skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Europe's main adversary and existential threat ain't no China, its russia. Has been, is and probably always will be. Next, at least historically, with a huge gap from first, would be Turkey. We are not top dog and thus don't compete with China in any way apart from usual economical stuff.

I bet this move is more to please US to show we are still aligned, otherwise we would be banning all meta products and couple more left and right.
Did people forget all about the leaked Instagram research papers? I don't really use either, but at least TikTok's parental controls are vastly superior to Facebooks.
> First, that font rendering isn't just about metrics but varies across operating systems and browsers.

This is in parts, however, due to font metrics, because Windows and Mac use different conventions of how font metrics are specified in fonts: https://www.williamrchase.com/writing/2019-11-10-font-height...
In other words, the usual font formats don’t specify font metrics in an unambiguous way.
It'd be amazing to have an institute for publishing completely open models and weights - especially now the Biden administration seems to be going full AI doomer against Open Source models and weights with the recent US AI Safety Institute appointment.
I feel like we’re approaching a level where absolutely any government regulation is seen as “dystopian”.

We absolutely have regulations like this already. I’d almost argue there are more consumer products subject to regulation than not.

For a more specific example, teens are not allowed to use gambling apps. I don’t see many people arguing that is tyrannical government overreach. Here, TikTok is creating an addictive app that offers you monetary rewards for watching videos and completing menial tasks. It sounds more like employment than leisure activity, why shouldn’t we interrogate the suitability of something like that? Why give these social media companies, which have proven themselves untrustworthy time and time again, the benefit of the doubt?
Can anyone elaborate which (proposed) advantages LionsOS has over Genode?
I think that rewarding kids to watch garbage they don’t like (or do like: it doesn’t actually matter) is a bridge too far. I cannot think of anything from the 80s-90s in my youth that would compare in any way. I mean; for adults this is pretty horrible as well, but they can decide themselves, but for kids it should be forbidden imho.

This has nothing to do with being exposed to the same content as their peers (which is indeed often needed to grow up). Give them pocket money and/or chores and not this bollocks.
Have they built in a keylogger yet? That can't be far behind. In the name of "ai" of course.
I'd say it lives somewhere between curl and postman....that is, more than curl since it seems interactive to me, but not as "feature-visible" as say postman. Sort of like a REPL but with a TUI. It does seem pretty neat though!
It's much worse for monolithic organizations, because they develop complex software and reformatting scrambles code history and it becomes difficult to untangle business logic.
What is the hypocracy here ?

EU is a much more active regulator when it comes to pretty much everything.
Probably this [1] bug which was pretty high-profile.

[1]: https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-thumbnails-file-picker/
I genuinely expected more of your writing and research (I’ve read your blog before) than regurgitating ChatGPT output without thorough verification and then using that as a defense when the error is brought to your attention. I expected you to understand ChatGPT cannot be blindly trusted.

This undermines trust in all technical parts of your writing.
What you sir need is a Dell Wyse 5070. Passively cooled, four 64 bit cores, you can put up to 32Gb memory inside, two DP outputs and an M.2 SATA socket. 4-6 watts at idle and around 16 watts at full chat.
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Oddly enough this is why a heli-carrier is more realistic given a suitable power plant. Granted that power plant would have to be some kind of sci-fi nuclear fission or fusion reactor. Perhaps you could combine the two concepts and add hydrogen lift cells that would also serve as a hand wavy storage / expansion chamber for the hydrogen fuel used in the fusion reactor.

Although if you are going all in on scifi concepts you might as well make it an orbital aircraft carrier that launches scramjet fighters capable of descending from orbit and then boosting back up to dock.
> Ubuntu is Australian

That sounds weird. What's that based on?

You're not meaning Mark Shuttleworth are you? If so, then nope, he's from South Africa. ;)
So now you need "risk assessment" just to publish a mobile phone app.

The precautionary principle has destroyed the EU.
archive link plz
Language games are necessary for the loyal subjects not to become horrified about nakedness of things.

Upholding democracy, protecting human rights, etc all of this is very useful to maintain mental health of the subjects.
It's not a keylogger, it's an AI decision assistant
Because you can't. You are welcome to cut off yourself from the internet, this way you'll be totally safe.
Fair enough, those all sound much better than what actually happened (although massive border walls are easier to say than do, and the current Tsar might lack for Cossacks without Chechens?)

Running the numbers, I'm still impressed with what was historically managed:

country pop(m) deaths(k) ratio
USSR 290 50 0,17
India 361 1000 2,8
Yugoslavia 23,5 135 5,7

by these numbers, Gorbachev's devolution worked about 15 times better than Mountbatten's.

> "...Enjoy, I'm out!"

Did Yeltsin really get handed a bad situation, or did he grab one? I'm calling it as: ломаешь, покупаешь.

Re: Molotov, the fight against imperialism took somewhat longer than expected, according to https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...

> In the geniuses Lenin and Trotzky, the Bolshevik movement found its leadership. Lenin had no use for democracy as it was known in America. To him it was a sham, a front for the great capitalist trusts, which—even though the capitalists themselves might not know it—were doomed to get bigger on a shrinking market, until international capitalist war, bankruptcy, and working-class revolution was the result. Lenin was as sure that this would happen as he was that the sun would rise the next morning. The only dispute was the matter of timing; a few Bolshevik pessimists thought that the capitalist world might last into the 1920's.

I'd say that the USSR owed its existence to the German Empire and the British Empire having gotten into a Sith Master/Apprentice game in 1914 (and then their descendants in 1939...) which the Russian Empire (as part of the global British imperial strategy of "let's you and him fight") got dragged into.

So, as pure fantasy: in a brighter future (a прекрасное далёко?) instead of also playing Sith Master/Apprentice, the post-{Great Patriotic War,WWII} US and USSR would have converged on something closer to a western european social democratic model, where competing corporations tackled the problems they were suited for, and collective congresses tackled the problems they were suited for.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqOo_bZ4AYE
Great point. I think the next couple years will see private money dry up for all but a few companies, unless there are further massive breakthroughs. A publically funded group would be great to incubate talent in the EU and help keep AI research free and open.
> Toxic and Addictive

Tons of new laws to reduce cigarette usage in the UK and EU have been implemented or talked since .. a long time. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68824493

Some EU countries have rules against lootboxes. https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/clgm1i0ko002...

Sadly it seems Casinos and sportsbetting is making a comeback :/

> collecting data

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

Sort buy fine and the top companies are meta, amazon, google, whatsapp .. but yes also TikTok. But no, it's not fine if other EU countries are doing this.

> brainwashing people, propaganda

I don't remember the details, but did meta and youtube not have to implement tools to combat "anti vacs fakenews" during the rona times? Or was that not forced they did it on their own?

I don't know man, It seems you are wrong. It's not all fine when "we do it"
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Do you really need someone to tell you that the government heavily regulates employment?
No, it resembles the campaign against drinking and smoking and having sex without condoms: sometimes a bit overbearing but everyone knows the message itself is sound. Tiktok and similar apps or 'services' - Youtube shorts, Instagram reels, etc - do to video what Twitter did to online discourse and the world would be a better place without them. Maybe not for the 'influencers' who are on it but who cares, they are part of the problem both by feeding the machine as well as by serving as bad role models. Go ahead and ask some children what they want to be later and be dismayed by how many of them say they want to be 'influencers'.

That said I'd prefer for parents to keep their children off Tiktok and the like or - better still - keep them smartphone-free until they're at an age where this is no longer feasible or legally possible (~16). If they do have phones make sure you have control over which apps they run and for how long they can use these, on Android that can be accomplished using something like Timelimit [1]. This is what I use (server and clients), to good effect.

[1] https://codeberg.org/timelimit
The contract was for the Israel's military (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus)

All my respect for the people who put their ethics and integrity before money.
Yes, worries like DnD is Satanic and is going to send us all to hell is - in fact - valid.

Also rock music.

And homosexuality.
Still waiting for them to drop Magnum.
TikTok has a rating of 12+ on the app stor in EU.
The EU asking questions is dystopian? Hysteria like in the 80s and 90s? Or is it good to ask some proper questions before some huge enterprise unfolds their social credit system?
There is a threshold where you can still make things work right despite the accidental complexity, and some enjoy that challenge, but beyond that threshold you just have to accept that things won’t work right. CSS is very often beyond that threshold.
This sounds like either gambling or large scale behaviour modification by conditioning.

At least in the EU those things are regulated, so it’s not particularly surprising the that the EU gets involved.

The speed is unusual, it probably would have taken month if this was American and not Chinese.
I was expecting a keyboard and mouse that would continue sending meaningful input events to my computer after i stop typing / moving the mouse
Parents consume alcohol liberally at the dinner table in front of kids, while maintaining it is bad for them (kids).

I have sat through many a French meals.
I mean if you properly label loot boxes as gambling and dont let kids do it then it seems reasonable. Thats how casinos and sportsbetting operate and no problem there
That scenario would be a case of Tiktok (or its Chinese owners) choosing to shut down rather than divest, not of their product being banned.
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Awesome, look forward to reading it!
The thing about politics is that you cant stay shallow in your analysis.

Nobody is challenging that tobacco = cancer = bad.

But how about the significant loss of social interaction during smoke breaks, that now doesnt happen? Is there perhaps a social crisis now happening?

How about testosterone and fertility crisis? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17163954/

High five! We dropped lung cancer numbers a fair amount and replaced this with 3 major crisis that are far worse damage.
All circumstances where correctness and security are more important than maximum possible performance, once it's mature enough (which will probably never happen), since it provides a proper and secure architecture.
I’m pretty sure the EU has established time and time again that creating toxic and addictive experiences isn’t OK when Facebook do it, either.

There is plenty to criticise in the hysterical response we’ve seen particularly in US government to the mere existence of TikTok. But IMO the EU has been pretty consistent about this stuff, grouping everyone together as “the West” isn’t that helpful.
UK building regulations being extra cautious. Like the fused power plugs.
China is an adversary to Europe. You may not see it as the main one but it is one. Don’t have to always target the main adversary.

European security is dependent on American guarantees and as such it is in Europe’s interest to not deviate too far from America’s foreign policy goals. Especially when there is a major war going on in Europe caused by its main rival.

Even so Europe has targeted America’s most powerful corporations for regulation. This is a good thing. Maybe America will someday follow Europe’s example.
I am sure I have such memories, too, but I cannot, for certain, say that I was 2 years of age or less at the time.
Afaik thumbnails have already been fixed in gnome
Ask HN: Cheapest way to build custom audio TTS in 2024?
Many years ago, I participated in a very odd/unique museum project, where I was asked to just "talk through" my entire life. Someone came to my house, hit record, and I started talking. The objective was to be as detailed as possible, and to try and stay in sequence and not skip over anything. This took several days/sessions, but I think I ended up with 12 CDs of just me recounting my life. Super odd.

I had no use for it, so far. It sits in a musem (along with other people's stories), to have a sort of time capsule of what life was like, for a regular person, at the time.

I now started to wonder, if that would be enough audio content to just train a TTS model _properly_ (language is German). I know, some will respond saying "you only need 15 seconds of audio" — but I have NEVER managed to get any of these things to work properly, or to produce nice results. It seems like those things were mostly made to hit the news, but not for actual use.

So, in 2024, without a 4090 card or A100 sitting in my basement, and without wanting to spend a considerable amount of money on it, what would be the best approach to build a voice model out of this?

What I have is: Windows, OS X, Linux, and x64 as well as Apple M2 Pro. AND, I have A LOT OF TIME to let these things run on their own. Time is NOT an issue here, this can take however long it needs.

So, how would you build an audio model out of this? Without subscription services, without renting A100s — just, here, at home?

Thanks!
Hm, that works well enough as a replacement for `center`, but not any of the `space-*` variants. But "min-width: fit-content" works nicely for all the cases I tried.
Your phrase “logic behind the system” resonates with me. I loved and thrived in organic chemistry but it took hours and hours of sitting working through syntheses over and over-pulling books off library shelves looking for more examples. When things clicked it was beautiful. Many of my pre-med classmates were determined to memorize their way out of it, and I pleaded with them that it was impossible. It’s not list of parameters it is a way of thinking and more complex pattern recognition. They were likely busy with other pre-med stuff and had to allocate time elsewhere. I ended up pursuing microbiology/molecular biology as I didn’t have the financial runway to switch or expand majors at that point in my life, no regrets but I loved the logic of chemistry and probably could have led to some cool things had I done both.
Next stop, Logitech operating system.
I wonder if the launcher file find has improved. it's barely functional at the moment, and miles behind Spotlight
It also made less sense on those corporate OSes because they usually used X terminals over the network where sending all those bitmaps would slow things down.

I always preferred HP VUE. It looked great for its day. It was later boringified by Sun and IBM to make it more corporate and released under the name CDE. Because of course IBM wouldn't stand for nice colours.
So you're saying we should include a sin tax on social media revenue and require social media companies to obtain licenses before they can operate?

Your terms are acceptable.
It’s ok, you can swear here.
https://archive.is/20240416202627/https://www.scientificamer...
No, it did not.
You made that up. Read their decision again.
Does Elixir ML ecosystem libs (Nx, Axon) provide some sort of interop with Python ecosystem?

For example can I load or fine tune a model pre-trained in pytorch/JAX in Axon? Or does everything need to be written from ground up in Elixir?
There certainly is intervention. I'm undecided about whether that intervention is the primary contributor to the high pay.
Russians lost 1 in 7 men to defeat nazis i.e. to save Europe from Europe.

From a historical point of view, it is the other way around. Germans, French and the English always had a hard on for the slavs. They desperately wanted those resource rich, strategically located lands. They still do.
> Biden administration seems to be going full AI doomer against Open Source models and weights with the recent US AI Safety Institute appointment.

I haven't been following the US scene, can you elaborate? The last time I looked, tech celebrities like Paul Graham and Alex Karp were dissing Europe for regulating AI saying that Europe will miss out on AI. Did the USA regulate the AI too?
Uh, who ok'd this?
Gig worker rest stops are hard to find. Nippy wants to change that
i've been assuming, on HN, it stands for "the featured article".
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That's funny.

In Russia there is a mocking rebuke for people blaming the US for all Russia's troubles -- "Yeah, Obama took a shit on a stair well too".
I would argue that for a mathematician, the primary anchor is other mathematicians reading their proofs and complaining that it doesn't seem quite right. What anchors the mathematical community as a whole is applications - physics, cryptography, signal processing. The demand for applications is what keeps it from degenerating into some number-mysticism in the long term.
EU and Russian economies are not liked in significant ways anymore. Russia was the number one natural gas supplier but has kicked itself off that position with the invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile the EU exports massive amounts of goods and intellectual property into China. China is also controlling the vast majority of rare earth supply. If China were to cut ties with the EU, the EU economy would tank massively.

China is also known to supply Russia with chips for their weapon systems, which means they work together in defense matters and if Russia is a threat, then China is, too.
More than these folks did, for sure.

> BloomTech falsely claimed its “income share” agreements were not loans, did not create debt, did not carry a finance charge, and were “risk free.” In fact, the agreements are loans with an average finance charge of $4,000. The loans carry substantial risk, as a single missed payment triggers a default and the remainder of the $30,000 “cap” becomes due immediately. BloomTech further hid the cost and nature of the “income share” loans by not disclosing key terms like the finance charge and annual percentage rate, as required by law.

Student loans from a legitimate lender don't come with balloon payments, the APRs and any finance charges are clearly disclosed, etc., and they're not making up graduation rates.
No, beacuse if my alma mater loses it's endowment where will the fightin' sharks or whatever play?
It's ironic how the world is seemingly opening up to Marijuana while also cracking down on Tobacco. Obviously this isn't happening in the same places but still.
> I have never met a white Republican remotely as racist as Indians, Bangladeshis, Arabs, Vietnamese, and Chinese people I’ve encountered.

So maybe even white Republicans are "woke" by comparison? :-)

PS do you mean "the least bit fazed"?
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how they are going to avoid an "OpenAI" situation.
I'm worried about data collection...like for every other LLM wrappers but this one is collecting directly from the keyboard.
No thanks. I can open a browser tab
Just a lot of talk.

https://ai.gov/

IIRC big tech companies an OpenAI are lobbying to make making foundational models very hard for non big tech companies.
It does not matter what happened historically. We are talking about what is happening now. The Baltics, Poland, Romania, etc. see Russia as a threat and not their NATO allies.
Well that makes sense, the problem is less visible when you generalize everything down to “an app” or “a game” or “a paper stick you put in your mouth”.
In linux with OSS also worked. Then came Alsa with its pieces and Pulseaudio with breakage.

Today it is a mess.
Agreed, Musk seems to have bought and paid for mostly legitimate companies, and most "broken promises" seem to come from how desperate he is for attention on Twitter, often at the reputational detriment of said companies. If anything, he's just lucky his first big break company was PayPal, not Theranos.

Probably most people are sad he went from cool sci-fi CEO to weird divorced dad energy on bird website CEO.
> Thats how casinos and sportsbetting operate and no problem there

Well besides a potential gambling addiction.

I hope my country never ends where 'Stralia is now :/
They thought that Windows 11 coming with a built-in keyboard shortcut to open LinkedIn was such a great idea, they had to have the same thing in their keyboards? -_-;;
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Just kill it by slowing the download speed from tic toc to 56k :) at the isp level.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. It's got me interested in trying this out for myself, do you happen to have / know of any other writing about workflows for setting up remote dev environments using prox mox?
Sounds like a giant battery to me!
Well for a while Trump just wanted to ban it because people used it to register for his rallies and then not show up to give him a comically small turnout.

Later it became more nuanced and economical. But the EU does have a point and they're not just targeting Chinese apps.
Oh so now I need both hands to move a window? Thanks.
Why do you think crediting founders with the work their companies do means that people working in the company cannot also be credited?
Yeah, they are thinking about their people as livestock.
I work in the industry that builds and integrates most of that stuff. We don't use that term. It's marketing woo which is why the other commenter has probably never heard it.
Be careful with fire, you risk igniting that huge strawman of yours.
We need stumbleupon back, and not some overly heavy attempt at it like cloudhiker is.
Ortex exists to run ONNX models: https://github.com/elixir-nx/ortex
Of course I am biased, and so are you and probably everyone else on this site. It is one of the reasons why I do not consider myself to be the person to run something like 'Media Matters' and why I think it would be best for something like a university (in the old sense of the term, a temple of learning and inquiry, not in the new sense of one of indoctrination and inquisition) to keep a watch on things like 'Media Matters' in the hope that they´d be able to balance the biases so they can function like a 'neutral' arbiter.

Also, yes, I have a whole skeleton to pick with the current incarnation of 'progressivism', in large part because in the countries I've lived in that is what's left of most of the institutions once 'progressives' had their way with them. Many scattered bones make for rich pickings.