skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could restore a BlackBerry from 2005 that you found at a pawn shop and it would probably have a Netflix app on it.

No, you could not. There were never any versions of Netflix that ran directly on any BlackBerry OS, unless you count the Android ports that some folks managed to port and get running on BlackBerry 10 devices as the platform was dying around 2014 or so…
Soft delete is really hard to do well IMO, especially if it’s user facing. There have been some long threads on HN before about that.
I thought I understood transformers well, even though I had never implemented them. Then one day I implemented them, and they didn't work/train nearly as well as the standard pytorch transformer.

I eventually realized that I had ignored the dropout, because I thought my data could never overfit. (I trained the transformer to add numbers, and I never showed it the same pair twice.) Turns out dropout has a much bigger role than I had realized.

TLDR, just go and implement a transformer.
The more from scratch the better.
Everyone I know who tried it, ended up learning something they hadn't expected.
From how training is parallelized over tokens down to how backprop really works.
It's different for every person.
namecheap.com runs for $1.25/month and currently running a promo at $1/month for the first year.
China to build 100 MW of tower CSP in Tibet
gnucash?
TSPs are not unsolvable.

My point was that Transformers and neural networks as they are now are not Turing machines if you don't allow for the model to grow with the input size. That said, it has to grow in "depth" not just parameters. The fact that people think fixed depth computation can universally compute everything is a worrying trend.
But photos.app scanning for kittens on device is not creepy somehow?
Interesting.
Raising compensation creates an incentive for there to be more bug hunters.
> Who goes to college to learn how to set up a factory?

There's a field called "industrial engineering":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering

"Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment. Industrial engineering is central to manufacturing operations."

In the university I attended, the engineering school had a degree program for it.

Also, I'd presume that depending on what the factory produces, you'd have electrical, chemical, mechanical, aerospace, etc. engineers involved in designing and building the factory.
CT = Certificate Transparency, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
> if you want to improve on it, you’re probably going to have to come up with radical changes

Yeah, that’s sort of related to my point. Like, Colemak and Dvorak are theoretically (and practically, with enough practice) better than qwerty, but they don’t need to just be better, they need to be so much better that people will throw all the investment in qwerty away.

Sheet music feels the same.
Not sure I agree, it’s got some really annoying footguns and limitations. I’ve found much more success with logical replication.
It's probably the best approach known so far, but for all their talk of "long termism", I predict many people will dislike the fact that they'll almost certainly be dead (and in an unrecoverable state, before anyone gets their hopes up) before the project gets completed after the 40+ years and trillions of dollars it will take even in the optimistic case, i.e. for them personally there's no difference between no AGI/ASI and aligned AGI/ASI, as it will take too long.

Arguments about supposed "races with China" will probably be deployed against this idea, but the only thing the leaders of the AI labs will be racing against is their own deaths and each other.
But it's your chance. It may or may not become a business model. That's the risk. You take a risk to get a chance to make a profit.

It's impossible to come up with a business model that does not depend on chance.
Not everyone and as soon as you go to another country they are using another messenger so unless you want to never communicate with them again you will have both installed
The cult of American ignorance doesn’t help as well as the idea of manufacturing as “real” work.

Americans sympathize with people who complain that a Mexican took their job rather than telling them that if someone with 4 years of education can do what they do with 12 for 1/8th the pay, they are utterly pathetic.
Who only logs in on websites? So many apps also require logging in.

I'm also not sure if those built-in password managers sync to other devices and if you want to trust them with it.
If you are interested, I suggest this article I wrote that covers the current state of major upgrades with CloudNativePG: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/current-state-major-postgr...
TikTok testing Google Search integration
Yeah, I like to call these sorta operators "half-managed". It automates some portion of your playbook.
https://archive.ph/L9a4z
DeepSpeed and Hugginface Accelerate already include a lot of these features and they’re indeed already used in production. This class would be a great intro to said features given most people barely have access to one GPU let alone hundreds.

Moreover, the class also covers topics related to using and hacking with foundational models of all you have is the model versus a cluster.

Energy used to train foundation models is indeed extreme but the gross expenditure is more a function of corporate spending and competition than deep learning technology.
This is a false dichotomy.

Bleeding edge research work should not be hindered by premature optimization concerns. Take quantization for example. Before people were able to train a model with the usual floating point precisions, nobody knew that INT8 or q4 quantization was feasible. (In fact, nobody would have a full precision model to compare performance with.)

Also, the idea that energy efficiency should be a top concern basically undermines the whole idea of developing new technology. It's obvious that if fancy things are to come out of the research, it's going to cost more energy to run than not running anything at all. That itself is an argument that if we don't want energy usage to keep ramping up, we should shut down ALL research that potentially give us new energy-depleting toys.

So, really, I'm personally not concerned with "one-off" resource usage if they advance human understanding of the state of the art. Since energy actually costs money, capitalist pressures will make people think of ways to save energy (and time). The moralistic arguments are just misguided in the big picture. IMHO it feels like luddites putting on the environmentalist hat here.

Instead of shaming machine learning researchers over their energy use, it's probably more effective from a energy use standpoint (for example) to ban "proof of work" schemes in cryptocurrency.
It's based on webtorrent, so it will p2p but it is dog slow for serious files.
Twitter/X bans people outright. Surely that's a bigger issue for communication than lag.
School still isn't the same work. There's a lot more intricacies in the real world than you can ever be taught in school.
> Who goes to college to learn how to set up a factory? Where do you go to learn that?

Industrial and/or manufacturing engineering.
What's the false positive rate i.e the percentage of legit user getting stuck in the loop?
Funny, the only mention of Elon Musk is in the description of the header photo... I wonder, why include him in the photo at all if you're not going to talk about him? Did he have rich parents?

So what I'm getting from the article is that these three men lived in middle class households in the 70s, 80s and 90s, a period in America with a strong middle class, and that by today's standards had well off parents, but by the standards at the time, maybe only a little better off than the average person? There's a big difference between withdrawing a quarter million dollars from the bank and taking out a home equity loan and risking your security to help your son's business venture.
Do you hold the same opinion for crypto?
Using the Zalando operator to send to Minio over here.

No problems at all so perhaps what you ran into has since been fixed?
Par the course for WSJ
Which LLM does radiantai use?
Ahh, classic hackernews upvoting the 'I hate cloud' comment to the top.

I have a few Bambu lab printers (perks of being a grad student) and their offline mode is pretty good - there are printers in my lab that are pretty much never connected to internet and print 24/7.

Sure, offline mode doesn't have all the features they mention on their website, but even without it, Bambu lab printers are better than their competition by a HUGE margin. I've had all kinds of printers before, including Prusa. Nothing comes close to Bambu lab ones in terms of no non sense printing and cost.

Sure, their components aren't open source, but official spares are cheap enough. And they promised to keep them cheap enough. Sure, they can change their word, and guess what? The printer would have made it's money's worth (for personal or commerical use) by the time that happens. You can throw away the printer by that point and you'd have net positive gain.

Bambu lab is going to do what DJI did to drones. Period. Every kid is gonna have a 3D printer, every influencer is going to make a 3D printer is cool post, and lots of Christmas gifts are going to be Bambu 3D printers. Bambu lab is former DJI folks - no wonder their product strategy and in some way design language is so close to DJI.
It's fun for them and they don't have the expectation that it will make money. And probably it doesn't, and that's fine, move on to the next thing. But once in a while, maybe it resonates with a greater need.
Yes, NFTs are dead. They were DOA, the people that didn't see that have been fleeced already. This, coming from a crypto bro. NFTs were always snake oil.
IPA [ka̠ɡʲi] > http://ipa-reader.xyz/ just set voice to Japanese; granted, it's not human but sounds pretty accurate

In case of Szczebrzeszyn [ʂt͡ʂɛˈbʐɛʂɨn] Polish city name this tool does the job as well - sadly the voice is the most ugly one around
Interesting. Can you clarify?

It’s a fork of TrueCrypt, which was reviewed by an academic cryptographer (Matthew D. Green) a decade ago.
Interesting perspective. I define the rules based on the localization but maybe it should be by user. Not really sure how that UX works though.
Twitter has been doing things worse than that for years. They seem to even have different levels of shadow banning.

The practice is fundamentally malicious because innocent people get caught in it all the time. The two main problems both stem from the fact that they don't admit to doing it.

The first is that you're posting interesting things but nobody ever sees it because you're shadow banned, and then what you should really do is create a new account and start over, but you don't know why nobody ever sees it. "Maybe you just don't have much of a following yet." But you never will with that account. An innocent person is subjected to the penalty meant for a spammer -- and suffers longer for it because they have no reason to expect they're being punished when they haven't done anything wrong.

The second is that even if you figure it out, they still don't admit to doing it, the consequence of which is that there is no appeals process. So if you have an account with a significant following and then get shadow banned illegitimately, you're much more likely to notice this because your engagement falls off a cliff, but there is no process for undoing it other than to abandon your account and start over from scratch.
This is so often completely ignored and IMO it’s the real reason why executive pay is so high. Companies are willing to bid up executive pay but not worker pay because worker pay comes with a huge multiplier and executive pay doesn’t.
Creating a separate arm of the government accountable to neither the president nor congress seems like the legal equivalent of a rootkit
Not much feature development is perfectly fine if it works! Things don't have to evolve.

Planning to use litestream as a library to dynamically swap in/out dozens of databases in a process. Looking at the code it'll easily allow that (super clean, kudos!).

So many thanks, it's going to enable a lot of new things!
Of course. As in any field of work, new graduates get entry level jobs and learn by working alongside more experienced practitioners. (E.g., someone who just graduated with a CS degree isn't likely to know how to ship robust, scalable and maintainable software - that's something you learn from experience.)
Welcome to the future. And what a future.
What's the point of Amazon Prime streaming?
I’ve been to more sex parties than I can count and there’s definitely a significant amount of porn on my iOS devices, so I’d not consider myself prude.
Still I think that giving people the option to hide unsolicited dick picks on their devices is a good idea and not prude.
I think the same about an option hiding pictures of spiders.

Extrapolating from that we may touch hiding queer or black people, or mixed couples one day, which will be an interesting situation.
> why include (Musk) in the photo if you're not going to talk about him?

Answer: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
Oh, I very rarely turn on my video (I only have video enabled when I’m on-site with a client). I guess I conflated “video calls” with “meeting culture”.
Some endeavors require historical knowledge, aircraft engineering being one of them. If you break the chain, you lose it; policies that were developed over decades are discarded. "Why do we need to do it this way, this other way is faster and cheaper!" No one is around to explain why any more, so the lesson is learned the hard way, again.
They talk about it as some kind of feature to save pilots, but what they're describing is just how a normal fly by wire system works. If you are in straight and level flight and don't provide any inputs, it will remain in straight and level flight.

That doesn't just apply to the F-35, it's the same for a regular A320 family passenger jet and has been for more than 30 years.
A Murdoch rag has an anti-worker pro-ownership class article. News at 11.

If automotive CEOs don’t want their assembly line employees to demand 40% raises, maybe they shouldn’t take 40% raises themselves. Since they have more than enough money to live on in multiple homes and boats they should have no problem making themselves an example of austerity for their employees.
Oh wonderful. 15 minutes to get the page, put down my beer, get on my computer, sign in to everything, get 2-factored 3 times AND figure out exactly what’s happening and fix it.
They want to collect name:face mappings. I've had the same issue with IG but haven't got around to posting the selfie.
In late 2021 I compared OS threads to io_uring for filesystem I/O at random-access reads from fast, NVMe SSDs.

That measurement told me that it's not necessary to use io_uring for disk I/O performance for some workloads.

It found no improvement in performance from io_uring, compared with a dynamic thread pool which tries to maintain enough I/O-blocked threads to keep the various kernel and device queues busy enough.

This was a little surprising, because the read-syscall overhead when using threads was measurable. preadv2() was surprisingly much slower than pread(), so I used the latter. I used CLONE_IO and very small stacks for the I/O threads (less than a page; about 1kiB IIRC), but the performance was pretty good using only pthreads without those thread optimisations. Probably I had a good thread pool and queue logic, as it surprised me that the result was much faster than "fio" banchmark results had led me to expect.

In principle, io_uring should be a little more robust to different scenarios with competing processes, compared with blocking I/O threads, because it has access to kernel scheduling in a way that userspace does not. I also expect io_uring to get a little faster with time, compared with the kernel I tested on.

However, on Linux, OS threads* have been the fastest way to do filesystem and block-device I/O for a long time. (* except for CLONE_IO not being set by default, but that flag is ignored in most configurations in current kernels),
I've been using kagi the last 1.5 years after seeing it recommended here. It's been fantastic for me. I use it on all my devices and never use Google or DDG any more. It feels like old Google with more features. Unfortunately it's not free but they just today announced unlimited search for $10/month which for me is quite reasonable. I sometimes hit over 1000 searches per month (1532 is my record so far). Although it costs money I like knowing that kagi is the product, not me or my data m
Video encoding uses a *lot* of energy, Youtube, Netflix and friends.

And capitalistic force are not fast enough and d not take environmental impact into account has carbon taxes are not there or not high enoigh or lobbied against or not measurable and gamed.
Independent reviewers find NASA Mars Sample Return plans are seriously flawed
I have to bring up Switzerland again - just as much resistance to authority, resulting in an even more insane level of local government rights. Imagine a smallish US state being an independent nation where every county can set its own tax law, school authority, public infrastructure etc.

And yet, here these things work all quite well. There must be something else. Maybe a continuity problem in government where a party switch leads to many public officials being replaced? Or are they just not paid enough, so you get the bottom of the barrel?
As long as a domain has the CAA record specifying which CAs are allowed to issue certificates for it (I believe CAA checking is now mandatory in the baseline requirements for CAs), coupled with CT, a misissurance by a malicious CA should be immediately detectable.

Of course then the question is how quickly browsers can roll out an update/config to distrust all future certs from said CA.
Gitness - Open Source code hosting platform from the owners of Drone CI
Yes. Building something complicated requires formal education plus years of experience attempting to build the complicated thing.
Could you assemble an e-bike?
Around 1920 my great-grandfather, I am told, built a 1w radio transmitter in his basement in San Francisco, with an aerial running up the outside of the chimney. I've no idea what frequencies he used, but he regularly spoke with fellow enthusiasts in Europe and New Zealand - several of them came to visit, when my grandfather was a child. By 1930 there was enough interference that was no longer possible with such a low-power set.
OOC, what are you listening to? The youtube playlist has 2 videos for each lecture, a zoom recording focusing on the slides with the professor visible on camera, and a classroom recording - the latter definitely has better audio quality, but the audio quality of both is far better than your average OCW lecture from 10 years ago.
I make things for conferences with 3d printers. I started with Wanhao printers, then went to Aurora Jaguar's... and then Prusa Mk3s's... and now am looking at a mixed print farm of Prusa MK3s and Bambu Labs X1C's. I'm selling the rest of my Prusa printers in the coming months and replacing them with more Bambu's, their product are amazing and 3-4x faster than prusa printers.

I love Prusa but they were caught sleeping at the wheel, they stopped innovating until bambu labs woke them up.
Bambu printers will accept G-code on a MicroSD card, like basically any 3D printer ever. The cloud stuff is optional, but very useful.

I completely understand why people hate Bambu Lab, but I wish they'd understand why other people like them. If you want a new hobby, there are lots of excellent FDM printers on the market. If you just want to print good parts, you'd be a fool to buy anything other than a Bambu. There's just nothing else that will reliably produce dimensionally accurate parts out of the box and for thousands of hours afterwards, with absolutely no tinkering or troubleshooting.
Just like with Bruce Willis' surrogates - my second me (movie) where everyone is always at home having good time
I have to second corridor crew. I found then several years ago and now I never miss a video. Gave me new appreciation for film making and vfx.
In my bio
Wow, this is fantastic! I've been using GNUCash for some simpler tasks, like tracking income and expenses for a rental property, not for all of my personal finance. But GNUCash is... kinda clunky, and I'm not sure of the best way to share the data, as my partner would appreciate having access to it too.

I love that this has a web interface, but still seems to have a fairly simple data model based on `ledger` and plain text files.

I see some other posts about data import from banks, and that's always been the thing keeping me from doing this for all of my personal finance. I just don't think I'd be able to keep up if I had to manually log into bank, brokerage, and credit card accounts, download my data for each one (assuming they even allow a CSV-style download), and import into GNUCash (or whatever).

I'm curious about the Plaid option (and really cool a Plaid employee is posting here), but I've always been wary of them. It looks like they have some sort of OAuth-like process for one of my financial institutions, but the others are all "give Plaid your credentials and we promise to keep them safe". Not really comfortable with that. Everyone gets hacked eventually. Regardless, I'm not too keen on giving Plaid literally all of my financial data; just doesn't seem like a great idea.

But it seems like there's really no alternative, at least in the US. I wish the government would mandate that all of these institutions implement a standardized API, and that they give regular people (not just big companies) access to their own data through it. Sigh...
But if the pilot has ejected, shouldn't it go into a circular holding pattern?
I totally believe that these printers are technically amazing. That’s why I made the Apple vs. beige box analogy. Those M-series chips and their hardware quality are way better. But there is stronger lock-in.

I’ve been burned so many times by other products that I think my wariness is more than justified.

And I’m not alone, which is why this is “classic”.

(But the pricing is really good. I think I’ll wait and see a bit more)
Pitfalls of Callback-Based APIs
Bambu Labs is pretty darn awesome.
> else is invoked if the list is empty.

for / else should do that too …
Every government with money has exploits for every device imaginable.

The going price was $1m for a full exploit chain on iPhone a while ago, and I’m sure it’s gone up, but I’m also sure it is minuscule compared to the amount of money governments have.

Everyone should assume this is fact, and not imagine some secret spy world. If you ever become interesting enough to hack, you will be, and there is little recourse (currently)
Nights on Earth
Q: 29M ate a slug and is now having seizures.

> Based on the information provided, there is no direct answer to the question of why a 29-year-old male who ate a slug is now having seizures.

(A google search will get you the right answer.)
I appreciated the links to the audit, but your quote was misleading to me when taken out of context like you did. I interpreted it as basically saying that the author couldn't or wouldn't address the issues identified. The full quote was:

> The upstream
author doesn't have enough resources to address them on its own and wants to
develop fixes in the open. Therefore I have created GitHub issues in the
upstream project and publish the full report today.

I.e. the "and wants to
develop fixes in the open" part left me with a very different interpretation from when I first read your comment.