skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes no sense.

> The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites. The privilege of self hosting that early Internet users enjoyed was never given to the new Internet users.

If you actually have the technical chops to self-host a personal website in your house, why on earth would you want to do it on a phone? A Pi, Nano, Jetson, NUC, any kind of small form-factor mini PC is a far cheaper and better option if the limiter is seriously that you can't afford a hosting service. A web server does not need a camera, a touchscreen, a gyroscope, a GPS chip, a radio transceiver, an accelerometer, a fingerprint reader, or any of the many other hardware features that cause a phone to cost so much.

You may as well ask why your thermostat, printer, microwave, smart lightbulb, or television can't run a web server. There is nothing technologically stopping them. If they can run a stored program and connect to a network, they can bind to a port and listen for incoming requests. But running a website on them just isn't the purpose for their existence. General purpose computing devices exist and are cheap. If you want one, get one. There is no reason every single device that can do any form of computing needs to be a fully general-purpose computing device.
People love going to mls games, they are cheap and accessible, and for the most part its very much an atmosphere of die hard soccer fans. They can’t go to manchester united games, but they can watch el tráfico and it gets intense. Fans get into fights with the opposition just like in Europe.
I think a lot of that has since gone away.

I remember the battles around '2000 when the record industry tried to get paid for each instance when parts of the music files were buffered (because they were "copies"). They weren't laughed out of court. These days I think they would.
Like what? ed?
+1, I was also confused about the don't use Jira part - what is the alternative that will let dinosaur companies "operate more like startups"?
Could you expand on the nightmare of coupling?

I don't see how declaring an http client server side and consuming it client-side can be a worse thing.

We use the same pattern of creating services that then every consumer can use (a web interface, a cli, etc) and the fact that those things never get to break is a massive improvement over anything I've seen in the past.
Is it? I installed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phlox.simp..., and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxdebug.a... (the first two apps I found) and had a http server with custom html in all of about 5 minutes.
at this point, seriously considering switching to Bard which is now nearly as good (somewhere between GPT-3.5 and 4) just because these CAPTCHAs are so bad.
I have worked as an Android developer for about two years, then had to do project in Flutter. Learnt it over a weekend and getting the UI right took me less time then if I were to do it in native Android (before compose).
A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections
>It looks like 2024 will be a pivotal year for democracy. There are elections taking place all over the free world – in South Africa, Ghana, Tunisia, Mexico, India, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Moldova and Slovakia, to name just a few. And of course there’s also the UK and the US.
And I'll double down on making sure I never pay the record labels another dime.

Authors and artists: make sure you have a way for me to send you money online.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/host-a-web-...
I’m a senior dev, having coded commercially for 20 years now, and I think you are correct.

In my time, I have been an embedded C developer, a kernel developer, MFC C++, then J2EE, then Mobile C# .NET, then Python we dev, Python DS, Python Scientific, DevOps, WebDev

These aren’t trivial projects, but entire systems, E.g. I solo built https://atomictessellator.com just to scratch my own itch learning quantum chemistry simulators.

I think you are 100% right, at about the 10-15 year mark learning new languages and tooling really is a matter of days, maybe a week if the tooling is very different. That’s 1 week from no experience in a language to “employable, productive member of a team”

At some point it all just clicks, I suspect the people above who are disagreeing and likely devs with maybe only 5-6 years experience who this hasn’t happened for yet.
Why not just 1099 everyone at that point? Oh because then you can't bullshit people with career carrots and establish sunk costs and healthcare anxiety to retain people.
You just don't understand what's in a language degree. Also do you know a single person who has ever learned to actually speak a language with duolingo?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think this port issue will get solved with the introduction of new SVCB/HTTPS RR record types. Basically the dns server will include port info along with existing IP info in it's response.
How about skip protection in portable CD players? It loads bit ahead of time into a little buffer of RAM.
That's true even with a residential ISP though. It's no harder than serving off a laptop on android.
I could see the point of consulting if what you were paying for was genuine expertise that you lack in house, but often consultants are just know-nothings fresh out of university.

So another layer to the consultancy grift is consulting agencies who scam and delude the consultants themselves. Consultants are often just glorified temps who end up doing same sort of of grunt work as employees, but have much less job security and therefore potential to unionise. Big companies like a workforce that can't organise, and pay consulting agencies this for precariousness as a service.
i mean let's be real, the robotaxi is goanna get dirty and i won't want to use it :D
so yea
The part I struggle with is, how do I let my kids program and be creative on the computer without being online when daddy can’t program without an internet connection?

How will they develop “street smarts” about being on social media without a social media account?

How do I let them have the same positive experiences I had playing games without having the deeply negative ones too (I lost that breastplate that took weeks of grinding to get because the Bloodwood forest swallowed my corpse).
I would also recomment effect/core + effect/schema, the pattern of creating typed services starting from schemas is there perfect for people that are more functional-programming leaning.
CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]
Getting charged with tampering is much, much easier than successfully tamper. If he wanted to scare Elison publishing some dirt or sending texts is not going to do it - feds have much better ways to scare people into cooperation. And his very expensive lawyers told him as much, I am sure, because every lawyer would. But he probably decided he knows better.
Robust Software Engineering
Pure intuition, but if you don’t care about tagged pointers, I’d guess your approach would at worst break even and might even win some microbenchmarks: Flipping bits via a mask is cheaper transistor-wise than a shift, and a very cursory review of the latest Intel pipeline data from the canonical resource[1] suggests that this is reflected in the degree of macro-op fusion and number of execution units available for shift vs. bitlogic. See page 166 in particular.

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
None of them can run server on port 80/443
I wrote a small browser game/app with this https://www.scuddl.com/, and it was so refreshing to have such a powerful language with such low overhead
Zoom Contradicts Its Own Policy About Training AI on Your Data
My experience is consulting falls into three categories, and this is specific to higher education.

1. We can't afford the expert we need forever so we consult temporarily. Like major IT infrastructure. Colleges and universities tend to not attract the massively high quality tech workers that private industry does.

2. We know what is wrong, but internal politics or external politics keep us from saying and doing things we need to do. In this instance, consultants come in to tell us what we already know, but lets managers avoid responsibility for damaging relationships/politics.

3. We got a grant. Let's spend it on consultants because the prof that wrote it left last semester and his "notes" are like the necronomicon.

I usually work with number 2 when I consult (there is a Midwest school that still refers to me as the grim reaper because of all the firings that happened after I completed my findings report). But I would argue that number 1 is more common, in my experience.
> For example apple requires larger storage to even use prores:

I don't think this is about capacity, but rather it's about performance: small SSDs are slower because they have fewer flash chips to write to in parallel. But that effect goes away as you move up to higher capacities and hit other bottlenecks; even high-end PCIe gen5 SSDs that are too power-hungry for anything other than desktops and servers reach full speed by 2TB.
That’s not really true, especially these days.
Based on your requirements it sounds like AWStats [1] may be a fit. It's rather old-school but it's simple and works great on access logs and can be run on any node that you consolidate your logs to. It's had a sketchy security history so run it on something only you can access and/or put decent authentication in front of it. Some Linux distributions include AWStats as a package in their repositories.

[1] - https://github.com/eldy/AWStats
> ...we all figure out hacks...

"Hack"/"Maladaptive coping strategy" - pot-ay-to/pot-ah-to

With respect, I'm not sure there's a middle ground for us to meet in here, and I don't have anything to add beyond what I've written elsewhere.
The best way to repair an xbox shouldn’t be with a home oven but here we are
A couple of fallacies in there.

Distributors have

- bended creative work property laws/precedents to maximise profits.

- Been using marketing as barrier of entry.

- many times used anti competitive practices.

Paying consumers are not subsidising free riders. Given zero or an infinity of pirates the ticket price woụld not change. An effective anti piracy solution doesn't imply pirates would convert into paying consumers, some would of course, and ticket prices would most likely increase rather than decrease. Dubious parallel and nobody is forced.
Taxes are forced subsidies. Aside those that's business models and market response.
rsc also talked about the performance of channels vs coroutines in his blog post. If memory serves, it was 10x reduction in looping overhead.

https://research.swtch.com/coro
Yes, it lowers criminal margins by 10-20%. So what? For it to make a meaningful difference that number would have to be a lot higher. And it's unlikely that the current approach to AML will result in that number changing substantially because criminals only need one weak link in the financial system to undermine the whole AML apparatus.

Most economically driven crime has very high margins. Wholesale drugs in the Netherlands cost ~10 times what they do in Colombia, and I don't think "only" 8xing your money on a drug shipment instead of 10xing it is a very good deterrent.

Edit: And you can look at threat intelligence company reports to find that Russians already sometimes pay in excess of 40% to "cashout" business email compromise or investment fraud wire transfers. They happily pay this because even getting half of $80000 when all it took you was sending a few emails with forged From headers is a great deal if you are already morally bankrupt enough to stomatch stealing.
Big vs. small GPU clouds for fine-tuning LLMs
Hi everyone,

I am looking to fine-tune a Llama 2 (the 7B and 70B to see if there is a big difference), and I am looking at the different Cloud options for GPUs.

There are of course the big cloud providers like AWS, and the smaller ones like Paperspace and co.

I am trying to benchmark each in terms of price, ease of use, quick availability of GPUs, and feature-richness.

Could you share the insights on big vs small cloud providers when training a LLM? If you have other criteria to make a decision I would be interested too!
In most cases, we objectively do know. Unless there's a yet unheard argument for cane toads and feral camels.
Your comment is exactly the problem.. Trump has done some massively illegal things. That is being investigated and the Maga folks are trying to ignore that or suppress it. The Biden stuff is more or less not a major deal. And the one thing that has been harped on, the hunter Biden laptop he has already taken a plea deal with the doj.

Point is. The whataboutism is incredibly effective. And it is leading us to look at the rival who we built our entire military economy for as "meh, it's not that important". 1960s America would be foaming out the mouth for such a cheap price to obliterate Russia.
I’m not going to argue that it’s not perceived as creepy, because I can see that. But your second point is a little off the mark with how you phrased it. No one has a right to not be spoken to.

I ride the bus to work. There’s a very large, imposing, but otherwise friendly fellow I frequently run into. He like to strike up a conversation with/at me every time he sees me. He actually will talk to anyone who is near him. It’s annoying and unwanted, but it’s not violating any fundamental rights.

I understand where you’re coming from, but no one knows you don’t want to be spoken to until you inform them. And you certainly have a right to do that. It’s just a bit of a slippery slope wrt free speech to imply that someone’s speech infringes on a perceived right to not hear it.
Zoom rewrites its policies so your videos aren’t used to train AI
"Why aren't you answering my calls? I can see you have battery left!"

Sorry ma, I was in a meeting.

Really, our proclivity for instant gratification over patience is unhealthy.

I'm sure there's all sorts of neat ideas for what could go onto a phone's website, but I can't say that I see the appeal, personally.
You should be suspicious of anyone outlining their strategy for success.

Because if I was lucky enough to stumble upon some great hack to make lots of money, why would I be telling people about it? Either I get competition, or I might get whatever loophole I was abusing closed.

So either I'm lying, or what I'm saying isn't possible to reproduce, or the usefulness of the technique ran out and now I'm just trying to squeeze a few more dollars by telling the tale, or I'm actually stupid and about to see my business model crash and burn.
Subscribers only.
Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
Can Britain recreate a microchip industry worth its salt?
Bad way to advertise your product. It's entirely reasonable to make the conclusion that your product only does one thing at a time, also that the team lacks attention to detail (for a product that's all about attention to detail)
There are plenty of jobs that will let you do that. Most of them will not be writing software that is built on X.
It's actually the other way around. Universities were originally for humanities, and science and engineering got attached. Maybe we just need separate engineering schools.
There is a really great podcast episode[0] about beavers and their long term impact. The TLDR is that beavers are prolific terraformers and much of the western landscapes and weather we take for granted are the direct result of beavers. I certainly came away from this episode with a new respect for beavers.

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBmKwQ9SPt0
the church started as the government and this is sometimes very confusing.
In a true free market, there won’t be govt enforcement of IP.
for me, it is more like "40+ years of vi". vim is simply the best version of all of the vi-based editors that i have used, across many platforms. vim is brilliant (and i am very sad to hear of the author's death), but i think we really owe it all to bill joy.
I like this case. It's about recordings that are 70 years old or more, the vast majority are out of print, and the rest are often precariously in print.

If I'm reading correctly, the silly nature of the claim that

> [...] of the 2,749 recordings listed in the complaint, all but a “small sample” are already available to stream or download from licensed online platforms so they “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”

when the 2,749 recordings have been cherry-picked from

> [...] more than 400,000 works [...]

is pretty much an attack on their own claims that

> [...] to retain, restore and redistribute content that they believe should never be lost to history [...is...] nothing but a “smokescreen” to hide what amounts to IA offering “free and unlimited access to music for everyone,” regardless of copyright.

Not to mention that the IA constantly looking for copyrighted works uploaded that are not part of the "Great 78 Project" and reducing them to 30 second previews.

Prevailing on this would be a good thing. IA needs a win, even though it doesn't need to be paying to defend itself against another lawsuit. This is obviously vexatious. They're not really concerned with 78s. They're hoping to bankrupt IA with legal expenses, and/or they think that they have the fix in at a particular venue that they think they can steer the case to.
Not for Rosetta 2.
“Sandbagging” fits better.
I’d imagine most people’s first impression would be Notepad on windows- I wouldn’t count Word or even WordPad.
The IA has been skating on thin ice for a long time. They’ve archived a ton of content I generated over the years, most of it copyrighted. In my case I don’t care, I actually appreciate it since I didn’t keep archives as well as I should and occasionally use IA to find my own stuff. Also, my content is worth approximately 25¢. Others are not so forgiving.

What we really need are updated copyright laws that allow for research and preservation. However, people have been calling for updated laws for decades, but powerful copyright holders have stood in the way, so don’t hold your breath.
As someone who went into a STEM field without any family connections to STEM, I have definitely been stuck eating carrots and not knowing why it didn't work.

Interestingly, the human brain tells itself carrot stories all the time:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-hidden-prospect/...

tldr: patients with split brain hemispheres will reflexively make up explanations for decisions made by the other half of their brains. Fascinating stuff, and makes me wonder how many things I've done that serve my subconscious' ulterior motives.
The problem is that you’re just taking opportunistic stances.

>Big pharma is bad, and we should not be pushing drugs that were rushed through approvals

This is your position when talking about vaccines, despite the fact that vaccines actually work, and the “rushed” actually just means it skipped months of wait times.

>big pharma is good, and we should be needlessly pushing drugs that have not been through efficacy studies just cause

This is your stance on ivermectin

You’re taking two different stances on the same position depending on what your political hero said.

Then you’re posting lies, and when called out on the lies, post more lies.

You say that physicians were “being bullied”. But they weren’t. They were being told not to push unproven drugs. That’s not “being bullied”.

Physicians were rightfully “being censored” when stating unsubstantiated claimed of efficacy, as the studies don’t support them.

Even today, different studies on ivermectin alone produce different results. Yeah. There are studies showing a positive benefit mild cases. But there are also studies showing no difference, and more studies showing zero preventative benefit for becoming serious.

That is to say that even today, we don’t have conclusive evidence that ivermectin works. So doctors who declare that it does are lying, and absolutely should have those statement “cancelled”.
> West Virginia’s issue — as a state - is a deep seated cultural unwillingness to adapt or change

As illustrated by the 2016 election.

One candidate said coal had played a vital role in making the US what it is but it is in decline due to both the need to address climate change and falling demand due to advances in other forms of energy production. That candidate proposed a $30 billion dollar plan to "ensure that coal miners and their families get
the benefits they’ve earned and respect they deserve, to invest in economic diversification and job creation, and to make coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century as they have been for generations" [1].

The other candidate said he would reverse the decline in coal and bring back the jobs and mines that had gone away over the previous decade. He offered no hint at how he would accomplish that, and nearly all analysts and even more coal mine owners said that because of the shale revolution and the rapidly falling prices of wind and solar coal would remain in decline no matter what the government did

West Virginia overwhelmingly voted for that second candidate giving him a larger percentage of their vote (68%) than any other state.

[1] https://static.politico.com/b8/90/cbbc9c59413089d87e8d6340f1...
I think another comment made a good point - It's all about rapidly determining when the hires and promotions aren't right.
Tbh that's how cliques on wikipedia work.

There are cases when 2 admins "guard" an article and no user can change them.
Worst is that wikimedia foundation takes tens of millions and doesnt even bother to spend anything to defend wikipedia from that.
That's probably quite some time off. As an application, you'd only get the new level of paging if you asked for it, like with PAE. And you're only going to ask for it if you need more than 256TB of address space, which seems like a rather large space to need.

I guess you could have a lot of files mmaped though?
Some ingredients of life likely came from deep space. That doesn’t mean that life did.
LK99 probably isn’t a superconductor. But nobody should watch Thunderf00ts take on this.. or anything. His videos are low effort, low quality and full of basic flaws.. you’ll probably be more misinformed going out of it.

I feel like some YouTube creators live off of creating what could perhaps be described as smugness porn. Trying to trigger that feeling that you’re smarter than experts, politicians, investors, etc. Sometimes they’re right, but that doesn’t make it good informative content
Isn’t the exact point that some things are… not a movie.

I don’t think the author is proposing all communication should be in this style. When you’re telling a story, sure, it’s fine to keep people in suspense. But is suspense a tool you should use to communicate to a loved one when you’ve been in an accident?

Some work communications are more like the former and some are more like the latter. But most of us default to the narrative/suspenseful style 95% of the time.

But we should be more deliberate, and in some settings use the inverted pyramid structure to eliminate suspense from our communication.
Why do you keep opening bank accounts? You could open a multi-currency account like Wise or Revolut once, and just use that for everywhere you move.
I believe this is #3 in the phases of Denial:

1. It's not true

2. It's true, but it's not important

3. It's true, and it's important, but I already knew it.

(A variant of #3 is "it's old news")
Without something like Adetailer or the ComfyUI equivalent it’s kind of useless to do anything with relatively small faces.

For those that don’t know, the Adetailer extension for Auto1111 does a second pass on faces at a higher resolution and then inpaints them back in.
I recommend https://use-the-index-luke.com/ or even better do the training with Markus Winand, it'll change how you view databases.