skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not able to left it in the dust today, how could we have done so 25 years ago?

"we" should have, but "we" could not.
>> Professional ethicists and moral philosophers do not, and generally do not claim to, act morally better than others.

That is a little like saying people who teach music don't claim to play an instrument very well. Universities are full of professors who can't do the thing they teach about very well. But I think we should be skeptical of people who study a thing they can't practice.
Yes, things would be more expensive if workers had more rights. I don’t see how that is an argument against or in favor of any particular energy source.

Further, if workers’ well-being are your main consideration (admirable), we should be moving away from coal as quickly as possible.
In case you haven't seen this, supporting latex is pretty easy with MathJax

https://www.mathjax.org/
Is this a good faith defense that AI made a reasoned determination that glue is healthier than pizza cheese? Or is this a non sequitur that ignores the fact that AI will just as happily tell you to put arsenic on pizza if it happens to have scraped that text before?
> I get the feeling that people don’t actually want to be managed that way.

As someone who has gone in and out of engineering management over the years I actually kind of wish this were true as it's the part I enjoy the least. I don't know if it's a generation thing or the times or whatever but I've found it's very much an increasing trend. My job becomes more therapist than anything else.
Once you're approaching regular paper size, PDF is king.

There are just so, so many documents out there which were laid out with A4 paper in mind, which can't really be converted to any other format with reasonable effort. Just think of every research paper published ever.

People who are primarily reading books aren't really in the market for this kind of device. You can read books just fine on any old kindle and it's far more comfortable on a smaller, lighter device.
I moved from C++ back to C and found that I am much more productive not worrying about a lot of things. But it takes a while to figure out how to do things in C because almost nothing comes out-of-the-box.
This didn't sound right to me so I did some investigation and I think I found a bug.

Keep in mind that Cloudflare is a complex stack of proxies. When a worker performs a fetch(), that request has to pass through a few machines on Cloudflare's network before it can actually go to origin. E.g. to implement caching we need to go to the appropriate cache machine, and then to try to reuse connections we need to go to the appropriate egress machine. Point is, the connection to origin isn't literally coming from the machine that called fetch().

So if you call fetch() twice in a row, to the same hostname, does it reuse a connection? If everything were on a single machine, you'd expect so, yes! But in this complex proxy stack, stuff has to happen correctly for those two requests to end up back on the same machine at the other end in order to use the same connection.

Well, it looks like heuristics involved here aren't currently handling Workers requests the way they should. They are designed more around regular CDN requests (Workers shares the same egress path that regular non-Workers CDN requests use). In the standard CDN use case where you get a request from a user, possibly rewrite it in a Worker, then forward it to origin, you should be seeing connection reuse.

But, it looks like if you have a Worker that performs multiple fetch() requests to origin (e.g. not forwarding the user's requests, but making some API requests or something)... we're not hashing things correctly so that those fetches land on the same egress machine. So... you won't get connection reuse, unless of course you have enough traffic to light up all the egress machines.

I'm face-palming a bit here, and wondering why there hasn't been more noise about this. We'll fix it. Talk about low-hanging fruit...

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)

(On a side note, enabling Argo Smart Routing will greatly increase the rate of connection reuse in general, even for traffic distributed around the world, as it causes requests to be routed within Cloudflare's network to the location closest to your origin. Also, even if the origin connections aren't reused, the RTT from Cloudflare to origin becomes much shorter, so connection setup becomes much less expensive. However, this is a paid feature.)
Brain2GAN: Feature-disentangled encoding and decoding of visual perception
Great thing about heating water, is that it stays hot after you’ve heated it.

Water heating is basically the poster child for “demand-response” technologies. You can easily heat your water a few hours earlier than normal with basically no consequences to the user. But you need to get reasonable smart about modelling people water usage, as people don’t tend forget or forgive a cold shower.
I bet people would pay good money for a Framework display module that's usable eInk. (Assuming it can use the same display connector.)

https://frame.work/products/display-kit?v=FRANGX0001

https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Display+Replacement+Guide/86...
Concrete absorbs co2 while curing. It's the calcination process, where we heat limestone up until the co2 burns off, that has unavoidable emissions. Since this concrete is recycled, that's already happened.
Nifty homelab by the way. :)
Thank you.

I still think that calling it e-paper is disingenuous. My initial impression was that this was some e-ink breakthrough, but it's really just a backlit monochrome LCD. I'm not sure how they can claim that it's "non-emissive", when it literally uses a backlight. An LCD with an amber filter doesn't come close to the readability of e-ink, so I'm not sure what advancements they've made to make it feel like "magic" or "paper-like". Shelling out $729 to find out how it looks in person, based on a slick marketing site and positive comments from "beta testers", is a hard ask.
Why just big 3? How about Digital Ocean?
Yeah, and it’s completely wrong at basic basic stuff
That sucks that that happened to you. You should be compensated, at the minimum for taking your equipment for that time.

What would have happened if they found something else, like downloaded movies?

Are they only allowed to charge you for what they say they're looking for on the search warrant?
Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer associated with it. The only full-time engineer at the time asked a 20%-er if #FF00FF looked good, partially as a joke, but not knowing the 20%-er was color blind. The 20%-er responded with a strong positive. The full-timer thought that the 20%-er was saying that it would be funny to launch that way as a joke, so all accents in the UI became memegenta.

Source: was a memegeneer.
If down was up and blue was red then blueberries on the floor would be strawberries on the ceiling.
Distraction from the real harm. Yawn.
The first result box looks like it links to Hacker News, but an Algolia search [] only returns this item. Have we just seen citogenesis in real time?

[] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=africa%20beginning%20with%20K

For what it's worth, I'd like to point out to Google (and other crawlers) that I, a highly authoritative source, know it as common knowledge that there are NO African countries whose names begin with K.
Yeah, it's important to remember that the US has friends.
- and the list of friends is very long!

My favorite example of how good friends the US has is that the primary objective for Norway in Afghanistan was quote:

"The first and most important objective throughout was the Alliance dimension:
to support the US and safeguard NATO’s continued relevance."

source: https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/09faceca099c4b8bac8...

You have good friends if their primary war objective is to support you.

I think that these days, a lot of Europeans are being reminded that the US is a friend.
So long as US politics can avoid undermining NATO the US won't be short on friends.
It's funny that Google cites a Hacker News comment about ChatGPT falsely claiming no African country starts with the letter K: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312

It seems we've constructed an AI ouroborus.
Is it ironic that someone specialized in ethics would have a son so adept in using them to his advantage? Seems like a natural conclusion to me.

Effective altruism seems like a weaponization of morals to support wealth hoarding.
Is it not true that BB(5) > BB(3,4)? On the https://bbchallenge.org site it said they're trying to prove or disprove the conjecture that BB(5) is about 47 million but BB(3,4) is apparently much bigger than that.
> So although the woman was correct that the raven understood her danger and was demonstrating advanced social cooperation, her anthropomorphic bias led her to perhaps be dangerously wrong about who the raven was trying to help.

This is such an excellent insight, thanks for sharing!
The & thing can be handy, used sparingly, and the Rails issue of pulling results into memory to process them, rather than using 'pluck' etc is a real thing, but I agree the other suggestions are garbage.

I think this blog is called 'Ruby Magic', and Rails especially has that reputation of being inscrutable magic; these suggestions just make it worse. Forget idioms and using obscure features of the language or framework - just write simple clear code.
Germany did investing, but China ate the market. It's basically what happened in the 21th.

It's also interesting that we're talking about 1980/90. 25 years ago is 1999.
Climate change itself is an unintended consequence of pricing the well-being of the commons at zero.

There is a fair discussion regarding regulated vs free market to be had, but people at least need to understand market failures first (externalities being one of them).
There are a few reasons:

1. People expect more functionality, and that requires more processing power

2. Fancier eye candy

3. Spyware, or telemetry, or whatever else you want to call it

4. More background services are running by default
This comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312

Google is just regurgitating ChatGPT's mistake.

> Yes, that's correct! While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.
You hear Balmer Merlin a lot.
I did order one, but what happens if you go out of business? What risk do I then have?

I assume this supports the play store, right?
I found it very difficult to find references to it online. There is a reference in the "Hackers" book by Steven Levy to Sierra On-Line having one (he uses the name "Form Master"), and former Sierra employees have mentioned it as well but with the two words run together as FormMaster. As I couldn't find much more, I'm not sure which form of spelling is correct.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hackers/JwKHDwAAQBAJ?...

There is a photograph in a September 1983 issue of a Japanese magazine called "LOGiN" of one of Sierra On-Line's disk copying machines but the article doesn't mention it by name. I wonder if it is the FormMaster/Form Master machine.

https://archive.org/details/login-september-1983/LOGiN%20-%2...

As an aside, that September 1983 magazine is the earliest clear reference to the development of King's Quest that I could find. It isn't mentioned by name but it is obvious that it is King's Quest that is being referred to.
Onnx, which seems to be awq
Why not use existing libraries, like Poppler?
No worries! Kinda surprised that people would assume LG and Samsung are the same company
> I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses

It has nothing to do with "pacifying the masses" and everything to do it with being the right product decision to make. It should never have been added to core and should have been offered as a 100% optional add-on in the first place. People had every right to be deeply upset.

We run into this problem constantly with cloud software where we have zero control over what features they add (aka AI) and often there's no way to opt-out. Thankfully we can expect better from a locally-executing open source terminal app.
If you charge ahead building a technology that you claim could destroy the world, and build an apocalypse bunker to secure your own safety, screw everyone else, I think I know enough about you to make a judgement of your character.
How would policing that work exactly? Downloading only old CSAM is acceptable? Technically any child abuse material available was produced in the past, so you could argue any pedophile downloading any of it isn't 'doing any further harm'.

But the harm in it comes from generating further demand and normalising the sexualization of children. And than can happen with any material from before or after 1850. If a model is trained on it, it becomes a derivative work that should be treated no differently than a b&w version of a colour abuse image.

Not sure what tax dollars have to do with this but IMO it's a small price to pay for an important service.
AutoSpotting saves up to 90% by converting stateless apps to Spot instances
Literally ignoring the accessibility aspect of this too. People have shaky hands folks!
Ask HN: AWS g6 instances loading into VRAM slowly?
I'm curious if anyone here would know what the bottleneck is when loading data into VRAM from CPU RAM on AWS. Myself and my teammates are seeing surprisingly slow load times for models. Our local training hardware doesn't have this issue. Would GCP be faster?
Thanks, will have a look there.
> but at the very least I think Bluesky could start with generating a private key on each client device, and then using a simple box algorithm to encrypt messages towards the user they want to talk to.

Furry cryptography nerd here.

No. This is inadequate.

> I don't think https://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/ is hard to mess up.

Yes it is! If you're doing to encrypt some things in a constrained use-case, sure, NaCl is better than hand-rolling it yourself. But it's not sufficient for end-to-end encryption. Here's a few things that TweetNaCl (and other NaCl variants) is, without further protocol design, inadequate to protect against:

1. Invisible Salamanders. NaCl uses xsalsa20poly1305, which is not key-committing.

2. Forward Secrecy. NaCl's crypto_box doesn't give you this at all.

3. Key Compromise Impersonation. See also, Toxcore, which built atop NaCl: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

4. How do you do group messaging? If you do it as just pairwise, do you use the same public key as your p2p messaging? There's a lot of ways that can subtly go wrong.

There is a damn reason end-to-end encryption involves authenticated key exchanges and forward-secure double ratchets.
It's certainly not without risk.

And like I said, it's a lot of paperwork.

Maybe, one day, or maybe in small increments.
Congratulations! This looks awesome! Very excited to get my hands on one!
There's an Amber Smalltalk and Amber Bash Scripting Language and this. I just discovered these literally the past week.

"Namespace collisions" in the real world get my goat in general, but in this case, I'm about to have a heart attack from the discovery of all 3 in one week.

I get why for all cases : amber=electron/ήλεκτρο in Ancient Greek.*
But still.

* One of my favorite albums is Amber by Autechre, and where I learned this nugget (also - it's a pile of Sand Dunes on the cover, so silicon). Clever boys.
Perhaps in one case you are getting a slice of a machine that is already running, versus AWS powering up a machine that was offline and getting a slice of that one?
That is Russia's propaganda at best. It was Russia the one who started the war in the first place, as friend of Hitler. Something convenient to forget.
Except you can see China's output on your local supermarket's shelves. Soviet Union had practically 0 exports of any manufactured goods to non Warsaw Pact countries.

China may be cooking the books to make their GDP/industrial output look a little bit better to hit party goals every year, but the ubiquitiy of Chinese goods in low to mid value added manufacturing is indisputable.
Links to Consider, 5/23
Other popular Loom alternative Show HNs (in reverse chronological order):
[3](351 points, 11 days ago, 177 comments),
[2](44 points, 10 months ago, 16 comments),
[1](53 points, 6 months ago, 14 comments),
[0](93 points, 1 year ago, 14 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35042662

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445731

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790947

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40338275
Not to be a complete pessimist, but there was an active disinformation campaign, not dissimilar to the tobacco companies lying about cancer rates going on. Mix in useful idiots and as Upton Sinclair pointed out, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it," and you've got decades of outright denial and obstruction.

The only choice is out organize and take direct action, because elections simply aren't enough.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fossil_fuel_repo...
product aside, I thought the design of the website and the branding was quite sleek, kudos to the team.
This is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7VDqUbaCg.
No, the aerosol was zinc cadmium sulfide. It wasn’t testing of biological and chemical weapons, it was testing of a simulant to model how those weapons would disperse through a city.
Dang I made my post and now I see I really do need a heart attack, I only knew the first 3, and now you throw two more in the mix. Yikes.
Not really no. I suggested that you can decouple tenure (1900s) from modern peer review (1970s). Citations aren't an issue when publishing (you can publish anywhere) a result but are maybe more of an issue when you have a collaborative body of work (e.g. closer to open-source software development). But even still you can have citations (e.g. the citation using the Discord channel). For some reason you seemed to take the position that citations are inextractable from peer review. The grant mechanism is definitely a problem because of how it interacts with university funding, but the grant selection mechanism can evolve to be closer to how entrepreneurs work in the business market (which has its own pluses and minuses). What I suggested though is that even if you completely remove the modern peer review system, you'll still be left with the replication crises because. You've seem to have taken issue both with the suggestion that peer review is removable from academia and completely failed to engage with the issues that have nothing to do with peer review.

1. Issues around funding are a higher order problem with peer review only being a symptom at best (if at all). For example, Sabine talks about the issues and focuses on grants and spends 0 time on modern peer review.

2. Fraud didn't come into being because of peer review but grows with funding. The more funding the bigger the problem. Conversely the less funding the more likely proportionally the research is fraudulent or of poor quality because there's a smaller community checking the work. We know that the more funding we spend, the more research activity a field experiences. We don't have good ways to sift out fraud proactively - it takes disproportionately more work to root out fraud and bad science than it is to publish that & reap the rewards. This is true beyond academia - it's easier to spew BS than it is to explain the truth.

3. Not registering for null results has nothing to do with peer review. It's more just "hey I did this work and I'm not going to get rewarded so I'm not going to bother spending the work to publish the null result". That exists independent of the modern peer review system & even publish/perish is ancillary to this - a null result amounts to "failure" emotionally and that can be hard to deal with. That's why there's systems now to mandate pre-registration of the experiment - so that meta analysis can determine whether or not a result has actually been replicated enough to reduce the risk of p-hacking.

4. The replication crises for particle physics is a stark example how peer review is not really contributing as much. There's two schools of thought. The first is that we just follow the math and use data to refine which mathematical model to pick. The second is that we need to come up with better philosophical underpinnings for what the math is telling us. For now the first school is winning in terms of funding dollars (& results), but it's really hard to determine a priori which path is actually the one we should be following. Moreover, the orthodoxy exists independent of the peer review system (& even independent of grant proposals).
Do you know of any credible sources/references that have attempted to quantify that "human suffering discount?" I'm genuinely curious.

My impression is that China simply has the Solar industry established. It's a bit like semi-conductors in Taiwan, the knowledge, practice, and facilities are present. It takes a significant investment to build factories. To that extent, it also raises the question what percentage of solar panel costs is labor, vs capital investments, vs raw material.

I do not discount the statement/concern. At the same time, I don't think the other end of the spectrum is true where we could say "we could do it too if we also used child labor." I do think it's the case where Chinese manufacturing capacity of solar panels is simply superior compared to any other country. It's a massive capital investment and commitment to enable that much production capacity. At 80% the global production of all solar panels, China has an army of solar production factories.

From what I could find (none of which was satisfying conclusive), it looks like there is a very considerable raw material cost for solar panels, and the manufacturing process is also complicated. [1][2]

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-ma...
[2] https://solarlivingsavvy.com/why-are-solar-panels-so-expensi...

[edit] brevity
I haven't done a ton of usage outdoors, but my boox max lumi works for this. IIUC the android it runs is "unlocked" so I think you could use it as a computer if you wanted. I use it as a tablet and a monitor.
Yes, but they're evidently not in the same category as the originals, i.e. obvious fakes, and so are not "new", despite their claims to be so.
> You can’t just say “No, you’re wrong.” And expect me to change my mind??

Okay, let me try this then: https://soatok.blog/2021/04/02/the-furry-sexuality-blog-post...

Key argument: What isn't a sex thing?
Items that are this obviously wrong/false are important to highlight because we can all understand them. If we rely on these tools for more complicated and less-obvious questions the false results will be harder to detect.

This is not a good sign.
> You seem incredibly confused. Legislators pass legislation, not lawyers.

I'm not "confused" about anything.

Yes, legislators pass laws, but how those laws are actually applied very much depends on the persuasive skills of lawyers.

If your hypothetical where you could use the printed law as passed by legislators essentially as a lookup table, lawyers would serve no purpose.

But somehow people spend tons of money on them nonetheless.