skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite happy with Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

It's open source, I can host it myself it I want to but the reference hosted version on omnivore.app is free and quite reliable. Dark mode, progressive webapp, native apps, full text search, Obsidian integration, Pocket migration.

Compare that with instapaper: Terrible Android app that looks like Android apps from 2015, okayish iPad/iOS apps, quite expensive now, every interesting feature behind a paywall. I guess if you're into the minimalist aesthetic or if you've grown accustomed to it, sure, keep on using it. But it feels as if this product has been somewhat on extended life support and people would care a lot less if it wasn't run by Marco Arment.
Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)
The whole point of Wikifunctions is to expand capabilities beyond what Scribunto/Lua provides at present. There's nothing obviously wrong with starting from scratch and adding features such as multi-language implementation or allowing for test cases out of the box, that Scribunto has never even come close to providing.
Interface In Game – Collection of video games UI
Also, no-one knows if it has gone unnoticed until now. Only that it's not been publicly called out until now. It could actively have been exploited for years, but those who discovered it kept their secret.

I wonder if it'll show up as previously discovered in the next big nation state leak from NSA/GCHQ/Unit 8200/whoever.
Do pci-express even support hot swapping? You might be asking a bit too much.
> aside from abandoning iOS and Android completely?

These platforms are so opaque and completely controlled by US corporations (so we know they are beholden to NSLs etc). If you care about your data and privacy, the best suggestion is to avoid phone platforms completely for anything important.
Google are masters at jerking themselves off. I mean come on... "Gemini era"? "Improving billions of people’s lives"? Tone it down a bit.

It screams desperation to be seen as ahead of OpenAI.
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak

I think it's app only though
When I watch any of these videos, all the related videos on my right sidebar are from Google, 16 of which were uploaded at the same time as the one I'm watching.

I've never seen the entire sidebar filled with the videos of a single channel before.
AMD Unveils Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU
This is, alas, something seen again and again. The best and the brightest, working for a company that prides itself on user experience, create an health app and what does it track at lauch? Alcohol, not periods.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6844021/apple-promised-an...

Tell me how this isn't a clear proof of a whole culture of navel-gazing, so strong it can defeat a prime company's culture of user experience, hardcore recrutment and management.
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Different topic, but I hope you enjoyed Guam. I lived there for several years and miss it quite a bit!

It and Japan were our top two locations for settling when I left the military, but life has a way of ignoring what you want and we ended up elsewhere for difficult reasons.
I would assume because there is so little competition (Micosoft/OpenAI, Anthropic, ??) here for commercial hosted solutions that Google being closer to parity here is significant, even if it still not on par with OpenAI.
The Guide to Hitchhiking the World
AMD is now starting to have decent software support.
Or a moka pot: unscrew, fill water up to the valve, fill coffee in the basket, screw it all back, brew your coffee.
Yeah it felt really weird getting to the end of the deep dive thinking there should be more here.
Yeah that stuck out to me, too. The fucking kernel is written in C. 90% or more of the networking stack is written in C. Graphics APIs are written in C. Compilers, databases, firmwares, older video games, everything.

C is not known for vulnerabilities, it simply makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. The tooling exists to improve code safety, but generally if you don't do anything crazy, nothing crazy happens.

Lasers, chainsaws and pressure washers are all easy to hurt one's self with but I wouldn't say they're known for creating injuries. It's more like people are stupid enough to hurt themselves with tools regularly.

It's not hard to check a value before dereferencing or freeing it. It's hard to remember to do it.
Many regular automatic coffee machines are terrible at maintaining proper brewing temperatures as well. I think they’re just designed to be an inexpensive convenience product for a not-especially-discerning customer base. Nespresso is marketed as a premium product and the starting price of a Nespresso is like 3x that of a Keurig.

Personally I find Nespresso compares way better against decent regular espresso than Keurig does to decent regular drip coffee. Most Keurig coffee I’ve had has been dreadful–I’d rather drink gas station coffee or instant instead.
Wasn't that mostly a hardware problem? Both for research and implementation?

Circa-Deep Blue, we were still at Quake levels of SIMD throughput.
It does, technically.
But the ban didn't last long (I'm using openAI from Italy)
As a self proclaimed expert on sort implementations, the work DeepMind published in that field was also deeply lacking. Essentially presenting tiny 50 year old sorting networks as novel result. And adding them into libc++ in a way that exclusively looks good in hot microbenchmarks. But degrades performance if your program does more than only spin a hot loop that sorts fixed size inputs of 3 or 4 elements.

I'm starting to see a pattern with DeepMind and the quality of their papers.
Does it work on/against GCP?
Nonblocking cycle detection and iterator invalidation
Ships that use wave motion as auxiliary propulsion have already been built.

A company called Wavefoil Technologies[1] designed a retractable foil that could be mounted on the bow of a ship. In moderate sea conditions, the vertical motion from waves was converted into forward thrust, which they claim resulted in 5-15% energy savings.

A 71 metre fishing boat using the technology was commissioned in 2023 [2]

[1] https://wavefoil.com/

[2] https://www.cemreshipyard.com/en/references/nb0078-liafjord
They have a competitor, it's just less popular than CUDA:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/rocm.html

Before that, they were pushing heavily for standard OpenCL, but that failed because the hardware wasn't as competitive and the ecosystem/tooling barren.
I recently visited Manhattan and walked many miles touring it. The smell was in many places, with people smoking out in public. It is offensive and rude.
https://stacking.dev/ is kind of a general advocacy site.

I myself do this sort of thing, but manually, without extra tooling. I haven't tried their product yet, but I have heard people say good things, which is why I'm reading their blog and submitted the post.

See this discussion from a few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370957
I’m surprised there’s still no reviews if the framework 16 on YouTube (except some branded content here and there).

Did anybody actually get this laptop, so far?

I just need to understand if i should hold my breath or (again) go for an used thinkpad.

Last time framework didn’t ship to my country (yet), this time… will see.
Twilio Programmable Video End of Life Notice
Somebody with deep depression should probably be seeing a psychiatrist (medical doctor) and receive medical therapy instead of seeing a psychologist.
"It was half past midnight on March 17th, 1968. Keith Smart, the director of epidemiology and ecology at Utah’s Dugway Proving Grounds, was awakened by the ringing of a phone. On the other end was Dr. Bode, a professor at the University of Utah, and the director of the school’s contract with Dugway. There was a problem. Calls had been coming in. About 27 miles outside of the base, in the aptly-named Skull Valley, thousands of sheep had suddenly died. There were some survivors among the flocks, but it was clear that their hours were numbered. Veterinarians were dispatched to euthanize the few remaining animals.

Army officials began drafting their official denial

"

Reads like a Michael Crichton novel... Got Andromeda Strain vibes from this
FYI, you should just assume that plastic isn't being recycled, even if you put it in the recycling bin.
a quick aside...

Whenever music is mentioned in conjuction with technology, one artist seems to always - in a very literal sense - pop up like a zombie in a B-movie...Taylor Swift. No idea who this person is or what they do but they appear everywhere, all at once.

It feels like a conspiracy.
ROCm is not just unpopular, it is so boilerplate-ridden, it is nearly unusable. It takes about 5x more code to do things there compared to CUDA.

Yes, “just use libraries”. But as Andrej Karpathy used to say, “I don't need some library holding my hand and providing abstractions. Real men command GPUs with their own raw kernel code”.

(And, incidentally, there are much less libraries for ROCm, for this reason. Somebody should write them, and why do that with something that takes 5x more code to do the same thing?)
Boo! Complete marketing garbage. May as well have been a Flash demo.
OpenAI has all of the people using ChatGPT.
Message passing in some form dates from at least as far back as the 1970's, possibly the late 60's. Generally, BSDs were influenced by Mach to the extent that they've adopted some microkernel ideas. I'd be surprised to learn there's any genuine link between AmigaOS and Dragonfly.
Once upon a time there was a family of Bigfoot. Papa Bigfoot, Mommy Bigfoot and Little Bigfoot.

Papa Bigfoot was the biggest Bigfoot of them all. Mommy Bigfoot wasn't as big as her husband, but she was still a bigger Bigfoot than her daughter Little Bigfoot, who was the smallest Bigfoot of the family.

One day Little Bigfoot slipped in a stream and hurt her foot.

The little Little Bigfoot foot hurt so much and she cried a lot
Obviously we'll let customers decide how to deploy this tech, but our vision is less about "chat with AI customer support", and more "tap into intelligence to help you achieve your task".

I personally fell in love with copilots when all my engineering tools started adding them (e.g. Cursor IDE, Warp terminal, etc.).

And really, I wanted to tap into artificial intelligence everywhere, from excel to planning a vacation in AirBnb. "is this a good place to stay with a young kid?"

Just in recent months, the market has validated this intuition, e.g. Microsoft Copilot products (think 2nd-brain-on-tap for e.g. PowerPoint, not support chat) have boosted productivity by 30%, with lots of other impressive metrics

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If you do go back to the customer support use-case,
I'd see the support agent's software using CopilotTextarea, to let them reply to 10x more messages, but where they still drive the conversation.

Though I could see it coupled with AI chatbot on the consumer side, where it makes sense
The March of Intellect: Newspaper cartoons and satire in 1820s England
This is an SDK built to interact with PostgresML, which provides ML & AI _inside_ a Postgres database. Clients in this case don't perform inference, rather the server does. You could run the open source server locally, or connect to one running in the cloud.
CEOs rarely get replaced, they need to do something very very very bad for this to happen.
Exactly

And I actually thought photographers were extinct a long time ago by every human holding a cellphone (little to no need to know about lens apertures, lighting/shadows to take a picture). Its probably been a decade since I've seen anyone hauling around photograph equipment at an event. I guess some photographers still get paid good money, but they're surely multiples less than there were 10-20 years ago.

The NLP (Natural Language) is the killer part of the equation for these new AI tools. Simple as knowing English or any other natural language, to output an image, an app or whatever. And it's going to be just like cellphone cameras and photographers, the results are going to get 'good enough' that its going to eat into many professions.
> After a successful Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde you still have to win the case, and only legal arguments will be considered by the court, i.e. you cannot enter facts not already discussed in the lower instance, introduce new witnesses etc.

Interesting.

Not only can anyone appeal all the way to the supreme court in the USA (they still have to decide to take it up however) but people can also file "cert" to have the case be skipped all the way to the supreme court to decide the "questions presented" or the supreme court can even invoke "original jurisdiction" and have the case be heard directly from the beginning (this one is a nuclear option tho so has limitations).

Of course, all the pros/cons apply with such a system.

Off to nolife wikipedia on how the european court systems work including what courts are higher than each countries courts etc.
Does anyone know if they plan to release a 'desktop/workstation' form factor?
Zero interest in the FF'S they've been consumed with, thus far.
Thanks for this. I read some transcript of this long ago and it didn't occur to me it might now be arranged into a podcast.
The definition of Europe is not a fixed historical constant. Including various islands in particular continents is an essentially arbitrary choice.

Europe as a geographic feature is a distinct concept from Europe as a sociopolitical entity. It is clear that Europe and the UK have been diverging culturally, socially, and politically for some time now.

UK does not have the political connections, open borders, collectivization of resources, harmonized regulations, shared currency, or really any other connection to the rest of the Europeans beyond memory.
Maybe one of the reasons, but not clear to me it's the main or only one. Another potential reason is that he was attempting to individually manipulate board members into trying to support him in getting board member Helen Toner fired. There's also the rumor of the Q* advance which the board apparently heard of via some concerned employee(s), not from Altman.

Maybe there was some final straw that got the board to act, but could have been accumulated grievances about Altman not being candid with them.
It would have to pick each token then, no? Because you can get a streaming response, which would completely invalidate the idea of the answer being picked after.
sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology

further, machines which churn out fine painting after fine painting already exist and are old boring technology by this point

the least old instance of this tech is inkjet printers
Again, you're confusing models here. "source of trust" is a technical term, and not a judgement about trustworthiness.
> One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint.

You would actually be surprised at how much actual technology there is in the canvas, paints, and brushes. Especially, if you want the paint not to be toxic.
20 years from now, we're still going to want to run our own software. You're worried about falling down a slippery slope, and your concerns are valid, but it's called the slippery slope fallacy for a reason.
Stuff like alphafold has and will have huge impact in our lives, even if I am not into spending time folding proteins myself. It is absurd to make this sort of comparisons.
Naming things AND cache invalidation, in one comment. You’re only off by one.
The phone is wonderful for a lot of stuff, especially for people who aren't naturally very tactile and don't usually do things by feel.

The design language is also far more indirect, high level, and automated. It forces people to make everything very obvious and very automated. Phones make it easy to tap a button and very hard to do complex "blank canvas" kind of work.

On desktop sometimes programmers build a UNIXy modular system and the UI is just a direct translation, so you have to do manual bookkeeping steps between parts of the program, like in old school KiCad, where modern apps just have everything unified and sync instantly.

Are the other search engines actually better? It seems like the problem is the AI generated trash content, not the engines themselves.
Tbh, I also didn't find it a big deal. The only thing I registered as a personal problem during the pandemic was two of my grandparents dying.
I read this comment because I saw some other moderation duty comments and looked at your history. I don't think you should use the word "thither" for transactional comments. It is correct here, I think, but it's somewhat archaic English.

Maybe "over there" or "to that one"? Your way is not wrong, but many will miss the point.
You can outright buy OpenAI; as long as you're able to pay. By that definition everything is open/accessible/available.
Remember when Internet Explorer was the most popular browser? Good times...
With respect to the US, I would be more worried about Apple and Google spying on users through push notifications. Americans have legal protections against government spying but they have basically zero protections against spying by so-called "tech" companies. Neither Apple nor Google can demand information about citizens from the government, but the government can demand this from Apple or Google, which they do, successfully, with increasing frequency. People share details of their lives with Apple and Google they would probably never share with the government but the government has little trouble getting it from these so-called "tech" companies, without any notice to the user, so sharing these details with Apple and Google is arguably even worse. The ability for people to fight against this sharing of information is nonexistent; it's up to the companies to resist. Given the number of users whose data they hold, that simply is not feasible. These companies do not care about peoples' privacy. They seek to profit from learning every detail of peoples' lives. Commercial surveillance.

When the government asks citizens for information it's usually for a specific purpose and can only be used for that purpose. When so-called "tech" companies collect information, it is for any purpose. They might assure users that "the information is only used to improve the software or service". What limits does this create, if any. How dow we verify that the company is not using our information in ways that compromise our interests if we are not allowed to learn how the company is using the information. Imagine if the government assured people that the information it collects "will only be used to improve the government".

Not every computer is a national security threat or even a common criminal, i.e., a person that the government has some need to spy on. That's not who I am referring to in this comment. These so-called "tech" companies spy on everyone. And they don't just want to know about one thing, for one purpose, they want to know everything for any purpose.
Yes thats still vulnerable. But the drop and place on to a hard drive isn't so possible.
It’s called a printer, not a painter
I get a warning that this is an unsafe URL.
I mean, I agree with him - read-only mounts are not a security boundary, user accounts and permissions are the security boundary.
You can boot usb from UEFI. The only tool that I found is best to handle is Rufus. I used it to clean install my Windows through UEFI. Even Linux Live USB works. BalenaEtcher gives me problems, Rufus does it well for me.

Also I remember there is a setting in UEFI to allow booting from USB.
I'm writing a quite similar system to this so I can give the differences why this is useful (esp for this usecase).

1: Separating stores was crucial during the 90s and earlier when people were still writing in memory-unsafe languages (C/C++ cough) since it could cause wild corruptions with simple stray pointers. Process-separation was just a sanity thing. As you notice these are other languages in play here so random corruptions shouldn't happen (memory exhaustion can still be a thing though with their model)

2: Yes, debugging stored procedures/triggers on SQL-Server,etc is a PITA because they're database first centric objects, however the idea here is to make the database fill the job of app-servers of the 90s/00s with "regular" debugging workflows for developers. (Don't confuse implementations with the concept)

3: And MOST importantly, this is a game-focused thing, gamedevs will often end up replicating most cache/database functionality (badly) to squeeze things into main memory with the goal to achieve realtime performance targets anyhow, why not forgo that duplicated crazy work with a solid framework?

4: As a corollary to the above, the benefits of separating storage from applications (to run multiple applications against the dataset as it often happens in enterprise scenarios) isn't really the focus, application to database mappings are intended to be more or less 1:1
Phones are an end-consumer product. AI is not only an end-consumer product (and probably not even mostly an end-consumer one). It is a tool to be used in many different steps in production. AI is not chatbots.
Hey David! Few questions: I'm slightly stuck with the Vite plugin

Currently getting this when trying to do an npm run dev:

[plugin externalize-deps] No known conditions for "./vite-plugin" entry in "@spotlightjs/sidecar" package
The plugin "externalize-deps" was triggered by this import

vite.config.ts:7:29:
7 │ import spotlightSidecar from '@spotlightjs/sidecar/vite-plugin';

Should I be telling externalize-deps to leave it alone somehow?

Also, I note the PHP SDK has gotten support for Spotlight - are there plans to do the same for the .NET SDK too?
Learning some ability to draw and paint takes roughly the same amount of persistence as learning to write. That is, you have to recall what a struggle it was to hold the pencil and make a steady mark from the wrist...and then apply that to the kinds of marks you make for drawing, which can be longer, more varied, and use a different grasp on the tool.

And then you also have to learn some "shape literacy" if you want to control how you see things. This is likewise comparable to learning to read in that there are ways of breaking down images to understand them as "letter", "word", and "sentence".

When we know how to write but not to draw, we draw like we write, using motions from the wrist and observing things in terms of symbolic meaning - the human figure flattens out into a hand shape, an arm shape, an eye shape.

But there's very little mystery to "what do you do about that" - you grab a book of exercises like Keys to Drawing or Natural Way to Draw, and you try to see the object you want to study through the exercise. Because we recognize silhouettes first, and we make marks as lines first, contour drawing is a typical starting point for practicing both "seeing" and "doing", and that's something you can spend many months on just by itself.

If you want to force a designed result, rather than the result from your eye and hand, you start to apply technology, and that can mean a very old technology like using a grid and rulers(as old as the ancient Egyptians), or it can mean digital tools and tracing over photos.