skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the issue is that you hate the United States, you'll always find something to criticize, and I think we'll never find common ground.

That's the issue, I'm not viewing this through a moral lens. I know you believe a priori the West is essentially Good and communism is essentially Bad, because that is what we are taught in school. Then it becomes easy to find evidence that fits your conclusion, there is literally a government-backed industry manufacturing such "evidence" (USG has earmarked something like $3B purely for funding anti-China propaganda). There's no point trying to reason someone out of an opinion they didn't reason themselves into.

I think both systems have pros/cons, and the proof is in the pudding. China evolved out of a difficult colonial period and civil war to become world leader in many technologies.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Some of those fetishized tools are themselves anti patterns.
I don't know whether Russia is flying jets over NATO airspace. If they're not then NATO shouldn't be flying them over Russia.

In my idea it would be essential to confirm Russia is responsible for anything before the even counterattack. If there's an attack NATO can't confirm, the only thing they would do is defend and monitor more closely in case Russia tries the same attack in the future. Only the things that the Russian government definitely does to NATO, NATO would do to them.
Native code in an npm module should be regarded as a massive red flag.
Sorry about that! It's on our list to fix once we're done responding to comments.
> AP doesn't have the facilities for global aggregation which can power search, discovery, algorithms, and metrics.

I guess you should also refuse to use the Internet itself, too.

> We felt that strong account portability was an extremely important feature of the system, to ensure that users don't get locked into a specific host

So how do I leave a host and join another, independent one in Bluesky?
Title has a misleading domain name (gwern.net). Link is to a PhD thesis titled "Scaling Laws for Deep Learning" by Jonathan Rosenfeld. Not sure why wasn't linked more directly,

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07686

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.07686#page=85
FWIW lots of ATM happily ran OS/2 1.x.
It's the JS equivalent of allowing native bindings (like JNI in Java).
Bird flu risk to humans: Canadian case has unsettling viral mutations
> But how will AMD or anyone else push in? CUDA is actually a whole virtualization layer on top of the hardware and isn't easily replicable, Nvidia has been at it for 17 years.

NVidia currently has 80-90% gross margins on their LLM GPUs, that’s all the incentive another company needs to invest money into a CUDA alternative.
"take", these people would never have produced any data if gmaps wasn't there...
A high grade consumer gpu a (a 4090) is about 80 teraflops. So rounding up to 100, an exaflop is about 10,000 consumer grade cards worth of compute, and a petaflop is about 10.

Which doesn’t help with understanding how much more impressive these are than the last clusters, but does to me at least put the amount of compute these clusters have into focus.
It has less to do with the U.S. banking system, and more a case of Chase in particular being run by fools.
Come on dude. He said "we will bring an end to it", and when the reporter challenged him how he's going to do this given that it's a deal between Germany and Russia, he said "I promise you we will be able to do it."

People have been convicted of murder on less evidence.
Artists are very rarely concerned with their audience. Good Art, capital A, is the unique expression of a singular consciousness - you can't produce that by catering to an audience. That's just a product (see Warhol).
This is sort of the inverse of the problem IPA is trying to solve. You're correct in that IPA is used to try to encode pronunciation. But phonetic matching is trying to encode those areas where different people, in different accents (maybe languages), say or write semantically the same thing, but differently -- but you need to find all the others using only one of the different versions without finding things that are not or irrelevant.

Basically it's trying to smush all the different versions together into a single sort of cluster, where the identity of the cluster is any of the versions.

I used to work in this field about 30 years ago, specifically how names can end up being latinized when coming from non-latin languages. We were very focused on trying to collapse variants into a complex ruleset that could be used both to recognize the cluster of names as being the same "thing", and then that ruleset could also produce all the valid variants. It was very much a kind of applied "expert systems" approach that predated ML.

The rulesets were more or less context free grammars and regular expressions that we could use to "decompile" a name token into a kind of limited regular expression (no infinite closures) and then recompile the expression back into a list of other variants. Each variant in turn was supposed to "decompile" back into the same expression so a name could be part of a kind of closed algebra of names all with the same semantic meaning.

For example:

A Korean name like "Park" might turn into a {rule} that would also generate "Pak", "Paek", "Baek", etc.

Any one of those would also generate the same {rule}.

In practice it worked surprisingly well, and the struggle was mostly in identifying the areas where the precision/recall in this scheme caused the names to not form a closed algebra.

Building the rules was an ungoldly amount of human labor though, with expert linguists involved at every step.

These days I'm sure the problem would be approached in an entirely different way.
A lot of newer building codes require fans to be constantly running anyway due to the other part of the building codes requiring high r-value insulation.
Why did you click on "The tragedy of running an old Node project" then
We are finding a lot of success in the ML Ops space for exactly this reason. I also completely agree that enterprise customers want to keep their data where they can govern and audit it (often in S3). We're excited about the possibility to allow folks to access and use that data while it stays in S3 for primary storage.

I agree around the questions with Mountpoint, and we're solving a very different set of problems than Mountpoint. Mountpoint, for example, isn't designed to be used with all file applications and lacks support for things like appends to existing files, random writes, renames, and symbolic links. On the other hand, Regatta supports POSIX semantics and can work with nearly all file based applications.
To which they will respond with something from their VC deck, like, “because we’re Uber for <whatever>”

Buddy that’s not a reason, that’s a rationalization.
I could imagine conflict arising when switching between single and double precision causing inequality like this.
sci-hub hasn't been updated in 4 years and the sources for annas-archive like nexus-stc are seriously hit or miss (depends on the field).
If is a Russian company is no mystery what happened. Sanctions hit the company, closing it.
Packing things into a GPU texture is probably the #1 most common use. If you played a game today then your computer probably spent some time packing rectangles into rectangles.
These are the kinds of projects I would love for philanthropic billionaires to get behind rather than political garbage. It’s something that can serve everyone everywhere
The Top500 list is useful as a public, standardized baseline that is straightforward, with a predicted periodicity for more than 30 years. It is trickier to compare cloud infras due to their heterogeneity, fast pace, and more importantly, due the lack of standardized tests, although the MLCommons [1] have been very keen on helping with that.

[1] https://mlcommons.org/datasets/
the cynic would say if you can't be tracked, you can't be monetized. unfortunately, being successfully un-de-anonymizable means you can't be distinguished from a bot.
Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coincidences.
Same on Solaris. Maintaining userland compatibility was a large part of what Sun did.
I like this image at the top
People will buy less of it. This is literally the degrowth approach for climate change mitigation put into practice.
After skimming the article, I'm confused -- where exactly is the headline being pulled from?

If you look at the table toward the bottom, no matter how you slice it, Nvidia has 50% of the total cores, 50% of the total flops, and 90% of the total systems among the Top 500, while AMD has 26% of the total cores, 27.5% of the total flops, and 7% of the total systems.

Is it a matter of newly-added compute?

> This time around, on the November 2024 Top500 rankings, AMD is the big winner in terms of adding capacity to the HPC base.
Train it to attribute its failure to land on wokeness, have it generate designs for merch that communicate this idea, and book an appearance on JRE and it'll have completed the arc of a lot of short run comics.
There are many LLMs that are producing original "thought".

ESM3: https://www.evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release

AlphaProof/AlphaGeometry2: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

MatPilot discovering new materials: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08063

Then of course NVidia Omniverse with their digital-twin learning.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-ai-big-scientific-b...
It is not so much the wasted space that bugs me as all the metadata and processing of that metadata.

For instance, the 70,000 files in your node_modules do not need separate owner and group fields (they all belong to the same user under normal conditions) and are all +rw for the files and +rwx for the directories. If you have access to one you have access to all and if your OS is access checking each file you are paying in terms of battery life, time, etc.

On Windows it is the same story except the access control system is much more complex and is slower. (I hope that Linux is not wasting a lot of time processing the POSIX ACLs you aren’t using!)
That's reversed. The number of people can be mapped linearly, but not the intensity of the pain.

(Intuitively, it's hard to say saving 100 people is 100x as good as saving 1, because we can't have 100 best friends, but it doesn't affect the math at all)
> The weakness is not accidental, they've been weaving their agents and shaping public opinion. Now they are engaged in asymmetrical warfare. Germany has been doing deals with the Russians buying gas and oil from them. Merkel laughed at the US for being worried about it:

Yep.. When Merkel was German chancellor, I thought she was amazing. Not a big fan anymore :(

> It doesn't matter. It attacked one of the largest countries in Europe, captured territory and is still holding it and making progress. Right under EU's nose. It can brutally throw men in the meat grinder and doesn't worry too much about it. Calling Putin like Sholz did or like Macron didn't help. Showing him a fist that's ready to strike, only that works. Anything else is showing weakness.

Yeah. I agree. Putin is not interested in anything but power. And he doesn't listen to anything but power. Europe is slow and timid, but the impacts of ww2 are still deeply embedded in our cultural memory.
Hah! It can be a very HN comment to "just" something especially around physical engineering.
It seems so intentionally "broken", I can only guess it is to prevent scraping? Since searching for generic-ish search terms and sorting by date is a common scraping strategy.

Still, you'd think they'd do a cutoff of e.g. 500 or 1,000 items rather than filter by the past year.

So I can't help but wonder if it's a contractual limitation insisted on by publishers? Since the publishers also don't want all their papers being spidered via Scholar? It feels kind of like a limitation a lawyer came up with.
To be clear, I am not proposing boarding Russian ships. That is pointless.

But the answer to your question is a. Referring to UNCLOS 101(a)(ii) the cables are "property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State".
I find it somewhat ironic and hilarious that Americans depend on wood from across an ocean when Canada is right there and is covered by trees on at least 80% of its land
Isn’t the negative prompting thing with image generators just how they work? As far as I understand, the problem is that training data isn’t normally annotated with „no elephant“ with all images without elephant, so putting „no elephant“ in the prompt most closely matches training data that’s annotated with „elephant“ and includes elephants. The image models aren’t really made to understand proper sentences, I think.
When it comes to blockbuster movies AI could certainly create them, they're so formulaic that you could probably even get away with Markov chains.
> For other languages I have exposure to, IPA seems to make more sense.

> But also, they have cleaner phonetics, cleaner orthography, and less regional variation of phonemes.

The first and last of those are essentially guaranteed to be false.

> Possibly I have a bias in that they're not my native language

The more likely bias is that you just don't know very much about those other languages.
Peach: A Method for Arc-AGI
Yes, in terms of market share.

But the key difference is that it's leagues better than other browser engines on quality. From the perspective of competition this isn't great, but the network effects are hard to ignore. Firefox and Safari (webkit) just tend not to work as well.

It's very different in terms of quality though. Internet Explorer was a terrible browser and often lagging in implementing standards. The better comparison would be Safari now, which often completely breaks many sites on mobile for me. It also doesn't eliminate a lot of newer CSS animations properly.

This is really very unfortunate because it's good to have competition in browser implementations. Everything is Chrome under the hood now except for Safari and Firefox.
It's not "spurious psychological reasons". It is being honest that issues will never, ever meet the bar to be fixed. Pretending otherwise by leaving them open and ranking them in the backlog is a waste of time and attention.
Because you didn't order the illegal Acacia?

It's not like elephant ivory - the wood can come from a number of places and look about the same. As an end user you asked for "wood floors" and you got wood floors, and it was up to the supplier to select the wood used in the flooring, while the supplier is also lying about the source so all parties post-supplier have deniability here, no?
I prefer the line: “make it as simple as possible, but no simpler”

Sometimes complexity is simply the right tool for the job. Complexity is essential and valuable in all sorts of places - like fuzzers, LLMs, compilers, rendering engines, kernel schedulers and so on. But projects only have so much complexity budget to spend. I think I've spent my whole career trying to figure out how to spend complexity wisely. And I could spend decades more on it.
I don't find it bizarre: even assembly language don't have much control over the memory hierarchy, there's prefetch load and nothing else...
And just to add an extra corner case, Mobile Safari changes the click behavior if an onclick handler is registered - even if the click handler is an empty function that does nothing. The onclick handler itself acts as another Boolean that affects the browser's behavior. I don't remember the exact details because it was a corner case (I think to do with scrolling or popovers or touchcancel - I know it was surprisingly nasty). This page mentions something else http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/09/click_event_... "Fortunately it’s pretty easy to solve: you have to make the element clickable by giving it an onclick event handler of its very own. That handler can be empty; as long as it’s present it will make any element clickable.".
Surely if the US was actually in a situation where it was attacked and had to defend itself, they’d be able to do that. If nothing else, the civilians have a whole lot of guns too and attacks on the US (think Pearl Harbor, 911) have a massive rallying effect. As far as I know, the biggest thing preventing a civilian semi-automatic from being converted to an automatic firearm is the risk of a long prison stint.
In the end, maximizing GDP per Capita pretty closely maximizes most positive social outcomes. Richer countries are happier, less lonely, kinder to each other, etc.
sci-hub proper hasn't been updated since it's indefinite pause in december 2020.
Alternatives are of variable success depending on field. It might be better for CS/Math, but medicine and life sciences it's pretty bad.
Also true in the UK. Even in a war the UK armed forces are ultimately tasked by and report to politicians.
if the hardware is 30% slower and 2x cheaper, that's a pretty great deal.
The Russian military doctrine is quite different from the US one. It places far more importance on artillery and anti-air forces than on air superiority. The Russian army clearly sucks at maneuver warfare and together with the unrealistically optimistic views which were prevalent in the Russian government (read Putin), it explains perfectly well the extremely poor performance in the first months. The performance in the recent months shows results of a more "comfortable" for the Russian army mode of warfare.

Also note that the Russian army was not "fully committed", it was not using conscripts (there was a small scale deployment of conscripts, but after the public scandal they were quickly removed from Ukraine) and did not fully pull forces from all its military districts.

Meanwhile Ukraine was fighting in the total war mode from the first days (they do not pull "recruits" from streets in the broad daylight into military buses just for the fun of it) with huge external support. And having the well trained by the West ideologically charged army backbone with 8 years of practical warfare experience has helped immensely in the first months.
10 years ago someone would be proposing how the blockchain could solve this problem.
Nothing lasts forever, but the model of buying a paper for 40$ from Elsevier isn't much better.
Depending on the field there are other sources, but still a hit rate is about 85-90%.
For account hosting: https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

For running a relay and appview, the code is dispersed among https://github.com/bluesky-social and we're working on a straight-forward distribution
Come on. This is soo not cool. You cannot call something this amazingly effing polished - a "side" project. As someone who struggles with FE I went into a mini depression mode! really amazing work. Please please put a write up on how you built this (if you are willing to share). Im really interested in the FE magic!
The chaos monkey is there to remind you to always mount a scratch monkey.
> AMD GPUs drove 72.1 percent of the new performance added for the November 2024 rankings
Are you sure it's not actually applying friction brakes?

I have a Model 3, and even when the driving mode is set to "Stop" (enabling one-pedal driving), I know that it's applying the friction brakes at low speeds, even when the battery is warm and not full.

Regen isn't enough to slow the car to a stop, even in ideal conditions, and it certainly can't hold the car in place.
Pretty cool. I'm excited about databases using this. Feels like Neon's PostgreSQL storage, but generalized to an FS.

Is this like FUSE with a cache? How does cache invalidation work?

All the best!
Sure, Apple did the same thing with TSMC's 5nm node. They still lost in performance-per-watt in direct comparison with Nvidia GPUs using Samsung's 8nm node. Money isn't everything, even when you have so much of it that you can deny your competitors access to the tech you use.

Nvidia's lead is not only cemented by dense silicon. Their designs are extremely competitive, perhaps even a generational leap over what their competitors offer.
It remains to be seen that anyone besides the EA community takes the EA community seriously, I wouldn't worry about it.
IIRC there have already been proof of concept attacks made using MicroSD cards with the microcontroller modified
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2014/01/02/could-new-malware-...
They don't differentiate. They just make it too expensive to be worth paying for the resources required to carry out a spam attack at any meaningful scale.
That’s not going to come to apple devices for a long time, I think. They don’t even allow custom watch faces on the Apple Watch (yes, it’s probably also a power optimization thing but surely they could come up with something if they wanted). Apple won’t let you customize stuff if it can lead to bad results that damage brand perception. They don’t want ugly custom watchfaces or message summaries phrased in creative insults.
Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of which country you have a problem with or what your reasons are. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's not mentioned in the article. It does mention that the numbers of the victims were shared, but doesn't specifically say they were spoofed.

If it's that easy to spoof a phone number then that system is completely fucked and not fit for purpose.

And the efforts that a private investigator needed to go to, to track down the perpetrator, indicates that there is no way to track the source of the phone calls - that's ludicrous (but probably the norm).
It's probably not. You can put any domain you want on the "from" address. Just because it says it was from Gmail doesn't mean it actually was, unless it's signed with DKIM etc.

I had a domain for a while that people got spam "from" all the time. It had nothing to do with me and there was nothing I could do about it.
Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed
I wish GScholar wouldn't embrace bibliometrics so much. Sort papers by date (most recent papers first) by default on an author's page rather than by citation count, or at least give author the choice to individually opt-in to sort by date by default.
Thank you for this. I miss the old web, and these old blog posts from 2011. The world would be a richer place if we all read a few websites from the not-to-distant past.
Easy REST API access can be a quite useful feature too.

For automated integration testing it's a must. The test can verify in the end if the expected emails were sent out.

I think Mailpit can even be set up as a real SMTP server, handling a (sub) domain. Either as a MX or just via forwarding rules. Sometimes it can be useful to periodically run integration tests on a production system. So your tests could create accounts based on your test domain (random-user-name@testsystem.company.tld), which is deliverable from every email server, and the tests can verify the delivery. An automated script can then periodically delete the *@testsystem.company.tld accounts.
No - I had an unopened medication that I wanted to return just ONE day after purchase because I found it much cheaper elsewhere. This isn't about disposal - I simply wanted a standard refund for an unopened product, like any other retail purchase. Instead, CVS's only "solution" was to have me throw away a perfectly good medication.

The point isn't about medication disposal - it's about their no-refund policy even for sealed, unopened medications purchased days or even hours ago. How does this benefit anyone except CVS's bottom line?