skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday Lulashenko was in St. Petersburg and said something along the lines of "the Wagner mercenaries want to go for an escursion to Warsaw, I'm trying to stop them".
Monday there was a news that Wagner will have joint exercises with Belarus military on the border with Poland
A week ago Putin warned Poland to not attack Belarus
Nearly a month ago after Wagner was exiliated to Belarus, polish Deputy PM said they will be strengthening the border security with Belarus ( because of Wagner )

In short the tension between Poland and Belarus+Russia is increasing, and if Russia really wants to invade Poland, the Suwalki gap is the most obvious place
The original sin of the web is that publishers let third parties take over advertising, then surprise, surprise, the third parties kept all the money to themselves and choked the publishers to death.
who's expecting a long lifetime from a $400 laptop that's used daily by kids?
UK shops do just that, for example milk in supermarkets is still sold in pints but labelled in metric due to EU laws.
Google has gotten pretty lenient about that: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...

"If you operate a paywall or a content-gating mechanism, we don't consider this to be cloaking if Google can see the full content of what's behind the paywall just like any person who has access to the gated material and if you follow our Flexible Sampling general guidance."

I wonder if they just gave up
Or because they wake you up. Send a lot of 11pm emails because baby needs a late night change and it's the wife's turn to sleep in.
If it’s so irrelevant, why did he buy it for $44 billion?

Why didn’t he take $44 billion and do a startup instead?
How about fire?
China’s Economic Rebound Hits a Wall
This would be a fantastic way to give your customers a bear-hug and slowly pull them into a full ERP system.

I have personally seen myself and other business owners issue invoices that are unconnected to any system early on - just generating it using some ill-suited tool like Word.

But once your customer enter their invoice data in Invoice Dragon, it's a simple matter for you to set up a "payment due" reminder for them. And then add on outstanding balance per customer. And so on, and the next thing you know, it's an ERP!
Do you think there may be secular trends here? We do see COVID-induced peaks in that data around 2020. I'm not suggesting that "less people are coding" - but just that lots of media-related sites are coming down from 2020/2021 peaks.
I once posted in subreddit A, and got banned just because I had once posted in the "alt-right" subreddit B (which was an apolitical comedy subreddit).
He didn’t spend $44B on a globally recognized product, IP, and customer base. He spent $44B on his ego.
> Those rough moderators would close off discussions for the most trivial reasons, yet SO still allowed those discussions to be indexed by Google (despite rel="nofollow" having been a thing since 2005 or so).

At least for "closed as duplicate" that is working as intended: "Closed" doesn't necessarily mean "you shouldn't have asked that question". In the ideal world, a post being closed as duplicate just allows people that phrase the duplicated question differently to also find it.
Walkthrough of Elixir’s Adapter Pattern
HN hyped machine learning long before the current craze cycle
One caveat is that the average of many normally distributed vectors in many dimensions is normally distributed with 0 mean but is not typically close to 0. In fact the average norm is quite large. Try it yourself and see!
But you’re not the average person.
There is plenty of stuff I cannot afford, and I am perfectly fine with it.
Here we go again. Just require POST requests with a CSRF token for upvotes...
The Nuance of “Domain”
>Not even Apple has support periods that long, and they sell $1000+ devices.

I wouldn't use that as a model for comparison, it's particularly despicable
I am surprised by how many commenters seem to be anti-scientific comments or crypto-creationist arguments.

This is one study covering a form of life that was largely replaced during the Cambrian explosion, and took place right after massive glaciation , while the environment was very different to today, or even the Cambrian epoch.

The main point of the study is that Oxygen levels may have been lower than thought, which isn't "a problem for science" because "science" isn't even sure if the many fossils from that period were animals (and would require higher oxygen levels).

And for people here who didn't read the article: this isn't about the origins of _cellular_ life, or even multicellular life. Multicellular life had been around for tens of millions of years. And life itself had been around for billions.

This study asks "are we wrong about how much O2 COMPLEX life requires?" And we may be, Because the ediacaran had different life forms than we have now after the Cambrian explosion.
That video is compressed to hell, it looks like a QuickTime or something from the 90s. That someone upconverted it to 1440p on YouTube is inconsequential. You can see the square MPEG blobs ferchrisakes!

Here is a dirty VHS with dropouts which looks WAY better:

https://youtu.be/ZlsS_a4qdI4
If I'm not mistaken, London also has two different types of tube trains, although in that case I don't think it'd because of different owners, but one is simply narrower and therefore cheaper to make tunnels for.
You are correct that not every single ISP sells this data, but for reference, back when Team Cymru's 'Pure Signal Recon' product was advertised under the name 'Augury', Team Cymru claimed that data sources included "90% of global ISPs". They currently claim to be ingesting and processing neflow metadata from over 200 billion (with a b) connections per DAY.

So in theory, yes, route through enough ISP's, and you may eventually hit one along the way who isn't selling that data.

That said, to my knowledge, no ISPs are required to disclose whether or not they sell metadata, and as profit-oriented corporations, have no incentive to be honest about that if asked.

So it's something of a gamble to assume you can definitely find a path through n ISPs where at least one of them does not sell netflow metadata.
ChatGPT offers an effective substitute for Stack Overflow, fully encompassing its role for simple questions.

For more compelx problems, Stack Overflow was never a good
solution; it's better suited for tackling simpler questions. But for simpler questions you have chatGPT.
Their central argument:

Investments in new nuclear power plants are bad for the climate due to high costs and long construction times. Given the urgency of climate change mitigation, which requires reducing emissions from the EU electricity grid to almost zero in the 2030s (Pietzcker et al.1), preference should be given to the cheapest technology that can be deployed fastest.

Cheapest & fastest as overriding criteria for better climate impact seems very very short sighted.
My best focus app is Spotify and the same playlist I play everyday. Second best focus app is Apple Reminders, basically, when I have an urge to check something, I put it on a list and get back to the list once I have time in the evening.
Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere
Are they also, going to give all their commuting employees electric cars, to align with their “climate pledge”? Doubt it, but I’m sure their executives will still lecture the rest of us about climate change.
Even if the probability for this to succeed is really really small, there's a good chance it will happen when you have billions of years time and idk how many orders of magnitude (10^40? 10^50?) of atoms/molecules constantly interacting.
I actually use the OpenAI playground most of the time, both for coding and for asking questions. It's a bit less chatty without me having to engineer the prompt as much. It also allows me to edit assistant responses so that future prompts are based on corrections.
> As for what he's doing, I think it's pretty transparent. He thinks Xs are really, really cool.

Long before X was the holding company he used to buy Twitter, which he is now trying to turn into a do everything (including finance) app, X(.com) was the online financt company Musk openly wanted to turn ibto a do everything app, and was dump as CEO from multiple times, the last time just before it was renamed after a product it had acquired with another company, and which (unlike the products Musk tried to launch internally) was its only meaningful success, PayPal.

> I have no idea why he didn't just buy Twitter, keep it strong, and then leverage it to push a do-everything app (that could be called X for all anyone cares).

Because he overburdened it with debt, meaning the turnaround has to be quick to work at all, and his do-everything plan is premised on a change in revenue model from traditional big ads to free/low-paying users to a more regular-user fee-for-service model.
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Vectorization of Raster Manga by Primitive-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Let's Code a Q/A Model From Lex Fridman's Podcasts [video]
Hey HN!

In this video I scrape audio from podcasts (for now George Hotz and Lex Fridman as an example) to generate a dataset for a Retriever/Reader system (using a small home grown vector db and LLama 2).

I also go through how to load and prompt LLama 2 using the retrieved context and getting an answer.

Check out my last video if you want to see how to fine tune LLama 2 on a Google Colab single GPU.
Sorry, its not clear for me.

Modulated signal could be expressed as sum of signals with different frequencies, but will it be registered by receiver as signal at these frequencies?

Suppose we send 1hz signal with length = 1 hour. In the middle we change amplitude of one wave to 1/2. Does recievers recieves mix of different frequencies?
That's pretty much what Twitter means today too
I was using vscode tunnel to work on HPC resources. In the beginning it was like a magic, as time passed it turned into a headache.

- I remember suddenly, we couldn't be able to connect because of a bug in a new release. Tunnel extension was updating itself automatically. I lost a working day to solve it, before realizing the issue.

- Interestingly its getting slower after working some hours, works ok after reset.

- Working on projects with 100+ files was slow, even opening a folder was very laggy.

- I use jupyter notebooks daily but heavy, its turning out to impossible to work with heavy notebooks.

Maybe most of the issues are fixed now, I don't know the current situation. If the problems will be solved, it's definitely a tool that I will use for my all dev stack.
I’m not going to continue to engage because you don’t seem to be engaging in good faith here.
I’m using Wave as well and I really like it. I only accept check or bank transfer (I don’t mind the 1% fee). It’s very feature rich for a free product.
The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
Got a good chuckle from me. I find that in quick daily back-and-forths, time saved by such a system would be negligible. In many places I've worked, the 'polite work mail' has gone out the door long ago, already at the lower bound of what is considered a proper sentence.
All numbers say that it is renewables, with nuclear being a more or less carbon free stop gap solution. Wind and solar mainly, flanked by gas turbines, and hydro (pumped and otherwise).
See the arXiv paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.04830.pdf
The joy of running Upside-Down-Ternet as transparent proxy on April Fool's day.
On the contrary, Chromebooks are one of the better options; they can generally have their bootloader unlocked, unlike ex. most phones
You're welcome! You can check this <https://cal.com/open> out to know more about the philosophy behind it.

You'll also find something called OSS Friends on this page - featuring more COSS startups in the ecosystem.
I ran into that a lot when I was doing low level firmware programming. The answers to someone's question would be something like "that feature is only intended for ultra-specialized low level programmers". And it's like "in this case, I am an ultra-specialized low level programmer".

I'm thinking of things like assigning constants to pointers in C and/or manipulating pointers directly.
> I fear that the views of a generation of engineers in Silicon Valley have meaningfully drifted from the center of gravity of American public opinion

This is not new. See the emergence of the Technocracy Movement as a reaction to runaway capitalism/great depression. I wish that history was taught in engineering/science schools.

There was a recognition of the constant tension between the waste minimizing/innovation chasing Engineer and the Profit maximizing Manager/Capitalist.

The movement was seen to offer more realistic solutions than communism (which expected the masses to rule - the masses always just end up emulating the exploiters they replace).

It didnt gain traction cuz the tools available back then, to the tecnical class, to take on and reshape exploitative/wasteful power strutures, were rudimentary. Today its a very different story.

The technical class is much more powerful (lots of people in power have to dance to their tunes out of a dependency) yet the technical class is still totally unorganized and lacking any common vision on the future of society.

The moment that changes the choices wont be limited to miltech/fintech/adtech but something much larger.

But to imagine what that is, the technical class needs to step back from choices other places in front of them.
I agree completely with this. I almost view/use him as a historical Wikipedia. He has gotten me interested in so many historical topics I previously wasn't interested in, e.g. the first World War. After many of his series, I track down his sources (usually on his website) and read those books. I love finding the tidbits from his shows in the broader context of the original books.
The issue is that LW, more than most, is seemingly unaware of this fact.
SO has been around so long a lot of the answers are no longer relevant. I don't place much trust that an answer from 2010 will solve my problem. You often see [2023 UPDATE], but that answer is usually buried or hidden within other answers.

I firmly believe that ChatGTP is the SO killer. You get your answer instantly, it's usually good enough, and you don't have to worry about a mod closing your question as low quality or duplicate.
On the other hand, mind where and who those people are. $14 is probably peanuts for a wealthy software engineer living the SV life and a 6 digit salary, so if those are the ones writing, no surprise they might think like that. Nothing wrong with making them your target audience, of course.

But in other places, $6 can already buy you a cocktail :-D
I agree, if it delivers on the kind of demos they showed off here:

https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/

It's going to be an absolute "killer app".
Constraint Solvers for User Interface Layout
Mixer has been shut down in 2020.
The vales are selected were arbitrary. The size reduction will be 32bits/8bits - so it will be 4 times smaller.
Because the original statement was that white people are gaining advantage because of the sins of our fathers. Most of us remember our lives and know this is not true, unless you think growing up poor with parents that couldn’t even afford school for their kids is an advantage.
I don't know if that was your intention but I read your comment as if David Attenborough had said it.
The law is the same for everyone else in the other industries, and the little ones can manage, IT shouldn't be any different.

Growing pains learning that quality and support comes with obligations.
> You seem to be assuming Google is an extremely well connected organism with vast coherency: each limb knows what the others are doing, they are working together in close fashion, & doing things for ulterior motives.

Nah dog, you're overcomplicating it. All it requires is a person or two in a management chain to recognize the hint of long term business potential in a technical change. It doesn't have to be a sure thing, or a big thing, the bare minimum is that they just notice a business model that could be enabled, and choose to explore it. Then once the company takes on the initiative, some combination of communication and intuition spread the understanding of what they're doing across some of the buisness. For the wider scale, all the rank and file need to do is play dumb, or be legit unaware, about the obvious incentive they're working towards.

That's not a vast complicated conspiracy. That's every single business' outward-facing messaging strategy.

When parent poster talks about the "size, scope and sophistication of Google," the point doesn't have to be that they're meticulously coordinating. The point can simply be: there's no fucking way they're not playing dumb.

This is my problem with people using Occam's Razor to understand business decisions. They often assume the idea that someone could be employed in business development and spend months championing and refining an idea is a level of complexity that must fail to a more simplistic explanation. But we know that shit happens all the time.
who was familiar with it before Musk took charge?
Show HN: Free Domain Alerts – Free Domain and SSL Expiration Alerts
Sure, but there's essentially nothing new or interesting about BeatSaber. It's the new DDR.

If anything, what's telling is that it's the only VR game I see getting significant traction*, which implies that VR might be a one off the way DDR was.

Anectodallish source, I teach at college where we have a public free "cool tech hub" with a bunch of VR headsets with a bunch of games that anyone can use. I'd say about 95% of the time anyone is doing vr, it's BeatSaber.
To be maximally pedantic: the two divisions (IRT and BMT/IND) use the same rail gauge, but have different car widths, lengths, and weights.

(That may have been what you meant, but I think it’s an interesting distinction for those unaware!)
Hey HN, Dom here, since the launch of https://littlewarden.com on Show HN a few years ago, we've added a lot of new features but we've always wanted to have a free tier (to get some attention).

We decided that going back and making LW work with thousands of free users wouldn't be the best use of our time but we could use the core API of Little Warden and build another website from it thus Free Domain Alerts was born.
It was four heirs, wasn't it? Charlemagne had two, a split that still shows in Europe to this day.

And I'd hardly say the Mongols failed just because they couldn't hold to western Europe.
Specifically about RLHF, I find this video by Rob Miles still the best presentation of the ingenious original 2017(!) paper: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PYylPRX6z4Q

RLHF is actually older than GPT-1, which came out in 2018. It didn't get applied to language models until 2022 with InstructGPT, an approach which combined supervised instruction fine-tuning with RLHF.
Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
Third paragraph.
still not easy at the most important thing of all: being approachable, instrumented and intuitive to people less dedicated to programming.

I say this as someone that likes elixir, but after seeing it failing miserably at my org, I'm very skeptical it can be thrown around like a spring or node or django project. It needs real support from the org and requires module design skills that are not present in most random devs from a random org.
I have the same feeling. I recently started contributing more, even after such articles were already present, and I have to say it's a fun experience and I feel like I learn a lot, despite the occasional hang-ups I mentioned in a sibling comment to parent.

Especially nice to be able to link my own answer to things.
Why don't you ask ChatGPT or bard? If there s a hype cycle, it is just starting.

The killer app is the LLM tech itself, and the victim seems to be the whole tech ecosystem. It disintermediates everyone who is gatekeeping information and connects end users with the information they want without the google, the SEO and without ads. Even if we are not right there today, the potential is there. This in itself is huge, since the whole ecosystem of SV is funded by ads.
Llama2.zig
Zig copycat version of llama2.c
Do the older releases still get security patches?
Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT
Each instance could also choose which groups to distribute. Many ISPs didn't carry all groups (such as binary groups and groups in other languages) to save money, or due to the content itself (porn, warez, MP3). Sometimes they would have delays because some groups were only synced a few times a day.

This created a market for NNTP servers that provided full content for a monthly fee and sometimes even with a spam filter
The replies to this comment are zoning in on the epistemological dilemma it poses. Soliciting theories for one of the most difficult scientific puzzles, on HN of all places: do you expect someone to serve you up a neatly-wrapped viable and plausible mechanistic theory?

And yet, I think it’s a serious comment, not a troll, because this is the right epistemic stance. We don’t know how life emerged yet and this is rightly uncomfortable.

As for the object-level topic: I’d direct my attention to any research that investigates the relationship between the cell wall and the inner organelles. I suspect that the viability of the cell factories was dependent on its co-evolution with the cell wall, which, by creating a semi-closed (permeable) system, would change the entropic conditions inside the cell.
Agatha Christie is one of the bestselling authors of all time and I know my grandparents used to read her books while growing up in the 30's and 40's.

Those books have pretty good prose, it's perhaps not on the level of complexity of Hemingway (I've never read Hemingway so I couldn't say myself) but it is pretty complicated so I think there's definitely something to the argument that entertainment has 'dumbed down'.
I created Analytodon for Mastodon analytics and I just made it open source
Dunbar's Number.
Using constraints for user interface construction [pdf]
> 2. It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning.

Precisely. Usenet's "regulars" back in those days were generally IT staffers, with perhaps a professor or three, at any given school, or were IT staffers running news servers at their companies. The regular September flood of new kids discovering Usenet at school was annoying, but manageable.

Then the gates were thrown open wide, and netiquette got crushed under the weight of the general public. Once the crooks and con artists discovered it, it was the beginning of the end.
[...] coupled with lack of moderation in the app [...]

Where does Signal need moderation? Can you have public groups where anyone can join?

EDIT: Just looked it up, there are now public groups. [1] Never noticed this despite using Signal as essentially the only messaging app for years.

EDIT: Actually not, there seems to be nothing on that web page and it is certainly nothing official.

[1] https://signal-groups.com/en/