skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So back when I was fresh outta college, and Windows 3.11 was king, I decided to mess with the salesguy the engineering team worked with.

Windows let you hook into the global message queue and intercept/modify stuff. Windows was cool in that you could modify the message args passed, and your new values would be sent to the other windows in the message chain. Making sure you were in the global message queue ensured you got the message first.

So I basically intercepted every WM_MOUSEMOVE message (which is sent to windows every time the mouse moves). The arguments are the X and Y position of the mouse. Of course, I do the following:

xPos += 4 * rand() / RANDMAX - 2;
yPos += 4 * rand() / RANDMAX - 2;

Which would cause the mouse to behave "jittery" -- made it harder steer the mouse or land on a button you wanted to click. The trick was to make it difficult to use, but not impossible. Just really annoying. Especially when you were trying to concentrate.

After about a month or so one of the IT guys I knew stopped by my desk, and asked me if I knew anything about this. He knew me personally, and knew the reputation of the engineering team, and figured we might have had something to do with this.

I promptly went to the salesguy's computer, and held down three keys on the keyboard corresponding to the three initials of my name. The problem instantly vanished.

Apparently IT had replaced his mouse 3 times before they suspected it might be a prank. Felt a little bad about wasting the IT guys time.
It could be but lists of things don't make great submissions and Show HN is more about getting feedback on a particular thing.
It's a tough problem. It's not very palatable to just fold either. The Russian government can always wave the nuke card, it's not going away, but neither will their ambitions.
In the future efficient rule based compilers and decompiler may be generated by AI systems trained on inputs and outputs of what we use today.

This effort is an exploration to find a radically different AI way that may give superior results.

Yes. For all the reasons you give above, AI for this job is not practical today.
> So, I have HTMX firing when people save their changes via a button, then I need to use the JS API for conditional logic e.g., if valid, then update table. If invalid, then display some kind of message or whatever.

Couldn't that be handled server-side as well? I have my validation logic server-side, and it either returns the updated table row (or other element), or it returns the form again with validation/error messages, fields highlighted where the error occurred, etc.
All the Metals We Mined in 2021: Visualized – Visual Capitalist
> - The entire log package is a barnacle. Thankfully we now have log/slog but log existed for so long that lots of third-party libraries use it. Even if the library authors knew to avoid the footguns that are Fatal/Fatalf/Fatalln and Panic/Panicf/Panicln, context and level support are spotty at best.

Heh. I wrote some code that called log.Fatalf with an error message, and then later added a verbose switch when running the program (kind of an `if !verbose { log.SetOutput(os.DevNull) }` type of thing).

Sure enough, when I ran it with some input that led to run into the log.Fatalf, the program exited, but no error message was written out. Cue quite some head-scratching!
if more than one bit of color was allowed you could make different levels of grey/opacity hint at where the opening in the symbol should be. just as learnable and now it's unique.

taken to a silly extreme, you could compress 26 letters into 2 pixels, 3 colors, and 3 levels of opacity. before even considering a time-dimension.

a mantis shrimp just needs one pixel with color.
Indeed. The support has been incredibly spotty and half-assed throughout.
Does your liquor store record the date and time of every purchase?
Whichever data they store, they are not the data of US users as far as it is known. It is Oracle, an american company who stores Tik Tok data in the US, as required by current US regulations.
Must be something to that shape that I'm missing. Toyota's Corolla FX16 from the 80's is also similar.
obviously 8x8 is comparably enormous but https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ has a great collection of fonts
In America, refute = disprove.

In Britain, very commonly, refute = deny.

As with most ambiguous words, the intention is usually clear from context anyway.
Spreads the burden/cost of distributing a 300+GB file.
Ignore the Nutty Conspiracies, MH370 Was Likely a 'Zombie Flight'
MANATEE(lm): Market Analysis based on language model architectures
I have opened-sourced a side-project called MANATEE(lm): Market Analysis based on language model architectures, as a test case for the amazon/chronos-t5-large model from Amazon Web Services (AWS), UC San Diego and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, hosted on Hugging Face, in a Google Colab notebook.

Using Polars for parallelized operations, enabling concurrent execution of data transformations and computations across multiple CPU cores, and Plotly for data plotting and visualization, this notebook may be an entry point for time series analysis on various domains, including retail, energy, finance, healthcare, climate science.
But the shadow stack concept seems much dumber to me. Why write the address to the regular stack and the shadow stack and then compare? Why not only use the shadow stack and not put return addresses on the main stack at all.
What an exhausting way to live.
It’s an absolute scandal, as if France only sold wine grapes, and no one in France had ever made or tasted wine. Most of the value add is in the processing.
The thing is, well there are lots of things and I do t mean to impune your work some forty years ago but

1. We have learnt not to trust untested equipment

2. We have learnt that under pressure well meaning people will demonstrate equipment that while kind of representative of the reality are honed, improved and generously helped to perform well on test

3. Only repeatable performance under active competition is a real measure. It’s why sane people like open well designed markets. And it’s why weapons that get battle tested tend to be reliable

I am sure that overall if we read the red button nukes will fire and land and kill millions.

It’s just the day after I expect that the auditors will find a large number failed to fire, or failed to leave the tube, went the wrong way or simply otherwise went wrong

The point of credible threat is not one shot one kill, but so many shots we can basically guarantee a kill.

In other other words, both sides hold enormous number of nukes ostensibly to ensure they have some to fire after a first strike - but the effects of an enemy first strike are indistinguishable from poor engineering and beauracracy
Maybe if you run the Arachne web browser for MS-DOS on an older non-UEFI intel machine, you might be approaching something where one person could still understand the whole sequence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737281
Folding@Home predates the ML approaches to protein folding. Just because it has been eclipsed now doesn’t mean it wasn’t worthwhile.
> It's the same with sex work, with which is harder to separate between conservative propaganda and reality.

No?
What would qualify as an example here? A news article with a bias isn't proof that objectivity isn't still a goal, and by this definition studies of media bias wouldn't be evidence either.
More like for their bodyguards. Because why a bodyguard needs a billionaire, who suddenly has no money and thus no status in this new apocalyptic world?
For any f and A, we can define X as { a in A | a is not in f(a) } . That set exists in ZFC by the axiom of separation, also known as the axiom of subsets or the axiom of comprehension.

I recommend you pick up a book on ZFC if you are interested in understanding set theory. I found Enderton’s “Elements of Set Theory” to be a really good introductory text.
Thanks for this. Funny that it's not on my Games page (I'm an NYT Games subscriber) unlike, I think, Connections, which was shown on that page with a "beta" flag.
My point is that, all of this is a spectrum of diminishing returns, fighting to stop some sort of behavior that some people may consider to be bad. There's no perfect analogy for anything. The only argument you can make is that Facebook is overall a net bad for the society - which it may well be, but then make that argument, rather than saying that because a platform can't stop people from selling drugs on it, it should be abolished.
Cost maybe.
Softlayer was built on all/mostly all SuperMicro servers up until IBM bought Softlayer and then there were a lot of Lenovo.

As an employee of a customer of Softlayer, the servers were very reliable. I have my personal hosting on a rented SuperMicro server now, and pretty happy with it, even if the hardware is 10+ years old (Xeon Lynnfield) and the IPMI requires ancient JNLP that barely works ... I only barely need IPMI (gotta console in to decrypt the disks on reboots, and it was handy for setup)
To my eyes, including for this topic, the most important work: //Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals//.
Are Billionaires Happy?
In Chicago, it's always good to rinse the salt off your car to prevent rust. I recall doing this several times during many winters there. Never had a problem with rust on any car I owned.
Yes, I just said it was petty to single out hobbyists who use a few grams of lead for a good purpose as if they are killing the planet. That is a hysterical take, and he got more hysterical when I called him out on exaggerating, not knowing what he was talking about, and most likely being a hypocrite. The lithium battery in each of our phones is probably more polluting than an average hobbyist's lifetime allotment of solder.

>Plenty of people scoff at the idea that handling lead is risky, whether it's fishing weights, ammunition, or lead solder. I've watched a trained engineer use his teeth to crimp lead fishing weights. He said there wasn't enough exposure to matter, and people had been doing this since before he was born. Is he right? I dunno. I personally want every brain cell I can muster.

Everything has costs and benefits. In many applications, there are no suitable alternatives to lead, or else the alternatives are scarce and expensive. As a society we have eliminated most excess lead so I think further browbeating over it is silly. Virtually every car has a lead battery, most brass has some lead in it, but otherwise it is scarce in most households. Ammunition is one case where lead is potentially dangerous, but if you need ammunition then the mild precautions necessary to handle the lead are well worth it.
> There are four full-service car washes in town, with a fifth on the way; three are bunched up on a mile-and-a-half stretch of Route 14.

There's actually a game theory explantation for this called Hotelling's Law: https://sciencetheory.net/hotellings-law-1929/
You are being sarcastic, but we could definitely streamline the way doctors are educated in the US! The UK does medical degrees through a 5-6 year undergrad program, compared with 4 year undergrad + 4 year medical school in the US.
> pushing increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories

like what?
If I call the same "get statistics" command over and over in a loop (with zero queries), or 100% the same invalid query (to test the error path performance), I believe we'd call that a micro-benchmark, despite involving a full database. It's a completely unrealistic artificial workload to test a particular type of operation.

The pgbench docs make it sound microbenchmark-y by describing making the same call over and over. If people find that this simulates actual production workloads, then yes, it can be considered a macro-benchmark.
Really tried to use the OpenMoko and almost every other open source phone that came along for so long and never had any success.
This is getting very complicated now (though I have to say I’m enjoying discussing it without shouting at each other. Go HN!)

I guess my most basic point is, that an arms race just ends up wasting a tonne of effort and resources and each side ends up roughly where they were. Especially with nukes where it’s impossible to gain an absolute advantage. And especially when it’s well understood that both sides are really good at spying.

Russia already has hypersonic missiles that don’t seem to be intercept-able anyway.

Wouldn’t it be better to us this space-advantage for something way more useful than an arms race? The us and the west has the main problem of having fallen way behind in being able to actually manufacture stuff really well and really cheaply. Can we spend all that money getting good at that again instead please? Maybe we can manufacture stuff in orbit.
Do you think vegan/vegetarian bodybuilders don't care about protein intake?
Tesla is likely making good cars because the CEO is 'problematic'
One way is to fundamentally change how you spend your time. For example, if you're gardening for 3 hours a day then you can't also be on HN. I've found this method is the only way to break habits/addictions.
Ask HN: What risks would you take if you knew you had nothing to lose?
No, but also maybe yes, but it's way over my pay grade as a physicist. In short, I think the fact that gravitational systems have negative specific heat capactiy is very relevant.

As gravitational systems lose energy, the "temperature" of the ensemble of particles goes up. (I.e. objects with smaller orbits have higher velocities.)

It is probably not exactly an accident that this relationship holds for blackholes as well: the hawking radiation formulas suggest a larger and larger temperature for blackholes with smaller and smaller event horizons. The hawking radiation stuff is built upon entropy / temperature relationships so I think there is actually some kind of connection there.

There might even be something baked into the energy conditions / bianchi identities of GR that is manifesting in that way, but I'm speculating.
They have multiple friendly, competent resellers who will happily quote their machines, often using online tools, and will often come in around half of, say, Dell’s price. Maybe even better if you want something ridiculous like disks in your machine.

This has been the case for years.
This is a really great article. I have to say working with nixpkgs has been great. All confusion can be settled by looking at existing examples of how a property or function is used by another package.
How well can digital phone lines carry dial-up connections? It was an issue in the early days of digital lines - same as with fax. For fax we got v.34 and other improvements. IDK about dialup tho.
Is it open if it doesn't include the training data? Genuine question - I am not familiar enough with the terms and technology to know. But my understanding is the weights is just a more or less static collection of data that has been (to paraphrase Ted Chiang) lossily compressed from the actual raw training data.

Without the training data to thoroughly evaluate what is in there, the only way you can figure it out is through experimentation - e.g. running it up in a chatbot and asking it questions.

Is this roughly correct or am I misunderstanding what you can do with the weights?
Raft: Adapting Language Model to Domain Specific RAG
Disclosure: Building a CSP business around SMCI products. Sorry if this sounds like an advertisement, I'm really just a happy customer.

I feel like the reason why SMCI has done so well in this AI round is because their server architecture is best in class and they have been able to support the internal changes necessary for AI workloads. They also support AMD CPUs, while others only offer Intel.

6 years ago, Cenly Chen / SMCI was saying AI was going to be huge and that total revenue would be $36B, in 2025 [0]. We are well past that number now. Amazing how AI turned out to be even bigger than anyone could have imagined, but at least they had some vision even back then.

Dell, Giga, ZTS are all behind in their offerings while SMCI is iterating and are now even getting to the point of water cooling and L11 manufacturing.

I just received a shipment of AS-8125GS-TNMR2 (8U MI300x) and the thing is an amazingly well designed beast of a chassis. Everything slots together perfectly. If you study the user documentation, the layouts of the internal block diagrams are fantastic and build for speed.

We are lucky enough to have been able to open an account directly with them. It wasn't easy and required a ton of due diligence, but working with the team there has been a top notch experience.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzqBuiwkv5I
Yep, businesses naturally cluster like this. It's called Hotelling's Law: https://sciencetheory.net/hotellings-law-1929/
There are different versions of base85, it is in general perfect for dense passwords https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85
Introduction to Virtualization Technology
A short series where we take a closer look at virtualization and especially containerization and what impact it has had on the computing industry in general.
Hashicorp definitely fits the brand of meeting developers where they are.

A strategy that has worked well for them.
Isn't that called proactive procrastination?

Where you intentionally have more than 1 thing/project going on, so you can procrastinate on nr1 while you work on nr2 ...etc.

And for going in deep and long - it really needs to be something personally interesting.

Or someone else has a better was to get into hyperfocus flow/zone?
It feels like they could just use something like the Google Ngram viewer to filter the words.
> I'm pretty sure that the plaster cast skeleton in the image will be supported by thin cables or wires from the ceiling. Which would be supportive of my point.

so would a human skeleton? it has no connective tissue, it needs external support. when you add muscles, ligaments, cartilage, all that fleshy stuff, suddenly you have an arm that holds together and can move around without falling apart yknow?
What is his view?
What do you mean? The entire model and architecture and executables are fully open source.

The training methods are nothing secret, right? The architecture is well known.

Expecting the entire training dataset to be fully open is delusional.
now, if only it could persist the data while navigating to other pages, it would be a lot more useful
I really enjoyed this article, but I was really disappointed. For some reason I thought it was going to evolve into a Lovecraftian epic of how the grand and horrifying civilization of the ancient cephalopods and their relatives was thwarted by another species, one who paved the way for our own ignorant and doomed civilization to thrive.

I kept this feeling until the very end [spoiler] even when it was revealed to be seals I held out hope they could be a Lovecraftian player in a grand epic saga.
faraday cage with spoofed GPS signal and update the phone?
Same. I was using SailfishOS on Xperia devices and also Ubuntu Touch.

I found SailfishOS UI to be pretty bizarre and for using compiled software (Qt) the UI was oddly laggy. Basic things like attaching photos when sending an MMS were bizarre, you had to do it one at a time from the gallery app, etc.

Ubuntu Touch has a pretty reasonable UI (aside from having a start-bar like thing that you swipe in and out) but they do NOT support VoLTE at the moment which means you can't use it as a phone! Performance on Ubuntu Touch was also pretty bad even on decent hardware and while it's improved on Pixel-era devices you'd think all UI interactions would be instaneous.

Both projects seem to have made some strane prioritizations. Sailfish seems to have pointless re-invented their own UI paradigms, their own browser, etc and Ubuntu Touch doesn't seem to care the devices can't be used as phones given lack of VoLTE but they have Snaps and their own web browser...
Tsickle – TypeScript to Closure Translator
You're a dick and jokes like that are how you get someone fired/quit.
Their data is the twitter corpus which is public. Or do you want a dump of their database for free too?
It comes off as idealistic magical thinking. It is the norm for humans to be corrupt, selfish, and cowardly. When certain owners of capital are able to automate away jobs, they will keep the profits and fire workers. There isn't automatically some magical alternative or replacement work for them, only more competition for the few remaining scraps of labor elsewhere.

My conclusion is most societies will either tear themselves apart in civil war after too many people are reduced to penury without socioeconomic mobility for too long, or socialism will be expanded and billionaires will be taxed.

Since the ultra rich cede nothing without a fight, eventual civil war is the mostly likely choice they made because they captured the US political process and de facto direct for their continued enrichment at the expense of everyone else.

Remember: Social Security under the New Deal, unlike the Townsend Plan, was a class warfare compromise and half measure. Modern Medicare isn't good health insurance, involves for-profit insurance companies, is complicated, and is very expensive to customers and to the government. UBI and universal healthcare will be necessary in America, but are far off on the horizon because of political polarization and manufactured consent shifting views to far right authoritarianism.
Huh, one more point for considering J2K for film scan archiving.
We should just call it open weight models at this point.
Here's the incumbent experience for proper servers:

1. You're a small company. None of the big companies will talk to you. You're a waste of their time.

2. You're a medium company. Maybe the worst sales person on the team is desperate enough to talk to you.

3. You're a big company. They will be only too happy to talk to you.

You want to buy a rack of servers. They will not sell you a rack of servers. No, no, no.

You need to talk about how their SAN is much better than your current SAN. Also they just bought a virtualisation company so maybe you should replace your virtualisation stack with theirs. And have you considered how helpful their outsourcing service could be for running your datacentre? They'll undercut your current team of staff as long as you commit to replacing all your servers with theirs. Also they hear you're making use of REST services, have you considered one of their REST security appliances? They'll throw them in free.

None of these conversations happen with the person trying to buy a rack of servers, they'll happen with a vice president or procument or your finance team. Your rack of servers comes with a bunch of "free" stuff that you didn't want and don't have time to implement. Eighteen months later you're being told to drop all your work that your customers care about, because whoever inked the deal with the free REST appliances looks stupid if they don't get used, so you have to implement them

Supermicro are just selling you a rack of servers.
Strength training strengthens more than just muscles.

Bones adapt to the increased demand on them as well.

There are even cardiovascular benefits, though it doesn't replace aerobic exercise.
Vacuum Tube -> A100 cluster

Technician -> MLOps Engineers
He talks about rosetta not implementing nested pointer enter instruction. For newer apps, there is also the issue that rosetta doesn't implement AVX and newer instructions, due to patent issues
SROs and Boarding Houses Are More Than Hype
We do. This is a well-studied topic.
Although fundamentally I agree with this diatribe, it does have a rather touchy feel to it, as if what really stung was being rejected from the in-group, a point the author makes more than once.

So true, I think, but flawed. Not dispassionate. Not a giant flaw, when it comes down to it.