skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several problems with this proposal:

1. Who defines what the local network is and why should this environment be trusted more? The IP address doesn't guarantee that the packets won't be going round the globe 3 times.

2. You are proposing a whole new, as of yet unresearched verification mechanism to TLS, which won't be supported by a whole lot of devices for a long time. I just had to downgrade a server of mine to TLS 1.2 because a high profile software couldn't deal with 1.3.

3. DHCP is inherently insecure and setting up a rogue AP is also not too difficult outside of an enterprise environment where certificate rollout is already not a problem. Ideal for hijacking an intranet connection covertly.

4. The proposed CA would not have the benefit of public transparency logs, so it would not meet the minimum requirements currently set forth by the browsers to trust a CA.

5. What happens if you are connected to more than one network at a time? Which one gets authority over the special TLD?

6. Who guarantees that the connected client uses the mandated DNS servers to resolve the special domain?

This is not a viable proposal for more than a handful of cases, but makes it a lot less secure for everyone else.
I like how the dart compiler's exhaustiveness checking on switch statements makes it so easy to write a null safe router in flutter
Little encouragement, no funding: why open source founders are leaving EU
There was some discussion of this on the PL subreddit. I get where the author is coming from (in the sense that all transpilers are really just compilers, and trying to make too much of a distinction results in arbitrary and useless boundary setting), but I think this is too far in the other extreme.

The term transpiler is useful if we can use it to define meaningful groups of tools that share some attribute that we want to discuss and explore. For example, transpilers typically target much higher level languages than a lot of other compilers, this brings its own challenges that are worth discussing. Or many transpilers need to produce reasonably human-readable output, which is seldom a concern for a lot of traditional compilers.

These aspects are fairly nebulous and it's rarely useful to litigate the details (for example: Js_of_ocaml and Reason both turn OCaml code into JS, but only one of them has readability as an explicit design goal - does this mean only one of them is a "true" transpiler?) but it's still useful to recognise that there exists a subset of compilers that exhibit reasonably unique behaviours that present their own challenges.
That is the one I noted as part 2. Yes a short story - now found online.

Saturn's Children, 2008; Bit Rot, 2010; Neptune's Brood, 2013

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/06/short-st...
I think this is perhaps overly pessimistic. In general if you are getting RSUs and the share price tanks, you’ll get bumped back up with a refresher grant.

The big public companies are making sure that your annualized total comp is in the right range, because if it isn’t (so the assumption goes) you’ll just move to another BigCo that will cut you a fresh grant at market rate.
Run ML Workloads Using ROCm with a 7900XTX on Arch Linux
Got a message saying Twitter is blocking all access without login. You were right ajb. I was not getting this yesterday though. This also happened back in June but it was only temporary.
I have a Windows work laptop that sometimes drifts up to 10 minutes off the correct time despite time/date settings saying it has synced every day. It won't even let me correct the time because of an enterprise policy requiring it to use network time. Then one day it will be back to the correct time and the drift cycle begins anew.
Refunds, Coupons and Credit Notes: why they are different
The point isn't restricted to first boot. Lots of systems forget the time when they power cycle because of bad batteries or other trouble.
The crux of the problem for superconductors used as power delivery is the "critical field" problem. [1]

Super conductors are superconductive to a point. Once that point is crossed they turn into regular conductors. (I've seen ~1A cited. For context, EVs charge at around 500A).

To make them useful for power transmission, you'd have to up the voltage to insane levels to avoid collapsing the field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_field
As opposed to, like, iPhones, Google, the Marvel Cinematic Universe & Covid vaccines?
Why quick? Internet archive shows them online for 5 years at least http://web.archive.org/web/20180801065433/https://anonfiles....
People Move into Tribes: Myspace Revolutionized Music and Social Media
> a supportive, productive community with a focus on doing real stuff
I don't think that's fully fair - George W Bush really ramped up the weapons manufacturing sector in the US by invading two sovereign countries on false pretenses and killing many civilians through sanctions, regular bombings, and drone strikes.
Sounds a bit like Mega...
I wouldn't call it a hoax - it was largely a very overstated result that didn't stand up to deeper scrutiny. That isn't really harmful. The primary issue I have with this, and many related things in recent years, is people outside the community of working scientists treating "X was posted on the arXiv" as "X was published". This tends to lead to people assuming that since it appears on that site and has the layout of a regular paper that it somehow has legitimacy. We saw this over and over and over during the peak of the pandemic, even seeing regular news sources writing articles where the only source material was some random recently posted arXiv paper. I don't think I ever saw corrections published in the cases when those preprints proved to be bogus. The arXiv is extremely useful, but lots of people outside the community of working scientists don't seem to understand how to weight what people post there.

As for the "audacity of HN" - this site is a very bizarre mixture of a relatively small number of working scientists, a lot of people without much scientific background who are very interested in science, and get-rich-quick startup types who are sniffing around for the next breakthrough they can turn into money. That mix leads to weird dynamics when it comes to how scientific activities get discussed.
I don’t live in a country where it’s as one-dimensional as: (public road) ⇒ ¬(privacy rights) and I value that.
"Composable and compilable macros: you want it when?", Matthew Flatt
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Material for MkDocs – Documentation that simply works
Exactly this. I've been repairing my own bikes for as long as I can think, but I wouldn't touch a bike's battery with an (insulated) 3m pole.
Why did Nasdaq allow selling only 1% of the company stock?
Free Relative Energy Ethics
That's not just plausible but probably needs a CVE and then MS will have to act.

I can feel an experiment coming on: Mint an OpenSSL based CA and use it to generate 200 certs for randomly generated CNs. The script could write out a zone file and web server vhost configs. Pop the CA cert in a Win PC/Server trust store. "Fix" the time on the web server. AutoIT could be used to poke a browser at each vhost or an iframe monstrosity.

I have yet to see this snag myself but it sounds like an MS style screw up. Excellent engineering fucked up by one wrong assumption which leads to a huge towering monstrosity. Sheer arrogance precludes a back down, MS ploughs on and then after a year or two, a fix is silently released and the victim shaming carries on for a little while longer. Meanwhile social.ms carries on advising sfc /scannow and then reinstalling the OS.
Impressive! But an order of a magnitude slower then non-LLM compression techniques.

I try to compare with the results from the top 9 of this enwik8 compression test by Matt Mahoney:
https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

The durilca compressor by Dmitry Shkarin (what happened to him?) has been the fastest compressor in the top since it's debut in 2006.

The original size, enwik8, is 10^8 bytes. The compressed size is the compressend enwik8 plus the size of a zip archive containing the decompressor.

The bpb value of rwkv_430M on enwik8 is 0.948 bpb, the 7B models will be lower, perhaps around 0.800. So if my calculations are correct, the LLM's can perform 50% better then the best performing conventional compressors excluding the zipped LLM decompressor code (I am unsure about the size).

The bpb ratio for each existing program can be calculated as:
bpb ratio=(Original size (enwik9)Total size (enwik9+prog) )×8

nncp v3.1:
Given compressed size is not provided, we cannot calculate bpb for nncp v3.1 using enwik8.

cmix v19:
bpb=(14,837,987+223,485108)×8bpb=(10814,837,987+223,485 )×8
bpb≈1.205

tensorflow-compress v4:
bpb=(15,905,037+55,283108)×8bpb=(10815,905,037+55,283 )×8
bpb≈1.272

cmix-hp 10 Jun 2021:
Given compressed size is not provided, we cannot calculate bpb for cmix-hp using enwik8.

fast-cmix:
Given compressed size is not provided, we cannot calculate bpb for fast-cmix using enwik8.

starlit 31 May 2021:
bpb=(15,215,107108)×8bpb=(10815,215,107 )×8
bpb≈1.217

phda9 1.8:
bpb=(15,010,414+42,944108)×8bpb=(10815,010,414+42,944 )×8
bpb≈1.205

paq8px_v206fix1:
bpb=(15,849,084+402,949108)×8bpb=(10815,849,084+402,949 )×8
bpb≈1.265

durilca'kingsize:
bpb=(16,209,167+407,477108)×8bpb=(10816,209,167+407,477 )×8
bpb≈1.317
I can copy code that parses the files from these projects without having to execute any programs ie. not actually opening any files. Or you could just set up two servers. Servers A recieves the file from the client and sends it to server B. Server B does not have any network access except to server A. It reads the file, and sends back a magic number to A indicating if the file is good or 0 if it is bad. If server A recieves any other response it wipes server B. This could also just be a VM. And yeah compute would be pretty high. This is just a way to completely solve the responsibility problem. (for one definition of responsibility, that is, which is open to debate, surely.)
Yes I was not implying RF did anything at all to your DNA. I think that premise is silly.
Depends on whether you think true statements made in good faith with the goal of reducing harm can be defamatory.

Generally, I consider defamation to mean: made in bad faith, not provably true, and with a goal of harming the target. It's pretty clear the definitions and laws have changed.

Note that Gino is also suing her employer- Harvard- who conducted a review and put her on leave. She has absolutely zero chances of winning this case or salvaging her career, as she has to prove that she didn't carry out research fraud (by editing raw data before publication), because she published the evidence of her actions.

We can expect that her case will be shut down before it reaches trial.
Evolution is a continuous process, so yes, there's some degree of change every generation. It is also true that 11,000 years is a very short time on the scale of speciation.

It's probably most useful to think of worms coming back in to the soil as another stage of progression, just like the stages of a forest returning after a fire, volcano or the like.
We had a few decades to come up with a viable trust model for the local network. We didn't and it's not like we can install software without internet access anymore, so maybe it's time to move on.
I imagine this means you’d need to come up with own model, even if based on existing one.
Bill Burr has a pretty unique take on Jobs, reducing him to "he told other people what to invent":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s-qZsjK8I
Rails does this with Turbo Frames [1]. When clicking a link that is contained in a <turbo-frame> element, the frame is automatically replaced if the response contains a frame with the same ID.

1: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/frames
Ironically, that is the very reason I set out to create Comigo, because I think productivity tools as a solution for ADHD are BS. Especially given the massive cognitive overload the user interfaces create and the tedious process for creating tasks, organizing, etc, which are very difficult for people with ADHD.

BUT, point taken on how I am presenting the product. Clearly I need to rethink that and will.
That's a problem that has to be solved for separately anyway, so driving your employees to have personal devices for personal activities doesn't make it materially worse.
Am not the author of that comment, but the fact that comes to mind is that aluminum is used for virtually all transmission and distribution lines - for price reasons - even though copper has better conductivity.

If we did discover a room-temperature superconductor, I suspect it would be a while before the cost to produce it in the bulk quantities required for electrical transmission are economically attractive compared to what’s already available.
OK, but I have a real good feeling about LK-100!
I can't speak for him...

But I stopped open sourcing some of my work when I got aggressive users demanding I support them for free. I realised I was pouring hours into triaging bugs, explaining why PR's weren't good enough, fixing other people's corner cases, and settling disputes, without really getting much back. Sure, my projects were getting a following and there were lots of happy users, but the actual benefit to me of that happening was negative.

One middle ground I used for a while was releasing my projects as a tar file only, not a git repo. Someone else can then make a git repo and maintain the project. Looks like Bellard did the same for some projects.
Has anyone ever worked out a "proof" that a room temperature/ambient pressure superconductor can even be made? Like is there a formula or something that can be pointed to that says, according to everything we know its even possible?
llama-chat is censored, not base llama
idk how much "sitting down at the table and negotiating" mattered when every Republican in both houses of Congress voted "nay"

not to take away from the bill itself, but it seems like the most important thing was that Democrats just controlled house/senate/white house at the same time and couldn't be easily blocked
I'd be even more interested in how the initial conversations about the alcoholic sunfish were like.
“Endless possibilities”: the chemists changing molecules atom by atom
If only people would have responsible amounts of children we could all share in the wealth.

As the billions of third world people continue having irresponsible amounts of children to expand to the new resources given to them.it becomes impossible for most first worlders to compete and everywhere becomes third world.

So it may not be as good of a thing as it seems.

Its funny the recent middle class is actually an abberation throughout most of human history.

Most of human history has been the rich with their foot on the neck of the poor.
The larger football clubs in La Liga and Serie A still dominate transfer records when fees are adjusted for inflation. Having lived through the annual record breaking transfer fees spent by Italian clubs in the 1990s, and the regular 9 figure transfer fees spent by Spanish clubs from the 2000s onwards, I find it so difficult to see them in the same victimised light as does the author of this video.
> A terrible compressor would output: The cat sat on the mat. Dsr %we3 9T23 }£{D:rg!@ !jv£dP$

LLMs are sort of unable to do this because they use a fixed tokenizer instead of raw bytes. That means they won't output binary garbage even early on + saves a lot of memory, but it may hurt learning things like capitalization, rhyming, etc we think are obvious.
Love Htmx but confident the hardest part of implementing will be convincing managers and designers to fully rethink how to approach UX and product in a way that privileges simplicity over presentation.
Eh, when it comes to individual actions I don't like blaming the victim. But when it comes to a business enterprise offering public services I will 100% blame the victim. This includes sole proprietorships.

When it comes to the world outside my door, I expect the rule of law to keep me relatively safe against the actions of criminals, and the fault of any action is that of the criminals.

This breaks down on a multinational internet. Not only are the police unable to protect you, by enabling particular kinds of criminal actions you can de facto be complicit in their execution. Some dude in Russia is never going to jail for the CP on your server... but you are.
There's a joke about art teachers funding future art consumers, but it's only funny because it's true. Teaching people to appreciate and distinguish is important to the arts now, more than ever. I wonder how much the work itself can be made to teach the subtle differentiations, and how to appreciate them? Would solve this whole problem handily.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illega...
We can’t staff for the current level of demand of our healthcare systems, how would we “scale up”?

Additionally, this article is about the UK where healthcare is paid through taxes. Are you suggesting the overweight pay higher taxes?
Does it also concern nuclear energy? Because if it doesn't, I doubt it will really matter in the long term.

Renewables are great to remove coal/gaz electricity, but at some point, energy must be stored, and apparently there is not enough lithium on earth to store renewable electricity.

So I would say it really allows US to offset coal/gaz, but nuclear is still the best solution to entirely remove coal.
GP-HIIT: Daily updating workout routines and meals powered by ChatGPT 4
How substantial are the situations really where you can't afford a 10-15$ domain and running a trivially simple tool to obtain a certificate? What kind of an art installation has the budget to set up a wifi network, set up servers, etc but then doesn't have internet? (Most phones won't even connect to a wifi network without internet if I remember correctly.)
Viral infections can also induce narcolepsy. I'm not sure if that's what did it to me, but I developed symptoms in my 40s and it was a few years after a bout of what I think was meningitis.
It wasn't one guy that made me shut it down, it's the pattern of use that typically comes with offering a service like this. At the time, it wasn't my primary focus, just a one off, "What would happen if I did this?" type of experiment.

Yes, I knew that there could be abuse, but I didn't know how the abuse would come. As I said, I learned, it cost me very little to do.

> What insight does that give?

For one, how do you maintain a service that actually has traffic. At the time I had very little experience with mass amounts of users. You can build personal websites all day long and still never know what it is like to handle high levels of traffic.

Additionally, given the type of content I received on the service, how could I handle the patterns of use better and encourage the sharing I wanted from users? Given the type of content I got very clear patterns developed that if I wanted to expand I could have.

> Surely you knew there is at least one bad guy using the internets before the experiment?

Yea, there are people with ill intent on the internet and they are constantly attempting to break into my servers as we speak. Why would I use that as a reason to not offer something online? This reason alone, shouldn't be a deterrent.
MLIR For Beginners: A series of articles on the MLIR framework
> Cheap doesn't mean free

Means cheap enough to be mass produced, and available.

> But most importantly, the power grid doesn't lose all that much to resistance

Laws of scaling, even a small percentage of power lost to resistence is a hige overall loss, the avoidance of which is desirable.

And as I said, this is only the simplest example.
Someone who's in a communications or social media position likely does, and they should have a dedicated device purely for that function.
Good = Good

Bad = Bad

Bad = Good

There you go, language is logically inconsistent.
At the very least you can can screw with Kerberos which requires a default of something like five mins time sync. That's a denial of service. Keep it up for long enough and the device will fall off AD as well.
would Select COUNT(1) from records where md5 = newMd5 not scale? (or if exists (select 1...) ... )
I didn't see any info on how this is different than installing/running llamacpp or koboldcpp. New offerings are awesome of course, but what is it adding?
I keep seeing this, all the articles cited some shitty "analytics india" article, and seem to be written with no critical thought whatsoever. The proliferation of this trash is more interesting to me than the "story".
If there's any vendor in the sponsor list with an ulterior motive, it's Vanta.
Because they are the people that think one or more of:

- "don't tell me what to do" (government imposing things is Communism).
- "god will provide".
- "there's no global warming, it's all a scam" (by hippie scholars or to help impose a global world order").
There used to be a hack to get around password protected screen savers in which you’d do the following (IIRC):

- Drag the password window around the screen furiously

- Press Ctrl-Alt-Del as you did it

I think it would just dump you straight to the desktop.

I remember doing it in Circuit City as a kid to access computers.
I like Phil but around the table this morning with a few working/publishing scientists they all disagreed with his assertion that this paper has done more harm than good.

Consensus was that this would lead to more people interested in the field and what actually does work.

There’s heaps of sloppy science out there. There are massive structural issues in how science is done.

There’s obviously not enough money or prestige in condensed matter physics if Phil thinks this is a bad hoax and it’s bad for Science.

Within the space of a month this was resolved. It wasn’t even published. Go to pharma, medicine, vet, ag and you will see hoaxes that last years. Reviewers who don’t have any relevant knowledge. Journals which won’t retract until you threaten to sue them. Universities that will take no disciplinary action against hoaxers at all. LK-99 was almost debunked in a single media cycle.

The people who have taken this to reduce the credibility of science rather than these fallible humans who succumbed to their impulse for fame didn’t give science any credibility in the first place.

EDIT: shout out to our favourite website retraction watch. Anything you read there remember, that’s science working and some Scientist somewhere who likes being right has vanquished their enemy in the academy. https://retractionwatch.com/