skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google claims the Pixel 8 is the first handset with that feature.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/11/first-handset...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125379
What about lux watches? A 3 dollars Quarz Casio can beat any hand made Rolex in precision… but still some buy it. And in between there are all kinds of possibilities.
Isn't a bounty like the worst way to compensate someone for a defined piece of work?
This title messes with my head
>I think Moissanites are inferior to diamonds in appearance in my personal, subjective opinion.

Yeah, same. They have too much bling and look exactly like something the nouveau riche would parade around. To make things worse, moissanite jewellery usually has too many gems, something you couldn't afford with diamond.
No; it would have started in the last decades of the previous century.
Now how are you going to have javascript speculatively executing avx gather instructions? Are OSes going to disable avx now too?
In the 286 era there were even different types of co-processor, the Weitek implementation (2167) absolutely trounced the official 80287 (and it's second source versions) at CAD, that's most likely what your parents had.
The idea of contaminated food being solved by a food safety rating industry set up to rate thousands of small South Asian market stalls for the benefit of poor and sometimes functionally illiterate customers after enough of them have traced their family members' deaths to the food supply sounds more like the sort of scenario raised to mock libertarians than 'perfect information', which is just a technical requirement for an ideally functioning market in economics (the theory that safety ratings industries can fill the gap is a theory of markets converging on consumers having all relevant information anyway)

Even if we assume safety ratings for a complex food supply chain resulting in tens of thousands of one man businesses selling to people earning a dollar a day is a massive market opportunity, brands and safety labels are trivially copied by sufficiently people selling adulterated food, so they alone fundamentally don't solve the problem. Only a government can step in and regulate that IP, and at that point they might be better off just banning the poisoning...
> To be fair go has never used llvm and was delivered in less that 50 years.

And if Zig was a google project instead of a 3 person show, I'd be far more inclined to believe that they can pull this off.

But as previously said, the current style of development makes it hard to attract contributors and more importantly funding.
Between Android, App Store, Chrome and Search Google has a very big stronghold over how people access and consume the internet.

Google has an insane competitive advantage over most of the internet into knowing exactly what are people looking for and being the first to provide it.

This isn't any different to what Amazon does on their shop. They know what sells and for how better than any of their sellers, and they will know what basic product to launch and kill the competition.

But honestly, I think that if I was Google or Amazon...I would do the same? They aren't in the business of charity or powering internet users but making money for shareholders.

As a user I despise that, but as an entrepreneur monetizing information and channeling it to your own services is such a no brainer.

This is a very difficult topic to discuss, one that's born from people defaulting to Google Search and the lack of any realistic competition.

It doesn't matter how worse google search gets, it's still going to be the default search for ages due to it being default already on pretty much every device bar Windows computers when using Edge.

At some point this is an issue for legislators I fear, because I just don't see how anyone can fight this.
Everyone likes to laugh. The problem is that joking in real life during a whiteboarding session here and there in a lull or a in a difficult moment is a cut from the norm and everyone loves it.

But in an online message board you have the problem that jokes are understood by everyone, whereas a deep insightful comment isn't understood by everyone, so jokes tend to go to the top, and people tend to cluster jokes on jokes in joke trees and suddenly what started as "a joke here and there lightens the mood up" turns into people trying to one-up each other on jokes instead of reading the damn article and sharing some actual insight. It's hard to control "how much" online.

HN actually has lots of jokes in absolute numbers, usually only the best ones are tolerated, it's just that on a relative basis you won't enter a thread with 20 comments where 18 are jokes, which is what I would hate.
The only concrete example that page gives is from Suella Braverman, who has just been fired for incompetence/general weirdness, and that's a difficult one in the modern Tory Party, let me tell you. I am... unconvinced this is a thing.
Wow. Absolutely got the BITFD shakes a few times reading that.
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Why would a car crash if the speed limit is obeyed?

There are many factors that can lead to overheating. Like damaged sockets, Plugs not plugged in fully, dirty plugs/sockets, cheap/old sockets that don't fulfil the specs, wear in sockets that leads to not enough pressure on the pins and smaller contact surface, ...
> 1. The first is literally the first example of the article: real/important vulnerability disclosures get confused with beg bounties which dont need to be acted on / are not serious (most of the time). That can cause real harm.

I have a hard time sympathizing with this. Our project gets a handful of these "beg bounty" things a year; usually they're repeats -- SPF and "clickjacking" are common ones, but we also get other ones. ("You're exposing people's usernames through this weird JSON thing!" "Yes, we're also exposing people's usernames in the 'by' line of the post itself. There's nothing in that JSON that's not also available by just doing plain web scraping."). If we see a new complaint we always look at it to see if it's something we actually care about.

If you're working with pictures and audio of kids, or have details of people's activities that they may not want made public (like their taste in "Adult Fanfic"), there's absolutely no excuse for not looking at each report, even if 95% of them are low-value.

EDIT: I mean of course the "Report and then ask for a bounty" kinds, not the "Give me the bounty and I'll tell you the bug" kinds.
If you're going to be totally cynical about it, and are not even willing to entertain the idea that they did it to further scientific progress, then you have my upvote.
I remember that - U pipe and V pipe.

And that's why it's first x86 that was superscalar.
iPhone App Sideloading Coming to Users in the EU in First Half of 2024
Hate to say it but this is where we get the state to step in and simply dismember the company.
Ask HN: Can we think of DNA as Infrastructure as Code
And is there any study on the parallels between human biology and computer science?
What's the objection here? A large party with a hired pyrotechnic specialist giving a performance using expendable supplies is going to cost some money. Is this an arguement against large parties in general?
I'm all for Rust and WASM, but if you look at the code it's just 150 lines of a basic Rust command-line script. All the heavy lifting is done by a single line passing the model to the WASI-NN backend, which in this case is provided by the WasmEdge runtime, which incidentally is C++, not Rust.

Rust is bringing zero advantage here really, the backend could be called from Python or anything else.
> The emperor who fancies himself a music hall singer.

... Wait, Caligula? That was some four centuries before the Western empire bit the dust, only a few decades after the _creation_ of the empire.

I mean, I know people love blaming absolutely everything for the collapse of the Roman Empire, but delayed action of four centuries feels like pushing it.
...we need to invest into those countries and build them up much like we built up some countries

I find investment like this quite a problematic. It makes places, that would be naturally inhabited, artificially alive with huge cost. It's not sustainable approach.

Generally all kinds of grants makes inequalities in society. Either, you have free market that naturally shape possibilities. Or you brake it by investments and grants. Learning process how to obtain a capital and manage it is more valuable than giving sources to dilettantes. Sure, we have mechanisms that control, how well is grant spent but then you invest time to control, instead of developing.

we started out with rulers being absolute, like kings, etc.

Kings, in history, has much less impact to personal life than politics nowadays. Due to globalization, technology and overall amount of laws, restrictions and regulations spread in it. 2020 is great example how fear that has been spread in mass media, lockdown almost whole world.

so we need to change the understanding. that those elected representatives are there to serve us. not we serve them. their responsibility is to take care of our problems, and find and propose just solutions and rules for us to be able to live together.

They will serve to power. Because being elected in democracy means being a populist. It's not about serving to people at first place. You cannot win elections with this in democratic system.

no more toeing the party line. make decisions only based on your conscience.

While I agree, I'm not sure if individualism is a way to go. Conscience is shaped, mostly in childhood by your parents. If you grow up in pathological environment, later you spread same behavior. Notice that normalization of being a victim, unstable and a deviant is strong nowadays. I prefer dialogue, going out from comfort zone and cultivation of mind by active socialization. Note that this is not rhetoric we can observe today with amount of time spent affront of screen. Alone in our safe bubbles.

also give each person multiple votes.

There are some methods, that could improve voting system, like D21 (1.) Basically it operate with possibilities of voting with two plus votes and one negative vote. That negative vote could eliminate populism in political campaigns. I'm not saying its perfect, but idea of giving one vote to someone, who is chosen by party or promoted by public opinion polls is just an illusion of free vote.

i don't think a perfect system is possible.

It never will be. But more dangerous is a thinking, that we have perfect democratic system and there are no other options. Usually those who are afraid of changes comes up with communism. Well... I live in post-communistic country and we still face communistic rhetoric in democratic state, usually from those, who name themselves as anti-communists. So again, we came back to circle, where political system tend to put individuals to categories and let them fight each other.

(1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D21_%E2%80%93_Jane%C4%8Dek_met...
Not just nowadays. Martin Luther was complaining about practices that were already old by his time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pardoner%27s_Tale
What do you mean "only"? This specific model has a AMD Radeon 780M card.
Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AI
>Also what "role" would an LLM play if you just take the base model without a default prompt or finetuning?

What role would any person into sexual roleplay play if you don't prompt them into sexual roleplay?
It doesn't need an option as in a button (HN doesn't seem to have developers on it), but it's required to comply with a deletion of your account under GDPR. Emailing someone is fine, after all, "do things that don't scale" is one of the known adages in this space.
> I did not say black swan nuclear disasters are a civilization-ending danger. I said people are afraid of them much more than of climate change.

That may be, but you're coming off as mongering the same irrational fear.
Apple as well. If you are trying to provide for example a piece of configuration software that runs on a mobile device in a heavily Apple dominant market you are at the whim of Apple App store reviewers.
This was not very helpful, to be honest. From what I gathered, what you mean is that when elites are concerned about showing off their status, by pretending to be non-elite, it means inequality has gotten to a breaking point.

If that's it, then you could've been clearer.
I love how both of you are basically just arguing about different ways of how women have no agency.

"Those women" are definitely "brainwashed" but phrasing it that way is very condescending. It's called advertising and culture and you're not immune to propaganda either.

Some women genuinely value conspicuous consumption as a status symbol the same way some men do. Some women believe diamond rings are a must because "that's the way it is" and they don't want to be outsiders. Some women just like sparkly shiny things.

Calling any of this "brainwashing" makes it sound like this is odd or noteworthy: you only think so because you're appaled by this particular example but you're likely ignorant to the myriads of ways you yourself hold irrational, toxic or even self-destructive values and beliefs due to your upbringing and the culture you exist in.

Yes, diamonds bad. But women who want diamonds aren't exceptionally shallow or odd as humans. They're just shallow and odd in people you are aware of and find distasteful.
This is not your great grandmas x86.
> It’s about wanting a man with enough resources to waste on a diamond.

well yes, but not really. it's about showing off. it's a status game. which is fine for a certain degree. "we are social animals", etc.

status is intertwined with a lot of very pragmatic interpersonal things (peer pressure of conformism, reciprocating gifts, respecting each other, not being late or too early, taking turns to speak and listen, remembering birthdays, remembering who remembers our birthdays) and community-wide trust (who can ask you a favor, loans, borrow your car, who do you work with).

but there are much better signals for "who do you pick as a mate" than "how many carats does this diamond is?", of course arguably a lot of people are not really good at picking up on those interpersonal signals, so ... they recruit the community through these reflective signals.
>but diamonds aren’t worth what you’re paying

>Value is defined in free markets by what you can sell something for

So if someone can sell you a diamond for X, it is worth X. So the diamond is worth what you're paying.

Was Christmas created to sell Christianity?

I just don't get the distinction. A 'natural' tradition isn't somehow more wholesome, we've just forgotten who invented it. And the meaning still derives from the people partaking in that tradition.
Top Chinese memory chip maker YMTC sues Micron for patent infringement in US
I do think that Google is indeed too big to the point it's a threat for the future of the internet and fair competition indeed.

But I also don't like the idea of legislators having to sort it out, they may do more damage than good for all the parties, from companies to users to Google.
hard disagree
The destiny of all natural intelligence is to extinct itself, by damaging the environment, starting an all-out nuclear war, engineer bio weapons, and in many other ways, or just to be wiped out by the first visiting comet ELE, and in the process power starving and killing the substrates of any artificial intelligence it has created too...
Beautiful. I wish all titles on hn where this concise.
Perhaps, but it's pretty sad that we buy things just because they're expensive. In most cases it's just a waste, and you're only hurting your own bank account, but when it comes to diamonds, it actually causes harm.

And yes, I did buy my partner a diamond engagement ring. I wish I'd tried harder to see if she could be happy (or happier, even) with something else, or at least a lab-grown diamond.
Just out of curiosity, what was that classical mechanics textbook?
Formula 1 Planners Didn't Realize Las Vegas Gets Cold
Because "creating memories" can't be exchanged for social status.
Khan Academy is excellent for Calculus however their material for Differential Equations is rather minimal since they don't really go into university level material.

Perusing online resources for Differential Equations shows that there doesn't seem to be much agreement on how to define the core subject, and there is no grounding on 'how we got here' to provide a path forward to people just starting out. My experience so far, at least.
Diamond paste has been available for heatsinks for years.
The future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging indu
I completely agree. My point is that, even though buying a diamond is stupid, buying a cheap knock-off is even stupider. The only point of a diamond is to show wealth, since it's a rock - a knock-off can't even show wealth, so why buy it?

If you want to buy something useful instead, that's much better.
One of the reasons ARM could never have started in the US (and a reason to argue against the nVidia takeover) is american b2b culture leads to inevitably competing with your own customers, and I can almost sense the replies in advance defending such activity as better for the consumer even though in the long run it clearly is not.

Mr Diller here I am sure is far from angelic but he is doing heroic if futile work. Google simply cannot stop their antics unless forced to do so.
Dismember into what? Except for a lot of ranting and stamping of feet on HN, I don't see a lot of HNers jumping in and providing free alternative services for Google services?

There is a lot of DEMAND for free services for sure, but doesn't seem a lot of people are putting their money where their mouth is? Kagi hasn't grown all that much, neither have services like Nebula?
It's current a popular tech, so it must have no realistic limit.

Just like the 1969 moon landing meant spaceships for everybody and space colonies in 30 years...
> It doesn't even cross your mind that you should be asking about lead in your turmeric.

All customers always checking all food for poisons is not reasonable at all.
Speaking of 2nd-order linear ODEs w/ const factor (a.k.a. mass-spring-damper systems), I wrote a blog post[0] deriving all possible general solutions in a concise matrix that makes it easily implementable in code.

The following is the complete solution in Lua:

function sprung_response(t,pos,vel,k,c,m)
local decay = c/2/m
local omega = math.sqrt(k/m)
local resid = decay*decay-omega*omega
local scale = math.sqrt(math.abs(resid))
local T1,T0 = t , 1
if resid<0 then
T1,T0 = math.sin( scale*t)/scale , math.cos( scale*t)
elseif resid>0 then
T1,T0 = math.sinh(scale*t)/scale , math.cosh(scale*t)
end
local dissipation = math.exp(-decay*t)
local evolved_pos = dissipation*( pos*(T0+T1*decay) + vel*( T1 ) )
local evolved_vel = dissipation*( pos*(-T1*omega^2) + vel*(T0-T1*decay) )
return evolved_pos , evolved_vel
end

[0] https://esporttoys.pages.dev/2022/11/21/damped
I own one of the previous generations of this laptop and I want to say that the batteries are a bit of a sham (hopefully they're better in this new one). I've had to change them once a year, because they drop from 100% health to 60% in less than 12 months. Each replacement was around 80-90EUR.
Wikipedia relies literally on "fuck you we are the first/sidebar result on Google" to keep a fresh editor flow. The moderation policy of Wikipedia literally states it's better to just indiscriminately ban all people in an argument because new users will inevitably show up to fix the issues in a more level-headed manner.

Most communities do not have the luxury Wikipedia has. For most of them that approach is unsustainable.
> 1. Where do you use FreeBSD? On your laptop? Remote servers? Routers?

Everything headless and sometimes kiosks.

> 2. Why do you use FreeBSD instead of Linux?

There's no such thing as "using Linux". You should ask why use FreeBSD over Debian, or why FreeBSD over Arch. Much easier questions with often quite obvious answers.

> 3. Why do you use FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD or another *BSD?

OpenBSD has no usable filesystem.

> 4. Do you find something lacking in FreeBSD? Is there something that is good in another OS that you'd like to see in FreeBSD?

Not really. Maybe swappiness and zram would be nice sometimes, but no biggie.

> 5. What is that one thing about FreeBSD that you would hate to lose if you were forced to use another OS?

Simplicity, coherence, and reliability.
Because the cereal box is not living matter, for starters.

Parent didn't say there's no such thing as life.
But that is a iGPU.
Yes, support for 386s was dropped near version 6 I believe. You could use such a version, or if you want a Unix-like on a 8088 or 80286 without proper memory protection, use ELKS. Although for a proper experience, I would just use DOS and forget about multitasking. DOS is blazing fast on a 386.

Of course, the real question is what to do with such machines once you get an OS running on them.
Bit rich considering Expedia's subsidiary Trivago was fined by the ACCC in Australia for pushing hotel listings by the highest paying advertisers to the top of their search results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivago#Legal_issues
The idea that South Asians consumed poisoned lead because of high average levels of trust in the efficiency of their governments and their regulation of the food supply as opposed to low information on lead poisoning isn't one that survives contact with reality. So the "but the market would have solved this if only lead poisoning was legal" position is definitely an extreme one.

The world has had millennia of not regulating very much, and the market very rarely sorted it out.
That's why we have public roads.
Road quality in 1600s would make it quite difficult I think.
You know it's lead we are talking about right?
> As long as you no longer refer to the old instance, this is as efficient as a mutable array.

On paper this is true, in reality though it probably is not. Immutable Haskell arrays are implemented with pointers, mutable arrays are implemented as contiguous memory allocations, so they have great cache locality.
What became of this conversation? Better deals? Increased hostility? Indifference?

I can imagine a Google exec reading this and laughing. Because no matter what we do you keep paying whatever number we type up
Same here - all DOS games was faster on DX4, but Pentium was so smooth on Quake.
Mostly seen younger children having a problem with 3D games, because they have to manage both the movement of the character as well as the camera perspective.
I feel like below 6 years, they have a hard time wrapping their heads around it / master the controls.

Having said that, Mario Kart 8 is really a good choice (despite it being 3D):
* it almost drives itself in 50cc cups
* it has 4 types of cups, which gradually get harder
* it's great fun alone and in coop
* it has great challenges: win the cup/ win all races

if it's not about co-op, but about letting your kid drive and _you_ sitting in the passenger seat, i can highly recommend the titles from https://www.humongous.com/games
They are like interactive cartoons with some mini games thrown in.
Basically old school point and click adventures for kids.
Android, cloud, email, youtube, maps, search and advertising could all be entirely separate businesses in an actual sense.