skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no significant knowledge of how TOR works, so I might be off the mark here. Perhaps one incentive is that by running your own node, you can utilize it as an entry or exit node for your own activities over TOR. By controlling either the entry or the exit node, you know that a bad actor does not control both of the nodes involved in your own usage. Just a thought. Maybe this strategy is flawed somehow. Please chime in and correct me if you see a flaw in this strategy.
But these were different music styles.
It is a damn shame to see Solana getting integrations and put on the same playing field as Ethereum, since as you say it's quite centralized and was a product of Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud pumping it into "relevancy".

But unfortunately those behind the projects and the project's treasury itself has become quite rich from the increase in price and can support bizdev and grants (bribes).
Nope it doesn’t ban TikTok from having Chinese owners. TikTok could very well continue to have Chinese owners, and if so the US will ban the product domestically
Oracle Health has been HQed in Nashville since 2023 [0].

It seems to be a pivot related to Oracle's acquisition of Cerner a couple years ago.

After the JEDI fiasco, Oracle has gotten very deep in the Health IT space, which is a much slower and stickier industry.

[0] - https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/oracle-health-mov...
Fun chair anatomy video by arguably one of the most talented ones currently active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2g6kGl66XU
Customer pays for say, 1Gbps bidirectional. ISP has a total capacity of 1Tbps. They find that the average usage rate from users is 100Mbps bidirectional, so they sign on 10x as many users as they could truly offer a full 1Gbps to, taking a risk. Then new services come along, and the customer average usage increases to 500Mbps.

Instead of upgrading their total capacity, reducing their user count by 5x or reducing the speeds they promise, the ISP decides that it's the service's fault that they can't provide the 1 Gbps they're selling. This is obviously double dipping. They want to both sell higher bandwidths than they can provide, and charge others for making them have to provide what they're advertising.
I don't think that is a legal requirement in Germany. At least Hetzner lets you rent a German VPS or dedicated server without ID. Though Hetzner may require you to submit an ID if you are flagged by their automated systems upon registration.
It's interesting that societies accidentally mimic Roman Dictatorship. Periods of change result in the populace voluntarily handing over power to some sole authoritarian that they hope can cut through the coordination problem and fix some big problem. Then inevitably that person overreaches and we have to overthrow them.
I don't agree actually, having used various mobile devices, including a Palm III, Jornada 548, Visor Pro, and the Samsung Blackjack 1 and 2. Sure, they had some nice features (and gimmicks) but the ease of use outside of the basic PIM apps left much to be desired, the screens were mediocre at best, and mobile web browsers on Pocket PC and the Blackjacks were at best good only for checking news/weather. I still remember watching the iPhone keynote livestream and being absolutely blown away, only settling for the Samsung because my parents didn't want to splurge (probably for the best, as I lost the 1 and got a 2 as the replacement). In my second year of college I lucked out and a friend sold me her iPhone with a shattered front glass, and with a bit of surgery I repaired it and used it until the launch of the 3GS. After that I never looked back (well, now I collect vintage PDAs so that's not /entirely/ true heh).

Don't get me wrong the other devices were (and are!) fun to tinker with, but for something I use every day and depend on like a phone I just want it to work.
Cost goes down rapidly if you can reuse cellphones for targeting.
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Your argument is that this is the only difference.

If so, then Tenstorrent should have chosen x86. They could support all the way through SSE3 without patent negotiations and maintain backward compatibility rather than risking it on a new ISA. Why didn't they?

The same reason that software devs don't want to implement a bad API that's been continually updated for years. A new API allows you a chance to do things better even if both APIs technically do the same exact things. You can move quickly and confidently spending that mental energy and time on things like performance instead of contemplating weird edge cases and writing endless tests for each of them.

The same applies to Tenstorrent and RISC-V. The cleaner ISA means you don't have to sit around thinking about how an instruction can be potentially executed for a weird side effect and how that will propagate through the pipeline. Instead, you can focus that mental energy on performance enhancing changes.

In any case though, Intel sells 6-7x more chips than AMD, so even with 2x the people, their economies of scale are still better.

That said, I believe a cleanroom RISC-V design by Intel would still progress faster at Intel than x86 does and it would probably require fewer people allowing them to put the rest on other projects and the overall reduction in team size might even further increase the design rate (as you've stated).
"If you smoke, your chances of getting cancer are only 3 in 10!" is not actually very comforting.
Yeah the https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/h/A64-Floati... but a full jit helper that is generalized is way way harder and as said will take a long time tobe generally available. Just look at wasmgc and that only has the minimum denominator.
I don't think a contributor can unilatary withdraw their code from a code base unless there is license change. Then it wouldn't be about "withdrawing" their code but refusing to allow it to be distributed under a different license than the one that applied when they submitted it.

So if Linus wanted to relicense the kernel under a different license than GPL2 he couldn't do it by himself without tracking down all the contributors and getting them to agree to the license change or removing the code in question which, for someting as large and with as many contributors as the kernel, would be basically impossible.

The CoC is completely different. It's not a license change but a process change. If a contributor doesn't like a new CoC or a new processs they can decide to no longer contribute in the future under that process, including no longer maintaining "their" code already in the kernel but they can't force anyone to remove it.
Funnily, one of the best places for this in practice (IMO) is microsoft. Who is now, again funnily enough, GPLing a lot of their software but have CLAs so they can do long term support for people that want to pay for it.

Latest versions stay fully open source while back ported fixes are a paid feature if you don't keep your software up to date. That, to me, is a win win.

Oracle is doing the same with the JDK.
There's a pretty big difference between how the Spanish Empire worked, and how the EU works. For one, it's not like heavily armed conquistadors are setting out from Brussels to Tblisi or something to forcibly indoctrinate Georgians into the brilliance of the EuroZone.

Insofar as the EU relationship to its member states is extractive, its not principally extractive, nor is it primarily parasitic in nature. And anyway, EU expansion is driven entirely by applications to join, not efforts to annex.

That's not to say that anything like the EU is necessarily good, just that its unambiguously not a colonial/imperialist project, and its a weird non sequitur to act like it is.
Pgcopydb: Copy a Postgres database to a target Postgres server
Yes, and then they charge $Z dollars for a certain bandwidth allotment to each of their customers. It does not cost the ISP more money to route a MB/s to Netflix than it does to route a MB/s to Reddit.
That's not at all related to what I asked (I addressed the topic of political opinions instead of this because I think it's a more interesting discussion) but sure, I'll bite. I think it's comparing apples to oranges. Providing electricity is a basic necessity for life nowadays, on the same level of necessity for most people as water and waste removal. So to say that a power company should cut off access to people saying these things is tantamount to saying these people don't deserve to have basic living necessities. That's a lot different than "Hey, we don't want this text to be displayed on our website."
This is abuse of the AGPL and open source in name only.
As well as being a pain to search, it's complete black hole for information.

The trend of more and more projects and companies using Discord as their primary forum for support, docs, and discussion boards is probably not one that will be looked back on as having been a good idea.

I worry that there's so much valuable information stored in prior chats that will simply disappear if Discord ever goes away.

In addition to this, this valuable information is not accessible/searchable via the web without a Discord account. Plus there's the 100 server limit for free accounts, which can become a problem depending on how many projects/communities one is involved with.

That being said, Discord is convenient and cheaper to license/host communities than Slack, which I think is part of the allure.
The Chechens may not be nice, but there was nothing humanitarian about the Russian invasion. Indeed, Russian atrocities during that war were unthinkably cruel.
> "There was another girl in there that was something she shouldn’t have been doing and instead of getting involved and doing what they asked, the director kicked me out. So technically that’s failure to complete your terms of the courts," Hoffman said.

> Because of that, the judge sentenced Hoffman to seven years in prison. She served 10 months after the judge allowed her to participate in a youth offender boot camp.

My English comprehension is failing. She got seven years because of what...?
> MIT/GPL/CC0

There's (many) different licenses - for a reason.

If someone makes a small game, wants users to enjoy all the freedoms its developer had, but does not want random 3rd party to include it in a product without telling their users about that, use a GPL style license.

If someone is working on a network protocol, an image format, or audio/video codec, and have that go everywhere to become a defacto standard is more important than other considerations, go for a BSD/MIT style license.

Some vendors don't mind their users looking under the hood. But still want to retain control. Enter 'shared source' (=not open source) or dual licensing (eg. free for non-commercial use, commercial users: pay up).

Documentation is different. So is hardware.

If you're a developer (or vendor): think about this, and pick appropriate license. Just don't complain when you did open source something, and a 3rd party runs with it.
It's basically become market research where the amount of devs which get hooked indicate success and these devs also double as the client (a trap). I try to stay with my stack, which also makes me miss out on things like the highly recommended Tailscale-service.
Ethereum is useless as a payment mechanism unless you like paying wildly varying fees, and therefore its benefits do not offset it (relatively less) energy use.
Not robber barons. Beggar barons.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2022-02-05-the-beggar-barons/

Trillion dollar corporations. That beg for free labor. That exploit the good will of free and open source software developers.

Here's the latest example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909949
There are many many questions where a correct/incorrect answer is quick and easy to verify, but difficult to create.

If you understand which questions these are, you can use AI without wasting time.
Well, OP was responding to this:

> when half the populations entire political identity is “whatever we think will make the other side angry”?

The idea here is that Republicans are somehow out to spite the Democrats more than vice versa, and I frankly don't see it. Both sides believe the other to be acting in bad faith, and honestly from my perspective it certainly looks like both sides are acting in bad faith.

We've had more than our fair share of close calls to government shutdowns the past four years, but let's not forget that Congress actually did fail to fund the government twice during Trump's presidency. The current Congress flirts with the line but has always ended up actually finding something that can pass.
It depends on a few more factors, no?

For instance: it's hard to scale concurrent writes with SQLite. I read they have an enterprise paid version with higher write concurrency support, but have no idea how it works and whether it'd compare with Redis or MemoryDB's write concurrency levels.
> Karl Popper's position on this issue is a cop-out.

where "this issue" is:

> The new riddle of induction, perhaps?

The reference I gave you was not directly to Popper, but rather to chapter 7 of David Deutsch's book, "The Fabric of Reality", which you quite obviously did not read because it directly answers the problem described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
Streaming and texting on the Moon: Nokia and NASA are taking 4G into space
They can, and they do. It's called QoS and it's not effected by net neutrality.
> Nixon created the EPA

Only because Congress allowed it.

https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa
That's a great setup for package management. Stuff like Nix-Darwin and Home Manager start to shine when you want to also do some configuration management. For just package management, your approach is probably better in that it's simpler.
I used Solana pay irl last year, and it was as easy and quick as Apple Pay. Solana has a sub-second confirmation time.

If you live in a county with a functional and stable financial system then this announcement isn’t for you. If you live in xyz country where getting a credit card is a big challenge this will make it easier to shop online.
If the fish rots from the head then this "ny state of mind" doesn't begin with Stripe if you understand who I'm talking about.

Its incredible that the harm that SBF has done with Solana and other ponzi coins would get direct support from Stripe
+1 to "In the land of invented languages". We read it in a conlang'ing class that I took in college and it was a solid read.
By "neoimperialist" I mean the tankie talking point. Not the return of Pizarro.
I don't mean it's comforting I prefer to have it at 0/10.

I am just trying to say that things that cause cancer are not as deterministic as we think.
Probably doable, but takes a lot of dedication. Especially debugging such physical endeavors is crazy
How to (accurately) evaluate RAG systems on tabular data
How did it help?
You're absolutely right IMO. When there is no reason to compromise and compromise can only hurt you, no one compromises and nothing gets done. Earmarks shift those incentives in the right direction, and their cost is a small price to pay to have a government that governs.
This video is a fantastic primer on the current state of AI - no surprise given it's Bertrand Serlet.

I, probably like many others on hn who don't specialise in machine learning, had formed some idea of the buzzwords, and I found it edifying to have them clarified.
> (faster if Trump gets another term).

I didn't keep track and don't have a good list, but a guess is that Trump did push through a lot of regulatory changes. If the media would publish a well documented list ...!!

From all I've seen, I like Trump, but apparently a lot of people don't. I wonder where am I going wrong.

Why do some people not like him? A guess is the now old collection of video clips from the MSM (mainstream media) still at

https://youtu.be/f1ab6uxg908

Sooo, recently I watched several videos (still at YouTube) of episodes of Trump's old TV show The Apprentice. (1) From the business world I've seen, this guy was definitely, uh, different! In a way, tough to criticize since apparently he was very successful. (2) A surprise was the propensity of mess ups, in fighting of the apparently carefully selected candidates. When I think back, yup, I did see a lot of that but guessed it was incidental and would go away and wasn't too bad -- I was wrong, and Trump's TV show was closer to right. How Trump handled (2) was good to see, although maybe some of it was just "TV".
> I see controversy and a lot of dissent among Justices,

Precedent is set by the majority, not the dissent.

> but no decisions that explicitly declare a Constitutional right to anonymity.

Weird then that there are several decisions striking down laws that violate the right to anonymous speech?

> And the modern Court explicitly declared that a Constitutional right to privacy does not exist, and one cannot have anonymity without privacy

One cannot refuse to turn over one's papers and effects in the absence of probable cause without privacy either.

Consider the possibility that there could be a right to anonymous speech without a right to anonymous practice of medicine. A universal right to privacy would require both. Just because it isn't both doesn't mean it's neither.
They should be proud of their past. Every civilization in the world (including the ones they conquered) at the time would have done what the Portuguese did if they could. All from a tiny country of a few million people.
Java's Unknown Features: CompletionService
Haha jokes on you. I sucked your AGPL code into my LLM and now you have to prove I'm actually using your code when it generates the same thing. Good luck with that.
Gas ranges aren't the only range that needs to be vented, all need it.
If you live with a smoking man, then they shouldn't be counted in the nonsmoker category?
California stepped up and passed its own net neutrality law, which effectively killed any widespread adoption of anti-net neutrality practices.

It's not unreasonable for the federal government to step back in to regulate an issue that is firmly within their purview.
> They have no policy. They have no plan for governing; they don't like governing.

This is an unfair analysis, and is either naive at best or disingenuous at worst.

I'm not a registered Republican, but I AM strongly against an all-powerful centralized body of government that continues to expand exponentially. I would rather focus powers in a more decentralized direction closer to the individuals and the States themselves. e.g. "Think globally - act locally."

The parent's comment is the EXACT problem that comes with a central government that is too powerful: you have to be mindful that "your party" will not be in "charge" about ~50% of the time.

For a concrete example, I don't like expanding Presidential powers nor extensive use of Executive Orders because likely there will be a president I don't support in that position, and I'd rather her/him NOT have that type of power.

States and local communities are more knowledgable about what their constituents need, and the more local you go, the more homogeneous that group becomes - leading to a higher degree of success for those policies. For example, I have never lived on a farm, nor have every lived remotely _near_ a farm...so how can I properly empathize with their needs or considerations in a fair way?

States and more local forms of government also provide solid grounds for the greatest real-life A/B test of policies in the world: if you are living in an area that doesn't align with your values and/or needs, you have _so many_ other options to consider settling. e.g. if you like living in California where virtually all the policies and politicians are left of center, then great! You can live there and it doesn't impact me in any way over in where I live.
I have Red Gate's SQL Prompt extension installed in SSMS. If I try to execute a delete or update without a where clause, it asks me to confirm that's what I want to do. It also clearly indicates in the editor that there's a problem. If I'm sure that's what I want to do and I want to avoid being warned I just add WHERE 1 = 1 to the end.

It's a nice feature that adds a little bit of comfort (though I'm still wary enough to hesitate before running SQL data modifications against production)
> it's very hard to figure out what tribler actually is

From the buzzwords, some kind of crypto scheme:

"Micro-economy", "self-sovereign", "reward content creators directly", "micro-economy without banks", "fully distributed ledgers".

It reads like crypto bolted onto torrents.
A few nand2tetris fanatics have actually done this! And by a few, I mean quite a lot of people. Here's one such hardware project of nand2tetris: https://gitlab.com/x653/nand2tetris-fpga/

But you can Google "nand2tetris fpga" for more.
ArcaneDoor – New espionage-focused campaign found targeting perimeter network de
This feels like such a bizarre take.

I love getting calls! I love hearing a human who actually wants to talk about something! Voices are much more pleasant than flat text. Voices have inflection and emotion and you can hear people laugh at jokes and anecdotes!

Via text things like sarcasm are harder to recognize and it's not obvious how the person on the other end actually feels about what they're writing about - which makes some text conversations very confusing without lots of clarification.

In a way, it's like getting a hand-written letter. It's more effort but it also feels more genuine and less sanitized than a text.

I used to incessantly get the Car Warranty scam call, but that's been gone for years at this point. Now essentially the only calls I get are from real people.

If I'm really busy or stressed or whatever (or at work), that's what voicemail is for. Then a reply can go out via phone, text, email or whatever.
Singapore's New Prime Minister Lawrence Wong Faces Challenges from Day One
What type of cooking oil does that?
Show HN: I put PubMed in a vector DB
Hi HN,

As a researcher, I often found myself struggling with the limitations of keyword-based search when exploring PubMed papers. To address this, I created PubMed Search (https://www.pubmedisearch.com/), a tool that leverages a vector database to enable semantic search across medical research literature.

Some key features:

* Daily updates to ensure access to the latest articles

* Semantic search using latest & greatest embedding models

* Some additional useful info about the papers (tldr, journal, publication date, etc.)

Hope you find it useful!
Well, when Llama 1 came out I signed up and downloaded it, and that led me to llama.cpp. I followed the instructions to quantize the model to fit in my graphics card. Then later when more models like llama2 and mixtral came out I would download and evaluate them.

I kept up on hacker news posts and any comments about things I didn't understand. I've also found the localllama subreddit to be a great way to learn.

Any time I saw a comment on anything I would try it, like ollama, kobold.cpp, sillytavern, textgen-webui, and more.

I also have a friend who has been into ai for many years and we always exchange links to new things. I developed a retrieval augmented generation (rag) app with him and a "transformation engine" pipeline.

So following ai stories on hn and reddit, learning through doing, and applying what I learned to real projects.
I totally agree, but this is about light weight packaging which is also separately collected in Germany. PET bottles is another game. Actually there even criticism for upcycling those for clothes because it is a pretty much perfect for circular economy and makes no sense to actually take it out of the circle by making clothes out of it that will for sure be burned. I understand that it seems like the positive cases are often used to hide the dirty secret about most other plastics. But actually promoting coated cardboard and paper is equally problematic.