skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fascinating to see how water has remained an unsolved problem for so long.

Despite being a simple molecule with just three atoms
This has already been corrected, but just calling out a bullet from the feature section:

> Cross-platform: NodeSwift works not only on macOS, but also on Linux, Windows, and even iOS!

Now I'm curious about the iOS bit. Is that intended for React Native?
Robots aren't cheap either. And the safety concerns, or maybe even the nuisance of having those robots roaming the hallways, adding to the traffic might trump everything else.
Runs as root. Not sure that's a good idea.
Did anyone have any luck capturing stereoscopic videos at any meaningful quality? This used to be only possible with the Pi Compute module (unobtainium for a very long time) but the Pi5 finally exposes both camera ports.... while also dropping hardware encoding, which is likely to be a huge roadblock since I doubt there's enough CPU power + bandwidth to compress 2 4K streams at 60fps in realtime and store it. And I'd love to go even higher actually.

The official forums are surprisingly devoid of anyone trying this, which is not super encouraging.

I'd really like to experiment in doing some underwater VR180 photo/videography, I promise to share the results if anyone has any useful pointers (not strictly rPi related, but other platforms are even less promising. Happy for any unexpected hints tho!)

(Sorry for the barely-on-topic (if not outright offtopic)) but this is a rare chance to tap into HN's hive mind on this particular issue due to a Pi-camera related thread on the front page.
What a strange comment. Ever seen the Open data portal at https://data.europa.eu/? And that’s really just one singular example.
> glorified token predicting machine trained on existing data (made by humans)

sorry to disappoint, but human brain fits the same definition
This is just what happens, though. We were promised computer proliferation, and got locked-down squares with (barely) free internet access and little else to get excited for besides new ways to serve API requests. The future of programming isn't happening locally. Crypto, AI, shitty short-form entertainment, all of it is dripping from the spigot of an endless content pipeline. Of course people aren't changing the world on their cell-phone, all it's designed to do is sign up for email mailing lists and watch YouTube ads.

So I really don't actually know what the OP wants to do, besides brutalize idiots searching for a golden calf to worship. AI will progress regardless of how you gatekeep the public from percieving it, and manipulative thought-leaders will continue to schiester idiots in hopes of turning a quick buck. These cycles will operate independently of one-another, and those overeager idiots will move onto the next fad like Metaverse agriculture or whatever the fuck.
It was renamed Azure Service Bus
I think the use case here are LLMs trained on billions of terabytes of bulk surveillance data. Imagine an LLM that has been fed every banking transaction, text message or geolocation ping within a target country. An intelligence analyst can now get the answer to any question very, very quickly.
Focus and awareness of the breath is exactly why I created my iOS Breathwork App.

www.breathwork-timer.com
Didn't know enough about it to know whether I should care enough about it to investigate more.
Hm which things are protected by ACLs on NT but not on Linux? Even though the "everything is a file" thing breaks down quite quickly on Linux, with lots of drivers just using ioctls for everything, you still have to open pretty much everything through their device node in /dev, which is affected by ACLs AFAIK. The only real exception I can think of is network sockets. But I'm probably thinking in a very UNIX-centric way, so there may be classes of things I'm missing
Poisoning Socrates was done because it was "good for society". I'm frankly even more suspicious of "good for society" than the average untrustworthy board of directors.
One thing that strikes me about this time around the AI cycle, being old enough to have seen the late 80s, is how pessimistic and fearful society is as a whole now. Before… the challenge was too great, the investment in capital too draining, the results too marginal when compared to human labour or even “non-AI” computing.

I wonder if someone older still can comment on how “the atom” went from terrible weapon on war to “energy too cheap to meter” to wherever it is now (still a bête noire for the green energy enthusiasts).

Feels like we are over-applying the precautionary principle, the mainstream population seeing potential disaster everywhere.
I imagine a spinning lift would be easier.
As someone who started investing in PWAs earlier this year after jumping through Apple and Google’s hoops for years, I’d highly recommend progressier.com for making a PWA with an install experience that makes sense to less technical users. This was far and away the biggest hurdle for me. Haven’t had a single person confused since integrating Progressier.
> You seem to be under the mistaken impression that anything before your birth was the Garden of Eden and that the parade of horribles existed only because of "big tech"

Please point out where I said that. Because what I wrote was:

> I mean if the last 20 years is to be taken as evidence, it seems big tech is more than happy to shotgun unproven and unstudied technology straight into the brains of our most vulnerable populations and just see what the fuck happens. Results so far include a lot of benign nothing but also a whole lot of eating disorders, maxed out parents credit cards, attention issues, rampant misogyny among young boys, etc. Which, granted, the readiness to fuck with populations at scale and do immeasurable harm doesn't really make tech unique as an industry, just more of the same really.

Which not only is not romanticizing the past, in fact I directly point out that making tons of people's lives worse for profit was a thing in industry long before tech came along, but also do not directly implicate tech as creating sexism, exploiting people financially, or fucking up young women's brains any differently, simply doing it more. Like most things with tech, it wasn't revolutionary new social harms, it was just social harms delivered algorithmically, to the most vulnerable, and highly personalized to what they are acutely vulnerable to in specific.

That is not a new thing, by any means, it's simply better targeted and more profitable, which is great innovation providing you lack a conscience and see people as only a resource to be exploited for your own profit, which a lot of the tech sector seems to.
Well, an entire industry of researchers, which used to be divided, is now uniting around calls to slow development and emphasize safety (like, “dissolve companies” emphasis not “write employee handbooks” emphasis). They’re saying, more-or-less in unison, that GPT3 was an unexpected breakthrough in the Frame Problem, based on Judea Pearl’s prescient predictions. If we agree on that, there are two options:

1. They’ve all been tricked/bribed by Sam Altman and company (which btw this is a company started against those specific guys, just for clarity). Including me, of course.

2. You’re not as much of an expert in cognitive science as you think you are, and maybe the scientists know something you don’t.

With love. As much love as possible, in a singular era
Genuinely interesting, thank you poster. I’ve encountered the sensation periodically since childhood and never had a word for it.

Jamais vu is a phenomenon operationalised as the opposite of déjà vu, i.e. finding subjectively unfamiliar something that we know to be familiar. We sought to document that the subjective experience of jamais vu can be produced in word alienation tasks, hypothesising that déjà vu and jamais vu are similar experiential memory phenomena.
> Anyone who wants the code can come by with a
tape.

Made me smile.
Or was/is slavery enabled by excess population relative to resources (no matter time and place)? When life becomes very cheap, etc.? I'm not proposing it is, just wondering about how it looks economically.
For playing a note on a piano and doing nothing more, I'd like to suggest that the velocity of the hammer as it strikes a string is the only variable that can be adjusted by the player.

A hammer in a piano always moves on a fixed path. It always strikes the same part of the string, and it always does so in the same orientation. And after it strikes that string, it always falls away from it. That's how that part works.

Striking a percussion instrument with a stick (such as a wooden block) has more variables to toy around with than playing a note on a piano does.

But there's a lot more going on in a piano than striking strings: Strings are also muted, and the degree of muting can be manipulated. It is not binary.

And, of course, pianos are polyphonic: With ten fingers, we can strike ten different [sets of] strings at different velocities and at different times, and we can even mute them to individually-different degrees.

And then, there's also the pedals...
Thanks for pointing me to that bug report. And, thanks for working on it :).

Your initial fix of not disabling the entire app's functionality if it can't get TTS working sounds like a good one.
Easy clearly can't be compared to any other Linux, judged by the page on how it's different [1]. That's why running as root in its case might be a good thing.

[1]: https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm...
I suspect the price point the Raspberry Pi targets isn't easily compatible with a truly high quality camera.

As I understand things, the Pi has a single lane of CSI at maybe 1.5 Gbps. That's enough for 1080p video, it's not enough for 4k video.

A high-end smartphone, on the other hand, has more like 5 Gbps of bandwidth to the camera, and the processing power needed to deal with that much data. But the device cost is 10x what an RPi costs, so they can afford it.
It worked for machine learning when it got rebranded to AI.
What if I register the email address cortesoft@gmail.com or cortesoft@outlook.com and claim to be the original?

More broadly, there are lots of John Smiths in the world. Context is everything: the John Smith in my Bay Area office is different from the John Smith who makes the news in Boston.
The lava lamp has existed for 60-plus years. It's never looked like this
The year is 2022. An OpenAI employee concered about AI safety creates his own company.

The year is 2023. An OpenAI employee concered about AI safety creates his own company.

The year is 2024.
Author of that blogpost here.

> less "code branches" than duckdb, which may or may not translate to faster performance.

In that case it was about 2.5x faster than DuckDB end to end, so a bit less than the difference in branches.

If you want to see some independent benchmarks on Umbra, our underlying technology, its currently first place on Clickbench [1]. You can compare against duckdb there as well.

[1] https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/
Managers make $175k as laws and shortages push fast-food salaries to six figures
There's a chance that these systems can actually out perform their training data and be better than the sum of their parts. New work out Harvard talks about this idea of "transcendence" https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11741

While this is a new area, it would be naive to write this off as just science fiction.
It is a trendy but dumbass tautology used by intellectually lazy people who think they are smart. Society is based upon capitalism therefore everything bad is the fault of capitalism.
Really cool! Any indication (in order of magnitude) how expensive the electronics would be to purchase?
80s "git clone"
> "Poor breathing is what you see when you look at 90% of the population," science journalist James Nestor told Zomorodi. "It includes breathing through the mouth,

hmm
>when they blocked right-clicking

Which is a stupid thing to do.
Check out the startup Pipedream.

It sounds to me like building logistics pipelines between hospitals (even partnering with the healthcare pneumatic logistics companies to do this) would be an ideal way to get started. Then expand the network from there with QoS packet prioritization schemes. Similar to how large Fiber Optic networks are done in some regions, or how arpanet started.
I worked with students in a “intro calculus for humanities” type class for many years (as a sort of undergrad tutoring role, so, it was a while ago, I’m old now). Despite this experience it is pretty shocking to me that there are, like, actually adult people walking around who can’t at least do a derivative.

Spending too long in STEM academics absolutely warps your view of the mathematical skill floor I think.
That’s very interesting - thanks!
to be fair, the whole root thing is relevant in multi user or cases where you're mucking about with an installation.

if you're always careful to run as a non-privileged user, the most that could happen is that a browser vulnerability allows arbitrary execution of code as your user, allowing deletion, encryption, exfiltration of your personal data. so you're boned anyway.
Yeah, I was shocked when, coming from PHP, I realized that in Python, in order to serve a website, you have to start and maintain an extra server process.
The thought of this relentless deluge of plastic entering the seas is heartbreaking.
The complete FBI files on Bukowski
Maybe slight off topic, but does anyone know what the deal is with the NVMe K/V command set spec? There was a fair bit of noise made about it at the time, but I’ve not seen any drives that support it (despite a few enquiries)
I'm amazed on how well this article fits with a new product that we have been working on at Wasmer. AWS Lambda is great, but it doesn't really solve the cold start problem of dynamic languages. Nor does FastCGI.

We are very close to launch Instaboot, a new feature for Wasmer Edge that thanks to WebAssembly is able to bring incredible fast cold-starts to dynamic languages. Bringing 90ms cold-start times to WordPress (compared to >1s in state-of-the-art cloud providers).
Laziness is the source of Innovation and Creativity
There's a certain amount of irreducible complexity. There are a lot of things to configure! For instance, what database server do I want to connect to? What mailserver to use for transactional messages, and how do I authenticate to it? Where do I store images? Which Redis do I point at?

Someone who wants to avoid all that can register with a hosted service like masto.host that does it all for them.
>but it seems the situation was more complicated than just corporate greed

Then their strategy worked - if you really believe it's more complicated. Haven't investigated this particular subject, but many others subjects are _made_ complicated to achieve a particular outcome. Along lines of: 'let's protect the children' argument.
I am skeptical about 4. There is a reason Meetup ate Facebook for many things despite it requiring a new account, Facebook groups are terrible and Meetup shows that you can compete.
I think indeed the ocean is often seen as one of the last frontiers of untouched wilderness
> Do you think the internet has returned us to pre-women's-suffrage levels of misogyny?

Well in the States at least we did just revoke a sizable amount of their bodily autonomy so, the situation may not be that bad, yet, but I wouldn't call it good by any measurement. Any my objection isn't "that sexism exists in society," that is probably going to be true as a statement until the sun explodes, and possibly after that if we actually nail down space travel as a technology and get off this particular rock. My issue is massive corporations making billions of dollars facilitating men who want to spread sexist ideas, and paying them for the pleasure. That's what I have an issue with.

Be whatever kind of asshole you see fit to be, the purity of your soul is no one's concern but yours, and if you have one, whatever god you worship. I just don't want you being paid for it, and I feel that's a reasonable line to draw.
Ilya's talking about type 4.
Sorry, are you attributing all of deep learning research to Ilya? The most talented AI researcher of the last decade?
That's not actually enough. You also very carefully need to avoid the Blub Paradox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqsL5NkS6I
When I worked in marketing software I experienced this often with the term "referral". To this day I still feel kindof weird when I see the term.
clickbench is a toy benchmark: small dataset, very specific queries.

Benchmarking full tcp-h (not just one query like in your post) on sizable dataset (few TBs) would be very good close to real world scenario, but vendors usually avoid this.
That is incredibly untrue and has been for years in the AI/ML space at many startups and at Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Good ML researchers have been making a good amount more for a while (source: I've hired both and been involved in leveling and pay discussions for years)
The big thread arguing about "travelling" through 4D is missing the point. The point I was making is, accounting for the fact everything is travelling does not make their footprint particularly larger, because then you also have to account for time in the total spacetime they could be in instead of just the space they could be in. Arguing about the English for a case English doesn't have words for anyhow is not particularly relevant.
I can shoot down a pigeon that’s overhead pretty easily, but not so with an overhead supersonic jet.
Ha, I didn't know the name came from incrementing W. Surprised I haven't seen a Y window system. A quick search shows that there have been several, but none successful obviously.

Edit: it gets better. Apparently W ran on the V operating system.
Our meetups generally have about 20 people. The problem is that without generating network effects, you can't generate awareness that the event is happening at all. We've had a brick-and-mortar location in a Chicago suburb for over 8 years. In the early days, Meetup's network effects were the only way to get people in the door, until much later when word-of-mouth spread.
Why US economy is powering ahead of Europe's
Ghost nets are haunting reminders of human impact, silently ensnaring marine life and disrupting ocean ecosystems.
Ilya is definitely much smarter than me in AI space, and I believe he knows something I have no grasp of understanding in. But my gut feeling tells me that most of the general public will have no idea how dangerous AI could be including me. I still have yet to see a convincing argument about the potential danger of AI. Arguments such as we don't know the upper bounds of possibilities that AI can do that we humans have missed don't cut it for me.
Isn't this basically what FUA does on SCSI? Presumably O_DIRECT+O_SYNC/O_DSYNC will invoke this path when possible?
> As for Raising Cane’s, its CEO Kumaran told CNBC that the business is doing just fine with the mandated change in pay, as bolstered by its cult following which is willing to pay a bit more for its product. Last year, the franchise raised wages to an average of $19.50 hourly, Kumaran told Yahoo Finance. "Once you take care of people, the business will pay for itself,” he said. And Kumaran’s words echo today, as he notes the franchise has seen almost a positive retention rate and a “10% improvement in turnover” since the wage increase.

Then why wait for California to force them to pay more?
"How will I ever remember that I can be emailed at me@alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com? This email thing will never take off among non-techies."
> During the winter, the solar panel are efficient just for a couple of hours every days.

Depends where you are. If, for example, you're in the most-occupied bits of Canada, your grid connects to the south side of the USA, which gets rather more hours of sun than you do.

> We've yet to see a battery system able to hold enough power to balance these months of under production.

If you're far enough south to get as many as "a couple of hours" of sun each day in midwinter, this isn't a serious issue in most cases. Why? Because adding more PV is much cheaper than adding more batteries — when you've got 2.4 hours of sun, build a 24*n hour battery and enough PV to charge that battery in 2.4 hours, where n is some factor for "in my location, there are often n-day cloudy streaks".

But also, most places already have a decent grid (exceptions exist, Hawaii is excusable, Texas is not), the grids are not fundamentally so lossy as to break the economics here, and much better grids can be made if there's sufficient political will behind it (yes, even one that worked for Hawaii).
Are Relationships and Marriage Dying in Gen Z? [video]
I'm not sure we can solely blame VC incentives here. There are many edtech companies that are doing well with VC funding / incentives (Coursera, Duolingo, Goalsetter to name a few). As far as I know, the majority of these companies have not resorted to predatory practices or actively misleading potential students.

I agree that VCs have an incentive to inject high-octane fuel into the growth engine of a company, but the decision to use that fuel for an ICBM or a Spaceship is ultimately that of the founders.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso [0]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/558213-learn-the-rules-like...
Maybe that’s how all those worms got in the can in the first place…
I think that's inevitable, but it won't happen without an initial surge of adoption. Things like Mastodon tend to stay platforms by nerds for nerds otherwise. It will have to evolve the way the web in general evolved to serve more people.
I happily pay extra for an MBA (vs an equivalent pc) because there is no fan noise
Jerry, get a job!
Can you please point to the deepfake detector? I can't find it on the page. Thanks!
I run a meet-up group, I hate meetup.com but I pay for it because Facebook groups isn't as good, and meetup.com doesn't even work properly. It's such a terribly low bar.
I just look for people who seem to have it figured out but aren't flashy. Generally looking for people who have similar views as me on the past things I have figured out and they got the same or "right" answer that I've come to discover.

I also don't really see it as a true mentorship. I see it as a collaborative back-and-forth. Like friends.
These days, MESA provides llvmpipe as a fallback software implementation of OpenGL. But your point absolutely stands, the various graphics APIs are much less consistently available on Linux than DirectX is on Windows, and the split between OpenGL and OpenGL ES hurts a lot, with a lot of systems (especially ARM Mali based ones) only providing OpenGL ES drivers.
I know nothing about physics. If I came across some magic algorithm that occasionally poops out a plane that works 90 percent of the time, would you book a flight in it?

Sure, we can improve our understanding of how NNs work but that isn't enough. How are humans supposed to fully understand and control something that is smarter than themselves by definition? I think it's inevitable that at some point that smart thing will behave in ways humans don't expect.
Its stated that any app runs under its own user, including the browser.
seriously? you're more worried about what your elected officials might legislate than what a board of directors whose job is to make profits go brrr at all costs, including poisoning the environment, exploiting people and avoiding taxes?
Louisiana Requires Ten Commandments to Be Displayed in Public-School Classrooms
... Sort of?

HF is sort of big now. Stanford is well funded and they did PyReft.
The inefficiency is about going through kernel that will then dispatch some signal and the signal handler has to analyze what exactly happened, that is not a slow path, but ridiculously slow path.

OTOH, my view is somewhat LISP-centric and just implementing + by passing the arguments to taddcctv would be problematic, in the Smalltalk world, implementing SmallInteger>>#+ like that makes sense.