skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I'm also going to say something a bit controversial: the effect of Roe vs Wade being overturned has been the institution of, effectively, a terror campaign. And while that campaign has been carried out by Republicans... it's been allowed by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats, because they're vulnerable against Trump and need something powerfully persuasive to run on. Securing a woman's right to choose is something that we should have seen Profiles in Courage-type sacrifices for; instead the party under whose watch it was lost are using it in their emails asking for donations.

Altogether, it's very worrying, because both sides of the establishment seem willing to threats of violence should they lose as motivation to vote for them. We're aching for a third party.
Related:

Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling Milky Way's black hole

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840977
Bringing Swift and SwiftUI to Android
One of this release's features is getting byte streams into the webview using custom protocols. It's not as ideal as say, sharing a GPU texture with the webview, but powerful enough to do video streaming and data viz.
Been following this for a while and super excited to see it out! I love how Dioxus captures a lot of what made React successful, but also while innovating on top of it and shipping at a super fast rate.

Congrats to the team. Excited to try out the signals in this release.
Llms seem like a good compression mechanism.

It blows my mind that I can have a copy of llama locally on my PC and have access to virtually the entire internet
A "spider crane" is a particular kind of crane.
question for you: how many species have already gone extinct without us really noticing because the impact on humanity was too small to measure? 100,000? 1,000,000? 10,000,000?
Ideally you should evaluate if a person will be good in the new position, where they will be promoted. Don't know if that's always possible, or how easy it is.

Also, maybe if someone is bad at their job, they should be demoted or otherwise moved. It's another way to break the convergence to people unfit to their positions.
Rust is all about zero-cost abstractions. Linear time and space ones do not fit the bill.

Some language willing to trade a bit of speed for expressivity could adopt it. But not Rust.
> I'm aware of how large the moon is.

Are you? Removing from the moon a cubic kilometre of solid rock per person would be a thing you'd notice in a side-by-side comparison, while being less than the optical illusion that makes it seem bigger when close to the horizon.

30 miles down is 2-3 times the Mohorovicic discontinuity between crust and mantle; 30 miles up you're above the ozone layer and the air is too thin to breathe. That's the quantity being discussed.

> >- if humans remove material from the Moon, the rest of it doesn't "float off into the universe", it just stays in orbit unless it is actively pushed, which would take an insane amount of energy

> That's the point... what exactly do you think is going to happen to earth in that scenario?

It stays right where it is: orbiting earth.

> >something like the entire world's electricity consumption for a billion years

> What was the entire world's electricity consumption 500 years ago?

Electricity is a red herring; consider all power of all kinds combined. 500 years ago, let's assume that meant just human muscles even though windmills and watermills existed and animal muscle was also used, just to maximise the difference.

The estimated world population in 1500 was around 0.43-0.50 billion; again, let's low-ball that to 430 million.

Human calorie use is about 2500/day; multiply by 430 million gets us 52.06 GW.

Today, we are at 20 TW, which is a factor of 384.17 greater.

The kinetic energy of the moon is about 10^27 J: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1%2F2+*+moon+mass+*+%28...

which suggests it would take about 1.5 million years at current power use rates: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9.74×10%5E26+joules+%2F...

or 4016 years if I assume another 384.17 increase in the rate of human power consumption: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1.543×10%5E6+average+Gr...

Things which are actually likely to get us the kind of increases to our available power such that we might do this include "build a Dyson swarm", which I wouldn't rule out happening in my lifetime, but also doing that means we can do a thing called "star lifting", and we'd want to because the sun contains more interesting elements than all the planets combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
Go does not have any kind of enumerations, what is has are constants and a gigantic hack for pseudo enumerations, they even compile with broken values!

package main

import "fmt"

type planet int

const (
unknown planet = iota // invalid
mercury // Mercury 0.378,2439.7,3.3e23,57910000,88,0.0000000001,0,false
venus // Venus 0.907,6051.8,4.87e24,108200000,225,92,0,false
earth // Earth 1,6378.1,5.97e24,149600000,365,1,1,false
mars // Mars 0.377,3389.5,6.42e23,227900000,687,0.01,2,false
jupiter // Jupiter 2.36,69911,1.90e27,778600000,4333,20,4,true
saturn // Saturn 0.916,58232,5.68e26,1433500000,10759,1,7,true
uranus // Uranus 0.889,25362,8.68e25,2872500000,30687,1.3,13,true
neptune // Neptune 1.12,24622,1.02e26,4495100000,60190,1.5,2,true
)

func main() {
landingOn := venus
fmt.Printf("Landing on %d\n", landingOn)
landingOn = 42 // What a hack!
fmt.Printf("Landing on %d\n", landingOn)
}

https://go.dev/play/p/9AzJeHB0YbT
I find many of my previous positions to be stupid.
Conservatives would recommend against a non-STEM degree (or any degree which is unlikely to have a positive ROI).

The rate of single parenthood has drastically increased over the decades, which undoubtedly has impacted grade school success more than the “conservative movement” boogie man you felt the need to shoehorn into your argument.
Nice to see this idea written about in detail. I had thought about it in the context of terrible availability bargain bucket storage (iDrive E2), where the cost of (3,2) erasure coding an object and distributing each segment to one of 3 regions would still be dramatically lower than paying for more expensive and more reliable storage.

Say 1 chunk lives in Germany, Ireland and the US each. Client races GETs to all 3 regions and cancels the request to the slowest to respond (which may also be down). Final client latency is equivalent to that of the 2nd slowest region, with substantially better availability due to the ability to tolerate any single region being down

Still wouldn't recommend using E2 for anything important, but ^ was one potential approach to dealing with its terribleness. It still doesn't address the reality of when E2 regions go down, it is often for days and reportedly sometimes weeks at a time. So reliable writing in this scenario would necessitate some kind of queue with capacity for weeks of storage

There are variants of this scheme where you could potentially balance the horrible reliability storage with some expensive reliable storage as part of the same system, but I never got that far in thinking about how it would work
I've been following dioxus with interest despite not having a chance to use it yet.

However I'm a bit perplexed with the solution to remove lifetimes [0]. Isn't it a poor's-man GC? What was the performance impact?

[0]: https://crates.io/crates/generational-box

Side-note: `[generational-box](https://crates.io/crates/generational-box)` link is broken
I thought "fact" means truth.
Dang and I just learned the word too.
Yes, and Trump was happy to judge before any facts came out (also well before the city settled for $41M), based apparently on (a) what he thought had happened, and (b) how he thought the justice system ought to work; most people in the 80s would not have done that.

lighter: https://www.theonion.com/trump-takes-out-full-page-newspaper...

darker: http://apps.frontline.org/clinton-trump-keys-to-their-charac...

Note that even in Russia, the death penalty theoretically no longer exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country
You bring up whether I would be okay on my deathbed, and honestly I do think that if I don't do it I will regret it, but there are other things in life that I would regret not doing as well. I'm trying to gauge if it would mean an uncomfortable year or two if it meant having a lifelong impact on my earning potential.

I'm not sure I agree with you that joining a company of under 50 is the next best thing to entreprenuership. I've been there and it seems like you get a lot of the negatives (ambiguity on your role, disorganization, uncertainty on stability of business) without a lot of the benefits (freedom/flexibility to work on what you want and potential upside.)

For the record, I am the kind of person who wants to have my cake and eat it too, (what's the point of having cake if I'm not going to eat it?)
> network visibility

This is an odd euphemism. A network that uses plaintext isn't "visible" - I'd use a word like "readable" or "inspectable".

For encrypted networks, MITMing the encryption breaks the security. That's what it's for. TLS1.3 is supposed to prevent that; circumventing that (as NIST proposes) increases the attack surface. NIST's proposals seem to amount to generating and distributing ephemeral keys over the internal network; but I thought best practice was to keep keys and cryptographic operations inside a HSM.

Isn't the proper solution to remove MITMing from the compliance rules, stop trying to detect C2 and malware at the router, and instead secure the target servers?
Thank you for all these insights!

I did not know the term Technographics, TwelveTools is just a minimalist directory of tools, but indeed it categorizes tools too.

I think RamenTools won't compete in this industry, it's more taking the way of makers and products than technologies. It may not make millions but it's gonna be a fun project. :)
> companies can create new stock anytime out of thin air, and that decreases the price. why can't they do the opposite?

So at any point, a company can devalue existing shares that people have already purchased? That also sounds like a problem.
Is there more context behind S.I’s lack of subway connections?

It very well could be similar to Marin County, North of SF in the Bay Area - the community aggressively pushed back against a BART line going north on the Golden Gate Bridge to keep their community insular and disconnected from the urban riffraff.
Eh I think that was just a way of asking "How do we know you are serious about this"
The pictures of the Windspider Crane System on their home page give a good idea of how this is intended to work: https://windspider.com/
Love it, just for the sole reason of turning something OpenAI made into a dataset for everyone else :D
Wow, dude, just wow.
Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters
If you’re interested in this, I’d highly recommend checking out the Hoeg Law channel on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@HoegLaw

He’s done a bunch of analysis on the Microsoft / Activision merger, as well as all the Epic lawsuits.

It’s an interesting shift in Microsoft’s position, but I think they see where the winds are blowing, and most importantly, they’ve set themselves up to not be as impacted by an opening up of store ecosystems.

Windows is obviously huge for gaming, and Game Pass is the way that they’re bridging the gap between the more “open” Windows ecosystem, and Xbox. Microsoft marketed Game Pass heavily, and even with my distaste for subscription-based rental services, I have to admit, it’s a pretty good deal for now.

I’ve seen many of my friends use Game Pass and like it. I think it passes the sniff test for a no-fuss service that has games people actually want to play. I wouldn’t be surprised if Valve treated it as much more of a threat than the Epic Games Store. Nobody I know takes the EGS seriously, but a subscription service could represent a paradigm shift.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. If you don't mind me asking, what is your job today?
RISC-V: How a group of Berkeley researchers took over the chip industry
I don't understand how a "CSV file/database/model" of 70,000,000,000 (70B) "parameters" of 4-bit weights (a 4 bit value can be 1 of 16 unique numbers) gets us an interactive LLM/GPT that is near-all-knowledgable on all topics/subjects.

edit: did research, the 4-bit is just a "compression method", the model ends up seeing f32?

> Quantization is the process of mapping 32-bit floating-point numbers (which are the weights in the neural network) to a much smaller bit representation, like 4-bit values, for storage and memory efficiency.

> Dequantization happens when the model is used (during inference or even training, if applicable). The 4-bit quantized weights are converted back into floating-point numbers that the model's computations are actually performed with. This is done using the scale and zero-point determined during the initial quantization, or through more sophisticated mapping functions that aim to preserve as much information as possible despite the reduced precision.

so what is the relationship to "parameters" and "# of unique tokens the model knows about (vocabulary size)"?

> At first glance, LLAMa only has a 32,000 vocabulary size and 65B parameters as compared to GPT-3,

> The 65 billion parameters in a model like LLAMA (or any large language model) essentially function as a highly intricate mapping system that determines how to respond to a given input based on the learned relationships between tokens in its training data.
Smartphones can certainly join VPNs and be secure using RDP. I don't have RDP exposed publicly.

Some random HTTP solution is the last thing I would trust.
Is there a heuristic for how much of the value of a share is assigned to asset value vs forward looking earnings? Many of the ‘hot’ stocks like Nvidia seem almost all forward looking.
Why doesn't anyone consider things like demotion, lateral motion or promotion contingent on an evaluation of fit for the target role? Must we jump directly to "never promote anyone" or "Stalin-type purges"? Are there really so few options?
> Making something more expensive will actually lower costs?

Yes. The key in this case is that you’re making a finite resource (road space) more expensive for everyone, forcing a more efficient use of that limited resource.
I find this similar to what relation vectors do in word2vec: you can add a vector of "X of" and often get the correct answer.
It could be that the principle is still the same, and transformers "just" build a better mapping of entities into the embedding space?
> This is financial dependence, not independence.

Do you really think that somebody who owns their own house and has supplementary income is less independent than somebody who works full time and owns nothing? The first has the option to stop working, the second will be out on the streets if they do.

> Nonsense. I imagine it is pretty insulting for a woman to read that they could only be capable of wanting control of their own lives if they were fooled into it.

Both women and men, and yes, the indoctrination is massive to convince the young generations that they want to work full time at an extremely elevated productivity and still not afford to own their homes to have families.

> Also nonsense. In almost every culture, for almost all of time, women did not have power over the family’s assets, much less the ability to earn enough to power a family.

Then you are ignorant of history regarding this, which is your problem and not mine. I trust that you will deny this even if you read about it and find out. Just say "Nonsense!" and shut it out.
No, just tested it out (in the US). I honestly had no idea there was a web client at all because of the pattern OP is talking about.

When I clicked the zoom link it opens a browser window and pops up a system dialog to launch the zoom app. After I hit "cancel" on that dialog I was on a page with a large "Launch Meeting" button (and no link to use the web version). Then, I clicked the "Launch Meeting" button and it opened the same system dialog again. Then, after I clicked cancel on that dialog a small link appeared at the bottom that says: "Having issues with Zoom Client? Join from Your Browser"
Apple has killed the theft industry and the app store is safe
A nondestructive phenotyping platform to estimate rooting depth in the field
There was a related episode of the Hard Fork podcast about the subject https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/podcasts/hard-fork-apple-.... The conversation touches a lot on how peer pressure has a lot of power on keeping kids around those apps and this fact is just amplified by the fact that IRL interactions are very limited to younger generations compared to the older ones where you could just walk to your friends house and spend your whole day outside without too much adult supervision.

There's no doubt that there's an addiction problem on how these apps play with younger folks mind and as much as I hate a nanny state I really think government should have a mandate on what's allowed and what's not on online interactions for kids. Disabling monetization for kids content is probably the best way to hurt in the pocket of the companies without being too specific about what exactly is allowed or not.

Having this being pushed on parents is really done in bad faith at this point, I don't want my kids feeling the only ones left out because of their hippie parents.
Recent comments on similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822468
Yes, Trump judged, and about 95% of society at that time did as well.

And the CP5 almost certainly were out there assaulting strangers in the park. What they (probably) didn't do was rape the lady. They just knocked her out so that someone else could come along and rape her.
People working at Google are by definition not hobbyists.
Show HN: GPT Powered Podcast
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526749/#:~:tex....
Yeah I produced 3 car accidents off-meds. The last of them almost killed my girlfriend at the time. Since that, I don't drive off-meds anymore (and have had no further issues). Sadly, the authorities would rather have the reverse, with driving under the influence of MPH being in a legal grey zone (at least where I live.) This IMHO needs to be fixed ASAP.
Still the case, huh. That's unfortunate. All of my VMs run on a headless server, so my only means of use is via some form of remote desktop.
28% of Indian students are enrolled in higher education. The gender split is 52:48 in favor of males.[1] For the US those numbers are 39% and 45:55 (more women than men).[2] Since they're from different sources the participation rates might not be directly comparable shrug but the gender stats should still be applicable.

At least going by that, there doesn't appear to be a great deal of "lock your girls and women away" going on over in India.

1. https://opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/news/news/i...

2. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-enrollment-sta...
It's a balance. You could also say, why should humanity be kept away from something just so a few astronomers can have an easier time measuring something? Like demanding all city lights be turned off to allow easier observations.
This is super helpful, thank you! Is this coming from a strategic perspective or have you been the hirer or hiree in this situation?
The irony of it all is that those middleware solutions end up being ridden with vulnerabilities. Can’t wait until some Fortune 500s get popped and all their encrypted traffic is trawled through.
For anyone else curious you can checkout the 2nd part this book for free on Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8949379W/Lingua_Latina_per_s...
Why does anyone work? Because they need or desire certain goods and services. They entire idea of a business falls flat if it does not produce stuff people want. It is of course true that from the perspective of the business owner running the business is how they work, how they get the stuff they want by making money to buy things, but putting the emphasize on that seems wrong to me, after all you can run a business without trying to make as much profit as possible but you can not run a business that produces nothing.
The rust belt will grow to planetary scale.
Yeah to be fair I don’t think I even have a problem with embedding per se. It’s quite nice. It’s more the fact that embedding can be used to work around missing type system features. I can’t recall exactly, but I remember using embedding for things that it probably wasn’t designed for, because it would save me a ton of boilerplate.
Greatly changing the mass of the moon seems like a bad idea, in general. Obviously it would take a lot of time and effort to change the mass in any significant way, but by the time we noticed any problems we caused it would be too late.
Show HN: Tiny Startups in 10 words or less
I personally think it stems from a strong focus on individualism in the western (and, increasingly, the wider) world. We're all taught to prioritise our own needs over those of others around us, and go it alone if necessary to achieve that.
epigenetic inheritance is real
Kubernetes and back – Why I don't run distributed systems
Super helpful, especially with the recommended runway of 2-5 years. When you say you have done this, can you elaborate on your situation a little bit more?
FedNow offers instant transfer of fiat at extremely low cost (pennies per transaction) that crypto typically can't match.
You explicitly said tax dollars going towards and bought up public and private sector in a thinly veiled politically charged nonsense comment. Now your playing innocent. In my opinion of course.

The whole point of this lawsuit is that their jobs are being made harder with no additional resources.

Would you prefer the additional resources required to deal with the issues outlined in the lawsuit come from “your tax dollars” or from those causing the costs?

It’s a classic socialize the costs privatize the profits situation where negative costs caused by private sector are paid for by the taxpayer.

Ironically your viewpoint if it were to stand will inevitably cost you more “tax dollars” when we have to pay the increased costs of dealing with these issues in schools rather than those responsible paying.
Prohibitive currently. Not for long, with Starship on the horizon.
This.

Actually, I'm suggesting the top-level poster explicitly state they do this, so candidates know they aren't fucking around.
Ethereum is doing about 1m+ transactions per day. Don't know what for, but its been fairly consistent.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_transactions_per_day
It is poor man's GC, but the memory semantics are exactly the same as the previous version. Since `use_hook` owns a value for the lifetime of the component, that value is dropped when the component drops. All signals still `use_hook` so their lifetimes are the same. No performance impact whatsoever since we generally discourage calling `GenerationalBox::new()` outside of use_hook.

Now if you spammed `GenerationalBox::new()` in a loop or something, yeah, your garbage will exist until the component drops. But most of the time folks will just push/pop from a Map or a Vec and regular memory semantics apply.
It's their own network. The argument you're making here is that the (very good) design goals of TLS 1.3 preempt people's custodial interest in their own networks. That's a weird argument.
When in orbit around the moon, you have complete freedom to choose the landing site.

If you're worried about communication, a relay satellite is way cheaper and easier than cables or roads.

There's no need to build roads or tracks from the near side to the far side.
Global transformer overheating from geomagnetic storms [pdf]
It doesn't, is the simple answer.

The slightly more complicated one is that a compressed text dump of Wikipedia isn't even 70GB, and this is lossy compression of the internet.