skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see SableDB mentioned in your link, and my comment is specifically about comparing using the same benchmark. Comparing across benchmarks is usually foolish since there’s so many factors that are different and performance scales non-linearly over the factors. For example the Garnet benchmark uses machines with 72 Azure vCPUs, the SableDB one uses AWS machines with 16 vCPUs.

Besides, I don’t expect SableDB to be faster than weakly persisted systems like Redis or I guess Garnet. The cool thing about SableDB is that it (looks?) durable - although the docs don’t make specific promises, they do mention some things in passing that imply RocksDb transactions. Each command seems to flush its changes to durable storage before succeeding. That’s very different from Redis et al even with their “append only file” / WAL turned on - the AOF is written asynchronously so you will still lose data on crash. Redis also deletes random data when under memory/storage pressure.

Again, I want to understand trade-offs not “find the fastest web scale database”. I’m sure /dev/null is faster than Garnet.
I do not believe that adding such rules for ignoring files is wise.

I prefer to just run "make clean" after I delete, rename or move source files.

With a properly written "Makefile" nothing else needs to be done and there will never be a broken build. With a properly written "Makefile" nothing has to be done when adding source files.
Meth and cocaine users also want a safe place to use their drug of choice :). The whole issue of drug use should be left to individuals and not mandated by State. If some drugs are more dangerous than others maybe we can provide a safe place for their consumption like hospitals and clinics as we do now for prescription medications. But simply criminalizing all drugs or some drugs doesn't help, as we have seen over and over again.
This was probably completely, utterly unrelated to the migration of the german Microsoft HQ to Munich at that time and there was no corruption involved at all.
Can you give an example? I just think that no matter what programming language or framework you're using, if you are querying for giant arrays through an ORM and passing them through an API result to a web app, it's going to be slow.

There are other kinds of solutions for this problem like breaking up the data into chunks and only returning the necessary data. Maybe it's a DB optimization where you can add indexes. Or caching the result of your ORM query.

I've never seen any web app written with any tech that was snappy while making requests for large amounts of data and waiting for it to come back in one big honkin array.

> Web apps deal with fairly big data structures, if nothing due to orms.

Perhaps due to using ORMs unnecessarily and/or inefficiently and failing to drop down to SQL when needed.
Dyno graphs aren't consistent with that:

https://www.google.com/imgres?q=1993%20stock%20rx-7%20dyno&i...

They are fun engines, but low end torque just isn't their thing.
Fair. Though in the case of the primary article the issue is hallucination, and they likely mean generative AI tools that infill to get the resolution increase
Aye, it is merely the gentrification of our quaint little Very weird strange little neighborhood in outer space or time or dimension or parallel reality.

Where oh, where will the true weirdos move to now that we can say there goes the neighborhood
Adding the 4 missing Supreme Court justices for the circuits that don’t have them would go a long way to solving this in the short term.
> Kind of hard to believe you think it'll land before Starship when New Glenn itself hasn't even had a flight test yet.

Please put down your pitchfork. I said "I can't believe I'm saying this, but there is a chance."

A neutral reading of this would be that I believe Starship will land first.
I've asked this before, but I'll try again every time Basic ROMs come up :)

I've written a fully functional emulator for the Philips P2000T, my childhood love, and I wish to distribute it along with the Basic ROM, as nearly all software for it uses that ROM as a basis. (It's written in Kotlin and can run in both the JVM and in a browser in JavaScript).

That ROM is copyrighted by Philips and Microsoft. Unfortunately, I have no contact at Microsoft to help me with this. Anyone here who can perhaps point me in the right direction?
It's a great loss for future generations that they won't quite get the silliness of uncrop operation. It was supposed to be seen with laugh track.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3NWKbBaaU&t=27s
Do you monetize it?
It's like any other expensive single use gadget. Some people buy one and use it once. Some use it more. Be one of those.

Freeze drying does give you a new way to get fruit flavors in food, so experiment.
> Low fat = higher calories

I don't think this is literally true, but I agree with the gist: Eat whole, full-fat foods, but pay attention to the quantity you eat. If you're getting more of your calories from fat and have more dietary fiber, you'll be surprised at how far what you do eat goes. You don't actually have to eat that much. But again, if it's real food, it'll be delicious when you do eat.
What would you recommend as an alternative to advertisements? I do think a lot of ads go too far, but I think some form of advertisement is necessary to get new awareness of new brands and products. Otherwise only the pre-established large brands and products will ever get sales, which would lead to a lack of competition and all the negatives that come with that.
I wasn't complaining, I just posted something I noticed considering I just learned about this organization. I went to check the tickets, then the history of the event, and noticed that it has always been held in the US.

Since HN in general likes to complain about names (OpenAI? more like ClosedAI AMIRITE??) I thought this was on topic.
The EU AFIR regulation requires that, for any publicly accessible charging points installed after 13th of April 2024, adhoc recharging must be possible using a payment card or other commonly-used payment instrument.

So, kind of cold comfort for existing ones, but this should sort itself out over the next few years.
I guess it's what you're used to. I have a small wallet I carry in a front pocket, haven't had to swipe a card in ages, and it takes 5 seconds to insert the card.

Maybe if I wore my Apple Watch more, I'd get used to using it but the card just seems more straightforward in general. Maybe I'll insert and maybe I'll tap. I'm pretty indifferent.
Way to completely misunderstand the issue at hand.

The issue isn’t “we’re mad at them for subscribing to a New Puritan agenda (although there is one playing out); the issue is that right now there is no way to censor the model for “undesirable” features without lobotomizing the acceptable content as well.

It’s not just removing nipples from training. We have evidence that the “safer” the models get, the worse they get.

The more heavy handed the weights are by manual influence, the less they are producing valuable output.

The cost of performance for everyone is directly coming at the cost of the perpetually-offended, and I suggest why bother because those people are never satiated. When you make your identity about being offended, there will always be something that is offensive.
Yes, this involves higher temperature (the sand is stable up to ~1200 C) and transfer of heat from the sand to a working gas by means of Babcock & Wilcox's fluidized bed heat exchanger technology. This is a neat idea that intimately mixes the gas and sand for very rapid and compact heat transfer.

Using resistive heaters, round trip efficiency (back to electricity) is estimated to be around 52%.
RocksDB is written in C++ and runs in-process. That's just like having a load of unsafe Rust code.
> I just mean the people that fall for phishing don't need this sophisticated of an attack to fall for

Yes. It's more of the opposite. It's a well documented fact that the most obvious/ridiculous scams work the best, because they help select the most gullible potential victims.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
Some of it may be that if I'm in a store, I've almost certainly driven there so I probably have my (small) wallet with me.
15-60 minute settlement times early on certainly didn't help
The goal of the state lottery is to generate additional revenue by using its lawmaking power to protect and exploit a monopoly on gambling.
Seems like an abstraction of writing helm charts in your programming language itself (node, python, terraform) would be more useful and a better abstraction.
I did expect MMOs to have fairly complex architectures but damn. I have nothing to compare it against but it still makes me slightly dizzy.
I figured the stated move to open source was a bluff to get a lower license cost.
Most famous scene: I remember the argument with the bomb. But for me, the most memorable scene is the final one, when the surfer astronaut surfs away through outer space.

That scene, combined with the argumentative bomb, are reminiscent of the final scene of Dr. Strangelove, with Slim Pickens in his cowboy hat stradling the bomb, yee-ha-ing, and riding it to armageddon.

I saw this in a cinema when it came out, and loved it. It's astonishing that it cost only $60,000 to make. I mean sure, it wasn't exactly a cast of thousands; and the beach-ball alien was obviously cheap as chips ("It's your turn to feed the alien!"), but I had no trouble suspending belief. Maybe it was the drugs; I have no idea what I was taking back then.
Um, no the goal of state lotteries is money for the state to spend on things that voters would not want to pay taxes for.

Most of the lotteries were started with the promise that they would "fund education" but in reality dollars are fungible. To the extent that they even try to maintain the facade, that's all that it is.
In practice, these AI models are centralized services. Few people are running them locally on their machine with knowledge of the training data, weights, or system prompts. There isn't a direct line between "user intent" and "system output," unlike the local word processor in your example.

Someone has to make value judgments on the underlying data and algorithms, if only to build the system in the first place. If users can't (or don't care to) run these models locally, who else will decide other than the service operator?
> Both can be bridged to Matrix, which can be accessed with any OS you like with FOSS software.

Correct, and I do exactly this. But WhatsApp requires a mobile device. It can work without the device turned on, but after a few weeks it will stop working. So you still need to have a phone though you don't need to bring it with you.

iMessage and SMS is totally not a thing at all here. But Telegram is (which doesn't require the mobile app luckily, in fact I really like Telegram despite the lack of end 2 end encryption in regular chats). They allow alternative clients, bots, and their paid plans are cheap enough and offer some features that are genuinely cool and useful. I use it most of the time with local people here instead of whatsapp, I only use that with the few people that don't have telegram.

I'm just mentioning this because in the US telegram appears to have a bad rep somehow. But to me it's one of the services that's the least trying to enshittify. Even Signal I don't use because it's just not terribly useful the way they implemented it.

> Almost nothing is truly mobile only. You can run Android applications on QubesOS in a pinch, but more generally I find most 2FA apps actually use TOTP or FIDO under the hood, and can be replaced with open alternatives with a bit of research.

That won't work. My work requires MDM management of the mobile device for accessing work stuff. And the 2FA app is unfortunately not TOTP or FIDO.

And I agree with you on the cash part yes.
Thanks for confirming, that was my take as well.
you must place some amount of trust somewhere.

Using something and trusting it are different things.
Or JPEGito in Spanish
There are also people who regret socializing and partying when they feel like they should have been studying instead. That's just kind of how life goes. I find it's much nicer to be stuck in stability than stuck in chaos.
I think yes and no.

I think the hype itself is a lot of the same hype that we saw for crypto. Trying to find anywhere it can be shoved and just using "AI" having a ton of market power even if what is being done makes zero sense.

However unlike Crypto, which had a technological barrier that blocked any serious adoption by the general population. AI doesn't have that barrier. So I am worried that the hype will continue to grow and the bubble won't pop in the same way since too many people have just accepted it even though it is severely flawed and being shoved in places it doesn't belong.

Edit:

Also I really wish when we talk about "AI" we can be specific on if we are talking about "LLM's" being shoved everywhere or if we are talking about more traditional AI that was more commonplace and almost invisible just a couple years ago. Above I am referring to LLM's and the image/video generation tech.
‘The censorship work done in AI alignment is insufficiently accurate to rely on for production use’ is a good and valid position

‘Therefore AI vendors should release uncensored models and let everyone else figure it out’ is not a logical consequent from it.

‘Therefore don’t use current AI tech to build apps that photomanipulate user submitted content and echo the results back to them with your logo on it’ would be a more logical conclusion to draw.
> It seems that society can't delineate between accepting a practice and promoting a practice.

There's no "society". Obviously people can tell the difference. You're the one saying the law should treat them differently - why? We have certain exceptions, but what's your case for a blanket rule, or a deny by default rule?
Do you have a Pro plan?
I don't know where you grew up, but in almost every college guy's social network (usually already consisting of sports guys) we all knew a guy and didn't just bet in Vegas on vacation.

It has always been a significant part of 20-30 yo male paychecks, now it's just acceptable to advertise on ESPN.
https://RTCode.io (demo video on the homepage) is a real-time, reload-free, online web playground.

For remote output across multiple real devices, we are currently using STUN/TURN servers hosted on AWS/OCI for route discovery and relay (only between users behind restrictive firewalls).

Cloudflare Calls can completely replace the manual process of maintaining our own fleet of STUN/TURN servers for real-time (audio/video and) data applications. Reducing costs and complexity by several orders of magnitude.

Cloudflare Workers for Platforms is already driving our Edge Workers service, and it makes our global network vaster than Vercel with equal performance.

See https://new.rt.ht for our templates.
Piping the working fluid to the sand means your pipes have to increase in size and cost as you add more sand. Dropping the sand into a heat exchanger means the heat exchanger doesn't increase in cost with the volume of sand.
What an amazing list! Found so many things I didn't know existed as a private and FOSS alternative.
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Actual release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928714
Oh we reflect on it all the time allright, its just that those in power like the status quo, and will put forth enormous effort to keep it.
It's EPA regs that push size increases
Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's Dark Vision for San Francisco
I'm sure that most people don't care or have the technical knowledge to do so. I doubt things like Ring even do it. But people who use their own setup probably would since they're likely to be a little more privacy aware.
Eventually you need to trust someone.

There are plenty of things I use but don't trust.
Does anyone know how much memory is available on board to each design for the tiny tapeout project? If each project could include something like a FPGA Block RAM I feel the project would have (much greater) utility and flexibility. Although I understand that might not be possible.
> but in reality dollars are fungible

This doesn't matter. It's that they're given for a separate service, vs compulsory extraction. That's the reality.
This is where a lot of tech folks fail. It's almost never about the technology. Most of the time all you need is a spreadsheet.
> My God... this woke thing again...

No, I'd actually say this issue isn't. They can't even make the thing generate what they want even with specific instructions. It's not some fretting that the frequencies don't match modern liberal political sensibilities about "representation," or a hamfisted attempt to over-correct and satisfy those sensibilities.
There’s definitely a lot of people overhyping Generative AI.

However there’s a marked difference between it and crypto in that it provides immediate value to the lay person with very low risk to them.

Stuff like summarization or scribing audio or text transformations.

The other day I was in a fabric store and overheard the cashier telling her coworker that she likes using ChatGPT to help write emails to vendors. It’s that kind of accessibility that crypto never had that AI hype is banking on.

Now the big issue is scalability. Everyone is showing off these massive models that are still expensive to run. Very little delivers at that quality while being able to run locally for a user. Without being able to run locally, it’s very expensive for the companies.

My biggest worry is that true mass consumer facing generative AI will be orders of magnitude less useful than the expensive cloud backed models.
It's good that I otherwise don't click on links in my browser during my day-to-day work. /s
Why? What's ironic about this?
>That is not how it works.

I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary): he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges [1], and he is not even the president of it!

Yes, that's how it works, it's a mistake to think that the Brazilian supreme court works like the American one

in the Brazilian supreme court there is an instrument called "monocratic decision", in which a judge of the supreme court can make decisions alone.

Obviously the other judges have to analyze the monocratic decision later, but until they do, the "monocratic decision" is valid.

Alexandre de Moraes has already suspended Telegram in Brazil using "monocratic decision".

Alexandre de Moraes has already threatened to arrest Facebook employees in Brazil, because Facebook did not want to suspend profiles worldwide, it only wanted to suspend them locally.

>De Moraes is known for his conservative, and not left-wing, positions [2]; as a matter of fact, on Wikipedia it is written "Alexandre de Moraes sent armoured vehicles to suppress left-wing demonstrations."

Alexandre de Moraes was conservative, he is currently leftist

He appears on TV defending the fake news bill, he forced Telegram to send a positive message about the fake news bill, he ordered Telegram to delete the company's opinion on the fake news bill and put his opinion on it.

This goes against the Brazilian constitution, but the supreme court has unlimited powers and any order from it will be followed by the Federal Police.

Monark, a Brazilian influencer who currently lives in Miami, was fined R$300,000 (60,000 USD) by Alexandre de Moraes for not believing in electronic voting machines.

This goes against the Brazilian constitution, but the supreme court has unlimited powers and any order from it will be followed by the Federal Police.

> they did not make such a steer on the legal decision.

That's not true. The second impeached president said at the time that it was a coup d'état, and to this day she says it was a coup d'état.

The party of the second impeached president also says it was a coup d'état

Brazilian freedom of expression has always been less than the American one, but De Moraes reduced it even more.
I find rsync really simple. Mount it locally then use Git on the mounted filesystem.

When lacking connectivity, I have a 200GB Synology NAS in my Tesla powered by the battery, something really not possible a few years ago and with significantly higher capacity than traditional clouds.
> Can I take this a step further and say that advertising is the true problem here?

No, you cannot. You are meddling with the forces of nature with this sort of talk!

Without unregulated online advertising, there is no Facebook or Google or Twitter. Modern Silicon Valley could not exist without the fortunes made by showing people ads. Apple, Netflix, Amazon are all deep in it now as well.
It still exists. I saw it pop up when I searched about LSTMs a few weeks ago.
I'm not aware of any, but you could probably compile it to WebAssembly with Emscripten and use it that way, the library seems fairly simple for something like that.
Not sure the source - but the phrase "he is far too useful [to the government] to even think of arresting" comes to mind.

And it sounds like both he and the government are perfectly comfortable with that.
> advertising most things should be banned.
> It seems that society can't delineate between accepting a practice and promoting a practice.

If it were up to you, what would you allow to be advertised? What’s your allow-list? And how would you define it in a way to allow the advertising of future products and services?
I always really liked this one, now no longer in the original place after that site shut down:

https://doubleyoudoubledoubleewe.www.dash.deeohhtee.dash-das...

There are longer versions of that variant of the poem, and versions with cleaner references, that can be easily found, but I think this is the original – it is certainly the first instance of it that I saw.
Excellent!

"Virtual attendees will have access to all talks" leaves me wondering how much will be available to non-ticket holders (checked https://hope.net/faq.html also).
The V8 Sandbox
I've done some C/C++ with Bazel before. It's nice, except that you end up having to vendor all your dependencies if you want repeatable builds :). Had more success sharing projects and building a community with CMake, horrible as that tool is.

The reason Gradle is a quality-of-life improvement is that we had boxed ourselves into a corner. rules_jvm_external, rules_docker, rules_proto, and a set of others all relied on internal details of other rules (accidentally, because pre-MODULE.bazel everything gets loaded into one giant global namespace and collisions happen). We basically got ourselves locked in, unable to move off of rules_docker, upgrade our JVM beyond 17, or even upgrade Spring, without breaking and having to upgrade everything else.

Gradle, which has first-party support for dependency management, and which is the primary system supported by large OSS vendors (Spring, etc), doesn't have these pitfalls. Poorly-written Gradle plugins can sink you as surely as Bazel packages can, but there is less opportunity for you to discover them.

I'm well aware that we were Doing Bazel Wrong, and I've certainly had my share of pain with Gradle, but never in my life have I seen so much time wasted on a build system. For plain old JVM stuff, Bazel didn't work well for us.
The similarity is that for both subjects the vast majority of people do not understand. When people do not understand a thing and that thing is very popular it makes for a great vehicle for scammers. The scammers are not intrinsic to either topic in this case but mostly just come directly from traditional finance which is their home.
This site has a couple of example pictures that show how the system was supposed to work:

https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/washington...

The pictures look kinda nice actually! Pity it turned in the another AI fiasco. Reminds me of the Microsoft chatbox Tay. Another one of such well intentions but ultimately doomed AI projects.