skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downsides to having a golden goose are that a silver goose just can't compete, another golden goose is a threat. Golden geese are rare too and so much of it is luck. For example, Google's search and ads complete dominance began in an era when nobody cares about search. They considered the problem "solved" and AltaVista was peak technology.

The paper that set off the LLM gold rush was written in 2017 by 8 Google researchers in 2017, none of whom still work at the company. Can you imagine where Google might be if they embraced this 7 years ago?

Instead, they're making "me too" announcements taht so reminds me of Microsoft with Bing or Meta with, well, just about anything these days (particularly IG and Tiktok "me too" features).

Google has other golden geese but almost all of them are acquisitions (eg Youtube, Maps, Android, Docs, Youtube). Chrome is the notable stand out.

Going through this list the first 53 or so are AI "me too" announcements. Google has blown a huge potential AI lead and has become an un-agile reactive behemoth, possibly even a dinosaur.
Proving the point of the article, I suppose, I was surprised that they used Bloomberg as an example of a "brutalist" website. It seems the opposite of that to me. It's complex, highly polished, and uses several advanced web features.

If that's an example of brutalist web design, then I have no idea what brutalist web design actually is. Which is very likely.
it's kinda tiring when people assert that yxz ended the roman empire

allow me to be the akshully guy and point out, for one, it didn't, the eastern half of the SAME roman empire was still kicking around long after the western half "fell"

the western roman empire also didn't end because of migration (even if it had, what's the lesson? the world exists and people move around inside it, there's nothing anyone can do to stop that, certainly the romans couldn't, nor did they when they themselves INVITED the germanic tribes in, as they had for hundreds of years, because they had to, there was no alternative... if you can't successfully roll with immigration, your polity is doomed anyway, the world and the societies in it aren't some hermetically sealed snow globes that are possible to keep segregated and separated from each other)

nor corruption or incompetent leadership (Rome and every other political entity in history has also and did also have that, since forever)

or any other pet theory (plagues likewise came and went)
> Too many simple straightforward options are now strictly inside accessibility

From outside, it feels like these are the only people with the freedom to improve the user experience at all. So they have to hide their work in the Accessibility preferences.
Almost feels like OP's message was a "AI" generated
Wouldn't you need to add support for the tail call extensions, return_call (opcode 0x12) and return_call_indirect (opcode 0x13)? Stitch doesn't appear to implement those, even though Stitch itself relies on TCO for instruction dispatch, for which (IIUC) LLVM would emit return_call or return_call_indirect.
I'll just leave these here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/n7auu6/psd_is_no...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122
Last I checked you can't get much better than 1.5GB/s per core with LZ4 (from RAM), up to a maximum ratio < 3:1, and multicore decompression is not really possible unless you manually tweak the compression.

The benchmarks above that are usually misleading, because they assume no dependence between blocks, which is nuts. In real scenarios, blocks need to be parsed, depend on their previous blocks, and you need to carry around that context.

My RAM can deliver close to 20GB/s, and my SSD 7GB/s, and that is all commodity hardware.

Meaning unless you have quite slow disks, you're better off without compression.
Betting on AI today is like betting on the Internet in 2000 or mobile in 2007.
Double tap is reachability for me and triple tap is to make the display very dim so that at night at the lowest brightness setting, I can get it even lower. It resets after a while so even if I forget to switch it off my screen won’t stay dim for the next few days while I wonder why it’s so damn dark.
I deliberately avoid google products, but am able to do so because of extra time and knowhow that I invest. Not everyone can.
You can get mechanical mouse mover devices that are not connected to the pc at all. It should be fully undetectable.
The R Pi commercial company dropped "Trading" years ago.
Yes, sort of. I don’t necessarily have to feel hungry but if I’m on an empty stomach or just haven’t eaten in a while, the odds I get motion sickness are much higher.

If I’m riding somewhere to go get dinner, I have to sit in the front passenger seat. After dinner with a full belly? Throw me in the back and I’ll be fine.
This eternal discussion gets rehashed over and over again.

It's great that you like it. It wouldn't be an issue if it was optional. Then the people who like it could have it and the people who don't could go somewhere else and get what they want. Nobody is trying to take away your cheese.
Then the end of slavery in the Empire and and the start of serfdom, more efficient than slavery, after de Diocletian reforms killed the Empire. That's contradictory. And slavery was still a thing after those reforms, as other comments say.

Diocletian reforms, the corruption, civil wars and the inability of defend itself eroded and destroyed all the structures that made the Republic great all those are the reasons that made the Empire fall.
Much trust remains.

The problem is that when you and three kooks say that Google is bad, people are generally not able to tell the difference between the kooks and you, even if what you are saying is quite sensible. Sigh.
Saves battery too along with cross fade transitions :)
Is that just because nobody has made an effort yet to port them upstream, or is there something inherently difficult about making those changes work in llama.cpp?
All good! We all have those moments!
Putin seems quite adept at launching dumb wars that no one seems very keen on.
Google product managers, please: the naming is confusing.

Products in that post: Gemini (Flash, Pro, Advanced), PaliGemma, Imagen, Gemma, Genkit, Gemini Live, Vertex AI, MusicFX, VideoFX, ImageFX, Veo, Music AI sandbox, project Astra… I’m sure I missed a few.
Depends on what type of star.

The only stars that have never been observed to die, are red dwarfs.

I think blue giants are the shortest-lived ones.

Ours is in the middle. I think they give the Sun about four billion more years.

BTW: That was a rhetorical statement. The issue is, we don't actually know what's going on, today.
> [costs:] the incredible stress

I have seen a few people get benefits from a cancer scare: a refocus onto what matters in their lives. Agree: I would guess most people just get costs. Of my middle-aged friends with health scares only a few addressed the underlying cause (and even fewer are proactively avoiding health issues).
"People who support cryonics are sober-minded, reasonable individuals who would surely never be misled by unscientific techno-mysticism."

I am amazed at the Dunning-Kruger syndrome on display here.
salpingo-oophorectomy was the first word that sparked my interest in etymology
I'm no expert but from a quick glance at https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/state/#using-a-self-man... it looks like this might work:

client A lists s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/, sees nothing

client B lists s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/, sees nothing

client A creates s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/unique1.json

client A lists s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/, only sees unique1.json, and proceeds

client B creates s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/unique2.json

client B lists s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/ and sees both unique1.json and unique2.json

client B assumes it lost a race, deletes s3://bucket/prefix/.pulumi/locks/unique2.json, and retries

There's another mode where both clients pessimistically retry, but fuzzing a retry delay could eventually choose a winner randomly.
Even that difference wasn't always respected; in Russia there was essentially no difference between a serf and a slave. From the "Serfdom in Russia" Wikipedia page:

> By the eighteenth century, the practice of selling serfs without land had become commonplace.
Right, I thought we had that for ages.
In Southern Europe, if you consider serfs different from slaves (they were, but only to a small extent).

Slavery is extremely economically efficient in reality, especially if you have the power to force the slaves into utter servitude, like they did in the US South. The south, and the USA as a whole, would never have been as rich if they didn't have slavery at the right time. It was important enough that h he confederacy was willing to fight a war over it: they knew, and they were proven right, that losing slavery would plunge them into poverty, as it did.

Of course, this is not a defense of slavery: in all its forms, it is a disgusting, disturbing, inhuman institution that must always be fought against and dismantled. But this can only ever be done by the will of the people, against the economic interests of the slave masters. An unregulated free market will always seek to reintroduce slavery (just like it will converge to monopolies or at least oligopolies and many other undesirable traits).
https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/21

Power

Idle power draw (at wall): 1.8 W (See note)
Maximum simulated power draw (stress-ng --matrix 0): 9.7 W
During Geekbench multicore benchmark: 7.9 W
During top500 HPL benchmark: 11 W (2.75 Gflops/W)
This is a far better summary of branded types than the top level comment that most people commenting should read before weighing in with their "why not just" solutions.
Predictions are always going to be limited by the world model they assume. Still useful in 99% of the cases.
Nit: "Artwork" is singulare tantum and so "artworks" isn't a word.
This is what Spotlight on macOS is doing for all files by default, just in case you didn't know?
Inaccurate emulation can also result in stuff like altered physics, invisible objects, stuttering animations, etc. resulting in a different experience from the original.
The man the myth the legend himself. I haven't ceased to be awed by how often the relevant person shows up in the HN comment section.

Loved your talks.
The point is just because there is demand doesn’t mean it needs to be met at the cost of the product or brand itself.

Literally throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Not disagreeing but one relevant fact this article seems to leave out, that crew was not in charge of the boat at the time of the crash, which makes their situation atm a bit sad imho.

Harbor pilots were in control and navigating at the time of the crash, also don’t think they did anything wrong either. But unreliable electric systems on big ships isnt something that’s easily planned for, momentum on those things is crazy at that weight.

https://apnews.com/article/ship-pilots-baltimore-bridge-coll...
Does watching a video pause the timeout? If so, hypothetically one could stream or locally create a video with no contents but long duration.
To pile on here, every Pi I have used (like a dozen at this point) worked fine for years, Pi 5 bricked itself randomly within 4 months of purchase with the complete accessory sets installed (coolers/case etc.)
Left a bad taste to blow my savings as a student on the newest and greatest Pi to tinker around with, and it bricks, when the second hand heavily used 4s and 3Bs work fine with constant years of use.
> I will not install spyware on my personal computer.

Agreed, if they want to lend me a computer for the exercise, that's another matter. :p

It's been a while since I last interviewed in earnest, but my recollection is that those situations (fortunately) correspond with companies that I probably wouldn't want to work for anyway.
And it wasn't always easy to tell a story IRL?

The term snakeoil salesman and yellow journalism is from far pre-internet days. If you thought the internet was going to be some magical where everyone told the truth you were already completely disconnected from reality.

All the internet does is guide us to our little reality tunnels of the untruth that we enjoy best.
> If your argument is that unsafety is transitive

It is not. I am in full agreement with this:

> As long as an unsafe block respects the constraints that would be enforced if Rust could understand them, then that unsafe block can be wrapped in a safe block and exposed.

But I am not sure what you mean by

> AFAIK Rust is able to allocate memory, which means Rust calls mmap, and that is safe.

liballoc is not required to call mmap, and even if it did, that mmap isn't shared with other processes, as far as I'm aware.

> while still inducing a data race later on

If this is possible, then it is not safe, otherwise you lose the properties we're in agreement about above: no data races are allowed in safe Rust.

> Because with the same logic, every file access could use /proc to overwrite your process memory

It is true that Linux specifically exposes the ability to mess with process memory via the filesystem API, and you can use that to subvert Rust's guarantees. But this one specific hole on one specific platform is considered to be outside of the scope of the ability of any programming language to guarantee. An operating system corrupting your memory is a completely different thing.

I doubt we're going to come to an agreement here, but I appreciate you elaborating, as now I think I understand your position here. It's not the one in general use though, so you're going to encounter these sorts of arguments in the future.
It probably also means signing over rights for the recording to be used for training AI by some third party, plus god knows what else.
The Republic was gone for a few hundred years before the Empire fell in Western Europe (and the Eastern part of the Roman Empire continued for a thousand years more).
It could be a reminder to developers that they should not assume that they should develop for one kind of player.

I remember watching an episode of MKBHD where he played a racing game, and the hands on the wheel were white male hands (he is black). He just looked at the camera and said nothing, but sighed. I thought it was well done.

personally I hate PC games that assume WASD, or don't let you remap keys, or make other asumptions that are pretty easy to figure out you shouldn't do.
Believe everything the government tells you. Do not question.
What no one wants to revisit Nagano Winter Olympics or Tetrisphere? Its probably closer to 50 if you want to include some of the lesser-known but interesting titles IMO. One of the most interesting games was Body Harvest since its clearly a prototype for a lot of what became GTA3
Climate change could force Bangkok to move, official warns
You are the user I fear most; clever enough the be dangerous and aware of the bullshit.

If you were really smart you would lobby your IT department to change the ridiculously short timeout, and protest by not working when it locks on you during normal pauses.
Correct. There was a split. E Upton resigned and created a new commercial company which then confusingly changed its name to Raspberry Pi Ltd.
I’ve opted for a backup phone on a $10 line to always have SMS if necessary for 2fa. I don’t take it outside.

Quite frankly I need to make a stronger commitment to memorizing three passwords for life.

But to your point, yes I have critical apps where the main threat vector is being accidentally locked out.
Mega prepper bunker is a bigger signal of selfishness and not giving a fuck what happens to everyone else. I hope it becomes a Winchester Mystery House-type tourist attraction in 100 years.
Whoops I meant Adobe Audition=CoolEditPro
Interesting. How long does it take to build the index of a movie like spider man (on whatever hardware you have at hand)? And how big will its index be?
off topic, but sheesh. I was skimming this and thought, "This seems like a crazy optimization. It's complex and the code in question has had a ton of eyes on it already." and then I saw the contributor and was like "Of course it's jart. It's always jart with the crazy good solutions."

well done :)
How to Use GPT-4o with LangChain and Python
I find this amazon obsession with people on the internet (I assume Americans) to be baffling and disturbing, it's always amazon this, prime that every time the concept of purchasing something online comes up.

Mouser has the Zero for 15$, 16$ if you want presoldered GPIO headers. 4$ for a Pico. RS Online has them for 4.25$. There are probably hundreds of vendors that offer them for the same price if you plop the term into your favorite search engine. Amazon is the last place I'd look, but then again I absolutely do not understand this mindset that online shopping == amazon that some people seem to have.

e: formatting
The way I see it is: Google is doing one thing, Convincing you to be a part of the Google ecosystem. The said multiple times "Only in Android", they showed AI in google workspace (Which has been underwhelming for me so far but seems like they just upgraded the model behind it) fast AI in google search. what stuck out to me tho was Android, if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly this will become a massive selling point and focus for google. We can wait for WWDC but as of now, there's no question Google is way ahead of Apple. If all the AI products on Android are deemed useful by users (big if, I know), this will be massive differentiation.
Or it could go the way of people's dreams for mainstream consumer crypto in 2016.

Every business desperate for a boost in cash (and a pool of desperate LinkedIn posters) are pretending that they just invented machine learning in the last 18 months.

"AI" has become synonymous with either "snake oil" or "desperate marketing".
Feels like an opportunity to me - when big tech is whiffing small builders have a chance to fill the gap
I beat the bushes for the source code, documenting my finds (https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/category/lisp/) and posting them (https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fa...), but the early work was done by Jack Harper, Pascal Bourguignon, Rich Cornwell and Bob Abeles, Andru Luvisi, Angelo Papenhoff, Al Kossow, and others.
> Hopefully this will give the average consumer the ability to give some direction as to the development of new versions.

Will give the average investor the ability to give some direction as to the development of new versions.
It's packaging says "data cable", not a "car tracking device". Why would they use misleading packaging that the thieves would never see? Obviously it is meant to be used as a present, or for example, for an employee bringing this "cable" to work.
New vocab for me, perhaps not surprising :)
Then why buy a Pi5 if you don’t have the juice?

I can get a 1GB Pi3 model B shipped to my door for £27 which will run off of any mobile phone charger from the last five years (heck, I just plug mine directly into the USB socket built into the wall outlet) and connect it to any TV from the last ten years with a £2 HDMI cable.

Cut your cloth.
I was looking into this the other day. China's subsidies for BYD amounted to approximately a $1k subsidy per electric vehicle (not counting battery subsidy, looking for numbers). America subsidizes electric vehicles up to $7.5k per electric vehicle in tax credits and 1.5k/vehicle in regulatory carbon credits (not counting battery subsidy, looking for numbers).

I'm trying to believe the story that subsidization is creating unfair competition. But right now the Chinese Foreign Ministry explanation of comparative advantage looks more consistent with the numbers?
Can you expand on the idea that slave labour is "vastly less efficient"? Is it just a motivation thing?

And is there any good evidence/sources for this? Surely both groups generally performed pretty extreme levels of backbreaking labour. I can't exactly imagine a slave slacking off while literally being whipped.

Also, even if feudalism made us more efficient at food production as you say* - did it not also make societies less effective at producing great works of infrastructure (roads being a good example) than imperial Rome? One just needs to compare the dark ages/low middle ages to the Roman era to see the stark contrast.

Isn't the entire narrative basically: Roman prosperity -> bad times -> rediscovery of classic values (renaissance) -> parity with the Romans 1000 years later?

Genuine questions, not trying to be combative. My history just might not be very good

* Also I'd be interested to find out if there were more famines during pax romana or in the period after the fall of the western empire..
https://huggingface.co/spaces/google/paligemma/blob/main/pal...

the blog post details it but essentially to convert from PaliGemma tokens to bbox:

y0 / 1024 * h

x0 / 1024 * w

y1 / 1024 * h

x1 / 1024 * w

have not played with segmentation yet.
"No one references 1984,"
Steve Jobs and Apple actually did. Quite successfully.
I'm talking about the political, economical and social structures, not the Republic.
I lived 15+ minutes away from school. I woke up, dressed myself, and got on the school bus, like many other American children. It may be the case that children are more independent in some countries. I just don't think the author can make that point based only on walking to school, which depends more on distance to the school than anything else.
Emm, yes? What do you think they are going to do with it. They are also considering giving you access to potentially a vast amount of their IP and maybe even customer data.
> There is a huge difference between serfs and slaves.

Bullshit. Also, when you say "Yes, they were tied to specific piece of land but in return also got the protection of the lord in times of war", that was generally true of chattel slaves as well - owners like to protect what they see as their property, after all.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia#Slaves_and_s... (and there are other linked sources on that page if you want to follow up):

> Formal conversion to serf status and the later ban on the sale of serfs without land did not stop the trade in household slaves; this trade merely changed its name. The private owners of the serfs regarded the law as a mere formality. Instead of "sale of a peasant" the papers would advertise "servant for hire" or similar.

> By the eighteenth century, the practice of selling serfs without land had become commonplace. Owners had absolute control over their serfs' lives, and could buy, sell and trade them at will, giving them as much power over serfs as Americans had over chattel slaves, though owners did not always choose to exercise their powers over serfs to the fullest extent.
Taming "Read Later" Apps
Does it matter in this context whether it's metals or tree rings or wrinkles around the eyes?

It's all time, right?
How can this be a serious question? Much of my company is in an earlier time zone and I frequently log into meetings and start work while my wife is still ambling about, showering and walking around naked. My naked wife is something I don't want my employer seeing. A house is a shared space. No one in it except me accepted any sort of consent to monitor agreement.
Or other pesky views like:

That among humans rich with agency, there's inevitably someone who can see the opportunity in restricting access to the unlimited supply of ice cream as a way to control others and reduce their agency.

There are billions of people with "agency" navigating an unfathomably complex and dynamic environment that gains shape by the collective results of their individual actions. It's really not so binary as pessimism vs optimism, agency vs passivity, humanity vs environment.
I found this to help me not sound completely ignorant in this thread

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation