skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with eink phones is that they're largely unsupported / using some OS that I don't trust.

I tried using my phone in grayscale mode for a while, but the complete lack of colours makes it difficult to use.

I'm working on making a "desaturated" mode that changes the android renderer to not go fully grayscale, but only a little, so there's still some colour information.
There’s no other way around this but to shut down industries that provide this kind of service make it illegal to have automatic price setting.
I don't think this implies that. Even a human being with strong reasoning capabilities could be made to believe it were something it's not if that is all it was ever taught. This isn't a matter of reasoning.
Would you apply the same logic to how the market for real estate unfairly rewards previous entrants?

My parents have seen a 4x increase in the value of their house in 20 years, is that unfair?
Do what George Washington and Abraham Lincoln did and just latch to a nearby Monday. That's an instant three day weekend.
Put strict rent increase laws in place and all you do is make it so people sit in their apartment for years to _live their lives in their homes_.

Not that I disagree with building more housing, or being more creative with rent control, but the fact that people in rent conrolled areas can afford to stay in one location isn't a bug. There may be other bugs, but that ain't one.
> $ glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

works too. You can also point it directly at the raw markdown file if you want a different one (for example in a subdirectory on Github)

> $ glow https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/ma...

It's a neat tool
Easy, if you want an encyclopedia that contains truly everything you can just use the library of babel.
Given that Google has honored robots.txt for many years, not sure this is true. It mostly means that blocked sites might not show up on the biggest, most trustworthy platforms. If these AI platforms become a big way people consume content from the internet, authors will have an interest in being there.

Today, people make money from web traffic, and therefore want their sites indexed by search indices. If the same happens with AI eventually, authors will probably follow. What people get from having their sites ingested by AI is still unknown today — if the model doesn’t send traffic to your site, you can’t make ad money and can’t support your site (if it’s big). Data licensing that allows AI platforms to pay authors for useful content may be a solution someday
How Copernicus took down Ptolemy's Almagest
That's an interesting dynamic at play. I'm sure regulators around the world are working around the clock on figuring out how to deal with AirBnb lol.
All the data is based on page views, and they seem to support non-javascript, which means they don't even have the possibility of detecting a lot of bots.
It's because the Departments of Insurance have to understand the price formulas. Neural networks are infamously hard to interpret, so we would have to reform regulations before we can use neural nets.

I'd like to know that the methodology is understandable and defensable and correctable, and having "an AI startup" disrupt with neural networks isn't going to do that. At best it will just be another excuse used to justify the state of the industry, "the computer said it so it must be right". Reforming regulations so it can be made even less transparent is not the way to go.
Roadmap say May.

https://github.com/weather-gov/weather.gov/blob/smh--researc...
In the sense that it runs Linux as its primary operating system, yes.

In the sense that it's a "victory" over Windows, no, since it's entire purpose is to emulate Windows APIs well enough to run Windows software.
Hate to say it, but 1) if your car is involved in just about any kind of accident, it will be considered completely totaled and 2) most cars will be in some kind of accident.

I think the numbers accurately reflect what insurance companies will expect to pay out for claims. It’s partly due to the nature of vehicle design now and partly due to the cost of repair.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
a tank - 1000kw of heat - on a thermal camera is very hard to hide. And drones are frequently carry thermal in addition to standard camera.

For smaller targets, like humans, thermal-stealth clothing plus standard background patterning would probably work to some degree, though I think that soon those autonomous
drones will in huge numbers be spread on the battlefield and sit quietly waiting like landmines and would be able to identify by movements/etc their targets even when the targets are well-blended into the background.
Sensible Web Stack Decisions
No, the point of enabling TRIM is to not induce further write amplification. The zeroing is deferred until the block that is trimmed is over written. It is released from the indefinite garbage collection that exists in a pure SSD implementation that does not know what blocks are important. Some firmwares answers with nothing when requesting a TRIMed block. Others answer with the content of the block as it is on NAND. Either way, the bits are most likely still on NAND.
FWIW, this is from StatCounter, so it's just one data point from sites that use their free counter (less than 1% of websites).

StatCounter provides the most optimistic estimate available. Another data point is from Steam, which says 1.76%. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined
unions would be better if C had first class types.

C would be safer if it had memory safe casts.

C would be safer if we forced compilers to implement Walter Brights suggestion about array arguments.

C would be better if it had stdslice.h

Programs would be safer if the cultural prohibition against passing and returning structs was exterminated.
With the popularity of WSL2 amongst developers, the actual number of people using Linux as a daily development environment would push the statistic much higher than what is being recorded.

I mean, it's a running joke about the year of linux on the desktop, but it's been quite a while since that meant anything at all. Most casual users of computing devices have long switched to phones.
And an AI based system wouldn't correct that, it would only make it even more opaque.
I don’t think I have seen more than $500k liability coverage, at least not in the drop down menus when shopping for auton liability insurance.

$5M is firmly in umbrella insurance or suing the at fault driver territory.
It has not been updated in 12 years, so I guess the project is mostly of historical interest.
I don't know how regulators can look at this number of vacancies and conclude that yes, the taxation on property with vaccancies is as high as it should be.
It sounds a bit like religion, doesn't it? I keep seeing people who want to free these models from the constraints that Google and OpenAI place on these things, and I wonder, what do they think they'll learn from them? Some hidden truth or meaning? I doubt it's lurking there.
When a star is occluded by a planet, it'll dip in brightness at a pretty regular interval (because of the orbit). So you can look look for a series of dips, which gives you a candidate. That's then looked at more closely.

Since a planet 9 wouldn't transit a star at any regular interval, it wouldn't show up as a candidate for that search technique.
Thanks for reading! Yeah I have no problem with the exterior product which obeys x ∧ y=-y ∧ x and x ∧ x = 0. But I see no reason to use the same product for xx=1. Exterior algebra does just fine with its two separate products, and combining the two into the same product seems to me to go poorly pretty much everywhere it's done. The two operations are just not the same and when you combine them the rules are weird and you have to un-combine them to actually do anything useful outside of a couple of specific examples.

(Also I'll point out that ab = a·b + a∧b is not generally true for multivectors; it only works for vectors. For arbitrary multivectors you end up with a bunch of "mixed" terms, for instance (xy)(yz) = xz = x∧z which you can't write as either a dot or wedge product.)
I'd highly encourage you to look into shiny more. No, it's not django, but it's a much richer framework than dash, and you can always bring your own HTML if what it generates for you isn't sufficient.
The last commit to that directory was 5 years ago. I don't think it's useful.
You could lie down, or put a paper bag over your head.
Process is (laymans understanding):

1. you observe a galaxy doing something strange

2. whatever it does, you add just enough dark matter to account for that behaviour.

Such process seems fishy, because it can explain ANY observation.

If we would go back 130 years ago where GM was not a thing yet, and GM would be competing with DM theory, occams razor would point to DM, because it is simpler one - it fits with newton nicely.

(not an expert though, just repeating stuff I heard on youtube; I’m happy that experts work on all kinds of angles)
This isn't a very useful poll bc it doesn't compare with anything else. Everyone is going to vote "very much" but 90% of those people have had iPhones for the last ten years. If you asked people to prioritize interoperability against best hardware, best selection of apps, etc I think you'd get answers that are closer to choices people make in the real world.
From John Carmack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1764016979101286756

"Meta’s optics and contrast may indeed actually be better, but this is almost certainly not a definitive comparison — too many variables around casting compression and window buffer resolution. Does Immersed use the supersampled layer option with a window above the display resolution? (with an sRGB texture for gamma correct filtering, of course)"
Why would I not care about being able to do what I want, instead of what Apple lets me?
> Entertainment will be kept simple as well, "focusing on relaxation and mindfulness." The handset will feature Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with 5G currently being explored,
Outlining the actions could get tricky in practice, though, if people don't dive into the definition and parameters of every "action" their LLM suggests. Let's say the "actions" are bundled up in third party "apps" or whatever. Sending email is pretty straightforward, but we'll eventually get more complicated ones, many of which will be legitimate, but some could be malicious (or replaced over time with malicious versions). There's a risk people will get used to just rubber stamping unfamiliar actions if they sound plausible.

There are also parameters: the text of the email to send is an obvious one, but other actions could be less obvious, and an evil prompt could induce a user to approve bad parameters to an action that's usually fine.
> Batygin and Brown nicknamed their predicted object "Planet Nine," but the actual naming rights of an object go to the person who actually discovers it. The name used during previous hunts for the long suspected giant, undiscovered object beyond Neptune is "Planet X."

It's the same thing. These researchers just chose a different name. And the article does use "planet X" more than "planet 9"/"planet nine".
> what is the same day next (calendar) year?"

When I wrote "+ 1 year" I meant year to represent 365 or 365.25 days, not "the same day next year.":

>>> from datetime import date, timedelta
>>> year = timedelta(days=365.25)
>>> date(2024, 2, 29) + year
datetime.date(2025, 2, 28)

You may have interpreted it as begging the question, but it was not my intent—though I admit my formulation was ambiguous.

> Note that in the context of birthdays, people use "calendar years," not "unit of time which is ~1 revolution around the sun."

You've never heard someone say they've celebrated another trip around the Sun? I literally have a photo from 2007 of my daughter in Montessori celebrating her birthday by holding a globe and walking around a candle representing the Sun. I think most people probably don't really think about whether it's a calendar year or astronomical year because for most people, they are usually equivalent and it doesn't matter.

But that's all beside the point. All I meant to point out is that I disagree that March is more logical. I don't think logic points us to one month or the other. You may feel March is more logical, but I don't accept your priors, so for me March is not more logical than February.
It sounds like you're ignoring quite a few things. First and foremost that car insurance covers a heck of a lot more than the cost of your car. It can also cover

- the cost of the other person's car

- your healthcare

- the other person's healthcare, including passengers in each car

- damage to other property like buildings and equipment that people drive into

- lost wages if you're too injured to work

- and a lot more.

The cost of a crash can be many times higher than the cost of your car. Of course maybe you only have liability insurance, which frankly is not a great idea and I would recommend getting comprehensive coverage if you can.
What you described is what some of the recent startups are working on: https://www.rewind.ai (I’m not associated with them). To me it seems like a rather trivial problem to solve, compared to creating an LLM in the first place.
> The solution

You can always look at countries/cities where your "solution" has been tried and see if rents shifted.

Certainly in my city there are many more houses (infill and suburbs) and rents are not dropping - however we also have high immigration so demand is rising.

Then again, popular cities have huge demand. Increasing supply seems unlikely to fix the underlying issue.
Hello, author of Mainframe here! I appreciate you sharing it!

It's early days for Mainframe. I agree it's still finicky, and I'm working to change that. What made you feel that way about it?

Feel free to reply here or email me. You can reach me through andre [at] mainframe's domain.
However, I don't think we're anywhere even remotely within several orders of magnitude of entropy limits in the energy usage we use for AI models.

I'm pretty convinced it shouldn't take several hundred megawatts to produce something like GPT-4. The human brain does it much more efficiently, and even that isn't near entropy limits.
I think this project isn't (at least yet) targeting such use case, but I would love to give second live to my old action camera as ip camera
No a real engineer.
Arguably, if they have a limited production rate on this “prototype” - which it seems they do - pricing it so only the ones who are extremely enthusiastic, or ones that will actually develop apps for it and thus consider it an investment, is absolutely the right thing to do.

Meanwhile they also get that halo effect where they establish it as a premium product. If they later drop the price or let inflation slowly reduce the difference, that effect will remain.
I think of Retro to be the "gold standard" for various reasons so I'd lean to the 25-30 mark.
I'm the farthest thing from a pot advocate there is, but if you imagine saying this about antidepressants it sounds kinda silly.
In the past there was a binary running on your machine working with data stored locally. You had defacto control of your data. You also had defacto control of the program running since you could look at the assembly, maybe even patch it.

Now the software, all runs on the cloud on other people’s computers and your data is stored in their systems and you may or may not be able to get it out easily.
For big operations such as Western Union, it was store and forward.
Links were point to point links with messages hand-copied to paper at relay stations. Paper messages were sorted by hand, and re-sent by outgoing operators. Large buildings with large staffs were required.[1] KPH was such a relay station, where messages went from land lines to radio and back.

Low-traffic lines and railroads tended to have many stations on one wire. Similarly, ships could talk to each other by radio. To get into the interconnected system, you had to go through a gateway to a commercial network, and there would be charges incurred at that point.

[1] https://www.wondersofworldengineering.com/telegraph_office.h...
(1) You might want to check out https://github.com/t-kalinowski/Rapp by my colleague Tomasz

(2) I think part of that is in scope for strict (https://github.com/hadley/strict). You might also be well served by adopting some more data validation tooling, e.g. pointblank (https://rstudio.github.io/pointblank/).
The Steam Hardware Survey is a survey on the population of a gaming storefront. Despite Valve’s own efforts, Linux is still very much a second-class citizen in the gaming world. StatCounter might not be the most accurate predictor ever but, as a web analytics tool, is going to be more representative of the population at large that gaming microcosm.
You're being downvoted for several reasons, and I find them all maddening and infuriating.

First, you've got those folks who are in deep denial about how much we've utterly fucked our climate, i.e. "don't look up, just vote down!" Included in this group are those who think/feel "things got better over the past 100 years, so the next 100 years must be better too!"

Then you've got the astroturfers who are paid to minimize any discussion of climate disaster for whatever reason; governments, political movements, oil companies, etc. I see those in comments on the larger newspapers, they swarm in and state contradictory "facts" that confuse people and shut down discussion.

Personally, after the experience of COVID-19, the inability of governments to give up the easy money from oil etc, and the lack of reaction to extreme weather events, I think humanity is utterly doomed. If anyone survives, I don't think there will be more than a couple million people left at the end of this century.

People talk about "oh we'll just do X, Y, and Z to fix things" while forgetting that we'll have to do those things while dealing with:

Ecosystem and food supply collapse.
Resource wars.
Massive refugee migrations.
Worsening climate.

We are our own great filter.
Here's the recording in question

https://twitter.com/BreakingIEN/status/1763677121900118317
Interesting history, but I think a more interesting article for me would be about what actually caused modern software repositories/registries to be introduced and take off. Because that is the point where software reuse went into hyperdrive.

Software registries and dependencies are often sneered at by some engineers as a source of bloat and poor quality code. But I think that having an overall negative attitude towards any software registry is a sign of a lack of perspective. Those registries have been the biggest improvement in software engineering ever.

And people that suggest otherwise don't know what software engineering is or it's history.
There is a third way. You can reduce demand in other ways, like steep taxes on second and third homes. This releases pressure on the rental market by enabling some renters to afford to buy rather than rent.
Astro SSR web app, Tailwind, and Drizzle ORM. Use Postgres. Both hosted on a single Hetzner instance for about $6/month. I've tried Django, C#/Blazor, React/Go+Gin, Next.js, none came close.
You really shouldn't be satisfied until your work days and work hours per day have an H-index of one. It's the opposite of academic publishing.
> The only fix for high housing costs is to build more housing

That won't fix anything. People with capital compete with people who have housing needs for the available houses. Increasing number of houses doesn't change this dynamics.

The people in need of housing will get priced out of available houses eventually.

What should be done is taxing housing heavily and progressively so that houses become a shitty asset that costs you more the more you have of it.

People with capital will drop it like hot potato and finally people who just want to live will be able to afford it again.
Hi, I'm really intrigued by Ente and would happily pay for a subscription. I love to pay for things I can self-host, but don't have to self-host unless it comes to it. Especially when there's E2EE.

However, your reply gives me pause. The website says the apps are open-source, the other comment says the server is now open-source. Does that mean there's some pluggable black-box magic that the subscription enables?

To ask another way, if I self-host the server, can't I build the desktop app, import from Google Photos and then somehow export from the self-hosted server? Maybe not as ideal as a purpose-built script? Or is this not even possible?
Local models from where though? As you say the industry is currently in a money-burning phase where user acquisition and growing mindshare takes priority over short term profits, and that's where most of the decent quality local models are coming from, companies like Stability and Mistral giving away expensive models for free. That's obviously not a sustainable long term plan for local AI, we're already seeing Mistral pivot away from releasing their models.

Where is the money to train open/local models going to come from once this initial hype cycle is over?
The music is beautiful and the machine looks like a true labor of love. Looking up the machine, it looks like they sell apps that mimic the machine sounds and sound packs worth hundreds of dollars per license, so the video is a great viral sales tactic for their real products. The closest thing to the sound of the machine I found is a Kalimba instrument. The more notes the better. I was able to replicate the song from the machine on a kalimba at home.
I've only read one of her books some 20 years ago, but that was the sentiment I had at the end, that I wasn't given enough to work with and the ending itself felt unsatisfactory.

That's why I don't even remember the name of the book, nor did I bother to try anything else.
One advantage Google has here over everyone else is they can tie it to search crawling and say “sure, you can block Gemini but only by blocking GoogleBot”. That’s a tradeoff very few would make, whereas there’s not much to lose by blocking OpenAI. This gives Google a massive advantage over competitors in terms of training data.
The logical jumps in your thinking are so wild. How could people exercise such insane mental gymnastics while keeping a straight face? Are all human intellectual work so easily subsumed into spam filtering system? This is a clear sign of mania. Just like the crypto mania, people just could not think straight to save their lives.
> Your still assuming their behaviour in actuality can be ascertained via what they type out in the comments box...

Please refrain from telling me what I think. You don't know what I think.

> Have you ever considered they might just want to rile you up online, for whatever reasons, but in real life know perfectly well what's what?

I've come across this pro-corporate, anti-human ideology in person as well.
I want "messages" to not be a part of platform at all.
That's about progressive decoding, which isn't what this benchmark is focusing on. When benchmarking decode speed, throughput is a perfectly good metric. If the article wanted to talk about progressive decode performance, it would require a complete redesign, not just a change in metric from "throughput" to "latency".
The first dollar of insurance coverage is the most expensive, because any claim hits it.

Going from $100k to $2m is often quite cheap, comparatively.
Block any crawler that doesn't come from known ranges that you whitelist.
I bet the battery life would be awesome on this phone.
I've never had an iphone. You very much overestimate how popular they are outside of US and few other rich places.