MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kjksf | 2025-05-05 13:07:47+00:00
Maybe people should first understand the context of this.

Apparently, here's the data:

California is losing its grip on the film industry as Canada, the UK, and Australia outspend the U.S. on production subsidies.

LA’s soundstage occupancy dropped to 90% pre-strikes, while Warner Brothers and Netflix ramp up overseas filming.

Even a $3.75 billion tax credit boost might not be enough to keep Hollywood on top.

Meanwhile, Vancouver is adding 20 new soundstages, and UK productions hit a record $7 billion.

Here's Ben Affleck talking about this: https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/entertainment/ben-affleck-crit..., https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1913449981643456612

Here's Adam Scott and Rob Lowe talking about it: https://x.com/medx0/status/1919178518031896903

Basically it seems that movie production and jobs created by it moved outside of US in a massive way.

Hence the leftist tarrifs meant to reverse that and bring movie production back in US
by placardloop | 2025-05-05 13:08:58+00:00
ListPolicies does not show the contents of policies, so the information you mentioned isn’t possible to obtain from there.

Things like GetKeyPolicy do, but as I mentioned in my comments already, the contents of policies are not sensitive information, and your security model should assume they are already known by would-be attackers.

“My trust policy has a vulnerability in it but I’m safe because the attacker can’t read my policy to find out” is security by obscurity. And chances are, they do know about it, because you need to account for default policies or internal actors who have access to your code base anyway (and you are using IaC, right?)

You’re right to raise awareness about this because it is good to know about, but your blog hyperbolizes the severity of this. This world of “every blog post is a MAJOR security vulnerability” is causing the industry to think of security researchers as the boy who cried wolf.
by Rochus | 2025-05-05 13:09:41+00:00
It makes a lot of sense not to chase every trend and hype. It also makes sense not to always strive for the latest thing or to disparage the older (or even the current) version. But beyond that, I cannot follow the author's reasoning.

The author, for one part, jumps from specific instances to sweeping conclusions about all AI systems. For the other part, the author presents an implicit either/or choice between using AI or not using it at all, rather than considering selective or contextual implementation. I'm neither convinced by the energy consumption argument. I think, one should consider the benefit/cost aspect in the proper dimensions. Of course we should not waste, and there is a lot of waste which could be avoided (e.g. travelling physically in times of video conferencing). But - as far as I understand - many of the high AI caused energy consumptions are one-off, whereas e.g. the whole world consuming hight-bandwidth streaming services, even on mobile, is permanent.

For my part, I am generally very selective with offers, whether AI or not, and by no means an early adopter. But the services I subscribe to—e.g., Deepl for language translations, or Perplexity as a general encyclopedia, research assistant, and proofreader—make my work incredibly more efficient. So, assuming that my work has value, the use of AI in this context is obviously the opposite of waste.

The copyright argument doesn't make sense to me either. I'm by no means a communist, but I make most of my work and now all of my musical contributions available to the public for free as open source. And I have no qualms whatsoever about my work being used for AI training. On the contrary, it increases the value of my work. It is usually anti-capitalist arguments that are used to express discontent with the organizations that condense individual contributions on the web into an AI model. Most of the time, these are the same people who have no qualms about receiving any services for free. As with everything, it's all about finding the right balance. I find it much more offensive that large corporations use the copyright or patent rights they have extorted from e.g. authors and composers to gain unfair market dominance without making any significant contribution themselves. The only ones who would benefit from further tightening copyright laws (e.g., making computer-generated works subject to copyright protection in the future) are precisely these corporations, not the little people who are crying out loudly today.
by smaudet | 2025-05-05 13:10:03+00:00
I use zim/markdown too, asciidoc is nice(r).

That's my main objection to this urtext thing - it's yet another text format, i.e., not really plaintext.

I'm sure you could use it to run your life, but should you, probably not. Better to stick with more standard formats. You can even script those with Python, too...
by MarceColl | 2025-05-05 13:10:13+00:00
> and mingle with other AI's to find possible business or romantic connections for us, all automatically

I thought the top post was already depressing, but this is a whole new level of psychopathic tech-bro mindset.

Interesting also how my other comment as well as the other top post were mysteriously artificially demoted to the bottom of the comment section even with a lot of upvotes. In both cases they were the top comment and instanly went to the lowest one. AI criticism is punished now?
by immibis | 2025-05-05 13:10:14+00:00
It turns out there's a massive speed advantage to parallel processing that outweighs the cost of making the molds when you're making hundreds of the same item. Look at a machine that makes plastic bottles - it stamps out something like 1 to 10 bottles per second per machine, by inflating a bubble of plastic inside a mold. You will never ever get that speed with something that only prints one part of the bottle at a time.

Resin printers are kind of parallel but I don't know how much faster they are. And they still won't beat the bottle molding machine.

For serial processing for expensive parts made of strong materials, wasn't there already CNC milling?
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-05 13:10:16+00:00
> All my money is electronic

Yes, one positive aspect of these types of events is that the hazing against the cash-first minority worldwide has ebbed slightly. Sweden seems to be backtracking from their cashless push due to the threat of Russian cyberattacks as well.

In related news, high-speed trains appear to have been sabotaged in Spain today, causing transportation chaos again. This happened while they have not been able to conclusively determine the cause of the blackout.

The plot thickens...or gets sidetracked, depending on what the truth turns out to be.
by api | 2025-05-05 13:10:17+00:00
I recall reading years ago some speculation that the Tunguska event may have been an encounter with such an object.

A micro black hole traveling at tremendous velocity would go right through the Earth and keep going, but as it encountered the atmosphere it might emit a bunch of ultra high energy gamma rays (due to accretion) that set off fusion reactions and create an airburst. From there it would shoot right through the Earth and cause another kaboom when it exited, but that would have been in the middle of the Pacific. Nobody would have noticed in 1908.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

No way of knowing unless we find evidence in the form of a "track" through layers of rock or some other signature. A comet or other similar body remains a more likely explanation for that event.
by manas95 | 2025-05-05 13:10:53+00:00
I've been a Product Manager (PM) for about 8 years now. I currently work at a Big Tech company in Singapore where about a year ago I started an internal productivity app to help my fellow PMs write PRDs and make presentations using AI. We used a whole bunch of agents to research and review like a PM would. As the product got better and started to do more things (beyond writing PRDs) like generating product designs and even prototyping, I started to think hard about what the future Product Managers will do. Seeing a lot of nervousness within my own org and from members of a small product community that I run here in Singapore, I thought it might be a good idea to share my 2 cents about what the future will look like as Product Managers collaborate with AI, how product organizations will evolve, and most importantly what value will PMs create. This led me to start a book.

At the start I really doubted if I could write something that others might be interested in reading. However, now as I have completed about 80% of it, I am quite happy about how it has turned out.

Today, I am sharing with you the first chapter of this book. I would love to hear what this community thinks about it.
by turnsout | 2025-05-05 13:11:34+00:00
Total false dichotomy. I'm a photographer and carry a camera most places I go. Even without the camera up to my eye, photography helps me see the moment—noticing what's happening physically and emotionally in everyday scenes.

My memory is bad. Without the photos, some of those scenes would literally cease to exist in my mind. Not that I need to capture and relive every moment… But some of those moments only become interesting or valuable with the passing of time, or the context of new events.

But photography is like any art—you can use it to focus, or to distract.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-05-05 13:11:36+00:00
Another veteran movie insider's take on this issue:

"I say Los Angeles WAS the best, because I don't think it's true any more. For many decades, film tax incentives have sucked production from Hollywood (and New York). Also, due to technological advancements, it's a lot easier to shoot away from a production center." [0]

Some hard numbers:

"Lockdowns, strikes, and exploding production costs have pushed many productions overseas, especially for streaming services with global ambitions. Hollywood production volumes have declined steeply since the second quarter of 2023. Stateside production is down 40% in the second quarter of 2024 compared to peak television levels of filming during the same period in 2022." [1]

[0] https://x.com/RamboVanHalen/status/1918378975417532675

[1] https://www.filmtake.com/production/streamers-shift-focus-ov...
by myth2018 | 2025-05-05 13:11:36+00:00
Good that you brought that up: that works pretty well to me in my mother tongue. I still learn and absorb beautiful and useful patterns reading good authors. But that doesn't seem to work in other languages as well. I somehow don't manage to appropriate the new patterns, or maybe I do, but very slowly.

Interestingly, when it comes to spoken English, I can learn by imitation way faster.
by the_af | 2025-05-05 13:11:52+00:00
> But maybe the worst part is that BambuLabs printers are actually really great and popular printers, for an affordable (but not cheap) price. And many people think that from now on, proprietary will become the standard.

This is the only part I was aware of: I own an A1 Mini and having lots of fun with it. Almost "it just works" (not really there yet, in my opinion, but getting really close).

Thanks for sharing the rest of the background. I was aware about the update (which is optional so far) and wasn't too concerned about it, but I understand why other people may be. I wasn't aware of the "open source", printers printing printers part of the hobby; I'm new to it.
by bluGill | 2025-05-05 13:13:04+00:00
Why are there two different numbers? When there is an emergency you want people to always do the right thing. Guessing the wrong number to call is not the right thing, and worse 2 numbers means there is great chance you didn't memorize either. This is well studied in human factors.

Besides, anytime the other two are involved the police need to respond too - when there is a fire or medical emergency whoever can get that first can often be very helpful even if they are mostly for a different job. As such this separation seems wrong.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-05 13:13:44+00:00
I disagree with your opinion here: The contents of security policies can easily be sensitive information.

I think what you mean to say is, "Amazon has decided not to treat the contents of security policies as sensitive information, and told its customers to act accordingly", which is a totally orthogonal claim.

It's extremely unlikely that every decision Amazon makes is the best one for security. This is an example of where it likely is not.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-05 13:13:54+00:00
Be aware that internet usage was pretty much impossible. Landline internet dropped soon after the outage even for those with UPS systems.

And 5G internet was completely unusable during the outage. All 3 major networks immediately switched to "Emergency calls only" status and allowed zero data. So doing analysis on it isn't very useful because most people had no access and only small packets made it through (favouring more simple services). It worked maybe 10 minutes every couple of hours and very limited.

I have an Iridium backup for emergency calls too. But no internet. And was thinking of getting Starlink but I don't want it anymore since musk going nazi and also the Spanish Government seems to have dropped a 9€ per month surcharge on it.
by whizzter | 2025-05-05 13:14:04+00:00
We have very few shows about lawyers/law here because our system is simple (and boring?) enough that there isn't much to make anything interesting about.

IANAL but have taken some intro level course (that usually starts with don't think anything from American shows applies).

1: It's rooted in civil law so the written laws(and their precursor political discussions) are first considered, laws are thus fairly broadly written with specifications where needed. So precedents are mostly only used to disambiguate gray areas in terms of applicability or conflicts between laws. (but precedents rulings are in turn are meant to rely on the precursor political discussions before courts can take their own authority on any subject).

2: Intent is given significance, so 2 parties can enter into fairly "sloppily written" contracts that will be legally binding as long as the intent of the contract is clear, they're signed and doesn't violate any laws (there is law specifically targets obviously unfair contracts, but also other laws that regulate specific areas).

3: Criminal prosecution at the primary level is in front of 3 judges, one professional head judge with law degree that knows laws and 2 "laymen" to represent people in general (usually politically appointed to reflect the people via elections), no juries as the role those serve is handled by the laymen judges.
by Hobadee | 2025-05-05 13:14:35+00:00
> The could easily be using unapproved phones some random DOGE'er bought gave them with an MDM setup, without any real oversight.

No. Even if you managed to get the app and push it to devices, you can't just use TM-SGNL without having an archiving account from Telemessage.

Source: I manage this exact setup for several clients.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-05-05 13:14:38+00:00
Experienced practitioner here, the second half pf the post describes doing everything exactly the way I have done it (only differences are I picked C++ and Eigen instead of rust and nalgebrafor inference, and i used torch’s ndarray and backprop tools instead of jax’s- with the analagous “just print out a C++ code from python” approach to weight serialization). You picked up on the key insight which is that the size of the code needed to just directly implement the inference equations is much smaller than the size of the configuration file of any possible framework that was flexible enough to meet your requirements of (rust, no inference time allocation, no inference time floating point, trained from scratch, ultra small parameter count, …)
by inanutshellus | 2025-05-05 13:14:59+00:00
There is no in-between here. Consider:

The course I'm interested in gets kinda hard, and my "just pull up an LLM" muscle is very, very strong, (and besides, I'm not used to struggling! and why should I get used to it in the classes i like?! I can't afford a C in my major!) so ... I use LLMs on my "I'm interested in it" class too and... we're back to the original argument.
by the_af | 2025-05-05 13:15:21+00:00
I gotta say the A1 Mini is the only printer I see myself using, unless something better comes along that is even easier to use.

I see my printer as a tool, a means to an end. I already have hobbies I want to use it for, I don't need another hobby of tweaking, configuring, modding, trying different brands of things, etc. My A1 is almost there and requires very little fiddling. "It Just Works". If I were younger, around the same age trying different Linux distros was a viable hobby, maybe I'd try more open source friendly printers, but I simply don't have the time or patience anymore.
by haswell | 2025-05-05 13:15:27+00:00
> when there is a right frame of mind then the camera at least contributes to a virtuous circle, if not acts as the source of it

100% this has been the case for me. I think the key is to not go looking for shots, but to immerse myself in the environment and then click the shutter button when something in the environment inspires me to do so.

Sorry to hear about the stolen camera. This recently happened to me as well, and one of my top priorities right now is replacing it. Thankfully I have some backup options in the meantime.

There’s definitely something completely different about shooting on a dedicated camera vs. the phone. Hope you’re able to get your hands on another camera soon. The used market on mpb/keh is really strong.
by idiotsecant | 2025-05-05 13:15:42+00:00
You will meet, in your lifetime, a very small fraction of 1% of the human race. There exists, out there, thousands of people that you would form a life long bonds with of the type that many people never find. If a machine can help you with that, why is that so bad? I know it's trendy to have this cynical 'tech bro bad lol' approach to literally any intersection of society and tech, but we've been 'tech-bro'ing social relationships as society changes in response to technology for centuries now.
by Mbwagava | 2025-05-05 13:16:43+00:00
How is this comment any better than the attitude its commenting on?Just live your life, you want to take pictures do, you don't don't, you want to post your whole life in Instagram do. Life is whatever you want it to be.

> They are the first to notice how many people around them are taking pictures or posing or looking "ridiculous", worrying how themselves would look if they did the same, sometimes wanting deep down to do the same but held back by their own perceived judgement of others potentially turning on them.

This is incredibly arrogant & entirely projection.
by misja111 | 2025-05-05 13:16:54+00:00
> if a significant amount of film production moves to the UK, it's likely that criticisms of the UK would be more muted.

Have you watched British television or movies sometimes? They're not exactly sparing their country from criticism .. E.g. (the original) House of Cards, Not the Nine O'Clock News, etc.

The other country you mention, China, is a better match. But is that the kind of society that the USA wants to be?
by hansvm | 2025-05-05 13:17:18+00:00
The last time I did anything like this, the easiest workflow I found was to use your favorite high-level runtime for training and just implement a serializer converting the model into source code for your target embedded system. Hand-code the inference loop. This is exactly the strategy TFA landed on.

One advantage of having it implemented in code is that you can observe and think about the instructions being generated. TFA didn't talk at all about something pretty important for small/fast neural networks -- the normal "cleanup" code (padding, alignment, length alignment, data-dependent horizontal sums, etc) can dwarf the actual mul->add execution times. You might want to, e.g., ensure your dimensions are all multiples of 8. You definitely want to store weights as column-major instead of row-major if the network is written as vec @ mat instead of mat @ vec (and vice versa for the latter).

When you're baking weights and biases into code like that, use an affine representation -- explicitly pad the input with the number one, along with however many extra zeroes you need for any other length padding requirements make sense for your problem (usually zero for embedded, but this is a similar workflow to low-resource networks on traditional computers, where you probably want vectorization).

Floats are a tiny bit hard to avoid for dot products. For similar precision, you require nearly twice the bit count in a fixed-point representation just to make the multiplies work, plus some extra bits proportional to the log2 of the dimension. E.g., if you trained on f16 inputs then you'll have roughly comparable precision with i32 fixed-point weights, and that's assuming you go through the effort to scale and shift everything into an appropriate numerical regime. Twice the instruction count (or thereabouts) on twice the register width makes fixed-point 2-4x slower for similar precision than a hardware float, supposing those wide instructions exist for your microcontroller, and soft floats are closer to 10x slower for multiply-accumulate. If you're emulating wide integer instructions, just use soft floats. If you don't care about a 4x slowdown, just use soft floats.

Training can be a little finicky for small networks. At a minimum, you probably want to create train/test/validate sets and have many training runs. There are other techniques if you want to go down a rabbit hole.

Other ML architectures can be much more performant here. Gradient-boosted trees are already SOTA on many of these problems, and oblivious trees map extremely well to normal microcontroller instruction sets. By skipping the multiplies, your fixed-point precision is on par with floats of similar bit-width, making quantization a breeze.
by agonza | 2025-05-05 13:17:28+00:00
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by krisoft | 2025-05-05 13:17:34+00:00
I think you are onto something with ‘tailor’. If we take it as the verb ‘to tailor’ that is the synonym of the ‘to fashion’. Tailor as a profession is not a synonym of the noun ‘fashion’. But it is enough for them to be synonyms in one sense. So that works.

I hear you on ‘cat’ but i wouldn’t call that relationship synonyms.