skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use the word "category" instead of set, and the word "functor" instead of homomorphism. Category Theory is still very-very obscure, with little to no connection to the rest of mathematics.
Would you happen to know what the definition changed from and to? I'm trying to figure out how one changes the definition of murder from anything but being murder.
Repaired, no. Grow on the stump/roots, yes.
Honestly I think people like Minhaj(and to be honest Colbert and Oliver) became unfunny after Biden got elected. If you wanna do political comedy you have to be subversive and you can't be a subversive liberal right now, your guy is in power. The jokes just don't land the same way they used to.

The whole Minhaj "Look at how racist Americans treat Muslim Americans" routine was funny precisely because Trump was banning Muslims from entering the country.
The idea that only tech giants and multi-nationals get access to high-end AI accelerators is the main problem IMO.

Nvidia keeps private individuals and hobbyists from access to affordable GPUs that can be used for machine learning by intentionally gimping the available memory in their consumer cards.
I don’t think you should avoid exercise daily.
MicroSD allows for a really low cost deployment (availability issues aside), especially when PXE is not suitable.
> I presume you're being ironic.

> One should listen to them.

> One should also be aware of the massive selection bias in views you're going to hear.

And I presume that you feel the ones who died trying to escape would have a different opinion of communism than the ones who lived to produce your selection bias?
An Update on Web Publisher Controls („AI web crawler control“)
I know what it does but not exactly why are people still excited about it nowadays. I know that folks "run their life" in it.

I had to stop using Emacs because it hurts my wrists (and I'd never stop configuring it). I remember when VSCode came out I started being much more productive, since I made some strong effort to just use it.
Meanwhile I'm genuinely annoyed that my Thinkpad takes a second or two longer to wake up from sleep than my Mac ;)
> empty transformer models will not do this.

Do we have evidence for that? Of course those kids did have a real world to communicate about, and that creates the need for a language. I think if you had AI models that had a world to interact with and other models to communicate with and learn from, they might be able to develop their own language too.

But this does get to another of Chomsky's points: the need to have a world model. To current LLMs, the only world model they have is text they read on the internet. And they only communicate with us, and I don't think they learn from their communication with us. So that's unavoidably limiting them. But I think it would be a very interesting experiment to give them a world to interact with and other similar models to communicate with, to see if they develop some sort of language (which would be completely incomprehensible to us of course; that's another hurdle).

I agree that LLMs don't disprove his inborn grammar argument, but they don't support it either. I think more research is needed.
just to be pedantic, the valve devs are absolutely open source contributors, they just happen to be paid to do it.
While I try reading this, the site loads something and scrolls to the top of the page, even on 2. try. Who designed this? This page sucks.
This anecdote makes me respect RMS even more.
> I also know that if he reads this, it will be from an Emacs mail client on his dusty ThinkPad in text mode

This is the setup that RMS described using well over a decade ago. Is there any reason to believe he is still using it?
I’m currently on an iPhone 7 so I’m also stuck on an old version

It works fine so I don’t see a need to get a new phone, except less and less apps are going to continue to work eventually
Definitely good judgement on his part.
At this point for my own stuff I just use Lua by default. Just Lua, no stdlib.

If I ever want something that is just literals and I'm sure I won't need conditionals or variables or fancy stuff, then I'd probably go for scfg[1].

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/scfg
Its not about communication. They are fighting against very strong incentives for devs to do the "wrong" thing
>They all feel (except RN) like you're using a website, not a native app, which is because that's basically what you're doing.

I mean, it really depends on the specifics of your app. For most apps it wouldn't hurt one bit if they were just good mobile websites or PWAs (possibly packaged for app store distribution).

For computation heavy code WASM is becoming a viable complement to JavaScript. WebGPU is on the way. And Figma has just sold iself to Adobe for $20bn after annihilating native competitors (I realise I'm painting in very broad strokes here).

I think there is a niche for mostly client side, offline-first apps that still have no need for deep integration with the native platform and are not games. But it's a small niche getting smaller.

The technogies living in this space will forever be changing, falling out of favour only to be replaced by the next attempt. It's been going on like this forever (Java Applets, Swing, Flash, Xamarin, ReactNative, Flutter...) It's not something I want to build a business or a career on.

But I guess if Flutter works for you and your users right now then why not.
I’m not paraphrasing and assuming, I’m drawing conclusions from your statements.

What do you mean “blocked off transport”? Is that the only form of protest deserving of harsh measures?

Do you not think rioting in commercial centers and setting fire to businesses would rise to a similar level as blocking downtown streets as was done in Ottawa?

Clearly you feel blocking city streets is sufficient, so burning down businesses must as well?
Is there a path to compile and deploy JAX models on Android apps locally?
I don't think I'll be retaining you as my tax advisor.
I would agree. Too often they are folding like lawn chairs. I push back against a lot of ideas, but I have my limits too. In the case of adding all of this invasive fingerprinting, it’s not really acceptable.
It's a reference to this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/french-lesson/
When the accusation was thought crime, I find it pretty reassuring.

Sometimes governments jail people for protests, and locking a bank account seems similarly or slightly less bad to me. Not great but not newly worrying.

Or is it that you don't consider direct organizational efforts to be a subset of taking part in a protest? I'm generally fine with it, I think. Do you have anyone in particular in mind that was in this role but shouldn't count?
It's a reference to an apocryphal quote attributed to George W. Bush "You can't trust the French. They don't even have a word for entrepreneur". Obviously sarcastic.
I wonder if medium range/resolution sonar or sound cameras [0] could be useful for low resolution tracking.

It would probably still be a bad idea

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_camera
I don't know if France is the top industrial espionage offender. TBH, I doubt it. But yes, it has been well documented that my home country is very pro-active with industrial espionage. If you understand french I recommend the Spécial Investigation documentary "Espions privés: barbouze 2.0".

However, linking the raid of Nvidia's offices to industrial espionage is a fantasy. It's well known that:

• French companies mostly spy on their French competitors (Renault spies on PSA and vice-versa)

• France mostly, if not exclusively, spies in sectors they can compete or are trying to compete. (Aerospace, Car, Pharma, ...)

Nvidia is not a French company and has no french competitors. France doesn't have a tech sector. So your conspiracy theory is very unlikely. STMicroelectronics has no interest or ability to manufacture GPUs.
As tragic as this is. I think they should plant a new tree in the same location.

I know it won't be the same, it won't heal the wound, at least not for hundreds of years, if ever. But it's just how society and the world is. Great things are made and appreciated, treasured even, and endure for a while, then they are broken by something, one way or another. And you can't undo that damage, but you can start over and build again. And that's all you can ever do. And although it may not seem like much now, there can perhaps still be greatness in the future again if we start to build it now. That greatness may not be exactly the same as the greatness of old, but it can be great in its own way.
Sounds like a potential anti-trust case to me, right?
The large orchestral scores of many games certainly have deep ties to classical. Parts of the Zelda, Final Fantasy, Dark Souls, etc. But, and this is likely obvious to all involved but said for posterity anyway, not all game music is classical derived. Metroid Prime is electrosynth, Paper Mario is pretty jazzy, and Persona is supremely jazzy with dashes of rock.
I hope you don‘t mind that I augmented the rather nondescript title.
It's great that Valve is willing to pay them for it. It's a bit sad that such capital investment from a commercial party is necessary, but I can live with that.

As someone who has just switched to Linux gaming, I've got to say it's working great. Maybe it's slightly less stable, but not by much, and performance is excellent.
Communism refers to at least two separate things, though (in Western Europe).

- a theoretical economic model that is opposed to capitalism

- the atrocious regimes of the 20th century calling themselves communism you are referring to that have vanishingly few things to do with the first.

Vanishingly few people in Western Europe support these atrocious regimes. And therefore, communism the way you are using it. What's more, there's not much propaganda for communism here (I believe there was propaganda in the past, though). The confusion is usually here and people mostly don't see communism with a good eye because of the confusion (or because they are knowledgeable and oppose the theory - which is a better reason to be against it). Now, it's true that we have weaker feelings about it than in the US (and, I guess, the parts of the words that suffered from the atrocious regimes).

(The usual response to this is that theoretical communism invariably leads to these atrocious regimes, but I believe we don't know this - invariably, it seems they've been set up by possibly sadist assholes with huge egos and thirsts for power, we haven't tried without - as well as we don't know if it would work. I don't have any further useful point to make in this discussion so I probably won't engage in it.)
Travic – Visualize public transit from real-time and scheduled data
> I think you were.

Yes, that's clear; your original comment shows plainly that you interpreted my remark as antisemitic. It wasn't; it was pointing out a fallacy (and that formulation is nearly always used to point out that particular fallacy).

You can think what you like, of course; but screeching "antisemite!" based on nothing but your powers of telepathy is rather counterproductive.
The issue here is not the tree. But human breaking the law. I’m sorry to be that person , but trees are replaceable fortunately for us, I can’t understand how this crime takes the spot before the UK scandals which are … outrageous
Agree. I have no qualms paying for open source software if I think the owners treats their users well. I pay for Joplin Cloud but so far they haven't hidden all my data behind a forced signup screen (unless I jump through some export hoops just to end up in a worse user experience)
Harpoon predated Panzer General by 5 years. I bought the latest version of Harpoon (that is over 10 years old) on a sale from Matrix Games a while ago and it included a collection of old versions of the game, going back to some pre-release versions. That is a pretty fun collection, even if I never was a huge fan of the game and barely played any. I wish more games could be sold with a historic collection of old versions like that, but I never saw any else that did? They even included a menu configured with Dosbox to easily launch the old versions, and a short text describing each version.

But Panzer General was fantastic, yes. I still play it every now and then. It runs quite well even on my phone in Dosbox. It was just at the end of the era when wargames was one of the big computer game genres, and probably outsold all the other wargames, but then as you say the genre declined.
I haven't tried it myself, but perhaps it's worth looking into the jax2tf -> tflite route.
The importance of and consequences of not dogfooding
The real crime is the fact that it's the only tree for miles, as far as the eye can see

I recently climbed some hills in wales, like 5 miles, there were Zero trees the entire way.

PS: just checked photos from the trip, no trees on any of them. Kind of makes me sad..
You are surprising me. Where do you live? Many Europeans have lived under communism for decades, and repulse it as nothing else.
Stallman himself
Linux desktop is more viable than ever.

Zigbee/Matter/... are widely adopted open standards without vendor lock in.

Things like Home Assistant are getting serious attention and funding.

Could be much worse.
This piece of investigative journalism has been posted on HN some 9 months ago. I'm reposting it now because a) it's a really thoroughly researched article, and b) it's presented in an interesting and engaging way (edit: on desktop at least; I haven't checked how it looks on mobile).

So, dear HN: trust me when I say it's worth spending some of your time on this one even if you're not interested in the subject matter itself
It took them a year to fix the redesign opt-out. I'm extremely grateful that Lemmy is a usable alternative now
Thanks for posting a link to my story. :-)
> Some Google protobufs had thousands of optional fields so the wire format became:
> [null,null,null,null,...many times over...,null,"foo"]

In pblite, they are serialized as `[,,,,...many times over...,,"foo"]`. Just comma, no "null".
An old remark on Nvidia
https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/17/3092829/linus-torvalds-fu...
nVidia is playing favorites in allocating its GPUs. It goes beyond the graphics card market, they are trying to corner the market for Cloud AI:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-muscles-into-...

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/in-an-unusual-move-n...

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-nvidia-aids-clou...

I realize it's hard to sympathize with AWS as a victim, but any monopolist like nVidia leveraging its monopoly in one sector (AI chips) to gain a monopoly in another is the kind of antitrust violation that is precisely what competition authorities are made to investigate.
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That article reads like a report on a criminal conspiracy.

> “[W]ould it be too much to ask you to turn history off?,” another employee wrote in a chat about Mobile App Distribution Agreements, or MADAs, contracts that Google requires device manufacturers to enter into to license Google Mobile Services. “lots of sensitivity with legal these days :).”

> Initially, Google had also claimed that it did not have the “ability to change default settings for individual custodians with respect to the chat history setting,” but evidence “plainly established that this representation was not truthful,”

> Google lawyers also argued that Chat was used primarily for nonbusiness, casual conversations, but the court found that the company does in fact use it to discuss “substantive business.”

How can you read this and not believe that these people knowingly participate in illegal business.
The parts of Europe that lived under communism (so from East Germany eastward) have a much more negative view of communism than Americans for whom it was a theoretical, faraway geopolitical issue, which they never experienced.

Still, around 20 years ago when I was a teen, some edgy kids did wear Che and Marx t-shirts and it was considered cool in some circles. I'd say it is an imitation of the West. As paradoxical as it sounds, since communism is seen as edgy and cool in Western Europe, the kids in Eastern Europe who want to seem in-the-know and up-to-date had to copy it. But it was indirect in this way, it didn't grow out of the Eastern European experience.
> The phenomenon of hyperinflation is foreign to them, and there's a steep learning curve.

LOL. What the US has is in no way, shape, or form hyperinflation. I've lived in a place with hyperinflation and less than 10% ain't it, chief :-)
Even big, serious war games like Advanced Squad Leader had some limited fog of war mechanics. Concealed units could get a '?' counter on top of them, and if you start with concealed units, you often got a whole pile of '?' counters to spread around, and your opponent would have no idea which had real counters underneath and which had just more '?' counters underneath.

It's much more limited than what computers make possible of course, but it worked well enough.
It depends. In a RAG system you can measure how good your retrieval is doing by just checking whether the retrieved docs are relevant. Embeddings aren’t the only way to retrieve docs though.
It is fine in certain circles only.
We are many that think it is completely insane, but we acknowledge that we live in a democracy with freedom of opinion.
I generally record everything in 44khz, but I will record at 192khz if I know I will be doing any time stretching. The high sampling frequency matters for that.
It is not true that central banks "frequently" settle balances between each other by transferring gold. This is an event rare enough that it would typically be reported in financial newspapers if it happened.
The Story Behind the Activity Book for Postgres
> Hs2 needlessly cut down thousands of ancient oaks

That depends whether you agree that HS2 is justified. HS2 would argue that the loss to humanity/UK of cutting down those ancient oaks is worth it due to the benefits of HS2.

Whereas cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree benefited no one.
I didn't know this. I'm in shock right now. I already knew that "America bad" was a blind spot for him, but this is another level.
Previously: Land with no trees could be considered farmland and thus eligible for EU farming subsidy

What happened: farmers cut down trees, which caused flooding
What are peoples thoughts on sponsoring open source projects as a way to build awareness for dev tools? I think I've seen PostHogs logo in sponsor sections in some READMEs.
Isn't this just a dupe of this story from yesterday?

That's a Lot of YAML - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37687060 - Sep 2023 (457 comments)
Aren't there countless examples of people who have been cancelled in this way to various degrees? People accused of sexual crimes, racist beliefs, fringe moral views, heretical religious/theological beliefs, etc. have been cancelled countless times both recently and all throughout recorded history.

Examples:

* Norman Finkelstein (blacklisted from Academia for his work relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict)

* Richard Stallman (made to resign from his positions at MIT and FSF due to comments relating to Marvin Minsky and Jeffrey Epstein)

* James Watson (ostracized from the scientific community due to his comments about race)

* Justin Roiland (forced out of Rick and Morty due to alleged crimes)

etc.
Or else you could of course just use https://rocket.rs/

I mean, honestly. What more do you need than a simple and fun library for the API to the backend? It's 2023 and the cross-platform user interface is the web, the rest has lost, and your devs and cross-platform community is on the web. Even a biased company like Microsoft don't seem to pretend anything else these days as they base their large scale (Office, Teams) apps on... YEP you guessed it, the web.
Funny how the "top" on that seems to be a rather subjective interpretation, could have sworn China was made out as top, and two centuries ago it was apparently the US; https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88...
Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for Studies of the Digital
you forgot to avoid sugar. Sugar is a huge cancer contributor.

Don’t:
- Don’t smoke (even second hand so don’t stay near someone smoking), don’t drink alcohool, don’t drink sugar loaded drinks.

Beware:
- Try to limit red meat, industrial food and processed sugar stuffs

Do:
- Sport. Every day. Walk as much as you can.

Those are quite simple rules.
Fairphone 2 went this way. Unfortunately it being more modular meant more hardware issues because of friction and such.

So if they went for a standard dimension of everything you mention, it isn't possible on a small scale. Because every device upgrade is an iteration. One might for example have more cameras or more sensors, another time you get an upgrade from microUSB to USB-C, another time the SoC gets updated (they went to an industrial grade now, meant for 8 years of updates). If you look at Project Ara or the project Dave Hakkens' Phoneblocks, these projects are exactly that, and they increase the size of the device massively.

> They don't need to optimize for thinness, they don't need to optimize for performance. They don't need to optimize for heat dissipation. They don't need to optimize for screen size or to ensure that their phone has a stupid notch. I don't care if the phone ends up being 1 cm thick or if it ends up with a 3 mm bezel.

Yeah, that is the gist of your message. You don't care about this, and that, and this, and that, while they need to take it into account. Not as extreme as a non-modular, non-repairable smartphone but still it has to be taken into account. The company is too small for various markets like one where they want the device to be upgradeable between different versions, one where they want a hardware keyboard, one where it is an e-ink screen, one where the form factor is small, etc etc.

For exameple: Look at the small form factor of iPhone Mini and <= 5 inch smartphones. They get axed because there isn't enough demand. And yet the flip seems to be a new rage, seemingly big enough market share.

I get what you described is what YOU want heck I've read it all on the Fairphone forums but the world isn't only about YOU. So that they lose you as customer, who cares? They get more customers in return.
Assuming the tree is considered to have been worth more than £5000 - quite likely - the maximum penalty for criminal damage is 10 years.

As a 16 year old he'd be a young offender so it would be a special youth prison.

I'm curious how a 16 year old had access to a chainsaw. My guess is someone - parents or friends - incriminated him.
But it works better than ever on

GeForce GTX 760

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

KiB Mem : 16369924 total

1680x1050 59.95*+

Which is amazing, because another
old machine with RTX 670 is now totally useless.

Why is this?
But most wouldn't. Also, you don't need the full power of a personal computer to run a wargame. Not anymore, at least.
fair enough anyways i hope he beats cancer
Related: https://posthog.com/blog/dev-marketing-for-startups

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34998921 (254 points | 7 months ago | 72 comments)
Does he have a reputation for poor hygiene?
Not the personal accounts of people - the accounts used to land donations in to fund the continued blockading of public thoroughfares.
Ah, right. I read it a couple hours ago on the BBC. They must have updated it.