skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube somehow mark 240p videos in lists (recs/search)?
I mean 360p ones are passable, but I usually just close 240p ones, they are borderline unwatchable.
So it’s slow by default but if it boosts properly will it still retain the battery life improvements?
Well; that's certainly not my experience living in a Canadian city... with high housing prices and lots of immigration.

Not seeking to put you on the spot. I imagine there's a lot of variation in how people see things everywhere. But I'd certainly disagree with you. I appreciate the economic and cultural benefits of living in a growing, multicultural country. And I suspect given the number of people flocking to this city I'm not alone.
Google, Facebook already have signifiant number of "disinformation staff" from US security state. As another big tech firm that collects huge amount of info and get to decide what to present to the general public, it has be added to that list as well.
Contributing to the household income. It takes 2 incomes to live anywhere but BFE in the US.
Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company
I exercise everyday, use THC at night, and apply high concentration magnesium lotion to my forearms at night. Be careful with weed though. Deep sleep but less REM.
This is amazing.

So you could have about 9 voice streams over a 56K modem.

Incredible.

Great for stuffing audio recordings into little devices like greeting card audio players and microcontrollers.
I remember that, and also how it was called the Emotion Engine because it would allow the creation of virtual characters with real emotions, which to my 15-year-old self sounded like a big load of BS.
You're correct that it's not clickbait. This author is a known security researcher who specializes in this type of thing. It's just another type of attack that they've writing about.
> I just visited the US for a few weeks and didn't see ANY of this.

You visited for a few weeks and feel you have a good sample size of one of the largest countries in the world. I've been to Cozumel, I take it the rest of Mexico is exactly like that. Everyone in Mexico just hangs out at the beach all day every day right?

Just one example restaurant from 2014:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/chili...

> You're thinking of those shitty window units.

No, I'm definitely thinking the mini-splits. I grew up in Houston. You can't survive without air conditioning there. I've seen every kind of AC setup hundreds of times over. Mini-splits were pretty common for a DIY add to a garage or a backyard shed/studio even back then. I saw dozens of them in the 90s. I'd still take a central air system for my home.

And ooh, so fancy, an IR remote controller! So high tech. I guess I'll just throw out my thermostat that logs my environment data to my home system along with how often the unit and fan have run, its impact, outside weather data, its total energy usage, its pressure levels, and more. It'll also automatically adjust dampers to ensure proper airflow to help target whatever rooms I'm using. A basic IR remote and noisy shit tacked on the wall is way fancier.

And yeah, instead of just having ducts properly planned into the construction of my home I'll just have loads of copper pipes with highly compressed and often toxic/flammable refrigerants run to the dozen or so spaces that currently have vents. Seems so superior. Mini splits make a lot of sense when you only have a handful of spaces you're trying to cool, much less sense when it's a four bedroom two living room single family home in a place where it's 90F+ at 70% RH half the year.

> I'm talking about combo drum-style washer-dryer units with heat-pump drying: you put the clothes in, hit "start", and a few hours later your clothes are clean and dry.

Once again, I'm very aware of what you're talking about. Notice how I was suggesting two units is faster for multiple loads? Notice how an over/under is technically two units? See how I know the kind you're talking about?

> Sounds like you save up your laundry too much

Or maybe I've got a family with kids that make a lot of messes in my household.

They're not that new, they've been around for a while. Only recently popular in large full-size units. Once again, I saw them in the 00s in the US. People would often have them in a fancy big RV/camper trailer or on a yacht due to the fact you can have a single unit and still do laundry on the go. They're not new, you just hadn't seen them much before.

It turns out maybe you don't know everything and experienced it all before. Who would have thought?

> Let's see you do that in NYC.

Ah, so that's what it is. You lived in and visited NY and assumed that's life for the rest of the US? Turns out the entire US isn't just NYC, for better and worse.
> Maybe it's because money doesn't buy as much as it did 4 years ago. Since most employees have limited control over their mostly-static salaries, they've scaled down output accordingly.

Yes, and most people have longed faced that without the pay of this quote: "Don’t want 18 hr days at Goldman or 10 years of medical school, but want the pay? Come work 8 at <tech co> and make the same pay without the intern and first years hazing by an alcoholic 45 y/o MD who hates their spouse and never goes home."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673588
A lot of this seems like it's done by Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
This is an interesting point. Is it not possible to buy a SDR (software-defined radio) and broadcast 4G/5G signal on disallowed bands? Also, I remember watching a video about repairing an ancient Nintendo Entertainment System. If you remove the faraday cage (metal box) around the video out signal, it accidentally broadcasts on disallowed bands. (I don't remember all the details.)
You don't really need a person inside the LLM provider to just use the LLM tech. This is more than that.
> par_iter_mut() [1] from Rayon

I wonder have they fixed the performance? https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bto10h/update_a_scali...

> usually if you want to do that sort of thing quickly then you'd use ndarray which can use BLAS

In C++ I’d usually use Eigen, because these expression templates are saving memory allocations and bandwidth storing/reloading temporary matrices. Sometimes much faster than BLAS libraries with C API. I’m not sure Rust has an equivalent.

> indices into arrays instead, which can be folded into the addressing mode on most architectures

For some applications of graphs and trees it’s useful to have nodes polymorphic. An example is a visual tree in GUI: different nodes are instances of different classes. Array elements are of the same type.

On AMD64 that’s only true when the size of the elements being addressed is 1/2/4/8 bytes, the SIB bytes only have 2 bits for the scale. For any other use case, addressing these arrays requires to multiply (or if you’re lucky at least left shift) these integers

Even when the elements are 8 bytes so the indexing can be merged, you need to either spend a register for the base address, or load it from memory with another instruction.

It’s relatively expensive to split or merge linked lists/trees/graphs stored that way. If the tree/graph is long lived, mutable, and changes a lot, eventually you might need to compact or even garbage collect these arrays.
"I'm young. I'm educated. I love Elon. I have nothing to lose. This is just a side quest in the adventurer that is my tech career."
Corporate management's job is to make the company more money. It's not obvious that worker happiness is actually necessary or even positively correlated with profit. Just look at Amazon.
And... his board gave it to him.
The USD didn't really become the world reserve currency until after WWII when the European empires fell apart and the US was a clear superpower.
It's a convenient scapegoat though, and the "solutions" all require less actual parenting so I guess that can be appealing.

> "It's literally impossible for me to influence my child's behavior, so we must enact legislation to ensure no kids can use these evil devices!"
https://archive.ph/IoM3Y
> Reminds me of an issue with another Paradox Interactive title, Victoria 3. They had to rework it because, basically, the upper-classes stood in the way of all the good laws and reforms.

A bit generalizing but I don't see what's wrong with that. At least for the landowning classes.
That is very rare and admirable. Can you share more details? Perhaps without linking to them as to not ruin it.

Only one I can think of is The Well. I don't see how you could ever recreate it.
> But it's clearly not a new threat with PWAs and IMHO this article is mostly just spun clickbait. This isn't remotely a novel vulnerability.

This isn't "clickbait". This author is a known security researcher. The word "new" or "novel" doesn't occur in the writeup. They are simply documenting how something works.

They've been writing about this type of thing for years now.
Interesting phenomenon but better explanation needed. TFA says less than 10% of customers pick up their negatives after having been sent the scans. The only reason mentioned is that "it's expensive," but no elaboration on that.
“Customer support by AI” sounds even worse than the current practice of having customer support provided by utterly clueless and unhelpful “support” from barely-English-speaking-people from the lowest-wage-country-we-could find (stereotypically India).

How did you come to hate people so deeply that you made it your life goal to make an already abysmal experience even worse?
love this take.
Ask HN: What makes a good equity-based startup advisor?
If you are a founder who has had a really useful advisor who you gave a small amount of equity to, what did they do that made them so good?

If you are an advisor who has inhabited this role, what do you think advisors should do to be as useful and effective as possible?
It’s not any more complicated than short term rent seeking from investors

That’s literally it

Investors hire managers that will ensure that investors remain the top priority for the lifecycle of the firm

To such an extent that they made up fake rules like the idea that corporate officers have a fiduciary requirement to investors like a mutual fund manager does

This is because the goal of financializing a company is to make it a narrowly focused high margin hedge fund

You can’t do that if labor has bargaining power for control of the firm
>all the while believing all the FUD from the press that overvalues the disagreements between China and India.

Either I must have slept through the Indo-Sino (Sino-Indo?) Peace Treaty Negotiations & Signing Ceremony or "disagreements" is doing some heavy lifting in the above quote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...
So… eat the rich?
Preservation is, unfortunately, not access for not only the vast majority of US citizens, but of people worldwide locked out of the proprietary document system.

Even such half-aborted systems such as Hathi Trust permit downloads only by the page, even from out-of-copyright works, which is absolutely infuriating. Full access to the Hathi archives (that is, in-copyright works, which cannot otherwise be viewed at all) is restricted to college libraries only, not public libraries generally.

The Internet Archive, LibGen, Z-Library, Sci-Hub, Anna's Archive, and other similar efforts are really the only viable means of access to much of the world's published information, whether inside, outside, or straddling extant copyright law. Which of course was written and lobbied for by existing copyright holders.

I'd much rather we burnt down that law than our true libraries.

As to Anna's Archive and the question of preservation vs. access: AFAIU the full archive is already available and stored in multiple fully-independent copies. As such it will all but assuredly survive even extreme legal attacks, let alone other threats. Access to those works is what torrent seeding provides, and as a means of making the archive available and useful is key to its function and service, but (probably) not its survival.
You're right. The assumption has been that they'll keep the old price.

A better assumption is that, as volume increases, they'll be able to make them cheaper. Fingers crossed for that.
I think there is an expert router layer to decide which loras to be integrated at inference time. But they also mention that they freeze the weights for router during training. So it is unclear to me how the router was trained on what loss.
This is nonsense. China's gold holdings stand at about 0.3% of their currency supply. "Gold backed" my ass.

China is working hard to build an effective blue-water navy. They'll probably accomplish it eventually but for now they have virtually zero power projection or expeditionary capability. They struggle to even sustain a small surface action group in the Middle East.
Fair point! I have been in technology for long enough that I have seen the stored proc pendulum swing both ways: "all stored procs" -> "no stored procs". A long time ago, a big problem with stored procs: They were hard / impossible to debug. However, I heard that most DBs have a debug interface now that regular devs can use to debug stored procs. I am curious if they are making a comeback!
The M language is incredibly tied to Power Query however. There are some open-source projects that seek to enable it M outside of Power Query, but they seem to rely on private APIs and are not cross-platform.
Don't be obtuse. That is obviously not a genuine bug/vuln disclosure.
"The solution"

Lost me there after two words! There is never a THE solution ... ever. As any engineer will tell you: "best efforts and here is why ..."

Zero trust is a philosophy and quite a good one in my opinion but it isn't a solution.

I suggest you stop thinking in terms of (absolute) solutions and perhaps think in terms of philosophies and good practices.
While this image archive is nice, I would rather peruse a magazine archive. I would subscribe to way more magazines if they had a full historical archive.
This is not a strategy, it's just an idea that can lead to an strategy. A strategy must give clear rules about which move to play.

To make the question more clear, let's analyze the grid in the top of the blog post. I think it's clear for everyone [1] that the first player must play one of the cells on the top row. Which one is the best move left, middel or right? How is this explained by your strategy?

[1] citation needed
Yes you can do that in ios18
Have you considered making probabilistic Chess or Go? One way to do it is before each move a coin is flipped to decide who’s turn it is.
I've used Python libraries to generate reports in Excel, frequently enough that at my last job I wrote a custom library to wrap xlsxwriter to simplify for my use case. Tremendously useful.
One problem with owner occupied tax breaks is that it incentivizes cities to find their revenue elsewhere, namely building office/commercial and apartments.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but I'd like to expand a little bit on it.

- This API should be programming language agnostic (like, with a well defined ABI). Ideally an IPC based one, with a well defined wire format and protocols.

- Not a singular API, but an “API system” with extensibility taken into account from the beginning (with things like versioning). It should be able to support arbitrary new API definitions so that other apps could consume, and also produce.

- Such an API system should be used by the OS itself too, of course. So the OS would have the resulting benefits and the whole system would be more uniform.
For the second, <git://git.subdivi.de/~helmut/tcvt.git> might be useful. It's not quite what you asked for; it emulates a two-column virtual terminal within another (virtual) terminal.

If you can extend your terminal window across your two monitors and run `tcvt` within it, that might suit your purposes.
Proposed Visa and Mastercard Swipe-Fees Settlement Is Likely to Be Thrown Out
are these actually scary leaks? in the article they say they'd be fine even if the leak were 100x the size.
Yes it's great for doing business apps. Not everyone uses excel to run business analysis though.
I don't disagree about the risk of chilling effects, but the methodology of this report is so embarrassingly, deceptively bad that I don't think any conclusion can be drawn from it. They basically snapshot a comment section, then return repeatedly, and enumerate the comments that disappeared. Without any insight into who (ie the platform, the poster, or the channel/page owner) removed the comment and why, this is like performing a legal analysis of the leaves that disappeared from lawns in autumn.
There is a 100% chance that either they will never enter the civilian market, or the deleted emissions parts will be un-deleted.
Interesting. That’s kind of surprising to me - it would mean with every new Lora they’d need to fine tune the router, no?

Embedding a description of the Lora and using RAG to pull the nearest Loras in the embedding space is where my mind goes; it’s super extensible, minimal additional training for customer use cases, and the way the Loras probably work it’s not terrible to pull a few extras.

Anyway I just speculate —- no idea what they’re actually doing on the backend.
Since Postgres 12, there's been support for “Pluggable Storage” where you could even define different storage engines for tables individually. Think of the Oriole extension which bought by Supabase in April 2024.
I suppose that depends on location. In the UK, it would count as a benefit in kind, and is taxable in exactly same way as regular income.
> The US, Germany and a handful of others dashed those hopes in 2008 due to Russian pressure.

That is a ruse on the part of the US and I don't know why anyone expects it to be taken seriously given what we see post 2022. NATO considers Ukraine to be part of their strategic territory. They're dumping 10s to 100s of billions of dollars into Ukraine's defence. They've claimed to have been a part of killing something like 300,000 Russian soldiers. They're explaining to anyone who'll listen that the relationship will be formalised as soon as possible. It looks like they've been working on this for years prior to the invasion in fact - unless you believe that the NATO military planners are so incompetent they didn't have contingency plans for Russia invading Ukraine. There is even the obvious pattern of behaviour on the part of the US here regarding NATO expansion.

The hopes of Ukraine were never dashed.
The cloud thing bugs me because a lot of times buying things, managing licenses, etc, is a hassle. I disagree that bundling Python wouldn't work given blender does it, I think inkscape does it, and done other common programs. Would it be nice if they didn't? Sure. But they do and I trade a fraction of a percent of my disk space for that modularity.

Also, there are a few excel handling packages for Python. I've even made graphs and everything. Because sometimes other people like to use Excel and that's fine. I'll just stick with those instead.
Some firms are very profitable and still pay many workers very low, eg: Amazon and Walmart. They have money to pay more but they just don't.
Doing stuff that makes people happy makes people happy.

In other news, water found to be wet.
If you take a look at Excel’s implementation, Python in Excel is going to be part of this person’s sales funnel.
I guess you are the former?

What incentive is there to own a negative income asset unless you are lying and you actually are net positive. Unless of course you are the latter and you are claiming that someone should bail you out?

"I'm completely underwater on this asset but if I sell I lose money" yeah that's how that works it's called an investment you can win or lose.
How about the same as for fraud, manslaughter, conspiracy... But that's the judiciary's problem anyway. People who campaign for this higher accountability argue that it's such a drastic change from fines that it will change company cultures overnight.
IANAL, but I'll bet the answer is "yes-ish, in most-ish circumstances and jurisdictions, if the company is willing to pay enough lawyers & taxes & stuff.

(If $Company is not big global retailer like IKEA, then things would probably be far simpler.)
The SPEs only had cache! (And, a ton of registers.) What they were missing was RAM ;D

But, even that wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be. People rightly moan about the awkwardness of asynchronously moving data between main RAM and the SPE memory. What they don’t often mention is that the latency of those moves was about 500 cycles —the same latency as a cache miss on the PPE CPUs!

So, which was worse: implicitly waiting 500 cycles all over the place? Or, explicitly scheduling 500 cycle waits at specific points? Unsurprisingly, everyone preferred the first option :P
In a few years there will be tens of thousand of ai vendors just like there are apps/games ?
We Hacked Multi-Billion Dollar Companies Using a Fake VSCode Extension
Ok, this is totally OT, but is there a story or meaning to the name choice of your ai bot?
> you save a ton of overhead by bundling 2-5 of your 20ms samples.

You pay that price back when the packets are dropped. We use a lot of advanced codec managers for broadcast, and while they do combining like this, they also offer the ability to repeat frames within subsequent packets. So you may get a packet with frames [1,2,3] then a packet with frames [2,3,4].

The best codecs actively monitor the connection and adjust all these parameters in real time for you.
In the US, and presumably elsewhere, no way. My wife tried to negotiate a higher salary in exchange for forgoing health insurance a few times, to no avail.
The website says:

> At inference time, the model retrieves the most relevant experts at each layer and merges back into the base model to respond to the user query.

The paper says:

> At inference time, only the relevant experts are retrieved from the index, allowing the LLM to store a large number of facts while maintaining low inference latency. We use specialized GPU kernels written in Triton Tillet et al. (2019) to accelerate the lookup of experts.

...but darned if I can understand from either what they're actually doing when they say that.

Why do you need a custom GPU kernel for this outside of the normal NN layers?

Can anyone see an explanation of how they pick which expert to use?
There is a simpler way to handle loops. If you end up repeating a position, you know the turn player will repeat the same move as before. By iterating over every possible move and every possible response, you can calculate the expected value of a position. Writing out the equations where V(s, i, j) is the expected value of the position when turn player will attempt move i and the opposing player will attempt move j:

V(s) = max i (min j V(s, i, j))
V(s, i, j) = (probability move i or move j changes the state) * V(new state) + (probability state doesn't change) * V(s, i, j)

You can solve the second equation for all i and j and then use that to solve the first equation.
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In games like this it tends to be based on a somewhat simplistic model of proximity to services. Being well served by schools, hospitals, bus stops, train stations, emergency services, electricity, plumbing, etc, drives the value of a tile up. Road noise, pollution, crime, disease, garbage, buildings that have been crushed by Godzilla, etc, drive the value of surrounding tiles down.

Potentially there could be some sort of demand based model implemented on top of this? But the simulation of demand is going to come down to this abstract "how much does the computer like this tile" value anyway - the citizens are not actual people with actual preferences - so I'm not sure how much it would add.