skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Portland before the decriminalization laws passed in 2020, and from my perspective, drugs were already effectively decriminalized for the in-your-face-homeless, which I think is the most obvious social problem that people in Portland are trying to fix. At least that is my view based on the very common observation of people doing hard drugs in public.

The people drugs weren't decriminalized for before 2020 were the mostly normal citizens. After all, if someone has a house or a job or a car, you can take that away from them by punishing them, and that is what the cops would do. But if someone is already sleeping on the street, is arresting them and having them spend a few nights in jail and then going back out the streets going to change anything?

A cop might walk right past a man smoking meth in the street, but if you get pulled over for a broken headlight, and the cops might call out drug sniffing dogs, find a small amount of heroin in your possession, and throw you in jail for months.
That's perfectly compatible with the claim that from a technical pov pnacl solved the issue.

There were other good reasons why that wasn't ultimately the road taken, but they largely were know technical reasons.
That's obviously not true or we wouldn't be having many of these discussions.
Agreed that I don't get the entire "iMessages is essential". I also have never seen it been used, I'm a zoomer and most of my friends use iPhones, but with snapchat or anything else for group messages. Maybe it's a generational thing!
I was responding to "I really struggle to believe anyone beyond a small minority even even thought about Palestine or Israel"
(not the author) The metadata is a contiguous range of disk blocks. I think the intuition is that such layouts are likely to require simpler filesystem code to manipulate. [versus (iirc) ZFS which may have metadata blocks scattered throughout the disk, probably requiring more intricate code to keep track of].
I would be the computer.
What if an SQL statement returned a database?
Polycarbonate scratches easily. Making a composite means the resin can be more brittle, eg scratch resistant, while having more flex.
Well said. OpenAI's biggest contribution wasn't serving GPT-4, it was proving that big LLMs are AGIs. Rushing to gold is easy; discovering it ain't. Since we've found a correct path, low-hanging fruit is plentiful. Throw more compute at it. Work smarter not harder (optimize). Graft on simple ideas for big gainz (e.g. RAG, MoE, chain-of-thought, etc). We moved from "GPT Who?" to...all of this, in a year. I now run an AGI at a bookish 13-year-old's level on my MacBook. The trend of hardware/software advances are astonishing. And this is just the beginning.
oh good, the moral fiber of society is at the table. /s

edit: video brings up some valid concerns, the reality is nothing will be done to stop Summers from manipulating the board to his favor, that's the real damning part here.
If it's the default app and all iPhone users actively use it, and FB messenger beats it by 4 million active users, then your argument hasn't really got a leg to stand on, especially given that the market share for iPhone in the US is ~53%.
reminds me of Scavenger’s Reign
I negotiated a 4 day workweek at my last 2 jobs and can’t recommend it enough. Still getting your full salary is tougher though.
Yes it is. Hackintosh users have no problem using iMessage or FaceTime.
In the US, sure. Very few of the people in Earth live there.
It's easier for an European to already know English, rather than the opposite.
> Feels "Old man yells at cloud."

It much more like, old man has sat through many a product demo and seen the brochures, but what's in the box rarely matches. If this is what's being demoed as the examples they've culled together, the tech is lacking.
> certain pompous attitude

It's not pompous. When you attribute others of being pompous or smug, that's just your gut being triggered, and your defense mechanism kicking in. No need to be triggered.

> they ran the world but badly in need of an update

None of the comments here refer to any sort of longing for a colonial past.

Here's the thing about that article, and the invariable discussion that follow it.

Americans are modernists. We point at numbers. This number is bigger than that number, and therefore it is better.

There are differences in quality that can't be expressed in numbers. Cultural variety is much vaster in Europe than in America. e.g. How do you value knowing multiple languages. We can double down out of spite, seeing it as a triumph that you can get by with just english, but the joy of conversing day2day in multiple languages is a qualitative experience most of us do not comprehend. Yet it is a form of wealth, it accumulates in the mind, but wealth nonetheless.

How about having rich traditions (even watered down after centuries), having a terroir or countryside, the subjective experience of not always being surrounded by flimsy, disposable crap, ... It's all things americans have difficulties comprehending because it cannot be measured.

fwiw - there's subjective things in America a European cannot comprehend. e.g. the frictionless quality of uniformity, the respite from having unassuming neighbors, ...
Agreed. I've generated tens of thousands of images with AI between Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion and yeah. The patterns almost ruin it for me. It's super interesting and a really cool tech but yeah at this point I can pretty much look at a picture and recognize it's AI generated just by the "vibe." Like you're saying, it's always this over focused single-subject image with a generic background.

Like you said, as well, it's impossible to do some of the stuff that seems super simple but based in reality where completely dream-like images are generally pretty automatic. It's cool and, when I have another project that I need it for, I'll go nuts with it again but I kind of lost interest in just generating images to experiment because the experimentation stopped netting interesting results. It was just always the same stuff.
Super interesting possibilities here.

I'm curious how much of a role Infinity Fabric has to play though, as it seems like CXL has a number of the same upsides. For example:

> We also heard another nugget at the show. Imagine not just the CPU and GPU communication happening over XGMI/ Infinity Fabric. Instead, imagine a world with XGMI-connected NICs where the NIC was on the same coherent fabric. If AMD intends to extend its AI training clusters via Ultra Ethernet, then instead of having to go CPU/ GPU to PCIe with RDMA transfers over the PCIe Ethernet NIC, imagine having the XGMI NIC sitting on the Broadcom XGMI switch with the CPU and multiple GPUs. That is a fascinating concept.

CXL 3.1 was released two weeks ago, and it has support for p2p DMA, where one device transfers directly to another device. That would enable that same host-less transfer from NIC to GPU as hypothesized here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38497690 https://www.servethehome.com/cxl-3-1-specification-aims-for-...

CXL 3.1 also specified host-to-host connections. I don't know if it has anywhere near the coherency semantics Infinity Fabric has, but this is another example of the open standard having lots of overlapping capabilities with Infinity Fabric, and shows a general convergence in capabilities of these fabrics.
Unfortunately OC is randomly shutting down their Free Tier instances. I didn't believe it and I thought it's just a rumor until it happened to me. Then I googled it and it turned out it's been happening to many people for quite some time.
Apple doesn't need to break backward compatibility to block Beeper, they just need a way to fingerprint traffic from Beeper which is going to be trivial unless Beeper finds a 100% on-device solution.

Even then, it'll still be pretty easy because Apple has trillions of interactions with Apple devices to analyze and compare against Beeper.
It’s clearly a US vs everyone else thing.
I know that there are existing bytecodes. I'm asking what you think WebAssembly should have learned from them but didn't. But based on your response I'm guessing you don't really have that kind of thoughtful critique of WebAssembly?
So you work for the government?
How? 140 > 136! And the figure reported are active users. I accept it's back-of-the-napkin, not trustworthy sources, but even so, your math just doesn't make sense.
Agreed. Every single platform/device has apps that are exclusive to it. It's mind-boggling to me that people are so obsessed with Messages. I can't play thousands of Steam games on my Mac. My friends who have PCs play those games together, have fun, chat online. Should Steam be forced to "open their protocol" whatever that means?..
By chance I noticed that Fabrice Bellard's TextSynth server has newly added support for Mistral 7B model.

> 2023-10-21: CUDA support in the Windows version, mistral model support. Speculative sampling is supported. BNF grammar and JSON schema sampling.

> mistral_7B_instruct_q4 - 3.9GB - Mistral 7B chat model

https://bellard.org/ts_server/
I know what webassembly is. In addition to whatever else it is used for, I hear a lot about it allowing devs to avoid JS and just write browsers apps in whatever language they want to use. That there is a clamor for that is borne out of the massive pain that is the current HTML/CSS/JS based web dev.

So what I'm saying is, instead of wasting innovation effort focusing on the use of to improve the experience of writing web apps, let's use that to solve the actual problems with web dev.
Depending on where you live, your winnings get taxed.
> Compliance with GDPR is trivial for the absolute vast majority of businesses.

Nonsense.

> Here's how GitHub does it

That's nice. GitHub is a billion dollar Microsoft subsidiary with a gigantic legal team on speed dial.

What does "non-essential" mean here? Personally, I'm not willing to gamble that my interpretation of "non-essential" matches the interpretation of some random EU bureaucrat.
Fireworks disturbance across bird communities
Just to add on, the project parallels Nano-gpt that itself touts it's small loc. It also uses pytorch etc. In both cases, the actual model logic is in the quoted lines of code. So the comparison is apt for what it's recreating. (I don't know how fair the comparison to other loc figures mentioned is).

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
The hardware requirements for WiFi 7 were largely determined several years ago. At this point any further changes are almost certain to be software controlled.
> Turns out it was exactly Volvo’s strength to be ahead of the curve on regulation.

That's a weird analogy. I don't remember Volvo ever being that big. If anything they're bigger now than they used to be (I mean: I don't remember a world with lots of Volvo when I was a kid... I may be wrong though). And with about 650 000 vehicles sold per year they're not in the Top 25 car manufacturer worldwide by number of cars sold.
> strong R&D programs such as seed enrichment, dna modification

Europe is famous for banning DNA-modified crops under the precautionary principle.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

You might be able to research them there, but you can't actually make them, and the article is about production not theoretical R&D.
These are correct questions to ask, and it likely reveals the answer.

No Senator or representative can have a platform of repealing national security measures, especially if something goes wrong. But you can delegate the discretion to the associated federal agency, and the agency can choose to keep lowering the security threshold until there isn’t one again.
FAANGS have historically been shameless about this kind of lying.

> The question is, why does Google get hammered so hard for them?

I don't think Google gets hammered any harder than, say, Apple does for this sort of thing. But Google seems to fake demos a lot more than other FAANGs do (or perhaps they're less competent about hiding their misbehavior).
Elon Musk's Real Threat to Democracy Isn't What You Think
I own a cheap seiko 5 as well. It's basically so close to perfect you need a specialized device that measures its error to a ridiculous degree to figure out its running slightly fast. It's like average 3 point something seconds a day.

There's something wrong with your watch.
Location of deployment is not surprising.

Las Vegas, I am convinced, has a special arrangement with the TSA because they understand that making it difficult to fly in and out of that city will have direct and measurable impact on the entire economy of the region (and they have the money and clout to be heard at federal politics level).

I have noticed flying out of Vegas that screening is an awful lot more gentle than it is in other airports, and I'm fairly confident it's because the TSA there has received a very solid note to not have people's last memory leaving Vegas be a sour memory.
The Day Before studio is closing down just 4 days after launch
It's not.

I bet this is going to be the mcdonald's ice cream machine of airport technology same way mobile passport controls is never open and people need to stand in the long lines.
But then they wouldn’t be able to claim that alternative app stores are bad for consumers.
My biggest issue is the exposure to kids. If your kids are into professional sports they're going to be bombarded with gambling ads the entire time they watch.
> The number of (inevitably US) websites that made a big stink either didn't take the time to understand what they needed to do (perhaps an hour for an average website by a competent engineer), or are so incredibly allergic to the implication that they must act ethically

Or just decided that complying with EU security theatre administered by an unaccountable bureaucracy wasn't worth an hour of their time and just banned the Euros outright.
I guess I live in a different world than you do. Perhaps that's because I'm not from the states. In your world, without TSA or similar authority, plane hijacking wouldn't become a regular weekly occurrence?

I'm genuinely asking, as I have no idea what's the background for the bad sentiment towards TSA I see here or what's the common thinking on the issue is

Edit: reading the replies I turned to wikipedia, I had no idea TSA was only founded in 2001, and that the responsibility for security used to be distributed among various companies. I'm out of context and have some reading to do
Harvard Alumni Association Executive Committee Asks Boards to Back President Gay
Apple would prefer you buy an iPhone.
Apparently. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has Wi-Fi 7 support [1]. Apple's AirPort Extreme (6th gen) came out in June 2023 and supported draft 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), while the standard itself seemed to have been finalized in late 2023 [3].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/23902812/wi-fi-7-explained

[2] https://youtu.be/C8rTYj_jC4A?feature=shared&t=65

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac-2013
Looks great... just getting started :O
It's irrelevant, you can get by with English for the basics in most parts of Europe unless you move to small villages. If that weren't true then the EU's obsession with freedom of movement would be pointless, because English is the only language that is universally taught in Europe.
...Play Tetris, of course! He named his monotile variant of the game Montris. (Another entrant had a similar idea, called Hatris.)

There's no follow up comment but I'm wondering if they know such a game existed, by Alexey no less, of that exact name, which involves stacking... hats. [1]

The British in me still really loves the pun in Einstein - "ein Stein" meaning "one stone", nothing to do with he-of-relativity fame. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatris
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/03/new-einstein...
In a democracy I'd expect regulation to grow alongside population and productivity. It would be interesting if it didn't, actually.
I inferred from the article that the risks are very poorly understood. If it just triggers a bunch of very minor earthquakes, that would be insignificant compared to potentially preventing a civilization-ending eruption.

Maybe learning more with simulations or theory is a good way forward, or maybe small scale experiments. If we do nothing and eventually notice that a giant eruption is about to happen, I suppose it would be too late. There seem to be many similarities in long term risk and possible prevention of asteroid impacts. I think these problems are worth exploring even though there is probably no direct benefit within a human lifetime.
> But why does having high quality of life have to be orthogonal to having a strong tech market?

Technological progress is a socially destabilizing force. America didn’t have the amount of historical cultural inertia Europe had, which was both a cause and an effect of technological progress.

Human biology was never designed to exist within a technological world, no matter whether you believe in creation or evolution.[1] This means every step towards in technological progress is further disruption to the collective psyche of the society. Humans fare better when both the rate of technological progress and absolute amount of technology is near zero.

It’s no coincidence that the conservative factions of every country are opposed to/sceptical of new technologies.

1: This is an absolute fact from all POVs, which people know is true (duh science/religion), but for most people this is counterintuitive in the first look, for the single reason that we were lied all our lives that we do live better than those before us. People of the past lived happier and more content lives despite child mortality, diseases, wars, violence, inequality, and scarcity. And a Rust-writing NixOS-loving software dev is saying this, not an unga-bunga caveman. Read some Ted Kaczynski.
Preact is a drop-in replacement for React. I think it's missing some React APIs, but it should have a subset of APIs so nothing new to learn if you're familiar with React.

All that to say: if you're learning Next.js, you're learning React and also Preact at the same time.
The unmanageable complexity is exactly the result of the current architecture of browsers. My proposal is to rip off all that cruft and actually address the pain points of web dev in a modern way.

For example, CSS is a disaster. That browsers need to be very complex to implement it correctly is the more reason why it should be replaced.
It's one of those things like rectangle commands; once you know they exist it's hard not to miss them in editors that don't support.
I live in the UK and have not seen an MMS conversation in about 15 years. This is crazy.
There's some cool stuff going on with GC in WebAssembly, which should really help bring higher level languages efficiently to WASM: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting.
How recent was recently?

> https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-year-new-company

> What if I already applied to W24?

> Unfortunately, you won’t be eligible. This is only for founders who did not already apply for W24, since we already sent out notifications for our regular application cycle.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572504

> we know there are founders that haven't already applied

> This is for founders that did not already apply for the W24 batch at some point in the past.

Looks very explicit. Did you not find those explicit rules when you were looking?

Also looked at the number of times they mentioned founder and the number of times they mentioned different idea.
The USS Constitution, the late 18th century U.S. warship that has now been converted into a museum, was nicknamed "Old Ironsides", but her sides are not actually iron. They are made of dense hardwood in multiple layers, with the grain at a different angle each layer like in the video (but not chemically or pressure treated). This was originally intended to prevent deformation of the wood under load, but the crew found it was strong enough to deflect cannon fire.
Do you get paid at work?
My argument is only strengthened by your data?.. Messages app is the app every iPhone user uses to send and receive SMS messages. It's not about some exclusive features, blue vs green bubbles, etc. It's just SMS messages.

So just citing the number (130M) means nothing in this debate. WhatsApp or Signal or FM Messenger are not SMS apps, so we can't just look at the number of active users and make conclusions.

How many angsty teenagers must have an iPhone because of the color of their chat bubble? That's the number that (apparently) matters.
true, but it's not the same thing

An European citizen can go to Egypt or Estonia or the Canary Islands or Iceland or Norway or Switzerland without a passport

OTOH it's easier to learn English for an European - we all study it in primary schools - and go to the US than for an American to learn Norwegian and move to Norway.

It's also a lot less of a cultural shock to go EU->USA than the other way around.
> you get discriminated against for having a different color bubble and using up people's SMS allocation

It's really not about either. It's about UX. SMS and MMS message UX is terrible.
The TSA: we can’t even be bothered to do our fake job anymore
What if they spent more than a few nights in corrective housing? Actually drying out, and getting treatment? I get that you can't force someone to want to get better, but you can lock them away if they refuse and keep breaking the law. Right? The whole situation is horrible. I moved away from Portland around the turn of the century, and it's unrecognizable to me when I go back to visit family.
Weird take. What does the choice of remote ingress have to do with hosting things yourself?

Hosting doesn't mean exposing to the public internet. It means running the stuff.

It's perfectly fine to self-host a bunch of services that are only accessible from within your LAN. Using a VPN to expand that access doesn't change that, regardless of the VPN solution used.
Huh, isn't the opposite true?
Excellent comparison. However, I am confused by

> no more than two cards per PC

I've seen quad 4090 builds, e.g. here[0]. What do you mean no more than two cards? Yes, power is definitely an issue with multiple 4090s, though you can limit the max power using `nvidia-smi`, which IME doesn't hurt (mem-bottlenecked) inference.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/16ed8fu/quad_...
I do live in the US. All my friends are on Signal and WhatsApp.

There are 140M FB Messenger users in the US, more than iPhone users.

This discussion is baffling to me. People buy devices that have exclusive content and features all the time. PS5 has a ton of exclusive games. So sometimes a group of friends is divided: some people have Xbox, others have PS5. Also some have no console at all. And some people will make fun of others, some people will get bullied because of that. This issue will not magically go away if we force Apple to "equalize" the chat bubble color. Some teenagers will still get bullied.
I'm just speculating that iMessage users use the app more then FB messenger users use FB messenger. I don't think there's anyway to know, so I definitely might be wrong.
RCS existed as a concept, but was extremely flawed and underfunded. Carriers had zero interest in changing from SMS at the time. Apple tried, and gave up, instead choosing to build iMessage. You may recall that when it was announced, it was actually touted by Steve Jobs as an open protocol; that never materialized, largely because Apple realized how massive of a lead they had on every other handset maker because they weren't beholden to the whims of the carriers, who had decided not to move on RCS for many years.
Kdenlive 23.08.4 Released
Observer Theory
sql RBAC views?
Needs a corresponding 'lasso' command to merge old/new databases.
It is constructive, though - Lisp used to be fun when parsing complex language grammar was not as trivial as it is today. I loved it, and I worked with muLisp for many years... in the '80s and '90s. For AI (or, rather, "expert systems"), it was without a match... prior to the '80s, though. There were Lisp machines even... in the past.