skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key thing is people doing things that aren't yet illegal, but probably should be.

I think we should simply backdate fines and punishments in this case. Ie. if you were doing something harmful to people or the environment but it was technically legal to do at the time you did it, you should still get punished (although a smaller punishment, especially if you can reasonably argue you didn't know).
If you're using a NAS as regular storage as I do, having it on your LAN gives you far superior performance. NFS exposed only over wireguard is secure enough for me and I've never had any worries about "robustness".

Inb4 the old "dropbox/ftp HN suggestion" meme. I'm not recommending my setup for common users, or even for you. It suits my needs and that's all that I really care about.
AI Should Be Invisible
I suspect that IT eliminates jobs that didn't exist to begin with, and that's where the paradox is explained. A company that previously wouldn't have been cost effective to operate, now is cost effective because the jobs needed to operate it are eliminated and that makes its operation possible.

We can't easily measure productivity gains in companies that didn't otherwise exist (small businesses that can't afford many mathematicians). And for big companies that could afford hundreds of bookkeepers, the gains would drag for years or decades behind since they would transition very slowly.

I'm not an expert though, so maybe I actually just don't understand the issue...
Appears to time release additional parts to use. Good Job trophy and cup as interactive objects, with rabbit and cat as decoration (although they do hide objects).

Been interesting to see the technique development over the release. People discovering jammed pipes and item combinations with some pretty clear progression of ideas among designs. One halfpipe, and then a bunch of loopdy-loops.

If Munroe, Goodhart, davean et. al. read this, one cool addition would be object hard points on other objects for attachments. Like a steering wheel with rotating repulsors. Fan speed adjustment would also be nice like the repulsor strength.
Poor little thing :(
Looks like $15 a month at Dropbox (it's true that the other providers don't count that high[1] in their standard rates, so you end up having to do it as more expensive overage). Seems like a bargain for not getting backdoored to me. But then I did say it was an unpopular opinion.

[1] I do chuckle at the use of "just 10tb". Obviously the real issue here is that these NAS boxes are deployed in service of movie and porn collections that people don't want to leave with a third party. But my point was about reliability and security, not legality or propriety.
It is readable but painful on my 7 year old mid-range Android phone.
Amazing! I love Vegemite ever since living in Australia. When we later moved to Vienna I bought some with me. My first born has never been anywhere near Australia but is addicted to butter and Vegemite on toast. We also use it to make vegan versions of Italian recipes requiring anchovies.
> All it will take is once for this to happen and shareholders to actually think about the repercussions of “investing” in corporations that do this kind of thing

Right, you wouldn’t invest in American business, period. (Also, how do you criminally charge someone on a pro rata basis? Do you send every American with a pension to jail for 1/31,000,000th the jail time?)
just crocs!
I think focusing on the one indicator that props up a certain POV can be deceiving.
Event: Akello Open Core Workgroup in San Francisco
Almost all municipal recycling goes to the landfill, ever since foreign countries stopped accepting American recyclables.

This article is quite a bit of "out of sight, out of mind" short shortsightedness.
nothing special i think this is on the cheap side, does not even include lawyers or any huge fights, just a "normal" shut down. Remember you have to include work time of founders that would be spend earning money otherwise. If germany forces you to do 2 hours filling out forms for bullshit you have to include your hourly wage to get the total costs. Usually everything in germany assumes "work to deal with government bs" is free and does not exist, which is of course absurd.
I haven't noticed this behavior in such extreme ways as you. I've worked with many different embeddings using this library and the OpenAI API for data normalization, extraction and structuring tasks.

On one hand it's super impressive what you can get out of these embeddings. On the other I'm with you that there seems to be a missing piece to make them work great.

An additional MLP or Siamese Network works really well but it seems like there should be something easier and unsupervised given your set of vectorized samples.

Thinking out loud, could PCA help with this by centering the data and removing dimensions that mostly model noise?
I've never tried the NZ one. British Marmite is noticeably sweeter than Vegemite to me.
Silky smooth on both a two year old Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (Xiaomi 12) using both Chrome and Firefox and on a iPhone Pro Max 15 using Safari. Might be some other problem with your phone?
It is easy. Give out your IBAN and a reference/invoice number, Wait for the money, then ship the product.
There’s an overview for how our app is built here: https://tender.run/blog/tender-and-crdts

We haven’t written much about our server-side sqlite. I’d say our write workloads are easily within what sqlite can do for now. At one point we looked into doing per-customer databases for scaling write perf (since sharding by customer can be a lot cheaper in sqlite than other dbs), but it’s not necessary yet.
As somebody from Eastern Block, it is not much worse. Government will forcibly create monopoly businesses, they have no reason to improve their products and to top it off, you can't create competing business, because government does not allow that.

Just look what was the result after 1989 - companies who could compete with western ones, because government did not required innovation last 40 years and 5 year plans were solved by throwing more people at the problem or outright lying. Result was that products were often obsolete long before manufacturing even started, what was made were poor quality (i.e. we called it finish it at home) and much more expensive than in the rotten West.
> the free market has taken care of them to some degree

It’s pricing in the risk of fines, the cost of groundings and the potential penalties thereafter. Put another way, the market is reacting to regulation, actual and potential.
SimpleDB disappeared off the marketing pages - but I don't think it got shut down in reality until 2020 maybe? It was easily 5+ years after DynamoDB came along. There was definitely a period where there was little SimpleDB availability publicly but on the backend it kept working.

Would love it if someone had more of the detailed history.
Sounds like the infrastructure was certainly overengineered, the actual app not so much. Under-engineered, over-built.
Easy? You’re letting your outrage short-circuit your brain. There’s no way you’ve thought this ridiculous proposal through.

Boeing is part of the S&P 500. Almost every American who has stocks is going to have a fund that includes Boeing. That includes people with 401Ks, so basically everyone in the middle class. You’re talking about charging a 100 million people.

Okay, so maybe that’s what you intended. Now what? Does everybody now have a criminal record? What exactly are they charged with? Negligent homicide? A fraction of a percent of the deaths from the 737 Max? Who charges them? How does it get through the courts? What are the exact consequences, and why does Joe Random Schmoe deserve those consequences? Let’s see you actually think this through.
Unraid is not confidence inspiring either. It's just more commercial closed source software, developed behind closed doors and with a slow update cadence (~3 months). They have made questionable security choices anywhere you can see, and I have strong doubts that their code quality is any better.

The PHP scripts certainly are a horrible mess, in all ways. For example, shell injection prevention is based on using escapeshellarg at each call site... that pattern is _exactly_ the structural root cause for vulnerabilities like the one D-Link had.

In no particular order, and obviously not exhaustive: Everything runs directly as root - nginx, php-fpm, smb, ... No AppArmor/SELinux. There is no Secure Boot support (especially unfortunate since boot is from USB stick). No HTTPS access to web frontend by default. SMB protocol defaults are insecure. SMB shares default to public. SSH allows password-based root login. Pools are unencrypted at rest by default. They have a checkbox to enable telnet for management! Very permissive iptables rules. Almost any features that real competitors like Synology would officially provide come from third parties via a moderately shady app store.

Note it's not about any of these individual points. I see above as signal that they are not security experts and see security as an afterthought, rather than as something that deserves a team of experts that specifically cares about it.

(There's certainly other fields they also aren't experts in, like UX - their predominant UI pattern is "list of dropdown fields". Even in storage, one could have a longer discussion how their Array feature - the true core of their product -, compares to modern solutions. There's a reason they've evolved cache pools to just pools as a separate thing, and some users do pool-only Unraid...)

That's all quite understandable since it's a small team with only 2-3 coders (https://unraid.net/about). But nevertheless.
Have you ever resigned because of your own poor performance?
Junior at a small startup. I’ve been with them for two years. Things started out really well and I was a high performer by all accounts.

We made a bad hire that tanked morale . We had tremendous momentum as a team and this person came in and sucked all the energy out of the room. In short, they clearly lied about their experience, routinely messed stuff up in prod and dumped it on us, and were overall unpleasant to work with. The situation became completely untenable so I raised concerns to management. The person was let go after almost two years of doing absolutely nothing and actively screwing the rest of us over.

Morale improved immediately after that, but the entire ordeal left me winded. I’ve since not been able to find my footing. I’ve missed important deadlines and can’t complete work like I used to. I’ve lost all the goodwill I worked so hard to foster. Everything I’ve sweat and bled for is imploding. It’s my fault and I don’t know what to do about it.

Which brings me to the title question. I have genuine affection and love for this small team of people, we’ve been in the trenches together fighting for life, bonding us as a unit, and I’m letting them down. The guilt is overwhelming and even though I’ve talked about it with my boss, whom was very understanding and supportive, I can’t shake this feeling that I’m dead weight and am bringing everybody else down just being there.

It is extremely painful, frustrating and I don’t see it getting any better. The job market is bad and my confidence is shot. I’m torn between the obligation to my employer and team and the obligation to my family.

My inclination is to resign immediately with notice because I believe it’s the only honorable course, and to preserve what’s left of my reputation with people I truly loved working with. Is that insane in this day and age? Anybody ever do an “honor-resignation”? Or if you were in a similar boat and didn’t resign, how’d you fix it?
Operation Big Bang
It seems the issue is specific to Firefox for me, if I switch over to Chrome it's perfectly smooth.

Strange that Firefox works fine for you on a slightly older version of the same platform.
That's smart. Unless you have a clear idea of exactly what you want to study and how you'll make money with it, taking on debt and spending years of your early adult life in college is usually bad idea. Better to get started learning a trade as soon as possible than to futz around for years getting a literature degree before landing a food service job.

A lot of millennials were taught by boomers that getting any random liberal arts degree would be a sure ticket to easy street in the middle class, then ended up hosed by debt and lack of marketable skills when those promises turned out to be out of date. I'm glad Gen Z isn't falling into the same trap.
I recall paragraph2Vec. It was the earliest way to experiment with position embeddings that I recall reading. At first when I read it, it felt kind of crazy/weird that it worked:

You feed in the paragraph ID(yes just an integer of the para where the word was) via its own layer along with the word to CBOW/SkipGram set up. Then throw away that part after training. Then, during inference, you attach a new randmly initialized layer for where that old layer was and "re-train" just that part before generating the embedding for words.
> You know what is well designed? A stable facade that provides minimal overhead between two components, which prevents tight coupling. Like libc

Actually, opposed to libc. Minimal overhead means either pass by register values or using call gates to copy stack frames. Libc just adds a new layer of cruft.

>Having a single path into and out of the system call interface provides a way in which userland protections -- such as syscall pinning, immutable pages, etc., can be added.

None of those are libc-specific, and can also be implemented using privileged kernel implementations. So, nothing new.

>How does language runtime library linkage matter? What is the real difference to a language whether it calls read() or the read syscall? Either way, it has to marshal arguments through a FFI.

The level of indirection. If there is no real difference, why not use the syscall directly? Why use yet another layer of crap to - in the end - perform a call by register?

> Languages must be ported to each operating system they run on.

One thing us the language,another is the runtime. The runtime should be as agnostic as possible, and that actually means using syscalls, not a given libc version.

> There is really no point to directly using syscalls. In nearly every case for unistd, socket, and fcntl, the libc wrapper is negligible. You can do all of the same thing.

You are right, they are almost the same thing. Thats one more motive to skip libc completely, because adds little to nothing no non-c languages.

> There are few, if any, enforced C-isms.

Such as struct (lack of) alignment, string formats and call conventions. Few, but relevant.
If you go to a university's library, the librarians there are frequently quite good at least finding sources that can lead you to other sources if not directly answering your question. If all else fails, they can probably help you find an expert to e-mail.

I took the liberty of stalking you. I bet you if you e-mailed/visited either of the two people with "Italian Renaissance" here, they could probably directly help you answer your question: https://history.washington.edu/people/faculty

I spent a bit of time trying to answer that question (because I enjoy the exercise of it), and it looks like this would probably be an easier question for a speaker of Italian to answer.

I eventually found this book: https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11065

The sample pages of that book suggest there is not very much authoritative information on them and I didn't see an earliest known date of construction of them.

https://www.venice-carnival.org/en/approfondimento/3/history...

That seems to suggest the middle of the 15th century is the answer to your question since the profession of codega appeared at the same time they were built according to the first article.

This seems to be relevant too: https://journals.openedition.org/chs/148?lang=en
Just because something shouldn’t doesn’t mean it can’t. Or doesn’t.
Nit: all Apple OS’s are camelCase marks.
It's absolutely no surprise, especially when (for US residents) the US government will literally pay all your expenses, provide a stipend, and provide room, board, and healthcare for you to get a trade school education of your choice via the US Job Corps (https://www.jobcorps.gov/)

0USD + 2-4 years training, all expenses paid + access to highly in demand jobs

vs.

20k USD to 200k USD + 4-6 years education by professors who generally don't even want to teach you + a degree that may not even land you a job

Who wouldn't choose the former over the latter?
In the US, this is constitutionally forbidden.
There are many regulations that effectively act as zoning. How's the permitting process look like? Is there a property tax (or land value tax) incentivizing people to sell so developers can actually build where people want to live? Is there infrastructure coupled with developments? Is there a balance of protections between tenants and owners? (No squatting, no surprise evictions, ie. 5-7 year contracts, some cap on rent increase, but no forever rent control.)

The big problems with housing - and with any kind of construction nowadays - is that volume is too darn low. No economies of scale, everything is slow, made by small crews, on-site by hand basically. (With tools not much different from a 100 years ago.)

It doesn't matter who owns and lives in them, as long as the usual incentives have a way to shape the market.
Does "Console Wars" mostly exam from the business perspective, or does it go through the technical decisions as well? Would love to read why the engineers adopt this or that architecture, and why this many RAM/ROMs, etc.
Is it really surprising?

Tesla's main product has been stagnating for years, the bespoke auto-pilot still very much out of reach. Tesla factories continue to be ecological and labour "pain points" (at least here in Europe) and Elon engaging in censorship, sloganeering and generally examples of poor human behaviour across all his companies is really not helpful.

Of course people will notice and perhaps overpriced EVs is not what everyone wants after all.
Thanks. How much of the 15 000 was external costs to an accountant, public notaries, authorities, etc, and how much was the internal wages?

The numbers I have seen for external costs range in the low thousands, but maybe that is wrong?
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/bitcoin-24...

> Back to Marx here. “The two characteristics immanent in the credit system are, on the one hand, to develop the incentive of capitalist production, from enrichment through exploitation of the labour of others, to the purest and most colossal form of gambling and swindling.” So the finance sector carries on just as before, engaging in speculation and regulators cannot and do not stop them.

> The answer is not regulation (before or after the event), but the banning of fictitious capital investment. Close down hedge funds, bitcoin exchanges and exchange trade funding. Instead, banking should be a public service for households and small companies in order to take deposits and make loans – not funding for a massive financial casino where criminals and swindlers gamble away our livelihoods.
>This advice massively reduces the largest risk, but “problems all go away” is wildly wrong

By the problems all go away, I meant the problems associated with a network appliance handling malicious input that leads to a security issue. If the device isn't exposed to the Internet, it can't bungle malicious input.

>Theyll do crazy things like VPN back to home servers, where every single device is on a flat /8 with no additional security. So anyone who dumps the VPN keys from one is basically on your eth.
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>Or update unsigned firmware from domains that end up abandoned and left hanging

Are there cases of that happening with products that have wide usage? Like 1M+ devices in the field?

The only time I can recall hearing of anything like that, was for a very small time vendor.[0]

Every security vulnerability I've heard about around NAS devices required the device to be exposed to the public Internet or for the attacker to be on the same local network as the vulnerable device.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34325695
Why would you expect productivity to improve? It is only secondary goal! We measure metrics like skin color of employees, their gender identity, sexual orientation and political preference!

Investments are not about the money! That is so obsolete thinking!
>tfw it's 2024 and people STILL aren't using span compression to implement a "medium term" memory (RAG is long term and the context length is short term) for LLMs.

>tfw it's 2024 and we just accept that the context "falls out" of the model if we push it beyond it's regular context length

So everyone forgot that we can put large N number of tokens into small N number of embeddings because???
The idea that liability should be 100% on the parents is an absolute horrific ugly hacker news only type take.

Hackers love to argue these sort of points into the ground. I'm sick of it. They take these points to absurd lengths.

And yes, these arguments overlap with child protection issues. I'm not a "protect the children" political type, but these types of arguments and derivates show up in a fair bit of ugly stuff.

And no - someone like this who does not believe in third party liability with respect to children should not be on a jury.
Xv is very nice.
This is dystopian. The better approach is the "precautionary principle" which requires owners of new tech or chemicals prove they are safe before use
Ooh! The 'docker image on WASM' thing sounds promising for a wide range of problems. Recently I wanted to run a FFMPEG/SoX pipeline on the client - too many dependencies to easily recompile with Emscripten; could your approach help there?
I really like the effect but im also on safari on a newer macbook this machine is practically made just to render blurs well
Yes, but the part that got me was the halving of the result followed by the clamping. SIMD generally makes sense, but for something like this to exist usually there's something very specific (like a certain video codec, for example) that greatly benefits from such a complex instruction.
At first it was mostly for myself just as a learning experience and a project that would go on my resume. I wasn't even planning to open source it until people started expressing interest in it. Now that it's out and there's feedback we can cater to more specific use cases
Oracle thinks every government will want to build a sovereign AI cloud in future
Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator