skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at one of the big 3 FPGA companies, so I can give you an idea of where our teams spend most of their time, and you can translate that into a hobbyist project as you will.

1. Video and Broadcast. Lots of things to be done here. New protocols are being introduced every year by IEEE for sending video between systems. Most cutting-edge cameras have some sort of FPGA inside doing niche image processing. You can get a sensor and build yourself your own Camera-on-Chip. It's a fantastic way to lose a year or two (I can attest to that). Some good material on the matter here: https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/fpga-image-processing.ht...

2. Compute Acceleration. This is more data centre-specific. SmartNICs, IPUs and the like. Hard to make a dent unless you want to spend 200k on a DevKit, but you could prototype one on a small scale. Some sort of smart FPGA switch that redirects Ethernet traffic between a bunch of Raspberry Pis dependent on one factor or another. One company that comes to mind is Napatech. They make a bunch of really interesting FPGA servers systems: https://www.napatech.com/products/nt200a02-smartnic-capture/

3. Robotics and Computer Vision. Plenty of low-hanging fruit to be plucked here. A rediculous amount of IO, all needed to work in near realtime. Hardware acceleration kernels on top of open standards like ROS 2. I always point people in the direction of Acceleration Robotics' startup in Barcelona for this. They're epic: https://github.com/ros-acceleration

4. Telecomunications. This is a bit of a dark art area for me, where the RF engineers get involved. From what my colleagues tell me, FPGAs are good for this because any other device doesn't service the massive MIMO antenna arrays besides building custom ASICs, and the rate of innovation in this area means an ASIC made one year is redundant the next. Software-defined radios are the current trend. You could have fun making your own radio using an FPGA: https://github.com/dawsonjon/FPGA-radio
This is what gets me more and more with LLMs and their "ability to code". A join is a bedrock of a database. Always has been. Always will be. All LLMs are an absolute shitshow when it comes to any SQL logic involving joins. It's hilariously bad. But what can I expect from an LLM when apparently even people consider a JOIN a "more complex workload"? What a joke.
With passive speakers, I agree, but with active/DSP speakers you can do ludicrous things. There's this build on diyaudio called something like "compact active 3 way", that'll give you an idea of how decently powerful a small speaker can go (and that's despite some design flaws in the build like the choice of a passive radiator).
There's no shortage of EU-based NGOs focusing on tech advocacy. Any of these would fit right in: https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/?organisations-status=...

Whether they'd have something to contribute with their resources is a completely different question.

A bit of a tangent: FSF has a separate legal entity within the EU (https://fsfe.org/) which is (IMHO) way better at advocating than its American counterpart. There's also FSFI (India) and FSFLA (Latin America), but I'm unfamiliar with their work.
The class name on the HTML element definitely makes me want to start using more expressive class names in my code. (Doesn't seem I'm able to copy/paste it into a Hacker News comment)
I can't claim to have partaken acoustic couplers, but do 2400 baud modems count? Or do you mean the era of fuchsia Comic Sans marquee blink tags and yellow text on blue pages with animated GIFs and colored ball bullet point items?
AI search is still a new thing, wait a little for it to become fully mainstream and people will start figuring out how to optimize for it, and also how to trick it, too - it's just unavoidable. And eventually we'll end up having AIEO experts instead of the current SEO experts...
This looks really useful. The single line of class properties is a struggle. Additionally I'm using a plugin that hides the class property all together, until I'm clicking on it or toggle it.
>At 3.5k this is completely unaffordable for most of the world and even for high-earners in the US it's a tough pill to swallow for a first generation product.

Apple already knows and has publicly stated that their high $3500 price limits adoption to a smaller market of enthusiastic (and wealthy) early adopters. Even though this particular 2024 iteration of the product is too expensive to be a mass consumer hit like the 1980s Sony Walkman, the more interesting question is if it can be the start of a new paradigm that will be later filled by cheaper iterations.

Past examples of 1st iteration of products being very expensive but triggers a massive new market:

- 1981 IBM PC costs $5240 in inflation-adjusted 2023 dollars ($1565 in 1981 dollars)

- 1983 Motorola DynaTAC (the "brick phone" ) is $11716 in 2023 dollars ($3995 in 1984)

(And the first flat screen tv I bought in 2003 was $4100 for a 32-inch which is $7000 in today's dollars.)

IBM PCs had the "killer app" with Lotus 123 spreadsheet software as a compelling reason to buy it. Indeed, one of the questions when evaluating cheaper clone computers was "does it run Lotus 123?".

The issue is Apple Vision Pro doesn't have an analogous "killer app". The various demos in the Apple Store and Youtube videos of floating windows in your living room and immersive music videos are "interesting" ... but not indispensable tool for work and life.

It's too early to tell if future cheaper iterations of Apple Vision Pro will eventually take off like other previous expensive products like the IBM PC -- or be relegated to niche status like the over-hyped $5000 Segway.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway
Good to know, thanks for the info!
How is it not illegal to pay the ransom? Knowingly giving money to organised criminals for something that shouldn’t happen in the first place?
Within the US, virtually any resident of a large city or major metropolitan area, which is over 85% of the population: <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/12/us/census-results-da...>.

This is also one of the areas in which the Internet has actually delivered on early promise (though the success has been a long time coming, and remains precarious): the Internet Archive offers access to over 20 million records, and aims to have a web page for every book ever published. Note that this still isn't full access to all material, but it's quite good.

<https://openlibrary.org/about>

The US Library of Congress has also been expanding its public access, as have other large public libraries (the New York Public Library notably). LoC also have specific programmes aimed at disabled readers such as its NLS BARD programme for the visually- and reading-disabled.

<https://federalnewsnetwork.com/open-datatransparency/2022/02...>

<https://www.loc.gov/nls/how-to-enroll/sign-up-for-bard-and-b...>
Depends slightly where you are, but often the ebook licenses are time limited, often to 1 year. So not only can't you resell the licenses, you have to keep rebuying them.
I haven't read the paper but the abstract seems to be making a more subtle argument. It argues that the drive towards AGI and safety is underpinned by an eugenic ideology that uses the contradiction between safety and generality as a ploy to centralize state and corporate power, to the detriment of anyone else. They point out that as long as AGI is thought of as undefinable and all powerful, AGI safety will fail.

Their recommendation is reasonable: let's focus on automating specific tasks, where safety /can/ be defined.

Any serious researcher would be doing this already. However the societal view of AGI is as an emerging god machine. And corporations are trying hard to make them into this. So the criticism is both valid and important.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
Ah, can see that investors can force the company to shoot for the moon, instead of just trying to right-size the business and sell it. Very interesting!
I disagree. The product is extremely similar to processed soy beans. Anything you can do with it, you can already do with soy beans. Adding what is essentially a new variety of soy bean onto the market will not affect demand for animal proteins one iota (unlike, say, Quinoa when it hit western supermarkets). Even if it can be produced cheaper than soy beans, that will mean cheaper animal feed and cheaper meat.
https://wiki.haskell.org/GADTs_for_dummies
How are they removing system files when the machine is locked down?
If you do not grant them local admin permissions and properly configure windows defender and remoting software that should be your solution. You can make the WiFi connection automatic/mandatory with local policies.
I have to suggest the "locking down" part was not done properly or at all if a user was able to remove system files.
Something you may like:

I had demonstrated several classical computer vision algorithms in Excel:

https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

This was done using just built-in Excel formulas. No scripts/VBA.
> No, they don't as can be seen by GDPR, CRA and others.

You’re optimism is great, tbh I am extremely cynical.

But name one Fortune 50 tech company making great profits giving high salaries to EU devs and R&D folks that isnt relying on Government Funding from EU except SAP & ASML.

Europe has far higher education outcomes for its young graduates, than both America and India. There is almost no student debt in most major EU countries.

Yet why is it that not just America, even India a significantly poorer country, with worse infrastructure, bad quality colleges which forces their brightest minds to come to EU, America and Australia to study in higher education.

And YET they do better than Europe when it comes to Tech ?
Why ? It’s not just cheap labour, other places have even cheaper labour and more lax regulations.

I’m just saying the reality, I love your optimism, but I wish EU bureaucrats were actually that effective. GDPR just allows non-EU companies to grow big in their domestic markets and then they think about regulations more and enter the EU market. While EU companies have to think of laws from the beginning.

Security isn’t some black magic science which can be an intellectual secret, or give bleeding edge. It’s grunt work mostly, and gets postponed to invest in more profit generating parts of the business. If non-EU businesses think they are losing money due to lax security, they’ll flip the game, but this law doesnt do that, non-EU companies just first expand in their large domestic markets and then think about the rest later once they have more money to think of it.

Consumer will definitely win from CRA, just like they did with GDPR, USB-C just in the short term. It’ll just continue forcing EU pioneers to move to America to start their business.

I hope you are right and I am wrong, it would be great if a region like EU can prove that one can be great innovators while also being heavily regulated and pro-consumer in the long term.

It just hasn’t happened yet, and continues to go the opposite direction. Now ASML is threatening to move elsewhere too (albeit for different reason).
I sort of remember the opposite. I remember that there was some initial pushback to wearables, but once Apple watch entered the scene it was quickly adopted - and in fact helped to establish smart watches in general as niche product.

It was not the ubiquitous success of the previous consumer products, I think, but it quickly gained traction.

I don't think that VR glasses are going down the same route.
The easiest "take my money" approach would be to look at some Troels Gravesen speakers on his website and/or find kits being sold on sites like parts express (if in the US). Jeff Bagby and Paul Carmody are two other well known designers, the latter having more budget-friendly builds.

Additionally, sites like diyaudio.com are better when you want a specific thing built and are looking to learn more about techniques, new parts etc.
It’s not as if photocopiers could randomly replace letters or numbers, right? …right?

Or perhaps they could: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
Let's call it the Oasis of Servers. I guess we could find an old oil platform or something...
That’s what reader mode is for (I had the same reaction).
> And yet, it completely changed how the world computed.

This is really debatable. There have been computers before and after the Mac that were just as influential but much cheaper. Anecdotal of course, but back in the 80s and early 90s a Mac wasn't on my "must have list" at all. Macs were always overpriced and underpowered, and back then only useful for one thing: "desktop publishing".

Amigas provided much more bang-for-the-buck, and technology-wise Silicon Graphics workstations were far ahead (at 10x the price of course).

The Mac's real influence on mainstream computing might have been that it was an intermediate step to transfer the graphical UI research done at Xerox PARC into MS Windows ;)
Came to say the same thing (about your joke of course). The Safe Space was genuinely both very funny and insightful.
People listen to podcasts because they are personal. If you keep listening is not just about the content but also about the style of the podcast, their voices, jokes, etc. Podcasts are deeply personal, I don't think AI generated podcasts will be of any value.

What could be nice though is if _I_ can tell an AI to summarize and read a set of articles for me which I can listen to while traveling or whatever.
> Belgian media said in the verdict the judge emphasised that the defendant, who was not named in line with local judicial custom, did not experience symptoms of intoxication.

Hopefully that's the critical bit. If the defendant neither acted to impair his driving ability, nor was actually impaired, it'd be a sh*tty move to punish him.

So...why and how did the Belgian legal system charge him with drunk driving?
> This describes fairly well what we've seen so far. The "lowtag" is those 4 bytes at the end of Lisp objects; also, we're clearly on a 64-bit architecture here, with N_WORD_BITS being 64, 8 of them reserved for the lowtag. It also details various values for the lowtag, the important one being...

Shouldn't that say bits? As 8 bytes would be the whole thing ayways.
There isn’t a UTF-8LE/BE because it is implicitly BE for wide characters. Any byte in a WC sequence cannot meaningfully be interpreted (exc character class, page etc) without its companions, so not just bytes. There is an element of presentation that must happen before “mere bytes” are eligible for JSON
This was a top of my head example of how you fan catch many invariants, not meant to be exhaustive perfect code. I was also implying the user type is something you use within your application, not something you expose to other people directly. If your application has to expose internal data it makes often more sense to add a specific interface for it (e.g. an API with versions). If there is code where people rely on your internal types, it is your responsibility to use semantic versioning to communicate breaking changes, while it is the other person's responsibility to assume breaking changes when versions change.

If we are talking about someone other relying on your user to have 3 fields that is a collegue: it is a good idea to test your code against the whole codebase. Then you know ahead what will fail and can act accordingly.
Suggestion: after "a longer ID with a lower chance of visual ambiguity" show how many characters that will be needed to have the same number of IDs as 53^8 using the 22 encoding.

I.e. for a given number of IDs, how many characters are needed in the 53 versus 22 encoding (people who are not good at math might assume it is more than twice as many).
Writing a document with version control feauters
It's ridiculous that we can land a rocket like a helicopter in 10 square meters, but there is still no decent document editor that gives me all the features of a version control system. I'm sitting on the train and must write a document to my colleague. Have you ever traveled with Deutsche Bahn? You can forget about the internet, so Google Docs is out. Well, writing Markdown and using a Git host and so on is out, too, because my colleague is unable to write Markdown. I really hope that Lix will be ready soon so that we can build a decent Docs editor and finally get VSC functions. Please excuse me if this sounds very harsh. But it is really annoying.
In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It's Not Enough
There are plenty of babylon.js & physics package demos around.

The WebGL support can be an issue on some machines, but when it does work... things like procedural fog/pseudo-procedural-water/dynamic-texture-updates look fairly good even on low-end gpus. Also, the free Blender addon can quickly export basic animated mesh formats that will save a lot of fiddling with assets later, and the base library supports asset loading etc.

Like all js solutions your top 3 problems will be:

1. Audio and media syncing (don't even try to live-render something like a face mocap)

2. Interface hardware access (grabbing keyboard/mouse/gamepads is sketchy)

3. Game cheats (you can't trust the clients world constraints are true)

4. web browser ram/cpu overhead

The main downside of using __any__ popular game-engine is asset extraction is a popular hobby for some folks (only consoles sort of mitigate this issue).

Best of luck, =3
Even llama3 has its issues. Ive been quite impressed so far but if the context gets a little long it freaks out, gets stuck repeating the same token or just fails to finish an answer. This is for the full f16 8B model, so it cant be put down to quantization. It also doesnt quite handle complex instructions as well as the benchmarks would imply should.
>The Voyager had a custom-designed processor (well, several) that were basically computers made out of basic logic chips (74xx series);

This was not unusual at the time: many early arcade games were made exactly the same way. They've even been emulated by the MAME project.
Oh, thanks for the clarification! I didn't thought about this.
Of course it’s all bytes. It’s all bytes. That doesn’t change the fact that you need to have some awareness of encoding before those bytes are fully sensible
When they say framework-agnostic they are talking about not being dependent on using React.

> Who is Franken UI for?

> Franken UI is tailored for small teams and solo developers seeking a beautiful, reliable CSS framework without the complexity of React, Vue, or Svelte. It's designed with an "HTML-first" approach, making it accessible to developers at any skill level.

https://www.franken-ui.dev/docs/introduction

As opposed to the shadcn ui

> Which frameworks are supported?

> You can use any framework that supports React.

> Next.js, Astro, Remix, Gatsby etc.

https://ui.shadcn.com/docs
Not trying to disparage them, but their models always give a feeling that it is overfitted on benchmarks hence they perform so well. On everyday tasks, it's much worse - chat or simple completion tasks.

Distilling can work and there are papers which suggest it does, but we still do not have a reliable mechanism which can distill knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller student models.
> And eventually we'll end up having AIEO experts instead of the current SEO experts...

The article calls that LLMO :-)
Small correction on your great reply for the sake of computer history: it's "Lotus 1-2-3", or "Lotus One Two Three", referring to the calculation, database and graphing capabilities... Some people might think it's "Lotus one hundred and twenty three"
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The IBM PC (architecture) was mostly successful not because of IBM, but because of Microsoft though.
> I would characterise "Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation" as BigFOSS

While names cited are associated to long-standing well-recognized projects, it strikes me at odd to include Rust Foundation here. Not only the language itself is still relatively new and used in few real life projects, but the foundation is very new (2021).

Moreover, looking at its last annual report, it spent half of it's budget (1.5M$) on "membership & admin". It seems like the true action of this foundation is to beg money from big corps and give it to a few selected members.
If companies are willing to break privacy policies for AI training, why not use cloud data for AI training. Sure office all 365 data would be great for building AI.

Most encryption is either provider managed where they can easily look into data, or the customer also shares key with them(e.g. EC2 instance getting encrypted S3 data with key in EC2). I have never seen someone using AWS treating amazon as a threat.
Enjoy https://www.srenity.online/
Since going full-time on my startup, I often work remotely at my local library. Over my time there, my eyes have been opened to what an absolute treasure public libraries are.

Besides the physical books everyone knows about, which are a treasure by themselves, there are many other valuable resources, as you mentioned, including:

- The Adobe suite, even including Character Animator

- Udemy

- Digital access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and others

- Free notary services

- Print magazines and newspapers

- Puzzles

- Music and films

- eBooks and audiobooks

...not to mention community activities like classes, groups, and concerts.

Just being physically present in the library has benefited me. When I take breaks, I sometimes pick up a book at random. It may be about sales, health, politics, history. I sometimes come away with new ideas for my business, sometimes am just inspired or informed or amused in general.

I encourage anyone reading to stop by a library if you haven't been in a while. See what they offer. You might be surprised. And please, do what you can to support them in whatever way you can, even if that's just to use them, demonstrating the need for them by your patronage. We need these institutions, and they won't be around forever without our support.
Sure but why would I pay for something I can get for free from the library - either a physical one or genesis?
Nordic nRF9161 SiP support cellular IoT and DECT NR+ non-cellular 5G technology
It's not just 50-year-old hardware: it's hardware that's been subjected to cosmic radiation for 50 years, part of that outside the solar system (so presumably even higher).
Schema – A playful visual environment for behavior programming
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script
Dreaming of a world where normal PCs could have an OS on the quality level of MacOS with the software ecosystem but Linux is just too fragmented that you can't build anything coherent or reliable on an interface level in the way MacOS is.

This isn't saying Linux is bad, its great at what it does and being modular but how can something like MacOS spell check where it works on any text field coherently across any app work in a modular world like that.

Windows just feels like bad decisions made decades ago hold it back, it can't even open a folder of 20 thumbnails without choking, MacOS can handle 10,000 like a knife through butter. Can't even find a file opened yesterday when you search for it in the start menu by exact name, MacOS manages in a fraction of a second. Maybe the right team could rewrite all the things causing this jank but you'd essentially have to replace so much of the company that caused it anyway that it doesn't seem feasible.

Still use all 3 for different tasks but MacOS is the only one that feels like an operating system should feel in 2024.
Yeah, it's interesting. I find them elegant and want all my languages to have that syntax (no deviation either like [] for lists etc). Guess we cannot argue about taste :)