skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We saw this with xz. Many, including me, suggested this is an example of how paying developers could reduce likelihood of attack and speed up progress. These people make these products in their spare time. You know... After work. So they clearly would rather do that than their job. But a common response was "what, so we could pay the hacker?" Which missed the entire point.

I'm also reminded by a relatively recent episode of either PIMA or Freakanomics (I forget which) where Steve asks Bill Gates why charities don't pay as well as corporate gigs and Gate's response was "it's a charity".

We seem to forget that things take work. Just because someone does that work on their own time and without asking for compensation doesn't mean that they don't deserve it. It just means their more passionate.
BTW after loggin in you would be treated with a blank screen,this means you dont have any book added, go to search and follow one of the added books
On IBM Acquiring HashiCorp
> In the US, the person receiving the call / text pays for the airtime to the cell phone.

Except few of us actually do. Most plans are unlimited for calls and texts at least. If there's a limit, it's on data.

> The result is that I do get spam messages

Ah, but I'm in the US and I don't get any spam texts :). I do get some robocalls though. It's not an easy to solve problem.

> make the caller pay for the entire path of the call, all the way to the receiver

I think the complication here is that the source of the calls and texts are not other mobile phones. They're coming onto the network via SIP. The billing mechanism to bill all the way back to the sender might be impossible with the current technologies being used. I can send an email to make a text appear on my phone, and this is a feature I have used occasionally -- how do I bill for that?
question: any good on-device size image embedding models?

tried https://github.com/unum-cloud/uform which i do like, especially they also support languages other than English. Any recommendations on other alternatives?
If there is a possibility that this might impact your business, even a small one, then it is probably worth getting a new phone number and I would encourage you to do so.

So much of business is based on perception and you don’t want to give clients any reason to doubt you.
Why are Gaussian distributions everywhere?
tl;dr: Gaussians show up when you add together enough small random effects. The notebook has some code and prose that shows why that's the case both for human height and for manufacturing wooden doors.
Fantastic work. NAND to Tetris helped me land my first job out of college.
From the Germans, during WWI.
Nothing will be the same thing. The algorithm Tiktok had in 2020 was one of a kind.

A person with a phone could go viral and reach thousands if not millions in a day.

Today, Tiktok has largely throttled the viral nature of their algorithm. You have spend money on paid advertising if you want to reach millions of people. Yes, there are still videos that get millions of views, but it is hit or miss now.
You've piqued my interest. Can you share more? Do you have a blog post about your product and how you sell it?
Sure, small European countries had a different motivation than the large ones, but also having a say on the world stage was even less possible for them disunited.

Imagine how little the US might care about possible threats to the Baltic states from Russia if the borders to the EU and NATO were still at Germany.
> and then after a day

It's been ~5.5 years since "the internet was doomed" by the FTC[0]

How long are we supposed to wait for your doom prophecy to realize?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-exclusive/ex...
I think it's a general vulnerability of democracies when things go sideways.

Hardships bring fear for oneself and fear for oneself is psychological reason why people are conservative and right-wing. Those people vote in right-wing parties. And leaders of those parties are not very smart because position they achieved is solely due to psychology of their voters, not actually earned by their own political merits. So the only way those leaders can imagine for retaining power is to dismantle democracy that handed them this power on a silver plate. If they only cultivated fear in the populace they won over (whist avoiding the blame for the hardships) and create political alliances to avoid being replaced with somebody more right-winged they could retain power indefinitely.
IIRC... In the Yom Kippur War (1973), (fascist) Portugal was the only country that allowed American heavy lift (C-5's) to land & refuel whilst ferrying armor & supplies to Israel.
The resistance to GPL isn't just companies, I think you'll find the average programmer prefers using libraries licensed under MIT when given the choice.

It seems like there's a kind of political ideology over what "open source" even means and how it should be practiced.There's a school of thought that says we should switch everything over to viral copyleft licenses. This will "protect" the code and ensure all derivative work is always open source.

Then there's others, like myself, who believe if you want something that's truly "free and open" it should come with as few conditions as possible.
https://global.rokid.com/products/rokid-max

We have the display now. It's not too far of a leap to see a full built in computer. As is, I can just plug it into my phone and that's pretty close.
Fair point, that was indeed a biased assumption. Cheers.
It's the shader core of a GPU. There are no graphics specific pipelines, eg: vertex processing, culling, rasterizer, color buffer, depth buffer, etc. That's like saying a CPU is also a GPU if it runs graphics in software.
You can say many, many bad things about the Tennessee Valley Authority, but they have not had the sort of tragicomic power outages that Texas has had in the last decade.

Poking around at fiber connections it looks like some important trunk lines from Atlanta to Chicago pass through or outside Nashville, so there’s that.

It’s also a crossroads town. There are three highways that cross at Nashville.
Vultur requires a card linked for ID verification even if paying for BTC. Or at least they did in the past when I tried.
I was about to ask the same question, would you mind sharing more context why did you decided to go with a single 14k main.go file?
If you trained an LLM on questions where the answer “I don’t know” is possible, it would likely learn to answer any non yes/no question with “I don’t know”, since it’s probably the most common answer outside of yes/no
I just watched this interesting Node.js doc (Open-source Node.js was purchased by a corp and there was some drama along the way).

https://youtu.be/LB8KwiiUGy0
it looks like you and everyone else responding to me need to go read about the Vedas. They have been passed down for millenia and contain a form of error-corrrcting code that ensures fidelity. If you dispute the accuracy of this mechanism, I'm sure some Indologists would be very curious to hear more.
Still democratic and #1/#2 in the world, by most measures. Was there something specific you were looking for?
Croatia is hugely dependent on tourism. Serbia does not have access to nice beaches and islands on the Mediterranean. In addition, its exports to the EU are taxed quite heavily
> assuming the USA is better than every other country

Do you really see that happening? "America Bad" is the dominant theme online, including on HN. I see -way- more "gosh I don't understand why America sucks so bad, it's totally perfect over here in Europe" than I see Americans claiming that the US is automatically superior. I feel like in the US we're playing defense way more often, trying to explain misunderstandings and ignorance about how things work here.

To be clear, there are definitely things that work better in Europe. But there are things that the US does pretty well too. Nobody likes to hear that.
Person living in Germany: I got 10 spam calls in my life, from actual human beings. I got zero automated non-human calls in my life.
There's lots of examples of outcomes from moves like this in the industry, so you'd have to be pretty naive to not expect these effects. Therefore, it's more likely these outcomes are intended.

I'm ready to believe this is intended by Oracle. It's such an institutional organization at this point that they've abstracted away a lot of the impact of individual performance (high and low).
They're lying about the goal is what I suppose they meant, and I tend to agree.
Nintendo Emulator, Delta, Hits 4.4M Downloads in Its First Week
My point is that many talk about AI as though it's not going to evolve or get better. It's a mindset of "We don't need to talk about this because it won't happen tomorrow".

Realistically, AI being able to replace Hollywood is something that could happen in 20-50 years. That's within most people's lifetime.
Sounds like you'd enjoy studying Vedic Sanskrit.
I'm saying that the difference between the UX of Android and iPhone for the purpose of watching free TV is small, while the difference between a real cable television subscription and an iPhone/Android phone is large. Frontend web developers have zero relevant experience that would give them some insight as to how to "design" "better" television.

I am not really talking about IT burden for your family or whatever, which I also think is erroneously attributed to UX. Of course, if you wanted to reduce your IT burden, you could just say, "No," and nothing bad would happen. They would figure things out.

> And your argument is there is no difference between the two devices, based on surveys for the usage percentage of TikTok?

Yes. I mean, isn't that the definition of form versus function? I'm trying to show you that the primary function of these devices is really, "Watch TikTok," which is a colorful way of saying, consume linear video content effortlessly. Everything else is dwarfed. Another POV is, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube all agree with me: they don't charge more to show ads to Android users compared to iOS users, they charge more for targeting and the size of that audience in unexpected ways, but not in a way that makes sense for, "iOS users are better." Even if I agree with you that they are!

What people observe is true: Do I think the aesthetic experience of an iPhone makes these normal educated people more confident in solving their problems themselves rather than asking you? Yes, but that's a different thing than UX. There are lots of grandmas using Samsung phones, and I think that's because Samsung, as a manufacturer, cares about the aesthetics more. Maybe not OUR grandmas, but grandmas everywhere else in the world.

> Has the thought not occurred to you that elderly people might be a minority and outlier in such a survey?

Elderly people definitely watch average, meaning LARGE, amounts of television. I think they are also going to be average users of TikTok. Everybody who touches TikTok likes it.
In right wing circles Biden is often perceived as a puppet for 'elites', too old and senile to make his own decisions. Every other tweet about him seems to get people joking about how he had to go to bed early or how they had to drag him out to make a speech. I was a bit young to carefully follow Manmohan's term, but I recall that one of the comments I often heard from adults were that he was clearly too old for office.
The consequence was a $4.4 million fine. Definitely not a deterrent in my opinion given the potential upside.
the EU banning apps wasn't me i don't think
People forgot the horrors of world war 2.

Once the WW2 veterans started dying, people on the "right" started drifting back to the old, shitty ideas of fascism.

I wish the greatest generation was still around to verbally tear the fascist demagogues apart.
>> Graphics functionality != display output
Exactly. Graphics functionality also includes graphics specific hardware like vertex and fragment processing, which this does not have. It has no graphics specific hardware, ergo not a GPU.
There are two possibilities here.

First, the rule applies to WordPress and all that kind of thing, and then providers would have to KYC WordPress users. Which is a reason not to pass it.

Second, the rule is completely pointless, because it doesn't, and then anyone could create an AI training WordPress plugin that uses whatever arbitrarily fast hardware the server has and thereby easily bypass the rule. Which is a reason not to pass it.
If you make software with a small team and you have about 2 dozen customers who pay for a support contract, then those contracts are actually surprisingly cheap.
https://archive.li/ITyf1
Wow, so cool to see the photo with an actual HP-25. I bought one in high school (massive outlay at the time) and loved it. Used it all through college.
Would you say the same thing if Canada tried to join a military alliance with Russia? Of course what would happen is a total overnight invasion of Canada by the USA. Something similar happened in the 70s with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Total overnight naval blockade of Cuba with imminent threat of escalation.
In recognition of this chaos, https://i2cdevices.org/ is putting together a pretty good list.
> European Union project

I thought it was to unite EU to prevent another World War happening and to join coal resources?
Once can at least archive Medium and Substack pages on the Wayback machine. They're also generally fine when viewed without JS.

Mastodon pages? Not so much.
Its kind of funny--I'm the exact opposite. I don't have any messaging services other than email--no twitter, FB, WhatsApp, etc.--and SMS is silenced. If you want to get ahold of me, you either email or call. But I get your point that phones should allow the disabling of the phone app for those that dont want to receive calls. It is kind a historic memory that makes them default and always on.
What bad things would one say about TVA?
Beslan is indeed very illustrative example, but not of what you are implying.
It used to be the case that Congress actually passed laws. And pre-Chevron, the regulatory agencies actually constrained their rule making to be within the law, and so laws were more specific.

The problem started IMHO with Republican obstructionism under Clinton, but got out of control with Obama’s shift to using executive orders over legislation after the affordable care act nonsense. It’s definitely a both sides issue.
But autonomy explicitly decreases the human logistics burden too, by multiplying the effectiveness of each human.

Where in Civil War times you would need to clothe, feed, camp 100 people, now you have that firepower in a single soldier's weapon.

And when you remove the need for even a single human, you also remove their logistics footprint.
Analysis of HashiCorp Acquisition
Looks like it, and yes, all PHP. Why did you think Meta was all nodejs and no more PHP anyways?
This flip-flopping happens because there is no commonality to find. One of the only (effectively) two major political parties of the United States is completely uninterested in governing. They have no policy. They have no plan for governing; they don't like governing. Their only goal is the piecemeal selloff of government powers to the highest bidder, and they convince their stalwart followers of this by making sure they get their daily dose of other people suffering. As long as others are suffering, their base will support the wholesale takeover of government by the rich.

The other half is pretty bad at governing, but at least they try to govern. So when they're in power, the first thing they have to do is try to build back up the institutions that have been disabled or dismantled by the party of government-cannibals.

Don't ask me which half is which. You know.
OP's library feels a lot more performant, in my old work computer with 3 click you can notice some lag with Party.js. With canvas-confetti, it only starts to lag when I click non-stop for a few seconds, probably invoking more than 30 instances of confetti and a lot of particles.
Cauliflory
Portugal is perhaps the best example of how colonialism doesn't really benefit the common man. The colonial wars only made sense to those few rich portuguese who had land in Africa.

The whole Salazar period was one of stagnation and many people (my family included) had to leave Portugal for better (or just some) opportunities elsewhere.
Theres double standards. Catalonia tried to gain independence from Spain, the EU and the USA condemned it. But when Chechnya or Kosovo are in question, then its totally fine.
Is Bhutan that nice?
The filibuster makes this kind of 'control' moot. You need a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House to actually get anything done (and the Presidency, to not veto). 'Control of half of Congress' when that half is the house, is meaningless.
>> Your power utility (even if privately operated) cannot cut you off based on your political opinion, and it shouldn’t be possible for big tech companies to do the same.

> How do you define a "political opinion"?

Do you think your power company should be allowed to cut off service to anyone who believes the things you listed?
> And they're not even a pointless AI company!

Are you sure? (/s), because IBM mentioned "AI" no less than 10 times in their announcement of the purchase:

> AI-driven application growth … IBM's deep focus and investment in […] AI … The global excitement surrounding generative AI … HashiCorp's capabilities and talent will create a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform designed for the AI era … generative AI deployment continues to grow … IBM's commitment to […] AI innovation … today's AI revolution … AI-driven complexity … IBM is a leading provider of global […] AI, … IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI

Thankfully the press managed to delete most of those, though there were some announcement that nonetheless took the bait.
Yet the average Croatian has a higher household income, life expectancy at birth, and literacy rate than Serbia - despite Croatia having a lower HDI than Serbia in the 1990s, and lacking any major cities or industries (which were concentrated in Bosnia and Serbia during the Yugoslav era)
Beautiful

What is context?
maybe americans should try do sometyhing about the obvious messing with fair elections.. perhaps it could start by copying the EU system of voter ID and paper ballots
It did indeed, they were sufficient (barely) for moving the cursor, but there were only two, iirc, default was right and down, and to go left and up, you had to press them while holding shift
The naming convention is a bit esoteric, but once you figure it out it's not too bad. I don't think writing bindings is too hard once you know what's going on. You most likely would want to write some kind of wrapper on top of that in order to make things a little more user-friend.

I will agree with you on the routines being broken. That happened within the past year. Not sure why it happened, but it's annoying. If you know the name of the routine you can usually find documentation on another site.
Space Force is still mostly Air Force though, and I'd expect it to take awhile to form it's own culture.
> The entire European Union project is a direct result of the failure of colonialism - if we cannot be colonisers competing over far away resources then it makes sense that we should start playing nice together, without war, and present ourselves externally as a single, more powerful organism.

Why wage war in Europe when you can peacefully exploit the Global South?

> Colonialism itself did not stop in 1945,

Yeah I guess France has its whole neocolonialism—

> not at all, in fact the very last European (or European/Asian) empire is on its last stretch trying to re-colonise Ukraine.

Oh. I guess that too.
Ah then - so in your mind it's only Elon who's the hypocrite?
too bad you can't do this in Canada
"The enemy of my enemy" may be a great way to run a hegemony, but it's lousy foreign policy in general.

I sometimes wonder what the world might have been like if the USSR had occupied afghanistan in the early 1980s, re-secularising it in the ~decade before 1992, leading to a post-USSR afghanistan suffering no worse than an armenian/azerbaijani (<40'000) level of violence after collapse?

(Let's take the upper end of estimates for the tajikistani civil war: 150'000 dead, as a benchmark. That'd still be better than 2'000'000 for the Soviet-Afghan war and another 200'000 for the US-Afghan war?)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaK_CZk-0Rg
Has Ceres ever been classified as a planet ? Inquiring minds want to know.
Show HN: We built a GPT that connects to your money
Hey HN,

OpenAI announced their GPT Store a few months ago during their dev day. It captured our imagination and got us wondering:

What if ChatGPT could manage my money?

We're thrilled to share a public preview of what's possible today. It's a simple idea. You can ask your money questions or run actions all through ChatGPT.

Demo: https://youtu.be/zoEiIOPR7gE?si=JrqYoE7eLLqn5hrh&t=63

Web screenshot: https://dev.candle.fi/content/spending.webp
Mobile screenshot: https://dev.candle.fi/content/spending-mobile.webp

How does it work?

We provide the GPT with a fine-tuned prompt and a schema of what is possible, and it generates a response after talking to your linked accounts in Candle.

All through push notifications because our connections run 100% on the device.

Liam and I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
12% of Asian American men smoke compared with 2.6% of women. So non smoking Asian women are more likely to live with a smoking man. Could second hand smoking exposure be a factor in this?

https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/impact-of-to...
It is a massive disappointment that Stripe is getting involved in facilitating scams and ransomware by accepting ‘crypto payments’.

I think it’s about time to move off Stripe to other payment providers that don’t accept crypto since Stripe is becoming more hostile and banning customers and shutting down their accounts for no reason.

I am betting that Stripe chose crypto to avoid more chargebacks (that crypto does not support)
Reka's new multimodal AI beat Gemini and Claude
Oh, very nice find!

Coincidentally, I happened to be playing around yesterday with a small performance test case using uniform_real_distribution, and for some strange reason Clang was 6x slower than GCC.

I put it down to some weird clang bug on my LTS version of Ubuntu. As my installed version was clang-14, I decided it possibly had been noticed and fixed a long time ago.

After reading your message I replaced uniform_real_distribution by uniform_int_distribution, and lo and behold, Clang was indeed faster than GCC, as expected.

Thank you for coming back to me with your findings.
Reminiscent of the Java CPUs: Not even used for embedded (ironically the reason Java was created?). And not used at all by the massive Java compute needed for corporate software worldwide?
You don't have to get that abstract. Absent some guarantee that intelligence implies inherent moral superiority, the precautionary principle would apply, and so we should plan for there being no association between the two. Some reasonable level of caution is thus warranted. People can disagree on what's "reasonable", but we should at least all agree that a danger could exist and that some caution should apply.

We can't generalize from any association between intelligence and morality from humans because human morality and intelligence evolved, possibly even co-evolved, and these constraints simply don't apply to artificial systems any more than a bird's feathers apply to artificial flight.
gitlab too.
> It's just that net neutrality wasn't a priority for the Biden administration, so they dragged their feet until the very last minute.

The FCC was deadlocked until September 2023 and started this process a few days later. Maybe they could have started in 2022 if Biden had nominated someone else after Republicans blocked his 1st choice. But Democrats believed Republicans would block anyone who would restore net neutrality.