skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Richest in the World? Only if "World" is interpreted in the reduced sense as "Europe".
If anyone is doing it from scratch, in a real programming language (which, for better or for worse, seems to currently mean C or Go or futzing with the FFI raw syscalls), one shouldn’t use chroot or the mount syscall. The new mount API is much better.

Cgroups are nice and add some fun features, but they’re just icing on the cake and are also not necessary, even for a very functional and nicely secure container, unless the stuff inside the container needs cgroup delegation.

Using iptables to make a container is IMO pathetic, and I’m hoping to find time at some point to work out something better.
or move into Europe where the weather is great and life is happier (from someone who did). It's miserable in the UK and everyone agrees, though not everyone has the situation or balls to make the leap...
I'm similarly skeptical of any prediction that ignores the fact that human intelligence and consciousness is emergent. LLMs don't seem particularly intelligent to me today, but how can I trust that their perceived limitation today won't lead to intelligence tomorrow or next year?

More generally, how do we even define or recognize general intelligence or consciousness? And if we recognize intelligence or consciousness does that come with legal rights and protections equal to what we offer people today?
All me and stevekemp are saying is you should wrap user input with DOMPurify or xss-filters if you don't want to get surprised sometime in the future.
Yes, you're right. Reading my statement in hindsight shows thats not correct. My intention was to convey that you can check for the existence of common IAM users and roles in the accounts (and even existence of company specific entities like users with first.last pattern, product names, etc)
I've slightly updated the point a bit.
But RAG without graphs just relies on similarity search, which isn't very smart.
[Troll farms, recent German scandals etc]

I'd continue further with you here, but you seem to be very, very confused about some very basic things. We were talking about (empty) claims of KGB influence back in the 1980s. Not modern troll farms or German scandals in the past decade. The latter have absolutely no bearing of any kind on the former.

But various journalist do make educated guesses on this without the "we did it" explicit proof.

At least in principle (when they are not being grossly irresponsible) they attempt to draw inferences from boring things like, you know, actual substantiated facts (from multiple sources), or at least interviews with people claiming direct knowledge of such. Not -- as we have with the assertions you are strenuously defending -- wild-hair speculation about "could have" happened, in the complete absence of any hard facts or direct evidence of any kind.
Are there any good OCR packages that are state of the art for general-purpose transcription? (i.e. give it a business card and get it to format it for you, give it a comic and have it transcribe it, give it nutritional info and have it table it)? When I looked recently I pretty much just got GPT-4o as the best API.
Well the colonial mindset is still there, to reap benefits from the north (oil) as much as possible rather than making it self sufficient and stand up to London, Oxford and Cambridge triangle.
> There's nothing wrong with walking around with a gun on your hip, whether you're a cop or not.

I happen to think that there is.

If you have a gun on your hip you probably won't shoot anyone with a gun. But the chances of shooting someone with a gun are non-zero. If you don't have a gun on your hip, the chances of shooting someone with that gun are zero. I like those chances better.

(The 2A was good for its time and make sense in the context in which it was written; it has no place in today's world.)

On-duty police fatally shoot about 1,000 people every year.[0] That's in the US. Guess how many on-duty police in the U.K. or Japan fatally shoot every year? [1][2]

[0] https://manhattan.institute/article/fatal-police-shootings-a...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_annual_...
The very long introductory page has a ton of very juicy data in it, even if you don't care about the product itself.
Simple answer: no. The economy of SE England is largely comprised of:

1. Shuffling money around
2. Socialist-level ponzi government spending
3. A combination of property flipping and high-end property overseas sales used for tax evasion

Innovation-wise, always looking for the easy wins without the hard work, unlike the US.

As a Brit and former resident, happy to have emigrated and escaped the >50% (soon to be increased) tax rates.
not true at all, you could have a efficient cheap model which is generally terrible at most things but has a savant like capacity for categorizing tasks by requirement and difficulty. Even easier when you dont need to support multiple languages and a truly staggering breadth of domains, like a conventional llm does. You could train a really small model to reject out of domain requests and partition the rest, running at a fraction of the cost of a more capable model.
> Why would going back to structure help

When your corpus is large it is useful to split it up and hierarchically combine. In their place I would do both bottom-up and top-down summarization passes, so information can percolate from a leaf to the root and from the root to a different leaf. Global context can illuminate local summaries, for example think of the twist in a novel, it sheds new light on everything.
What makes you think we are generally happier? Europe is experiencing a right wing shift due to people being unhappy. The coming years won't be good for any of us to be honest.
Dang, I've for sure been here. Burnout is real and it sucks. So sad to read your story -- sounds like you're deep in that pit right now.

I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You. It helped me climb out of burnout cycles by doing some longer-term career planning and slowing down to figure out my values.

And after I got some wind back in my sails, How to Win Friends and Influence People (great book with awful title) helped me develop the empathy necessary to solve real problems. In my case, I think I got stuck with a lot of shit jobs because I refused to listen to people, and nobody trusted me with real work because I couldn't demonstrate that I understood them (because I really didn't).

Anyway, feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you need to vent more. I can also mail you a copy of either book if you're strapped for cash

Take care
These days I think circuit switching means virtual circuits with guaranteed bandwidth at each hop. Even the phone network used FDM/TDM for circuits, not separate wires. Anyway, circuits are more expensive than just running a packet-switched network lightly loaded. See http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Networkdynamics.html and https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/network.utilizati...
> To be great means breaking the boundaries of all values,

No? A great runner doesn’t go beyond the values of running faster over longer distances.

Proving great new theorems does not require going beyond traditional notions of proof.

Not all well-defined scoring functions take the form “f(distance to some subset of the space of possible behaviors)” for some decreasing function f. You can have a well-defined function which is unbounded.

If the space of possible behaviors/results isn’t compact, then following a scoring function may lead to going further and further out,
not just getting close to one thing.
Surya https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya and Marker https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker
By law, houses must be built with fireproof (ie. Brick) walls between them, so a fire will not spread from one house to the next. This gives them a distinctive look [1].

There are no timber frame buildings, not any with flammable roofs like thatch or shingles.

They aren't going to make the mistakes of the great fire again!

It seems to work - I have never seen any fire burn more than one building.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/149wg3o/why_do_lond...
This parenthetical in the article struck me:

>Later, I’ll cover “unhobbling,” which you can think of as “paradigm-expanding/application-expanding” algorithmic progress that unlocks capabilities of base models.

I think this is probably on the mark. The LMMs are deep memory coupled to weak reasoning and without the recursive self-control and self evaluation of many threads of attention.
It's not an excuse, it's still bad. But it's better than the alternative where it's a bunch of people trying to do the wrong thing.
Agree, obscurity is mostly not good to rely on, it allows you to congratulate yourself about defense in depth and what not but it’s a bit security theatre
It's also not open source.
The coal pits of the Midlands are gone, but the descendants of the miners are still poor.
If that’s true then it’s so bizarre. Is there a reason why?
Having read (and greatly enjoyed) books by Alonzo Delano and William Lewis Manly recounting their experiences during the California gold rush, I greatly appreciate gold as being able to calculate how much a dollar was worth back then and how much they were making in a day. My calculations say it was around $130 today's dollars.

And the miner towns had ridiculous prices, like a breakfast was in the $2-$5 dollars at some point.
The owners of capital - the "Leisure class" that dont need to create yet exist in every society - have another purpose beyond creating things and that is to keep an extremely diverse set of chimps (with different needs, personalities,values,skill,knowlege etc) together. This not something the creative classes can do.

As the gaps and differences between people grow in all kinds of dimension, keeping the chimp troupe together is a non trivial issue.

Thats why over the top luxury, leisure, compensation levels etc emerge. People of all kinds lap that shit up when they get a taste. But since its a superficial quick fix solution to the root problem of social cohesion lots of new issues get created.

The creative classes are not spending enough time on root cause (especially once they get a taste of luxury and leisure).
I would have been interested in the recycling aspect of these materials. We already struggle with plastic and PFAS, should this not be discussed before there's another problem?
Do you have a link to the one that I can put 50 of them on the floor and it will send me back an excel file? I'd like to test it out compared to ChatGPT as I'm going to be implementing "AI" across the whole 700+ person business.
> K8s is the only opensource infrastructure layer there is, which has value.

Depending on your definition, I think both docker swarm and incus (nee LXD) count. Maybe even proxmox.
As a physicist (physics dropout) I didn't realize till now OOM meant out of memory to most programmers
I disagree. In advanced materials, we analyze materials categorically. In this instance, the way we would calculate the structure of wood is based on its isotropy, or more simply, its symmetry of strength and stiffness. The way wood behaves anisotropically means its structure is calculated the same way as most other composites. Composite Laminate Theory is the primary way that structure behavior is calculated for both wood laminates and carbon fiber laminates. We squarely categorize it in the same bin as carbon fiber, but that's just one perspective from one discipline, so take it as you will.
Have seen several similar situations, and regardless of the demographic, the behavior seems to stem from the instigator's perception of being superior to the person towards which the behavior is being directed.

Usually there is also a feeling from the instigator that the targeted individual doesn't deserve X or Y, and therefore deserves disdain, scorn, or whatever they consider appropriate.

The best thing you can do is demonstrate firmly that you are as good or better at whatever they are using to make you feel bad or discredit you. You also have to be firm that you don't welcome or tolerate such behavior, and so should be your coworkers, manager, or higher-ups. If they aren't being explicit about not tolerating such behavior, depending on the applicable jurisdiction, they might be putting the company in legal jeopardy.
Meetup just raised its prices over 100 percent – and their reason is appalling
I couldn't find any pushback on this outrageous price increase by Meetup.com so I made this video. The VC firm that now owns them "Bending Spoons" took the same approach when they bought Evernote - free accounts were only given a month to move their data before it was locked up and their approach does seem close to extortion to me. Meetup was already overpriced, and this did a huge amount of damage to community organizers and small event planners.
Thanks for your feedback. Agreed, data protection is a big topic for apps. Thinking this may be relevant for those who pay for health/fitness subscriptions, to get a different perspective on the outcome of their activities. Agreed though, life expectancy data is based on large studies/populations, so can't be 100% accurate at each individual's level - more just an estimate as you say.
It's hard enough to maintain one, let alone two. I'd say not only join two into one but drop one and drop half of the other! :)
The UK experienced that same right wing shift 14 years ago and is now dealing with the fallout. Europe is still in its honeymoon phase with the latest batch of right wing demagogues.
Show HN: MathForKids – Interactive App Teaching Simple Math to Kindergarten Kids
Hello HN,

I just wanted to share this simple React application I built with the help of Claude Sonnet 3.5. This application was designed to teach my nephews basic kindergarten math, specifically addition and subtraction.

I am really amazed at what Claude Sonnet 3.5 can do, especially when it comes to learning new frameworks and building side projects.

By the way I am no expert at React.
Interesting reading. Did not glean from multiple books and documentaries that they "added another layer of turtles" to the O-ring design.
>motivation doesn't get results. Discipline does.

I think it depends on the type of motivation, when I think back to my time at high school (Australia in the 90's) there was a contrast between how English was taught and how Math was taught.

In my English class the teacher would assign the class a book, or a poem etc. Take this home and read to the end of chapter X before next class. At the start of next class the teacher would pick half a dozen random students and ask them questions in front of the class about what we had been assigned to read. These weren't the kind of questions you could bluff an answer to.

Believe me you were motivated to do the readings because no one wanted to get called up to the front of the classroom and look like an idiot by not being able to answer the question. You were motivated by fear.

In Math on the other hand we were given a textbook, told to go home and do exercises from the book to practice what we'd been taught. It entirely ran on the honor system no one checked to make sure we did the exercises, as a result I know a large portion of the class didn't bother. I wonder what would have happened if the math teacher were to have called up random students to front of the classroom and made them solve a problem on blackboard at start of each lesson.
One of the comments mentions he had a heart attack a few weeks ago and was recovering at home when he passed.
Not to mention Yamanote line also shares the same route with many other train lines that serve as extra capacity and express service along segments of the route (Shonan Shinjuku Line, Saikyo Line, Keihin Tohoku Line, etc), as well as multiple other alternate lines that more or less duplicate segments of Yamanote Line (Shibuya-Ikebukuro is also served by Fukutoshin Line with local and express service on a parallel route, for instance). And yet basically all of these lines exceed max capacity daily.

So mass transit isn't exempt from induced demand, but for the width of track it produces much more capacity than equivalent roads. I wonder if Tokyo decided to build a few more lines/expand the capacity of the existing ones (e.g. by building extra tunnels or elevated lines on existing rights of way), if there is a point where the train capacity really could exceed the peak demand the city could produce; but more interestingly, I wonder how many trips don't happen in car-dependent cities (or ones with decrepit transit like NYC) because of how inefficient their infrastructure is at moving people.

A noticeable effect to me of all this transit is that the car traffic on the roads usually is pretty minimal.
That’s not really how it works. The keyword to google is “fbo”.
There are many ways to be environmentally costly... Can you be more specific?
There is a critical focus in the article on algorithmic improvements. Much harder to measure and predict, but I think there is a good case to be made that recent progress has not just been quantitative.
> and everyone agrees

I don't.
I thought WPS would have been the solution to the inconvenience of wifi passwords. If I were an ISP receiving too many support cases relating to the wifi password, perhaps WPS should be used more?
>but it would be interesting to ponder how they would have evolved on a metal planet

It overlaps a whole lot with the concept of a dyson trees, but the core problem is that it needs to be able to use the metal in the first place - earth is a metal planet, in the sense that ~10% of the planet is iron, and yet our trees are not steel.
Roads commonly carry traffic at a different speeds than listed speed based on actual conditions, perception of conditions, condition and nature of vehicles and because speeds are often set inefficienctly.

Its not uncommon to see stretches with traffic constantly packed 4+ lanes going 75+ each way.

Trying to put the same burden of vehicles through at 65 with 300 ft between would be a joke. A given lane would carry less than half actual traffic. Bad traffic would become a city wide disaster.

Then consider that you can only impose this on a portion of drivers per year and drivers have to drive with those without governors indefinitely.

You also discount issues with safety by following at an appropriate distance. Trying to fall back 300 ft can only be achieved by driving too slow leading to both passing and people taking this new huge space whist giving you the finger leaving you with even less space.
lol good luck doing that with GPT. Right now I can tell you you’ll have missing or malformed or incorrect data, and it will be faster to just pass each one individually through a rudimentary scanner than to sit and figure out which one is correct and which is wrong from the 50 card picture
This isn't really anything special. They do this for all sorts of material, elements, etc.

Here, jump on the FBI list:

https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=4330c&cclcl=e...
Relevant talk how you can discover the AWS Account ID of any S3 bucket:
https://pretalx.com/fwd-cloudsec-2024/talk/9FRYE9/
How much of London's wealth comes from infrastructure versus financial engineering leveraging The City's unique rules and sovereignty arrangements?
Sure, which is why we require evidence of wrong doing. Otherwise its just a witch hunt.

After all, you yourself probably cannot prove that you didn't commit the same offense at some point in time in the past. Like Russel's teapot, its almost always impossible to disprove something like that.
> losing their racist witch burning game

What the actual fuck?

Witch burning?

Hmm... Quite the martyr!
If it can't be practiced it doesn't matter what would theoretically be safe.
Real-world performance of Graviton4-powered R8g instances
ErythroMer: Synthetic Blood for Emergency Transfusions
First the case would be dismissed if Copilot had permission to make copies. Clearly they didn’t. Copyright cares about copies, for profit distribution just makes this worse.

> you already have license to access the code

This isn’t access, that occurs before the AI is trained. It’s access > make copy for training > AI does lossy compression > request unzips that compression making a new copy > process fuzzes the copy so it’s not so obvious > derivative work sent to users.
That is not “just” what is in this article. There is quite a bit of consideration of algorithmic progress.
> The first rule of knowing if a market exists is to define what you are making and then figure out who it's for. Then pitch to that person the benefits of your product.

I would switch that order. Figure out your customer before you define what you're making.
Cross-Language LLVM Control Flow Integrity (CFI) Support for Rust
You can always go slower and give yourself sufficient braking distance.
The $10 number is the base rent, the triple nets are the $5. As such the base rent just represents the cost of money when the structure was built, which most of the time was decades ago. It's been paid off many times over and so the "right" price is what the market will bear.

This is, for lack of a better explitive, fucking awful for the economy. If you have a restaurant district and everyone's paying "maximum sustainable rent", the customer is getting the "minimum sustainable product". If you spend $10 on a salad, more of that money that could be going to fresh local lettuce is being spent on rent so you get a worse product for that $10. The existence of the landlord isn't making the economy bigger better faster wherever, they're...literally just rent seeking.
No, afaic it does not.
Road capacity usually increases as speed goes down.
GridGain 9
Ideally, I think I'd want a singular container (of whatever sort) that has the album's audio, the music-related timing metadata (as applicable), and whatever other metadata may be appropriate (lyrics? liner note graphics? music videos? sure!).

The audio should be able to be FLAC. But it should also be able to be anything else, like Vorbis or MP3 or AAC or IDK. It needs to be able to be played continuously without aberration (which can't actually be done with a group of MP3 streams).

The audio needs to be able to be seekable, like a CD is also seekable. By track. By index. (With pregaps, where appropriate -- because CDs also have pregaps.)

Other potential metadata must be able to include whatever subcodes are involved in things like CD+G[0] and HDCD and CD Text, since all of those are supersets of the regular datastream and playback is compatible with any CD player.

And it needs to be a singular container file because...well, that's just easier to keep track of as the years go by and data migrates.

Only then, will we have the beginning of a valid archive format for audio CDs as they actually still exist on [some] store shelves today.

(Some stuff can be optional, just as lots of things are optional inside of an MKV container for a film.)

[0]: Almost nobody ever used this outside of the 1990s karaoke world, but Information Society's self-titled album includes an illustrated sequence, with lyrics, that is completely implemented in CD+G and that runs for the entire length of the album. And I should be able to render that locally here in 2024 from a container on my pocket supercomputer instead of watching a bad rip from a Sega Genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b89sSa8QlLg
“I think the UK can go back to being pretty much the richest country in the world per capita, at least as rich as the USA” said Matthew Clifford

This sounds very arrogant and wishful thinking considering the trajectory of UK in the last 20 years.

At the global stage, UK is as irrelevant as countries like Canada and Australia, but at least Canadians and Australians don’t openly claim they can be the richest country in the world.