skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. This is like how you can achieve unlimited compression by storing your data in a filename instead of in the file.
I guess you didn't hear about Librivox? Which allows anyone to provide voiceovers for Project Gutenberg books. Much better than AI generated voice in my experience.
I saw Morton Subotnik at my college and he spoke of phase shift due to heating of poorly design VCOs in a serendipitous way rather than something to be feared.
Something I don’t see talked about enough is the extent to which the rise of passive investing increases the extent to which passive investing is the best strategy. Passive investing is predicated entirely on either freeloading off of the decisions of actively managed portfolios, who will adjust the market prices of securities efficiently, therefore resulting in passively managed funds automatically owning the “best” stocks because the bad ones will fall out of the indices; or it is predicated on what is effectively a Ponzi scheme wherein if everyone passively invests the same, then that form of passive investing will yield the best returns.

For analogy, consider school students trying to get all the questions right on the test. The first scenario is equivalent to one student studying hard to find the right answers. The rest of the class copies his answers and benefits from his efforts. The other scenario is no student trying hard, them all failing, but succeeding because the teacher curves the grades.

Note that both of these scenarios, especially the second scenario, results in stock prices which become increasingly detached from the economic reality of companies in proportion to the extent to which passive investing becomes prevalent.

For instance, assume stock XYZ is a bad investment but is in the S&P 500. If 90% of funds are actively managed, maybe they can sell a sufficiently large amount of it to push it out of the S&P 500 and save the passive investors from owning it. But if 90% of funds are passively managed, even if XYZ is hot garbage, the 10% of passively managed funds cannot possibly sell enough to make up for the fact that 90% of the market participants are indiscriminately buying a terrible stock.

Passive investing breaks the market to some extent. The free market system is predicated on having rational participants, not zombie participants.
Unix's involvement with the development of the Internet was mainly through BSD, which was a UC Berkeley joint, not Bell Labs.
I like making unreasonable demands from my gui designs. This has to be the best one so far.
This is an interesting data point. Grid scale batteries are a pretty big change in how grids are managed, things like "anticipating load" and starting up "peaker plants" to catch that load are mitigated by the ability to wait and see while the batteries fill in the gap.
Some nice pearls of wisdom in here.

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
The excitement of new horizons is necessary for innovation, and a substack article is a safe way to express that excitement. It's clearly understood by the choice of medium that this is meant to be speculation, so there aren't any significant risks in engaging with the text on its own terms.
SydBox Mitigates SROP
The real article appears to be https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0210024.
It's difficult to disable font anti-aliasing in the browser.
This looks like general memory corruption generated by the CPU.
Just Be Rich (2021)
If you're interested in further text to speech missions, I just got Piper (open-source text-to-speech engine) running happily in a Docker container on my Mac. Effectively "free", high quality, fast-generating text-to-speech.

Check out their voice samples: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ (or make your own).

Happy to help you set it up locally...

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
Eh, (2)/(3) can be a pain for web mail accounts. For instance, I couldn't send patches to LKML through Gmail directly, since even for plain-text emails it wants to rewrap long lines itself. To get "git send-email" working through it, I had to wade through a bunch of outdated info to find the right method.

Even now there are persistent downsides: every email through "git send-email" contains my original IP address for everyone to see, unless I use a VPN service. Also, since I'm not a right-thinking person with a 'real' client-based inbox, I have to fiddle with the In-Reply-To and References headers by hand, if I want to include a patch in a reply to another email.
Also, I find it quite unethical that you're charging for public domain books. It's frankly gross, in my opinion.
PR: https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-demonstrates-potentia...
> When you get your stolen car back, problem over.

> But your broken into system should in most cases be considered forever tainted

Actually this is exactly how stolen cars work. A stolen car that is recovered will have a branded title from then on (at least it will if an insurance company wrote it off).
knowledge = knowledge (true belief)

"knowledge" = belief (possibly true but not necessarily, but sincerely perceived as "true")

(I'm considering this from an abstract / autistic / "That's pedantic! [so stop doing it]" perspective, so I include quotation marks to note the technical distinction...in phenomenological analysis, perhaps they'd be left out, to better illustrate the local experience of reality, the true "is-ness" as it is. In normative discussions ("anything that good hackers would find interesting"), these things are generally rather taboo.)

There's lots of nuance I'm leaving out, but that's the general idea.

A popular though terminating description for the phenomenon is "that's just people expressing their opinion, everyone does it, that's what everything boils down to" (which can make it not only not obvious, but damn near invisible)...but consider the semantic differences of that with and without the inclusion of the word "just". (Also: watch out for #3, it's recursively self-referential, and has substantial cloaking / shape-shifting abilities. It is almost always and everywhere.)

An alternate perspective: consider what an uneducated person "sees" in "reality" (aka: what "is", and "is not") as they go about their day, compared to highly educated (as opposed to knowledgeable) people from very distinct disciplines.
In general, it is not great for fiction right now, needs a lot of improvement
But for history/philosophy/science books its great.

And yeah, OpenAI's model is bad for non-English languages. At least, for now...
I make $300K/year. I’ll leave when I’m ready to retire.

And if I’m lucky enough to get laid off (around retirement time), that would be a huge windfall to move me toward retirement.

Programmers planning to work after 50 are fools.
More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control practices

What did he or she do? The article is vague, there is not enough information to know if or what crime there was. What does "may not have followed" mean?

If the physician negligently failed to perform a procedure, it is still not known if anyone was actually harmed by the negligence.

While these are very serious, Hepatitis A and B are preventable via vaccine, curable in many cases, and treatable. Hepatitis C is usually curable with antiretrovirals. HIV is clearly very serious but is manageable to a chronic condition with antiretrovirals.

I don't like taking the other side of this, but it doesn't seem necessary to pull out the pitchforks and torches absent a lot more information.
It's nitpicky, but I'm the same way. In this version there's too much padding above/below the ? and X buttons in the title bar.

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to live out my days building a GUI framework that looks like Windows 95, including unit tests that make sure the widget rendering is pixel-perfect.
I’ve heard that a remastered version RA2 is currently being developed. Hopefully it runs without the launcher.
This was so beyond me I fed the PDF to ChatGPT and asked it for fun.

https://chatgpt.com/share/e0eca11b-b756-4fab-a1be-4c8340854f...
Some of this has aged pretty poorly -- "hacking is cool" has, in fact, largely worked out for the US's security community.
You might find this interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-Rosetta
I didn’t want to read this, so I asked Claude to ELI5 it to an EE-graduate level. I hope this summary is useful:

CURLoRA is a new way to fine-tune large language models (LLMs) that aims to solve two main problems:

1. Catastrophic forgetting: When you fine-tune an LLM on a new task, it often "forgets" what it learned before.

2. Computational efficiency: Fine-tuning LLMs usually requires a lot of computing power.

Here's how CURLoRA works:

1. It uses a matrix decomposition method called CUR decomposition. This breaks down a big weight matrix (W) into three smaller matrices: C, U, and R.

2. The clever part is how they choose C and R:
- They pick columns and rows that are less "important" in the original matrix.
- This acts like a built-in regularization, preventing the model from changing too much.

3. They initialize the U matrix with all zeros and only train this matrix.

The benefits:

1. It helps prevent catastrophic forgetting because the changes are constrained to less important parts of the original weights.

2. It's more memory-efficient than full fine-tuning or even LoRA (another popular fine-tuning method) because you're only training the U matrix.

3. It maintains the model's general language understanding better than LoRA, as shown by perplexity scores on a general language task.

The experiments showed that CURLoRA:
- Performed better on specific tasks (like sentiment analysis) compared to LoRA.
- Maintained performance across multiple tasks better than LoRA (showing less forgetting).
- Kept its general language understanding intact, while LoRA's understanding degraded significantly.

In essence, CURLoRA is like giving the model a very selective memory upgrade. It allows the model to learn new tasks efficiently while keeping most of its original knowledge intact.
I've had the CTO who was also a frustrated lock-free data structure kernel driver developer too.

Fun times.
Will they put four vodkas and 3 red bulls in a single glass for the price of a college students budget? Because that was a four loko
It's not necessarily the organization's fault. In several companies that I've worked for (including government contractors) we are required to implement "certifications" of one kind or another to handle certain kinds of data, or to get some insurance, or to win some contract.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but many of these require dubious "checkbox security" procedures and practices.

Unfortunately, there's no point in arguing with an insurance company or a contract or a certification organization, certainly not when you're "just" the engineer, IT guy, or end user.

There's also little point in arguing with your boss about it either. "Hey boss, this security requirement is pointless because of technical reason X and Y." Boss: "We have to do it to get the million dollar contract. Besides, more security is better, right? What's the problem?"
You had me in the first half. I thought that during that time "no blame culture" wasn't a thing, especially since Bill Gates's leading style was yelling a lot. Either way, it's great that they kept the employee.
What you describe can be measured with return dispersion, as more people invest with passive index more opportunities arise for active investors. So they balance each other
Is there any open source text to speech library that's starting to be half close or decent for something like this?
Vacuum Forming Keyboards – The Outcome
One factor might be screen size.

In 1998 it was typical to have 1024x768 monitors at about 72 DPI. Shortly afterwards, the whole world switched to a 96 DPI standard, at higher resolutions.
the thrills
If the audio generation is paid for, by the first listener, it will be available to everybody for free? No?
This is awesome, i am using it now in a mock draft, Cant wait to try it use it in my leagues draft.
It's not supposed to be funny. The shock twist of it being cannibalism is supposed to make you think about the nature of default cultural assumptions and meta-ethics: "what factors Tardo would consider significant—probably very minor ones that the average man would not notice, he thought", and which the host fails to think of despite attempting to hide the slavery & cannibalism, in the same way that you might serve a visitor from India cow steak. (The author was from Brazil, incidentally, which may be relevant to how you interpret this: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fontenay_charles_l )
If it works that way it's a rather nice setup. Would love to have an answer from the developer.
Done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962997

I read this via RSS, so I tend to post the site that mentioned it first and not the ones I click to.
Followed through and passed! Call-sign pending. Commencing splurge on radio gear...
You'd have to ask for more than three and a half shots of vodka to match the alcohol in a 22oz Four Loko can.
True security can only come from understanding how your system works. Otherwise, you're just inventing a religion, and doing everything on faith. "We're fine, we update our dependencies." Except you have no idea what's in those dependencies, or how they work. This is, apparently, a controversial opinion now.
I wish this either exempted root, or was a sysctl that root could turn off at runtime. Boot-time-only parameters that restrict root, combined with the ongoing efforts to make the kernel command line part of what gets signed by Secure Boot and measured by the TPM, feel like more attempts at tivoization and iOS-ification of Linux.
I work in healthcare in Portland - our mental health system really feels like it's on life support from all of the recent trauma and the large number of transplants to the city. I have a friend who was having serious depression and went to the ED feigning SI because they knew if they did inpatient they could meet with a psychiatrist - otherwise they were looking at months of waiting.
Single physician across two employers. Thousands of people impacted, so the problem spanned years. And he was fired. Sounds like one guy got lazy to the point of maliciousness. But I’ll concede there aren’t enough details in the article to know what happened. I just know if I got a note in my e-file that I might have HIV, I’d be furious. And if I actually had it due to either malice or incompetence, I’d be out for blood.
What's the context of the quote? What positions?
Compare and contrast with Texas.
Intermediate solution is to write down any ideas and then go back to sleep. That gets the ideas out of my head which for me is enough to calm down and go to sleep.
Also whether this data lake is worth the costs/effort. How does this data lake add value to the user experience? What is this “AI” stuff that this data lake enables?

For example, they mention search. But i imagine it is just searching only within your own docs. Which i presume should be fast and efficient if everything is sharded by user in Postgres.

The tech stuff is all fine and good, but if it adds no value, its just playing with technology for technology sakes
AZ trained in self-play mode for millions of games, over multiple generations of a player pool.
Well, someone has to pay for API calls :D

I was thinking about launching a Kickstarter campaign and making the whole library free for everyone. But I need more feedback. I don't know if it's viable.
Tbsp – tree-based source-processing language
I don't think this is quite right. The reads were not sequential - the whole point was that the tool was coalescing and reordering files for optimal layout and access times. Plus, you usually had some gaps in the drive layout - a mix of used and empty sectors / blocks.

There are some YouTube videos showing the real thing.
Location: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Remote: Yes (open to onsite/hyrbrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
Backend: Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, Flask

Frontend: React.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS

Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, RDS

DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Amplify, Route 53, CloudFront), CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions), Docker

Other: Elasticsearch, GRPC, Airflow, Datadog, Figma

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzWlmzxZE1_aFQadRE9S9qUj...

Email: usamak.islam@gmail.com
Thank you for sharing. I know hostility toward the queer community still exists and admire your ability to dismiss the hatred as “weird comments.” It takes a steely resolve to develop that kind of resilience.

As an older straight male, I grew up when it was still commonplace to be openly hateful toward your community and it’s taken decades for me to unlearn that hatred I learned as a child, but the effort has been worth it, so I thank you for your effort to educate me, as I still have a lot to learn from your community.
> My favorite example is Bruce Schneier writing, when Unicode came out, that "Unicode is too complex to ever be secure".

The same is true of containers, VMs, sandboxes, etc.

The idea that we all willingly run applications that continuously download and execute code from all over the internet is quite remarkable.
Yes, but if online meeting is bad or long, I can at least walk around the room, exercise a bit, read HN. With in person meeting, you are stuck.
Though perhaps not strictly societal in its effect, let’s also not overlook the discovery of the cosmic microwave background…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_...
CS2 uses Source 2 engine with DX11 or Vulkan renderer in contrast to old, Source 1 based CS:GO.
Notated organ music has had the "modular synthesizer" problem for centuries. The solution that organists chose was to just write stuff down in front of the score. It would probably be a lot more clear than any of the suggestions in the article to use a node network and a short text description of the settings of each node.

People also need to let go of the idea that written music is about conveying how to create an exact reproduction of the original sound. That's what a recording is for. A musical score conveys the scheme under which to produce sound, and notates the important characteristics of the sound to produce. Everything else is intentionally left up to the performer.

If you don't believe that is valuable, you don't need to use it as a tool. However, it allows future musicians to both understand what you were thinking and put their own spin on your work.
I think it’s a quirky thing
Sure, but then you're competing against red bull and every other energy drink on the planet, of which there are loads. People invent this stuff obviously because it's a relatively empty nieche.
It's not safe to sell SSDs is it?

And even if it were, who would buy a used SSD with unknown durability gone?
I'd like to see more details. 10s of TB isn't that large -- why so expensive?
There are some interesting parallels to ideas in this article and IIT. The focus on parsimony in networks, and pruning connections that are redundant to reveal the minimum topology (and the underlying computation)is reminiscent of parts of IIT: I’m thinking of the computation of the maximally irreducible concept structure via searching for a network partition which minimizes the integrated cause-effect information in the system. Such redundant connections are necessarily severed by the partition.
Pretty much standard for HN, there are endless mod comments explaining it. Although they make more sense if you distinguish between 'changing' and 'editorializing'.
We can say that committing crimes is uncool but there’s definitely something appealing about knowing how to do subversive things like pick a lock, hotwire a car, create weapons, or run John the Ripper.

It effectively turns you into a kind of wizard, unconstrained by the rules everyone else believes are there.
Goodness gracious. It sounds like having you be ineffective might be advantageous to one or more people above you. Perhaps they get to blame you for their own ineffectiveness, offsetting pressures elsewhere. It truly sounds toxic. I'm sorry you're going through that.
'Sleeping on it' does help
Trying to do security wrong often leads to much worse outcomes for data leakage than not doing it optimally. It's counter intuitive, but a lot of things in security are such.
Gerrit is really good at code reviews. It is a matter of getting used to at first, but later it is very easy to track even differences between patchsets. It also marks you what you did not reivew if a new patchset is pushed, without marking the files that did not change. It lets you pick the changes locally if you want as well. I think it is very good for reviews.
Let's talk about a community that needs water, but doesn't have the capital to drill a deep enough well. Private company comes in, drills the well, and the people rejoice.

But then the price-gouging comes, and it's not exactly simple for anyone to "compete", because if another corporation has deep enough pockets to drill a well in the first place then a) they aren't likely to have gotten that way from generosity, and b) in terms of profit it's much easier to go dig another well elsewhere and just start squeezing a different community.

Exactly how much and for how long do we want to let the company squeeze people since they are "entitled to monetize their property"? What if they give the water away for free, but the "price" to the community is that they are subject to medical experiments without their knowledge or their informed consent, or just without any real ability to opt out? What if every well in every town looks like this, so that people can't vote with their feet?

This is clearly a problem in the limit.. anyone who thinks this general scenario is fine, or that it automatically works itself out somehow is not being serious.
Water just makes this a simple story to understand. There's more nuance and less urgency in a different setting, but most of the basic issues remain the same.
Copper mining is insane - vast vast machines (like apartment buildings on wheels) because the ore extraction rate is so low.

But this is a boon to a democratic light in the Southern Africa, (https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/05/05/zambi...) here’s hoping they negotiate hard with the miners and stuff as much revenue into solid projects (roads hospitals schools etc)
Agreed, I can’t help but feel there is some overcompensation driving the style of writing. It was difficult to finish.
The statement was "... a bit more than we do".

You chose to refute a general notion about people with a single, extreme, counterexample. But this isn't mathematical logic.
Uh, OP here.... Calling the Rock's San Andreas a documentary was, in fact, a joke.

You are now free to experience the many other surprising and delightful things that this life has to offer.
The Phone Stacking Game (2012)