skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often yes, it's now not defined as simply a description of a process it's "The Science"... An editorilised summary of work that supports some policy or initiative.

It's often not really possible to contradict or contribute to The Science as an outsider, as access to the equipment, samples, and raw data is not available.
Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm (1968)
Me too. You know what's another good sign times are changing? A fortune 500 company gave me a Linux laptop to WFH. Even a decade ago this would be extremely improbable.
I wear them all day during work and also then a couple hours in the evening without any issue. Pure bliss
> Its totally possible that he’s a massive rapist, and its a great cover to be a known enemy to governments with your journalistic endeavours.

> But its terribly convenient for the US government that the circumstances landed where they did, and it was even told to us that it would land this way and those saying it were branded as conspiracy theorists.

I wonder if its both. He could be a massive rapist who would have gone unnoticed without us gov involvement. I imagine if you want to discredit someone it is much easier to find their real sins than to make something up wholesale.

Of course if that's true it still doesn't really matter how it was dragged to the light, he would still be a dirt bag.
On several occasions I've found that act of composing the commit message brings something to the front of my mind that I really ought to get into the patch but haven't done yet.

Otherwise the main use case I have for a commit message is that it fills out the GitHub PR for me with something useful.
Why is vehicle or licence registration not online? Or at the very least by mail?
I think what OP was getting at is why it has to be specialized. Time-series features can be implemented in a general purpose DB engine like postgres or mongo.
Wow, thanks! I really like Ollama, so I'm glad the models listed at the top of the Readme aren't all you could use. Do you know where the data in that Gist came from? Is there a registry somewhere?
Ask HN: Anyone using Linode to host large systems?
Hi HN,

I'm about to start working on a side hustle and my pockets are not deep. The niche I aim for has speciffic understanding of data privacy and security, this will result in many vm's I'll have to deploy and maintain. Also I need to be able to deploy VM's in Sydney as well as in Europe, both in UK and in EU.

My pockets are shallow and I have to save on hosting. Also each instance can be very small, I have conducted some tests and it seems I will be able to utilize $5 nanodes from Linode. I looked their API and also their Ansible collections- it looks promissing.

Can you share your experience with Linode? Or maybe you have good experience with other provider you can vouch for? I'm happy Linode user since 2011, though to date I was only spinning 1 or 2 instances at a time.
Assets.

I'm not defending the massive inequity which clearly exists, but wealth tax that targets a theoretical (eg) land value will lead to silliness as this 0.00017% aggressively devalue their holdings to avoid this tax.
Force me to shut off my ad blocker before being able to view your site content? Nope, fuck you Miami Herald. A better link would have been nice for this curiosity. Here it is (lots of tracking but at least it doesn't block content because of ad blockers): https://gizmodo.com/antarctic-strawberry-feather-star-20-arm...

Edit: Also, to lower the drama a bit, it's part of a well-known genus that has five known species to it.
I like to put it this way:

You always have the freedom to say anything you want. That should not be assumed to mean you are free from the consequences of your speech.

You can actually yell "Fire!!!" in a crowded theater. And you will have a serious legal problem to contend with.

The reason I put it this way sometimes is because there are people who think of the idea of freedom of speech as some kind of a sacrosanct shield. That's not the case at all. You can still get punched in the face if you are an ass.
There's no question that the market was a major cluster, but that doesn't mean it was necessarily the point of introduction. SARS-CoV-2 must have been introduced to other continents at airports or seaports, but that's not where the first major clusters were found there.

SARS-CoV-2 has relatively low IFR, and symptoms easily confused with other respiratory illnesses. This means that even with advance warning and good surveillance, many generations of cryptic spread are possible before someone gets sick enough to get tested. I've seen many fine-grained geographic arguments, both for and against unnatural origin, but would generally consider them to be noise given that early under-ascertainment.

As to the environmental samples, virus was definitely present in the market, since infected humans were present. A few samples with raccoon dog DNA were found with a few SARS-CoV-2 reads; but almost all the SARS-CoV-2 in that market must have come from infected humans, and there's no evidence those reads didn't too. The correlation between SARS-CoV-2 presence and raccoon dog presence is negative, and that correlation is most positive for non-susceptible animal species; so I again think that's noise. This is from Jesse Bloom's analysis at

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.25.538336v1
Self driving cars are robots.

There is a more academical definition: a robot is a computer with sensors and actuators attached. Self driving cars certanly fit that criteria.

There is a more practical definition too: a robot is a machine with a computer which does not work yet. Because once it starts working people stop calling it a robot.

For example a modern washing machine certainly fits the academic definition of being a robot, but most people wouldn’t call it one.
Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine(1964) [pdf]
by Irving John Good. Based on talks given in a Conference on the Conceptual Aspects of Biocommunications, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, October 1962; and in the Artificial Intelligence Sessions of the Winter General Meetings of the IEEE, January 1963
Counterpoint: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/03/the_myth_of...
Tor is a client not for upstreams
If only there was a self-hosted option that I could point at any git repo, that could be called from the CLI with instructions and made eg. a feature branch with the proposed changes committed therein.

As it is, the apparent reliance on github & github actions/apps, and the lack of openness where I can't run the LLM magic myself in an environment I control makes it A) impossible to use in a corporate environment and B) not entirely well aligned with my own FOSS values to use privately.

Edit: to expand, this is the "getting started" section.

- Add the Sweep GitHub app to desired repos
- Create new issue in repo, like "Sweep: Write tests". [...]
- Watch the magic happen

I get that this is how we do software now: walled gardens, handing off your data to some opaque AI box, convenience of a nice integration above control over how and where code runs... but personally, that's not for me.
I think it’s the natural evolution of software development in an age where decoupled architectures make more and more sense. I’ve been around long enough to see a few pendulum swings, but I’m not sure we’re ever going back to a world where the monolith makes sense again. I know some people will disagree with me, but I think there is a fundamental issue with the OOP line of thought, to no fault of the philosophy itself. It’s simply that people don’t handle complexity well in the real world. The way I see it, you have two modes of operating. The right way and whatever the heck you’re doing when it’s Thursday afternoon and you’ve slept poorly all week. Sure there are ways around this, but in most cases your code-reviewer and quality control isn’t going to be allocated enough time (and neither are you for that matter) to actually deny things that work. Which is how you end up with 9000 different tables, views, stored procedures and what not in your giant mess of a database.

Which was sort of fine in a world where nobody cared about data security. But it’s almost impossible to build a “monolith” database that lives up to the modern legislation requirements, at least within the EU. So we’re basically living in a world where the way we’ve done databases for the past 50 years, doesn’t work for the business. Unless you separate everything into business related domains in small kingdoms with total sovereignty over who comes and goes. Which is basically what micro services are.

At the same time we’re also living in a world where it’s often cheaper (and performant enough) to put 95% of what you do in a container using volumes for persistence. If SQLite was ready for it, or maybe, if all the ORMs were ready for SQLite, you could probably do 90% or your database needs in it. Since that’s not the case, Postgres reigns supreme because it’s the next best thing (yes, you’re allowed to think it’s better). I view Vector DBs sort of similarity to this. We operate almost all of our databases in containers, the one exception is for the one services everyone calls where the performance loss of the container is too much. Well, that’s not entirely true, our dataware house isn’t operated in containers, at least not by us, but I rarely interact with the BI side of things except for data architecture so I’m actually not sure how their external partners do Ops. Anyway, I think Postgres will do 90% or (y)our vector needs and then we will need dedicated vector databases for those last bits that won’t fit into the “everything” box. I don’t think this is bad either, maybe Oracle wanted it to be theirs, but then Oracle should not have Oracles governance. I’m sure they didn’t foresee this future when they bought MySQL though, I know I didn’t. Because who could’ve foreseen that that way we used to do Databases would become sort of obsolete because of containers and EU legislation… and other things?
Well, there's SLS which is tolerant of overhangs and other exotic features. Formlabs has a machine in the 5 digit price range, and I wouldn't be surprised to see competitors come out with a 4-digit one in the near future.
> But then, people would want to use the bike for other things, too, like going on road trips.

I have an e-bike, I can take it on the train, go to some random town and explore. You can buy 'S-pedelecs" which are basically mopeds in bicycle form-factor - they have powerfull motors and go 45 km/h.

Then high-end electric motorcycles make sence

But lower end electric motorbikes, I dont get. You camt tale them on oiblic transport, they need a socket to charge, they cant use car-standarss for charging, and they dont have the range. So they seem to be in purgatory.
They are different beasts for different tasks. Basically, GPUs are optimized for calculating small stuff in parallel (polygons). CPUs calculate big stuff serially, until the advent of multi-core obviously, but GPUs have much more parallel pipelines.
Oh I see... and a "model" is always young, skinny, white and female I guess (cannot blame the AI though, I guess that is what you get if you look at the internet as a whole as your training data).

EDIT: I had to lookup "waifu" and it seems the author probably prompted for "waifu model"(?)... according to Wikipedia, for those like me who are not into that sort of thing:

"A Waifu is an illustrated female character from an anime or any non-live action media in which an individual becomes sexually attracted to."
Congrats on reaching $500, some suggestions;

- Double down on whats working, go reseller only, will make it easier to advertise to highly converting customers.

- Improve the design on your page, it has many flaws.

- AI generated voice in your video makes the site more spammy and less professional.

- Talk to the users that integrated the widget and did not became customers, offer them the product for dirt cheap/free if they respond with valuable feedback.
I'm afraid it is - For example, the gender debate leads to other countries introducing draconian laws against the LGBT communities. Some days it's all they talk about on Russian TV. Same for the race debate, it seems some politicians don't know which society they are fighting for. There were people in Sweden demanding government action because of the George Floyd incident. US domestic culture wars do spread globally because of the dominance of US media.
I can get this running on my M1 Mac Pro (CPU mode) with a few tweaks in the cv2win32.py file. I'll submit a change request.
> Go back to offices, with doors.

And invent a teleporter. The commute is absolute terrible.

It's actually a bit more complicated than you think it is.
> > To have the same experience in a ICE bike require a huge and comparably heavy motor, like the triumph speed triple or a Harley-Davidson

No it requires you to know the rpm range where the torque is on your motorbike and then be able to use the clutch and the throttle to reach it.

Slow relase of clutch + ride-by-wire system introduced in the early 00s allows for smoother acceleration compared to the past
Or maybe plant some trees.
Or perhaps there’s a competiting school that already covers those majors successfully.
It sounds like that, but believe me, it was vastly worse than current times. Except if you were in lucky 0.1% that had those connections, and also had no conscience.
Don't tell me what I like. I don't care whether something is "told by humans" or not. In fact, HN Recap is the only podcast I listen to.
llama2-uncensored is a lot of fun, interacting with an unaligned/uncensored model feels very fresh.
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
Why? The problem with iGPUs has nothing to do with die sharing. Consoles are based on AMD's APUs and they are competitive with discrete GPUs because the main memory is GDDR RAM.
I note the replies, but respectfully disagree that concatenation versus interpolation is in any way a meaningful distinction.

Analysing “green house” as either “green”.concat(“ house”) or “{} {}”(green, house) is not meaningfully different, and runs into the same i18n problem (the order should be reversed for many languages, like Spanish and French).
> i do not believe this is true. otherwise smart contracts would not work.

Smart contracts work because they keep everything on the chain. You're proposing a weird hybrid model, like "let's tie the legitimate possession of a real-life movie to the state of an item in World of Warcraft".

Things work if you're within WoW fully, or dealing with a physical DVD fully. Trying to combine both into a single system is where things get weird.

> if i store something on the chain, and accessing it triggers a smart contract, then you should not be able to bypass the contract.

This works so long everything you care about is on the chain. But your movie isn't.

> i don't know how that works, but if it didn't work then smart contracts would not be enforceable. if that is the case i'd really like to see evidence of that.

Try to think of a mechanism that would force me to have a WoW account, and to register my interactions within WoW every time I wanted to watch say, Guardians of the Galaxy.

> a watermark only tracks ownership, but it doesn't call home to count how many times the movie has been watched.

I think you're not getting that the blockchain and the movie exist separately. For the blockchain to refer to my particular copy of the movie, my copy has to be unique in some way. It has to have an unique SHA256. I'm saying that if my copy is already unique, it's already identifiable as mine, so the blockchain doesn't really add much to solving anything here.

Your legal issues are solvable by just "Look, here's a record that I sold this movie to Bob Smith and his copy has SHA256 ABCDEF0123...., and look, here it is on Pirate Bay"

> the question here is, can it be addressed or is the whole concept so flawed that this can't be fixed?

IMO, it's unfixable. The whole point of blockchains is the lack of a central authority. Your identity on one starts and ends in the possession of a public/private key pair. The second somebody gets their hands on that, as far as the chain is concerned, they're you. At that point they transfer your stuff to their account and you're screwed. There's nobody to appeal to, because the very point of the system is that nobody can override that mechanism.
Is this because America isn't obeying the mask rules? I don't get this analogy.
This. Anyone trying to argue against Snowden because he went to Russia or china is quite frankly childish
Faith Is the Opposite of Worry
Perhaps it's like stocks? "It'll bounce back", and land is traditionally one of the safest investments to make.

It's a weird whiplash to hear about empty office buildings on the enterprise side, while also hearing that the real estate market for private citizens is absolutely exploding. I've had some real estate agent come to my door every month this year asking about trying to sell my house.

Maybe enterprise wants to be ahead of some future office gold rush (that may or may not happen)
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1953)
Autopilot not doing what it is expected leading to a too low approach sounds a bit like the 777 crash in S.F.. There it was not a bug but the hidden modes in the automation leading to deviation of what pilots thought the plane would do and what it did.
Nothing stops you from buying this machine https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platfor... (except the poor performance Vs cheaper x86 processors).
Well, the Tesla plane is going to be something to remember.
> killed a bit of the artistry that went into the layouts

Yes. Absolutely.

Sadly, EDA tools like KiCad and Altium (two of the ones I use most often) make absolutely ugly schematics. Just horrible looking stuff. I always thought this had to do with engineers who did not necessarily come up drawing schematics by hand.

In the later-70's to early 80's --and a little beyond-- you could pickup magazines like Byte and Popular Electronics and see beautifully drawn schematics that were well laid-out and easy to understand. Same with data books. I built lots of projects from those magazines back then. Later on, professionally, I developed a schematic drafting style that mimicked the beautiful schematics from those publications.

CAD requires an effort. You can produce great looking schematics. It depends on how you choose to produce your libraries. We make libraries that make great looking schematics. The difference in legibility is, in my opinion, worth the time we spend creating good looking symbols and parts.
I got to understand from personal experience that the anti-SOA people are usually the ones who stayed at the same company their entire carers, never saw any model other than the monolithic one, see SOA as a threat to their domain knowledge within the company and simply are not able to see its downsides (because they have adapted their ways of work around it and never experienced anything better).
Can I train a llama 2 model on custom data and make it expert on my data knowledge?

For example, If I give it thousands of law pages it will be a domain expert about law ?
Out-of-Distribution
This repo aims to provide the most comprehensive, up-to-date, high-quality resource for OOD detection, robustness, and generalization in Deep Learning.
Science director of Shukin was killed in the same way:

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8E%D0%BA...
I tried running a llama model using oobabooga but kept running into one problem after the next.

Anyone know of a config that might work (even quite slowly) on an i9 laptop, 32gb ram with nvidia graphics 8gb?
Didn't Ocaml recently completely overhaul their runtime system? Is this still relevant?
You are right in that is neither high-brow or PC. :)
> How is the other machine family slow when it has the same resources?

They aren't the same resources. Different families have different generation CPUs and/or CPUs from different manufacturers with different performance. Just because instances are available with common core count and memory size doesn't mean an instance with 5+ year old ARM CPUs is going to perform the same as one with new Intel CPUs.

> How do you identify such machine families?

The AWS EC2 site...
One Generation Passeth Away, and Another Cometh
Generally speaking university gives you the tools and guides you. Most of the people aren't able to study university level subjects on their own.
Presumably they mean having their changes persist without clicking "submit"
It's funny because when it's a black guy getting killed conservatives say it's their fault for getting killed for not complying. We've heard it endless times.
I was responding to comments about people not needing faster phones and there was no need to compete on single core performance with apple.

Apple phones are always fast in the UI. Some is fast hardware, some is software. But if samsung is not able to stripdown android to run decently on a midrange phone maybe they actually need the faster single core performance.
Plain text is only storage, I happily posit plain text as storage is not the issue.

It's the tooling above that's lacking. From editors to
source control, it's all text/buffer/line/character oriented,
which does have its benefits. Sure there's syntax highlight, folding, symbol search and whatnot but semantically these tools only superficially understand code itself and certainly don't operate on code, they only pretend to and are fundamentally text editors. We're getting there with LSPs and error-tolerant parsers but they still map back to text for us to interact.

Tools like gofmt, black, ruby standard and such already kind of abstract away text as storage: you write code in whatever way and it gets transformed right under your feet. In some way as a dev you already don't care about the text, it gets handled for you, but it still maps back to text because editors can't handle anything else.

Similarly LSPs are in my mind quite nerfed because they have to do a whole back and forth to text dance. Vim text objects kind of goes into that direction as well, where you think about higher level constituents than text (arguments, methods, etc). Imagine being able to bind the understanding of LSPs right into semantic Vim language objects without them having to go through text!

I dream of an editor where I can open a bunch of functions or classes or namespaces (not files) in buffers that have understanding of the constituents, and it would all map back to files for storage behind the scenes. I believe it doesn't have to go full tilt Smalltalk-like; the Closure conf Overtone demo from years ago is almost there, although not quite.
There is no reliable evidence that the masks most people used were effective. For the most part it was a waste. The notion that we should do something just because it might help is ridiculous. I'm certainly not willing to put up with that nonsense.

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6
> I wonder what's really brewing at Intel.. it isn't often we get to read about customer-specific silicon.

Copying AMD. EPYC has done this already with mostly minor differences.
I don't know if it's the server being slow, or inherent to the protocol, but `pijul clone https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul` took an awefully long time (it doesn't say how much it downloaded, but the .pijul directory is 28MB -- which isn't a lot assuming it contains things similar to .git (gathering from the talk said it should contain diff + snapshot of each 'commit'))