Sabtu, 30 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
5 by wglb | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Cantlay sparks U.S. to 3-1 afternoon win in Rome

American golfer Patrick Cantlay holed birdie putts to win the final three holes and spark a 3-1 U.S. win in four-ball matches Saturday afternoon at the Ryder Cup in Rome.

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Browns' Njoku questionable due to burn injuries

Browns tight end David Njoku is questionable Sunday against the Ravens due to burn injuries he suffered while trying to a light a fire pit at his home Friday night, a source said.

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New top story on Hacker News: The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)

The story behind the Heliotrope Font (2021)
8 by Caiero | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Wolves hand Man City first loss of EPL season

Hwang Hee-chan scored the winner as Wolves ended Manchester City's perfect start to the Premier League season with a shock 2-1 home win on Saturday.

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Minggu, 24 September 2023

Jimmy Graham scores first TD with the Saints since 2014

Derek Carr connects with Jimmy Graham on an 8-yard touchdown pass for the tight end's first NFL score since Dec. 26, 2021.

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Lions rookie TE Sam LaPorta nabs first career touchdown on 45-yard catch from QB Jared Goff

The rookie tight end out of Iowa scored his first NFL touchdown in Week 3 against the Atlanta Falcons.

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Spurs' Maddison, Son form dangerous duo in post-Harry Kane era

After frustrating Arsenal in a 2-2 draw, Spurs' attack looks promising with Maddison and Son's partnership providing the spark.

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New top story on Hacker News: Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet

Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet
219 by apsec112 | 126 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”

Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”
13 by wallflower | 8 comments on Hacker News.


Ryan didn't win, but didn't lose either. What now for the champ?

Her fight ended in a controversial split draw, but Sandy Ryan showed she's one of the best fighters in the welterweight division.

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Sabtu, 23 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: The vital art of talking to strangers

The vital art of talking to strangers
37 by giuliomagnifico | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Bengals to list Burrow as questionable for MNF

The Bengals will list Joe Burrow as questionable for Monday night's game against the Rams as the quarterback continues to deal with a calf injury. Coach Zac Taylor said Burrow could be a game-time decision.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server from scratch

Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server from scratch
3 by cmrdporcupine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I got my start on the Internet in the very early 90s playing with, authoring in, and programming on LambdaMOO ( https://ift.tt/Y9WpUZP ) and similar systems. Shared virtual social spaces, with a persistent object oriented authoring / scripting language. They can be classified as MUDs (depending on who you talk to) but the focus is social, creative / authoring, and shared programming not RPG gaming. I've always wanted to see this kind of thing modernized and further developed. Over the last 25 years or so I've worked on similar but novel & improved things, but never finished. So I decided to just re-implement LambdaMOO and use that as a base, instead and keep compatibility as a goal, but build it out on a more modern foundation that takes advantage of multiple core machines, newer network protocols, newer connectivity methods, uses MVCC transactions for the shared database etc. LambdaMOO is a somewhat extensive system in that it is composed of compiler, a virtual machine, an object database, user permissions system, network runtime. In some ways it's kind of like a shared, text-based Smalltalk image/runtime... So quite a bit to implement and get right before it all works together. The big challenge throughout has been slavishly maintaining backwards compatibility so existing "cores" (databases) work. It's not done, but it's darn close. Would like for people who are into this kind of thing to check it out, and maybe even help. Many of the technical aspects here are still provisional, but this is the start. Constructive assistance welcome. (Yes, it's a rewrite in Rust, but that's not really the point, even though that's a cliche that's fun.)

What made Megan Rapinoe so good? Teammates, opponents and coaches break it down

Rapinoe's former teammates, coaches and opponents reflect on what made her such a special player for the USWNT and the NWSL before she retires.

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Jumat, 22 September 2023

'I have power, and I want to fight for better conditions': Novak Djokovic's players' association gains momentum

The PTPA was founded at the 2020 US Open with very little fanfare -- but plenty of controversy. Three years later, Djokovic views its importance to be as great as any other legacy he will leave in the sport.

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New top story on Hacker News: Tofu: Do You Check?

Tofu: Do You Check?
4 by c7DJTLrn | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: What the debate about Neanderthals reveals about us

What the debate about Neanderthals reveals about us
8 by Vigier | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Suzuka circuit is a challenge straight out of Japanese folklore

A trip trackside at the Japanese Grand Prix uncovers a centuries-old tale of hidden dangers, the perils of yielding to temptation and respect for Suzuka's spiders.

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Kamis, 21 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants

Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants
19 by rntn | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Vikes still confident in Mattison after Akers deal

This week's trade for running back Cam Akers drew a natural question around the Minnesota Vikings: Will he replace starter Alexander Mattison, who has taken the majority of snaps this season for the NFL's worst rushing offense?

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Middleton not concerned about Giannis' future

Bucks star Khris Middleton said he is not concerned about Giannis Antetokounmpo's comments regarding the uncertainty of his future in Milwaukee.

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European football is 40,000 referees short and the elite game is partly to blame

Being a referee is a calling: most people want to score the goals or be the star, but officiating is an elite career path. However, fewer people becoming referees and it impacts the entire sport from top to bottom.

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75 things for NASCAR's 75th anniversary: Best racetracks

To celebrate NASCAR's 75th anniversary, Ryan McGee presents a top-5 list every week for the rest of 2023. This week: the best racetracks.

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Bounce-back picks: Will Huberdeau find former scoring?

Last season was rough for a few NHL players. Sean looks at which players are likely to bounce back from their down year and make for value picks in your fantasy hockey draft.

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Minggu, 17 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Get a Rabbit: Book reviews about statistics

Get a Rabbit: Book reviews about statistics
7 by hams-andwich | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Colts rookie QB Richardson rushes for two TDs in first six minutes

The No. 4 overall pick has three rushing touchdowns in his first five quarters for Indianapolis.

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New top story on Hacker News: NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates
3 by gardenfelder | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games

LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
23 by gaws | 6 comments on Hacker News.


Manuel improving after stroke; docs 'encouraged'

Former Phillies manager Charlie Manuel has "made progress" since having a stroke Saturday and "doctors are encouraged," according to a statement from the team.

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Sabtu, 16 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition (2021)

Comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition (2021)
6 by nickt | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Cavs prez Altman faces impaired driving charge

Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman was arrested Friday night and charged with operating a vehicle while impaired.

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Man Utd woes continue with defeat to Brighton

Manchester United slipped to their third defeat of the Premier League season as an impressive Brighton left Old Trafford with a 3-1 win Saturday.

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Verstappen's reign in jeopardy because of braking issue

Max Verstappen says his record run of Formula One victories will come to an end at Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix after he qualified 11th on the grid.

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Rabu, 13 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: WASI Support in Go

WASI Support in Go
35 by spacey | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Jets' Saleh would 'be shocked' if Rodgers retires

Jets coach Robert Saleh said Wednesday he would "be shocked" if Aaron Rodgers decides to retire after his 2023 season ended after just four plays.

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Burning questions: Can Man City be dethroned, what's wrong with Man United, more

We've only had a month of the season, but the Premier League has provided talking points galore, from the title race to the relegation battle. Can anyone stop Man City? And will Man United and Chelsea rebound?

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New top story on Hacker News: Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community

Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community
20 by stalfosknight | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)

The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
34 by ctoth | 35 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: PF bug in macOS Sonoma release candidate

PF bug in macOS Sonoma release candidate
51 by eptcyka | 9 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: SigNoz – Open-source alternative to Datadog is hiring product designers (remote)

SigNoz – Open-source alternative to Datadog is hiring product designers (remote)
1 by pranay01 | 0 comments on Hacker News.


How they cheated: Stunning new details shed light on a scandal we thought we knew

The largest performance-enhancing drugs operation in U.S. sports history fell apart 10 years ago. Biogenesis of America outed some of the nation's biggest superstars as PED users; still others have not been publicly tied into the scandal -- until now.

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Selasa, 12 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring for Customer Success Managers in Software (US Remote)

Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring for Customer Success Managers in Software (US Remote)
1 by festinalente | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4

Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
49 by kcorbitt | 12 comments on Hacker News.
There has been a lot of interest on HN in fine-tuning open-source LLMs recently (eg. Anyscale's post at https://ift.tt/j6qiOvG ). I've been playing around with fine-tuning models for a couple of years, and wanted to share some insights and practical code. I’ve condensed what I’ve learned into a small set of notebooks at https://ift.tt/gOwdqAZ... , covering labeling data, fine-tuning, running efficient inference, and evaluating costs/performance. The 7B model we train here matches GPT-4’s labels 95% of the time on the test set, and for the 5% of cases where they disagree it’s often because the correct answer is genuinely ambiguous. What is fine-tuning? You can think of it as a more-powerful form of prompting, where instead of writing your instructions in text you actually encode them in the weights of the model itself. You do this by training an existing model on example input/output pairs that demonstrate the task you want your fine-tuned model to learn. Fine-tuning can work with as few as 50 examples but I usually try to get 1000+ if possible. Prompting still has some big advantages over fine-tuning. It's way easier/faster to iterate on your instructions than label data and re-train a model. And operationally it's easier to deploy one big model and just adjust its behavior as necessary vs deploying many small fine-tuned models that will likely each get lower utilization. Fine-tuning has one huge advantage though: it is far more effective at guiding a model's behavior than prompting, so you can often get away with a much smaller model. That gets you faster responses and lower inference costs. A fine-tuned Llama 7B model is 50x cheaper than GPT-3.5 on a per-token basis, and for many use cases can produce results that are as good or better! For example, classifying the 2M recipes at https://ift.tt/VE6GRXr with GPT-4 would cost $23k. Even with GPT-3.5 it would cost over $1k. The model we fine-tuned performs similarly to GPT-4 and costs just $19 to run over the entire dataset. Disclaimer: My brother David and I are working on an open-source product called OpenPipe ( https://ift.tt/ALbaiJx ) to help engineers adopt fine-tuning as simply as possible. But none of the information above depends on our startup. The current post is just about sharing information that we’ve learned about fine-tuning. I hope it’s useful!

New top story on Hacker News: Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold

Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold
44 by thunderbong | 19 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Why is the Irish Government so afraid of transparency for renters?

Why is the Irish Government so afraid of transparency for renters?
16 by vinnyglennon | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Streaming pickups for Week 2: Brock Purdy provides a solid floor

Matt Bowen highlights options with favorable setups this week.

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Senin, 11 September 2023

Sabtu, 09 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: It's Like HN, but for Science

Show HN: It's Like HN, but for Science
11 by dndndnd | 8 comments on Hacker News.


UVA honors slain players with pregame ceremony

Virginia honored Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry and their families with a pregame video tribute and permanent memorial inside Scott Stadium on Saturday before kickoff against James Madison.

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Jumat, 08 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: ASMesh: Anonymous, Secure Messaging in Mesh Networks

ASMesh: Anonymous, Secure Messaging in Mesh Networks
8 by simonpure | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Dodgers' Buehler won't return to rotation in '23

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler will not pitch this season as he continues his recovery from a second Tommy John surgery, the team announced Friday.

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Browns CB Ward out of protocol, will play Sunday

Cleveland Browns cornerback Denzel Ward has been released from concussion protocol and will play in Sunday's opener against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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New top story on Hacker News: Our climate change debates are out of date

Our climate change debates are out of date
26 by jseliger | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Renaissance, Eras tours attendance outperforms 14 NFL teams

It was an unusually active offseason for NFL stadiums as Beyoncé and Taylor Swift embarked on tours, bringing attendances that rival the venues' NFL occupants.

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Rabu, 06 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Neobanking: The Golden Opportunity

Neobanking: The Golden Opportunity
8 by jonhershman | 4 comments on Hacker News.


LSU star Smith set for '23 debut vs. Grambling

LSU star defensive tackle Maason Smith is expected to play his first game in more than a year Saturday against Grambling.

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Run amok: 11,000 DQ'd at marathon, per report

Approximately 11,000 runners at this year's Mexico City Marathon have been disqualified after being found to have cut the course, according to Spanish newspaper Marca. Some runners allegedly used vehicles or public transport to skip ahead in the race.

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Senin, 04 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits

Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits
26 by helghardt | 15 comments on Hacker News.
The head master of my primary school took a small group of students every semester on industry site visits. I believe these site visits played a meaningful role in developing my engineering and entrepreneurial interests/thinking. Although I only vaguely remember the details, I do have a strong lasting impression of the locations/factories we visited and people we met. I got to see a plastic pipe molding facility, coke cola bottling factory, first wind power turbines in Cape Town area and assembled a door alarm prototype at the neighboring university. This was all before the age of 13. In university I had similar practical exposure doing an internship at a boiler manufacturing factory, chicken processing plant and finally a tech startup. I truly cherish these experiences and glimpses into the real world. Obviously I knew very little of what was really going on, but these experiences helped me build a sort-of mental map to unpack my options at the time. Do you think practical site visits as a teenager is a good idea? Have you had similar exposure and did it have a lasting impact on you too? Do you think we need to create more opportunities like this for students?

New top story on Hacker News: VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
27 by Brajeshwar | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub

Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub
8 by rsaha7 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN community, I have been working on benchmarking publicly available LLMs these past couple of weeks. More precisely, I am interested on the finetuning piece since a lot of businesses are starting to entertain the idea of self-hosting LLMs trained on their proprietary data rather than relying on third party APIs. To this point, I am tracking the following 4 pillars of evaluation that businesses are typically look into: - Performance - Time to train an LLM - Cost to train an LLM - Inference (throughput / latency / cost per token) For each LLM, my aim is to benchmark them for popular tasks, i.e., classification and summarization. Moreover, I would like to compare them against each other. So far, I have benchmarked Flan-T5-Large, Falcon-7B and RedPajama and have found them to be very efficient in low-data situations, i.e., when there are very few annotated samples. Llama2-7B/13B and Writer’s Palmyra are in the pipeline. But there’s so many LLMs out there! In case this work interests you, would be great to join forces. GitHub repo attached — feedback is always welcome :) Happy hacking!

New top story on Hacker News: TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens

TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens
27 by cmitsakis | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)

Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)
7 by stefankuehnel | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Minggu, 03 September 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying

Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
33 by myshpa | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit
25 by thunderbong | 5 comments on Hacker News.


Salah, Alexander-Arnold get 8/10 as Liverpool cruise

Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold helped Liverpool to a third consecutive win.

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New top story on Hacker News: Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters

Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters
9 by Kaibeezy | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters

Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters
25 by bookofjoe | 25 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Extract RSS feed from almost anything

Show HN: Extract RSS feed from almost anything
15 by roks0n | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp. RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.

New top story on Hacker News: Index of Aesthetics

Index of Aesthetics
9 by detaro | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Sabtu, 02 September 2023

Sainz out to end Verstappen's win streak at Monza

Carlos Sainz is hoping to end Max Verstappen's record run of consecutive Formula One victories at Sunday's Italian Grand Prix, but admits the odds will be stacked against him.

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New top story on Hacker News: The Transformations of Science

The Transformations of Science
7 by solvent | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Chelsea's Caicedo 5/10 for costly error in loss to Nottingham Forest

Moises Caicedo's difficult start to life as a Chelsea player continued with his costly error in Saturday's 1-0 loss at home to Nottingham Forest.

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