skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I understand correctly that the data gets decrypted at your Regatta AWS instances, before the data ends up in the customer's S3 bucket? It sounds like the SSL pipe used for NFS is terminated at Regatta servers. Can customers run the Regatta service on their own hardware?

Or does Regatta only have access to filesystem metadata -- enough to do POSIX stuffs like locks, mv, rm -- but the file contents themselves remain encrypted end-to-end?
Sorry, yeah, for some stupid reason I was not thinking about live streams.
Tower 8.0 for Windows
It seems like tasking a software engineer to figure this out when the industry at large hasn't figured this out just isn't fair.

Best I can see (using Rust) is a hashmap on UTF-8 string keys and every code in existence gets inserted into the hash map with an enum struct based on the code type. So you are forced to switch over each enum case and handle each case no matter what region code type.

It becomes apparent that the problem must be handled with app logic earlier in the system; to query a database of codes, you must also know which code and "what type" of code it is. Users are going to want to give the code only, so there's some interesting mis-direction introduced; the system has to somehow fuzzy match the best code for the itinerary. Correct me if i'm wrong, but the above seems like a mandatory step in solving the problem which would have caught the exception.

I echo other comments that say that there's probably 60% more work involved than your manager realizes.
I'm sure there is also a lot not on the Top500. I've got enough AMD MI300x compute for about 140th position, but haven't submitted numbers.
I am not endorsing Russia.

- shooting down civilians planes is something quite common in military operations (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_... ). A bunch of 20 somethings handling equipment designed for mass murder. What could possibly go wrong?

- extra judicial killings on foreign soil are more common than you expect (remember the Saudis ? Or the Indian assassinated in Canada recently)

Russia is an authoritarian system by any account it holds responsibility for repulsive acts. But the current narrative is at best naive.
"The internet has literally become unusable for me without ublock origin."

I thought uBlock Origin was only for certain web browsers, i.e., it is specifically for the www only (cf. the internet).
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which nation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah OP is winning at life about 10 times over.
> The bear metaphore is indeed nonsense. Russia is not a bear, you are dealing with a bunch of state level criminals

With nukes, which makes them pretty scary.
Why not simply ban it then? Why the song and dance with "consent forms" when it's well understood that most people will just click "OK" to get the popup out of their face and get on with what they wanted to do?
Yes but there is an intent component so only if they didn’t exercise “due care.” A consumer might be liable if they buy something obviously illegally harvested like Cuban mahogany (unless it’s very old stock that predates the ban) from some rando on Craigslist but if they’re buying wood from a lumberyard or hardware store, they’re likely in the clear (IANAL).
Not All Problems Are Great Fits for LLMs
Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.
Incidentally, I would add that while he never specified, he very likely may have shipped out as a “general medical officer” with the crew not necessarily knowing he had a deeper skill set. They wouldn’t necessarily twig to it on early deployment. Only when they take on a SEAL team and a surgeon would it become obvious (or he goes on another boat with a surgeon as the GMO). The only obvious clue would have been his being slightly older than a typical GMO.
This is very common in the developing world, due to lax regulations on lead in products.
So, no, the problem with IE was 100% Microsoft's hostile competition tactics. Yes, part of that was trying to deprecate the "world wide web" as a platform, so yes, IE6 got very crufty toward the end of its days.

But by that point it was clear it was already dying and IE7 et. al. were introduced late as an attempt to catch up. During the period when the real bullets were flying, IE6 was actually a really great browser, just one that forced you into using a menu of Microsoft technologies because it didn't support the "standard" stuff. Remember that XMLHttpRequest, the basic tool underneath all modern dynamic web UIs, was originally a non-standard Microsoft invention.

And yes: eventually this proved unsustainable and innovation in the standards-based browser world eventually proved too fast for MS to keep up, and it lost.

But the tool that broke the back of that monopoly absolutely wasn't Firefox. It was Chrome.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of nation.

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> people do business with people, not with companies

Many of my interactions are with electronic systems deployed by companies or the state. It's rare that I deal with an actual person a lot of the time (which is sad, but that's another story).
How does that translate into kidney lifespan? I would expect only one kidney to “wear out” sooner, no?
HN is “for” startups. This is a startup. What’s the problem?
> And in general, to disagree with the postmodern conception of truth doesn’t imply that you think power is
> irrelevant. Just that you believe it’s at least possible to construct rational or adaptive
> processes for finding truth and designating authority, and that it’s possible to compare such systems and to
> evaluate truth claims in light of the processes that produced them.

Well, "postmodernists believe it's impossible to construct rational processes for finding truth" is a strawman if I've ever seen one.

Ironically, a postmodern approach would have likely been more fruitful in this attempt to deconstruct ideology, er-hem, I meant to say, to discuss "some sort of complex, multi-layered construct that shapes and constrains our beliefs, values, and positions on a wide range of issues".
They do this in subsets of aerodynamics for optimizing the tradeoff between simulation speed and fidelity in cases where there will be a lot of runs with the same geometry but different parameters
Google employs a lot of people from academia. Scholar is used and loved by a lot of people within Google. It's been around for two decades. I really don't think it's going anywhere.
> This sort of thing was only a matter of time.

In the current single vendor model. An intermediary could accept the samples, blind identities, then provide a "one time" mechanism for retrieving results.

Bill Burr's take was pretty good. "What.. I'm going to spit in a tube and mail it into the internet?"
We donated one of our MI300x systems to the SCALE team. The moat-less future is coming more quickly than you think.

https://scale-lang.com/
Canada is the largest foreign source of wood for the US, so I’m not sure where the irony is. They don’t grow much acacia or eucalyptus as far as I’m aware.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wood-products...
In which GNUStep confuses and ultimately disappoints (2017)
This article is from 2017 but it perfectly resonates with my GNUstep experience today, sadly.
But judging by the discussions on the GNUstep mailing lists over the course of the year this gap has been recognized and people have started working on it.
Apparently, this is not enough because there is a shortage of helping hands. May this submission serve as a reminder to people interested in GNUstep to help making a difference.
Yes, I saw that, but that doesn't justify the title as written. Had it said "AMD Now Has More New Compute" I wouldn't have said anything.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of nation.

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Ya exactly - no one cares about top500 outside of academia (literally have never heard it come up at work). So this is like the gold star (participation award) of DCGPU competition.
> Except on bluesky, you don't even get to be confused because it doesn't support any kinds of moves!

This is simply not true. There's hundreds of folks who have moved their stuff over. I haven't yet but will be doing so, been too busy with other stuff. But I follow a bunch of people that have moved, and there was zero disruption on my end.
Here's why you should only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
Nope, I've never experienced that issue, in a decade of using these keyboards for gaming.
Notably this desire -- to own a platform by making "native" code for your proprietary OS the "preferred" way to interact with the world -- was exactly the logic behind MS's "embrace and extend" nonsense in the 90's. It still feels weird to me that people don't react the same way when Apple does it.
Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets.

Unity took all the buckets outside, burned them, then demanded money from all their customers. I've not seen new projects using them, because stakeholders are concerned about surprise expenses down the line.
Maybe we need the political will to credibly threaten with high tariffs, but you could scratch the same itch by sequencing the lumber's genome on receipt and checking it against a registry of plantation-grown species maintained by companies known to have paid for whatever environmental auditing we require of our lumber imports.

Trying to do that with tariffs creates a situation where only domestic companies are able to break the rules--which of course they're going to do domestically. I don't want to buy things that are harming Cambodia, but substituting them with things that are harming America is not any better.
Internet Explorer was an attempt to monopolize and control the early internet. They intentionally left standards unimplemented or just implemented their own insane version of them in order to trap people into the platform.

It's no wonder the product saw them taken to court over antitrust violations.
@dang is a no-op. If you want a response rate that's better than random, you need to email hn@ycombinator.com.

I agree that posting flamewar generalizations about national groups is not ok on HN.
Reminds me of a short story "Jokester" by Asimov :)
>My lan parties were more adhoc. Plan to play at some dudes/gals house, bring pcs/laptops/consoles and other gear, run cat5 cable between rooms, hook them up to some shitty switch and go to town.

Those are almost impossible to organize once your friends are old enough to have kids. OP's removes all of the friction in getting a lan party together and just works.
"The" group operation is the standard one for elliptic curves, that the article discusses. "The" here means "the one we're talking about" and also "the ones that mathematicians mean if they're not specifying otherwise". The vast majority of possible group structures on a given set are not particularly noteworthy and aren't under discussion.

I didn't bother specifying the correct one because I didn't think it was important enough to the point to be worth the effort to describe. But for completeness, if we use # to denote the operation described by fermigier above, then the group law a+b is given by a+b=(a#b)#O, where O here denotes the vertical point at infinity.

...and at this point we get into a whole can of worms, because that's right this whole time this was actually all taking place in the projective plane, not the affine plane, a complication the article didn't get into, meaning there's this hidden point you didn't know about. And actually we could have used any point as the basepoint and gotten a group law (although they all end up being isomorphic!), which is why technically an elliptic curve is (despite the name) defined to be not just a curve of genus 1, but rather a curve of genus 1 together with a choice of basepoint; the use of the vertical point at infinity as basepoint is just the default convention when you're doing things in this equational way rather than more abstractly, etc... and now you see why I didn't want to get into it.

Also, # isn't a group law because it doesn't satisfy the requirements of one. For instance, there's no identity (maybe barring some weird degenerate cases? I'm not an algebraic geometer so I'm not too familiar with the details here). For # to have an identity P, all of the curve's tangent lines would have to pass through P (and P would have to be an inflection point). Again, not an algebraic geometer but I think that's impossible! (It certainly isn't typical.) I also don't think # is associative but I don't really want to check that right now. Regardless it definitely is not typically a group structure.
While AI will ( and does) reduce the burden of writers, it’s going to -kill- celebrity acting in most cases.

In doing so, it will turn directing on its ear in a way that many talented directors will not be able to adapt to.

Directors will become proxy actors by having to micromanage AI acting skills. Or Perhaps they will be augmented with a team of “character operators” that do the proxy-acting. Either way, there will be little point in paying celebrity actors and their extravagant salaries for most roles. Instead, it might turn out that skilled and talented generic, no-name actors can play any role, then have the character model deepfaked onto them… which could actually create a large demand in lower paying jobs for character actors, possibly actually being a kind of boom in the acting business.

Lots of possibilities, but the director is going to take center stage in this new reality, while celebrity actors will have to swallow hard as they are priced out of their field.
A long time ago, some websites used to pack their images and use css to display a piece of the larger image. It reduced the number of round trips by not having to fetch a bunch of small files.
Its true everywhere except for military dictatorships.
Spoken like a manager.

Look, when you're barking orders at the guys in the trenches who, understandably in fear for their jobs, do the stupid "business-smart" thing, then it is entirely the fault of management.

I can't tell you how many times just in the last year I've been blamed-by-proxy for doing something that was decreed upon me by some moron in a corner office. Everything is an emergency, everything needs to be done yesterday, everything is changing all the time because King Shit and his merry band of boot-licking middle managers decide it should be.

Software engineers, especially ones with significant experience, are almost surely more right than middle managers. "Shouldn't we consider this case?" is almost always met with some parable about "overengineering" and followed up by a healthy dose of "that's not AGILE". I have grown so tired of this and thanks to the massive crater in job mobility most of us just do as we are told.

It's the power imbalance. In this light, all blame should fall on the manager unless it can be explicitly shown to be developer problems. The addage "those who can, do, and those who can't, teach" applies equally to management.

When it's my f@#$U neck on the line and the only option to keep my job is do the stupid thing you can bet I'll do the stupid thing. Thank god there's no malpractice law in software.

Poor you - only one of our jobs is getting shipped overseas.
I have an on-going topic with friends at work about what accessibility "means".

It annoys me to no end when devs talk about some specific technical change "increasing accessibility". The accessibility best practices are used as a checklist where more checks = more accessibility points = better. It results in people gaming the score with meaningless repetitive metadata or low-impact tweaks, rather than actually improving the descriptive/alternative/touch/visual interface. Usually never even trying any alternative method of interacting with an interface.

The best practice is "always include metadata", but it leaves off "... that adds context about the element rather than noise, and integrates with a surrounding application that uses consistent metadata labelling. Remember, this is a portion of a complete descriptive interface someone has to use."

These best practices being driven into people's brains verbatim means conversations devolve into inane on-or-off taxonomy discussions like "is this colour accessible?" or "have we added accessibility? Do you need a ticket for that?" where pushing back isn't seen as caring about users, it's seen as being "against accessibility".

https://graypegg.com/2023/11/25/the-private-definition-of-ac...
At one point I contributed quite a bit to google maps, because it was the primary map system I was using at the time. Had I been using an OSM-based system, I would have made contributions there instead.
If the image indicates how little you will use these systems I’m not sure why you would care how realistic they are.
I think the basic premise of this paper is wrong. Very few natural signals are bandlimited - if images were, they would be no need to store in high resolution, you could just upsample. Natural spectra tend to be pink (decaying ~3dB/octave), which can be explained by the fractal nature of our world (zoom in on details and you find more detail).
To answer your other comment: yes, the MCP from Tron was named after the Burroughs/Unisys OS. Bonnie MacBird, the screenwriter for Tron, is the wife of Alan Kay, who served as technical consultant, and she dropped references both to himself (Alan Bradley) and his areas of interest (Kay loved the Burroughs architecture and in particular its tagged-memory features) in the script for the movie.

Interesting to learn the real MCP was nearly as hostile as its fictional namesake.
I mean it would also fit seamlessly into an Islamist lecture from Sayyid Qutb, or a primitivist rant from Ted Kaczynski, and so on. Anyone ideologically opposed to the Western "capitalism plus liberal democracy" combo pretty much has to form their opposition on anti-materialist and/or anti-integration grounds, because those are the only ones where it isn't an overwhelming, crushing victory over every alternative.
Indeed, but you can easily imagine a software glitch over what looks like a single location but which the computer sees as two separate ones.
Any evidence to back up "With Unreal becoming the Chrome of the game engine world"?
It depends. If it's not exposed to a network and doesn't have any awful bugs, than it should be fine.

Usually those mailtrap servers have some exposure to the company intranet or sometimes the internet, which could be problematic. Even test systems might receive sensitive data in the emails, that shouldn't be leaked to an attacker. An unmaintained software might have well known security issues.
Just say it stands for “Tailwind is pretty super” or “Tailwind integrated play space”

Done!
scihub is dying unfortunately :( the good news is it is happening just as all the fields i'm interested in except for some experimental physics & biology have moved to OA
What do you mean ... You can just sync with whatever you want. I sync my mobile Logseq with my PCs with syncthing.
> Nvidia B200s ... offer 2-3x the performance of H100s

For ML, not for HPC. ML and HPC are two completely different, only loosely related fields.

ML tasks are doing great with low precision, 16 and 8 bit precision is fine, arguably good results can be achieved even with 4 bit precision [0][1]. That won't do for HPC tasks, like predicting global weather, computational biology, etc. -- one would need 64 to 128 bit precision for that.

Nvidia needs to decide how to divide the billions of transistors on their new silicon. Greatly oversimplifying, they can choose to make one of the following:

* Card A with *n* FP64 cores, or
* Card B with *2n* FP32 cores, or
* Card C with *4n* FP16 cores, or
* Card D with *8n* FP8 cores, or (theoretically)
* Card E with *16n* FP4 cores (not sure if FP4 is a thing).

Card A would give HPC guys n usable cores, and it would give ML guys n usable cores. On the other end, Card E would give ML guys 16n usable cores (and zero usable cores for HPC guys). It's no wonder that HPC crowd wants Nvidia to produce Card A, while ML crowd wants Nvidia to produce Card E. Given that all the hype and the money are currently with the ML guys (and $NVDA reflects that), Nvidia will make a combination of different cores that is much much closer to Card E than it is to Card A.

Their new offerings are arguably worse than their older offerings for HPC tasks, and the feeling with the HPC crowd is that "Nvidia and AMD are in the process of abandoning this market".

[0] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/file/13b919438259814cd5be8...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09720
No because Chrome is actually a good browser.

We’ll never see a reasonable competitor unless someone like Musk, Zuckerberg, or Bezos gets involved. But that’s not feasible because their companies aren’t internet ad agencies.
I have noted we have shifted from "I can't find a single example" to "I don't trust the first provided source", and yet there are plenty of other sources, if you're searching in good faith.

The history of the United States is well documented - it was only for a brief period during reconstruction that policing was deracialized in the American South, and even saw a number of formerly-enslaved lawmen. There were numerous violent revolts against this, and in support of white supremacy in places like Oklahoma, Louisiana[1], Mississippi and elsewhere where egalitarian leaders were ran out of town, and the law enforcement (along other administrative leadership) was reconfigured against the then "new", post-civil-war ways.

Do you see any functional differences between slave patrols (membership free from white land owners or their nominees) and the group that overthrew and reconstituted reconstruction-era law enforcement (mobs drew from white landowners, or their hired grunts).

https://naucenter.as.virginia.edu/blog-page/1761
On the other hand, living in a purple state doesn't necessarily help with corruption either. I live in PA and we had billions "go missing" from our Department of Transportation over the course of over a little over a decade. Things have improved in the last like 6 years or so, but we had to get to the point where our bridges were crumbling and just having permanent detours setup around them first before people really got on a crusade about properly fixing our roads.

Josh Shapiro's done a bang-up job actually properly allocating the funds we managed to get from the big infrastructure bill, but that's been a major change from how things have been for the last 30 years I've lived here.
recaptcha audio challenge is just a few words (in English) that you have to enter. Might be easier in some circumstances? You can press CTRL to repeat the audio.
For c there is :

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/liburing/tree/examples

There's also a minimal Rust example for tokio:

https://github.com/tokio-rs/io-uring/tree/master/examples
They didn't demonstrate anything. They haven't even released their dataset, nor mentioned how big it is.

It's just hot air, just like the AlphaProof announcement, where very little is know about their system.
Yeah, I like to think of it in a similar vein. We want to empower people to create stateless workflows where they may have previously needed to think about state management. Today, Regatta is an NFS file system where the cache lives on our shared infrastructure. However, when we complete the work on our custom protocol, that will be a FUSE file system which offers additional caching on your instances to enable truly local-like performance.
Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
Interesting, do you have a source for this? I've not been able to find one.
You're off by three orders of magnitude.

My point of reference is that back in undergrad (~10-15 years ago), I recall a class assignment where we had to optimize matrix multiplication on a CPU; typical good parallel implementations achieved about 100-130 gigaflops (on a... Nehalem or Westmere Xeon, I think?).
The three main modes of management