skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Youtubers literally do this kinda stuff.

YouTube has notably different due process protections, rules of evidence, and standards of proof than criminal law in reasonable systems of government, however.
Most recent data is from 2020 according to the text at the top of the page
> Is that really worth it to get back what I would assume is on average a 3 year old laptop? Do you then re-issue this old, used gear to your new hires?

It depends on the device. A 3 year old M1 MBP is virtually identical to an almost brand new M2 MBP. There's no need to chuck an M1 MBP in the trash (metaphorically and literally) just because it's "3 years old".

Now if it's a 3 year old low end Intel machine then I'd be more than happy if it went away.
I would still think that multiple dispatch is a better way to build libraries than OOP, but indeed I agree that wouldn't be enough for something as drastic as changing language.
not to be confused with the compuware building in the heart of downtown detroit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Campus_Martius
An interesting application for a virtual reality headset. You could at least do anecdotal testing with your friends who have autistic children.
> Finally it’s impossible to verify they actually did.

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to set up a service which does. Do the verification I mean. :)
I might have expressed myself in an ambiguous and extravagated way, just to be clear, I was not complaining about WGSL. I actually do like it a little better than GLSL and HLSL, though it still leads to more standards / fragmentation.

And exactly, Apple did not want SPIR-V (a bytecode) and proposed WebHLSL (a textual source language) instead. So, I think my statement that Apple preferred a textual format over a bytecode is correct. They could have proposed another bytecode format, but as you noted, nobody did.

It does not really matter anyway, because the GPU hardware and software paradigms are still undergoing rapid change. And there are a whole lot of under-specified things like memory models, scheduling order, control flow uniformity etc. which I expect will take another iteration of standards to be established.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of “annoyance” metric for the ad selection algorithm. The idea being: show a certain demographic the same annoying ad again and again, and they might end up paying just to get rid of ads. I’m pretty sure Spotify does this.
It's more complicated than that.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works#concernin...
Show HN: Sunlight, use an LLM to debias your content
I’m actually curious, how did Google do that? The guy who did it did it in a very obvious way, but I’m assuming you can just schedule a lot of posts that would drop once a day, make the AI to use different language structures and change the underlying AI model in general (e.g. switch between OpenAI, Mistral and whatever) and slow drip submit the posts. How would Google know they’re “mass generated”?
The investment is defeating putin’s world ruler dream. Many people seem to forget that the US spent almost $2tn in Afghanistan with $145bn given to Afghan government for reconstruction and strengthening of local forces. All for exactly what? But the main difference is that the taliban didn’t have a troll farm neither could easily buy voices in the US congress.
I only know of 1 where it is a current problem. What do you have?
if you were using updated apps on an outdated OS, then there's that much less incentive for you to upgrade the OS
She was hired because she was good at what she did and not because of her skin color.
Huh? The Russian Federation absolutely does have nuclear weapons. 5,889 warheads, more than the USA in terms of raw numbers.
DNS offers TXT records...
Once browser support improves, minimaps on web-powered stuff will be pretty trivial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/element
probably not as many as you may think. If I am reading the federal statutes right simple possession in most cases is a misdemeanor. it also targets the district of columbia which votes so heavily democrat it does not really matter from an electoral perspective.
EELBERT: Tiny Models Through Dynamic Embeddings
I got decent results back. What do you get?
I do this. Often they hang up when they hear my voice, so I’ve found speaking slowly and like I was confused person but taking them seriously seems to be the sweet spot. From there, continuing to act confused and get their instructions wrong constantly keeps them on the line. If you mention the word “scam” or any implication they are criminals they hang up immediately and move on. They also don’t have patience for “not being able to hear/understand them.”

I think if I can take as much of their time as possible that’s less time they have to scam vulnerable people. And it’s often good for a lark and quick break from the day.
Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30k per wafer
> Simple: logic circuits for propositional logic are not Turing-complete, and in a lecture about theoretical computer science one wants to teach such more sophisticated, mathematical models of computation.

Logical circuits with delay (sequential [1] rather than combinational logic) are indeed not Turing complete -- but in the same uninteresting sense that a CPU is not Turing complete: In a conceptually irrelevant way. As I argued, Turing machines are precisely not "much more sophisticated" than CPUs or the circuits they are made out of. Turing machines merely have infinite rather than potentially infinite memory.

You could modify the concept of a Turing machine such that its tape is potentially rather than actually infinite, and it would change nothing of substance. Yet this machine would suddenly only be considered equivalent to a finite-state machine.

Apart from that, a perhaps theoretically interesting point about combinational logic (circuits without time/delay) and finite state machines would be that combinational logic is apparently computationally weaker than finite-state machines. Wikipedia doesn't say anything about that explicitly, but the "classes of automata" image [2] they include in the article does suggest it. But that, assuming it's true, should be taught in theoretical computer science class, not in computer engineering (if the latter mentions it at all).

But, much more importantly, they -- the theoretical computer science professors, not the engineering guys -- should explain the theoretical relation between circuits with delay (sequential logic) and various automata, including Turing machines.

The likely fact is that they ignore circuits because they don't fit well into their supposedly neat picture of abstract machines. In fact, they call their reliance on infinity as an important difference between models of computation in question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_logic

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Automata_theory.svg
I've sadly had the same experience. People don't want to take the time to read a paper, while sniping at a second hand summary like a news article is easy karma. I still prefer submitting the paper.

FWIW your submissions are great and almost always worth the time, so don't blame yourself.
Groqchat
I'm in favor of kids being able to do on the internet what they were already able to do in meatspace.

In the 80's, a kid of basically any age could go to see or rent a movie, buy a book, make purchases at a store, play an arcade game with their friends or throw some cash into a payphone and call anybody they liked, all without their parent's knowledge or permission. There were very specific things that have been decided as "age inappropriate" by a democratic process of law (although one that didn't include the kids itself), and those very specific things (like alcohol consumption or X-rated movies) were forbidden, everything else was fair game.

In the modern age, most of those things are done online, and most platforms require you to sign a contract to participate, which requires you to either be 13, 16 or 18, depending on platform and jurisdiction. Even if you get past that by lying about your age, you still need a payment method, which you can't easily get without explicit parental permission. There are exceptions, some platforms support gift cards that you can get over-the-counter, without any form of ID, but the point still stands.
Cox cuts some users' uploads from 30Mbps to 10Mbps–here's how to avoid it
Can’t you at least close the bank account?
> feels a lot more like how actual human memory works

Beware of feel-good traps like this.

If you were to map the human connectome to a computational neural network down to the ion channel, it'd be at least 500 quadrillion parameters*. That's at least 5-6 orders of magnitude beyond what is currently possible with SOTA ML which means that even if the human brain was 99% devoted to compressing those tokens, that 1% that could actually do work with them is still a thousand times bigger than GPT4. There be emergent dragons.

* This is a fascile argument to begin with since biological neuron signals aren't quantized and ion channels are far too complex to map to a single static parameter
A lot of the design decisions seem to prioritize expressiveness over performance, with the type system and multiple dispatch etc. If they wanted a performant python, they wouldn't have made those choices. So clearly they think Julia is good in other ways, but it didn't make the marketing pitch, which tended to be just 'performant python'.

Now Mojo's going to come along and probably fill that niche, which might at the very least force Julia's community to focus a bit more on its other advantages.
They buried the important piece:

"Starting today, you can easily view Bluesky posts without being logged in. Sharing will be more convenient — whether it's a joke you want to text a friend, or a post you want to embed in an article."
Once I moved to the US I understood that tip culture here is so different than in other parts of the world. So, to get rid of confusion, I created this project. Just add your bill amount and think about how you liked the experience at this place, and the app will help you to calculate tips. Easy.

https://kaplich.me/howmuchtotip
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38698343 - Dec 2023 (144 comments)
There is still so much performance to gain by applying software-based optimizations for superior performance of transformer LLMs on GPUs. From ~ 30% GPU utilization to over 90% is possible. I wrote a white paper on this, page 5 and 6: http://tinyurl.com/uujr3z4f
Very relevant thanks!
google boss brain asshole joke
If you want more of the old school Twitter public square, you, then the Discourse feed where you want to be:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/fe...
Or how a car works. I am always surprised that a lot of young people have no idea how many cylinders their car has or how to do an oil change, never mind any real repair.
+1 for Kagi.

But also, for the past few months, I’ve completely stopped searching the internet. ChatGPT-4 does the job way more effectively and I don’t see why I would go back to searching the internet (assuming the chatgpt experience doesn’t get nerfed in some way).
They talk about an NFT scam. Presumably they exchanged worthless NFTs (aren’t they all?) for more valuable/liquid cryptocurrencies.

But yeah, virtual vs hard currencies could be interpreted as bank account vs paper dollars/dinars/won/baht/pesos/whatever.
It's available on F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/
The comment was directed at “doesn't this method add another cost and overhead for calling Text-to-Image models”
It seems like police are heavily YMMV. I reported a felony theft and my local police referred it to my state's equivalent of the DoJ, and they are actually investigating. I was surprised.
"culture" itself is a stupid generalization
Thanks for the recommendation! I searched F-droid but found nothing, and then I realised it was probably.on Izzy
Say no to drugs.
I am torn about WebGPU - on the one hand it is a necessary improvement, but it does radically increase the attack surface area in ways that just a few years ago would have been complained about by the browser security teams. (The spectre countermeasures around high resolution timing can still bite you).

This makes me suspicious that something has changed to push the balance here, and it must be something to do with trying to offload the execution of LLMs and related neural networks on to clients to reduce the cost of doing it server side.
I don't think it's bad. What made you think I think that?

I do think our current president is a swine of a human being who cares nothing for others but his immediate family. Evidence for this is that he himself is largely responsible for our draconian drug laws when it suited him politically, and now as his progressive wing is deserting him (for excellent reasons) he's politically motivated to do the right thing in view of an election he'd in a pickle to win.

I don't mind people voting rights restored with good reason. I do mind people who use others as a means to an end.
Court documents. One mention of rape or murder and there's a 50:50 chance GPT/Claude/Bard will just shut down, when all I want is to extract the entities mentioned in transcripts or opinions.
It’s a crime what they put Aaron through.
That would be a surprising thing to lie about!
It really doesn't have to do with most ML architectures. It has to do with experiment design. If some data used in testing is part of the training process there will be over fitting. That's why a final test set is required for unbiased evaluation.
the reason would be so you’re not being dishonest and selling a misleading product
that dale carnegie book
Very creative project, easy to use, and a great read me. Please don't get discouraged by others' negative comments.
I mean what are they looking for here? They're criticizing a fairly to the point, straight information article for not being an opinion article.
You should then alias "cat" to print "meow" instead of concatenating files.

;-) ;-) ;-)
Basically it's the input vs output efficiency difference of your home generator vs the big ass grid one.

For each unit of input fuel (like natural gas), the grid generator can get more electricity out of it than a small home gen can.

It's true that you don't capture the waste heat of the home generator if you use grid power.

But that's a lot of work to install and maintain too. You'd have to have a heat exchanger with the generator running in some sort of shell. You can't run the gen indoors because of exhaust gases. You also can't have it running too hot with no ventilation. So you'd have to enclose and insulate the generator outdoors, capture its heat output, heat exchange it with the home, tie it to the home thermostat, and still have a way to shunt extra heat (water heater, external exhaust, whatever) so the gen doesn't overheat. You usually can't just throttle down the generator either because they have some optimal RPM at which they run, and your heat pump depends on its output.

It's just a lot of overhead for what would probably be a small improvement in efficiency (maybe not even that, if the decreased efficiency in home generation is bigger than the captured heat output).

Now, at a municipal level or bigger, having to install such systems in homes, along with the natural gas infrastructure, is a much tougher thing than just running wires to each house. Many cold places outside major cities don't have reliable nature gas delivery to the home.

It's a marginal improvement to a hard to fill niche, vs the simplicity of running a mini split off grid power. That can be installed in a few hours.

I think a regular electric heat pump plus supplemental wood burning or kerosene stove in the home would give you simpler and more consistent results, personally, at the cost of having to breathe their exhaust fumes.
This is so much like org mode (or rather, a small subset of org mode) its fascinating and cool to me you had never even heard of it! Great minds...

Make sure to also look at org roam, it is more specifically why I won't personally have a need for Heynote any time soon, but it could maybe be inspiring for you going forward.

https://www.orgroam.com/
It can mean the same thing - when I have a hunch I think of as many ways of shooting it down as possible - but that often involves predicting something starting from the hunch and then testing that prediction against nature/existing literature. I'd still call it "trying to validate this hunch".
I feel you. I was very disappointed with the noise made by my nuc7i5bnh. Did a bit of research and found out that a) the default BIOS fan settings are crap and b) the installed fan is crap as well.

Found some recommendations for the fan [1] and BIOS fan settings [2] on the internet and got my NUC completely silent. Perhaps that works for you as well?

[1] https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07C8H5WHP (Out of stock and does not fit your model anyway, but perhaps the brand has fans suitable for your nuc.)
[2] https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-NUCs/NUC7i5BNK-fan-spee..., https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-NUCs/Lautst%C3%A4rke-L%...

Did a bit of research and found the following one getting recommended: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07C8H5WHP

Installed it and it was SO MUCH quieter.
> The president only has the power to pardon people convicted or accused of violating federal law and prosecuted in federal court.

The president can pardon any offense against the united states except impeachment. State offenses have always been left to governors to pardon but states are what make the united states and as such state offenses while violating only state law, they are an offense against a state that is part of the union and affect a citizen of the union, as such the president has ulitmate power to pardon.

This is similar to how state legal dispute or prosecution can ultimately be decided by the supreme court of the united states. It does not stop at the state's supreme court.

If trump gets elected next year for example, he can pardon himself of his upcoming likely conviction in georgia. Else you have a situation where in 2028 as soon as he leaves office he becomes a wanted criminal.

Presidents know that pardoning a stare criminal is overriding state law and alienating voters from that state and risking rifts in the union.

I believe the president supersedes state governors in every power they have except things like appointments and firings at the state level.
Instead of pruning least contributing neurons wouldn't it be better to ie. nominate next lowest contributing neuron or most similar one to merge them into one or redistribute its impact onto others?
I loved the TinaCMS blog post on how they still use flat files as their source of truth, but have a level.js database that powers a bunch of their functionality. https://tina.io/blog/Tina-CMS--Leveljs/

You can blow up the db & regenerate it very quickly. All the data is still flat files. But the advanced functions harvest & are derived from the source of truth. Seems like a perfect compromise.

I haven't done it yet but I have a git-auto-cimmit project I intend to use with logseq, that'll help me better keep a record of changes over time. That ability to have a flat file source of truth feels hugely hugely empowering to me, and I have a hard time imagining having anything else.
We don't need to develop an antibiotic that's impossible to gain resistance to. We just need to stay ahead of the cat&mouse game, which can go around in circles. If we start using a completely new type of antibiotics and stop using the old ones for a century, bacteria will gradually lose resistance to the old ones as they gain resistance to the new ones.
And of course, 2024 is going to make 2023 look like 2022.
PV cells and efficient/cheap batteries.
Google with some of the best people in the world. Unlimited resources in almost every way, manages to fall further behind and further into irrelevance in AI.

A bunch of closed models no one can run. A mediocre bard that is way behind everyone else. Pretty pathetic. Is anyone home at Google?

Google's AI budget is higher than the total funding for AI at all US universities combined. It's just mind boggling how they can drop the ball so badly.

What a change in fortunes. Just a few years ago it was the place to be and our PhD students were dying to work there.
It's not puzzling if you look at it just from the most superficial level, which is how internet dynamics work. Any comment of the form "$country is so $bad. Elsewhere, like $other-country, $good" is going to evoke angry replies in the general case.

Edit: while I have you, can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and adhere to the guidelines more closely? You broke them in other places recently as well (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696491)

On the plus side, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664857 was great and I am going to send you a repost invite for it!
I agree with your point.

But the quoted statistic is confusing. Under what specifics would 300 people = 0.5% of the total prison population? As I understand it, the total prison population of the USA is over 1 million, and the subset designated 'federal prisoners' is, by itself, over 200,000.
Apple Wants to Partner with Major Publishers to Train AI
Ask HN: How to start a software consulting company
I work as a software engineer, and I recently finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science. Programming is not just my job; it has been my hobby for as long as I remember.

I always wanted to have my own software consulting company on the side where I could help other people solve their website or cloud (Azure or PaaS) problems. That has always been my dream. I am not sure where to start or how to approach people or which meet-ups I should attend. Especially after finishing my Ph.D., I have more free time and I don't like to waste time, instead, I could help other people.

I appreciate any guidance or feedback. Thank you.
Thanks for the correction, that was sloppy of me (usually I default to "they" when I don't know an author's gender). Too late to edit my comment now sadly.
We have had pneumatic tubes as well since 1799 and they've been used by many companies in the past. The only thing novel about the idea was the scale and technology behind scaling it.
I have a hard time getting into non-hard-scifi / space-operas. It felt like the rules were loose. Good read, but didn't move me the way Children of Time and sequels did. Ie, Children of Time felt like something Stephenson or Andy Weir would write; Shards of Earth felt more... I don't know. Almost satire?
Thanks to https, Comcast doesn't know you're into fluffy transexual anime porn. I'm not proposing to change that at all.

What I am proposing is, in light that Comcast already knows that you enjoy the occasional Friday night with your wrist, that the ability to access PH, or any other porn provider be enabled/disabled for internet accounts.
Agreed. For getting a range of opinions Kagi is best for searching through forums, finding technical blogs, etc.

For quick intros to technical issues GPT4 gives a decent summary if the topic has been around for a while.

For going in-depth, though, I still rely on technical docs…