skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played around with Flutter a couple years ago for a project that required a mobile app, and walked away really impressed with Flutter and Dart. It's a much, much nicer language for building UI in compared to React Native and even the native languages. But the backend story with Dart was very much neglected. I got the feeling that Flutter's main developers at Google were the driving force behind Dart development, and the lack of backend adoption for Dart at Google was causing it to wither on the vine for backend purposes.

Is the ecosystem support improving here? People end up needing libraries for all kinds of backend stuff, not just auth and SQL like you have on your roadmap. What about sending emails, hooking into payment providers / billing, queues/pubsub, observability...? Doesn't this need to exist first, to make building backends in Dart feasible, before building a framework that makes it easier?
Never let reality ruin a nice story
Though that's not a government issued ID, it's issued by the banks.
Playing Devil's Advocate here - how about recommended levels of vitamin D? That's directly influenced by pigmentation.

Or melanoma? According to this, "white, non-hispanic" people develop melanoma at a rate of 26.1 per 100k while "black, non-hispanic" people develop it at a rate of 0.8 per 100k.

It seems apparent to me that there are at least _some_ cases where the social construct of "race" is useful in a clinical setting.
> any building efforts we could achieve

Maybe not any building efforts we want to achieve, but there are certainly approaches within the possible envelope, eg something like arrays of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka with mod-cons.

(I am continually amazed that the Eichler developments in the Bay Area, which were once considered the epitome of "ticky tacky", are now cool, just because they're no longer the cheap & cheery affordable thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Eichler#Santa_Clara_Cou... )
Would be good if the account gets modded and removed from this board. It decreases the overall quality of the board, the redflags are everywhere and the cumulative time-wasting over a long period of time...
I propose a dual mode:

- full code and samples in a easy access repository.

- Even better: the code are runnable using a online editor with compiler

- only three most meaningful parts are printed in the book.

For the printed code, you can introduce the boilerplates once then mark them in the successive sections.
Huge Affero (AGPL) warning.

Do not touch unless you understand how the license works and want to do so anyway.
Is there a large market for this?
"Supported"

I watched geohot streams and if he can go for an hour with a need to restart the computer due to crashed kernel driver/locked up card, it's a miracle (various computers, one or multi-card setup).

And he is not trying to crash the driver, just making the most basic stuff work.

I seriously think there is a deep HW bug that caused the difference in performance between RDNA3 presentation and reality and they had to do some horrible hacks to make it work.

Either that or the card never seen a tester for compute. Which is strange, considering they added it as a "supported" option.
Not saying this ban is a great idea...

...but there are plenty of useful things that we ban the general public from having access to.

Opium poppies. Automatic weapons. Gas centrifuges.

In fact, if you start publishing detailed designs for the last one you're likely to have people in suits who only go by first names visiting you in pretty short order.
Diluting or eliminating patents and copyrights would go a long way.
It is unfortunate that they back-ported this copilot garbage to 10. Of course, I’d never use Windows for anything serious, but 10 works OK as a glorified console, just for playing games. I’m really hoping they don’t mess it up too much before I can switch gaming over to Linux too.
Do you mean Danish audio description in Danish and English subtitles?
If LLMs warrant “the same strong regulation as nuclear proliferation”, but this is all about “kicking the brakes until culture catches up”, should we also now loosen nuclear arms regulations, now that society largely knows what’s up?

The more I use LLMs the more I’m convinced they’re harmless… The world’s not going to end because people at the margins are asking LLMs for recipes to manufacture cocaine… or a nuclear bomb.
Imagine how much the private key is worth on the black market
Off-topic but this user seems to be using ChatGPT or something similar for almost every single comment. Does Hacker News have a stance on this or is the thinking that it is allowed as long as the content is good?
> simply outpace any building efforts we could achieve with the current workforce we have.

Trades are learnable skills, my father built two of his houses (one after the other), I've built a house of my own, worked on a sheep shearing robot and contributed to brick laying robots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhcm-kRA68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s17IAj-XpU

Modern building efforts include lots of prefab and the ability to push up structures fast - pressures in the west that depress housing construction go far deeper than an inability to build; there are financial and zoning factors at play.

Talk to residents of many SE Asian countries, eg: Tokyo and elsewhere and work out how they can build enough to house higher and denser populations whereas "the West" struggles.
Well, that was a healthy rant

Life, all biological life with us as a kind of pinnacle, is about to go through radical change.

There is no risk free path. It isn’t guaranteed that a single human will be alive in 100 years - because we failed, or even because technologically we succeeded

But a degree of openness is necessary for our best ideas, our most good faith collaborations, to have a chance

It is more chaotic to trust each other, en masse. But I also think it is our best bet

The dice must be rolled. Best we throw them bold
I doubt any generic platform would support such a specific use case out of the box, especially if major providers don’t offer it.
every year there was so much backlash, especially after 2020
Incognito meant the browser itself doesn't track you / store history. Any website you visit (including googles, and including any website using google adwords etc) would still track you.

I guess what this change means is that everyone except google will track you from now on.
I was thinking about this yesterday; other than POSIX why do operating systems choose a filesystem heirarchy as the thing that they provide as a datastore? Why not a structured document store, a blob store, a key value store, or some mixture of all of this?

I'm very bitter that computing went into turtle stacking mode and took its 50 years of baggage with it.
That's fine if you control the endpoint and want to expose ssh on it, but WireGuard endpoints are also commonly available from VPN providers who don't provide shell access.
To avoid confusion. We had three Nakamura's at office one time, so we defaulted to first names. We currently have two Nomura's and we use nicknames for them.

I've also met people who – against the normal, mainstream Japanese way – basically always prefer their first names, because their last name is so common people are going to mix them up with... someone. I sometimes sense a kind of an aura from these people: they don't want to be seen as just "one of the Satо̄s or Tanakas". (Btw. those are the exact names of the people that came to mind, whom I felt that aura of not wanting to use their last name.)

I think that those kind of people would choose the rarer name for their kids. But they don't also want to change theirs, because they are in the middle of a professional carrier, and being the busy people they are, they don't want to stir things up.
Love that story.

For me it reminds me most debugging I see at work. People coming up with theories and doing some magic incantations on the interface.

Instead of reading the log files or reading error description which makes usually error and fix obvious in 10 seconds.
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Please ban them, it wont change a thing but drive us underground. I have backups of all relevant models as have many others.
If your programs are all unikenels running on a hypervisor, havent you just reinvented a regular operating system with more and stronger abstractions?
Magis: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for GitHub Issue ReSolution
Their rebel cobot looks really neat, and price seems great!
Can you be more specific?

In what ways exactly it is more dangerous than other open source licenses in this case?
I see this as huge Affero (AGPL) praise!

It would be great if the license was used more. I'd much rather contribute to something where sharealike extends in some way across networks - software doesn't link in binaries, as the GPL does cover, as much these days.
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It’s got me suspicious of build-time dependency we have in an open source tool, where the dependency goes out of its way to prefer xz and we even discovered that it installs xz on the host machine if it isn’t already installed — as a convenience. Kinda weird because it didn’t do that for any other dependencies.

These long-games are kinda scary and until whatever “evil” is actually done you have no idea what is actually malicious or just weird.
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

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In what way are automatic weapons generally useful?
Are the servos better than SG90?
I accidentally bought my first air fryer yesterday when on a mission to get keys cut.

It’s the best thing since sliced bread. I love that it cooks so fast. AND it has two seperate trays so my foods don’t touch each other while cooking, and the most beautiful thing about it is I can set it so the different foods go in at the same time, cook at different times/temperatures but are ready at the exact same time.
The food comes out crispy, and cooked all the way through faster than my usual oven, and it’s easier to clean than a normal oven, and there was less dishes. It adds value to my life.
The food may not be the air equivalent of deep fried, but it’s cooked super efficiently! Not a hoax!!
Hmm, you say that but I'm repeated assured by a vocal faction here on HN that human population numbers are about to plummet in an abyss of no return unless we immediately breed more and faster than ever.
How about as annoying as Cortana?
I was a bit confused about where the hydrogen is coming from. Apparently, they pull water vapor out of the air as a side effect of capturing CO2.
Cosmic Drift
Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
It would be good to know about what for this is used. There's to much buzzwords. Why can't the guys writing such not just stick to ordinary language? To high for me as an English non mother language speaker
> FWIW JS does not have a similar capability so I can't add a note there

This example on MDN seems to indicate that you can, am I misunderstanding it?

const bigJSON = '{"gross_gdp": 12345678901234567890}';
const bigObj = JSON.parse(bigJSON, (key, value, context) => {
if (key === "gross_gdp") {
// Ignore the value because it has already lost precision
return BigInt(context.source);
}
return value;
});

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Preventable cancers cause economic burden (2023)
One hell of a social engineering attack
This is how you know the WiFi is Garbage - only happy when it rains.

At least you get a clue in this case (and the famous 500 miles email), I was having sporadic disconnections with cable internet for the last 2 month and my ISP can’t find anything wrong.

Had to switch back to DSL and pay more for slower speed.
In https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/revision/e446ab7...
one can open the patches and then click the "Changes" sub-tab. Stuff like this looks like a perf improvement but who knows if a tricky bug is introduced that was aimed to be exploited
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/revision/e446ab7...
There are more patches to be vetted unless one would give up and say that 5.2 should be used as last "known-good".
So AI companies take all the world's text and knowledge for free, use openly available research, take massive private funding and generate immense economic value using that, and want to make it illegal for anyone else to do the same?

I don't get the 'harm can be done by individuals' argument. Sticks and stones. Every discussion forum on the internet is moderated to some degree, and every human being has the ability to post hurtful or illegal content, yet the system works. Moderation will only get more powerful thanks to AI tools.
I believe Gemini has a 1M context window.
With those VPNs, there are no open ports, but the agents run on devices as root and still interact with the internet via browsers. There are and have been RCE vulnerabilities.
I note that Solaris had runtime-optional but compile-time linked shared libraries, I always wondered why Linux/glibc never adopted them.
wow, thats really amazing. Are you a hardware engineer?
> The biggest threats posed by AI come not from individuals, but from corporations and state-level actors.

Why is this statement assumed to be true? It is far from clear that advanced weapons in the hands of irresponsible, impulsive and ideological individuals cannot cause large scale chaos.

To build an egg requires the effort on the level of states or corporations but to break it requires just an individual motivated to do so.
This is fantastic! Thank you so much
What’s stopping you from switching to Linux now?
systemd developers have already rejected that approach, so I guess we will end up with lots of reimplementations, both in individual projects and third-party libsystemd-notify style libraries.
Some loaders already encode stuff in the path url style, e.g. vite-svg-loader

import iconUrl from './my-icon.svg?url'

Maybe I'm not imaginative enough but this seems like a reasonably restricted (i.e. simple) way of parametrizing imports.
I liked how they managed to somehow make it seem like Russia's fault.

> "You can trace the reason this object came down unguided back to a Russian launch failure more than five years ago"

I'm sure that when making their carefully choreographed schedule NASA was well aware that at some point a rocket might not make it and that they'd have to deal with it (or not) if/when that happened. NASA made the choice to leave the batteries up there, then decided not to send something up to bring them back and just drop them uncontrolled instead.

> "It gets more interesting if this material is discovered to be not originally from the United States," she told Ars. "If it is a human-made space object which was launched into space by another country, which caused damage on Earth, that country would be absolutely liable to the homeowner for the damage caused."

I hope that if the thing that fell was from the ISS that NASA compensates the home owner right away instead of waiting to figure out if japan made the piece that fell and leaving the homeowner to figure out how to send Japan the bill and collect.
I did setup the question in a way that the developer doesn’t harm someone themselves but sells it to a state actor. I.e extremely similar outcome to finding a zero day and selling it to a state actor except it is “more” secure - need private key.

The point about MIT is that they are saying to the world when publishing “as is” folks. Not claiming I haven’t backdoored it for Uncle Sam.in fact I’m not claiming anything, use at your own risk.

It used to be the law to implicitly do this by weak encryption for exports.
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There is an argument that banning things for law abiders essentially means giving criminals preferential access.

I don’t know that that idea always holds. But it definitely would for AI

All you need is ordinary commodity computing power to keep moving Ai forward. So vast numbers of individuals, organizations, and governmental actors will. Visibly or invisibly

Any blunt reactionary prohibition will only tilt things in favor of an unconstrained underground
Some good points, but unnecessarily tainted by comedy punchlines.

I want more people bringing up discussion points without offering a grand solution or taking a side. I have no bloody idea if AI is a good or bad thing in the long run. Or if it's "fair" that it takes away artist jobs by using their previous work. Or if it will take away jobs - and if so, if that'll end up being a good or bad thing. It's still a good discussion to be had. Predictions about the future have a notoriously bad accuracy if you look back
> Talk to residents of many SE Asian countries, eg: Tokyo and elsewhere and work out how they can build enough to house higher and denser populations whereas "the West" struggles

Last time I checked was before the pandemic, but from what I remember in Tokyo most flats and housing is way out of the league of normal people and if you are wealthy enough to get on the housing ladder then it’s a tiny flat literally the size of a shipping container where you have to fold your bed away to turn it into a dining table because you’re squeezed into a tiny space like a chicken in a battery and for that “luxury” you’ll have to pay off debt for the best part of your life.

Kind of proves my point, no?
I am enjoying the game. I am curious why there are no sound effects.
"And it's that government and its citizens on which any fortune depends. "Take any multimillionaire or billionaire, and put them on a desert island," Robeyns writes. "They still have all the same talents and personal traits as before. How rich could they become? Not very rich, obviously.""

Mr and Mrs Howell from Gilligan's Island.
That's like it. I'm sorry for the one's needing this way of information, but they're a plenty of other ways nowadays. Don't cry for me Australia...

(I would do the same if I'd be meta btw. It's ok for the Australian laws to ask for payments, but it's also up to me. If I agree on this)
Yeah kinda pointless read. It's basically "I did a thing... somehow".
https://brownpaperbag.ytmnd.com/
I'm probably going to get clowned on here, and although I love sqlite for local development, I do wish that projects stop using sqlite as their only option for deployment, or worse, shove a temporary one in the same directory as persistent data. It's a huge pain if you use NFS backed storage or docker vols. There some home lab stuff that I just can't run due to it, which is sad because I need more services to waste power on.
Not so far for the first part: https://wholebody-b1.github.io/
but it work. I can't believe that we choose from different robots.
I think LLMs are not a great danger. Ignorance is their use probably is, but that really makes no difference between some random model available that does answer and home trained one. The fault is on user. And nothing can stop people from being ignorant, lazy or just plain stupid.
Games that just don't work, particularly ones with anti cheat
Related ongoing thread:

OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39900197 - April 2024 (41 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

Banning open weight models would be a disaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39901978 - April 2024 (32 comments)
In the Iberian Peninsula we also had a migration from the South to the North with the Muslim conquest that started in 711, but apparently they didn't leave that big of a genetic legacy.
The largest AI models in the world fit on a hard-drive and can be torrented. What makes non-nuclear proliferation realistic is that it's still relatively difficult and expensive to build a nuclear bomb. This model banning thing isn't even worthy of debate given how trivial it is to distribute them.

>Many of them are humbled and worried

Yes, because most of them like to imagine themselves as the next Oppenheimer rather than accepting that they've invented a lossy compressed version of Wikipedia. Chatbots aren't nuclear bombs or "paradigm shifting intelligence infra". I wonder how long it'll take until the hysteria actually dies off.

It reminds me of a conversation with a Palantir guy who at least admitted that he likes it when the press writes a story that makes them look like a Bond villain because every time the stock price goes up. That's why AI luminaries are "worried".
What it's like to have no visual imagination or inner voice