skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the article

The model considers vast amounts of data, including tax and property ownership records, agricultural maps, data on soil fertility, logs from the military and emergency services of where bombs and shells have landed, information gleaned from satellite images and interviews with local civilians and the military. Even climate change models and data on population density derived from mobile phone operators could be assessed. The AI then weighs factors such as civilian safety and potential economic benefits to determine the importance of a given piece of land and how urgent it is to make it safe.

But with so many factors to consider, you can prioritize any area of land simply by weighing them differently.

Also since when is weighing multiple factors Artificial Intelligence? I mean, this is moving the goalpost, but moving them closer not further...
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At least if you took his blogs at face value, he wasn't involved in the "mess", but the mess was forced on everyone by corporate interests.

And I believe this to be true. Peter was a brilliant and wonderful human being whom I shared a tremendous amount in common and largely the same viewpoint on life with. There's not a week that goes by where I don't mourn his loss and where we could be today if he were still with us.
> Knowledge of insects' intercourse can be extrapolated into human's.

That might be difficult. Insects are a wide field.

For example, female bedbugs have no genitalia. Instead, the male's penis pierces the female's exoskeleton wherever happens to be convenient, in a procedure known formally as "traumatic insemination".
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We used a small embedded db in our desktop product only for durability and SQL semantics. After we got multiple database corruptions we switched to a small file based store written in Java with simple DB semantics.

Looking carefully at what happens when data is lost we found that it's basically all recoverable.

This lead to an amazing performance, as data is flushed only when necessary. We flush only every 10 seconds now or when the write through cache is full.

My lesson learned from that is to carefully think about the actual requirements when it comes to transactions and having loose constraints may be the quickest way to speed up performance.

For many applications even a second or two of lost data may not be a big issue.
It’s pretty irresponsible of the Independent to continue pushing the conspiracy theory that John Barnett died by suicide.
Definitely feels like you're putting the cart before the horse. You've got the technology nailed down, but haven't explained why. What platforms are you even targeting?
Related: ice-suppressing proteins [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2lXiwbRhb0
> I'm unsure on the ethics of this.

I think I can make it simple. Would love to hear of any cases refuting this.

If the country is on the US State Department's 'Sponsored' program list (currently DPRK, Iran, Sudan, and Cuba) it doesn't count. Florida terrorism ok, you get a pass and called a hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles

Comparing to other more recent Florida originated attack on against a poor country, the assassination of Haiti's president. Haiti is not on that country approval list, go directly to jail: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-florida-men-arrested-plo...
Last time I bought capers, even my standard-issue Ikea teaspoons were too wide to fit in the jar.

Now, my fancy tiny espresso-stirring spoons that are small enough, but on the other hand; those are _too small_ to actually eat anything with them conveniently.
This looks neat. Surprised to find that it only got 40 upvotes on Producthunt.

Just bookmarked on Github. Any chance to launch it for iOS as well?
Shared checking account and credit cards. We automatically transfer a set amount to it montly and adhoc if it gets low. Many shared expenses draw from this account.

We also have our own accounts and credit cards. We got married late in life (close to 40) and our professional priorities differed greatly. She came to the marriage with 6 figures of school debt and not many assets, where I had 500k in assets already and just 50k in mortgage debt (no other debts).

Our agreement was: I handle paying for our housing while she pays down her debt. After that, we will revisit our financial setup.

Works great for us!
no, it's largely because thermal power plants are expensive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724305
How much exposure of the regular internet do North Korean hackers have? What are the odds of turning them?
Yeah. So I forget the original tuning I did for that project. But, I fill up a buffer which is on its own cache line (Chunk) and then signal that the chunk is ready for ownership on the other side, thus sending it. I’m not sure why the signaling atomics aren’t on their own cache lines, I imagine I tried both and this was faster? There’s also a chance I never tried it because I felt I didn’t need it? I’m not sure!

Edit: Yep, looking at this I think I see some room for improvement in design. I'm getting about 60-70 ns/iter right now on my Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900KS CPU @ 4.00GHz with turbo on, and a loaded up system. This code is 2 years old and I've gotten a lot better at designing stuff like this. But, it's still really good. It's something I'd like to revisit at some point. The main bottleneck I think I see is `cur_seq` should be on its own cache line, as that's the only heavily thrashed value between cores. Most of the others are primarily in the shared cache line state, until a writer hits a mailbox. This design searches linearly through mailboxes for work to do, perhaps it would be faster to save the previous index? I'm also not sure I always need to have readers strongly sequenced, such that they can process more than one message a time, but this could have been a requirement of the way I was using it? While in theory storing/caching some information is great, in practice it often means unpredictable and dependent loads to use them. Eg, storing the previous index now means the CPU has to fetch the previous index from memory, and then loop on it. The compiler also has to treat this as a "volatile" value, and thus will struggle to do things like loop unrolling and bounds checking removal. With a low N (~4-16, number of mailboxes), it's probably always faster to just `for _ in 0..16` instead of doing smarts here, as the processor can do all 16 of those effectively in parallel by the time the CPU has even loaded the "cached index". Once again, tuning is extremely specific to a workload and parameters.

For maximum performance, it's pretty much always required to try out some un-ergonomic API. In this case the sequencing is nice, but perhaps I could rewrite the code that uses mempipe to not care and handle sequencing someplace else? I forget. In theory I could have multiple banks of tickets, and switch between them on some level of pressure or timeout. Using the same signal line between the writer and the reader (eg, they both must write to client_owned) is probably a mistake. I think it'd be better to use two indexes, bumped on one side when a writer writes, and bumped on the other side when a reader is done. This would allow better "bursting" of data in my opinion? Who knows, even a data structure as simple as this effectively requires building it and trying to really determine how it performs. So many resources in use in the CPU and it's a tough balance in your head.
I have made 2 PWAs that I use daily myself, so I consider them a success! Also one Electron (which I later migrated to Tauri) desktop app and I'm wrapping up another (which took ~2 days).

Nothing big/fancy as you probably want, but for me they are definitely successes for me!
I believe it's a bubble like crypto and we'll find the new hotness to hype the shit out of whilst some grifters and diehards remain enamoured with the promise of improvements that never materialize.
I always found it astonishing that security and integrity of the internet often rests upon “but TCP sequence numbers are unguessable”
You're not good if they are very close to the bottom of your range.

Unless you live in a hut in Thailand or something.
What's wrong with having your infrastructure as code and storing it in Git?
Oh sliding in here late, but it’s also extremely important to pin your threads to specific cores. I kinda only think about computers in this mode so I didn’t bring it up, but the kernel will effectively randomly schedule your process to different physical cores. If you are doing intense IPC or otherwise relying on specific cache usage, getting assigned to a different core is a massive loss of existing state which takes time to recover from!
Are you paying to use LLAMA3 in Groq or is it currently free for all, including Devs?
> I think we’re actually heading for a reality akin to Peter Watts “Rifters” books at this speed.

I don't know I'm ready to hand over control to a head cheese.

A more apt comparison, though, might be to Neal Stephenson's Anathem:

> “Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

> “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

> “Yes—a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum."

[...]

> “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid–First Millennium A.R.”
The caper jars in question are too small for a normal teaspoon to fit into.

Me, I use a tiny little dessert fork. Also means you get only the capers and not the juice, which you don't want anyway.
>Like many other US hackers and security researchers, Caceres had been personally targeted by North Korean spies who aimed to steal his intrusion tools. He had detailed that targeting to the FBI but received no real government support. So he decided to take matters into his own hands and to send a message to the regime of Kim Jong Un: Messing with American hackers would have consequences. “It felt like the right thing to do here,” Caceres told WIRED at the time. “If they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep coming.”

Indescribably based.
I’ve always wanted to pick one up. Does it have that Moog girth? Also wanting a DB-01… that thing is filthy!!
That's interesting. What's the rationale behind that?
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Does their work extend to snow and skiing?
You would think a contract with the state was enforced, and was enforceable.

The risk is, both Microsoft and the state want the least disruption so I'm betting on "Oh, well, as long as it's nearly free who cares" outcome.
"Most people would accept that level of risk"

I wouldn't and I definitely wouldn't if I had other people in the car.
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“But the company's performance in recent years has deteriorated, leading to heavy financial losses, with customers regularly not receiving letters, including important medical appointments and legal documents, on time.”

When does privatization not lead to this?
So outer space is max frozen water?
No, but it looks interesting, thanks! Kind of like OpenSCAD with Copilot.
I suspect that's for regular olive-sized capers with the stem attached? The article is about peppercorn-sized baby capers, where you could fit thousands into a jar that big.
Long before social media people looking for outrage in simple things.
The legit use case is to pick up connections that were established before the router reboot.
Do not take me wrong, I appreciate and thanks anyone who contribute to FLOSS, but all low/no code approaches I see turn out to be garbage. IMVHO the reality is that people need to be trained and became capable of fishing alone instead of giving them fishes all days.

ML in ETL is needed for raw initial classification of documents received in various formats from various sources, to clean-up scanned crap, no more than that, all the effort to plug LLMs was so far and i bet will be for the next 10 years a disaster.

ETL is something that should not exists in a modern world because we should exchange data in usable formats instead of having to import the with all sort of gimmick, we do not have such acculturated world but at least we can try to simplify and teaching instead of adding entropy.
None. This was a middle finger to the NK State apparatus and that's about all.
Huh, very nice! I'll see if the price of gas changed, thanks!
To quote the movie "Margin Call" (highly recommended!):

> "There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat."

Not sure if this takes you to a whole billion, though
Related:

North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180566 - Feb 2022 (238 comments)
I have a different take. As a person reliant on accessibility, PWAs almost always deliver a worse experience for me. So after a while, I learnt to prefer native apps, simply because PWAs typically deliver a worse UX for me.
What ad network are you using?
Yet Italy spent years trying to put Adrian Newey in jail for building an f1 car involved in a fatal crash.
Here is another example

https://www.sarakulturhus.se/en/303172/The-Wood-Hotel-by-Eli...

"In the 20-story wooden house, there are 205 modern hotel....."
life hack : use the other end of the spoon (or any other utensil, ideally one that has a slightly concave handle).
Food aid rarely reaches the people who need it. The North Korean regime is notorious for diverting aid, or selling to finance its nuclear program. Responsible food distribution requires careful monitoring, which the regime rejects. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSEO369467/
Talk about delusions of grandeur. He knocked a few public facing HTTP hosts offline, amazing! I can “a bring down North Korea’s internet” aka a few public hosts for a week too if I rent Lizard Squads stresser for $400 a week. What’s supposed to be impressive about that?
Ah. So essentially, malicious compliance with the open source requirement, using DRM/tpm. Probably under the gise of SECURITAHH...

Yeah, I can see that. Might be remediated using legislation as well - mandate free access to third parties. The point being that (open) software development can continue maintenance beyond vendor support for the hardware.

But yeah, that would still need some story - and clever thoughts - about authenticity and trustworthiness of the firmware and how to technically enforce them.
Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?
Hi everyone,

I used to think that alot of physics was bs until I found a tutorial on Box 2D physics.

The tutorials used real physics concepts, like momentum, coefficient of friction and others to simultate physical (mechanical properties of items on a computer).

I found the same in physically based rendering/ray tracing where real Physics concepts from how light behaves were used to create virtual simulations that resembled those in reality.

Here is my question, are there any resources on how someone can simulate
sound using software. Like howling of wind, the sound from musical instruments.

Are there any good study resources, sample tools or theories (what is the "PBR or ray tracing of audio" ?)

What is this field called? I am assuming it has something to do with the physics field of acoustics?

The I would like to build a software tool for creating such audio simulation i.e a "box2d physics" library but for audio is the elevator pitch.

Thanks
Holy cow this thing is magical! Here is it emulating a TR-909 snare!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hULEn2_4Unw
It's already back, Russian, Chinese and North Korean hacking groups receive state funding and cover.
Absolutely. This can be applied to anything and everything in its output, and this is why I take a very dim view of how quickly this has been trotted out, yet how little understanding the average person has of the maths behind it.

You should try asking LLMs about politics, specifically policies of each party, ask it to help you decide who to vote for et cetera. You'll very quickly see it spout absolute bollocks, especially if you're talking politics beyond the USA or Canada. Extra nonsensical if you start using languages other than English.

Even asking it questions about COVID can yield some nonsensical responses in regards to politics.

Having it gaslight you about the NHS and policies of each party is also amazing, especially when you tell it that it's wrong and it tells you that it isn't. With elections looming, these things are the next Brexit bus or Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen.
Odd number. A box of 512 plus 84, or did the CPUs come in badly selected box dimensions? 149, 298. .. weird box shape.
It's possible to avoid this issue. I implemented a Canvas based clone of the classic MS Paint back in the days. One of the tricks to avoid this, was to use decimal pixel coordinates, so instead of drawing a pixel at (100, 200), you would draw at (100.5, 200.5).
I have just one recipe in my rotation that uses capers, and it requires exactly one such jar.

So I just drain the brine and dump the whole jar into the pot. Crises averted!
That's interesting. In what way is a PWA worse than a website wrt accessibility? I understand that you are comparing PWAs to native apps, but presumably you have a fine time with normal websites? PWAs shouldn't be any different.
While zoning in Germany almost universally sets the limit at the height of the local church (yes, really...), the actual reasons are building codes. Even cities that permit arbitrary height (famously Frankfurt am Main) still don't have that many high buildings: Because somewhere around the 5 to 7 story line, you run into really expensive requirements around additional rescue staircases with overpressure ventilation, roof access, rescue balconies and stuff like that.
We’ve found him, we’ve found the one guy that likes debugging.
Honestly though, good for you. There need to be more people like this in the world.
After that it removes (or replaces) Unicode punctuation, performs a SHA1 hashing, and uses the first 8 bytes for deduplication comparisons (paragraph level)

Is taking the first few bytes that much faster than comparing the entire hash? Or something else? That is one of those performance optimizations I would go back and forth on endlessly wondering if I lost something by trying to shave off a few cycles.
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Teaspoons are narrower than forks -- if a fork fits in, then so would a normal teaspoon.
A lot of great comments about overcomplicating architectures and using unnecessary tech but also you need to consider that almost any service you can use on aws will cost you less per month than a few hrs of development time.
Ask HN: Will you recommend Anthropic over OpenAI? Why?
Looking for if anyone has already done a deep compliance checks.
There is some overlap with the content of recent interviews, but only some. In particular, the fussing over what is or isn’t “true intelligence” comes from Watumull and isn’t consistent with Chomsky’s past comments on AI over several decades.
Sidenote: I don't think ML model weights are even copyrightable
This! You NEEDED to scale horizontally because machines were just doing too much. I remember when our Apache boxes couldn’t even cope doing SSL so we had a hardware box doing it on ingress!
if your power demand is for neural networks in data centers, you can just turn the data center off when the sun goes down and reroute users' queries to a data center on the other side of the planet. as i understand it, though, things like aluminum smelters, cement kilns, and haber-bosch ammonia plants are not quite so forgiving of power intermittency

your comments about antimatter make it clear that you have no idea what you're talking about

as for baseload, the current frontrunner for dark nights with no wind seems to be batteries
For personal stuff I simply run systemd services and that does scale quite a lot (as in, you can rely on it for more production services) I believe.
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I'm a little confused by the news stories about this. Did he take down their country-wide network, or just the few lines in and out of the country? It seems like he just hit a few NK websites and they everything stopped responding to him. Its like cutting the uk-europe power links and saying you took down all of the UK's power infrastructure
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Thank you! I've done the launch on ProductHunt years ago, when the app still used Google APIs and required the developer key, I'll make another one soon. Regarding the release of the iOS version for now it's not in my plans, but if the app is successful and I make enough money with donations in the future I might consider it (since I would have to buy a Mac and at least 2 iPhones to test the Conversation mode), and always if the App store's policies will not be too restrictive.
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Not sure how big your company is and how large your influence. But it sounds to me like your new hires would benefit from more guidance and oversight. Those mistakes shouldn’t make it production unless nobody gives a damn.
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Apple famously positively answers 80% of all government data requests. No idea why people think Apple is somehow special with your privacy, it isn't.

Ex. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1412550/apple-share-user...
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I believe regardless of the actual probability of failure, most people would have refused to drive across the bridge had they seen one of the supports had become completely detached. Another way to put it is if authorities had closed the bridge in 2019, I believe most people wouldn't complain when they were presented the photo of the detached support.

Also I don't think it's possible for your risk calculation to be done preemptively. We don't know the final breaking point of a piece of steel until we break it. All the calculations and modelling of the bridge will have been done with error margins and because of that we don't have any choice but to over-engineer things so we always stay outside of the worse-case margin for error. Given all that, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the risk of a bridge collapse to be a lot lower than the average risk we take on the road.
This is just AI generated blogspam. The real meat appears to be on [0], but it's behind a paywall which none of the archivers appear to have circumvented. Really unfortunate, because the content looked highly interesting!

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