skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To start, remember that in the 50s and 60s, the Gros Michel banana went extinct due to a blight that killed the entire strain because it was genetically homogeneous (there's the lack of biodiversity you asked for), and now what we see in supermarkets is the Cavendish.

Now, imagine if instead of a fruit, a blight did similar devastation to rice. But not just any of the 22 species of rice grown, no, let's get rid of one of the two that's predominantly consumed across the world.

One rice species fails and everyone relying on it as the staple carbohydrate/energy source in their diet is at risk of famine. Rice is what allowed Asia to become the most populated continent. Wheat can't compare. The diversity of grains humanity enjoyed in prehistory was already whittled down before this imaginary scenario started. Even if you rush in aid from around the world, even if you drop everything trying to figure out ways to successfully replace the lost rice strain with one of the others, people need to eat every day. There will be a starvation event, period.

There have been plenty of events that dropped population throughout history and it's always rebounded, like Black Death. COVID really messed up supply chains for a while. But losing an important strain of rice forever isn't a temporary setback like a disease. Civilization now is so complex that permanently losing a staple crop and population to starvation has a very real risk of undermining infrastructure to the point that there's not a critical mass of either physical or knowledge workers that can keep things running, especially if people are fighting over scraps, fleeing a breakdown of social order, or retreating into their family home hoping to weather the storm. Cascades are bitches.

And the world already has heightened tensions in other areas, Russia v Ukraine, Israel vs Hamas, Iran, China, India and Pakistan. Plus with other resources like oil and water already hotly contested, and the need to keep face against geopolitical rivals, could lead to all sorts of strange things. If China is particularly devastated by a loss of rice, would Xi be desperate enough to move into Siberia for more resources, or finally poke the Spratley Islands hard enough for them to ignite? If India's particularly plagued, maybe Pakistan will take advantage of that? The US will find itself drawn in. How long until someone is driven to use the football?

And, here's an extreme example: what if all biological matter on Earth was human? You think we could handle the "biodiversity loss" well?
How much do you know about reification as it applies to the field of sociology? It might be something worth looking into.
Every release a perf improvement?
From the article, Edgreen's opinion seems to be based off of everyone reporting the syndrome having some tenuous connection to Russia, which is fairly terrible evidence. Maybe he has a better reason for believing it, I can't guess.

And that DIA investigation was presumably part of the House Intelligence Committee's assessment that ruled there was no credible evidenced of an attack.
I'm so glad. The Turkish people deserve better.

Let's hope rural parts of Turkey read the tea leaves. Unfortunately Erdogan can keep turning up the dial on religiosity and nationalism.
When you have a billionaire CEO who fires people at random like cartoonish figures, espouses antisemitism and conspiracy theories reminiscent of Henry Ford, and names their kids random letters, you know they don't care about fit, finish, quality, or safety... only about being "right".
There is an ex-pro FPS player that has aphantasia (reports no visualizations either intentional or intrusive) and I would really like to see one of these studies talk to him one time. It seems like an interesting extreme case to poke at.
The "de facto" solution is to outsource that to Google.

Email on a personal machine and domain has been dead for over 10 years.

You just can't own your data.

You can receive it, no problem. But you can't send it.
Just ratify the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" [1].

It's long overdue!

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...
export TZ=Z will just tag all your commits in UTC.

Just a heads up for the next guy...
doesnt track

if russian -> could be ...

why would being russian make it this? it could be if it was made in any country. they did this attack once, okay? but its not like other countries dont pay attention.
The are so many crazy things happening in my country so when I read the titles like this from a reputable source, I just believe them even on the April Fools.
> Amazon tries to bribe you to do so

Do they? I can't recall Amazon offering me anything other than a longer wait time (for the items that can be shipped faster) and fewer boxes.
Does anyone know how the free commercial license works? Do they usually grant it? https://wj.qq.com/s2/12727483/5dba/ looks like a form there.

Apache 2 code, free commercial license with application form for weights.
Sadly, it looks like xz-utils is actually public domain. Only some of the scripts (like xzgrep) were GPL. So it is and remains only a joke, not an actual violation, hilarious as that would have been to enforce
Anytime something takes a long time to create, there's an expected add to the price. Look at your 18 year old (and older) Scotch/Whiskey prices. Even lab grown gems takes months to "grow". Yes, there is a cartel influence on an artificial scarcity, but even still, it's something that isn't just common everyday discoveries for the vast majority of people. Even without the cartel influence, there would still be value in them vs much more common things like quartz/granite/etc.
AI "artists" don't even seem to know how many fingers humans are supposed to have.
The gist was members of some GRU unit have been seen at the location of several Havana syndrome events, mainly experts in Russia have been affected, and the Russian government has reportedly given awards for the creation and use of such directed energy weapons. The article makes it sound like Russia has been at war with the US since 2014, but the US hasn't realized it, yet.
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/91

Justine was kicked out of llama.cpp for introducing changes before the rest of the maintainers approved them.

Much drama has been had since then and I've lost interest in both projects.

It's just been exhausting wanting to build good software without ego in this space. Everyone is trying to get rich quick before the inevitable AI ice age starts and all these skills are again useless.
I believe it is in a way. Everywhere I've ever worked in tech leadership has a dataset of applications marked as decom, maintain, or invest. They never plan on doing anything with "maintain" until a replacement comes along. There are hundreds of thousands of saints toiling daily on maintain and decom apps. We need all types to make the world work.

There are trucking companies driving old trucks that break down all the time that are total accounting write-offs. They have competitors with shiny new leased fleets. Both situations are known to accounting and reported on. It's a trade off of what leadership does with that info. Is it better to have no expenses and still bring in occasional revenue or is it better to have reliable revenue with high expenses and low margin? Not always an easy decision but definitely not one that resides in accounting.
I mean... if people prefer a GUI that's not a bad thing...
It's telling that you claim racism in a comment that underlines the ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE that is manual labor in Pakistan. I think we've established you aren't actually paying attention.
Im not worried about a spiky slab. Im worried when the spikes are sheared off and join nature.

You can argue that the amounts would be minuscule since the spikes are only on a surface, but no one has.
A quite complete and not so much focus on meta Geoguessor's guide can be found here if someone interested: https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-.... This single document is fantastic!
Sick! I’m an embedded software engineer, but I want to grow my PCB design skills as well. Can you suggest some resources on this topic that you’re finding most valuable?
Count how many times I and me were said in the article. I have a nice grease monkey script that blocks both domains on my old machine. I guess I forgot to import it on this one.
What's the state of the art?
Any good tools out there for visualizing multi-dimensional hierarchies?
I’ve been running a personal mail server since 2016, and I’ve been struggling mostly with Microsoft off-and-on. I haven’t make any changes since setting up DMARC, SPK, and DKIM in 2016, but I’ll still sometimes randomly get blacklisted for 2~30 weeks for seemingly no reason, and then get unblocked again for seemingly no reason.

It’s recently started happening with iCloud too. For 5.5 weeks any email I sent would either get bounced or land straight in Junk, until yesterday when the powers that be decided my mail was worth delivering again.

I’ve somehow never had an issue with Gmail or Yahoo, and of course never with any other non-big-three mail servers.
The "hacker" stereotype is certainly stale, but subbing "young person" (and implying not "old person") is equally silly.

I'm 41 and have been awake before 7am maybe 20 times in the past 10 years. Half the reason I still put up with computers is because it's one of the few professions where I can work a 11-7pm schedule most days and still excel.

There are morning people and night people. You are what you are, no judgements, but it isn't something you grow in/out of, nor should be expected to.
Hi, it looks like you're writing a reply. Try using sentences

-Clippy
Spatial imagery (map knowledge) is unaffected, so I can't see what effect aphantasia would have here?
Even better on Node, you have EventEmitter. A much simpler interface.
I used to laugh so hard at those tv and movie scenes when they would "enhance" an image: https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.
Time zone is purely a displayed time consideration. I'm not bothered that the display time on my computer is different from the time zone I'm actually in.
Looks neat and convincing. But I think the goal (and effort) to make it into the C++ standard would hinder the momentum of adoption. I suspect it would have to go through a lot of politics and bikesheding before making any real-world impact.
Imagine that if Typescript had insisted to get accepted into the Emca standard before widespread adoption and promotion by Microsoft; it would probably still stay in the 'experimental' stage.
If you're cheating your own rough estimate, what are you even doing?

Custom cheats and large language model predictors are outside the realm of "most compression methods".

My thought is that lots of things you might want to compress are pretty small, so if you toss a 200KB not-ultra-size-optimized decompressor on top you get a very misleading number. Not having it will tend to understate a bit, but also current compression algorithms are far from perfect so that counterbalances the effect.

I think I disagree with you about how big a blob of text is getting compressed in "most cases". (If we look at photographs or videos then it works better, but we still want to arrange a minimal decompressor instead of grabbing a typical implementation. And the lossy/lossless factor makes the entire thing far more complicated.)
Unfortunately in this society a lot of people look to screw each other over for a payday.

If I have a retail business I likely can't be there every single minute that it's open. There's no incentives for me to hire someone who I can get massively fined for if I don't make sure they clock out when they're supposed to and go home on time. It's literally just not worth the hassle to worry about.

It's similar to why people in Texas with tree farms don't hire US citizens. It's not because they're trying to pay illegals less money -- in fact the ones that I know pay well but still hire illegals -- it's because every time they hire a US citizen two weeks into the job they "accidentally" cut the tip of their pinky finger off with a hedge trimmer and file a worker's compensation lawsuit. One nursery I know had this happen to them _dozens_ of times.

It's unfortunate that the world works this way but running a business is fraught with risk and most smart business owners want to avoid hassle and turnover (teenagers in jobs are fickle and do things like blow off work -- I sure did). You only hire the cheapest labor if you literally have no other choice.
Sure.

This is as absolutely true as saying elements within the universe are fundementally binary, an atom is either hydrogen or helium (with the exception of atomic aberrations).

The math is the same, 2% of elements within the universe are other than H or He, and 2% of human births have chromosomal aberrations.
> Never, ever install bleeding-edge software in production, for any reason.

But for any X which is mainstream today someone was always the first of X. And even then being the second or third is still cutting edge. For a certain kind of company it makes sense to play this way, but if it were everyone then we'd have a tragedy.
For open- or closed-source work?

If I'm doing open source coding, whether professional or not, I'd always want that associated with my personal GH account.
I was successful in uploading two documents but not a third. I ran a query against information in the documents, but the LLM response was wrong and when I prompted to review the documents it said it cant open files like a human can. I think a use case that is interesting to me would be a personal knowledge repo. I have been working on a way to test LLMs, if your interested perhaps we can experiment together to see if we can improve the responses; if thats a use case you find interesting.
Did you ever consider using NVIDIA? I thought the machine you were planning to sell originally had RTX 6000s.

Also, isn’t the real problem with the 7900 XTX is the lack of interconnect? I really appreciate the long list of stuff you are agitating AMD about. Infinity Fabric and blower fans would be great too. Another POV is none of that is ever going to happen, and everyone will have to wait for a Chinese GPU manufacturer to create real competition. I can’t recall a single time in my life a non-Chinese company - electronics or otherwise - delivered the “same” features for a lower price.
A lot of the AI "art" I've seen looks like a psychotic serial killer made it. There's just something wrong with it, especially when it depicts humans - the eyes are insane, the facial expressions look like the subject wants to cannibalize me. If it were a human artist, I would suggest they seek mental help. It's honestly kind of scary that this is what computers are creating, it's no wonder some people worry about AI destroying humanity.
That’s the biggest difference - here there isn’t a request, the money’s just gone. I can of course go through the process of calling my bank, filing a fraud claim, waiting 6-8 weeks and then hopefully getting my money back, but that’s not particularly ideal. Especially since lots (most?) of the population is living paycheck to paycheck, and all that they have is probably sitting in the same bank account that they receive said paycheck in.
Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?
This story is unbelievable to me. It leaves way too many unexplained conclusions.

Russia wants to kill US diplomats (why? All of them? Some of them? One of them?) so rather than doing some botched robbery or fake suicide... they invent a "direct energy weapon" to kill them?

Or maybe they're researching this cool new direct energy weapon and they decide to test it out on... US diplomats? You'd think they could pick a less conspicuous target to test out their assassination laser beams.

Definitely withholding judgement until we learn more.
Reminds me of notching out microphone feedback on a 31-band graphic equalizer without a real-time analyzer revealing the frequency. There was ear training software to simulate this activity, for practicing the art.
[dupe]

Do better OP, wasting our time.

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876565
Why would that suggest I'm being paid by anyone?

Oh I think I see. No, I'm not being paid to promote LLMs.

The point of my blog post was two-fold: first, to introduce the OCR tool I built. And second, to provide yet another documented example of how I use LLMs in my daily development work.

The tool doesn't use LLMs itself, they were just a useful speed-up in building it.

It's part of a series of posts, see also: https://simonwillison.net/tags/aiassistedprogramming/
[dupe]

Do better OP.

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859913
Formula to determine perceived brightness of RGB color (2019)
I have some whispers coming across the pond that US Amazon is about to invest bigly in Self Driving AND Hydrogen trucks.

Will make for an interesting POC I think.
Given that the github account itself is valid, and that it has some other repositories related to ML, I suspect the link will be working "soon". It's likely a private repo while the paper is going through all the places the author needs it to before they can fully publish things. I've seen this a lot with pre-print papers in this space where the paper goes out first before they publish the code or other resources.
What's wild is there are alleged adults navigating the world that simply refuse to acknowledge the current state of play globally, which in turn guarantees most if not all of the worst outcomes folks who are actually paying attention are concerned about.
This has to a be fake: Everything loads too fast. There's no way it could be faster than today's modern software and hardware...
Slight mistake in your description: CUDA is an out of date API that was replaced by Khronos's own official compute APIs. Khronos is a standards consortium that Nvidia is a founding member of.

Although the marketing department at Nvidia still pushes for greenfield CUDA codebases, no new code should be written in it, and they should opt for open source international standards only. Khronos APIs are implemented by over 120 vendors.
> Consider a director for theater/film. They are prompting their "tools" (to be reductive) to produce the art they want, and have to sometimes accept when they just can't get the results they want from their tool.

Bluntly, it's clear you have no personal understanding of such productions and did not understand the most important point of my comment and how different it is from piloting a generative model.
Anyone try emailing with a tracking image?
OK, that makes sense - I had forgotten that Svelte is a compiler-driven thing so it's reasonable to expect Svelte users to have that figured out already.
Jesus, they are literally all real and all of these people were dismissed or given tinfoil hats!
You moved to shame me on my coping mechanism. Kratom worked quite well for me and I simply shared that fact, along with the fact that it has caveats and is not for everyone.

Now you shift the goal posts to be about social acceptance. Your moralizing on your superiority of drug choice has only demonstrated that you have nothing to offer in this conversation accept your smugness.
The standard doesn't have anything to do with TypeScript, not sure where you got that from? https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...
They chose the worst solution to a problem that had multiple better solutions because of a pre-existing patch was the easiest path forward. That’s exactly what I’m talking about.
If it's microwave weapons, I can't imagine the SIGINT stations certainly present in the embassies don't know a lot about it.
> but rather accounting artifacts;

That is how money disappears. Like the $3 trillion that the Pentagon 'lost' and still 'cant find'.
The big guys provide steady volume to keep the trucks, trains, and planes full. Without the big guys it wouldn’t be possible to offer the service at all.
Almost all of those are skilled labor industries. They're not hiring teenagers.

That and/or their workplace activities take place during hours when kids are in school.

What teenagers are going to be hired into Financial Services, IT, Government, Construction, Professional/Business Services and Healthcare jobs!? You're out of your mind.
Promises proved themselves in libraries before they got added to Javascript.
They don't see the traffic unless they analyze the memory of your running server, because the SSL termination happens inside the server. Encrypted traffic passes through their network, which they don't have the keys for. Cloudflare, on the other paw, literally offers to do the SSL termination for you, as in they hold the private keys and perform the decryption on their servers that they control. Then they pass the decrypted traffic through their network in order to do things like "optimize" your images, or inject JavaScript into your pages. Website owners consent to this, but I guess the question here is whether users should need to consent to this website's traffic being handled in decrypted form by Cloudflare before that is actually done.
There's a long history of "this looks hard, I won't implement/fix it" in GitHub issues the LLM can train on.
Yeah. The 70s equipment that was due for decommissioning. Like the M1 Abramses that are being destroyed by drones right now. Or the Challengers. Or the Leclercs.
It sounds bad from the headline but from the article it looks like most of them had judgements against them for unpaid employees. Admittedly in at least some of the cases it was the overseas parent company that stopped paying and the locally stationed manager who got stuck with the bill.
Even if they only solve fair weather interstate cruising, that's the bulk of the time a truck spends on the road.
> There are morning people and night people. You are what you are, no judgements, but it isn't something you grow in/out of, nor should be expected to.

Oh, my sweet summer child.

Talk to me again in another decade or so.
Very significant, Russia-linked donors had to increase donations to the Conservative Party

https://goodlawproject.org/revealed-the-tories-are-still-rec...
They have rss feeds[0] but it looks like it's more for notifications of new content or creators rather than direct downloads for the videos/podcasts. I don't think they'd implement something like direct downloads but idk.

ETA: Accessing content on nebula, I have my feed of videos from the creators to which I subscribe and I select videos to watch from there. It's basic but as someone who never got into watching youtube (I bookmarked channels on invidious instances and looked for new videos there) it's pretty good. They're also open to feature requests and are improving the site.

[0] https://blog.nebula.tv/rss-feed/
so basically blaming slow charging of a KIA EV on Tesla for building out the wrong type of charging network? got it
I'm sure this guy is not checking his email after being exposed.
Xz/Liblzma Backdoor: Open-Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad
Trucking is the single biggest career in the US. Threatening that would be political suicide.
It’s a bullshit description that is thrown around too much. Working code is good code and if it ain’t broken don’t fuck with it.
It's not clear that the distribution mechanism and many of the other requirements would be so broadly met that "access to most servers on the internet" is a correct description of the scope.

Or that, once in the wild, that the author would have their pick of the litter when choosing targets. It's also true that the exploit has several kill switches in it, and so even vulnerable servers could be protected by simply setting an environment variable.

Which, honestly, makes this entire attack all the more strange. It had incredibly unclear value and longevity. It makes me wonder if the author didn't have different, parallel aims, or if this wasn't a type of practice run for a larger attack in the future.