

How is Snowflake stock dropping 12% "reacting quite positively"?
Don’t name your header file security.h either
28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files
I’m actually not sure the Al Jazeera writer has the sources, as this piece is done by interviewing the scientists. The journalist simply asked the scientists and reported on what they said. Surely the journalist could ask the scientists for sources, and maybe they should have, and maybe they did but the scientist didn’t have them at hand at that exact moment.

But if you are interested, here is the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1640915926152298497

In journalism it is often more important to find sources which back each other up, rather then finding original research. In this case the journalist interviews a few scientists that all tell a similar story. I think the journalist here is simply doing what they have been trained to do.
The point is it isn't really free range
The format is extensible enough that it could be added
> This makes no sense. Already trading at 50x EBITDA on forecasted datacenter demand. How does this actually pan out? AWS, Microsoft, other large internet companies buy a bunch of GPUs to train models _one time_, or at best at an annual cadence. Others rent once a month to train.

OpenAI trained on Nvidia cards, but doesn't OpenAI's ChatGPT run on Nvidia cards as well? So it's not just the training, but the execution as well, right?

I train Dreambooth models for Stable Diffusion, which takes up a lot of GPU time, but then I generate images with those Dreambooth models, which takes less time (but still uses my Nvidia card).
But you could post a unique blog post such as that about every one of your users.
A weird juxtaposition of mild mescaline-using hippies, child sexual predators and mad bombers. Life certainly didn't forget this place - some of the worst horrors of humanity dwelt here.
This isn't a sarcastic comment: you could ask ChatGPT to help you write a browser plugin to filter out such stories, if one doesn't exist already. (Not sure if the plugin would work on mobile, though.)
Seeking help: Shopify has banned my partner’s account
I’ve seen people post asking for help before. Hoping someone who works at Shopify can connect me with a human to get this fixed.

It’s not clear why the account was banned. Blake runs an event planning business https://www.instagram.com/gregoryblakesamsevents/ . He is planning on opening a brick and mortar store in Charleston with online retail as well. The store is months away from opening. There is literally nothing on Shopify for the store yet.

From Shopify:

This email is to inform you that after reviewing your information and website we have determined that your business presents a level of risk that we will be unable to support with Shopify. We know this is not ideal, however we won't be able to help with your business.

Please note that for security and privacy reasons we are unable to divulge the results of our reviews and investigations.

Shopify’s response when requesting a review:

Unfortunately, once an account has been declined the decision is final.

As per [*Shopify's Terms Of Service | Section 4*](http://www.shopify.com/legal/terms), it states that: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time".

Hope someone can help!
They really missed an opportunity to make the model naming make sense. The “i” in 530i means internal combustion. Why not call it the BMW 530e?
Snowflake seems like it's been losing relevance ever since Clickhouse became more popular. Seems like they're struggling to maintain performance vs the other competitors out there. Not sure how this acquisition will help here. I don't think decoupling storage and compute was a good bet in the long run.
I can see it happening. Not as a single catastrophic event but, like Rome falling bit by bit, our technological civilization fails and degenerates as climate change (in the worst possible scenario) wreaks havoc on everything.
Microsoft appeals against UK block on Activision Blizzard deal
you'd have to put the catalog at the end of the tape, but in that case you might as well rebuild the catalog by simply reading the tape on your way to the end (yeah, if the tape is partially unreadable blah blah backup of your backup...)
Nah it will be very simple:

....What do you mean "nobody paid for the bucket for last 5 years" ?

There is some chance someone might stash old hard drive or tape with backup somewhere in the closet. There is no chance there will be anything left when someone stops paying for cloud.
> How do you determine the right fit for -t and -ngl?

t: the number of physical cores on your CPU

ngl: just try increasing by one or two, until you start seeing inference crash due to 'out of memory' errors

> i5-10400

You have 6 cores, so try `-t 6`
Those are 30 year old documents. Much like everything else the patriot technology has advanced a lot since then.
* Hotel - Kenny's Log Inn
Ammon Bundy moved in; I wonder how it's been working out for him?