skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it would be cool to have historical weather data from around the world to analyze for signals of climate change we’ve already had rather than think about potential future change.

This is a very good instinct! A pretty major portion of modern climate science is paleoclimatology, with a goal of reaching far beyond reliable human measurements. A lot of earth's previous climate states were wildly different from the range of conditions we have experienced in the past 10,000 years, and a better climate record is essential to predicting the effects of massive carbon emission.

Ice cores from Antarctica/Greenland are the most famous instance of this, but there's a lot of other cool ones - there are chemical records of climate change in cave stalactites, ocean floor sediments, etc.
Speedometer 3.0 – browser benchmark measures responsiveness of Web applications
UBI might not be enough. People need these jobs for status. "esteem needs" and "self-actualization" are last in Maslow's Hierarchy but since basic needs are met in modern world, we also need to feel needed to be happy.
> The renewable generation meeting the total demand is over most of the day

The article says renewable supply exceeded demand for “0.25-6 h per day”. This is great, but its not most of the day.
This is all gameable. Like he said, you just time it with an over-large order and let the remainder expire. Everyone gets 10% of their order but my order is 10x what I actually want so I actually get 100%.
How many people do you know that order from a food delivery app 4 times per week? $4,400/year isn't much to me and I order maybe 4x/month.

Housing is incredibly expensive these days, and there's really no way to make that cheaper other than live someplace terrible or spend hours and hours extra commuting. Both make huge differences in quality of life.

I'm sure there are many people throwing money away for no good reason, in fact many of those people are rich. But at a certain point you just need more income.
Note that while UMA is great in the sense that they allow LLM models to be run at all, M-series chips aren't faster[1] when the model fits in VRAM.

1: screenshot from[2]: https://www.igorslab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Apple-M2-ULtra-SoC-Geekbench-5-OpenCL-Compute.jpg
2: https://wccftech.com/apple-m2-ultra-soc-isnt-faster-than-amd-intel-last-year-desktop-cpus-50-slower-than-nvidia-rtx-4080/
> Almost €300B national debt

Well, 223bn, but what's 77bn between friends? About 40% GDP. This puts it fairly low as far as developed countries go (Germany's 66%, UK 97%, US 130%, Japan 264%).

> Governing is giving free houses

I mean, not notably.

> money to people who don't work

Ireland has functional full employment (about 4% unemployment rate). Social welfare isn't particularly lavish by Western European standards.

> One in five people are directly or indirectly employed by the government of a tiny country.

That's reasonably low by western European standards.

Ireland has lots of problems, but _not spending enough money_ isn't one of them. We're not a particularly high-tax country by Western European standards, and we're running a surplus. If anything we should probably be spending more, to sort out the housing crisis if nothing else.
I mean let’s be honest adults here - a 300B national debt is literally nothing. Not even worth discussing in a post or even acting like it’s a problem. Ireland ran a 4 billion euro deficit last year; again this is meaningless. You can dislike these policies you mentioned(on whatever basis…) but let’s not act like Ireland is burning here or something
Nowadays, in Windows 11, after a few hours the Start icons stop responding.
I’m not entirely happy with the solution, but one big advantage of a JS authorization library called CASL is the same ability to turn rules into queries. I also like that I can create field-level permissions and even feed it a target object and get a reduced representation of that object which will include only fields the user is authorized to modify or read.

Unfortunately, there are a few issues not worth getting into here other than to say I feel that the industry has a very frustratingly uneven set of solutions for authorization, no doubt in part due to it being complicated.
Isn't the opposite mostly happening, with CPU's single-core performance mostly flat for the last decade, while I/O speeds have been improving every year (especially in networking, not as sure about disk I/O).
I’m wondering how it would work otherwise. Would computer systems need to be certified to be acceptable for ordinary record-keeping?

Extending this rule to LLM’s would clearly be disastrous. At a minimum, a record-keeping system needs to be written the old-fashioned way.
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers
Active or not, it’s still a dongle (but a dongle or a cable for an external monitor is less of a rage concern and they have added back HDMI as mentioned). However, seriously give me just one fucking USB-A port on a “pro” device. There’s enough people in that segment that use flash sticks and need to interface to all kinds of various hardware (MIDI controllers, pro audio equipment (not every use is a rack)), all kinds of random special purpose hardware, etc. It’s a pro device it should cater to a wider range.
I think you're off by several orders of magnitude

https://www.finishing.com/236/27.shtml#:~:text=The%20amount%....

Correct me if I'm wrong but 100 litres would be able to dissolve about 23kg of gold which is more than 800oz
There's dumb, there's outrageously dumb, and then there's this
That's fair. But as the article shows, that presumption ends up weighing heavily in favor of computers working correctly. The nuance is in the difference between plumbing, which generally works well, and the bespoke business logic of individual applications, especially when said logic was responsible for the existence of critical evidence in a criminal case. The difference matters enormously and is not observed at all in the law.
Yes, this article is actually loading (order of magnitude) 10^12 rows.

I was very surprised to learn about this the first time. In USA English:

10^3 -> thousand

10^6 -> million

10^9 -> billion

10^12 -> trillion

10^15 -> quadrillion

10^18 -> quintillion

But there's another scale too! See this Wiki article for more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
Same conclusion we came to, and the basis of our in-house permission gem for RoR. The most efficient declaration of permissions is to express them as a WHERE statement, and then the implementation of can_whatever() is just inclusion in the collection returned by the WHERE.

Permissions have three moving parts, who wants to do it, what do they want to do, and on what object. Any good permission system has to be able to efficiently answer any permutation of those variables. Given this person and this object, what can they do? Given this object and this action, who can do it? Given this person and this action, which objects can they act upon?

We’ve found most permissioning systems end up with a pick-2 approach, and the most common one to be abused is given a person and an action, give me the collection. This leads to implementing permissions twice, once in code, and once as a query.
Lawyer Screw Up Leads to Couple's Divorce. Judge Refuses to Fix It
FYI this only applies to Florida. Laws regarding consent for recording vary from one state to the next.
> Firefox now more proactively blocks downloads from URLs that are considered to be potentially untrustworthy.

Firefox sends all your download Requests to a 3rd party source then?
Nobody is demanding that the editors at NPR entertain the idea that the earth is flat. There are legitimate disagreements among Americans, difficult to resolve ideological and pragmatic differences, that we compromise on mostly peacefully via our political process. Not unbiased discussion on these contentious issues is dishonest, people treating opposing political views as "of course" wrong and therefore not meriting discussion misses the point: we all think we are right and our opponents are wrong, which is precisely why we have to talk about it. Dismissing them as lunacy is arrogance at best, malicious shutting down of discussion you don't want to have at worst. Q is lunacy, the idea that transgenderism is a mental illness for example, to pick a very contentious, mostly party line division, is a genuine disagreement. Our society has to address these disagreements, that almost always all sides of think the opposing view is ridiculous, if we want to continue calling ourselves one people.
I tend to build the "ownership" model whenever I can. It works extremely well and has a few simple rules:

1. a user can own an entity/row/unit/whatever. They have full control over this unit.

2. a user can share ownership with another user/role.

3. a user can share various "rights" over any units they own -- CRUD, for example -- for any user/role.

4. a user can only interact with any unit they have a right to.

This can be implemented through a simple db table (or inline in the data itself) and doesn't depend on much. Once you build the middleware, you don't even need to think about the authorization layer.
I was expecting crime labs or maybe biology like genetics. But music copyright clearance problems (copyright is why we can't have nice things) is good too.
Sure, I started an IRA account in 1985 with CDs paying 10+%

But, I bought my house in 1982 with a 15.5% mortgage, refinanced @ 11.25 after a couple years and again @ 8.5% until it was paid off in 2002
Plenty of people are willing to pay much more for private rides.
I think Average Joe has quite a lot of disadvantages compared to some hedge fund or whatever it is that does HFT. Do you really think the only difference between them is a millisecond? That's only between HFT traders.

My point was that other advantages/disadvantages are not being cared about, not that we should provide milisecond access to Average Joe.
From your first article above: "At a middle school a few blocks from my house, a rumor circulated among the children that all Asian kids have the coronavirus and should be quarantined.”

How is that not racism and xenophobia?

The parts about washing your hands was because they didn't know that the virus was airborne yet. They were giving out reasonable recommendations while waiting for more information. What were you expecting? That they would magically know exactly what to do for this particular pandemic from day one?

Do you realise if they did, then it would have been one of those "oh the experts panicked and nothing bad happened" (like previous sars outbreaks). There's inherent asymmetry in the possible outcomes.
Japan study shows link between passive smoking and lung cancer
I've always wondered if my boiler is set up correctly. I have a closed loop hydronic heater and an indirect-fire tank and when I shut off water to the house ahead of a winter storm I noticed the boiler controller was throwing warnings about short cycling. I'm guessing there's a procedure to tune it correctly but it was probably never followed by the HVAC company since it's very unusual to have a hydronic system with boiler in the US.
I would love to live in that climate but that's not where the high-paying tech jobs and somewhat-affordable housing are. Instead I have to be in a climate where it's a blistering 105F for 3 straight months (arguably equally as depressing).
> Strike against the government to advance societal welfare, not against the production studios to prevent eliminating the need for human labor.

They are fighting the battle they think they can win. Which do you think it more likely, getting some favorable changes made to contracts with studios, or upending the entire structure of capitalism?
> A man's expectations of a woman have nothing to do with the above.

Wut?

/u/giraffe_lady pretty much stated a baseline minimum for what you should expect from a partner. Are you honestly stating that you believe (most) men don't expect that from women? Because I certainly do and I have ended relationships with women because I didn't get that baseline standard of treatment.
>Your assertion is basically "lower your standards to what you see around you."

Yes, that's the definition of reasonable expectations.
bwahahaha, I love that!

The Circle of Descent continues....
After updating (from 124) I saw this message, although it wasn't in the release notes:

> With this latest version of Firefox, you’ll experience 25% quicker on-average page loads, which means more all-around zippiness anywhere you go online.

Any details on how this performance improvement was acheived?
Yeah GDP is cooked and is largely inflated by the foreign corporations. What does Ireland have to show for that €223B debt? All of that money was thrown into the welfare pit.

What does Ireland has to show for such a large government employees. Health service is in tatters, so is housing. Come on. Put down the rose tinted glasses.
Thanks! Looking forward to this!
Enough RAM for LLM. There are GPUs faster than M2 Ultra but can't run LLMs normally, which make that speed a moot point for LLM use-cases.
> "We are committed to adapting to the evolving threat landscape and partnering across industry and government to defend against these growing and sophisticated global threats"

> “committed to secure by design and secure by default.”

> “As an industry leader we must be accountable for the security of our products and services.”

Wow, that sure is a lot of commitment and accountability! I'm not seeing much in the way of consequences for failing to meet those commitments though, and obviously there is absolutely no accountability. What's the value of a commitment that you can just fail to meet with impunity again?

This almost reads like all those tech company CEOs taking full responsibility for layoffs last year.
> Strike against the government to advance societal welfare

Sure, but even if that effort can achieve the result you're envisioning, it's going to take a very, very long time. In the meantime, people don't want to starve.

But when it comes to art, there's another factor: I have zero interest in art made by machines because it eliminates the very thing that I like about art: that it's a human communication. I genuinely think losing that would be catastrophic.
I would be interested in such a service, but find the website unclear. Especially the points "What do I get exactly?" and "What type of generative models can I use?" leave me with more questions than answers. What service are you offering? Is it the computation power needed for image creation or is google colab used for this? Or is it the work to integrate different generative models into your system? You claim that I can use any model I want and integrate it into your system (from every source). This combined with easy use and no coding skill required seems a too bold claim to deliver on it. Can you elaborate what I am getting?
Cool idea!

I think it might be interesting to have some comparisons between similar projects.

How does CockroachDB compare to Cassandra? Should I pick Spark or Apache Beam?

It also might be interesting to see timeline of major contributors to various projects as well ( Did the founder of CouchDB leave and go start working on PostGres at one point).

However, because Open Source is often tied to large corporations or startups, I'm sure the system could be gamed, and I'm not sure how you don't get in the situation amazon is in, where some small startup pays to get review bombed so their database is ranked higher than everything else.

What about when someone angry at having their gmail broken decides to go rant about how terrible all the google open source projects are? That seems like a pain in the ass.

So I think overall I'd ask what you want to get out of it personally. If you're looking for a business idea, I would be worried that if it makes a lot of money, github would just clone the best ideas and integrate it into their site. If you just want it to be a small money making side project, then that's probably fine.

If you're looking to do this as a personal project, I would focus on the most technically challenging and interesting parts. If you're looking to make some side money, do what is most popular. If you're trying to start a full time business...probably not enough $$$ and too easy to be copied by github.
Israel needs the support of the US to continue operating as it does. The US support of Israel was already on a demographic timer, the unwavering support of boomer evangelicals is dying out with them and even the new evangelicals have an net unfavorable view of Israel. The Gaza conflict has simply sped up this already seemingly inevitable decline. Losing popular support causes a cascade loss of other support; political, economic, and then military. There has already been unprecedented pushback against Israel from Joe Biden who is clearly worried about his own reelection chances. I.e. the loss of public support is already causing a loss of political support.

Acquiring nukes keeps getting easier, improvement in material science, electronics, etc. Even North Korea has them now, in my view the only thing keeping Iran from getting nukes is the ability to use them as a bargaining chip. Unless it's Israelis plan to completely destroy Iran then taking away that bargaining chip would just end up with Iran getting nukes.

To be honest I'm not sure how Israel survives this.
Utterly unfocused garbage making no point and having no point besides tossing about numerous ad hominem attacks.
SWOT satellite helps gauge the depth of Death Valley's temporary lake
Financial orders are separate from the granting of the divorce itself in England and Wales and the two can be done in (sort of) either order, confusingly.

It's usually thought of to be in the interest of one (or both) parties not to finalise the divorce until a financial order is made (eg if one party dies in the period between then the other may never get assets they would have done in a financial order; or there may be tax consequences if assets end up with the wrong party for a period). In this instance it seems like this disadvantaged the former wife because she ended up divorced without a financial order in place.
My point is that SIM swaps are possible from the other side of the world and rubber hose isn't. The targetable base for remote SIM swap attacks is everyone from anywhere.
Oh thank god! Deploying it now. (Assuming you are referring to https://community.frame.work/t/random-hard-freezes-fw13-amd7... )
The YouTube co-founder connecting Taiwan with Silicon Valley
I guess I should start buying used air compressors off of eBay.
A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs
In 2D, the diagonal across a 1x1 rectangle is longer than just its sides.

A naive implementation of just adding the x and y vectors together will become their sum, totaling up to the diagonal length, 1.41x faster. In 3d even more.

This is a very common bug (feature) in many old games.

Quake famously did consider this bug while walking but not while jumping, leading to a more complicated trick to speed up called strafe-jumping.
The alternative is treating systems based evidence the same as witnesses. They're examined and cross referenced because they are rightly not presumed to be reliable.
Nickel Plating 3D Prints – Not as Easy as It Looks [video]
What do you actually write?
I have a physical standby server for precisely this reason.

This same action in Microsoft terminal would also have had the same outcome.
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away
Hey simon! Oso CTO here.

Definitely one of my favourite problems too! Some additional context for those who don't think about this all the time: in many cases, the solution is as simple as "write some SQL where clauses to do the filtering I care about". e.g. I suspect the vast majority of people have logic like `where tenant_id = ?` or similar and they pass in a tenant ID on every query.

Where things get challenging is when you want to decouple the logic (e.g. have an abstraction in your code, or centralize logic in a service). Because then you're in the world of what's the decoupled API that allows me to filter my database.

The easiest way to do that is just generate return a big list of IDs the user can see, and put `id in (... list of ids)` on the query. But that involves (a) syncing the data to the central service and (b) that list can get pretty long.

And so that's why you would even need to think about turning rules into WHERE clauses in the first place :)
Black hole 33 times bigger than sun found 'lurking undetected' close to Earth
> The alternative would be to say that only a system that has been proven correct could be used as evidence which would force pretty much all accounting back to paper.

Assuming that the paper accounting could be proven correct, when the computerized accounting could not, your proposed alternative would seem to be an upgrade.
LF AI and Data Foundation Launches Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA)
There are more anti-vaxxers, but also more people that are strongly pro-vaccine.

The latter group is more likely to be involved in vaccine approval processes.
This project still seems alive to my pleasant surprise.

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...

I never had it fully working because the last time I tried, I was too focused on using VMs or Docker and not just dedicating a small, older computer to it, but I think about it often and may finally just take the time to set up a station to properly rip all the Columbia House CDs I bought when I was a teen and held on to.
More likely it either keeps a local copy of the DB or sends a hash.
What are you talking about? Ireland's population is mere 5M. That's €60K debt for each soul. And over €200K debt for a family. What does Ireland has to show for all this debt?
Why do negative topics dominate social media sites, even here?
They could just pass the browser a blocklist?
> "The contract the Guild secured in September set a historic precedent: It is up to the writers whether and how they use generative AI as a tool to assist and complement"

Writers that utilize AI, like I do, will be a lot more productive than their peers and will be able to generate better, more scripts in less time. In other words, like any other tool in any field. Tools replaced most of farm labor so now we have a minimal number of people actually farming. What I'm saying is that they won't be able to stop the displacement of people using this method - and over time, the best writers will be the ones who can use AI skillfully.
I would love to see a reference implementation.

I know some people inline these rights into data inside a crdt. I really would love to see a reference implementation of that!
I think open standard?

Download is here? https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

MS made it open because...

> More than a year after being asked by the European Union to standardize their Office 2003 XML formats, Microsoft submitted 2,000 pages of documentation for a new file format to the Ecma International consortium for it to be made into an open standard. [1]

The competing OpenDocument Format was standardized first though [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
I would imagine it syncs down block lists rather than checking each download with a 3rd party.
It's not a point of view, it's just math. $5 every day is $150/month, $1800 per year, save that for 30 years and maybe you can have a down payment on a house (assuming the interest on your savings has kept pace with the increase in housing prices, which is likely but not certain). There's no one weird trick to get rich from no income.