skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entropy here is referring to how random the user's password is, and thus how difficult it will be to guess it. For example, a four character password which can be comprised only of lowercase a-z has much lower entropy than a four character password which can have A-Z and a-z (and the case is significant).

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/
The article is a rebuttal to this .. https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die...
This may have been true back in the times of the applications (when I was also a developer), but, speaking from 40+ years of experience myself. I agree, most significant projects need more than one person. There may be outliers, but back then it was the normal, now it's not.

Also consider games, back then one or two guys could do a game, now all but the outliers are done by large teams.
I assume the people who are actually the best at predicting world events are making huge sums of money in the stock market. Or posting on /pol on 4chan. Not entering prediction competitions.
You could detect caps lock by looking for these conditions:

* consecutive uppercase alpha characters are entered

* the shift property on the keyboard event is false
Indeed. Meandering, points don't build, completely disjointed. Random excerpt of three sequential paragraphs having absolutely no relationship to one another:

> The writer’s strike seemed to mark a system in collapse, with still no word of what a mass audience who’d streamed their way through a pandemic would do without the countless hours of storytelling its producers could not actually afford. Perhaps we would have seen it coming if only there wasn’t too much to see.

> The good fan holds a TV show to the highest standards; they expect nothing less than exactly what they were expecting.

> Peak TV represents something of an end of cultural history—599 scripted series in their final uncontroversial form. The golden age reinvented a mass market medium as popular high art....
Facebook does do this, and it's perfectly fine: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/214815

It exchanges a few bits of entropy for a much smoother user experience, and it doesn't actually aid an attacker much (they could just try the permutations themselves)
That's probably true in the US; much less so in Asia or places with good public transit.

There's a Hyatt House I pass by sometimes right next to the Shibuya crossing; though I'm guessing that one definitely does not have the price advantage.
I remember learning that electrons actually move in the opposite direction that current is marked on diagrams because when they started drawing them they couldn’t tell which way it flowed and ended up being wrong, but it doesn’t actually matter as long as you are consistent about it so they kept it “wrong”.
Lots of reasons...

* some return, even if negligible, for investors and the feeling of having done right by them

* decent hiring bonuses - so, some financial compensation even if the founders' equity was worthless

* reputation: they get to claim a successful exit, whatever the reality (so many founders dispense advice based on "multiple exits" which were all fire sales)

* continued life for the product... although in most cases the product is shut down and the team ends up splitting up and working on the acquirer's existing products

There's also just the psychology of it. After failing to raise the next round, you start a process to find some home for yourselves / your team / your product. Having gone through that process, if you come up with any offers, you're pretty likely to take the best one even if a purely rational analysis would suggest that you'd be better off doing something completely different.
I wish someone made up a better explicit FMA syntax than std::fma(-c, d, cd) ... maybe something along the lines of ((-c * d + cd)) with special brackets or (-c) ⊠ d + cd with a special multiplication symbol.

And if only we could effectively use FMAs from javascript...
Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
Many times, things grow.

I have done some very “significant” stuff, that was a big deal, when I released it, but would be considered “quaint,” nowadays.

That said, my significant work created a baseline that has been extended by a team, so it’s still “significant.”

The app I just released ain’t Facebook, but it’s pretty non-trivial; consisting of three backend servers (that I wrote), and two native frontends (that I also wrote).

Takes a while, though, and there’s a lot of moving parts. I’ve gotten used to working at this scale, but I’ve also been writing shipping software, for over 35 years.
>I really don't mind kids too much

I agree, and besides: We were all that kid at some point or another in our lives, probably many times too. The adults then were patient with us, so I think it's our turn to pay that hospitality forward.
> I’m no longer paying to host people here who want my family and my business dead.

That's well and good, about time I'd imagine, turning the other cheek too often is painful.

On the other hand, it leaves a lot of room for evil-smelling muck to remain. How far does this go?
In the YC book it failed for sure. Startups are not "lifestyle business" in the YC definition.
People need to stop using the word "sideloading". It's just loading. The normal behavior is to allow apps to be installed from any source.

I noticed Microsoft's developer documentation uses the word sideloading a lot:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/windows/deploy...
Good point! But that shouldn't be too hard. Probably easier than soundproofing a generator shed.
"He's not dying, it's his body just rapidly decomposing and ceasing to support the so called homeostasis, yes, but calling it 'death' is a misnomer". No, sorry, if it looks like a rotten corpse, smells like a rotten corpse...
Does it though? I really don't know. On what observations or scientific evidence are you basing your statement?
That's kind of irrelevant though.

The parent comment claimed that people "choose" the worse option, ignoring that the "better" option is marginally better food for usually 2x or 3x the price.

I haven't flown domestically (in any country) in about 10 years. The shortest leg of recent trips will be ~2 hours, either followed or preceded by a ~7-9 hour flight.

Parent's comment suggests I'm "choosing" worse food options (thankfully they are still an option, you can just choose not to eat on the plane) as if that's the only factor.

It couldn't possibly be that business class on the same route is more than 4x the cost, and for a family of 3 will cost the same as a brand new small car... just to get a slightly better reheated meal. Yes the meal is in a "nicer" seat, but that isn't the argument being made in the parent comment, is it?
Yep, and a regulator who thinks that the answer is millions of dollars in spending to build a system and hire admins. Understanding of self preservation could replace the same things with better training and empowerment of pilots to override unsafe decisions.
I was very careful to specify "computational properties" (as opposed to things like program length or side effects) and "arbitrary programs" (with "arbitrary" meaning that it doesn't suffice to prove individual programs correct, and "program" meaning that I'm not talking about single functions).

I should probably have been more specific by writing "decide" instead of "determine", because you can absolutely 'determine' a computational property as long as you're willing to ignore false negatives. For example, it's easy enough to write a termination checker by just checking for loops and equivalent constructs (or e.g. in Idris, by requiring that all functions are total), but that will of course reject a large number of programs that do in fact terminate.

Coq is not a Turing Complete language, so Rice's theorem doesn't apply. But almost all people are not writing programs in Coq.

I think static types are great, but they don't contradict any of this.
Why are those things important? I think the most important things when talking about the web are huge corporations and innovators.
Windows should always provide enough additional value that makes up for what they are asking as money - compared to the free option. That is the point. If you had no other viable options, then they could do whatever they like. Now they have a baseline to compete with and it is very hard to compete with free.
Blowing the Door Off Boeing's 'Epstein Deal'
I've been tempted a few times to rewrite some csvkit utilities in a faster language than Python.
> Is there some kind of aggregate that happens to all the predictions to validate them?

Most likely an application of the law of large numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Thanks for the link. That's helpful info.
The internet is dying. All hail the new islandnet powered by AI.

In all seriousness, the open web is under siege too. Hosting choices dwindled. Cloud providers few. Dark web isn’t the answer. Decentralized isn’t either (the web is already decentralized). We need legislation that protects humans and not corporations. Common carrier. Fair privacy law. Following privacy laws. And ending the piracy of content for the sake of “greater good”.

If I go to jail for pirating movies. So too should authors of bots that scrape content for training their $29.99/mo Alpaca. Or the click farmers driving up engagement for $9.99/mo.

The Pirate Bay is illegal yet OpenAI can pirate the world and get $1b investment.
>Its not illegal to ask for voluntary cooperation.

Privacy laws exist, with exceptions for illegal behavior. It may well be illegal to give data to cops unless you have user permission or a warrant (IANAL).
In the Hebrew bible, there's a commandment to put fringes on garments with corners and to put a blue thread in them:

דבר אל־בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם ועשו להם ציצת על־כנפי בגדיהם לדרתם ונתנו על־ציצת הכנף פתיל תכלת

(from "Numbers 15" in common termonology).

Because we don't know the dye that was used 3000 years ago, today most omit the blue thread, but some people claim that they know what it was (see https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/530127/jewish...) and wear fringes with blue.

(It's from a cuttlefish, the "chilazon")

Personally, I wear the blue thread, but I don't think we really know for sure what they used back then.
Tag line sounds exciting, buzzwords check out, but demo is lacking …
I’m an AppSec Engineer that works primarily on WebApps in eCommerce and none of this feels right to me.

I became very skeptical of the Tor project when I found out that the CEO of CMYRU (data broker /threat intelligence for governments and large corporations) was on the Tor board.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34jbj/tor-projects-moves-aw...

Privacy was incredibly hard 10 years ago, even harder 5 years ago, and it’s twice as hard today.

All of the sudden a solution comes out that makes it easier using what? Modern day web apps and browsers? The things that are like pulling teeth out of a pit bull to secure unless everything was diligently threat modeled from start to finish before a line of code was written?

If anyone has ever had the need to hide their IP address and be anonymous. It’s a real pain in the ass and takes a lot more OpSec then just using Tor.

This seems like it’s just opening the door for MITM attacks between the web app and the tunnel.
"20-30 sounds crazy low even for O(n²), though."

I mean, 30 means 2^30 sig digits. That means any operation on those are a bit expensive in pure memory throughput. Squaring that, let's use an FFT then it's just O(n log n) for the next step, with n being number of digits here. Or 30 * 2^30 ops, let's call it 2^35 ops. We're at 32 MFlops for a single dot. Let's only do a 1280*768 image, that's 32 GFlops to compute that image.

That's a perfectly nice rate, let's pretend it's half a second because all memory access was just perfectly sequential. (It's not, it's more).

Each additional step more than doubles the time spent. Which means even at 6 more iterations, we're staring at half a minute compute time. Nobody waits half a minute for anything. (Unless it's a web page downloading JS)

Now add the fact that I lied, memory access can't be fully sequential here. But even if it was, we're at least spilling into L3 cache, and that means some 40 cycles penalty every time we do. We'll do that a lot. So multiply time with 10 or so (I'm still hopelessly optimistic we have some efficiencies.), and suddenly even 30 iterations cost you 5 seconds.

And so, yes, it's really expensive even for modern PCs.

If you have a GPU, you can shuffle it off to the GPU, they're pretty good at FFTs - but even that's going to buy you, if we're really really optimistic, another 20 or so iterations before it bogs down. Doubling digits every cycle will make any hardware melt quickly.
>The US might not look lightly at foreign powers treating US companies in that way.

There's significant momentum in the US against big tech, I fully expect DMA like legislation on the state level in the near future. This isn't being framed as a national/foreign issue but as a democratic and consumer rights one.

Same for other regions. Japan, South Korea, the UK are likely to adopt similar laws, India already passed a sweeping crackdown on platforms essentially treating them like public utilities earlier last year.
You can actually type a bunch of ASCII control characters very easily on a keyboard. Look at an ASCII table with 32 characters per column (I like this one[1]). The key combo for a control character is Ctrl + the letter on the same row as the control character. So:

BELL Ctrl-G

RECORD SEPARATOR Ctrl-^

UNIT SEPARATOR Ctrl-_

ESCAPE Ctrl-[

You can think of the Ctrl key as clearing the two most-significant bits of the letter's ASCII code. Not all key combos are supported in all environments. Notepad++ doesn't support Ctrl-] (GROUP SEPARATOR) at all, but does support e.g. SHIFT OUT as Ctrl-Shift-N, for instance. The Windows CMD.EXE command line supports many combinations (but not UNIT SEPARATOR, unfortunately), displaying them as e.g. ^[ or ^G in the console.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/ASCII-Ta...
Oh so float8's L2 Norm from float32 is around I think 1e-4, whilst float16 is 1e-6. Sadly attention is quite sensitive. There are some hybrid methods which just before the attention kernel which is done in fp8, upcasts the Q and K from the RoPE kernel to become float16, then also leaves V to be in float8. Everything is done in fp8 on the fly, and the output is fp8. This makes errors go to 1e-6.
> The research and evidence is extremely limited.

Puberty blockers have been used for decades for a variety of other uses, but it seems like its most common use is to treat precocious puberty, which has a number of undesirable psychological side-effects.

What sticks out to me is that the medicine is not being withdrawn for anything other than gender dysphoria. It's a very bizarre line to draw for such a supposedly controversial medicine.
Like coloring books?
My bad. I just read "startup" and got triggered. You framed it well. If they dont take VC money and control their greed, i guess it may turn out to be a good model.
What an awful comment.

1. You can't say what everyone means when they say "it's dying," because you don't speak for everyone and not everyone means the same thing.

2. It isn't a ridiculous strawman, it's a cogent argument that the death of the current form of certain large communities does not mean new communities won't form in their wake.

3. "because this is HN"? Why do you come here if you have such a negative stance on the site?
Why do you assume that fine particulate is at the highest in city centers? It's often higher than average, but the highest is frequently outside of the city center, where highways have been constructed through pre-existing, poorer neighborhoods. The South Bronx is the famous example of this[1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/04/new-york-sou...
After devin "figures out" 10 issues, what does the code look like? Those are the easy ones, and if you haven't fixed them cleanly, the next 10 will be more difficult to solve, for human and for robot. Now do this for several years. Can devin create its own bug reports and issues? It better be able to!

I'm curious what a large, mature codebase, with complex internals and legacy code looks like after you sick devin on it. Not pretty I suspect. In fact, I think it will become so difficult to fix that nobody -- neither human nor devin -- will be able to clean up the mess. By sheer volume, a broken ball of unfixable spaghetti.

I would be immensely pissed off if someone did this to an open source project of mine, or even to a closed-source codebase I'm working on. Not only would it not be useful, it would be moving backwards. Creating an icky vomit mess that we will probably have to spend years cleaning up after bug reports and complaints from customers begin mounting, and competitors can iterate faster.

Does that sound like something you want to deal with in your software business?
Isn't this what mesh shaders were invented for?
And EVs make some problems worse, such as tire dust because they're heavier than an equivalent ICE car.
This assumes that prediction of world events tracks stock performance well. Predicting the performance of stocks requires also predicting a lot of the noise in factors like the error in prediction made by other investors, what marketing moves are made by the people who have an interest in the company looking good in a given quarter, the degree to which companies will be manipulated by large-scale investors for reasons orthogonal to that companies ostensible business models... etc. Some quantitative finance algos obviously do well, but it's a different skill from predicting the coarser phenomena we call "world events".

Also, if this all basically sounds like the economy is run like a mob casino... yes
A better metaphor would be the shops anywhere in your country. Governments and banks charge taxes and fees and in turn, through an elaborate architecture of laws and consequences, their customers don't have to wonder if their glass of water contains rotaviruses, or if the silverware has high levels of lead, or if 0.000014 BTC is gross overpayment for a hamburger, or if people in the next town will decide to rape and pillage sometime in the next hour.
I am extremely biased, but I have to say... This is the way.

I do want to note that GLP1s are not miracle cures for insatiable hunger, they don't necessarily work for everyone and may (rarely) have side effects that aren't worth bearing.

That said, the way it's affecting people's hunger/food noise/etc is absolutely mindblowing.

> Hand on heart, the last few weeks i've been on a GLP1 has been the easiest time i've ever had "dieting". It doesn't even feel like a diet because I just don't give a shit about food.

What's your plan for post-GLP1? You noted going to the gym -- are you going to try and build muscle to up the metabolism in the meantime and then when you get off try to coast after a little regain?

Also, are you taking this chance to build healthier eating habits (i.e. changing what you buy, make, etc)? I wonder if you can still build eating routine while on GLP1 that helps you post-GLP1.
GitHub pull-request contents out of sync by at least 5mins
The UCAVs produced under the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (aka "loyal wingman") program will eventually be controllable from a variety of manned platforms including E-2/E-3/E-7 AWACS aircraft. But in a potential conflict with China they will be forced to hang back out of easy data link range due to the escalating AAM threat.

https://www.twz.com/massive-pl-17-air-to-air-missile-seen-on...

Remote piloting generally isn't a viable approach for near-peer conflicts. The communication links are too vulnerable, and even when they're working the latency is too high.
>Decentralized isn’t either (the web is already decentralized).

Cloudflare.

EDIT: To those downvoting, you do realize how much of the internet relies on Cloudflare to connect server and client, right? Cloudflare is a bigger gatekeeper than Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook combined.
I'm up to year 23 of Linux on my Desktop.

"Works for Me" (TM).
I guess everything is relative.

I'm 180cm and definitely could stand to lose some weight so I've experienced some uncomfortable flights - generally on Qantas. Surprisingly (given average national height/weight) the best legroom I've had was on Thai, followed by Singapore airlines.

But then I can't compare to US airlines, which if stories are true, sound just horrific by comparison for any number of reasons before legroom is even a factor.
When people say the Internet is dying, they typically don't even mean the Web, they mean one site on the Web that matters to them.

The article us a rebuttal to [1] where someone is complaining that Reddit is going public. For some reason this strategy, or indeed the need for reddit to earn revenue, seems to be shocking to the author.

To anyone with half a brain, and has seen the internet since it was an infant in the 90s, its obvious the internet is not dying, it's "growing up". It's waaaay better now than it has ever been, and a pale shadow of examples it will become.

Yes we can pause to reminisce, yes we can fondly remember the yesteryears of carefree childhood, we can fondly really the lazy days of summer. All while forgetting the sound a modem makes when connecting.

[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die...
A lot of the machine learning world has started using it, it's annoying as hell, solves a problem that doesn't exist, has inadequate documentation, lacks a good GUI viewer, and lacks good command line converters to JSON, XML, CSV, and everything else.
They cannot make a submarine themselves, or design it, but when they reach 50 percent, they will reach 50% at everything.

In submarine engineering, they will be able to design and construct it in some way like 3d print it, and the submarine will be able to move into the water for some time before it sinks. Yeah, probably for submarines a higher percent should be achieved before they are really useful.
> "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected.

For how many people does the web actually cease to exist? Many people have seen social media as a dim light for many years now, yet most of the companies involved still exist. They may not be growing any more (or they may not be growing at the same pace), but that had to happen anyway. The world's population is finite. Only a certain percentage will be interested in a particular service. New competitors emerge. These companies had to plateau eventually and will likely decline eventually (as many have before them). No individual company, or even a generation of companies, can be regarded as representative of an overall trend.
Do you use the cloud-based text-based image generation in MSPaint?
Well, we would need to identify an equivalently difficult task for humans that couldn’t be learned independently.

Building websites or tiling floors (well) are much more complicated than following a set of instructions for changing an oil filter.

What percentage of humans could build a website purely from watching a few tutorials? Certainly not 100%.

Your comment makes me think that, indeed, humans do overestimate our abilities.
Apple is the only one acting entitled here. Why doesn't the App Store deserve competitors? Why should we accept Apple's fees and failures when they deliberately limit competition?

They're acting like an anticompetitive wuss if you ask me. If Apple is the righteous one here (imagine that), they can pack up their bags and tell the whole EU to shove it. They can individually invite all 27 markets to kiss their ass and watch as the relevancy of Apple products plummets in the first world. Problem solved, Apple saves the day. 中国梦!

Or, they can take the king's ransom of iPhone revenue and surrender their asinine software double-standard. This doesn't end well for them either way, there's no sense it making it last longer.