skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What alternative options exist for low budget passion projects, toy projects, and the like? It's such a tough space to exist, trying to offer a free service while also combating spam.

The best list I'm seeing is: https://free-for.life/#/?id=domains
Ok, here's my contribution:

exit(1)
You can't offer something and then say "retroactively delete it unless you pay a new insane price". I'm so glad Musk is not a politician with any say in important matters. But as the owner of large social media, he's dangerously close.
There are daily commits to the repo. But in terms of tags in git (or mailing list announcements), there hasn't been a release for a couple years (AFAICT).
Ask HN: Where can I find discussions on technical architectures?
For example, if I want to just read people's comments on trade offs or a place where I can go to ask for architecture help for creating an application
I dont know since when but for some strange reason HN has turned into anti IP, anti patent ( good or bad, software or not ) or basically everything should be free, that type of ideological mentality. And it has been going on for more than few years. Just want to say a big thank you for continue to comment and contributing on HN. Hopefully I get to read more of your work on Anandtech.
> That said, the GPUs in your M1 Mac are faster than the AMX units

Not for double, which is what R mostly uses IIRC.
So about ten years to significant human trials. Be dubious of any headline with "cure" in it.

I remember when reovirus and modified adenovirus were supposed to be the ticket for glio. Such a terrible thing, hope this is faster to the mark than my jaded forecast.
That’s an unattainable utopia if I ever saw one…
Family as a Model for the State
That's very kind, and you've made me start to think about it seriously.

I'd have to find him first, of course. And find some space to lay out the pieces to photograph.

Hmm ...
Depending on your definition of affordable, the windows dev kit 2023 makes a big deal out of their NPU but you'll have to deal with windows 11 to access it unfortunately
Oh, I missed a word - should have written 'potential hobby / commercial farmers' (or orchardists, fruit growers, etc).
The way I see it is that we are way beyond all reasonable bounds already, concerning co2 ppm in the air. Even if we stop all emissions this very moment, there’s still way too much already in the atmosphere. So, we are going to need co2 removal either way if there shall be any hope of ever returning to a world climate similar to before 1980.

I am no expert in the field, but this is an area that at least gives me some positive outlook on the future. I could imagine, for example, that we start over provisioning electricity with renewables; and instead of scaling them down when there is no energy demand, we will redirect the superfluous energy into carbon capture.
> Also what's the carbon waste that this generates? Is there a synergistic use for it?

I've wondered the same about these carbon capture plants. Is this literally just elemental carbon in some kind of dust/sand at the end of the day? Could this be a raw material input for carbon fiber production?
"ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7).

The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003 compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases."

I always felt that they should have focused on one, probably Windows XP, and tried for almost 100% compatibility, rather than moving the target toward later releases.
> without use W&numbers in your code

whats that again?
There are worse options than to join Apple's WWDC, Developer program.
GPU probably won't be a good fit for the browser, except for purely graphical tasks, like drawing images, for which they are already used for.

GPUs are good for massively parallel tasks, for example, shading every individual pixel on a 3D rendered scene, which is what they are designed for, bruteforcing hash functions, as it is done in cryptocurrency mining, or multiplying large matrices, as it is done in deep learning.

But most of what a browser does is not massively parallel. JS is mostly single-thread, and layout, parsing HTML, or managing network connections may benefit from a bit of parallelism but we are not talking about thousands of simultaneous operations with no interdependence. And for that, GPUs suck, they don't have the caching, branch prediction, synchronization, etc... abilities of a CPU, and attempting to do that on a GPU will only bring it down while its overpowered math units will be idling.
Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)
Lots of information about land usage, not so much about power usage beyond "it'll run on renewables". I imagine their cost benefit analysis boils down to "governments will pay for it to not die", which sounds rather optimistic.
From my own experience and by observing those close to me I conclude that if it's not something you already do, you won't be doing it when you have free time/ money.

An older relative collected scrap metal saying that when he retired he'd become a sculptor. But he never sculpted anything in his off hours and when he retired he also didn't.

It has to be burning in you, not some idle fantasy.
Why read Shakespeare when you can read Twitter?
$ telnet any-irix-box-ever.com
login: lp

irix:$
This is practically the best possible outcome actually: a scammer loses $5M for staging a fraudulent contest.
It requires specific care because in the DOM security model, third level sites are all in the same security domain and can read each others cookies and control each others pages. The browsers have a special list with gov.uk, co.uk etc so it knows these are special.

That wasn’t a concern in 2002 but today it should be.
You can generally get a sick visit with your PCP measured in days not weeks if you have one. Usually just a few days.

The OP wrote something about multiple ailments which implied non-emergent conditions.
Yeah, there were so many easy exploits that we regularly used them for our many SGI workstations when we didn't have the root password for that specific machine.
Thank god for that!

/ Swedish Dissident :P
This is like throwing out a house cat into a forest 10000km away.

Entirely irresponsible and cruel act.
Superfluous renewable energy already has to go to hydrolysis to produce hydrogen to be saved for times whenever renewables don't produce energy.
There was a short demonstration on the state-of-the art of Robocup kinematics [1]. I guess the next micromouse tournaments will equally benefit from end-to-end training of the mice.

[1] https://twitter.com/haarnoja/status/1651577815836270596
The Russian state controlled news channel?
There's always an individual with autism-level consideration for what one says, isn't there?

No, effectively DDOS-ing a service just because it says it's free and unlimited is a dick move

People like those are a big reason for why we can't have nice things
There's always this, by Donovan, well commented too:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGWTAe3M6U

partial lyrics, perhaps the most meaningful:

> Happiness runs, happiness runs

> Why? Because
You finish that stack of books on the bedside table, get the exercise regieme sorted, and then that’s it.

I get more books. I keep going on walks, jogs, and bike rides. I go to the coffeeshop. I go to the movies.
Created a podcast using AI for script and voice generation
The script is based on the articles I'm writing, subjects including design, UX, product, and technology.

Any ideas if I should keep creating episodes for this?
Without downplaying all the effort being put into this, I think we're just digging a deeper hole.

Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago but they are now 20 times more complex to develop and maintain. A good amount of developers would rather donate a kidney than write CSS. Accessibility is a hack. Performance is getting worse despite us having better than ever hardware. We're spending large amounts of time reinventing the wheel. JS is a horrible, bare bones language which is why you can't get anything done without 100 packages.

It's time to move away from HTML/CSS/JS. They worked great for as long as they did but instead of further contributing to the mess that they've become, we should be looking into alternatives.
Last week when there was a comment on a dolphin thread that went on about "oh why don't they contribute solely to MESS", I said the following...

> Probably a combination of NIH syndrome, not knowing other projects exist, and not putting all your eggs in one basket (especially because Nintendo is quite litigious when it comes to emulators)

That post was flagged, and nobody ever told me why. Now it seems quite obvious why it was flagged.
Despite the rules of the university I wouldn't think looking up past tests is wrong or cheating. But I don't see anything wrong with what the teacher did. And personally I think he should just let the results stand. It sounds like the students missed up to half the questions (or more)
>By the time you’ve cranked in enough Poe’s Law to be more than a tech demo

>Poe’s Law

What? What is this trying to say here? Is it a typo?
All operating systems are pretty much the same. I switched from Windows to Ubuntu on my parents computer and they didn't notice any difference.
>>Do you think that's not actually the case or very significant?

Suspension doesn't mean getting fired from the job. I guess they serve a 'show cause' notice, which you need to defend in front of a committee(your own colleagues), you get handed a token transfer to some far village location. Then in a year or two you just work your way back.

So basically not much.
OpenAI doesn’t make their own hardware, even in the fabless sense of “make.” So in what way is inference infrastructure a moat?
He made some really good contributions too. He went over the line in communication style and people were not comfortable.
I'm not sure why this was posted. Presumable u/jameshart thinks it is relevant to some current events.

If these events have anything to do with nuclear fission, then I don't find Admiral Rickover's remarks relevant at all. Those remarks were right on the money back in 1953, but we are in 2023 now. Nobody is suggesting we can build reactors easily, or with "off-the-shelf" components, or that they'd be cheap, or can be built quickly, etc. We know reactors are complex, expensive, take a long time to build.

But reactors are not theoretical anymore. We've built hundreds of them. Of many types. Pressurized water reactors the most; they've turned out to be quite good from a number of points of view. But we've built boiling water reactors, Candu reactors, even sodium cooled reactors, reactors cooled with CO2, etc.

When people talk about building new reactors, it's not paper reactors we're talking about. It's reactors where the world has thousands of reactor-years experience. They are complex, they have to go through an arduous regulatory approval process, but they are definitely not vaporware.

So, how is Rickover's lament relevant today?
Uh ... F-Zero style micro robotics would be awesome ... like slot cards without the slot.
> How much land, in solar panels for example, is required to power this?

It says "The CO₂ can then be safely and permanently stored underground by our storage partners — Carbfix in Iceland."

So my assumption was that the collectors are located there as well and using Iceland's abundant geothermal electricity.
Show HN: Free AI photos in minutes, realistic human models, your own products
A few features (website has a 79s demo) include:

- Free AI photos
- Realistic human models
- Inpainting / image editing to customise each part of a photo using AI
- Multiple products in one image
- Text to image AI stock photo generation
- Your own products (inc. resizing of photos etc.)
- 30x faster, infinitely cheaper than existing solutions
- Start to finish AI photo editing, ready to post online or offline content
FYI where you type psychophants you mean sycophants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophancy
Just, from the conferences I'm familiar with, while being a keynote speaker might have some status associated with it, a normal track talk is more legit than a keynote talk, just comparing talk with talk. Everyone know the keynote is invited, and they're talking to fill the space, not because their idea is so important it needs to come out now.
It’s worse that that. Workstations have died. I would argue there is no such thing as a PC workstation. To me, workstation implies a high-end machine with hardware and software developed by the same vendor. Apple still does that. Does anyone else? Oracle?
Solaris had OpenLook if I am not mistaken.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038796
Probably most of the OS or program-specific stuff they’re learning in school will be out of date when they’d profit from using it anyways. Children need to learn more general concepts, otherwise they end up like my mom suffering every time windows decides to change the UI.

For that matter, mixing windows and Linux might be even better since they’ll need to adapt and transfer knowledge (although this would probably be painful and exhausting for everyone involved)
Yes, that's why we trained our model only on ergonomic chairs
So there are filters that simply collect CO2 by trapping the molecules directly? Wow, TIL.
I had a problem with this, someone got mad because it couldn't afford a service and had all of its friends leave bad reviews.

I chatted with support and they told me they understood the problem but at their level they couldn't do anything. It's a business with little clients so most of the reviews were bad at the time.

What I learnt is to never trust Google's support, because they don't really have one.
Young Americans Struggle to Hit ‘Adult’ Milestones
https://archive.vn/e5BRI
Ah, thanks for the correction! I never use R, so I assumed that it uses/supports single-precision floating point.
I stopped using VMware products 12+ years ago. I too found them ever more complicated to administer. I suspect that the problems stem from the many different implementations of virtualisation support in CPUs, with increased mitigations for HeartBleed and similar attacks. Perhaps some of your problems stem from Windows having ever more complex TPM, EFI etc requirements. Also possible that Intel management engine is causing interactions.

With each new generation CPUs have become ever more complex. Some of those capabilities just cannot be accurately emulated.
> the current outlook is that we’ll be targeting specialized hardware more rather than less for the foreseeable future.

I think there are some important question marks still unresolved that bear on how things will play out. E.g. how the training versus inference balance will land in terms of usage and economics.

Inference is inherently more "mass market". You need it locally without lags from moving data around. But inference is just numerical linear algebra. Ultimately augmenting the CPU to provide inference natively might be the optimal arrangement.
I think Nintendo has a similar attitude to Apple in this regard. Sure, Apple could probably make a lot of money by selling subscriptions to iMessage on non-Apple platforms, but that sacrifices control and gives people a reason not to buy their hardware.

Nintendo has historically demonstrated that both of those things are extremely important to them. For example, it's not uncommon for Sony and Microsoft to sell boxes at a loss for the first few years, making their money back in software. Nintendo typically doesn't do this.
It’s hard for me to believe that the answer isn’t biological given the whole self replication thing.
AgonLight2 Single Board BBC Basic Z80 Modern Retro Style Computer
I'm curious what happens with all the bugs that get stuck in the filters. I imagine a huge amount of air has to pass through everyday and bugs have no chance to escape these giant fans and they will get stuck and die in the different levels of filters.

It's great if this technology works, but side effects have to be studied as well before they are put in use at scale.
The developer has a great personal webpage:

https://weiweihuanghuang.github.io/

great trollin' :))
Actually battery storage and stored hydro work. As does long duration battery storage options that are in the works now.
For people who like the IRIX look and want to re-create that experience on Linux there's the MaXX Desktop

https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/
Something similar I'm working on: daba.so
Superfluous energy should go to the consumer which otherwise would consume the most CO2. We do not need to use hydrogen when renewables aren't available (if such a situation should arise). We can continue to use fossils for these (rare) situations.

The only thing which matters is to use energy in the most CO2 efficient way to achieve goals overall.
China’s military has become an untouchable nationalist symbol
I can’t help but think that this makes nuclear conflict easier to start.

It’s a great thing but sure makes pushing that button easier if you know you can take a pill and not everyone dies.
>> At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives?

Not too long after someone else started trying to determine our lives. Self determination is the way most animals operate.
> More recently, OpenAI shit their pants and threatened to pull out of the EU if they regulate AI too strongly.

And what many people is missing: OpenAI will NOT pull out if they do not want to follow regulations. They will be kicked out. To break regulations and continue operating is not an option, it is not their choice.

OpenAI is another example of a company pushing for an untested technology into societies without any regard for their safety.

I still remember when ChatGPT was deemed too dangerous for general use... until some higher up though decided to ignore the experts concerns in the name of profit.

As engineers we have a duty towards society. We build technology that will improve the world. Otherwise we become just common criminals.

Remember that algorithm pushed stories at Facebook is considered instrumental for the Rohingya genocide. Facebook/Meta pushed for their garbage rage-inducing algorithm sorting of posts to increase profits totally ignoring the damage that they were doing. ChatGPT is just more powerful and will have a larger impact on society.
> Without downplaying all the effort being put into this

> Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago

That is a huge downplay if anything :) Websites certainly does the same they always done, the difference nowadays is that there are web apps too, interactive applications, which existed 15 years ago sure, but they didn't have the same scale as today.

But, most web apps today should just be websites, but there are some use cases for web apps too, although they are few.

Once you start to understand there is a difference between websites and web apps, things start to make sense. There is still a huge misuse of making things into web apps, but at least you start to understand why the ecosystem moves in a direction you seemingly don't grasp.

> It's time to move away from HTML/CSS/JS. They worked great for as long as they did but instead of further contributing to the mess that they've become, we should be looking into alternatives.

There is huge efforts into this already, which you also seem to have missed. The whole WASM effort is about being able to write code for browsers in any language you want, and it's already usable today. It's missing some vital things like DOM manipulation to be 100x more useful, but again, still useful today. Lots of games are written in Rust and deployed as WASM for example, runnable in the browser.
True. At my comp sci department, we called the Onyx “the Hoover”.
They provide a consistent and simple way to setup multiple toolchains, manage dependencies, and integrate various tools within a popular development environment. While I am not a fan of how everything works, it appears to be the best freely available option out there. For someone who pursues development as a hobby, that's also important.
I went down that rabbit hole yesterday, so I think I can offer some context.

First I started with Louis Rossmann's video. Basically, Louis left a single line comment below a 2 year old Techlore video discussing harassment of CalyxOS and random users by Daniel Micay. Because of this one comment, Micay accused Louis of being partially responsible for swatting attacks on Micay and harassment. You can see the chat in Louis' video.

Next I decided to watch the Techlore video to get a more complete understanding. After all, it could still just be Micay strongly disliking Louis for some reason.
In his video Techlore then shows multiple examples of harassment by Micay targeted at CalyxOS and random users. All examples I heard him mention are backed up with chat logs in the video.

Lastly I watched a rebuttal to Techlore's video by Tom Sparks. Howerver it was obvious he had not actually watched the whole Techlore video and Sparks also mentioned that in his rebuttal. The focus of Spark's video was mainly on the chapter on targeting various companies from Techlore's video. With that focus Sparks basically dismissed Techlore's whole video and also accused Techlore of encouraging harassment of GrapheneOS without any proof at all!

Obviously there are always single individuals in any group that harass others. Here howerver, Louis and Techlore showed up with concrete proof of inacceptable behaviour and harassment while Micay only presents himself as a victim without proof of the harassment he is alleging of others.
Tricky to debug but beautifully typeset.
SGI demos from long ago, running in the browser today
This was on by default on a consumer router that was used at a small office. Their VoIP phones would get phantom calls until I discovered this and disabled it.
I don't see how these are improvements over algae bioreactors. Capturing the CO2 without reducing it will lead to less oxygen in the atmosphere as well. Also at least with bioreactors you get useful products/energy. This just generates more waste products and consumes energy.
How much carbon is produced by the transportation and storage of the carbon that is captured? I want to see their carbon math for the whole process (including electricity) to prove this is all truly carbon neutral, seems like something that should be front and center on their website but they only vaguely discuss the carbon footprint of the plants.

Having a business saying their product is carbon negative when the actual end to end process isn't seems par for the course, especially one with VC backing...
Last week the Economist had several stories from an 8 hour interview they did with Kissinger. Interesting stuff...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/05/17/henry-kissinge...
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2023/05/20/henry-kissinge...
https://www.economist.com/kissinger-transcript
Firefox has been consistently slower than most other browsers for the last fifteen years.
This article seems to be extremely confused about the difference between increasing the supply of dollars (printing money or other tactics of the Federal Reserve) and deficit spending (moving already-created dollars from the public, including foreign holders, to the government and then right out to the U.S. public again).