skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, do we even have high confidence that QC is the thing that will break current algorithms?

Yes?

I mean nothing is certain, but it is the most viable known threat by a wide margin.

> Secondly, how much time from “the writing is on the wall” until bad actors can deploy them for financial gain? Unless it’s short, why not wait and migrate later?

Nobody knows, but its difficult to coordinate changes, and it is difficult to know which quantum algs actually work. It can take decades to have confidence a new crypto promitive actually works.

As far as actually changing things, look how long it took to change out md5. People started warning it was insecure in 1996, it was totally broken in 2005, and in 2012 the flame malware used it to hack computers.
Good luck. In 40 years programming I’ve never seen good, updated documentation. Deploying releases always the priority. I’ve worked at places with documentation teams but that was for compliance reasons, not to help programmers.

Best to learn to read and figure out code and database schemas. That skill transfers to any job and few programmers bother to do it — easier to call the legacy code crap and lobby to rewrite it.

Be the person who can parachute into a code base and quickly figure it out and get productive. Don’t be the person who whines that the code is unreadable and not documented. You can guess which person has better job prospects.
Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
This is a little concerning because it means there might be references to Archimedes Plutonium, Kibo and Elf Sternberg in there I might've missed.
That you can provide drinkable water in meaningful quantities from dehumidifiers.

Dehumidifiers are one of the most energy intensive way to get water and if you live in a very humid region, well you already have water.
But sometimes not fast enough. IIRC, you can wait for a HPROCESS in Win32 with the WaitForSingleObject call but that is signaled when the application code finishes _not_ when the OS has finished it's clean up. So if the process you were waiting on was an application that would write, say, "a.txt" and you wanted to wait until that process was done so that you can read "a.txt", it is possible that you fail to open that file because the OS had not released the file resource.

Of course, I wouldn't put that clean up in an atexit.
How can it be a KPI if it doesn’t measure performance?
The question is really more do they actually act on the feedback on a regular basis?
You weren't wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797176
Well forget that facile analysis and go back to your parents generation. They afforded houses, current generation cannot afford houses. It’s obvious that the current generation got gypped.
Anonymous crypto wallets now illegal in the EU
I was sad it wasn't a middle finger which you could use to flip people off using zigbee, meaning you could be anywhere in the world.
It’s why they love claiming “culture fit” on anyone older than them. 28 year old managers feeling threatened by 30 year old employees.
https://archive.ph/JOSBj
EU seeks cash payment limit, tougher money laundering rules
"Windmills" and electric cars do not, in fact, rely heavily on rare earth materials. Enormously more are used, e.g., in quadcopters. Even in places where powerful rare-earth permanent magnets are now important, they will soon be largely displaced by nitrogen-iron magnets, which are both radically cheaper and more powerful.

Google data centers are not examples of a "green energy transition".
I think you're a sample size of one
A case is criminal gangs buying from data brokers to scam elders
You're missing the point: it's essentially about third party dependencies/assets (say a popular framework from a CDN), and here you cannot reuse the TLS connection. Also, using HTTPS to connect to the third party doesn't prevent tempering on the third party's side, that's what SRI is for.
There is a real need to keep at reducing fossil fuel usage for sure.

That said, in some small assuage to your worry there are large sectors that are transitioning to replacement of fossil fuels.

Global scale mining operations, such as Australia's ~ one billion tonne per annum iron ore industry consume large quantities of fuel for trucks, trains, and electricity generation for shovels, loaders, crushers, conveyots, screens, etc.

https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green...

https://fortescue.com/news-and-media/news/2024/03/15/world-s...

https://reneweconomy.com.au/fortescue-starts-work-on-world-f...

Infinity Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLrc1u43gU
Gave myself RSI deleting <600 LOC with vi.

On the plus side I replaced an O(n²) algorithm with a faster one in the very next commit. Needed to get rid of the ninety copies of the same bad idiom first.
IIRC from an interview with her, the otherworldly performance is something to do with the bottle of vodka she drank while waiting for everyone else to get ready
> and the USAF base at Greenham Common

Literally "Airstrip One"? Today the situation seems better: although the SLBMs are yank and the base is scots, at least the boomers themselves are english.
Use of fossil fuels will fall off naturally as the cost of renewables continues on down the learning curve, radically undercutting them. Without the enormous subsidies fossil fuels still enjoy, they would have been undercut years ago.
Edited: wrong parent
Surprising. It's almost as if there isn't a planet B.
This is not a fair comparison because you are not taking into account liquidation preferences. Those investors don't have the same class of equity as everyone else. That doesn't matter in the case of lights out success but it matters a great deal in many other scenarios.
Nuclear is effectively irrelevant to the future of power production, as it cannot compete on cost, and falls further behind with each passing year.
On Street View, that directorate looks like a normal office building, albeit a huge one, would they necessarily have people with military training stationed there?
True, although it doesn't really work in practice, because your third party resources change for non-malicious reasons a lot (they wrong doing so, it's bad practice, but bad practice are everywhere, social problems and technical solutions, you know the saying).

And if you use SRI you end up with a broken website every once in a while and you need to monitor it and ship a fix ASAP (but there's always downtime if you want to make sure the change wasn't malicious before updating the signatures on your website).

Nobody really cares about security, stakeholders just want a good looking enough security theater.
this keeps coming… recently there’s been a bit of debate between Milvus and Qdrant on this topic: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yujiantang_how-can-you-judge-...
If you want to see an extrema of people being afraid to speak up, just look at the Gemini image examples in a company that in theory encourages people to speak up. There are always topics that are exceptions.
Certainly, squashfs is designed to be random-access.
I still have difficulty crossing rail tracks on foot after that film.

Same period was "Apaches" (farm safety), in which 10 children are killed one by one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3yyKFaq-aw
Why would those celebs pay Stability any significant money for this, given they can get it for a one off payment of at most a few hundred dollars salary/opportunity cost by paying an intern to gather the images and feed it into the existing free tools for training a LoRA?
An Oxford MA is confusingly what you automatically a few years after leaving undergrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambri...

So there's that
>You are taking the memes way too seriously.

Exactly. There are two groups of people: ones that defend Effective Accelerationism online with a straight face, and ones that take memes too seriously
JAXbind: Bind any function written in another language to Jax
They claim, currently.
I don't think anyone is saying that rights can't be infringed upon for any reason. The issue is that there needs be sufficient reason. Is this sufficient reason? I think the action is sufficient reason were it specifically targeted at the individual under suspicion. But a dragnet is not. Those innocent people were not under suspicion and were not doing anything wrong or illegal.
>But alot of the new non-fossil energy production is now added to the existing energy mix, not replacing fossil fuels.

Do you know how replacement and phase out works in the real world? Hint, you don't just immediately install 100% new capacity and then rip out the still working old capacity.
You can already do that with reference images and even for inpainting. No training required. Also no need to pay actors outrageous sums to use their likeness in perpetuity as long as you do business. The licensing still tricky anyways, because even if the face is approved and certified, the entire body and surroundings would also have to be. Otherwise you basically re-invented the celebrity deepfake porn movement. I don't see any A-lister signing up for that.
> The first one where the police uploaded videos and wanted viewer information is absolutely egregious and makes me wonder how a court could authorize that.

The police didn't upload they videos. It's not entrapment, and it doesn't sound like the actual content of the videos is illegal.

Instead, they had an open communication channel with their target and were able to send them various links to youtube videos.

Their theory being if they can find any user who clicked on all (or most of) those links, it's probably their target. And it's unlikely some random user would have accidentally viewed all those videos.

The actual request for the raw list of all viewers seems unconstitutional to me. Too broad, gives the police a lot of infomation about all users who watched just one of the videos. But I suspect a much narrower request where google identified the target user and past just that user's info on would be constitutional.
Uh, this article is so strangely written. The real thing that happened is https://codeberg.org/redict/redict — a fork of Redis by Drew DeVault under LGPL v3.

I don’t think I’m happy with the licence choice here (it should stay BSD-3-Clause). At least the primary repository isn’t on sourcehut, people might actually contribute to it.
Thank you. I'm so ready for the weekend
No. Please don't put script fonts in uppercase. It's absolute death to readability.

Actually don't put anything in uppercase - like underlining, it's a form of emphasis that has its origins in typewriters, which were locked to one typeface.

The uppercase letterforms are too similar -- there is no variation in the heights of the letters, so your eye finds it harder to read. Upper and lower case, you have letters like y and p and j which have descenders; b and d and t who have ascenders, and the variation is easier to parse.

For emphasis, please use size, weight, and italics.

Thank you.
How to make use of typographic refinement in Pages and other macOS software
And importantly, there has to be sufficient reason for investigating John Smith. It can't be arbitrary (he looks funny, has a limp, is black, is gay, plays Doom, is a Muslim, etc). Rights can be infringed, but they need reason. And they need good reason.
The various documentaries on the Barkeley are some of the most memorable videos I have watched on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/IEIerVw1vsw

https://youtu.be/LZ-DE-hmiGE

https://youtu.be/NDZdsqbcGTU

They inspired me to start running again.
Is Apple Lagging in AI?
some experiment with soupault https://github.com/multidecay/soupault-digital-garden
I think his words were ill advised and he was likely to get in trouble for them.

But, as a woman, I don't think you ought to be offended. His point is in your favour. He is saying there are too few women in the area and the industry which puts pressure on the behaviour of both sexes. This says nothing derogatory about women, unless you are primed to look for it.
This seems like it could be very useful -- a bit like like Spin [1] but natively for C++. But I'm confused: Is this "just" a header-only library, as claimed? No runtime tool is needed on top? Also, what's with the ($) syntax? I didn't think $ was a valid C++ identifier (even though it can appear in mangled symbol names) -- will that code even compile?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker
Do you write RSS feeds by hand too?
You can get a decent approximation for LLM performance in tokens/second by dividing the model size in GB by the system's memory bandwidth. That's assuming it's well-optimized and memory rather than compute bound, but those are often both true or pretty close.

And "depending on the task" is the point. There are systems that would be uselessly slow for real-time interaction but if your concern is to have it process confidential data you don't want to upload to a third party you can just let it run and come back whenever it finishes. And releasing the model allows people to do the latter even if machines necessary to do the former are still prohibitively expensive.

Also, hardware gets cheaper over time and it's useful to have the model out there so it's well-optimized and stable by the time fast hardware becomes affordable instead of waiting for the hardware and only then getting to work on the code.
>validate their prejudices

I have never understood this particular criticism of the work. It is, if anything, an extremely strident argument against prejudice. The entire point is that differences in current day development are not due to innate deficiencies in the people but rather at least in part due to historical quirks of geography and ecology and therefore current development level says very close to nothing about the intrinsic potential or capabilities of anyone from any region of the world.
Cartoonish anecdotes like this take away from that actual value that LOC can provide to management, when employed judiciously as one data point among many.

It is very informative for managers to take a periodic look at the number/frequency of commits from each engineer and their size, and from there dive into each commit and explore the denseness of the code, the cyclomatic complexity, and the overall nature of the commits.

This can reveal potential problem areas for the manager to investigate with the engineer. You might find that the engineer has very few, very small commits compared to their peers, and then upon looking at the actual code you may find that the code seems rather trivial. This would warrant a conversation. Why have they reported at every standup the last six months that they're stuck behind very tricky problems when the commit history shows only a couple of seemingly simple changes? Maybe the problem really was tricky, but maybe the engineer is struggling and doesn't realize it. So let's find out.

So while no one should be reduced to a simplistic LOC metric, and recognizing that more code can mean more bloat, we can't pretend that the amount of code that a developer writes is devoid of any meaning, as if it were just a random number.
A missed opportunity to named the fork "Redisnt" :^)

Is the new license (LGPL) going to be problematic for infrastructure providers to offer a managed Redict?
Blind Index: Securely search encrypted database fields
Though, I feel that ANNs' number of neurons are under-represented is some ways:

- In the example case of a CNN, the total weights of a kernel is of [Input Number of Channels * Input Kernel Size * Number of Filters], which can be a pretty small amount when it comes to for example a 3x3 kernel with 3 channels with 128 filters coming to a total of 3,456 parameters (3 * 3 * 3 * 128), however in the case of an ANN the same filter is strided across the entire 2D input feature map (or 3D for 3D CNNs). If the input image is of HD resolution of 1280 * 720 and the stride is 2 across both dimensions, then the number of strides is 230,400. The effective number of parameter activations is 796,262,400 (3,456 * 230,400). The reason for this example is that it is sort of a known thing for likely decades now that CNNs are inspired in part by the human visual cortex [0]. For the human visual cortex which needs to be fast, there cannot be parameter sharing across a single kernel, and likely the weights would need to be parallelized to an extent, which would theoretically imply duplicating the weights across the human brain. Thus, the advantage out here lies with ANNs.

- The neurons in the human brain would have to have a certain level of redundancy in place due to the constant cellular repair work.

- The neurons in the human brain can seemingly only be updated by Hebbian learning rather than direct updates which is in the case of the computer memory of ANNs.

- Finally, a significant part of the human brain is for non-logical but environmental reasons, such as movement and touch, and non-logical things such as fear, jealousy, lust, etc; parts which ANNs do not need to possess in the same way (eg: the fight-or-flight response of the amygdala part of the brain).

[0] https://msail.github.io/post/cnn_human_visual/
Shall we wait on the laws until you personally come to some harm?
Wait until they find out how much compilers used to cost!
Wow thanks! I always felt anxious about our civilization apparently loosing ways to build things from scratch. Nice to know I'm not alone and somebody is working on this problem.
No, it doesn't "clarify" anything like that. If google doesn't have phone numbers of some subset of the accounts requested... they will just specify so in their response to law enforcement since it is completely legal and google is not currently obligated by law to have phone numbers of all users of Youtube. Sundar isn't going to prison because of that or anything.

Saying that some PM at Google decided decade ago something like "hey guys let's build a database of our user's phone numbers to satisfy some theoretical future dragnet surveillance request from law enforcement and tell our users that it is for their own security" is actually quite ridiculous conspiracy theory if you think about it.
A corresponding thought-experiment is to consider the results of the opposite situation: if a manager read this article, and simplemindedly decided to measure by lines of code removed instead. Would that make things better or worse?
This is actually ended up working pretty well for me! The HN replies I got provoked me to go out and obtain a high-CBD hemp strain (22%), which turned out to be the key variable. I had often before tried combining THC + CBD strains, as you describe—but with more conventional, lower-strength CBD. It just turned out the "correct" CBD dosage for me a lot higher than I had explored!

Appreciate all the technical advice in this thread.
That's a fair point, I had not checked it out myself prior to your comment.
Germany in the early 1930's also had this sense that the foolish Chaplin-like character with his NSDAP party was anyway never going to amount to much.
You may want to read Marc Andreessen’s manifesto. E/acc isn’t just about “releasing cool AI tech”.

It means unrestricted technological progress. Unrestricted, including from annoying things like consumer protection, environmental concerns, or even national security.

If e/acc was just about making cool open source stuff and posting memes on the Internet, you wouldn’t need a new term for it, that’s what people have been doing for the past 30 years.
An interesting personal opinion albeit one at contrast to the IEA.

While the International Energy Agency fully champion the use of renewables, they also take a vey pragmatic data based approach to global energy consumption and production and believe that nuclear power must compliment future energy creation more or less as it does today; providing some 20% of total electricity in advanced economies.

Saying nuclear is "effectively irrelevant" is numerically equivilant to saying the third child in a two parent family is "effectively irrelevant".

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/electricity/nuclear-power
I'm not convinced I am taking him out of context[0]. Was Blackstone not also discussing natural rights? I see him as viewing punishments as infringements on ones rights. As a spectrum. And those rights even including the simple aspect of presumption of innocence. My best understanding is that so much is literally about the mundane and simple. Because natural rights are... well... natural. They are things we have until we don't. That's why they are called negative rights, because they need be removed, not given. Punishments (infringements) can be extremely minor to major. But they are still one in the same because it is about the concept in the abstract. Or rather, in generalized form.

As far as I can tell, this is explicitly within the context of the quote.

That said, I do see your point and appreciate your feedback. Maybe this can be an opportunity to turn this into a lesson? It seems too cumbersome to bring up from the get-go and similarly backfire. But discussing in the abstract is a difficult task when it is neither a natural way of thinking nor is it a common way that is taught. But I still think it is an important tool and something that does distinguish humanity. I am open to suggestions (I think HN of all places is more likely to be successful when discussing things in the abstract, but it is still general public).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798280
> a small population loses cultural knowledge over time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family is a good example that n=6 is way too few (even if the cultural knowledge is still there, the material goods, eg seed stock, hit absorbing barriers).

Do we have any reasonable (astrophysics-level) estimates of the population sizes necessary or sufficient to support some transect of various cultural and technological practices?
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too”

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-speech-...
It's actually the opposite. 3-way handshake is the way to check that the communication channel is established and humans do it all the time.

- hey!

- what?

- we need to talk.
Sorry but your argument makes no sense. The 10LOC/day guy is not to be singled out from the 1000LOC/day people because 1000 LOC could be just as trivial; 1LOC could have taken hours to discover.
Cynically a bunch of, idk, clout chasers maybe or opportunists?, are going to try to fork to advance them selves and take advantage of some uncertainty? What does this guy know about redis?

Agree with the other comment, this was written weirdly. Can't place my finger on why though.
Is there a chance that, like DNA origami, this technology might face challenges in finding real-world (or even basic science) applications? While it appears intriguing, is there potential for these structures to be effectively used in drug delivery or enabling reactions or processes that would otherwise be unfeasible? ASK HN: Can you list a few non-obvious uses for microscale 3D structures?
That's exactly my viewpoint:

SSPL + no CLA: we don't want anyone to profit from the hard work of our volunteer contributors

SSPL + CLA: we don't want anyone but us to profit from the hard work of our volunteer contributors

If you want to dual-license your software, dual-license it from the people that helped write it, or treat their contributions as work-for-hire from the very beginning