skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually exactly what I thought of when reading the article: the sinking silence where everyone knows we're gonna wipe, but nobody wants to be the first to say it. Or, conversely, the busy silence where everybody's concentrating on their part and nothing needs to be said because everyone can see what needs doing is being done, especially on well-trodden but still touchy content. Or even the nervous silence as the pulling hunter tries really hard to thread the needle and not get the patrol too. Filling (or not filling) those silences was a big part of good raid leading.

Even more than raiding, large-scale pvp with hundreds of people had some bad silences: if it's quiet, nobody's calling, so the callers are all either dead or tanking, so your Lanchester's square law effects go out the window as piles are lost and damage is dispersed for want of direction.

But specifically to your point: yeah, Discord is probably the closest to that ideal of lots of purpose-specific channels, but it doesn't have the channel and bulk user management features ts3/etc have. It was really useful to be able to programatically bulk move people by role, or give roles priority speaker/mute other roles at certain times - Huhu's dead so we can go back to not caring about the hunters, etc.

MMO leadership and tech work really do have an awful lot in common.
There will be a new side gig for ‘experts’ to explain deepfakes to a jury.
And this is why Mastodon will never become mainstream.

They're just too full of themselves. If they owned Twitter instead of Musk it would be even worse off.

I'm running one Pleroma instance and one Mastodon.
Pleroma is buggy but you get access to a wide range of instances and people, where Mastodon seems closed off.
I use Pleroma to discover people, then follow them on Mastodon, because on Pleroma you can't usually see all the replies to a post.

Anyhow blabbering.

Those "Flagship" instances and their censorship are the reason why Mastodon isn't taking off.

There will be something better.
You of course cannot determine how others will respond to you, as I cannot determine how you'll respond to me.

If, however, you do answer in good faith, credibly, and substantively to a specific question or request, you'll know, and fair-minded readers will generally recognise, that you've done so.

Or you could, say, contribute over a half-dozen responses within the thread with roughly a quarter of them explicitly withholding or defending the withholding of that substantive contribution.

Your call.
name one piece of open source software in C or C++ with more than a couple thousand commits that has not had to fix a memory safety bug.
Berylliosis is the truly unexpected one for me. Something as harmless looking as a piece of ceramic can basically wipe out your lungs
Apple Leads Charge with AI 32 Startup Acquisitions in 2023
> Then the B200 package is 2 of these plus a CPU.

That's GB200.
Ask HN: LLM Use/Research Hardware Tiers
It seems there are tiers of hardware required for LLM use: both interacting/asking questions and also training, but I don't understand them. There's seemingly two ends: a )it runs on my Mac or b) it needs 8xH100 Nvidia cards at USD250k+.

What are some other tiers? What could be done with 10k, 50k, 100k investments into compute?
This future isn't going to happen all at once, so like you said, it's going to be a fun/interesting ride. It'll take a long time for this level of robotics to trickle down to where the little people can afford one. First it'll be industrial use where things are simply too dangerous and robots are cheaper than humans. Say they start with a cost of $3 million. Personally, I can't afford that. so my dreams of having a robot help with maintaining apartment are sadly a long ways off, even after the technology is here. Look at self driving cars. Waymo’s got it figured out - it's here and it works, but if you’re not in Phoenix or San Francisco, LA, or soon to be Austin, you’d think it’s still a work in progress. They haven’t put Uber/Lyft out of business just yet though. So that middle ground will exist, though one can't say for how long. One possibility I see is the upper-upper middle class, with their wealth, will be able to become full time patrons of the arts, knowing full well that the human is leveraging AI in their creations for their patron to enjoy. More than they are already, I guess. There is a certain skill to using AI effectively and while the argument is that improvements to AI mean that skill won’t be necessary, that remains to the seen. So I think it'll just take so long for the middle ground to exist that, well, the end state remains to be seen. The future will be unevenly distributed for a long time yet.
No, I think there is pretty strong evidence putting rates too low certainly does create asset bubbles (housing, equities etc.), true. Raising them will rein that in. But I don’t see any firm evidence of a causal relationship in dropping rates to stimulate the general economy and raising them to control general cost inflation (as they claim they are attempting to do when they are doing either one).
If I have a CCTV camera that is in a known location and a TPM that signs its footage, I could probably convince a jury that it’s legit in the face of a deepfake defense.

That’s the bar- it’s not going to be infallible but if you don’t find evidence of tampering with the hardware then it’s probably going to be fine.
Worry not! People also use ChatGPT for peer review now.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

The entire scientific publication process is garbage. I say that as someone on ~140 papers who has quit academia: we focus on writing papers that nobody reads to tick boxes for career progression. The only one who benefits is the for-profit publishers who drown in taxpayer money. Why not automate the entire process?
It feels that people commenting on this post are forgetting that tools have evolved since the times of punch cards or writing only in pure assembly.

I personally wouldn't have enjoyed being that kind of programmer as it was a tedious and very slow process, where the creativity of the developer was rather low as the complexities of development would not allow for just anyone to be part of it (my own assumption).

Today we have IDEs, autocomplete, quick visual feedback (inspectors, advanced debuggers, etc.) which allow people who enjoy creating and seeing the results of their work as opposed to purely be typing code for someone else.

So, I don't get why people jump straight to thinking that adding yet another efficiency tool would destroy everything. To me it seems to make developing simpler applications something which doesn't require a computer science degree, that's all.
https://www.ft.com/content/6cf2b93a-01fa-4f79-98bb-037ee61ed... | https://archive.today/0uFTV

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflatio...
Believe it or not, that isn't even correct. The original ban allowed the usage of existing stocks of materials in all forms of construction until depleted. There is no tracking of all materials containing asbestos that were ever imported. Somewhere today there are still new builds going in with asbestos in them as a result.
Scratch is simpler than Rust and a lot safer. That's absurd, but maybe that's where we're headed?
The blog post doesn't do a good job of explaining why the best way to do this was some shadowy group, funded by tech billionaires, anonymously buying up a bunch of farmland.

If there were all these great ideas about incorporating a new city with different zoning laws, why not just go to some unincorporated land or very small city, live there, and get these changes voted in? Why does one company apparently need to own all the land and treat it as a master development?
Doesn't really fit in with the "hacker" vibe, though, does it?
Not if you do it, only if the chip also gives you a signed JPEG. Cropping and other simple transformations aren't an issue, though, since you could just specify them in unsigned metadata, and people would be able to inspect what they're doing. Either way, just having a signed image from the sensor ought to be adequate for any case where the authenticity is more important than anesthetics. You share both the processed version and the original, as proof that there's no misleading alteration.
To be sure, there was a former Apple employee and a former Google employee held liable for data exfiltration. But ByteDance is the risk. Okay.

Edit: To all the downvoters, check facts vs. hysteria. You know, cuz science and facts and data and evidence and truth values.
Have you considered keeping some tick predators (e.g. chickens)?
Gate delays in simple ALU adders are almost comically slow when I learned how to make them in college. Made me want to go back to analog.
Which Blackwell is it named after?
The CSA launches an IoT Device Security program for smart home devices [Matter]
It's not clear who added the bytedance researcher to slack as a volunteer.

I would more question what they were doing in violation of the consortium rules inviting the employee, than that employee joining.
You use multiple weights that telescope into each other ( https://www.hermco.ca/products/2000-series/ ), or a segmented counterweight (Kelley E-Systems one company that does this).

But they require space and a sturdy housing. Springs are as compact as you can get.

There are also some safety concerns, a cable connecting the door to the counterweight can break, and/or slip. This can result in pieces of metal flying everywhere. A broken spring typically stays contained.

Personally, I would do one of the counterweight systems for my new house.
Hah I remember as a 4 year old I discovered a tree crawling with ants, back where I was growing up in the middle of russia. I distinctly remember trying to eat them, as any self respecting 4 year old would, and discovered they were surprisingly tasty - sour-y, salty kinda taste.

Now this discovery was not totally random, I had heard “stories” that you can poke a branch into an anthill the ants attack it to defend their hive and after a while if you get the stick out and lick it, it would taste sour. Maybe someone was just messing with me as a kid.

Anyway I ran off to my parents to show them my new discovery and was immediately scolded and instructed not to do it again.

But it still stuck with me - ants in that part of the world have flavor, and it’s actually tasty.
Paywalled with no access from archive. Is there another source?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Plenty of stuff occurs naturally, like poison hemlock.

Asbestos certainly does not break down and decay. It stays permanently in your lungs until you die.
>1) TikTok is indirectly owned and therefore controlled by Chinese Communist party.

Patently false. It's owned by a few Chinese nationals and a few foreign nationals, in roughly a 50-50 ratio.

>2) Given the footprint and influence that TikTok has in the US, the platform has the ability to editorially control what people see and therefore influence perceptions of things such as elections and other hot button issues.

Like CNN, Fox News, NYT, WaPo, BBC, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, South China Morning Post?

>3) The widespread installation of an app indirectly controlled by the CCP creates fundamental risk. Eg a number of popular TikTok influencers were actually members of the armed forces who were recording videos in their residences on military properties. Gps and potentially camera access provides information such as troop movements and troop readiness to a potential adversary. At a wider scale, there are similar risks with mass location information of members of the public.

That's an OPSEC discipline issue. Active duty personnel shouldn't be posting videos of themselves on any social media app.

>The reality is that US companies are not leaned on by the US government for this kind of information about foreign users.

Snowden, Assange, the NSA, Five Eyes and various other very real things would like to have a word with you.
Not sure if you have insight to supply chain costs and how they inflated cost during the pandemic, but me and most I know who do understand the truth behind the greedflation dynamic
Ideally, wouldn't the IC's / Group of ICs' responsibility to introduce blameless culture before the incident, right?

I've worked in blameful places, always without ICs; just shouting HIPPOs.

I hope that an org evolved enough to create IC roles would back that up with culture, but I could be wrong.
It's possible that the corporations are no more greedy, they are just more able to get away with charging higher markup.
>The team believes it’s important to promote the use of emojis for older adults because of their ability to facilitate intergenerational interactions.

Do the younger generations not know what words are? We have always had the ability to communicate intergenerationally. What a strange sentence.

>The hope is that emojis reduce loneliness and help users of all ages fulfill their social and emotional goals.

They don’t need emojis, they need to spend time with people they enjoy spending time with. Spending more time on a phone isn’t going to do that. Another very strange sentence.

I mostly use words instead of emojis, because I find words are less ambiguous. I have little interest in trying to learn the double meanings behind the over 3,500 emojis that now exist, and hoping whoever I send them to has done similar research with similar interpretations.
"For only 100$ a month, you'll be able to turn on the gpu you already paid for"

--Nvidia, pretty soon
No offense to the author, however both Movie recommendation and Music recommendation algorithms worked quite well before RAG. I actually prefer pre-RAG Music recs.

Maybe it's me, but RAG-for-all is giving "we through GenAI at anything" vibes. There's life outside of GenAI. It's nice, incredibly accurate and personal, and much much cheaper.
“permethrin“ is the stuff that kills ticks. My brother works outside and got Lyme disease. It was awful so his crew wear permethrin soaked clothing. I think they buy it pre treated.

I found two deer ticks (one attached) last fall. I always wear long pants and they’d just climb up till past my waist. They’re quite small.

They gave me one dose of antibiotics as a preventative. I worry about our dog. She got the vaccine and has some medicine that kills then, but I still found three on her.
This isn't fair. If I make a video using AI, who is to say whether it's anymore real than a video taken with a camera? You think what a camera captures is reality?
> My claim is that the playing field is not currently even rather it is massively in favor for low-capital, low-labor, and low-regulatory businesses (like car washes)

The term ‘rent seekers’ comes to mind.
> “Nvidia … is becoming less of a mercenary chip provider and more of a platform provider, like Microsoft or Apple, on which other companies can build software.

I can understand from a growth perspective why it’s more profitable for Nvidia if it can become more of a platform service for AI. However, that’s difficult to balance that and partnerships the company already has with AWS and Microsoft. I’d expect to see some acquisitions or competing custom solutions in the future. Fortunately for Nvidia, a lot of AI is still dependent on CUDA. I’m interested to see how this plays out.
Unfortunately you can't download the spec without giving them way too much information, however I'm unsure how "Unique identity for each IoT Device" plays for privacy.
Could you give more detail as to how it generates the book? For example, does the user write an outline? Or is it just writing a book based on the title alone? It's not very clear to me what spending $99 is giving me.
SSE, which is just an HTTP request, works perfectly fine with curl or any other library which makes HTTP requests.
Major scientific paper says Covid Lab leak more likely than natural origin
Extracting metals would be a bonus, removing them from wastewater and concentrating them in a mass that can be buried for later processing is boon enough for now.

The presence of heavy metals in wastewater has been increasing with the growth of industry and human activities, e.g., plating and electroplating industry, batteries, pesticides, mining industry, rayon industry, metal rinse processes, tanning industry, fluidized bed bioreactors, textile industry, metal smelting, petrochemicals, paper manufacturing, and electrolysis applications.

The heavy metal contaminated wastewater finds its way into the environment, threatening human health and the ecosystem. The heavy metals are non-biodegradable1 and could be carcinogenic; thus, the presence of these metals in water by improper amounts could result in critical health issues to living organisms.

Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00127-0

Heavy Metal Ions Removal From Wastewater Using Cryogels: A Review (2022)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2022.7655...
I think that the question is whether the high demand work is available (e.g. most people aren't electricians) and whether it allows for a good quality of life.
This is amazing. A decade after we posted the firmware source code on GitHub, this is the first project I've seen use it! https://github.com/facebookarchive/RiftDK1
Counterweight = a length of chain that lands in a bucket as the door goes up.
I don't think they need to be treated the same.

The thumbnail isn't the content itself necessarily.
Again I suggest reading cPTSD by Pete Walker. Specifically about the freeze type for F response. It can describe things much better than a random person on the internet can.
I suspect the latter.
Lab leak does not mean man made.
Because of easy money.
As I see it, the three places would be your header or footer, or on your about page. I see it as the same as a disclaimer that a post is using affiliate links. So maybe also as optional text on a particularly long form piece of text. Eg this comment of mine isn't long enough to warrant a disclaimer (though I did not use ChatGPT), but for something more longwinded, a maybe we're at a place we're a disclaimer makes sense. Maybe just pick one and feel it out. The disclaimer/disclosure good both ways though, I think. Telling people AI was used in the generation of the post cheapens it for anti-AI purists, but not everyone thinks that way. I personally am okay reading AI generated text, since I chat with ChatGPT on my own projects and for my own knowledge already, so I don't see why it would be so different encountering it in the wild, so to speak.

Okay, and now I've written enough that it turns out I feel like adding a disclaimer: this comment written by a human, with no help from an AI.
Me too, but eventually you just get so excited about eating the bugs that you can't help but to run around enthusiastically telling everybody you know about how great it is. I can't help raving about them even though I'm like you and tried my best not to blab. It's the secret that we're not supposed to let out!
Isn’t Roth IRA available to anyone? It seems like the complaint is that somehow since he is so successful it isn’t fair he uses the same system regular people do also? Because he has billions he should be extra taxed. It’s also not fair hollywood stars are so much more attractive than most of us, let’s kick their faces in to even it out?

The reality is taxes on everyone are actually crazy high, but hidden from everyone, via “employer” labeling and inflation. One latest euphemistic collectivist scheme is “corporate” taxes, total joke,
corporations are investors and employees, every tax is either an investor tax or employee tax, taxing an abstract organizational concept is nonsensical.

Envy is one of the most dangerous human emotions, helping destroy numerous productive societies with collectivist ideas, your war on billionaires is nothing but another envy driven scheme to help collectivists continue to rob the productive members of society.
https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8?si=sLmU769pfFrVJ3Pm
I block ads with uBlock Origin in mobile Firefox. I can use simple sites like hacker news, and I can actually use old.reddit.com if I'm willing to zoom in and out a bunch.

The Palm Phone lags with just about everything honestly, but I like the form factor of having a phone the size of a credit card. But since software only gets slower, most of the web is just beyond it at this point.
I didn't say people are too stupid. On the contrary, we onboard fresh grads onto our large C++ code base every once in a while and they all seem to grasp the concepts just fine.

I'm wondering if most folks throwing shade at C++ had used pre-C++11 toolsets and just have bad memories of the experience.

FWIW, I find modern C++ genuinely great to read / easy to parse by humans (same for similar languages like C#, Java, JavaScript/Typescript) whereas reading Rust (in particular function definitions) is painful.
Work on processing the feeling. No need to feel guilty, it’s just work. It won’t matter in the end anyway. If you quit tomorrow, they’d just put another human cog in the machine.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-to-stop-feelin...
Nasa's report, which BI cites (and blocks the link behind a regwall) is here:

"View Nova Explosion, ‘New’ Star in Northern Crown"

<https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-...>

This also adds the useful information that this is a recurring nova, though I'd like to know how the forecast is being made and what it's based on.
If it's not there yet, I'm willing to bet it will be soon enough given folks hacking it apart and injecting their own solutions.
I'm amazed how well everything bolts together. Must have spent ages in 3D modelling to get such perfect sub-assemblies. An amazing showcase of Kevin's expertise.
curiously, what real world usage actually uses FP4? AFICT, most of the LLMs still use BF16, and even the quantizations down to 4bits and 2bits end up back to 16bit or INT8 for actual computations.
After reading it I think it's a good approach, whilst not perfect it's a good step.

Interestingly it isn't just referring to AI but also "other tools", used to make content that is "altered, synthetic and seems real".

Fair amount of ambiguity in there but I see what they're getting at when it comes to the bigger fish like the president being altered to say something they didn't.
So personality tests have some evidence issues but I found the career assessment from https://keirsey.com to be pretty insightful and useful. If you feel truly lost it might be at least a good point to start a dialogue with yourself.
Did you read that in the linked article? I couldn’t find it. But maybe due to the better efficiency with regard to the performance boost (5x) and the ability to now use 27 trillion parameters versus 1.7 Trillion, one can presumably finish the same amount of work in 1/25th of the time and bam, reduction in power consumption. As you say, I’m skeptical the max power draw itself is 25x lower.
I think it also gives them a legal / business remedy if people fail to label their content.

If someone for example makes a political video and fails to label it, they can delete the video/terminate the account for a breach of service.
“Nobody” is an overstatement. I find the software that is confined and that I can cleanly uninstall pretty valuable. There might be problems with Canonical, but if a gnarly package is available in both APT and Snap, there’s no question as to which one I’d prefer.
Learn some math, more specifically learn abstract algebra | read current papers in the field, befriend people active in the field that have taken over from Charles Leedham-Green, George Havas, et al is good practical advice to avoid using methods already known for decades to be weak.

It answers the question.

> Learn some decency.

Little rude, given the question asked was answered.
Path to understanding: elliptic curves, pairings, and BLS signatures
Professor claims homeschooling used to indoctrinate kids, cheers public schools