skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone would design against properly calibrated monitors it would be fine, you could just set it to the standard calibration, but they don't so there is no universally good brightness you'd never need to change for. It's like webpage sizes, if everyone built and tested their UIs at the standard physical screen scaling then you would run into a lot less variance in website sizes.
It doesn't appear to have been submitted by the language writer and the website itself doesn't say it exists to bring you joy. It says "may you experience the joy of programming." Whoever wrote that is seemingly trying to be nice and say something similar to when a person on the street wishes you a good day. They're not trying to say you should be having a good day because their very existence is good for you.

This is a hobby language that someone made in his spare time and he gave it a website to share it. I don't see a sales pitch at all. It's more like someone sharing pictures of a hand-carved pieced of furniture they made themselves. The point isn't to say everyone else should be using it and it's better than other furniture. It's just hey, I made this, take a look if you're interested.
Equating understanding something that is actually physically impossible, to understanding something that is physically right in front of us?

Seeing beyond the observable radius is indeed impossible but getting through the tremendous amount of data is next to impossible. I believe this is a content for neurosurgeons but not for AI world.
Economic Value begs the question "value for whom?" Value for the people with money. Capitalism isn't about doing what people want, it's about doing what rich people want. And what do rich people want? A few extra goods and services, yes, but mostly: to get paid for being rich.

The purpose of capitalism is to ensure rich people get paid for being rich.

Is it any wonder this creates a crisis of purpose for people who aren't rich?
Is this a joke?

Seriously, look at the competitors:

- Google, who had been developing and distributing Tensorflow and Tensorflow-based hardware for computer vision and early transformer models before "CoreML" even existed, let alone shipped.

- Facebook, who wrote and distributed Pytorch, and trained + released Llama before an Apple press release even uttered "LLM". They also ship dozens of AI-powered features on the server-side and locally on Quest.

- Nvidia, who had been shipping 192gb+ systems for over a decade, as well as researching GANs, LLMs and Neural Nets and putting those features in CUDA as early as 2014.

- Microsoft, who not only wrote their own CoreML-styled API (Olive/DirectML), but actually maintains a cross-platform AI toolkit with ONNX.

...and Apple, the least-vocal company WRT AI is somehow the one that predicted LLMs with the release of an iterative product update? You'd have better evidence if you backed this up with astrology or gematria.

> And remember: llama.cpp is not even taking full advantage of the modern APIs Apple announced

Because as-is, CoreML does not have the features required to run GGML models out-of-the-box.

Suffice to say nobody is really investing in Apple for their ML potential. If you wanna catch falling knives though, be my guest.
What is the antitrust behavior here?
Thank you for the heads-up! I'll be more careful with the details in the future. I am sorry about that, because all the current English documentation has been translated by GPT-4. It seems I wasn't fully prepared, but I'm still thrilled that someone shared the Nature project on Hacker News.
Appreciate the response! This would be a great blog post btw.
Ideas I've had so far:

- dry out desiccant using sunlight or other heat ?

- waste heat while the A/C is in operation helps dry the desiccant?

- take advantage of some natural humidity difference to partially dry it?

- take advantage of other sources of waste heat, which are semi-plentiful in environments where you use A/C, to dry it?

That said, none of these happen at night, which is when the article says it's dried... also some would involve physically moving the desiccant around which magnifies complexity...
At the minimum, avoiding getting locked out of console exclusives.
Ask HN: Is it just me or has the Gmail spam filter stopped working?
In the past year or so, but picking up in the past six months, there has been a noticeable amount of email allowed through to my inbox that is obviously spam.

By "obviously" I mean I can clearly tell at first glance that it is spam. It's not any sender I'm subscribed to and there are all caps and random offers that you'd normally expect when clicking into your spam folder.

On top of that, there are senders who I had subscribed to at some point, to join a store's member club, etc. that I no longer was interested in receiving mail from and reported spam and unsubscribed and I still receive mail from them. There is one store in particular that I have now reported as spam at least three times and it still comes into my inbox.

Is this a function of just too much mail to process or is there some other reason for the uptick? In years past I don't recall ever seeing spam and if I did it was few and far between. Now it's probably 30% of my daily mail.
It's better for people to invest the brief time to learn what these things mean up front than have a language that's burdened with verbose keywords, forever.

Typing and reading "printFormatted" everywhere is going to get old really fast.
> What makes me a little sad from time to time is to see us, the human race, spending brains, time and billions in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

We don't spend billions on those things.
This one is made with Qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop I remembered this one.

But having checked clients for other platforms they are not made with Qt. You can check them all here: https://telegram.org/apps
My ethical premise is that there is no direct victim of AI generated CSAM, but that it's worth criminalizing because otherwise it further victimizes victims of existing law. In other words, there is a societal victim of it. To me it's the same ethical premise but interpreted within two different frameworks: one that's purely idealistic, and one that's based in practical reality.
two different concepts to explains separately

but ultimately there are many roadblocks to that ever happening, which is something people find valuable about those kind of systems
More people are familiar with Pascal and its syntax so I understand why people discuss it so much but it was succeeded by Modula-2, Ada, and Oberon which have better syntax.

One thing that is better about the syntax that I really like is the removal of BEGIN and END everywhere except around code in MODULEs and PROCEDUREs. IF/THEN/ELSE/END, FOR/DO/END, REPEAT/UNTIL, WHILE/DO/END, CASE/ELSE/END, no longer have BEGIN/END, even if there are multiple statements in them. This makes the code less verbose than C and C++ and equally or more compact vertically than them, depending on whether you put your braces on separate lines.
Huaorani People
>Because they are? There are whole industries that are more or less total BS. Whatever you do for these companies you are pretty much not contributing anything worthwhile to the society.

Well, according to you maybe. The customers/patrons of the company probably have a differing view.
Makes me think of the "MacBook Wheel" [0] from ages past.

It's really a shame how user-hostile design can be.

[0] https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA?feature=shared
> this to my Eastern European friends and they laugh at the level of corruption the US

These days I’m not that sure that the case (only talking about the Eastern European countries in the US)
In UBI discussions there is always this idea, which they even state in the article, that it "a means of unleashing the population’s creative potential". But I always have to look at this idea as not rooted in reality. Maybe some people would have their creativity unleashed, but a far larger amount would just burn all day on tiktok or on drugs given enough free money to meet their needs.

This is before the effects of a hugely disastrous increase in taxes on the middle class (who is the one's that are realistically most harmed by high taxes) and rampant zimbabwe style inflation take hold.

If you want to raise the lowest, you need ownership in something, not just giving things away for free. When people are given free rent, they trash the place since they don't care about. Free money they will just burn it on whatever. But people that own homes, people that own business, people with assets care about them and will raise up the community. If you're going to give a trillion dollars away, instead of giving it as free money to be eaten up by landlords and entertainment companies. It would be better to spend a trillion dollars building homes or condos and giving people them or giving bonds or shares in businesses so people have wealth.

But UBI will never work, imo itll lead to the Earth in The Expanse, where people "on basic" are just in abject poverty with low desire for work, and a ruined economy where jobs are extremely scarce.
Right. Most crimes are essentially ones that "the people" found unsavory.

For instance, there is no "victim" if I got caught enjoying cannabis in my own home in a jurisdiction where such a thing is illegal, but "the people" have made a decision that they don't like it and I should be punished for committing an anti-social act.

That is one of the fundamental aspects of democracy at work.
I think the problem is the optics of allowing him to continue working a single day after Microsoft takes over. It sends a message that it's okay.
How will driverless cars 'talk' to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas
The person who created those strings died so you won't be able to hunt him down. He was asked just before he died about them and couldn't remember what he used (or in conspiracy mode he wouldn't say)
It's the best mechanism on average. It doesn't work where e.g. it's too difficult to create a competitor.
Completely agree. If you can’t afford ~$6.50/month for hosting and a domain name and want VC funding instead, please seriously reconsider your priorities.

When my first site started making $0.21/day I was in positive profit territory with no investors to be beholden to.
Ooh, that's interesting. I hate AC because of the dehumidification.
Bobby Kotick threatened to have his former assistant killed [0]

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant [1]

Activision's Bobby Kotick Didn't Just Know, He Also Was Shitty To Women [2]

Activision Blizzard CEO Brushes Off Company’s Harassment Issues—Argues There Is No ‘Systemic’ Problem [3]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-videogames-bobby-kot...

[2] https://kotaku.com/report-activisions-bobby-kotick-didnt-jus...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/05/31/act...
Focusing on one asshole getting undeserved rewards is one thing, but it distracts from the real story.

What hurts way more at scale is the increasing monopolistic power of Microsoft Games. That should be the primary focus of everyone's attention.

This weakens Sony, Nintendo, Steam, Epic. The consumer. Everyone but Microsoft.

Microsoft can give away "experiences" under-cost and sink a lot of human attention into it. That translates to opportunity cost will be spent in the machine rather than distributed economies of innovation.
The Google Pixel 8 is almost the perfect camera for parents
Not every language needs a marketing department. This looks like a fun project.
> You actually don't need any window border at all then

Even if that was a great solution for everybody, you still need a window border. Or at least I do. I need that visual separation from all of the other windows on my desktop, and I need it to be thicker than one or two damned pixels.
Non-scientist here. Isn't this just stating that "experiments", even those involving non-laboratory measurements, need to begin with a falsifiable hypothesis? From my understanding, you can't draw any real conclusions from the data unless you predicted that it would look that way beforehand.
I mean, there is the rather extensive "Sexual harassment investigation" section of his wikipedia page where he paid $1.4 million as part of a jury verdict in a case of sexual harassment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Sexual_harassment...
I suspect iPhones do both. I have a 12 Pro, and when taking video the file is much more stable than the viewfinder while recording.
there was a sexual harassment lawsuit against him which he lost

https://kotaku.com/activision-boss-loses-legal-battle-over-s...

separately it was highly reported that he left death threats on his
secretary's answering machine

https://www.businessinsider.com/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-...

which the company apologised for

he's obviously a very shrewd businessman, but my god, you've got to be thick to leave death threats on an answering machine
That's what happens when people aren't familiar with fields other than their own. ML people famously re-invented statistical terminology, and used the wrong terms when they did exist. For example, they call inference "learning" and prediction "inference".

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/translating-between-statis...

They also recycled their own terms: generative models went from being another name for good old joint distributions (more of that terminology re-invention) to being, well, something that a human might associate with generation. Except by that point they had decided to change their field's name too, so we've ended up with "generative AI"!!
This is just citing the theory, right? In reality there is complexity and there are humans.
> Is it just regular fraud if you're not a public company?

I don't think it is regular fraud in and of itself.

I think it is likely to become fraud when you use sales figures including undisclosed self-dealing to support any financial transaction or anything else from which you receive something of value from someone else, and where those sales figures are a material factor.
You're welcome to send them all to me, I've got an Adobe Audition subscription.. I can do noise removal and renormalize them all to the same volume. Send me an email: hello@qingcharles.com
Yeah, but now we are in rather hilarious territory. Act Utilitarians can be taken advantage of by deontologist pediatric surgeons, but only once per surgeon per utilitarian. Much less of a gotcha than the original formulation of Bentham's Mugging.
Yeah I was mostly being tongue in cheek; I probably learned more and played more songs than if I hadn’t made the app. I just don’t have the sort of patience or discipline required to really advance beyond a few basic tunes. I learned about ukulele and fretted instruments in general for sure though. I still have my ukuleles and can probably play a few tunes from memory, but my poor cat absolutely hates the sound so I don’t torture her. Nothing like an honest critic.
> This is based on the now defunct Programming Language Shootout, aka The Benchmark Games.

That seems to be a defunct mirror someone made once upon a time.

https://www.google.com/search?q=benchmarks+game

Here are the Racket programs shown on the benchmarks game website:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Here are the Go programs shown on the benchmarks game website:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Here is the benchmarks game website:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Bad science: AI used to target kids with disinformation on YouTube [video]
The problem was allowing him to keep his job and walk away with a bonus check.

This guy should have walked away with nothing instead.
If you're wondering whether a job is worthwhile, ask "what happens if this stops being done / being staffed?" And you can extrapolate to whatever level and timescale you like.

That is, what happens if you stop doing your job? To the company, to the industry, to the world at large. What happens in a month, year, etc. (Assuming the function is not replaced.) Hell, what happens if your department or even company stops existing? Is there a negative effect overall on the world?

If you're satisfied making a difference at the company level, and you see an immediate or even medium-term impact on stopping what you do - then congrats, your job isn't bullshit. If you need an impact beyond that, it may be harder to feel your job isn't bullshit.

A job may be crucial to an organization but still feel like bullshit if you feel a need to contribute to the world overall. If you stop making / marketing / selling widgets, will that matter?
Everyone also discounts the other reason NIST (with NSA behind the scenes) might be shifty -- they know of a mathematical or computational exploit class that no one else does.

And therefore want to do things-which-seem-pointless-to-everyone-else to an algorithm to guard against it.

Without disclosing what "it" is.

Everyone's quick to jump to the "NSA is weakening algorithms" explanation, but there's both historical and practical precedent for the strengthening alternative.

After all, if the US government and military use a NIST-standardized algorithm too... how is using one with known flaws good for the NSA? They have a dual mission.
Why not just merge all nasdaq 100 and be done with it?
> “It's a massive spoiler …”

I’m the sort of person who says out loud—“lalala”— when someone talks about a piece of entertainment I’ve not yet seen/read.

However this bit about mice in HGTTG isn’t a “massive spoiler” for a book full of similar jokes or inversions. It’s just a joke, and not revealing of a major *plot twist*, which is the generally accepted definition of a spoiler—there are more things like this in the book. By the end, hardly one is more shocking than another.

Now, if you want a real good spoiler, M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense”... lalalalala
Modula-2 is a lot better than Pascal. Less verbose, many fewer BEGIN/END blocks.

Ada and Oberon are even better.
So you're now going to create some group that regulates how much competition can exist?
Right. 50 step manual fix! Only that it actually is like generally 3-4 step fix.

But I get it. As opposed to trying to let it sink in that something that could have easily been fixed and diagnosed you get to hear “buy a new one; nothing can do”, I am sure being able to fix something is less appealing. Because we must not lose sight of things like the organismic satisfaction one experiences when being able to pay for something Apple. That opportunity! Oh, my breathing is going up already. Just the thought of it.

Yeah, I get what you mean.
> Literal straws is what grows behind your house.

This is exactly my point. You're being purposely petty as if decapitation of a baby or mutilation with a knife are different. There are many lies perpetrated in the fog of war. But your choose to focus on the methodology of baby execution as the "hill to die on" in terms of "truth" is pretty f*ed up.
I hear you. I like Elm, Haskell and Ruby for syntax, as a personal preference, and no curlies-for-scoping.

But then I think the language models/paradigms are more interesting about these languages.
Gamblers and Casino Owners would agree that casinos are essential in our society.
Yes, these things were huge in the 80s and early 90s. "Part works" is the official term for them. I'm trying to track down some of the ones I loved from my childhood too. I wonder how well some of them hold up?
This does somewhat expose it isn't just so many people thinking they are in these jobs, it is some many people thinking others are in these jobs.
Even if you work at a fast-growing startup, that is making tons of money with few employees, and every single thing you do affects the bottom line, your own role is easily replaceable. I think this overall topic blurs with the concept of "I, as an individual, do not matter to the professional world."
People are generationally creatures of habit. Newer generations are entering the workforce for whom their first personal computing device was a touchscreen smartphone. With that context in mind, it's not surprising that a "native" responsive experience to them will be mobile centric rather than desktop centric. The market then evolves to cater to the needs of its largest cohorts.
> Economic Value begs the question "value for whom?" Value for the people with money.

Yes - e.g. Android phones comprise 80% of the market because people with money buy them... with that money. You can build a supercar for rich people, or fidget spinners for millions of kids. Either can reward you, as long as you do it well.

> The purpose of capitalism is to ensure rich people get paid for being rich.

The purpose of capitalism is to allocate resources efficiently, noting that the people doing the work and/or taking the risks can do this much better than a monarch or a bureaucrat.
Are there any "accelerators" that are employee-owned? I'm thinking of an arrangement where it's basically a software consulting company 90% of the time to pay the bills and get experience/inspiration. The remaining 10% of the time is spent trying to spin out new businesses that are collectively owned. Modulate the ratio as appropriate.

So if one project becomes successful, the principals can pivot to that and drop other ventures?
The way it was balanced made Primal feel a lot more 'real' than the other Far Cry games. Normally in Far Cry you might shoot an enemy in the chest 20 times with a rifle and he won't die, simply because that rifle is cheap. In Primal, from what I recall, pretty much all the human enemies would go down with no more than a few arrow wounds. And if it took more than that, an enemy continuing to fight with a few arrows in him was at least easier to suspend disbelief for.
Show HN: AuditBase – Solidity Security Scans
I built AuditBase because I was very frustrated with the quality of tools and reports from "reputable" audit firms.

You can scan a solidity file from your computer, verified contract from a block explorer, or integrate with github repos.

Under the hood, it's a python bot that downloads the source and uses Solidity ASTs to generate an analysis of the code & some machine learning for issues that can't purely be caught via static analysis.

There bot checks for over 400 issues in it's current state and more are getting added every week.

Here's an example report that the bot generated: https://app.auditbase.com/share/17229652399

Building the platform has been about a year of trial and error. The hardest part was proving that it's a good tool.

Fortunately, Code4rena launched "bot races" and gave us a proving ground to show that the reports are quality output. It also provides an excellent feedback loop to improve the bot each week.

A few of the top Web3 security researchers have used the tool and provided some amazing feedback:

- https://twitter.com/pashovkrum/status/1707740614270271976
- https://twitter.com/marcobesier/status/1710886639579332652

Current focus is improving the bot and successfully executing the pilot we have going with a few well-known audit firms.

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions. Thank you!
Yeah, why don't you reflect on why Lightning was such a "successful" connector and get back to me on that one. I'm sure there's a lot of interesting reasons besides the profitability of a license for a serial connector.
> The EU bureaucrats do not have power to magically insert spyware in our devices as long as we can install our own software.

EU bureaucrats have power to force ISPs to block connections to the messengers that would not comply, Chinese-style. They already do block websites they don't like - e. g. in Cyprus local provider CYTA shown me "access blocked due to EU comission regulation #whatever" for most of the Russian media sites.
> full-screen applications with tiling capability (think emacs) are much better.

For you. For me, that's substantially worse.