skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A read-only operation should not cause an insane amount of writes. This is perilous for a great many reasons, one of which is the risk of data corruption should something go wrong.
A random Reddit post is hardly evidence. My personal opinion is that they sell snake oil (a.k.a. secure email).
I checked the whole thread but don't see a link to the actual song. did it actually get posted yet? and I don't mean a cam of someones TV or something. as others said, logged out Twitter is garbage.
It'd be good not to overgeneralize. For as long as we've been doing digital video, and then later, digital photography, there have been as many folks trying to minimize noise as trying to eliminate noise as trying to simulate noise as intentionally exploiting noise. Noise as a thing was never the problem, it was always about whether there was too much of it.
Every third story on my Instagram is a scammy “investment education” ad. Somehow they get through the moderation queues successfully. I continuously report them but seems like the AI doesn’t learn from that.
Except all programming languages can corrupt data. Even knives with sheaths can be misused to harm one's self.

Are we gonna include warnings for SQL injection risk? This is a stupid premise.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo actively supported it, it let them say "see even Konami doesn't get special treatment and can only release 5 games/year" while also getting more high quality games from Konami.
According to Tesla, the agreement which employees have in Sweden is already better than the minimum bar set by union, so Teslas issues appears to more out of principle than out of actual issues with the agreement itself. Or Tesla is lying and the agreement with employees is not actually better.
The apefest effect uses a lot of CPU and thus energy.
https://archive.is/WjZc1
> Users who still rely on that have to use the old software, against which there can be barriers

Not all reliance is reasonable though.

Some legacy software can only do SSLv3 or lower, does that mean the rest of the internet has to carry that support around? Abso-f-lutely not.

The same applies here. If you really need that ancient stuff that loses support, repackage them in newer encryption or remove the obsolete layer. It's highly probable that information no longer needs to stay encrypted at rest anyways.
MHI selected to build new Japanese research reactor
I don't know how they've specifically done it, either, but this is an area where Google has a ridiculous advantage over pure play AI shops. It's highly likely they have architected it for use cases like this from the outset, since the primary application of Gemini will be within Google's own products. They'll publish APIs, of course, and embed within Vertex AI on Google Cloud, but since the primary utility of Gemini will be to improve Search, Maps, Travel, Youtube, etc, I'd imagine they had a first class business requirement from the beginning along the lines of "must be easy to plug into existing Google data sources & products."
The employer here is the government. That's why they are _government employees_. Last I checked, Sweden wasn't under a dictatorship. So again, if the citizenry largely support the strike, what is this shadow entity that is requiring them work?
You Don't Need Thunderbolt for Professional Audio
Agora: A search engine for Shopify products
Hi HN! I built Agora as a side-project leading up to the holiday season. I wanted to find an easier way to find Christmas gifts, without needing to go store-by-store.

My wife asked me for a a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married). The product is a search engine that automatically crawls thousands of Shopify stores and makes them easily accessible with a search interface. There's a few additional features to enhance the buying experience including saving products, filters, reviews, and popular products.

We've started with exclusively Shopify stores and plan to expand the crawler to other e-commerce platforms like BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix, etc. The technical challenge I've found is keeping the search speed and performance strong as the data set becomes larger. There's about 25 million products on Agora right now and we'll ramp this up carefully to make sure we don't compromise the user experience.

I'd love any feedback! And open to any advice on improving the search experience.
Fun & practical life hacks
Yes, but your complaint is that the job people at facebook are paid to do isn't the one you want them to be paid to do, not that they aren't doing what they are actually paid to do effectively.

Misalignment of Meta's interests with yours, not incompetence.
If the postal service would be that important in the eyes of the Danish and Swedish governments, then they wouldn't have re-structured their postal services as a state owned company, but kept it a state agency.

But they didn't. In turn the postal workers are no longer state officials, which comes with a loss of job security, but instead they gained the right to strike.

You can petition the government to undo this semi-privatization of course.

Strikes are regulated in Denmark and Sweden, and usually need to be organized by a proper union, and can be deemed unjustified by a court - like it happened in this case, until that decision was overturned again. This makes your fears of "socially conservative" "unions" unlikely. :)
Reminds me a bit of the Hunt Brothers attempt to corner the silver market.

Moral of the story: markets are dynamic.
Platform teams is such a new concept and is catching on like wildfire inside enterprises. However, the technology, people and process challenges faced by these teams are really not understood very well. In this blog, we tried to crystallize the biggest obstacles that we see Platform teams facing.

Thanks for your encouraging words and we are glad that the challenges and solutions resonate.
How do you know the commercial ones are safe?
You may want to substantiate the claims, as is this reads as far-right union-busting rhetoric.
This is so bizarre it feels like some kind of high-level satirical commentary.

I particularly enjoyed this also-circa-2004 comment:

> I can see that you're technically proficient, but you remind me of an old manager who was so doped up on co-proximal he lost sight of reality and started re-inventing windows controls and naming them after himself.
The factory is privately owned, and the workers there can just strike. Tesla isn't getting anything regardless.
Pushing an industry into self-regulation has long been a way governments use to reduce regulatory burden and inflexibility to change. Letting them know they had better solve a problem or the government will solve it for them, probably in a way that's worse for everyone, can push industries into action. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.
Not the parent commenter nor a lawyer, but I believe it's something like a company can't put things that someone would never agree to in the TOS and have it be binding. But obviously that "would never agree to" part is fuzzy at best and possibly what they're referring to when saying it's not been tested. I might be mistaken about that but I have heard something to that effect from a prosecutor I know.
I guess that's some sort of silver lining to the state of things today!
> They had the best Crab Rangoon

In late 1970's or early 1980's (I think), Super Stop & Shop's salad bar had a "seafood salad" with imitation crab meat.

So I'm wondering if your "crab" Rangoon was real crab, or something much cheaper.
SPF and DKIM are ways of signing a message, but it's still typically up to the recipient or the recipient's mail server to decide what to do with that signature. And they're only checkable on the recipient's mail server because email isn't properly end-to-end encrypted, and exposes metadata.
but why the random phoenix dashboard image?
Ad blockers are your users telling you they don't want to be included in your "product analytics". I think more companies should start taking this view over trying to wage a constant war on ad-blockers.
Whatever you want, probably. Or put a different way: "what's a workforce?"

"We need to do a big calculation, so your HBO/Netflix might not work correctly for a little bit. These shouldn't be too frequent; but bear with us."

Go ride a bike, write some poetry, do something tactile with feeling. They're doing something, but after a certain threshold, us humans are going to have to take them at their word.

The graph of computational gain is going to go linear, quadratic, ^4, ^8, ^16... all the way until we get to it being a vertical line. A step function. It's not a bad thing, but it's going to require a perspective shift, I think.

Edit: I also think we should drop the "A" from "AI" ...just... "Intelligence."
Startup shutdowns are on the rise, according to data from Carta
And so it was, and will be, for perpetuity.
churrascaria refers to the skewered and grilled cooking aspect.

the roaming the room and serving you from the skewer is called rodizio
It does if you redraw every frame, but if you disabled the animation and made it static I have a feeling it could beat the SVG method (although it probably wouldn't look as good).

It also has the advantage of looking mostly the same in every browser - the comments here report inconsistencies with the SVG method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_transit

...but even if all the traffic is somehow within an ISP's own network, that "...marginal cost that is nearly zero..." is a very poor description of the economics. Networks aren't free, and building a network that can handle 10X the bandwidth means you're stuck with a far higher monthly payment on your construction loan.
Fiction:

Victory City- new Salman Rushdie book. Great retelling of the history of one of the great medieval South Indian kingdoms. Not his best, but his writing is still top notch.

Sea of Tranquility- speculative fiction from Emily St. John Mandel (of Station Eleven fame). It's a series of interconnected stories spanning centuries from the near past to the near future. Beautifully written. Read when I was down with COVID earlier this year and it invaded my dreams (in a good way). Short and easy read.

Giovanni's Room- story of an American expat in Paris caught between his love for a man and his duty to his girlfriend. This is the first James Baldwin book I have read but will definitely check out more of his work in 2024.

Theory of Bastards- speculative fiction by Audrey Schulmann. Literary sci-fi similar to Station Eleven. It's about a woman researching primate behavior set in the near future where the earth is ravaged by the effects of climate change. Very well researched, beautifully written and nothing like I have ever read before. This won the 2019 Philip K Dick Award.

Invisible Cities- literary fiction by Italo Calvino. It's less than 200 pages but a very dense and tough read. It's a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan where MP is describing cities in KK's vast empire. It's a strange, strange book that I think I will return to often. If you liked the world building in Piranesi and want more, this is the book for you. Calvino describes 55 cities in under 200 pages, with each one feeling very different. Again, first Calvino book I have read and will definitely check out more of his works in 2024.

Non-fiction:

Thinking in Systems: A Primer- by Donella Meadows. Read this based on HN's recommendation. Thank you!

On Intelligence- by Jeff Hawkins. This was on my shelf for years and am glad I got to read it this year. The creator of the Palm Pilot presents his theory of intelligence and how the brain works. It's compelling. I hope to read his follow up book in 2024. Would love HN's recommendations of similar books.

A Primate's Memoir- by Robert M. Sapolsky. Enjoyable read of the author's research on Savannah baboons and his adventures in Africa. His love for primates and humans alike come through clearly.

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making- by Tony Fadell. A great business book by the co-founder of Nest. Draws on his experience both as a startup founder and leading innovative teams at large tech companies (Apple, in his case). Just as any business book, this could have been shorter and less repetitive but thankfully, there is enough good material here to be a book rather than a blog post.
Reminds me of the meme of the person shoving a stick into their bikes wheel then complaining about ______. Used to get it a lot here with people complaining about sites being broken because they were hard blocking essentially all javascript, the issues are your own making here...
Is PostNord like the post office or like fedex? If the former, that seems crazy to me. Imagine the post office just refused to deliver your electricity bill despite the electric company paying for a stamp. If it's the latter it makes a lot more sense.
I guess I’m proposing a new compression, new substitutions, the llm inventing new words to compress common ideas. A bytecode if you will. Compiling the context down.
The advent calendar UI is nice but makes it hard to quickly browse the available content. Here's a full list of the articles:

- How to Draw Basic Shapes with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/basic-shapes

- How to Build a Christmas Tree with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/polygon

- How to Make a Gingerbread Figure with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/gingerbread-figure

- How to Build a House with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/house

- How to use clip-path with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/clip-path

- How to Draw a Basic Path with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/basic-path

- How to Draw a Star with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/transform

- How to Draw a Snowflake with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/use

- How to Draw a Forest with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/forest

- How to Use Gradients with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/gradient

- How to Draw Quadratic Bézier Curves with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/quadratic-bezier

- How to Draw Cubic Bézier Curves with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/cubic-bezier

- How to Draw a Bell with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bell

- How to Draw an Arc with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/arc

- How to Draw a Ribbon with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/ribbon

- How to Draw a Bear with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/bear

- How to Draw Text Along a Path with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/text-path

- How to Animate Along a Path with SVG - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/path-based-animation

- How to Add Animation on Hover of an SVG element - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/animation-on-hover

- How to Animate a Snowing effect with SVG and CSS - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/snowing

- How to Create Background Patterns with SVG and CSS - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/background-pattern

- How to Draw a Clock with SVG and JavaScript that Shows the Actual Time - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/clock

- How to Add Interaction to SVG elements with JavaScript - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/interaction

- How to Generate an SVG Diagram from JavaScript - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/data-driven-diagram

- How to Break Down an SVG Image into Multiple Components - https://svg-tutorial.com/svg/multiple-components

Generated by running this in Firefox DevTools:

copy(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.day'), el => {
const title = el.querySelector('.title').textContent;
const url = el.href;
return `- ${title} - ${url}`
}).join('\n\n'))
I am aware of their limitations. But I al wondering if there’s a way to make GPU cores behave like a single unit, or larger units like cpu cores, when needed - somehow to process data in a sequence of instructions, when needed and in parallel when not. Just thinking out loud. As I am playing around with GPUs for various reasons I am simply amazed at how versatile they are.

One fun hack I wanted to make was a database function that would let me update database record on the GPU. One could implement the function as a kernel and have it update tens of thousands of records in one go.

The bottleneck is reading data from disk, to cpu / ram, to gpu.

Instead of there was a way to read data directly from disk, all records could be loaded in VRAM at once and data updated.

I think for a good number of use cases databases are prime candidates for parallel processing. Each record being processed by a kernel.

For gaming a significant bottleneck is moving texture and mesh data between disks, cpus, and the gpu.

Essentially, I think the main component of a PC could be the GPU while the CPU is there to execute block operations - if there is no way to “fuse” gpu cores as per my first paragraph.

I just think there’s a lot of performance left on the table otherwise.

For ml inference at edge for instance all you need is a GPU with a network card and extremely fast storage. All of which are available but bottlenecked by the cpu.
If I added to my litany of problems with PGP the fact that its advocates and user base believe that GnuPG is the PGP standard, I'd get dunked on. But I agree with you completely: GnuPG is the standard.

Further: I don't think this is intrinsically a bad thing. Other, more successful projects work this way, most notably WireGuard. You have to judge these things on the merits.
> One of them reads so slowly/poorly that she can't keep up with her emails at all, frequently misses important information and makes really egregious spelling errors. This would maybe be ok in some roles

Which roles would this be OK in?

To answer your main question, average people can accomplish a lot. This should be obvious because most people are average. Very few people will say so because they accomplished something so they must not be average!
You're cherry picking the peak (literally the peak) of the covid relief though! People got huge checks in the first half of 2020, do you not remember? Why would you do that? You can see it's an outlier, growing rapidly then shrinking. Look at Q4 2019 to get pre-covid numbers and you'll see (1) there's a clear trend across the disruption and (2) it's clearly going up.
You are right, it’s complicated. Ballistic doesn’t mean it is a parabolic trajectory. At this distance (I stands for Intercontinental) you need to account for the atmospheric drag, winds, differences in gravity etc. Besides that ICBMs of 1960-1970s were using inertial navigation and had maneuvering warheads (e.g. SS-10), which increased complexity of the calculations. You still can do it on your modern watch.
I was talking about FB moderation AI, not GPT4. There are a couple AI LLM's that can recall jokes and match sentiment, context, "joke" and come to the conclusion it's a joke. Facebook's moderation AI isn't that sophisticated (yet).
Could be. Also, companies are always going bankrupt. Your statement is valid and sound.
fake news.

(picoplastics taste like gravy.)
Both parties act out of principles. The conflict is about power dynamics, first and foremost.
Giving it away would be nicer.
It took 50 years to realized leaded gas was harmful.
If Tesla leave Sweden, we will still have many many brands to pick from. Here in Sweden we can buy cars from other companies.
Ouch. Some browsers might not support every feature. Gradients also have some issues. Luckily it seems to be all right so far in desktop browsers.
Well, he can. But if he does then every other country that currently uses SpaceX for their payloads may end up thinking twice about giving the megalomaniac even more power.

Because: normal people just obey the laws of the countries where they do business.

Musk will end up self destructing over something like this sooner or later, the guy has no sense of when to back down and just keeps on taking on parties with power until he loses and when he loses it will be at a level that he won't be able to recover from. You pick your battles with care, and this is one that was utterly unnecessary. After all the damage the Tesla brand has suffered on account of his Twitter antics (I refuse to call it 'X') he really doesn't need more, especially not in a market that was so far a substantial plank in Tesla's strategy and a country with massive early adoption.
Enjoy being a pacified and domesticated ape who never strays from what it's told to do. You'll be sent to the meat grinder soon.
Because battery tech is evolving fast, and lithium could quickly become far less valuable...
> Today we can say it has failed miserably

Can we? It seems like yes, it was overhyped, but "miserable failure" seems like a stretch. Especially considering you can ride a Waymo robotaxi right now (in certain areas) and it's, IMO, a much better experience than Uber.
It's a dithering effect for sure. Drop shadows aren't actually shadows, either :)
Appendix A

A.1 Data Collection
Data for GONERD was obtained through Giant
Oak’s GONER software, which scraped web ar-
ticles from public facing online news sources as
well as the U.S. Department of Justice’s justice.gov
domain. This webtext data was randomly sampled
with an upweighted probability toward documents
from justice.gov so that justice.gov consisted of
roughly 25% of the total GONERD dataset.
the headlines of articles have now completely morphed from being a summary of the contents in a short sentence (which somehow includes the same information but less precisely) into full blown clickbait

I blame google just because they are famous
Wow lots of hype about this out today - it showed up twice in my youtube feed.

It does sound pretty good. Not sure it will see much use outside of demoscene musicians though. I would love to be hearing more c64 music in my life though, glad Chipsynth exists.

Now what am I going to do with the half dozen SID chips I've been hoarding for the last 30 years?
The video itself and the video description give a disclaimer to this effect. Agreed that some will walk away with an incorrect view of how Gemini functions, though.

Hopefully realtime interaction will be part of an app soon. Doesn’t seem like there would be too many technical hurdles there.
No, people making blanket statements about the economy based on their personal experiences (and similar anecdotes they read from forums like this one). Look at the data!
Exactly - users would flock to it. They have to compete with Nvidia somehow and I don't see what other edge they could have - massive disadvantage on the software side that has to be compensated for in some way
Lol :) Maybe I should just put this below the calendar. What do you think?
It would be wonderful if they were just GPOs. I would be very much in favour of such a state of affairs.

In practice, they are more like mobs, parasites, and treacle and they are -- in practice -- allowed to do all sorts of shady extra-legal things.

3F, the Danish union that supports IF Metall (Swedish union), has a history of performing dangerous sabotage against scaffolding at construction sites that almost got people killed. Just as an example...
There is also Boxy SVG (https://boxy-svg.com) which combines both designer and developer oriented functionality and uses SVG as its native file format.

Unlike Illustrator/Sketch/Inkscape it can also create and manipulate SVG animation elements (https://boxy-svg.com/blog/21) - a very powerful feature which is now supported by all major browsers.
How is this not false advertising?
The people who would vote against it share the blame for it not happening. Some of those people are Republicans. So, no.
US and EU infosec authorities pen Intel-sharing pact
They are the national postal service, successor to the old Posten AB (which just means “The Post, Ltd”), and before that Postverket (“The Post Agency”).

There is nothing strange about the notion of a postal strike, that's why the US has the USPS to begin with (its predecessor's employees went on strike and brought the US federal govt to its knees).
Or, they could research the business climate and laws in a country before establishing a presence. Then feel free to buck established practice, but at least know the potential consequences.