skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humane pushes AI Pin ship date to mid-April
> a little disappointed

that's putting it mildly. It's hard to believe SciAm could even publish this.

Neil deGrasse Tyson went on TV with Chaser and his owner. He tested Chaser by putting an unnamed toy in the pile, and then said "go get Darwin." ("Darwin" being an unused name)

Chaser successfully figured out it must be the toy whose name he didn't know.
Care to embody the spirit of what HN tries to put forth by expanding on those points in a constructive, educational manner that may actually help us to better understand, or do you just want to flippantly say that everyone's stupid and you're the only person who gets it?
To be clear, the "brief" reference is this:

> Because of curl’s use of third party libraries for doing QUIC and HTTP/3, the report advises that there should be follow-up audits of the involved libraries. Fair proposal, but that is of course something that is beyond what we as a project can do.

Indeed, the next thing would be for the third-party libraries to go through a similar audit!
I am currently working on porting Museeks [0] from Electron to Tauri 2.0, mainly to reduce the memory and app size footprints, which are the main things everybody complains about with Electron.

What I really like:

- the dev experience is stellar and comes out of the box. No need to setup binary compilation, webpack, vite, hot-reload, TS compilation for back-end, etc yourself. You can pick your favorite JS framework with Vite, during setup, or use a Rust frontend (kind of what electron-forge is doing, but it is buggy, and landed yeaaaars after Electron was released).

- the architecture makes sense (commands, security, plugins, all very well-designed)

- they provide official plugins for common-usecases (SQL, config, etc)

- Rust is fun and interesting to learn for folks like me used to high-level languages like JS or Python

What I don't like as much:

- facing webview-specific UI issues (feature X does not work on Safari, Y not on gtk-webview etc), with Electron, you know if X works on Windows, it will work on Linux or MacOS

- some rough edges with the framework or the ecosystem (not as mature or dev-friendly as npm's or Electron), but the crates (and Tauri's) maintainers are very friendly and reactive.

- the focus on mobile apps, It seems like a very different space, and it feels weird to try to build with big mashup framework. I would rather have them work on more integrations, but whatever.

- changes in the Rust backend can take minutes to compile, and rust-analyzer is damn slow.

Overall I'm really happy and having a lot of fun. I will keep working on this port and release it when I can. Kudos to the Tauri team, what you are building is awesome :)

[0] https://museeks.io
It's absurd and frustrating that Intuit gets away with this, and sadly what you've experienced is just the tip of the iceberg[0].

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
No one denied the facts of the matter, certainly not this article. But " complicit in a conspiracy against white people" is still unhinged crazy bollocks. You're seriously misrepresenting the article.
What is your point? That obtaining absolute knowledge of truth is impossible, and therefore anything claiming to be true is worthless?

In general, be careful not to kill "good" on the way to attempting to obtain "perfect" in vain. And GPT4's hallucination rate is quite low at this point (may of course depend on the topic).
We can't quite afford an 8x bare metal instance, but I am pinning this for later.

Think ya'll will ever offer single MI300X instances?
Plus almost always people are tweaking voltages and such also.
I didn't see any clear definition of populism anywhere here. At present moment it seems to just be a pejorative against lower class people with right-wing leanings.

It's also odd to me that they only look at the post-WWII period. Populism was widespread in Europe during the 1800s
There's a side benefit to this as well, your cooling solution is more effective at 90C than it is at 40C, you know, highschool physics, deltaT and all that.
At least it is a mile better than the abomination named Electron.

Each Electron app has both Chromium and NodeJS bundled. Tauri only use platform-specific webviews, and Rust is a compiled language with no GC and no runtime.
> Why? As long as the fine is a fraction of the profits, it's just the cost of doing business.

Yes, a problem

Times are changing. It is upto us, but firms are grappling with the concept of social license

Clearly in democracies care must be taken not end up in endless fights with stakeholders

But even in China the authorities care about social attitudes
It came from a leak in the battery during charging. Exactly what the gas was is still unknown but it knocked me for six a couple of days after I received the unit. I thought about getting it tested and even suing but it took out my whole apartment and I just had to get rid of it and cut my losses. I was in the ER unable to stand and in quite a state, lost balance and coordination and was incoherent for a while. CAT scan w/contrast, it was a whole production on Thanksgiving at 3am. They monitored me for a couple days and sent me back to the apartment where all the symptoms immediately returned, and then I put it together and looked closer at the UPS. Underneath it was a couple of drops of black liquid that had come from the battery compartment and after returning to the ER again to go throw up some more I went back and took it straight to the garbage. I think it was one of those types of gas that can effect you in the PPM range. Totally odorless. This was the enterprise APC UPS, the model was SUA1500
When the world wide web was new, everyone could see that the idea of it was appealing, the skepticism came from the fact that people weren't at all certain that online commerce would be financially viable... and it wasn't! At the time of the dot com crash huge numbers of companies collapsed. Sure companies like Amazon seems to have been around since time immemorial but its just one of the ones that survived, it could just as easily have disappeared.

For crypto, the criticisms are well founded. Crypto generates enormous amounts of pollution, facilitates money laundering, the sale of illegal goods and all manner of scams and for what? The shittiest database you could imagine.
I had a dumb labrador that was hard to train. Now I have a kokoni who knows 20 commands & words, and she is super easy to train. We haven't tried to test the limit of her abilities, we just ran out of things to teach her (that we cared about, at least). She never cared for toys though.

I noticed while teaching her to "speak" that she would sneeze a lot, I guess it's kind of a reflex for her when she tries to speak. So I wondered, can I teach a dog to sneeze? And sure enough, after a bit of training, she will now sneeze on command.
When using the phrase 'elites', are we talking 'coastal elites' (that is, the actual majority of the US population, who live in coastal cities), 'globalist elites' (that is, imaginary secret evil communists who are actually imaginary secret evil Jews), or something else?
there is quite a heated argument in the NIST comments regarding kyber. DJB is not impressed with how they calculated some kind of security bound. The kyber folks (and maybe some others) seem to think DJB is a prick.

This is so far above my pay grade that I don't know what to think. DJB has a tendency to be right, but then again: he is the kind of guy that checks the return value of printf even in non-critical paths. As one wants a crypto guy to be, I guess...
Oh Scuttlebot. Such a great idea, and for a time it actually worked. I haven't been actively developing with the codebase for years, but I believe the current status of the project is that there were too many code rewrites that simply broke things that previously worked at one point or another.

I tell people sometimes that I'd put together a team to do a retro Scuttlebot revival with a Patchwork-style app and of course git-ssb! If you're interested in this kind of project email or call me. Contacts are in my bio.

I'm mostly looking for devs who want to dive into an old Node.js codebase, who want to recapture the magic of the original protocol, and then upgrade all of the modules to modern standards. Maybe Deno or Bun even.
Don't they have resupply missions to the ISS? I'm talking about cutting out chunks of the modules, stuffing them in the returning capsule and letting that go back down to earth. Not whole modules.
What's impressive about Anduril? Please.
I initially misread “exotic” as “toxic” and I was in agreement. I still am, but I was.
I wasn't very impressed when they tossed my new 100G network switch under the water runoff spout on my porch during a snow melt day.
> "The literature on <democratic governance> is divided on whether economic factors are significant and robust causes of <democratic governance>."

Think of what a great country this could be if the only people allowed to vote in national elections were graduates of Ivy League schools. /s

Looking forward to a literature meta-analysis of the economic factors leading to the rise of elitism and kleptocratic oligarchic rule in America - pretty sure the outsourcing of manufacturing and resulting reduction in domestic wages and rise in the billionaire count had a lot to do with it, along with the consolidation of ownership of media outlets (which is getting worse and worse) into a unified propaganda borg supporting the interests of the new American aristocracy.
I'm curious what pitfalls you're referring to. Frameworks like Tauri and Wails are a far departure from Electron in that they don't bundle a browser.
> The world is not a fair place.

Yep. Those two stories are in some amount of conflict. I agree that anyone who has passed a decent hiring bar can be trained to some baseline level of competence. But the difference in capacity between that baseline level and someone brilliant can be huge. And it matters. This is the difference between something being an ongoing issue for the team for months, and it just quietly never seeming like it was ever a problem in the first place. As you say, it’s totally unfair.
I'm no AI expert, but I'm not uninformed. Can you explain what "informed" means in this context? I'm aware of the use of synthetic data for training in the context of a curated training effort, with HITL checking and other controls.

What we're talking about here is a world where 1) the corpus is polluted with an unknown quantity of unlabeled AI-generated content, and 2) reputational indicators (link counts, social media sharing/likes) may amplify AI-generated content, and lead to similar content being intentionally AI-generated.

At that point, can the incorrect info in the training set really be controlled for using noise reduction or other controls?
That's an interesting idea! and no we haven't tried it. I'll add it to a list of things we might try.
Which parts did you find blockingly complex, or was it more the interaction of so many language features?

The operator overloading aspect of C++ , IMO, allows for obtusely opaque domain specific languages where the actions and side effects of an operation aren't immediately clear to someone getting to know a new codebase. It's almost as bad as the enterprisy nightmare of polymorphic objects and interfaces that can be found in JAVA where tracing code execution can pierce through hundreds of source files just to figure out the effects of one line of code.
EV driving costs me 3p/mile vs 12p/mile for my old diesel. That would be a £27k saving on fuel over that distance.
Most people I know in these situations that are neighborly will chip in to the neighbor that "owns" the access to help maintain that access.
>... they're not doing it as a valid part of discussion.

As I highlighted in another comment, you're not helping things by simply attacking a generic body of HN users rather than coming in here and calmly trying to explain things in a constructive manner. See something that is lacking proper information and context? Great - provide it!

You literally feel like a pseudo-intellectual troll who doesn't realize what they're doing.
If everyone who has been holding bitcoin for years cashed in their balance today, the price would rapidly approach zero.

Emperors, clothes, and all.
- a repeated event when aggregated (like summed or averaged) tends to look more and more like a normal distribution the more samples you got

- the standard deviation of a normal distribution scales roughly by the square root of the number of samples

- From microseconds to nanoseconds you need a 1000x in precision, 1000² = 1.000.000.

So from an event that has a noise amplitude of microseconds, I think you may be able to measure a difference of nanoseconds with ~1 million samples.

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So yeah unlikely in normal scenarios. But if you could, for example, rent a server in 10km from your target, you can reduce by 10-100x the latency, which will reduce your number of samples by its square, so a 100x-10000x reduction

And what if it's possible to rent a server in the same datacenter of your target? ... well K.O.
which part can't you do? Just the fence? or did you mean something else?

Is it really true that nobody in Germany is allowed to fence their property?
Nice tip. Another option for US numbers is Google project fi.

I have been using Google Project Fi for calls and texts the last 6 years internally. A bit pricey but you don’t need to be on wifi for calls and texts. I also had international data for like 5 years until they cut me off last year.
You’re right. People miss that SPAs aren’t heavy by definition, but by accident and/or acquire bloat over time. You can totally have a super-useful, full featured, good looking and fast SPA in 150 KB gzipped including libraries. Only it takes knowledge and discipline to do that.
That's what I do. + another one like it offsite. With software RAID (Windows Storage Spaces).
Thanks for the answers, explanation, and invite. It looks like interesting software, and live update does seem like a nice feature. I guess I'm just surprised that does not appeal to the WebGl, javascript, and online community all that much, since that's one of the main perks of those is quick feedback without compiling. Tweak, load the page.

Had not heard of Anadol (not much involvement in the pro art community), yet working with the sphere in Vegas probably means at least fairly well known.
What does it mean to be critical of LLMs? In that they are overhyped or that they are not intelligence?
Most message encryption schemes don't use this alone. This is a Key Encapsulation Method (KEM) and it's designed as a way to exchange key information between two parties, much like Ephemeral Diffie Hellman (EDH) with Ed25519. However many are using Kyber _with_ Ed25519 as a hybrid system. The keying material generates using both schemes are fed into a Key Derivation Function (KDF) to generate a shared symmetric key and then uses AES-GCM or ChaCha20Poly1305 to encrypt any subsequent messages.

The reason why we want Kyber is that it's supposed to be post-quantum secure. Ed25519 does not have evidence that it is post-quantum secure, so using a hybrid system does at least guarantee that your scheme is post-quantum ready. The reason you don't immediately switch to Kyber is in case of dodgy initial Kyber implementations, or unknown protocol issues we have not yet discovered.
>Every programmer can create the system from scratch

Are you sure about that? Can one coder recreate Facebook's(for example) complete architecture from scratch? Unless I misunderstood you, I'd imagine there is just too much domain specific knowledge in all the components to do so even in a single lifetime.

>The most incredible work happens in the first 3 months by a lone developer green-fielding with no boundaries.

The graveyard of github projects with the mentality of "I could recreate that in a weekend" seems to somewhat contradict this line of thinking.
This is nonsense.

Every time a human makes a mistake he's "getting something output that he hasn't predicted". Even if you frame this as "Google didn't really want black Nazis and vikings, so they didn't get what they predicted", that's not something unique to AI. If you think a bridge supports your weight, it doesn't, and you fall to your death, you didn't get what you predicted, but "not getting what you predicted" isn't a useful way to look at what happened.

Woke/DEI actually is the problem here. Google has their heads up their asses by so much that in the name of DEI they produced something nonsensical.
While Ernie is certainly smart, I've found one gap in his IQ:

He has some favorite houses because the person who lives there gives him treats. Several times, we'll see that person on the street and then pass their house, and Ernie still gets excited.

I tell him, "Ernie, we just saw Jan. She can't possibly be in the house."

He never listens.
Good point. It's a mixed bag. I've gotten back into music making the past few years (hello, mid-life crisis). And while watching synth videos on YouTube can easily encourage me to just be a synthesizer collector and not a music-maker, it has also been really inspiring, taught me a lot, and actually encouraged me to make more.

Finding the right balance can be hard but for me at least, it's a net positive. But I do have to be diligent about asking myself "Will this piece of gear really further my goals, or am I just bored and looking for a seratonin hit?"
Andrew Ng says ROCm has improved a lot in the last year and is no longer as bad as people make it out to be
Nobody sacrificed years of their life and toiled endlessly to produce it, so even if it merely looks as good as something an artist would produce, it's objectively inferior because it doesn't have that special human magic spark.

Or maybe this guy decided to feel strongly about something without really thinking about it and is spouting silly things online.

Old man yells at cloud (AI image generator).

I can't wait to see what kids that grow up with this technology will be able to produce. They have technology with the lowest barrier between real media and their imaginations to play with ideas and art and stories.

Anyone moaning about some magic human spark being lost to AI art is just a silly person with a silly opinion, and you can safely disregard that opinion as not mattering to anyone, ever, except maybe the people that hold that opinion, but probably not even them.
I have a hunch they made their decision to train off that particular type of A* traces to avoid an exponential number of embeddings.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07024-9?utm_mediu...
Not at all. I'm coming from the opposite side saying that anything can be "verified" true if you just continue to repeat it as truth so that people accept it. Say often, say it loud. Facts be damned
Although my understanding (through some personal experience) is that e.g. in Maine it's OK to have only water access. May not still be true but seemed to be in a case I was familiar with.
There was a similar story last summer - an internship that only required one day a week in-person, so the intern did a round-trip from South Carolina to New York every Wednesday. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/business/tiktok-summer-intern...
"academic" as in "theoretically we can have object-oriented instructions in the CPU!" ... "theoretically the compiler can do all the instruction scheduling!" ... in practice oh please no
> Why were you mucking with Grub configs? Because something went wrong.

Because I needed to enable a driver, actually, and something on the Arch forums or AskUbuntu said that I could enable it in a boot parameter in my grub config. I cannot remember the specific driver, but it was absolutely not to fix any boot partition issues.

Also, I explicitly stated that I didn't know what I was doing in the comment you're replying to.

Please don't get me wrong; I really don't have any rose-tinted glasses in regards to Linux. I'm basically a Mac person now; my work computer is a Mac M3, my home computer is a MacBook i9. I do have NixOS dual-booted on my personal computer, and it's been a nightmare to get all the drivers working. Just kidding, they still don't work, because the Linux drivers for the T2 MacBooks are garbage. There's a good chance that I will be nuking the Linux partitions this weekend in all honesty. The only thing that runs Linux full time in my house is my server, which runs a NixOS install on a tmpfs root.

It's not like I have a ton of love for Linux, if I did I would probably still be using it for my daily driver, but I just haven't had the dual-boot-partition issues that people complain about. Maybe it's because I so rarely actually went to Windows, but grub more or less did the job.

I will acknowledge that getting Linux installed in a secureboot environment continues to be a pain, however.
In Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" the place is a being: The Angel Islington (without a comma)
Codebases, I mean today copilot can read your existing files and maybe about more. Think your entire codebase, everything from the build tools to the source code.

Huge difference in my thoughts
In Canada, there are so many streams and rivers, lakes, that these are the 'right to roam' areas. There are all sorts of laws for access, and the country was explored by canoe.

And in the winters of 200 years ago, the lakes became frozen roads.

Yet part of it may also be, that land wss apportioned in large, organized chunks in many cases. Given to settlers, with spaces for roads as part of the plan.

Europe had many places where there was no way to get around, for there were no roads!
They use it for key exchange. That removes the part that quantum computing will break easily.

AES is still safe. It is a replacement for public key crypto schemes, like Ed25519.
Everyone should freeze their credit by default, it's very easy to unfreeze when you actually need to apply for something.
I recently started swimming for fitness after not doing so since 10 years ago in high school. I get a rush of nostalgia and a good feeling whenever I catch a whiff of chlorine on my hands or hair throughout the day.
My dog seems to know least the names of 6 family members, 4 friends, and names of ~6-7 other dogs (in that she can go to those individuals on command). She also knows: cat, dog, cow, horse, friend, hello, "dai lapu" (Russian for give me your paw), "sidi" (Russian for sit), sneak, "bang" (for playing dead), dinner, breakfast, bath, outside, "go potties", and probably quite a few other snippets of English.

She also knows how to open windows in a car and looks for the buttons before pressing them with her paw.
Lists don't make great HN submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... It would be better to pick the most interesting element in the list and submit that instead.
My understanding of this tech is pretty minimal, so please bear with me, but is the basic idea is something like this?

Before: Evaluate the image in a little region around each pixel against the prompt as a whole -- e.g. how well does a little 10x10 chunk of pixels map to a prompt about a "red sphere and blue cube". This is problematic because maybe all the pixels are red but you can't "see" whether it's the sphere or the cube.

After: Evaluate the image as a whole against chunks of the prompt. So now we're looking at a room, and then we patch in (layer?) a "red sphere" and then do it again with a "blue cube".

Is that roughly the idea?