skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I guess we're freaks lol. But it was really surreal given how convincing it is to others, that we're having a very different interpretation. Fwiw, if I zoom in on Amsterdam and Rome I can get them to disappear, although they still stand out in the scene, just become less legible.
It's payback from years and years of idolizing the man and how big a genius he's been for single handedly designing all these rockets and cars. Now it's become acceptable to criticize him, at a time where he's also publicly demonstrating that he's not quite a tech genius (unless his goal was to destroy twitter) and that he's an asshole (see the way he fired thousands of people).
Sourcehut 2022 Financial Report
2008 I had a totally offline map of all of North America in my car's aftermarket radio (7" touch screen, AM/FM, DVD player, GPS, analog TV, SD slot, all running a version of WindowsCE that was already outdatted). System cost me about $400. Bought it so I could do backroads road trips/exploring by car, as it didn't need (or even have) a way to connect to the 'net to do it. I can still get updated maps for it, but I don't bother.

Handheld gps's with offline maps go back even further. I was using them from '03 to '08. Garmin made a bunch of ones that were no bigger than a early-gen blackberry. Back then it was relatively easy to get pirated updated maps for them.
Indeed which is why I write everything in machine code. What sort of elitist could possibly think this is a bad idea?
Find the quote from the sub incident, someone literally just handed that to you, and you're already dissatisfied and asking the same thing again?
50% of the time I use my car, I drive more than 150 miles on a trip.

However, I do not commute with my car. And most people should press their local authorities to develop infrastructure so that they don't have to either :)
Where doesthe outcome of proceeds go - and lets assume they go to some "fund for future futures to futureer the futurings on futures" bullshit...

How even measure outcomes, aside from the fact that "they" want to bury this 'thing'

Prove me wrong.
It is well defined: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
I was responding to his point about Oil dependency.
Sorry? What do you mean here? Hate on what/who?
Or maybe it’s a honeypot, directly or indirectly.
Zoho? Airbase? Rydoo?
Ethernet Consortium Shoots for 1M Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand
also comes with repo for crowdsourcing https://github.com/opening-up-chatgpt/opening-up-chatgpt.git...
> Twitter was a threat to Donald Trump and those who allied with him, not the US national security state.

A threat to all of those in power, for the same exact reasons.

The posts you happened to see personally don't really have any relevance on the various power groups around the world that have had big leaks on the platform.
Don't forget income tax.

They have to juice the masses for productivity as well so they can be taxed!
> I think you misunderstand the purpose of statecraft and adversarial relationships. The point is to gain and maintain a strategic advantage, not to be maximally fair.

Oh, I understand: it is that Westerners believe that what is mandatory for us is optional for others.

> We want to have capabilities and exert a level of control and influence that Russia is not also able to exert.

Right: regional security for us, but not for you.

> When we try to prevent China from controlling popular media narratives, it's not a gotcha to say "ha, but the US does that, too."

Yes it is, because it illustrates hypocrisy, thus is a gotcha.

> Yes, that is the entire point. We're trying to win, not to play fair. Which is also what they're trying to do.

Right, but our politicians and media lie about what is going on, and lots of people believe them so now we have a mess on our hands.
"I rented a server in Poland and someone uploaded CP to an Austrian image hoster. They reported it to the Austrian police, which contacted the ISP, which gave them my WHMCS login IP and then subpoenaed UPC Austria for my address, then queried the weapons registry."

The FBI method of fabricating criminal charges. Criminals sleep comfortably knowing their governments are more interested in playing whack a mole for political image than effectively doing their job. Notice how in Austria they aren't charging Google, or Facebook, or any other entities where such data passes through every day.
UPS stores charge a fee for notary service. It's around $20 where I am in the Midwest.
Would making each tribe its own country be that much better?
Latency sensitive? I'd guess you'd have some issues, because I've read that OpenBSD doesn't have syscalls to set cpu affinity for userspace threads/processes, which means you're subject to the kernel scheduler and might have tasks move in less than ideal ways.
Apparently they also have moneyfactory.gov
You're free to adopt them in English. Such as 'schadenfreude'. We got a Dutch word for that; leedvermaak.
I think neither of these statements are true. Car weight has increased (https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/...) as well as pedestrian deaths which have increased 77% in the last 10 odd years (https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/map-pedestrian-fatalit...)
> "We applaud Meta’s approach to open and responsible AI and are committed to driving innovation and reducing barriers-to-entry for developers of any size by bringing generative AI on-device,”

Can someone explain to me why Meta's approach is responsible? I mean, I applaud Meta for "open sourcing" the models, but don't they contain potentially harmful data which can be accessed without some kind of filter? Let's say retrieve instructions on how to efficiently overthrow a government?
There is no world where hydrogen would ever work for cars.

It takes 50% more energy to generate hydrogen than to just use electricity itself. It takes million dollar facilities to generate that hydrogen and turn it into electricity.

Then, it has to be stored at a very high pressure in your car, which has a number of risks. Then, if you have an accident and it doesn't completely blow you up, there can be a fire, in which case you are now on fire but people just think you are a crazy person running around because hydrogen has an invisible flame.

Or, you just use electricity.
> They love to plan everything a year in advance

Apart from energy independence and defense.
It's been happening in Japan for a while now. I don't think misery is the right word for it. Adult diapers have been outselling baby diapers there for a while now. Maybe it hasn’t progressed far enough to judge yet.

As long as it happens at a slow enough pace for us to adapt, it could be alright.

I wouldn't want to depend on social security or pension programs for my retirement though. Those systems would collapse in an environment where the aging population outnumbers the working population that drastically.
No one has mentioned it but maths is short for mathematics. Also, your judgment of a very common figure of speech comes off as provincial.
This is literally an excuse for anything I can label "progress."

Random citations of examples of hard work, capped off with an accusation of hypocritical selfishness.

The word "progress" is not a justification, any more than the word "reform."
In the absence of the sun (which is what ultimately drives ocean mixing), eventually this would lead to a layer of pure fresh water on top of a layer of salt. The energy is being driven by osmotic pressure of salt water. Once you have extracted the water out of the salt, that pressure is exhausted. Thus it is not perpetual.
> (...) boys and girls have about the same IQ up to the age of 15 years but from the age of 16 the average IQ of males becomes higher than that of females with an advantage increasing to approximately 4 IQ points in adulthood.
Ah ok I was a little confused with the wording, but who you keep around you has long-term compounding effects. I like this one bc it's so so tru
Sounds to me that he is arguing that sometimes, in fact, exchanging power for solving a problem is a worthy trade-off.
I'll admit I'm a bit surprised by "apartment in suburbia". Of US I have only seen few places. I thought most people either live in a house in the endless featureless landscape of suburban New Jersey or in Brooklyn apartment or whatever - and the former can charge in their driveway and the latter can just mostly use the subway and citibike.

Anyway my assumption was that someone would likely either have a driveway or a public transport. But I'm sure there are places that have neither - I'm just not sure how common that is.
Could you explain a bit more? I don't have kids so I'm interested to learn more.
> The Internet drove the cost of production and distribution down to basically zero, so, as classical economics predicts, the amount of production exploded.

No, economics predicts that _use_ will explode if the cost is zero, but that's not a comment on production.

Pocket cameras have reduced the cost to record sexual abuse, but that's dwarfed by the ability to reproduce/ distribute those copies.

I don't think that means sexual abuse is more common. On every other metric we have, it appears sexual abuse is _less_ common.
Roads are profitable? Non profits are profitable? There is an enormous amount of valuable work done in aggregate, every day, funded without the intent to profit and with work performed by people not maximizing for comp.

DARPA's mRNA research that directly led to rapid COVID vaccine development comes to mind. Cut out the middleman. Fund the research directly. We're paying for the end result one way or another (if not with direct government payment, with government payment to companies who are then taking profit, spending marketing/admin expenses, etc).

You make it sound as if nothing will get done if poor corporations can't lock medical tech up behind economic gates. We can always go back to ruthless capitalism if pharma price controls don’t work.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
from my very limited experience with people who ride motocyles, they love the risks involve. Otherwise they'd not bother riding a motocyle
It's accurate that Lampert did engineer a bust, but it happened after Sears had missed the ecommerce boat. I don't think Lampert could have done the deal if Sears hand adopted the internet. The Lampert purchase happened in 2005. Sears shuttered the catalog business in 1993, and Amazon launched in 1994. Amazon started expanding into non-book product in 1998, and it was clear to the Sears universe that they had completely and utterly messed up.
Could we not, with the regional slurs here? Chicago has a lot of public corruption cases largely because it's a huge city. Louisiana and DC have the highest per-capita corruption, followed by Tennessee. It's not that the point you're making here is totally invalid --- there's public corruption in Chicago, to be sure! --- but there are other ways to say it. The actual capital of public corruption in the US is, as it turns out, also just the country's capital.
Did you not read my link? The Democrats, the FBI, Twitter, and liberal media colluded to work against Donald Trump.

Guess what...if you're on the side of the Democrats, the FBI, Social Media, and over 90% of traditional media companies, you're part of the establishment and the US national security state.

Donald Trump was the one that was considered a threat to the establishment.

I'm not debating the merits of Donald Trump as a person or as a politician, but literally the opposite of what is being asserted here in other comments is what happened.
An LLM is made entirely out of transformers; you could just call it a "large transformer model".

In this case it's a transformer model that is not "large". So, an LM.
As US heat wave spreads, Arizona counts the dead: 18 confirmed, dozens suspected
After Heartbleed, BSD developers forked OpenSSL and "cleansed" it. They removed ridiculous amounts of unmaintained legacy code, rewrote much of the rest, and tightened the security.

The old code was littered with conditional compilation macros that made it virtually impossible to reason about or test. There are just too many forks in the tree of possible compile flags.

The style of "make this code work against every possible standard library" is broken and results in insane spaghetti code. Instead, the BSD team rewrote OpenSSL in terms of a modern, complete C standard library. Then instead of making their LibreSSL cryptography code have conditional flags in it, they wrote shims for the standard library so that it would work on platforms where there are missing functions.

This results in far cleaner code that can be reviewed and tested with much greater confidence.

I dug up a couple of presentations by the LibreSSL team 9 years ago. It's full of "Wat!?" moments, such as discovering the OpenSSL has its own implementation of malloc & free! Why? Because on one platform they nobody uses any longer, those functions were "slow"! So now they have a custom-developed poorly maintained heap full of security issues. Worse still, that custom heap does not benefit from the security features of modern allocators or analysis tools like valgrind.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4psTQ1sX7s

I love the bullet point list of insanity they cut out:

- Ebcdidc support
- DOS support
- MacOS Classic support (pre OS 10)
- Win16 support
- VM Support
- Big-endian AMD64 support (!?)

That last one is a story in and of itself...
> With hydrogen based car though it's an almost exact copy of the ICE car. It's got a big, hot finicky fuel cell under the hood that requires ongoing highly qualified maintenance.

That's utter bullshit. A fuel cell is literally an electrochemical system no different than a battery.
Ask HN: Open-Source Alternatives?
Hi HN - looking to compile a list of open source projects for various common problems.

So far I have:

- authentication/authorization: Ory (ory.sh)

- payments and billing: Lago (getlago.com)
and now

- CRM: Twenty (twenty.com)

What have you seen thus far and are impressed with?
Because classical scholars tend to brush this under the carpet out of misplaced deference or reverence for Plato (or perhaps because they quite enjoy the conceit of the philosopher-king). You have to go to Russell or Popper for an explanation of how evil Plato's ideology is, even though it is there black on white in The Republic:

- "noble lies" and propaganda as the basis of the state

- strict separation of the population into castes

- taking children away from their parents and brainwashing them

- killing of political dissidents

Even in Orwell's 1984 parents kept their children, even if they were indoctrinated into squealing on their parents. If anything, it looks more like John Boorman's Zardoz.
There is a 5 bed, 3 bath 3000 sq ft Victorian on my block in Hyde Park listed at $659k that I bet will go closer to 600.

It’s in good shape, doesn’t need any major work and is in the desirable school zone.

https://redf.in/tweamI
So it's just that he's an asshole and tweets childish adolescent insults to liberals or am I missing something more?
> protected time to cross

As a road runner and bike commuter in the before times who's been run over a couple of times, crosswalks are a shit idea that cause far more harm than good, full stop. Fuck crosswalks. This is actually a good example of what the article discusses, because there's only two possible states: one, in which there's little enough traffic that crossing normally is obvious and trivial, and two, where there's enough traffic that no quantity of flashing lights, neon striping, reflectors and such could ever make crossing truly safe. Staying alive on the roads without a death cage requires assuming that anyone in a car can and will ignore any rule at any time, because, eventually, someone will - and if you trusted that little green man to keep you alive, well, whoops. Crosswalks encourage the sort of head-down passivity in inherently dangerous situations that just gets people killed, and the more flashing shit you attach to them the more you alert fatigue drivers into ignoring them.

Crosswalks are similar to speed limits in this context in that they're utterly ineffective but provide an excuse to not actually fix the problem, i.e. build a lot of nonvehicular overpasses/underpasses. The point of criticizing a rules-based approach to traffic safety isn't to encourage some orgy of vehicular homicide, but to move to actually workable solutions involving changing the built environment.

And in my area, anyway, roundabouts are more likely to come with nonvehicular bypass structures than other forms of interchange. I'll take a roundabout + overpass over a traffic light + crosswalk every day of the week. In the most walkable places I've lived, that walkability was delivered not by an obsession with figuring out the precise set of rules or the precise enforcement mechanism needed to finally make it work, but by an acknowledgement that the sort of infrastructure you build is inextricably linked to how people use it. Build a stroad and you'll get pedestrian deaths regardless of the rules you try to layer on top of it. Build a walking bridge and you dodge the problem entirely.
LGPL is understood to incur stipulations in scenarios like static linking, which for a dev library, can be a concern. These concerns are not in MIT/BSD/Apache, which is why professional organizations often have rules allowing only the latter. It takes undesirable work by developers to go against their organizational guidelines.

My job isn't to advise users on legal matters nor promote graph-tool, though I do try to increase awareness of options in general as a neutral technical party. The graph-tool's community's decision to use & stick to a relatively unpopular license (outside of academia), and the ensuing issues around legal, practical, and perception... are problems for the graph-tool community to address, not me.

We OSS our work as MIT/BSD/Apache because that's what our users accept and pay us to do. That's all that's in our control.
Where are you that it's "next to impossible"? That really surprises me.

I'm in the UK, and you can walk into any Post Office, WHSmith, bookshop, most newsagents, etc., and pick up maps of the local area or country, usually Ordnance Survey[0] maps.

And (at least when I was in secondary school, about a decade ago) map reading was still taught as a valuable skill, using OS maps.

[0]: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
That is how fascism started, increasing the verbal threat, a string of political assassinations and subsequently not giving a f* because your hands are clean, but shouldn't ideas be challenged not suppressed?

If people cannot be trusted and should rather be cocooned from the true range of human thought, doesn't this go against every assumption we use to justify our freedoms?
this is possibly because generated CSAM may look like no real human child nor resemble any human child in particular today. give it 5 years and physical distinction from real children and even a specific child is likely to happen. so a photo perfect likeness of your kid ends up in some disgusting video and the creators get off the hook because it's 'not real' by say a narrow color gradiation or kinematic similarity standard undetectable to human eyes? no thanks.
>everyone would turn and look at one person

So the person everyone thinks would do it is pronounced guilty. I don't see any way that could go horribly wrong.
Sit in an Audi, then sit in a Toyota Venza.
FOSS4G (Free and Open Source for Geospatial Information Systems) - https://2023.foss4g.org/

It's a yearly global conference series run by volunteers. There are also regional versions, e.g. FOSS4G NA will be in Baltimore this year (https://foss4gna.org/), Asia will be in Seoul (https://foss4g.asia/2023/) and Oceania will be Auckland (https://2023.foss4g-oceania.org/). It's a great conference if you're interested in Mapping / Geo tech.
Here's a similar story from 1974, from the opera world, about an audience member finishing off a performance of Carmina Burana at the Proms after baritone Thomas Allen fainted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJAdGvFNncU
There are 1e20 kgs of salt in the ocean. I am going to put that as a somewhat low concern.
Bill Gates on next-generation nuclear power technology
I would use textsynth (https://bellard.org/ts_server/) or llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) if you're running on CPU.

- I wouldn't use anything higher than a 7B model if you want decent speed.
- Quantize to 4-bit to save RAM and run inference faster.

Speed will be around 15 tokens per second on CPU (tolerable), and 5-10x faster with a GPU.
In the US? There’s nearly zero collective action in the US.

Union participation in the US is a rounding error.
This is a good point. An entirely unrelated person was accused of a completely different crime in a different country once. This is proof that human trafficking doesn’t exist.
The common blenny is an inshore fish that can spend brief periods out of the water, where it waits to surprise unsuspecting scientists.

This article is delightful.

I clicked through to the video in the last paragraph about ancient clam gardens. The events of The Irish Potato Famine[1] have been on my mind in recent weeks and I don't really know where to go with this thought rattling around in my head. But I've been thinking that if the Irish had somehow supported clam digging for families in crisis due to the Potato Famine such that they didn't eat them raw and end up sick, that could have gone differently.

So it's interesting to see that clam gardens are being restored in my neck of the woods and that provides potential local food security to hedge against supply chain issues and other stresses in the world today.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36690467

[2] https://www.eopugetsound.org/magazine/climate-resilience-and...
IMO Go would have been 70% better with Result instead of (*type, error). So, so much duplicative code would have been avoided. It's not even a different paradigm. What a wasted opportunity.
If I built an ocean base 231 meters below the surface, does that mean I'd get free fresh water by sticking a membrane on the outside of my base? (Ignoring the impracticality of building an underwater base, of course.)

Sounds like a cool sci-fi premise.
This is what I am wondering. The general entry path for IT (sysadmin) type jobs is get a front desk support job then start accumulating certifications. How is this going to that path? Or is AI erasing professions from the bottom up so no need for new workers into these professions?
My first thought when I read this post was “did you try someone besides MailChimp?” My understanding is that they’re not really a market leader and that there are competing solutions that are either better, cheaper, or both.

That said I think this is an interesting niche to be in, because I think there are some customers out there who don’t need the technical hand-holding of other marketing platforms.