skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that makes me disagree with proponents of the "smol"/"cheap"/etc Web is their totally misguided insistence on personal webpages as a sui generis medium for self-expression wrt layout and styling.

> Until we adopt simple and stable building materials, all websites will continue to look the same.

Yeah, big deal. Who cares if websites look the same? Wait, let me put that another way: we should care whether websites look the same in the sense that more of them should look similar to one another than they do today—namely, they should look how you and I (the readers) wish for them to look for our own comfort and convenience—which means fewer dark starry sky backgrounds, fewer text drop shadows and typefaces reminiscent of comic book speech bubbles, and fewer distracting marquees. Way less kitsch, not more.

HN, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, SMS, etc. all have a limited range of expression through form. Somehow we get by. Completely dissimilar books look a lot more "the same" than websites do, and that's not a bad thing. You never see book authors complaining about control over the printed page the way that you see self-styled web designers insisting on their manifest destiny over the user's viewport for the purposes of self-expression. Webdevs need to get over themselves, and the wider world needs to stop letting them get by with (or encouraging) this kind of narcissism.
I wonder what the threshold will be for YouTube to start losing a critical amount of relevance.

YouTube is way, way less interesting than it even was just 5 years ago. Discoverability is in the toilet, and being discoverable usually means a high level of investment on the part of creators. Everyone is playing it very safe as a result, and your average YouTube video today is remeniscent of where cable television was just before streaming began drinking it's milkshake.

Being aggressive against Invidious, youtube-dl, and ad blockers won't help them in the long term. Maybe they are covering their tracks for something, but even so, they will lose relevance. For many, their content isn't worth paying for, and even when it is, some hesitate to give money to a company that is likely to pull the rug from underneath them.

The best thing YouTube can do right now is get rid of their current C-level and replace them with people who are either actually YouTube enthusiasts or creators themselves. Corporate bozos always bring down companies that have revenue models based on creativity. That isn't to say YouTube will go extinct, but it's second life may be a rebranding and only allowing content from established businesses, and being of little relevance.

When it comes to Invidious, YouTube wouldn't have to do much to keep people in their own frontend. Their search function is complete bullshit today, and that would be an extremely easy fix. They can stop bubbling CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and co. to the top if you type in certain keywords. (obviously they will never do this though) They can improve the filtering of searches. They could fix the bugs with the queue and stop introducing new ones all the time.
Vote for politicians who don't run on a platform of deregulation for deregulation's sake.
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Of course they control speech, that's absolutely on the EU agenda. Hate speech is not legal in the EU
No one is going to argue that the world isn't your oyster as a tall, fit, cis white man (many people's definition of "sound mind and body"). However, the rest of us deserve a chance. That we're not always able to get one is not an in-born character flaw.
which has mainly an advisory role
That's longer ago than I thought, but still just within the decade, so it counts.

I admit it's a depressing performance by WotC.
> For me it was at best a slight help if I was trying to find a celebrity that had impersonators.

That's exactly why it was useful. Major institutions and public figures have impersonators, some satirical and others intentionally misleading. The check made it easy to sift what actually came from someone and what was either lies or satire.

On that front it hasn't gotten too bad because the grey and gold checkmarks exist.

Now blue checkmarks are a sign to ignore the tweet because it's someone who's just paid to boost their signal. Of course this has rendered the thread of replies to a given tweet unusable since the top posts are all posts by people who have paid to be seen rather than posts with more likes or retweets (actual signals of value/popularity).
You’re right. The hard part is to manage processing of your data as close to the metal as possible to optimize memory, data flow, and computation.

Coming from FPGA (both Verilog and VHDL), to me CUDA offers the best way to handle all three parts in comparison to let‘s say OpenCL, Vulkan, or Metal.

For game developers this might be different, as here you always use high-level language and packages (in most cases).

AMD need‘s to rethink there strategy regarding compute tool stack radically. If the HelloWorldMatrixMul is longer as ten lines and not compile on every new AMD powered notebook out of the box, they have no chance to beat NVIDIA. (I know, that the last point is not given for NVIDIA. But it would give AMD the doubleplus good, currently missing.)
>About 50% of the time some other swimmer would say "By pickup those up you are taking a job away from a lifeguard." Entitled pricks.

Didn't they realize Gary Oldman was the villain in Fifth Element?
It's less a plan and more the result of a court case, which forced the government to reduce their budget for the next year.
It could. XD is dead but maybe this might inspire Adobe to revive it.
I live rurally where the only traffic is a few locals, and then a bunch of suburban people who drive 20-30mins to get out here in groups who haven't adapted to norms around loitering and privacy - or littering. My property abuts a scenic corner that started to attract people over covid. Given it's one group of recent arrivals, objectively there is a cultural factor in attitudes to litter that needs to be a part of integrating newcomers from urbanized societies who aren't familiar with the conservation of nature. It's an education thing, and unless you are from here or somewhere with nature, you don't learn it. Living in opposition to the natural environment is practically the definition of being poor.

After going out and talking to the people about it a lot, I just bought a drone to send out instead and it has been less civil but more effective. The numbers are down this year, and the litter has reduced significantly, as the people who encounter the drone don't return. The solution to litter is education and being forthright in your stewardship of the places you live, and recognizing that asserting norms is a constructive way to help people integrate instead of silently resenting and isolating them.
I really hoped someone will help get rid of Putin from inside RU by this moment (I believe there are plenty of who may not necessary love him).
EU should really put more cash on table to help UA.
yes, they probably have a "clean" build and "a build with extra functionality" build.
So, they could even install a clean build for some trains.
Though, investigators could just compare firmware from all trains made so far. Another question if it would be even be investigated.
These comments are so disheartening and disgusting.
Are you enjoying your revenge of the nerds moment?
Go fellate a robot, will ya
I guess you're being downvoted by the people who don't realize that greed was recognized as one of the major human failures long before capitalism was invented...
The guy you replied to works at a left-wing NGO called "Center of Complex Interventions": https://centerofci.org/team/dominykas-mostauskis/

I have never heard of them before, but given this background, his opinions are unsurprising and bound to be in line with the Thierry Bretons of the world.
I think there's a fair amount of Elon criticism on HN. The EU is unfortunately not very popular abroad, and even within the EU itself. Regardless of the above, I agree with your main point - the EU should do something about the fact the Twitter plays a big role in dismantling democracies.
In South Korea, a prosecutor under investigation for personal corruption once refused to hand over a password.

The prosecutor was appointed to the position of Minister of Justice and is also a candidate for the next presidential election.
> Unfortunately, you do pay a fairly large price for bytebuffers, even off-heap ones.

I'd disagree. Heap based bytebuffers - I don't consider them interesting, they are just byte arrays. The direct ones suffer from unmapping (munmap on linux) - it's a slow process that has to flush the TLB. So the only sane way to use them allocate once/reuse. Anything else I'd consider a programmer error.

mmap on large files indeed does suck (a bit) w/ ByteBuffers as it'd require an array of them.

Personally I have been using direct buffer since 1.4, so I guess I am also quite used to them as well.
I spoke to him about it after and he said something like: if it looks intelligent to the user, and it’s done by a computer, the user sees it as artificial intelligence, since they don’t care about the underlying tech that drives it. Just how startups often manually process the first few customers requests or get mechanical Turk to do something. Users just see the end result and don’t really know or care if it was implemented by a mess of if statements, machine learning, or magical fairy dust. They just see a machine acting in ways that seem intelligent.

Of course that very much muddies and dilutes the terminology, but AI was always an imprecise and badly defined term and, as was pointed out, earlier AI techniques wouldn’t be seen as that nowadays: by todays standard, I wouldn’t consider expert systems or minmax tree search or whatever as AI, but once upon a time, when the term was coined, it certainly was.
> The DSA imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency. Any firm found in breach faces a fine worth up to 6% of its global turnover.

The EU has been rent seeking on FAANG and US tech for a decade. They want control and money. Thanks for USB-C but they can keep their fucking cookie banners. This will create huge problems for the whole world when an arbitrary agency can "impose rules on content moderation" and "privacy[1]" and levy a huge fine. The US tech companies should form a bloc and force them to be reasonable

[1] Which I'm sure mean anti-privacy.
> There's something called information warfare, which basically means manipulating public discourse to further one's political goals. Russia is notoriously good at it, for example. West sucks at it (it has Hollywood at least). These regulations aim to help.

This is precisely the same argument made by every opponent of free speech throughout history and around the world: bad actors will manipulate the public discourse for their own political ends, disrupting the public order. It's important to realize there is nothing new about this argument at all. The West generally settled for speech over order, and many people would now like to re-negotiate that settlement, using the Internet as justification.

Mass media, for a time, created a sort of oasis for "public order" types. Instead of disinformation, gossip, and fake news spread through word-of-mouth - or later, the massively decentralized yellow press - which often led to bizarre political outcomes, riots, violence, and even insurrections and wars, one class of people temporarily/largely controlled a major means of information dissemination via radio and television. Over time it became increasingly centralized in only a few companies, and even allowed for a fairly high degree of government regulation, compared with historic means of information dissemination. I don't know how effective this was in creating actual political consensus, but it gave the impression to people cloistered in the same or similar classes that such consensus existed.

The Internet has returned us to the pre-broadcast media norm, and a lot of people really don't like it,because suddenly there's a lot of views, a lot of true information, and a lot of false information they really don't like, and which they are exposed to regularly. So their solution is to use the government and political pressure to reset the Overton window to permit only the range of expression they find personally tolerable, for the sake of public order, which conveniently overlaps with their own political goals. (The good guys, of course, are always for public order, so when we manipulate the public discourse for our own political goals, it's a good thing: the same line of argument pursued in China, the EU, and the US.)

> It's the same type of regulation that attempts to prevent a teacher telling kids that the earth is 6 thousand years old.

I don't think regulating Twitter is the same as regulating what an agent of the state says in their capacity as an agent of the state.
In my country sale is sort of "at will" agreement. So no matter who said what the agreement is not in force if there was no intention to sell. An nobody in their right mind would conclude that there was intention to sell a car for $1 there.
The only thing that's worse then talking to a chatbot. Is talking to a human with absolutely no power to change anything.

Most Airlines do this, customer support is only allowed to repeat info from the site, or ask to fill in a form.

In that case just put a bot or GPT instead of humans suffering abuse from frustrated customers.
Hardly comparable. The fact that people can generate work doesn't mean they're owed labor because their work is being automated away. The physics of work is not a creative endeavor and even though I think ownership of creative works is grey matter the idea of having to share profits after generating more work with machines is just blindingly illogical
Did I say "no different from China or Russia"? (1)

Or are you notorious for making it ad-hominem, and of putting statements in other people's mouths they didn't make?

Yes, I frequently hold opinions "in contradiction to other people’s statements" and state them. I wouldn't do it if I knew that such blatant individuality isn't approved!

Though surely "putting out public statements in contradiction to other people’s statements" is true for any non trivial statement one can make about a subject that has at least two sides: it would be in contradiction with some people's statements, and in agreement with other people's statements.

So, isn't your accusation basically boiling down to: "putting out public statements in contradiction to [your preferred people’s] statements"?

(1) And isn't that a pretty low bar to be happy about?
You'll see a similar attitude with shopping carts, "it's the cart collector's job to get those" as if that somehow kept the carts from blocking parking spots and walkways in the 30-90 minutes it takes that cart collector guy to come out and get them. My typical response is "so do you piss all over the toilet seat and leave it there because it's the janitor's job to come clean it up?"
And actually based on my experience, customer sales agents, whether it's real estate or cars are notoriously dishonest. They may not hallucinate perhaps, but they leave facts unsaid, they will word things in such a way as to get you to buy something rather than get you to do the best decision - sometimes the decision could be not to buy anything from them.

So a ChatBot that can't intentionally lie or hide things could actually be an improvement in such cases.
>maybe we would be compelled to produce less

Dunno, have you met people? Once the place is covered in trash, the next piece of trash has a marginal impact, so "we" wouldn't feel compelled at all. Just drop it wherever.
What do you mean, next time? That disclaimer is already there. See where it says "Please confirm all information with the dealership"?
I did look at that. Seems to be about the same price as the USB one in the UK. But it also doesn't recharge nor does it have fine-grained controls for session length / intensity.
Yes, because EU leaders of state are elected democratically.
Extensive input from the BPL blog 15Dec:

https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2023/12/knowledge-under...

Edit: They were legally forbidden to pay the £600,000 ransom.
Got bit by this. It felt absolutely horrible to not have any recourse. We had a yearly adobe sign contract, it was based on a particular usage estimate and quite high. Called in weeks before the renewal and they said we missed the window to cancel. There was no option out of it. No escalation. Had to stomach a massive bill for of a product we weren't going to use.
Some European cities have solved that by replacing the rubbish bins with rings that hold a transparent rubbish bad so people can see if there is a bomb inside. I wonder why no city in Japan has adopted that approach.
Which term are you suggesting these bots break?
Oh, can you point to examples where racism has spontaneously disappeared?
> I'll never understand the hate AMD gets from the open source community. Mind-boggling.

A large part of that hate is that, for a very long time, they had the worst of both worlds: a fragile proprietary driver and subpar performance.

Only recently have they fixed both. Indeed I only found out about their newfound openness a few years ago. Not everyone has gotten the memo.
Preparation H reduces the swelling and the itching goes away. Doesn't need to be charged.

Novel approach here, we need a 240W version for spot-welding or putting a quick sear on pork belly.
One can think anything about the particular line-drawing about what is and what isn't something X should moderate. By operating in the EU they do agree to the DSA though. And no one is saying that the content in question is or isn't something that twitter has handled incorrectly. All that's happening is that there is an investigation into it. There really isn't much to talk about (yet).
Ok missed that one, seems interesting, will watch it thanks!
That's actually not what I said at all. What I said was...

> Any amount of employee time spent exploring options that aren’t pursued could be framed that way.

Employee time costs money. If 20 people are in a meeting for 1 hour, that 1 hour meeting costs the equivalent of 1 hour of each of attendee's salary. 20 people attend a meeting making $100 / hour, you just spent $2,000 for that meeting.

All time spent planning, also costs money. Every Agile "spike" to do research for a story costs money. Every architecture document. Every time you have somebody do a couple of prototype projects to test your options before you make a decision. Sometimes you can't easily find out what's involved until you really dive into the work. It's the nature of the beast.

For LinkedIn, purchased by Microsoft who also owns Azure I'm quite certain that during the process they assumed consolidation within Azure would be on the table. If anything it was probably expected to be a huge marketing push for Azure to be able to say that LI ran on Azure so it's likely a management decision that involved a lot of pressure to make it happen.

Being willing to abandon that decision after exploring to see what was involved is a big deal. In many companies you'd have just heard platitudes like "well we have to do it, find a way" perpetually extending the project while taking away from more valuable initiatives.

I used to work for a business telco that was acquired by a residential telco. They were so convinced they could roll this newly acquired company into their existing systems that they ran off all of the staff who built the systems. 2 years later, they finally realized that business telco was a lot more involved but by then it was too late.

I understand the thinking that got them there, but despite a lot of people trying to stop them they proceeded forward until their hand was forced. This LinkedIn decision could have gone much, much worse.
Wikitia: Elevating Encyclopedias with Expert Verification and Open-Edit Paradigm
> getting so much from so little

I feel the same way about directly using or mimicking systems of the natural world. Stuff like using birds as combined pest control and fertilizer or waste water treatment.

I think we haven't even scratched the surface of what is possible, particularly with microbes. I envision things like producing glue, converting plant scraps into fibres/wood, converting toxins into inert compounds, extracting trace chemicals from a massive volume of useless medium.

Right now I think the biggest obstacle to these kinds of techniques is the lack of control and the danger of escape and mutation. Just imagine if a plastic-eating bacterium escaped a waste facility and started eating our world. I hope that with better tools and better simulation we can make it work and make it safe. It would go a long way towards lowering our energy and resource use.
Yeah, this is really just artists poisoning themselves hoping AI dies. It'll take away from them using their creativity to actually capitalize and they'll just spend their time trying to go against relatively intelligent people on their own turf.
As far as I know there are no common laws surrounding that. There is a legal framework/agreement requiring states to have some kind of hate speech laws though, but they'll vary wildly. E.g. in Germany you can't be openly Nazi. In Denmark you can't burn a Quran etc. So there is no agreement of WHAT constitutes hate speech across the EU.

The framework:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

It's extremely vague. It's more an understanding that "hate speech is bad so bad you should all draw a line... somewhere".
I think littering probably overlaps with so many other bad behaviours that the punishment should include a lifetime ban on directing a company, being a police officer, practising law, and running for political office.
My "getting paid for the work" story (2018)
How do subtle pixel changes cause the image of a dog to classified as a cat rather than as gibberish?
I wonder if we're at a point where you could build a voice assistant like that, except almost-realtime and streamed end to end:

User speaks and speech to text starts streaming text while the user is still speaking. That text stream is piped into a LLM, which also streams its output text. That output text is streamed to text-to-speech, which also generates audio in a streaming manner.
It's a completely different legal culture in Japan, the entire system is designed so that laws on the books can credibly be enforced 365 days of the year.

But they are much more careful and selective in what laws to enact in the first place.

As opposed to other jurisdictions that don't care nearly as much.
I think there is a perverse logic behind removing trash cans: people who usually don't just throw their trash on the street will carry it with them until they find a way to dispose it properly (at home if they have to); people who are prone to littering will usually do it even if there are trash cans nearby. So I guess the percentage of people who will litter only if they don't find a trashcan is probably small enough so the savings from not having to empty as many trash cans outweigh the cost of cleaning up the additional litter (which has to be done anyway).
That's great news.

I wish someone would undo Adobe's Allegorithmic buyout, they lost all their ambition after buyout.