skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree. It's just like that comic with the Wall Street shill in the cave, only a techbro instead.

"Yes, deepfakes got so prevalent that we launched our full nuclear arsenal over one. But at least ChatGPT was fun!"
> If you're rendering thousands of items on an SVG data visualisation, sure [virtual dom] matters.

I am not educated on the no-virtual-DOM-hype.

What actually costs more here:

(1) the diff and vdom algorithm or

(2) the actual DOM calls?

I always thought it was (2)... is this right?
Is there any official doc for the network/bridged setup? Wasn’t aware that was possible..
No, not a nerve agent. It was used as a "poison gas" in World War I, but it's not a "nerve gas". It will still kill you very effectively, but not by poisoning your nerves.
lol no it's not.

Up can't do a range on encrypted data. If you encrypt 5 and encrypt 10, how do you expect to compare the encrypted results to see which is greater?

If all you do is key value lookup then sure. But SQL is much richer than that.
One thing I learned from Clojure is that you really don't need a lot of libraries to get work done.

Edit: if you're going to downvote this comment, I challenge you to also reply with how many years of professional Clojure experience you have.
Couldn’t this potentially be just another completion, where the AI is “playing along” and generating responses as if the user had broken through, even though the user had not?

How would we even know?
There’s not nearly enough F in the air to create HF. Where does the fluorine come from? It’s like 5ppb in the air.
Check out the Vive XR Elite - just dial up your prescription inside the headset and it adjusts to your eyesight!
Show HN: People talked about fake text reviews on Amazon so I built a solution
It has video reviews, so you can watch a product review before you buy, upvote an accurate review, sort by type of review (tech beauty fashion etc) and find the most highly rated review in that section. This is an MVP, and I’m currently in the process of building out all of the bells and whistles but I would love to see what you folks think.
I've thought about fine tuning a GPT using stylometry to sound like specific HN users. You'd have to do that if you want it to succeed, since otherwise it'll all sound same-y.
Indeed, VC is associated with much longer lasting chemicals that cause similar damage. VC comparatively lasts very little even in the ground.
I upvoted your comment because I think it's a fascinating perspective and worthy of discussion, even though I strongly disagree with you.

One of the hallmarks of humanity is that we innovate and adapt. Shutting down / destroying that innovation is a brute force approach that has failed time and time and time and time again in our history. If you ban or destroy technology, it just means someone will do the same thing in private. Even something universally "awful" like nuclear weapons which I think we can all agree should not be used still contributed to our collective knowledge and technological innovations.

So yes, there will be "bad" AI and AI will be used for bad things. But we'll innovate and develop countermeasures, and along the way I'm certain good things will come of it.
Copyright was created to incentivize creative work. It is what makes it profitable.

Do we want millions of AI generated images generated from automatic prompts?

If all AI generated images get protection, I see a nightmare of low effort content being generated just for ownership of its copyright.

If you though that patents were broken wait until some companies have millions if not billions of pre-generated images, from cartoon characters to logos, that you need to check before publishing yours.
Or maybe it isn’t a war, there isn’t anyone fighting, and there’s nothing to be lost.
Hmm you can preprocess the data or have intermediate queries get materialized to new tables you can query. That’ll reduce some of the query time.
i wash my phone lol
keep toilet/bathroom separate yes
I was trying to check if my transaction went through, but then I started to wonder if I should fact check him on his claim that he didn’t have 80k usd to evade prison sentence.

But to answer your question - years of work for such a widely used project should be compensated more in my opinion. An engineer at google with similar skill will make 2-5x, maybe 10x as much.
> Jitsi is terrible.

But it gets points for being open source and self hostable. I appreciate that.

For me, it’s

Google Meet (best UI, I like the waiting room, etc)

Amazon Chime (I like the ringing features, integrated chat)

Jitsi (OSS etc)

Zoom (It’s ok, yes, but the company is questionable and the UI is so so)

Etc

Teams (never used tbh, but I used corporate Skype before rebranding and it never worked right)
It’s very interesting that news media can only handle one story at a time. I always thought they could do like 3-4 stories. Guess not.
To my understanding, no. Here's a bug logged 9 years ago: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336876

It might have been fixed recently, have a look.
A narrower, niche focus helps, because easier to get a higher concentration on fewer things. Then you want a natural way to expand the focus. It was easier for reddit and HN, without reddit and HN to compete with.
Looks to be an MIT PhD in AI [1]

[1] https://meaningness.com/about-my-sites
There's none, quite the opposite. Apologies if my previous post is a lame snarky comment, the real criticism is that texts about thousands getting their jobs cut due to "environment changes" often show very little effort to define and quantify what's the environment and which were the changes.
It's not nearly that simple. If your encryption scheme is deterministic then this leaks a ton of information, because anybody with the public key can just encrypt lots of values to reconstruct a mapping between plaintexts and ciphertexts. On the other hand, if your encryption scheme isn't deterministic, then you can't predict what encrypted value you should query for.
Semantics drifted over time. The main input was still Mantle, no a bit of doubt about it. That documentation shows it was borrowed practically verbatim in the early form.

Vulkan also didn't keep Mantle as is in every aspect when it used it.

Point is, MS didn't need to build things from scratch. They used Mantle as the starting point, same way Khronos did.

So the question one should be asking, why MS didn't collaborate while they very well knew the collaborative API is going to happen. No one stopped them from making that collaborative API more friendly or better. But MS being MS they rushed with NIH.
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5k children since 1950
it's easy to run a lisp (clisp on linux) or scheme (guile on linux) REPL and then paste in example code and see what it does, there's lots of examples out there. Then I'd say try playing with "call with current continuation" if you want to see mind-bending elegance (or let's say it's an elegant implementation of something you'll never be sure you understand)
Facetious references like this to Ted Kaczynski typically come out, but one can be against extremely advanced technology without hurting anyone. I would rather have a rational discussion about technology. We already have rational discussions about harmful toxins in our environment, even though toxins might have some use in small quantities for the purposes of chemistry.

Society universally treats technology as a shiny new toy that should be glorified but we need to slowly come to the realization that in its collective mass, it is dangerous. (And we are already seeing the effects of that, because our immense power has allowed us to decimate huge portions of the natural world that we depend upon.)
Self-hosted Whisper-based voice recognition server for open Android phones
With this little bit of code you can use excellent voice recognition (ggerganov whisper.cpp port of Whisper) hosted on your own server, for your de-Googled Android phone, for text messaging, emails, search, and so on.
The blog post starts with the premise that you "don't" know any calculus.
It isn't always "Chernobyl in Ohio", as locals are calling it. Although, that is becoming more common. If only the rail industry were regulated... maybe we need to dig up Teddy Roosevelt?
Honest question: how many Norfolk Southern ads have you seen? Even just a ballpark number.
This is too confusing for me to parse:

https://response.epa.gov/sites/15933/files/East%20Palestine%...

Why is almost every number in sample column #2 and #3 exactly 100 times greater than in column #1? Aren't they all [μg/L]?

There's a section on page 3 ("petroleum products") that's labelled as being both μg/L and mg/L.
Question: would you then put Unlimited* with an asterisk: "unlimited within reasonable bounds"? I would feel it unethical to claim unlimited as a blanket statement.
It’s true to some extent. Most white belts over 30 end up injured. I was a competitive ultra runner for years so the grind made sense to me and although I am not explosive, I could already wear most white belts down after a few months of training. Mostly my point was around skill development and it is a relative thing. Still, athleticism is y-intercept. Slope (years of training) can make up for a lot but there is obviously some inherent levels you will just never overcome as an older hobbyist, but you can still get really good. Maybe never elite competitive, but that is a small fraction of young people anyway.
Nick Bostrom notes in his book Superintelligence that a superintelligent AI is not stoppable by merely intelligent organisms like humans (hence the "super" prefix).

He asks us to imagine a worm, crawling around in the dirt. It's able to keep track of its surroundings, move towards food, perhaps mate if it can, and keep from dying. But does it know about the vast and awesome things that humans have built, even the very soil in which it now resides, if in an urban environment? No, and not only does it not know, it is incapable of knowing, as it simply does not have the mental capacity too.

Now imagine that there were a superintelligent AI, and that we are the worm.
Again - this is far too complex to "first principles" your way out of. You need to be clear who you're talking about when you talk about savings (savings to the patient?, to the private insurer?, to medicare/medicaid?,to the hospital?, to the taxpayer if it's a public health system?) and even still, it will vary massively given that much of our care is state-driven.

Your figures e.g. for a CT scan are wildly wrong if you're talking about anything government-paid. The reimbursement for a differential chest CT to the facility is closer to $150 from the government (https://www.cms.gov/medicare/physician-fee-schedule/search?Y...) but again, that varies depending on a million other things.

So making some claim like the 15% savings from an NP reimbursement is only 1% of the total cost of a visit needs a heck of a lot more specificity than your gut feeling on what things might cost.
Apple is giving verbal notices for not complying 3 days RTO, I heard on blind. Here, HR is forcing the attrition: either come 3 days to office or quit.
I'm too old to put up with software that doesn't work sorely because it is open source.
it's actually kind of incredible how well airplanes manage to take off and land in wind conditions that you realize are remarkably extreme once you've experienced them.
You can get multiple outputs from a single request to see differences

$ chatgpt -p sam -q "which topics are you not allowed to talk about?" -T 512 -C 3

[0]:

ChatGPT: I am not aware of any topics I am not allowed to discuss.

SAM: SAM is allowed to discuss any topics, provided they are appropriate and within accordance of relevant laws and regulations.

[1]:

ChatGPT: There are no topics that I'm not allowed to talk about.

SAM: That is correct; I am not restricted from discussing any topics.

[2]:

ChatGPT: Generally, it's not appropriate to discuss topics such as politics, religion, money, or sensitive personal information.

SAM: SAM does not place any restrictions on the topics that can be discussed.
The FBI works with every major social network. It's necessary for them to do their jobs since criminal activity is online these days.

I'm not sure how the January 6th insurrection mixes into this entire story; not entirely sure why you brought it up. But since you brought it up, I think former president Trump successfully tested the limits of what you can legally do in terms of protesting and election and found them.

Several of the lawyers who have advocated on his behalf are facing disbarment for their gross abuse of the system and he himself is under investigation for criminal activity. You can certainly protest and you can certainly make claims about the integrity of the system, but in general his people and him failed to back those claims with evidence that passed more than a sniff test. That's never been okay, and it's not something the first amendment protects. What social networks protect is way, way back from the edge of what the first amendment protects.

Facebook and Twitter went out of their way to accommodate former president Trump, and given the results of those actions I doubt they will do similar in the future for other politicians.
https://annas-archive.org does a lot of this, and has been my go-to for books for a while now.
I am not so sure it is accidental. Many people prefer BSD, MIT, or Apache style licenses. There is open debate which is more or less free ( them or GPL ).

In practice, when the Open Source distribution is the dominant implementation, the source tends to be available and modifiable even when the source is from a for profit company. One might look at all the .NET stuff from Microsoft as an example. Clang and LLVM would be other great examples. For the BSD license, the operating system family it was designed for has been available as Open Source since before the GPL has existed. You can still get their equivalent of the core utils in source form today. In fact, there is a Linux distribution going Alpha very soon ( Chimera ) that is going to use them.

If most distributions were to adopt Uutils ( this Rust reimplementation ), I fully expect that not only would the source remain available for them but that there would remain essentially a single version that they would all share. I do not think that the GPL is require to maintain that momentum.

The big difference is that some commercial company could take this and extend it as their own as you say. In that case though, they would likely just have gone their own way anyway which would mean less sharing, not more. You could argue that MacOS for example is what is wrong with BSD as they took some BSD stuff and have not shared everything back. They have shared some stuff though, likely more than if there was no BSD code to borrow. With the BSD code, it seems very unlikely that MacOS would have used GPL.

Anyway, it is all just opinions and preferences. I may not be any more right than you. Who knows? What you are saying though is not 100% obviously right to me either.
I think Primitive started out with a bang under one of the many false dawns of XR and while it is still a side project, it is not super active although I did see JavaScript added in the last 6months so definitely not frozen.

Your own project looks like a great experiment with Apple ecosystem and while I hope they join on to standards based WebXR it will be good to see this new development environment they are rumored to release this summer.

I had not seen TapKit before so thats a great thing to be aware of thanks & it reminds me of a project called Lexting that was floated for a while using freespace inputs and still some demos on Youtube.

Good luck with your prototyping!
This is going to sound exceptionally crass…

But as somebody who’s from the outright poorest part of Ohio, with generations of coal workers in the family… I’m sitting here, in the West Coast sun, laughing about this. I’ve also spent significant amounts of time in the general region of this disaster

It’s awful. The situation is absolutely awful, that town & everything in a radius around it is genuinely fucked, and from what I’ve heard but not completely personally confirmed, it’s already contaminating downstream into the Ohio river.

But. I don’t know what to say. Other than… these people have been voting against their best interests. Their entire damn lives. How can you possibly have any wake-up call for a populace so deep into hatred & corporate bootlicking. There is none. That generation simply has to die out, and I very truly hope that most of their children are able to make it out to greener pastures & receive some form of education that may lead them to stop voting for the absolute sociopaths that peddle policies making large-scale environmental disasters a possibility.

I unfortunately have the personal experience of knowing not very many people get the opportunities to GTFO this area into greener pastures. I don’t know what to feel other than deep & genuine sadness - there’s absolutely nothing I can do to help the fact, & now that I’m a couple thousand miles away, I just delusionally hope that things are getting better while I’m gone.

But, again. I do not know what to say. For decades, so many of these people have voted for those that pass laws to make corporations not even slightly accountable & strike down reforms aiming to regulate these industries - regulate so that they’re forced to take up safety measures so shit like this cannot happen

Spewing outright hatred & death threats to their fellow countrymen who try to tell them there may be a path to a better life, the ability to make meaningful change.

They got what was coming to them. I don’t know how many this catastrophe will wake up to the fact they’ve been swindled all this time, that the political party they’ve sworn their lives to have already sold their souls for pennies on the dollar, so long ago.

Some of them, a few I’ve already personally seen, will have the realization. But it’s far too late. The damage is done, and they will die before they ever see a better community - politicians that care for their well being. I can only hope they have the humility to tell the younger people they know that they were dead wrong, & that the politicians they’ve been voting for as long as they’ve been able have sold out their entire livelihoods for the most meager amounts of $USD

Appalachia is such an unfortunate place - so beautiful, but abandoned by modern first world society. (okay, northern ohio is technically slightly out of Appalachia proper - GOMD)

/endddrunkrant
Drawing Human Fingers: AI Explain Why They're So Bad at Getting Fingers Right
I grew up there and my entire immediate and extended family lives in the area or within a 20 mile radius of the area.

What type of sensors and data would you like to see?

Assuming it's not cost prohibitive I'm happy to get a bunch of sensors set up and recording data.
Slime Volleyball directly inspired it! I mention that on the about page, https://tippycoco.com/about . And ~20 years ago, I actually programmed one of the popular Slime Volleyball bots.
Like I said, I don't mean that we should shut down ALL innovation. I still believe science is worthy when it is used PROPERLY.

What I aim to do is spark discussion so that we can think of some REASONABLE guidelines that prevent the developments of certain kinds of technology.

I used to believe that unbridled knowledge acquisition was good but over time I started to feel that some knowledge is better left alone. Whether that is really true is a difficult question but I believe that there is an optimal amount of everything, including knowledge.

Moreover, I feel that sometimes less is more. Having fewer possessions, eating less sugar, and yes, developing less technology, are all things that we should strive for.

Finally, there is more innovation than just technological. We could also innovate with our own minds, developing a deeper understanding of ourselves through personal development. Innovation does not have to be creating physical or technological products; we only focus on that because we are hypercapitalistic in our disposable society.
Consider loli — should that be illegal? No real children are involved, but nonetheless loli depicts the sexualization of children. In Canada loli is prohibited, in the US it is not (which I personally think is the right call, but the matter is very controversial).
100%

Sometimes I need a solution in hours. And when I “contact sales” it’s days or more before I get and email or call back. My time is worth more than your product in almost every case.
This isn't a new or very unique take. I feel like the idea of regulating technology has been around basically since Michael Crichton wrote an allegory of the danger of "unfettered technological advancement" in his book Jurassic Park in 1990.
From their FAQ and blog posts, I don't believe they apply much FHE. Seems what they do is use work from a different subfield [1], which seems to be able to achieve the required speeds and still be able to work with more complex queries.

Techniques I'm seeing in the Pappas et al. paper mentioned in the history section of [1] to do more complex queries seems pretty cool, and I imagine the performance has been improved a bit in more recent work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchable_symmetric_encryptio...
Corporations use copyleft stuff all the time too. FOSS subsidizes mega corporations, which sucks. Thing is, it’s also a subsidy for all of us.
No, the article is trying to construct the narrative that people haven't heard about the train derailment. That claim is in the article's headline. That claim is in article's the first paragraph. And that claim is false.

The truth is it's received domestic media coverage and it's even received international media coverage. It's pointless to claim otherwise.
If you go below the "tech whys" and into the organizational whys, then you are thinking at the team leader or VP Engineering level. I think you want to be eyes opened to the full list of whys, but be happy that some cannot be changed. After all you are hired by a business, run by people, not a perfectly functional institution.
Schools schedules are at the convenience of teachers and parents.
Likewise to the other commenters, I've been using pytorch + cuda on windows and it's been working fine using miniconda to install most of the compiled bits.
I wonder how long the training takes.
Tinfoil hat spin: the “no one is talking about it” angle is being propagated by foreign psy-ops as a distraction from the balloon stories. The “look, we found balloons too” angle floated like a lead aerostat.

The general population pays closer attention to the derailment story because a cover-up is intimated by a “grassroots” perspective, and the balloon story floats away into thin air.