skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait until LLMs are fast enough that a single response can actually be a whole tree of thought/review process before giving you an answer, yet is still fast enough to not even notice
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
awesome... I've always dreamed of a notepad that I could dump any text which includes numbers and it automatically simply made the sum of all the numbers found in the text (also averages)

maybe you could add a "Math adder/Math averager" block languages?
You can have empathy with anyone, if you try.
"Bluesky is a decentralized social app conceptualized by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and developed in parallel with Twitter. The social network has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, a federated design and community-specific moderation."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/what-is-bluesky-everything...
Incredibly fast. I wonder if they've released verification that it matches llama 70b on regular hardware?
Would answering this question have a real impact on daily life?
> biological neuron signals aren't quantized

Perhaps, but they inherently have imprecision due the nature of being biological. Expose the same neuron to the same input N times, and you'll get a range of output. The effect of noisy analog data is, broadly speaking, similar to the effect of low-resolution digital data.
Interesting. When OLED screens age, or burn in, do they get yellow? That is, less blue? If they simply get darker, this means the red and green subpixels deteriorate as well, which means improving just the blue subpixels doesn't solve the problem.

I personally think the relative sizes of the subpixels already reflect how much they age. Larger ones are presumably larger because the dye ages more quickly, and larger pixels don't have to be as bright per area. So improving the blue dye would allow us to make the blue subpixels somewhat smaller and/or brighter. The current size difference is not very large though.
When kagi fails me, I use https://kagi.com/fastgpt

Much better than bing gpt in my experience.
Has anyone tried Dyson Sphere Program with the recent combat update? How does it compare to Mindustry?
Ask HN: Video Game Recommendations
Hey all,

Now the work is off for the holidays I'm looking for some games to sink into for a week or so. Indies or AAA, I'm looking for something to get me out of the Factorio hole I seem permanently stuck in...

Much love!
Midjourney V6 is here with in-image text and overhauled prompting
I think bluesky has mindshare and is still ready to be the eventual twitter heir
I asked "How up to date is your information about the world?"

It said December 2022, but the answers to another question was not correct for that time or now. It also went into some kind of repeating loop to its maximum response length.

Still pretty cool that our standards for chat programs have risen.
Yeah, I haven't even bothered trying Threads (and don't plan to)

Mastodon puts too much onus on the user to pick a home server

Bluesky got it right by saying "we're going to be exactly familiar to people who like twitter, just open and better". The concepts are an almost exact drop-in replacement, for practical purposes, other than which one your friends are active on

I don't use it much right now because most of my people did switch back for now. But I check in periodically, and I'm rooting for it to succeed
Depends on the answer.
I didn’t know those alternatives had those weaknesses. I did have a whole list of alternatives to check out. Having already looked at some, do you know any transformer alternatives that don’t forget things but were still sub-quadratic? What rabbit holes are worth digging deeper into?
bsky-social-awgll-rrqmu

bsky-social-wvq77-dxsur

bsky-social-jb2xl-7pqzg

bsky-social-6hxxo-3ccaw

bsky-social-mnbtp-xctsx
All I'm saying is "assaulted multiple people" is the same as "hacked rockstar with a fire stick". And it sounds like lashing out.

Aaaand, sympathy isn't required. Empathy goes much further.
Wasn’t the design of WebGPU heavily influenced be Metal?

Or was it that metal came from a team in Apple that helped work on WebGPU?
We'd better rectify that. The future we're headed to where everyone is a slave to several massive IT corps is not one we should wish on anyone.

(Cue Doctorow links to enshittification and war on general purpose computering.)
It’s very fast at telling me it can’t tell me things!

I asked about creating illicit substances — an obvious (and reasonable) target for censorship. And, admirably, it suggested getting help instead. That’s fine.

But I asked for a poem about pumping gas in the style of Charles Bukowski, and it moaned that I shouldn’t ask for such mean-spirited, rude things. It wouldn’t dare create such a travesty.
I've wondered if there's any potential legal ramifications for the now for-profit not-for-profit due to their beginnings, e.g. if good faith was involved wouldn't Elon have a significant share of the for-profit OpenAI for his jump starting the whole thing?
I can understand not supporting video yet.. that's a huge amount of data. But GIFS? Wow...
They're studio headphones. Clearly he doesn't know how headphones work...
It still doesn't seem to have a public feed though, so you can only view individual posts.

I will say as someone has an invite: you're not missing out on anything. It definitely has far less activity than either Twitter or Threads, but somehow it also just has worse content. You would think they were invite-only to keep the quality high, but everything is either furry porn or hate-filled rage bait, neither of which I am personally a fan of at all. I keep telling trying to tell it as much, but I honestly don't think I've seen one post I truly wanted to see. I tried to do it for like a week hoping it would get better, but honestly it seems like there's just nothing worthwhile on the whole site. Personally, the only way I can see me ever using Bluesky is if they manage to totally invert their userbase. You need to just start over when you somehow get a crowd worse than either version of Twitter, in my opinion.
A nice migration story would probably help for Mastodon no? Sign-up on an "index" server, then one button to end up somewhere else?
That article is from 2007
Personally I have been pleasantly surprised by how useful Grok is for getting a quick read on events around the world captured in tweets, e.g. protests in Argentina or the shooting in Prague. The spotty coverage of global news by US media leaves a huge opportunity for X to exploit.
I think the story was that Apple refused to ship/implement Vulkan drivers for their computers, and everyone was scared of this happening again with WebGPU, so Apple got their way with the design of WebGPU.
a better distribution of weights would be knowledge transfer right? by having something like a stronger prior distribution?

also pretty sure this would work because I know some text-image generators has the image network priority trained then frozen during e2e training
Can you provide specifics for what you asked what it answered? It seems to answer my questions, including recipes correctly.
Sure; mounted warfare existed for centuries before stirrups were invented. Actually it's not entirely clear whether the Proto-Indo-Europeans actually rode the horses or just used them to pull chariots.
No, the problem is very easy, referring by page number is simply ridiculous. As well as all those “(<Family Name>, <year>)” citations,

Besides, in HTML one can directly link to the relevant part.
> Hyperloop was always a means for developing mining technologies - specifically, lithium mining. That sounds boring (see what I did there?!)

I think you're thinking about "The Boring Company" which is entirely separate from Hyperloop One.

Hyperloop was always a transportation fantasy. They didn't even hire people with civil engineering or mining experience, as some early employees are starting to explain on Twitter now that the company is gone.

> Technology was developed, knowledge was learned, investors were duped, and we move on.

Again, I think you're confusing different companies. Hyperloop specifically worked on transportation, not mining/digging/tunneling.

The Boring Company is the Elon Company supposedly targeted at digging tunnels.
I don't have much to say about Rob Graham's take on teenage hacking and I don't care about how someone did or didn't get access to Nvidia.

Two general thoughts about the "teenage hacking" and "NSA employee" phenemona:

(1) Being able to break into machines is a wildly distinctive set of skills from being able to engineer reliable exploits or to identify vulnerabilities (the latter two skills are closely related, and both are pretty far from "breaking in"). In the '90s and early '00s hacking scene, there was a pretty sharp division of labor between exploit developers and "hackers"; that division persists into professional red-teamy infosec. So, just, like, be aware that squeezing into a network and pivoting around is its own recognized specialization, and that being an expert software security person isn't a requirement to do it well. For all I know, those two kinds of expertise might even be inversely correlated.

(2) NSA doesn't need a feeder of enthusiastic savants. National SIGINT agencies seem to have zero problem at all recruiting people out of college to do this work effectively. There's a whole industry of people that do this work at an elite level, most of whom would roll their eyes like a Tex Avery character at the idea of participating in an HN discussion about it. This is, oddly (given our interest level) a corner of the tech industry that operates pretty far outside "Very Online" discourse.
I don't find this worth the amount of ink spilled about it. From the article:

> The allegations against Dr. Gay do not entail promoting actual substantial ideas as her own, but rather lifting phrases for sections of dutiful literature review and explicating basic premises without using quotation marks, or changing the wording only slightly, and, at times, not even citing the relevant authors shortly before or after these sections. This qualifies less as stealing argumentation than as messy. Much has been made of the fact that even her acknowledgments section in her dissertation has phraseology transparently cribbed from those of others. Sloppy, again — but still, this is not about her actual ideas.
And block their ads. I use X with Firefox+uBO on Android and it's great.
Microchip Manufacturing [video]
I've trialed Kagi but it's not given me the best results, especially not in my native language or related to my local area. I still prefer to use Google or even DDG.
AGI = Artificial General Intelligence.

By definition we are not AGI. Maybe GI, but when the author has trouble articulating basic things they lose credibility and I lose interest.
I think the domain validated handles on Bluesky are a big deal. They help reduce impersonation and let you build a reputation around an identity that isn't controlled by the platform.

No one can squat on your handle and, even though you don't technically own a domain, you get a lot more protections with a domain name than you do with a platform based handle. It's much harder to revoke a domain than it is for someone to kick you off their platform.
What next? Send in the army?

Did the Federal Government send in the military to enforce the federal 55 mph speed limit? No, your state would just get cut off from federal funding (funding for which, BTW, came from the state’s citizens to begin with).

So, don’t let ‘em out? Have fun funding the housing of the pardoned with your own state’s dollars. Is it worth that much to you, Governor It-is-the-principle-not-the-money?
I always play factorio with no combat. Just disable all biters, so they don't even show up on the map
Google is unusable for finding unknown things. If you know exactly what you're looking for like the local restaurant then it's fine but for everything else I use Bing, ChatGPT or Phind. On Bing, DDG and others my game [1] which has quite a following now is at the top of the results followed by a fan's clone of the original game; these are what people are looking for. On Google it's all spammy advertising sites with embedded copycat content... Google is an advertising company so go figure. My site could be faster but it still shouldn't be beaten by spammy sites farming links to each other.

[1] https://redactle.net

(I work for msft my opinions are my own.)
Can someone point me out a common reason why windows 11 (and not 10) is needed? Just curious (the ‘liberty of choice’ ones do not count)
Tell HN: ChatGPT's captcha are irritatingly time-consuming
I'm a paying Pro user of ChatGPT, and having to solve 5 captchas, each with 8 possible variations to choose from, is making me want to stop paying and stop using ChatGPT.

It's not so much that this is hard (although it's not mindless), it's that it's too time-consuming:

https://i.imgur.com/hwmkGPO.jpeg

Can you even guess at first glance what they expect you to do here?
I heard before that Threads is the number one in app stores. If I look right now (23.12) in the Apple App Store then I can’t find it at all in the top 200 (unless I missed something). I see X on 165 and Telegram for example, but no Threads.

Is it really no. 1 or nearby on Android ?
Thanks! This is really intersesting and insightful. I'd definitely read the blog-post if you get round to writing it!
I think you don't understand. Qubes relies on software virtualization in conjunction with hardware assisted virtualization instruction sets. The aforementioned vulnerability existed in Qubes Xen.
Threads has ~100 million monthly active users according to Zuck, while Musk claims ~550 million.

So if you believe that it's fair to say that "people actually use Mastodon" (which has 1.5 million MAUs), then yes — people actually use Threads.
Twitter was interesting when you couldn't post photos or videos. You would link to twitpic and knew that people maybe would click... or not. Reminded me of IRC in that regard.
I found that most of the "celeb chatter" died off for me on Threads a few months after launch. Anecdotally, there are a lot of gamedevs I follow on there that have migrated from Twitter, and treating it more like an interest-based network (a la Google+) has bumped it up to one of my daily apps.
I have used the lightning headphone adapter on my iphone almost daily for a couple of years. Whenever I have problems like you describe it's because the lightning port has dirt/pocket lint in it. I have a plastic tool that I use to clean it out and it works fine again. The only other issue I have is that the thin wire does wear out over time.
The kept the non-profit just to save face and avoid a PR disaster, in reality it means absolutely nothing - openAI is a for profit now
Yeah, that's raw llama2 for you. Fine tuning, LoRa, that's how you get the nice responses.
I played a small role in the RSS part of this release, nudging them to go with title-less items in the feed.

If anybody wants a Bluesky invite code, I have a handful available. DM me at @edavis@hachyderm.io or at https://t.me/ejd215. First come, first served!
Yes. It has many options - one of them being the capability of copying multiple files concurrently with the /MT switch.
https://archive.ph/6N4hY
Network: Aruba 1930 24x GbE /w PoE and 4x SFP+ in the basement; Mikrotik CSS610 8x GbE and 2x SFP+ in the home office.
Linked with 10GbE fiber, and a ton of VLANs.

Server: Dell Precision Rack 7910 with a single E5-2690v4 (14C/28T), 64GB DDR4 ECC (4x16GB), 4x 3.5" HDDs (a hack) with 30TB net storage in RAID1 and 2x small SSDs (OS on RAID1, and temporary data/caches without RAID). I put in the 2x GbE + 2x SFP+ NIC. It's connected with 10GbE and 1GbE.

My old system was nice, but upgrading meant I had to get an expensive CPU; luckily the Dell fell in my hands. With this one, I could double the core count cheaply (it's a 2S system and the CPU is really cheap) and iirc have 192 or 256GB memory per socket (with the cheap 16GB modules).

The above hardware plus all the PoE stuff (5x UniFi AP, a switch behind the TV, DECT-VoIP Gateway), DSL modem and a few ESP draw 110W.
The server itself is in the 80W ballpark (that's 15€/month worth of electricity). This could be reduced with more modern or less powerful hardware. What I did was replace my old, big array of 12 disks with four much bigger disks. Since OS and cashes are on SSD, the disks can spin down a lot. I only insert one PSU, since the second one adds 17W idle power draw.

Compared to other home servers that can be pushed much lower it's still okay, since it replaces a bunch of services I'd have to pay for & allows much faster transfers to my workstation (for backups etc) than the 32MBit/s DSL. The old server was running out of cores... The only external service I still spend money on is mail.

Server runs baremetal Arch Linux (it's not cattle), and two VMs (qemu): OpnSense and Home Assistant.
Samba serves files from the raid to the network.
Services are partially native, some in podman. There are: cockpit, mealy, foundry, step-ca, scanserv, vaultwarden, mosquito, zigbee2mqtt, pihole, tasmoadmin, uptime kuma, UniFi manager, samba, lancache, heimdall, plex. Plus two custom services.
It also interfaces with the PV using RS485. A 20m USB cable connects it to the zigbee stick on the second floor.
I'm looking forward to adding influxdb/graphana for long term monitoring of our heat pump and BEV power consumptions.

The OpnSense does DHCP, wireguard and local DNS.

First step was to setup cockpit, since I like it to configure IPs and access the VMs. Then OpnSense for inter-VLAN routing and firewall, and to the outside world.

Since I wanted to encrypt the traffic even locally, that was the second step: I have a step-ca that serves certs using ACME. My nginx acts as a reverse proxy for most services and gets certs from the step-ca. The CA is limited to the .lan so it can't be used to intercept other traffic. Also, DHCP puts hosts on .dhcp.lan, so random hosts can't just try to pick any domain name inside the network and get certs for that.

With that done, I looked at services I use or that sounded useful, and spun them up.
The HP-12C calculator has an emulator of the original processor in an ARM
Yes its possible p vs np is actually undecidable
Not sure what you're implying but in my mind getting rid of government unions would be priority #1.
They should have done this long ago, they missed the boat
The cynic in me says this is about getting the money before the hype starts to fade and people begin to see that these "AI" are not leading to what people mean when they say AI.
Happens to me a lot, too. I just switch browsers and it stops.
> owned for nearly 20 years by a church and it's still got an active datacenter in it

Is it Prayer as a Service?
> still actually wrong

Can you be specific about where it's wrong? For the layperson?
All of the focuses wholly on the various ways that autistics can be weak.

It also seem to ignore the reality that relative to other domains, there's more autistic employment in cybersecurity and government than elsewhere. What exactly explains that, if autistics are supposedly so unsuited to the work, despite this apparent stigma in the form of this common sense view that autistics obviously can only uncommonly succeed at such work?
Just dug up my old invite code to find this is pretty bad. Basically an app for the small obscure minority who left Twitter in protest including a bunch of ex users you'd only know from memes. Curious to see what this evolves into.
A good database can act as a cache too though.

This is something spanner was kinda magical at, and we need more databases like it.
I want to build a kernel module that should allow bringing multiple boxes together to appear as a single huge machine. RAM, disk, processes all should appear one.

And the end goal is to have no moving parts outside the system and that should be capable of replacing any cluster orchestrator. Specifically Kubernetes.

That's a huge thing in scope and my skill set is limited. Maybe, someday. If not me, someone else.
I can recommend going for fanless cases, like the one from Akasa, Streacom or Impactics. In my case I am using several Akasa Max MT and Impactics D2NU1 (D2NU2) cases and they are perfect for my all-silent home lab.

Sadly the turemetal cases are not available anymore :(
https://iroh.computer/sendme

https://iroh.computer/

Iroh is what you’re looking for. You can embed into your code, and it handled wire encryption, verification, and NAT hole punching. All over QUIC.
Weird, last week when I googled it, all I got was liscicles about "the best order to read WoT" and other blogspam. Just googled it now and it seems fine.
Should say the most unimportant. Is there anything practical to gain by solving it?
both sides are violent here.
I looked into it. There’s a Wikipedia article for action:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)

I bet a lot of movie fans regretted stumbling onto this page. No, I wanted action!
Anyone know how he did the GTA 6 hack? What vulnerability did he use? Any chance it was a technical vulnerability that should have been patched?
Non-deterministic should be explained more often because it's meaning in computer science is nonintuitive.
Outside of the Apple ecosystem you have still apps struggling with high dpi, it is a pain to mix with non hdpi displays, less performance/higher power consumption.... and for what? A bit more relative crispness? Maybe I'm oldschool but native resolution even with visible pixel size looks way more sharper with OS ui borders than something that is scaled.
I feel like Proton is a weird backwards step for Linux, but in the end it will be a major part of people finishing up with Windows.
That would be plenty for me!
Nothing gets a war going like a new god in town.
Respectfully disagree. You get charged 9 cents per GB after the first 100 GB xfer each month. This doesn't fit in well with the OP's environment, which is a LAN.
No offense but your paper and website is giving off serious elizabeth holmes vibes.
At this juncture there's no reason to think (quite the opposite really) that LLMs are any better at the kind of sophisticated reasoning presumably necessary to prove something like this than human computer scientists are.
Yes, in the sense that if P = NP, it would conceptually be a lot easier in theory to break a lot of public key encryption, which are NP hard problems.
Yeah it is really easy to fall into a misuse of expensive object memoization with deep equality checks if you try to "do it right" in React for example, and work without an external state management library.

Or when working with libraries that demand this.

In that spirit, I find MobX pleasant to work with as an alternative.

Although it remains needed to grok reference equality checks in reactivity, there's no way around that I guess.

Fundamentally, when passing messages with structured payloads I'd consider it good style for the payload to be serializable and free from references and mutable state.
>The modern era[a] is the period of human history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended around 1500 AD) up to the present.

This was coined in around 1500 AD to refer to the current era. If the present is the modern era, then that backs up my position that modern refers to the current time.
Gifs require way more data than mp4 videos.
Same here. Couldn’t take anything much seriously after realizing this guy is pretty sold into ideas that are one step removed from eugenics.

But somehow, surprisingly, it’s what I’ve come to expect of most “rationalists”.
A 2019 HN thread about the original Nut microprocessor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20691599
Is threads less... political now? Without saying if something political is even good or bad, I just don't want to see it.

I blocked close to 500 people & `not interested` their posts until I just gave up and stopped using the app.
> You will have your God. And you will make Him by your own hand.

Deus Ex (2000)
I think it's supposed to create a feeling of scarcity or exclusivity and make people perceive the network as more valuable.
How is it so fast? Anyone know what they are doing differently?