skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when Facebook Chat launched to a billion users and it worked perfectly with the load? They did a lot of quality control.
I don't think that's true, at least for Americans. Even in the sub-population of full time working parents, more time is spent on watching TV (1.45h mother, 1.98h father) than on child care (1.41h mother, 0.91h father, where units are hours per 24h on average): https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a7-1519.htm
Running Apache Iceberg and DuckDB on AWS
Fair.

My mum’s Toyota Yaris is almost 20 years old now and you really wouldn’t know.
IANAL, but SCOTUS finally decided "every business must pay sales tax everywhere" in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., 585 U.S. ___ (2018).[0] (Where ___ has a preliminary value of 162.[1])

0. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/585/17-494/

1. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/preliminaryprint/585US...
It went from 'nearly dead, scrap the factories' to 'we need more manufacturing capacity to supply the increasing demand'. Not a bubble, i don't do vinyl but I know several people who do. The same will happen to 'real software' once the current iteration of productivity tools can no longer be distinguished from advertisements for such, once you need to really dig down to do simple things but have "AI enhanced autoclippy" under every "button". It is just the way things go no matter the field: 'craft' beer, vinyl, sourdough, vintage whatever. In some cases it is actually rational, in others (vinyl) it is mostly driven by emotional factors. The 'craft software' revival would be an example of a rational move.
1984, George Orwell

Permanent Record, Edward Snowden

My Early Life, Winston S. Churchill

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Edit: To some extent probably also:

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes
For me against Tesla I have:

- I want to POSSESS my car, so I do not want services and remote actions out of my control, Tesla is not the only vendor who try making the car a service, but due to it's track records the sole way to convince me is becoming FLOSS

- I do want V2L/V2H with the best integration with my home p.v. possibly DC-2-DC directly, so far no cars offer something alike even if it's perfectly feasible, but Tesla do not offer even basic V2L...
They're entropy for most practical purposes. But there's only 1000 possibilities, so that's less than 10 bits' worth.
I feel like you're imagining a toy network with couple dozen neurons in few layers, done on a CPU. But consider a more typical case of dozens of layers with hundreds (or thousands) of neurons each. That's some thousand numbers to reduce per each neuron.

Then, remember that GPUs are built around thousands of tiny parallel processors, each able to process a bunch (e.g. 16) parallel threads, but then the threads have to run in larger batches (SIMD-like), and there's a complex memory management architecture built-in, over which you only have so much control. Specific numbers of cores, threads, buffer sizes, as well as access patterns, differ between GPU models, and for optimal performance, you have to break down your computation to maximize utilization. Or rather, have the runtime do it for you.

This ain't an an FPGA, you don't get to organize hardware to match your network. If you have a 1000 neurons per hidden layer, then individual neurons likely won't fit on a single CUDA core, so you will have to split them down the middle, at least if you're using full-float math. Speaking of, the precision of the numbers you use is another parameter that adds to the complexity.

On the one hand, you have a bunch of mostly-linear matrix algebra, where you can tune precision. On the other hand, you have a GPU-model-specific number of parallel processors (~thousands), that can fit only so much memory, can run some specific number of SIMD-like threads in parallel, and most of those numbers are powers of two (or a multiple of), so you have also alignment to take into account, on top of memory access patterns.

By default, your network will in no way align to any of that.

It shouldn't be hard to see that assuming commutativity gives you (or rather the CUDA compiler) much more flexibility to parallelize your calculations by splitting it whichever way it likes to maximize utilization.
ebooks are a 1-2 mb each max. 81.7 TB are a lot of books, like 42-85 million books.
On a related note, POGOs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_offshore_gaming_ope...

The Philippines (under Duterte) said to Chinese criminals: Feel free to base your operations here and rip off your fellow Chinese, but don't rip off us Filipinos.

Then these POGO centres started scamming locals and Chinese alike, and staffed themselves with scam victims, using blackmail and torture to force them to work there and commit fraud.

Then one victim escaped:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68562643

And then the whole world unraveled for local town mayor and Chinese spy, Alice Guo (that's not even her real name)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/04/asia/philippines-alice-gu...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnyrm8739o
Do you mean windows telemetry, or telemetry for other products? because I think this is a per product affair
It would be way better if it deleted the users Twitter account.
Downgrades and straight dismissals.
If there is no weapon and you do not have ID on you, you walk.
Used to be, no ID, you went down to Central Booking, where you would be ID'd and be very unhappy with the conditions. That ended with COVID.
Patrol sup decides charges, Not AO.
Insp. gets dinged at Compstat if numbers go up, so, numbers are 'managed' -- at every command.
DAT's disappear in 6 months.
Most get a DAT.
Why do you think everyone who could leave this job, did?
> I learned in college that most random number generators use the current timestamp to generate a pseudo-random number.

> How does this differ cryptographically from algorithms like MWC1616 and xorshift128+ in backend applications? How can a random number generator be vulnerable to attacks in real life?

In the early days of online poker some people made a killing by figuring out all the possible hands from the PRNGs being used and then they could just start a game and look up the hands they'd been dealt in their database.
You could still just proxy everything through a single endpoint. I honestly don't know why people would run software that phones home to function, yet are worried that it phones home...
A demonstration of exactly this problem (only in older versions of .Net, newer versions use a different seeding method)

https://dotnetfiddle.net/tLGMp6
Less so than you may expect. Lots of apartments around here, including my previous place — if my name wasn't on the building doorbell, post just wouldn't get delivered.

(Sometimes post still wasn't delivered, as somehow even DHL couldn't find a 100 year old building and kept going to a different building on an adjacent street…)
I’ve got 70-80mb pirated books, I think because of the illustrations. Guess it depends on the book.
I doubt Dijkstra was unable to distinguish between a submarine and a swimmer.
> Anyway, the article carefully avoids talking about energy density. Which is of course the key thing here.

But it's right there in the article:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acscentsci.4c01615?down...

> The cell with F-SSAF electrolyte and pyrolytic graphite (PG) cathode show reversible capacities of 83, 81, 79, 77, and 75 mA h g−1 at the current densities of 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 mA g−1 (Figure 2a).

so 83 Ah/kg (at 20 A/kg), and at a cell voltage of ~ 2V thats ~166 Wh/kg.
What about just computing? Gving us tools and the manuals that comes with them. You bought a computer, you bought/get a set of software that helps accomplish some tasks and that’s it. Mac and macOS used to be that, but they’ve wrapped it up in harzadous “services” brought by MBA. Windows used to be that, more versatile and fragile, but they’ve destroyed it. Linux is that, but you have to learn CLI speak.
irrelevant != fraud
Ask HN: How to log long JSON messages
The system I am working on is receiving huge (200kB) messages and logging them, currently to opensearch, but we're planning moving to Loki. The team responsible for the migration warned us that logs longer than 200kB will be truncated or dropped (we're still discussing it). My question is: what do you use to handle long messages in logs? Our use case is to track down flows according to the logs (to find out what messages was given object handling based on)
The log4j vulnerability happened because the log4j programmers made an overly generalized "do anything and everything" software. The kind of architecture that is made to be so generic that the software accidentally gains emergent properties (=not thought of/realized/considered execution paths and interactions). Although the desire to write software like that might have arisen under the influence of the object oriented mindset, I'm sure it could have happened in any other language.
I don’t think they’re using picture heavy book for LLM training, no?
They could have at the very least seeded some more, to give something back to the, uh, community.
Being "uncomfortable" does not convey a crime.
Misdemeanors or felonies only.
Jumping turnstiles and fare evasion were always a collar.
Now it's just a ticket (violation).
And the opposite, for developers under Taliban regimes (Afghanistan, USA, where else?).
> Do you mean "any change to whitespace in HTML or XML results in a semantically inequivalent document"?

In a very limited sense it is like this for most languages, at least ones where error traces include line:cols numbers or that give magic macros like php's __LINE__.

If you where to use those data in you logic a formatting could break your code, similarly if you read the text content of you html and use its whitespace in your logic a formatting could break your code, aside from that in most cases 1 whitespace or 1000 whitespace are generally equivalent in HTML
> If you sit through a whole meeting without saying a word you didn't contribute at all.

I used to be work with a software architect on a sizable team who spoke less than most others. But when he did speak, it was like the old commercial about E.F. Hutton- everyone listened. If one of us were having a personal conversation with him, he spent most of the time listening. Before he did speak, there would be frequently be some silence as he thoughtfully considered what to say and then he would respond with few words, carefully thought out, intelligent, and wise. He worked on the hardest problems we had, and he was one of the few oracles that the directors, seniors, and leads would go to for advice.

He has been a strong role model for the close to twenty years since I last worked with him, though I struggle and fail every day to come anywhere close.
For people without 768gb+ of RAM and 64 cores+, this guide helps you set up systems to run the R1 distills, not the actual DeepSeek model itself which requires a pretty beefy machine to run.

(It is possible to built an AMD epic based machine that can put out around 4 t/s on a reasonable q4 of DeepSeek R1 for <$3000, with CPU inference)

The distills offer a similar type of functionality implemented in other models such as Quen and LLAMA3… but are emphatically -not- DSR1, which is a very efficient and powerful SOTA model in it’s own right, even without the R1 reasoning fine tuning.

To be clear, for most people, this guide is not about running DeepSeek R1 , but rather about running DeepSeek trained distills of other popular models.
Zig: What I think after one month of using it (perspective of a Rust programmer)
The Intel Xeon E Challenge in 2025
Crime is not dropping.
Follow Sam Antar on X.
He's a forensic accountant and (proud) former felon.
He unpacks all the crime numbers and all the fu*kery from the city and dept.
Does this have anything to do with Trump & Musk recently banning everything non-binary and terms like "diversity" from government? I guess it was about time to fix this.
For most people, this guide will help you to run a DeepSeek trained distill on your machine, not the actual DSR1 model.
Also happens with drugs, the you understood everything thing, teleportation, repetitions, etc, repetitions, etc.

We get used to our usual normal-functioning consciousness, but there’s a whole universe of its potential modes and what-causes-what and in which order. For example, dream scenarios may easily happen in reverse, from a random emotion to drawing the scene around that, to the sense of reality, when you just remember a concept of it. Everything can be backwards, orthogonal, not in order. All “it” has to do is to make it feel normal. All these “backwards”, “normal”, “time”, “because” are not something just granted, you have to actively experience these all the time.
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
SBCL (the most popular Common Lisp implementation) is pretty darn fast, being comparable to Java, Go or OCaml.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
This nightmare seems to have hit MathOverflow as well:

https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/6039/has-mo-been-red...

I cannot emphasize enough what a blow this is to the online discourse on research mathematics.
Yes they do, there's multimodal models.
This is true, although I think in a home environment, there aren't as many interesting things to hit, and you're limited by Same Origin Policy, as well as certain mitigations that web browsers deploy against attacks like DNS Rebinding. However, if you're running this on a server, there's a much greater likelihood that interesting services are under the firewall, e.g. maybe the Kubernetes API server. Code execution could potentially be a form post away.
For multi-modal models, why not? They would be probably some of the best data.
Really curious what the judges are going to do here.

Horse has functionally bolted on this already

I’m guessing slap on wrist despite courts going after individual for a couple of movies torrented pretty hard
Was this written by AI? Every paragraph repeats a lot, while saying very little. Looking at their article images, I’m going to say probably. [1] seems like a better source, first thing I found, but it has actual content, maybe someone else will find a proper link.

Anyway, this was probably why GrapheneOS released the early [0] security patch

> This is an early February security update release based on the February 2025 security patch backports since the monthly Android Open Source Project and stock Pixel OS release scheduled for this month hasn't been published yet.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025020300

[1]: https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/google-patches-47-android-...
Nuclear fusion, plastic-eating bacteria, male pattern baldness: all are pressing problems of our times whose solutions are always 20 years away. FWIW, I've come to terms with the last.
The end result here is to move in the water. Both swimmer and submarine can do that. Whether submarine can swim like human, is irrelevant.
See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05p1pnvymvo.
You should check out "the artist way" it's a book about releasing you creativity.
One of the pillars is the concept of morning pages. Just a stream of thought writing 3 pages the first thing you do after you wake up.
I guess it helps training yourself to be less in "critique mode"
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So why should I still use Extend instead of Gemini?
Presumably they didn't create the torrent
"Federal student loans allow [private universities] to raise fees much higher than they otherwise would be able to charge, as do tuition tax credits and Pell Grants. The tax-deductible treatment of private donations helps fund new buildings. … State and local government exemption of facilities from property and sometimes sales taxes provide further assistance. The federal government hands out research grants, with generous (probably overly generous) provision for overhead expenses. Endowments are also advantaged enormously by tax privileges."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2018/04/08/there-...
If you look for a FIDO token, Token2 has affordable offerings. (I am not sure how well they are resistant against physical attacks though, it looks the case can be pried open.)
No, only thing i have is dns-over-https.

But i should turn that on.
Not always!
If the suspect doesn't stay on scene and the victim goes to the hospital but declines to prosecute, which MOST people do in NYC, like magic, there is no crime committed.

You have to love all the misguided stats from everyone OUTSIDE NYC.

Go do a ride alone with CA, let us know how well you sleep after a full tour.
This website has some of the worst mobile UI I’ve ever seen — blasted by ads, and full screen subscription model — before I could even read the pitch.
I assume that it will stop working if your code does some nuclear physics calculations /s.

This is joke, actually I used it for that. But not for cool nuclear stuff that you see in the movies.

And if you don't get the joke. It is about o3-mini model card having couple of pages about how they prevent it answering some nuclear and radiation questions.
It could be anywhere from a few million to a hundred million

https://annas-archive.org/datasets
So according to some AI, the damages awarded per infringed work is ~$750 minimum in the US. 80TB of books, each let's say 10MB on average, would be 8 million works. So Meta should pay 6 billion USD for their copyright infringement?
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So if I torrented and seeded, I would be doing it for my own entertainment, not commercially. I expect big copy-write holders to come after myself. If Meta does it - I guess they have better lawyers ?

Could make interesting case law.
Even if they didn't use the illustration(which isn't clear given multimodal models), they'd still make use the text in the books.
Where'd my little cupcake go?
Do you seriously not remember Jan 6th, or that he is literally firing everyone in the FBI who investigated the participants - after pardoning them?

What do you think?
Logic error in a video frame parser written in C, running in ring 0. No bounds checking. Another Friday.

Diff: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/96ad4e759ff...
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Whoever created it has a lot of spare hard disk space.
But still slow compared to a non-GC'd language. Walking over all the references of your program while its stopped is slow.
Since the military reports to Trump directly, and they have a lot more guns than the police….
I was thinking of a theory that from evolutionary instinct people want to be king of their castle, secure against the enemy tribes and having a happy family - prince meets his princess has kids etc. The Democrat woke principles go against that rather - the rival tribes will take your job because you're the wrong skin color or a bunch crossed over the open border, your prince and princess stuff is outdated because male and female is replaced by gender fluidity and trans etc.

I don't have a strong opinion personally but I don't think it's a vote winner. The dems probably should have gone with a popular mainstream candidate like Shapiro say rather the the pro woke, most left voting in the senate Kamala.
Eye for an eye. Meta losses rights to 81.7 TB of IP. Transcribed into a text file
Something tells me uncle Donald will exonerate his new favourite lapdog from any criminal or civil liability.
If anyone wants a seedable, and therefore deterministic PRNG, use the seedrandom package https://www.npmjs.com/package/seedrandom

// Global PRNG: set Math.random.
seedrandom('hello.', { global: true });
console.log(Math.random()); // Always 0.9282578795792454

I found this useful when using worker threads to 'render' a construction by slices that included some randomness (that should be the same for each thread)
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53104

Maybe dang can change the URL to one of the sources at the bottom, this is too obviously and annoyingly AI-written...
I don't think they need to be selective. It's not like Meta can run out of storage.
What are illegal cookies? Ones that make you accept for free or subscribe to reject?
Does anybody dream of living in one or just dreams of owning the one? I fail to see the upside of living in somebody's pocket soviet union when places like Singapure actually exist.
Nice calculation, that’s actually quite doable for them, they have already been paying similar fines for a while.
I haven't yet tried CaptureOne myself, so maybe I'll just give it a go. My wife got her license included with her camera purchase. Do you happen to know if it's fairly fully functional in the trial period, or am I going to have to shell out for it and hope for the best? My wife is also on Windows, and I'm on a Mac, so I don't know if that will end up with a better UX or not.

I would really like to get rid of Lightroom. I pay right now for the CC Photography Plan, and I /only/ use Lightroom Classic and nothing else, and I only use it as a DAM, everything else is done in DxO Photo Lab or Photomatix anyway.
A good chance for federal prosectutors to "send a message" as they did with Aaron Swartz but I don't see things going that way.
If you get curious, in the space of solving partial differential equations they sometimes speak about "regions of influence" and "regions of dependence" – this refers to exactly what you are talking about – given a specific point, there is some area that can influence its value, and there is some area that can be influenced by its value. Sometimes it's possible to know ahead of time which those areas are.
How does the exploit work? Can it be executed remotely, even via prepared websites or is access to the Hardware required?
There was a time where I played that game for days with "Jazz Impressions of New York" by Dave Brubeck (another underrated masterpiece) playing in the background. This was many many years ago, and still the feeling of that time is very present in my mind.
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Spreading the message inside FB helps the mission. The people who already stopped don’t need to be convinced anymore. ;)

But sure, ironic and counterintuitive.
What makes you think that you're so special that what happened in Turkey or Hungary (or worse, Belarus) won't happen in the US?