skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm _not_ claiming that Wikipedia has or doesn't have unpopular opinions. I'm making a distinction between the legal framework in which Wikipedia exists (they _can_ publish unpopular or controversial speech) and what Wikipedia does (they intend not to express their own opinions at all; whether you believe they succeed is immaterial).

OP was conflating the two, but Wikipedia has no obligation or principle to be a platform for free speech. It's completely irrelevant.
literally not at all similar to a house key
because the collisions can already exist when someone signs up for google workspace. and what are you going to do, delete those accounts? a lot of those would be personal accounts on educational domains...
I wouldn't expect them to drop CUDA support, even if SYCL is a viable alternative:
* The CUDA backend is mature, featureful, and significant effort has been invested into optimising it on Nvidia hardware. One does not simply throw away a performant, well validated HPC code!
* Nvidia GPUs dominate the GPGPU market - unlike AMD's.
* The SYCL backend is still is very new in comparison (they even state in the docs to pay extra attention to validation), and doesn't have Nvidia-specific optimisations yet. Why prioritise reimplementing what already exists?
> Google has tried literally everything to try and get Apple to play ball here.

You're framing it in a nefarious way as if Apple is flat out denying it. They didn't. They would have to LOWER security in iPhones by implementing RCS because iMessages have E2EE but RCS doesn't. Which is something all you anti-Apple people seem to conveniently leave out, because you know nobody would take it seriously if you said it.
This piqued my interest and lo and behold they do!

"Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others."

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
I love how Apple obsessively does things on the edge, on the device itself rather than on the cloud.

Sometimes my lowly iPhone X gets super hot during charging. Next morning I either get the facial recognition updated, a new memory generated or something else has happened. It's nice, confidence evoking even. The features you like are run on your device, with your data not leaving your device, on its free time.

This is the AI I like. Personal, confined and private.
Wasn't aware this is a thing. Thanks for the tip.
This article submission has already been flagged. :(

Seems like it's a valid thing to discuss though, as it affects a lot of people.
But just because things happened a certain way doesn't mean that it was the only way they could have happened. Are you a child?
> It would be neat if they offered submitters the chance to upload their own HTML version alongside the PDF version, instead of always relying on an automatic conversion process.

Can you recommend a system I can use to compile my latex, while also making sure the html is going to look good?
I'd like some kinds of css style @media queries to switch between certain parts of the layout, while keeping a single latex file.
> If it's E2E encrypted, I don't think it'd be able to identify that during transit, so it had to have been locally done.

Yes. Image description has been done on-device for quite a while now, and it is great. You can look for pictures using a description, and you can look for any text in any picture as well. It works very, very well.
> Is this not in itself inherently racist?

Yes. It's assuming that the non-white person is in some way incompetent or lesser than (soft bigotry of low expectations) and needs a boost from the feigned-benevolence of the white man (or opportunistic "person of color").

FWIW, I'm mixed-race (white/black) and was mouth-agape at how this got as far as it did the past few years.
This comparison doesn't make sense because it's not possible to calculate the true number of crimes prevented.

Extrapolating crime numbers from a prior year to the counterfactual only works if every single aspect of society remained identical in every way from year to year, which is never the case.
One interesting thing their examples seem to offer is a pre-configured Vite/Rust toolchain. This is something still lacking in official Rust/WASM examples and something I had to put quite some trial and error into to get working (with auto-reloading and such).
>Beeper Mini stuff seems to be almost an elaborate marketing stunt

Imagine if they knew for some time the cutoff date from Apple so they released mini just before to ride the PR tsunami, That would be nice.
Seems categorically different though, right?

YouTube doesn't control anything about the endpoint which it is streaming video to, it just has control over how their servers respond to different requests

But Apple does control both ends.
My $0.02

DEI is good in principle but poorly executed.

Diversity is good for business. You want people from different backgrounds and different ways of thinking.

But we have had a problem in tech of hiring only people like we already have, whether it be age, attitude, or race. At the same time, the DEI initiatives went too far. I am ok with racial targets that try to bring the company numbers closer to the local geography, but not the national statistics. We also have to be mindful that the qualified candidate pool may not yet allow us to reach parity. We should also be investing in the pipeline much earlier so that the qualified candidate pool has parity with the local geography.

The DEI effort we saw was an over reaction to our self created self similar selection bias. The pendulum is swinging back now, but we should not throw everything away. Maybe we can think about it like we do our software... rapid cycles of iteration and learning
Pumped hydro is geographically limited. You might as well say we should just build more dams to decarbonize the electric grid.
The problem is that these kind of applications suck for multi-tenant clouds which FPGAs turn out to be poorly suited for (high costs to switch out programs) and are too expensive for the consumer. So the applications are quite niche and limited to traditional use-cases of prototyping ASIC designs rather than actual algorithm accelerators which benefit more from dedicated circuitry/instructions in terms of adoption.
There really ought to be a law against making cancellations any more involved than sign-ups (I understand California has something like this already), but failing that a public shit-list of companies that make it a hassle to cancel subscriptions would be a good stopgap.
maybe it'll be faster now with fastly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723373
Is it worth $250 though? A 2 hr battery seems short, though if the software can automatically convert all my old photos into 3d, I would buy. (NERFS and gaussian splatting)

I think my friends would love to see our old memories come alive again
Gorillas don't sit at a desk 8 hours a day
>The safe following distance is determined by how fast you can stop, not by who is driving the vehicle you are following.

So when you're driving, do you somehow know the braking distance of every car and reaction time of every driver around you? You don't, and since their braking distance is needed to know your own braking requirements, you have to use heuristics. Maybe your heuristic is "assume everyone will cram on the brake, full tilt, at any time." But, that is not a pragmatic solution given our current infrastructure. We don't have the road capacity for everyone to drive that way. So we make tradeoffs. Part of that tradeoff means anticipating what other drivers will do and adjusting accordingly. Naturally, this will trade some safety for other things we value. That is the reality of the world we live in. You seem to be advocating for something else. The OP was that we might struggle to apply such heuristics without a theory of mind to guide us.

We probably just disagree on the student driver vs. overconfident drivers. I feel like I'm pretty good at anticipating aggressive drivers, and I fear them must less than the super-tentative driver that tends to put other people at risk. But unless you have data, we're just talking about subjective opinion here so it's not really worth delving into further.

>I think that if more driver treated the people around them as student drivers, our roads would be a lot safer.

Sure. But again, it doesn't really fit with the world we live in. Should we all, in general, drive more defensively? Sure. But I doubt our infrastructure will allow for 25+ car lengths between vehicles that the NHTSA recommends, so we're stuck making some tradeoffs.

I agree on the data point. I'm not making strong claims about safety. I'm making claims about uncertainty. One thing that is clear (and I've advocated elsewhere) is that we don't have good data (in part, because companies get to share only what they want in many cases), which makes uncertainty greater.
You get that in the US, too. The funny thing is that in many cases, the generic compound is sold in a box that is similar to the box that the "brand-name" version is sold in; they'll sell the same thing in different colored boxes.

https://www.cvs.com/search?searchTerm=acetomeniphen
https://www.cvs.com/search?searchTerm=ibuprofin
The answer to that is the intersection of thousands of state of the art fab technical issues and management decisions.

Recent hindsight with TSMC makes it look "easy", but it's incredibly uncertain simply due to the complexity and number of pieces that have to align.
> yet its practical effect is giving certain races a favorable edge in the hiring process, independent of merit. Is this not in itself inherently racist?

yes, which is why that kind of thing is illegal in the UK.

Proper DEI is about creating a decent pipeline of people, that includes outreach, or having training programmes for non-traditional juniors.

And, if done properly, its a great way to lower your wage bill, as you hire people at more junior levels and keep them longer. (you need to job hop to get good wage increases.) But that requires a commitment to develop your own team. (regardless of who they are)
> We don't need people pontificating about what "rights" exist

While you may prefer anarchy, in the real world courts will make these choices for you, and enforce the rules, putting your property and liberty at risk.
It might be about that but that kind of about is off topic on HN as you can see in the guidelines and numerous moderator comments. It strictly turns reasonable comments into bad comments which end up getting moderated.

If you want to respond to a comment, respond to the comment. If you want to write about some broad sentiment, just write about it without attributing it to the forum or thread as a whole, it avoids all the tangential umbrage and counterumbrage.
HN Guidelines suggest not going on about down votes btw

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I agree though it's understandable if a bit sad that this submission gets flag killed. Better to stick to safer tech stuff unless there's a big story I guess!

Personally I don't believe the hype of this "backlash". It smells manufactured.
Given the bandwidth cost alone of some of the top nodes, it is not unreasonable to draw conclusions about who funds and operates them. With the additional incentive to control the network considered, the truth of the matter couldn't be more obvious.
Your assertions have two potentials flaws.

1. You assume that giving a certain race a favorable edge is unfair. If the premise of DEI is correct, that the field is tilted against certain races, then having a preference for those races is leveling the playing field, not tilting it in their favor.

2. Perhaps hiring a no-hire was exactly the right thing to do. Perhaps the interviewers were prejudiced against the candidate for reasons other than merit. Of course, I don’t know the exact situation, so I said “potential” flaws.
I was a subscriber to my newspaper because I liked their paywall-light approach and was happy to support the free loaders.

Then they made their paywall super hard and they make you call and cancel. I can still get around it anyway and I hate being logged in and tracked.

The rep was pleasant but had trouble understanding why a paying user would cancel because of paywalls.

They seemed to think I was in need of IT troubleshooting (but perhaps my brain is in need of it).
IMO pdf and HTML optimize for different things. pdf is easy and pretty. HTML is easy and responsive. But making pdf responsive is impossible and making HTML pretty is not easy. I think having arxiv for well-polished pretty documents, not responsive ugly documents. Most researchers don't have time to make an HTML responsive and pretty.
Lol… I am more familiar with it via watching Breaking Bad than anything else.

But in general for any HN topic the people who have something to say get attracted to the article.
TikTok Brings War Home to Your Child
archive/paywall: https://archive.is/KQrWs
This got me laughing - and I reckon it's because of the extremely high laughter-to-length ratio.

Has anyone formally evaluated joke effectiveness (apart from Monty Python's "deadly joke")?
Residential electricity use accounts for only 35% of electricity use: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environm....
Wow, I’ve lived here for years (without kids) without knowing that. That’s LAUSD, or other parts of socal?
> Having actually worked at big tech companies with DEI initiatives, there have been many instances when we have had to lower the hiring bar to meet diversity requirements.

Since we are throwing random samples of 1 on the internet, having been involved into some of those initiative at a large big tech company : Not lowering the bar was pretty much always top of mind, and we always made sure to be fair to ALL candidate.

Most of the initiative where around reaching a larger pool of candidate (for example reaching out to more school than we use too) and also addressing what looked to us like information deficiencies : Someone in an IVY league school for example just by osmosis will absorb a lot of the what/why/how companies look for in an employee and therefore can better show the required characteristics.

Every generation of engineer always feels like the engineer after them are somewhat the consequence of lowering the bar... We used to think this when we started recruiting outside of ivy league, then we started lowering the importance of formal education at all ettc... etc...

You would be amazed at the difference good interview preps makes to someone who was never exposed to it.

> What it really fosters in a company is resentment, both due to hiring bar changes and also as the actual DEI job function is mostly useless but gets paid quite a bit

From experience, those type of feeling are usually a consequence of lack of information and exposure of what actually goes on in the meetings. You mentioned you worked at the companies with those initiative, but i am not sure how many time you have actually been involved in the design of those programs.

Tech jobs in large tech companies is very competitive job. Everything is always framed as a competitive advantage and can sometime wrap one's perceptions. Companies spend a bunch of moneys on all kind of weird stuff.

And finally let me be clear, i am a software engineer myself. I do believe that pretty much anything HR does that's not purely the day to day of employee is a grift. Hell the bigger the companies, the more grift around : from management "training" that somewhat requires fancy restaurant. Team building exercise that somewhat require a bunch of very introverted engineer to go to a concert non of them are interested in etc... etc...

DEI is not different, yes grifter gonna grift and some people are just in it for themselve.

So can DEI be better/ more efficient : yes, is there a lot of virtue signaling and fakeness around yes, are we somewhat lowering the bar because we like having diverse people around NO, and for having witness the difference that those program can be in the lives of young and new people in the industry... i think they worth keeping around even if a better more pragmatic form.
Yeah, I read the first one a while ago and really enjoyed the world building. Guess someone who's really into mapping won't disappoint on that front.
I don't really get why Apple doesn't go all-in on privacy.

They probably make peanuts on advertisement and it's not their core business at all. They have such good PR potential. They can easily paint Google/Meta as blood sucking data vampires that read all your emails and look at all your dick pics. They could paint Android as a data hoovering OS that only works for the benefit of advertisers.

Meanwhile Apple.. The good guys.. Encrypt all your data, don't inject JS on every web page , protect you from ads with Safari, and do compute on-device
I think that no matter what you're still going to need to connect over WAN to interact with remote services. GPTs are super capable but I don't see them generating arbitrary webpages without at least fetching some basic resources from another machine somewhere. Like if a restaurant updates its menu, that data needs to make its way to the model in one way or another before it can generate their webpage. At the very least I think the "website" might change from an HTML page to an engineered prompt that gets served to you and which generates the page locally. But even in this case it's not clear to me why I'd do that generation on my phone rather than have the server gen the page for me and send the finished product.
I very much am aware of how Plaid works and will not use it.

Someone recently really tried to get me to use Chime. As soon as the "must use Plaid" part came up in their onboarding, I stopped immediately. It's just a shame that I had already provided Chime so much of my information just to stop there.
I agree this is armchair debate.

The article is made by a business journalist on an Australian report, with a catchy title. It is a complex subject.
Rails are safer because vehciles are more predictable - they are always on the track, with only limited places where they can switch tracks, and you can control that externally ensuring there are no conflicts. Rails can handle more people because in the form of a train they can pack in a lot more people. Cars use a lot of space for engine and luggage compartments.
I'm actually very excited to get back to the point where services compete for my money rather than for my attention. Advertising has created an internet that has an enormous amount of content, most of which is just... bad. It's hard to find good content because almost all of it is engineered to get clicks.

A paywalled internet will mean I'll have to be choosier about what I consume, but what's available will hopefully be high quality because it's not competing for my attention when I'm at my weakest at the end of a long day, it's competing for my wallet when I rationally review the budget every month.
Holiday protocols: secret santa with Quint
Hi! I wrote a blogpost exploring a formal specification in Quint [1] for the secret santa game, and verifying some of its properties with Apalache [2].

Hope you enjoy it, and any feedback is welcome. Happy holidays!

[1]: https://github.com/informalsystems/quint
[2]: https://github.com/informalsystems/apalache
One side-effect of DEI is that I take HR even less seriously than ever. Any HR-hosted event is most likely a hard pass for me. Even if it's something I am slightly interested in (say, company event to celebrate Diwali because we do have Indian employees, and despite not being Indian, I have some tangential interest in it partly because I respect and like many of my coworkers and partly just out of curiosity), if it's hosted by HR, I am not going to bother.

We had an All Hands once where they actually spent 20+ minutes talking about the Genderbread Cookie, which I found especially egregious. Not that I have a problem with the Genderbread Cookie, but an All Hands is the most expensive meeting a company can host. Why are we learning about sex and gender identity vocabulary in that meeting?

Of course, this all matters a lot less than hiring and promotion processes. I don't work at a larger company, so I don't think I've seen the worst of it. Smaller businesses still have to take what they can get, and if that means the pipeline is mostly Asian men and white men, that's who gets hired.
I actually have HN to thank for knowing this. About a year ago someone pointed out how useless the non-pseudo alternatives are. Colds are nowhere near as bad anymore.
Just heard a great quote:

What separates bureaucrats and leaders is the latter has a hunger for detail, the former for order
Email isn't end to end encrypted. FTP and SSH are client-server protocols whereas iMessage is client-server(s)-client.

Do you actually believe these things you're claiming, or are you arguing for the sake of contrarianism?
Programming the SunFounder PiCar-X to be a Roomba
> but there's value in interacting directly with the source of a piece of information.

Well, who said they're just gonna abandon it altogether. I'm not going to. Those of us that make use of all the google operators sure as hell ain't abandoning it. If anything, it will provide augmented results where appropriate and explicit results where appropriate. Otherwise, we'll switch to a competitor that does.
I don’t think it assumes that the candidate is in any way not as qualified. It assumes the candidate is not as likely to get hired because of bias in the hiring process.
not close.

Does an Amazon Firestick need a phone dialer? a TV need the contacts app. does your toaster need gMail?

You are still in the mindset that Android == phone. Which isn't true. Android (a full fledged OS) supports all the things you mentioned
It’s actually very common.

The obvious place most red/green colourblind people will have issues is differentiating red from green where the cones (would normally) overlap, but with only two cones if you saturate both of them equally there’s no additional signal to tell if you’re looking at a colour or white light.

The point at which a red-blind person’s green sensitivity intersect with blue is cyan, and for a green-blind person it’s green-cyan (turquoise), so depending on the tone/shade of turquoise it appears white to most colourblind people.
Using emails like this is usually found during pen tests. Not Googles fault I would say even though I think OAuth is overly complicated. This is along the line of sending secrets in the token. Tokens are signed, not encrypted.
I agree completely. I'd say something more like "Waymo really got this right from the beginning, but Uber, Tesla, and Cruise's behavior have poisoned opinions about self-driving"
Gemini Nano is on it way. Various other 3B-7B models are getting small and efficient enough to run on consumer hardware. It has been clear for a while that the "edge" is the new frontier for LLMs.
Yes, my Apple devices are the first where I felt AI was integrated for something actually useful. I can just select and copy text in pictures as if it was the most normal thing. I can search pictures based on their content, again including visible text. And it runs locally. Too bad it only seems to work on the latin alphabet. With greek letters, chinese symbols etc I get nothing at best.