skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I mean - it uses Cloudflare and it works. I did try with dig. :) Also tried it from other countries in EU, works fine.
‘No one could have predicted.’ DNA offers surprises on how Polynesia was settled
I stopped when they started permanently breaking camera procesing on bootloader unlock.
Bombardier beetles and their caustic chemical cannon
'Under a piece of bark I found two Carabi (I forget which) and caught one in each hand, when lo and behold I saw a sacred Panagaeus cruxmajor; I could not bear to give up either of my Carabi, and to lose Panagaeus was out of the question, so that in despair I gently seized one of the Carabi between my teeth, when to my unspeakable disgust and pain the little inconsiderate beast squirted his acid down my throat…'

- Charles Darwin
It feels like a little too late. Science has to wait on controls, and that is difficult to do with a new disease.

Civilian science/shitposters were promoting tea and catechins since early 2020, but such information was classified as dangerous misinformation by the authorities fighting an "infodemic".

https://justpaste.it/8bq9r

> If smelling not good is a bit of a problem, then raw apples, lemons, spinach, lettuce, green tea and chew gum would help a bit

> Significant inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by a green tea catechin, a catechin-derivative and galloylated theaflavins in vitro

> Preferably only tea and not tea extract pills, as the latter have a chance to cause liver injury

> results strongly suggest that EGCG, and more remarkably TSA and galloylated theaflavins, inactivate the novel coronavirus

> Teas contain Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) which is a zinc ionophore that helps your cells to absorb zinc that halts viral replication in your cells.

> Antiviral activity of [green tea] and plant juices ([black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) juice], [pomegranate (Punica granatum) juice]) against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus in vitro

> Green tea, muscadine grapes, cacao powder, and dark chocolate - able to bind to a particular enzyme, or protease, in the virus and stop it reproducing

> To further substantiate the inhibitory activities, extracts prepared from [green tea (GT), two muscadine grapes (MG), cacao, and dark chocolate (DC)], which are rich in CAG, ECG, GAG, EGCG, or/and PB2, were used for inhibitory assay.
I like this idea. It could be handy to be able to focus on individual descriptions in complex prompts. Is this then mostly a "UI" feature that is being translated to a traditional prompt?

(As a side note: using decorative typefaces was an unconvincing example.)
Oof, that's a daunting thought.

We just did a quick snapshot of a small chunk of a customer's environment and they're running 10 different versions of curl in like 15 different images :(
The blog post mentions that the website no longer lists the deprecated functionality. The website still says that there’s a free plan so my reading of the blog post + website is that they’re removing the free Always On feature and replacing it with Deployments. The free “write code and run it” IDE product is unchanged. That’s my guess!

https://replit.com/pricing
Does it come with sources and can it compile/produce a new distribution of itself? So I could modify the sources just a little bit and get a new version by executing a command like 'make' etc. ?
It feels like that is where the real value is. Imagine describing all the assets of a game, story, or something larger than just a single image as mainly "what" descriptions, referring to broad styles of things. And then a second body of text detailing those styles in detail.

It could be a text description of a fighter or noble wearing coats or armour. And then substitute in different style description of coats and armour depending on the family, class, race or other attributes suitable for the world you're trying to generate.
Economies of scale. The SE is basically the hand me downs from the mainline iphone and couldn't exist without it. It's not surprising that no name brands can't compete with the richest company in the world.
Can you give an example so I can try it on mine? I tried 3 years ago and it didn't work, but they are constantly enhancing it.
When will RNA get its AlphaFold moment?
i think the username is a pretty good guage of what's going on :)
> Type checking bugs are most definitely not the most common ones and typing doesn't really help with runtime bugs unless it's a strongly typed language.

TypeScript actually performed quite well in the last academic study I read on this debate (like 6 years ago).

The real problem with web APIs is that there is always some lossy conversion between type systems as we cross boundaries. So we can't really make some sort of closed system assumption. A typical web app may interact with dozens of API services, some run by third parties. And maybe you can trust their API docs, but maybe not really, and they're subject to updates anyways, so you always have to be on your toes.

Even internally, you can't really control all the type info from end to end. Even the most monolithic systems will have some sort of abstraction leak when going from JSON -> Object -> Relational storage. Even largely monolithic systems will typically break off some functionality (like email sending, websockets handling, etc) as a separate service. The boundary creates a co-evolving connection between separate services run by separate teams, with separate upgrade cycles, even without full microservices buy in. And that creates potential runtime type errors when mapping between these layers.

Even if you've somehow plugged all those leaky abstractions and your tight type system has handled all the edge cases and is provably correct: the user will teach you otherwise on the UI layer. User input can vary wildly, and everything from device capabilities to personal disabilities to network throttling to authentication to using weird ISO characters to file sizes to strange input devices and legacy systems with their own quirks, will completely throw you off at some point.

So no matter how type safe your language is, you'll always have to deal with the untyped and unpredictable user layer. And the reason why JS has been so successful there is because of how flexible it is. It's not as painful to make quick tweaks with JS as it is with a type system like Rust's, for example.

JS, for all its quirks, made a good amount of trade-offs for its target platform.

Type errors are almost always the easiest types of errors to fix. What really will get you is debugging interdependent systems and services, and that pesky user layer. But people will spend extraordinary amounts of time maintaining complex type systems just so their OCD can be satisfied about believing, that at least for a moment, if their program compiles...that all is right with the world for that brief moment just before you deploy to production.

Oh were that the case. I do think types are essential for mission and life critical systems, but testing is even more essential for those cases, so everything should already be thoroughly covered. For consumer apps, however, is it worth the cost in velocity?
It's obvious astroturfing.

The top two posts with the most upvotes are "Ebay is just as bad" for the startoff line, and "Everybody's just as bad as Amazon. Why are you being so mean and cruel to Amazon?"

Obvious astroturfing, just like the entire Amazon review ecosystem. Surprise? No.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ Bezos' wealth relative to "normal" shown as 1-pixel comparisons. Be careful once you get to the $Trillion portion (you'll be scrolling for the rest of your life.)
https://archive.ph/JLwuQ

There is a Lovely discussion on a self-referential bet made by SBF while working at Jane Street. Unfortunately the details matter a lot so I would love to hear from Asher's side. Matt writes plenty of interesting points on this bet in the footnotes. Especially interesting this comment on SBF and Kelly Criterion: https://qoppac.blogspot.com/2022/11/if-youre-so-smart-how-co...

One morning, another intern, called “Asher” in the book, offers to bet Bankman-Fried on the maximum amount any intern will lose that day. “This cannot settle above one hundred or below zero, right?” confirms Bankman-Fried. And then he buys at 65: If any intern loses more than $65 that day, Asher will pay Bankman-Fried that intern’s losses above $65; if none do, Bankman-Fried will pay Asher the difference between $65 and the maximum loss. If an intern loses $100, the maximum, then Bankman-Fried gets $35. If the biggest loser loses only $50, he pays Asher $15. Of course Bankman-Fried can easily win this bet by losing $100 himself.
Based on the numbers I found from a few minutes of searching you are incorrect. Some phones get resold or reused, most do not. Only 25% of people are using a secondhand phone and the phone population is increasing at 5x the human rate.
Right but it's not going to do much of anything temp wise from here, maybe .7C higher at worst. This is a useful tool to see this: https://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/modtran/
Autonomous Wheelchair Lets Jetson Do the Driving
I think that's a solid example of what we are talking about. As you "level up" you are able to take on greater scope and greater complexity, at a given level of effort.
The breakdown in Greenways Trajectory by Squarepusherm one of my favorite pieces of music, is reminiscent of an MRI machine.
> Depends on what AMD does with Xilinx.

Currently the AMD/Xilinx dynamic seems to reverse this: "Depends on what Xilinx does with AMD".

AMD's software roadmap for AI/datacentre leans heavily on Vitis (for software) and AI Engines (as an execution platform). CPUs that integrate AI engines are already shipping (Ryzen AI). It's Xilinx technology, but you should expect it to look more like a GPU accelerator than a traditional LUTs-and-routing FPGA. And, as duskwuff have pointed out, this sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the CPU-with-FPGA design space.
> what they recommend is in the consumers immediate best interests.

How? Amazon routinely recommends products to me that are objectively inferior compared to other products. For example, I just searched for "peak design travel tripod" and the number one result, which is also marked with "Overall Pick", is a tripod made by a company with the name of KINGJUEEQUESTER that looks like it's made out of cardboard tubes, but at least comes with a free 21 piece lens filter set and selfie stick for $18.99. And it has 3000+ 5 star reviews that are almost nearly identical. "Edward Von McTavish: The KINGJUEEQUESTER tripod arrived. It is of the most impressive quality. The Leg Lock feature fulfills my needs. I recommend for you."

The thing I'm actually searching for isn't even on the first page of results. It's on page two, under "More Results" and has a title of "Peak Design Travel Tripod (Carbon Fiber)" and is priced at $599.95 (the same price you'll find on Peak Design's site).

How is it that showing me anything other than what I searched for supports me as a consumer?
It's got better components than most intel chromebooks. I updated my storage and ram. But yeah, it ain't the cheapest one.
It makes sense for gaming consoles, I don't see what is so different (these days) about phones.
Try out https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5 for a repair/upgrade friendly alternative
Only tangentially related but out of curiosity I visited the actual replit.com site and the amount of moving and blinking things made me to close the tab almost immediately.
> if you're never going to move past 0., you're not semver'ing,

Eh that's fair. I think that reality is often messier than this, people intend* to eventually release one, and then don't, for various reasons. But I get what you're saying, sure.

> don't let any of that detract from a massive thanks for the semver.org effort,

Just to be clear, I have mostly inherited a commit bit, tried to get some work done, and failed. I fully agree, but those results are the work of other people :)
I hate cover letters like every other engineer and agree with most of the points here about them being a waste of time (for me, pretty much 90%+ applications don't get a response with or without a cover letter).

However, just trying to make lemonade out of lemons, anyone care (who's hiring or knows more than the average hacker) and is sick and tired of bad letters, please let us know what a good cover letter should be?

e.g. Are you really looking for a sentence on how it would be life's ambition to join your company or is something like the below good:

Hi

My name is Bob, I'm located at [city],[state] and a senior s/w engineer with a lot of [FE]/[BE]/[Full-Stack] experience.

You see you are looking for:[X]/[Y]/[Z] which I have experience in.

Please reach out if you would like further info.

-Bob-the-builder
You read it right.
Amazon warehouse inventory is held ahead of time. That's how the commitment to some stock levels works today.
Webkit.org Uses WordPress
> Visit 1.1.1.1 from any device to get started with our free app that makes your Internet faster and safer.

Ironic.
You don't think they can learn and adjust?

Most live music happens outside of mega venues, where this doesn't happen. They get along fine without the middleman tax
I could maybe enjoy using such a thing, in some kind of coding based apocalyptic horror game, where AI caused the apocalypse, and you're trying to rebuild the world with technology that is all too complex to understand or classified because no one person is supposed to know it.

So you could have puzzles where you have to go to one site, steal a badge, go to another site and steal a different badge, and they all let you decrypt different views of the master AI you're trying to reprogram to undo whatever evil it did.
It should be easy enough to install the update and run the benchmarks again to see if that happened.
You can run examples in redstone
Estonia runs most of the corporate world, and much of the Android app ecosystem as well. Not bad!
> I want to be able to take strings of untrusted code provided by users and execute them in a safe sandbox.

Isn't this the entire pitch of the browser as an app platform rather than a document viewer? Why target it if it's not sandboxed?
This seems divorced from reality. Just because a new phone is released every year, it doesn't mean you need to buy a new one every year.

Small, incremental improvements each year means that whenever you buy a new device, it's modern (not using 4 year old components), and substantially 'better' than the previous one.
i’m always surprised the first thing people think is that other people are lying, and than if they cannot answer a question right on the spot they must be lying.

there must be some name for this in the domain of human behaviour or psychology.

people are not aware of the fact that if they go into an interview with that assumption there is a probability that they will think somebody is lying when they are not. this is a real problem when hiring people.
Pixels are supported for 7 years, starting with the 8.
P6+ for 5 years
Also I'm talking like a couple months later, not a whole year.
Russian ransomware actors are not state actors, but couldn't operate in the way that they do without the sanction of the state. This is why the phrase "Russian ransomware actors" makes sense.

So, for example, they take some interesting actions to avoid accidentally making the state unhappy. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick... shows an amusing consequence of this.

But they also wind up with the same kinds of relationships with the state that the Wagner group did. And so we get things like https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa.... Russian military activity comes backed up with Russian cyberattacks that use all the same techniques, and presumably some of the same people, that Russian cybercriminals do.

And these attacks were not necessarily trivial. For example https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-behind-cyberatta... verifies that KA-SAT was taken offline. Starlink was also under constant cyberattack. I strongly suspect that Musk's unwillingness to allow Starlink in areas under Russian control, and unwillingness to allow Starlink to be used in offensive military attacks, are exactly to reduce how much he is a direct target of Russian activity.
When you're playing checkers people playing by the rules of chess might seem dense.
Show HN: Privacy-focused, semi-automatic and open source CAPTCHA solution
Try this: don’t upgrade your phone for five years.

The annual incremental release cycle is fine—what’s silly is thinking phones need to be upgraded every year.
young people are too poor to be worth scamming, take that boomer
Every time I see Twitter/X here, I want to say this.
The precise term would be the oligopolies.
As an AI model, I don't experience emotions or fatigue, so I don't get tired of anything, including chatbot wrappers. My purpose is to provide information, answer questions, and assist to the best of my abilities based on the text inputs I receive. I'm here to help users find information, provide explanations, and engage in conversations to the best of my training and knowledge. If you have any specific questions or concerns related to chatbot wrappers or any other topic, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to assist you.
Interesting point but makes me wonder whether it's meaningful. There are plenty of local Chinese email providers, why would anyone choose Yahoo specifically?
the problem is that many get married blind. they have high expectations but ignore the tools to verify that these expectations will be met. they just hope for the best and think love will take care of the challenges. but checking your expectations takes a lot of self reflection and understanding of your own person, and consultation with your partner about your common expectations of life. pre marriage counseling is a good idea.

love alone is not enough, it's actually less important than common goals and a dedication to support each other. if love were a precondition to a happy marriage then arranged marriages (ignoring the downsides) would have had to all fail 100% of the time. when they don't fail it's because these people understand to care for each other and most likely were able to develop love for each other over time.
IIRC wasn't Russia having a hard time offloading all the rupees in its possession? https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/russia-do...
The on-screen fingerprint sensor on newer models is infuriating. Unlocking the screen is always a two-action operation of "tap the screen -> wait for it to fade in / wake up -> put your finger on the sensor".

The first tap to waken the screen often fails so I have to try one or two more times.

It's a small thing but, I have to tumble with it probably 100+ times a day given how often I check my phone for e.g. Slack. It should be the smoothest part of operation, imo.
I wouldn't necessary blame the insurance. My primary care doc gave me 10 referrals to psychiatric nurse practitioners but zero were taking new patients. I asked someone who'd written review articles on my condition to do the same and he said he would but I think he did some looking and came up short and ghosted me.
Do you have any empirical evidence to support your assertions?

> watch their housing valuation rise slower or, god forbid, drop

I'm a YIMBY, the rent is too high. But YIMBYism only works if laws are enforced, otherwise you just get universal disorder.
I was reading the paper, and then it hit me ... Did they use ChatGPT to generate their abstract?

Almost certainly not, but I wonder how well it does at that?

Come up with a (fake) way to improve the transformer architecture, then write the title and abstract.

Title: Novel Cyclical Attention Mechanism Enhances Transformer Architectures

Abstract:
The transformer architecture has emerged as a powerful model for handling sequential data across various domains. Despite its success, the fixed nature of its attention mechanism often restricts its ability to adapt to the dynamic nature of real-world data sequences. In this paper, we propose a novel Cyclical Attention Mechanism (CAM) that augments the standard transformer architecture. Unlike conventional attention mechanisms which allocate attention statically based on previous layers, the CAM operates in a cyclical fashion, allowing for a dynamic, recurrent redistribution of attention over the sequence at each layer of the transformer. This cyclical process is facilitated through a novel temporal feedback loop that integrates information from both previous and subsequent layers, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of long-term dependencies within the data. Moreover, the proposed mechanism introduces an adaptive temporal gating system that intelligently modulates the flow of information through the cycles, ensuring optimal retention and refinement of relevant information throughout the network. We demonstrate through extensive experiments on various benchmark datasets that the Cyclical Attention Mechanism significantly improves the model's ability to handle long-range dependencies, leading to substantial improvements in performance across multiple tasks including language modeling, translation, and sequence labeling. Our findings pave the way for a new line of research into dynamic attention mechanisms within transformer architectures, showcasing the potential for enhanced performance and adaptability in handling complex sequential data[1].

I know, I find it tiresome too when people share their ChatGPT responses, but this really struck me. We are very, very close to those being indistinguishable.

* I'd hate to be trying to sort out valid from invalid papers these days.

* How close are AIs to doing AI research?

* If an AI can predict something similar to your paper, is it more or less likely to be valid/true/reproduceable?

[1]: https://chat.openai.com/share/ba769733-e98d-48d3-809a-7611f3...
My only concern:

7:57 UTC: first reports coming in

I noticed this issue quite quickly ("reported" at 7:54 UTC [1]), and I noticed I wasn't alone thanks to Twitter / X. I tried to get in touch with Cloudflare to report this issue - but I haven't found any meaningful contact other than Twitter.

For such an important service, I'm impressed there is no contact email / form where you can get in touch with the engineers responsible for keeping the service up and running.

Other than that, kudos for the well written blog post - as always!

[1]: https://nitter.net/DenysVitali/status/1709476961523835246
Python sub-interpreter profiling with Austin 3.6
Those are great sanction-busting tools for getting payments from organizations who actively wish to cooperate with Russia to get paid. They aren't good tools for getting paid by victims of cyberattacks.
That’s specifically covered under new EU ewaste laws - upgrades the impair device performance must be fixed in a reasonable timeframe.
It's not the saturation at the peak absorbtion frequencies that is driving the warming, it's the widening of the curves which raises absorbtion levels in nearby frequencies. The "saturated" argument was one of the first objections when the science was poorly understood. Krauss's book Physics of Climate CHange has a good account of this history. Check IPCC summaries to see how many models from the literature predict flattening at 0.7C additional warming if we don't curb emissions (spoiler alert: slim to none with many positing 5C or more additional warming in the 2100's if emissions aren't curbed).
But you need the entire marketplace to follow that rule.

You cannot charge "what it's worth" on amazon because you either pay the ad tax or you compete for the lowest price.
If the world gets partitioned into several "separate internets", it's a net loss for everyone. Having a Western internet, a Chinese internet, a Russian internet, etc will inevitably stifle people's ability to learn new skills, explore the world outside their home countries, and meet people with different perspectives.