skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always assumed slow airport wi-fi is that way because they have one 50mb connection being shared by thousands of users. I always connect through a VPN yet everything still runs slow. I don't think the airport is throttling specific sites.
Open-Source LLMs: Better Base Models (Part Two)
Open-source research on large language models (LLMs) is incredibly valuable, as it aims to democratize a powerful and influential technology. Although open-source LLMs are now commonly used and widely studied, this area of research saw some initial struggles that were difficult to overcome. Namely, open-source LLMs performed poorly at first and were heavily criticized. Within this overview, we will study a line of research that changed this narrative by making high-performing pre-trained LLMs available to everyone. Given that pre-training a language model is so expensive, the models we will study here are especially impactful. After these high-performing base models were created and released, many people could conduct research using these models at marginal added cost.
It almost certainly means that (some part of) the government delivered a polite but mildly menacing "what the fuck?" message and Etsy sent somebody with a suitably fancy sounding title over to reassure them.
Discrete quanta of light was my 'hmmmm' moment, at least when it occurred to me to interpret it as a rubbish hack
Just because the term "social media" came later and was popularised by certain kinds of social media networks, it doesn't mean it doesn't encompass regular old fashioned forums too.

What is this right now other than a social interaction about a piece of media (the article)? This is a very arbitrary distinction for you to draw.
I'm using Zero Trust Tunnel for some web apps I host in my home, but I'm trying to think if the older service (IPv4 to IPv6) you describe would be useful for anything, like ssh'ing into my home from an external VPS.

Would the earlier product be used for something like a router, which can't run the Tunnel service?
Did Netlify shut down the Discord without archiving any content? I wonder how much valuable knowledge gets flushed that way.

In other news I can still access most of the useful web, Usenet, IRC and mailing list archives going back to the early days of the internet.

Stop using Discord for anything non-frivolous.
I'd guess it's a timing thing. This site likes to prioritize more highly the "current" discussions which are generating upvotes as long as they're not also generating a ton of downvotes.
> it's so easy to get an HD DRM-free copy of pretty much any movie

To a techie. The amount of people who find torrenting too confusing and overwhelming or are afraid of legal consequences or don't even know it exists is, once again, the vast majority (unless we are talking about Eastern Europe and third-world countries).

Even if you could prove that the US had, say, 10 million people that torrented actively (which is, honestly, a big stretch in my opinion), the pitch to movie studios is that they should abandon DRM because 10 million people can bypass it and 320 million people can't; and 320 million people don't even know the DRM is there or something they should care about. Not a winning sales pitch there.
mastodon is the new mirc or kleenex
Quick changes in climate generally lead to extinction events. And indeed we are in the middle of one. And it's caused by us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Life will go on. Humans? Maybe. Human civilization will be disrupted for sure

Also: here's a visualization of how fast the climate changed in the last 20000 years vs today

https://xkcd.com/1732/

The short term effects are all about the slope. And the short term is all that matter to us, because if we don't pass through this bottleneck we won't have a long term (it may well be our "great filter" preventing us from spreading through the stars)
I think a reasonable reader can figure out from context what “data center” means. If you have a bunch of computers in a home or office you might call it a rack, or a network closet, maybe a server room. Most people won’t call it a data center.

If you complain that the definition of “data center” is inexact, you’re missing the point—the definition of “edge” is inexact, too. That’s okay. People have a good enough definition of “data center” that it doesn’t need to be explained here. And people also understand that given definitions are not perfectly precise—there are exceptions and unusual cases.
How has your experience with archivebox after running it for a while? After trying to set it up multiple times I gave it another try a few days ago and it always feels like it's doing too much and is therefore very sluggish and buggy.

I was looking for alternatives but couldn't really find something great with a decent UI and full-text search.
"If your revenue stream is unfairly disrupted, just sue the major corporation with your backup pile of cash, switch over to your backup line of credit, and if all else fails, ask daddy for a small loan of a million bucks to see you through!"
I have no problem saying that a prompt to an AI system and subsequent iteration on that prompt, model parameters, etc. can be a form of artistic expression. However, the distinction between this form of artistic expression and the form practiced by the artist whose works the model was trained on is substantive and has important moral and legal implications, so when it is conspicuously absent from these discussions I do indeed find it "interesting" enough to make explicit.
Copying from an older comment of mine shilling Pypy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595590

PyPy is pretty well stress-tested by the competitive programming community.

https://codeforces.com/contests has around 20-30k participants per contest, with contests happening roughly twice a week. I would say around 10% of them use python, with the vast majority choosing pypy over cpython.

I would guesstimate at least 100k lines of pypy is written per week just from these contests. This covers virtually every textbook algorithm you can think of and were automatically graded for correctness/speed/memory. Note that there's no special time multiplier for choosing a slower language, so if you're not within 2x the speed of the equivalent C++, your solution won't pass! (hence the popularity of pypy over cpython)

The sheer volume of advanced algorithms executed in pypy gives me huge amount of confidence in it. There was only one instance where I remember a contestant running into a bug with the jit, but it was fixed within a few days after being reported: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/82329?#comment-693711 https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/issues/3297.

New edit from that previous comment: there's now a Legendary Grandmaster (ELO rating > 3000, ranking 33 out of hundreds of thousands) who almost exclusively use pypy: https://codeforces.com/submissions/conqueror_of_tourist
Sounds like they will end up with some pressure to get IPv6 working correctly if any of their customers are capable of pressure.. If they don't get it working now then it is definitely time to run away from their platform while you can still afford the fees to get out.
IMO, better options are box86/box64 or FEX.
I’ve noticed that as well. It beggars belief that people are seriously arguing about applying a centuries-old foreign metaphors about kings to modern large corporations. That’s straight over Pedantic territory into the Obnoxious Contrarian wilderness. Sigh…
I’m open to an answer to GP’s question but this wasn’t one
`Τĥιs ñåmè įß ą váĺîδ/ POSIX paτĥ/` is one I like using. If your scripts pass shellcheck, they'll handle those two directories without issue. Every byte (octet) other than 0x00 is valid in a path. Every byte other than 0x00 or / is valid in a file name. If you can't handle that, your script isn't compatible with all valid POSIX paths. That may be acceptable (e.g. you're generating all the paths in question), but isn't always.
Maybe you are right, but there are ways to communicate your feedback to people without being unwise and rude yourself.
Do you have any suggestions how at least a single consumer would initiate a demand for reliability? And how would a manufacturer declare and prove they indeed include reliability in their products?
It's called the razor-and-blade model, it's not a bait and switch.

RE Plex, that's basically what Android TV does, except it's better than Plex (for streaming services and device manufacturers) and has the same model as FireTV
The hard part for people is not obtaining a copy of the media which DRM is "supposed" to prevent. The hard part is setting up the multiple services that makes all this convenient with slick interfaces that people are used to similar to Netflix. That would still require just as much effort with or without DRM.
"Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_hum...

You don't need to be able to start a fire, when you keep the fire burning all the time. And you can do that, once you control the fire and figure out the difference between dry and wet wood.

Also humans are the dominating species on land since quite a while. Hunting certain species to extinctiom has certain effects on the local ecosystem and globally on the global climate. It all adds up.

But things surely changed in dimension since industrialisation.
Build mini hydropower on a small stream with a powerful unit [video]
Ever heard of iPhones? MacBook Pros?
Frameworks to Understand Climate Tech
v4 with more octets is still backwards incompatible with v4. It would have had all the same problems and headaches in rollout, not only would "nobody want to deal with it', it would have even fewer reasons to switch. IPv6 at least has some forward-facing features to give people reasons to switch (even if people still argue if they "are worth it").
Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative.

Plex may share Collected Information as expressly set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the following limited situations: [...] With third parties to improve and deliver advertising to you on our behalf.

Plex may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads, which may, directly or indirectly, collect or use information about user visits to websites and mobile app usage over time and across non-affiliated websites and mobile apps to display advertisements more tailored to users’ interests on this browser or device, and those browsers or devices associated with it.

More in the "Data We Collect" section: https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/
You probably live in the US and parent lives... anywhere else in the world really.
It seems that paper is based on the assumption that energy costs the same as it does now. I'm assuming we can make energy much more abundant with nuclear power.
Show HN: Autocorrect for Your Slack Messages
My wife and I built this for ourselves and for a bit of fun. We're both pretty anal about editing our Slack messages to correct typos or grammar errors, so we built Spruce to help with that.
https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00279895

Maybe there's a difference between Google TV and an Android TV, but my partner's dad can't buy/rent stuff on Prime Video through his tv, he has to use another device and then can watch it on his tv. He finds it very irksome, to say the least.

My understanding is that this came around by Google insisting on the 30% cut of purchases made in the Prime Video app on the tv, and Amazon told them to pound sand. I could of course be wrong, though.
I'm not GP and I personally think the strip-mining analogy is bad. But attempting to steelman GP's position based on other things I've read that I've pieced together:

I think an example is LLMs like ChatGPT. Basically consider a website that has good info on it. The LLM scrapes the site and regurgitates it's content to their user, and the original site never get a visit or recognition. The end result is the death of the site (much like strip mining results in).
More at issue is that rates of change matter.

When temperature rises slowly, ecosystems adapt in parallel to the change. When temperature rises fast, ecosystems don't. And so we have major die-offs of coral and trees, without corresponding colonization in places where they could now live.

When CO2 rises slowly, the ocean's pH is buffered by large deposits of calcium carbonate on the bottom. When CO2 rises fast, we get ocean acidification, which is on track to be the most extreme shellfish extinction event in the last 50 million years.

Therefore larger absolute past climate changes were less likely to have extreme impacts than faster present climate changes.
I'd say this is the critical distinction that communities focused on "open source" are missing. We've had a whole crop of developers raised to focus on "open source", thinking it implies some be-all end-all, when it was really more of a corporate marketing term that emphasizes the mechanic rather than the goal of end-user computing freedom.

Just because a piece of software has some trappings of libre software does not mean that it is a fully fledged libre software. If most of the development energy comes from a single company, then that company can change its policies overnight and introduce terrible non-libre anti-features to that "open source" code base (see: the ongoing Chromium fiasco). Or in the case of most "web" software, when the main use of that software is from load-every-time distribution via centrally-controlled HTTP(s)/DNS, most of its use is decidedly non-free.

Yes, it is certainly a step up that such projects can be used as libre software - patched to remove the anti-features, or even hard forked and rebranded if the centralized maintainer gets too heavy handed etc. And this should not be taken for granted! However, we have to stop seeing the "open source" label as a synonym for libre software where user freedoms are first and foremost, when it's more like one bullet point in a "pros" column.

(also just a nit. When you say "I do not ever want to run software that I can't read and, if I want to, modify. I just won't do it", I doubt this hardline assertion is true! Even RMS rationalizes running proprietary software as long as someone else has written it to flash and doesn't talk about it too much. I use a more strict-but-pragmatic approach based around an assumption of a Libre/Secure core and then analyzing how specific proprietary bits actually compromise my freedom)
it's a very high aspect ratio hole (267:1) so they have to peck-drill it and it takes a very long time to lift the drillbit to remove the swarf from the end
You'd probably DoS your router if they're all on concurrently due to all the data exfiltration they're performing.
Long-haul flights are the one possible exception, but they're not the saving grace the fossil fuel companies are trying to manufacture. Tanks of hydrogen at the airport are not a "hydrogen economy". And since it's looking like air travel will be one of the last things to decarbonize, there's no guarantee hydrogen will be relevant. Long-distance flights don't account for a large portion of global CO2 emissions[0] which leaves room for various options.

Short-range aircraft will probably switch to batteries in the coming decades, because the prototypes are already flying[1] and battery and electric motor tech is ever-increasingly ubiquitous and mature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions#Aviat...

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-el...
Hydrogen does not share a single line of Element Web’s codebase.
> Humanity doesn’t hate itself, we like ourselves, which is why we are so concerned about what we are doing to ourselves.

Yeah. The argument that single cellular life or some small animals might survive and eventually evolve into something else is a bit weird for people who are hoping they don't die out like many species have in the past when there have been major changes to climate and carbon levels.
Umm no need to pay for many or any streaming service then that consumer problem is solved just watch the free outlets like YouTube.

Hollywood's biggest competitor is content creators on Youtube, Tiktok, etc ... my bet is they will need to compete and many paid offerings will consolidate and become free / less expensive to compete with all the free content creators on YouTube, Tiktok and etc. If you look at where the eyeballs are the majority are on Tiktok. Personally after using Reels, Tiktok and tons more of YouTube i have a hard time watching long form content. I just want to watch stuff here and there in the background while im working or right before bed any other time Im far away from tv screen outside or with friends/family enjoying life.

Further .. i use to watch documentaries on the history channel and or other places ... there's tons of solid and good content creators doing that same thing on youTube.
I understand the claim. I know my experience is anecdotal but I think it's common enough that many people can relate. I don't really need empirical evidence for this one.

I also think it's common sense that companies go out of business when there's no repeat buyers because their products last a lifetime.
I also enjoy spending time on shady websites with scams ads and virus. That will teach Netflix and Apple.
Now it can be PeeWee’s ghost who gives Large Marge a ride.

RIP Paul, thanks for all the laughs!
A sub-question for the folks here: is anyone using the combination of gevent and PyPy for a production application? Or, more generally, other libraries that do deep monkey-patching across the Python standard library?

Things like https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/676 and the fix at https://github.com/gevent/gevent/commit/f466ec51ea74755c5bee... indicate to me that there are subtleties on how PyPy's memory management interacts with low-level tweaks like gevent that have relied on often-implicit historical assumptions about memory management timing.

Not sure if this is limited to gevent, either - other libraries like Sentry, NewRelic, and OpenTelemetry also have low-level monkey-patched hooks, and it's unclear whether they're low-level enough that they might run into similar issues.

For a stack without any monkey-patching I'd be overjoyed to use PyPy - but between gevent and these monitoring tools, practically every project needs at least some monkey-patching, and I think that there's a lack of clarity on how battle-tested PyPy is with tools like these.
Agreed, I'll always know him as The Spleen
Voyager 2 has a direction radio antenna, not a laser producing a sharp-edged beam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Communications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_antenna#Beamwidth

How about this antenna? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array

Or this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
Nice to meet you here mattip.We had used PyPy for several years and I had raise this several times that only thing lacking PyPy is marketing ( and wrong information on cpyext unsupported ). PyPy gave us 8x performance boost on average, 4x min , 20x on especially JSON operation on long loops.

PyPy should had become standard implemention and it would save a lot of investment on Fast python

I tried to shill PyPy all the time but thanks to outdated website and weird reason of hetapod love ( at least put something on GitHub for discovery sick) , the devs who won't bother to look anything further than a GitHub page frawns upon me thinking PyPy is outdated and inactive project.

PyPy is one of the most ambitious project in opensource history and lack of publicity make me scream internally.
Plenty of companies have corrupt, inefficient groups of employees without unions though.
It was for a long time, the thing that "killed" it was Netflix being very good for a brief moment, while at the same time many pirate sites got shut down and content creators went after people who didn't use a VPN to torrent.

Many VPN services are one click to install and $2-5 a month, and the pirate sites are very resilient at this point, so anti-consumer practices could easily drive a resurgence in this form of mass market consumption.
I would bet most people won't have any idea who that is. I would maybe do something like "Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens has died"
Hi Matti. I'm happy to see that you're doing community outreach. I haven't tried PyPy in a while. The general impression I have about PyPy is that as soon as you try to do anything a little bit complicated, things break in unexpected ways and there's little support. Also, I love using Wing IDE for debugging, and if I'm not mistaken it can't debug PyPy code.

I'm currently doing multi-agent reinforcement learning research using RLlib, which is part of Ray. I tried to install a PyPy environment for it. It failed because Ray doesn't provide a wheel for it:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ray (from versions: none)

My hunch is that even Ray did provide that, there would have been some other roadblock that would have prevented me from using PyPy.
I could do that, and indeed I used to use a Windows machine as an HTPC until I got sick of dealing with UIs that didn’t play well with remotes (in fairness it’s been years but desktop apps for streaming services were always deeply inferior and web sites were designed for a mouse).

The larger point though is that what you’re describing is not mass market viable. If the streaming services wanted they could shut off HTPC access overnight and they probably wouldn’t even lose a rounding error in terms of users. In a future world where every streaming service has their own stick with its own ads and own DRM I can absolutely imagine them doing that to force everyone over.
> Why can't you just plug a Linux box into your TV and use that?

Because most streaming services don't support 4k HDR on Linux. And if I'm spending thousands of dollars for my TV to play 4k HDR content, I want to be able to watch it.
Now subtract out the wash trading. I'm not saying it would or wouldn't affect the valuation, I'm saying that the top-line volume is a known fiction. Remember when "Coinbase Employee A" traded some 99% of the entire global LTC volume between two bots at Coinbase? Sure it's old news, but that's the most reputable exchange. [1, 2]

Much of the crypto market is a digital Potemkin village designed to make you feel like you're not nearly as alone as you are.

[1] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

[2] https://news.bitcoin.com/ipo-coinbase-pays-cftc-6-5-million-...
Does OpenSearch support Kibana? Because I haven’t found a good Kibana replacement yet.
> Fedora is particularly bad at what you describe.

Thank goodness. There is no other free Linux distro out there which gives the benefits of both a stable release with great support for most of the latest hardware AND rapid package/kernel updates (approaching a rolling release). This must not be easy since its so rare. Whatever they are doing regarding maintainership is working very well from what I can tell.
I think Sonos still has a patent on this.
Perhaps this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9202509B2/en