skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia definition, first paragraph:

"Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented."
>I'm surprised at some of the people who aren't overjoyed by this, who I expected would be.

lots of "new world" people used to the new ways, some old people changed, and other old people have simply withdrawn from the conversation.

I think the issue is still size, as well as a more general audience. Mastodon is nowhere near as large as twitter, but I wouldn't be surprised if it still has more users (not necessarily more conversation) than the Usenet days ever had. And of course that demographic will be very different from those in the 90's.

we can go back to old tech. Really hard to go back to old culture.
It's referred to as Constructive Dismissal.

It's basically the idea that you're being subjected to something outside of your contract that has made it impossible (in your view) to keep working for the company, and the company is not willing to accomodate you.

Refusing to go to office when your contract says you are a remote employee is a textbook case of constructive dismissal.

"You are placing a requirement on me that I find impossible to satisfy and you are not willing to negotiate. Therefore I am forced to resign"
Lenovo ships the standard Phoenix shell app named ShellFlash.efi (which calls itself ShellFlash64). One of its CLI flags is to flash the UEFI logo. The Lenovo BIOS package includes instructions to update the logo by dropping the image file in the ESP where their updater (BootX64.efi) can find it.

So flashing unsigned logo images is supported and intended behavior here.
Apartments in our block have air-tight windows and doors. But also there are passive ventilation input in every room, which allow flow of some fresh air through closed windows. Central ventilation is constantly taking air from the apartment so we have no issues with excess moisture. Some people even put a humidifier during cold months to get moisture level up to 50%.
I think the redundant part is "models:

Large Large Language Model Models

Small Large Language Model Models
What was the bandwidth of the stream you were working with back in the 90s? Google targets about 8-10mb/s now for 1080p, right?
I have read the article! It's not much about this subject, nor making a particularly strong case for what is and isn't included in a definition of democracy. I wonder why you are quoting it at me and not at the other commenter?
Apple is the new Sony might be better. I'm trying to figure out who is the upcoming premium tech product company... not thinking of any. I think Tesla wants to be
I'm not against a tasteful flourish or two, but in safari the header of this blog stuck over the content as I scroll: https://imgur.com/a/TyU2h3t

Something cool the web can do is static, reliable, easily readable documents – might be nice to show that off.
Whether you're making an intentional political statement or not is besides the point. That's the thing about something being intrinsic. Your intention doesn't subvert the fact.

To add to grotorea's already very good points in response to your boilerplate CLI program: you're writing it on a computer built by certain modes of production endorsed by interweaving political frameworks (industrialisation, neoliberalism, globalisation, capitalism, etc.) You're probably writing it in English which by the very fact of its use situates it as anglocentric, but also brings further attendant ideologies and assumptions with it about its uses/users. You're communicating about it over the internet (hopefully I don't need to explain the historical and contemporary ideological roots here.) I want to be clear that these aren't criticisms, but trying to chase some purity of intent by ignoring them doesn't make them go away. All of your actions are governed by and in response to these structures and unless you try to understand them, you'll always take them for granted.
I guess we'll know in a few months (whenever the model is available and the next competition is run)
> Or are Flame pools strictly children of each individual parent?

Confirm. Each parent node runs its own pool. There is no global coordination by design.

> Does it make a difference in pricing or anything else to run on hot workers instead of starting up per parent?

A lot would depend on what you are doing, the size of runner machines you decide to start in your pools (which can be different sizes from the app or other pools), etc. In general Elixir scales well enough that you aren't going to be running your app in every possible region. You'll be in a handful of regions servicing traffic in those regions and the load each region has. You could build in your own global coordination on top, ie try to find processes running on the cluster already (which could be running in a FLAME runner), but you're in distributed systems land and it All Depends™ what you're building the tradeoffs you want.
That is probably the worst and most carbon intensive way to plant some trees ever
> Why would you want to restart a service frequently?

As mentioned in the original comment - I haven’t found a web framework which supports timeouts for idle TCP connections (they all seem to be built on top of Hyper, which doesn’t support them). And so even tweaking kernel parameters to bump up the connection limit to a few hundred thousand (any higher than that and I start hitting a different set of problems), and only having a few thousand actually active connections, my app still runs out of sockets and hangs after a few hours.
Haha, I enjoy that Quad9 brought up the domain name in question, playing into the Streisand effect. Maybe just a little bit out of spite from having caused them such a hassle. So today I learnt about https://canna.to. Thank you, Sony. It wouldn't have happened without you.
Here's an open source alternative with context retrieval and message storage: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-ai-chat

(there are also versions using Assistants API and LangChain, linked from here: https://stack.convex.dev/ai-chat-using-openai-assistants-api)
We aren't quite there yet, but the last year has been an incredibly exciting time for the open source LLM community. If your computer is decently powerful, you might be really surprised by what's already possible. LM Studio on Apple Silicon supports GGUF quants on GPU out the box.
You're not dumb. You simply lack the specific body of knowledge and industry experience that provides the context for you to determine this.

That's just life. :)
This is not a valid Show HN. Please see the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.
It's easier to you because you're already familiar with it. But as someone that hasn't regularly used Windows in many years, I find performing administrative tasks and any kind of troubleshooting via Windows's opaque graphical interfaces to be a very manual and nail-pulling experience.

Additionally, graphical interfaces have a lot of downsides, as Microsoft themselves has discovered as evidenced by how over the past couple years they've been promoting PowerShell as a way to automate administrative tasks on Windows themselves and allow powerusers to pass around PowerShell invocations for quick fixes in the same way users of every other OS have for decades.
solar PVs are definitely producing more than put in. It takes years, as opposed to months or days for fossil fuels and nuclear, but it does pay back. look up EROI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/ says:

> Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

> Google AI Studio is a free, web-based developer tool to prototype and launch apps quickly with an API key. When it's time for a fully-managed AI platform, Vertex AI allows customization of Gemini with full data control and benefits from additional Google Cloud features for enterprise security, safety, privacy and data governance and compliance.

> Android developers will also be able to build with Gemini Nano, our most efficient model for on-device tasks, via AICore, a new system capability available in Android 14, starting on Pixel 8 Pro devices. Sign up for an early preview of AICore.

Yes, waiting a week sucks but complaining about not having an API seems pretty weak.
And then it becomes less available to the people who need it?
> It also means you have a single point of failure, no read-replicas or redundancy. Hate everything about this.

How does writing an application as a single language/binary prevent read-replicas or redundancy?

The application could do that.

Or you could do it at disk level (RAID).
Well, given the current state of affairs in the EU/UK, with those anti-Israel marches on one side and the general stance toward migrants on the other, Serbia seems like a quieter haven to me right now. Also, Serbs are very relaxed and genuinely friendly. Also, the crime rate is relatively low (especially given the amount of firearms, or maybe thanks to it). So, if the author of the previous comment is looking for a place to move, Serbia can be a good fit regarding the overall level of hospitality/peace of mind.
> your perspective is what matters

This is everything that is wrong with this institution in a nutshell.

If one is--literally--mentally unwell (ill), their perspective is flawed by definition.

The industry has found that humoring flawed perspectives drives repeat business, like me selling a drowning man a glass of water. You can't say I'm not helping him, but I am deliberately not giving him the help he needs.
The workers get terminated. If the work they were doing is important, it should be getting called from your job queue and so it should just get started up again.
That makes way more sense to me, and my handful of edits and additions to Wiktionary's Finnish lexicon has definitely had me wondering how exactly those {{shortcode looking things}} actually worked. I'm seriously considering getting involved in this project now thanks to your explanation, that seems like it could be a very good thing indeed.
It's a fair point :)

AI Copilot started out synonymous with code completion, it still means that for many.

Our bet was this meaning would broaden with time.
'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic turns 50
There Was No 'First AI Winter'
Bit of a nothingburger IMHO, but as usual the corporate bootlicker types want to scare the hell out of everyone.

Flashing the BIOS from within the OS never seemed like a good idea to me[1], but if you can do that then you can replace it with whatever you want. I also recall replacing the Energy Star logo with something more amusing was at one point a semi-common BIOS mod.

[1] I remember the story of a certain company that included silent automatic background BIOS updates in the preinstalled bloatware of its laptops, and the subsequent large number of "I didn't do anything but reboot and now it won't even turn on anymore" reports.
Getting sick less often? Maybe avoiding norovirus or some cold viruses? Maybe avoiding the flu (on quick search, influenza’s transmission mechanism is not entirely clear, but the flu can be very nasty in small children)?

One might reasonably debate whether it’s beneficial to a small child, and how much, to get sick less often. And one might reasonably debate the tradeoff between that benefit and the down sides of wearing a mask (e.g. more difficult communication). And one might extremely reasonably debate whether any of this would or could justify requiring other people’s children to wear masks.
> This is (partly) outdated. MPS (metal performance shaders) are now (since torch 2.x) fully integrated in standard Pytorch releases, no external backends or special torch versions are needed.

Not sure what you're referring to, the link I provided shows how to use the "mps" backend / device from the official PyTorch release.

> lots of energy goes into developing architectural work-arounds in order to limit the copying between graphics HW and CPU memory

Does this remark apply to PyTorch running on NVidia's platforms with unified memory like the Jetsons?
That literally seems like it taps the microphone wire to record raw audio signals.

Brilliant, but not a software or hardware issue. (Although actually having the device brick itself if it is opened up would have prevented the bug from being inserted).

Likewise secure PIN pads are easily "defeated" by a camera.

Plenty of TPM devices are encased in epoxy and designed to self destruct if tampered with. And lots of modern day devices (iPhones, game consoles) have stood up to years of attempts to exfiltrate their secrets.

Work arounds are possible, but the industry has, for better or for worse, figured out how to make secure secret stores.
GCP's support in a nutshell

Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.

We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.

Please go fuck yourself,

Google Cloud Platform

Source: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
Did you watch the video? Didn’t seem very boring to me.

If anything the lens seems ideal for the long pass touchdown in American football - one of its most exciting plays.

Anyway, if you can think of another $10+ billion per year industry that could use the lens, I’m all ears.
I'm really surprised by that, but that's neat. The next step would be allowing users to export the (probably signed and encrypted) update packages onto their own media for backup on their own terms.
AMD Ryzen AI Software
Free the science. Full PDF https://www.wosonhj.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=594810
I don't understand why it should be the one or the other.

RSS is still needed because, despite all of this, not everyone was/is on Twitter.

And I'm sure 99.999% of people on Twitter don't want to be bothered by creating and maintaining their own website or blog. Also, these are 2 totally different mediums with 2 different types of content, and 2 different publisher/reader dynamics (and, no, comments aren't the same thing).

Even if RSS was still in its heyday, a twitter of some sort is still being to be a need.
How many application languages have percentile functions?
I recognize urine mycotoxin tests are potentially controversial, but these tests were very diagnostically significant for us and our mold journey. The mycotoxins that were off the charts in our tests matched the mold that was eventually found in our house (after multiple mold inspectors missed it).

This area is definitely more "gray" than implied by your comment. I have tremendous respect for Shoemaker, but there are some gaps in that paper that did not appear to address how our practitioner used those tests for us. Many of the studies mentioned in the meta-review focus on the presence or absence of mycotoxins not the measured amount. Also, our practitioner used the test "backwards" compared to procedure outlines in the review paper. Our practitioner used the test before we had any evidence that we lived in a water-damaged building, whereas the paper is specifically focused on determining cause of illness after exposure to a water-damaged building.
CopilotKit itself is open-source, and supports assistants API + langchain :)
https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit
+1 freeman. I work in and around this all day.
The pixels were actually rectangular. Imagine that 640x400 has square pixels (which it pretty much does on a then-contemporary screen). When you have half the amount of vertical pixels at 640x200, you can either have square pixels at half the image height, or double the height of the pixels (making them rectangular) and fill the entire vertical space.
The really scary thing is that, forget what you said, they're starting to become more and more necessary for the bare minimum existence. We're not quite there yet, but it's becoming harder and harder to simply exist without one of these things.
Given that I am not understanding this comment,I suspect you are correct.
moderation aside, is the cost any different from any other site you can host on?
Well Java and JavaScript differ a lot too.

Some similarities, but a lot of differences too.
This article needs to die. People see stanford and think it's legit. This is an early grad school student's work and it probably shouldn't be visible outside the dept.
> You should always combine it with something only known to the user (i.e. a passphrase).

The fact this isn't mandatory blows me away. I remember when my work machine first got TPM full disk encryption, a passphrase was needed.

A few years later? Meh. Who needs "real" security.

Of course I get it is a convenience trade off, it almost always is.
Why do they gate access at country level if it's about language. I live in Europe and speak English just fine. Can't they just offer it in English only until the multi-language support is ready?
Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? What works now?
I've been disregarding the ad warnings on youtube but today, while listening to music they finally forced me to turn it off. I was using u block origin up until this point

And holy crap is it abysmal, every ad is designed to be as horrifically annoying as possible.

So what's the state of the art with adblock specifically for youtube at this point?
The overhead bins are empty. Why do airlines make you check your bag?
This is the un-fun work needed to get open source software into many different parts of the enterprise and government. It's not fun, and sometimes it's not even very difficult, but its usually very tie consuming and full of arcane knowledge.

Signed, someone who was dropped a big application and asked to make it FIPS compliant ASAP.
That’s actually been my experience with Google for a while.

If I don’t explicitly specify “site:xyz” I get pages of garbage spam sites with no answers.

Somehow ChatGPT seems easier to extract information from as I can just converse, test and repeat vs reading paragraphs of nonsense or skipping through a 14 minute YouTube video to get to incorrect or outdated answers.

As I get more proficient with ChatGPT, it becomes more useful. It has bad habits I can recognize and work around to get what I need. It just feels far more efficient than using a web search tool ever was.
https://archive.ph/KnloN
I’ve heard that datalog (and similar languages in that vein) is far easier and terser to write. What do you think about that?
Complaining about “populism” being a problem for “democracy” is a bit of a contradiction. Putting aside the vagaries of US politics, Orban in Hungry won 55% of the vote. Modi in India has a 76% approval rating.

Right-wing populism has an authoritarian element, but that partly arises from responding to the power of non-democratic left-wing entities. For example, even liberal California decisively rejected affirmative action when it was put to a referendum. But it’s enormously popular in non-democratic institutions (corporations, academia, media), that have a lot of cultural power. Right-wing efforts to tamp down on that are authoritarian, but not anti-democratic.

Alternatively, for example, when you poll people about the ideal level of immigration to the US, their numbers are much lower than the actual numbers. If you decided US immigration policy via direct democracy, it would be far more restrictive. But opposing immigration is also painted as anti-democratic.
It seems the big takeaway tech executives took from WeWork wasn't that it was wrong but that that self-dealing is okay as long as you have enough leverage to get away with it.

It's pretty clear now this is the reason that Altman got fired in the first place.
> (There are ECS frameworks in JavaScript, which gives you absolutely no control over memory layout and thus completely defeats one of the primary purposes of the pattern.)

While JS does not provide great support for bit packing complex structs, typed arrays give you quite a bit of control over memory layout for simple numeric types, which is what you usually want for optimal data-oriented code anyway. This is a common technique used in fast JS libs for data visualization, ie:

https://github.com/mourner/flatbush

There are also basic operators required for bitarrays, which are useful for ECS and memory-efficient code generally.
”Within the first few paragraphs I've already heard how OOP is bad”

Whenever there is a discussion about ECS/DOD, “Object oriented” acquires a special meaning in that specific context. It is merely about a popular set of coding patterns used to structure games mostly based on heavy inheritance usage (and often also with lots of singletons).

ECS/DOD isn’t exactly a replacement for all OOP in a game code. It is mostly replacing what would be entities, managers, nodes, basically things that exist in multiples and have specific access patterns. Also: lots of DOD/ECS code and libraries are implemented using OOP + classes.

About performance: with the popularization of ECS the focus shifted away from performance alone. It is actually also a very rich paradigm/pattern that is heavily about dynamic composition and separation of concerns, and it achieves those things in a way that is IMO more elegant than the popular OOP approaches historically and currently used in games.

So I would argue that there isn’t really a tradeoff here when it comes to code quality and engineering.

But like I said above it can be implemented with OOP and classes: there is prior art for using this kind of dynamic composition in 90s software and books, for example.
Could it be that it's a scale problem?

How many queries per second does OpenAI get vs Google search?
Cough, a couple of those countries are in Europe..
it's already prohibitively expensive for most people since most insurance doesn't cover it. Doesn't really seem like a solution.
Edit: in the US. Can't speak for other nations.
> Very much like the brain slugs in Futurama

I didn't get your reference (not from my generation) but I could find a description on https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Slug and yes, that's a perfect example of what I meant!!!

> However having children does "turn on" certain emotions and modes of thinking that you don't get otherwise (at least I didn't prior), so I'd think that not having kids also deprives one of a very key aspect of the human experience

Then the same could be said by, say opioids or cocaine addicts to rationalize their behavior "it turns on certain emotions and modes of thinking you didn't have prior" - but that's the definition of altering the utility function!

> not having kids also deprives one of a very key aspect of the human experience.

In a statistical sense, I think that's true, but if you believe that it's ok to alter your utility function, then it should also be ok to decide to get addicted to a dangerous drug people use to be more like them?

Say like teens vaping because their fried do it, adults drinking alcohol at parties... except children are defined as something positive, for prosocial reasons (like in your example, if the brain slug political party was in power)
You'd enjoy most his talks, even if you don't understand the source material. They're half anecdotes and bashing Oracle in a very entertaining way.