skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the current advancements in AI research evolved out of teaching AI how to play games. Gameplay and AI research are very closely intertwined, this research project only helps further push the capabilities of AI. Another small step on a very long march ahead.
How many cars do Chinese companies sell in the US? How many cars do American companies sell in China?
You're right, they should face consequences, but not the lobbying. They still should have the right to address the government. If they are not showing up for hearings, and that is punishable, then you can punish them with fines. But to block them from, addressing the government entirely is abhorrent to me.
I don't like when wrong is made to seem tolerable by calling it merely messy.

The world is of course actually messy and not b&w, but that fact doesn't change that.

It's like saying that killing is wrong, but sometimes we still have to kill. Yes we do, and killing is still wrong. If you kill someone, it's not because "humans are messy". Oh humans are just imperfect and sometmes you just kill your neighbor, it just happens, no way to avoid it. If you actually want to get anything done you can't be so aspberger absolutist and figure out how to work WITH the neighbor killers.
lmao, that was my exact thought when I read that comment.

I still have nightmares about that. I ended up moving to i3 as a result of that transition and never looked back, although KDE is my "backup desktop".
> React of content management systems. Most used, most hated

I don't think React is even close to being as hated as WordPress. Most people are "ok" with React and think it does the job, but many people consider WordPress to be awful.

I personally like and use WP too, there isn't any self-hosted CMS alternative as powerful as WP.
Macy's to close 150 stores, or about 30% of its locations
Heinz ketchup ingredients: TOMATO CONCENTRATE FROM RED RIPE TOMATOES, DISTILLED VINEGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SALT, SPICE, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORING.

-- https://www.heinz.com/products/00013000006408-tomato-ketchup
And for those who are interested, Evan (creator of Elm) gave a great Strange Loop '23 talk that hints at where he imagines things going, if he could figure out how to get the economics to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8
The apparent authority part means that the agent has authority to negotiate on their behalf

(In general apparent authority is enough to bind principals, I won't get into the complex legal distinctions between apparent and actual authority and when each would be valid)
Huh, to me it feels they just tried to emphasize the most important things, like your bill never being higher than the monthly price would be. Like, the opposite of what tech companies usually do.
> Eh, I don't think that is correct. Klarna US charges up to a 25% late fee before the debt is sent over to debt collectors, it doesn't accrue AFAIK. I'm pretty sure they do standard credit checks too.

I'm talking about a credit card. I am old: there was no Klarna when I came up, and thank fuck, I did a good enough job screwing myself over financially without shit like that at my fingertips.

> Well, this is a hard question. I don't believe in banning things that might be harmful if misused (and rewarding if used properly), regardless if it's alcohol or credit. I do however believe good education is incredibly important to avoid issues.

I mean that's the thing: at least a credit card is, maybe not hard, but a nonzero amount of work to get. And they confer some benefits: It raises your overall borrowing power, which makes your credit score go up; there are usually some benefits or others attached, things like cash back, or points rewards systems; they're damn handy for life's little emergencies where you need a sizable hunk of money right now, etc.

In contrast, there is no benefit to a BNPL arrangement apart from getting the thing sooner, and, those arrangements are going to be the most attractive to the people who are most likely to live in financial precarity; if you didn't, you'd just buy the thing, whatever it might be, with cash or credit. They are marketed exactly to the people they are most likely to fuck over. And I refuse to believe that's an accident.

I don't think we should or even can ban everything that can be harmful if misused. I just think it's advantageous as a society, even a free market society, to ban things that are blatantly exploitative of more vulnerable people, that otherwise confer little to no benefits to the larger society. Were I dictator for a day, I wouldn't ban credit. I would ban exploitative, predatory credit models, and mandate proper education on how to make use of non-predatory (well, less predatory?) credit models.
PubSubHubbub aka WebSub [0] is an extension of RSS feeds to solve the push/pull issue by introducing hubs.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
It's a straightforward case of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" isn't it? The values of NYT are so opposed to those of Putin's Russia or Xi's China that they support those standing against those views uncritically. It's a fairly rational thing to do, even if it is hypocritical. Any port in a storm, to use yet another metaphor.

In the US I think you'd say that prevailing views are more closely aligned to the NYT and this affords them some ability to be more critical.
How would the server return the data to the client without an IP address?
I don't think anyone is completely ignoring it. I think it is an extermely complicated equation. Factoring in PFAS and microplastics gets even more difficult. I don't have research in front of me but it would be interesting to look at regions like Japan that have very tight loops on plastics. How many microplastics get out in the wild. The other problem there is the microplastics from tires, huge issue since those could get in the drinking water eventually. Its a difficult problem.
I will be _very_ surprised if there's a KDE6 in official ports within three months.
I love the finish and materials on mine, the battery life, screen is good, fitness features are good. If I wanted the same in a Garmin it would be orders of magnitude more expensive.
> The corporation is the legal embodiment of our joint interests.

Would you stand by this statement when the corporation is caught doing some illegal evil thing, like denying employers their rights, or damaging the environment? Even if you would, most shareholders of large corporations don't. They suddenly discover being a shareholder is a very "at arms length" thing.

Might work nicely if corporations were "the embodiment" at all times, or at no times. But selectively, it is quite bad.
In spanish, current translates to actual.
This seems like the “don’t use seat belts, drive safely” argument.

Trust mechanisms in GitHub/etc can’t solve the whole problem, for sure.

But some automated safety mechanisms at scale can reduce the risk for those who don’t follow perfect security practices, which has value to the world at large.

Very few of us have the capacity to do even cursory validation for every update to every dependency of every bit of software we use.
This article, and many others that promote a highly decentralized internet, consistently fail to address the vast majority of the population who are not developers or extremely tech savvy.

> This is in contrast to personal blogging, where every Bob can easily host their own (and they often do).

A key word in this sentence is "often". I would argue that hosting your own blog is exceptionally rare at the population level. Most people do not have the interest or skill to accomplish it, so they use services.

Similarly, this author proposes a system where every social interaction could be self-hosted. I fail to see who this benefits, beyond a vocal minority of smart technologists.

I've seen arguments that suggest the bar should be lowered to allow everyone to do more technical things if so desired (self-hosting, domain registration, etc). I just think this misses the point that for most people, these topics are utterly uninteresting and unimportant. Unless the suggestion is to build a decentralized network for a very select few who wish to participate, I don't feel like these types of ideas will ever be relevant.
Even if we could clone them, is it really a form of rebirth? They'd have no memory of their previous life - it's as much a form of rebirth as me freezing my sperm to be used after my death.
The problem is that Europe is a vassal. If Russia invades then the US will have to help defend Europe. Trump was right that European countries should spend more on defence, but at the same time very dishonest about the quid pro quo going on. Free rein for US companies, the Mastercard tax, the Visa Tax... Also for too long European defence spending actually means buying weapons from the US. Europe should spend more on defence and spend it at home, but that is the opposite of what Trump wants.
At the moment there is still a one-time order fee for dedicated servers and the docs don’t clarify if it will remain.
Ah thank you for the clarification!
while I agree with the overall premise of your comment, that's not what the other poster said _at all_.
Apple is surprisingly good at sci-fi and sci-fi-adjacent TV series. It's somewhat strange to see a genre that has been shunned for years suddenly flourishing.
I wish people didn't post twitter links to HN. They're almost always useless now you have to have an account.
> Mandriva was the "no headaches" distro

The original name was Mandrake, precisely because it would magically autoconfigure all your hardware and software - well before Ubuntu existed.

The issue Mandrake/Mandriva always had, was that they would go a bit overboard with the approach, ending up with a system that could feel a bit sluggish - because it had all sorts of stuff preinstalled "just in case". It was also a bit of a separate kingdom - used RPM but wasn't really compatible with the wider array of RedHat packages.

The Ubuntu innovation was that they hit a better middle ground: they were fundamentally Debian-compatible, and their autoconfiguration worked well (particularly with 3d cards, at the start) but also gave you a fairly fast desktop.

These days it's all much of a muchness really.
Seems Apple is owning the quality Sci-Fi TV space now, "For All Mankind”, “Foundation”, “Severance”, “Silo” to name a few. Keeps my subscription intact for now.
ExxonMobil is suing investors who want tougher action on climate change
I heard it in a jpop song, happy summer wedding by morning musume, about 20 years ago. They actually worked it into the melody of the song. I think they're well aware of it now in the East.
Fun fact: The quarter being worth two bits is part of the same "split a dollar up into eights" system that resulted in Spanish dollars being called a "pieces of eight".

A Spanish dollar was worth eight Spanish reals. So a quarter of a dollar would be worth two Spanish reals; hence two bits. Presumably the terminology stuck around even after the switch to US dollars.
I really hope this and 3 Body don’t go the way of Wool or Foundation. None of them are stories with broad appeal yet the huge investments don’t bode well for persevering their spirit as we’ve seen with the latter. The skimping on wool/silo really hurt.
I learned... how RSA works... better than I would have just from reading about the algorithm in a book or from a lecture? Why is it a strange concept that one could learn something by doing rather than just reading/listening? The RSA algorithm isn't inherently about bit-twiddling, but to implement it efficiently for real-world use, you have to get into a lot of those weeds that distract you from the core ideas.
> You'll get in trouble if you push anything that is to the detriment of all those in parliament, these days even more so if to the detriment of the leader.

Yes and no, for many reasons:
1) There are regular protests being held a lil bit everywhere in china every day, and most go fine for the protesters.
2) You cannot advocate for everything during those protests. If you advocate for the transition to a western-style liberal democracry, so a democracy for bourgeois but a dictatorship for the workers, then yes you will have fine gentlemen forcing you into their vehicle for interrogation.
3) If you are referring to the current president of the PRC, you have to realise he is merely executing what parliement wants him to execute. Even if you see him as a tyran, you also probably realise that no leader rules alone; its a system that enables their power.
A problem with previous efforts to replace C has been their ambition; "Why not fix all the other issues too?"

Then we get languages with Opinions and "you can't do that 'cuz its Wrong;" or in the enlightened "free" languages, "you can do that, but only after a bunch of syntactic apologia and Guilt."

But the simple "C with bounds checking" answer doesn't fly because "why go to the trouble for a tiny, incremental gain?"
I think morality is shallow concept to base any analysis, because, in the end, where there is morality when you live in a system based on exploitation of labour?
I hate that I cannot interface database-servers directly anymore, because everything needs a damn webservice to be usable in a cloud world. But quickly hacking something together just introduces new problems, not even speaking of sync issues.

So this seems quite compelling and probably makes sense for a lot of applications. Best of luck with your service.
Yep, they’ve lost me and I usually get something from there 3-4 times a week because it’s the closest thing nearby. I estimate I’ve spent a few thousand there after starting to work from home two years ago.

This idea simply cannot be tolerated.
It's technically possible, in the sense that you will eventually get a complete response, but it will be extremely slow. Inference will be something like 1 word per second. Far too slow to use as an assistant for writing code.

If you don't want to rent something with a GPU, you should look into running non-70B models and experiment with varying levels of quantization. Without a GPU you really want to start with 7B models, not 70B models. The Mistral variants in particular are worth a try.
Definitely true (and I do install Konsole on GNOME if I have to use GNOME) but probably not super common.

Most people, myself included, are gonna install the DE and its apps by choosing it in the OS installer (or at least with a single command, a la "pacman -S plasma-meta kde-applications-meta sddm").
I'm in college and still prioritize stability (at least in day-to-day use). Which doesn't always work out, because yesterday my laptop wouldn't boot...
The cultural context of colloquial speech is incredibly difficult to pick up online. It is literally never communicated, you have to scrape Culture Shock and reaction videos for weeks to piece it together. Or study full time, or live there.
>> Below 18, about 3/8 of the deaths are from traffic.

The problem with statements like this is that they hide actual risk. The reality is that child road deaths are dramatically down, in line with all road deaths. Roads in the 1970s were basically warzones by today's standards. The fact that 3/8 of deaths occur there today is because we have come so far in decreasing all the other sources of early death.

US child pedestrian deaths 1975: 1632.
US child pedestrian deaths 2019: 138.

https://seriousaccidents.com/blog/children-traffic-fatalitie...

I had a prof once joke that they worst thing anyone could do in the fight against heart disease would be to cure cancer: By taking cancer out of the picture, the percentage of deaths from heart disease would skyrocket. But exactly that has happened to children in recent years. Childhood cancer is no longer a death sentence, so too innumerable other conditions. And when kids do get sick they live long enough not to die as kids. So the smaller and smaller number of child road deaths each year ironically now represents a greater and greater percentage of total child deaths. The reality is that kids today are safer crossing the road than ever before.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a756524ed915...

UK Child death/injury in 1979: 12,458.
UK Child death/injury in 2013: 1,980.

And that is despite roads now being massive more crowded and full of larger vehicles. The total population has also increased by at least 50% since the 70s, making the reduction in net traffic deaths even more dramatic.
Re: EU fines against US companies, exihibts include Apple, Google and Microsoft (each with people crying trade war on HN).

Re: Dieselgate, the CEOs of Audi and VW at the time are currently on trial in Germany.

I hate it, really hate it, tgat everytime something international coms up, people cry about some country not being souvereign because of blabla...
UBI's critics expected these programs to have terrible outcomes, where recipients would spend their money on trivialities (or worse: drugs). Instead, what we find is that UBI recipients either spend it on essentials, stuff for their kids children or paying down debt.
I don't seem capable of actually setting up an account with Heztner and logging in. Their security is so tight, it seems to constantly lock me out. What if I were an actual customer? Yikes.

Does anyone else have this issue?
I just got this new cap recently (before reading this article) and it snapped in half when I first opened it. So not too promising lol
Anyone remember UC2, ARJ?
Apple seems distinctly interested in, and respectful of, sci-fi. I have at least a little bit of optimism that, in their hands, it will work better than The Peripheral did on Amazon, which unfortunately was a hard to watch for me.
I got a better one. It was the lobbyists who fought for five years to enact the World Trade Center 9/11 Health Compensation Fund. It took FIVE years for congress to make that happen and no one was lobbying on behalf of the first responders.
On the cloud product listing they make it pretty clear that "in use" means "allocated" and not "consuming electricity". Pretty sure their fees are staying the same, and we are still paying for every hour a server exists.
Nueromancer, and the Sprawl trilogy, will always have a special place in my heart. I was pleased with The Peripheral, and am excited for this news!
Yes, cars have become much safer for the occupants. Also, far, far fewer people (especially kids) are walking and biking, so drivers have fewer chances to kill them. It's remarkable that pedestrian fatalities have gone up dramatically - now at the highest levels since the 1980's - _despite_ far, far fewer people walking to get around. For instance

https://walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Fina...

"""
▪ In 1969, 48 percent of students in grades K through eight (ages 5 through 14) walked or bicycled to school.1
▪ In 2009, only 13 percent of students in grades K through eight walked or bicycled to school.
"""
At least with the dedicated servers there are no surprises. Monthly cost is fixed, if you exceed the bandwidth limit you'll be throttled. Maybe their cloud offerings offer the same?
> If not immoral, then it's cognitive dissonance.

This is a good observation. What is our obligation when our cognitive dissonance enables immoral/unethical activity at scale?
yes exactly, the entire goal of my post was to describe how aliens could have entirely different thinking processes and/or scales than humans.

If one alien entity/organism is actually the size of a galaxy, a single solar system would be on the scale of maybe a transistor at 20-30 nm to us.

At that scale it's no longer performance art, but maybe a small part of a engine of some sort.

What I'm saying is thought patterns like "what is it for" "this is inefficient" or "that would be way too big" ... etc is only defined from our point of view.
> Please for the love of god don't remove the lines and other distinguishing features between UI elements.

Did you actually look at the screenshots? KDE did not remove separation between elements. However it is now achieved by drawing a single line between two elements, instead of framing every single thing which is extremely ugly.

I also find Kate '6' to be much more pleasant to use, because this separator is still clear enough, but actually uses marginally fewer pixels which is nice on my low-resolution laptop.
Thank you. Others on this thread have addressed the citation-trail issues you raise. I just want to tell you how helpful I find your comment about why ternary weights ought to work at all without degrading performance:

> My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about who connects to who (ie a graph), and not about the individual weight values anymore.

Your guess sounds and feels right to me, even if currently there's no way to express it formally, with the rigor it deserves.

Thank you again for your comment!
It's more likely to be proof that dumb people have more time and inclination to spew their comments online.

And with that bit of self-realization, I think it's time to sign off for a bit.
We'll only find out by looking.

Given that LLMs are popular coding assistants, I suspect there are already many issues similar to `goto fail;`
Are you going to pay the freight for videos you consume, or for videos you post? Which one? (There is no third option.)
That’s like, your opinion.

I do think that on a laptop, GNOME is probably the best environment to use, out of any OS.
I always thought it was "match in a gas-tank...to bits!"
Hetzner has good support.
I'm sorry, that is cool and all, but since 2020 when somebody made doom run on a pregnancy test I am waiting for something as impressive. Even running it on a toothbrush seem "meh" to me in comparison, although certainly a feat.
> results of the paper directly imply a significant reduction in memory requirements for training such a model

Isn't memory use in training higher, since they maintain high precision latent weights in addition to the binarized weights used in the forward pass?
I'm always entertained by how deer will wait at sidewalks for you to stop or drive by (excluding the dead ones).

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/IssfH8d.jpeg
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-prog...
The Raspberry Pi 'WiringPi' library is back from the dead
As a European I already think there is not much democracy left in the USA. At a federal level it's moving towards an autocracy at a rapid pace, and a large part of the electorate seems keen to cheer it on.

At a local level money, gerrymandering and propaganda make it impossible to elect politicians who give a fair representation of people's interests. And with a two party system, it's more than likely that both of them fail to represent their policy preferences to begin with.

It frightens me that people are so easily manipulated and exploited.
This happened in Poland with long-haul trucks, which we often call tiry (plural of tir), with TIR being an abbreviation for "Transports Internationaux Routiers"[1], an international treaty covering the transport of goods by road. Vehicles using the provisions of this treaty must have a plate with TIR written on it, and so the world entered popular usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIR_Convention
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You know I was thinking the other day that "civilization" is becoming a lot like the novel. We're quite enmeshed with technology already. What do we need a TV series for? Perhaps it's another mechanism of industrial society to create fiction such as this so that it is perceived as something distant, when in fact we're becoming like the world in Neuromancer as we speak.
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In 99% of the places I can use my credit card I can also use my debit card, online or offline (well, except in Germany with their EC cards and stuff) that's the relevance of my point...