skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By default, Cloudflare tries to proxy your domains and subdomains, but there is a little switch next to each record that you can turn from orange to gray which will make it "DNS Only". So then, it is only a DNS record.

It's a little annoying but you definitely ARE NOT REQUIRED to use their proxies, but you are ENCOURAGED to.

Their dns management interface is pretty solid though and their API is top notch. Plus they have good support for DNS management through tools like Terraform, Pulumi, etc which most registrars won't offer. So there is a lot to like about CloudFlare. They do support a small set of TLDs for registration however, so keep that in mind (but of course if you register elsewhere you can always point it to cloudflare for DNS management).

The best DNS Management imho is AWS Route53. It expects technical knowledge, it isn't for someone setting up a squarespace site. But if you are very technical and want all the levers and power at your fingertips with great CLI, IaC, and API support (plus powerful GUI) then it is the best. Plus they have a ton of power features like georouting and roud-robin and other routing rules. But it comes at a cost of 50¢ a month, which to me is worth it but for some people they might prefer a completely free option.

But... with that being said, i wouldn't recommend registering a domain through AWS. Its really difficult to manage and the pricing is the highest in the industry (second only to GoDaddy's criminally predatory bait-and-switch renewal prices)
If you don't care about readers reading it or not then what is the point to publish an article ?
Hi. I figured you did know / read about it at the time, actually. I think we have the same viewpoint. I was just using your insightful comment to encourage other folks to read about PNAC for historical context. I don't want anyone to pretend to forget, or younger folks not to know, what got us into the last 20 years of forever war.
Did you meet Heywood Yabuzzoff, at least?
I mean, hang on there... Objective-C, while probably frustrating to get started with, is literally "just about C". Projects have been doing Objective-C interop for decades now, very similar to what is being done in the posted article. It's not really gated off at a programming layer, moreso in how Apple's been so frustrating about developing on non-Apple hardware.

It's not exactly what I would call "hostile", language-wise. Swift, on the other hand, might be a bigger barrier...
It isn't documented, but if I recall correctly UNIT supports JSON with comments.
Arul's Utilities have been around for a long long time... fyi
https://aruljohn.com/mac.pl
Common code patterns slowing down your app [video]
I think the 'industrial' or assembly-line analogy is probably good, and I see what you mean about the alternative system design. Thanks for explaining the other approach.

I'll put it this way. If you want to integrate ML into a product, or even a system with lots of internal users, you end up increasingly towards the 'factory' approach.
That used a sometimes conventional "sarcasm font" to refer to a widespread belief that now that we have Rust, nobody would start a project of any size in C++.
Very old ML project from a master's student's thesis which is what originally got me into CS. He taught it to play NES games other than mario and had a good breakdown of his results.

http://tom7.org/mario/
AFIK in research nothing

AMD had competitive GPGPUs AFIK just only relevant to a small number of very very large customers

problems where mostly outside of research

mainly there wasn't much insensitive (potential profit) for AMD to bring there GPGPU tooling to the consumer/small company marked and polish it for LLMs (to be clear I do not mean OpenCL, which was long term available but general subpar and badly supported)

Nvideas mindshare was just too dominant and a few years ago it wasn't that uncommon for researchers to idk. create new building blocks or manual optimizations involving direct work with CUDA and similar

But that's exactly what changed, by now, especially with LLMs, research does nearly always only involve usage of "high level abstractions" which are quite independent of the underlying gpu compute code (high-level might not be the best description as many of this GPU independent abstractions are still quite low level) .

AMD has already shown that they can support that quite well and it seems to be mainly be question of polishing before it becomes more widely available.

Another problem is that in the past AMD had decent GPU (compute/server) parts and GPU (gaming) parts but there GPU (gaming) parts where not that usable for compute. On the other hand Nvidea sold high end GPUs which can do both and can be "good enough" even for a lot of smaller companies. So a ton of researchers had easy access to that GPUs where access to specialized server compute cards is always complicated and often far more expensive (e.g. due to only being sold in bulk). This still somewhat holds up for the newest generation of AMD GPUs but much much less so. At the same time LLMs become so large that even using the highest-end Nvidea GPU became ... to slow. And selling a more high end customer GPU isn't really viable either IMHO. Additionally local inference seems to become much much more relevant and new AMD laptop CPU/GPU bundles and dedicated GPUs seem to be quite well equipped for that.

Also the marked it growing a lot, so even if you just manage to get smaller % cut of the marked share it might now be profitable. I.e. they don't need to beat Nvidea in that marked anymore to make profit, grabbing a bit of marked share can now already be worthwhile.

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> port torch

Idk. if it's already publically available/published but AMD has demoed proper well working torch support based on ROCm (instead of OpenCL).
> "we have an aircraft en route to enter UK airspace and we don't know when or where - stop planning more flights until we know where that plane is".

Flight plans don't tell where the plane is. Where is this assumption coming from?
> How is this different than attaching 10 paint cans of different color from strings and poking hold in them and letting them swing?

The "creator" of the art in that case is also the creator of the system which generates the art. You didn't create Stable Diffusion, MidJourney or whatever else, it's just a tool you have access to.

I'm not sure if that's a difference that should matter, but it's clearly a notable difference.
GoDaddy: Big, safe and reasonable for just domains.

Honorable mention: Namecheap

Source: 23+ years of web building experience.
Ditto!

You’ve got a thoroughly appropriate username, as well.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? / That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.
Check out audio fiction podcasts. Some do full productions of short stories. Depending on the work, reading the text is a compromise over listening to the reading. For instance, music is extremely important to these two stories by Aliya Whiteley:

https://www.drabblecast.org/2007/12/20/drabblecast-43-jelly-...

Warning: the above has mild language and adult themes.

https://www.drabblecast.org/2010/07/27/drabblecast-173-go-be...
> they weren't using focus groups and industrial/scientific methods to get there. I.e. you can't send your grandma to General Mills and have her create Spaghetti-Os.

But that's exactly what I'm pushing back against -- you've never needed focus groups or fancy methods to figure out what the tastiest amount of sugar or salt or fat is for a recipe. It's remarkably easy to figure out on your own. Focus groups just serve as objective evidence over the opinion of a single chef, and can reveal that different markets prefer slightly different ratios (e.g. Brazilians prefer sweeter desserts than Americans). And Spaghetti-O's are just spaghetti in tomato sauce in a different shape, for those who prefer their tomato sauce sweeter rather than saltier, like kids do -- and of course grandma made spaghetti.

> There seems to be medical consensus that "ultraprocessed" food, as squishy as that term is, is obesogenic.

There isn't even remotely consensus on what the causality is here -- it's one of the thorniest problems to untangle. But the idea that tastier food is contributing seems extremely far-fetched. Look at sugary soft drinks first of all, look at decreased physical activity, look at changing cultural norms around portion sizes and body weights, look at the reduction of fats that have raised carbohydrate intakes.

Snickers bars have been around since 1930. People in the 1950's were eating every kind of supposed "hyperpalatable food" and obesity was a minor issue. So the idea the flavor is somehow new or responsible for health issues just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I agree with the sentiment of the author, I mean, one of my coworkers has a curved hyper-widescreen monitor where it would be ridiculous to use the whole space, but the headline of this blog is

Please, don’t stretch your text across the
entire screen

(really wrapped like that) and that is excessive in the opposite direction. It reminds me of my first computer, a TRS-80 color computer, where you had just 32 characters across. There are so many web sites where it seems that whitespace is the first, second, third and fourth design priorities and content seems to be beside the point. There's got to be a happy medium.
Yeah, similar to what you and the other commenter from Definite said, we (Delphi)[0] find semantic layers way better for this kind of work than just going straight to a database/data warehouse.

One thing you really need with LLMs is consistency. Text-to-SQL kind of lets the LLM do whatever it wants - join tables that shouldn't be joined, define aggregates one way in one query and another way in the next.

Because semantic layers define how tables should join, measure definitions, etc., they mean people get consistent results from one query to the next, which builds trust in the LLM.

Cube (which was mentioned in another comment and has a great open-source semantic layer) has a good article about that here: https://cube.dev/blog/semantic-layer-the-backbone-of-ai-powe....

[0] https://delphihq.com
To be fair that is exactly what the article said was a major problem, and which the postmortem also said was a major problem. I agree I think this is the most important issue:

> The FPRSA-R system has bad failure modes

> All systems can malfunction, so the important thing is that they malfunction in a good way and that those responsible are prepared for malfunctions.

> A single flight plan caused a problem, and the entire FPRSA-R system crashed, which means no flight plans are being processed at all. If there is a problem with a single flight plan, it should be moved to a separate slower queue, for manual processing by humans. NATS acknowledges this in their "actions already undertaken or in progress":

>> The addition of specific message filters into the data flow between IFPS and FPRSA-R to filter out any flight plans that fit the conditions that caused the incident.
Hard in this forum frequently means technically hard, but I think in this context you mean "politically hard". I do not think there is a major technical problem, at the core the easiest solution is to just stop collecting arbitrary data on everyone. The issue is that the people with money and power do not want to give up control of the data they have on everyone else.

It is very hard to make someone understand this if their income and power depends on not understanding it.
Should you not want to only subscribe people who explicitly ask?

When I get unsolicited mail I definitely send it straight to trash, I don't even try to be nice.
The linux kernal has been very careful to deduplicate. Maybe you can find duplication between the scheduler and wifi drivers, but in general each subsystem does deduplicate.
Ask HN: Personal Finance Tools
What personal fininace tools do you use?

Ideally, I'm looking for something hat can easily ingest data from banks and credit cards. I guess that means csv at a minimum, but quicken / quickbooks / MS Money format as an ideal.

I don't like the idea of using mint or others where your data is their product.

in the FOSS world there seems to be:

https://www.gnucash.org/

http://homebank.free.fr/en/

https://kmymoney.org/

https://skrooge.org/

https://www.firefly-iii.org/

and more.. far too many to try.

What do you use? Do you like it? Has anyone tried them all?
Puncia – The Panthera(P.)uncia of Cybersecurity
I think the question in front of the courts then would be to what extent your creation of the network is important vs. the training data you used. Is it really feasible to train a robust network on whatever reference material you're personally able to generate?
Related. Others?

Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37430384 - Sept 2023 (64 comments)

UK air traffic control outage caused by bad data in flight plan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402766 - Sept 2023 (20 comments)

NATS report into air traffic control incident details root cause and solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864 - Sept 2023 (19 comments)

UK Air traffic control network crash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292406 - Aug 2023 (23 comments)
Whatever you do, don't use GoDaddy.

Shady business practices, generally horrible service.

I still don't understand how they maintain their market dominance. I only surmise that it must be non technically literate folks buying from them. They spend alot on marketing compared to the rest.

Porkbun is good. Hover is good. Gandi.net was good when I used them, but I've heard some rumblings of issues but I've never been able to fully substantiate, that said, they got bought out by a company that makes some justifiably wary.

Cloudflare is good if you don't mind using their nameservers only (they sell domains at cost, its a marketing vector for them).

I've used all of these directly and had no issues. If you want the most flexibility, I'd go with Porkbun or Hover. Being the most recent I've worked with, beside Cloudflare (which I loved, but some don't like being forced to use their DNS. you can turn the proxy stuff off), they were good experiences.

Haven't used Namecheap. I know some people like them, but also heard mixed reviews too, I'm always on the fence about them.
It's way above my head mathematically as to if this is even possible, but it is hilarious how screwed so many things would be if sha256 was discovered to have a means to more quickly reverse at least a partial hash. Just off the top of my head:

- SSL
- Bitcoin (bonus: unlimited money hack if you can keep the discovery under wraps)
- Signed updates for devices

Goodness only knows what I am missing, but that first one along is enough to cause an unmitigated disaster.

I assume these tweets are effectively brute forced given the fairly short prefix though and we're all safe
From the documentation page: Prompt flow is a suite of development tools designed to streamline the end-to-end development cycle of LLM-based AI applications, from ideation, prototyping, testing, evaluation to production deployment and monitoring. It makes prompt engineering much easier and enables you to build LLM apps with production quality.
Well, I'm not keeping records, but here (Czechia) the heat waves were really different from the past: twice in one summer for more than three weeks (in total), that simply never happened (I believe I remember reliably - public records agree -, because I don't have AC, so I have to consistently measure temperature and manage it by closing windows at 6 AM, closing the drapes, and during night by creating draft).

The perception of past weather patterns truly is unreliable, but I don't care if I can discern between temperature averages; the more common occurrence of extremes is what matters. I don't know how anyone can look at the reports of fires everywhere and not be certain this wasn't happening at this rate even few years ago.
I realize this is controversial, and am not saying it is even rational. I spent years writing Java. And at the end I just decided that I could have written the same stuff in maybe 1/4 of the time. I understand that some people see benefits from all the tedium of it, but in the end I just felt like I had wasted and enormous amount of time. The cost was way high compared to the benefit.

My other reference is just as personal and perhaps just as irrational. Java was free to use. Then after many people and companies used this free tool, Oracle came along and wanted to exploit the fact that people had an investment in this. Yes. I know. Oracle can do what they like. They own it. But I can do what I like and that is not to use anything associated with Oracle. Ever. (EDIT: and yes I do know there are open source JVM's)

So, no. I guess I am not professional.
Still, it's a hard case to make that any AI-generated imagery lacks sufficient human input into the creation process. Both Midjourney and Stable Diffusion offer a number of parameters allowing the user to control how the generation will go (CFG, samplers, etc). So IMO there is necessarily some human input required to make the process work well.
If a prompt is commonly used, then it wasn't created by you, and isn't copyrightable. It has to have enough original content so it could be copyrighted. I am sure a short poem is copyrightable.

But then again, fair use also allows citing most (if not all) of the short poem.
delphihq.com uses LLMs with Semantic layers like Cube/AtScale/dbt/Looker/Lightdash
Sir, those are dueling words.
Is this the UK or US edition? It's always easy fun to have a go at the Daily Mail which presumably you read regularly else you wouldn't be commenting. Its sin seems to be that it's not a serious broadsheet. It's a tabloid with very broad appeal that has to be profitable and therefore tries to reflect the requirements of the British public for such a publication. Perhaps you should lower your expectations.

'Tag anything parenting or healthy ...'? No, that's not correct. Here are a few health & food related items back to mid-September that did not appear in 'female'. You are right about parenting; most parenting in the UK is still undertaken primarily (in terms of executive action) by females so items on this topic are reasonably included in 'female'. The growing number of people who don't have children probably appreciate this sub-grouping by the Mail. You may not approve but this is what happens. Single males with dependent children are not known for objecting to checking out that section. It's not forbidden.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-12505173/Health...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-12504751/Eggpla...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12504649/Suicide-...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12504813/Anthony-...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12503801/Cancer-n...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-12503815/W...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-12503299/R...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12468365/One-woman-...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-12502685/W...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-12501533/Food-r...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12490747/How-safe-c...
I can't tell if you are kidding in thinking that's what has been happening. The twitter files turned out to be a kind of huge exaggeration. The govt wasn't really controlling twitter, there was a big exaggeration of what happened.
It would still be encoded, assuming your (analogue) POTS call traversed more than one exchange then it would have been coded to g.711 (ulaw or alaw) for that inter-exchange. Although (from memory) that would be 10ms packets.
If people are using a computer , they are going to Edge and getting on the internet to download Chrome.

It’s a poor excuse that most people think Chrome is the internet. When they are connecting to the internet do you really think they think they are connecting to Google?
If you look at excess mortality from non-optimal temperatures, instead of just people getting caught outside in bad weather, the picture changes quite dramatically, with cold killing more people per year by a factor of 4:1 or more globally, and ESPECIALLY in hot areas such as Africa and South Asia:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

Furthermore, while every death to heatstroke is a tragedy, the numbers listed in the article you provided are quite low, in the order of 100 per year (and falling).

The Lancet article found that in the Americas there are about 37 excess deaths per 100,000 people per year, or about 1000 times per per capita than the 2011-2020 average in the NASA article.

I'm not denying that global warming may make some small-to-moderate part of the world uninhabitable (at least without access to electricity or running water). Indeed, half of Vietnam may be flooded.

Still, wet-bulb temperatures of 35 degrees is extremely hot and quite rare. I doubt we will see death tools in the millions per year in our lifetime, which is what it would need to be to match what cold weather or indoor air polution is already causing.
Florida university fires criminology professor blemished by retractions
It's what I assume is the motivation. An example of the kind of motivation for which a minimum price is a sensible action.
If I try to resubscribe that's my business.

If you add people who aren't asking to subscribe that's the definition of spam (the "unsolicited" part of "UCE")
I read it. Probably lots of other people did too. Presumably the people who don’t think computer science begins and ends with JavaScript
Came for the space talk, stayed for the LLM artifacts.
how were you able to change mac, are you in the US?

I thought DOCSIS modems have disabled this function in the US
The US political Left has wanted visibility into content moderation since at least the 2010s, so the idea that somehow this is "flip-flop" is disingenuous. The US political Right has wanted this information too, at least until they felt they had one of their own pulling the levers. Keep in mind that nothing about this policy mandates any content be posted or removed, nor does it impact X's ability to ban or not ban anyone they want for content they post (laws from Florida and Texas cannot claim the same).
While we're at it, why not reject copyright on photographs? After all, it's just a machine capturing whatever's in front of it, all the human does is push a button. /s
I made a transformer by hand (no training)
In the meantime, make sure you email your software vendors asking for Linux support. Its getting late, and Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to handle their responsibilities in the computing market.
If I generate a base image with Midjourney, and then apply a mild gaussian blur in Photoshop to a 10x10 pixel space within that image, can I say I've created it? If not, why not?
> These aren’t real issues worthy of study unless a causal mechanism can be identified

There are plenty of people studying somatic causes of CFS, they just get death threats [0].

I think the focus should be on destigmatizing 'somatic' explanations. That we view somatic explanations as dismissive for real conditions is not a problem with the explanation because some real conditions are psychosomatic and that is a fact of life. It is a problem with the stigma we assign to it.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/21/chronic-fati...