skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optane products were sold as DIMMS with single-DIMM capacity as high as 512 GB. With an Intel memory controller that could make it look like DRAM.

512 GB.

It was slower than conventional DRAM.

But for AI models, Optane may have an advantage: it's bit-addressable.

I'm not aware of any memory controllers that exposed that single-bit granularity; Optane was fighting to create a niche for itself, between DRAM and NAND Flash: pretending to be both, when it was neither.

Bit-level operations, computational units in the same device as massive storage, is an architecture that has yet to be developed.

AI GPUs try to be such an architecture by plopping 16GB of HBM next to a sea of little dot-product engines.
The astroturfing from pro-Israel parties on social media is incredible, but nothing beats the Reddit situation.

I was just browsing /r/ukpolitics just now, and it is mind boggling how many pro-Israel comments come from people that apparently are only commenting about that topic. No activity whatsoever on popular subs, on hobby subs, but instead their entire posting history is composed of months and months of tirelessly defending the state of Israel.

Sounds like work, and it seems that many forgot about the Mossad-operated propaganda farms that made the news a decade ago. Most people are so blind to propaganda that these fake personas do not even have to be particularly subtle about it.

It would be so easy to identify these paid state actors with some simple code, but I do not want to give ammunition to those other cretins that would use such a tool to target Jewish people as a whole; so I just notice the propaganda and move on.
> So what is israel supposed to do?

Not be an genocidal apartheid state? It's actually quite simple.
I recommend Al Jazeera's "The Lobby" because it contains primary evidence from undercover journalists, notwithstanding any spin put on it by the Qatari government.

> somehow country #28 in world GDP with 0.5% of global GDP is somehow able to blackmail and bribe the entire world

Israel may be top #28 in GDP but they are a lot higher than that in media power, Western political influence, cyberwarfare, etc. -- and AI murderbots, apparently.
Show HN: CoreImageToy, gain an intuition for Core Image filters
Open source repo: https://github.com/jacobsapps/CoreImageToy
As someone who doesn't know much about music, I found the samples interesting. Sadly for the actual competent musicians, I'm not an outlier... We won't notice the difference when videos, ads, movies and elevators are padded with these instead of human-made ones.
Not sure what you mean. The question is about using Amazon-branded cards in regular stores, not just Amazon.
There are some 70s and 65s in the gist: https://gist.github.com/simonw/5a8054f18f9ea3c560b628b16b00f...
> What evidence do you need? NYC and Boston smelling like sewer in the summer is enough for me

Case in point: the densest parts of Manhattan don't smell. (Minus trash days.) Neither do Paris, Tokyo or Seoul.
In Europe people have to pay to send SMS right? So people have a good reason to seek out alternatives like WhatsApp, which are cross-platform. There is no habit of using SMS. Therefore linking iMessage to SMS by default doesn’t create any network effect in EU like it does in US, where SMS is free.
I actually dislike the fedi fragmentation too much. Yes, ik that's the appeal for some people but I really don't like just how split it is
It’s a very powerful drug to be able to shrug your shoulders and say you were just doing as you were told.
any good alternatives?
>No, there is no such complexity. There are very obviously undebatable incidents of war crimes by the IDF. Like this footage from a drone who deliberately killed civilians in plain sight

I don't think these things are as unequivocal as you suggest. I mean, you're assuming those people are civilians. Maybe they're not. Almost certainly we will never know for sure, and if you can't acknowledge that then you're not being objective.
I am reminded of Poindexter's[1] total information awareness project, which I thought at the time too interesting for it to wholly disappear. I must admit this knowledge influenced one or two of my own blog postings on what I call "Strategic Software"[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
[2]: https://blog.eutopian.io/tags/strategic-software/
But that methane "started" as CO2 in the atmosphere, so after the breakdown happens you're carbon neutral. Carbon capture and storage are still relevant topics, but "stop making the problem worse" is a good start.

If we all switched to still-leaky synthetic methane today, things would continue getting worse only until the atmospheric breakdown rate equalled the leak rate. That's still a decade of things getting worse, but it's possible that the alternatives are even more problematic.

I'm not saying it's the right or wrong path, I haven't done that analysis, I'm just saying that approaches to it could use a bit more pragmatism.
As pg says, it’s the people not the product that matters.
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JPEGLI = A small JPEG

The suffix -li is used in Swiss German dialects. It forms a diminutive of the root word, by adding -li to the end of the root word to convey the smallness of the object and to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.

This obviously comes out of Google Zürich.

Other notable Google projects using Swiss German:

https://github.com/google/gipfeli high-speed compression

Gipfeli = Croissant

https://github.com/google/guetzli perceptual JPEG encoder

Guetzli = Cookie

https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli semantic search tool

Weggli = Bread roll

https://github.com/google/brotli lossless compression

Brötli = Small bread
Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum, you may like or dislike the culture war part of things.

But unless you are mega rich, the costs are undeniably an issue. It's really not new, either. Years ago we spent a few months at an oceanfront vacation rental and talked to the property manager a bunch as he coordinated work and furniture deliveries and things. Actually, we listened more than talked, but that lead us to do some research, and we found state-funded research done at one of the "lesser" universities (UCF? FAU?) that was publicly available but clearly not intended to be widely read. It essentially concluded that the vacation rental industry was no longer a sustainable business because of the rising costs related to housing and that it only survived because of the continuous influx of northern money that didn't know any better.

The danger is that the unaffordability of Florida may become widely known. If people do some research before jumping in, they might not jump in at all. And that would be a crushing blow to the housing industry in Florida. Of course... once that all shakes out, Florida might actually be affordable again.
I would assume because the guidelines for the communications platform being used do not require the use of their actual face for their profile pic, and they have selected a picture or character they like.
They did, in Gaza, in 2005. Only to wake up to a Hamas takeover and rocket shooting on Israel civilians (war crime), which brought the Gaza siege.

Or maybe the world can give some new suggestion that was not disproven by history?
And just don't ever have events at the school for families to go to? Or are we talking not just "school busses" at this point? I'm all for public transit. Is a heavy lift for a lot of urban locations, though. And certainly not in the budget control of most schools.
So why did you live there instead of a place with a parking spot?
I never noticed a difference in the odor of saffron rice and regular rice. But as I said in a different comment, I take this to mean that I've never had saffron rice that actually had saffron in it.
Consciousness as a product of language learning (2022)
Schools can stagger end times for various grades or subpopulations. My high school kid has this going on. Pickup is a non-issue.
The next article they publish will be 'Your managers is not your friend.' A story for genZ about how people lie and manipulate at work.
It is different.

A USB key can be anything, or even complex combinations of things. It can be a storage device and an HID keyboard input and an optical drive that autoruns software on the PC it is connected to, with all of this being intentionally supported by the host operating system.

No back door is required: This can happen right at the front door, as the operating system does what it is intended to do when it detects new hardware.

And as a parting shot: It can even deliberately physically destroy the host computer's hardware. (Try that with a crafty ZIP file.)
During onboarding, many HR teams say they are the employee’s advocate on a variety of issues. They are most emphatically not.

Most of the people working in HR that I’ve met (and I’ve met hundreds working in the industry) sincerely believe that valuing people and treating them well is the best way for a company to succeed financially. They are advocates within the organization for it, including on difficult issues like DEI and harassment/abuse.

That makes this issue especially pernicious. Sincere, well-intentioned people are very effective gaslighters, especially when they are surprised themselves to find they have been “given orders” when a true crisis occurs.
I’ve got a career I like, a wife and kids I love, and a city I enjoy.

I’m also sharing a planet full of a species that has endured and conquered plagues, slavery, centuries of war, and the threat of nuclear war, amongst other hardships. Things have been much worse and we will continue to improve.

Check out the book Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know for a counter to your doomscrolling.

So why do so many smart people wrongly believe that, all things considered, the world is getting worse?

Way back in 1965, Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge, from the Peace Research Institute Oslo, observed,
"There is a basic asymmetry in life between the positive, which is difficult and takes time, and the negative, which is much easier and takes less time—compare the amount of time needed to bring up and socialize an adult person and the amount of time needed to kill him in an accident, the amount of time needed to build a house and to destroy it in a fire, to make an airplane and to crash it, and so on."' News is bad news; steady progress is not news.
The water is coming from the reverse osmosis tank, not the faucet. Thus it will be at room temperature.
this looks neat
i can't wait to try it out.
I get alerts via Apple wallet regarding my Fidelity cash management card. Those do not come from Fidelity's app. (Fidelity has amazing banking products btw, but they underinvest in app development.)
I've written elixir apps, also read Armstrong's thesis, etc etc. Beam is undoubtedly an excellent piece of engineering.

I don't want to engage more than that, as the horizons comment seems bizarre in the context of the thread
Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python
How on earth is this legal?
1 point by richardatlarge 13 hours ago [–]

In light of recent AI/LLM advances, and the common belief that consciousness remains too much of a mystery, I thought this review to be particularly exhaustive and compelling

Quote: Converging evidence presented in this review suggests that, if we could precisely excise language and inner speech from the brain without further damage, we would be left without most if not all higher-order and some aspects of primary consciousness
What is your use case for degrading image quality that much? At quality level 80 the artifacts are already significant.
How exactly would you pull that off without having to create an LLC owned by yourself first? This sounds like just something you heard once, I would love to know more if it's actually a thing.
No, because methane is worse than CO2. Anyway, replacing fossil methane with synthetic is strictly better so the leaks are irrelevant.
You have to make a lot of money not to at least qualify for a loan.

The issue is that this should be a very simple process. They could import most of the information they actually need from the IRS to make a determination based on financial needs.
Opera copied Netscape which had email three years earlier (June '97 compared to Opera's June 2000) when groupware was still a thing in the 90s. Everyone except Opera realized the bundling of email and calendar and chat and more was wrong for most folks by around 2003 and pared back following Firefox and Safari to streamlined interfaces with only the most important features and leaving everything else to extensions. Opera (and MyIE/Maxthon) doubled down on bundling features until it was an unsustainable monstrosity and when that became clear the board kicked out the founder and not long after the CTO and inventor of CSS left and the Chinese now own it so it's just another Chromium skin.
> If it were obvious it would have been done already. Witness the many variants that try to make it better but don't.

Every other language with mutable strings, including C++, does it like that. It is obvious. The reason it is not done in C is not ignorance, it is laziness.

> Which you then can't pass to any other library. String management is very easy to solve within the boundaries of your own code. But you'll need to interact with existing code as well.

Ignoring the also obvious solution of just keeping a null terminator around (see: C++ std::string), you should only worry about it at the boundary with the other library.

Same as converting from utf-8 to utf-16 to talk to the Windows API for example.
unions are your friend. simple.
This was published as: Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions by VB Alekseev if you are interested in taking a look.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/1-4020-2187-9
Have you seen any non-Nazis or non-Aliens related show on NatGeo or Discovery? It's almost reality shows back-to-back now.
There are tools such as https://ipapi.is/ that can be used to geolocate any IPv4 and IPv6 address in the world. Sometimes those tools are not extremely accurate, but usually they are accurate to the city level.
> I spent $200 to double to 8MB, and then another $200 to double to 16MB, and then finally, $200 to max out the RAM on my machine-- 32MB!

Thank you. Now I feel a log better for dropping $700 on the 32MB of RAM when I built my first rig.
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Thank you! I do not plan to sell these arms. I am not sure if I will be able to make time to document it (I am maintainer on an open source farming robot project which takes up most of my time - see profile), but I am working on a new actuator concept based on the principles explored in this design, and my goal with the new actuator concept is to document that and make it more general purpose, so it is easier for people to make themselves and explore this mechanical gearbox design. This should hopefully popularize this design if others like it. I think is fair to say the design is probably novel.

A fun fact about the new actuator is that it can be printed in plastic at home but is designed to be 3D printed in 316 stainless steel. I was inspired recently by the relatively low cost of 3D printing from China (I used craftcloud), and my novel actuator design relies on the fact that 3D printing allows gearbox components and robot frame members or components to be mechanically unified. This opens up new design spaces.

In this design, it is a two stage planetary with one "first stage" in between two parallel second stages. The first stage is driven by a shaft from a side mounted motor, with the shaft going through the gears in one of the second stages to reach the first stage sun gear. This parallel output better balances mechanical loads across the joint both on the input and output sides. This makes it ideal for elbow and knee style joints, and might serve to be genuinely very useful in robotics worldwide.

As with all my work it will be open source. I don't love twitter but that is currently the best spot to get updates on side projects like this. I am @tlalexander there. Alternatively, star the 3D printed robot arm repo and I will update it when my new steel servo design is done!
As someone working in the AI field, I find this use of AI truly terrifying. Today it may be used to target Hamas and accept a relatively large number of civilian deaths as permissible collateral damage, but nothing guarantees that it won't be exported and used somewhere else. On top of that, I don't think anything is done to alleviate biases in the data (if you're used to target people from a certain group then your AI system will still target people from that group) or validate the predictions after a "target" is bombed. I wish there was more regulations for these use cases. Too bad the EU AI Act doesn't address military uses at all.
The people are already there, the infrastructure is already there, and the cost is already being borne by someone else.

You could describe that as "a lack of will to be independent from Big Tech" if you want, but the fact remains there is no rational reason for the government to run and maintain its own social media infrastructure when it doesn't need to, and when almost no one would bother to care if they did.
Right? People forget the roots. Nowasays logs are super complicated things, but in unix and early Linux days, everything was a file descriptor and it happened to be that 0 was the default one to write to and by convention could be routed by pipes and streams into whatever making it super convenient way to emit informations not to users, but to anything

Which is the right thing anyway. If your target are interactive users a log is a terrible thing to do as they won't know where it ends up. And if the target is not interactive users you should have error codes not log messages.

I think that is partly because today is hard to just attach a debugger to things and see the state of a program so people try to serialise the program state to english strings with a timestamp and work backwards from that to understand what the program was doing, but then what we need is a differentiable single stack core dump not an english approximation of it.

And especially not one that gets stolen by systemd and hidden away.

Sorry for the rant but just printing infos and core dumping errors was the best thing ever and it was taken away from me.
Here's another one, for the backend of a Stripe billing system: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/test/test_pr...

It seems like more examples demonstrating relatively complex tasks would be helpful, so I'll work on those.

I'm certainly not trying to claim that it can handle any task. The underlying model's intelligence and context size do place limits on what it can do. And it can definitely struggle with code that uses a lot of abstraction or indirection. But I've also been amazed by what it can accomplish on many occasions.
See also the lovely discussion by Baez at https://classes.golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2017/12/the_ico... .
Colleges are a major purchases where in the negotiation of the transaction, the seller gets to review detailed financial data of the buyer before offering a price.
Property tax = you do not own the land, the government does and leases it to you. Setting the rate to the highest rate is stupid because it means the government confiscates all the land and leases it only to e.g. casinos and you get nothing but casinos.
So someone that isn’t your race went in to a post office make a monthly payment and wasn’t identified, and you went in to make a yearly contract renewal and they identified you using another piece of paper from the government?

Maybe the other man had already had his identity verified when he renewed, or was not doing what you think he was.

Maybe you are seeing a conspiracy where there isn’t one.

Maybe you could have used a bill or any piece of paper with your real address on it if you had asked what other pieces of paper would work.

Maybe I don’t for a minute believe that this is the full story.

Also, you can rent a private mailbox from any of the thousands of places that offer one if you so desire, and not deal with the post office.
RCS in its standard form is to be offered by the carriers. However, because carriers in the most parts of the world refused to offer the service, Google took over that role.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18681573/google-rcs-chat-...

Apple has so far been quiet about how, if at all, they are going to deal with carriers that have no native RCS support. Maybe they will run their own servers and federate with Google, maybe they will use Google's servers directly, or maybe it simply won't work at all without carrier support. We have no idea yet.

Edit: IMO the most worrying option would be that Apple and Google will make a some sort of exclusive bilateral deal that will make them, and only them, to be able to offer non-carrier-based RCS support, locking out any other operating system vendors from the platform. That would probably have antitrust implications, but enforcement is often slow.
Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you the alternate subs that are less astroturfed and the discussion is free from people telling you that there's evidence and reports that don't exist and insult you if you ask for links, or people that say that something says something and post you a link and then you go and it says something else (usually less favorable to Israel). The main subs have been pretty bad with Israel-related news since forever, it's not a new thing, it's that there's more of those news now.
> A study of island records confirmed anecdotal evidence that most girls bore their first child between the ages of 12 and 15. "I think the girls were conditioned to accept that it was a man's world and once they turned 12, they were eligible," Tosen said. Mothers and grandmothers were resigned to the situation, telling him that their own childhood experience had been the same; they regarded it as just a part of life on Pitcairn.

> One councillor told him, "Look, the age of consent has always been 12 and it doesn't hurt them."

What in the bonkers hell. It seems like the place was just Child Abuse Island (r) (tm). Made their own little cult home. Crazy business.

This bit about how they were not subject to the Crown because they'd mutinied against the HMS Bounty's officers is an even better story. Unbelievable stuff.

Glad they were subject to the law. Though it looks like they're all free now, and presumably back at the noncery.
> After about 60-70 years the lines cross

Methane's global warming potential is estimated to be ten times CO2 after 500 years [1].

> and the impact of a tonne of methane released is less than a tonne of CO2 released at the same date.

A ton of methane released into the atmosphere breaks down into 2.75 tons of CO2 [2]. There is no possible way that this statement can be true.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6..., Table 7.15 (page 1017)

[2] Simple stoichiometry: CH4 (weighing ~16 g/mol) breaks down into CO2 (weighing ~44 g/mol) at a 1:1 ratio. 44/16 is 2.75.
The form already does import most of the info from the IRS...
I've always wondered why the UK bothers to keep up such a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Would've been 10x cheaper for the budget to buy the residents 50 houses in Australia and just keep the island as a nature reserve.
Thumbnails at a high pixel density. I just want them up fast. Any quality that can be squeezed out of it is a bonus.
RCS failed. It failed the last >10 years and it will fail the next >10 years. There are too many companies and too much bureaucracy. It isn't an open standard anymore - Google extended it and now wants Apple to use their implementation. The rest of the world moved on from SMS and so should the USA.
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First state of America.