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> There are other options - a communist utopia, a zero-state solution. Somehow, I doubt that's what you're referring to.

Communism, and utopias, aren't really an option. Communism has never been tried, no one seems to get past the phase where a strongman in charges takes control of everything. Regardless of whether that's even what I wanted (it isn't) that doesn't work.

> You're also cherry-picking, but you're doing it on some hypothetical future that you're just imagining.

You're jumping timelines here though. I also cherry picked a point in the past that makes a better example for me, but I never talked about the future.

I assume both of us have an expectation that our model could work in the future, but that's not really what we were talking about.

For what its worth, I consider the future you prefer with an ever growing government attempting to create more and more regulation is just as unlikely as you think it is for us to be able to shrink the government.
> "feeling like it's not a good fit for me, and indiehosters in general."

Maintainer here so I'm gonna be biased with this hot take, but I really don't agree with this particular sentiment.

I would turn it around instead and say that most indie hosters are maybe not looking for the levels of protection a zero trust overlay network provides. That is a believable reason for me why it might be perceived as not a good fit. If you're not looking for the sort of security that OpenZiti affords the operator, it will certainly feel less of a fit than a classic VPN-like solution. It also focuses on a different paradigm wrt connectivity centered around individual services. That does mean the learning curve is absolutely steeper because it's not "just IP" and all our years of ip-based-know-how are useful, but not to make the most of the system. While one can use IP/L3/L4 just fine with OpenZiti, it's certainly not trying to be an IP-based VPN (like many of the other solutions are). That also might lead to feeling like it's not a great fit.

For the people who want the sort of security OpenZiti provides, however. It really is an easy-to-use (my bias showing) solution that plenty of indie hosters use already. :)

Not trying to sound too defensive here (a little is ok, right?) but I also appreciate the comments and feedback, thank you!
To make what I consider a halfway decent song with these current easiest-to-use services (like Suno and Udiio) takes a few hours in my experience.
To get there one has to work with the text, the song structure, find a decent style, and then do corrections on sections where the models goes off track.
To make something that is closer to "good", I would go and re-record all the lead vocals myself, and then mix this in a DAW.
Well ... nobody. I read it wrong at first glance.
I remember a surgeon who does a lot of transplantation (and where they have to check DNA for compatibility), telling me that it also depends a lot on which child. The first child is almost always from the father. Second child a bit less. Third child is where there is a significant percentage of outside interference. To the point that they discourage same family donors as it creates a lot of drama.
I fed the two comments verbatim into Grok:

> Curriculum learning: Training that begins with easy examples, gradually increasing difficulty.

> RL (Reinforcement Learning): Learning via trial-and-error with rewards, like training a robot or model to optimize actions.

> ~7y ago: ~7 years ago (circa 2018).

> OpenAI Gym days: Refers to using OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for RL, popular in robotics/AI research ~2016-2018.

> LLMs and robotics: Large Language Models (LLMs) now leverage RL techniques from robotics for better performance.

I think the last one is a semi-hallucinatory stretch. LLMs are large language models, ie. ChatGPT, Sonnet, Grok, R1. Robotics are ... robotics. Building robots.

The actual answer to what the comment is saying is that until maybe a year back, we trained language models - still with RL, but with RL on token error, which isn't "real" RL because it executes tasks "by coincidence". That is, it happens to be that when you train a model to predict text, it also gains the ability to do tasks in the bargain, because the text contains agents that do tasks. A year or so ago, we started training models by having them do a task, judging if the task was successful or failed, and then performing RL on task outcome rather than token prediction. This is a return to "classic RL", but we had to pass through the "token RL regime" first so that the model could make progress on realistic tasks at all. It also means that LLMs can now increasingly be employed in robotics, where task RL training rules, as there is no massive preexisting robotics movements dataset like there is for text.

(Also, NLP is Natural Language Processing, ie. what LLMs do.)
I borrowed Hackers Delight from my local library, even though I didn’t fullt grasp every chapter I still found the book interesting and beautiful. Planning on buying it.

I’ll check out Numerical Recipes and Matters Computational ideas etc.
I also find Succinct Data Structures fascinating. I own Navarro's text book, and it's one of my favorite books to take to the coffee shop and try to understand.
I also have a copy of Jacobson's Thesis.

Since information is rather scarce, here's my shameless plug for a related blog post I made, which includes a few links at the end to more resources https://denvaar.dev/posts/jacobsons_rank.html
>In the modern world, I don't see how one can be obsessed about such a thing...

Theres no obsession here, the author was being needlessly hyperbolical to twist the narrative as if the normal behavior of thinking about paternity makes one "obsessive". The way he phrased it makes it sound like it's normal for the paternal side not to care if he's raising his own kin or not.

>Do a DNA test, get answer. Obsession over.

DAN tests without your partner's consent or a court order, are not legal in several countries, like France for example. So you might never know if your partner doesn't want you to know or you don't have proof of adultery to show the court.
the "technical note" link in the RLE bit vector section of the rust repo is broken (https://yuri.is/pdfing/weighted_range_quantile_queries.pdf 404s)
CVE-2024-7014 Return: Updated Evilloader
The entire Haruhi series is famously randomly scrambled, so neither it's airing order nor their episode number follow the chronological order of events.
I am trying to imagine the racket that must have made. Amazing how vivid that modem sound is in memory.
Having just finished Fuzz[0], I think it's fair to question how well any effort to prefer one animal over another ever works out.

[0] https://maryroach.net/fuzz.html
> since the issue is general

I'm not sure what that means specifically. I don't agree overall. Only certain types of problems encountered by LLMs map cleanly to well-understood problems where existing solvers are perfect.
Weak recommendations, smells of AI written stuff...
oh wait nvm just realised you linked a working archive link in your post...
still worth updating the link in the repo for people who stumble upon it
Germany is still one of the rare places where it's totally fine to buy a Porsche with cash. There was a good article (missing the link, sorry) how the Italian mafia uses this loophole to launder money.

And another thing is credit cards in restaurants. We just had a big dinner with friends, were the last ones to leave from the restaurant. They advertised credit card payment, but for some reason the machine was not working when we needed to pay and we went to the ATM to get a pile of cash. It's not the first time this happens and not the first restaurant either. I've never had issues paying with card in any other country.
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Yeah I know. Not arguing, just pointing out it's not a small move. He's said a lot of stuff, but hasn't yet put the US in a position with it's allies that can't be rowed back.
The only proper and actually useful use-case for LLM-summarized text I've seen so far was the one I first saw used in ChatGPT's UI itself. All the rest, including Apple's notifications, was so obviously problematic that it smells "investment bubble" from a thousand miles.
What is nuts is that in some countries, its illegal for the father to unilaterally have a paternity test done. I know for France that if you have it done unilaterally and thus illegally you are still on the hook for child support until a legal test is done, which either the mother needs to agree to or needs to be agreed on by the court.

IMO a paternity test should just be mandated to be done immediately at birth (or earlier even?). It avoids the tinge of distrust of "oh wow, how could you even think that of me?!" from the mother, whilst giving certainty to the man.
TBH if Musk is truely fixated with Mars then even 100 billion $$$ global commercial empire across multiple sectors wasn't going to finance it. The only play for trillions for Mars is to insinuate way into government largesse, and there's only one gov who can both afford to and willing (or dumb enough) to play. And even for US gov it's a squeeze... billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money... if Musk wants trillions no wonder he's wants to cut billions elsewhere.
I think this is not really a charitable take. For one, nearly everything medical needs certain purity and concentration so you need specialized equipment. For two, even if a chemical is easy to produce by industrial standards, you still need to run trials to prove that it's both safe and actually does what you hope it does.
Wow really? And what was NYTs role in all that huh? I think they need to look in the mirror a bit
Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine
Process Compose: manage non-containerized applications
This looks cool but:

> Have you ever wanted [...]
> "html templates" that are plain Emacs Lisp data,

I can honestly say I've never wanted to write HTML in another language. Html is fine, I'm not sure what the benefit of reimplementing it in other languages is. I see this in python a lot too
As far as I know GLP-1 is a naturally occurring hormone but it's not something you can just give people directly. Instead you give them artificial things like semaglutide that work on the same receptors.
That's ok then, there is already a law against being in a criminal gang and against stealing! I don't agree with the constant stream of legislating against things that are already illegal!

(Half)joking aside, I do understand that Lincolnshire has a much worse problem than my native Welsh border country. Our smaller fields and undulating ground make coursing much more difficult. We also don't have the density of hares.
I wonder if I'm an outlier here, or if buying from Amazon depends on where you live. I doubt I have ordered more than 10 items _ever_ from Amazon, going back 14 years (the last time I ordered something from Amazon was a travel pillow, in 2023, that you could only buy there).

It's not like I don't buy things online, but I struggle to think of something I can't get somewhere else, be it computer accessories (any other online shop or directly from the retaler) or books (order it at a local book shop or buy from the publisher), which are actually the only physical items I order online.

The shopping experience on Amazon is meh, so I can't imagine that anyone enjoys using it for every day items, like groceries.
Curriculum learning posits that you get better results if you gradually increase the training "difficulty". That is, learn to walk before you run. So you'd do "additions and multiplications first" and then "now draw the rest of the integral" :)

RL - Reinforcement Learning. You have a carrot and a stick. You run a model through iterations (in LLMs you generate n completions), you score each of them based on some reward functions, and if the result is correct you give it a carrot (positive reward), if the result is incorrect you give it a stick (negative or 0 reward). (simplified ofc)

OpenAI gym is (was?) an environment that allowed "AI agents" to be simulated in an environment. You could for example play games, or solve puzzles, or things like that. oAI gym was a "wrapper" over those environments, with a standardised API (observe, step (provide action), reward; rinse and repeat). You could for example have an agent that learned to land a lunar lander in a simple game. Or play chess. Or control a 3d stick figure in a maze.
It's an anime website though.
are succinct data structures good for "dynamic" applications? ie modifying the data often, last time i looked into this field it seems that all the popular structures were very static in nature and had costly updates
I had made a small career on building Internet Service Providers in California, in the early days, and will never forget how liberating it was to carry my laptop to the Griffith Park observatory with a fully-charged Ricochet modem plugged in, communicating to my house down in Los Feliz, where another Ricochet modem gateway'ed me to the Internet via the house 56k line ..

It was truly astonishing to be up there, checking email.

A few, what seems very short, years later .. and now it is just normal.
How I built a vector-based SQL generator: A practical RAG pipeline for beginners
Show HN: Making a Space Combat Game
Hi Hackers

I started making a free to play space combat game with the help of Grok and Claude 3.7. I prompt them what I want to have and they make it, usually without issues. Pretty cool to be able to do something like this in 3 hours.

The code is a little messy, not gonna lie but if people like this sort of thing, I might clean it up as I keep going. Curious what you think about it.

Cheers
Jogi
Are you sure that’s the case? IP addresses != domain, so I’m getting bots are including the Host header in their requests containing the obfuscated domain.

My guess is OP is using a public DNS server that sells aggregated user requests. All it takes is one request from their machine to a public machine on the internet, and it’s now public knowledge.
thankfully a number of distros are starting to ship packages for x86v2 by default (basically everything Core 2 and newer) which fixes this finally.
Show HN: Morse Code Simulator – A polished Morse Code teaching tool on the web
MorseCodeSimulator is a tool to simulate using a Morse Machine, intended to teach people how Morse Code works by letting them try for themselves!

This is actually a project I published two years ago. In the past few days, I've updated it to v2.0 and decided to release the source code with an MIT license: https://github.com/popcar2/MorseCodeSimulator

There's also a Windows and Linux desktop version which you can find on the github or itch page. I plan to make a Flatpak version in the future... When I have some free time.

For now, enjoy!
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They mention AI used to weed out molecules but don't mention how it was used.
I'd be interested in know did they use pre-trained models or train one from the ground up.
GLP-1 is a class of drugs (or molecules). The first known GLP-1 was pretty much just a synthesized version of a naturally occurring compound from the Gila Monster’s venom.

Semaglutide is like a 2nd generation GLP-1 and there are 3rd generation ones in development right now
probably not publicly

why would they give their hard work away if they can keep it under wraps for greater profit and a worse world riddled with scarcity?
Maybe there are more modern, advanced data structures / techniques, but yes, my understanding is that this is a common trade off (having your data structure be more static, with offline updates).
College Is a Bundle
They also removed a lot of living trees to 'let in more light'. I always felt that let in more heat too. Other river trusts were planting more trees at the same time!

I always felt that varied habitat was better.
But thats the common nomenclature among discord users
And Novo (like many others) is already working on next-generation GLPs that’ll have new patent protection before Ozempic’s ends.
You're equating a legal case involving one man 15 years ago with the greatest threat to global security in a generation.

This is ridiculous.
Ask HN: How to backup iCloud images to second cloud provider
I want to programmatically backup my iCloud picture library to a second cloud. What is the current best way to do this?

And bonus question, what is the best way to bulk download your iCloud image library?
There are 3.3 million deaths annually in the US. So 3% of deaths are due to air pollution. That's a very large number.
because the goal of life is to maximize metabolic throughput?

or to minimze energetic waste?
The second link really impressed me, I'm tentatively sold on (and excited for) their approach. Does anyone know of any other accredited programs similar to Math Academy, but for other subjects?

Anything in the soft sciences, or biology/organic chemistry, or comp sci. I know there are a lot of courses for the latter especially, but I'm looking for accredited ones.
Show HN: Online speed reader for e-books
While looking at e-reader apps, I noticed that there were no speed reader web apps that let you read books (namely .epub files), so I decided to build one. I used the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) technique, cutting out eye movement and letting me read quicker. It’s open-source on GitHub, so feel free to fork it or poke around. I’d love feedback! Especially if you’ve got ideas for features like better file support (PDFs?), pause-on-punctuation logic, or maybe a cleaner UI.

[Repo: https://github.com/yigit-cankurtaran/rsvp-reader-web]
GPU Transitions, Aggressive Server Pricing Squeeze HPE Profits
I like a lot of Muratori’s writing but… is it really wise to take code architecture tips from game devs, of all people? I’m willing to trade lots of performance in exchange of extensibility and stability over the long term.

I’m not a huge fan of overwrought OOP either, but modeling everything with scalars and comments makes it sometimes harder to add new behaviours.

I’m also not a fan of video content, here is a transcript of the above video,

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor...

If you look at the “not clean” code in the above, it’s fine, it’s still relatively easy to follow etc. Now think about extending it so that some shapes are the result of summing multiple sub-shapes, like a general polygon tiled out of triangles. That’s straightforward in the OOP case, but not so much in the flattened array case, and means that we need to reintroduce pointer indirections if we don’t want our shape union to be as large as our biggest shape etc. (I still might use a switch statement over inheritance.)
One of the aspects of the Stormy Daniels story that I didn't feel got enough traction amongst all the jokes was this bit:

> a guy walked up on me and said to me, “Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.” And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, “That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.”

An article about it thought it sounded outlandish but found other examples:

> My name is Carmine. I don’t know why you’re fucking with Mr. Trump but if you keep fucking with Mr. Trump, we know where you live and we’re going to your house for your wife and kids.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/26/17164212/stormy-daniels-trump-...
> In the modern world, I don't see how one can be obsessed about such a thing...

The version of this I've seen most often has been certain Very Online groups who are convinced that if they have kids they'll turn out to secretly be someone else's.

They can't test that hypothesis because it's directly interfering with the conditions that would enable them to test it.
It may be normal, but is it productive? What will you do? Stop loving your child, punish the mother? You may be better off not knowing the answer and being OK with that.
So find a single architecture that can be taught to be an electrical engineer or a doctor.

Where today those are being done, but specialized architectures, models, combination of methods.

Then that would be a 'general' intelligence, the one type of model that can do either. Trained to be an engineer or doctor. And like a human once trained, they might not do the other job well. But they did both start with same 'tech', like humans all have the same architecture in the 'brain'.

I don't think it will be an LLM, it will be some combo of methods in use today.

Ok. I'll buy that. I'm not sure everyone is using 'general' in that way. I think more-often people think a single AI instance that can do everything/everywhere/all at once. Be an engineer and doctor at same time. Since it can do all the tasks at same time, it is 'general'. Since we are making AI's that can do everything, could have a case statement inside to switch models, half joking. At some point all the different AI methods will be incorporated together and will appear even more human/general.
I am.wondering though, would a more kinship based society be less tolerant ofotherness/outgroup ?
Ancient version of soccer with rules like 'no murder' still being played today
> I can't remember the last time I was exposed to respectful ads.

There are still some out there, or at least some that aren't actively disrespectful. At least sponsor spots in podcasts don't stalk me online, etc, at least when they are honest about what is happening¹. They are very much in the minority though.

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[1] The 3D printing “community” on youtube is rife with “personal” recommendations that are obviously paid for but try to look more organic. “Today I'll test if you _really_ need to dry your PLA filament rolls, in a video sponsored by the company that makes one of the dryers I'll be testing…”
How so? It's a very general-purpose image board and has a been for a long time.
I do get access to a version of reddit that isn't astroturfed by bots?
It's a sad day when the US president feels closer to a dictator than a democratically elected president.

There's been an ideological shift in America that a lot of people are desperately trying to deny because it is truly terrifying.
Not sure what you are trying to tell me. This isn't guaranteed to work. If you define a reverse lookup record for your domain, then that counts as published in my book.