skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure that’s needed. Sending SIGSTOP (or using cgroup freeze) and letting the linux memory management do its job should do most of that already.
Because the DMA could force it to interoperate with third-party software that could also mirror it for users, which would allow third parties to spy on your screen.

The logic here is pretty straightforward, really. You might disagree, but the legal concern here is not confusing.
The Turing test does not prove consciosuness. It doesn’t prove that the thing in the box isn’t just simulating consciousness well enough to fool the observer.

In this case we know what is inside the black box: matrix multiplication inside GPU’s. We know that’s not conscious any more than a video game being rendered is conscious.

So we’ve effectively disproved the utility of the Turing test by showing that we can make something that simulates consciousness and fools human beings without it being conscious.
There's another problem these days.

What if adding a timeout of 690ms gets you a HR complaint for sexual harassment? Sadly, true story...
And yet it doesn’t seem to be a problem for Samsung and others (who already released similar features in their previous generation devices).
Is there anything else to life than bleeding-edge technologies ? A truly mind shattering question for the average code monkey
There's also the issue of force majeure - war, terrorism, natural disasters, and so on. Increase the number of these and not only can you not really maintain the same level of diligence, but you also increase the odds of them ending up in an unfortunate location or event.

There's also the issue of the uranium. Breeder reactors can help increase efficiency, but they bump up all the complexities/risks greatly. Relatively affordable uranium is a limited resource. We have vast quantities of it in the ocean, but it's not really feasible to extract. It's at something like 3.3 parts per billion by mass. So you'd need to filter a billion kg of ocean water to get 3.3kg of uranium. Outside of cost/complexity, you also run into ecological issues at that scale.
Niche, but distinct enough to count? https://www.blech-lang.org/blog/2019/01/01/memocode-2017/
I hear what you’re saying, I even share a lot of the sentiment but the geopolitical situation had changed significantly in the past decade. I don’t think there is any reversing of this trend anytime soon unfortunately. There is going to be a lot more of this not less in the coming years.
https://archive.ph/4aCFY

TL;DR: reports that there are talks with Baidu, Alibaba, Baichuan AI
not that it matters but I can't find that on the front page or 2nd, 3rd, etc. you'd think it would be there with that many upvotes in an hour. maybe this one got prioritized bc it's not paywalled?
1994 was when the CD felt peak, even though it grew in popularity later.

1994 was still solidly in the floppy era, and getting a CD-ROM was huge, even larger than some hard drives at the time.

If you had a CD-ROM drive in 1994, you were king.
Walking past computers in Starfield you hear them making hard drive noises and I realized I miss that.

It's great how quiet computers are now, but there was something to being able to hear the computer thinking too.
>It’s a giant finger for devs and consumers in Europe.

If EU would have a VC sector anywhere near the US or even Chinese ones, this is actually the perfect time and market opportunity for a local EU competitor to come out and launch a privacy focused smartphone that's compliant with local market regulations and also includes the AI features that Apple refuses to release out of spite.

Apple only does shit like this because they know that the alternatives EU has in the consumer facing smartphone tech space is weak AF and poses no significant competition and no threat to them, unlike in China where Huawei and Xiaomi are ready to pounce if Apple were to slip.

Regulations are good, but having domestic alternative competitors is even better, and the EU is lacking here and Apple knows this hence it can play chicken.
Then people gain options.

Some of them might be worse for privacy, but if they offer better (or cheaper, which can be a quality) features, that's up to people.

If this was "the olden days", it would be a legitimate concern. But mobile OSs have long forced Apps to request permission to use various features explicitely and fall back graciously when some aren't provided. So outside security concerns that exist either way, they really can only claim to care about misinformed users.
Not a bad tradeoff imo. But it is a tradeoff.
I've never seen a homeless person in Atlantic City put his fist through an oven window because the cookies didn't come out right.
Look! You can design thousands of shit appliances at scale! /s
This may be a hot take, but I'd argue that there is no such thing as a language that's easier or harder to understand. Just languages that are more or less different from the one you grew up speaking. If they're more similar, then the learner can repurpose skills they already had from their native language. But that's not ease, per se, it's getting a head start.

To take French phonology as an example: objectively speaking, enchainement is an aid to comprehension, not an impediment. Now that I'm used to it, I find non-native speakers who don't do it to be harder to understand because they've effectively dropped an entire information channel from the language. Which isn't to say I didn't have a hard time getting used to it when I was learning. I absolutely did. But that's not because enchainement is inherently difficult; it's because I first had to un-learn some assumptions about the structure of language and how spoken word morphology works that I was bringing with me from my native language. And because I was being hindered by pedagogical methods that, in effect, try to hide the problem instead of solving it.
There is a PDF of your citation available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335965217_THE_CHRON...

I searched for "long hair" and found only this:

>The man with long hair at Samos’: They say there was a Samian boxer with long hair who went to Olympia and won after being mocked by his opponents for looking like a woman; he became proverbial. Eratosthenes says that Pythagoras of Samos won with long hair during the 48 th Olympiad; Duris represents this as Pythagoras being excluded,
challenging the men, and beating many of them.

Like many stories concerning Pythagoras, I wonder if this was some local fable onto which his name later became plastered.
I think the EU’s regulations are boneheaded, but I appreciate that there are multiple ways we’re seeing societies deal with the ambiguities of technology, and we can see how it plays out. Different strokes.
The most onerous parts of the AI Act, such as the provision that says "Member States shall confer on their market surveillance authorities the powers of... carrying out unannounced remote or on-site inspections", are not yet in force yet.

I wouldn't blame them for having security/IP concerns with allowing unannounced remote or on-site inspections to their facilities.
I don’t know if you’re joking but this is actually an amazing example of a very real organizational challenge: people get tired of dealing with edge cases, so they give up all together. I absolutely 100% trust Apple to do what it thinks is best for profits, and I don’t see any way that eroding/risking their privacy stance would pay off. Not to say “I don’t have anything to hide”, but I definitely don’t have any profitable to hide!
> This feels like an excellent demonstration of the limitation of zero-shot LLMs. It feels like the wrong way to approach this.

There is one posted on HN every week. How many more do we need to accept the fact this tech is not what it is sold at and we are bored waiting for it get good? I am not say "get better", because it keeps getting better, but somehow doesn't get good.
They should never have thought they'd need to. It's kind of insane that we have the ability to put the vast majority of the world's knowledge, art, and literature online where everyone can freely access it all instantly yet we hold back the education and cultural enrichment of humanity so that a tiny number of massive corporations can further enrich themselves.

Copyright is broken, and it's now acting counter to its original purpose which was to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". 14 years of special protections was considered enough back when printing and publication was a massive expense and worldwide distribution was nearly impossible to achieve, but now that those things are virtually free and happen at the speed of light we have copyrights that last hundreds of years and can be extended forever.

The internet archive has been doing the best they can while operating in an intentionally broken system that is designed to prevent them from their goals.
> essentially starting from a point akin to "fuck the EU, they're laughably ignorable" it's really interesting to read this sentence

If you don't have a physical presence within the EU, you can and probably should ignore their laws/regulations. There's very little if anything they can do to you. This includes GDPR and other "viral" laws. EU citizens seem to believe their laws apply around the world - they do not.

If you have a physical presence within the EU, like Apple does, then you cannot afford to be flippant with EU laws and regulations. They have real teeth, as you would expect for any country you have a physical presence in. Just as Apple cannot ignore US law since they are based here, they cannot ignore EU law since they are also based there.

EU regulations have consequences - both good and bad. If Apple cannot guarantee compliance with EU regulations/laws, then they will have to remove or limit features that might get them into trouble.

If EU citizens want this feature, then the regulations would need to change. It cannot be more simple than this.

A lot of people enjoy eating the cake these days...
Yes, see this discussion too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
That affects charging speed, not battery longevity.
Great way to lose EU market share, their third largest market
Large companies typically have dedicated frontend teams with designers to build a user experience that feels cohesive across their products, so managing different specializations and the communication overhead is already part of their workflow.

Your argument suggests that SSR requires only one type of specialization, but that's not entirely accurate. SSR developers still need full-stack knowledge, since they must write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alongside the backend code. This means their expertise already needs to cover multiple areas and languages. While it’s true that frontend frameworks introduce additional build tooling, developers today are generally familiar with this ecosystem. The backend developers I work with do have a good understanding of React and can work with it comfortably, and I have seen junior developers picking it up within a week or two. They don't need to be specialists in order to be productive.

Yes, it is true that many backends are tailor-made for a frontend, but going exclusively HTML-first will lock you into this state, unless you are OK with revisiting it to add a JSON API later to support additional use cases. When I write an application, it usually comes with a CLI in case I need to use it from a server without access to a UI, and I hook it up with tools for integration tests using its JSON API. It's also common to see frontends that are powered by multiple backends, and in these cases, it makes sense to have a separate frontend application that uses APIs.

So yes, it does make perfect sense for me to have a layer between presentation and application.

edit: fixed a typo
I think token generation may be a sufficiently general task to introduce pretty much any test of intellect - such as the causation question in this tweet.

That does not imply the inverse, that cogitation requires language use.
Looking at the DMA, it’s not about security. It’s about opening things up so big tech can’t benefit from their position.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

I think a company not being allowed to add features for their customers is a bit silly.
New pterosaur species found in Queensland, Australia
Don't design your own radar reflector unless you can test it- it might not work.
Ask HN: Elixir, Clojure, or CL for specific scaling case?
Hi hackers, I have a project for which I am trying to figure out what application server I should use. Contenders (I think) are Clojure, Elixir, Common Lisp (on Clack/Woo, most likely).

The main heart of the project is a client side app written in Scheme/WASM and some JS Web Components and plumbing. In the main use case (people training on it, it's an ed tech thing), users will load the client side app, load saved exercises, and save their custom exercises. So most of the time, they aren't doing anything to the server. But every few minutes, they might load a new exercise or save, requiring either a server side refresh (the exercises are done in HTML scaffolds); a json load; or a json save. (To begin with, these will be presisted as JSON blobs in PostGres, which could change if I ever start to outgrow a simple database.)

Sign up, account handling, payments, etc is handled in a Django app because it's bog standard and generates such low traffic that I will prioritize buy over build for that part. In day-to-day use, users will never go there so it really doesn't need to be scalable and I have urge to write my own Stripe handler and so on.

The catch is, I want to keep this dead cheap per user (not worried about initial cost). The app has been designed to ensure the DB grows very little per user (there is a cap to what they can save). So I want this part of the app to be able to serve as many users as possible on cheap, reliable machine(s) that I can sign up for and basically forget about.

Before people say "just use Django".... we will likely launch on Python only, but I definitely do not want to be only running Python if we achieve some magical viral marketing success as having to scale Python up rapidly is not a good place to be. Getting this small part ready on other tech is likely to take less than a week and will be worth it for the peace of mind alone. (I work in tech diligence, have done Python professionally for a long time, and have seen the scars.)

Hoping people with real world scaling experience can speak to this case. I could happily do this in any of Clojure, Elixir, or Common Lisp and wouldn't be bothered about the language.

thanks!
I will be more than happy to get additional alternatives. Apple is big here, but not as dominant as it is in the US. It won’t be a big deal for folks to skip an upgrade cycle or turn to Samsung, Fairphone and others.
If it doesn’t look new and doesn’t do much new, is it a new car?
Here's an explanation of how Certik attacked Kracken's deposits:

https://x.com/danielvf/status/1803780167027871878

Certik did hard work to find the bug - testing many of exchanges over many blockchains. But everything after finding that was firmly in crazy land.

Waiting multiple days to disclose, stealing 3 million dollars, swapping the stolen coins to coins, laundering some of the theft through OFAC sanctioned entities, and then not even returning the exact amounts they took is just mind boggling, and that only after public pressure.

And then, to take it to the next level, tweeting over and over again once Kraken disclosed that a vulnerability had been reveled, grabbing credit for being evil, posting timelines of crimes, and insisting that they were the victim. It's amazing. In a serious world, this would be an amazing example of what to never do as a social team.
Seems wrong, per hnlandfr's comment. How about: a) insomnia, b) coffee consumption, c) typing speed.

Edit: also it's wrong in a basic way because coffee does make you type faster. I somehow overlooked that.
I discovered CRIU in this video below (1h) "Container Migration and CRIU Details with Adrian Reber (Red Hat)", it has a live demo and the details about how much "user space" it really is. Here with the RH podman fork of docker.

Since everyone is treating containers as cattle CRIU doesn't seem to get much attention, and might be why a video and not a blog post was my first introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7DgNxyuz_o
I just clip my phone cradle to an AC vent on the dash. I've been doing this since [checks calendar] 2014, when I retired the last phone I ever had that had a specialized window mount accessory available.

It cools when it is hot, and sometimes it warms when it is cold. Both things can be useful functions.

(Even on old junk I've had without functioning aircon, turning the selector to "Vent," the temperature to "Cold," and the fan to some speed other than "Off" works to circulate air around the phone.)
I like this idea for a lot of reasons, but I think the best reason to like it is that it presents a compelling technological vision of the future that motivates upending and destroying the incumbent model of the world realized by the modern surveillance state. It's way easier to know what you don't want than what you want, but without even the edges of a goal state it's hard to coordinate the monumental effort it takes to do hard stuff. I don't know which way the causality arrow points, but the rise of solarpunk aesthetics seems correlated and interconnected with what some people are calling a revolution in green energy technologies. As with that revolution, incumbent industries and states supporting them serve as a significant obstacle to this vision, as the network overseers will not withdraw from surveilling our lives without a fight any more than the oil barons are giving up the reins of their machines that poison the earth to drive their "growth". I am a belligerent and easily motivated by spite for tyrants, but most are actually not at the end of the day, and revolutions (whether at the workshop, the polls, the markets, or by the sword) require numbers. A positive vision for what the world could be when the evil is defeated is what motivates the mass of will needed for such an endeavor. And also this particular vision is one I'd love to see realized
seriously cool project, used it at a prev workplace to checkpoint http servers for absolutely dirt nasty start speeds
> A plumber is not a firm the size of an economy, with bad customer support.

Neither of those things is "outsourcing customer support to taxpayers".
Do these places have more natural resources per person than the US, or do they just do more with the resources that they have?

Can you tell me more about the military aid that Finland has received from the US?
If you're wearing clothes, you can remove them and throw them to produce some delta v.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701868
they're zooming in on different axes of the oscilloscope, though. tsp is about picoseconds, reps is about picovolts
Exactly, since age verification is going to be required which means collecting a LOT of personally idenificable information (PII) by ways of ID which govenrnments don't have a good history in securely storing that information.
“The 21-metre rule is, according to the Stirling prize-winning architect Annalie Riches, a bizarre hangover from 1902, originally intended to protect the modesty of Edwardian women. The urban designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker walked apart in a field until they could no longer see each other’s nipples through their shirts. The two men measured the distance between them to be 70ft (21 metres), and this became the distance that is still used today, 120 years later, to dictate how far apart many British homes should be built.”

Seemingly eyesight was better 120 years ago as well
The average human throughout human has existed at subsistence level. That means that nearly all of their time was spent producing/collecting the food to feed themselves.

The average American now spends just 10% of their wages on food. That effectively means, just 10% of Americans’s working life dedicated to food cultivation. That’s the result of economic productivity.

If an American is happy existing at a subsistence level, they’re free to slash their working hours to a tiny fraction of the average person. However, humans have unlimited material desires, which tends to keep us working.
It's not a person's name, I know, but, you could say that Wordle makes Taylor Swift look like Ilya Sutskever:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
Users 'Jailbreak' AI Video Generator to Make Porn
Q*: Improving Multi-Step Reasoning for LLMs with Deliberative Planning
Don't these M&As need to be cleared by regulators? Seems premature to tell your customers you're discontinuing your product before the acquisition has actually cleared (and, for that matter, passed OpenAI's due diligence).
For 1 and 3; Hanging onto a weak signal is tricky. Most clients can't scan and maintain connectivity at the same time; and if you're not associated to a network you can't really tell how good the connection is, only the signal strength (and maybe SNR) of the beacons which might be half the story, because you won't know how well the AP can hear you. Wifi7 is designed to allow use of multiple channels simultaneously (as an option), which should maybe result in clients being able to scan on one band while connected on the other. Roaming standards like 802.11 k r and v should help in theory (k provides information about other APs which the client can choose to roam to, r provides an abbreviated handshake when roaming, v allows access points to suggest that a client should roam) --- but enabling k seems to anger some of my clients, so lack of standard support for standards is a bigger issue, IMHO; like I don't care if the clients use the information or not, but they shouldn't have trouble connecting if the AP is using standards from 2011. In general, turning down the signal level on beacons seems to help clients roam better, but it requires careful tuning or you could lose out on connectivity in some locations.

For public wifi with login, there's proposed standards and de facto standards that make this better than it used to be, but some OSes work better than others. Windows Phone had a nice thing where it would hit ok on consent portals for you, and prompt you if it didn't work, but use cellular data in the meantime. I don't think android or ios will fill out the portals for you, but they should both prompt, and use cellular in the meantime... iOS is much better at using cellular when wifi is flakey, but Android can do it most of the time now.
We were talking about recycling. You read my comment and thought it said "humans bad, nature good" and went immediately to "humans good, nature bad, because swamps and malaria and uranium". That was a horrible misreading and long series of non sequiturs, mixed in with a lot of rude remarks. In retrospect, we should have ignored your trolling, which I will now do.
My company has been trying to tell my team to be “global” and support the EU for a good 10 years. Every time we even look it’s such a mess that we kick the can down the road and let the people who actually live there deal with it. Their footprint it vastly smaller than what we have in the US, yet seemingly much harder to manage due to all the regulations.
> Does Guix not have GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) or did it somehow bootstrap GHC? Last time I checked bootstrapping GHC on today's hardware is effectively an unsolved problem.

I think you're right, it looks like they've gotten a little further now than in that post but there's still a gap in the bootstrap chain. So maybe not every package is fully bootstrapped, but they do seem to take it more seriously.

> While you are not wrong, there is nothing fundamentally stopping Nixpkgs from being bootstrapped in a similar way to Guix. emilytrau has already done a lot of the work.

Yes, I agree, and I hope they get there! I just also think that acknowledging the places where Guix is currently ahead isn't wrong. Nix isn't the only game in town anymore.