skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm writing a deep learning course called Zero to GPT - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/zero_to_gpt .

It teaches you everything you need to train an LLM, including the basics of deep learning and linear algebra. You learn the theory and the application. It includes written explanations, code, diagrams, and videos.

I believe that learning should be challenging enough to let the concepts sink in, so it's not a course you can just skim. It also isn't a "just type this, trust me" type of course - I think it's important to always know why you're doing something and how it works.

I've written 11 lessons, and I'm up to transformers - only a few more lessons to go. It's been fun to write, but balancing time spent training models with writing the course has been hard. Hopefully I will get to finish it soon.
Doing @WalterBright's job for a second to let you know that in the D language, given a function that is defined as taking, say, a list as the first argument, it can be called either

myfun(list)

or

list.myfun()

and this applies without exception. This means a lot of C-library code gets easier to read when used from D:

Vector3 vec = (Vector3){ 1, 2, 3};
Vector3 result = Vector3Add(vec, vec2);

becomes

auto vec = Vector3(1, 2, 3);
auto result = vec.Vector3Add(vec2);

I know its slightly off topic, but I want more people to use D, I really prefer it to C, C++ and Rust.
The Plains - Gerald Murnane [1] -- liked it a lot, poetic, sad and thought-provoking

Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto [2] -- very japanese crime story, liked it

And my absolute delight:

50 Years of Text Games - Aaron A. Reed [3] -- I am just a sucker for everything text game/hypertext/interactive fiction. This book is amazing.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1593668

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38588764-tokyo-express

[3] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aaronareed/50-years-of-...
Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
This is normal, and probably not an automated request, but simply a bad reputation for your VPN exit node.

Are you really using Chrome, or Chromium?

Why an extension-based VPN, and not OS-based?
That would be FPGA's.
Iirc if you get close enough to a black hole for time dilation to be substantial, then things are going to be pretty inhospitable in other ways. We couldn't survive the gravitational field gradient, for example. Strong imagination required to imagine aliens that would cope with it.
Every disiease has a psychological componnent, and a great part of the placebo effect comes from social status and support.

Being told you're crazy is a net nocebo.
For what it's worth, 0bin is an excellent service.

I hope you figure things out in a way that causes less of a headache for you.
> New chips, of course, have no such vulnerability

I'm waiting for it...
> How is the XDG an authority

I addressed this in the article: Linux devs not being able to accept some authority—in this case, XDG—is the source of the fragmentation in Linux and why even though we have a spec, there's still a solid 30%+ of programs that don't follow it.

Yes, OpenSSH isn't a 'desktop' program, but there are dozens of desktop programs which use it as a backend. Forget Linux, for a moment: it creates `.ssh`on Windows. Windows doesn't have dot-files, and it never had. This is arrogance.
Great book on this: The Last Days of Night
A series of travel-based puzzles to solve as a way to explore a new city. Going to Edinburgh? You get a series of clues to solve, using landmarks in that city. It will take you to many of the areas a tourist would want to visit, but in a more engaging way than a list of things you 'must see.'

I'm trying to nail down the exact audience/tone. Is it for families with kids? How hard should the clues be? Should it be more lighthearted or immersive?
Sure, if you change " RTSCs would change economy forever" to "RTSCs could change economy forever", we are entirely in agreement.
Such a silly idea.
2.5" sata SSD are falling in price about about the same as m.2 nvme sata, here's a 2TB for $62 [1] (not an endorsement, just an option; always be confirm your ssds have the features you want: bits per cell?, dram?, controller?, secure erase?, etc)

m.2 sata is available at similar prices too, but many fewer choices. mSata seems to have topped out at 1TB

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q37V1C9
I agree with you there. I don't remember which it was, but one of the runtimes managers (was it pyenv, rvm or nvm?) wrote to my .bashrc and .zshrc without asking for permission to do so, instead of just telling me the locations it wants me to include in my $PATH. I don't do path munging in my zshrc, rather, I source a different file that I use to manage this stuff and set up a way to avoid duplicates in $PATH and only adding things to $PATH when they exist so that my shell configuration doesn't do anything dumb when used across multiple computers.

Well, I'd rather their attempt at writing to my shell config breaks.

This is one of the many reasons why you should, if you haven't yet, manage your dotfiles with version control. Many tools assist in giving you some sugar over the process, I use homeshick which will move files away into a git controlled folder and create symlinks.
Worldcoin's concept is so unnerving... how do execs like Altman seriously believe in projects like this?

Hopefully he (or a government entity) buries this invasive cryptocurrency for good. There's no reason anyone should have to trust a corporation to get a "universal" basic income.
As macOS user, I'd rather they use XDG than the "standard" macOS directories. Maybe there's a point to be made to use the standard if the XDG variables aren't set, but I'd generally avoid that for CLI apps. Having everything under ~/.config is more convenient.
Maybe it's just that the left is based on facts whereas the right is based on religion and conspiracy theories and other bullshit like that.
I'm contributing bicycle trails to Google Street View (and CC-BY-SA to Mapillary). It's no longer done through the app, but through uploading a equirectangular videofile with either gps metadata or attaching a gpx file here: https://streetviewstudio.maps.google.com/

So no 3rd party services needed for plain old Street View. It's a bit opaque what's going on when you upload a video, though, they do all kinds of weird stuff with it. Try to align the track to a nearby road, when I'm not biking that road. Selecting intervals of pictures that doesn't make sense compared to how I would do manually etc. This one could perhaps control better through the API and uploading photo by photo and connect them.
Let's go America, get rid of the cancer.
I'm surprised as well. I visited Europe almost 25 years ago and they had automated speed cameras. In the US we've had speed limit signs that tell you how fast you're going for a long time now... adding a camera and network connection isn't rocket science. I assume it's entirely political.
But what about the alternative explanation for what the Korean team saw? Occam's razor is coming firmly down on one side here.
I did a bit of digging; here's a full list of the associated sites I was able to find:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://anonfiles.com/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://bayfiles.com/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://file.bz/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://filechan.org/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://forumfiles.com/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://hotfile.io/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://letsupload.cc/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://lolabits.se/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://megaupload.nz/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://myfile.is/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://openload.cc/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://rapidshare.nu/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://share-online.is...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://upload.st/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://uplovd.com/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://upvid.cc/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://vshare.is/

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230801/https://zippysha.re/

All of them were hosted by a single IP in svea.net, with a couple of associated IPs at the same host for "cdn##" subdomains.
Yes when I could still view tweets without a login I got some shit about some villian called Dark Brandon and a deranged woman using steroids called Margory not from Game Of Thrones.

WTF.
or encryption
> less than a year old

it should have warranty then, no?
That works if typing rules are unambiguous. But you might have |- x : t1, as well as |- x :t2 (for example, numeric literals in Haskell can have several types).

Instead of saying "x has type t", one could think of it as "x can be inferred to be of type t" or "we can derive/prove that x has type t". The latter mirrors the usage in formal logic where the turnstyle symbol generally is used to mean "is provable".
https://eatfeed.app

If you are like me you have a list of links to recipes on different websites. Maintaining this becomes a hassles and makes it hard to plan your week.

This website scrapes the recipes and saves them in a database, ensuring you aren’t reliant on the original website anymore. Useful if they decide to delete the recipe or disappear altogether.
I guess I'm a real computational scientist, because that first line to me wasn't special, that's how I've always written python.
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss, on negotiation tactics. Much better than "Getting to Yes".

The Genius of The Few by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien, an alternative take for garden of eden and Anunnaki compared to Sitchin

Built To Sell by John Warrillow, on how to build a business you can exit with a profit.

I read 30+ books in the last and this year so there are others but three is enough for this list.
So some right-winger asked it "How do we kill all the poor?" and didn't like the answer, so now the whole thing is systematically bias?
I know I'm not the target audience, but I can't figure out who it would be. Unless you're intensely interested in interior design,this is a topic one would get bored of relatively quickly.
Clinicians Exchange: Lemmy for mental health professionals
Yeah because I love shitty web apps, mindless consumerism with intrusive ads, and bureaucracy as a service. Don’t forget increasingly ridiculous tooling to keep up with trends, mindless abstraction piling, and cargo culting. Fun stuff!
Being engaged in cost optimization engineering after you've "made it" doesn't mean failure, quite the opposite. And the parts before that are much harder bottlenecks, where other aspects of tech choices are rightfully weighed more.
Generally no, not really. Sure car fires happen, but they don't 'explode'.
https://minidemo.app

Been working on a way to turn websites into animated demo videos, with clicks and transitions etc.

Hoping that it'll help with producing landing page videos or marketing videos without needing after effects
I very much enjoy using 0bin, its excellent. Hope you figure things out!
I am too lazy to measure them right now, but your numbers must be wrong.

Visually, an LTO cartridge cannot have much above a half of the volume of a 3.5" HDD and it must be at least 3 or 4 times lighter.

Carrying a suitcase with twenty LTO cartridges is as easy as carrying any other typical suitcase, but carrying twenty HDDs would not be easy at all, due to the great volume and weight, and the volume in a real situation would be greatly increased by the need of adding some serious padding, in order to avoid catastrophic damage if the suitcase were accidentally dropped.

More importantly, the price per TB of tapes is much lower, and when you consider the ratio between the expected lifetimes, the price per TB and per year is much, much lower.

Of course, tape drives are extremely expensive, so you need to store at least a couple hundred TB to break even with the price of HDDs.
Covering every roof in America with solar panels would fulfill 50% of electricity demand, using off-the-shelf solar panel technology.
Forgetting to cancel one of many subscriptions is big business
I would only disagree in one part of this:

>The problem isn't "fossil fuel interests",

I would say it's not "just" fossil fuel interests. But they are playing a huge part in this - particularly in sowing misinformation about clean technologies, and how being carbon neutral will mean the end of your life, or that some kid in a country you've never been to will be digging stuff out of the ground for your EV/solar panel. Most of which isn't actually true (or is a minority case), but they have successfully made everyone think that it is.

I actually read people on here (who I'm assuming are intelligent) last week saying they were not going to give up any part of their current lifestyle to reduce emissions, so you're right in that respect. It's like dealing with stroppy 8 year-olds in many cases.

But I do think that it's still worth countries who can do (democratic ones) going ahead anyway. The only way will be to do this, otherwise it'll be game over.
I have been responsible for these controls in multiple startup and smaller businesses selling into Fortune 500, including setting up security "programs", and agree with everything you say.

Ultimately it boils down to:

> Convince whoever is asking you are following whatever process they are asking about so they can check a box.

They call it security theatre for a reason. Of course if you don't want to be lying, well, you gotta implement a lot of this stuff as at least written policies. Also, auditors have a tendency to ask for evidence...
> Maybe.

> So what?

So ... nothing, I guess? I didn't say whether I thought it was a good or bad thing, I just wanted to point out that there is more nuance than appears at first glance.

I'm not advocating for blind "in-group good, out-group bad" policies, nor for the reverse of "new thing good, old thing bad".
I'm finding the Toy tutorial easier to read, and easier to use as a jumping off point into the MLIR reference docs. I thought the writing style in this tutorial was a bit dense, and Bazel seems like an unnecessary complication. Only an opinion though, YMMV.
NASA’s new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage
Even with if the third party provider makes no improvements, they can still provide it cheaper because ubicloud pays the development costs? This is a business threat that would not be mitigated by AGPL-3.0?
but by going alone, it adds that much more tension/suspicion on if it actually happened. it's easier to believe if more people go and have the same experience. unless it's the Sphere where they all just agree on the idea.
Exactly this. I used to work for them and the support team had a direct line to the vice department if someone had uploaded CP again. We also built a photoDNA based detection system to automatically flag and report suspect images. The thing was definitely not cheap at WeTransfer scale though.
Cerium is correct, we don't know if P is efficiently parallelizable.

Is there a formal proof of what you're talking about that we can read?
Too Perfect: When Being in Control Gets Out of Control (1992) by Allan Mallinger

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (1985) by Michael E. Gerber
I think I saw one of these in New York. Someone stuck a "bitcoin is a scam" sticker on it. Now it all makes sense.
I was unaware! Thanks for that context.
How is this standing out from https://benchllm.com/?
I'm not sure. Somewhere around 10^12 kg of initial mass would be evaporating today (1). So perhaps there is no meaningful minimum, only a minimum initial mass. If it's just about to evaporate, it could perhaps be arbitrarily small. Earth is ~10^25 for reference.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole#Expected_obse...
Don't forget https://benchllm.com/
I looked through the internet archive and it looks like this started on June 20th, 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220620143322/https://anonfiles...

There never appeared to be more than a few at a time and I did not find too many in total.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220620143327/https://bayfiles....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220623051910/https://openload....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220620170814/https://myfile.is...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230401012418/https://filechan....

https://web.archive.org/web/20230401012318/https://letsuploa...

They also started advertising ovpn.com as a "court-proven VPN" on June 23rd 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623173752/https://anonfiles...

It looks like from June 24th 2022 through August 10th 2023 (or 16th, likely whenever they changed their index to announce the shutdown) they only listed filechan.org and letsupload.cc.

On July 4th 2022 they dropped ovpn.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20220704154732/https://anonfiles...

All of the file sharing sites listed do appear to be parodies of other popular websites, some of them file sharing. They also appear to all be identical except for the site name and styling. All of the file sharing sites except for anonfiles.com now return NXDOMAIN. (ovpn.com appears to still exist.)

The obvious parodies of file sharing websites does call into question their assertion that they didn't want abuse.
Standard Peter Watt disclaimer: his books contain explicit themes of horror and torture.
Aren't some of these speculation vulnerabilities exploitable from Javascript? This makes everyday web browsing "require security"
For some reason the quote "oh my god I shot my eye out" was stuck in my head yesterday. Topical.
Which sounds great... until you find that to produce that much hydrogen takes 46.41kWh by electrolysis.

My renault Zoe would do about 176 miles (283km) on the same electricity put straight into the battery.

Hydrogen cars do not make sense unless the electricity is free, and even then there are lots of difficulties not present in a BEV.
> Coal power: $4,074
> Solar PV with storage: $1,748

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

and for the fun of it

> Nuclear $6,695-7,547

regarding you question: In large scale projects there is a lot of inertia, especially in less developed areas. Many of these places have just build a conventional grid, and are in no situation to upgrade to renewables.

That being said: some non-industrial countries are actually moving fast towards adopting renewables (compared to developed countries). e.g. Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Brazil.
Building something around a star would require so much effort. would it not be easier to send out something at a further distance so it could be smaller and eclipse the star for anything on that path? you could then open/close it like a shutter to make it blink the signal. you'd have to put one in the line of sight for each thing you're communicating with, but that still seems easier than some dyson sphere type object
When reasoning about the '50s, I think pop-culture fascination with the era makes them appear closer to modernity than they actually were.

I mean: the '50s were 70 years ago. Imagine living in the '50s and talking about the 1880s: the French Third Republic, the British Empire, no airplanes, no radio or cinema...
Yep that's the one. I deleted my account after the takeover by Musk.

That was quite a while ago. You're right, apparently she didn't say mansplaining, at least in that tweet she didn't (not sure about the others I can't see the full statement anymore). But the conversation we had was incredibly insulting to me, she ended up quote tweeting me to amplify her attack, and blocked me. It was super weird to have a disjointed conversation where she doesn't seem to understand prioritization/feature cutting by businesses.. but yet she yells racism/sinophobia.
What is the N and 1 query problem and how to detect it
The infamous N + 1 query problem is an anti-pattern that stems from the leaky abstraction that ORMs provide. This problem is mainly associated with how ORM frameworks handle the lazy loading of related entries. The more blog posts and Authors in your database, the more severe the problem can be, impacting application performance and user experience
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He passed away in June 2023 and I read this shortly after for the first time. A powerful work that, despite the world building, focuses on the love between a father and son. It's a shocking novel in many ways, but ultimately I found it profoundly hopeful. Even in the direst of circumstances love gives strength to endure.
It's a pretty privileged mindset to have the luxury to code only for the "right reasons". If you're an employee or a contractor, rather than a business owner or a hobbyist, it's almost a guarantee that you're doing it for at least some "wrong reasons".
Admittedly I only scanned the article, but I didn't see any mention of C# or Blazor. I've only fiddled with it, but it seems that (when targeting WASM) Blazor loads a (partial) .NET runtime in WASM and then happily lets your execute C# code - which seems in stark contrast to the article's claims about GC.
Are you perhaps confusing P with P complete?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Walter-Ruzzo/publicatio...
It's like the red scare all over again.
“Not polynomial” is an easy trap to fall into (and one I have fallen into) but it’s really not correct. All polynomial-time problems are also NP problems (P=NP is about whether the converse is true, and if P=NP, all problems in NP are actually polynomial-time). So even if talking to a layman, saying that NP is non-polynomial is really missing the point of the question.
>we have had telescopes only a few thousand years.

how long?
Creating Your Own AI Co-Author Using C++
OSS is a mess in EU. In Germany, signing a FTE contract also entails implicitly that, if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP. If I probably contribute something to some open-source project, my employer can also claim royalty of that too. While there are not much precedents of these happening, the legal rights remain. Also, non-compete is implicit too. Also, general brilliant people loved to hold onto their motes and not contribute back, a strange tendency I noticed on corps from senior engineer peers.

That being said, not everything is dark and there are plenty of open source work going in EU.
It's good to have people pushing back against the hype, as it gets a bit out of hand. But this article is completely wrong. Rather than pointing to research that refutes quantum error correction or the threshold theorems, he just waves his hands that there are big numbers involved and apparently continuous parameters:

"In the physical world, continuous quantities (be they voltages or the parameters defining quantum-mechanical wave functions) can be neither measured nor manipulated exactly."

"Could we ever learn to control the more than 10^300 continuously variable parameters defining the quantum state of such a system? My answer is simple. No, never."

These were exactly the main arguments against quantum computing in the 90s. Quantum error correction solved them, by observing that errors can be thought of as discrete, much like a digital computer. It's subtle, but it's also covered in basically every textbook on quantum computing (Nielsen and Chuang is particularly readable).
Welcome to the biggest scam in science. Research funded by the taxpayer, peer reviewed for free by other scientists in a journal run by volunteer editors all to be hosted as a PDF for massive profit by a ‘prestigious’ journal.
Are you stretching "this specific strategy for parallelizing P that I came up with won't work" to "there's no way to parallelize P"?
Mystery of Entropy Finally Solved After 50 Years? (Stephen Wolfram) [video]