skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I can see what you're getting at, but in my opinion, that is assuming much more than just saying a simple "no", which is what the OP was advocating for. If the "rejecter" tries to attempt embarrasssment or humiliation of the "advancer", then that is certainly wrong but is not a simple rejection.

I also believe that the "advancer" needs to understand that the consequences you've outlined are a real chance and they need to be okay with those consequences before making an advance.
Article 50 is right there, still. If the EU is untenable in the long run because of objections like this, either it will have to make itself more accountable to citizens, or the governments which are accountable to them can be pressed into invoking Article 50.
The Economist had an article about this last week:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/17/...

(Accompanying editorial: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/05/23/hacking-phones-...)
Link to report here:

https://transparency.meta.com/metasecurity/threat-reporting#...
Hopefully your buyer gets a nice sales boost from this article!

Why wouldn't you go back to a corporation and try to make a software product there, as an employee?
> JVector, the library that powers DataStax Astra vector search, now supports indexing larger-than-memory datasets by performing construction-related searches with compressed vectors. This means that the edge lists need to fit in memory, but the uncompressed vectors do not, which gives us enough headroom to index Wikipedia-en on a laptop.

It's interesting to note that JVector accomplishes this differently than how DiskANN described doing it. My understanding (based on the links below, but I didn't read the full diff in #244) is that JVector will incrementally compress the vectors it is using to construct the index; whereas DiskANN described partitioning the vectors into subsets small enough that indexes can be built in-memory using uncompressed vectors, building those indexes independently, and then merging the results into one larger index.

OP, have you done any quality comparisons between an index built with JVector using the PQ approach (small RAM machine) vs. an index built with JVector using the raw vectors during construction (big RAM machine)? I'd be curious to understand what this technique's impact is on the final search results.

I'd also be interested to know if any other vector stores support building indexes in limited memory using the partition-then-merge approach described by DiskANN.

Finally, it's been a while since I looked at this stuff, so if I mis-wrote or mis-understood please correct me!

- DiskANN: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3454287.3455520

- Anisotropic Vector Quantization (PQ Compression): https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10396

- JVector/#168: How to support building larger-than-memory indexes https://github.com/jbellis/jvector/issues/168

- JVector/#244: Build indexes using compressed vectors https://github.com/jbellis/jvector/pull/244
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors
How to steal video content on the internet (not a tutorial)
Temperature cannot ever reach 0 (this causes a division error), so they are not deterministic.
The logic doesn't even make sense. "Save the children, except of course the politician's children".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063025
Compared to a trillion dollars it is "just", it is just a software implementation moat, its a compiler it isn't on the scale of reimplementing windows or so.
What? There has been absolutely no blowback when Quebec used it. And minimal blowback for all other uses. This is just a weird cope, people don't really care if they use it here. It's sad but true.
Please do. I have spent several days the past 2 weeks trying to get another one setup. Somehow the docs are worse today than they were a year or so ago.

As far as I can tell help with issues installing/running is still only done in the chat rooms, which is great if people have the right answer at that very moment.. however a basic phpbb forum or bbpress from 20 years ago would be a better experience.

We definitely need more people installing it and putting out info on what what works and how to do things since so much of it left to draconion things like postgres docs and nginx docs - which are not great either.

I think I have a new one setup and running, but the complexities of nginx and a separate domain for the element web has put me off another week at least (and being asking to switch support chat rooms since it's now not a synapse issue it's something else)

I will say it's pretty great when it's running (for a long while, pruning and vacuuming and a spinning / non-ssd drive have led to my previous install being canned)
Demand for AI chips is predicated on those chips producing value for their customers. But are there any AI products that are generating significant revenue yet? If those fail to materialize there will be a gigantic crash.
The latest demos (eg Unitree) have convinced me that it won't take 10 years for useful humanoid robots to start appearing. AGI is the wrong target. If I have to do the dishes a hundred times to generate training data in order to teach the robot to do my dishes for me, that's still better than me doing the dishes for the rest of my life.
> Apple's all products can easily be replaced.

Interesting. I perceive it exactly the opposite way. Apple products are hard to replace due to ecosystem advantage while everybody (Apple included!) is already working on building hardware to avoid using Nvidia's H100s.
Yes, and a case with a lot of similarity too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Alternatives like implantable contact lenses? I hesitated because something with cataracts and them needing replacement every ten years.

My eyes are -10.5 each and my biggest risk is retinal detachment.
> "The Kosher population represents less than three tenth of a percent of the residents of the United States. Yet, it appears that almost all drinks are Kosher."

This implies that some sort of considered effort has been made to produce these drinks as kosher. This is just paying some money to get the private certification and the license to put it on the can. In the context of a drink, the drink ingredients is almost certainly already kosher, so the certification is just saying: "there was no cross-contamination in the making of this product". Which isn't a special consideration made for kosherness.

If I told you that you could increase your TAM by a million people, and open new wholesale marketing opportunities for a onetime payment of ~$1000, you take the deal.
less then quarter mill after taxes.
> This is a problem of underutilisation in my view. Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

Not in London - according to a pressure group saying there are too many houses used as non-primary-residence [0] - they claim just 1 in 45 houses are either airbnb, second homes, or empty, and half of those are second homes (i.e. someone with a small flat in the city and their main house in the country)

On top of that you have the hidden demand. A typical 3 bed house will house 4 or 5 30yo adults in a HMO because there simply isn't enough housing.

Lower rates means House prices are higher sure, but that's because the monthly cost will always rise to meet what's affordable. If supply outweighed demand then prices would fall.

[0] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6553693f7d629a133b6a4...
Local private generation of pornography could be a huge driver, doubly so with VR headsets.

There's also nothing stopping them from bringing some consumer software to the market.
So sad to hear about this. I remember his holiday help posts, they were very inspiring. A loss for the community, both here and at large.
Does this affect us if we chat through a non-EU country via VPN? And through a combo of non-EU VPN and non-EU chat service?
I thought such contracts doesn't hold in court, you are allowed to implement interfaces for interoperability right?
Assuming he was a senior SWE, he would have made around $400k / yr staying at Google.

I suppose if he can parlay this outcome into an L7 role at Google, E.G, then in another 6 years he would break even (compared to staying at L5)
Definitely a case where Ignorance is Bliss.
When 40% of NVDAs revenue comes from 4 large customers who already develop their own silicon, that's the risk. People will be watching Meta's and MS's capex, and if it's at all adjusted down, that's a bad sign for NVDA. If the CEO or CFO were to mention they were able to adjust their GPU mix to more of their in-house version, NVDAs growth rates and multiple will come under question.

Apple is much harder to displace.
It couldn't possibly be because it's an American site writing for an American audience, so a network targeting Americans is more newsworthy (to them) than a network targeting Israelis, right?
No. Contrary to layperson belief, there is little new in deepfakes. People have been faking the image of celebs for many years decades (SNL) and faking their personality even further (Hustler v Falwell, Lohan v GTA). The porn industry has an entire genre dedicated to parodies of famous people and famous situations. And there are the professional celeb lookalikes. Every historical film involves someone trying to mimic a real person. Imagine if Winston Churchill's estate started going after every actor who has ever used "his" accent without permission. All of those are situations where the mimicry was done blatantly and openly. This is a case where the mimicry is contested at best. The only hope would be to somehow prove literal copying, her voice fed into that software.

And pity every other upcoming actor who looks/sounds vaguely similar to an existing famous person. Shall they be gagged, the very sound of their voice owned by someone else?
Cool, good to know. Seems like the discussion forums have several requests for preventing the kid from exiting the school mode, or only allowing exit in order to send a message or call an approved contact. I'll be interested to see how the different school modes evolve. It sounds like some schools don't allow watches where the kid can exit school mode except to make an emergency call, which makes sense. I wouldn't want to be a teacher trying to catch kids slipping in and out of school mode!
(Article 50 is the the mechanism for a member state to leave the EU, as in what the UK invoked)
As long as CEOs will try to convince the public/investors probabilistic word generators are a type of intelligence, the need for the biggest and strongest GPUs will continue to show how much closer you are to AGI

If they ever give up that lie, we could see a contraction
We'll come together on Dec 1st to keep it going. See y'all then.
At its peek price it was worth more than the whole us auto industry while making a touch under 500k cars and the dashes were falling off compared to the 6.5 million in ford, GM, dodge, us Toyota . . .

Made no sense.

And, as they've shown. Making a car is easy, manufacturing a car at scale is hard and their competition knows how to do the hard part. And, at this point, US auto makers have shown they can build electric cars so Tesla is still over valued.
XMPP seems better since usage of GPG based encryption is "standard".
I share these experiences.
> But the current LLMs don't have any requirement to be attached to physical sensors, so they can't be sentient by that definition alone.

Ultimately, the text reaching an LLM (be it by training or by prompting) is from the real world.

Even without that… dreams may be missing important things, but still have something experimental to them. Not sure if I would want to call it a "sentient" experience due to linguistic ambiguity, but I would call it one of qualia, which is the thing the article is writing about.
Django Enhancement Proposal 14: Background Workers
Yeah, Tesla is long overdue a massive crash.
I think there are some like https://github.com/growerp/growerp and I saw one on Vaadin and some others.

But yeah it is what most ERP tends to look like and then people make snazzy pages for specific sub flows for specific groups of users.
Perhaps, I've just never seen Ghidra used like this. For me, the clever part was putting together that the password generator method used time. Then putting together a wrapper app to batch produce passwords from the timeframe the client would have generated the passwords.
What does it have to do with the people of Ottawa? Since when do residents get to decide on the rights of the others? Was it because they were federal employees for the most part? I'm glad you think that protests need to be shut down when they bother people. You sound exactly like a daily wire talking point from 2020 lol
> ServerCo would email me a list of detailed questions about TinyPilot’s finances and risks, I’d answer in a day or two, and then there’d be weeks of silence. Finally, they’d respond with a new round of questions, and we’d start the cycle again.

Wow, I've done technical due diligence for a number of large acquisitions in the past few years (quite a few big enough that most people on HN would have heard of them) and the usual timescales are in the order of a couple of weeks and involve constant and in some cases daily question rounds.

Taking what sounds like months and months of time to handle the process sounds super laid back. Certainly seems far more stressful than anything I've ever seen.
I will assume that imitating Reagan to sell X products (that are not insulting the to the memory of Reagan) would be "ok". But Reagan is dead, and I don't feel that using a voice similar to his (or Clinton's who's still alive) removes bread from their table.

If everyone deliberately starts using a voice 'like' Johansson's, or the image 'like' Johansson's, that would steal the bread from her table.

I don't know if there are laws/cases covering 'lookalikes' but it's kinda like that.
It's been open for 6 days. It's a bummer that movies need to make all their money right away.

Same with Fall Guy. Everyone I've talked to who saw it loved it. My wife and I have wanted to see it since it opened, but life is busy and this week is our first opportunity to do so. We're going tomorrow, which is the last day before it gets pulled from theaters.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40487844
Have you tried cobalt salts? I hear it's less likely to cause algal blooms in local rivers, but more likely to sterilize them for a hundred years.
I don't think of the recent Dune as a retread, I think of it as switching to rubber based tires instead of wagon wheels and putting an internal combustion engine inside instead of horses up front
One consequence of BASIC being my first pl is the D programming language has great string handling, as opposed to C string handling which is an endless fountain of bugs.

(When I review C code, the first thing I look at is the string handling code, because there's always a bug in it.)
Even if current AI progress caps out at GPT-4 level capability, we are only scratching the surface of how much application integration there is going to be. Until AMD or someone catches up, inference could easily 10x demand from where it probably currently is.
Can anyone speculate on why this post was flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40509030
Memory managed languages won’t do long term garbage collection till memory is nearly full.

I suspect they just need to pass in -xmx options to the jvm to avoid this.
I’ll give it 18 months. Maybe 12.
Just like everyone was waiting for TVs to get 3D compatibility and their phones to get 5G — or so we were told.
It’s not. Google uses a content warehouse database internally that holds all stored web page content, and to access this vast database, they have an API. The code discovered here is a generated SDK for Elixir for this content warehouse API.

Apparently, Google had a now deprecated product (who would have guessed that? Consider me shocked!) that provided customers with a trimmed-down version of this database for their own purposes, but mistakenly published the internal SDK code instead of that intended for Google Cloud customers to GitHub.

So while this doesn’t directly show the search index source code, it describes the data schema of the index in great detail, so there are at least some interesting educated guesses on the workings of the actual index to draw from it.
Yeah. Rode the hype. Made a killing. Fucking off now and finding the next bubble…

Existential risks such as hyped gains and regulation are starting to take a foothold.
EU: In the name of the EU government, you are all under arrest.

Democracy: It's treason, then.
It is kind of interesting to see that even with this crazy run up in price over the past week, the PE ratio is around ~65 (for comparison Apple's PE is at ~30 and AMD is ~240). Considering the "expected growth" in AI the PE ratio doesn't seem too bad. Of course, PE ratio is just one parameter and doesn't necessarily describe the whole picture.

I also wonder whether the announced stock split is contributing to the short-term price increase (since people will expect more money to flow in once the stock is a more "accessible" ~$100).
Energy is cheapest during the day because solar is producing. In my country what happened is that hidro now works as a "battery": it's not used while the sun shines compared to what happened ten years ago, and it enters the grid inbthe afternoon. Despite not being connected like reversible dams, it allows the regular dams to save water and work paired.
Is literal copying a necessary element for a right of publicity claim? I don't think so, but I don't litigate them. I would think that OpenAI's conduct in referencing ScarJo and her body of work in relation to the voice would allow for a reasonable inference that they intended the public to believe it was ScarJo's voice, and not that of a similarly sounding voice actor?

from the article:
"It doesn’t matter whether a person’s actual voice is used in an imitation or not, Rothman says, only whether that audio confuses listeners"

Do you have non-layman knowledge about these kinds of claims?
VPN won't save you this is CSS(client side scanning), the scan happens before the encryption of the message/image/video before being sent to the servers.
The "games" appear to be gamified exercise apps.
You're right. The paragraph in the act (105) isn't very well written.
You could interpret it as "opt-in required" until you read the referred document or the last sentence.
The article mentions that Meta also shut down Iranian bots.
Probably. Except we have no money to pay for it.
When you buy car insurance, you're insuring the car for its market value, not for its sentimental value to you personally.
> due to back-room collusion between the federal government and automotive manufacturers over fleet average MPG ratings. It's out of control and has moved into the realm of corruption.

I really don't know how you're linking MPG ratings and maintenance costs as some sort of collision. Maintenance costs certainly seem like they're increasing but I attribute that to cars turning into fickle computers that happen to have wheels and require specialized knowledge to diagnose. I do routine maintenance on my car but am terrified of doing anything that touches the 480V system.
Ah, thank you. I haven’t seen that film in a couple decades now.
It's a bit of a stretch to suggest both sides are "socialist" bastards, isn't it?
In the US there is the affordable care act from ~2013, where anyone can purchase insurance from a pooled market subsidized by the government up to a certain income (50k I think). But that is also impacted by the state you live in, as the states negotiate the contracts paid by federal dollars (I know it's effed up). So the ACA is cheaper on the west coast than it is in Alabama. Today, a "gold" policy for a single man in his 40's is about $900/month through the ACA. The cheaper "emergency" plans (aka "trash" plans) appended by Trump are still a few hundred dollars, but cover almost nothing.

I now pay $120 for me and my wife for a plan that is better than the $1000 plan through the ACA in Oregon because I'm no longer self employed.

That's almost a 10x difference.

After working for myself for 12 years, hustling consulting and contracting gigs, I'm way happier working for a company that pays well, has great benefits, and I always know I have a paycheck coming.
If it gives you some confidence, wazero (the Go Wasm runtime) is used by the Go team (in CI) to test their own Go-to-Wasm compiler.

So if they break wazero, they'll know pretty soon from failing tests of their own Wasm/WASI toolchain.

https://go.dev/blog/wasi

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.22.3/misc/wasm/go_wasi...

As for sandboxing, wazero tends to take sandboxing rather more seriously than other similar runtimes.

Memory sandboxing is implemented through explicit bounds checks (rather than memory mapping and guard pages), which allows denser deployments and requires less runtime support.

And, by default, the WASI implementation doesn't expose any capabilities (not even access to the system clock). You can also interject any relevant WASI host calls, and do your own filtering.

And if the compiler is not your cup of tea, you can also use the (much slower) interpreter.
Why would you lie about this? It's literally not true. And no a quote from a random protestor doesn't make it more true. Again, this is basically Ben Shapiro style tactics where you can quote a single random person in a protest to call for violence and repression against an entire group. Super convenient when used against the other side but it doesn't make it less blatantly dishonest. Do you also advocate for full emergency act types of repression in may 1st anti capitalist protests? They explicitly call for destroying the current government system (which is completely their right, imo)
>> Most people don't realize how much get eaten up in deal/closing costs.

They do if they've sold a house :)
Most people are completely unprepared for a power outage or an earthquake.

Why do you think a nuclear blast (statistically far less likely) is going to get any better attention?
Good point, for the analogy, I should have written conductor instead of orchestrator. The point remains though that the difference is in the source of synchronization.
I mean that 'almost as fast as Groq' is not a compelling strategy. If it's almost as fast, why not just go with Groq? Are they going for cheaper? Added services? I'm just wondering.
The worst part? These are the same people getting their nudes datamined by the trusted and secure hand of their benefactors: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-settled-lawsuit-womans...

Frankly I feel like we all deserve it, at this point. This shit is just what happens when nobody cares anymore.
Ask HN: Need suggestion on what to do next
Hi, this is Fred.

I have been studying to change my career from healthcare to software development for about a year and a half now. I started with CS50x and CS50w courses to learn the basics of computer science and web development, then focused on building full-stack projects. I created a portfolio featuring mainly React/Next.js/Django applications.

I started looking for entry-level positions or internships with poor results, so I then completed the CS50 AI course and made some Python projects, such as a neural model, a reinforcement learning project, and a simple AI tic-tac-toe game.

I am now unsure of which direction to take. I have good fundamentals in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node, Python, Django, TensorFlow, and knowledge of some AI algorithms. I do not have a specific field of development I want to specialize in, as I have enjoyed everything I have tried so far.

So my question is, what would be the smartest list of skills/projects to develop to land a job? What strategies can I use to stand out from the thousands of other applicants?

For reference, this is my portfolio. I am working on new projects as the old ones did not have the quality I know I can deliver: https://its-fred.vercel.app.

Looking forward to hearing from you all!