skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the massive network of middlemen injected into the system

Does anyone have a good reference for this? It's something that I inherently assume exists but would love to see a flowchart of how rampant it is and where different layers are siphoning their penny.

Would that even be possible?
Nah - there's a premise permit that's needed if you only have it in your apartment and carry to the range, but the concealed carry is sufficient to have it in your apartment. And the "90%" of Manhattan you can't carry in is basically Times Square, bars and restaurants, festivals, churches, schools and government buildings.
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Availability examples:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illegal-gun-silencers-c...

https://www.ice.gov/doclib/eoy/iceAnnualReportFY2021.pdf

https://www.recoilweb.com/man-makes-silencer-with-3d-printer...

https://youtu.be/ekDs60QxmNE
Hi HN: Looks like LLM API calls started being rejected. Working on a solution...
This is a lot of the misunderstanding around "networking" you see in discussions. A lot of tech people see it as an unwelcome task/burden. Whereas, it should be generally viewed as a pleasurable opportunity to just get to know people who may (or may not) be useful at some point in the future.
Any specific examples? The stuff I've used has been broadly better in JVM land than Go land, but I mostly work with Kafka stuff.
I spend _a lot_ of my life interacting with firearms, gun culture and accessories. I do so in Illinois where suppressors are illegal and I’ve never seen one here.

Indiana is a bike ride away and has some of the loosest gun laws in America. I shoot suppressed there all the time.

I believe that manufactured suppressors actually are hard to get in the US in a way that is untraceable to the original purchaser, which makes them hard to get in illegal jurisdictions.

Guns are much more broadly sold and less restricted so I agree that they tend to be very available.
OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready for Linux 6.14 Speed-Up VPN Performance
In the first poem, I read

Broken eggs make me grieve; the omelet, though, makes me vomit

One of my favourite quotes about the Soviet Union is when Panahit Istrati after visiting Stalin's russia replied to the "You don't make omelet without breaking a few eggs" with :

All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?

I wonder if it's a reference to this quote
That takes months or years if it's possible at all (at least in many places). For any place where you can neither fire bad devs nor find very good ones to replace them with, the trick is to make good processes and products using mediocre people. And that's hard. But that's also why a lot of processes appear, that would seem unnecessary to someone who is a good engineer and used to working only with good engineers.
It's about taking a drug when not sick, and doing so because government says you to.
Yes, but doesn't want a, planed obsolescence, self destroying computer or microwave oven. Especially when it causes fire due to "biodegradable" substrate.
I want to second sentiment condemning this as an repugnant endorsement of violence.

It is not acceptable to shoot other people because you want something, even if you want it a lot.
Widespread Cloudflare Bypass Discovered
It is not actually important as you know you cannot trust microsoft more than the usual scammer anyway.
I love the beginning of your text here. You and your friend have an idea and you say, "Let's do it!" I am so glad that we could help you do it! I may have to check this out when I get the chance. (Not a company endorsement -- I am personally interested in language acquisition.) --Katie
Your point was well put and would have landed well five years ago, but today the unstoppable (short of global, civilization-ending catastrophe) march toward ubiquitous smart robots refutes that this is a chain of unlikely events.

The built in incentives for technology to improve will continue after we get smart robots. This will change things.

In a couple of decades it will be very hard to argue that they aren’t human 2.0 or <n>.0. And if we still insist, they might decide for us. I don’t fervently hope for this but I am very curious how it plays out.

The opposite view to yours is valid: Us not arriving at human 2.0 would only be possible by a long chain of improbable events. And in this view those who think we will continue as we are (cancer-susceptible meat bags) are the ones taking a quasi religious position.
Antarctica's Unexpected Greening: Moss Invades the Frozen Frontier
Are planet-killing black holes hiding inside your cat?
You could have taught them `make clean` whenever there's any issues. I work with software engineers and I still have to remind them to try rm -rf ./build/* now and again, which always seems to solve the problem.
Nah, i agree. I'm a little younger but i distinctly remember adults around me heavily warning about using the internet and especially putting anything about yourself into it. There was a great distrust between people and the internet in the early 2000's, but then kids got ipods that could text and call, and network effects meant that you _had_ to be on Facebook, and slowly over time Facebook and MySpace started to not feel like the danger zone, like it was separate from all those warnings cause it was just you and your friends chatting at 2:00a.m., nobody was gonna bother to look at you. Then the social media empires grew and expanded and it kinda became the entire internet (that people use) started to feel like not the danger zone. You could do anything there, and huge company's would create walled gardens that would hide the worst aspects and let you pretend it was a safe and open place, to their benefit of course. Adults stopped warning, kids became adults, and now to hear a warning about the internet is incredibly rare. We also just think that there's so much shit there, nobody would take the time to notice us, and everyone else is posting their entire lives anyways so why not? Strange times
The full bootstrapping process starts with a soldiering iron and a reel of copper wire.
Why would the ATF give a shit? Tell me you aren't from a hunting state without telling me.. actual estimates of private sales range from 10% (NRA) to 22% (NPSOF)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28055050/
If playing rogue(6) is not your style, don't forget Rog-o-matic, the 1984 expert system that would play it for you: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/rogomatic.html
You're spot on. GP is repeating the common misconception that "Aurora" is a distinct, from-the-ground-up relational database system which can "pretend" to be either MySQL or Postgres by reimplementing their protocols/front-end from scratch. But that isn't the case at all.

In reality, Aurora MySQL is clearly heavily based on the MySQL codebase, but with major changes specifically to InnoDB's persistence and MVCC layers. Aurora MySQL implements a physical replication system using shared storage, undo, and redo logging. The rest is otherwise compatible with MySQL because it is using a lot of MySQL code.

I haven't read up on Aurora Postgres, but I'd bet it's something similar being applied to the Postgres codebase.

It's entirely possible the custom storage components may share some common code between Aurora MySQL and Aurora Postgres, but a custom storage layer alone isn't a "relational database" which "pretends" to be other DBs. (In contrast, it appears that DSQL actually might be that – a custom system with a reimplementation of Postgres wire protocol.)

Not trying to knock Aurora btw, it's really interesting technology and is quite an achievement by Amazon. But the constant confusion about what Aurora even is creates some support burdens in the DB ecosystem.
If you think trades don't kill you... you're naive
SEC, States Investigate Firm Holding Couple's $763,094 Retirement Fund
Huge opportunity to shift miners from mining coal at powder river basin to this work to keep the jobs without the climate impact.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5012458-biden-...
Unfortunately the latter is already very normalized.
It's not that I don’t want my private life to seep into work, it's that I don't want work to seep into my private life.

So I don't need friends that are also colleagues or clients. I already have great friends. I'm a great colleague in every way possible, but I never feel the need to be anything more than that.

For most people work / life balance is already tipping towards work. They want it to be the other way around.
Return To Office mandates and brain drain
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I think there are ways of philosophy not process. And the philosophy has to be agile to those in it.
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Oh yeah I definitely lost an hour debugging why something doesn't work in ClojureScript: it turns out I used :refer rather than :refer-macro. It's still possible to use :refer, but it requires some changes to the library such as https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/commit/0cd039659dc76...
Clostridium endospores can survive just fine in the presence of oxygen.
Can't wait to share this with my Dad. He went to MIT in the 1970s where he first encountered Rogue. Some of my earliest memories are sitting on my Dad's lap, watching him repeatedly die to a Troll. It led to a lifetime love of Rogue and Roguelikes/Roguelites/whatever-you-want-to-call-thems.

I just picked up Shiren the Wanderer 5 for the Switch, and it's just the most comfortable experience in the world for me: identifying shields, getting hungry, and dying repeatedly.
Given New York's notorious problem with bike thefts that doesn't seem like a wise escape plan.
I fill your pain. For example bitbucket has a total garbage instead of proper markdown renderer. No TOC, no stable header links, no navigation to anchors on first page visit, no image scaling.

But if you control documentation render process there is a number of feature-rich renderers like pandoc, mkdocs and others.
What other motive could they have?
This CEO, in particular, has almost certainly taken actions that resulted in preventable suffering and death.

To some degree, that's the nature of running health insurance companies, but if he put profits ahead of patient outcomes, I think we could have a very reasonable discussion on the morality of letting people die at scale vs murder.
I was curious about this too so had a look. The brightness is regulated by The Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 and does specify a minimum wattage in some cases but not for modern cars (“A motor vehicle with four or more wheels first used on or after 1st April 1986: no requirement”). As far as I can tell there are no legal maximums.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/4
The safest and richest societies are also the most highly medicated, so I would question to what prevailing evidence you refer. For an extreme example one might consider soldiers / warfighters. Very high rates of trauma and suicidality after returning from war, and this is only anecdotal not first hand but I would be interested to know what the mental health of deployed soldiers looks like in comparison (certainly there is a range of environments between 'deployed at a desk in japan' vs combat units living in 'danger, chaos and instability', so it might be a good context to study within)
It seems like 60 outbreaks over 25 years really isn't that many, with 10K illnesses and 0 reported deaths. As a comparison, every year in the US, over 20,000 children are hospitalized due to the flu, and over a hundred die.

I know the denominator is different - most children are exposed to potential flu vectors, while only some visit splash pads - but I think this article mostly sounds scary because poop is gross.
> A female coworker joined and on her first day he went up to her and said "You know you're a slut, right?"

Insane behavior. I'd have to think there's an underlying medical/mental condition here.
I was trying to reconstruct multi-position "panoramas" from video recorded on a phone as someone walks - like getting one big photo of a street (but I'm inside essentially mapping walls). This 2011 talk has some good examples although they benefit from being relatively far away so standard feature detection like SIFT and ORB can do the job well. http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/2011_fall/Lectures...

Most phones have an accelerometer and other sensors so I'm exploring if those can be used to determine the phone's movement between frames accurately enough to help me stitch it back together. When relatively close to the subject the perspective changes so quickly that matching detected features with something like RANSAC really struggles.

I'd voraciously consume any good links you have; I'm happily over my head on this and learning/iterating at every turn. I think I've accidentally given myself a relatively hard problem because of the constraints.
I am not. If AI delivers on its promises, an unprecedented dumbing down of humanity is to follow. If it doesn't, it was all a waste. Even if we win, we lose.
OK, this is incredibly gross, and I don't want to downplay it.

But it's worth pointing out this is over 25 years of data, or around 400 recorded cases/year.
Usually it’s easier to just cross-compile for the new target. No need to start from ground zero.
RFK Jr. is such a case. Anti-vaxx, but uses something to boost his "jackedness". The dude is jacked for a >70 years old guy. Supposedly it's testosterone. If anyone knows what he uses to look so jacked, please share.
Wow.. I can't even imagine where we'll be in 5 or 10 years from now.

Seems that it's only "consistent" up to a minute, but if the progress keeps the same rate.. just wow.
After seeing how many porta potties at playgrounds never have their hand sanitizer filled, I have come to grips with fecal matter being a part of the gig
> Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stable environment and resent the things that allow them to live mundane, safe lives -- technology, medicine and rational thinking.

That's part of what Tom Nichols has been saying: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/09/10/democracy-di...
You do realize that many people in America live paycheck to paycheck and work more than full time in demanding jobs and still need foodstamps to afford enough food? Its not exactly a stress free life of leisure.
Yes it's not advocacy for anything: It's up to everyone how they respond to their situation if they feel disenfranchised and I'm in no position to judge them one way or another.

The point is just that it's a tale as old as human civilization itself. It would be disappointing if we've not yet learnt enough from our history to avoid more change via trauma.
Longer term computation isn’t really the limiting factor for generative AI, it’s training data. Generative AI is like Google search before the web responded to their search engine existing. There’s a huge quantity of high quality training data which nobody had any reason to pollute ready for the scrapping.

But modern search is hampered by people responding to algorithmic indexes. Algorithms responding to metadata without directly evaluating content enabled a world of SEO and low quality websites suddenly being discoverable as long as they narrow their focus enough.

So longer term it’s going to be an arms race between the output of Generative AI and people trying to keep updating their models. In 20 years people will get much better at using these tools, but the tools themselves may be less useful. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually someone sneaks advertising into the output of someone else’s model etc.
I think we're saying the same thing? :)
"Won't somebody think of the children!" over and over and over as the rallying call and justification for tyranny. These proposed technical schemes are both incredibly invasive and will be completely ineffective. Another trait of "think of the children" inspired violations. The unprecedented arrest of founder Pavel Durov to force this on the company further confirms what this is and what it isn't: it is not about child safety.
Calling X Twitter is akin to pronouncing the vice president's name kaMALA, only for those coming from the opposite end of the political spectrum.
The number of cores is irrelevant to the measure of single core performance. It is entirely possible that single core performance is less for many reasons up to and including silicon lottery.

Raw performance is also not the only relevant metric. Given that these results are within run to run variance there are other factors to consider such as power consumption.

So yes, this is not at all a shocking revelation to me.
It's Google so I assume never. No model release, no product, no API, no detailed paper.

There was another quite similar model from a different group within the last month or so. I can't remember if they released any weights or anything or the name of it. But it was the same concept.
We'll never know if we would have had splash pad filtration if the Iraq invasion didn't happen. What we do know is we were lied to by a presidential candidate and many of our solders were either killed or broken and many many Iraqis died because of that lie. Oh, and greed.
I know you've only asked for a translation, but if you are interested in more, there is an edition by Oxford University Press (April 11, 2002), 480 pages, ISBN 978-0198752714.
An English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie's detailed line-by-line commentary.
https://a.co/d/4bOuqI5

Copying from an online review (at random):
If you want only a translation, and quality doesn't matter much, this translation will probably be too expensive for you. However, if you want an extensive introduction (a historical one from pg. 3-7, a philosophical one from pg. 9-91), outlines on each book and commentary (pg. 261-452), a list of Greek vocabulary (pg. 453-5), a bibliography, and index, then this is your ticket.
That depends on the type of gun and the state.

Handguns have to be transferred across state lines to a FFL in the state where the transferee resides.
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Seems to buggy. According to the SeekStorm github, it's supposed to support boolean operators right? But they don't seem to work.

Eg: https://deephn.org/?q=Linux+OR+KDE
> Increasingly, though, people in the United States feel that the rich and powerful have become effectively insulated from the legal system, such that the common person is denied any redress.

They're not insulated from the legal system, the problem is the public is being misled.

It works like this: The media lies to the public and tells them that a CEO or Public Figure is getting away with X, so they get some washed up lawyer to do an opinion piece on it, a politician or two co-opts it, and possibly throws in some bait about the working class being screwed over, and then the public buys the made-up story- hook, line and sinker.

Since TV Law is not the same thing as real law, the person in question is put through actual due process and the allegation or accusation turns out to be unsubstantiated. The public then feels outrage because "The man on TV said this person was a criminal and he got away!".
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I learned about this from the excellent show Joe Pera Talks With You. Season 1, Episode 8: Joe Pera Talks To You About The Rat Wars of Alberta, Canada (1950 - Present Day)

Highly recommend it!
You'll need to wait until Baidu or AliBaba or Nvidia publish a competing model, unfortunately, if history is any guide.
It's not working for me. First attempt said that the gift expired. Subsequent attempts just act like non-gift links without telling me that it is an expired gift link.
Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling
HOPE XV talks about the pervasive nature of e-waste and how its becoming an epidemic that is going to impact society very soon.
UPDATE: We're back!
This makes sense and we see the Lenna and Utah teapot everywhere for things like 3D rendering and compression. There are equivalent datasets for evaluating cv models - you see them benchmarked against coco a lot, for example.

I still am surprised to see all the same images and diagrams in the -explanation- part of so many papers. It feels like early word processor days and everyone using the same clip art.
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Remember that "almost all" of the Reals are unrepresentable using finite sequences of symbols, since the latter are "only" countably infinite. The next logical step is probably the Radicals (i.e. nth roots, or fractional powers).

I know that nested radicals can't always be un-nested, so I don't think larger sets (like the Algebraic numbers) can be reduced to a unique normal form. That makes comparing them for equality harder, since we can't just compare them syntactically. For large sets like the Computable numbers, many of their operations become undecidable. For example, say we represent Computable numbers as functions from N -> Q, where calling such a function with argument x will return a rational approximation with error smaller than 1/x. We can write an addition function for these numbers (which, given some precision argument, calls the two summand functions with ever-smaller arguments until they're within the requested bound), but we can't write an equality function or even a comparison function, since we don't know when to "give up" comparing numbers like 0.000... == 0.000....

FYI I'm currently playing around with numerical representations at http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2024-11-03-rationalising_deno...
Yes, people can choose to do some things without wanting authorities to force them to do other things. Astutely observed.
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Yippee finally google posts a non confirming cookie popup with no way to reject the ad cookies!
Someone already tested What's New Pussycat? and it leads to violence. Not recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Gryt-rcc&list=PLmr0-AcI78...
Can't afford a smartphone? That's going to cost you
Would it though? How many people are running inference at home?

I don't know how to quantify it, but it certainly seems like a lot of people are buying consumer nVidia GPUs for compute and the relatively paltry amounts of RAM on those cards seems to be the number one complaint.

So I would say that Intel's potential market is "everybody who is currently buying nVidia GPUs for compute."

nVidia's stingy consumer RAM choices also seem to be a fairly transparent ploy to create a protective moat around their insanely-high-profit-margin datacenter GPUs. So that just seems like kind of an obvious thing for Intel or AMD to consider tackling.

(Although, it has to be said, a lot of commenters have pointed out that it's not as easy as just slapping more RAM chips onto the GPU boards; you need wider data busses as well etc.)
What about iodine? It is not as volatile as chlorine.