skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a firm thing, but generally "missiles" are understood to be entirely autonomous, where "drones" are operated under some level of human control. But indeed, the distinction is increasingly squishy in the modern world.
I've recently made some larger EUR denominated purchases as well - I ended up just buying the currency through my normal broker (Fidelity), since the rate seemed good and I wanted to use them for the wire transfers later anyway. I don't recall any particular fees. Did I take an L there or is Wise more or less doing something similar?
Primary use case would be PCPs who aren’t trained to diagnose skin cancer. There will be cost saving because the patient won’t have to visit a derm. Also it opens it up beyond dermatologists so it could be a PA or NP. That means in theory you could go to could go to a CVS minute clinic if you have suspicious mole.
Every company that wants to succeed in the bodyshop world. Government contracting is broken in the Anglosphere. Parties contracting out software tend to do it because they cannot manage the project themselves, but they can pay a lot of attention to the financials. So you need to cut costs and just meet the delivery bar that the customer tests for, not actually exceed expectations. You're not going to get credit for the next one.
Lithium mines in australia (spodumene) are either delaying opening, or shutting down because market prices have fallen below cost of production.

There is no shortage of lithium.
What's wrong about it? It does indeed support using "gpt-4-1106-preview" which based on https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turb... appears to be "GPT4 Turbo"
When writing some IO bound application, async Rust is great. Less great for libraries that want to support both async and sync without having to make an async runtime a dependency if you just want the sync interface. Mutually exclusive features are taboo unfortunately. One thing I really love about Haskell is you can make any function run in a green thread by simply composing it with the 'async' function. There's nothing special about it. This works much better than say Go, because Haskell is immutable.
My Venstar T7900 thermostat has a local HTTP API. It has some cloud stuff too, but I've never created an account or let it talk to the Internet.
What would have happened here in Sweden is that if people weren't dressed for the cold they'd probably get shelter somehow-- maybe go home, enter a restaurant or other building.

-30 C is really incredibly cold. You just can't stand around in that without proper clothes.

I think the problem is that a lot of Americans are incredibly servile and will obey employers, authorities etc., even when it's harmful or dangerous. I especially remember a case where a woman was in court and was sexually assaulted by a marshal, right there with the judge ignoring it. But what I found very curious was how he was obeyed, and how the judge was obeyed.

Here in Sweden, neither judge nor marshal would have been obeyed.

I think the servility is probably caused by the experience that employers and authorities can get away with anything, and a fear that they will do worse if challenged or attacked.
Right, income tax is a subscription service to stay in a country. Forced health insurence deduction is another one. They are my biggest subscriptions.
> Threads are far more heavy than async

This sounds like an issue with the implementation of threads and scheduling in common operating systems, and I don't see how replicating all that functionality inside of each sufficiently large programming language is remotely taken seriously.

But also, you didn't respond to what I even said. You claimed that async is 'beautiful and natural'. I disagreed. You...fell back to a performance claim that's uncontroversially true, but irrelevant to what I said.
A few plugins to allow git-send-email to work without much configuration by using your existing Outlook or Gmail or Thunderbird setup (basically, a git plugin for outlook) would be very desirable.
> To fly a passenger jet from London to New York would need the annual sewage of 10,000 people. And another 10,000 to come back.

So no magic bullet, but a contribution to sustainability. Fair enough. They go on to talk about a demonstration facility. I wonder if purity of the source would be a problem. Sure, we've got a lot of human excrement but it's mixed in with everything else in our sewers.
"Try canceling your Amazon Prime. Every order now, I have to be careful not to re-activate Prime, with all the dark patterns."

I just got myself a month of Prime because of this. And cancelling requires you to go through around 5 screens with buttons "Do you want to cancel?", "Yes, I want to keep Prime" and so on. And the colors of the cancel button are always different. So you have to closely read and understand each button or your cancel attempt will get cancelled.
I'm struggling to configure/build the VLM on my M2 Mac running Ubuntu in a VM - any chance you could share your configure.ac or build process?
I’m not picky, I just don’t like corn very much.
Exactly my thought. I already review all my credit card and bank statements every month and manually extract important information to my spreadsheet. The once-a-month manual work is to me absolutely worth it to be on top of my personal and household finances.
You make a good point. The "I find X difficult" is a 'disability' trait, and disabilities are only really relevant where they conflict with the expectations of wider society. In all cases it's really the social exclusion that's the problem. If someone has a trait that either can't be changed, or takes exceptional effort to mask, it shouldn't be on them to do the impossible. If however it's just habit, or actual lack of effort to change, that's a completely different thing.
> Tensorflow losing to Torch for researchers was a pretty big blow imo

My perception at that time (autumn 2017) was that Tensorflow had the biggest unforced fumble in the modern history in artificial intelligence, not having the vision to make an API aiming the researchers.

They made the almost impossible and took down Theano and Torch in less than 2 years and fueled with a lot of money from Google got the ecosystem for at least 2 years.

I think they thought like “hey, we won’t the comercial ecosystem, so it’s over; academics and research will follow; even this inflexible and cranky API. If they complain, push Keras to them all”.

What happened in reality was, at the time that Facebook made an absolutely wise decision to lift Torch and unite research and a better UX, it just twisted the situation that for me it’s just bonkers to imagine how Google let that happen?
You’ve written an entire book’s worth of advice in a paragraph.

Everyone who works in tech or aspires to should read it.
Or maybe… certain problems lend themselves better to some languages than others, even when accounting for debugging, and Rust just isn’t the winner every time?
The article has a whole section about the problems they ran into with two crates:

https://nullderef.com/blog/rust-async-sync/#_duplicating_the...
Funny how HP also has a tank printer.
> It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain

Those under thirty should be aware that this occurred because the owner of the GIF spec (H&R Block) began a legal strategy that caused most of us to move to JPEG.
Driving Skills at Licensure and Time to First Crash
Thanks, I must be thinking of Quicken Sync. I’ll look into Direct Connect.
Corporations gonna corporate. And when they merge and buy each other, information disappears. People get fired or leave, dropping relationships.

I had a ten year colo relationship with AT&T, mostly but not entirely datacenters, where the salescritter would be changed every single time I tried to talk to them. 3-4x a year, they either left or were re-org'd elsewhere or our account was moved to a different group. (Datacenter techs: competent. Datacenter manager: competent. Sales staff: chaotic.) Eventually I learned to open a ticket to find out who the salescritter would be.

On the other hand, there was a competent server salesperson at company X who I used to buy lots of stuff from; company X started raising prices and flubbing tech support returns, so on my next order I tried company Y. I was rather surprised to get the same server salesperson -- who had just taken a job at Y.
This issue has been public knowledge for years. How is this possible!?
There is a paravirtualized GPU available to macOS hosts. But it’s a bit limited and might not work for LLMs but worth trying since it might work.
>What I would give for a preemptive green-thread scheduler in Rust.

They tried this in early versions of Rust and ended up removing it.

Rust has lower-level constraints than Go that they didn't want to compromise on.
E.g. performance constraints of FFI C-interopt with predictable fixed stack space. Those reasons mentioned in various subthreads:

- https://lobste.rs/s/bfsxsl/ocaml_4_03_will_if_all_goes_well_...

- https://lobste.rs/s/y3fsrm/what_is_zig_s_colorblind_async_aw...

- https://lobste.rs/s/eppfav/why_i_rewrote_my_rust_keyboard_fi...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21475154

As counterpoint, Rust's original designer, Graydon Hoare, prefers "green threads". In a recent blog post (2023-June), he mentioned
that he understands why the Rust team got rid of it for performance reasons but he's not fully convinced of the ultimate tradeoff:

-> Async/await. I wanted a standard green-thread runtime with growable stacks -- essentially just "coroutines that escape, when you need them too". Possibly with a somewhat-embeddable outer event loop / IO manager library, but that's always going to be a little tricky. Go started and stayed here, but they had to do a bunch of gory compromises to make the FFI work and it leaves a lot of performance on the table and torpedoes a bunch of embedding opportunities. Rust started here too, and it got rewritten a couple times and eventually thrown out because of a lot of reasons but none which completely obviated the need (as evidenced by the regrowth of Async/Await and Tokio). I've softened my position on this and have a grudging respect for where Rust wound up (especially in enabling heterogeneous selects, which I think puts it in a similar and enviable expressivity class as Concurrent ML). But if I'm being honest I never would have agreed to go in this direction "if I was BDFL" -- I never would have imagined it could even work -- and still don't know that I think the result quite pays for itself.

-- from https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
Because outliers attract eyeballs. People also find it very interesting what people do for a living in the United States.

This man also held an elite job, and it is a reminder that everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time , so to speak.
APPROPRIATELY-SIZED WARNING: The website and GitHub repo do not make it immediately obvious that this project isn't open source* and that if you use it at work your company may have a bad time.

*: https://opensource.org/osd/

I wonder if we could add something like crowd-voted tags to submissions, to include e.g. the license for software that has a GitHub link.
Having dealt with this in the past, once you let cryptocurrency people onto a service they will stop at nothing to abuse shared resources for whatever mining fad is currently underway. As an operator, you can either hire staff for a full-time whack-a-mole game, get into arguments with customers about whether what they're doing is shitty even though it meets some pedantic interpretation of policy, or just ban the whole crowd and focus on customers who don't suck.

As for banning sex content on a paid service, you'll find it's more common than you think, since payment processors tend to drop customers who permit that sort of thing. Porn-enabled services have chargeback and failed-charge rates orders of magnitude higher than services which forbid them.

There are a ton of reason to fire a client. The two mentioned here are completely uncontroversial from a business standpoint.
>> Python is so slow you gain nothing with async.

It’s not necessarily about speed, though this statement above is flat out wrong.

async in Python allows you to build different types of applications. For example you can attach a task to stdout of another process and read and process it.
For frontline use, sure. But they definitely also want cheap long range cruise missiles.

Its already hard for them with Russia using the Iranian Shahed scooter engine drones, but I don't think Russia will be really able to defend its territory against similar drones once Ukraine gets its cheap long range drone production going at speed.
> the fungi that have accumulated multiple deleterious mutations in their genomes over years of vegetative propagation become virtually infertile

If they've identified the genes that led to the bacteria becoming infertile, then they should be able to reverse the genetic changes.

> “Genome editing is another form of selection. What we need today is the diversity provided by sexual reproduction between individuals with different genomes.”

That kind of reads like nonsense, or phobia of genetic engineering.

The only reason sexual reproduction would be required is if the original strains are not fit any more due to new selective pressures in the modern environment.

But then you run the risk of changing the properties (flavor) of cheese since it's constantly mutating. So your 2010 Brie might taste different than 2030 Brie from the same brand.

In research this was solved by making stocks of your strain once you're happy with it and freezing it at -80C so you can keep going back to it.
Then you have the risk of the vendor sending your account to collections and trashing your credit score.
Since when is « continuous access to capital without turning a profit for decades » acceptable in the US? Examples please. Thanks.
The best acting by Kevin Spacey!
But climate change will disturb all ecosystems. If solar panels help mitigate, I think it’s a small price to pay at the risk of messing with desert ecosystems.
I enjoy water cooler conversation because it is refreshing and revitalising for me to have social interaction breaks throughout my workday, not because I want to do anything but my job all the time. People are not productive all day and that's fine. Also all jobs are work and are not really that fun. I don't enjoy working that much even if it's a good job. So I'd rather have other people and things to focus on sometimes. When I'm at home I feel like all I have to think about is work, and my breaks involve doomscrolling on my phone, or trying to force myself to take a short lonely walk for my mental health.

I have had shitty office experiences don't get me wrong, but since becoming a software engineering professional, I find that I am in enough demand to actually choose a decent place to work. Since entering this field, I had one horrifying remote job where I never learnt what my colleagues looked like and felt miserable and demotivated all the time, and I've worked two other places where I've been more in the office. When working in the office, I've never had horrible experiences like I did when I worked shitty non-professional jobs. Being a software engineer is cushy as hell and I find it weird how some people complain about their tech workplaces as if they're not some of the chillest places to work in person that you could possibly be lucky enough to work in.

Thank you for your empathy for my past situation. However, the problem when pro-wfh people say "we want you to have a choice" is that my shitty remote job was technically hybrid. I could go into the office. People even tried to organise a single office day a week. And because it wasn't mandatory, half the time I tried going in the place was a ghost town. I don't want that, ever. So yeah I LOVE that my job has (semi)MANDATORY days otherwise there would be so many colleagues of mine I would never have met and I am great friends with them (By semi mandatory I mean we have a 3 day target average. So you're not penalised for missing a week or sth its just the mode of your weeks should be 3 days. Which is a great system)

Basically, for me to have a choice to live the way I want there HAS to be companies with MANDATORY office days. And the pro-wfh people demonise that SO MUCH.
The US has very little desert in the Sahara or Saudi Arabia style of nothing but sand and rocks. Most desert areas in the US are covered in cactus, brush, and grasses.
(T1 here) I agree that applying a CGM is nerve-wracking for a few moments, and can hurt if you accidentally hit a nerve. But I really don’t notice it (much like my spectacles or watch) in everyday life. However, I’ve been using a CGMS for years now, so it’s likely I’m “used to it” by now.

I guess as a T1 it’s much nicer to not poke your finger every few hours which is probably why I love CGMS’es, but if you’re not diabetic I totally get why a non invasive watch would be lovely. Heck, I’d very likely buy an Apple Watch if they actually do it. However I haven’t heard great things with non invasive measuring accuracy unfortunately.
I don't think so. There is this section in the article.

"The mathematics of Fibonacci

But the big question isn’t “why the Fibonacci sequence is found in nature,” but rather, “what is it that determines the Fibonacci sequence” in the first place?

[...]

It turns out there’s nothing special about the starting point of the Fibonacci sequence, either. You can start with any two non-negative numbers that you like where at least one of them is non-zero: they need not be “0” and “1,” they need not be whole numbers, they need not be close together. All you need to do is follow the same formula, where you take the first two numbers and add them together to make the next (third) number, and then add that number with the previous to make the next subsequent number, and so on. No matter which numbers you start with, the ratio of any two successive numbers will quickly approach φ, the golden ratio.

It’s enough to make one wonder: is there a way to simply generate any-and-all of the Fibonacci numbers without having to sum up each of the previous terms to get there? It turns out there is, and it’s an incredible mathematical curiosity. The key, believe it or not, is the 11th number in the Fibonacci sequence: 89."
Japanese social media firms to boost monitoring of misinformation
“… A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup” … walk into a bar & ;-)
That sounds like a personal preference. The repo is public and welcomes contributors which by definition is open-source. There's nothing deceptive about it, but you're free to get pedantic over it all you'd like.
Proxmox makes Ceph easy, even with just one single server if you are homelabbing...

I had 4 NUCs running Proxmox+Ceph for a few years, and apart from slightly annoying slowness syncing after spinning the machines up from cold start, it all ran very smoothly.
I was wondering why Nvidia stock jumped over 4%.

> ... some 340,000 Nvidia H100s, alongside A100s and other AI chips. ...

But holy hell, Nvidia was expected to ship total 550,000 H100s in 2023. Retail prices have moved from $30k to $40k per unit and the cost fro Nvidia is just north of $3k.
These are absolutely beautiful. I can't seem to find a license anywhere. Are they public domain?
It's just supposed to add shock value that it's not someone you'd typically think of as a murderer. The news does stuff like this all the time. I think I saw one that was something like "PTA president sent to jail for...".
I just found 4 HOPE emails in my Gmail spam folder. Maybe it's time to move that one to Fastmail.
Two engineers from a top AI company are planning to spin up a new company.

This is almost —thought not quite yet— peak useless AI-startup non-news.
I'm a little skeptical of these numbers.

At the area of land we're talking about (and the location of the land), dust (or cleaning), abrasive sand, lightning and hail are all going to be an issue for the panel lifetimes, if not their efficiency.

They're mostly not in areas with tornadoes, which is nice, but I think 30 years is pretty optimistic.
Thanks. I'll take that into consideration.
That’s a valid point, I wonder how aircrafts avoid these issues.
It should be reasonable to give customers the choice to opt into a setting that auto-cancels if they do not use the service.
I'm not clear what your last sentence has to do with anything else? What does immutability have to do with Async/sync conversions?
It's very obvious you did not read the article. This is literally covered.
> Why? We are single digit gigahertz, so terahertzes should be ~ 100 times faster?

*1000 times
Qi Accelerated – Qi 4 release announcement
Little capacity for code sharing and lack of reasonable tools to do so. That and the fact that newer statistical / ML techniques are extremely expensive mean that if you wanted to do e.g. a transformer you'd have to either pay out the nose or roll your own from scratch.

That and my department of about a dozen can't justify the cost to upgrade to their more enterprise focused, cloud ready new version Viya, but there's not really an upgrade path for 9.4 other than minor maintenance releases. Since no young new hires come in with SAS experience and the whole thing seems like a ticking clock, we decided just supporting Python for new development is a better plan.
I just want to hoard data. I hate having to delete stuff to make space. Things disappear from the web every day. I should hold onto them.

My requirements for a storage solution are:

> Single root file system

> Storage device failure tolerance

> Gradual expansion capability

The problem with every storage solution I've ever seen is the lack of gradual expandability. I'm not a corporation, I'm just a guy. I don't have the money to buy 200 hard disks all at once. I need to gradually expand capacity as needed.

I was attracted to this ceph because it apparently allows you to throw a bunch of drives of any make and model at it and it just pools them all up without complaining. The complexity is nightmarish though.

ZFS is nearly perfect but when it comes to expanding capacity it's just as bad as RAID. Expansion features seem to be just about to land for quite a few years now. I remember getting excited about it after seeing news here only for people to deflate my expectations. Btrfs has a flexible block allocator which is just what I need but... It's btrfs.
Microsoft filed this late today with the SEC[1] just before they stopped accepting new filings for the day under their new Cybersecurity Incident disclosure rule[2]. FWIW, two other publicly traded companies disclosed[3] their breaches since the rule went into affect last month.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/0001193125240...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-139

[3] https://last10k.com/stock-screeners/cybersecurity
It's even more relevant because it doesn't have to get that crazy, there's 230 BILLION tons in sea water, and it's not a crazy impossible processes to extract lithium from it given some more advances in the process
Oh god, I'm horrified and intrigued. I wonder how the end result would look with all that state management.
Amazon? Uber?
Citations:

https://wise.com/us/blog/how-we-work-to-keep-your-money-safe...

https://wise.com/help/articles/50VrYRVwHcsYeKzvWbjf3n/how-ou...

https://wise.com/help/articles/4IusAofIppsIGPcs7sEIXI/how-ou...
Are you thinking about the property of analog data that it can't be stored, reprocessed, or copied without the noise increasing?

That doesn't make the computers unstable. It just makes the data less fit for long-term storage. And even then, people manage.
I'm surprised that the US government owns so much land. Hasn't the US always tried to privatize everything?
Why is there AFAIK no tutorial on how to steal the "app token" (sorry, I don't know the proper term) from Thunderbird or other mail clients?