skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The volley was fired at a massed coordinated strike of 6 Kinzhals, 9 Kalibr cruise missiles, and 3 Iskander ballistic missiles all arriving at the same time. All missiles were intercepted but one managed to incapacitate a single Patriot launcher after being intercepted (unclear if there was an actual detonation). A Patriot battery consists of multiple dispersed launchers, radar, and control units. It's hard to imagine better performance than this for an air defense system tasked with protecting a capital city.

The US has a variable capacity for Patriot missile manufacturing but its baseline far exceeds the 300 missiles per year that you quoted.
> The Department of Justice made the unusual decision not to ask for jail time. In its sentencing memo, the government noted “the divide between [the defendants’] online personas, where they were significant, well-known, and malicious actors in the DDoS criminal milieu and their comparatively mundane ‘real lives’ where they present as socially immature young men living with their parents in relative obscurity.” It recommended five years of probation and 2,500 hours of community service.

Good to read a story where teen hackers get rehabilitated rather than heavily punished and pushed further into crime. That said, they don't really strike me as genius hackers. More just opportunistic and perpetually online.
Do you even swallow upside down bro?
Facebook owner Meta slashes business teams in final round of layoffs
We can now all relive Ron DeSantis' humiliating failure to launch
> I go cave exploring and camping all the time so I have to rely on flashlights and lanterns

Which means you both regularly test/use the flashlights, and have an overall maintenance discipline around them that's so habituated that you're probably not consciously aware of it. For most people, a flashlight would be something that you may have one or two of, stored in a drawer somewhere... maybe, since last you saw one of them was 2 years ago. Batteries are probably long dead already, and you might not have spares.

Candles win by price and maintenance simplicity. They are cheap enough that you may have dozens of them (some for emergency in your emergency pack, some for romantic evening in the kitchen, a few buried in random drawers around the house, a few more for... what follows the romantic evening, etc.), and when you find some, they're pretty much guaranteed to work. As a bonus, candles come with a clear, visual indicator of remaining "charge" - something most flashlights don't have.
Nobody said anything about jobs for life. When you are in a position where you know that certain events are pulling unprecedented demand forward, you know those certain events have an expiration date.

I don't think honesty in job listings is beyond the pale to ask of huge corporations. If you need temps due to sudden demand, hire temps.
Blow for tech unicorn Graphcore as Sequoia writes off stake
>Does the n-gram model really need all those parameters to mimic GPT-4? Yes, it does.

I don't understand what this argument is supposed to demonstrate. Obviously you can compress the 8000-gram model that GPT-4 represents - GPT-4's weights are proof!
https://archive.ph/Vm7ML
no one on the Harvard or Yale rowing teams died in the Civil War

Don't know know about the rowing team per se, but one of the most important buildings at Harvard is Memorial Hall, which was built to memorialize Harvard students who died in the Civil War fighting for the Union[0].

More info on those casualties[1]:

The walls of the Memorial Hall Transept hold 28 white marble tablets bearing the names of 136 Harvard associates who fell on behalf of the United States Army and Navy during the Civil War. The youngest, Sumner Paine, class of 1865, fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, two years before his intended graduation. The Paul Joseph Revere (plaque 5) listed is the grandson of the famous Paul Revere.

(And, if you look at the names listed on the plaques, you'll see "Revere" isn't the only prominent family-name represented).

And, another even more central building, is Memorial Church, which was built as a memorial to graduates who died fighting in World War I[2] and which also commemorates casualties of WWII and other later wars.

[0] https://websites.harvard.edu/memhall/home-2/buildings/histor...

[1] https://websites.harvard.edu/memhall/home-2/buildings/memori...

[2] https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/history-0
Chinese state hackers infect critical infrastructure throughout the US and Guam
Unfortunately The Verge says it’s LCD.

Despite all the advantages, LCD is much cheaper.

I wonder if it will have VRR or 120hz though. Can’t wait to see Digital Foundry play with one.
Sony confirms “Playstation Q,” a handheld device for streaming PS5 games
I'm not qualified to explain but the first answer to this question captures it well I think:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26516/wha...
We’re watching a hot war where old PATRIOT batteries are downing Russia’s newest missiles. Given that context, this looks more like user error by the Saudis than any shortcomings of the system.
If it does so, the resulting plasma will very actively absorb the laser pulse's energy.

Your best bet is not interacting with the atmosphere in any way, and merely adjusting for refraction.
> Cool. How do I "middle click" on my phone?

Try long press and open in new tab.

Besides, open in modal don't even mean the url won't change.
Fb, reddit both open in popup AND change the url. Copy the url to other browser would just work as intended.

It is already a resolved problem in my opinion.
Tailscale works hard to do all this stuff automatically.

Possibly you'd have more luck on a network where your client can allow incoming UDP connections on the Tailscale port, and so the exit node would be able to establish a direct connection.

But for a Tailscale peer I have running on AWS ECS, I can open the UDP port there, so a direct connection always happens regardless of what sort of network my Tailscale clients are on. I don't know if there's any Fly equivalent to get a direct connection to a UDP port.
A human being can withstand ~8g's for medium short duration with minimal accommodation, say tens of minutes - see fighter pilots. I would imagine that would be enough to get someone on the ground pretty quickly. 30 minutes door-to-door is also incredibly fast, how much of the world could be covered by AA or a fighter plane in time?

As a for instance, imagine if in the initial invasion of Ukraine Russia had the capability to drop a starship heavy's worth of men and supplies onto Antonov airport as soon as it was secure, instead of waiting for transport planes that didn't arrive in time.
I’d like to reiterate that I don’t want my prediction to happen. It’s just my guess as to how things will play out.
This assumes that all of this is binary, when in reality it’s a complex system that takes time and effort to modify in a meaningful and responsible way.
This is great news. I’ve oft wondered the same about AMD’s GPUs. NVIDIA’s got a clear monopoly.

He made a very good point about how this isn’t general purpose computing. The tensors and the layers are static. There’s an opportunity for a new type of optimization at the hardware level.

I don’t know much about Google’s TPUs, except that they use a fraction of the power used by a GPU.

For this experiment though, my sincere hope is that all the bugs are software only. Supporting argument - if they were hardware bugs, the buggy instructions would not have worked during gameplay.
Which rather reinforces the point of the headlined article: People actually learn a lot of stuff when they start out from tutorials, guides, handbooks, and whatnot; not from purely reading reference doco. I started out with books, too. Later people would have started with the likes of TLDP.

I suspect that the author is right that most people started with guides/handbooks/tutorials, even the ones who later on convince themselves that they only read reference doco.
Apparently they couldn’t even get to the part where they start insulting.
My prediction is that you’ll see the military might of these western countries essentially be used to enforce border. I hope wrong.
> And maybe the box will sell well initially just as a "dev kit" type thing.

Price: $15,000.

If they had a "lite" model that sold for $1500, and were actually shipping....
Is a subpoena of 5 specific users' data, presumably with the purpose of getting evidence about things that already happened, the same as 'surveillance'?

> the government read everything everyone wrote/texted/read

is this really a relevant analogy for this? And yes, I've heard of the mass surveillance via telco that we did find out (through Snowden) was happening, and do think it seriously crossed the line. I'm just wondering if this kind of case at issue has anything in common with that malfeasance at all.

Is it your belief that they lacked any probable cause and are actually trying to persecute those 5 people for some reason?

Rather than try to argue against a position I'm not fully understanding, I'd like to hear how you think police should solve crimes with a significant "cyber" component.
Source? I wasn’t aware it was this bad in any of the scenarios I read about.
This is an asinine argument, as a per-capita comparison with just about any other country shows. I'm not endorsing the Edweek numbers (which were brought into this discussion by someone asserting that school shootings are not a big deal).

I reject your argument that the media is to blame for hyping this. It is not normal to have people go into schools and start shooting children and teachers at random.
I believe Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is such a book for layfolk like us.

Otherwise proper chef-ing textbooks. I used to work with a former chef and the details she could go into about why/how various processes work in cooking – wow. I learned something new every time we chatted.
Seems some of those cases (backdoors and classifiers) could be prevented by regulation and/or social convention (eg- don’t use programs/services obfuscated in this way).

The malware seems trickier. Maybe systems will need to require proof of unobfuscated source to run code?
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Artificial Intelligence and the Superorganism
I just came across my Vita a week ago after it sat dormant for two years and decided to go ahead and jailbreak it. Seems like the homebrew scene is still pretty active on there. They're even writing wrappers for Android games, like GTA 3 San Andreas, effectively bringing over games that never existed onto the platform.

Still a bit of a learning curve figuring out how to get it all working after that though, but it still seems to be a popular platform for homebrew. There's enough happening for people to have monthly videos on new apps, games, and updates.

I might even port one of my small puzzle games to it if I get a hang on homebrew development sometime, although that's probably a ways out still.
Quantization isn't (and wasn't) expensive, it's mostly just data shuffling. A good PC will do a 7B model in half a minute, up to a few minutes for a larger model. Quantized models being made available for download is more for the benefit of less technical users who may not be comfortable with the command-line tools, or for people with slow or metered connections who'd much rather download 15GB of data than download 60 only to squish it into 15.
The Microsoft announcement:

Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/05/24/vol...

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062943
x86 has hardware support for context switching, which is basically saving all the registers and jumping to a new address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_state_segment
The /g/ board on 4chan has a /lmg/ general that focuses on running models locally. They regularly discuss fine tuning models, quantization tech, and building apps on text-generation-webui/kobold.

You might get some interest but it's also 4chan...
> For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be on-site in 2023 seems...out of character, to put it politely.

I mean a lot of smart people seem to do their hacking by themselves. I'm thinking like Fabrice Bellard. This is at least a step beyond that.
To control it. If they are successful at making AMD cards competitive in AI, and I agree that what's missing it's only the software, that would create immense value for AMD. Too much to not have control over how it evolves. If they are successful it will not just be Hotz, he will hire other devs and an entire community will form around it.

Sure they could just fork it and try to continue development themselves, but the community and momentum might very well not go with them.
This is my high school buddy’s dad:

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/watchdog/2013/12/...

Three of my teenage friends were in his basement when the FBI kicked down the door and stormed in armed to the teeth.

Perhaps you’re fine letting thieves and murderers get the upper hand but the rest of us are not.

Consider yourself lucky that criminals haven’t had much of an impact on your life.
I love how it manages to dumb down and parody the original story while still retaining all the details, they really crossed every i and dotted every t.
Software is part of it, sure, but I doubt anyone can realistically work on this project/company without being around a bunch of specialized hardware and iterating on prototypes. Hard to contribute to any of that from home.
Where did “which occupation would you rather” make it in? I was comparing the overall lifestyle and life outcomes.
Human brain output is just as much a product of the weights. What of it?
Canaries that are well known would just become normal communication and thus illegal under a non-disclosure. It's just going to get worse lol.
I forgot about all the Winnie the Pooh stuff he did.
Would you say there is a psychological dimension to all human behavior?
Elon's Public Square Plaza Couldn't Accommodate What a Stadium Could
So I Had to Stream the Event Live on YouTube
> those "downed" missiles somehow cause a "minor" damage to the Patriot battery doing it

Thirty missiles were fired, twenty nine intercepted [1]. Sustaining minor, i.e. quickly repaired, damage after a 97% interception rate against a supposedly technologically advanced adversary is pretty damn good.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/falling-debris-causes-fires-tw....
He mentioned ROCm, and apparently had lack luster experience with it.

>The software is called ROCm, it’s open source, and supposedly it works with PyTorch. Though I’ve tried 3 times in the last couple years to build it, and every time it didn’t build out of the box, I struggled to fix it, got it built, and it either segfaulted or returned the wrong answer. In comparison, I have probably built CUDA PyTorch 10 times and never had a single issue.
Ask HN: Do university recruiters keep students resumes?
Hi, I am building a product for students to level up their career game and I wonder if university recruiters keep students resumes and store it somewhere safe so they might look back.
Yeah, but what are they paying the security force in after the apocalypse? More or less, in comfort. Guess what lots of people that are getting paid in comfort are gonna do? They are gonna try to take control.
The lesson here is not to anthropomorphize ChatGPT. It didn't "conclude" anything. Based upon a corpus that includes tonnes of humans writing rubbish on the WWW, it came up with plausibly human-appearing rubbish that can fool humans. GIGO would apply, except that one can remix non-garbage into garbage with suitable statistical processes, we have now (re-)discovered. (-:
You are free to change the icon back locally if it’s really that much of a hit to your productivity.
So if Minix was under GPL, Intel would probably have gone with NetBSD or FreeBSD. Or possibly something different altogether.
> Wouldn't it make sense to also write the backup catalog to the tape though? Seems like a very obvious thing to do to me.

The catalog would be written to tape regularly: this is what would gets e-mailed out. But it wouldn't necessarily be written to every tape.

Remember that the catalog changes every day: you'd have Version 3142 of the catalog at the beginning of Monday, but then you'd back a bunch of clients, so that catalog would now be out-of-date, so Version 3143 would have to be written out for disaster recovery purposes (and you'd get an e-mail telling you about the tape labels and offsets for it).

In a DR situation you'd go through your e-mails and restore the catalog listed in the most recent e-mail.
If/when tinygrad is successful then AMD acquiring control of the stewardship/direction-setting of the software that drives the incremental demand for their hardware is far more valuable than Hotz's talent itself.
I do pay for Youtube Premium (previously Youtube Red). It comes with Youtube Music bundled and is still cheaper than spotify.

YouTube creators get maybe $0.018 per view. Lets say an average video is 15 minutes long (not a crazy thought) and I watched YouTube 5 hours a day. In a 30 day month, this would mean creators are paid 30 * 5 * 60 / 15 * .018 == $10.80. Realistically, lets say I watch for 2 hours, 5 days a week. Then it's 21 * 2 * 60 / 15 * .018 == $3.02. I suspect creators making content for an Indian or Kenyan audiences get paid much less per view, so you can charge users in countries that consume that content significantly less and still make the same payments to creators. Of course the cost would be slightly higher because Youtube wants to make a profit, but advertising doesn't pay creators very well.

Compare this to a cable TV subscription which might cost someone $80 to $200 a month and still has far more advertising than YouTube (almost 1/3 of the view time) and is quite reasonable that people might pay $6 for ad-free youtube. My original point was that even if I paid $20/month just to avoid youtube advertising, I would probably save money net because I would avoid being influenced into buying things I don't need.
Reporting about it in media causes more of them actually so yea.

There isn't good evidence to support this claim, though it's popular with people who have never thought about such issues before.
>"Perhaps with a few more "layers of compilers" on top you can get a very early GCC going."

Applause. Best comment ;)
The browser is already open, for most users, it’s the only thing open.
I'd give an extra reason. ChatGPT (both 3.5 and 4) seems to be doing an amazing job writing things for us, but that's strongly conditioned on everyone being able to write on their own.

When I let GPT-4 write text for me (parts of e-mails or documentation), I rely on my own writing skills to rate GPT-4's output. The problem I'm solving isn't "I can't write this". I can. It just requires putting in effort I'd rather avoid, and it's significantly easier to criticize, edit or get inspired from existing text, than to come up with your own from scratch.

People who decide to rely on LLMs instead of learning to write will face many problems, such as not being able to express what the LLM should write, and not being able to quickly evaluate if the output is any good.

Of course, if we keep the current rate of progress, few years from now the world will be so different that it's hard to guess how communication will look like. Like, I can imagine GPT-6 or GPT-10 being able to write perfect text based on contextual awareness and me making a few grunts - but if this becomes ubiquitous, we'll have bots writing texts for other bots to translate back into grunts, and... it's really difficult to tell what happens then.
You mean “create a business-sona and engage in some text/live-action roleplay”
It's like how people don't realize that the sum of 1 and 1 is 0. Many smart people will disagree but it is nonetheless a fact.
AMD is limited by numerous patent and other legal issues. For this reason small company that releases everything as open source have some chances to beat AMD on their own hardware.
You’re extrapolating incidents that are being called out in the press to improve the system onto vast legislative infrastructure that is operating day after day for 100’s millions of people in this country.
It's hard to take his praise for laser interception of hypersonic weapons seriously.

For intercepting swarms of cheap drones? It's a great fit! Space-based lasers for intercepting ICBMs? Maybe? But true hypersonic weapons (which Kinzhal is not) fly only in air (after all, they use oxygen in it to fly), while being covered in a plasma shield which is really good at absorbing all kinds of electromagnetic radiation.

Meanwhile, with high enough laser power you get instabilities in air which act as a natural diverging lens for your beam, drastically reducing effective range of your system. Push power even further to compensate for it and you will get plasma, which does even better job at dispersing energy of your beam. So in the end, you get a very short range interception system with a minuscule time frame to perform interception of a hypersonic target.
I wasn't aware of a 250 building limit. Is there anywhere I can read more about this? Searching turns up empty.
Not surprising lol. This was also the experience I had while experimenting with MLIR approximately 3 years ago. You'd need to git checkout a very specific commit and then even change some flags in code to have a successful build. I'm sure things are better now but I haven't messed with it since then.
Zig and C are much better at managing complexity because of their type systems.
It's often less work to start from scratch than to fix an extremely complex broken stack. Of course people also say this when they just want to start from scratch.

RDNA 3 has dual-issue that basically isn't used by the compiler so half the FPUs are idle.
If a counterexample to a specific claim doesn't disprove the claim, that sometimes suggests the claim is unfalsifiable and therefore suspect.
Did you read about the guix full source bootstrap the other day? They've shrunk the bootstrap seed down to a 357-byte program:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-bui...
Show HN: Automatically tag your directory of images
Anybody can automatically tag images based a simple prompt.

In this example, a custom image classifier is fine-tuned in the cloud with the Remyx CLI.

We add custom vision to this HF Agent to wrangle your image collection efficiently and privately.

Our site: https://remyx.ai

Feedback/thoughts are welcomed!
"Thinkst canary" I think you're thinking about. https://canary.tools/
One of those "I wonder what it'd be like if someone made that", and then someone _does_ make that, kudos!

Also, `defile` is a great name for a macro :-)
I'd love to hear more about your approach for getting LLMs to understand how to use plugin commands. My own experiments have not worked very well (even vanilla ChatGPT through the gpt-3.5-turbo API doesn't seem to get the concept, most of the time).
That's not what I meant, To my knowledge, in Christianity , you ought to do good, not because you'd be rewarded, but because it's the right thing to do

The same applies for doing bad things, your motives shouldn't be to not be punished, but to act rightly

An extension of this, Could you be blamed for the things you do when you're under duress? If I pointed a gun to your head and made you do something wrong, are you to blame?

The threat of hell (And the reward of heaven) might just be a different kind of gun, you might not be to blame for the wrong, but then you're also not the source of the good either, you're just acting on your own selfish interest
Nobody was talking about overall child mortality. Please abstain from rhetorical sleight-of-hand.