skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but a "range of prior distributions" doesn't mean every possible prior distribution. Sometimes, the information in the prior distribution is required to get you to a place where your computational system can efficiently explore a meaningful subspace instead of providing nonsense.

If meaningfully different priors lead to meaningfully different posteriors, you're probably missing something that would either eliminate one of those priors from contention or marry the differing behavior in some unifying explanation/model. Either way is a win in my book; both provide a new direction for research!
If I am learning new content I can make my own notes and convert them into an audiobook for my morning jog or office commute using my own voice.

If I am a content creator I can generate content more easily by letting my AI voice narrate my slides say. Yes that is cheap and lower quality than a real narrator who can deliver more effective real talks ...but there is a long tail of mediocre content on every topic. Who cares as long as I am having fun, sharing stuff, and not doing anything illegal or wrong.
Overlay networks based on WebRTC
Yikes! Do you have any info on the individual's background or possible motivations?
I live in a regular town in Connecticut and I have bears attack my garbage regularly, so I'm not convinced that's all that weird.
> To expand on this, it uses quantum entanglement for FTL communication over a distance of 4 light years. Still a great story, though.

Although I read the book when it first came out, I have basically zero memory of it, so I don't recall if FTL communication is essential to the story. However, having just watched the first season of the Netflix season, I explicitly noticed that even though it mentions use of FTL communication, the story absolutely doesn't need it at any time. There's a local representative of the distant folk who is clearly trusted to make decisions, and could represent the distant folk for all communication purposes.
In this article, we’ll highlight the essential concepts behind RESTful APIs, exploring their architecture, benefits, and best practices.
Maybe I need better therapists, then! Wish there was a good way to identify the good ones... that goes for all healthcare, actually. It always seems like such a gamble.
From the other side, people like me, see your odd dismissive behaviour in the same light. This bridge and hundreds of other things going wrong throughout the world atm are all symptoms of some sort of rotten problem, and I honestly don't know why you guys are so adamant about dismissing it. Almost as if you want to see it all come crashing down.

Pure evil, as Trump would call it.
On arch, `ldd $(which sshd)` doesn't list lzma or xz, so I think it's unaffected? Obviously still not great to be shipping malicious code that just happens to not trigger.
There's a huge gap in uses where listenable, realistic voice is required, but the text to be spoken is not predetermined. Think AI agents, NPCs in dynamically generated games, etc. These things are currently not really doable with the current crop of TTS because either they take too long to run or they sound awful.

I think the bulk of where this stuff will be useful isn't really visible yet b/c we haven't had the tech to play around with enough.

There is also certainly a huge swath of bad-actor stuff that this is good for. I feel like a lot of the problems with modern tech falls under the umbrella of "We're not collectively mature enough to handle this much power" and I wish there were a better solution for all of that.
I used the ember and enjoyed it for a while barring the annoying Bluetooth issues. One day to my horror I discovered that the black coating within the mug had gradually worn away and noticed swirls of paint in my coffee.. I drink out of a ceramic lined metallic double walled insulated travel mug since then.
If a station has a longer cycle time than others on a line, you just duplicate the station so that the throughput remains the same. If you have say 10 painting stations, you can on average pass a car through in 1/10th the time it takes to paint a car.
Sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt data with PGP in the browser
This isn't some complicated thing, there's a site guideline specifically about it and you should try to stick to it like everyone else because it trashes the forum.
You can just mail this stuff in.
Isn't it already mandatory as part of GDPR?

> the controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate:

(a) the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;

[1] https://gdprhub.eu/Article_32_GDPR
Podcasts are an important part of my language learning stack.

There's a few intermediate French podcasts I listen to. They intentionally speak more slowly and clearly. Sometimes I'll listen to them multiple times, understanding a little more each time. Or I'll re-listen to them with the transcript. Spotify has auto-generated transcripts for some!

Other times I'll listen to native French podcasts for news and stuff. These are much harder to understand, but I'm really excited to get to the level where I can understand these, there's just so much content! Unfortunately slowing them down with Spotify doesn't work great for me.

I listen to them while I run, or in the mornings I'll go outside with my cats and stand around and drink coffee and listen to podcasts.
This was how the BMW i3 worked. It was a rather novel design that included an optional small electric scooter motor in the rear that had a 2.5 gallon gas tank. When the battery was low, it would be charged by running the small generator.

This was clearly a wonderful idea but it was hamstrung by a silly California rule requiring the gas range to be less than the electric range to qualify for rebates. With a 6 gallon tank, the car would have been able to do ~300 miles instead of 170 and would have been parked in everyone’s driveway.

An added benefit was that the car could use existing gas station infrastructure when you needed to travel long distances.
It was Teddy. Via executive orders.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-theodore-roosevel...
> Any idea how fast a single channel could get with optical transport and photon-detecting transistors?

Terabits per second per channel would be possible but it would require to much high energy SerDes (serializer-deserialiser) circuits. It will be more energy efficient to have more parallel optical channels (bundled) switching at the low power optimal speed of the transistors, around 1-2 Ghz instead.

>I wonder what the parallelisation ceiling will be? How much parallelization is required?

There is no ceiling, no limit, for example look at an "existence proof": there are around a hundred trillion cells in your body that perform billions of computations chemically and also with DNA processing by ribosomes in parallel. No limit. Those 8 billion bodies theoretically could learn to work together with the aid of internet and personal computers. There are 10^24 stars in the universe.

Your thinking, your imagination, your thinking brain modelling of parallel systems is the ceiling, the limit. But you can learn, experiment and improve over time so your limits on thinking up better ways to parallelise computation will improve. Humanity could dedicate itself to the open ended creation of knowledge (of knowing how to compute in parallel with photons without limits) [1].

Right now our computation limits are limited by our knowledge (of manufacturing at atom scales), the energy output of the sun and the amount of atoms in the solar system we could rearrange [4].
We should fund our scientists to create the knowledge we need to enlarge the limits [5]. I hope you'll fund me as well :-)

> Elixir development

Smalltalk, LISP, Erlang, Elixer, Actor Language are some of the best message passing programming languages for massively scaling parallelism.

Alan Kay [2][3] has great lectures to get you started in thinking better (including about (computational) parallelism, scaling and message passing). A few others have written some papers as well (see links in my HN comments the last 12 weeks). I can teach you a bit too, write to morphle73 at gmail dot com.

[1] Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_chemical_scum_that_d...

[2] Alan Kay lecture: putting Turing to work https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/video/lecture-putt...

[3] Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY&t=2557s

[4] https://gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling/hardware/1999-bradbury-matr...

[5] https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf
I think that goes to show the inadequacy of the law more than anything. If he stole the same out of money by walking up to a bank teller, he would still be in jail
Then you may as well use a gas turbine, which is pretty much better in every way that matters for generating purposes.
> you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers

Why is this? If true, why this problem is not appearing in private schools that pretty universally do not object to parents taking their kids away for vacations or family events as long as kids master the material.

The teacher needs to have a program of study with specific topics covered, recommended exercises for practice and required homework to check understanding for each. If a student masters the material why does anyone care if he skipped a week? And if the student does not know the material he should get a bad grade, whether he was in every class or not.

That is how the school worked where I grew up (Eastern Europe) and it seems vastly superior to the mess we have in the US today, where many public schools teach to the lowest common denominator, making capable kids bored at best and and a nuisance to the teacher at worst.
Simple Tape File System (STFS), a file system for tapes and tar files
White people in the workforce are probably the most inviting out of all races seeing that they are least likely to discriminate against other races. So I doubt your experience of the field being awful is at all related to the extent it is dominated by white men.

https://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=9002
5.6.1-1 was built from what I understand to be one of the affected tarballs. This was patched in 5.6.1-2: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz...

I agree on the sshd linking part.
Yikes indeed. This fix is being rolled out very fast, but what about the entire rest of the codebase? And scripts? I mean, years of access? I'd trust no aspect of this code until a full audit is done, at least of every patch this author contributed.

(note: not referring to fedora here, a current fix is required. But just generally. As in, everyone is rolling out this fix, but... I mean, this codebase is poison in my eyes without a solid audit)
I have a design in the works to do just this.

The problem? It's on the backburner because I don't think I could find a business model to make money from it.

I don't think offering support for a price would work, for example.
I wonder what information theory can tell us here.
If anyone wonders why Facebook et. al. would like a channel to distribute their own apps without getting blocked...

See also: https://stratechery.com/2024/apple-and-the-monopoly-question...
I handed over all the emails I received to the security team, who I guess will send them "higher". I'll let them analyse it.
$100k per year on Vercel/Next.js
I know this isn’t a technical reason, but my main reason is “eww, gross, it smells like Oracle here.” I’ve been around long enough to know that even being in the same zip code as Oracle is a bad idea.
I have an Ember - it works well enough if you start with hot coffee. I had hoped it would heat up cool coffee (at the time we were using a pretty big french press, and wouldn't always drink it up before it cooled), but that's not what it does.

I used to use the app, but like a lot of my "smart" appliances I found it's not much of a value add, so I just use the device as is.
> but an appropriate gear ratio should handle that.

See Prius's "Powersplit Device".

I'd describe the Powersplit device to be a combination of generator/alternator, starter/electric motor, reversed-differential (2x power inputs -> 1x driveshaft), and effective gear-ratio. All in one planetary gearset.

EV motor2 determines the speed of the car.

The ICE motor can spin at any speed that the computer determines to be useful. If EV Motor2 is 0-rpm, then the ICE is 100% in generator mode (2000rpm but the car isn't moving: all the energy goes to charging the battery). If the EV motor is at 10mph but ICE is off (0-rpm), then its 100% electric drive mode. And any combination in-between is possible.

EV Motor1 (a smaller, weaker motor) controls the 3rd set of gears (I think the planet gears?? I forget), which determines how ICE relates to EV (changes the effective gear-ratio)

https://eahart.com/prius/psd/

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So yeah, the PSD allows the ICE to always function at the appropriate speed (which is either 0rpm or ~2500rpm for efficiency). While the combination of EV-motor1 (changes effective gear ratio of ICE) and EV-motor2 (hard-wired to the final speed) handle the different speeds the user wants in practice.

All in like, 15 gears or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofycaXByTc

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I do think that the Prius (and Prius Prime) have surpassed the Volt's design, and the proof is in the pudding. Prius Prime has 52mpg, a figure far more efficient than the Volt ever had.

Prius Prime also has 220 horses today for a 0-to-60 time of 6.6 seconds. So today's Prius Prime is a lot faster than the Volt too.

Volt was good when it came out, but technology has gotten better since then. Toyota has seemingly perfected this "power split device", and its beginning to lead into exceptional acceleration and good driving feel (as opposed to being 100% economy focused like before). Volt had better feel than the 2010-era Prius, but 2024-Prius is a totally different car.

I think all Volt fans are in "but what if GM didn't kill the Volt and kept investing in the technology?". And... yeah... that's a fun what-if. But... GM killed the Volt. It sucks, because it seemed like great tech. Apparently GM has kept the drivetrain technology ("Ultium") and has continued to provide R&D, but Toyota's recent advancements are jawdroppingly good.
It would be interesting to see some kind of data on this.

I have a mutual friend that does tours in Europe. This was his and his worker's sentiments as well. Talking with them we thought there may be a lot of self-filtering going on in his situation. He does historical tours and those seem to attract a less rowdy group.
Sorry it's lagging so much. Looking into it. Just so I understand the issue, when you try to add text on the character creation page to describe the character, nothing loads in the text box? Or is it something else?
Well, to be fair, in the Apple App Store which itemizes the invasiveness, they can.
You're not wrong. Had Debian not patched it in this way, OP might have never found it, leaving all other distros who do the same vulnerable.

Note that OP found this in Debian sid as well, which means it's highly unlikely this issue will find its way into any Debian stable systems.
and when your single server dies, it suddenly stops happening..
5.6.1-2 is not an attempted fix, it's just some tweaks to Arch's own build script to improve reproducibility. Arch's build script ultimately delegates to the compromised build script unfortunately, but it also appears the payload itself is specifically targeting deb/RPM based distros, so a narrow miss for Arch here.

(EDIT: as others have pointed out, part of the exploit is in the artifact from libxz, which Arch is now avoiding by switching to building from a git checkout)
Nobody should be exposing a service like this directly to the internet. It should either be behind or wrapped by some better authentication system.
Most of Austria's growth was attributed to privatizing state corporations since the 1980s. Austria had a higher GDP/capita than the USA in 2008 ($52k vs $48k) but it hasn't grown since while the USA has blown up ($52k vs $77k)
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "not used for deployment" when they are for some cases, like the example I gave. trying to "deploy" an automation runbook that needs authentication. it'd be part of a greater solution, sure, but it'll still be part of the deployment
My Arch setup is the same, they must not patch openssh.
Cloudflare's license grant is quite appropriate because the whole point of a CDN is to make copies of your content and cache them closer to your users. Cloudflare also provides numerous tools that modify, and create derivative works of, your code and images on the fly.

Vultr on the other hand is just a bunch of compute/storage resources hooked up to pipes. They have a rudimentary CDN offering, but that's about it.
As someone who never took much advanced math or physics in school and really doesn't understand what either representation of that material is staying, personally I find the second example far, far more approachable because it is far more googleable!

If Gauge Theory is a concept required to relate to the other content in that sentence I've got no shot of knowing gauge theory is involved in the first example. I don't know what the arrow between P and M means. I'd have to look up what a G-bundle is. Its basically not clear to me which parts are syntax and which are proper nouns.

The example which reads more like prose than an equation expressed in terms of English words gives me much, much more context for where to begin reading about what I don't know.
controversial filter kicked in. hckrnews.com is the only actual interface to HN
Ask HN: Have you thought about leaving programming for the trades?
I’ve been working as a programmer for 10 years and think I’m done with it.

I feel like the golden age of being a programmer is gone. With constant learning, AI, and competing in a global market because of remote work, it’s super volatile.

Yet my neighbor is an electrician and he has endless clients. He can work 80-90 hours a week if he wants to. He has stable work. He just became a manager and is now making more than me.
> If physicists are alleging that physics works differently when we literally turn our back then that is something they should spend more time publicising.

What I'm referring to is that talking is a physical activity. And since we talk about consciousness, physics must be influenced by consciousness.

(An explanation could be that physics is an emergent property of consciousness. Note that people often assume that the converse is true, but I think that is wrong for the aforementioned reasons.)
Are you referring to the Swift version of TensorFlow?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3608151/swift-for-tensorfl...
FreeBSD is not affected as the payloads in question were stripped out, however we are looking into improvements to our workflow to further improve the import process.
There is a diference between e2ee and just encryption. Article32 seems to only be requiring encryption at rest (and maybe transit) but not e2ee.
The writeup indicates that the backdoor only gets applied when building for rpm or deb, so Arch probably would have been okay either way? Same with Nix, Homebrew, etc.
Romanians complain more about their country than people from Africa, Syria or Afganistan. Most pessimistic bunch ever.

Not that life in Romania is excelent, but the Romanians who complain a lot only look at Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, etc and forget most of the world has it vastly worse than them.
Comments here make me wonder if I've just been spoiled by ActiveRecord. Not that I use it for all queries but 1) it's rare that I have to resort to raw SQL and 2) it kindly gets out of the way when I do.
1-bit weights have been a thing since at least 2016:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06160
Flipper Zero doesnt have wifi (though there are external solutions).

Probably easier to do what you describe with a laptop or smartphone.
The Volt worked best as an EV with an ICE range extender. As an EV, the 40-52 mile range was sufficient for 90+% of daily driving. Adding more range would have little true benefit. It was a series hybrid, but it was mediocre as a hybrid due to the added battery weight.

Nissan has the E-power hybrid that is the pure series hybrid that you describe. AFAIK it is not as efficient as a regular, parallel hybrid. The advantage is in cost as running the gas engine as a generator uses fewer components than running it in a parallel hybrid system.

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHI....
Every CPU and GPU now has popcount [1] instruction. You can thank US three letter agencies for that [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight#Processor_support
[2] https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/

Multiplication then is just bitwise AND and a popcount.
and the poster suggesting vitamin C food and cosmetics preservatives (i think?) hurls the word 'nonsense.'
I always run autoreconfig -ifv first.
What is the definition of end to end encryption?

Is my HTTPS connection end to end encrypted if there’s a CDN terminating and re-establishing TLS at the edge?

What if I terminate TLS at the load balancer and clear text to servers in a private subnet?

The above wouldn’t be end to end IMO.

True end to end IMO means the communication provider is unable to see the contents of the message. Basically public/private key encryption with no middleman.

This obviously breaks email spam filtering systems (unless it’s all moved client side, or unless you give Google your key, in which case Google can decrypt your emails, so what’s the point?). Unless we water down the definition of “end to end” to mean between companies rather than user to user.

True E2E encryption is difficult when you want to do any processing in the cloud (e.g. Google photos making images searchable - I suppose this is why the Photos app on Mac drives CPU to 100% for a couple days when syncing photos to a new computer, seems like Apple is doing a lot of on-device processing which seems like the opposite direction many other companies are going)
> expensive and inefficient private sector

Interesting, I found the private sector to be better there than in western Europe. Much quicker, easier and cheaper to get a cehck-up, MRI, CT scan, physiotherapy, dentistry, etc.

The public system though, yeah, it's rough.
I mean, PGP and S/MIME are the two standards in this space. Both have significant deployment challenges and don't really match user needs.
Except extremely complex and usually hard to repair and inefficiently sized for a consumer car.
X confirms plans for NSFW Communities
Interesting, they just switched from tarballs to source 19 hours ago. It seems to me that Frederik Schwan had prior knowledge of the security issue, or it is just a rare coincidence.
Robots are taking over NYC – replacing humans in spas and doctors' offices
Humans in desiring deep emotional and sexual connections with people of their desired gender and being driven to weird behaviours when they can't achieve it in the way you personally approve of shock
Tell HN: Android Bad UX Updates. Same as WhatsApp
To the folks at Google working on android. thanks for your had work.

But damn, some updates are unnecessary - I wake up one day - the camera app is updated. Now the controls are no longer where they were. Something I didn't think about now I have to think ?

Same thing applies to Meta with Whatsapp. Recently got auto updated on android n guess - what UX it's Broken. You've a search bar that's out of place and out of sync with other ui when screen refreshes happen.

Mind you it's not like I have a shitty android - I have a pixel.

Maybe people who cared got laid off. But damn.