skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to see Debian under the hood; very solid base.

Good market rife for some disruption from below. The existing offerings all feel pretty pricey, especially for the tiny embedded cores that run most of them.

Also excited to see ARM finally finally showing up. DIY board, but Linus Tech Tips reviewed the rk3588 based FriendELEC CM3588 with 4x m.2 slots (yes, vastly oversubscribed PCIe), and had nice things to say. It would make a very competent sata NAS and fine for a lot of ssd uses. Its wild to me how bad ARM has been at getting cores out people can use for general computing, just incredible non-delivery forever, but maybe some day more mobile/desktop class cores can emerge at reasonable price points & stir up some entrenched x86, maybe, perhaps, someday, maybe, one of these decades... https://youtu.be/QsM6b5yix0U?si=PoemX6Iu5vTCS85Q https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product%2Fprodu...

Edit: UgreenOS being vanilla Debian + management UI was mentioned in TwoGuyzTech review, https://youtu.be/205rlkyK_QE?si=edzzy7tvUW8hhI0d#t=4m

Also the HDMI out makes so much sense. Pity there's not better off the shelf protocol/software solutions. Miracast wouldn't make sense because someone else would have to read from the nas then send the video via Miracast to it.

Google/w3c has been forever mucking about with a Open Screen Protocol, which aims to fulfill promises to support more than proprietary Chromecast protocol devices when they added Presentation API back in 2015. https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_presentation It would be a great fit & let existing media apps like Jellyfin or Twitch or Spotify just work. Almost a decade down the road though & it's slowboating through standards committees with one blessed engineer slowly coaxing it along, very frustrating long limbo. https://github.com/w3c/openscreenprotocol . There's a demo/reference repo in Chromium that works, and there's actually been consistent movement recently, by >1 engineer, which I'd dare to say is quite uncharacteristic & possibly even exciting. https://chromium.googlesource.com/openscreen/

Matter just cooked their own competing Cast protocol up, with Amazon's help. Dunno what impls/softwares are available. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24030324/amazon-matter-cas...

The rk3588 mentioned above also has HDMI-In and a 4k120 HEVC video encoder, which is worth noting especially for it's really interesting streaming possibilities; a gratis highly capable stream capture card, sort of.
This.

They lock a lot of features behind an Enterprise plan where they could allow them to be added to a lower plan.

In general, I just hate working with sales reps and would rather avoid a company altogether if I can’t sign up without talking to them.
Number two is probably Frost's Mending Wall and "Good fences make good neighbors."
This is a typical phenomenon when a topic is divisive, and the Israel/Gaza topic is one of the most divisive.

Edit: We sometimes turn off flags when an article contains significant new information and also has at least some chance of providing a substantive basis for discussion. I haven't read the current article yet but it seems like a reasonable candidate for this, so I turned off the flags.

For anyone who wants more information about how we approach doing that, in the context of the current topic, here are some past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618973 (March 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237176 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947003 (Jan 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749162 (Dec 2023)
other than maybe parts of the Northeast Corridor, do any of the othe "megaregions" solve that problem?
one earth second per earth second, or one lunar second per earth second?
AFAIK, unless you are a huge American corp with orders above $100m Nvidia will only sell you old and expensive server cards like the crappy A40 PCIe 4.0 48GB GDDR6 at $5,000. Good luck getting SXM H100s or GH200.

If Intel sells a stackable kit with a lot of RAM and a reasonable interconnect a lot of corporate customers will buy. It doesn't even have to be that good, just half way between PCIe 5.0 and NVLink.

But it seems they are still too stuck in their old ways. I wouldn't count on them waking up. Nor AMD. It's sad.
BanyanFS is now ready for public access
isn't the CTA US only? or would it have jurisdiction for a structure in UAE, Channel Islands, Dublin, or Luxembourg etc.

When it comes to actual personal wealth management (not corporate tax optimization) there is also Austria, Lichtenstein, Geneve, Monaco, etc which are all very livable for HNWI and their families.
It is bizzare. All the old guard foundations of society type companies that the world relies on for modernity have stocks that barely budge but pay out decent dividends. Maybe tech stocks that have grown to such a position should consider paying out dividends instead of failing to chase exponential stock price growth while still clearly doing a lot of productive things. I expect the shareholder boards prefer the chance of exponential wealth over steady returns and prevent this mindset from emerging.
Had anyone tried to grow their own saffron? How did it go?
That is a choice to be made. Some people choose to be childfree out of preference, some out of economics, work/life balance, structural support. Even governments like South Korea, who have sunk billions into pro natalist policies, can’t turn around the total fertility rate.

The population decline is inevitable, better to get out in front of preparing for it now while there is enough aggregate productivity through healthy working age people, vs when this “light cone” perpetually shrinks and there is less and less people to put forth effort into needed physical work. The world will be fine with less people.
I couldn't find the Debian reference. Linky please?
Like another commenter mentioned, managed container platforms like Cloud Run and Fargate don't have the same cold start limitations as serverless functions like Lambda.

Serverless functions spin up resources and run isolated code on-demand for every request as it's received. If you have no traffic, it scales down to zero and cold starts can be a concern. And paying for compute per-request like this can get very expensive at scale.

While Fargate is advertised as "serverless", I'd think of it as a fully container platform, it's closer to Heroku than it is serverless functions. You point it to an image, tell it how many instances you want to run, maybe set up some autoscaling rules (like to add more instances when CPU reaches X%), and then it'll run those instances 24/7. From what you've described, it sounds like a good fit.
This sort of clock wouldn't be very useful for, say, baking bread for the correct amount of time in an accelerating frame of reference, right?
> Israel is surrounded by countries that would like to see it wiped off of the map

Israel is occupying territories from 3 countries of those. Killing thousands. Initiated attacks in the past to conquer lands from another one (Egypt Sinai) and still occupying Palestinian lands (even if count 1967 borders) where there are 800k settlers/colonizers in west bank alone. And regularly bomb and kill civilians in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. It has WMD (remember the lie that Iraq get invaded under this claim because that is dangerous for the region)

Painting the problem on the other sides while the aggressor is very obvious is a dishonest take at best.

If you want your neighbors to even recognize and sympathize with your cause then you don't kill their children and take their lands. And then claim self-defense.

Most of isreali society origins are from Europe. They are victims of Europe refusing and kicking them outside. That doesn't make them victims in general.

The argument that the lands can be given back if there is a peace and recognition is bullshit. Israel have clear intend in annexation and the US is fine ans even recognized Golan heights as Israeli land. They settle their people in the occupying land. There is even companies and cabinet members discussing building new settlements in gaza after ethnically cleansing the Palestinians.
Dhrystones were pretty misleading

Yeah...always good for a laugh. Sure, your 68k can compute a Sieve of Eratosthenes 3 times faster than my 780 (or whatever)...but no 68k alive (at the time) could support 50+ interactive terminal users like we did all day every day (and provide email, netnews, ftp, etc. for the whole campus).

DEC VMS is indeed very nice, but we didn't run it. We ran a locally hacked version of BSD 4.2/4.3. At some point I got upgraded to a Sun 3/160 on my desk (well...next to it) so I hear you.
I think it's about not wearing down the shell. Also, a marketing stun.
It hasn't before. They've bombed whole UN compounds, killed US and Canadian citizens, etc. and suffered no consequences.
I have it in bookmarks already, albeit with iconbuddy.app fqdn where it claimed 100k open source icons.

We have a .com domain now and double the icon count, congratulations.
It's true, lack of highly available public transportation between the cities puts us behind other regions (not to mention other countries). I've been doing the ATX -> HTX drive for years.

Best private alternative I've found is Vonlane (https://vonlane.com/) - takes longer than flying but it's a business class bus so you can get work done.
LA/OxnardVentura/SanDiego is an easy train. As is Portland/Seattle.
A web search that will give me verbatim results, with boolean support. Ads are fine if not masquarding as results.
Running an IBM Mainframe OS on a PC [video]
goto used in certain idiomatic ways (e.g. to jump to cleanup code after an error, or to go to a `retry:` label, or to continue or break out of a multiply nested loop) is fine. What's annoying is bypassing control flow with random goto spaghetti.
A maxed out Mac Studio probably fits your requirements as stated.
I can’t get over the fact how storage is still so expensive in 2024. Lowest you can get is probably $5 per tb a month from any of these companies. A new tb hdd is probably $25 today. Where does the money go, into c suite car payments?
>it's highly unlikely to lead to productive discussion.

I guess all you have to do, if you want to suppress information about something, is to ensure that its comments always devolve into unproductive discussions. Funny, I once read about this as a tactic for controlling information flow in online communities...
I was thinking mini-kidneys, mini-hearts? The latter might involve difficult coordination, but maybe that's not necessary if you've got individual hearts running at lower blood pressure.

It all just reminds me of Neal Asher's stories, where creatures build nano factories in their bodies as and when needed, including local fusion "nodes".
Can you cite any research on just how frequent you mean by "frequently". It certainly happens sometimes, but I have found no evidence that is is the norm.
>M3

>4090

These are noob hardware. A6000 is my choice.

Which really only further emphesizes your point.

>CPU based is a waste of everyone's time/effort

>GPU based is 100% limited by VRAM, and is what you are realistically going to use.
"Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination."

Hamas combatants like fried chicken, beer, and women. I also like these things. I can't possibly see anything wrong with this system...
The San Diego - LA basin is moderately well covered, but the train is still slower than driving - most of the time.

Unless you have exceptionally fast and direct rail, the train is almost always slower than driving, even in Europe, when counted door to door.
One man's gouging is just another's operation of a genuinely free and transparent market.

What is a fair market price? How does it differ from the market price, and who gets to make the distinction?
Building a Tax Appeal RAG with Milvus, LlamaIndex, and GPT
I don’t know whether Tolkien’s estate should or should not keep profiting from his work, but I don’t see why this should be forbidden. If anything, we probably have so much great work coming out because people want to repeat the success of great masters and achieve fame and wealth that are possible thanks to IP protections.

Make a cool world and license its use semi-openly, be the change you want to see? Just keep in mind that if your world is openly licensed, it will quickly go out of your control and likely in a direction you (or your family, when you’re dead) may find repulsive. Also, I think you would have to be comfortable that if the next guy writes something based on your hard work and gets a Netflix deal tomorrow you may find it difficult to do something about it.

> Many of Disney's earlier movies are retelling of folktales. Tolkein in addition to creating parts of his world build on top of existing folktales. Neither would be where they are now if someone was able to impose the kind of restrictions on them that they themselves now impose on us.

Anything you say, write, do, etc., is technically based on everything done before you. So now we should eschew the idea of intellectual property and the progress it brought. Got it!
It’s possible that those groups are disjoint enough that every truck owner uses it for one of those functions but not the others, and does so to an extent that they can’t use another vehicle (e.g. uses the bed for more than fits in a car, etc.), but that seems unlikely. The sales have boomed for years and it seems unlikely that there are so many new ranchers or tradespeople, etc. especially given that most of the trucks you see on the road outside of rural areas are in pristine condition with no signs of being used to tow anything.
A plan to connect Houston to Dallas with a bullet train has been grinding its way along for years now[0]. Since Texas is loath to use eminent domain, the planning phase has been stalled for a loooong time.

[0]: https://www.texascentral.com/project/

Edit: Whoops, wrong project. Still, the plans are there, we just need willing politicians.
Awesome, let us know how it goes. You can put feedback in the box or send us an email at contact@planroadmap.com !
Cooool :) let us know how it goes
Couldn't even imagine the amount of random fires that would break out the first day, with practically no tools to put them out.
I need offline LLMs for work.

It doesnt need to be consumer grade, it doesnt need to be ultra high either.

It needs to be cheap enough for my department to expensive it via petty cash.
What fraction of money do you think exists in this state?
Perhaps Central FL - Miami on the Brightline?
convenient how, you mean?
Aren’t seconds different based on latitude, as well as elevation? Should we perhaps have many more time zones than the 30 or so we have now, all requiring occasional leap-ms to sync up to UTC?
AIs that generate kill lists that kill the innocent should themselves be put on a kill list.

Edit: And the humans who approved the list should be help accountable, of course.
Their cars recently significantly dropped in price, and it seems clear why [1]. Also got a bad review from MKBHD on YouTube, which can’t help[2]

[1] https://slickdeals.net/f/17387397-2023-fisker-ocean-trim-pri...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWXRk3yaSw
As a working class individual, you can get excellent financial privacy. You can stick your $10k in savings in cash in a glass jar behind your bed, and neither the government nor big banks nor investigative journalists get to know how much is in thar jar, and they have no say what you spend that money on and when.

A more wealthy individual has no such privacy. Their wealth is not truly wealth and not truly theirs, it is fundamentally a trust-us IOU from a bank or a stockbroker which is shared with all kinds of parties, a publicly visible number on the screen which at any second could turn zero or negative on the orders of a corrupt official or due to a buggy algorithm or mistyped name on a sanctions list.

The more wealthy individual yearns for a glass jar - but no jar is big enough to hold the sums the more wealthy individual operates with.

Hence, shell companies.
flagging is voting to censor a particular view. it could have legit uses like spam or toxic comments but just as easy to censor narratives that isn't aligned or clashes with the voter's

im not sure what other tools exist other than a block button like X
Another one that's bothered me is how our models so often start from scratch (aside from fine tuning or transfer learning) - I wish we could just start with say a smaller model with low resolution and grow it into a higher resolution one, a small LLM that can be grown into different specialisations (which we do with fine tuning - but do they all need the same number of layers, size of each layer, etc).
A couple of years ago I read through his complete works. Highly recommend doing so, but I will say that, unlike with many (most?) other poets, I found that the Robert Frost poems you already know--Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening--are indeed his best. There are plenty of other good ones and some truly great lines as well, but it was oddly reassuring to find out.
I love saffron! Not because of its taste (which I kind-of hate) or other properties (like staining, which I definitely hate, or security-theatre-triggering, but more about that below), but mostly due to the rituals around it, and because a friend of mine once got booted off a TV cooking show as a result of using it.

So, visiting the famous (and horrible, but thank you!) Spice Market in Istanbul recently, I just could not resist learning everything I could about saffron (mostly: how to spot the fake stuff -- spoiler: the paint sinks in hot water), plus, of course, taking home some of the real stuff for said friend.

This, on an unplanned detour through Germany on my way back, got me into a bit of trouble. Apparently, the post-9/11 scanners that determine whether your hand-luggage contains anything troublesome, have some of their own issues with saffron...
Hardware lock-in, proprietary formats, and DRM. If you're heavily invested in Apple Services (iCloud, Apple Music, etc.) you will notice not everything is transferable or works on non-Apple devices.

And the iMessage thing is silly. I have an iCloud account and own an apple device. It shouldn't matter from which device I ultimately send the messages. I'm still "paying for it".
This assumes that AI based weaponry provides value. The case in point here is showing that the only value it provides is a flimsy justification for civilian casualties. We... Don't need more of that in the US, nor would it provide a "good guy" any legitimate value.
what do you mean "bribed and blackmailed"?
Putting a `out-of-stack? branch` check in every function prolog made an embedded chip programmed in C much nicer to work with. Cost a few instructions which was contentious but definitely a development aid.
> Backblaze is unprofitable and publicly traded

So is Cloudflare
I'm talking about daily/correspondence games.
Haaretz reports that the ground troops in Gaza are acting on their own and in a state of anarchy.

https://archive.is/2024.04.02-205352/https://www.haaretz.com...
No, but I had thought about planting safflower which is supposed to be a budget alternative. Never went through with it.
Growth is a mind cancer
To put a title to it, that's Dust of Snow
Does this include the Amazon-branded Chase credit cards, and if so, what does Amazon think about this?
> 100% legal is only tested when brought to court

A tangent, but this is in and of itself completely nuts. One should be able to read the text of the law, as written, and understand what you are and are not permitted to do - end of story. There should be no need to look at precedents. Courts only recourse if a law is unclear should be to send it back to an elected legislature for refinement.
So while I am usually the person who would much rather the browser do almost nothing that isn't a hardware interface, requiring all software (including rendering) to be distributed as code by the website via the end-to-end principal--making the browser easy to implement and easy to secure / sandbox, as it is simply too important of an attack surface to have a billion file format parsing algorithms embedded within it--I actually would love (and I realize this isn't what Opera is doing, at least yet) to have the browser provide a way to get access to a user-selected LLM: the API surface for them--opaque text streaming in both directions--is sufficiently universal that I don't feel bad about the semantic lock-in and I just don't see any reasonable way to do this via the end-to-end principal that preserves user control over tradeoffs in privacy, functionality, and cost... if I go to a website that uses an LLM I should be the one choosing which LLM it is using, NOT the website!!, and if I want it to use some local model or the world's most powerful cloud model, I 1) should be in control of that selection and 2) pretty much have to be for local models to be feasible at all as I can't sit around downloading and caching gigabytes of data, separately, from every service that might make use of an LLM. (edit: Ok, in thinking about it a lot more maybe it makes more sense for this to be a separate daemon run next to the web browser--even if it comes with the web browser--which merely provides a localhost HTTP interface to the LLM, so it can also be shared by native apps... though, I am then unsure how web applications would be able to access them securely due to all of the security restrictions on cross-origin insecure port access.)
Adsb spoofing is an implicit feature of nearly all SDR transcievers. The programs exist on all platforms, and code is freely available.
Rephrased, Texans think the rights of private land owners matter more than the latest politician’s talking points.

The people downvoting this have clearly never had government agents steal anything from them. Or believe that when they do, it’s always “for the greater good”.
With 37,000 Palestinians marked as suspected militants, it would mean they expected up to 555,000 - 740,000 civilian casualties.
So yeah, shouldn't be too hard, but Burr does not replace LLM API calls -- you can bring whatever frameworks you want. You could do this by writing a simple function:

@action(reads=["prompt"], writes=["response"])
def my_action(state: State) -> Tuple[dict, State]:
prompt = state["prompt"]
# you stick in whatever library you want for the call
llm_response = whatever_library(prompt)
state = state.update(response=llm_response)
return {"response" : llm_response}, state.update(response=llm_response)

Does this help?
I don't think that one is so much concerned about consolidation as it is about a clear violation of a specific statute:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/19

The big players are now Apple/Amazon/Netflix/Comcast/Disney/Sony (all with market caps north of $100B).

Far under that comes WBD ($20B), Fox ($14B), Paramount ($8B), and then Lionsgate ($3B). It would be crazy, to me, to go after the latter group for any type of anti trust. What they are buying and selling is also being bought and sold by at least 9 other decent size businesses.
Qualcomm's new laptop chip leads in single- and multi-core tests
The article tries & fails to convey this megaregion is "distinctive". Main pieces of evidence it offers are,

1. Distinctive set of demographic and economic realities

This is not a very compelling argument. Different places have different people. We should not be surprised by this observation.

2. Integrated economic system within a single state

Same article also cites other one-state megaregions like Florida, Southern California, Nortern California.
I'd rather see an mspaint drawing.
top G
cool project.