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>Decentralisation is the key... but no... just blanket hate on anything related crypto/blockchain.

Blockchains are not the be all and end all of decentralization. In fact, most decentralized use cases don't require (and performance would suffer significantly if used) blockchains at all.

I'm not hating on blockchains, they have some important uses. But decentralized communications ala the Fediverse[0] wouldn't gain anything from blockchains, and ActivityPub[1] is most certainly decentralized, and while I suppose someone could bolt a blockchain onto it, it's unclear to me what value could be added.

And there's this one weird thing I heard about the other day. It's so outlandish I thought it was somebody's psychotic fever-dream. Supposedly, there are these things called "websites." Not sure what they are, but apparently, just about anyone can set up/own/run one (or more) all by themselves on skinny hardware without any blockchains. I heard about this and just snorted derisively because that's clearly bullshit -- no one could ever do anything like that. /s

[0] https://fediverse.party/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
My general understanding is that for France nuclear energy is about securing its sovereignty as a nation. It was the only means to have adequate control over its energy supply to not be held hostage by some other nation.
Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp
WhatsApp announced that they’re adding key transparency to enhance end-to-end encryption verification within their suite of apps. There’s a blog post going into details on the engineering blog including announcing that the core logic for managing an auditable key directory is being open-sourced on Github: https://github.com/facebook/akd
Elon publishes commentary and opinions about policy and society to his Twitter account regularly. He probably has a much broader reach than NPR. To say he shouldn't be held to the same standards because he's not a "publisher" is laughable.

Making NPR display its funding sources for all to see is a good thing (although "state-affiliated" was not the right label). Not making other high profile accounts do the same is pure hypocrisy.
> They are not using any

It analyzes data to arrive to a qualitative determination (the "shape"), also enabling further computation based on it (the mass): that counts as AI.

"Otherwise you would have had to figure it out through your own direct intellectual effort" counts as AI.
> unfounded assertion

...which unfounded assertion would that be? As far as I'm aware there are no contenders which would even attempt to throw tools like Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, ... from their throne. And all those tools hail from the 90's.

The only exception in recent time which gained some traction might be Figma for 2D design, but even though it runs in browsers the important parts are also written in C++.
hmmm, running the dom demos causes a segfault in the browser. That probably shouldn't happen...
Magic beans R&D.
OMG, I had no idea Tim Hunkin was churning out YouTube videos these days! I was exactly the right age to appreciate the Secret Life of Machines, and it looks like I have several hours of quality stuff to watch there.
Because Google no longer knows how to do customer/developer engagement just as it goes into things that require it more?

It doesn't help that it allows others to push opinion pieces in media that build up memes against its products (I honestly believe it's non-trivial part of what killed Google+ - at some point someone believed at Google about it being "ghost town" and started making it more FB-like and pushing "new people to observe" at you, making it less and less usable).

The infamous "will kill your account on basis of unaccountable algorithm and you can't do anything about it" is another big issue when trying to get clients on GCP. I honestly find GCP to be the best cloud I can use when not going full hog on things like AWS-specific services, yet there's always the fear that Google will just kill the account, possibly shuttering the business.
Amazon Titan
This is mostly my reason too. Using payments networks makes you beholden to somebody else and reliant on their systems working properly. But nobody selling you stuff gives a shit about that, if it doesn't work, it's your fault. So it's better to take responsibility and keep cash and not be stuck because of other people's problems.

Concretely, I went across town last year with my wife to try a popular counter-service restaurant. Their payment system wasn't working, and during the time I paid for and waited for my order, they turned away about 10 other people who didn't have cash to pay.
It is shocking to me that people spend so little time thinking about the matter that they believe this would be a good thing.
Central banks snapped up banknotes during the pandemic, but they are now working through the stockpile before acquiring new stocks, De La Rue said in November 2022. Demand for banknotes has also been depressed due to government finances being squeezed by inflation, the cost-of-living crisis, and access to foreign exchange in some cases.

I'm in the UK. I hardly ever use hard cash now, preferring contactless (or minimum, chip&pin). The dodgy window cleaner and pub quiz charity donations are my only regular cash uses these days.

I wonder what % of the drop in demand comes from that.
It won't make sense to you. I don't believe you a tiny bit when you say you want to understand it. But yes, there are rational arguments. It is entirely rational not to believe "scientific" risk estimates after a couple too many impossible accidents happened. Estimation risk is real, fat tail risks are a problem, especially with the potential of radioactive fallout. The total projected cost of the Fukushima cleanup is going up year by year btw.

Other rational arguments: The infrastructure is unwieldy and extremely unpopular at best. Germany has no path to solving the nuclear waste issue, partly for political reasons: Nobody wants that (or other parts of nuclear infrastructure, really) in their backyard, and backyards are spaced pretty closely in the old world, and when every citizen has the same voting weight, tough luck. It just doesn't work.

Ukraine is teaching us another point: Nuclear power plants are weak points in the national security, and extremely so in wartime. Even when the enemy shows restraint (Russia strangely does, in that regard) there is an awkward element of hostage taking. Nuclear power is a bet on multiple decades of peace and everything going just right. And if you were really that interested, you could easily find lots more arguments.
Depends on when you had that thought

https://www.websters1913.com/words/Gender
I would also like this (well I want something entirely mechanical with no software at all) but short of people designing entirely open and 3d printable versions on their own time, this will never happen.

Well maybe with ChatGPT 6...
Oh, that timeframe really puts things into perspective.
No wonder it's not a problem.
Is it profitable? Anyone can sell cloud services for 1$ and lose money on every dollar.

Keep doing that long enough, and still be behind AWS by 4x, and you’ll get your plug pulled.
> This seems completely irrational and emotionally driven

No, not completely.

Even after decades of search and committee, Germany still does not have a long term nuclear waste site. And with a history of the government fucking those up in Germany it's understandable no one wants them. Emotional yes, irrational not.
Nah it's been available in VS Code for a year or two in "beta".
Next thing Apple needs to do is setup MagSafe batteries to act as the primary battery for iPhones.

Right now using a magsafe battery charges the built in battery which is then drained by iPhone usage. Ideally what would happen instead is iPhone usage would use the magsafe battery first, then the built in battery.

The result of this is that magsafe batteries effectively are equivalent as replaceable ones.
Only Vespa allows you to index multiple vectors per schema field, avoiding duplicating all the meta data of the document into the "chunk", and avoids maintaining the document to chunk fan-out. See https://blog.vespa.ai/semantic-search-with-multi-vector-inde...
You can't show your bookmarks bar?

It's ⌘-B on macOS to toggle on/off

I presume it's ctrl-B on Windows (but can't verify at the moment)

Or you can go to View->Toolbars->Bookmarks Toolbar and change you preferences there
Just a note ‚ the decision was made around 2011 and now they were faced with getting new fuel rods (decades of use) or running with the legislated phase-out. There isn’t an in between option it seems
Sure, but it puts Google in a lose-lose situation. If people come to expect the features of ChatGPT, Google will have to add them in and greatly decrease the profitability of search. On top of that, it will cost them 10 times more since they have 10 times the market. They could also ignore ChatGPT, but a portion of their users will migrate to other search engines also costing them money. For Microsoft, search is one of a dozen business lines they are in, what do they care about destroying the profitability of search if it hurts their competitors more?
Do you think it's a bad idea (I mean policy-wise, separate from politically) to increase retirement age when increasing longevity and low birthrates have shifted the number of workers supporting each retiree so massively? In the US, if I recall correctly, it was once more than 10:1 but now approaching 2:1, and the financial implications of this are massive.
For me, nearly all of my cash transactions over the last 5-6 years have been when I don't have a choice, mainly either trips to places where credit cards aren't as widely used, or cannabis purchases.
That gender and sex overlap yet aren't identical is a relatively recent scientific discovery that many people haven't yet learned. It's helpful, therefore, to mention gender when discussing the related subject of sex.
France is also massively reducing the amount of nuclear power in their grid, for economic reasons.
Home Indoor Environmental Quality and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
I looked into Shen recently. I ultimately decided not to use it because their remote compilation model thing seemed... cludgey.

I've since landed on Gerbil Scheme (https://cons.io) which is a modern front-end to Gambit Scheme. It seems like the perfect mix of performance, (modern) features, R*RS, and FFI that I want/need. Baring some significant bugs, it will probably be my goto Lisp going forward.
The idea of using Bitcoin or Ethereum to pay for anything always seemed insane to me. I don't want my info about payments I've made to be public, espcially not in a form where, by design, it will never disappear!
There’s a great quote from a recent TV show that summarizes the putative value of a college degree:

The whole point of a college degree is to show a potential employer that you showed up someplace four years in a row, completed a series of tasks reasonably well, and on time. So if he hires you, there’s a semi-decent chance that you’ll show up there every day and not fuck his business up.

(Delivered by Sylvester Stallone! https://youtube.com/shorts/SUlrllck1Po)

Arguably the value proposition of Stanford and other colleges in the same situation has changed. Rather than show ability to complete reasonably complex tasks on time, a Stanford degree’s real value now is that it shows the bearer is capable of safely navigating the diversity/equality/inclusion bureaucracy.

From this perspective, the fact that Stanford has enough administrators to give each one a full-time salaried job harassing one individual student each and still have staff left over to run classes is actually strengthening their value. Anyone who graduates from Stanford has survived a bureaucratic gauntlet infinitely more insane and Kafka-esque than whatever your DEI department can cook up. Hire a Stanford graduate and you can be sure they won’t bring shame on your company with an insensitive word or sexually suggestive action. Ironically, perhaps these colleges are preparing students for the workplace more effectively than they have in decades.
1) they are some of the most modern plants on this planet, upgraded very regualary

2)The companies do want to run them, just bot under the imposed conditions and constant exit threat. Preussen Elektra lobbied to keep them running constantly

3)They provided vastly more in the past but got axed piece by piece

4) around 80% currently want to keep them running, especially younger people

5) in other news, no one wants climate change. And no garden was requested as waste storage yet.
This is not being literalist or objective. That is having very specific ideological opinion about value and purpose of women. As in, nothing about us matters except our ability to have babies.

This would be like saying that men are nothing but insemination machines. And yet, analysis of what men want or do on this forum is way more complex, because men are actually more then that.

From the perspective of biology, all that non-baby related aspirations and wants are also part of our biology. You are ignoring them because of ideology, not because women would lack these for biological reasons.
France subsidized nuclear energy in order to get nuclear weapons. So the incentive is (perceived) national security.

Germany was prevented from having nuclear weapons by various treaties.
Calling in the Seabirds
> No one seems to be talking about this issue.

This is kind of your answer right? It’s not the issue to others that it is to you. If Google sunsetted Search, for example, I think people would talk about that issue.
That is absolutely amazing. I would have never thought to do such a thing. It's kinda too bad this sort of feature is inherently restricted to more modern, "smarter" cars.

Any idea how many peoples' hearing has been saved by the type of technology?
And more concrete example for the banking system is a recent bank failures. The Fed and FDIC have effectively given notice to the banking system that crypto is disfavored. See:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/signatures-seized-assets-sold...

> FDIC had told potential bidders that "any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank."

And one of the members of Signature Banks board also claimed the FDIC shut them down without the bank being insolvent. See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/signature-bank-new-york-communi...

You can bet banks will be avoiding crypto.
Twitter Inc no longer exists, now X Corp
>as nuclear waste can remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands

Why does the German government and anti-nuclear activists insist on pushing this falsehood? After a few decades most of it will have decayed into low-radioactive isotopes. It will then just be the usual chemically toxic industrial waste.
Let's create a plugin that will retrieve information from NASA API. It will get the NASA Astronomical Picture of the Day (APOD) and it will also allow us to search for images in NASA's Image Library to retrieve a list of images based on a search query.
Expensive compared to renewables of course.
Solar panels are not a replacement for nuclear power. Controllable energy sources as Gas and Coal are.
wasn't there an HN thread a couple years ago where Google announced Cloud had a couple years to make money (but without specifying what would happen if it didn't) and now here we are? I'm worried I'm forgetting exactly the dates here since I never keep track of Google Cloud, but I remember a bunch of people announcing they weren't going to use Google cloud because obviously it would be shut down in a few years?

on edit: someone else down thread has a link to it https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
Pretty sure the US didn't allow Germany to have their own nukes after WWII
> no country has yet come up with a completely satisfactory solution to this problem.

France and Finland have a decent solution.

Germany was really really really bad at storing nuclear waste. Which is why I'm also against nuclear power plants in Germany.
It is technically GPU agnostic, the injected renderer should run on any hardware that supports Vulkan raytracing. The design of the renderer certainly plays to the strengths of Nvidia's architectures though, so performance is quite bad on AMD cards.
Love Tim Hunkin, truly a hidden gem.
Common forum software at the time would often show something like

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Can you upload street view footage via the maps app? That's a major loss.
Wasn't it marketed as unlimited during invite-only beta?
In Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, AIs (called drones, with the larger ones being called Minds) have special games and entertaining activities that they can play while they wait for human responses, as they think many times faster than humans.

We're a long way from anything like an AI that thinks many times faster than humans. But I think giving AIs something like a game (or games) they can play while they're not otherwise being interacted with and just aware of the time would be genuinely useful to go some way to solving the "psychosis/depression" problem they have when their only sensory input is just time ticking over. Not necessarily the most computationally efficient, but maybe we'll find some shortcuts.
> Gender in humans isn’t fundamentally different.

It is fundamentally different.

The range of behaviors that Humans have is fundamentally far, far more broad than animals, because we are much more intelligent creatures. Example from a few thousand years ago: Farming, Cooking food. More recent examples: Fixing cars, doing taxes. Most of what Humans spend their time doing these days are things that animals don't do in nature.

Human cultures like to ascribe gender roles to most of these things, but in reality most of what people do doesn't have any implicit gender role associated with it, since it's pretty far removed from biological functions at this point.

Even in nature, the things people and animals do doesn't always neatly align with gender roles. For example, child rearing or even bearing live young is sometimes done by the male, even though it's usually a female gender role.

What's different between us and animals (as is usually the case) is our big thinky brains, and the things which follow on from that.
There are no exceptions to it if you make it the definition. Which is what the comment of BuyMyBitcoins says was taught to them.
Yes for several reasons:

out of habit,

spreading my browsing over several browsers (because I think competition is good),

cross-browser checking work on my work since I know there are users using it (both design and javascript has occasionally looked/worked differently from other popular browsers).

and lastly I like the non-business model feel of Mozilla
Child, assemler mnemonic representations of opcodes are not hiding anything.

You could make the same, useless, argument about the raw binary. If you looked at an executable you are still actually only looking at a transcoded representation in ascii in an editor. The cpu doesn't actually know what 0A is, those are glyphs for numbers and letters in a human language.

Assembler mnemonics are not materially different, and even macros don't change this because the macros are macros, built out of other visible assembler not hidden magic.

You are not conducting useful argument or communication with this silliness.
Germany has the 6th largest coal reserve in the world. It makes (economic) sense for them to protect their natural resource value by extending its relevancy as long as possible.

Just like it makes (economic) sense for Germany to use its ECB role to put struggling economies into debt agreements that, for instance, transfer control of national infrastructure like airports to German corporations.

Of course, in both cases, the superficial reasons given are bright fairytales of benevolence, and the German economic benefits are cast as convenient but coincidental externalities.
American universities have become extravagant nurseries for overgrown babies, both the students and the staff. Some ancient professors (ie: pre 2013) are probably still ok, but otherwise the whole thing has become nothing but a bunch of crybabies and whiners pointing at each other and screeching.

University used to be a signal; get in, graduate, and maybe you've got something more to you than the average person. Now, it's an anti-signal: if you actually jumped through the hoops to get in, and went into debt to indoctrinate yourself, not to mention actively harm your ability to function in the real world, then sane employers are going to forgo you.
Why should I let you access a trusted account (ie one of my OpenID/social media sources) in your app?

I don't know you, or may not want to - signing up with an email address has worked just fine for 30 years (or, better yet, not signing up)
Why does this article even mention gender?

It's completely unrelated to the topic at hand. Every mention of it is in some parenthetical jammed into the article with no logical flow.
While the number of native speakers is minuscule, English is widely used in India. And according to Nielsen, India is the second largest English-language book market in the world.
Show HN: Vocabulary training app using AI for deep context
Hello all, I've built an app that uses ChatGPT to generate deep context for around 2,000 manually selected, advanced level vocabulary words.

For every word, you'll see its long-form definition, practical pronunciation, etymology, 3 usage examples, 3 contexts in which usage of the word would be applicable, 3 interesting facts about the word, a poem about the word, and genre-driven stories using the word (romance, sci-fi, history, etc).

The idea is that by having so much context, it'll really leave an impression and imprint on your mind, and you can remember and summon words better.

In addition, you're able to practice your knowledge by taking multiple-choice quizzes daily, and tracking your overall progress on mastering all 2,000 words.

I built the app mostly because it was something I desperately wanted for myself. I hope you all get a chance to enjoy it as well.

Link:

Phantasmic on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phantasmic-vocabulary-pro/id6447141663

Note that the app is free with in-app purchases required to unlock words past the free 100. With AI there's unfortunately no way to offer it for free because it has real costs, and I have to try to see if it's something I could make some sort of living on sooner than later.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
The op only claimed to rewrite the llama.cpp in go, not the entire project. If look at llama/llama.go, it’s all written in go.
So your answer is “because they are not C”…?

What does language complexity has to do with anything? It will get compiled down to machine code, and both can be and are used for embedded. They occupy the exact same low-level niche as C, hell, they may be even more level as they can also do things like SIMD.

Linux kernel is C because Linus doesn’t like C++, it’s that easy. And usually no, why would you use multiple languages in a project if you don’t have a good reason?
Shilling from the same people who ask to go upvote their posts in "new" on HN over private forums?

Yeah, right, dedicated tools my ass.
You're a quack who's using very rare anomalies in sex to falsely conflate sex and gender. You are doing harm.
Nope, Nope, Nope. France wanted to have nuclear weapons. Germany wasn't allowed to have them and we mostly didn't want to have them in any case (after WWII at least).

Germany's nuclear infrastructure was just as "sustainable" (and that is a strange word for nuclear industry considering the investments, the mining, etc) as the French one, but smaller and entirely civilian.
Locker rooms? You see these exact talking points copy and pasted a lot, do they relate to this specific article?
llama.cpp is just a frontend for the GGML tensor library, which required models be converted (optionally quantized) to GGML format.

Of course people are working on that for Dolly as well: https://huggingface.co/snphs/dolly-v2-12b-q4