skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key takeaways from my quick skim of this:

1. It was only uploading RSA private keys, which are pretty antiquated these days. Generate yourself an ed25519 key, which is both more secure, and not a million characters long when passing round the public key.

2. It wasn’t pulling keys from your SSH agent. This seems like yet another reason to use one. 1Password (unaffiliated, I just really like it) includes an agent that will load keys from your password store and ask for authentication the first time a process requests to use it.

3. I am once again struck by just how fragile the software supply chain is.
> what would be the use of teaching the subject in the first place, even to enthusiastic students?

This is something which you should always ask yourself in a class. What use is this class?

Usually the "why" is: "nobody would take this class unless we forced them to, and the English department would starve to death without forced pre-requisites"

> Even if you reach one kid, you will have achieved your intended result

If you reach 1 kid in a class of 30 you have objectively failed
Hm what's the difference then?
Rapa Nui.
Thanks for the infos, but it isn't a logical process.

It comes deep from the guts and I cannot control it in any way, it is really a phobia and you should see how I behave when I see one, anyone, IRL.
It’s kinda weird thinking deep tech companies should be profitable a year in.

Like it takes time to make lots of money and it’s really hard to build state of the art models.

Reality is this market is huge and growing massively as it is so much more efficient to use these models than many (but not all) tasks.

At stability I told team to focus on shipping models as next year is the year for generative media where we are the leader as language models go to the edge.
Perhaps it's not a rhetorical trick or framing device, and is instead simply...the truth?

For decades the primary point of discussion with regards to climate change is "the right way to talk about it." And as far as I can tell, that's only ever shot us in the foot. Too optimistic, and people don't act because they think it's not that bad or that someone else will deal with it; too pessimistic, and everyone will apparently just shut down and not do anything about it because why bother.

Call me crazy but perhaps we should stop thinking about it this way and simply deal with the science and the facts as head-on as possible, and that includes not calling out accurate representations of where we're at and where we're going as "counterproductive."
>If this has happened as described in the OP

It's not. The article is bad and wrong. It preemptively tries to dodge such accusations, but most of the hyperbole and "emotions" are just downright lies.

btw the person you responded to is the author of magit. I think his opinion should be weighted more heavily that the author of this article.
For context, I was not raised religious at all and kind of thought a bunch of it was hokum.

But then I did a heroic dose, and I went to the church of engineering where I saw the entire construction of the machines use from the transistor all the way up to the platform I'm building.

My faith is more a faith that humanity is worth it, and I've come to see "The Lord" as an appropriate metaphor for the collective conciseness of several billion people living their lives.

At core, I'm rejecting nihilism as a valid way to live, and I'm writing an essay to outline the way.

In this, I also reject cynicism, and this is because it offers nothing.

The way forward is to embrace the responsibility that comes with great knowledge and to build an organization that helps push technology forward. This is why my platform is open source ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I'm working very hard to get my handful of clients in a good place.
Sure!

I will add "Advanced Charts" in the near future where you will get a much more sophisticated chart analysis tool for free :)
get right with god
A utopian future would be FOSS LLMs that are private and run locally.
The opposite of one where models are public, proprietary - running on your data and owned by just a few large entities.
Fair points.

But I reckon single pilot operation with emergency autoland will happen. The tech already exists for general aviation.
How to create my own LLM?

Step 1: get a billion dollars.

That’s your main trade secret.
Great idea. At first glance, I love that so much can be generated automatically for different languages.
With convertible debt and many of these rounds investors get the first money out, so the first 450m would go to the investors.
If you want to experiment Kobold.cpp is a great interface and goes a long distance to guarantee backwards compatibility of outdated model formats.
I think git has become the standard now. I used git as the reference point when I had to implement a custom version control system for a product . Also many things can be built on top of git, like GitHub for instance
I see :) Thanks for clarifying. I would say that I don't have a strong enough grasp on biz finances to do more than speculate here, but:

1) Is all the money spent up front? Or does it trickle back in over a few years? Cash flow might be impacted more than implied, but I doubt this is much of an issue.

2) I wonder how the 10% ownership at 2B valuation would be interpreted by investors. If it's viewed as a fairly liquid investment with low risk of depreciation then yeah, I could see Nvidia's strategy being quite the way to pad numbers. OTOH, the valuation could be seen as pure marketing fluff and mostly written off by the markets until regulations and profitability are firmly in place.
Did you try the file system daemon (git fsmonitor--daemon start) that’s built into git that was designed to speed up git status on many files?
It's very hard to mine. It's very dispersed, and well, at the bottom of the ocean.
According to the Free Software Definition:

"Source code is defined as the preferred form of the program for making changes in. Thus, whatever form a developer changes to develop the program is the source code of that developer's version."

According to the Open Source Definition:

"The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed."

LLM models are usually modified by changing the model weights directly, instead of retraining the model from scratch. LLM weights are poorly understood, but this is an unavoidable side effect of the development methodology, not deliberate obfuscation. "Intermediate" implies a form must undergo further processing before it can be used, but LLM weights are typically used directly. LLMs did not exist when these definitions were written, so they aren't a perfect fit for the terminology used, but there's a reasonable argument to be made that LLM weights can qualify as "source code".
surprised there are no remains of a fur bikini...
It's still around in the same sense that twm is still around.
do emacs vs vim uncontentiously.
That's a long time I'm out of school.
The truth is you should read books about subjects you're interested in to solve a lack of understanding on one subject, and from there teach yourself anything you want, if you were in my situation.
What I did is taking the highest level course I could find on X subject, and trying to understand from other lower level sources the high level concepts I couldn't understand from intuition by the sole reading of the high level syllabus.
And don't blindly trust packages you download from the internet.
Unity has a ton of extra layers since they are trying to support a mixed game world with both game objects and entities.
In order to make a entity from a game object, you have to bake the game objects using something called "authoring". You also can't debug any of the entity stuff visually, only using some tools that display information about the current world state and number of entities. You can't click on entities to drag them around or inspect them.

In Murder, the editor lets you set up your sprite with hit boxes and entity components similar to working with Unity prefabs, but you can just drag those into the game world "scene" and they are already entities ready to go. Any systems will include the entities that it filters for without any additional steps. All you need to do is write the scripts for the components and systems, then add the component onto an entity into the world and add the system to the list of systems running in the world. Not to mention doing all that dynamically with support for more complex implementations.

TLDR; ECS in Murder is just regular C# with some different context. Learning ECS and using it in Unity was like a whole other world even for an experienced Unity programmer.
You should check out dioxus’s TUI support
If Java applets were anywhere as popular as JavaScript web apps, I'm sure Java desktop would be as popular as Election.

But Java applets aren't popular.
No offense, but "assignment and syllabus design" scratches the surface at best. And while I understand the desire to let students experiment with teaching, it's worth keeping in mind it's an experiment on other human beings. (So, technically, subject to IRB review.)

Again, this isn't your fault. This is a massive failure of the education system in general. We pretend that as long as somebody knows the subject, they're decent teachers. (We pretend that because it's cheaper, and we pretend it because otherwise established faculty would have to admit that a large number of their members are extremely bad teachers)
It isn't fast. For example, when I opened https://ayllu-forge.org/projects/ayllu/log, it took around three seconds.
Is it just Saudis? If dependency on oil ends or reduces greatly then what happens to petro dollar? Isn’t it in US’ interest as well? I am genuinely curious. I don’t have in-depth knowledge of this but I was wondering - wouldn’t weakening of petro dollars would further weaken Bretton Woods system? Given that quite some economies are preferring to skip the dollar of late.
Well, this one is interesting. Asia. Africa. Latam. These markets are far away from being done with fossil fuels. When most of the world catches up to the rest of the developed world, then that initiative will succeed.
Thierry also already offered to add another option to fully revert to the old behavior: https://yhetil.org/emacs/874jgq0zdh.fsf@posteo.net/

Please also take note that this (completely reasonable email) is some of the so-called "bad behavior" and "arrogance" that the author of the article is purportedly describing.
Gotta give it to Nvidia and TSMC. In the big AI race, they’re the ones with real moat and no serious competition.

No matter who wins, they’ll need those sweet GPUs and fabs.
Which of these graphs do you think supports the claim that LFG has very good predictive power? I browsed the first few, population, fertility, mortality, and food per capita. In each case the empirical data clearly diverge from all four LFG predictions, in exactly the direction I would have guessed. Or am I wrong in that analysis?
Yes, really.

Here is the data to back that up, using NOAA's Key West measurements going back over one hundred years.

> The relative sea level trend is 2.57 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.15 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1913 to 2022 which is equivalent to a change of 0.84 feet in 100 years.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
Mistral's latest just released model is well below GPT-3 out of the box. I've seen people speculate that with fine-tuning and RLHF you could get GPT-3 like performance out of it but it's still too early to tell.

I'm in agreement with you, I've been following this field for a decade now and GPT-4 did seem to cross a magical threshold for me where it was finally good enough to not just be a curiosity but a real tool. I try to test every new model I can get my hands on and it remains the only one to cross that admittedly subjective threshold for me.
Fossil fuels: Can humanity kick its addiction?
> 98% of assistant professors say they self-censor, and 81% of those say they're self-censoring views critical of Israel. That's 79% of assistant professors who would be voicing opinions against Israel if not for the pressure they perceive to silence themselves.

That's not how reality works.

First, you magically turn "could" into "would".

Also, you also ignore the fact that "self-censoring" does not mean "I want to speak out but I can't". It means something as innocuous as not speaking out regarding topics that aren't related to their field of expertise and thus, as smart people do, they don't just blabber on about things that they don't have a solid and well-formed opinion and don't concern them.

Moreover, your percentages don't really add up, nor do you spend any moment considering why 98% (virtually all) claim to self-censor but a far lower number feels they need to put a focus on Israel. I mean what other topics do they consider worthy of self censoring? That would be helpful to gain insight on the phenomena, but it seems the goal was to shoehorn a prejudiced point.

Don't you agree that your comment sounds like a conspiracy theory to justify why your pet scapegoat isn't being attacked enough?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592984
>I think there will be open source models at GPT-4 level that can run on consumer GPUs within a year or two.

There is indeed already open source models rivaling ChatGPT-3.5 but GPT-4 is an order of magnitude better.

The sentiment that GPT-4 is going to be surpassed by open source models soon is something I only notice on HN. Makes me suspect people here haven't really tried the actual GPT-4 but instead the various scammy services like Bing that claim they are using GPT-4 under the hood when they are clearly not.
This is not my analysis, and the first author, Gaya Herrington, explains the alignment between the model and empirical data here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpvc3i5j84

I also react with concern. Yes there are infinite curves, but there are limits to what is possible, so in actual fact there are not infinitely many possible futures here, and those futures are likely to fall within the limits of the 4 sensitivity analyses…and indeed have over more than 4 decades of follow up.
That's quite interesting. I'm reading design of everyday things right now, and has been very valuable for my product (SaaS,drag/drop). Not actually to build it, but designing parts.(mockups etc)

A lot of it is common sense, but only in hindsight.
Search for "Project Panama" if your work has problems with normal terms. That's the development name.
I think that is an orthogonal issue.

That is more or less about virtue signalling that you are a "team player" that helps your boss advance his career rather than doing what nominally is your job. Think teenage clothing fashion. You need to show you are in.

Pretending that complex and risky solutions are needed is a key property of this. The boss need headcounts for the complex fancy project.

And so on, with different companies being in different circles of hell on the matter.

Good solutions usually look simple and easy in my experience. Downplaying the skill in doing them.

The author however seems to write about machine learning, which honestly is a really fast moving field right now. Sometimes things just move fast?
Sand moves inland as sea levels change.
Note though that unlike zfs, ext4 has a battle-tested fsck.

Combine ext4's dumb but robust approach to journaling and robust metadata layout (for example inodes are statically allocated) with fsck.ext4 (which got refined for years) and you can recover from any situation.

To give you an example, fsck.ext4 will happily carve a working filesystem out of random data, as long as there is a valid superblock. Seriously - try it yourself:

# create a working filesystem image
dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.img bs=1M count=256
/sbin/mkfs.ext4 test1.img
# write file with random data
dd if=/dev/urandom of=test2.img bs=1M count=256
# copy superblock into random file
dd if=test1.img of=test2.img bs=1024 count=4 seek=1 skip=1 conv=notrunc
/sbin/fsck.ext4 -fy test2.img
sudo mount test2.img /mnt/somewhere
This magic feeling. Can we find it in modern games ? I was searching and just couldn’t.

Did you manage to find something ?
I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT
I wrote a custom instruction for ChatGPT Pro that radically improves productivity inside ChatGPT. Add it to your custom instructions and enjoy!
Plastic doesn't need oil. It doesn't even need fossil fuels.
> a big part of the criticism of Israel is not actually a criticism of Israel

I wish I could bring myself to believe that. I'm trying to understand why so many just reflexively assume Israel is lying, to the point that raising any mitigating or nuance at all is met with relentless, seething hostility.

Here we go, cavalcade of nastiness.

In response to "My condolences" to a poster who said that he knew some of the children who died in the October 7th attack: "this person is lying..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38577765

"Maybe you're not a white supremacist but you sure act like one like all Israeli allies" Added bonus is that he tracked down my full name and used it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581383

"Blaming Hamas is the mark of a seriously disturbed mind"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591023

In response to my saying that yes, actually anti-Semitism means anti-Jew: "Ask me how I know you're Jewish"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585503

There's more, but that's enough for now.
> They show availability of non-renewable resources declining from the 00's to a few decades ahead, depending on what resource you track. And those almost perfectly coincide with those resources prices exploding

Are you referring to something available online? Not sure I want to buy the 1972 book, but I'd love to see this data.
That's how we tell the difference between rational environmentalists concerned about future human well being and zealots who just hate the idea of human succeeding above other animals or currently wealthy countries succeeding above other countries. Because if you are the former, you are absolutely in favor of carbon credits, sequestration, geoengineering, nuclear power plants, migrating from coal/oil to natural gas etc. Of course, you would want evidence of safety and effectiveness, but not "it's colonialism" knee jerk reactions.

It could well be that the other alternative for these forests was logging or slash and burn agriculture, in which case the program is working exactly as intended. Or if not, we can criticize it for being ineffective without woke moralizing. Someone needs to make a bid to preserve the forest, and this company made a bid that is apparently higher than alternatives. As carbon credit economy takes off, there will be competition and prices will rise, in turn exposing the limits of carbon offsets and forcing reductions in actual emissions.
Funny coincidence; two or three weeks ago I was browsing some books for sale at a Japanese centre, just looking at titles. On the spine of one paperback I see 存在の耐えられない軽さ (Sonzai no taerarenai karusa). I'm like, existence's unbearable lightness ... what? ... Ohhhh! That must be Kundera, wow. Looked closer; yup.
Thanks for the link.
License is clear:
Researchers and developers are free to use the codes and model weights of both Qwen-Audio and Qwen-Audio-Chat. We also allow their commercial use.

and important, if you have more than 100m active users:)
4. Restrictions
If you are commercially using the Materials, and your product or service has more than 100 million monthly active users, You shall request a license from Us

So, looks like it's absolutely fine to use, except for IT behemoth.

As for how to use, API, I think. Interesting applications are possible. Like interactive mobile robots. Assistants for people with disabilities, both software and wearable.

Interesting times... this will be called AI revolution probably. It's already not a joke, after several ups and downs.
Once again I’m listening to find good refutations, and am severely disappointed. I truly can’t imagine how someone finds anything in here a convincing argument. “It’s like my daughter says, it’s got no arms or legs.” A whole lot of snark and wishful thinking, zero debate with the intellectual arguments. But ya, just go call Ilya, Bengio, Hinton, Altman, and Hofstadter religious instead.
or go pro and issue a One Time Pad to each of them.

Would make a nice vignette in a film about a dystopian future where video can be be generated cheaply and of sufficient quality.
Carmack was key for many aspects of modern VR and I'm currently still enjoying the fruits of his labours. Even a partial success is pretty good for someone like him.
Apple: India's EU-style charger rules will hit local production target
Took a look, it’s a long thread! I don’t see a debunking as such apart from your own statement that they were flagged for melody. Apologies if I’ve missed something that is key to this. However I respectfully suggest that this is a misunderstanding of copyright and the content ID process. Content ID will flag the composition which includes melody and lyrics. This is because of the way music publishing has traditionally operated. So a flag for composition could be melody, lyrics, arrangement or any combination of those.

As someone else pointed out (though this won’t be why are getting a content ID flag) there is actually a separate copyright in a performance - so even if you record a musical performance you would (technically) need the agreement of all the performers involved. This is common in film and TV where “release forms” are signed, as well professional record label recordings.
Unless you were an idiot and treated it as a joke, in which case, even outside the US (well, probably only places with US consulates), they replied with a visit by local law enforcement accompanied by a secret service agent.
> new n100 alder lake mini-pc.

I was curious

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Lake-N100-Desktop-Computer-Et...

$199.00 shipped Prime

What does the performance of this CPU compare to Raspberry Pi 5 CPU?

500GB SSD + 16GB of RAM blows it out of the water, obviously...

Not sure how much of an advantage being amd64 vs aarch64/arm64 is these days but still worth calling out
I thought that too, but then the "LogoFAIL" vulnerabilities came out.[1]

It's possible to define a subset of the deflate bitstream that only does simple RLE compression, and I've done so: https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/b223bce114ec715a66f...

But, for logo/icon sized bitmaps, you can generally get away without needing compression at all. A 128x128 1bpc image is a mere 2KB.

[1] discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515571
Why? Because you say so?
It's better than doing nothing, but the UAE has more than enough homework regarding carbon emissions reduction. Its per capita footprint is 25t CO2, 75% more than the USA, which itself is 2.5x that of the EU.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

Plus the UAE is ~10% citizens, 90% migrant foreigners. I'm not sure how per capita footprint of the UAE accounts for that (is a UAE citizen carbon footprint actually 250t CO2...?)
Are you referring to the largely unconfirmed story that Rapa Nui was in some sort of decline cycle before Europeans came and ravaged the place?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-easter...
You missed the part about why the stats are that way. Obviously you don’t live in St. Louis, you live in the other 90% of the metro area that’s merely “St. Louis”.
Is it really that surprising? ChatGPT is effectively re-selling their content without giving anything back. What interest does Wiley have in helping ChatGPT grow?
The emphasis on regulation in the US has historically been the part that controlled how fast it could fire, hence the receiver.
Ya this article is garbage. "Hey let's ignore all the massive increases in biological capabilities over the past 10 years and just call it hypothetical"