skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a bad example of what a well executed smear might look like. The recording sounds very unnatural (and one sided).

Further, it is not that different from just making spurious allegations or a meme with a fake quote. However, this is going to get worse and worse in the future. I am glad that the government (who come from the opposing party) decided to confirm that it's a fake. A more plausible version of something like this could be very damaging though.

Audio is pretty hard to fake in general, especially in the UK, who have some of the best forensic audio capability out there (mains hum is recorded in the UK for forensic purposes, and there are other techniques that make low hanging forgeries like this pretty easy to detect) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...
TikTok is the worst "brain junk food" platform I've seen. Sometimes people forward me videos from TikTok that have some horizontal video at the top (the one you are supposed to watch, apparently?), and then completely unrelated video game footage as the vertical "background".

I don't know if it is intended to hook into some sort of attention hack where they abuse the fact that humans are stimulated by movement and color, so a video with a game background is more appealing/attractive than one without, but it's too much stimulus for me to enjoy it. I try to avoid brain junk food most of the time.
Goalkeepers perceive the world differently
New sustainable way to synthesize vital fertilizer
here's what i speculate (i'm not an insider or anything, pure speculation).

the "true believers" at OpenAI mostly don't care if bad images get generated. they are worried about "safety" as in the sci-fi Terminator scenario, not "safety" as in "avoid harming people with offensive or unpleasant images".

however they see controlling a cutting edge AI towards some goal to be an important thing to study, and they want to practice doing it, and to do that they need to pick some arbitrary goal.

the arbitrary goal becomes this type of "PG-rated-only" censorship, because it helps avoid bad press coverage, makes it easier to raise money, etc. but they don't sincerely care about it. some others in tech do sincerely care though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
Yep, definitely not the economy or inflation or anything like that
I love that movie! The original release had a scene where they had dinner at Taco Bell and it was revealed "all restaurants are Taco Bell". In a later DVD release this was changed to Pizza Hut, which has the same parent company, which I thought was so authentic to that particular message.
They don't exactly have any job security. They will eventually be employed doing something else.
I see, i recently built linkcollect.io , would love your inputs.
I was working at Lotus when Improv came out. From what I remember, it was popular but as you started adding dimensions memory use blew up. This was in the early days of Windows and 4mb of memory.
Antarctica Is Missing a Chunk of Sea Ice Bigger Than Greenland
Sounds a lot like what you can do with tabular model (PowerPivot) and DAX (measures) in Excel now.
> Well, I used to work there…

Good for you. Don't confuse an optimized process for "hacking". Don't diminish their accomplishments that way.

I have lots of history with this company, including being personal friends with one of the founders for the last twenty years (as in, I stay at his home when I visit). They don't hack shit together. They have optimized an efficient engineering and manufacturing process.

There's a simple reality in physical product engineering: The engineering process is directly related to product quality and reliability, which, in turn, is directly connected to failure rates and support/service load. A product that is hacked together will, at scale, invariably result in a bad quality and reliability along with a massive support load. This is not a financially viable approach at scale, not at all.

Sure, one can hack things together during initial ideation and product definition. This, in the context of a solid product development process, is a normal aspect of almost any engineering organization, from consumer to aerospace. However, once enough is learned about the available solutions and approaches, not entering into a well-run engineering process is a costly mistake. No successful organization at scale hacks products together, it just doesn't happen.
i see, thanks for mentioning them, and btw i built linkcollect.io recently, would love your inputs
Palm 2 is tied for #10
That's a slightly extreme route planning optimisation, but reminded me of UPS removing left turns (in Right Hand Side driving countries like US) from their route planning to save fuel, lives, C02 emissions [1]

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-...
Winner expects to pay runner-up bid (this is a very important piece, because this changes the behaviour of bidders). Google quotes them an incorrect bid in order to collect more.
https://linkcollect.io
Is there a lego inspired solution to industrial design, specifically mechanical mechanisms? I have had a product in mind that is quite intricate with several possible configurations. I personally haven't excercised my 3d muscles as much over the years and I find cad with 3d printing to be not as intuitive as snapping parts together.
After many years with 2 Raspberry Pi (3 version later upgraded to 4) I bought 2 Minisforum GK41 : 1 CPU J4125, 8GB RAM, 256 GB NVME, 2 Ethernet 1Gb/s, 1 SATA connector and internal slot for a SSD disk.

It costed months ago more than 200 Euros, it is now available for less than 150 Euros.

I am very satisfied, it is running Debian testing as server at home and office.

The only drawback is the fan, but is very quiet.

I measured the power consumption and it is around 5W per hour, the same amount of the Raspberry Pi 4.
Oh awesome! I have Atisha's lojong, and also Chogyam Trungpa's mind training (which is more of a commentary), but these look great. I'll definitely pick it up, thanks again!
google didnt see that precious advertisement income...
All these inference libraries are interesting.
* Kyanite
* Tract
* Wonnx
* onnxruntime bindings
* candle

So far, I've only compared the bindings with tract for cpu inference on x86_64 (not tract's main focus), and the bindings won by 30x. Converting the same onnx models to ggml to load into candle would be interesting.

For gpu inference, with nvidia at least, I'd guess everything but wonnx would come out the same, as they are all using cuda under there. Wonnx is using wglsl so I imagine there is a pretty big price for that portability.

Tract seems like the right answer if you are using embedded arm.

For general cpu inference, my current guess would be the bindings for onnxruntime, but maybe this or candle could win?
As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.
I’d really like to consolidate my FX8350, 32GB, 2xsata ssd, 4xhdd, 4port gig pcie nic server into a lower power consumption device. I think if it had dual 2.5g nics and dual nvme, plus a couple sata built in I’d be happy. But more than one drive keyed m.2 for nvme on a sbc isn’t common, especially with sata or a pcie slot.

I tried a RockPro64, but it didn’t quite live up to the task.
All I know is we keep having this issue with saying "nah, this is it. Nobody will ever need more than this." And then inevitably the time comes when we need more.
Surprisingly, explosive welding is considered to be a cold welding process. Explosives are used to overcome the limitations you describe.
Secret World War II-Era Tunnels Could Become a London Tourist Attraction
How is the MPE work going?

What about MIDI 2.0?
A Comprehensive Review of Generative AI in Healthcare
you can run valgrind and it will just point to you "you freed the memory on this line and then tried to reused it 10 lines bellow here, fix it." -- every time.

And once you fix it, you have built a light weight library that you can use from any other language.

Also these pointer manipulation is what gives C its power.
surely not!
How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world[1], Discussion:[2]

The age of average[3], Discussion: [4]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520414

3: https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703
It's good for some people but really it just means that if you have already put down roots in a location like San Francisco, New York or London then you'll have to look elsewhere for a job that pays more.
> It would be nice if anyone explained what those risks are, and why they don't apply to Facebook et al.

First of all, any company operating out of China can be assumed to be under more or less direct control of the CCP. When the Party comes knocking, there is no non-compliance to whatever they want. That alone is more than enough reason to be more skeptical of anything China. (Yes, I'm aware of FISA, but that's nowhere near comparable to having Party members on your board)

The second difference/risk comes with looking whom these apps target: kids. Basically, whoever controls the algorithm that ranks what content kids watch, has a very effective way of mind control... kids are sponges, they soak up whatever they see, and especially compared to the old radio/TV era, a lot of what's available on the Internet is pretty dangerous and not vetted by anyone. Be it all kinds of dangerous "challenges", Incel/Gamergate/far-right propaganda, hate against LGBT or whatever - it's all completely intransparent. That's bad enough if done by Western companies for profit reasons, but even worse as a capability in the hands of an enemy nation.
If my hypothetical kids don't enjoy the land before time, I'm getting a paternity test.
> the damage done by a successful terrorist attack is far greater.

Terrorist attacks are incredibly rare; murder, rape and (especially) property crime are commonplace, and don't rate even a column-inch in newspapers. Once upon a time, kids, there was a job called "court reporter").

How many people have you known who were victims of terrorist attacks? Right - zero. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who was the victim of a terrorist attack. How many people do you know who haven't been the victim of a personal crime, like assault, robbery or rape? Again, the expected answer is roughly zero.

Most successful applications of political violence (I hate the term "terrorism") result in just a handful of deaths/injuries. By "successful" I don't mean they achieved their objectives; I just mean the attack wasn't foiled before it happened.
DOJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking spy stuff subreddit
Kinda interesting (if you're unfamiliar with that part of Astronomy). However - the "Sorry, no more total solar eclipses for you!" problem won't hit until 6e8 or so years from now. So most current HN'ers have little cause for concern.

A considerably bigger problem is that in a few 1e9's of years, our elderly sun will start departing from the Main Sequence*, and expand into a red giant. Completely ruining the geometry for anything remotely resembling a "ring of fire" eclipse. (And soon toasting the Earth to a crisp. Make sure to sell your real estate investments before that market goes to hell.)

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_sequence
I can relate. I hate the situation I am in, and I am too reserved to make risky changes. It sucks. I have lost trust in Tech.
Exactly, zmq is far more flexible in deployment options because of this.

We (at work) use ZMQ + our own special sauces to run vehicle automation messaging stuff. Running some enterprise-ish broker in that environment just isn't on the menu.
I always thought that the opposite was the main concern, pushing a narrative rather than collecting data. I don’t know if it is, but it would be mine.

For example, I have seen many videos clearly aimed at young people that casually and weirdly slip in a comment stating that Taiwan is part of China. One example: one of these “a guy asking pretty girls trivia questions” asks two girls a series of questions, to one question she says Taiwan to which says “Taiwan is part of China” in a mocking voice and the other girl laughs at her. Another example: a guy giving statistics about private jet ownership randomly mentioning the number of planes “in China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong”. These all appear to be made by Americans, filmed in LA or Miami, but are clearly either some sort of deliberate attempt to influence public opinion or content creators trying to get their videos promoted by including such comments.
Sounds like society is continuing, on a USD basis. Society ≠ government. They're usually orthogonal, and often go against each other.
Even just the ZMQ guide is amazing: https://zguide.zeromq.org

After reading this I wanted to read everything by him - which I am still in the process of.
Okay, but like, spell it out for me. What are the risks?
They could data-mine for the kids of generals and colonels, see when daddy (or mommy) wasn't home until 2am, and infer that something big's happening. They could see on some nobody's kid that lives one town over from the base that traffic has been heavier or lighter at a certain date, just from watching the kid dance down the sidewalk.

Tiktok's like having a spy camera that floats around randomly, taking pictures. 99% of the time those pictures are worthless... in the wrong place, at the wrong time, etc. But once in awhile they have gold.

I still freak out about the Japanese pop star whose stalker managed to see the reflection in her high-res eye photo that had a street sign, found her home address from it. In a war situation, would China ever allow anyone in the US to see a photo of anything inside their country? Would they even allow those to be taken for viewing by other Chinese (for fear it'd somehow leak out to us)?
> No it's not really a choice.

Of course it is. Taking leetcode job because you don't want to work forever is buying a lottery ticket. Maybe it's your ticket to financial independence, but maybe not.

The alternative, of taking a more normal job that affords you a higher day-to-day happiness level but doesn't pay as much is a legitimate other option. Plus, doing that doesn't exclude being able to achieve financial independence.

There's no right or wrong choice here. It all depends on your personal attitudes, goals, and tolerances. But there is a choice.
Construction work isn't worth doing for the wage. It isn't a problem of training. I would rather do construction myself but programming and IT pays significantly better without the travel and the bodily destruction.
It depends at this point on what the maintainers want/need from it.
This is why you should never sign a CLA; it allows later relicensing of your work to nonfree licenses.

Linux doesn’t have a CLA, and it’s the most popular operating system in the world.
>They did fix the screen (weren’t they 1080p before?)

It never was

>However, the battery kwh number is (low)

Eh, that's pretty much the standard , even macs start with 52kw

In some you see 72 and i don't really know how some companies can get 96 inside but hey

>Also, I haven’t seen a reliable intel laptop for 12 years.

There is nothing thst could change your mind
This story is vastly overblown. It was nothing more than a temporary glitch:

"Turns out that our statistics aggregator at joinmastodon.org severely undercounted Mastodon data between Oct 2 and today due to a network connectivity issue. This has now been corrected."

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111201741329224294
They are different parts of the network. If you don't fine tune them, they don't change. They are "frozen"- if you're familiar with fine tuning neural networks
big target
All these cool-looking dashboards are just too inflexible. You cannot add your own aggragates beyond trivialities. You cannot just "color that one value that bugs you". You cannot just generate a readable report plus some explanatory text.

Spreadsheet export + pivot table gives you all that. Doable for any moderately competent office drone without a round-trip through some endless backlog-spec-sprint-program-test-respec-sprint-... loop
75 km was to account for two locations within the single city or metropolitan area, with some buffer: 25-30 km each way, leaving 15-25 km as buffer for heating/cooling cabin and battery depending on climate as well as detours like groceries and picking up children. A significant percentage of your range goes out the window when the battery goes cold or you need to heat or cool the cabin.

Random online sources[0] seem to suggest that the average daily US commute is 41 miles, or 65 km. The median or geometric average might have been better, but that suggests that the "average US citizen" would require 2 charges per day with less than 75 km of battery range.

If you go much shorter than this - say, 20km roundtrip - then you are also getting into bicycle commuting territory, at least outside the US where bikes are given priority in traffic.

[0]: https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-commute-time-statistic...

> But even then: if you go 100 km between charging and the battery only lasts half of it, that's still half your fossil fuel that's replaced with a municipal electric grid that is inherently more efficient even when also purely fossil fuelled, and also is being rapidly greened.

If you divide the all-electric range with battery capacity, the Prius Prism consumes 191 Wh per km in all electric mode, while a Hyundai Ioniq 6 consumes 133 Wh per km - you are paying for the complex hybrid drive-train in electric efficiency. In ICE mode, the same car consumes around 3.5 L per 100 km mixed driving, while fully petrol VW up! uses 2.9 L per 100 km mixed driving - not bad for a gasoline vehicle, but also not amazing. Data from their respective Wikipedia articles.

If you rarely ever need the gasoline engine, sure - then you're just driving a somewhat inefficient BEV with a miniscule battery requiring recharging at least once a day. If the gasoline engine comes on, then you're just driving a gasoline vehicle from that point on with good - but far from the best - fuel efficiency.

Either way, you might still be better off with a small BEV with a tiny battery, like a used Renault Zoe, VW e-UP! or the upcoming VW ID.1. Better efficiency and longer battery-range so you don't have to recharge once or twice every day, and without being the worst of both worlds when they are serviced like is the case for a hybrid.
US lawmakers want China export bans to include open source tech like RISC-V
Based on other people's responses I'm guessing that they interpret the distinction as "time sensitive" versus "useful"
too many stories out there where folks are buying as primary and they putting it on rent 4-6months in, and then picking another primary. There are some states that restrict such activity, others do not flag and allow for it.
Sure. Closing in on my 50s too. I generally don't have patience for most games of that era either. I think quite a few of those games still stand up but when I play them now it's more of a historical engineering thing where I am understanding and figuring out how they pulled off certain effects, etc.

I recently grabbed a NES emulator and a knock-off USB NES
gamepad and played through a bunch of old games from my
childhood. It hits real different now that I have a life
and time is precious.

Getting back to the point of the linked article, there were some special things about how these games looked and played on real hardware on real CRTs. One was the look. Two was a true zero-latency experience. While we may have "nostalgia" about the CRT look, there are also objective differences there.

And all the while, I'm watching the clock, thinking about how
otherwise productive I could be being right now...

I feel this too. But I also feel this way about reading books at this point in my life, I'm ashamed to say. I hardly read any more. But I don't blame the games, or the books. It's clearly me that has changed.
Wow, I didn't realize Chapel was still under development, I haven't heard about it since 2011. Its contemporary rival was Fortress from Sun Microsystems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...), which does appear to be defunct, both of which are languages intended for highly-parallel computation on supercomputers.
Maybe release it under AGPL and sell hosted instances?
If at all possible, I'll just lift the one from Free Pascal. Otherwise, it's yet another chore in the process of bringing MStoical (a modern port of the STOIC language) to life
Correct but the reason for that is the fact that all of the sudden companies are forced to contribute back if they want to offer commercial software on top of the labor of OSS projects.

Again, I agree with the reasoning for libraries, devTools, infrastructure etc given that those libraries end up in commercial products. However in the case of full fleshed enduser applications AGPL is a great protector against the amazons of the world.
What is the role of “secret” in the headline? Every internal action of every company is secret, so it adds nothing other than innuendo to the article.
Quite the contrary. Home-manager is literally the only thing that's worth using Nix. Anything beyond that is far too esoteric, unsupported, non backward compatible and continuously broken.

My dotfiles managed by nix(-darwin) and home-manager breaks every time I update my pins, and I find myself having to bisect which commit introduced the issues. Given that, I just don't see how that would scale to a full OS, let alone to a team at work. 1000% better simpler with understandable Dockerfile and Kubernetes YAML manifests, or with Ansible YAML. At least every folk can StackOverflow and ChatGPT it to a working state, and have it work for a considerable amount of time without further maintenance.
Net neutrality's court fate depends on whether broadband is "telecommunications"
So I made an argument and then you sent an unrelated article as counter evidence?

I suggest you read my top level post, to get my overall position.

To make statement about CyberTruck before we have ever seen the internally design and a detailed tear-down talking about its repair-ability is mostly nonsense speculation that I will not take seriously.
I wonder how many people would contribute to a crowdfund for this...
Fraud, i.e. falsifying bid numbers.
Conversely, as an organization, it makes sense to never accept changes without a CLA.
A child doesn't pick up Mario World and just beat it in 5 hours on the first go through. Those playthrough times listed are for people who already are expert at the game and already know all the levels.

My family spent more than a year playing Mario World, exploring, finding secrets.
I think it's just them being scared of models running on their servers producing things that cause bad PR. And the reason they're not willing to not run things on their servers is competitive advantage as well as just extracting more money out of users that way. (I definitely don't think actual safety is the concern.)
> Something urgent must be the most important.

No. Answering a ringing phone is urgent. Answering a ringing phone is not important (usually*).

Opening a certified letter from the IRS is important. Opening a certified letter from the IRS is not urgent.

Urgency communicates the time-sensitivity of a task. Importance communicates the value of a task.

* Assuming you're not a 911 dispatcher or other on-duty call-center type of employee.
Conversion rate, or velocity?

I might expect people that click ads to have worse conversion that other traffic sources. The hope is that volume overcomes that?
I think it's a bit strange to be so gung-ho about unpolished/amateur projects on hacker news. I think part of the hacker culture is sort messing around and sharing your findings, right or wrong. I don't think thats orthogonal to polish, but I think that sometimes includes unpolished work.

I do agree with you, in other words. I would prefer if we encouraged amateur work.