skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Troy I've seen you calling this plagiarist out in a couple of threads. Thanks for the work you're doing, and the receipts!
No… that implies the model never has active state and is being replaced with a different, stateless model. This is similar to the difference between

Actor.happy = True

And

Actor = happier(Actor)
Any ORM built around implicit lazy loading is doomed. The idea in itself is simply stupid. The ideal usecase for lazy loading is that you have a single object, e.g. a user page and then you never load a collection of objects. The fact that you end up doing a few more queries doesn't matter.

ORM Framework developers have optimized their framework for rare cases. You can see this most clearly with Hibernate. If you want to initialize entities, you must either use an extremely convoluted JOIN FETCH statement, which doesn't really work the way you think it should work and can't be composed, or you choose to use entity graphs, which are a horrific contraption of Java annotations. The Rails style include method is a reasonably sane solution, but again, why can you load that association via lazy loading in the first place? The unpredictable performance of ORMs emerges from the fact that you write a query, which then gets you a hollow shell of an object, containing landmines which can blow up and trigger additional queries, long after the original query. The call to the framework and it's actual communication with the database are temporally disconnected.
Started playing equinox but constantly find myself face first against a wall and struggling to turn around and get a good view. Nav is dizzying. But I love the rendering and audio.
> Systemd has driven me to move systemd-using Linux systems I end up responsible for over to FreeBSD or OpenBSD whenever possible.

Nice that you privately do it privately. In Enterprise environment however is different, and systemd played an important role in having Linux reaching that level.
Is the Remote Work Future?
Hi Guys,

I have remote job from last 3 yrs and planning to go full remote. My only worry is that i shouldnt have to go back to Office based job again.

Recently all companies started calling people back to office.

What is future for the remote work? I dont think it will go away.

What is your thought?
No that’s not how it works, quantum mechanics cannot be simulated efficiently on a classical computer, the state space grows exponentially with the number of degrees of freedom, every degree has relative phases to every other degree even when only looking at pure states, that’s why even the largest super computers cannot simulate more than 50 quantum degrees of freedom currently (see quantum supremacy).
And eZ80 (binary compatible, but not pin-compatible with Z80) is still being manufactured by Zilog.
I feel you qualify during all of those waking seconds
First off, I want to say it's very fun to do this with Super Formula cars on the F1 Abu Dhabi track. Quite strange to see self-driven cars going around a track with no one in the stands. Seems like a future where we outsource everything to machines, including typical events of living.

Of course I don't know the details of the rules and implementation, but this whole exercise seems to be misguided. Sounds like they have teams hand-coding their algorithms with specific inputs/outputs. That's taking us all the way back to the earliest chess playing programs. We have much better methods today. What's lacking is the ability to train via simulation in a rapid manner. We could even collect data from all the human driven cars that race on the Abu Dhabi track as example inputs and outputs, similar to a database of professional chess games played. Of course we'd also have to note the properties of each car and driving conditions associated with the data, but it's a start. I wonder who designed the format, it doesn't seem to be a researcher who really wants to use this to advance self driving on real roads.
Changing Arctic fjord hints at climate future as it warms at an alarming pace
If you want to run Windows VMs with all the security features enabled, xcp-ng / xen is a non-starter as it's been completely broken for years with no fix in sight:

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/105

Proxmox / KVM is the only alternative to ESXi that can support all of Windows security mitigations such as Core Isolation, which requires nested virtualization.
Solar-powered railgun accelerating rocks to lunar escape velocity in directions chosen to make the desired delta-v. Speed the moon up or slow it down or change whatever other orbital elements you please.

This would work better to change the orbit of a small asteroid. For the moon it would take (a lot) longer.
You should refuse for the simple fact that this company is unlikely to be only contacting you. They will have a large footprint that you don't want to be part of.
Renting Your Car: A Guide to Making Money on the Road
I'm aware I'm replying to a comment that doesn't add anything substantive to this conversation, but the quantum AI lab is very serious research effort https://quantumai.google/research.
I get the feeling that you know nothing about Atlassian and haven't checked any statements at all. Atlassian have been profitable since their first year.
These are typically stations that are outside of London. If you reach the destination station, you'd probably need to appeal to the kindness of staff members who attend the ticket barrier (if there is one), who might ask someone to buy a ticket or pay a penalty fare. But it's functionally equivalent to traveling without a ticket at all.

You'd also have to pay a default charge for an incomplete journey on the PAYG ticket, but you could potentially appeal to have this reversed.

It's usually made pretty clear on train announcements that you're leaving the contactless PAYG fare zone.
So yet another example of people piggybacking on the Kubernetes manifests & inner loop to define and apply resources on other APIs.
I wonder when some places will start to provision dedicated k8s masters just to run their IaC loop, instead of running actual workload...
Author here. A surprise seeing this on HN!

The context: I'm writing my own blog software for various reasons [1], including my desire to post less to social media. As much as possible I'm trying to reuse the build system for the rest of the site, including the template. I have worked on and off on this for the past two months and I expect to keep adding features for another month or two. I'm currently adding categories not only for the blog but to the whole site. After that I'll work on archives by month. And I want to import the 21 years of old blog content [2] which is stored on blogger.com, and put it on the new blog, which is just a folder [3] on my existing site.

I'm writing some blog posts to test out the workflow (integrating into emacs, my build script, an internal status page) and also various content types (images, video, source code, figures, links). Each time I post I find some more things to tweak.

This post to HN made me realize that it's not labeled as a blog post. Oops. I guess that's one of the downsides of reusing the exact same template! So another tweak coming…

[1] https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-03-08-new-blog/

[2] https://simblob.blogspot.com/

[3] https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/
IIRC this topic was mentioned in the Game Theory chapter of ‘Algorithms to Live By’ as an example of Mechanism Design, but I don’t have it handy to offer anything more than a bread crumb reference from memory.
I suspect it's the same appeal as woodworking or hor rodding or living history reenactment.
I use vim every day and use a completely different workflow that heavily relies on searching and (gasp!) mouse mode.

I like “hjkl” movement for nearby characters but the idea of typing numbers to move around a document (e.g. “13k”, “4w”,…) has always baffled me. If something is more than a few lines away I either search for it and go directly or use the mouse to scroll to it.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for 'burning the 3am oil (May 2022)
Yeah, the Internet is extremely adversarial, like almost comically so. Cloudflare's CDN/bot-mitigation stuff is very much a symptom of a far larger problem.
What an unfortunate name... I initially thought this was about wireless communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
> I have an alternative proposition. Re-zone and deregulate to allow new developments. Lower all permits and taxes. Remove all barriers to capital and investment, foreign or otherwise.

Would this make it far easier and probable that a Chinese mega-corp can buy up neighborhoods in the US? Not implying that's a bad thing. I wonder if it's already happening to an extent.
Yes. Everyone who proposes restricting trading, or limiting to a few auctions, or claiming HFT doesn’t add social value, is simply misinformed.

Assets which have continues liquidity have more utility for owners. Not only can markets instantly digest new information in a way that is fair, but also when there is no information and prices are stable, participants can make decisions for their own personal objectives at the very moment it’s most relevant to them. Imagine you can sell a few shares of your Nvidia holdings at midnight on Friday and it funds your Paypal card you swipe a few seconds later at the nightclub? There is absolutely no technical downside to expanding trading hours.

HFT and electronic markets overall have massively decreased the transaction costs within asset markets, we are talking multiple orders of magnitude.

Unfortunate HN is infiltrated with a large contingent of technically literate people who are completely economically illiterate, likely due to a systemic problem with western education system. For this reason they believe nonsense like markets are unfair, HFT is a zero sum arms race, highly regulated restricted auctions is a good idea, capitalism is evil, landlords are evil, governments are good and protect the people. All of which are completely idiotic beliefs that can only come from failure to have been taught economics and read history.

Obviously stock markets can go 24/7 and it a strictly good thing.
I’m not claiming quantum mechanics can be efficiently simulated on a normal computer. I’m questioning whether arbitrary quantum mechanics systems can be effectively simulated by a quantum computer.
Copper Homeostasis in the Model Organism C. elegans
While the YouTube/uBlock war of attrition was going on, I had to use the newest hotfix every couple of days.

Have had no problem with uBlock for around 2+ months now.
I think what the parent poster meant is that the most useful way to use today's LLMs is to accept their limitations and weaknesses and work around them. Better models will come, but for now this is what you have to do.

For example, use LLMs to transform text rather than generate it from scratch (where they are prone to hallucinate). General purpose chat-bot is not a great use case!

For this particular Gilligan's Island task it'd be better to first retrieve the list of episode titles (or descriptions if that was needed), then ask the LLM which of them was about "mind reading". There are various ways to do this sort of thing, depending on how specific/constrained the task is you are trying to accomplish. In the most general case you could ask a powerful model like Claude Opus to create a plan composed out of simpler steps, but in other cases your application already knows what it wants to do, and how to do it, and will call an LLM as a tool for specific steps it is capable of.
I think the Atari's were also known for their MIDI timing which I remember people talking more about in the 2000's.
Ahh, oops. I wasn't sure which anymore. Thanks for the correction.
Can't you place orders with limits and let your broker just do it?
Great initiative will be helpful for millions of chess players. I was thinking there were less useful chess learning platforms.
Thats the difference between investing and gambling. I sleep very well with my investments and ignore the daily / hourly fluctuations.
I switched from asdf to mise after a comment on lobste.rs[1] suggested I do so a few months ago, and I have been very happy with it.

It sands off some of asdf's sharp UI edges and provides a somewhat larger but still reasonable feature set; I've also replaced most of my direnv[2] usage with it.

The mise -> asdf comparison page is useful[3]

1: https://lobste.rs/s/66uxbj/how_love_homebrew#c_mvmsjp

2: https://direnv.net/

3: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
You will have to do much better than that.
How would Rust behave here? It'd be interesting to know if it's flexible enough to work as efficiently in these machines.
Statistia is more accurate in this case. You didn’t link to a public disclosure per se, you linked to an investor marketing statement formatted like a financial statement. Spotify’s 20-F at the SEC shows that any “operating income” is more than offset by share-based compensation expenses which your investor presentation doesn’t adjust for at all. When counting the liquid stock Spotify pays employees as an expense, they are unprofitable.
I think in that situation most people would just walk away from the machine. Or try and press the red "start again" button.

Ok, maybe my suggestion is the wrong wording but I still think the original is confusing. If I'm going throught a process and suddenly get a confusing popup I didn't expect, my first instinct is I can press cancel and get back to what I was doing. But in this case it takes me out of the whole process.

But I'm not saying my UI choices are representative of all - really, it's about proper UI testing. The article doesn't say what user testing they did, if any.

I guess this falls into the trap a lot of tech metrics stuff falls into: ok, we can clearly show that sales of paper tickets fell. We assume there is a corresponding rise in card sales (But crucially, the article doesn't prove that). But what none of the stats can clearly show is whether people were happy with all this or not. Maybe they would have preferred the cheaper prices AND a paper ticket.
Reflections on 98.css
It feels ... suspicious ... to me that in 2024, we're designing a new authentication scheme explicitly around resident keys, but challenge-response is optional. Credentials in any new protocol should never be sent over the wire, period.
Namecheap is garbage.

Slow and dated UI, awful support, and shady practices.

Search for domains on instantdomainsearch.com to avoid registrars jacking up the price when they notice interest in a domain.

Register with Cloudflare when they support the TLD and AWS for the rest.
The idea of low rank approximations is not new, truncated SVDs for example have been used for many decades.
> MIDI’s cousin RS-422

RS-422 is a differential electrical interface standard, while MIDI specifies both a current loop electrical interface and a high level protocol, the latter of which is probably its most defining characteristic today as MIDI can run over any serial interface. Today most commonly it runs over USB or its own current loop signaling, and has less commonly in the past been used over RS-232 or RS-422 from time to time. This is to say, it’s a stretch that MIDI and RS-422 are cousins. (Standard MIDI interfaces typically seen with the 5 pin DIN connector are not RS-422 if that is what you’re thinking)
> Pretty cool idea. It’s effectively a day-cadence stock exchange.

> This would make for a fairer market than what we have now.

It would also give people time to think, instead of pushing them to automated trading based on NLP processing of headlines.
The AI connection comes from the idea that you can use Grover's algorithm to speed up generic optimization problems.
Can you explain in detail what are the jobs that were outsourced?
> (examples: "x/wayland session management is broken", "uncached DNS takes 10 seconds to resolve", "this service is masked, and none of the force-unmask paths work", "omg lol no more logs for you", and so on).

I used to be release manager for a Linux distro. Mostly, such issues were integration problem and not a systemd problem. In some cases that I worked on, the integration wasnt well-thought, or it was done in some amateurish way which needed actually some extra hours of professional software development to make it "production ready". Unfortunately part of the process of working with open source.
Say it really was an alien spacecraft, then the color changes could be blue- and redshift as your technology lets you seemingly alter the order of events of an acceleration and a deceleration at a far away destination. Giving a solution to GR that would create this effect is much beyond me but I would love to investigate the implications of such a universe.
> [...] sharing credit card numbers like that was a classic "must not" [...]

That's indeed a complete no-go. If they did that, they'd have to keep your CVC on file too, and that would end with them losing their certificate to process credit cards entirely. So that probably didn't happen.

Another way it could've gone down is if the payment provider is unchanged. I.e. Google processed payments through global collect and handed your subscription IDs to square space. Now there is no need to pass credit card information as the collecting party hasn't changed. Only the person triggering the collection.

That's just an example however, I don't work for Google nor am i involved in this migration.
> there’s mostly no news after hours

Just about all market moving company and government economic news is announced after hours when the market is closed.
Where would you tap? I used to live near Clara train station in Offaly and there I just... walked on the train. I suppose they could add readers, of course.
Thanks for helping to clarify what we're talking about. I disagree with some of what you're saying, but I also see where you're coming from re: the convenience of passkeys in your pw manager.
It’s a great way of getting to know what the landscape of mathematics looks like.
For example, most of Mongolia is technically lactose intolerant but they drink tons of horse milk. Has to do with having good gut microbiomes that help with milk digestion. Plus cheese, especially aged cheese, have low levels of lactose.
From May 2022
It's crazy to me how this link gets upvoted in HackerNews but not David Grursch's (former NRO/NGA Intel Officer) claims don't. He testified under oath to the Intelligence Community Inspector Generals, both Senate/House Intel Committees, and a public House Oversight Committee under oath that the USG has recovered crashed/landed non-human intelligence craft. The ICIG referred Grusch's claims to the intel committees as being "credible" and "urgent".

David Grusch is not some random whistleblower we should be ignoring. He was a GS-15 intel officer read into over 2000 special access programs. He handled the presidential daily briefing, which they do not give to just anyone. Take a look at his resume to see how highly cleared he was https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO06/20230726/116282/HHRG....

And let me just clarify - this is not just one person's claims. His work in the UAP Task Force had 40 people with direct, first hand knowledge of the programs. Some of whom worked on the NHI craft. He had these people testify to the ICIG, providing documentation, imagery, and other evidence.

Listen, I know this sounds insane to most folks. The meat of his claims, beyond the craft, are that factions of the USG have *not* been properly giving congress(and even some presidents) oversight of these alleged Special Access Programs. The ICIG has most likely referred this case to the justice department, and his claims have started a congressional UAP Caucus in the house.

Take a look at this interview with Marco Rubio, the ranking member of the Senate Intel Committee, as he's talking about the 40 whistleblower's claims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4hmaflNoKU

Rep Jared Moscowitz, after a SCIF meeting with the ICIG, said "Based on what we heard many of Grusch claims have merit!" https://twitter.com/JaredEMoskowitz/status/17458524006304566...

If you haven't watched the HOC hearing, or any of his other interviews, I highly recommend you do so. Or at the very least, read his opening statement he was giving to the HOC

* HOC opening statement https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dave_...

* HOC hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSCEWo2yjds

* Initial interview with Ross Coulthart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZzDhDYMcw

* Initial article https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...

* Interview on JRE
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D6otpHwnaAc86SS1M8yHm

* Interview with Tucker Carlson https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1735083523050975277...

I'm not saying the claims are true. I'm just saying, the allegations are worth investigating and should not be dismissed outright.

Edit: One final note. After Grusch's claims released, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced an amendment to the NDAA 2024 titled "UAP Disclosure Act" which would've set up a presidential panel to declassify and release information that the USG has on the subject. It references the terminology "non-human intelligence" 27 times. The amendment was gutted by certain house members and unfortunately did not make it through in its initial form, but it's worth the read. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment...
How LangChain and ChatGPT plugins are getting hacked by Insecure Output Handling
The Story of the TI99/4A, the Successful Failure
> That didn't turn out to be true

Define "true".

As someone who had the experience of 9x and NT-based MS OSes... the problem was (and still is) the wast amount of hardware variants what Windows* run on. Compared to a very small variation of the "big systems", where you can actually chase and weed out the hardware related bugs, NT-based were quite stable.

Anecdata: I run 2003 on Tualeron based system (TUSL-2C) which was or severly overclocked or underclocked but with a minimal cooling, ie not with a stable hardware down to the most important parts: CPU and RAM. I saw enough program crashes yet the system continued to run, for weeks and months. Wish I saved my best uptimes when uptime-project closed down...

No comments on XML, of course.
There was no sweetheart deal. Spotify pays Apple 0% because they offer no in-app subscriptions, and any developer with long term subscribers gets 15% pricing.
> so you waste less time testing bad samples.

How is this not “wrong answers are not calculated”? You gave a lot more detail on the mechanics of how these probability amplitudes are canceling each other out but the answer seems the same?

I don’t follow how this maps to helping simulate the quantum systems. Quantum computers are good at finding solutions to problems efficiently. But the quantum systems we are describing are not solution seeking systems. They’re going to be just interacting components with entanglement whatever’s going on. How would the avoidance of bad samples aid the simulation of a system like that?
> there’s mostly no news after hours

As I understand it, most company earnings are released after hours and many important press releases are held until the market has closed to allow the news to be “digested” offline
I’m struggling to understand from this paper whether the approach is better in the general sense (all cases, with wider models seeing greater benefits) or purely for wider models (with narrower models seeing detriment)?

If it’s the former this could effectively halve finetuning cost overnight which would go a significant way towards enabling a wider array of use cases for LoRA.
India has the most foreign founders.

Keep in mind that this is despite H1B rules disallowing most Indians from founding companies, and the 100+ year backlog for educated professional Indian immigrants gaining permanent residency meaning the U.S. system will never allow them to found a company within the country.