skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed my point about lego. My kid builds the whatever-theme set, gets some satisfaction for completing the task, and then within a few days has used the pieces to make something of entirely new. He "consumes" the brand-culture product a few times a year when he gets kits as gifts or saves up to buy them, and for the rest of the year, uses the pieces to color outside of the lines. This flexibility is pretty much unique to lego.

I've been curious watching the market after the lego patent expired. That market is dominated by rather intricate models [e.g., 1]. They aren't attached to big brands, because of the "nobody got fired for partnering with lego" effect, but the quality producers aren't doing buckets of bricks either. (On the other hand; as I write this, that Taj Mahal set is over 3k pieces for $76. The color is boring but holy heck that's a lot of (itty-bitty) parts!)

[1] https://zhegaoblock.com/shop/zhegao-ql00858-the-taj-mahal-mo...
Anyplace that doesnt bow to our American overlords ig.
We developed and used that technique in production in the 00s, it's surprisingly easy with HLS, and doesn't cost more. On the contrary, being able to segment that way costs less as you only need to cache hot segments on the CDN and sequence/assemble on the fly based on server side ad inserts and client side player controls.

We didn't try it with VP8/VP9 (previously On2 / Duck TrueMotion) or whatever Google seems to prefer to push instead of the emerging "standard" challenging Flash back then, so I can't comment on that particular flavor.

Much more difficult if you're trying to support multiple types of streaming to multiple eras of clients (e.g. legacy TVs and handsets with earlier YouTube clients), as they surely still have to.
Like my kitchen drawer full of old iPhones that won't take the latest bloated OS?

Or my perfectly good MacBook Pro that's three years out of a supported Apple OS but can still run up to date Windows or Linux?

All because Apple was too lazy to maintain a few hardware drivers.
There are many cases where you can replace a call to `.iter()` in your Rust code to a call to `.par_iter()` from `rayon`. Those cases are trivial, and it's great.
Dark age of tech
One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%
Doesn’t ChatGPT’s Browse with Bing option do that? It’s definitely provided me with inline links to its browsed sources.
Yeah, I like Amazon Linux for servers too but not Fedora but you can only use that on AWS
Perhaps with desktop apps or low level systems it can get confusing but for traditional web the definition is usually:

If it runs in the browser, it's frontend. Server? Backend.

There's SSR but the name itself clarifies: Server Side Rendering.
Is this news specific to Samsung? Doesn't iPhone have same feature? I mean why would we assume all these devices stolen from California Apple stores should keep working like nothing happen??
That's just abusing the term. If it's built-in, and written by the same team, in what way is it "extension"?
Loved this game as a teenager, one of those influences on my future life choices. Darwinia was also a really fun concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia_(video_game)
Assyrian Women of Letters
What’s worse is people defending said giants as if they were part of a cult. See apple, microsoft and google defenders. Crazy how people lacking a sense of belonging take refuge in defending corporations.
> you will be exploited for amplification attacks!

Is that the gripe? Am I missing something?

Your bellybutton is not subject to these amplification attacks, it is strangers on the internet and this is an altruistic appeal: you will be exploited for amplification attacks directed at others.

What is the root cause of this vulnerability? The root cause is that anonymous[0] packets on the internet contain a destination address the packet is to be delivered to, and a source address to which responses should be directed. That might be a different construction than the average programmer internalizes. In the absence of countermeasures either address can be rewritten and this is commonly done in firewalls with e.g. NAT.

The attack is to specify a source address "on behalf of" some other party, causing replies to be delivered there. Are there other ways to validate or render packets as not anonymous? Yes, to varying degrees. One is to establish a dialogue with the source address before sending payloads; in fact that's pretty much the good which abnegates perfection.

There has been a BCP for many years that ASNs should validate that source addresses are valid.[1] Amplification is possible both in velocity and volume. Volume is when a reply packet is larger than the source packet. Velocity occurs when mulitple replies are sent. Even when no amplification occurs, attacks are mounted with e.g. ICMP. UDP amplification typically occurs when the reply packet is larger than the initiating packet. TCP amplification occurs when a SYN can elicit multiple SYN/ACKS.[3] (Both TCP and UDP are capable of eliciting ICMP backscatter.)

The simple way to avoid amplification with UDP is not to send a reply. This is done a lot. For instance streaming data over UDP with a TCP pipe for control information. A bonus for this approach is that UDP is conducive to multicast[4], for which specific address ranges are reserved.

Changing tuning parameters is an effective way to mitigate the TCP SYN/ACK problem, barring the appearance of flying monkeys.[5]

DNS may be illustrative in a number of ways. First off clients aggressively retry queries due to "happy eyeballs", so the servers constantly face an identify friend or foe operating environment. DNS only ever sends one response to a particular query. A common server (if not protocol) extension is the implementation of response rate limiting, which drops a certain portion of UDP replies and returns the rest with TC=1.[6]

Congratulations on reading this far. Now go get yourself a job as a cybersecurity analyst.[7]

[0] If you trust the source in some other fashion and mark or validate packets in some way based on that, they're not anonymous.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp38.txt I've worked with Ferg[2]

[2] and Merike.

[3] Which is pretty much all the time, because the default tuning everywhere is to send multiple SYN/ACKs.

[4] Sending the same packet for delivery to multiple recipients.

[5] /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_synack_retries

[6] Next time we'll talk about the fractured history of frags and the DNS.

[7] Feel free to hire me!
Okay, so I found the receipt and it’s 2018.

I still feel somewhat indignant since my 2012 MacBook lasted until 2022 and my Chromebook goes 8 years
Microsoft also owns a large percentage of it and would almost certainly prevent any sale
When I think about the other countrys in Europe or north america, I think Switzerland is still pretty safe. But yes, also in Switzerland the sling is getting smaller around personal freedom.
Since I'm just reading this there's an analysis of where Israel has bombed in this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/world/israeli-ground-forces-i...

Which clearly demonstrates that the focus is on the northern parts of Gaza.
This entire piece rests on the assumption that news outlets would disclose their sources even in normal circumstances, let alone under circumstances where those outlets were made fools of. I think the author here is drawing too many conclusions from having his cold emails ignored or blown off when that’s probably just the usual fate of cold emails.

It’s possible they were cribbing from Al-Jazeera, and we’ll circle back to that later, but it’s also possible that they have contacts inside of Hamas. News outlets are often willing to skirt ethical lines they aren’t for access. For instance, the Associated Press’s bureau office in Gaza shared an office building with Hamas and the journalists in that office observed Hamas firing rockets just outside the building and had armed Hamas men barge into their office multiple times, and reported none of this. The truth only came out after Israel bombed the building, AP publicly complained about it, and a former AP reporter blew the whistle. (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/ho...). Stories like this aren’t uncommon, and a ton has been written about how bad actors can inflict biases on the news media simply by controlling access.

As for Al-Jazeera, they are Qatari state media. Qatar is cozy with Hamas and Iran, and shelters the senior leaders of Hamas in posh Qatari hotels rather than letting them suffer the indignity of living alongside their people. This makes their reporting heavily partial, but it also means that they are probably aligned with whatever message Hamas wants to send. Even if there was a translation issue between the claim of 500 casualties and 500 deaths, it serves their purposes to go with the bigger lie anyway.
Drivers backing from driveways without looking for pedestrians.

Drivers making right turns on red only looking left for oncoming traffic without also looking right for pedestrians.

Drivers speeding at crossings that have poor visibility due to hedges.

In winter, cars driving too fast relative to the amount of traction they actually have on icy streets.

While cycling, by far the most common problem I have is drivers passing me far too close. It only takes a very small percentage of drivers to drive carelessly to put people at serious risk of injury.
Perhaps because South Korea started marketing their food and culture?

https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/the-40m-bet-that-made-so...
Headline is perfectly fine. The average person is not installing Linux. The average person is not installing LTSC. The average person will, however, continue using 10 beyond its EOL and join a merry band of botnets.
> I'm suddenly getting visions of the Super Mario Bros Movie.

My work here is done.

> Personally I think we need to start transitioning away from cars altogether. Trains and trams all the way baby!

Without the giant battery a car is almost an empty shell, like a people shipping container with windows. Perhaps we ca fit them on rails and link them together like a human centipede.
I'm not saying that innocent people dying is okay (it's obviously not) but the article isn't about that. It's about the apparent callousness of media companies in a topic that is already politically fraught/sensitive. Such topics require higher levels of correctness/ethical reporting, which is highlighted by the posted article.
I am talking about the actual milling of the olivine. Chemistry has nothing to do with it.

There will be specific curves for the ore they are grinding. They will look something like this. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43497937_Milling_cu...

Obviously this is not related to olivine, so we would need to call around to get the appropriate ones. This isn't like computer work where you can just google it.
I wonder how close this gets to Parsec performance.
I use his other software magicaCSG, I'm a 3d artist and it's probably the simplest 3D program I've ever used but it's super fun to play around in.

So fun in fact that I joined his patreon to get access to earlier releases!
It's possible that the end goal for him is to have a political influence and not some kind of direct profit from X(Twitter) as a compan. Then the revenue is not a problem, but the plummeting number of users is.
Unlike iPhones, PCs can still run Linux with ease.
Google isn't a focused company, they typically run many parallel bets that often competes with each other. See all their chat apps etc. Betting both on an inhouse and an external solution is normal for them.
agree, for non-business(who also are in fact migrating to office365 online than locally installed office suite) and gamers, windows makes sense, for the rest 90%(?) user base it seems to me all OSes will do just fine.
That is why everybody attempts to push their modules into the kernel source.

Those who cannot do that because their modules are not open source, like NVIDIA, have a lot of work to do for module maintenance.

Nevertheless, there are also open-source modules that cannot be pushed into the kernel because they are for uncommon hardware with few users, and those also require a lot of work for maintenance, so they are frequently abandoned and no longer brought up-to-date, to be compatible with the latest kernels.
> Navigate to http://{YOUR_SERVER_IP}:51821.
Log in using the admin password

Over http? Pretty YOLO...
Interesting. Functional programming is the only strategy I've seen be successful at building business software. (Hint: you can do FP in Java and it's not even awkward, and SQL is inherently functional).
This is personal for me, as I have a large dataset (near books3 sized) in my specialized domain that I tried to publish an NLP paper for. Excellent scores but I was too honest about the fact that some stuff in my evidence was gathered from paywalled sources. Despite excellent conference scores, the senior area chair intervened and they rejected the paper.

Seems that the current copyright fights are having a chilling effect in the context of research on language resources and datasets. This is extremely sad. I expected the academic AI world to have a bit more institutional compassion for copyright abolitionism…
ML text rephrasing harbingers our AI-adjusted VR future
Do Pulsars surf on waves of dark matter?
"Calculating Pi with Darts by Physics Girl [and Veritasium Derek] (PBS LearningMedia)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M34TO71SKGk

Monte Carlo method:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

"Inferred value of Pi is never 3.1415" (with pymc)
https://discourse.pymc.io/t/inferred-value-of-pi-is-never-3-... https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc
Maybe but when you are buying hardware from the software manufacturer, it would stand to reason to have a reasonable lifespan.
I’m really interested in content explaining how to navigate graphs of embedded items for Q/A. Any resources on how to do this or arguments for why it’s a bad approach?

For example, if my top K docs aren’t answering the question but each are linked to neighbors, I’d want to know some folk wisdom or tricks for structuring the neighbor graph to cheaply expand the set of useful results.
Why is 80% of your net worth in FTX
The power of education has nothing to do with the teachers. It has to do with hiring for professional employment with degree requirements (e.g. management, government, lab techs, etc). There are tons of people who can do various jobs but do not have the required (often extraneous) certification. Parents are not chasing learning, they are chasing certification. Those two things correlate, but not enough to satisfy parents.

A good example of this is journalism, which used to require little to no certification, but which today can require masters degrees for some positions.

In the end, the people that know and learn will have longer more productive careers, but there are enough sinecures in Korean (and US) society that the value of certification is overweighted.
>How the courts of a liberal democracy allow that?

The conclusion is that the United Kingdom is not a liberal democracy.

The term I see thrown around is “electoral authoritarianism,” where elections may be free and fair but institutions don’t reflect liberal values.

Maybe we’re discovering that democracy and liberal values don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand.
I remember watching Hellbound and the most incredible thing to me was watching the scene where a a gang of 'minors' storm a police station because apparently nobody could stop them that they felt confident in attacking a police station full with armed police.

The series itself is pretty good but I just found it funny that this particular scene broke my immersion in a sceries with interdimensional deamons that come to take souls to hell.
A human has usually way more degrees of freedom and movement.
GrapheneOS on a Pixel is really the only phone setup I'm vaguely comfortable running these days. If this project ends, I'm a bit screwed.
Practical LLM: use cases, techniques, and costs
How do you bypass when upgrading? I don’t want to buy another W11 license nor pirate.

I’ll end up on Linux, but my wife will never touch it again.
In fairness, they do live in that trailer. Unlike houses, roads are free.
One serious downside (for end users) of having a stable driver ABI would be that manufacturers would release a binary blob driver for their hardware which just about works, but no bug could ever be fixed. Manufacturers wouldn't have any incentive to fix bugs and kernel developers couldn't do it either.

The situation of GPL'd drivers in a kernel with an unstable ABI wasn't really planned, but for users it's probably the best outcome.
Yep: https://netflixtechblog.com/consistent-caching-mechanism-in-...
You forgot the other reason. I don't want an IPhone because I prefer to actually own my device (and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this).
Hey, we're only supposed to be hating on Microsoft here. Beloved Apple is not to be touched.
Even if this number is incorrect, it's not even a scratch on the surface of unethical reporting around this conflict and Israel in general. The MSM in the west is a propaganda outlet for the US/Israel.
This is accurate. I just recently added the GUI from wg-easy as a revival of the project. If you want to fully open source version you can go back a couple commits before I added the GUI.
Well enforcement is down through the floor. You can measure that [1].

Cops claim it’s because of too much regulation (regulations put in place because of bad cops). It doesn’t really matter if they’re lying or not, there’s now no enforcement.

And all the political capital spent putting regulations in place now means there is none left to solve the underlying root causes of crime.

This is the dynamic playing out in most cities, esp in cities with strong police unions.

[1]: https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/01/ask-the-standard-san-franc...
'We're in a housing desert': a month in, is New York's Airbnb crackdown working?
In my experience Claude 2 is better than GPT 4 in many non programming tasks.
In case anybody else is interested, what you need is 150 minutes per week, not 22 minutes per day.
I don't like walking, but I'm ok doing 30 minutes of HIIT every other day (3/week),that's 90 minutes of vigorous activity. Add 3 days/1 hour strength training and that should be ok from one perspective.

There still need to be flex and balance training introduced. So much workout...
To this day there are more Windows XP users than Vista, and more Windows 7 users than 8/8.1.
I suppose the “why” is that the Korean media industry has gone to great lengths to market Korean culture abroad.
How do you get a license, then?
Definitely agree. Ideally you’d be able to extend the search engine list in Safari’s settings but alas.
I refuse to travel to the UK anymore because of their draconian laws. It’s never been a problem for me, but I don’t want to roll the dice.

Luckily there’s not much worth seeing there anyways.
We would check this soon. Thank you for your feedback.
The whole fake TPM requirement seems very un-Microsoft to me, to the point that I question if they were paid off by hardware manufacturers to sell new machines.

Prior to Windows 11, they would at least try to run Windows on basically any device that wanted to. I have been using Windows since 3.1 and the only thing that ever held a computer back was the architecture move from 16 bit to 32 bit. My 286 couldn’t run Windows 95, but it was already painfully underpowered at the time.

In contrast, I have a pretty powerful 8-core Ryzen desktop with 64gb of RAM, well beyond the capabilities of any cheap Windows 11 computer from a big box, and yet Windows 11 just blanket tells me it’s not supported… for reasons. Could I hack it to get it to run? Yes. There’s no legitimate reason I should have to though.

I don’t know why they would do this other than being bribed.
Claude is available without API on Poe and with API on Amazon Bedrock.
Coccinelle semantic patching is pretty cool for making systematic changes across the kernel (eg. adding a parameter to the same function everywhere).

https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/
It’s not just about ‘can you run Win11’, it’s whether it’s actually a decent replacement for 10.

Is the Win11 user experience any better yet? Can I clear all junk from the taskbar and start menu without Explorer patching tools?

I skipped Win8 entirely, going from 7 to 10, and was hoping 11 would be another ‘skippable bad release’ followed by a more appealing Win12
I have a bunch of Windows desktops at home that share files using my Windows Onedrive (or LiveDrive or SkyDrive or whatever Microsoft calls it these days - each machine seems to have a different opinion).

What's a good easy-to-use alternative for that in the Linux world?

Ideally it would also allow me to share between my Windows and Linux machines to make transitioning easier.
"I believe ZTE was banned by the US government, along with Huawei for doing shady things."

The shady things are beeing chinese owned and there is a trade war? Otherwise I heard lots of accusations, but saw no proof of anything.
Of people taking the GRE, teachers have the lowest scores.
Alright, how about expecting devs to repackage their entire until-that-point-SaaS stack into an "appliance" (Kubernetes Helm chart), containing SWE-written resource manifests that define the application's scaling characteristics across arbitrarily-shaped k8s clusters they won't get to see in advance, using only node taints; memory limits for layers of their stack they've never even seen run full-bore before; health checks that multiplex back up to a central monitoring platform; safely-revertible multiphase upgrade rollout behavior that never decreases availability; and so forth;

...and then those same devs being expected to directly debug the behavior of this "appliance" in a client environment (think: someone consuming the "appliance" through the Amazon Marketplace, where this launches the workload into an EKS cluster in the customer's own VPC, with the customer in control of defining that cluster's node pools);

...where this can involve, for example, figuring out that a seemingly-innocent bounded-size Redis cache deployment, needs 10x its steady-state memory, when booting from a persisted AOF file... for some godforsaken reason.
The places in which a vision model is deployed are different than that of a language model.

A vision model may be deployed on cameras without an internet connection, with data retrieved later; a vision model may be used on camera streams in a factory; sports broadcasts on which you need low latency. In many cases, real-time -- or close to real-time -- performance is needed.

Fine-tuned models can deliver the requisite performance for vision tasks with relatively low computational power compared to the LLM equivalent. Vision weights are small relative to LLM weights.

LLMs are often deployed via API. This is practical for some vision applications (i.e. bulk processing), but for many use cases not being able to run on the edge is a dealbreaker.

Foundation models certainly have a place.

CLIP, for example, works fast, and may be used for a task like classification on videos. Where I see opportunity right now is in using foundation models to train fine-tuned models. The foundation model acts as an automatic labeling tool, then you can use that model to get your dataset. (Disclosure: I co-maintain a Python package that lets you do this, Autodistill -- https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill).

SAM (segmentation), CLIP (embeddings, classification), Grounding DINO (zero-shot object detection) in particular have a myriad of use cases, one of which is automated labeling.

I'm looking forward to seeing foundation models improve for all the opportunities that will bring!
Boy topology is useful in AI/ML. Just look at T-SNE or UMAP