skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, that's reasonable. Thank you for your upfront starting agreement. I obviously have some real emotional attachment to the issue of whether users have agency or not, and this has been a really hard time for me, and hearing some recognition of the jeopardy as relevant is really touching, thanks.

I had kind of assumed Flutter was performing fine/native-ish, it just didn't look native native. Different people will feel differently about the importance of native purity. I personally (with apologies) have seen native as a bit of a negative in general (with concerning privacy, dark patterns, & no observability/extensibility), and that's made me care a lot less about React-Native & Flutter & the like there. But if Flutter's really running bad too: that's embarrassing and not good, straight up!!

However, two things. The first is a repeat: it won't always be bad. This team is going to make this fast. There aren't real encumbrances to that happening & it will, is what my reading of the tea leaves says. Mostly gut feel, yes, but the plan seems solid. On the web, they're only just getting WebGPU booting, and still using older Dart VMs rather than actually compiling to wasm, so the web in particular is just barely getting started, but I'd expect the mobile situation has gobs of tuning potential too, and the team seems capable & smart & like they have the mandate to bring it. Their new Impeller optimizations to underlying Skia are just landing & already should help a lot, for ex.

The other point I'd just raise is the Electron/Slack problem. People all assume Electron is unbelievably awful & slow & terrible, because they used Slack a couple of times & saw it responds slowly. When an app is bad, people tend to blame the framework. Electron is not without sin, but there are examples like vscode where it is quite snappy & fast & universes more featureful & expansive-in-purpose than Slack. No matter what your development target, it's possible to make slow & bad apps.

I have no real insider knowledge of the Flutter app situation today, the lay of the land, but I'd caution too much against using current bad apps as an indicator of what to expect, caution against letting current experience too deeply/permenantly shape our belief/disposition (lest these form convictions which lead us astray from the truth everyone else experiences). More than UI, issues like Client-server data models & algorithmic complexity are woefully under-considered everywhere. Few businesses have a chain of command that speaks the tech language well enough to keep the ship from bottoming out or from not just rubbing along the seabed as it travels. It would be unshocking in the least to me to find a bunch of the big name Flutter apps are at Slack levels of quality internally.

Then again, maybe it is partially or all Flutter's fault! Maybe I'm wrong and it stays terrible forever! But the Highest Form of Disagreement is to assume these problems are surmountable, and I don't see anything really strongly technically impeding success (if having native widgets isn't somehow a requirement).
Surely the dev machine must somehow interact with Google's systems at some point? Even if every interaction requires 2FA, malware with access to the user's Windows/X11 session could intercept user input, modify requests, steal session tokens, etc.
I would take any database (eg Mongo, Maria, …) patch out the „delete“ queries, and run the DB in a confidential cloud like enclaive.cloud. Leveraging attestation and confidential compute, one can add a proof that the DB does not allow for erasure. Running the DB in a (kubernetes) cluster on multiple clouds would ensure the fault tolerance known from blockchain ledgers.
https://huggingface.co/OpenAssistant/oasst-sft-4-pythia-12b-...
"Paying the consulting fee" is just another way of saying "bribing people". The vendor got value out of that bribe, which is why they were willing to pay it.
Great vibe. My only gripe is the music doesn't seem to be lofi at all, just like slow beats. Maybe it's just where I'm at in the playlist though.
High speed is convenient for the occasional install (apt get/npm install/nix develop). Other than that I could probably live with 20Mbits/s for web/ssh/youtube/spotify.
The '90s was great for edutainment.
Visualizing AI Discourse on Twitter
Writeup at https://ai.objectives.institute/blog/mapping-the-discourse-o...
I keep my database in a git repo.
You can find kickbacks everywhere, but in some industries it's so deeply embedded in the culture that it's nearly impossible to find any alternatives.

The common theme is that there is usually a bottleneck, monopoly, gatekeeper, or government-mandated middleman. This is what enables the kickback scheme to work without the threat of clean alternatives competing with it.

Ports are ripe for corruption and kickbacks because there aren't many of them. If you want to get your cargo in or out, you have to go through a nearby port. Trucking the freight to a different port is more expensive than any bribes/kickbacks/corruption (by design) so people just settle and pay it.
It aligns incentives on both sides to keep the scheme secret.
Super cool. United used to let passengers listen to the flight's atc comms, which I really liked. Then they merged with Continental and got rid of it. I always wondered why the took away that feature.
Less than 3 hours is impressive, but it took me less than 10 minutes to do the same with Chroma.
Signals estimated by the FFT have two parameters: magnitude and phase. FFT results evade intuition because complex numbers are cartesian. If you convert them to polar coordinates they make more sense as magnitude and phase

https://www.gaussianwaves.com/2015/11/interpreting-fft-resul...

Note that complex numbers are merely convenient for working with two dimensional quantities. The square root of -1 is just math geek for orthogonal, and has nothing whatsoever to do with signals
Video games are also exempted.
The 2019 Surface Pro X is an excellent little machine.
> But almost 225 million TVs sell annually. People buy smart TVs.

There's literally nothing else on the consumer market. Edit: There may be a dumb Sceptre TV hidden in a Walmart warehouse somewhere, but I checked and there are none available in my entire EU country. Meanwhile the smart TVs sure don't advertise their spyware as prominently as their price, so we can add fraud in addition to robbery.

> As I understand governments just set a bit to disable IME on already existing processors. But if you want a feature and are willing to give them billions of dollars, Intel or anyone else absolutely will add a feature for you. [..] Custom silicon is absolutely a thing

If all it takes is setting a bit, I don't see why you'd invoke custom silicon except to muddy the waters.
"Everything around the VRAM are basically small details in comparison"

...with current algorithms and our lack of understanding and insight in to how/why they work on a deep level or what intelligence and consciousness is.

With time hopefully all of these will improve and perhaps future AI's of good quality will be affordable to mere mortals.
The people saying “Why did Nintendo create the NES Classic?” (e.g., me-until-recently) usually have little interest in purchasing a NES Classic. They often have little interest in playing video games.

> But claiming that Nintendo stands to gain nothing from retaining rights to their ROMs

I claim that Nintendo gains little from not selling DRM-free copies of the ROM. There's a big difference between "take down all fangames with a character in a red hat called Mario" and “relinquish all monopoly rights to the public domain”: I suggest that Nintendo wouldn't lose much by being a bit less controlling. They might even recover some reputational damage!
Recommended video if you want to dive deeper into UV absorption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsHRrDYu5o
The main risk is read access to the monorepo.
It's in the article I linked to:

> "Also the owner of Cargo On Demand was himself indicted, for paying the bribes, which seems a bit harsh. He was dealing with a company, and all the senior executives he dealt with told him that he had to pay these fees! He thought they were a resort fee!"

It's also in the indictment. The defendant from Cargo On Demand is Patrick Lau, referred to as "Lau" throughout. As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the indictment to suggest that he was in on the scheme. Also, he had sued Polar in a Civil case a while back, which is probably how all of this had come to light in the first place! It seems bizarre that the Feds charged him.
> ... were in no way racist.

Apart from the whole "purposely only testing people having a specific skin colour" thing.

Gee, that doesn't sound racist at all. :p

/s
It's my understanding that in most cases, the many restaurants/stores aren't actually separate and in meaningful competition with one another. I have often seen airports with the same packaged food for sale at every store. I'm pretty sure they're in effect many faces of the same business.
So is it 1,056,964,610 (TFA)

or is it 1,065,353,218 (comments) and why the difference?
I, for one, would see it as a massive failure of our justice system if we had good evidence that an individual had committed heinous crimes, but then was still allowed to live out the remainder of his life in peace, freedom, and enjoying the company of his family etc. - something he had denied to so many others.
The addition of restaurants to Priority Pass has been an especially nice addition here. After deductions (and plus tip) you can often get a nice sit-down meal for the price of plastic-wrapped garbage elsewhere in the airport.
>Do you not have any respect for people who actually spent their time and creativity to provide the information necessary for this model to even work?

We all stand on the shoulders of giants, the authors of this content did not grow up in a concrete box isolated from the works of earlier generations.
As I meant it—of, not for.

I referred to the idea that by plugging an imaginary frequency into the Fourier transform [ETA: the grown-up Fourier transform with the complex exponent, not the schoolboy cosine kludge], you get the Laplace transform, and while that changes the inverse Fourier transform in a different way, it’s not hard to work out how specifically and obtain the inverse Laplace transform.

Why you’d want to do that, I actually don’t know how to explain convincingly. The post hoc rationalization is simple and more or less the reason people prefer the Laplace transform in signal processing: you still get a convolution theorem, but are now allowed to work with exponentially increasing functions, which standard Fourier theory (even the tempered distributions version) can’t accomodate. But while that’s useful from a toolbox standpoint, it isn’t satisfying as motivation, I think.

This is not the only way looking at the complex frequency plane turns out to be useful—there’s a whole thing about doing complex analysis to response functions aka propagators—but there too I can’t really say why you’d guess to look in that direction in the first place.

What I mentioned was that this idea of Laplace as imaginary Fourier extends beyond the reals to the group setting at least to some extent, so it’s not entirely an R-specific accident. Again, dunno why, I’ve explored this stuff a bit but am far from an expert.
> Just as photography replaced painting in the reproduction of reality, AI will replace photography. Don’t be afraid of the future. It will just be more obvious that our mind always created the world that makes it suffer.

That is a pretty amazing quote.
With WFH, I wonder how those averages have changed. Some folks are using cars much less often.

However, as someone who has prior experiences with keeping a low mileage car, I'd say parking it out in the sun is a terrible goal. You really want it garaged to slow purely time-based deterioration if you are not hitting high miles per year. A power hookup in the garage is the way to go, and then get house solar if desired.

So then, this car-mounted solar is only useful during an extended outing where you are away from your usual parking. Can it ever become cost effective for the value it provides in such short bursts?
That's not even true, as I mentioned.

Examples:

https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.htm...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-55-Class-4K-UHD-LED-TV-HD...

Also, it's besides my point. The fact that people buy smart TVs in large numbers is proof of the fact that the privacy concerns are not a factor in the mass market's buying decisions.

Do you own a TV? Did you buy a Sceptre? Why not? Did you not care enough about the privacy consideration to do a quick search to see that they exist? Most people don't.

> If all it takes is setting a bit, I don't see why you'd invoke custom silicon except to muddy the waters.

Because I was responding precisely to your gripe about "impossibility of buying a CPU without Intel Management Engine (or AMD equivalent)". If you are happy setting that bit, then the problem you are complaining about doesn't exist:

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/28/factory-laptop-with-ime-disa...

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/12/disabling-intels-backdoors-o...
I'm pretty sure if the DOJ looks deep into many industries, they'll run out of ink to type kickback indictments.
I tried to and thought I had linked to the comment. I did wonder if the link went only to the thread, but the Reddit mobile web interface is so broken that I couldn't tell where the link was going to, though I figured the Aztec monk bug would stay at the top either way so people would figure it out.

(the official patch notes don't explain the bug)
I expect they won’t reveal because the inspector just takes a bribe and there are no valid comparisons done.
That's true from a technical point of view, but I was referring to the social and behavioral angle. It seems like it was mobile that killed the commitment to privacy in the minds of users.

My only real reservation about the EV revolution is that this is doing similar things to people with regard to cars. An EV is just a car with a battery and a motor instead of a gas tank and an ICE, but the "form factor change" seems like it can be used as a pretext to introduce a lot of other changes like your car no longer being yours. Teslas are too cloud connected already, and Ford is talking about a car that can repossess itself at their command. When you pay off your car does this feature get turned off? I doubt it.

It seems like it's easy to use any change as a pretext to smuggle other perhaps less palatable changes in alongside it.
The thread I linked is full of posts advocating bringing them back.
At its core, Pine Tar is about making poker hands (two pair, full house, etc) with five cards using up to two extra deals. You can choose to keep cards around and replace other cards on each deal. There are usually ~12 hand types you can score, if you can't score anything the game is over.

As you play, you can use your winnings to buy items that give you an edge and transition your play from pure luck to more skill based. Along the way, you can have your fortune read to unlock puzzles that reward you with magick runes that can transform cards to allow you to score hands that at first glance are impossible.

Here's the trailer which shows some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLh8Ft4Uhg
Getting 64 GB of VRAM for $3.5k is a lot cheaper than buying the equivalent Nvidia discrete GPUs.
I remember being in one of the NYC airports and needing a plug socket adapter for my laptop, for the flight.

On Alibaba, 50 cents.

On Amazon, maybe 1.5 USD.

In the airport, 35 USD. This was back in about 2015.

I did not buy it, and got by as best I could.

Such extraordinary prices materially impact the experience of traveling. To my eye, they seem shortsighted.

I also finally realised some years ago all the "duty free" shops are a giant con.

Yes, they are duty free - but they're all charging about twice the high-street price.

I never buy in airports, which can inconvenient, and it is always unpleasant to witness when I travel. If I were running an airport, I would look to make the experience of travelers as pleasant as possible, rather than actually making it unpleasant.
Others have previously pondered this, and the related issue of how to randomly select floats in [0,1). I found this to be a helpful account:

https://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float

and there's working C code too:

http://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/random_real.c
That may be how some people use it, but that doesn't mean we should put up with that usage. The Nazis slaughtered millions of people because of their ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation/what have you. To use that word to describe an immature group of friends who say racist things because they think it's edgy waters down the meaning of a very powerful word in a way that severely harms public discourse.

If we're going to use the phrase "literally a neo-Nazi", I want to see swastikas or tattoos or something other than garden-variety hooliganism.
Do LLMs have a way around the high end GPU requirements, or can CPU code potentially be much more optimized somehow?

This is the only thing I can think of, not everyone will have the latest high end GPUs to run such software..
SomaFM has https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033 (ambient with real-time chat from LAPD) and https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol (ambient and Houston old chit-chat I think).

They also have this new n5md channel that has sooooo many good tracks :).

I don't get Lofi, it's way too sad/nostalgic to me to be relaxing but the oversound here is okay (for a bit).

edit: BUT. Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross from Friends or weird 32 minutes "dzing-dzin" loop. When it happens I click on "wtf ?!" in the app and switch to another channel (that I flood with "I love this").
How many times have people who can write code spent many weeks on something that could be done in excel in an afternoon?
I recently saw a video where ATC made a mistake and nearly let two planes get too close (one landing, another taking off, on crossing runways). They caught it in time (some ATC automated checking system was still doing its announcement as the controller saw and diverted them both) but hearing that as a passenger, I can imagine the panic that's not going to help anyone.

Don't know if that is the reason, or if that's even a legitimate reason (it's about your life after all, even if you're powerless to save it), but I could imagine that being a consideration.
Are you suggesting that one country didn't have the exact same trajectory as another completely different country because of this one arbitrary variable? And you can't think of any other reason? Like the US's huge car culture, or the native oil drilling and gas production industries, or the tendency to project military power across the world to ensure a stable and cheap oil supply at the cost of human lives?
Wait, what? The product (or its shelf, whatever) isn't labeled with the price? Is that common in the US or is it a 7/11 thing? I guess it's communism to make displaying the price a legal requirement. Competition will sort it out...
No but HDDs are. And GPUs. And NICs.

To get a picture of how much unique information is present on every PC these days, look at one of the pasted anticheat HWID spoofers on GitHub.

EDIT: found this nifty list https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/333662-...
It's also interesting that this opens up the full saturation of Apple Silicon (minus the ANE): GGML can run on the CPU, using NEON and AMX, while another instance could run via Metal on the GPU using MLC/dawn. Though the two couldn't share (the same) memory at the moment.
I think this is primarily something from maven central. No technical limitation in maven.
> Authoritarian governments don't give their subjects a good civic education

This seems to have been untrue in the USSR, and it seems currently untrue in China, the first two big authoritarian governments that came to my mind. Also "because" is doing the heavy lifting in your sentence, I do wonder how you arrived at that causality.
Personally - I hope not. If Russia is not crushed in Ukraine, we’re likely next.

In reality… If West was strongly in crush-Russia camp, Ukraine war escalation in February of 2022 wouldn’t have happened. Even 2014 wouldn’t have happened.

Had West went all-in, I believe the war could be ended in 24-72 hours. Close airspace over Ukraine. Put some boots on the ground. Done.

Now the question is why the war is not over yet. Nuclear scare? Economics? Corruption and blackmailing? All of those could make crappy peace treaties a thing either.
Cocalc also has new "generate a Jupyter Notebook from a [ChatGPT] prompt" functionality. https://twitter.com/cocalc_com/status/1644427430223028225
AI Analog Chips Have 6-10x TOPS/Watt vs. Digital
I like chess but naturally I learn games by trial and error until I develop an intuition for it. You just can't play chess like that, you have to study strategies and moves. I play against computer sometimes but I have 0 time I can invest into learning the moves. I feel like for those of us not in the top 1% of intellectually capable people what makes or breaks your chess ability is the amount of time you put in studying strategies and effort you put into practicing but the former more than the latter.
I suppose it’s fine if you don’t mind the voice control. I hate it so I prefer to not text and just drive. When conditions permit I dedicate my full focus to the phone/messaging.
Thanks for giving it a shot! I used to automatically show the tutorial but then some folks would play on a phone versus their computer and have to see the tutorial again and skip it. I probably swung too far in accommodating that scenario and left new players confused when I removed that feature. I'll try to improve it, thanks for the feedback.

I mentioned it in another comment, but the mobile version (also free) is where I put most of my energy. If you liked the web version, please give it a try and let me know what you think. Appreciate the support!
I know it’s not average person money, but the average person is not looking for hardware to run inference on LLMs.

A100 seem in the €15k ballpark and H100 double that.

Lot of money but I am actually surprised. A dedicated regular guy could buy this. I mean people buy cars and don’t really need them either. Again not saying it is a bargain, but it’s not billionaires only territory and that is good news (it’s early days!).
Based on how the rules for disability goes, this isn’t surprising at all.
I think politicians, especially GOP, are afraid of TikTok. It has been quite successful in mobilizing young voters.

That doesn’t mean TikTok is innocent, of course. But it is weird to claim all kinds of privacy issues with it, when American social media companies do the same kind of shenanigans.

Would be interesting when the courts get involved.
> Streaming isn't a solution to that, the latency is unacceptable in shooters.

What's the max latency that is low enough?
You can either live your life angry that you had to pay for better treatment, or angry that you didn’t get better treatment for free, but only one of those options is more comfortable than the other.
Sure but many people will upgrade when their laptop stops getting updated for a few versions, which they would not have done had their hardware still been supported with up-to-date software.
Agreed. I am so trained by macOS that it needs my iCloud password or account password randomly that I don’t even think about it anymore. I like to consider myself a savvy computer user, but I frankly only give myself a 50% chance at best of identifying a malicious password prompt at this point.