skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author was clear what he was setting out to demonstrate in the piece

This format is likely very useful for anyone working on such large sets using Jupyter/Python and waiting days for scripts to complete -- there is nothing wrong with those final tricky optimisations when applied to single-use scripts

I found it a useful reminder that there is often more to be squeezed out on inner loops with a few mins more thought
Obviously not the point of the post, but this doesn't seem like a very reasonable thing to calculate, statistically speaking.

Also, I wonder if there is some way to use branch-and-bound to look at fewer combinations.
Which they can also manufacturer and refuel I imagine on site, which is neat.
I've spent most of my career working with teams that mostly write SQL code, at multiple companies.

Except for very rare fringe cases, using "SELECT *" in production code is universally considered bad practice.
Clearly Betamax. It certainly has it's uses and it's development is led by the right people but there's no magic.

It's just another LLVM frontend.

Also I'm slightly annoyed by the fact that they kept talking about great GPU performance in their marketing material and all you can find in the docs is: "it's coming. probably. only to Nvidia hardware btw."
you're getting downvoted because you said it in a weird way, but fundamentally I have to agree. Both C and C++, if written idiomatically, have less syntactic sugar and macros are less accepted, so that their code ends up hiding a lot less complexity than rust code.

Fairly complex code like what the author showed turns out to use a bunch of different random things nobody expected.
Numba is another excellent Python option for speedier python solutions
What you said is precisely what nogil work is about. It's about replacing one global lock with finer grained synchronization primitives without much performance regression.
He used the talk page. I have it in my notes in a box in storage. I'll dig it up probably in the next 10-20 years, if you can wait.
https://archive.ph/nmoqt
Exactly. I assume their preferred solution would be for the AI to refuse to depict cultures, ethnicities or genders, as generalising leads to stereotyping. Postmodernists should touch grass sometime, preferrably outside their bubble.
> There was another interesting use case I wrote about a few years ago that showed how changing DISTINCT to GROUP BY – even though it carries the same semantics and produces the same results – can help SQL Server filter out duplicates earlier and have a serious impact on performance.

I recently learned this is also what Amazon recommends when querying Spectrum. [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/10-best-practices-for-...
Nothing you said supported your first sentence. If people enjoy pure math why shouldn't they study it? Now people should not feel inadequate if they decide not to study it.
How do you get those fancy pictures displaying the explain output?
Woah buddy this is a family site
Nothing wrong with using unsafe if performance is essential and it’s wrapped up with good testing and kept safely tucked away in a library.
What other directors do you think look like him? I actually like his style, so more would be great.

It's essentially cinematic brutalism, which I think is perfect for stories like blade runner and Dune. The intimating and oppressive environments do a great job visually communicating the dystopian societies to the viewer.
Out of the frying pan in to the fire!
Where AI Meets Copyright Law, Present and Future
> You can’t really lay off half the company and declare yourself in maintenance mode once you’ve scaled up.

You actually can.
Latter is not correct.
It's well known difference in Russia between companies that willingly cooperate with government agencies informally, and those who just provide information upon formal request according to law.
I'm aware of the definition. Whether the service is intentionally setup to attract attackers or not is irrelevant.

Way to ignore my point, and nitpick about semantics.
> I am not sure how twitch intends to benefit from this

They stop losing streamers to other platforms because of the previous twitch-only stipulation.
Wow, C89 and it works on Windows. This is very neat.
The institutions did their jobs. Trump failed to seize power extralegally, despite populist support. The US system of government could be better, but it is functional.
I LOVED these games that had painted backgrounds and actionable stuff popping out like crap...
Homebuilt Ground Effect Boat-Plane
The Mud Skipper had a bit of a prang today (Saturday, GMT+8):

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/police...

For those interested the youtube video list is linked, the short build video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXQ0rdYfK4

and the recent videos of the past month show various proving flights, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1vPgYL5BM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sKnE9BcsSQ

For the textually minded (well, pictures and a few words), a 46 page PDF slideshow presentation:

https://cdn.revolutionise.com.au/site/4ltgwxrhkjevpdc5.pdf
Scammers amass $1.02T globally, Singapore lost the most: Report
It's odd how we blame the market mechanism but not the people that "don't give a damn".

Ironically, it's almost as if you (the person complaining about the market mechanism) don't want to boycot those people that don't give a damn. It's inconvenient isn't it? Imagine having to shun your friend, kick out your tenant or fire your employee because they wore a slave-labour Nike shoe. It's much easier to blame a market mechanism.
/u/dhouston has turned into "the guy in the article" what a day

important piece of hacker news history:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question? (2022)
> Not sure the language you choose matters as much as making the API usable by a wide audience.

Fully agree with this, and having typeset my masters thesis and later my resume using LaTeX, I think that the “authoring experience” is definitely the place to focus on improving, LaTeX just takes too damn long to get something good.

If you’re interested in the “markup to document publishing” space, you might also be interested in the open-source report publishing tool I’m now working on, Evidence.dev (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence).

It’s similarly based on markdown, though uses code fences to execute code, HTML style tags for charts and components, and {…} for JavaScript, i.e.

---
title: Lorem Ipsum
description: dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
---

```sql petal_vs_sepal
SELECT
petal_length,
sepal_length
FROM iris_dataset_table
ORDER BY 1 DESC
```

<ScatterPlot
title="Petal vs Sepal Length"
data={petal_vs_sepal}
x=petal_length
y=sepal_length
/>

The longest petal in the dataset is {petal_vs_sepal[0].petal_length}.

Our design philosophy here is that the rendered documents should be beautiful by default, but highly configurable so you can get pixel perfect results.

We’re also aiming for first class output options for desktop, mobile, PDF and image export.

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 - 97 comments
Is it given that this attack was done from within Hetzner?

As I understand the techniques applied; this could have also been done at another place on the network route to the targeted server.

Ie. by the telecommunications company delivering traffic into Hetzner.
You don't seem to know anything about VPS administration.
Feel free to research this legal topic at all, if you are going to talk that much about it.

Including the definition of reasonable person, negligence, as well as the tests involved in a defamation suit.
My Mach-e has a switch to turn on engine noise through the B&O sound system relative to the pedal. I’m not polluting the local environment and people outside the car aren’t bothered by engine noise.
The thing with manufacturing, at-least in the US is that it is very capital intensive.

Doves of undergrads applying to YC get funded for SaaS apps, but only a few startups building hardware.

The money isn’t there from investment or returns.
The point is probably the heading of the final chapter "Could you prevent or monitor this kind of attack?" which enumerates the ways how you could detect this attack.
No-gil has this plus a bigger footgun.
Cloudflare exists out of necessity for the most part. The alternatives to shield from large scale DDoS are all US American too.
Never make the mistake of listening to Musk promising a timeline in any non-binding context.

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
But they will lose them anyways, once streamers are able to simulcast and viewers slowly shift. This is either an admission of defeat or supreme confidence that viewers would prefer Twitch over other platforms as long as streamer is available on Twitch.
I've been wondering if Dropbox is struggling financially. I stopped using Dropbox a couple of years ago because Google Drive is a better deal, and now some weeks ago they started emailing me. I think I've gotten like 3-5 emails touting how great Dropbox is and that I should really be using it again.
Thanks! I was. It’s Android 13 that made me unsure, as the device I was checking it with, it has Android 8.
> Maybe this is attributable to FTX having more sophisticated "investors" (?) than other crypto scams, but the 5k subscribers made it a clear outlier. Compare the Reddit activity (both volume and sentiment) around any remotely similar crypto crash and the difference is stark. Where are all the victims?

The creditors list provides a bit of a peek.

Of course it’s down for maintenance right now: https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DocketInfo

10m creditors, mostly redacted but top 50 were identified and owed $3b in total.

Can fill some more blanks on transfers of claims to hedge funds (since they can show more info) but that’s a lot of digging.
Here's the problem: anything which can lock someone else out can also lock me out.

The average person is WAY more in danger of getting locked out than needing to protect against a theft or attack.
Missing my favourite zero-word paper:

"Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?"
https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12599
The public version was renamed Bazel because of name conflicts.
My god is that thing genuinely cancerous, the autoruns software helped me get rid of it for good
Losing viewers is probably better than losing steamers, without steamers twitch is nothing.
C++ Attribute: Likely, Unlikely
Yes, but they lose competency points for sharing a HAR file with an active Okta session token.
It is telling that when the US has helped developing countries write their constitutions, they have not modeled them after their own.

The bulk of it was largely designed around the specific circumstances of them 13 colonies->states, many of whom kind of hated each other, and full of appeasements to their different concerns at that time. Everything else has been retrofitted into it since then.
native lunar?

I’m not familiar with that prefix in this context
Precision fermented dairy is ready to tackle our reliance on cows
How? Psychologically a company that size can't say that and then just maintain status quo: if it aims for that, it will instead rot and die.
Slightly unrelated question:

Why does Lucene and derivatives (ES,Solr,etc..) not have the concept of a join? Always found it to be a major downside of them.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/meta.12600
> Using precision fermentation, a process commonly used to produce insulin and vitamins, food technology startups are cultivating microbes to produce milk proteins such as casein and whey. Thriving on just water and carbohydrates, the genetically engineered yeast and fungi pump out the creamy base for dairy products to deliver the same taste, texture, and performance — froth, whip, melt, and all — as their bovine-sourced counterparts. It’s an innovation that could send dairy stampeding toward a more sustainable future. Already, the German startup Formo is looking to replace a tenth of Europe’s conventional supply by 2030.
Games are unlike films because in a game, players have agency that separates them from the characters they play. In a film, characters interact only with the in-universe architects and can only subvert the intentions of those architects, not those of the author. But in a game, the player is not the character. The player can make out-of-universe choices too, and can subvert the intentions of the architects (developers) of the game.
Hacker News on Win 95
Usually a statistical models job is to take pile of data and try and figure out the structure within it that makes it similar. It shouldn't come as a surprise when they do this.
Could it check against public key for the certificate?
nice. i like that neo store let's you bookmark things
SQL Server Management Studio, I believe. For the rest of us who avoid Microsoft's database, there's this:

https://explain.dalibo.com

https://explain.depesz.com
Supporting generics from the get go instead of using code generation pre-processors.
>the feature is that traditional banks are bad at evaluating new tech

Apples and oranges.

Traditional banks have a profit motivation. That's their only job.

Governments have a public health and well-being motivation. They try to achieve that at minimum cost.

It's wrongheaded to view government merely a "broken bank" in this scenario. It's actually that government is judged by totally different metrics, ones which they achieved very successfully.

>I don't know what "Clinton's try" is, or really what fuel efficiency has to do with any of this, to be honest!

Clinton's try for cleaner vehicles, of course. That was the previous attempt before Bush tried his ATVM loan program.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/09/30/clinton-announce...

It's relevant because it shows the typical-case cost for government achieving (or more accurately, not achieving) their public health goals in this sector. It shows how the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan program was actually a fantastically cheap and successful policy program when compared to its peers.
Alone in the Dark from Infogrames (?) in early 90s was the bomb!

Equal parts scary and fun. I still shudder when I remember the ballroom scene’s soundtrack and avoiding to disturb the guests otherwise the instakill skybeam would come for you no matter how fast you ran anywhere in the world, you had to load a previous save.

Good times!
Yes, but the plan is to remove the opt-in in time. That will put a lot of pressure on the eco system. I expect many libraries written in C or relying on C-based extensions to simply get dropped. Which will make that users will stay on the last GIL-supporting version. It's Python 2->3, but potentially worse.
"Mandatory reporting of usage statistics runs contrary to one of the freedoms inherent to FOSS, that the software is for the user's freedom."

Why? You don't need to do tracking, just have a counter on the server that increases every time someone downloads the repository. What does this have to do with FOSS?
The ending where you see everyone one more time is so sweet.
They ask you to read a piece of text, displayed on the screen for a few seconds, and then they compare that voice to the voice of the audio data that you uploaded.
Price is one thing, but the Talos 2 I'm typing this on is whisper-quiet. I only hear it when the fans spool up during a heavy compute job. Otherwise it's silent except for whatever case fans you choose to have.
>directed motion, often carried out in vacuum by parts highly constrained to follow rigid paths. Like a factory

That sounds exactly like biology to me. That is how any enzyme operate. Why do you think it isn't? How else do they literally pluck an electron from a molecule and move it to another molecule at precise atomic positions? How else does biology reliably produce polymers with polydispersity of 1 if it isn't controlled by highly directed parts?

Regarding the speed, I would like some clarification. In my field, when I mention an "operation", it means the machine has to work on a physical object, process it, and output a product different from the output. These are often molecules like drugs or some chemicals. So when you mentioned Ghz operation speed, are you talking about a current nanotech that can actually produce billions of products per second? Or did you mean it just vibrate or have some repeated motion? I am interested to know that.

Here is an enzyme with 2Mhz operation speed whose parts are just exactly one atom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalase

And for a more apple to apple comparison, the fastest moving nanomachine I know moves at around 100nm/minute

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/new-dna-origami-motor-br...

Compared to a kinesin, which isn't the fastest protein, it is over 800nm/*second*

http://book.bionumbers.org/how-fast-do-molecular-motors-move...
That is C++'s fame, and it is indeed quite complex.

However people that assert that, usually never went through PL/I, ALGOL 68, Ada, Common Lisp standards, nor have realized how JVM/Java, CLR/C#, Python/StdLib have changed during the circa 30 years of their existence.
Full-text PDF: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/meta.12599
The obvious dumb classical algorithm for simulating a quantum computer with n qubits runs in O(2^n) time and space. Since 2^log(n) = n is polynomial it follows that "log-space" quantum circuits, I.e. quantum circuits with a logarithmic number of qubits are efficiently classically simulable. These log-space circuits are an obvious "island" in the metaphor of the article and adding more qubits is the "quantum resource which let's you swim in the sea".

Another obvious example is what you get if there is no superpositions at any time. I.e. at every step in the computation the state is a computational basis state. Since we label computational basis states with binary strings, with a little checking you can see that circuits with no superpositions are exactly the same as reversible classical Boolean/logic circuits. These can obviously be efficiently classical simulated so they form another island. Here the relevant quantum resource that frees you from the island is what is called coherence.

There are probably a bunch more examples. I think you can invent one where all your quantum logic gates have to have at least a certain amount of noise in them, but I haven't checked the details on that.
In this case, it actually didn't bring this much speedup. The program would have been plenty fast even without.
> “From a visual perspective, there are many, many versions of Nigeria,” Atewologun said.

> But you wouldn’t know this from a simple search for “a Nigerian person” on Midjourney. Instead, all of the results are strikingly similar. While many images depict clothing that appears to indicate some form of traditional Nigerian attire, Atewologun said they lacked specificity. “It’s all some sort of generalized"

It's generalized because that's what you asked for. If it was the other way around and a prompt for "Nigerian person" would return an image of a person from one specific group then these people would complain that "not every Nigerian is Igbo. The other groups are being marginalized by AI."

At least they do explain why that is, and I found it interesting that the prompt for "American person" returned mainly women, so the article wasn't a complete waste of time.

I also raised an eyebrow at the fact that they refer to prompting as "searching" throughout the article.
I think it is less Stasi and more so 30 euro dedicated servers with unmetered gigabit lines are ripe for bad clients.

You've got the general issue of abuse and fraud that all providers face. But I think there are two issues that make it worse for companies like Hetzner, OVH, and other low-cost providers:

1. Chargebacks are a big deal, both in terms of being cut off from payment networks but also the fees imposed, which are especially harsh if your margins are likely razor thin sometimes; looking at the server auctions right now, it's kind of wild that Hetzner manages to give you a place in a datacenter, 3700X, 64GB RAM, 2x1TB enterprise SSDs, and unmetered gigabit on a decent network for 33 euros while still making a profit.

2. I would imagine that attempting the proper credit-card theft kind of fraud is also more of an issue for low-cost providers, not only because of #1, but because I think you'd manage to keep and abuse servers bought with stolen money for a lot longer; I think legitimate owners of said cards are less likely to notice 30 euro charges every month compared to being robbed blind by unexpected AWS fees.

I've had to deal with anti-fraud paranoia from OVH, BuyVM, Hetzner, and many others, likely all for the same reasons as Hetzner.

Both Hetzner and OVH refused to provide me service without photo ID or a passport. BuyVM refused one of my Jordanian friends entirely unless he paid in crypto. And while minor in comparison, I've had to change my PayPal email to match my account email on BuyVM despite it literally previously being paypal@myfirstandlastname.tld.

Not meant to be a dig at BuyVM, btw, even though the crypto bit may seem harsh. I really like them; freedom to host pretty much anything that isn't straight-up illegal, even Tor exit nodes, the support is good, they're often around and transparent in the community chat, and it's hard to beat free BGP announces, up to 10Gbps speeds, anycasted VMs across Europe and the US for <$10/month, and optional $3/month DDoS mitigation -- especially since it's the kind of small enough, tight-ship type of thing to where you can moan about poor routing or custom mitigation filters and potentially have someone actually try to take care of it (and it's also hard to beat for abusive or awful clients too, hence the trouble).

They provide great service, even if only to use as a DDoS-mitigated tunnel for more powerful servers elsewhere, or as a CDN, etc.
. . . but it still watches football.

http://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
The truth (plain English) hurts.
Obfuscation works.
God only knows on who, though. I just treat press-releases as puzzles, if only to work out the doublespeak.
Well, then probably these audios must’ve been generated before Elevenlabs introduced their verification safeguards.

Seems like a good strategy. Do something irresponsible. Wait for the backlash. Then introduce safeguards. It’s free publicity, and gives your company that aura having something “so powerful we were forced to add safeguards“.
How to Talk to Your Manager About Memory Safety
Ackshually, it's not censorship because tech giants are doing this for democracy and all that is good in this world.
Recycling reforms see separate food waste bins for England
To add on to the defense in another comment,

I don't think the point of the article is a rust-v-python comparison. Sure, unoptimized-python2rust2optimized rust was a part of the clickbait 180,000x title but...
- the author explicitly says the python2rust bit is only a factor of 8.
- the Python bit is just one section of a pretty long article
- the author says they typically start implementing something in Python so... why wouldn't they include their initial implementation?

I don't think this article should be dismissed just for including a simple python implementation- that isn't the point.
Another app to interact with HN is Materialistic.
It's old, but it does the trick.
The widget to show the top stories is its best feature.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
How about not using Python when you need performance? That 50% performance increase sounds nice, but it's still slow.