skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't using technology (technology happens to be involved). This is a political challenge to Big Cloud (and it's systems being steered around by the many powers that be of the word).

Federation is politics. Federation is about governance. It's about a place between centralized/authoritarian and distributed/anarchy.

> If those in power decide to push forward by increasing the penalties, eventually running a Mastodon server will become as risky as getting caught for murder.*

It's unlikely to be enforced globally. Every millimeter wrong that statement is, ever chance higher that connecting-with-one-another does try to get shut down on a broadscale, is another reason why we should be doing it, now, asap, and normalizing it.
Yes and no.

Federation certainly helps, in that Americans can run American instances and not worry if the EU dislikes it.

However, federation wouldn't help EU users much if the EU state decided to go for full-on Chinese style control, firewalling the foreign-hosted instances, banning the apps from the app stores, blocking access to payment infrastructure, jail for anyone found with the app sideloaded, PR campaign saying this app is used for child porn and encouraging people to turn in anyone they see using it to the cops, and so on.
marketing and sales is the hard part. building software is easy.
A constitution kinda is that - limits on what laws the country can make. Maybe there should be another softer but automatic mechanism though. For example you could increase the required consensus for passing laws with similar goals to those that that have failed recently.
If the EU is really coming down hard on people who do mundane stuff like host a Mastodon node and chat with their friends, then I’d avoid them just like I’d avoid North Korea or any other authoritarian country.

As indicated in that article, the UK kinda sucks, so, like, don’t go there. Whatever, they don’t have any good beaches anyway.
The project seems very healthy! Steady release cadence, lots of different contributors, clear communication to the outside world.
Show HN: OpenCLIP Jax – Implementation of OpenAI's Clip in Jax/Flax
open_clip_jax is an open source JAX/Flax implementation of OpenAI's CLIP, including image and text towers, pre-trained parameters, training utilities that can scale to TPU Pods, and more. It is inspired by but not affiliated with OpenCLIP and aims to deliver similar functionalities with a JAX backend.

Questions and feedback are welcome in the comments sections.
Agreed, was very annoying, please don’t misuse history like that :(
I have fond memories of Puppy Linux. As a teenager, I got a hold of some old scrap servers with arrays of big SCSI drives, but I couldn't figure out how to boot from the SCSI drives. So I just took all the hard drives out and kept a copy of the Puppy Linux CD in it... worked great! One of those servers was a dual-socket Pentium II.
There was another study recently that found a link between cheese and increased cancer rates. I do not trust either this or the other study. I still like and enjoy cheese.
Decades ago, I built a sensor that detected a break in a path to a retro-reflector up to 6 feet away using a single bi-color LED and some op amps, etc. I don't remember all the details... but I did learn how the photoelectric effect works, in my gut.

A red LED emits a lower energy photon than a green LED. Each will pick up their own reflections, but the green LED will not pick up the light from the red one.
These days terabytes is a medium-sized database. A trillion rows of indexed data will fit on a single cloud VM and be reasonably performant.

I think a good definition of "large" is "several times larger than will fit on a practical modern server". Servers with a petabyte or more of fast attached storage are increasingly common, so that threshold is pretty high. Machine-generated data models (sensing, telemetry, et al) routinely exceed this threshold though.
"'t ain't funny, McGee." The author isn't talented enough to pull off the humor angle so it just comes across as what kids these day refer to as "cringe".
He grew up in Penang, moved to Australia in 2013 according to his blog.

I'm not a fan of the "I'll break your neck" theme. He doesn't want people talking about AI but his own business website says he'll talk to you about AI in exchange for money.

Does he want to be Louis CK Live at the Beacon Theater AND a data scientist consultant? I don't think it's possible to be both.
That's right! Breakdown here for the API: https://www.anthropic.com/pricing#anthropic-api
Nintendo Takedown Wipes "Rhythm Heaven" Remix Tool and 250 Forks Off GitHub
This is impressive. I've just ran a couple of gpt4o workloads for getdot.ai on Sonnet and the quality is great.

Plus it's super fast right now ~110 token/s (but gpt4o was also super fast when they launched). But what will stay is the 40% price drop for input tokens. I love it. :)
Even if that was the case, that would just mean anything detectable is over the limit. Pretty simple.
By god do I agree with this. I feel like all my most diabolical ESM issues are beating the tsconfig.json, webpack.js, and package.json into shape to get ESM and legacy working.
LLMs know it better? LLMs are hardly a way to get good programming advice. In fact, it is often wrong but not in obvious ways. Especially with React and state management, there are a lot of working wrong ways to do things.
From what I understand, it is more now that the war in Ukraine is going on...
The fact that such hideousness can be provoked from ostensibly reasonable people is why we don't let victims sit on juries.
Some "suggestion" I heard are straight from a handbook of bad toxic middle management, like treating people differently so they don't go after your ass.

It is either that or extreme naivete that forms these "lessons". To be honest, your focus on skin color isn't really convincing me that there is valuable management knowledge to be gained. It is a perspective of the world that seems limited.

I don't believe it to be naivete because there are quite a few DEI managers or hiring firms that might need to go to prison because they scammed others.

For a potential employee pronounced DEI policies basically meant that you are dealing with an employer with a strict authoritarian management style.
The legislation was about the client, not the server side.
If I get your drift, I think a precondition is that we need to figure out a way to keep the Bartle Taxonomy Killers (♣) happy just playing power-{possession/craving} games with each other, instead of feeling the need to drag everyone else into the Sith spirit; compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019115
Perhaps. But go work at a grocery store or warehouse and you will observe the vast amount of plastic film used (and discarded). "Shrink wrap" covers palletized boxes and is used as a method to group cargo. Once you realize how much a single grocery store throws away in the course of unloading a truck and stocking the shelves overnight, you won't be pointing at a vending machine with a wrapped fruit as the most effective mitigation. Not to say personal consumer habit shifts won't be important, of course.
I think there’s a small bug where the speed change isn’t reflected in the downloaded gif (it’s very slow by default)
What's wrong with LGPL?
> NASA looks efficient because you’re comparing it to the rest of government.

NASA also looks quite efficient when you compare it to many tech companies. NASA has 18k employees and $25bn budget in 2023, let's compare it with some companies:

Spotify and Stripe are each equal to half of NASA both in terms of employees and budget.

Snapchat and Airbnb are both approx 1/3rd of NASA in both employees and budget.

Yahoo has 1/2 the employees and 1/3 the budget of NASA.

ByteDance is 6x larger than NASA on both metrics.

Meta is 6x larger in budget and 4x larger in head count.

These are just companies making social media apps and selling ads.
Anthropic Says New Claude 3.5 AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 Omni
More or less the rule is "an" before vowels or voiceless H.

eg.

An apple.

A banana.

An hour.

A history.

Quite often you see people writing "an historic achievement", but that's incorrect because the H is voiced in historic.

Where it gets a bit vague is stuff like "SQL statement", because some people would say it like "Sequel statement", others will say it like "Ess-Queue-Ell statement".
That’s a bad faith take. The OP is clearly expressing their opinion that space exploration is underfunded. No one is unhappy the Hubble is going on 35 years. Think how much we would be learning if we had additional similarly scoped astronomical missions in 2000, 2010, and 2020 though.
Perfect, maybe we can make HN use this font for a day exclusively.
Indeed.-

(And, incidentally, how the URL encodes the value used for text generation, so that you can share links to actual examples ...)

Pretty neat.-

PS. Nice Rickroll, BTW :)
I have. Particularly from very libertarian people.
Conflict of interest is one of the most pernicious problems in our society. When I talk to people about it I get this blank stare, which really confuses me.
Programming answers two questions: "what?" and "how?".

The essential complexity is the inherent incompatibility of any given answer. Every answer must be written in a specific implementation. Once you have written your answer, you have cemented it into its environment. We can't answer answers. Technically we can, but it tends to be a huge undertaking.

Each answer to "what?" and "how?" has a special property: it is context-free. We have to choose a specific "context-free grammar" to write it in, but the answer itself can be fully expressed there. That means that every implementation that answers the same question must be somehow equivalent. That equivalence is, unfortunately, lost at time of writing.

---

We need to take a step back, and recognize the ultimate question: "why?".

The very questions "what?" and "how?" belong to the answer to "why?". If we could just write the reason why, we could compile that answer into a complete collection of compatible whats and hows.

That's the trickiest part of all, because the answer to "why?" is context-dependent. We can't write the answer to "why?" in any programming language, because that category of language cannot express context-dependence. That means we can't write a parser for it, let alone compile.

Solve natural language processing, and we solve incompatibility.
Argos Extra (Retail store) works like this; you walk in, place your order on an electronic machine (or go to customer services with a paper list of product codes), pay (which can be at the machine if you ordered by machine), wait 5-10 minutes, and all of your goods arrive via conveyor belt.

Here's the entire (customer-accessible) part of one such store:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H6TX48/interior-of-an-argos-store...
And thus a good candidate for funding from https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/ , should there be some trustworthy individual or group that could maintain it (I always felt like while this project is admirable, it should be regarded as a point of national security for nation states to maintain core infrastructure in-house)
Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
AI hype has landed in the laps of retail investors and in general anyone passively investing as NVIDIA and Microsoft shares have risen and become part of major ETFs in the expectation that the AI-driven demand for their products will continue unabated. Other tech stocks seem to be seeing similar treatment around AI hype.

I do expect the current trajectory of generative models will eventually be incredibly important just like the internet was and is, but it seems there’s a lot of high expectations of how useful it can be in the near future with fuzzy ideas around business models like in the dot com era.

If these near future expectations don’t pan out, could companies slow down their R&D expenditures which are floating NVIDIA, Microsoft, et al and lead to a sizable stock market correction?
Just tried it. This is the first model that immediately gives me the correct answer to my test prompt: "Hi <model>, can you give me an exact solution to pi in python?". All other models I've tried first give an approximation, taking several prompts to come to the correct conclusion: it's impossible.
i agree with your nazi example, but it's not clear to me in context that this is such an example
Uh, someone has clearly not spent much time in a swamp. Or around caliche/dry lake beds (especially when on that last stage of drying when everything starts to rot).

Just because it’s biological and natural doesn’t mean it’s necessarily pleasant, nice smelling, or healthy to be around.

If your only exposure to nature is national parks and the like, it’s easy to over glorify nature.

Not saying landfills are nice or anything, or healthy either. But nature has its equivalents.
> If/when American law mirrors it or we sign a treaty, it applies to me. Until then, it doesn’t. The penalty could be “shoot on sight” and it doesn’t matter as long as I’m outside their jurisdiction.

Except the part where the CANZUK/US/EU blocs generally have reciprocal agreements and Interpol is perfectly empowered to enact international law inside of the US, as of 2009.

Choosing to take this stance in one of the Western Nations is foolish to an almost ignorant degree. If one of them feels you broke a big enough law, it's trivial (at best) to execute upon it.
>since practically everyone can agree on how horrible it is.

I certainly do, but the German government does not. They recently lowered the sentences for it, is now roughly on par with theft.

Which makes this whole thing even more disingenuous. Either it is so bad that half a billion people need surveillance or it is a crime where you can get a couple of months in prison. The third option is, of course, that it is just a cynical argument.
Doesn't Texas also have the big patent troll magnet district? Seems like there's an issue down there with courts operating as entrepreneurial ventures.
Commissioners are typically not replaced when a national government changes, which is a good thing from a stability perspective (countries can often have two or three different executives in a single year). In the end, a Commissioner is proposed by a country but is then meant to work in the interest of the entire Union, in what is largely an administrative role (Council and Parliament are the real political entities). They are supposed to be uncontroversial people, respected across the entire political spectrum, and typically will stay in post for the duration of their mandate unless embroiled in scandals.
Apple's been buying technology from others since Applesoft BASIC replaced Woz's Integer BASIC on the original Apple II, not sure why you just noticed now
Why share a link to another link?
The twitter post is sharing a link to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByiwvWN4_NA
What falloff function will create an exactly flat curve? G ~ 1/r instead of 1/r^2 ?

What if gravity has non-scalar components?
Definitely a better showing from a higher end Samsung exclusive unit clocked at 4.2 Ghz. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738902 (YouTube video linked).

Geekbench 6 Single Core
MacBook Air (M3) 3082
Samsung Galaxy Book4 2838
Surface Laptop 7 2765
Asus Vivobook S 15 2418

Geekbench 6 Multi-core
Samsung Galaxy Book4 15351
Asus Vivobook S 15 14352
Surface Laptop 7 14220
MacBook Air (M3) 12087

Though, oddly, the Surface did much better on battery than the Samsung. (Possibly bad choice of power plans.)

Further comparison betweeen the Surface Laptop 7 and Macbook Air (M3) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYGUG_2Oge8

Cinebench Multi-core
Surface Laptop 7 841
MacBook Air (M3) 550

The Surface seemed to be about 4°C warmer on the surface (47 vs 43) in comparison during the Cinebench runs.
Lego went from humble toy and destroyer of bare feet to black market item
I don't understand the limitation to use all of the pieces exactly once, I'd say the rule to keep valid Tetris moves only is enough. I'm curious what could be built with just that in place.

Right now I especially dislike letters: 'B', 'G', 'I', 'N'. For comparison, I like 'F' and '1', they both look very natural to me; 'A' and 'S' get a pass too. 'Q' gets a special mention for its long tail.

That being said, the project is super cool and looks great already.
I rarely use DCGs because they suffer from completeness syndrome, i.e. you either define full DCG or you crash on first error.

For such tasks I prefer quasi-quotation [0] or a simple format with goal expansion [1]. As for readers I rarely need ones, because XML, YAML, JSON are already included.

In order to do code analysis I first pulled pieces using Regex (mostly headers) and only then parsed them over with DCG. Which is also neat when creating own DSLs - one can ask people on meeting to decorate lightly notes and get - semantic linking almost for free.

[0]: https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=quasiquotations
[1]: https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=format-predicat...
very neat text you've chosen there, too!

thank you :-)
Businesses like OpenAI probably aren't long for this world. But who's going to unseat Nvidia? Seems like there's a strong core driving this rally with no competitors in sight.
> Ego quoque, for misunderstanding what you meant by "certain things" (>)

> I stress that I manifestly do not want to see physicists and tech bros publish bio-meta-how-tos just yet, did you mean high quality professionally conducted BSL training?

How to say....more like curiosity about, and the pursuit of correctness (or at least, accurate representation) of affairs within the metaphysical realm. Something like "Enlightenment 2.0 - The Final Chapter" lol

> I think exploring the Taoist metaphysics of marginally injurious mutual surprise as an epsilon over Buddhist tainted reinterpretations could be at most a waste of time.

As a Taoist, I am very interested in whether you're interested in the truth value of this belief (and if so, to what degree). (Or were you perhaps using ambiguous language deliberately, for fun: "could be" could be a reference to a subset of the whole, or the whole itself....which did you mean? edit: "at most" seems to imply the whole?)

> And what's more, I can vouch that he's not a physicist, not even vicariously.

Can I trust you though?

> Okay so give me an example of an interesting ideology, as opposed to merely a conspiracy theory, such as "applying skepticism to your own beliefs" )

Ok: I am interested in ~"Non-binary, Comprehensive Truth". Not only is it interesting (to me), it is essentially blasphemous in Western Culture, 2024, so much so that I suspect it may lead to me getting banned from this forum some day (I've certainly been given fair warning at least, so "no one to blame but myself").

> as opposed to merely a conspiracy theory, such as "applying skepticism to your own beliefs"

As a Conspiracy Theorist and a Pedant, I lol'd. What a great start to the day!!

> I could hit the News, but I am interested in how you think.

Me too! I am extremely curious about what "thinking" is". I suspect it is quite other than what it seems to be, and is told to be (pardon the redundancy).

> E.g. did I misunderstand that you are interested in locating the precise quantitative boundaries of Systems I vs II?

I take a more vague perspective: I am interested in the nature of the distinction, and ways we could optimize it (individually and collectively). If you think about it, our current era (in the Blinded by Science and destroying our ecosystem as a consequence Western World at least) is fascinating: one one hand the humans have extensive knowledge that thinking is what separates us from other (known) life forms on the planet, and yet we pay it essentially no mind (at least at the public level...I suspect what goes on behind closed doors, perhaps within various Three Letter Agencies, perhaps elsewhere, is very different. But then that sort of thing is a conspiracy theory, and we all know what that means epistemically). I often what would happen if we were to do otherwise. But how to accomplish such a thing? How to even desire to try?
I don't get the endgame here. If you need to drink water to survive, why would you oppose this?
So, this might all be quackery, but there are some people out there that think high saturated fat diets are the healthiest, which would line up with eating a lot of cheese. E.g. this subreddit is excited about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat/?rdt=63805

Dunno if I believe it, but it's easy to test if upping the saturated fat in your diet is helpful to you or not.
Why does MOND keep showing up on HN? Pretty odd considering it's not particularly popular elsewhere and fails to explain a lot of observations of dark matter (bullet cluster, CMB). It's worth noting these rotation curves are not all the same curve, and we've discovered galaxies with varying quantities of implied dark matter (eg https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46291-...) - so is MOND different for every galaxy?
Push your own politicians to talk to them. Most serious EU Parliament groups are trans-national.

It's like asking what can you do about parliamentarians elected in other districts.
I'm not a physicist but 1/r^2 strikes me as conceptually very important, because it's the relative contribution of any fixed area of spherical surface to the total area of that surface. So the total strength of gravitational field emanating from a particular object, at a given distance from that object, is a constant.

It's somewhat weird to think of the total gravitational "force field" _increasing_ in magnitude with distance. Decreasing, sure. Increasing? That makes no sense. Certainly not at a large enough function of distance for the rotational curve to be _flat_. That's got to be some kind of wonky power term over distance which implies potential energy from the field goes up with distance as well.

As above, I'm not a physicist, but a linear rotational curve breaks every intuition I've ever gleaned from physics about the nature of what's really going on with relativity, particle mediation of forces, or even the concept of a field.

Maybe it means spacetime curvature is way higher than we think.
Don't kid yourself. The title of this submission itself starts with "Open Source". Moreover, the author has made the explicit decision to not fix the readme.
A collection of notes from the Unix and Linux system administration handbook
I took it to mean their real motivation is to grab juicy enough mass surveillance info on all European traffic to trade for a copy of the very juicy indeed mass surveillance info from storage and traffic associated with US companies?

It wouldn't be that they're copying the legislation exactly, but rather that they're set set on acquiring something of commensurate interest to trade for.
Missing from the article: Jared Isaacman offered to fix Hubble for free, and NASA turned him down.
Indeed.-

(The URL as a tool. Such a great "innovation" too. URLs are wonderful ...)
Your drinking water is not their drinking water. Profits over humans, it is as simple as that.

In the case of water utilities, it is a burden they do not want to meet, because work is hard.
Currently experiencing the hug of death it seems.
This isn’t international law. If it had passed, it would have been an EU law without a US counterpart.
You only need a subsidiary in Oregon. So all major components get moved outside the state, including higher wage jobs, and leave bare minimum distribution in Oregon. Which undoubtedly contracts with another out of state subsidiary for "marketing" to ensure profits are below the 25m threshold.
I loathe this keyboard. Smashing a tiny tenkey onto there is just awful.
I remember something about being able to transform any lifetime into a static lifetime entirely within safe Rust. But I can't find the link to it right now.