skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I abhor these projects, because they are seasonal- as in dependent on outside funds and thus hyper-fragile. Also usually propped up by colonizers, to detract from some ressource extraction destruction.

Same with wildlife preserves. One bad coup with corrupt politicians, one recession in the west - and its all gone, poached and ruins. Its worthless feel good photo OP, monetary potemkin zoos and forrests, providing the worst kind of hope, the one that has no chance to last in a storm.

What is their solution against nomads and there goat herds which are still a status symbol and in conflict with the farmers of the region? Poisonous plants? Guards? Landmines? How does it prevent building up resentment, when obviously a green landscape is more important to the foreigners, then the starving locals?

How does it solve the hard problem of exponential mankind vs civilizational allmende protection?

How do the plants survive in the climate change storms yet to come?
I'm seeing a variety of outages listed there as of 08:30 Pacific, mostly landline. There are a couple wireless outages shown in Sonoma (and listed as impacting Sonoma and Ventura counties). The initial cause is shown as "maintenance activity".

https://imgur.com/a/oXZpEX9
Sorry, but every one of your talking points — ‘computers were replaced’ , ‘chess is still being played’, etc. — and good counterarguments to them have been covered ad nauseam (and practically verbatim) by now.

Anyway, my point isn’t that ‘AI is evil and must be stopped’; it’s that it doesn’t feel ‘intellectually empowering’. I (in my personal work) can’t get anything done with ChatGPT that I can’t on my own, and with less frustration. We’ve created machines that can superficially mimic real work, and the world is going bonkers over it. The only magic power these systems have is sheer speed: they can output reams and reams of twaddle in the time it takes me to make a cup of tea. And no doubt those in bullshit jobs are soon going to find out.

My argument might not be what you expect from someone who is sad to see the way artists’ lives are going: if your work is truly capable of being replaced by a large language model or a diffusion model, maybe it wasn’t very original to begin with.

The sad thing is, artists who create genuinely superior work will still lose out because those financially enabling them will think (wrongly) that they can be replaced. And we’ll all be worse off.
Yes, and this is the only joke I have that is not offensive in any way. So I don’t expect it to do much. It’s a silly dad joke.

My actual material is a little more raw. I didn’t want to share it here and somehow end up on twitter cancelled.
You USA people are so lucky living in a country with a large landmass

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/

and https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8
This looks nice, thank you, but I'm looking for a more hands-on tutorial, with e.g. Python code, like Andrej Karpathy makes them.
>the effects of diet are nearly strictly temporary despite rapid changes.

Is the claim here that transient dietary changes don’t have a lasting effect or that long term dietary modifications will lead to a temporary change in the microbiome, with an eventual return to baseline, despite said dietary changes being permanent?

I am not deep into the research but I have a hard time believing that long term dietary patterns don’t have a lasting causal relationship here.
Hm as an re2c user, I always thought that Ragel vs. re2c was a push/pull issue (though re2c flag has a --storable-state flag to generate the push style -- I haven't used it)

But now that I look at the example on the front page: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

action dgt { printf("DGT: %c\n", fc); }
action dec { printf("DEC: .\n"); }

number = (
[0-9]+ $dgt ( '.' @dec [0-9]+ $dgt )?

I don't like how the dgt and dec actions are "inline" in the regex.

This seems to be breaking the key abstraction of regexes, which in my mind is "NON-DETERMINISM for free".

The better mechanism is submatch extraction, which re2c supports, and they even wrote a 2017 paper about - https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08837 , also see https://re2c.org/

(I don't use re2c submatch extraction in https://www.oilshell.org, but I just used in a brand new program, and it works great. Very easy and natural.)

So I think Ragel is doing something Perl-ish and recasting regular languages as imperative. But that can be asymptotically slower and breaks reasoning by sets, forcing you to reason by stepping through code.
Very nice! It looks a bit like Publii [0], but the editor part is cloud hosted instead of running as an app on your machine.

[0] https://getpublii.com/
Yes, but that’s clearly not what I’m getting at.
Cozystack: A Free PaaS Platform Based on Kubernetes
Because then it refuses to comply?
Offer an economy not based on growth. The larger a company, the more sociopathic its aggregate behavior.

I’m not talking about going back to mom-and-pop farms. The fact that there’s an enormous supply chain that economizes plastic use on farms is what I’m talking about. Oil companies are more powerful than nation states.

I think we can sell people on reducing consumption and consuming more sustainable materials. How? Work less, have more time for leisure, go out and breathe clean air.

Also Malthusianism is real. But providing education and contraceptives works to reduce birthrates. No genocide needed.
better, lighter-weight computing stacks have been a huge boost; that's what made cubesats possible. but the much bigger deal is the dramatic drop in launch costs driven by spacex, even though so far that's only a factor of 3.4 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-e...

with lightweight computers driven by the cellphone industry, it became possible for a small team or even individual to launch a low-power ham radio satellite or weather satellite. but they can't launch a high-resolution space telescope, earth observing satellite, or high-power communications satellite, nor can they do laser communication pointcasting. and lightweight computers are a crucial enabler for starlink-style communications constellations, but there's only one of those, because that's still a big-money kind of project

suppose that, instead, you had 01980s computing power, but the cost of space launch dropped by a factor of 100. if you need to launch a 200-kg satellite to get the sky-observing optical aperture you're looking for so diffraction doesn't cremate you, you don't care if the onboard computers weigh 1 gram or 10 kilograms. (i mean, you do care, because it lets you cut your launch budget 10%, but it's not a dominant determinant of viability.) with saturn v or zenit 2, according to the plot linked above, that launch would cost you a million dollars. today, at falcon heavy's 1500 dollars per kg, it's 300,000 dollars, which is already a radically more feasible project

spacex's 'starship' is supposed to carry 150 tonnes to leo for 10 million dollars. that's 70 dollars a kilogram. our hypothetical 200-kg aditya athalye space telescope satellite would then cost 14000 dollars to launch. it becomes a hobby project comparable in cost to an engine lathe or a camper van. this would change the economics of space in a profound way, far beyond what cellphone chips have done

for comparison, the csis aerospace security project number for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_(rocket_family) on that chart was 118500 dollars per kg in 01961. (but of course you couldn't launch a cubesat on it for that price; it was a military thing.) by 01967 saturn v had brought that down by a factor of 22. after that it remained constant for 43 years until falcon 9 in 02010. starship, if it works, will reduce launch costs by that same factor of 22 over the current falcon heavy number i described above, and by a factor of 73 over saturn v
What data would you consider making the dataset unethical vs. ethical?
How so? Organizations have been very open and explicit about wanting to employ less white people and seeing "whiteness" as a societal ill that needs addressing. I really don't understand this trend of people excitedly advocating for something then crying foul when you say that they said it
> I'm not saying the current situation is good or optimal. But it's not obvious what the right result should be.

Yes, it's not obvious what the first result returned should be. Maybe a safe bet is to use the current ratio of sexes/races as the probability distribution just to counter bias in the training data. I don't think all but the most radical among us would get too mad about that.

What probability distribution? It can't be that hard to use the country/region of where the query is being made? Or the country/region about which the image is being asked for? All reasonable choices.

But, if the image generated isn't what you need (say the image of senators from the 1800's example). You should be able to direct it to what you need.

So just to be PC, it generates images of all kind of diverse people. Fine, but then you say, update it to be older white men. Then it should be able to do that. It's not racist to ask for that.

I would like for it to know the right answer right away, but I can imagine the political backlash for doing that, so I can see why they'd default to "diversity". But the refusal to correct images is what's over-the-top.
Google in 2013...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130924061952/www.google.com/ex...

>The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the comprehensiveness of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.
The models do a pretty good job at rendering plausible global illumination, radiosity, reflections, caustics, etc. in a whole bunch of scenarios. It's not necessarily physically accurate (usually not in fact), but usually good enough to trick the human brain unless you start paying very close attention to details, angles, etc.

This fascinated me when SD was first released, so I tested a whole bunch of scenarios. While it's quite easy to find situations that don't provide accurate results and produce all manner of glitches (some of which you can use to detect some SD-produced images), the results are nearly always convincing at a quick glance.
No matter what Stallman thinks, this kind of relationship is a two-way street. GNU or the FSF can't just unilaterally declare it to be "part of GNU" and then unilaterally "provide resources". Not only are they unlikely to do so if the relationship is adversarial, this sort of thing needs cooperation from the other side as well.

Either way, this is getting a little tiresome. I have explained there are disputes and complexities about what is or isn't a "GNU project" and I don't quite understand how anyone can deny that these disputes and complexities exist (regardless of how one might feel about them).
Stephen Wolfram discusses communication with different minds [video]
Speaking about random sampling during inference, most ML models are doing it rather inefficiently.

Here’s a better way: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Readme.md#rando...

My HLSL is easily portable to CUDA, which has `__syncthreads` and `atomicInc` intrinsics.
Everybody seems to be focusing on the actual outcome while ignoring the more disconcerting meta-problem: how in the world _could_ an AI have been trained that would produce a black Albert Einstein? What was it even trained _on_? This couldn't have been an accident, the developers had to have bent over backwards to make this happen, in a really strange way.
Yep, equally daft!
Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip manufacturing deal
You can use a hash where the supplier of inputKey is not able to know the hash value. E.g.,

function checkApiKey(inputKey, correctKey) {

r = randomString()
inputHash = hash(r + inputKey)
correctHash = hash(r + correctKey)

if (inputHash !== correctHash) {
throw new Error("wrong key");
}
}
The walkie-talkie toys I had as a kid in the 90s had at least 10x the range of modern home wifi routers. Not to mention how far radio stations broadcast. I'm guessing that's the context they're working from.
No info in NANOG yet but expect some in this thread in the coming hours: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-February/2250...
If you're above the frequency at which the ionosphere becomes reflective (around 30 MHz), why should space be noisier than the Earth's surface? Anything propagating there will reach down here (unless it's something really short wave absorbed by molecular bands in the atmosphere.)

In practice, it's going to be noiser down here, because of all the sources down here.
100% agree with you. Copilot does the really boring stuff for me so I can work on actually solving the interesting problems. Copilot was down for a few hours the other week and I was so sick of typing out all the boilerplate stuff it usually does for me that I moved onto non-coding tasks until it was back online.
Yes this sort of things fascinates me - the links from the past explain how fundamental things are structured today. A Harvard professor has a few books about this and talks specifically about how railroads stops from way back when are responsible for much of the layout of suburbia today. I'd imagine much of the placement of things is based on railroads from the steam era.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/388804.Outside_Lies_Magi...
I prefer this bit:
“I was sitting there a few weeks ago and the sun came around and was in my TV, so I got up and turned the house.”
A source would be great if you can remember that one.
Stupid question but I thought transformers have an O(n^2) memory usage. With 2M tokens, won't I need dozens and dozens of GPUs just to run the base LLaMA2 models?
It mostly doesn't make sense, unless used exclusively as second factor, never only factor.

- phone verification: OK, but this wasn't about that, and having to have phone numbers in a database means you're maintaining PII, which is a liability, see regulator-related story below.

- mobile login (think dating apps): should be passkey, sign in with Google/Apple, or oauth of users' choice, see Twitter story below

- two factor where other factors are not available: in the case of SMS this actually means for two ways to get into the account, not two factor, see IsSMS2faSecure slides below.

SMS is an anti-pattern, generally less secure than a good password (something you don't even need to know w/ passkey) and biometrics (something you have/are) as it opens your threat model up to anyone with social engineering skills to take over your account (something anyone can do).

This was demonstrated dramatically a few years back by a research team calling the phone companies and being 100% successful on major carriers.

The slides here are eye opening if you're thinking SMS is a good idea:

https://www.issms2fasecure.com

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2020-paper16-slides...

We have the $400M FTX sim swap and this year the SEC's sim swap to remind us nobody is immune when SMS is at play, and people can't claim to not know about it since it's now widely covered:

The FTX case highlights a growing awareness among prosecutors and regulators of the ease and prevalence of SIM swap schemes. Reading the Powell indictment is not unlike reading one of the hundreds of credit card theft indictments that federal and state prosecutors pursue each year. As far as frauds go, SIM swapping is low-cost, unsophisticated, and rote. But, if you’re a criminal, it works.

SIM swapping works largely as the result of vulnerabilities in the telecom’s anti-fraud and identification protocols, and as the result of relatively weak anti-fraud and identification verification procedures used as the default for all too many online service providers, including financial services firms.

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/02/12/the-f...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-blames-sim-swap-attack-fo...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/19/sim-swap-how-y...

It keeps getting worse:

"US insurance firms sound alarm after 66,000 individuals impacted by SIM swap attack"

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/us-insurance...

Bottom line, and putting this "global user" story to bed, if Twitter can dump SMS across emerging markets (not a lot of blue checkmark subscribers), so can everyone:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/23/x-adds-support-for-passkey...

All that said, @andix is correct in that if you're going to use it, you must not allow password resets or account takeovers with SMS. SMS must be strictly second factor, never "only factor": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467039
Why Google's Image AI Is Woke and How It Works
Supremely cool. So this can supplement e.g. my eleventy sites and provide a way for clients of those sites to easily interact with the content and static asset portions of the site? Seems like there's tons of potential here. Kudos, def will give it a whirl!
I've heard Posthog a few times now ... definitely considering using it. Thanks!
Personally speaking, this is a blaring neon warning sign of institutional rot within Google where shrieking concerns about DEI have surpassed a focus on quality results.

Investors in Google (of which I am NOT one) should consider if this is the mark of a company on the upswing or downslide. If the focus of Google's technology is identity rather than reality, it is inevitable that they will be surpassed.
no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water
The point is that justifying something because life is "better" by some metric while calling the opposing side "insane" for having reservations about something already proven to be potentially dangerous is flawed. I chose the oil industry because it's another example of something which has helped humanity in innumerable ways, but brought its own risks which we should not ignore solely because one metric looks good.

I'm not advocating for tearing down any industry, just pointing out that such extreme rhetoric isn't very intellectual.
This sounds like it was an interesting residential experiment. I find myself wondering at the use of "utopia". There's no mention of any radical changes to (self-)government, economics, social structures or cultural norms. Nor is any of that mentioned in the city's Wikipedia page [0]. It seems to be more about exploiting tourism to fund an artistic and architectural vision.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibellina
If you only need one than the cheapest is find a local machinest and say "make a case to fit" It will be all manual and designed on the mill/lathe except where experience says "better draw this part up first" (one in a while they will scrap a part because it doesn't fit, but overall still cheap). If you need 5-100 then draw it up in CAD and have a machinist (need not be local) throw it on their CNC machines. If you need 1000 or more then design an injection process. Where I put exact numbers that is because the overhead vs efficiency of the process makes this best, where I didn't put anything it is a judgement call, it isn't clear when exactly ones process should be abandoned for the next. (even then sometimes I'm wrong, but for discussion I'm close enough - if you are doing real world work consult a real manufacturing engineer)

Injection molding is great for making a lot of parts, but the cost of designing a working mold means the upfront costs are a lot higher and if you cannot reuse that mold enough to spread that cost across many parts it isn't worth doing.
I'm not sure there's a great answer. The situation before school systems were forced to quantify performance as much wasn't perfect either. And there's a lot to suggest that standardized testing for college admissions improves equity rather than the other way around.
No, but most state universities still found a way to proctor tests temporarily. Especially by 2022. And by the time classes resumed, so did the College Board test centers - if anything, the tests were easier to conduct than classes during Covid.
Looks interesting. I think your site is missing some information.

What auth service does it use?

What BaaS does it use?

How easy is to publish to the Apple and Android stores?

Can I also make a website out of it or just mobile?

It would be great to see some code snippets. If I'm buying this (which I might), I'm someone who doesn't know much. I'd love to see a component example. I have no idea what Expo is.

Just the first few thoughts that came to mind.
I'm also in the southwest suburbs, and have Comcast. My internet went out for about ten minutes at around 9:20 CST. I disabled WIFI on my iPhone only to discover I was still offline, and had no signal. Not sure whether the Comcast outage was related, but it came back up very quickly, whereas I still have no cell service (AT&T). My wife does have service, even though we both have iPhone 15 Pros.
But is it perverse naming? It seems functional to me. It's (a flowery way of) describing the thing you're paying for through the tax: the costs associated with onboarding you into the municipal government systems associated with home-owner record keeping — i.e. the costs of "welcoming" you.

Ticketmaster has "convenience fees" — if you don't pay them, you don't get "convenience." Well, if you don't pay the "welcome" tax, then you won't get "welcomed" (i.e. made able to live there.)

(I guess maybe it's intuitive to me because I see municipalities as private corporations like any other, that have ultimate authority on whether people get to live on their incorporated land. By default, you're not "welcome" to own land in a city! The city has to decide that!)
Cool! How's it been going (business wise)?
It doesn't "add" security, it "adds" an account takeover path.
> It seems like this idea relies on a long term low wage workforce willing to live on subsistence agriculture.

I think that is already the population. What the attempt seems to be is to create a green belt that prevents further desertification of semi-arable land that they are already subsistence farming on, because if the desert keeps moving, these people will cease to exist.

Captialistically/economically, there is questions as to whether these people should continue to subsistence farm, but if they want to, and it can help keep the desert at bay, then I say more power to them.
They could perhaps send there criminals, prisoners.. this kind of people.. have them man the green wall.
A user who has a working cell phone could contact a user who is on a network experiencing issues. Because the call fails, that user may decide their cell network is also faulty. Downdetector only works on user reports. Its basically useless for actual measurement because people are bad at troubleshooting.
I just cannot comprehend how some people cannot see the incredibly obvious moral responsibility in releasing something that could be used for a lot of good but also to do bad things. There's no reasonable moral theory in which you could just shrug and go, "well, somebody is going to do it anyway so why should we even try to keep our conscience clean and avoid making it easy for them", it's fundamentally amoral and antisocial.

If someone invents a lockpick capable of opening any door, they have a moral responsibility in preventing it from falling into wrong hands, whether they want it or not. And it's absurd to complain when someone who could create an universal lockpick, refuses to do so, never mind release the technology to the wild, and only agrees to sell simpler picks capable of picking simpler locks. Do these people also complain about things like work against nuclear proliferation? After all, North Korea got nukes anyway, so what's the point?