skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden seems unique in that Swish is so pervasive for payments. Probably the european country most likely to attempt going cash-free.

In Finland, Danske Bank's Mobilepay app is widely used for p2p and online payments, but not so much for businesses, with the exception of tiny ones like pop-up stores. And I think they just raised their rates.

Online ID by banking app is pervasive, but doesn't require a smartphone if you bother your bank about it. If requested, Nordea gives you a Gemalto keypad and Danske Bank a small authenticator fob. I'm sure other banks have something similar, I'm just familiar with these two.

I agree that this is an important issue. Your smartphone is effectively your primary ID online now and can also be used to track you as you carry it around. And more and more commerce and official matters are now primarily handled online. Constant small steps towards a cashless society, with potential for control via CBDCs and/or social credit scores.
The display server needs to be able to render the cursor or decide the cursor information even when no GTK (or other) apps are running. When it does so it needs to change the size of the cursor based on the display it's on. This size may not always be a whole number of pixels and may or may not change in the middle of a session. If you ever did cursor effects like macOS scaling the cursor on fast movement you'd need a way to handle that per frame size change request as well. In all it just doesn't make sense to move the logic for rendering the cursor into application frameworks.

I think it'd be best if "another vector format" was really "another cursor format which allows the actual cursor data to be tagged with a format". That way every time someone wanted to change the cursor protocol to allow compressed bitmaps or animated files or different vector formats it didn't require a whole new cursor file format to do it. Think something like MKV but for cursor data.
Parsing URLs in Python
I'm pretty sure that the plaster cast skeleton in the image will be supported by thin cables or wires from the ceiling. Which would be supportive of my point.

In the same picture you posted, you see a bit of an elephant and its trunk. I know the trunk is pure muscle (no bones) but you can still see the engineering elements - it is tapered (thinner at the end), and when it is at rest it hangs low - only engaged at height occasionally.

There was no rest for the dinosaurs though - head the size of a small car, at the end of a very long projection... Unfeasible, I say!
The article missed out on context. The chip runs LoongSon's own "LoongArch" ISA which they had developed out of MIPS'. Chips and Cheeses test programs are written in that ISA. There are other articles on the site that tell more about it.

LoongSon does however supposedly have a instruction set extension for running binary-translated x86 code faster (and ARM and RISC-V), but they have not published much about it.
I'm more familiar with audio - but yeah, things like source tracks after mixing but before compression, etc.
I Use Odin for Game and Engine Development
Been using Linux for nearly 15 years. Try again
This implies that there needs to be changes pushed live without review in order for an LLM to make a mistake. Which is obviously very much not true.
Not really new news: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract (Oct 2023)
There is no way I am moving my family and company to Germany. Payment isn't really the issue, but the terms of service.

When I visited Germany last fall, smartphone use was very common.
I'm not sure, but I think of a gesture and voice commanded coding, that is AI guided, and beautifully immersive VR presented and edited, where AI guided is a variable of unknown limit describing how intelligent it could get. I reckon Mcluhan would call it a different medium, in the way he does reading press printing vs a medieval manuscript. Whatever it is, it'll be significant.
For such small amounts crowdfunding might be better. https://www.crowdcube.com/ is a European platform, I'm sure there's one of the US/international market, too.
"US defense contractor builds defense hardware for the US defense industry"
I mean… yeah…? They’re basically a government contractor with a side hustle, and it doesn’t take a politics wonk to figure the American government spends more on the military than on NASA.

> hundreds of satellites… $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)… The contract signals growing trust by the intelligence establishment of a company whose owner has clashed with the Biden administration and sparked controversy, opens new tab over the use of Starlink satellite connectivity in the Ukraine war, the sources said.

Uhhhh I meaaaaan kinda? It’s from 2021, and I doubt the NRO is open to switching partners for any reason, much less ephemeral foreign policy ones. Plus who would they even switch to, blue origin? They presumably are already behind 90% of existing NRO satellites.

As far as national security is concerned, I’m only slightly worried that the obvious Russian asset that is Elon Musk would be able to do any damage via this contract. To say the least, the NRO is a secretive and security-conscious organization. If I trust anyone to institute proper information security protocols, it’s them.

Well, other than that one time the president leaked their tech for fun at a press conference lol
> "Dark" matter does not simply fail to emit light; it does not interact with light at all

We don’t know this. We have a parcel of observations from which we are trying to intuit a cause.
Credentials don't have to leave the car and they can still enhance security quite significantly.

For example Face ID in iPhones works pretty well, and your face data is stored on the phone only.
Supporting BFLOAT16 in Fortran: "Not Recommended"?
>If successful, the sources said the program would significantly advance the ability of the U.S. government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.

Until satellites get destroyed by "accidents" and we get a belt of debris which makes the use of satellites much more complicated.

Edit: accidents in quotes
Totally second this

Also for refactoring/creating tests and writing/fixing docs

About the second point, yes. Sometimes the LLM will create "almost correct" code but you definitely need to understand it and know why it is wrong.
I’m an investor in StableBuild.
Yup, and .fr.fm too
Sounds like the brain is doing garbage collection during sleep.
Tangentially, Cloudflare REALLY needs to start supporting transferring .moe domains already.
It is horribly bad and doesn't ever answer the simple question I want to know, which is if I drive over, what will I pay and is it in stock.

Home Depot? Walmart? Target? They all can do this, with some acceptable variation.

Costco? They don't even know. I wouldn't be surprised if they literally don't know what's on the floor.
Especially with Shortcuts, Siri can have some pretty useful functionality. My personal big improvement I'd like to see is being able to better able to tap into those actions without having to set things up in advance.
Why? Saying that Nix is complicated and isn't trivial to use or read without learning prerequisite knowledge is bad now?

I actually pointed out that mkDerivation is something helpful to learn - that's one thing I wish someone made me sit and learn when I first got exposed to Nix. It unlocks a lot.
> we can't verify anything from this distance, so calling it empiricism is a stretch

We can’t directly sense most phenomena, and even then our senses can be misleading. Empiricism just means based on observation; that describes cosmology to a tee.
I have seen people download 3d model file formats (stl) and position/scale them in front of them, and then walk around the 3d model. I am not sure if they added anything to the Vision Pro but it was pretty impressive. I would not be surprised if it can handle common 3d formats and render them straight to your AR environment out of the box.
"Copyright © by klimato ® All Right Reserved"

Heh. I remember thinking '©' and '®' being cool letters. I put it on every page since it looked pro. I guess you didn't actually register the "brand"?
What a surprise! Who would have thought of that? :pretends to be shocked:
Thanks for the list!

For SSO, does SAML support clear your bar?
The straight-to-landfill consumer goods make me sad, but I guess I can buy cheaper tires and only drive in ideal conditions so there can be a place for middling quality.
For the binary search index speed up, is that documented somewhere? The English version talks about Eytzinger layout but I think you’re referring to something else since that’s not an ancillary array size.

Great job on this book. Lots of great content that can be used as reference.
That's nothing. The real money will be in missile defense. Currently a single ground based interceptor costs, according to wikipedia [1], at least $74 million. Such an interceptor carries one kill vehicle [2] that weights about 64 kilograms. A Starship is able to put 100 tons of stuff in orbit, so it could send a huge swarm of such kill vehicles which could take care of hundreds of incoming threats. And because the Starship is reusable, this could all happen for cheaper than a single current interceptor. Starship has the potential to magnify basically overnight the US's missile defense capability by a factor of 100. Now you can do the math: F-35 has a lifetime cost north of 1 trillion, one single aircraft carrier has a price tag of $13 billion, one B-21 Raider is expected to cost about $600 million. How much would the US be willing to pay for an airtight ballistic missile defense system?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Interceptor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle
It takes a bit of practice and a few incantations to use it effectively.
If Siri could do the following reliably (meaning not having to ask again, not having to repeat, having it work 99% of the time) it would be golden:

1. Find my phone via Siri on homepod

2. Set a simple timer

3. Add to a list

4. Send a text message to one of a few contacts

It can and sometimes does do all of those things, but horribly unreliably.
> I would wholeheartedly support legislation that forced professors to pay the same textbook fees as their students, and for departments to be required to cover the costs for scholarship students.

What will happen is that universities will pass these costs to all students where now paying students will pay more.

A better regulation will be encouraging and funding more open access materials that can be used and require public funding receivers to adopt them or decrease the funding and cap the tuition increases.
For anyone who hasn’t played Duck Game, while you may not be able to for much longer, I highly recommend it. The dev also said he will keep working on it even if he has to make a “new” game under a different title.
This only makes their argument stronger.
I am almost 50, and my point of view on Go from 2012 has hardly changed.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4554#comment-71504

At least it does generics now.
Are there Swedish citizens without personal numbers?

Is it the need to identify oneself that you find dystopic?
They don't host the domain. Hosting happens somewhere else.

Which is where the crackdown should happen.
Cloudflare shields criminals from cops. They do so because of "free speech" or whatever. There was recently a story about a swatting victim, who tried to get the forum the swatters use to shut down. Cloud flare refused to give the identity of the criminals, the case even went to court and the victim lost and now apparently has to pay court costs.

Our legal system is unfortunately not perfect, which is why it matters what infrastructure providers do.

Do they enable criminals by shielding them from the police? Or do they have policies in place that prevent abuse of their service?

With Cloudflare, I'm pretty sure they lean towards the former.
A better comparison might be the requirement for brick-and-mortar businesses to accept cash as payment, such as when Sweetgreen went cashless.

"Discrimination" might be the wrong word, but I think it's reasonable to mandate businesses not depend on clientele owning specific products that do not relate to the business's core service.
The Russian asset claims are so incredibly overblown, the entire reason SpaceX exists is because the Russians pissed Musk off. All of the reporting surrounding Starlink in Ukraine has been misleadingly presented by the media for the sake of clicks, and Musk is hardly the only non-Russian person to suggest potentially compromising as a solution.
If it’s going to take general artificial intelligent to get a voice assistant that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers, then so be it. Imagine the GPUs required!

I’m still baffled at Siri and Google assistant. Virtually zero innovation in a decade. I just want to be able to turn on BBC radio while my hands are wet, is that really so hard?!
Google's NotebookLM is designed for this use case. Blog post: https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-google-ai/ (or try it at https://notebooklm.google/)

I'm not sure if there's a length limit, but basically you upload a PDF and it'll try to "ground" the LLM in that.

> A key difference between NotebookLM and traditional AI chatbots is that NotebookLM lets you “ground” the language model in your notes and sources. Source-grounding effectively creates a personalized AI that’s versed in the information relevant to you. Starting today, you can ground NotebookLM in specific Google Docs that you choose, and we’ll be adding additional formats soon.

(It now supports PDFs and plaintext, from GDrive or elsewhere)

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In my personal experiments, though, it didn't really seem to be very different than just uploading a file into ChatGPT (in a custom transformer). Sometimes one or the other would be higher-quality; both would still possibly hallucinate. Importantly, neither one is strictly limited to the source text; they both still have prior outside knowledge.

What was cool, though, was NotebookLM's ability to cite passages in the source. Here is an example of your question:

https://share.cleanshot.com/pSnz4CXC

Their UI is a bit buggy, and sometimes questions just... disappear. That's why in the screenshot I asked it the same thing twice.

But still, might be a "good enough" way to get the gist of a new source that's not already part of the training set.
On producing specific books. Nothing to stop me writing a novel with the same themes as yours has.
For the same reason they cannot do hands very well. There just aren’t enough bits in their internal representations to encode specific details of that type. Scaling up the model can help, but that requires something on the order of 100× as much computer time and storage. Since the model you are using may already have taken months and dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars to create, the company behind it may be reluctant to spend years and billions to replace it.
Good! I'm tired of US tech giants clutching pearls about working with their own government.
Filesharing to the rescue? A torrent will last as long as someone is seeding.
Musk has a long history of having opinions on policies. Why would DoD/CIA/NSA trust him with anything?
What a weird comment on their progress and being transparent. Better have a demo working and itterate on it right? By your way how one even finish anything?
After I did this, they just restored all my previous posts!
It depends entirely on your security requirements, but all in all, in broad definitions, 42 bits is not enough. Maybe if key rotation happens fast enough, faster than expected brute force, then, maybe? Again, all up to definitions and context.
Let's not forget that this "passphrase generator" is mostly a joke :D
No I installed Kubuntu as KDE is my preferred environment but it was underwhelming. A friend of mine recommended KDE Neon saying it was much more stable, so I’m currently trying to decide if it’s worth a reinstall
That is something that I also look forward to.
I’ve been doing a lot of AWS infrastructure setup lately and use ChatGPT frequently to generate possible solutions and starting examples in CDK. It doesn’t solve the problems reliably by any means, but it’s good for getting an idea of an approach so I can go read the docs. It can even output a diagram if you ask for mermaid format.

It’s good for “rubber duck” debugging when things don’t work. I just give a brief description of what I’m trying to do, and paste in some code with an error message or some log entries, and it’s pretty great at pointing to the problem and suggesting a fix.

Since its capabilities are opaque, I constantly try new things. Yesterday I asked it “what was the earliest version of sass-loader that supported the quietDeps option” and it actually answered the question, with a citation. That saved a lot of time!

There was a cookie error that showed up as a pop up in the Chrome devtools. I couldn’t copy and paste the error from the pop-up, but I took a screenshot of it and pasted that into a chat. ChatGPT read it and gave me a little tutorial on the SameSite cookie setting.

It seems to be getting a little bit more introspective lately. Last week I asked it about something, and it described a solution, then apologized and said that wouldn’t actually work, and gave a different answer. I mean all of that happened in one answer, not because I prompted it. Then I asked for clarification, and it apologized again and said the original solution would work. (It wouldn’t).
You can't decide to be straight or gay, but you can certainly choose to not enter a gay relationship.

Is "no gays" acceptable?
For those who have no idea what's being discussed, quick background.

Discussing: Transformer [1] memory issues and approximate attention [2] in machine learning training.

Specifically: FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness. [3]

As a side comment, this entire industry is sorely in need of at least intros. The entire space has moved so fast in the last year I need an entire new dictionary and thesaurus for all the terms they've created. Notably, because of this, found out Google has a glossary of machine learning terms. Actually somewhat handy.

[1] Google Machine Learning Glossary (Transformer): https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary/#tra...

[2] Same (Attention): https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary/#att...

[2] arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135
I’ve always wondered about how language is taught.

Kids are taught that “cat” phonetically is “c-a-t”. Almost sounds like three syllables at that point. Do that with other words and one will quickly question how many syllables are in everything!!

I’m not dyslexic but I feel like the way we teach language is broken.
Of course. Otherwise how are the unenlightened masses to discern such valid concerns from run of the mill Pareidolia. Are The Sims being mistreated? A metaphysical question for experts only.

But I do insist the self appointed AI ethicists priestly class has appropriately glamorous clothes as a requirement.
Bitcoin has had "mining pools" for well-over a decade.
James Baker, Sec. of State met with Shevardnadze (sp?) in the 90s and agreed with Russia that in exchange for a United Germany tied to NATO, there would be iron-clad guarantees that NATO forces wouldn't move eastwards. I remember this part clearly as I had to write a paper on it at the time. My memory is fuzzy on the other players, but Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Robert Gates were part of this whole thing.

The "open door" policy NATO followed does not jive with the intent of that agreement.
And this was actually a significant controversy some years back.

A lot of users, including myself - though definitely still a small minority - quit Reddit over the increasingly aggressive monetisation attempts; some of us used automated history editors to prevent our posts from being scraped or searched (though it almost certainly will not remove them from back end databases).

We didn't know that this was the specific way our content was going to be used, but we knew it was probably going to be something we wouldn't like.

We have now been proved right, and if you decided, back then, to stay and keep contributing to the multi-billion-dollar site for free, now you know why the Cassandras were raising such a fuss.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whisperer
Bruno is just another open core product using claims of open source for marketing, it seems.

> Majority of our features are free and open source (which covers REST and GraphQL Apis)

Try submitting a PR for websockets or GRPC support and see what happens.
Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)
deprecative sez >" The bullet is a bandage. It does not cure the illness. "<

Bullet as bandage is a poor metaphor!

And a bullet usually slows/halts an attacker, which is all a defender requires.

deprecative sez >" murder for something so insignificant is beyond reprehensible."<

I think you misspeak: murder is always illegal but killing a person may be legal. You may be killed for property crimes in some states.
I actually agree. I dont think art needs to be supported. Not that I'm against it or anything, it simply doesnt need support imo.

As long as there are humans around, they will be creating great art on a regular basis, it's just like pooping or eating to us.
> You can't decide to be black or Irish. You can very well decide to
not have a smartphone.

I accept that distinction. But what makes you believe volition plays
the role you imply (which I assume is that someone who decides
something is somehow on a lower moral footing than someone without
choice?)

Many people "decide" to join particular religious denominations. Or as
we accept more commonly today choose to "identify" as this or that, Do
we/should we afford them any less respect?

There's a good argument that a sane and reasonable person who
decides something, should have more weight attached to that choice
than the person for whom it is a matter of accident.

For example, murder is a more serious crime than manslaughter,
precisely because someone pre-meditated rather than killing by
accident.

I'm not suggesting you are not dismissing reasonable choice as if it
were a lesser thing, just saying it's worth thinking about, because
this is not philosophically/ethically clear.

edit:

There's also another quite strong and very different argument, but
it's more complex:

There's a line in John Fowles book on the subject of poverty where the
protagonist says "Being poor is not something that we are, it's just
something that happened to us"

Many identity distinctions are not self-identifications but are
imposed by another or group upon someone (or group). For example
someone who was a proud Yugoslavian woke up one day with a "Bosnian"
passport. Discrimination that come from "other-regarding" sources
despite our choices, may feel as egregious as those of accident of
birth.
What they both got wrong: allowing pr0n without tying accounts to real life names and looking over the user's shoulder.
> Sweden seems unique in that Swish is so pervasive for payments. Probably the european country most likely to attempt going cash-free.

I believe so too, according to Internetstiftelsen, as of 2019 almost 80% of the population uses Swish.