skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I turned in time to see that a bulky and bald White American man had knocked her and several other protesters over. [..] More than anything else, it was the look in his eyes that I will never forget. Not the hatred, not the violence — that, I could stomach — but the lack of hesitation, the assuredness that he would never be labeled a “terrorist” or “barbaric.” Only we would ever face those charges.

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-wome...

Hate symbol: It's okay to be white - https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white

Ohio universities involve FBI in investigation of ‘It’s okay to be white’ and white nationalist group’s postings on campus - https://www.thefire.org/news/ohio-universities-involve-fbi-i...

There’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/20/us/angry-white-men-trials...

How to Understand White Male Terrorism - https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-to-understand-...

‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism - https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-...

Top law enforcement officials say the biggest domestic terror threat comes from white supremacists. - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terr...

Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/us/white-supremacy-terror...

White Terrorism Is as Old as America - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/magazine/white-terrorism-...
I do wish someone would build a GPU for generative AI applications with some low-power, high-bandwidth RAM (maybe HBM3) and a reasonable SIMD processor.

Aim it at being able to run large LLMs from a single PCIe x16 slot at 75 watts.

A card that runs an LLM at 1/3 the speed is still worth almost as much to me as a an experimenter.

The processor(s) should be clocked down to not burn too much power or emit too much heat in my PC's case.

A version of the same card that connects over a very fast USB connection would also be nice. If it could be powered from a wall wart or USB-C PD, that would be awesome.
> Amazon won’t fire me

Is that still true? If the goal of the company was to move from loud, scary, expensive "layoffs" to push people to quit (cheaper, less scary to the market), surely, "we're firing this one person who published a modest amount of info about internal communications, which is a violation of policies in our employee handbook" is cheap, not scary to the market, and sends a nice warning to other employees to not publish this sort of thing in the future?
Indeed, "Guidelines" is also how Apple refers to them.

For good or bad, they are flexible - and that is frustrating at times trying to get Apps approved.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
> It seems quite reasonable to believe that life inevitably evolves into intelligent life if given enough time.

Intelligence is an arbitrary yardstick. Compared to a yeast cell that just sits on a surface, a tree that grows toward light, strengthens its stem in response to wind forces etc, could be considered intelligent.

More useful is tool use: animals that use sticks, stones etc. to get at food unreachable without those tools.

But even that won't do: a planet full of life like that, but it never gets off that planet. Bits of life getting spread by meteor strikes etc? Possible. But chances of that drop off sharply with distance (within solar system -> interstellar -> between galaxies & up).

The missing bit? Technology itself evolving from simple -> complex much like life evolved before that. In our (1) case: simple tools -> use of mechanical devices to replace muscle power -> industrial revolution -> automation -> entering the AGI age (where biological life may not be a strict requirement for a civilization to advance further).

Quite possible that tool-using intelligent life is relatively common, but some of those extra steps to 'get off the home planet' are rare.

And even if all of that happens: well... the universe is big. And so are timescales. Blips on the radar are easily missed.
Scrcpy is an awesome tool, but I never found a use for it in my workflow (built a couple of small, unpublished Android apps)

What do you use it for that makes it better than just picking up your device?
There's a whole book about doing this in databases, FWIW:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-trees/978155...
VLC’s doing fine. It’s how our kids watch movies on road trips (download to iPad from Jellyfin’s web interface, play in VLC).

Almost every book I’ve read in Books is from libgen. Download, open-in, and it’s on all my devices. Reading progress syncs and everything.

The best electronic comic book experience I’ve seen is from a free app (optional one-off IAP that does nothing—I wish it had higher tiers, the author is doing god’s work and I’d have given them $50 or something, no question). I put related cbr and cbz files in a directory in icloud, they show up seconds later in this app, it quickly figures out what they are (no clue how it’s as accurate as it is) and organizes them, and I get to reading two pages at a time in landscape on a 12.9” iPad.

The only Apple content I pay for is Apple Music, because it’s so damn convenient and I listen to way more music when I have it. I used to put my own music files in the exact same app, though, and that worked fine.
Original story: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/12/30/bankman-fried-doj...
So the alphabet a to z… on their own the symbols mean nothing but when compared to every other letter meaning arises. Then iterate / recursively out for every growth in structure and letter to letter, words to words, paragraphs to paragraphs. Each one has a “dependent arising” of meaning based precisely on the relation to other.

Which is more or less word2vec as far as I understand but then trying to extrapolate that as a universal principle to all things that can be represented by using a “common signature : hash based off a signal like a complex waveform” and then doing a difference on signal composition and its shape/bandwidth to compare its properties to other things and when they reference similar objects even in different modalities they’d be associated by being triggered together.

So “dog” vs image of dog would both translate to a primordial signal : identity representation and in the domain of frequency do the comparison and project a coordinate in the spatial sense and eventually those two nodes would more likely be triggered at the same time due to the likelihood of “dog” being next to image of dog when parsing information across future events.

Whew. Maybe I’m just talking to myself. At least it’s out there if it makes sense to anyone else.
> ...nobody's actually doing this?

I think you're right.

I am a programmer and I use GPT occasionally, and I even pay 20 bucks a month (for now), but even for my job it's not a not a world-shattering improvement.

> ... the entertainment value of typing things into the box and seeing what comes out ...

I would only add that in a consumer society like ours, entertainment is important. Changes to entertainment seem to have, like, weird ripple effects. Not the knock-down economic disruptions that AI is promising, but I kind of think LLMs are just going to make our culture weirder. I can't anticipate how, but having a bunch of little LLM-powered daemons buzzing around the internet is just gonna be freaky.
"I too would love to earn a living by pursuing my hobbies. Too bad, I'm not in the 0,001-0,1%"

This is an unsophisticated view because it looks at a risk/reward scenario and assigns zero value to the risk.

The risk has value - regardless of the success, or reward.

Put another way: you don't get to discount the risk to zero when it results in a large reward.

Entities that took no risks and received enormous rewards (like President George W. Bush involvement in the Texas Rangers[1]) are probably quite pleased that you ignore them and focus on artists that sacrifice traditional life scripts (an enormous risk) and, very rarely, achieve great success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_life_of_George_W....
Nuclear reactors in Spain are very old. They have been phased out for years, and the nuclear lobby fights to keep the reactors on. This after a recent extension from 2028 to 2035.

OTOH, fossil fuels are also being phased out. Coal is gone after years fighting the coal lobby. Fuel is also quite low. The remaining fossils are gas in combined cycle power plants, and they are lowest priority energy in the market, i.e. they only produce if all the other energies combined cannot produce enough.

We have one of the best energy grids of Europe, and probably of the world. Blackouts are very rare events, the country is blessed both in sun and wind, and this 2023 half the energy produced was CO2 free. I'm sure they will phase out nuclear and fossils correctly in the next 10-15 years.
> How? The restrictions on selling images of Mickey Mouse exist regarless of if they were created with or without AI assistance.

Scale.

GenAI automates creation of things that are derived from but strictly aren't the same as the original content; as it's (currently) not possible to automate the detection of derivative works (which is something copyright is supposed to be about), this means actual humans have to look at each case, and that's expensive and time consuming and O(n*m) on n new works that have to be compared against m existing in-copyright works for infringement.

I also think copyright is too long, FWIW; but the way most people discuss arts, I think humans can be grouped into "I just want nice stuff" and "I want to show off how cultured I am", and the latter will never accept GenAI even if it's an upload of the brain of their favourite artist, simply because when it becomes easy it loses value. I'm in camp "nice stuff".
EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?
Caching Generator Methods in Python
...and why you probably shouldn't
> we're firing this one person who published a modest amount of info about internal communications, which is a violation of policies in our employee handbook

Isn't this the author's goal though?
I see the same trend with Google, Facebook, okta etc.
There are multiple factors. Ofcourse from orgs perspective it is cost saving measure. But from another phenomenon that has happened is that graduates from lower tier colleges have gotten good in cracking leetcode, faang style interviews.

There YouTube channels, blogs, website tuned to pass these interviews in India.
Maybe his personal experience was how he learned that Safari doesn't work with several websites.
I've progressed way faster after I stopped using it. Duolingo is tricking you into thinking you are making progress with all those virtual trophies whereas you aren't making much progress in reality. At some point you just connect to keep the streak going which take a higher priority than the language journey itself ironically.

And then there's a big variation of quality as well, the French and Spanish courses just aren't the same as the Vietnamese one.
Proper brands are not "Nilight" but companies like Vishay, Littelfuse, Eaton, Bel, Bourns, and similar.

Those brands can be found on sites engineers shop on, like Digikey, Mouser, Newark, and similar (which also lets you price / order by the thousands, and feed into manufacturing channels, rather than by boxes of random parts). They will have datasheets, rather than Youtube videos. Better datasheets will often show:

* Typical and worst-case behavior

* I²t, which is used to compute how long it will conduct a given current

* Impact on ambient temperature on rated current

... and similar

Here's a few random fuse data sheets from Mouser:

https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/54/SF_1206HH_R-3304051.pd...

https://www.vishay.com/docs/28747/mfuserie.pdf

https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/electronic-...

Some of these are more complete, and some less. That's a fact of life. I can buy a fancy fuse which specs and tests everything for a bit more $$$ for a medical or military application, or one which doesn't for $ for e.g. a toy. If all I'm worried about is a short, that's good enough.

A Youtube video which shows a 5A fuse blowing at 6A means either:

1. The video was baked for Youtube.

2. The fuse will blow at 4A on a hot summer day, running in an even hotter enclosure, and you've bought a bad fuse.

My bet is on #1.
The same tools and methods used to detect plagiarism or copyright violation can be employed to check the generated content and modify it just enough to fall outside the scope of any law banning its use for profit. Inevitably, a platform will emerge to do this. From a technical standpoint it is game over. This is indisputable. By the end of next year many models and software tools will exist whose entire purpose will be to do just this. And the ones deploying those tools at scale will be businesses like the New York Times having realized that the only way to survive this is to float with the unstopable tide. Nothing short of absolute privacy violation will stop web unauthorized web scraping. Tools exist today that automate a browser and easily fool the web servers into thinking its just a person clicking around. It works quite well. It works with authorized accounts. It works in the same way any person would visit a site, highlight some text and copy it. What are they going to do? Require the end user's web cam to be on so they can verify a human is navigating next?

Its game over folks. And this is going to happen with or without our approval and any government that limits the potential use of this is only giving nations that dont a large economic advantage.

Interesting times ahead.
Ok, comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806650, which has that article.
I’ve had very similar problems asking technical things. I wish it would do like humans do, and say “not sure have you tried an option that might be called Foo?”. a good human tech repi doesn’t always have the precise answer, and knows it. unfortunately LLMs have mostly been trained on text which isn’t as likely to have these kinds of clues that the info might not be as accurate as you’d like.

I’ve found for technical things, I’m happier with the results if I’m using it as clues to getting the right answer, and not looking for an exact string to copy and paste.
> either with therapy, medication, supportive people around them, or a mix of all of those

I feel like you forgot the primary thing that would help people to stop thinking of ending it: being able to afford necessities.
Dehumanizing a wvole people it's real and we're living it... :(
O/T: Can anyone recommend a decent PCI based pro sound card with Linux (Mint, Ubuntu, Debian) support?

I’m trying to de-Windows myself, but my pro-audio setup is the gap I can’t seem to fill.

I currently have an RME HDSPe MADI FX [1] which allows me to bring in 96 channels of 96khz audio via 3 MADI connections. They connect to my AD/DA convertors [2].

I found source for a driver [3], but couldn’t get the thing working, and it doesn’t seem particularly well supported/documented.

Moving toward Dante or AES67 is also an option (because my AD/DA convertors support those formats) if there’s any software solution that can support those formats, but there’s minimal online info. So if anyone’s gone this route I’d love to know how you got everything working!

[1] https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-madi-fx.html

[2] https://www.ferrofish.com/portfolio/a32pro-dante-converter-m...

[3] https://github.com/adiknoth/madifx
I'm confused. Author's team has been eliminated but he is still employed by Amazon? What's he doing now?
Thanks! I added

```

(setq column-number-mode t

desktop-save-mode t

display-line-numbers t

global-auto-revert-mode t)

(delete-selection-mode)

(global-display-line-numbers-mode)

```

`delete-selection-mode` when set as a variable didn't work.

`display-line-numbers` appears to replace `global-linum-mode`
Me as well. Firefox doesn't annoy me with any popups. I've used it for 5 years now as my daily driver on windows and macOS. Sure, I've gotten maybe TWO popups in that time asking me to try the VPN, but I honestly can't think of any other popups that genuinely annoyed me. Compared with Chrome it is a clear winner.
According to the following article:

https://www.vennershipley.com/insights-events/originality-in....

the Judge in the case explicitly referenced decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and suggests that those decisions are still in force in the UK, despite the UK no longer being part of the EU.
The view that we owe our existence to other people is abhorrent. Besides, we don’t legislate against ghosting, which would have similar effects.
> ...either with therapy, medication, supportive people around them

I think a problem with this is that suicide is so "off limits" that talking about doing it can get you institutionalized. Some medication can have awful side effects (mainly talking about SSRIs) which some people may not wish to experiment with.

Overall, I agree that other options should be presented too. But the root of the issue is the stigmatization of it all.
They've been in HYD for some time, but HYD is fairly new in the Indian software scene.

Traditionally, Delhi NCR and Bangalore were the big 2 tech hubs since the 80s-90s, but politicians who were also massive landlords in Hyderabad [0][1][2] began giving tech companies tax incentives to move to Hyderabad in the early 2000s

It began as low tier Infosys type work, but began climbing up the value chain in the 2010s

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Chandrababu_Naidu

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Chandrashekar_Rao

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._S._Rajasekhara_Reddy
I have encountered this during my time recruiting as well, where the same position I applied for was also listed for 1 day (then taken down) in Hyderabad. Likely stealthily collect applications. Ultimately, they said I passed the rounds, but the role was cut.

Microsoft has also explicitly expanded their hiring in India robustly for dev positions.

When companies tell you how infeasible remote work is and that you need to come in to the office, take it with a grain of salt that it is solely infeasible for you to wfh at your billing rate.
It wasn't a hobby project, but I wrote a non-preemptive multitasker / co-routine library for Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS back in the 1990s.

I wrote a Forth in Assembler for OS/2 that somehow found an audience in Germany, Forth/2. I was told that you couldn't write programs in Assembler for OS/2, so I had to prove otherwise. 9-)
It sounds like a bad situation at Amazon, but if my company wanted to pay me indefinitely to do nothing, I have plenty of ideas for how I could use the time…
I'm not passing an opinion on Brexit (that's rather dangerous as a Brit). I went to NZ back in 2019, and yes, we met a bunch of Kiwis and Aussis that didn't like the UK. (Now this could be a side effect of who we met/their age etc) What was interesting was that their dislike generally centred on the UK _joining_ the EU in the '70s, as we dramatically decreased trade via the old trade routes and they felt "abandoned". I haven't checked how true that is, but it was an interesting perspective that we weren't hearing from within the UK at the time.
UK should join, and should join on equal conditions with other countries. It's not only rather silly to talk about Europe leaving UK outside; it's also beneficial for positions in talks with other countries and for less economical barriers inside EU. The benefits of Brexit may not be realized yet - so opponents of joining EU may have some arguments - but so could be said about drawbacks, and general agreement is that unions are more successful.

When it should join? If today both EU and UK are cold enough about joining, it shouldn't be forced. However, in the long run it looks rather like inevitability.

EU should and I think will have interest in UK joining them. UK should also have an opportunity to improve EU as part of the joining talks, which both make UK joining easier and EU stronger in the long run. One of the biggest complaints about EU - not even only in UK, but in EU itself - is the bureaucracy in Brussels. It's a complex problem, but UK-EU crisis seems like a great opportunity to improve the situation. Information transparency on all levels - with laws and law applications clearly visible to all the population, law clarification itself, all efforts to bring that "common sense" the lack of which is so disliked by people - all of that could be in the package for UK to join EU on a better terms for everybody.
The key requirement in my mind here is that the “universal identifier” is a form of attempting something like a deterministic signature for all things. The hunch is based on the hypothesis that the primordial representation of any and all things is frequency.

But of course each “ontological capable system” would still need to process the identity function to start making sense of things based on signals being unlike other signals, so deterministic is shallow but concrete.
Resting and vesting.
Sorry, but no-one reasonable can believe that this is an accurate representation of the situation.

This just shows the state of the economy where, on the one hand the government is happy to use weak health reasons not to officially count people as unemployed [1], and thus to claim low unemployment while, on the other hand, importing more people, which only keeps productivity and wages down, and keeps the housing market hot.

This also allows the government to claim that the economy is strong when, in fact GDP per capita is going down.

The UK has a big issue with immigration in that it overly depends on it instead of fixing its domestic issues.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/24/500000-under...
Redoing piping, heating, ventilation, wiring and inner walls are what makes it difficult.
There are other good options, like losing weight. The 66% of the US population that is obese or overweight can make an easy positive change simply by eating less food. They'd save the carbon costs for the excess food, the excess clothing needed to cover them, the excess fuel needed to move them around, etc.
Not just that. It's hard to make an office into someplace someone would want to live.
> So “dog” vs image of dog would both translate to a primordial signal : identity representation and in the domain of frequency do the comparison and project a coordinate in the spatial sense and eventually those two nodes would more likely be triggered at the same time due to the likelihood of “dog” being next to image of dog when parsing information across future events.

That is how CLIP embeddings work and were trained to work.

Hugging Face transformers now has a get_image_features() and get_text_features() function for CLIP models to make getting the embeddings for different modalities easy: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/clip#tran...