skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In September 1999 a series of bombs tore apart four apartment buildings in three Russian cities, and the recently appointed (a month earlier) Prime Minister, a bright young former deputy mayor of St Petersburg named Vladimir Putin, whom no one had ever heard of and had many similarly positioned rivals, won a great deal of popularity for his handling of these "terrorist attacks" that killed 307 people, including re-invading Chechnya and starting the Second Chechen War. He then used that popularity to become essentially dictator for life.

These bombings were blamed on Chechens- who hotly denied it. It has long been suspected- but not really proven- that the FSB was behind it, as a true False Flag operation to gin up support for invading Chechnya, done under the orders of former KGB/FSB agent Vladimir Putin who just happened to be the one to benefit most from the attacks. You can see the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing... to see more details on exactly what the evidence for this is, and the people who argue that there is just not enough evidence one way or another to assign responsibility.

So, no, Russia was not "overtly copy the US model" if anything they were innovating it first and the US was copying.
You can use fzf for this
> And unlike WebP, it's backwards compatible.

No, JPEG XL files can't be viewed/decoded by software or devices that don't have a JPEG XL decoder.
Android users switching to iPhone prefer value over latest tech
To be honest, we have no dedicated people to do operations, we are all focusd on development, still we all need to do some operation work. Its not a good situation but real
I can't wait for companies to use this as a way to drive down pay
Bamboo.

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Three experiments looking into how GPT4, Gemini & LLaVA perform when getting conflicting visual and textual information. Some pretty interesting results.
So cool!

Here's how to make them: https://www.brendangregg.com/ColonyGraphs/cloud.html#Impleme...
All: I'm going through the 30 or so submissions of this story trying to find the best article. Is there a better article than this one?

Perhaps the top URL should just be the complaint itself (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mu...), in which case we can merge to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559966?
You, a human, can define degradation. So your prerequisite to degradation measurement requires humans?
<3 yamaha nippon gakki red label from the 60s/70s
Applications of (generalizations of the Chern-) Gauss-Bonnet theorem came up in the context of alternatives to General Relativity around fifteen to twenty years ago. You should probably stop reading here. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Gauss%E2%80%93Bo... (the History section is pretty interesting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Bonnet_gravity

As briefly touched on there, Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity turned out to require higher dimensions (the start of this abstract is worth the click :-) <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-82...> ) so the idea that EGB might sweep up higher order curvature in the self-interaction of physical gravitation is mostly dead.

Mostly. There's still a trickle in the literature. For example, <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044026> ("General relativity from Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity", 2021, open access; ref [12] therein corresponds to <https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3575> (no singularity in EGB black holes -- lots of Ricci calculus there, nothing like soccer balls as far as I can see)). The references in <https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00260v1> (no singularity in Ef(G)B cosmology, applying a correcting function on the Gauss-Bonnet term) can takes an interested reader to years of discussions about the accelerated expansion of the universe. As always the first two digits of an arXiv identifier are the submission year.
Hey, my mate published a quick guide about the most important commands and how to install Git LFS.
Ah, the "FT is conspiring with shortsellers to ruin Wirecard" BS Wirecard was aggressively pushing back the day.

Just shows how persistent lies and propaganda can be.
Chauncey Gardener?
With you on this one. It's impossible for me to fathom the thought of cutting down a tree that took 2000 years to grow. Let alone is so majestic!

We humans are incredibly shortsighted. Today, we only have 2-5% of old growth trees left... and that's only because of people like you and me ( who care) fought to purchase them. Otherwise, someone would cut them down and sell them for a few bucks.
Ultra-Processed Foods Have Disturbing Health Effects, Large Review Finds
You're right! I tried it again and all was well.
Yes I know they did ask.

As the responsible manager for IT (usually CTO - internal SOX was a different matter) I have been "asked" by EY (and KPMG) about IT setups and security several times for audits. And I could have told them whatever I like, the people were right out of university with no clue about the matter and in no position to ask the right questions except reading their checklist; I always had the impression they only knew half the words they were reading.
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I live in a 100 year old home with old windows. Storm windows work. Also, the panes are fairly easy to replace and if you want to put the money into it, I believe they make a double paned product you can replace the panes with. Despite the large initial investment, it's overall cheaper because you never need to replace. We've actually had a few panes broken, and it's dirt cheap since normal glass is cheap, and the pane replacement is a DIY-doable project (remove glaze, remove plane, place new pane, reglaze).
imo the most interesting page is page 40 if you don't feel like reading the whole thing.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562778
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Teaching css and teaching design aren’t the same thing though. And the beginner css courses are mostly not teaching design.
Is a $600 a night hotel room better?
Image Is My Password
I live in a 100 year old home in the PNW and I've broken dozens of 'wood' rated drill bits trying to drill. It can take upwards of 10 minutes to drill through a single 2x4 stud in my house. It's honestly insane that they're considered the same material.

I do a lot of hobby wood working and the old growth pine seems to have more in common with ipe wood and the like rather than the stuff you buy in the stores. I'm holding on to all that old wood like it's gold.
Yes you send a message to the API containing the context you are interested in along with questions about that context the LLM can answer. The parlance commonly used refers to that message as a prompt. I don't know if you're delusional or just completely clueless about how LLM's work.
Advanced Git commands every senior software developer needs to know
As aliases:

alias g-log="git log --graph --format='format:%C(yellow)%h%C(reset) %s %C(magenta)%cr%C(reset)%C(auto)%d%C(reset)'"
alias g-history='gitk --all &'
alias g-checkout='git checkout $(git branch --sort=-committerdate --no-merged | fzf)'
alias g-commit='git citool &'
alias g-amend='git citool --amend &'
alias g-rebase='git rebase --interactive --autosquash'
alias g-pull='git pull --verbose --rebase'
alias g-pushf='git push --verbose --force-with-lease'
alias g-status='git status --ignored'
alias g-clean='git clean -fdx && git reset --hard && git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -fdx && git submodule foreach --recursive git reset --hard'
> Yeah, maybe some of these materials are not as "sturdy" to the touch and maybe they have a shorter life-span, but I am positive they work better and are cheaper/easier to replace.

They are cheaper, they are easier to replace, and at the moment (wood nerd hat on) we genuinely do not know if they have a shorter lifespan. But it's very likely that they do not, in part because of the construction around them. These concerns are not, in my experience, something that you really hear people who spend much time around structural work bring up. It's mostly a "back in the day" thing.

For furniture, on the other hand--things are different. But dimensional lumber as practiced today is a modern miracle.
yeah everything inside the pdf was correct
My experience working in such kind of projects is that bringing back in-house seldom happens, most key devs eventually leave, managers of both companies discuss some new deals during lunch time in how the offhsore company will make up for the loss of quality, and then is business as usual.
Yeah, sometimes you can just accept the differences and enjoy both. Like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" vs. "Blade Runner".
The only thing I am sure of about copyright law, is that I don't fully understand it.

Search engines, for example, necessarily read as much of the internet as possible, in order to create an index, which is a derivative of the original content; when giving you results, many show snippets from those search results, so that users have an understanding of why the link is relevant to their query, which is definitely a copyright violation because Google lost (or settled?) on that exact issue with regard to news sites (and image results?).

Search engines are one category of AI. PageRank was a significant improvement over simple indexing, and personalised results are a significant improvement over pure PageRank (and Google's "moat" after Page's patent expired).

So the impression I have is that merely downloading a public page and putting into an algorithm isn't a violation by itself, while repeating even short clips of text verbatim totally is.

But things aren't static, they are rewritten to respond to the possibilities of the world. Is this going be accepted or not, going forwards, given what AI can now do?

I don't know.

I can see the two camps, but I can't foresee which will be the victor; and it won't necessarily be the same in all countries, given the balance of interests between creators and users isn't assured to be the same everywhere.

(And even that's assuming no good models trained on public domain or suitably licensed documents, even though there are already some such models).
Looks like there are more savings coming on lossless AVIF: https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1b3lh08/comment/kstmbr...
i think this could function in a small project scenario and i like the idea. Don't think that would be super maintainable in larger enterprise applications. You'd essentially be on the hook for maintaining more code as well.
I think the public already considers non-profit = scam.
A lot of the time it takes you from 0 to 0.1, but (a) every little helps (b) if you take them out for lunch or a post-work beer or whatever it can build a relationship where you can ask follow up questions via email.

Ideal is if they have a life such that something morally equivalent to "how about we meet up and I'll pay for the food/beer" is a viable thing to suggest later.

Oh, and always remember - the way to a geek's schedule is often through their wife. If you get a chance to meet their partner, TAKE IT and be on your best behaviour, if $partner likes you then you have massively increased chances of making useful things happen later.
This is one of the great challenges of system engineering. Any slack you build into the system has a tendency to get used over time, but that means that if you don't exert some human discipline to have monitoring on your slack and treat it as at least a medium priority that your slack is being used up that your system will rapidly evolve (or devolve, if you prefer) into one that has single points of failure after all.

To give a super simple example, suppose you have a database that can transparently fail over to a backup, but it's so "transparent" that nobody even gets notified. Suppose the team even tests it and it proves to work well. The team will then believe that they are very well protected and tell all their customers and management all about how bulletproof their setup is, but if they don't notice that the primary database corrupted and permanently went down in month six because their systems just handle it so well, they'll actually be operating on a single database after all and just be one hiccup from failure.

One of the jobs of an ethical engineer is to make sure management doesn't just say "it's OK, the site is working, forget about it and work on something else" without some appropriate amount of pushback, which you can ground on the fact that sure, they're saying to ignore it now, but when the second DB goes down and the site goes down they sure won't be defending you with "oh, but I told the engineering team to ignore the alerts and keep delivering features so it's really my fault and not theirs the site went down".

At Facebook's scale, something will always be in a state of degradation. It's just a fact of life.
I read the full complaint and also went through the HN submissions, personally I think this article is the best.
It is absolutely OBVIOUS why there is no old forests in Netherlands. I don't think there is any danger of the same happening to the US.

US is 237 times larger than Netherlands. Netherlands also is 17.5M people. If US had the same population density, there would have to be over 4B people in the US.

And that is not including the area that Netherlands had to recover from the sea.
Humans generally tend to prefer smoothing over visible blocking artifacts. This is especially true when a direct comparison to the original image is not possible. Of course different humans have different tastes, and some do prefer blocking over blur. SSIMULACRA2 is based on the aggregated opinions of many thousands of people. It does care more about blur than metrics like PSNR, but maybe not as much as you do.
Redwood is amazing. My dad has a picnic table with redwood boards he bought in the 1980s which is in basically perfect condition today despite living outside in Wisconsin the entire time.
Yes, but I think everyone would agree that the chance isn't 0%
Mountaineer with a bunch of via Ferrata experience here, mainly in Europe. What's often forgot in discussions about these is that in spite of you being anchored to steel ropes, the consequences of a fall on these are pretty severe when compared to falling into a normal dynamic climbing rope (which is pretty normal and done all the time without problems in sports climbing). The physics of shock absorption by via ferrata equipment is not your friend here, a fall with a vertical slide to the next anchor 6ft below you is a ticket to the hospital, likely with permanent damage.

Via ferratas can be fun, but you really don't want to fall, and if in doubt, do your research and get really good equipment.
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I mean ... technically Gemini 1.5 has 10 million context which just pushes the insanity further lol
For the most part, a great article. But:

> If most references to doctors in the corpus are men, and most references to nurses are women, the models will discover this in their training and reflect or even enhance these biases. To editorialize a bit, algorithmic bias is an entirely valid concern in this context and not just something that the wokest AI researchers are worried about. Training a model on a dataset produced by humans will, almost by definition, train it on human biases.

> Are there workarounds? Sure. This is not my area of expertise, so I’ll be circumspect. But one approach is to change the composition of the corpus. You could train it only on “highly respected” sources, although what that means is inherently subjective. Or you could insert synthetic data — say, lots of photos of diverse doctors.

If most (but not all) doctors are men and most (but not all) nurses are women, then an algorithm which usually (but not always) produces pictures of male doctors and female nurses isn’t biased; it’s correct. And likewise, training it on non-representative (i.e., non-representative of reality) photos is just lying.
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Car companies are not responsible for dropping the price of Li-ion. Its cell companies like BYD, LG Chem, and Panasonic.

Have Tesla pay Panasonic to drop cell prices, and Toyota can leverage their long-term relationship with Panasonic to get a same-price battery pack in the long run anyway.
Oooh, esm.sh looks pretty close to what I'm looking for, thanks!
They're used in electrics? I've only heard about them in acoustics, ie. 'sinker' mahogany.
What about: "I want you to earmark this for open source AI research, and not R&D specifically aimed at making profits"
I have to say, it really impressive!!!
Toyota NA CEO: Better to buy EV credits than 'waste' EV investment
if you're not profitable, there should be no tax advantage, right?
I mean it's not far off from a super low quant LLM with limited params, like a 1bit quant LLM with low params XD
If I were to do this I think I’d try to find a BFGD (big format gaming display), which is a type of screen that’s sized like a TV but behaves more like a monitor and usually has a DisplayPort.
> It seems like you want to prove that the reality you see is the only truth in the world?

Bam, uno reverse card.

> Alright. Why are we discussing by the way?

Because you moved the goal post from my example of hard working people having no money but not complaining how life is unfair because they don't have an iphone to poor people partying and spending money on drugs and how life is unfair because they don't have an iphone (even though in your example they spent money on an iphone but hey, I get it, honest mistake, people do it all the time when they want to trash poor people. Just let chatgpt write your arguments next time.) and because of this:

> > Many times what makes people poor is exactly this "irrational" behavior of spending money they shouldn't.

> Yeah, no. Not "many times". That's just vague blanket statements to comfort a certain world view. Not buying.

> Alright. Why are we discussing by the way? Ah, you are discussing alone. You should check your mental health, john.

Fuck you too, Alan :).
I completely agree. AGI is an existential threat, but the real meat of this lawsuit is ensuring that you can't let founders have their cake and eat it like this. what's the point of a non-profit if they can simply pivot to making profit the second they have something of value? the answer is that there is none, besides dishonesty.

it's quite sad that the American regulatory system is in such disrepair that we could even get to this point. that it's not the government pulling OpenAI up on this bare-faced deception, it's a morally-questionable billionaire
Hello, Daft developer here!

The network indeed becomes the bottleneck. In 2 main ways:

1. Reading data from cloud storage is very expensive. Here’s a blogpost where we talk about some of the optimizations we’ve done in that area: https://blog.getdaft.io/p/announcing-daft-02-10x-faster-io

2. During a global shuffle stage (e.g. sorts, joins, aggregations) network transfer of data between nodes becomes the bottleneck.

This is why the advice is often to stick with a local solution such as DuckDB, Polars or Pandas if you can keep vertically scaling!

However, horizontally scaling does have some advantages:

- Higher aggregate network bandwidth for performing I/O with storage

- Auto-scaling to your workload’s resource requirements

- Scaling to large workloads which may not fit on a single machine. This is more common in Daft usage because we also work with multimodal data such as images, tensors and more for ML data modalities.

Hope this helps!