skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long read for an advert. The value of docs is the "why" behind a design and A"I" does not capture this. To be completely fair, most devs are super bad at this, too. Tbh I would not pay for an automat that clutters my documents with ease.
State-of-the-art referencing counting does not require atomics on every single object; see for example https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3519939.3523440
I went through the tutorial and it feels like a complicated game. The battle rules feel very complex and hard to remember.
Warning: if you don't know Scrabble words you will be utterly destroyed. For example "REC" is valid: "An abbreviation for recreation". What the f-? HAHA
This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.

> “I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”

Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.
They invest heavily in startups and r&d.
My take away from this is that people are still far too blasé about introducing hard dependencies and complexity, even after the left-pad incident as a warning. OpenSSH is a massive wall of code. Such complex systems are inherently untrustworthy to me, no matter what language they might be written in. Even with ernest devs there are still more opportunities for mistakes.
Alright but what is the benefit to society as a whole?

If it is positive: thank you AI industry :D
GPU is infrastructure investment, while revenue is flow.

17x doesn't seem high to me.
He has weeded out corruption from within too so I’d say he has identified the root cause. The biggest risk they have is it’s difficult to replicate a great leaders abilities. It doesn’t scale well. So he needs to shift the culture during his era.
One idea is to embed the guesses in the url fragment (perhaps delta encoded) and from that url fragment, generate a social media preview image with a horizontal discrete gradient of the guesses.

You would need a server to generate the preview images ofc, but something like a subdomain redirect to a cloudflare worker or what-have-you could be sufficient. If done right the generated previews could be pretty small.
It's profitable for investors, as they'll take later investors' money, unless you are the last of them. No one cares its real value.
As a European who was unfit for sports, the social stigma is much worse. It is socially acceptable to be bad at maths, but you are looked down upon if you are overweight, lack coordination or are otherwise unfit.

For me it was a self enforcing effect where it also impacted how I viewed myself and I did not feel confident enough socially.

Obesity is one of the few remaining social stigmas that are "acceptable" to joke about. I don't think the average person know how it makes you feel when people passing you in the street look at you and make comments or try to avoid you.

There are so many micro aggressions that happens where each stare, laugh or comment just breaks you down mentally and isolates you socially.
Selling pickaxes during a gold rush

https://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold...

> There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This is of course an allusion to the California Gold Rush where some of the most successful business people such as Levi Strauss and Samuel Brannan didn’t mine for gold themselves but instead sold supplies to miners – wheelbarrows, tents, jeans, pickaxes etc. Mining for gold was the more glamorous path but actually turned out, in aggregate, to be a worse return on capital and labor than selling supplies.
A 1 year timeframe isn't nearly long enough. Capital purchases normally take time to show a positive return. Maybe the 17x is abnormal, but it's hard to know what's going to be normal in a new area like this.
Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there.

Didn't work for me. I tried creating an account[1] moments ago; after filling out the form and submitting, I got back: "an error occurred (status: 403)".

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/login/
Try on Android Firefox.
1905, probably: "The oil industry spent 17x more on drilling equipment than it brought in in revenue"
I've been there. It's a lovely little city and the river through the centre has some large and very impressive waterfalls, right in the middle of the city.

There's also a small church, underground, which was carved from solid rock rather than built. It's amazing.

https://visitbih.ba/en/catacombs-the-mystical-site-built-600...
same (desktop firefox)
With nVidia being the leading investor in many AI companies ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602930 ) , is this just an ouroboros of the same dollars making a lot of noise with little of value produced, other than inflating all the involved stock prices and valuations?
> Midnight Commander

The quality has gone down lately. After 20 years of using it, had to tweak the config file because suddenly you could not use a "-" on the command line and the xterm drawing characters are missing.
There are two words that strike sufficient fear into the hearts of the worlds leaders which has likely led to the current state of global printer enshittification:

Counterfeit money
> ... In a presentation earlier this month, the venture-capital firm Sequoia estimated that the AI industry spent $50 billion on the Nvidia chips used to train advanced AI models last year, but brought in only $3 billion in revenue.

> Source: WSJ (paywalled) [1]

I dunno, OpenAI's revenue is apparently 2+B [2] so I really doubt the whole industry is only 3B. Just googling "AI industry reveune" [3] brings up a lot of claims of market size (not revenue ...) being well beyond 3B.

There's probably some qualifier on the AI that is being lost here. It's not like Google's adverts have served for years by marketeers in cubicles... it's all AI.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/a-peter-thiel-backed-ai-startup-...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-hits-2-bln-revenue...

[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=AI+industr+reveune
I agree with the notion that cloud storage (Google drive, one drive, Dropbox) are simply too costly to use as your archive for photos and videos. UHD video on my phone takes up around 700 MB per minute. A single photo is around 5 MB. In about 3-4 years of normal usage you will blow past the 2 TB max that these services offer.

Then what will you do? Pay even more? It's an endless thing. It's not sustainable if you care about money at all. What you need is a combo of local storage (4 TB drives in RAID) and have a full archive backup in glacier or something.

Costs will be in check, and best of all no recurring cost just to keep your data saved. And you still have a proper backup if need arises.
The funny thing is that libsystemd _used_ to be split into several different libraries. I certainly remember libsystemd-journal (which is presumably the part of libsystemd that pulls in liblzma) being separate to libsystemd-daemon (which is the part that implements sd_notify, as used by OpenSSH [after patching by distros]).

If that split had never happened, then liblzma wouldn't have ended up being linked into sshd...
CharGPT made it mich easier for normal people were the journey is going.

Obvious investment and partially absolutely necessary in case your competitor is getting ahead of you.

The more interesting question is probably how this plays out.

But ai is no longer a hype, it's clear it has and will still continue moving goal posts.
What’s the reason? Cost?
same thing; if you have money you can hire people to spread the burden
Since we're reading tea leaves:

They also used a sock puppet with a seemingly German name (Hans Jansen). However "Hans" has not been a popular baby name in German speaking countries for many decades. You'd expect any "Hans" to be over 70 or 80 by now. Unless they are American, like Hans Niemann.

This could be a cultural oversight on the attacker's side, which points towards any culture that has a wide spread belief that typical German names are Hans or Fritz. From my experience, that is especially true for English speaking countries, mainly because of stereotypes displayed in Hollywood WWII movies. I wouldn't be surprised if cultural perception of Germany was different in China.

Edit: some clarifications
i beat AN with FEN to win - i was expecting to lose due to defender +2 bonus.
Those files would be editable by something in the sysadm_t domain which is by default the domain of the root user after a successful authentication

This backdoor does not bypass remote authentication so it should be able to transition to the new domain that has access to these files
Kudos for creating the game. Reading upside down is difficult. In Scrabble you could turn the board around to face you when it was your turn.

Why did my opponent place qxa to begin with?

I tried to get through the tutorial , but could not. Maybe simplify the rules or simplify the game before I'd play, but others may enjoy.

I do play wordle and other NYTimes word games , and scrabble, so I'm not averse to those types of games.

Maybe I should have had a cup of coffee first. I will try again later.

But still hats off for creating it.
Congratulations.
Feynman’s lectures demonstrate my point. From Wikipedia on the lectures:

As a result, some physics students find the lectures more valuable after they have obtained a good grasp of physics by studying more traditional texts, and the books are sometimes seen as more helpful for teachers than for students.[5]

It does not sound to me that you have much experience with actual teaching.
> This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive.

Sounds like they got bored.
Exact same behavior here. I got it in 24 guesses. New Game doesn't change the color and guesses show NaN%.

(Windows Chrome)
Same safari mobile.
I think it's bizarre and frankly hilarious that you think proximity to crypto is an indicator to ones proximity to the colloquial globalist order.

If there's one thing that the Five Eyes are known for, it's their commitment to crypto. /s
> It is psychologically addictive as opposed to an addiction which would create a physical dependency in your system.

This is just flatly wrong. Amphetamines do have symptoms of physical (not psychological) withdrawal such as ataxia and diarrhea. These more severe symptoms only typically happen when withdrawing from higher doses than are prescribed, but those withdrawing from lower doses can expect to experience milder symptoms such as fatigue.
That’s great.

Worked similarly for the twitter addiction.
Yeah I butchered that expression a bit. I mean that if we participate we at least have a higher likelihood of helping to steer things and continuing to be relevant going forward.
I'm just a new player: yeah, I get that. I personally like the rule set, but it would be nice if they could be neatly summarized.

Something around this might be a starting point to summarize the battle rules: to win, a player's attacking letter requires two things. (1) All of the attacker's touching words to be valid; (2) At least one attacking word to be 2 letters longer than one of the defender's valid words. (But I don't this is all of it. It probably needs revision.)

Aside: I'm not sure what the _minimum_ level of complexity for the rules _could_ be. I get the impression these rules were chosen to make the game more interesting. Having known some game-creators, it is common for game rules to be play tested. But there is always the question of "play tested for what audience?"

P.S. I like the game so far. A lot. I see a lot of potential in it, but yeah, it is significantly more complex than Scrabble.
Assuming the score is 100-Euclidean distance, you should be able to triangulate to the correct answer after three random guesses. Triangulation will give you two candidates for the correct colour, so if you choose between them randomly you should get the correct colour in 4.5 tries on average.
The context is probably the solar eclipse that comes in a week, and the eye damage it can cause if people stare at the sun without protection.
History is not abstract. It does not give you generalizations, abstractions and models, just historical facts. Many of those facts are useful in understanding why things around you are the way they are.

The attempts to make history more "scientific", usually for religious or political reasons (e.g., explaining past events throgh class struggle), end up looking like propaganda.
I hadn't heard of this until now, but it seems (seemed) like a decent idea. From what I can tell it's a UI that lets you configure what you'd like to block on certain sites, and there can be community contributed templates. You get a URL, you then add that URL to your UBO filters. It actually reminds me of nextdns.
Likely a majority of those investments are earmarked to be spent on NVidia hardware. It is common for companies to "invest" in startups by giving the free service, is both marketing and helps lock in new customers.
Is Winamp as we know it still around?
Also, Microsoft investing billions of dollars into OpenAI, many of that in form of Azure credits, with OpenAI then spending those credits and more and bringing in revenue for Microsoft.
Cocoa prices rise to fresh records: Will we run out of chocolate?
And you think proprietary code doesn't have this problem?

Can you prove it? Where's the evidence? ;)
Can you share your experience of when columnar fails?

It is possible to scan NVMe at a speed of multiple GB/sec, scans can be parallel and happen on multiple disks, over compressed data (10 Gb of logs ~ 1Gb to scan), data can be segmented and prefaced with Blum filters, to quickly check if a segment is worth scanning.
Climate Pulse
El is just the name of L, yet it's cheaty due to how little use it gets.

Obtaining a good word list is hard, I have one saved which is a merging and editing of several freely available ones, including one used in Scrabble competitions and one from some Linux distro, and a few "basic word lists". There will be endless errors like missing plurals and past tenses, as well as the inclusion of things like acronyms that shouldn't be in there at all. And if you prune obscure words but allow the submission of missing words, I guess you'd better keep the list of pruned words around so you can head people off at the pass by pre-filtering their submissions.
I think it is just as plausible that a state actor casts about for an account of a committer they can trivially compromise who is on one of the thousands of tired projects that can slip this kind of attack in…
I agree, with one caveat: computing hardware becomes obsolete much faster than e.g. an oil refinery.
Man's miraculous near-miss from runaway saw blade [video]
Now do blockchain
I swear that #516 looks darker than #505 (although perhaps only against a background of #505 with #808 next to it). Something interesting is going on there with my perception of saturation.
I didn't say that; I just said you can maintain these projects with different attitudes.

"I feel a huge responsibility to please every user who reports a problem, shortcoming, or asks for a feature, which I need to address ASAP" is one attitude.

"I work on it whenever I feel like it, and if you don't like that then I don't care" is another.

Those are on the extreme end and for most people it's somewhere in-between.

It's very common for people doing volunteer work to lean too much towards the first. They have trouble saying "no" and bite off more they can chew, even without direct pressure. Learning when to say "no" and setting boundaries for yourself is absolutely a vital skill for any kind of volunteer work – without it sooner or later you will burn out.

When I was a scout leader burnout due to this was a major cause of attrition. We made it very clear and very explicit there was no pressure for anyone to do anything they didn't want to, and that there was no shame in not wanting to do something just because you didn't feel like it. But it still happened, because people still feel this pressure, even when it doesn't actually exist.
I gave up in the middle of the tutorial.
Well I agree if a delusion doesn't map to reality it would lead you astray. It seems some groups even encourage such delusions to persist for millenia in order to serve their purposes.

But also, delusions can be an extreme form of analogy making which can be helpful to solve problems because they do map to reality in some weird way.

I also agree that creativity and art is something our society needs people to do more of right now. Art is also a form of fantasy.

I think a fundamental part of the problems we face is because our creativity has run dry. Just look at Hollywood's recent output. Sequels and remakes may make for a quick buck relative to investing in new ideas that may or may not work, but that approach is not sustainable.

In the wider world we're even suffering through a remake of the cold war because we are too scared to move past the mindset behind it and into a new, better era.

Even biblical stories are getting rehashed now by some to try and maintain the power they once had. They too are out of ideas on how to move past them.

Tell me, have you ever watched the film "The Never Ending Story"? I think it's relevent to these kinds of topics.
There are two tools I often wonder why so few developers take the time to understand:

- git

- regex

The return on investment is huge.

I wouldn't call myself an expert on neither, but just having a good understanding has often felt like a superpower, and made me the one who "fixed the difficult problem".
I doubt they "freaked out". They more than likely looked at the request, consulted with a few other employees in the same branch of government and then denied the request.
There was a long discussion regarding this in the community, I am sure they came up with the best idea
I think they mean the AI generated content market, there aren't many today who spend a lot on pure AI generated content, the big market is for human arrangements of AI generated content not the raw product.
Neat! Done. Thank you!

I also removed the old lambda based callback template from the repo. We're now using an SNS topic as part of a CustomFunction, to know when a user has deployed the stack (https://github.com/someengineering/fix-cf/blob/main/fix-role...). More work on our side, but less sketchy than executing code just to receive a callback that tells us the role name and account id.
But the point of the article, which matches my own observations, is that comments pouring guilt onto maintainers is commonplace. The depth of feeling it invokes in the maintainer is likely orders of magnitude more than the depth of caring on the part of the commentator.

The normal commentator who complains is probably not malicious, probably not aware of the pain they might cause, is probably just not even thinking of that angle.
Here's an EasyOCR service: https://github.com/MittaAI/mitta-community/tree/main/service.... It will run locally, or leverage GPUs if they are available.

A PDF to image processor is being built and should be out in a few weeks

No docs, but happy to help anyone wanting to use either. Email is kord @ the company I'm working on.
Why does there have to be one?
Totally a problem. My Hisense TV won't stop phoning home even when using it as a dumb screen via HDMI cables. I had to create a wifi hotspot with a raspberry and black hole all internet traffic to stop it
Ah the Sun Microsystem days are back.
Living in a society is sometimes a short term negative to a particular individual. If everyone solely optimized for their own situation, society would fail.

Why should I have to be OK to have a sidewalk on my property when it lowers my property value? Why should I have to agree to have utilities be buried in my yard if it might lead to a loss of use if said utilities need to be repaired? Why should I need to be OK with housing that will give people a place to live if it means I have to endure more traffic?
NVidia is great at looking for and promoting new markets for their GPUs. The whole "GPGPU" market exists because of how heavily they invested in that area once they saw the initial promising research coming out of Stanford, etc.
Honestly, yes, I don't think Microsoft Google and Apple would do something like this.
How much of it decomposes into the atmosphere? How much stays down?

That's a serious question. I have no clear sense of what happens in landfills. For all I know, they might be the new fossil fuel reserves in the year 30,000.
Yah, if I was a fully remote company this would have been an easier sell. What I actually am (and what the vast majority of business likely is) is a small bunch of office locations and a bunch of cloud infrastructure so I can approximate tailscale in a way I am unhappy with right now by limiting cloud access to the ips of the office and controlling access with various things from the office pcs. The vpn to do that works properly with acls and is included in our networking gear. So what tailscale is competing with is something that is a sunk cost and not ideal but of minimal additional cost vs 20k a year of additional cost providing premium features to all users when maybe 10% of users need them.

Basically, tailscale has a bundling problem. They bundled necessary to all features (proper acls) with a bunch of premium stuff that is of less value to many and they don't have the market power of microsoft with their windows operating system to force that kind of arrangement down my throat. They need a 2-3 dollar a month tier with proper acls and mesh vpn, then al a carte of the rest of the feature bloat per user (ssh key management is worth no more than 2 dollars a month based on the competition, no idea what the other features are worth because I have no use for them).

They also really need to improve their windows experience. More than once during testing I had a windows update break the vpn requiring alternate means of logging in and reconnecting, but that's an ancillary issue.
> "Woah, there pardner."

Cutesie error messages aren't funny even the first time, and by the tenth time they are wildly annoying.

> if you just create an account

"Just"
Meh, you can easily twist that into a bad policy, too (and yes, people do that). At work, some of my colleagues litter many repos (I don't usually have to work with, thankfully) with dozens of commits having the same ticket ID and the title of the ticket as their subject. Usually pushed straight to trunk (full of foxtrot merges if two people work at the same time). And in the message body, then, there's usually the unhelpful "fix typo".

My opinion: Write readable messages, scope your commits to simple changes, put them on a branch, use `--autosquash`, put the ticket ID in the merge commit's message. It really isn't hard.
Really nice game, congrats!
Just a small note: I just tried and swapped two identical letters, effectively yielding my turn.
Not sure if this allowed by design.
Where do you live?

I am the source :-D
The people who are busy inserting backdoors in all the "rewrite it in rust" projects where anonymous never heard from before new to programming randos rewrite long trusted high security projects in rust would presumably very much like everyone elses attention directed elsewhere.
King.
This is the simplistic view, but it might also create more confusion and therefore more questions too.
My favorite was sendmail's WIZ followed by SHELL bug.
You mean the infamous "goto fail"? Yeah that was fun too.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html