skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover

My experience has been that the problem has so obviously gotten worse it is surprising to me that anyone would say otherwise. I used to get bot interactions maybe once a month and now I get them multiple times per day. Every post I make gets random bot likes, I get bot follows constantly, and multiple times per week I get the big at tweet which is just a tweet full of mentions which is so obviously a bot I can’t believe that behavior doesn’t get fixed.

For me bots got way, way worse.
Related: designer Thomas Thwaites had the same thought and created a toaster from scratch, starting with iron ore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942190

Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw
Gen Z here. My parents just handed me their credit card when I needed to buy things. Also made use of prepaid visa cards that were not attached to a bank account before I got an account of my own.
xAI is a separate entity, and not a X/Twitter subsidiary.
There has been a movement against Tiktok for longer than the current iteration of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

UK, Canada, Australia, India, among others, have all had some sort of a ban in place for a while.
Exactly this. We all would love to be perpetual rent-seekers but it just doesn't work for a proper society. Not to mention land is a finite resource.
That movie didn't do well, but in retrospect, it is amazingly good compared to the dead eyed CGI people of the Polar Express, made three years later!
amazon is the only mofo who can handle it beside msft.
I think the more interesting world is where AI assistants overtake the GUI as the primary interface for many operating system functions.

It's my belief that the lasting innovation of LLMs will be finally making voice a true first order interface for our computers. "We'll just be talking to them" is something I've heard since the 90s and it seems like we can finally see that reality on the horizon.
Even things that aren't too complicated (extruding plastic beads into credit card thickness) lead to increasing the rate of production until producing them becomes complex again. Just trimming the edges off the plastic sheets involved roller tension, knife angle, tear angle, and heat shrinkage that got the better of me some days.
There was a multi hour outage for one of the phone providers in Australia which ended up impacting a lot of card readers. Businesses still accept cash, but the problem is that almost no one carries cash in Australia so it’s no use here.

The real backup seems to be having two card readers on different networks.
Yeah, car washing, a business that is infamous for its enormous externalities...
Does human belief play any role in causality?

Let's say for example that Bill incorrectly believes his wife and his friend Steve are having an affair and he kills them both in a fit of rage - did Bill's belief play any role in the causality underlying the death of the two humans?
There are a few nice hints in the comments already, but I'd like to remind one feature that may actually be "the dumbphone" experience but more modern.

Ultra power saving mode on Android.

It may differ from vendor to vendor, but in my experience it works exactly like that (been able to use that in old Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, Moto). It changes screen to greymode, simplifies launcher by a lot, cuts notifications, still allows to use a selection of apps, including gps.

It customizable - you can keep some color, choose which apps can be accessed (on my current phone up to 6), make calls, text or IM. As a bonus it takes a few days to drain the battery.
Could not find the actual paper but the figures look cool:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-model-and-stack-impl...
Just wait till you hear about the developers out there doing `select* from` and then using reduce inside their api server to sum up the values of a column.
It's almost unimaginable today that browser traffic used to be unencrypted and people in your network or down the line to your target could see and modify your traffic.

In 2013 I wrote an article about how to turn a Squid proxy into a code injection attack mechanism [1] (which many free proxies did at the time [2]). The most "harmless" would just replace the ads you see with their own, the worse ones used browser events to report all keystrokes or mouse positions to the attackers.

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2013/05/why-free-proxies-are-free-js...

[2] https://blog.haschek.at/2015-analyzing-443-free-proxies/
> Immutability by default is not a requirement for functional programming (I mean... if it were, Haskell would be obviously not FP since the 'default' entrypoint is very mutable).

I mean the bindings and collections. For example, when you make an array in JS, the default syntax is a mutable list with a mutable binding:

let xs = [ 1, 2, 3 ]

> Neither are monads. There are entire FP languages without monads for effects (obviously, you can write a monadic interface in them, but it's not part of the idiomatic core).

I should be more precise - there needs to be some way to mange effects. Monads with syntax extensions is simply the most common (Haskell, Scala, F#, Closure macros)

> and even if they are, modern c++ fully supports them, as does rust, javascript, etc. It's very common in javascript to use Array.map() and Array.flat().

JavaScript does not have good monad support. This is why async/await was added as a new language feature. Yeah, I know you can hack together something with generator functions, but it’s hardly idiomatic.

But we’re getting into the weeds here. My point is: I don’t consider a language to support FP when writing functional code in that language leads to lots of friction compared to what is idiomatic.

Have you ever tried FP in Java? It works for some toy thing but then you hit the lack of TCO, or the ridiculously long type names (not inferred) or the pyramid of doom…
Upon news like that I’d be shorting Apple. Seriously all these billions and zero in house models?
I guess technically I have had a spigot in some apartments I've been in. But I'd need like a 200 ft hose to reach my car and I'm not sure how I'd wash it without getting every other car wet and block all my neighbors while doing so. But other than that, I guess I totally could have been a main character and cleaned my car "at home."
To Trump's credit he took action against the 737 Max in a timely manner and came out against Boeing as hard as I believe a POTUS could.
Considering the values of OP, I think real estate is not a business he wants to enter in, though I think flipping (of rundown houses) is still on the moral good side.
So strange to be preoccupied with death. So what?
I'm still expecting this is the end goal. But I've started to question what inference on device will do to battery life. I suspect it will drain devices pretty quickly but if anyone has any studies to suggest otherwise please let me know!
What methodology could one even use to know such a thing?

What methodology did you use to come to know this?
of course amazon is ready for this. they are on the back-end API for all of these digital assistants
> aren't as much in demand.

Google gets to manufacture that demand at scale.
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So you're just going to waste for no reason? Do you also leave the faucet running when you brush your teeth? It's a few cents per month at most, after all.
In the article, it states that the fibers are shorter and thinner (13 microns) than other wools, which gives them the desirable properties, but also makes them very hard to spin into a wool. Admittedly, I had assumed spinning by hand wouldn't scale to the level that the comment above intended.
That design probably has more with phone network penetration rather than corporate firewalls. The most likely use case for on prem Google would be far away sites with no connectivity except a phone line
"This is the exact sort of pseudo-scientific nonsense that's being spewed everywhere these days."

Instead of insulting, you could have also quoted my complete statement:

"But whether it affects us in any meaningful way, is doubtful, since the force is really, really small."

"And even if we were not, how is there an obvious correlation between these two?"

Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?

A small change here, can lead to a big outcome there.

Change a brain cell here and a neuron there and who knows what happens in the long run.

But like I said, the forces in this case are really, really small.
Anecdotal. The people I have seen on semaglutide still eat as much as they can, but they feel "full" pretty soon. If that brake goes off, they would just be back to their old diet in no time.
Again, that is completely missing the point. The Malaysian minister just blasted this attitude last week. Every country around there is asserting control over every other's country's claims, and they all have overlapping claims. This isn't "China vs the rest", it's "everybody quarrels with everybody else" and thus it cannot be peacefully solved by one-sidedly focusing on just one party.

Malaysia and Indonesia responded to AUKUS with alarm, do you deny this?
Do you have a solid source for this claim?

Everything I have read/heard tells me that companies would much, much rather have access to Nvidia chips than Googles TPUs.
> a profitable business is probably one that's serving the community well

This argument reminds of the argument googlers to explain why placing paid ads ahead of organic results is better for the user: they say thay if someone can pay more for an ad than means that can get more money from the user, and therefore the user likes it more. Lol

No, profit is profit, it doesn't mean anything else.
OK, so 5 ms versus 2 ms keystroke delay isn't pedantic; 5 μs vs 2 μs is.
I don't see why everyone is so surprised by this. Google already provides the default search engine for iOS, and it's clear that Apple's on-device stuff is going to be years away. They don't have the infrastructure to do this themselves either, so they're going to need a partner. Steve Jobs always saw Apple and Google as natural partners, he just couldn't get over that Google launched Android.

I think Apple by now realizes that Android was a necessary defensive play by Google aimed not at them, but at Microsoft, so maybe this partnership could be revived. Probably going to be more difficult now in the current regulatory environment, however.
This is fine as long as they’re licensing model weights that each phone can use for local inference.

Any other case: NOPE
That is still a problem, that is the reason why the 7800x3d is as good as the 7950x3d, but if you do other things, you can go with the 7950x3d it’s more expensive tough
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This is very surprising. Stability AI can do this with 100M total funding. Apple is a 3 trillion dollar company. Sounds incompetent
Is that kind of like a reified version of Scheme's call/cc?
The affordable part isn't a miracle or anything amazing, it's simply the product of huge economies of scale. If airplanes were made in the hundreds of millions per year, they'd be a lot cheaper too (still a lot more than cars because of the materials and labor costs).

But you're right about the reliability aspect: cars really are a lot more reliable than airplanes, in that they don't need lots of frequent maintenance. If you compare modern cars with cars from 50+ years ago, the difference is staggering. Ask your grandparents sometime about how long their cars lasted, and how much maintenance they needed. You can see it in old advertisements from those times: cars needing lubrication every 1k miles, for instance.
I'm upvoting this to counter the downvotes because, unfortunately, normal people don't know.

Specifically, normal people don't know what "watt" is. Seriously. There is a reason electrician is a skilled profession. Most of us here do know watts and the like, so it's easy to forget that normal people aren't like us.
That sounds endlessly frustrating. Imagine trying to use your computer and the primary way to accomplish anything is to convince/prompt-engineer some two-bit LLM into doing it. First you have to convince it that what you're doing is ethical and doesn't violate its safety guidelines, then you have to get it to actually translate your natural language into the actions you want to perform, which will be more difficult the less common those actions are, and finally you need to check its action plan for any subtle errors or misinterpretation. It would be like operating a computer by way of a phone call with an annoying relative who doesn't quite know how to use one.

This will be the case until we have AI agents that are as intelligent and competent as a top-percentile human personal assistant. At the point where that's possible though, I doubt the future of phone interfaces will be the most interesting change.
Good news for bloated JS SPAs, since that is often what they look like :)
Maybe it's due to image compression artifacts, but I find the first example of normal case output impossible to read on my phone. Even if I zoom in. And I have exceptionally good eyesight. I'll have to try this directly on my desktop, where I imagine the clarity would be much better.
>it's probably easiest

Cheapest maybe, but easiest is just to rent a p4de.24xlarge from AWS for a couple hours to test (at around $40/hour..).
.. because the cache gives you better single threaded performance?
I think there are different size Gemini models and some of them can fit on a phone with TPUs or similar and since each user will use their own phone, it offloads the computation.
Always cherish the feeling of joy, no matter how it presents itself.
Fair criticism, but then look how many Scientific Materialist fundamentalists in this and other threads would have you believe they are omniscient Oracles, but then cry foul if one dares to critique or have a bit of a laugh at their hallucinations.

The only saving grace of this simulation that I can see is how absolutely hilarious it is, it's like living in one of those old British sitcoms.
I think this might be considered disposable by military prices. Missiles, torpedoes etc are very expensive
Okay, downvotes but no replies. In my eyes, what I am saying here is mostly in line with what some others said. My unique points were mostly my anecdote and my note about abstraction.

Well, I was new here, but it seems that contributing is not for me. I will go back to just reading then. You people do you ...
vector's VRL language seems more expressive than otelcol OTTL. Has anyone experience creating complex transformations using OTTL?

I guess my example would be non-trivial log transformation requiring lookup tables (which vector can do with enrichment tables)
There have been updates on core parking ("Game mode") in Windows so it's probably fine, but I think for max perf, people are still using Process Lasso (I don't use a mixed X3D chip myself, so I haven't paid super close attention to it).
Incredible how much money corporations are willing to waste on this kind of bike shedding lol
I do that quite often and it is eye opening.
>Also unacceptable is requiring customers to do the job of an employee.

That's entirely subjective though. Around a century ago, Piggly Wiggly introduced the supermarket shopping experience as we know it today (ie. the shopper was responsible for picking items off the shelves, rather than having a clerk do it). I'm sure back then you could make the same argument that "unacceptable is requiring customers to do the job of an employee".
You are absolutely right, most home users don't care about power consumption when it comes to desktop computers.

All this negative shilling about power consumption of Intel and AMD desktop CPUs started after Apple ARM processors appeared on the desktop. Apple sells soldered SSD and CPUs with un-upgradeable RAM, and the proprietary SoC is no longer a true general purpose CPU as only macOS can run properly on it. Performance wise also they don't truly beat AMD (and in some cases Intel) processors. This is a huge negative factor for Apple Silicon based hardwares. Thus, the only negative marketing they can do about Intel and AMD processors is based on its higher power consumption.

That said, Intel and AMD will (and do seem) to care about power consumption for their laptop and server segments.
Typing speed (throughput) and latency are (somewhat) orthogonal.

Some people appear to be sensitive to throughput, some to jitter, some to absolute latency. I'd even argue that "fast" typists may be less sensitive to absolute latency as there's more of a streaming approach than with "slow" typists which is more event-based.

But it's also personal. Whatever my typing speed is, I want things to happen ~"right now".
Tap water. I can't stop marveling at the fact that we have (mostly) unlimited, clean, drinkable water on demand and virtually for free.

But also many other things, many of which others have mentioned here (cars, mass housing, garbage collection, electronics).

So much so that I feel frustration at the fact that in my job, I do not participate in human society making any of these fascinating things possible; and I have decided that my next career move will have to make me part of the supply chain of one such thing, even if I am just the tiniest of links.
So theft is up in NYC and no other major cities, that’s considered an outlier in that case. Everywhere else, theft is down and not an issue.

Your argument against the second article was “maybe those poor corpos just aren’t reporting crime” lol. Shrink includes numbers for all lost or destroyed inventory not just theft, btw.

Get real comrade.
> Part of the appeal of an iGizmo is not sending so much data to Google.

I guess Apple's Marketing is doing its thing once again...
Apple sending my data to Google would be one of the few actions they could take to make me consider going through the pain necessary to leave their ecosystem.
Kinda like Gravatar, already used by a lot of big services: https://gravatar.com/
>It takes a lot of effort to make the current version of a product much worse than the initial version.

My favorite example of this is how Siri used to give an audio confirmation that it is hearing me. This went away several iOS versions ago, and now I have to wait a few seconds then hope that I hear Siri's response; if not, I only then know that Siri did not hear my "Siri, ____" and have to start again. Even worse, maybe one out of ten times Siri does provide an audio confirmation at the start of listening! If there is some hidden iOS setting I can set to fix this, please let me know because I sure can't find it.
Mistral has less than 50 people and they're less than a year old
I appreciate the support! It would probably require making an alternate operating system, because the S30+ one for the Nokia is Windows trash and doesn't allow any sort of app stores or sideloading. It's an ambitious but exciting project of mine because I can dream of a dumbphone with weeks of battery life running nothing but a minimal Signal client.
Back in the day it was alright because Microsoft gave you a fairly good dev environment in the form of Visual Studio, with the focus of it being squarely on desktop application development instead of tinkering with the system or running web services. It didn't stop people from doing it anyways but it's part of the reason why everything is so janky. Then the web took over and Microsoft tried for ages to make .net and Windows Server work until they realised they can't tune an OS that was never meant for backend development and just put all their focus on WSL. In the year 2024 there is almost no reason to be doing any non-desktop dev in a Windows environment unless it's on WSL. And you get the benefit of having an actually sane window management system and external display handling unlike MacOS, not to mention how nice PowerToys is.
There is a screenshot in the Readme - https://codeberg.org/Archargelod/isaac-extended-icons-mod

And another from earlier version of the mod - https://codeberg.org/Archargelod/isaac-extended-icons-mod/sr...
> I think Apple by now realizes that Android was a necessary defensive play by Google aimed not at them, but at Microsoft

Huh? Could you elaborate on this? Maybe I am missing some historical context, but it feels like Android is very much eating into Apple's market share, not into Microsoft's. How does this reasoning work out?
They might not know the term "perf per watt" but they feel the heat, fan, noise, and speed on devices they use.
Every product that any company needs is a choice between source/create. It's not more "competent" to build everything in house.
This is pretty much exactly the opposite of what modern science tells us about weight loss, and especially the _psychology_ of it.

It _is_ that hard, and even if you starve yourself, the body just lowers your BMR to compensate.

I highly recommend reading this:
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-y...
The "10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now
Even the P cores are not identical. On a 14900K there are two cores with +2 speed bins (6GHz) vs all the others (5.8GHz). And there are local thermal effects, because the 8 P cores are arranged in two rows of four. Some of them get heated from all sides, some don't. Optimal scheduling on such a system is not easy.
Data Processing Engine Embedding in Java: EsProc SPL a Competitor of SQLite
It’s not about a single application scaling to all cores but modern OSes do A LOT in the background
And switch to Google's Android? Are there other reasonable options?
I would suggest not spreading FUD unless you can cite hard evidence.

Intel warrants their processors for 3 years if they are operated according to spec, which includes supplying 1.3~1.4V as far as I'm aware.

From what I can tell, the linked thread and article concern CPUs that were either defective out of the box (and thus under warranty, regardless usage) or were driven out of spec by mobo overclocking by default (which would void warranty).
State of WASI support for CPython: March 2024
Conspiracy theories don't come from thinking one is smarter, but rather from a lack of trust. When somebody (or some entity) says something, how you respond to them is not only based on your perception of their knowledge, but also on your perception of the trustworthiness. It's somewhat of a tautology to say that as decline in trust of US institutions declines, lack of believing in what these institutions says also declines.

And trust in US institutions is not just randomly declining either. We just seem to have largely removed the social mores on lying and manipulation, so long as it can be used to push an agenda. If the powers that be want to reclaim public trust then there needs to be a much greater effort to increase transparency, honesty, hold open debate on all topics, and also hold groups accountable for misleading or lying to individuals. Instead we seem to be going rapidly in the exact opposite direction, and it's not difficult to predict the outcome.
I think this is simply the default of lm-evaluation-harness. They said they ran every single benchmark they could out of the box.
Human judgement is the strongest judgment in existence.

What other thing in reality has better judgment? Nothing.
Or maybe Apple doesn't want to touch that mess of a copyright and IP infringing hellhole and subcontracting is the smart move?
FWIW the Grok repo uses the term "open weights".
Google pays to be the default search engine.
> Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever.

Love it. More succinct than "devs need to feel the pain to fix it."
For me it's about having a silent PC and not making the room feel like a sauna.

I have a Ryzen 7950X in ECO mode 105W that's very fast in every workload I can throw at it, trivial to run whisper quiet with a basic Noctua cooler, and barely warms the room.
Switch to Non-Google Android.
That's primarily just because Google is doing a poor job offering them to people. Bad documentation, and few trust Google enough to want to tie themselves to Google's trusted hardware.

Also, Google is using all these TPUs for their own training and inference at the moment.