skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of that word in that way is much older than Better Call Saul.
In my experience, hardware-related issues mostly happens with stuff that was just released. If you don't mind waiting a few months before ordering, there are usually few problems.

As for UI inconsistencies, I believe they depend a lot on your GUI of choice.
Cloud as a Service?
We are creating cloud as a service which is supposed to provide clouds installations (like openstack etc), and not just VMs. Of course all cloud services are configurable.
Who you think might be a good choice for first testing customers? Do you know who is interested in that?
Thanks
> I stand with the Republicans in denying further aid to Ukraine

Meanwhile, the UK has opened to Ukrainian refugees (3 families in our street have accommodated refugees) and has pledged unconditional support.

We learnt our lesson that appeasing dictators, like Putin, does not work.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
sure but the fact that some farmer has a problem with how to sell his ugly carrots and as a consequence creates baby carrots argues that all humans, disregarding specific disabilities, can create, but just like some people are better at running, others better at dancing, some people are just really good at creating.
> If your company fails because {{online service}} lost all your data it is your fault not theirs.

No. It is your fault because it is expected and preventable but that shouldn't let the online service provider get off the hook. It's their fault too.
Having read "Now it can be told" by Groves, I can testify to other commenters on how much the Manhattan Project was an enormous logistical problem - Elon's manufacturing prowess pales in comparison to what Groves had to grapple with.

On a different note, I liked how the movie portrayed the world of quantum mechanics and somehow didn't try to make Oppenheimer a hero or something more than what he was.
GALA surged 40% in 24 hours, reaching $0.08587, a level not seen since May 2022.
GALA’s surge pushed its market cap past $2 billion, securing the top spot on the gainers’ list.
The cryptocurrency markets continued a surge over the weekend, with Bitcoin and Ethereum hovering just above key thresholds of $70,000 and $3,950, respectively. However, amidst this bullish trend, most of the altcoins were reaching new highs, and one such Gala Token (GALA) managed to steal the limelight. GALA displayed a 44% surge in the last 24 hours, rising from $0.06098 to $0.08622. Additionally, the market cap of GALA breaches $2 billion and secures the top spot on the gainers’ list.
> he got lead poisoning twice
> He just didn't care

Morale: Don't follow the man with the seriously damaged IQ.
While Nolan is a one of a kind director, his lack of research shows. He essentially adapted the book "American Prometheus" but didn't engage with any material beyond it.

Personally, I think the movie is too dramatized to be a documentary and too linear to be true drama. I'd rather have him stick to directing and get an A-class writer instead.
I think Oppenheimer was kept an enigma on purpose. I didn't exactly like the movie but I was somehow very impressed nevertheless. I don't regret seeing it but I might never watch it again.
Hivekit API – asset tracking API with realtime feeds and geofencing
I find it hard to appreciate your joke headline as I learned about Lake Nyos because of the 1,746 people who died when it emitted the built-up CO2.
It might be the first time that I see a phone number on a Github Repo, I wonder how many phone calls they will actually receive. It's probably the last thing I'd like to do when looking at an open source repository.
It seems like we really need to move forward to 'indefinite/active studies'. I believe some researchers are trying to get onto this pattern but of course there are major privacy/quality of care concerns.

By 'indefinite/active studies' I mean that the studies never stop - data just keeps going back into the system as a flywheel of the drug distribution process. I take a second-generation drug for CML (leukemia) and none of my health data goes back into research unless my doctor decides to elevate my data into a paper or something (which I don't think has happened yet).
Read up on the history of California's Zero-Emission Vehicle credits, Tesla regularly makes revenue in the hundreds of millions by selling these credits to other auto manufacturers. https://stockdividendscreener.com/auto-manufacturers/teslas-...

These credits were originally thought up to incentivize EVs because the smog in LA was near apocalyptic level.
Eclipse started as a "reinvention" of IBM VisualAge for Java and went through at least one major rewrite (transitioning to OSGi). I guess it's the standard pattern for mature code bases.
Don't "Embrace the Shine"
So who is it that uses these trains?

Commuters? Rail enthusiasts wanting a rail adventure?
Yeah. So the remaining concern is license. I hope it won’t be similar to Llama.
The Fed's 2% inflation target is a source of growing liberal discontent
Subpixel AA does not have significant benefits over greyscale AA on 1440p or similar displays, and it always have all the downsides. If you're rocking a large 1080p display and never share your screen (including screenshots), sure.

As the field of view taken by pixels decrease (DPI only has meaning when combined with distance to retina), anti-aliasing becomes less and less relevant. But until then, greyscale remains the lesser evil.
Right.. which is why "home PC" is one of the largest attack surfaces we have. The fact that tax authorities expect you to brave the gap is only one of the problems with this configuration.

The web browser _purports_ to be that entity. The list of CVEs shows that it isn't. If I install a "web browser" I'm installing "a binary program that can access anything it wants at any time it wants."

"Do take the time to read" is an absurdly condescending thing to say while simultaneously moving the goalposts of the argument.
More like
>GitHub's Impressive Growth Despite Microsoft

I'd happily pay a bit more and have not a software company being able to access code I don't want to share.
From the title I misunderstood what it does. However, now I'm wondering if what I thought is was (don't ask my why I thought it) is possible:

I have a PC that is able to run e.g. Mistral Instruct 7B Q4 inference with around 30 token/s.

How (computation and memory) expensive would it be to also run backpropagation in addition to inference?

I'm aware that the models are typically fed with much more and better data than what is typically provided during normal conversations but on the other hand if I could finetune my local model a teeny tiny bit during during / after each conversation I have with it anyways, it would after a while be perfectly customize for me.

I'm also aware that this could be problematic for models that are used by multiple users but my intended use case would be personal use by a single user.
If your system isn't 100% secure against hacking, you can't really use the system for business.

The solution you're forced to use if you can't get genuinely secure equipment is of course to not use electronic communications. Genuinely sensitive meetings should be held outside, with no electronic equipment brought and at an unexpected place and time.
Oh thanks for all these projects! I guess I haven't been paying attention to Rust x AI
I think the point that, even without oxygen, it could already be habitable for anaerobic organisms.
We are ineffable! Dominaria will fall. ( edit: hope folks will appreciate the username ;) )
The short answer is I tried listudy and I didn't like it.

I liked memchess because of how simple it was, and I liked not having to enter my own lines (though I understand this is important for serious study).

Memchess is what helped me defeat the strongest player in my local club, so I was quite frustrated when it shut down.
Gnome 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR, Other Refinements
In that case why not have an alternative where you pay $5 in cryptocurrency? It costs no more than that to get a phone number, meanwhile you now have more money in the development fund.
Indeed. 70-ish years of exposure will kill you dead.
I never thought the expectation was intelligent life. Even the discovery of a single celled organism would be a truly remarkable moment for humanity.
I dusted off a Samsung dumbphone from 2011 and was amazed to learn it could send files directly to my PC over Bluetooth and vice-versa.
Maybe improve your organization of database connections into folders to dig more easily?
Sure, here's the world's largest battery installation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/batteries-large-scale-energy-...

It can provide 400MW of power for 4 hours before it goes offline and cost $560m.

You need 6 of them to provide 24 hours back up. That's $560M * 6 = $3.4B. That's not counting the three times as large solar plant that you will need to build to charge the battery or that the battery will lose 50% of it's output within a decade unless you build an even larger battery installation to prevent full discharge. On top of that to prevent yearly black outs you'd need somewhere between 3 to 20 times the capacity above depending on region and climate.

Meanwhile the latest nuclear power plant produces the same power without degradation for less than half the rosiest estimate above and was build in a country with no history of nuclear power and no indigenous expertise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant
Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?
NYT piece on foundation models in biology
What about time cubes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
""...the bog-common blue pigment, to dye fabric to the darkest possible midnight tint. Then a second dye, typically a red (madder) or yellow (weld), would be added over the top to eliminate the blue tinge.""

I've occasionally wondered about dyes, their stability, and how they were fixed pre modern chemistry (before early-to-mid 19th C., Perkins et al), for me the practice of dyeing and its fixing process is a bit of a black art.

Mind you, my experience at dyeing stuff is rather limited and I haven't attempted it in while. I mostly come at it from the other end when trying to get clothes clean and dyes either run or change color in the process.

For instance, I had several pairs of almost identical navy blue work shorts made by two different manufacturers (the colors were essentially identical from each manufacturer). On one occasion I put two pairs of rather dirty shorts into a prewash stain remover to soak overnight, each pair was from a different manufacturer. The stain remover did a good job on both at removing stains but it turned one pair to a bright lairy magenta color whilst the color of the other remained completely unaltered. The magenta pair was so bright that it was rendered useless (I could do without the catcalls).

A second similar incident occurred with a high-vis safety shirt colored florescent yellow and black. The yellow remained unaffected but the black turned a mottled darkish magenta color (it was still wearable however). Also, I've noticed other black clothing, T-shirts etc., will often tend towards a blackish magenta on harsh washing. It seems thus that we still have a problem dyeing deep black—or at least keeping it that color without it getting dull, dowdy and slightly shifting in hue.

Although I have a little knowledge of dyes and pigments from chemistry, indigo, azo, mordant red, etc., I've little idea what dyes are used for black other than it seems to be at least a two-color process. Perhaps things haven't changed as much as I'd thought (right, we know indigo has been with us for millennia but I'm a bit surprised we've still a problem with black). Is anyone up-to-date about dying stuff black?

Edit: BTW, I've noticed that when trying to remove black ballpoint pen stains from shirt pockets with solvents such as ethanol that the color upon dilution is often not black but rather dirty shades of a magenta/bluish color. Seems we've a similar problem here.
Functions of Numbers Up to 500
A quick way to learn tables of square, cube, root, factorial from 1 to 20 and table of powers of numbers from 1 to 10. A very useful calculator for school and college students in arithmetic and algebra with a wide range of calculations of the tables of squares, cubes, square root and cube root from 1 to 500.
> but could it affect the availability of another

Availability is a different beast than durability. I think people are paranoid here about durability instead of availability.

S3 advertises four nines availability and 12 nines durability.
Pirate IPTV Co. & Seven Workers Fined After Raids Eight Years Ago
If our solutions don't solve our customers' problems, then either our customers need different problems, or we need different customers.
There are a lot of things I find exciting. For example, AI/CV/CG. The field is rapidly saturating, and everyone is coming here.

The problem is, despite knowing most of the background (and already forgetting most of it), there isn't substantial work that I can show to others. I've been here for 7 years now (academia). However, there isn't any output other than a few small toy projects. Every year, the compute requirement grows, and even after having compute, doing something without guidance is quite painful, lonely and unmotivating.

On the other hand, working on a graphics engine is fun; making CG stuff is fun but can't make it like big studios. The best I can do is graphics from the 80s. (Sure, coding an engine is hard and fun, but there is more than just an graphics engine).

It all sounds like an excuse. I do not even understand it myself. Like people do not care if I can make an 80s engine from just driver APIs (GL/Vulkan/Metal/whatever) because it still looks like 80s stuff. This is direly disheartening. And time to make modern ones grows exponentially compared to my current living expenses because I do not have enough money to sustain for more than 6 months.
There's no literal quote about "who gets bitches" or the word bitch at all in the post though. What you refer to is a paragraph about the distinction between programming and painting (meant as a joke counter-argument to PG's essay about how hacking is essentially like painting), which opens like: "Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do".

The author (who is on HN, btw, too) does go into a more substantial difference of the nature of the two endeavours too, but the whole post is in a jocking tone. And yes, it has "an axe to grind", but it's not about who gets the girl. It's about taking down essays they consider pompous and self-congratulatory.
This week, @xAI will open source Grok

It's like that glorious week in 2018 when we got full self driving.
I don't think it's indeed possible to hide a military base in the modern world anymore. Even a sufficiently motivated citizen can track them with the various public channels so for nation states it's even easier.

On the subject of Russia, it's such a studied country that I'm convinced there's intelligence actors which have a better view on the exact state of their own military than themselves.
Unless we later discover it traveled there after an impact event on Earth.
tidbit: Oracle have an OpenGrok project under active development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok
AppleTV and the associated original programming feels like a fail at this point, another attempt by Apple to throw money at markets they don't understand
Quick, patent it!
100% of the spam I’ve gotten over Signal in the past few years (two messages) has been from cryptocurrency scammers, exactly the sort of people who would have $5 in cryptocurrency many times over to create new accounts with.
Also in article we can read "like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel" :rotfl:
Well, it does say: "“We don’t really know how much oxygen you need to make life,” she said. “So the fact that it’s lower than some earlier, wishful-thinking estimates is not such a problem.”.
Frist, should probably put the ship on a solar escape trajectory, so that physically intercepting it would be more difficult with time, and likely require a technological leap to accomplish. It would also be nice to have the ship on a trajectory as far away from the plane of the ecliptic as you can, to minimize occlusion and time variation based on the earth's orbit.

Next, instead of pre-seeding the ship with keys, you have it generate them (using its RTG for both power and a source of entropy) and send them back to earth at a fixed rate, possibly with the size of the keys increasing over time.

On earth, when you want to encrypt a payload to be decrypted at a future date, you calculate how many round trips it would require, then encrypt the data with that many keys from the stream, interleaved with keys generated locally. As the time will unlikely be an exact round trip time (which is ever-increasing), each end can delay the decrypt and re-transmission for some proportion of the remaining time.
there's absolutely zero tolerance for bullshit in a physical device roaming around children

Why not just put a muzzle on it?

LLM isn't AI, regardless of the marketing

That’s intelism. Different models have different capabilities, you can’t decide which is good enough for you to treat as intelligent. You use terms like intelligence and comprehension, which don’t even have a definition better than “I know it when I see it”.

Not even going to discuss that you want to buy an actually intelligent being for picking up remotes.
High-quality and up-to-date OpenAPI specifications for relevant public APIs
I'm always a little sceptical that the government agencies are anything like as capable as they are claimed to be. I've no doubt they have a load of zero days in their back pocket and various techniques to exploit them, but they also have a strong interest in their capabilities being perceived as both extensive and mysterious. The smoke and mirrors stuff they are excellent at.
AGPL https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
Tim Bray does not emphasize or advocate an unwillingness to pay, just seeking reasonable price point vs. aspects that make him uncomfortable (the data harvesting). Which will differ for everyone depending on their financial means. If you can afford it then paying a bit more for a 'healthier' alternative is great, to support and stimulate the market for those alternatives.
I meant that Jet Brains do care about GUI support in OpenJDK (mainstream Java), their flagship products depend on this, they employ a number of ex-Oracle GUI devs and contribute fixes upstream. Just there are no new major projects in GUI area in OpenJDK for years, because none of big contributors is interested in it. Compare this to improvements in non-GUI areas like Java 21 Threading and also the whole Graal thing.
Does not necessarily need to be FTL. It may be a generational ship, or potentially simply these aliens have very long lifespans, and travelling the cosmos is not a problem for them, because they anyway measure their lifespan in millennia.

I agree with you though, no reason to assume that these aliens would have definitely solved all of the engineering challenges visiting a planet might pose, especially considering our own track record shows that we are relatively good at getting stuff to its destination in the solar system, but not so great at low altitude manoeuvres or landings when we get there.

(to be clear, I don’t think that we’ve been visited by aliens, just that it doesn’t seem to be impossible).
Reminds me of https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
I didn't want to write an essay but yes, they should be held accountable but it absolutely shouldn't end your company.
Yeah people say photoshop but it looks to me like some sort of phone processing. NYT article about that on the pixel 8 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/technology/personaltech/g...

Probably William took several photos and then some button popped up saying something like 'enhance' which did that.
Alex Heath from The Verge alleged that Grok is just tuned LLaMa [0]. I wonder what will be revealed!

[0]: https://www.threads.net/@alexheath/post/C0pEidVp-1U
not sure why Monero isn't taking over though...
> A Bugatti is like a few million dollars no?

Back then when they were new it was more like 800k.

But yeah, this part stood out for me as well. My guess is he either financed the car, or didn't pay for it at all (just have it repo'd, you'd still have impressed the girl). Or the whole story is fake, you never know with these kind of serial scammers, their whole life is a lie.
How can you expect him to answer a question about a major historical difference between men and women across all known societies… without out talking about the essential differences between men and women?

Curious how you would have answered.
I don't think "impediment" means what you think it means.

Regardless, Tim Bray is writing on his own personal blog, not on HN. His opinions are his own and he's welcome to them.

It's totally cool to just say that his assessment doesn't fit your circumstances without any blaming, shaming, or saying he's . . . using Google wrong(?).
Yes, and it's here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

If e.g. Amazon open sources some part of its software infrastructure should they also open source the data it uses or their configuration files?
You should consider "works like" and "looks like" prototypes (which may correspond to back-end and front-end here, and a thin "spike" all the way through ASAP.

In other words there should probably be a number of shards tackled at once to help ensure that you haven't omitted something critical from the design.
>you can get away with tap-dancing for a while

Spits out coffee. Beautiful. If you made that you deserve a prize.
I guess I don't see the comparison the same way you do.

You frame it as comparing something dangerous to something safe.

I see it as something you would be willing to do without fear, to something even safer than that.

I don't disagree that driving is dangerous, but most people are willing to accept that danger.
People seem very concerned about licenses for LLM weights.

Why shouldn't we treat LLM weights like LLM creators treat ebooks and open source code? Namely, that it is not subject to copyright?

To say that the Llama training process bypasses the copyright of all the training data creators, and yet the output is copyrighted by Facebook, seems a uniquely pro-corporation stance.
Which is why rate limiting by phone numbers doesn't work against them either, as you've noticed. If they have $5 in assets to burn then they can buy a $5 prepaid SIM card.
Even on a single-user system, if an attacker can't elevate to root then at least you don't have to reinstall the whole computer from scratch. You can just wipe the home directory, log in to a fresh account, and start putting your digital life back together.

If they get root, you can't trust anything on the system any more. You have to do 10x the work just to get to the point of having a system you can even start to use. (Do you have a bootable install ISO handy anywhere? Is it current?)
> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?

What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source

> https://opensource.org/osd

and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware

> https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

does satisfy the open source definition, so your sarcasm looks demagogical to me, but I am very willing to learn something new.
Dstack is introducing a Sky-computing platform for GPU
Even good drivers die in cars