skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English-language books from India and China have long used terrible typefaces, I think mainly because they couldn't afford to or didn't want to license typefaces from western sources.

Even though I know very little written Chinese I have a hobby interest in CJK language typography because I print cards like this

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111219354336635872

so I think I know something of their aesthetic sense, I think they just don't like the Roman alphabet much.

On the other hand one of my favorite serif Roman alphabets comes from Adobe's Arabic font. As different as Arabic is, I think Arabic typographers like the Roman alphabet more and do a better job of it.

I'm not so sure about the typographical culture of India but I wouldn't be surprised if they felt the same way as the Chinese.
They’re not more related, they’re just roughly the same size as human organs which makes them physically convenient. Their distance to humans is actually a desired trait because it decreases the probability of a zoonotic infection crossing into humans. Monkeys are susceptible to many more diseases that effect humans too, especially when invasively transplanted.

Using monkeys for transplantation is also completely impractical because they can’t be bred as fast as pigs which have shorter gestation periods and larger litters. Since there is already a huge industry revolving around pigs, its much simpler to breed them specifically for xenotransplantion
> Using the power of Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX GPUs, RTX Video HDR allows gamers and creators to maximize their HDR panel’s ability to display vivid, dynamic colors, preserving intricate details that may be inadvertently lost due to video compression.

There is so much marketing BS in one small paragraph. For starters, generating(/hallucinating) data is imho the opposite of preserving anything. Then HDR is less associated with "intricate details" and more to do with color reproduction. Finally, video compression is the one thing that usually does not have problems with HDR, even the now venerable x264 can handle HDR content, generally it's almost everything else that struggles.

Of course in a true marketing tradition, none of the things are also strictly false. I'm sure there are many ways to weasel the claims.
Then why is the book called "Understanding Deep Learning"? So is he understanding it or not?
Making an attempt.

Never had a talk with the principal, they just told my parents not to send me back. It was a shame because otherwise I liked that school. That kid was making threats against my life and I told the principal before that if he couldn't stop it I would protect myself.
This is another example of the "probability noise floor" I mentioned yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112610

You can't be one-in-a-trillion confident about any particular DNA result, even if that's what the nominal probability from the DNA analysis itself seems to say, because it is objectively observable that there are plenty of other sources of errors of all sorts. You can only get down to that "noise floor" of probabilities. This can still be a very useful result, but it's important to not let it be any more important that it deserves.

Even if you have a magic machine that you can point at someone and it goes "boop" if they are guilty, you still must consider the probability that someone faked the "boop", or has swapped in a different shell that looks the same but makes the same "boop" when someone remotely triggers it or that the speaker was broken so even though the magic machine tried to "boop" nobody could hear it. All of these are quite realistic and of a much higher probability than the magic machine existing in the first place.

(This is also arguably the root problem with the still-popular "The computer said it so it must be true". Even if you assume the computer really is 100% accurate, which itself is a transparently false proposition when examined in daylight, there's still plenty of other reasons why one should not give the computer too much confidence.)
btw last version on Windows7 is 109

so maybe millions of vulnerable installs out there

there are 3rd party patches to install 120 on w7 but who would trust them?
Haier's attempted-then-withdrawn HomeAssistant integration cease and desist
Sponsor, even!
All data query languages eventually reduce themselves into SQL, or something equivalent to it.
Obama bought land too.. He's part tho I think... Dont think we know.

Maybe bribes?

https://dhhl.hawaii.gov/applications/applying-for-hawaiian-h....
23 and me also sold data.
GSK also owns the data now.
https://cglife.com/blog/23andme-sold-your-genetic-data-to-gs...

Hacked too
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/7/23907330/23andme-leak-hac...
I wonder who will tackle those problems when he finally retires. ;)
Yes, that (finally) is a logically coherent counterexample. Good job.

Now that that's out of the way, we can begin to evaluate it on truth.

> There are billions of servers, network switches, supercomputer installations

I'm not sure there are billions of those. Do you have a source for that claim? From what I found:

Around 80.5 million iPhones were shipped during the fourth quarter of 2023,

In 2020, 12.15 million server units were shipped globally,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/219596/worldwide-server-..., https://www.statista.com/statistics/299153/apple-smartphone-...

> Every container running on those servers is essentially a server with a shell.

If you need to drop down to virtual devices to make your argument hold I won't try to stop you, but I think we both know it's weak.

> Practically every house with an iphone has at least 1 network router if not more, most have a shell but no browser.

Average household size is 2.5, so that's more points for the phone than the router. Also game consoles and smart TVs all have a browser but no shell.

> iphones can't be used to prove anything except that you're a fanboy.

> But sure, die on that iPhone hill like so many others before you.

You're getting very emotional over this. I promise you, it isn't that important.
Adding in company blog post in case anyone else is interested:

https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-announces-new-neighbor...
Good DevEx is incredibly important.

I'm not so sure it should be obsessed on more than the Customer and User experience, though.

If DevEx doesn't create Devs who understand users better and help put them in the users shoes, I would think there is room for Good DevEx to improve.
My role is DevOps but I find myself gravitating towards improving the developer experience, which I think is a worthy subcategory in the DevOps practice.

The team I'm on previously didn't have any automated way to set up developer workstations, now we've got an Ansible script that does most of everything they need in less than an hour. (Our VPN is slow as cold molasses) Previously, setup was ad-hoc, leading to troubleshooting questions like "did you follow instructions in this forwarded email, this one section from a wiki page, and a copy/paste comment in chat?". Now it's "did you run the script?".

Similarly, the concept of the "Internal Developer Platform" might be interesting to some: https://internaldeveloperplatform.org/core-components/

It's kind of amazing to me that there are whole teams out there that struggle with awful environments that actively put up barriers to efficient coding.
Confessions need to be made inadmissible in court as evidence. All state legislatures have the power to make that so, as does Congress at the federal level. The judicial system could do it too, in theory, but never will.

Confessions could still be used by police as leads. While all "eyewitness testimony" is defective evidence, confessions are the most defective of all. Humans have weird psychology, but the psychology around confessions is the weirdest of all. It's why it's been exploited by the Catholic religion (and others). It causes strange (and not always unpleasant) emotions in those confessing, those hearing the confession, and even those confessing falsely. It causes them in those who confess because they were coerced, it causes them in those who choose to falsely confess without coercion. To those who are familiar with them, those pleasant feelings can become an irresistible temptation to falsely confess.

On top of that, it's been what, nearly 70 years since shows like the Twilight Zone introduced the idea to everyone that in unusual circumstances we might have done things we don't even remember. So when someone starts to break after long and even tortuous interrogations, they might themselves start to worry that they are guilty and their memories are faulty.
Agreed. This is absolutely immoral. I don't know how we can trust that this evidence is useful in an "real" sense.
You can't see how you're forced to constrain your behavior if you're going on YouTube? (assuming you were presentable to begin with)
Ask HN: What is the current state of entry-level SWE jobs?
Do they currently exist at your company? I very rarely see entry-level announcements, and when I do see something that seems to fit the bill it is in the realm of SharePoint / Salesforce / etc, that doesn't seem like it would add much value in pursuit of something higher.
Those "standards" were the result of long forum threads back in the day. Some of the discussions are hilarious.

Did you spot the Other units are links, eg: https://www.theregister.com/2016/10/25/oz_trams_equivalent_t... Searching the Register for other keywords should yield some gems.
Enough to fool an observer, sure, but it isn't really replicating the "brain", just predicting and mimicking someone's speech and writing patterns. We have no special insight into the original individual other than historical records. We don't know how their neurons were wired. We can't come even close to predicting how they would have behaved in real life scenarios that first came about thousands of years after their death.
Well, I don’t know that anyone is claiming it makes no sense.

But anyway by the same logic, the next turn would be to say it makes sense to fight against that blockade. It wouldn’t make sense to say “oh shucks they did the same thing we did, guess we’ll just give up now”
Good, that is the way it should have been the whole time. The default view of government by businesses and people should be as an adversary. It is the duty of everybody to tell the government to stuff it when they aren't following the rules we have laid out for them.
Not to mention ignoring Hibrido de Timor and its now popular decent Catimor.
A lot of stuff embeds Chromium in one way or another.
Cool! Can webLLM handle inference of models with any meaningful size?

Can I ask what model is used?
Bash Functions-as-a-Service
> This week, we are also sunsetting the Request for Assistance (RFA) tool.

This is pretty narrow wording with no explanation of why.

I'd be a lot more bullish about this if it talked about some new commitment to user privacy, but I'm a bit suspicious there's just a new tool somewhere.
It’s their one plane that has all of its bolts.
> And I don't see any reason you couldn't do all this on one day - you just need approval of 51% of the shareholders and the board.

Because filing for re-IPO is a very complicated affair in itself?

Though the rest of it is fairly correct - it is basically the PE playbook.
huh? I work with pointers all the time, and I don't think I ever cared about assembler addressing modes.. Who cares if you pre-increment in the same instruction or if you need a separate operation for that? Who cares if offset is computed as part of the load or separately? This does not change how the program is built or debugged.

(Unless you are talking about x86 real mode segment registers. Luckily, we can leave this behind and never talk about them again :) )
Show HN: Provide and Gather Anonymous Feedback
Why one more Feedback service ?
Feedback from the people around us is quite important for us to navigate properly in our job and life. For natural reasons, it is hard to get honest feedback. One of the biggest reasons is the possible change of focus from the message to messenger. The idea sprung with the need I had for collecting honest feedback and suggestions from my team. There were existing tools and services which would do the same. However, when discussing with individuals, everyone shared the concern of being tracked easily with those services. There was no way for the end user to know if their responses were being tracked.
> Using work design theory, we created a set of research hypotheses, developed questions, and surveyed more than 20 industry-diverse companies.

So it's a bunch of surveys, not experimental data; AFAICT nothing here distinguishes ex. "devs who understand their code are productive" from "devs who are productive develop an understanding of the code". But forget correlation/causation, because it turns out their claims - even in the linked "research" is about how people feel, not their actual effectiveness - choice quotes are

> developers who report a high degree of understanding of their code feel 42% more productive

or

> Developers who have a significant amount of time carved out for deep work feel 50 percent more productive compared with those lacking in dedicated time

Notice that there's no attempt to objectively see if those feelings are true! SLoC might be poor, but you could look at literally any objective measure to proxy actual productivity and be better off than this!

So for all that I'd like to believe them, and all that the claims could actually be true, this is just a bunch of meaningless nonsense that barely qualifies as "data" and certainly shouldn't be taken seriously as "research".
Dante doesn't and these companies use labs everywhere. Dante may even lose your sample and may give you the wrong data, it used labs in Italy so your data is (not) safe in the "best" way possible. Dante takes longer as well. My friend used them, I don't think you can choose the lab.
They were for other reasons. Likewise, US were also bombing people and launching missiles before for other reasons and also make economical sieges against other targets in other contexts. I'm confused why this should mean that any future attack and reasoning made by US or Houthis should be dismissed because of this.

THESE particular bombings were because the blockade and sanctions that they did in the region and they justify with the genocide happening in Palestine.
It depends on the strength of the science and this is a real problem with unsettled science: it is routinely used to sell pipe dreams and silver bullets to officials without further qualification or caveats. That's why you see AI used in law enforcement right now when it really isn't even close to reliable enough to be used in such a potentially life changing setting.
Primates are terrible to handle too. Try to stick them with a needle and they might grab it and stick you. I think the only primate which is (possibly) more agreeable than humans is the gorilla.
I think I can't trust a therapist enough to be completely honest, while I can just write anything into the chat, knowing no one, (except google) will ever know :D
The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld’s Origins
Given the number of times the government has been shown to be corrupt or criminal in the past, does anyone ever consider if declassifications and FOIA requests might actually just be met with even more propaganda/lies? I'm curious how others approach this or might think about the problem?
Effects of Education on Adult Mortality
Wallpapers can be animated? This is like learning my car can count butterflies. I wonder why such a feature exists but also now feel obligated to hook VLC into the wallpaper function so i can play movies underneath all my other work. Can wallpapers have sound?
Rubber ducking is worth a lot, and have the Meditations vaguely quoted back at you seems like it would help out on occasion.
At work I use vanilla HTML, CSS and Javascript for the frontend. For the backend I use node.

For personal projects I sometimes use the same stack, however in some occasions I have used Sveltekit.
Backdoors and Breaches, an Incident Response Card Game
Zed: Code at the speed of thought
Black Hills Infosec produces a physical card game and expansion sets. Also available to play online:

Web: https://play.backdoorsandbreaches.com/

VTT: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/backdoors-breaches-tableto...
Using a fan to ventilate is far more efficient than a thirty degree temperature differential.
Sam Altman is talking to TSMC about AI chip venture
When I got married (20+ years ago), my dad painted (oil panting on canvas) of our engagement photo that our photographer took, and wanted to display it at our wedding reception. I asked our photographer at the time if it was ok, and he mentioned that his painting was considered "deriavitive work", so that he wasn't violating his copyright. Yea, I get he's not a lawyer, and this is just a single instance, but I hope the outcome for Kat Von D, especially since she didn't get paid for the tattoo comes out the same.
To the Boring Unseen 99
I'd go even earlier though. Frederick Jackson Turner "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Americans have different views on rugged individualism than Europeans do, so I didn't think it's surprising that we want to project cowboy country onto urban environments. Advertising is just tapping into the rugged lumberjack ideal.
I agree with you. She may be technically correct (the best kind!) but only in post hoc analysis of completed games. That should have 0 bearing on a coach's decision making during a game, since from the in-progress perspective it's still a 12.5% increase in win probability. So from a coach's POV, what's the worst that can happen: not getting the conversion and still losing by 1 (assuming :00 on the clock and no additional opponent possession). What's the best that can happen: tying and having an opportunity to play for the win in ensuing possessions.
Good to note it uses webgpu, so no mobile, and only nightly firefox. Sounds like a cool idea though, I'll check it out at some point.
They can justify what they're doing however they'd like, but I don't think anybody serious believes anything they say. There's a backstory with these people.
Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors
https://www.dnaz.org/why-doctors-will-not-let-you-die-if-you...
You can always do a multi-call binary (busybox-style) so that you only get one copy of the stdlib. Coupled with build-std (and other min-size things), it should bring rust code size to a manageable level.
I wonder how close you could emulate a person's consciousness by having a Kiraman Katibim -- a little "angel on your shoulder" that records everything you ever see, hear & say and feeds it into a generative model for each person...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiraman_Katibin
> Error: Cannot find WebGPU in the environment - Updating your browser might resolve the issue!

Using Firefox ESR 115 under Debian (testing). dom.webgpu.enabled is false by default. Enabling it results in:

> NotSupportedError: WebGPU is not yet available in Release or Beta builds. - Updating your browser might resolve the issue!

May I ask why it's required?
Agreed. Glad to see the "opening up" of Aerospace/Military that SpaceX has enabled by simply being extremely competent. Anduril is also making great plays in the Military contractor space. They don't do "cost plus" projects, but design and build the entire POC themselves then offer it to US Armed Forces.
Dvtm – the dynamic virtual terminal manager that isn't tmux
HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."
Thanks! It's using Llama 2 7B, It supports bigger models but those take longer to download and also infer (if run at all depending on the device)
Has mathematical proof and an intuitive simulation.
> I found annotated die shots of Zen 3 and Zen 4

Ooo thanks! Sure looks like strong evidence.

> TBH, we have no idea how big the x86 tax is.

No, and it gets even more uncertain when you consider different design targets. E.g. a 1000W Threadripper targets a completely different segment than a 10W ARM Cortex.Would an ARM chip designed to run at 1000W beat the Threadripper? Who knows?

> Intel and AMD simply aren't incentivised to optimise their designs for low power consumption as their cores simply aren't used in mobile phones where ultra low power consumption is absolutely critical.

They'll keep doing their thing until they can't compete. They lost mobile and embedded, and competitors are eating into laptops and servers where x86 continues to have a stronghold. But perf/watt matters in all segments these days, and binary compatibility is dropping in importance (e.g. compared to 20-40 years ago), much thanks to open source.

IMO the writing is on the wall, but it will take time (especially for the very slow server market).
I'll quote my old post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121

„My perfect bookmark manager is Markdownload https://github.com/deathau/markdownload
Just save the complete page, only selected text or only the link to a markdown file or Obsidian. With downloaded, linked or without pictures. My OS and Obsidian can search those files, they have more (automatically added) metadata.
I can even edit them in the browser: add your thoughts, tags or change the name of the file before they are saved.
I can (automatically) do with them what ever I need. They can be used to (automatically) generate an always up to date start page or a data vault on GitHub.
My local AI assistant can parse them.
Local, versatile, permanent, flexible, cost effective, future save. No need for a bookmark manager.“
The “correct” way to do this would be to check that the surroundings of the code you’re injecting into are as expected, similar to how applying a diff patch file contains lines before/after to synchronize with the text being patched. When confronted with an incompatible change, the extension would just disable itself and not proceed with the patching. I’ve heard of MS Office extensions that function like that and work robustly.
Terroir was invented by feudal landlord wine makers to justify their price fixing schemes. It has little basis in science besides the fact that plants require certain inputs.

In the coffee world the term has the effect of disempowering producers by making it seem like their labor to increase quality is futile or not valuable; that at the end it was the soil not their hard work. Places with a reputation for low quality coffee can in fact grow excellent coffee that deserves high prices. And of course you can also get bad coffee from regions with a good reputation.

The term "provenance" is preferred by some folks instead.
Ok, but how is Marcus Aurelius involved? Does it use search the Meditations with RAG, or does it use a model fine-tuned on extracts from the Meditations? Or...?
Incredibly relevant video posted to Reddit today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/19eih...

Mostly male onlookers observe a man boarding an electric unicycle with 30 pizzas.
Thanks! I'll take a look into this. I always thought PCBs required minimum order quantities in the tens to get assembled (mostly because I had a startup before in which we had an EE that took care of this)
You can put enough meat on this observation that it can stand up even to radical "yeah but what is consciousness anyhow" skeptics. While I may not be able to put a solid minimum floor on the complexity of a human consciousness in terms of its information theoretic content, I think we can be quite confident that it exceeds the information-theoretic content of what history tells us about Marcus Aurelius, all several-hundred-kilobytes-tops we have. And that's honestly a generous assessment of the amount of info we have in a true information-theoretic sense. There is certainly no way to recover Marcus Aurelius just from his writing no matter how much fancy AI is thrown at it; it is simply mathematically impossible.