skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pdf is by design a image format that can also embed text. It just don't have the primitives to properly retain the article structure.
Why "giving up"?

It's just spinoff and their people are at executive levels
>> we were able to allow UNIX-like threading to run via JS Workers by reusing the shared memory from the main WebAssembly process and notifying the memory upon changes (using Wasm notify/wait syntax).

This left me scratching my head. How are JS workers sharing memory with the WASM process?
How is this an example of him being right? He neither proved that his idea worked, nor did he prove that maglev didn't work.

Obviously he has gotten some things right, which is a good thing. But Musk has an extraordinary track record of being wrong about a lot of things. That, by itself, is not a problem - you lose, you learn, you fix, you win. The problem is that Musk aggressively attacks public policy with his aggressive wrongness:

- Don't invest in surface public transit, we're so close to full self-driving cars and then traffic will be solved!
- Don't invest in subway systems, we're gonna build better tunnels for self driving cars!
- Don't invest in high speed rail, we could build a hyperloop for much lower cost and it would be 3x faster!
- Don't dive in there to save those kids dying in the flooded tunnel, that's dangerous! Trust me, I'm gonna build a submarine that can get them out!

As far as I'm concerned, Musk can be wrong all he wants, but stop fucking with the world's decisions if you're gonna insist on being wrong all the time.
I had the same problem until I also enabled "Core Data Access Permissions"
My public library will let you print for 10 cents. The post office will sell you an envelope or maybe even give you one for free depending on the level of service you are paying for.

It's far from ideal, and the process should be easier but keeping the membership is costing you actual money and a solution is possible with a little extra effort. That effort shouldn't be necessary but we live in the world that exists not the world that should exist.
Buying NeXT was pretty cheap but paid off.
Yup, this is the primary case where the rear vehicle isn't at fault. You change lanes into a lane that's moving faster and get hit, you were wrong even if they hit you from behind.
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While AMD did make mistakes, there were external factors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
To add supporting evidence, here's something from 41 years ago where the butt of the joke was the leadership of Soviet Russia, and the inheritance was 2 letters:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/01/15/a...
i got in a situation like this once with a saas company. I called my cc and told them what happened and to block all payments to the vendor. It took some convincing but they did it.
They literally released this as a commercial service for $2/month. That they removed fees temporarily while it was completely broken does not make my statement of absolute, verifiable, incontestable fact a "strawman".

History isn't rewritten because they lost.
I see foreign keys the same way I see types. You may not need them, but they catch a lot of mistakes and give you more confidence in the integrity of your system.
I don’t think that’s quite the takedown of the gp you might it is; copyright doesn’t really ensure any of those things. It looks like think you’re conflating a few things here, particularly attribution and profit. I don’t think copyright guarantees either.

The gp was speaking about the purpose behind creating copyright, which is to produce the maximum number of works, while you were looking at the results to the author, the goals of recognition and payment.

Only specific representations are protected: non-derivative readaptations are generally permitted (the thorny issue is whether it is derivative or not: c.f. Disney vs Pixar). Additionally, the US specifically avoids guaranteeing profits for works by endorsing “sweat-of-the-brow” or effort-based value judgements. Doing otherwise is an implicit validation of communism: to each according to their effort, which is counter to the distribution policy under capitalism.
I think that will be the issue, where even though an image or video will be revealed as fake, how many people saw it before that was revealed (and of the people that saw it and believed it, did they hear of the fakery being revealed)?
Why would you not take it when it's free? Makes zero sense.
Is all fine and dandy the Mall analogy except that the are only 2 'Malls' in the world. Apple Store and Google Play Store. That kind of leverage has never existed before in the history of this world economy.
That’s a big claim with little sourcing.
> what keeps me loyal to Android is open source

Google hasn't open sourced the apis that only ship as part of the Play Store, and which modern Android apps require to function. This tactic has been around for a decade now.

> Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
CA isn't the only state investing in high speed rail. Elon musk lied to many people in many states with his Hyperloop project.
I don't understand Mistral and context size
Siri that actually works sounds very appealing to be honest. All the integration and UX is there. It just doesn’t work today. So an LLM based Siri that can understand my request is worth an upgrade (for me)
The question of the mix is interesting, and probably more complex than it looks as we might have to take the "electrification" of industries, transportation, heating, etc. over time into consideration.

If EV become more popular, if trucks and trains start to use more electricity, if heat-pumps become more popular, etc. the demand for electricity would grow over what the country is currently using. So new capacity would be needed, and electricity would be even more critical and would require to be more reliable than ever before.

That is why nuclear has a part to play to make the grid stable and reliable, on top of renewable deployment.
And the appliances are inexpensive too.
Intel’s engineering is pretty solid, I think anyone who looks down on Intel’s engineers because they “only” managed to overcome their management’s wasteful dithering for… like… 30 years is not worth working for.
If the US rail network wasn't in such a state of disrepair and freight trains weren't miles long to cut labor costs, you wouldn't even need to dig tunnels for them. That also saves the cost of digging those tunnels and actually making them safe (i.e. having service tunnels, ventilation, fire escapes, fire suppression systems, etc etc). And of course with tunnels you'd want rail anyway because you don't want to be stuck trying to extinguish a battery fire in a tunnel 200' under the city.
Induction is faster, more precise, more efficient/green, safer, and most importantly not spewing toxic crap into your kitchen/living room where you presumably spend time with your family/children.

Even with an externally-vented vent hood (most dump back into the room) + make up air system (that most do not have) gas ranges still contaminate your kitchen.
Ask HN: What's your self-care routine?
Like most I'm on a constant journey of Looking After Myself. These days this includes running, strength training, spending time with friends and family, something resembling meditation, fasting, drawing, eating well, and more. I'm wondering what individuals do to care for their physical and mental health without it becoming a full time job. What are your routines, hacks and rituals?
fwiw Google is attempting the same thing, but they're not doing much better.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MrWhosetheboss-video-reveals-G...

> Google's Pixel 8 Pro Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud
>but nearly everything in userspace is closed-source.

The part you are referring to is not part of AOSP. Different vendors all build their own OS for their devices on top of AOSP.
A lot of AI/ML papers these days have an accompanying interactive page like [0], will we see anything like these now directly in arXive?

[0] https://voyager.minedojo.org/
Ask HN: What is the best way to build a command line tool?
I'm not a Rust developer so I'm looking for a solution I can build in JavaScript.
I feel like trains are similar in a lot of ways, and many orders of magnitude cheaper. That’s definitely cool to think about though!
> so I could respond to texts from my desktop

You can. I've been using Beeper Cloud for a year on a Windows desktop. It's fantastic. I also use WhatsApp in that same application.

Before that I had all sorts of workarounds that mostly worked. Like having a Mac VM running in the background with an AirMessage server and then using their web client to access messaging from Windows. Beeper Cloud removed all this nonsense from my life.
Cloudflare wants to be the defacto "Cloud 2.0" company (where AWS is "Cloud 1.0").

Where Cloud 1.0 is laregly just a "lift/shift" of OnPrem to Cloud.

Cloud 2.0 is hosting on the Edge and infrastructure built completely different than anything legacy from an OnPrem (or lift/shift) mindset.
In a country with long distances, a well-developed interstate highway system, and a well-developed air transport system. There is a decent rail system in the Northeast and between some other city pairs. But there isn't and shouldn't be the political will to develop rail transport options that don't outcompete those other options especially with electric/autonomous driving becoming an increasing option over the coming decades.
I think they mean making money off open source contributions
If they didn't charge for IAP, then every dev would go "free"+IAP, and Google/Apple would get nothing.
> They should be building programmable AI chips with FPGA

Eh, people have been saying this for over a decade, and I think that opportunity has passed.

FPGAs are not going to beat GPUs anytime soon due to the software ecosystem (among other things), and ultimately they are not going to outrun ASICs that are now economically viable (especially in the embedded space).
No, no, no remember to use code words when criticizing Republicans next time so they don’t flag it.
I listed it specifically because it sounds silly but is actually an important point. Thanks for sharing the link though
The education costs are high, but not THAT high. We're on a forum for tech workers and their corresponding suits: that kind of salary can comfortably send 2 kids to any university they fancy on a single income. We're talking about saving up about three quarter million by the time the second kid hits college. Faaaarr from impossible on a 1500-200k salary.
Maybe I'm missing something but there doesn't seem to be import/export angle shown there?
I assume this is referring to how Europe requires new vehicles be sold with automatic emergency braking.

If we do reach a point where self driving systems consistently outperfom humans in term or safety, I would absolutely expect a push to atleast require it in new vehicles if not some form of new law to push people towards using that technology. Personally, I find that idea attractive but I understand why people would fear it.
I don’t have anything in mind, because I don’t run a Wikipedia competitor. I haven’t spent enough time thinking about it. But certainty anything other than “just trust what the big media companies say” would be an improvement.

In general I find Wikipedia articles to be written from a very specific viewpoint that highlights certain facts and hides others. Whether this is from Wikipedia writers themselves or is merely a reflection of their sources, I’m not sure. But if the goal is to provide the truth, I don’t think they make a particularly good effort at incorporating alternative perspectives.
Because it's a way worse experience than taking my own car. Maybe if they paid me I'd take it. If they paid enough.
Critical.

I’d like my data to stay local.

I probably don’t need cloud processing for any regular usage.

The privacy to life benefit equation is broken in society atm.

This will change.
>If Apple wants to accuse us of being insecure, they need to back that up with hard evidence.

No, as history has shown, apple can just make up and spread arbitrary FUD about your business, and a lot of customers will believe them. Apple lobbyists will then use the FUD to push laws which put your business at risk.
Reminds me of this: Go all the way back to 2009. The Palm Pre spoofed USB ids (I guess) so it would work with iTunes. Apple updated iTunes a time or two to block it. Palm gave up.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/758811/palm-gives-up-la...
I worked at Intel for 10 years, mainly the Otellini years. To myself I called it Corporate Attention Deficit Disorder. I think it's a symptom of bad management, always moving on to the next shiny rock, no long term vision.

During my tenure I witnessed several failed initiatives. Itanium, Wimax, Digital Home, x86 phone (android), LTE modem. Imagine the billions wasted.
Honestly, if SiriusXM would simply offer a fair price for life I would pay for it. I refuse to do business with companies that force me to play the "threaten to cancel" game every year just to keep a fair price. My time is worth more than that.
The US freight rail network is in excellent shape. It's the passenger network that's in shambles.
You’re thinking in terms of encryption, I’m thinking in terms of attestation. Eg, defend against root kits by way of validating all software components in the boot cycle.
I work quite a bit with air bearings. There is an inverse relationship with pressure requirements and tolerances. If you want low pressures, you need high tolerances...if you want low tolerances, you need high pressures. There was some fundamental math that could have refuted this idea from the very beginning, but Musk spoke before he calculated.
I do more than enough tinkering but my phone‘s supposed to just work.
Hyperloop would have been built on pylons, theoretically mitigating the impact of a line cutting across farms or cities, which in the case of CAHSR has caused immeasurable political problems.

I suspect the actual technology within the tube was never Musk's initial concern. Similar to his other industrial endeavors, I think the calculus with Hyperloop had more to do with the economics of being able to manufacture pylons and tube segments offsite for quick assembly onsite, leveraging factory production and avoiding as much as possible site-specific costs such as land grading. And presumably he had in mind repurposing SpaceX technology for welding rocket bodies. Given a cost-effective way to build and put these tubes into place, and some ballpark figures on their characteristics--e.g. how much of a pressure difference they could reliably keep without inflating production costs--figuring out how to actually use them was just an engineering problem, which he then took a first crack at to satisfy himself the overall concept might be feasible.
and that process is????
7B parameter language models running on metal work really well

Other kinds of transformers could too

Fix Apple autocorrect and detect replacements for misspelled words better
^ this is correct and accurate.

I worked on Android for several years and was struggling to find an entry point in the comments where people would be amenable to a message like this.

You're either Samsung and have some bespoke deal with Google and get to negotiate out stuff such that you end up with a real, full, OS, or you're a nobody trying to make an increasingly bare version of the full thing work.

The whole thing feels darn creaky too, Google teams outside the phone / tablet team infamously, constantly, struggled to work with it. Even today, my Google TV will sometimes freeze for 20-30 seconds after power on.

I can't help thinking there's room for something much better, but, here we are. Many projects have lived and died on that shore. And if anything, I'm too negative on it. The flavored water dispenser, and a vending machine, I'm looking at both run on it.
I pick the one with .8’s because this is an obviously meaningless and constructed problem.
It has to be the same rate across app purchase and in-app transactions.

Otherwise every app will be free but charge a transaction to unlock its functionality.
It has been operating - but it was a research project and it's not like tidal has proliferated since then. Not quite a dead end yet - people are still working on submerged tidal kinds of things. But close.
Astrocyte-Enabled Spiking Neural Networks for Large Language Modeling
Is this from the parent not true?

"Other vendors such as Amazon, Samsung and Microsoft happily ship their own app stores and competing app sets"
In fact, it could likely be that we end up with the opposite of your adversarial selection case. Studies have shown that dense cities with good public transit (or walkability) have lower DUI arrest rates. That could potentially extend to everywhere that Waymo is widely available and convenient.
Be that as it may, the Beeper mini client wasn’t licensed under a FOSS license and they tried to monetize it with a monthly recurring subscription.

And by the looks of it, many of their matrix bridges were created by their, now Lead Architect, before they joined Beeper. Those are under GPL so Beeper doesn’t has much choice but to keep them open source.

So it’s kind of like me bragging about doing good for society by virtue of me paying my taxes.
Something similar to what? I'm confused.

Thomas was asserting that "rootless cosmopolitan" was an antisemitic slur that Vektorceraptor deliberately applied to Kenarov. I asserted that the knowledge and usage of that expression is not nearly as universal as Thomas claimed. Thomas clarified that it's a Russian dog whistle.

I've just finished reading the essay you linked there. How does it fit in this discussion?
>Gas cooking is obviously a more luxurious experience

Maybe for the 60+ boomer crowd, for everyone else Induction is way cooler than gas.
Exactly, just figure out how to run Whisper on my phone and it would be the best phone on the market. Whisper plus Mixtral on my phone and it could do anything.
Brightline exists and is operational in Florida, you can now ride a high speed train from Miami to Orlando (as long as you're okay with 120mph as high speed). They are still expanding it to Tampa too.
Blind person here, can confirm this. Reading PDFs with a screen reader is bad, reading PDFs that come from LaTeX is worse, reading LaTeX math is pretty much impossible. All the semantic info you need is just thrown away.

You can make decently accessible PDFs but it's lots of work, you need Acrobat on the producer' side and might also need it on the consumer's side. Free tools don't even come close. There's also the fact that the process of making accessible PDFs in Acrobat isn't itself accessible.

With that said, the way screen readers treat HTML math certainly isn't perfect, it's geared more towards school children than anything above calculus. I'm probably going to stay with my LaTeX source files for now. At least ArXiv offers those, not many sites do. To be fair, that approach also has its own set of problems (particularly when people use some extra fancy formatting in their math equations, making the markup hard to read), but I find this to be the best approach for me so far, at least on AI/ML papers.
> but is it done by force?

Yes, of course. Do you really think most of these people even in the care of their own family would have complete agency over their lives? No, they'd be declared unfit and their Power of Attorney would be delegated to someone else.
I strongly sympathize, but my thinking on this is that it's _extremely_ hard to find someone whose ethics match yours without thinking deeply (and you and the writer both being exceptionally transparent) about what _motivates_ your ethics.

What I've found is that it's not at all hard to find someone who comes to conclusions that frequently make me feel 'satisfied'. But that, if I'm honest, it's often exactly the kind of echo chamber the parent post is warning about, precisely because the 'analyst' is avoiding transparency about their priors - and in fact avoiding any examination of them at all. And without that transparency and curiosity, the 'analysis' is really just very basest form of partisan politics, which is to say "We'll support each other as long as we agree."

I wish you luck in finding thoughtful and transparent analysis, though!
I’ve got the native blocking ruleset for Apple added.
Cost is not the only factor. For certain social classes, public transport is seen as fundamentally shameful or dangerous, something better left to poor people.
Complex topic. Lets scope to solely the electrical grid for this subthread. Oil is already not competitive in most generation mixes (there are some outliers in Central America, for example). That leaves coal and fossil gas. This generation infrastructure, the burners of these fossil fuels, is what will be stranded.

Indeed there is much work to be done to drive fossil fuels out of all modes of transportation.
How is your tinkering enhanced by Apple making it difficult to communicate outside of their kingdom?
It's getting harder to find mac app store apps without subscriptions. You have to open up the "Yes" in "In-App Purchases" to find out if you're asked for a one-time beer or coffee, or a $30/year (or worse) subscription.

When things get more locked-down on the Apple side, I'll make the jump (back).

So far, avoiding the 6GB update to Sonoma, and only when it's out of unofficial public beta (more than 0.2 points away from 14.0)

I tried a tiling manager, but I was disoriented, so I turned it off. I try to never pay more than $3 for an app, harder to do nowadays. I have apps going back to 2010, and TrunkNotes (a wiki, written for iOS) seems to work on Ventura.
On a messaging network, work must be done to both send and to receive messages. For Beeper Mini to iPhone communication, cost is added to the network, but only one of the devices has paid for the privilege of using it. At best you could argue that Beeper Mini only steals half of the resources needed to communicate with iPhone users.
Exactly, for a white balanced screen you need the same number of photons whether they are at a higher resolution (like Pentile) or not. Adding a White (or Yellow or Cyan) subpixel for RGBW can improve efficiency for the less saturated part of the color gamut, but obviously not the pure red green or blue colors.
Maybe, but I would also say that 90% of the AirB&B's I've stayed at have not had the owner staying the same building, even including something like staying in a basement with a separate entrance.
What you call arrogance I call enthusiasm, industrialism and hope for a better future. Your attitude, quite frankly, sucks.
With proper instrumentation, the main speed difference between running your binary locally or in the cloud is the additional scheduling delay.
You still need to build your code and start it.

Startup time is the main productivity issue in our stack. We load lots of datasets into memory on startup, which can take minutes.
When I open a large pdf on arxiv (100+ MB, not uncommon for ML papers focused on hi-res image generation), there is a significant load time (10+ seconds) before anything is rendered at all other than a loading bar. Does anyone know what the source of this delay is? Is it network-bound or is Chrome just really slow to render large PDFs? Do PDFs have to be fully downloaded to begin rendering? In any case, this delay is my only gripe with arxiv and a progressively rendered HTML doc that instantly loads the document text would be a huge improvement.
You are either doing something completely wrong or I don't know what, but I'm ran/running extremely large enterprise applications in fortune ~50 company & smaller companies in .Net Core on Linux with no issues since 2017. In AWS EKS, Azure, on premise Kubernetes.
You're basically crossing a continental divide on that route and the time is similar to what it was a 100 years ago--which is about 10x what flying takes. (And costs a lot more today than flying.)