skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the most important line of the paper comes toward the end, in 4.2: "Another uncertainty is the impact of crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic ... LtG as a model is not able to reproduce these short-term events. Rather, it serves to reveal broad trends and dynamics."

There's an important connection here I don't think the paper draws so explicitly. What will matter most to any of us, in terms of planning and preparation, is what masses of other people will do in response to these crises, and our models for that are still much less precise than our models for climate, resource depletion, etc. Hopefully we get closer to Foundation territory sooner rather than later, for the sake of better long-term projections, though as we've seen through relatively benign algorithms for engagement on social media, that too will probably lead to some uncomfortable places.

So in terms of personal preparation, until Hari Seldon shows up, our own human intuition (i.e. rolling the dice) will reign supreme. Unfortunately. Does it seem like your fellow humans will innovate sufficiently if every major port city goes underwater? Or does your gut tell you we'll panic, fight a global war, and send ourselves back to something that more closely resembles the 19th century? Feel it out and plan accordingly.
Wholeheartedly agree.

Going from SVN to Mercurial was a night and day experience. Going from Mercurial to Git was a marginal improvement initially but a lasting change long-term.

Then there are the "visual" VCSes like Rational and TFS that are designed to _only_ work within an IDE and grokking them involves wading through hundreds of pages of corporate tech docs.

VCSes (or at least the ones I used) were generally awful before Git.
No reason not to try though.

It’s very beneficial to the status quo if everyone gives up hope.
This is from September.
Suggesting a look at this hack of mine, which I was working on over the weekend https://github.com/livetheoogway/python-uime
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
> We’re all on this planet together

Too optimistic. The borders will become the lines in people's heads where people say "This is our territory, we own the food and water here, we don't have enough, so you stay out and here are the bullets to help us keep you out.".

And the other side will say "We're dying of hunger and thirst, we will ignore the lines, and here are the bullets to help us.".
Many DRM systems do not work offline or at least require a login/reconnect every few days and even if it would work offline the kind of users that would buy a movie on a playstation are also the kind of users that would connect it to the internet.
> Houston is way better designed to be a tech hub for several reasons:

> Houston beats Austin hands down every day of the week for me.

Never hear much about the Houston startup scene - is this real or imagined ?
As I wrote in another comment:

> Maybe the "this will be easy" part was that without AV software, there was a greater chance that they could just spin up Metasploit, and wouldn't even have to use one their stockpiled zero-days?
Why the AI Investment Opportunity Is Different
That's my point. They are discredited. They don't have to stop having opinions but they do need to spend some time on why they were so spectacularly and obviously wrong on that specific one. Not merely incorrect, but so convinced that the only way to hold their opinion was to believe in an epic, comic-book-villain conspiracy against them.
I am looking forward to PyPI's "answer" to this class of malicious packages with automated third-party reporting (and hopefully long-term, quarantining or even deletion). Hopefully this project will swing the narrative closer to the /actual/ security threat that these packages represent to their respective package ecosystems. The PyPI Safety and Security Engineer Mike Fiedler is working on this project :)
That is really cool. Apple should add support to their ssh implementation to do something similar.
I have versioned backups for a few months. Most people don't and can't (it requires a lot of storage)

Even if they have them, the diffing needs to be done.

Given the past problems with ZFS, I think I'll write a summarizer, that creates a database of metadata for each backup: it will be small to keep around, and may be use more easily to determine which backup contains the uncorrupted file.
> Nobody expects commercial aircraft to fly on autopilot without a pilot's supervision

Nobody here on HN, because we're really into tech. Outside the tech world, I would guess that 50% of the population thinks that "autopilot" (on any device) means that no human is needed.
PriusChat.com
Yeah they shouldn't worry, they'll get a big French government deal at worst
They have no idea, which is why the predicted dynamics are nonsense. They actually have dates on their x axes, you can't do that and then claim it's all just qualitative arguments.

World oil consumption is not growing exponentially and in many advanced economies is decreasing.
Yes. But he also spends plenty of time on the idea that behind the scenes there are always trade-offs, compromises, etc. That is, organization and personel impact design, often in ways that aren't obvious from the outside.
1000% Shadertoy.com

The book of shaders or youtube tutorials about shadertoy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594008
The problem is that CPI does not accurately reflect true inflation. If you chart wage growth to M2, you see it hasn't' kept up, and you also can see that assets have outpaced inflation quite a bit.
Perec's The art of asking your boss for a raise
History is not linear growth, but it is just growth. In fact, historical growth trends are pretty much superlinear.

When a civilization/empire dies, people should think of it more like the failure of a company than a zombie apocalypse. People largely continue their day-to-day lives, just with a new person in charge.

As a prime example of this, people think of the end of the Roman empire as starting some sort of "dark age" where humans made no progress for 500-1000 years, but it really was the end of one government structure with one power center and the beginning of another. Technology and society continued to develop.
Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control
Seems that we are assuming that net number of refugees is greater because of US action. I have no idea how this calculus is done though.
I'm not disagreeing with you that St. Louis is good, but sea level rises in our lifetime will be a drop in the ocean compared to climate changes (severe flooding due to excess rain, heat waves, etc.).

No one cares about 4 inches higher water (Except maybe a few Florida boat owners whose boats can no longer fit under bridges).
For context, the current pilgrimage to Mecca told participants to do it during off hours such as midnight-4am....let that sink in for a moment...
Hah, while I had a 386, it was an SX, as in without a math co-processor. I managed to find a TSR program on a local BBS that would emulate a math co-processor though, allowing me to play Doom.

It was not a playable experience. Even at the smallest screen size, it still ran at about 1 FPS.

But, I was playing Doom!
They ought to rename to “ReallyOpenAI”
Every tech-centric area is losing its luster. It's called the end of the era of free money.
We both know that's not how regulations work. Mistral is going to have to get a legal team to understand the regulations, have a line item for each provision, verify each one doesn't apply to them, get it signed off and continously monitor for changes both to the laws and the code to make sure it stays compliant. This will just be a mandate from HR/Legal/Investors.

Alot of work for a company with no commercial offering off the bat. And possibly an insurmountable amount of work for new players trying to enter.
Similarly, you cannot wish yourself out of reality.
A paper not containing predictions is not the same thing as its having no predictive power!
You could, but you'd have to browse that, rather than getting notified in a feed you already monitor when new things are posted on sources you are interested in.
They already do, we just released a model equivalent to most 40-60b base models that runs on a MacBook Air no problem.

It's like 1.6gb, ones coming are better and smaller https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1732912442282312099?s=20

I think the large language model paradigm is pretty much done as we move to satisficing tbh
I haven’t played with many because I simply don’t have the time between work (Google’s Piper and Git) and kids. Piper handles the monorepo by only offering files when requested by the file system at the specified commit (this is probably a gross or even incorrect simplification, but is how it presents to the user).

There are good reasons that one should keep the whole commit history to distribute a source of truth, but at the same time if one is going to place full trust in something like GitHub (as many do), there’s no reason that full trust can’t be given to a similar website that provides a Piper model with some mechanism to request more than one commit to be brought to local storage (to get more sources of truth).

End of the day, a large repo checkout is going to be limited by either your network, your CPU/storage to perform archive expansions, or frequently both. I get the impression that Android and Chromium are expanding faster than those other things are improving, but have no data to back that up.
I was wondering if anyone is working on residential AC tech that can cool your home to say 25C when it is 50+ C outside. Maybe to do so requires insane levels of insulation
It also now has multi-project support, so that you can monitor all your projects within a single Organization:

https://github.com/supabase/supabase-grafana/pull/5
The Lindy effect really doesn't apply there. If we were still a pre-colonial society and you were trying to find the best place to build your mostly-agrarian city, fine, but the conditions for survival are unrecognizably different than they were then.
I always perceived the opposite. Carmack is the real genius, Romero is just a lucky level designer who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Many other level designers rapidly surpassed Romero.

Carmack was doing a great job until he started building rockets.
Not shocked that governments favor a world were every homeowner pays taxes vs crypto as a scheme to avoid government control
Im sorry but isn’t this actually good? As Africa, parts of Asia and South America become more populated and strive for better quality of life, the last of the big forests are already at risk. If these places are incentivized to protect them, it is a net good for everyone.
Aleph Alpha raised even more ^_^

https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-startup-aleph-alpha-raises-500...
I don’t think that counts as open source. They didn’t share any details about their training, making it basically impossible to replicate.

It’s more akin to a SaaS company releasing a compiled binary that usually runs on their server. Better than nothing, but not exactly in the spirit of open source.

This doesn’t seem like a pedantic distinction, but I suppose it’s up to the community to agree or disagree.
You're part of the flood you speak of. Part of the _in_ crowd, not outcasts where "nerd" was used in a derogatory manner.

See how that works? ;-)

Oh, and AOL and Compuserve were better when they came on floppies.
Are there any places on earth that can sustain themselves without heavy ongoing support from other places on earth, to varying degrees of dependency?

There are continually-occupied bases in Antarctica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_P...) but they don't perform any function besides scientific inquiry. NASA has sent people to the moon and back multiple times with 1960s technology, multiple independent entities have sent cargo to the moon, and there have been people living in orbit on the ISS for a while now. We even have oil rigs out in the middle of the ocean.

Nobody lives in any of these places permanently but as far as I know there's no technical reason they can't. It sure seems like if humans set their mind to it there could absolutely be bases or even cities on the moon (I don't know about Mars) with roughly current technology. The reason it isn't happening is that there is no real incentive compared to the costs required. That's why in lots of science fiction the moon has fuel for fusion or something. We know that we probably can colonize the moon, but it's an easy shorthand to explain why we'd bother.
LearnOpenGl.com

Possibly a smidge outdated.

Goes from blank window to rendering 3d meshes with advanced lighting techniques (HDR, SSAO and more).

Heped me understand shader pipeline, so I recommend it.

https://learnopengl.com
Main barrier right now is access to supercompute and how to run it, everything is standardising quickly in the space
Only if it wants to do business there. If a company is just headquartered there, they have to comply with regulations no matter what.
I find cartograms do population density more justice than geographically-accurate maps; eg https://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/graphics/cartogram_2-...
Most of the currently used AV software contains heuristic/ML components that are able to gather and analyze various indicators of compromise. Without something like that running, you're basically tied to manual review of systems running at the moment. Making malware for such scenarios is basically making a Base64-encoded script in the language of your choice and then exploiting something(either the user or some software) to get it to execute.

I know, because I've been writing small malware toys and it got blasted by both Bitdefender and ESET.
I especially like the seamless transitions between different orchestrations of the score when moving between certain areas, and the chiptune transition when entering the hacking minigame, e.g., from

https://archive.org/details/nier-automata-original-soundtrac...

to

https://archive.org/details/NieR_Automata_Original_Soundtrac...
My interpretation of how the term is used is that the requirement is to have the ability to experience radically different gameplay based on how you play and your choices.

For example Undertale goes 100% on "the story evolves around you even if your character essentially is always the same" but also a game that goes "experience tha same story with different mechanics and playstyles" would be an RPG
> Zoom/Meet/Teams feels like work...

I don't feel that way at all. Those are all just apps. Remote meetings use them, but that doesn't mean that corporations own the usage of those apps. Frankly, your idea of everyone getting the invite at the same time feels more like a work-related need than a personal need. At work, we want efficiency - everyone shows up, talks, then signs off. For a personal call, being able to come early and stay late sounds far more friendly.

At the end of the day, this is all up to you. If you think there is a need, there are probably others who agree with you. But before you build, ask around to find out how many there are, and if they agree enough to pay money for the things you would build. If not, this will be a weekend project, not a business. (Which is also fine, BTW.)
Have you looked into quantization? At 8-bit quantization, a 7B model requires ~7GB of RAM (plus a bit of overhead); at 4-bit, it would require around 3.5GB and fit entirely into the RAM you have. Quality of generation does degrade a bit the smaller you quantize, but not as much as you may think.
Credibly signalling that you do have some bit of knowledge is hard too. Its easy to learn a lot on your own today but the only widely valid signals are academic credentials or past experience.
It cites 2020 statistics, which are 3 years old, the city has not changed so dramatically in the past 3 years, it's just agitative hyperbole. Most important is that census stats are the most accurate stats.

Most of the United States is majority white, being a country founded by white people, this should not be a shocking fact nor a point of contention.
Were any Ubuntu versions affected?
Perhaps too much off-topic, but I hate how the press (and often the startups themselves) focuses on the valuation number when a company receives funding. As we've seen in very recent history, those valuation numbers are at best a finger in the wind, and of course a big capital intensive project like AI requires a valuation that is at least a couple multiples of the investment, even if it's all essentially based on hope.

I think it would make much more sense to focus on the "reality side" of the transaction, e.g. "Mistral AI received a €450 million investment from top tech VC firms."
The macroeconomic situation 2 years ago and now was wildly different.
i mostly agree that git can do almost anything (but see the limitations others bring up), however this claim is easy to disprove:

Whatever effort you are putting into seeking or building an alternative, instead put that effort towards becoming a Git expert.

building an alternative naturally is more work than to learn git for one person, but not everyone needs to do that. a few people building an alternative could save the learning effort of many more people.

instead i'd like to point out a different reason why rebuilding git may not solve the problem:

git is good because it is powerful and flexible.

that power and flexibility by necessity makes git more complex and difficult to use.

you can build a simpler system, but then half of todays git users won't be able to use it because it won't have the features they need.

and a system that has all the features of git today and also solves the problems it currently has will be even more complex and less straigt forward to use.

the best approach is probably to have a common backend that has all the power and flexibility needed, and multiple different frontends that are simplified to only expose the features needed for a particular workflow.
Libusb 1.0.27-rc1 is out – first RC with WebAssembly and WebUSB support
>> The story of Qantas flight 32, as told herein, is therefore not only the tale of a dramatic emergency, but a testament to the safety of aviation today — a story that should make every reader feel a little less fearful of flight.

I'm not afraid of flight. I'm afraid of fall.

(Sounds much better in Greek: δεν φοβάμαι την πτήση, φοβάμαι την πτώση).
You can also drag a tab or group of tabs out of a window to open a new window.
Have you tried using Power Query (Get & Transform) in Excel? I'd be surprised if it couldn't address your requirements for analyzing your data.
This article is so close to what I am asking about, but in the end it's once again about an unexpected increase in warming. Yet you can see that the information probably exists somewhere....

> ...analysed[sic] data on ship emissions as a model system for quantifying the climatic effect of human aerosol emissions in general.

This analysis could produce a whole set of factors and a relatively up-to-date numerical characterization of their impact. Some will be higher, but some may be lower (which also matters for planning!). Instead we get a report on a single factor that's most alarming.
Exec leadership/management doesn't want to move to India, therefore moving the whole office is a ridiculous non-sequitur that has absolutely nothing to do with the ease of moving a few roles or role-sets. This isn’t a complicated thing to understand.

Pretending this isn’t the case because you really want to be angry at me or as a reason to riff on whatever form of Management Bad this is, is weird, but you do you.
> suggestions are shifting.

what does that mean?
Yes but good apps do encrypt it already
I'm not sure if limited lifespan is really a negative. 50 years ago i'd expect to see asbestos, lead paint, aluminum wiring, single pane windows, and minimal insulation. All are things expensive to replace so so tearing down and starting over makes sense. That is in addition to they didn't plan for modern needs in other ways, computer networks are retrofitable, but it will show. Did they build a lunch room with the right equipment in place, modern cooking has changed some (not always for the better). Did they put in the right size gym for modern needs. Should there be a separate cafeteria. Is the school way too big or small for the local population (family sizes are down, but schools have consolidated). Is there space for the different break out classes, my impression is gifted talented programs have more importance today.
A fantastic achievement.

To give this some scale: according to Wolfram Alpha, 2400m is 0.038% of the average distance from the earth's surface to its centre.

Its a deep planet as well as a big one.
Say big green gives a company $100M with the rider that it needs to spend all that on nvidia's hardware in exchange for 10% of the company.

Has Nvidia valued the company at 1B? Say their margin is 80% on the sales. So Nvidia has lost some cashflow and $20M for that 10%. Has Nvidia valued the company at $200M?
What kind of tokens/sec do you get?
For small developers Apple charges only 15%.

If you add up all the hidden fees from FastSpring (eg. intransparent currency exchange fees) then I'm not sure it's much cheaper than Apple.

So if you are an indie, and just starting out, and you are looking for the most cost effective solution, then the App Store is actually a good deal.

Only when you get to the 30% fee is when it pays off to look for other resellers....
Landing page design? Well...I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of the home page to find out the course is currently closed. There's also no mention of price.
The diffs don't have to be line-oriented if you are using a diffing tool that isn't based on line changes.

Git itself just stores snapshots of your files, then you can bring your own diffing tool that works in any way you'd like, it's not limited to line based diffing.
Title currently says "pesticide", which includes both insecticides and fungicides. Did the title change from "insecticide"?
How do you arrange talking to someone at the company?