skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive but not record-setting or even really competitive in most cases. Powerlifting and Olympic lifting success depends on skeletal structure- for various lifts that's things like arm length, hip width, upper torso to lower torso proportions. These things count for and against you in various lifts and go to mechanical leverage advantage.

This accounts for the frequent success over the years of little people in the lightest weight classes and the similarity of champions' appearances.

To speak to just one lift, in general the narrower the hips, the stronger the person has to be to squat the same weight. What squat aspirants want is wide hips that transmit the power being generated up through the torso in a straight line.

Deadlift would-bes want short torsos and long arms, a mid-80s lefter named Lamar Gant being the clearest expression of this type of physique.

And so on and so forth. Bodybuilders want impossibly narrow hips accompanied by impossibly broad shoulders.
AOC was against the subsidies. No one is stopping Amazon from creating jobs and then then getting rid of them when they hit a downturn. The issue was the subsidies provided and if companies can be held accountable.

Virginia paid $750M in subsidies for Amazon HQ2 to bring 2500 high paying jobs in 2023 and Amazon did not reach that goal. They'll probably miss the 2024 mark too. What recourse does Virginia have?
Torchtune: Easily fine-tune LLMs using PyTorch
Ah got it, thanks for sharing! That's definitely context I'm missing from having never used it in an actual application.
> Never make incentive deals with megacorps unless it's for the film industry. They know how to scratch someone's back.

What kind of "back scratching" does the film industry do and why should I like it?

Speaking of "incentive deals with megacorps", how about those sports stadium deals?

At least the govt officials get tickets, right?
Show HN: I Made an LLM Vulnerability Scanner
It works with maps since they are fundamentally spatial, every country has its fixed position on the globe which doesn't change. With most other data there is no intuitive way to map the data into a 2D space and it gets even worse when that data frequently changes, completely changing whatever layout scheme you might have come up with.

A little bit of zooming can still work great when you have a very limited item count, e.g. Mission Control on MacOS to manage windows or thumbnail view of tabs in some browsers. But as core UI for the whole OS it gets quite confusing when you don't really have an intuitive understanding of where things should be.
The original does play very well. The PS3 version allows to speed up time 3x, which is very useful to make some grindy battles less grindy.
I guess this is obvious in retrospect.. but having two arms vs one greatly expands the range of possible tasks.
I can't wait for comunity consensus of the new de facto Redis Fork. So far seems that the current choice is in favor of Valkey.
Funny how the current distance from Earth metric on Voyager's site[0] is current going down.

[0]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
I'm no republican or conspiracy theorist, so calm yourselves. But did Andrew Rambaut and Kristian Andersen ever address these Slack messages where they're saying they're not sure after all whether it's natural or lab leaked/modified?
> Could you elaborate on the argument here

It seems like you're trying to make this way more complex than it is.

From the perspective of a city:

Gaining quality high paying jobs without a large subsidy >> Gaining quality high paying jobs while paying a large subsidy.

That's what was argued and is correct. She knew the city was in a strong negotiation position and it was absurd to provide a subsidy.
As far as I remember things, newspapers used to carry a lot of advertising. And the face value of a newspaper was more-or-less a nominal amount, I suspect largely to support the distribution network.

I don't recall ever seeing a newspaper lying around with ads cut out or scribbled over - which I guess is a simplistic analog of the ad-blockers and such that modern news outlets are up against. You can understand the push to maintain revenue that's needed to support quality journalism.

At the same time, as a consumer of news, print ads would not be centrally and intrusively tracking your every thought either, so the desire to block modern ads is entirely rational.

Modern advertising methods have broken the social contract that used to exist to help keep things in balance.
Archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20240416154930/https://www.mozill...

Tried it on Edge, the page loaded fine. Maybe it was just a server/caching hiccup.
I had this problem and complained to AT&T support. I know it doesn't make sense to replace the modem because this is a software, not hardware, issue but they very quickly offered to replace the modem and now my DNS isn't getting hijacked. Would recommend trying it!
How perfectly can reality be simulated?
https://archive.ph/E5EFa
Convincing people that their problems are outside of their control and that the only way to solve them is to vote a certain way is also a form of authoritarianism. If you aren't to blame for your own life that implies you have no control over it.
No such thing.

Distribution of an image is not an effect of its creation.
I thought the author was bringing in genAI for little reason...then I clicked through. For some reason storing vectors and chats is core to Redis' vision of its future. (https://redis.io/blog/the-future-of-redis/)

I'm, generally, a mobile dev so I'm not familiar with redis. My handwave-y understanding is its a in-memory key/value DB.

I don't understand how that brings anything to the table for genAI. Couldn't the pitch read the same if you were mongoDB, postgres, whoever?

Also, my goodness, my eternal enemy, the idea a vector DB is something different than keeping a store of file -> pair<string, list<double>>.

The odds you need a vector DB unless you're doing insanely high scale stuff with AI are very low. If you're doing consumer stuff, please use ONNX and keep the pair, and thus the file, local and private.
> This idea that middle class boomer parents could afford a luxurious lifestyle for their families is not all that truthful.

“Middle class” has a slippery definition, but it is definitely the case that by many measures Millenials are, overall, seeing worse family financial conditions any any given age than Boomers did (e.g., median real wealth is lower for Millenials than it was for Boomers the same age.) There is also indications that this is accompanied by much greater in-generation disparity (e.g., 90th percentile wealth is higher for Millenials than it was for Boomers of the same age, despite the median being lower.)

Particular examples are from https://thehill.com/homenews/4319352-are-millennials-worse-o...
John Gruber is remarking on the irony of best invention of the year before it was released, yet turning out to be the worst product ever after it was released.

Time magazine owners are investors in the device.
Hopefully DeepMind will think twice before sending cease-and-desist orders to any Hawaiian AI robotics businesses with aloha in the name!
There is also an important third group:

- people that work outside Silicon Valley, where the entire company uses Windows centrally managed through Active Directory, and explaining IT that you need an Mac is an uphill battle. So you just submit your request for an RTX A6000 48GB to be added to your existing workstation

Those people are the intended target customer of the A6000, and there are a lot of them.
No, probably not. The word “Zeus” is far older than Greek - it’s a Proto-Indo-European word, and he is an Indo-European sky god, with analogues from India to Iberia. (“Dios,” as in the Latin languages’ word for the Christian god, has this derivation.)

This all to say that the word (and the sacred culture attendant) is far older and far broader than can be ascribed to some just-so story of a prehistoric, let alone proto-Greek, warlord. If I were to look for origins of “Zeus,” the god, I would instead first contemplate how vast the sky appears when seen from the steppe (whence the Yamnaya, first speakers of this language family). How does one not imagine a sky father in that seeming infinity?
Generally my stance with these forks born from community drama is "wait and see." Sometimes the fork will gain traction and become the de facto "true" version (see Hudson -> Jenkins). Sometimes the fork will flop and people will largely stick to the original despite whatever caused the schism (see Terraform -> OpenTofu).

Many of these recent forks are being done because people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it, making tens of millions of dollars per day in the process. I can't really blame them.
This announcement has some links to articles with more details:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/03/improving-performance-in-f...

The SpiderMonkey devs also post newsletters every few months detailing all the recent improvements they've made:
https://spidermonkey.dev/
For a long time, Boston Dynamics was more or less a research laboratory, but unlike a university laboratory, they also had lots of professional engineers. They were content with perfecting their robots purely for internal research, and very impressively, they were able to secure finding for this for several decades, without ever selling anything. (It probably helped they they were DARPA's darlings from the very beginning of research in dynamically balancing robots.)

When Google bought them, many people assumed that these robots would fit in well with google's AI research interests. After all, not everything can be learned by scraping Internet! But for a variety of reasons, Atlas was not a satisfactory fit, and Boston Dynamics was resold first to SoftBank, and then to Hyundai. With these changes in ownership, there came a pressure to produce an actual sellable product, which hydraulic robots were not.

Considering the amount of effort that had been spent on perfecting hydraulic machinery at Boston Dynamics, this is a bittersweet ending to an era. They were arguably the best, the most experienced people in hydraulic robots, and now they are pivoting away from their core expertise.
NSA publishes guidance for strengthening AI system security
Eyeballs are one thing, and maybe useful for brand mindshare, or worse some vanity metrics... but action is another.

It's good to try and take the good from anything.
I agree, 25 SSI adjusted and above begins to feel too warm but that's why I set it at slightly cool instead.
Don’t look impressive because this is what you see a lot in factories anyways, maybe a little better then Sota
It's not evident. I've had a fairly long career in tech (both as an IC and as a manager) and many execs I worked with didn't do much of really impactful work. Sure, they attended a lot of meetings, created spreadsheets and slides (while they were attending the meetings). They left work at 6pm, with the rest of us, and came back to office at 9am the following morning with the rest of us. I don't remember ever feeling the pressure to respond to an email or Slack message sent after 6pm, and the overall number of times I received those was not large. Typically founders worked more than the rest, but that's not surprising. I'm talking about execs below C level.

Execs probably have a higher ratio of BS artists, and SWEs have a higher ratio of slackers, but overall the fraction of workaholics is about the same.
Don't use your ISP's default DNS because they will mess with stuff. You should probably just set your DNS servers on your device because you probably don't want to use whatever random DNS you get from public WiFis either. I like to use Quad9 for DNS because it's independent and has some privacy/security features.
Amazon needs NYC more than NYC needs Amazon.

Amazing that so many supply-and-demand aficionados couldn't see that.
I don't like this idea. I can see how others would though.

I have a really hard time getting back into things. Any state a thing remembers is the opposite of helpful.

For example, I don't suspend laptops, I turn them off. It'd be a waste of time closing what I was doing before because I don't remember where I was earlier and it's easier to start over.

Browser tabs are a current state. If I will want to use it multiple times, I use a bookmark. History is for the rare time I think "wait, I swear I read that earlier".

It isn't just computing, I forget where I was in books and games sometimes and start over too. I can't be the only one.
The Zodiac's killer "340 Cipher" has been solved
If I ever move and end up living in a giant concrete warehouse devoid of furniture I'll keep this robot in mind.
Photobucket Is in Negotiations with AI Companies to Licence 13B Images
The tldr is provided in the article itself:
> To be clear, pieces of this approach may exist here or there in different frameworks — after all, all great ideas are built on what's come before.

If you haven’t spent much time seeking PMF in a B2B company there is useful information here, but to me it looks like a refactoring of what’s come before.

The article under-delivers on its promise, which is stated up front as:

> Most people describe finding product-market fit as an art, not a science. But when it comes to sales-led B2B startups, we’ve reverse engineered a method to increase the odds of unlocking it. We’ve worked with some of the world’s most iconic enterprise founders and distilled what they did in their first six months into a series of tactical sessions for taking a straighter path to PMF.

And later on it even admits it doesn’t actually do what it promised:

> For example, a startup might be stuck at developing PMF, but later find that pivoting to a new buyer is the move that unlocks the next level. Or another company may have stumbled onto nascent PMF with resonant positioning, but then can’t ship the correct product that delivers on its promise.

> These levers, of course, fall more into the camp of how to go about finding PMF, which is not the focus of this essay.

Isn’t “tactical” advice supposed to be the answer to the question “how?”
I can't vote anyone out, just ignoring all of this remains the optimal strategy for my own sanity.
Alejandro Jodoworwsky (from Jodorowsky's Dune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky's_Dune) is a big proponent of something he calls "Psychomagic"

For example, let's say you are anxious about money, maybe you are afraid of suddenly finding yourself with no money - so, a simple exercise to face that fear could be to leave the house, for the day, with no phone and no wallet, or have someone drop you off on the next town over and have to figure out on your own how to get back home

The main concept is to create "rituals" that help you address the fears that hold you back, in a practical way
Since I'm definitely not a security expert of even a network admin, other than maintaining my home lab behind a firewall, does anyone know if these attacks would effective against Wireguard? My suspicion is not unless you went out of your way to make your Wireguard instance purposely insecure, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
I think there's a huge and fundamental difference between the assertion that a computer program has malfunctioned and the assertion that a computer program does not accomplish what it intended to do at all, that the algorithm is incorrect, or that there simply is no known reliable way for any computer program to do the thing.

The latter problem is more important, but by lumping this together with "malfunction" and giving technologists basically a complete pass on the entire hard part, this kind of rule is a loophole wide enough to pass a jetliner through
Can't Get No Satisfaction
Obesity drugs aren't always forever. What happens when you quit?
In case the author swings by - I think the presentation of this is really cool. The sprites bring it to life as they hurry around the screen! The way Alex bookends the walkthrough of the data is clever as well, and I felt the return to him at the end was quite evocative. Nice work!
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in kconfig
How to Create a Stanford Course
This was discussed (from 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570795
> 50,000

It's not 3.6 roentgen...

Joking aside that's incredibly fascinating, I never thought that ECC memory has that much of a performance impact. Might be more optimal to just get a large jerry can of water and put that over the server as radiation shielding lol.
That bad part is on the how it is tried to be micro-managed not the idea of allowlisting Windows Services in general. There are good reasons to allowlist things like Windows Services, sure. How you micro-manage that allowlist can be bad.

Specific to this case, `ssh-agent` is a Windows Service shipped with Windows and signed by Microsoft. If your allowlist doesn't include built-in Windows services maybe your allowlist is deficient. Further specifically in this case, if you are using ssh (and/or sftp) as business tools and expecting some users to have those tools in their job workflows and processes, it really doesn't make sense not to allowlist the `ssh-agent` service so that those jobs can be performed, at least for those users doing those tasks. That should be obvious to any IT person that has used SSH ever before that having access to a reliable SSH agent is important. If your micro-management processes don't have good processes for making the right exceptions you teach your users to instead rely on the wrong loopholes, that's bad corporate policy.

(Seriously, why would you encourage users to use an out-of-date program with known vulnerabilities, a tiny bus factor, existing known fakes that are malware vectors in the wild, when you can just quickly allowlist a single Windows service, shipped by Windows, and signed by Microsoft? How can you call any such corporate policy anything but bad in this specific example?)
If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?
For a different approach on the socio-economic background's influence on growing up (and eventually growing old), check out the very interesting "Up Series" [0].

It's a British documentary series that starts out with interviews with kids at age 7 from different backgrounds, and then interviews the same group of people every 7 years (14 Up, 21 Up, you get the idea). They've come to "63 Up" so far.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)
ARCathon contest announced. New world record of 34% on fchollet's ARC dataset
Apologies for this error--I've gone back and verified that you are correct, Eddington was indeed talking about variable stars generally, not pulsars specifically.

Eddington brings up this issue in "The Internal Constitution of the Stars" (1920), and discusses at length why the eclipse theory doesn't hold up:

"There are certain stars, known as Cepheid variables, which undergo a regular fluctuation of light of a characteristic kind, generally with a period of a few days. This light change is not due to eclipse. Moreover, the color quality of the light changes between maximum and minimum, evidently pointing to a periodic change in the physical condition of the star. Although these objects were formerly thought to be double stars, it now seems clear that this was a misinterpretation of the spectroscopic evidence. There is in fact no room for the hypothetical companion star; the orbit is so small that we should have to place it inside the principal star. Everything points to the period of the light pulsation being something intrinsic in the star; and the hypothesis advocated by Shapley, that it represents a mechanical pulsation of the star, seems to be the most plausible. I have already mentioned that the observed period does in fact agree with the calculated period of mechanical pulsation, so that the pulsation explanation survives one fairly stringent test. But whatever the cause of the
variability, whether pulsation or rotation, provided only that it is intrinsic in the star, and not forced from outside, the density must be the leading factor in determining the period. If the star is contracting so that its density changes appreciably, the period can not remain constant. Now, on the contraction
hypothesis the change of density must amount to at least 1 percent. in 40 years. (I give the figures for 8 Cephei, the best-known variable of this class.) The corresponding change of period should be very easily detectable. For 8 Cephei the period ought to decrease 40 seconds annually."

You can find the article at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/6491
Sure. There are policies you can change. But if you believe these things shouldn't make a profit you won't put those things into place. It looks like anyone who wants transit to not make a profit just wants it to suck.
It seems to me, based on the article, that the main issue is the profit-seeking ghouls (err.. I mean... "Job Creators") exploiting the government, its limited resources, and faulty regulations-- which are slowly being fixed.

There is ample evidence (e.g. the entire rest of the industrialized world vs. the US healthcare system) that decentralized capitalist control of the donor organ system would lead to an exploitative nightmare that would make the current system look like unassailable perfection.
For US users who are interested, paying annually discounts it to $11.66/mo. Comes with YT Music for better or worse (I rarely use that side of the membership).
GPT3.5 turbo wrappers are gonna get steamrolled
You think opentofu is a flop?
Even though I consider myself a flaming liberal, this is the one "conservative boomer" belief I allow myself to have: Telling an entire generation that 'they have no future because of something they cannot control' has been huge a society-wide mistake, turning so many people into doomers or reckless gamblers, incapable of planning for their future. I think we are starting to finally bear the fruit of telling our children's generation over and over that there is no future and no hope.
I think it is too early to evaluate Terraform/OpenToFu. They're diverging now and it looks like OpenToFu are bringing on some wanted features.
this isn't some libertarian nonsense, there's plenty serious people in medicine and economics who advocate organ markets (but not in the dystopian way you probably imagine)

if you read up about it you might even learn something
I think the core message is that a child's life is strongly determined by his family life/environment, it's not just a personal choice to succeed or to fail.

So if we want people to have better outcomes, we need to help better family lives/environments (and lives in general) to break the cycle, and not just give them basic education. Also, the family is just a group of individuals that probably themselves have come from poor conditions: this means there's hope of breaking the cycle.
For the curious, an implementation of the attack:
https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL
Something as common as automotive coolant/"antifreeze" could efficiently travel via thin lines alongside regular plumbing.

I think a big part of the challenge would be in having multiple heat exchangers. Perhaps (if plumbing codes allowed) a plain p-trap could be swapped out for an exchanger unit that also serves as a sewer gas stop.

I don't know anything about thermodynamics; how long would it take to transfer a reasonable amount of energy from waste water into the coolant?

Another issue again, running all these coolant lines back to a central water heater w/another exchanger. It does all sound pretty complicated and expensive.
what are you talking about, it's literally the fastest single core retail CPU globally, and multicore is close too - https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks