skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
x86 architecture is now proven to be a minefield. It has too many instructions, being a CISC instruction set (something that was obsolete in the 90s but was keept for backward compatibility with older software). This means that to make efficient CPU the manufacturer has to do a ton of optimizations. These optimizations have resulted in most of the bugs we have seen.

Contrary ARM or other RISC instruction set are more simple. Being more simple they rely on compilers being more smart to generate optimized programs (something we have to this day). For this processors are more simple and straight forward, they don't need all the complexity of an x86 CPU. For this reason they are also more efficient since they don't waste resources doing useless operations.

Of course vulnerabilities can be everywhere (there were a few also on M1, tough not as impressive like these one, they were mostly stuff nearly impossible to exploit|). But recent times proved that particularly on x86 chips this is a real issue.
I'm well off and I work considerably less hard than many people making close to minimum wage. I'm treated better, trusted more, respected more, and have much more flexibility in my work.

Will and work ethic are weakly necessary for success, but they are not at all sufficient for it. (not successful) -> (not work ethic) is denying the antecedent: (successful) -> (work ethic) is, if not always true, at least often true, but that doesn't imply its converse.
Last time I was searching for an office in Berlin, I remember some shady sales tactics (without remembering details) and a totally overpriced offer. Made me skip them. But take it with a grain of salt, I’m German and might just not be used to US “sales stunts”.
https://archive.ph/2023.08.02-231606/https://www.washingtonp...
oh i love ultra niche conferences like these. good luck and looking forward to it! looks like the CFP closed :/
Multifold soap bubble cymatics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLtTP07FCw
> [Mars is] dealing with Climate Change too.

Boo. A blatant fallacy of equivocation.

For any readers confused by the jargon: Just because there's something somewhere involving "a climate" that is somehow "changing" does NOT mean it's really the same thing as what people are referring to when they say "Climate Change".

I'm reacting strongly against this because it seems like more than just an innocent joke... I fear the tip of some climate-denial nonsense I've seen before, claims that the sun is making all the planets hotter, claims that are ridiculously false. [0]

[0] https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-sun-causing-global-wa...
Thanks! I agree with your point. There is a lot of tuning that needs to happen, including context aware splitting and any other kind of transformation before the unstructured data gets indexed. This is one of the big challenge of productionizing LLM apps with external data. So far we are using internally since the team as experience dealing with building these connectors and that becomes a great co-pilot.

The great thing we get by plugging this whole stack together is that we get all the refreshed data as more issues/connectors get created.
> I think most of the popular drugs should be legalized

Under what circumstances do you think fentanyl could be legalized?

Opioids are already legal to some degree, it's just over-prescribing them had a massive backlash and shifting to a completely opposite direction (not that addiction was ever technically a valid reason to get a prescription).

> There's simply no reason a grown adult shouldn't be able to smoke a joint

Yes, but you still agree we have to draw a line at some point. How do we handle substances that end up being on the other side of it? Do we just ignore them and their distribution not to "curtail civil liberties"?

> who do have serious addiction problems and ruins lives, mostly of more vulnerable people, with fines and criminal records and jail time

That's awful and should not happen. But is it still that widespread these days? Many(most?) places just seem to ignore addicts and abandon them without providing any real support.

> along with nicotine and alcohol

What's wrong with nicotine? It's mostly harmless (even if quite addictive) in it's pure form...

Anyway if you actually consider even alcohol to be on the other side of that line, I'm not quite sure what you're proposing? If weed and mushrooms are legalized we're still left with 95%+ of all drugs related problems we had before that.
Maybe doesn't make sense for the company. But there's many people involved for whom it must have been an extremely good decision to juice the VC funding quickly and at any expense. Better to have a few millions from a failed startup than nothing XD
this is an excellent notion.
The country lines on the globe are ridiculously out of date, and show countries that haven’t existed for 30 years.
Surely the program will be packed.
Raku is what you get when you mix APL and LSD.
This seems like a job for Arm or RISC-V or ???

Sacrifice IPC/core to reduce gates per core, stuff more cores into a square centimeter, pin processes to cores or groups of cores, keep thread preemption cheap, but let thread migration take as long as it takes.

Arm already has asymmetric multiprocessing, which I feel like is halfway there. Or maybe a third. Fifteen years ago asynchrony primitives weren’t what they are today. I think there’s more flexibility to design a core around current or emerging primitives instead of the old ways. And then there are kernel primitives like io_uring meant to reduce system call overhead, amortizing over multiple calls. If you split the difference, you could afford to allow individual calls to get several times more expensive, while juggling five or ten at once for the cost of two.
Daisy. Daisy. Give me your answer dooooo...
Sorry, now I'm confused. Suppose it is 2nd Jan 2024, 2FA is now required, I have an account and a sole-owned project, I don't have 2FA.

From above, I cannot delete the project because "Project deletion would fall under 'management'" and management requires 2FA, Or from above "you can still delete the project" so I can delete the project without 2FA?

From reading around, one cannot delete an account if it has sole-owner projects (right?), so in the former case, one could not delete one's account without setting up 2FA to delete the project first, contrary to "you can elect to remove your account at any time"?
Plenty of places I still get no service at all in northern Minnesota.
They didn't say it IS mentally unwell. They said it was similar to those kind of postings.

Not to mention, when experts and laymen are talking of LLMs as exhibiting emergent basic signs of GI, we should also expect them to talk about them actually showing signs of being a mentally unwell GI. Hallucinations, for example, are one such sign.
The headline is misleading. It's not actually $170k salary. It's a base salary of something like $95k and then various (mostly standard) benefits that they mark up the value of to claim it as being worth the remainder.
Agree. Tech is a very broad universe. Is not the same to create a consumer facing platform for a new business than creating a Core System for a Telco, Utility or Bank. In those cases, the 1% (minus documentation) is crucial, as core features are not removed nearly ever.

When you are experimenting with consumers and a feature might end up being a failure, then yes some of those items could be cataloged as tech debt of sorts.
Ask HN: PyTorch or Jax for Making an LLM?
Dearth of content and politics aside, it is really nice on mobile.
This is scarier to me than any horror movie or video I've seen in over a decade. Maybe it is because I use ChatGPT a lot, and I feel something like this happening to me directly might make me stop using it entirely.

It makes mistakes all the time, which I can deal with, but not this. Especially, the "I am suffering from a medical condition" line is bonkers.
Building landing pages is what I do for a living. I've been building something similar, a landing page editor of sorts, though it's a bit more advanced and requires knowledge of HTML and CSS, less the actual editing done on the page.

I love concept of what you have built. It's very basic but I really like the simplicity and use of white space. And it's especially great for onboarding those who don't need or want to write/know HTML or CSS knowledge in order to use it.

Seems you're still way early in the beta stages as I'm getting errors:

Something went wrong!
Try again

But you are definitely on the right path. Stick to editing on page, more color theme availability would be great, even a dark theme, or several more contrasts would be nice. I don't see the abiliy to drag and drop but I'd like to be able to move a section up or down.

It always nice to give things away for free or have a free version of something, though stick with the idea of charging something ... keeps you motivated to add more stuff as you evolve... so the $12 a month could be a great start with an even more featured-ladden plan added.

I was not able to view a "live version" of my landing page so I can't provide too much more feedback other than on the generator and editing itself. I do see a great product in the works!
Heh, I had a health insurance portal that when you changed your password with their mobile app, it would let you use all the special characters. However the web app blocked (or stripped) those characters out, meaning you couldn't log in to the web app because it literally wouldn't let you type your password. Every so often the mobile app forced re-auth, and it redirected you to the web version where putting in your password wouldn't work... I likewise had a nightmare process to get it reset.
I guess that all depends on what you consider bizarre parts. You of all people must have your own weird reason to say this out of the blue, though.
My school issued me a Chromebook, but they forgot to enroll it.

The enrollment account was there, which I managed to get into, and reset the Chromebook from there.

Sadly, I broke it, and overlooked recovery mode. By the time it gets back to me, it would be enrolled already. :(

I wonder what are the chances of this happening to someone...
You can't trust the AI hype
At first, I thought it's a joke conference site, but if I think about it, it's actually a great idea!

Just goes to show how we are (or at least, I am) used to $PROG_LANG conferences, or Agile/SysAdmin/SRE/Mobile confs. Could be cool to have linting conf, code editor summit, etc.
> The counterfeit book won't have an NFT.

Or it might come with an NFT created by the scammer, which they might trick the reader into trusting with social engineering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuranolone

"An orally active inhibitory pregnane neurosteroid, zuranolone acts as a positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor."

Interesting. I was expecting another SSRI or something similar.
We are talking about potential WW3, and you are worried about world loosing 2 years of progress due to war. Currently, Samsung is 2-3 years behind and Intel is 3-4 years behind and the gap is shrinking as we approach EUV limit.

Millions of lives would be lost if not more if it will be a full scale war. A chip fab is nowhere the same level of importance to be even discussed on the table.
How does this comment fly on HN? This person is basically calling all Muslim immigrants homophobes, which is so far from the truth.
It's because the Panama canal was constructed by connecting several previously naturally existing (fresh) waterways and a big lake, to the ocean on both side. The whole point of the locks is to raise and lower the ships to the higher elevation at which the lake sits. Water runs downhill, it starts as rain, then to rivers and lakes, then the ocean. So in this case rain and natural watershed basins drain into the lake and then the locks release it slowly down to progressively fill each lock, until the water is at the ocean, at which point it can't efficiently be separated from the seawater, so it just becomes part of the ocean.

The people there drink the fresh water and chose to settle in that area originally because ot was there. We then built a canal after. It wasn't like we built the Panama canal as a water source for the local folks.
Mountains block cell signal, cell service is available but is very spotty in mountainous areas. Deadhorse, Alaska is in a flat field.
Especially since a lot of LLM output involves hallucinations
One of the reasons was to control the Chagres River. The creation of Gatun Lake created a freshwater reservoir higher than sea level. Vessels enter the Canal, climb up to the level of the Lake and are dropped back down to sea level. I have to wonder if the third set of locks (what I think they're calling Neo-Panamax locks) uses more water than the original 110 x 1000 locks. There must be a way to recycle water for use in Panama City and Colon. It's not practicable to re-use the water for canal operations because the water would have to be raised back up to the level of Gatun Lake and it would take an enormous amount of energy to do so. As I recall, spillage from canal operations was never used to generate electricity, but that might no longer be the case.
The free version of ChatGPT, which is now calling itself 3.5, has a seemingly consistent type of answer whenever I ask it how to code something I don't know how to do.

It outputs some boilerplate code, and inserts a method with comments saying "insert logic here" - entirely sidestepping the request.

You can say that's remarkably human-like, but if it was a human cow-orker, you would not keep them on the payroll. It is a cheat, like ELIZA, like SHRDLU, like a useless employee.

I asked ChatGPT-3.5 for the usual rejoinder to complainers:

"If you're looking for an enhanced experience, you might want to consider trying out the paid version called ChatGPT-4. It offers even more capabilities and improvements. Feel free to explore the options available to find the best fit for your needs!""
> We look forward to discussing the future of telco network security with our ecosystem and industry partners and standardization bodies. We will also continue to partner with academic institutions to solve complex problems in network security. We see tremendous opportunities to curb FBS threats, and we are excited to work with the broader industry to solve them.

I'll be honest. The stuff in this article is good, if a little underwhelming, but I feel a large amount of distrust for Google nowadays, to the point where what would've felt like unnecessary pessimism now feels only rational to me.

Ever since Google dropped WEI into our lives, I feel like they should not be allowed to be a part of any security efforts in any standards body or ecosystem. How long until carriers try to limit devices that don't support Google Play or Apple remote attestation of some kind?

I don't know what to think or do anymore.
> What does it mean that k3s is “certified”? Should I care? What’s the tradeoff?

I think that maybe I should have linked directly to the K3s GitHub, which goes into detail about what it is, what the components are, as well as links to more information about testing: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/

Kubernetes is a large and complex system, but doing end to end tests aims to ensure that various implementations work correctly, they have pretty in depth docs on all of this, including conformance tests in particular: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contribu...

So, if a distribution passes all of these, then it's likely that it will give you fewer unpleasant surprises. Here's a list: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

> When you mentioned Traefik my eyes glazed over.

Well, you typically do need an ingress controller that will allow exposing services to the outside and direct network traffic.

Traefik is liked by some, less so by others, but generally works okay - except that its documentation (for K3s in particular) isn't as abundant as it would be when using Nginx. For example, if you want to use a custom SSL/TLS certificate (without ACME) for all domains by default, figuring that out might take a while.

That said, if you don't like it, technically you could swap it for something else, however I personally had a cluster hang once while doing that due to some cleanup action getting stuck.

There are plenty of options: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingr...

> Is there a picture of how all this fits together? One not created by a consultant selling their services?

I actually found their diagrams to be surprisingly sane: https://docs.k3s.io/architecture

However, do be warned that there are many different ways how to build clusters that might have significant differences.

K3s is just one of the Kubernetes distros - that attempt to provide an opinionated view on how to mix and match the components out there to end up with something that will let you use Kubernetes and have things actually work as expected at the end of the day.

A bit like how we have OS distros like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and so on.
Any recommendations for a good weekly or monthly magazine that covers the week/month's news well. Bonus for printed editions, and one that doesn't involving the most kafka-esque unsubscribe process.
Around here they use multiple different local companies and make them compete against one another. And there's no guarantee of contract renewal so they can just keep dropping whoever costs more. It ends up being super toxic for the employees and the service quality reflects that. I stopped using Amazon.
Static files are much easier to scrape. Its even easier to scrape a static page then it is to use api's
> A fundamental problem is that the attack surface is so, so huge. Even if their security researchers are doing blue-sky research on both very small and very broad areas of processor functionality, they're going to miss a lot.

Sure. If they had patched a bunch of Spectre vulnerabilities and independent researchers had discovered a few more that would be one thing, but as far as I can tell they have patched _zero_ while independent researches have found many and it has been years since the initial attack. Many of these follow very similar patterns and "in what cases is protected data exposed via speculative execution" is something that an architect or engineer could definitely assess.
I like to keep my tools simple so just give me a single AI that can do everything, browse through my data, generate pictures and give me suggestions in my code editor, etc. etc., instead of a different AI for every tool out there.
> I'm referring to your comment that he quoted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37050359
Maybe you're misremembering - but you wrote it :)

'johnklos' did not quote a single word from anyone in the comment I linked, nor a single word from my original comment you linked, let alone an entire phrase, and that was the only response he made from what I can see.

Are you confusing him with a different HN user?

You don't have to believe me, it's accessible to every passing reader right there in the comment chain...
On the roadmap! We want to get more clarity on how to fit the Embedding part in the ELT model. Once we figure it out we will add it to PG.
Until something undocumented, unmonitored or untested fully collapses and then you loose potential revenue or harm the brand and company market cap.

Revenue is not the only metric to consider IMHO.
With the Moon there's at least the argument that any contamination likely couldn't travel too far due to the lack of wind. So any contamination there would just be around the landing site, only going as far as the depressurization might've allowed it to go. Plus since the Moon is exposed to completely unshielded solar radiation, any unsheltered contamination will probably have broken down.

Mars on the other hand has wind, is slightly more protected by the atmosphere and increased distance from the Sun and around the equator summers are actually at decent temperatures for life.
Sandstorm is a very different category of system from k8s.
Exactly, they basically harness the natural water cycle (rain to watersheds to waterways to ocean).

The one exception is with these new locks, I bet they pump a bunch of the water back now instead of releasing it, that's how I expect they get the 60%.
A new level of control for X advertisers
Context: I was a UPS drivers helper during college during the holiday seasons. This job entailed running large amounts of holiday volume packages to houses from the truck.

I speculate that this is because the role of driver is a high-trust and critical operations role. This person has to reliably execute package delivery every single day regardless of the highly variable problem spaces that emerge. Without the last X mile capacity that a driver brings, all of the infra at UPS doesn’t provide value. For example a driver wakes up early every day, rain or shine (or sleet), and is accountable for making sure a truck is loaded correctly at the dock, and every package on the route is delivered. This can include packages of diamonds insured for 10’s of thousands, to hundred plus pound boxes.

I only rode shotgun for a few weeks a year and it was hard work. From that POV it a seems like a fair wage for the role.
> That teperature seems very pleasant and conductive for life.

The article is somewhat confusing but I think the surprising thing is that the ecosystem includes species that are known to be extremophiles that are part of vent ecosystems that have very different conditions than the newly-discovered below-the-vents ecosystems, and which it was previously unknown how they arrived at new vents, almost immediately when the vents form.
I'm sick and tired of the generally dismissive attitude towards these LLMs. They're no messiah, but they're for sure not useless.
Note that this was the original intent of proof of work (or very near it) [0].

Should you want to visit a site that has proof of work as a requirement but allows it to be done offline/deferred/transferred, then you've essentially re-invented some of the major aspects of cryptocurrency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work#cite_note-DwoNao...
Given https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/08/apple-has-just-released-... it does look like it was revoked in response to the original article, and not the other way around.
Modified Newtonian Dynamics
It makes the fight for those much easier when you’re not worrying about your family getting sick or in an accident and bankrupting you
I think the biggest reveal I see in the article is that the lynchpin of stingray is basically an overpriced downgrade attack. Disabling 2g is arguably a potent way for ma bell to keep security companies like stingray from eating their already opulent lunch. We also dropped 2g because stingrays parlour trick also immediately outed itself as a national security threat
And it seems to be raw raw data. I spammed "test test " a bunch and in the middle of a strange relationship advice dialogue it ended up dumping out what seems to be uncensored forum messages:

'quicksleep: "Don't lose faith in humanity". Exactly

AfroBat: yes, one person's cuntiness is no justification for being a cunt yourself. That's how it works'
Too late for countless families if you gather all the historical data. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to curb this.
>So what's in this last 1%? Here are some of the most frequently skipped things I've seen:

Internal (maintenance) documentation

External (how-to/FAQ) documentation

Performance metric instrumentation

Easy-to-decipher performance metric dashboard

Usage metric instrumentation

Easy-to-decipher usage metric dashboard

Error metric instrumentation

Easy-to-decipher error metric dashboard

Alerting

Automated testing

None of the above are even important in launching a product, much less an MVP.

Startups have raised hundreds of millions and get millions of users without any of those. In fact they'd probably just slowed them down.