skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting video!

In the slowed version it seemed like the operations were fully sequential, I think they might be able to achieve a shorter time by overlapping some operations and potentially with edge-cutting too

In the slow-montion footage of the shared faster Mitsubishi robot you can see it's doing some operations in parallel (but not edge-cutting)
A lot of this is due to the failure of people's privacy instincts. People do have a strong instinctive desire for privacy, but only against other identifiable people. When private data are revealed to people they know or can be connected to their home address, then they are very upset. But they don't react when 'faceless' organizations collect their data, and use it in ways that are opaque, even when this is strongly to their disadvantage (such as HR departments sharing salary data).

Anti-privacy interests are completely aware of this and avoid triggering the viceral response. For example, the spy agencies always give the example of "no-one is listening to your calls" as if the risk of surveillance was the guys transcribing from reel-to-reel tape recordings, not the dossier available to the powerful on each citizen. But the guy listening to our words on the tape is the one we have a viceral response to. Similarly facebook advertising terms (and presumably that of other companies) are careful to ban advertisers from showing the targetting and giving the impression that there is a person at the other end who knows all about you.

I think the upshot of this is that we need to personalise it for the wider public, not just talk about abstracts like privacy. Bring out the fact that your next employer has that data when negotiating your salary. That companies spend thousands of hours figuring out how to manipulate you based on your data. That at the press of a button, the security services could assemble a dossier on you, and make it available to anyone powerful that you have annoyed.
Some talk of OpenCL vs. Cuda in this thread, but I'm wondering what, if anything, does SYCL have to offer in this area? Do Nvidia GPUs support SYCL?
Who has this sort of patience‽ I want to know and/or speculate now!

;)
As long as it is possible to make insane profits from weapons manufacturing, we will have war. These wars are a major profit margin for someone. Our political systems need to evolve to prevent this profiteering.

Alas, the misanthropes will always find a reason to weaponize technology. So, we have to keep making new technology which makes weapons obsolete. Hopefully, among the HN crowd, there are a majority of us working on this effort, and the minority making weapons and insane profits from their sale, dwindle in size.
'We' didn't accept it. The internet expanded and the mass media conversation moved on to the next shiny thing. The majority of geeks have vehemently opposed mass surveillance every time it's been revealed (Snowdon, Assange). The majority of normies are completely unaware of the extent to which companies like Palantir and Clearview AI sell their most personal information to 'law enforcement', and Microsoft, Google and Facebook own and manipulate their information to fuel advertising.
This person Lesné shouldn’t have a job at a university after this. In fact, I strongly believe this person should be behind bars for having swindled the government and tax payers out of many millions of dollars in wasted grant money. The incentives for perpetuating this kind of fraudulent research have to be utterly devastating to those who do it to even hope for a deterrence against future malfeasance.
Maybe the fact that being critical of mass immigration and its consequences would've labeled you as an extremist in the past decade?
You can fool the system by heating one of your hands under your arm and then cycling between both sets of fingers at random. The different initial temperature condition will break the assumption that each button press started with the same heat flux.
I don't really understand this argument. There are tons of alternatives. If I want to build and design a product a certain way, and you don't like it, simply don't buy it? This is a genuine question because I realize I am probably in the minority on HN, so please don't downvote just because of that.

I just think that regulations in general should be applied only when necessary, and then be applied with great force.

The user experience for game consoles largely falls back on the manufacturer. If Xbox had loads of unvetted buggy games and malware swimming in the ecosystem, people might be less inclined to buy an Xbox. So Microsoft sets about establishing some control over the ecosystem. Apple's App Store was really the first time that your average Joe could download an application from the internet and not have to worry about viruses. It was a big deal that added a lot of value to the user experience.
Bourne has not been bobbled, but is merely Bourne-again, according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum_bibliography

In The Karenin Stratification Jason Bourne must cope with an occult enemy (but instead of Fhtagn! they say Myob! and F'iw!) whose vessels silently drift on cross-flowing benthic rip currents to arrive at and depart the ancient hydrothermal ancap settlement of R'lyeh without detection by the maritime patrol aircraft of more traditional jurisdictions.
> Nowadays OpenCL is dead for some reason...

Where does SYCL fit into this picture, is it a viable replacement for cross-platform GPU access?
Writing and porting kernels between different GPU paradigms is relatively trivial, that's not the issue (although I find the code much clunkier in everything other than CUDA). The problem is that the compiler toolchains and GPU accelerated libraries for FFT, BLAS, DNN, etc. which come bundled with CUDA are pretty terrible or non-existent for everything else, and the competitors are so far away from having a good answer to this. Intel have perhaps come closest with OneAPI but that can't target anything other than NVidia cards anyway, so it's a moot point.
No law can ever be written to capture every possible application of the underlying spirit. Thus your ability to escape the spirit is directly correlated with how many lawyers you can hire to find loopholes in the text (or just flat out lie).

It’s also important to remember that societies naturally undergo shifts over time. It’s impossible to continuously update a codified set of laws when the underlying moirés of the time have shifted; you’ll just be constantly arguing over the updates to add. Any law written perfectly today becomes imperfect simply through the passage of time. That’s why the Bible and any prescriptive religious text feels so outdated on many recommendations - it’s a snapshot in time of the values of a culture but those values change. There was even a fantastic sci-fi short story on this exact point of cultural shift [1] that’s worth a read.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I'd see something wrong if you bought up all the food in the supermarket and then let it rot in your backyard.
If the 80yo people are living in the house, then it isn't vacant.
It may be a war crime, at least if who does it doesn’t belong to a narrow set of countries.
Seems reasonable to try to fit a line such that the sum of distances (or square distances) between the cathedrals and the line is minimal. Doesn't have to be a straight line.
> I also see how RealPage likely got caught up and thought this was business insights they were selling as a data aggregator

Almost everyone I've met who has ended up in trouble with the law in business got where they are by this exact pattern. When they get caught, it's usually just naked, obvious crime. I've seen:

* Trading fake invoices between subsidiaries to increase top-line revenue leading to fraud charges.

* Fake billing between companies to paper over private use of a business jet.

* Medical billing software where diagnostic codes were optimized by matching the procedure to the highest paying service scenario. i.e. making applying a bandage be a emergency surgery bandage application which would be billed at 9x the price of a normal office visit.

* Lots of startups that started with a forward looking "were' going to build invention x" only to discover two years in that invention x is not possible. Instead of pivoting, the founders double down on invention x to raise more money with a "we're close" or "we are commercializing as we speak" pitch.

* Taking loans against customer owned securities. Behold infinite non-diluting cash, and infinite jail time when caught.

In every case, the pattern was completely ok from the founder's point of view, but when you look at the practice in total it was pretty easy to see crime.
> The thing with monopoly laws is it doesn’t matter how you got into pole position. The point is that you’re illegally utilizing tangential benefits of the pole position to maintain that position as well as enter new markets.

The following is for US law.

Your first sentence is not really needed because US monopoly law really doesn't care if you are actually in pole position. It's more about monopolization than it is about monopoly.

To a first approximation think of it as being about fair competition. You could have a complete 100% monopoly in some particular market but if you got that monopoly by simply outcompeting everyone else by making a better product and you were not trying to use that to expand into other markets by doing things like tying you would probably not have an antitrust problem.
What do you think about SYCL as a viable cross-platform GPU API?
In countries with high inflation purchasing real-estate and keeping it vacant is an inflation hedge. Plus, you also benefit from low interest rates and get free money if your government allows it.

I live in Turkey. We had 80% p.a. inflation, where the government decided to lower the interest rates even further. Our president said Interest rates are the cause of inflation and if we lowered interest rates inflation would go down. State banks gave out house loans with 12% p.a. interest where the inflation rate was above 80% p.a.

A lot of Turkish people got their free money from the bank and invested in real estate. In Turkey, everyone evades tax and property taxes are not really collected. This in turn fueled inflation even more, sky-rocketed inequality and caused the worst housing crisis.

That is why I am convinced that property taxes are a must.
Cathedrals are the highest tier of vanity projects of one of the most powerful institutions in written history. It's little surprise that the makers knew the top three most import factors for real estate value: location, location, location.

Are they pointing to anything though?
I regret to inform you that war can happen regardless of the profit motive.
Came to say this too... I was really pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get a full dev & build & test environment set up with Visual Studio Code, and how well their little WCH-LinkE debugger works (both SWD and UART in one, Segger could learn from that...).
Now I'm experimenting with their BLE variant, which is a lot more complex, but still simpler than what I'm used to.
Having said that, it's easy not to care - until something significant happens to you or your family...

How many clients has my team helped when it was just too late? Many if not most.

One fundamental flaw humans have is not to care until it's too late.

Why should I care about my gutters? Until the day the basement is filled with water because of these "ridiculous" gutters...
It would be better if one could vote for the first and the second stage separately. I believe that the booster has a good chance for a soft splashdown, while the Starship itself will probably explode on reentry.
See, the 'true communism' is a democracy. Certainly if you go back to read Marx' book you'll find that's what he was going for.

There's an interesting conversation here -- the governance of the countries where it was tried didn't change very much; new tsar, same as the old tsar -- but my main takeaway was that while you might be able to change the economic system, changing the governance requires deeper changes to the underlying culture, which is usually infeasible.

Scandinavia, especially Norway, are IMO closer to marxist communism than the USSR ever was; last I checked around 40% of the economy is state-run. It seems to work pretty well, and it's democratic. But it's been democratic in one form or another for the last twelve hundred years. Even when it was ruled by Denmark or Sweden, there was local democracy. I suspect it would still be democratic even if it were explicitly communist.

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And so we come back to Agile, which I think is similar: You get the qualities that are already inherent in the team, implementing something like Agile doesn't make a huge difference one way or the other. Except if you're heavy-handed about it, in which case you can absolutely destroy what's already there.
Is " git clone https://github.com/basecamp/omakub.git ~/.local/share/omakub && source ~/.local/share/omakub/install.sh " any better for you?
Is it possible to connect to TCP port 0?
It's far more likely that Musk was misled, not that he lied.

My zero-evidence guess is that the Cybertruck team predicted the outcome in simulation, hyped everyone up about this as a visual demonstration, then spent tens of millions of dollars replicating the outcome in the real world, buying two Porsche 911s, renting a film crew etc. Except they couldn't replicate it in the real world. So instead of admitting the wasted money/time, they covered their asses and misled their boss.
It’s striking how absent the old guard is from all this. IBM dell oracle etc.

Looks like big cloud and small players move and upper middle didn’t
That is the very problem we are facing in Turkey :). The municipality determines the value of housing in a neighborhood each year. That is taken as a basis for property taxes and transaction taxes. The municipality assessed value is somewhere near 1/20th of the value of an average flat. So, almost no tax gets collected :(.
I still can't draw a circle in gimp :(
Pick the ones that give a delivery deadline (5/7 days). No problems at all (at least from UK), always arrives ahead of schedule.
Imagine being proud of the use of the national shame that is FISA Section 702.

The rot runs deep.
Another atrocity. This needs to end. Roughly 40,000 casualties since the start, including 100 journalists.
Why does it keep exploding? Don't they already have the knowledge and tech to achieve this?
You do not have to care if it is occupied. Tax the property tax. If the owner does not rent out the property, they'll pay out of pocket.
Not sure about beneficial as such… more like, a low level of fraud/theft/crime might cost less than the fraud/theft/crime-prevention measures, and therefore be rational to tolerate.
Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC
What are your goals? Are you interested in emulation (i.e. running a VM that uses another architecture than your physical computer) or in virtualization? (i.e. running a VM that uses the same architecture)
This is very interesting. To build LLM chat-oriented WebApps in python, these days I use Chainlit[1], which I find is much better than Streamlit for this. I've integrated Chainlit into the Langroid[2] Multi-Agent LLM framework via a callback injection class[3], i.e. hooks to display responses by various entities. Example demos are here[4].

One of the key requirements in a multi-agent chat app is to be able to display steps of sub-tasks nested under parent tasks (to any level of nesting), with the option to fold/collapse sub-steps to only view the parent steps. I was able to get this to work with chainlit, though it was not easy, since their sub-step rendering mental model seemed more aligned to a certain other LLM framework with a partial name overlap with theirs.

That said, I am very curious if Mesop could be a viable alternative, for this type of nested chat implementation, especially if the overall layout can be much more flexible (which it seems like), and more production-ready.

[1] Chainlit https://github.com/Chainlit/chainlit

[2] Langroid: https://github.com/langroid/langroid

[3] Langroid ChainlitAgentCallback class: https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/agen...

[4] Langroid chainlit demos https://github.com/langroid/langroid/tree/main/examples/chai...
It's a reflection on the state of the field, I think, that there is such a volume of lesser known good work hiding among an even larger volume of noise and fluff that neither the authors nor the reviewers caught such an oversight. (And reviewers are usually pretty aggressive about suggesting related work.)
I mean it's better then "Ask HN: how to grind leetcode to get a FAANG job with TC over $400k, I want a million in the bank by age 25 latest?".
I'd say the bigger question is whether or not the projection used at the time of design was one that would show the straight line. The Mercator projection was first invented in 1569 [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
Millions of American families are directly employed by the defense industry. Many millions more have their retirement/pension funds locked up in the equity, banking on future performance of the industry. Even if they weren't destroyed by lobbyists, politicians wouldn't be able to unravel the complex without facing push-back from ordinary citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit
There are ways around this. For example set a property tax from second home on. Do not tax the primary residence. Or set income brackets. If poorer people live in their own homes they don't pay property tax.
I ran some travel photos through this and it looks great. Good work!
You shouldn’t be and Microsoft deserves this kind of behavior.

This falls well into the category of a feature that nobody asked for and which shouldn’t exist. Microsoft will make this opt out (if we’re lucky enough) and if even then it will be difficult and hidden to do so, so they’ll trap all the normal users and harvest insane amounts of data.

I have no problems shooting first when the receiving end is Microsoft, because it’s pretty much always deserved.
> When you want to make a programming language work in ways it just isn't designed for, you end up making a lot of smelly code.

That depends on the language. If your language is flexible/multi-paradigmatic, it was designed for you to make it work in all sorts of ways, so there is at least a potential of the code not eing smelly.

> Rust is designed by C++ programmers to service their needs

Rust was originally written in OCaml for someone who wanted to work on a browser engine. So, I'm not quite sure about your characterization. Remember also that different (C++) programmers have vastly different needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
> Certainly 7 cathedrals are too many to be a coincidence

With the number of cathedrals in Europe I don't really think this is supported.
Thank you. These times labeled with the timezone name only are very inconvenient
the US is not remotely a 'golden boy of good'

Ah, but it is in the context I stated.

Quote:

Not to mention, if you compare the US, its citizen's intentions, and its government's intentions, and yes the DnD's intentions to all but a tiny handful of countries, the US is a golden boy of good.

Note the conditionals. "intentions" and "compared to all but a tiny handful of countries".

Also note the context where I was careful to say "Compare today's US".

In these contexts, the history of the US is meaningless, and only today counts. And I was referencing "colonial powers", which are historical, to us actions today.

I know all the US has done. I also know all the British Empire did. I also know how Russia, China, Iran, and various tiny dictatorships around the world act.

Yes, the US is very much a "golden boy of good" in reference to, and comparison to these things.

Anything and anyone can be made a monster taken out of context.
Honestly, upon reading these two fragments:

This incongruity gives rise to the perennial question: Are humans naturally good or evil?

In the introduction of the book, Wrangham provides his answer: both.

and

Ever since the Enlightenment, as religion gradually fell by the wayside, people have been trying to ground their moral compasses in another prestigious entity—science. Sadly, this hasn’t really worked.

I immediately loose some respect for the author. Just assuming there is an objective definition of good and evil is so... religious? It's all about context, assumptions, models held in minds, zeitgeist, etc. I find Rutger Bregman (Humankind) much more enlightened on this issue.

Imho grounding our moral compasses in science is working, as Rutger Bregman indicates.

Richard Wrangham seems to think there is a one dimensional scale of evil -> good, Nazis -> 'People helping Jews hide from Nazis'. If only it were that simple, if only it were impossible to split twins and have one end up a Nazi and one helping Jews. If only the good and evil never changed over time.
> I bet you'd see something wrong if I went into your wallet and took some cash, after all you're not using it right now

This happens all the time, it's called taxes
We have the same law in France. They even tried to tax refurbished phones and computers (which were already taxed) but someone told them to fuck off on that kind of item.
The TCB has not been modified - that's the point of that attack. Its just physically elsewhere. A high 24 dBi high gain antennae to close that gap costs 70 EUR and you would attest the device in the attackers hands, not the one in front of you.
Federal Judge Uses ChatGPT to Make His Decision
Google Timeline Continuity Plan – Dawarich
People won't beat robots at solving Rubik's cubes, but it doesn't make it a dead end. The idea is for humans to solve cubes with the constraints of the human body and mind. Optimizing movement for human hands, finding the most efficient algorithm considering the limited processing power of the human brain, etc... these are open questions and we didn't reach the limits.

Kind of like chess. Humans have no chance against computers. But it doesn't mean people stopped playing chess, quite the opposite actually, and computers are put to good use for training and analysis and human chess is improving probably like never before.

You can call human cubing and chess an "art" if you will, the way you spin the cube and move the chess pieces have some "soul". From a purely utilitarian perspective, both traditional arts and activities like solving cubes are useless, so they are also similar in that regard.
Hi All,

I was dismayed to learn yesterday that Google is killing Timeline access on web. This was one of my favourite features and I had also used my timeline history for practical purposes.

Coincidentally, I recently saw Dawarich, which is an alternative that lets you seed the data with Google Takeout and then collect data on an ongoing basis with an app on your phone.

I haven't tried it myself, but thought I'd post it here for others who may be interested.
> Aristotle calculated the size reasonably well

Eratosthenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Eratos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_Ea...
That's not what is meant by "crystal radio".