skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels to me like there is a market opportunity for a new keyboard app manufacturer here. Possibly along similar ethical lines as Mozilla/Firefox (there's bundled stuff because someone has to pay the bills, but it's only so much effort to turn it off).
That feels like some sort of survivor bias.
The majority of people didn't feel that and passed on by without commenting.
SEGA literally DMCAed every single YouTube video of the original Shining Force to prevent people from comparing the original to the remake.

As in, they searched Shining Force and send DMCA strikes to every single video they could find. They only backtracked after they got a literal metric fuckton of negative press due to it.
This doesn't match with my experience in a Scottish state school, albeit way back in 1997-2003. In the top class in maths we always had more girls than boys throughout my time there. If anything boys were often treated as a nuisance for the first four years of secondary school - many leave aged 16 to work in farming or in oil - and you're only taken seriously if you stick around for the final two years.

Coming through an isolated, rural school like this then hitting the real world where the roles are reversed (women are more frequently discriminated against, paid worse) - was a bit of a shock. Note that I didn't suffer at school or anything, it was just sort of accepted that if you were a boy and you wanted to achieve academically you were going against the grain and you were largely on your own.

It is definitely true that as a country the self-deprecating "haha I'm rubbish at maths" attitude is pretty common, I don't whether that is indicative of actual ability or if it's just something people say.
A color space also defines what “white” means, not just the interpretation of the component values.

For example, sRGB defines a D65 white point. This is the absolute color of the light that the monitor should emit for white pixels. It’s usually defined using the XYZ color space (or derived x/y chromaticity coordinates).

XYZ is the scientific baseline for color, but it’s not widely used for content creation. Other color spaces are designed to make color more intuitive and easier to encode. Talking about color in the XYZ space would be sort of like talking about music using absolute frequencies. It’s often more practical and flexible to say “note A” rather than “440 Hz.”
Fun fact:

Emperor Napoleon III personally led the French army, but when he (and 100K men) were captured in the Battle of Sedan in 1870 it practically won Prussia the war.

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

> after news hit Paris of Emperor Napoleon's III capture, his wife said "why didn't he kill himself?"
"When failure is outlawed, only outlaws will be failures."
Conversely, it shows how sparse kinetic energy is, and that's a good explanation to tell people that would see storage issues solved by damming every stream.
The "web" also doesn't sound so appetizing, esp. for people with arachnophobia. At least it is short. "Internet" is a rather technical sounding name. Metaverse? For people who want to be all meta? Or subjects of Meta? Once you get used to a name, it doesn't sound so strange anymore.
I'm not as charitable as you are. Chollet left for the USA, LeCun for Canada.

France has an extremely small, but great math community via the ENS/Sorbonne/X schools, but it hardly reflects on a larger trend -- general education. The topic isn't the culturing of a select, few elites, but the education of the larger population.
Source? Copyright applies where the work is distributed. If you sell a counterfeit Japanese book in Germany, the Japanese publisher will need to sue in a German court. That makes sense because Japanese laws and courts have no bearing on German nationals (unless they are in Japan).

Copyright still works internationally, since what constitutes infraction in your own country is probably an infraction abroad as well. Most countries have signed the Berne convention and have very similar copyright laws. Yet there are still differences, for example the length of time it takes for a work to enter in the public domain, and local markets reflect this.

Things are complicated online, since platforms based in one country distribute to many other countries, and so they open themselves up to liabilities in many countries. Where platforms don’t have the resources to differentiate by country, they might choose the most restrictive available interpretation…
I'm pretty sure on an apples to apples per capita basis France has many more Fields medeals per 100K population than the USofA.
I replied about this on another comment but have a look at "We Do Solar" their product is designed for installing on balconies but I guess there is nothing to stop you installing it where ever you like! (You might just need to add a bit of a frame to support them?)
> Right, so you armchair lawyer about how you have all these rights, but when it’s pointed out you don’t actually have them you’re just in favor of having those rights.

No I was talking first about the rights to emulation, romhacks and mods.

Those are perfectly legal right now, there's no ambiguity, whatever Nintendo thinks on this subject doesn't matter and their opinion doesn't have any value.

> Nintendo spends a lot of money creating that content and we like that. That’s why we have created a framework that allows them to make money out of that investment. We limit your right to do whatever you want so they can make money.

I'm sure Nintendo is doing fine financially selling those games, you don't need to worry about that.
I know a better way to fix that: start making phones that aren't absolute hand tablets x)
I think it's relevant, but it's not the only thing.

My personal experience as a Brit is that the UK has a growing trend of anti-intellectualism and being innumerate is "cool" in certain circles.
I mean, "4 hour drive to get to England" also puts quite a limit on the search space.
Or perhaps a global time, such as UTC, given the global audience?
Here's another exercise (resp. exam question) that tests understanding: given a sketch of a curve in a graph, roughly sketch the derivative (or integral). The number of otherwise good students who go "but I can't do the derivative without the formula?" suggests we need more questions like this.
If it hurt achievers while not helping low achievers, the plan succeeded. The ends justify the means to these people. You voted them in.
What does it mean when a link is red? Nice idea.
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Most websites are static, but most people's time is spent on dynamic websites.
Did you ever work out how much energy was expended to manufacture and transport the parts? Chances are that with solar panels facing west in a place like The Netherlands, it will take a long time to come out on top with your carbon footprint.

I reckon that the most energy-efficient setup for your blog would be a hosted solution. Data centres are already optimised for low energy use. And some cloud providers have committed to become carbon neutral.

Lowering your overall household electricity use would be a more effective way to lower your carbon output.
The criteria listed by noirscape way above is well laid out, and it's not just game developer. Dojinshi, AI arts... It's the Japanese mindset. The bundles of bank notes left on the table are, just, notes. Sales is just someone else's business. Those are never the point.

If you call them first for a profit sharing scheme, only then sometimes some cares, but still it's more for the scheme.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35597791
That's just an algebraic application of the same idea. I don't think it's sad.
Winters don't freeze them anymore.
> the same subcultures over and over again

How many XX-chromosome neurotypical a-political undyed-hair normies are on your 7 federated instances? Please, count.

People can be miffed at me for pointing this truth out but that is how social networks grow big. Such is life.

The Rihanna/Swift/Kardashian/BlackPink people will never switch and as they will correctly inform you, they run the world. It is called social media, remember?

Social people will stay on Instagram and Twitter as that is where you get attention. AI researchers are all on Twitter too for that matter. The gravitational pull is too strong.

Edit: Hmm, I wonder who is downvoting this obvious mathematical fact of life, such a mystery!
The problem is, you're bored the rest of the year and become disruptive in class. Been there, done that.
Mine are 2v 660Ah cells - 24 of them take up about 3m^2 of floor, and they’re about 80kg each. Power density, they do not have.
I don't think the budget Airlines care about press...

But what they do care is turnaround time, and minimising boarding and deboarding is effective in making it shorter. Whole goal of such airlines is to fit as many flights in regular day as they can. And cutting some minutes or tens of minutes is effective for them.
I'm just recognizing the facts of the planet we live in. Lots of interested parties are in the US, so it makes sense to also simply add US times. Especially considering its a US company (hopefully) launching from US soil.
ChatGPT and Advanced AI Face New Regulatory Push in Europe
Handled under the hood by Next 13. To be honest, they probably could have done something to make that a bit more obvious when looking at the code - it probably wouldn't hurt to throw in a simple 'cache' keyword or something.
So you figure people should give even more resources, and their children's futures, over to these people who actively hate them and just hope things will work out, despite all evidence to the contrary?

My obligation is to my children. I'm happy to entrust them to a system if I have faith in it, or the people running it. If I don't...it would be downright irresponsible.
What makes you think that native German speakers screw it up "all the time"? I'm German and I did not encounter any of these mistakes in years, despite being a grammar nazi.
I remember such a piece of code, perhaps the shortest ever created! It was 4 instructions in the machine language of ancient British ICL1900 computers. I - together with my colleague - spent some hours to understand it - firstly, what it does and then how and why it works!
The problem was that ICL1900 had a rather obscure method of storing 6-bit characters in its 24-bit words (yes, bytes were unknown in ICL computers). To copy character strings indexing was used but character position was stored on the first two bites of the index word while the word address offset on the right part of the index. Since memory was extremely valuable, the rest part of the index word was used for the counter. Thus fetch and store instructions were working such that after a character was accessed counter was decremented and 1 was added to the 2-bit character position subregister with overflow used to increment address offset every 4th character. Very clever solution because the string copying loop was very tight!
The 4 instruction sequence we tried to interpret turned out to be a macro modifying character index register backward allowing to use of an almost identical loop for copying a string starting from its end... It was using arithmetic overflow in a way we had trouble understanding and we hadn't access to hardware :-)
Which I believe is the only real way of stopping these patterns. If they are illegal and the law is enforced, then the field is level for the players, so they can't out-manipulate each other - with these patterns, at least.
96% of the world isn't US-American.
Why work hard on math when they can be taken by foriegners from China, India, and Russia? They have stronger STEM skills and they are KEEN to come to the UK even if they get paid below their worth? So locals can't compete so don't bother.
Your.Online: Gandi continues its development
The default one on Samsung will let you select multiple languages under "Suggest text predictions". Not sure if that's a clone of the default Google one, but I had so far assumed so. Seems to switch decently between Dutch and English, for me.
Used to live in Tangier.

We would go to Gibraltar on the weekend.

I remember the monkeys, and a weird slanted train.
Aye, 'tis a Brave New World. Here, have some soma.
I dislike the linearity of your lineage. Misses out the kind of obvious ones like e.g. The Beatles looping tapes and building on Musique Concrète.

> Of course, in the hands of any creative musician, I think it would only take a week

Pretty much! Musique Concrète basically starts with the invention of magnetic tape. Electronic music itself basically starts with the vacuum tube.

Humans just really like making new sounds and music. If we invent any new tech that makes an odd noise, there will be a bunch of stoned grad students jamming with it later that day.
Sounds like it was an intermittent fault? If so, those are notoriously hard for any mechanic to diagnose. Cars _usually_ store code history but it's up to the manufacturer and often the data they provide to the mechanic with a scan tool is misleading or an outright pack of lies.
> Space exploration is valuable on so many dimensions - resources, sustainability, research.

How much garbage and pollution are we going to need to get some of those "resources" from space? That's not sustainable. Space might have a lot of resources, but they're practically unreachable. And our problem, right here, right now, is CO2 (and methane). You can't fire rockets to get rid of that.

And the research: that really comes in second or third place. It's nice to have a picture of a galaxy, but far from essential.
But when you are taking vacations with your family you don't want the stress and the risk of not finding a good accommodation.
It's been there for a very long time. I suspect some of it is systemic (private schools feeding into the top tier universities).
FastLoRAChat – Lora finetuned LLM with ChatGPT capabality
I made this project to combine advantages of alpaca-lora and fastchat.

I opensourced everything, including the share GPT dataset I used for training, model ,and training script.

I hope this project would allow people with lower-end GPU have a chance to train chatGPT-like LLM.
It really pairs well with proxmox. I've tried many methods but for proxmox vm and cts nothing was better than their own backup server.
Yep, you are correct.

But 100% of the launch is an American company out of American territory. And the majority of the users of Hacker News are also based in the US.

So for this audience, considering the other facts, I don't see why people are having a problem with an extra comment that simply posts the relevant launch times in terms easier to understand at a glance for an American audience.
I'm really surprised there are no quality swipe keyboard options out there. Gboard is ok. I liked SwiftKey better a few years ago, but it degraded. But I'd pay for a swipe keyboard which solves a few issues I run into all the time: like not being great at detecting the space swipe, not showing the word alternatives consistently, not getting stuck in password entry mode, etc.

I tried a few of the available options and it seems like gboard and SwiftKey on top, then a huge chasm, then every other option, few of them likely low quality data stealers.

Please, do it well and take my money!
AES-CBC with a random IV and solid HMAC should be fine, but the point is that, for a non-cryptographer, putting together an authenticated encryption construction yourself has potential footguns. Using a pre-made authenticated encryption construction like AES-GCM or Salsa20-Poly1305 avoids this.

Any platform with hardware acceleration for AES should hopefully have a carryless multiplication instruction anyway, so GCM will be fast. And if not, Poly1305 is so fast that another HMAC construction will perform worse. So there’s really no reason not to just use one of these two in 99% of cases.
The greater good isn't dumbing down but wising up. The former is the current strategy. Don't play their game.
I also believe in 30x’ing the price of children’s food and clothes, because they cause far more pollution than air travel does and this will dissuade people from having them.
>Software Engineering and "working in IT" does have a different perception and is considered "cooler", even though the vast majority of our IT jobs are awful.

I think that is a fairly recent change, it certainly wasn't the case when I started my career in the eighties.
Because jobs and CV. That's it.

Other than that, it is the best example of over engineering I've seen in my life.
I see here echoes of problems in the Finnish system (at least as far as I understand it).

The system is designed to be inclusive and promote equality of opportunity. In practice this means classes with uninterested and preternaturally disruptive kids who spoil it for kids who actually want to learn.
That is very interesting.

> I'm also missing out the fact that this entire process only kicks off after the Management Engine says it can, which means we're waiting for an entirely independent x86 to boot an entire OS before our CPU even starts pretending to execute the system firmware.

I take it that that OS is Minix?

> But what verifies the first component in the boot chain? You can't simply ask the BIOS to verify itself - if an attacker can replace the BIOS, they can replace it with one that simply lies about having done so. Intel's solution to this is called Boot Guard.

Wait... How can an attacker replace the BIOS? Aren't motherboard nowadays protected from unwarranted BIOS flashing?

Say I'm an attacker and I got root on some PC (Intel or AMD) running Linux, how do I replace the BIOS with a backdoored BIOS without the user noticing?
https://archive.md/uboqv
Pretty much no revenue opportunities.

I was the PM for a keyboard app with millions of downloads and was the most downloaded keyboard app in India. But there is no way to monetize it.

Early on, the OEMs would pay us to have our keyboards in their images as it would give them more customizability, better local language support and end-to-end localization. The rev share on each device sold, was enough to keep the product funded.

But post 2014, the OEMs started asking for fees to add our keyboard into their images. And instead of positive funds, we started to go into negative and had to pivot away from being just a keyboard.

Anyway, right now there is not much market opportunity in this space. Maybe with AI being ubiquitous, a new wave of keyboard apps will come in - but again right now the economics don't make sense.
> Money is a poor measurement tool. Unless you like measurement tools whose value changes every second.

Measurement tools whose value changes every second are the only sensible measurement tools. A voltmeter that reads five volts all the time, regardles of actual electric potential present, is as useless as anything can be.

> A unit of money essentially represents some amount of goods, services, or labor, all of which ultimately boil down to some amount of work.

Exactly. And what money meadures is exactly that ratio of goods to goods, goods to services, services to work, etc etc. Which all constantly fluctuate in relation to each other, so no fucking wonder the value of money does, too.
What kind of monster would write this as `new_maxhp * (old_hp / old_maxhp)` instead of `(old_hp / old_maxhp) * new_maxhp`.
Wrapping C Libraries in Nim
There are various tools that will mirror tweets to Mastodon. Many of them worked the other way around (replicating Mastodon posts on Twitter) but with the ridiculous pricing Twitter asks for API access I doubt they'll still work in a few months. There's also a tool that will directly mirror RSS into Mastodon, so if that's the source of your tweets then you're in luck.

There's also a decent, chance your posts are already readable on Mastodon through https://bird.makeup/. I wouldn't use that as an official source, but it's probably good to know about. It should also be noted that some servers block dedicated Twitter forwarding services like these because of the massive moderation task blindly forwarding the Twitter cesspool can cause.

I can't tell you what tool or program suits your needs most. There are systems ranging from fully custom ActivityPub servers to simple set-and-forget IFTT automations (https://ifttt.com/explore/how-to-crosspost-mastodon-twitter) that can solve the problem of "post the same stuff on two platforms". Sadly, the most easy to use tools that I know of are useless without access to the Twitter API and I doubt you'll be willing to spend the ridiculous amounts of money Twitter demands for that for a few replicated tweets.

As far as simple guides, everyone has their own idea of what "simple" means. In its most basic form, you type or paste text into an input field and hit the send button, just like on Twitter. You give people your username to follow (@user@server.com),they type that into their dashboard and they hit the follow button. If you want to reply to people, you click the reply button and type a reply. Retweeting and liking works the same way as on Twitter, with similar icons. Usernames are a bit longer because they include a domain name, but honestly who even cares about usernames on social media.

If you've ever emailed someone outside your organisation, using Mastodon shouldn't be harder than using Twitter. The hard part is synchronising the two, because the only people who have put effort into that so far either used the Twitter API or are comfortable with running shell scripts.
I don't think OP feeds on bugs, that's why mass killing of insects seems wrong. If it's a campsite it's less bad though than if it was a house where you could just turn down outside lights instead.
What are you proposing? Go off the grid? It's a bit difficult when your tech overlords are forcing you on to their platforms using any trick they can. Do you realise how difficult it is to not use a smartphone, especially for young people, these days? Or perhaps you just expect people to submit to their tech overlords and accept the tools they are allowed to use?
But if you don't use Next.js with TRPC and TypeScript then you're not cool.
Romhacks and mods are shared with patches, not with the original games. Game companies have also not tried to sue those websites as you pointed out, because it's guaranteed that they would lose, the website doesn't host any of their content.

For breaking the protections in place indeed it's a bit different since it depends of your area, in the EU there's some interoperability exceptions which will cover breaking any DRM.

You might not need to break any of those protections for an old system though anyways, you can perfectly dump a SNES cartrige and there's no DRM preventing you to do that, you only need breaking DRM to run it on the actual console.
> Stuttgart

Dusseldorf!

But your point stands.
So maybe that's a problem with a particular latex->mathml convertor, but the idea itself should work.
You aren't in control of your smartphone. Microsoft/Google are. The FSF have been saying this for decades. It doesn't matter how "open source" Android is. It's not designed to put you in control.
This says the penalty is 10% on risc-v vs 2-3% on arm - anyone have background for why it's so?
If you can't use NaCl directly you may still be able to use the underlying "25519" Edwards curve. The point is that it was designed in such a way to make implementation bugs ("bad" points, separate addition/doubling formulas, and other edge cases) either non-existent or at least easy to deal with.

In contrast, ECDSA seems like it was almost designed by the NSA to make it as easy as possible to accidentally introduce an exploitable implementation bug.

You are right that ECC is mainly a key agreement/transport and signing tool, not to be used directly for encryption except in very special cases (e.g. modified ElGamal for verifiable voting schemes).