skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not used to people calling monarchies dictatorships, even though they are in some ways similar. Until 1918, many states in Europe were monarchies.
The latacora link in the sibling comment covers most of that.
> The premise here is that the AI is operating at the behest of someone else.

> Now suppose that it's open source and runs on your own device.

Not gonna happen. The trend is to have less and less control over the devices you own. My TV's OS show me ads, not because I wanted them, but because the manufacturer wants to make more money. There are no open source TVs.

As soon as any consumer device gets an internet connection, it starts working against its users (for a recent example, see cars, which are increasingly "connected" and allow the manufactures to sell driving data to 3rd parties for embarrassingly small amounts of money).
I wonder how one can measure this. Has it been proved that safety systems lead to fewer accidents? Seriously, I'm asking.

Have the number of accidents with fatal outcome decreased? If so, how can it be linked to safety systems? Etc etc So many questions.
Model quality matters a ton too. They aren't serving OpenAI or Anthropic models, which are state of the art.
ABS is only one of the active safety systems, and a pretty basic one. I'm not an expert but I want to my local ice track for a safety course this fall and the instructors said that the electronic stability controls improved greatly in the last few years.
AI is already free for a limited number of requests. In that sense free email style AI is already there.
Thanks for the recommendation. On a related note, I have enjoyed The Terror, inspired by the account of Sir Franklin’s lost expedition. Also the audiobook rendition is amazing.
The tracking issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8659

As noted there, okHSL/HSV keeps the perceptual uniformity by removing some peaks beyond the geometric limit of HSL/HSV, and it is unclear whether it is what users do expect or not.
I think you can create such a playlist. I did that (I called it "on the road" for exactly that purpose) and every time I add a song it's downloaded immediately. Unless they changed something.

But yeah in general I agree that Spotify UX is less than optimal.
What context did I miss that implies they are using an open source model?
An Astral YAML Parser
To demonstrate some of the features of the Astral programming language, I published a new GitHub repository containing a YAML parser I built with Astral 1.3.
More likely top 10 - if it’s indeed a typo.
You could also disconnect the modem and never bring the car to the official dealership.
I was recently in Amsterdam (you know, the place where they said "welp we'll never fully outlaw prostitution & drugs so let's allow but regulate") and appreciated a series of very public urinals. Which I assume follows the same logic "people are going to pee on the street no matter what, let's give them a place to help control it" - I quite like the idea that acknowledging certain human traits are essentially a force of nature, so why not redirect that firehose towards a more tasteful target than impossibly try to stop it.

See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_curl
What's Wrong with Tesla
> From a incentive strucutre POV, they lose nothing from false positives

I strongly disagree. If you try to attract skilled labour, such hurdles can keep many of them at bay. Germany can become known as a country that's not worth the fight. I have seen a _lot_ of stories about people giving up and leaving, usually because of immigration office delays, but sometimes because they were worn down by other demands.

It also affects the bottom line as Germany becomes a country businesses avoid, either because it's too much effort to set up the business, or too much effort to attract international talent.

You are right that immigrants are invisible as a voter base, but the cumulative effects of their neglect are significant to the German economy, and to the pensions of people who can vote.
Denmark is the same.

The official website says the wait time for permanent residency is "up to 10 months", and searching Reddit suggests 3-6 months is more normal.

Denmark is not particularly welcoming to immigrants, but they do with rules rather than inefficient paperwork.
Engine part falls off Southwest Airlines' Boeing plane during takeoff
A USB dongle server? It's missing the "April 1st" disclaimer somewhere, right?

What is the use case of this box?
> nothing has made a bigger difference (...) than regularly practicing techniques that identify and release deeply-held emotional complexes

Are you talking about meditation? And if so, on your own or with a teacher?
I have just bought the Kobo Libra 2 and I am very impressed, I have been using a Gen2 Kindle forever but finally decided I needed one with a backlight. Libra 2 is waterproof and seeing as I frequently read in the pool on holiday or in the hot tub etc this was a great feature for me.

For your specific use case I would look at something like the ReMarkable or Supernote as they are almost A4 sized readers and would allow you to annotate the papers etc
Well maybe if you loved your dishwasher, the environment and your children you would be using Cascade Platinum Plus Ultimate Eclipse Edition 2000 tabs to avoid hose gunk!?
Sorry if I was incorrect, I was going off of what I heard. I heard he spent all his money towards the end of his life.

I'm not seeing anything in those links to suggest otherwise.

Are you suggesting they were left with a sizeable fortune?
Newer cars also use more lightweight materials in pursuit of fuel efficiency. My 15 year old Volvo, on the other hand, is quite a bit heavier. That helps if you get hit, but of course makes it more difficult to maneuver out of a tricky situation if the need arises.
It plays a major role. That, the increasing number of applicants and inefficient, paper-based bureaucracy are the three major causes, I would say.
Hi Lucian, thank you for stepping up to the plate. Recognized and appreciated. We aren't quite in the hiring phase today, still bootstrapping and focused on growing with customer demand, but I have absolutely added you to my list for the future. Cheers!
Do you know the causes for why there's so much bureaucracy? I wonder what the potential solutions are.
The context was what are things that those with more or less unlimited resources can do in order to read your signal messages.

They are 3 particular paths that aren’t in any way open to most attackers but will work here.

Saying it impacts all applications isn’t wrong but it’s also not relevant to what was asked.

If whatever the hell you are doing requires a threat model where the NSA is interested in finding out who you are talking with and what you are saying the original comment of signal is inappropriate is 100% accurate.
Google is everyday.

Dude acts as if when it’s open source he conducts a code audit before installing anything.

xz just proves how dumb this mindset actually is.
This is a great visual. Wonder if you could do sentiment analysis too? I use a bunch of sleep trackers and have spent 5 years to correlate poor sleep to bad listening/more misunderstandings. Wouldn't have noticed it without the data.
Yes, studies have been extensive and based on real world reported accidents.
Amazing app! I've seen lots of interior design AIs on Twitter.

I uploaded an image but the watermark was laughably huge. Oh my God, I couldn't even see the furnishings as the cube-like logo just blocked everything.
Dongles in this case refer to hardware license keys for enterprise software, not wireless peripherals.
One way would be to install a zero-click Pegasus-like software on their phones.
Better yet, ask Apple to activate code on their iPhone.

It’s a criticism of the platform, not applications running on it.
Their new UX for liking a track and adding it to playlists is also awful. It's so hilariously bad that I wonder if they ever did user testing.

Say you want to like a track and then add it to a playlist. It used to be a heart icon and a plus icon. Now they combined everything into a plus, but depending on your current context it either adds it to an existing playlist or to your liked music. Also, if a track is already liked I would expect to "unlike" it when clicking the now green plus icon. But no they had to make it show a context menu because they combined liking and adding to playlists. It's just so confusing, and the previous UX worked fine and was clear for everyone.
Show HN: Perfect art and photography in Ragdoll Studio (FOSS AI software)
> Be sure to load knives down for safety

The article image shows several knives loaded upwards.
Same reason why people clean empty packaging and recycling, because they feel the need to _do something_
I only cover Berlin, but the relocation consultants I frequently talk to will confirm that it's even worse in other medium to large cities. The Berlin immigration office is doing well given the hand it has been dealt.
That situation doesn't prevent an MMU and virtual memory. It prevents multiple address spaces. Multiple address spaces per process are not a requirement for virtual memory, as such. They are a requirement for getting some of the protection benefits of virtual memory. Not all the benefits. With a single address space for all applications, there can still be user/kernel protection: userland not being able to trash kernel data structures. (Of course with important system functions residing in various daemons, when those processes get trashed, it's as good as the system being trashed.)
I think I might have saw something about this in the book When, but might have been a different one. They described it as when tired, the guards of judgement that normally stand when we're well slept are less active. Not sure how accurate it is, still trying to test it.

> For important complex decisions I think I am still better off well rested.
100%.
but this is for windows and not written in swift?
Personally I found this underwhelming- the book read like a long CV. I wish it talked more about him as a person. But to each their own.
Same Nazi and far-right hatred phenomenon in Australia. It's a global thing.

Having British roots attracts pressure from the locals. Ironically enough, given the countries' origin.
Vehicle Listings on Google
It was commonly believed the species had been created fully formed, like in Genesis. Slective breeding was known, but it was not obvious that entirely new species could be created that way. There is a big step from breeding a bigger dog to breeding a dog into an octupus.

Different theories of evolution existed before Charles Darwin, but the mechanism driving the evolution was not understood.

Lucrete (Roman writer) had ideas close to Darwins natural selection - he believed the species had been initially created by all kinds of organs and body parts combinimg at random, but only the “fit” ones surviving. But I think Lucrete thought this was a historcal event, not an ongoing process.
Motivation: a damaged/lost/stolen SSD could lose my precious memories forever.

Sure a declined/canceled/expired credit card might be less likely. But I wouldn’t bet on it over a few years. Much less several decades.

Good luck.
My mum teared up to a personalised ChatGPT poem when I was demo'ing it to her. She would love to listen to some blues/country tailored lyrics of her own devise.
I think that'd be a worthwhile experiment, but I suspect it might not always be enough (but absolutely worth testing).

You can "coerce" the model more strongly when you explicitly control everything, though. Adding a loop also allows you to put it in a "straitjacket" in many ways - e.g. if a local model you can select output tokens to force the response to match a given grammar to give it less room to go off the rails (see llama.cpp/llamafile that supports this), you can repeat and adjust temperature until responses match requirements or manipulating the answer so far and have it complete it. Or combine with an evaluation step to force a "does this answer comply with restrictions X, Y, Z: ..." stage, and so on. Of course these are not suitable to get you AGI, but when you have tasks where testing compliance or ranking quality of output are "cheap"/"easy" but coming up with answers is hard, they provide ways to get LLMs to work even in cases where the simple approach of individual, complex prompts are too unreliable.

(the tradeoff of course being that if you have to spend too much time tuning these kinds of tricks to a specific problem you need to weigh up if they're worth it vs. solving the problem without an LLM)

Of course they are workarounds, and I'm sure there will be architectural advances that will hopefully make these relatively crude methods less important, but in the meantime, they do help.
I got a 2% for my site and saw "49 code changes" afterwards. Am I supposed to pay to see the code changes?
It should be noted (huge downside) does not work outside of US afaik. Possible that has changed but doubt it.
Canadians are asking their government to federate
It’s basically their minimum cluster size for a reasonable model requires 8ish racks of compute.

Semi analysis did some cost estimates, and I did some but you’re likely paying somewhere in the 12 million dollar range for the equipment to serve a single query using llama-70b. Compare that to a couple of gpus, and it’s easy to see why they are struggling to sell hardware, they can’t scale down.

Since they didn’t use hbm, you need to stich enough cards together to get the memory to hold your model. It takes a lot of 256mb cards to get to 64gb, and there isn’t a good way to try the tech out since a single rack really can’t serve an LLM.

The cloud provider path sounds riskier since that’s two capital intensive businesses, chip design and production and running a cloud service provider.
> I don't think it's right to recommend that new users move away from the package because of licensing issues

I was going to chime in to agree but then I saw how this was done - a completely innocuous looking commit:

https://github.com/haifengl/smile/commit/6f22097b233a3436519...

And literally no mention in the release notes:

https://github.com/haifengl/smile/releases/tag/v3.0.0

I think if you are going to change license, especially in a way that makes it less permissive, you need to be super open and clear about both the fact you are doing it and your reasons for that. This is done so silently as to look like it is intentionally trying to mislead and trick people.

So maybe I wouldn't say to move away because of the specific license, but it's legitimate to avoid something when it's so clearly driven by a single entity and that entity acts in a way that isn't trustworthy.
Overview of the space and a list of some unsolved technical challenges.
Thank you, it makes sense. I guess these points would resonate with me if I had the problems you describe. Fortunately, I usually don't.
The less I fiddle with packages, dot files, shell scripts, the better my life is.
I guess you are considering the case where a single signer transfers commits over SSH to a single verifier, with both putting the same meaning into the act of transfer as people normally would into a signature. But git is a distributed VCS, with signatures handling many more scenarios: consider multiple committers and multiple signatures, transfer over multiple, different, untrusted channels, multiple verifiers.
“AI aids” is a wonderful accident of language.
Would be nice if annual physicals can include a blood analysis of exposure to these man made chemicals. So far, the list I have in mind is:

- PFAS/PFOA/C8 (“forever chemicals”)

- banned flame retardants (polybrominated diphenyl ethers)

- microplastics
I googled - haven’t tried it https://github.com/rameshvarun/sox-emscripten

There’s also
https://github.com/IPS-LMU/wasmsox

Lots of cool software that people hack together for fun. Just site:github and search!
What even, thank you for sharing this, would have never stumbled on it organically.
Just the title alone has me intrigued.

> gold particles in Eucalyptus leaves and their relevance to exploration for buried gold deposits

Would love any other recs like this.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that JvN was the #1 mind of his era
I used them both.

I ended up disabling copilot. The reason is that the completions do not always integrate with the rest of the code, in particular with non-matching brackets. Often it just repeats some other part of the code. I had much fewer cases of this with Cody. But, arguably, the difference is not huge. But then add on top of this choice of models.
I have found I have developed a strong distaste for most things AI-generated. When I try to articulate it, even if the end result looks superficially well made, I think it is because it is missing some human connection, some authenticity. It has a shallowness and repetitiveness similar to scripted reality vs actual documentaries. Similarly I can acknowledge people drawing photo realistic paintings takes skill, but most of the time I find them dull and uninspired.

I had just created a meme for a throwaway laugh using copilot, I hope it doesn't make me a hypocrite.
Thanks for the 20k virtual dollars. Lol I felt somewhat ambivalent spending the cash. This could(remotely) be a bitcoin moment.
My wife grandfather bought them as an investment and after he died, the grandmother inherited them. She couldn’t care less about them as investments, but I guess my in laws are waiting to inherit them and then sell them off.
I like that the demo slider is directly from one of Bartosk Ciechanowski's always excellent article [1].

He's really a reference in interactive visualization. There's a link to his article on color spaces labeled "Try it for yourself", but I would prefer a direct and clearer textual attribution to him.

[1]: https://ciechanow.ski/color-spaces
I feel that's a bit like saying that you can only send and receive X number of emails, or only create X number of sticky notes in Miro. It's inherently prohibitive to the core idea of the product.
We lived in Tübingen/BW and it the bureaucracy was dysfunctional there as well.
I'm not aware of any complex software out there that wouldn't have the same complaint. I don't feel that your frustration is a good reason to not build cool new features for users.
then I still have the same question
Dokku maintainer here.

Dokku itself doesn't run anything in resident (there is a small go binary that listens to the docker event stream and restarts apps as necessary but thats it), so there shouldn't be overhead there.

On the Docker side, there is a _slight_ amount of overhead in cpu/networking, but its so negligible that its sometimes difficult to benchmark. While I can't really make changes to Docker to alleviate issues, I'd be interested in knowing what parts of Docker are heavyweight so we can better surface any such information to Dokku users.
IT could have also less malicious uses, like wildfire monitoring for example. A 360 degree thermal camera hanging from a line would allow immediate warnings about the surrounding area long before some human notices.
I switched from Copilot to Supermaven and in my experience it’s more than twice as effective. The suggestions are better and incredibly fast. Co pilot was a nice productivity boost but this is next level for me, I’m genuinely building features noticeably faster.
If lightweight is the answer, then let's go for motorcycles! :)
Had it in Plex for a while, it does demand a huge library to be really useful though.

Also this announcement really buries the big Spotify change https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tr... in which they demonetize (keep the money for themselves) nearly all indie and small artists.
The good AI models that we have now are pretty expensive to run.
Practice Progressive Muscle Relaxation:

Stress-reducing techniques such as mindfulness meditation, deep breathing, or progressive muscle relaxation.

These strategies can help calm your mind and prepare it for a restful night.
Yeah, when the two collide a tank trumps a racecar any day!
After 4 were destroyed, they stopped appearing in Azov sea. If it would be just a FF, they could have solved it by improving AA processes, but Russians stopped using A50 in general.
Nope actually it doesn’t. It makes the case that pgp is a bad implementation but makes the leap to claim that means there’s no way to improve the situation.

For example, you could run a proxy server to deliver the messages between parties. So if you’re emailing someone, the browser extension changes the address to be a server you control, sends you the encrypted email that has everything meaningful encrypted, you decrypt the part your able to (ie the intended receiver) and forward that.

As far as either email server is concerned, your email server is sending out and receiving encrypted emails but there’s no metadata to connect anyone. The key handling uses your access to the email account to validate access same as signal uses the phone number.

That seems like a pretty close system to how Signal works and I don’t see anything meaningfully different. If you do, can you actually elaborate? I don’t feel like the link you pointed me answers why my proposal would be larping security since the security and threat model feels very similar to Signal.

Here are some choice quotes I pulled out of that link and why I have problems with the claims made:

> Searchable archives are too useful to sacrifice, but for secure messaging, archival is an unreasonable default. Secure messaging systems make arrangements for “disappearing messages”.

Signal and most apps except Snapchat (which isn’t e2e afaik) don’t archive by default. But yes, it is true that having encrypted web mail and search are incompatible whereas messaging apps store the data locally and thus can provide search. You’d need a dedicated client that could store all the encrypted messages locally but people aren’t as used to for that.

> Some email clients have obscure tools for automatically pruning archives, but there’s no way for me to reliably signal to a counterparty that the message I’m about to send should not be retained for more than 30 minutes.

Talk about security LARPing. Once the message is sent you’ve lost all control of it. Your just following social contracts that the app honors the request and the user is using an unmodified app.

> No matter how good a job one does securing their own data, their emails are always at the mercy of the least secure person they’ve sent them to.

Also true for messaging apps
My understanding of it is somewhat similar, although I'd argue that's where our mental imagery breaks down: the "weight on fabric" metaphor works to a point then stops conveying what's really happening and becomes misleading.

I think of it like "magnets as rubber bands", and what I call "Feynman lies":

> I can't explain [magnetic] attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you. For example, if we’d said the magnets attract like as if they were connected by rubber bands, I would be cheating you. Because they're not connected by rubber bands, I shouldn’t be in trouble, you’d soon ask me about the nature of the bands… and secondly if you were curious enough, you'd ask me why rubber bands tend to pull back together again, and I would end up explaining that in terms of electrical forces, which are the very things that I'm trying to use the rubber bands to explain, so I have cheated very badly, you see.

> [...]

> But I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you're more familiar with, because I don’t understand them in terms of anything else that you are more familiar with.

direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc&t=1263s

but the whole chapter is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc&t=894
What platform was this on? There are really big download buttons in the playlist and album headers on the phone. They are hard to miss.