skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been pounding one of my sites too. Here's the url it's trying to get to. I wonder if someone will ever figure it out and stop it.

> /wp-content/uploads/2014/09/contact-us/referanslar/petrofac/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/products_and_services/products_and_services/catalogue/references/capabilities/about-company/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wp-content/themes/domain/images/about-company/corporate-philosophy/index.htm

"User-Agent":["Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36"
It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one member one vote, etc). Here's a list of tech coops if you'd like to know some others: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

I'm happy to share more - I'll send you an email.
Isn’t it also the case that a lot of those plastics come from those rivers because the first world ships is plastic water to China to be processed (“recycled”) and that this is what skews the numbers like this?
Ah, there it is. Thanks!
Why does she go out to mate? Aren't the drones in the hive?
thanks, really appreciate that your post was concise and included examples/followups. only needed 10 minutes to style my own rss feed
Yes, we know, but the accusation is that Amazon is the source of the traffic.

If the traffic is coming from residential IPs then it’s most likely someone using these services and putting “AmazonBot” as a user agent to trick people.
Is there any way I can run a service before a given other service AND as late as possible (without rewriting the other service's unit file)?
Atom could have them in the editor. But one of the wins for VS Code was better security isolation for plugins.

Maybe Microsoft could bring back the Bob team to integrate pets with all facets of VS Code.
That's my whole school life. Bonus difficulty as it was pen and paper, my writing sucked enough that I couldn't read back a bunch of it. I also couldn't read half of the cursive in this project, I'm really bad at that.

It worked better when I realized I could stop taking most notes.
Show HN: I built a web app that sets a Screen Time password for you
Always telling this whenever the topic of Kalman Filters come up:

If you're learning the Kalman Filter in isolation, you're kind of learning it backwards and missing out on huge "aha" moments that the surrounding theory can unlock.

To truly understand the Kalman Filter, you need to study Least Squares (aka linear regression), then recursive Least Squares, then the Information Filter (which is a different formulation of the KF).
Then you'll realize the KF is just recursive Least Squares reformulated in a way to prioritize efficiency in the update step.

This PDF gives a concise overview:

[1] http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/ws13/mapping/...
This was made with the JavaScript Library Kaplay. Check it out here : https://kaplayjs.com

Game was made by Misanthrope. His twitter can be found here : https://x.com/petergencur
"Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems."

"A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or colloquially, crypto, is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it."

"The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact,^[1] usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection."

"Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge."

"Petroleum is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture."

(Definitions taken from one of ChatGPTS's primary training sources.)

A careful reader is expected to notice the first three have some charactersitics in common, specifically ones that the last two do not.
Great job making this work intuitively on a mobile touch screen.
Yes, because cats have solved the halting problem, and whether P=NP. They're just not telling us.
A self reported insomnia study has very poor accuracy. There is no reason in this day and age they are not using a sleep tracker to measure sleep onset.

Also, there is a correlation between potassium and magnesium levels, and they measured potassium intake, but no mention of magnesium. It is possible that the subjects with highest potassium intake also had higher magnesium levels.

I'm not saying the study is wrong, but it does make a good point to the people taking magnesium to help sleep, they should also be taking potassium. I'll be trying that over the next little bit.
The way I remember this is that the old way didn't allow for applying the verb to multiple units. Now you can "restart" multiple units, i.e. `systemctl restart nginx webapp`, etc.
It's even more extreme than that. If you took a random sampling of humans to a version of Earth that had never experienced humans, it would not go well. We're heavily dependant on society and modern technology. We've evolved together.

E.g. smaller birth canals and C-sections.
My problem isn't the word per se, but the way it gets used to suggest it is an exceptional case rather than standard.
>…laws optional?

When someone commits a traffic or road infraction in the UK is the response to confiscate their vehicle and demolish it? Probably not, I am not in the UK, but I am pretty sure that is not the penalty and never has been for road violations.

My guess is the driver is probably fined. If they are a repeat offender, likely a license to drive is taken away. Certainly if they drive after that, perhaps incarceration is considered. Not sure that there has never been a penalty where something akin to “smashing someone’s toys with a hammer to stop them playing with them” has ever been considered a reasonable penalty and effective deterrent.

But hey, maybe y’all have a different perspective. If so ah salud.
New Jersey trains use overhead catenaries. LIRR use third rail. How are through running trains powered?
nissan cvt is akin to you just giving money away
The bees in a swarm have filled themselves with food before swarming, so they’re stuffed, so it’s hard to flex the abdomen to make a sting
Now integrate them with your linter of choice, so the pet's attitude reflects the current state of your code.
Related. Others?

Kalman filter from the ground up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879715 - Oct 2023 (150 comments)

(also what's the best year to put in the title above?)
Thank you for this information. I'll either switch to a better brand or go straight magnesium.
I was one of the first users of the AWS Elastic File System because I had an ideal use-case for it exactly when it was first introduced. Everything worked just fine for 30 days, and then the web site basically locked up. It turned out that EFS had an initial "grace period" during which IOPS were unlimited, then it would become proportional to the GB of stored data. We had just a few hundred megabytes, so it worked out to something like 0.4 IOPS. Slower than a floppy drive! Support immediately reset the grace period for us, flipped some internal flag to make it not expire, and then a few months later the product itself was fixed to have a reasonable minimum IOPS per account irrespective of the data volume. At the time there were zero mentions of any of this on Google, I must have been the first few people to hit this issue after general availability.

A direct comparison is a nearly identical issue with Azure SQL Server Managed Instance. It too had IOPS proportional to the size of each file of a database. We migrated a database that used many small partitions (per month I think?), each with its own small file. Its performance was horrendous, easily 100x slower than on-prem. The support team could barely speak English, got repeatedly confused about the product (Azure SQL Database != SQL Managed Instance), couldn't understand the problem, and even insisted that totally broken performance "was a feature" and we should redesign "our database". Sure buddy, I'll go tell the third-party vendor that, meanwhile Microsoft themselves insisted we should migrate all of our legacy databases to this garbage. We did, it took months, cost a ton of money, and now it basically doesn't work! We abandoned the product, as have many other people. At the time, this had been an issue for many years with Microsoft engineering basically whistling at the ceiling as they cheerfully ignored it. More than a year later they fixed it, but you've got to wonder what else is still wrong with it that support can't help with.

There's more examples, but that pair stuck in my mind because they had the same root cause but wildly different outcomes.
> A better quarterback wins games.

Well, no, a better quarterback is just a member of a team. They don't dictate whether the team wins or not, they just contribute to it if they are good. Though we can't say whether a given quarterback is good or not because we don't have objective criteria to determine that. It's all relative and arbitrary - as I'm sure you'd agree with.

> What does a better painting do—win art contests?

Maybe? Why not?

> Judged by what objective criteria? Art doesn't have rules the way football does.

Football rules are arbitrary criteria, not objective.

> A painting can't "win at being art";

Why not? The Mona Lisa has the most viewers so maybe that means it is the best art?
Huh. How about that.
Unrelated but I was always curious about the origin of name Zaraz, could you maybe shed some light on this?
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Worked really nicely for backing up private git repos to multiple devices, they might have found a good market in shared file systems where every artifact is signed by the author, making file provenance possible. I consider the zoom acquisition one of the greater tragedies in software history.
I see. I guess I had the impression that the carry and sum bits had been used directly to index the table, which is of course a thing you can do; it's just that 7 bits in the carry-save adder is the equivalent of ≈3 bits.
Yes, when there's evidence that an account is someone whom we've banned in the past and that they're making new accounts to post abusively, we (sometimes) shadowban those later accounts. You can find past explanations about that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

In this case you've been using multiple accounts to post in the same thread in ways that are misleading and abusive. That's clearly over the line, so I'm banning this account (and also saying so). If you would please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with, that would be good.
AFAIK you can't run Google Play services on GNU/Linux.

> 3GB RAM? 4G only?

Fighting, you know, requires some compromises. See also:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
So a cybertruck is a military biological weapon? I thought it was just an ugly EV.
These reads like you learned one cloud platform and expected all others to be the same.
This has reminded me of an anecdote. I work on a corporate social network. One day a colleague from the parent company comes to us scared because instead of seeing the people photos and the attached images, he saw strange images. As in the past we had some scare with xss reflected, we immediately got scared and went straight to investigate the matter. It turned out that the colleague had a Firefox extension installed that changed his images for Nicholas Cage's faces. He didn't remember having done it, but we did remember his blunder hahaha
Yes and no. Having used these tools extensively I think it will be some time before LLMs are truly performant. Even smaller models can't be compared to running optimized code with efficient data structures. And smaller models (in general) do reduce the quality of your results in most cases. Maybe LLMs will kill off NLP and other pursuits pretty soon, but at the moment, each have their tradeoffs.
What, the fact that their teeth can grow so long that they'll circle around and stab their brains?
I think you don't understand what a ghetto is? The ghetto is not the city center.
Anyone else watch Michael van Biezem (with the bow tie) lectures on Kalman Filters while learning this topic?

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCcOwJPytQ&list=PLX2gX-ftPV...
If they're AI bots it might be fun to feed them nonsense. Just send hack megabytes of "Bezos is a bozo" or something like that. Even more fun if you could cooperate with many other otherwise-unrelated websites, e.g. via time settings in a modified tarpit.
Patent Worth It?
I have a friend who was in YC and he said software patents are a waste of time. He said in his entire career he's never met or known someone to enforce a software patent. Thoughts?
The great lengths people go to for PR. :)
Before investing billions in individually curated, generated influencers and content creators, maybe we should market test it first and see if it's what anybody actually wants, let alone whether it's even achievable in any meaningful way.

A lot of AI people make strong assumptions about what the consumer market demand is for explicitly (as in, not "tricking" the user) AI generated art, music and content.
While the frontend of Intel Skymont, which includes instruction fetching and decoding, is very original and unlike to that of any other CPU core, the backend of Skymont, which includes the execution units, is extremely similar to that of Arm Cortex-X4 (which is a.k.a. Neoverse V3 in its server variant and as Neoverse V3AE in its automotive variant).

This similarity consists in the fact that both Intel Skymont and Arm Cortex-X4 have the same number of execution units of each kind (and there are many kinds of execution units).

Therefore it can be expected that for any application whose performance is limited by the CPU core backend, the CPU cores Intel Skymont and Arm Cortex-X4 (or Neoverse V3) should have very similar performances.

Moreover, Intel Skymont and Arm Cortex-X4 have the same die area, i.e. around 1.7 square mm (including with both cores 1 MB of L2 cache in this area). Therefore the 2 cores not only should have about the same performance for backend-limited applications, but they also have the same cost.

Before Skymont, all the older Intel Atom cores had been designed to compete with the medium-size Arm Cortex-A7xx cores, even if the Intel Atom cores have always lagged in performance Cortex-A7xx by a year or two. For instance Intel Tremont had a very similar performance to Arm Cortex-A76, while Intel Gracemont and Crestmont have an extremely similar core backend with the series of Cortex-A78 to Cortex-A725 (like Gracemont and Crestmont, the 5 cores in the series Cortex-A78, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A715, Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A725 have only insignificant differences in the execution units).

With Skymont, Intel has made a jump in E-core size, positioning it as a match for Cortex-X, not for Cortex-A7xx, like its predecessors.
Curious: The point of their article is invinsible analytics, including no need for any consent-banners. Why does Zaraz then provide a consent-banner? https://developers.cloudflare.com/zaraz/consent-management/
Silence is violence
Create a new user and spam this story

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aktifboy

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=moses-bliss

Why?
"Another unique effect is L2 shared between 4 cores. This means that thread communications across those 4 cores has much lower latencies."

@dragontamer solid point. Consider a in memory ring shared between two threads. There's huge difference in throughput and latency if the threads share L2 (on same core) or when on different cores all down to the relative slowness of L3.

Are there other cpus (arm, graviton?) that have similarly shared L2 caches?
Doesn't the existence of patent trolls invalidate this?
As far as I am aware, there is no symbolic computing tool yet for probability distributions? For example, multiplying two multivariate Gaussian PDFs together and getting the covariance matrix out. Or defining all the ingredients for a Kalman filter (prediction model and observing process) and getting the necessary formulas out (as in sympy's lambdify).
I know right - that was the fun kind of math.
I was excited to read this post because I haven't yet tried WasmGC for anything beyond tiny toy examples, but was disappointed to find no actual numbers for performance. I don't know the author well enough to be able to assess their assertions that various things are "slow" without data.
Feeder on Android, simple, decent enough.
Axioms are arbitrary, but must be agreed upon. It's a good point to make. Most ethical theories suffer from this meta-ethical problem that people really just won't agree on the axioms at the end of the day.
I love goofy stuff like this - it kind of reminds me of FL Chan, a built-in effects plugin for FL Studio who dances in sync with the music.

https://youtu.be/v4hPIDfS3qI?t=51
He is an unprecedented cyberthreat.

Refused to use a secure-able phone for work. Exceptions for cronies that failed regular background checks. Broke laws requiring an audit-trail by ripping up records and trying to flush them in the toilet. Showed off highly classified documents to random customers in his resort's dining room. Eliminated normal White House security measures in order to hide who he's meeting with. Stole classified documents, lied about it, hid them in a bathroom, and engaged in a conspiracy to destroy computers and security footage.

... And that's not even getting into the issue of kompromat or bribes.
Why did the spaghetti monster give bee srings barbs?

Because the bees prayed for protection and got saucy about it.

Is that better? Are you really looking for equivalence? Is that fit enough?

Instead of spreading evolution FUD, there are many0laces you could educate yourself. S9meone with a HN acvount is more than able to seek these out. Therefore your motives for this comment seen more disingenuous.
I don’t know, as an IPFS developer you might be discounting what prerequisite knowledge you possessed while hammering out a nostr implementation.

I looked at nostr but lost interest when I noticed there was no provision for key rollover. I guess that’s fine but ephemeral identities. Is there a concept of using a domain name as a handle like bluesky? It’s been a few years so maybe it’s worth a second look.
Sadly, I'm another one on thunderbird email client.

It's not great, but it generally works.

My major complaint is that articles are not locally stored, so if the online article goes away, its just gone.

I found this ironic, given that as an email client, a major function is local storage of messages.
Isn’t this a weak argument? OpenAI could also say their goal is to learn everything, feed it to AI, advance humanity etc etc.
> Ideally we want a world where we license the artist’s style

Ideally no one's art would be hindered by having to track down and pay someone for creating something in another "artist's style". Ideally people would just create what they like and be free to intentionally practice and play around with the styles of others as they see fit while they develop their own.

No artist, ever, should own a "style" just as no author should own a "genre". Artists should be the free to express and explore whatever they want using whatever tools they want.

> I’d say it’s the closest thing to when Napster got everyone used to theft.

Napster didn't get people used to theft, it got them used to access. It introduced people to music and entire musical genres that they'd never have otherwise encountered. It even got people to buy music and attend concerts they otherwise wouldn't have. Access to culture enriches everyone and inspires the creation of new artistic works. The music industry wasn't worried about theft. They were worried that they'd lose their jobs as useless middlemen and gatekeepers.
Expanding this further Europe should ban Chinese AND U.S. social media networks. What’s good for the goose…
stuff like this gets taught in school? that’s like a take from the 1600s. literally descartes’s argument that animals are just automatons and only humans have minds.
At question was whether Oct 7th was provoked. It was not. It was a full scale ground invasion with military attack plans. Sympathy with the invader doesn't change that. Think objectively.
LLMs that can replace search (their primary and self-declared goal) cannot survive without repeated training. As I said, this is one of its main purposes.

The other main purpose (military application, surveillance, autonomous psyops) is also highly dependent on continous training. Without it, properly educated healthy humans can overcome its reasoning power very quickly.

All other user profiles are just cannon fodder. Companies don't give a fuck about people running older models. They'll do whatever they can to make you use a more recent one.

That's why I'm being provocative with the "let's stop training new shit" argument. I'm aiming for the heel.
Very interesting!

Don't wasps have a similar "swarm attack" mode that doesn't require individual wasps dying to spread pheromones? Something in the sting/venom itself?

I've been stung by wasp swarms twice, in the same area (they were protecting their nest, and please don't ask why it happened twice... we humans do indeed stumble with the same stone twice!). The wasps were very aggressive stinging near the same location in my arm, and it hurt a lot. I was stung in the same body part by the swarm, not in random locations.

No wasps were harmed during this accident.
Maybe it is possible with `systemctl --host`...
Though, I would have to make quite a few changes to the UI design since it
would mean that there are "multiple modes". One for local and multiple remotes.
So... Check back in a month or so :D
Obvious PR move, they don't have near enough money.
both are illegal in the UK :)