skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got Dengue on a business trip to Bali a number of years back from the US. Got a very high fever upon return to the US and ended up in the emergency room because of crashed platelets (which never fully recovered) and white cells. Was impressed the on-call infectious disease guy (in New England) immediately made the call about what it was--my primary care guy had no idea. Cost me something like $1K in spite of good insurance between ER and blood work that had to be sent off to Paris and basically zero treatment. Vaccine isn't indicated for my situation but it basically makes me hesitant to ever travel to Dengue-prone areas of the world again.
Fun video. Much of my "art" lately has been dissecting models, injecting or altering attention, and creating animated visualizations of their inner workings. Some really fun shit.
2 European teams I worked on paid a bonus for on-call duty, and the systems were so stable that enough people volunteered for the few who didn't want it, weren't forced to.

It was pretty great, I took a week shift every month or so except when I was going on holiday, and aside from lugging a backpack with my laptop everywhere, didn't affect my life at all except 1 or 2 minor issues
no. anything in the dependency tree could call that lib. systemd is the first. systemd also provides libs to write things the exploit will use. but the important part you missed again is that the exploit is executed on symbols loading. it just choose to do just of the work when checking for a key. but after simply starting the code it's all lost already.

nothing needs to call any code on libzma, just linking against it is enough to run the exploit.
Title says "internet" but blog post only discusses "web".

Practically speaking, it's arguably impossible to create a new internet, i.e., the physical infrastructure for one.

But it's possible to create alternatives to "the" web. And nothing requires alternatives to be anything like the web that LLMs are trained on.
Ironically, boot times is one place where these days systemd lags sadly behind. At least in my experience (Rocky/Redhat, Void, Ubuntu, Alpine).
To my mind, articles like these are why wikipedia can be invaluable at taking together disparate facts into a cohesive whole. If you were to experience this on 2024 twitter, you would get random snippets from any of the 151 sources in the article and people ready to argue and troll you all day with their idiosyncratic interpretations, communicated through a blizzard of insults, subject changes, and self-congratulation.

The missing skill is being able to focus to fit one-off details into big-picture context, and communication styles based on exchanges of small snippets are good at spreading misinformation because they prevent the big picture cohesion from getting off the ground.
Eh, solar panels are useful in orbit as well. They're particularly useful for avoiding the need for a heavy chemical stage because you can use them to power light weight ion thrusters instead.
We're getting large context windows, but so long as pricing is by the input token, the 'throw everything into the context window' path isn't viable. That pricing model, and the context window limits, are a consequence of the quadratic cost of transformers though, and whatever the big context models like Gemini 1.5 are doing must have an (undisclosed) workaround.

What needs to happen is a way to cheaply suspend and rehydrate the memory state of the forward pass after you've fed it a lot of tokens.

That would be a sort of light-weight/flexible/easily modifiable/versionable/real-time-editable alternative to fine tuning.

It's readily doable with the open weights LLM's, but none of them (yet) have the context length to make it really worthwhile (some of the coding LLM's have long context windows, but it doesn't solve the 'knowledge base' scenario).

From a hosting perspective, if fine tunes are like VM's, such frozen overlays are like docker containers: many versions can live on the same server, sharing the base model and differing in the overlay layer.

(a startup idea? who wants to collaborate on a proof of concept?)
I watch a lot of films, mostly older ones these days, I don't want to estimate how many.

This film has haunted me with its beauty. Not as airy as Mallick's work, a little softer than Aronofsky (The fountain, black Swan are masterpieces).

I think Mr. Nobody attempts a weaker version of this film, cloud atlas also.

Gattaca, inception, 2001, kpax maybe.
Are your human moderators truth social employees or outsourced ?
That makes no sense at all. Having written a Python client, I can confidently state it's completely wrong.
But you can represent 1/3 cleanly in base 12, so inches don't have this problem.

Yeah, you can't represent 1/10, but why does that matter? When 1/10 comes up in practice it's almost always as a side effect of us using base 10, not a natural requirement to partition something 10 ways.
China's Crumbling Metro(s)
Oh wow, this video [1] alone is so much better than the article.

[1] https://youtu.be/kO3ENmbQQ9o
I'm not looking to have an argument about this bigotry, just needed to leave the actual common sense statement so yours didn't stand alone. Maybe consider that if other people are flagging you it's because your views are objectionable rather than because you're one of the few people to know the truth about a subject you have no actual experience of. Speak to some trans people to educate yourself.
Also what’s your stance on web crawling?
no, only people who read a single manpage is already good enough. but you would complain about that too.
yes and it also fails to catch that. and when reported years ago it was dismissed as "debian is doing weird shit. nobody sane depends things like so"
Does RAG depend on a vector database?
> offering support in a manner that only a fellow man can

I guess I get the idea, but in what ways can only a fellow man provide support?
Some, but not just Discord. It's a mix of all the good parts from many apps.
Hey cool project! I had the same need, and solved it a very different way.

I set up a wireguard server on a publicly accessible VPS.

The neat part about using "lscr.io/linuxserver/wireguard:latest"

is that it allows my to codify the number of clients I need. This includes both endpoints and source devices.

The second thing I did, was separate out the "networking" bits from the "userspace" bits, meaning it doesn't matter what port the service is running on. The client can hit it.

Taking that one step further, I just combined the above with haproxy and set my application ports there. This means I can hit haproxy on "someport" inside the VPN and it'll forward to whatever service I've got configured on that "client" that haproxy can see on it's LAN.

Works great, currently running a simple web page off the whole thing, where you connect to VPS and it tunnels the actual HTTP connection into kubernetes in my house.

I was thinking about writing this all up one day, but there's some cleanup to be done. Oh well.
If I had to choose a favourite, this might be it.
I mean, what's your timescale for this "population boom"? Population growth hasn't been speeding up for a very long time (indeed, the opposite).

Clearly we use more energy than we need, but I think lots of people hugely overestimate how much room there is to cut that without many many people dying. A very large amount of humanity's energy usage goes toward the food and other infrastructure of civilization that keeps people alive.

Improving energy efficiency is certainly one component of decarbonization. But to my knowledge, nobody suggests it is enough on its own, or even a particularly large portion of the mix of solutions.
Amarok is preparing for another release. I wonder if it will come to mac.
I know what they meant.

My point is that the uses of the term at as disparate as they're making it. You would be sued under trade secret law if you intentionally leaked them.
It *may* work if you had some impressive wireless energy transfer, but that means you probably would not actually save any cost in the grand scheme of things.

Blimps sound like they should be good for space, but as a concept they're oversized and full of hot air unfortunately.
Except that's literally what Wachowskis said -- the rest is right wing fan fiction.
> "it is the most divisional number under 100" implies there's some committee of Hammurabi where "they" evaluated all the possibilities and decided "60 is the best".

OP didn't say or imply anything about the origins of the Sumerians' use of base 60, they just observed that it has nice properties.
Dengue is also an issue in Singapore, despite all the measures being taken: public awareness campaigns, release of sterile males, mosquito traps, etc. Doesn't mean the Brazilian government shouldn't take the steps it can, but this take significantly undersells how serious and difficult of an issue it is.
I was not insinuating that. The bigger you get as a corp, the harder it is to do have a mutually beneficial relationship with your employees, -because- market forces dictate so much of the strategy. So, that Walmart is the literal biggest corp and can still have legit upward mobility and satisfied mid-level employees is no small feat.

I was using average bc the article the commenter pointed to was also quoting average. Coincidentally, the median seems to be the same (https://www.zippia.com/walmart-careers-116506/salary/califor...)
I think GP was just asking for a comparison of how your tool is similar/different from awk.
Come again? Most people install the windowed version of it today, but its history is very definitely TUI-based. All of the features you mentioned are things that have been added along the way as its container was able to support them.
Indeed. The power of attention is that it searches the space of functions and surfaces the best function given the constraints. This is why I think linear attention will never come close to the ability of standard attention, the quadratic term is a necessary feature of searching over all pairs of inputs and outputs.
Single Stage To Orbit doesn't have to be an atmosphere breathing multi-engine lifting body craft, it can be a conventional rocket that just doesn't care about being efficient.

Burning up as you accelerate is also an engineering problem that is not 100% solved for hypersonics. Almost solved, but not risk free.
> The art scene in the bay is actually really bad.

The only cities in the US with a superior art scene than San Francisco are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and maybe Chicago.

Washington DC, Houston, Marfa, Pittsburg, and Santa Fe lag behind San Francisco.
In what base do you think c000 is 12*12*12*12?
A typo, and no edit button after some period of time. Darn.
Is it ActivityPub protocol and can this be used for Threads?
One persons empty excitement is another's entertainment I guess.
Interesting observations...

1 hour is 41.6 'beats' (Round to 42, the answer to the universe)

Unrelated to the article, but apropos to the discussion:

Why is a second one second long? (How should one divide a DAY?)

This is entirely an informal hypothesis of mine so I'd like to lay it out somewhere and this is as good a place as any.

Timekeeping probably started with passive mechanisms, sundials. Very imprecise across the year, and there's a need to divide the time into useful segments. Humans happen to have 4 fingers and 1 thumb per hand, or 10 digits across both hands. However if half of something is considered a given natural sub-division, the only prime factors of 10 are 5 (and 2, which is ignored for this). Yet 12 usefully has prime factors of 2, 2, and 3 which allow for far more combinations. Additionally the five fingers on any given hand can align between the marks on either side of the noon point on the dial.

Mechanical clocks can have a face that covers the 12 day and 12 night hours, time reused, and a very imprecise mechanism. Gear ratios of 2 and 3 are probably easy to manufacture.

Metal and machine technology improves to the point that another hand can be added to divide the clock. At this point it'd be nice to add a prime factor of 5, and one ratio set to do so might be annoying but isn't too economical to add. Thus the hour can be divided by 2, 2, 3, and 5 for 60 min. Further, for the highest end models with the most precision timekeeping it is possible to make one more set of the same gears and add a third (or 'second' precision) hand.

Thus my hypothesis, a rough logical outline of how the number of hours in the day may have been selected, and how that lead to the duration of a second as we know it.

I wonder if a more universal size / duration scalar can be selected for SI-2 values if we ever leave Earth and thus have reasonable reason to want numbers that are more convenient to work with than a day being 83400 units long.
If they leave you fulfilled via purpose...
Fiber is not targeted at a volume/consumer market, yet. That’s the primary reason it isn’t cheaper, but it is still pretty cheap, and has the potential to be cheaper than copper.

I’m confused by your whole sentiment. They said use fiber instead of wiring for 10Gb ethernet, and you’re just agreeing but naming alternatives that underperform it?

It’s not very much more expensive to get a couple fiber NICs.
> Why not use an elongated blimp shape? Why the v?

It aims to be a hypersonic vehicle. Blimps aren't brilliant for that use case. (There may also be a structural advantage since it's basically two air beams.)

> why can’t the space craft lift off from the ground

They're using a balloon to get to the edge of the atmosphere and then a lightweight craft to slowly accelerate to orbit from there. The lightweight craft would be too delicate to survive in the atmosphere. The low-altitude craft too heavy to cruise to orbit.
This is why in Asia, local gangsters/mafias/triads/yakuzas exist to solve this kind of problems. Usually it start with intimidation to squatters directly. Then doxing. Then intimidation of the occupiers families (even living across different countries). Then assassinations (after being tortured for a week - std is 7 days but can go a month). Police usually stay out of this kind of dispute as long as it stays within intended targets (families counts as included). Europeans and Americans are a bit primitive as they rely on "laws". Asians typically had gone thru this millenia ago and settle with the triad system as it works better than government involvement.
> 2. What text processing tasks do you consider absolutely essential to Unix command line proficiency?

Learn regular expressions (REs). Every text processing tool including decent editors uses REs. And, you will never have mastered any of them without having mastered REs first.
Maybe my favorite thing is that auction prices were set in guineas (21 shillings), and the payment was made to the person who auctioned the item in pounds (20 shillings), fixing auction house fees at 4¾% which is basically where they've orbited to this day.
Show HN: New Mastodon search and discovery site utoots.com
Hey all, I am launching a beta mastodon discovery tool at utoots.com. Still lots of rough edges but gotta kick it out of the nest at some point!

I am not much of a frontend developer or UI expert, but hopefully folks find it fun and usable. I had a ball working on it over the past 4 months!

Please check it out and let me know what you think.
By way of WebKit
So, somewhere in Nebraska or Colorado?
Thanks for the heads up, no login for me on desktop chrome.

I have been using gemini, the ai formerly known as bard, instead. Mistral Le Chat and CoPilot are noticeably inferior, I haven't tried many others.
Model Behavior
There are more than a few studies behind it. Is that "scientific"? Remember that viral story about the guy who made the min salary in his company $70K? What did he base that number on, do you think?

Separately, if someone said that your take is "complete anti-scientific hogwash only poor people would repeat," would you think their opinion valid?
> Yeah, you can't represent 1/10

You can't represent 1/5 either while base 10 can. You gain 3 but lose 5, it has the same number of primes.
Wait what? Why is 1/3 so critical to represent but not 1/10?
You are really extrapolating on what you think my expectations are. I never said everyone is entitled to a 3 hour conversation with a surgeon about the benefits of organic foods on their diets. Do you not discuss your lifestyle choices with your doctor at your yearly physical? That is as far as my expectations went for my previous comment and I believe that should be provided to every citizen of a modern society.
The serious organized crime outfits are very organized. They’ll provide customer support to walk you through purchasing and transferring the bitcoin.
It's a very effective manipulation technique - get the person to commit slightly past their comfort zone.

For instance, the Nxivm corporate training scam / sex cult [0] operated this way. At your very first meeting they'd ask you to wear a coloured sash and bow to the seminar giver. "It's just like judo!," you'd be told. "We're bringing a bit of fun to corporate training! Don't be such a grouch!" But of course the function was to (a) make you say yes once, which means you're now slightly committed, (b) make you look slightly ridiculous, which naturally makes you defensive and feel closer to your fellow ridiculous people (the ones in sashes), (c) make you give up a bit of your 'face', to make you more vulnerable and open, (d) weed out people strong enough to say no.

And once you're sitting in a sash, letting your guard down, comes the next thing. And the next thing. And the next thing. And after a thousand and one little pushes, you're so committed that you know you look absolutely insane from the outside, and it feels like the only future you have is within the organisation. You've committed so hard, bit by bit, that you no longer see a way out. And that's how you wind up with people getting branded for their slave master. [1]

Now I'm not saying Walmart brands women (though I'm not saying they don't - I have no evidence either way!), but it's worth noting that the only purpose of a tool like a 'corporate cheer' is to short-circuit your rationality and force an emotional commitment and loyalty that the business has no right to, and is unlikely to get from a purely rational employee. It's not just a fun little thing that may be inadvertently somewhat manipulative, it's a textbook manipulation technique.

So my 2c for anyone being asked to give a corporate cheer is to politely say no, and then think very hard about what kind of employer uses manipulation techniques to ensure obedience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-bran... (https://archive.is/Wv4Qc)
looks great, will try this one
If Apple and Google wants to give access to the OS to an LLM such as Siri, they'd make it easy.

It's the trivial part of all this. You're getting too much into the details of what is available to developers today. Instead, you should focus on what Apple and Google would do internally to make things as easy for an LLM as possible.

Up until now, the hardest part was always understanding what exactly users want. GPT4 is a thousand times better than what Siri and Google Assistant are currently doing.

Again, mapping OS APIs is the easiest part. By far.
Fascinating ideas. Thanks for sharing these - will check them out.
MicroWriter ML 3 – The future of photolithography
Wow I love both Synecdoche and Blue Velvet! What didn’t you like about Blue Velvet?
> Legitimate advances are being made

Like what? Realizing that lobotomies aren't a legitimate treatment?
Why would my boss ask for a piece of wood which is 1/3 meter long, when everyone who ever learned the metric system knows it's base ten? It's the kind of thing that never happens in practice, just like an American boss would never ask a piece of wood 0.24 yard long.
> does not look like a serious project at all

It kicked off under an Air Force contract [1].

[1] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/151/1
I must be missing something in the discussion. My perception of the network neutrality is that it is supposed to force ISPs to treat every traffic the same. The network operator can still prioritize packages about network balancing etc. There is no need for routing update after a node goes down to wait thousands of packages for streaming. However, this doesn't mean that they can favor their own streaming service over any other.

Regarding the high speed connections. There is only one issue in mind. Did the network operator install these new high speed lines as a network operator or as a streaming service provider? Nobody is expecting a streaming service to favor their competition. It's a complete conflict of interest though that such companies have multiple hats.
Most programmers are $90k/year code monkeys. The $400k+/year jobs are very heavily concentrated in a small number of tech hubs, and mostly in the bay, and that’s the relevant statistic that should inform your decision making if you want to make that type of money.
I can’t see this data mesh idea working in any workplace I’ve worked at.

Application developers and application administrators don’t care what happens when data leaves their application, they don’t understand what happens to data when it leaves their application, and they don’t care to understand what happens to data when it leaves their application.

And even when you are lucky enough to find a developer or admin who will go above and beyond their management will slap them right back down and tell them to do what they’re told.

The whole mesh idea seems to think that this is a technology or architectural problem, but it’s really a people and cultural problem.
Even now some CGI still looks very poor despite big spending (e.g. most marvel movies)
PS Hanami, a portable console using a PS1 motherboard folded in half
Has Bloomberg ever written anything positive about China in the last 5-6 years?

Ok, forget about positive. Anything neutral as well?

Anyone reading an article about China on Bloomberg should take things with a grain of salt. Bloomberg clearly has set an anti-China agenda no matter what.
So the point you were trying to make is that single land roads don't face traffic issues from merges and lane changes? That seems to trivially be false in my experience. Having driving all over the USA on roads with a single lane in each direction, merges and lane changes are by far the biggest cause of traffic slow downs.
>"The system holds the design patterns in software and uses computer-controlled optics to project the exposure patterns directly onto the photoresist. With this flexibility plus a simple and intuitive Windows user interface, the overlay procedure (with an overlay accuracy down to +/- 0.5 µm) can be easily achieved (Fig. 1)."

https://qd-europe.com/nl/en/products/materials-science/photo...

>"The MicroWriter 3 Pro is a direct-write photolithography system."
On the other hand, you just calculated the wrong number for how many hours are in a quarter of a day.
No, it uses Mastodon's API. Can't log in with Threads, but you can follow some Threads account from Mastodon; "Known Limitations" section here https://www.augment.ink/threads-on-mastodon/
Any art and/or media production executed well enough to be culturally significant rests on an enormous depth of artistic and technical choices that most audiences have zero awareness of—and yet, if you took them all away, you would have nothing left. Every change takes you further from the original artist's vision, and if all you want to do is Consume Slop then that's fine I guess, but the stewards of these works should aim higher.