skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true does this mean we don't need fingerprint scanning hardware any more, but we can just use a microphone and software to unlock a device when the user runs their finger over any convenient surface?
The Growing Environmental Footprint of Generative AI
It's going to feel much more dire if any of the major European or Korean brands approach their 2030 targets.
> But also remember we can say the same about internet fraud.

Indeed—that's basically my point, too! :-D
The delicate balance between regulatory compliance and user experience in the evolving tech landscape
And I just came back from the Berlinale, with another noteworthy addition to this genre: "Another End"
https://letterboxd.com/film/another-end/
At the end of the day, administrations are held responsible for their economic results, whether fully responsible or not. Trump isn't 'responsible' for COVID in the sense that he did not release the virus. His response can be criticized until the cows come home, but I'm just applying the same standard used for the economy to climate.
When I read your comment I thought "hang on, I remember this discussion from years ago". Looks like the issue dates back to 2017 indeed. I remember this idea being shelved because of concerns around the handling of things like scripts and stylesheets, especially in the context of the idea of HTML imports (which were the next big thing when Google's Web Components advocates harassed other JS frameworks for not being Polymer - until it turned out that HTML imports had to be shelved and Polymer ended up being shelved in favor of the next big thing Google pushed out).
What an incredible man. The American Empire sought every little nasty trick to bring him and and yet hes still standing.
I didn't know the idea of weeding out "useless eaters" was still so popular after what we had to do the last time that kind of talk got traction.
Perhaps i expect too much from ordinary people

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-secre...
Degrees are signals. A degree from a reputable university signals both a group membership in a certain social group (e.g. "Ivy League graduates") as well as a common shared experience. A degree in general also signals some level of social status (i.e. able to afford that university) as well as the rote learning ability, endurance and willingness to put up with arbitrary hurdles and rules to achieve that degree. To an extent it also demonstrates an ability and willingness to subordination and deference to authority.

You seem to believe that companies look for the most skilled person to do a given job. They don't, even if they keep saying that. They look for someone willing to put up with as much bullshit and punishment as the company can get away with while creating as much profit for the company (or whichever metric is used instead) as possible without making the company leadership look bad. For higher positions like management they usually look for someone exactly like who they already have but who won't threaten their status within the company. For leadership positions they usually look for someone who won't fraternize with the subordinates and knows how to play politics.

In addition to its use as signals, degrees used as a filter are also a base level way to demonstrate due diligence. If you take the guy without a degree, that's a risk and if he's a dud, that was a bad decision. If you take the one with a degree and he turns out to be a dud, that's just bad luck.
>Easy eh. So why isn't it happening?

It is happening, that is my point. Look at the link I posted, what's being installed are 4 hours batteries on GW scale.
No shit. The internet is a network of other people's computers.

Was the internet designed to be private?
This would probably be a cleaner approach, that doesn't duplicate all process functionality between syscalls and the Process struct I was thinking of, and it also is far easier to keep backwards compatible.
What the article doesnt mention is that its not easy to ask a good question or give a good answer, as is made evident by going through a new question/new answer queues that are littered with code-only/cryptic stuff.

The hidden value of such participation, at least for me, is that it forces you to express yourself clearly, if you want to get any real help that is.
What is so insane about the alphabetical order?
If you're willing, please share more details by email (in my profile). This can be very useful data to improve things.

Thanks for trying it out!
> When cloud was the hot new thing the company that I worked with launched a replatform on AWS. It gave us the ability to get through the initial scaling and sizing with ease. We left right away, because even then the costs did not make sense.

Cases like this always fascinate me. I've led a "move from Data Center to AWS" effort twice, and both times it was at > 50% cost savings. However, I think both were probably small infra footprints compared to many cases like many others.
I found their claims exaggerated: https://github.com/siglens/siglens/issues/created_by/alexey-...
I do my hobby projects in Objective C (and C++). It still does everything I need it to. Have not had a job programming iOS or macOS projects for a long time, so not sure what I'd use there. Maybe the industry has moved on from me. My impression of Swift is that it's fine but doesn't offer much that is worth the effort of learning and mastering it to the point of proficiency. If Apple suddenly deprecated/removed it, I'd probably just stop programming for their ecosystem.
Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas
Many cloud providers maintain the pretence that their employees don't have access to customer data.

For example, they like to maintain that if you run an amazon competitor hosted on AWS, amazon insiders can't look at sales numbers in your hosted database. Or if you run a google competitor with e-mail hosted on gmail, that google insiders can't view your e-mails. And so on.

Personally I've always found these promises rather hard to believe, but a lot of people have a great deal of trust in them.
Starting today: Go, C#, Rust, possibly TypeScript (not my personal choice but probably acceptable), Java (which despite being poorly done in a lot of places does have the tooling necessary for this if used by decent programmers). C++ with a super-strong static analysis tool like Coverity used from day one. (I consider C or C++ plus something like Coverity to be essentially a different language than using just a C or C++ compiler.)

And that's sticking to reasonably mainstream languages. F#, D, Scala, Haskell, Lisp with strong typing around the money parts (or Clojure), probably a couple of others as well. These have problems with having smaller communities and being harder to hire for, but I'd bet that pretty much all of them still have well-supported libraries for nearly everything a financial company would need to do. (And that you could expect general open source libraries for. Super-specific internal financial protocols may not have libraries in general, or may only be in Java, etc.)

Also I make no exclusivity claims that these are the only appropriate languages, so if you've got a favorite statically-typed language feel free to just mentally edit it in without asking me how I could possibly miss it. (I'm not familiar enough with the Objective-C family to have informed opinions about it, for instance.)

Dynamically-typed languages with progressive typing used rigidly around the money might be OK, but progressive typing makes me nervous and really seems like a bodge in a lot of places. Reading people's experiences with them, even when the person writing the experience is nominally positive on the experience, has not generally impressed me.
"Right" is a value judgement, meaning its all about whos asking. From an economics standpoint, regulation causes higher prices, less competition/innovation, and are unethical. From the prespective of the people who pushed this policy, its "oh ** ** **, gm is dead in the water and everyone else isnt far behind, my portfolio is in the toilet, we need to loosen these restrictions!".
So either is an area with sparse population where there are few public chargers and lots of people with garages, or it’s a dense area with apartments where it’s relatively easy to improve the infrastructure?
I don't have numbers, but I would guess still pretty tiny. There just aren't a lot of private jets out there, compared to other forms of transport. If your goal is to reduce emissions quickly, it makes sense to target the largest sources first, and I don't think private jets will be near the top of the emissions list for a long time.
Like every other Masha Gessen piece, this is an engrossing read, and the Jerusalem Declaration is helpful: what I mean to say is that it's easy to come up with examples of Palestinian advocacy that are, according not just to the IHDRA definition but the Jerusalem Declaration, antisemitic.
Given the full fingerprint reconstruction rates, it would likely be a while until the tech is reliable enough to do that, if ever.
In Indiana our electricity comes primarily from coal, so EVs here run on coal. I'm not sure that is better for the environment than heavily-filtered exhaust from gasoline combustion. I'm just trying to understand why so much focus is on personal vehicles when emission comes mostly from other sources:
https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/#:~:tex....
I assume because it's easier to tell people they can't drive a certain kind of car than it is to tell an energy company they can't burn a certain kind of fuel.
>> Following tests, the researchers assert that they can successfully attack “up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints and 9.3% of complete fingerprints within five attempts at the highest security FAR [False Acceptance Rate] setting of 0.01%.”

I wonder if I'm in the lucky majority, and my fingerprints sound secure
good to know what brand to avoid going forward
Star Trek Bridge Commander is the pinnacle of not only Trek games but space games as a whole.
Out of curiosity, why do you rebuild? What kinds of new features would get you to want to upgrade?
Try the newer pinned versions (sometimes in preview).
Radio waves are, by convention, EM radiation at 300GHz and below. Terahertz is EM radiation from 300GHz to 3THz. These ranges do not overlap.
Manara is backed by Sequoia, YC, Stripe, and others.

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Clarifying instruction semantics with P-Code
The government lost money when accounting for interest payments on government debt, or even just inflation.

Where it benefited was in potentially reducing economic harm, but the short term gain is offset by long term systemic issues.
I use Objective-C exclusively (no Swift) in my App Store apps.

I wrote a Swift app for a hobby/free project a few years ago and regretted it. They changed the language and deprecated some of my code, which isn't easily replaceable without a significant rewrite. The project now compiles only in Swift 4 and will die when Swift 4 support is removed from Xcode.

I see no reason to use Swift. The compiler is slower and buggier. The debugger is slower and buggier. C interoperablity, while it exists in Swift, can be very painful. And I don't actually ship any bugs that Swift could have theoretically saved me from. I see no gain in switching.

People have been telling me since 2014 that every line of code I write in Objective-C is "technical debt". I continue to laugh at them and ask them to compile Swift code they wrote in 2014.

Of course if I had to get a job, it would be a different story, but I own my company, so I can do whatever I want.
Chalk up one more loss for market competition.
In the sense that regulation of the markets increases prices for emissions and this lowers economic output, I fail to see how the lockdowns are a whole lot different from an economic perspective. The effect of lowering economic output is the same. What I did think the lockdowns showed was how much the current economy would need to be shutdown to achieve certain emissions targets.
I agree that their comment was perhaps a bit uncalled for and rude. Even if it was meant in a humorous manner I think it was in bad taste. But there is no need to be equally rude to them in my opinion.
> now the system was based around this incorrect assumption

How big of a userbase and what made it particularly difficult to refactor?
> Architecture is the art of doing "just enough"; it must be as simple as possible, but as complex as necessary.

Or as Albert Einstein phrased it: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler!”
cancel culture bullshit.

You're a parody of an Apple user. I guess that's what decades of being patronized and gaslit by a company does to someone.

How on earth did you draw these two conclusions? I'm simply asking people to not call me an "ass" and a "dickface" in a professional setting and all the sudden I'm some cheerleading Apple user who was gaslit and patronized by a company?

Some of you are some angry misguided people. You should really look inward to how you interact with your fellow peers. This is frankly, disgusting.
I also have to admit my skepticism. Skimming through the paper, I don't think they emulated "real-world conditions" as claimed in the conclusion. They had participants swipe the screen 25 times in a row. Real-world conditions would be giving them 12 hours of recording throughout the day, or something like that, because knowing when and where to look is probably a major challenge on its own.

I'll also add that even if true, it's probably not a huge practical issue. Fingerprints are mostly used to secure personal devices: phones, sometimes computers. If I were to have your full fingerprints then that would be mostly useless because I don't have access to your physical device. Even things like "purchase on App Store with fingerprints" usually works by having the fingerprint only secure a key on the device itself (rather than sending the fingerprint data over the network).

And if you have access to your physical devices, then I almost certainly also have access to your fingerprints via the good ol' "dust for prints" technique.

There was a "fingerprints for everything!" push a decade or so ago, and that was harshly criticized because you leave fingerprints everywhere, and you can even lift them from photographs.

Certainly the "enormous economic and personnel losses, and even a potential compromise of national security" claim at the start of the paper seems rather exaggerated, even hysterical.
I actually use your shot-scraper tool (coupled with Mozilla's Readability) to extract the main text of a site (to convert to audio and listen via a podcast player). I love it!

Some caveats though:

- It does fail on some sites. I think the value of scrapy is you get more fine grained control. Although I guess if you can use any JS with shot-scraper you could also get that fine grained control.

- It's slow and uses up a lot of CPU (because Playwright is slow and uses up a lot of CPU). I recently used shot-scraper to extract the text of about 90K sites (long story). Ran it on 22 cores, and the room got very hot. I suspect Scrapy would use an order of magnitude less power.

On the plus side, of course, is the fact that it actually executes JS, so you can get past a lot of JS walls.
Not only objective-c but lots of c++ (useful for cross platform libraries that run on targets besides ios/macos) and that road leads to objective-c++. But at least at Meta many iOS projects use swift now too.
> That TV was broken in an unfortunate incident involving a toddler and a thrown wrench

How did that happen? Kid get into your tools while you were fixing something in the house? Accident teaching the kid to play dodgeball?
Can we change the link to https://libagar.org/
Cairo has only limited support for GPU acceleration and hasn't seen much development this decade. So users who care about performance have either switched away from Cairo entirely or are at least reducing its usage and are taking it out of the fast path.
Well, this meta speculation about people's machinations is generally
unhelpful anyway. But my claim was somewhat different; that the same
article was spammed to HN three times in a 24 hours. I was surprised
it wasn't flagged as a dupe and merged, which meant only the slight
inconvenience that my earlier relevant comment had to be copy-pasted.
I believe that's actually context-menu-mode. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Me...

FWIW, I have experimented both with embark and context-menu-mode, and I have found that I don't really benefit from adding either to my workflow. (except I do get some mileage out of embark-collect)
You've got good ideas. What I like to personally say is that Groq makes the "Copilot" metaphor real. A copilot is supposed to be fast enough to keep up with reality and react live :)
The majority of web features are the same, though some do require some platform specific work.

There are a few big differences like WebRTC support isn't in WebKitGTK releases.
> Greenhouse gas emissions rose each other year of his presidency.

Except they didn’t. The graph shows a rise and then a drop before COVID in a long term falling trend[1] that admittedly has little to do with Trump but wasn’t stopped by him either.

1. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
A New Era for the Chinese Semiconductor Industry
> Kim Jong Un has to be brutal because if he isn’t than he’ll lose the great game of palace politics and he and his family will be killed.

Also, it's worth giving a good thought whether North Korea is in such a sorry state because of a bad persona or maybe it could have something to do with the fact that these people get international treatement equivalent to "isolate 'em barbarian animals".

It shouldn't be surprising that a country forced into a Stone Age lives like it's a Stone Age, compared to e.g. Saudi Arabia that gets more liberal over time as life goes on relatively chill. Yet somehow it is.
The Domino's pizza tracking bits is a funny one for those whom had read Snowcrash, where a whole earlier section of the book is about the advancement of the pizza delivery industry.

I don't know, it seem to me the 90s had a very dystopian view of future Pizza Hut.

« The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes. [..] Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey, and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand. And they had studied this problem. Graphed the frequency of doorway delivery-time disputes. Wired the early Deliverators to record, then analyze, the debating tactics, the voice-stress histograms, the distinctive grammatical structures employed by white middle-class Type A Burbclave occupants who against all logic had decided that this was the place to take their personal Custerian stand against all that was stale and deadening in their lives: they were going to lie, or delude themselves, about the time of their phone call and get themselves a free pizza; no, they deserved a free pizza along with their life, liberty, and pursuit of whatever, it was fucking inalienable. »
Meta vs. Bright Data: what does the ruling mean for web scraping?
I mean, given the fact that the Government isn't a business with a goal of making money, that seems pretty good, no?
Geniusrise – inference APIs for text, vision, audio, multi-modal AI models
Geniusrise is a modular, loosely-coupled AI-microservices framework.

It can be used to perform various tasks, including hosting inference endpoints, performing bulk inference, fine tune etc with open source models or closed source APIs.

- The framework provides structure for modules and operationalizes and orchestrates them.
- The modular ecosystem provides a layer of abstraction over the myriad of models, libraries, tools, parameters and optimizations underlying the operationalization of modern AI models.

1. Install geniusrise and libs

pip install torch
pip install geniusrise
pip install geniusrise-vision # vision multi-modal models
pip install geniusrise-text # text models, LLMs
pip install geniusrise-audio # audio models

2. Create YAML file

version: '1'

bolts:
my_multimodal_api:
name: VisualQAAPI
state:
type: none
input:
type: batch
args:
input_folder: ./input
output:
type: batch
args:
output_folder: ./output
method: listen
args:
model_name: 'llava-hf/bakLlava-v1-hf'
model_class: 'LlavaForConditionalGeneration'
processor_class: 'AutoProcessor'
device_map: 'cuda:0'
use_cuda: True
precision: 'bfloat16'
quantization: 0
max_memory: None
torchscript: False
compile: False
flash_attention: False
better_transformers: False
endpoint: '*'
port: 3000
cors_domain: 'http://localhost:3000'
username: 'user'
password: 'password'

3. Launch API service

genius rise

MY_IMAGE=/path/to/test/image

(base64 -w 0 $MY_IMAGE | awk '{print "{\"image_base64\": \""$0"\", \"question\": \"<image>\nUSER: Whats the content of the image?\nASSISTANT:\", \"do_sample\": false, \"max_new_tokens\": 128}"}' > /tmp/image_payload.json)
curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/v1/answer_question \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-u user:password \
-d @/tmp/image_payload.json | jq

More: https://docs.geniusrise.ai/guides/usage/ and https://github.com/geniusrise/examples
Some more discussion last week ahead of the deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369982
We wrote exactly that for our game-focused port of WebKit [1].

CPU renderer uses a tiny, custom fork of Skia (we only use the path rasterizer and their SSE2, AVX2, NEON backends) and our GPU renderer draws directly on GPU via tessellated paths / hardware MSAA (DX11, DX12, GL, Metal, Vulkan).

[1] https://ultralig.ht
> Improved PGO optimizations for macOS ARM64 and Android

> Off-main-thread canvas on macOS, Linux and Android

What kind of improvements are we looking at? Any benchmarks for these?
I like to treat simplicity as an ingrained attitude.

When hiring someone, I love to see if they are visibly annoyed when something is over-engineered. Or when a user interface is too complex.

If they have strong emotional reaction, it's a good cultural fit :)

The inverse is true too. If someone "gets off" to complexity, I view it a red flag.
Sure the government made money by dropping interest rates to zero and forcing safe money into every form of other investment.

However that also caused the greatest gap in income inequality ever. Those with assets got extremely wealthy and those living paycheck to paycheck got fucked. This is why no one can afford a house in the Bay Area unless you had money in stocks or real estate already.
Since 1992 when the "ghost cities" meme began China gained 300 million people and it is still growing.
Yes very much so. I maintain an established Mac app and it's almost entirely Objective-C (and the bits that aren't are in C and JavaScript)
You might also have a chatbot for the initial conversation and then get invisibly transferred to a human.
Before snagging a chunk of space junk, Astroscale must first catch up to one
And state capitalists will keep defending Vietnam as "communist" because the universities offer courses in "Dialectical Materialism and Ho Chi Minh Thought", I'm sure, just as when they denounced LGBT rights protests as an American "color revolution".

It's not your DNA anymore, it's The People's DNA now.

Once again goes to show that if you try to use a state to build communism all you get is a state, which is all the more likely to slide into authoritarianism because it gets to claim it's all for the common good. If you actually want to build communism, you need to start bottom up with material conditions first. This is why anarchists keep talking about prefiguration.