skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah! That stupid roll out in waves thing companies seems like to love needs to stop, especially in a worldwide network it seems utterly stupid. They risk to disgruntle users and customers.

I was long time avoiding to buy any Samsung product because they decided to not release the only good Mixed Reality Headset at the time of the release over here (Their Odyssey VR Headset which was released only in a few markets and was, until HP released their Reverb one, the best Mixed Reality one).
For those who didn't read the decision, it was rejected on the basis of lack of standing — i.e., the plaintiffs were not able to demonstrate how they were harmed and thus couldn't bring suit.

It's entirely possible that a different group of plaintiffs would be able to demonstrate real harm, in which case SCOTUS could potentially rule on the merits of the case.
For me tmux is everything.
But I have been looking for 2 utilities they may not exist.

- tty keystroke router: A program that lets you send keystrokes to different tty's (ideally tmux sessions) but not taking over the actual terminal (so sort of a background application , a daemon that listen to a certain key bind and upon pressing it will route all the keypresses to a certain tty/tmux session.

- tty screen real estate extender: Basically be able to link one tty (tmux-window) (attach to it) from two different terminals. These two terminals one of them will be displaying the first N columns second terminal attached will be displaying from N till width of the tty (so you can hook up two monitors and widden your ttys)
More of a "pay someone else to do it" situation then. And the question is how much do they value security, and can they afford it without killing their business.
MIDDLE OUT!
is there anything that VCs will _not_ pontificate on?
Oh very very well done.
..and was disqualified. Discussion [0] (73 points, yesterday, 29 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663175
The marketing is def working. I'm sure we'd be pretty depressed by some of the projects that didn't make the blog cut.
It is incorrect to assume that a medicinal tea cannot have anti-viral or other healing properties.
This was just brought to my attention and seems kind of important if you host your own software and take payments. More details + discussion: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3kutjzwady...
You can at least make win 10 into something really nice and useable with a few scripts to remove the garbage (you’re still sending MS a firehose of data I bet).
This really isn't the case anymore. People are socializing in Valorant, they're socializing in Lethal Company, they're socializing in Roblox. Very little of this "antisocial in a group" stuff, which I assume you're mostly referencing to stuff like COD players screaming in mic at others (but mostly themselves), mostly because there are now better tools to detect and ban those participating in such.

They've really become digital third places, especially when IRL third places have been overly monetized or destroyed.
Can I pay not to have to hear it?
Handout for a talk I gave about LLM and CLI tools
European content removal laws don't apply outside of Europe which means they don't apply to the internet, only a 'version' of the internet.

If you live in a country that doesn't let you access the 'true' internet, you don't live in a free country.
The primary value I can see in it is extending something similar to w|x protection to JITs and interpretors. The article does say that it was originally for Chrome
Maybe it's just me (or maybe I've invested too much money into headphones), but I actually liked the Opus sound better at 6 kbps. The MLow samples had these... harsh and unnatural artifacts, whereas the Opus sound (though sounding like it came from a tin-can-and-string telephone and lacked all top-end) at least was 'smooth'. But I'm pretty sure that's because they are demonstrating here the very edge of what their codec can do, at higher bitrates the choice would probably be a lot clearer.
Is there a site where such tools are listed? Some of these may help people without disability too.
Harmful effects of social media notwithstanding, it's not just about the phones.

Reaching for your phone is an example of what psychologists refer to as avoidance behaviours. We look at screens so that we don't have to deal with difficult thoughts and emotions.

Sure, without a phone that person had no other choice but to face whatever they've been avoiding. But more often than not leaving someone to their own devices when they clearly can't cope with the situation by themselves makes them look for a different source of distraction that in turn will make you wish they were "just" addicted to social media.

A person doing well mentally has no need to avoid anything. The right thing to do is help them get there, not play whack-a-mole with their coping mechanisms.
Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane [video]
Cameron Wu's digital drawing machine constructs all of the possible San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini.

If you have access to a free version of his accompanying essay "Of Circles and Lines" I recommend reading it. Here's the jstor version for reference. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43630897
Well I should say lack of variety. Games are healthy, communications are healthy, education is healthy. Too much of any of those at the sacrifice of any other is not.
Two years ago a coworker became the parent to a teen overnight after his wife's son moved in with them as the sons father booted him to make room for a new wife and kid. Of course this comes with behavioral problems, nothing serious just being rebellious and doesn't listen and the mother levies punishment as needed. Of course kids think they are slick but unfortunately for him his new stepfather is technologically very literate. So every few weeks I hear a new tale of angsty teen son vs parents.

Today he told me the son was banned from phone use for two weeks as a punishment for something. Son hands the phone to the mother last night but she doesn't look at the phone. He asks her to check the phone screen and wouldn't you know - it was missing its sim card. Kid sim swapped to an old phone a friend gave him. Didn't work, mother confiscated his sim card. WiFi? Well the Unifi system he has setup in his house has a separate ssid for the stepson and his gadgets that gets shut off after 10PM on school nights and if he is punished, remains off until the sanctions are lifted. Kid is blacked out on personal devices but is still allowed to - watch TV if he is done with homework or go out with friends in meat space with strict curfew.

The son deals with it because he has no other choice. And I have heard no complaints that he is dying a social death. Just stick to your guns and show them who is in charge - you, the parent.
OIN expands Linux patent protection yet again (but not to AI)
Is there even an estimate of the impact on ozone in the paper?

You don't need a science paper to end up with "letting satellites burn up in the atmosphere results in burned satellite dust in atmosphere", do you?
> a desperate red herring.

Or you can recognise that ‘Meta’ isn’t a conscious entity, and that it’s perfectly likely that there are some people over there doing amazing open-source work, and different people over there making ethically dubious decisions when building their LLMs.
I'm surprised a case with such a fundamental flaw made was even heard by SCOTUS.
>> Russia is sinking despite becoming the 4th largest economy

What part of it is 'sinking'? It increased its oil exports. It increased its other resource exports. Europe is still buying Russian gas and oil, except through India and its now called 'Indian oil'. It achieved independence in a lot of things that it was buying from the West, mixing it with homegrown products and global south imports. The sanctions HIT EUROPE MORE, with all the European companies losing their market share in Russia and their market share being taken over by Russian companies and Chinese ones.

The references are from REUTERS, none other than one of the Angloamerican establishment mouthpieces that sells every war including how they sold the WMD lies, and some aggregate of Wikipedia articles that are tangential and supposed to be relevant?

Here's what's relevant:

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/fragile...

> This isn’t uncommon in a war footing [4]. Labour and necessities are diverted to the front, raising prices for both. That squeezes disposable income, which moderates price growth in luxuries. The effect, if you’re measuring with a pre-war basket of goods, is rising real earnings and falling disposable income.

None of that is applicable to the actual reality that Russians themselves report, you are just flat out theorizing what 'should happen' with absolutely no connection to the actual reality.

Everything you say and believe is in line with things like 'ghost of kiev', "ukraine will reach Moscow in a month", "Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine in 3 months but it couldn't", "Chinese economy is set for a hard landing (yet) again" and all that sh*t.

...

Really, you people live in la la land. Your worst enemy is not Russia or China. Its you and your delirious 'I prefer to believe what I like to hear" attitude.

Downvote this post. It will make the reality go away.
And the most demanding part of that listing can be done on a build machine.

This benefit of compiled languages is often overlooked by folks who are (mostly/only) familiar with dynamic languages like PHP, Python or Js/Ts
I've seen less skepticism on cryptocoin threads on HN. The absolute racism in this thread is disgusting.
The price of oil varies, so the petrodollar is nothing like the gold standard, where a dollar was pegged to a specific amount of gold.
Run your own personal AI cluster using Apple devices
Untested in court but, at least in the EU, could be protected as a "database" https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/01/18/are-ai-mode...

Also "Stable Diffusion" is a registered trademark so there's a possible infringement there too.
Well the article promotes an extremist position to solve a sub-issue which is the problem. It sells clicks. Then again it's The Grauniad so I expect nothing less. It's less than objective these days.
Oil is what matters less here.
And the event itself is not that important in isolation.
But as part of a larger trend of events it is completely different story.
The US can’t finance its debt neither keep their massive trade debts without a healthy global appetite for the dollar.
American companies can’t achieve their massive competitive advantages by outsourcing a lot of production to China and paying with green YOUs unless the world keeps trading between themselves using those green YOUs.
This won’t happen overnight because the major exporters in the world are sitting on mountains of USD denominated treasury bonds and it is not on their interests to see those mountains of assets turning into dust.
But the trend is clear.
> Is there a price for a one-off purchase?

It's always free to download the entire World Wide Scroll. You only need to pay if you want to own a folder (our equivalent of a domain).

> subscriptions, even as low as $10 are annoying.

I agree with you. I wish Stripe had a "5 year" option, rather than just monthly or annually. I'll look into this. Thanks.
Ex-Google Eric Schmidt chaired U.S. NSCAI (National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence), it's worth reading the final report (2021), https://web.archive.org/web/20230211035940/https://www.nscai...

> ... our leaders confront the classic dilemma of statecraft identified by Henry Kissinger: “When your scope for action is greatest, the knowledge on which you can base this action is always at a minimum. When your knowledge is greatest, the scope for action has often disappeared.” ... AI systems will also be used in the pursuit of power. We fear AI tools will be weapons of first resort in future conflicts. AI will not stay in the domain of superpowers or the realm of science fiction. AI is dual-use, often open-source, and diffusing rapidly.
True, but it appears unlikely based on the decision:

"The plaintiffs do not allege the kinds of injuries described above that unregulated parties sometimes can assert to demonstrate causation. Because the plaintiffs do not prescribe, manufacture, sell, or advertise mifepristone or sponsor a competing drug, the plaintiffs suffer no direct monetary injuries from FDA's actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone. Nor do they suffer injuries to their property, or to the value of their property, from FDA's actions. Because the plaintiffs do not use mifepristone, they obviously can suffer no physical injuries from FDA's actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone.

Rather, the plaintiffs say that they are pro-life, oppose elective abortion, and have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to mifepristone being prescribed and used by others. The plaintiffs appear to recognize that those general legal, moral, ideological, and policy concerns do not suffice on their own to confer Article III standing to sue in federal court. So to try to establish standing, the plaintiffs advance several complicated causation theories to connect FDA's actions to the plaintiffs' alleged injuries in fact."

Since no one is required to prescribe mifepristone, it's hard to see how any other group would have standing.
The US government doesn't have a general technological lead. There are a only few specific areas where they have leads by virtue of funding/doing most of the research, like cryptography, sensors, explosives and such. Most of these areas are relatively narrow too. The government is usually buying special versions of readily available commercial products. Any F500 company could buy things just as powerful.
I'd recommend SeedHost in that case!
Yup. And to even get to this point cost significant amounts of money.

And Idaho, Kentucky, Kansas were all waiting on this to fail to launch their own court cases with different plans to address standing.
You don't have to, you can just... not listen to it, but I'm sure someone would be happy to take your money.
I don't understand what is happening. Did they add a peephole optimization and then fixed corver cases 3 times?

(Been there, done that, probably only two fixes, but the code was shorter.)
> I wonder why?

The whole point of Rust is memory safety and security, but I don’t care too much about either of them. I mostly work on offline desktop apps. When I do work on network exposed servers, I use C# which delivers even better safety and security for a reasonable performance overhead.

In pursue of that memory safety, Rust sacrificed pretty much everything else.

The language is incredibly hard to learn. The compiler is even slower than C++. It’s hard to do R&D in Rust because memory safety forces minor changes into large refactors. The recent push to async/await is controversial, to say the least.

It’s impossible to implement any non-trivial data structures in safe Rust. In my line of work designing data structures is more important than writing executable code, because the gap between RAM bandwidth and processor performance have been growing for decades now.

Also, interesting post and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033
There are many ways to read this. One of the most obvious ones is that ChatGPT is becoming more and more disappointing after the initial surprise, so the tech has to be flipped to the MIC.
Ngrok Accounts Now Require a Valid Payment Method to Use TCP Endpoints
He doesn't work for free - from what I can tell, iTerm2 is his full-time job.

I personally didn't like the feature, but from reading through the other criticisms, it seemed like there were some genuine reasons why people didn't want this feature. I don't think it's quite as simple as you make it out to be.
The E.164 Standard is also a great place to start.

E.123 is for printing and general purpose use (as in use in URLS: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2806#section-2.2).

While the E.164 is (primarily) for storage and processing.
Just to note some speech that has been considered illegal in Europe:

- calling Muhammad a pedophile - convicted of blasphemy (JFC!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S._v._Austria_(2018)

- posting the government's own crime statistics - convicted of inciting hate https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-politicia...

- a video of a dog doing a Hitler salute - hate crime https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

So if that's illegal you can imagine how tame the legal content that was removed is. There is no freedom of speech in Europe.
Don’t forget strong property rights, fairly impartial justice system wrt foreign representation, and a large body of corporate case law with predictable outcomes
Sure that's the official figure but people are annoyed that everything is %50 to %200 more expensive compared to 2-3 years ago without having their income growing at the same pace. This is because people feel the inflation different ways because different classes consume different stuff and the average doesn't mean much when you have your rent doubled and the food becoming %50 more expensive.
> Could you imagine if every time you hung out with a friend, they asked to borrow your phone, open Facebook Messenger (or whatever sensitive messaging app you use), and to contact a parent?

What if the parent could handle such eventualities - based on trust in the child - with no freaking out ?
The Clockwork Rocket trilogy is ++++, and Dichronauts is ++--.

Reading these really helped my intuitive grasp of relativistic mechanics.

Incandescence is also cool but (minimal spoilers) is more or less the normal +--- metric. Not nearly as mind-bending as ++++ or ++--.
Scotus rejects a lot of cases due to standing. Sometimes it takes arguments from all parties for that conclusion to be met.

People (and the press) regularly misinterpret what a scotus ruling means because they don't dive into the technicalities of why the court does what it does.
They may or may not be wrong, or evil, but they are almost certainly not going to take your opinion into account if they win.

An election is fundamentally binary: it has one winner and everyone else is equally a loser. There are other structures that don't fall prey to that, such as multi member districts or party lists. As long as the election has a unique outcome, everyone else is equivalently irrelevant.
Fine, I stand corrected: I forgot about Czechoslovakia (I don't think you're right about Korea though).

In any case that still leaves Russia aggression on par with US aggression. My point in this thread is that I don't see the reason to prefer the US and "the West" to Russia. Or China. I would certainly not want to be a citizen of any of those three.
I'm always curious to understand how so many people didn't know phones and social media would be bad. I remember having "prohoetic" discussions about all this in 2008 with a bunch of privates in the Army. How people ever thought how the internet was evolving in the early 2000s was going to be only amazing has always baffled me.
Ask HN: How do you speak of AI advances without invoking "AGI"?
"AGI" is often used as a very hand-wavy heuristic. How can you discuss topics where AGI is often invoked but be clearer about what is under discussion?

AI transitions to AGI at a point that seems not easy to define. So most who say AGI mean "at a point far past the transition, where it is clearly AGI". But historically when people speak of future capabilities, those capabilities do not appear in the form and configuration expected.

As capabilities are currently being developed in exponential time, it's hard to predict future configurations clearly even a few weeks into the future.
Why is the header text flattened?
Finding a harmed group as such willing to go forward would likely be a needle-in-a-haystack case.

There's some -edge- cases but you'd have to really fish to prove that such harm is out of line of what risk was suggested in trials/etc, and even then what group of -that- population is really wanting to be made into a political football?
Even within tech companies, the wage gap is the biggest I've ever seen. I've never worked anywhere that entry level employees (or contractors/vendors) could be making 50-75k/yr, entry level FTEs could be making 90-150k, and more senior staff could easily be making 500K up to several million per year. That's just ridiculous.
I would disagree. While I was a bit of an outlier and would use my phone primarily for tinkering, I would also use it to go down rabbit holes on wikipedia, play video games, read books and watch shows. Phones are glorified consumption devices, at the end of the day.
HS was 10 years ago, college was after. Since 7th grade, most kids had smartphones and were using them all hours of the day. Most people used Facebook, and by hs Minecraft was huge. What changed, aside from old games/platforms getting replaced?
I think this sums it up quite easily: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/edrxpl/california_ex...
AI and the Indian Election
Well my youngest (13 year old) daughter uses it for Google classroom scheduling at school, transport status (TFL), payments, online banking, checking weather, taking photos and editing them, tracking her running and cycling, listening to music etc...

While not essential for any of these, it's a tool which you can leverage for all of these to improve things.

Edit: not to mention the iPad+apple pencil which is just another way of creating art...
The AI image part would have been better if they showed an AI generated photorealistic scene compared to the AI generated cartoon scene
I would use this before any voice assistants our neurolinks.
It doesn't have to be specific to private group chats. The same model worked well on public forums.

The only reason it doesn't work on mainstream social media is that "assholes" not only still "engage" with the product (and watch ads) but they also cause other people to argue with them and "engage" more, so it's actually profitable to keep them around.
> This large gap isn’t particularly surprising,

Given the sheer size and scope of California compared to every other state?

> given that San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires of any city in the world, with Silicon Valley known for its absurd CEO pay packages.

The "highest paid CEOs" list has two silicon Valley companies in the top 10. If this is your honest explanation, then I suggest, it should be worthy of surprise.
“Filler” is very subjective. A very long chapter going on a tangential introspective mourning thoughts may be viewed by some, as it “doesn’t move the plot forward”, but it can be the most pungent point of emotional connection in the entire novel for others.

Sometimes going on talking about minor characters routine is kind of the main point of an author’s intention, but it may read as “filler” by some.

Or something like Brandon Sanderson books, where his fans enjoy spending more time in that universe, but make their novels very long.
Files and the OS
Relevant Schneier post

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-s...
Prompt it with an image from midjourney and that prompt.
The issue with the efficiency begins already with the high-power lasers that are needed for wakefield acceleration, which have a typical wall-plug efficiency of ~0.1%. From that, only about ~1% of the laser pulse energy gets transferred into the accelerated electron beam. And only about ~0.1% of that gets converted into light again during the FEL process.

All together, that would mean an efficiency of ~10^{-8}, which is about a million times smaller than for the ERL (I'm no expert there, but I think in the article they mention 1-10% efficiency).

There are prospects for much more efficient high-power lasers, but there's still a long way to go.

I don't know what would dominate the costs in this particular case, but given the low efficiency and reliability (high-power lasers break often) as well as the other issues, I wouldn't bet on wakefield accelerators as an alternative.