skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly the way things are currently going I doubt this will ever happen. User data has already been commoditized and as such most companies that are able to acquire it don't want to share it, and or cannot share it due to EULAs and the like.
Possibly through mergers and acquisitions such a situation could arise but that has its own set of problems given the antitrust lawsuits we have been seeing lately, not to mention the cooling effect High interest rates have had on such transactions.
I suppose a third-party tracker that users willingly install onto their computers might be able to offer up such a thing but I'm not sure there's a market for that and very well may be flagged as spyware as that's basically what it would be.

But that's just my take, and I've been wrong many times before! In fact I wouldn't be surprised if TikTok and Huawei offers up exactly what you're talking about tomorrow!
Right, so somebody dug out the original copyright, and it looks like SwingSet2 was written in 1997 or 1998...
Manage your SSH keys with Nix
and governments
Hi! I don't want to pay for ngrok, and I got tired of the localtunnel instability.

I found Cloudflare Tunnel (a great alternative) and wrote an article about integrating it with a Rails app
I think exactly the same. It is odd that this is not an established consensus.
> I just can’t imagine “The Rich” hoarding lots of cash to lend out?

Um. What do you think mortgage lenders are doing? Or banks in general? ... And who do you think owns those institutions and profits from them?
I love this way of exploring hierarchical or tree data. Looks very useful. Hope it can scale!
It is an active research topic

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02803.pdf

Note that the “fine tuning” and “alignment” (RLHF) stages are much shorter than the early training so technically savvy people can already customize models.
Obviously not, but my general experience with conversations like these is that people never do the math.

If we split the profits across all of the people that "deserve reimbursement" you usually end up with a few dollars per person. Definitely, not enough to make a meaningful impact.

Additionally, the American consumer subsidizes R&D and costs for the rest of the world. America routinely pays 5x-20x more for drugs than other countries and American grants account for >50% of worldwide medical research funding (caveat: the last time I checked). Yup, even Europe is a fraction of what America pays.

I would encourage you to actually do the math and decide for yourself rather than taking (or anyone else's) word for it.
The type of a lambda cannot be spelled. The type of a local class return cannot be named from outside either.
Maybe something darker like e5b934? I think we are better off giving ranges though. :P
> if some feature is disabled when it shouldn't be

That's my point, you're going to look at autoconf's output if a feature you're expecting is missing.

But would you think to have a test or expectation for landlock in xz? How would you even check if landlock is enabled for a process?
17x is a big hurdle to overcome. Likely:
- models will get a lot more efficient for storing and retrieving information
- the marginal value created with this same hardware will increase
- the market price for this hardware will continue to fall similar to historic norms

I expect this to set a floor on the crash.

We will continue to get better and better predictions at more affordable prices.
it's for convenience. if you are aware of the necessity of the kill switch then you can just replace the offending package.
Many if not most backup tools have some way to mount a backup archive as a file system after which you can use whatever tools you like to peruse its contents. Here's some examples of tools I use or have used:

$ apropos borg-mount
borg2-mount (1) - Mount archive or an entire repository as a FUSE filesystem

$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo mount /mnt/restic
enter password for repository:
Now serving /srv/restic-repo at /mnt/restic
Use another terminal or tool to browse the contents of this folder.
When finished, quit with Ctrl-c here or umount the mountpoint.

$ proxmox-backup-client mount <snapshot> <archive-name> <target> [OPTIONS]

Currently mostly using borg2 for occasional manual backups to external drives and proxmox-backup-client/server for backups to a central archive. All have been 'battle tested' as in 'used to restore broken systems'.
Looks pretty much like bash to me. Which means... yeah.
PaperBack: How to store arbitrary data on A4 sheets of paper (2007)
It is black holes all the way down.
It was somehow astonishing to me that the code which is actually shipped (tarball) is not the very same code as the one in the repo. Somehow renders code reviews useless.
Seems to be a common practice anyway.
well... it was only a matter of time before they completed the swtich from growth to profit.

I guess it's time to look for alternatives? I stumbled upon Revolt a few month ago, seems promising.

https://revolt.chat/ & https://github.com/revoltchat
"Meta" is The Evil Online Empire at this point, it's company history is a litany is decidedly immoral if not outright evil actions.
It's still not really open. Just the stdlib and examples are available. I hope they will go full opensource one day.
> if the exec listens to their people at all

And that's the problem.

The other week we had a "technology decision meeting" where we were going to decide on one of many technologies after evaluating them. The exec came into the meeting with the decision pre-made, then asked for our opinion. When I voiced my opinion on the sub-optimality of his choice, he agreed with me citing his bad experience with the vendor, he said "we hear you", and didn't alter at all the decision.

So yeah, lucky you that your execs listen. My exec just "hears".
I tried the Irfan view but I am just more comfortable with FSViewer.
Ocrs: Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images
ACDsee just kept getting worse until it just became unbearable. I did miss the image sorting abilities until I found PhotoSift.
It was caught just in time so the “badness” in terms of “what do I need to do to mitigate this right now” is thankfully pretty low.

But IMO the real “bad” here is that it calls into question the entire model of volunteer open source contribution, which underpins a crazy amount of the tech world. No easy answers there.
He did, just today:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Easter-holiday
This is exactly why I fight the windmills so hard when it comes automatic updates in Linux software.

So much damage is caused just by adding a single maintainer to a project - imagine how much power you would have to wield the remote execution systems put in place by naive developers for "automatic updates".

All it takes is a single malicious maintainer given access to the new version update of some popular user software, and they have a new botnet of thousands of devices at their disposal. Better yet, after the backdoor installation, they can just release the real update and cover their tracks forever.

Automatic updates are like running web applications, but without any sandboxing or protection usually implemented by the browser.
The LEDs don't just not last as long as advertised, they don't even last as long for me as the approximate incandescent average. There does seem to be sort of bathub curve factor, though: if they make it past a certain point they seem to last longer. Lower power ones also seem to last longer. Sometimes they just go out, sometimes they begin rapidly flickering.

Maybe then it is heat related as you suggested; I'd lend more credence to that too because the bulb-population I have not had a single one go bad in despite years of use now is SANSI, which have weird-looking ceramic heatsinks. It does also seem to be worse in some fixtures than others (worst: bathroom vanities.) But even that is pretty damning: LEDs should have been designed for the fixtures people actually have. (I find the habit of creating LED fixtures also pernicious - there's a lot more waste when they go bad.)
What evidence do you have that it’s foreign money? As opposed to domestic money?
I can see some practical difficulties with this. The first one is that CSAM is radioactive and can’t be touched, so only a very limited circle of people could even approach this task. Related to that, the model weights would contain representations of the training data, which if distributed could then be used to get some of the source material back out.
In theory, paying $499/mo could be justified if it improves a Senior / Staff developer's productivity by even 10% (more than say ChatGPT)
Looks like he’s a clone of Marc Lou
I think the same lack of discipline that causes costs to overrun in the cloud causes costs to overrun in owned hardware. The only real benefit is that you can depreciate the owned hardware for tax benefit but it won't really make owned hardware help you control costs necessarily. The costs will just surface elsewhere instead.
This kind of age restriction is indeed pretty stupid, Andrew Wiles was too old for the Fields medal for example.
For SOTA, probably, but it looks like current gen technology is going to be free soon. Intel is proposing to have copilot run locally, for example: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-confir...
Paying for Cloud storage lets you:
- Not have to deal with all the hassle that he had to deal with in this video
- Not spend all this time installing, debugging and maintaining this config
- Have redondancy in multiple data centers reducing considerably your risk of hardware failure

If you want a cheaper option than Google drive, maybe look for cold storage? Or s3 buckets which will probably cost much less than his hardware alone
> While Mercurial itself was clearly superior to Git, it had no equivalent to GitHub.

There existed BitBucket (it still exists, but as far as I am aware they switched to offering Git hosting).
What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2016)
Really nice. Couple of points -

The link to the demo is invalid - it goes to Github.

Also, what's the difference between this and the other demo you've linked to by Svend3r?
The Nobel prize is usually awarded to old (around 60) researchers at the end of their career whereas the Fields medal is only awarded to researchers under 40 (and since it's only awarded every 4 years, the cutoff age can even be 36 if you're not lucky). In that sense the Abel prize is more of a Nobel equivalent than the Fields medal.
Sure, but the general consensus is that companies and managers are not as willing to hire the 15+ yoe crowd due to their cost. The new people you describe sound like they are bad, not just new. If you have FAANG coming to you, then it sounds like you're in a different class. If someone is just better than most, like 1 SD above, then it'll still be rough.
> But your generation didn't. 70 years of television destroyed the minds of the boomer generation and is responsible for a lot of today's ills, as traditional culture was replaced with manufactured content pumped out for the sole purpose of engagement -- much like social media today, but weaker.

I think you can say that of a lot of the social experiments of the 20th century. Was teaching kids to “question authority” and “think for themselves” such a great idea? Maybe that’s why we got so many nutty anti-vaxxers and Alex Jones watching nuts.
Video is probably actually appropriate for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Iqn6mdmSs
Yes. I had the mention of it already typed out but decided that its not adding much to my point. IBM Watson was some mysterious thing that got shipped with Windows 95 or 98 and i (as a kid) didn't understood what it could do.
Thank you for that chuckle
I feel that the main point still stands, though. Saying that Python doesn't have a whitespace problem because you can send the code through a tool that detects whitespace-related problems still acknowledges the existence of said problem.
> This is such an immense breach of trust

Why do you trust it ? Do you think that others (Google, Microsoft, Apple) are not doing/would not do such a thing ? SSL is as secure as its certificates.
How much revenue does Cognition Labs have to justify this valuation?

Even if we forecast this, Devin is using GPT-4. That is going to be very expensive for Cognition Labs for the number of API calls / credits they are doing and it will be a while for them to roll their own model to surpass GPT-4 for Devin to 'replace' developers.

Otherwise, this tells us that we are at the very peak of another VC fuelled AI bubble which will end with lots of losers being unable to generate meaningful revenue and the VCs will push and run this startup into the ground.
It sounds like an outrageous conspiracy theory, but I'm also quite sure you are right, this is how these intelligence services operate.
Question to Eu smart Tv user: Is it a problem here? Or should I seek explicitly for stupid tvs?
While you are saying that it is utterly unrelated, I'll respond with "that not only related, this is a root cause of current situation".

We have a single massively used implementation (also known as reference), which does not even follow xz format specification. It is autohell-based, which allowed m4 injection. In other places it is CMake-based, but uses autohell-based code, inserting hidden dots where they could just use https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CheckSymbolExists...

"Poor design" is still there, as a core of library. It is as cool, 64-bit square roots and 128-bit divides in Bcachefs[1]

It is as cool as lbzip2[2] with their:

(((0xffffaa50 >> ((as < 0x20 ? as : (as >> 4)) & 0x1e)) & 0x3) + (as < 0x20 ? 1 : 5))

Spoiler: this lbzip2 code produces corrupted files in some cases, should we care if it is a backdoor? Or as usual, disable optimizations, disable valgrind, disable fuzzers and say that everything is ok?

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Bcachefs-Attempt

[2] https://github.com/kjn/lbzip2/blob/b6dc48a7b9bfe6b340ed1f6d7...
Thanks for the thoughtful answer :)
A disturbing thought here is that unit tests opened up an attack vector. Without the tests this would have been much harder to hide.
The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue
Thanks. The riddle has been solved :)

Do you have a (safe web view) version of those files? I would like to see what they look like to a casual observer. Judging by the 'tr' assembly command I would expect the bad-3-corrupt_ligma2.xz to be somewhat recognizable as script.
That's different. I have a lot of problems with CF, but when you sign up for a service which requires to see the traffic and you configure it explicitly to see your traffic... what's the complaint here?
Amazon Adds $2.75B to Its Stake in the A.I. Startup Anthropic
I'd prefer if the ecosystem standardized on some dependency management primitives so critical projects aren't expected to invent buggy and insecure hacks ("does this strong parse?") in order to accurately add dependencies.
https://archive.ph/mKUDG
Pretty fundamental to this situation :-) cheers.
Don’t take out tons of loans to keep your ship afloat.
Don’t lie to employees, investors, or customers.
Don’t keep the ship floating if it’s full of holes.

Basically don’t be stupid and don’t be a dick. Nobody gets in trouble for their company failing bc the model wasn’t right or PMF wasn’t found.
If it fails, then you’re an entrepreneur.
The Fields medal is there to encourage further work, per Fields himself.
Universal support of SARIF by compilers would be most of that.
Yip, this was impressive. Only a copy & paste into VSCode (Windows) revealed the rectangle around the "c" in the second line.

Impressive.
It's Hog Plum, if you google it. #FBCP001.

I'm disgusted and enraged. Really liked the answers better.
Dart/Flutter currently, for cross platform application development. Not adverse to learning native languages or the various web frameworks, I just wanted to have one codebase across multiple platforms. I discounted the web frameworks because, as a novice, I didn't know where, or what, to begin with; I didn't want to make the wrong choice.

Other than that I'm learning powershell too, mostly forced to for work, but actually it's not a bad language.

On my roadmap is lua and tcl.
Nice diversion in comments away from Meta...
> But that doesn't reduce the gangs in people's lives.

TFA says that before the crackdown gangs directly extorted money from civilians, and frequently threatened and murdered them. As far as anybody seems to be able to tell, the current government is not doing that. You can maybe argue that they are harming any innocents swept up in the crackdown, but the scale of civilian suffering seems far lower now. I don't get how that isn't "reduc[ing] the gangs in people's lives".
Homebrew had updated to the backdoored version, so although it doesn’t appear to trigger on Mac OS, you should update things to ‘upgrade’ From 5.6.1 to 5.4.6.
> It's also kinda unique

This is why off the shelf solutions aren't typically used. I looked into creating an MRP software a few years back. What I found is that every single company has their own process that is incompatible with everybody else's and they aren't interesting in changing it (it works for us!) That's the reason MRP/ERP systems are so expensive and complicated. It has to be flexible enough to work for everybody. That takes a lot of developer time to create, generates a lot of bugs, etc. It also makes setup and integration a daunting task, which is why SAP integrators can charge $7k/hr (as somebody else in this thread mentioned). The developer time required also makes them extremely expensive, which is why most ERP packages focus on billion dollar global companies; they can afford it.
One of Vitany's student used it to create the NCD (normalized compression distance), and then I went on to get Master/PhD degree on using it to authorship attribution.
Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second'
__int128 is not a C type, it's a proprietary extension of GCC and clang (among others).
> And yet, the reason tracing GCs are chosen by virtually all high-performance languages that heavily rely on GC is that they've been found to be faster in practice for the common workloads.

I disagree.

IMO the reason is simplicity, most languages don’t want to burden programmers with lifetimes and/or soft references.

Rust and Swift, both high-performance languages targeting specific niches, chose differently. Both largely for reasons of predictability, lower latency, lower memory use (which you admitted above) as well as lower memory trashing.
Vulcan is a driver-level API. It competes with DirectX and OpenGL.

CUDA is a language you write kernels. It competes with OpenAI's Triton language.

Here's what CUDA looks like: https://github.com/tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal/blob/m...

This is what Triton looks like: https://triton-lang.org/main/getting-started/tutorials/06-fu...

By contrast Vulcan looks like this: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam...

(It's true to some extent that maybe you could use Vulcan shaders to write deep learning kernels, maybe? I'm not aware of anyone doing it though)
This fear doesn’t harmonize with the mantra about how no one owes anyone anything. If the code is OSS then you can’t lose control over the project since you have no inherent control over it to begin with.
, exhaled Clara, 'Do you really want to go that stupid dance?'
Maybe that is part of my ignorance. I am quite tall, probably in the 97%
It doesn’t matter, if you can run Llama3/4 on commodity hardware is what I’m saying.

If I can fulfill my objectives with a commodity model with GPT-4 capabilities then I’m not going to pay any $$$ for GPT-5 because my needs are already met. So OpenAI will lose customers at the same time as gaining them.

The price at the top end will go up, but the price at the bottom end (which is currently the top end) will fall.
nice setup, but require plugins and multiple steps to keep your plan up to date.
It's impossible for everyone to change their behaviour, because that's too many people. Some people are just assholes and don't care. Or they're idiots and don't understand. Nothing we can do about that. Most people are alright, but with 8 billion people on the planet even a small percentage being an asshole means a lot of assholes.

For the most part, the people who care already care (you, me, most others commenting here) are not really the problem.

So ultimately the only thing you can do as a maintainer is set your own boundaries for yourself. And the original message in that thread ("there is no activity, what are your plans?") is a fair question, although the follow-ups are not.

All of this is true for a lot of the internet by the way. The best thing of the internet is that anyone on the planet can talk to anyone else on the planet. When I was a kid I did some ham radio with scouting, and you could talk to people from places like Russia and the US. Wow!

The worst thing of the internet is that anyone on the planet can talk to anyone else on the planet. You're constantly exposed to a seemingly never-ending stream of assholes and idiots, and a single asshole can ruin the day of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people every day. Maybe this is just 1% of people, but 1% of 8 billion is 80 million.
True, but such code changes in xz would be much easier to audit than all the dynamic loading shenanigans, even if obfuscated in the build system. The GNU's dynamic loader specially has grown to be very complicated (having all these OOP-like polymorphism features on linker / loader level ...) and I think we should tone down the usage of dynamic linking as I see it as low hanging fruit for attacks in general.
Unless the payment is performed by foreign entity (which means a US employer is hiring a Chinese hacker), it's not a wise choice to do currency exchange when measuring salary, because it would erase other facts affecting salary, like CPI or housing price.

Apart from (both visible and invisible) taxes, I expect a senior programmer would earn ~500-700k CNY per year. Game programmers may reach up to 200k. For a team able to perform such attack, 1M/yr avg. might be reasonable.

But if this is not a state-sponsored attack, I can't find enough interest. And, if this is state-backed...contractor or some dishonest officials would a huge part, so the real cost might be >2M/yr. Considering you can get nothing during 2 year's lurking I doubt if it's feasible enough.
If you had no concern about market fit and funding, what would you work on?
Let's assume that finding funding is not and issue and you don't need to worry about the current state of the market in terms of existence of a stable customer base or availability of certain goods (e.g. if you'd need thousands of H100 GPUs, you'd find it).
The only limitation (and this is probably open to interpretation) is that it should significantly enhance the human civilization in one or multiple domains (so things like rendering Mandelbrot set infinitely faster does not cut it IMO :)