skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes me question my masculinity. I would say the desire to communicate and the feelings expressed were feminine. Noee of the phrases you mentioned did I see as clues to gender.
Have they included real profiles in the screenshots of the "Discover profiles" menu and the list of likes? If so that's pretty irresponsible even with the faces obscured.
9 out of 10 PMs love this one hack to boost velocity

they were probably thinking what a 10x engineer they'd found to be so rapid at delivery...
This is really cool. I'm fairly impressed with the maps of the London underground, although there are some oddities in Octilinear mode. It's also missing quite a few Overground services.

It's really nice to be able to switch seamlessly between a Geographic, Octilinear and Geo-Octilinear view of the maps, because each of them tells you something useful. I would use this if TFL added it to their maps app.

https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global#subway-lightrail/octi...
It seems like it's missing most of Tokyo?

Granted, Tokyo has a blended commuter / subway through-service system (eg, Fukutoshin-line trains continue into the Toyoko-line), but those trains don't seem to show up in either Rail or Subway views.
In my personal experience, it strongly depends on both the genre, and also if it is the first playthrough.

For example, for a point & click adventure, external knowledge can destroy the immersion and overall spell of the game very quickly. I just get yanked out of the atmosphere and the puzzle solving mode and then the spell tends to be gone. One of the reason why one of my barely moving side projects would be a minimal spoiler hint system for games like these.

On the other hand, games like DF, Technical Minecraft, more complex modded minecraft and such live and honestly thrive with the community, tooling and the wiki around. And it is no drawback - it makes it more fun and interesting. There are just so many mechanics in DF or in Gregtech to keep up with.

And then there are more middle-ground-ish games, like Terraria, Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon. Entirely playable and winnable without external information, but in a second run or after a certain amount of time, adding in external information can open your eyes to new levels of hilarity you never knew existed, or guide you towards the obscure niches of completion.
Say you have a shooter with support for surround sound and immersive sound effects aka "an enemy comes from behind, so make the sound appear from rear left". For that to render properly the client needs to know where the enemy is positioned, which is information a cheat can read out from RAM and display it as an alert for the cheater. Or your average aimbot - the precise position of the enemy is (by definition) known to the client, so a cheat can "take over" keyboard and mouse when it sees an enemy and achieve a perfect headshot.

Or in racing games, extremely precise braking and steering assistance. Everything that a gamer can do, a cheat can also do.
> And now the company has profit it wouldn't have had, as a result of the government, which can use control over that profit to attract businesses to the jurisdiction etc.

That only works if the government buys something that no one else wants; in which case it is buying at a price, ipso facto, that no one else will pay (at that price which is above the market price).

But if the government buys something at the same price (or lower) that everyone else pays, then it isn't a subsidy.

Government purchasing isn't an automatic subsidy.
Scale by the Bay 2018: Bryan Cantrill, Rust and Other Interesting Things [video]
Hi!

I'm really interested in your project! I'm a engineer in computer science and robotics, and in parallel, I'm going to run a workshop on building solar ovens at a recycling center. I'd love to base the workshop on your project and learn more about it.

Would it be possible to get your contact information so we can communicate further if you're open to it?

Looking forward to your reply!

Best regards,
Julien (email in bio)
Yes; it's referred to in Oxide's RFD about RFDs [1] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0001 but the referenced URL is 404 unless you're an Oxide employee.

[1] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0001#_shared_rfd_rende...
[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd/blob/master/src
>Easter egg are nice but don’t put the ending I’m most interested in behind some "choice" I made ...

Never play a Nier game lol
Startup: "Do you remember when we inserted this quirky module running in AWS? We can use that to implement this next feature. That was a useful decision!"

Voyager: "Do you remember when our parents inserted this quirky module that has since left the solar system? We can use that to turn it off and on again. That was a mission critical decision!"
you have a german nick name suggesting you are german, you run tor nodes in norway which appear to be located in russia ... i think that is already a lot of technically interesting stuff. also many people would probably like to understand why you do it and how much you spend for this hobby(?).
DeJoy, besides being Postmaster General and CEO of the USPS, also appears to be a member of the board of governors. I bet his friends on the board think he's doing a fine job.
Analyzing Analytical Databases [video]
Very cool! Unlocking TPU training is a big win.

FWIW, if this helps prioritize: personally I'd find LoRA training for Llama 3.1 most useful (which it sounds like currently isn't well-supported with Felafax?) since with something like vLLM you can serve large numbers of LoRAs that share the same underlying GPU resources (assuming they're based on the same base model), vs full finetunes where each model will need to deploy on its own set of GPUs. In general I would guess that full finetunes are going to be less cost effective for most enterprise use cases: finetuning — whether full-finetuning or PEFT — generally improves only task-specific performance, so assuming you've got more than one task you want to use a model for in your business, it'll pretty quickly become dramatically cheaper to do the tasks with LoRAs rather than full finetunes unless you're saturating the boxes for each specific task. So, I'm hoping you guys build support for LoRA training with JAX in addition to finetuning!
It’s hard enough to find a good place to live in LA when making 200k, I’m not sure how we can make it more affordable anytime soon.
I don't know many cities which would challenge a 400km EV range, actually with that range I'm already across the border in any direction I'd drive. But okay I'm one of the dozen or so people who don't live in the US.
This. Onshape just works. Even their sheet metal tool is quick and easy.
> but at scale

Do you perhaps know what the actual scale is? Is it a 100 proxies around the world or is 1k, 10k, 100k ...? I imagine that number is not very high since the blog post says that pingora-origin can serve 35M+ requests per second. My wild guess would be not more than 100 deployments. If so, then the "at scale" argument loosens up quite a bit IMO.

> it frees up the cycles for other software

I see this more like a theoretical stance since with such argument we could micro-optimize the code all day every day. It's a reverse HTTP proxy intended to be high-performance and low-latency so I don't imagine that the server that is running it has more important software to run.
> The entire spacewalk operation is expected to take approximately two hours.

How long does it take them around the earth once?
> My student edition expired and now im out of that to.

There is a "personal" version of Fusion 360 which isn't tied to enrollment. It has some limitations (only 10 "active" documents; some advanced features are locked), but overall, I think that's still the most accessible entry to CAD for hobbyist makers, especially with all the tutorials for it out there.

I think that with the current state and trajectory of FreeCAD/Ondsel, they have a realistic chance of catching on. However if FreeCAD really wants to be the version that is installed (rather than Ondsel), I think they really have to get to a more regular release cadence.
Ok thanks, that sounds reasonable. Now I want to try Gerrit!
The for-profit dating scene is a quagmire. Sure it can work, I've seen it work, but at what cost?

We desperately need a new platform owned and operated by the people, for the people.
Also no review or planning anywhere in that process.

I'm semi-confident that if a Junior were to talk to another Junior before starting about things to look out for, and then the code was reviewed by say a third Junior, they would not have this bug.

Call me naive, but I don't think Juniors are as oblivious as they are made out to be
> The server is the authoritative source. It is not supposed to rely on the client for authoritative game state, and if it does, it is fundamentally and terribly flawed.

Indeed. Likely the client is responsible for certain state things and/or implicitly trusted with state updates. How this happens is that most of your game devs are not paid enough or given enough time to do it right. Engines are selected (generally not built) for their ability to get shit to market fast and multiplayer is an after thought, hacked on. And management just shrugs and says we'll force players to run anti-cheat ring0 nonsense.
Useful context is that they completely redid the app from scratch in 2023 using a contractor instead of in house developers and the launch was not very smooth

https://mashable.com/article/feeld-app-down
Are Pixel devices exempt from this anti-feature?
Here is one from Australia

"Bolt-On Kit Wants To Turn Your ICE Car Into A Hybrid From $3,200" October 21, 2023

> The young Australian engineer behind the kit hopes to sell it for just $3,200 and enable buyers to have it installed in a single day

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/bolt-on-kit-to-convert-com...

Looks like a backyard operation so far "REVR (Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofits)"

https://www.revr.tech/

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-AU/2023/project/revr/

REVR-lutionising the car industry: RMIT student crowned national James Dyson Award winner with electric vehicle retrofit solution
13 September 2023
https://www.dyson.com.au/newsroom/updates/james-dyson-award-...

(Sorry for all the links! but looks like an interesting way to do the conversions!)
The problem is that for many things once something starts happening it is very hard or even impossible to stop it. It is way better to prevent something from happening than try to stop it after the fact - especially if someone with power can benefit from that something happening.
I should add this works best if you hire with some diversity, such as one Junior with a preference for security topics.

If you go up to the counter and yell "10 React devs please", don't be surprised
no Linux build? (appimage or snap etc? not expecting distro support for proprietary small-shop software)
GraphQL requires you to either define per-property access, or precompile queries and put them into a whitelist. Everything else leaks data.

https://hasura.io/docs/2.0/security/allow-list/
Even with something like an ion engine (which I'm not sure were available when Voyager was launched), you would need leftover reaction mass.
Any 1000g acceleration is going to be irrelevant to the position of the user of the phone (or they’d be dead!)
I think my OCD would prevent me from ever doing this :’(
Show HN: Nabubit – Your Database Design Copilot
The idea came about when I was trying to understand the data modeling of an older application and wondering how to best modify it to add a feature or fix something.
The goal with Nabubit is to make creating, managing and evolving database architectures easier no matter the database or the application framework you're using.
Applies to all dating apps, really: just treat any info you put in your profile as 100% public, for anyone, worldwide. Location is easily faked, other filtering options are about as effective as a lone "do not enter" sign with no fence - I can put any info I like into my profile to fit your criteria and have you show up in my feed.

Chats? The only IM apps with functional E2EE are: Signal, iMessage, WhatsApp; and even those have trade-offs. Treat everything else as readable by some third party, and dating apps by design need to be able to look into people's chats to be able to handle harassment cases.

That of course is no excuse for having gaping security/privacy holes, but you're trading off quite a bit of privacy by design; it's like meeting in a public space where you can feel a little bit safer with someone you don't know yet.

I'd say if you're concerned with any of that, go meet new people IRL, but there are 100% legitimate cases where this is not the most effective strategy (e.g. Feeld's primary target audience).
Direct link to RFC: https://github.com/mdtro/rfcs/blob/mdtro/trusted-publishing-...
This can happen very easily I think if one uses "automatic db APIs" on the backend. I'm thinking of some automatic graphql setups for example.

I flag it whenever I see it, but it is very worrying how little thought is sometimes put into the scope of client APIs.
I really want my next car to be an EV, but I am finding incredibly difficult to justify spending 35k on a car that has ~480 km range (effectively 400km as charging to 100% takes way too long).

I do understand the arguments about 90% of the driving is done within 200kms, but the obly reason for me to own a car is the long distance trips. Most of the Europeans are in the similar situation.
The game that does this best is Outer Wilds. All the information in this game is discoverable on your own, driven by curiosity.
This Week in Rust 564
Authors fighting deluge of fake writers and AI-generated books
For example, I can read Baumgarten's metaphysics in original Latin on archive.org,
before the internet people had to take months to reserve and arrange for the libraries to send them books, if it was possible at all.

This means I can go through all the literature I think could maybe be important and just check and read or move on. For scholarly work, this makes such a big difference that it makes me think the pre-internet PhDs are incomparable with post-internet ones.
> Joyent which was an illumos shop

And before that, they used to run FreeBSD.

Mentioned for example in this comment by Bryan Cantrill a decade ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6254092

> […] Speaking only for us (I work for Joyent), we have deployed hundreds of thousands of zones into production over the years -- and Joyent was running with FreeBSD jails before that […]

And I’ve seen some other primary sources (people who worked at Joyent) write that online too.

And Bryan Cantrill, and several other people, came from Sun Microsystems to Joyent. Though I’ve never seen it mentioned which order that happened in; was it people from Sun that joined Joyent and then Joyent switched from FreeBSD to Illumos and creating SmartOS? Or had Joyent already switched to Illumos before the people that came from Sun joined?

I would actually really enjoy a long documentary or talk from some people that worked at Joyent about the history of the company, how they were using FreeBSD and when they switched to Illumos and so on.
And I'll also add that night-charging can only scale up to a point, there's a point where the country would end up consuming more at night than during the day.

So it really depends on the local situation, local energy mix, local infrastructure.
Let's assume that the average token size in your 1GB file is 4 characters (which is the average that the OpenAI tokenizer generally will get; I assume the Llama tokenizer is similar). 4 chars is 4 bytes, assuming here that you're using UTF-8 and your characters are in the Latin range, so that means your training data is about 264MM tokens.

Let's assume you're doing a single-epoch LoRA training run. A single H100 should be enough to train Llama 3.1 8B, and it should crank through 264MM tokens in a couple hours, IMO. Since you're not doing multi-GPU training, a PCIe H100 should be fine — you don't need the slightly pricier SXM H100s — and the PCIe versions go for about $2.50/hr on Runpod.

So, about $5 for a custom model, that's probably the best in the world at whatever your task is! (Even if it might be a little dumber at other tasks.) Insanely cheap when you think about it.

TPUs won't beat H100s on price for on-demand personal use cases, but for reserved capacity (i.e. businesses) they're slightly cheaper.
Solar power is new development, and it would be naturally to do it in parallel with charging infra in business districts thus providing another sink for all that daytime generated power.
The answer is in the OP's Reader-LM report:

About their readability-markdown pipeline:
"Some users found it too detailed, while others felt it wasn’t detailed enough. There were also reports that the Readability filter removed the wrong content or that Turndown struggled to convert certain parts of the HTML into markdown. Fortunately, many of these issues were successfully resolved by patching the existing pipeline with new regex patterns or heuristics."

To answer their question about the potention of a SML doing this, they see 'room for improvement' - but as their benchmark shows, it's not up to their classic pipeline.

You echo their research question: "instead of patching it with more heuristics and regex (which becomes increasingly difficult to maintain and isn’t multilingual friendly), can we solve this problem end-to-end with a language model?"
I support the goals of the article and I understand that social interaction doesn't come natural to all people, but if someone would lean in an nod to me like described in the second part I would freak out because that feels like sociopathic behavior.
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An aligned future, for sure. Current commercial LLMs refuse to talk about “keeping secrets” (protection of identity) or pornographic topics (which, in the communities I frequent – made of individuals who have been oppressed partly because of their sexuality –, is an important subject). And uncensored AIs are not really a solution either.
Cyber-offending and traditional offending over the life course [pdf]
But Bryan also ported KVM to Illumos. And Joyand used KVM and they supported KVM there for years, I assume Bryan knows more about KVM then Bhyve as he seemed very hands on in the implementation (there is nice talk on youtube). So the idea that he isn't familiar with KVM isn't the case. So based on that KVM or Bhyve on Illumos, KVM would suggest itself.

In the long term if $A is actually better then $B, then it makes sense to start with $A even if you don't know $A. Because if you are trying to building a company that is hopefully making billions in revenue in the future, then long term matters a great deal.

Now the question is can you objectively figure out if $A or $B is better. And how much time does it take to figure out. Familiarity of the team is one consideration but not the most important one.

Trying to be objective about this, instead of just saying 'I know $A' seems quite like a smart thing to do. And writing it down also seems smart.

In a few years you can look back and actually say, was our analysis correct, if no what did we misjudge. And then you can learn from that.

If you just go with familiarity you are basically saying 'our failure was predetermined so we did nothing wrong', when you clearly did go wrong.
If you trust the Michelin system and live in a city big enough to support it, Bib Gourmand is a good choice. Otherwise something like Google Maps combined with research related to what you want (something family casual, more upscale, etc.)
You are partially correct - of course my expectations for Terraria were set partially by prior knowledge of similar games. But they were also set by Terraria screenshots, trailers and feature lists, where crafting was presented as one of the core features. Nowhere did they mention they are missing such a basic feature as a crafting list and I'd never suspect a modern game may be missing such a basic feature. So I don't really think it's unreasonable expectation on my part.

A person who lived under the rock and found Terraria one day, probably wouldn't call it unplayable, having nothing to compare it against. I remember back in old days, where you'd have to figure out many cryptic mechanisms on your own in the old games. But yet here we are - decades later, and yes I do expect modern games would fully learn from mistakes of the past and provide such basic functionality as crafting lists in the game itself.
Which is quite fair license, earn the same as one is willing to give to the authors of the tools that make the application possible in first place.
Hey, sign me up. Outside the "necessary evil" trade-offs inherent to facilitating one-on-one meetups, I would really love a platform that treats people like people, not cattle to be milked for money.
"Weird vibes" is what finally made me check the author name ... I don't even know what "spidey sense" should mean.
Given the overlap between those communities and OSS people I’m amazed no one has created a B Corp that does this stuff right.
This is just typical FUD. There is no general and hypothetical parent that could shield you here.

Government is historically the largest threat to any population.
It is most important to take a very good probiotic capsule about three hours after taking every antibiotic pill. If you choose not to take it, the shock to the gut can be profound. Also, things like L-glutamine are good for helping the gut heal to the extent that it can.
Those are not the only options. You can have KVM on Illumos, or Bhye on FreeBSD.

And finding people to heir that know Linux/KVM wouldn't be a problem for them.

This evaluation was done years ago and they added like 50 people since then.

Saying 'We have a great KVM Team but our CEO was once an Illumos developer' is perfectly reasonable.

And as I point out in my other comment, the former Joyant people like know more about KVM then anything else anyway. So it would be:

"Buy our KVM Solution, we have KVM experts"

But they evaluated that Bhyve was better then KVM despite that.
Saddest part is that this sort of stuff or at least not proper authorization checks is very common. I do not really know what is the solution at this point. Clearly not enough developers care. Or can stop it...

Is it education problem? If so if there was training budget a day or two running against some simple capture the flag exercise might do a lot...
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Global population is still rapidly growing despite developed nations moving toward stable numbers.