skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, yeah.

So it looks like multiple players from different teams fell victim to a Remote Call Execution hack installing illegal in-game hacks/cheats on their computers mid-tournament which would gives those players a competitive advantage.

When players have in-game hacks/cheats on their computers, they are kicked out of the game and banned from playing again to preserve the fun of the other players who are playing without hacks/cheats and preserve the integrity of the competition.

But it looks like someone was hacking people to install in-game hacks/cheats on other player's machines to get them banned during the e-sports tournament.

This is a big deal, because those events often have large amounts of prize money, not to mention the bets/wagers placed on the results of games by the gambling community. Not to mention that players who are caught using hacks/cheats are often banned from playing those games for years, if not life.

It's like match fixing a horse race, but in the digital age.
I believe it is because electricity is fundamentally perfect in its uniform motion providing us to operate quantitative changes of its physical coordination when it is patterned periodically, permitting the extension of imaginary space to physical space via the reliance on the pure numerical relation between experimental measure and The Frequency Domain.

It is truly a godsend.
Could we do better? With "respecting" stupid article titles?

@dang Perhaps even prompting for two titles at submission. One "unedited" and one "descriptive"? And allowing our HN settings to choose "descriptive"?
> That seems to be jumping to an extreme end

If anything it's not extreme enough. Consider how much area in city downtowns is given over to paved-over parking lots that are just left to sit there rent-keeping for years. That's worse than just dirt fields, because at least the dirt fields can support life!

> My concern is that the same incentive pushing one to sell a pile of dirt would exist for someone owning an undeveloped, natural plot of land.

...if the taxes are high enough to incentivize them to sell.

If you have an undeveloped plot of land in a city where land taxes are high, you should be incentivized to either sell that to someone who will make use of it, or donate it to the city to serve as a public park, rather than getting to have your own private green space somewhere that space is at a premium for everyone else.
> Who is 'them' here?

If you can't tell, you're not part of the conversation.

If you're (much more likely) trying to frame the poster as some kind of conspiracy theorist . . . there's a different STFU for that one.
None of which I ever used in the software industry, even as a machine learning engineer.

I'd love to hear from someone who's used a Laplace- or z-transform professionally, for any type of engineering. What was your application?
What is customer facing analytics?
Traditional reporting dashboards give a general picture, but customer-facing analytics gives users a personalized and deep look at data. It lets people interact with the data directly. With customer-facing analytics, users see pre-made data models and visuals, which they can explore interactively. This could be through dashboards, apps, or even chat, making it easier for users to understand and engage with the information.
So a decade and a half ago there used to be the Google Search Appliance (no idea if it still exists). It was essentially a black (actually yellow) box with some Google magic inside that let you have Google search on premises and for local documents you didn’t want leaving your data center back when people still had their own data centers.

One problem with this premise was that when the appliance was not working how it was supposed to, you couldn’t just log into it to fix it because the Google magic was secret. You needed one of their engineers to access it and figure out what’s wrong, but the wrinkle was that every appliance was installed in a different environment and almost certainly behind a firewall that was not easy to open for this process. So to bypass it Google did a very clever thing and added a dial up modem to the appliance. That way you could just go down to the rack, physically connect it to a phone line, and put it into a diagnostic mode where it would dial out to Google to start the remote session. No firewall rules, no unintentional leakage, no accidental logins from who knows where.
When energy was cheap...
> Please allow some code outside HALT() to fulfill this detection function since I am not a godlike machine.

Isn't this assuming an oracle? It's know that certain oracles allow really bizarre computations to be made.
Base clock is 3.2 for the p cores.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/237504/...
Are you open to discuss how did you do it, here or over email? I don't have a network and I wouldn't even know where to start. I am quite capable and this has been recognized by people in the past but I am basically stealth mode (never invested in blogs, proper LinkedIn presence or any other really) so I am wondering how does a capable senior dev finally get to the big bucks?
> Maybe not in your head. But as soon as you introduce language and shared meaning they do. You don’t even know if the color I call blue appears to me physically the same as it does to you. We can agree that it corresponds to a specific wavelength but we just have to guess if we’re both experiencing it in the same way.

You're posting random unrelated pop-sci at this point.

> That doesn’t matter anyways because we aren’t talking about the nature of reality in this thread, we are talking about agreed upon normative judgments. Not just what is, but what should be.

"Agreed-upon normative judgments" and "what should be" are not the same thing.

> And that always relies on analogy. How could it not?

Well, the way my arguments which don't rely on analogy exist is that I typed them into the text area and pressed "reply".

You're literally trying to argue that something can't happen, which is happening right in front of you.
@dang, please unflag this.
What aspects were you missing from OTEL? We swapped the agent side out from New Relic to OTEL in NodeJS, .NET and Python - I’ve not found any major missing feature?

Or are you thinking more on the UI/analysis/collection side?
I was attempting to use it as "denies" (even though in reply i said "prove").

You seem to me to be taking the meanings of words so seriously that you've lost the value those words provide.
You'll never need to worry about this if you try using Optimum No Rinse waterless wash. It cleans and details your entire car with 2.5gal of water. I've been using thus for over two years now and will not wash our cars any other way.
> I don't understand the argument of designing a system to hurt a specific business type such as low value businesses.

The argument is that good business spots are a limited community resource that it makes sense to tax, like radio spectrum. If you can make good use of the space you're taking up, go ahead, but you should compete fairly with other uses of the space. If anything taxing space use makes more sense than taxing profits; a profitable business is probably one that's serving the community well, whereas a business that takes up space and doesn't generate much profit is no good for anyone. From the article:

> “A car wash does not provide a lot of jobs for the community, and they take up a lot of space,” Broska said. “If you want to invest your dollars into a car wash, then God bless you. But at the same time, I’m responsible for 17,500 people and have to be cognizant of their wishes.”

> the largely automated facility wasn’t the best use for a prominent Main Street site
https://www.google.com/search?q=pedants+revolt

"I'd expected there to be less of you." "FEWER!!"
> 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco

WAS not IS. It was phased out sometime in the 80s.
Heck, I've got code I wrote ten years ago and no idea why it was done that way except for a vague memory of a request that I implemented but was never really used.
Stripe put my business on a MATCH list for fraud. A MATCH list is a list that blocks you from running any business for 5 years.

Our fraud was low, so I asked them why they did this, and they said it was an accident...
But this is a vendor specific forwarder? Isn’t this just Datadogs attempt at slowing down community focus on OTEL?
For some reason the GUI is not showing up for me in 3DGS.cpp. (I checked out the repo, made a build folder and built with Ninja, then launched ./apps/viewer/vulkan_splatting_viewer).

I still have a VulkanSplatting build from this Wednesday though. In VulkanSplatting, when looking at the Lego scene from above with the default window size, I'm getting just below 1 ms for the sorting kernel and just above 1 ms for "render", everything else is too small in the graph to register. But it only displays at a handful of fps, so it seems quite some time goes unaccounted for.

Maybe spinning up Instruments could give some more insights into what's happening? I tried `cmake -G Xcode` to have that setup easily, but the Xcode CMake generation fails with

CMake Error in src/shaders/CMakeLists.txt:
The custom command generating

3DGS.cpp/build-xcode/shaders/shaders.h

is attached to multiple targets:

shaders
xcode_shaders

but none of these is a common dependency of the other(s). This is not
allowed by the Xcode "new build system".
Does anyone know how to measure CPU time on the main thread for a page load? I want to benchmark this for my own site.
this will ruin your paint over time
Whoops. Looking through that list of words again, I see that some of the puzzle configurations could not yield those solutions, because adjacent letters in the solution are in the same triplet. The configuration for acknowledgment, for example, has a and c in the same triplet, which is not possible in LetterBox. My bad. I’ll take a look at the code again later.
For every influencer that misses on a product and loses out, there's a line around the corner of people willing to be the next. They are like cockroaches.

For the record, I'm extremely cynical if that wasn't apparent. I've never bought anything from late night infomercials, and I see influencers below them on the scale of respectability. There are oh so many tales of the influencer that just wanted the checks even though they knew nothing of the product being peddled. Are they all that way? Maybe not, but it's not anything that I will ever be convinced is a net positive for society.
For training you can also try https://github.com/pierotofy/opensplat
One very compelling argument against the idea that current gen LLMs have personal beliefs etc is that they don't have a feedback loop, so they don't really "see" themselves in the way that we can inspect our own thoughts and actions and the consequences of such.
It's a 4x8 grid, like I said. https://lukeshu.com/dump/miniwi-grid.png

Weird that the lowercase letters with ascenders are taller than normal uppercase, I didn't notice that. But yeah, the core numbers+uppercase box is 3x5 (with only "Q" violating that). And it's all on a 4x8 grid.
Are you sure you are replying to correct post? Some people in this thread are resorting to name calling. That is unfortunate, but that's not me.

All I wanted was a sense of the relative risk of leaded solder compared to the other sources of lead around me. That's all. I figured that someone with such strong opinions as yours would have that sort of information.

I have no opinions regarding the ease of use of leaded solder versus unleaded solder. I actually don't know what sac305 is... Google tells me it's 96.5% tin, 3% silver, and 0.5% copper.
I didn’t know that about Fall River, thanks. And you’re right, we are in such a hole that even a 50% reduction won’t help many, and thus any vouchers will need to be generous to house people in high opportunity metros like Boston and SF. Still, it’s these high opportunity areas with their good jobs that can do the most to give people a better shot at life. Places like Fall River may have cheap rent, but there are few well-paying jobs nearby.
With cloud, why aren't more heroic things done? aka LN2 cooling for CPUs to sustain 6 GHz.
> How could you possibly arrive at this conclusion?

Because I know what it means to create something for the market?

> Can you name 5 famous stories, before year 1500, that were made ‘for the market’?

Given that I've already pointed out that all such stories were made for the market, how do you expect me to answer this?

Can I name five famous stories from before the year 1500?

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

The Shahnameh

Nüwa Knocks a Hole in the Sky

The Divine Comedy

The Epic of Gilgamesh

> myths of Ancient Greece, the bible, ancient folklore about fairy folk - none of it was produced for a market of any kind.

As I have already pointed out, all of these were produced for a market. Why would you state otherwise? What do you think it means to offer something on a market? (Why do you think the general term for the space where these things live is "the marketplace of ideas"?)

> Even penicillin was not created for the market. Most scientific discoveries weren’t.

Penicillin wasn't created at all, as you suggest by calling it a "discovery". But we use it today because it was offered on the market by someone who hoped to receive the rewards that the market would offer for it.
Enhanching Philosophy with AI Art
Hey, I'm creating an AI art platform for philosophers. You can visualize complex concepts such as thought experiments, and this makes philosophy more engaging and accessible to a wider audience.

I'm looking for prospective customers to do customer interviews with questions on both philosophy and AI art.

Here's the - bare-bones - landing page: https://gen-ai-philosophy.com, that you can sign up in.
Competing with Gemini being rolled out into Google search.

It’s gonna be ruthless between Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?
A few weeks ago I was doing some soldering and I started using a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.

Maybe it was the solder fumes, but I started thinking about what it actually took to create that spool of wire -- everything from the geologists and miners extracting ore, through all the metallurgy, industrial engineering, and plastics work. And I started to marvel at all the work and expertise it took to make something that I normally would've just considered a semi-disposable consumable item. It made me wonder whether that spool of wire was actually a piece of technology on par in sophistication with all the software that I build every day.

It was such an odd moment, but it's has caused a lasting perspective shift. almost every day I'll look at some commonplace object I took for granted and think "this is actually so complex, no single human has all the knowledge or expertise to create it".

I'm curious if anybody else has had a similar experience and/or what are some simple everyday objects that give you pause when you stop to think about their complexity
To deliver a cross vendor narrow spec, you mean?

Given my experience with Datadogs pricing lock-in-and-switch, yeah 100% I’d rather run agents that allow me to pick the collection backend than another tool from Datadog.
They have targeted academics and medical professionals so it’s not surprising if they’ve been targeting IT professionals as well. Their main aim is to make sure that Gaza is not able to get back in its feet when the military onslaught is over.
>No firewall rules, no unintentional leakage, no accidental logins

No guarantee that the box won't poke for ways to break out either, or was there a pinky promise? I guess it was somewhat easy to disguise it, the search box is supposed to constantly poke around and index things, right?
Alright, it just didn't come across for me, haha! :) I guess sometimes those implicit assumptions really are too implicit! I think it's good to err on the side of expressing them, because you can't assume someone else thinks the same way you do. That's what I've learned anyway. Hahahaha! :)

Reading your comment again with your explanation it is clear that's what you're doing.

Although, regarding your desires to present a balanced view and to persuade, I have an idea. It probably sounds like I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I think your OG comment would perhaps benefit from sounding a little bit more friendly toward Elon (not to the messianic savior level haha), but the way it sounds to me is Elon is being deceptive here and presenting it as goodwill when it's not.

However, I think the truth is there's a little bit of both, right? There's good will but it's also strategic. I get if you don't think so, tho, no worries! Haha! :)

Your OG comment sounds to me like Elon's just Machiavellian, and I get where you're coming from to remind the people who think he's a savior, but if you're point is not to go "against Elon" as you said, it might be good to acknowledge the good that he does.

At least, that way -- whether or not you believe that acknowledgment -- if you hope to bring over people who think that way, you'll probably need to appeal to how they think, rather than just dose them with the truth you see, because then they'll shut it out, if there's nothing they can relate to.

Although, if I haven't convinced you even a bit here, then maybe you shouldn't listen to me about persuasion because I guess I don't know how to do this myself. At least not effectively, or here with you. Haha!:) But if you do feel a little bit convinced then maybe consider it for next time to help your persuading people back to a more balanced view? :)

But then, there's the question of if such a thing is even possible. If people have an particular view, it could be challenging to change it, as confirmation bias means you'll ignore evidence even when it expands your worldview.

Hahaha! :) This was a funny conversation. I think we somehow skirted around the important point tho that OpenAI could in fact open source some of its older models, could it not? Musk is a typical CEO who does typical CEO things, serving his own interests, except he's better at marketing his own image and is much more outspoken, but there might also be a bit of truth to what the fanboys say about OpenAI in that it seems they do have some room to "open source" their non-SOTA stuff, or what am I missing?
Here's some of the context:
www.dkriesel.com/blog/2013/0810_xerox_investigating_latest_mangling_test_findings

Learn More: https://www.dkriesel.com/start?do=search&id=en%3Aperson&q=Xe...

Brief: Xerox machines used template matching to recycle the scanned images of individual digits that recur in the document. In 2013, Kriesel discovered this procedure was faulty.

Rationale: This method can create smaller PDFs, advantageous for customers that scan and archive numerical documents.

Prior art: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-19036-8_22

Tech Problem: Xerox's template matching procedure was not reliable, sometimes "papering over" a digit with the wrong digit!

PR Problem: Xerox press releases initially claimed this issue did not happen in the factory default mode. Kriesel demonstrated this was not true, by replicating the issue in all of the factory default compression modes including the "normal" mode. He gave a 2015 FrOSCon talk, "Lies, damned lies and scans".

Interesting work!
Maybe you don’t. But most other people do and so does Intel. It’s not good business to have a poor perf per watt chip in 2024. Everything from phones, laptops, to servers care very much about perf per watt except the very hardcore DIY niche that you might belong to.
I had not seen one with the map right there behind the wheel
Like the pyramids made by aliens ridiculous theory. At this point literally half his tweets are just conspiracy non sense.
Not the parent but one imagines that WASM could be a good target for decompressing or otherwise decoding less-adopted formats/protocols because WASM is fairly broadly-adopted and seems to be at least holding steady if not growing as an executable format: it seems unlikely that WASM disappears in the foreseeable future.

Truly standard ANSI C along with a number of other implementation strategies (LLVM IR seems unlikely to be going anywhere) seem just as durable as WASM if not more, but there are applications where you might not want to need a C toolchain and WASM can be a fit there.

One example is IIUC some of the blockchain folks use WASM to do simultaneous rollout of iterations to consensus logic in distributed systems: everyone has to upgrade at the same time to stay part of the network.
Some hypermarkets do ignore small shopliftings until a certain threshold. One can feel free to steal 0.0001 of a penny if they afford their own transaction cost and no police will persecute this either.
Generally, most of these ideas themselves come from a place of hatred or at the very least totally misguided pity. So good riddance. Let meritocracy rule.
To add to this, LVTs encourage more homes near job rich areas of the city. This in turn means more people can live nearby and have a shot at a job.
Ive gotten 2400 and occasionally 9600 over audio voip. Ymmv.
The fact that any human is conscious is non-falsifiable, so it seems like you're suggesting we throw out the concept entirely.
Yeah the trick is if they can lock you into a stack that sits everywhere in your apps, it’s very expensive to switch vendors, letting them extract high rents. This is what happened with the Datadog agents.

In that context, OTEL is an existential threat, because it makes them a commodity. Then it becomes relatively clear why they wouldn’t put OTEL support in the Vector roadmap.
As a starting point, Tailwind used to use PurgeCSS [0] but I'm not sure what they use now.

[0] https://purgecss.com
I have! My product literally does this. I’m actually piping logs to motherduck with my software.

Here’s a post on how to do this with fly.io which uses vector: https://scratchdata.com/blog/fly-logs-to-clickhouse/

This is my actual production vector.yaml: https://gist.github.com/poundifdef/293bf2c4cd5aaa734b0b8e25e...

You could literally download my product (it’s open source) and set it up in 5 minutes: scratchdata.com
> One would also bet that some discarded “allies” from the Cold War operating from a cave in Afghanistan couldn’t pull off a surprise attack on American soil, killing thousands. And yet they did.

One would have to have been pretty ignorant then. It’s not like 9/11 was an isolated event. The same target was hit 8 years prior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bomb...
7950X3D only has the 3D stacked cache on one of the two chiplets, so as far as gaming is concerned you only want to use 8 of the 16 cores. 7800X3D would boost harder for gaming because the 7950X3D has a second vestigial (as far as gaming is concerned) chiplet that eats power that could be better spent in the v-cache enabled die.
I don't understand why we can't just let the market decide which businesses make sense based on their revenue vs. leasing the land. Presumably if car washes are so profitable it's because consumers want to use them, so why are we artificially restricting their expansion? It also provides a free subsidy to existing car washes who get to charge higher prices than they would in a competitive market. Restrictions to entering trade generally hurt consumers.

FWIW, I've used a paid car wash <10x in my life so it doesn't matter that much to me.
Typically BBS's were single user systems, although many multiuser systems existed too.
Depends on what you do. This is still a consumer cpu so having fewer faster cores benefit the average consumer application more.
Interesting, do you have a picture of this project in action?