skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human beings are just one species in the many ecosystems that make up the planet's biosphere. We cannot exist without those other species. Our understanding of the interconnections is extremely poor (see: "Half Earth" by E.O. Wilson). We are on track to change the climate so abruptly that the species we depend on will not adapt quickly enough. Jellyfish, for example, might thrive. Large mammals like ourselves will not.

Let me reiterate: If these other forms of life go extinct, homo sapiens will go extinct. What point is there in air conditioning if agricultural yields plummet over a huge portion of the earth's surface?

Consider birds for a moment, because they are familiar to most people and widespread. Bird populations have decline by a third during my father's lifetime. This is a multi-factor problem, but we know climate change and sea level rise leads to excess migratory bird mortality.

For more, see: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393608908
The one thing this proposal does right is trying to avoid fingerprinting.
Sam Bankman-Fried planned to build apocalypse bunker on Nauru – lawsuit
I have an ADATA 2TB in a PS5 and my work machine. These aren't fly by nights.

They can be had for sub $100. Even the much lauded Samsung 980 Pro is dipping close enough to the same.
Honestly not trying to troll, if you’re trying to avoid bloat shouldn’t you go with C instead of C++.

At some point you’re going to run into virtual tables among other overhead.
Not that it's okay for this to be in the license, but I'm curious: what is the use case for synthetic data? Most of the discussion I've seen has been about how to avoid accidentally using LLM-generated data.
The reason has to be commercial. Clearly they think that the business case is not strong enough to make it worthwhile.
It doesn't have to be "everyone", but imagine how much healthier the internet would be if 0.1% of the users of any social media network self-hosted and went on to provide the services for their friends/family.

To add to that, imagine if every small business that wants/needs to have a web presence (basically, everyone) could have many different hosting providers where they could have their own Mastodon server, Web Page, online support and calls via Matrix, etc. This doesn't need to cost more than $50/month, i.e, probably less than what people pay in their cellphone bill.

Just that would make - almost by definition - that no server would house more than 1000 people. It would be completely resilient.
Stable Diffusion is a good example of this progression.

There are new models/papers/backends coming out all the time (including SDXL, which is similar to the original SD), but the community is so entrenched in Stable Diffusion 1.5 and the old Stability AI PyTorch implementation that moving to anything else hasn't really happened yet.

That being said, I think Llama won't stick around as the "de facto" standard for over a year unless Meta keeps releasing better foundational models.
This is a perfect example of why we need a union for tech engineers. The “if you were better” argument or other reasons that people in tech love to use doesn’t apply here - this is a pure capital Vs labor power dispute.

This kind of bullshit and “sorry nothing I can do” response from a line manager is unacceptable to just be ok with - especially when it’s purely driven by rent seeking.
Flash wear says hello.
Side note: its best not to put easter eggs in your app, especially when you think no one will see them.

Visiting the link with scripts disabled gives me a "damon is g*y" banner.

Not only can the message be construed as hate speech (could be an inside joke but I'm not "inside") but it could also be that you outed someone who didn't want to be out.
I'd prefer that Mazda RTX 3090
What's this "voluntary resignation" BS? It sounds like they're firing you if you don't relocate (and is this relocation on the employee's dime?) It's be nice if the article had interviewed a labor attorney as to the legality/ramifications of this. But yeah, "Business Insider". :/
> Some aspects of the business want to tweak things and it should be reasonably guaranteed that the automated side never touches it.

What would a legitimate case for this be?

It seems to me like any changes either must be done via IAC -- and tracked in source control, PR'd, tested in non-prod, etc -- or a missing feature.

If there's a legitimate case for modifying something not in IAC, it should be supported -- this is what I mean by "missing feature". The app and/or IAC should have code for that feature.

Modifying IAC-deployed settings is akin to someone hacking the binary of an executable from a software vendor while still expecting the vendor to support that modified executable. Not gonna happen.
> The saving grace here might be that Firefox won't implement the proposal.

As others have said, FF doesn't have a lot of leverage left to influence those type of decisions, but Safari might. Not sure what their position is on this proposal.

The one pager has a section on stakeholder feedback [0], but doesn't name them for some reason.

[0] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
I normally avoid this kind of legal pseudo-gossip, but love this paragraph:

The plan was to “purchase the sovereign nation of Nauru in order to construct a ‘bunker/shelter’ that would be used for ‘some event where 50-99.99% of people die [to] ensure that most EAs survive’” the memo said, referring to “effective altruism”, a philosophical and social movement championed by Bankman-Fried that tries to maximize the impact of charitable giving.
> It was also dangerous for your PC: as soon as people ceded the ability to led their parties control what we run on our devices--such as by "only firmware signed by Apple can run on my phone"--we lost this war.

If that's how "we lost this war", then it was lost before it even started. Even before Apple released their phones, it was already the case that phone firmware came only from the phone manufacturer. That is: phones come from a different lineage than PCs, and were never as open as general purpose computers ended up being.
There was a Radiolab podcast two weeks ago that covered how tree ring width patterns could be decoded to match hurricane season intensity and this was matched to sun spot activity. They pinpoint a lull that allowed sugar to become a cash crop in Caribbean, allow chattel slavery and later piracy to flourish and noted that right now is a similar inflection point for an end to a lull and start of worse weather via the sun’s cyclical activities. We’ve only just begun.
It’s not the GOP, its an entire economic system, defended at nuclear gunpoint, by the one of the world’s largest carbon emitters, who both parties reward with ever-expanding, fraud-ridden budgets, while their citizens starve and die on the streets, go bankrupt from illnesses, etc.

I’m sorry to tell you, but there is no one in the halls of US power steering the ship away from the worst outcomes of climate change because the entire thing is bought and sold by the people profiting from it.
If Amazon cut your pay in half and you resigned, would they also consider that "voluntary"?
You're taking the very much not-universally-shared position that concealing something you know would make a big difference counts as "honest".

[EDIT] I retract the "circular" claim—you're right that it's not that, it's the definitions of "lying" and "honest" that are making the difference.
Any open source is good open source, meta has contributed react and pytorch to the world. They should be applauded for their contributions to software. They have done far more than any other big tech company.
Calling Llama 2 "open source" is obviously a misleading marketing tactic to capitalize on positive connotations of the term, while in reality it's nowhere even close to being open source. This has nothing to do with any kind of pedantry, "open source" is a specific term with specific meaning, and "releasing the weights" is completely orthogonal to it being open source or not.
Anyone who really wants to stay informed need only to glance at the Wikipedia current events portal [1] once a week. Any global event of any note will show up there with very little sensationalism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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> … speeds dropped dramatically when the outside phone lines got wet.

It’s not uncommon (even today) for insulation to fail somewhere on the line, which allows for water intrusion and transient shorts.
I wonder if the same can happen to .sh - it’s widely used by Schleswig-Holstein (a German state), but originally it’s a tld for the Saint Helena islands.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173
Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697

Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237005499_Simple_Ma...
Get some documentation that proves this. Hire a lawyer. Go to HR. Get a settlement...
Tuning a tiny classifier
It's nonsense like this that makes a more rational debate around carbon capture difficult.

Yes, CCS will likely have to play some role in a future decarbonized society, e.g. for cement production. But it's not a plausible lifeline for fossil fuel companies. The vast bulk of emission reductions need to come from phasing down fossil fuel use, and that is fundamentally incompatible with their business model.

(shameless self plug: I tried to write down my view on the whole CCS issue recently: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/can-ccs-escape-from... )
You are arguing against a strawman. Capitalism has little to do with entitlement. Capitalism is actually the only practical system which we have found for efficiently allocating resources at scale over extended periods of time in a way that improves living standards.

The counter arguments to this position are entirely theoretical and have never been proven to work in the real world. Perhaps there is some non-capitalist economic system out there waiting to be invented which could deliver superior results without eventually devolving into an authoritarian dystopia, but I doubt it.
Dude if your religion needs 2000 years of theologians to interpret correctly, all the while being a pretext for war, genocide, racism, sexism, and an accidental source of child abuse, your religion sucks and the world would be better off without it.

You don't need "better Christians" -- you need people to stop being Christians.

> Also there's a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about what teachings are, what Jesus really said, a misunderstanding that God is somehow punitive or vengeful which Jesus tried to clear up but we still seem to fall victim to.

That your religion is this incoherent is itself a huge problem and the source of many ills.

> I agree with you about churches perpetuating problematic power structures, clericalism and so forth.. But that in itself is people's failings isn't it? Doesn't mean that all or even many Christians are supportive of that.

You're saying blame the priest who diddled kids, not the church that teaches priests to repress their natural urges until they manifest in taking advantage of defenseless children. You're saying blame the idiots who "misinterpreted" the Bible and created churches where women cannot lead, and not the texts that provide the argument for their behavior. That's not agreeing with me on problematic power structures, that's failing to see problematic power structures.

> Treatment of women - often women are not treated well , whether in the church or not. Shouldn't be happening.. but again human failings rather than something fundamental about religion or church per se, IMHO.

Except that the basis for western oppression for women is largely rooted in Judeo-Christian beliefs. And in the middle east, Islam is the source.

It's all garbage.
Cloudflare Workers is C++. I would assume that a lot of the related things (KV, Durable Objects, etc) too.

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
that must mean this guy was still at the bottom of the pack in terms of performance

A.E Housman had something to say about the belief that the world is generally fair: "He [Joe Public] believes that the text of ancient authors is generally sound, not because he has acquainted himself with the elements of the problem, but because he would feel uncomfortable if he did not believe it; just as he believes, on the same cogent evidence, that he is a fine fellow, and that he will rise again from the dead. "
Or (most likely) they will negotiate how to split the money. Maybe through some kind of safe advertising consortium.

Apple is just fine with collecting user data on platforms so long as they're the only ones doing it. Apple even runs its own ad network over its own app store.
> Arbitrary Internet data that is not copied

It's all but certainly copied, and not just in the "held in memory" sense but actually stored along with the rest of the training collection. What may not happen is distribution. There's a difference in scale/nature of copyright violation between the two but both could well be construed that way.

Additionally, I think there's a reasonable argument that use as training data is a novel one that should be treated differently under the law. And if there's not:

> If you want to do that, you have to limit end-user freedom with an EULA.

What will eventually happen -- at least without some kind of worldwide convention -- is that someone who can successfully dodge licensing obligations will be able to take and redistribute weight-data and/or clean-room code.

At least, if we're adopting a "because we can" approach to everything related.
yes I totally agree.
BTW, is there a reliable search site for hotels with EV chargers?

booking.com lies — their "has EV chargnig" search filter actually means "there may be an EV charger somewhere in the same city".
The cheap money problem is, at root, that investors were pouring money into projects with bad unit costs. Had they understood that the product can't* be sold at a profit, they would not have done that.

* in the current business environment, where it competes with farmers who have lots of nice land and free sunshine. Maybe in some future hellscape, food towers will be our most economic option. Or indeed in a future paradise where the externality provided by wilderness is priced appropriately, such that people have an incentive not to waste precious land and biodiversity for the sake of corn and beef.
No, we don't all know that they are, because they aren't that.

Transactions are the signals for building trust, but they aren't the only components in the relationship. Shared history, shared vocabulary, commitments built on that that trust... These are not just transactions.

It's like saying that "we hate to admit it, but all the company really is is the emails and Slack messages the employees send to each other."

It's not that simple.
Yes you can. Most countries correct course at some point, whether via election, protest, upheaval, civil war. etc.

The younger generation understands. But I don't buy that Russians, esp the older, simply know the level of control and propaganda that they've been subjected to over the years. Otherwise they would have done something about it by now.
This writer (Digital Antiquarian) has a lot of interesting articles on early computers and computer games.
Yeah, right, it's not like they need to build a 20km long telescope. Plus there are hundreds of thousands of people living close by; this isn't Area 51.
..and a 4090 for the 1000 EUR it should cost, not the 1900 EUR..
PIPs are used as tools to lay people off or get revenge often. It's not meant to be an actual "performance improvement plan." There's many stories of people hitting all requirements within the PIP to still not hit "the bar" due to a constantly arbitrary and changing PIP requirement. PIP is often a cowardice way to do layoffs or for upper management to not admit they have too many resources allocated for their own deliverables.
Odd that these were my exact thoughts just a few weeks ago. Im glad to see the idea making the rounds.
1. increasing performances is not one of the reasons they give for switching, although

2. ultimately getting rid of cgo would probably help a lot anyway, cgo calls are pretty slow

Also JSON is used when delegating to Go because the Rust binary does not handle the command anyway.
Should you, though? BLE itself uses UUIDs, but the ones it uses are in a shortened format just because the BLE frames are small and the protocol is not too fast.

Granted I've even used JSON over GATT so maybe I should keep my mouth shut :).
You trying to get us to snitch on our fellow comrades? Taiwanese engineers should be considered friends of US, and honestly US should be doing much more to facilitate free movement of people among fellow democracies, such as Taiwan.
I haven't used Zim, but from a cursory look it doesn't seem like it has any way to query its daily journal entries. In Logseq your daily journal might contain a dozen todos, bulleted project notes, and random thoughts all mixed together, but you don't need to look at the day's entry to find them again. Instead you run a query against all your notes to collect stuff where it's relevant.
The special thing about this is that creating new rice cultivars are difficult. Indian farmers specifically discovered and developed techniques to prevent self-pollination and encourage cross-pollination. This allowed for an explosion of rice varietals.

In other words the special part here, along with the quantity, is that the process was deliberate and encouraged. There are like 110,000 identified cultivars of rice in India. There are special harvest festivals that specifically encourage the discovery of new rice varietals which are then shared in these festivals.
The underhanded way this is being proposed is really something else. It's hosted on a non-google github to provide distance, it's worded in a way that makes it seem like this is something that benefits users, when it's the absolute opposite of that. It subverts the whole concept of a user agent. This is a huge threat to our industry and we cannot allow this to happen.
"here are the things I'm committed to for the next
two weeks. Which of them should I not do to make
room for this new priority?"

Yeah. People will scoff at this and say that you don't need agile or sprints for this. And they're correct, but naive.

Certainly I have successfully done this in the past without fancy agile religion or ceremony. In fact it's a valuable skill for any job in any industry.

But it has always been hard to do and I'm sorry, but most people (both engineers and managers) are bad at it most of the time. The industry clearly needs help with this concept.
>So what if you think their justification is weak?

"so what if you think a for-profit company is making an extraneous decision and wasting the time of their employees?"

you don't need to be a language fanboi to understand that superficially changing languages to meet the trend is wasteful/harmful/dangerous/stupid in nearly all cases when you already have a working (and bought) product -- if that is suspected here then it makes good sense to judge the decision-making capabilities of the organization.
I don't understand why ethics in engineering has to be framed as a political discussion.
Any specifics about the second paragraph anecdote? It seems like a serious scandal.
Expertise makes sense in larger teams and companies. The smaller you are the more one person has to do. The larger ypu are the more you can afford to have a few people who are absolute experts of a small section but can't make a project complete end to end. But at a large enough company it doesn't matter.

If you have 10 engineers, you need generalists.if you have 1000 engineers, generalists generally are smart people who are potential experts, but not really that useful.
Yes I was looking for a better term but thought "closed source" fit in the context.

Thanks for the insight, I thought this would probably be the case.

Do you think traditional intelligence services have any blindspots that OSINT are managing to make headway? Even if overall the balance is far more in favour of traditional players?
The issue is the adversarial nature of it, vs your insurance company calling you and making an inspection, or telling you they noticed a problem and asking you to address within a reasonable timeframe. I think you understand this just fine.
Run something like Chia.

(Obviously not an endorsement.)
Remind me to pass on any of your dinner parties...
It’s neat to start reading and immediately run into professor Evi Nemeth being quoted. I TA”d for her a few year later, and it was axiomatic in her labs that BSD Unix was the only true Unix, that slowaris was a abomination and ATM was the worst network protocol ever devised.

We eventually got her onto this new Linux thing..
After reading your comment I was surprised to find out that credit card chips have any processing capabilities whatsoever, which they apparently do, though at least according to gpt4, they are far too basic to run java/jvm. ?
If you are looking for quality I suggest you look at the IPCC reports. Each word is carefully chosen, every claim backed by mountains of evidence. They're written to be read and understood by non-experts. They exist to inform decision making that will literally determine the fate of our species. As such, they may be failing at their goal, but not for a lack of effort by the authors.
It exists: https://co-charger.com/

However, this is a different use-case than motorway charging. Home chargers are slow, designed for charging overnight. On a road trip you want to recharge in 20-30 minutes, and that requires much bigger DC chargers you won't find at home.
Show HN: Fresco.lol: Create AI Art with friends
I wanted to show my kids all the cool stuff you can do with AI these days, so I made a little prompting game tied to Stable Diffusion. You can play in single player mode, or invite upto 2 friends and "build a prompt" together. I thought HN might be a cool place to share it - would love your ideas on how we can make the experience and gameplay better. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to ship something before the weekend!
The article you linked to makes it sound like the future of .io is up to debate and not necessarily stable, IMO.
The Matrix spec defines everything about how communication should happen—port discovery, federation, transport, wire formats, encodings, schemas, addresses for people, group membership, reconciliation of parallel histories, ..., and, yes, end-to-end cryptography. MLS is just the end-to-end cryptography part, how to turn it into bits, and a general idea of where the underlying network should deliver those bits. Nothing about how the delivery is accomplished or how to format the user data that’s protected by the cryptography.

The corresponding part of Matrix is called Olm (for two-party conversations) and Megolm (for groups). Why (a Matrix mapping of) MLS and not those then? The Matrix people, who did have a hand in MLS, say[1] it performs better than Megolm, and IIRC Megolm is indeed something of a hack on top of plain Olm, because E2EE on Matrix has been built up gradually starting from the simpler two-party case. Unfortunately, it looks like MLS as specified is insufficient for Matrix, because it relies on a global clock—which you can’t get in a partition-tolerant federation—but they think that should eventually be solvable[2].

[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/a-giant-leap-with-mls/

[2] https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/mls-ts/-/blob/decentral...