skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is, free markets beget oligopolies. They’re a natural consequence of being able to accumulate and concentrate capital.
another great resource similar to your list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Wow, this hit me. RIP
Good report. Well written incident summary useful for cyber-students
to follow and learn.

> The Library utilises numerous trusted partners for software
development, IT maintenance, and other forms of consultancy

> increasing complexity of managing their access was flagged as a
risk.

> first detected unauthorised access to our network was identified at
the Terminal Services server. This terminal server had been
installed in February 2020 to facilitate efficient access for
trusted external partners

Sadly their response seems to be using more cloud infrastructure and
outsourcing more.

trusted != trustworthy

The essential lesson - that good IT and security people within your
company cost money. It is worth paying for vigilance, loyalty and care
- has not been heeded.
Pesticides scale really well. The alternative would be to control the environment more, but that does not scale so well. Maybe with increased automation we could do some inroads in this direction.

Consumers are to blame too. They won't accept blemished produce, but a potato with some insect larvae in it, is really not that much of an issue. You just remove around the larvae and cook as per usual, and that is much healthier than dosing your produce with pesticides, that cannot easily be washed off.
I'd say the biggest reasons recently are:

1) The approval of various ETFs (so demand is heightened). It's much easier to invest in it than in was in the past.

2) Traders expecting the supply to tighten (see bitcoin halving which is due very soon) and the demand there also heightening due to supply constraint expectation.

3) A lot of the uncertainty in terms of exchanges is gone. Coinbase looks like it can stand up to scrutiny and this furthermore boosts demand.

When you have huge demand vs. constrained supply, bubbles form. Of course, are all of the factors I mentioned enough to keep the bubble going for a very long time? Well, that I can't answer. No one knows how long this will last. I can tell you though that this to me looks like it is the next Tulip bubble. I see almost no reason to use bitcoin as a store of wealth. As a decentralized currency it has tremendous value, but treating it as gold I have reservations on since a lot of corrupt gangs and regimes are currently using it as a method of payment and laundering (including North Korea), as well as it being a huge drain on the world's energy supply due to mining energy needs...I don't really see what value it brings to the world at all, so treating it as 'virtual gold' (the way the world has been treating it) makes 0 sense to me, but in general, the world in the short-term sometimes makes very little sense. Over the long term, things tend to clear up. Hopefully that helps.
I understand that blockchain and smart contracts have a role to play. But it's not connected to the token economy of crypto markets like Bitcoin, is it? Twitter, Reddit, etc. are also seeing things like meme-coin and AI distributed processing. Personally, I don't know if it really makes sense (I've been in the AI industry for 3 years now, but I've done enough research with the infrastructure and allocation provided by GCP or Azure, etc.).
Why do you get to decide which habitats die and which live by using all this modern technology that relies on mining and kills them?
Radio astronomy: from amateur roots to worldwide groups
Your technical concerns clearly aren't showstoppers because the professional building exists now, and because random person did it DIY a decade ago.

There's one overhang solution in my previous link, the more recent videos about printed houses with windows use a different, traditional, solution: lintels.

As for reinforcement, I can't say I really deeply understand the Wikipedia page "Reinforcement in concrete 3D printing", but it is quite sizeable and lists many things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_in_concrete_3D_p...

To be clear, I also think 3D printed concrete is a case of throwing buzzwords at problems rather than a good idea, but not because it doesn't work, rather because it produces a merely OK result for what is the single cheapest part of the construction process — I can get a prefab shell of a house built here in Germany for €100k, but that turns into €550k when you add the land, preparation of the land, connecting utilities, wiring and plumbing, and interior plastering.
By “proper” you mean “legal” and that makes all the difference. If the highest law of the land requires your OS to be a micro kernel, then sorry you’re not putting the GUI in kernel space, even if that would improve performance. And if you’ve already done that, well we gotta rip it out.

One of the great virtues of Anglo culture—one that’s unfortunately been diluted to a great extent in America—is its formalistic, rule following nature. Our tolerance of fundamental departure from the formalism of our Constitution should be a matter of shame, in and of itself.

But the complaint here isn’t merely aesthetic—about “code smell.” The ways in which we have ignored the constitution has changed who runs the country. And that’s bad for the country. No matter who you vote for, the actual running of the country will be done by the same corporate-friendly center-left bureaucracy. That’s not just frustrating to the right, it’s also ultimately frustrating to a large swath of the left. Every four years election promises go into the black hole of the administrative state, where they make at most minor changes in how the country is run.
> A reasonable person would readily agree they're friendly nations.

Sure (although a reasonable person might quibble that the EU is not a nation). It's just that friendly nations doesn't mean what you think it means.

Relevant terms are things like "realpolitik" and "realism". Basically, countries don't do things out of the good of their hearts, because they don't have hearts, they're not people.
High quality complexity and password policy guidelines are provided by NIST and no one uses them. It’s called NIST 800-63b. Just use it!
> It’ll be the first time we’ll have someone who knows AI create leverage to open source it.

It can’t be overstated how important this is. Thank you again.
The cards in two columns actually make it harder to scan.

Kind of reminds me of this (not identical, but I think similar) problem.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/zigzag-page-layout/.

For one, one can't be certain of order (two columns ordered top to bottom, each, or left right, left right and so on?). But also, just scanability of headlines is slowed.
If you want to enforce an ideology upon the public just cloak it with terms like "safety" and "diversity"
This is one of the reasons hydrogen cars are unlikely to achieve any widespread deployment. But the new proposal is hydrogen-carrying trucks, which is better (larger tanks and bigger scale means more and better maintenance than a typical passenger vehicle can justify) but also, it means extremely high pressure hydrogen tanks on the road with your traffic.

(Of course, it may not happen. Trucking hydrogen around is pretty inefficient and stupid: hopefully it will prove cheaper to pipe electrons around and generate hydrogen on site for whatever industrial process requires it.)
I just wrote a BASIC program generating values using the SIN function [1] and poked them into memory.

[1] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SIN
When I think “robust, performant language to serve traffic at scale,” my first instinct is definitely a frontend language.

I despise NodeJS and its entire ecosystem. The number of incidents I’ve been dragged into which are directly linked to its use is too damn high.
Fads end, but some have real lasting power, like LEGO or Minecraft. I haven't played Fortnite but from what I know of it, it may have similar lasting power.
Making advertising very specific, small, essential and not obtrusive, for example restricting ads on each products only to businesses offering services related to that product, I mean not a similar product but that exact one. Imagine searching for a software or library that does X, then on the product/project page there's a small area showing someone/some company offering services (install, customization, maintenance, etc) for the very same product: one per line, no unnecessary graphics or animation, just plain old links, complete with verified customers feedback.
I'm sure, albeit not perfect, this would reassure many potential users, including companies, concerned abut the bus factor or other similar problems that sometime discourage the use of Open Source software.
On how long, finetuning is influenced by your dataset size (more = slower), sequence length since attention is O(N^2), data movement etc and most important is how many steps you want to take. For QLoRA, some runs can do a few hundred steps which can complete in minutes to 1 hour. Too many can overfit. So being able to fit it on consumer GPUs can be very cost effective.

On the 1.58bit paper, from what I understand, this requires a total retraining from scratch. Hopefully the researchers will open source their weights :)

On the technicals, weights are encoded in (-1, 0, 1), whilst QLoRA uses a 4bit dynamic mapping of 16 numbers. The only change required would be the torch.matmul(X, W) step, where it'll be torch.bitlinear_matmul(X, W). Before with QLoRA, one has to do torch.matmul(X, dequantize(W)). So one has to implement torch.bitlinear_matmul. The backward is torch.bitlinear_matmul(dY, W.T).
I suppose this is taken from https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

I interpret this as the machine is deemed idle and reclaimed if ALL of these are true. Not Any.

Am I wrong?

Have a an instance that I used for some experimenting. It is doing quite a bit of CPU and RAM but almost zero network. It has been for months. But has not been reclaimed...
That was option (2). The reductio ad absurdem hits like a train with that option. It’s a trap for new players. In that particular variant, the following year the same people will be complaining about how much ingress costs these days, and the same hapless regulators will feel the urge to be Seen To Do Something. Wash, rinse, repeat. Still, thanks for playing
They do this already. Adjuncts are teaching faculty. Tenure usually comes with a research expectation and faculty in the tenure system typically have a reduced course load.

If a research active faculty member wants to teach even less, then they use grant money to buy themselves releases.

Typically even research faculty are expected to teach at least one course as are leadership faculty like deans. Though obviously the provost and president are unlikely to teach but rather raise a shit ton of philanthropy.

For context, I have work and consulted for more than a decade at R1 universities that you have heard of.
I remember Art Bell interviewing an alleged UFO abductee, many years ago. When they guy said the aliens used radio waves to alter his DNA, I turned it off.
Here was a dumb one from me the other day.

- I had to use login.gov

- My password manager had a saved login for it, I didn’t remember it, but it worked

- Then the site asked me for an authenticator app code. I checked my authenticator apps and there was nothing there for login.gov.

- There’s a login another way button so I click that and the other way is use the authenticator app!

- I click what if I can’t get my code?

- It says I must DELETE my account.

- I click to delete my account and it sends me an email.

- The email says to wait 24 hours for another account deletion email.

- 24 hours later I get an email that allows me to delete my account.

What was in the account? I have no idea, but it seems that it must be sensitive for some uses of the login. But if it’s sensitive and important why am I able to delete the account, the most destructive thing? Why is an email enough for me to delete it but not enough for me to get an auth code?
> In this specific case the authors state of mind is important to consider. Being far along in dementia his will and thoughts are not necessarily reliably indicative of their unimpaired will and thoughts

An argument can be made to the effect that he could not give his full consent given that he probably lost his capacities to make an informed decision.

A moral quandary nonetheless.
Anthimeria
Dream Chaser spaceplane reusable and runway-ready
We've spent a lot of time identifying bottlenecks and fixing them, up and down the stack, with FUSE being just one of them, even the AWS SDK itself introduces its own set that we've addressed. cunoFS can also be used with FUSE, and we find that it is roughly half the speed of non-FUSE (but thanks to our other optimisations, this is still much faster than alternatives).
Lots of comments here about sundials and the equation of time, responding to OP comment that sundials suck.

The actual issue is that sundials reflect the movement of the sun, whereas we mainly use an averaged out mean time to describe when it is noon. Solar noon (when the sun is at it's highest point) is sometimes ahead of mean time noon, sometimes behind it. This is due to the movement of the earth around the sun (including whether the earth is east or west of the sun looking down from the above the sun), the earth's axial tilt, and your latitude. However, the variation is entirely predictable, as encapsulated in the so-called equation of time, which shows the variation that needs to be applied to get mean noon. Of course, none of this really matters if you aren't bothered about synchronising geographically distributed clocks, time zones, etc.

As an example of the other weirdnesses that can result from using solar time, consider how day length changes as we go from the shortest to the longest day. Where I am in the southern UK, sunrise continues to get later until about two weeks after the shortest day, and the major change of day length (at that time of year) is in the evening. This is the same effect captured by the equation of time and reflects the fact that we are on a wobbly planet that doesn't have a perfectly circular, perfectly vertical orbit around the sun.

[Edit - minor rewording for clarity]
It is not permitted for use on organic crops. One will certainly ingest less of this chemical by submitting to an all-organic diet.
I refused to take 1,000 bitcoins for a lunch.

I think that guy is very rich now. I'm not.
It’s steep but manageable, absolutely go for it. The more people who understand the tech the better.
> The Big Three cloud providers accounted for 66% of worldwide cloud revenue.

Seems like there is a huge concentration of market share in the big 3. How is this “nowhere near” a monopoly?

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/even-as-cloud-infrastructu...
Each Orb has a private signing key that's generated + stored inside a secure element. For more info, search for "secure element" in the following sections of the whitepaper:

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/advancing-decentralization#...
Fisker's EV might not survive after the MKBHD's review
I think categories would be helpful. So you could have a category of mathematical optimization solvers and have Highs, Coin-OR, SCIP...etc in that category.
It is forbidden to use Chlorpyrifos in the EU, but in Morocco it's used. Recently, imports of olives contaminated with high levels of this chemical have been detected, but they have entered into the EU.

Oftopic but related, In Morocco, too, strawberries are irrigated with sewage water, and several times this year consignments of strawberries contaminated with hepatitis virus have been detected, but unfortunately they have also entered the EU.

The point is that if health is at risk, then it should be banned at each of its sources, importation included.

Morocco is preparing a major import hub through the Canary Islands, which is expected to "un-label" the source of products, I guess.

Is aware the EU about this?
Won't it ionize anyway on reentry?
> Converting math into code is extremely easy. Converting code back into math is the thing to optimize for.

Yes and that's what programming languages like APL do. Whole algorithms for manipulating equations represented as matrices can be groked with just a few symbols. At least to my mind, it's a very efficient way to write code, at least for domains that fit this model.

I learned APL in the mid '70s in high school. The math department offered it as an option to those of us learning linear algebra. One course reinforced the lessons from the other. Those of us in the APL course found ways to solve other problems not directly related to linear algebra, and we marveled at how compact the code was (especially compared to Basic, which a friend and I had learned the year before).
The pro-competition regulators aren’t here to make your service cheap. They’re just trying to make sure that customers can exit and switch providers without artificial barriers. If you want to soak people for ingress fees, snd it’s easy for customers to switch, go ahead.
I completely get your take on this and don't disagree. IMO it reads as a flippant response to a potentially serious question, and I am going to assume this is unintentional, which does not mean it is unfair to call it out.

Stepping back, this is the kind of discourse that Twitter can sometimes reinforce: short responses that, lacking context, can be interpreted in polarizing ways. After a bit of reading on the participants (because both of them are working in interesting areas), my belief is that the "pencil" response is actually shorthand for a whole set of beliefs that provide a lot of context and nuance to the discussion, but if you don't know that, it sounds like saying "AI is as dangerous as a new brand of chewing gum".

In addition, without defining what risks we're talking about, it's really hard to know the scope the answer is addressing. E.g., societal risk due to AI in general? vs. say, the risks of affecting the quality an existing model with fine-tuning?

So, I am chalking this up to a misunderstanding due to the limitations of the platform as well as the short-hand used in the response. And I could be completely wrong :)
Watched DBZ everyday when I came home from school. Goku was the dad I wished I had.

Ill admit, I use this to get pumped for the gym: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4vPDqoOmQ

Still inspires me after all these years and I don't like 99% of anime.
How is it good for companies that already hold a majority market share?
Is this an instance of that meme where people insult Linux to get better technical advice?
I normally just inspect the element in dev tools and disable the attached paste event handler. Not the most convenient way, but also I don’t need to do it all that often
> you can change direction

This is analogous to trying to turn a plane by only yawing. Or travel in a current by turning your head.

This guy [1] is wrong. Delta-v comes from Tsiolkovsky’s rocket equation, which in turn derives from Newton’s second law and the conservation of linear momentum. It’s incredibly fundamental math that you can’t cheat by changing direction. (You’ll change orientation and keep going where the math says you will. Because you’re going sideways relative to the Sun at an incredible velocity, the inheritance of every atom in the Earth’s sphere of influence, including the Moon.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=o11c
This all reminds me of the password game: https://neal.fun/password-game/ I'd call it amusing if it weren't so often real.

For a more entertaining take, I really enjoy this use of it against scammers and thieves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhQ2f8anT8
Judging by my nine year old, Epic will be doing fine for some time. They have an ecosystem of other tangentially related games available, including a Lego RPG-type game all built on top of their v-bucks payment system and their account/social network.
Kyiv's institute of Sociology had a more recent poll and published a Press Release on 21.02.2024

https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1372&page=2

Have a look at the Graph 9 and 10 about their openness to negotiations.
Wait, are you saying that all HN readers are temporarily embarrassed FAANG employees?

... that actually tracks pretty well.
Preventing such attacks is one of the main reasons why custom hardware is required. For more info, search for "spoof" in this section of the whitepaper:

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation#wh...
I have met perhaps a handful of devs who care about a good data model, or even know what one is.

Most seem to think that JSON is god’s gift to mankind, and that RDBMS are weird boxes you throw said JSON – along with random scalars for fun – into, and then you can blame the DB for being old and slow when your latency is abysmal.
Probably the same, NASA has been making batteries out of Lithium where appropriate for 60 years, so they chose that chemistry for a reason (most likely its non-toxicity and relative safety for a crewed space station)
Great suggestion! I plan to add search functionality soon.
> If you can fenagle yourself into a highly elliptical solar orbit

Getting to that orbit is more expensive than leaving the system.
Bandwidth is not an artificial barrier. It’s real infrastructure, with a real cost. I should know, I once dropped a LINX core switch on my foot.

Amazon is doing the right thing by maintaining egress fees but waiving them on departure. Not because it’s free for them, but because there’s zero chance that this precipitates a mass exodus, because moving is still hard even if it’s slightly cheaper. They’ll likely even gain some customers. That is, they’ll absorb the cost with growth. Which is Amazon’s business strategy in a nutshell.
Feature request: If I type "banana" and press enter, nothing happens. I expect the "generate" button to be the default button and be magicaly pressed when I press enter.

After searching "banana" I still see a lot of tiggers at the bottom. I expect to see a lot of bananas!

What is the licence of the images? Google Image has a disclaimer that explain that the images "may" have copiright restrictions. It may be a good idea to add a similar disclaimer.
I guess, maybe, the censorship was not in the LLM, but in the web site front end, so they bypassed the front end.
>Dragon ball was definitely the show that popularized Japanese animation in the west.

I like Dragon Ball, but come on, let's be real. You said "the west," but at least in America Dragon Ball (I think only Z aired in America) was extremely niche whereas Pokemon was a widespread cultural phenomenon. Even Digimon was more popular/commercially successful than DBZ in the US.