skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desire for a strongman is really a symptom of an underlying strategy that appears to be both instinctive and almost catastrophically stupid - power concentration. Based on arguing with lots of them, people generally respond to a crisis by trying to build the biggest club they can, then hitting their problem with it.

This has terrible results in politics - usually the target is wrong because our information about what is happening society-wide is so poor, and the club usually hangs around for someone corrupt to wield. Pretty consistently the correct response is dialog, tolerance and decentralising power. Good luck getting anyone to listen to "time for dialog, tolerance and decentralising power!" when they think there is a crisis. They want to club something, with a bigger club than got used the last time.

The big lessons out of the communists is that there is a level of power concentration where once it occurs there will be a lot of unnecessary deaths and suffering. Don't let that happen. In particular, let farmers run their farms to produce as much food as they like. There have been too many examples of people bringing the big club down on the farmers business then mass starvation (I'm thinking Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Communist Russia and Communist China when I say that, but I'm sure there are countless other examples).
Yes. Got my first subscriber today. I did some market research and usually similar services cost between 5 and 8k. I’m committing to 2.5k because this is what I can offer currently from a time and effort perspective.
He did provide thousands of GPUs for training all those open-source and open-weights models, no?
Wow. Thanks for sharing.
I certainly concur with this.

On the one hand, a narrow warrant that reveals a lot of people (classic example are warrants on motels to provide the names of everyone who checked in on a certain date, or was registered on a certain date) are certainly constitutional and have been upheld many times.

The first seems, odd.
The Kubestronaut Program
I did. I totally abandoned Apple once before, and I moved out of it for laptops in the last two years with no real disruption. I use almost no Apple services on my phone in a way that locks me into them. Most of the apps I use on iOS, I have subscriptions to some apps outside of Apple where they would transfer to Android just fine. I'd have to get a different fitness tracker, but I'd probably just not use one because all the Android ones I've used have been terrible.

By contrast, I still have 4 major Google services from my time in Android that I have yet to work out of my life - Maps, Gmail, Photos, and Calendar.
1. They compare with an older sort of standard implementation of a transformer Unsure whether the results would be equally significant compared to models with gated units or multiquery etc.

2. The difference seems to diminish with scale. Real life transformers obviously are much larger and train on many more tokens.

3. A very significant part of training transformer models are the throughoutput and memory optimizations. I wonder how their model would work with such fused kernels or specialized paged KV cache schemes. Or activation checkpointing, if run locally.

4. Indeed they claim no memory impact, but their code shows that their experiments are conducted with a special optimized version which requires all activations to reside in a single tensor at all times. Not sure this would work with 3d parallelism on multiple nodes etc.
Show HN: GitHub Action to minify container image by up to 30x
It's a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight
> WordPress is too complex, too bloated, too filled with messages from plugins, too reliant on magic, too reliant on plugins to do anything advanced beyond setup a post or page.

Huh?

The out of the box Wordpress is everything one needs to publish things on the internet. Its easy as hell and that's why its 43% of the websites on the planet.

If you BUILT a site, then it means that you did use it for a specific purpose other than just blogging or having a presence on the internet. If that is the case, how did you expect it to happen? Without zero effort on your side? Have you tried doing the same in React or any modern frontend for comparison?
Russian-affiliated APT-29 targeting German political parties - Mandiant
With the current limitations of AI in mind, it often looks like a solution looking for a problem. It's too unreliable, slow, dumb, and too expensive for a lot of the tasks companies would like to use it for.

And that becomes part of the problem because it's hard to sell unreliable technology unless you design the product in a way that plays well with the current shortcomings. We will get there, but it's still a few iterations away.
Projections for these projects are always very optimistic. Why are you focusing so heavily on their runway being tied to some ideal date in 2 early contracts they signed?
I’m guessing Emad sees the “rationale” in the recent revival of crypto prices - and the subsequent demand for altcoins
Also compare opportunities to open things up and see how they work... 80s, 90s, now...
It can be if you make assumptions about the basic structure of both systems. Some people rely on this behavior. It can be a good idea or a bad idea, depending on what you're doing.
I was most surprised by the fact that the curve of the Katana is purely due to the phase changes of the steel. I had always assumed that it was forged in that shape.
CSS is Turing complete, so if you want to make anything you could
>the US really wants to control the narrative its citizens see

They had control for decades, then traditional television/cable media started to collapse. They're trying to take control of "new media," in the internet.
How does feature size and scaling of memory compare with logic? It looks like leading edge memory is made by three companies - Samsung, Hynix and Micron - no TSMC. Do they use EUV? Do they use ASML machines?
Honestly, I could not get to a point of clarity on What does this exactly do. I went through the website's landing page and looks pretty rock solid. But this seems to be trying to do too many things in a pretty complex way for a small and simple output. I want to like this, and I think this can help me with some of my mundane chores and focus on the content but I just cannot quite grasp it.

Can someone, please, do a "This" is the typical problem we face with HTML in Static Site Generators and "this" does "something" to solve that?
> normal people do, like a platonic dinner party or a drinking party.

Hopefully more food pictures & selfies will emerge
Without it the accounts are sitting ducks. Big fat juicy ducks just waiting to be poached.
Think seti at home.

Instead of wasting all the compute on bitcoin we pretrain fully open models which can run on people's hardware. A 120b ternary model is the most interesting thing in the world. No one can train one now because you need a billion dollar super computer.
Love this. Classless styling can offer so much, especially in the context of document-driven websites.
Cell phone tower data has been used for a decade now in pretty much the same way.

Did you happen to pass by a cell tower in a major city around the time a crime was committed? We all have.

Well, your IEMI was included in a cell tower dump. Probably dozens of times.

Did you happen to drive your car over any bridge in the Bay Area lately? Did a municipal vehicle pass you and catch your license plate with their ALPR camera?

Guess what? Your name went through a database of an LEO search if they wanted to find a perp for that time/location.

Privacy has been dead for a long time. The worst part is people don’t care.

The Snowden files changed nothing. If there was ever a point in history where people would have given up their cell phones for their civil liberties, that would have been the time to do it.
It's really a bad idea most of the time to have an archive that doubles as an executable. It's not possible to cover every possible platform, and in the distant future those self-extracting archives may be impossible to extract without the required host system.
I'm in mid 30s and a KC fan.
KC is like Zappa or Les Claypool, a bit of acquired taste.
For better context, 70K years ago the route to Australia was mostly walkable with a few short boat hops in the vicinty of the Wallace Line:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Coastlines-of-Australia-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul_Shelf
People forget, moving things around and funding them and making it all work is what makes an entrepreneur. Elon Musk did that and all great founders do that. Emad doesn't have to write the code himself.
I did some research on the topic and focused on minimizing the cost per member (we are only a group of 5), simple UI, and having a searchable archive for all emails and having all the attachments indexed in an archive.

I settled on https://gaggle.email/

It is not the most fully featured, there is one that allowed to tag discussions that seemed very appealing, but out of budget.

The other ones I found are:
- https://www.emaildodo.com/
- https://mail-list.com/
- https://www.simplelists.com/
- https://groups.io/

I opted out of self hosting for this because i don't want to deal with emails myself
No. There can be tremendous value in AI, you just won't find it here.

The reason is that Stability.ai gave away everything for free. Until recently, they didn't even attempt to charge money for their models.

I've heard the only reason they're not already closed up is that they're reselling all of the rented GPU quota they leased out years ago. Companies are subletting from Stability, which locked in lots of long term GPU processing capacity.

There's no business plan here. This is the Movie Pass of AI.
It is XML based with an optional
GUI. I’ve programmatically generated and executed JMeter test plans in the past without touching the GUI.
Ex-Technology Companies
It will be interesting to see when OpenAI gets as open about their costs as their revenue.
It's hard to tell because DRAM vendors talk about things like "1x nm" or "1a nm" but it sounds like they are still above 10 nm which is fairly far behind logic processes. DRAM typically sells for much cheaper than logic so they may not be able to invest as much as TSMC.
> I had this mindset for years. "It's not real programming. It's for people with no brain", I would tell myself. A lot of other developers share this idea, I think

Yeah. I also had the same mentality until I started interfacing with actual users, site owners and customers and they started telling me that they don't give two sh*ts about the things that we programmers think to be 'important'. They care whether something is easy, cheap, it works and that's it. And they are right - they have actual businesses to run, and their livelihoods depend on it. Then I tried setting up and using a few WP sites - holy crap, that was easy. Even if the coding paradigms in some parts of its code were not 'up to date', it worked like a clock, and it took away all stuff that I had to do manually before. Then with time I understood that the project was not changing those 'not up to date' code inside the codebase to keep backward compatibility - which is critically important for the users (who now included me), and I came to appreciate it. I also did some coding on it and got some users and learned that users really, really, REALLY hate their websites and businesses getting disrupted because some programmer/maintainer thought to update something in a backward compatible way because it was 'better programming'. So now I don't do it either.
The writing was on the wall for Stability AI after they went on the massive anti-adult content tirade for their newer models.
> Nobody with a humanities background did anything meaningful

If you learned a bit about it, you wouldn't show off rigid tunnel vision or you might express yourself clearly and without the blind destruction of hyperbole.

Why did people make or not make vaccines? Humanities (and social science). How were they funded, regulated, etc.? Ditto. What is the scientific method? Humanities (really). Why did the US and EU as expected, but not, e.g., Russia make the most effective vaccines? Humanities. Why did people take or not take vaccines? Humanities, or not enough humanities, or they were owned by people who mastered messaging and mass political communication, which is humanities.
I don't think it's that SD and LLMs are solutions looking for problems, it's that there are very clear problems to which they provide 90% of a solution and make it impossible to clear the last 10%.

They're the new WYSIWYG/low-code. Everyone that doesn't fully understand the problem space thinks they're some ultimate solution that is going to revolutionise everything. People that do are responding with a resounding 'meh'.

Stable Diffusion is a great example. Something that can generate consistent game assets would be an absolute game changer for the entire game industry and open up a new wave of high tech indie game development, but despite every "oh wow" demo hitting the front page of HN, we've had the tech for a couple of years now and the only thing that's come out of it is some janky half solutions (3D meshes from pictures that are unworkable in real games, still no way to generate assets in consistent styles without a huge amount of complex tinkering) and a bunch of fucking hentai lol.
I would expect most of the big tech firms have the capital to build a gpu cluster like that.
What are you basing this on? The US government gets told no about things it really wants literally all the time.

Edit: this is also not the federal government, state and local government has even less juice than the little the Feds possess.
> It simply wreaks of being a swiss cheese of security vulnerabilities once you start adding plugins

The security industry in WP space is bigger than most open source spaces, comparable with Linux. If you go use plugins with a few hundred installs, yeah, you may end up with security risks. But if you use plugins with a few thousand installs and more or use plugins that are from maintainers who have other plugins with such large amount of installs, you should be safe.
I suppose you do need bindings for every language. But sqlite is in C and is extremely popular. If you can't get bindings as one of the first third party libraries your language supports, it's probably a shitty language anyway.
In Bitcoin public keys are hashed when publicly exposed, in the optimal case the ECDSA public keys are visible for only a period of a few minutes between broadcast of a transaction, and it being confirmed.

It is not an incompatible change to add new signature methods, a conservative implementation would have the public key commit to both an ecdsa key, and a quantum safe signature type, and use the committed ECDSA signature until such a time as it is no longer safe. This would result in no gain in signature size today, but allows for instant upgrades in place in the future with no additional transactions required.
Many browser like Firefox support the HTTP header (not HTML header) field for defining external style sheets. You could make a 0 byte HTML page by using this feature in the HTTP response header.

Link: <//website.css>; REL=stylesheet
I remember Larry Ellison (Oracle) in the news saying that Privacy Is Dead a quarter century ago, long enough the article merely referred to it as famous (no date needed) in 2018. It was written six years ago...

https://securitycurrent.com/privacy-is-dead-long-live-privac...
> they yadda yadda

They are talking about their lives and families, which they know intimately and on which much of their life depends. I don't know anything about them. Now if they talked about me, about whom they know nothing, then they'd be yadda yaddaing if you take my meaning.
DDR5 uses burst length 16, so think of it as 512 data bits with 64 ECC bits out of 576 total.
On some level, they're just providing an interface by which you can configure your tests, and a tool where you can send that configuration to run those tests.

So...Why YAML (plus a weak escape-hatch) and not something obviously Turing-complete for that interface?

1. Some fraction of the target audience aren't programmers. I know a lot of people who can look at a few YAML examples, play with a few requests in Postman, and produce valid-enough tests. I know a lot fewer who can write that in any "real" language.

2. There's an obvious "right" way to use a tool like this. Each scenario has certain properties spatially colocated, the scenarios are colocated, .... Turing-complete languages make it hard to expose an interface enforcing good, nice, safe patterns just via the type signature. That's a blessing and a curse (I'd much rather have an escape hatch, personally), but it's definitely a benefit for somebody.

3. If you don't "need" (it's, admittedly, hard to determine this up-front, and I think Turing-complete YAML comments are far worse than just using a Turing-complete configuration language) a Turing-complete language, reaching for one is asking for trouble. I can expand if you're curious, but going into the rabbit-hole of "principle of least power" should at least give you a few ideas to poke at.

4. Even amongst programmers, many more people know JSON, CSV, YAML, NDJSON, XML, or _some_ quasi-human-readable configuration language than those who know your favorite Turing-complete option. Look at neovim and their init.lua file as an example. How many active users actually know how to do anything meaningful with it? How many struggle even to add a few keybindings and a plugin whose README doesn't explicitly spell out how it interacts with their favorite plugin manager? Lua isn't a hard language, but diving into a totally foreign ecosystem takes time.

5. Suppose you have something Turing-complete in the middle. Now your hands are tied to that ecosystem. You have to bundle a language or re-write an interpreter/compiler. Alternative implementations are similarly constrained. Tree-sitter grammers are a pain-in-the-ass to write if you want to make your config files easy to edit in people's favorite editors. User bug-reports might be real bugs or might just be programmers making dumb programmer mistakes again. This point is kind of an elaboration of point (3), but there are real costs to full-blown languages.

Mind you, with YAML having a 1000+ page spec, never once implemented properly, never once fully understood by any one person, and countless Fortune-500 companies having major issues due to unexpected YAML heuristics, I don't think that would be my first choice of configuration language. It has the benefit of popularity because of Kubernetes and CloudFormation and that whole ecosystem though, so I can see the point.
Not sure if this is trolling but I honestly couldn't disagree more. Also what is a propaganda sniff test?

First, I think you should have run sed s/strongman/manager/g.

Second, when I do either I see mostly contradictions. The manager, has a manager and so on until you get to the CEO (usually). And the CEO is held accountable by a board and/or shareholders. And the board has to follow (democratically formed) laws and can be held accountable and has a reputation to defend with their name. Also each manager has to compete with other managers for the trust of their subordinates since they can more or less easily switch to other managers or companies.

There is no such correspondence in a dictatorship. Good luck switching the bureaucrat assigned to your city or switching countries (besides the immense cost involved).

The most important quality of a democracy is that you can get rid of a bad government without blood shed. Without that mostly bad things will happen.

Mistakes happen inside democracies and outside but in a strongman fantasy they will most likely last longer and get more amplification.
About half the mycelial mass will be released as co2.* With oysters anyway. The rest will ideally become healthy top soil for plants that off set the co2. They also remediate toxic chemicals within the house. In the landfill, all that matter is locked away from the flow of matter and energy that make for a healthy world. We should really only be using anaerobic landfills for plastics and things that need a lack of oxygen to be broken down. Even then, large scale bioreactors might be more effective and take up less land. I bet old mines would work great for that.
The scammers would have to take you to court. Something about throwing stones in glass houses comes to mind as relevant here.
This is cool, I wonder if Welcome To Night Vale was inspired by this.
I'm on to you sir... trying to fix reddit.
Lets assume the FED makes 0% inflation a policy objective. As the US and the rest of the developed world continues to age, more and more retirees are supported by fewer and fewer working people. In other words a massive portion of the population is spending money, and soaking up resources, while producing nothing. Obviously this is profoundly inflationary but to maintain 0% inflation, the productive members of society will have to work a great deal more and endure policies which are explicitly designed to artificially suppress the value of their labor.
i was kind of messing around with this blinking idea but couldn't get it to render in a way I was happy with

would you use another keyframe or did you have something else in mind
Why do any of us matter, if the world does not fill us with wonder?
AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step
> the only reason they're not already closed up is that they're reselling all of the rented GPU quota

They have raised 110M in October and they say that training a particular model costs them hundreds of thousands $ in compute costs.

They don't lack money.
> GE, PW, RR and I guess Safran is pretty much it.

Honeywell Aerospace, Williams International, United Engine Corporation, and AVIC are some others.

There are more than you might think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gas_turbine_manufactu...

Not all of these make aircraft engines, of course, but a fair number of them do.
OpenAI and midjourney have millions of paying customers.
The Linux kernel.task_delayacct sysctl and why you might care about it
>a lot of what we perceive as a single thought process, is a bunch of independent computing entities with an OS layer on top creating the unity that doesn't really exist.

As described in Marvin Minsky's fascinating book "Society of Mind" ...
> You overlooked the incredible increase in government spending.

Tax cuts too. Tax increases reduce inflation.
Huh? Sending MMS between any two devices is pretty clearly limited by MMS.
Astrophysicist says he's cracked the equation for time travel
Consumer PCs aren't relevant here because they only use unbuffered DIMMs and cannot accept RDIMMs, LRDIMMs, MCRDIMMs, etc., which is part of why consumer desktops are limited to much lower memory capacities than servers. (The other limitation being the number of memory channels.)
> not enough funding

They have raised 110M in October.