skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Stow for about two years now to manage my dotfiles. In order to improve the UX I've wrapped it within a small utility which allows me to define packages (directories of dotfiles that should be managed) such as zsh (containing .zshrc, .zshenv, .zlogin, etc) and their respective locations [1]. There's a few other niceties such as modular Zsh file sourcing, allowing encapsulation by OS, automatic git-crypt support, and dependency resolution across mac and debian.

I've been tempted to try NixOS due to its emphasis on config-as-code, but this isn't something I can feasibly do as this would fragment my dotfiles across different ways of thinking, which conflicts with my desire to have one repo for every device. Which I've achieved pretty successfully as these dotfiles exist on my personal/work macs, WSL, work/personal linux workstations and a few colleagues devices. All of which works out of the box with a single $ git clone and invocation of a bootstrap.zsh file which installs and sources everything you'd need.

The real magic behind all of this is Stow, so I'll always be eternally grateful to its maintainers. If I wasn't a complete stranger to the GNU ecosystem, I'd step up and offer my help.

For anyone who's curious here's my dotfiles: https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles

1: https://github.com/o-y/dotfiles/blob/main/bootstrap.zsh#L38-...
Morphic: Open-source AI-powered answer engine
GitHub repository: https://github.com/miurla/morphic
Isn't there now a fix for the bad emmc issue?

Edit: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-nand-aid-emmc-recovery-and...
Hmm, was your architect also allergic to any kind of risk? E.g. any change was by default undesireable because any change carried more risk than not changing anything.
If you enjoy government propaganda I'm not trying to yuck your yum. To each their own. But I do think people should at least be informed what they're eating.
Embedding Models
Near infrared isn't generated by random environmental objects. You're thinking of far infrared. Infrared is a big spectrum, much larger than the visible spectrum.

It may be generated by lights but could be filtered out. It is generated by the Sun, but so is the sodium wavelength. The technique would work indoors just as well as the sodium one, but with important advantages. I think it could even work pretty well outdoors if you used a wavelength that is mostly filtered out of sunlight by the atmosphere, or maybe two different wavelengths in two channels simultaneously.
You can fine-tune on your own dataset! As long as your dataset is in one of json, csv or huggingface formats, our toolkit can ingest your data!
Jeez, guys, why did you have to bring Bonnie Tyler into this?
I always find it so strange that people here have such a high opinion of HN, but outside of this place, almost everyone I know thinks this place is terrible.
I'm surprised between the spying of Tesla and the spying of Apple, that they don't have recordings of the entire incident.
Even if the entire front is utterly uneconomical to cover, local defenses like these can be used to provide an umbrella to more important points. Field hospitals, ammo dumps, headquarters, maintenance depots, etc.
It’s complicated and it’s not supposed to be. PDX is where the config plane for the edge network and services is stored. Some of this information is transported to the edge via QuickSilver [1] (e.g. auth tokens). This information is replicated to Europe and fail over is possible. The challenge with the previous outage was a combination of things (as it always is) whereby certain services had a dependency that relied on PDX as a single point of failure (if I recall correctly). That underpinned enough services that a good chunk of Cloudflare’s config plane went down. Additionally, the cutover to Europe didn’t go smoothly because it was instantaneous instead of gradual which resulted in traffic amplification as retries for previous requests & current requests were shuttled into the online data center resulting in a thundering herd.

What this blog post talks about it is how this time nothing went down (or at least cut over within minutes due to presumably automated systems noticing & doing it) with the exception of analytics data which does have a single dependency and that’s determined to be “ok” (i.e. it’s an acceptable failure mode for that product & that product only).

There are additional failure complications required because PDX (& Europe) is composed of several independent data centers which aren’t supposed to all fail simultaneously. What’s pretty clear from the implied “we’re not happy either” is that Cloudflare isn’t pleased with their vendor’s separately located data centers still having correlated failures.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configur...
I protect my ssh keys with passphrases, and then load the keys using ssh-add.
As siblings have said, his video series are quite good. But if you're just looking at this repo only, you probably want to look at the python reference implementation. (The C is designed to exactly replicate its functionality.)
Is this one of the first LLMs of note that was successfully trained on AMD GPUs? I wonder how seamless the process was and if they faced any issues there.
> 10 or 20 per year hardly amounts to squat.

Yes, before this war I never realised that our (western) military production is a joke. I am very disturbed that we cannot outproduce Russia despite having 20x their military budget.

People who say that the West could produce more if it was really pressed - well so could Russia, people are still driving BMWs and having parties, they have not mobilised the way the British have during WW2. I think it's dangerous to believe that we could magic capabilities out of thin air when it really counts.

The way we do contracts is a clownshow - UK has ordered more NLAWS and they will take two years to deliver.

Meanwhile in the Vietnam war, USA lost 10,000 combat aircraft, more than currently exist in all of western world combined. I cannot explain this in any way other than the system being rife with waste and abuse.
"The new study found that between 2013 and 2017, there were 46 cancer drugs granted accelerated approval. Of those, 63% were converted to regular approval even though only 43% demonstrated a clinical benefit in confirmatory trials."

At first glance, it seems the accelerated approval program is working great and as intended.
Modular Mojo is the most well funded and full of respectable players for making an alternative possible
The novel version. Also bad.
> Has anyone ever actually found this to be true?

We have a 300kloc monster, and I find that going up from 0 to 60% test coverage has given me appreciably more confidence that the system still works after any change.

Sure, the test code is almost twice that size, and breaks almost as often as the code, but my confidence in the system itself is definitely higher.

To prevent people from writing tests that need too many mocks we now have explicit dependency injection. So much easier to reason about stuff, and prevent’s people from not testing the important bits.
> For example, Google’s Gemini had secret meta prompts that biased it towards certain types of answers and also caused it to produce hallucinated images that were funny but also dystopian (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/googl...).

Such a bizarre take to call this "dystopian".

The model happened to create some out-there pictures. I mean, it's no more outlandish then giant dragons and snakes and such being created yet the thought of a person of color being something historically inaccurate is this massive outcry against revisionism? Who cares?

Besides, the article identifies the probable goal which was to eliminate very known biases in existing models (i.e. when generating "angry person" you mainly got black people). Clearly this one wasnt tuned well for that goal, but the objective is not only noble but absolutely should be required for anyone producing LLM models.
Hi Fotoflo,
It looks like the perfect tool for me.
How long can I use it for free?
I think that upvoting moves the post up in the list. So even with a text-only browser you get the messages sorted by their votes... right?
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, it is similar to ludwig but we do think that our toolkit is a more lightweight solution to fine-tuning and ablation studies. In most cases, finding the right LLM with the right config on your dataset requires multiple runs (grid search). Our toolkit offers this capability via one yaml file.

As for the test coverage, right now, the toolkit includes property-based unit tests. For instance, for an LLM fine-tuned on summarization, a property-test will evaluate if the summarized text is smaller in length compared to the actual input text.

Similar to the above test, we have a handful of property-based tests. Of course, the list is not exhaustive at this time. As more progress is being made on the testing side, we aim to distill the most relevant tests depending on use-cases.

Hope this helps.
Is this true over the lifecycle of an ICE vs EV?
1.38% of $10B is a lot of money. I’m not saying they care though.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. The Freedesktop project isn't acting as "internet police". They're exercising control over their own community membership, and taking the behavior of participants in and outside their community as representative of whether they want to permit that participant.

> The banhammer is wielded by people who seemingly only wield it to silence people whom they disagree with.

If this is what it looks like to be silenced, it seems pretty loud.
2-3 years ago, I thought HN was amazing. Today, I think it's pretty terrible, measured in terms of the accuracy of information shared in comment threads.
Yeah, like the $25 Chinese earphones mentioned there. Not convinced that they use cutting edge tech "which enables the F3 to faithfully reproduce music with a clean, rich, yet transparent high-fidelity sound".
Ok, I committed some mild linker crimes and got the same program down to 800 bytes.

rustc hello.rs -C panic=abort -C opt-level=3 -C link-args="/ENTRY:main /DEBUG:NONE /EMITPOGOPHASEINFO /EMITTOOLVERSIONINFO:NO /ALIGN:16"
USB-C didn’t exist when they went to Lightning, it wasn’t an option.

The fact all their other products were moving seems to indicate they’d move to USB-C on the iPhone as well. Rumors had them working on it for years.

Now maybe it would have come out this year and not last.

MagSafe: they added something back. You can still charge with USB-C. Works fine, I do it.

Thunderbolt: that wasn’t Apple. Intel invented it and Apple put it to use. I have no idea if it’s open or closed, that’s my fault. What I meant was it wasn’t an Apple invention. Besides, what else had that kind of bandwidth at the time in a cable? It’s not like there was some common better thing they shunned.
Fake Facebook Midjourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2M people
Would Amazon rely on stow when it is in this peril? Unless they really do rely on it and maintain an internal fork, which would make this situation even worse. Or they use it anyway...
What? It's been known that the X maintainers had moved on to devote almost all their efforts to Wayland for years now. And yes, part of the Wayland strategy has been -- much like with systemd -- to drag the community, kicking and screaming if need be, into modernity.

Anybody who wants to maintain Xorg is free to step up.

Nobody has really stepped up.
> If you were to push the theoretical button on the airtag your entire house would probably set to chiming (apple tv, homepod, all the phones and ipads on the account all the macs...)

There is a simple solution to this: if you press the hypothetical AirTag button, trigger the closest iPhone attached to your account, and then you can manually pick any specific device in Find My as usual from the iPhone.
Blows my mind that “my eyes hurt” is something that people would type into Google.

Perhaps I am using it wrong
I feel the same way. I seem to be in the extreme minority in my family, however. I’m surprised more people aren’t more concerned.

It was overcast today where I live fortunately so it was basically a non event. I did however put on the cheap glasses and was surprised how poorly it fit ( like you said about side vision ).
The karma analysis completely ignores (after mentioning it) the karma gained from comments. I post almost no stories to HN, but have a karma of over 18k. Any sane, full analysis of HN culture needs to take this sort of thing into account.
Spam wave on Monero: The attack of black marble
In German (translate to English)
The Corridor Crew have been talking about this and trying to find a modern example for years. From what I understand, this is actually a pretty big deal to be able to re-create a technique that was lost to time.

On a related note, I think this is the sort of channel that we should be encouraging and rewarding more. They do their best to make original and original content, while fairly regularly experimenting with and even pioneering new film making techniques (e.g. Anime Rock Paper Scissors). Sure they play the algorithm game, but they're not the worst offenders by any means.
It's much more bare-bones. Minibone exposes a more approachable and misuse-resistant higher-level API including support for things like opportunistic key rotations and groundwork for forward evolution!
Project idea for someone sufficiently motivated: Some of the drawings show rhizomes in root systems, but I don't see a way to search for that.
It's rolling out as part of Google Play Services, which is updated out of band from Android itself so just about every device should get it without any action from the manufacturer, aside from the small minority of devices running de-Googled versions of Android.
This is all very well but DEC's greatest contribution to my own networking happiness was perhaps the quad-port Tulip/21143 cards that were my go-to for building reliable FreeBSD-based white-box routers back in the day
I evaluated Stow and tried Chezmoi for a while but settled on YADM. It’s the bare git repo idea with a little more sugar sprinkled on top. Perfect for my needs.
One of the authors here. Streaming is actually in the works.
“You see, the thing about heaven is that heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in heaven. Like, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot plants.” — The Black Adder.
The Vietnam war, or at least the fighting that us Americans refer to by that name, was started by the sovereign state of North Vietnam invading the sovereign state of South Vietnam and ended when America (and allies) stopped defending the state of South Vietnam and North Vietnam conquered it.

You can make all sorts of arguments as to whether or not it was moral to partition the original state of Vietnam into two separate states or whether it was moral for America to be involved at any point, but I'd make the general argument that the state starting a war with a literal invasion is rarely the moral party in such situations.
i usually wait at least a month on semver majors and at least a week on semver minors before i upgrade. its good.
From what I’ve heard, the moon is also moving away from earth, ever so slightly. Something like 1cm/year. Eventually, the moon will appear too small to cover the sun and the eclipse as we know it today will be no more. But that won’t be in our lifetime. Who knows if humans will even still be around..
Downvotes as punishment for writing reasoned comments and arguments which are true to one's own sensibilities, are an indication that a point of view is "special".

One can start to feel a certain pride in that. (Of course, that shouldn't become the purpose of commenting.)
I'm specifically referring to believers.
I don't think complex numbers are entirely without "fundamental physical basis"; Distinct antiparticles (antimatter) could be said to be the manifestation of complex numbers in the physical world.
The important thing to keep in mind about complex numbers is that they have 2 degrees-of-freedom (DoFs); Analogously if a quantum field has two DoFs (that couple in a certain way) it is said to be a complex field and it will have two kinds of distinct particles.

Real-valued (operator) fields (like the photon field) do not have distinct particles (a photon is its own antiparticle)

I can elaborate more if needed.
A lot of people thought we’d get to 2030 at least before the humans lost. More people thought 2035 or even 2040.
Inspiring. I would love for the author's plan (pasted below) to get applied widely across key information sources:

Instead, I hatched a plan:

1. Collect sources, and encoded the raw data in a machine-readable form
2. Study those sources, and encode my understanding as assertions,
sanity-checks and validations of that data
3. Synthesise that data according to my understanding, and verify it
against the sources available
XNU will not load any Mach-Os that are smaller than a page, so unfortunately there is not much fun to be had on that platform.
Cost, reliability and simplicity! A WWII-era 20-40mm cannon upgraded with automated targeting system doesn't even have to accurately hit the target if its shell explodes into a cloud of metal fragments that hits propellers and control surfaces or gets ingested into a jet engine.
The more senior the position, the more important who you know is. Statistically speaking. Because in the age of the internet, finding plausible reason to reject approximately every applicant is most of the hiring pipeline ingest process.

Doubly so in your case because the absence of an online presence means nobody can “get to know you” through ordinary doxing. There’s no way to find out more to determine if it’s worth making a phone call. That makes passing you into the next stage of the pipeline a risk. Everyone wants to keep their health insurance.

Having an online presence has consequences. Not having one does too. TANSTAAFL. Sure you could create one and try to pass. You won't. Everyone has spidey sense for fake profiles. For people trying too hard to fit in.

So talk to people you know. People who worked under over and beside you. This is the same advice as if you had an online presence. TANSTAAFL.

Good luck.
I'm not following your point?
How was this captured? I mean they are just drawing but they seem relativly new.

I'd kinda guess they were lab grown with some sort of imaging on the 2 sides, but they are 2d drawings.

Did they really dig them up and and map them out... Maybe water them with a fluorescent dye to get depth info...

Super curious.
Android find does work without 2FA. Have tried it before
I always wondered why it took so long to go from 10 Mbit/s to 100Mbit/s. For sure in that time they invented things like Ethernet Switching. But still, it seems like that standard took forever to move on. And then once it did it went from 100Mbit/s to 1000Mbit/s per second pretty damn fast.
In principle, yes. In practise it's not widely supported (yet). Here's a relevant blog post: https://levischuck.com/blog/2023-02-prf-webauthn
> The definition of orthogonal is that one axis doesn’t influence the other.

Ok that’s interesting, a new definition on me. I see orthogonal as attributes at right angles, a measure of perpendicularity. I don’t see it as an indicator of attribute independence.

So if kind and right are orthogonal, this means you can (mostly) be one or the other but not (usually) both.

But a quick google shows your usage is common/normal. Hmm, lovely English. TIL something. Thanks for explaining.
Error 429? Did google trends get hugged to death?
> Because I use a text only browser I (assume) don't see voting.

Well you would still see the effect of voting. As for the points on comments, only the poster can see it (other than the placement effects, and that low point comments become noticeably grayed out). If you enable showdead (in your settings), you can also see comments that have been flagged or downvoted to death, which I do leave on myself (cause I can take it!)

> However I find gratuitous flagging and down-voting without the courage to venture a position to be very negative. It simply stymies more challenging discussion, and seems a knee-jerk reaction by an invisible cadre of anti-intellectuals.

That's an easy stance to take, but I think it's more nuanced. Sure, when there's no explanatory replies at all it's frustrating to understand the manner in which other readers disagree. But when someone repeatedly posts statements that are very commonly posted by others, and with a basic look around at other interactions is obviously unpopular, disproven or even problematic, it's not exactly the responsibility of passers by to have to consistently regurgitate the same rationale for why it's unpopular or problematic every time the user posts- if the same debunked, disproven, or otherwise disagreeable arguments show up every time an article about Product A hits the front page, I don't think it's fair to measure how just, intellectual, or morally correct the two sides of the disagreement are just by how willing they are to expend energy arguing about it.

In fact, the person with the less popular opinion is going to have an incentive and desire to post assertions of those opinions a lot more than others will have the energy to challenge them.

Also there's no sense posting a sibling reply that says the same thing. If one person already has a reply capturing the essence of what's wrong with the comment and the comment is still being downvoted, it's probably because other readers agree with the reply.

Finally, as I posted elsewhere, a lot of folks see the first changes to their comment's score as indicative of the overall community's opinion but that's rarely the case. Sure you may get a bunch of downvotes in the first hour of posting it, but then over the next few hours that balances out and goes in the other direction. And, complaining about downvotes usually gets more downvotes.
Pet peeve: Google's Gemini LLM model was not to blame for the image generation weirdness.

That would be like blaming DALL-E weirdness on GPT-4.

Unfortunately, Google marketing decided to slap the "Gemini" brand on both the end-user interface used to interact with the model AND the actual model itself, hence people constantly calling out Gemini-the-model for weird decisions made as part of Gemini-the-user-interface.
the difference is that no SCOTUS member is opening inquiries in processes where they are the prosecutor, victim, and judge at the same time. Fun fact: Brazil's Supreme Court can legally do that _if a crime occurs in the Court's dependencies_... well, they ruled that as the Court has Internet, and people are hurting their honor there... then it is as if the crime occurred inside the Court
Chinchilla Squeaks Podcast: Modern Solutions for Securing Software Supply Chains
> Is camping and asking for a thing a crime? What is the crime?

Article 286 - Inciting, publicly, the commission of a crime:
Penalty - imprisonment, from three to six months, or a fine.
Sole Paragraph. The same penalty applies to anyone who publicly incites animosity between the Armed Forces or between them and the constitutional powers, civil institutions, or society. (Included by Law No. 14,197, of 2021)