skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mdat box does not have a defined structure, and the specification actually states that attempting to define a structure is almost certainly a mistake. In order to find the data the player is looking for it has to read the moov box, which contains the byte offsets and sizes of "chunks" of data. Since there is no requirement for chunks to be contiguous, or even in the same file, we can simply skip over the fragmentation-related boxes within the data box.
spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot why vscode can't access extension marketplace as I just installed a new computer and am trying to bring in my profile but getting XHR errors, and devtools showing CORS errors... after an hour+ of trying to get it to connect, finally figured the services are down.
> Over many generations we may be able to lower our birthrate to compensate

We’ve gone—globally—from 5.3 births per woman in 1963 to 2.3 in 2022 [1]. 2.1 is replacement [2]. In the rich world, where longevity treatments will first become available, it’s 1.6 [3]. (3.3 in 1960.)

There are arguments against longer lifespans. Population growth is not one of them.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15832599/

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTINOED
Instead of saying means things about GA, can anyone chip in about ways they've made their work more resilient and fault tolerant in case such incidents happen?
I am not a fan of JS ecosystem, but why do you think this issue is not mostly a function of popularity?
This video is a fake representation of Chisinau. The author deliberately chose the one derelict area (despite being on a central street, it’s the equivalent of being in the Harlem but yet still on Madison ave) that’s been a point of contention between the local authorities and central government for 20+ years. The hotel is being deliberately left unattended by local authorities as a fuck you to the parliament. Nothing more than a bargaining chip.
Currently, I have a share function for notes. I plan to add a duplicate feature to let people copy others' notes into their accounts. Other export/download methods, including export to PDF, will be on the TODO list depending on users' feedback.
Do you have any idea what kind of format is good for export/download?
The brand of the Apache Software Foundation.
Feel free to use this free time to take a peek at Bitbucket Pipeline, now running up-to 8x faster ;)

https://bitbucket.org/blog/announcing-our-new-ci-cd-runtime-...

Come check out some of our cool new features while you're at it:

- https://bitbucket.org/blog/introducing-dynamic-pipelines-a-n...

- https://bitbucket.org/blog/custom-merge-checks-are-now-gener...
SSH and shell scripts that also constantly break and require maintenance? I don't have any nostalgia for those days either.
> I guess to let it be known that there are far worse places out there than a couple of small Australian towns (with what to me looks like very clean air).

It sounds like the situation in your town was very bad. That neither diminishes nor invalidates a bad situation elsewhere. We should all be striving for better, no matter where we start from.
> Key pinning also can be done independently of the protocol; the SSH client does that, and it is helpful, but it isn't something that necessarily needs the SSH protocol in order to work.

While it was not entirely perfect Google threw in the towel with HPKP and they do not seem to want to reopen the debate. All the meanwhile they utilize static pinning for their own properties in Chromium [1] and 'secure' domain registration (MarkMonitor) that is very difficult to obtain when not a large corporation. Leaving the rest of us as fine pickings against those who can hijack domains and obtain a CA issued certificate to conduct MiTM attacks.

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:net...
I agree with the sentiment that we should not rely on clouds to ship software.

However, the server we would SSH to to probably has less uptime than Azure.
My son web site: https://play-vista.com its runing on a raspberry pi. Written with help from ChatGPT/copilot ;)
> The Erie Canal, and the rest of the entire navigate-able water system is relatively unknown

What? It's taught in american schools. Who hasn't hear of the erie canal?

> but is a huge huge reason why we have a United States of America, and not 50 different countries with fractured cultural, military and social histories.

If that was the case, the civil war wouldn't have occurred. The Erie Canal was about making western expansion easier. Plans for the erie canal was developed decades before independence. The federal government, single currency, civil war, etc were the binding force, not the erie canal.
I guess New York Fries is gonna have to rebrand because fries are French…
How would they ever know if you won't outright tell them yourself (like being a famous person an posting your itinerary on the instagram)? They'll see you've been to Russia, if you use the same passport for both visas, which may be frowned upon right now, but not illegal. But which Russian cities you've been to (and de-facto Mariupol is just that right now) — who the hell knows?
"Business moves at the speed of trust."

This is a good post exemplifying this axiom. It is one thing for a leader to be trustworthy. It's a different challenge to cultivate trust within an organization in the midst of rapid change. Enjoyed reading this account of Anthropic's adventures scaling trust.
Bangladesh is experiencing a near-total internet shutdown amid student protests
> They've been bred for that for hundreds of generations.

What is significant about this specific mechanism that makes it noteworthy enough to violate what was already established?
Electronics is a nightmare for every EE student, haha. It's the same for me too. I hope this tool can help more students and people understand electronics more easily.
If it wasn't clear enough, I was saying your joke didn't land. Hence - don't quit your day job for a career in comedy. Which is indeed proper usage of the phrase. Sorry if you were offended - it was intended to be repartee.

For what it's worth, while I didn't like your comments, none of them deserved to be flagged - which this site has an annoying obsession with using to censor anyone's opinion who comes across with bite or even just contrarian, which has its place on the internet despite what the mods here believe.
The article does touch on the two things that are realistically within your locus of control.

There's only so much you can do to change how trustworthy someone else is, but you can a) change how trustworthy you are to others, and b) identify how trustworthy someone else is. Those two points are what the article chooses to focus on.
Agree with you wrt the millennia-old problem of:

>the consciousness and moral weight of non-human animals

The modern low-point was the period of extreme reductionist behaviorism (e.g. John Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson). Good news is that very few have taken that point of view seriously for well over 50 years.

Maturana and Valera’s classic book Autopoieses and Cognition came out in 1970 and greatly broadened the definition of cognition in a way that makes good sense to me. And that highlights what all our LLMs are missing.

Not sure that randomized control trials (RCTs) are a problem in animal research. We have effectively done a zillion RCTs going back to Edward Tolman and his rats. Even in the 1930s he clearly demonstrated what most scientist accept as cognition, and even as a form of consciousness.

Self-consciousness in the way we experience this phenomenon is more controversial, and many still think self-consciousness the way we mean it as recursive inner monolog—is coupled strongly to language.

Granted that many argue that the distinction is artificial and/or just a quantitative matter of degree. Even Heidegger gets very close to this position. But at some point a quantitative discontinuity is so marked that it is labeled as a qualitative difference. Our language use is qualitatively different and our linguistic resources for self-appraisal seem to me to be “unusual” to say the least compared to other species. (I watched the great movie “Arrival” again last night.)

My guess is that most of us will concede that the evolutionary and developmental steps and stages and level of awareness are open to inspection. Watching this blooming process as infants grow up to become kids and then adults is definitely one of the greatest of joys.
iOS already has on-device dictation built into the standard keyboard.

Years ago it got sent to the cloud, but as long as you have an iPhone from the past few years it's on-device.
It is a story of technology and history. It grew out of the author's interest in the way we communicate, and also out of his interest in WWII legends. It's huge, and hugely readable. It's a very good read if the intersection of those things interest you.
It seems Azure DevOps is down globally too:

https://status.dev.azure.com/
So nice to find someone else who enjoyed REAMDE.
That’s true, but I’m thinking I’d still like to pick up calls or answer important texts. And can you connect a watch to WiFi without an iPhone?
I've sat by and watched an entire year elapse while we were forced to dispassionately pursue an OKR we knew was leading us nowhere.
Kinda - what we're seeing at Depot (https://status.depot.dev/clyrvud6i57402igofm6jtb7id) is that the APIs for managing Actions runners or retrieving work are receiving rate limit errors, interestingly missing the regular rate limit status headers[1]. We do have some jobs processing, but overall the GitHub API and Actions control plane seem very overloaded by the outage.

[1] - https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limi...
The city I'm from, there are people who'll kill for USD equivalent of $100. That does not mean we should encourage it.
They don't, unless the poster deletes them and that only works if there are no comments (for story posts) or replies (for comments).

Go to your profile and check the 'showdead' checkbox. You will see more crappy things but if that's what you want, they'll be visible to you.
Yes. It is a semantics game. I feel people understand probability but they don't understand entropy hence it's easier to just use the term probability state.

And yes the questions you pose don't follow from the 2nd law. But they are the big question.
> Is it just Jen from the IT crowd?

Kind of, that's not a bad analogy really. It's like if Jen knew what CI and observability were (huge over simplification but you get the idea).
Morality applied to humans wasn't universal either. Slaves were common in basically every society, and they had no rights. Some Greek polities would make token laws like "killing a slave is an affront to the gods" but sexual, physical, and emotional abuse was basically guaranteed.

Societies that have a caste system still apply different standards of morality to some people. Thieves and serial killers have a very different standard for morality than you or I.
Offload-friendly network encryption in the kernel
Maybe a tiny lock icon? Submitter checks a box: reg/subwalled Y/N?
But it's not a matter of power over prisons, it's the Federal Communications Commision exercising their power over communications.
My cats will happily eat raccoons.
Can confirm that self hosted runners are seeing issues at WarpBuild.

Just another Thursday :shrug:

https://warpbuild.instatus.com/
Went to a hotel lobby bar once and asked guys sitting to the left and to the right of me where are they from. Turns out both were Scots. Asked them what do they think about Scottish independence. One thing led to another and soon enough they started fist-fighting each other.
Armenian cognac is great.
Thanks for the reading recommendations, that stuff sounds fascinating, and I'll admit that my reference to RCTs was perhaps an overly mean dig at overcorrection for methodological rigor, a tic I likely developed from my exposure to the pharmacological research world, which is in practice greatly stymied by hidebound institutional policies about what hypotheses can be considered and what experimental framings are considered evidence at all. Probably not an appropriate thing to apply to ethology, which I know a lot less about
Sure. The talk about 8bit refers to quantization-aware training. Pretty common in image models these days to reduce the impact of quantization on accuracy.

Typically this might mean that you simulate an 8bit forward pass to ensure that the model is robust to quantization ‘noise’. You still use FP16/32 for backward pass & weight updates for numerical stability.

It’s just a way to optimize the model in anticipation of future quantization. The experience of using an 8-bit Nemo quant should more closely mirror that of using the full-fat bf16 model compared to if they hadn’t used QAT.
Here's a mega guide on keeping costs low with LLMs - https://portkey.ai/blog/implementing-frugalgpt-smarter-llm-u...

tl;dr:
- Keep prompts short, combine prompts or make more detailed prompts but go to a smaller model
- Simple and semantic cache lookups
- Classify tasks and route to the best LLM using an AI gateway

Portkey.ai could help with a lot of this
So much of the constitution is like that. Take the second amendment for example. "Arms" aren't clearly defined, affordability isn't guaranteed, taxation of such arms/ammo isn't restricted, and other amendment(s) can alter the provision of the amendment (ie, the fifth is why felons can lose their 2nd amendment rights)
Was that not tongue-in-cheek?

The sticky-keys popup used to be a fun way to get past the screen lock used at computer shops etc. since it took focus off the screen lock window, which then let you use other hot keys. :D
Unleash Your Imagination: Dungeons and Dragons Stamps to Be Released
I'll grant I could have said 'In the long run requiring better infrastructure probably won't hurt the economy and likely will actually help it.' instead of giving the focus word 'buildings'. Past that, I think my arguments stand. The fact that the economy isn't a zero sum game means that often just building something, anything, can make the economy better for everyone. Trying it to something useful greatly magnifies this. The New Madrid zone is much bigger than the town. It crosses into three states and likely encompasses regional infrastructure. Being prepared often focuses on critical infrastructure like bridges, first responder buildings, schools, etc since ensuring core services in a large emergency is key. Simple programs that focus on those areas would probably also lead to better services in these places today as well as ensuring they were available in an emergency and that would lead to real economic value outside of just being prepared or churning the economy to build it.

> The economy isn't a zero sum game, but that doesn't mean it is a good idea to simply destroy resources. And money we have on hand now is literally a zero game.

This gets to the core of the 'not a zero sum game' and 'how do we get people to take it seriously' argument. As I have argued, twice now, it likely isn't throwing money away and could create real economic value, especially if the focus is on critical infrastructure, infrastructure that gets heavy daily use anyway. The fact that it isn't a zero sum game means you can do this and still fill potholes. In fact, it means you likely could do this and slip in filling potholes under the guise of 'ensuring access to critical infrastructure'. In the end this is only a zero sum game when we make it one artificially by finding reasons to avoid doing things that give us value like improving infrastructure and disaster preparedness.
A company can spend more money to hire trustworthy people or spend even more money to hire managers to micromanage untrustworthy employees.
> at least not anything that's been commonly supported for years or has made it into a standard.

It's more: has made it into a standard and was commonly supported.

Sadly, the browsers aren't trying hard enough not to break anything. They are trying hard not to break anything standard, but the problem with that is that the standards can change, or that some things can be claimed to never have been standards all along. A bunch of IE/Netscape things have broken already such as BLINK and MARQUEE, despite being common enough to "feel" standard even though yes they were never actually standards. Also, as we've seen with the MathML battle in recent years, even standards aren't guaranteed to be kept in browsers if not "commonly supported".

The MDN deprecation warning on FRAMESET:

> Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes.

The browser support table says that every browser still currently supports FRAMESET with simple COLS and ROWS, but as I recall FRAMESET used to also support more complicated layout tools. My brain recalls it as being very similar to TABLE layout at one point in time that you could also have (limited) COLSPAN and ROWSPAN options. Such things may also have been IE/Netscape era "non-standards". If I had examples, they are probably lost to time. Similarly, with nearly no way to easily search in today's indexes for things specifically from the 1990s I can't think of a good way to find old examples either. It's also possibly my memory is just failing me on this and the crazy things I recall doing with framesets were just table layouts after all and maybe iframes, but I do recall doing some crazy things in the 90s that certainly aren't "standard" today and I know wouldn't work in today's framesets.
Big recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40836594
Earth's Disastrous 10th Tipping Point Has Been Identified
And they did innovate in those days, eg, Gmail and purchase and integrate very innovative things like Writely (Docs), Grand Central (Voice).

At some point they got the idea that because they made so much money, new innovations could not be valuable if the profits would likely be insignificant compared to the existing oil gusher.... which is stupid, because nothing is ever gonna look that good early on, so they took on the persona of a flaky ADD schemer -- like Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld -- always scheming with some new idea, but never with the perseverance to stick with it for more than 25 minutes before moving on to something else -- because what can possibly ever compete with ads?

Google actually tried to be a "fuck you investors, we're gonna do research" company with the supershares, but they screwed up:

A big mistake they made, which then got replicated throughout the industry, was issuing stock to employees. It meant that even though Larry and Sergey had supershares and no shareholders could countermand their beliefs, the employees (especially middle managers) could, by changing their work decisions to try to boost the stock, thus inoculating the company indelibly with the wall street short term thinking disease that the supershares were supposed to have prevented.

It was pathetic how interested in the share price the average L4 Google employee was when I was there in the mid-teens, at least around the quarterly vest date.

Whoops. Should have listened to Buffet-- never give out stock. Give performance bonuses, but never stock. You cannot depend on a large mass of people like that to stick to a higher purpose and not get tempted by the money.
So this is a “soft” sequential access limitation (we can tolerate some random writes to data as long as it is small enough and short enough). I wonder if there are formats that result in finished indexed multimedia file with “hard” sequential access, when nothing can be overwritten.
Youth with conduct disorder had lower total surface area across the cortex and in 26 of 34 individual regions, two of which showed significant changes in cortical thickness. Youth with conduct disorder also had lower volume in several subcortical brain regions, including the amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus

tl;dr: they do have smaller brains.
You misconstrued the lead comment. The “moral weight” of animals is conferred upon them by humans. Sure we do a bad job and are inconsistent. Pigs fine to slaughter and eat—-dogs not in our culture.

But almost all human culture gives some weight to life forms.
For a lot of technology you know it's just a hype bubble that very loud people keep chanting about because they have money in it and you have to wait for it to go away, Blockchain I'm looking in your direction. But there are still small tech wonders to be found, it's just difficult keeping abreast of all the changes in the wider tech ecosystem.
This. It seems average Americans, including average hn commenters, have their future outlook confined to the next fiscal quarter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

"Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."
oh there is a short ton, a long ton, a metric ton. the normal ton in the US is "short ton" which is 2,000 lbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

we also often encounter a "f*ck ton" or even a "metric f*ck ton". these are usually informal units related to the number of things (especially annoying things) rather than strictly weight.
Yep! Bite of a horse-fly
From a DIY relatively easy perspective most NAS box (Synology & QNAP) come with "Surveillance Station" type software that handles network cameras and ring buffer storage of footage with addons for { motion detection | face recognition | alerts ( SMS | text | email ) | etc. }

The consumer boxes typically have something like Two Cameras Free (flat rate one time fee for each extra camera ($50 each for Synology)).

I believe (but haven't recently checked) that FreeNAS | TrueNAS setup's likely come with open source camera software .. YMMV.

eg: (first hit) https://dongknows.com/synology-surveillance-station-review/

The NAS advantage is you can have a single central home NAS box doing home storage and camera footage storage - disadvantage (of single box) is having camera footage "seized" by police or intruders in event of incident, yada yada ya.

I should know more but I still use software I wrote years back for handling images & footage from exploration geophysics craft ( cars | boats | airframes ) because "it was sitting about and worked".