skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested, their readme file has a really great explanation of how e-ink displays work, the ideas behind them, and how they compare to LCDs at various tasks: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
> the despairing people in the hotel at some point elected the the monster to rule the hotel.

What were the people despairing of in this scenario? Did it have something to do with the actions of the nearby town?
Yeah but follow the effects back to their causes: the colonies that became America were British colonies, not French or Spanish or Portuguese or Dutch colonies.

In other words: America was founded by British people. Settlers/colonizers from Britain.
> As for battery life, Copilot+ PCs support up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video playback. The MacBook Air models offer the same 15 hours of wireless web browsing, but only 18 hours of local video playback.

I don't know how good the Linux support for this hardware is, but, if it works well, the reason of buying Macs for their battery life gets blown out of the water.
Very excited to see this. Microsoft Windows was always a bottleneck for us when it came to ad content delivery to Windows users. With this incredible performance of Surface Pro, we will deliver ads to those users at a speed they have never see before. By the time you close one ad, 3 others are already open. Thank you Satya for making this happen.
I guess you are right. The era of "don't be evil" if there ever was one, is now long gone and forgotten.
Modern PHP is very underrated imo.

Just do what I do, use something like Phroute or any other routing library. Add a couple of supporting classes (Request, Response, DB connection, etc.) and you're good to go.

If you don't need all the stuff that comes with a large scale framework, there is no point using one. It all depends on your requirements though.
The flash kind of "resets" each pixel. You can update without the flash (and some e-readers support this) but artifacts slowly accumulate.

In the video they show a mode where it is B&W while scrolling, but after stopping the scroll it flashes and renders in gray-scale. The narrator mentions several possible modes; noting that 16-shade gray-scale is too slow for any interactive use (including typing), but 4-shade can allow typing and B&W can allow fast scrolling &c.
I still have Sky voice. Is it because of my region?
I agree, it's easy to be blinded by the protests. The full picture isn't as obvious.
Honestly
TeX/LaTeX the engine is a marvel of technology,

But everytime i see a \makeatletter or get a runaway argument it reinforces my belief LaTeX the language was a mistake
Legend has it Blattella asahinai escaped from a California at Davis lab and became a persistent invasive species. I only saw them nesting in the ground but they definitely fly short distances.
> Can you openly say Israel's response is bad? Can you even openly state its response is 'over the top'?

Israel's response is bad. Israel's response is 'over the top'.

Can you state that responses to that which embrace eliminationist goals are likewise bad? Do you condemn not just "Hamas" but Palestinian nationalist aims (oft-parroted by activist westerners who don't really understand what it means) of retaking the 1948 land? Or do you just look the other way and figure The Jews Have It Coming? You're picking a side here, whether you admit it or not. And picking a side means that someone loses.
I don't know how it compares, but my recent AMD ThinkPad uses about 1% of the battery per hour while in "modern standby." I figure I have at least three and up to 4 days of being unplugged before it's forced to shut down.
Magit, the git client for emacs, fits the bill perfectly. It is a masterclass in simplicity, effectiveness, and discoverability. It is one of those rare tools that makes you better at the underlying tool it abstracts over; instead of introducing its own jargon and workflow it exposes git's capabilities better than git does.
Can’t believe it’s 2024 and Microsoft has not sorted this out yet. I switched to MacBooks 15 years ago because I liked being able to close the lid at any moment and stuff it into my laptop and go.

Got burned one too many times trying to sleep/hibernate HP business laptops by closing the lid and they stayed on and got hot. Not once has that happened with a MacBook.
What happens if you sue the bank?
He has a certain charm and seeming sincerity when he talks. But the more I see of him, the more disturbing I find him -- he combines the Mark Zuckerberg stare with the Elizabeth Holmes vocal fry.
One might about as sensibly say the same of functions being able to take arguments. If this is meant to illustrate the damage working with Spring does to understanding the concept, then it's an excellent, if mildly horrifying, illustration.
Then Will Smith made one change to their left-pad dependency.. and the rest? History
If you read more than just the headline you'd find that the third sentence of the article talks about battery life.
Does anyone have a link to examples? I'm curious to hear how close this sounds to the actress's voice.
Do you know if the voice was the same back in september?
Bold of you to take the same stance Germany took about murdering civilians in the territory they were occupying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-tireurs
A Microsoft employee did once joke to me that if Microsoft had invented the holy grail it would be called the Microsoft life preserver 3.4 Pro+ or something like that
I know the Crowd Supply part isn't live yet but I wish this had some kind of ballpark cost, at least to an order of magnitude. Are we talking $300 or $3000?
Agda. Not as in something i'd use everyday, but using it definitely shaped the way i reason about programming and type systems
In my mind I have stored this phrase that "production pressures move the Overton window of acceptable shortcuts closer to disaster."

I think it captures several important nuances, like how it's a gradual process, how it ecpnomises/improves things at first, that there is a destination, that it covers even things such as discussions about shortcuts and not just their usage.
On the contrary, it happens every time.
Recall that Musk got fired from PayPal and his history there was not illustrious:

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start/
Macs have always had great battery life and the Apple Silicon chips took it to another level. It remains to be seen if any Windows laptop can actually consistently achieve their marketed battery life given Windows’ terrible track record for power management and proper sleeping.
The 'political repercussions' case is pretty flimsy [0].

Bigger picture - this disagreement seems fundamentally rooted in conflicting political philosophies, as alluded to above. More facts are not going to change that.

An example... "'Realpolitik' is not a defense complicity in genocide." Says who? I mean I agree with you on the face of things, but who gets to decide what genocide means? And what does it mean for international law to be "binding on all signatory states"? Some view overconfidence in this notion as Wilson's great and lasting mistake.

Unfortunately, there is no compiler that can adjudicate these types of questions for us.

0 - https://www.natesilver.net/p/your-friends-are-not-a-represen...
I think we are about to see a change in that. If a country like Niger can say f* off to US military presence in the country we're seeing a shift in world geopolitics.
As a partial representative of humanity (and Starlink customer) speaking, I'd rather we shoot the brick of concrete into space and avoid giving aliens poor impressions about the cars we build. That's just my opinion though, I've always been adverse to mass-market masturbation.
They discuss a lot of this in their linked readme: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider?tab=readme-ov-file#low-...
How does the memory bandwidth compare? Based on my usage, that's key in responsiveness between Mac and PC now. Also for LLMs in memory. I compare the current top Surface Pro with the current Macbook Airs.

51-83 GB/s for current Surface Pro 9 with Intel Core i7-1265U (3200-5200 MT/s). [0]

100 GB/s for current Macbook Air 13/15" M2/M3. [1]

0: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/226258/...

1: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/
You just discovered domain drop catching.
What impact would the loss of 230 have on p2p? Would a bitcoin node operator become liable for criminal transactions people make? Would Tor nodes become even riskies than they are to run? Would participating in the torrent DHT become risky even if I only torrent Linux isos?
If they ship on time they might get four months before Apple has a faster machine. And the last six weeks to two months of that, people will likely wait and see (if they consider anything from MS at all that is).
Offshoring
"Consoomers". Jesus christ. Back to whatever dark, perpetually angry echochamber you came from.
OpenAI removes "Her" voice after Scarlett Johansson complaint
I'd bet a tenner that they've caught up with where apple was 3 years ago rather than 1 year ago, at best.
This is kind of poetic justice. Accidental damage is one thing but Any time your whole business model relies on creating damage and then paying it off at whatever discounted rate your lawyers have negotiated for you, then you really are saying that’s the value of your company. If corporations want to play those games, we should take them at their word and let it cut both ways.
> POSIWID

You need to be honest about what it actually does then. Cherry picking the thing you don't like and ignoring the rest will bring you no closer to true understanding
This has been settled law for 34 years. See Tom Waits v Frito-Lay.

They literally hired an impersonator, and it cost them 2.5 million (~6 million today).

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
I mean, there's already been some yellow flags with Altman already. He founded Worldcoin, whose plan is to airdrop free money in exchange for retinal scans. And the board of OpenAI fired him for (if I've got this right) lying to the board about conversations he'd had with individual board members.
It feels weird to be defending Altman, but those of us who go hard on the legitimately serious shit are held to a high standard on being fair and while multiple sources have independently corroborated e.g. the plainly unethical and dubiously legal NDA shit Vox just reported on, his links to this incident seem thinly substantiated.

I’m not writing the guy a pass, he’s already been fired for what amount to ethics breaches in the last 12 months alone. Bad actor any way you look at it.

But I spent enough time in BigCo land to know stuff like this happens without the CEO’s signature.

I’d say focus on the stuff with clear documentary evidence and or credible first-hand evidence, there’s no shortage of that.

I get the sense this is part of an ambient backlash now that the damn is clearly breaking.

Of all the people who stand to be harmed by that leadership team, I think Ms. Johansson (of who I am a fan) is more than capable of seeing her rights and privileges defended without any help from this community.
Well at least I know why now. Thx
if they have better trackpad, I will buy one.
Sure, the fossil fuel industry does pollute, but we are the culprits in this mess: the largest fraction of pollution actually comes from everyone that drives a gas car, flies in commercial jets, eats a meat-rich diet, and uses electricity from fossil-fueled generation. Until people--all of us--radically change these behaviors, nothing will change.
Hamas is in the west bank? I'm sure they have a few militants but they literally are hunted down and killed by the Fatah. Also, I really wonder what happened in the 1980s that lead to more violence. Could it be that the IDF enabled and even caused the massacre of 3000 Palestinians in Lebanon?

I'm not sure I'm following though. You are saying that Palestinian terrorism caused the right wing to come in power and disregard international law. Sure, okay. I hope you realize that in the 1980s, most of said terrorism was happening in areas that Israel was already occupying. Also, again, you seem to imply that Israel's left wing actually gave the Palestinians more than apartheid and at best, a ghetto to live in semi undisturbed. That has never happened. Again, the poster child for that was 2005. What the Palestinians got was a a completely choked out, blockaded strip of land.

Like were the Palestinians supposed to be grateful and just accept that they will have to live in a state of semi servitude and protectorate because at least it wasn't the right wing in power? That's just completely irrelevant from the Palestinians pov. Again, who cares about the political climate of Israel as if it's some sort of actual excuse for settling and stealing land at gun point? Again, there's an incredible double standard here.

Palestinian motives and goals and politics don't matter, but Israel is always justified because it could've done worse. I mean sure? It reminds of Russian propaganda for the war: they have really tried to stay peaceful but NATO FORCED them to invade and steal land. It could've been worse though! They could've used nukes.

Yes, Israel wasn't doing settlement back then. But that's the point now isn't it? Back then, they already occupied the west bank. And the extremism and fascist inspired ideology of settlers didn't emerge yet. On both sides, extremism was less prominent. But again, the double standard is to excuse the Israeli settlers and their batshit insane ideology.
I found the Surface Pro to be an enormous faff back in the Windows 8 days - abysmal janky inconsistent touch UI support, high-DPI broken or blurry in several programs, combined with the new Microsoft’s urge to shove ads in every surface of their OS. 2+ different on-screen keyboards that may or may not appear when you focus a text input. Cool concept, very exciting when it worked, but generally worse than buying a separate laptop and iPad for me at least. (Owned 2 generations of it - got a generation update free of charge for warranty issue)
Victoria metrics as well, they say based on similar structures used in clickhouse
You're sort of funny. He's ignoring the existing artificial monopolies just to make money, when it suits him.

He's using trade secrets, copyright, patents, NDAs liberally.

This is not a principled stand, just opportunism.
> The optics of equating a terrorist organization on the one hand with a democratic state with functioning judicial system and accountability for any crimes committed on the other hand by putting them in the same press release is pretty bad for the court.

They aren't being equated by the fact that people associated with each are having charges sought. The five individuals charged are in the same press release because it is the outcome of one investigation of the conflict by the prosecutor's office.

> In addition, why doesn't the ICC look into Egypt's conduct of refusing to allow civilians to flee from this conflict?

Because, even if that were to constitute a crime within the general subject matter jurisdiction of the court, that's not an crime that took place on the territory of Palestine or any other State Party to the Rome Statute, or by nationals of Palestine or any other State Party to the Rome Statute, so the ICC, under Article 12 of the Rome Statute, lacks the ability to exercise jurisdiction over them.
Not necessarily, because this would be a civil matter, the burden of proof is a preponderance of the evidence - it’s glaring obvious that this voice is emulating the movie Her and I suspect it wouldn’t be hard to convince a jury.
For any payment processor part of the fees you pay go to offsetting fraud (it is a cost just like servers or people).

Instant payout is much riskier because if a bad actor is using Stripe to cash out stolen credit cards they have less time for the banks to detect and report it before the money is gone. As a result it has a higher cost to the company.
Google's Memo ISO Motion to Dismiss:

https://ia801604.us.archive.org/11/items/gov.uscourts.vaed.5...
I assume (without any evidence) that excel is basically mothballed / offshored other than the occasional LET and LAMBDA type of deal every now and again
I really like this. I remember my first serious math book, which was this old-school set theory and topology book, and being all excited about learning set theory up until I encountered iterated Cartesian product, and was forced to accept that ((x, y), z) and (x, (y, z)) are supposed to be indistinguishable to me. An answer on StackExchange said that "you will never, ever, ever need to worry about the details of set theory", but I still did.
What's cool (and tough to keep up with) with this wave of tech is just how quickly it moves.

On the plus side there's a lot of interesting things and it is generally easy to follow/figure out what they did.

On the minus side it's a little exhausting, and there's so much money in it feels like the vast majority of it is grifting. To add to that, the people who are trying to catalog it (the AI guy on LI) are the griftiest of them all.

I've found the best way to keep up is find one topic you want to learn about, deep-dive, and read all the related papers, then explore breadth-first from there until you find another topic...
Sesta and fosta reduced 230 a bit and had a measurable impact on web freedom. Craigslist removed personals, most notably.
Thexder was great!
He rubs elbows with very powerful people including CEOs, heads of state and sheiks. They probably want 'one of them' in charge of the company that has the best chances of getting close to AGI. So it's not his technical chops and not even 'vision' in the Jobs sense that keeps him there.
AI in the specific form of generative models for images is not dissimilar to photoshop. My claim is that AI software more broadly is like a lot of other software, in that you can use it for a lot of things, a minority of which are bad. You know you can use excel to do accounting for drug trafficking businesses? And you can use google maps to plan your routes when trafficking humans? I don't think AI software is different in kind, only in degree, and if we accept that developers should be on a short leash because they might build something that can potentially be used for harm, then we should be aware that the creations of OS developers, language developers, web framework developers, P2P messaging developers, cryptography library developers, etc also are sometimes used by people doing bad things.

Your initial reaction, which I think comes off as snide and flippant, is that it's fine for AI developers face criminal penalties for building AI, presumably because it's capable of doing harmful things, even if those developers do not use them for harmful purposes. You don't seem to attempt any positive argument for why those developers in particular should be criminally liable, but developers of other broadly applicable tools should not.

In any case, perhaps it's all moot bc the person that was repeatedly downvoted to death was correct: I did look at the text and don't actually see criminal penalties anywhere. There are civil penalties though, and I don't think AI developers in particular should have to convince regulators that their work is 'safe' to avoid fines, but at least the stakes are lower.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417828
> I do wonder if a project is going "right" only when it starts to hit excruciatingly long shifts and burns workforce like coals - especially if it is expected to safely carry humans to the Moon. I think it's more likely a sign of doing something that wasn't planned and budgeted properly

I want to agree, but for literal moonshots, I'm not sure I can.

We all know there's a point after which throwing more people at the problem won't solve it. For complex, integrated products this can be a relatively low number. So maybe even an infinite budget does not help.

Planning maybe, but then again maybe a high launch cadence is a necessity for projects like this? I'm thinking of the learning cycle -- if there are years between missions maybe we will forget some of the knowledge obtained from the third when we launch the fifth, in a way we wouldn't have had with months between missions.

So maybe there are some things that are best done at high cadence with a small-ish number of people. If there are, then complex, integrated, innovative products would be it.
> There was a ton of hand-wringing and speculation about why this happened

that's one thing that is really annoying about the left, they don't treat their voting blocs as individuals.

even the most progressive act like the entire voting bloc - each one that's not a white male - is oppressed, woe is me, and would therefore prioritize democrats no matter what else is happening in the country and the world.

they're like "don't they know what's good for them!?" when anything besides their expected outcome occurs. its like a mental barrier of ever considering anything else, I've seen it all over the nation and far flung extremities of the US.

talk to the actual human beings and its "foreign policy" "fiscal policy" "local economy" but the patronizing voices on the left don't even realize they are saying "no, silly, leave that stuff to the white man! you focus on these issues"

its embarrassing. talk to the actual humans.
> When they start talking about the utility of committing crimes or other moral wrongs because the ends justify the means, I tend to start assuming they’re bad at morality and ethics.

Extremely reasonable position, and I'm glad that every time some idiot brings it up in the EA forum comments section they get overwhelmingly downvoted, because most EAs aren't idiots in that particular way.

I have no idea what the rest of your comment is talking about; EAs that have opinions about AI largely think that we should be slowing it down rather than speeding it up.
IMO the biggest issue with Rust async is that it's unfinished. It took years for us to get async traits (in MVP state even now), we still don't have a stable async iterator interface, tasks can't borrow data (due to no un-leakable types), there are no standard abstractions for writing libraries compatible with several executors, no async destructors, etc etc. All these problems are fixable, but they haven't been fixed yet, and it's been far too long.

What makes the pain of async worth it is easy heterogeneous selects. Can't do that with threads, there's no equivalent.
> What's the right way to learn how to use NixOS?

Just commit. Make it your daily driver, engage the community for help, and learn whatever you need to learn to do things the idiomatic way. Then settle in and get comfy.

That said, I hear you about the paralyzing number of choices. Here are some okay choices you can fall back on when you get dizzy:

- use flakes with direnv for all your projects
- when in doubt, just write the damn package
- need to use some Python library that depends on another Python library that's not in Nixpkgs? Package 'em. Package all the recursive dependencies, then package the library you wanted to use.
- want some program that's not in Nixpkgs? package it
- want to reuse a binary built for a traditional distro? package it. Look at examples in Nixpkgs of similar things (e.g., Discord, Steam)
- seek community engagement on Discourse and Matrix, not elsewhere (not Reddit, not Discord, not Slack, not IRC)

This is the best way to learn NixOS, imo. But if it seems like too much, it's not the only way.
Dovecot has shared mailboxes, then there is SSO Software that can log you in with other forms of authentication.
In other antritrust litigation Google has argued that people love the company, that is why they use it and that is why it has remained #1. If this is true, then why is Google so afraid of a jury. Would it not be comprised of Google supporters.

That Google just thinks paying people off will solve every one of its problems, whether its competitors or plaintiffs, perhaps will play into the government's narrative.

Google does not win on the merits.