skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many are using it, you can see here https://esteroids.eth.limo/#/
I would think so, it's honestly strange to think about. The idea of having the node come back after it broke is a bit ridiculous to me. A node breaks, you delete it from your interface and provision a new one, the idea of even waiting 5 minutes for it to come up is strange. This whole conversation seems detached from how the cloud is supposed to and has operated in the past decade.
I mean jurisdictions that ban use of what could be considered "green" technology
Of course, the definition of "hottest midnight" depends on time zone arbitrariness, unless they mean local astronomical midnight, which I doubt.

(The definition of "hottest day" hardly depends on time zones in practice because the hottest time is very unlikely to be around the middle of the night. Perhaps they should have instead looked for the highest of the lowest temperatures reached between consecutive noons.)
Here’s an example from YT: https://youtu.be/dvpEuEkj4ZM
Yeah: the company that is all about locking down user devices and relishes in providing a DRM-ridden platform for developers to maintain complete control over their users is totally going to be against implementing this specification :/. I mean... it's possible? but any hope there is fully predicated on their hatred of Google and their distaste for the web.
I'm pretty sure I remember talking to people on IRC who used eskimo.com as their ISP.

I don't know if the company is still operational, but their website sure is! https://www.eskimo.com
When engineers complain about poor management practices in the tech industry, and it sounds unbelievable, this post should be an example of how bad things are in this industry.

For engineers, the only way to survive is play the game but stop caring about the company because they don't care about you.
Indeed. When there's only one person left alive they'll own all of humanity's wealth, making them the wealthiest person to have ever existed.
It feels very different and appeals to different crowds. I hate grinding against a challenge because I have to do a lot of that in real life, whereas blazing through the hell levels with my Diablo 1 Sorcerer was more like a relaxing stroll than much of a grind, with the occasional little reward from the RNG. Other people get a kick out of dying 83 times in front of the same boss, but that has never been me.
I was there too. People always say this, but just because a thing changed once does not mean it will happen again. In this case, the population scale alone has changed by over an order of magnitude.

Just doing some quick searching - the first numbers that come up when you search for "how many people used the internet in the year 2000" are on the order of 350 million or so. Comparatively, now, in 2023, Reddit alone has some 450 million users. It would seem right now that Tiktok has about three times the number of active users than there were total Internet users 23 years ago.

Additionally, there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars now resting on Chrome remaining the dominant browser.

Short of government intervention (or absolutely monumental fuckup on Google's part somehow), Chrome is here to stay.
HN has for a long time (longer than I've been here) had a strong libertarian streak, and like all libertarians they always seem to believe they're the ones who would come out on top in anarchy despite all historical evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps, but I'm not exactly looking forward to a future where surviving is the main objective.
I’d pay $1,000 for it.

Why don’t they make that conclusion about the iPad Pro then? Or any other device? Apple makes a ton of devices that have this capability costing a few hundred bucks it just seems nonsensical.

The last time I saw discussion of this people said it had something to do with having to license the chipsets or something but it didn’t seem too compelling of a reason in that context.
There could easily be good reasons why a 2 point story took three weeks.

If it was because you were interrupted and given other priorities, that is totally valid.

If it was an estimation failure, that really needs to be looked at and learned from.

I find that this is typically a problem with management and/or process, not the engineer. We as an industry typically do not respect the time it takes for engineers to produce an accurate estimate. This time itself needs to be treated as a first-class concept and time needs to be allocated to it which, in practical terms, often means it needs its own task/card/story/ticket/whatever in the framework of one's choice.

There are nearly always unknowns (typically some kind of externality or legacy code) to explore before we really know how much time something will take.
For a hotel, it depends on your policy.

But you could consider up to 1 roll per room and per night for short stays, as PPL will leave with it, and as you can't leave nearly empty rolls.

I mean, as a customer, I would expect to have tp innmy room.
That is a great one! Thank you
Isn't this the plot to the movie 2012?
Plenty of industries where "Fired for a drug policy violation" means never working in that industry again.
Most likely all extensions and content blockers would be disabled for DRMed sites. Or maybe they'd be enabled but the browser would tell the site you have a blocker enabled and the site would refuse to load.
Intel Xeon trains Graph Neural Network models in record time
Nothing circular. It's just a definition.

I think consent and honesty make something Fair. Nobody has refuted this and The only other counter argument I've seen is that full disclosure would mean the seller gets more money. What is getting more money have to do with fair.?
Well, looks like the Mali government disagree with you
twitch.com -> twitch.tv redirect

goo.gl is a link shortener like youtu.be aint it?

I dunno, It's just asking for trouble needlessly
Step 1: Sites require a "secure" (read proprietary) browser like "Google Chrome", "Microsoft Edge", "Safari" or refuse to operate.

Step 2: "Secure" browsers change the behavior of their implementation of the Content Blocker API so an industry-accepted "secure" site lile Google Ads can opt-out of being blocked ("You wouldn't want a misconfigured content blocker to accidentally break a verified secure site right?")

Step 3: ???
(Force the users into a take it or leave it choice for whether they want to be part of the internet or not)

Step 4: Profit
Twitch and Google probably are unlikely to have bases in Tuvalu and Greenland respectively.

And bit.ly probably isn't working out of Lybia.
> In the US you can buy as many $500 visa cards as you want at any grocery store with no ID.

Canada requires retaining a record of the ID used to buy the prepaid credit cards, too.

https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/guidance-directives/client-...
Carbon Capture from industrial point sources is extremely expensive and extremely ineffective. so I doubt that's going to be a thing. The only way I could see CC paying off is if big companies keep lobbying for government grants and taxpayers money to go towards their shite projects so they can abandon them halfway through anyway. This'll keep the prospect of "clean methods" of operating dirty industries in everyone's brain space through political and astroturfed mouthpieces, people will start to believe it and oil companies will once again reap the rewards of mass confusion
One thing a lot of people don't take into account is that roads and un-shaded rock can increase perceived temperature by 10-20 degrees. I used to work as a rock climbing instructor and the top of the rock would be over 120F. Same for roads, which makes road construction particularly dangerous.

For a while I worked weekends at the race track, all of the drunk people would drop like flies if it went over 100F. The pavement temperature was 150F+. It was like standing on a griddle. You could feel the radiated heat trying to cook your skin.
Like the boiled frog, perhaps we have not even realized that we are already cooked/doomed.
No wonder there is such “momentum” on watermarking.
The article is about BSD Unix which had a final release in June of 1995. So BSD is sayonara!

Long live FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, the stepchild(s) of BSD.
There are no limits and no such thing as qualifying for them. Amounts above 250k are up to FDIC discretion.

Anyway, I'm not talking about FDIC.
Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?
I am interested in any and all titles, as long as they held some significance. A specific moment/feature/oddity would also help, but please include spoiler warnings as needed for other readers.

Thanks for participating =)
Ours were cheerful happy babies until they turned into moody, constantly-bonkers late-toddlers/preschoolers/lower-grade-elementary-kids on whom zero disciplinary or behavior-correction approaches worked, whatsoever. None. Even a bit.

Both were eventually diagnosed with ADHD. Both got on meds. Now we're not constantly stressed every waking second with a chaotic house full of screaming and shit flying everywhere.

We'd have thought we were just the world's worst parents, if we hadn't had a third on whom every approach worked, exactly the way the experts say they should. That's when we were like, "oh, maybe it's not entirely our fault, maybe we should take these kids to a shrink".

We'd read these books on various parenting approaches, try each very earnestly and consistently for months at a time, and not once would any of it look like it did in the book. Nothing worked. Third kid, no ADHD? It all went exactly the way the made-up examples in the books said it should. It was a revelation. "Oh, this is what this stuff's like for most people! Holy shit, this is so easy!"
no ironing is a huge thing for me. Thank you
It's closer to "shared source" or "source available". The license is not compliant with the OSD[1] which is the de-facto (but not de jure, for you pedants out there) definition of "Open Source" in common usage.

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd/
You can also setup some reverse proxies to auth with SSO like Google. I use Traefik + https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth for personal projects, even on my local network.
> It's kinda similar to how Bethesda manages the Elder Scrolls IP, ~ a decade between titles and they casualize(? is it a word)/simplify mechanics that made them popular, they became a shadow of themselves

I felt that as well when I played Skyrim after Morrowind. The fact that you cannot sell or drop quest items (even quests you've not received yet), you cannot meet NPCs you've not been talked about, unkillable NPCs, the marker in the UI that tell you where to go... For sure, it's "convenient" and it alleviates a lot of frustration but it also makes the world feel less real.
What definition of entropy do you use?

(I'm using Shannon entropy.)
Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old
Basically under the actual terms of what open source is there can be no limits to particular users. Meta, in order to protect their competitive market share has said explicitly in Paragraph Two of their licensing terms

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" If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion.
--

Doing so, technically, takes the license out of the category of “Open Source.”

Sources:
Open Source Initiate Argument
https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-ope...

Llama Terms
https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
We don't have to play dumb. Everyone in this thread knows exactly what the article means, when it says that Llama was open sourced.

This obviously means that the weights were released, and everyone knows this, regardless of any pedantic definition of what "open source" means.
The GP is referring to Scattered Minds, I guess. But The Myth of Normal might also apply (I haven't read the latter).
lmao as a holder of a .me domain hope montenegro is fine
In my experience, a continuous stream of frequent iterations is very effective, but the driver for the early iterations must be "eliminate risk", not "deliver value". Sources of risk include novel functionality, the architecture's ability to support the functional and non-functional requirements, dependencies on external teams/tools/services, and politics.

Focusing on value delivery before the big risks are eliminated often results in facing a nasty decision: rip up a lot of already-laid track, or live with a sub-optimal organization and/or project structure.
Either Apple will make their devices refuse to sign the attestation if you're using it, or Google will remove Apple from its list of trusted attesters.
I don't think that's true. If my BOM costs go down by 10%, I don't need to charge any less money for my product.

If Apple could build an iPhone for 1 cent, why wouldn't they still charge $1000 for it? They can say it's how much iOS costs or whatever. (And hey, use the extra profit to hire more tax-paying iOS developers, making iOS even more valuable.)
This is one of the most fascinating stories I've seen from the Times. I'm honestly speechless. Life is so strange.
No I don't think it is but nobody is under the pretense that the engagement you outlined is full-time.
This guys boss picked him to be on the performance improvement plan. Even if his boss was forced to pick someone because of quota, the fact that he was picked must mean he was at the bottom of the pack in terms of performance. My advice would be to be humble enough to admit that the performance can be improved and take ownership of that fact and not make excuses like " my boss put me on notice because of a quota, i guess i should quit"
The Wikipedia entry on the .io TLD is interesting [1].

The .io TLD is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, and there's currently an ongoing international legal dispute over whether the territories even exist, or they just belong to Mauritius. If the U.N. "wins" the .io domain would be slated for removal (technically).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
Many companies built stock over last years and stoped buying new semiconductors until stock is almost depleted. I am sure it will be fine, no contraction soon. Only semiconductor companies will suffer.
I heard it was also because rebuild costs are so high, also labor shortage.
I have a similar view to yours: as soon as you need variables, imports, functions or any other type of logic ... the existing "data-only" formats break down. Over time people either invent new configuration languages that enable logic (i.e. cue or jsonnet), or they try to bolt-in some limited version of these primitives into their configuration.

My personal take is that at some point you are better of just using a full programming langugage like TypeScript. We created TySON https://github.com/jetpack-io/tyson to experiment with that idea.
Hasn't he been dead since 2011? So, whose hands are they actually putting that fate in is what you should be concerned since your boogeyman is no more dangerous than the Freddy Krueger.
I tried True Classic and I like it. I am a bit worried about it shrinking in the dryer so I hang dry it.
I don't really know how to trash the SSD in my software.
I see one more dangerous development imposed by this move: limiting access to web content for rival search engines. I'm sure that Google Robot will pass all "high security standards" and web integrity checks, while others won't be able to do so.
> For the foreseeable future, open source and open weights will be used interchangeably, and I think that’s okay.

This is a little weird given that directly above, the author puts LLaMA into the "restricted weights" category. Even by the definition the author proposes, LLaMA 2.0 isn't open source; we shouldn't be calling it open source.

If open source in the LLM world means "you can get the weights" and doesn't imply anything about restrictions on their usage, then I don't think that's adapting terminology to a new context, I think it's really cheapening the meaning of Open Source. If you want to refer to specifically "open weights" as open source, I'm a bit more sympathetic to that (although I don't think it's the right terminology to use). But I see where people are coming from -- I'm not too put off by people using open source to describe weights you can download without restrictions on usage.

But LLaMA is not open weights. It's a closed, proprietary set of weights[0] that at best could be compared to source available software.

It is deceptive for Facebook to call LLaMA open source, and we shouldn't go along with that narrative.

[0]: to the extent weights can be copyrighted at all, which I would argue they can't be copyrighted, but that's another conversation.
Has there ever been a case of someone locking GitHub issues while being in the right?
Just as a followup for those interested, after reading the paper and some more critique:

The paper is mostly ok in that it points out model drift and the importance of making sure you use API versions. One good thing is that the full dataset/methodology was published on Github: https://github.com/lchen001/LLMDrift (everyone should do this!) so it was easy to replicate/validate, but there are some issues:

* Simon Boehm stripped the markdown output from the June model output and shows that it actually performs signficantly better than the March update when the Markdown is stripped - 70% correct vs 52% correct. https://twitter.com/Si_Boehm/status/1681801371656536068 - Matei Zaharia (co-author) replies that the point of the paper is that you have to watch out for formatting changes in the LLM, but Matei also announced in the parent tweet "We found big changes including some large decreases in some problem-solving tasks," so which is it? https://twitter.com/matei_zaharia/status/1681467961905926144 - I also think the authors should have been well aware that their prominent Figure 1 would be interpreted as reduced capabilities and that they shouldn't be implying that it is. I'm just going to say it's problematic and leave it at that...

* Narayanan (and colleague Sayash Kappor) published an analysis of the Primality Test https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-gpt-4-getting-worse-over-tim... - basically, the March model didn't do any better than the June model. It's just that one tends to say yes, and one tends to say no, and the Prime factor questions that the authors asked were all "yes." They showed by flipping the questions, suddenly the June update does way better. So one, from a methodology perspective the distribution of yes/no should be equal, but secondly neither model actually has the capability to factor primes, so what's the point of judging if it's correct or not? If the June update for some reason said yes 500 times it would have scored a 100%, but wouldn't mean it actually made a difference on the results. Seems like a pointless test.

* Another thing to note from looking at the code is that they call the API w/ temperature 0.1, not 0.0 - LLM responses are non-deterministic even at 0.0, but I don't know why you'd set it to 0.1 in the first place. The question has been asked: https://github.com/lchen001/LLMDrift/issues/2

I wrote up a more points as well, will just leave a link for those interested: https://fediverse.randomfoo.net/notice/AXsoIewi72IUeXL888
Mailfence.com offers `mf.me`. Mailfence could go even further by offering email addresses under `@ba.mf.me`.

If someone secured the `.mf` ccTLD, they could grab other Pulp Fiction fans who want to be `<name>@bad.mf`.
One of my favorite things to do when the news is all about heat waves is monitor the weather at Furnace Creek, Death Valley:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.44802000000...

The forecasted high on Saturday is 126°F.
I could easily imagine trying to do it because I can rather than because I actually need to.

Also because of the missing middle: in Go (or Java, or C#, or even python) you could hand out slices to a large buffer, but discard the buffer rather than refill it in place, relying on the GC to clean things up (and possibly give you the same buffer on the next allocation). So you get an efficiency middle ground where you allocate more than strictly necessary but not for every line, and maintain correctness.

In Rust that’d require some sort of Rc projection which I’m not sure even exists?
It's really quite unlikely that the management of the .io domain will change. There are currently negotiations about the Chagos Archipelago. They involve mostly the right to return (for the Chagossians) and the rent on the military base (for Mauritius). There have been calls for the Chagossians to receive whatever portion of the domain fees go to the UK government (how much that is isn't really known), but nobody has called for the .io domain to stop existing or be changed in management.

The resulting arrangement would virtually certainly be something like Tuvalu and .tv. Nobody is suggesting that they go into a Freenom-style domain mess like .ml and a few other domains (which some countries decided to just give away for free).
Sure, if you support genocide I suppose that could seem to be an appealing investment strategy.

In my experience the Chinese hardware is noisy and inefficient. It may make sense for keeping a garage above frost levels, in case it lasts, but it does not make sense for heating/cooling a human abode.
houses need to reverse decades
This is one of those times I hoped politicians were more competent in a technical field like computer science.

I’d have a field day grilling the CEOs of Big Tech companies over stuff like this that only serves to kneecap their current and future competitors.
Your analysis is based on what's possible now. This is the worst it'll ever be.
You might be disappointed. Ethics training can't force people with different political viewpoints to conform to yours; in fact it gives them better tools to explain their views.
The low would be more interesting than the midnight temp. Low would be around 4-5am.
The title could have been worded better.
It's worth scrolling through. Stats that are so rare that they give food for thought, on two topics we deal with everyday (music and gender).

Plus it's nicely made.
Both groups of people who have no direct understanding of how any of this works.

You can demand change all you want but it doesn't change how the real world works. These people need to come off their high horse and come join the rest of us. So sick and tired of C-level people demanding shit they know nothing about.
Lots of Tap Water Contains ‘Forever Chemicals.’
Nice! It's really well written. I have followed a similar path, but for me, the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0] paper was the one that sent me down the rabbit-hole.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
This is not the right attitude. Google wanted AMP. Google didn't get AMP. AMP is dead.
It's not even phrased like that... If you read their examples it's very clear that they're not hiding the goal of using it as DRM for advertisiers.

In fact, their first example (!) outlines how this would be appealing to advertisers because they can attest a real human is viewing the content.
Nope. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
https://archive.ph/m8sqG