skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an idiotic way of breaking it down. How does the user even know Florb exists? They're already on the web at this stage. You're also being totally disingenuous with your break down. Why does the user have to "hunt and scroll" for the app on the PWA side but not the app store? Go ahead, search for "fastmail" on your Android app store and tell me what the first and most prominent result is.

And when I click "add to home" in my browser's menu I don't need to name the app. The app has a name. What are you talking about?
Machine translated:

> The Argentinian @dante_leoncini managed to get the 3D Blender program to work on a 18-year-old Nokia N95 phone, which runs the old and beloved Symbian system. He named it Blendersito.

I wonder what version and how painful of a port that was. Wikipedia says that phone has 128MB of RAM, so I'm surprised it fits. Actually what's really funny is that Blender won't even run on some of my x86 machines because the Linux build uses newer OpenGL than my GPUs support:P

Edit: Yeah, https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/ says 8 GB RAM and 2 GB VRAM with OpenGL 4.3... not to mention "While it is technically possible to use Blender in all screen sizes, a minimum resolution of 1920×1080 is recommended for optimal use.":)
Related:

Why repeating a word makes it go weird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865690 - March 2024 (1 comment)

Is linguistic inflation insanely awesome? (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31726534, https://web.archive.org/web/20230324130314/http://www.macmil... - June 2022 (3 comments)

Semantic Satiation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26915742 - April 2021 (53 comments)
> Then, after October 7th, when Tiktok accurately reflected the views of the younger half of the American public on Palestine

Probably 2/3rds of the younger half, at best.
> Programming is easy. Putting a bunch of black-boxes together in order to build some app or whatever is much, much harder and more complex

I would argue that putting a bunch of black boxes together is relatively easy compared all the other stuff you have to do the more senior you become.

Like resolving inter-personal / inter-team problems interfering with "coding". Or convincing your manager, a skip level manager, a skip-skip level manager and a skip-skip-skip level manager that we should do something new and they need to hand the team some money and people to get it done.
This is not the first time LLMs have triggered a major life descision. Here's an article from March 2023

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-a...
See also The Space Merchants (1952)
If it’s any sort of smart AI, you’d need to shut down the entire world at the same time.
This was my experience of them as well.
Do you believe that governments might want to use social media platforms to try to divide the population within enemy countries?
> Perhaps you aren't familiar with the term. Graduate Student = someone enrolled in a Masters Program, Post doc, PHD program, etc.

I'm familiar, thanks.

Why is someone who graduated last year and went into a Master's program different from someone who graduated last year and became a bootcamp TA?
fun n => 0

I'm not sure what you're trying to disagree with here.
The relevancy of the paperclip maximization thought experiment seems less straightforward to me now. We have AI that is trained to mimic human behaviour using a large amount of data plus reinforcement learning using a fairly large amount of examples.

It's not like we're giving the AI a single task and ask it to optimize everything towards that task. Or at least it's not architected for that kind of problem.
> I think the most enduring mystery of #Vannevar Bush is why his name is no longer a household one today, in the way that Edison's is or that we have every reason to expect Musk's to be 80 years from now.

For the same reason newton is while leibniz is not. And einstein is but bohr is not. Marketing. What gets to be a household name is determined by those who command the media/cultural apparatus.
> E.g. getting cut off in traffic

What do people from english speaking countries (I guess mostly from US) mean when they say this?

It's such a frequent phrase, but I don't think I ever thought about it as a distinct concept, nor spoke about it as such to any of my friends, and we've all been driving for many years.
All these features are covered in the FAQ What does [deleted] mean?, Can I change my username?, Can I delete my account? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
When I was a student I did find myself longing for a kind of cozy computer lab experience but it was basically impossible.

I consider myself as part of the one of tbe last generation where people had to use a computer (e.g. I remember windows XP and even older somewhat vividly but never owned a non-smart phone) and even then I was sat next to people who could barely type so could never really do anything without being taken out of the zone.

The culture does exist but the average is so mediocre/disinterested that they don't bother (there's no reason to) "going" to the computer anymore. I think that's slightly sad in, nerds are much more social than most people realise.

Thinking about it I did get a little bit of that experience at school in that I learnt a lot of the basics of programming by playing with compiler explorer in the back of my computing and D&T lessons.
I will check it out, I'm using headless bookworm atm
CPU: "Hey SSD, I need to write 100MB of data."

SSD Controller: "Okay, go for it."

CPU: <Intense Writing Noises />

SSD Controller: "(Hey OS, can you dump what the CPU's throwing at me in your RAM instead? Don't tell him.)"

OS: "Okay."

<100MBs later />

CPU: "All done! You got it, SSD?"

SSD Controller: "Uhh, yeah, one sec."

SSD Controller: "(Hey OS, throw me all that data before the CPU gets wind of this.)"

OS: "Okay."

OS: <Intense Writing Noise />

SSD Controller: "Alright, come on finish writing ya damn NAND."

NAND: "Hold on, man."

CPU: "Sitrep, SSD?"

SSD Controller: "Almost done!"

SSD Controller: "All done!"

CPU: "Great!"

---

Long story short, big bursty writes are faster than small intermittent writes and SSD controllers are bloody liars.
Except it doesn't have anything to do with blender.org Blender.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34379892
You can, with caveats. You can use Clover [0] to bootstrap from a USB key (or anything else) that then hands off to an NVMe drive. Or you can mod your BIOS [1]. I have personally done this on a Supermicro 9th gen, and it works great. YMMV, especially with Dells or HPs which tend to be far more picky about everything.

[0]: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader

[1]: https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/howto-get-full-nvme-suppor...
UMG Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones
I was asking how exactly does a business use AI to "streamline operations, improve customer experience, and make data-driven decisions to support growth and success"
The US version of "subsidized by the government" is that the government guarantees gigantic piles of money to be loaned to 18 year olds and then says they have to pay it back.

This tends to attract an enormous amount of non-education related work like loan servicing companies, bloated school administration, etc. Now schools mission is not just to educate it is to get a piece of that huge loan pie. It creates perverse incentives like universities competing on how fancy their dorms are or whatever meanwhile they are trying to drive down all costs like turning full time professors into part time employees who have to get second jobs to make ends meet. Kids become just loan delivery mechanisms to administration.

What a subsidy would be is just... giving the money directly to the schools. Like is done with high school.
PHP deployment was indeed easy.

But it turns out "dump everything in docroot and let mod_php interpret and execute whatever it finds there" had security implications...
More generally, Cantor's diagonal argument shows that there is no surjective map of a set onto its powerset.
Generally it seems from polls I had seen that the % of women favoring illegality is higher than men [0][1]. But it seems that there has been a considerable shift in women's opinions post-pandemic which perhaps tracks in the US with broader gender partisan shifts (men & women becoming politically delinked, perhaps due to algo social media/tiktok) as well as Dobbs being a wakeup call for some women.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.a...
[1]: https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume... (older but it was a poll i remembered)
You have to remember X11 is a protocol not an api.

11 revisions in 5 years 1984 - 1989 At that point they stopped changing it. And we have enjoyed 35 years of compatibility since then. Api's come and go, in and out of fashion. But I bet you could take your brand new linux X server and still have your 30 year old sun workstation drawing windows on it.
Nope! It's entirely unremarkable on Linux (in a good way: you wouldn't notice that it's not its "native" platform), and it's surprisingly pleasant to use (and probably the easiest way to get a good C compiler) on Windows.
Doesn't postgres also access the disk in order to service queries which come over the network?
> 4. Tap “share”

> 5. Hunt and scroll for “Add to Home Screen”

> 6. Tap “Add to Home Screen”

>7. Give the app a name

> 8. Tap Add

None of this is essential except maybe 8.

That is why I said "if implemented properly". In specific,

> Yes, I know that installing a PWA is confusing (especially on Apple's systems), but there no reason it has to be that way.

> PWA (if it were implemented properly):...

You're also pretending there aren't a bunch of junk/garbage/spam/ripped off apps in the App Store with names similar to the real app.

I assure you that is not the case.
I remember working on a Jasper report once where I had a bunch of column subtotals and a total of all of them. Total, total, total total...

Suddenly I locked up and was like "WTF is a total?" The word still sounds strange to me sometimes.
It's worth listening to the Knowledge Fight podcast episode about the episode of Info Wars where Jones talks with Chomsky
I believe that this was an appropriate level of protest on his part.

The reason that I posted this AMA on HN is that a lot people with influence peruse this website, and it would appear that this person went to intel agencies first, then went to State, and was shut down on all counts. Not just shut down for his personal validation, but shut down as far as potential operations.

I posted this in the hopes that someone with influence would see it, and work to prevent this from ever happening again. This guy tried to go through all the right channels. The US gov failed him, and all Americans, at every level.

Ideally, an intel contact would have responded with: "thanks, I'll make sure that the proper people know about this. Await a reply." Reply: "Please come in... OK yes, we know and will save it for an emergency. Never mention this again. Here is your monetary award, as advertised."

For unknown reasons, that did not occur. After this all happened and got written up in Wired, he is finally getting contact from the appropriate people. Let's not let this go this far in the future.
Bold of you to assume that most devs are running containers with a non-root user.
Because it can be argued that intelligence is just highly sophisticated token prediction?
Binrw
I found these pictures of that era:

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/04/refurb-weekend-hewlett-pa...

I think the 1024x768 CRT is a 2-person lift -- Sony Trinitron inside? (Vertically flat)
We already have limited "artificial superintelligences". A pocket calculator is better at calculating than the best humans, and we certainly put calculators to good use. What we call AIs are just more generic versions of tools like pocket calculators, or guns.

And that's the key, it is a tool, a tool that will give a lot of power to whoever is controlling it. And that's where safety matters, it should be made so that it helps good guys more than it helps bad guys, and limit accidents. How? I don't know. Maybe people at SSI do. We already know that the 3 laws of robotics won't work, Asimov only made them to write stories about how broken they are :)

Current-gen AIs are already cause for concern. They are shown to be good at bullshitting, something that bad people are already taking advantage of. I don't believe in robot apocalypse, technological singularities, etc... but some degree of control, like we do with weapons is not a bad thing. We are not there yet with AI, but we might be soon.
Many communities would like to have a page/ical that lists all the events going on in that community. But event organisers are often busy, and by the time they've posted on WhatsApp and Facebook and Meetup they won't necessarily bother to post here too, especially when there are multiple organisers within a community, and due to the chicken and egg problem of it only being worth posting here if all of the community's other events are also listed here.

What would help is if engaged community members can collaboratively list events that event organisers have posted elsewhere, so that community members can find all the community's events in one place (here) even if the event organisers don't bother to post them here themselves. This raises a few auth complications, e.g. if the event organiser wants to post their event ideally they'd be able to take ownership of the placeholder event uploaded by the community member. But if you can solve those, seeing all their events in one place might be a compelling reason for communities to organically switch over to your platform (at which point event organisers might well also follow).
I love Sabine Hossenfelder's personal take on the social problems in science (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8), which reminded me a lot of my own experience in academic science. She also has some critiques of particle physics that I find compelling - but outside my knowledge domain - where the sociological dynamics sound similar to things I've bumped into in biology.
Meanwhile, Kerberos (also Project Athena) has been at version 5 since September 1993.
Because those companies are all bankrupt, insolvent, and liquidated?
Are there any good web apps for breathing?
The comment about documentation made me smile: one of my first jobs was as a UNIX admin and I well remember the enormity of the Xlib programming manuals. Those beasts took up a whole bookshelf.

Another memory: joining a bioinformatics lab and encountering a fleet of NCD boxes that could do nothing more than bootp/rarp their way onto the network and run an Xserver, with all the processing happening down the hall on a SparcStation. Blew my young mind that network booting was possible, but then again, those were the glory days of Sun, and the Network Was the Computer.
Good! I expect that in 10 years, electricity from fusion will be too cheap to measure.
I was reusing your example in the abstract form.

If the AI does something in the physical world which we do not like, we sever its connection. Unless some people with more power like it more than the rest of us do.

Regarding orthogonal goals: I don't think an AI has goals. Or motivations. Now obviously a lot of destruction can be a side effect, and that's an inherent risk. But it is, I think, a risk of human creation. The AI does not have a survival instinct.

Energy and resources are limiting factors. The first might be solvable! But currently it serves as a failsafe against prolonged activity with which we do not agree.
The reason I love HN is the constructive intelligent debate. Your comments aren’t contributing to that.

It’s not about being right or wrong. Also not about “having an audience”.

Legitimately just want intellectual conversation and debate. I wish everyone would contribute to the community in that way.
Do you really think Kim is going to nuke Tokyo or Seoul because a US citizen DDOSed their connection to the internet? I find that .. unlikely
They both use deep learning and gradient descent. Also both were made possible by availability of GPUs.
Surely some random HN commenter is not going to become aware of whether you do or do not follow their suggestion on meditation?

Why let them - or rather, allow your imagination of them - have power over your future choices?
perhaps the stupidest thing about this is that the specific text prescribed by the legislation was written to promote the de Mille/ Heston “The Ten Commandments” film of the 1950s.
You shouldn't be in the left lane if you aren't passing someone. If you are slowly passing people then you need to speed up to overtake more quickly.
Too late to edit, but serious question if anyone actually knows.
Any musician knows that controlling the breath controls the sound that comes out, even for non wind instruments like violin and piano.

This suggests the breath is a connection between our emotional state to the outside world.
> What a subsidy would be is just... giving the money directly to the schools. Like is done with high school.

How’s that working out for K-12? Baltimore spends over $20,000 per student on their schools—more than the US average, and significantly more than most developed countries—but their schools are awful. As I said, none of this is an issue of not throwing enough money at the problem.
Speed laws aren't the thing we need to enforce. Reckless driving is

You need traffic police to enforce reckless driving kaws
OneDrive fucking sucks. If they didn't advertise it constantly through Windows I don't think anyone would know it exists. Google Drive gets used sometimes, but only slightly more frequently than Dropbox.

In SOC2 compliant orgs it's really not very common to store your files with BigCorp. At least, it's one of the no-nos they try to impress on you pretty early.
Ongoing discussion (791 points, 6 hours ago, 681 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
Who Owns the World? (2017)
When I was playing Subnautica for the first time, several years ago, I got immersed to the point that 1) I really felt like being underwater - my mind was recalling feelings from various swimming pool experiences; and 2) it changed my relationship with water. I found myself having a desire to swim, a kind of pull I don't think I experienced before.

Didn't get that when I picked up Subnautica: Below Zero a few weeks above. I'm guessing it's because I'm now used to the beautiful vistas and underwater gameplay, so the game wasn't such a full-sensory shock to me anymore.
When do legit bugs turn into active negligence?
Imagine you go and work for a hedge fund straight out of university, have a great year, and earn £1m.

Does the government get 9% of that? Or is it capped at the outstanding loan amount?

If the latter, and someone earning $1m pays the same as someone evening $500k, it doesn't seem like an income share agreement.
I was the student manager of all Unix systems on campus in the late 90s. Included labs of Sun and HP workstations. Managed some system connected to various lab instruments around campus, too. We stood up the first Linux lab around 1998, but most students preferred the Solaris workstations. People were just starting to put their own Linux systems on the dorm networks. It was still pretty rare for most students to even have computers in their dorm at the time.

Even supported the last remaining VAX because no one else dared dig into the wall of manuals to figure out how it worked.

Was a fun time.
I think I got XFree86 brought up on like, Slackware or something in the early 90s, I want to say like 1994 but I’m not sure.

IIRC there was some terrifying step involved around setting scan frequencies or modelines or something that was advertised as making it possible to set a CRT on fire (which could have been the maintainers being cheeky).

Does anyone remember that era well enough to know the details?
This is kind of scary considering Chinas huge variability in quality assurance. I’m sure they can build with great quality most of the time. But it only takes one bad project to set the whole world back another decade or two when it comes to nuclear energy.

Yeah, I know it’s not rational. Doesn’t matter. Humans just are not all that rational. People will shun nuclear no matter how safe you assure them that your reactor is if there’s one big catastrophe somewhere.
> Linux does not have anything similar to Direct2D

Sure it does: WINE. Not only is it similar, but it's the exact same API & ABI.
There is plenty of density there. It's probably the area of San Francisco that has the highest combination of housing and large grocery stores. This is by San Francisco standards because yes, there are lots of large and small company offices and kinda vacant lots or underutilized buildings.

From a density point of view it's as much as you are likely to find in San Francisco. There is not much point in hoping for much more.

This combination of large supermarkets and combination home goods stores makes it actually an area that other San Franciscans might drive to for groceries! Safeway, Target (a second one with parking lot closed recently), Trader Joes (two, one with free parking lot), Costco (with free parking lot), Foods Co (free parking lot), Rainbow Grocery (free parking lot), Whole Foods (a second one with parking closed recently), spread all around mostly at the periphery of that area. There are enough people to sustain all these stores.

So that I don't think the "still densifying" argument applies. It's been long enough and there are lots of people who live there. Certainly more dense than most other areas in San Francisco.

This is also in the area of San Francisco that is central from a transit point of view. It is very well served. Easy (but slow and certainly not comfortable) to come from other areas by transit.

No, I think mostly there are sooooo many of these empty "street level retail" - and of course more being "required" in new construction. We are not getting there from here.

("sea of old warehouses" - actually no, the area is very walkable. For one, it's fairly flat, for another, it's
not all that large, and the weather is nice. And the highest density of street mental health issues is toward the Mission district and toward Market street rather than in the core of SOMA. Even then, many San Franciscan's still walk through the Market area.)
+1

It's a journo's rehash of blog post from Kaspersky. The blog post looks to be a brand awareness exercise.

The substance is they reported benchmarks of throwing a bunch of single round + MD5 passwords at hashcat running on a Nvidia RTX 4090. Turns out it's quick: 164 billion hashes per second.

If you assume a randomly generated password has 6 bits of entropy per character, then this will brute force a 8 character random password in under 30 minutes. 12 characters will extend that to a millennia.

The real take away is if you aren't using PBKDF2 or better to store passwords you are a menace to society.
9 track was the default; at least that's how we got it from MIT for our VAX, Sun and Sequent machines. QIC for the workstation class machines, tho I don't recall if we got QICs from MIT or someone copied it from the 9-tracks locally. I used a QIC to put it on the Sun 3/160 I used.
> There is a subset of Q that is canonicaly isomorph to Z.

Actually, the statement ℤ ⊂ ℚ reads "The set of integers is a proper subset of rationals."
Strange you can change the username for a specific comment vs. all comments. It makes it so that a comment is attributed to someone else. Very odd.
Quite the opposite. This 9 year old account just reached the karma level required to be able to downvote. I'm so chuffed.
Honestly flabbergasted this is still on the front page considering what I’ve seen happen to criticism of the YC universe