skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in this counterfactual world, and likely EVERY counterfactual world, people with lots of money (which equates with power) will always develop a system that will shield them from accountability. Any system like this is self-reinforcing because a few people with more money will always have a greater influence on 'the system' than the larger number of people with less money.
I'm not very familiar with CMake, would it be viable and better to change over to that?
I just name them after their role. Like mediapc, worklaptop, gamingpc, toastermanager
Actual title: New Theory on Satoshi Nakamoto.

At this point, the submitted title is far too sure of itself to be taken seriously.
I don't know why you see it as any sort of ponzi.. it's just an experiment with digital assets, role-playing and world building. Involving money is a pyramid scheme? Perhaps not the thread to discuss. Guessing the reaction is because crypto is mainly grifters + money grabs.. and the cringey apes were the worst representatives.
We are planning to open up US regions quite soon but we are mostly focusing on bare metal providers at this point so Digital Ocean is out of picture.
Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill
In case anyone needs the reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxMY77i0q4

On-topic: I don't know why, but the videos of masses of cicadas always seemed so overwhelming to me, I mean I just cannot imagine walking through an effected area. Nature can truly produce incredible phenomena.
Yes his work was the inspiration, of course.
You can check in the vm370.org website. They publish the VM/370 Community Edition (which is a lot like the one I packed - the CE version is rbanffy/vm370ce on the command line).

I'm still very much a newbie on this.
> What if we manage to save humans and smartphones from extinction but only us? Is that a world worth living in?

Yes it is.

I can’t believe that is even a question.

It would be no worse than living on a colony on Mars or the moon.
I would like to see particularly untrustworthy companies stripped of all assets, buildings razed and executives jailed
I think the argument is that people doing crime go to jail, so when a company does crime, maybe the same should happen.
No, I'm not reading this as a way to 'other'—look at this user's other tweets! They're a technical person who from the sound of their content is probably Gen Z.

'Nerd' is used by technically-inclined people in that age group as a term of endearment—it indicates that you're part of their tribe, that they recognize you as one of their own. You can take offense at that because it's not how you think of the word, but that's the way the language has gone.
not when you have 3M billions
I wonder how it relates/compares to https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08253 :
Title:
Momentum-Based Policy Gradient with Second-Order Information

Abstract:
Variance-reduced gradient estimators for policy gradient methods have been one of the main focus of research in the reinforcement learning in recent years as they allow acceleration of the estimation process. We propose a variance-reduced policy-gradient method, called SHARP, which incorporates second-order information into stochastic gradient descent (SGD) using momentum with a time-varying learning rate. SHARP algorithm is parameter-free, achieving ϵ-approximate first-order stationary point with O(ϵ−3) number of trajectories, while using a batch size of O(1) at each iteration. Unlike most previous work, our proposed algorithm does not require importance sampling which can compromise the advantage of variance reduction process. Moreover, the variance of estimation error decays with the fast rate of O(1/t2/3) where t is the number of iterations. Our extensive experimental evaluations show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on various control tasks and its advantage over the state of the art in practice.

Though I guess it may be more suitable to training on more interactive tasks like those emphasizing in-context learning, to better exploit RL's ability to adequately deal with tasks where early parts of the model's output are left open, especially when used with curriculum learning to gradually build up capability. Might be more suited to diffusion models than classic GPT 's, though, as RL shines where models have more agency, even if it's just deciding in what order to write the output.
That's from Body Heat, said by Mickey Rourke to William Hurt. "...you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius." (But a million sounds closer to the truth.)
The arrogance to name your paper that.
I use PM2 with BrowserBox and it's been great. Reliable, scalable, performant. PM2 has been with us since the early days. We've never looked for an alternative.
So one still works for IBM and another now works for the WEF?
absolutely. By this point I am convinced that design of most programming languages is driven by what is implemented easily in the compiler, rather than programming ergonomics.

This is the main takeaway by the "billion dollar mistake". It is not the fact that nullability can be a problem. It is the easiness of creating a "nullability feature" that was too tempting not to include it.

Same with inheritance. All you need for inheritance is a class pointer from your subclass to your superclass. But on top of method delegation, you also got layout inheritance.

Layout polymorphism is rarely something you want.
The fine was the 1/3 of yearly revenue, in 2023 their revenue was $32.68B, net income was -$7B (that’s a negative seven billion).

Im not sure of the payment timeline or if they have insurance, but it seems likely this will wipe out a few years of profitability and may force the sale of business units.

That said, I do think personal culpability is probably a better incentive and more ethically reasonable depending on the circumstances. Though that’d have to be criminal neglect, using laws we probably already have. In other words, this is a civil penalty, not the same as a criminal case with higher burdens of proof and motives need to be established.
This is absolutely not the case in France where discussing over a meal is a very strong cultural trait.

Schools are trying to dial down the noise in canteens but that's all. Having someone eating in silence would be a form of punition.

It is also interesting how heated the discussions over meals can become (for adults), where you discuss politics, religion, sex stuff and whatnot and people can get deeply engaged.

And then the meal ends and so does the discussion (or drama) ,as if it never happened. This is usually store disturbing/surprising to foreigners who are not used to such a separation.
Ask HN: Are there any hardware manufacturers that can be relied upon not to have big security problems?
My router is skynet, my old Proxmox hypervisor was deathstar and a VM in it was stormtrooper, the Debian baremetal that replaced both is xwing, and my gaming desktop PC is themachine (from Person of Interest).
As long as you can convince LLM to do it step by step, reproducing the whole thing again, it gets much simpler. It changes the idea of an unlimited number of steps into one replacement at a time. Then make sure to split the list so that the letters don't get merged into larger tokens. (Same issue as numbers and math)
I dislike the constant flickering on the top line/menu. I don’t think it adds any value since it’s quite distracting. I also dislike those (seemingly ASCII 0x80 to 0xFF) weird characters that take a noticeable while to render to the actual text. Style wise, I don’t see enough line spacing to distinguish between topics.
Considering the access patterns of the clients are well known, would it make sense to populate new tables as materialized views before Sending it to the client or you think is not worth it perf wise?
How did this pass code review?
You can decide what to test for, for example

AC_CHECK_FUNCS([mlockall])

AC_CHECK_HEADERS([cpuid.h])

will define respectively HAVE_MLOCKALL and HAVE_CPUID_H.
PM2 has worked very well in my experience. I have about a dozen services (APIs and full-stack applications) across a number of servers, remote and local. Mostly Node, these days trying with Bun. Some of them have been running for years without a hitch. It's been totally reliable.

I'm sure there are alternatives, lighter-weight and closer to the metal, but I haven't had the need. PM2 does the job.
Pm2-server-monit – PM2 module to auto monitor vital signs of your server
3M sells about 1.3 billion USD of the stuff yearly at about 16% margin, so figure about 200 million USD in profit per year. 12 billion represents about 60 current profit-years of production.They invented the stuff in the 30s but have been churning it out in quantity since the 50s. 12 billion isn't a speeding ticket but it also isn't even all the profit they made on it.

In addition to that, is their obligation to pay their profits or to make whole a world soaked in forever chemicals? Because the latter would be way more than 12 billion.
What code review?
The system self corrects by companies moving to a different supplier. If 3M has to increase prices (they will) to offset the settlement costs, then other suppliers will be comparatively cheaper. 3M share price and profit will decrease which incentivizes the board and or shareholders to encourage safer (read: legal) business practices.
Soviet Union's plush nuclear-war command vehicle was blown up by drone
Of course you can buy things with it. Liquid is liquid. Assets are assets. Assets can be liquidated. You have an asset when you have equity in your housing and you don't when you rent. The difference is burning 30-60% of your income vs. not burning that amount.

Tired of owning a home? Liquidate, rent, and you have that cash.
Tesla 'scraps plan for affordable electric car'
Executives serving actual jail time. Prohibited from joining the boards of public/private companies. Personal liability.
Systemd also gives you cpu/memory limiting, file system isolation, locked down capabilities for the process, CPU affinity, can use different Node versions for different apps, etc. It removes the need for Docker for the vast majority of cases.

Systemd won’t do load balancing, but you should have nginx/caddy in front of Node anyway, and either will handle load balancing just fine.
I'm not real. I'm not sure about you.
Jail executives? Sure. Tear down 3m? Why? 3M is useful. They make a lot of stuff we need.
If they could have raised prices, they would have already done it.
And WHY do you think they wrote Jira?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904234
Ok, it is extra beautifull and very very sharp knive...
In music, it is common to think of the structures in frequency space rather than time space.

For example, one thinks of tug C major triad as C E G, rather than mixed sound that comes out of C E G together.
2024 (kind of) follow-up:

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/open-source-hobbyists-tu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910558
Plot twist: it was the NSA
neon.tech has me impressed so far. supabase as well if you need a baas. render.com for a heroku-like postgres experience.
D-Link always was an almost trash kinda company.
There's a company (http://turso.tech) that can host sqlite as a service. One of the features allows a replica local sqlite file to be used for reads and the writes still go to the primary on their edge network.

Been using it (without the local feature) for a couple of months on a project and I will do it again for future products without a second thought.
And this is one of those "embarrassingly parallel" tasks.
As I understand, the problem is that authentication used users from /etc/passwd and allowed to log in as any user, even as system user like "messagebus" which has no password. It is annoying that linux software uses system database for authorization, for example, Postgres and Samba do this and there is always a risk that you have some system user you don't know about which can be used to access your system.
Can you share your sources on this?

What figures can you point to on mg/L of fluoride in (commonly consumed) green tea vs tap water?

Even aside from that, it’s a specious argument: people who want to avoid fluoride can just avoid green tea; it’s much harder to avoid it in tap water.

As for “delusional panic”: it matters a lot for iodine absorption and thyroid function for some people, which is a both widespread and overlooked/diminished, at great harm and cost to those who are affected and unable to get help.

For what it’s worth I’m not advocating for removal of fluoride from tap water, but there does need to be more recognition of the harms to those affected and serious efforts made to develop treatment approaches for those with iodine deficiencies and thyroid dysfunction, as it really is a catastrophic problem for a lot of people.
I wrote about 3dfx. Crazy thing is, it was the same people who were at SGI and then Pellucid. Additionally, ATI and Nvidia can trace their technology back to SGI… fun times.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridicu...
You are entitled to find your own home insurance, you do not have to use the bank's choice.
I really can't relate to that experience. On the contrary I think this is something LLMs are really good at.
Our org used zoom heavily during covid, like everyone else

We've now got rid of zoom because teams is included for free.

Fortunately nobody is threatening to get rid of slack any time soon.

It's classic microsoft behaviour that they've been found guilty of for decades, alas governments take longer to move than microsoft do.
For these cases of gross misconduct affecting health of people, criminal charges should actually be made against individuals who made the decisions.
When my bosses want to know why a quote for a device like a NAS is thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars I use examples like this.

Running consumer gear, especially public facing internet consumer gear is just asking for trouble.

TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary.

Buying these consumer devices that are set and forget with limited or zero firmware updates is BAD. Not to mention the code quality and unknown closed source backdoors
There's an AI for That
Different market and different market, I'd guess.

It sounds as if they're aiming to let each vehicle to a single paying customer almost all of the time, and in countries where the hourly cost of maintenance is low. Not like those scooters, which spend most of their time waiting on street corners in high-cost countries.

The $6 may well be the yearly price for a fleet of ≥5, expressed in a marketing-friendly way.
In the past astronomers believed in the geocentric model of the universe with epicycles. It was extremely accurate, and if more accuracy was needed they added more epicycles. It was a completely wrong model, but they unknowingly used the Fourier series as a function approximator.
I’m more worried about the fact that it was allowed for so long. Sure, we’re doing the right thing by quitting PFAS and starting major cleanup efforts.

But the system existed where people were incredibly negligent for years, knew they were hurting people, made boatloads of money, and retired. That same system exists in many oil-and-gas industries, drug marketing, and more. There are dozens of examples where this has happened in recent years, and that’s just the ones at large enough scale to be prosecuted.

It’s still happening to this day. How do we start treating intentional negligence that leads to mass suffering and death as seriously as murder? It is individuals making these decisions, and they need to be held personally liable.

The corporate veil is useful, and shouldn’t go away completely. But when an individual makes a decision that had a high probability of doing major harm, they should at least stop and raise the issue to a government agency, to limit their liability. If they do not take appropriate precautions, like getting explicit approval from government authorities, then they should be personally liable for the negligence.
Walter Shao [0] says lgtm... (There is simply little awareness and not even minimum standards in the industry)

[0] https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=160849&start=450...
Desperate Nations May Unilaterally Begin Hacking the Global Climate
worth noting that Elon Musk disputes this claim but has not provided any further details on the rebuttal

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1776272471324606778
Im guessing they want a mechanism to hold shareholders feet to the fire. I venture to guess that there are better options for this.
LlamaBot with Ollama on my home virtual private network
You can have partial function application without currying. The problem with currying is that it's implicit, and positional. Two very bad things in programming.
Not sure if this helps but this is from tinkering with Mistral 7B on both my M1 Pro (10 Core, 16 GB RAM) and WSL 2 w/ CUDA (Acer Predator 17, i7-7700HK, GTX 1070 Mobile, 16GB DRAM, 8GB VRAM).
- Got 15 - 18 Tokens / sec on WSL 2 with slightly higher on M1. Can think of that to about 10 - 15 words per second. Both were using GPU. Haven’t tried CPU on M1 but on WSL 2 it was low single digits - super slow for anything productive.
- Used Mistral 7B via llamafile cross-platform APE executable.
- For local-uses I found increasing the context size increased the RAM a lot - but it’s fast enough. I am considering adding another 16x1 or 8x2.

Tinkering with building a RAG with some of my documents using the vector stores and chaining multiple calls now.
Again: be specific.
There would have been a system of checking the results somehow. Perhaps the same could be done with LLMs.
If it is known to belong to a widely deployed backdoor that can't be patched away in time, then it is worth to recover the key by brute force using supercomputers. Of course, such capabilities are rather restricted to nation states.
I see most of the bot traffic hiding behind Google and Cloudflare. I appreciate that. They take a lot of load off my servers. If I had one request of Google it would be to remove the TTL cap of 21600 or raise it to 86400 to further reduce the traffic that comes through from them as my TTL records are very high on purpose for my own reasons that I will not debate. I know memory is still a limit. CF seem to honor my TTL's with the caveat I have to wait for each node behind their anycast clusters to cache the record but that's fine.

As a side note, whatever group in Google are running DNS are doing a great job. I do not see malformed garbage coming from them. Some people watch birds when they retire, I watch packets ... and critters.
Why do you spend time talking to 5 different payment providers while still not billing even $1000 per month?
I always liked the UofT Library.
In reality it is difficult to predict what will gain traction. I don't think this is even related to whether a product is useful or not. If I build a product that there are a million of already, it may be useful sure, but will it be picked up by the masses?

At a company I'm at now we just implemented a heart button on pages without it actually doing anything, except we track if people click on it or not. This is a smaller version of the same validation. If it's justified, we will build out the feature of liking things. Building out entire castles and worlds that no one lives in is very tempting for a passionate developer.
This reads like a blatant advertisement. $6 a day is probably an unprofitable VC subsidized rate to gain market share.
The alarming truth about how sugar ruins your sleep
You are selling a fantasy, a spherical cow.

As the OP said, The original people responsible made bank and retired. The original shareholders cashed out. this does not encourage anything.
Poor Illuminati bastards. Forced to dogfood Jira.
The tin foiler in me still suspects it could be Microsoft who planted it to make FOSS look bad.
Probably an US thing, but, do you specifically have to declare you have a trampoline in order to get your home insured?
Then go win the prize?
With a bit of ginger, some lemon and perhaps some coco, it's excellent.
The people affected by these "corrections" are the workers that would be laid off due to decreasing revenue,... In order to maintain the expected profits that result in dividend payments to shareholders.

So, one could make the case that the workers get punished by the board of directors' bad decisions.
It may well be that I did not learn to use it properly, but - to provide a counter opinion - pm2 left a sour taste with me. Tried to use it few years back and by default it does not rotate the logs, did not handle machine reboots well, and at times I was confused what is running and what is not. I settled on docker for small projects and kubernetes for larger ones and these things made more sense to me. I admit it could be a matter of habit.
Indeed, the real justice would be to make them pay for cleanup efforts for the next 200 years
> We need to work towards punishing the officers plus the directors who let this problem continue in addition to the company.

Whaddayman, "in addition to" the company?!? Companies hardly ever get actually punished for anything.

When people kill people, they get thrown in jail or sometimes executed. When companies do, they get, at most, fined. That's a slap on the wrist. When did you last hear of a company being liquidated -- "executed" -- for any shit it had done?
Sounds like it's possible to run any algorithm in the world in 1 clock cycle.
Model ensemble is a classic method. Deep learning is always rediscovering and reinventing the classics. I believe that many people have used this method before, but they just haven't published a paper on it.
The biggest thing for me that points to a state actor is the amount of time committed to the social engineering attack versus the expected value of the prize. A for-profit scheme built this way would be irrational, which doesn't preclude it being an irrational actor (or an individual with a motive other than profit) but does point to a state actor as a likely candidate.

The total value of the prize, if successful, would be worth a lot if you could sell it, but the odds of successfully getting an exploit into major infrastructure that goes undetected for long enough for your customers to buy and use it are tiny. States can afford moonshots, but I tend to expect private individuals to seek targets with a higher expected value.

Of course, that doesn't mean it was a competent state actor or that they allocated a ton of resources to it.
Rare.
Amazon, Apple, Google tend to ship hardware that at least doesn’t having gaping 1997 style vulnerabilities everywhere.

Cisco have had some doozies but overall aren’t terrible.

Everything else is probably bad.