skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since the operator and developer of lemmy has very problematic politics (defending genocide and homophobia for example), and is demonstrably incredibly hostile to non-authoritarians, giving him permanent access to your data (even if you delete your account) is a very bad idea.

this is talking about the developer of an AGPL 3.0 licensed software. WHAT HAS THE DEVELOPERS politics or for that matter, anything got to do with selfhosting lemmy ? isn't this problem with google or facebook yet no one seems to care about that but oh my god, its lemmy.

also, what operator is this talking about in particular because lemmy is a FEDERATED SOFTWARE. there are hundreds of active servers
> The fewer miles people drive, the more money the government has available for other things.

Yes if everything else is kept the same. People's income. Business profits. Etc.

However you're overlooking the point spending on transportation infrastructure which is to get resources from one location to another.

People drive to work where their income is taxed. Businesses have things delivered to them to sell and have ways to get customers to them. So now the business is paying taxes. And people use that income they earned to pay for rent or own a home so there's property taxes.

Now let's just remove the way people get about to doing all those things because that would save the government money from spending money on transportation.

Oh great no one is going in to work. No one is going to business or shop. No one is paying taxes. But hey we saved a bunch of money by not building roads.

Please read that I am not opposed to changing our society to be less car dependent (obviously for the environment it is better)

I am objecting to the notion that you can pay for a carless society by just not paying for roads or by imposing taxes on cars more without raising taxes or fees elsewhere.
False. Corollas are one of the best cars ever made.
You mean to pull a trigger, correct? There are plenty of other areas where AI can shine like (excuse the layperson terms, I don't know what these are officially called) threat identification, intelligence gathering, logistics, population control.
Why can't Nvidia escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky?
They added forums a bit ago - https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-... https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-...

The thing is that most users of reddit and discord don't care about older topics. Go to any large sub with lax moderation and watch how many times the same questions are posted.

For many communities, it doesn't matter if its a reddit replacement with the reddit functionality but rather that it is a place to host that community (that will adapt to and complain about the confines of their new home).

It only lacks real functionality as a reddit replacement for those people who are lurkers and want to consume a digest of past content (and maybe add a forgettable comment to the end of a too long comment tree).
You're conflating trademarks with copyrights; while there is some minor overlap, corporate logos are examples of trademarks, and applying copyright concepts will lead you to concluding that you can use an apple with a bite taken from it as your computer company's logo, as long as you don't use one derivative of that which apple uses. Which will entirely fail to hold water when apple sues you over it.
The salaries of the people doing this sort of thing start at mid six figures out of university and go up substantially from there.
Good luck, we tried it already with nukes!
I think it comes down to basic evolutionary principles--it's much harder to cross a big gap than a succession of small gaps.

History shows us the wheelbarrow is not obvious (things which are obvious get done quickly), the chariot provides an intermediate step and thus makes crossing the gap far easier.
I share the sentiment, that many calls to pause AI development come from fear of market disruption and fear of competition, not from genuine concerns over safety.

Especially coming from the people who created attention machines that have changed the course of elections, had a major impact in spreading misinformation during a global pandemic, and are contributing to a mental health crisis. And yet we don't hear them call for more regulations for their own markets...
Nobody pretends Lockheed Martin is the next Tesla and Nvidia. Palantir fans do.
Think of what you may want to do in an asymmetric war.
A fair amount of effort is spent on autonomous models, e.g. driving. Who knows what the military are up to.
FAA proposes air taxi pilot licensing plans, sans actual air taxis
I maintain that the Mercedes system is “capable of” what it can functionally be deployed to achieve by a user. That’s what “capable of” means. If Mercedes wants to try its hand at a universal L2 system, I wish them the best. This system is in truth not capable of L2 or L3 autonomous driving under almost all typical driving conditions. There is a small geofenced and speed constrained window under which the car will lane-keep and TACC without requiring hands-on-wheel. To me, that’s what we call a “gimmick”.

An autonomous system which cannot even change lanes should not - in my opinion - be classified as L3 Autonomy. Not only is it a gimmick, it’s basically a loophole in the spec.

As an aside, since you mentioned it, I think that describing FSD as “pretty good highway cruise control” is gaslighting.

Describing FSD as dangerously deployed in city driving is merely misinformed. In fact FSD (including the human driver and FSD’s comprehensive attention tracking and alerting) is safer than the average driver in city driving.

https://www.tesla.com/impact
> having entire foundation-authored blog posts dedicated to updates to Third Room (which I did not think was a project owned and maintained by the foundation?)

TR is a Foundation project - its repo is github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom (not github.com/vector-im); its copyright is by the Foundation, etc. And the point is to provide spatial collaboration building blocks for Matrix (just like Olm provides e2ee building blocks; matrix-js-sdk provides IM & VoIP building blocks) etc.

> where other projects (e.g. Synapse, bridges, etc) don't get as much as a tweet nowadays (apart from the spec, i.e. Matrix itself)

That’s my bad; the projects seem to have fallen into the habit of publishing and tweeting/tooting/skeeting their updates in TWIM (eg friday’s 1.0.0 release of the IRC bridge) rather than via individual tweets and blog posts like we used to. The reason is that the various projects prefer to write software than blog posts/tweets, and I’ve lapsed in writing the posts/tweets myself (given I spend my life trying to fix funding and get Element X shipped) and haven’t successfully handed over to someone else to do it. It doesn’t mean the work isn’t happening though; we’re just failing to show off about it.

> Which imo sounds like Third Room being prioritised over moderation/t&s.

The rationale is that if TR generates money, that money can be put to more T&S and the rest of Matrix. It’s a way of trying to fix the funding nightmare. If it doesn’t generate money (by attracting innovation funding from people who actually like the idea of open spatial collaboration), then obviously folks won’t be able to work on it as their dayjob as there won’t be $ to do so.

I guess one way of thinking about is that we model TR’s funding as separate from the rest of the Foundation - it has to be able to fund itself, and it is not stealing resources from elsewhere. (You could argue it steals focus, but in turn it exercises large chunks of Matrix - VoIP, Hydrogen SDK, SFUs etc, which I believe compensates for that, in combination with the marketing value).

TL;DR: if TR doesn’t pay for itself via its own funding or by generating cash, then we won’t have $ to pay for it.
> Why do you assume Redditors won’t just use the mainline mobile app? Honest question and I don’t mean personally why you won’t, but the average user that looks and clicks on ads on Reddit?

I'm sure that's what reddit is counting on, and it's probably true.

The issue is that subreddit moderators are not normal users, and work entirely for free. They don't get paid, and are vital to maintaining the health and tone of each subreddit.

And unlike e.g. content creators on twitter, they have nothing tying them to the platform. They don't benefit financially, even indirectly, from the arrangement. They're working for some combination of a sense of (altruism/community responsibility) and (satisfaction/egotism). That's a setup that practically encourages them to jump ship in this situation.

I'm sure that won't immediately hurt the extremely large, general subs which reddit would actively support regardless, but it could do a lot of damage to everything else. In a vacuum the remaining platform (a small percentage of valuable subs) might be exactly what reddit wants! But if a competing network of forums starts up, it might be able to eat reddit in exactly the same way reddit ate digg.
Wrong company. That's Anduril.

Palantir is mostly in the analytics, ingest, and business intelligence space. That said I think they are making an AI Platform of sorts, but it's not that impressive.
I don't think there is work duplication here, not in any meaningful way at least (and even in non meaningful ways I think you're also way off with your 50% figure - considering a 4kB page size and 64-bit pointer alignment, 0.2% would be more realistic).

SIGSEGV is a safety/isolation feature. It is a byproduct of physics limitations: if we had infinite RAM, we would allocate a separate 2^64 address space to each process and SIGSEGV would not exist. There are also zero guarantees that you will ever get a SIGSEGV, even if you do horrible, no-good, very bad things: that is entirely dependent on the OS and hardware. This allows for efficient implementations because the OS/hardware can implement checks at whatever granularity they deem appropriate. On some OS/hardware combinations you may never get a SIGSEGV at all!

On the other hand, ensuring errors on, amongst others, out-of-bounds array accesses, is much more expensive to do dynamically, and the OS can't really do it more efficiently than the compiler. In fact, it is the opposite: the compiler knows the specifics of the language and can exploit them to elide many boundary checks that the OS never could.
It really depends what you mean by “optimal cost” and “better value”. For example, if you want something that’s handcrafted rather than made in a factory on the other side of the world, you have to pay for the skills and labor that go into that. Depending on what it is, it might not last longer - but could be a better value in other respects than simply cost. Not everything has to be about making widgets for the lowest amount of money possible.
The Mechanical Turk: AI Marvel or Parlor Trick?
The Penrose tiling is (or was) patented.
Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week
Which is kind of funny, because Apple arguably stole the Apple trademark from Apple records and then proceeded to go into the music business contrary to their agreement. They even distributed a system beep sound called “sosumi.”
> I'm quite aware of that and many other basic geometric definitions, which is exactly why I said "like a diamond" to be clear.

Sure, I would have been very surprised at the thought that you weren't. I was just responding to the statement that the logo was "originally square", which seemed like an odd way to describe something that is still (more or less) square (except as the set-up for a Mitch Hedberg joke). But, of course, it is not wrong.

> PostScript Sun Logo by Bill Meine:

> PostScript Sun Logo by Craig Leres:

I don't have a native PS viewer, but, when I ran those through PS2PDF, both were in the same orientation, only one had solid black characters and one had white characters with black outlines. Is that a problem with my PDF distiller? (But now I see that those are not attributed to Pratt and Gage, as in your original post, so maybe you are just showing later variations on the theme.)
Please take this as genuine friendly curiosity and not an attack - why do you care? Why is there so often a highly upvoted comment about copyright on HN posts, whether or not they have anything to do with intellectual property? Every Launch HN, every Show HN, and a huge number of random posts like this one have a comment like this one. Why is this topic so interesting for what seems to be a majority of HN users?

For me it feels like going to a car forum and seeing a post in every thread asking how the car is insured. There's nothing wrong with being into insurance, but it's not the type of thing you expect to be discussed at length on a car site, you know?
You poor person, reading malice where none was intended.

marpstar was correct.

I am a Debian fanboi since Slink. Since it was drilled into me by rvdm, ssmeenk, miquels, jdassen and dth.

And have seen Debian survive and thrive a lot of critisism. "Too slow release cycle, not Free(Dom) enough, Too free, systemd, too much politics, too many architectures, etc....etc....etc.."

Yes, any large community will be flawed and deliver flawed solutions. And I for one celebrate those flaws and features, and appreciate the sheer magnitude and accomplishment of this enormous, complex, great project.
Two words: Nvidia, TSMC
Not least because the east manufactures effectively every semiconductor in use for training machine learnings models, or for inference.
Right because Hollywood is great to look to for advice on how to buy low cost high quality items....
Eh, perhaps they set themselves up so that it becomes impossible to cut them out.

If you don't know how that works, just look e.g. at TicketMaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster#Criticism_and_con...
One legally drives the car for you. Other doesn’t.
> Former NHTSA senior safety adviser Missy Cummings, a professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, said the surge in Tesla crashes is troubling.

> “Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post. One likely cause, she said, is the expanded rollout over the past year and a half of Full Self-Driving, which brings driver-assistance to city and residential streets. “The fact that … anybody and everybody can have it. … Is it reasonable to expect that might be leading to increased accident rates? Sure, absolutely.”

Absolutely terrifying that these beta tests are being conducted on public roads without everyone's consent.
Probably worth mentioning that governments already have backlogs of infrastructure which is broken and can’t be fixed for a variety of reasons. Plenty of journalism about it. Making the discovery aspect “perfect” with AI won’t necessarily lead to improvements although I respect the passion.
AWS has an (expensive) option with DDoS cost protection.

https://aws.amazon.com/shield/features/#AWS_Shield_Advanced
Sure there's competition, lots of WASM based alternatives are starting to crop up, like Bazel, Rust's GUI frameworks, Flutter, etc. I welcome those for applications more than what we have with HTML, CSS and JS now.
Politician: Hmmm, we need to regulate AI asap
Unironically I’d hate a new bridge across the Hudson around the Holland Tunnel, that area is the crown jewel of Manhattan and its seafront should be protected.

It’s also one of the few safe bike paths in the city where casual bikers would feel comfortable biking.

Additionally, we already have one Canal St in the area, we don’t need another.

Sorry for this small NIMBY rant.
phys.org's coverage makes absolutely no mention of the source of the shape! https://phys.org/news/2023-06-aperiodic-tile-hat-true-chiral...

What a trash publication.
> This is not correct for access open to the general public. The first commercial ISP in Utah, Xmission, was founded in 1993. Yes, many of us had internet access through the University of Utah before that (Pete Ashdown, the founder, had worked at Evans & Sutherland, which had quite good internet connectivity).

> The commercial Internet really only started taking off in 1993.

1993 is before 1994.

I am very much scratching my head by how this contradicts anything I stated in a way that makes it not correct.

If a commercial ISP existed in 1993, then by 1994 plenty of regular people would have been getting internet access - without any special affiliation other than a credit card - ie mainstream. (Per your own comment “many had internet access before that”) - those affiliated were among the first to have internet access is a pretty reasonable interpretation and that was well before 1994 in all of the continental US.
Don’t forget:

- it has an abysmal energy density per unit volume, even as a liquid. E.g. if you used to need 1 tanker or gasoline, you’ll need 18 tankers of compressed hydrogen for the same energy content.

- compressing and liquifying it is much more expensive and challanging that natural gas. See this fun little challange [0]

- there are currently no odorants available for use in hydrogen (the thing that gives natural gas it’s smell). All the available ones either react with hydrogen or poison your fuel cell

- it’s flame is essentially invisible and incredibly hot

- it has an explosive range from 4-75% (natural gas for example is 5-17%)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_isomers_of_hydrogen
Yeah, I'm sure you have better insight and way more knowledge about the state of AI than Karp. What does he know anyway. It's not like Plantir has any special access to AI or the US Military.
StableStudio: Community Interface for Generative AI
the legality of creating or releasing a recording has nothing to do with anything.

its not a legal case, its private actors disassociating with each over, over culturally acceptable and predictable reasons to do so.

we already know what they are going to do with the API, this isnt more damning than before
Easiest? Perhaps. Certainly the default if nothing else were to happen. But between PV, vat-grown meat, the fact other edibles like Quorn and yeast and Spirulina are on old-news vat-grown foods, etc. I'm focussing most of my attention on the killer robots that want to maximise shareholder value by ${insert any of a bajillion examples of how almost any goal expressed in natural language has a literal interpretation that's catastrophically bad}.
Fully is a hard threshold to meet, but most of the US Equity markets have determinism windows in the ballpark of 1-3us. Some Futures markets have got under the 1us window, though I don’t recall exactly what the threshold minimum is there.
Lol. Enjoy relearning the hot new way to configure DNS every release.
See also - those who do want a pause. Some of them, at least.
If the original author has a problem with it, they are free to come in and make the complaint themselves. It’s your opinion to have but not your argument to make and while you may not appreciate it, even if the author isn’t the submitter (I still very much think they are), they clearly did considering the article title was changed to more closely match the submission, and they have a keyboard and can make the argument for themselves if they are irked by the changes.

All this discussion seems to be doing is derailing the comment threads. Almost half the comments here are not about the article itself but your opinions on the words used in the title.

This is also a funny way to not assume anything:

> (I assumed that “gus_leonel” wasn’t the author

> Well no, but I’d rather not assume anything

I don’t see the benefit of this discussion existing in the first place, let alone continuing it, so I’m going to stop here.
No information beyond the headline yet. I wonder what the motivation was.
The CD images should be downloadable towards the end of the day if previous releases are anything to go by.

This HN post jumped the gun a little with the Debian Wiki page: the final official release happens when https://debian.org/ gets updated to point to the new installation media.
Friendly FYI that Palantir is considered an AI stock, because unfortunately BBC and newsnotfound felt no need to mention it.
A Good Death
Good luck enforcing that.

With most high tech it's rather the other way around: the technology gets first used in the military and after some delay, the general public receives the tampered version to play with.
one method is to look up what IPs someone owns and try to direct connect to them. Or you can just guess and assume they picked an IP address near the start of the block they have.
Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control#Derivative...

Useful list here for some of what you're looking for.
NVIDIA is based in Santa Clara. TSMC is hosted by a strongly west-aligned country.
These is another reason Ractor is not used: it's an experimental feature that logs a warning the first time it's called. If core developers desire gems to start adopting it, then they have to at least advertise it as stable enough and remove warnings.

I've tried to implement some functionality around it and reported issues. In my care it's just the lack of time that keeps me from completing the work.
I think the reason for this being the age of most Shonen main characters is a bit more pragmatic than that - it is simply around the age of the target audience.

P.S. No, I am not insinuating that shonen is strictly for middle schoolers, and that no one else could enjoy it. It is just the target audience for the genre, in general, is middle school boys. Like, even the name shonen itself translates literally to "boys' comics", and is officially listed as an editorial category targeting adolescent boys.
Tangent, but I'm curious: why do you do your work lying down in bed? Do you mean this is how you prefer to work?
Neat! I’ve seen these in many high profile package’s GoDocs but never knew how to make them myself.
It’s the point of building on ActivityPub. Lemmy is also to a certain degree interoperable with Mastodon. Though kbin is more interopable with it.
Bookworm now has lxd as natively packaged deb's in the main repository. It's very nice to setup.
I feel myself descending into old-fartitude more and more with every year. My wife and I were recently involved in a car accident (no one was hurt). While I was being checked out I overheard a 20-year-old firefighter exchange Facebook information with an 18-year-old EMT. I was like, "wait a minute, you guys seem really young and you still use Facebook? I thought Facebook was for your grandparents and all the kids now use Snapchat or TikTok?"

I get that same feeling now. This kid is 20 and still using C89? Shouldn't people his age have been reared entirely in the crystal-spires-and-togas utopia of Rust, with raw pointers and buffer overruns being mere legends of their people's benighted past told to them by their elders?

It's kind of comforting to see young programmers embracing the old ways, even if it's for hack value only.
If anyone wants to see how this will go: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Faro_Plague
Anduril is hiring, for anybody looking, there are lots of positions all over the globe, all skillsets - https://jobs.lever.co/anduril/

edit:

there were some interesting responses, but it seems HN has pruned the entire comment chain.

i'd like to encourage others to consider whether censorship is necessary in adult spaces, especially HN - i did not ask to be insulated from criticism. critical comments are a chance to have a healthy discourse.

for what it's worth, to answer the person who asked me what it feels like to be a murderer, since their comment didn't deserve to be censored - i don't feel like a murderer. this is my first time even hearing about anduril, but i did notice that there is a whole spectrum of jobs open on their page and it felt right to pass that on.

given that we're all adults here, capable of self moderating our own emotions, im not impressed that the comment chain was removed, and am hoping to interpret this in the most charitable way possible: that it may have been an automated measure responsible.