skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do those people not have physical identity documents issued by their non-democratic governments? What is particularly dangerous about having the same governments handle online identity for situations of thr citizens choosing? It would obviously be inadvisable to use government auth when logging into protest-against-repression.com
My understanding was that it never shipped as more than a concept because it turns out to be very hard to build such a thing that's not trivially breakable (a bunch of public demos had failures like that) and doesn't damage the laptop when attached, since for all their durability compared to many older and modern laptops, they're cheap plastic.

I imagine if the company hadn't gone belly-up because the predicted demand didn't really materialize, they might have refined that further, but.

It might be kind of fascinating to revisit how powerful you could make such a device in this day and age of manufacturers having spent many more years trying to improve power/performance in small form factors, but I'm not sure anyone would professionally touch such an idea now, given how visibly it went belly-up...

As far as the human energy cost not mattering - have you ever tried cranking something with mechanical resistance for 6 minutes straight to get an hour of battery life? It's draining, even with practice.

Something interesting might have been something more like a bike pedal mechanism, since that's something a lot of humans have practice at doing without exhausting themselves, but that might still have problems with the amount of resistance required to turn it into electricity...
Long term they would be in a better position. Short term vs long term thinking.

The war piece is more complex. Ukraine war is about NATO expanding into Russian influence zones. Without that war we would be looking at a war in a different place, maybe even a nuclear war fighting over the same thing. The Gaza war is a proxy for a Iran/Israel war. COVID become a proxy war for a power grab by health officials. They still want countries to handover power over citizen to the who by the end of this month.
I really doubt it.

I mean, I had LSD from a handful of different sources, as well as psilocibin, and the essential dimension to any of the psychedelics effects I experienced were very similar, and it was only in that one instance that it led to lasting feelings of anxiety.

I do not believe it was the drug itself that messed me up. It was the insights that the drug revealed to me that were the source of my anxieties.

I worked through that stuff, and maybe in the long run I'm better off for it. It's hard to say for certain. One way or the other, life goes on.
There is plenty of evidence that the Amazon was largely a geo-engineering project, seems like that one worked out.
What are you, the hobby police?
From what it on the article, only one of the studies even tried to look at different kinds of streets.

Anyway, my guess is this is not much a problem of identification, as it's a problem of determination. Somebody has to go and dictate what kind of business will thrive on what streets exactly, and at the same time, where people will go in their commute, and where they will go when shopping around.

Every street trying to satisfy every need isn't working.
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> they struggle with a function being assigned to a variable, passed in as an argument, or being returned from a function.

I've seen professional programmers struggle with that.
It isn't hard to make better meatballs than what Ikea sells. For that matter if you think Ikea furniture is good you have no idea what good really is.
Show HN: I made an AI tool to dub videos
Hey HN,

Recently, I was playing around with speech AI tech trying to dub some anime for myself (lol), and I found the quality of dubbed videos from existing products wasn’t good. So I try to build one myself.

After a few weeks of hacking, it’s finally at a good enough stage to be released. The whole pipeline is not easy to build, with lots of moving parts with different models. I plan to continue optimizing it.

Give it a try and let me know your feedback. Thanks.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIlz4VUmeBk
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To create private shareable links, store the private part in the hash of the URL. The hash is not transmitted in DNS queries or HTTP requests.

Ex. When links.com?token=<secret> is visited, that link will be transmitted and potentially saved (search parameters included) by intermediaries like Cloud Flare.

Ex. When links.com#<secret> is visited, the hash portion will not leave the browser.

Note: It's often nice to work with data in the hash portion by encoding it as a URL Safe Base64 string. (aka. JS Object ↔ JSON String ↔ URL Safe Base 64 String).
It was ugly. And then do-notation arrived in around 1999 (I think - I'd be super happy if someone can find a precise year for me) and it became a solved problem.

Just in time for people to ignore it and start complaining about the ugliness of flatMap from 2015 onwards.
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> students sympathized with them

So we're back to 'all of them are guilty'

The shame here is what you described is literally Hamas' reasoning for carrying out the October attacks. Dehumanization, hyper aggression, and hiding it all behind 'the opposition is inherently evil, guilty by association, so we are fundamentally justified'.
Not really. GURPS has a Perception stat that's derived differently than D&D and can differ per sense if a character has specialized in better hearing, sight, etc. Perception checks are very much a part of GURPS. Savage Worlds has a Notice skill that acts almost 1:1 to Perception. GURPS and Savage Worlds (and lots of other games besides) both also have the concepts of "easy", "medium", and "hard" checks.

That there are some systems that do not have a Perception style mechanism does not mean that the adventure is "DND-centric", that just means you're running a system that probably doesn't act as a simple translation target for the adventure.
> Looking at their cheapest plan which is $7 a month for 20 pages

Clarification, $7 a month for 0-20 pages. That is crazy.
> US support is the only thing preventing Israel from doing what they really want to do: deport Palestinians to neighboring Arab countries.

The other neighboring Arab countries (in the case of Gaza, this means "Egypt") are doing more to prevent this than the US is.
Technology means the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. It is a technology. If this is good or bad, is a rather Victorian notion called the appeal to nature.
Turns out you can ignore copyright law if your company has enough money.
> If you’d like to contribute it, feel free to submit a PR

Stella was waiting for you to submit your dataset. Did you? She closed the ticket many months later.
> Deporting them where? Those many refugees could easily destabilize these governments so they are clearly pushing back (Egypt said it would gladly start a war before they were forced to accept refugees).

If what Netanyahu says is to be believed, literally into the middle of the desert with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Falcon Sandbox is explicitly mentioned - which is a middleware that can be installed on various communication platforms (usually enterprise): https://www.crowdstrike.com/products/threat-intelligence/fal...

Microsoft has "safe links": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/off... - Chrome has its own thing, but there are also tons of additional hand-rolled similar features.

My main annoyance is when they kill a one-time use URL.
I don't think the two are at all comparable.

Google's External offers program is the ability to pay a percentage to allow apps installed through Google Play to link directly to external offers.

Apple's Core Technology Fee, on the other hand, is a fee per app if the developer uses alternative app stores.
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The reason text-to-SQL will fail
2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot
The only thing more hilarious than the pointless Canon vs. Nikon quabble are when you throw in Leica shooters into the mix.
>Like, I’ve repeated emailed the contact address for “Fintech Zoom” to request that they fix the attribution on this photo and all I get is crickets.
I'm a Nikon person™ because my Canon printer once refused to scan because it was out of yellow... When it came time to buy a DSLR I chose Nikon and honestly I haven't been disappointed.
Traditionally, and what the current research is showing, is that these substances are treatments for not being in a good place, mentally.
Of course not. I agree that even "hot topics" should stay up.
Well, I suppose that’s perfectly fine if you’re the wasteful sort of person who uses a personal vehicle instead of a bike or public transit.

But what about the responsible people who actually care about reducing their carbon footprint by not unnecessarily carrying 3000 lbs of steel everywhere they go?
Russia being bad does not make Nato good. Just like Nato being bad does not make Russia good.
The odds are low he will actually do it. Remember when he promised to disable the ability to block people?
Not really. There's an ultra-brief scene where it's mentioned, but that's it, IIRC.

The movie... is a bunch of anecdotes strung together to make a ham-handed point at the end. It was a decent movie if you treat it as a fictional story instead of an actual retelling.

I'd stick with the book. (And if you specifically care about Fermi, I recommend "The Last Man Who Knew Everything" by David Schwartz)
Also given the price of ink, I honestly found it cheaper to just buy a whole new printer rather than the four ink cartridge.

So fucking wasteful.
Only downside for Sweden really is that they are now recommended to spend >=2% of GDP for defense.

Otherwise, congratulations. Same as Finland, Sweden is hige NET benefit for alliance, welcome friends!
The Arab countries think Israel is trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza - drive out the Palestinians. They don't want to help Israel do that.

> Russia doesn't allow ukrainians back to the occupied territories

I don't know that to be true. AFAIK, Russia would like the population there too.
It was a very well veiled one too. If not for your comment I would not have realized it. I suspect people downvoting it didn't get it either.
I’m working on it. Many projects but documenting this collection is bubbling up to the top.
Cheers Josh :)
Much of the SWAT gear is likely military surplus. My city has part time SWAT but two huge hummers that were built for the military but never deployed.

I am not saying that police prioritize their deployment of officers properly. I’m just saying they likely don’t pay for military surplus.
>Sweden's ports are beneficial in a potential Arctic conflict

How? Norway (long a member) has Arctic ports, Sweden does not touch the Arctic.
If you can afford to render the entire screen, why would you tile? Tiling complicates certain kinds of shaders, tiles have to be stitched together to make the final image, and tiling redraws (different parts of) the same triangles multiple times.

On a dedicated GPU with lots of memory bandwidth, there's probably no benefit (and maybe even some penalty) to use tiling with lower resolutions (e.g. 1080p). However, 4K rendering might benefit from it and 8K rendering probably requires it.
> Harvard pays their president over $1million one year.

This is simply the free market though. Consider that, for its top executive roles, Harvard is recruiting people who are coming from or comparing the offer to C-suite positions. Harvard's endowment is $36 billion USD, and it takes in like $6 billion annually. It is the scale of a Fortune 500, where executive salaries are in the tens of millions. Like it or not, if you want to pull these top-tier executives to manage your Fortune 500-scale operation, this is what you need to compete against. You may think that's an oversized valuation given what they actually do (and I don't disagree), but from the perspective of the institution this is simply doing business. The only other option is admitting that all executives everywhere are massively overpaid, but good luck getting the US leadership class to acknowledge that one.
There was practically no debate this time. Not because everyone was on board, but because any debate was basically suppressed.

There was some debate in the past couple of decades however.
"hippie shit" is apart of the science, but it can't be sold so medical research doesn't get funding. It's not as if they get a blank check, there's stakeholders and expected outcomes involved.

For example if you don't embrace the "hippie shit" all you're going to get out of psychedelics is an emotional trainwreck with nothing to anchor it. It is a powerful medicine that has throughout history been a medicine for human connectedness.

The environment, people and seemingly the direction the sun is pointing through the window affects how the experience works.
Some would say the US is a essentially satellite of Israel

I had an interesting conversation with some left-leaning friends about a month, who were very much anti-Israel in this. (We're British, educated, and Middle class, so statistically we all lean to the left on a scale of UK politics)

I was the only person to have ever been to Israel in the group (I've been to Israel and the West bank more times than I can count, and Gaza several times). They were shocked when I came out with a far more balanced view of the conflict than they had. To them it was black and white oppression of an innocent group of people, and nothing more. They had no concept of the generational hatred that people in Gaza are brainwashed with from birth, on the other hand they also didn't have any concept that there were some Israeli citizens who have spend the last 15 years I've been going there chomping at the bit to drive their tank's into gaza and flatted the entire place.

It's hard to blame the brainwashed children in Gaza, or to continue to blame them when they turn 18, but it's also hard to blame the majority of Israelis who are fully aware there are a million people who have been programmed to want to rip them from their beds and gut them in the middle of the night, or for the moderate ones just burn their house down and kick them out of the region.

The internet never comes out with any decent progression on the problem, and any subtlety is swiftly lost, but one thing is clear -- nothing is going to get better, and nobody is going to win, neither Palestinians nor for Israelis, for generations.
What printer, if you don't mind my asking? I currently make book blocks on an M203dw that's held up surprisingly well thus far, but eventually I expect it to fail; given how I use it, an old battlewagon with a duplexer is likely a much better replacement than another low-end SOHO model.
They stole it because they think building their toys is more important than everyone else's rights to the product of their own labor.
Load Balancing at Uber: Handling Heterogeneous Hardware
EA CEO blabbing about a future where 3B people are creating EA's games with it
NYT New Puzzle: Strands
That’s what I thought would happen. Actually, I thought it might be an easy way to get piles of text for LLM training. But we’d have to counter the bias or mostly use that one in highly-positive, enthusiastic applications. I did have a partial solution.

Look at WizardLM Uncensored:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1384u1g/wizardl...

The author just deleted from the training data content with specific words likely to bias it. The test afterwards showed it worked. Reusing their concept, I think we could just remove or edit for honesty common words and phrases in marketing material. You’ve given some good examples.

We could also do that for “scientific” papers which oversell their results. Or anything else where what’s presented as certain is modified to say source(s) X claimed Y. Foundational materials, which trainers vet for quality, would get a lot more training runs before, during, and after riskier material.

I think there’s a lot of potential here by just trimming the fat out of otherwise useful documents. The LLM’s we build to support the work might also become great, lie detectors.
When code is as concise as possible, everything still there is there for a clear reason. Repetitive, verbose code is where our ape brains get bored or confused and miss bugs.
more of a general comment, not as many in this one true, but having to sift thru each one, over references to other articles, related video, etc to figure out which is the source one they're actually writing about is annoying.

Anyways this isn't even news, already talked about almost a week ago
I'd like to see one as well. I've heard that claim so often but apart from some Russian TV propagandists who have as much impact on Russian politicians as Tucker Carlson on US policy there's nothing official.
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One thing that isn't mentioned a lot in connection to this:

Sweden and Denmark has a VERY violent history. Hundreds of years of wars. It is said to be the worst conflict in all of human history. Now we are allied and committed to defend each other. That's a huge thing for peace.
I think it's a matter of changing the rules, just like Russia does so freely, I think it's about time NATO does the same thing.

Even if that meant that NATO would be in direct conflict with Russia, then it would be solved between NATO and Russia.

>2. Even if #1 and Ukraine tried it, the benchmark is fundamentally unfair/unrealistic/unworkable. In this particular case, Putin would instantly declare-ownership over more Ukrainian territory, over and over, indefinitely.

If sovereign countries' security depends on what delusional dictators write on a piece of paper, then this isn't much of a world worth living in.

Long story short, Putin can claim whatever it wants, in the eyes of the UN, Ukraine has its 1991 borders and that's where they should remain no matter what - even if it means a direct conflict with NATO. Enough with this bluff bullsht.

Are Russians, who live in one of the largest countries in the world filled with resources, going to commit collective suicide because of Ukraine?
Related:

Cell-Lang: Why relations are better than objects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853961 - Jan 2024 (1 comment)

Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31915925 - June 2022 (124 comments)

A comparison of Cell with OOP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438931 - July 2019 (7 comments)

Cell – A functional, relational, reactive programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797831 - Nov 2017 (64 comments)
> Except the part where Trump said he'd pull the US out of NATO if elected.

Congress blocked his ability to do that without their approval: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/12/16/...

EDIT: since other commenters don't know, yes it was signed into law, Sec 1250A of the 2024 NDAA:

>The President shall not suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur, or pursuant to an Act of Congress.
The 6502's interrupt vector is located at the _top_ of the memory map, but the reasoning is the same; you can simplify address decoding and shave clock cycles.
If the password is randomized for each meeting, the URL link is not so bad, as the meeting will be dead and gone by the time the URL appears elsewhere.

But in reality, nobody actually cares and just wants a "click to join" that doesn't require fumbling around - but the previous "just use the meeting ID" was too easily guessed.
> nobody is going shopping on a bike

I regularly go shopping on my bicycle - as much as I can, in fact.
The first thing a war usually uncovers is that a large part of the peacetime commanders, soldiery, equipment, and military industry is completely incompetent.

I can't think of a war following a long peace where this hasn't been the case.

And unfortunately, incompetence is difficult to quickly discover and replace.
I think we're getting into "undefined semantics" here, so I'll share my own psilocybin dosing [260lb Male, 40]:

<0.5g == microdose (you just feel happier, more connected)

0.5-2g == small dose (you definitely notice distortions/connections)

2-4g == normal dose (silliness, connectedness, impactful mental rearrangement)

>5g == heroic dosing (you'd better be ready for visuals, tracers, and a few hours of helpful insanity)

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Personally, I agree that the real therapy begins after your first normal dose; however, I would not start there, nor even with a small dose. Start slow, build up to the revelation.

----

Onwards, through the fog.
> The 4.5-mm-square chip, developed using Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co.'s 28 nanometer process, has 625 times less power consumption compared with global AI chip giant Nvidia's A-100 GPU, which requires 250 watts of power to process LLMs, the ministry explained.

>processes GPT-2 with an ultra-low power consumption of 400 milliwatts and a high speed of 0.4 seconds

Not sure what's the point on comparing the two, an A100 will get you a lot more speed than 2.5 tokens/sec. GPT 2 is just a 1.5B param model, a Pi 4 would get you more tokens per second with just CPU inference.

Still, I'm sure there's improvements to be made and the direction is fantastic to see, especially after Coral TPUs have proven completely useless for LLM and whisper acceleration. Hopefully it ends up as something vaguely affordable.
HP needs to pivot into an adjacent market or something. I know they also make desktop/laptop PCs, but maybe spend more R&D on making them decent and marketing to make people aware they know they even exist. I'm a huge PC gamer, and granted most of us build our PC ourselves, but those that buy pre-builts haven't even HEARD of the HP Omen brand. It's not even on their radar.

Printers are becoming less and less necessary. Even my cats' veterinarian offers to have care instructions and visit information e-mailed to me rather than printed.

But rather than try to find something else to produce and leave behind a dying industry, they're doubling down and enshittifying.
If anyone is looking for something similar but "at home", on your own docker or vm, Photoprism and Immich are pretty nice, though both have their issues if using "for free" : Photoprism is awesome and does not require you to change your setup/paths/organisation but it has no non admin accounts (need a 2€/month subscription for that, which is quite cheap still), while Immich is not "stable" as-in it changes and break things regularly between updates (well, it's gotten better lately, but still).
Why does that seem crazy to you? Some artificial interventions in the earth's natural processes are bad for humans (global warming, increased rate of desertification) and some interventions are good for humans (increasing land available for sustainable food production, killing malaria carrying mosquitos).

There isn't some "human interventions good/human interventions bad" duality. Some are good some are bad. We should stop doing to bad things and do more of the good things. We should continuously audit for new effects caused by our actions are adjust accordingly to achieve the best outcomes for human life.
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I take issue with people taking a "non-normative" approach on things like human rights. Especially if donso happily!
> Total functions are defined for all elements in its domain.

Do you include "same-output-for-the-same-input" as part of defined?