skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No KYC ... [is] also the only way to guarantee full privacy/anonymity, and to make it so the identify-provider doesn't have the power to de-platform anyone

Full privacy and anonymity are not virtues. They are actively bad. A system that is fully anonymous always becomes dominated by malicious users. De-platforming is a necessary capability of any system that expects to be used by a non-trivial segment of humanity.

> Historically speaking, governments and corporations silencing dissidents has done far far more harm to humanity than people losing their accounts due to forgetfulness etc.

This isn't complicated. If I have an account with some money in it, and I lose my private key, then it cannot be the case that I lose access to that money. There must be some phone number I can call, or some person I can reach, which can restore my access to my money. This is a table-stakes property of any system that can ever expect to be used by more than a tiny niche of humanity.
Revenue? I thought the goal was public safety...
That's certainly... the conventional wisdom.

He did not "wrangle the other Big Three into an agreement on an entirely new model of international relations" -- they only pretended to agree, to placate him and make him go away.

John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace gives a contemporary deconstruction of the disaster he made, when just leaving the Europeans alone to settle things in their time-honored way could not possibly have been any worse.

As for that villain "the Senate" : they do have a Constitutional role in ratifying treaties. Yet Wilson went to Paris taking along NO representatives of Congress, expecting them to just go along with his wisdom (hence my term "pigheaded"). And in Paris he got rolled. Besides setting up a treaty that brought Hitler to power, he caused lots of small nations to be created that had no chance of defending themselves.

> How it's Wilson's fault that he probably suffered a stroke during his address to the Senate arguing the case for ratification

He collapsed in Pueblo, CO, not in an address to the Senate. He'd had several strokes before, and suffered the Big One back at the White House.
It would have the same effect as the drug laws?
> Both gcc and clang check for aliasing at runtime if not provable statically for autovectorization

This is often enough to make it unworkable, because it means you're inserting checks into hot loops.

Also, if you partially vectorize something yourself you have to write similar setup code, which might involve scalar versions of the loop, but then autovectorization can come by and vectorize those, so now you have duplicate setup code making it worse than nothing.
They weren't asked to settle in Palestine by its local inhabitants, but they were chased by mobs with clubs and metal pipes from the places they did live. I'm not sure what litigating this gets you, rhetorically.

It's worth noting that (excepting maybe Egypt?) all the surrounding Arab states were also the creation of European imperial colonialism, a fact that only seems to matter when the people implicated happen to be Jewish. But for a couple quirks of history, Palestinians would have a universally recognized, sovereign homeland; today, we call it "Jordan", and it is ruled by a dynasty of monarchs who conspired to prevent what was, around '67, a Palestinian majority from obtaining political power.

I think what's happening in Gaza is an atrocity, and that Israel has done as much as anybody in the region to dispossess and abuse the residents of the West Bank and Gaza. But I also understand why people read antisemitism into blank "colonialism" complaints about Israel. Clearly, colonialism is only situationally worth getting riled up about.
Learning a new language is basically trivial relative to the effort of bootstrapping everything yourself to compensate for a lacking ecosystem, or the effort of banging your head against the fundamental unsuitability of a tool for a job.

Anyone who's learned one or two languages should be able to pick up the basics of any of the standard ones pretty much instantaneously.
Maybe I should ask: why should someone interested about Lisp today have to hear stories about some Erik Naggum who posted to a Usenet newsgroup, and died 15 years ago?

Let's assume that the newsgroup is important. Legendary Lisp hacker Alan Bawden posted there just last week or so. Nobody ever mentions him.
I feel like Meta's basic problem is the exact reverse of Apple's: literally the only thing the Quest platform is good at is specific, isolated pieces of immersive content, with nothing to connect them or make them "Meta-y", to the point that there's no reason to even stick with the Quest OS over casting from Steam on a PC.
Why does medical get an exception for poor treatment
It says recalled 4000. Does that mean they sold that many? Not to mention sales which haven’t shipped.

So what traits are you comparing? Sales? Quality? excitement?
I wonder why they didn't just start selling here in Europe earlier if sales are lagging. Even if some enthusiasts will have gray-imported theirs.

Not that I'd buy one, the price is ridiculous. Including taxes it would cost me nearly half a year's rent. But I'm sure some people would.
I am skeptical of them as well but mainly that they’ll use this as a way to get richer.
And that's exactly how it should be. I will sometimes read articles attempting to deflect from the problem of street users by claims that successful people somewhere use drugs quietly without anyone knowing. I honestly don't care if all these people are high as a kite. I really only care about people on the street ruining the cities.
I'm not optimistic at all, but there is little else I can do. Best case scenario I can prevent the further spread of my data while it bit rots and becomes less useful. I will join the class action that is sure to come out of this, too.
You need restrict for a loop involving char* or equivalent because it can alias any type in C. Without it, the compiler has to preserve memory accesses exactly, and then it's hardly able to do any optimizations. If you're writing all the memory accesses out perfectly optimally already, then you don't need the compiler for much.
If it isn't already a reminder that CVs and Cover letters are now pointless and dead in today's world going forward.

Fake CVs on a massive gargantuan scale.
Ah, and what is the optimal number of people that should be unable to afford a drug?
Legal rights maybe.
It’s an Apple product. All Apple products sell 200 billion units a year. Anything else is a failure.

The Apple Watch was a failure. The iPad was a failure. AirPods were a failure. The HomePod lineup is a failure. The Apple TV is a failure.

I’m just about positive you can find a whole bunch of think pieces about each of those from not too long after their launches. Because if it doesn’t sell iPhone level numbers it’s obviously a total mistake that they tried.

But the Apple Watch just kept selling better and better. The iPad had a slump after the initial hype, but it’s still selling extremely well all these years later. AirPods have done so terribly there are three different current models. I don’t know if we know numbers about HomePods and the Apple TV but they keep making new versions.

There are so many companies in the world that would kill to run one of Apple’s “failure“ product lines and sell that many units.

It’s really hard to “succeed” when everything you make is compared to the world changing iPhone as a yardstick.

This could be a stumble out of the gate and you could be right about your comment. Or they could give up after a while. But they obviously spent a lot of money on this product, I don’t think they’re going to declare to failure and close up shop after three months.
You must not have tried the voice feature in the ChatGPT app yet. Try it out, it’s amazing. It pairs the power and functionality of a conversational voice assistant with all the power of ChatGPT and LLMs. Obviously the integration isn’t as convenient as Siri’s yet, but the utility is infinitely higher.

My point is that it seems pretty clear that the future is in the space that OpenAI is right now. And that isn’t a bet that Apple was investing in very heavily.
Hello, may I interest you in NixOS? All your config, in one place, build it again and you got a copy. :)
As long as we make sure that the public pensions that will collapse after the expropriation of the utility companies are not bailed out, I am in full support of this. At the end of the day, the largest investors in most utilities are unfunded pension programs (Usually government) desperately looking for a higher rate of return after legislatures overpromised.
My guess is you've never had to provide network support for 10,000 households, with their busted up routers, virus-filled PCs, and the helpless people who own them.
People focus a lot about VR/AR needing to have a "killer app", but I think that line of thought is really off the mark. The point of an AR device, done well, is to be a phone/computer replacement that lets you do whatever you were doing with one but without always needing your hands or a specific location. The reason the idea isn't mass-market popular yet is entirely because the hardware just isn't good enough (too heavy, too big, too battery-hungry), and as soon as it is good enough, plenty of people will start using.
Yes, it does. They had to recall every single one of them.

Yes, you’re also right there are more orders that aren’t shipped.
I bought a big bag on Amazon and really like it. This is the one I got (not an affiliate link, copied from the Amazon iPhone app) https://a.co/d/2w8I9py
Setting up the infrastructure for the prescription lenses (which are regulated differently in every country) and in-store demos is probably a massive job
Assuming that's true, relevance?
I'm talking about games specifically. I don't know much about the needs of web browsers.
The analogy was provided to help illustrate the difference between complacency and confusion.

You can not substitute driving any vehicle into the analogy unchanged because in normal vehicles the overwhelming majority of vehicle operators do not believe the vehicle can be operated safely without attention. Some may do so anyways, but the overwhelming majority of those cases are because they believe they are paying an adequate amount of attention, not because they believe no attention is needed. That is an example of complacency. If they wrongly believe that no attention is needed, then that is confusion.

It is okay if you misunderstood as people who have no experience with safety-critical engineering are usually unfamiliar with the distinction, but you should reflect on it until you understand as it is hard to provide meaningful input to a conversation until you understand the basics. Good luck with your learning.
Not yet. Voice assistants will massively benefit from LLM integration which will benefit OpenAI for sure.

It's just that nobody has built one yet, I'm surprised because it's a very suitable application. But I think the cost is much higher than the current scripted models, which means there must be a payment model attached. Right now all the major voice assistants are free and I have a feeling they're all waiting to see who makes the first paid LLM-based product, and how the market reacts.
Your preferences are the exact reverse of mine!
Right. So creating a new law won't change anything then? They should rather work on making sure the existing laws are being enforced.
every population center on the pacific coast is like this from Vancouver to San Diego
Allulose is great. I can’t stand the other ones (omg monkfruit is the worst) but allulose tastes pretty spot on, very little strangeness.

I like that it dissolves more easily than sugar in cold or room temperature liquids. I’d recommend to start slowly with it since it made me a bit farty initially.
I'm not sure but I feel like I can remember DOS 6.22, 6.0 or 3.0 (I'm not sure) source code leaked some year near 2000.
I traded in my MacBook and now I'm a desktop convert
The C64 breaking was almost certainly not your fault.. they had a bunch of commonly occurring faults, and a number of the chips, especially those which commodore fabbed themselves were notorious for giving up eventually. The PLA failing was a particularly common occurrence, but RAM and other glue logic sometimes fails too. These days there's a vibrant hobbyist community and a lot of the chips have modern replacements available. I'm still grateful for having grown up with a C64, it was a fun way to learn the ropes.
The US government still makes demands and subsidizes whatever it wants. It's not a problem with super rich, unless you mean super rich politicians and executives that sell the country out. We are falling behind mainly because everything is outsourced and the US holds a small fraction of the world's population anyway.
> manufactured from November 13, 2023, to April 4, 2024

Where are you getting that the population of cybertrucks is no greater than 4000?
Do you mean judicial branch?
> The project has 2000+ direct contributors and even more indirect contributors on its mailing lists.

I'm one of them, so please just believe me instead of trying to correct me ;) It's an ongoing problem the project talks about that there aren't enough newcomers ready to write more SIMD code with good enough quality.

> Should they be showering ffmpeg et al. with praise or something?

The top reply is "just do this other thing that the article said was unworkable", so not doing that would be a start. Though, the article could've spent some more time explaining why intrinsics don't work well enough.

> but hardly anyone else can justify doing that

Other people mostly only target one CPU architecture as they're less important, but they also get paid and ffmpeg developers largely didn't. (These days more of them do, but those people are contributing security work more than performance work I think.)

It's similar to how x264 was better than every commercial competitor while working for free, simply because they took more time to think about what they were doing.
> Lyme disease is transmitted by the deer tick, also known as the blacklegged tick. Other ticks, such as dog ticks, can transmit other illnesses, but not Lyme disease.

I've grown up dealing with all sorts of ticks, deer and dog, and I never realize that the latter did not actually carry Lyme disease!
The story I remember hearing is that the iPod hi-fi basically existed because jobs wanted it to. He saw other people making iPod speakers and he wanted to make one to his standards.

Of course as great as it may have been (I never used one) most people just wanted something for 50 bucks. I’d be very interested to know how many units they ever sold total.
That's an oxymoron. You might temporarily have competent individuals in government, but the organization as a whole is not incentivized for competence.

Same goes for corporations, especially bigger ones.
The Age of Diminishing Return for Digital Innovations began right after the smartphone and it has only become more pronounced since.

My layperson’s prediction for the next big thing is cheaper and cheaper techs. I believe that there will be a race to the bottom. Both hardware and software will become commodity. Even all these new AI technologies will become commodities. The true Cyberpunk take is that technology is boring and commonplace.
> All while totally neglecting the industry they pioneered (Siri) and should have been perfecting.

Going by the rumors, there should be some interesting announcements at WWDC that may explain where all their effort has been going instead of improving the current version of Siri.
I think Choline belongs in that list also.

The difficulty of getting these on a vegan diet is the reason I started consuming bivalves
This is a very small amount of money...
Plastic surgery is among the medical specialties with the highest job satisfaction and lowest burnout rate. It pays well, and for cosmetic procedures they don't have to deal with insurance billing hassles. Most procedures can be scheduled in advance which allows for a decent lifestyle without frequent on-call interruptions.

https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-students/specialty-profiles...
Ask HN: Rabbit R1, what do you think about it?
Of course its not the perfect device, but AI specific hardware devices is an interesting side to this thing.

Maybe we'll see Apple coming out with something similar?
I check every release hoping that they finally fixed rendering for HiDPI. Guess I'll have to keep waiting.
It would be interesting if an incident in the vein of the Canadian Airlines one caused a few billion dollars in liability, though. I could see that causing some hesitancy.
Look on the bright side, the AT&T logo already looks like the eye-in-the-sky. Or the Death Star. Hardly needs any reworking.
Earlier in my career I've worked on and sold these at one of the more expensive shops, yes they are really hard, but I've seen them done successfully for companies with 10x the revenues of the council for 30-50% of the price and project teams with 100s of people. It should never be a $100m job unless the companies is an F500 scale or close.. Obviously if the buyer is unsophisticated or friendly, we were happy to throw bills at them
Well, it's still using A* and state exploration to validate the plans generated. But, it's generating plans nondeterministically so it is possible it could run in O(\inf).

Why didn't they give more details about the Sokoban puzzles being solved? The standard benchmark is the 90 puzzles in XSokoban and there's a Large Test Suite that has a few thousand but many of them haven't been solved by any search or planning system. Even the 90 puzzles in XSokoban were only solved a few years ago (2020?) by Festival (using FESS, a feature-space search in addition to domain-space, state-space). Before that it had been about 20 years of only 57 or so levels solved via search.

I see that they measure trace lengths but I would have really liked to see # of XSokoban levels and how many states were examined, to line up with existing research.
Xeon D 2700 comes in 16-core flavors. At 2GHz AVX512 with 1x FMA per clock tick, that's at least 1TFlop, especially because other pipelines are still available to contribute to the processing.

2GHz x 16 SIMD (32-bits per lane) x 16 cores x 2 ops per instruction (Multiply+Accumulate) == 1TFlop or there-abouts.

> Obviously, throw a 64, 96, or 128+ core EPYC or the latest Xeons at it and that will make it cry (while gobbling up hundreds of watts doing so ;)

And those are closer to 4 to 10 TFlops. The bigger Xeons are 2x FMA or more instructions per clock tick IIRC. So not only are there more cores, each core can do double the work.

We are talking about the "little" Xeon D with relatively low clocks. But 512-bit FMA really gets going.

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GPUs are well into 20TFlop to 50TFlop regions.

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Although I'm calculating ~32-bit Flops, you may have done 64-bit Flops. Its a bit ambiguous but we might not be apples-to-apples yet.
FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using Signal
Portland was ranked #21 in the most expensive places to live [1].

[1]: https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to...
This is very obviously a joke.
I wish Iquitos had solar powered mototaxis.

My brother lives in a village nearby and everyone has solar panels there now. They pay 35 soles/month for it, which is cheaper than the generators they had before which they loaded with 5 soles worth of gasoline every night.
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38821506 - Dec 2023 (11 comments)
I've had some idle thoughts about creating a Postgres extension that would make some of these concepts easy to implement and work with. I modeled a sum type/discriminated union a while back, I was able to make it work with constraints, but it was fairly verbose.
If someone calls you an antisemite with no evidence, that's slander, not doxxing.
This is my question too. IDGI. If I am a foreigner how do they verify that my ID is real? just because it looks "real enough"?

This discriminates people from other countries from having tech resources, possibly increasing poverty by limiting opportunities, at the same time it exposes people to have their data leaked. I don't see how this is a good idea.
The Snowden leaks proved otherwise. That was over a decade ago, it's wild that everyone just forgot it all and then went back to framing the same fears as hypothetical.
I disagree with the article's comment on inevitability. Sure, if society wants to put a lot of effort into stopping something, we can. For instance, nuclear rock blasting might never happen, despite us having the technology to do so since the 50s. Getting to that point, however, required a massive geopolitical movement powered by everyone being terrified of nuclear weapons.

The problem with VR is simply that the technology is still not there yet. The Vision Pro is cutting edge technology; but it is still cumbersome. The display might be technically impressive, but it still offers less pixels per degree than a typically monitor at typical distances.

All that the Vision Pro demonstrates is that optics, computers, and display technologies are not yet advanced enough to make VR a mass market viable technology. I see no reason to believe that there is any barrier that means they will never become sufficiently advanced. And once the technology does reach that point, I see no indication that it will not be a success.

Even given the limitations of the technology, VR products that are technologically inferior to the Vision Pro seem to have found a sustainable niche.
Not quite. It's easy to create a duplicate of your metal key, and many people do exactly that to avoid a situation where they lose it and have no way of opening their door. The fact that you can't do that with USB keys is my biggest gripe with them. I understand that inability to copy even if you have physical access to the original has its security advantages, but 1) most things don't actually need that much security, and 2) it could still be done by e.g. allowing you to buy them in premanufactured batches where all keys are identical.
Yeah, but compared to SF, Seattle, and Vancouver?
Odin is almost precisely that, and has many useful gamedev features and bindings.
How did this become illegal in the first place? If a person wants to be buried somewhere and the land owner allows them to be buried there, what justification does the government have for being involved at all? Was there some incident or health concern that caused the Australian government to bother legislating about this?
Vastly more. It starts out simple, and then you're writing code in the game's DSL and cursing Effarig.
I agree. I had a Quest 2. It was fine, could’ve used some hardware improvements that I’m sure the 3 fixed.

But it’s just an overcomplicated game launcher. The environment between VR apps isn’t important or memorable in any way. And once you’re in the game it could be any piece of VR hardware. It’s just a commodity. I think the main reason it’s popular is it just doesn’t seem to have much direct competition (stand alone VR headsets).

Apple chose a few differentiators like ultra-high resolution, entirely hands free (no controller) operation, and a ton of processing power relative to a Quest. That means they’re capable of doing things no one else could, if they can find compelling things to do.
I sometimes wonder if the problem with rust is that we have not yet had a major set of projects which drive solutions to common dev problems.

Go had google driving adoption, which in turn drove open source efforts. The language had to remain grounded to not interfere with the doing of building back-end services.

Rust had mozilla/servo which was ultimately unsuccessful. While there are more than a few companies uinf rust for small projects with tough performance guarantees - I haven't seen the “we manage 1-10 MM sloc of complex code using rust” type projects.
Unconventional Domino Tricks [video]