skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Financial Infrastructure for the Internet" is (IMO) an incredibly strong tag line for the hero text. The alternatives generated by your tool pale in comparison.

Yes! Look at the alternatives the tool generated:

* Maximize Revenue with Secure Transaction Processing

* Elevate Digital Commerce with Trusted Payments

* Unlock Opportunities with Secure Transactions

* Simplify Your Online Payments

* Accelerate Your Online Business Growth

These are just... bland. Generic. I've seen a thousand webpages with taglines just like these.

AI can be quite bad at generating unique responses. Its answers are middling. This can be great for, eg, coding where you want a copilot to generate known algorithms and approaches, but terrible for marketing where you want a slice of brilliance and genius.

Would turning up the AI temperature and other settings help, maybe?
I was involved in a high profile business case that took over 6 years and went up to the Supreme Court. Another case I was involved in years ago took 7 years to resolve.

I've heard stories that India was the worst with some cases passing down through generations over 50 60 70 years.
Foucault has strengths and weaknesses, makes good points, makes bad points, but is almost always read by people as part of or adjacent to some other ongoing education. Foucault gets debated and recognised for having pros and cons.

Diamond, unlike Foucault, is damn near airport departure lounge fodder; historians and sociologists generally encounter general members of the public who are uncritically fans of Diamond and near venerate the GG&S book for radically changing their world view, etc.

It's that association that grates after a while .. it can be as relentless as those who approach mathematicians with their novel proofs for squaring a circle.
> What about your private key? What about your bitcoin? What about your nude photos, sex videos, text messages, emails, and personal health information? What about your brain and its memories?

Those are private. Things openly for sale to the public are not. Someone copying my private data still isn't theft though, since I still possess what was "taken". Much of what you listed (text messages, emails, nudes, health info) have already been copied many times by third parties and on hardware I have no access to or control over and some will likely continue to be copied. As long as my privacy is preserved it really isn't a problem because regardless of those copies I haven't lost anything.

> What about your intellectual outputs for training AI

That may or may not be copyright infringement (we'll see), but it isn't theft.

> What if you worked for a game company and they let you go because they didn't hit sales targets?

That's just life.

> What's your use case? That you want better wifi or faster FPS on the Switch?

There are endless reasons why people might want to emulate a game. Better portability, better performance, personal backups, correcting bugs, accessibility, fan/hobbyist projects, tool assisted speed runs, etc.

> a lot of people on this same forum argue that we need complete control over our iPhone/Android devices.

I'd agree with those people

> I'd imagine that many of those arguing in favor of Apple's racket are the same ones arguing it's okay to pirate Nintendo games.

I'd imagine that a lot of people who feel that we should have control over the software we use and the environment we use it in would support emulation since it too empowers the user.

> Nintendo has one device that is specialized for a single purpose, and it's positioned in a marketplace full of alternatives. People have broken it and are circumventing its only revenue lever.

No one owes Nintendo or their bad business model anything. If I buy a game, I should have the right to do what I want with it. If I come up with a way to play that game on other hardware, or to edit the code in memory to give me extra lives, or to enable the use of a new interface/controller, I should be able to. If having the ability to do those things allows pirates to play a game without paying Nintendo for it that's not my problem. There are perfectly valid reasons beyond piracy for emulation, and that's enough to justify its existence.

It's on Nintendo to change their business model to make their products more appealing to people who currently choose not to give them money. The rest of us shouldn't be forced to have our hands tied in order to preserve Nintendo's desired profits.
Love it!! I own the domain internet.inc that would be perfect for this - want to use it??
The big difference is that CPU cores are truly independent. GPU "cores" aren't, a group must be running exactly the same instructions at exactly the same time, and they share registers.

Also, CPU cores tend to have speculative execution, GPUs don't.

So long as GPU threads have to run in a warp, they will be fundamentally very different from a CPU core, no matter how weak, strong, or power efficient.
Puthon has one, as mentioned, but as a non CS-person I never encountered any problem in my programming-life that so fundamentally called for graphs that I needed one, not did I had so much fascination for graphs that it was a tool I wanted to force onto my problems.

I guess it is just that there are many problems that can be solved incredibly well without graphs and not that many where graphs outshine everything else so clearly that people would use them.

That being said, convince me of the opposite and I am happy.
We still need to receive the mail somehow. It's analogous to the post of yesteryear.

The issue seems to me that marketing loves to abuse dark patterns and whatnot to sign most people up for a torrent of emails. My partner has thousands of unread emails and most regular people I know would be in a similar boat. We can't expect people to keep an inbox zero level of diligence.

Maybe some better legislation around unsolicited advertisements is needed? I don't want to have to unsubscribe. Don't sign me up in the first place.
Instructions followed, car is now broken.
> You don't need a study to debunk this theory within the context of Diamond's overall hypnosis; you need a globe and some measuring tape. Africa's east-west axis (4600m) is only 8% smaller than its north-south axis (5000m), which in turn is almost identical to Eur-Asia's (4,900m). The only time this isn't true is on a distorted map like the Mercator projection he uses in the book.

Surely Eurasia is around twice than that? You don't need a distorted map to see that the distance between Portugal and Japan is far greater than the distance between Senegal and Somalia.
Vintage Tech Review: A Floppy Disk Camera (Sony Mavica) [video]
I never used this one, but I had one of the first Kodak cameras. They had an awesome API! I saw someone play PacMan on one of the early ones.
Obvious limitation is something like Maps and media.

My guess ones that use mechanical dials (i.e. Lexus until ~ year ago) cause more distraction than touchscreen by simply being harder to use and taking more time to solve your problem.

Given how well chatgpt's voice recognition works - why not just put it on all cars!
On top of that, there's almost no useful information in the article. I don't understand how this made it to the top of the front page. People must be upvoting based on the title.
Out of curiosity and if you don't mind me asking, would you mind listing the others?
Woah that's a crazy domain. Worth a lot. Love your parking page!
I rated 1421's credibility pretty low from the introduction onwards - he talked about matching Chinese maps to how he'd seen things from seaports, which sounds like a very easy way to see whatever you want to see, and some stuff about the same kind of chickens which felt like extremely thin evidence to hang extraordinary claims off of.

I haven't got to GGS yet, but given that the top reddit "debunking" is pretty open that its main argument is "his conclusions are racist, therefore he mush be wrong", I'm feeling a little more hopeful.
We run many talos clusters at Civo, and they are far easier to manage than the other cluster types that use a standard Linux distribution stripped and stuffed with what we need, and the custom image build process is easy to get running in CI, all in all talos is wonderful both as tenant nodes and our region supercluster nodes, and much simpler process to add/remove nodes to the pool and do a few other k8s-centric tasks like etcd snapshot backups and pre-configuration of our regions before we have kit on the ground.
A:\ on Windows 11
Ask HN: ARM workstations for homelab CPU based AI Inference testing?
I am eyeing @AmpereComputing's Ampere Altra.
There's a docker image for optimized PyTorch
https://hub.docker.com/r/amperecomputingai/pytorch

I am pretty sure it is just OpenBlas compiled with special options + PyTorch using that, but who knows.

There doesn't seem to be a ton of affordable options. I see the Altra has ASIMD\NEON but not SVE.

If I have a budget of ~3000, is one of their systems probably the best choice? There are several standard formfactor motherboards and even combo kits available at normal outlets.

I'm not _MARRIED_ to ARM, but ~60w idle, 200w tdp when it's busy - that can be cooled quietly, and performance looks decent.
No, not at all. His job was just to fix crashes. He would go through the logs and they just all happened mostly be porn sites. We used to joke that his job was to visit porn sites, but it was among a small group of developers. I wasn’t even sure of his direct manager was aware. But he was in fact being paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites :-)
Animals, including domesticated, mostly require fairly narrow biomes to thrive.

In Africa there were all sorts of parasites and microbes that played havoc with attempts to grow European animals outside these lucky spots.

The Americas were too isolated and recent; Africa was too connected and old.
The Lancet link has slightly more detail - sounds like he's a bit crazy and they were investigating him because they thought there was fraud happening but then they realized he was just 'hypervaccinated' and so they didn't file charges and enrolled him in this study;

> Here, we report on a 62-year-old male hypervaccinated individual from Magdeburg, Germany (HIM), who deliberately and for private reasons received 217 vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 within a period of 29 months (figure A; appendix 1 tab 1). HIM's hypervaccination occurred outside of a clinical study context and against national vaccination recommendations. Evidence for 130 vaccinations in a 9 month period was collected by the public prosecutor of Magdeburg, Germany, who opened an investigation of this case with the allegation of fraud, but criminal charges were not filed. 108 vaccinations are individually recorded and partly overlap with the total of 130 prosecutor-confirmed vaccinations (appendix 2 p 12). To investigate the immunological consequences of hypervaccination in this unique situation, we submitted an analysis proposal to HIM via the public prosecutor. HIM then actively and voluntarily consented to provide medical information and donate blood and saliva. This procedure was approved by the local Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany. Throughout the entire hypervaccination schedule HIM did not report any vaccination-related side effects. From November 2019, to October 2023, 62 routine clinical chemistry parameters showed no abnormalities attributable to hypervaccination (appendix 1 tab 2). Furthermore, HIM had no signs of a past SARS-CoV-2 infection, as indicated by repeatedly negative SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests, PCRs and nucleocapsid serology (figure A; appendix 1 tab 1).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
But that gets back to Diamond’s motivating fundamental question.

Why were the Spaniards colonizing the Americas rather than the Incas colonizing Spain?
> while absolutely not easy to use

Absolute majority would like to disagree.
> "commit your halfway feature work/.../come back to the feature and amend/squash/soft reset"

...this is just by-hand stashing with alternative commands and extra "WIP" commit messages.

Which, uh, is admittedly an option. One that won't easily preserve your index independently from your working tree - awkward if you're in the middle of painstakingly separating out changes to add to the next commit with `git add -p` - and one that risks "WIP" commits ending up in your tree... but it is an option.
Apple Hit with €1.8B EU Fine over Abusive App Store Rules
Last modified was probably carried over from what the file had when it was packaged into the installer, with created being the time for when I actually installed the toolkit.
Respect for referring to layer 1 of the TCP/IP model instead of the OSI model. Functionally the same usage at that layer but the TCP/IP model is both simpler and almost always what people actually use when they talk about OSI layers.
https://archive.ph/fo4Pt
I think this has to be it.
Not us East 3, but AI only data center
Theoretically yeah. The question is how efficient they are at doing this.
It had duplicated mechanics
There is going to come a point where all network traffic will at least go through 1 or more AWS data center. Amazon will be the literal gatekeeper of network traffic. This is fucking scary to me.
I'm not following. Is this like kubernetes where you can run it on your own hardware or pay for it As A Service? Is it open source? (It contrasts most clouds as "But they are closed source" but I'm not seeing code?)

Edit: Docs point to https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud which is marked AGPL and appears to have self hosting instructions. Would have been nice to have that up front but /shrug
You literally do not need more than the most basic of host-OS facilities to run any Linux workload you want in a pod, the OS just needs to run containerd and have a kernel, talos adds the management plane to that mix to make it useable, but the userland provided by the oci image will not see any difference at all than if it were running on Ubuntu; it will see the kernel.
See also: Anthropology. I am guessing it's a simple matter of human pride. These groups consider themselves to have authority over their domains. Diamond made claims that ignore some of their tenants, and come to different conclusions. There is a visceral reaction.
Niels Ln Doky's TED talk [0] helped me understand and appreciate Jazz.

[0] https://youtu.be/3ee-XROfON0
I think that's really the issue here. It's not that these packages exist and aren't useful to less experienced devs or people new to JS just trying to get a task done, it's these packages keep showing up in professional/enterprise apps and libraries. Those devs should already know how to do this stuff. It seems odd these projects would leave themselves vulnerable to supply chain attacks over something so trivial.
Yes, people keep them as pets, play with them, etc.

There are also large wild populations.
"The Triumph of the West" by Roberts has a similar thesis.

https://www.amazon.com/triumph-West-J-M-Roberts/dp/076070850...

It's been a long time since I read it, but as I recall the theses were that individual rights and freedoms coupled with things like the scientific method is what resulted in triumph.
Windshield wipers should be 100% automated for majority of the cars
It's a really smart application of ML: helping around the edges and not letting the ML algo invent pheonems or even whole words by accident. ML transcription has a similar trade-off of performing better on some benchmarks but also hallucinating results.
I was trying to drive home the point that knowing you're right and convincing people you're right are two different things. I didn't mean to be disrespectful when I typed it.

I'll take a break from current event commentary for a day.
Buttons are cheap to manufacture. Their design, testing, installation and support - not so much.
It does not support normal mp4 (H.264 and aac) files on Linux.
You don't think that if the hammer company had a way (that cost them almost nothing) to make sure that the hammer its never used to attack human beings they wouldn't add such feature? I think many would, if anything by pressure of their local goverment or even the competition ("our hammers can't hurt your baby on accident like those other companies!") , but its impossible to add such feature to hammer; so maybe the lack of such feature its not by choice but a byproduct of its limitations.
That's a matter of some debate. Somewhere between 6 and 12, I believe, is the range.

SpaceX plans to stretch the second stage to increase fuel carrying capacity for tanker flights, so the actual number is TBD until both the revised Starship and its engines (Raptor 3) are built and tested.
I wonder how odd I am about these things. Due to the environment I grew up in, anger is something I struggle to deal with in a healthy manner. It has taken a long time to learn. When I was young I would not think twice about this kind of thing and find it fun. As I get older i do not find that I enjoy it. In fact its a little bit off putting. Watching groups of humans cheer for the destruction of something they are angry at. Something about it hits wrong in my old age.
"it showed me a way of looking at the world at a way larger scale than I had previously done, and was very engaging while at it."

It's definitely "sitcom science", especially compared with Guns, Germs, and Steel (I've read both). I found it engaging (check!), and appreciated the earlier chapters that literally start by describing that single-celled organisms + billions of years == some other new form of life (way larger scale? check!)

The comforting nihilistic internal response to that book was "doesn't matter if we nuclear war or death by solar flare, or whatever... a billion trillion years from now, it's intimately necessary that something would go from single-cell organism to multi-cell organism".

Time marches on, even if we do not.
Not to mention the Vanity Fair piece that led to this interview here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-f...
I looked to his Wikipedia to get some context for what kind of background he was starting out with to "get rich" from; it claims he spent his childhood in poverty, but he went to private school? And did a philosophy degree?
Apparently he was selling forged vaccination passports: https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-germany-europe-docum...
Yahoo (they’re just a portfolio now right?)
Back in the day I got to go to a demo and presentation about the machine.

An interesting thing about the design was that it had a 5” screen, but it could only show about 50 columns at a time of the 80 column display. There was a knob you turned to pan the display.

In the end I think the Kaypro was a much better execution of the idea, even with its sharp cornered, steel, shin smashing design.

I certainly did enjoy his books however.
That shape must be patented or copyright protected, because all the Amazon listings are several hundred dollars each. The usual knockoffs are conspicuous in their absence.
Does AWS need to build anything on the site as part of this deal, or are they simply leveraging the power added to the grid in their existing us-east-1 footprint? The distance from Ashburn is too far for this to be an extension of a region.
I suppose I should have looked it up! For some reason I just looked up the definition of nill and tried to work out a plausible folk etymology from there.
Super helpful feedback @peter. Thanks a ton!

I've noted all of these and I'll modify the README to include them. Thank you for taking the time to go through in such detail :)

Given that the current state of a workflow:

- is inherently invisible

- all we can really check in the DB is if, for a workflow, the available data contains the target data;

how would I address observability concerns?

This is a function of a lack of workflow states due to the lower levels of abstraction it operates on. User defined workflow states would do the trick, but I suppose that would take writing some more code after integrating the framework.
I don't know any of the details but maybe the CPUs of the time would have struggled to stream the decoding.
While I can sympathize with you, I'm not seeing myself repairing my MBA. It would be like trying to repair an F1 car. Not doable for the average person and even the constructor just swap the broken piece. I also backup everything important and encrypt the whole disk. I'd say the tradeoffs are worth it for the combination of lightness, quiet, performance, display and battery life I got. It's the perfect portable device for general purpose computing.
Fiber Optic Cable Range: How Far Will It Go? (2022)
My note taking app has never refused my input of a swear word.
What you really need to read is David Reich’s who we are. Totally based on genetic data and talks about how the “aryans” basically wiped out the male population of Europe and took all their women displacing them completely. Another branch went off to India and it has a pretty good breakdown of the genetics of the Indian population as well.
Depends on whether you're encoding speech or music.
The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: Or, a Treatise on Politeness (1774 Edition)
The problem is to non-academics, it’s all a bunch of Just-So stories and Whig histories, so it’s difficult to judge and the more compelling writer is gonna win.
I have a Unicomp Endurapro. However, my fingers and wrists favor split keyboards for longer periods.
We operate talos and alpine based nodes, many thousands of them. The build chain for alpine is many orders of magnitude more complex than the build pipe for our talos image modifications. Alpine is really not made for doing a lot of “host” tasks and needs much coercion to get it to be capable of running something like k3s, and much more complex to get kubeadm clusters running on it. In the end the complexity is required for flexibility, alpine nodes can be modified on a whim, talos is R/O and ephemeral, but more secure.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by modelling non-centralized things?
Oh interesting, are French judges appointed based on their prior law practice expertise?

In the US there is that problem somewhat, with the cafc. But probably <50%, it also has a lot of academics and government lawyers too.
Starting a career in something you love is a good way to poison your love and mess with your self image. Starting a career in something you happen to have some talent for is the way to go.
> Then again, it also boggles my mind how car makers in the US continue to use flashing red lights as the turn signal instead of yellow lights.

Technology Connections channel had a video about that a while back:

https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA?si=xKRgMFK1DFBrB3i0
Live Music Emotionally Moves Us More Than Streamed Music
own the hardware but cant do what we want on it, because we're forced to use the software
The worst is when the touchscreen freezes and there is no master breaker switch to throw to reboot it “in flight.” You have to pull over, shut the car off, open the door, close the door, then start the car to reboot it.
Claude 3 Opus suspects it is being tested from benchmark question
Thanks for sharing this! There is no support for timeouts yet, but might be a good addition.
> Before the pernicious or the insidious, we of course begin with the deeply, hilariously stupid: from screenshots I’ve obtained, an insistence engineers no longer use phrases like “build ninja” (cultural appropriation), “nuke the old cache” (military metaphor), “sanity check” (disparages mental illness), or “dummy variable” (disparages disabilities). One engineer was “strongly encouraged” to use one of 15 different crazed pronoun combinations on his corporate bio (including “zie/hir,” “ey/em,” “xe/xem,” and “ve/vir”), which he did against his wishes for fear of retribution. Per a January 9 email, the Greyglers, an affinity group for people over 40, is changing its name because not all people over 40 have gray hair, thus constituting lack of “inclusivity” (Google has hired an external consultant to rename the group).

This is both hilarious and sad