skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're going to anyway. And of course it won't just be nation state actors. It'll be criminal organizations out of Russia, or terrorist organizations, or some clandestine team inside a three letter US agency.

They're proliferating rapidly. The hardware will keep getting better. A lot more people will learn how to build them, in a lot of different locations around the globe. The genie is never going back into the bottle.

There will be extremely nefarious, highly potent, alt LLMs created, and soon. Focused on variations of social engineering. They will cause tens of billions of dollars in damages globally and lead to tight regulations on the proliferation of LLMs. Most likely all LLMs or the equivalent will have to be registered with a host nation and include details about its capabilities.
But they told me that Google being the one of the largest advertising companies in the world, had no interest in handicapping ad-blockers. BTW its the same company spreading FUD over AGPL.
May I ask what TLD this was?
I'm not privy to the news on this particular fact, but the fact is that Ketamine IS used medically as an anti-depressant now, just at far below the dosage range to get "high".

So if he's just endorsing its usage in a clinical context, that is way different than railing lines.
Implementations using 32- or 64-byte (256 or 512 bit) vector extensions would run afoul of 16-byte granularity. While it is not common yet, ARM SVE allows vector sizes larger than 128 bits -- e.g., Graviton3 has 256-bit SVE and Fujitsu A64FX has 512-bit. (x86 has had 256 and 512 bit vector instructions for some time, but current CHERI development seems to be on ARM.)
If a residential install pays for itself, it's because it's gaming the details of the rate structure. That is, it lets the consumer avoid paying for much of their electricity at the full retail price, while still deriving benefit from the distribution infrastructure those retail prices are supposed to pay for. This is neither honest nor sustainable.
Ask HN: Does anybody use telepresence robots?
Back in the 2016s we have a weird experience with a customer giving us control to two telepresence robots on his office. I don't have any positive experience with that.

Then, I speculate that could be useful when a team join physically in a place and someone couldn't join it. Probably one or two members, not more.

Are you using them? What do you think? I find that some of them are in the $ 500 - $ 5k range [1][2][3] which is prohibitive but I could think this can be much much cheaper.

[1] https://www.doublerobotics.com/pricing.html
[2] https://telepresencerobots.com/robots/boteyes-pad-robot/
[3] https://egorobotics.com/product/kubi-classic-portable-telepresence-robot-for-ipad-android-and-windows-tablets/
JSON Feed: An Atom/RSS feed alternative
It's completely appropriate to complain about openai doing this because of its unique structure as a temporarily profit driven nonprofit
If people like me stopped posting on HN, the only people left would be people like you, and this place would be even more insufferable. So you’ll just have to deal with me. Tell yourself it builds character or something
Please note that the Wikipedia sentence you posted has no citation that substantiate "lobbyists who dispute the scientific consensus on climate change and global warming" part. It's basically anonymous Wiki editor's opinion. I personally have no idea what CO2 Coalition is.

Regardless, Is this a good reason to preclude public from hearing Nobel Laureate (or anybody's for that matter) opinion?
s/desert/unused land/

That said, 100 sq miles of desert is 10 miles by 10 miles.

also, distribution systems are pretty efficient, and power can be sent from sunny areas to areas with dimmer sun or clouds.
IMHO and I would argue that JetStream functionally does much more than Apache Kafka (e.g. stream filtering using subject based addressing, stream with working queue semantics, constraints on streams, compare and set (so you can do CRUD operations), stream sourcing and mirroring, etc...), and has many (most?) of the features of Kafka Streams.
A new C# MUD based on DIKU and ROM
Crimson Stained Lands is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) featuring races such as elf, human, dwarf, orc, and minotaur. Play as one of our many classes including assassin, bard, healer, mage, paladin, ranger, shapeshifter, thief, and warrior.
Thanks for this. I actually re-wrote the content but replaced the word 'astrology' with 'bullshit' and it actually makes a lot more sense in the translated context than the original. You can find the other version here:

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/young-people-are-flocking...
Just in case we didn't have enough echo chambers already:

"It’s very seductive. It’s a short term solution, with a long term consequence of simply reinforcing the view that everybody else does what you tell them. That’s exactly why a lot of people end up without any friends."
Feels like U.S. regulators and the justice system in general are completely ineffective when it comes to checking business so it'll probably be fine either way. Uber, Tesla, there are many more examples of regulation being ultimately toothless.
Installing solar on residential and commercial rooftops and parking lots is a fantastically inefficient use of time when compared to building utility-scale solar farms. The per-install fixed costs are a lot larger than you'd expect. Consider that, to reduce my own home's draw on the grid to more or less nothing, I'd have to spend $35k (before government incentives, so more like $23k) on a 4kW solar install plus battery storage. As a part of a utility-scale build-out, that $23k will go a lot farther.

We already have a ton of experience transporting electricity over large distances. Losses are not zero, but are not significant enough to matter (2-3%, usually).

Damage to desert ecosystems is a very important concern. I'm not sure how to solve that. But if an alternative is we fall further behind on saving our planet, the desert ecosystems will suffer there, as well.

Overall, I think we should be doing and encouraging both. Local generation is great, but we still need centralized generation.
Gender bias in LLMs when asked about historical figures
My understanding is that you only need to cover a small percentage of available desert to cover all needs.
Ask HN: devenv vs. devbox? (Nix tooling)
I've been getting into Nix/NixOS for the last couple months, and I keep seeing [devenv](https://devenv.sh) and [devbox](https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/) mentioned as good tools for local development.

The main difference between them seems to be that devenv uses the Nix language and containers whereas devbox uses JSON and wraps `nix-shell`. There are probably more differences I'm missing.

So far I've only found one HN thread with more than a couple comments that compare the two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655542

I wanted to see what the community thought; which tool do you prefer, and why?
None of the YC companies pay for the job listings. So no, HN by itself is not a business, so it makes no sense to debate whether it "ad-funded" or not.

The fact that there is someone with deep pockets that see this whole network as an opportunity for building their branding does not mean that they look at a balance sheet, or find "advertisers" in case their fund makes an expected loss, or anything like that.
Attestation is a great concept for stuff you're in control of. Employee laptops, your own servers, your own phone, you name it. You want to be able to control and verify your devices are still under your control, preferably without manually entering the data center every week to check. The concept isn't inherently bad.

That said, the concept is seemingly aimed at blocking ad blockers and preventing browsers like Brave from impersonating Chrome so it can block ads without the need for extensions and such.

The only user-positive use case I can think of for this is for self-hosted software. Maybe it can be used to detect MitM attacks or malware messing with the browser? In practice this will just mean "no Firefox, no Linux, no adblockers".
> I use Firefox, and it won't affect me.

It will affect you a lot if websites start refusing to serve to you because you're not using an approved browser.
Looks on point, huh
That's only true in the case when you're willing to put in the effort to prove/disprove yourself, which the parent commenter is clearly unwilling to do.

Otherwise you're just ignoring someone that is objectively more knowledgeable than you, which is quite lame indeed.
It's viable anywhere there's sufficient relief, even in deserts.

It uses at least an order of magnitude less water than nuclear does, per unit of electrical energy flowing through the system.

Here's an example of a system going into Nevada. 8000 MWH of capacity. Notice how tiny it is on the scale of the state.

https://www.cityofelynv.gov/pdf/CityCouncil2021/cc1-28-21/Wh...

Water use is just 500 acre-feet/year, which is tiny (Nevada's consumptive water use is 6000x this.)
Cloudflare sells domains at bulk price
I'm a tech-savvy person and I consider Manifest v3 an improvement (improves security + performance), and Firefox implements it as well as things like declarativeNetRequest[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Thank you so much for the feedback, these are awesome questions important to answer!
Small engines are awful for emissions of lots of nasty things other than carbon. Converting small engines to battery electric is a huge win for health outcomes far beyond climate change.

E-bikes and electric scooters have tons of daily range. For cases where you need more range quick swap stations like gogoro make it fast, cheap, and simple. Unlike cars where the battery is huge personal mobility batteries are pretty small and don’t need special tools or lifting capabilities.

https://www.gogoro.com/
> That seems to be an extraordinary claim, and I'm skeptical that 1) it's true, and 2) that's all that's missing.

Are you aware of how decentralized computers work? Every computation can be verified by every participant. It's objectively true that such a platform would be less prone to being rigged.
> This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on.

I think this is like many new technologies - overestimated in the short term, underestimated in the long term.

I'm reminded of voice recognition systems. we would be able to talk to our computers! well, that didn't happen, but we did get telephone voice response systems, then you could talk to your car, and now it is ubiquitous.
You can still disable EME if you don't want it. That's a lot harder to do on other browsers.

I would probably have dropped Firefox back then if it was the only browser that I couldn't watch Netflix in, and I wouldn't be the only one. I don't think Mozilla can bear the loss of userbase.
One big advantage of React over templating languages is ability to use regular JS functions for loops and conditions. What would happen if regular `map` is used instead of `e/for` in this example: https://electric.hyperfiddle.net/user.demo-chat!Chat ?
Yes, it has to in fact. If you have zero context to attend to in a transformer, and you try to predict the first token, you effectively are multiplying a zero-vector by the attention head, making all tokens equally likely in the final softmax (unless the lm_head has a bias, but at least in GPT it does not).

So the <|beginning of text|> token, with no context before it, learns to predict the first-token-in-a-document distribution. That's not quite the same as predicting nothing at all.
I've been thinking about this for a few days but just realized that this is a complete end run around all web scraping in general.

All 'adversarial compatibility' from projects like Nitter, Teddit, Invidious, and youtube-dl go out the window. Any archive site (archive.org, archive.ph, etc.) can be blocked by sites requiring attestation.

And just like the book industry was terrified of piracy and were 'rescued' by Kindle, so too will journalism outlets that can't find a business model flock to Google to save them.

This is going to be rough.
Committed Use Discount - agree to minimum usage on your cloud provider in exchange for discounted rates (sometimes significant discounts).
Odd then that intelligence psychometrics is far less affected by the replication crisis than the other social sciences. The person that invents a useful intelligence test that doesn't display any politically inconvenient bias is going to make a whole lot of money.
Firefox Nightly: Enable adding image PDF editing feature
Are you suggesting you compared the result using Math.random() on CPU to the accelerated hash functions from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XlGcRh (linked from your source code comments)?
Yes, it was the same for me, Google results are pure garbage now.

I switched to Yandex, have been loving it since, it is so much less biased and provides stuff related to your search query. It reminds me of Google from 2017. Though, I can't talk about the results for Russian searches as I don't know Russian, maybe those ones are biased.
Air conditioning is a significant chunk of electricity used, and it would make sense to generate power to run it on site if and when possible.

We should have a national program to create zero-interest loans to incite homeowners and businesses to invest in on-site solar when possible. Make the loan payments managed by the power companies so they get a cut of the action and are incentivized to play along.

That way, you still are paying the power company monthly bills but most of that is paying down a debt that will eventually go away.
The hash is less sensitive than literally any other proof of personhood currently in existence. Go ahead, try to name a proof of personhood that's more private than a hash.

You seem to be framing this as a reduction in privacy but it is quite the opposite.
AlmaLinux discovers working with Red Hat isn't easy
Don't you think people will inevitably crack the software side of things (as has been done with the lower levels of Widevine)?

The end game is probably integration with a TPM that produces the token, or at least whatever part of it verifies that the chrome binary is genuine and that there is no forbidden software running on the client machine.
It's scoped to video games and associated entertainment and services so it shouldn't apply to Twitter, if that's what this post is getting at.
They're not really limited since the instruction decoder is actually doing a bunch of work to assign to physical registers. The 16 GPRs are an abstraction, iirc.

Even though it's only one extra bit to index 16 registers vs 8, it takes an entire extra byte in the encoding (you have to add the REX prefix with the R, X, and B bits set appropriately for the MSB of the registers you're modifying in the MODR/M byte). And you only get 4 bits to use out of that byte because the leading four are a way to disambiguate it (also iirc, this stuff is terribly documented).

And paying an extra byte per GRP instruction is actually kind of expensive. If you look at your compiler output you'll see a bunch of Exx instructions even in 64 bit long mode when optimizing for instruction decode/size.

It turns out a variable length encoding is really hard to extend without getting weird with it.
Yes, it's sad how little attention that period of German history gets especially abroad. Babylon Berlin is a fantastic German TV production that captures the cultural side of the late Weimar period very well.
It's starting to sound like an insurmountable problem to be honest.
Even if Google were forced to partition off employees and give up control of Chrome, they would still be allowed to be an influential force that gets a seat at the Chrome decision-making table, just the same as Meta, Apple, etc if they were to want it.

How would this have changed the existence of the Web Integrity API?
variable pricing (within reason) will quietly solve all kinds of problems organically.
"Entertainment services, namely, providing interactive multiplayer game services for games played over computer networks and global
communications networks; providing computer games and video games downloadable over computer global communications
networks; providing information on the video game and computer game industries via the Internet; and providing information on
computer games, video games, video game consoles and accessories therefor via the Internet"
Thanks I will work on making it more clear. Basically a seller can upload their item and send the link to buyers. A buyer can make an offer if they have a payment method saved. If the seller accepts the offer, 10% of their offer goes into escrow. When they both confirm the purchase was complete the other 90% is charged from the buyer and 90% of the offer (we are taking 10% cut for now) is paid to the seller
At least in relation to video games.
I found in integration/warehousing that if a source system “suddenly” has a new column — it’s best if we can automatically just bring it in. We would tend to do this in a way that it can’t break the warehouse, doesn’t affect people downstream of us. We can then choose to make it available to others, or not — but the moment that data is available we start hoovering it in.
Wrong, it actually DOES include capacity factor, "generation." Solar is around 5% of generation (i.e. kWhs of energy produced in a given year) if you include behind-the-meter[0]. Wind is at 10% [1].

Solar is growing at about 25% year on year, and the "Inflation Reduction Act" should help sustain this. So after around 3 years, solar will be about 10%. Wind is growing slower, but 15% of electricity from wind in 3 years is feasible.

Did you actually check first?

[0] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
It seems unlikely that this could be accomplished. The fundamental point is to capture a representation of the meaning of original text. If the that meaning is not accessible the embeddings are not useful.
Ask HN: What infra systems (e.g. Gitlab/CodeStar) do you use at your startup?
Besides not being FOSS, is this program really better that rsync, rclone or syncthing?
Any example? I honestly don't know tailscale nor have I programmed seriously in Go.

I can understand that sometimes you want tools to quickly cut through obstacles, however I've also noticed that applying such tools without extreme care, like on a regular basis, seems to always lead into local maxima and at some point these choices have to be reconsidered.

One explanation for this phenomenon that I've found is that language features are typically accessed using special syntax, because otherwise they could be library features. Well, it's hard or typically even impossible to abstract over syntactic uses of such features. For example, it's hard to automate the definition of a class based on more abstract concepts, when such creation has to be done as explicit syntax instead of using a builder-style API that iteratively adds members and methods.
Story on TJ/NoT: <https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-new...>
If you have the ability to put that many mirrors in space then you could just put the solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth as microwaves like this.

https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-ener...
For computer gaming things yes. You could, for example register your own trademark on X for selling unusual bananas without violating Microsoft’s mark

>Providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games; providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games

> Entertainment services, namely, providing interactive multiplayer game services for games played over computer networks and global communications networks; providing computer games and video games downloadable over computer global communications networks; providing information on the video game and computer game industries via the Internet; and providing information on computer games, video games, video game consoles and accessories therefor via the Internet
It supports clients connecting over TCP (which can be encrypted) and Websockets (can also be encrypted), you can configure it to pick on any port you want and it works through Network Address Translation (see https://docs.nats.io/running-a-nats-service/configuration#co...). Even supports MQTT clients directly (https://docs.nats.io/running-a-nats-service/configuration/mq...)
Please sign, right here, next to the x.

That is my signature.
No, those redirections explicitly exempt Google/Apple checks by not redirecting their URLs. All other URLs are redirected to show advertisements usually, either injected into the site you wanted to visit or as a replacement, and a please-login-and-pay-here page. That devices are fooled to assume that internet is working is intentional, otherwise those devices would immediately disconnect.
> but unless you're qualifying what you said to mean something more specific

You're correct. I've edited.
I'm not sure what you mean, this address serves as a perfect way to see the latest short form information about EU institutions (even more so now, because of the ongoing twitter situation) regardless of the amount of posters.
Sure, but that's only free power during the day, when the sun is shining.

If you want "free" power at night (and on cloudy days), you also need battery storage, which can double your initial cost. And the batteries don't last 25+ years like the solar panels do; you may even have to replace them before your break-even point.

If you don't have battery storage, you're still relying on the grid at night, and relying on selling excess power back to the grid during the day in order to zero out your power bill. So you're still making use of the distribution network that someone has to pay to be maintained.
I just use this site, plus a custom stylesheet. It took me around 2 hours to write it (and occasional updates) but it works for me. Almost every important thing on the page has a descriptive class name, so it's not too hard.

A benefit is that you can actually reply from here.
> Blue Man/Tubes

Google that on your own risk.
> I'm both excited and terrified to see what a "TikTok-ified" engineering curriculum would look like.

That's what it already is, isn't it? It's not like Galileo could just read a small description on the Universal Law of Gravitation and understand what was going on. Think about explaining solving a linear system of equations vs using a matrix inverse to calculate a solution. As phenomena become better understood, we literally condense disparate observations into more general rules and theories that offer us more clarity and understanding.

I like to follow a bunch of woodworkers on TikTok and once the algorithm gives you the right set of people, you can use the quick videos of how they setup jigs or some interesting joinery they do and riff off it in your own work. Sure if I were a beginner it would be different, but it's a very useful resource for someone with experience.
In some situations it's possible to move the energy consumption closer to the hydro-based power. That's why the major cloud providers all have data centers near the Columbia River.
> The Real store at Leopoldplatz has a pneumatic tube system that reaches every cash register.

Isn’t this pretty common in hypermarkets? I’ve seen systems of pneumatic tubes running from the registers at Auchans or Carrefours in multiple European countries. I imagine that people don’t notice them just because pneumatic tubes are now so little a part of everyday life that one doesn’t even expect to see them.