skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://mastodon-analytics.com/

I am sure as with any statistics there are major flaws and reasons why we can't trust the data, but from a glance it seems very reasonable. They had an initial spike in active users, then a major decline as the initial novelty was lost, and now it will either stagnate or get a steady but slow growth.

Number of created accounts will naturally increase forever.
You can just trigger fetch in the function that does the state change.
People are surprised every Presidential election to learn Fox News' election desk is one of the most reliable. I think 2020 might have been the last where it isn't compromised.
Conservative members voting in Liz Truss?
100 Days of Hacker News Recap Podcast
Open data here: https://op3.dev/show/f77aea62-97e5-5cce-92c6-9464e51c30c6 (only after June)

Averaging about 700 listens per episode, with total downloads over 60,000 to date.

Links for all podcast players here: https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com
You mean like this very helpful instance where it just makes shit up that directly contradicts the docs that are on the exact page it's on?

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
During the summer we have newspaper stories of people coming from NYC for the weekend and having their minds blown when they try to Uber.

I did see someone post on frontporchforum post that there were now a driver for either Lyft or Uber.

Your confidence in the uberness of Uber I thought should be broaden.
Thanks, I'll give Iosevka a whirl.
>Would it be a good idea to make society more inclusive for the less fortunate, intelligence wise?

First we would need to conclude that there is such a group of people. On this website I talked to peope who believe that the majority of people could become high performing mathematicians (something which no doubt is a sign of significant intelligence), when given the right learning methods. If that is true, surely every single person on earth could become a very decent engineer or participate in any other high paying job.

>I for one would like more government interference, so that everyone profits equally.

How would that look like? Even under the USSR intelligence still lead to better life outcomes.

The real solution is of course having a job market which can absorb the low performers and train them on useful tasks, which still allow them to earn a wage they can easily live of. The more automation and the wider the pool of low skill labor, the rarer those opportunities become.
Hahaha, it would fit perfectly. We should open an issue in Beef programming language issues list to change the name because it is violating the V +{a,l,e} rule. :D
Thanks for the link. I like taking these for fun, any idea where to find the advanced set for older teenagers and adults?
Judging by the rendered samples on the page, I'm gonna assume only the assets (backgrounds and characters) were AI generated. Animations, text, and camera movement were all done manually.
And the rest of the MS ecosystem is full of dark patterns to funnel you onto it also. Create a new meeting in Outlook - there's automatically a Teams link in it that nobody asked for. Even if it's a Zoom meeting.
Asynchronous high-speed microkernel Managarm can now run Discord
Managarm is a high-speed microkernel which is asynchronous. It now has support for running the 'Discord' chat client, making it the first hobby OS to become self hosted in it's development community.
I don't think I've ever seen a "AI wrote this!" script that wasn't very clearly heavily assisted or often outright created entirely by humans.
On one hand this is hilarious. But on the other hand it's a way better system than the one above, because the side effect has a positive portion to it.
It might even encourage every single webpage to be a bloated, user-hostile mess.
My guess is that they could have produced the same thing in roughly the same time without AI. Possibly with better results. Writing individual lines really is not the bottleneck.
Well, if there was an API hooked up to a webcam & 6-dof arm that would be an interesting task. (The steak)
For one example, Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" covers the mental health crisis amongst girls identifying as transgender.

An excerpt from the section "Trans as an intersectional shield":

> "“Of all of these badges of victim status, the only one that you can actually choose is ‘trans,’” Heather Heying, visiting fellow at Princeton University, pointed out to me. “All you have to do is declare ‘I’m trans’ and boom, you’re trans. And there you get to rise in the progressive stack and you have more credibility in this intersectional worldview.”

And earlier context:

> Kindergarteners are introduced to the “Genderbread Person”15 and “Gender Unicorn.”16 Kindergarten teachers read from I Am Jazz, and the little ones are taught that they might have a “girl brain in a boy body” or vice versa.17

> Teachers present an array of gender and sexual identity options and appear pleasantly surprised when a child chooses wisely (that is, anything but cisgender).

> The schools are not forcing adolescents to identify as transgender, but they are greasing the skids. The LGBTQ safe house they’ve fashioned is avant-garde and enticing, framed with moral superiority, insulated with civil rights...
not sure why I got downvoted but I shouldn't be surprised. this site is full of toxic, caustic assholes with superiority complexes.

the same people who downvoted me for not contributing will comment all day while not contributing anything.
HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
https://youtu.be/piwB5SJqZ7U

Over-fitted or copied.
Yeah, people here seem to forget that Javascript had actual competition in the browser space back in the day. It was very likely the winning browser-side language would have been a proprietary one, which isn't the world I want to live in.
And also half the government is trying to undermine them
This is probably one of the most anticipated release in the one recent times for all python ecosystem. A sincere thanks to handful (literally) of people who made this possible and despite all kinds of funding challenges.

Nevermind the foo broke bar comments here.
We encountered a specific GitHub Actions restriction at Depot[0]: for pull_request workflows that originate from open-source forks, Actions disables access to all repository secrets and to the Actions OIDC issuer, as a security mechanism to deny untrusted code access to those secrets.

But we needed a way to authenticate our CLI within those public workflows. This OIDC issuer is the result of that need, and works like so:

1. The pull_request workflow makes a "claim request" to the OIDC issuer, claiming certain details about the workflow like the ID, run ID, repository, etc.

2. The OIDC issuer responds with a "challenge code" that the workflow must periodically print to its logs

3. The OIDC issuer connects to the GitHub Actions websocket endpoint for log streaming, validates that the challenge code is being printed, then returns a new OIDC token to the workflow

This is working well for us, and lets us acquire an OIDC token similar to the GitHub Actions native OIDC token. The issuer itself runs as a Cloudflare Worker.

Happy to answer questions and I'd love any feedback you may have!

[0] https://depot.dev
Show HN: AutoML with API Access
Hi everyone,

I recently built out an automatic machine learning tool to help democratize the use of machine learning. The goal of the project is to help small-medium size businesses incorporate machine learning into their ecosystem without having to spend a lot of time and capital on building out a data science team.

I did some market research and I didn't find any tools that were user friendly or that didn't have a huge cost of entry. The whole idea is that someone who has a base understanding on technology should be able to come into the tool, drop in some data, and then build their own custom experience based on the model created on their data.

I made the user interface as easy as possible to navigate but it still needs some work. Here is a high level summary of the workflow: import your data as a .csv file, choose the column that you want to predict, let Heimdall work its magic, save your model, enable your model with an API key, and voila! You are ready to build your own experience with Heimdall!

Currently Heimdall accepts numerical and single word data but I am currently working on adding in sentence structure support. I have been working on this project as a hobby and using my own funds so the compute is limited. I have successfully built models that have around 30 columns and 20K rows. I understand this may not be good enough for the giant conglomerates but my mission is to help digitize everyday small businesses.

I would love for you to sign up and check out Heimdall! The awesome thing is that none of the original data is being stored anywhere. The only thing that gets stored is the names of the columns and the associated weights. You can always choose to anonymize the names of the columns to add in for additional security.

I am looking forward to any and all feedback. Thank You for your time.

Best,
Joel Reji
> It is opt-in. If you're using Tokio then you can specify whether you want to use a single-threaded or multi-threaded runtime. Multi-threaded is "default" in the sense that if you just use `#[tokio::main]` then you get a multi-threaded runtime but you can also just do `#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]` to get a single threaded executor.

Doing something extra to get a behavior different than default is the definition of opt-out my friend.
NFL Players are in a union with various rules around contracts, pay, benefits, etc. A corporation exploiting employees and those employees wanting protections against that doesn't need to be limited by what those employees earn.
https://openreplay.com is also great. Has helped us detect issues in our US as well as trace graphql requests.
Saw this some time ago. Any advantages over, say, Bitwarden ?
> not for their actual flaws (for which you need to understand how they operate)...

People who say that go to Washington then vote to start new wars. Being a well known member of the military industrial complex works is not a selling point. There may be a need to understand the system, but the consequences of America's forever wars are getting so disastrous that smashing things is starting to look like a sensible option. The financial burden of the ongoing death and destruction is starting to bleed the US out soviet-style.

"Well, he lied. He got us into the war with lies" may not be the whole truth, but it is a lot closer to useful than the people who want tweaks around the edges to the US foreign policy.
I have a dead-tree copy of the JVM Specification. I'm never going to need it, but it's a fascinating read and stands up well as a book.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se17/jvms17.pdf
US economist pulls out of key EU tech regulation role after Macron criticism
Canon Event
> the commission itself is captured/corrupt

It has been for quite some time (at least it was already dragging this reputation for the EU constitution referendum in 2005).

To the point that the schematic vision for EU organization is the EU parliament expected to represent EU citizens vs. the EU commission expected to defend private interests.

And Ursula von der Leyen has a horrendous track record when it comes to doing anything remotely positive. But having Margrethe Vestager defend this appointment was more of a letdown.
That is just the first thing a search turned up, I personally find that chart not very informative, everything is bunched together at the bottom and obscured by the large circles. And as you point out there are many complicating factors that one should consider to get a robust answer. I can not see if there is any noteworthy correlation in the chart.

My point was just that you can probably tease out some idea about the relation between executive compensation and company performance from available data. Personally I would not even consider shareholder return to be a good metric to begin with, I think companies should be judged by something like customer satisfaction as this is what companies are for, satisfying the needs of customers, not making shareholders rich.
note: You have a duplicate comment.
Other systems can do this with far less effort. It’s really a total joke.
Right but that'd actually be one of the benefits. Getting perfect grades in high school for me without spending all my time doing school stuff was a mad juggling of focusing/neglecting classes on rotation, always ensuring to get an A by the smallest possible margin, knowing how to properly front-load and have each teacher thinking of me as the kind of guy who gets an A, so I could get away with performing poorly at times before making a comeback.

A weird dance I happened to be good at, but not a skill to cherish or practice _because real work is rarely overloaded enough to make it necessary_

School should be about learning, not whatever meta bullshit the above was, at least for me.

Having more flexibility over pace would go a long way I think.
> I'm not convinced I won't see civil war in my lifetime.

You lost me here. There’s not gonna be a civil war. They’re just grifters left and right.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t leading a movement, she’s just using populism to promote Marjorie Taylor Green.

Meanwhile compare today with the political violence of the late 1960’s. Bombings, assassinations, organized groups advocating violence against the government. Those were actual movements. And yet the republic survived. No civil war.
Thanks for the suggestion but the point was that I still haven't found the dashboard program I was talking about. The shortcut to invoke the shell was just a feature I would like to see present in such a program
Let's say you are using a low level networking library that is async to the core, like hyper or quinn.

Then you will have some ugliness at the boundary. You might get by with just spawning a current thread runtime to use your async lib, or do something like blocking channels if your low level library spawns long lived tasks.

If your low level libraries are all sync, then there won't be much ugliness.
red green refactor. If it passes the test, the test is not good enough
Maven Enforcer does have a rule for duplicate class _names_ (which includes the entire namespace), but I think the author was more talking about it's enforcement of duplicate dependencies. For example, it will detect when you have different (transitive) versions of the same library referenced by your code or dependencies.
Calculate the net pay etc. while being compliant with federal/state regulations only, or automate payments to employee accounts as well? What is the minimal value that such saas can provide to get massive number of users?
Considering Evernote’s audio recording features, the only decent substitute I could find was OneNote.
Threads is too new for large communities to coalesce there yet.
Article is paywalled so I'm not sure if this idea is mentioned, but it is super interesting to me how a certain technology can be the locus of a lot of culture, but then evaporate entirely when that technology is replaced with something newer. A song like 867-5309 is a good example that simply doesn't have much emotional pull in a post-phone number world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
The market is in extreme greed, and while there is still some room for upside we know what usually happens eventually...

https://edition.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed
Did Microsoft champion a different scripting language around the time? An Ecmascript fork or something similar?

ETA: I saw @mouzogu mentioned "JScript" ... that's what I remembered.
FiraCode was my goto for a while, and it really worked well. I'm pretty sure was my first "real" programming font that I chose deliberately. Though I never got used to the ligatures and I did switch over ComicCode[1], I still remember that font fondly.

[1]https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
Mash from Inferno
https://inbox.vuxu.org/9fans/AANLkTikvTbqLwrxifri86cAEBS3wmk...
This whole meme needs to die. I'm so sick of reading "Piotr the factory worker spends an hour making a chair. Piotr is paid 5 roubles, but chair sells for 10! Piotr has been robbed of 5 roubles!" No, Piotr supplied one hour's labour, but not the training, raw materials, design, packaging, tools, workshop, electricity, financing, liability, insurance, accounting, management, marketing, shipping, or after-sales support. If the company is being run competently then the total cost will be less than the sale price, and the company will make a profit, but that doesn't mean the workers could produce the same value independent of the company. If they could, they wouldn't be working there.
See https://github.com/Extrawurst/gitui#3--benchmarks-top- for a comparison on indexing the linux kernel
Ten Finger Automation or Wizard of Oz are the terms my entrepreneur/investor group uses.
What's the best way to deploy Meta LLAMA2 to my app?
I'm building an AI Agent platform https://askgen.ie and want to integrate llama2 into my app.
Do you use Replicate?
> I encourage you to honestly consider, what sort of evidence would convince you that you're wrong?

ditto. If you have some evidence of a trick, should you ignore that evidence, because of the consensus view? Are you authority of yourself, or is the consensus right?

I'm not anomaly hunting. Perhaps there is a god messing with us, perhaps we are mentally ill (most of us, myself not included - most people are in 'default trust' of their authorities). I don't care about god and mental illness - not when there are are real examples of fakery that can be seen (and I have pointed to). And you can also read about the 'mega plans' - the plans are not hidden - look at the Huxleys for an example.

The changing of the briefcase colour is a comic example - but it is also a signal. Had you realised that they are able to edit the visuals in real time on news shows, without any disclaimers? What else do they do? Is this acting in good faith? The message I take is that media companies show that they have a strong control over the presentation. You are of course free to believe it is just a bit of fun.

The bottom line is that you cannot know the truth from anything you see on the screen, or even anything you don't personally verify. You can only know what you personally experience, as discomfiting as that is. And even then, the ideas you have been provided by education, culture, parents, etc will have moulded and framed what you are able to consider.

I've gone very deeply into several areas, and I'm certain that the media is there as a governance tool - their purpose is purely propagandistic. To say otherwise, is to fail to acknowledge reality - which is entirely understandable. Media is literally there to support and promote whatever narrative is considered to be the best to support. Russian propaganda is in kindergarten, compared to the Western form - but no, the news programs won't tell you this. Not only the media, but science (consensus science, not the scientific method), history (written by the victors), religion (always a form of control to promote the servile mentality), law (an extranised and controllable expression of morality), politics, etc - all are bent to serve the interests of a landed bloodline.

When you think of the output of the apparent consensus, and then compare that to what an individual with only a fair handle of reasoning would decide, you can see that all human tendencies are bent to serve an agenda that is expressed. Despite all one's cultural training, one ought to have trust and faith in oneself and one's reasoning - the truth is consistent, no need to provide excuses and justifications for the control structure. Unfortunately the external world is already under mind control (a self-affirming group psychosis) and there's no reasoning with it. However, one is free to follow one's own reasoning, and act according to that. Truth, and acting in alignment with truth, is foundational to the individual.
I used this font for a while, it's very readable, but my brain can't parse ligatures at all. When I'm dealing with !== === == I need to be able see every character and how they line up vertically.
How is management at Zappos for instance ?
Yes, when ChatGPT went public using 3 I was like, “Hah, yeah, that can’t come close to writing the narrative portions in my work.” Then 4 came along and it was more like, “ooh, a basic first draft in 15 seconds? That I can work with.”

Now, at least for some projects, I can give it a few rapid bullet points in incomplete sentences and have that first draft in seconds, after which I just need to tweak, add in tables and more detailed stats & results, etc. quite useful.
What Is in Production?
It's amazing how many new products Proton manages to make while still barely supporting their VPN on Linux.

On the one hand, nice work proton team. On the other, you lost a VPN customer today.
So you want to include a group by getting rid of activities they are not good at?
Sounds as good as getting rid of jobs that are mostly done by one gender to foster inclusiveness...
ExLlama still uses a bit less VRAM than anything else out there: https://github.com/turboderp/exllama#new-implementation - this is sometimes significant since from my personal experience it can support full context on a quantized llama-33b model on a 24GB GPU that can OOM w/ other inference engines.

oobabooga recently did a direct perplexity comparison against various engines/quants: https://oobabooga.github.io/blog/posts/perplexities/

On wikitext, for llama-13b, the perplexity of a q4_K_M GGML on llama.cpp was within 0.3% of the perplexity of a 4-bit 128g desc_act GPTQ on ExLlama, so basically interchangeable.

There are some new quantization formats being proposed like AWQ, SpQR, SqueezeLLM that perform slightly better, but none have been implemented in any real systems yet (the paper for SqueezeLLM is the latest, and has comparison vs AWQ and SpQR if you want to read about it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.07629.pdf)
> humans don't vary that much. Compare with some other species (dogs are often used) where there is a wide range of size, intelligence, and any kind of thing humans might have bred dogs to do.

How does human genetic variation compare to e.g. different wild canine (sub)species, such as coyotes, red wolves, gray wolves, etc.?
> but I'd rather do that than try to figure out how to get some dependency that isnt meant to use async to work in some async move closure

tokio::spawn_blocking[1], see it's not that hard. But sure to use another language you must learn it, an it requires a bit if effort…

[1] assuming you want to use tokio like post people do, but other executors should have the same kind of functions to do that as well if need be.
It’s easy to blame Fox News for everything but it’s really the internet that scaled it all out to where it’s hard to know what to trust
Really enjoy working with bits & bytes in Elixir. The syntax looks weird at first but pattern matching against an incoming message via individual bytes is very nice. I've found the gen_tcp / gen_udp stuff's documentation to be a little hard to grok as most of it only gives deep in the Erlang modules but once you "get it" you really get it. It plays very nicely with GenServer's too for super reliable, fault tolerant, tcp/udp acceptor clients. Thanks for the article, this will be a good resource for everyone to learn more about gen_tcp/udp directly!
Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste
Drugula is an agorist marketplace on the dark web that specializes in the free-of-state-control distribution of psychoactive substances. It is accessible through Tor at http://drugula44brpin5w2xk6j3adll35pp3zdihqqkndhg336j55pwdtu....
Is the Cure to Male Loneliness Out on the Pickleball Court?