skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought he said interesting things

But with time, I also realized he is a linguist, not an historian or political scientist.

He is controversial.
" Now let's make our anecdotes fight to the death. " Sure. Why do you, dear American, generalise across all Western nations in critic? Can you explain this very particular American trait?
You may be able to make a case that Apple's model has less parameters or performs worse than other models on standardized tests.

Thats far from being "inferior" when you are talking about tuning for specific tasks, let alone when taking into account real-world constraints - like running as a local always-running task on resource-constrained mobile devices.

Running third party models means requiring them to accomplish the same tasks. Since the adapters are LORA-based, they are not adaptable to a different base model. This pushes a lot of specialized requirements onto someone hoping to replace the on-device portion.

This is different from say externally hosted models such as their announced ChatGPT integration. They announced an intention to integrate with other providers, but it is not clear yet how that is intended to work (none of this stuff is released yet even in alpha form).
Really, is this what's getting praised? I mean specifically the first point: the whole "just paste the url into the DB" - thing, + inferring the column names. That looks like the laziest and shakiest basis, and if I ever saw that in production i d be both stunned and scared
Why link to the old, unmaintained version if the https://github.com/LispCookbook/cl-cookbook fork is actively updated?
> Specifying what a function returns in Gleam is optional; due to type inference, Gleam will understand it anyway.

Oh yuck, I don't like that.

Function signatures are for HUMANS to read. Sure, the compiler can reach into a function implementation to glean what it returns, but that's no reason to force a human reader waste time on it as well.

"I'll accept this and this from you and then return that kind of thing to you."

vs

"I'll accept this and this from you and then return something to you that your supervisor will tell you if you're using correctly or not - or you could watch me as I work to see what it is I've made for you."
AI trained on photos from kids' entire childhood without their consent
Same.

When I was young I emailed him with a question something like "I am too young to have witnessed the events of the Vietnam War, can you please recommend me some reading material or push me in the right direction?"

That question turned into 5 or 6 (long) emails back and fourth that i'll always cherish that delved into his unique perspective on what the war was like as a protestor from the West, which papers got released that actually had some truth in them, among a lot of other valuable insights into the time period I had no access to myself.

At the end of our conversation he advocated finding a group that needs volunteers and effort. He didn't care what group that might be, he only cared that individual political concern of individuals be empowered by the necessary groups and collective effort.

I think that kind unequivocal support of 'being political' is something that is truly special.

I hope the best for him -- I view him as one of the only 'truly accessible' academics in this world; just as happy to slowly and carefully explain his thoughts to 'the rabble' as he would be while explaining the same thoughts to high academia and the press.

A great man.
I did too, but have allergies.

Maybe single data points aren't useful for the discussion.
How does it work with single page apps? If the data is loaded from the server, does it save the page contents as full, or just the source of the page?
Is this just a standalone app for the existing password manager in settings, or is there more to it?
NPC is the more appropriate term to insult people with. The NPCs are misprogrammed if they're using bot like that.
> Solar is cheap. We are looking at an age of energy abundance.

(*) for less than half a day, in areas that are sunny, "close" to the tropics.

And arguably this is fine for the majority of the Earth's population because they do indeed live close to the tropics with 12 hrs of sunshine.

On the other hand, the bulk of the first world economies that require vast amounts of energy are pretty far north where it's rainy, cloudy, and daylight can be as little as a couple of hours in the winter.
I don't know if it was involved here, but "spectrum monitoring" (that's the keyword for more information about equipment you can get and who the expected customers are) is definitely a thing that is done in many places, and not only by the military, but also by police and regulators. It's not clear where the mast was installed (the CoL police aren't specifically limited to that very small area and one arrest was South London and one was Manchester) but if it was in central London, as a glaring terrorist target with an airport (London City) and heliport, I'd be very, very surprised if there's nothing watching the spectrum. Whether the operators of the spendy gear would share the information up for such "petty" crime, I don't know.

And there's always the Ham community who really, really hate spectrum abusers.
MaPO: A reference-free alignment technique for diffusion models
A novel and memory-friendly preference alignment method for diffusion models that does not depend on any reference model.
Wow! This is incredibly exciting.

Apple's Private Cloud Compute seems to be conceptually equivalent with System Transparency - an open-source software project my colleagues and I started six years ago.

I'm very much looking forward to more technical details. Should anyone at Apple see this, please feel free to reach out to me at stromberg@mullvad.net. I'd be more than happy to discuss our design, your design, and/or give you feedback.

Relevant links:

- https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future

- http://system-transparency.org (somewhat outdated)

- http://sigsum.org
Still no manufacturer compares to the quality of apple screens and resolution …
Of course you do, Apple's selling mobile SOC's not high end cards. That doesn't mean they're incapable of making them for the right application. You don't seriously think the server farms running on M4 Pro Max chips do you...
Taiwan's energy crunch could 'throw a wrench' into global semiconductor industry
Show HN: Create HTML/Zip/PNG Polyglot Files in JavaScript
Impressive not technically because nothing here is new but because it's the first real implementation for the average end consumers of "ai". You have semantic indexing which allows series to basically retrieve context for any query. You have image gen which gives you emojigen or messaging using genAI images. TextGen within emails. UX is world class as usual.

However, The GPT integration feels forced and even dare I say unnecessary. My guess is that they really are interested in the 4o voice model, and they're expecting openAI to remain the front runner in the ai race.
The classic JetBrains IDE look and feel is now a plugin
I'm fairly sure in the UK it's illegal, tho I don't know for certain. But even if not, you could be arrested for conspiracy to commit fraud (or similar).
That's not true - it is indeed illegal to listen in to radio transmissions which are not intended for you. Doing so is a criminal offence punishable by an unlimited summary fine (the precise amount is determined based on the offender's personal income and other circumstances).

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/48
Doesn’t gleam come with a linter? If so, it’s likely that that can be enforced.
I'm always suspicious of low crime rates - often it means people don't bother reporting crimes as they know nothing will happen.

IE, if I get robbed in the City of London is it even worth calling the police?
You mean the person on the other side of the planet doesn't know about Philz Coffee down on Stevens Creek Blvd, or that there's a cool park a 2 minute walk away from Apple HQ?!

It does baffle me how California centric they are with many of their announcements, and even some features.
It dates back to 2013.

I've merely quoted what the POX-Ray site has to say about it's own capabilities and beliefs at the time of writing.
I wonder if long term people will actually care about that.

And of course I want robots to get off my lawn, but I don’t know whether younger or upcoming generations will share that sentiment.

In the past there was similar reserve about music produced with autotune, samples, not recorded in a single take, etc.
I still remember when I used to leave my 386 sx 25Mhz running all night to render very simple scenes with POV-Ray (somehow sleeping through the loud fan noise!).

And the extreme excitement the day I upgraded to a 486 dx 33/66 Mhz which, thanks to the math co-processor, rendered those same scenes in (10s of) minutes instead!!
This is the tech version of Stockholm syndrome folks, for those of you unaware
Three weeks ago, I embarked on an exciting journey, launching my new SaaS, Dymolab.com, on Product Hunt. Eager to showcase my creation, I meticulously crafted the post, filled in all the details, created stunning screenshots, and scheduled the launch for June 5th.

My optimism soared. My previous SaaS launch on Product Hunt had snagged 5th place without any marketing or audience. Surely, I thought, lightning could strike twice.

Then came June 5th. As the new list of apps appeared on the homepage, I eagerly scrolled through, searching for Dymolab. It wasn’t there. I scrolled further, but still nothing. Finally, I resorted to the search function (CTRL + F). And there it was.

1 upvote.

I refreshed the page. Maybe it was a glitch. But no, it remained stubbornly at 1 upvote.

I shut the website, but the thought nagged at me all day. A few hours later, I checked again. 4 upvotes.

Oh my God, could this get any worse?

I dove into my analytics. Zero users from PH. Zero new sign-ups.

I told myself it was still early. Surely, things would pick up as the day went on.

Spoiler alert: It didn’t.

By the end of the day, Dymolab had amassed a grand total of 9 upvotes and 0 new users.

Was I ready to throw in the towel?

Absolutely not.

I’m sharing this experience as a lesson for myself and all the indie hackers out there launching on Product Hunt. Failing to reach the top 5 isn’t the end of the world.

This just means there’s room for improvement. Your product is not there yet, but it will be one day. So never give up and keep building amazing stuff.

Your day will come.
Easily export passwords, I’m not so sure. I remember trying to script this once and for each item it would prompt a password to extract the entry. Maybe the Passwords app changes this.
At this point, Meta is like a child who threw a tantrum when their parent didn't buy them chocolate, and has decided to stuff the chocolate down their pants and walk out with it anyway.
The affected brands don't care that much. The individual falling for the scam is the victim. They might get angry at the brand, but at the same time they understand that they actually got scammed by someone else.

Google etc could very easily fix this but they just don't want to, likely because the scammers are bringin in a lot of money.
Flower 1.9 (a friendly federated learning framework)
I’m sceptical, because I can’t find any examples of banks using it in production, just lots of blog posts by consultants and companies selling event sourcing solutions.

I did work somewhere that used a Kafka stack in production. It wasn’t a compelling use case and they spent almost an entire year on infra and productionizing it. It left me extremely sceptical about anything “big data streams” related :)
> integrated memory

Yes. The cost of bonding memory to their chip is mostly the same for 8G / 16G / 32G / practically any number.
I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.
I agree with everything you said. But...

Your team (and manager) sees you're working

our industry is not rational.
Yeah but Google and MS have the same problems.. What your talking about is the reality of using a computer connected to the internet since 2003.
It is a really useful feature for ad hoc examination of datasets. Not every data-analysis is going into a massive, mission critical production build chain. Quite often you just want to look at the data in a REPL and IMO that sort of usage could bear to get a little easier
for this requirement i choose to use encrypted sparse files (can be created with the disk manager app) which i store on the icloud. is only of use if you happen to have a laptop with you as mounting them is not supported in iOS
OpenRecall
Very often in Elm/Haskell would I write the code first, then let my IDE insert the type annotation. Not always perfect, but often the case.
Web wise:

C# is great, Node/TypeScript is passable, have heard good things about Go, Java is Java, Python is good for AI/data stuff, and I’ve heard good things about Kotlin. Also Flutter is an option.

There are quite a few options
My first Linux was SuSe 9.2.
I had not touched any SuSe product until I tried Tumbleweed recently and was surprised how good it actually is, easily one of the best installers if you want some flexibility but don't want to spend too much time customizing, it just did what I wanted with a few simple clicks. Plus the package manager zypper is amazingly fast!
I really appreciate seeing things that are named after the Internet as part of the exuberance of being able to do or share them on a worldwide network. Naming something after the Internet itself is probably most common in the 1990s.
I'm skeptical of the on-device AI. They crave edge compute but I'm doubtful their chips can handle a 7B param model. Maybe ironically with Microsoft's phi 3 mini 4k you can run this stuff on a cpu but today it's no where near good enough.
proactive can be: we take infinite inputs at a resolution, having eyes, ears, all sensors constantly "asking" for output
On the flipside, AI's have a super-human ability to consume knowledge that humans can't compete with.

This just seems like putting a human-constraint on AI systems so that we can still classify ourselves as special.
> How is she doing academically? I feel like that much freedom, that early, makes it easy to pick up bad habits with the “bad” kids.

For fucks sake, she's 9 years old, let a kid be a kid and not a productivity machine, she will have her whole life to worry about that later... At that age the worse that can happen academically speaking is taking a bit longer to learn how to multiply and divide numbers.

At that age is easy to pick up bad habits and also easy to let them go, OP seems to be a good enough parent to nudge their kid into better habits if they deem necessary.
> one that managed to accumulate inactive adaptations for walking and switched them on.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/fish/can-fish-...

Genes get duplicated by accident, then accumulate mutations which are usually neutral or worse. Occasionally they help you achieve something slightly more useful than before. Lobed fins that helped you heave yourself back into water when you get beached would have helped. bigger lobed fins would help you get back when stranded further up the beach, or get from pool to pool. It's unlikely that an entire set of limbs, other necessary body upgrades to support them and neural circuits would just hang around waiting for all the right mutations to collect like hole punches on a restaurant loyalty card before some critter slapped their thighs and stood up and walked. Evolution does not plan ahead.
"We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville - which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, they'd say. Now where was I... Oh yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."

- Abe Simpson
Ah, the memories. First DKB Trace, then the newly renamed POV-Ray.

Left the computer on for hours to get tiny pictures.

Adding a 387 was a huge step forward; IIRC approximately a 10x speedup.
> Most people want this because they're guided to want it. If you show people the convenience but not the risk

I think that what is convenient to you, or to fellow engineers, is not what is convenient to the mass public or non-technical people. Very simple solutions, which are often platform-specific, tend to be a lot easier in many cases -- not necessarily all cases, but when something is built-in to a device or OS, this does remove some burdens from users.
Many years ago I asked one of my role models how he had made some pre-rendered sprites for a game, and he told me it was with POV-Ray, but that he did not recommend it because it used its scripting language to define scenes, which he was concerned would be too complicated for someone who has not done 3D work before.

I have only done 3D work as a waxing and waning hobby, but then, and to this day, the POV-Ray scripting interface seems like one of the more natural ways to define a scene to me.
Debian has backports. Read the Debian docs first, then rant later.

> It should be up to the user to decide if to pin a program to an older version, not the Debian maintainers

IRL, stability matters. And no one wants to break things over a stable version.

Maybe for browsers it's OK, as you have a parallel ESR version, and for games/emulators. But for everything else it's a risk on companies.
Android is just fine. Unless you're an artist who actually wants the super fancy pen interactions and display, there's really not that much difference. You may be more used to one over the other, but I guarantee it works the other way too.
I feel like America is likely to just drop Israel as an ally. Too much liability. This might lead to Israel feeling cornered and going full nuclear. Iran also has Iron Dome data it might need to building better missiles, and we'll probably see some more bloodshed in this region later.

One of the more worrying things is that some countries are getting serious war experience. How to shoot down the new generation of missiles, planes, drones. How to mess up targeting, or new ways of targeting. There's a possibility of a breakthrough, like many in the past - Mongol hordes, WW2 Axis, Napoleon.
> Does anyone really think this is not already the case?

I don't think this is already the case, and I think the article is an example of safeguards being put into place (in this particular scenario) to prevent it.
I'm actually in the process of writing a small Bhyve CLI management tool in Python. Could hit GitHub maybe this or next week. Very minimalistic and beta-quality at best, but still.
This is just false. The main piece of evidence -- the death figures published by La Couture -- which was being widely cited, had to be retracted after Chomsky fact-checked it. The author himself said in the retraction something to the effect of "it doesn't matter what the numbers are".

As for "Gentle Land" he supports his claim that "[their] scholarship collapses under the barest scrutiny". He writes: "To cite a few cases, they state that among those evacuated from Phnom Penh, “virtually everybody saw the consequences of [summary executions] in the form of the corpses of men, women and children rapidly bloating and rotting in the hot sun,” citing, among others, J.J. Cazaux, who wrote, in fact, that “not a single corpse was seen along our evacuation route,” and that early reports of massacres proved fallacious (The Washington Post, May 9, 1975). They also cite The New York Times, May 9, 1975, where Sydney Shanberg wrote that “there have been unconfirmed reports of executions of senior military and civilian officials … But none of this will apparently bear any resemblance to the mass executions that had been predicted by Westerners,” and that “Here and there were bodies, but it was difficult to tell if they were people who had succumbed to the hardships of the march or simply civilians and soldiers killed in the last battles.” They do not mention the Swedish journalist, Olle Tolgraven, or Richard Boyle of Pacific News Service, the last newsman to leave Cambodia, who denied the existence of wholesale executions; nor do they cite the testimony of Father Jacques Engelmann, a priest with nearly two decades of experience in Cambodia, who was evacuated at the same time and reported that evacuated priests “were not witness to any cruelties” and that there were deaths, but “not thousands, as certain newspapers have written” (cited by Hildebrand and Porter)."

Elsewhere he cites official CIA figures which also did not support the claim.

But none of this was even the point of his article, he explicitly writes "We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments". The point is that the evidence is distorted to smear enemies and make ourselves look good. He writes in the penultimate paragraph:

"What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered. Evidence that focuses on the American role, like the Hildebrand and Porter volume, is ignored, not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable."

That is the simple message that Chomsky has been conveying his entire political life and, as exemplified by current events, people continue to ignore it.
> Same has been proven with Apple not allowing FBI to open an iPhone, because it'd set a precedent. Future iPhone versions were made so that it's literally impossible for even Apple to open a locked iPhone.

Right, but I have no reason to think that this isn't a marketing ploy either, just another story. There is simply no way that Apple is as big as it is, without providing whatever data the government requires. Corporations and governments are not your friend.
The post and comments come out a bit unfair if you read the answer from the music author.

The music author seems to be doing the music as part of a thesis and does not dump the generated music straight from the model. Instead it uses it for ideas and cooperation, and in the end there is post production and real work. I know people doing a similar thing to learn how to write books with AI as a productive tool.

In my opinion this is the real promise of AI: elevating the productivity and enabling more people. Like the internet has done, it will give voice and tools to many who could not, and a lot of those “voices” may seem of low quality, but alas such is the price.

As in every technological progression, paradigm changes happens. Some good some bad. Give yourself some agency and avoid the bad content and enjoy the good ones.

Also if you look at the YouTube videos there are comments of people genuinely liking it.