skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Yes I think a caching solution like this is great for notebooks, because it makes it very cheap to re-run the whole thing (as long as you reasonably organized long-running computations into `@op`s), overcoming the notorious state problem.

Graphviz is indeed a lifesaver; and you can similarly think of `mandala` as a "build system for Python objects" (with all the cool and uncool things that come with that; serializing arbitrary Python objects with strong guarantees is hard https://amakelov.github.io/mandala/tutorials/gotchas/).

I've no experience with rust, but I'd be curious to hear about the difficulties that came up. I'd expect to see some overlap with Python!
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Oh you’re right. I updated my comment to reflect that so as to not spread misinformation. That said the point stands. ISS junk hitting you will cause just as much damage as SpaceX junk.
> How many individual engineers do you suppose get prosecuted for making errors--even careless ones?

Not many but is that because they don't get sued or because professionals who face consequences for negligence make fewer stupid decisions?
The problem is then you have even fewer technically-competent people internally to actually manage the cloud, and combined with AWS's many documented footguns it's not clear to me the "new normal" is actually any better for security.

You go from being a potentially-small-fry target to getting your data collated in massive breaches. There's risks to both.
aside: WALL-E's story is strangely analogous to the mystic journey of a seer. This includes the precise steps of (a) isolation (b) love (c) rejection (d) hero's voyage (e) androgyny (c.f. WALL-E in the space ship), (f) spiritual fight, (g) the 'kiss' (h) the 'return' (j) union and establishment of a new earthly life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
You can have a financial manager control your accounts for you and just keep a small checking account, (plus they'll help you grow your balances) but they're not free. Well, they're not free if you want them to be unbiased. Given, what's going to keep them from getting scammed? Maybe what you're looking for is several safe deposit boxes.
Same here. I have the same issue with realtime services. They are either free (and, hence very limited), or over $50 per month. I wish the usage-pricing step function had smaller jumps.
Amazon expands ad offerings for non-Amazon sellers
Robotic process automation is when you automate a process a business is already doing.

Models like this will be useful for RPA.
Is there a way to use this to capture just hashes of the code (transitive) that implements a particular function?

I can't buy into a whole framework in my current context -- but I would really like a way to roll my own content hashing for adhoc caching within an existing system -- where the hash will automatically incorporate the specific implementation logic involved in producing the data i want to cache (so that the hash automatically changes when the implementation does).

eg -- given python function foo -- i want a hash of the code that implements foo (transitive within my project is fine)
I typically don’t “freeze” my credit but do have a handful of services actively monitoring my credit for free (have been involved with many data breaches) and it’s included with my credit cards.

> A credit freeze restricts access to your credit report

So if I freeze my credit, this will also deny access to the monitoring services AND financial institutions, right?

Side note: financial institutions often do “soft” credit pulls on active account holders to determine if they are eligible for credit limit increases. Have been growing my existing credit line for some time now without having to obtain additional credit cards. So far, close to $500K in unsecured credit.

Seems more like a nuclear option.
NT4 was more stable, to a point. But it had it's serious annoyances.

IP address change? Reboot. I can't remember other scenarios, but there was a lot of <settings change, reboot> in NT4.

Graphics and print drivers? Moved from user space (NT 3.5, 3.51) to kernel space -- and oh boy, graphics card vendors SUCKED at writing drivers (printer manufactures never improved to this day, hence the elimination of vendor print drivers). BSOD city.

NT4 was also hobbled as a desktop OS for consumers due to only supporting up to DirectX 3.

But! It was super popular for CAD/CAM/3D modeling. FireGL cards. 3DLabs cards. Yissss those were awesome monsters.

It also required a hefty 16MB RAM but as with all minimum system requirements from Microsoft, it really shined on 32MB+.

This is one of the reasons we had Windows 9x -- memory was too expensive to run NT4.

One of my favorite Microsoft-led NT4 (and SQL Server) proving grounds was TerraServer [0][1].

I miss the days of NT4. Computing was much more interesting and varied.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mic...
Crowd "Engineering"
Fuck that. I'm gonna open a bunch of credit cards, buy a bunch of cool shit, and when they ask me to pay my bill, just say my identity was stolen.

If I have to fight the credit bureaus anyway, I might as well get something out of it. Stealing my own identity seems pretty straightforward.
Well in the articles case, it's the linked list `next` pointers:

https://mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html#value-speculat...

In a happy case, those will be laid out sequentially in memory so you can guess the value of the pointer easily.

(That said your comment still stands, since using linked lists in the first place is much more rare). But I suppose there's probably a lot of other domains where you might have a performance critical loop where some hacky guessing might work.
> It cost money to implement security.

Yes, but no amount of money will stop the data in a big database being stolen by someone sufficiently motivated to steal it. It's just bits on someone's disk.

The only true solution is to not create the database. But then what would all the data scientists and their MBA masters so with their time?
A few more points:

For Starlink and Starshield flights, upper stages are generally configured slightly differently than flights for external customers. These flights are used as an opportunity to explore "optimizations" that, if successful, could be used to lower costs and increase performance for future customer flights. If something doesn't work out, the impact to the Starlink and Starshield constellations is relatively modest and a lesson is learned.

Unfortunately second stage has been a business area where there has been considerable employee turnover and a cluster of mental health episodes and harassment and assault allegations. I hope the people there are and remain safe.
Qwen (Alibaba Cloud) Tutorial: Introduction and Fine-Tuning
> there is a bit of power asymmetry going on.

Which only unions have the power to equalize.
Seems like there’s some confusion about what this is. I read it as an open source alternative to something like https://www.imgix.com (a product we used at my last company). Granted there are a lot of those (e.g. imageproxy) but this one seems to have a GUI on top.

Always kind of lame but “open source version is X” does communicate pretty clearly what it’s for. Is there an X?
And you affirm my point, that its incredibly easy for anyone to take 15 seconds to install a file browser but most won't because they are too daft. A good file explorer does does have all the bells and whistles on any OS (except iOS) not sure what straw man you are attacking there).

The people who don't bother to do so probably are better off without it anyway, so no harm no foul and everyone is better off.
They don't. They have some rights, not all.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/free-speech-righ...

"A prison inmate retains only those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system."

i.e. if restricting freedom of speech is consistent with that, they would be restricted. Not all forms of speech restriction are consistent with that (and if the state tried to restrict those, the courts would probably overturn it), but to say they have the same free-speech rights is objectively false.

In this case, it would seem that the legitimate objectives of the correction system would fit with restricting his speech (as the OP states, it probably be better if he didn't do that).
I have no idea how they are powering it, but with the speed with which solar and battery prices are falling, and the slowness of getting a new big grid interconnection, I would not be surprised to see new data centers that are primarily powered by their own solar+batteries. Perhaps with a small, fast and cheap grid connection for small bits of backup.

If not this year, definitely in the 2030s.

Edit: for a much smaller scale version of this, here's a titanium plant doing this, instead of a data center. The nice thing about renewables is that they easily scale; if you can do it for 50MW you can do it for 500MW or 5GW with a linear increase in the resources. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-industry/in-a-fir...
My first big employer in the aughts had my SSN encoded in a bar code on the back of my company ID, which they expected us to display at the office.
They did end up releasing salvageable bits and pieces of Copland as Mac OS 8.
Video recognition may be tough. My dog has epilepsy and some of his seizures are basically him laying very stiffly on the ground for 3 to 6 minutes with relatively minimal shaking. Yuri's seizures may be much more pronounced (I didn't watch the video...), but I'd wager physical measures will be less failure prone. Though both together may provide the best coverage.
Back about 20 years ago, I actually did see some SFF PCs listing their (chipset-fixed) RAM in terms of powers of 10, it was strange and disconcerting to see numbers like '1.04 GB' (1GiB - 32MB of video ram)
Does GPT-4o use OCR for vision?
Using the latest Delphi (Object Pascal), I can build a 1,698,310 line project in 35.5 seconds. I've never worked with other languages, career wise, so I have no idea how it compares. I just know what I've read, and it's that Pascal compiles pretty fast.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02678

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899309
What I'd give for a glimpse of the timeline where Apple bought Be instead of NeXT.
This is a diversion. Why did they build a system that permitted a bulk database dump of hundreds of millions of rows even with 2FA?
When the incandescent ban went into effect last summer I bought a Phillips Hue system, since it was going to be harder to get regular bulbs. I could tell the difference, but was willing to just deal with it. Then I got 4 ocular migraines in 2, maybe 3 days. I shipped them back, bought a bunch of regular bulbs from a local hardware store with stock, and really don't know what I'm going to do when my stash of incandescents is done. It seems like Waveform Lighting is recommended for high R9 values and flicker free, but they're certainly not cheap.

Don't get me started on blinding LED headlights. It's so hard to see on the road at night these days.
The BSF/BSR quirk is annoying, but I think there is a reason for it is that they were only thinking about it being used in a loop (or maybe an if) with something like:

int mask = something;
...
for (int index; _bit_scan_forward(&index, mask); mask ^= 1<<index) {
...
}

Since it sets the ZF on a zero input, they thought that must be all you need. But there are many other uses for (trailing|leading) zero count operations, and it would have been much better for them to just write the register anyway.
All you naughty people driving too fast and running those poor pedestrians over.

This is not about road safety or the protection of pedestrians it is about what comes afterwards once the entire planet has the infrastructure to monitor every car and every person in that car.

Pay per mile will be next on the agenda. Automatic fines for going one mile over the speed limit. Another tax.

Here on Airstrip One we already have "Automatic Number Plate Recognition" (ANPR) so the old fuzz can track you across the country if they think you have committed a crime.

Thing is; that technology is online 24/7 tracking every car that is travelling on the road.

The Fascist state is not far away in my lifetime.
Oh wow I got similar results with GPT4o. I’m surprised! It even messed up the second round in a similar way.
Honestly I think it's a good system at it's core, it just needs some adjustment on incentives (mainly that reviewers need to actually be fairly compensated for their time).

The way I see it, journals are more or less independent reviewing orgs. That a paper has been peer-reviewed means nothing. It's all in the reputation of the reviewer and what they said.

Personally I'd actually like to see journals publish their reviews including rejections because I think it's way more important to know why something was or wasn't accepted than that it was.
Cellular Starlink Satellites Are Much Brighter Than Expected
> I can really only talk about the UK but I'd agree there has been a move away from better paid technical contract positions. Mostly this has been due to policy change to remove tax advantages that can come with contracting.

To be fair, the pre IR35 situation was super dodgy.

To counterpoint that, I live in Ireland where there's absolutely no tax advantage to being a contractor (slightly less NI equivalent, way less benefits and a special dividend tax to prevent those kinds of shenanigans) and yet there appears to be a thriving contractor market, so it feels like there's more going on here.

Now a bunch of those contract positions are far too low in terms of day rate, so maybe it's just an attempt to cut costs while giving naive people what looks like a good deal, because they don't account for all the costs.
There are standard solutions for BLE advertisement to web (HTTP/MQTT). The best is when they just forward the raw BLE bytes, then you can decode and handle on the server. ble2mqtt on GitHub, for example. Or finished router-type units like Ruuvi Gateway or GL.inet GLS10. I have both of these lying around as backups, though not tested them yet. There are also Android apps. Not sure about iOS anymore, since restrictions were added around low level BLE a while back.
They're not really private+, and nobody should design a system with the assumption that they are. afaik nobody does these days. There are extra authentication checks done in addition to simply "I have the SSN".

+ e.g. until very recently there were US states that used your SSN as your driver license number.
Google continues the war against its own users
> It's a hypersonic thruster, i.e. 5 or more times the speed of sound. Far too fast for civil aviation. It's probably even too fast for "safe" manned flight. This is the speed at which the air ionizes around the vehicle. It's like flying inside a fireball.

Ionization occurs at considerably higher temperature.

The hypersonic regime is described as when vibrational excitations of air molecules begin to significantly affect the specific heat. After that, dissociation sets in, and only after that does ionization become significant. Temperature ranges, as I understand it, are (for air at 1 bar):

Vibrational excitations: > 800 K

Dissociation of oxygen: > 2500 K (nearly complete ~4000 K)

Dissociation of nitrogen: > 4000 K (nearly complete ~9000 K)

Ionization: > 9000 K

Lower pressure will reduce the temperatures at which dissociation and ionization become significant.
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[dupe] wasting our time OP

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505
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ChatGPT is terrible with music-related prompts. It might be able to get some basic theory, the type you can read about in Wikipedia. But ask it to do anything beyond that and it will fail pretty hard.
They also posted it on LinkedIn. I can imagine a human incapable of being able to output the PR piece or the blog post or the tweets, so they used AI
Mukbang: Korean term for an "eating show", like a video of someone eating loudly.
They actually gas the hostages.
I use Parameter Store instead
In the lab we are able to see EEG waves when doing ABR in a non-electrically isolated environment pretty easily. I think that if the electrodes can be implanted under the skin next to the skull in a way that the animal wouldn't be trying to remove them all the time that some reasonable data can be gleaned and separated from intermittent environmental noise. We do use filters after all.
Geo has explicitly stated he wants to be able to find FA in the search space of algos eventually. Actually achieving that is another matter.
> They invented UNIX!

They also invented the transistor, C, the photovoltaic cell, radio astronomy, and … the telephone. ;)

Yes that’s the past, but AT&T labs still employs almost two thousand people. It’s very funny to try to claim AT&T isn’t a technology company and only peddles services on top of equipment made by others.
also according to this blog initializing the AWS sdk can add ~1 second per invocation https://blog.aquia.us/blog/2023-01-01-secrets-manager-lambda...
I agree, but apologists will say that that's all the human brain is doing, too.

Myself, I think that's a terrible false analogy, and also have a higher bar for anything to be called artificial "intelligence."

These programs shouldn't be using personal pronouns or statements that imply cognition or esp reasoning. It's deceptive.
Xkcd 2957: A Crossword Puzzle
Looks cool. Thanks for linking it.

It does mention that it's limited to 500MB per layer.

For some people's use case that limitation might not be a big deal, but for others that's a dealbreaker.
The problem with that plan is social engineering attacks. CSRs are often careless and will accept 'a bunch of random letters and numbers' as the answer rather than validating each character.

Better to randomly select a long dictionary word or hypenate a few together. Equally unguessable but easily verified, so it won't be weakened during a phone conversation.
It's probably a good idea for Python developers to disable pyc files in their development environments with PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 in their shell profile, dotenv file, or otherwise. In this case, perhaps it should also be set in the Dockerfile along with entries in .dockerignore to exclude pyc files and __pycache__ directories.
Lots of good and detailed information here, thanks. I'm curious why Ethernet interconnect is so unreliable in practice compared to the Infiniband. I would think that at this point, after a decade or more of current Ethernet standards, all the kinks would be worked out and the worst that would happen would be occasional latency spikes and a few lost packets that could be retransmitted quickly. Shouldn't the training frameworks be more robust to that sort of thing?
Ah yes, I meant campaign. Cant edit original post
I find it completely ridiculous you can’t buy these anywhere else or it is very difficult. Lends credence to the theory that we are in a new led bulb light conspiracy. I don’t think I’m the only one that would like to buy an over engineered LED bulb that will actually last as long as it should.
That’s the thing though - this was a snowflake breach. It’s not an AT&T miss because of their decimated sw engineering teams. Snowflake has much better sw engineering than AT&T.
This paper also appears in the 1989 book Studying the Novice Programmer (edited by Soloway and Spohrer). When I was looking into programming education research in the '00s this was still being suggested as a source for important experimental results, does anyone have a recommendation for a modern survey or textbook?
An employment arrangement is a business deal, nothing more and nothing less. Whether or not it's adversarial depends on the nature of the deal and the entities involved.

The most common error I see in employment is the employees not understanding this basic truth. That leads to situations such as people thinking that an employer is doing them a favor in some way by hiring them, which leads to people giving up some of their power.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I couldn't share any pricing data since the discussions with providers are private. Instead, I added a graph of prices from gpulist.ai. For an Infiniband cluster, median is $2.3 per H100 hour, average is $2.47.
Fun fact 1:

Elon has repeatedly said that Earth is vastly under populated, and that, if you drop an anvil from a plane there ja pretty much zero chance of it hitting a human. Seems like what used to be a thought experiment of his has now been executed.

Fun fact 2:

Saskatchewan, where the debris came down, is where Elon actually spent quite a bit of time doing farm work before he came to the United States.
How much is your time worth? $5/hour? $50/hour? $500/hour? More?

How much $$$ is being fraudulently extracted from you that you're willing to go to these lengths?

I am reminded of a quote from Voltaire:

"I was never ruined but twice in my life. Once, when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one."
For clarity, this is indeed the case in the USA and is the huge advantage physical media have. That's why mom and pop video rental stores with their own interesting taste were so common in the late 20th century.

It's possible the OP is from another country with slightly different IP law?
There are many reasons.

One may be that in their particular case they can get away with it, it works, and they can blame the victim as not having a right to keep what they took in the first place.
And yet it is wise to write code in a way that will lend itself well to additions later on. It is bad advice to forgo thinking about making ones code flexible and extensible. To simply spit out some code and without further thought accept the first barely working version of it. This will lead to obstacles, that in businesses will be interpreted as cost of changing something in the future, wgich in turn will lead to decision of simply never making this or that improvement. You will not be given the chance to revise your design later, in many cases, so you better make it work well the first time.

One might not be able to anticipate future requirements, but there are situations, in which the engineer, provided they even get the right idea, can make their code reusable with little to no additional time needed, simply, because they know they they are doing and have experience with the matter. The worst that can happen to a product is, when less experienced engineers think to do well in telling the engineer with the experience, that this can be done in the future, when actually that future never materializes. Whole new directions of products die, because of this. Code might become even more, because of not anticipating things, and having to build workarounds later, because one does not get time to refactor and has feature pressure from management.

It can all be pretty shortsighted and can limit the output that skilled engineers can provide. Bad management is gonna manage badly.
Stop using tables for documenting configuration properties