skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that every subreddit and every Youtube channel is also an RSS feed. I have to imagine that some rogue engineeers snuck that functionality in over a decade ago and that it's simply escaped the notice of any PMs or bean counters since then.
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I don't have any suggestions I'm afraid. I'm not yet short of blogs on many topics to add :)
No, liability requirements force banks to be held accountable. They do eat most of the costs of the direct consequences of being hacked. Luckily for them, the people hacking them are still, frankly, inexperienced from a business perspective so their losses have to this point been largely immaterial.

The losses are not low because the cybersecurity processes and regulations are good, they are low because even though the vault is being guarded by the metaphorical equivalent a chihuahua, all they are doing is stealing the pens because they do not know how to pawn the gold in bulk.

This state of affairs is changing very quickly. 15 years ago the hackers were walking into the vault and asking for $1,000 because they were 16 year olds who thought that was a lot of money. Now the good ones are 30 years old and are still walking into the vault, but asking for $10,000,000. Last I saw the number of attacks was increasing 3x year over year and the average ask was increasing 3x year over year.

The entire cybersecurity insurance industry is already underwater at current premiums. I have heard they have basically stopped issuing policys over a few million dollars because it is literally ruinous. It is no longer becoming possible to paper over the omnipresent security deficiencys with insurance, betting on the incompetence of the attackers, and betting only one of you is going to get eaten.

The sensible solution right now would be liability requirements on advertising security. You can not insinuate you are “secure” whatever that even means. You can instead only advertise a dollar amount per customer which is tied to a mandatory bug bounty. If you are a big bank with 100 million customers, you can put up a 10 billion dollar bug bounty on breaching your systems and then you can advertise $100 of security on your customer deposits.

This would force them to put their money where their mouth is while not preventing new small companys from existing as long as they truthfully report that they are not providing security. It would also help us pull the customer desired security requirements forward in time instead of waiting for the destruction first.

Absent that, what is going to happen is that everybody keeps lying about their security to trick their customers into trusting them. Then one of them is going to get hit by a truly expensive attack and all the customers will be caught with their pants down.

The only technical solution to this is either dropping reliance on these easily hacked systems, or throwing out all the existing crap that was never designed for security and can thus never be retrofitted to be secure such as Microsoft, Linux, Cisco, and Crowdstrike. Instead we must deploy systems designed for security such as those targeted to conform to the (now deprecated) Orange Book Class A1 or Common Criteria EAL 6/7 systems which are certified and proven to resist nation state attackers such as the NSA.
Sure org problems can stifle good performers but they are not hiring 900k engineers to work with 90k engineers.
> You seems to be a bit frustrated yourself by the fact that there was little to no such adoption in the first place after showing those links right in front of you.

How many times do I have to say that I'm happy with the current size of Mastodon?

> I thought you said you had a 'good memory'?

This has nothing to do with memory. You made vague, almost nonsensical accusations.

> We all know that the vast majority of normal users (not techies, developers, etc) have tried it, aired their frustrations and left and didn't stick around.

Absurdly false. There's no evidence whatsoever that hundreds of millions of people have tried Mastodon. That's such a bizarre claim, especially since you continue to talk about how you think the total number of Mastodon accounts ever created is low.

> But clearly you refuse to acknowledge that and continue to ignore the centralization and corruption risks with Meta's backroom NDAs with instance admins.

This may be the first relevant thing you've said. Except I'm 100% opposed to Facebook's P92 project.

> Yet the majority of the normal users (220M+) on Twitter took a look at Mastodon, tried it, left and never looked back again.

Whether they "looked" at Mastodon, I couldn't say (and neither can you), but I can say that the majority of Twitter users didn't try it.

Do 200M people even have the motivation to try Mastodon?

> But for perspective of that figure, it seems that Nostr reached that 'total number' quicker than Mastodon did in less than 7 years.

There's an obvious reason for that, the elephant in the room. The Mastodon and Nostr signups both mostly occurred after Elon Musk acquired Twitter.

> Is that why you haven't replied to this comment [1] who is asking whether if there is even evidence of 'over a million regular users?' (non-techies) using it?

Why do you take "regular" from the other commenter to mean "non-techie" as opposed to "frequent"?

According to https://joinmastodon.org/about there are 1.2M monthly active users. There are no demographic surveys of Mastodon, so I have no idea how many are "techie" or "non-techie", nor do I care.

> Mastodon was meant to challenge that during the so-called #TwitterMigration outrage as that alternative for normal users.

What do you mean Mastodon was "meant" for that? As you continue to say, Mastodon was created in 2016. The so-called #TwitterMigration was a result of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter in 2022. Unless you're claiming that Eugen Rochko magically predicted this acquisition 6 years prior, Mastodon was not meant for that.

The simple fact is that after Musk acquired Twitter, a significant number of people including myself were looking for an alternative to Twitter, and they found it with Mastodon. You seem overly concerned about what happened with Mastodon from 2016-2021, but I don't really care about that. Yes, Mastodon had relatively low adoption before the Musk acquisition. So what?

> given that you're were part of the Twitter collapse nonsense on HN last year. But you knew that already.

Citation needed.
Bummer! Didn’t realize the graph was not for not IPv4 and IPv6. Have you done anything fun with the AS or had an opportunity to say “Luckily, I do have an AS!” in a time of need?
The biggest annoyance for me is that it is if this wasn't the goal from the start...

Whole operations were build on unsustainable models. And when finally we run out of "free" money the next steps are obvious.

Not that there isn't profitable companies that just strive for even more profits, but those are again driven by the system itself.

And the fact that usually the term is just dropped in the conversation. And no actually realistic solution or alternative is even provided.
To be fair there was an “–or not” at the end of that quote, and I assume that the dash was for emphasis. Not clear what was meant by it though
They are doing shit job with keeping existing ones competitive too
Sad that they also refuse to offer up any technical information.

I am a bit salty given that all these companies basically use 90% OpenSource data, public research and most likely copy a good bit of their ideas from public repos.

Alas, such is live.
Pretty cool post.
I’ve been playing spectrum games recently http://torinak.com/qaop/games
No doubt. And the invasion of Ukraine might be the most important event of the last 30 years.
Rent?

Car payments?

This is a weird form of retirement to me.
And dumping... See taxi apps.

All that should have been illegal from day 8... I can give a week of promotion, but anything beyond that should always happen at cost or above.
> A chip with hundreds or thousands of E cores and AVX512 may be competitive with GPUs for AI.

A chip with hundreds or thousands of E-cores should be ideal for any cloud provider to offer vCPUs with a high markup. For example, a company like Hetzner sells 1vCPU services for around 4€/month. Even if they don't overprovision and allocate 1 core per 1vCPU, a single chip can potentially earn them 500€/month, which leads to a break even point at around 2 years.
They didn't say it was better than GPT-4. They said better than GPT-3.5.

I tested it with a coding exercise. It's definitely not as good as coding as GPT-3.5.
Credit score has a regulated scoring system. It's all based on your debts, and repayment of said debts. You're not going to lose credit score based on your vote.
The Nix store `/nix` is readonly except by the Nix build users. So, if you’re using Nix derivations for everything (the end goal), then rogue processes cannot interfere in any way with files outside of the chroot-like environment the build process creates.

The writable directories (your home dir and var, as the parent stated) are still “vulnerable” and a program can run anything they want of course (bound by typical Linux/Unix rules). Nix isn’t a containerization/sandboxing technology, but it does remove any fear of installing software overwriting files you wanted, including OS level (and kernel) upgrades.
I quite enjoy traveling and fly about 50,000 miles per year. I take offense to your sentiment. I have as much right to travel as anyone else. We need to live and let live.
The URLs are a bit different with those systems. https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds.rss works (and redirects to https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds/feed.atom).
> Microsoft has been keeping the Windows platform away from the gaming market in favor of Xbox

Consoles have admirable hardware. It is a pity that consoles are walled gardens.

Steam on PC is my choice for gaming because I like Valve's platform and I prefer the versatility of owning my hardware platform despite occasional problems with drivers. PC gamers are accustomed to finding solutions.
i've heard ben hunt (epsilon theory) talk on various podcasts and he can spend literally 2 hours talking about something that can be said in one sentence.

i'm sure he's very smart but all of his material is such a slog i don't even bother anymore.

a lot of these ex-hedge fund podcast guys just love to hear themselves talk for hours on end. especially about how bad the current finance industry is, and of course when they did it, it was different, they were good, don't you see?

finance is 99% bullshit artistry until you get to stochastic calculus and linear algebra. i recommend everyone just sit down and learn all the jargon. it's extremely complex language talking about extremely simple shit.
So does every HN user

https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds

Edit: it’s 3rd party, though . . .
Yes it would. Because it would "be political" and gasp don't talk about politics!

Dong will tell you that this subject attracts flamewars, but then again I think he's just parroting what someone else told him and has really examined how people in HN actually discuss the subject.
In fact, in Germany, everyone would be authorized to enter that park with a vehicle if it were necessary to avoid serious danger or to save others from serious danger. This is referred to as 'rechtfertigender Notstand'.
I wonder why AMD decided to name chips after Italian cities...
discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36424090
Raspberry Pi Decktility Handheld Puts a PC in Your Pocket
* see how often a process writes to disk, preventing spindown
Unfortunately this is not true in numerics. Lots of stupid heavy cfd/fea type workloads parellize well but aren't gpu accelerated. The reasons aren't clear to me, but a lot of the popular solvers are cpu only and involve mostly fp calcs. There are a few solvers that use gpus but they tend to be less accurate in exchange.
> We wouldn't need to emphasize a "golden age of medicine" if everyone had the same access to proper nutritional foods.

We still would. We still would have cancers, even with nutritional food. And we would still have pandemics like Covid-19 and even worse (see Black Plague). A lot more people would have died without vaccinations.
Calling for someone to be shot is a call for violence. Calling for a trigger to be pulled is not.

The death penalty is a legal ruling that is often not even the final decision.
> Personally I am hoping this deal goes through because I want Xbox to be taken more seriously

It was taken seriously by the 360 era. MS just bleed away all the good will the following generation, ceding significant market share to Sony. Now Sony is riding on the momentum from the previous generation to an easy 1st place.

> They are making certain decisions that are not gamer friendly (cross play, paying for third party exclusives, and paying for exclusive content being some key examples)

Was Sony buying any exclusives before MS attempted to take over Activision-Blizzard? (Those that they fund don’t count since it makes no difference to their competitors - the games wouldn’t be available to them either way; either it doesn’t exist if Sony doesn’t fund it or it’s exclusive to Sony if Sony did.)
You can very easily test it on their pi website. I tried a coding exercise. It's not as good at programming as gpt-3.5-turbo.

From my short test, what it really seems to excel at is smugness.
thanks! I didn't know about that
This is only a right in a court of law. Unfortunately, people can accuse you of rape on a college campus and you have no right to see the evidence against you even though the consequence is being marked as a rapist for life (you won't go to prison for a Title IX conviction, but it'll show up if you ever reapply to college, it shows up for the Bar Association, and on security clearance investigations).
Right, but you have to be in a position where you get to do the work in the first place, which requires passing some reputational and skill bar. Or, you could do something which is cool to you personally and someone might not share that feeling and be unimpressed.

As a concrete example, I've gotten more accolades for silly personal projects that sound impressive, like training a convolutional network to pilot a simulated car on the GPU, than for impactful work at my actual job, which was a lot less challenging.

I guess hiring is just incredibly noisy, and I think companies could really get far hiring less than the best people, and just squeezing good quality work out of them (I believe Amazon is known for this).

Obviously OpenAI should not hire subpar people lol, they should keep doing what works for them, just grumbling loudly here.
Remember when this was a standard feature of social websites?

If you want to read a person's updates without signing up for Twitter, or without visiting the site, just use the rss feed to subscribe. If your page is public, any one with a feed reader can subscribe to your feed and see your latest updates in their feed reader, even if they don't have a Twitter account. The feed contains the information you see on the page, but in a special format for easy aggregation. (2011)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110228080118/http://support.tw...

A news aggregator is the best way to keep track of all the feeds you care about. Facebook will generate an RSS Feed that you can save to your bookmarks folder and view in your browser. You will now have an auto-updating RSS Feed that alerts you of important things on Facebook involving your account. (2008)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080908073106/http://www.facebo...
> All of the other legal rights that the US congress grants

The US government doesn't grant any rights. We already have all of them at birth. The government may affirm them but it isn't a higher authority giving anything to anyone.
Unpopular opinion: Paying more does not get you better code, or faster code, or cleaner code. It does get you valuable things, but they're unrelated to code. I'll get to that.

Some of the best all-around programmers I've met, and also the best programmers at some specific metric (rapid development, good at unraveling complex problems, good at big-picture stuff, good at architecture, good at maths/algorithms, etc.) make market rate or below market rate. Probably because they either (A) don't know their value (B) didn't go to a top CS school (C) value things other than raw income (D) aren't good at playing the political game at work (E) aren't good at self-promotion.

What paying high salaries does get you is... the widely-publicized knowledge that you pay high salaries. Sites like levels.fyi and HN will viralize this knowledge. Like your neighbor who has a shiny new BMW M3 in their driveway, you assume that they must be doing well, and must be a good investment.
> and its biggest downsides are it's size and power, which are both not that big of issues since I've got a whole 44U rack for just a few servers and I don't get billed for my power usage.

I was surprised to read this. I was looking in to colocation services (for less than a rack) and everywhere I spoke to, including Hurricane Electric, included a set number of amps (which I assume is at 120V?).

Specially, HE offered me 2 amps with 7U of rack space. That seemed really low to me, just one of my 2U servers with a lot of hard drives idles at around 100W or just under 1A and easily exceeds 2A when it's really working (which admittedly is rare, it mostly idles).

I didn't follow up to see how that is actually metered. I'd love to hear about other folks experiences with collocating - is this common?
I assume the end game is freezing human organs from people who die in situations where the organs are viable but not needed at the time (or location), this could make a dramatic improvement to our ability to save lives when it works in humans. I hope this leads to additional funding
You don’t think there is a difference between the state killing someone and a vigilante killing someone?
Similar, but I think that is natural at this point.

My main account has 100x as many followers on Twitter, but accumulated over many years, and I suspect a fairly substantial number are bots and/or accounts that are now rarely in use, combined with the algo pushing a culture of just following huge numbers of people which may never surface for you in the feed anyway.

If we trust the view counts on Twitter, the average tweet gets seen by just a tiny fraction of my followers.

On Mastodon, meanwhile, a very substantial proportion of my followers actively engage, and about half has shown "signs of life" (post, like, boost) in the last week or so.

That said, this will change as accounts age and slowly get abandoned there too, so it will take a long time before we see if there's a qualitative difference.
Travel is great. If the author doesn’t want to, our ticket prices are reduced.

One annoying travel thing: people who count numbers of countries they’ve been to. You can hop around so many European countries in a week. But driving around US, you’d see slightly more of the world but only can add one to your count. Needlessly arbitrary.

Most people here should consider themselves lucky how powerful our passports are. Do you know how difficult it is for most of the world to get tourist visas? It’s still in-person at the embassy experience and denials are expensive.

I feel a little pressure to travel sooner these days because the a380 is going to be phased out starting in the 2030s. There’s no drop in replacement for capacity available. Airports aren’t being built. And many people in Asia are joining the international travel economy. They’ll get past that visa hurdle. I think we are headed towards a point where international travel is going to skyrocket in price in the next decade due to capacity hurdles.
I try to fix non-urgent bugs or make small DX improvements in the code. It forces me to understand pains in the CI/CD, the codebases in general, but I can drop it for an unplanned meeting without causing problems. I also run toy side-projects outside work.
Modern web browsers are JavaScript engines that also render stuff. I understood the resistance to running JavaScript 20 years ago, but today, I rank that up there with buying a cell phone but refusing to run 3rd-party apps. The web is JavaScript now.
See levels.fyi 500-900k comp
For an IC isn’t that unheard of at FANG.
There's no such thing as automated lab equipment that can analyze it. Even the space station has to send air and water samples down to Earth for anything beyond very rough analysis. You need technicians and a cleanroom environment to do this work.
Seems to me it's more like Xbox has been redefined into something much bigger, now it's an umbrella of many big name game companies across all three platforms. They've also gained a lot more relevance on PC side of things, and their GamePass is very popular. They've finally embraced their Windows moat, and built a lot on top of it in the last few years.

Xbox as we know it (the console) became irrelevant, but that'd be assumed by everyone incl. Microsoft the moment they promised to bring Xbox exclusives to PC. IMO that was the first visible point of them committing to change course for Xbox. If anything, nowadays Sony seems to be pigeonholed to their own world, while Microsoft seems to be thriving.
That’s because you’re a human. Copyright and fair use law was built for people, and letting AI models have the same privileges will lead to worse outcomes. What’s so wrong about saying that it isn’t fair use for a machine to learn from your copyrighted data?
Well, this is plausible too, because 1) I've not seen signs of him being a suicidal fanatic, and 2) there were witnesses that he didn't amass enough support from the military.
Hi there. Another Convex cofounder here.

SiteGuide (https://siteguide.ai/) was the first to do vector embeddings with Convex, built by integrating Convex + Pinecone. This combination has been an increasingly common pattern over the last few months. So we put a template project to demonstrate how this is usually done:

https://github.com/ianmacartney/embeddings-in-convex

We're strongly considering building in vector search a little further down the road, but this is the recommended approach for now.
Yeah, but contradicts the point of not being forced.

Another case, official Web IDE for Github and Azure DevOps.
In my and many other developers experience and as indicated by studies, the expected number of bugs per line of code is constant and independent of the programming language. Thus, say, 400 lines of Python will contain the same number of bugs as 400 lines of C. But 400 lines of Python contains much more functionality than 400 lines of C. This is what you have been missing.
A lot of the downclocking issues he was talking about then are less severe now on newer Intel cpus and AMD cpus, which changes the calculus a lot.

You could probably find a workload where your conclusion is correct but I think the vast majority of workloads would be faster with AVX-512 if you have the time to leverage it.
A implies B does not mean B implies A. Certain human activities disturbs orcas, but that doesn’t mean all human activities disturb orcas.
How to decarbonise transport – in 15 steps [video]
Most of his important work has been done during the War and it was classified (being applied in electronic cryptographic machines), so he was not allowed to brag about it.
Further to that, the idea that "if you take moderation far enough you become a publisher" is the situation prior to §230, that §230 was enacted in order to get rid of (so that there would no longer be a disincentive for intermediaries to choose to moderate!).

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#Background_and_pas...
That's the best you can get as a student, just think what was acceptable 5 years ago
Runtime feature detection need not be rare nor hard, it's a few dozen lines of boilerplate. You can even write your code just once: see https://github.com/google/highway#examples.
Deploy Django on Kubernetes with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL