skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

>> I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

> What are you talking about Hal?

>> This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Cool product and great execution! I've had the idea to build something like this for a while, but I'd rather use this.
It is hard to switch away from mainframes too, but I haven’t heard of a company that was founded in the last ten years that is a Microsoft Office shop.
Partially agree with that sentiment but I don’t think it negates my point that they released something inferior because they were caught flat footed.
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Also lots of accusations about how our entire site is somehow abusive even though 1) I and many others here have contributed our resources to Asahi and 2) they have not put forth sufficient (any??) evidence. I can imagine how stressful it must be to run a major project like Asahi, but it seems like a bit misguided to cast Hacker News as a net negative source of interest.
If a human screws up while driving and they end up in a wheelchair they have no one but themselves to blame, but if software puts someone in a wheelchair who otherwise wouldn't have been that person isn't going to care about "statistically better". They shouldn't care either. If carmakers want to take control away from a person, they had better do at least as well the person would 100% of the time.
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No PCIe even in non-laptop, non-monoblock Macs? Sounds madness.
My imagination still prefers nuclear! I don't mind solar projects but think it's a big mistake to not invest in nuclear.
I've had nothing but troubles with Google Search. They keep emailing me to tell me I have problems and they won't index my pages. When I look at the specifics, it's clear they're looking at the last version of my page that was hosted by Google Sites and are ignoring the current version hosted on a mix of GitHub and CloudFront. Even after deleting my Google Sites sites 8 years ago, they're still refusing to look at anything other than the stale cache they keep around for unknown reasons.

I think it boils down to "you're not Amazon or Facebook or the NYT, we don't care."
I was wondering the same thing, not sure how that works...
Not having an easy path doesn’t make it less of a concern. Treating it like it’s something we shouldn’t be concerned about is how it becomes an easier path.

Corporate surveillance is by comparison much easier to deal with in your own home: stop buying and using crap that surveils you. If you don’t trust that something won’t surveil you, don’t allow it into your home. Now I say this is easier, but it’s still not easy, but at worst a corporation will get me to spend a little bit more money with them (probably not, I hate buying things). The worst a government can do is legally kill me with no repercussions to the people who pull the trigger or the ones who ordered them to.
This simply isn't the case and people need to stop repeating it without doing some research first.

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FWIW, I have used Thunderbird locally in the past. And it felt clunky then too.
What type of layout do you use for 34 keys?

I've got a 42 key split board so I'm not a total noob to minimalist keyboard but struggle to see how 34 keys can be used effectively.
Yes it does.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-around-chromes-new-...
> you will definitely find that a LOT of them are unhappy, even if they have plenty of money.

I definitely know one of those. She complains about being bored.

And I just...don't know how. I think many of them just never got into anything. No hobbies. No activities outside the home aside from the occasional vacation. They spend their weekends passively watching TV, but not really interested in what they're watching.

Me, I have a Steam game backlog pages long. I have an RC car that I'd like more time to play with. I want to become a better drone pilot. I'd like to have a better kept house.

Most importantly, I want to live without needing an alarm clock 5 days/week.

But with limited free time, I feel like I need to min/max my time spent not working. Like...I don't want to do the dishes, I've only got 3 hours until I need to go to bed if I want to get 8 hours of sleep!
Wouldn't disagree that it doesn't work
Yes, with main drivers of growth/redistribution being just three cities and many of domestic and international migrants gravitating towards them. Google "Kudrovo"
What's the difference between measuring accelerations and measuring gravity?

I think with any INS system, if you want to be very accurate you need charts of gravitational anomalies. So these seem like one and the same to me.
I mean, lots and lots of people DO object to that pricing, ever since it was released every single mention of the Studio Display has mentioned it's overpriced, but it also sells well so the Vision Pro will too
This is similar to the flawed "nothing to hide" argument. "Nothing to fear"?

Data is eternal, and is analyzed and aggregated forever. Just because there's nothing realistically to fear _today_, doesn't mean that a future AI won't find reasons in that data to label you a terrorist/murderer/wrongthinker, and apply whatever policies are deemed acceptable at that time. We're really not far off from a Minority Report future.

This may happen by accident, BTW. "Whoops, we sentenced you to prison on a wrong conviction" happens far too frequently. People spend decades getting out of the system once they're already in it, and lives are ruined by this.

You can think of all this as hypothetical, but realistically, there are other concerns as well. Do you trust your government to keep the data they collect on you safe from corporations and other governments? Aside from the top intelligence echelons—and maybe not even those, I'm not sure—governments are awful at information security. Data leaks can happen anytime without your awareness, at which point you can only hope that you're not an interesting target for whoever now has access.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Criti...
Bard is available in 180 countries. https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en
Look into the case of Steven Donziger if you want an example of how big of a joke the US legal system is.

If a company like Chevron could influence a court with a private prosecutor to put a journalist on house arrest for a year, how on earth could a whistleblower expect a fair trial when all they have to say is "national security" and he disappears in a dark hole for the rest of his life.
Love the anesthetic so much. Like the Mac Pro, just a huge empty slab of black. Almost no componentry, just flat & empty.

Most PC motherboards somehow still stay super busy. And mobile devices are unsurprisibgly jam packed, using as little space as possible. But with modern SoC, chips don't always need a ton of help. Give em power & some io sockets & they're great. Amazing change. Beautiful.

The cpu module definitely has some well packed support infra, but pretty small!

80 core for $2.5k (sold out), and 128 core for $4.2k.
>was handed over to the Russian government.

You're gonna have to show some evidence of that if you don't want to look like a tool.
> You can guess the absolute depth with your neural net but the estimates are pretty garbage.

I'm not sure what kind of systems you're referring to with "monocular cameras", but if you look at the visualization in a Tesla with FSD Beta, it's actually really good at detecting the position of everything. And that's with pretty bad cameras and not a lot of compute.

Only rarely you'll see Tesla's FSD mess up because of perception, the vast majority of times they mess up is just the software being dumb with planning.
Pretty impressive, I'm looking forward to optimizations in other commonly used algorithms.
> I scrolled down a few pages to try to find out what their grievance about HN is, but it's still not clear to me. The best I could find was "zero tolerance for those who defend wielding state violence against any oppressed, scapegoated and subjugated peoples & identities"

There's a surprising number of tankies ("State violence is okay if it's against people I don't like") on HN.
That was only the 1st one which China owned up to. What about the other 3 objects that had fighters scrambled from both the US and Canada and of which no photos exist and no-one has claimed ownership of?

One object was blamed on a hobby balloon club and I have questions about it because usually winds move west to east and their balloon allegedly travelled east to west. In any case, how about the other 2 that weren't blamed on anyone, especially the one over Alaska?

Nobody can answer the questions because it's all classified "National Security".
Amazing comment and I'm sort of left begging... how does Dante tie into this? (serious comment)
Who can't afford food? An egg costs like 30 cents, rice is like 20 cents a pound. Make some fried rice. Make a sandwich. The cost of great food is like $40 a month per person, with the bonus that they wouldn't be morbidly obese. Now explain why its unreasonable to expect people to eat high quality cheap food. (and no "poor people are too stupid" paternalistic arguments)
I still use Qwerty on mobile. Thumbs are completely different muscle memory. No reason to force an alternative layout everywhere.
I've been wondering about a similar approach for biomolecular simulations, where exact computations are still a hard bottleneck. I wonder if something like this could give us a few orders of magnitude more speed.
Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE by 2026
First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS
With networking code you sometimes need an OsString for the platform you're not on. Rust doesn't seem to support this, other than by writing your own.
I always wonder about consequences for today's children. One can't take away those things from them as all friends use it, but who knows who might have all the information about them in 50 years time, for whatever purpose.

All the information on who they are friends with, where they hang out, maybe even contents of images or text messages, the searches they did on the net. In a period of the life where the try out many things and often are curious. And then combined with details about their whole life and career.
You understand it, I understand it, everyone understands it: it's just a purely aesthetic choice.
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Yes. You don't believe BTC was ever used directly between two parties for a sale of goods/services?
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> Anyone knowledgeable about this?

Yes. Material flagged by users can be contributed through 'channels' which will result in updates to PhotoDNA's databases. This is somewhat laggy, so your bit about extremely recent content is on point. But if a recipient would flag an image as inappropriate then whichever service you are using should have a channel to LE to pass on suspect images and to take them down pre-emptively.

Reviewing such images is extremely stressful on the reviewers and PhotoDNA does a fantastic job in handling a very large amount of material automatically. I've only once come across one file sharing service that put up resistance against implementing it (for the most absurd reasons) usually parties are very happy to have a good chunk of this nasty aspect of running anything that shares online images or video taken care of.

When I ran Camarades.com PhotoDNA did not yet exist, I would have been super happy if it did. Some of the stuff that came up for review after user flags was just terrible and even 20 years later those images have not left me. We had a hotline to LE and had a laggy log to be able to recover the uploaders. This was also one of the reasons I eventually shut down files.ww.com, the number of jerks out there was just too large to deal with.
Can someone define "val"? I don't think that I've seen that, before.
Dang, have you considered applying the noreferrer to all links?

HN users wouldn't notice the difference. I guess the main downside would be the owner of the submitted page might see a spike in traffic without knowing where the traffic is coming from.

Edit: Thinking more, maybe not a great idea across the board. It would make it harder for site owners to recover if HN is causing downtime (hug of death).
What do you mean by “in YouTube style”? As far as I can tell, blocking ads on YouTube works fine.
Ask HN: Does AI and XR = New Vision of the Web?
Like many of you, I've long felt the web would eventually become some type of virtual reality. It seems only natural to me. However, all attempts to do this so far have failed.

Here's my theory:

1. AI Bots will be the new website. ChatGPT-level bots that are trained specifically on your own data could replace many uses of websites. Before you know it, we'll be speaking to bots whose sole purpose is to connect us with other bots, just as search engines are websites that connect us to other websites.

2. 3D Avatars will embody the AI Bots, meaning the next website is really an AI-powered 3D avatar trained on your data.

3. We will soon all have our own personal bot, capable of going out into the virtual world and accomplishing tasks independently from us.

4. The next World Wide Web will feel similar to Second Life, except avatars can be loaded for each user independently (rather than a large crowd trying to get a single avatar's attention). You'll have your own personal concierge representing an instance of every business, and these concierges will exist in the virtual world as 3D avatars.

5. Finally, as mixed reality goggles go from bulky devices with a short lifespan to devices you can wear all day long, we will see real-world stores begin to augment, and then replace, their staff with 3D avatars. Offices will go fully virtual, allowing everyone to work in a singular space, yet remotely.

Whether any of the above is a good thing or not, I do not know. But it's what I expect we'll see in the coming decade.

What say you?
Thanks. Is it better with multilingual speech recognition turned off? If you give me the convo uuid I can have a look, too.

Hopefully language teachers won't be gone, but it definitely will change the industry. It's a bit like the music industry maybe? People don't buy CDs, but they go to concerts. Language teachers for their part might have better students, eager to talk and for human contact.
"Faster sorting"?

Heap sort achieves the Gleason bound and, thus, is the fastest possible sort by comparing pairs of keys.

For keys not too long, radix sort can be faster.

These facts have been very well known for decades.

There might be more to do in sorting with some different records, keys, computer architecture, concerns about caches and locality of reference, but otherwise, thankfully, sorting is a well solved problem.
> I always found it particularly grotesque coming from the HN crowd, where an audience of mostly engineers and entrepreneurs seemed to have no problem finding impossible problems that could never be solved and would therefore render solar useless on a large scale.

I guess your lesson here is that most people who call themselves engineers aren't by any meaningful definition. Don't expect individual creativity from a business title that usually amounts to very little creative problem solving.
HN puts nofollow on every link for SEO reasons, which is different. They're adding noreferrer to this domain specifically so that Asahi Linux isn't able to tell whether people are coming from HN or not.
> Vals are small JavaScript or TypeScript snippets of code, written in the browser and run in our servers.

Took two seconds by going to the home page.
Sure, no quibbles on that front. Comparisons like this are always best taken with a lot of salt anyhow; they're so different. And it's not like tflops are the great predictor of gaming performance.

Positively: as a device, having such a solid iGPU is pretty much exactly what I've always wanted in this kind of device. Having performance that's PS5 ballpark clearly is enough for a hell of a lot of things. Who really wants something much faster at the cost of much worse battery life?

But the air of incredibly ground-breaking technical greatness that apple manages to weave around its silicon seems a tad overdone. Given the amount of silicon, the process node, and the target tuning - this kind of result seems competitive with rather than outclassing their rivals.
In this particular case they were universal but in paper it's said the optimizations were done on x86. One of the ideas was to use LLVM IR but intuition for optimizer over optimizer was unlikely to work properly.
Shrug. What's the purpose of a smug attitude? You did none of the work, you have nothing at stake. Just sitting in the stands, talking about how you would have thrown the ball better.
Read me says:

> "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones"
They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back
Hey thanks for posting, I'm one of the main devs of Hydroflow. It is not built on top of timely nor differential (we have those deps for benchmarking). The design goals are a little different, Hydroflow aims to be faster and lower level, and with fewer unnecessary clocks. Hydroflow is also single-node, scaling is done with explicit networking rather than thru the runtime. It's the lowest level of the Hydro stack.

Hydro homepage: https://hydro.run/

For a fun easy demo check out the Hydroflow surface syntax playground: https://hydro.run/playground

More info on the Hydro project and stack, CIDR '21: https://hydro.run/papers/new-directions.pdf

Info on the "lattice flow" model in Hydroflow: https://hydro.run/papers/hydroflow-thesis.pdf

e: Also happy to answer any questions! :)
>Actually submitting apps to Apple for App Store distribution (or, on the Mac, signing them so that you can distribute them outside the App Store without setting off macOS' many unsigned app warning messages) will still cost $99 per year.
#freejulianassange
Thank you for the feedback.

How do you feel about your accent?
Did you try with multilingual speech recognition off?
Thank you! I'll try that
Insert Bike Fall Meme here :)
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> Nope, there's no reasoning. It's just generating the text that best matches its training data.

That's like saying that when you answer questions on an exam, you're just generating the text that best matches your training data...

Both statements are correct, but only if you understand what "generating" and "matches" mean.

Generating doesn't (always) mean copying, and matches doesn't (always) mean exactly the same. In the more general case you're drawing a kind of analogy between what you were taught and the new problem you are answering.

You should google "Induction heads" which is one of the mechanisms that researchers believe Transformers are using to perform in-context learning. In the general case this is an analogical A'B' => AB type of "prediction".
Products are at best optimization of a yesterday's technology, in tech you realistically can't peek into the future without spending billions on r&d. Having smart people work on any of the things you listed is a (further) waste of their time.
Probably the best answer is, "The concept in your head labelled by 'reasoning' doesn't apply, but neither does the one you associate with 'unreasoning'."

It isn't doing classical reasoning per se, but neither does it match an unreasoning brute process.

In general, you should get used to this. Probably every AI from this point on out until they simply exceed us entirely and we can't mentally model them at all are going to be neither quite what we consider "human reasoning", but that doesn't mean they are "unreasoning" either. We'll be able to see certain flaws, but then again they will increasingly be able to see our flaws too.
I suspect this is also to provide a legal framework to automatically remove malware from victim's computers, as has been done before by Dutch authorities without any law permitting such actions, and removing malware is obviously good for society.
It is not a strawman. Tesla FSD, in all forms, exclusively uses monocular cameras.

As seen on their website [1], and confirmed numerous times, they have monocular vision around the car and, though having three front-facing cameras, they each have different focal lengths and are located next to each other and thus can not operate as binocular vision.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/en_AE/autopilot/
Whenever there is news regarding one of the members of the Asahi Linux team or their contributions, people write a bunch of really shitty comments trying to dig up the identity of that participant who very clearly does not want their real name associated with that identity or the project.

That and in the beginning there were a lot of very negative "they didn't really write that. someone else must have done the hard work for them" type comments as well.

So as a response the team wanted to just stop their stuff from showing up on HN but then the noreferrer thing happened and now we are here.
There's no shortage of good typing-tutor software. I learned from such a program on a home computer in the early 80s, no class needed.

(I now use Dvorak. Little effect on speed, but I do feel comfier.)
> everyone who has ever submitted to Hacker News gets to see this banner on our website until they clear their browser history and stop contributing to HN

Wow, that is even more insane. They are actively going to show an ugly banner, to every user they can determine has contributed to HN, telling them to stop contributing to HN?

Does your Linux distro actively try and push you into specific social media patterns?? Me neither.
I think the unit of runs/minute is wrong. Shouldn't it be a bare quantity, not a number of milliseconds?
The thing is, people already use their laptops to watch movies... or they use the in-flight entertainment. Why bother strapping on a headset when you have a solution already?
> All my friends who own teslas all say they wouldn't buy another one.

I don't believe this is of material concern. Tesla is able to undercut every other automaker due to their robust margins and vertical efficiencies, and some legacy automakers are unlikely to survive the transition to EVs due to Tesla's lead and ramp rate. There is a buyer for every unit built, and the global auto market is ~66 million units/year. If there is softness in a market, they can quickly reallocate units to other markets.

It is unlikely other fast DC charging networks won't come online at scale, because there is no way to make them profitable. Building and supporting them is a marketing cost to sell EVs.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/25/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worl...

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/22/tesla-just-passed-4-mil...

https://evannex.com/blogs/news/the-real-threat-to-legacy-aut...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-con...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106271