skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no ex-Twitter devs at Bluesky and only one ex-Twitter employee who started this month.

Custom feeds on Bluesky are federated so that anyone can create a new one using any algorithm they wish. There are already many thousands to choose from.
I find articles like this daunting, even when it predates CSS Grid which has made CSS Layouting even more complex. I have been a web developer for 10 years, and I still feel out of depth about CSS. How it all works, obscure edge cases, internals, and the sheer number of features in there. I wrote about it recently [1]

> I hadn’t even completely caught up with the intricacies of Grid Layouting, when subgrid and container queries were shipped. Several of the newly added properties handle cases so specific that I hardly believe I would ever use them (hanging-punctuation and font-palette, for example).

> Here’s more: there are at least three properties related to hyphenating paragraphs. You might have used the filter property, but did you know that it supports an entirely different class of filters using SVG? Or that you can tweak the image scaling algorithm? Or border-radius support elliptical corners?

Of course, you can say that about any technology, but CSS is different. It handles too many things, in too many ways, and changes too much, too fast.

[1]: https://shubhamjain.co/2024/02/19/css-impossible-thats-okay/
Well this seems....shady
I just posted about an llm issue referring to hijacking the huggingface conversion bot for safetensors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39549482

“we show how an attacker could compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion space and its associated service bot. These comprise a popular service on the site dedicated to converting insecure machine learning models within their ecosystem into safer versions.”
To fix the Senate, you need to make it more proportional to the number of people in the states. The other option would be to get rid of the Senate all together, as it’s undemocratic to begin with.

North Dakota should not get the same power as all of CA. ND is the same population as San Francisco, it’s hard to imagine the original writers of the constitution would have thought that a 50x imbalance of representation would be a good thing.
When I was in high school jazz band, there was a similar lick that came at the end of a lot of songs "what makes your big head so hard".

Presumably it originally came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldonia. However, I'm having trouble finding references to it's use as a riff/lick. So maybe it was something that was specific to our band?

Edit: An example of this lick would be the end of the Beatle's "I want to hold your hand": https://youtu.be/v1HDt1tknTc?t=137
A server that can't be sold to someone else is in use
Your IP address may still be giving a fairly good idea of your location, especially if you're on wifi.
To be fair, the kind of programmer who would include an infected repo is almost everyone. Many infected repos have no indicators except for username to help you notice without a careful examination, especially in niche repos. When you have to move fast, it's natural to make such mistakes.
So should all joint influence efforts be banned or just ones that have economically productive elements? Forming groups and trying to influence politicians is the only way to get things done. They can’t listen to 300 million atomized individuals. Are you suggesting the NAACP should be illegal?

The solution isn’t limits on people’s rights to debate and to advocate for their interests, it’s limits on the power of the thousands of elected rats running around DC and state capitals and city councils. We need less politics which means more centralization in the federal government and more power for the President.
The AI aspects of Neuromancer probably have more relevance and cultural appeal now than they've had at any time since it was first published. There's a lot of topical material in the book to work with.

The challenge will be updating it so that it feels fresh and non-derivative to an audience that has already seen "The Matrix". I wonder if they'll take the approach of renaming core elements introduced by Neuromancer like the "matrix" and "Zion", or whether they'll take the tack of keeping it all as written and leaning in ("see the material that inspired other sci-fi legends").
It's sad that people at the next election only have a choice between extending democracy and accepting autocracy. It never really was about policies, but in the last 10 year all discourse about policy seems to have disappeared. All discourse seems to be about perpetually misinformed culture wars.
I agree, the trailer did not endear me to this retelling. I thought that the Tencent version of the first novel was a good watch, but they added material too. I will probably give the Netflix version a chance, but I’m not holding out hope that they resist the urge to Americanize the story by adding action and romance for more ‘mass market’ appeal.
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Uninterupted Desktop Streaming vs. NetworkManager
I have to periodically restart my session if I'm using Gnome with Wayland, as memory use keeps growing. With the X11 version, you could alt + f2, then "r" to restart gnome-shell. This is, for some reason, not possible when using Wayland.
> It feels at least a couple of decades away.

To me, so does December 2023.

My 3σ range is 2-10 years, skewed normal distribution with the mode around 2028.
Yeah, this is precisely what I said as well, being able to comment on anything and have that seen even without a follower count is important for making initial connections on a social network.
I hate-watched the first season just because I love Jared Harris and Lee Pace, held off on S2 but actually enjoyed it a lot more than the first one when I got around to it.
Yep, re-read the series a few years ago and was disappointed. Some amazing big ideas, without much to care about.
Wow. Never a better time to de-google a phone.
Things chance quickly in a war, the situation is now (29 Februari 2024) very different. Starlinks mounted on drones by both sides, for example. Nato and US militairy paying for special Starlink. Jamming at 10Ghz-60Ghz.
Which was black and white static at the time of writing, bright blue in the 90s, and completely black from ~2005 on.
Aside from all the good points made by others, it’s interesting that kids are not innately prepared to face many hazards in the modern world alone.

Children can find out that rocks hurt through trial and error throwing pebbles at their friends, and they will figure it out. They are instinctively wary of things like snakes.

But the threat posed by electrical sockets, stovetops, cars, bleach, power tools, and so forth are not forgiving to experimentation and not instinctive.
Social media is the most important counter measure to propaganda. Before social media, we had a one way stream of information from the media outlets without much opportunity to question, discuss, and debunk. The fediverse resolves the problem of centrally controlled algorithms and censorship that manipulate people's speech depending on the moderation rules of individual instances.
i have a little IOT device[0] which has a starting animation with LEDS when you reset it. i used that tune for the LED animation (without sound) just the timings. funny enough i never knew where it came from just that it was in my head and always associated with looney tunes. Finally i know its origin :)

[0] https://notific.at
Billionaires want us dead
Question is whether you can train in this domain or whether you need increased precision to properly represent gradients.

If we could train in this domain it would be an even bigger game changer.
If coca cola's your example, then I'm going to affirm that yes, it is the lifestyle that generates garbage. People don't _need_ soda. But they want it at a low price that's cheaper than Pepsi. You know what that means? Coke's going to be shipping in the cheapest container possible to keep the price edge - which is plastic.

If soda drinkers cared about plastic consumption, they would switch to anything that has glass containers and spend more - or just cut the habit due to the waste generated. But that's not happening.

Sure, there can be political will to force Coke to switch to something else - bypassing the need for the customer to do anything - but that would result in higher prices which makes people mad. Good luck asking a politician to do something that will upset their constituents
"I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible." is one of my favorite phrases I've found in a book (Right there by also William's Neuromancer's the sky is set in a dead tv channel - not verbatim here)
UBI experiments are mostly pointless until they reach a national level. Otherwise you end up giving people a bunch of extra cash from the working economy, and surprise surprise, people are generally happier and better off with more free cash. The question is what happens when you do this on a large enough scale to affect economic production.
The US handed out $1.8 trillion to individuals and families and $1.7 trillion to businesses during COVID. And then a few years later began experiencing the highest inflation rate in 40 years.

And that wasn't even enough money for anyone to live on.

I think this needs to be solved before UBI has any chance of working.
Ask HN: Ideas on how to train a simple AI model of myself to be stored locally?
What I'm trying to get at is a starting point for a local app with a GUI that is for the "afterlife" that my family can use after I'm gone. I see services like "StoryFile Life" and "HereAfter AI" that basically ask you questions to create a model of yourself. Some of them even do voice replication and animated avatars.

I'm worried if I use one of those services, there's certainly a potential that one day they can go out of business... and all of the cloud data + application is gone forever.

I'm looking for a way to keep my stories/advice/etc accessible (to chat with) forever as long as they can run an app with a database of my recorded input, like on a local drive that will stand the test of time.

Easier said than done, I know. But if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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EU spending less on war means they can spend more on social services and public investments. Vacations, higher salaries, healthcare, etc. In a better world the US would do that too. But they don’t because they need to protect trade (and democracy). That’s why US defense spending is larger than most EU country GDPs. To balance that, healthcare here sucks, my car get roughed up by the potholes, bridges cost an arm and a leg, no vacation for workers, minimum wage is not enough pay to feed a family/upskill, etc.
You use DSPs for that. Effinix has direct bfloat16 support in their FPGAs. The real game changer is using the carry chain with your LUT based adders. Assuming 16 LUTs, you could be getting 11 teraops out of a Ti180 using a few watts. Of course that is just a theoretical number though but I could imagine using four FPGAs for speech recognition and synthesis and vision based LLMs operating in real time.
> they still didn't manage to sell any Windows tablets.

That was such a branding problem for Microsoft. Microsoft supplied so many Surface tablets to the NFL and the commentators kept calling them iPads.
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If only the folks who said eat the rich did just that.
Curious to hear them. It’s been a bug free experience for me, even on Wayland.
Right. I saw a flash animation showing that in many ways we live in the most peaceful and stable period in history (http://www.fallen.io/shadow-peace/1/).

It was a shock to me because I felt like I had always been saturated with the idea that things are especially bad now. I do put the blame on media because when they report problems I feel they intentionally avoid establishing historical baselines.
> None of the vendors mentioned in this subthread detects malicious code, only vulnerabilities

Sonatype does if you pay $$$ for Firewall, but that only catches things installed via a package manager.
LavaMoat and @lavamoat/allowscripts (which does the opposite of it's name).
Bad straw man. The ketchup cups are green-washing and its right to call them out as such.
I've used bsky during the invite-only time and lack of hashtags was a problem for me trying to find the content I wanted but even more so it dawned on me that I don't like the Twitter format. Instead of looking for tweets with #art you are better off just using the /r/art subreddit if you want a constant stream of art.
Isn't GNOME the one that doesn't have a "desktop"?
I think if you flip the right MSRs, you can actually run in this mode on Intel. BIOSes used to do DDR3 calibration in this mode, and needed to run a core DRAM-less to do it.

AMD Zen platforms have always put that functionality (ironically) in the secret platform security coprocessor.
It is a positive example but in a way it proves the opposite point doesn’t it? That a worthy cause got overlooked for 5 years because the lobbyists weren’t rich enough to buy their way more quickly…
Show HN: I made a Reddit alternative: Smashr.com
Sure it does. But Vercel and Netlify servers are located in US, so..
Post "My cybertruck rusted already" on Twitter and a real-life billionaire will chat with you.
Do you know anybody who is financially struggling? Would you tell them to their face that you consider them to be human pigeons?

One problem with UBI is that it would go to millions of people and surely there will be tens of thousands that fulfill the stereotype that poor people just waste their money and a layabouts. That 5% or whatever will be provided as evidence ad nauseam that UBI is a boondoggle, entirely dismissing the 95% who are helped by it.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Meant to evoke gray at the time, later it evoked bright blue, and now it makes no sense at all.
In the survival/extraction/horror game Escape From Tarkov, this rhythm is used to signal "friendly" when there's no other means of communication.
In other words, it's pure ideology and not rooted in any scientific evidence.
I thought that was the whole point - if you make California all powerful in the house and Senate, smaller states get trampled on. It's no longer a union of states at that point, might as well rename the country California.
I respect your experience with yourvdaughter. I absolutely did not mean to two-dimensionalise anyone with downs and apologize if I gave such impression.

However, i speak from experaince having lived with many down syndrome kids for many years. Though they were all manifestly and clearly individuals, there was also a commonality between them. Check out the academic studies in the link I shared which supports this impression.

THe link between selfhood (if I may term it such) and the body is something that has been discussed for centuries, with most of that discussion being mumbo jumbo (eg the four temprements). But there does seem to be some mechanism at work. I know that Crohn's disease and Celiac disease are both associated with certain personalitytypes. That's not to say that there condition defines who they are, rather it informs it.
I report ads on a daily basis to Facebook that are either scams or have malware. They never stop the ads and always say that the ads do not break any of their policies. Clearly Facebook is getting more revenue from these ads than they get selling your data. Facebook doesn't care about its users. They only care about the almighty dollar. Also when hackers take over friends and families accounts Facebook never helps the person recover their account.
I record lots of dev guides for my dev team using obs. Works great for me on Debian 12 with KDE and Wayland. Full screen too. Webcam working. External usb mic working.
Don't know about the hair dryer, but a lot of other things have switched to buttons with indicator lights or screens nowadays. Dials and switches fell out of fashion like a decade ago.
Correlation vs causation is a helluva drug
For those who start For All Mankind, stick with it until the end of episode 2. I dropped out after episode 1 a while ago, thinking it was interesting but a little too slow and everyone was just moping around, but when I gave it a shot again by the end of episode 2 I was hooked and have binged all 4 seasons since.
Historically utopians have been far more dangerous.
Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine
It's mainly wealth distribution. The top percent owns too much while the bottom 80% owns too little.

There won't be inflation if you take money from the top and give it to the bottom. The total amount of money stays the same.
Heh, in the meantime modern Gnome doesn't have a Taskbar at all, because it "is not ok to distract users with a list of other things they could be doing when they have already selected one task to look at"...
Apple turned Foundation into ... something ... so hold your horses and reread the books.

Edit: I bet Wintermute will be human in the Neuromancer tv series.
> money, gerrymandering

Let’s take these two separately. As to money: the evidence shows money isn’t buying results. Wall Street and Silicon Valley strongly supported Clinton in 2016. She outspent Donald Trump by 70%: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/09/trump-and-cl... ($340m to $581m). But Clinton lost.

Within the Republican Party, billionaires billionaires wanted someone other than Trump: https://fortune.com/2024/02/26/ken-griffin-koch-brothers-rep.... But he’s going to win the primary.

More generally, the donor money in US politics supports globalization/free trade, and mass immigration (for cheap labor). The money is losing that battle not just in the US, but in Europe too.

The problem in U.S. politics right now is that Internet-based donor networks have eliminated the ability of large donors (and institutions) to control the candidates.

As to gerrymandering, what makes you think it has any real effect? Do you have a numerical estimatr in your head of what the party split would look like in Congress if there was no gerrymandering?
> SEPA based payments work out far better.

For many things they do, but I'd never order from an new/semi-reputable company online via SEPA credit transfer, and for analogous reasons a company would never accept SEPA direct debit from unknown customers.

If you have a credit card but don't want to use it for an uncertain online pre-order of a new product, what do you use it for?
>do away with the default of using the scroll wheel on the desktop to switch virtual desktops

I've seen so many apps implement this. It's so odd. If I can bring my cursor to the widget I can probably click on the right item instead of scrolling. The only case I imagine this would be useful would be for accessibility.

>Wayland as default

I have plasma installed here and one weird thing I noticed is that if I use the wayland version sometimes text isn't rendered on windows or entire panels flash black rectangles, while if I use the X11 version my mouse speed becomes slower. I wonder if the update addresses these issues. Anyway after trying out several DEs I ended up using Xfce because my mouse feels faster in it.
What are you implying. You can just print the money, like the system does today, but benefit the poor more than today.
Why would you choose to lose fuel/acceleration to changing direction?
Recycled as fuel. Its not that bad energy-wise. We have power plants running off that stuff.
>> a dozen or more or us in a gang on bikes anywhere in the city and that was just us >> don't see kids ambling about or playing. There's nothing dangerous around, but they still aren't there.

Lol. Maybe it is "safer" now because gangs of teenagers no longer roam the streets. I think today that many older people are happy not to see teens hanging in public. The old always fear the young.
Most research universities have the resources to train a ~10B parameter model, at least.
Then why are there so many memes about millennials still living in their parents' basements?
No, they want you alive. They want you to procreate. And they want you to be desperate enough to accept jobs on unfavourable terms, to make sure society continues to provide them with the luxuries they've become accustomed to. The only alternatives for those jobs will have to be "living on the streets" and "joining the military".
Wasn't the technical boy thing in Johnny Mnemonic?
> Second, natural gas plants don't operate 24x365; the figures I see say 27%(!) to 71%. Even nuclear varies between low 70s and low 80s percentages:

This is because gas plants are commonly used as peaking power plants because they can respond to load changes very quickly; cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant "Peaker plants are generally gas turbines or gas engines that burn natural gas. A few burn biogas or petroleum-derived liquids, […]"

A nuclear power plant is the diametral opposite, it's slow as a behemoth to change output power — it's essentially required to run at those high capacity factors.

(That said, gas power plants designed and built as peaker plants may not in fact even be able to run 24×365 since they're not engineered for that; planning for frequent idle or shutdown cycles certainly eases some constraints.)

Either way discussing a "$50/MWh 24x365" requirement is not even wrong, just 無.