skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a surprise seeing this article today. A little while back I was made aware of some interesting business practices from the entrepreneur Alex Hawkinson[1], probably best known for being the founder and CEO of Physical Graph; later rebranded to “SmartThings” and sold to Samsung.

Being the co-founder and CEO of SmartThings, Alex clearly has an understanding for the IoT space at large. It would make sense then that when CSC ServiceWorks wanted to “modernize” their fleet of washers and dryers that they would pull Alex in to help guide them - providing him with a seat on their board[2]. CSC ServiceWorks is a company that knows how to run laundromats - not a tech company. To avoid having to hire employees and manage the software for a fleet of IoT washers and dryers, CSC ServiceWorks instead contracts a small startup company called BrightAI to develop this IoT solution for them[3@44:30]. Interestingly, Alex is also the founder and CEO of BrightAI[4].

BrightAI CTO, Robert Parker[4], also has a history of dismissing security concerns in IoT, inferring that traditional security practices could be replaced with AI [5@34:30].

The two students here seemed to do everything “right”, from adhering to a disclosure period and even going as far as reporting the issue to the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon would not have needed to go far to report this to the appropriate parties, given that Alex holds an advisory role at the university[1].

The original reason I went down this whole rabbit hole was after someone tipped me off to how Alex structures these business relationships - I won’t go into this now as it isn’t relevant for this, but maybe someday I’ll get all the thoughts together in a consumable format.

As a little bit of an unrelated "fun fact", according to LinkedIn, a handful of the engineers from OceanGate now work for Alex at BrightAI

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alex-hawkinson

[2]: https://www.cscsw.com/press-release/iot-thought-leader-alex-...

[3]: https://staceyoniot.com/podcast-speed-queens-and-matter-drea...

[4]: https://www.bright.ai/company

[5]: https://appliedai.buzzsprout.com/1101152/10528308-building-i...
and as Terry Pratchett might have written but probably didn't, he himself is an ape convinced that the complexities of creation are necessarily more than telling a friend where the ripe fruit is, without much evidence.
Microsofts datacenters already use mostly renewable energy. Those emissions are down 6% compared to 2020 and are negligible overall.

What went up 30% is what they call Scope 3 (indirect emissions from suppliers, transport, construction and customers):

"Indirect emissions from all other activities up
and down the value chain such as upstream and
downstream transportation, materials, and end-of-
life impacts, as well as all suppliers’ direct Scope 1
and 2 emissions.

Scope 3 represents over 96% of Microsoft’s
annual emissions in FY23. Our Scope 3 emissions
result primarily from the operations of our tens
of thousands of suppliers (upstream) and the use
of our products across millions of our customers
(downstream).

Tackling Scope 3 means decarbonizing industrial
processes such as steel, concrete, and other
building material production for use in our campus
and datacenter construction, as well as jet fuel for
business travel and logistics."

Full report PDF: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW...
Correlation <> causation.

Most people tend to poop around the same each day. Largely because we tent to eat around the same time each day.

Most people tend to drink coffee at the same times each day. Naturally for a bunch of folk one will co-incide with the other, at least some days a week.

The added factor is that most people (who drink coffee) drink multiple times per day, allowing for more correlation opportunities.

But mostly what causes pooping is eating (he says, speculating, with no data to back it up.)
Hey I was there, remember playing on the capitol at night around 2005-2009.
Take out Earth, Mars, and Venus for good measure.

Whatever scattered remnants that are left of humanity hanging out in the asteroid belt are going to have a hell of a time finding food to eat or oxygen to breathe.
Have you or someone you know ever willingly made a lasting and meaningful lifestyle change? Chances are it was very difficult. Food choices and behaviors are especially hard as they are sometimes cultural and deeply rooted in people's psyche.

Intelligent people have died from diabetes and other obesity related illnesses, not because they couldn't understand calorie math or what carbohydrates are, but because they couldn't or wouldn't change their eating habits in the long term.
In other threads from 2022 and 2023 they do
It's not the data centers directly causing the emissions anyways.
Their Quincy dc has been "under fire" for years now for various issues...

2012:

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/09/25/micr...

2018:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-wants-t...

2020: I wonder if anyone will hold them to this in 2030...

https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/energy/article/11428860/m...
And of course, he fit right in around here…
Yes, Amazon had it as a stocking-filler a few Christmases ago at $4. The card version is fast and requires no board, so can be played with kids aged 8+, on a restaurant counter/ park bench/ bus/ plane/ whatever. There is a small amount of strategy and remembering what has been dealt, but BoardGameArena rates it easy (complexity 1.3/5).
Following up, the same glyph appears elsewhere on the page you mention:

> This duke before his voiage, calling at Fiscam (?) all his nobilitie unto him, caused them to sweare fealtie unto his yoong sonne William, whome he then at his journie betooke unto the governance of earle Gilbert, and the defense of the governour unto Henrie the French king.

Why do we think it's more plausible that the words are being spelled "dw", "fwrth", "ywng", and "betwke" than "doo", "foorth", "yoong", and "betooke"? "Took" is still spelled that way today, and "poor" uses the same vowel as "forth".

Whereas to the best of my knowledge, W can only appear as a vowel in Welsh.
> In the UK we have no constitution we rely on an independent judiciary.

And we see how much weaker that system is. The country and similar countries like Australia are significantly less free as a result.
Linked article describes manual approaches that create less reusable code.

Luckily there are unity build tools that do not require manual changes to code and work with normal .h/.cpp files automatically.
A fitting name.
This makes sense for nation states playing war games but what about smaller actors? Terror groups seem content blowing up shopping malls and driving cars into parades (which are all things which I imagine are planned on a much shorter scale than your proposed "long game"). Why don't they go after infrastructure and businesses? Surely critical infrastructure is an interesting and attractive target for them?
Agreed. If I paid you to pull a ton of carbon out if the atmosphere, I want the option to show up an weigh it.
> For a nation state the most useful thing would be a "kill bit" where you can broadcast some signal or key and disable all your enemy's computers.

CNE is generally considered to be far more valuable than CNA. First of all keep in mind that all genuinely sensitive systems are air gapped, so you can't effectively broadcast a signal to them.

Second, CNA is a one-off; after the attack you will typically lose access. CNE access on the other hand can persist for years or even decades, and will be beneficial in both "cold" scenarios for political and economic maneuvers, and closer to a flashpoint. CNA, on the other hand, is usually only relevant when a conflict is turning hot.
I've always wondered if Hugging Face is meant to evoke the feeling of being attacked by a Facehugger.
I don't know where you are getting that, but if you give it a simple problem which hasn't been written about on the internet, it gets it wrong. It is cool tech, don't get me wrong, but it is also dumb tech. I do not think we will ever get AGI without understanding consciousness first.
I think a lot of people drastically underestimate how much the LLMs mislead the user with plausible-sounding answers. I would say that whatever % of queries you found them not to give you correct answers, the actual percentage is materially higher.

In my work niche, which at least 10,000 other software engineers do each day, ChatGPT 4 and 4o almost never give correct answers. Usually, they are misleading. I do find myself trying the LLMs when I'm faced with a challenging problem, but in that scenario they have not been helpful once.

Granted, there are areas of work that are much more popular and LLMs will be more helpful there. But these are individual scenarios, and we can find many where LLMs are fantastic and many where LLMs are awful if we wanted to cherry-pick.

Overall, the quality of the content is lower than what a human professional would do in their area of work, including flexibility, interactivity, and accessibility. This extends to books written by professionals and lectures given by them, as well as work carried out by them. It applies to home carpentry as much as it does to neurosurgery.

The more specific the knowledge has to be, the more this is true. The more generic, the less. But all-in-all, I think it's still very evident humans produce higher quality knowledge and content. And any quantized model of that content and knowledge will be unable to reproduce it at the same fidelity or quality.

With that said, I hope I expressed this enough — I do see your point in some circumstances. Just not overall.
I don’t know about where you live or what it’s like in the states where this site is presumably targeted but in Australia people would have ample opportunity to be serial reviewers.
This is why a decentralized internet is so important.

Ultimately, governments should not be able to decide which sites or content are OK for citizens to visit.
if the author is here: your site breaks pinch zoom in/zoom out and the smooth scrolling behavior feels bad
I love to see more websites where people can share successful relatively complex coding prompts.
Thanks for the update -

IMO the debacle ranges over the last 4 years or so, where GCC refused to upstream support for RVV 0.7 until now (14.1) and that only living in out-of-tree vendor toolchains, and so all the most popular boards (all with C906/C910) were unable to run RVV binaries compiled with standard distro-packaged GCC. Thus making the vector unit largely useless without a custom toolchain or (more likely) whole BSP/rootfs.

My ideal would be if the ordinary Debian binary port could make something useful out of either RVV version if present, without needing a special board rootfs or custom glibc build.

> much useful code is binary compatible between them (e.g. all the C library string functions, memcpy etc)

I didn't realize common libc functions could be made binary compatible between RVV 0.7 and 1.0, that sounds extremely promising for glibc.

I had a quick glance at the glibc source code and didn't find anything other than a C implementation - do you know if that's a recent innovation or what version of glibc supports that? Or is any V implementation in glibc's string functions just relying on the compiler autovectorization (does that exist for RVV)? Or is this not upstream yet?

The x86_64 version of this logic is in sysdeps/x86_64/stpcpy.S , it automatically switches to a sse2/avx2/evex implementation if those ISA extensions are present.

It looks like the Linux kernel's memcpy does not attempt to use V at all neither (as of 6.9 arch/riscv/lib/memcpy.S),
Still had to atom bomb the Japanese for them to capitulate. Sometimes defenders ready to fight with stick and stones. At the end of the day, still need to slaughter a bunch of combatants and civilians to extract human cost to prime surrender. Drones may make that more expedient by making the slaughter competely lopsided. But peoples tend not to capitulate until they've suffered severe loss in material and lives. IMO what's more likely are fully automate drones that guns down wedding parties without human operators on winning side developing PTSD.
Anyone have a non paywalled link?
Previous HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210229

"Court hands Kivimäki 6-year prison sentence in historic hacking case"
Not even nerds can escape from the curse of celebretyism.
What kind of programs would you write in bend? Would you use it instead of CUDA kernels or openmp pragmas?

What about weird stuff in python like objects, duck typing, side effects, io/print statements, etc
What has John Carmack produced after reading these?
With how poorly this site is designed, you'd think REAs intentionally made it to poison the well and preempt the people who'd fill the market gap by setting up a competent agency review website.
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287 - May 2024 (184 comments)
Does anyone have any insights into the proprietary graphics buses that were being created leading up to the VESA Local Bus (as referred to in the article)? I was not aware of anything between 16-bit ISA and the addition of VLB.

Did any of these make it onto the market?
>* If "AI" is actually intelligent, then it's no worse a threat than any living being known to man.

Humans are quite a threat to other species, e.g. gorillas, largely due to our intelligence advantage. If a new species arrives on Earth that's smarter than we are, there's a good chance we'll be displaced.
OP is a based madlad for writing a text adventure game -- for ancient retro hardware -- to amuse their kid. If kids are going to be exposed to technology at all, the old 8-bitters are much more effective at stimulating curiosity, imagination, and learning than an iPad with Cocomelon or Skibidi Toilet queued up -- even in emulated form.
> we had a space shuttle

It's good we lost the shuttle. It was hot garbage.

> now struggling just to get a small copy reaching the ISS.

I think you need to take funding levels into account.

The Shuttle cost $1.5B per launch (fully amortized). None of the commercial crew/cargo vehicles are anywhere close to that price. And the commercial crew vehicles are more capable of doing their job.

That's on top of having almost no endurance, having a pathetic payload mass fraction, needing humans to pilot it (meaning that it's much more difficult to improve the vehicle), and being an inherently unsafe design.
No one is mentioning the liability costs (and liability insurance costs) here in the US vs other western countries, which is playing into the costs of these new-to-market drugs. In 10 years or so, when there's an established history of non-issues with the drugs, premiums will be lower for the companies. Plus these initial versions will begin to lose patent protection and generics will flood the market.

Personally I'd rather have a system where these kinds of innovations are made and where they eventually become widely available than a system where govt or others forcefully take or force-price an innovation, thus harming future innovations.
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Send an agent to an uninhabited star system and launch the rocks from there. Everyone that can see would see the energy expenditures, but they would get very little information other than the knowledge that a stealth based hostile civilization exists. This information would encourage everyone else to be less noisy.
They could sequester juries if that were a concern for them.
You are misunderstanding the nature of war. Drones, much like aircraft can't take ground. Infantry can, other ground units such as tanks and AFV helps assists in that.

For sure, drones will be a new element in warfare, but as like units in strategy video games, they have weakness and strength. Although unlike strategy games, reality doesn't care about balance.
What "AI" means has always been shifting; right now when most people hear it they assume it means generative AI and deep learning, but it's really a very broad category.

Early incarnations/uses of the term include what is now sometimes referred to as Good Old Fashioned AI (GOFAI), with such things as expert systems and ontological classification systems; these still technically fall under the umbrella of "AI". After GOFAI came other forms of technology, including the precursors to our current deep learning models, including much simpler and smaller neural networks. Again, these are still "AI", even if that's not what the public thinks when they hear the term.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...
When I was a teenager, some of my friends and cousins and I used to play capture the flag out in the field on horses. It was a whole lot of fun until a serious accident put a girl in the hospital for reconstructive facial surgery. Needless to say we didn't do that anymore after that.

On the bright side though, she recovered fully and ended up marrying my cousin who was there that day and happened to be a first responder.
It's lacking in a lot of freedoms though. It might not be at China or Russia levels but it's getting further from other first world countries also.
Not necessarily more troubling than being tricked by an optical illusion. Perhaps this problem is
more like a logical illusion because of the presentation/wording.
Can you explain, with your worldview, why the nature of geopolitics turned abruptly and completely upon the invention and proliferation of nuclear bombs? What was it about the nuclear bomb that caused it to be the defining structure of the cold war?

Do you believe MAD can exist without nuclear bombs?
Related:

Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210873 - April 2024 (100 comments)
Yes but the thing about keeping the little people in their place is that there's always plenty of money to spend on it.
Can you draw a basically perfect circle? I sure can't, but I can set shapes to autocorrect into perfect shapes instead of my janky drawn ones.

Can you quickly change the color of your notes to whatever you want? Nope, you'd have to carry each color pen separately.

Can you carry all the notes for each of your 5 classes in something that easily fits in the hand?

There are a billion reasons. Honestly, it boggles my mind why anyone would prefer to take notes on paper.
You are equivocating when you said “A human brain also trains on copyrighted work.” You’re stating foolishly, not plainly. Only an author, owner, or agent copyright something. LLMs are none of those. A person who uses an LLM to scrape art isn’t making art so they’re neither of the three either.
this is cool. which tech stacks do you use.Is it open source?
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Carpet shelling or carpet bombing with kilotons of TNT beg to differ.
No, false.

More or less today’s technology could not accelerate tungsten to speeds that would obliterate a planet.

And you say it’s trivial? Who told you this?

Just run some calculations it doesn’t make sense.

(just one example, 10,000lbs of tungsten hitting the earth at 99% of light speed would not destroy it)

——

it is trivial for us to end their civilization. If we decided to, with more or less today’s technology, we could accelerate a chunk of tungsten to comical speeds and obliterate their homeworld. It would cost a fortune and it would take awhile, but we could do it.
You submitted this 42 minutes ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404060
AI for workgroups 3.11
This comment seems unnecessarily personal. The difference between the reading list and Grokking Machine Learning appears to be the layer of application.

‘Grokking’s description indicates it is for a very applied role: “teaches you how to apply ML to your projects using only standard Python code and high school-level math”.

The linked reading list appears to be targeted at one level up the stack so to speak. Instead of learning how to string a few Python libraries together (which is useful, not knocking it), the goal would possibly be writing the Python library itself for a ML architecture.

Given the author’s position, it makes sense why they found the content of the latter useful in getting to that position.
May be worth rethinking your module arrangements - unity builds have been stable for a while.
Depends what you mean: wrt. Vastaamo, if he had simply contacted the company and not crossed over into extortion, he was doing something potentially white/grey-hat hacker by exposing they had almost zero data security and were violating GDPR, SarbOx and presumably a truckload of related Finnish and EU laws.
Interesting related reading:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/14dtio/contactl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/18i71...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun

It would seem that even without contact there's wear issues with both force exerted on the rails or coils from the magnetic forces and also with creating plasma as the projectile exits?
Non-functioning doors?
Last I heard it varies by jurisdiction. Some only prohibit things that actually involve actual children, some ban based on subject matter even if it's say a cartoon drawing.

I assume that training separate models for separate jurisdictions would be rather expensive, so probably unlikely.
I've had a couple of spectacularly underwhelming (well, flat out hostile) apartment complexes throughout my career as a renter, but I've always hesitated to leave negative Yelp reviews about the building fearing either retribution or not being able to get referrals in the future in case I need it for my next landlord.

Wish I could somehow hold these companies accountable though, other renters would probably benefit from it.

Sure, I could move, but the process of finding a new place and moving all of your belongings and address (at least in a desirable US city) is such a hassle that often as renters we'll just stay put and suck it up.
Bend isn't about practical utility right now, just a proof of concept implementation of a high level language that compiles to interaction nets. The ultimate goal is to be able to easily write massively parallel code without having to do any of the work to get parallelism, it just happens by itself. Already that is proven, now the work begins to optimize and add useful features.
IMO op is really talking about wider performance envelop, i.e. unmanned platforms that can do sustained high G maneuvers at speed to better win energetics game against missiles that assume manned fighter can't sustain more than a few high G maneuvers with upperbound that would kill pilots.