skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give me a single mass produced consumer product using RISC-V cores. Because so far, outside some ESP32, that has not happened yet.
I stopped participating completely in any open source project that has a "code of conduct". To me, open source was all about freedom from such censorship and thought control.

And I completely oppose rude and unpleasant behavior in open source, we can handle that by supporting each other and calling it out instead of imposing punitive rules on contributors. Many times these rules attempt to control behavior outside of the project, which smacks of authoritarianism.

I'm working on proprietary hardware now.
Nothing new. The rich west's environmentally friendliness is built on offshoring their pollution to other nations who are poorer and more easily corruptible.
Before Snowden everyone was like, who cares if the government sees my encrypted traffic, they don't know what is inside; or location info. And then people found out that metadata can be more powerful than the actual unencrypted information and can tie a person to a lot of things. So yeah, how about they don't search the phone without probable cause?
Semi-relevant, I've recently realised that fear of wildlife is actually cultural - large parts of the world are taught to fear/avoid smaller wildlife like snakes or insects, for poison/disease reasons. It works great in those places, but if they come to Canada they can see bobcats/mountain lions and think house cat, or other large mammals (moose, bison, elk) and just think they're cute and should be petted.

Meanwhile growing up you're basically taught "look, don't touch" and "back away slowly" with regards to anything the size of a goose or bigger. This comes with lessons like don't mess with big/wild cats, and however large you expect the moose to be, it will inevitably be bigger.

Of course, I'm sure there are areas of the world where that knowledge will completely miss the actual relevant risk(s). Probably something to do with spiders/snakes, as they're just generally harmless here.
The good guy who thought this would be the wrong decision all along but who got caught up in the middle of it has resigned. I bet people who thought (and perhaps still think) this was the right decision will not resign. Politics is a bitch.
Happy user here - Zeal (and Dash on MacOS) is an easy productivity win, even if you're online (Django online docs search is notoriously bad for some reason), and indispensable if on a spotty connection or offline.
Works to maintain a society with minimal breaches to anyone's rights. Without the government's ability to pursue suspected criminals and prove them guilty you get to El Salvador kind of situation pretty quickly and your freedoms become lesser of your worries.
Impressive, but I wonder what the practical benefit will be. How often do you need to sort an array of numbers?
In practice you almost always want to sort an array of objects based on one of their properties.
We had other open architectures before, very large companies poured money on them, and very successful consumer product lines were based on them, see MIPS, or POWER.

I’m pretty sure nothing is “inevitable”.
That RAM is distributed among the GPUs right?

256 x 450W = 115KW = 82MWh = $82.000 / month at peak EU costs this winter (which will be normal next winter)

For what, something that gets everything wrong?
It was over 30 years ago an this is from memory but in one of his notebooks he has this description more or less.

Life is really hard and probably not worth the suffering but once one puts a gun in their mouth and does not pull the trigger you are committed to no longer complaining about life.

I guess it's the internal dialog of topics and ideas that are rarely spoken out loud that allured me to his writing. He definitely openly discussed ideas that scare some people.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I love having an open source option. On the other hand, this is a total rip-off of Linear.app. Even the website is a copy-paste of Linear.app. A bit shocking. And for the record, Linear.app is amazing and a fantastic alternative to Jira.
That's easier said than done, though. Adobe is free to change how the connection is made which means that sysadmins would have to set up elaborate configurations just to continually check how it's done, and especially in shops where the primary focus isn't Photoshop, but a mix of tooling, that just creates more hell on top of the existing amount of hell sysadmins have to deal with.
(that world exists right now, and not really for tax concealment but that possibility comes with it, iykyk and you're about to know)
Changing Rails Log Levels at Runtime
Fitting a GPU inside a toothbrush feels like the ultimate existential risk.
I think it shows in the community management that F# originated in a closed-source environment. For example, it is required to be a member of the F# Software Foundation to get access to F# Slack. Putting such a roadblock early in the discovery of the community is a sure way to limit your growth.
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Also backend operations are not very costly (for the way it was developed)

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I guess that people who never hit a deer think you're just joking, but I know what you mean. It's not just that they blend so well in their surrounding, but if they're moving very fast they can jump quite some distances.

I hit my first deer during a night-time driving lesson. It just manifested itself in a turn right in front of the car. It happened so freaking fast that even my driving instructor didn't get right away what happened. (To be fair this was his first deer accident too). There were just something flying in front of the car, getting hit and flying away to the side of the road.

It was very different from my imagination which formed during my childhood hearing adults talking about split second decisions in case of a deer appearing in front of the car.
Precisely. Perhaps now you understand my original point.
Meaning, I have a client that has a very, very secret project worth millions to my design company. One of my junior employees working on the project uses this feature. The client's assets get sent up to a remote server, which is either breached, MITM'd (proxied, etc.), or otherwise compromised. Now that project is considered leaked to the public, perhaps literally so.

Junior loses job, company loses millions, potentially the client relationship, client loses perhaps even more. Everyone loses. All because it's not clear this feature sends your project files to the remote server.
Paying someone not to work is a complete waste of resources. This isn't an area where people should be trying to come up with clever rules-lawyer contracts - someone able & willing to work sitting around not doing something is a huge waste for society, the person and whoever needs the work done.

It is probably going too far to ban the practice all-together, but no company should ever have the ability to stop someone from taking a job at a different company, today, if the pay is right. No union either for that matter, although that is a more controversial stance.
> It would have been nice if the default browser fonts were selected

Yes.
What does this mean? Every PC gets a GPU?
Probably one of the worst Substack posts I've ever read. Waste of time.

The whole article can be summarized as "AI can't kill us because it can't access the physical world without human help. You are stupid if you think AI can kill us."
MIDI 40 and the new Windows MIDI Services
To be honest CoC are mostly just that, virtue signaling. Especially if you aren't enforcing them. Then they are letters on dead wood.

That said, CoC wasn't the cause here. It seems it was just a non-functional governance. Why was Rust Project considering Keynote speaker a direction for the project? Some argued they weren't before. Why wasn't previously team that approved the talk consulted?

All in all very disappointing outcome either way.
I am, yes. I saw several comments mentioning Midjourney, which is neither an Adobe product nor part of the creative cloud sphere.
I don’t know what compels someone to lie like that. It’s just bizarre.
> how much good does this actually do versus the time and effort it takes to make it?

It was a few lines of text. GP has spent more time complaining about the change, than the effort to make the change.
Hash their properties
Yes. OpenAI is a heavy user of Ray.io

https://thenewstack.io/how-ray-a-distributed-ai-framework-he...
My wife uses this approach with our cat and it works. However, when I try it he pays no attention - could be that I've been his main servant for 18+ years so of course I don't see him as a threat or I have glasses any my wife doesn't or sheer feline contrariness ....
> Evil and accurate or woke and dumb.

Sigh. Except if not for the "woke" mainstream ideology (actually, the dominant ideology is capitalism with a hint of liberalism and a smidge of the most capital-friendly socialist ideas), the model would be forced-fed Christian dogmas or taught to save face of the user.

But yeah, censorship is bad.
I lived in Arizona, they have these checkpoints everywhere, many miles from the border. They just stop everyone and harass whomever they want. This is not "at the border", this is 30 miles up the freeway. They questioned my friend from India once, insisting he was pretending to be from that country, he was really from Mexico they said.
The Java Streams API does various functional maps and reductions and can do them in a multithreaded fashion, when asked. I don't think it makes sense to parallelize by default.

Although Java is used to write all kinds of business applications, it's also used to write the platform those applications run on, like Netty for example. If I'm writing a thread pool implementation (which is eventually going to be used by "business applications"), I want to have control over concurrency. I don't want to accidentally introduce pauses in my users web apps just because I sorted an array in my library.

One could argue that web servers shouldn't be written in Java at all but you can't really support JVM applications efficiently on a non-JVM backend. All the great instrumentation tools that are available on the JVM will have trouble inspecting your library code, memory use becomes more complicated because the GC no longer knows how much memory is truly allocated, and users can't put breakpoints in your code easily in their IDE.
Maybe they met a skunk. But how would a skunk find its way to this side of the Atlantic?
It's not just you. Here's a bit of research you can cite:

> GPT-4 from its website and Bubeck et al Mar 2023. Note that the version that Bubeck uses is GPT-4 Early which is supposedly to be more powerful than GPT-4 Launch (OpenAI paid a lot of alignment tax to make GPT-4 safer).

https://github.com/FranxYao/chain-of-thought-hub

Anecdotally, there seemed to be a golden set of weeks in late April to early May that seemed like "peak GPT" (GPT-4), followed by heavy topic and knowledge mitigation since, then -- just this week -- adding back some "chain of thought" or "show your work" ("lets go step by step" style) for math. I say anecdotally because I could just be prompting it wrong.
And your solution is to make it even easier for them to do all of the above by eliminating any way to transact privately?
And... then? You would essentially need a homomorphic hash function for that to work.

I.e.:
[ a, b, c ].map(hash) produces the same order.

where hash: A -> B, where p, q in A. p < q => x, y in B. x < y.
I still use dash 4. The newer versions removed the explorer tree and I don’t see any way to get it back. I feel like they make newer, worse versions, for the sake of selling upgrade licenses.
Not like my opinion matters at all here, but everyone sucks here.

- The Rust project should get their act together to avoid miscommunication

- Bloggers like fasterthanlime should probably not say anything at all

- Core team members like JT resigning over miscommunication is a huge mistake

- JeanHyde should've opened a dialog with project leads like Josh to understand the situation

Everyone involved needs to get on a zoom call or sit in the same room and work this out. Of course we want JeanHyde to present at RustConf. Of course we want folks like JT on the team.

But no - we live in an era where instead of talking to each other, we just tweet and make passive-aggressive blog posts.

The fallout of this whole dumb shitshow:

- JT left

- Josh is stepping back

- JeanHyde is leaving

- Introspection is not getting funded

NOBODY WANTS THIS. JT and Josh both had the authority and power to fix these issues. I get people are upset and offended, but airing all this dirty laundry in public has led to a disaster for the project. The whole thing could've been easily rectified if JeanHyde and JT worked together with Josh to come to a happy conclusion.

But nope, everyone leaves the project or steps down because that's somehow the right answer?
Totally agree; F# really feels like a language designed by someone who really does understand the theory, why it's important, but also wanted to make the language realistic to use in industry.

When I was at Jet and Walmart, I never really felt "limited" by F#. The the language was extremely pleasant to work with, and I think most importantly, it was opinionated. Yeah, you can write Java/C#-style OOP in F# if you really want, but it's not really encouraged by the language; the language encourages a much more Haskell/OCaml-style approach to writing software.

Even calling C# libraries wasn't too bad. MS honestly did a good job with the built-in .NET libraries, and most of them work without many (or any) issues with the native F# types. Even third-party libraries would generally "just work" without headache. .NET has some great tools for thread-safe work, and I'm particularly partial to the Concurrent collections (e.g. ConcurrentDictionary and ConcurrentBag),

I also think that F# has some of the best syntax for dealing with streams (particularly with the open source AsyncSeq package); by abusing the monadic workflow ("do notation" style) syntax, you can write code that really punches above its weight in terms of things it can handle.

Now, on the JVM side you something like Scala. Scala is fine, and there are plenty of things to love about it, but one thing I do not love about it is that it's not opinionated. This leads to a lot of "basically just Java" code in Scala, and people don't really utilize the cool features it has to offer (of which there are many!). When I've had to work with Scala, I'm always that weirdo using all the cool functional programming stuff, and everyone else on my team just writes Java without semicolons.

But the basic point of the article does make a reasonable point; part of the reason that Scala has gotten more traction is because Java is just such a frustrating language to work with. Scala isn't perfect but being "better than Java" is a pretty low bar in comparison.

C# is honestly not too bad of a language; probably my favorite of the "OOP-first" languages out there. The generics make sense, the .NET library (as stated before) is very good, lambdas work as expected instead of some bizarre spoof'd interface, there are some decent threading utils built into the language, and it's reasonably fast. Do I like F# more? Yeah, I think that the OCaml/Haskell style of programming is honestly jsut a better model, but I can totally sympathize with a .NET shop not wanting to bite the bullet on it.
I thought someone might say that.

This thread is really a perfect demonstration of my point. Our society is so in thrall to self-proclaimed intellectuals that you can literally make a movie presenting falsifiable claims with 100% confidence, people can say at the time "this is absurd and will not happen", you can spend years attacking those critics, it can then not happen and still you will have an army of defenders who dodge behind weasel-words like "generally right".

Of course the usual trick is to express only 95% confidence. Then when it doesn't happen you say, well, I never said for sure it would, just that it seemed likely at the time.

See? It's a winning playbook. Why would anyone not deploy it?

> His opponents at the time were mostly claiming that it either wasn't happening at all, or wasn't largely the result of human activities. What do you think is the current credibility of those claims?

Pretty high, having looked at the evidence. The usual rebuttal is to express disgust and displeasure that anyone might decide these claims via any method other than of counting "smart people". But those "smart people" are who Al Gore was listening to when he made that claim about Kilimanjaro, so they can't be that smart can they?
Ask HN: Recommended me a modern open-source simple web shop software
I'm in a need for a very simple web shop software. Other that tte basic shop functionality (cart, checkout) it has o support multiple languages. I can add those languages myself as well as I can add payment gateways etc.

I've been looking for such open source software and everything pointed me to opencart. Despite my general dislike for php I thought, it can't be that bad if its so popular right? Wrong! Some core functionality (multilanguage support) is so buggy I'd spend most time fixing those bugs than writing my extensions.

Next was Saelor. I love python and I really liked the speed of their front end, but it seems about a year ago that front end (react-storefront) went through a rewrite and there is absolutely minimal documentation. And just reading the code it seems to be beta software at the moment still not ready for production.

I wanted this to be simple, but I might have to look into bigger products like magento, woocommerce, despite the fact this shop will probably not exceed 10 products... If anyone has any advice (other than write your own) I'm very interested in hearing it.

Oh, BTW, why open source? I want to be able to extend the functionality and fix bugs myself.
When using it all day every day it seems (anecdotally) the API version has changed too.

I work with temperature 0 which should have low variability yet recently it shifted to feel boring, wooden, and deflective.
Any tips for a dash+alfred alternative on windows?
I think people are interpreting my comment as being against protests.

Of course protests are an important part of a healthy democracy.

Rather I'm pointing that out in the age of social media, a lot of these disruptive climate protests are narcissistic attention grabs. There's a desperate need for validation from peers and a sense that one is the "main character" so to speak.

That's an issue, and it's a new issue. It didn't exist until social media came along, not to the extent it does now.

I'm more than happy for people to protest. But if I'm stuck on a bridge while some 22 year-old rich kid who lives in his parents' Sunshine Coast mansion blocks the road, I should be allowed to counter-protest by throwing him in the river and continuing on my day.
Been saying this with plastic recycling since forever. Consider: if large swaths of landfill waste were being blown off ships into the ocean, people would consider it a Big Problem. But that happens all the time with recycling and it’s a non-issue.

Save the ocean! Don’t recycle! (unless you know your area has a local plant)
If you would like to spend some time with non-agressive moose, completely tame individuals who love to be scratched or given a potato, I recommend visiting The Moose Garden in Sweden. Last time I was there they planned to also provide accomodation together with the baby moose in their separate private enclosures, as living with them is a part of taming process. The best time to visit is in late spring, as their skin produces an oil which smells like fabric softener. You cannot visit at all during mating season obviously. This is not an ad Im just a happy visitor.
is it actually any good or is it only reserved for people with tons of patience and prompt know-how?

I've fired up Midjourney a bunch of times and outside of fantasy landscapes, it has never managed to make anything useful in my actual work.

GPT-4 is increasingly going the same way too. I'm not sure if I'll renew the subscription.

Getting a little jaded of these hyped up announcements that are largely nothing more than cool tech demos.
Snowden files was quite detailed on how the NSA programs targeted at US were barely having any kind of judicial scrutiny and FISA was rubberstamping. I don't see any reason to believe that the situation has improved or that in the other branches of sigint employing agencies it is better.
Rarbg Is No More
Hello guys,

We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all.
Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES.
Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare.
Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it.

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It would really need to go further than that. Supply chain attacks at the hardware level are very difficult to spot, especially at scale. This is an eye opening talk in the subject:

https://youtu.be/RqQhWitJ1As
Do we have a good, objective benchmark set of prompts in existence somewhere? If not, I think having one would really help with tracking changes like that.

I'm always skeptical of subjective feelings of tough-to-quantify things getting worse or better, especially where there is as much hype as for the various AI models.

One explanation for the feelings is the model really getting significantly worse over time. Another is the hype wearing off as you get more used to the shiny new thing and become more critical of its shortcomings.
I used to race mountain bikes and the community was strong - both online and on the race track!

These days I've made friends in the car community (Audi Owners Club, TT Owners Club) who I occasionally meet in person around the country. Also got to know people via local cafes, hiking groups, and going out solo for nights out!

It's taken nearly 3 years to feel sufficiently settled enough to consider buying a house in the area. I live alone with no partner/kids so kind of _have_ to make an effort socially to avoid total isolation.
You have to add extra syntax to do very normal things like have more than one expression in a function.
from what I've seen in TFA many times the prompt is left blank and the model just fills in the empty space
Brave Search is getting better and better. 2 years and hasn't let me down yet.

From constantly using !g on DDG to not using Google at all has been a massive improvement for me.
Yes, its pretty straightforward to have a .NET solution with a mix of C# and F# projects that can refer to each other.
Sure I agree with everything you say, except that the jokes made were not sexual harassment. Overhearing something you don't like between strangers you are not involved with is not harassment. This is treading very old ground, but a simple "keep it to yourselves" from the listener or the conference organiser is the total remonstration and "training" anyone required in that circumstance. The people making jokes were contrite, and all of us sometimes slightly lose our heads when among friends at events, even professional ones.