skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think there’s never been a better time to reinvent the web, including basic technologies like HTML and JavaScript.

For example, picking up more elements of semantic web and distributed systems and leveraging interconnected devices.
I'm curious as to why this is being flagged/downvoted. Seems like somebody doesn't want it on the front page of HN...
Treasury Auctions Off to Good Start, with Strong Demand for Three-Year Notes
> Can you reconsider this estimate it seems awfully high

Is think the estimation is almost correct, but it has a bad calculation

920/0.02 = 46,000,000 (but the actual result is 46,000)
Don’t Do Deals on LinkedIn
Because it eats up range like there is no tomorrow, makes all kinds of weird sounds, you need to keep it taut on the shifter to get to the highest gear ratio (it will 'unwind' all by itself if you don't do that), and once the batteries run out the bike is so heavy to cycle you may as well give up. And this is as good as it gets, nicely lubricated, regulated as good as possible. It's a very interesting idea but it is either not executed well enough or it is inherently problematic and it won't get better. Buying that bike was a serious mistake, fortunately that wasn't my decision because I'd feel miserable. CVT on a bike is a very nice feature and there are some really interesting developments in that space, but Enviolo isn't it, no matter how much it gets pushed.
This remark rests on the assumption that being a migrant from British territories, or a senior citizen, erases someone from being Australian.
I did not know about PACMAN!
Psst https://ai.cloudflare.com/

Note: light use-cases ( or should I say shared models?). Not heavy GPU tasks
Anti-venom shortage for black widow spider bites may be ending
i feel like TV ads get a bad rap sometimes. you dont have to actually watch them, they provide a natural pause in the action to go get a snack, go to the bathroom, do something else, rather than sitting there for 12 hours straight "consuming content"
In the U.S. bonuses are taxable income and the marginal rate of taxation for the bonuses comes at the high end of an employee’s tax bracket. In the U.S. corporate tax rates are lower than the income tax rate for high individual earners. Therefore, from a tax collection perspective, it’s good that the excess profit go toward bonuses.

Pensions don’t take a penalty. A penalty implies something being taken away from them or a charge to them. Nothing is being taken away from the pension.
I do think the underlying point is a good one however. It wouldnt be surprising that ai researchers read hn, and other tech related social media. I also believe OpenAI are also storing prompts and responses. They should be able to make embeddings of all prompts and cluster them. When they see popular prompts that are failing, they could easily add the problem, solution, and reasoning to the training data. We also know they are constantly fine tuning and releasing new versions of models.
Some people just :q! the world. Try to be of the ones that :we it. Bran definitely did.
https://archive.ph/IL1hf
YT users built their castles in the sands of the shores of a globalized megacorp.

Time to find another platform more transparent about crap content and where corporate crap isn't given a soapbox.
The Life-Changing, Solar-Charged Power of ‘Regenerative Travel’
>Meet the intrepid e-bikers who are helping others to travel ecologically and give back along the way.
Would it? Remember TV competes with online news. Fox biggest competitor isn't NBC, it is Breitbart, The Dodge Report or Real truth network.

And you are never going to get the fairness doctrine to apply to those that are online.

You could have Facebook set rules for posts on their network, but then Facebook competes with Twitter and Tiktok and whatever, so if the posts on Facebook are less engaging than those on Twitter, people may go there.

Its all broken incentives all the way down.
I think simply having the vocab more code friendly (e.g. codex) would make the biggest difference, whitespace is the biggest one (afaik every space is a token), but consider how many languages continue `for(int i=0;`, `) {\n`, `} else {`, 'import ', etc.

My understanding is that a model properly trained on multiple languages will beat an expert based system. I feel like programming languages overlap, and interop with each other enough that I wouldn't want to specialize it in just one language.
Fine-tune Llama 2 with DPO
They are definitely time-sliced among tenants and very possibly two tenants may run at the same time on two hardware threads on the same core: but you could have a viable burstable instance with time-slicing alone.
Hey Mike, can you support renaming secure authenticators (Two factor methods)? Github is a great example wrt UX around this specific experience: https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/key_list.png?... (from https://github.blog/2023-07-12-introducing-passwordless-auth...).

Appreciate the efforts to secure the software supply chain!
The Microcontroller That Just Won’t Die
> Just a challenge over and over.

It must be intentional. Not unlike the endless loop of frustratingly slow-fading reCAPTCHA challenges that don't go anywhere. The user gives up after some time, but doesn't see any explicit error or page blocking their access. I imagine it must be quite effective.
> To me Rust looks much like C++ with a twist and people rightfully complain about C++ often :)

But would you put C++ next to Perl in terms of difficulty reading? I wouldn't have thought they were particularly close. (In terms of normal code at least, not the implementations of ultra-generic templates.)
If you are serious about transactionality, data consistency, and isolation levels, this sounds different from how you want to go. Both Firestore and Realm have shortcomings here. Fauna (where I work at, btw) and Surreal with FoundationDB on the backend, and Spanner are the only ones that can guarantee strict serializability in a distributed environment. I could argue that Fauna is the most turnkey (least pain to try, test, implement). With those "strict serializable" db's it is much easier to avoid data anomalies, as the ones mentioned in this thread.
This statement

> Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console

doesn’t quite fit the limitations stated on the download page

> * AMD Radeon RX 400 series or newer GPU required
> * Nvidia and Intel GPUs are not supported
> * hybrid graphics are not supported
> * virtual machines are not supported
Hi HN, maker here.

I've built Quill to help simplify the news. I found myself doom scrolling through news apps and wanted something different.

At the moment Quill is built on the same foundation that Yahoo News Digest was. Summaries, Quotes, Images, and more.

Every day it combines thousands of articles and creates 6-10 collections of the most important news stories. I've found it helps me keep up to date without spending hours reading the news.

I think that its a helpful addition to anyone who regularly uses apps like Apple News or similar.
I think they like byod because they don’t have to buy a device or service it, but can still get at employees at all hours.

It is not illegal to have friends, but if you are in a job that has certain regulations it is illegal to communicate in a non approved way with business partners. This isn’t a wide scope - it’s people who have jobs that are covered by these regulations.
We have laws to address those things now. You wouldn't believe the paperwork when someone gets boiled alive at work nowadays.
For those unaware: Kubernetes has long had horrible default security. RBAC isn't even enabled by default. Nearly every cluster I've seen allows regular users and applications to breakout into the host nodes by default. Network ACLs, if they are ever used, almost never block either intra-cluster or extra-cluster attacks. Unencrypted API ports are standard. The distinctions between "cluster-level" resources and "everything else" unnecessarily complicates creating fine-grained rules. Default access even with RBAC is too wide-open. I won't even get into ABAC...

Basically, the geniuses at Google decided to make clusters insecure by default, because being an admin is, like, hard, man. So guess what? People deployed clusters that were insecure by default.

I don't think it has ever been easier to take over cloud computing environments just by exploiting a dinky web app.
Yeah likewise. One of the reasons (well I'm an old-time SSB fan) I'm interested in Bluesky is that defederation isn't really a thing and so the failure modes of splintering communities isn't as big of a deal. When individuals have more power and mods have less, the impact of politics on the community would probably be more diffuse. Or that's the hope anyway. The mods = gods era of the internet was always a colorful one.
> By reducing all returns in the kernel to a single one, it becomes possible to ensure a safe (but still incorrect) branch predictor state each time this return is executed

I'm way out of my depth here, what does this mean? My naive guess is that they ensure there is a single assembly instruction in the entire kernel that can do a return, and every place that wants to return jumps to that return?
SaaS is "as low cost as software" ... or, at least, the "Saa" part is

It's the Service that you're paying for - not the Software

You cannot rationally compare a provided Service to your "zero user support" offering

People pay for SaaS precisely because it's simpler/cheaper (at least on some vectors of analysis) then running it yourself

You can run a "free" email server, for example

But the amount of cost you will incur doing so (time, effort to get other servers/services to accept you, etc) is almost guaranteed to be more than just paying someone who does that for their service
The Washington Post is itself showing signs of news aversion. Their local news is pretty scant these days.
The meltdown and spectre mitigations weren't patched in microcode, they were patched by changing the internal calling methods of the kernel.
As the CEO and cofounder of Coherence (withcoherence.com) - it's cool to see this project launch. At Coherence, we've been working fully in the cloud for the last 2 years - and it's better than I thought it would be. But it's hard to get more conservative teams to jump into a new workflow. While we've done a lot to support integration with local tools and development, I'm looking forward to seeing more innovation, and am curious to see Google invest here more directly. For us, all of this innovation is about delivering the best developer experience for end users that we can, let's see what direct IDX goes as well.

Other products to check out: codesphere, stackblitz, Replit
Look up the phenomenon of "cymatics". My personal theory is spontaneous organization of cells is possible due to the frequencies created by hydrothermal vents and that this phenomenon might have been a major driver in abiogenesis.

If you have ever seen where they put sand on a vibrating metal plate, and it creates symmetrical patterns, that's what I'm referring to.
12-edo's approximation to the 5th harmonic (a.k.a. 4th overtone) is 14 cents sharp, not flat -- it's at 400 cents plus two octaves, whereas the 5th harmonic is at 386 cents plus two octaves.

I admit to being unfamiliar with unequal temperaments. As a jazz player they seems like a complete bummer to me, as I love to transpose on a whim and don't want the intervallic structure to depend on what key I'm in.
Oh, that goes way back before CNN and cable, or even TV.

As an aside, 99% invisible had a pretty good podcast on how radio (which delivers news to more Americans -and is trusted more- than TV) content has changed over the years. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-divided-dial/

The change has been systemic, and that change shaped CNN more than the other way around.
it is easy to digitalize, you can start from base template ;)

echo "hello world" > ./life;
cat life > /dev/null
Ugh. I really tried to like Lakka but it was such a mess. I'll never install a non-raspbian OS on a rasppi again.

I like the naked Retroarch UI so much better than emulation station so I thought that part was much better than retropie, but the amount of fiddling I had to do with the OS on a system that really didn't want me to do that ruined it for me.
...but mere education doesn't work (not against those who want to be a "bad actor") ... if anything, more education makes it possible for more people to be "bad actors"
Hopefully they support Passkeys sometime soon.
Turns out it's less.

Cooler bulbs seem to generate a larger fraction of their energy in the infrared. Hotter bulbs generate not only more light, but a greater fraction of that light is visible.
Some frameworks and themes to use in combination :

- https://konstaui.com/

- https://framework7.io/
Sounds inferior to the "no cookies no banner" solution.

The GDPR does not mandate gratuitous and pointless personalised spying, which is the only case that requires consent. Normal operations (say a shop collecting payment details and shipping address to fulfil an order) do not require a consent banner.
I recognize there was 24/7 news media then, but it was still better than now. And before there was 24/7 news media was even better than the early 2000s
On windows or what?
The ignorance of many comments in this thread astound me.

Sure, setting up a development environment for your small pet project is easy. But as soon as you start working on software that has been maintained for a few years, dependencies start to grow. A typical old Java project depends on Gradle (or Maven, or even Ant), an outdated JDK, Eclipse, Protobuf tooling, XML tooling, custom tooling, you name it. Next, your project may require linting, formatting, and will be checked by some third party services. Recently, Docker and friends have joined the party, and a web based frontend requires TypeScript, a framework, Webpack, and many other libraries and tools.

Joining a team with such a project is not an easy task. In a typical 500,000 line code project, it may take a whole day or more to get the basic system up and running. All the dependencies may break in a myriad of ways, and can result in a lot of unnecessary problem hunting.

Sure, there are tools to automate setting up the build environment. But even those require maintenance, and setting things up for quick onboarding requires a lot of time, and if done wrong, will take even more time to get right later.

It would save a lot of money and effort if I could have a reproducible development environment, and I would not mind if that is in the cloud or not.
When discussing GCP, the latency between AZs within the same region is approximately 5 ms. Thus, if you have a 3-node database cluster spanning 3 AZs (all within the same region), a transaction can be committed in the 5-10ms range using Raft. CockroachDB should handle this seamlessly.

However, if you're considering a multi-region setup, the latency will depend on the distance between the regions.That's why usually you define a preferred region (that stores primary copy of the records) or deploy in a geo-partitioned mode (when data is automatically pinned to configured regions).
Because it applies to certain regulated industries and people who work in those industries. It’s not wide ranging.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052694
This sounds like it could become a nice way to try out Flutter since you have to install Android Studio and/or XCode to get started on mobile development. Android emulators seem to require messing with bios settings for unclear reasons. It gets obscure pretty quickly. Flutter depends on a lot of baroque complexity that I guess mobile app developers just accept and it’s not entirely covered up.

Other development environments might not benefit so much:

For Go, the SDK is easy to install and VS Code works.

I’m out of date on Python and assumed package management would be kind of a pain to deal with, but I tried miniconda recently and it it’s pretty nice.

Web development environments continue to evolve, but there are some easy to use ones. I like Deno so far.
Tracking is establishing your identity. Try using a private mode Firefox via a VPN. Half of the web is completely unusable. You get put in unsolvable catchpa hell as punishment for being anonymous.
Because life is full of power laws and some of the people flying private jets have outsized effect on the economy. (I’m not saying I think it’s fair or something. It’s a value free observation.)
it appears the blog post caught traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052694
AIs should look again, they clearly missed that one habitat of Amish people in Midwest, Ex-North America.
This is mad. Would be interesting to see if there is any way to trigger that behaviour. Reminds me of Sydney on Bing in the early days!
It is kind of like thinking that it is a huge sale at a store when they say "Up to 70% off". And there are like two things in the whole store which are 70% off.

I am always suspicious of "up to" claims.
The Closest Calls: How America Nearly Forged a Different Path in 1916
i feel like this is very intentionally buried
This could be an opportunity for low-cost, educational groups to scale or partner up. Is there a list of degree or course requirements fabs are looking for? What programs would be necessary to meet that demand?
The reason is mainly B with a little A. I agree with you though. But maybe we should try it on the moon first.
Of course they are. Thats the whole point of the 'Integrity Check'. Besides, almost every website you visit collects your fingerprint nowadays.
He's a three term Senator elected to that body as an Independent that has always caucused with the Democrats (as he did in the House befor that), is currently given by the Senate Democrats the position of Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and was the #2 Democrat in the last two Presidential nominating contests.
I wish I had local news. For example if there's a crazy mom trying to get on the school board. Or my local towing company is owned by a person undergoing felony indictment. New businesses opening that could really use my dollars. My local shop had a 4 for 5$ sale for kombucha and I nearly missed out on it due to a lack of local news.

I really don't want to know what is happening to youth in a country that is very far from me as often.
It is weird they would announce it without any real screenshots or demos. This is usable by Googlers. So it does exist, but I'll leave it to the team to hopefully actually demo it at some point.

EDIT: to add, the blog post does mention this: it is built on-top of VSCode, so it's a UI people are used to.

(googler, opinions are my own).
Old tool made one wavelength of light for lithography using a specific laser you are an expert in.

New tool makes a different wavelength of light by shooting high energy beams at molten tin and all your PhD research isn't relevant to that.

It's not like moving from Adobe to Figma, it's like moving from physics to chemistry.
In 2018, I contacted the developer and tried to purchase this app. He turned me down, and seemed like he wasn’t in it for the money. Seems like he picked the wrong buyer when he did finally sell out.
Absolutely surreal. Thank you for sharing, this is very nice timing, as I'm giving a presentation on the basics of "AI" at a library tomorrow, and have been looking for a good edge case conversation - and this is it! I've saved the text as well, in case OpenAI deletes it.
It seems that exploits for this are non-trivial:

In order to exploit vulnerability, an attacker needs to:

- gain local access on the machine

- break kASLR

- find gadgets in the running kernel in order to use them in the exploit

- potentially create and pin an additional workload on the sibling
thread, depending on the microarchitecture (not necessary on fam 0x19)

- run the exploit

From docs added to the Linux kernel alongside the mitigation for this vulnerability: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

That fact that breaking kASLR is required for this and the considerably complex exploit chain compared to others makes me worry about this a lot less compared to the exploitable-from-JS ones.

I'll wait for some benchmarks to come out from Phoronix or similar and depending on how bad the perf hit is, I will consider disabling mitigations for this on my personal computer.

If someone has gotten a malicious binary running on my machine - even without root permissions - it's already over anyway.
It's for reasons A and B, at least. There have already been issues with "B", for example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crashed-spacecraft...

Look at how "well" transferring species around has worked out on Earth, regardless of intentionality:

https://wildlife.org/eradication-lets-rat-island-shed-its-na...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/forget-lantern-fly-mysterious-n...

... actually, here, let's just cover things more completely/ efficiently:

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

It seems wise, for multiple reasons, to try not to cross-contaminate, for the moment. Just in light of unintended consequences with past "cross-contamination" events.

Something like "Andromeda Strain" may be unlikely, and, it may be that we don't find anything particularly interesting on Mars, period, say... But, we're still very early on in this phase, I'd say ... trying to avoid some of the consequences created by past explorers (who spread diseases, rats, etc. everywhere - whether European or Pacific Islander or etc.) seems prudent...
Today you get to learn that there were ARM CPUs affected by Meltdown as well, including those sold by Apple.
> It sounds like a proof of work rate limiter similar to something hashcash. I don't think it will stop a bot machine, just make it very expensive to use

Ah, OK. I was wondering the exact same thing as toxicFork. This makes some sense. It's a shame they don't explain it on their website.

But then the natural followup question: why do they keep mentioning blockchain? What's that bringing to the table? If it's just about soaking up processing time, then surely anything computationally heavy would do the trick, so why include something that would set off some people's alarm bells?
What Is an Apache Kafka Cluster? (and Why You Should Care)
> Until a year ago, our passwords are 8 characters max, no special characters, upper and lowercase letters are equal.

That’s pretty good. A major Canadian bank until ~2020 had 6 character limit passwords (possibly you could enter more, but only the first six count) and mapped all alpha characters to numbers in groups of 3 (so your assigned telephone banking PIN was just a “hash” of your password).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17174697
>we had an upgrade of Black forced on us in order to satisfy Poetry which then reformatted all of our Python code.

Unlikely. If you are using pre-commit to run black then the version being used lives outside your venv and hence not subject to dependencies you are using. Poetry should also be outside your venv.
This is a great change but either it's not fully rolled out yet or it's not enabled when logged out. I still see a cluttered home page when I visit.

It stinks that a user interface improvement this large would require you to log in; hopefully that's just a temporary issue. In the meantime there are scripts, css tweaks, and alternative clients that can make the watching experience cleaner and less distracting, but people shouldn't have to have technical knowledge just to get a clean home menu when visiting the site.
The Economist seems to really dislike the idea of making anything physical. It’s a pattern I’ve seen generally.
Because of a conversation in HN a few weeks ago, I tried to play a board game agains ChatGPT that I had created and it was an absolute disaster [1]. I would have expected the model to at least understand the game rules, but not even that.

[1] https://joseprupi.github.io/misc/2023/06/08/chat_gpt_board_g...
This chat is how GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 behave if you crank the temperature up.
Ancient Earth globe