skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is security nihilism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
The THC-A exceptions really have not been tested against state laws where weed is still illegal. I understand that THC-A weed is openly sold in a lot of illegal states and enforcement is low. But if local/county/parish officers wanted to test using GCMS instead of LCMS, it would still show that the weed had too much D9-THC.

Maybe people could get this overturned in court in some of those states, but maybe not. I understand that there's some arguments that the federal law supersedes state law due to being on a USDA farm bill or something, but I really, really don't think any of the THC-A stuff has been tested in court.

Even at a purely federal level, I don't think I can just hop on a plane with a pound of THC-A weed and tell the TSA "oh this is just hemp."
This is absolute madness, and IMO goes against everything c++ should stand for. It's a non-zero runtime overhead breaking language change, for a case that should be handled by disallowing uninitialized reads, with an opt in for undefined behaviour.
Evidence “number go up”. But when is information actionable?

Faith in the ultimate analysis has existence independent of evidence.
Do you mean to imply that cloud services at higher levels of abstraction are cheaper per unit of compute than simple VMs? I believe you’ll find that the opposite is true.

At the scale discussed here, there are no free lunches.
That sounds like the "lose money on every sale" philosophy of the first dot-com bubble, only without even the "but make it up in volume" second half.
Ask HN: OCR tool handwritten image to text
Hello my mother gets much handwritten documents and she wants to put that into text.
Is there a way to get this workin? Preferably free, but if it’s not much of a cost, she can ask her IT apartment to get something like a plugin OCR for ChatGPT.
Can you recommend something?
The handwritten documents are horrible to read I tried whisper to record it while reading it out loud but there must be better methods.

Thanks a lot.
That's such a limited view which creates terrible incentives.

If you work insanely hard solving a problem, you often end up with 0 loc + an incredible amount of understanding. If you slack off all day then spend an hour writing a bunch of sloppy code, you have way more loc than someone who worked all day to refine some simple clear performant code (which is then read 500 times before it's changed, hence the time is earned back with interest).

These scenarios don't have to happen for the disincentive to still affect the work people do; there's a continuous problem from the baseline to these extremes.
LoRA training/merging basically is "crank up the batch size ridiculously high" in a nutshell, right? What actually breaks when you do that?
Not necessarily doing less stuff. There are basic things like Singapore being more expensive than the US, so why not host there? Maybe analyse if you use that much storage all the time, or would some mix of EBS/S3 be better? How much utilisation is there really? Maybe you can scale down often? Or use bare metal instances rather than EC2? Also, you can negotiate way lower pricing that what's published.

This post is basically "see how bad a knife is for unscrewing screws". They're showing off how unfamiliar they are with AWS offering. And that's unrelated to which solution wins for this scenario.
You could have saved that background image and use a CSS gradient ;)

edit: nevermind, that's a dead URL. But anyways, it's an extra http request you don't need.
Maybe you are being sarcastic...

Or you've completely missed the point of the article/story. The point is lines of code are almost meaningless. In this story the person saved 2k lines of code by rewriting a rendering engine, and use somehow think that's less than deleting a 45 k line jest snapshot.
IDK in the rest of Europe, but in Spain there's a growing resentment against euro auto makers as there's a perceived unfair price increase with lots of quality issues and bad customer-facing practices.

Also, everyone is aware they are lobbying the EU for keeping competitors out.

IMO they are building reputational damage and it will last. People is going through hardship and what they see is companies trying to squeeze them and taking advantage.

Every new YT reviewing a car has at least ~5 most upvoted comments complaining about this issues, over and over again, and this has been going for a while.

Same in forums and social media.
It is an invitation to evolve your imagination.
Possibly split Messages and SMS in to distinct apps.

Have the latter handle SMS/MMS/RCS with options (in its settings area) to enable/disable each of the three, such that any or all of them may be individually allowed (or not).

Then also have an additional pair of options in the SMS app to indicate which other message app can operate as a proxy. Said proxy being able to send or receive SMS/MMS/RCS as appropriate. Possibly have the default set to Messages, but allow it to be set to any other app which has opted in.

Remove all of the SMS/MMS options from Messages, except the 'Send as SMS', which would then try to do the existing fall back when there is no data service.

The default behaviour would be as now. Disabling the 'Send as SMS' option would keep Messages and SMS as two distinct services, and one could then run the that way. Further flipping the config in SMS would allow any other app to be the preferred primary contact point.

I'm not sure how one would handle 'Group Chats' in such a situation.

With such a situation, I'd split the two and operate as distinct systems, iMessages in its own app, SMS/MMS/RCS in the SMS app, all other message facilities confined to their own playpen.

I know some relatives who would prefer to keep the proposed defaults such that everything appears in the Messages app.
I do not think you are missing anything that would change your cost-benefit analysis, but here are two things that might be of interest:

- A QKD link would be much lower latency than transmitting a physical token over an authenticated channel (same type of advantage as with asymmetric key encryption, but without the drawback of relying on assumptions about computational complexity)

- It does not need to be point-to-point if you have a network of quantum memories/repeaters (which are probably much easier to build than quantum computers).
I think we have far passed the tipping point, and what we need is a drastic reduction.

We're not that different from fruit flies. They multiply like crazy as long as there's enough food, and when it's gone, there's a mass die-off.

We're confined to this planet, and it just doesn't have the capacity to support this many of us, be it for resource (agriculture) or just sheer space (balanced ecosystems).

The way I see it, we have two options. We either find a humane way to reduce the global population and allow the planet to find a balance that includes our survival, or we keep going like this and will end up like the fruit flies after that bowl of rotten fruit is gone.
Co-signed, worth reading but please don't quote the book at cocktail parties unless it is a claim you have independently (of the book) investigated
Thats not entirely true. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/dutch-ca...
If that is your problem, do it like Adobe: Just update the splash screen.
850 servers with 240TB of NVMe SSD storage and 2TB of ram each, SEO pays much better than what I thought.
Really good! Will only push EV prices down. This is what healthy competition does l!
"Let me know when the people who think AI will destroy the world actually build cool AI toys for me to play with."

Yeah uh.
You might have mis-parsed the article headline?

I think it should be read "(Anonymous crypto wallets) now illegal in the EU", not "(Anonymous crypto) wallets now illegal in the EU". Ie, you are probably agreeing with the headline.

Either way; although I'm sure the EU won't be the last governmental to do this it undermines the pro-EU argument. The upside is they stand up to Apple and force them to use the right sort of charging cable ... and the downside for that is they expect to monitor literally every payment you can make; setting up for some really nasty authoritarianism. One of these things is substantially more consequential than the other.
It's definitely possible, but it takes years to resolve.
Hardly an exceptional case. A lot of web shops use auto scaling as means to save money, not to respond traffic spikes like black friday's.

What is easier, having a bunch of powerful servers that provides you enough headroom or having to fight your auto-scaling group to have just enough capacity and in the end of the day still costing more?
Buyers need to factor in the chance that their car becomes worthless when China starts a war to conquest Taiwan, as that might prompt for accelerated decoupling and sanctions, leaving owners of Chinese cars on a dead end.

Reminder that Chinese EV Manufacturers are in the end state enterprises operating at a loss, so this is not sustainable long term. As internal consumption is very weak in China, all that production needs to be exported or you are looking at the notorious EV graveyards.

This practice is a sure way to suffocate European car makers, so you can totally expect tariffs somewhere in the future.
Not directly related, but how much energy is being wasted by thousands of companies scraping the internet continuously and storing roughly the same information as everyone else, and then storing that in their own datacenters? I understand the commercial reasons for it, but this all seems very inefficient.
Would really love to know more details about their struggles on Android Play Store and Windows Store.

Edit:

Windows Store - https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1759688788232523788?ref_...

Android Play Store - https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1771102415279763909?ref_...
Indeed! Also, Mixtral 8x7b runs just as well on older M1 Max and M2 Max Macs, since LLM inference is memory bandwidth bound and memory bandwidth hasn't significantly changed between M1 and M3.
Richard Littler's poster for the "real" Festival of Brexit Britain:

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/03/richard-littler-satirical-...
Whether axes are drawn or not is partly a typographical concern too. If those facilitate easier reading of the graph, than foregoing them because the distance to the axis of a data point isn't relative seems a bit strong.

For cases where an axis is truncated (e.g., with currency amounts where 0 is meaningful, but where showing the graph with 0 wouldn't give an easily understood graph like the example given for the $50T to $53T range), just use a graph break symbol (that squiggly thing near the origin point) to clearly indicate that the axis is truncated.
Worth having a look at Dick and Stewart - an animated series from Richard Littler, narrated by Julian Barrett

https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2019/10/05/dick-and-stewart-...
Please don't mix up monetary and fiscal policies.

The US is not famous for their redistribution politics especially not the past 30 years.

In Denmark we have numerous policies in place, that ensures that housing stays as housing and does not become a speculative asset - this is good if you want to buy a house the popular places.

Also, remember this is macro dynamics. Yes, houses are more expensive in the bay area. But I bet that housing has comparatively gone down in value in less popular areas.
A foldable riser and external keyboard & mouse are essential for good ergonomics. I like a ferris since it's a split keyboard so folds up nice and small but can still be quite wide on the table.
You say "I doubt it" but offer nothing to support that view and instead rehash the arguments in the article.
> > They'll be fine.

Exactly. Emphasis on They
That isn't a mitigation as making them smaller is not an option. They need to be large becouse of noise.
Then what’s the point of bringing them in if the company is going to die anyway?
Try the following:

echo "RSVP by Text"
qrencode -t UTF8 'SMSTO:212-555-1212:Thank You! RSVP for (name, number of adults, number of kids)'

echo "RSVP by Email"
qrencode -t UTF8 "mailto:rsvp@example.com?subject=RSVP: Some Event&body=[ ] - Yes [ ] - No"

echo "Directions"
qrencode -t UTF8 "1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, D.C. 20500"
> A panopticon AI shoggoth

That made my day. I do agree, it is creepy but its what theyre pushing.
> App store were a mistake

Like most thing on the internet that are designed to make the end user's life easier while boiling the frog behind the scenes, centralizing control and taking away end user freedom.

Story as old as the world, if you think about it: relinquishing control and freedom in exchange for comfort and ease of life.

The list is endless (iOS, Android, App stores, Windows, censored search engines, YT ...).

Just yesterday there was a HN story about gitlab taking down the source code for some game emulator.

Exact same premises, exact same outcome: you can either be free or be lazy. You can't be both.
QuickDraw is mostly written in Pascal with critical loops in assembly[1,2]. I’m also not sure if it’s in actually in ROM or on the boot floppy. (Incidentally, Wikipedia tells me the Lisa’s ROM was 16K.)

[1] https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-lisa-apples-most-influe...

[2] https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-sour...
so you ask for ID from the sender, but how do you verify that it is a valid/real ID?

If someone wishes to use a fake ID, they could. And then the receiver of the crypto would now be on the hook for the legal repercussions. This makes a chilling effect on this payment method.
I'm no expert but somehow I think post-quantum cryptography will become what IP6 is to IP addressing: we all know very well what problem it solves but the problem doesn't hit us that hard in practice that we are actually forced to make the switch.
The future of at-home molecular testing
Previous discussions:

- Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud (2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094407 - (163 comments)

- Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud (2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108813 - (44 comments)

---

Similar sentiment:

- X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38041181 (18 comments)

- Leaving the Cloud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33301078 (195 comments)

- We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34878140 (18 comments)

- Our cloud exit has already yielded $1M/year in savings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37530011 (3 comments)
80% of the code is drivers, which having written many myself, doesn't always need the latest OOP features. Abstractions suck in C for sure, but it's OK.

Meanwhile, the Windows XP codebase had 45M LOC in 2011.

Truly big codebases need to be written in sane languages, mostly OOP ones. That excludes C, Zig and Rust.
You can get microsd cards and even nanosd card that are so small that hiding
somewhere on your person is easy.

Encrypt everything you need on it.

They are, should it be required, easy to quickly and discreetly swallow
as a last resort. (To get rid of it. I have no idea what would happen to a nano sd card travelling through your body, but I presume that it, or at least the ability to read the data on it, would be destroyed.

Then carry a regular laptop with you, with all the regular applications and
regular behavior of them. Boring.

Using tails as the main operating system on a computer you fear might be inspected by customs or secret agents is screaming:

"I have something to hide and you cant find it"
Does anybody still use iOS 9? If someone hasn't updated their OS in 8 years, is it reasonable for them the expect app updates on it?
Serbian Domain Registry supports the use of .rs for Rust-related sites
The article is proposing the latter. Low AVP could contribute to symptoms of ASD. If this is true, they expect a positive correlation between ASD and other better-known issues caused by low AVP.
China won’t start a war in Taiwan. Look what they are doing in Hong Kong. China is patient. They will slowly bring Taiwan back into the fold without killing the golden goose.
It's not that much of an edge case. Sure, their load is super steady, but most other workloads are predictable enough, or rather it is still cheaper to over provision to your typical peak load and then some than doing the same entirely in the cloud. You might still get slashdotted if you have some overnight success, and whether this is acceptable in your business model then depends. You might've taken the hybrid approach where you can spin up additional resources in some cloud.
very cool work! we did something similar in the context of the Swiss AI initiative (https://www.swiss-ai.org/) here: https://github.com/swiss-ai/MoE. The implementation is as simple and fast as nanoGPT and works with our modular llm-baselines codebase (https://github.com/epfml/llm-baselines) for experimenting with transformers and different datasets :)
Handcrafting JSON is undoubtedly always a pain, but the idea with XTQL is rather that it can be easily generated from any regular programming language.

> I would actively avoid utilizing any query language where I have to count brackets

That's really an editor/tooling problem, solvable in many ways, but I guess a Python-like/Parinfer approach would be your preference? (where whitespace/indentation is significant)
Don't. The benefits far outweigh the costs until you reach enormous scale.
Truly not a selfish act, but not an act without principles.
You’re almost there. It’s saying that you’re at risk for central diabetes insipidus known to cause abnormal thirst and urination in like the next paragraph.

What I find hilarious is that the whole first paragraph is about things being named after scientists and then there’s an author named Gesundheit…now I need to look that up.
As I commented somewhere else, Chinese EV makers are state enterprises that dump their production at a loss on the European market.

Cars have become expensive, but their baseline in safety requirements (and luxury) has increased a lot too. This is true for all cars, European or not. Cheap Asian brands have also become more expensive or went away as they cannot meet safety regulations.
Absolutely. QuietSTaR is going to make CoT obsolete. It's just, it won't make it obsolete by showing that CoT does nothing, but by getting the LLM to embed invisible CoT-like token sequences into the context on its own. That's a victory for CoT, not a loss.

"Let's think step by step" is a hack. It was always a hack. Its main payoff was showing people where the model had a weakness and how to (hackily, heavily dependent on training data and phrasing) route around it. Now with QS, the models will be able to bypass that weakness on their own.

> I hesitate to the use description as "think," just biasing correlations for subsequent generations.

This is of course a fully general description of any iterative computation. :)
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My basic argument is just that it is plausible that the perceived different feel of different frame materials is real, and that there is no support for the claim of another comment that a different feel is impossible. I am surprised that no one seems to have done any convincing experiments.

I could have left out my anecdote because it is subjective and prone to bias and error, but it is how I believe I can rule out (some of) the commonly cited reasons of different bike feel -- seat posts, because that would not affect vibrations coming through the feet; and tire pressure, because different tire types and pressure have their own different and recognizable feel (e.g. responsive and jittery with high pressure, squishy and sluggish but not silky smooth with low pressure).
Sorry, but everybody knows that the attackers were dropped from a stealthy retrograde orbit by Liechtenstein's Holy Roman Space Forces.

Back in Realityville...beyond "rule of cool", is there any reason to believe that IS would need assistance to pull off such an attack? Or that IS would want to share the "credit" for their bloody deeds?
Arehfs uses ReasonML in the frontend and OCaml in the backend.

Not afilliated.
This really makes me want to watch a Western show or movie. I wonder if there is anything like Deadwood that I missed.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

I have no hope that the people who created the very tools that led to these problems, are in anyway going to try and solve this problem.
Ask HN: How can I block promotional SMS from contacts without numbers(ex:DPROM)?
It is quite annoying to receive promotional SMS from contacts without numbers(ex:DPROM), I am on Android, is there any way to block these kind of SMS?
I think the MoE models are trained together just like any other network though, including the dispatcher layer that has to learn which "expert" route each token to. Perhaps you could do some kind of technically worse model architecture that is trained separately and then a more complex dispatcher that then learns to utilize the individually trained experts as best as it can?
In general, it has been the position of moderators that reposts are generally fine with an interval of 6 months-1 year.
I did this for some people in my wider team when they were going to events.

Most generated qrcodes (from a URL) will work fine, but LinkedIn is strange as their direct link will open a web browser and not always kick open their app on a persons phone.
(The issue mostly seemed to be older versions of iOS that created headaches).

If you’re doing this for LinkedIn, instead open the app on your phone, find your QR code for your profile, screenshot the QR code their app generates, then crop it and use it as you need.
The semantic web was a beautiful idea at one point
If you see a YT which is remotely dodgy, don’t watch it… It very well could be planted there as bait.

And that’s great Google are trying to fight back, a little. Though I wonder that for us Non-American Brits that they’d do the same for us too (doubtful)
This one is supposed to be sold at a profit, according to the OP.
> dump their production at a loss on the European market.

How much money are they losing? How can they afford to do that? How long can they keep that up?

China’s overall BEV exports rose 70 percent in 2023, reaching $34.1 billion.

The European Union (EU) is the largest recipient of Chinese BEV exports, accounting for nearly 40 percent of them. Other European countries (Albania, European Free Trade Association members, North Macedonia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom) held a 15 percent share of Chinese shipments in the same year.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/china-...
VLC is one of the most impressive pieces of software I've ever used. I still remember the time in school when an older kid showed me he could launch VLC from a usb stick, without "installing it" and play torrented movies on the machines in the computer lab, without admin rights or the ability to install codecs.

Runs everywhere, plays anything is not an understatement.
Supposed to be making a profit on each one. According to OP.
We dump a lot of subsidies on our factories too. But in the end it doesn't matter, because most people remember that a few years ago you were able to buy chap cars <10k. That mean that modal incomes could afford to have a car.

Now 10k is the price of a second-hand car with lots of potential issues. It got to a point that there are companies that offer pericial services with a guy who goes to review the car with an ODB reader and everything. That wasn't happening here.

But it isn't only the cheap market. Premium brands are pushing a lot of BS and people is taking notice.

You can't squeeze people indefinitely without no repercussion. It's just impossible.