skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused where these users are. Even without brew it’s stupidly simple to install on a Mac: just download MacTeX (https://tug.org/mactex/). It’s a simple installer, and installs a few GUI tools too for those that want them.

I’m more curious how people are overcomplicating the install process so much that it makes it impossible to figure out how to install? I always though “open installer package” was a relatively low bar..
People commonly believe that pinball has a random element (which it de facto does), and I assumed TFA was going be a dive into the precise (and technically deterministic) Newtonian physics underlying things like bumpers. But this seems to be attacking a dubious-bordering-on-straw-man position claiming that it's purely random.

Even the people shown calling it random sound less like they're calling it inherently random, and more like when I talk about something that I'm sufficiently bad at that any success is more a matter of luck than skill.

(Of course, as hakfoo points out, early 'pinball' was basically roulette in cartesian coordinates with more complications, but I don't know of anyone who non-trick-questionishly means that rather than actual pinball when they say "pinball" without disambiguation, so that's if anything a even-more-straw-stuffed position to be trying to correct.)
AMD is hostile in a much more meaningful way - APIs are junk, drivers are buggy, hardware doesn't work. Useless for AI. You will get nothing done. Save your money. Better to get working hardware for more than non-working hardware for less. (Tokens/s)/dollar is 0 on AMD.

You will waste time.
The best value GPU right now for SoTA LLMs are probably the Nvidia RTX 6000. You can connect them together with NVLink, they have 48GB, and you can fit 4 of them in a PCI 4.0 high end consumer motherboard. Enough to fine tune even LLama-2, albeit with a batch size of 1 :)
Running Speeds
I don't think he's saying it requires elevated privileges. When binaries aren't signed Windows will throw up a warning that it isn't signed which makes users hesitant to install.
AArch32 mode has been optional in ARMv8-A the whole time too, I don't believe cores like Apple's M1 even support it at all.
Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. They were also systematically banning and suppressing people expressing opinions disfavored by the elite consensus.

Bots don't help of course, but the presence of bots doesn't preclude the tilted playing field.
How is 1 second measured in that definition? Is that not going to need a Swiss watch?
Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
I got curious about the book mentioned, and found an EPUB:

data:text/plain;base64,aHR0cHM6Ly92ay5jb20vd2FsbC00ODQxMzg3Ml82NjAyNg==
Totally, the trust was broken long ago and solidified when they removed "don't be evil". Same for most tech companies. Mozilla still has its soul, craigslist too, a few others...
It’s astonishing that a project as critical and widely used as ImageMagick can’t even scrape together $629 for something as essential as a software signature.

It’s a glaring example of how the tech industry fails to financially support the very open-source projects that it relies so heavily upon.

Despite offering incredible value, these projects often can’t capture enough of it to sustain themselves.

It’s a sobering reminder that something significant needs to change in how we approach and value open-source contributions.
I wish there was a free alternative to the German/Europe QES ("Qualified Signature"). The cheapest currently is about 20 EUR/ Month and allows you to make 3 Signatures. Others ask for 50 EUR for each QES. I hate to pay for my own Signature! We need something like Let's Encrypt for signatures.
As Israel and Hamas go to war, the Digital Services Act faces its first test
IIUC integrated laser + this [1] is almost a QC platform and accidentally a transmitter if nonunitary in an open system.

[1] "Photonic chip transforms lightbeam into multiple beams with different properties" "Universal visible emitters in nanoscale integrated photonics" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580151
Auto-Regressive LLMs are still dumb – Yann LeCun
Neurons of a neural network as planes in 2D and visualizing how they learn
Thank you for sharing.

I'll share a story to help destigmatize. A few months ago I was taken completely out of commission by GI symptoms, just hours and hours of pain and vomiting. It turned out I had an infection, but the infection caused there to be shapes on my intestine that apparently looked vaguely like Crohn's disease on the MRI (or something, I'm not a radiologist, my understanding is pretty vague. There were bubbles in my intestine from bacterial respiration).

So I got a colonoscopy. And it turns out I'm fine. Drinking the prep isn't my favorite thing, but it's a task that gets done.

If two gallons of salt water and a trip to the doctor is all that stands between you and seeing your daughter's wedding, make it happen and you have nothing to be embarrassed about. Everybody poops and everybody gets a colonoscopy.

I got hemorrhoids afterwards too. Cutting corn kernels (if you know, you know) out of my diet made them go away. Afterwards I could eat them again. Life is strange.
Yup! But I'm still exploring options. (any recommendations would be welcomed!) Here are some candidates I'm considering:

- https://github.com/mindee/doctr

- https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr

- https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR (honestly I don't know Mandarin so I'm a bit stuck)

- https://github.com/clovaai/donut -- While it's primarily an "OCR-free document understanding transformer," I think it's worth experimenting with. Think I can sort this out by letting the LLM reason through it multiple times (although this will impact performance)

- yesterday got a suggestion to consider https://github.com/kakaobrain/pororo -- don't think development is still active but the results are pretty great on Korean text
Which sounds to me like a good reason to publicly fund it in the first place
Britain would finally be useful in Europe again
The story is about how Tinder and Bumble are in decline. The superficial model isn’t working anymore.

I think the issues are much more fundamental than you suggest. They’re societal and they’re subcultural within the apps. For one, people are much pickier now than they’ve ever been. On the other hand, the dating apps have this filtration problem: those who successfully form a relationship quit the app, possibly for life.

Unfortunately, it’s not random when people form successful relationships. Some people are just much better at it than others. This is where the filtration problem arises: over time, the concentration of people who aren’t good at forming relationships increases, as these are the folks who stay in the apps the longest. This makes it harder and harder to find a relationship through the apps, and frustration ensues.
Unrecognized publisher warning in blue box (not UAC) comes up no matter what the software is when trying to install or run.
How could it not? It is adding software to the system software set, accessible by all users of the system.

And many programs require some kind of integration into the OS, such as file type associations or context menu entries, which even a single user shouldn't have access to do.
Yeah, cannot find many open source apps on the App Store in this area. There's Prudent.Me that's a desktop application but it's not available on the App Store. It can be downloaded here: https://prudent.me
> Thought experiment: write a dating profile for yourself in the 3rd person. Then have you 5 closest friends and family members each write one on your behalf.

This works for what you like as well, your close friends or family will likely write down a better list of what you like than you would do. We aren't honest about what we like since we want to say "I like to exercise" or "I like to cook" instead of less noble things that would describe you better. This makes it really hard to match people who would like each other since they aren't honest about what they would like in a partner.

Anyway, the main problem is that you have to sell yourself online. It isn't natural to sell ourselves, we learn who people are by seeing what they do not by listening to them talk about themselves.
I hadn’t thought of it. My mother used to drink a lot of herbal teas, I remember some smelling quite tempting. Thanks, I’ll look into it.
Is this different than the quartz long-term data storage developed by Hitachi?
I actually can't tell if you're being sarcastic. So far, the only innovation is to charge users a nominal annual amount as a mechanism to defeat bots. Other than that he's devastated the value of the asset by implementing ill-thought through measures (calling them "measures" is being generous as that implies a consideration over time) occasionally followed by reactive backflips.
> More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable.

The point isn't to raise revenue via tax, it's to incentivise creating a privatized national charging network and make EV ownership feasible. Making them affordable isn't sufficient. Offer the gas stations all the carrots: loans, easy regulations, profits from EV charging revenue. Offer the tax stick to the ones that won't modernize.
It’s also not clear why the IM project should be paying MS and not the other way round…
Unfortunately, you have to specify which generation of "RTX 6000" you mean, since nVidia likes to reuse product names for no good reason besides confusing customers. The one you're talking about is around 8 grand USD. The one that comes up first when you Google "RTX 6000" is $2400 and change, and not particularly useful.
What does this have to do with ImageMagick? They don't control the versions packaged by Canonical [0]. The bug you referenced is fixed in upstream, which you can access for free on GitHub.

Ubuntu users on 22.04 LTS or later are also unaffected, because the release came with a version that was already patched [1]. If you upgrade to a newer Ubuntu release, there is no need to pay for ESM.

Your comment makes it sound like the ImageMagick developers want money specifically from Ubuntu users to reveive security patches, which is not true.

[0] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/6805#...

[1] https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-48541

Edited to add some links.
Companies will train LLMs with 100X more compute within 18 months – Hinton
This is correct and it usually takes some combination of right clicking the installer or holding shortcuts to bypass. It's not obvious how to do so without Googling around.
you see it as a failure of the tech industry to finance open source.

I see it as a failure to provide security systems like this without the need for financial gatekeeping.

$629.00 isn't a trivial amount of money.
All PKI schemes have multiple singular points of failure: the user and system trust stores, the root CAs, the end-entity certificate, the security of all hosts, &c. Singular points of failure aren’t inherently an issue; the bigger concern is how strong each point is.
Ha. My response to this was a very visceral "eww".. but I also realise I'm not normal. Not super keen on small talk with humans either tho tbh.

I somehow fell off the tech nerd train and wandered onto a Luddite bus. I find myself supremely uninterested in the current AI hype, especially given I realised early on that the math was beyond me, so I felt I couldn't get a proper grasp "under the hood"

But it's also very clearly possible my first conversational interactions with these systems might happen without my even realising that I'm not dealing with a human. Might have already happened.
Wi-Fi™ was never intended to describe anything. It is a commercial trademark brand, chosen to sound good and be easy to recognise. There's a Wi-Fi™ logo too.

In a similar way, ThunderBolt™ links don't use thunder, or bolts.
What is this? The ability for chatGPT to parse text in PDFs? Couldn’t it already do OCR on text in images?
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That's a bit reductive. However, you're in good company: Wittgenstein himself disagreed with much of his Tractatus later in life.
The surprising part for me is that there does not seem anyway to know ahead of time how someone is going to go. Something that I've wondered about but have no way to pursue is whether or not military training for combat can train the correct response for existential stress. My thinking is that if it can be trained then one could possibly be trained to deal with those sorts of situations effectively. It definitely is NOT something that they train in business school or MBA programs though.
In Europe, this exists at scale and is called the CAP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
Besides Celsius not being the SI unit.

I'd be shocked if weather forecasting is ever precise to less than 1-2 °C
Glitching almost always requires removing capacitors. Good enough for dumping things out of a device once or twice. But GPUs that consume hundreds of watts will not be stable without those bypass capacitors.

So, sure, you can skip the verification checks, but your GPU won’t be stable enough to be useful for anything
I think I understand where the author is coming from. I have not done a lot of rewrites but the largest one I did was an application for maintaining and generating our product catalog. The original design had split North America and international catalogs into different files that were 95% the same and these had to stay in sync. Other oddities of the old system had page numbers manually adjusted when new pages were inserted and a hand maintained table of contents. All together there were 12 different catalogs generated and each one had a manual process of importing new pricing before being generated.

What kicked off the project was a desire to correct the amount of manual labor required for generating new books but as soon as the project was proposed we had a VP that wanted to justify the project by doing something more. Now more was a little hand wavy but the concrete things were color pictures and automatically generating and laying out the entire catalog automatically. The problem was there was no data for either of these task; we had no color pictures and there was no repository of product attributes to automatically lay out the catalog.

The break in the project that made it become possible for success was that the VP with hand wavy dreams left the company and I was able to start work on a rewrite that solved the important pain points without adding the overhead of multiple departments coordinating taking new pictures and and building a PIM with the required attributes.

It has been been five years since we went live with the new catalog and the color pictures are around 50% of the book now, and the PIM has is getting rolled into and entirely different project. If we had waited then we would still be waiting on the benefits that kicked off the project in the first place.
Arguably you can't use pi-hole and wg-easy together (as the Composite Software License and EUPL are not compatible).
SBF claimed multiple times that filing for bankruptcy was the worse decision of his life, so it was presumably a deliberate decision at the time. Not sure how long he could have avoided it though.
Indeed! Remember to hover over the XKCD image to see the punchline.
Nawh, it's just a Scheme.
> None of the dating apps ive seen have really keyed into the "monkey brain" side of love.

Back in the day, okcupid did this for me. I'm quirky, and expect the same in dates. It wasn't just a biography, you could see their answers to all sorts of random crap. This gave a fuller picture of a person. Of course, I had already learned that falling in love online was a bright red flag, so my expectation was somewhat less than finding that monkey brain chemistry: I was looking for people who I could tolerate (and vice verse!) long enough to figure that part out.

After my first marriage ended, apps had all turned into tindr, and it seems that quirky folks end up in the generic loser pile, while the top 1-10% are doing bloodsport. Fortunate for me, I'm on the empathetic side of quirky and connecting with people in person is easy enough if I put myself out there. But there's the rub: solo tindr binges make me feel miserable, going out and living makes me feel alive -- and that's what people are attracted to.
I wish more people complained about loud / bad system sounds.
> I never thought I would see an American Exceptionalist comment about a system of measurements.

You haven't been on the internet long, have you?

Welcome, and I'm sorry
One of the reasons I never switch from dnsmasq is the integrated dhcp/dns service.

Unbound did not have this (nor any service I know) and you need extra care to handle your local devices registration

The fact that dnsmasq is the only service I know that manages dhcp records on dns makes me wonder if I am not doing something wrong.
Indeed, but the DOJ might have never found out.
> I would love to see a LetsEncrypt style service for OSS but I assume it's against the core interests of Microsoft / Apple to allow something like this as it would start to drive people away from the walled gardens of the app stores.

People have been asking Let's Encrypt itself for this on the Let's Encrypt forum since the project was founded.

The usual answer is that code signing certificates are (supposedly) trying to attest to a legal identity in the hope of being able to punish people offline if they publish malware, or allow people or organizations to have a policy about only installing software known to be from a certain list of publishers. DV certificates for HTTPS are trying to attest to control of a name in the DNS, which is verifiable by automated technical means, and which is not necessarily related to offline identity. (ICANN says it should be ... in an indirect way ... which isn't always complied with, and which, following increased pressure from European privacy law, is often not visible to the public.)

A Let's Encrypt certificate would confirm that a certain key is apparently controlled by someone who apparently also controls a certain DNS name. But a code signing certificate would supposedly go further and confirm that it's apparently controlled by someone acting on behalf of a certain named legal person existing in a certain jurisdiction. This is much more expensive to verify usefully, although maybe some governments will eventually have a way to automate it.

This isn't to say that either kind of certificate is necessarily ideal for all of the different uses to which relying parties end up putting it nowadays, but just that what they're attesting to, and how you would verify it, is pretty different.

Edit: There seems to be a longer discussion about related points in this thread already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38056024
Disappearing Polymorphs
I think the reason is more prosaic: The Dead Sea Effect.

People do meet partners on dating apps https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/17fr0hy/anyone_who...

The majority of well-matched people rapidly exit. The population begins to trend to weaker participants. And the longer the duration the more unhappy and therefore weaker the participants become.

New dating apps capture representative populations and rapidly all the good participants exit.

Ultimately some of us suck at dating apps. The apps would be legitimately better without serial failures on them. I would have been better off in the real world, where I met my wife at work.
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Reducing SI adoption to “gunpoint” is just silly.

It was objectively better system and that’s why it ultimately prevailed.
There is no institution like the CA/B Forum. Everyone uses their certs.
Also the recent TED talk:

How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/10/how-to-think-com...
I had an abdominal MRI done a few years ago to look for intestinal issues, and was surprised at the resolution. Ever since I've wondered why we don't just do that regularly to see if there's anything that looks worrisome, before going through such an invasive process as a colonoscopy.

Actually, I just looked it up. Apparently it's a thing and called "virtual colonoscopy" [1]. Seems like the future to me.

1. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/virtual-colonosc...
Most software installers on Windows offer the user a "Install for this user"/"Install for all users" option, or will just install to the current user's appdata, which doesn't require admin rights.
Not routing every request through a single third party service?
A three way handshake would be simpler and wouldn't waste cpu and energy.
Considering the scale of ImageMagick- $629 is a very, very small amount of money considering the value that IM has generated.
"Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2015) https://hal.science/hal-01248015/

TLDR; In SQS (Superfluid Quantum Space), Quantum gravity has fluid vortices with Gross-Pitaevskii, Bernoulli's, and IIUC so also Navier-Stokes; so Quantum CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics).
> It is strange that we can't say "I have yes apples" otherwise.

You do see ungrammatical "yes" applied sometimes when people are stumped as to how to indicate the opposite of a negative sentence.

It is not strange in general that certain things are, for no apparent reason, impossible to say. That occurs in every language. English modal auxiliaries, for example, do not have non-finite forms, so in many sentences it is mandatory to replace modal can with lexical to be able [to...]
Show HN: Lightweight log collector with no lock-in
Hi,

I’ve been working on a lightweight log collector which will run on any vps, is extremely easy to set up, and works with your current libraries.

Most log platforms either

- are expensive (datadog, newrelic)
- require you to use opentelemetry, which is difficult to set up and not well documented
- require you to host a clickhouse instance

For someone who has projects with less than 5,000 users, I failed to find a simple log platform which worked with the log libraries I already used.

Erlog is a simple python script which accepts logs from an HTTP endpoint, and optionally watches log files and inserts JSON formatted logs into a local duckdb database. You can then query logs using natural syntax.

There is also support for `parent_id` fields in logs, so you can track execution across many different services (see github).

This is MIT licensed. I’d be interested in any feedback you have, and any ways I can improve erlog. I’m thinking of adding support for metrics in the future.

The GitHub link is: https://github.com/Nevin1901/erlog
> .local is a standard. Its a part of mDNS (multicast DNS). Dont use it for your own DNS records.

Hell to the no. They should have camped on less valuable real estate if they wanted it exclusively. I use .local for every host on my local network and I will never stop.

In debian 12 I just change this:

hosts: files resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns

to this:

hosts: files dns resolve [!UNAVAIL=return]

in /etc/nsswitch.conf, and everything acts just fine.

> ideally using an actual registered TLD

wat
My hetero friends tell me a lot of people they meet on apps are more interested in gaining OnlyFans subscribers than meeting people.

I don't know how prevalent this phenomenon is, but that's at least 0.9 on the Mad Max scale.

(As a demi/gay man, online dating is incredibly alien to me.)