skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's company just suffered this exact issue, all I can say is yes.

They gave me a laptop with 8gb of ram. The laptop runs invisible security software that nominally takes 6~6.8gb.

We just got penetrated by two attackers in the last 40 days.
Singapore is 75% Chinese, and immigration levels are calibrated to maintain that ratio. Accounting for religious diversity, US hasn’t been as homogenous as Singapore since the 1800s. And Singapore is also a country where the top-down authoritarian government is run based on the vision of LKY, who himself is distinctly inspired by a mix of Confucianism and Anglo culture. The other cultural groups are given wide latitude within their sphere of influence, but none have any imprint on the government and institutions. It’s like if Americans agreed that WASP culture would always dominate the government and civil institutions.
> JPEG-XL is newest image format and Gumlet is first cloud provider to support it.

This is completely untrue. Cloudinary have supported it since 2020, which is where Jon Sneyers, the chair for the JPEG XL WG and lead developer of libjxl works.

Shame on you for making false claims - especially considering your "service" is in direct competition to cloudinary.
damn, you beat me to it.

Was gonna write:

http://localhost:8888/..../..../..../..../..../..../etc/host...

mypc

These regex substitutions are so easy to bypass :)
> didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages

The fact that protobufs are not self-delimiting is an endless source of frustration, but I know of 2 standards for doing this:

- SerializeDelimited* is part of the protobuf library: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...

- Riegeli is "a file format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers. It supports dense compression, fast decoding, seeking, detection and optional skipping of data corruption, filtering of proto message fields for even faster decoding, and parallel encoding": https://github.com/google/riegeli
Two hour parking (I'm guessing it's free, but it doesn't really matter) is the result of such a mind-numbingly obvious market inefficiency. Street parking is being given away for free, or at incredibly cheap prices, so of course demand is high and drivers visiting businesses can't find spots. So the city tries to disrupt demand by placing these artificial time limits, in the hope that it will allow visitors to park more easily. The obvious answer is to just charge market rate for street parking, and there will almost always be a few spots available. And anybody willing to pay market rate for 8 hours of street parking is welcome to.

To top it off, time limits are so stupid to enforce, as you say. It's easy to enforce meters, or paid parking with plates on a block. "If paid and not in red zone, ok, else, ticket." But instead cities have to come up with these "creative" (read: broken) systems for catching people who park too long.

edit: and same applies for weekends: charge market rate then too!
Pinball is addictive. I don't even have a house to myself and I've had to talk myself out of picking up pins for my apartment. If anyone is in the Bay Area, I recommend the Pacific Pinball Museum. Over 100 pins ranging from old EMs to 90s games to plenty of modern ones. I have a season pass and try to go as often as I can.
> Whether the original study said so or not, that is absolutely how it was universally sold to the public.

Trust the politics, blame the science?
School of self learning with open source.

Sorry if it's half a joke, because of course it's not a school per se, but that's the best source for me of great programmers I've seen in my 30+ years dev hiring experience (usually as CTO).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/magazine/college-worth-pr...
Please remember that availability is part of security. If the company that makes the device folds, or just decides to stop supporting it, it should remain available, perhaps even a decade or more later. We should never have people with implanted devices that are otherwise functional, because of a lack of software support.
> but ... they did not take into account changes in human behavior. People stopped walking, using bicycles, etc...

That's known as "induced demand", and it's been known to exist in traffic since almost a century [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Yes, with noisy drones flying over houses, each with a single package.

And due to tech issues, drones falling out of the sky, smashing into houses, and dropping objects from height.. a small mass at high speed, hitting the head, can kill, blind, maim.

It's one thing to have planes, with maintenance schedules, flying. And those same planes are expensive, thus there is great incentive to not destroy them by accident. Not to mention, the build and quality control is generally high.

Now imagine endless "cheap is best" drones from China. A lost drone? Meh.

This is a disaster.
Either are a solution.

Neither are getting implemented though.

Judging by the history of the web, there's a very strong tendancy to form natural monopolies, so I'm not entirely sure you can just legislate away their dominance.

I'd rather see them classed as common carriers. That can't just arbitrarily ban people from the network.
Yeah, Google making searches faster in the 2000s meant they need more data centers, not fewer.
Always fun :D
This is rad! I tend to find animation and motion design daunting; the step-by-step construction of the menu really helped me understand how something like this can be put together. Thanks for making this!
Why make an exception for euthanasia? People should have the right to do anything to their own bodies. The language is interesting, though. At what point does it become "promoting" or "facilitating" suicide? If I tell you I don't plan on suffering a long and painful end, is that promoting suicide? If I tell you that inert gases like nitrogen or carbon monoxide seem like a nice way to go, is that facilitating it?
Behind paywall :-(
Its related to fact they are joining linux foundation today as well :)
Illusions of Memories and Personal Experiences
*Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.*

The "experiencing self" is the part of us that asks, "Does it hurt right now?" The "remembering self" is the part that answers, "How was the overall experience?" When we reflect on our lives, we rely on the remembering self because it holds our memories. However, sometimes we mix up our actual experiences with how we remember them, and this can lead us to believe that a past experience was terrible when, in reality, it might not have been.

Our memories shape our decisions and what we learn from life. We often strive to maximize the quality of our future memories rather than our future experiences. For example, think of a happy childhood memory when you didn't want to stop playing with your toys or leave the swings and slide at the park. Your resistance to interruptions indicated you were having a good time.

Researchers sometimes ask people about their daily experiences, including their feelings and activities. They use a "U-index" to measure the percentage of time someone spends feeling unpleasant. Our emotional state is influenced by what we pay attention to, such as our current activity. To enjoy eating, for instance, you have to notice that you're eating. Americans tend to combine eating with other activities, which can reduce their enjoyment of food.

People's goals have a significant impact on their lives. Those who set high-income goals are more likely to achieve them. The goals people set are essential because they influence what they do and how they feel. We can't ignore what people want when considering their well-being.

In summary, what we focus on in the moment can affect our overall happiness and well-being. Our memories often shape our decisions, and our goals play a crucial role in determining our life paths. It's important to recognize that our perception of an experience may not always match the reality of that experience.
I did too. I just put all money into marketing lol
The current version of the drones used here and mentioned by the FAA is a fixed wing design though, it’s only the second version that has the ability to hover. A loss of power at low altitude is going to mean it crashes into something. Reading through the links in the article there’s a lot of mention of their Detect & Avoidance system so presumably it can somewhat safely steer through the airspace.

I assume given the 5m radius for drops they’re going to be operating in places that mostly have low density though. I’d also assume that they’d plan flight paths to be as safe as possible.
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C# in 2006 was a joke, probably worse than Rails in performance. This was the webforms era and old EF - meant for enterprise customers with a couple of hundred active users max... ASP.NET being a competitive/performant framework is a very recent development (since core basically which became usable past 2.0)

Haskell, OCaml and D are niche languages, probably aren't mature enough now to use for a production system that needs to scale (in terms of org growth and building complex systems).

Java web frameworks were also terrible in 2006 (this is the Java era that gave Java it's reputation) and the only thing worse for productivity I can think of is C++ hahaha ...
The political nuke of Cambridge Analytica II wired up to AI, and the AI wired up to the mouths of players without morality is more immediately terrifying.
Disclaimer: I didn’t read the article.

Why is streaming mutually exclusive with owning local copies? My girlfriend has Spotify, I have Apple Music. We also have an extensive FLAC collection of our “forever artists”.
I think it is a distinguished name, that will be nice to type and easily recognizable.
I would definitely use the service if it was offered and pay extra to have things delivered. For example say my car breaks down, I am reading codes off the car and it says I need a part. Call parts store and they have it, have it sent over while I finally get a chance to eat some lunch or something. Also I wouldn't have to find a ride to go get said part.

Middle of cooking dinner and realize you are out of a couple ingredients and they can offer half hour delivery, sometimes it takes 45 minutes in the last city I lived in to get to Walmart. This service would be appealing.

This is going to appeal to those who are ultra busy and are willing to spend a little extra to get something delivered promptly without leaving their home.
Are you talking about web components?
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu
https://archive.ph/20230801141127/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
A lot of this seems like a nerd’s fantasy. I share these fantasies / desires, but I don’t think its a sober, realistic take on what’s most likely.

> Even if an LLM could provide me with a recipe that perfectly suits what I’m looking for, I wouldn’t want to give up the experience of using a recipe search engine and browsing through a large collection of recipes.

Me too, but allrecipes.com has already switched from “search for what you want” to “we’ll tell you what you want”. This is a UX pattern that I hate but has proven a winner across many apps lately - e.g. TikTok. Streaming music still allows you to build playlists of specific songs, but auto-built radio stations are filled with a suspicious amount of whatever the major labels are pushing this quarter. Netflix/etc has shockingly fuzzy search which largely pushes whatever they want you to watch rather than what you’re searching for. YouTube is mostly also push rather than pull today.

I expect everything to continue moving that direction, against the wishes of the power users. The majority of users seem to go for the simpler UX, even if they sometimes complain about quality.

> In an ideal world, I’d like to have the underlying model be a swappable implementation detail. Llama 2 and similar developments make me optimistic.

This is a pipe dream. LLMs may be hot-swappable by developers but for 99% of apps + OSes this wont be a user-configurable thing.
Thanks!

> I wonder how the economics of this works - I'm guessing token markup?

We're mostly thinking about building tools now for a future in which many gamers will have the compute to locally run a sizable ~30B model. It's hard to me to see LLM gaming taking off in the very near term due to the compute costs for any model of reasonable immersiveness.

> I wrote a library for structured inference in-browser[1]

Very cool! Excited to see where this ends up. Yeah, OpenAI is a bit annoying since you can't ask for JSON or the logit distribution. But GPT3.5-turbo right now is even cheaper than running your own llama2-70b so we stuck with that for the demo since most people probably don't have sufficient compute for this.
With these specs, I wonder if some countries military wouldn't be willing to offer them more money than they could ever make with deliveries... (At least on a per-drone basis)
I disagree.

Brand, or anyone else is getting arbitrarily demonetised and YouTube has too much power. That is the issue.

Taxing is that situation is basically just permission for them to carry on doing that, it doesn't fix the problem.
Thank you! You're right; the main focus right now is extraction.

One aspect I'm excited about is the possibility of rendering the JSON outputs from these function calls into UI components, as previewed here: https://symphony.run/showcase. Using a function's type definitions is a nice starting point to embed interfaces into the conversation.

Additionally, I hope to make the toolkit language-agnostic. I'd like to incorporate some of my .py and .rs scripts to make them ready for use as well. Not sure if packaging it as an npm package would go against that objective, but will definitely consider :)
Five Lessons from Elon's Biography
Beware! After upgrading, the iCloud sync for "Passwords & Keychain" had turned itself on. It's not even the first time this has happened.

Fuck you, Apple!
Did you ever sleep under one in real life?
Would you like to expand?
They did that same move with bard, proving to put out fluff rumors and underdelivering by an order of magnitude from the public expectations while their competition silently overdelivers with a functioning product to all.
Indeed and it's a really impressive technology. However, there is the cooling involved and a lot of effort goes into sampling "the real deal" without changes of the structure due to the imaging process. In single molecule shots the idea is to form tiny droplets with the natural protein inside and sample them at room temperature. Naturally sample preparation here comes with its own challenges.
I havent yet fully grokked RWKV..

Just how much compute/memory are we saving here?

My understanding is that a 1BN transformer is about 2BN flops/inference, so about 1TFLOP for a 500 sequence of inferences (and also about several GB of memory)

What would be the equivalent RWKV (let ignore the inevitable loss penalty which could be significant..)
If it's not available on the most popular OS, it's not cross-platform
The HTTP-based challenge is similar in scope to the DNS one: an attacker would still need the target’s private key to actually impersonate the ACME session itself.

Put another way: this is still not an issue with ACME itself, but the fact that the Web PKI is built on top of unauthenticated substrates (primarily DNS). If someone (like your cloud provider) can demonstrate control of your domain, then it is ipso facto their domain as well. ACME can’t solve that any more than the previous generation of DV techniques could.
Cool! I was in this one in Tallinn a few years ago, it's a very large private collection (family owned + volunteers iirc), you have to contact them beforehand to make sure there's someone there, they have a lot of cool stuff, Robotron machines, some transmeta machines too!

https://arvutimuuseum.ee/en/
Here you go: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04830-4
OK, what about if our supermarkets are actually really tall buildings, and the drones glide down from the distribution platform on the top floor...
> How the fuck anyone can think using drones, with current technology, can be profitable in consumer-centric logistics?

Thing is, many societies are heading for demographic collapse or are already neck-deep in it (Japan). Even if it may be unprofitable now, we (as a society) need to invest serious amounts of money into automating a lot of unskilled labor, because otherwise we will run into disaster.
lol. The phrase you're looking for is "full of himself". Don't get me wrong, when I was a Google, I worked with plenty of smart people. But Tier 1 talent not at a FANG is going to hear the horror stories of, eg, Google recruiting, and go off and found a startup that finds PMF and successfully IPOs instead.
Also nearly all Apple devices should now be able to also convert JPEG-XL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/apple_safari_jpeg_xl/

>Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari
I'm curious, did you read the actual press release or the approval letters?

From the press release:

> The FAA authorized Zipline International, Inc., to deliver commercial packages around Salt Lake City and Bentonville, Arkansas, using drones that fly beyond the operator’s visual line of sight.

emphasis mine and

From the approval letters:

> Flight operations must minimize ground risk and not overfly the
following, unless otherwise approved by the Administrator: Power plants, Open-air assemblies of people, Schools during times of operation (e.g., elementary, middle, high, preschool and daycare facilities), Moving vehicles, except transitory flight operations, Roadways or highways, except transitory flight operations, and Any other area deemed high risk by the operator during the flight route design process.

> For all current operations areas, and prior to conducting operations in a new
area, the operator must complete a ground risk assessment and submit it to
the FAA for acceptance.

> The operator must maintain a conflict management capability to ensure that
the PIC is able to keep the UA clear of any manned aircraft and other UA.

> The operator may only conduct operations at a UA-to-PIC ratio of 1:1 unless
otherwise authorized by the FAA.

> Flights under special visual flight rules (SVFR) or instrument flight rules
(IFR) are not authorized.

There's lots and lots of stipulations here. So what's your concrete complaint?
> Having a header that only occurs in message initial position breaks this.

Why would it break it? It may make it slightly harder to parse, but since the header also determines the end of the message, anyone parsing the outer message would have a clear understanding that the inner header can be safely ignored as long as the stated outer length has not been matched.
Yeah, I just love Rust and I like Shuttle (which is used to deploy this Rust project), too! I don't think there are great performance implications here. They type-safety is nice though, and it was easy to embed a Lisp.
to be fair, automating all unskilled labor jobs is likely to be a different sort of disaster, specifically for people unable to perform skilled labor.
Some nice ideas here. I think some of these could see realisation, depending very much on how accessible those LLMs become.

At the moment I'm sure there are only a couple of user interfaces that people know and will resist l reuse. After all they'll want to take very little risk and use what they've seen works in other places. The full screen ChatGPT style page, or those annoying chatbot pop-ups that sit in the bottom right hand corner of sites I don't care about. Something to keep an eye on and see what emerges.
I struggle with it already. It hurts seeing it.

And I live in such a lovely city. I can bike anywhere so quickly, so easily. Scooters & micromobility are abundant. But so many people (so many roommates over time) make a habit of ordering delivery, on such a regular basis. It's unfathomable to me: both the negative impact in general, and particularly here where it's so close & pleasant to go walk or bike around. It's such a huge expense to the world, and such a great enriching activity, getting a little walkabout.
Hey!
Interim tech lead of OpenTofu here.

I'd like to add that as of today (announced just now at OSS Bilbao) we're officially part of the Linux Foundation[0]!

Hope you like the new name (it basically won the votes anywhere it was proposed) and happy to answer any questions!

[0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu
I feel like us not being in that future right now means we won‘t get there so fast.

What‘s missing to get all of this now? What recolutionary research, product development that hasn‘t happened yet will happen in the coming year?

To me it looks like LLM tech is stagnating, after the hype peak we are close to the trough of disillusionment.
Yeah but cars are too loud. It's not good enough to say "don't worry they'll be drowned out by the biggest source of noise pollution there is".

I suppose the future is everyone inside sound proofed bubbles because outside will be hell.
From the last link:

"The name OpenTofu was adopted out of concern for, as you might have already guessed, trademark litigation."

Because Hashicorp might not like the "TF" (for Terraform).
> Yeah but how about infinite tiles dynamically loaded, for example, like in any ARPG?

Yes, see [0]. As for procedural generation and that sort of thing, there is a new feature that supports it out of the box in 5.3 but before that you were able to write your own procedural generation (just as you would in unity, or your own custom engine
), and spawn actors.

> I have no idea, just thinking FPS roots means they're designed for discrete levels.

It's been a long time since that's all UE was suitable for. There's been JRPGs, third person shooters, racers, MOBAs, puzzlers, platformers, made in unreal in the last decade.

[0] https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/world-partition-in-u...
Do you use a particular JS library for the visualizations? They look great!
> My fire escape

Most of these are small. It's already a challenge to navigate a Mini 3 Pro, or even a GoPro Karma (~1 kg) as it can jitter around quite a lot simply due to random wind.

Confined spaces are no bueno for drones
It's more the case drones have not meet their counter yet.

It's kind of logical to see expensive AA systems designed to shoot down expensive planes struggling to answer swarm of cheap drones cost effectively.

But the good performance of very old systems like Gepard indicates solutions exist. For example, systems with a decent and modern radar plus a few short range low caliber and cheap AA guns will probably get designed and fielded in the near future.

And new weapon systems is not the only answer. Jamming also has proven to be effective. And even simple doctrine changes can be effective.

Drones are enjoying an happy time, but it will end and to a degree already has (tb2 is far less prevalent for example).
That sounds great! I'm currently working on adding support for .py files as well – open to PRs :)
OneAPI Computing Aims to Ease Multi-Architecture Computing
DeciDiffusion: 3x the speed of Stable Diffusion with the same quality
I didn’t mean to imply that Jetstream is slow. It’s just that I did my benchmarks without it. On a local PC, with 10 KiB messages sent (synchronously) in a loop, I could transfer 3.2 GiB over 5 seconds with 0.2 nanoseconds latency. Performing the same test with RabbitMQ, I got even better throughput out of the box, but way worse latency.

Those numbers are for server 2.9.6 and .NET client 1.0.8.