skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you can't filter for every possibility in advance, but with a hands-on moderator and some regex it should be super-easy to throttle this. And as more than one person has pointed out, just shutting down new account creation/posting for 24 hours would be equally effective. I'm perplexed at how a mature site full owned and catering to network technologists is vulnerable to such a laughably crude attack.
So the CCP can dish it out but can’t take it.

Until the CCP decides to allow a level playing field for US companies operating in China they can go pound sand as far as I’m concerned.
Here's a link to set things up even faster: https://app.questmate.com/p/87ad48e6-d80d-44b7-98c0-a6824176...
Haha a whole subreddit could spawn from the different lore hypothesis...
I'm doing so, but sometimes I can still see/reply to the comment despite me flagging it.

Is a certain threshold of users required to flag a comment before it's removed?
Reconfigurable logic may be used to implement fairly small models, in applications where they're already employed and adding a coprocessor specifically for ML is either infeasible or doesn't make sense. As the paper mentions, you need hard logic blocks for arithmetic (if not floating point), and these are always in short supply. In DSP applications I've worked on we used the fpga for timing and i/o, to control jitter and sample from many ADCs in parallel - but apart from some filtering then ran the numbers on an adjacent non-reconfigurable core. You can get huge chips with a lot of hard logic built in, but they're relatively expensive compared to fpga + traditional coprocessor with shared memory. The high end application specific chips are shockingly expensive - worse than GPUs because there is comparatively little market for them. We had one evaluation board that was like $100K iirc.
I need to do what you did and sit down and make a perfect Vite + React + TS boilerplate that I can use for all my web graphics experiments.

Also, your project, Shademap, is really cool btw! I remember seeing it just around the time I was getting into Three.js and graphics programming - well before the time I fully understood what a shader was.
Adam Wathan on Tailwind.css v4 and Tailwind Labs
But those Americans are still in the economy and will mostly spend their money elsewhere. No net impact as far as I can tell.
Chaz looks really cool! It'd be awesome if you posted it to This Week In Matrix (room: [0]).

[0]: https://matrix.to/#/%23thisweekinmatrix%3Amatrix.org?via=mat...
Krazam OS
Alternatively, with pushbullet to get notification on all devices:

<cmd> ; pu done
Scale Not Sales: Automating Revenue So Graph Go Up
Also: publishers aren't needed anymore

They basically make money scumming celebrity crap on the market and riding the 150 years (and counting) copyright window.

With AI floods the editors and reviewers do become more important. But like music labels, one of the biggest exploiters of art and talent, the technical aspects of media delivery and production aren't held by labels or publishing houses.

They are just middlemen.
> Why is AI treated very different than say cloud? Most companies don't have problem with putting all data in Github or AWS or Office 365

The answer is (from my job experience): it is not reallt treated differently. There exist treaties with Microsoft/Azure for Windows, Office 365, Azure DevOps, ... But these are considered as inconvenient necessities that the company would be happy if they were not needed, thus I believe these treaties are watched like a hawk.
https://archive.is/W9KDc
I’m seeing them in a bunch of other threads. This is the first time I have seen HN being spammed like this.
Ironically, general purpose computing. Like servers, smartphones, etc. The premise of Fuchsia, as a prominent example, is to build an OS that operates more like a sandboxed/capabilities-based microservices platform, with structured IPC across processes. All major platforms both cloud and clients (even browsers) have gone to great lengths to deliver precisely that on top of existing OSs, with many expensive layers and hacks. It would be a lot nicer to have it built into the OS.

Does that mean it’s truly ripe? I don’t know.
Video games, too. I live through the 90s yet my backlog includes thousands of hours of reputedly-amazing games from that decade that I didn’t get to at the time.
> If I child can’t pass the standard class threshold, then fine, fail them.

Now suppose the child has a medical condition and they have to spend half their time in the hospital getting treatment. Or they have a mental health condition and the meds only work until they build up a tolerance and then they have to switch medications and spend three months in a stupor trying to find another one that works.

They can pass the standard classes if you give them twice as long, but then they're learning one semester's worth of material every two semesters. What do you want to do with them?
> Paper books are also just orders of magnitude easier to flip through and re-read specific chapters, paragraphs or sections.

Whatever works for you, of course. PDFs have bookmarks, which instantly take me to a specific spot on a specific page. Also, I can open multiple instances of the PDF, viewing multiple pages of the same book (or some PDF readers allow split screens to do the same thing). Edit: And if I don't recall where something is, I can search for it.
Gives new meaning to "show hn"
More "awesome tech" from Meta that few people will ever use. If you do, just be careful they don't share your location with any genocidal occupiers!
App store ratings are gamed through bugging users to rate the app, cozying up to the app store maintainer who can delete reviews, or even Sybil attacks on competing apps.
Might not be a 'coordinated attack' so much as the consequence of a referral[0] program in the age of AI

[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe52_7L-JqY6OqhL0FJ...
Passing developer params to text classification models [video]
Who do you think gives money to VCs, private equity and other finance boogeymen? It’s pension funds, banks and other institutions that hold regular people's money. Of course, older people have more savings, but its still the same people that you wanted to help in the first place, aren't they?
I was Youtubing this last weekend and ran down quite the rabbit hole. This all seems like mumbojumbo to me.

I could not derive a single piece of solid science in any of it.

It was remarkable how much content there was on this subject with little to no actual information - enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/@MFMP
Referencing 17776 by Jon Bois when the bulb (spoiler alert?) meets its demise. A tragic day for sentient satellites and immortal football fans alike.
Same here. I'm not sure if it's psychological. When reading my Kindle, I have to constantly fight my urge to do something else, maybe except for reading a page-turner novel.
Will you be able to read those textbooks and markups in 10 or 20 years, if Fujitsu stops making Quadernos?
It basically never should unless the inliner made a terrible judgement. Devirtualizing in C++ can remove 3 levels of pointer chasing, all of which could be cache misses. Many optimizations in modern compilers require the context of the function to be inlined to make major optimizations, which requires devirtualization. The only downside is I$ pressure, but this is generally not a problem because hot loops are usually tight.
Doi is the main one. Most published papers and many other things have them. They're newer so often older things hang around too, I'd wager most new pubmed articles have dois too.

There are several registries, crossref is the big one in the west but it's not the only one. They have probably the best access to the data out of all of the larger registries though.

Dois are pretty good, though not persistent and there's no versioning built in so people have their own formats.

I spent a lot of time working with these as part of https://dimensions.ai for a decade or so. Happy to chat if you want to delve in more.
This isn’t Google though. This is some guy creating a website that will allow him to trend for your term on Google, without the support of the ads that would be financially supporting your content, or any engagement opportunities.

By using LLM he has created a method to literally outclass every video on YouTube. People will not watch the video, because what’s the point, all the information is already there, taken so fully as to likely not pass fair use claims.

Please stop throwing whataboutisms into this argument. You keep doing it, and they aren’t sticking. This is about this specific site, which takes the full content that people make (not a summary, enough so you can follow along without watching the video, which would go beyond fair use), strips out the ads, and puts them into a format the creator didn’t intend. It is not about embeds, it is not about Google, or aggregators, or scrapers. It is not promotional, and nor does it have any side benefits. It is just taking content that isn’t theirs and packaging it as a modest benefit to the end user.

This site is extremely unethical as is, with limited benefit to the people who actually made the content. No sidestepping or whataboutisms will change that.
What trend?

Forking happens all the time. It's one of the benefits of open source. I've often made PRs on github to projects while shifting projects I work on to my fork since upstreaming can take months or often never happen

Granted, Nuitka is an active project, but wasmer.io is going to have a much more focused desire with their changes that they can deploy, meanwhile getting it upstream will have to go through rounds of review & adjustments

https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/pull/937 this small change took over 2 years to merge. Open source takes time
If the choice is who are we going to make in charge of feeding us propaganda then the game is fixed. We play this trick on 4 year olds to make them do what we want and when done to adults it's paternalistic.

Fifteen year old me was right on this one. It's better to burn it down than pick the lesser of two evils. We always reserve the right to create our own options if what's presented to us isn't honest.
What a sweet film. Thank you for the link. This whole time when I heard about work on the Voyager mission I assumed there was a larger team, with fewer single points of failure.
I find the trans advocacy movement quite fascinating in how it operates as a cult that brooks no dissent.

It seems like their end goal is to have everyone believe (or appear to believe, under threat of consequences) that being a woman or a man is merely a thought in one's mind, rather than based on the material biological reality of sex.

I'm not sure it's even possible for them to be flexible on this, as it's all about usurping an existing societal view and having everyone agree with this new belief.

It also reminds me somewhat of how the Church of Scientology infiltrated key governmental instititions back in the 1970s, in order to further their aims.
Am I imagining something or are there more bots than usual on HN right now?

What's going on?
I wish that all people who exist in the business world would learn to appreciate that levels of indirection do not absolve anyone of wrongdoing. The law might give them a pass but that doesn’t make them innocent.
Chasing memory leaks in BCP [1] data load implementation in Babelfish [2]. Spotted unusually high RAM usage, decided to look deeper and got into a rabbit hole. Haven't had this fun of overnight debugging (of Postgres guts) for a long time. As a result found 4 different leaks and one (unlikely to be triggered) crash. And now have BCP data load impl with 100% constant-bounded RAM usage in a DB server process.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/bcp-utility?view...
[2] https://babelfishpg.org/
If you don't know about Plasticity 3D, you should know about Plasticity 3D. It is different, but still parametric, and CADish.
> any replacement would be US only

The rest of the world will likely follow. Also most of the world has already accepted that US tech firms have all their data, but don’t want China to have it. If there’s a feasible alternative to TikTok then banning it in Indonesia or Poland or Brazil becomes much easier for the politicians.
> We so absolutely need paths to move away from what we have today.

Why though? What necessitates our move away from what we have?
I owe you a beer for that one.
Thanks for having my back when you didn't need to. I like your explanation. When it comes to hectares, he's forgetting our rockets can also be used to plough your field.

I guess the episode did originally air 32 years ago. So I'll schlink back to my porch to shake my fist at the clouds. You gave me too much credit.

https://youtu.be/07vdtBMG4Kg
> he HN headline is more clickbaitey than the original article, which has a different headline and goes out if its way to point out that Amazon and HBO are likely not the ones doing the outsourcing to North Korea

That is the beauty of the subcontractor shell game and one of the top reasons why companies do it, no one has to take responsibility.
Elephant Seal Die-Off in Argentina Caused by Bird Flu
Check out Hexabase on YouTube, and then check out DIYAudio.com. Those will whet your appetite, I hope.
That would be an unauthorized transmission and I would never do that :-)

No comment on the other question, sorry.
>hide it's immigrant integration problem

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/18/bondi-...

>But untrue tweets on the “must be a Muslim” theme went viral.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68822846

> Simeon Boikov, Russian consulate in Sydney, Under the alter ego "Aussie Cossack", he posted untrue speculation that a 20-year-old Jewish university student was the attacker who had stabbed and killed five women and one man at a Westfield shopping centre in Sydney.

>"Unconfirmed reports identify the Bondi attacker as Benjamin Cohen. Cohen? Really? And to think so many commentators tried to initially blame Muslims."

Its almost as twitter is crucial in spreading hatred and misinformation on behalf of adversary regimes.
Copyright law is ridiculous and abusive (thank you supreme court).

There is some role for domain knowledge, curation, and editing, but the article shows that's not what they make bucjs on: celebrity drivel, bibles, sat prep, and the copyright monopoly.

It's just a cartel, just like the music labels are.
Check out Hexabase on YT. He has really punchy small speakers that he has released designs for.
The article doesn't say these books sell 2000 copies a year; it says they sell 2000 copies, period. Generously assume a $30 new release hardcover cost ("The City Is Up For Grabs", the most recent book I bought, cost $25) and a 20% gross margin for the publisher, and you're talking $35k total to split between the publisher and the author.

It does talk about celebrity books selling some low number of copies within the year of publication. Presumably those books do keep selling at some level for some long tail of the book being in print. But unless books are utterly unlike all other media, 80-90% of the proceeds from selling the book will come during the new release window.
@dang we have a mass spam incursion in this comment thread.
No, you're quite mistaken. The agents try to divine what the publishers want, which is, as you said, "celebrities [and the backlist], and that those titles pay for all the midlist titles, most of which don't recoup their advances."

> It's not like publishers can simply decide to focus on new and midlist authors

who said anything about what they should or shouldn't do?

But since you brought it up: the same applies to the music business, as Ted Gioia (my original source). At one time in history, everyone in the music business was focused on selling more music, so nurturing and promoting new artists was good business. They didn't simply look at "what are people buying now?"
I can see how one company might focus only on developing its technical skill in animation, rather than other aspects that are important to a production (like writing, music, marketing, etc), and do contract work for anyone who wants to make an animated production, no matter the story / market / etc. Sort of like how TSMC mostly focuses on semiconductor manufacturing excellence and leaves the design to other companies, with only a small amount of its production used to manufacture its own component designs.

But for studios where mastery of a certain animation style is critical to their work, vertical integration makes sense too.
> std::exception does not take a string in its constructor

You're right, I used it as a short-hand for our internal exception function, forgetting that the std one does not take a string.
Our error handling function is a simple static function that takes an std::string and throws a newly constructed object with that string as a field.

But yes, it could very well have been that the string surpassed the short string optimisation threshold or something similar.
I did verify the assembly before and after and the function definitely inlined before and no longer inlined after. Moving the 'throw' (and, importantly, the string literal) into a separate function that was called from the same spot ensured it inlined again and the performance was back to normal.
The Biosingularity Is Near
Subtitled "Not an actual product render."
Free ai girlfriend sounds amazing
Apologies for the metacommentary but do you understand what you've done here?? You've collected together a bunch of rabbit holes into one all-powerful thread that some people might never be able to leave! So I'm gonna keep it bookmarked for later, thanks...
They certainly won't disappear overnight. In fact, they will be very, very upset with those that took their platform away. Millions of upset people, and, if you're worried about the CCP, well, they'll have plenty of time to tell those millions of very upset people anything they'd like.

So really on either end of this, well, you have potentially bad outcomes. What's worse, people watching cat dance videos, or, people who are upset and vulnerable potentially being shown how to escape their negative emotions by your enemy.

I'd say the latter really. That and the bill is far too broad, being that any company can be forced to sell or get banned, provided they have sufficient link to a country that has been determined to be 'adversarial', which, reads to me as "literally any app the USGOV doesn't like".

Either way, I look forward to TikTok forcing the DOJ to prove that China, our biggest trade partner, signer of more than a few treaties, regional political partner, is adversarial. It's gonna be super fun, and probably thrown out immediately.

And, well, if it isn't, we can look forward to literally any publicly traded platform cow-towing to washington's whims, which will also be very fun being that power tends to flip flop constantly. One second you can only be pro-abortion on facebook, oops, democrats lost an election, now you can only be anti-abortion. Sounds great doesn't it? But hey, at least we stuck it to those commies data mining our cat dance videos.
Lots of really cool answers here.

Electric Bikes: Hub Motors and Mid drives are a really great spring / summer rabbit hole to go down. So many form factors of ride and you can also kill two birds with one stone by going for 60V lawn care equipment (There's adapters on eBay to connect them to your bike).
I think that's true, actually.
The Unexpected Resurrection of Harlan Ellison
Many successful artists in any medium say they create things for themselves; it's more a compulsion than a business activity. Some are lucky that others like it; some are even luckier that others like it during the creator's lifetime; the luckiest even make money from it!
What is going on with the spam. It’s not even good spam.
California Is Trying to Drive Landlords Out of Business
A Pinecil (digital soldering pen) is probably a better example. BL706 MCU,
"a low-power, high-performance IoT chip that supports BLE/Zigbee wireless networking, ...
BL702 has built-in RISC-V 32-bit single-core processor with FPU, the clock frequency can reach 144MHz, has 132KB RAM / 192KB ROM / 1Kb eFuse storage resources, supports external Flash, and optional embedded pSRAM."

The Voyager had a custom-designed processor (well, several) that were basically computers made out of basic logic chips (74xx series); see details here https://www.eejournal.com/article/voyagers-1-and-2-take-embe...

Either way, it's clear that we (well, JPL) can build extremely powerful and sophisticated systems with relatively small computers, suggesting that resource constraints can sometimes be a source of stability and creativity.
We don't need to invoke changes to language in general every time a Twitter metric needs to be reworded. The word "user" is still fine in nearly every case it's used in. Add a clarification in the few cases where one is necessary.
Its across everything on the frontpage. Hundreds of spam links.

It looks very much like a concerted attack of some kind. The spam seems quite ineffective, so I'm wondering if the "real" attack is trying to get the moderators to hell-ban a legitimate person to silence them or something.

I dunno, its really weird. Its hard for me to take this spam at face value, I can't imagine that this website is a good target for such spam. Its clearly just here to annoy the moderators and make them tired vs... something. Reminds me of Starcraft Muta Harass: you're attacking the APM and attention-span of the opponent, not actually trying to straight up win with Muta. If that makes any sense.
Oh boy, further down the rabbit hole!
> Check out Hexabase on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/@HexiBase in case you're having trouble finding it with that spelling.
I installed NixOS and went down into that black hole.
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Wow, I had no idea. And I thought I knew about most of C++'s weirdnesses.
Not all John Smiths are bad, promise.
Agreed. The only thing i have against Kavrayskiy VII is that i learned about it from the XKCD about map projections, which makes me feel like a complete fraud.
Given they all link to Discord, I wonder if @dang should consider contacting their abuse team to investigate and take down those channels.
Haidt offers up a low expectation parenting trick, just a one-time easy harmonic 'no socials for kids' from them and if it fails like ever other attempt then we make the state make us sing in key.

The way he feigns much difficulty to understand the baby & the steak argument is very revealing. Responsible kids deserve the chance to have fun and be taught by elders where the line of too risky play is. When he seems so indifferent to the slippery slope of the state picking up all the slack for the parents it can easily be taken for the main aim of his work.